Articles Posted in Cybersecurity and Privacy

Two recent events serve to highlight the importance of proper due diligence and appropriate contractual protections when dealing with cloud-based and other hosted service providers:

• A recent white paper from Context Information Security details the results of a study they performed on several cloud service providers that identified numerous vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a determined attacker.

• According to a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Hawaii by the producer of the syndicated children’s TV series “Zodiac Island,” an entire season of the show has been wiped out thanks to a fired employee at its data-hosting company who hacked into networked computers and destroyed its work. See WeR1-CyberLynk Complaint 110403