US Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity: Action Plan for the President-Elect

By Anna Rudawski (US) on December 14, 2016 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Regulatory response

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The US Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, a nonpartisan group established by President Obama in early 2016, released its final report on December 1, 2016. The report provides an in-depth view of cybersecurity challenges facing the digital economy, and provides a roadmap for addressing those challenges. For some issues, the Commission recommends that the next … Continue reading

Legal Implications of DDoS Attacks and the Internet of Things (IoT)

By on December 5, 2016 Posted in Cybercrime

Several significant distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks have taken place in the last few weeks, including a major event involving a domain name service provider (Dyn), which caused outages and slowness for many popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. This significant attack came on the heels of two major DDoS attacks against … Continue reading

Major DDoS Attacks Signal Need for Strengthened Cyber Defenses

By Daniel Leslie (CA) on November 3, 2016 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Cybercrime

On Friday, October 21, a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were launched against the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. DNS hosts operate in a manner akin to a switchboard for the Internet, helping to route domain names (e.g., dataprotectionreport.com) to underlying IP addresses (e.g., 104.28.6.115). By attacking Dyn, hackers were … Continue reading