Anonymous Online Misconduct
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That URL Typo Can Break Your Bank Account It’s an easy mistake to make, and it can be costly. Click on the wrong link, or type the wrong keystroke and...
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Ransomware, which is a form of malware that encrypts data and demands a payment from the victim to unlock it, is a growing problem. And, after assessing all their options, many companies opt to pay a ransom in order to get access to their data. For an analysis of this growing problem, Lawyer Monthly turns to Karl Kronenberger, Partner of Kronenberger Rosenfeld, LLP, to discuss the issue.
“For companies, the first solution is to have state-of-the-art technology defenses, which involves getting experts to look at your network, analyzing it for risks of intrusion and educating employees,” said Kronenberger. “If ransomware is used to encrypt company data, having a backup gives companies more negotiating power and protects them from being forced to pay hackers out of necessity.”
While keeping current data backups that are impervious to data ransoming malware is a solution, it is only short term. A long-term option may involve governments creating sanctions regimes that prohibit companies from paying ransoms altogether. If data ransomers cannot receive payments, then data ransoming will end.
Anonymous Online Misconduct
That URL Typo Can Break Your Bank Account It’s an easy mistake to make, and it can be costly. Click on the wrong link, or type the wrong keystroke and...
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Kronenberger Rosenfeld has obtained two important court orders to assist the victim of anonymous online defamation in identifying the anonymous defendants. Kronenberger Rosenfeld, representing the plaintiff, filed a John Doe...
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Today criminal defendant Gregory Alexander pled guilty to unlawfully accessing the email account of victim Randall Hough, under 18 U.S.C. Section 2701(a)(1) (Unauthorized Access to Stored Communications). The guilty plea...
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NetJets, the world’s largest operator of private jet planes, has requested a federal judge in Columbus, Ohio to dismiss a lawsuit by its pilots’ union due to an oral settlement...
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