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Managing Data Security and Privacy Risks in Enterprise AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, thrives on vast amounts of data, fueling AI capabilities, insights, and predictions. But with this reliance on data comes potential privacy and security risks. And...more

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Do You Know Who Your Employee Is? Mitigating DPRK IT Worker Risk

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North Korean IT operatives are infiltrating U.S. and Western companies using stolen or fabricated identities, VPNs, and U.S.-based co-conspirators to gain unauthorized access to corporate systems. These insider threats pose...more

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The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: Scams and Frauds

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AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving skills, whereas deepfake is synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated to replace and mimic one person’s likeness. AI has...more

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NYDFS Issues Guidance on Cybersecurity Risks Arising from Artificial Intelligence

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On October 16, 2024, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued an Industry Letter that discusses the cybersecurity risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and outlines strategies to...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Cybercrime Trends: A Midyear Review

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Cybercriminals continue to outpace the best efforts of regulators, law enforcement, and cybersecurity professionals. Recent reporting from the Federal Bureau of Investigation demonstrates that cybercriminals are increasingly...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Recent Ransomware Attacks Highlight the Evolving Challenges in Responding to Cyber Extortion

A spate of recent ransomware attacks illustrates the increasingly difficult calculations that businesses face following the theft or encryption of their data....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Porter Hedges LLP

CSF 2.0 – An Expanded Cybersecurity Framework for all Organizations

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Cybersecurity compliance, governance, and disclosure practices have evolved significantly over the past decade. As we have noted in prior blog posts, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring cybersecurity...more

Alston & Bird

Top 10 Issues General Counsel Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024

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Threat actors are evolving. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explains how ransomware gangs have changed their tactics and how companies can respond to the threat while navigating new scrutiny from investors and...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA

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Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more

Hinckley Allen

The 2023 Cyber Year in Review

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The Most Significant Developments in Cybersecurity and Cyber-Related Liability Risks - As we reflect upon 2023, it will unfortunately be remembered as a record-breaking year for ransomware and cybercrime....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12  (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA + FBI Issue Joint Advisory on AvosLocker Ransomware

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Don’t Gamble With Your Cybersecurity and Incident Response Plan: Lessons Learned from the Las Vegas Ransomware Attacks

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Typically, we beat the drum of the need to prepare for a data incident—anything from a full-blown ransomware attack to an employee accidently sharing data with the wrong person—by having your Incident Response Plan developed...more

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The Dangers of Dialogue: Ransomware Attackers Want to See Your Cyber Insurance Policy

Amidst the recent surge in ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses—with crypto criminals and sometimes State actors invading and encrypting computer and operating systems and extorting funds in exchange for the decryption...more

Burr & Forman

Hacking the Hive: How It Can Help Businesses

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Businesses can breathe a little easier now that one of the world’s top five ransomware networks, the Hive, has been infiltrated and disbanded by the FBI....more

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Is Federal Cyber Policy About to Make a U-Turn? Notes from #CES Suggest It Might.

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For years, federal cyber policy has been based on successful public-private partnerships, collaboration, and the promotion of voluntary standards that can be tailored to sector and organization-specific risk and needs....more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Focus on Foreign Banks’ Sanctions Compliance Programs in the U.S. and Globally - Upgrading and Empowering Compliance to Help...

As the Russia – Ukraine war rages on, one outcome so far is clear: the Western nations remain aligned and united to confront Russian aggression. The West’s synchronized, roll-out of economic and trade sanctions against...more

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Risk’s Digital Transformation – When IT & Third-Party Risk Reached Main Street

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It wasn’t long ago that the phrase digital transformation conjured the image of a large-enterprise corporate luminary delivering a keynote about the technological metamorphosis of their industry. Digitalization of legacy...more

K2 Integrity

The North Korean Crypto Threat

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Executive Summary - The North Korean threat to the crypto ecosystem is the highest form of immediate risk to the crypto-economy driven by a regime that seeks to profit from its misuse to reinforce its regime and fuel all its...more

Carlton Fields

[Webinar] Financial Services Cyber Fraud: The Latest Risks and Best Responses - October 20th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Cyber fraud costs the financial services industry billions in losses each year and has been on the rise. Regulation has followed, creating risks of a different kind. This timely webinar will walk through some of the latest...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Zero Trust Networks

A New Approach to Security in the WFH (home) and WFC (cloud) Era - In the Middle Ages, kings and other nobles secured their fiefdoms with a high-walled castle and a moat. The moat was designed to make it difficult for...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Cybersecurity Risk Management Practices for Small and Midsize Businesses

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Cybersecurity is the goliath of tech-related concerns for companies of all sizes, not just large corporations. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) encourages small and midsize businesses to focus on...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Cybersecurity Basics Are Key to Combating Ransomware

The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...more

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