Cyberattacks are a growing threat, with children being among the most vulnerable of targets. The internet serves as a platform for criminals to access children under the guise of anonymity. These criminals lurk on popular applications and social media platforms...
Cyber Security & Data Breach
Federal Court Rules No Common Law Duty to Prevent or Respond to Data Breaches
Like most healthcare entities, Indiana’s Trinity Health collects, stores, maintains and uses a large volume of particularly sensitive information about patients and others, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI),...
TikTok Time is Up: Montana Becomes the First U.S. State to Ban the App
Only two months after a federal bill was introduced to ban TikTok nationwide, Montana has become the first U.S. state to officially ban TikTok from operating in the state. Governor Greg Gianforte signed S.B 419 into law on Wednesday after the Montana House of...
Federal Appellate Court Approves Pretext Border Search Based on Trade Secret Theft Suspicion
For almost nine years, Haitao Xiang, a Chinese national and U.S. resident, had worked for Monsanto, Co in St. Louis as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology. As with most jobs of this type, Xiang had signed a non-disclosure...
A New Twist in the Ransomware Debate: Is it Negligent to Fail to Pay Ransom?
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a healthcare network based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and serves eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania. On Feb. 6th of this year, LVHN was hit with a combination ransomware and extortionware attack, whereby attackers from the...
Cyberattacks as Acts of War: Insurance Companies Forced to Rethink Their Policies
The rise of cyberattacks has led to a significant increase in the demand for cyber insurance policies. However, the insurance industry is struggling to keep pace with the ever-evolving threat landscape, which has resulted in a new challenge: insurers are attempting to...
Will the U.S. Ban TikTok? New Legislation That Could Impact Your Data Privacy
A new bill was introduced last week that would ban TikTok and other foreign technology. The bipartisan bill would provide the federal government with the authority to restrict or ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, along with technologies produced in six different...
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Revisited: What it Means for Cloud Storage
This article was originally published by Security Boulevard (https://securityboulevard.com/2023/02/hunter-bidens-laptop-revisited-what-it-means-for-cloud-storage/). On February 1, 2023, lawyers for first son Hunter Biden took a new approach to the fact that the...
CyberInsurance Predictions for 2023
This article was originally published by Security Boulevard (https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/cyberinsurance-predictions-for-2023/). It is difficult to predict with certainty what the top trends in cyberinsurance will be in 2023, as the field is constantly...
Company Ransomware Payments Dropping Dramatically: Why and How to Prepare Against Threats
Companies are increasingly choosing not to pay ransom for ransomware and extortionware due to the growing associated risks. In fact, a recent report by crypto-crime analyst firm Chainalysis found that payments to threat actors for ransomware and extortionware was down...