HIPAA does not provide a private right of action. So what can employers subject to HIPAA do when they suffer a HIPAA breach or a ransomware attack at the hands
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Preparing for and Preventing Cyber Attacks
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As regular readers of this blog know, we place a huge premium on being appropriate. And what is more appropriate than following up a Black Friday post with a Cyber…
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(Ex-)Employee Theft of Company Information: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act May Help Punish the Thief
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You terminate an employee. Before you disable that employee’s login password, he downloads sensitive information to take with him. Ideally, that information is encrypted and can’t be read on any…
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5 Data Security Tips from the California Attorney General
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Our colleague Amy Purcell just wrote a post explaining what the state Attorney General’s office expects employers (and everyone else) to do to prevent data security breaches. Given the headaches…
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