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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Insider Threats: Potential Signs and Security Tips

In recent news, New York’s Stram Center for Integrative Medicine reported a security incident involving an employee misusing a patient’s payment card information. According to a breach report filed with the U.S. Department of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #429 – Threat Actors Continue to Use QR Codes for Fraudulent Purposes

We have repeatedly warned our readers about malicious QR codes and their use by threat actors. Threat actors are now using these codes to disguise packages as gifts....more

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FAQs for Schools and Persons Affected By the PowerSchool Data Breach

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A massive data breach hit one of the country’s largest education software providers. According to EducationWeek, PowerSchool provides school software products to more than 16,000 customers, largely K-12 schools, that serve 50...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Continued Remote Hiring Concerns in IT Sector: What to Look for in 2025 and How to Mitigate Business Risk

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Remote worker fraud is expected to continue to proliferate in 2025. Fully remote hiring and work, particularly in the technology sector, continues to pose unique business and legal risks for companies. Just in December 2024,...more

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AI versus MFA

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Ask any chief information security officer (CISO), cyber underwriter or risk manager, or cybersecurity attorney about what controls are critical for protecting an organization’s information systems, you’ll likely find...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

National Public Data Hack Exposes Millions: Essential Steps to Safeguard Your Identity and Combat Fraud

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The recent massive data breach at National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, has potentially compromised the personal information of millions, if not billions, of individuals, including their Social Security...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Understanding Access vs. Acquisition - Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column

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Each of the 50 states has its own definition of what constitutes a reportable data breach. For some, it requires “unauthorized access” to personal information. For others, it requires “unauthorized acquisition.” And then,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

5 Tips for Reducing Identity Theft Risk

Identity theft and cybercrime are now a multi-billion dollar industry causing severe harm to the individuals affected and the institutions we trust. In recognition of this unfortunate truth and Identity Theft Awareness Week,...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

“Ding Dong” -- FTC-Drizly Data Breach Settlement Will follow CEO Personally for a Decade

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced on Monday that it is settling a case against Drizly and its CEO stemming from a 2020 data breach that impacted roughly 2.5 million consumers. The proposed order not only...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 21

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US Federal Appellate Court Issues Opinion on Proof of Injury in Data Breach Cases - On September 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class action lawsuit that had previously been dismissed...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - FBI Issues Notice to Health Industry Highlighting Risks of Unpatched Medical Devices - The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

San Diego Family Care Settles Data Breach Class Action for $1 Million

Recently, San Diego Family Care (SDFC) settled a class action related to a 2020 data breach for $1 million. The class includes all SDFC patients (or their parents/guardians) who received a breach notification in May 2021....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Chinese APT41 Attacking State Networks - Although we are receiving frequent alerts from CISA and the FBI about the potential for increased cyber threats coming out of Russia, China continues its cyber...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA/FBI Advisory Warns of Destructive Malware Used Against Ukraine - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory this week alerting organizations of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #315 – Redline Malware Used to Steal Saved Credentials

Passwords are so difficult to remember. We all know we shouldn’t use the same or similar passwords across platforms. Stolen password credentials are dumped on the dark web and criminals use the stolen passwords to steal other...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 5

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FTC Announces Regulatory Priorities for 2022 - On December 10, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its Statement of Regulatory Priorities (“Announcement”) for 2022. The FTC’s priorities for the coming year...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Eye On Privacy: 2021 Year in Review

Just as we thought 2022 was going to be significantly different than 2021, December 2021 and January 2022 events have thrown us for another (pandemic) loop. We anticipate that some of the privacy and cybersecurity...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Practical Tips to Mitigate the Risk of Being Hacked by Fake IRS or Google Voice Scams

Risk Management Question - What are some of the newest hacking scams that may affect law firms and other businesses? The Issue - On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warnings to be on alert...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Phishing: Cybersecurity’s Biggest Threat

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Not every cybersecurity threat is ransomware. Phishing is cybersecurity’s biggest threat. It’s one of the most common ways hackers can “get into” your organization, and it can result in much more than identity theft. In the...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Staying Secure in the New Hybrid Workplace

Most observers believe that the legal profession is rapidly moving toward so-called “hybrid workplaces,” a term office managers use to describe a mixed-work environment that spans brick-and-mortar law offices, home offices,...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

Womble Bond Dickinson

The UK Sets Out to Prove That You Are You

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There is a reason we don’t all have a definitive digital identifier. I am describing a digital ID to be used by everybody for everything we do online – any bank would know you anywhere and know what funds it could give...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Cutting Through the COVID-19 Chaos: Keeping Secrets in the Family (Office) - May 20th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

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Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Join us as we address ways to protect family privacy from external threats, and policies and procedures for handling information that individual family members wish to keep private...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FTC Releases 2019 Privacy and Data Security Update

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On February 25th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its annual Privacy and Data Security Update, which highlights the FTC’s activities during the past year....more

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