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Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

AI and Social Engineering Practice Tips

The hospitality industry faces mounting cybersecurity challenges as artificial intelligence (AI) enables increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks targeting hotels, resorts, and travel service providers. Threat...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Data Privacy Insights Part 2: The Most Common Types of Data Breaches Businesses Face

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As part of Data Privacy Awareness Week, Ward and Smith is spotlighting the most common types of data breaches that businesses encounter. In Part 1, we explored the industries most vulnerable to cyberattacks, highlighting the...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more

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3 essential employee trainings for your company curriculum

Tuesday was HR Professionals Day, an annual celebration that recognizes the hard work of Human Resource personnel and highlights the unique challenges they face. HR departments are often maligned, but they ensure that...more

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Best Practices for Reducing the Cost of a Cyber Incident for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

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Originally published in American Business Magazine - May 2024. Many small- and mid-sized business owners believe that they are not prime targets for a cyber breach and that threat actors only go after large companies. This...more

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Doubling Your Account Security With Multi-Factor Authentication

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This article is the second in a series of articles about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout October, K2 Integrity will be providing tips and solutions to organizations to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the...more

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Emerging Middle Market Cyber-Attack Vectors: Are You at Risk?

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The concept of “security by obscurity” is officially outdated. In recent years, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, destructive, and indiscriminate. In today’s landscape, cyber threats can come from internal...more

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Financial Services Employers Face Significant Increase In Cybersecurity Threats

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Employers in the financial services sector are facing an unprecedented number of cybersecurity attacks during the pandemic crisis. To put this in perspective, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has issued...more

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Cybercriminals Target Healthcare Industry During The Pandemic

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Several federal agencies have teamed up to warn healthcare employers of the increased threat they face as a result of malicious cybercriminals aiming to take advantage of the pandemic to wreak havoc on their operations. The...more

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Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

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4 Ways to Protect ePHI Beyond HIPAA Compliance

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Given the choice between credit card data and digital health records, cybercriminals prefer the latter. A stolen credit card can be canceled. Electronic protected health information (ePHI) with its treasure-trove of...more

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The Cybersecurity Threat of COVID-19

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As people across the world react to the rapid spread of COVID-19, a new threat is emerging; individuals and employers face a risk from hackers trying to take advantage of the demand for information. Hackers have begun using...more

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Protecting LTC Residents' PHI: Eight Tips for Avoiding a Data Breach

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Organizations that meet the definition of "covered entity" under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (HIPAA) must be diligent to maintain the privacy and security...more

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Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

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Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy and Security Employee Education Efforts

As more and more companies become victim to data loss through phishing campaigns and insider threats, and the loss of data becomes riskier, companies are struggling to address the risks through employee education efforts....more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

The Importance of Training

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According to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, phishing or other forms of social engineering cause 93% of all data breaches. In order for phishing or social engineering attacks to be successful, the attacker...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Are You Covered?

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The New Jersey State Bar Association recently met to discuss, among other things, our favorite topic: Cybersecurity. (Perhaps our esteemed Privacy, e-Communication and Data Security Practice Group chair was there….) We wanted...more

McAfee & Taft

Gavel to Gavel: Preventing data breaches

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The risk data breaches and cyberattacks pose to small businesses cannot be overstated. Roughly half experienced a breach within the past year at an average cost of $665,000 and immeasurable lost revenue. Worse yet,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Employee Error Accounts for Most Security Breaches

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A recent study by a well-known information security company captures one of the most common information security fallacies: that information security is a technology problem. Most businesses view mitigating information...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Experian sponsors Ponemon study on data breach

Experian Data Breach Resolution sponsored a recently released Ponemon Study entitled “Managing Insider Risk through Training & Culture.” The report is quite timely in light of all of the recent successful W-2 phishing...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

The Sophisticated Hack: Business Email Compromise

Gone are the days of the overtly suspicious request from a Nigerian prince asking for your social security number or a friend needing a loan to get out of jail in a foreign country. These easily recognizable hacking attempts...more

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