UK Government Launches Consultation to Overhaul Existing Product Safety Regime On 31 March 2026, the UK Government's Department for Business and Trade and the Office for Product Safety and Standards launched a consultation...

UK Government Launches Consultation to Overhaul Existing Product Safety Regime

Social Engineering Schemes Target C-Suite Executives March was a busy month for former Black Basta affiliates who are using old social engineering techniques to target executives in the...

Social Engineering Schemes Target C-Suite Executives

Privacy Tip #487 – Eurail Notifies 300,000+ Individuals of Data Breach I have very fond memories of using a Eurail pass back in the day while backpacking through Europe as a student. I was saddened to see that Eurail...

Privacy Tip #487 – Eurail Notifies 300,000+ Individuals of Data Breach

The Law of War - Securities Litigation Risk in an Era of Armed Conflict Securities litigation may not be the first concern that comes to mind when war or armed conflict erupts. But in a legal environment where some...

The Law of War - Securities Litigation Risk in an Era of Armed Conflict

How IRS Code 132 Can Help AI and Data Center Executives Stay Safe As reported by many news outlets, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was victimized by a firebomb attempt, while the suspect then...

How IRS Code 132 Can Help AI and Data Center Executives Stay Safe

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 16, 2026 SEC Staff Issues Statement Exempting Certain Crypto User Interfaces From Broker-Dealer Registration - On April 13, the SEC’s Division of...

Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - April 16, 2026

German Government Adopts National Data Center Strategy The German federal government adopted its National Data Center Strategy on 18 March 2026, delivering on commitments set out in the 2025 coalition...

German Government Adopts National Data Center Strategy

When Proprietary Code Escapes: How Companies Should Prevent IP Leakage—and What to Do the Moment It Happens For many companies, the most valuable assets on the balance sheet are not the ones it fully captures. They are buried in source code, internal...

When Proprietary Code Escapes: How Companies Should Prevent IP Leakage—and What to Do the Moment It Happens

Managing Disputes Arising from Digital Incidents As the patchwork of federal and state cybersecurity and privacy laws and regulations continues to increase, companies are facing increasing legal...

Managing Disputes Arising from Digital Incidents

FBI Releases Its 2025 Internet Crime Report and Highlights Significant Cyber Threats to Financial Institutions and Their Customers The numbers are in, and the news is not good. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently published its annual Internet Crime...

FBI Releases Its 2025 Internet Crime Report and Highlights Significant Cyber Threats to Financial Institutions and Their Customers

Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure and Data from Cyberthreats In today’s highly interconnected world, cybersecurity and good data hygiene are more important than ever before. A recent Joint Cybersecurity...

Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure and Data from Cyberthreats

MCP Connectors: Mitigating the Risks of AI Agents in a Connected Architecture In the most recent installment of our series on Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, we closed with this observation: Organizations that will...

MCP Connectors: Mitigating the Risks of AI Agents in a Connected Architecture

Hidden gaps: Business risks your insurance may not cover Commercial insurance programmes are not always as comprehensive as policyholders assume. Certain categories of risk are routinely excluded or...

Hidden gaps: Business risks your insurance may not cover

AI-Powered Cyber Threats Are Changing the Risk Equation—Are Your Vendors Ready? The recent decision by Anthropic to temporarily withhold public release of its powerful new artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos...

AI-Powered Cyber Threats Are Changing the Risk Equation—Are Your Vendors Ready?

6 Cybersecurity Steps You Should Take After Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Offers Glimpse Into New World of AI Danger Anthropic’s new AI model could enable such crippling damage in the wrong hands that the company has decided not to publicly release it – but it...

6 Cybersecurity Steps You Should Take After Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Offers Glimpse Into New World of AI Danger

Will AI Take My Job? OpenAI’s New Policy, Rising Cybersecurity Risks, and What Comes Next Introduction: The Urgency of the Question - Will AI take my job? That question is no longer speculative. It is now front-page relevant, driven...

Will AI Take My Job? OpenAI’s New Policy, Rising Cybersecurity Risks, and What Comes Next

[Webinar] Incident Response Playbook: Legal, Technical and Insurance Perspectives - April 22nd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT During this webinar, our presenters will discuss: how to manage an incident response with an eye toward litigation; what is the real scope of...

[Webinar] Incident Response Playbook: Legal, Technical and Insurance Perspectives - April 22nd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

Vorys Benefits Brief: Responding to a Breach of HIPAA-Protected Information - Guidance for Employers On January 13, 2025, Conduent Business Services LLC (Conduent) discovered it was the subject of a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized...

Vorys Benefits Brief: Responding to a Breach of HIPAA-Protected Information - Guidance for Employers

SEC Announces Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2025 and Appoints New Enforcement Director On April 7, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or “Commission”) announced its enforcement results for the fiscal year (“FY”)...

SEC Announces Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2025 and Appoints New Enforcement Director

[Workshop] Discovery at a Crossroads: Global Perspectives on Emerging Challenges - April 29th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CT Discovery stands at a pivotal juncture, reshaped by technological acceleration, expanding data ecosystems, regulatory evolution, and AI’s...

[Workshop] Discovery at a Crossroads: Global Perspectives on Emerging Challenges - April 29th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CT

Congressional Investigations Quarterly April 2026 In an Election Year, Affordability Takes Center Stage - As the midterm elections draw near, “kitchen table” issues, like affordability, will...

Congressional Investigations Quarterly April 2026

Troutman Pepper Locke Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter – April 2026 #3 To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal events that have influenced the Consumer Financial...

Troutman Pepper Locke Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter – April 2026 #3

GSA AI Procurement Rules Would Introduce New Disclosure and Use-Rights Requirements for Federal Contractors The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service has released draft contract terms and conditions related to artificial...

GSA AI Procurement Rules Would Introduce New Disclosure and Use-Rights Requirements for Federal Contractors

Mississippi Enacts Data Security and Consumer Protection Requirements for Money Transmitters, Effective July 1, 2026 On April 8, 2026, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed House Bill 1596 (“HB 1596” or the “Act”) into law, creating the “Data Security for...

Mississippi Enacts Data Security and Consumer Protection Requirements for Money Transmitters, Effective July 1, 2026

Joint Advisory Warns of Iran Cyber Actors Attacking U.S. Critical Infrastructure Iran has always been a formidable cyber threat to the United States, but after the war in Iran commenced, the attacks are coming frequently and...

Joint Advisory Warns of Iran Cyber Actors Attacking U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Water Treatment Facility Downed with Ransomware Attack Critical infrastructure operators at the water treatment plant in Minot, North Dakota, were forced to resort to manual processes when its...

Water Treatment Facility Downed with Ransomware Attack

Winona County Victim of Cyber Attack Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued an emergency executive order on April 7, 2026, dispatching the Minnesota National Guard after Winona County...

Winona County Victim of Cyber Attack

Medical devices: EU Commission proposes MDR and IVDR revision The EU Commission published its 170-page proposal on revisions of the Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic...

Medical devices: EU Commission proposes MDR and IVDR revision

Beware of Fraudulent Emails Posing as the USPTO We have been notified about phishing emails that appear to be from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Please delete any such...

Beware of Fraudulent Emails Posing as the USPTO

Key Takeaways from the SEC’s FY 2025 Enforcement Results On April 7, 2026, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement announced enforcement results for FY 2025, providing the first aggregate glimpse into...

Key Takeaways from the SEC’s FY 2025 Enforcement Results