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		<title>The Split in the Circuit Courts Over the Proper Interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Actually Goes Three Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Bialas</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Posted on March 15th, 2013 by Brian P. Bialas on our sister blog, Massachusetts Noncompete Law.               I’ve written many times about the significant split in circuit courts’ interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which affects whether an employer can sue an employee for violating computer use restrictions, usually embodied in a [...]<br/>
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		<title>Commentary on the Status of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; Feb 18, 2013 U.S. Supreme Court takes pass on CFAA lawsuit; uncertainty remains In 1st Circuit, ‘ball in employer’s court’ By Correy E. Stephenson The U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act case leaves employment lawyers in the 1st Circuit and beyond with continuing uncertainty.Employers frequently add a [...]<br/>
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		<title>PCI-DSS Update: The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council Issues Guidelines for Security Risk Assessments, Cloud Computing, and Accepting Payments on Mobile Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Bialas</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Merchants who accept credit cards have a duty to protect customer information, not only by law (see, e.g., 201 CMR 17.00), but also because the credit card companies tell them so.  The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council was created by Visa, MasterCard and American Express to tell merchants precisely what they are supposed to [...]<br/>
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		<title>More on President Obama’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bychowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cybersecurity & Cybercrime]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On February 12, 2013, President Obama signed an executive order entitled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.”  The Order has two key components. First, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence must ensure timely production of unclassified reports of cyber threats and must rapidly disseminate the reports to the targeted [...]<br/>
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		<title>Administration Rolls Out Its New Cybersecurity Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ara Beth Gershengorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cybersecurity & Cybercrime]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday President Obama signed an executive order directing federal agencies to develop voluntary best cyber security practices for key industry sectors and to create a system for broader public-private information sharing, and today administration officials have been speaking at an event highlighting the order. The Order places primary responsibility for managing cyber security in the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Pentagon to Increase Cybersecurity Force More than Five Times Current Size</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a recent article, the Washington Post reported that &#8220;The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries.&#8221; The Pentagon&#8217;s plan would create three [...]<br/>
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		<title>HIPAA “Omnibus” Regulations Published in Federal Register</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The revised HIPAA regulations were formally published today in the Federal Register.  In this form, they only take up 138 pages! Law360 has a brief piece on the revised HIPAA rules, with the perspectives of various attorneys (including me) on the changes.  While I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the quote that “This is a [...]<br/>
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		<title>Key Elements of the New “Omnibus” HIPAA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On January 18, 2013, nearly four years after the passage of the HITECH Act and its amendments to HIPAA, and nearly three years after it proposed regulatory amendments, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has finally issued major “omnibus” revisions to HIPAA’s privacy and security regulations. In the 563 pages of the regulations and related regulatory comments, [...]<br/>
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		<title>The Wait Is Over! HHS Finally Issues Revised HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Massachusetts Attorney General Secures $140,000 Settlement of Claims that Patient Information Was Left in a Town Dump</title>
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		<dc:creator>Colin Zick</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Attorney General announced today that the former owners of a medical billing practice and four pathology groups have agreed to collectively pay $140,000 to settle allegations that medical records and patient billing information for &#8220;tens of thousands of Massachusetts patients were improperly disposed of at a public dump.&#8221;  Under the settlements, the defendants have agreed to pay a [...]<br/>
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