Tag Archives: hacking

Best Cybersecurity Practices for Healthcare Organizations – Phishing Prevention

This article is part of a series of blog posts exploring the recommendations and guidance Health and Human Services (HHS) provides healthcare organizations in its Cybersecurity Best Practices report. For previous articles in the series, click here. In its report on cybersecurity best practices, HHS highlights email phishing attacks as one of the top threats … Continue Reading

BakerHostetler Data Security Incident Response Report Reveals Being “Compromise Ready” Better Positions Companies to Respond to Incidents

By Theodore J. Kobus III on March 30, 2016 Posted in Incident Response, News, Online Privacy

On March 30, 2016, we released our second annual Data Security Incident Response Report. Key findings show that phishing/hacking/malware was the cause of 31% of data security incidents during 2015, revealing a shift from 2014 when human error was the leading cause. The report also continues the inaugural-year theme that no industry is immune to … Continue Reading

License to Hack? DOJ Seeks Expanded Authority to Use Hacking Techniques

By Jonathan B. New on April 2, 2014 Posted in Cybersecurity, Information Security

As part of its increased focus on combating cybercrime, the U.S. Department of Justice is pushing to loosen requirements for obtaining search warrants in order to allow them greater freedom to hack into the computers of criminal suspects. Late last year, DOJ submitted a request to modify Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, which governs … Continue Reading

Once Again, Clapper Defeats Data Breach Class Action

By Judy Selby on February 14, 2014 Posted in Data Breaches, Identity Theft, Online Privacy, Privacy Litigation

Article III standing has once again proved to be an insurmountable hurdle for data breach class action plaintiffs whose personal information hasn’t been misused. In Galaria v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., an Ohio federal court relied on the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty Intern. USA, 133 S.Ct. 1138 (2013), and held … Continue Reading