Topic
Cyber Attacks
361 published works
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Cyberattack on UK’s Legal Aid Agency more extensive than initially thought
Bar Council of England and Wales says working group will engage with LAA in wake of data breach
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Canadian law firms are painfully unprepared for cyberattacks, AI is only making it worse
Cybersecurity experts discuss how bad actors are evolving and what law firms can do to stay safe
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Cl0p Exploiting Cleo Software
According to Cyberscoop, the cyber gang Cl0p “has claimed responsibility for attacks tied to vulnerabilities in software made by Cleo, an Illinois-based IT company that sells various types of enterprise…
ContractsProf Blog
Court Rejects “Obtuse” Defense in a Breach of Contract Claim Relating to a Cyberattack
This case begins with an odd flex, noting that the defendant Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (Expeditors) “is one of the world’s largest Third Party Logistics (“3PL”) service providers[.]” The…
The Right Coast
Mass pager cyberattack wounds thousands of Hezbollah operatives – The Jerusalem Post
In the most significant hit Lebanese terrorist and Iranian proxy group Hezbollah has taken in recent years, in an event that rocked Lebanon, over 3,600 people were wounded throughout the…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Are you surprised that Cloud Services are cyber targets?
By Peter Vogel
SCMagazine.com reported that “Hackers are using cloud service attacks as a way to go after big-money targets in the insurance and financial industries.” The September 11, 2024 article entitled “Hackers…
eDiscovery Today Blog
Exponential Increase in Overall Cyberattacks, Reports SonicWall: Cybersecurity Trends
By Doug Austin
SonicWall has announced its mid-year report, and – guess what? – they report an “exponential increase in overall cyberattacks”! The post Exponential Increase in Overall Cyberattacks, Reports SonicWall: Cybersecurity Trends…
Bench & Bar of Minnesota
Learning from the UnitedHealth Group hack
By Minnesota State Bar Association
By Mark Lanterman This past winter, UnitedHealth Group was the victim of a massive cyberattack, negatively impacting many healthcare providers and inhibiting their ability to care for patients. The American…
Health Care Reform Dashboard
2024 HIPAA Developments
By Edward I. Leeds, Rachel Loscheider, Sofia Reed
Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are…
Compliance Building
Quishing Attacks
This is a new term to me. Quishing: a business email compromise (BEC) attack that uses QR codes in embedded PDF documents to redirect victims to phishing URLs. There is…