So Your Nude Selfies Were Just Hacked…

September 2, 2014 – 7:19 PM

If you haven’t been following the most recent news regarding a wide swath of celebrities whose accounts were hacked and private photos shared, you must have been having a lot of fun on Labor Day and I salute you.

Probably the very first thing most of the victimized celebrities are doing now is damage control – limiting their exposure as much as possible. Yes, their names are going to be put out there. Yes, it’s horribly embarrassing, but it’s also not a time to get caught up in self-pity (or self-blame): there’s work to be done. Being cool-headed and reducing the exposure will reduce the pain overall. Some people might go down the path of making examples out of the alleged perpetrators — but beware the Barbra Streisand effect. The harder you try to hide things, the more people want to see those things — like arial photos of Ms. Streisand’s lavish house, for instance.

But these events bring up an interesting point: What would you do if you were a celebrity who had dodged the bullet, but had similar incriminating photos on their computers, cell phones, etc.? More importantly, what should you be doing right now, this very minute, to make sure that anything you have posted to the cloud and want to keep private actually remains so?

Source:
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/so-your-nude-selfies-were-just-hacked/