Topic
Cyber Attacks
361 published works
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
Surge of Cyberattacks on Office365!
By Peter Vogel
Darkreading.com reported these comments from Sandeep Chandana (director at McAfee’s MVISION Cloud group) that “…a large portion of the cloud attacks in Q4 were targeted at Microsoft Office 365 accounts.…
International Trade Insights
Biden Administration Imposes New Russia Sanctions and Establishes Framework for Future Expansion of Russian Sanctions Regime
By Cortney Morgan, Grant Leach, Tony Busch
Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned various individuals and entities connected to Russia’s technology sector and also expanded sanctions against dealings in Russian sovereign…
Global Trade Law Blog
Russia Russia Russia! The Biden Administration Imposes Tough Sanctions on Russia
This week has been a week of significant foreign policy action. Today, President Biden issued a new Executive Order imposing tough sanctions on Russia for its interference in the U.S.…
Ride the Lightning
FBI Blasts Away Web Shells on US Servers Without Telling Owners
ZDNet reported on April 14 that the Department of Justice revealed on April 13 that the FBI had received authorization from a court to remove web shells installed on compromised…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery Blog
BIG SURPRISE! Slack, Discord, and other Collaboration Tools are targets of Cyberattacks and Malware because of poor Security!
By Peter Vogel
BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “The increasing reliance on collaboration tools such as Slack and Discord to support those working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new ways for fraudsters…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Honeywell Suffers Cyber-Attack
Aerospace and energy equipment manufacturer Honeywell has reportedly been hit with a cyber-attack in the form of a malware intrusion that disrupted some of its information technology systems. Honeywell issued…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
District Court Dismisses Securities Fraud Claim Against FedEx Concerning Disclosures About NotPetya Cyberattack
By Alexis Collins, Jonathan Jaroslawicz
Last month, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss in In re Fed Ex Corp. Securities Litigation, a putative class…
Eye On Privacy
Managing the World of Cybersecurity in a New Era
By Kari Rollins, Michael Cohen
Cyberattacks have become big business from the standpoint of attackers. Threat actors range well beyond cults of old, and now including sophisticated state actors, large businesses organized for the very purpose…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Cyber-attacks and Cybersecurity Failure Are Top Risks of the Next Decade Says World Economic Forum
Although somewhat obvious, the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance Group, recently issued its 16th edition of the Global Risks Report (the Report),…
Attorney at Law Magazine
Russian Hackers: They Came in Through the Bathroom Window
We all asked the same question. How could Russian hackers have breached U.S. government agencies’ information systems? The answer is, they simply jiggled the door handles and checked for open…