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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

Long before COVID-19, some notable behind-the-scenes forces were in motion to elevate cybersecurity to a much higher level. This body of knowledge has been thoroughly vetted across the global cybersecurity community over the past two-plus decades. states, for instance.

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France: the CNIL has released its annual dawn raid Program for 2023: four national priorities and one priority coming from the EDPB!

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). The CNIL will verify the conditions of appointment and modalities of exercise of the DPO function. management of data subjects’ rights).

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Mayhem Wins DARPA CGC

ForAllSecure

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest.and won. CNET: Rise of the hacking machines By Laura Hautala [link].

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Mayhem Wins DARPA CGC

ForAllSecure

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest.and won. CNET: Rise of the hacking machines By Laura Hautala [link].

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MAYHEM WINS DARPA CGC

ForAllSecure

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest.and won. CNET: Rise of the hacking machines By Laura Hautala [link].

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds common law duty for employers extends to protecting sensitive employee information

Data Protection Report

Rather, the duty arises under the common law rule that when an actor takes an affirmative action, that actor must exercise reasonable care to protect others from an unreasonable risk of harm from such act. The duty is one to exercise reasonable care, which may be different depending on the size and resources of a particular company.