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Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Newly-Discovered Vulnerability Highlights the Security Concerns Surrounding Bluetooth Technology

A recent report by researchers at the Helmholz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Singapore University of Technology and Design, and the University of Oxford has revealed that Bluetooth technology is vulnerable to a new...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Recent Developments in Cybersecurity….What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You

Criminal masterminds are constantly re-envisioning their weapon of choice. International cyberattacks perpetuated through the use of leaked nation-state cyber tools, shaped many security discussions in 2018, but a new year...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Remember Good Data Hygiene: An Official Advisory from the US Government

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Our government is telling us that bringing home that new holiday iPhone® should be a more complicated process than most of us realize. New US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidance is appropriately timed to coincide...more

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WSJ Article on Geolocation Data Highlights Risks for Fund Managers

On Friday, the WSJ published an article detailing how companies are monetizing smartphone location data by selling it to hedge fund clients. The data vendor featured in the WSJ article obtains geolocation data from about...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Your Mobile is Not Just a Phone — It's a Handheld Mini-Computer Subject to Attack

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Risk Management Question: We need to stop treating our mobile phones like they're just phones. They are mini-computers more powerful than the computers that guided the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon and back. What common...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Beware the Perpetually Curious Shoulder Surfers

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Given the volume of reporting on the data security risks posed by hackers and other bad actors online, it can be easy to overlook the "visual privacy" risks we encounter every day in the real world. As any "perpetually...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

NYC Secure Gives New Yorkers Tool to Protect Their Smartphones

On the heels of the ransomware that had the City of Atlanta scrambling last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of “NYC Secure,” a free mobile app that will alert New York City residents of suspicious activity...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2018 #4

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A new report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called “Global Risks Report 2018,” lists the threat of cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks affecting the public as the world’s third greatest threat in 2018, only behind...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

“Bring Your Own Device” To Work Programs: Regulatory and Legal Risks and How To Minimize Them

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If you’ve ever left your mobile phone on an airplane, in a restaurant, or somewhere other than in your possession, you know it’s frightening enough to think of losing the device itself, which costs a premium, as well as your...more

Carlton Fields

Risky Business: "Bring-Your-Own-Device" And Your Company

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Smartphones and tablets are everywhere. Largely prompted by Apple, Samsung, and Google’s consumer-centric marketing strategies, people are spending more and more money on the latest and fastest mobile devices, upgrading them...more

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