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McCarter & English, LLP

Don’t Get Caught in Scattered Spider’s Web

The cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is at it again, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. This criminal group is known to focus its cyber attacks on one sector at a time. Last spring, it was the retail...more

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Overseas employees and contractors pose increased risks of data breach

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As data breach litigation continues to increase, companies need to worry about a new point of vulnerability - overseas employees.  Many large companies outsource customer services to India and other low-cost providers to take...more

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Inside CyberCX’s 2025 DFIR Report: MFA Failures and Espionage Risks Revealed

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The DFIR 2025 Threat Report from CyberCX offers a firsthand view of how cyber adversaries adapted and accelerated their tactics in 2024. Covering incidents across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Europe, the report...more

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What Goes Around Comes Around: The Resurgence of Data Breach Class Actions

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Data breach class actions are again on the rise, with a recent report by Lex Machina confirming what many cybersecurity practitioners have seen first-hand over the last two years. The findings also reaffirm longstanding best...more

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Data Breaches up 72% From Record High: Cyber Incident Readiness Must be Top of Mind

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“Protect your data! Breaches are on the rise!” These warnings seem to be everywhere – and rightfully so. Threat actors are sophisticated and new breach trends are constantly materializing. Awareness is no longer enough. It...more

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How to Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap: Collaboration, Creativity, and Education

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The cybersecurity skills gap is a major challenge facing businesses and organizations today. The immense and well-publicized illicit gains generated by cyber attackers have drawn a steady stream of talent to feed the growing...more

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Trends and Moments that Defined 2022 & Predictions for 2023

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While there have been major developments in areas such as data security, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence over the past year, threat actors are becoming increasingly aggressive, sophisticated, and in some cases,...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

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Contracting for Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Recent Report Provides Insight on Best Practices

Introduction - Enterprises are increasingly reliant on complex and interconnected ecosystems of technology solutions. Companies are reducing their dependence on the legacy monolithic highly customized solutions, instead...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

SolarWinds Hackers Focus on Downstream Vendors as Next Victims

In a blog post entitled “New activity from Russian actor Nobelium,” Microsoft’s V.P. of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt discussed a recent alert issued by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) regarding the...more

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[Webinar] Privacy, Data and Cyber Security: The Current Legal Landscape - November 11th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Companies and consumers alike are under perpetual assault from bad actors as IoT, work from home, and cloud migration – all intended to improve productivity – have expanded the cyber attack surface. The continually evolving...more

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Cybersecurity Defense: Recommendations for Companies Impacted by the Biden Administration Executive Order

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As summarized in the first installment of our two-part blog series, President Biden recently issued a sweeping Executive Order aimed at improving the nation’s cybersecurity defense. The Order is a reaction to increased...more

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Cybersecurity Defense: Biden Administration Executive Order a Great Start Towards a More Robust National Framework

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On May 12, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order (“the Order”) aimed at improving the country’s cybersecurity threat defense. This Order is an attempt to create a “whole of government” response to increasingly...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Newsletter – May 2021

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Selected Developments in U.S. Law - NYDFS Issues Report on the SolarWinds Attack and Covered Entities’ Responses Following the SolarWinds cyber espionage attack and the resulting focus on supply chain risk, the New York...more

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How to Respond to the SolarWinds “Orion” Supply Chain Attack

As reported last week, it appears that a state-sponsored security hack has resulted in a major security compromise in widely-used software offered by a company called SolarWinds. The compromised software, known as Orion, is...more

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Capital One fined for inadequate data controls

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 16 (August 20, 2020) - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined Capital One USD 80 million for inadequate data controls leading to a 2019 data breach and for failing to fix...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.19.2020 | Top Story: S&P 500 Erases Pandemic Losses Despite U.S. Failure to Control Virus

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Unlike much of the world, the U.S. has not turned the corner on the coronavirus outbreak. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the markets. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 topped out at its highest level ever, “capping a remarkable...more

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German court rules Facebook illegally harvested data

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - Germany’s top court reversed a decision by an appeals court, stating that there is no doubt that Facebook enjoys a dominant position in the market and also no...more

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United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office issues fine for data breach

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 4 (February 20, 2020) - The Information Commissioner’s Office fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) 500,00 British pounds after an investigation discovered a data breach involving the...more

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Cyberattack Forces Gas Pipeline Shutdown

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A cyberattack on a single gas compression facility resulted in the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline for two days, according to a recent alert from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2019 #2

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Hotel chain Fillmore Hospitality, LLC is the latest target of a proposed class action complaint filed this week, alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). We don’t usually discuss the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Think Like a Hacker

I was with a bunch of CFOs this week talking about cybersecurity and I told them how easy it is for hackers these days. They can infiltrate a company’s system by compromising an O365 account that doesn’t have multi-factor...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Cybersecurity, Use of Internet of Things Technology Concern Manufacturers

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Powered in part by the growing use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, cybersecurity has surged to become one of the leading concerns for global manufacturers, according to a recently released study....more

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