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OK, certifications exist for individuals who want to work in InfoSec, but that's not an entirely germane tangent.
I hoped to start a conversation about the vulnerabilities and threat actors that might be specific to online adult entertainment. I hope to maybe create a conversation that would lead to some sort of real world meeting and action for those interested at the upcoming AVN expo / Internext.
One vulnerability that creators and consumers seem to be wrestling with is account impersonation for the purposes fraud, and the major social media platforms have long struggled with issues like stage names versus real names and managing identity.
Another issue we have seen in the industry and there were good technical panels on at least one year at Internext is content piracy, and I suppose a part of that is account & password sharing.
I don't want to just enumerate areas of interest but hear stories and solutions, maybe create some sort of simple list of best practices that address basic cyber security from an adult-friendly perspective, but if there was enough going on, enough data and encouragement, I could see trying to justify doing real research.
To add some more meat to the story I am sharing, the attack originated from Ecatel networks in Amsterdam, a notoriously irresponsible hosting company, and it occurred in January of 2016. I was able to mitigate it my blocking that that network in my firewall rules, and I essentially disabled xmlrpc until WordPress fixed that particular bug, and worked with my designer/writer/business partner to reduce the number of WordPress plugins we used... but that discipline eventually failed, but I started to enjoy looking for similarly untrustworthy networks to block after seeing attacks in logs or WordPress comment spam from broke places that didn't actually buy sex toys through our affiliate links.
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