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Protecting Law Firms from Increasing Cyberattacks

By Peter F. Vaira
July 02, 2014

Cyberattacks are increasing at a startling rate in the business community, not only by hackers for personal intellectual skullduggery, but cyberattacks aimed at obtaining sensitive information that is the heart of the operation of industrial corporations, banks, brokerage houses and worldwide sales organizations. Law firms have become major targets of these illegal attacks, which are aimed at discovering and pilfering the entire subject matter of a commercial operation. One example is the corporate snooper who will use cyberespionage in an M&A transaction to understand what the competitors are bidding. As discussed below, quite often, such cyberespionage is never discovered or not until a long time after the transaction is completed.

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