Morning Reading: Law Firms Must Beware The ‘Cybersecurity Threat’

There’s an interesting article in the current issue of The National Law Journal, by Karen Sloan, to which law firms should pay particular attention. The gist is that hackers are seeking to penetrate law firm computer networks to obtain, among other things, client secrets and details of pending transactions. It’s a problem that is serious enough that one lawyer, Marc Zwillinger, a former partner at mega-firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, has just opened Zwillinger Genetski, a Washington law boutique specializing in Internet security and data privacy. 

The complete article is available at http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202445679728&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&cn=20100308NLJ&kw=Firms%20slow%20to%20awaken%20to%20cybersecurity%20threat&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1.