Newsletters

In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses the importance of having Terms of Use on a website, what to do when your company’s PII is subpoenaed, a newly ratified Utah statute that will help defendants in cyber litigation, a large fine for Booking.com for not complying with the GDPR’s 72-hour breach reporting requirement, a victory for Marriott in a data breach case based on a lack of standing argument, and more.

Our latest Cybersecurity Newsletter discusses a revealing spotlight on cyberattacks in the healthcare industry, an agreed upon six-figure settlement in a data breach class action derailed by a standing issue, an important development regarding the regulation of cross-border data transfers from the EU to the UK, and more.

In this edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses the policy language that made a $900,000 difference in cyber insurance coverage for one company that fell victim to a social engineering attack, the importance of vendor contracts spelling out what happens to the client’s data upon termination of the contract, the Eleventh Circuit weighing in on the standing issue in data breach litigation, and more.

In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses a substantial change that may be coming in the cyber insurance industry, plans for a comprehensive data privacy law in New York channeling the CCPA, an amendment to HITECH, a Fifth Circuit decision dealing a blow to HHS’s use of heavy fines for HIPAA enforcement, and more.

In this edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses a class action lawsuit alleging that worldofwarcraft.com wiretapped its users, another round of proposed modifications to regulations regarding the CCPA, a federal court decision in Washington finding a clickwrap arbitration agreement to be enforceable, and more.

In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses an intriguing new rating system for evaluating the “difficulty level” of a phishing attack, a NIST-issued practice guide for securing mobile devices, an important decision rejecting the affirmative defense that employee BIPA claims are preempted by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, and more.

In this edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses an apparent ransomware attack on Garmin, continuing litigation relating to the December 2013 Target data breach, a recent decision in the Chili’s data breach litigation and more.

In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses major developments in the US Supreme Court regarding the TCPA, arbitration and class action waiver clauses which may play a significant role in recently filed CCPA litigation, a case between two data analysis companies in the oil drilling industry that involved one of the companies infiltrating and running a scraper program within the other’s database, and more.

In this edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses the shifting landscape of cybersecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic including enforcement of privacy laws and regulations, a Beazley report regarding a surge of ransomware and phishing attacks in 2020, a lawsuit accusing actress Reese Witherspoon of not honoring a promise under a data collection contract, a California federal court ruling regarding a Fair Credit Reporting Act claim against Experian, and more.

In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team discusses amendments to the Vermont breach notification statute taking effect on July 1, an unfavorable ruling for Capital One requiring disclosure of a consulting firm’s report regarding the vulnerabilities that led to the company's March 2019 data breach, motions concerning the jurisdiction and venue for several BIPA actions against the producer of a controversial facial recognition app, a motion to dismiss decided largely in favor of the plaintiffs in data breach litigation against Solara Medical Supplies, and more.