Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Protocols and ADR

Surveys taken after the massive Panama Papers hack suggested that law firm cybersecurity industry-wide was lagging behind health care and […]

Data Breach Fallout: Target Sues Insurer Chubb

Target Corp. has sued a unit of insurer Chubb Ltd., alleging it failed to indemnify the company for a $138 […]

IT Provider Discovers Massive Breach After Hacker Runs Out of Storage Space

ArsTechnica reports that InfoTrax Systems, an IT provider, was first breached in 2014, when a hacker exploited vulnerabilities in the […]

Human Rights v. Security At Issue In WhatsApp NSO Lawsuit

Last month WhatsApp sued the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group for installing surveillance malware on the phones of more than […]

More Spending, More Attacks

Annual spending on cyber breach management activities increased an average of $282,750 from 2018 to $1.4 million this year, according […]

Senate Bill Would Send Tech Execs To Prison For Data Misuse

In the wake of continuing privacy violations and what some perceived as tone-deaf Congressional testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, […]

Hackers Plead Guilty in Case That Uber Covered up

Two computer hackers, Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre, have pleaded guilty in an extortion scheme that resulted in a […]

Congress May Be Getting Serious About Content Regulation

Representatives of Google and Reddit appeared before a joint House committee, along with some industry experts, and were subjected to […]

Ransom Attack Hits A Case-Management Provider; Client Law Firms Feel The Pinch

One of the nation’s largest case-management firms has been targeted by a ransomware attack. Early in October, it alerted customers regarding what it first characterized as a security breach caused by a…..

ATM “Jackpot” Attacks Said To Be Worldwide

The number of incidents is down in Europe, where this type of attack seems to have originated, but is said […]

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