Security & Information Governance
ICO “provisionally” decides to fine Advanced £6m for 2022 health sector ransomware attack
Security & Information Governance
August 7, 2024
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today (7 August) that it has provisionally decided to fine Advanced £6.09m, following a healthcare-based ransomware attack in August 2022. However, the ICO statement
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The Crowdstrike global IT outage – Early lessons learned
Security & Information Governance
July 26, 2024
We ran a quick fire poll on who was affected by the global IT outage on 19 July and here we take a look at the results, as well as
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Superior Court of Los Angeles County suffers ransomware attack
Security & Information Governance
July 22, 2024
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Court Technology Services (CTS) Division suffered a ransomware attack on Friday 19 July leading to it having to shut down the Court’s internal
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Major Windows outage takes organisations globally offline
Security & Information Governance
July 19, 2024
A global Microsoft Windows outage is impacting banks, law firms, airports and media organisations, with Windows laptops and PCs showing a blue screen, as early reports suggest that a Crowdstrike
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Ciaran Martin to join ILTA S4S as keynote
Security & Information Governance
July 15, 2024
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) announces today (15 July) that Ciaran Martin will be the keynote speaker at its London-hosted security conference with S4S Club. Martin was the first
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e2e-assure: Threat actors are pivoting to target law firms
Security & Information Governance
June 11, 2024
UK cybersecurity company e2e-assure has for the past decade provided threat detection and response services for a range of companies including within the financial services sector. What they noticed is
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Ascertus partners with ActiveNav to help firms manage dark data
Security & Information Governance
June 4, 2024
Ascertus Limited today (4 June) announced a new strategic partnership with data privacy and information governance specialists ActiveNav to help solve the data management challenges that corporate enterprises and professional
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New ICO ‘lessons learned’ report references past law firm data breach
Security & Information Governance
May 10, 2024
The Information Commissioner’s Office published a report today (10 May) examining the lessons learned from an array of past data breaches, including looking at the facts of a breach at
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Guest post: Every legal professional needs to know about privacy law compliance – Here’s where to start
Security & Information Governance
April 23, 2024
Michael Whitbread, senior legal counsel for the Vesparum Group and Draftable, shares why all legal professionals should stay across developments in privacy law. He offers practical action points to help
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Orrick settles data breach lawsuits for $8m
Security & Information Governance
April 15, 2024
US law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to pay $8m to settle a class action filed by plaintiffs whose personal information was stolen in a data breach in
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MSP Division of CTS Group sold in administration as Tiger Eye splits entirely from CTS
Security & Information Governance
April 10, 2024
PwC, acting as administrators, has sold the managed service provider division of CTS Group to Bluecube Cyber Security Solutions, following the catastrophic cybersecurity breach in November that prevented customers from
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Guest post: Ensuring cyber resilience in the legal sector post-Lockbit
Security & Information Governance
March 12, 2024
By Steve Whiter, director of Appurity The recent collaborative disruption of the Lockbit ransomware group by international law enforcement agencies has offered a momentary sigh of relief to cybersecurity professionals
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Pinsents launches cyber report and warns of increased sophistication and volume of ransomware attacks
Security & Information Governance
March 5, 2024
Fifth annual cyber briefing explores Artificial Intelligence and ransomware attacks Threat level is evolving due to fragmentation of the cyber criminal landscape Energy and finance are among key sectors represented
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Small Bristol law firm fined £23k for AML breaches
Security & Information Governance
March 4, 2024
Three-solicitor Bristol conveyancing law firm Batchelor Sharp has been fined £23,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for breaching its anti-money laundering regulatory obligations, despite the fact that there was no
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Cyber legaltech win: UK top 100 law firm Bristows selects Pentera and Appurity
Security & Information Governance
March 4, 2024
UK top 100 law firm Bristows has selected Pentera and Appurity for a continuous automated security validation solution. Pentera, which is headquartered in Israel, specialises in real time pen testing
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UK fraud volumes more than doubled to £2.3bn in 2023 – BDO says AI will see threat escalate
Security & Information Governance
February 19, 2024
The volume of reported UK fraud grew to £2.3bn in 2023, which was the second-largest annual total recorded by BDO in the last decade and represented a 104% increase on 2022.
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LegalTech Insights: Clio’s CEO Jack Newton talks gen AI differentiators, cloud parallels, and regulatory guidance
Security & Information Governance
February 15, 2024
Caroline Hill sat down with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of SaaS legal practice management vendor Clio, to chat through his vision of how generative AI will be a differentiator;
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