Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
The pandemic has exposed hidden socio-economic rifts in society, and created a global marketplace characterized by increased scrutiny from the public as well as governments, […]
The Biden administration is warning ransomware victims that they should alert the feds of an attack, but ransomware gangs are threatening victims that they will […]
Some ransomware gangs are threatening to destroy the data they’ve encrypted if the victim company calls in professional negotiators to bargain for decryption tools. In […]
The threshold question for determining if a consumer class action may proceed following a data breach is whether the plaintiffs have standing. For making that […]
Some of the biggest players in the digital universe – including Apple, Microsoft and Google’s parent company, Alphabet – attended a White House conference with […]
A novel ransomware technique called “intermittent encryption” has emerged. It compromises Windows Servers using malware that scrambles every alternate 16 bytes of a file, which […]
A San Francisco-based cybersecurity company says it managed to establish communication with a ransomware group that had been contacting employees of some of its clients […]
Ransomware attacks have become so extensive, and so expensive, that their effects ripple through the entire economy: They have in effect become a kind of […]
An unidentified hacker who ripped off a decentralized finance platform for $600 million in funny money returned about $260 million, explaining that he, she or […]
A provision that addresses cryptocurrency survived bipartisan negotiations and remains in the recently passed Senate version of the infrastructure bill. An opinion piece by New […]
