“Conversion therapy,” which seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, has been rejected by a long list of medical organizations, James J.S. Holmes told the ABA’s…
The Fourth Amendment should be interpreted to impose a warrant requirement when the U.S. government uses malware to hack computer systems for law enforcement purposes, according to a cybersecurity fellow…
With hack attacks, including infiltration of law firm email, on the upswing, those in charge of safeguarding computer networks may need to change their tactics, international security experts suggest.
Federal judges and judiciary employees have been alerted that they may have been among the victims of a data breach, initially revealed last month, that affected millions of federal employees.
In a cyber intrusion described by the head of the FBI as “enormous,” hackers penetrated federal background-check databases to obtain access to confidential material, including social security numbers, for 21.5…
After six years as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. is returning to private practice at Covington & Burling and giving his thoughts on…
A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer committed a crime by taking computer code for a high-speed trading program with him when he left the investment bank for a new…
A client of a California law firm says insurers hacked into tens of thousands of confidential client files as part of a nationwide scheme to get an advantage in worker’s…
In 1998, a group of young hackers testified before a U.S. Senate committee, warning that what one describes as a “patch and pray” after-the-fact approach to cybersecurity was bound to…
A federal judge in Los Angeles nixed a contract-based claim against Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. over a massive third-party hack attack that gained access to former employees’ personal information.
Federal prosecutors and the FBI are investigating allegations that front-office officials with the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into a computer database of the Houston Astros in 2013.
The ubiquity of information, coupled with conflicting international laws about privacy, data protection and national security laws, is making litigation a minefield of challenges, attorneys agreed at a panel discussion…
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