The United States and the European Union announced in February their intent to launch negotiations this year on a far-reaching trade and investment partnership agreement. Negotiations on the treaty, known as “TTIP”, should commence in June following a Congressional and public consultation period in the United States, and a parallel process in the EU whereby […]
Alston & Bird’s Kim Peretti quoted in Wall Street Journal Article
Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s security-incident and management-response team and former senior litigator for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “Law Firms Tout Advantage of Secrecy in Cyberbreach Investigations.” Ms. Peretti said the practice is among the first at a major law firm that […]
Cyber Alert: Breach Investigations, Part 1: Right-Sizing the Data Breach Investigation – Law360 Article by Kim Peretti
In the age of targeted intrusions, sophisticated criminal and nation-state actors are often compromising hundreds of systems within a single company’s environment. However, companies are often only seeing a small portion of the entire incident, as their response to such invasions can be, and often is, too narrowly shaped by state security breach notification requirements, […]
FTC Updates Advertising Disclosure Guidelines to Address Online and Mobile Environment
The FTC recently released an update to its 2000 report, “Dot Com Disclosures” offering further guidance on effective disclosures for advertising in digital media. The FTC instructed advertisers to adopt the perspective of a reasonable consumer, and should assume consumers do not read the entire website or screen, just as they don’t read every word […]
U.S. Secret Service Issues Advisory on Attacks Targeting Prepaid Debit Account Payment Processors
After observing a noticeable increase in sophisticated attacks targeting payment processors of prepaid debit accounts in which criminals are able to manipulate balances of accounts and/or fraud prevention controls, the United States Secret Service released an Industry Advisory on March 15, 2013. The Advisory outlines several “macro” and “prepaid platform specific” strategies that payment processers […]