“To truly make America safe, we must make cybersecurity a major priority for both the government and the private sector.” -Donald Trump Taking a page from the “avoidance of disaster handbook,” the article below sets out 7 strategies that both your company (and the government of the United States) could pursue to better protect its…
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Shawn Tuma Discusses IoT DDoS Attack Against Dyn on WHDT World News
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Why is Healthcare Data So Valuable to Cyber Criminals?
Healthcare data is one of the most desirable forms of data for cyber criminals to steal because its value on the cyber black market — the Dark Web — is much higher than most other forms of data. While there are several reasons for this, the recent study Your Life, Repackaged and Resold: The Deep…
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Video: Cybersecurity Legal Issues – What you really need to know (Shawn Tuma)
Shawn Tuma delivered the presentation Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What you really need to know at a Cybersecurity Summit sponsored by the Tarleton State University School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies’ Institute for Homeland Security, Cybercrime and International Criminal Justice. The presentation was on September 13, 2016 at the George Bush Institue. The following are the video…
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WHTD World News Interview: How to Protect Yourself After the Yahoo Attack
______________________ Shawn Tuma (@shawnetuma) is a business lawyer with an internationally recognized reputation in cybersecurity, computer fraud and data privacy law. He is a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Partner at Scheef & Stone, LLP, a full-service commercial law firm in Texas that represents businesses of all sizes throughout the United States and, through its Mackrell International…
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SecureWorld Presentation: Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What You Really Need to Know
Shawn Tuma delivered the presentation Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What You Really Need to Know at SecureWorld Expo Dallas on September 27, 2016. The following are the slides from Tuma’s presentation. Download: Cybersecurity Incident Checklist SecureWorld Expo Dallas – Cybersecurity Law: What Business and IT Leaders Need to Know from Shawn Tuma
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Yahoo Data Breach – Some Facts & Questions (i.e., was it really the Russians?)
The Basic Facts Yahoo announced that it had a data breach in late 2014 and 500 million users’ account information was stolen. The account information may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, date of birth, passwords (most encrypted with bcrypt, but apparently not all), security questions, and security question answers. People who have Yahoo-based services…
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Cybersecurity and #IoT – Hackers Steal Over 100 Cars With a Laptop
We have been talking about hacking cars on this blog since 2011 (see posts) so the idea of thieves stealing a car by hacking their way into its computer system is no big surprise. This is the reality of cybersecurity in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and cars are just one more…
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Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What you really need to know (slides)
Shawn Tuma delivered the presentation Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What you really need to know at a Cybersecurity Summit sponsored by the Tarleton State University School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies’ Institute for Homeland Security, Cybercrime and International Criminal Justice. The presentation was on September 13, 2016 at the George Bush Institue. The following are the slides…
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Cybersecurity Incident Response Checklist
Business leaders, when people like me tell you that having a cybersecurity incident in your company is like being in a building on fire, we are not exaggerating. Take a look at the following checklist (note, this is not an incident response plan!) while keeping in mind that over half of the items on that checklist…
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