On June 2, 2014, in collaboration with the European Cybercrime Centre at Europol, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a multi-national effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet, an extremely sophisticated type of malware designed to steal banking and other credentials from infected computers. The DOJ and the FBI also […]
National Security & Digital Crimes
Kim Peretti Interviewed in FierceGovernmentIT Q&A Session
Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s Security Incident Management & Response Team and former senior litigator for DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, was interviewed in a Q&A session with FierceGovernmentIT titled “China Cyber Espionage Charges Provide ‘Missing Part of the Puzzle.’” Peretti discussed the significance of the indictment against the individuals in China’s People’s […]
WATCH: Kim Peretti Interviewed by WSJ Live, “Five Chinese Military Accused of Hacking U.S. Firms”
Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s Security Incident Management & Response Team, was interviewed by Wall Street Journal Live on the impact of the U.S. Department of Justice announcing charges against five Chinese military workers, accusing them of hacking several U.S. companies for trade secrets. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday, May 19 this first-of-its-kind criminal […]
DOJ Issues White Paper on Cybersecurity Information Sharing Under the SCA
On Friday, May 9 the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a white paper stating that under its interpretation of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., communications companies are permitted to disclose “non-content information to the government” as long as that information is in its “aggregate form.” The lynchpin of the DOJ’s […]
Jim Harvey to Speak at National Association of Corporate Directors Program on Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks
Jim Harvey, co-chair of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security practice and the Security Incident Management and Response Team, will be a featured speaker during an April 16 program sponsored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) titled, “Mitigating Cyber Security Threats: How the Attackers, Their Objectives, Their Methods Keep Changing.” Cyber security threats and […]