Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

CA’s Child Protection Website Law Will Have A Long Reach

A recently passed California law will dramatically expand a company’s obligations with regard to any of its online presence that […]

Banks are aggressively entering into partnerships with so called “fintech” firms, and regulators are taking note, says an article in […]

The first settlement ever under the California Consumer Privacy Act requires cosmetics retailer Sephora to pay $1.2 million in penalties. […]

In 2015, some of the finest minds on Wall Street went to work on a knotty problem: How to dispose […]

Issued on August 16, with the title “State backed cyber-attack exclusions,” Lloyd’s Market Bulletin Ref: Y5381 says in part that […]

Sophisticated cyber-engineering skills are not required. At work here is a new iteration of an old archetype, the con artist […]

InterContinental Hotels’ (IHG) online booking systems and other services were interrupted by a cyberattack on Sept. 5. IHG operates 17 […]

When taking surveys, general counsel rank privacy liability at the top of their list of concerns, and rightly so. Privacy […]

The operative term for what happened to a company called SJ Computers is a BEC (“business email compromise”) attack, sometimes […]

Stealing sensitive data is now routine for ransomware attackers, who threaten to release it if the ransom isn’t paid. Victims […]