Joe Tidy reports: After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room. I stand up ready to give this former cyber-crime kingpin a professional hello. But, like a cheeky cartoon character, he…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Defense Contractors Are Silencing Their Cybersecurity Watchdogs
Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions
Alexander Busse, Jessica Fuhrman, Elizabeth Hudson, Ian Jones, Francis Nolan IV, and Valerie Strong Sanders of Eversheds Sutherland write: One of the hotly litigated issues in data breach class action litigation is whether plaintiffs in these actions have standing under Article III of the US Constitution. For a complaint to survive, the plaintiff must allege…
Is your cyberinsurance paid up? Are you sure?
Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc. (“PSA”) is a real estate firm headquartered in Delaware. In May 2025, they experienced a data breach when two employee email accounts were compromised in phishing attacks on May 14 and May 29. Although PSA responded quickly to secure the compromised accounts and initiate incident response, sending notification letters to those…
Everest Group Interview on Collins Aerospace Breach — Daily Dark Web
Daily Dark Web has published an interesting interview with Everest Group about the Collins Aerospace cyberattack that affected several airports. In the interview, Everest disputes several claims made by Collins or in the media regarding the incident. Collins’ parent company, RTX, had described the attack as a “ransomware” incident, but Everest asserts there was no…
Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to Do
Ellen Ullman reports: When Kerri Wall’s school district decided not to renew its five-year contract with an edtech company last spring, she didn’t expect the hardest part to come after the breakup. As the senior digital innovation administrator for the School District of Indian River County in Florida — and designated student data privacy officer…