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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Learn More About the NLJ’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Trailblazers for Data Privacy Day!
What better way is there to celebrate Data Privacy Day than by learning more about the most recent list of Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Law Trailblazers as published by the National Law Journal? If you are so inclined, here you go: Trailblazers!
Happy Data Privacy Day!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO OBSERVE IT? Today is Data Privacy Day! If you have been wondering “what is Data Privacy Day?” then this is your lucky day because not only is today Data Privacy Day, but here is the answer and an explanation for why it really matters to you and your company’s future…
Improving Your Cybersecurity Plan, Explained by Paul Ferrillo in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal did an interview of my friend, collaborator, prolific author, and the the original Cyber Patriot, Paul Ferrillo to discuss how companies can make their cybersecurity plan better. Here is the full article: Making Your Cybersecurity Plan Better Paul and I are both firm believers in focusing on the basics so that…
New York Cybersecurity Regulations Delayed, Being Revised
Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Marco Verch Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (no changes were made to the image) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en The New York Department of Financial Services has pushed back the effective date of its Cybersecurity Regulations from January 1, 2017 to March 1, 2017. This is to give the NYDFS time to significantly revise the proposed Cybersecurity…
Top 10 Web Resources for Privacy Professionals | LinkedIn Pulse
Sharing the following which I found to be a pretty good list – check it out:As 2017 fast approaches and we continue to plan posts for the year ahead, we thought we would take a look back at some of the more popular topics we have addressed. We began creating these posts with As 2017 fast…
Ashley Madison & FTC Settle Data Breach Case – Does Your Company Have These Cybersecurity Shortcomings?
Ashley Madison and the FTC announced a settlement of the investigation into the breach data breach of 36 million AshleyMadison.com users that was being pursued by the FTC and several states’ attorneys general. The cost to Ashley Madison is substantial: a total judgment of $17.5 million (though only $1.6 million is currently due because of…
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….
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…
Holiday Shopping Cybersecurity Tips on WFAA TV Interviewing Shawn Tuma
WFAA-TV aired these holiday shopping cybersecurity tips in a two-part series featured in the following videos: Part 1 Part 2 Here is the article Season of taking: Online scams surge during holidays
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