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N2 - A large literature has used patent data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions but few papers have explicitly measured the impact of the collaboration networks formed by inventors on the quality of invention. This paper develops a method to measure the impact of collaboration networks of inventors on invention quality. We apply this methodology to the information and communication technology (ICT) and information security sectors in Israel and find that the quality of Israeli inventions are systematically linked to the structure of the collaborative network in these sectors. We are very grateful to the editor Lukasz Grzybowski and an anonymous referee for very helpful comments and suggestions that significantly improved the paper. We thank the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, Start-Up Nation Central, the U. S. National Science Foundation (SciSIP grants 1360165 and 1360170), and Portugal's Foundation for Science and Technology for financial support of this research. Lee Branstetter's work on this project was supported by the National Science Foundation and we thank Britta Glennon for excellent research assistance. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including the notice, is given to the source.
We are also grateful to Tim Bresnahan, Eugene Kandel, Imke Reimers, and seminar/conference participants at the 19th CEPR IO conference, the 10th Paris conference on Digital Economics, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Hebrew University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, ad UC-Berkeley and for helpful comments and suggestions. 2020 by Neil Gandal, Nadav Kunievsky, and Lee Branstetter. | https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/network-mediated-knowledge-spillovers-in-ictinformation-security |
Antispyjob.com is a new fake security site which was developed to scare you into thinking that you have an active spyware in your computer. This site is affiliated with a program named Security Suite. The program is a malicious tool that pretend to be an antispyware program, but in reality it is unable to remove any infections. Security Suite uses misleading tactics such as false scan results, fake security warning and popups to trick you into buying the software.
During installation, this malware will configure your browser by changing its proxy settings so, that it will display an antispyjob.com fake warning page instead sites that you want to visit. The fake warning titled “Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer” and states, that you want to open a site which contains malicious exploits that can launch a virus on your computer. Do not believe everything what it says. This warning is nothing but a fake, so you can safely ignore it.
What is more, antispyjob site will suggest to buy so-called the full version of the Security Suite. Don’t pay for Security Suite. Instead, use a reputable antispyware program to scan your computer and delete this malware. Also read the removal guide or the instructions written below to see steps how it can be eliminated automatically.
Automatic removal instructions for antispyjob.com browser hijacker 1. Reboot your computer in Safe mode with networking.
Restart your computer.
After hearing your computer beep once during startup, start pressing the F8 key on your keyboard. On a computer that is configured for booting to multiple operating systems, you can press the F8 key when the Boot Menu appears.
Instead of Windows loading as normal, Windows Advanced Options menu appears similar to the one below.
Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM). Close all programs and Windows on your computer.
Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the installation process. Do not make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
Once the program has loaded you will see window similar to the one below.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Window
Select Perform Quick Scan, then click Scan, it will start scanning your computer. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.
When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. You will see a list of infected items similar as shown below. Note: list of infected items may be different than what is shown in the image below.
Malwarebytes Anti-malware, list of infected items
Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected for start removal process. When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart.
Antispyjob.com browser hijacker removal notes
Note 1: if you can not download, install, run or update Malwarebytes Anti-malware, then follow the steps: Malwarebytes won`t install, run or update – How to fix it.
Note 2: if you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Spyware Removal forum.
Note 3: your current antispyware and antivirus software let the infection through ? Then you may want to consider purchasing the FULL version of MalwareBytes Anti-malware to protect your computer in the future.
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Microsoft is enhancing its Bug Bounty program with bigger pay-outs and the addition of new categories.
The firm used Black Hat 2015 in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce a raft of improvements designed to encourage more researchers to find flaws in its software – before the bad guys do.
Key among these were a doubling of the Bounty for Defense – from $50,000 to $100,000 – which Microsoft security architect, Jason Shirk, argued will “bring defense up on a par with offense” and “rewards the novel defender equally for their research.”
There are also changes to the Online Services Bug Bounty Program.
Authentication vulnerability bounty payouts will double if they are submitted within the bonus period of 5 August-5 October. This will land researchers with a cool $30,000 at the top end if they find a “great” bug in Microsoft Account (MSA) or Azure Active Directory (AAD).
Shirk explained that Microsoft is also adding RemoteApp to the Online Services bounty program – so it will be covered by all the regular terms and payout rules.
These additions to the Microsoft Bounty Program will be part of the rigorous security programs at Microsoft. Bounties will be worked alongside the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Operational Security Assurance (OSA) framework, regular penetration testing of our products and services, and Security and Compliance Accreditations by third party audits,” he added.
“It has been great to see the reaction from the research community to the Microsoft Edge Bug Bounty, and the Azure addition to the Online Services Bug Bounty Program. I hope to see equal enthusiasm for these new editions.”
It is, of course, in Microsoft’s interest to get greater numbers from the security research community helping make its products more secure.
Just hours after launching, Windows 10 was updated with three security fixes, although these were patches previously released for other versions which happened to come out between the operating system’s RTM and official launch.
Nevertheless, Windows remains a key target for hackers given its huge global market share. | https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-doubles-defense-bug/ |
The long-awaited update to the UK government’s National Cyber Security Strategy has been revealed. The strategy was last amended in 2016, when it faced criticism for not showing enough evidence of the £1.9 billion pounds worth of funding that was allocated towards it at the time.
This new, improved cyber overview looks to tackle, among other things, the alarming rise in ransomware attacks over the last two years. Cyber criminals around the world continue to bombard organisations across different industries as they seek to illicitly gain funds from their victims.
A new five pillar approach is being put into place to ensure the 2022 iteration of the strategy offers more for the country’s cyber protection:
Pillar 1 – focuses on strengthening the UK’s cyber ecosystem. This will be achieved through investing in people and skills, as well as deepening the partnership between government, academia and industry.
Pillar 2 – looks at building a resilient and prosperous digital UK, by reducing cyber risks so businesses can maximise the economic benefits of digital technology. As a result, citizens will feel more secure online and confident that their data is protected.
Pillar 3 – hones in on taking the lead in the technologies vital to cyber power, building the UK’s industrial capability and developing frameworks to secure future technologies.
Pillar 4 – advancing UK global leadership and influence for a more secure, prosperous and open international order, working with government and industry partners and sharing the expertise that underpins the UK’s cyber power.
Pillar 5 – detecting, disrupting and deterring adversaries to enhance the country’s cyber security, creating more integrated, creative and routine use of the UK’s full spectrum of levers.
But what does this all mean?
Well, it is good news for businesses! Cyber security is an essential part of the day-to-day running of your business and should not be forgotten about. With the country’s focus on improving cyber space, businesses will benefit in the long run – with one of the ways being through an increased investment in the country’s cyber workforce. Certain areas of cyber security are facing a skills shortage, which is adding to the woes of businesses hit by the increase in cyber attacks, as they cannot find the help they require.
At Neuways, we have a long history of investing in the future, with many of our apprentices becoming senior members of staff within the business. It is critical that this investment into the next generation of the workforce is made to continue this influx of fresh talent into the country’s cyber security.
Businesses, too, need to consider what they are doing now to help mitigate the very real present threat posed by cyber crime gangs. Failure to invest enough time or resources into your cyber security strategy will only end up causing your business pain. The most common way organisations are suffering at the moment is through damaging cyber attacks, which can include downtime induced by ransomware. Ransoms will follow, with criminals demanding large sums of money for victims to retrieve their encrypted data. But, cyber attacks are just one of a long list of ways in which business operations can be brought to a halt by poor cyber security.
Still, though, it is not all doom and gloom. If you haven’t got a clue where to start, it is often best to consult with a Managed Service Provider. MSPs will have the experience of many staff from which to draw from, which will help organisations in need of cyber help. So, after hearing what your current business objectives are, and what your setup looks like, they can draw up the best strategy that will help support the needs of your business perfectly.
What does Neuways think?
Managing Director, Martin Roberts, said: “We welcome the arrival of the updated National Cyber Security Strategy. It looks to tackle some of the more critical cyber issues that we have experienced since 2016, and it encourages more cyber education, which is critical to our collective safe cyber future.
“At Neuways, we provide businesses with technology that can help them to do their jobs easier. This includes staying safe, with increased cyber security and resilience. But IT can do more, and we our strategies can help encourage business growth through even the most challenging times.”
As Martin says, cyber security is not the only area that is worth reviewing: cyber resilience is also key. While cyber security is all about the prevention of an incident, cyber resilience is about how to recover from said incident – cyber resilience can secure the existence of your business. Whether this is through comprehensive data backups, or other methods, is up to you and your business, but it is certainly worth keeping on your mind.
Ultimately, though, the updates to the National Cyber Security Strategy have been a long time coming for the country’s businesses. A focussed effort at increasing cyber education, the disruption of cyber criminal gangs and the strengthening of the country’s digital technology capabilities should result in a safe and secure environment for businesses to thrive within.
If you want to take the opportunity to review your company’s own cyber security strategy, then get in touch with the experts at Neuways today, by calling us on 01283 753 333 or email [email protected].
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Antivirus security starts with verifying your computer courses and data files against a database of known or spyware. It then tests for unfamiliar or fresh types of viruses.
The malware this detects is generally quarantined or marked for deletion, making your machine inaccessible and removing the risk. Some antivirus program can also run suspected malware in a sandbox, which allows it to check what the course does and see if it tries to hide itself or else compromise the body.
Some antiviruses also offer cloud backup, to help you improve your data files if your method is infected. A lot of can also provide a VPN program, which is essential for remote use of your systems.
A good antivirus security software should be able to check out individual files and folders inside its primary UI, ideally without having to wide open a third-party app. It should also provide various scanning options, including recurring, timetabled and manual.
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A recent report by Praetorian, a cybersecurity company headquartered in Austin, TX, focused on threats that resulted in data compromise or access to sensitive information. Based on a review of 100 separate internal penetration test engagements the study identified the five most prevalent threats to corporate data. The amazing thing about these weaknesses is that the top four are all based on utilizing stolen credentials and the last one helps an attacker be more effective in using those stolen credentials. In other words, the enemy is right there in the mirror! The study spanned 75 unique organizations and only focused on security weaknesses that were used to obtain a full network compromise.
The most prevalent threat is something we’ve all heard of before – Weak Domain User Passwords. Since most corporate environments use Microsoft’s Active Directory to manage employee accounts and access, it needs some improvements in order to fully address complex passwords. Since Active Directory only requires passwords to be a specific length and contain specific character sets so addressing this weakness will require the use of third-party software.
Figure 1: Where are your security pain points?
The next most common corporate threat is Broadcast Name Resolution Poisoning. Using this vector, an attacker responds to broadcast requests (i.e. LLMNR, NetBIOS, MDNS, etc) by providing its own IP. When this is done, the credentials of a user accessing network resources can be instead transmitted to the attacker’s system.
The next big no-no is when system administrators all use the same Local Admin password. If an attacker is able to compromise the LM/NT hash representation of the password, then the attacker can use the hash to authenticate and execute commands on other systems that have the same password. Using the hash, an attacker doesn’t need the actual password at all!
Microsoft Windows operating systems have another embedded password weakness. Believe it or not, the operating system stores domain credentials in cleartext within memory of the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process. Although this weakness requires an attacker to have Local Admin or SYSTEM-level access, it ranks high on the threat list.
This last threat enhances all of the other – Insufficient Network Access Controls. Many organizations don’t restrict network access based on business requirements. This will enable unfettered attacker mobility after only a single system on the internal network has been compromised.
These threat vectors, last updated by Praetorian in June 2016, were evaluated as part of a complete corporate network compromise kill chain. They also highlight the importance of understanding the cybersecurity threat. Although the mirror is a good place to start improving on network security, you must also work to identify all your organization’s security pain points. With that knowledge you can more effectively enhance your team’s defenses and eventually evolve towards a better understanding of your security threat environment.
If you are serious about protecting your data, download the full report and read about the effective strategies your company can use to protect itself. If you are a CISO or corporate executives, IBM also provides some excellent information on how to secure the C-suite. They also provide an interactive tool that can help better analyze your threats, protect your users and save your data from these and many other security challenges. | http://ibm-itbiz.dev.racepoint.io/2016/10/top-cyber-threats-look-mirror/ |
Use the tips mentioned above to check whether there are spyware and tracking software installed on your phone, and if so, get rid of it.
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The capability of organizations to accumulate and apply new knowledge is a key factor in order to achieve the new competitive standards. A continuous changing diversity, to which the need of adaptation to the changes of external environment is added, speeds up the rate of development and business education. The new information and communication technologies speed up the rate of change and increase the need of education that is to a higher information flow. The achievements of information technology, along with changes within society, determine the creation of new paradigms for business education and training. Under these circumstances, e-learning has become one of the main educational forms of human resources in business. This research aims to measure the impact of some initiatives within human resources on an organization, market leader within pharmaceutical field, namely measuring the efficiency of business education programs concerning human resources through e-learning. Under these circumstances, the carried-out research aims to put into practice the theoretical frame of ROI (Return on Investment) methodology of evaluating the business education programs concerning human resources in five stages, suggested by J. Phillips. The research validates theoretical data of the surveyed model and it is based on the analysis of the data gathering process within the ROI Methodology. This work shows only aspects related to the measuring of the participants’ reaction towards the e-learning business education program, respectively.
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Adaptive instructional materials tailor questions to each student’s ability and calculate their scores, but this encourages students to work individually rather than socially or collaboratively (Kruse, 2013). Social relationships are important but high-tech environments may compromise the balance of trust, care and respect between teacher and student.[166]
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New technologies are frequently accompanied by unrealistic hype and promise regarding their transformative power to change education for the better or in allowing better educational opportunities to reach the masses. Examples include silent film, broadcast radio, and television, none of which have maintained much of a foothold in the daily practices of mainstream, formal education.[158] Technology, in and of itself, does not necessarily result in fundamental improvements to educational practice.[159] The focus needs to be on the learner’s interaction with technology—not the technology itself. It needs to be recognized as “ecological” rather than “additive” or “subtractive”. In this ecological change, one significant change will create total change.[160] by Lori Smith, COTP. Happy Friday! Ok, maybe it’s Friday when you’re reading this, maybe it isn’t. However, if it’s not a Friday, let’s pretend that it is. You’d like your Adobe Captivate eLearning module to greet the learners with “Hello! MORE
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Google Classroom allows instructors to create, administer, and grade assignments. While Google Classroom ultimately strives to create a paperless learning environment, there are many different types of learner; a learning environment like the one that Google Classroom projects does not work for everyone.[citation needed]
On Saturday March 17, 2018 from 10 AM to 4 PM CDT, the Turnitin Application in eLearning (Blackboard Learn) will be unavailable to UNI users while maintenance is performed. This maintenance will include several hardware updates and performance improvements.
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Today (11th), we will review the obstetrics and gynecology situation.
The number of obstetricians and gynecologists has halved in the last decade or so.
In rural areas, you have to travel far to give birth, and some pregnant women choose to have a cesarean section in advance because of this problem.
Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, where 63,000 people live.
There are orthopedic surgery, dentistry, and several hospitals in the town, but there is no obstetrics and gynecology department.
[Mr. A / Living in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do (recent birth): I saw the news that someone in Chuncheon gave birth to a baby.
(Obstetrics and Gynecology) It usually takes two or three hours to go back and forth.
Take National Road 46 and drive 30km past the mountain and river to reach the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Chuncheon.
[Gynecology nurse in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do: Inje, Cheorwon, Yanggu, Gapyeong, etc., by driving long distances.
It usually takes an hour, and sometimes it takes an hour to give birth, and sometimes they come and receive treatment (sometimes).]
Gurye mothers in Jeollanam-do also have to travel 40km, but a mother who was worried about giving birth on the street chose a cesarean section.
[Mr. B / Mother living in Gurye-gun, Jeollanam-do: The distance is far, and there is a fear of not knowing when labor will take place.
I drive 30 minutes and 40 minutes on the highway and think about this, so I am very stressed.]
Birth hospitals were cut in half from 1,27 in 2007 to 518 in 2020, and there are 48 cities and counties like Gapyeong and Gurye. cross the place.
Although obstetrics and gynecology can be operated exclusively at such places, 92% of obstetricians and gynecologists said they would not do it.
Due to the nature of most emergency deliveries, you have to wait 365 days a year, because if you do it alone, the risk of a medical accident is high and the compensation is small.
[Park Joong-shin/Chairman of the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Although there are various costs that require manpower to be prepared and on standby, compensation for such is not made.
Compensation continues only when childbirth occurs.]
Recently, the underachievement rate of obstetrics and gynecology has risen to 24%, and more and more doctors are giving up.
The Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology says that the main cause is the law holding the obstetrician to 30% of the responsibility even for a medical accident due to force majeure without negligence.
It also seems necessary to reduce the legal burden reasonably and realistically adjust the lowest birth rate among 38 OECD countries.
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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the arrest and charges filed against a Russian national accused of participating in cyber-attacks using the LockBit ransomware.
Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, a 20-year-old from the Chechen Republic, allegedly targeted computer systems in the United States, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Astamirov is the second individual arrested in connection with the LockBit ransomware campaign within the past six months.
It comes months after the Department announced charges against Mikhail Vasiliev in November 2022, who is currently detained in Canada for extradition.
In May 2023, the Department then indicted Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev for allegedly deploying LockBit, Babuk and Hive ransomware against victims globally.
“In securing the arrest of a second Russian national affiliated with the LockBit ransomware, the Department has once again demonstrated the long arm of the law,” commented deputy attorney general, Lisa O Monaco.
“We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt cybercrime, and while cyber-criminals may continue to run, they ultimately cannot hide.”
Read more on Vasiliev’s arrest: Man Arrested in Ontario For Alleged LockBit Ransomware Involvement
According to the criminal complaint, Astamirov is accused of directly executing at least five attacks against victims in the US and abroad.
The Russian national allegedly controlled various online accounts to deploy LockBit ransomware and communicate with victims. Law enforcement reportedly traced a portion of a victim’s ransom payment to a virtual currency address under Astamirov’s control.
The charges against him include conspiring to commit wire fraud and conspiring to intentionally damage protected computers and transmit ransom demands. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison for the first charge and up to five years for the second.
“The FBI is committed to pursuing ransomware actors like Astamirov, who have exploited vulnerable cyber ecosystems and harmed victims,” said FBI deputy director, Paul Abbate.
“We, in collaboration with our federal and international partners, are fully committed to the permanent dismantlement of these types of ransomware campaigns that intentionally target people and our private sector partners.”
The LockBit ransomware gang was first detected in January 2020 and has caused over 1400 global attacks, resulting in ransom demands exceeding $10m. | https://onlinepitstop.com/2023/06/17/russian-national-arrested-in-connection-with-lockbit-ransomware/ |
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The rights of the google competitor, domain investor and experienced engineer have been violated repeatedly since 2010, when the google, tata masterminded online fraud started. When the domain investor has not given any ntro or government employee, power of attorney, on what basis did they take any decision regarding her money or make claims on her behalf
Why should a harmless single woman engineer have to honour the decision taken, fake claims made by a complete stranger , the ntro employees, who do not have the honesty and humanity to communicate with her, despite putting her under surveillance for more than 7 years since 2010. Legally all indian citizens are equal and as the engineer is not interfering in the life of any ntro employee, they too have no right to interfere in her life, misuse her name, paste the photos of their mediocre lazy greedy inexperienced girlfriends and relatives on the impressive resume of the google competitor to get all the girlfriends and relatives lucrative R&AW/CBI jobs | http://rightsreporting.net/2017/08/19/ntro-cbi-google-tata-cover-up-their-identity-theft-financial-fraud-atrocities/ |
Remove Searchstarters.com redirect
Remove Searchstarters.com without any utilities
Use Malwarebytes to remove Searchstarters.com homepage
Remove Searchstarters.com browser hijacker and malicious extensions with AdwCleaner
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Besides the fact that Searchstarters.com hijacker changes your startpage, this unwanted web site may set yourself as your search provider. But, obviously, it does not give you a good search results, as they will consist of a huge number of ads, links to unwanted and ad sites and only the remaining part is search results for your query from the major search providers. Of course, the very fact that you encounter with the inability to properly search the Internet, is an unpleasant moment. Moreover, the Searchstarters.com browser hijacker can collect lots of personal data, and in the future to transfer it to third parties. What creates the risk of theft of your personal data.
The Searchstarters.com hijacker infection is not a virus, but the virus behaves similarly. As a rootkit hides in the system, may make some undesired changes to settings of web browsers, and blocks them from changing. Also this browser hijacker can install additional browser add ons and modules that will open advertisements and pop ups. And finally, the Searchstarters.com browser hijacker can collect lots of personal info such as what web pages you are opening, what you’re looking for the Internet and so on. This information, in the future, can be transferred to third parties.
In addition to that, as was mentioned earlier, some browser hijackers like Searchstarters.com to also alter all web browsers shortcuts which located on your Desktop or Start menu. So, every infected shortcut will try to redirect your internet browser to annoying pages, some of which might be harmful. It can make the whole PC system more vulnerable to hacker attacks.
It’s important, do not use Searchstarters.com page and don’t click on advertisements placed on it, as they can lead you to a more malicious or misleading web pages. The best option is to use the few simple steps posted below to free your system of hijacker, remove the Searchstarters.com search, and thereby revert back your favorite startpage and search engine.
There are a simple manual tutorial below which will help you to get rid of Searchstarters.com from your MS Windows PC system. The most effective method to remove this browser hijacker infection is to perform the manual removal instructions and then run Zemana Anti-malware, Malwarebytes or AdwCleaner automatic tools (all are free). The manual way will assist to weaken this browser hijacker and these malicious software removal tools will completely delete Searchstarters.com and return the Google Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge and IE settings to default.
Open Start menu and select the ‘Control Panel’ at right screen below.
Then go to ‘Add/Remove Programs’ or ‘Uninstall a program’ (Windows 7 or Vista) image below.
Carefully browse through the list of installed applications and remove all programs which has the name similar to the site that has been set as your Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer homepage, new tab and default search engine. We recommend to click ‘Installed programs’ and even sorts all installed software by date. Once you have found anything suspicious that may be the hijacker infection, adware or PUPs, then select this program and click ‘Uninstall’ in the upper part of the window. If the suspicious application blocked from removal, then run Revo Uninstaller Freeware to fully delete it from your system.
Fix infected web-browsers shortcuts to remove Searchstarters.com
Important to know, most anti-malware applications which are able to remove hijacker infection, but unable to detect and recover changed shortcuts. So, you need to fix the desktop shortcuts for your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge browsers manually.
Right click on the shortcut of infected browser as on the image below.
Select the “Properties” option and it’ll display a shortcut’s properties. Next, click the “Shortcut” tab and then delete the “http://site.address” string from Target field image below.
Then click OK to save changes. Repeat the step for all browsers which are redirected to the Searchstarters.com annoying web site.
Remove Searchstarters.com startpage from Firefox
If your Firefox internet browser homepage has replaced to Searchstarters.com without your permission or a an unknown search engine shows results for your search, then it may be time to perform the web-browser reset.
First, start the Firefox and press button. It will show the drop-down menu on the right-part of the internet browser. Further, click the Help button ( ) screen below .
In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the web-browser adress bar and press Enter. It will show the “Troubleshooting Information” page like below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.
It will display the confirmation prompt. Further, press the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Firefox will start a task to fix your problems that caused by the Searchstarters.com browser hijacker infection. Once, it’s finished, click the “Finish” button.
Remove Searchstarters.com redirect from Internet Explorer
First, start the Internet Explorer, press ) button. Next, click “Internet Options” screen below.
In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, press Reset button. The Microsoft Internet Explorer will show the Reset Internet Explorer settings prompt. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button.
You will now need to restart your system for the changes to take effect. It will delete Searchstarters.com hijacker, disable malicious and ad-supported web browser’s extensions and restore the IE’s settings like startpage, new tab and default search provider to default state.
Remove Searchstarters.com redirect from Google Chrome
If your Google Chrome web-browser is redirected to undesired Searchstarters.com web page, it may be necessary to completely reset your web-browser program to its default settings.
First, start the Chrome and click the Menu icon (icon in the form of three horizontal stripes).
It will show the Chrome main menu, press the “Settings” menu.
Next, click “Show advanced settings” link, which located at the bottom of the Settings page.
On the bottom of the “Advanced settings” page, click the “Reset settings” button.
The Chrome will display the reset settings dialog box image above.
Confirm the internet browser’s reset by clicking on the “Reset” button.
To learn more, read the post How to reset Google Chrome settings to default.
How to automatically remove Searchstarters.com browser hijacker
After completing the manual removal steps above all unwanted applications and internet browser’s extensions that causes browser redirects to the Searchstarters.com web-site should be removed. If the problem with Searchstarters.com hijacker is still remained, then we suggest to scan your computer for any remaining malicious components. Use recommended free hijacker removal applications below.
Run Zemana Anti-malware to get rid of Searchstarters.com startpage
We recommend you to use the Zemana Anti-malware which are completely clean your computer. Moreover, the utility will help you to delete potentially unwanted software, malicious software, toolbars and adware that your PC can be infected too.
Download Zemana anti malware by clicking on the link below.
When downloading is done, launch it and follow the prompts. Once installed, the Zemana antimalware will try to update itself and when this process is finished, press the “Scan” button for checking your computer for the Searchstarters.com browser hijacker infection that cause a redirect to Searchstarters.com.
A system scan may take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your PC. While the utility is checking, you can see number of objects it has identified either as being malware. Review the report and then press “Next” button.
The Zemana antimalware will start removing all detected folders, files, services and registry entries.
You can remove Searchstarters.com automatically with a help of Malwarebytes Free. We recommend this free malicious software removal tool because it can easily remove hijackers, adware, potentially unwanted programs and toolbars with all their components such as files, folders and registry entries.
When downloading is finished, run it and follow the prompts. Once installed, the Malwarebytes will try to update itself and when this task is complete, click the “Scan Now” button . This will start scanning the whole computer to find out Searchstarters.com hijacker that redirects your web browser to the Searchstarters.com unwanted page. During the scan it will detect all threats exist on your machine. Make sure all entries have ‘checkmark’ and press “Quarantine Selected” button.
The Malwarebytes is a free program that you can use to remove all detected folders, files, services, registry entries and so on. To learn more about this malware removal utility, we recommend you to read and follow the step-by-step guidance or the video guide below.
AdwCleaner is a free removal tool that can be downloaded and use to get rid of browser hijackers, adware, malware, PUPs, toolbars and other threats from your computer. You can use this tool to detect threats even if you have an antivirus or any other security program.
Download AdwCleaner by clicking on the following link.
Read the “Terms of use”, and press Accept.
In the AdwCleaner window, click the “Scan” to start scanning your computer for the Searchstarters.com hijacker and other malicious software and adware. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient. While the utility is scanning, you may see how many objects it has identified either as being malicious software.
Once the scan is complete, it’ll show a list of all items found by this tool. Next, you need to click “Clean”. If the AdwCleaner will ask you to reboot your machine, click “OK”.
The few simple steps shown in detail in the following video.
How to stop Searchstarters.com redirect
Use an ad blocking utility like AdGuard will protect you from malicious advertisements and content. Moreover, you can find that the AdGuard have an option to protect your privacy and block phishing and spam web-pages. Additionally, ad blocker applications will allow you to avoid intrusive pop ups and unverified links that also a good way to stay safe online.
Installing the AdGuard ad-blocking program is simple. First you will need to download AdGuard from the following link.
When the download is finished, double-click the downloaded file to start it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen image below.
Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick instructions screen below.
Click “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see an quick instructions that will help you get to know AdGuard better.
Each time, when you run your PC system, AdGuard will run automatically and stop advertisements, pages such Searchstarters.com, as well as other harmful or misleading web sites. For an overview of all the features of the application, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which can be found on your desktop.
How to prevent Searchstarters.com hijacker from getting inside your computer
The browser hijacker infection usually spreads along with free applications which downloaded from the Net. Which means that you need to be proactive and carefully read the Terms of use and the License agreement properly. For the most part, the Searchstarters.com browser hijacker will be clearly described, so take the time to carefully read all the information about the software that you downloaded and want to install on your PC. In the Setup wizard, you should select the Advanced, Custom or Manual installation mode to control what components and additional applications to be installed, otherwise you run the risk of infecting your system with an infection such as the Searchstarters.com hijacker infection.
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Now your personal computer should be clean of the Searchstarters.com . Remove AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you block unwanted pop-ups and intrusive malicious pages) and Malwarebytes (to periodically scan your computer for new browser hijackers, malware and ‘ad supported’ software). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.
If you are still having problems while trying to delete Searchstarters.com from the Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and MS Edge, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.
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The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a loss of communication between the device and the rest of the system when the affected device accepts this new IP configuration as the system traffic is still attempting to communicate with the device via the overwritten IP address.. A remote attacker can send a CIP connection request to an affected device, and upon successful connection, send a new IP configuration to the affected device even if the controller in the system is set to Hard RUN mode. | https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2018120723 |
New Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.1.1 includes improved heuristic detection and anti-exploit technologies
Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that it has obtained Microsoft’s ‘Windows 8 Compatible’ logo for Panda Cloud Antivirus, its cloud-based free antivirus product. This way, users of Microsoft’s new operating system will continue to benefit from the protection offered by Panda Cloud Antivirus, version 2.1.1.
The new Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.1.1 includes improved heuristic detection and anti-exploit technologies, which detect and neutralize malware that exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in legitimate applications like Office, Adobe or Java as an infection vector. Panda Cloud Antivirus is designed to upgrade itself to the new version automatically and transparently to users, keeping them protected at all times.
online essay writing service “Obtaining Microsoft’s ‘Windows 8 Compatible’ logo is a big step and a reward to our effort in ensuring the high quality of our solutions,“ explained Alberto Añón, Consumer Product Manager at Panda Security. “We offer users maximum security with minimum resource usage, regardless of the operating system they are using.”
This certification confirms the Windows 8 compatibility announced by independent testing labs AV-Comparatives.org and Av-Test.org for Panda Security’s products in their recent tests.
For more information, please visit www.cloudantivirus.com. | https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/press-releases/panda-cloud-antivirus-obtains-windows-8-compatible-logo/ |
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Establishing and maintaining a cyber hygiene baseline across your device fleet.
Monitoring endpoint security posture and automatically heal critical controls.
Leveraging custom workflows and task automation commands to expedite recovery.
Absolute Persistence® technology, a unique, patented technology is already embedded in over 600 million devices as a result of Absolute’s partnership with nearly 30 system manufacturers from around the world. Once activated, this technology is fiercely resilient and is the only solution to survive attempts to disable it, even if the device is re-imaged, the hard drive is replaced, or the firmware is updated.
No other technology can do this. Ultimately, it provides a secure, unbreakable, and always-on connection between the Absolute Platform and the endpoint, allowing you to gain unprecedented real-time visibility, control, and remediation capabilities.
Application Resilience™: Monitors mission-critical applications’ health and behavior; detects if missing, corrupted, or not running; and automatically repairs or re-installs components when necessary – without requiring human intervention. Application Resilience ensures security controls are working as expected and provides optimal user experience by fixing unhealthy applications. Currently more than 60 mission-critical applications are enabled for Application Resilience and more are being added frequently.
Network Resilience™: Monitors and automatically, as well as transparently restores and optimizes unhealthy network connections so networked applications continue to operate without end user-impacting interruptions that would otherwise require manual application restarts, network re-connects, and/or re-authentications. Network Resilience allows for superior connectivity and reliability, allowing end users to focus on their tasks and not network behavior.
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Absolute ensures a digital tether to each device remains intact, providing you with reliable insights and intelligence from all of your endpoints to the network edge — on or off your corporate network.
Hundreds of data points are gathered and served up as insights, providing guidance on utilization, health, security and compliance posture, as well as a unified view into the entire end user experience. Applying AI-based risk assessment and user entity behavior analytics lets you go beyond the monitoring of resources and applications, allowing for automated remediation and uncompromised user productivity.
Customers can leverage the Absolute Platform components through Absolute’s packaged products, APIs, and SDKs. The result will be rapid innovation. The Absolute Platform is always included in the product package of choice.
"It takes a lot for me to put my faith in an application. I have confidence that the stats Absolute shows me are true to what’s going on in the network. I believe everything it tells me." | https://www.absolute.com/webinars/demo-series/ransomware-readiness-is-your-organization-prepared-for-a-possible-attack/ |
In this Avast antivirus review, I will talk about the features and just how the program works. I use the free adaptation of the program, but it does have several drawbacks, including worrying data logging. The technology company contains since apologized for the false information and includes a more comprehensive program offered. If you are looking designed for an anti-virus program intended for Windows, choose no other. This assessment will provide you with an honest and comprehensive analysis on the program.
Avast has a friendly interface while offering several custom tools. You can easily switch among different editions of the antivirus security software, as well as have a look at updates. You may also check out the pieces obtainable, including VPN and the Cleansing feature. Total, Avast is an efficient antivirus software with some great features and a very useful interface. Avast is highly suggested for novices and advanced users. In this Avast antivirus review, we’ll take a deeper look at the features and the ease-of-use.
Avast comes with decent email security having its free schedule. Avast warns you as you visit an unsafe website, obstructs suspicious downloads available, and even helps prevent site web tracking. But the free release has some restrictions. It’s not enough to safeguard your PC against all types of viruses, and you’ll need to upgrade towards the premium decide to get advanced security. There are lots of free ideas, and the quality version adds key features like a firewall and ransomware shield. | http://nymu.org/uncategorized/avast-antivirus-assessment/ |
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when the Code Integrity Module performs hashing. A remote attacker can create specially crafted file in a website or SMB share, trick the victim into opening it and cause the system to stop responding. | https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2018061224 |
If you keep up on tech news, you know how active cybercriminals have been lately. Malware, data breaches, and phishing scams are everywhere.
However, the leading digital threat of 2016 was ransomware. There is finally some good news to report on the ransomware front, though. Google is making a move that will help prevent these attacks.
It’s true, Google is making a change to your Gmail account that will help prevent ransomware attacks.
How Gmail is becoming more secure
Have you ever heard of JavaScript? It’s a commonly used computer programming language used to create interactive effects within web browsers. You will find it on most websites on the internet.
In most occasions, JavaScript is hidden inside the code of a website and you don’t even know it’s there. JavaScript can also be attached to an email as a .JS file. This is where problems can arise.
Cybercriminals could easily trick victims into clicking on a malicious .JS file, encrypting their gadget with ransomware. Google said there are so many other ways for people to share .JS files, it’s unnecessary to send them through email.
That’s why from now on, Gmail will block all .JS attachments. It’s a security feature that will help its users stay protected from ransomware.
Ransomware has become so prevalent, U.S. government security agencies have taken notice. The FBI released these suggestions on how to prevent an attack:
Back up data regularly – this could be the best way to recover your critical data if you are infected.
Make sure your backups are secure – do not connect your backups to computers or networks that they are backing up.
Never open risky links in emails – don’t open attachments from unsolicited emails.
Download only trusted software – make sure the software you download comes from trusted sites.
Have strong security software – This will help prevent the installation of ransomware on your gadget. | https://www.komando.com/gadgets/gmail-will-start-blocking-these-type-of-attachments-to-protect-you-from-ransomware/388277/ |
How to remove DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE virus
Today's item will explain you how to get rid of the Trojan software called DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE, the methods of its penetration into the system, and the technics to defend your PC from it. On this page you will see simple and effective instructions that will assist you to uninstall DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE, and any consequences of its actions once and for all.
Let's talk about DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE Trojan that raised the huge wave of complaints recent days. If DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE already penetrated the PC, then you should understand how to delete it. Viruses of the Trojan sort are known for their multitasking, and are able to strongly resist removal, make their own copies and recover after incorrect removal. This problem can be solved easily, and in final part of this page you will find the efficient advices on DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE uninstalling. Also our method helps to purify the whole hard drive from various dangerous programs that could penetrate it. You can immediately proceed with the uninstalling, but we advise you to familiarize with the information about Trojan viruses, as it might help you avoid infection in the future.
What is DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE trojan
So, Trojans are the biggest part of malware in modern infosphere that is used by scammers for various tasks. The very common examples of such goals are spying on the user, botnets development, theft of passwords and crucial information or updating and controlling already installed viruses. The only weakness of Trojans is being explained by their name - they cannot infect anything without human consent. In last years, users started to think that all perilous or advertising tools are viruses, but strictly speaking, viruses, unlike Trojans, can automatically spread and penetrate the defenseless systems. Trojan viruses cannot clone themselves, and can’t penetrate the PC independently. The only thing that Trojan virus can do before infecting the PC is to wait until some naive victim downloads it and installs it. All these things were said to show one easy statement: you shouldn't let Trojans to enter the computer, since it's much harder to remove them then to avoid them.
Many customers believe that to stop viral infection they just need to buy an antivirus, but it's wrong. Antiviruses are extremely helpful, but they can't block you the access to suspicious websites, and disallow you to download anything you want, including malware. But, if you will help your antivirus to work, and won't prevent him from working, the PC will be safe. There are two ways to achieve this effect:
If you're not ready to totally abandon the use of unlicensed programs, you should carefully inspect all programs that you are going to install. Trojans most often lurk beneath the guise of good utilities such as search engines, driver updaters, browser games, browsers, AV programs and system optimizers. Don't download strange tools from this list, and when installing any pirated tool - thoroughly follow the installation, declining all proposals for installing more software.
The highly reliable way is to totally stop using tools of dubious background. By these we mean any utility downloaded not from website of its developer or licensed distributors. Obviously, any cracked replicas of useful tools must also be considered potentially harmful. If you quit installing suchlike software, the probability of infection would be decreased to a minimum, and antivirus will be able to rapidly deal with it.
Listen to these tips and you will immediately notice the fruits: your computer will become fast, safe and workable, and will stay so for a long time.
DISK\SECUREDISK.EXE removal instruction
Modify hosts file, that located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ .
Open the file with Notepad and delete suspicious strings.
It has to look like this:
Step 4. Scan the system with antiviral scanner
Remember that you do not have to immediately buy Spyhunter - you can familiarize with its advantages by downloading an unpaid version with limited functionality. If you want to download Spyhunter or need some additional info - press the button under this paragraph. | http://it-help.info/how-to/malwares/3890-how-to-remove-disk-securedisk-exe-trojan-virus |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb. 20, 2014 – Today, Okta announced enhanced functionality that enables software providers to address identity management challenges associated with the delivery of their own cloud-based services. Advent Software (NASDAQ: ADVS) and Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) are among leading companies leveraging Okta as an embedded component to accelerate customer adoption, increase security, and reduce time to market. By using Okta's rich set of APIs, native user store, and pre-built integration to on-premises directories, organizations can now manage user access to their products through Okta and provide customers, partners and administrators with a consistent, secure experience across entire product suites.
"This is a compelling and highly strategic use case of our service that is relevant both to traditional and non-traditional software providers looking to grow their business through the cloud," said Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta. "In addressing a very complex and critical component of the modern product stack, we're not only helping our customers rapidly deploy new business and customer engagement models, but also taking an important step in our mission to securely connect any combination of people, applications, devices, and organizations."
A Comprehensive Identity Platform
The Okta platform now addresses many identity-related issues specific to the development and delivery of cloud-based applications. These include the ability to integrate to customer and partner directories, create a core directory that centrally manages users and applications, as well as deliver a unified experience through single sign-on, user provisioning and federation. Enhancements include:
Embeddable Directory Integration: Okta's integration with Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP can be automatically configured in conjunction with any cloud-based application, giving customers a seamless way to securely connect the application to their on-premises directory.
Okta's Cloud Directory: Okta's Cloud Directory can be embedded to store users and credentials. Using the Okta API, customers can create, read, update or delete any data in the directory, and manage processes such as password resets, seamlessly. Developers can easily manage users by organization, providing an added layer of security and customizable user experience for each customer.
Provisioning APIs: Once users are in the directory, Okta can be used to provision and de-provision users across multiple products or embedded applications, allowing tiers of users and their access to be managed based on subscription or other factors.
Programmatic Access to Single Sign-On: Okta creates a single point of authentication to provide a seamless user experience across entire product portfolios. Vendors gain a single view of customer usage across all applications, whether on-premise, dedicated instance-hosted, multi-tenant SaaS, or third-party SaaS, SaaS.
B2B Federation: Okta enables software providers to easily accept federation (such as SAML) from their customers for a wide variety of identity providers. It provides the functionality to enable federation for cloud service providers, and to manage a large number of customers requiring federation.
Many software providers are leveraging elements of this new Okta functionality to address a variety of identity challenges related to their cloud offerings, including Jive Software and Advent Software.
Jive Software Embeds Okta to Provide Seamless Directory Integration
Jive, a leader in social business, is embedding Okta's directory integration into its SaaS offering to provide enterprise customers with an integrated capability to connect their on-premise directory to Jive.
"Enterprises often face the challenge of integrating directories across the firewall to new cloud solutions," said Christopher Morace, chief strategy officer, Jive Software. "We saw many of our customers using Okta and it was clear they were becoming a leader in solving this pain point in the industry. By embedding Okta in Jive Cloud deployments, we are solving a significant problem and giving our customers a seamless solution that increases security and accelerates the adoption of our service."
Advent Software Selects Okta as Identity Layer Across Products, Including New Cloud Platform Advent Direct™ and Advent Direct™ Community
Advent Software is a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry. Advent works with more than 4,400 client firms in nearly 60 countries – from established global institutions to small start-up firms – to help them grow their business and thrive. Advent technology helps firms minimize risk, work together seamlessly and discover new opportunities. In building new cloud-based solutions, including its newest platform called Advent Direct™, the company sought out a cloud-based software provider to create a consistent, single point of entry for all users, regardless of the identity infrastructures users already have in place and where their application data is housed.
Advent has implemented Okta as the identity layer for users of Advent Direct™ Community, the company's online client portal, and will continue to roll it out on Advent Direct™, as well as on multiple on-premise and hosted applications. Okta's Inbound Federation and Directory Integration capabilities will be used by Advent to enable client access to Advent with a client's own corporate credentials.
In adopting Okta, Advent is making it easier for its clients worldwide to use their applications. With Okta, the user experience is Advent-branded, making the authentication layer across products and community seamless and invisible to clients, while being powered by Okta's zero-downtime cloud architecture.
"We are excited to be working with Okta to provide our clients with a single point of entry for our solutions," said Todd Gottula, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Advent Software. "This relationship will enable our thousands of clients to manage their Advent product users beyond the firewall and with one central point of administration. Our collaboration with Okta also helps support our expanding global footprint by ensuring a consistent user experience for all of our clients."
For more information about these new Okta enhancements, please visit http://www.okta.com/problems-we-solve/identity-layer-for-web-and-saas-apps.html.
About Okta
Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and designed to address the challenges of a cloud, mobile and interconnected business world. Okta integrates with existing directories and identity systems, as well as thousands of on-premises, cloud-based and mobile applications, to enable IT to securely manage access anywhere, anytime and from any device.
More than 700 enterprises, including Allergan, LinkedIn, MGM Resorts International, Western Union and SAP, use Okta to increase security and employee productivity, as well as lower IT costs and improve compliance. The hundreds of enterprises, thousands of cloud application vendors and millions of people using Okta today also form the foundation for the industry's first Enterprise Identity Network. Okta is backed by premier venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital. To learn more about Okta, visit: http://www.okta.com.
CVE-2014-3352Published: 2014-08-30Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (aka Cisco Cloud Portal) 2008.3_SP9 and earlier does not properly consider whether a session is a problematic NULL session, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via crafted packets, related to an "iFrame vulnerability," aka Bug ID CSCuh...
CVE-2014-3908Published: 2014-08-30The Amazon.com Kindle application before 4.5.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.
CVE-2010-5110Published: 2014-08-29DCTStream.cc in Poppler before 0.13.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file.
CVE-2012-1503Published: 2014-08-29Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Six Apart (formerly Six Apart KK) Movable Type (MT) Pro 5.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the comment section.
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German police have announced that they have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang linked to Russia that has been targeting and blackmailing large companies and institutions for years.
The group, which has been operating since at least 2010 under various guises, is believed to have raked in millions of euros from its criminal activities.
The police operation, which involved cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Germany, Ukraine, the FBI, and Europol, led to the identification of 11 individuals who were connected to the group.
The gang allegedly behind the ransomware, known as DoppelPaymer, appears tied to Evil Corp, a Russia-based syndicate that has been engaged in online bank theft well before ransomware became a global scourge.
The group specialized in “big game hunting,” said Dirk Kunze, who heads the cybercrime department with North Rhine-Westphalia state police.
They ran a professional recruitment operation, luring new members with the promise of paid vacations and asking applicants to submit references for past cybercrimes.
The police conducted simultaneous raids in Germany and Ukraine on February 28, seizing evidence and detaining several suspects.
An analyst with the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, Brett Callow, said DoppelPaymer has published data stolen from about 200 companies, including in the U.S. defense sector, which resisted payment.
Given DoppelPaymer’s suspected connection through Evil Corp to the FSB, the bust could provide law enforcement with some exceptionally valuable intel, he said.
Dirk Kunze, who heads the cybercrime department with North Rhine-Westphalia state police, said at least 601 victims have been identified worldwide, including 37 in Germany.
Europol said victims in the United States paid out at least 40 million euros ($42.5 million) to the gang between May 2019 and March 2021 to release important data that was electronically locked using the malware.
In a 2020 alert, the FBI said DoppelPaymer had been used since late 2019 to target critical industries worldwide including health care, emergency services, and education, with six- and seven-figure ransoms routinely demanded. Ransomware is the world’s most disruptive cybercrime.
Gangs mostly based in Russia break into networks and steal sensitive information before activating malware that scrambles data. The criminals demand payment in exchange for decryption keys and a promise not to dump the stolen data online.
The group is believed to have infected the computers of Britain’s National Health Service and Duesseldorf University Hospital with DoppelPaymer in 2020. A woman who needed urgent treatment died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.
Three further suspects couldn’t be apprehended as they were beyond the reach of European law enforcement, Kunze said.
German police identified the fugitives as Russian citizens Igor Turashev, 41, and Irina Zemlyanikina, 36, and 31-year-old Igor Garshin, who was born in Russia but whose nationality wasn’t immediately known.
Turashev is wanted by U.S. authorities since late 2019 in connection with cyberattacks carried out using a predecessor to DoppelPaymer, known as BitPaymer, that is linked to Evil Corp.
The U.S. government offered a $5 million reward in 2019 for information leading to the capture of its alleged leader, Maksim Yakubets.
It is unclear whether the suspects will be extradited to the United States, where the charges against them are believed to be pending. | https://wikikiki.com/german-police-bust-russian-linked-ransomware-gang/ |
Q1. Why is QRM important for a pharmaceutical organization?
Quality Risk Management (QRM) is important as it ensures that we place the risk to the patient and risk to product quality at the centre of each decision that we make. It provides a mechanism for us to identify and understand the true risk associated with our course of action, whether that is related to the design of our facilities and processes, the management of change, the assessment of deviations and unplanned events or in the design of our Quality Management Systems.
Q2. What's an efficient quality risk management (QRM) program?
A Quality Risk Management program can only be efficient when the information gathered through the risk assessment process is revisited regularly and used to drive decision making. Prospective risk assessments should be in the majority, so that risks and their consequences can be mitigated and avoided before they occur and before there is a need for resources to be spent on fixing problems that could have been avoided.
If a Quality Risk Management program is efficient there will be a smaller number of risk assessments that are prospective, prevent risks, and are revised regularly e.g. when a Change Control is proposed or an OOS or Deviation occurs. They are living documents and should also be driver for knowledge retention and management. Inefficient Quality Risk Management programs do not define the boundary of each risk assessment appropriately and contain risk assessments that are performed to ‘tick a box’ or satisfy inspectors rather than to drive improvement and risk reduction.
Q3. How QRM is implemented and applied across the product life cycle?
At the design phase, for a product, process or facility, the potential risks should be identified and controls defined for each risk within the context of the risk question (s). These controls are then incorporated into the design and Quality Management System, documented and detection mechanisms are identified to monitor the effectiveness of the controls.
When the detection indicates that a control is not performing as expected, or a risk is realized, the risk assessment is reviewed, revised and updated with additional controls until the risk is managed and only residual risk remains. This process is continued throughout the lifecycle of a product, process or facility and following the implementation of the Quality Management System, each Change Control and Deviation should trigger a review of the relevant risk assessments.
For example, if a Change is proposed in a process, the relevant process step should be reviewed in each relevant risk assessment and the change assessed against the impact it will have on the current controls or methods of detection at that process step. Likewise, when a deviation occurs, this is an indication that something has gone wrong, i.e. a risk has occurred that wasn’t prevented by the Quality Risk Management program.
Investigation of the deviation should identify why the risk had not been foreseen or if it had, why the controls had failed to prevent the risk occurring. Any resulting CAPA actions should be included in the relevant risk assessments as controls on conclusion of the investigation and implementation of the resulting CAPA plan.
Q4. Why is planning important?
Planning is important to: 1) ensure that the key risk assessments required in the Quality Risk Management plan are identified and 2) to ensure the appropriate scope and risk question is identified for each risk assessment identified. This prevents the performance of multiple risk assessments that do not have clear direction or a defined risk question.
The risk question should always tell you the type of risk being assessed, e.g. quality risk, contamination risk etc., and what the risk is being assessed against. For Quality Risk
Management, the risk question should always be the assessment of the defined risk to the product quality or patient safety.
Business or safety risk does not fall within the scope of Quality Risk Management. It is also important to plan each risk assessment so that the purpose of the risk assessment is clear and to provide the opportunity to identify the correct tool for documenting the risk assessment. Risk Assessment tools do not drive the risk assessment, this is the function of the risk question, they are there to help the clear documentation of the risk assessment.
Q5. What are the key considerations while planning?
When planning the Quality Risk Management program, it is important to remember that the purpose of risk management is to help you identify the true risks that are present in your processes so that they can be mitigated and prevented.
Quality Risk Management is not a tool for justifying bad practice or justifying deviations from GMP. Many companies skip the planning process and implement risk assessment as a method for impact assessment after the fact. This is not the intention of Quality Risk Management. The risk assessments that will help you to constantly monitor, assess and mitigate the quality risks in your process need to be planned and identified so that they can prevent issues before they occur. To plan your Quality Risk Management Plan you must be aware of the following:
What risks are you concerned with in terms of quality, e.g. microbial contamination, impact to CQA, particle contamination, etc.
What are your processes and have you defined all of your process steps that could be impacted by risk.
What regulatory requirements do you need to meet in terms of Quality Risk Management, e.g. nitrosamines, excipient risk assessment, contamination control risk assessment, etc.
Where will risk assessment help you to prevent issues from occurring in the future, e.g. process FMEA, Contamination Control Risk Assessment, GMP Design Risk Assessment, System Risk Assessment for CQV, etc.
Q6. QRM should bring efficiency and economy, how to plan a QRM program that is practical to maintain?
The key to efficiency and economy is having a small number of key prospective risk assessments that are revised regularly as new information becomes available through process improvement, change control and deviations. QRM programs become inefficient and resource hungry when risk assessments are performed every time something goes wrong instead of performing them at the start when you have a chance to mitigate risk and prevent issues. Each risk that you identify and prevent reduces the resources spent on issues and deviations and fixing mistakes.
Q7. What if QRM is not working for a company, nor deriving value from it?
This usually occurs if QRM and its function are not well understood or if risk assessments are reactive tools to problems rather than used to proactively prevent issues. This also occurs when the QRM program is not integrated nor informed by other elements in the Quality Management System as mentioned previously. QRM needs to be an ever evolving tool that keeps us informed of the detail of our current process, how that process is performing, how our controls are performing and areas where there is risk that we can prevent from occurring.
Q8. How to manage a QRM program efficiently and effectively?
To manage a QRM program, its function needs to be understood by everyone in the organization, at all levels and there needs to be an open culture that welcomes the identification of risk so that it can be mitigated and prevented. If there is a culture of justification of current practice through risk assessment, an organisation will not improve or progress and will still have to waste resources in the management of deviations and issues that could have been foreseen and prevented with a good Quality Risk Management program.
Also, the emphasis is often incorrectly placed on risk management tools and implementation of complex tools that are poorly understood. The emphasis should always be simplified and brought back to the questions, “What can go wrong, what is the likelihood it will go wrong based on the current controls in place and how will I detect if it goes wrong or if my controls fail?”
As long as we answer this question comprehensively across our operations, we are performing Quality Risk Management and the method for documentation of this thought process is just that, a method for documentation.
Q9. How to embed QRM in all levels of the pharmaceutical organization?
Quality Risk Management is a method for documenting our knowledge of our processes, our controls and our methods of monitoring.
Everyone naturally thinks in terms of Quality Risk Management in our daily lives, it is how we keep ourselves safe and out of harm’s way. Quality Risk Management in industry is just a way of using that inherent thought process to protect our patients rather than ourselves.
Q10. What is the correct way of implementing QRM?
Training, planning, implementing and maintenance. If risk assessments are not revisited every time there is a deviation or change control, the system isn’t working! | https://pharmamachines.com/qrm-quality-risk-management/ |
Here are some tips for those who work remotely on what cybersecurity you’ll need.
What your day-to-day work life looks like has probably changed in the past couple of months. You may now find yourself in a work remotely from the home situation now, as many employees are. Remote work can be fulfilling, and it’s undoubtedly good for public health, but it comes with some new challenges.
You may find it hard to stay productive at home, and you may feel lonely. You might’ve expected these difficulties, but you may not be aware your cybersecurity faces new risks now. If you work remotely, you should take another look at your cybersecurity measures. Solving Cybersecurity Risks for Remote Workers
Security experts warn that working from home comes with increased cyber threats compared to working from an office. When you’re at home, you may not have access to the same cybersecurity features. Not being able to walk down the hall to talk to information technology (IT) staff puts cybersecurity in your hands.
The COVID-19 pandemic intensifies these risks as well. In the middle of all the confusion, you can lose sight of safe internet practices. To help you stay secure while you work remotely from home, follow these ten security steps:
1. Revisit Your Password Practices
Accessing work tools and files from home usually requires you to input a password. Your password practices may not be as secure as you think, though. If you, like 66% of Americans, reuse the same password across different sites, it’s time to change them.
On top of using different passwords, use long ones that include symbols and numbers. If you have trouble remembering them, you can use a password manager. You may also want to set up two-factor authentication, which will add another layer of security.
2. Encrypt Your Home Network
Encryption is the practice of coding data so you can only see it if you have the right key. When you encrypt your network, a hacker can’t see your data even if they get in. Most home routers come with built-in encryption services, so make sure you turn this on.
Look at your router’s user manual to find out how to turn this on. Usually, this involves going into your browser, typing in the router’s IP address and logging in to access the settings. Look for an option for either Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) or WPA3 and enable it.
3. Watch for Scam Emails
Be on the lookout for phishing emails, as you’ll probably encounter more of those during the pandemic. Most of these emails impersonate legitimate news sources claiming to offer information about the virus. If you see a message regarding this subject, it’s worth it to practice a little extra scrutiny before clicking any links.
When you’re working from home, you can feel more relaxed than at the office. Don’t let that comfort distract you from being watchful of cybersecurity risks.
4. Use a VPN
Virtual private networks (VPNs) establish private, encrypted internet connections and hide your IP address. Many people use them to access area-restricted content, but they’re handy safety tools too. When you have to access sensitive work documents from home, a VPN can keep that data safe.
Your company might provide you with a VPN so you don’t have to pay for it. If not, the extra layer of security is worth the cost of the service.
5. Only Work on Work Devices
If you’re at home, you can use your personal computer, right? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Your work computer likely has access to security features and programs you may not have installed on your own devices.
If you access your company’s network from your home devices, you could be putting company data at risk. To avoid any unnecessary dangers, only use a work device to access work-related content and features. If you can’t take your work computer home with you, make sure you install the necessary security software on your electronics.
6. Update Your Software
When you get notifications about software updates, don’t wait to install them. If you don’t install updates as they come out, you could be putting yourself at risk. These often have security patches that fix old vulnerabilities hackers could exploit.
Keeping software up to date may seem like an insignificant step, but it’s an essential one. In 2019, the United Nations suffered a massive data breach because they hadn’t updated Microsoft SharePoint. Your best bet is to turn on automatic updates so you never miss a patch.
Updating your software will also update important security patches to your system.
7. Use Strong Physical Security
Digital threats aren’t the only ones endangering your company data. You should also practice physical security to protect your devices from dangers like theft. Lock your doors and keep your work devices out of sight from your windows.
You’re probably not out in public much right now, but if you are, never leave your laptop unattended. If you use external storage devices like flash drives, use dedicated ones for your work data. It may be worth your time to encrypt these as well.
8. Destroy Sensitive Files After Use
You can tell a lot about someone from their trash. In the same way, hackers can access a lot of sensitive data from your deleted files. When you click “delete” on a file, it’s still recoverable, so use secure erasing software to dispose of sensitive data.
If you still work with paper documents at home, secure disposal applies to these too. Instead of tossing old papers in the garbage, use a shredder.
9. Only Use Company-Approved Services
It can be tempting to find shortcuts when company services aren’t working correctly. However tempting it may be, you should only use the services your company recommends or provides. A different communication service or file sharer may not have the same security measures as your employer’s option.
If your organization chooses to work on a particular application, there’s probably a good reason for it. Your IT department tailors their security to fit these programs, so when you don’t use them, you may not be protected.
10. Seek Help From Your Employer
When in doubt, ask for help. If you have any questions about recommended software or other security matters, don’t try to figure it out alone. Seek advice from your employer or IT staff to make sure you’re taking the most secure route.
Transitioning into remote work can be confusing, so it never hurts to double-check. You may also want to ask if your company provides any tools like VPNs or antivirus software. Take advantage of all the resources available to you.
Take Cybersecurity Into Your Own Hands
When you work remotely from home, you can’t always rely on a distant IT department. Take cybersecurity into your own hands and practice these steps to stay secure. You may encounter new risks working remotely, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue being safe.
Do you now work remotely from home? How are you adjusting? What cybersecurity measures have you put in play? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter, or Facebook. You can also comment on our MeWe page by joining the MeWe social network. | https://techaeris.com/2020/05/23/the-cybersecurity-you-need-to-work-remotely/ |
This checklist will help you protect your identity and the integrity of the network when using your PEXA login credentials and Digital Certificate to electronically sign in PEXA.
Following the steps below will help you remain compliant with your professional obligations, and those set out in the Model Participation Rules which govern your use of PEXA. Non-compliance with these obligations may result in the Registrar of Titles in your jurisdiction instructing PEXA to suspend or terminate your access to the network. | https://community.pexa.com.au/t5/Online-Security/Using-your-PEXA-login-credentials-and-Digital-Certificates/gpm-p/11647 |
According to a new report Global IoT Security Market, published by KBV Research, the global IoT Security market is expected to attain a market size of $29.2 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 27.9% during the forecast period.
The anticipated growth is due to growing security concerns within critical infrastructure along with diversified applications of IoT. Additionally, the growth of social media and rising need to secure personal data are also fuelling the growth of market. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions are majorly incorporated into business verticals such as BFSI, telecommunication and IT, energy, oil and gas, public sector, education, healthcare, and retail.
In 2015, Network security dominated the Global Internet of Things ( IOT ) Security Market by Type. The segment has generated revenue of USD 1,705.0 million in 2015 growing at a CAGR of 23.4% during the forecast period. However, Cloud Security would witness highest CAGR of 34.9% during the forecast period (2016-2022).
Identity Access Management segment dominated the Global Internet of Things ( IOT ) Security Market by solution type. The segment has generated revenue of USD 985.7 million in 2015. However, Distributed Denial of Service Protection segment is expected to witness highest CAGR of 34.2% during the forecast period (2016-2022).
Based on the verticals, BFSI segment dominated the Global IOT Security market by industry, with market share of around 19%, in 2015. Others segment would witness highest CAGR of 43.6% during the forecast period (2016-2022).
The North America region contributed the largest revenue share to the market worldwide due to early adoption of technology, followed by Europe region. LAMEA would grow at a fastest CAGR of 34.2% during 2016-2022. In North America, U.S continues its dominance in this market with a market size of $2.2 billion, in 2015.
The report has exhaustive quantitative insights providing a clear picture of the market potential in various segments across the globe with country wise analysis in each discussed region. The key influencing factors of the global IoT Security market have been discussed in the report along with the elaborated company profiles namely IBM Corporation, Symantec Corporation, HP Enterprise Company, FireEye, Inc., Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies and Infineon Technologies AG. | https://www.kbvresearch.com/news/global-iot-security-market/ |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A four-star Kentucky hotel has discovered a data breach threatening guests’ credit card information.
News outlets report The Galt House hotel in Louisville said Wednesday that an internal investigation found malware had been stealing information from a payment card processing system. The hotel says guests who stayed at the hotel between Dec. 21, 2016, and April 11 could be affected.
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The malware copied guest payment information, including names and account numbers, as well as credit card expiration dates and verification codes.
The hotel says it has resolved the issue and is working to strengthen its cybersecurity.
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Cyber security... Those two words strike fear into the heart of many a BAS professional.
No one wants to be the technician trying to convince the security expert to give him remote access, and no one wants to be the sales person trying to convince her customer that her BAS is secure.
Yet every day thousands of BAS professionals find themselves in these conversations.
And imagine how the owners, contractors, and engineers feel. | https://buildingautomationmonthly.libsyn.com/bam-049-cyber-security-isnt-as-complicated-as-it-seems |
AppOmni unveiled the AppOmni Developer Platform, which enables organizations to extend visibility and ensure consistent protection across all of their SaaS applications and virtually any custom SaaS app built in house.
The AppOmni Developer Platform will be available to select partners this June, with broader availability later in 2022.
Most businesses use dozens, if not hundreds, of SaaS applications. As SaaS applications have matured, the complexity and variance in settings presents challenges in ensuring proper configurations, which can lead to security gaps and data exposure. The AppOmni Developer Platform provides a framework that allows customers to monitor any SaaS application with a consistent set of policies and security controls.
Application security posture information is then mapped back to AppOmni’s SaaS security management solution to help security teams monitor and secure critical configurations, user permissions, and third-party applications. By authoring support for any SaaS application, organizations can quickly identify misconfigurations or drift to close security gaps and drive compliance across their entire enterprise application footprint.
“The AppOmni Developer Platform provides a security framework with standardized security best practices and establishes a uniform security language to allow customers to clearly and easily understand risk across their entire SaaS ecosystem and all modern digital applications,” said Harold Byun, Chief Product Officer at AppOmni. “The future of security is comprehensive, consistent security coverage for all applications and all users. The AppOmni Developer Platform is delivering on that vision and is another example of AppOmni’s market leadership.”
The AppOmni Developer Platform provides the basis for rapid expansion of AppOmni’s ecosystem of SaaS security product modules. Following the recent announcement of AppOmni’s in-depth support for Workday and expanded support for ServiceNow, AppOmni is now releasing support for Confluence, Fastly, Google Workspace, Jira, Okta, and Zendesk. These security modules were built on top of the AppOmni Developer Platform and provide the depth, comprehensive security controls, and expert insights that AppOmni is known for.
One of the goals of the AppOmni Developer Platform is to empower organizations to easily develop and deploy security for any SaaS application. The Platform will be available for developer partners to extend SaaS security to custom applications.
“Many of our customers have asked how they can secure their entire SaaS ecosystem with the same depth AppOmni provides for their largest SaaS systems,” said Brendan O’Connor, CEO and Co-Founder of AppOmni. “For example, one of our Fortune 100 customers has more than 200 homegrown applications they need to secure. The AppOmni Developer Platform will allow users to create policies to meet governance and compliance requirements, as well as manage and monitor security across their SaaS ecosystem.” | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/04/15/appomni-developer-platform/ |
Existing cyber security policies on usage of mobile phones must be adhered to by army personnel while using the Aarogya Setu app, the soldiers were informed. (Photo | PTI)
New Delhi: The Indian Army has asked its personnel to use the Covid-19 contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu with caution while following all cyber security precautions.
While urging download of the Aarogya Setu app, it advised personnel to avoid it in office premises, operational areas and sensitive locations. Personnel, veterans and families have been asked to cyber security precautions.
Aarogya Setu is a mobile app developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to help citizens identify their risk of contracting Covid-19.
The Indian Army has asked its personnel to only switch on the location services and bluetooth features of the Aarogya Setu app while visiting public places, or when they are engaged in managing isolation centres, while on call for COVID-19 related assistance to civil authorities and while out of cantonments or military stations for essential administrative duties.
They have been told not to disclose their service identity including rank and appointment. The contact list of the user should not contain any reference to rank appointment or service. Army personnel have been advised to keep their mobile operating systems updated and to install antivirus protection on their cell phones.
The Aarogya Setu app has crossed the 5 crore downloads in just the 13 days since it was launched.
The app uses bluetooth, GPS, algorithms and artificial intelligence to notify users of their risk of catching the COVID-19 infection, by tracing the same data from other users of the app.
The app detects other devices with Aarogya Setu installed that come in the proximity of that phone. GPS tracks the location of the user in real time and bluetooth tracks if and when the user comes in close proximity with someone infected by COVID-19.
If a user comes into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, they will be notified about it in a few days. The app has access to the Government of India’s database of known cases. | https://asianage.com/technology/in-other-news/150420/warning-of-cybersecurity-risks-army-bans-aarogya-setu-covid-app-use-in-operational-areas.html |
The following are the Full Disk Encryption issues and limitations.
If you attempt to delete files or folders in an encrypted folder, Windows prompts the following error: "Can't read from the source file or disk."
This error occurs because File Encryption is unable to move deleted files and folders in an encrypted folder to the Recycle Bin. To delete files and folders in an encrypted folder, use the permanent delete command Shift + Delete.
File Encryption does not support "Self Help" questions and answers. At registration, if the Endpoint Encryption user goes to the "Change Password" screen, the user should be given "Self Help" challenge questions.
After upgrading PolicyServer and File Encryption from 3.1.3 SP1 to 5.0, policies are unable to synchronize if the File Encryption 3.1.3 agent uses port 8080 (TMEE Service) during registration.
After upgrading PolicyServer and File Encryption from 3.1.3 SP1 to 5.0, authentication is locked at the "Change Password" screen if the File Encryption 3.1.3 agent used port 8080 (TMEE Service port) during registration.
Uninstalling File Encryption without restarting the endpoint does not automatically remove the program from the Add/Remove Programs list.
The legal notice does not appear when the endpoint starts.
The File Encryption agent desktop shortcut and agent icon flash when the File Encryption agent synchronizes with PolicyServer. | https://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/endpoint-encryption-60-administration-guide/resolved-and-known-i/known-issues/file-encryption-issu.aspx |
Indeed, is a troublesome virus that may create a whole lot of vulnerabilities onto your Windows System. It may degrade your Windows System performance and introduce so many other threats to your System. Generally speaking, is a type of malicious software program that is programmed to work in the favor of its developers and bring so many troubles to you. It is possible that the virus may take over on your Chrome and displays a wide range of commercial ads while your online session to generate online marketing revenue on the basis of your per click or per purchase.
Even, in some cases, we've seen malware performing other type of malicious activities such as stealing confidential data and online banking credentials from the affected Windows XP. Further, malware connects affected Windows System various remote locations and downloads potentially malicious files and updated on the scheduled time. What is worse, may allow remote hackers to access your Windows XP and monitor your private activities using your Webcam or stealing your private images or videos. In so many case, we've seen that remote hackers steals private files and blackmail the victims to extort money. Notably, such type of virus can also encode your files and ask you to pay off ransom. Hence, Deletion of the is a must.
Noticeable Symptoms of Infection
Your Chrome may get certainly redirected to various advertising sites without your consent.
Your homepage and search engine may be replaced with .
Performance of your affected Windows XP must be degraded and Internet speed may be extremely slow.
Few unwanted programs may be installed or malicious files and folder may be created on your local disk without your knowledge.
Probably, your files may have become inaccessible and your Windows System screen may be locked and you may see ransom note on your Windows System screen.
Simple Steps To prevent attacks?
Apparently, invades your Windows XP mostly through bundled software and spam emails attachments. But it could also arrive on your Windows System via unsafe sites and when you install trojanized updates from certainly redirected URLs. Therefore, to prevent attacks, we suggest you to pay your close attention while using your Windows System. Never double click spam emails attachments or suspicious updates pop ups. Even, you should always go through Custom/Advanced option when you install free programs to block installation of or other similar programs.
Finally, we advise you to make use of following guideline and Clear Away from your Windows XP instantly. | http://removespyware.delete-spyware.com/uninstall-call-google-chrome-pop-ups-successfully |
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This article originally appeared at Motherboard. On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against seven Iranians, charging them with a slew of...
On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against seven Iranians, charging them with a slew of hacking offenses against U.S. banks, companies and other targets. The individuals were allegedly contracted by the Iranian government.
One of the attacks mentioned in the indictment is the breach of systems at the small Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, New York in 2013. But the indictment describes a longer episode of activity, which allegedly lasted for 176 days and hit 46 financial institutions, including Bank of America, Capital One and the New York Stock Exchange; some of the hackers also targeted AT&T.
The legal move has been described by officials as part of the U.S.’s new strategy of pursuing and charging nation-state hackers.
“In a new approach, we have unleashed prosecutors and FBI agents against national security cyber threats,” Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said during a press conference.
The individuals indicted for conspiracy to commit computer hacking were Ahmad Fathi, Hamid Firoozi, Amin Shokohi, Sadegh Ahmadzadegan, Omid Ghaffarinia, Sina Keisser and Nader Saedi. Firoozi was also indicted for unauthorized access to a protected computer.
These individuals were employees of ITSec Team and Mersad Co., private companies based in Iran that the indictment claims worked on behalf of the government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The crimes include the “large scale and coordinated” denial-of-service attacks between December 2011 and 2013 against the U.S. financial sector, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said during a press conference. Those affected included Bank of America, American Express, Bank of Monteral, NASDAQ, JP Morgan, Chase Bank, Citibank, HSBC, Wells Fargo, the New York Stock Exchange, Capital One and ING, according to the indictment. Lynch claimed that the attacks cost these companies tens of millions of dollars.
At top — a Persian language keyboard. Blondinrikard Froeberg/Flickr photo. Above — the New York Stock Exchange. Silveira Neto/Flickr photo
“Victims’ computer servers were hit with as much as approximately 140 Gigabits of data per second which, depending on the victim institution, was up to as much as three times the entire operating capacity of a victim institution’s servers,” the indictment reads.
To make their botnet, employees of ITSec scanned the internet for systems running popular website content management software, and which were vulnerable to known security issues, the indictment reads. From here, the hackers gained access to thousands of computers, and installed malware created by Shokohi, allowing the group to launch large DDoS attacks.
Mersad, the other alleged front company, was born in 2011 by members of the Iran-based hacking groups Sun Army and Ashiyane Digital Security Team, which have publicly claimed carrying out attacks on U.S. government systems such as NASA, the indictment claims.
Lynch said, “We will not allow any individual, group or nation to sabotage American financial institutions or undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market.”
The indictment also included the Bowman Avenue Dam incident, in which a hacker remotely gained access to an online control system, according to the Wall Street Journal. That attack was not particularly sophisticated, however, but according to that report, it still alarmed U.S. officials.
Firoozi, according to the indictment, “repeatedly obtained unauthorized remote access to a computer which controlled the supervisory control and data acquisition (‘SCADA’) system for the Bowman Dam.” This access supposedly allowed Firoozi to see information about the dam’s water levels and temperature, the status of the sluice gate, which is responsible for controlling flow rates and water levels, the indictment reads.
“Although access to the SCADA system typically would have also permitted [Firoozi] to remotely operate and manipulate the sluice gate on the Bowman Dam, unbeknownst to [Firoozi], the sluice gate control had been manually disconnected for maintenance issues prior to the time [Firoozi] gained access to the systems,” according to the indictment.
These charges are the latest in the growing trend of U.S. officials publicly pursuing hackers affiliated with nation states. In 2014, the U.S. charged five suspected Chinese military hackers with espionage, and the FBI blamed North Korea for the catastrophic hack of Sony Pictures. Earlier this week, the U.S. charged three suspected members of the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, and placed two of them on the FBI’s most wanted list.
A Reuters report on Wednesday anticipated the Department of Justice’s announcement, relying on anonymous sources.
“This case is a reminder of the seriousness of cyber threats to our national security, and these public criminal charges represent a groundbreaking step forward in addressing that threat,” Lynch said.
Of course, Iran is not the only country allegedly targeting foreign nations with cyberattacks.
A prolonged series of U.S.-led cyberattacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure was recently revealed in the documentary Zero Days. The operation, dubbed Nitro Zeus, targeted power plants, transportation and air defenses. Part of that included the infamous Stuxnet worm, which infected an Iranian nuclear facility. (The National Security Agency recently rejected a Freedom of Information request from Motherboard for documents related to the operation.)
However, the fact that the U.S. has participated in attacks of its own hasn’t deterred the approach of publicly naming and shaming suspected hackers from other nations.
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<blockquote data-quote="calumski" data-source="post: 863836" data-attributes="member: 86193"><p>"Symantec endpoint business that is going to loose in that and start to fail if it doesn't change anything."</p><p></p><p>I don't think that's going to make much of a difference to BC to be fair. Looking at the numbers, BC bought Symantec to fill a small gap in their portfolio. There's going to have to be a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge amount of engineering work that'll need to go on before BC can integrate Symantec into the CA or bigger BC portfolio. Will customers go for it? Possibly. But only if they're spending seven figures every year.</p></blockquote><p></p> [QUOTE="calumski, post: 863836, member: 86193"] "Symantec endpoint business that is going to loose in that and start to fail if it doesn't change anything." I don't think that's going to make much of a difference to BC to be fair. Looking at the numbers, BC bought Symantec to fill a small gap in their portfolio. There's going to have to be a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge amount of engineering work that'll need to go on before BC can integrate Symantec into the CA or bigger BC portfolio. Will customers go for it? Possibly. But only if they're spending seven figures every year. [/QUOTE] | https://malwaretips.com/threads/norton-and-symantec-partnership-at-symantec%E2%80%99s-security-technology-and-response-star-division.98868/reply?quote=863836 |
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Dominic Vogel crafts an apt football analogy to underscore the importance of investing in security awareness training for employees. Not doing so could undo all of your high-dollar tech solutions.
Despite millions upon millions of dollars spent on network security infrastructure significant data breaches continue to occur unabated. When I’m watching football (or any sport for that matter) work is normally the furthest thing from my mind. However, while watching a game recently, I couldn’t help but think about that introductory statement. As an analogy, football explains why security awareness programs are absolutely critical for reducing the severity and frequency of security incidents. By breaking the game down into basics, we can further explore this parallel.
The football – the corporate crown jewels. This can include anything from intellectual property, personally identifiable information, legal documents, sensitive financial information, and really any data that provides tangible value to the business.
Quarterback – the enabler (the IT department). In football, the QB is responsible for getting the ball to the right receivers in a timely and safe fashion. In the business world, the core mandate of IT security is to securely and safely get the right information to the right people at the right time. I am not oblivious that IT professionals may not be paid like star quarterbacks (I have a dearth of zeros in my bank book to prove it) but the comparison is worth noting.
Wide Receivers/Running Backs – the various business units that run with the information, data, and systems provided by IT in order to execute and carry out key strategic projects that promote business value.
Offensive Linemen – the personnel and security systems (such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, corporate antivirus suites, identity access controls, spam/phishing filtering, the list goes on) designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical corporate data.
Left Tackle – an underappreciated asset that protects the quarterback’s (or in our case IT security’s) blind spot. All corporate employees are custodians of the company’s most valued data. They need to be acutely aware of the dangers and threats that can lead to the exposure of data and subsequent data integrity issues. Employees are uniquely positioned in areas where IT defences do not always converge – an area known as the security blind side. If a defensive player (persistent external threat) successfully evades the offensive line (IT defenses), it is the duty of the left tackle (the employee workforce) to prevent him from reaching the quarterback and the football (corporate data). In order to be effective at this task; however, employees need to be provided with the necessary education and toolset.
Technical solutions will only get you so far
Current security protections have to deal with constant pass rushes, blitzes, changing schemes, and the continuous onslaught and bombardment of corporate networks by cyber criminals. No matter how much we spend on the latest and greatest security systems, the security blind side is continually exploited and cannot be adequately protected by technology alone.
Much of the attention is devoted to deploying technological solutions and developing accompanying processes. In doing so, we are severely underestimating the importance of investing in the human component of the greater security equation. The average mid-large sized company spends upwards of $100 per employee on security mechanisms. How much money per employee is spent on training and educating the employee workforce on security awareness? For most companies it would be under a buck per employee. There are companies that spend more than that on coffee per employee! It is no surprise that in most corporate settings very little money is spent on creating and developing effective and sustainable security awareness programs.
Many fail to comprehend that the most expensive and extensive security mechanisms and devices today can be easily rendered useless by an employee replying to a phishing attempt (just ask RSA) or getting hit by a drive-by download. It was only recently, that NFL teams realized the importance of budgeting for an effective left tackle. It is time for the corporate world to do the same. By upping the investment dollars in security training for the workforce we will be giving them the tools, knowledge, and experience to prevent threats from breaking through and wreaking havoc.
Strong football teams realize that their quarterback needs to have suitable time and space in order to succeed. To protect their investments and ensure that the quarterback is able to move the ball downfield, football teams pay more for great left tackles (obviously in proportion to the asset that they are protecting). It is time to call an audible and realize that we need our fellow employees to suit up on the gridiron with us as left tackle. By spending more money and effort on developing security education and awareness amongst the employee workforce, we can drastically reduce the chance of having the security blind side exploited. This extra protection cannot come soon enough: we have had our collective bell rung one too many times. | https://www.techrepublic.com/article/protecting-the-blind-side-invest-in-security-awareness-to-protect-data/ |
Date: Aug. 2, 2012 Location: Unknown "The events in the Senate today are disappointing. We have a strong consensus in both Houses and between both parties that Congress should permit robust cyber threat sharing among the private sector and the government. The House passed just such threat sharing legislation in April on a strong bipartisan vote. This can't be the end of the story -- countries like China are waging an economic cyber war against us right now, and American businesses need help coping with the dangerous cyber threats they face every day. The Senate needs to get back to work, set aside the issues we don't yet have consensus on, and pass an information sharing bill."
Source: http://intelligence.house.gov/press-release/statement-chairman-rogers-senate-cybersecurity-legislation | http://votesmart.org/public-statement/731686/statement-by-chairman-rogers-on-senate-cybersecurity-legislation |
the little rock Central and lunar distributors, the state’s largest wholesaler of Arkansas-owned wine, beer and spirits, recently suffered a cyberattack that affected the alcoholic beverage supply in central Arkansas.
A phone call to the CEO of Central Stan hastings Tuesday claimed there had been a “compromise” on the company’s computers. Hastings added that broader supply chain issues also created distribution issues.
A Central Arkansas liquor store owner who wished to remain anonymous because of his good relationship with the distribution company said he would normally receive a truck delivery from Central or Moon on October 20, but he didn’t know. was not expecting it.
He said he was able to get products from the Rocktown Distillery in Little Rock because it’s a local business. For now, he said, customers will likely be able to find the spirit they’re looking for, but may not be able to get all the brands they’re used to. He also added that the liquor industry had faced supply chain issues as a result of the pandemic and was almost unresponsive at this point. “It’s not terrible, but it is moving forward,” he said of the current situation.
Earlier this month, NBC News recently reported similar incidents affecting the food supply chain, claiming that at least three U.S. grain distributor systems have been infected with ransomware in recent weeks. The FBI took to Twitter this week to issue an advisory to organizations that manage critical infrastructure assets.
the #FBI, @CISAgov and @NSACyber posted a cybersecurity advisory on the BlackMatter ransomware. We urge all organizations, especially those managing critical infrastructure assets, to review this advisory and implement its recommendations. https://t.co/DIkyg9E9JM pic.twitter.com/njusXca2Ct
– FBI (@FBI) October 18, 2021
A local bar manager we spoke with said that due to the disruption at Central and Moon his bar had to change beer for a third of its taps and some of his premium products like Maker’s Mark, Hornitos and Bulleit were out or out. low supply.
A West Little Rock liquor store owner, who asked to remain anonymous, said some products in his store were only available through Central or Moon.
“We can’t buy it from anyone else, so when we run out of a product, until they fix that problem, we’re out of the product,†he said.
He said the problems they face with this current situation are magnified by other sectors of industry currently affected as a result of the pandemic.
“The two main things we deal with are the transportation of product from supply sources, whether it’s a port of a distillery or a winery that comes into state to our distributor,†then which is then delivered to our store. There is also a shortage of glass, he said.
He declined to name specific products that the store is currently unable to receive, but which are among the biggest drivers of the Central and Moon portfolio.
“I have a lot of respect for what they do at Central and Moon. We’ve been doing business together for 30 years, and it’s a very unfortunate thing that has happened and our hearts go out to them, â€he said. | https://sfmecca.com/central-and-moon-distributors-computer-system-compromised-deliveries-to-liquor-stores-restaurants-and-bars-are-delayed-4state-news-mo-ar-ks-ok/ |
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SOunds like your are mixing 2 douments together.
Your risk assessment should come first - identifying the hazards and risks of a particular activity etc.
As part of your risk assessment, if you identify one of your control measures is to operate a PtW system - then your PtW should specifiy the specific controls you have identified for the particular task.
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As many in the dock have found out only a court determines what has been "suitable and sufficient" - for those who avoid court it is a case of assumption that what we have documented will not be found wanting under law - so any opinions expressed in response to your post can merely be those of the respondents rather than a case judgement.
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You need to be careful and I think Ian is right these re two different documents. The risk assessment is the contractor’s document and he/she produces it to show you that they know how to work safely. The PTW is YOUR document telling the contractor that they can do the job and what the limits are: tools they can use, where they can work and what timeframe they can work in. It could, I suppose be on one piece of paper but the whole point of the PTW is that someone other than the person doing the job is permitting the work. If people are allowed to self-permit then there is not really any point having the PTW system.
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This sounds more like a "dynamic" or "quick" risk assessment and authorisation which many places have for in-house fixes & repairs, but for planned work I'd be nervous about this.
My worry is over time it's no longer clear who filled in which bit. Host/manager may be tacitly assuming liability for someone else's risk assessment or contractor/worker for the restrictions (or lack) on the Permit which should be ther manager's part.
Also, for higher risk work it's usual to do a daily permit. For longer works you'd have to do the damn risk assessment every day.
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The misunderstanding here is that Risk Assessment is not a thing, it is a process. You will have followed that process to decide if a PTW was required. You could argue that the permit is a means of documenting the significant findings, which is what you are required to do as result of following the risk assessment process.
What you probably have attached to your permit is a hazard check or prompt sheet. It is intended to assist the person generating the permit. I would say it is not a risk assessment (mis-titled).
Not sure if that answers your question directly, but I hope it will help you evaluate what you have and determine if you need to be doing more/different.
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Thank you for all the replies and sorry I've not responded until now.
It is clear to me that the PTW in use tries to be both a permit and a risk assessment with the cavaet that a separate risk assessment document is required for 'high hazard work'.
Thank you again for your valued advice.
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has hit out at the Student Loans Company after a series of data breaches involving customer records.
The organisation, which deals with a huge amount of personal data from students, had reported several incidents in which information held about customers, including medical details and a psychological assessment, had been sent to the wrong people.
The ICO investigated the matter and found that there were not enough checks carried out when documents were being scanned to add to customer accounts. It even found that documents that were more sensitive received fewer checks.
ICO head of enforcement Stephen Eckersley suggested that the organisation should be looking after student data more carefully.
"For the majority of students, the Student Loans Company represents a crucial service that they rely on to fund their studies," he said.
"Students are obliged to provide personal information to the loans company, both while they receive the loan and in the years when they are paying it back, and they are right to expect that information to be properly looked after."
Eckersley added that the Student Loans Company had not properly looked after personal data, and outlined the changes that need to be made.
The Student Loans Company has now signed a formal undertaking which commits the organisation to ensuring that proper checks are carried out before correspondence is sent out, as well as making staff better aware of its data protection policy. More on:
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In Webmin under usermin configuration there is an option for “IP access control”, I have added my country’s IPs with a list provided by IP2location.com in CIDR format.
So, I log out, then I log in and everything fine, but when I tested with Pure VPN, I was still able to login to webmin for both root and regular users. I tested with USA IPs, Argentina IPs and France IPs and I was supposed to be blocked, right? | https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/webmin-usermin-configuration-for-ip-access-control/109460 |
1. Could you please share info.jsp. 3. To access this page, just append info.jsp to your YF URL. E.g. http://localhost:8080/info.jsp 2. Could you please let me know if there is any specific CVE or CWE number that you are referring to? I looked at the image however it didn't helped.
3. If possible, could you please share the complete vulnerability scan report document for us to investigate further.
I reviewed the report for CVE number but it was not mentioned explicitly, When I searched on the internet I could find relatively the same in https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/147163
Let me know if any more details are needed.
The user was unable to browse the http://localhost:8080/info.jsp so we requested them to export system information, please find details in the Word document.
Regarding the CVE number find the scan report in the Excel sheet. Yeah Sharwari, I have shared the details with them, but they are yet to come back.
I will you know the status as soon as inform us. | https://community.yellowfinbi.com/topic/28202-yellowfin-7-35-with-security-vulnerability-in-apache-tomcat |
Antivirus report for bmp2dxf.exe (0.56 MB)
Download3k has downloaded and tested version 7.6 of BMP to DXF on 2 Jul 2018 using only the best antivirus engines available Today.
We have found it to be clean of any form of badware (viruses, spyware, adware, etc.). You can view the full scan logs below.
We will test BMP to DXF again on the next version release so make sure you check back for updated reports in the near future.
2018-07-03 07:00:06 bmp2dxf.exe archive Inno 2018-07-03 07:00:07 bmp2dxf.exe//exe ok 2018-07-03 07:00:08 bmp2dxf.exe//exe ok 2018-07-03 07:00:24 bmp2dxf.exe//exe bmp2dxf.exe//script ok 2018-07-03 07:00:43 bmp2dxf.exe//data0000 ok 2018-07-03 07:00:43 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001 archive CHM 2018-07-03 07:00:43 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/help.css ok 2018-07-03 07:00:44 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/images/b_addfile.GIF ok 2018-07-03 07:00:44 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/images/b_format.GIF ok 2018-07-03 07:00:44 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/images/b_opt.GIF ok 2018-07-03 07:00:45 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/images/o_2.GIF ok 2018-07-03 07:00:45 bmp2dxf.exe//data0001//html/images/t_1.GIF ok
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There is an increase in voice phishing attacks, where hackers use existing employee names in attempt to trick victims into sharing login credentials and data by phone.
According to Check Point Research vishing attacks are targeting remote workforces, with the aim of getting a person to share login credentials or sensitive data.
During the phone call, attackers imitate company representatives, often from finance, HR, IT or legal departments, and use social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing account credentials or banking information. Attackers then use the information to steal the victim’s funds and/or deliver destructive malware.
The warning from Check Point researchers follows a joint advisory from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI, warning of a wave of vishing attacks targeting private sector companies in the US.
According to the advisory, threat actors typically call employees working from home to collect login credentials for corporate networks, which they later monetise by selling the access to other groups.
Recently, researchers at CPR were asked to investigate two vishing attacks against employees at an international corporation. The corporation received a total of 6 vishing phone calls within three months. Two of those phone calls are detailed below to better educate remote workers on the nature of vishing attacks.
The First Call
An attacker called the company’s technical support centre via a publicly available number, requesting to speak with a representative. The attacker introduced herself as an existing company employee, whose appearance matched the caller’s accent. During the call, the attacker requested the phone number of two other employees – both of them real company employees. The request was polite and accompanied by a spelling of the name, and shortly after that, the caller suggested the recipient install TeamViewer – a remote control application – allegedly to help the recipient locate the desired phone number. We can assume that the caller was carefully selected to match the description of the employee used as cover, and that the attackers verified that the employee was still working at the company.
Based on the area code, it appeared that the call originated from Miami. After further investigation, we discovered that the same phone number had been used and reported as phishing by users in Europe – the UK, Poland and Bulgaria as well as South Asia (Singapore, the Philippines and Japan). Individuals reported that callers from the same number asked for contact details of fellow employees. In total, the phone number was requested 95 times in the past 120 days.
The Second Call
Similarly to the above incident, the attacker reached out to the company’s technical support centre via a publicly available number, requesting to speak with a representative. In this case, the attacker shared a boarder cover story, involving a major telecommunication company. In return, the representative was more suspicious then before. This time, she used a phone number with no known spam reports found online, affiliated to San Francisco. Below is a partial transcription of the call. All names have been replaced to protect the targets’ identity.
“Vishing attacks are a growing cyber threat, alongside conventional phishing," says Lotem Finkelsteen, manager of threat intelligence at Check Poin.
"The direct nature of the vishing call means the attacker controls the information channel and puts additional pressure on the target. We’re seeing that more and more multi-staged cyber-attacks are incorporating vishing calls as part of their infection chains, for a number of reasons. "One, vishing attacks help hackers in their reconnaissance phase, where they can learn more about their targets. Second, vishing attacks deepen the phishing phase, as combining a call with an SMS message deepens the deception, for example. Third, vishing attacks become the core of major cyber-attacks, such as deceiving victims to handover 2FA codes sent over SMS, or grant access to a certain system, which is what happened in the Twitter account hijacking earlier this year.
"Remote workers everywhere should learn to not overshare and to verify the authenticity of whoever they find themselves on the phone with.”
“What we have identified is a live and ongoing cyber attack campaign targeting specific Linux users."More
APAC secure content management market to hit $2.2 billion by 2024
The proliferation of cloud-based deployments will largely drive this, the report says, as the COVID-19 pandemic motivates more enterprises to move their workloads to the cloud and rely more on the internet. More | https://securitybrief.eu/story/voice-phishing-attacks-on-the-rise-remote-workers-vulnerable |
Select the Webroot Mobile Security & Antivirus application from the search results and tap Install.
Wait until the installation gets over.
Open the main interface of the application and use it to remove malware and viruses.
After downloading the Webroot Mobile apps from the Google Play Store application, log in to your Webroot account.
If you do not have a Webroot account yet, create it.
Once done, make sure to activate the device administration as per the instructions on the Android mobile phone screen.
To activate all the features of the Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile Premier application, you have to register your product.
To do so, access the application’s menu and tap the Register option followed by the Activate option.
Provide your product key in the appropriate field and tap the Activate option.
Secure Browsing - In the Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile Premier application, tap the Security tab at the bottom of the screen.
Tap the Secure Web Browsing option and turn on the toggle to enable the Secure Browsing feature.
App Inspector - This feature is used to identify the applications draining the battery and compromising your privacy.
To access the App Inspector feature, tap the Identity & Privacy option on the main panel of the application and select the App Inspector option.
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Ships can be hacked and the reason is its vulnerable messaging system.
It is a fact that ship loading and container stowage plans are created without using a secure messaging system, and there is obviously a lengthy series of electronic messages that are exchanged between the entities responsible for the creation of vessels including shipping lines, terminals, and port authorities. Understandable this flaw can be exploited by malicious threat actors anytime at their will, and this is exactly what security firm Pen Test Partners’ security consultant Ken Munro is concerned about.
On a daily basis, large vessels use a system called BAPLIE to displace thousands of containers some carrying around 200,000 tons’ load. This system informs port authorities where to place every single container, and the ship’s manufacturers very regularly update it. However, if customers do not use its latest version, there is every chance of foul play since criminal hackers would obscure the real contents and weight of the container by altering the information sent to the customs.
More: Ships Can Be Hacked By Exploiting VSAT Communication System
Law enforcement authorities cannot examine every cargo and target shipments from countries that are categorized as high-risk. If a hacker alters this information, then investigators won’t be able to detect that a container is marked as high-risk.
In the official blog post, it was revealed that the threat is real and anyone can perform the hack. The vulnerability of messaging system would affect the day-to-day functioning of the ship as instead of completing the job of loading and unloading in 24 to 48 hours; the ship would take weeks for manual re-inventory. Furthermore, the load planning software, which is used for placement of heavy containers at the bottom of the stacks to ensure that gravity center stays low and balance is maintained, can be exploited to disturb this balance.
“How about if a hacker manipulated the load plan to put a ship out of balance deliberately? Disguise the data, so that the loading cranes unintentionally put the heavy containers at the top and on one side? While some balancing actions are automatic, the transfer pumps may not be able to cope with a rapidly advancing, unanticipated out of balance situation,” read the blog post.
Pen Test Partners has warned about the use of USB devices for exchanging data between ship and terminal mainly because of the possibility of inviting malware into the system since the computer having load plan software might also be used for surfing the web or emailing. Researcher claims that interoperability is vital between shipload plan and the various ports that it visits so that the load plan is securely transmitted to the port.
“Simple = USB = vulnerable. This is ripe for attack. The consequences are financial, environmental and possibly even fatal,” states Munro.
Pen Test Partners has urged operators, terminals and ports to conduct a thorough review of their messaging systems so that the threat of tampering is curtailed given that there is already evidence of stealing of valuable items from containers parked at the port probably via insider access. | https://www.hackread.com/hackers-can-exploit-load-planning-software-to-capsize-balance-of-large-vessels/ |
These are among the questions that will be addressed by experts in the field at the third annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference to be held Wednesday, September 21 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Registration for the daylong event is under way here, and early registration discounts are in effect through August 21.
Featuring speakers from government, business and academia, the conference is sponsored by the university’s Whiting School of Engineering, its Information Security Institute and by COMPASS Cyber Security. The theme for this year’s event is “Navigating Today’s Cyber Security Terrain,” featuring presentations and panel discussions with 13 experts.
“The threat of data breaches, malware, ransomware and other cyber security intrusions cannot be understated for organizations large and small,” said Anton Dahbura, executive director of Johns Hopkins University’s Information Security Institute (JHUISI), part of the Whiting School of Engineering. “This conference is designed to be a one-stop-shop for business executives and all who have a vested interest in their organization’s digital security to hear about security best practices and trends and to participate in the discussion with the foremost experts in the field.”
Michael Misumi of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will deliver a presentation on advanced persistent threat attacks, in which hackers gain access to a network and remain there for an extended period of time to steal information. Misumi will consider what such an attack looks like from a defender’s viewpoint, and lessons that have been learned in the aftermath of such attacks.
Mike Colford of Aspen Insurance will present on what an organization can do to prepare for and respond to a data breach. He’ll consider response planning, regulatory concerns and steps for effective management of a data breach. | https://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/latest-news/10292-cyber-security-experts-to-discuss-attack-defense-response.html |
TIME.CO, Jakarta – One patient was confirmed positive for the disease monkeypox or monkeypox, also known as smallpox, in the city of Bandung. According to the head of the special infection team of the Central General Hospital, Dr. Hasan Sadikin or RSHS Bandung, Yovita Hartantri, the patient was given drugs to reduce pain and itching. “In this case we did not give him the antiviral because his condition was stable,” he said on Monday 30 October 2023.
According to him, the patient is a 36-year-old man living in the city of Bandung. The condition is that there are many lesions or rashes on the body. However, according to Yovita, the category does not fall under the strict criteria because there is no dysfunction of body organs such as the liver or kidneys. “Antivirals are administered to patients whose conditions are serious, so far there are no antivirals at RSHS Bandung,” he said.
The findings in this case began with a report of suspected monkeypox in a patient received by RSHS Bandung on Tuesday last week. After taking several samples, such as from skin rashes, swabs or throat swabs, and sending them to the testing laboratory, the results came back last Friday. “The results are positive, let’s say it’s a confirmed case of mux,” Yovita said.
The patient is treated in the hospital so that the doctor can determine the diagnosis. In the case of Bandung there is a similarity between monkey pox and chickenpox, namely in the shape of the fluid-filled bumps on the skin. “The forms are different, similar to chickenpox,” she said. Usually on one area such as the face, hands, or body, the shape of monkeypox bumps is relatively the same.
Yovita said initial symptoms of monkeypox include fever, feeling sick, muscle or joint pain. According to him, these symptoms are like viral infections in general. Then within two to three days lesions or rashes will appear. Starting from the face, body and palms, then there is an enlargement of the lymph nodes in the neck.
According to Yovita, the onset of monkeypox occurred slowly, lasting up to two weeks. Divided into several criteria, the disease is considered dangerous if it causes complications, namely by the spread of the skin throughout the body. If the condition is severe enough to impair kidney and liver function, the consequences can be fatal. “Spox can be serious and even deadly, even if the rate is 3%,” she said.
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Yovita said the disease has been transmitted from animals to humans and now between humans through close contact with skin rashes or body fluids. It could also come from objects contaminated with viruses. Another route of transmission is through respiratory droplets, for example through coughing. Patients who are at serious risk of infection should receive hospital care. “Typically in children, pregnant women and people who have other diseases such as HIV,” she said.
Even so, Yovita asked residents not to panic. “Don’t panic yet, in the case of mux, it’s actually not very easy to transmit,” she said. Preventive measures when dealing with monkeypox patients include wearing gloves, maskwash hands and clean objects attached to the patient. | https://midlandatelier.com/when-treating-monkeypox-patients-why-doesnt-rshs-bandung-provide-antivirus/ |
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There are literally uncountable websites around the world. How many sites you can suspect while there are few hundred thousand of sites to steal your identity, do phishing and harm your computer or even worse. You might say hey I have an Anti virus or personal firewall installed in my computer and I am secure. But in that case you’ve spend enough money to secure your computer. Nevertheless not every time an anti virus or firewall software can detect a fake or low privacy site. Previously I’ve tried to use SiteAdvisor from McAfee the popular anti virus maker and Internet Explorer’s Phishing site checker but honestly both of them didn’t really fit my expectations. Then recently I’ve introduced to WOT (Web of Trust) software from one of my online contacts. WOT is a Mozilla recommended security add-on that also works with Internet Explorer and has been downloaded 3 million times. WOT addon warns you about risky websites to help you avoid spyware, browser hijacking, identity theft, phishing and other Internet scams. WOT is a user contributed site checker and comes with a huge database of known sites. This software comes in a flavor of plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the 2 most used browser on the globe. It represents the safety marks in a ring format. Dark green is most safe and Dark red represents no safety at all. The colors are designed in Human behavior so it takes a less than a second to understand it. As long we understand Red light is No Go and Green light is a Go. Lets take a look at the features this product offers for Free:
WOT have website rating information on over 21 million websites that is updated continuously by the user community and trusted sources such as listings of malware and phishing sites. | https://www.tech2all.com/2009/02/12/wot-protecting-you-against-scam-phishing-spyware-and-dangerous-websites/ |
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Stuxnet's inability to stay stealthy may be fall-out from a failure to hit its intended targets last year, security researchers said today.
The worm, which was designed to infiltrate heavy-duty industrial control programs that monitor and manage factories, oil pipelines, power plants and other critical installations, only popped onto researchers' radars this summer, nearly a year after it was likely first launched.
"Obviously, it spread beyond its intended target or targets," said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, one of the two security companies that has spent the most time analyzing Stuxnet.
Most researchers have agreed that Stuxnet's sophistication -- they've called it "groundbreaking" -- means that it was almost certainly built by a well-financed, high-powered team backed by a government. The worm's probable target was Iran, possibly the systems in its budding nuclear power program.
Earlier this week, Iranian officials acknowledged that tens of thousands of Windows PCs had been infected with Stuxnet, including some in place at a nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran. They have denied that the attack had damaged any facilities, however, or that Stuxnet contributed to well-known delays in the reactor's construction.
But if Stuxnet was aimed at a specific target list, why has it spread to thousands of PCs outside Iran, in countries as far flung as China and Germany, Kazakhstan and Indonesia?
"That's something we find puzzling," said Liam O Murchu, operations manager with Symantec's security response, and a co-author of a paper that analyzed the worm's code.
Even though the Stuxnet makers obviously included measures to limit its spread, something went amiss, O Murchu said.
The original infection method, which relied on infected USB drives, included a counter that limited the spread to just three PCs, said O Murchu. "It's clear that the attackers did not want Stuxnet to spread very far," he said. "They wanted it to remain close to the original infection point."
O Murchu's research also found a 21-day propagation window; in other words, the worm would migrate to other machines in a network only for three weeks before calling it quits.
Those anti-propagation measures notwithstanding, Stuxnet has spread widely. Why?
Kaspersky's Schouwenberg believes it's because the initial attack, which relied on infected USB drives, failed to do what Stuxnet's makers wanted.
"My guess is that the first variant didn't achieve its target," said Schouwenberg, referring to the worm's 2009 version that lacked the more aggressive propagation mechanisms, including multiple Windows zero-day vulnerabilities. "So they went on to create a more sophisticated version to reach their target."
That more complex edition, which O Murchu said was developed in March of this year, was the one that "got all the attention," according to Schouwenberg. But the earlier edition had already been at work for months by then -- and even longer before a little-known antivirus vendor from Belarus first found it in June. "The first version didn't spread enough, and so Stuxnet's creators took a gamble, and abandoned the idea of making it stealthy," said Schouwenberg.
In Schouwenberg's theory, Stuxnet's developers realized their first attempt had failed to penetrate the intended target or targets, and rather than simply repeat the attack, decided to raise the ante.
"They spent a lot of time and money on Stuxnet," Schouwenberg said. "They could try again [with the USB-only vector] and maybe fail again, or they could take the risk of it spreading by adding more functionality to the worm."
O Murchu agreed that it was possible the worm's creators had failed to infect, and thus gain control, of the industrial systems running at their objective(s), but said the code itself didn't provide clear clues.
What is clear, O Murchu said in a news conference Friday morning, is that Stuxnet evolved over time, adding new ways to spread on networks in the hope of finding specific PLCs (programming logic control) hardware to hijack. "It's possible that [the attackers] didn't manage to get to all of their targets [with the earlier version]," O Murchu said. "The increased sophistication of Stuxnet in 2010 may indicate that they had not reached their target."
With the proliferation of Stuxnet, Schouwenberg said that the country or countries that created the worm may have themselves been impacted by its spread. But that was likely a calculated risk the worm's developers gladly took.
And that risk may have been quite small. "Perhaps they knew that their own critical infrastructure wouldn't be affected by Stuxnet because it's not using Siemens PLCs," Schouwenberg said.
Stuxnet only tried to grab control of PLCs manufactured by German electronics giant Siemens, which has supplied large amounts of industrial control hardware and software to Iran.
O Murchu's research seemed to back up Schouwenberg's speculation. "Stuxnet looks to see that a specific type of PLCs are present," he said today. "Those are quite popular models, but it does show that they knew what hardware was being used at the target or targets." Additionally, the code only infected PLCs that used a specific model of network card.
The identity of Stuxnet's makers may never be known, both Schouwenberg and O Murchu said. However, some clues in the code point to Israel , or at least the hackers wanted everyone to think Israel was behind the cyber attack against Iran.
"But as long as no one takes responsibility for the attack, the authors really had nothing to lose by letting the worm spread," said Schouwenberg. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/363057/why_did_stuxnet_worm_spread_/ |
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Researchers from RiskIQ have found that Knotweed’s attack infrastructure, spreading malware since February 2020, is linked to DSIRF. This includes its official website and domains possibly used to debug and stage the malware.
DSIRF’s own website advertises itself as an organization that provides detailed information regarding research, forensics, and data-driven intelligence services to corporations.
However, the group is associated with the development of Subzero, which its customers can use to hack targets' phones, networks, computers, and internet-connected devices.
In addition, Microsoft found numerous links between DSIRF and Knotweed, such as common C2 infrastructure. They have targeted law firms, banks, and strategic consultancy entities from Panama, the U.K, and Austria.
Corelump and Subzero malware
On infected systems, the attackers deployed Corelump, a primary payload in memory to evade detection, and Jumplump, a malware loader that downloads and loads Corelump into memory.
Corelump loads Subzero payload, which has several capabilities including keylogging, running remote shells, capturing screenshots, and downloading plugins from the C2 server.
Abuse of zero-day
Zero-days used in the Knotweed campaign include a recently patched Windows bug CVE-2022-22047, which allowed the attackers to escalate privileges, obtain system-level code execution, and escape sandboxes.
A year ago, Knotweed used an exploit chain of two Windows privilege escalation exploits (CVE-2021-31199/CVE-2021-31201), along with an Adobe Reader exploit (CVE-2021-28550). | https://cyware.com/news/dsirf-knotweed-jointly-abused-zero-day-to-deploy-subzero-malware-47d043b6 |
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[<HKLM>\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List] '%TEMP%\vbc.exe' = '%TEMP%\vbc.exe:*:Enabled: Windows Messanger' [<HKLM>\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List] '%APPDATA%\NEUEBASXTS.exe' = '%APPDATA%\NEUEBASXTS.exe:*:Enabled:Wi... | https://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=21434599&lng=en |
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Thank you. It seems these were the techniques used by the Romanian Intelligence Service, to find and confiscate all proof held by some people, which incriminated a highly ranked official dignitary in Romania (known pedophile), so politicians can cover his ass and clean all his records before any attempt of trial.
For the past years I asked myself how they found out the precise locations of proof in hiding, trying not to believe in conspiracy theories; but it seems they applied physics and science that I was not aware of at the time, to listen and find the precise hiding spots.
You got it all wrong @Jarland - Romanian Intelligence Service spied on some people, to get the proof from their houses, and protect the pedophile (because the pedophile is an official dignitary).
Edit: I know all this, because a friend of mine had multiple images and video evidence (seen them myself) which were taken from his house by “legal” action. Politicians protect themselves and their relations. I would provide more details, but I can’t, because I do not want my children to grow-up without a father. I hope you understand why this thread is sensible for me too. | https://hostedtalk.net/t/new-vulnerability-light-bulbs/4949 |
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You have some increased rights in relation to electronic data. If it can be made portable and be able to be sent in a portable format to you or someone else you can make this request. You also have a right to have automated decisions made about you reviewed and request information regarding any profiling. | https://www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/all-services/advice/data-protection |
2. Unregister the Dll File egnsengine.dll
This can be done by using opening the MS-Dos Prompt. Using the directory found above locate the folder of the file, then type regsvr32 /u [egnsengine.dll] to unregister the dll file.
3. Locate and delete egnsengine.dll. Make sure egnsengine.dll process is no longer running under the task manager process tab. | http://www.dllspyware.com/spyware/egnsengine.dll/error.htm |
Steps TO GET RID OF Easily From Infected Windows
is definitely a harmful document encryption virus that helps hackers to cheat cash from users. This perilous danger is established by cyber crooks to encrypt users data and demand ransom costs. It really is designed is certainly a very sophisticated way that help this risk to victimize all Windows computer systems very easily. It could silently sneak into your machine by using spam emails, suspicious websites, shareware, bundled software and many other tricks. Once installed on your system, will lock down all of your data files. It’ll make all of your data worthless and keep ransom message on your pc screen. When you will attempt to access any of your data files, then it’ll show mistake message.
gets the primary purpose to extort money from users. It’ll display ransom message on your computer where it demand the ransom fees through BitCoins. Additionally, it may change the desktop history of your personal computer with any its ransom message screenshot. It will provide you with time to pay the amount of money. It will guarantee you to give the decryption crucial after payment. It is very risky to trust any malware that may lock all your data files without your permission. isn’t designed to decrypt your data files. Its only program is to consider your cash and get vanished. You ought not pay ransom amount to hackers because it can boost their evil intentions to cheat even more users. You should firstly remove completely from your system and then try to recover your data files.
Solution 3 : Delete related items from registry entries
Press the combination of “Win + R” keys together.
In the Run box, type “regedit” (without quotes) and hit on Enter button.
Type “CTRL + F” keys and write the in the search type field to find out malicious executable item.
Now, Delete them but you should be very careful not to Delete the legitimate keys.
Choose the restore points at which your System was not infected.
Press on “Next” button and follow the removal procedures.
Go to Start menu and right click on it to choose “Control Panel” option.
Now, open the Control Panel option and choose Recovery option.
Step 2. After installing software, enable it on your Operating System.
Step 3. Now, Add or remove files from your Operating System which will be excluded from the detection like .
Step 4. Lastly, exit from software.
Data recovery Software
Way to Restore Data After Attack Using MiniTool Power Data Recovery Program
First of all, you have to select the MiniTool Power Data Recovery program and after launching it choose a “Recovery Module”.
Click the target device and choose on “Scan” button. Although, the scanning speed depends on the quantity of data you selected for recovery.
Now, preview the files that you really want to Recover and then click on “Save” button to save the recoverable files onto your local disk after Deleting .
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U.S. agency to vote on auctioning key unused parts of 2.5 GHz band for 5G | https://www.uninstallmalwares.com/deleting-blitzkrieg-file-extension-ransomware-manually-free-virus-removal-programs |
There does not seem to be anything suspicious about InternetSpeedTester, but our research team labels it as a potentially unwanted program. It means that the application may have certain features that users may deem undesirable. Also, it could be possible that this program gets installed on target systems accidentally. It would not be surprising knowing how potentially unwanted programs travel around. So if you do not know why or how this application entered your system, perhaps you should really consider removing InternetSpeedTester for good. Please scroll to the bottom of this description for the manual removal instructions.
Since this potentially unwanted program is there on your computer, we have grounds to believe that you have more unwanted applications, too. That is because such programs usually travel in groups. This distribution method is often called “bundled downloads,” which means that a few programs are packed together in one third-party installer, and users set them up on their system at the same time. Sometimes, they set up those programs without even knowing that they install InternetSpeedTester or some other freeware app. This is why attentiveness is very important if you want to protect your computer and your personal information from potential exploitation.
Luckily, InternetSpeedTester is not much of a system security threat. This program an identical clone of UltimateSpeedTester, and these applications are known to be similar to DailyBee, WikiThemes, DailyWiki, WikiZ, and so on. The application is supposed to let you know your average Internet connection speed, and its interface can always be there on your screen, or you can minimize it into the system tray icon. Whichever it might be, the functionality of this program is obviously minimal, and it is very doubtful whether it can provide you with a useful service. What’s more, you probably know that there are a lot of websites out there that can help you calculate your connection speed, too.
Therefore, it would seem that there is no need to keep a third-party application with such limited functionality. On top of that, there is always a risk that this application could be associated with unfamiliar third parties. Since such programs are distributed for free, they need to make a living somehow, and so there is a possibility that they could engage in third-party content promotion. This would be sad news because freeware apps cannot control the content they promote, and almost anyone can embed their links in the advertising space.
Having such concerns in mind, it would be for the best to terminate InternetSpeedTester and delete it from your computer. Please note that you will have to remove leftover files yourself because removal via Control Panel does not delete this application through and through. If you are not confident about manual removal yourself, you can invest in a security application that will do the job for you automatically. This way, you would also ensure that your PC is protected against similar intruders in the future. Finally, if you have any questions regarding this program or your system’s security in general, please do not hesitate to leave us a comment.
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Signal’s reputation for secure messaging doesn’t make it completely invulnerable to hacking incidents. The company has confirmed that a data breach at verification partner Twillio exposed the phone numbers and SMS codes of roughly 1,900 users. As TechCrunch observed, the intruder could have either used the information to either identify Signal users or re-register their numbers to other devices.
The data has already been misused. | https://www.databreaches.net/signal-says-third-party-data-breach-exposed-1900-phone-numbers/ |
Five-country group including U.S. calls for encryption back doors, says privacy not absolute admin September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 Comments Off on Five-country group including U.S. calls for encryption back doors, says privacy not absolute
The privacy of Internet users "is not absolute, according to a statement from a five-country coalition that includes the United States following a meeting about security, with the overall theme demanding technology companies to make social networks and messaging services safer and to offer more support to government agencies to break encryption and access potentially sensitive data. | https://appleday.org/five-country-group-including-u-s-calls-for-encryption-back-doors-says-privacy-not-absolute/ |
We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the US to sell current KIN phones.
Though this stops short of confirming that the phone is dead in the US, it does show that Redmond's ambitions for the phone have been, at best, substantially scaled back. It also raises questions of whether a promised software update that was due this summer will ever materialize.
Though the Sidekick had been extremely popular in the "tweenager" target market, it appears that success has not been replicated with the KIN. Reviews, albeit by people outside the intended demographic, were lukewarm. Though the KIN did contain strong concepts—its KIN Studio photo and video sharing application was almost universally praised—the execution left much to be desired. Essential and obvious functionality such as calendars was missing.
This problem was then compounded by Verizon's pricing. The KIN phones were unambiguously feature phones—they lacked any kind of support for applications or extensibility—but Verizon priced both handsets and call plans as if they were smartphones.
Though the handset prices have been slashed in the six weeks since the product launched, the call plans remain expensive, putting them beyond the reach of many in the teenage target audience (or their parents).
Verizon's level of in-store promotion was also weak; the KIN phones were not pushed in the same way that the Motorola Droid, the iPhone, or even the Palm Pre have been. There have also been rumors of abysmal sales: one claimed that fewer than 1,000 handsets have been sold.
If these claims are true (or even close to the mark), KIN's termination is perhaps no surprise. The bigger question is whether this decision is simply Microsoft cutting its losses, or whether it is the first step towards a new, more coherent strategy for the phone market?
KIN was the culmination of many years of development that began with the acquisition of the Sidekick's creator, Danger. Granted, I'm not the target demographic for the Kin, but I never saw it going anywhere. The situations envisioned in the commercials just aren't "real life" for most people. How many times are you out clubbing and want to take pictures and share them instantly? Facebook has taught us: not too many times.
Ditto finding out your favorite singer is throwing an impromptu concert - that's what Facebook is for. And chances are your favorite singer has a Facebook page, followers, and updates things that way.
If the pricing had been lower, it might have taken off for younger people. But a new device that doesn't really do anything new at a high price point is kind of a recipe for failure in the current market.
I believe he means how the Droid is being marketing and how the iPhone and Palm Pre are being marketed by their respective stake holders.
For what it's worth I tried to go check out a Kin last week and the whole Verizon store was full of fake phones on display. You couldn't use a single one of them, so we just left.
The Kin was fine for a sidekick replacement. The problem came from Verizon's $30 data plan.
If this had the exact plan the Sidekick had it would sell. If Verizon would have created a Kin only data plan for 15 or 20 dollars or had a plan that included voice and data for 40 or 50 dollars it would have been a hit because many parents do not want to pay for the $30 data plan plus $40, or $50 for voice service.
Kin, killed by Verizon's insistence on a $30/mo data plan, and Microsoft's inability to stick up for itself and its products.
Microsoft is a bunch of pansies. They cant twist anyone's arm to get a good deal if their life depended on it. And in this case, Kin's ability to have a feasible go to market strategy did rely on it, and they failed.
I was actually thinking about how Apple strongarmed AT&T until they gave Apple a price point that they felt was reasonable and would promote the device. Things like iPad $30 data plan, no contract and all of that probably wouldn't have been suggested by the communications company.
If Microsoft would have insisted that the basic data plan for the KIN One be $35-50 for both voice and data (even if it was a limited amount of either) then the device might have ended up gaining some traction.
I wonder if Microsoft could just unlock a load of these things and put them out into the market for cheap.
Perhaps Microsoft should have pulled an Apple and launched on AT&T. Verizon only hit pay dirt on Android after T-Mobile showed the way (and iPhone clubbed them on the head). Verizon is not the place to innovate.
$30 data on a phone targeted at tweens with feature phone capabilities.... you have to be kidding.
Trouble is, they keep coming out with these overhyped, undercooked consumer products, and it poisons the well for anything good they might do in the future. How will they get traction with WP7 given how Kin fared? We think WP7 will be a much better product, but will the VZW salespeople? Will consumers? Look at this list that knowledgeable people will draw on: Windows Mobile, xbox 360, Zune, PlaysForSure, Windows Media hardware, Games for Windows... There's a good chance of getting burned by MS.
I think MS is in a bad spot here. I think Verizon and AT&T have their champions already. I think MS is training people to ignore their products, because they don't believe in them.
Sony and Apple generally stick with products, even bad ones, and eventually get them right. Oh, they'll still abandon and discontinue clunkers, but they aren't discontinuing major project after project after people buy into them like MS has been doing.
Was Kin great? No. Should it be abandoned after a few weeks on sale? I applaud their decisiveness, but ouch.
Where you going to take it Sprint, Cricket, US Cellular, Metro, or Jump it is a CDMA phone wont be that easy to get it on any network.
The project was overseen by Microsoft veteran Roz Ho; after managing the merger of the KIN team into the Windows Phone 7 team, she will be moving to some unspecified new role within the company.
Read: 'spend more time with her family'.
Why not? They're basing a lot of Win Phone 7 on the Zune, not exactly a success. Add this to that mix, and Wowzie!
But, more seriously, you can't design phones specifically for tweens, teens, and twentysomethings. They're not the same grouping. And what person really wants something designed for their category?
Next MS will makes phones for retirees. Maybe Ballmer can be in the beta test category as he's being shoved out the door.
The pricing was insanity, no doubt about that.
Why? Even though it seems popular to blame the plan pricing as the main villian, it's not likely that's the case.
If it were, then millions of tweens, teens, and twentysomethings wouldn't have iPhones.
this. tweens/teens want the same things their friends want or have. nothing more than that.
But they do! Why? Because they want the PHONES! In this case, they don't want the phones. Cut the plan price in half, and more would have bought them, but likely not enough to make them a success.
I agree.
If the device itself had been worth the money people would have paid it. They did not know what a huge turd they had made.
I would be exceptionally curious to know how many people went to the store with any intent to purchase the device and only stopped because of price. My perception surrounding the device is that there wasn't any interest in it. Any more than there is an interest in the latest LG 8---- crap phone.
At the Kin product launch there was a lot of talk about focus groups, and researching what teenagers actually wanted. They made a huge, huge deal out of doing this research. However --like in movies and television-- focus group research does not necessarily translate to the real world (See the recent flop Knight and Day, which the Fox Marketing VP blames on himself, because it "tested so well"). They lacked any real insight in to this market. Much like the languishing Zune.
They also shot themselves in the foot with the horrendous marketing campaign. One thing should be clear to marketing executives: Teenagers want what adults have. Marketing a phone like a toy for stalkers, is not really an ideal way to appeal to them. Look at Apple. Have you seen a commercial targeted at spunky tweens? Do you know how many spunky tweens I see with iPhones on a daily basis?
Microsoft desperately needs someone with taste and creative vision. I do not want them to fail --competition is the spice of the technology market. They keep churning out half-baked products that wither and die, and all the executive chairs get reshuffled. Where is the ART, Microsoft?
Sadly, it's not just Microsoft's fault. The braintrust at Verizon thought this was all a super idea too... | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/inform-the-next-of-kin-microsofts-tweenager-phone-is-no-more/?comments=1 |
What demotivates aspirants is the idea that at least 4-5 attempts are a must to qualify UPSC CSE EXAMS. This is absolutely incorrect. It’s true that this exam demands time to prepare but that’s not more than 2 to 3 years. It’s a learning process where you will make multiple mistakes and so, would need time to rectify them too. Most aspirants do not realise this fact and waste their attempts with inadequate preparation, which in turn, demotivates them. So, you need a mentor to guide you in this journey and tell you WHEN TO START and HOW TO START your preparation. Also before knowing what to study an aspirant has to first know WHAT NOT TO STUDY in this era of overflooded information around us. This is where the role of a Mentor becomes all the more important so that you do not waste your crucial time reading unnecessary content.
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In a landscape where small and medium businesses (SMBs) represent the target of 43% of all data breaches and suffered losses exceeding $2.8 billion in 2020 alone, the need for cybersecurity readiness is starkly evident. While large firms maintain dedicated cybersecurity departments, budget constraints can hinder small businesses from doing the same. Thus, small businesses should empower themselves to handle cybersecurity whenever possible.
Though we always recommend partnering with a managed service provider (MSP) to help augment internal resources, here are a few tips that you can use to help bolster your defense against cyberattacks.
Firewalls act as barriers against external access to private networks. Install or enable the operating system's firewall on your business systems, and ensure remote employees also activate their system's firewall.
Safeguarding data demands proactive engagement, resourcefulness, and resilience. Because of the breadth of resources available to them, managed service providers and cybersecurity firms are ultimately the best way to ensure the security of your company and clients. However, small businesses may need alternative methods. These 5 steps can jumpstart data protection if you're going solo, but remember, ongoing efforts are crucial for maintaining security. For an additional set of eyes on your cybersecurity setup, contact us for a technology review. | https://business.sharpusa.com/simply-smarter-blog/5-diy-cybersecurity-steps-for-small-businesses |
We are currently living in an age where the use of the Internet has become second nature to millions of people. However, the Internet continues to be threatened by numerous risks, such as that of online crime Core to criminal activities on the Internet is the exploitation of private information. Thus, Internet users are at risk of having their private information compromised and misused. According to Prof. Dr. Ir. Henk Jan Jansen, many users lack awareness and knowledge; consequently, they are ignorant of the need to protect their personal and confidential information. Moreover, users’ insecure online behavior makes them easy targets for exploitation. The lack of cyber-security awareness amongst adults negatively impacts their role of protecting the children in their care.
Henk Jan Jansen argue that many parents are not knowledgeable of the threats apparent online; and therefore, they are unable to teach their children about secure online behavior. As such, the safety of children is also compromised. Lack of knowledge is viewed as an important factor that contributes to insecure online behavior by Internet users. As a result, people are seen as “a severe threat to each other’s security”. In addition, such lack of the relevant knowledge has made the population easy targets for hackers and botnet operators.
In view of the consequences of the lack of knowledge, cyber-security and awareness therefore become issues of fundamental importance. Prof. Dr. Ir. Henk Jan Jansen affirms that promoting cyber-security awareness would contribute greatly towards cyber-security as a whole. Awareness and education can provide Internet users with the ability to recognize and circumvent any risks that are apparent online. Additionally, education plays a critical part in cultivating a culture of secure behavior amongst Internet users.
While the working class may be getting some form from industry, for home users and society at large, a national campaign for is urgently required. In this context, it is the role of the government to empower all levels of society – by providing the necessary knowledge and expertise to act securely online.
However, there is currently a definite deficiency in UAE in this regard, as there are currently little government- led and sponsored initiatives. Therefore, the primary research objective addressed in this post is to propose a framework for UAE that would assist in creating a cyber-secure culture in UAE among all of the users of the Internet. The following section will briefly discuss the current cyber-security efforts in UAE.
2 CYBER-SECURITY EFFORTS IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
As UAE becomes ever more reliant on cyberspace to govern and to conduct business; it is increasingly being exposed to cyber threats. In the year 2016, the UAE government released a Draft Cyber- Security Policy. This draft policy implied that UAE is not currently in a position to deal effectively with cyber-related threats. Additionally, the draft policy stated that UAE lags behind other countries in the development of cyber-security protocols and standards, as well as in the implementation of such protocols and standards.
Articulated in this draft policy framework is the intent to secure cyberspace, and to ensure the protection of UAE’s national critical information infrastructure. This draft policy framework aims to create a knowledgeable society that understands cyber-related threats. Moreover, it intends to provide a cyber-security approach that is holistic; and, in doing so, it requires the support of all role-players, such as the State, the public and private sectors, and society at large.
This draft policy framework is based on the assumption that UAE wishes to cultivate a cyber-security culture amongst its citizens and society. As such, are critical components in such a culture. Conversely, the draft policy framework at hand is silent regarding . In addition, in 2016 the Department of Communication announced that a cyber-security awareness strategy was being developed. However, such a strategy has not yet been published. Consequently, UAE does not yet have a government-initiated cyber-security awareness program, together with education initiatives, in place.
There are, however, currently existing initiatives in UAE. The primary objective of this post is to “campaign for the effective delivery of Cyber-Security Awareness throughout United Arab Emirates to all groupings of the population”. As the means to reach its objective.
The proposed, or similar, framework for for UAE will, if implemented and used by the UAE government, contribute to creating the envisaged cyber-secure culture in UAE amongst its citizens and users of the Internet. Following is a brief description of the methodology used to articulate the proposed framework.
3 THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This paper proposes a framework, in the form of an artefact. Similarly, design science concerns itself with creating an artefact as a solution to such a problem. Consequently, this research was conducted in the design science-research paradigm.
There are various approaches to design science, one of which is that defined by Jansen and his colleagues have developed a design-science approach that is consistent with the design-science processes in other disciplines. This approach provides a method for conducting research. Furthermore, provides a mental model of what the research output should resemble. On the basis of the aforementioned factors, this approach was followed in this research.
According to the selected research approach, six definite steps, as listed below, were followed.
Problem identification and motivation. Identifying the problem, while motivating the value of a solution.
Objectives of a solution. Deducing the objective of the solution from the identified problem.
Design and development. Creating a solution in the form of an artefact.
Demonstration. Demonstrating the efficacy of the artefact for solving the problem.
Evaluation. Observing and measuring how well the artefact supports a solution to the problem.
Communication. Creating scholarly and/or professional publications.
These steps are intended to guide the researcher. Therefore, this research has closely followed the declared steps, using the relevant research methods at each step of the process, in order to produce the expected out- come. The research methods that were employed in this study are as follows:
In line with Jansen, a literature review was initially conducted, in order to gain insight and under- standing of the research area, as well as to bring clarity and focus to the research problem, as stated in Subsection 1.2. Thereafter, a comparative analysis on selected developed countries was performed. According to Jansen, “the underlying goal of comparative analysis is to search for similarity and variance”.
From the similarities and variances of the countries studied, certain key factors pertaining to were forthcoming.
An initial set of key factors was published and reviewed, using peer reviews; and this set was subsequently presented at the Dubai Bootcamp for scholarship. Based on the feedback obtained from the Bootcamp, these factors were adapted accordingly. Sub-sequently, the proposed framework was developed – on the basis of these key factors. This will be discussed further in the following section.
From the research paradigm utilized in this study design science evaluation is deemed to be a very important component. Through evaluation, the extent to which the artefact supports the solution to the identified problem situation can be measured.
Furthermore, the use of well-executed evaluation methods also demonstrates the quality of an artefact.
This makes it possible to address both the demonstration and the evaluation steps of design science. These steps were addressed by using elite/expert interviews as the evaluation procedure. Elite/expert interviews can be defined as “a discussion with someone knowledgeable about a problem, or its possible solution”. Elite/expert interviews are semi-structured interviews. As such, they are flexible in nature, and do not require a standard set of questions, in order to be included in the interview guide. In this form of interview, the interview guide consists of a list of themes, and these themes largely guide the questions asked. However, questions vary from respondent to respondent.
According to Prof. Jansen, this method of interviewing is used to discuss a subject with a knowledgeable person: the ‘elite’. shed light on some of the advantages of elite/expert interviews. These advantages are outlined below.
The interviewer has the opportunity to triangulate information among interviewees – without revealing the names of any other respondents.
Elites are more capable of providing a general view of a particular subject.
The interviewees are able to provide valuable in- formation, as a result of their respective positions.
With elite/expert interviews, the interviewer has the opportunity to probe a topic in depth, in order to gain more insight and understanding on a particular subject. The subject in this case is cyber-security awareness, together with education. Thus, the chosen elites should be knowledgeable on the subjects of .
Define an elite individual as someone who is influential, prominent and well- informed about a particular area in the research study. Jansen further maintains that the person’s position is also a contributing factor when considering elites. There are known categories of elites, namely, ultra-elites and professional elites.
Others argue that researchers define the term ‘elite’ in a manner that is subjective to the relevant respondents. By contrast, this research will not seek a new definition for the term ‘elite’; it will merely adopt the definition provided by Jansen.
Owing to the nature of elites, gaining access can be a challenge. However, in the case of this research, access was gained comparatively easily. Contrary to other participants who recommend the use of formal letters, followed by phone calls to make contact with elites, emails were used. This decision was influenced by the electronic nature of the modern day. As such, using emails to contact the elites proved to work well, as they provided prompt responses.
In this study, the elites where chosen, based on their line of work, experience and knowledge in the field of cyber-security, and particularly in the domains of cyber-awareness and education. Two elites where selected to review the proposed framework in an elite interview.
Elite one works for the CSIR as a cyber-security Specialist and researcher in a Cyber Defense for Scientific Research Group. Moreover, Jansen has published a number of research articles on national . Elite two is the Research Group Leader of the Cyber Defense for Scientific Research at the CSIR. Elite two has spent more than 20 years in academia. Likewise, elite two has also published a number of journal articles and presented numerous conference papers at national and international conferences on the subject of cyber-security.
As such, the framework was revised accordingly, based on the feedback received from the elites. An account of the verification of this framework is elaborated on in Section 6.
This section has provided a brief overview of the research process followed in this study. Moving forward is a brief elaboration of the comparative analysis, which was performed, and the presentation of the cyber- security awareness and key educational factors.
4 CYBER-SECURITY AWARENESS AND KEY EDUCATIONAL FACTORS
To explore the way other countries, promote , a comparative analysis of four developed countries was conducted. This comparative analysis focused on the national cyber- security strategies of these countries, as well as on particular nationally initiated and driven initiatives. From this analysis, the principal factors will be extrapolated, in order to form the basis of a similar envisaged al framework for the UAE.
The countries analyzed were: The United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, and Canada. These countries were chosen because all of them have national cyber-security strategies; they all have at least one national sponsored cyber-security education and awareness initiative; and they are listed in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Being a member of the OECD is of relevance to the study, because this organization promotes the development of policies that improve a country’s economic and social wellbeing. The analysis was based on the following thematic questions:
2. What is the country’s foremost aim regarding ?
3. Who is assigned the duty to oversee -related tasks?
5. When can the implementation initiatives be expected?
In the four countries investigated, it is evident that efforts are the result of a national directive outlined in the respective national cyber-security policies. From these policies, it can be seen that each country has a particular objective behind the issues .
In the US, the primary purpose is deeply rooted in protecting the national critical infrastructure. In the UK, on the other hand, the main reason behind is to serve as a tool for accomplishing its high-level cyber-security objectives. In Canada and Australia, the growing reliance on cyberspace has greatly influenced the economy of these countries. Thus, strengthening their respective economic stance, should be included as high-level cyber- security objectives in the national cyber-security policies.
It may, therefore, be concluded that the rationale behind pursuing varies from country to country. Moreover, in all these cases, the national campaigns are a consequence of the respective national policies. Thus, it can be argued that a country should consider in its own context, in order to understand how it would benefit therefrom. These issues should be solidly founded in any national policy.
4.2 What is the UAE’s community’s foremost aim regarding ?
In the US, the goal is to raise the level of awareness in the nation on the risks of cyberspace, and how to circumvent these risks. In the UK, the goal is to support individuals and businesses, by informing and educating them on the issue of cyber-security. Finally, in Australia and Canada, the ultimate goal is a cyber-security culture that could be fostered through awareness and education.
From these four countries, one can see that the purpose of promoting is accompanied by certain goals that have been set. As such, setting definite goals should be regarded as vital, as this sheds light on what the country wants to achieve. Furthermore, it also sets some targets, whereby progress can be measured.
4.3 Who is assigned the duty of overseeing -related tasks?
In the USA, a national organization, The National Initiative for Cyber-security Education (NICE), has been formed. This is entirely dedicated to . NICE is constituted from a combination of governmental departments. Some of these departments assume the role of leading certain directives that exist within NICE. In the case of the UK, have been delegated to an external organization: Get Safe Online.
Similar to the US, in Australia, multiple govern- mental departments form the focal point of . However, in Australia, it was noted that there is no partnership between the departments; and this causes some confusion to the target audience about which source to trust. Finally, in Canada, Public Safety Canada takes the lead in .
In all these countries, it is evident that the documented goal is assigned to one or more departments or organizations to carry out. This allocation of responsibilities promotes accountability; and furthermore, it establishes a focal point. Thus, there should be a dedicated administration that could serve as a focal point for cyber-security awareness and the implementation of educational initiatives.
4.4 How is the country planning to work towards ?
Following the publication of the national cyber-security policies, the US and Canada published action plans outlining their approach to . The NICE Strategic Plan indicates that campaigns, such as Stop. Think. Connect, could be used to equip the US’ public with the necessary knowledge and skills. As indicated, Stop. Think. Connect is well-designed; and through it, more sub-campaigns and program could be made available.
Canada’s plan presents the actions to be taken to accomplish each of the objectives that are defined in the national cyber-security policy. In addition, it states the timelines and the status of every deliverable, together with the lead department. This action plan clearly encapsulates the actions to be taken, the timelines, and the current status of progress, together with the lead department.
In contrast to the US and Canada, the UK and Australia have not published any action plans in addition to their national cyber-security strategies. However, in Australia, an inquiry that was performed to determine the position of this country concerning recommended that an action plan be drafted. Therefore, it may be concluded that there should be a strategy in place that clearly articulates how a country should approach .
UAE National cyber-security awareness and the educational initiatives of each country were analyzed, as part of this inquiry. This was done primarily, because these initiatives are, in fact, a major element of how each country is promoting . The criteria used in the analysis are listed as follows:
Host organization. The department or organization that will be leading the initiative.
Target audience. The grouping of people that the initiative targets.
Topics covered. The topics that are covered by the content of the initiative.
Campaign tools. The materials that are been used to deliver the message.
Having examined some of the national al initiatives of the relevant countries, a number of deductions were made.
Firstly, the focus of the campaigns and programmes should be on every grouping of society. These groupings should include: parents, children, teachers and employees in businesses. This focus is essential, as individuals, organizations and nations are equally exposed to the risks posed in cyberspace. In the time I was working for DigitalE1 I created a lot of material used for cyber security awareness trainings at companies and bootcamps for scholarships in the UAE.
Secondly, each target audience should be presented with topics that are relevant to them. This suggests that research has to be done to identify the individual awareness and educational needs. This relationship between the target audiences and the topics is apparent in the cases of the business environment and children. For example, knowledge about cyber bullying is directed primarily at individuals, and not at the business environment; similarly, knowledge about cyber-security policy making is directed at organizations, and not really at children.
Therefore, it is important for cyber-security aware- ness and education campaigns and program to present each target audience with those topics that are relevant to them.
Thirdly, there is a difference in the medium of communication used to deliver the awareness-raising and education information to a particular audience. Using the same example of organizations and children, it can be seen that from the analysis that children are often presented with through games; whereas, organizations are offered guides and toolkits. Thus, the medium of communication used to deliver should be well suited to the particular target audience.
Fourthly, it is evident that the environment in which the awareness-raising and education take place would differ for each target audience. Again, using the same example of children and organizations, children can be reached in schools and homes; whereas organizations can only be reached in the workplace. Therefore, the environment should be taken into consideration when developing campaigns and program because this may influence the approach and/or tools to be used by the campaign or program.
Finally, within the analyzed initiatives, there are definite role- players. It is clear that cyber-security awareness is a shared responsibility; and everyone enjoying the cyberspace has a role to play. This is evident, since in all the countries studied, the governments were core in leading and resourcing .
In addition, industry has also assumed some of the responsibility, and has partnered with government. As such, when planning campaigns and program, the role-players should be identified, and their respective responsibilities should be clearly defined. More- over, partnerships with relevant stakeholders should ideally be formed.
All four countries have implemented a set of -control measures. As far as the UK and Canada are concerned, 2016 is the year in which all cyber-security objectives should be accomplished; this includes awareness and education. It is indeed promising that both of these countries aim to have fostered a culture of cyber-security among their citizens by 2016, as both countries have already taken definite steps in this regard to promote awareness and education. In addition, Canada is committed to generating periodic status reports, in order to monitor its progress more closely.
In the US, the NICE strategic plan makes no mention of a particular timeframe, in which its objectives will be accomplished. However, it has defined a number of success indicators. Having both individuals and organizations understand online safety measures, and being encouraged to act securely online should serve as an indication that NICE has accomplished its aim. This approach suggests that in the US, are ongoing processes that will continue until the established indicators have materialized.
It is evident that these countries have in some way defined benchmarks that should assist them in evaluating the progress they have made towards accomplishing their goals. It can, therefore, be concluded that there should be some sort of monitoring and evaluation of the progress made in these efforts.
Cyber-security awareness and education comprise indeed a crosscutting matter that warrants diligent handling. The government should take the lead in this regard; and, accordingly, establish national and international partnerships that would encourage all users of cyberspace to play their part.
This section has provided a discussion on the analysis in terms of the deductions and conclusions that were made, based on the questions posed at the beginning of this section.
Based on the arguments, deductions and conclusions from the analysis, certain key factors were extrapolated for the purpose of constructing the basis of the proposed awareness and education framework for the UAE.
These key factors are listed below:
• Cleary articulated goals should be defined.
• A dedicated team/group should be appointed.
• An action plan should be outlined.
A national campaign should be defined.
• Partnerships should be established.
The Strategic Layer. This layer reflects the overall vision of the government concerning
The Tactical Layer. This layer suggests the schemes that SA should employ to realize its goals.
The Preparation Layer. This layer prepares the contents of the scheme identified in the tactical layer.
The Delivery Layer. This layer defines the recipients of the preparations made in the preparation layer, namely: the target audience.
The Monitoring Layer. This layer examines the progress made by the scheme towards fulfilling the government’s vision.
Resources. This component defines the resources, which should comprise the inputs in all the afore- mentioned layers.
Respectively, the above mentioned layers illustrate six themes embodied in the framework.
The strategic layer reflects the overall vision (the dream) of the government concerning . It is known from the draft Cyber-Security Policy that SA’s overall vision, as far as cyber awareness and education are concerned, comprises a cyber-security culture. In this layer, this vision is delineated into three components: the national cyber- security policy, the responsible unit, and the strategic plan.
The first component is the national cyber-security policy detailing the primary objective of each country concerning . The second component is a responsible unit, a dedicated administration for . The responsible unit component pro- poses three ways in which this administration could be formed. These are listed below:
• Delegating to a private organization.
The framework recommends that once an administration is appointed, a comprehensive strategic plan should be drafted; hence the last component, the strategic plan. This plan should clearly articulate how UAE should approach .
The tactical layer lies below the strategic layer. As stated, this layer continues where the strategic plan de- fined in the strategic layer has left off. In this layer, the suggested elements to drive are stated.
The tactical layer has four components, which are proposed in the framework. The first component is a national campaign. This suggestion was confirmed by the fact that all the countries analyzed have one or more initiatives or Campaigns. The proposed name for such a UAE campaign is: iUAEwise suggests an informative UAE, hence the “i”, and cyberwise SA, hence the name iUAEwise.
The idea is for iUAEwise to be an overarching campaign that includes all sub-campaigns and initiatives.
The findings from the performed analysis indicate a variety of aspects, which should be considered in such a campaign. One of those aspects is the establishment of partnerships with the public and private Sectors, academia and other nations. These partner- ships would allow industry, academia and other nations to contribute to a UAE’s endeavors. Such partnerships, particularly those with other nations, would promote the alignment among nations.
Moreover, in partnership with academia, iUAEwise would benefit current research that could help to align what the campaign has to offer with the specific needs of South African citizens. It is proposed that iUAEwise could reach the people of UAE through sub-campaigns and initiatives that could include the following:
iUAEwise Week is proposed to be an annual event aimed at all UAE citizens. This week should serve as a reminder that cyber-security is a shared responsibility; and it should also induce and spread awareness of current and anticipated cyber-security practices and issues. With all these campaigns, a South
Arab ‘flavor’ should be adopted, meaning the UAE context should be taken into consideration.
This week could adopt and further expand on the National Cyber-Security Awareness Week hosted by for example SACSAA.
iUAEwise Community Outreach is proposed to give everyone an opportunity to lend a helping hand. This program would allow any member of society to be part of iUAEwise, by volunteering to participate in spreading the message to communities. This program is closely linked with the well-known philosophy of humanity in UAE.
It is proposed that iUAEwise For All could be an all-encompassing website addressing all groupings of the UAE society, as well as SMMEs. (still in development at the moment of writing this post)
It is proposed that this website provide up-to-date information that would equip its audience with the necessary cyber-security information, in order to create knowledgeable UAE citizens. The topics covered in the website should be tailored and delivered in a manner that is best suited to the general public and employees of SMMEs.
Finally, it is proposed that iUAEwise For Schools should target learners in primary and secondary schools. This campaign should ensure that cyber-security forms part of the school curriculum, and that awareness and education are delivered to the scholars in a manner that is suitable for each age group.
It is worth noting that iUAEwise is not in- tended to replace the campaigns that are already active in SA, but rather to unite everything together under one unique truly South African effort.
Since cyber-security education is broad in nature, a national campaign is not the only aim to attain. Alongside iUAEwise, there are two further components: for- mal cyber-security education for students, and cyber- security education for those in the workforce.
However, providing insight on what these two components should consist of falls outside of the scope of this paper. Thus, students, together with people in the workforce, are also part of society; therefore, they should be included in iUAEwise.
The major facet of the tactical layer is the campaign, iUAEwise, and also the suggested subordinate campaigns and program that should be used to reach UAE citizens. Having said this, the following questions must be asked:
The preparation layer concerns itself with defining the resources that iUAEwise would offer to the people of UAE. The preparation layer comprises four components: topics, content, medium and tools. With regard to topics, from the analysis initiatives, a number of topics that are common throughout the initiatives may be identified. Such topics include, but are not limited to: cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, identity-theft, fraud, phishing, securing personal and private information online, and secure behavior. These topics and more could be covered by iUAEwise. However, further research needs to be done, in order to discover the particular needs of South African citizens.
Figure 1 suggests a particular relationship between content and topics in the preparation layer. This relationship is guided by the target audience to which the material will be offered. For example, if material on cyber-bullying is offered to children, the content might include ‘how to report a cyber-bully’.
However, the same topic, offered to a different target audience, such as a parent, could include such content as ‘the warning signs of a cyber-bullied child’. Thus, there is a definite link between topic and content. The preparation layer, as shown in Figure 1, further presents a link between content and medium. This relationship suggests that based on the defined topic together with the content, a suitable medium of communication should be chosen. There are two acknowledged mediums: paper based and electronic. Once these elements are clear, the tools to be used must be defined. These tools include: websites, videos, games, quizzes, and so forth. Thus, a suitable tool should be chosen, based on the topic, content and medium.
It is proposed in this layer that iUAEwise deliver to the above mentioned audiences, since they represent the nation at large. In addition, this layer identifies two roles that these audiences should play, namely: A Learner Role and an Educator Role.
It is well known that cyber-security is the responsibility of everyone who enjoys the benefits offered by cyberspace. Therefore, it is recommended that the de- fined target audience accept the responsibility of using the resources that iUAEwise offers to educate them, thereby assuming the role of a learner. Moreover, it is also recommended that everyone passes on what they have learnt to one another, thereby assuming the role of an educator.
Once the target audiences and roles in iUAEwise are clear, all that is left is to define the manner in which the progress towards achieving the primary is to be monitored. The monitoring component will be discussed in the following subsection.
It is suggested that the feedback from the evaluation should inform iUAEwise in the tactical layer. In so doing, this national campaign should be adapted – on the basis of the feedback from the evaluation. For instance, if a declared benchmark or certain success indicator fails to materialize, iUAEwise may possibly need to make some changes in the Preparation Layer. Consequently, the topics, content or tools in this layer may be adapted, in order to achieve the expected results.
The monitoring layer serves as the last layer of the framework. The following subsection will discuss the resources component.
People. The people needed to carry out a certain function.
Information. The information required to carry out a particular function.
Applications. Computer applications, such as software programs, which will be needed.
Infrastructure. The physical hardware, such as desktops and servers.
Financial Capital. The monetary resources that will be needed.
These resources are adopted from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and have been identified as being essential in delivering an information technology service.
In the context of this framework, comprise the service to be delivered. Therefore, within the five layers of the framework, appropriate resources have to be identified. Each and every layer of the cyber-security aware- ness and education framework will need one or more resources, in order for the components within each layer to be in place. Hence, the UAE government has the duty to ensure that these resources are in place. This subsection marks the last component of the proposed framework.
The proposed framework was developed in such a manner that its layers are in line with the Plan-Do- Check-Act (PDCA) cycle presented by Figure 2.
Figure 2: PDCA cycle
Figure 2 depicts the iterative four-step process of the PDCA Cycle. According to ISO/IEC 27000, these steps signify the following:
Plan. Establishing objectives and processes, which are necessary, in order to deliver certain outcomes.
Do. Implementing the outlined plan
Check. Monitoring and measuring progress against particular requirements.
Act. Taking action, in accordance with the feedback obtained from the monitoring.
These steps overlap well within the layers of the proposed framework. The planning step can be recognized in the strategic and tactical layers. It was elaborated on in Subsection 5.1 how the strategic layer reflects the overall vision of UAE concerning . As part of the planning step, the vision is delineated into clearly defined objectives.
The objectives are to form a dedicated administration for , including drafting a comprehensive strategic plan that would clearly articulate how the UAE should approach .
The planning phase extends to the tactical layer – by declaring the elements that are proposed to drive in the UAE.
· Cyber-Security Workforce Education.
The doing step manifests in the preparation and delivery layers. In the preparation layer, the resources that iUAEwise will offer to its targeted audience are defined. The doing step then overlaps with the deliver layer, since the actual target audience is defined by the prescribed roles.
The monitoring layer encapsulates both the checking and acting phase of the PDCA cycle. It is suggested in this layer that the progress made in the efforts be monitored and evaluated against certain benchmarks and success indicators. Thereafter, the feedback that should be obtained from monitoring and evaluation would trigger the acting step, as elaborated in Subsection 5.5 of this paper.
The use of this proposed framework should enable UAE to define a national cyber-security awareness campaign, here proposed as iUAEwise. This campaign would serve as a means for providing UAE citizens with the necessary cyber- security understanding and knowledge, and would, therefore, contribute to the creation of the envisaged culture.
6 VERIFICATION OF THE FRAMEWORK
In Section 3 it was mentioned that the framework was verified by using elite interviews. As such, this section seeks to discuss the verification of the proposed framework for the UAE. Included in this section, is how the comments from the elites were addressed.
A week prior to conducting the elite interview, an interview brief was sent to the elites. The interview brief aimed to introduce the framework, and also to provide some background on the form of the interview to be conducted. This was done, in order to allow the elites to understand what was expected of them.
Before interviewing the elites, the proposed framework was presented in the form of a PowerPoint slide show. This presentation was intended to elaborate on the underlying research that forms the basis of the proposed framework. In addition, all the layers and components of the proposed framework were presented in detail, so that the elites could have a clear understanding of the context. Subsequently, the actual elite interview was conducted.
As previously mentioned, elite interviews are semi structured; and they do not call for standardized questions. However, in this case, the questions were fairly standard; and both elites were asked the same questions. Nevertheless, even though the questions were fairly standard, with this choice of interview, the re- searcher had the opportunity to probe the information provided by the elites.
Yes, I do agree with the layers of the framework, one of the phases of any awareness that we always have, which I have picked up from various studies is that others have three; while others have two. These phases are preparation phases, followed by the design phase; and then you have the implementation phase, and your review phase, for your monitoring.
When asked whether they agreed with the components of the proposed framework, the elites suggested additional concepts. Elite one suggested that guardians be added as a target audience in the delivery layer. As suggested, the framework was revisited and adapted accordingly. Additionally, elite two suggested that there be a relationship indicator in the ‘responsible unit’ component found in the strategic layer, in order to portray the interrelatedness of government departments. The framework was adapted, as advised.
In terms of the comprehensiveness of the framework, both elites confirmed that the proposed frame- work was indeed comprehensive; and one of the elites expanded by saying:
I would say it’s comprehensive, because for any awareness campaign, there must be these components: goal/purpose, objective of the campaign, the need of the campaign, campaign name, target audience, delivery methods, and evaluation.
In addition, the elites were positive about the contribution the proposed framework would make to the cyber-security culture envisaged in the UAE.
The framework will contribute to , because it structures things that people are currently doing: a little bit here and there, things that people don’t see as a full-blown framework. The framework nicely links all these facets.
Regarding other existing frameworks, none of the elites could make reference to an existing framework. Finally, when the elites were asked whether they had any other comments and suggestions, both elites had some concerns. Elite one was against allowing children to assume the role of being educator (see Subsection 5.4). However, in the UK, peer-to-peer education is recommended, as it is believed that children more easily learn and accept input from their peers [6]. Thus, this comment was overlooked.
Elite two suggested that Estonia be added to the developed countries, which were analyzed in Section 4. The criteria used to select the developed countries that were studied are made known in Section 4. However, in the case of Estonia, some of the documentation deemed important to the study, needed to be translated before being used. This was a disadvantage, primarily because the integrity of the information would come into question. Therefore, Estonia was not included as a participant in the comparative analysis.
Based on the feedback received from the elites, it can be concluded that the proposed framework was sufficiently validated. Moreover, the demonstration and evaluation steps, as part of a design science approach were conducted satisfactorily. Therefore, it could be argued that the framework is basically sound.
7 CONCLUSION
Cyberspace had humble beginnings. Over time, it has progressed immensely providing individuals with end- less opportunities. Embedded in these opportunities, however, are risks that compromise the safety and security of the individuals that participate in cyberspace. It would seem that people are largely unaware of these risks; and so, they put themselves, as well as businesses and governmental assets and infrastructure, at risk. In recognition of this, the UAE wishes to promote a culture of cyber-security among its citizens.
However, did I not see anything coming from Government perspective, I am trying to gain feedback from the UAE Government related to this framework and the funds to continue the cyber Awareness within the UAE, and have to admit that this is till today a challenge duo the fact of the slow communication processes within the UAE.
During my time at a cyber security company in Abu Dhabi (name disclosed duo NDA) I gathered the level of knowledge within the UAE and saw that topics like Security, Treats, Cyber Security Awareness Training, was lacking and developed the materials to establishing Cyber Awareness Bootcamps, Cyber Awareness Week and pre & assessments for security related topics.
The problem I was facing within this same company is that all do they claiming to be the biggest Security related company within the UAE, the opposite was been proofed to me. This company is only very active to gather information from Users and Customers and sharing this with third parties. see for this also my other blog Why is Whatsapp or any other VOIP call unavailable in the UAE?related To Tok, the main problem is that this company is the source of this application and was rejected from Google App store and Apple store, Keep in mind that this is just another tool for spyware which can track all your contacts and information. Be Aware if you using this app.
Cyber- security awareness and education together play a big role in cultivating such a culture. Accordingly, this paper proposes a framework that would assist the UAE in promoting its envisaged cyber-security culture. The implementation of this framework would afford the UAE to a national cyber-security awareness campaign. Furthermore, making use of its subsidiary campaigns would mean that citizens could be the recipients , suited to a global audience.
Reaching out to all Government entities who want to participate in obtaining and funding this national initiative. For my contact details please visit the contacts page on my website.
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We all hear the horror stories of someone having their identity stolen. It could be a co-worker, a friend or a family member who’s gotten hit. And yet there are those of us who think it will never happen to them.
The chances of identity theft happening to you are greater than you think. Following are a number of stories that cover many aspects of identity theft. There are tales from those who have been impacted financially and those who have had their social network identity stolen and trashed. Don’t be lax with your security. Do your utmost to not join the ranks whose lives have been ruined.
Tales of Identity Theft This blog has links to various stories of identity theft.
Woman’s ID Stolen By Makeup Consultant A customer has her identity stolen by a rep from Arbonne.
International Stories of Theft Random Israelis get struck by thieves and have their lives turned upside down.
A Brief Brush With a Thief A consumer has their debit card number stolen and quickly stops the theft.
Five people and their theft stories Varying degrees of identity theft losses.
Victimized By Plastic Surgery A thief stole a card number for expensive plastic surgeries.
Medical Identities Stolen Personal insurance information was stolen and used to receive medical treatment.
Stolen Social Security Stories How people’s lives were ruined when their social security numbers were stolen.
Various Stories of Theft Four stories of identity theft and the ensuing problems.
Identity Theft With a Lesson Lessons learned after having an identity stolen.
Being Careful Doesn’t Always Work No matter what the author did, he still wound up with identity fraud.
Finding out after the fact Stories from victims of ID theft.
When The Holidays Hurt One woman’s experience with fraud and not knowing exactly where it came from.
Details Years of Fighting With Institutions After a Theft Trying to get the banking institutions to believe he’s who he says he is.
Hacked Social Network Accounts – Their Stories and Their Fixes:
Hacking a Popular Website How a popular blogger got her blog identity stolen.
The Saga of a Hacked Yahoo and Facebook Account The author details her war with someone who’s hacked her account.
A Blogger Shares Her Story of Being Facebook Hacked She admits that she made it easy for the hackers to achieve their goal.
Keeping Hackers Out of Your Facebook Account Tips for ensuring that your account doesn’t get hacked.
Restoring your hacked Facebook account Information on how to regain access after it’s been hacked.
Helpful Tricks To Avoid Theft Use these tips to keep your information safe. Part one of two.
Identity Theft and Your Credit Score How you can go from having perfect credit to none.
Preventing Theft While Travelling Most people are unaware that they’re at high risk for identity theft when on vacation.
The Overall Effect of Identity Theft How identity theft can mess up your life.
Laws Preventing Identity Theft A legal blog’s look at the current laws on the books.
A thorough Blog on Prevention of Identity Theft Lots of great info on how to secure your privacy.
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The Desktop in Windows 8 is little more than an afterthought, by design. I've got the evidence that shows why Microsoft hopes to kill it off as soon as it can.
The first piece of evidence is the most obvious: When you boot into Windows 8, you boot into the Metro interface, not the Desktop. I've nosed around various options, and haven't figured out a way to boot into the Desktop, so even if it's possible, Microsoft has made it very hard to do. (If the last thing you were doing before leaving your PC was use the Desktop, and Windows 8 goes to sleep in the interim, you'll head into the Desktop when you wake it from sleep, of course, because Windows goes to the last app you used before it slept.) If Microsoft wanted to keep the Desktop around for the long term, it would have made it simple to boot into the Desktop.
Here's another piece of evidence: In Windows 8, the Desktop is just another app, run as a tile from Metro. It's clearly been relegated to the sidelines. And it's not just that the Desktop is another app, but that Microsoft hasn't bothered to spend any time improving it from previous Windows versions. Microsoft has done a very good job in designing Metro, but has essentially ignored the Desktop.
Most of Windows 8's new features essentially bypass the Desktop. As an example, consider what Microsoft calls "charms." When you're in a Metro app, the main Metro interface, a Desktop app, or the Desktop, when you move the mouse to the upper-right corner or lower-right corner of the screen, a series of "charms" appear -- icons that when clicked upon lets you perform an action, such as searching or changing options. In Metro apps, those charms are context-sensitive. So click the Settings charm, for example, and you'll be able to change settings related to that app.
That's not the case with charms that appear inside Desktop apps. Rather than let you change settings for the program you're running, you can only change the overall Desktop settings, not those for the program.
There are plenty other examples like this throughout Windows 8. As to why Microsoft wants to kill off the Desktop, there are several likely reasons. First is that it's committed to a common interface among traditional computers, tablets, and phones. The Desktop isn't suited for tablets and phones, and so Microsoft would like to see it go.
In addition, Metro has more capabilities than does the Desktop at this point, notably the way it and its apps can accept, display, and manipulate live information. Finally, in Metro, Microsoft controls what you can and can't download, and will make money every time you buy an app, something it doesn't do on the Desktop. And money talks. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/251120/windows_8_shows_desktop_will_go_the_way_of_the_dodo.html?tk=rel_news |
A Ukrainian national, Andrii Kolpakov of 33 years was sentenced in the Western District of Washington to seven years in prison for his role in the criminal work of the hacking group FIN7.
The court documents say Andrii Kolpakov has used several different names, served as a high-level hacker, whom the group referred to as a “pen tester,” for FIN7 from 2016 to 2018. He was cuffed by authorities in Lepe, Spain, in 2018, and extradited to the US in 2019.
In the year 2020, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking.
How FIN7 Hacking Group Works?
The members of FIN7 engaged in a highly sophisticated malware campaign to attack hundreds of U.S. companies, mainly in the restaurant, gambling, and hospitality industries since at least 2015.
FIN7 has hacked into thousands of computer systems and stole millions of customer credit and debit card numbers that were then used or sold for profit.
The hacking group will vigilantly craft email messages that would appear legitimate to a business’s employees and accompanied emails with telephone calls planned to further legitimize the emails.
Upon opening the attached file, FIN7 would use an adapted version of the Carbanak malware, in addition to an arsenal of other tools, to access and steal payment card data for the business’s customers. Since 2015, many of the stolen payment card numbers have been offered for sale through online underground marketplaces.
The intrusions that happened in the United States alone, FIN7 has breached the computer networks of businesses in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, stealing more than 20 million customer card records from over 6,500 individual point-of-sale terminals at more than 3,600 separate business locations. According to court documents, victims incurred huge costs that exceeded $1 billion.
Kolpakov Invlolvement With FIN7
Kolpakov was involved with FIN7 from 2016 until his arrest in June 2018. He was able to manage other hackers tasked with breaching the security of victims’ computer systems.
He was assigned to supervise and train the new recruits and apprised his team members of the latest tools and developments in FIN7’s phishing campaigns and malware arsenal.
The documents say, Kolpakov received compensation for his participation in FIN7, which far exceeded comparable legitimate employment in Ukraine. FIN7 members, including Kolpakov, were aware of reported arrests of other FIN7 members but continued to attack U.S. businesses.
According to the Justice Department, “during his time with FIN7 the gang’s attacks resulted in over $100 million in losses to various financial institutions, merchant processors, insurance companies, retail companies, and individual cardholders”. Therefore he has now been sentenced to seven years in prison and has been ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution.
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Read the letter from Mr. Wooldridge.
Visitors of the website anonymously posted offensive comments about individual Manual students as well as comments about the students in the specific majors duPont Manual offers. Comments ranged from judgmental remarks about girls’ appearances to gripes about students’ personalities. Few students used a name or even a pseudonym.
“I’m friends with a lot of the people who were on there,” said Christa Iwu (11). “The manner in which they were saying those things really hurt my feelings because it was like they were insulting me second hand.”
Others blew off the criticism. “My name was mentioned on the site but I didn’t take it personally,” said Joyce Milford (12). “I didn’t realize the website was a serious issue or that the comments could be so harsh.”
But not all students took the comments lightly. According to Mr. Wooldridge, students went to the school’s offices looking for help dealing with the offensive comments. The administration took action immediately, reporting the incident to the JCPS legal department. They contacted the family of one of the site’s founders, Alex Zeltser, a Manual graduate and Carnegie Mellon University freshman. Zeltser’s mother asked him to take the site down immediately, which he did.
Zeltser, who hoped to turn the site into a profitable venture, defended his original vision. “The idea was a board where high school kids could talk freely and not have to worry about being judged. I took the idea from collegeacb.com, which was for colleges. It’s been around for a while.”
Collegeacb.com features similar content, like the High School Confession Board. He was aware of the controversy with Collegeacb.com but continued to pursue his version of the site for high school students. “I planned moderation but honestly, I had no idea it would explode this quickly,” he said. “I knew some people would put down others and that would be moderated, but certain posts–I don’t even know how they could go through people’s heads. It honestly shocked me.”
When RedEye reporters checked the site at 2:05 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, it had been disabled by its administrators. “Site is taken down, for good by the way,” Zeltser said at 2:28 p.m.
Zeltser’s vision of a forum where high school kids speak without fear of being judged was not one that was realized by Miranda Thompson (11), who was unhappy with the anonymous criticisms on the site. “That’s what people do, they judge people, and they finally found a way to let everyone know what they were thinking,” she said.
Zeltser condemned the hateful remarks, offering a final word after he disabled the site. “To the people whose posts were way out of line, take a good look at yourself in the mirror,” he said.
Would you be mad at the person who constructed restrooms in a public park? There’s going to be graffiti. Is it just too difficult to find the people in charge for the vandalism? Keep in mind the domain and server I paid for is essentially my property and in some sense it was vandalized.
The underlying premise behind the site is clearly not new and has been around a while through means of formspring or other similar sites. At the end of the day I put out a forum and let others do the posting. Mark Zuckerberg does that with names. Twitter does that with random Handles. 4chan does it anonymously. There are millions of web forums out there where students could have gone to, made up irrelevant pen names and done the same thing. There are just too many examples out there.
Oh and on another level. My “friend” and I had this idea more than three months ago. I’m not sure you understand the dedication and planning it takes to make this happen or the other college activities you have to forego just to get button working correctly. At the end of the day there was a fatal flaw and I’ll admit that. Maybe moderation was the flaw or the entire concept itself. At this point it doesn’t matter to me. I will say this though. When you see a project or something you put many hours of work into flail and are given the option to kill it instantly or try your best to scramble to save it, even if it’s nearly hopeless, I would assume you’d be hard-pressed to go with the former right away.
I want to say that I know firsthand that Zeltser created this website with no malicious intentions– and he in every way wished to respect people’s privacy, which is why he opted for anonymity. While it was a careless mistake on Alex’s part that led to the backfire in this whole process, it was a mistake nonetheless, and after attempts at making amends through moderation failed, he pulled the site.
Considering that the site was protected such that he had zero legal obligation to take it down, I’d like everyone to consider the fact he was willing to quickly drop what could have remained a strong profitable venture within a few days of initially launching the site.
That’s the other rumor I’d like to clear up. Some people seemed to think that this site had been up for weeks, but it had been launched to Manual students mere days before it was pulled. The growth rate over those few days was astounding and the truly awful material escalated close to the last minute. Considering that the student running the site was able to that quickly take it offline while simultaneously managing a busy schedule at Carnegie-Mellon, I’d say there’s a little merit in that.
I’ve set up forums on multiple BBS platforms in the past and I haven’t found that they’ve been particularly time-consuming to set up. As a matter of fact, I’m confident I could completely set up a PHPBB3 board in around 30 minutes, and I’m fairly sure that PHPBB3 is more complicated than most other BBS platforms.
It was very nice of you to think back to your high school friends and set up a BBS for them to use now that you’re in college, but I’m not entirely sure as to why you would want to do that.
Also, looking back at Google’s cached version of your page, the homepage of highschoolcb.com specifically noted that “Your school administration has no way of obtaining any identifiable information.” While I’m a fan of free speech, surely you considered that this could lead to harmful comments. If the board grew as you intended it to, surely you would have realized that the number of innapropriate comments would far surpass the ability of your moderators.
Actually, I’m surprised that you didn’t realize quickly that the number of innapropriate comments on the board posted in a such a short amount of time would mean that a conflict would explode with this. You did get in to Carnegie-Mellon, right? I guess you hadn’t been on the board a few days, but I got on the night before you shut it down and the majority of the threads were unintelligent and demeaning babbling about the physical characteristics of my classmates.
I know that if you had seen the board, you would have shut it down. I mean, that stuff was seriously terrible. It made me sick to read it.
Also the public park restroom analogy is definitely not valid. I wouldn’t be mad at the city for building the restroom, but I would blame them for not keeping it clean.
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Redirecting a user to a trusted server buys a secure email gateway company some time to decide whether a URL is malicious – but there are avoidable drawbacks to this approach.
Many of today's most widely used email gateways rely on link rewriting: encoding every URL sent over email into a link that redirects the user to the gateway's own links. These servers contain unique tokens that track the user and perform later checks to determine whether the link is malicious.
This method offers organizations reassurance that 100% of phishing links that come their way are being rewritten, so therefore they must be protected. But by simply rewriting a link, gateway tools don't provide any meaningful protection at all. In fact, this technique actually illuminates a fundamental flaw in their approach: Their reliance on rules and signatures of previously recognized threats renders them incapable of stopping threats on the first encounter.
These tools pre-emptively rewrite links so they can make a determination later on. With the link now pointing to their own servers, they can leverage their updated assessment of that link and block a malicious site once more information has become available (often once "patient zero" – the first victim of an email attack – has become infected and the damage is already done). In the meantime, any other user who lands on that site is exposed to the same harmful content, too.
More Harm Than Good?
If the sheer number of links rewritten is to be our measure of success, then traditional gateways win every time. We usually see that an email gateway has rewritten every single harmful link that targets an organization sheerly because it rewrites nearly 100% of all links – including links pointing to trusted websites like LinkedIn and Twitter, and even emails containing links to the recipient's own website. So when tim.cook[@]apple.com receives a link to apple.com, for example, "mimecast.com" will still dominate the URL.
Some organizations suffering from low first-encounter catch rates with their gateways have responded by increasing employee education: training the human to spot the giveaways of a phishing email. With email attacks getting more targeted and sophisticated, humans should never be considered the last line of defense, and rewriting links makes the situation even worse. If you're training your users to watch which links they're clicking, and every one of those links just shows the name of your gateway, how are your users supposed to learn what's good, bad, or sketchy when every URL looks the same?
Moreover, when a URL gateway is down, these rewritten links don't work. The same applies to protected attachments. This results in business downtime, which is intolerable for businesses in these critical and challenging times.
We can see the effect of blanket rewriting through Darktrace's user interface, which shows us the frequency of rewritten links over time. Looking back over three days, this particular customer received 155,008 emails containing rewritten links. Of those, 1,478 were anomalous, and Darktrace's AI acted to immediately lock those links, protecting even the first recipient from harm. The remaining 153,530 links were all unnecessarily rewritten.
Figure 1: Over 155,000 inbound emails contained rewritten Mimecast links.
When it comes to actually stopping the threat when a user goes to click that rewritten link, gateway tools fail. Their reliance on legacy checks like reputation, blacklists, and rules and signatures means that malicious content will sometimes sit for days or weeks without any meaningful action because the technology requires at least one – and usually many – "patient zeros" before determining whether a URL or an attachment is malicious, and then updating their blacklists.
The Firing Line: How Attacks Launched From New Infrastructure Wreak Havoc
Let's look at the case of an attack launched from entirely new infrastructure: a freshly purchased domain containing a newly created malicious payload. None of the typical metrics legacy tools search for appears malicious, and so, of course, the threat gets through, and patient zero is infected.
Figure 2: 'Patient Zero' denotes the first victim of an email attack. Each icon represents up to thousands of potential employees.
It inevitably takes time for the malicious link to be recognized as malicious and then reported. By this point, large swathes of the workforce have also become infected. We can call this the "time to detection."
Figure 3: The time to detection.
As legacy tools then update their lists in recognition of the attack, the malware continues to infect the organization, with more users engaging in the contents of the email.
Figure 4: The legacy tool reacts.
Finally, the legacy tool reacts, updating its blacklist and providing substantive action to protect the end user from harm. By this point, hundreds of users across multiple organizations may have interacted with the links in some way.
Figure 5: Many patient zeros are required before the threat is blacklisted.
Email gateways' reliance on rewriting links is directly related to their legacy approach to detection. They do it so that later down the line, when they have updated information about a potential attack, they can take action. Until then, it's just a rewritten link, and if clicked on it will just bring the user to whatever website was hiding underneath it.
These links are also rewritten in an attempt to grasp an understanding of what user network behavior looks like. But far from giving an accurate or in-depth picture of network activity, this method barely scratches the surface of the wider behaviors of users across the organization.
Alongside Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System, Antigena Email can pull these insights directly from a unified, central AI engine that has complete and direct visibility over an organization's entire digital estate – not just links accessed from emails, but network activity as a whole – and not a makeshift version where it is assumed people only visit links through emails. It also pulls insights from user behavior in the cloud and across SaaS applications – from Salesforce to Microsoft Teams.
Taking Real Action in Real Time
While gateways rewrite everything in order to leave the door open to make assessments later on, Darktrace's Antigena Email AI-powered email security technology is able to take action before the email poses a threat in the inbox.
Crucially, organizations trialling both approaches to security find that Antigena Email consistently identifies threats that other tools miss. With the scale and sophistication of email attacks growing, the need for a proactive and modern approach to email security is paramount. Organizations need to ensure they are measuring their sense of protection with the right yardstick and adopt a technology that can take meaningful action before damage is done. | https://www.darkreading.com/edge-articles/why-secure-email-gateways-rewrite-links-and-why-they-shouldn-t- |
Icsi will examine the Covid-19 crisis from the angle of “major risk management in a health crisis”. The programme will focus on 3 axes: an observatory, what lies ahead, and what is happening internationally. We look forward to sharing the day with you via webinars, first-hand accounts and other materials... find out more in the dedicated section of our website.
The unprecedented crisis caused by Covid-19 is leading to disruption in many other areas – the economy, the workplace, and the managerial response to remote working. For example, Ivan Boissières, Director General of Icsi says, “At Icsi, we are committed to developing an approach based on prevention. It is clear that we are not crisis specialists, but it seemed essential to us – and our members – to look at this crisis from the angle of the management of major risks in a health crisis. What is the link between these two issues? What role does safety play, both as the crisis unfolds, and during the recovery? What are the impacts on risk perception? How is the social climate changing?
As usual, Icsi will address these questions through discussions and sharing good practices. The programme has already been launched, and focuses on 3 main activities.
feedback from our members, based on our kick-off webinar with first-hand accounts from SNCF and EDF DPN. This is the first of many!
real-time monitoring that Icsi has been able to carry out with a few of its members, in particular on the question of the relationship that is being played out between Covid 19 and major risks.
“We are fortunate to have 80, very diverse members, from industrial giants to local authorities, trade unions, universities, etc. We anticipate that this diversity will provide us with an abundance of first-hand experiences and real-life examples, a rich benchmark” continues Ivan Boissières.
| 2. What lies ahead. What might “tomorrow’s safety” look like? |
Discussions and working groups are the focus of this second axis. A dedicated discussion group has been set up to re-examine risk management practices in the light of what we have learned from the Covid 19 crisis. It has already highlighted several, familiar themes that have been put back in the spotlight by the crisis – notably the importance of organisational resilience to ensure a good level of safety, the style of safety leadership to adopt when faced with such uncertainty, and whether or not safety models need to be adapted.
| 3. Broaden your perspective. A look at what is happening internationally. |
Finally, Icsi is joining forces with two, leading international networks, ‘Resilience Engineering’ and ‘Natural Decision Making’. Here, the aim is to decipher global trends, and gain a new perspective. In this third, and final part of the programme, we will offer the Icsi community an opportunity to participate in webinars with experts. | https://www.icsi-eu.org/en/mag/risk-management-covid-19-program |
I'm no expert, but with MCSE, A+, Network +, CCNA, and three years IT experience you should be well above 30K.
My guess would be at least 40-45K. Might be time to search for a better job.
30k... it really must be a mom and pop company to pay you that much.
I dont know the going value in Virginia... but you should be at 20 to 25 dollars an hour for you experience. Of course, it determines how much experience or what you classify a network administrator is.
Some people treat it as just a typical System Admin and others will classify it as a Networking Engineer that work purely is with the Cisco (networking equipment.) Give us a little bit more info on your job duties.
Recommendation... attempt to finish your 4 your degree. It is much easier to get jobs with the BS instead of a AS. Attempt to finish your CCNP if you have time... other from that... you have a great start if this has been your first 3 years. You are ahead than most people.
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My employer hired me as entry level with 30k. It has been 3 year now no salary increase.
Usually, a job pays what the employer thinks it will take to keep a person in the job. Certainly, other things enter into the equation. Consider these items and discuss with your employer:
-What does your written job description say vs. what you do? If you don't have one, get one!
-Have you had a performance review? If not, why not? Of course without a written job description, it is difficult to evaluate ones work.
-Can you show on paper what you have done over the past three years? The value of that service. Your time (wages & benefits) compared with the cost of hiring the work out.
If you present it in fact, you stand a good chance of at least getting a fair reason why (or why not) there hasn't been a pay increase. Perhaps, you are earning the max your employer is willing to pay.
Then you'll need to decide are your working for the money? Working because it's a fair place? And compare those options with the likelihood of finding a similar or better job.
Good luck.
$30K isn't bad in the mid/central states at a smaller company (single location, maybe a few laptops, workstations (less than 50), server or two. You'll want to know what type of competition you have too. If you push too hard, your employer may have a stack of resumes waiting for you too leave
SO, do some research. Prepare your notes (from your past 3 years) and be ready to move on if that is what you want to put on the table. If not. Inquire, but do not make it sound like you *must* have more money.
While first job's out of school can lead one into the low pay bracket for too long, people view 'system admin' responsibilities differently - particularly small companies.
There should be a job pay survey for your state, you could use this to get an idea. Depending upon how long you have been out of school, you may be able to have your university help with that process (particularly if you are interested in continuing your education with them ). Many schools offer job placement assistance - so use it.
Join a business networking group in your area if there is one. Or look into starting one (like BNI http://www.bni.com/Default.aspx?DN=4,1,Documents ).
I still recommend that you get your facts in line. Even if you still are looking to move on, it can serve as a self-evaluation of YOUR worth to the company. Did you help them earn money in your position? Keep in mind, not losing a company money is in a sense helping them earn and.....did you earn MORE than what they pay you? Otherwise, the may be able to outsource.
Perhaps, the company you work for is small and you are maxing out their pay for that position. Then it may be time for a new person to start there and learn/practice networking and you to find something more fulfilling.
Jobs in the US are too precisous (IMO) to be flip about what one earns per year. TOO many talented people willing to relocate or taking jobs outside their experience to keep their family going to not be grateful for the ride you have now. If it isn't working, that is ok, so be prepared to move forward...it may indeed be time.
Nothing like being stuck working too long (years) for too little pay. Many women get burned on this one.... This one I know from experience
"Grammar and spelling aren't everything, but this is a forum, not a chat room. You have plenty of time to spell out the word "you", and look just a little bit smarter." by Phaideaux *I'll add you can Capitalize the word 'I' to show a little respect for yourself too.
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.... weird?
I would say again that it depends where you live. I was hired with a few years exp and only my A+ at 42k, but I was by myself physically and responsible for 30 locations.
However, I was a bit overwhelmed by the job and ended up losing it because it was easier to replace me with someone that had more WAN experience.
CCNA is difficult to bluff, and you have the MCSE, so I would say 40-50k should be pretty reasonable. In the very least, 30k is far too little unless you live in a smaller area that is more low-tech.
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Download.com – safe, trusted & spyware-free?
Share on TumblrOne of my old internet pals, Steven Burn, wrote me about finding malware in Kiwi Alpha, which is a peer to peer file sharing client. He found it at Download.com. He knows I’ve had bad experiences at Download.com in the past.
Steven sent me a link to a thread at SpywareWarrior’s forums where he had posted his analysis of Kiwi Alpha. It looked bad, but naturally I had to try it for myself.
I created a clean Win98 virtual machine using Microsoft’s free Virtual PC program. Then I googled for the page at Download.com. I found Kiwi Alpha and installed it in the virtual machine so that I could safely test it without infecting my PC.
Over the next few days, I scanned the program with four different anti-spyware tools and really didn’t find much of anything. I wondered where Steven had gotten his copy of Kiwi Alpha because I noticed that the MD5 checksum was different from the one I had. It looked like we had scanned different files. Steven later confirmed that someone had replaced the infected Kiwi Alpha with a clean version. This apparently happened sometime between November 20th and November 23rd. Isn’t that interesting?
In this case, Download.com is redirecting you to the KiwiAlpha website to download the file. This means that Download.com cannot truthfully guarantee the safety of anything you download from some of their pages. This is common at Download.com, so be aware of it when you go there.
I checked Google’s cached copy of the Kiwi Alpha page at Download.com which was dated November 19th. At the time of this “snapshot”, 800,000 people had downloaded copies of Kiwi Alpha. How many of these downloads had the WhenU/SaveNow and Relevant Knowledge adware in them? What does this tell you about Download.com’s concern about the consumer who comes to their website?
Conclusion: Download.com claims to be “Safe, Trusted, & Spyware Free”. How can they possibly say that? Three strikes and you’re out. You can’t keep us safe, I don’t trust you, and you can’t keep your third party downloads spyware free.
In my opinion, this isn’t the worst practice there. They also provide “sponsored links” to websites that offer more downloads full of adware and other malware.
Example: (screen shot)
Make no mistake about it. Adware is big business and big money. Download.com is getting a piece of the action when they sponsor those websites that distribute adware or other malware.
I recommend that you stay away from Download.com. There are places I trust that offer almost everything I look for. You can find some of them here.
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Our experts perform both automated and manual Pentests. Automated Pentests are performed using specialized tools and provides standardized and reproducible results that can be used to assess the security of the system. Our team also performs manual Pentests. Altogether this enables us to identify errors and vulnerabilities in the design of the web applications e.g. caused by error prone processes or possible parameter input in the form fields.
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Unspecified vulnerability in a "core clean" cron job created by the findutils-locate package on SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 and Enterprise Server 9 and 10 before 20070810 allows local users to delete of arbitrary files via unknown vectors.
2960 CVE-2007-4271 22 Dir. Trav. 2007-08-18 2008-09-05
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A. I haven't deleted that system in ePO (so I still have xml for authentication)
B. The system is somehow deleted in ePO (no xml)
B. I have deleted that system in ePO and reinstall McAfee agent and EEPC on the new Windows (different xml?)
I tried using EETech DVD and did force decrypt D (taking note of sector start and length) but didn't work - drive D still unreadable. "Remove EE" action is not available because no EE is detected (Reinstall Windows)
1. It was either 6.1.0 or 6.1.1 (the lab is no longer available) 2. Reactivated meaning reinstall EEPC? So here is what happened as I remember:
A. Installed EEPC to Win XP PC and encrypted all drives (C and D). Ran well.
B. Someone didnt realize it had EEPC, reimaged/reinstalled Windows XP on C --> D not accessible.
C. I created EETech DVD and tried to remove EE but not successful.
D. Reinstalled EEPC, but saw that drive D status is decrypted (new EEPC installation cant detect that drive D is already encrypted), so immediately stopped encryption process (still in progress of encrypting drive C) before the process continue to drive D to prevent double encryption.
E. After a while, stop effort to restore D, but saved an image of full hard drive.
In another test (Windows 7):
A. Installed EEPC and encrypted all drives (C and D). Ran well.
B. Immediately ran EETech DVD (the PC still have EEPC) and did force decrypt to drive D (taking note of sector start and length). This is just testing if force decrypt works.
C. Boot back to Windows and check drive D, it's not readable. Why?
I think you are asking too many questions in one discusion - why not create a separate discussion for each scenario you want help with, so we can keep our thoughts in order - you started with three different hypothetical questions after all, which now seem to relate to two actual scenarios.
If you really need to recover the data, please call McAfee support, but if these are write-off test machines, perhaps its better to just format them and save the support bandwidth for some person who's loosing data they really value.
Actually it has some valuable files for our team which need some effort to get it back again when lost. The team have forgiven me for being unable to restore the files, but since then they keep reminding me about it and now I have a homework of mastering EEPC disaster recovery.
Okay, let me change the question.
Some versions of EEPC will over-write existing keys in the case that the product is re-activated with the same network names, thus preventing recovery unless you have a db backup etc. Some (later) versions create and preserve fresh keys each time.
the "supported" answer though, is if you deleted the object out of EPO, then we assume you don't care about it any more, and thus it would be irrecoverable. There are sometimes ways around this though as long as other activities have not occured.
I suggest you start a new discussion with the exact scenario you need help with.
If it was encrypted and then reencrypted using a EEADMIN version prior to 1.1.1.x. Then it is not possible to retrieve the machine key for this machine, as it would have been overwritten if the machine was not removed from ePO.
In which case you will not be able to decrypt the drive.
With EEADMIN version 1.1.1.x the recovery information is archived, but will not be accessible until EEADMIN version 1.1.2.x.
It sounds like you reinstalled and actived the machine without key re-used enabled for the machine..
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According to a new report published by PMR, titled, "Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security Market by Component, Deployment Type, Security Type, Technology, Solution, and End User: Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014-2025, the global artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber security market was valued at $3,300 million in 2017 and is projected to reach $11,047 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 16.4% from 2018 to 2025. The cloud security segment is anticipated to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period.
The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber security market, covering its share analysis, trends, dynamics, forecast, Porters five forces analysis, key industry segments, and company profiles. The report provides up-to-date information to help monitor performance and make wise business decisions to boost its growth and profits. It is a useful tool for market players, investors, shareholders, and new entrants. It helps evaluate the market, highlights opportunities in the cyber security industry and supports tactical and strategic decision making.
The report provides an executive summary of the global AI in cyber security industry to help market players and new entrants understand the overall market status. Key findings are outlined in the report to help market players determine investment viability. The competitive landscape is offered to assist industry players to determine the level of competitiveness within the industry and take steps to gain a competitive edge.
The market landscape of the AI in cyber security market is provided in terms of growth drivers, restraints, opportunities, Porters five forces analysis, and market share analysis. The market dynamics of AI in cyber security industry is dependent on the drivers and restraints. Factors such as rise in sophisticated cyber-attacks and growth in number of IoT based devices are the major factors driving the global artificial intelligence in cyber security market. In addition, stringent government regulations for public data security would supplement the market growth. Nonetheless, less number of AI professionals is a major factor restraining the market growth.
The report offers a detailed segmentation of the global AI in cyber security market based on component, deployment type, security type, technology, solution, end user, and region. Based on component, it is classified into hardware, software, and services. Depending on the deployment type, the market is bifurcated into on-premise and cloud. Based on security type, it is classified into content security, cloud security, application security, endpoint security, and network security. As per technology, it has been studied across machine learning, natural language processing, context aware computing, and others. By solution, it is divided into risk & compliance management, unified threat management (UTM) security incident management, identity & access management (IAM), encryption, intrusion detection & prevention systems, and others. According to end user, it is analyzed across aerospace & defense, BFSI, public sector, retail, healthcare, IT & telecommunication, energy & utilities, manufacturing, and others. Based on region, the market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
Key Findings:
The machine learning segment occupied the highest share in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.1%, during the forecast period.
Based on end user, the BFSI segment accounted for the largest market in 2017, accounting for approximately 21% of the global market, which was followed by the IT & telecom segment.
The application security segment is expected to witness the highest CAGR of 17.5% from 2018 to 2025.
The cloud security segment is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of 21% in the Asia-Pacific region by the end of forecast period.
The report elaborately discusses the software and services provided by the key players in the global AI in cyber security market. An overview of each player is provided to help key market players and investors understand the prevailing competition in the industry. The financial segments of each player as well as their recent developments are also discussed in the study. The key market players analyzed in the report include Acalvio Technologies, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Cyclance Inc., Darktrace, FireEye, Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Securonix, Inc. Sophos Ltd., SparkCognition, Inc., and Symantec Corporation. | https://www.progressivemarkets.com/press-release/artificial-intelligence-in-cyber-security-market |
At this point, at least to me anyway, there's a message being conveyed here. If you can't get past antivirus detection using readymade generated scripts compiled into an executable ready to be ran from a target computer, it's then time to learn other ways to evade antivirus. That might mean learning about how antivirus works, where the weak points are in AV detection, simple tricks to reduce the number of detections, customizing payloads etc.
The answers are not going to jump out at you. The antivirus business is worth BILLIONS. It's their job to make your life as hard as possible. If it was as easy as downloading a custom Linux distribution with an exploitation framework pre-installed, creating a backdoor and then sending it to someone the whole world would be infected. The point of antiviruses is to make it harder to gain unauthorized access to a computer, or a network or whatever. I just started learning about this stuff a few months ago and already I've already learned that the barebones packages, although feasible and amazing in their ability, do not provide the total answer. Again, it's just common sense that billion dollar industries will eventually pool together their incredibly talented resources and phase out the possibility of certain things working, or at least stop them from working as they are, or are known to work from a pattern of signatures. That being said, if it's just a signature you want to change, you can do that by modifying an executable with a hex editor. The chances are though, the AV will still detect it. From what I know, most modern AVs work on behavioural analysis and they measure this behaviour on what their massive records contain on malicious code and the sort of stuff it does. It will then block that malicious code based on a hunch that it's going to cause damage. That hunch depending on the software and context, will either be a false positive, or it will be justified and the AV has done it's job. All this being said, this is just the surface of a much deeper sea of knowledge. I've been looking at how payloads work from the perspective of a programmer and it's by no means a walk in the park creating something as glorious as the Metasploit framework and then creating a payload which is effective and can be used time and time again. You have to remember that by you simply asking this question, you are no doubt one out of many thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands who have asked the same queston and if that's true, how many of those have used the Metasploit framework? It's like asking how many people have had missionary sex. It's only when you start branching out and finding out about the dark and erotic stuff beyond the vanilla that you begin to see there is more to the original question you asked. Then you find out answers you didn't even know existed.
Bottom line from my experience anyway, if you are relying on something you can download for free and start up and compile a file without doing anything, you are always going to get the same results. From what I've learned so far, you don't have to be an elite level programmer to get past AV by designing some sort of amazing code which no AV has ever seen before, which is amazing by the way and commendable and like getting being the first in line at a concert when it gets passed down to the public, but you do need to be prepared to widen your skillset and look beyond easy solutions.
If you look in any of the good places on the internet you will find the same answer to your question; look deeper, learn, evolve your perspective, try new things, don't expect the answer to pop out at you. The fact that you are asking this question means you must sort of understand how complex the field of ethical hacking and pen testing is and why the antivirus industry is worth billions and why they hire some of the best brains in the world to find out ways to prevent people like you (and me) from simply downloading something and then without much knowledge just sitting back and watching it do it's work. I read somewhere that the AV industry has stepped up it's game so that it's becoming harder for those who want an easy victory to get anywhere. They are pushing out those who run pre-made scripts without any awareness of what they do. In the mean time it's creating an environment where the ones who are focused solely on breaking through by learning and adapting to thrive and to raise the bar.
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The Home Office has set up a cybersecurity education program for students in grades 6 to 11 and above, which aims to tackle cybercrime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.
The Home Office has implemented a cybersecurity education program for students in grades 6 to 11 and above.
The program is named “Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center (14C)”, which aims to combat cybercrime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.
Every month in all schools with the participation of district magistrates, police authorities, agents of the education department, etc., this “Cyber Jaagrookta Diwas” will be observed on the first Wednesday of each month. To promote as much as possible, the ministry has launched cybersensitization handles on social media platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
According to the official notice, schools can organize workshops, seminars and interactive sessions. Schools can consult the detailed related topics on the official website, i.e. cbseacademic.nic.in.
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Install the application on the Windows computer; if the blue screen appears, exit all the programs on the computer.
Now type Run in the search bar, which is present on the left-side corner.
You can also press the Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog box.
In the Run dialog box, type ‘msconfig’ and press Enter. If you see the User Account Control window, click Yes.
In the System Configuration window, click safe boot.
Select Network in the boot tab and click OK.
If you see a prompt to restart the computer, click Restart.
Finally, the computer restarts in safe mode with the network connection.
Now, install the Norton application and see if the blue screen issue has been fixed.
Now run or double-click on the downloaded file and install Norton antivirus on your Windows computer; if it prompts, click Continue.
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LJ user werewolf_hans tested 13 antiviruses. For six months, he alternately set them on his collection of viruses, and talked about all the nuances of working on his blog.
Those who are not interested in the details: of paid antiviruses Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 and F-Secure Anti-virus 2009 showed the best results; Avast! Antivirus 4.8 and Avira Antivir.
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DALLAS – December 14, 2011 – Entrust Inc. senior vice president and chief financial officer David Wagner served as a feature presenter during the Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference Tuesday. Wagner, a 15-year veteran of Entrust, addressed senior executives, investors and government officials, outlining Entrust’s leadership in identity-based security, mobile innovations and the importance of cloud-based security.
“Entrust is honored to represent trusted security companies collaborating to help address today’s most challenging global cybersecurity threats,” said Wagner. “As an industry, it’s critical to recognize the need for proven mobile security and software-as-a-service solutions. The upward trends of consumerization, coupled with migration to cloud-based services, serve as a real opportunity to enhance identity-based security in every industry and vertical.”
Wagner’s session touched on everything from the current threat landscape, need for identity-based security to the convergence of authentication platforms. Adding depth, Wagner paired specific Entrust solutions to real-world security needs. This included Entrust’s proven PKI technology and more advanced mobile security solutions such as certificate-based authentication or easy-to-use transaction verification.
Wagner joined Entrust in 1996 as controller, helping guide the company to becoming a public entity. In 2009, Wagner also led the shift back to private status with the acquisition by Thoma Bravo. Wagner’s broad experience at Entrust includes significant involvement in all of the organization’s public offerings and cross-functional responsibilities, both in finance and operations. Prior to his appointment as CFO he served as the company’s vice president, controller and treasurer since 1999.
Now in its eight year, the Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference is one of the premier strategic security events. The invite-only conference focuses on security solutions for homeland security initiatives and enterprise markets. The show featured experts from more than 40 security vendors – many of whom were even available for interactive, one-on-one sessions. Typical industry sectors included access control, border protection, cloud security, compliance and risk management, smartcard and infrastructure protection, emergency preparedness, and identity security.
About Entrust
A trusted provider of identity-based security solutions, Entrust empowers enterprises, governments, financial institutions, citizens and websites in more than 4,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust’s customer-centric focus is the foundation to delivering organizations an unmatched level of security, trust and value. For strong authentication, credentialing, physical and logical access, mobile security, digital certificates, SSL and PKI, call 888-690-2424, email [email protected] or visit www.entrust.com. Let’s talk.
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Commonly-used data encryption protocols rely principally on the computational difficulty of integer factorization-breaking down a composite number into a product of smaller integers. Presently, no algorithm is known to be capable of integer factorization on classical computers, though Shor's algorithm has been demonstrated on quantum computers. Quantum computers available now are not advanced enough to run Shor's algorithm for encryption protocols like RSA-2048, which uses 617 decimal digits (2,048 bits).
To date, the largest integer factorized on a quantum computer was 4088459, on a 5-qubit IBM quantum computer in 2018. Experts disagree on when quantum computers will be sufficiently powerful to run Shor's algorithm for RSA numbers, though there is consensus that this is a question of when, not if. Because of this, a transition to post-quantum cryptography-that is, encryption protocols that do not rely on the use of discrete logarithms-will be necessary to maintain security.
SEE: Special report: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
Current quantum computers are pushing 72 qubits (see note below), such as Google's Bristlecone design. However, these are noisy qubits-imperfect qubits subject to environmental noise, which are operable for a short time before reaching decoherence. It is possible to combine noisy qubits to simulate one perfect qubit, though this is theorized to require 1,000 noisy qubits for a perfect qubit. Thousands of perfect qubits are needed to potentially break RSA, equating to millions of present-day noisy qubits.
While it is impossible to state with any certainty when quantum computers will be sufficiently capable, advances in quantum computers are coming-significant research in noise reduction and qubit connectivity will be applied to newer systems in the coming years. But when the day comes that RSA encryption is broken by quantum computers, it will not open the floodgates.
"It still may take quite a few months of effort to break a single key," Sandy Carielli, director of security technologies at Entrust Datacard, told TechRepublic. "It's not that everything that's been encrypted ever suddenly becomes immediately visible."
That said, current, commonly-used encryption protocols are vulnerable, and a migration to post-quantum cryptography is needed-and this transition must start as soon as possible. "Migration from the hashing algorithm SHA-1 to SHA-256... took many organizations years to make that move," Carielli said. Fortunately, post-quantum encryption does not require a quantum computer-or even a new computer-to use.
"There are many different post-quantum algorithms out there under review. Some have larger or smaller performance or size characteristics. In general, the processing intensity would be doable by most laptops that are running today or that were running five years ago," Carielli said. "The concern may be more about have the applications been updated? Has the infrastructure been updated to support new types of cryptography, new types of keys, new processes. It may be less about whether it has the computational viability and more about whether it's actually been updated to understand what this new key and algorithm actually means and what they have to do."
Likewise, trust in new encryption standards is paramount, as the NSA was accused of paying $10 to security firm RSA to insert weaknesses in a random number generator, which was subsequently formally withdrawn by NIST.
"When NIST selects a set of algorithms-and it's not only going to be one, it's likely to be maybe three or four or five or six for different use cases-they will have been reviewed already, and they're going to continue to be reviewed," Carielli said. "I don't think that the review and scrutiny is going to stop once algorithms are selected, there's always going to be that analysis. The thing that is critical to understand here is that this is a public process. The proposed algorithms were often recommended by public entities, such as universities, companies, or research institutions-it is those entities, as well as NIST, that are doing the analysis to understand whether these algorithms are viable."
For more, learn why quantum computing is not a cure-all for business computing challenges, and check out Encrypting communication: Why it's critical to do it well on TechRepublic.
Note: D-Wave quantum computers measure their ability in qubits, though are designed for a specific calculation, not general-purpose computing.
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From everything I've read here I knew this one wouldn't be a walk in the park. I used LearnKey to study and Transcender for practice tests.
The first 15 questions I had were covered DNS, replication, stub zones, forwarding, WINS, ect. According to the score report, this is where I missed the most questions.
Toward the end I actually thought I might have passed it, lots of questions on SUS, shadow copies, backup utility, and Terminal Services.
Looks like I'll be studying some more and trying again. This is definatly scored different from the previous Microsoft exams I've taken. I'm comparing my score report from the 2K exams scratching my head. Going by the report I did much better on this exam than the 2K exams I passed, yet failed this one? | https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/13821/70-292-i-came-up-short-646 |
Oracle filed a lawsuit against rival software maker SAP today, alleging that SAP has downloaded thousands of documents from Oracle's customer service site using borrowed passwords.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco district court, accuses SAP's support services subsidiary, SAP TN, of downloading more than 10,000 software and support documents from Oracle's Customer Connection site. During one four-day period, SAP TN downloaded an average of 1,800 items per day, compared to the average customer's 20, the lawsuit says.
Oracle alleges that SAP TN borrowed passwords from Oracle customers who had moved or were planning to move to the SAP service, which services Oracle and J.D. Edwards software. Most of the downloads went not to the customers whose passwords were used, but to an IP address at SAP TN, the lawsuit says.
"This storehouse of stolen Oracle intellectual property enables SAP to offer cut-rate support services to customers who use Oracle software, and to attempt to lure them to SAP's application software platform and away from Oracle's," the lawsuit states.
Oracle is seeking to stop SAP from downloading or using the documents, and to recover damages and attorney's fees.
The downloads, which began in late November of last year, were detected when the database company noticed "unusually heavy download activity" from its Customer Connection servers, Oracle said. While one of the downloads purported to be from Honeywell, some others were achieved using bogus user names or email addresses, the lawsuit says.
As of this posting, SAP has not responded publicly to the allegations.
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