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Lessons Learned from Target’s Data Breach Settlement

By now, most people are familiar with the 2013 data breach reported by Target. Described as one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history, Target acknowledged that hackers gained access to credit card and debit card data from up to 40 million of its customers. In the time since…

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Executive Order to Bolster New Jersey’s Cyber Security

On June 1, 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed Executive Order 225 directing NJ’s Chief Technology Officer to set in motion actions to deliver a more secure, efficient, and reliable information technology platform and services across the Executive Branch. Previously, each state department and agency oversaw its own information…

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Understanding New Jersey’s Child Custody Arrangements

In New Jersey, there are two basic concepts of child custody. The more familiar concept is “physical” custody which refers to where and with whom the child will live. When parents share “joint physical” custody, the child lives with each parent for a certain amount of time during the year.…

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Fiduciary Duties Owed by Business Owners to Their Company: A Primer on Common Causes of Shareholder Oppression Claims

Because of the fiduciary duties owed by business owners to each other, whether they are shareholders in a closely held corporation, members in a limited company, or partners in a general or limited partnership, a business owner generally is prohibited from competing with the company. This general prohibition can be…

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Cybersecurity: The legal response | NJBIZ

Lindabury’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group Co-Chair Eric Levine spoke at the NJBIZ Cybersecurity conference on May 17th at the Raritan Valley Country Club in Bridgewater, explaining how companies can get hurt by doing the right thing when it comes to cybersecurity. “To protect any small business, you need…

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Forget About the Firewall: Employees are First Line of Defense Against Cyberattacks

Eric Levine, Lindabury’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group‘s Co-Chair was recently interviewed by NJBIZ’s Brett Johnson regarding a business’s first line of defense against a cyberattack. Levine says the approach exploits features inherent to human nature. “It’s preying on people’s inquisitive side,” Levine said. “And you can’t buy a firewall…

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N.J. Cyber-Experts: Another Attack Is Coming — Here’s The No. 1 Thing To Do (And Not To Do)

Lindabury’s Bob Anderson, shareholder and co-chair of the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group, was interviewed by NJBIZ‘s Tom Bergeron in response to the worldwide ransomware attack over the weekend. Bob said the attacks last weekend were not a surprise at all to the people in the industry. “It was just…

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New Jersey’s Spill Act and Concepts of Equity

On March 3, 2017, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court upheld a Chancery Court’s determination requiring parties to participate in an investigation of contamination despite the fact that there was no evidence linking any of the parties to the contamination. Matejek v. Watson, et al., Dkt No.…

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GOOGLE Docs Incident Provides a Real-Life Example of the Dangers of Phishing

May 3, 2017 was a bad day for Google as a major phishing attack spread like internet wildfire, targeting users of Google docs. However, as bad as it was for Google, it provided us with a real-life example of how the first line of defense to a cyber-attack is none…