No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
No Password Required: A Security Engineer and Budding Surfer Who Took PentesterLab From Side Hustle to Global Success
No Password Required: A Developer Advocate with Auth0 and an "Accordion Guy" with Rockstar Aspirations
No Password Required: Former Commander, United States Central Command, Executive Director of Cyber Florida and an Appreciator of Battlefield Beef Enchiladas
No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
[Podcast] Prioritizing Cybersecurity in a Hybrid Workplace
Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small Business
Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber
Happy Password Day
Zoom Security Best Practices
Data Privacy Legislation, Part 2 (and bonus tips on teleworking from two law mamas who feel your pain!)
Compliance Perspectives: Cybervigilance and Cyber-resiliency
Life With GDPR: Episode 26- The Importance of Passwords
Employment Law This Week: Password Sharing, Organizing Mixed Units, Mental Health Accommodations, Privacy Shield
Employer Social Media Policies – Interview with Mitch Danzig, Member, Member, Mintz Levin
As More States Implement Social Media Password Laws, There’s Still Some Blind Spots
How to Protect Your Company From Hackers
The Basics of Michigan’s Social Media Password Law & Why It Isn’t Such a Great Idea
We have posted blogs before on sharing genetic information and the risk associated with the disclosure of such sensitive information. Unfortunately, our concerns have been realized....more
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
On January 22, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported about yet another data dump by the hacker group Shiny Hunters, this time for a clothing retailer. Shiny Hunters is known for exfiltrating large databases of customer...more
October is best known for Halloween, but October also happens to be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s a time to focus on how cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and we all must work together to protect and...more
It has been reported by Troy Hunt, the security researcher who provides the "Have I Been Pwned" free breach notification service, that 1.4 million passwords and personal information of customers of GateHub, a cryptocurrency...more
It has been reported by Troy Hunt, the security researcher who has provided us with the Have I Been Pwned free breach notification service, that 1.4 million passwords and personal information of customers of GateHub, a...more
The Ecuadorian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Security has announced an investigation into data analytics company Novaestrat after news broke this week that the company left an Elasticsearch server open...more
The 2019 calendar year had a rough beginning with several massive data breaches. Now, just this week, over 600 million account details were stolen from 16 different...more
In conjunction with the conclusion of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, it’s a good time to remember these cybersecurity reminders from the National Cyber Security Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently settled with Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. for alleged violation of Regulation S-ID (otherwise known as the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule) and Regulation S-P (otherwise known as...more
As we store an ever increasing amount of financial, health and other sensitive personal information online, protecting online personal information is even more important — particularly given the reality of data breaches and...more
You recently may have heard news reports regarding new security threats known as "Meltdown" and "Spectre." Not to be mistaken for the latest Hollywood box-office offering, these new threats allow attackers to exploit a design...more
Depending on the calculation method, what you are may be worth as little as $5. Who you are, however, can be worth much more. Experian recently sent an email linking out to an interesting article on the amount your...more
Ancestry.com has confirmed that RootsWeb, its free website for individuals to search genealogy, recently had a security vulnerability on its server that exposed a file containing the usernames, email addresses and passwords...more
An unknown intruder was able to access team communication platform HipChat last weekend, allowing access to the account information of users, including email addresses, hashed passwords and names. There is also a chance that...more
Businesses should take steps to protect usernames, email addresses, passwords, and security questions and answers. A key issue in determining whether notification is required following a data breach is whether...more
Yahoo Inc. announced on December 14th that hackers stole the personal information of more than one billion users, which is in addition to the 500 million accounts compromised that was announced in September....more
You and your business may use the cloud vendor Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) to store or transfer files, work-related documents, or personal information (or may have used it to transfer such data in the past). ...more
A LinkedIn data breach in 2012 supposedly exposed 6.5 million LinkedIn users’ hashed passwords. LinkedIn announced yesterday (May 18, 2016) that in fact, it impacted more than 177 million user accounts, and that the...more
Late last week, the American Bankers Association disclosed that its computer systems had been compromised exposing thousands of members’ personal information. The hacking occurred through its website’s shopping cart tool,...more
As we head into the end of 2015, state legislators across the country continue to strengthen, update and, in some instances, broaden the scope of their respective state data breach notification laws. Specifically, many...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to scrutinize a business’s data security protocol -- and to file a complaint if the FTC finds that protocol...more
The increasing amounts of health information being generated, stored and collected have heightened the special risks medical device manufacturers have long faced. In addition to the nexus to patient health and safety, if a...more
In response to a growing demand for cybersecurity guidance in the health care industry, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, recently published a...more
California’s data security statute will get a little more “personal” as of January 1, thanks to a recently-passed amendment revising the definition of covered personal information. On July 14 California expanded the...more