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Eye Opener Morning Show Guest Shawn Tuma Discusses Adult Friend Finder Data Breach

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Shawn Tuma Discusses IoT DDoS Attack Against Dyn on WHDT World News

https://youtu.be/10i8rwpl4lc

Dyn, Krebs, and Mirai Botnet – the IoT Pandora’s Box is Open, Now What?

usinesses now risk disruption from attacks by a minion army of “smart” IoT devices through DDoS attacks like those experienced by Dyn last Friday, and Brian Krebs in late September. The Mirai IoT botnet made these attacks possible and, because its source code was recently released into the wild, it will likely be used against other companies. Now that this IoT Pandora’s Box has been opened, what do we do?

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

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 …

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Cybersecurity Lessons Learned from SecureWorld #SWDAL16 Conference

Following an outstanding SecureWorld Expo – Dallas Conference, Courtney Theim posted a nice wrap up of the lessons learned as of the time of her post: #SWDAL16: What We’ve Learned So Far I am going to give you the gist of it and encourage you to go check out the full post: Surgical Info. Hackers …

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Shawn Tuma Discusses Yahoo Data Breach on KURV 710 News Talk Radio

https://youtu.be/bZQyBaie69M ______________________ 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 …

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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 http://www.slideshare.net/shawnetuma/secureworld-expo-dallas-cybersecurity-law-what-business-and-it-leaders-need-to-know The opening Keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute. Dr. Ponemon delivered a fabulous …

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Yahoo Data Breach: US Senators Demand Answers – Still Think You Don’t Have to Disclose and Notify?

There is a grave and unfortunate misperception among many business leaders who believe that when their company has had a data breach, going through a response and notification of affected individuals is optional. To the educated readers of this blog, this sounds shocking. Sadly, it is something I see on a regular basis. What is worse …

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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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