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Venable LLP

SALT Alert: Maryland Enacts 3% Sales Tax on Technology and Data Services, Effective July 1, 2025

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As part of its fiscal year 2026 budget legislation, Maryland enacted a number of new tax provisions, including the imposition of a 3% sales tax on a broad range of information technology and data services. The tax took effect...more

Mayer Brown

Hong Kong Passes First Cybersecurity Legislation for Regulating Critical Infrastructures

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INTRODUCTION - The Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Bill (the "Bill"), as the first law in Hong Kong to deal with cybersecurity was passed on 19 March 2025, and will come into force on 1 January 2026....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

SharePoint Server Vulnerabilities Exploited Despite Emergency Patch

Microsoft has confirmed that vulnerabilities in its on-premises SharePoint Server installations, a network spoofing vulnerability (CVE-202549706), and a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49704) are being actively...more

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Engineering Cyber Resilience: Lessons from the Tallinn Mechanism

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When the lights stayed on in Kyiv during a wave of missile attacks in early 2024, Ukrainian officials quietly acknowledged a second line of defense that received far less public attention than the nation’s air-defense...more

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White House Releases AI Action Plan: "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan"

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On July 23, the White House released its strategic action plan on AI, “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the AI Action Plan), which is designed to secure U.S. global leadership in AI with a strategic focus on...more

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Bid Protest Spotlight: Conflicts, Evaluations, Materiality - Law 360

This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on three recent protests from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The first protest involves an organizational conflict of interest, the second pertains to oral...more

K2 Integrity

Navigating the Cybersecurity Minefield: Why Midsize Companies Need On-Demand Expertise in the Age of AI and Ransomware

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In today’s always-online world, cyber resilience is a business imperative. For midsize and fast-growing small companies, the stakes have never been higher. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly...more

Dacheng

China Monthly Data Protection Update: July 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for July. The following events merit special attention: CAC Issues Third Edition of the Data Export Security Assessment Application Guide: On...more

Offit Kurman

Maryland's Sales Tax on IT and Data Services

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In this episode of OK at Work, attorneys Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger from Offit Kurman discuss the newly implemented sales tax on IT and data services in Maryland. They explore the implications for business owners in the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA Alert: Liteon Electric Vehicle Chargers

If you own an electric vehicle, keep an eye on cybersecurity issues that may affect your car and its accessories. You wouldn’t think that an electric vehicle charger could include a vulnerability that allows threat actors to...more

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FAR 2.0 Part 39 in Arcade Mode—How Federal IT Acquisition Just Hit Reset

For those who grew up gripping a joystick and dodging alien fire in Defender, riding ostriches through floating platforms in Joust, or crossing a hectic freeway in Frogger, winning wasn’t about memorizing rules; it was about...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

High Steaks Affairs: Internet Accessibility Lawsuits on the Rise

Last month, Hallyu Korean BBQ (“Defendant”) was named as a defendant in an internet accessibility lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Plaintiff, who is blind, alleged that...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

President Trump Orders Divestment of Jupiter Systems, Citing National Security Concerns

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On July 8th, 2025, President Trump issued an order (the “Order”) forcing divestment of U.S.-based Jupiter Systems (“Jupiter”) by its China-based parent company, Suirui Group Co., Ltd. (“Suirui”), more than five years after...more

Cimplifi

Don’t Wait for 2028: Modernize Your eDiscovery Infrastructure Today

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In January, Relativity announced that Relativity Server will no longer accept new matters beginning in 2028. Recently, they reinforced that message with a clear call to action: the future of eDiscovery is in the cloud—and the...more

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MintzTech Connect Industry News: Spotlight on Coworker.ai

Coworker.ai has recently announced the launch of the world’s first AI “teammate,” an agent that can perform complex work at the level of an experienced colleague. Powered by Organizational Memory (OM1), a proprietary memory...more

Holland & Knight LLP

One Big Beautiful Bill Act Includes $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program

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President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), into law on July 4, 2025. (For a detailed analysis of the bill, see Holland & Knight's previous alert, "Trump Signs the One Big Beautiful...more

Hogan Lovells

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA): top 7 challenges for IT vendors

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The Digital Operational Resilience Act ("DORA") is the EU's latest legislative effort to enhance digital operational resilience across the financial sector through a harmonised set of rules for managing information and...more

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How I Learned to Prioritize in Cybersecurity—and Why It Changed Everything

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I didn’t plan on working in cybersecurity. My path wasn’t exactly traditional, but every job I had taught me how systems break—technical or operational, it didn’t matter. ...more

Hanzo

Multiple Slack Workspaces, One Governance Strategy: Here’s How to Get It Right

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Managing collaboration at enterprise scale is inherently complex, especially when your organization operates across multiple workspaces. As teams become more distributed, compliance demands intensify, and business units push...more

IR Global

Let AI Do It — With Background Apps

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The ability to automate routine work without disrupting your day is no longer a luxury. That’s where “background apps” come in (included as part of our ndMAX AI App Builder)....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

What to Know About SafePay Ransomware Group

The SafePay ransomware group has been active since fall 2024 and has increased its activity this spring and summer. According to NCC Group, SafePay hit the most victims of any threat actor in May 2025—it is linked to 248...more

Carey Olsen

Bermuda leads the way on digital transformation

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The surge in adoption of digital technologies and AI is rapidly changing the business, investment and security environments. The global demand for improved and increased digital infrastructure capacity, resilience, speed and...more

Blank Rome LLP

Department of Defense to Increase Scrutiny Over IT Consulting and Advisory Contracts

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The Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment issued a memorandum on June 23, 2025, that tightens oversight on DoD contracts for information technology consulting & management services...more

Offit Kurman

Maryland’s Sales Tax on IT Services: Key Insights and Compliance Tips

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As part of its 2025 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act, Maryland is introducing a 3% sales and use tax on a broad range of information technology (IT) services, effective July 1, 2025. This “tech tax” is designed to...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Trump Reverses Key Biden-Era Cyber Directives: Important Updates to Federal Cybersecurity Priorities

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Earlier this month, President Trump issued an Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (EO), which amends both Biden...more

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