The State of California is once again leading the way with trying to keep up with technology and protecting consumers. Senate Bill 327 requires Internet of Things (IoT) developers to implement “reasonable security features”...more
10/1/2018
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Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Blockchain ,
COPPA ,
Cyber Attacks ,
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Cybersecurity ,
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Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Fingerprints ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Hurricane Florence ,
Insurance Claims ,
Internet of Things ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Passwords ,
Popular ,
Property Damage ,
Settlement ,
State Farm ,
Uber
Schneider Electric recently issued a consumer warning that it mistakenly shipped to its customers USB drives that were infected with malware. Schneider Electric stated in its alert that “Schneider Electric has determined that...more
9/24/2018
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Building Inspectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Hurricane Florence ,
Malware ,
Natural Disasters ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Real Estate Development ,
Risk Management ,
Safe Harbors ,
San Francisco ,
Scams ,
Social Security Numbers ,
Successor Liability ,
Utilities Sector ,
Website Accessibility ,
Websites ,
Yahoo!
We all remember Kronos—the malicious malware that was sold by Russian underground forums in 2014 for $7,000. If you bought it, you were promised updates and development of new modules. The Kronos developers recently released...more
9/17/2018
/ Adidas ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hurricane Season ,
Malware ,
OCR ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Scams ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
We reported last week that a spyware maker recently compromised users’ and victims’ sensitive information. Since that time, another spyware maker, mSpy, which holds itself out as having over a million users employing its...more
9/11/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Framework ,
Data Breach ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Hackers ,
Insurance Industry ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NYDFS ,
Pending Legislation ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Spyware ,
State and Local Government ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Yahoo!
It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal...more
9/4/2018
/ Airspace ,
Arbitration ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Blockchain ,
Commercial Use ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Do Not Call List ,
Drones ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Safety Standards ,
Southwest Airlines ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more
8/27/2018
/ Airspace ,
Banking Sector ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Cell Phones ,
Commercial Use ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hackers ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
State Departments of Transportation ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
TCM Bank, a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard Inc., notified some 10,000 credit card applicants in the past week that their names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers were compromised between March 2017 and the...more
8/10/2018
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Banking Sector ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Drones ,
Financial Institutions ,
Government Officials ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Risk Management ,
Social Media ,
Terrorist Acts ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Venezuela
Russian Hackers Successfully Phished Hundreds of U.S. Companies Last Year -
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated that Russian hackers successful attacked the energy, nuclear, aviation, and critical...more
8/6/2018
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Popular ,
Russia ,
Spoofing
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on July 19, 2018, that it is directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) “to develop and submit modifications to the NERC Reliability...more
7/30/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Bitcoin ,
Blockchain ,
Bulk Electric System ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Dark Web ,
Digital Currency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Drones ,
Electricity ,
Energy Sector ,
FERC ,
Final Rules ,
Financial Fraud ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Hackers ,
LifeLock ,
Malware ,
National Security ,
NERC ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Reliability Standards ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Sensitive Business Information ,
US Air Force ,
Utilities Sector ,
Virtual Currency
We have previously reported on the ongoing cybersecurity issues with St. Jude defibrillators [view related posts here, here, and here]. On June 29, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the required firmware...more
7/16/2018
/ Adidas ,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Emergency Response ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Medical Devices ,
Mobile Apps ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Regulatory Violations ,
St Jude Medical Center ,
Wildfires
Just weeks after Mexico’s central bank was targeted by hackers who stole $15 million, Chile’s biggest bank, Banco de Chile, announced on May 28, 2018, that it had been struck by a “virus” that affected its workstations,...more
7/2/2018
/ Banks ,
Carpenter v US ,
Cell Phones ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Currency Exchange ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Electronic Records ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Exigent Circumstances ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Geolocation ,
Hackers ,
Harassment ,
Identity Theft ,
Location Data ,
location-da ,
Malware ,
NYDFS ,
Probable Cause ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
Registration Requirement ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Robocalling ,
SCOTUS ,
Third-Party ,
Warrantless Searches
Just days after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about a malicious malware, a Trojan malware variant known as...more
6/26/2018
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Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ,
Connected Cars ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data-Sharing ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Drones ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FBI ,
FCC ,
FERPA ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Information Technology ,
Malware ,
OCR ,
Risk Management
We previously reported that the FBI has warned consumers about a nasty malware, known as VPNFilter and believed to have been launched by a Russian government hacking group, which is infecting hundreds of thousands of small...more
6/12/2018
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Banking Sector ,
Certification Requirements ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Drones ,
Event Tickets ,
FBI ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Hackers ,
LabMD ,
Malware ,
Network Security ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning t U.S. consumers that Russian hackers (dubbed Sofacy and a/k/a Fancy Brear and APT28, and believed to be backed by the Russian government) had compromised...more
6/5/2018
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Drones ,
Emergency Response ,
FBI ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Malware ,
Mobile Apps ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Public Safety ,
Ransomware ,
Registration Requirement ,
Risk Management ,
Russia ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Bezop Cryptocurrency Investors’ Personal Information Exposed -
Kromtech Security has reported that the sensitive personal information of more than 25,000 investors of Bezop cryptocurrency was exposed when a MongoDB...more
5/4/2018
/ Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Digital Currency ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hospitality Industry ,
PHI ,
Smart Devices ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
Virtual Currency
“Orangeworm” Targeting Health Care Industry -
In what is being called a systematic targeting of large health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and IT companies and equipment manufacturers that service the...more
4/27/2018
/ Blue Shield ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Data Breach ,
Digital Currency ,
Drones ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Medical Devices ,
Personal Data ,
PHI ,
Risk Management ,
Scams ,
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund ,
SunTrust ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ,
US v Microsoft ,
Virtual Currency
Inogen, which manufactures portable oxygen devices, has alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission in a recent filing that it is notifying 30,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised when a hacker...more
4/20/2018
/ Airspace ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
EPIC ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Medical Devices ,
Personal Data ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management
Pipeline Companies Targeted by Cyber-Attacks -
Reports show that U.S. energy companies reported more than 350 cybersecurity incidents to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security between 2011 and 2015. Pipeline companies are...more
4/13/2018
/ Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Digital Currency ,
Drones ,
Energy Sector ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Oil & Gas ,
Personal Data ,
Pipelines ,
Social Media ,
TCPA ,
Virtual Currency
Russians Continue to Attack U.S. Energy and Power Sectors -
Late last week, a joint statement by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Russian government has been...more
3/23/2018
/ Cambridge Analytica ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Driverless Cars ,
Drones ,
Energy Sector ,
Exports ,
Facebook ,
Hackers ,
Online Travel Vendors ,
Orbitz ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Russia ,
Trump Administration ,
Uber ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities -
Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more
3/16/2018
/ American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ,
Biometric Information ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Drones ,
Facebook ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
Malware ,
Mobile Devices ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Smartphones ,
Telecommunications ,
TSA ,
Verizon
Cybersecurity Task Force Launched in Arizona -
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey launched the Arizona Cybersecurity Team (ACT) by Executive Order on March 1, 2018. The ACT is comprised of 22 members representing officials from...more
3/9/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Federal Agency Taskforce ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
Information Technology ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
According to bloggers on techtarget.com, security risks around the internet of things (IoT) continue to be problematic, and a new free guide, “The Developer’s Guide to IoT” has been published specifically for IoT device...more
3/2/2018
/ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ,
Cybersecurity Framework ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Financial Services Industry ,
First Responders ,
Hackers ,
Insurance Industry ,
Internet of Things ,
NYDFS ,
Puerto Rico ,
Risk Management ,
Smartphones
U.S. Estimates that Cyber Hacks Cost Up to $109 Billion in 20 -
The Council for Economic Advisors (CEA) issued a report this month, entitled “The Cost of Malicious Cyber Activity to the U.S. Economy,” which concludes that...more
2/26/2018
/ Banking Sector ,
Bitcoin ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Currency ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Drones ,
Federal Agency Taskforce ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Malware ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
TCPA ,
Virtual Currency
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. notified its electronic medical record customers last week that a ransomware attack was behind the disruption of service for medical providers.
...more
2/7/2018
/ Article III ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Educational Institutions ,
EPIC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
Scams ,
Social Security Administration (SSA) ,
Standing ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Think Tank Says Nuclear Missiles Can be Inadvertently Launched Through Cyber-Attacks -
Just before the false alarm in Hawaii last weekend when residents were erroneously warned of an impending missile attack, think tank...more
1/19/2018
/ Bitcoin ,
Cloud Storage ,
Common Law Claims ,
Confidential Communications ,
Cryptocurrency ,
CT Supreme Court ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Currency ,
Drones ,
Government Investigations ,
Hackers ,
Malware ,
Medical Records ,
National Security ,
North Korea ,
Nuclear Weapons ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Virtual Currency ,
Vulnerability Assessments