Linked – In-office work is the real threat to cybersecurity
There is something to this. How many times has someone fallen victim to phishing or drive-by downloads and wondered why the IT department didn’t build better protection? (I’ve seen it!)
Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 28, 2022
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A Constant Struggle: 3 E-Discovery Pitfalls With New Data Types
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Ongoing phishing campaign can hack you even when you’re protected with MFA
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Webinar Recording: An Overview of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act
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Data privacy bill would give you more control over info collected about you
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Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for August 2022
Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 21, 2022
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Businesses Found to Neglect Cybersecurity Until it is Too Late
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Is Your Litigation Opponent Entitled to Know the Identity of Your E-Discovery Consultant?
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Early Case Assessment in Ediscovery: Start Your Case Off Right
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Understanding Open Source Intelligence is Critical to Cybersecurity
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This phishing attack uses a countdown clock to panic you into handing over passwords
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The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations
A good chunk of these breaches are not someone actually trying to steal data, but just someone trying to either make something more easily accessible outside of the office or taking information when they leave related to things like contact information, maybe some documents they’ve written themselves that they want to keep, etc.
It’s likely that these folks aren’t actively trying to commit some sort of corporate espionage, they just aren’t really thinking about what they do. It might just be that the once-per-year required video just isn’t enough to make it top of mind every day.
Linked: Cybersecurity Mistakes Are Costing More Jobs Than Ever
On the one hand, I have argued before that we need to hold people accountable because, without a stick, our people will not have as much of a reason to care in the first place. On the other hand, a couple of the stats from the report that Doug pulled out tell me something different: