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Cyber Attacks
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Privacy World
Colonial Pipeline Moves to Dismiss Cybersecurity Litigation and Moves to Strike Class: Will the Court Kick Plaintiff’s Claims?
By Kristin Bryan, Angelo Carosio
Early in the summer, owners of the Colonial Pipeline were hit with a putative class action that was filed in federal court in Georgia. Dickerson v. CDCP Colonial Partners, L.P., Case…
Does Crime Pay?
Seventh Circuit Holds A Search Warrant Is Not Needed for Government Surveillance of IP Addresses
By Joan Meyer, Natalie Gabrenya
On September 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit released an opinion that rejected a defendant’s Fourth Amendment challenge to the government’s use of pen registers…
Your IT Consultant
Eight Steps for Successful Ransomware Recovery
By John Simek
Here we go again. Like the internet, ransomware isn't going away in the future. Attacks keep growing especially while more people work remotely using insecure consumer-grade environments. The cyber criminals…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
The FBI Warns Lawmakers That Banning Ransom Payments May Backfire
By Edgar Vargas, Ronald I. Raether, Jr.
Last month, we discussed ways lawmakers aim to limit ransomware response options that businesses may consider during an incident. State legislatures, such as New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas,…
RopesDataPhiles
De-stressing Distress Disputes
There were 887 million reasons why one GDPR story was dominating the press on Friday. But sneaking under the radar was a decision from the English High Court that I…
ComplexDiscovery
An Economical Impact? How Cyber Insurance Shapes Incident Response
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: From time to time, ComplexDiscovery highlights publicly available or privately purchasable announcements, content updates, and research from cyber, data, and legal discovery providers, research organizations, and ComplexDiscovery community…
Bill 4 Time Blog
Law Firm Cyberattacks: Is your firm protected?
Law firm cyberattacks are being more and more common. Could you live without your files for 3 months? Cybercriminals used ransomware to attack a prominent Providence law firm. Every single…
Technology and AI
Second Colonial Pipeline Data Incident Litigation File on Behalf of. . . . Over Ten Thousand Gas Stations?
By Kristin Bryan, Daniel Lonergan
CPW covered the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack earlier this year, in which a ransomware attack carried out by cybercriminals crippled the Colonial Pipeline’s functionality. The Pipeline was taken offline as a…
Ride the Lightning
Meatpacker JBS Paid $11 Million After Ransomware Attack
Reuters reported on June 10 that meatpacker JBS USA paid a ransom equivalent to $11 million after the recent cyberattack that disrupted its North American and Australian operations. "This was…
Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Ransomware, Data Breaches and the Tension Between Disclosure and Damage Control
Brian Finch recently returned to Joel Simon‘s Industry Insights podcast to discuss the uptick in cyberattacks, data breaches perpetuating insider trading and strategies companies can employ to guard against these…