Category Archives: Computer Fraud

WHDT World News Interviews Shawn Tuma about WikiLeaks’ CIA Vault7

See also:  WIKILEAKS’ VAULT7 CIA HACKING TOOLS RELEASE CONUNDRUM: THE POLITICIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE WIKILEAKS AND CIA’S RUSSIAN HACKING TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: WAS IT REALLY THE RUSSIANS? https://youtu.be/MR1G6JO0is0

Insider Misuse of Computers: No Big Deal? It Can Be a Data Breach, Ask Boeing

Insider misuse triggers a breach just like outside hackers. When a company’s information is compromised because of insider[1] misuse of computers or information, regardless of insider’s intentions, the result for the company and the data subjects of that information is often the same as if it were an attack by an outside adversary – it …

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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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Trying to DDoS the White House Website to Protest Trump’s Inauguration Violates CFAA

There has been a lot of buzz this past week about protesters indicating they plan to protest President-Elect Trump’s inauguration by launching a DDoS attack on the White House website. This plan has received some high-profile publicity by articles in magazines such as Forbes and PC World. I initially learned of this discussion when I …

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How to Protect Yourself from Cell Phone Cyber Threats (WFAA TV Interview)

WFAA TV’s Jane McGarry interviewed Shawn Tuma on the Good Morning Texas show to discuss how you can protect yourself from cell phone cyber threats and identity theft (Jan. 18, 2017) (WFAA LINK). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAP6QG5FPPU

Feds: Chinese Traders Busted, Trading on Info “Hacked” from Law Firms via Email Compromise

A warning for law firms: Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the case should serve as a “wake-up call for law firms around the world.” “You are and will be targets of cyber hacking, because you have information valuable to would-be criminals,” Bharara said in a statement. But …

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A Cybersecurity Night Before Christmas

My friend Paul Ferrillo (@PaulFerrillo) shared a cybersecurity version of the Night Before Christmas that I thought was brilliant. Wanting to be sure and properly credit this fine work, I asked Paul about attribution … since we can never be too confident in attribution, after all, yet it is critically important. Paul then confessed that it …

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Yahoo Discloses New Breach of 1 Billion User Accounts – This is Big!

Yahoo revealed new security issues affecting more than a billion users’ data, a theft that is separate and twice as large as the hack it disclosed earlier this year. Source: Yahoo Discloses New Breach of 1 Billion User Accounts – WSJ

Top 3 CFAA Takeaways from Facebook v. Power Ventures Case in Ninth Circuit

Here are my top 3 key Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) takeaways from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Order and Amended Opinion issued on December 9, 2016 in Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc. 1.  A violation of the CFAA can occur when someone “has no permission to access a computer or when such permission …

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