The maritime industry is an enticing target for hackers. The Port of Los Angeles (the Port) alone facilitated about $276 billion in trade last year, and the International Chamber of Shipping estimated that the total value of world shipping was around $14 trillion in 2019. The Port has plans to construct a multi-million-dollar cyber intelligence
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City of L.A. Email Blunder Exposes COVID-19 Test Results to All Recipients
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Coronavirus, Cybersecurity
Although email seems to be the preferred method of communication during the coronavirus pandemic, an error made by a City of Los Angeles employee is one to learn from and avoid repeat.
Unfortunately, when emailing COVID-19 results to multiple individuals, instead of blind copying the recipients with the results, a staff member from the City…
CCPA News: Amendments Signed into Law by the California Governor and Draft Regulations Released by the State’s Attorney General
By Linn Foster Freedman & Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Last week was a busy week for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as Attorney General Xavier Becerra released draft regulations on October 10 and Governor Newsom signed several pending CCPA amendments into law on October 11. The CCPA amendments clarified several important issues, including:
- employee information and business-to-business (B2B) communications are exempt from the
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Cyber-attack on LA County Compromises 756,000 individuals’ information
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
A Nigerian national has been charged with a cyber-attack on Los Angeles County employees that compromised the personal information of over 756,000 people.
The attack took place on May 13, 2016, when the attacker sent a phishing email to over 1,000 LA County employees from several departments. 108 of the employees provided the hacker with…