The American Bar Association said last night that an unauthorized hacker gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords that members would have used to access a prior version of the website.
In a statement, the ABA said:
“On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity on its network. The association
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New technologies, new laws and new regulations have shifted data privacy substantially just within the last few months.
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Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. One week after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Wolters Kluwer posted a free publicly available resource Due Diligence Checklist .Since March 17th they have added five addition resources to a suite of tools referred to as the Bank Failures Toolkit. The resources are developed for inhouse counsel and their external law firms..
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A Legalweek 2023 panel looks how the data privacy landscape in the U.S., U.K. and around the globe will likely evolve in the months ahead.
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Get ready for executives to blame the next big cyberattack on all you pesky kids working from home.
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“You actually have no assurance at any point that you can trust it,” warned David Carvalho, co-founder and CEO of Naoris Protocol.
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Fire up your personal email accounts!
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While application programming interfaces (APIs) are nothing new to the legal industry, many organizations’ information security controls may not account for them as much as they should.
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Today’s organizations posssess massive volumes of unstructured data. Shining a light on it is the only way to transform that data into opportunity, rather than risk.
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Exterro and Zapproved will now operate as a single company, with former Zapproved private equity investor K1 Investment Management retaining a minority stake in the combined e-discovery provider.
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Exterro has acquired eDiscovery rival Zapproved, in a move that the fast-growing private-equity-backed company says will further its vision to provide customers with everything they need to manage their legal …
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Among the things the two e-discovery companies Exterro and Zapproved have in common is that they were both founded in the same year, 2008, and in the same city, Portland, Ore. Now they have something else in common, as they announce today that Exterro has acquired Zapproved.
While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, Exterro said that the acquisition
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The firm seems to have recovered after the incident.
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It is the fear of personal information being disclosed on the dark web that has spurred such great interest in monitoring services.
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Sign of the Times: New York To Require Cybersecurity CLE Credits
When was the last time you attended a CLE course focused on cybersecurity issues? If you’re anything like most lawyers, chances are you’ve never taken one. But if you’re a New York
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