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3 (LESS OBVIOUS) STATES WHERE CYBER ATTACKS MAY RISE
Data breach regulations are a “double-edged sword.” A necessary tool in the United States, especially as children increasingly rely on...
Nov 29, 20203 min read


CYBER LAW NEWS BYTES
A little cyber law news to end the week! First class-action CCPA settlement and U.S. Govt. set to finally address internal IoT security...
Nov 27, 20201 min read


APPLE FACES CLASS ACTION FOR BIOMETRIC PRIVACY VIOLATIONS OVER FACIAL SCANS!
Apple will face a class action suit under Illinois’ 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) in federal court. Illinois was the...
Nov 19, 20203 min read


ANOTHER MSSP SUED BY A CLIENT
On November 6, 2020, another MSSP was served with a federal suit by a former client following a data breach. Zoll Medical Corporation...
Nov 10, 20202 min read


3 Cybersecurity Tools for 2021 Corporate Budgets
Going into 2021, many businesses face the realization of permanent telework status for a certain percentage of their employees. Few are...
Nov 9, 20203 min read


MSPs & MSSPs: Do Your Service Agreements Protect You?
Maybe your predecessor had a lawyer draft a contract in 2002 or maybe you downloaded a standard contract from legal zoom. Relying on...
Nov 6, 20201 min read


Welcome the “California Privacy Rights Act” (and its triple fines)
On November 3, 2020, Californians solidified their support of privacy rights in voting Proposition 24, now known as the California...
Nov 5, 20202 min read


INSIDER THREAT PREVENTION: ONGOING, NOT STATIC
Cybersecurity threats come from both the outside world and inside a business. While surveying firewall traffic and reading twitter...
Oct 29, 20203 min read


Do Not Let WeChat’s Court Victory Give False Security
Used for messaging, social media, and payment transfers, the WeChat application enjoys over one (1) billion user worldwide. Owned by...
Oct 26, 20203 min read


OCR and FTC Issue Seven-Figure Fines for Cyber Law Faux Pas
The Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Federal Trade Commission issued fresh sets of fines for...
Oct 20, 20203 min read


HEALTHCARE ENTITIES MUST INVEST AND THINK LIKE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
The Hippocratic oath, which requires physicians to “do no harm” in the name of medicine, should be re-drafted to include prioritizing the...
Oct 14, 20203 min read


Capital One Data Breach Litigation Continues – All Preventable
It’s old news that on July 19, 2019, Capital One Bank learned that a cyber-criminal gained access to 14 years of credit card holder and...
Oct 13, 20203 min read


ECONOMICS OF CYBER CRIME
Two questions on cybercrime yield valuable intel for potential victims: 1) Aside from ransomware, how do cyber criminals make money; and...
Oct 10, 20203 min read


Sanctioning Ransomware Victims Creates Catch-22
Another example of failed communication between private industry and government is the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign...
Oct 4, 20203 min read


The Cybersecurity War is Here, and Everyone is a Combatant
Unlike traditional warfare, cyber-crime respects no boundaries or sovereignties and fails to differentiate between combatants and...
Sep 28, 20203 min read


CMMC UNDER INCREASED SCRUTINY FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION
Good luck to Kate Arrington, the Department of Defense’s CISO, who just inherited a disaster from former members of the Cybersecurity...
Sep 27, 20202 min read


FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE: U.S. Laws Working Against Best Practices
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate!” Since birth, my father quoted this to me from the 1967 Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke...
Sep 16, 20203 min read


WTF is the Difference Between Privacy, Data Protection, and Cybersecurity?
The terms “privacy,” “cybersecurity,” and “data protection” are thrown around, ignorantly and interchangeably despite the noteworthy...
Sep 13, 20202 min read


California Expected to Join Illinois in Regulating Genetic Data
Companies like Ancestry, 23andMe, and MyMedLab need to pay attention. Poised for its Governor’s signature, California’s SB-980 entitled...
Sep 9, 20203 min read


BEWARE THE BOTNETS
More companies are making remote work a permanent status. With the initial push to remote work necessitated by COVID-19 and then...
Aug 31, 20202 min read
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