By Peter S. Vogel A recent report estimates that the ”cost of cybercrime includes the effect of hundreds of millions of people having their personal information stolen—incidents in the last year include more than 40 million people in the... Read More
by Siran S. Faulders , Steve D. Rosenthal and C. Reade Jacob, Jr. On July 7, 47 state attorneys general signed onto a multistate letter to the U.S. Congress emphasizing the importance of maintaining states’ authority to enforce data breach and... Read More
By Peter S. Vogel On the heels of the recent report that cybercrime is a $575 billion growth industry , Infoworld pointed out “that amount of crime has persisted for a long time, well before the Internet.” The article included these 5 reasons... Read More
by Jacqueline M. Allen The October 1, 2015, deadline for merchants to become EMV compliant or potentially face increased liability has come and gone. Yet, a significant number of both card issuers and merchants have not yet made the switch. EMV... Read More
The announcement on June 4th of a massive cybersecurity attack that compromised data stored on Office of Personnel Management (OPM) systems for 4.2 million current and former federal employees is the most recent head-smacking report of how porous the... Read More
by Korey Clark A massive breach of credit card account information five years ago was considered a wake-up call for retail businesses and financial services companies around the globe. But while that call appears to have been heeded in much of the... Read More
by Korey Clark Nearly every state in the country has passed a law requiring private or government entities to notify individuals about security breaches involving their personal information. And states have been toughening those laws in recent years... Read More
“Be Prepared” is one of the world’s most enduring mottos. It has been used, with international and organizational variations, by millions of Boy Scouts—and later Girl Guides and Girl Scouts—for over a century . But like... Read More
By the Privacy and Data Security Group A small private cybersecurity firm recently revealed that a Russian computer hacking organization amassed more than 1.2 billion username and password combinations. The data was collected across a wide swath of... Read More
By Gerard G. Pecht , Peter A. Stokes , Mark Thomas Oakes , Utsav Mathur and Geraldine W. Young In the days leading up to its August 2014 recess, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a number of bills aimed at strengthening cybersecurity. Those... Read More
Reaching a Congressional Consensus Will Likely Require Additional Deliberation As summarized in this Alert , the congressional proposals introduced thus far take very different approaches to addressing how to protect the privacy of student data. ... Read More