Adding Extortion to Injury

The FBI warns that extortion e-mail schemes are a byproduct of high profile data breaches.

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Will SCOTUS Spokeo Ruling Deny Justice To Data Breach Victims?

The suit against professional tracking service Spokeo didn’t involve a data breach, but the ruling this month by the Supreme Court in Spokeo’s favor could have big implications for breached firms and their customers.

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New Law Puts Federal Muscle Behind Trade Secret Protections

In a rare act of bipartisanship, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act last week, closing a gaping legal loophole that made it hard for companies to pursue thefts of trade secrets.

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Wall Street Doesn’t Care About Breaches

Wendy’s says that only 5% of its stores were hacked. But does it matter?

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On Wendy’s Class Action: The Beef’s in the Details

The fast food chain is the latest to face a class action lawsuit on behalf of customers whose credit card data was stolen following a data breach.

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Building the Case for Law Firm Data Security (Infographic)

Will cyber attacks on law firms tip the scales toward improved data security in the legal industry?

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The Security Industry Needs Its John Snow

The recently released Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is one of our best sources of information on breaches and other malicious activity – it is also woefully inadequate to the task.

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Data Theft and DDT: Courts Increasingly Back ‘Future Risk’ from Data Breaches

Courts in the U.S. are increasingly accepting the risk of imminent and future injuries to consumers resulting from data theft as enough to give them standing in court cases and class action suits.

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Rand: 64M Americans Have Received Breach Notices (And That’s OK!)

A survey by The Rand Corporation found that as many as a quarter of all U.S. residents – 64 million adults in the U.S. – have received a notification that their data was exposed in the last year, evidence of the far reach of data theft and data loss within the U.S.

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After Panama Papers: Firms Should Add Pen Testing to Due Diligence Process

An analysis by Wired shows that the Panama firm Mossack and Fonseca did a poor job managing its public facing systems, all the while promising clients security.

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