Category: Cyber-Liability

Cyber-Liability

You’ve Just Been Hacked, Now What?

All professionals utilize computers in the workplace.  These devices are a must for providing professional services, meeting customer needs, marketing, billing functions and countless other tools available to professionals through the use of computer equipment.  Make no mistake, however, the very equipment that is so crucial to your business is under cyber-attack and is constantly at risk of a virus or hack.  Yet, inexplicably, 25% of all computers worldwide are not adequately protected.  Professionals cannot afford to be a victim of cyber-liability.

According to Microsoft…

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Cyber-Liability / Social Media Lessons

LinkedIn Escapes Cyber-Liability Exposure

In June 2012, the popular social networking website LinkedIn was hacked resulting in approximately 6.4 million passwords stolen from the website.  Within hours of the incident, the passwords were posted on the internet and were used to direct traffic to fraudulent websites.  The massive security breach also resulted in a class action lawsuit against “the world’s largest professional network” in the Northern District of California.  The plaintiff class alleged that LinkedIn failed to adequately and properly secure the personal information stored on its …

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Cyber-Liability

Hollywood Heist Leads to Cyber Liability Suit

The fact pattern sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a Hollywood screenplay.  Two criminals back a trailer to a pharmaceutical warehouse and cut a hole in the ceiling of the facility.  They proceed to utilize the company’s own forklifts to load over $80 million in prescription drugs into the trailer and exit without detection on any security cameras.  All told, authorities estimate that the heist represents the largest known theft of prescription drugs in US history.  The last scene in this …

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