Who’s Behind Data Breaches?
When you’re implementing data breach and cyber attack protections, you’re probably thinking about agents from the outside trying to hack your system and expose your company’s sensitive data. But those are not the only people…
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How Internal Employees Cause Data Breaches
While the popular image of a cyber attack is from someone from the outside, more than a third of data breaches involve an internal actor. Misuse of existing privileges by these internal actors often are…
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NYC Law Firm Releases 2019 Fiduciary Guide
It is hard for a fiduciary to determine what exactly would be a breach of their fiduciary duty to a retirement plan. That is where New York based law firm Cohen & Buckmann, P.C.’s 2019…
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The Different Types of Data Breaches
The popular image of a data breach is a hacker in his mother’s basement breaking into the mainframe and stealing everything they want. But data breaches very rarely happen in that manner. Cyber criminals keep…
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Nearly Half of New Jersey Accounts Hacked in 2017
New Jersey’s population is currently just under nine million. Over four million New Jersey accounts were affected by data and security breaches in 2017. How can you protect yourself? There are some simple steps a…
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Cyber Security for Investment Advisors
Even if you are a small plan advisor, you have to realize that cyber attackers are always attempting to breach and steal your data. It may not be within what you expected when you started…
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Microsoft Emails Hacked in Breach
Some of Microsoft’s email services, which include Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail, were breached by hackers with users’ email addresses, folder names, email subject lines, and names of email addresses users communicated with between January and…
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The Fiduciary Duty of Protecting Against Cyber Attacks
Under ERISA, fiduciaries are subject to the prudent expert standard of care, in which they have to act with diligence, care, and skill under the circumstances as professionals their field would. They also owe a…
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Protections Against Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches
Cyber attacks seem to happen every week these days. As those bigger companies beef up their cybersecurity to prevent hacks, cyber attackers are increasingly likely to go after the less protected companies which ends up…
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