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Agents, Stand Together in Helping Businesses Understand Standalone Cyber Insurance By Asaf Lifshitz | April 7, 2021 It is well known that small and medium businesses face an ever-increasing risk of cyber attacks. Sixty-three percent reported they had experienced a cyber breach in the last 12 months, when Ponemon surveyed them in the fall 2019 prior to COVID-19 lockdowns. The damage from an attack can be a crippling blow to a small to medium business (SMB). Th...

By Justin Katz Apr 06, 2021 Chris Krebs, the federal governments former top cybersecurity official, on Thursday pushed back on statements from lawmakers urging the White House to rapidly nominate a national cyber director. The former CISA chief said the establishment of a national cyber director within the White House is one of the few areas he disagreed with the recommendations of the congressional Cyberspace Solarium Commission, arguing instead the government should be "clarifying and strengt...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On March 22, 2021, the Department of Commerce ("Commerce") interim final rule to implement provisions of Executive Order 13873 on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Supply Chain became effective. The interim final rule made several changes to the original proposed rule issued in November 2019. The interim final rule clarifies when Commerce will seek oth...

While the company said it has contained the threat, it is unclear if the cyberattack caused any damage to CNA’s business partners and customers.

Broward County school district hit by ransomware attack There is no indication that any personal information has been stolen. The computer system of one of the nation’s largest school districts was hacked by a criminal gang that encrypted district data and demanded $40 million in ransom or it would erase the files and post students’ and employees’ personal information online. Broward County Public Schools said in a statement Thursday that there is no indication that any personal informati...

Shares10 Immigration lawyers are sleeping a little better these days, yes, but I can’t say that our days of anxiety are over quite yet. We are constantly scratching our heads about where our clients fit into new policies. One of the latest conundrums revolves around whether a client is impacted by one of the myriad of bans currently on the books. President Joe Biden kept his promise and reversed the Trump administration’s infamous Muslim Ban immediately upon taking office, making it possibl...

WASHINGTON — The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States — and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them — are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyberthreats.

How China’s Devastating Microsoft Hack Puts Us All at Risk SpyTalk During World War II, the Chinese communists cultivated opium in their base area and trafficked it into Japanese-occupied cities. Mao Zedong’s man in charge was one of the biggest master spies of the period, Li Kenong. Though Mao later regretted cultivating the “special product,” which he called “that certain thing,” the drug caused disruption in the enemy rear and benefited the Red-area economy. Now i...

Microsoft release advisory on Protecting on-premises Exchange Servers following recent attacks 1 month ago On-premise Microsoft Exchange servers have been the target of increasing attacks over the recent weeks, with tens of thousands of servers being compromised. Microsoft notes the target of these attacks were servers most often used by small and medium-sized businesses. The attackers began as a nation-state attack but have now moved to be exploited by other criminal organizations, inclu...

DHS Immigrant Kids Counselors Last weekend, Eastern District of New York Judge Nicholas Garaufis shot down the Trump administrations latest assault on Dreamers and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Ruling in a duo of cases, Batalla v. Wolf and State of New York v. Trump, Judge Garaufis found DHS chief Chad Wolf "was not lawfully serving as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security" when he issued a memo suspending DACA last summer. For those keeping count, this i...