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Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for June 27, 2019
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Lake City, Florida, pays hackers Bitcoin ransom after cyberattack – Business Insider
The Lake City, Florida, administration agreed on Monday to pay hackers almost $500,000 to release the city’s computer files in a ransomware attack that occurred on June 10, local media reported. Before it decided to pay the ransom, the city had to use its back-up systems to conduct its work, which included paper receipts and […]
Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for June 26, 2019
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Thanks to a data breach, at least 50K American license plate numbers are available on dark web
At least 50,000 American license plate numbers have been made available on the dark web after a company hired by Customs and Border Protection was at the center of a major data breach, according to CNN analysis of the hacked data. What’s more, the company was never authorized to keep the information, the agency told […]
Morrisons Data Breach: A Word Of Warning For Employers – Data Protection – European Union
Introduced against the backdrop of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, the GDPR concerns data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the wider European Economic Area (EEA). It is designed to give individuals more control over the handling of their personal information and not only imposes strict rules on the processing […]
You don’t just acquire a company, but also its cybersecurity posture – Help Net Security
“M&A activity can be a game-changing moment in a company’s history, but recent breaches shine the spotlight on cybersecurity issues and make one thing abundantly clear: you don’t just acquire a company, but you also acquire its cybersecurity posture and a potential trojan horse,” said Julie Cullivan, chief technology and people officer, Forescout. via You […]
Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for June 25, 2019
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A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse | Ars Technica
Earlier this week, the city of Riviera Beach, Florida, faced a $600,000 demand from ransomware operators in order to regain access to the city’s data. The ransom was an order of magnitude larger than the ransom demanded by the attackers that struck Baltimore’s city government in May. Against the advice of the Federal Bureau of […]
Eurofins Scientific Hack: UK Law Enforcement Data “Breached”
A “highly sophisticated” ransomware attack on Luxembourg-based Eurofins Scientific –which provides forensic and scientific services to a range of UK law enforcement agencies – put sensitive data at risk, in a breach that has brought in global agencies including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The attack on Eurofins Scientific during the weekend of June […]
Ransomware: There are no easy answers | SC Media
Any competent business advisor would likely tell a client that spending $76,000 in order to potentially fend off an incident that could cost that organizations millions of dollars would be money well spent. But what happens to that calculus when the outlay is a ransom demanded by cybercriminals who managed to infiltrate your computer network, […]
Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for June 24, 2019
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As Cyberattacks on Business Grow, General Counsel Are ‘Thirsty’ for More Details | New Jersey Law Journal
The rate of cyber-related suspicious activity reports has grown to nearly 80,000 per year, according to Kenneth Blanco, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in the U.S. Treasury Department. That number includes 13,500 reports per year on suspicious business email alone, up 95% from 2016. Phishing and other email schemes “are among the growing […]
California experienced more data breaches than any other state in the past decade: report | TheHill
The report, published Thursday by consumer group Comparitech, found that data breach incidents in California led to 5.6 billion personal records being exposed. Oregon came second on the number of records exposed at around 1.3 billion, while New York ranked second on the number of data breaches, at 729. via California experienced more data breaches than any other […]
Changes to Data Breach Notification Deep in the Heart of Texas – Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
On June 14, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB 4390 to amend the state’s data breach notification law, and with that Texas joins a growing list of states passing privacy legislation in 2019. In addition to breach notification changes, HB 4390 creates an advisory council to study privacy laws across the U.S. and […]