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On March 18, the Federal Communications Commission's Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council's Working Group 4 issued its Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices Working Group 4: Final Report.

On January 27, 2015, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing on the need for uniform federal data breach legislation to supplant the host of individual state laws currently in place.

On March 13, the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, which works to reduce risks within and across all critical infrastructure sectors, reported that it received and responded to 245 incidents in FY 2014.

Jeff Knowles and Justin Pierce published "Keep It Clean: Ashley Madison's Lessons for Marketers" in Response Magazine on September 8, 2015.

On September 30, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing titled "Cyber War: Definitions, Deterrence, and Foreign Policy,"...

On December 10, 2015, NIST issued a Request for Information on its cybersecurity framework, possible changes, and future governance.

On April 6, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") published a draft Big Data Interoperability Framework that facilitates scientists' use of big data sets.

On January 27, NIST announced that it is seeking public comment on its latest draft of a publication intended to help computer security experts use randomness to protect sensitive data.

On April 8, the New York State Department of Financial Services issued an Update on Cyber Security in the Banking Sector: Third Party Services Providers, which follows the Department's May 2014 report on Cyber Security in the Banking Sector.

On February 13, at the White House's Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection, President Obama signed an executive order boosting cybersecurity information-sharing efforts between the private sector and the federal government.

Under the guidance, advising funds and advisers should conduct periodic cybersecurity assessments, create strategies to respond to threats, and account for obligations under federal securities laws.

On June 9, 2015, plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against a software company moved for approval of a settlement for injunctive relief.

In addition to issuing consumer notice and appropriate software removal mechanisms, the company is required to post broad notifications on social media and its website.

As previously discussed on this blog, cybersecurity is an issue that should be top-of-mind for all companies, including automotive companies.

Following a growing trend among states, on March 26, 2013, the Utah legislature passed the Internet Employment Privacy Act, which prohibits employers from requesting that job applicants or employees disclose passwords protecting their personal internet accounts.

Partner Molly Jennings and Counsel Anneke Dunbar-Gronke explore the evolving judicial interpretation of the Video Privacy Protection Act as it applies to contemporary web-tracking technologies.

One of the most controversial and popular topics in real estate today involves Airbnb, the online home rental service, and the concept of transient rentals.