Blog posts in tag cyber security

Unauthorized Wire Transfers: On Demand Master Class Now Available

Posted on 09/14/2023 at 11:10 AM by The Newsroom

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cyber security, On Demand, unauthorized wire transfers , Uniform Commercial Code

Unauthorized Wire Transfers: On Demand Master Class Now Available

Companies of all kinds and sizes face a barrage of phishing, spoofing, domain squatting, typo squatting, and numerous ot...

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Auto-Update Leads to Auto-Hack

Posted on 03/29/2019 at 11:23 AM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: automatic updates, cyber security, cybersecurity law, data breach, malicious software, patch

Auto-Update Leads to Auto-Hack

News broke recently that hackers exploited a backdoor to as many as 1 million ASUS computers by compromising the ASUS au...

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SEC: No Really, ICOs Are Securities

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 12:42 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, Intellectual Property Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cyber security, ICO, intellectual property, Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation

SEC: No Really, ICOs Are Securities

A common trope is that technology is evolving too fast for the law to keep up. Companies like Uber, Tesla, and Coinbase...

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Is that a cryptocurrency or securities fraud?

Posted on 12/20/2018 at 11:00 AM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cryptocurrency, cyber security, cybersecurity law, Department of Justice, initial coin offering

Is that a cryptocurrency or securities fraud?

Anyone who thinks cryptocurrencies are still the “wild wild west” hasn’t been paying attention to what...

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FBI Warns: Fraudsters Trying to Convert ATMs to Slot Machines

Posted on 08/13/2018 at 10:23 AM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

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FBI Warns: Fraudsters Trying to Convert ATMs to Slot Machines

The FBI is alerting financial institutions about a global fraud scheme targeting ATMs. Fraudsters may be planning a worl...

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The Bank That Cried Breach: Knowing When It's Time to Send a Security Breach Notice to Customers

Posted on 08/03/2018 at 11:40 AM by Jesse Johnston

Categories: Banking Law, Cybersecurity Law, Jesse Johnston

Tagged As: banks, computer security, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breach, data breach notice, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, hackers, identity theft, Iowa banking law, network security, vendor contracts

The Bank That Cried Breach: Knowing When It's Time to Send a Security Breach Notice to Customers

Data breaches can occur in a myriad of ways: by the hacker, by an employee’s departure with customer informat...

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Hackers have my information! Now what?

Posted on 08/02/2018 at 03:56 PM by John Lande

Categories: Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: commercial litigation, cyber attack, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breach, Facebook, hackers, trial attorney, trial lawyer, Unity Point

Hackers have my information! Now what?

The drumbeat of news of high-profile data breaches exposing customer information continues. In 2018 alone, there have be...

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Employee Causes Five Years of Data Breach Litigation

Posted on 07/23/2018 at 10:14 AM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, Employment & Labor Law, John Lande

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Employee Causes Five Years of Data Breach Litigation

A recent decision from United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit demonstrates how costly employee misconduct...

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Cyberinsurance Covers Claim, But Probably Not for Long

Posted on 07/16/2018 at 10:40 AM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

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Cyberinsurance Covers Claim, But Probably Not for Long

A recent decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is another victory for an insured whose insurance company deni...

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Mortgage Loan Officers Owe a Fiduciary Duty to Employer

Posted on 07/12/2018 at 10:12 AM by Jesse Johnston

Categories: Banking Law, Cybersecurity Law, Employment & Labor Law, Jesse Johnston

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Mortgage Loan Officers Owe a Fiduciary Duty to Employer

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) recently entered into a consent order with a mortgage...

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