Hall Booth Smith Attends the “Doing Business in Africa Investment Forum”
Hall Booth Smith, P.C. hosted a half-day program at its offices on November 1 for a Chinese delegation from the Shanghai Administration Institute and UGA’s International Center of the Carl Vinson Institute. HBS attorneys John Hall, John Pa
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Cyber Attack Could do as Much Damage as Superstorm Sandy New York Post A major, global cyber attack could trigger an average of $53 billion of economic losses, a figure on par with a catastrophic natural disas
Hall Booth Smith Sponsors and Attends World Trade Day
Hall Booth Smith was a proud sponsor of the World Trade Day on May 2nd, along with Of Counsel John Parkerson attending the event. In 1935, FDR officially proclaimed that each May there should be a national observance of the benefits of global
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Neiman Marcus to Pay $1.6 Million in Shopper Data Breach Lawsuit Dallas News Neiman Marcus has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a data breach class action in Illinois federal court. The three-year-old case
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Verizon Drops Yahoo Acquisition Price by $350M Following Data Breach Disclosures GeekWire Verizon said it will pay $4.48 billion to acquire Yahoo’s operating business, a reduction of $350 million off the ori
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. MLB Fines Cardinals $2 Million for Computer Hack St. Louis Business Journal Major League Baseball on Monday afternoon ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million and turn over two 2017 draft selections t
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Complied by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. 2016 Healthcare Data Breaches Largely From Employee Error HealthITSecurity.com The business industry had a total of 494 reported data breaches, while … Healthcare data breaches also exposed the most Soci
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Data Downer: Hackers Will Grow Increasingly Bold in 2017 Los Angeles Times A few weeks ago, Yahoo reported what is believed to be the single largest security breach ever — 1 billion user accounts potentially
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. ‘GIVE ME 500 BITCOINS OR I START EXECUTING PATIENTS’ NEWS.com.au AUSTRALIAN hospitals are increasingly at risk of cyber criminal gangs who seek to steal patient data … THE TREND OF INDUSTRIALIZED HACKING
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Compiled by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Data Protection Disputes to Soar Over Next Five Years Infosecurity Magazine Experts are urging organizations to brace themselves for a surge in data protection-related legal disputes over the next five years,
