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Hackers have become an inescapable part of the Hollywood narrative, on and off the screen. HBO is reeling from the worst data breach since the North Koreans hacked Sony Pictures, with the culprits demanding heavy ransom payments after putting scripts and executive emails online each day. The plot of the hot movie/TV…

During the 2014 Sony hack, Deadline readers benefited from the wisdom of Los Angeles based Hemanshu "Hemu" Nigam, a former federal prosecutor against Online Crimes and former Chief Security Officer for News Corp and Fox Interactive Media, and VP Worldwide Internet Enforcement under Jack Valenti's MPAA. Nigam then…

In the second year of the Digital Citizens Alliance’s look at which sites are profiting from online piracy of films and TV shows, one big change was obvious. The traditional use of downloaded files is waning as people shift to streaming sites to watch pirated shows. “The difference was marked,” said Medialink VP Mark…

While I worked the past few days with Cyber Security wiz Hemanshu Nigam on today’s guest column by the SSP Blue CEO, it was made painfully clear to me that some Sony staffers–I’m talking about the people living paycheck to paycheck, the ones who can least afford to be crime victims–are experiencing strange occurrences…

Deadline has asked Hollywood to spend the holiday contemplating the implications of an unprecedented cyber-terror attack against Sony. When relevant, we will run pieces that might help. Here is one from Hemanshu Nigam, a former Federal Prosecutor Against Online Crime In Los Angeles and former Chief Security Officer…