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New York Department of Health Issues Urgent Cybersecurity Warning Following U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities

July 14, 2025 By Kim Peretti, Kate Hanniford, Angela Burnette, Jennifer Pike and Andrew Rice

The New York State Department of Health has issued an urgent cybersecurity advisory (the Advisory) warning of increased threat levels and a higher likelihood of cybersecurity attacks from Iranian state-backed actors following U.S. military strikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities in Iran.  The Advisory warns that “intelligence sources indicate a high likelihood […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cybersecurity, ePrivacy, Health Privacy, National Security, New York, New York Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Health Information Privacy, National Security, New York

Trump Administration Releases Cyber Executive Order Revealing Renewed Strategy for U.S. Cybersecurity

June 15, 2025 By Kim Peretti and Kristen Bartolotta

On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity, amending certain prior directives established by the Biden and Obama administrations. Importantly, the administration’s new directive maintains continuity of the cybersecurity goals of prior administrations and demonstrates that cybersecurity remains a bipartisan priority. However, the […]

Filed Under: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Security, National Security, NIST Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Executive Order, Executive Order, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security, Sanctions

Congressional Research Service Report Sheds Light on October Telecommunications Attack by PRC-Linked Threat Actor

November 7, 2024 By Kim Peretti and Andrew Rice

In early October 2025, several media outlets reported that United States telecommunications services had been infiltrated by state affiliated threat actors linked to the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). These reports were followed by a joint press release on October 25, 2024 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]

Filed Under: China, Cyber Espionage, Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, National Security Tagged With: China, Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, National Security

President Biden Signs First National Security Memorandum Focused on AI

October 27, 2024 By Kim Peretti, Kate Hanniford and Daniel Felz

On October 24, 2024, President Biden signed the first-ever National Security Memorandum (“NSM”) focused on artificial intelligence (“AI”), pursuant to subsection 4.8 of Executive Order 14110. The NSM provides guidance on developing, employing, and strengthening AI usage within the federal government. The NSM outlines three main objectives which serve as guideposts in directing the U.S. […]

Filed Under: AI, Artificial Intelligence, National Security Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, National Security

6th Circuit Upholds 20-year Sentence of Chinese Spy, Convicted of Espionage Crimes, Attempting to Steal Trade Secrets

August 12, 2024 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On August 7, 2024, the 6th Circuit upheld a Chinese spy’s twenty-year prison sentence for attempting to steal aviation trade secrets from General Electric (GE). Yanjun Xu, a deputy director in China’s Ministry of State Security, was responsible for trying to steal aviation-related proprietary information. He spent years inviting Western aviation experts to China, attempting […]

Filed Under: China, Cyber Espionage, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, National Security Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, National Security

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