FUD and Voting Machine Hacking: An Important Point and Important Lesson

This morning I am doing radio interviews as a Fox News Radio contributor. My topic? The DEFCON Voting Village demonstration of hacking voting machines that have been, or may currently be, used in US elections. Here are a couple of the news stories if you are unfamiliar: Hacking a US electronic voting booth takes less than …

OCR Issues Cyberattack Response Checklist and Infographic

The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has just issued a checklist and infographic to aid healthcare organizations and their vendors in quickly responding to cyberattacks in compliance with HIPAA requirements.

WHDT World News Interviews Shawn Tuma about WikiLeaks’ CIA Vault7

See also:  WIKILEAKS’ VAULT7 CIA HACKING TOOLS RELEASE CONUNDRUM: THE POLITICIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE WIKILEAKS AND CIA’S RUSSIAN HACKING TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: WAS IT REALLY THE RUSSIANS? https://youtu.be/MR1G6JO0is0

WikiLeaks’ Vault7 CIA Hacking Tools Release Conundrum: The Politicization of Intelligence

For most Americans, the WikiLeaks Vault7 release of the CIA’s hacking tools, techniques, and capabilities has created quite a conundrum. Here is how I see it: Cyber has become the primary weapon for warfare, revolutions, and politics. As a nation, those responsible for protecting our nation must maintain superiority in that realm vis-a-vis other nations, …

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 …

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

https://youtu.be/10i8rwpl4lc

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 …