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 https://youtu.be/fMTuzk4xbrA Part 2 https://youtu.be/dlxGKv6R06Y Here is the article Season of taking: Online scams surge during holidays

7 Strategies To Win the Cyber “Space Race” – Cybersecurity Policy Ideas for Trump Administration

“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 …

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 …

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 …

WHTD World News Interview: How to Protect Yourself After the Yahoo Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp_PGRv-7cM ______________________ 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 …