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The most recent in a long list of IT security firms that have been hit with ransomware in the past year, Miami-based Kaseya Ltd disclosed late last week that it was hit with a ransomware attack that may affect hundreds, even thousands, of U.S.-based companies.

Kaseya has publicly stated that it is investigating the attack…

The United States government, states, municipalities, and private companies all have been trying to defend themselves from cyber warfare from foreign adversarial governments, including Russia, China, and North Korea, for years—actually, for decades. Even when I started practicing full time in this area of law in the early 2000s, we were talking about not traveling…

Cybersecurity firm SonicWall Inc. is investigating an attack on its internal systems that it describes as “highly sophisticated.” According to SonicWall, the investigation is centered around its Secure Mobile Access 100 series, which assists with end-to-end secure remote access.

The company said that a few thousand devices have been impacted and that it is trying…

Last week, the Executive Order on Protecting the United States from Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) expanded the U.S.-China drone controversy to North Korea, Iran, and Russia.

The Order also provides the Secretary of Commerce with the authority to designate “any other foreign nation, foreign area, or foreign non-government entity engaging in long-term patterns or…

Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity firm, confirmed this week that the same hackers believed to originate from Russia who were behind the SolarWinds incident were able to access some of its internal emails without authorization.

According to the company, it did not use SolarWinds software, but had been targeted by the same hackers to access its O365…

Marriott recently won dismissal of a proposed class action data breach lawsuit alleging several violations, including a violation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The case, Arifur Rahman v. Marriott International, Inc. et al., Case No.: 8:20-cv-00654, was dismissed in an Order by U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter on January 12, 2021.…

The fallout from the SolarWinds hacking incident linked to Russian threat actors has not only wreaked havoc on governmental agencies and private companies whose data are at risk following the incident, but this week, Bitsight and Kovrr released an analysis outlining the effect of the event on insurance losses that estimates the incident could cost…

U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, have confirmed that Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack. It is reported that the FBI is investigating whether Russia hacked into project management software JetBrains’ TeamCity DevOps tool to originally…

2020 will go down as one of the most stressful in my career as a cybersecurity professional. I have been working in this area of law full time since 2003. So that says a lot.

On top of the stress of the spread of the coronavirus, this has been a particularly stressful year assisting clients…

On October 27, 2020, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned the health care industry about “an imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.”

According to the warning, which was shared during a conference call, the government has received “credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.…