Tag: Cybersecurity

Attend Tuma’s Upcoming Webinar: Understanding How Cyber Insurance Impacts Your Incident Response Planning

Shawn Tuma will be hosting a complimentary webinar with SecureWorld on Noon CST on Friday, April 17, 2020. You can register HERE. Why should you attend this webinar? Companies not only need to get the right cyber insurance, but, they must also know how to properly use it once they have it. One of the…

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Understanding the Cyber and Privacy Risks of Zoom and Tips For Using It More Securely

CBS 11 DFW interviews Shawn Tuma who explains that when you are given a free service or product to use, you and your data are the real product.  By now everyone has now heard of — and likely used — Zoom for staying connected during the COVID-19 pandemic. In what may have been a brilliant…

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How will the #COVID19 #coronavirus #coronapocolypse impact the future of how we do life?

When has society ever moved forward, technologically speaking, and then gone back to the old ways of doing things? Think about the long term impact all of these closings and remote work / school / etc are going to have on our society. Many companies have had long-term plans to implement these things but now…

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Healthcare Providers – Are You Prepared for Hackers to Tell Your Patients About Your Ransomware and Data Breach?

If you are a healthcare provider, you need to prepare yourself now for the new reality that, when hackers get into your network, they will contact your patients to put pressure on you to pay their ransom demands — usually after they have encrypted your network. Here is an example from a recent case that…

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Was the ransomware attack on 20+ Texas local governments an attack on a single service provider? [UPDATE: YES!]

The Texas local governments attack seems to me to be more akin to the trend we have been seeing in 2019 with attackers targeting one MSP and then using that access and the MSP’s tools to attack / encrypt the MSP’s individual clients. If I’m not mistaken (and, I could be), the Texas DIR often…

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***URGENT*** MEMO TO: “THE IT GUY” RE: #RANSOMWARE / WIPING DATA

***URGENT MEMORANDUM*** TO: “The IT Guy” FROM: Your clients’ Incident Response Coach SUBJECT: Your clients affected by ransomware STOP OVERWRITING / WIPING / DELETING OR OTHERWISE DESTROYING YOUR CLIENTS’ DATA WHEN THEY ARE AFFECTED BY RANSOMWARE!!! PLEASE!!! PRETTY PLEASE!!! PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP!!! JUST STOP IT!!! Seriously, everyone understands that ransomware is scary…

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Texas Bar Journal 2018 Year-End Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update

The Texas Bar Journal’s year-end update on Cybersecurity & Data Privacy law was once again provided by Shawn Tuma and addressed the following issues: Lawyers’ Cybersecurity and Data Breach Obligations that are required under Texas law and the ABA’s Ethics Opinion 483 titled Lawyers’ Obligations Afteran Electronic Data Breach or Cyberattack Whether an IT service…

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The Most Important Lesson You Are Not Hearing About Apple’s iOS FaceTime Glitch

 The most important lesson about Apple’s iOS group FaceTime debacle that you are not hearing about should be a wake up call for everyone (Tuma explains this glitch on WFLA in Tampa, FL): If Apple, through a programming glitch, has the ability to allow someone to use your iOS device as a microphone to listen…

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Come to our session at #PSR18 – Vendor Risk Management: Maintaining Relationships While Limiting Liability

Are you at IAPP – International Association of Privacy Professionals P.S.R.  #PSR18 in Austin? If so, please come to our Thursday 10:30 – 11:30 session on Vendor Risk Management: Maintaining Relationships While Limiting Liability in Lone Star Ballroom A, Level 3. It should be great as I get to be with great panelists Tami Dokken and Melissa Krasnow and we will have Mark Smith as our…

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