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Used for messaging, social media, and payment transfers, the WeChat application enjoys over one (1) billion user worldwide. Owned by...

The Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Federal Trade Commission issued fresh sets of fines for...

The Hippocratic oath, which requires physicians to “do no harm” in the name of medicine, should be re-drafted to include prioritizing the...

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...

Two questions on cybercrime yield valuable intel for potential victims: 1) Aside from ransomware, how do cyber criminals make money; and...

Another example of failed communication between private industry and government is the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign...

Unlike traditional warfare, cyber-crime respects no boundaries or sovereignties and fails to differentiate between combatants and...

Good luck to Kate Arrington, the Department of Defense’s CISO, who just inherited a disaster from former members of the Cybersecurity...

“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...

The terms “privacy,” “cybersecurity,” and “data protection” are thrown around, ignorantly and interchangeably despite the noteworthy...

Companies like Ancestry, 23andMe, and MyMedLab need to pay attention. Poised for its Governor’s signature, California’s SB-980 entitled...

More companies are making remote work a permanent status. With the initial push to remote work necessitated by COVID-19 and then...

After years of bad press, banking giant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ("Wells Fargo") received a small reprieve in the United States District...

On August 20, 2020, 52-year-old former Chief Security Officer (“CSO”) for Uber Technologies Inc. (“Uber”) Joseph Sullivan was charged...

Published by IBM Security, the Ponemon Institute released its 2020 Data Breach Report, which unsurprisingly a marked increase in the...

A United States District Court again allows a lawsuit seeking to hold a commercial data breach victim accountable for its potential role...

Cyber criminals steal business identities, increasingly targeting recently defunct entities that perished in the pandemic. Business...

Despite the immature procedural history, Bessemer v. Fiserv is fascinating expose of possible legal liabilities when a MSP/MSSP allegedly...

On July 15, 2020, approximately 130 Twitter accounts were “hacked” by bad actors who gained control of the accounts and sent tweets on...

By Brandon M. Stevens, Attorney, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM Contributing Writer On July 16, Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems...