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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

You’ve Been Hacked. Who You Gonna Call?

Your company was hacked. You feel panic, embarrassment, anger, fear and confusion. But you must act quickly, logically and decisively to stop the bleeding and protect your business, your customers and your employees. The good...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Data Breach 911: Five Immediate Steps to Take

For many, responding to an incident feels chaotic — questions swirling, uncertainties piling up, and no clear direction. Even when prepared with a well-rehearsed incident response plan, a data security incident places a...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 43 | Key Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity

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NSA and CISA Release Report on “Top Ten” Cybersecurity Misconfigurations; CISA Calls for Software Manufacturers to Implement Best Practices - On October 5, 2023, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Miller Nash LLP

[Webinar] Panic! at the Firewall: Cyber Incident Response and the Role of Insurance - May 17th, 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

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Cyber incidents are increasing in frequency and severity across all businesses and industries. As the saying goes, it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN an incident will occur. In this webinar we will explore ways that you can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Police Department Hit with Ransomware Attack

The Associated Press has reported that the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. police department has been the victim of a hacking incident for which the Russian-based ransomware group Babuk is claiming responsibility....more

Knobbe Martens

Lessons From the Complaint Against Uber’s Former Chief Security Officer

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On August 20, 2020, former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan was charged with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony for knowingly concealing a hack of Uber in 2016. Based on Sullivan’s complaint,...more

Sunstein LLP

Facial Recognition: A Clear View to Dystopia

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In the wake of an alarming exposé published by The New York Times in January, Clearview AI, Inc., a New York startup, faces a slew of lawsuits. Since the article’s publication, the Vermont Attorney General filed a complaint...more

BCLP

Data Breach Litigation Preparation: Should Companies Contact Law Enforcement After a Data Breach?

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As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any actual...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Privacy Developments in China, Singapore and Hong Kong

International companies should keep in mind recent developments coming out of Asia on the privacy front. Chinese authorities are reported to be confiscating smartphones at the border to install surveillance apps. Companies...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2018

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Darkreading.com has issued a survey entitled Monetizing the Insider: The Growing Symbiosis of Insiders and the Dark Web, which states that malicious insiders are responsible for 27 percent of all cybercrime. This statistic...more

BCLP

Avoiding Management Struggles When it Comes to Data Breaches: Part 4

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The best way for a company to handle a data breach is to be prepared. As we discuss in our data breach readiness handbook, preparation includes, among other things, drafting an incident response plan, reviewing...more

Carlton Fields

Florida Law Mandates Police Body Camera Policies—Then Lets Agencies Fend for Themselves

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Police body cameras are the hot new item on the procurement “wish lists” of law enforcement agencies at all levels of government. Following well-publicized police encounters with citizens throughout the United States,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Fraternal Order of Police data breach

The nation’s largest police union recently suffered a data breach enabling hackers to steal hundreds of private internal documents including bargaining contracts, the names and addresses of several police officers, and...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Truth or Consequences: Does the Senate’s Information Sharing Bill Really Help Business?

Reacting to the influx of recent, high-profile data breaches and cybersecurity attacks in the government and the private sector, the U.S. Senate earlier this week passed the controversial Cybersecurity Information Security...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Strike Suit Offers Conjectures, And Little More, About Scottrade Data Breach

As reported on Friday in the Krebs on Security blog, online broker Scottrade had sent an e-mail to customers earlier that day stating that it recently had learned from law enforcement officials that Scottrade was one of a...more

Cozen O'Connor

Your Client is Hacked and Personal Information is Leaked Online – Now What?

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You are general counsel to a company, and your CEO steps into your office, clutching his iPhone in one hand and wiping sweat from his brow with the other, and tells you that a compromising photograph of him was stolen from...more

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