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SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Announces Data Breach of SEC Systems Which May Have Led to Insider Trading

September 25, 2017 By Cara Peterman and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton issued a public statement on Cybersecurity (the “Clayton Statement”) last week, disclosing a 2016 attack on the SEC’s database of corporate filings. The intrusion exploited a vulnerability in the test filing component of the EDGAR system, a document repository for disclosures from public companies and issuers, through which the intruder was […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Digital Crimes Tagged With: Securities and Exchange Commission

New York High Court Denies Facebook’s Challenge of Bulk Stored Communications Act Warrants

May 2, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Court of Appeals for the State of New York recently rejected Facebook’s appeal of its challenge to bulk search warrants issued pursuant to the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and separately challenged the warrants’ nondisclosure component. The Court affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Facebook could not appeal the rejection of its motion to quash the […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, National Security Tagged With: Stored Communications Act (SCA)

President Obama Issues Directive on Government Cyber Incident Response

August 1, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Last week, President Obama issued a new Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) establishing principles to govern the federal government’s response to cyber incidents, “whether involving government or private sector entities.”  Titled “PPD-41,” the document also designates the lead federal agencies for so-called significant cyber incidents and creates an “architecture for coordinating the broader Federal Government response” […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security, Regulation

Department of Justice Indicts Seven Iranians for State-Sponsored Hacking

March 27, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Department of Justice has announced the indictment of seven Iranian hackers alleged to work for the Iranian government on charges stemming from a coordinated string of distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attacks primarily against U.S. financial institutions from 2011 to 2013.  One of the hackers is also charged with hacking into the supervisory control […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, International, National Security Tagged With: Department of Justice, Prosecution

DHS Establishes Information Sharing Capability and Process Required under CISA; Issues Multi-Agency Information Sharing Guidance

February 22, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has posted four documents on the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) website to satisfy several requirements set forth in the  Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”).  Details on the four documents are provided below. By way of background, CISA was passed into law on December 18, 2015 […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes, Legislation, National Security Tagged With: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), information sharing

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