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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

The Columbus City Hall Cyber Attack: Key Takeaways

This past July, the City of Columbus, Ohio experienced a significant data breach. Hackers were able to breach Columbus’ network and gained access to private information of city employees and residents. Initially, the City...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Digital Dupe: How to Protect Against Identity Theft After Death

In the digital age, identity theft has taken on new and sinister forms, extending beyond the living to the deceased. When a loved one passes away, their identity doesn’t simply vanish; it lingers in both the digital realm and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Rolling With the Punches in a Networked World: CCOE Cybersecurity Panel Discussion

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Whether the game is football, baseball, hockey, or Indy Car racing, no team goes into their major championship matchup without training. Companies need to train as well if they intend to operate on the internet and expect to...more

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[Webcast Transcript] From Breach to Insight: Incident Response & PII Recovery

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Editor’s Note: In this informative webcast, Christopher Wall, DPO and Special Counsel for Global Privacy and Forensics at HaystackID, moderates a compelling discussion titled “From Breach to Insight: Incident Response and PII...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack Sheds Light on Vulnerabilities in Widely Adopted Open Source System

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In a reminder that open source products can carry significant risks beyond intellectual property, a vulnerability in a compression tool commonly used by developers has triggered widespread concerns....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘I Will Not Rest’; ‘I Am All In’: Remarkable Breach Hearing Sees Pledges by UHG CEO, Sen. Wyden

United Healthcare Group (UHG) CEO Andrew Witty was in a board meeting on Feb. 21 when officials interrupted with the news that Change Healthcare—a clearinghouse UHG subsidiary Optum had purchased for $1.3 billion in October...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: January 2024

New York has released proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The regulations, which were published in The State Register on Dec. 6 and will undergo a 60-day public comment period ending on Feb. 5, are designed to...more

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Cyber Crime - Protecting Yourself from Publishing Scams in the UAE

Introduction: In the rapidly advancing digital age, cybercrime has become a serious global concern, and the UAE is not immune to this threat. Scammers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, using tactics such as fake calls,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 7, August 2023

Understanding the New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and Full Scope of Pregnancy-Related Discrimination Laws for Schools - On June 27, 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act went into effect. This new law requires covered...more

Kilpatrick

Data breach class actions: Third Circuit sets out parameters for Article III injury-in-fact

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Takeaway:  We have written a number of articles about the kinds of intangible injuries that confer Article III standing in the data breach and credit reporting contexts.  See Data breach class actions: Southern District of...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Fast-Fashion Under the Spotlight: SHEIN and ROMWE Owner Fined $1.9M for Significant Data Breach...

Zoetop, the parent company behind online fashion retailers SHEIN and ROMWE, has been fined $1.9 million by New York State after it failed to properly inform customers of a data breach that affected millions of users. A...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Cyberattacks Hitting School Districts

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The recent ransomware attack targeting Los Angeles Unified School District is another frightening reminder school districts are especially vulnerable to hackers and must continuously assess all of the individual systems...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

UPMC Finally Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $2.7 Million

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UPMC’s employment records were hacked by criminals in 2014. A civil class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of approximately 66,000 employees, and criminal cases were filed by federal prosecutors against a number of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 4. Privacy Briefs: April 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 4 (April 2021) - A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more

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Defining Doxing And Learning How to Avoid It

From August 2015 to August 2017, a man named Rodney Phipps was sentenced to prison for making fake phone calls to emergency services—calls that would end up sending SWAT and police to strangers’ residences in practice known...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter – November 2020

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Selected Developments in U.S. Law - Alston & Bird Analyzes New California Privacy Rights Act - California voters approved a ballot initiative containing the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020. ...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Easy Hacking Tools Facilitate Bad Behavior

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A few years ago, if you wanted to wreak havoc online, you needed some skill. You needed to understand coding and how to break into other computers.  You needed to develop attack bots and probe for vulnerabilities....more

UB Greensfelder LLP

FINRA Addresses Online Fraud In The Face Of COVID-19

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Online fraud is a bigger business than ever in the current pandemic environment. Far from “self-isolating,” fraudsters are seeing online work as an opportunity to take advantage of firms and their customers, using stolen...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Is Your Company Still Running Windows 7? READ THIS!

If you haven’t been paying attention to all the Microsoft warnings for the past year and your company is still running Windows 7, time’s up. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop pushing out security updates to Windows...more

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