Talking About the Global Impact of Cybersecurity, Law, and Business Risk
SETTLEMENT UPDATE: A Canadian sex-toy manufacturer, We-Vibe, has been ordered to pay out almost $3 million to customers who bought a “smart vibrator” that tracked owners’ usage without their knowledge. Each customer who used the associated app will be paid $7,433, and customers who bought the vibrator but never used the app can claim up to …
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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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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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We have been observing an evolution in hackers’ tactics from going after data that could be directly monetized, such as payment card data, to going after data that can be monetized indirectly through extortion, such as the Ashley Madison data. The hack of Brazzers porn site is similar to the Ashley Madison hack in that the …
From Fort Wayne’s Morning News on 08/09/16 Source: Cyber security expert Shawn Tuma tells us how our elections could be hacked – WOWO 1190 AM | 107.5 FM
From Fort Wayne’s Morning News on 08/09/16, WOWO 1190 AM | 107.5 FM Source: Cyber security expert Sha wn Tuma tells us how our elections could be hacked – WOWO 1190 AM | 107.5 FM
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. Source: Former Cardinals exec sentenced to prison for …
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Many thanks to attorney and legal scholar extraordinaire John G. Browning (@therealjohnbrow) for quoting Shawn Tuma in his article in this month’s D CEO magazine: Why Cybercriminals Are Targeting Law Firms. Please read the full article to hear Tuma’s advice to John’s questions of why law firms often have poor(er) cybersecurity and what law firms can …
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On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 and Thursday, June 16, 2016, Shawn Tuma was a guest on several radio stations to discuss the hacking attack on the Democratic National Committee in which the hackers obtained the DNC’s opposition research on Donald Trump. Here is the audio from some of the interviews: https://youtu.be/jyOKiqXROuI https://youtu.be/ONBWg0av-xs https://youtu.be/ZUd1jOiT5tg https://youtu.be/6OVWU6mNRCI https://youtu.be/po_cK53bppk …
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THE ANSWER: The answer is at the bottom, click here to see it now. Cybersecurity is sounding more and more like the magical mystical snake oil elixir of the new millennium. And, for good reason. Everybody is selling the miracle cure, the one tool that will fix everything, and they are doing so with scare …
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