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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

Deeper Dive: Phishing/Hacking/Malware Attacks Remain Leading Cause of Security Incidents

By Lavonne Hopkins on April 25, 2017 Posted in Cybersecurity

During 2016, our BakerHostetler privacy and data protection team worked on data security incidents across virtually all industries. For the second year in a row, phishing/hacking/malware attacks have accounted for the largest percentage of incidents handled by our team. Specifically, security incidents arising from phishing/hacking/malware made up 43 percent of all security incidents we handled … Continue Reading

U.S. Companies May Risk Liability Under Canadian Anti-Spam Law

By Ruth E. Hartman on April 28, 2016 Posted in International Privacy Law

U.S. companies may soon risk litigation for failing to comply with the provisions of Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) in their electronic communications to Canadian consumers. While this anti-spam law has been in force since 2014, its provisions permitting a private right of action become effective on July 1, 2017. Even companies with no operations in … Continue Reading

Reading This Might Just Preserve Your Identity and Reputation

By Gerald J. Ferguson on June 7, 2012 Posted in Identity Theft, Information Security, Online Privacy

Authorship Credit: Dave Taylor, Director, Information Technology, Baker & Hostetler LLP We are seeing a dramatic increase in spam and email phishing schemes once again. These schemes have become very sophisticated in their ability to mimic the multitudes of legitimate on-line transactions that occur every day. Please consider the following when reading and reacting to … Continue Reading