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Cyber Attacks
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
DHS official warns of increase in cyber-attacks of industrial control systems
Marty Edwards, head of the Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), recently warned attendees at a conference that ICS-CERT, (which assists U.S. businesses in…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Cyberattacks on the Increase in 2015 with 102+ Million People Exposed in 315 Data Breaches!
By Peter Vogel
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) “defines a data breach as an incident in which an individual name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical record or financial…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
MaineGeneral Health suffers cyber-attack
MaineGeneral Health (MaineGeneral), located in Augusta, Maine notified employees and patients last week that personal information and protected health information was compromised in a cyber-attack last month. The health care…
California Employment Law
Preparing for and Preventing Cyber Attacks
As regular readers of this blog know, we place a huge premium on being appropriate. And what is more appropriate than following up a Black Friday post with a Cyber Monday post?…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Banks Warned of Growing Threat of Cyber Attacks Involving Extortion
By Julie D. Hoffmeister, Ronald I. Raether, Jr.
On November 3, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”), the federal agency that regulates the U.S. financial services industry, issued a warning to U.S. banks of a growing threat…
Data Counsel
Colleges and Universities Are Prime Cyberattack Targets: What’s Behind the Threat?
When it comes to cyberattack targets, many think of retailers and associated credit card transactions or customer information, or perhaps healthcare providers with their ever-increasing storage and transmission of electronic…
Health Law Rx
“My, what beautiful eyes you have . . .” – Biometric Data and Privacy
Biometric data - obviously not in just the movies anymore. It is alive, well, and increasingly being used in our everyday society. But, on September 23, 2015, when the Office…
The Data Advisor
DOJ Issues Guidance for Responding to Cyber Attacks
By Joseph Molosky, Lydia Parnes
Cyber attacks can result in significant monetary and reputational damage to a wide range of businesses. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) increased its efforts to engage businesses on…
Data Counsel
DOD Adopts Interim Cyber Rules As Claims of Chinese Cyber Attacks Continue
U.S. officials have blamed Chinese government-backed attackers for many of the recent cyber attacks on U.S. government and business computer networks: “Researchers and government officials have determined that the Chinese…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
The Anatomy of a Cyber Attack: Prevention, Response and Postmortem (Part 3 of 6)
This blog post is the third installment of a seven-part series discussing the best practices relating to cyber security. The first two blog posts discussed the best practices for preparing…