Sarah Anderson
IN ENGLISH – WHAT’S THIS BIG GOVERNMENT HACK?
My father asked me last night: “So, what’s happening with this big cyberattack?” At first, I was annoyed (Christmas is the Ironman of...
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Sarah Anderson
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
THE FIREEYE & SOLARWINDS BREACH – WHAT NOW?
Monday’s cybersecurity news cycle will be dominated by the suspected Russian hack of the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce,...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
DECEMBER 1, 2020: WAPO WILL KNOW ALL PPP & EIDL LOAN RECIPIENTS
Unless an appellate court intervenes, December 1, 2020 is going to be a big day. On November 24, 2020, Judge James Boasberg for the...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
3 (LESS OBVIOUS) STATES WHERE CYBER ATTACKS MAY RISE
Data breach regulations are a “double-edged sword.” A necessary tool in the United States, especially as children increasingly rely on...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 27, 2020
- 1 min
CYBER LAW NEWS BYTES
A little cyber law news to end the week! First class-action CCPA settlement and U.S. Govt. set to finally address internal IoT security...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
APPLE FACES CLASS ACTION FOR BIOMETRIC PRIVACY VIOLATIONS OVER FACIAL SCANS!
Apple will face a class action suit under Illinois’ 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) in federal court. Illinois was the...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 10, 2020
- 2 min
ANOTHER MSSP SUED BY A CLIENT
On November 6, 2020, another MSSP was served with a federal suit by a former client following a data breach. Zoll Medical Corporation...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
3 Cybersecurity Tools for 2021 Corporate Budgets
Going into 2021, many businesses face the realization of permanent telework status for a certain percentage of their employees. Few are...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
MSPs & MSSPs: Do Your Service Agreements Protect You?
Maybe your predecessor had a lawyer draft a contract in 2002 or maybe you downloaded a standard contract from legal zoom. Relying on...
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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome the “California Privacy Rights Act” (and its triple fines)
On November 3, 2020, Californians solidified their support of privacy rights in voting Proposition 24, now known as the California...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
INSIDER THREAT PREVENTION: ONGOING, NOT STATIC
Cybersecurity threats come from both the outside world and inside a business. While surveying firewall traffic and reading twitter...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
Do Not Let WeChat’s Court Victory Give False Security
Used for messaging, social media, and payment transfers, the WeChat application enjoys over one (1) billion user worldwide. Owned by...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 20, 2020
- 3 min
OCR and FTC Issue Seven-Figure Fines for Cyber Law Faux Pas
The Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Federal Trade Commission issued fresh sets of fines for...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
HEALTHCARE ENTITIES MUST INVEST AND THINK LIKE TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
The Hippocratic oath, which requires physicians to “do no harm” in the name of medicine, should be re-drafted to include prioritizing the...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
Capital One Data Breach Litigation Continues – All Preventable
It’s old news that on July 19, 2019, Capital One Bank learned that a cyber-criminal gained access to 14 years of credit card holder and...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 10, 2020
- 3 min
ECONOMICS OF CYBER CRIME
Two questions on cybercrime yield valuable intel for potential victims: 1) Aside from ransomware, how do cyber criminals make money; and...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 4, 2020
- 3 min
Sanctioning Ransomware Victims Creates Catch-22
Another example of failed communication between private industry and government is the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign...
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Sarah Anderson
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
The Cybersecurity War is Here, and Everyone is a Combatant
Unlike traditional warfare, cyber-crime respects no boundaries or sovereignties and fails to differentiate between combatants and...
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Sarah Anderson
- Sep 27, 2020
- 2 min
CMMC UNDER INCREASED SCRUTINY FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION
Good luck to Kate Arrington, the Department of Defense’s CISO, who just inherited a disaster from former members of the Cybersecurity...
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Sarah Anderson
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE: U.S. Laws Working Against Best Practices
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate!” Since birth, my father quoted this to me from the 1967 Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke...
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