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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

K2 Integrity

Social Media Day: Educating Employees On The Risks Of Social Media

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Social media is used by both organizations and employees—as a marketing tool for business, for entertainment, or for interacting with friends and family....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New Hires More Likely to Fall for Phishing + Social Engineering Attacks

When assessing cybersecurity risk in your organization, it is important to understand your users and their behavior. A new study by Keepnet sheds light on new hire behavior concerning phishing susceptibility. According to its...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #444 – Best Phishing Campaigns are from HR or IT

Everyone thinks they can spot a phish. Whether it is an email, SMS text, or QRish phishing, people have an overinflated view of their capabilities to detect them....more

K2 Integrity

World Password Day: Increasing Security in Two Steps

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May 1 is World Password Day, a day for organizations to remind their employees of the importance of using strong passwords and practicing good password hygiene to protect personal and work accounts. It’s a time for...more

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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

Alston & Bird

AI vs. AI: Recent Developments in the Cyber Landscape

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The ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) has heightened companies’ exposure to cyberattacks of increasingly greater sophistication. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explores how businesses can enhance their...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

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA

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Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

As social engineering email attacks increase in sophistication, employee training and awareness rise to the forefront

The Nigerian prince seems almost quaint. Gone are the days when the Nigerian prince was the only nefarious figure menacing our inboxes. A simple yet elegant scheme – our supposed prince unexpectedly fell upon a large sum...more

Baker Donelson

Fraudulent Unemployment Claims on the Rise: What Should Employers Do?

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Government agencies are grappling with the theft of millions of taxpayer dollars through unique fraud schemes directed at state unemployment programs. Employers often are the first to discover these schemes when they learn...more

NAVEX

3 Coronavirus Compliance Tips From the SEC

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The coronavirus crisis is far from over, and compliance professionals still need every scrap of guidance that regulators can provide about how to run compliance programs in these difficult times. So when the Securities and...more

NAVEX

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

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Beware of Fraudsters Posing as Government Investigators to Obtain Protected Health Information

Risk Management Question - What precautions can law firms, along with their lawyers and staff, take when they receive an unexpected request for protected health information (PHI) from someone claiming to be a...more

White & Case LLP

COVID-19 crisis in France: beware of fraudulent international wire transfers

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The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a resurgence of fraudulent international wire transfers. Companies and banks should therefore be extra vigilant when dealing with international wire transfer orders....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Alert for Employee Education: FBI Issues Warning About Exploitation of “Secure” Websites

We all have been trained to look at website addresses with a critical eye to make sure they have “https,” as those websites are supposed to be secure. The “s” at the end signifies to us that it is secure. The lock at the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Addressing Insider Threats

In data privacy and security jargon, an insider threat usually includes: an employee who creates a security risk due to a lack of awareness or carelessness, but doesn’t mean to do...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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #116 - Insider Error or Threat Continue to Cause Data Breaches

You continue to hear that your employees are your biggest risk when it comes to causing a data breach. Recent incidents that we have been involved in that were caused by employee error include...more

Littler

Helping To Protect Your Company From A Cyber-Attack: Eight Tips For Human Resources Professionals And In-House Employment Counsel

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Recent, highly publicized data security incidents highlight the continued vulnerability of corporate information systems. Notably, employees who fall prey to sophisticated phishing e-mails and other scams often contribute to...more

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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

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