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Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedInSidley Adds Partners Seale and Wilan to Growing Cybersecurity Practice | News | Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley announced today that Jennifer Seale and Jonathan Wilan have joined as partners in the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. Ms. Seale and Mr. Wilan join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they played key roles in the Global Cybersecurity practice. Source: Sidley Adds Partners Seale and Wilan to Growing Cybersecurity Practice | […]
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A US college is shutting down for good following a ransomware attack
Lincoln College says it will close this week in the wake of a ransomware attack that took months to resolve. While the impact of COVID-19 severely impacted activities such as recruitment and fundraising, the cyberattack seems to have been the tipping point for the Illinois institution. The college has informed the Illinois Department of Higher […]
Market Leading Cybersecurity and National Security Lawyers David Lashway and John Woods Join Sidley in Washington, D.C. | Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley announced today that David Lashway and John Woods have joined as partners in the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lashway and Mr. Woods join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they started and led the global cybersecurity practice group for over 10 years. Source: Market Leading Cybersecurity and National Security Lawyers David […]
Cybersecurity Docket Announces ‘Incident Response 40’ for 2022
Cybersecurity Docket is pleased to announce its “Incident Response 40” for 2022—our list of the 40 best data breach response lawyers in the business. Bruce Carton, Editor of Cybersecurity Docket, announced the names of this year’s Incident Response 40 at the conclusion of Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2022, which was held as a virtual event on Thursday, April 21, 2022. The lawyers in […]
Renowned data privacy lawyer Dominique Shelton Leipzig joins Mayer Brown’s growing Los Angeles office
Veteran data privacy lawyer Dominique Shelton Leipzig has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice in Los Angeles, continuing Mayer Brown’s strategic expansion efforts on the West Coast. Ms. Shelton Leipzig will serve as the lead for Global Data Innovation as well as Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management. […]
Cooley Expands Cyber/data/privacy Practice on East Coast
Michael Egan has joined Cooley’s Washington, DC, office as a partner in the firm’s elite cyber/data/privacy practice. Arriving from Baker McKenzie, Egan brings experience spanning data privacy compliance counseling, data security breach response and preparation, regulatory investigations, and M&A privacy diligence. Source: Cooley Expands Cyber/data/privacy Practice on East Coast // Cooley // Global Law Firm
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April 14 Webcast: Setting the Pace – 5 Key Cyber[security] Issues Impacting the 2022 Corporate Legal Landscape
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Ukraine War Has Insurers Worried About Cyber Policies – WSJ
Like most insurance policies, these have exclusions for acts of war. The aim is to protect insurers from claims tied to cyberattacks by governments, their militaries or groups that work for them. But a judge in New Jersey poked a hole in that exclusion last year in a ruling that essentially said a common acts-of-war […]
Google to acquire Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Google announced Tuesday that it plans to buy cybersecurity firm Mandiant for around $5.4 billion as part of an effort to better protect its cloud customers. The Mountain View search giant said it will pay $23 a share for the publicly traded firm, which was founded in 2004. Source: Google to acquire Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Seeking Nominations for Cybersecurity Docket’s ‘Incident Response 40’ for 2022
At Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2022, Cybersecurity Docket will announce our “Incident Response 40” for 2022– our list of the 40 best and brightest Incident Response legal and compliance professionals in the industry. Specifically, our list will honor 40 incident response attorneys and compliance professionals who not only have the right stuff to manage a data breach response, […]
Ransomware gang says it has hacked 49ers football team | AP News
The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware attack, with cyber criminals claiming they stole some of the football team’s financial data. The ransomware gang BlackByte recently posted some of the purportedly stolen team documents on a dark web site in a file marked “2020 Invoices.” The gang did not make any of […]
Veteran FBI, Global Cybersecurity Investigations Expert Todd Renner Joins FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced continued investment in the firm’s Cybersecurity practice with the appointment of Todd Renner as a Senior Managing Director. Mr. Renner, who is based in Atlanta, spent the past two decades with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), where he led complex cybersecurity investigations across the globe and established […]
THE PERILOUS REGULATORY VACUUM OF WEB3 | LinkedIn
Some have declared that doing business on digital asset trading platforms, whether trading crypto, NFTs or otherwise, is like bartering and haggling in the Wild West. I disagree. To me, given the startling lack of U.S. regulatory oversight, the best way to describe the entire Web3 marketplace is anarchy. Even worse, it’s thieves robbing thieves […]