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Privacy professionals need certainty in a landscape complicated by Brexit and the GDPR. The IAPP Europe Data Protection Intensive 2018 is looking for top data privacy thinkers, doers and innovators to present at its Europe Data Protection Intensive 2018.
The Data Protection Intensive delivers innovative solutions to today’s top privacy and data protection challenges. Read about last year’s event (below). If you’re an engaging speaker with unique perspective on privacy and data protection, send us your idea for a speech, workshop or conference session.
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Negative press can trigger a flood of inquiries as a result of a disclosed data breach. Take steps to prevent a data breach in your organization. Some suggestions from our expert:
Encrypt all hard disks and memory sticks that may contain personal data. With Windows 10, the standard Windows features are enough to establish sufficient security.
Make sure that all devices are updated. This also includes servers, workstations, notebooks, WLAN routers, network printers, …
Make sure your firewall and protection software can also detect and remediate current threats.
Make sure your employees know how to recognize spear phishing and avoid opening dangerous mails.
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https://easygdpr.eu/en/2019/03/expertentipp-vermeiden-sie-einen-data-breach-in-ihrem-unternehmen/
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ICF International is providing technical support to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for its efforts to help 10 Asian countries become more resilient to climate change and climate-related hazards such as floods and droughts. ICF is:
Determining which areas and critical sectors (e.g., transport, energy, water supply and sanitation, agriculture) in each country are most vulnerable to climate change and climate-related natural hazards
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With information security evolving into the most complex area of information technology, the responsibility of an organisation’s CISO has never been this imperative.
The KPMG Digital Signals Insights Platform service gives CISOs the confidence that they are making the right decisions.
Threat intel: Obtain contextual threat intelligence to the brand regarding risks beyond your perimeters. Curate content regarding your brand and provide actionable intelligence
Dark web exposure: Detect and monitor mentions on dark web. Identify if any sensitive financial data has been exposed on the dark web
Third party supplier exposure: Assess the digital risks posed by your vendors. Social media command centre: With a vast coverage of data sources across popular social media channels, press media, blogs and forums combined with advanced AI and NLP technology, the KPMG Digital Signals Insights Platform performs advanced analytics on the data available on digital media, highlights and reports the risks to the organisation in the form of insights, performs review on the brands’ social media presence which allows for a transformation of the organisation’s social media strategy.
Sensitive data leakage: Analyse the presence of sensitive documents and intellectual property such as code, interview questions and credentials on the internet and alternative channels.
On time procurement of materials is a critical part of the supply chain. However, since the supply chain has evolved to include digital assets, the CPO should be vigilant to track and identify the associated risks.
KPMG’s Digital Signals Insights Platform can help CPOs in identifying the risks posed by the vendor across the digital supply chain.
Perform procurement, contract management and assess the financial health of vendors
Brand protection: With social media steadily emerging as a channel for building or destroying a brand’s image, reputational risk is becoming a top level topic of interest. The KPMG Digital Signals Insights Platform can detect instances of brand infringement, including fake affiliation claims, social imposters and unverified social media handles. Build brand reputation proactively by identifying brand abuse, impersonation, rogue influencers and threats from employees. Protect your brand and combat issues before they cause any damage
Analyse mentions to identify emerging cyber security threats or compromise of sensitive personal information.
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Phishing is perhaps the most well-known attack vector a hacker can utilize. Nearly everyone has seen a phishing attempt at some point in their lives. To put it simply, Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords. Phishing is not necessarily all about grabbing credentials, though. Modern phishing methods often revolve around having the target download a file that is covertly malware or enabling macros on a Word document which in turn deploy a virus. Phishing and the act of social engineering come hand in hand.
Phishing emails and texts often take the form of a couple of tried-and-tested fraudulent ‘fronts’. These included hackers purporting to be from Microsoft, a delivery company, an email provider, a government body such as the IRS, and companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Spotify. In short, when crafting a phishing attempt, the hacker will aim to pretend to be a company or service that is well known and one that many people will have some interaction with.
Some other phishing attacks may present in a more general sense. For example, an organization previously unheard of telling you that you have won a million dollars and to deposit the money, they need your banking details.
Phishing targets are usually a mass of individuals that are unconnected. A hacker may get their hands on an email list from breaching a website or could just as easily scrape social media for a huge spreadsheet of email addresses. Due to this, it may be best to think of regular phishing as casting out a net on the sea when trying to catch schools of fish.
Spear Phishing is the more refined, targeted version. It operates with the prime directive of breaching businesses. Hackers behind spear phishing know exactly who they’re emailing, what company they work for, and what position they hold within the company. Email addresses are gathered in these attacks through many legitimate means – Google, LinkedIn, and the company website. The ‘front’ used in Spear Phishing emails will often be much more direct – hackers often imitate other employees within the company or known suppliers for the organization. One successful Spear Phishing attack can devastate an entire business. If a hacker gains access to, say, a low-level email account by phishing for credentials, they can easily move laterally across the organization while searching for more sensitive details to enable them to move vertically up the chain of command. Unlike regular phishing, spear phishing is about seeking out individuals or smaller groups of victims.
The final of phishing falls under Spear Phishing, and so is often used interchangeably. Whale Phishing uses the same methodology as Spear Phishing; however, the targets are often much higher in a company. Whale Phishing targets C-level executives and high-level managers.
This is not to say that business owners shouldn’t be concerned about regular phishing attacks; if anything, they need to pay equal attention. In the age of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), employees often access company email or services through their own mobile devices, laptops, and computers. This proves a perfect entry point for hackers, many of which are looking through their victims’ devices to discover if they have corporate connections. Mass spam phishing emails, though possibly not directed at your business, can penetrate it regardless.
Falling victim to a breach through phishing is like handing the hackers the house keys and letting them walk through the front door. In this article, we’ll look at some of the biggest phishing attacks of the year so far.
Large Scale Phishing Campaigns
A phishing campaign lead to a large scale breach which affected over 130 companies. The initial campaign was targeted at Twilio, MailChimp and Klaviyo.
The phishing attack was spearheaded by a kit named ‘0ktapus’, and stolen nearly ten thousand login credentials. These credentials were then used to breach corporate networks for a large number of companies.
According to a report by researchers at Group-IB, this campaign has been on going March 2022. The initial aim of the campaign was to steal credentials in order to perform a large scale supply chain attack.
There was an additional attack against Cloudflare, which was supressed. This is fortunate, given the amount of clients Cloudlfare has.
The clients that were hit in the attack were across a range of industries, from finance, to tech, to games developers, to cryptocurrency. Some of the companies hit include T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Slack, Twitter, Binance, KuCoin, CoinBase, Microsoft, Epic Games, Riot Games, Evernote, AT&T, HubSpot, TTEC, and Best Buy.
The phishing campaign was SMS based. The initial step involved a text with a link to a phishing page, which impersonated an Okta login pages. Here users were asked to enter their credentials as well as their 2FA codes.
Okta is a identity-as-a-service solution, allowing employees to use a single login to access a number of programs within their company.
There were nearly 170 unique domains used in the phishing campaign. They were carefully crafted to appear like the genuine product, which employees would have been used to see in their day-to-day login.
When credentials were entered on the fake domains, they were siphoned out to the hackers Telegram channel.
These credentials were then used to access corporate VPNs and networks. They were also used to access customer support to steal customer data. A lot of the customer data was used for further attacks.
Group-IB are believed to have information relating to the identity of the attackers, however they will only be disclosing this to law enforcement agencies for now. However, it is believed that the hackers are based within the US.
Instagram Scheme
A popular instagram phishing campaign has seen quite a bit of traction in recent months. The campaign attempts to scam users on the image-sharing platform by offering them a blue badge.
A blue badge is given to Instagram profiles which represent a celebrity, brand, or public figure. They are highly sought after.
The phishing campaign took place in the form of spear phishing, where the hackers sent emails to Instagram users saying their accounts had been reviewed and that they were eligible for a blue badge.
Targets were then asked to fill out a form and claim their badge within 48 hours.
Though it may seem like an obvious ploy, the hackers gamble on the carelessness and enthusiasm of some instagram users.
The campaign was detected by Vade – which an AI-based analysis service that inspects emails. The first messages were sent out in late July.
The emails spiked twice, at the end of July and started of August, both of which had 1000 phishing emails per day.
The 48 hour limit created an illusion of urgency, which is often seen in phishing emails. The phishing domains were named “teamcorrectionbadges”, which helped the con. The hackers used logos for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Meta additionally.
Once a victim fills out the form, they are informed that they will be upgraded within 2 days. This never happens of course, and the Instagram account is hijacked.
SaaS Phishing Surge
There has been an increase in using software-as-a-service (SaaS) like website builders to create phishing websites that steal login credentials. The increase was spotted by researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which showed an increase of 1,100% increase from June 2021 and June 2022.
These SaaS services are ideal for phishing, as they bypass email security and are widely available.
These platforms also make creating new websites an easy experience, and allows hackers to diversify their operations as well as respond to takedowns quickly.
Researchers at Unit 42 divided the SaaS platforms into six categories in their report: file sharing and hosting sites, form and survey builders, website builders, note-taking and documentation writing platforms, and personal portfolio spaces.
Of all categories, website builders were the most abused.
The researchers explained that the hackers host their credential stealing pages directly on the services, and send an email containing a link to the URL. In other cases, they are used for URL redirection.
In some cases, hackers used service providers that don’t respond to takedown requests, allowing them to stay online indefinetely.
“In the event that the final credential-stealing page is taken down, the attacker can simply change the link and point to a new credential-stealing page, preserving the effectiveness of the original campaign,” reads the report.
Due to its nature, its unlikely abusing SaaS platforms will stop anytime soon. Tightening the use of these services would cut off a large portion of legitimate clients.
Hospitality Hit
A hacker, or possibly group of hackers known as TA558 has increased its phishing activity this year in a number of campaigns that target the hospitality and travel industries.
TA558 uses several malware families to gain access to systems, perform surveillance, steal data, and siphon money. Much of the malware used were remote access trojans (RATs).
TA558 has been active since 2018. Researchers at Proofpoint noted its surge in the last year or so, which likely come as the tourism industry picks up post-COVID.
TA558 initially used documents full of malicious macros in its phishing emails, but has since switched to embedding files within URLs in the messages.
This has been a common shift for hackers, after Microsoft blocked a number of macros in Office.
The phishing emails are written in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, targeting North American, Europe, and Latin America.
The dupe itself involves making a booking for a target organization as a fradulent group. Victims click on the URL which is supposed to be a reservation link, and recieve a malicious file.
This file launchers a powershell script that dumps a RAT payload on the victims computer.
In most of the cases Proofpoint observed this year, the payload was AsyncRAT or Loda, while Revenge RAT, XtremeRAT, CaptureTela, and BluStealer were also deployed on a smaller scale.
When TA558 has comproimsed hotel systems, it digs deeper to steal customer data as well as credit card information. It also modifies the main website to divert reservation payment to their own serves.
In one case in July 2022, the Marino Boutique Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal was hacked. The hackers stole €500,000 in four days from unsuspecting customers who paid to book a room.
Cryptocurrency Phishing Scheme
A new phishing campaign has emerged that targets Coinbase, Metamask, Kraken, and Gemini users. The campaign abuses Google Sites and Microsoft Azure to create fraudulent sites.
The phishing pages are pushed through comments on legitimate sites by a number of bots. Posting these links on credible websites increases the sites SEO.
These sites are not flagged by automated moderaters as they are hosted on Google and Microsoft.
The campaign was highlighted by cybersecurity researchers at Netskope.
Google even accidentally included the phishing pages as featured snippets, giving them an even greater rating.
The sites mimic Metamask, Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken, and aim for user wallets and assets.
The sites are simply landing pages, with visitors being redirected to the phishing sites when the click on “login”.
The MetaMask phishing site attempts to steal the user’s password and wallet’s secret recovery phrase (seed phrase). This information allows the threat actor to import the wallet on their own devices and drain the contents.
For the crypto exchange phishing pages, the threat actors attempt to steal their login credentials. They also steal 2FA details, allowing full access to a users account.
AMEX/ Snapchat Phishing Hack
Hackers have used redirections on the Snapchat and American Express websites in a phishing campaign which aims to steal 365 credentials. Redirects such as these are used to send targets to malicious sites which are used for phishing.
“Since the first domain name in the manipulated link is in fact the original site’s, the link may appear safe to the casual observer,” email security firm Inky, which observed the attacks, explained.
“The trusted domain (e.g., American Express, Snapchat) acts as a temporary landing page before the surfer is redirected to a malicious site.”
According to Inky, the Snapchat redirect was used in nearly 7000 phishing emails over two and a half months.
The AmEx redirect was quickly patched in late July, with new attempts producing an error page. Before it was patched, it was used in over 2000 phishing attempts.
“In both the Snapchat and the American Express exploits, the black hats inserted personally identifiable information (PII) into the URL so that the malicious landing pages could be customized on the fly for the individual victims,” Inky explained.
“And in both, this insertion was disguised by converting it to Base 64 to make it look like a bunch of random characters.”
To defend against such attacks, Inky advised email recipients to check for “url=,” “redirect=,” “external-link,” or “proxy” strings or multiple occurrences of “HTTP” in URLs embedded in emails likely showing an indication of redirection.
FCC issue warning
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have issues a warning around an increase in SMS phishing attempts in which hackers attempt to steal personal information and/or money.
These types of phishing attacks are known as smishing, though the FCC refers to them as robotexts. The hackers used a number of lures to trick victims into handing over their details.
“The FCC tracks consumer complaints – rather than call or text volume – and complaints about unwanted text messages have risen steadily in recent years from approximately 5,700 in 2019, 14,000 in 2020, 15,300 in 2021, to 8,500 through June 30, 2022,” the US communications watchdog’s Robocall Response Team said.
“In addition, some independent reports estimate billions of robotexts each month – for example, RoboKiller estimates consumers received over 12 billion robotexts in June.”
These phishing attacks are often in regards to believable claims, such as unpaid bills, delivery issues, bank issues, or law enforcement actions.
Very often these texts lead to malicious landing pages, where victims are asked to verify purchases with their card details.
The sending information can be spoofed to make it appear as if the SMS comes from a trustworthy source, such as a government agency or popular company like Amazon.
“If you think you’re the victim of a texting scam, report it immediately to your local law enforcement agency and notify your wireless service provider and financial institutions where you have accounts,” the FCC added.
FCC added that users who think they may have been targeted should visited the FCC Consumer Help Center and the FCC Scam Glossary.
Protection Against Phishing
Phishing attacks are without a doubt the most common attack vector for hackers. Though awareness and education are good defenses against any form of attack, with Phishing it is the key to protection. Simply not opening links or attachements in emails is the highest level of protection.
This may seem well and good, but in a network in an organzation, there can be hundreds of email address, and hundreds of people who may still click on dodgy link. Businesses and organizations should spend resources to educate their members, or pay dearly for it down the line.
There are several steps and tools one can use to avoid become a victim of a phishing. One of these tools is SaferNet.
SaferNet is the perfect solution to the cybersecurity issues that individuals, families, and businesses face today. It not only connects every device using a secure, 24/7 always on, military grade VPN, but it also stops outside cyberthreats, malware and viruses as well. On SaferNet, all users are protected anywhere in the world, all the time, on any cellular or Wi-Fi network. In addition to SaferNet’s VPN and cyber protection, it also offers a range of employee or parental/family internet controls including internet filtering, monitoring, scheduling, and blocking access to websites or even entire website categories
Typically, a business or family would need 3 separate services for a VPN, Malware Protection, and Internet Controls; SaferNet offers all 3 features in one service. SaferNet truly is an endpoint security presence that can be implemented in minutes around the world, on phones, laptops, tablets, and computers at an economical price point that caters to all sizes of businesses and families. SaferNet guarantees a smooth setup and installation process that takes only minutes, and an easily accessible control hub for you to monitor all your employee’s or family members devices; including activity, time spent online, and threats blocked.
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https://safernet.it/the-dangers-of-phishing/
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2 Comments · Posted by Robert Ambrogi in General Last April, I wrote about Enlocked, an application that I described as making email encryption idiotically easy. Enlock is a plug-in you add to your email client — whether it is a desktop client such as Outlook or a webmail service such as Gmail. Once installed, encrypting an email is as easy as clicking a button that says, “Send Secure.” Read my earlier review for full details.
At the time I wrote that, Enlocked was completely free. That is about to change. Starting in early January, Enlocked will be free only for up to 10 encrypted emails a month. Beyond that number will require a subscription. The per-user subscription plans will be:
$10 a month to send up to 100 encrypted emails a month.
$20 a month to send up to 2,000 encrypted emails a month.
$30 a month to send an unlimited number of encrypted emails.
I spoke this week with Andy Feit, the CEO of Enlocked, who explained why the company decided to charge a subscription. When Enlocked launched earlier this year, the hope was that an easy, free encryption tool would have widespread consumer appeal, enabling the company to bring in revenue through advertising.
That did not turn out to be the case. Instead, the company realized that the bulk of its users fell into four more vertical groups: legal professionals, health care professionals, finance and accounting professionals and smaller businesses. Further, feedback from users within those verticals indicated that they were concerned about the company’s financial viability. They would rather see the company charge for its product and be viable for the long term than have it remain free but risk long-term survival.
“We decided on a price point that is low enough that it will not scare off the professional or small-business user,” Feit said.
As I explained in my earlier post, an email that is sent encrypted must be decrypted by the recipient. Enlocked makes decryption as easy as the push of a button also, although the recipient will also need the Enlocked plug-in (or use the Enlocked Anywhere web tool). Decrypting emails will remain free — there will be no charge for reading decrypted emails.
New Features
Since I first wrote about Enlocked, new features have been added. One is the ability to require a secondary password beyond your initial Enlocked user password. This way, should you step away from your computer or smartphone with your email program open, someone could not simply sit down and send or open an encrypted email without entering the second password. The secondary password also protects the security of your encrypted email if your email account is hacked.
Another new feature is Ensafe. Using this, you can encrypt email messages that were sent unencrypted but that you want to save securely. Currently, it works only with Gmail and Google Apps, but the company is working to extend it to all popular email programs.
To do this, you designate a folder (or a “label” as Gmail calls them) for encryption or create a new secure folder. Then, every email within that folder and every email you move to that folder is encrypted. This way, even if someone were to sit down at your computer or hack into your email account, they would not be able to read the emails in that folder. This is an easy way to save and protect client emails.
As I noted in my earlier review, Enlocked works with Outlook, popular webmail programs vias plug-ins for all major browsers, and on mobile devices, except for BlackBerry. Back in April, I noted that the BlackBerry app was “coming soon.” Well, it hasn’t come yet, but will be ready within the next week or two, Feit told me.
Enlocked’s subscription plans will roll out sometime after Jan. 4, Feit said.
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Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said it's tracking the ongoing campaign under the name Dark Pink and attributed seven successful attacks to the adversarial collective between June and December 2022.
The bulk of the attacks have singled out military bodies, government ministries and agencies, and religious and non-profit organizations in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with one unsuccessful intrusion reported against an unnamed European state development body based in Vietnam.
The threat actor is estimated to have commenced its operations way back in mid-2021, although the attacks ramped up only a year later using a never-before-seen custom toolkit designed to plunder valuable information from compromised networks.
"Dark Pink APT's primary goals are to conduct corporate espionage, steal documents, capture the sound from the microphones of infected devices, and exfiltrate data from messengers," Group-IB researcher Andrey Polovinkin said, describing the activity as a "highly complex APT campaign launched by seasoned threat actors."
Group-IB told The Hacker News that there is not enough data to explicitly attribute the threat actor to a particular country, but noted that it's likely of Asia-Pacific origin given the geolocation of identified victims.
In addition to its sophisticated malware arsenal, the group has been observed leveraging spear-phishing emails to initiate its attacks as well as Telegram API for command-and-control (C2) communications.
Also notable is the use of a single GitHub account for hosting malicious modules and which has been active since May 2021, suggesting that Dark Pink has been able to operate without getting detected for over 1.5 years.
The Dark Pink campaign further stands out for employing multiple infection chains, wherein the phishing messages contain a link to a booby-trapped ISO image file to activate the malware deployment process. In one instance, the adversary posed as a candidate applying for a PR internship.
It's also suspected that the hacking crew may be trawling job boards in order to tailor their messages and increase the likelihood of success of their social engineering attacks.
The ultimate goal is to deploy TelePowerBot and KamiKakaBot, which are capable of executing commands sent via an actor-controlled Telegram bot, in addition to using bespoke tools like Ctealer and Cucky to siphon credentials and cookies from web browsers.
While Ctealer is written in C/C++, Cucky is a .NET program. Another custom malware is ZMsg, a .NET-based application that allows Dark Pink to harvest messages sent via messaging apps such as Telegram, Viver, and Zalo.
An alternate kill chain identified by Group-IB utilizes a decoy document included in the ISO file to retrieve a rogue macro-enabled template from GitHub, which, in turn, harbors TelePowerBot, a PowerShell script malware.
That's not all. A third method spotted recently in December 2022 sees the launch of KamiKakaBot, a .NET version of TelePowerBot, with the help of an XML file containing an MSBuild project that's located at the end of a Word document in encrypted view. The Word file is present in an ISO image sent to the victim in a spear-phishing email.
"The threat actors behind this wave of attacks were able to craft their tools in several programming languages, giving them flexibility as they attempted to breach defense infrastructure and gain persistence on victims' networks," Polovinkin explained.
A successful compromise is followed by reconnaissance, lateral movement, and data exfiltration activities, with the actor also using Dropbox and email in some cases to transmit files of interest. The malware, besides recording microphone audio via the Windows Steps Recorder tool, is tasked with taking screenshots and infecting attached USB disks to propagate TelePowerBot.
"The use of an almost entirely custom toolkit, advanced evasion techniques, the threat actors' ability to rework their malware to ensure maximum effectiveness, and the profile of the targeted organizations demonstrate the threat that this particular group poses," Polovinkin said.
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How does your computer get infected with timeinweb.com pop-up ads
Most cases, an adware, that displays timeinweb.com ads when you use your Web browser, gets installed onto your computer with a free software like E-Mail checker, PDF creator, video codec, etc. It may be bundled within the installation packages from Softonic, Cnet, Soft32, Brothersoft or other similar web sites. So, when you will install a free program that you need, this adware will be installed automatically too. Even removing a free software that contains this adware, you can not remove all annoying ads, because this adware will be not removed. Therefore, you must follow the steps below to remove timeinweb.com adware and clean your computer.
To protect your computer in the future, please read term of use and user agreement very carefully before installing any software or otherwise you can end up with another unwanted program on your PC that will display tons annoying advertisements such as timeinweb.com ads.
Remove timeinweb.com ads manually is difficult and often infection is not completely removed. Therefore, we recommend you to use the MalwareBytes Anti-malware Free that are completely clean your computer. Moreover, the free software will help you to remove browser hijackers, malware and toolbars that your computer may be infected too.
Click Next and follow the prompts.
Once installation is complete, click on the “Scan Now” button to start scanning your computer for timeinweb.com infection. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.
When the scan is finished, make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Remove Selected”. Once disinfection is completed, you may be prompted to Restart.
How to block timeinweb.com ads
To increase your security and protect your computer against new annoying ads and malicious web sites, you need to use an application that blocks access to dangerous ads and web-pages. Moreover, the software can block the display of intrusive advertising, which also leads to faster loading of websites and reduce the consumption of web traffic.
Download AdGuard program using the following link.
After the download is complete, run the downloaded file. You will see the Setup Wizard program window. Follow the prompts.
After installation is complete, click “Skip” to close the installation program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.
In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your computer, AdGuard will start automatically and block timeinweb.com pop-up ads, as well as other malicious or misleading web page. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the icon AdGuard, which is located on your desktop.
If the problem with timeinweb.com pop-ups is still remained if MalwareBytes Anti-malware cannot remove timeinweb.com adware, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. Also you can ask for help our Myantispyware team below.
Double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this tool is started, press “Scan” button to perform a system scan for timeinweb.com adware.
Once AdwCleaner has finished, it will open a scan report. Review the report and then click “Cleaning” button. It will display a prompt. Click “OK”.
Double-click on the HijackThis icon, and click the button labeled “Do a system scan only”.
Once the scan is complete, the scan button will read “Save log”, click it. Save this log to your desktop
Create a Myantispyware account here. Once you’ve registered, check your e-mail for a confirmation link, and confirm your account. After that, login.
Copy and paste the contents of the HijackThis log into your post. If you are posting for the first time, please start a new thread by using the New Topic button in the Spyware Removal forum. When posting your HJT log, try to give us some details about your problems, so we can try to help you more accurately.
Wait for one of our trained “Security Team” or Site Administrator to provide you with knowledgeable assistance tailored to your problem.
How to remove timeinweb.com pop-up ads (Manually)
The following instructions is a step-by-step guide, which will help you to remove timeinweb.com adware manually from Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge and Google Chrome.
It will open a list of all programs. Scroll through the all list, and uninstall any suspicious and unknown programs.
Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to remove timeinweb.com redirect
When breaking into a computer, this browser URL may also change the browser’s shortcuts, adding “http://timeinweb.com” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you start the browser, it will open this annoying web-site.
To clear a browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text “http://timeinweb.com” that has been added here. You need to remove it.
When the text is removed, press the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your browsers, as they may be infected too.
Remove timeinweb.com ads from Chrome
Click to Settings option.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as shown below and click on the Reset settings button.
Confirm your action, click on the Reset button.
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Open Mozilla Firefox menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes ( ). Click on the Help button ( ).
In the Help menu click on the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page click on Refresh Firefox button.
Open the Internet Explorer tools menu by clicking on the button in the form of gear ( ). It opens the drop-down menu. Click on the Internet Options.
In the Internet Options window click on the Advanced tab, then click the Reset button. The Internet Explorer will show the Reset Internet Explorer settings window. Select the Delete personal settings check box, then click on Reset button.
You will now need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
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When your computer is infected, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge will display a tons of annoying advertisements. These ads will be injected within the content of web-sites that are you opening in your browser. This advertising can be varied: pop-up ads, in-text ads, different sized banners, offers to install an questionable software. These ads will appear on all websites, including sites where previously you advertising banners have never seen.
These timeinweb.com advertisements depends on a web-site that you are visiting. That is, it is clear that this adware, without your permission, steals your private information such as: your ip address, what is a web page you are viewing now, what you are looking for on the Internet, which links you are clicking, and much, much more. Moreover, this adware may monetize its functionality by collecting data from your browsing sessions and selling it to third party companies. This puts your personal information at a security risk. So, obviously, you need to remove timeinweb.com adware that causes lot of annoying ads as soon as possible. Use the free instructions above.
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With this network you will be able to track your pets, monitor the environment and much more. The best part of the Helium network is that it rewards you with HNT crypto for hosting a Helium hotspot.
All you need is a place to put it and provide a reliable internet connection. Helium miners are in very short supply relative to increasing demand. Supply chain issues coupled with strong demand for the product have made it difficult to get one in a timely manner.
In this post we look at the best Helium miners, what differentiates them and where to buy them. The Rak v2 miner is made by Rakwireless. Rak has built and shipped over , miners. In fact they were the creators of the original first generation Helium miner sold by Helium. Rak has a clear advantage over other manufacturers with the largest number of miners shipped to date.
They manufacture stable hardware and have benefited from user feedback to improve their product over the last little while. The Rak v2 has excellent build quality. Buy a Rak v2 Miner. The SenseCAP miner is a relatively new entrant to the miner ecosystem.
Their first batch of shipments were made in the summer of The miner ships with a 2. The SenseCAP includes a cooling solution with a heatsink and a cooling fan in the aluminum enclosure. This enables automatic temperature management even in harsh environments. This enables long-term and stable operation.
The Nebra miner is made by the team at PiSupply. They have a lot of experience with Raspberry Pi accessories. Nebra makes two versions of the miner — outdoor and indoor. In fact Nebra is one of the only Helium vendors that has delivered an outdoor miner to the market. The Nebra indoor miner is made of plastic and the top can be removed relatively easily without any tools. This was a benefit for the early shipments where some internal hardware came loose and customers could put things right without having to return the miner to the factory.
There are LEDs on the front panel that provide additional diagnostic information. This is very useful. Wherever possible use wired Ethernet. Buy a Nebra Indoor Miner. With proper placement of an outdoor miner you can maximize your HNT due to two main reasons:. Nebra has been very challenged by way of component availability and ramping up production. In fact they have not taken any new orders since last Spring. Buy a Nebra Outdoor Miner. Bobcat has shipped over , miners to date. They have been successful in ramping up their production to meet demand.
This provides better data security and larger memory storage relative to other miners on the market either use 32GB flashes or external SD cards. The larger memory allows the miner to perform faster computation. As well this built-in memory allows write cycles, compared to write cycles allowed by an SD card. As a result it has longer device life expectancy of up to 10 years. The antenna that ships with the miner has 4 dBi gain. This is larger than the stock antenna that ships with other miners; however it is smaller than other antennas that we recommend for more range.
Buy a Bobcat Miner. Linxdot is a relatively new entrant to the Helium mining device community. The first batch of miners started shipping in September The Linxdot miner is a compact device made with a plastic enclosure. The Linxdot miner has an instant sync feature. The miner pulls a fully-synced snapshot every time the hotspot falls behind the blockchain by 50 blocks. This is an automated process and it requires no attention. A bonus feature is the array of LEDs on the top of the miner along with clear documentation that explains the status depending on their color and how they blink.
Buy a Linxdot Miner. Miners are made by Rakwireless the company behind the original Helium miner and the very popular Rak v2 miners. One of the most frustrating aspects of Helium mining has been the lack of miner availability and transparency. Miner vendors have consistently changed delivery timelines, often without any formal notification.
Some miner vendors have taken pre-orders with backlogs up to a year or more. Toward this goal, RAKwireless offers great customer support and does not accept pre-orders. Most importantly they keep their promises to the mining community. Buy a MNTD. Various Helium-approved manufacturers sell miners on their websites.
However at the present time lead times are very long. If you are looking for a miner right away, you can find one on eBay. A couple of important things when purchasing a Helium miner on eBay. Read the listing carefully. In this case you could be waiting a while before you get your miner. In general you should not have an issue that cannot be resolved with a brand new miner bought directly from the manufacturer.
The company that made the miner should be able to help you sort out common problems. However make sure that you get the necessary proof of purchase from the seller and any other documentation you need for warranty purposes.
Communicate with the seller. With a used miner you will have to sort out the miner transfer. Once the miner is transferred you will also have to assert a new miner location. Assuming that everything else such as location, antenna and miner density are the same, the most profitable Helium miner is the one that is the most reliable and stays online for longer. Make sure you have a plan for where you are going to install your miner. Read our article on how to maximize your HNT earnings.
The Helium network is increasing at an exponential pace. It has grown 15x in a very short while. In March there were only 20, miners online.
Currently there are over , In the early part of , we anticipate a miner to make 0. In this post we go through the Helium earning math. A miner connects to the internet using either Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Based on my experience, Wi-Fi connectivity is very unreliable unless your miner sits right next to the Wi-Fi router.
One of the reasons for this is that miners have Wi-Fi antennas that are internal to the enclosure. It would have made sense to allow for an external Wi-Fi antenna as that would give better range. Until then, my recommendation is to use wired Ethernet to connect your miner to the internet. The Linxdot miner has a fast sync feature that allows you to join the Helium network within 30 minutes of activating your hotspot. In this post we have reviewed the top Helium miners along with their unique differentiating features.
We hope you enjoy your journey into the land of Helium. We have certainly learned a lot about radio frequency and networks and continue to do so with each new Helium device we install. Home Start Here About Us. Last updated on Dec 29, The Helium network is growing by leaps and bounds. Miner 7 Frequently Asked Questions 7.
Hotspots provide miles of wireless network coverage for millions of devices around you using Helium LongFi, and you are rewarded in HNT for doing this. Below are the Hotspot models that have so far been approved by the community and the Manufacturing Oversight Committee, which governs vendor onboarding. Please do your own research as a vendor listing does not equal endorsement or recommendation. Hotspots on the network are randomly and automatically assigned Proof-of-Coverage tests to complete. Passing and witnessing tests earns HNT.
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Helium is a blockchain network designed to provide wireless coverage to the masses. Helium is a relatively new blockchain that is designed to create decentralized and public wireless networks. Some of the coolest technology that reduces friction in our daily lives is part of the internet of things IoT , which relies on the interconnectivity between devices to function.
The Outdoor HNT Hotspot Miner opens up a plethora of opportunities, such as the ability to mount a hotspot to the side of buildings, houses and roofs. This means that within the frequency variants MHz, MHz, MHz you can move it to a new location with a different frequency plan and it will auto-update. This only works within a single frequency — for example you can change from a US to AU location. The advanced plan includes a management dashboard allowing you to remotely manage your fleet of miners, check device stats, hotspot performance and more. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.
Username or Email Address. Remember Me. This includes built in auto-update functionality via an auto updater-script for the life of the device at no extra charge. This is a paid service but you get 6 months free with the device purchase.
You can also mine Helium and earn more money. The Nebra HNT Outdoor Hotspot Miner opens up a myriad of opportunities, such as mounting a hotspot to the sides of buildings, houses and rooftops. Helium HNT is an efficient miner for a new cryptocurrency. It is easy to use a smartphone to complete the setup process.
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In 2005, on the back of Steve Ballmer’s famous “Developer! Developer! Developer!” speech, a group of community-focused people got together to organise a conference – by software developers, for software developers. Fifteen years later, DDD 2020 is set to break tradition – just a little bit – by going completely virtual.
While the conference has generated many spin-offs over the years, even reaching as far as Australia, a fully-digital event to work around the current global situation is terrific news for developers.
The top, positive feedback every year for DDD and DDD North is that the events are free, which always makes it worth it even with some dropout. Running the events on a Saturday is also important to us, because not all developers can get time off work to attend conferences, or can arrange childcare during the week.
The main costs of the conference, such as venue fees and catering, are covered by sponsorships – there are many organisations that strongly support community events, and DDD in particular.
Supporting the community has always been important to me at Black Marble, and the company is very supportive of the community activities of its people. Four members of the senior management team there are Microsoft MVPs, all of which are enthusiastic speakers and volunteers.
The final touches to the agenda and speaker list are being made, and DDD 2020, which takes place on December 12th, looks set to be an event to remember.
We have seen some excellent content submitted, from high profile ‘professional’ speakers as well as newcomers. The exciting (perhaps crazy!) decision we have made in light of this is to run a 7-track event, with around 8 sessions per track. The tracks in the draft so far include DevOps, AI/ML, .NET, and the cloud.
As mentioned earlier, the operational costs for DDD are typically handled by sponsorships. We have no real costs to pay this year, but despite that some of our regular sponsors said they still wanted to support the event. In place of us taking any money, sponsors of DDD 2020 are instead donating to The National Museum of Computing. We have 3 sponsors on board already, and I am delighted at the positive response.
The key thing about DDD that we’re certainly not changing for an online event, is that it is important to be inclusive. We also want to do something a bit different, something positive for the community, and after a long hard year for so many of us, we want to end the year on a high.
This truly will be something for the community too, as with this being a digital DDD, location is no longer a barrier to attending. The team will miss catching up with Matt the security guard, though!
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A Trump-themed phishing campaign has been detected that attempts to deliver the Qnode Remote Access Trojan (QRAT) under the guise of a video file that appears to be a Donald Trump sex tape.
QRAT is a Java-based RAT that was first detected in 2015 that has been used in several phishing campaigns over the years, with an uptick in distribution observed from August 2020. Interestingly, the malicious file attachment – named “TRUMP_SEX_SCANDAL_VIDEO.jar” – bears no relation to the phishing email body and subject line, which offers a loan as an investment for a dream project or business plan. The subject line is “GOOD LOAN OFFER,” and the sender claims a loan will be provided if there is a good return on the investment and between $500,000 and $100 million can be provided. It is unclear whether an error has been made and the wrong file attachment was added to the email or if this was a deliberate mismatching of a malicious .jar file. While the emails are unlikely to fool many end users, there may be enough interest in the video to pique the interest of some recipients.
The phishing campaign does appear to be poorly constructed, but the same cannot be said of the malware the campaign attempts to deliver. The version of QRAT delivered in this campaign is more sophisticated than previously detected versions, with several improvements made to evade security solutions. For instance, the malicious code used as the QRAT downloader is obfuscated and split across several different buffers within the .jar file.
Phishing campaigns often take advantage of interest in popular new stories and the Presidential election, allegations of election fraud, and recent events at Capitol Hill have seen President Trump trending. It is likely that this will not be the only Trump-themed phishing campaign to be conducted over the next few days and months.
This campaign appears to target businesses, where the potential returns from a malware infection is likely to be far higher than an attack on consumers. Blocking threats such as this is easiest with an advanced email security solution capable of detecting known and new malware variants.
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The Doctor is ... YOU! Online Medical Symptom Checkers Examined
I'm a wreck. I think I might have osteomyelitis, or peripheral neuropathy, or even retrocalcaneal bursitis. I just hope it's not tarsal tunnel syndrome. I'm also overstressed, overweight, losing my hearing and not sleeping enough. Even worse, I have a low IQ and my "real" age (taking into account my bad habits and so on) is 10 years older than my actual age.
Who needs doctors anymore? We've got the Web.
Yup, I learned all this stuff from visiting online health sites. There are dozens of them out there, and they all promise to help figure out what ails you. Of course, they all feature prominent disclaimers emphasizing that they should be used for information purposes only and you should see a medical professional for any real diagnoses.
But why bother? Even if you could schedule an appointment within the next three months (by which time the symptoms have usually disappeared ... or you have), it's much easier to type in few search terms or answer a few questions and get a list of potential causes of your symptoms.
And, people being people, you'll probably focus on the worst-sounding ailment and decide it's what you have. That's called "cyberchondria" by a couple of Microsoft researchers who have studied health-related search behavior. In their research paper, Ryen White and Eric Horvitz declared, "The Web has the potential to increase the anxieties of people who have little or no medical training, especially when Web search is employed as a diagnostic procedure."
No kidding. If I didn't suffer from anxiety before, I surely do now. Later, I'm going to take an online test to be certain.
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My own self-diagnosis research wasn't scientific like Microsoft's. I just checked out five of the most popular (according to Google) health sites to see if they could tell me what's causing pain in my foot. (The sites are presented in the order I tested them.)
But I cheated. I know what I have, because a doctor told me. So I confess, I don't really believe I might have all those conditions listed above -- but I might have believed that if Doc hadn't told me I had plantar fasciitis. That's medical-speak for a strain of the fibrous tissue that runs along the bottom of the foot from heel to toe.
So, to gauge the effectiveness of online health sites, I used that example to focus on "symptom checkers" that typically let you indicate what part of the body is causing you problems and answer some questions to narrow down the list of possible causes.
The results weren't very encouraging. Some sites winnowed possibilities down to a manageable number that included plantar fasciitis, as shown in this video. But some didn't. And the logic underpinning the decision-tree process sometimes seemed absurd.
Being a layperson (with a low IQ, remember), I asked some bona-fide medical professionals to take a look at the sites and provide their assessments. Helping me analyze the symptom checkers were Dr. Laura Beaty, a family practice physician at Alliance Primary Care in Atlanta; Dr. Andy Spooner, a general practitioner with a specialty in pediatrics at Cincinnati General Hospital; and Dr. Viren Bavishi, a pediatrician at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Franklin, Wis.
Dr. Bavishi said symptom checkers can be a good resource, but their usefulness varies on a case-by-case basis depending on what a patient's symptoms are, so he didn't want to compare them. One common problem he found: "There's a spectrum on what information they're giving you. It could be a lack of information depending on the illness, or it could be far too much [information] for what we're concerned about."
He would prefer that patients come in first so he can figure out what's going on, and then these sites could be "a great adjunct as an education resource. That's where I found it to be useful." But when the sites are consulted first, "I think it causes, in some cases, more stress and anxiety because people end up getting fixated on the worst-case scenario."Some of these symptom checkers are great," he said, "but it does sometimes leave out some of the questions or things that we may ask. Some variables that I think are important aren't accounted for."
Dr. Beaty and Dr. Spooner took my approach and worked through each of the sites to evaluate them individually. I conducted my own analysis before speaking to them.
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BOSTON, Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — GMO GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), a leading provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE), and Beame.io Ltd, a security framework and trust provider for the connected world of the future, are enabling users of any device, such as mobile phones, laptops, IoT devices, etc., to establish a secure HTTPS connection to a browser. The provisioning to remote servers happens through Beame.io’s open source framework, made up of several software development kits (SDKs).
Beame.io is using GlobalSign’s short-lived Organization Validated (OV) digital certificates to enable users to protect their data and privacy with a connection established through the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The digital certificate remain valid for as long as the user needs a secure session, which could range from a span of minutes to months. A key benefit of short-lived certificates is that the fast expiration makes using a compromised certificate for an attack less likely.
“Most communication lacks encryption. The solution is simple: to give an identity to everything. Beame.io and GlobalSign are returning the control of identifying credentials to the hands of the user,” says Beame.io’s CEO, Zeev Glozman.
Beame.io makes it possible to assign hostnames to mobile devices and issue them matching short-lived GlobalSign SSL certificates. This provides secure, time-limited, global access to credentials or information. Beame.io allows for the creation and management of a private, secure application network on-demand, preventing unauthorized connections at the network layer. Beame.io provides proof of possession of a unique cryptographic key used together with multi-factor authentication, allowing application and device developers to easily implement asymmetric credentialing for end-to-end encryption anywhere.
Using GlobalSign’s high volume SSL and PKI certificate service, Beame.io is able to issue certificates without any user involvement. From the start, GlobalSign expects to issue millions of certificates for Beame.io’s customers.
From an end-user’s perspective, the Beame.io framework powers a range of uses in the boardroom, living room, doctor’s office, and beyond. Identity can be associated with internet-connected devices in the home for trustworthy, authenticated information transfer such as video feeds from a baby monitor or a security camera. Next, patient identity can be associated with mobile phones for seamless authentication at the doctor’s office. Additionally, patients will be able to share their medical files with their doctors from their mobile devices rather than being given temporary access to their files by their healthcare providers. Finally, in the enterprise, mobile phones can carry their owner’s identity and replace passwords, serving as a second or higher level of authentication. The mobile phone can identify a user to Single Sign On and can log him or her into the Active Directory. That’s because with Beame.io technology, the personal, mobile, or IoT device can act as a fully functional, publicly accessible server with a globally trusted GlobalSign SSL certificate.
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According to a new report, cybercriminals release hundreds of thousands of new malware strains every day, the vast majority of which target Windows users only.
Based on statistics published by AV-TEST GmbH, Atlas VPN researchers concluded that in the first three quarters of 2022, a total of 62.29 million new malware samples were detected each day, or approximately 228,164 new variants.
Of this number, 59.58 million new malware samples were designed to target the Windows operating system, representing 95.6%. Linux malware ranked second (1.76 million samples/2.8%), followed by Android malware in the top three.
The most popular operating system
According to Atlas VPN, the mobile operating system encountered 938,379 new threats between Q1 and Q2 2022, or 1.5%, and for macOS, researchers discovered 8,329 never-before-seen variants.
Researchers say that the main reason why cybercriminals focus so much on Windows is its popularity. The Microsoft operating system is by far the most dominant computer product, with approximately 30% of the global market share. According to global Statcounter statistics, Android has a 43.47% market share, iOS 17.25% and Linux 1.08%.
Despite the terrifying statistics, the outlook is not as bleak as it may seem. Researchers say that compared to the same period last year, the number of new malware strains has actually decreased significantly – by more than a third (34%).
Of all the different variants, ransomware remains the most destructive and therefore the most popular. Other popular variants include information theft tools (capable of stealing stored passwords, credit card information, keystrokes and screenshots), cryptocurrency miners (also known as cryptojackers) and bots (using compromised endpoints to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks) which can be sold as a service).
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NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the preliminary agenda and opening of registration for its augural CSA Summit New York City 2015. The event will feature some of the world's largest and most respected cloud adopters and providers who will share enterprise lessons learned in cloud security.
Co-hosted by the CSA NY Metro and CSA Delaware Valley chapters, this year's event will take place October 28 and will feature presentations and workshops from subject matter experts from cloud security and financial services on a number of related topics. The event is expected to draw approximately 200 well-qualified attendees with an interest in cloud security from the local region.
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Information Technology provider require an Interim Head of Information Security to help with the creation of a business wide strategy and a target operating model (TOM).
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CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced it will host its eighth annual investor conference on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. EST in Boston, Massachusetts.
The event will be webcast live via the Company's website beginning at 9:00 a.m. EST. To listen to a real-time broadcast of the meeting, visit www.mc.com/investor and click on the live audio webcast link for the conference. A replay of the meeting will be available on the website for an extended period of time.
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Although it may a surprising fact, about 55% of cyber attacks come from within a company= 32% done with malicious intent and 23% are done by employees that leave their company’s information vulnerable for hackers. As employers, stay aware of what employees have access to sensitive information. It is not safe for a large group of employees to have access to information hackers are looking for. Remind your employees the risks your company faces from cyber attacks and why they should practice caution.
Cyber security is a prevention measure your small business can take to minimize damages from cyber attacks.
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From organizations paying massive noncompliance fines to consumers shunning companies they perceive as insecure, we’ll break down the impact of cyber attacks on businesses and individuals from businesses’ and consumers’ perspectives.
Hardly a day goes by without a new cyber attack or data breach making headlines in the press. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that cyber attacks on businesses (and the data breaches that typically follow) wreak havoc on the targeted organizations and their consumers. But what kinds of negative impacts or effects do these acts of aggression have on their targets and their targets’ stakeholders?
Let’s dig into the data and look at 12 of the top negative effects cyber attacks have on businesses and individuals.
Let’s compare this to previous years…
Data source: The data used to create this graph was gathered from IBM and Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach reports from 2018-2022.
Of course, there are plenty of other direct and indirect costs and effects of cyber attacks and data breaches to consider…
5. Organizations Must Increasingly Look Inward as 19% of Data Breaches Involve Insiders
It’s common sense that organizations should be doing all they can to protect their IT systems and data from external threats. After all, Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows that 83% of data breaches resulted from external actors. However, that doesn’t mean organizations can be complacent about internal threats (i.e., intentionally malicious users and unintentional situations [read “oops”]), which are involved in nearly one of every five analyzed data breaches.
External threat actors can blackmail or manipulate employees into doing things they don’t want to do. But in some cases, your employees may just choose to “color outside the lines” and do bad things for whatever reason — money, revenge, or maybe just because they can. Knowing this, regardless of the “why,” organizations increasingly need to monitor and improve their day-to-day security management strategies and practices. This includes:
6. Cyber Attacks Further Burden Businesses’ Taxed Supply Chains
Data source: A joint cyber security advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
It’s no secret that we’re living in a time of food shortages and supply chain issues, following the past few years of COVID-19 global restrictions and ongoing economic crises. But did you know that cyber attackers are, in part, contributing to this problem?
In December 2022, an alphabet soup of several federal agencies (FBI, FDA OCI, and USDA) released a joint cybersecurity advisory that details how cybercriminals are using business email compromise (BEC) scams to steal valuable food products and ingredients. The report listed more than $1 million in reported losses to suppliers and distributors.
As you can imagine, the affected businesses aren’t going to want to shoulder those costs on their own. So, what ends up happening as a result? I’ll give you one guess…
7. 60% of Organizations Report Raising Their Prices After a Data Breach
As if customers aren’t dealing with enough already with looming inflation and global economic recessions, three in five organizations surveyed in IBM/Ponemon Institute’s CODB 2022 report said they had to pass data breach costs along to customers in the form of higher product and service costs.
So, not only are cybersecurity prevention and response costs already often baked into companies’ existing product and service prices, but now those prices increase when those security mechanisms fail. Unfortunately, this means consumers’ and end-users’ wallets are left to take the hits.
It’s time to switch gears and look at things from the perspective of your consumers…
8. Reported Potential Losses for Americans Topped $10.2 Billion in 2022
Earlier this year, the FBI’S Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2022 Internet Crime Report. Although the total number of reported cyber attacks and incidents decreased in 2022 (i.e., 800,944 complaints in 2022 compared to 847,376 the prior year), the potential total losses have skyrocketed to nearly $10.3 billion. This is an increase of nearly 158% over 2021’s $6.9 billion in total reported losses.
To put this in perspective, let’s take a quick look at the total reported losses that were reported to the FBI’s IC3 over the last 10 years. These said losses have jumped from over $525 million (which was already a lot) to more than $10.2 billion:
Image caption: This data on total reported losses was gathered from the FBI IC3’s annual Internet Crime Report documents from 2022, 2019, and 2016.
Something important to keep in mind when reading these gut-wrenching numbers is that this data only represents reported cyber attacks and breaches. It doesn’t include those situations that remain undiscovered and others that don’t get reported.
9. 68% of Consumers Won’t Make Purchases Through Websites They Perceive as Insecure
Data from Axway’s 2022 Global Consumers Survey shows that consumers are making their distrust clear through their wallets. More than two-thirds of the customers surveyed say that an online retailer’s demonstrated lack of personal data security would be enough of a turnoff that they wouldn’t make purchases through their websites.
The Baymard Institute’s 2022 survey data also shows that nearly one in five adult consumers in the U.S. abandon their online shopping carts when they don’t trust websites to protect their credit card information.
How much personal data the company requires.
Consumers in the European Union (EU) fall under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which holds organizations to more stringent data security, privacy, and reporting requirements than most U.S. state laws. (Note: The U.S. doesn’t yet have such a comprehensive federal law.) The regulation requires companies to disclose what information they collect, and how it’ll be collected and used, and requires them to give consumers an opportunity to opt out. It also has stringent data breach reporting requirements and noncompliance fines to discourage companies from “coloring outside the lines.”
Image data source: The data from this graph was calculated using cumulative data from EnforcementTracker.com. (NOTE: 2018 and 2023 numbers include only partial data, as GDPR went into effect midway through the year in 2018 and we’re only part way through 2023 when this article was written.)
This brings us to our next point on what happens when companies violate that trust…
11. 75% of Consumers Won’t Deal With Companies That Have Been Compromised
Three in four respondents in Axway’s 2022 Global Consumers Survey indicate that they would stop doing business with companies that have either fallen prey to cyber attacks or have experienced data breaches.
Customer trust is fragile and should be handled with the utmost care. Research by DigiCert shows what happens when consumers lose their trust or faith in an organization: 84% of consumers will move their business to another company. This means that if their trust in your organization is lost or damaged, your competitors will be there to welcome your customers with open arms.
12. Patients’ Health & Privacy Take a Toll as 89% of Healthcare Organizations Report Attacks
Alright, it’s time to wrap up our list of the negative effects of cyber attacks. Although Malwarebytes reports that half of their surveyed consumers feel more confident in healthcare organizations protecting their sensitive personal data than other organizations, that sentiment isn’t likely to stay positive in the long run.
Cyber attacks on healthcare organizations soared 74% from 2021 to 2022, according to Check Point Software’s latest research. The company’s 2023 Cyber Security Report shared multiple attacks, which resulted in the theft of patients’ records, disruption of care, and medical harm to patients. Nearly nine in 10 healthcare organizations reported experiencing cyber attacks within the previous year.
Some examples of the reported targeted healthcare organizations include:
CommonSpirit, the second-largest non-profit hospital company in the U.S., reported a ransomware attack between September and October 2022 that affected the IT systems at an unspecified number of its facilities.
Telnet, a Dallas-based company with hundreds of locations, reported having a “temporary disruption to a subset of acute care operations” due to an unspecified cybersecurity incident in April 2022.
Three New York hospitals suffered ransomware attacks, knocking out their medical systems for weeks starting in November 2022. One Brooklyn Health’s official notice about the incident affecting its three campuses states that the attack involved unauthorized access to OBH’s computer systems over several months, compromising patients’ personal and medical information.
Final Thoughts on the Effects of Cyber Attacks and Data Breaches
Over the past decade, we’ve seen an immense surge in the types and numbers of cyber attacks and data breaches that have occurred globally. To combat this, companies are investing more in their IT infrastructure, cybersecurity efforts, and employee cyber awareness training programs. But is it enough? While making such improvements is great, many companies’ efforts lag behind the increasing threat levels represented by cybercriminals and unmitigated vulnerabilities and exploits.
And this is especially bad when you consider that businesses are responsible for collecting and processing increasingly more sensitive data — and many do so without the proper processes and security mechanisms in place.
Let’s be frank: consumers are tired of receiving lip service. Companies always talk about the steps they’re taking steps to improve their cybersecurity. But these are the things we should expect the companies that handle our data to do as a minimum. After all, they’re typically required to meet industry cyber security standards and baseline requirements.
But on the consumer’s side of the coin, all we see are increasing increased attacks upon the businesses and organizations we do business with. We’re receiving more and more notices informing us that our personal data has been involved in data breaches. And what are we offered as consolation? Free credit monitoring or insultingly paltry financial settlements (that is, if we’re “lucky” enough to receive anything for our troubles).
The bottom line is that companies need to do more to protect consumer information and other sensitive data. And this responsibility involves everyone within your organization, regardless of their role.
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Encryption is the science of encoding and decoding secret messages. It began as cryptography. The ancient Greeks used it to protect sensitive information that might fall into the hands of their enemies. More recently, governments have used encryption for military purposes, but these days the term if often used in reference to online security.
Encryption is important because it allows technology providers, such as website owners, to convert sensitive information, such as your credit card number, passwords and other financial details, into a code that cannot be read by cybercriminals or other unauthorized third parties. As an Internet user you should be aware of when encryption is being used and when it is not. It can help protect your personal information when doing sensitive transactions.
So when you’re doing online banking, online shopping, or registering with a site that requires your personal information, look to see that the website address begins with “https:” instead of just “http:.” This indicates that this site is using encryption. You can also look for the lock symbol, because this is another indication that the site offers improved security.
In addition to online shopping and banking destinations, other sites have started offering the option of switching to a secure “https:” page. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, for example, now offer encryption, because their users are sharing so much of their personal information. Keep in mind, however, that not all websites need this kind of security. Don’t be alarmed if you are on a news site, for example, doesn’t offer encryption, because you generally read content on these sites but do not send or share personal details.
Knowing about encryption and how it can protect you is important, so remember to follow these tips to protect yourself online:
Look for “https:” and the lock symbol when making sensitive transactions online.
Always be careful about how much personal information you share online.
If you use social networking sites, check your privacy settings to make sure that your information stays private.
Use comprehensive security that protects your identity, data and all your devices, like McAfee LiveSafe ™ service.
Encryption may sound complicated but it is just a high-tech way of creating a code to protect your information, just as the Greeks did long ago. Now that you know what encryption is, be on the lookout for secure sites that can increase your Internet security.
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Each type of threat is handled by a dedicated protection component. You can enable and disable protection components, and configure their settings.
In addition to the real-time protection provided by the security components, we recommend that you regularly scan your computer for viruses and other malware. This is necessary in order to prevent any possible spreading of malicious programs that have not been discovered by protection components, for example, because a low security level was set or for other reasons.
To keep Kaspersky Internet Security up to date, you need to update the databases and application modules used by the application.
Some specific tasks that should be run occasionally (such as removal of traces of a user’s activities in the operating system) are performed by using advanced tools and wizards.
Parental Control is designed to protect children and teenagers from threats related to computer and Internet use.
Parental Control allows you to set flexible restrictions on access to web resources and applications for different users depending on their age. In addition, Parental Control allows viewing statistical reports on the activities of controlled users.
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Cyber security is a reality of business in our connected world. Industrial Control Systems are a frequent target and need to be protected. In 2015, the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) reported 295 attacks in the US against control systems, with the systems governing energy production and distribution being the second biggest sector affected.
Regulations, standards and frameworks are ubiquitous but how do you know which one to follow? Whether you have internal company standards you are aligning to or geographical standards or regulations that are being enforced, a great place to start is the Seven Strategies to Effectively Defend Industrial Control Systems, published by ICS-CERT.
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LUBBOCK, Texas, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tandem announces the release of Tandem Incident Management, a new software product for creating an incident response plan and tracking incidents as they occur.
"With the current cyber climate, our customers are facing significant operational and reputational risks," said Brady Cook, General Manager for Tandem. "Our goal with the release of Tandem Incident Management is to give our customers the tools they need to prepare for the inevitable and effectively manage incidents."
Tandem Incident Management software helps companies be proactive in their cyber resilience strategy.
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The user-friendly platform provides helpful features and recommendations based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-61 Rev. 2, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. With a straight-forward method for creating a plan to handle incidents, alongside the ability to track response processes when incidents occur through the six stages outlined by NIST, Tandem Incident Management offers an all-in-one incident response solution, designed with security professionals in mind.
Tandem Incident Management is part of a comprehensive online suite of information security management products. To provide seamless sharing of data and help avoid duplication of information, Tandem offers integration features among Incident Management and Business Continuity Planning, Vendor Management, and Policies. Other Tandem products include Phishing, Audit Management, Risk Assessment, and Cybersecurity. All Tandem products are available under the same secure website.
Tandem boasts unlimited users, friendly support, and resources for consulting beyond the software.
For more information about the new product, visit https://tandem.app/incident-response-and-planning-software.
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Yesterday morning when booting my laptop up the screen was acting as if it had a fault columns of | symbols interrupting the screen display windows attempted to load but then rebooted. Initially I thought that I had a component failure screen or display chip. But when the laptop rebooted I believed that it was some sort of malisuse Malware.
I have read an blog on Brian Richards Blog which looks as if there is a simple process to remove the problem. that is if it is the problem?
I take you have run those,please post the MBAM (Malwarebytes) log.
The log is automatically saved and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab.
Copy and paste the contents of that report in your next reply. Be sure to post the complete log to include the top portion which shows the database version and your operating system.
When it is finished the utility outputs a list of detected objects with description.
The utility automatically selects an action (Cure or Delete) for malicious objects.
The utility prompts the user to select an action to apply to suspicious objects (Skip, by default). Let the options as it is and click Continue
Let reboot if needed and tell me if the tool needed a reboot.
Click on Report and post the contents of the text file that will open.
Note: By default, the utility outputs the log into system disk (it is usually the disk with installed operating system, C:\) root folder. The Log has a name like: TDSSKiller.Version_Date_Time_log.txt.
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an Apple zero-day vulnerability: With the release of MacOS Monterey 12.2.1 in February 2022, Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability listed as CVE-2022-22620. This use-after-free vulnerability in the WebKit component allowed the execution of arbitrary code when a user was led to a malicious web page.
a Chrome zero-day vulnerability: On March 25, Google released Chrome 99 to patch a zero-day exploit of CVE-2022-1096. The type of confusion weakness was located in Chrome V8 JavaScript and allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on devices and trick Chrome into running malicious code.
a Firefox 97 zero-day vulnerability: The Firefox 97.0.2 version was released on March 5 with security fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486. The former patches a use-after-free vulnerability whereby hackers could exploit an XSLT memory error that occurred when converting XML documents into PDF or HTML pages. The latter patch does the same for the WebGPU IPC framework.
Plenty of other zero-day vulnerabilities occurred in the last couple of months. It can prove challenging to fix them all if you do so manually or lack an up-to-date asset inventory. Luckily, there are ways to make it easier to patch zero-day vulnerabilities without wasting time.
Lansweeper has devised an IT discovery solution that offers, amongst others, an extensive report library with over 400 built-in network reports that can help you to stay in the know about any old and new vulnerabilities.
For example, we recently created a report that will instantly scan your network and compile a list of all network assets affected by NVIDIA display driver vulnerabilities. This allowed sysadmins to take immediate action and update their drivers. Other examples of security threats that we provided an IT discovery report are the PrintNightmare and PetitPotam vulnerability exploits. If you, too, want to get access to these free vulnerability reports, sign up here.
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These illegal acts usually include, but are not limited to, a targeted user name, password, bank information, identification cards, or credit cards and are considered identity theft. Millions of people have reported that their identities was stolen because of database attacks. Government records, institutions, and even big companies have reported being attacked by hackers. This goes to prove that there is always the chance that each person included in the hacked database can have his or her identity stole, not only once, but several times during the next few years.
Identity theft is a major inconvenience. It takes time for a person to re-establish his identity and can even cost them money. Sources such as the Non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center have subdivided identity theft in five categories; identity cloning, criminal, financial, medical, and child identity theft. Each category can harm someone’s reputation, cause loss of jobs and damage loan applications that are in progress. Some people have been arrested for crimes they did not commit, and had to incur the legal cost to prove that they were not guilty. Identity theft can be painful, annoying, and causes emotional harm that can take a long time to recuperate.
Database attacks are a source of identity theft, but all five categories of this theft can start at home. Many people have reported being victims of these five types of theft by a member of their family. Family members have stolen information from the mail, bills, or bank statements left on the kitchen table. Making a copy or taking a picture of the back and front of a credit card is one of the popular ways of stealing identity, especially when dining out, or purchasing something using a credit card for payment. This is a clear online theft because very often the payment receiving device is connected to the internet.
Listed below are some ways that can be used to protect oneself and family from identity theft on the internet:
Before discarding anything in the garbage, make sure you have destroyed all important information including bank statement or credit card transactions with your name and account numbers on it.
Internet solicitations can be tricky. Never entertain suspicious emails that ask for your bank account information or personal security passwords. Make sure you only give personal information to reputable websites.
Internet protection can be greatly improved by changing passwords periodically, choosing a more difficult passwords, and never use birth dates or names of family members.
Never share with anyone, even those close to you, details about your financial information. Some personal information is best kept to yourself.
Evaluate and monitor bank and credit card accounts history to ensure that every transaction meets with your approval. This procedure will allow quick detection and response to irregularities that have occurred. Don’t hesitate to question a doubtful transaction.
It pays to visit a reliable site for some tips on how to protect yourself from identity theft.
If you discover that you are a victim of identity theft, do not hesitate to inform the legal authorities and report the incident. Call the banks or credit card companies, and immediately cancel all accounts that are involved, and put all other accounts on alert. Being alert and swift to move to protect yourself is important when dealing with identity theft.
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Cybersecurity experts believe the WannaCry ransomware attack was perpetrated by a group of hackers with ties to the North Korean government. (Reuters photo)
Could the WannaCry ransomware attack have been perpetrated by hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government?According to a security researcher for Google, the computer virus contained code in common with hacking tools previously used by the Lazarus Group. This is the hacking team that has been operating since at least 2009 that hacked into Sony Pictures in 2014.That hack was in retaliation for the release of the motion picture The Interview, which was seen as an unflattering comedic portrayal of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. But, there are other connections that suggest the Lazarus Group is at least aligned with the Hermit Kingdom:in 2007, Operation Flame targeted the South Korean government for espionage, and may have been the hacking team's first attack;beginning in 2009, Operation Troy targeted the South Korean government for espionage;similar attacks to Operation Troy were conducted against the South Korean government in 2011 and 2013, code-named Operation 1Mission and DarkSeoul; andin 2016, the group attempted to steal $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank, but was stopped after taking $81 million. Internet security companies have been able to attribute cyberattacks based on patterns and code reusage. According to web security specialists, it's possible—but very unlikely—the code was added as a "false flag" to implicate Lazarus Group. If the Lazarus Group was involved in the attack, and was working on behalf of the North Korean government, the next question is how the U.S. and its allies will respond. Several Republicans have already called for Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election to be declared an "act of war."
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If you want to take care of PC and computer products safe from destructive cyberattacks, you may need to install a top anti-virus USA application. These applications are constantly updated to detect new hazards. In addition , they include a firewall and safe browsing equipment.
The best antivirus software program offers multiple layers of protection go to these guys and is easy to set up. Various leading malware programs produce a free trial or perhaps offer a money-back guarantee. They also offer a selection of equipment configurations and user friendly dashboards.
One of the best choices for residence users is usually Norton 360. It features a machine learning-based approach to safeguarding your equipment. However , this procedure can lead to extreme false positives.
Another great option is Bitdefender Internet Protection. This anti-virus software supplies reliable and consistent functionality. It also provides an optional VPN add-on.
A few of the top antivirus USA courses come with a 30-day refund plan. Others offer a generous money-back guarantee. All of them are compatible with Windows.
With regards to Mac users, the best antivirus security software programs arrive from Sophos and Intego. Though these two applications have some disadvantages, they offer a variety of features.
Kaspersky is another popular brand. The basic program starts off at $30 a year for 3 PCs. You can also get more powerful options with parent controls and webcam safety.
The most advanced anti virus applications own a current scanning characteristic. They are also backed up with automatic posts and cover all types of spyware and.
The best anti virus applications in many cases are bundled with password overseer and a secure protected web browser. Each program also includes a firewall and lifelock identity theft protection.
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Attackers over the past three years have begun to actively target the digital keys used to secure the Internet infrastructure. Stuxnet's creators stole code-signing keys and then used them to allow the malware to more easily evade host-based security. An alleged Iranian hacker broke into a partner of registry Comodo and bought Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) keys for major domains to eavesdrop on activists. And unknown attackers stole important information on RSA's SecureID token, a device that generates one-time keys to strengthen online security.
The unique codes that applications in the cloud use to identify one another could be next, security experts say.
So-called API keys are used by Web and cloud services to identify third-party applications using the services. If service providers are not careful, an attacker with access to the key can cause a denial-of-service or rack up fees on behalf of the victim.
"It was created as a fairly nonauthoritative identifier -- it was only there to identify applications or the application's use of an API," says K. Scott Morrison, chief technology officer of Layer7 Technologies, a provider of Web security and governance products. "The problem is that developers have started using API keys for stuff that matters."
The problem is not any inherent weakness in the keys, but that developers use them for security when they ought not, he says. In many implementations, the keys are used to identify users, even though the technology was not meant as a way to authorize access to data. And after expanding the power of the keys, developers do not treat them as critical assets. Instead, companies fail to keep track of the keys, e-mailing them around and storing them on desktop hard drives.
"They shouldn't be used for anything that matters, but people do. And when they do, they don't take it as far as they need to," Morrison says. "It's kind of the worst of both worlds."
During a presentation at the RSA Security Conference earlier this year, Morrison stressed the danger in the misuse and mishandling of API keys. The warning was repeated at the recent SOURCE Boston conference by application gateway maker Vordel. An improper implementation that allows simple access to an API via use of a secret key can allow attackers to have unmitigated access if the key can be sniffed out or stolen from an authorized user's computer, said Jeremy Westerman, Vordel's director of product management, at the conference.
"There is a need to protect these cloud API keys," Westerman said. "There is a lot of awareness in the industry about protecting, say, SSL keys ... Unfortunately, protecting API keys has not reached that level of awareness."
Cloud and Web service developers must first follow best practices in opening up their APIs to third parties. In return, third-party developers need to handle the keys in a secure manner and not, for example, encode a nonobfuscated key into an application.
[Microsoft Research report shows how risky single sign-on can be without solid integration and better support from Web service providers like Google and Facebook. See Web Services Single Sign-On Contain Big Flaws.]
Communicating best practices can go a long way to fixing the issues, says Mark O'Neill, Vordel's chief technology officer.
"The SaaS [software-as-a-service] providers expect you to protect these keys, but they don't tell you how to protect the keys," O'Neill says.
Companies that have API keys should treat them as valued assets, he says. The keys should be handled in much the same way as code-signing keys and other encryption material.
API keys were first used by Google, Yahoo, and other early pioneers of Web services. However, as the model moved from standalone sites to Web 2.0 mashups and the companies exposed their services for use by other websites, the weaknesses of API keys quickly became evident. Companies began to implement different schemes for application and user authentication, including OAuth, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and hashed-based authentication codes (HMACs).
The stronger authentication methods should be used for securing sensitive data, and each token should have a reasonable expiration time. In addition, because secret keys are occasionally exchanged, communications should always be over SSL, says Gregory Brail, vice president of technology for Web technology and services firm Apigee.
"The developer needs to understand the limitations and understand the best practices around implementing API keys," he says.
Developers should still use API keys, Brail says. They should just use them for their proper function and use other tools as the situation demands.
"I'm not saying that there is nothing that can go wrong here; I'm saying that this is not a reason to throw away your API keys," Brail says. "They are an important part of your whole security system."
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Beyond Bandwidth - Level 3 Communications Blog Beyond BandwidthLevel 3 Communications BlogWAN SolutionsWhen It Comes to the Cloud, Network Performance = App PerformanceMay 22, 2013 By Paul Savill Leave a CommentIt’s time we changed the game when it comes to Cloud-delivered applications and their day-to-day performance. Because it’s not unusual for a data center manager, looking over a collection of trouble tickets, many of which reflect user frustration with applications, to put head in hands and wonder how to respond. The servers are humming; the storage systems are online, and the local area network shows “green.” So what’s next? Check the WAN!
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For Indian cybersecurity startups, COVID-19 presents a rare opportunity to cement their standing among larger rivals, as they address the growing demand for high-quality threat detection, preparation, and prevention solutions.
In March end, barely a week after the coronavirus-induced lockdown in India forced enterprises to work remotely, the national cybersecurity agency warned of a surge in security attacks on unprotected home computer networks and routers as employees began working from home.
In an advisory to internet users at the time, the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) highlighted that cyber criminals were taking advantage of the ‘new normal’ brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to lure internet users and steal sensitive data and information.
Indeed, the sudden and large-scale shift to remote working and digital adoption has made enterprises, big and small, vulnerable to a host of security attacks, including ‘zero-day’ exploits, for which targeted antivirus software signatures and patches to fix a security flaw are not yet available.
Admittedly, this makes the role of cybersecurity even more critical in the ‘new normal’ where businesses are faced with either a remote or a distributed working model – a new norm that dictates the need for new, sophisticated technologies and strategies to ensure enterprises’ security and survival.
“From a business-to-business (B2B) perspective, I think cybersecurity will be the No. 1 hottest trend during and right after the pandemic. Not artificial intelligence (AI), not machine learning (ML), not blockchain, not cryptocurrency…none of that,” says Saket Modi, Co-founder and CEO of digital security startup Lucideus.
“I believe this for the simple reason that cybersecurity has become a ‘must have’. It’s a minimum hygienic must-have. If you don’t have that, your survival is in question,” Saket adds.
Poised for growth
In late April, B2B market research firm MarketsandMarkets said the increasing focus on cybersecurity as a critical business imperative, and not just as a support function, will drive the growth of the global cybersecurity market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MarketsandMarkets estimates that the global cybersecurity market will grow to $230 billion by 2021 from $183.2 billion in 2019, with a compound annual growth rate of 12 percent during the forecast period.
For Indian cybersecurity startups – that have so far operated without the fanfare and flamboyance enjoyed by consumer-focused startups – the COVID-19 crisis offers a rare opportunity to cement their standing among larger rivals and global peers, as they address the growing demand for high-quality threat detection, preparation, and prevention solutions.
Already, cybersecurity startups – armed with the agility and expertise to quickly develop and offer security solutions at more reasonable price points – are seeing a spike in demand, as businesses increasingly seek cost-effective security solutions in a period of heightened risks amidst the COVID-19 crisis.
“COVID-19 will do for cybersecurity what demonetisation did for fintech,” says Vivek Ramachandran, Founder and CEO of cybersecurity training platform Pentester Academy, referring to businesses’ growing need to secure their data and information in a hyper-connected, digital world.
“During demonetisation, everyone who was primarily dealing with cash had to quickly figure out how to get a mobile wallet so that they could pay. And this is exactly what COVID-19 is doing for cybersecurity right now as it is challenging traditional models of how enterprise security is delivered and managed,” Vivek explains.
Party time for hackers
In the past three months, cyber criminals have been preying on people’s fears about the coronavirus and taking advantage of the unprecedented scale and speed with which businesses have had to switch to a mass remote working model – a situation that no business continuity plan (BCP) or fire drill had ever accounted for.
“It is like a party time for hackers as now they don’t have to work too hard to penetrate these systems that are inadequately configured and where security elements are missing. In addition, if these devices are compromised, the hackers can very well go after corporate networks through them,” says Pankit Desai, Co-founder and CEO of Mumbai-based cybersecurity startup Sequretek.
Nearly 50 percent of all security attacks are targeted at small and medium businesses, many of which go out of business after being subjected to one incident, notes Bengaluru-based cybersecurity startup Seconize.
“This awareness is definitely growing, leading to an increase in cybersecurity adoption,” says Chethan Anand, Co-founder and CEO, Seconize.
In addition, hackers have launched a spate of targeted social engineering attacks that prey on people’s fears and situations, including job losses, which have been the result of the COVID-19 crisis, say experts.
“Previously attackers were using a ‘spray-and-pray’ approach, where they send billions of users an email, with the hope that some of those recipients would probably click on it and it could result in payday. But now it’s become very easy to target people as they are giving away so much information online, including about their jobs,” says Vivek, who has worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years.
For example, an employee who posts a message on social media saying s/he is about to be laid off could potentially be at risk of a targeted attacks like pretexting and phishing as hackers impersonate recruiters to steal personal data and information, adds Vivek, who is famed for his discovery of the Caffe Latte attack in 2007 and the world’s first Wi-Fi client-only Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) cracking technique.
In late May, cybersecurity firm Cyble said its researchers had identified a sensitive data breach on the darkweb where a hacker had leaked personal details of around 29 million Indian job seekers from various states across the country. “The original leak appears to be from a resume aggregator service collecting data from various known job portals,” Cyble added.
What’s more worrying, says Vivek, is a scenario where IT security team members themselves become victims of social engineering attacks, with cyber criminals posing as recruiters to trick companies’ security personnel into giving away valuable information about the security infrastructure set-up.
All this increases the danger of a devastating cybersecurity threat that puts the company, its employees, and its customers’ identity and data at risk.
In the new normal for businesses, this risk has been further heightened by the fact that companies’ information technology (IT) security teams – entrusted with protecting employer/employee data and systems – are themselves operating away from the elaborate on-premise, physical IT security set-ups they had earlier relied on to protect company data and devices.
Cybersecurity solutions in demand
With many enterprises’ compliance and process frameworks, which dictate companies’ cybersecurity procedures and standards, still accounting for an enterprise on-premise security model, there is a significant need for these frameworks to be upgraded to include a more distributed workforce, experts say.
The ISO/IEC 27001, for example, is a compliance framework that dictates the parameters for setting up an information security management system (ISMS) to enable companies to protect information assets, such as employee details, customer identities, financial information, and intellectual property.
“Now enterprises cannot rely on an enterprise on-premise security model. You have to integrate completely for a distributed model,” veteran security researcher and trainer Vivek, who founded the Sequoia-backed Pentester Academy, tells YourStory over the phone from Singapore.
From a technology standpoint, cybersecurity firms need to launch new technologies that can address the need for remote work security tools, anti-phishing systems that can detect zero-day campaigns, and enterprise cybersecurity solutions which can be managed and monitored by a completely distributed security team, adds Vivek.
With remote and distributed workforces set to become the norm, enterprises will have to seek out advanced endpoint security tools that can be deployed on remote endpoint devices, including employees’ personal computers.
In fact, the shift to remote working has left companies vulnerable to attempted endpoint attacks, as hackers target entire endpoint devices connected to that network.
“Outbreak of COVID-19 and cyber-crimes both represent a similar pattern where infected entities can remain dormant carriers and not show any symptoms at all. While infected systems may not be causing any significant damage, they can infect other systems…This calls for the need to have artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning-enabled security systems with the best hygiene practices in the cyber world for all time,” says TAC Security’s Trishneet Arora, a proponent of ethical hacking and author of The Hacking Era.
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, cyber criminals have created many fictitious Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients such as PandaVPN, RemoteArCon, and FreeRemoteConnect_CN to trick employees into disclosing their credentials to gain access to corporate networks, notes Goldman Sachs-backed startup Cyfirma, which provides predictive cyber-threat visibility and intelligence analytics.
“From a technology perspective, with everyone in remote locations and digitally connected, companies are concerned about the new vectors where they are vulnerable and do not understand the risk posed. With employees connecting from home, the endpoint (laptops) is a cause for concern, as are their VPN and cloud infrastructure. So, products and services addressing these areas will be in focus,” says Seconize’s Chethan. Already, cybersecurity startups providing these solutions are seeing an uptick in demand. Mumbai-based TAC Security launched a new automatic security tool under its AI-based product named Enterprise Security in One Framework (ESOF) to help corporates assess the security gaps in their VPN by using an AI algorithm to scale the cyber-risk score.
TAC Security, which claims that it protects Rs 1 trillion in transactions annually through its AI-based ESOF product, has added 10 customers for the new tool, including one of the largest banks in the country, says CEO Trishneet.
While VPNs provide a secure way for employees’ personal computers to access the company network, it still does not eradicate the risk enterprises face from a range of security threats, including social engineering tactics, ransomware, zero-day attacks, malware, and phishing.
This means that in the new normal – where an advanced cyberattack could potentially ground organisations of any age and size – the onus of protecting an enterprise’s data and systems no longer lies with just its IT security teams. It lies with each and every employee, say experts. “Digital security is no longer the concern of the company’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) level alone; it’s even at the board level. Because companies, colleges, and governments are now all working digitally, it is impossible that you can be working digitally and not be worried about digital security,” Lucideus’s Saket tells YourStory over the phone from San Francisco.
“In fact, digital security is as important now as your physical safety,” adds Saket, whose startup offers a solution called Security Assessment Framework for Enterprises (SAFE), which allows enterprises to measure the risk and rank the trustworthiness of employees (people), processes, and technology. Lucideus, which is a global player in the enterprise cybersecurity risk quantification platforms space, has seen a surge in demand for its solution during the COVID-19 crisis that has prompted businesses across sectors to seek out IT security solutions.
Saket says order bookings, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, are at an all-time high, although collections remain muted as customers opt to defer payments to preserve cash flow.
In the past four months, COVID-19 has roiled global markets, with the United Nations forecasting the pandemic will wipe out $8.5 trillion in global output and cause 130 million people to face extreme poverty.
Closer home, the Indian startup ecosystem has also faced the wrath of the coronavirus pandemic, with many companies adopting a slew of tough measures to tide over the crisis.
Silver linings
Only a few sectors have been relatively less affected by the crisis, with COVID-19 even acting as a much-needed catalyst for a rise in demand for some industries, including cybersecurity.
“We have noticed a positive trend in cybersecurity business, especially businesses dealing with data, providing insights and analytics, and cloud-based product and solutions,” affirms Kumar Ritesh, Chairman and CEO, Cyfirma.
Financial services, insurance, retail, critical infrastructure, manufacturing, aviation and defence, healthcare, cosmetics, and technology companies are the sectors that typically invest heavily in cybersecurity, notes Kumar, a cybersecurity veteran.
However, in the past three months, there has also been a surge in demand from healthcare and B2C/B2B segments, where companies hold customer and financial information, as well as large amounts of intellectual property, adds Cyfirma’s Kumar.
Experts believe this demand for cybersecurity solutions is only likely to grow as cyber criminals continue to capitalise on the COVID-19 pandemic for financial gain, geopolitical supremacy, and reputational motives. They add that their analysis of conversations in hackers’ forums and other sources show that the number of cybersecurity attacks show no signs of abating any time soon.
And yet, the greatest dilemma facing CSOs and CEOs now is how much costs to cut on cybersecurity, reveal experts. But this is easier said than done, particularly in a hyper-connected digital world where cybersecurity has become imperative for the very survival of businesses.
“If companies cut costs fully, they run the risk of a security breach; if they don’t, they can’t survive,” Saket says. “That’s where Lucideus comes in because we enable organisations to understand what the likely scale of the impact would be in the event of a security breach,” he adds.
That’s also where most Indian cybersecurity startups come in – to offer lasting solutions for enterprises, who are under the dual pressures of having to cut costs, while sustaining operations in a safe and secure manner amidst the new COVID-19-induced norm.
Unmistakably, for those Indian startups that can do this, the potential to disrupt every dimension of the cybersecurity market is a rare opportunity that is theirs for the seizing. Sequretek’s Pankit rightly sums up, “In the new normal, Indian cybersecurity startups who understand their customers’ requirements very well – from creating the right solutions to being aware of preferable price points – will stand out and shine.”
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Rik Ferguson: [00:00:00] I never know if I should wait for the music to finish or not. It's always a tough one to call. I think I waited long enough this time. We're back. We're back with another episode and not the final episode, but yes, another episode of let's talk security. I have a fantastic guest for you today. People use the expression. You know, very easily, it slips off the tongue very easily and you've probably heard it a lot. People talk about, you know, she's the Tash Norris of, uh, of show jumping. She's the Tash Norris of international cuisine. You've probably heard people use that expression a lot. Well, today we are actually talking to the Tash Norris of cybersecurity. Um, she is the head of cybersecurity at Moonpig. Um, she is involved on the boards of various different CONs, like DevSecCon uh, like BSides Manchester. She has had, uh, a significant and productive career in cybersecurity so far. And there are many, many successful years ahead of her as well. Please welcome ladies and gentlemen, the Tash Norris of cybersecurity. Hello. Nice to see you. Tash Norris: [00:01:16] Thank you for having me. I'm very excited, very excited.
Rik Ferguson: [00:01:20] You are not just very excited. You are amazing. You are making the effort to join us in the middle of your holiday, right?
Tash Norris: [00:01:26] I am. Yeah. So it's probably about time I had a break from visiting various vineyards.
Rik Ferguson: [00:01:33] It was really good OPSEC because we're not actually even seeing the inside of your home. I think you like, you got a holiday accommodation just for OPSEC purposes for this show. Very good by the way.
Tash Norris: [00:01:43] Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Taking a break from some long walks and vineyards. Chucked the rest of the gang and dropped them in the middle of the Sussex countryside and yeah. Happy to be speaking to you.
Rik Ferguson: [00:01:55] Okay. Well, that's another thing that I, that I just thought of when we were talking just before the show started, this is the first all English accent episode ever of let's talk security. So that makes me, that makes me very happy. So let's, first of all, let's talk a little bit directly about you, uh, rather than specifically about security, and a little bit about where you work, because I think it helps give us some context for the discussions that we're going to have that are much more focused on security. So, first of all, Moonpig. Moonpig's been around for a while. Um, but I suppose, you know, there's a, there's an international concern, right? It's not a UK focused organisation. But I suppose there's a perception that, well, for me anyway, it's like, that's a greeting card company. It's not right. What is it?
Tash Norris: [00:02:42] So what I would call your ultimate gifting companion. I've got the line down. Yeah. So, so much more than cards now. Flowers, gifts with goods. We've done everything from the letter box packages, where you can get, your pud and your wine through. All the way to, um, there's kind of a more comprehensive gift sets of hampers full of beer and snacks, which is wonderful.
Rik Ferguson: [00:03:08] But it's not a physical storefront operation. Never has been
Tash Norris: [00:03:12] No, yeah. Purely digital, all digital. So we've got a US, Australia and then UK digital shopfront.
Rik Ferguson: [00:03:20] So you're one of those organisations, I don't know if this is a trend micro expression, or if it's a wider industry expression. I've been inside the trend bubble for so long. It's difficult to know where something came from, but we would call an organisation like Moonpig born in the cloud. Is that fair?
Tash Norris: [00:03:36] Yeah, absolutely. We've never had a big physical data centre at all. So yeah, we are, uh, pretty, um, I say pretty good on that digital innovation side. We were early adopters of a lot of different types of technologies.
Rik Ferguson: [00:03:50] And how did you get to where you are now? I mean, head of cyber security isn't your first role at Moonpig? I think memory serves me correctly and it's also, obviously not your first role in information security. So how did you end up where you are?
Tash Norris: [00:04:05] Great question. So I started my career in solutions architecture, uh, which is a bit of a, my friend calls it a catch-all phrase for pretty much anything. And in tech you can be responsible for all sorts of things. But I started on a graduate program in financial services in architecture. Did that for a few years. Loved it. I am what you would call a recovering diagram drawer. And I think the, uh, the pandemic is really, um, taking me out from my comfort zone. Um, I'm very used to drawing, um, diagrams even still now. Um, and there's so many wonderful virtual digital tools. Um, but I still would draw diagrams on pieces of paper and hold them up to the screen for no reason other than it just makes me feel really good to draw diagrams again.
Rik Ferguson: [00:04:50] A history of episodes of let's talk security, uh, that I just threw on the floor. Same, exactly the same. But then I was a solutions architect as well. That was actually 14 years ago. What I joined trend micro as, that was my, my job title back then. So, yeah.
Tash Norris: [00:05:05] Yeah. I love it. And, um, yeah, and I, uh, became really interested in cloud security cloud architecture. In fact, to start off with, and I had a wonderful boss, called Yusov Flabins who actually works for AWS now. And he spent a huge amount of time kind of cultivating that interest. And he's a great full thinker who really embraced cloud and serverless, and where that was heading. And, and it was still very early on, especially for financial services, a bit scary. Um, especially for those companies that had invested so much of their equity in physical data centres around the world. Um, and that he spent a lot of time kind of cultivating that passion and that, that interest in me and, and ultimately as, as great managers do, uh, released me to go to the security team. I'm still grateful for that. Yeah, then I started my career in the security side, a bit of security architecture and a bit of I guess what you would call them a security consultancy to internal teams. So working data directly with engineering teams, but this time, rather than as their architect, as their security person too. Um, I guess what had historically been in financial services is that person that says no, don't do those things. Um, that architect in me, I think approached it very much of let's get to yes. Let's find out how, um, let's find our path. And, uh, I think then at that point in my career, having had that benefit of someone like Yusov who really pushed me to invest in the cloud side meant that even though I was early in my career, I knew much more about cloud security and cloud architecture than any of my peers. And ultimately that's what helped me to advance, I think, much faster. And I had a number of different role types in financial services. Um, before eventually making that first hop, which is always so very scary, um, not just to another company, but to a different industry. So I went from financial services to e-commerce, and from very, very large financial services to this, this tiny commerce company, Photobox. Um, and gosh, that was a shock to the system.
Rik Ferguson: [00:07:09] So why, why was that? What was so, I mean, probably there were, there are a million things, but what was the biggest shock? Was it culture shock. Was it technology shock? Was it opportunity shock? I dunno. How would you characterise that change?
Tash Norris: [00:07:22] I think it was a mix of everything. I think, um, I had worked in a company that was well established, both from a kind of processing and, uh, methodology kind of perspective all the way through to very definitive roles and responsibilities. And so, um, it took me a while to realise that to progress the way I wanted to my career. And, um, I'm very competitive. I'm quite, quite driven and quite passionate. And it made me realise after a couple of conversations with some, some wonderful mentors that I needed to make that jump to a different industry, to really enhance my skillset and do more. And that's where the shocks to the system came. Where your roles and responsibilities were no longer so narrow, you had the ability to be much wider. Um to, I guess, dip your, your toes into different types of activities. And, and again, for me, that's where I think I was able to shine a little bit more. Again, uh, by trialling different things and learning what works.
Rik Ferguson: [00:08:21] You must have brought a lot of transferable skills though from the financial sector, because it's e-commerce. Because e-commerce is the heart of what you do at Moonpig. You must have brought a lot of regulatory knowledge and transferable skills, from financial services, right?
Tash Norris: [00:08:34] Yeah, absolutely. Photobox and Moonpig used to be kind of one big company. They split off in half and I went to the, the pink side. You might call it. Um, yeah, absolutely. I think the bit that I love about e-commerce groups, uh, is that there is the ability to develop, and push to production fast. Uh, and there's space to innovate quickly. And so there's a real drive to make sure that the security controls you have are automated. They're based on, uh, the ability to, to support and, um, encourage innovation. And I think the bit from financial services that I brought that perhaps, uh, Photobox, especially and Moonpig that I guess they were unfamiliar with, was some forms of, of what you might call security governance. Um, and so that's something that we were able to, to bring across, which is just an interesting journey in itself.
Rik Ferguson: [00:09:31] So, I mean you've already mentioned a whole load of, um, interesting areas that you kind of just mentioned in passing. So let's pick up on some of those just because that's where the conversation is right now. Uh, you know, we spoke earlier on that Moonpig is kind of a born in the cloud operation and that you've never actually had physical data centre presence that you own. Anyway, obviously you're present in a physical data centre somewhere, but not one of your own. Um, and you mentioned cloud security and you mentioned automation, and I know that you're a refute board member for DevSecCon so obviously DevOps and DevSecOps. Um, although actually there are several people who really despise the term DevSecOps. I wonder if you're one of them or not. Um, are deservedly big, uh, topics of conversation in the security world right now. Um, how has the theory and the practice actually, uh, around embedding security in a DevOps environment. How has that changed over the course of your career?
Tash Norris: [00:10:33] I think the biggest one for me is that the security teams have started to tweak that they should hire and be engineers. I think that personally, um, especially in it in an e-commerce world, I think that we need to utilise and adopt the same ways of development. Um, as our engineers, we need to be familiar with it, that helps us to be way more empathetic to the way that they move. But for me, that's the, the biggest change I'm no longer, I guess, researching the best practice goes from a wasp floor NCSC or, or nest, and then asking engineers to work out how they implement. Uh, my team are actively working with engineers, are part of those engineering teams, whether it's permanently or temporarily embed those controls. And I think that level of, of involvement and knowledge and empathy, um, to really truly know the pipeline that your engineers are working with really helps. I think, um, historically security teams have gone, we should introduce something like SAS to the pipeline. And then I know we might get to AppSec later, and SAS should break the build if it finds anything wrong. Um, for me, that's the security team that maybe just doesn't truly understand the pipeline one, because breaking the build is irritating and most SAS tools, we'll find something that's wrong with your code, whether that's actually a problem or not. But two, depending on how big that, that repository is, that scan, we could take a really long time. And if what they're trying to deploy is a bug fix or a task, um, or even just a small change having to wait, maybe 40, 50 minutes for your pipeline to complete is an absolute nightmare. And so having teams that understand that and they're familiar, uh, can perhaps scan on PIs instead, um, becomes really interesting. And, and for me, it's, that's where the real difference came in.
Rik Ferguson: [00:12:29] What are the, the kinds of, if you're talking about, for example, things that break the build, um, and, and the, the last thing that developers want is someone to get in the way of their highly agile CICD, DevOps, methodology, and pipeline. Um,so how does security work in that highly agile world and even more so in a serverless environment, because at that point obviously you've got to rely on having security embedded within the code because there's very little else that you have any control over. So in your world, how does security work in those, in those environments?
Tash Norris: [00:13:07] So we do have a, I guess, a number of different touch points. I think anyone can use when they are working with that type of architecture and that type of estate. Um, there's I feel like I might say this a lot. There's a wonderful diagram that actually, um, I used to work with, uh, John Haws, uh, from Facebook, quite a long time ago, who started and then Sonia Morissette and amazing AppSec engineer , she, uh, started to finish. And then we've kind of evolved over at Moonpig that covers, I guess, that whole software development life cycle and then different touch points throughout. And what we've started to do is look at that, um, evolution of security at Moonpig and where are the most important places for us to have that touch point within the life cycle. And then where do we automate? Um, where can we automate first? And then where do we, where do we need greater maturity before we have a kind of fully embedded, and that then helps us to cover everything from threat modelling and STAS, DAST, and Pen testing, um, all the way through now, that's very AppSec heavy. The other piece that helps us to, I guess, involve that, that security aspect, uh, is that we deploy infrastructure as many companies do via Terraform. And so there's some wonderful open source tools. TFSec is one of them that allows us to have a similar level of security controls over that Terraform. Your infrastructure is code piece, uh, which is wonderful for me because it means that we can start to automate that build as well. Um, having come from a kind of traditional architecture role, where we would perhaps do the threat model of our diagrams. Then we would get four or five different teams to build it because you'd have a database to use server admin, a VMT, and then someone else would deploy your software code on top of that. Actually, what we have now is, is one team doing your infrastructure on your application code. And that allows us to scan then that pipeline and then what we've been able to do, looking all of those different stages, my diagram, because I love it. Um, it's, we've been able to look at, now we've got scanning of our infrastructure code, scanning of applications three K. Uh, but then we've got those human elements touch points as well. So we've got threatened modelling at the beginning. We've got Pen testing where appropriate, and then we start to look at some of the more interesting and more fun tools. I security test that we might write off the back of a threat model, desk tools, as well as, scanning of our environment when it's already in production as well.
Rik Ferguson: [00:15:34] And, um, you know, I'm really interested, obviously, you know, in that kind of, um, agile environment you arein. How often are you pushing new features, new functions, new you build stuff? How, how quickly do you iterate that?
Tash Norris: [00:15:48] Gosh, um, anywhere between 10 and 20 times a day.
Rik Ferguson: [00:15:53] So how do you, how does any organisation, I'm not asking how you do things I'm asking for your opinion on how things should be done, which I suppose is a possibly a slightly different question. How does an organisation secure from, uh, Initial development of code from pulling in libraries from various different sources, both public and private, uh, from making sure that you're not embedding things in something that's being pushed to production that shouldn't be embedded within there. Uh, looking for, uh, misconfigurations critically. I think that's probably the biggest, biggest, uh, area of concern from a security perspective, uh, for finding vulnerabilities. How do you inject all of that automation into the process? Do you, I mean, like, do you have an overarching vision of everything that you're able to sit back and say, here is my God mode, or do you piece together a lot of best of breed things where, you know, you get really effective this, and then you have really effective that ? How do you work? How should one work?
Tash Norris: [00:16:53] So I think for me, if I take a step back, I think the first thing to understand is what am I trying to protect him? What's the value of the thing I'm trying to protect. It's so easy as a security person to dive straight into that people, processes, technology, and start to list off all of the various things that we should do from security champions, through different modelling, to Pen testing, every deployment, and, um, having someone manually review all PIs before they could be pushed to production. Um, but actually it's about balancing that risk and the value of the releases that you have as well as the resources you have available, uh, and the maturity of your environment. So when you get an idea of what it is, you're trying to protect. The resources you've got available to you. Um, and that, I guess that risk/value balance that you're trying to achieve because ultimately whoever you are, you're employed by a business that, that needs to produce a product. So I think once you've got a lens on that, that allows you to build that roadmap that can help you identify those key components you want to get first. Uh, and I'd always, always, um, vote for an advocate for, uh, automation first by possible, because that releases you to go onto the next thing, whatever that thing might be. Um, but I also appreciate that depending on the resources available to you. That's not always possible. And so you identify those key components in your development life cycle. And for me, that's from ideation. So not design, but from ideation, when your product team or your, um, chief product officer or someone from marketing or HR or wherever it goes, I want to recruitment website or, um, I want make recommendations to someone based on something they buy. All the way from the ideation stage through to kind of post production. Something's been up on your website for 10, 15, 20 years. Um, that's where I think some, some companies go, go wrong is they think, oh, that's old. It's been there for ages. Let's just not touch it and pretend it doesn't exist any more.
Rik Ferguson: [00:18:49] It'll be fine. Walk away. Look that way.
Tash Norris: [00:18:52] Exactly. Just do it. It will be fine. Um, and I think, um, once you, you have a handle on your, your important touch points, where things have gone wrong before that allows you to have to prioritise for me the bit that I historically have not always being part of the touch point for, and I've realised now is so, so valuable for I think for anyone trying to secure their business, is that ideation stage. Um, because what that allows me to do, and I'm sure it's well, um, many people love doing is get a bit of a headstart and that, that R&D side. Uh, so when someone says they have this crazy idea, For me a great security team is one that, you know, he goes, OK, how do we make that happen? What cool stuff can we do? How would we automate? So that when you get through to the design and the development stage, you're a bit of ahead of the curve. You know what common threats are for, I don't know, containers or AI engines, whatever it might be. Uh, and so you're able to facilitate and, um, support your teams in their innovation rather than be like, whoa, hold back. We need to do some research before you can do it.
Rik Ferguson: [00:19:57] You haven't done anything on this yet? Just wait for us to catch up with you. Which I suppose is where security operated, right? There was certainly in my experience, working at a big systems integrator that doesn't exist any more. Uh, before trend, there were very much silos. There was the desktop silo, there was the server silo, there was the network infrastructure silo, and security and privacy actually was the last silo that was added to the stack. If you know what I mean, things were built and designed from the cables to the gooey. And then it was handed off to security. There right now you people make that secure. Um, so you're talking basically about breaking down those silos and injecting security into every stage of a build, whatever the build might be right?
Tash Norris: [00:20:38] Yeah, I think, um, and this will forever be a problem and will forever keep us in jobs, but there's always going to be something that adds friction and that friction is going to cause someone to take another route. I think everyone's seen those pictures online of, um, big gates in the middle of Oakley fields with no fence. And so people just drive around the gate, right. And, so many people actually did that to the security world and it's so right. And I think I've learnt now that. It's much more effective and it's easier for me, it's easier for CTRs everywhere, for marketing teams everywhere if you are able to be part of those initial conversations, those ideation phases, so that you can get the head start that you need to do the right thing. As well as set expectations, because there may be times where you do need to say, actually, if you want to do that thing sounds great, but I need this investment. And I think it's important to have data points support that conversation. Cause there will be times there's always times where security teams feel like they need to say no. And for me, I think what I've learnt and what's been important for anyone kind of building that security program is that first of all, you can have those foot stumps if you need to have them, that's what I've called them before. You know, what am I really going to be throwing my toes out the pram for this week or what am I really going to bepushing for and actually, is it worth it and taking that step back. But equally, if I do come across something, certainly not weekly, hopefully, maybe once or twice a year, that I do genuinely feel passionate about rather than a no you can't do that, it becomes a case of actually for us to facilitate that this is the budget that I need, or these are the resources that I need to help you get to yes. And I think reframing that conversation is certainly in my career so far allowed me to work much more closely with engineering teams, and marketing teams, and product teams, rather than against them, rather than be that gate, rather than create that world of shadow tech or shadow marketing websites.
Rik Ferguson: [00:22:29] Engineering I think has always been a huge friction point or a huge area of potential conflict and braking activity. Um, which if you're in the world of development, particularly, you know cloud-based development, modern development, any kind of deceleration is going to be a large source of friction. Right, and that's what security traditionally has been. Another area that I know floats your boat, and actually that you've mentioned a couple of times already, is threat modelling. So take us a little bit through how threat modelling works for you in a born in the cloud business. Cause I imagine if someone is in a more traditional area, um, that they may have a very different perception of how threat modelling works and what the outcomes of that might be, than you. Uh, but I also imagine that the world that you operate in is one that everybody will be operating in within probably the next five, definitely the next 10 years. So how does threat modelling work in that highly agile environment? Do you have constants or is the only constant change?
Tash Norris: [00:23:46] I think I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring you a bit on a threat modelling journey before I get there. Cause I think it's a fun way to explain why I get so excited about this and why I've got so many perspectives. So I first learnt about threat modelling, way back early on in my career in financial services and someone gave me Adam Shostack's book on threat modelling and I devoured that book. It was with one of the first security books, I think called a security book that I was given. Um, although I'd argue one of my first few books, was actually a book called continuous architecture, which doesn't mention security at all, but it's a wonderful book if you're an architect. Um, and I devoured that book. I think it gave me a really interesting perspective as someone who is early on in their security career and felt like it was difficult to add value. I know when you're still learning there's so many people that know way more than you. Learning to ask the right questions from people in the room that are hugely knowledgeable about the things that they're building, help to pull out security threats that they would never have thought of by themselves. And they didn't necessarily consider them security threats, just things that impacted the availability of their platform or the integrity of their platform and the confidentiality of it. And I think that then gave me a level of confidence that I hadn't had yet in my career, in that security world. And so Adam Shostack's book became a little bit like a Bible for me. And then I actually met him at a conference. Um, it was called the open security summit and it was a very interactive conference. The idea was that you would listen to a talk and maybe you would have some round tables, you would discuss some ideas. And, I mentioned a kind of way that I use threat modelling, uh, with teams that are maybe a bit unsure about security or when it's a technology that I'm not familiar with. Um, and Adam, very wonderful, very friendly, very down to earth, considering the impact that he's had in our world went, oh that's a really, that's a really good point Tash and I went (squeal). I know for me, not only was he, and I hate this term and I know many people do, but like a bit of an InfoSec rockstar. And he certainly might not be the traditional rockstar type. Um, but also was someone that unlocked a lot of confidence than me. And so was he was a mentor without even realising he was a mentor and I actually spoke to him after, and very nerdily asked him to sign my copy of my threat modelling book I carry everywhere. And, um, he's, um, actually remained a, an incredibly useful person to touch base with. And I've been lucky enough to be on a couple of panels with him, but he, I guess, where I'm getting at here is it allow me to ask the right questions that helped me develop in my career.
And so gave me more and more confidence to realise the impact that we can have. If you ask the right questions, even if you're not familiar with a technology stack and especially in a world of cloud, of serverless, container based technology. It can be difficult for people to keep up to date. With all of the various threats and issues. And threat modelling isn't just about those niche security problems that you might find on various Twitter threads or telegram channels. They're generally very traditional bugs in the way people build with these things, whether it's around authentication, which is probably one of their most common, or encryption. And so, for me, front running really even the playing field, I think as I came through my career there. Um, I don't think I do it any differently for these new types of technologies. Other than perhaps I and a guy called AV Douglin helped me to, to kind do this. If teams are struggling, which many teams do the first time they do that modelling, is I ask them to think about what would remove the value of what you're trying to do. So rather than kind of throw confidentiality, integrity, availability, or any other type of security architecture phrase. I've tried to take a step away and step back from that. And I think AV does this really well, um, and just get teams to think about what was the value of the thing you're trying to do. And this is where product toners has become really powerful for me and really important. And scrum masters too, or agile coach, whoever you've got this being a part of that team, there'll be really close to the value that they're trying to achieve. And so asking them the threat modelling questions rather than what can go wrong, what removes the value of this product? Like what would make it terrible for customers? Uh, and they might say, if they couldn't place an order. Okay, cool. What are the different things that could go wrong linked to stop you from placing an order? And that's how your engineering teams, like, it becomes a more useful language. That's when you can really get into the threats that you might have struggled to get, if you just said, OK, everyone, tell me what could go wrong with this architecture.
Rik Ferguson: [00:28:23] So for you, it's very much a people in the room, around the table, conversational exercise to begin with before you formalise the whole thing. But yeah, it's about getting people to verbally express, like a brainstorm.
Tash Norris: [00:28:35] Yeah, absolutely. And it, I think approaching it a bit more informally almost as a chat first really helps. Then you can kind of get into that diagram minding piece where you kind of step through the different stages of your architecture, whether it's a data flow diagram or a pure architecture, which you can still do with your serverless stack. I just talk about services rather than specific Lambda functions, although you can go there as well. If you feel like you need to do an architecture or infrastructure based threat model, which is definitely my love and my comfort zone. Maybe talk about services, that's where it gets a little bit more interesting. Um, but you can also, you know, that's when you step through your architecture, but for me, it's having those kind of informal chats versus being really powerful. The other way I've done it, especially more in the virtual world is I've taken just the product owner and just the lead engineer aside. Explain the value of what I'm trying to do, how it would work. I've got them to kind of almost have a little go of a threat model, just one-on-one, to coach. And then I've gone into the group room with two, what I would call kind of champions or advocates in the room, that have then been able to help that process go along nicely.
Rik Ferguson: [00:29:42] So you actually, at Moonpig you, I dunno, I was going to say you walked into a really fortunate situation, but maybe you don't see it that way. So I'm quite happy to be totally contradicted. That you had the opportunity to build up the team that you now have, effectively from scratch. So I suppose firstly, was that a really fortunate situation to be in. And secondly, how did you approach building an entire function that didn't exist before?
Tash Norris: [00:30:10] Yeah, so I am incredibly lucky to say that I've been able to pick every team member that I have and I'm not only lucky to pick them, but I'm lucky to have them. Um, but yeah, when I, when Photobox and Moonpig split, um, there is one security team for the Photobox group, uh, and there was, uh, a number of choices to be made where people could choose which side they went to. Um, and Photobox was a comfort. That's where we'd all be kind of hiding. See, that's the architecture we knew. Um, I had, um, you know, we're still being challenged to make sure I didn't sit in comfort. Um, and it's certainly something I would ask the audience to take away is don't, don't sit in that comfort space for too long. You don't grow up. Don't grow a whole lot there. And so I went over to the pink side is I've called it, the Moonpig side. And I was the first security hire. So I was a lead engineer at Photobox. I've had quite the journey up, lead engineer at Photobox, moved over to Moonpig as head of product security. Um, and this, uh, a slight aside here really important for me. Um, we've stopped calling it AppSec because in our world of cloud of, um, the way that we engineer now full stack engineering, there isn't really an AppSec and a CloudSec, for me, there's just one product. There's one stream. And if you try and separate them out and have two different teams, I think that becomes way too many touch points with engineers, with each other, conflicting processes potentially, and some challenges. So we created, I was, I was head of product security. Uh, although again, I was the only person in the whole security team.
Rik Ferguson: [00:31:40] Oh, did we lose you? Oh, no, you're fine.
Tash Norris: [00:31:44] Sorry. I'm so sorry. So that head of product security role for me is that where we got to? Yes, perfect. Um, was really important for me to, um, be able to encapsulate the things that we do, our products , our webinars. And so, um, I joined as head of product security and we had to hire a CISO. That was the first thing we did. And so, um, I worked with a CTO and said, please let me interview the CISOs. Um, but I was like, that's where I want to go. That's the role that I want to have. And so can I interview for them? Um, so I didn't want to interview to be the CISO. I asked to interview the CSOs that would be coming in so I could learn what they were pitching themselves as, the types of things they were saying, what was important to the people I was interviewing alongside. Um, originally I was going to ask, just to watch the interviews and then I was like, no, go for gold. Ask to be a part of the interviewing panel.
Rik Ferguson: [00:32:36] That takes some courage, right. That just even, I mean, I'm breaking your story, but I'm impressed by it. That's why I'm breaking it. That takes the courage to even ask that question, I guess, but maybe the environment is one where you were made to feel comfortable asking that kind of thing.
Tash Norris: [00:32:52] Yeah, absolutely very much. And, um, the CTO was super receptive. I think he was, um, keen for someone else to kind of ask some of those more techie security questions, I guess. Not that you necessarily expect the CISO to be super hands-on, but because we're so small, I think for us, that was the right thing. Um, and so yeah, we interviewed a number of really good candidates. Some I actually have kept in touch with today. Um, because I felt they were wonderful people on a similar journey to me. Uh, and so that's what it came down to was we got to, um, some final candidates and our CTO and our, our head of people, wonderful woman called Sasha works in, went and had a conversation and they came back to me with, we've got some wonderful candidates in that final stage. Um, we also think that you're comparable. Uh, and actually if we take a step back and think about your career journey, um, and where you want to go, um, I wasn't there yet. Um, and I recognise in myself, I wasn't there yet. Um, however, they were, they were willing to take that risk and I think what they had recognised, and I hadn't necessarily seen and I'm conscious of making sure I see in my own team now is how do you make sure there's space for that person to grow and to move and their concern was they bring someone in if I was already doing well, would I just move on? Um, and so they took a punt. Um, and I think it was like last February, they said they were, they would take the punt, they would let me have free reign for a bit and see how it goes. Um, and yeah, that stuck. So I'm still going. And I've hired my team out, which I've incredibly enjoyed doing.
Rik Ferguson: [00:34:29] It's been like you said, you're very lucky to have been in the place where you can choose them all and very lucky to have all the ones that you chose as well, which is super cool. There's a question that came in, on LinkedIn from actually a former colleague of mine, Mark. Hi mark. Thank you for joining us. Um, and his question, obviously, it was very specific at the time when you were talking. So I'm going to guess at which particular model he is talking about, he wants to know, did you get a lot of pushback on that? Or, um, did you shape the org around that model? And I think that model was probably talking about, and I know mark will jump in if I've got this wrong, he was probably talking about, um, keep having AppSec not be seperate. So, did you get push back or do you have trust or did you build the organisation around that model?
Tash Norris: [00:35:16] That's certainly what I got from that question. No, no push back. I think our engineers certainly build and operate in a way where we don't have back-end and then front-end. And so for them having cloud or infrastructure security, and then application security was weird. Cause that's not how they worked. And so for me to move the team to be like that made sense. Uh, it's important to note that isn't the only function of my team. I've got incident security, operations and incident response. I've got connect security, and then I've got my technology risk and compliance. So I've got those three pillars. Um, I know the business was incredibly supportive and I think it was important for me when I came in and I had that space to build a brand new function, to take that step back and make sure that we build ourselves in a way that aligned to the way the business worked. Um, that certainly helped us, I think, get the most done quickest.
Rik Ferguson: [00:36:05] Fantastic. Um, I've just looked at how much time we've been talking already. And I'm kind of disappointed because this, honestly, this time is flying by. And I think we've basically touched on three of the things that I had written down that I wanted to talk to you about. So I'm going to shift gears and move on. You just mentioned, um, security, operations, incident response. So that gives me an opportunity for a now very obvious segue into, um, current threats. Um, I know we spoke about cloud and how misconfiguration is, is, um, one of the biggest current threats and certainly the one that attackers are leveraging more than anything else. Certainly more than vulnerabilities for example. Leaving aside that, um, obviously the one big, uh, it's not even an elephant in the room, it's basically the room. Uh, the one big thing that everyone is talking about from a security operations and incident response perspective today is ransomware. Is that something that's impacted your operations to date, or is it something that is a lingering concern that you're like, OK, at some point I'm going to have to deal with.
Tash Norris: [00:37:07] So not impacted today which is a nice thing to say, but I'm sure it's a matter of time for all of us. So I would always advocate for speaking kindly for those that have been impacted. Um, it's too easy for us. Isn't it. To get down on their companies they've been called out. Yeah. I do. I, have some wonderful colleagues in the industry, and I do know someone that has been impacted. I think some people may have seen me tweet about this recently. The bit that was really interesting for me, and I think a lot of companies have is everyone has playbooks, right? Hopefully you're on your way to building your playbooks out. And so you'll have a ransomware playbook and that will talk about what you will do in the event of ransomware. You have your insurance details, hopefully if you've got it, um, your crisis management details for your business and then everything through to who the right suppliers are to liaise with depending what you need to do. The bit that not a lot of people have, and I was chatting to someone who works in a PR company recently who'd done some pretty big brands in my PR pieces of work. And they talked about a ransomware policy and, uh, took me a while to actually click what she was saying. But what she was talking about was do you pay or do you not pay and the importance. Yeah. And the importance of having that conversation in a unemotional and objective setting. And so having that conversation to know where your heads are at both at a security team, but at a board level or C level in a safe environment. So well before hopefully any type of event happens. And I thought that was interesting, I guess, at a number of points. One is that you all might differ quite wildly. Um, but also making sure that your, um, team members that might be a bit more impulsive are clear on things like sanctions and the impact of payment for your sanction there. So the impact on your insurance and actually the stance on your insurance. Something I've learnt recently is that some insurance will actually always advocate for paying, which is the opposite of what I initially thought.
Rik Ferguson: [00:39:07] Yeah. And I understand that's sometimes down to the fact that it can be cheaper than, than not paying and trying to remediate. Right. The cost of the remediation could end up for the insurance company, a bigger payout than the cost of their answer. And I guess as a threat actor, what the threat actor has to continually try and do is to strike the balance where for an insurance company, because that's typically we're moving more and more to the situation where they are the people paying. Uh, they got to strike the balance of finding that sweet spot, where actually from a financial and only from a financial perspective, uh, maybe it does make more sense to pay.
Tash Norris: [00:39:41] Yeah. And I think, um, what's interesting there for me, there's two parts. One is you've got that colonial pipeline situation where you pay, but then the decryptor to actually take so long that you ended up having to restore from your own backups anyway, um, all the way through to the if you pay, what are the PR and ethical implications? A lot of companies now have environmental, social governance, style mandates. And so actually payment of a ransom might well go up and against a lot of the public standards that you might have made. And so, um, you know, in, and amongst all of those pieces, one, would it get us up and running faster, um, two what are the kind of PR and ethical background, all the way through to actually, if I'm in a situation, and that highly emotional, I imagine, highly fraught, highly tense state, actually is it easier to, just to just pay and be done? And that payment and be done often for some of these ransomware, isn't just get your system up and running. It's the confirmation, if you will, that they're still not going to release that data publicly. Not that your regulator might agree. Um, and so for me, I deal with this ransomware policy post by this PR team to have those conversations, to really understand where you stand personally, where your board stand, where your policies, where your insurance teams stand when you're not in that situation, was a really interesting point. And what I hadn't previously thought about.
Rik Ferguson: [00:41:01] And you get to, to apply all of your threat modelling knowledge to that as well, if that's something that you're going to do within your business, right? It's again, it's about getting the right people around the table and saying, OK, this is, this is our standpoint is our stance. We do or we don't pay. But then you get to say OK so what is the potential impact of our distance we've adopted? What, what does that mean for the business? And then the gap analysis that says, OK, so what do we have to change as a result of agreeing that's what we do.
Tash Norris: [00:41:30] Yeah, which is really interesting cause you get into this world, which I love of threat modelling an idea, or a policy or a process rather than just threat modelling a product. Um, and your absolutely right, you step through of what can go wrong. Will, you know, would we end up paying someone on the sanction lists? Um, would you have even been able to attribute the attack to a specific, um, attacking group or, or region so early on? What does this do for my insurance premiums, all of those types of things.
Rik Ferguson: [00:41:57] Yeah. So what's your stance on, um, and feel at liberty to tell me to shut up because I'm used to it. Um, what is your stance on, banning or not banning the payment of ransoms for ransomware, for, for digital attacks? There are conversations at national and international level. Should this practice, the fact of paying a ransom, should it be made illegal? Should it be criminalised?
Tash Norris: [00:42:24] I'd love to say yes. Um, however, the sceptic in me doesn't think it will make the attack type go away. And actually, I think it will, will put the focus or criminalise the wrong people. Um, so I'd love to say yes, I think that, um, it's important to drive the right behaviours. I think criminalising at this stage, we're probably not ready for that. Both as an industry from a maturity perspective and, um, I honestly don't think our attackers would be put off by that. Um, but I do think that, um, it's important to maybe think about what other types of things can we do to, um, I guess to both dissuade companies from paying. So what support can we give? Um, what advice can there be? You know, there's I think the cyber helpline does some great support and some work for free for people are caught up in this. Um, but yeah. And I know at least a forte out there will be like, make it a criminal act. We should never pay. Um, but I honestly, I feel like I couldn't, I feel like that should be answered by someone who's been in that situation. That's been in the heat of it. That has really experienced it.
Rik Ferguson: [00:43:33] And what if that's the only option, right? If you're a medical institution, for example, and the choice is pay the ransom or potentially have people die. It's not much of a calculation, is it? And, and if you make it criminal, anyway, that's a big moral conversation on the topic of ransomware. Uh, we have another question coming in on LinkedIn, uh, which is quite specific, but I'm interested, um, in your, uh, in your view on it. Look, you may be thinking about your own environment because that's the one that you're totally familiar with. Um, how can we or how would you hope detect a ransomware attack before it gets executed? I guess the question was before it gets executed, I guess before encryption happens.
Tash Norris: [00:44:21] So I had an interesting set recently. I wouldn't, uh, I wouldn't quote me on this because I'm sure a hundred percent of all statistics are wrong. Uh, but something like, um, an attacker was sitting in your environment around 60 to 70 days before executing their payload, whatever that payload may be, and in this case, ransomware. Um, there's a number of reasons for that. They might want to get a handle on the size and the value of the data you have so that they can more properly. For the decryption process, um, it may be that they are trying to establish other avenues in and out of your business. I think it's important to recognise that if you pay the ransom, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to go away and not re-ransom you further down the line. Um, but there are some great, if you think about someone sitting in your network for a period of time before they execute, then, uh, for me, EDR technology becomes really important, uh, good network monitoring, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention tools. And I guess before you get to all of that, logging and monitoring is really important and not to be underestimated, really baseline traffic, understand what your network traffic looks like, your application traffic should look like, um, alongside that then EDR space. And then we might get into some of that machine learning piece. So you can start to, um, recognise those attacker TTPs, or tools, techniques in processes and the characteristics of some of our attackers that might help you to then identify and isolate that traffic or quarantine that traffic.
Rik Ferguson: [00:45:46] Yeah, I agree fully with everything that you just said, and that's really the reason for, in my mind, the rise of the XDR market segment for want of a better term, right? Cause it's taking all of those different things that you just spoke about logging and monitoring, network traffic, and the end point of EDR, bringing them all under that umbrella of extended detection and response, being able to say, OK, I need to see the details about what's happening in my cloud environment, I need the details about what's happening in my end point, I need to work out how something initially came into the business, where it travelled to and through what processes were hooked, what payloads were dropped. Um, and hopefully as you said, being able to get all of it before your 60 days are up or whatever the number ends up being. Yeah, absolutely. Um, I hope that answered your question. Thank you for asking. I'm really conscious that I can't believe how quick the time is flying. I'm really conscious. We're getting close to the end and there was another subject, um, actually that you brought up with me that I find really interesting and I wanted to give you a chance to expand on. When we were talking about the post COVID workplace, how does, how does the near future, I'm not talking about let's do some far future prognostication stuff. That's a good word. Isn't it? Prognostication. Uh, but how does the near future of, um, of post COVID look like? Um, and you said to me that you've been doing some psychological safety and mental health briefings, meetings, instructions with teams and for leaders, and that there was a specific relation between that stuff and the post COVID stuff. Do you want to talk a bit about that? Cause I think it's really important.
Tash Norris: [00:47:28] Yeah, absolutely. So, um, the interest in psychological safety for me started a long time ago. Um, anyone who was in that, I think one of the first cyber house party panels might have heard me talk about my box being full. Um, kind of a couple of years ago, I was in a role where I was doing that security architecture, consultancy role with teams and a few people left. And I felt like I was being given more and more responsibility, which was both great, but a bit overwhelming. And I got to a point where the only way I can articulate how I felt was my box was full. Like literally you can't put anything else in my box and please leave me alone. And I remember just not having the words, I think, to articulate how I felt not having the I guess that awareness and education to know kind of a little bit more around mental health and mental fitness, I suppose. And I went to my boss and I said, um, my box is full. I'm really struggling. I feel like I'm thinking about my box all the time and I'm at home and I'm thinking about how full my box is. And I've gotten to a point where I don't think I can even put non-work things in my box any more, and I can't take anything out. I don't feel like I've got anything to give and I'm just not being very efficient or very good. And I remember my boss saying at the time, um, well, we've just got a lot to do so you'll just have to get a bigger box. And I don't think they were coming from a place of just get over it Tash, I think they were just genuinely like, oh, we're all stressed or whatever. Um, and that really sat with the, and clearly it's been a number of years since then. Um, and one of the things as I've built my team, I've tried to be really conscientious of, is making sure there's this space of safety that people can tell me if their boxes are full, but hopefully we can work on identifying those indicators that help us to make sure they didn't get to that point. And I still didn't have the language for it. And I'll admit I hadn't necessarily done the research or educated myself as much as I should. And I was really grateful to be part of a training module they did for some of the leaders here at Moonpig on psychological safety and safety for our teams. And I took some of the things that we learnt with that, and I kind of took it a bit further and did my own research. I would very much encourage everyone to do. And it kind of brought me to, I guess, these four areas of focus for my team. One is making sure it's inclusive. We all want to make sure we have inclusive spaces. We open a circle. We make space for people to work in an post COVID workplace, where you might have a hybrid model for remote and in the office. That means that when you're in person remembering to still give that extra long pause, to allow people to contribute, remembering to open the circle, the way you sit, if you're in a meeting room with a video, don't sit facing the video. So make sure that your spaces is inclusive. The other area of psychological safety for me was making sure it's safe for people to learn, to ask questions. And again, in a post COVID workplace, that meant that you were making space for people to still learn from each other. So you were still encouraging, and on our product security function especially, we encouraged pairing and pair programming and making sure that we communicate openly. And so making sure that we take important conversations. Online or digitally, even if we're in the office so that they're still accessible to other people in the team. And making sure that if we are doing anything where we're kind of teaching each other or showcasing, again we're still doing that in a way that is digital first or online first, even if we could have the majority of people in person. The other areas of safety for me, were about contribution and challenge. So again, making it sure it's safe and easy for people to contribute post remote. And then challenge, most importantly, is making sure there's that space for someone to say I disagree. I don't think we should do it that way. Which for me has been the most valuable way of building our team and our function.
Rik Ferguson: [00:51:15] I was, I was spurred to think about, um, the post COVID workplace and, and the comfort levels or otherwise of people returning back to work. When I was having conversations with my kids about going back to school. Um, and I was relatively surprised, um, at the level of fear that they have. For returning back to somewhere that they normally should be super familiar with and where all their friends are. And you would think, I'd be really impatient to get back, to see my friends, but there was a fear certainly from my kids anyway, of because they've been remote and because they've had a lack of contact, not only from their friends, but from the teachers. That they hadn't done everything that they were supposed to do. That they've forgotten more than they've learnt and that they will be immediately left behind on resuming their presence in the school building. And I suppose there's a huge parallel for that in the workplace as well, right. Where you're going to suddenly find yourself back in an environment that you should be comfortable and familiar with, but be really worried that maybe everyone else took a massive jump, uh, while they were working from home. And that, for some reason, you didn't, and that's going to be another level of fear for returning, I suppose.
Tash Norris: [00:52:32] Yeah, absolutely. I know one thing we've talked about is even unrelated pandemic fears of actually I haven't been around crowds for a while and that makes me anxious. One of the things for me that's really important is not forcing people back to the office too quickly or you know, potentially even at all. And then also being cognisant that those timings, if people have built maybe really strong relationships or routines where they want do the school run. And so it's really important to allow that to still happen and be a part of their life, even though they might want to work in the community as well. And so maybe it looks at flexible hours. Um, but there's certainly a space for me of making sure that the psychological safety about learning, contribution and challenging and inclusivity, not just, doing the around cyber topics, but also making sure that we feel safe to say actually, I don't think I want to come to London in December because it's crazy. And it makes me nervous and I'm anxious, or I don't want to come in until everyone is double dosed for my vaccine. Or I really want to understand your workplace policies and processes. And I want to, I still want to wear a mask in the office. If you've got a cold or flu, I hundred percent hope that you now have learnt to stay home when you're ill. Um, but also if it's just a sniffle, it's like, hey, we learnt the power of wearing masks. Let's just start wearing masks if you, if you feel a bit sick on public transport.
Rik Ferguson: [00:53:55] Trend micro is a very, um, I mean, we're headquartered in Japan and we're a heavily Japan influenced organisation culturally as well. Um, and that's been a standard part of sort of Asian culture in general, specifically, definitely Japanese. Um, is that if you are ill, you wear a mask. And it was the first time I ever went to Japan. When I asked a colleague, why, why are so many people wearing face masks? Because let's not forget. It used to be really weirdly unfamiliar to, to Western Europeans or to Europeans in general and beyond, to see people wearing masks in public. And why are people wearing? Are they afraid of getting sick or something? So no, they're sick. That's why they're wearing a mask. I'm like, oh, light bulb. Oh, that's a really clever and sensible thing to do. Why have we never done that? I agree. I sincerely hope it's a lesson that, that sticks. Listen, Tash, it's been an hour already. I usually end this, uh, my interviews by asking what's the greatest lesson that, that you feel that you've learnt yourself through this period of lockdown and COVID, do you feel like you've already answered that?
Tash Norris: [00:55:02] Yeah, I guess the biggest one for me is that making that space for psychological safety in your teams. So I've come back to making that space for inclusivity, so to learn, to contribute and to challenge and making sure that it doesn't just apply to your InfoSec world, but you know, your personal lives, the ways you interact in that return into work, in person in the flesh.
Rik Ferguson: [00:55:26] It's been an absolute pleasure Tash. No, no less than I had expected and hoped for when I invited you to come on the show. Thank you so much for, I know you're on your holiday and you had to get rid of your family in order do this. So I am eternally grateful. It's been a fantastic conversation. I'm sure everybody watching has so much to take away from it. And I'm just really grateful that you joined us. Thanks so much for your time.
Tash Norris: [00:55:49] Thank you so much for having me. Great fun.
Rik Ferguson: [00:55:52] I'll speak to you soon. There you go another hour of your lives and my life has flown by. Uh, it was an absolute pleasure. I had a list of questions over here. Uh, on my secret let's talk security boards. Um, and I think I probably managed to get through about half of them. It was an absolutely incredible conversation. Um, we have what I believe, unless one of you steps up and says I want to be on an episode, we have what I believe is the final episode of let's talk security next week. It's going to be equally fantastic. Please make sure you join us. Um, for now. I want to once again express my thanks to the Tash Norris of cybersecurity for joining us and wish you all the best with the rest of your day. I have been Ron burgundy and you stay classy.
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Back then, it would suffice to have a straightforward website with a home page, services, rates, regarding us, as well as call web pages.
A possible customer would certainly go to your site, scroll about, check out the various pages and take in material as they please.
Nevertheless, if you are an organisation investing any cash on marketing, you intend to control what consumers are finding out about on your site, existing deals at the right time, and make the most of the revenue you make from each person.
ClickFunnels is the simplest way to earn high converting sales as well as advertising and marketing funnels.
It is a special tool created particularly to transform possible consumers into buyers.
It really is an all-in-one solution to develop sales funnels and also includes landing web pages, email combination, billing, webinars, membership sites, and so a lot more. Not surprising that it has rapidly end up being a favorite tool for marketers.
Below is my thorough ClickFunnels Evaluation, consisting of favorite features, rates, pros/cons, as well as comparisons versus competitors.
PayPal Business Plan: But First, Exactly What Is a Sales Funnel?
Sales funnels (likewise called advertising and marketing funnels) are multi-step campaigns that are designed to relocate prospective leads with your sales procedure, as well as turn them into purchasers.
Picture a real-life channel. At the top, you put fluid in, which narrows down towards one taken care of destination.
In sales, a comparable event occurs. On top, visitors arrive at your web site, yet not all who go into make it out of the other end as buyers.
Many points need to take place from the time a site visitor enters your channel, to the moment they do something about it as well as efficiently finish an acquisition.
By breaking down the customer’s trip right into smaller steps, you can be a lot more accurate regarding exactly how when you provide an offer to your target market.
Web page connects the very first deal (something complimentary to collect an e-mail).
Once e-mail is accumulated, main deal is pitched.
Lead comes to be a paying customer.
More e-mail communication providing consumer value.
As mentioned previously, ClickFunnels is the very best sales funnel software program around today.
The company makes the vibrant case of offering you whatever you need to market, sell, and also provide your products online – as well as they most definitely supply.
Locate split-testing software application … etc
However ClickFunnels looks after whatever with their platform. You not just save a lots of money by not needing to purchase various products/services, yet you likewise avoid the technological mess of having to establish everything up, as well as can concentrate on exactly what’s really crucial – growing your service.
ClickFunnels uses a Cost-free 14-Day Test, so you get to check out the device as well as really see if it’s best for your company.
Preferred Attributes
* Quickly Produce Pages Making Use Of Templates and Aspects *.
Before getting too much, it is necessary to recognize that a channel is a collection of web pages created in a calculated order, with the goal of transforming as several prospects right into customers. And a web page is merely a collection of various components created to obtain somebody to take a particular action.
ClickFunnels provides even more than 50 various aspects to help you develop the ideal page. The editor is incredibly simple to make use of as well as all you need to do is drag and drop different elements on to the page, and update the text and also look to fit your requirements – no coding skills needed!
ClickFunnels additionally makes your life much easier by supplying you with a ton of complimentary themes.
Actually, ClickFunnels offers over 37 kinds of web pages for you to mix as well as match with. These are damaged down right into the complying with 10 classifications:
The pre-built design templates are completely adjustable, and also are what most individuals make use of.
You have the ability to select a layout, edit or replace the elements with your personal, as well as your brand-new page is ready to go.
You could likewise connect any channel you develop with your own email marketing service (if you do not make use of the one included in ClickFunnels), and make use of the ClickFunnels integrated in billing system.
This is likewise a blast to mention that ClickFunnels offers really beneficial and also easy to understand training videos when you initially join. I extremely recommend experiencing those because they quickly allow you to make use of the device at its complete capability, and you’ll have extra fun playing around. PayPal Business Plan
* Develop One-Click Subscription Websites *.
Among the very best functions with ClickFunnels is the ability to quickly produce membership websites and also deliver content to your audience in one place.
Your membership website will come full with registration web pages, subscription access pages, as well as material pages which you can easily lock or drip feed to your consumers inning accordance with acquisitions they made in your channel.
ClickFunnels membership websites permit you to send emails, quickly handle your e-mails, and also develop an area all while getting rid of the stress and anxiety that’s associated with various other services such as Kajabi, or WordPress systems.
It’s really helpful to not have to purchase a different software or plugin to develop subscription websites.
Nonetheless, ClickFunnels additionally has their very own powerful automation device called Actionetics.
Although you can develop, schedule, as well as provide e-mails similar to other email marketing platform, Actionetics is so much extra.
I enjoy Actionetics since it not just replaces your e-mail marketing yet messenger advertising and marketing and SMS advertising software programs as well. This takes automation to a whole new level as well as assists you connect the best message to your customers, exactly when they need it. A video summary of Actionetics will be offered even more listed below.
* Billing and also Settlement Integration *.
A fantastic feature within ClickFunnels is the ability to collect all the payment details from your customers right on your sales page. Marketing is made so much easier when clients do not need to leave your website.
ClickFunnels incorporates with significant payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, and also InfusionSoft, among others.
1. ClickFunnels Standard Strategy – $97/month.
The standard plan consists of all the functions you would certainly require within ClickFunnels, yet with restrictions on the variety of funnels (20) as well as web pages (100) you can have in your account, as well as how many site visitors (20K) could view your web pages each month.
You additionally do not obtain sophisticated capability such as ClickFunnels very own e-mail advertising and marketing as well as affiliate monitoring tools.
2. ClickFunnels Etison Collection – $297/month.
This plan consists of all the bells and whistles of the conventional strategy, with no restrictions. It additionally comes with 2 extra products produced by ClickFunnels called Actionetics (e-mail marketing) and Knapsack (affiliate monitoring platform).
In Actionetics – you can manage all of your contacts that register for your checklist, send email programs, and also develop a host of various other automations. In Backpack – with the click of a computer mouse, you can include an affiliate program to any of your funnels. Then Backpack will track your clicks, sales, as well as how much to pay your associate companions.
If there’s one inquiry I get usually, it’s “Which ClickFunnels Plan should I get”?
The distinction between the two strategies actually is the limitations, and Actionetics/Backpack. If you are a basic customer and do not anticipate to utilize greater than 20 funnels in your account – the Criterion Plan ought to be sufficient.
Nevertheless, if you plan to have an associate program or intend to keep your email advertising within ClickFunnels and not use a 3rd party software program, the Etison Suite is for you.
You could always begin on the lower plan and also upgrade if required.
3. Funnel Hacks System – $997
For anyone that’s serious about their organisation, the ClickFunnels Funnel Hacks System is the bargain of the century.
The $997 Funnel Hacks System includes robust training programs bundled with 6-month accessibility to the ClickFunnels Etison Suite.
This is an incredible offer given that beyond this program, 6-months of Etison Suite alone would cost you $1782.
Lots of people ask exactly how ClickFunnels as compares to various other touchdown page builders such as Leadpages, Unbounce, and Infusionsoft.
Generally it’s not truly a fair comparison because each of these devices excels is one location or the various other.
The chart over gives a thorough analysis – yet I’ll highlight some of the major comparisons listed below.
ClickFunnels vs Leadpages
Prior to ClickFunnels, Leadpages was the huge canine.
Leadpages is just a lead capture software – nothing even more. You could produce touchdown web pages, lead boxes, gather leads … that’s basically it. Furthermore, the Leadpages design templates are likewise limited on customization.
ClickFunnels is much more versatile – it’s much easier to utilize as well as does so a lot more than develop lead capture web pages.
Put simply, Leadpages is truly simply a touchdown page builder, while ClickFunnels is concentrated around building very incorporated funnels.
ClickFunnels vs Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is not a landing web page or sales page builder. It has a few of that capability built it, but that’s not exactly what it’s recognized for.
At it’s core, Infusionsoft is a CRM platform – one that enables you to handle your whole client database. ClickFunnels has this capability with Actionetics, yet it’s not virtually as advanced as Infusionsoft.
Infusionsoft is likewise extremely expensive and pressures every new client to pay $2000 for a mandatory kickstart coaching package simply to learn how you can use the complex system (which is infamously difficult to use).
ClickFunnels Associate Program
There are two major courses individuals drop as ClickFunnels individuals.
Those that opt to make use of the tool for their business – in hopes of one day achieve both Comma Club (over $1M in revenue).
As well as those that have an interest in gaining passive earnings as a ClickFunnels Associate as well as winning the Dream Car Contest (where they pay $500/$1000 to your desire vehicle if you reach 100/200 active regular monthly signups, respectively).
With a massive 40% month-to-month recurring compensation, ClickFunnels easily has among the greatest affiliate programs of any system out there.
That’s right – you make money an ongoing 40% compensation on every affiliate signup you make through the ClickFunnels Affiliate Program. But, what does that really correspond to?
The standard strategy is a $97/month investment and the Etison Collection strategy is a $297/month investment. therefore you make $38.80 per fundamental plan and also $118.80 per Etison Collection plan … each and every month!
On average, every 100 signups will generate $4000/month in affiliate commissions (essentially depending on the amount of Etison Plan individuals are in there).
Go here to learn more regarding becoming a ClickFunnels Affiliate.
The Bottom Line
ClickFunnels is pass on the greatest platform if you are wanting to quickly construct high transforming sales funnels.
Because it was developed from scratch to be the very best sales channel contractor, it vanquishes all the competition because respect.
Externally, it may not be the least expensive product out there – yet if you use it to its full capacity, your company will end up being a lot more successful and also you will conserve money from not needing to utilize other devices. If you have actually reviewed this far right into my ClickFunnels Review, I suggest you see on your own with a Free 14-Day Trial below.
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Help Desk User Proofing, Service Desk User Confirmation, Service Desk User Proofing, User Identity Proofing, User Identity Confirmation - these are the crucial areas that Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) must focus on to safeguard enterprise users' accounts and prevent identity theft within their organizations. In this article, we will explore the risks associated with identity theft through the IT help desk and present a solution that can effectively protect internal processes and services while adding minimal additional costs.
Implementing secure identity verification at the help desk is a vital step that can significantly enhance security within an organization. Surprisingly, the cost of this implementation is expected to be less than 2-5% of the total investments made in Identity Management projects. Within just 2-4 months, organizations can witness improved security and reduced vulnerability to identity theft.
While this seems sufficient, a hacker can easily steal the credentials of a legitimate user, exploiting the Identity Management solution and gaining full access as if they were the genuine user. This not only leads to identity theft but also poses a significant data breach risk.
Identity Management solutions aim to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive data and systems.
However, our IT systems don't directly recognize people; they only recognize user identities. To bridge the gap between individuals and their identities, we rely on credentials like passwords. Identity theft through the IT help desk is a critical issue that organizations must address. In fact, high-profile incidents have highlighted the severity of this problem. For instance, a UK teenager successfully carried out a major data breach against CIA and FBI, targeting influential figures and tricking call center staff into revealing passwords. Similarly, Twitter experienced a breach when hackers manipulated call center employees through social engineering techniques. These incidents demonstrate that IT help desks are attractive targets for hackers, and companies across various industries face the burden of dealing with similar incidents.
See also: How to Hack the Service Desk: Reconstruction of a Real Story as Recounted by a Client
To illustrate the vulnerability of help desks to social engineering attacks, let's examine a real-life example. A hacker obtains a manager's name and email from a public forum and easily finds additional information on the company's LinkedIn page. Armed with this information, the hacker contacts the service desk, posing as an employee, and successfully gains trust by providing specific details such as usernames and ticket numbers. The hacker manipulates the service desk agent into revealing more information, ultimately acquiring critical knowledge that can be used for malicious purposes.
Currently, most service desks rely on simple verification tests to authenticate users. However, this approach has several shortcomings. Verification questions can be easily guessed or obtained in advance, and hackers skilled in social engineering can exploit service desk agents to bypass the prescribed verification procedures. Additionally, supporters often have limited experience and face pressure to handle a high volume of calls while providing excellent service. This presents a contradiction between customer service and security requirements.
The fact that 69% of IT departments reported vishing attempts emphasizes the importance of securing help desk operations. It is evident that hackers specifically target the help desk to gain access to vital passwords. Ignoring this reality is not a viable strategy, as it leaves organizations exposed to potential breaches and identity theft incidents.
To mitigate these risks, envision a scenario where service desks employ intelligent IT workflows that conduct verification tests based on dynamic and contextual data. These tests can adapt to the specific situation and users involved, making it nearly impossible for hackers to manipulate the support staff. By implementing such measures, organizations can effectively thwart hackers' attempts and ensure the security of their systems and data.
The FastPass solution offers a secure identity verification service that can be easily integrated into any IT service management (ITSM) tool, whether on-premise or in the cloud. By collecting system data from various sources and leveraging multifactor authentication tokens, such as OKTA, DUO, Microsoft Authenticator, and more, FastPass provides a robust verification process. It integrates seamlessly with popular ITSM platforms like ServiceNow and TOPdesk, supporting password resets across various systems. The flexibility of FastPass allows administrators to configure multiple workflows tailored to different users and situations. Users can also leverage the self-service portal to manage their passwords independently, further reducing the burden on service desk personnel.
While implementing such solutions requires an investment, the benefits far outweigh the costs. By preventing potential data breaches and identity theft incidents, organizations can avoid the average cost of $9.4M (according to an IBM study) associated with data breaches in the USA. The FastPass implementation can be completed within 2-4 months, and the operational cost is only a small fraction of the overall Identity Management project costs, typically less than $2 per user per year.
As IT professionals, we must acknowledge the potential vulnerabilities in our organizations and take proactive steps to strengthen security.
Relying solely on hope is not a viable strategy. By prioritizing help desk user confirmation, proofing, and identity verification, we can become the defenders of our organizations' security, ensuring the integrity of user identities and protecting sensitive data. Let's embrace the necessary security measures and work together to fortify our organizations against identity theft from the IT help desk.
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Copyright law has long caused headaches for documentary filmmakers. Fair use allows for the use of brief excerpts of copyrighted material, but that doesn't stop some copyright holders from threatening lawsuits and demanding exorbitant licensing fees. Unless they clear every snippet, filmmakers are generally unable to get "errors and omissions" insurance, and, without that, it's basically impossible to get a film distributed and released in the theaters or TV.
To help clarify the principle of fair use, a group of five national filmmakers organizations put together a Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in 2006. The Statement provides guidance for lawyers, broadcasters and insurers as to what constitutes fair use.
And happily, the Statement has had a dramatic effect. Cable programmer IFC has been guided by the Statement in deciding what documentaries to air, and now insurers are using it to extend coverage for filmmakers. National Union, a major insurer, has recently adjusted its policy to extend coverage for fair use. Filmmakers can now purchase insurance provided an attorney with experience in copyright law is willing to attest that the film falls within the fair use as defined in the Statement.
This is tremendous news for independent filmmakers, who should find it easier to make their art and inform the public without fear of being shut down by legal threats. As Professor Bill McGeveran suggests at the Info/Law blog this could also be "a powerful approach" for other creative communities "to preserv[e] fair use without direct legal action." Let's hope so.
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Internet users believe they are more likely to be victims of a cybercrime than a physical one in the coming year, according to a survey released this week.
This growing fear of Internet vulnerability is well-founded, computer security experts contend. Whereas most malevolent software was once a form of electronic vandalism, it has become a profit-making venture backed by organized crime.
The survey, commissioned by IBM Corp., found that nearly 40 percent of respondents do not bank online or use credit card information online. Seventy percent said they only shop at Web sites that display a security protection seal.
"They conduct business with companies they know and trust," said Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of corporate security strategy. "They're wary of Web sites they haven't been to before and wary of Web sites with no advertised security controls."
Also, the survey found that people are taking steps to avoid identity theft and other cyberscams. Eighty-five percent of respondents said they destroy all documents containing personal information or assure those documents are safely stored.
Yet fears about cybercrime are not leading to a slowdown in e-commerce, which continues to boom. Data collected by ComScore Networks show that people spent $5.5 billion online in the first three weeks of January for items unrelated to travel. That's a 33 percent increase over the same period a year ago.
There has always been a subset of computer users who are reluctant to shop online because of security concerns, said Gian Fulgoni, ComScore's Chicago-based chairman.
"Something like 40 percent of people don't shop online because of these concerns," he said.
The survey results are good news, said Scott Pinzon, security chief at Watch Guard Technologies, a Seattle firm that supplies network security to businesses. "People are becoming aware of some very real threats."
Pinzon said that most computer security people have attempted to thwart hacker threats with technology, believing it's futile to train computer users in techniques to protect themselves.
"Crooks have been more effective in training users about cybercrime than security experts," Pinzon said. "People are learning about Internet security the hard way by being stung by phishing and other scams. It's rational for them to be wary of online activity."
As more people get high-speed broadband Internet connections, they tend to spend more money online, McIrvine said. Generally, he added, the more experience people have online, the more receptive they are to shopping there.
"Even among people who shop online, more than 90 percent of their spending is done offline," Fulgoni said. "So e-commerce has a lot of upside ahead."
As people become more aware of online risks, they're moving to protect themselves in much the same way they operate offline, said Fahim Siddiqui, chief executive of Sereniti Inc., a home network services firm based in Jersey City.
"They're using the same vigilance in traveling the information highway as they use in driving on physical highways," he said. "When you drive in your car, you buckle your seat belt for protection. You buy insurance."
Siddiqui's firm provides firewalls and other computer protection. It also sells insurance that pays up to $25,000 to cover expenses incurred by ID theft victims and anti-virus insurance that pays up to $1,000 to cover harm inflicted upon computers by viruses.
As a practical matter, Web sites that offer pornography and gambling are more likely to install malevolent software on computers that visit, Pinzon said.
"If you avoid those Web sites, you reduce the chances you'll be victimized," he said.
"But that's not to say you won't get some really odious spyware loaded on your machine from something that promises to turn your cursor into a cute kitten."
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-01-28/business/0601280034_1_computer-security-online-activity-computer-users
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My iPhone was stolen (central Europe) about a week ago and yesterday, the number I had set up during the “Lost Mode” process received a text message saying the phone was switched on and telling me to reply with the options to lock, erase or find the iPhone.
I suspect most folks reading this would never fall for the phishing text messages. But what this walkthrough offers that makes it worth reading, at least to me, is the link to the support document with details on reporting phishing to Apple, as well as the link to iCloud.com/find and the image (at the very end) showing what a real Find My email from Apple should look like.
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https://www.loopinsight.com/2022/01/06/stolen-iphone-phishing-scam/
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Amazon's new Kindle 2, which shipped Tuesday , has created a huge public splash -- and not undeservedly. The $359 device offers a thin, portable, easy way to purchase and read books, magazines and other documents -- especially for those who have never been all that comfortable with technology or (on the other side of the spectrum) are eager to make sure they have the latest and sexiest tech toys in their personal arsenal.
It's possible that if I were to get my hands on a Kindle 2 , I might agree with the enthusiasts. If that should happen, I'll certainly let you know. Meanwhile, though, I'll let you in on a little secret -- or, at least, something that hasn't been a secret to any addicted reader who has owned a computer or any kind of portable tech for the past several years.
There are a lot of e-books out there, and you don't have to own a Kindle to read them. You can purchase them or download them free and legally -- from sites that offer books that are in the public domain, from advertising- or subscription-based sites that offer original literature, or from authors who are offering free samples of their work in the hope that you'll buy more.
(You should also check out your local library's Web site -- some libraries now offer downloads of books in their collections.)
What follows is a list of some of the sources I've used to put e-books on various mobile devices. They vary in the type of books they offer, whether they charge or not, and the formats they make their literature available in. But no matter what type of mobile device you carry around with you -- a netbook, an iPhone or even an old-fashioned PDA -- these sites can help you ensure that you'll never be caught without reading material again.
Project Gutenberg
The great-granddaddy of e-book sources, this site is beloved by many of us who have been reading books on-screen almost as long as there has been an Internet.
Started by Michael Hart as part of a student project in 1971 and rapidly expanded throughout the 1990s and beyond, Project Gutenberg now offers free access to thousands of e-books in a wide variety of text and audio formats, including plain text, HTML, PDF, Ogg Vorbis, Apple iTunes Audiobook and Plucker.
Project Gutenberg also represents a less commercial side of the Web -- it operates largely via the work of volunteers, who either submit the scanned documents or proofread them (comparing the scanned page image with the text produced by optical character recognition).
In short, I was a regular visitor to the site 10 years ago when I was downloading books to my Psion 3a handheld, and it's still one of my favorite sites.
Fictionwise
There are a lot of places to purchase e-books out there; this is the one that I usually go to first.
I was originally drawn to Fictionwise for two reasons: because it offers books in a variety of formats (such as MobiPocket) that work with relatively obscure devices and because it advertises free short stories and, occasionally, novels as a come-on for bibliophiles who want to try new authors. (In my case, it worked.)
In addition, once you buy a book, you can go back and download it as many times as you need to -- if you lose it, for example, or if you need it in a different format.
I'm sure there are other very good e-book sites out there (and I encourage anyone who has any recommendations to add them to our comment section ). Fictionwise just happens to be the one that I use.
Google Book Search
Google Inc. got into a bit of a wrangle with the Authors Guild , the Association of American Publishers and some other organizations when it first started scanning books into its database. Google felt it was publishing them online under "fair use." The organizations disagreed.
They came to an agreement in October 2008, and now Google is offering three types of books on its site: those that are in print and in copyright, which can be previewed and purchased; those that are in copyright but out of print, which can also be previewed and purchased; and those that are out of copyright, which can be downloaded and read for free.
Google has an advantage over many other book sites -- for one thing, it's Google, and so is a known and popular place for a lot of Web surfers. It also offers nicely formatted and readable images of the original books (rather than unillustrated texts). And it's portable -- owners of iPhones or other wireless mobile devices can navigate to the mobile version and find reading material that way.
Finally, there are quite a free public-domain books available -- you can either read a scan of the original online, download a PDF or get a text version that can then be saved to a separate file. For the most part, though, Google Book Search is a place to sample books online and then purchase them elsewhere.
Original Online Literature
If you aren't necessarily looking for something that's already available in print, there's a wide and interesting variety of original fiction out there. And I'm not talking about people who publish their otherwise-unpublishable fiction on their own Web sites; I'm talking about online magazines that solicit and make available short stories and other fiction by both known and unknown authors.
There are a large number of them out there; what you find depends largely on what you're looking for. Since I tend to read a lot of science fiction/fantasy stories, I can cite several samples in that genre. They include Strange Horizons , a professional-level speculative fiction magazine; Farrago's Wainscot , a compendium of weird tales; and Clarkesworld , which features some of today's best new authors.
And there are loads more. You like mysteries? Poetry? Horror? Straight literature? Google around -- they're there.
Dedicated e-book readers such as the Kindle 2 and Sony Corp.'s Reader Digital Book are highly useful and getting more and more popular daily. It's very likely, in fact, that these readers will soon become a normal part of most households, together with cell phones and computers.
But until then, those of us who don't want to pay for -- or, perhaps, carry around -- yet one more digital device can use our current mobile tech to have all the reading material we want. We just have to look a bit harder.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/160228/dont_need_kindle_2_enjoy_ebooks.html
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Emails with a bunch of typos or grammatical mistakes, or that come from a weird-looking address, should raise some suspicion. Scare tactics and “better act now” types of messaging are also a red flag. As a general rule, don’t open or click links in emails with these characteristics.
2. Think twice before clicking or downloading
If an email is coming from a source you don’t recognize, it’s best not to interact with anything it contains. That means no clicking links, downloading files, or opening attachments. Generally, you should only open email attachments if you are expecting them and know what information they will contain.
3. Guard your Social Security number and your financial information
You should never give out your full Social Security number (SSN) or bank details over email. Be skeptical any time you’re asked to do this, as reputable sources will have you go through a secure portal. If you give your SSN over the phone, make sure you’re the one who initiated the call.
4. Verify all websites
Before you enter your Social Security number or bank information into any website form, make sure it’s a trusted, verified site. When in doubt about a Square link, reach out to us for confirmation that the link is secure, or open a new browser and go directly to www.squareup.com/login.
5. Use different passwords for different accounts
Strong passwords are key. But as iron-clad as your logins may be, you shouldn’t be using the same one for all email, bank, business, and other accounts, and it’s a good habit to change your passwords every so often.
6. Enable two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication is a security process that requires two methods of verification to log in to your account. Many web services and apps — like your Square Dashboard — will periodically send a text message with an additional code that you need to log in. To protect yourself against unwanted activity on your accounts, make sure you’re using two-factor authentication whenever available.
7. Choose your email provider wisely
Some email services are a lot better at flagging phishing scams than others. Make sure the provider you’re using offers two-factor authentication, sophisticated spam and phishing filters, and a mechanism to alert you if phishing or spam is suspected.
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The ongoing pandemic has seen an alarming rise in cyber attacks. Singapore’s authorities reported a 154% increase in ransomware cases in the past year, a trend that was also highlighted in Ensign InfoSecurity’s 2021 Annual Cyber Threat Landscape report.
Ransomware is of particular concern with an increase in threat actors extensively employing ransomware-as-a-service models in recent years. Given the heightened threat environment, it is important for organisations to leverage state-of-the-art technologies and techniques to detect and defend against cyber attacks. One such class of these advanced technologies is Ensign’s patented AI-Powered Cyber Analytics, which is designed to drive increased accuracy and speed in threat detection.
In this keynote session you will hear how AI-Powered Cyber Analytics, such as those embedded in Ensign’s threat detection models, can help organisations detect and counter complex threats of today.
As organisations race ahead with digitalisation plans, they face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Yet, they are constantly playing catch-up with the latest threats.
Learn how to shift your company’s reactive cyber strategy to a proactive one – all this in a panel discussion at this year’s GovWare Conference. Ensign InfoSecurity’s Vice President of Engineering Chan Kok Leong, will be part of the esteemed panel. He will be joined by Gwenda Fong, Assistant Chief Executive (Policy and Corporate Development) at Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), Gaurav Chiiber, Vice President, APJ of IronNet Cybersecurity, and Steve Ledzian, Vice President & CTO, APAC of Mandiant.
From enhanced cyber threat intelligence to round-the-clock monitoring and maintaining offline data backups, discover how organisations can build strategies that reduce disruption when a cyber attack hits.
While cyber security providers continuously innovate to stay ahead of the cyber arms race, the incorporation of cutting-edge cyber analytics and AI into their various services has become an important differentiating factor.
The recent spike in digital transformation due to COVID-19 has resulted in a huge increase in collected logs as more organisations are forced to move online. This, coupled with increasingly sophisticated techniques used by threat actors, amplifies the difficulty in detecting malicious behaviours and advanced threats.
Conventional signature-based methods are proving futile due to their high false alarm rates and inability to dynamically adapt to evolving threats. In this session, we will share how Ensign leverages and incorporates state-of the-art AI-powered Cyber Analytics into our SOC processes to detect advanced threats and anomalous behaviours to keep organisations secure.
Sophisticated cyber supply chain attacks have resulted in extensive business disruption for many organisations. Businesses now realise that merely securing their own enterprise network is not enough, as their vendors and partners can serve as easy points of entry for threat actors. They would need new cyber defence strategies to help mitigate third-party risks.
Join Charles Ng, Ensign InfoSecurity’s Executive Vice President for International Business and Consulting, as he moderates a panel discussion on Operations as part of this year’s Singapore International Cyber Week. Charles joins panellists, Chris Kubic, CISO, Fidelis Cybersecurity, and Kevin Mandia, FireEye, Inc. – two cyber experts who have had first-hand experience in dealing with supply chain attacks like the SolarWinds breach which occurred early this year.
Ms Rashmy Chatterjee joined the Ensign’s board in March 2020. She is the CEO of ISTARI - the Global Cybersecurity platform established by Temasek to help clients manage their digital risk in times of rapid digitalisation. It harnesses the collective power of the world’s leading cybersecurity companies, people and knowledge to work alongside clients to secure their business growth and earn digital trust.
Ms Chatterjee has held a number of global sales and marketing leadership roles in her career. She spent over two decades at IBM, where her most recent positions included global sales leader for IBM Security and Chief Marketing Officer for IBM NA. Prior to IBM, Ms Chatterjee served in the Indian Navy as the Deputy Director of Naval Design. She was the first female engineer to join the Navy and was commended by the President of India for her work in establishing the Indian Naval CAD/CAM centre.
Ms Chatterjee is passionate about building a culture of long-term client relationships and developing talent. She is an advocate for women in technology and sits on a number of boards. She is also a Fellow of the International Marketing Academy.
Mr Chong Siew Loong joined the Ensign's Board in July 2019.
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The ability to define what construes “good” cyber-security has become a priority for the industry, says Phil Cracknell, chief information security officer (CISO) at Homeserve.
Ahead of speaking at the 16 November Cyber Security Summit, where the challenges facing cyber-security practitioners will be addressed, he notes that the lack of quantification in cyber-security.
Cracknell has long been involved in developing co-operation between CISOs including conducting “anonymous surveys of CISO's to fill the void of information regarding breaches”, this work has since evolved into The Metrics Project.
The Metrics Project focuses on defining the mechanisms and language used to measure the effectiveness of Information Security, with more than 50 UK CISO's involved. As the collective work of more than 350 CISO's over its current lifespan and purposely avoiding vendors and analysts thus far, the Metrics Project focuses on developing something that will deliver true value to the businesses of those involved, “By the CISO, for the CISO.”
Cracknell emphasised the role of metrics as “very much the key to our future” in measuring and validating the effectiveness of cyber-security. “Businesses are waking up to the fact that they need metrics and risk indicators that our board, audit committees and non-executive directors are able to understand.”
Promoting a “report what you should, not what you can” mind-set from organisations, Cracknell suggests metrics have the ability to affect business practice in a number of ways. Metrics can demonstrate effectiveness, measure exposure and agility, test organisation culture, pinpoint responsibilities and highlight levels of investment”, all of which provide a great insight into a sector and tangible, measurable indicators of cyber-sSecurity suitability.
Suggesting the current focus by security providers on product and technology may not be the optimum strategy going forward, Cracknell draws attention to the softer skills involved in effective cyber-security. “Security leads are still procuring solutions that don't address their top issues or risks.
Good risk management will avoid this, and of course a solution for a risk doesn't always have to involve buying hardware, software or a service at all”. Instead, Cracknell advocates an introspective business model, with training of staff and improved process management.
Regarding issues surrounding ‘Bring your own Device',Cracknell says, “With our corporate perimeters expanding and even disappearing entirely, and the prevalence of personally owned devices in our work environments, businesses should concentrate on protecting the contents, not the containers, and identify critical data.”
Phil Cracknell will talk as part of the Cyber Security Summit at 3:30pm on 16 November, with his address Measuring Success: Metrics for Cyber Security Strategy. He is speaking alongside senior public and private sector figures, including Mark Sayers, deputy director of cyber and government security at the Cabinet Office, and Chris Ulliott, chief information security officer at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Phishing attacks have evolved into sophisticated methods of social engineering, making them one of the oldest and most enduring cyber threats. While many people associate phishing with spam emails or malicious links, modern attacks have expanded to include other vectors like open-source websites, fake apps and malvertising.
To effectively mitigate phishing attacks, user awareness training is key. This involves training employees to identify fake emails, malicious links and suspicious websites with greater effectiveness. Given that employees serve as the primary line of defence in cybersecurity, strengthening their ability to detect and respond to phishing attempts becomes crucial, especially since emails and attachments can sometimes bypass firewalls.
Phishing through other attack vectors
Phishing attempts can take various forms, encompassing phone calls, text messages, malicious code and counterfeit applications. Scammers target employees across the spectrum, from small businesses to large corporations. Furthermore, virtually anyone with an internet connection and an email account can fall victim to these scams, considering their widespread accessibility.
1) Malvertising – Malvertising refers to a type of malicious advertising that leverages legitimate ads on websites and apps to distribute harmful code. This attack vector involves embedding malicious code within seemingly harmless advertisements. When users interact with these ads, their browsers become vulnerable to malware or ransomware infections.
Cybercriminals favour malvertising because it enables them to target large audiences simultaneously. There are various methods employed to deliver these malicious ads, including:
Injecting malicious code into websites that display ads through third-party services like Google AdSense.
Concealing harmful scripts within banner images.
Utilising exploit kits (EKs) to distribute malware by disguising it as fake Flash updates or Java applications.
2) Open-source coding – Open-source coding is a valuable resource that fosters collaborative software development. By encouraging the discovery of vulnerabilities in programs, open-source code helps create a safer digital environment.
As it is accessible to anyone, there is a possibility for malicious actors to exploit this openness. They may take advantage of the opportunity to introduce backdoors into systems or target vulnerabilities in widely used programs.
3) Fake apps – In today’s digital landscape, the use of apps on smartphones and computers is ubiquitous. While the majority of apps available are trustworthy, it’s important to remain vigilant as some are designed by cybercriminals. These malicious apps may appear genuine on the surface but once installed, they can compromise the security of your data. For instance, a recent study unveiled vulnerabilities in a popular cryptocurrency wallet app.
Fortunately, prominent app stores like Apple, Android and Google actively monitor and remove fake apps to safeguard users. When downloading apps, it’s advisable to rely on reputable app stores rather than random websites. Additionally, take the time to read user reviews and carefully review any attached policies associated with the app. This prudent approach can help ensure the safety and reliability of the apps you choose to install.
4) Phone calls and text messages – A malicious individual will adopt a false identity of someone in a position of authority, such as a department head within your organisation or a representative from a government agency. They may contact you via phone call or text message, urgently requesting a payment, electronic funds transfer or the completion of a critical task.
Given the perceived authority of the person contacting you, individuals are often inclined to comply with the instructions to avoid potential repercussions or additional penalties. These types of phishing attacks are particularly audacious as they directly engage with the target, making them highly effective in their approach.
The appeal of simplicity to hackers
Hackers often prefer to take the path of least resistance, targeting the most common and straightforward methods of attack. If your software is up to date and properly patched, they will typically move on to more vulnerable targets.
It’s crucial to stay vigilant and monitor how your resources are being utilised and it’s important to recognise that phishing attacks extend beyond email. User awareness training plays a vital role in educating all employees, including IT managers, department heads and even CEOs, as nobody is immune to sophisticated social engineering tactics.
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https://waysto.digital/connect/phishing-attacks-are-not-limited-to-email/
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Bck/Zybot. C is a backdoor that allows hackers to gain remote access to the affected computer in order to carry out actions that compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed on the computer.
In the local network: it generates a large amount of network activity and consumes bandwidth.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it awaits remote-control orders received through IRC or FTP.
Bck/Zybot. C prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
Bck/Zybot. C uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
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Theme #3: Resilience and recovery. Digital infrastructure is now business-critical infrastructure, so cybersecurity cannot stop at “identify, protect, detect, and respond.”. A
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The Converging Market Thesis: Blackberry claims IOT and Cybersecurity will converge. Currently, Blackberry has two separate and distinct business units: Cyber security and IoT. There is currently no convergence, but now we have the first hints that maybe Blackberry has a strategy to integrate the two BUs. We've got two data points to suggest ...
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SANS Ouch! provides a monthly, free security awareness newsletter designed for the common computer user. Each issue focuses on a specific timely topic, and teaches the reader how to protect him/herself. You can even look at archived newsletters for free. Past newsletter topics are "I'm Hacked, Now What?,"Yes, You Actually Are a Target," and "What is Malware."
These are only four FREE resources that I know of, but I am certain there are more out there. What are some security awareness resources I missed?
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Because March, the North Dakota Division of Information Technological know-how estimates that the point out has expert about 237 million cybersecurity attacks each individual thirty day period, nevertheless numerous of the attacks are blocked and do not realize success.
The department’s computer techniques have noticed an maximize in assaults throughout COVID-19 pandemic because additional hackers are trying to find own facts for fraudulent uses, as is the circumstance for lots of point out governments nationwide, explained Kevin Ford, chief information protection officer for the North Dakota Office of Details Technology.
“People’s particular information ideal now is much more beneficial than it can be ever been,” Ford said, adding that a lot of hackers are seeking personalized information and facts to file fraudulent unemployment promises. “If you are on an unsafe network, you can just basically suppose you might be heading to get attacked.”
Ford stated there is no “apples-to-apples” comparison that displays how a great deal cybersecurity assaults on point out pc techniques have greater in the course of the pandemic, but with a blend of checking attempts the division is equipped to explain to that the state is going through much more assaults than in the earlier.
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Hackers have been far more active for the duration of the pandemic, Ford mentioned, due to the fact several people today are working from property and on a community that is ordinarily fewer risk-free than that in an workplace environment. Ford explained there have been some profitable cybersecurity assaults for the reason that some North Dakota condition personnel took their devices dwelling with them and plugged them into an unsecure network.
However Ford declined to remark on how a lot of cybersecurity attacks have been successful in acquiring personalized information or facts, he said the office responds to about 5,000 to 6,000 “protection functions,” or attacks, just about every month. He claimed quite a few of these attacks “have degraded the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and info on the network in significant approaches.”
When asked how North Dakotans can be certain that their info is safe and sound from outside the house assaults, Ford explained that “it is frequently said in the cybersecurity willpower that there are only two styles of corporations — all those that have been hacked, and those that never know they have been hacked.”
Ford explained he thinks men and women are usually worried about a person big cybersecurity attack impacting quite a few men and women at the time, but it is critical that people today do what they can to safeguard on their own from more compact assaults.
“We must get the rate down to both equally strengthen the capability of the authorities to serve its citizens and to make sure we attain our moral responsibility to protect North Dakotans,” Ford claimed.
From 2018 to 2019, tried cybersecurity attacks grew by around 300%, the Grand Forks Herald described before this yr.
In 2018, North Korea hacked a North Dakota college by means of a personal computer that was attached to the school’s HVAC system, Ford explained, citing details that was just lately declassified. From there, North Korea hackers have been able to compromise techniques in that university and other schools in the condition, as a lot of the schools work on the similar networks.
Ford stated the hackers were being mainly looking for private data about pupils and parents in armed service families, although he could not say no matter if the attacks to acquire entry to the information and facts was profitable.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hackers globally have focused the most vulnerable entities, like regional governments and hospitals, as they grapple with pandemic-related challenges, according to The Washington Write-up.
With the North Dakota Office of Information and facts Engineering responding to about 5,000 to 6,000 attacks each and every thirty day period, Ford explained the division is less than-resourced, even although the state has purchased systems to aid its reaction. A security analyst for the state will normally control about 8,000 computers, which is about five situations as quite a few as a usual analyst oversees on a network as massive as the point out government’s.
Under-resourcing is not exceptional to the state federal government, Ford claimed, as lots of college districts, counties and metropolitan areas are underfunded to sufficiently retain North Dakota’s “point out network ecosystem clean.”
Ford stressed the significance of having solid stability for a person’s particular community and computer units, and North Dakotans can learn cybersecurity strategies at defend.nd.gov, the place they can also use a resource to evaluate how harmless their at-home community is towards potential attacks.
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Depending upon whom you ask, Friday, June 1 is the best or worst thing to come to the Mac App Store since it opened its doors in 2011. As of now, new and significantly updated apps submitted to Apple’s Mac App Store must implement sandboxing.
As a quick review: Sandboxing refers to compartmentalizing what data and features a specific app is granted access to; apps each can metaphorically play exclusively in their own sandbox, accessing only that data which Apple has granted that app entitlements to see.
Originally, Apple told Mac App Store developers that their apps would need to implement sandboxing by November 2011. In November, that deadline was extended to March 2012; in February, Apple extended that deadline again until June 1. And as iCal will tell you, that day has come; we’ve finally entered the sandboxed era.
The plus side of sandboxing is that it means, in theory, that your apps will become safer and more trustworthy: Your Mac prevents them from accessing files they shouldn’t access. But that security comes with a price, at least in some cases. Some developers say that sandboxing will force them to remove features from their apps—or, in some cases, to pull them from the Mac App Store entirely. For example, the sandbox generally prohibits actions like simulating key presses (like a typing expander tool might perform) or accessing root-level privileges (like executing certain command line scripts).
Apple’s view
It’s easy to see why the sandboxing requirement makes sense from Apple’s perspective: For one thing, it’s worked great on the iOS App Store. From day one, apps for the iPhone (and later iPad) were sharply limited as to what features and data they could access on those devices, and the result has been an impressive track record for iOS security.
While there was that address book kerfuffle and an occasional WebKit security exploit that needed patching, those were the security exceptions that proved the need for tight sandboxing requirements. Clamping down on what data apps could access from the get-go ensured that iOS would remain far less vulnerable to security threats than Android.
Clamping down on the data that Mac App Store apps can access empowers Apple to assure its customers that the third-party software they install is safe and won’t compromise their Macs. And Apple certainly wants to reassure its users that Macs are supremely safe, especially after the disappointing blemish left by the Flashback Trojan horse. If Apple sees its alternative as waiting for the day a rogue Mac App Store title maliciously starts abusing user data, the sandboxing requirement seems like a no-brainer.
User and developer outlook
Apple hopes—and likely expects—that most Mac App Store customers won’t notice anything has changed as they start installing sandboxed apps from the store. For many niche or narrowly-focused apps that don’t need access to any extras (think games, todo list managers, and the like), that should indeed be the case; sandboxing those apps shouldn’t have any tangible impact on the user experience.
But in other cases, developers may be forced to sacrifice features large and small to comply with Apple’s security requirements. Flying Meat Software’s popular image editor Acorn, for example, offers a clever shortcut for power users: When saving an image, merely changing the filename’s extension automatically tells the app to adjust what format you’re saving the file in. The sandboxed Mac App Store version of the app won’t support that feature, Flying Meat’s Gus Mueller told Macworld, because—he believes—of under-the-hood changes related to how Save dialog boxes work within the sandbox. Mueller stressed that he’s not certain precisely why the feature doesn’t work in the sandboxed version of Acorn, but he’s been devoting his time to figuring out other, more pressing sandboxing issues, like getting the app’s AppleScripts to work.
On the plus side, while Mueller had feared last November that Apple’s sandboxing approach would break other Acorn features, like plug-in and screenshot support, “it looks like Apple built in some smarts that look for user intent with regards to” features like those.
Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software spoke to Macworld about his concerns regarding sandboxing Last November too, rattling off a long list of features in the company’s popular text editor BBEdit that he feared might not be allowed going forward: multi-file search and replace; text factory applications; multi-application automation using AppleScript or Automator; Open File by Name; disk browsers; live folder views in projects; SCM integration; bulk HTML tools operations (syntax check, site update); and lots of behind-the-scenes stuff such as scanning directories for ctags data. Back then, Siegel said he literally wasn’t sure which features BBEdit would be able to continue to support once sandboxed. And now that sandboxing is here, Siegel still isn’t sure:
“The question really remains wide open,” he wrote in an email to Macworld. “With a technology like sandboxing, any feature changes are dictated by the underlying system; so we can’t really know whether a given feature or behavior is going to work until we test it in the sandboxed environment.” While Bare Bones knows that BBEdit features like its Unix command line tools and privilege escalation when saving over root-owned files will never work in the sandbox, “there’s a lot of testing to do” with other features in the software. And, of course, once Bare Bones identifies issues that don’t work, Siegel says, “we have to decide whether to neuter the feature entirely, or agitate with Apple for changes to the system to enable it to work.” He concludes: “In the end, though, only time will tell what the final sandboxed product looks like.”
Also back in November, Rob Griffiths—a former Macworld senior editor and now part of Many Tricks—expressed concern that several of the company’s apps (Moom, Witch, and Time Sink) would simply need to get pulled from the Mac App Store entirely once the sandboxing deadline arrived. All three of those apps leverage something called the Accessibility APIs, which lets them simulate various user interactions to work their magic.
Griffiths confirmed to Macworld that indeed, Apple has offered no new entitlements for developers to use the Accessibility APIs in a sandboxed environment. That means Many Tricks can’t release any new features to those apps in the Mac App Store, only bug fixes. For major new releases, Many Tricks will return to relying upon direct sales from its website instead.
For some developers, making their apps conform with the Mac App Store’s sandboxing requirements would simply hamper their software too much. The developers of the popular keyboard launcher Alfred posted on their blog Friday that “Apple’s new Gatekeeper paves the way for us to keep Alfred as productive as possible without having to work within the limitations of a sandbox.” The company adds further: “You’ll continue to find the free version of Alfred in the MAS, as Apple allows existing apps to remain in the store and receive bug fixes. However, if you’re looking for the big juicy new features, your best bet is to download Alfred from our website.”
Looking ahead
Some fear that our brave new sandboxed Mac App Store world might erode the Mac’s identity. It will certainly, in both the short and long terms, make life harder for developers as they continue to improve upon their apps, while simultaneously explaining to novice users why certain features go missing.
Surely, the sandboxing rule isn’t one Apple set lightly or uninformed. That the company postponed the compliance deadline multiple times suggests that it remains aware of the concerns developers have, and that the company’s goal isn’t to leave customers worse off.
For now, then, most users will need to take a wait and see approach. If certain Mac App Store software you own gets updated with features you rely upon removed, talk to the developer—and ideally talk to Apple too. Remember that the iPhone launched with no App Store at all, but user and developer interest spawned Apple to make what turned out to be one of its best business decisions ever in opening the platform up to third parties. If sandboxing truly hampers the Mac experience for the average Mac user, Apple will adjust how it works.
In the meantime, though, developers do have an out—of sorts. Falling back to direct website sales means forfeiting the exposure that the Mac App Store offers. But Mac developers made that work for decades before the Mac App Store existed, and odds are good that they can make it work again.
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116 credentials = subject.getPrivateCredentials(SRPParameters.class); 117 iter = credentials.iterator();
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Unfortunately, it’s become easier and cheaper than ever before to defeat access control systems that aren’t secured by edge-to-edge encryption.
The industry has long been aware of these risks, but until recently, it was complicated and expensive for people to duplicate access control cards.
Not anymore. People are now defeating security systems with tools they find online.
Historically, the contactless RFID proximity cards common in most access control systems have used 125 kHz unencrypted communication. When unencrypted, these cards can be easily duplicated and used to access facilities and assets that were thought to be protected by physical security systems.
Now, key duplication kiosks at most home improvement stores have RFID proximity card cloning capabilities. You simply tap your unencrypted card, the machine will read it, then it spits out a duplicate of that card.
What’s more, older access control readers that use the Wiegand communication protocol can be compromised through processes like what criminals use to skim bank cards at ATMs.
We’ve seen some industries, such as the banking and finance sector, take a closer look at the security of these devices – requiring encryption not only on the cards, but encryption from the access control reader to the panel, panel to the server and server to the database.
However, for the most part, the majority of businesses – from SMBs to large enterprises – either aren’t aware or aren’t concerned with the risks they face.
That’s where security integrators come in. Integrators and other security providers play a major role in educating consumers on these risks and helping them take steps to protect against potential threats.
It took several high-profile data breaches to get businesses to pay attention to cybersecurity. We don’t want to see the same indifference toward physical access control – indifference that requires a high-profile security breach to occur for people to take notice.
There continues to be a heavy focus on cybersecurity – and rightly so – but businesses must be just as vigilant about their physical security. Breaching access control systems that secure data centers, servers and other infrastructure that’s critical to maintaining business data and finances could be just as bad as a cybersecurity breach.
This is why businesses must upgrade their access control technology and use encrypted credentials that can’t be copied. Edge-to-edge encryption is already available on most access control systems and, even better, it doesn’t cost significantly more when specified on a new installation.
Businesses just have to know to ask for it or have an integrator that educates them on the need for this newer encrypted technology.
Although defeating access control systems may be easier and cheaper than ever before, the solution to protect against these threats is just as simple.
Businesses can’t afford to wait until it’s too late; it’s time to take notice and take action. Talk to your security provider about protecting your business with encrypted access control technology today.
For more insights on the security challenges, opportunities and trends in the coming year, download STANLEY Security’s 2020 Industry Trends Report.
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One of the things that plagued Band v1 was a truly poor Bluetooth connection experience with the smartphone. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes, the connection would go off in left field for absolutely no apparent reason at all. And, of course, if your Band v1 was suffering from the corroded connector problem (mentioned HERE), trying to manually sync fitness activity was sometimes completely useless.
If you’re a v1 owner, you’ve no doubt experienced the “cannot find the Microsoft Band” message. Some suggested they were successful just turning Bluetooth off and back on, but that never worked for me. When it entered this state, I could fix it only by rebooting the smartphone completely. And, believe me, it became exceedingly frustrating when this would happen after a flight since the Band’s clock is tied to the smartphone and it needed to sync to update with the local time zone.
Band v2 has a persistent and stronger Bluetooth connection than v1. I’ve yet to have an instance where I’ve found Band v2 not connected to my Lumia 735. Additionally, the connection is a strong one. When I wake in the morning, I grab my HP Spectre x360 and head downstairs to get caught up on the day, leaving my smartphone on its wireless charger beside my bed. We have a two story home with a basement. The basement is filled with exercise equipment, so on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, after catching up on overnight email (my boss likes to work extremely late), I’ll dip into the basement for a 45-minute weight workout. With my smartphone still sitting bedside two stories above, Band v2 still produces alerts as if the smartphone was sitting 5 feet away.
This is an unexpected benefit of moving to Band v2.
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First and foremost, establishing a team that will be involved in the process of the risk assessment is necessary. There are a few key people that must be involved.
CIO – The CIO runs the risk assessment team and outlines the key areas which much be covered.
Analyst(s) – The team includes several analysts that collect all of the results and actually write the report. They are in charge of uncovering key findings.
Developers or IT Staff – These personnel run through the code, logs and history and systems based on the request of the CIO. They create the output for the analysts to comb through.
Compliance or Legal – The legal and compliance staff ensure that the risk assessment accords with all laws and regulations. Additionally, they make sure that the firm is safe from any other legal liability that could come from a civil lawsuit.
CEO – The CEO or President must evaluate the assessment when it is complete and inform of any other areas that may have been overlooked. They also must commit to dedicating the time and resources required to implement the recommendations of the assessment.
Process
Once the team is assembled, the risk assessment can begin. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is accountable for outlining the key areas of the assessment that are particular to the firm. Traditionally, there are a few areas that all companies must deal with.
Firstly, companies need a robust anti-spam and anti-virus tool installed on every device. The company needs to understand what solutions have been installed and on how many devices. They also need to know if any devices have been corrupted or documents stolen.
Secondly, the company needs an encrypted network with different levels of access. Different personnel in the organization must enter different passwords (that are regularly changed) and verify their authenticity through multiple devices.
Thirdly, the firm must create a redundant external system to save all data so it is not subject to a catastrophic loss. Cloud security systems must be in place as well.
There are a number of other miscellaneous security concerns based on the physical location, network and corporate structure which also must be considered.
After the CIO prepares the list of possible risks, they instruct their staff to undergo a thorough check of all systems. The IT staff and developers are responsible for looking up all the information and gathering it together in an organized way.
Once the information is aggregated, analysts can look through the data to find the true state of the company. They will then begin to write the actual risk assessment report based on their findings. Next, the legal or compliance team reads the analyst report. They contribute edits and add additional risks from a compliance stand point.
The draft risk assessment is now complete and ready to go to the CIO. The CIO takes a deep dive and adds their own risks or contributions.
Finally, the CEO reads the report and implements any recommendations. They may need board approval for any major expenditures. However, the CEO is legally responsible for implementing all tasks that will prevent a major breach or loss of private data.
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Advanced Micro Devices took a step closer to the introduction of its upcoming Cartwheel and Puma chip packages with the introduction of its 780 series chipset at the Cebit exhibition in Hanover, Germany.
Designed to operate with the Phenom 9000 quad-core processors and Athlon 64 X2, the 780G chipset is notable for the integration of an ATI Radeon graphics core that supports Direct X 10 and high-definition video. The chipset's graphics core can also work in tandem with an external ATI-based graphics card to boost overall 3-D graphics performance, a feature that AMD calls ATI Hybrid Graphics.
AMD also touted the 780's energy efficiency, saying the chipset -- which is manufactured using a 55-nanometer process -- offers three times as much performance as its previous offering but consumes less power when idling.
The 780 chipsets are now shipping and motherboards based on the chipset are available from Asustek, Gigabyte, Micro-Star International and Elitegroup Computer Systems, among others, AMD said. PCs based on the 780 will be available during the second quarter.
The 780 chipsets will also ship with AMD's upcoming Cartwheel desktop chip package and Puma, a chip package for notebooks. Cartwheel is built around AMD's upcoming Toliman and Kuma desktop processors, while Puma is based on the upcoming Griffin mobile processor.
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Despite the ongoing rise in social engineering attacks, the idea that cybersecurity is only about technology manifests within most of our minds. Organizations often neglect human behavior's impact on their cybersecurity postures. Instead, they spend lavishly on endpoint security tools, threat hunting programs, and building incident response plans.
Admittedly, these security measures are a crucial part of mitigating attacks. However, it is critical to remember the role of your employees in maintaining a robust cybersecurity posture, specifically as cybercriminals have been increasingly targeting and exploiting human behavior.
How employee behavior impacts cybersecurity
A study by IBM highlights that human error is the leading cause of 95% of cybersecurity breaches. Although human errors are by definition unintentional, generally caused by a significant lack of awareness, they can often result in adverse circumstances. In other words, an unsuspecting employee who accidentally falls victim to a phishing attack can expose their organization to significant data breaches, causing major operational, reputational, and financial damage.
One such example is the Sequoia Capital attack, which was successful because an employee fell victim to a phishing attack. The company, known for being Silicon Valley's oldest notable venture fund, was hacked in February 2021. The attack exposed some of its investors' personal and financial information to third parties, resulting in significant damage to the company.
Such attacks demonstrate the consequences of inadequate phishing awareness training that every organization must provide to its employees. In this sense, simulated micro-learning can be highly effective at teaching teams to recognize potentially malicious messages. A recent report by Hoxhunt found that after some 50 simulations, people’s “failure rates” plummeted from 14% to 4%. By being exposed to simulated phishing attacks over time, they became far more skilled at recognizing them.
Beyond educational solutions, ensuring that your employees practice proper password hygiene is likewise critical. Although passwords have played a remarkable role in ensuring cyber security, relying only on a single password makes your organization vulnerable since it can be stolen or compromised.
Your users might be ignorant of password security and keep generic passwords such as "12345" susceptible to brute force attacks and hack attacks. These practices are standard within an organization that doesn't deploy the use of secure password managers and has strict password security guidelines for employees to follow.
How can your employees help maintain cybersecurity?
The significant rise in social engineering attacks and the ongoing occurrence of data breaches due to human error have reinforced the idea that humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity. A workforce that can be distracted or tricked is indeed a liability. However, this narrative is hardly set in stone.
With the below strategies in place, it’s possible to maximize team vigilance and circumvent much of the risk associated with human error.
Integrate the principle of least privilege access
The principle of least privileged access has become a crucial aspect of effective cybersecurity. According to this information security philosophy, every user, application, or process should only have a limited amount of permission necessary to complete a particular task. In other words, it stresses the importance of maintaining a hierarchy within an organization so that every employee only has access to the kinds of sensitive information that they need to do their work.
This method significantly helps strengthen an organization's cybersecurity posture. It eliminates human error and minimizes the attack surface in case of a hack attempt. Any account that a hacker breaks into will only have limited information.
Help employees deploy proper password security
Maintaining password security is a crucial step every organization needs to strengthen its cybersecurity posture. Since most employees are lax when it comes to maintaining password security, it falls upon organizational leaders and policies to ensure people adhere to best practices.
The most crucial step is that organizations need to start using multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods. As the name implies, this technique often involves using a code that is generated upon request and is received on a personal device or email. This method is secure and reliable, as the only way a threat actor can access the account is by acquiring personal devices or emails. Apart from that, organizations can also use managed single sign-on (SSO) services and secure password management platforms that help keep complex passwords with additional layers of security.
Educate and spread awareness regarding phishing attacks
Phishing attacks are a menace and are not going away anytime soon. Since these attacks work on exploiting human behavior and psychology, many of these attacks are successful. It's their success rate that is causing phishing attacks to rise significantly. In the last year alone, 83% of organizations claim to have experienced a phishing attack.
Amidst this, organizations must deploy adequate training and awareness regarding phishing attacks. An organization can either do this through seminars or exercise classes or utilize gamified applications and software that help improve training.
Strictly monitor employee behavior
Not every human-enabled attack is caused by an unsuspecting employee. Insider threats are also a common occurrence that every organization needs to remain vigilant of.
It is, therefore, crucial for businesses to strictly monitor their employees’ behavior. It is essential to carefully study each employee and notice if they show any signs of malice against the organization. Moreover, organizations can also hire third-party vendors to conduct human reconnaissance practices that rely on studying individuals' online and normal daily activities to gain insight into their personalities. Such background checks can help management identify any wolf in sheep's clothing prowling in their midst.
Implement identity and access management
Identity and access management (IAM) is a set of techniques designed to ensure that only the right person or job role is allowed access to a particular tool, information, or resource. Implementing IAM enables the organization to manage employee apps without having to log in each time as an administrator. Moreover, it also helps manage a range of identities, including people, software, and even hardware.
Proper implementation of IAM not only helps enhance productivity but also improves security. It minimizes the chances of slip-ups such as lost passwords and makes access to sensitive information secure and easy.
Final words
To do their jobs well, employees need access to many types of information and resources. Because humans can be tricked in ways that tech can’t detect, they are also the easiest targets for threat actors.
Since employees play such a crucial role, analyzing and learning about their behavior can help the organization understand the weaknesses and cracks in its cybersecurity posture. This can help leaders to deploy adequate training and tools that enable cybersecurity.
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https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/how-analyzing-employee-behavior-can-improve-your-cybersecurity-posture
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Housed in a new attractive , durable housing, the mSeries are entirely water proof to IP65. The mSeries reader operates with all major controllers.
With the latest mifare technology including increased card to reader distance and security, this reader is packaged and priced very compeditively to offer a real and viable access control solution.
The mSeries are offered as a standalone reader solution for simple plug and play operation with your existing access control infrastructure, or as a neat hardware and software TCP/IP based controller package for small to medium sized sites with our UNI.access package.
Unicard have many reader, door controller and software packages available that are driven standalone or directly from our ID Card production solution.
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When is a Palm PDA not a true Palm? When it's a cell phone that only looks like a Palm--something you'll likely be seeing in the not-too-distant-future.
That's because PalmSource, the company that develops and licenses the Palm operating system, is diversifying. Instead of just focusing on its traditional PDA and PDA-phone hybrid business, it's starting to branch out with offerings for more conventional mobile phones.
You can hardly blame the company. The PDA business isn't doing so great lately. Sales of classic PDAs (ones that aren't also phones) are plummeting: The research firm IDC says 2004 worldwide sales totaled 9.2 million, a 13 percent decline from the 10.6 million sold the previous year. Last year, two major companies, Sony and Toshiba, exited the PDA business outside of Japan--and Sony has since quit in its homeland as well.
Buying Into the Phone Business
To jump-start its entry into the mass-market mobile phone business, PalmSource decided to buy a company that was already producing software for phones. And it found one in China: Last month, PalmSource completed its acquisition of China MobileSoft. You've probably never heard of that company, but its MobileSoft Technology subsidiary (based in Nanjing, China) develops software that up to now has only been licensed by Chinese phone vendors.
That's a plus from PalmSource's point of view, since it gets instant entrée to the burgeoning Chinese cell phone market. It also reaps a benefit in the North American phone market by providing PalmSource with an operating system for low-end handsets.
Basically, PalmSource just needs to tweak a few elements and slap on a new user interface--one that echoes the look and feel of existing Palm OSes--onto MobileSoft's phone software, and voilá, PalmSource has software to license for the millions of inexpensive cell phones out there. The new phones will have an address book that's data-compatible with the ones in today's Palms, but they won't run traditional Palm apps. Phones based on this operating system will be called PalmSource Feature Phones, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the devices start appearing in the next few months.
Going forward, PalmSource will introduce a second phone OS called MFone for smartphones. Like the Feature Phone OS, it will be based largely on software that China MobileSoft has already developed, but this more upscale phone OS will be Linux-based. PalmSource needs to do this: The existing Palm OS has come a long way, but it has limitations for serious communications devices. Devices based on PalmSource MFone will probably compete head-to-head with Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphones.
A bit farther out, however, more far-reaching changes are in store as Palm transitions to a Linux-based operating system for PDAs.
Palm-Linux Marriage
PalmSource officials say that future releases of the company's top-of-the-line Cobalt variant of the Palm OS will be based on Linux. That doesn't mean the next generation of Palm PDAs will be moving to a command-line interface: PalmSource isn't going to fix something that isn't broken, and people know and like the Palm interface.
Also, PalmSource doesn't intend to completely abandon the huge library of applications that have contributed to the OS's success: Unlike the Feature Phone and MFone OSes, which won't run traditional Palm apps, the Linux-based Cobalt OS will be able to run most legacy apps in an emulation mode. The ones that might run into problems are apps that aren't properly written--likely the same ones that had trouble migrating from Palm OS 4 to Palm OS 5.
PalmSource's new directions may alarm longtime fans who don't want the OS to change. But they sounds to me like a smart response to the new realities of the handheld business: On one hand, PalmSource expands into new and huge markets (the inexpensive cell phones that run PalmSource Feature Phone); on the other, for the more expensive and phones and PDAs that require versatile connectivity, sophisticated graphics, and general computing firepower, Linux is simply a sturdier foundation. Palm's most important, and possibly most difficult, task will be to educate its customers on the difference between a device that just looks like a Palm and one that actually runs Palm apps.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/119914/article.html
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Norton Labs revealed the highest cybersecurity tendencies from January to March 2021. Phishing campaigns remained the primary risk to shopper cyber security, with high scams referring to the pandemic, together with vaccine-oriented, monetary reduction, and tech assist scams.
“Our famend Norton Labs group is on the forefront of figuring out and analyzing the newest tendencies in cybercrime, and it’s clear via their evaluation that cybercriminals proceed to seek out new methods to capitalize off of the pandemic,” says Darren Shou, head of expertise, NortonLifeLock.
“Over the subsequent three months, we will anticipate scammers to faucet into the gradual shift to a post-COVID state as folks begin to return to work, journey and have interaction in social actions.”
Between January 2021 and March 2021, 49.6 million phishing makes an attempt, 46.3 million file-based malware, 686,000 mobile-malware information and 536,137 ransomware detections have been reported. Throughout this time, nearly all of scams have been designed to trick shoppers into sharing their private and monetary data in an try and steal their cash.
Cryptocurrency reputation driving spikes in illicit coinmining and ransomware
Coinmining has come roaring again with the worth of Bitcoin quadrupling over the previous yr. Cybercriminals are profiting from the worth pattern and more and more spreading coinminer malware that exploits shoppers’ pc assets (i.e., processor, graphics card, reminiscence and community bandwidth) for illicit mining actions – victims may see a spike of their electrical payments because of this.
Equally, now that buyers have easy accessibility to cryptocurrencies via companies like Coinbase, Robinhood and PayPal, there was a parallel rise in ransomware campaigns requiring cost in cryptocurrency, with a 35% improve from late 2020 to early 2021.
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https://technonewshub.com/high-threats-to-shopper-cyber-security/
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The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has reported that companies with fewer than 100 employees lost an average of $155,000 annually as a result of fraud, identity theft and cybercrime. Here are some tips for protecting your small business from becoming a victim:
Protect bank accounts and credit cards. First, be sure that your personal banking and credit accounts are kept separate from business accounts. Be stingy with issuing company credit cards and pay bills online. Use a secure mailbox for sending and receiving mail. Check your bank accounts daily online for any suspicious activity.
Firewall protection. Be sure your business computers are fully protected with a firewall and have anti-virus, malware and spyware detection software installed on every computer. Have a robust back-up system for all your business data.
Dedicated banking computer. Use a dedicated computer for all online banking activities and make sure it is never used for web surfing or other online activities that could make it more vulnerable to a cyber attack.
Password policy. Invoke a password policy company-wide that is changed every 30-60 days.
Educate employees. Educating employees on threats and prevention methods is your best defense. Hold regular training sessions and be sure to educate new hires. Before hiring anyone, conduct a background check to ensure you are hiring the right people – but check with a Creative Business Lawyer™ to be sure your checks are in compliance with local laws.
Insurance. Get an insurance policy that protects you against any loss or liability suit that could arise from cybercrime.
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http://creativebusinesslawyer.com/protecting-your-small-business-from-cybercrime/
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This is a logo for a potential YouTube Channel that will teach basic cyber security concepts in an easy to understand way.
Globally, this logo is utterly dull and unappealing. That's probably the reason nobody commented on it. It's just way too plain and boring to look at.
Try to create more contrast to make it stand out. The symbol is interesting, although the shield looks a bit too illustrative and has been used in countless other cybersecurity logos. Keep the gas mask and change that terrible font.
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https://www.brandsoftheworld.com/critique/simple-cyber-defense
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See http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/04...ng-rivals.html from 2007, this http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/busines...t_18224047.htm from 2014, or this http://money.cnn.com/1998/05/18/tech...icrosoft_suit/ going back to 1998. Microsoft and almost all companies want to "discuss" issues and "find mutually agreeable" solutions.
OK, thanks. But those were all anti-monopoly cases about competition and pricing
This is the first time Microsoft has indicated an intention to discuss the privacy implications of Windows 10 and "work towards acceptable solutions".
It seemed obvious to me when I read of W10's move into heavy 'data slurping' [iirc Susan Bradley article(s)] that there would be blowback from Europe. MS will have to learn where the line is drawn, same as all the other big slurpers like Google and FB who have gone before.
With MS's serious move into mobile, they'll need all the data they can slurp to compete as an advertising platform. With Verizon's presumed merging of AOL and Yahoo next year, followed by similar moves by other carriers, the ad delivery space is going to get progressively crowded.
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http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/176713-An-interesting-take-on-WX-data-privacy
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Unknown cyber actors have targeted multiple US and international businesses with Maze ransomware since early 2019. Maze encrypts files on an infected computer’s file system and associated network file shares. Once the victim has been compromised, but prior to the encryption event, the actors exfiltrate data. After the encryption event, the actors demand a victimspecific ransom amount paid in Bitcoin (BTC) in order to obtain the decryption key. An international Maze campaign targeted the healthcare sector, while its deployment in the US has been more varied.
Link to full report: flash_maze_ransomware.pdf
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https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/maze-ransomware
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By using this site you agree that we may hold and use the personal information, which you supply to us concerning you (being information which constitutes ‘personal data’ under the Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR) (‘personal information’), which you supply to us concerning you in accordance with this privacy policy. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR), the data controller is Zoop Recruitment Limited.
Access to data is restricted on a per user basis using standard Microsoft security. Zoop Recruitment Limited servers are regularly patched with the latest recommended security updates for all server products to ensure the highest level of security.
All data on the network is protected with ESET anti-virus software that runs on servers and workstations, and is updated automatically with on-line downloads from the ESET website. This software will remove both known viruses and potential viruses and alert the Network Administrator of any outbreak.
Inbound and outbound e-mails are scanned automatically via Microsoft Office 365 and e-mails containing viruses are blocked before hitting Zoop’s network.
Remote access to Zoop’s network is provisioned through a Zoop company laptop which ensures remote workers are subject to the same levels of data security as office bound workers.
All user and server data is backed up remotely each night using a backup strategy that meets the business requirements for data recoverability.
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Sertifikati vendora čija je djelatnost security (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Symantec, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, Radware, F5…)
Sertifikati vendor neutral vezani za security (CISSP, CEH, CISM…)
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The good news is that more countries throughout Latin America are realizing the importance of data protection regulations and are looking to the EU, US and other areas for guidance on how to proceed. These data protection regulations come in many forms but generally seek to limit the amount of data that companies can collect from individuals, the way that they use this information, and how they store it. Opt-in consent is a common component of these proposed regulations.
Another change in regulations comes from shifting to a data breach model where authorities are also notified when the organizations let individuals know about data loss and compromised systems. A benefit to this approach is that agencies in charge of country-wide cybersecurity can track incidents as they occur and collaborate with similar agencies in other Latin American countries to determine attack patterns and share information.
Some Latin American countries provide too much power to government and law enforcement agencies when it comes to the control of Internet utilities and Internet services. In some cases, this situation can result in services getting denied based on the decisions of one person. One of the most well-known incidents involved a Brazilian judge who single-handedly suspended WhatsApp Brazil for the entire country due to the service’s parent company failing to provide data that related to a criminal investigation.
Apps such as WhatsApp are popular in Latin American countries because they offer a way for people to communicate without paying for expensive mobile costs. This software also improves user privacy due to its end to end encryption.
Latin America is a mixed bag of cybersecurity and privacy. Some countries are incredibly progressive and moving towards the EU model of data protection and privacy, while others want to have substantial control over the way their citizens use the Internet and other technology. For people wanting to do business in these countries or who are traveling through them, be aware of the laws and regulations that govern usage to avoid situations that compromise safety or security.
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https://thecostaricanews.com/privacy-and-cyber-security-concerns-in-latin-america/
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The global economic crisis is having an impact on IT departments around the world. However, much like their overall national economies, Australian CIOs are feeling less pain than their counterparts in the United States.
The CIO Executive Council survey The New Economics of IT was conducted in the US in January and in Australia in February and March. While many similarities can be found in both groups, US IT executives are dealing with deeper and more profound cutbacks than their Aussie peers.
See related slideshow: The New Economics of IT, Part IV | It's Bleak Street for Hardest Hit IT Departments in The New Economics of IT, Part III
More than half of the US respondents said that their overall IT budget was being slashed in response to unfavourable economic conditions. In Australia, the number was 35%.
Slightly more than two out of five CIOs in both countries are planning to reduce their spending on hardware and applications. However, a significant difference emerges when spending on outsourced services is examined, as 48% of the US CIOs intend to cut back, whereas only 28% of the Australians plan to do so.
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Staff costs, however, are getting particularly sharp attention in America. There 35% of the CIOs expect IT compensation costs to be reduced, compared to a more modest 20% in Australia. This is undoubtedly a result of the fact that 39% of the Americans say they have already reduced IT staff either by layoff or through attrition in the past quarter, and a further 21% anticipate doing so in this quarter.
Hiring freezes are the norm in both countries, with 81% of the Americans having already frozen hiring or planning to do so in the next six months. In Australia, 68% of the CIOs are not hiring.
A somewhat higher percentage of Australians are reducing their spending on contractors and consultants than are their American peers. More than three out of four Aussie CIOs say they are cutting back in this category, compared to 69% in the US.
Both groups are fairly close in their approach to cutting back spending on new projects with 77% of the CIOs in both countries reporting they are postponing discretionary projects. Half of the Americans say they will be decreasing their spend on new projects as a percentage of the overall budget, compared to 43% of the Australians.
“There is no doubt that Australian CIOs are feeling the impact of the global economic downturn,” said Linda Kennedy, general manager of the Australian CIO Executive Council. “However, Aussie CIOs have a proud tradition of working hard to maximise the return they get on their dollar. In this challenging time, we expect them to show leadership and clever invention as they continue to support their organisations with strong information solutions.”
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https://www.cio.com/article/3495496/the-new-economics-of-it-part-iv-aussie-it-battlers-doing-better-than-us-counterparts.html
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Chicago, Illinois, October 2021 – On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, Jeff Borello, co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Technology Solutions, was invited to share his knowledge with Anna Davlantes and the Chicagoland area on WGN radio with a Tech Tuesday interview.
Tech Tuesday is a weekly series on WGN dedicated to sharing tech information and cybersecurity education.
Anna started off the show talking to Cybersecurity Non-Profit President Abdel Sy Fane discussing the metaverse and then took a security quiz with Jeff. Jeff had a 6-question assessment that would tell how secure your data is. He explained that security threats are always present and how important it is to protect yourself and your business. Anna turned out to be very secure after taking the assessment, but Jeff did point out a few areas where she should improve.
Jeff also explained that the average person has 100 passwords to remember. Of course, this is far too many for any one person to accurately remember if they are all unique, which is also very important. He recommended using a password manager to safely store all of these passwords. Adding multi-factor authentication to your accounts that store sensitive information is also very important.
Jeff Borello co-founded Andromeda Technology Solutions with Bill Utz and Pat McDonald in 1994. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company, but more specifically takes the lead on two of the most important things in the company: Client Satisfaction and Company Culture.
Andromeda Technology Solutions provides technology support for businesses with Managed IT Services, Building Security Solutions (Security Cameras, Access Control, Burglar Systems), Telephone Solutions, and Web Design. Servicing Greater Chicagoland, Northwest Indiana, and Greater Milwaukee in Wisconsin. Established in 1994, Andromeda strives to achieve their core purpose and mission, “Our passion is serving others so that they can succeed and achieve their passion.”
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https://www.andromeda-tech-solutions.com/news/is-your-online-data-safe-security-assessment
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Identity theft can be difficult to nail down. It can spark from the breach of a debit card or the misuse of a consumer's Social Security number.
In an exclusive interview, Anne Wallace, president of the Identity Theft Assistance Center [ITAC], says consumers' increasing use of emerging technology, such as mobile banking and social networking, is only compounding the risk. "The crooks are ever-creative," Wallace says. "They're always exploiting new schemes to extract information from consumers."
Pointing to mobile banking and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Wallace says ITAC members have an obligation to educate consumers about the security threats posed by emerging technology. "It's so important to keep talking to people about the old threats, the new threats -- on a recurring basis," she adds.
ITAC assists bank and credit union members with ID Theft Red Flags Rule compliance.
"Fighting identity fraud is not something financial institutions can do by themselves," Wallace says.
Wallace is a nationally recognized expert on privacy, financial services and payments law. She began her legal career with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, where she served as assistant director of the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs and implemented key consumer credit laws, including the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
ITAC was founded seven years ago as non-profit consumer-focused organization, with the goal of improving consumer education and protection. ITAC has 100 members, which also serve on the Financial Services Roundtable. About 35 of those members are financial institutions or financial-services providers that are directly offering services to consumers.
For more on protecting customers from identity theft, please listen to the entire interview with Anne Wallace.
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/id-theft-consumer-education-key-a-2834
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Shock and awe volume metrics do exactly what they say. For example: There are 23,456 unpatched vulnerabilities. But that number has no context or risk consideration by itself.
Says Brian Wrozek, CISO at Optiv: "Is this figure good or bad, normal or shocking, rising or falling? Are the vulnerabilities old or new? Are the vulnerabilities on high- or low-value assets? Are there many vulnerabilities on a few assets or a few vulnerabilities on many assets? Unfortunately, context is left out of a lot of the eye-popping security statistics we see."
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is here, but is your security program ready to handle it? For many reasons, such as network complexity, limited visibility, politics and other challenges that come along with emerging technologies in the enterprise, your organizations is likely underprepared.
To get up to speed, a good place to start is your application security program. Sure, the IoT is made up of traditional network systems and need to be managed in that regard. However, these systems are very application-centric. They’re designed to do something, so they tend to have larger software attack surfaces compared to traditional network hosts.
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http://dataprotectioncenter.com/mobile-security-2/integrating-the-iot-into-your-application-security-program/
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LI defense firms facing Dec. 31 cybersecurity deadline
Patricia Malone, executive director of Stony Brook University's Center for Corporate Education, says manufacturers can get help to comply with new cybersecurity requirements. Credit: Jeffrey Basinger
By Ken [email protected] December 10, 2017
The clock is ticking for Long Island defense contractors facing a year-end deadline to meet new federal cybersecurity standards.
Companies that fail to comply risk being cut out of the supply chain, Boeing Co. executive Camille Geiger told industry representatives last week at a conference at LIU Post.
“You must be prepared,” said Geiger, Boeing’s enterprise global diversity leader.
Prime contractors like Boeing will be barred from dealing with suppliers that don’t meet the standards, she said. “Be sure you have everything in place and are ready to go January 1,” she said at the conference, which was organized by Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).
Although Long Island’s heyday as a center of defense and aerospace manufacturing has passed, hundreds of such companies remain in the region. Suozzi said his 3rd Congressional District on the North Shore ranks No. 1 in the state, drawing $1.7 billion a year in defense contracts directly from the federal government. Hundreds of millions more come to Long Island through subcontracts with prime contractors.
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Robert Botticelli, chairman of ADDAPT, a trade group that advocates for LI aerospace and defense contractors, said the regulations “will be a financial strain” for some companies but can’t be avoided. “Virtually every aerospace and defense company on Long Island has to deal with it,” he said.
Some companies may be able to get help through the Center for Corporate Education at Stony Brook University, which can provide government funding. We “can offset the cost for some of these companies,” said Patricia Malone, executive director of the CCE. She has set a cybersecurity breakfast for manufacturers on Thursday that will also cover the requirements.
One of the companies grappling with the new regulations is CPI Aerostructures Inc., an Edgewood aerospace manufacturer with about 250 employees. Chief executive Douglas McCrosson said the company has spent about $150,000 to meet the new standards.
“It wasn’t inconsequential,” he said. “There was equipment we had to buy. There was more protective software we had to utilize. We had to change almost every aspect of how we access work on the internet. It was really extensive.”
The new security standards require the safeguarding of contractor information systems that process, store and transmit federal contract information.
As a Tier 1 supplier, CPI sells directly to prime contractors like Boeing and Northrop Gumman Corp. But the firm also has suppliers who themselves have suppliers. “There are three or four tiers in the supply chain,” McCrosson said, and every level has to be in compliance.
Among the practices CPI has adopted: Users are barred from accessing online data storage sites like Dropbox and iCloud; laptop hard drives are encrypted; and computers require two-factor authentication such as a password and a code transmitted to the user’s mobile phone. The company is also seeking to improve employee awareness by sending out fake emails like the ones used to trick users into revealing personal information.
Steven Kuperschmid, co-chair of the cybersecurity/data privacy group of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek in Uniondale, said lawyers can have a role in establishing cybersecurity policies. “I don’t think you can do cybersecurity effectively with just a technologist,” he said. “Determining regulatory compliance is a lawyer’s job.”
Despite the resources required, McCrosson said the standards are needed.
“Some regulations we feel are onerous,” he said, “but cybersecurity is a real threat, not only to the defense industrial base, but to the national interest . It’s scary out there.”
He said expert hackers are targeting defense contractors.
“These are not kids in their basements goofing around,” he said. “These are largely state actors trying to get designs. They figured out long ago that prime contractors have better defenses” and target companies farther down the supply chain.
“You’re only as strong as the weakest link,” he said.
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https://www.newsday.com/business/cybersecurity-defense-contractor-p05364
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In IT Organisations, it is critical that Cyber Security specialists can influence security issues across the IT delivery organisation, and to do this, the new Cyber Security Specialist must first gain the confidence and ‘buy in’ from ‘key stakeholders’ across the business. One of the main enabling factors here is the Consultant’s analysis of information that will support his/her discussion points in meetings and workshops.
There are various SaaS based Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) tools out there, but effective and well configured GRC Tools are a rare find, they often don’t align well with evolving operating models, they are poorly set up, they are only partially used, they only track key actions, or the provider’s pace of support fails to match the speed at which the organisation is transforming its governance model. Often, cyber security consultants will find more efficient ways of collecting, tracking and presenting their project information.
The Cyber Smart Associates InfoSec Professionals Toolkit contains a set of tools that have been designed and built by practising InfoSec Consultants who have worked at all levels in various organisations as Interim CISOs, Independent Consultants, Cyber Consultancy Practice Leaders, Cyber Consultants in cross functional in-house consulting teams, Government systems Accreditors, and Information Security Managers. All these roles demand a high level of intellectual rigour, with constant analysis of their projects, identifying and researching vulnerabilities, issues, and looking to identify priority improvement actions and value add – and this is where toolkit helps. If you are an InfoSec specialist who is constantly spinning plates, are providing regular updates, and always looking to improve your effectiveness then you will find The InfoSec Professionals Toolkit immensely useful.
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If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, come discover how to identify and measure cyber risk. Attend the second-annual Cyber Risk Technology Forum in DC on Tuesday, May 17th, hosted by Evolver.
RiskLens CEO, Nick Sanna, will be presenting and conducting a live product demo from 10:30 - 11:30 AM at a session titled, "Valuing the Invaluable - Identify, Measure & Value Cyber Risk in Financial Terms."
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https://www.risklens.com/blog/learn-how-to-identify-and-measure-cyber-risk-at-technology-forum-in-dc
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In April 2019, Genesee County (MI) was attacked by a ransomware virus that locked down their computers. “Restoring the system has been expensive -- an estimated $200,000, not including employee overtime costs”, says County Board Coordinator Josh Freeman. In response, the county decided to hire a new cybersecurity professional to monitor their systems.
Maersk, a Danish logistics company, was hit with malware in late June 2017. The virus blocked access to almost all their data, wiped out phone lines, and damaged their DHCP and Active Directory. Eventually, Maersk was able to reverse engineer the virus and use backups to restore some of their data. Head of Technology Adam Banks shared some thoughts about the situation, “Automated protection is worth its weight in gold. And Privileged Access Management (PAM) takes on increasing importance. With a more limited number of privileged accounts, it is reasonable to assume that a much lower number of machines would have been infected, something like 5,000 rather than the 55,000 seen at Maersk.”
In summary, it is more than likely your business will experience some form of cybercrime. Take the time to build a resilient cyber strategy by backing up your data, testing digital security, and consulting with IT professionals.
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https://www.iservworks.com/post/the-data-protection-battle-part-3-send-in-reinforcements
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More than 20 per cent of government departments around the world will appoint a chief digital officer as part of their digital strategies, according to new Gartner research.
The prediction report entitled Beyond the Government CIO: Chief Data or Digital Officers? also forecast that 10 per cent of government organisations will appoint a chief data officer in 2014.
Andrea DiMaio, managing vice president at Gartner Italy, said digital government strategies issued in several countries are creating demand for the roles.
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He said that the newly created roles are likely to coexist with more traditional ones, like CIO and CTO, in the short term.
“Government CIOs must establish good working relationships with chief data officers or chief digital officers to support the digital strategy, and identify areas where they can add value to a different role's responsibility,” DiMaio said in a statement.
“They should also push for a clear demarcation between their role and the roles of others with regard to information by defining clear principles about ownership, purpose and use.”
However, he warned that the overlapping roles and lack of a clear distinction about responsibilities on information management will lead to a rebalance.
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Gartner US research director Rick Howard said the most vulnerable role will be that of the chief data officer due to tension between the CIO’s internal focus and the external focus of the chief digital officer.
“The application of open data principles to data other than public data will give CIOs the ability to regain a key role on driving the data architecture well beyond the externally facing remit of a chief data officer,” he said.
“Government CIOs need to assess whether they can and are willing to take over some of the responsibilities of other roles and build a road map to do so. They should move, as soon as possible, the discussion on open data from how to best share data with the public to the broader role that open data can play when applied to non-public enterprise data.”
According to Howard, the chief digital officer and CIO will become “information custodians” in the next five years. However, it will be up the government organisation to decide if they want both a chief digital officer and CIO.
The report predicts that by 2017, more than 60 per cent of government organisations with a CIO and a chief digital officer will eliminate one of the roles.
“Most likely, the chief digital officer role will be absorbed by, or become indistinguishable from, the CIO role. In a minority of organisations, the reverse might be true, mostly due to the negative connotation of the CIO as a role of the past. It is quite possible that the new integrated title will be chief digital information officer,” said Howard.
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https://www.cio.com/article/3520320/more-government-departments-set-to-appoint-chief-digital-officers-gartner.html
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Google has announced, to some fanfare, what it hopes will be a revolution in the way we pay for things: Google Wallet.
Google Wallet is a smartphone app (currently only available for the Nexus S 4G Android phone) that aims to replace your credit cards.
It works like this. You go to a store (let’s imagine it’s a coffee shop), the barista hands you your steaming skinny caramel macchiato and a toasted onion bagel with low fat cream cheese and bacon, and rather than give them your credit card or reach into your pocket for some coins, you..
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What is cyber security? It seems like a simple question, but it can be a truly difficult answer. In simple terms, it is the use of hardware, software, training, and practices to secure data, and block the infiltration of your information by outside entities. A simple question, with a not so simple answer.
When it comes to cyber security, the first step is to know when you need it. Cyber security is ALWAYS needed. Whether you go to the grocery store to buy veggies to go with your family’s dinner, or you are a multi-million-dollar organization, cyber security is always there. With every transaction your grocery store makes with the bank, your identity and information needs to be secure. The same goes for your practice. All EPHI needs to be secured for your patients, and yourself, to ensure no one can access it when they are not supposed to.
The next question on security, is how can you make sure you are secure? The first step is to find out where you have the biggest problem. This can be done with an annual Security Risk Assessment, or HIPAA Audit in extreme cases. Your yearly Security Risk Assessment can be completed by a security officer, or an outside entity, like MedCo Data. These risk assessments are recommended to be done at least twice a year, but required to be completed at least annually.
Once any issues have been identified, it is up to your IT department to recommend the proper steps to resolve them. Whether it is software, configurations, or policy implementation, most threats can be prevented.
There are many threats to security and data, but one sticks out more than others currently. Ransomware. Once, just a buzz word kicked around the IT room, now it is a real threat to businesses and individuals worldwide. Ransomware is designed to completely encrypt its victims file system, including all network shares. This makes all the data on every machine and server unusable until the ransom is paid and the files are decrypted.
The scary part: Ransomware is not slowing down. In 2017, it was found that the number of attacks was over 300% higher than the previous year, and the average ransomware attack cost its victim $2,500 per incident, with some victims falling prey multiple times. The highest “reported” incident cost one company over $50,000 in decryptions to one such attack. Even home computer users are not safe. Over 55 percent of people surveyed reported that they would pay the ransom to retrieve family photos, tax documents, an everything else they save to their home PCs, while business reported that a staggering 70% would pay to recover their data (Source: https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/51230.wss). According to Cybersecurity Ventures, ransomware damages reached $5 billion in 2017. (Source: https://cybersecurityventures.com/ransomware-damage-report-2017-5-billion/)
Many times, I have heard “I have a Mac or Linux computer. I am safe.” If only this were true. While it is true that Apple (Mac) and Linux computers are less likely to fall victim to these kinds of threats, this is in part due to the relative ease to obtain a Windows computer and software compatibilities with business applications. With the number of threats increasing, and the increase in Mac usage, it is causing these computers to become more attractive targets.
How can you protect yourself? All I can advise is to follow these simple rules.
Listen to your IT department. They have had experience in dealing with these kinds of threats, researched ways to avoid them, and have your best interests at heart.
Ask questions. If you are not sure if you are protected, write down your concerns and send them to your IT Professionals. They should be able to answer any questions you may have and set your fears at ease.
Stay protected. Don’t let your antivirus software lapse, scan often, and make sure your firewall is up to date. These companies are battling every day to prevent these attacks and are updating their software constantly with new virus definitions.
When in doubt, don’t click. The biggest obstacle with emails is the need to click the links. It may look like a legitimate offer, ad, or notice, but if you didn’t ask for it, be wary.
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https://www.procareit.com/cyber-security/network-security-the-hardest-easy-policy/
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In network systems, a trusted system is a computer system or network that has been designed, implemented, and tested to meet specific security requirements. Trusted systems are used to protect sensitive information, prevent unauthorized access, and ensure the integrity and availability of data and systems.
A trusted system is typically designed with a set of security features, such as access controls, authentication mechanisms, and encryption algorithms, that are carefully integrated to provide a comprehensive security solution. These security features are often implemented using hardware, software, or a combination of both, and are rigorously tested to ensure they meet the security requirements of the system.
Trusted systems are often used in government, military, financial, and other high-security environments where the protection of sensitive information is critical. They are also used in commercial settings where the protection of intellectual property, trade secrets, and other confidential information is important.
Overall, a trusted system is one that can be relied upon to provide a high level of security and protection against various types of cyber threats, including malware, hacking, and other forms of cyber attacks.
In today's digital age, the security of computer systems and networks is more important than ever. Cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the consequences of a security breach can be severe, ranging from financial losses to reputational damage and legal liabilities. To address these challenges, many organizations are turning to trusted systems as a way to protect their information and assets from unauthorized access and cyber attacks.
Trusted systems are designed with a set of security principles and practices that are used to build a system that can be trusted to operate securely. These principles include the following:
Least Privilege: Trusted systems are designed to provide users with the minimum level of access necessary to perform their tasks. This principle ensures that users cannot accidentally or intentionally access information or resources they are not authorized to use.
Defense in Depth: Trusted systems implement multiple layers of security controls to protect against threats. This principle involves using a combination of physical, technical, and administrative controls to create a comprehensive security solution.
Integrity: Trusted systems ensure that data and systems are not modified or altered in an unauthorized manner. This principle ensures that data remains accurate and trustworthy over time.
Confidentiality: Trusted systems protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. This principle ensures that sensitive data remains private and confidential.
Availability: Trusted systems ensure that systems and data are available to authorized users when needed. This principle ensures that critical information and systems are accessible and operational at all times.
To meet these objectives, trustworthy systems are often constructed with a set of security features such as access restrictions, encryption, auditing, intrusion detection and prevention, and incident response. These elements are implemented utilizing a combination of hardware and software technologies to produce a complete security solution that can guard against a wide range of cyber threats.
Trusted systems are frequently employed in government, military, financial, and other high-security situations where the safeguarding of sensitive information is vital. They are also utilized in commercial contexts where intellectual property, trade secrets, and other private information must be protected.
Trusted systems are built with a variety of technologies and techniques to ensure their security. These include:
Hardware-based security: Trusted systems often rely on specialized hardware, such as secure processors, to provide a secure environment for critical operations. These hardware-based solutions can provide a high level of security and are often used in environments where security is paramount.
Virtualization: Virtualization is a technique that is often used in trusted systems to create multiple virtual machines running on a single physical machine. Each virtual machine can be isolated from the others, providing an additional layer of security.
Multi-factor authentication: Trusted systems often use multi-factor authentication to verify the identity of users. This involves requiring users to provide more than one form of identification, such as a password and a smart card, before granting access.
Encryption: Trusted systems often use encryption to protect sensitive data. Encryption involves converting data into a coded format that can only be decoded using a specific key.
Auditing: Trusted systems often use auditing to track and monitor system activity. Auditing can help detect and prevent security breaches by identifying unusual or suspicious behavior.
Finally, trustworthy systems are an essential component of network security. They offer a high degree of security and protection against a variety of cyber risks, such as malware, hacking, and other sorts of cyber assaults. Trusted systems are built using a set of security principles and practices that allow them to be trusted to function safely. The concepts of least privilege, defense in depth, honesty, secrecy, and availability are among them.
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https://www.javatpoint.com/trusted-systems-in-network-security
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Move over credit cards, you aren't the hot item anymore. Hackers and the black market are flooded with credit card information and the banks and card brands are getting better at spotting fraudulent credit card transactions. Consistent with the hacker trend, they move on to bigger and better. And scarier.
This is evident in the latest report from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Their data breach, which includes a compromise of 21 million Social Security numbers of former and current government employees, just got much worse. Amazingly, although the breach was reported months ago, the government is just now coming forward with additional details on the compromise. OPM is now saying that 5.6 million people's fingerprints were stolen as part of the hacks.
Data breaches involving biometric data like fingerprints are particularly concerning. Unlike credit and debit cards, usernames and passwords, and sometimes even Social Security numbers, fingerprints cannot be changed. So those affected by this fingerprint breach may have to deal with identity theft issues for their entire life.
We are using our fingerprints more and more today to unlock our phones and security services. Passwords are being replaced by fingerprints. That's why it's concerning because the hackers could really leverage this biometric data and cause increasing harm to individuals.
Plus, "credit monitoring," which OPM and every other breached organization is so quick to offer as the remedy to make things "all better," is not going to help here. Not offering the appropriate remedy to affected individuals in a data breach is the hottest area and claim for class action lawyers today. Credit monitoring is not always appropriate and can come back to bite a breached organization. Unfortunately, no great remedy currently exists for fingerprint breaches.
It will also be interesting to watch how the state breach notice laws evolve in this area. Only a handful of states currently include "biometric data" (such as fingerprints) in the definition of Personally Identifiable Information. Count on this to change soon.
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https://mcdonaldhopkins.com/insights/blog/data-privacy-solutions/2015/09/24/fingerprints-compromised
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Performs system administration of specialized CND applications and systems to include installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, and back-up/restore.
Manage and administer the updating of rules, signatures, and custom content for specialized CND applications and systems.
Administer CND test beds and tests and evaluates new CND applications or tools, rules/signatures, access controls, and configurations of CND platforms.
Identify potential conflicts with implementation of any CND tools within the enterprise and develop recommendations to remediate these conflicts.
Create, maintain, and refine network traffic flow diagrams for the enterprise network which reflect the current state of all security applications.
Provide subject matter expertise in creation, editing, and management of signatures, rules and filters for specialized network defense systems including but not limited to network and host-based IDS, IPS, firewall, web application firewall, proxy and SIEM systems.
Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects.
Provide solutions to a variety of complex technical problems.
You’d be a great fit if…
You’ve obtained a BS degree and have 5-7 years of combined IT, Security and/or IdAM work experience, with a desired, but not required, broad exposure to infrastructure/network and multiplatform environments. (equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree).
You’ve deployed/managed Identity platforms.
You’ve deployed/managed Windows and Linux Server and hardening baselines.
You’ve deployed/managed solutions on cloud service providers, or customer on-prem such as VMware.
You’ve deployed/managed directory services, such as Oracle, OpenLDAP, Active Directory.
You’ve deployed/managed web server and application servers.
You’ve deployed/managed monitoring and alerting systems for enterprise services.
You are experienced with real backup and recovery strategies for both hosts and applications.
You’ve locked down Internet facing application servers and interfaces.
Thrive in a fast-paced environment and can effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
Are an effective communicator and are able to interact with various levels of senior management.
Make decisions and resolve problems effectively – Seek out information and data to evaluate, prioritize and formulate best solution or practice.
Are a multi-tasker, work independently and as part of a team, share workloads, and deal with sudden shifts in project priorities.
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https://careers.peraton.com/job-details/9775800/cyber-security-engineer-aurora-co/
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Pak Army As Regular Commissioned Officer Through Technical Cadet Course 2023 provides open vacancies to all interested candidates for these Jobs based on their education and performance. All those who are interested in this job can apply for this job till January 14, 2023.
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Candidates may also register themselves by either visiting nearest Pakistan Navy Recruitment and Selection Centre.
The last date for online registration is 14th January 2023.
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https://www.cybernews.online/2023/01/join-pak-army-as-regular-commissioned.html
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We are pleased that you are interested in data protection on our website. When you visit our website, we want you to feel comfortable and secure and regard our implementation of data protection as a customer-oriented quality feature.
The following privacy policy informs you about the type and scope of processing (including the collection and use) of your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is information that can be or can be assigned directly or indirectly to your person. The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO) in Hong Kong and the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in Singapore serve as the legal basis for data protection. By using our website, you consent to this Privacy Policy.
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The legal basis for processing the referrer URL is your consent.
Your consent includes the use of cookies and other technologies to process usage data on all (sub) domains under jobs.lidl/Singapore.
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• The IP addresses are regularly anonymized, so that conclusions about your person are generally excluded.
• We cannot draw any conclusions about your person from the user ID itself. We share the user ID and the associated usage profiles with third parties via the providers of advertising networks.
The legal basis for the use of comfort, statistics and marketing cookies is your explicit consent. By using this website you consent to the use of technically necessary cookies.
You can revoke / modify your consent at any time with effect for the future. Just click here and make your selection. By removing the corresponding tick, you can easily revoke your consent for the respective processing purposes.
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Where there are legal requirements for retention, we would not store personal data for longer than the statutory retention requirements call for.
We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offering, which are stored on YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data be transferred. We have no influence on this data transfer.
Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy. YouTube’s address and data protection information: Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; policies.google.com/privacy.
6.2 Google Maps
We use Google Maps on this website. This enables us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function to find job offers in your area. The Google Maps map service is hosted on google.com/maps and can be accessed directly from our website.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places indicated by us on the website.
When you visit our website, the provider of Google (Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; "Google") receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to process your IP address as part of Internet communication. This is usually processed on a Google server in the USA.
We have no influence on the specific data processing by Google Maps. For more information on the purpose and scope of data processing by Google Maps, please refer to the provider's data protection declaration. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy. Data protection information from the provider: policies.google.com/privacy.
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8.1 Contact person for questions or to exercise your data protection rights and other questions about data protection
If you have any questions about the website or to exercise your rights when processing your data (data protection rights), as well as further questions about the processing of your data, you can contact Lidl's company data protection officer (see section 9).
8.2 Right of appeal to the data protection supervisory authority
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible data protection supervisory authority at any time. You can contact the data protection supervisory authority of the country in which Lidl Hong Kong Limited or Lidl Singapore Pte. Limited is based.
9. Name and contact details of the person responsible for the processing as well as of the company data protection officer
Thank you for your interest in a career at Lidl.
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. The following privacy information explains what data we process when you visit our recruitment portal and during the recruitment process.
1. My personal data – what data is processed?
Application
You must register on the recruitment portal to apply for a job within the Lidl Group. You create a candidate profile when you register.
After you have created your profile, you can view and edit your data, apply for other jobs, withdraw specific applications, or delete your entire profile including all current applications. You can delete your profile at any time under "Options/settings".
As the operator of the recruitment portal, we, Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, Stiftsbergstraße 1, 74172 Neckarsulm, Germany, process the data that you provide as part of your application, including the data that may be contained in the attachments submitted by you (e.g., your résumé), on behalf of the Lidl companies advertising vacancies to which you are applying, and forward your data to those companies when you click on the button to send your application.
The Lidl company advertising the vacancy is the controller with respect to processing the data in your application.
Your application aside, we want to stay in contact with you and offer you additional services. For example, you can also register on the recruitment portal after visiting a careers fair or completing an internship or work experience placement, without having to apply for a specific job. We process the data that you provide to us upon registering (minimum of e-mail address, password, first name, last name, country/region of residence) and enter in the recruitment portal. By registering on our recruitment portal and selecting the corresponding visibility settings for your profile ("visible to all recruiters worldwide"), we will be able to consider you for other jobs that match your skills and qualifications. This also gives you the opportunity to be included in our talent relationship management activities (e.g., interesting work insights from Lidl).
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG is the controller responsible for processing your data as part of the candidate profile.
If you have applied for a specific job and want to be visible to all recruiters as well, you can change your profile settings at any time under "Search options and privacy policy" or alternatively select "visible to all recruiters worldwide" when creating your profile. Recruiters from all companies will then be able to view your profile data and recommend relevant jobs. If a match comes up, we will send you an e-mail inviting you to apply for the job. The decision whether to apply is yours.
By selecting "visible to all recruiters worldwide", you consent to your profile being visible to all recruiters and supervisors at all Lidl national and regional companies, as well as Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG and Lidl Digital International GmbH & Co. KG. This means that all responsible employees will have access to your application and/or your profile. If you select this option, your data will automatically be saved in our recruitment portal so that we can continue to consider you for subsequent jobs once a recruitment process ends.
2. Purposes and legal basis – why is my personal data processed?
Application
The Lidl companies advertising vacancies process your data as part of an application for the purpose of conducting the recruitment process, and to decide whether to enter into an employment relationship, on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, where applicable in conjunction with Article 88 GDPR, and the specific national regulations on protection of applicant data.
The Lidl company advertising vacancies uses data (excluding names and application documents submitted) from the recruitment processes (e.g., time taken to process applications) – without being able to identify you – to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the recruitment process and leverages the insights gained therefrom to further simplify and streamline the process. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in optimizing and simplifying the recruitment process.
If we transfer personal data to recipients outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the transfer will only take place if an adequate level of data protection has been confirmed for that third country by the European Commission, if an adequate level of data protection has been agreed with the data recipient (e.g., by means of EU standard contractual clauses) or if we have received your consent.
Recruitment portal/candidate profile
If you have registered a candidate profile in our recruitment portal (which you can also do without an active application), we process your data in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for the purpose of offering you the additional services of your choice on the basis of the user agreement accepted by you.
3. Retention of data – how long is my personal data stored for?
Inactive accounts will be deleted 12 months after your most recent log-in date.
If you have opted to be included in our talent relationship management, you will be sent a reminder e-mail before your account is deleted.
If you request deletion yourself, your account will be deleted within 24 hours in as far as this does not conflict with record-keeping requirements or our legitimate interests.
Please note that when the terms and conditions of use change, you will be requested to accept the amended user agreement the next time you log in. If you do not consent within 28 days, your profile and data will be deleted and thus will not be subject to further processing. If your application is rejected, your data will be erased within 24 hours and will not be subject to further processing, in as far as this does not conflict with record-keeping requirements or our legitimate interests. Existing applications will be treated as withdrawn and likewise deleted in line with these deadlines.
4. Am I required to provide the data?
You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. Without such data we will not be able to establish contact or conduct the recruitment process. However, the data will be required in the event an agreement is entered into if we hire you.
5. What rights do I have with respect to data processing?
• the existence of any automated decision-making processes including profiling pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and – at least in these cases –meaningful information regarding the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
If personal data is transferred to a third country or an international organization, you have the right to be notified about appropriate safeguards pursuant Article 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.
• the personal data was collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) GDPR.
Where we have made the personal data public and are obliged to erase it, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation we will take reasonable steps to inform any third parties processing your data of the fact that you have requested the erasure by such third parties of any links to, or copies or replications of, such personal data.
• the processing is carried out by automated means.
In exercising your right to data portability you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller where technically feasible.
5.7 Right to object pursuant to Article 21 GDPR
Provided the requirements of Article 21(1) GDPR are met, you may object to the data processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.
The aforementioned general right to object applies to all processing grounds set out in these data protection provisions, which are processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. In contrast to the specific right to object regarding data processing for promotional purposes (cf. above, in particular clause 3.5), we are only obliged to action such general right to object if you cite grounds of overriding importance, e.g. a possible risk to life or health.
6. Who can I contact with questions about my application, about exercising my rights or about data protection?
Application
If you have questions about your application or about exercising your rights with respect to the processing of your data during the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment department indicated in the confirmation of receipt.
If you have any further questions about the processing of your application data, please contact the competent data protection officer. You can find them in the overview of national companies to which you have applied (see the end of this document) or in the confirmation of receipt for your application.
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https://jobs.lidl/Singapore/content/Data-Protection-and-Privacy-Policy/?locale=en_GB
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As you may be aware, the law is changing with regard to Data Protection from 25th May 2018. All organisations which process Personal Data will have new obligations under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) from this date.
Although there is a change approaching, Fold Ireland’s commitment to protecting your Personal Data will never change. We will always respect how you want us to use your details.
To support us in managing your relationship with Fold Housing Association Ireland we need to store some of your basic information, and in some circumstances, Sensitive Personal Data. But we want you to know that we take privacy very seriously here at Fold Ireland. We always manage your data responsibly, and take great care to keep it safe and secure.
If you would like to know more you can contact Karen Murphy on 01-8228804 or email [email protected] in our head office.
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https://foldireland.ie/newsitem48/guidance-on-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr
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Unlock Your Career Potential: Global Security Organization at ADP. Do you have a passion for going on the offensive to safeguard critical information? As ADP's Global Security Organization (GSO), we know that our clients rely on us for human capital management solutions, but beyond that, they entrust us with one of their most valuable assets -- their employee data. We are honored by this trust and are laser focused on securing data at every step in the information lifecycle, ensuring integrity, confidentiality and compliance with industry and government regulations at all times. From the cloud to the data center and across every emerging device, you'll join a team of experts in the GSO who are always staying one step ahead in this ever-changing world of data by continually evolving our strategies and technologies to protect ADP and our clients.
As Senior Cybersecurity Engineer you will join a highly skilled team providing world-class security program engineering, security consultation and security technology implementation for ADP's Global Security Organization (GSO). This includes global deployment of technologies such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Unstructured Data Protection (UDP), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Intrusion Detection (IDS), Secure Access Service Edge(SASE) both on premises and across cloud providers.
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer will have a deep cross-functional understanding of both logical and physical security supported by practical application. They will be required to interact with the Converged Security Architecture Team, Project Management Team, and global IT Teams to develop and enhance the security program.
Working experience with one or more cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
Familiar with interpreting the log output of a wide selection of network and host device classes (HIDS, NIDS, Firewalls, Proxies, Routers, Switches, WAF's, Servers, Desktop Controls, Endpoint Protection, etc.)
Explore our COVID-19 page https://tech.adp.com/covid19/ to understand how ADP is approaching safety, travel, the hiring interview process, and more.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP affirms that inequality is detrimental to our associates, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. ADP is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.
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U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service |
Windows 8 and ultrabooks are expected to take center stage at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week, as industry giants Microsoft and Intel try to develop products that can compete better against Apple's iPad.
Microsoft, Intel and local PC vendors such as Acer and Asus all are expected to show off tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS, as well as thinner and lighter ultrabooks running Intel's latest processor, code-named Ivy Bridge, said Thomas Huang, the manager in charge of organizing Computex.
The Windows 8 products should be especially interesting to watch. This will be the first release of Windows developed for both x86 and ARM-based processors. ARM chips are used in most of the world's smartphones and tablets and could help Microsoft compete better against Google's Android software and Apple's iOS, which dominate those categories.
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Ultrabooks, meanwhile, are a type of thin and light laptop backed by Intel and introduced at Computex last year. They're seen as the PC industry's response to the iPad, which is eating into sales of more traditional personal computers.
Both Windows 8 and ultrabooks incorporate design elements intended to make them more mobile. Windows 8 has been optimized for touch and includes a new "Metro" interface that looks more like the current Windows Phone software than a traditional Microsoft desktop OS.
Computex officially opens its doors next Tuesday, but many of the big components and systems vendors are holding press conferences the day before the show. As well as being a launch pad for PCs and tablets it's also a place to see the latest in digital TVs, displays, gaming systems, in-car computers and many other types of electronics.
Consumer cloud services like Apple's iCloud may also be a theme this year. Acer announced an online storage service at last year's Computex, and other vendors seem likely to follow suit.
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But all eyes will be on Microsoft to see how the version of Windows for ARM devices, known as Windows RT, is progressing. A few ARM-based Windows tablets were shown at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, but for the most part they were behind glass.
Windows 8 faces an uphill battle in tablets, according to Bryan Ma, an analyst with research firm IDC.
Microsoft may enjoy some pull-through from business people who want a tablet that runs Windows, he said. But Windows 8 tablets are expected to be priced higher than the competition. "We estimate that Windows 8 tablets will be around US$600," Ma said. In comparison, Apple's newest iPad starts at $499, while Amazon's Kindle Fire Android tablet goes for $199.
A bigger problem is that Apple is so well-established in the tablet market. Microsoft has yet to announce an official release date for Windows 8, but Ma expects it to launch near the end of the year.
"Even after Windows 8 is launched, I think you're still going to have people think about the Apple iPad rather than Windows 8," Ma said. "How do you make Windows 8 'cool,' and how long will that take?"
Windows RT will run on processors from ARM licensees Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. However, Qualcomm has said it may struggle to meet the demand for its latest Snapdragon S4 processors due to manufacturing issues. At least one analyst has said that could delay the launch of Windows 8 devices based on the S4 chips.
While Windows 8 could face a long road in the tablet market, the OS could be a selling point for ultrabooks. The laptops are intended to be thinner and lighter than existing x86-based products, and the novelty of a touch interface could appeal to some users.
Ultrabooks have gotten off to a slow start because few models have been released, and because prices have been higher than consumers have been willing to pay, said Gartner analyst Tracy Tsai. They've sold for $800 to $1,000, and prices need to be at $500 to $700 to improve sales, she said.
Intel is aware of the challenges and has said ultrabooks will get down to $699 in time for the back-to-school shopping season.
Seventy-five ultrabook models are in development from various vendors, according to Intel.
PC vendors will show a variety of these systems at Computex, some that look like traditional laptops and others with folding, swivel screens that try to be both laptop and tablet, Tsai said. A touchscreen will add at least $100 to the price of an ultrabook, she noted.
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https://www.cio.com/article/2395601/windows-8--ultrabooks-to-get-top-billing-at-giant-trade-show.html
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“How is Old Republic different from other national insurance carriers?” It’s a question we hear a lot. We’ve always had our own thoughts on this – and now a leading global insurance broker has confirmed them. Out of fifteen major national insurance carriers included in a survey of the broker’s senior staff, the respondents ranked Old Republic among the top overall finishers in collateral transparency, accessibility and fairness. In fact, Old Republic was viewed as the best among its peer group in the following sub-categories:
The survey examined the brokers’ opinions on how major national insurance carriers compared on the topic of collateral. They specifically looked at their opinions on numerous topics within the general categories of transparency, fairness, and accessibility to decision makers in the process.
For organizations with loss sensitive casualty insurance programs, posting collateral can be a burdensome and expensive requirement that can often involve multiple departments within the insured. Thoroughly understanding the collateral requirements, believing they are being treated fairly, and having negotiated “the best deal” are all important for buyers of loss sensitive insurance programs. Of course, there are differences in what a buyer can experience when working through these issues with different insurance companies.
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http://www.orrm.com/casualty-insurance/news/old-republic-risk-management-ranked-among-the-best-in-collateral-experience
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Three more healthcare organizations have alerted patients that their information may have been affected from a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency, according to the HIPAA Journal.
West Hills (Calif.) Hospitals & Medical Center, Inform Diagnostics and CompuNet Clinical Laboratories were alerted in June that their patients' data had potentially been compromised. Patient information that may have been affected included names, addresses, account numbers, amounts owed and services dates. Additionally, some patients' banking information, Social Security numbers and credit/debit card numbers may have been affected.
Inform Diagnostic sent letters to 173,690 patients while CompuNet Clinical Laboratories notified around 111,000 patients, the HIPAA Journal reports. It is unclear how many patients from West Hills Hospitals & Medical Center were affected.
AMCA began telling customers about the data breach in May. The company said that between Aug. 1. 2018 and March 30 an unauthorized person had access to a web payment page.
More than 20 companies have been told they may have been affected by the breach. In total, at least 24,390,307 patients have been notified, reports the HIPAA Journal.
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/3-more-healthcare-organizations-notify-patients-of-amca-data-breach-bringing-total-affected-to-24-3-million.html
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