Author Archives: Shawn E. Tuma

Three Takeaways from the Target Data Breach Ruling – Norse DarkMatters

Read my latest post on Norse’s DarkMatters: Three Takeaways from the Target Data Breach Ruling  

Target’s data breach liabilities mount

Target’s data breach liabilities mount as credit card issuers’ suit proceeds – Business Insurance http://t.co/YH9dEkvpFG

Boards Had Better Start Paying Attention to Cybersecurity

Yesterday Forbes featured an excellent article that explained why it is important for companies to create Board-level committees to focus exclusively on the issue of cybersecurity. Here is just a teaser but I encourage you to read the entire article. Step one for every board is to understand that it is supposed to be offering oversight on …

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Felony CFAA Conviction for Accessing Former Employer’s Data via Backdoor Upheld on Appeal

An employee, after leaving a company, is no longer authorized to continue accessing its data–regardless of what steps the company took. This is, and always has been, a no-no. But, not everyone seems to realize it. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently affirmed a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction for …

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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Hackers could control your car by attacking safety features

“You’re getting cars that are connected to the internet 24 hours a day. If cybercriminals targeted automobiles like they’re targeting other things we’d be in for a hard and fast ride.” Glad to see the seriousness of this threat is catching on as we have been talking about this for years – check out some of …

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Yes! I finally get my $10mil “Inheritance”!

Seriously folks, there’s a reason that emails like this are still making their rounds. They work. Obviously not for the sophisticated readers of this blog, but they are working on somebody. “Benie Dosou” is not doing this for the fun of it. Share this post to spread the word and remind people of the old …

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#SonyHack: Will Executives’ Embarrassing Emails Better Motivate Cybersecurity Change?

Sitting in the Miami airport at 5:00 am I am reading news updates on the #SonyHack and a thought just occurred to me: Previously, many of us preaching the “you better take your company’s security seriously” message to the C-Suites have been wondering if it would take a court decision finding C-Levels or Board members …

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DarkMatters: The Nature of Cybersecurity and Strategies for Unprecedented Cyber Attacks

Check out Shawn Tuma’s latest article on Norse’s DarkMatters: The Nature of Cybersecurity and Strategies for Unprecedented Cyber Attacks

Is Sony Really “Defensively” DDoS’ing the Sites Hosting Its Content?

Sitting in the airport, I just read this article Here’s How Sony Is Hacking Back to Defend Itself claiming that Sony is using distributed denial of service attacks against the sites hosting its stolen content in the hopes of slowing them down. Ok, to DDoS, you have to have control over a lot of computers …

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#SonyHack shows there are no “safe secrets” in the corporate world – what do you do?

The #sonyhack will change the way the corporate world operates in many ways that we cannot even yet imagine. Yes, there are obvious data security implications that I usually drone on about, but there is another change that we may see come about. The now outdated idea that internal corporate secrets will remain corporate secrets. You know, …

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