Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Law Firms Now Prime Targets For Hackers

It’s hard to think of a more concentrated agglomeration of sensitive information than a law firm’s computers or, increasingly, those […]

Facebook, Twitter Receive Praise For Resisting ‘Trademark Bullies’

Facebook, Twitter, online shopping site Etsy and photo service Flickr got high marks from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for not […]

Shareholder Cyber-Lawsuit Vs Board Hits Wall

This case may signal a potential new area of liability exposure for directors and officers, but the opinion is also a reminder of just how difficult it is for plaintiffs to survive the initial pleading hurdles…

What Lawyers Need To Know About Encryption

A recently released whitepaper from Avansic covers the basics about encryption: what it is, how it works, the regulations that […]

Cyber Insurance: How The Carriers See It

Cyber insurance has been available for years – AIG has offered it since 1999 – but it’s clearly a product […]

Cybersecurity Breach Liability

Companies need to be able to make the case that they have implemented “reasonable security” in the face of cyber threats, even though it’s not clear exactly what reasonable security is.

FDIC to Banks: Prep for “Urgent” Threat of Cyberattacks

A Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Working Group formed by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council will soon release a report assessing the banking sector’s overall readiness to address a significant cyberthreat, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg told attendees of the American Banker Regulatory Symposium.

Insurer Not Off The Hook In $3.5 Million Computer-Hack Case

After hackers managed to route $3.5 million from a customer’s Philadelphia bank account to recipients in Russia and Belarus, the […]

JPMorgan Hackers Breached Nine Other Financial Firms

The overseas hackers who compromised more than seven million people’s information at JPMorgan Chase & Co. also infiltrated nine other […]

Hackers Targeting Law Firms To Get To Corporate Clients

Hackers are looking to cyber-vulnerable law firms as a “back door” to gain access to the firm’s corporate clients. The […]

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