28 Apr 2022 North Korean Government Revenue Aided By Crypto Heist By Mitzi Hill Worldwide sanctions against the government of North Korea keep the country isolated. In the era of cyber warfare, state actors have...
27 Apr 2022 Conversations with TED: Cybersecurity By Michael Melfi, Mitzi Hill In this recently produced episode of Conversations with TED we discuss the growing topic of cybersecurity. Our brief video addresses the...
26 Apr 2022 Hotel, Insurer Fighting Over Coverage of Employee Privacy Claims Under CGL By Mitzi Hill A Chicago-based hotel seeks coverage for an underlying employee lawsuit related to the use of fingerprint scans to log into the hotel's...
14 Apr 2022 How Can Law Firms Manage Client CTA Data? By Jonathan Wilson Many law firm leaders must be wondering how they will manage CTA data on behalf of their clients and their clients' investors.Law firms...
22 Mar 2022 President Reinforces Warning of Potential Russian Cyberattacks on US By Mitzi Hill The White House yesterday repeated warnings sounded for the last month by the federal cyber watchdog agency: the risk of Kremlin attacks...
22 Mar 2022 Congress Passes Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting Bill -- 72 Hours for Critical Infrastructure By Mitzi Hill As part of the government funding bill passed in early March, Congress would require critical infrastructure companies to report cyber...
03 Mar 2022 Protect Your Business Against Business Email Fraud By Mitzi Hill Fraudulent wire transfer instructions sent – and acted upon – by email cost US companies billions of dollars a year. So-called “business...
07 Feb 2022 K-12 Cybersecurity Act Aims to Improve Education's Security Posture By Mitzi Hill Without much fanfare, Congress passed and the President signed a bill in late 2021 designed to help harden K-12 schools against...
25 Jan 2022 Large School Website Platform Vendor Knocked Offline by Ransomware By Mitzi Hill Continuing a disturbing trend of the last few years, school website platform provider Finalsite announced in mid-January that it had been...
16 Aug 2021 UK Outlook Users Can Report Suspicious Emails to Regulators with One Click By Mitzi Hill In a fascinating new development and example of public/private cooperation against cyber issues, Microsoft has added a one-click button...
12 Jul 2021 Kaseya Claims its Software is Fully Patched After Ransomware Attack By Jonathan Wilson Software developer Kaseya claims that its software has been fully patched following a ransomware attack first announced on July 2. ...
08 Jul 2021 Kaseya Worked for Months to Patch Security Flaws By Jonathan Wilson According to reporting in Data Breach Today, Kaseya was aware of vulnerabilities in its VSA solutions and worked for months to patch...
07 Jul 2021 Kaseya Customers Respond to Ransomware Attack By Jonathan Wilson Customers of Kesaya, an IT security software provider, are responding to a massive ransomware attack launched at Kesaya users over the...
03 Jul 2021 Ransomware Attack Hits Major Remote Ops IT Company By Mitzi Hill Anyone running VSA in connection with their remote company access program is advised to shut down the VSA server immediately. The...
07 Jun 2021 Equifax Data Breach Settlement to Cost More than $1B By Mitzi Hill The class action settlement figure relating to the 2017 data breach at Equifax is winding its way slowly through the courts, but a...
24 Feb 2021 Senators Propose Mandatory Reporting of Cyberattacks By Mitzi Hill Two senators floated the idea this week of a mandatory reporting requirement for cyberattacks in the US. Both Democrats and Republicans...