Last month, the IRS extended the usual April 15 tax filing deadline to July 15. While this brings relief to those facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it also extends the window of opportunity for cybercriminals to attack accounting firms.
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Accounting Firm Vulnerability During Tax Season – Now Extended to July 15 Posted on: April 16, 2020 In: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
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Remaining Vigilant Against State-Sponsored Cyberattacks Posted on: April 15, 2020 In: Data Privacy & CybersecurityState-sponsored cyberattacks have increased in recent years. These attacks, which are supported and funded by foreign governments, typically reflect geopolitical dynamics, with hacking campaigns often emerging following international conflicts. Frequently, the nations responsible for cyberattacks seek to achieve specific goals through their hacking campaigns. Their objectives may include conducting economic espionage or disrupting another nation’s political or economic stability.
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Protecting Your Trade Secrets During a Crisis Posted on: April 10, 2020 In: Labor & EmploymentVirtually every business has had to quickly transition to employing a remote workforce, whether partially or in full, to ensure compliance with local and state orders related to slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Many companies have adapted primarily by relying on their employees’ ability to perform work on their personal devices.
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How to Protect Yourself from Zoom-Hijacking Posted on: April 09, 2020 In: Data Privacy & CybersecurityOn March 30, 2020, the FBI announced that it has received multiple reports of video-teleconferencing (VTC) hijacking attacks in recent weeks. The attacks target the VTC platform Zoom and involve unidentified individuals joining online meetings and disrupting them with pornographic and/or hate images and speech. This type of attack is being referred to as “Zoom-bombing.”
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Three Tips for Responding to USERRA Requests Posted on: April 06, 2020 In: Labor & EmploymentMost employers are used to addressing employee absences related to pregnancies, disabilities, and non-work-related illnesses. However, few managers or Human Resources (HR) practitioners receive Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) requests on a regular basis. The purpose of this post is to provide a brief overview on USERRA and to provide three practical tips for responding to USERRA requests.
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Smooth Sailing for States to Infringe Copyrights Posted on: April 02, 2020 In: Intellectual Property & TechnologyThe U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled 9-0 that a 1990 law intended to provide a means of redress against States that commit copyright infringement is unconstitutional as written, and that sovereign immunity shields States from being held liable for copyright infringement. Though most copyright owners do not have to worry about States infringing their works, the facts of the case offer an important insight that all owners of any IP should note.
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New York Judge Holds Additional Clinical Trial Results Must Be Reported to Public FDA Database Posted on: March 31, 2020 In: Intellectual Property & TechnologyA district court in New York has ruled that drug and clinical trial sponsors cannot avoid their obligation to submit “basic results” about the outcome of trials for approved products between September 27, 2007, when a statute requiring publication of this information on ClinicalTrials.gov went into effect, and January 18, 2017, when regulations finally went into effect to implement the statute.
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Legislative Alert: Virginia Expands Insurance Data Security Requirements Posted on: March 31, 2020 In: Data Privacy & CybersecurityOn February 25, 2020, the Virginia State Legislature passed House Bill 1334, the Insurance Data Security Act, which establishes data security requirements applicable to persons licensed by the insurance laws of the Commonwealth. Following on other state laws that have created data security regimes applicable to the insurance industry, the Virginia law requires licensees to maintain the security of information systems and nonpublic information.
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5 Critical Lessons from Comcast Corp. v. Nat’l Ass’n of African American-Owned Media Posted on: March 30, 2020 In: Labor & EmploymentCertain to become a major factor in employment litigation, an opinion issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 23, 2020 clarifies the burden for plaintiffs to meet in discrimination claims filed under 42 U.S.C. §1981. Here are the top 5 takeaways of this case for employers.
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AB 2355 Aims to Make Medical Cannabis Users a Protected Class in California Posted on: March 27, 2020 In: Labor & EmploymentCalifornia Assembly Member Rob Bonta recently introduced Assembly Bill 2355 (AB 2355), which, if enacted, would make medical cannabis users a protected class in California. California was the first state to legalize medical cannabis in 1996, but AB 2355 is not the first legislation of its kind.
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PTAB Cannot Permit Self-Joinder or Issue-Joinder and POP Statutory Constructions Receive No Deference Posted on: March 25, 2020 In: Intellectual Property & TechnologyThe Federal Circuit ruled the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) cannot permit a party to join itself as a party to its own existing inter partes review (IPR) petition and cannot permit adding new time-barred issues to an old petition by joinder.
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Anti-Harassment Policy No Longer Enough? How the Landscape is Changing for Employers Defending Against Sexual Harassment Liability Posted on: March 24, 2020 In: Labor & EmploymentAn anti-harassment policy is the cornerstone of protecting the workplace from sexual harassment. This is especially true following the #MeToo movement, which took social media platforms and various media outlets by storm beginning in 2017.
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