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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are not a new method employed by cyber criminals to inflict damage on victim entities’ networks. In fact, DDoS attacks were one of the first types of online crimes to appear in the dawn of the Internet age. In the past several years, however, cyber threat actors have rekindled this attack […]

On January 14, 2013, Singapore passed an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act (now renamed the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act), which provided the government with additional authorities to prevent, detect and counter cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Key aspects of this law include the ability of the government to direct a person or organization […]

Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit halted an attempt by three individuals involved in the ongoing WikiLeaks investigation to make information about the investigation public. Specifically, the three users sought to unseal the prosecution’s request for a court order requiring Twitter to disclose certain user account information, including the […]

Alston & Bird has developed a checklist tool to assist Covered Entities, Business Associates, and Subcontractor Business Associates to plan their implementation of the January 25, 2013 Omnibus HIPAA Rule. The Omnibus HIPAA Rule significantly amended the HIPAA/HITECH Act Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Enforcement Rules, as summarized in an Alston & Bird HIPAA Advisory issued on […]

Last week, we blogged about the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services putting on display at the Office of Federal Register the long-awaited “Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act; Other Modifications to the […]