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Navigating the 2025 Cybersecurity Landscape: Data Breaches, Rising Costs, and CISA’s Evolving Role

In June 2025, cybersecurity researchers discovered a leak of 16 billion passwords in one of the largest data breaches ever, impacting a wide range of platforms and placing billions of users’ information at risk. This incident...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

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Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber

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The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch, and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.18.2020 | Top Story: Apple Cuts Revenue Expectations and HSBC Axes Jobs as Coronavirus Infects Business...

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Apple announced that the coronavirus outbreak that’s brought Chinese manufacturing to a near-standstill and continues to spread around the world will affect its quarterly sales expectations.  The news makes Apple “one of the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Pensacola Hit with Cyber-Attack

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI Warns of Sharp Increase in Ransomware Attacks in Certain Sectors

The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Imgur Discloses Breach Affecting Email and Passwords of 1.7 Million Users

On November 24, 2017, image-sharing website Imgur disclosed that email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million users were stolen in a 2014 hack on the company. Imgur became aware of the breach on November 23, 2017 when a...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Affair Website Ashley Madison Fined $8.75 Million Over Data Breach, Misrepresentations

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners and operators of AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people interested in having discreet affairs, related to the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ashley Madison Settles with FTC and State AGs for $1.6 Million

We have previously reported on the Ashley Madison data breach and subsequent litigation. On December 14th, Ashley Madison announced that it has agreed to pay $1.6 million and implement additional security measures to settle...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ashley Madison Fallout: Class Actions, Pentagon investigation and easily searchable data

We previously reported that hackers The Impact Team had posted legitimate detailed information about 36 million adultery website Ashley Madison users. In the wake of the shocking posting of the data last week, two class...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part I

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Internet commenters and legal analysts alike are buzzing about the Ashley Madison hack. The website -- which billed itself as a networking site for anyone who wanted to discretely arrange an extramarital affair -- has already...more

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NIST Guide Highlights Cybersecurity Considerations for Utilities and Manufacturing Companies

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In 2013 alone, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) responded to more than 256 cyber-incident reports—more than half of them in the energy...more

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“Life is short. Have an affair.”® And have your data hacked and leaked

Hackers calling themselves “The Impact Team” announced on July 15th that it has compromised the extramarital affair site AshleyMadison.com, and companion sites Cougar Life and Established Men, including absconding with up to...more

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From Carjacking to Carhacking – Lessons for the Internet of Things

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming and perhaps the first place we will see the proverbial rubber hit the road is with something near and dear to Americans – our cars. The ever increasing connectivity of cars is creating a...more

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Cybersecurity Monday: Who Is Shopping for Your Data?

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At this time of year, everyone is shopping for a good bargain. And with “Cyber Monday,” the internet has become the place to go for the best deals. The shift to online and cloud-based information systems and data storage has...more

Gray Reed

2013 Texas Leg Watch: Retracting The Defamation And Notification After A Data Breach

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While the second special session is winding down (thank goodness), we will take a look at a couple more new laws impacting online media and technology in Texas. ...more

Sands Anderson PC

Is Your Cyber-Security Better Than a Fortune 500's?

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Half of Fortune 500 companies would face “serious harm” or be “adversely impacted” by a cyber-attack. The greatest perceived harms are loss or theft of confidential information, loss of reputation and direct loss from...more

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