Cybercriminals are using yet another new twist on the old email phishing attack: they email people claiming to have infected porn sites with malware that allowed them to take over the recipient’s webcam and record them sitting at their computer watching porn and if they don’t pay up, the video is going public. I discuss this…
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“Shame Hacking” Liberal Groups — Is It Really Russian Hackers Doing It?
But it’s the Russians! The ubiquitous Russians are at it again, or, so we are being told. You know, the Russian hackers who are everywhere, doing everything nefarious in the world, and victimizing poor little helpless “us” here in the United States . . . BREAKING! Wikileaks: CIA ‘Stole’ Russian Malware, Uses It to ‘Misdirect Attribution’…
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David Beckham’s Exposed Emails Exemplify Shame Hacking Threat
Hackers have obtained David Beckham’s embarrassing emails from his advisors in an extortion plot in which the advisors were told “pay up or we’ll release emails,” according to a recent news report. When the advisors refused to pay the £1million demand, the hackers released the emails. This is yet another example of what I call shame hacking, a topic…
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Porn, Politics & Cybersecurity: Are We Seeing Shame Hacking with Texas Elector?
Is the Texas elector who refuses to vote for Trump the first example of shame hacking in politics? In previous posts, I have written about shame hacking which is the use of hacked data for embarrassing or extorting people by threatening to expose such compromising data if they do not comply with whatever demands were made of them….
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Is #ShameHacking Coming Next? Hackers Breach Search Engine for Japanese Sex Hotels
Shame hacking — the use, or threatened use, of purportedly hacked data for embarrassing or extorting people by threatening to expose such compromising data if they do not comply with the demands made of them — is a thing. A search engine for Japanese sex hotels just announced a breach whereby hackers may have accessed…
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WikiLeaks and CIA’s Russian Hacking Tools & Techniques: Was it really the Russians?
In the wake of WikiLeaks’ Vault7 release of documents revealing the CIA’s hacking tools, I must revisit a key section of a post from September 2016. The section was about the convenience of blaming “the Russians” given the craze of attributing everything wrong in the cyber world to the seemingly omnipresent “Russians.” See: “SHAME HACKING”…
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How Cybersecurity is Impacting People’s Rights (Regent University Symposium)
On September 30, 2017, I am speaking at the Regent University School of Law’s Law Review Symposium on The Expansion of Technology in the 21st Century: How the Changes in Technology are Shaping the Law and the Legal Profession in America. At the end of this post, I have provided links to additional publications I…
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Musings about the Equifax Data Breach
This is intended to be an old-fashioned “blog” about thoughts on the Equifax data breach. It will be ongoing so please check back regularly. Topics Media interviews and commentary We are seeing shame hacking taken to a new level Will I lead a consumer class action lawsuit against Equifax? Lawsuits and investigations against Equifax What…
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CYBERSECURITY FOR YOUR LAW FIRM
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. The Most Important Point of this Guide: The Law Firm Must Have Adequate Cybersecurity Defenses. THE IMPACT OF CYBERSECURITY LAW. Cybersecurity is a Legal Issue. The Conundrum of Cybersecurity Law Schizophrenia. LAWYER’S & LAW FIRM’S UNIQUE OBLIGATION TO PROTECT CLIENT DATA. UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF CYBERSECURITY AND CYBERATTACKS. What are the…
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News Media & Press
Television & Video Shawn Tuma interviewed for news story Technology influencing ability for protesters to connect and share real-time experiences worldwide CBS 11 DFW interviews Shawn Tuma Zoom privacy issues, who explains that when you are given a free service or product to use, you and your data are the real product DFW CBS 11’s…
