We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
No Password Required: SVP at SpyCloud Labs, Former Army Investigator, and Current Breakfast Champion
No Password Required Podcast: Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker and Advocate of Buc-ee’s, Mascots, and Buc-ee Mascots
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Two - Cybersecurity Insurance: The New Frontier of Risk Management
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
Unlock Privacy ROI: Why Making Cross-Functional Allies is Key
No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
Monumental Win in Data Breach Class Action: A Case Study — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
Cleveland Municipal Court has been shut down the past two weeks as it grapples with a cyber incident. The nature and scope of this incident is not yet publicly known, but it is reasonable to suggest that the Court may have...more
On June 5, 2020, Florence, Alabama’s information technology systems were hit with ransomware by the DoppelPaymer group demanding a ransom payment of $378,000 in bitcoin....more
City of Durham, NC Hit With Ryuk Ransomware - Another city—Durham, North Carolina—has become the victim of a ransomware attack stemming from a Russian hacker group following a successful phishing scheme. After falling...more
Another city—Durham, North Carolina—has become the victim of a ransomware attack stemming from a Russian hacker group following a successful phishing scheme....more
There’s nothing worse than paying criminals. And paying a ransom for data is just that—paying criminals for a criminal act. All you get out of the payment is access to your data....more
Ransomware attacks on municipalities were on the rise in 2019, with two-thirds of known ransomware attacks in the United States targeting governments, and the trend is expected to continue for 2020. It is important for...more
Following the escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran in the past week, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) is warning hospitals and health systems that Iran could attack health...more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning critical infrastructure operators to be on high alert for Iranian backed cyber-attacks because of the vulnerability of state and municipal computer systems, they are at...more
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards activated the State’s cybersecurity team recently after several State offices’ computers started acting strangely. The IT team identified an intrusion of Ryuk ransomware and which programs...more
Just hours after the shooting incident at the Pensacola Air Station last week, city officials in Pensacola discovered that the city was the victim of a ransomware attack....more
Approximately 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department were notified recently that their credit card information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by its vendor, Click2Gov....more
Several weeks ago, relaxing into vacation mode in Florida, I turned on the morning news as we got ready for the beach. The phrase “cybersecurity breach” caught my attention, especially in light of recent MuniBlog posts on...more
The Wolcott school system in Wolcott, Connecticut has been recovering for four months from a ransomware attack that hit its system at the end of the school year. Last week, it was hit with a second attack. According to...more
The Wolcott school system in Wolcott, Connecticut has been recovering for four months from a ransomware attack that hit its system at the end of the school year when it was hit with a second attack last week. ...more
We have definitely seen an uptick in the number of ransomware attacks against municipalities around the country. Thus far, the attacks have been against single cities, towns, and court systems, and recently against a...more
We’ve written a few times recently about municipalities, companies, and government agencies hit with ransomware attacks this year. In early July, it was reported that a court system in Georgia was attacked with ransomware,...more
Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority. Please see full Publication blow...more
Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority....more
The Baltimore city government's email and other systems have been offline for more than three weeks as the result of a ransomware attack in early May. This is not the first local government to have been the victim of such...more
Another city, another ransomware attack. Cities and municipalities continue to be targeted with ransomware campaigns. Fortunately, in this case, essential services such as fire, police, Emergency Medical Services and 311...more
The headlines of hacking incidents against counties, cities and towns are racking up like the retail space was several years ago....more
Cities and towns continue to be a profitable target for successful ransomware attacks. As we previously reported, the list of cities and towns getting hit with ransomware attacks continues to grow....more
I was a speaker at a recent conference of municipalities in a state last week, and during my presentation, I mentioned the various cyber-attacks that have affected cities, towns and educational departments in the U.S....more