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The file named CDIRes.dll is developed by an unknown developer. The file comes from an unknown source but is generally considered to be safe as it is not associated with any malware or Trojan attacks in the past. The threat level of the program is at 3 because it doesn’t receive proper security patches from the original developer.
CDIRes.dll is located in c:\windows\system32. The total size of the program and the latest version available is unknown. The DLL program is a non-system process which is not associated with the Windows operating system. If found to be using memory resources or slowing down the PC, the file can be deleted without any consequences.
Go to the process tab and right-click on the COMCAT.DLL and open the file location
If the file is located outside C:\Windows\System32, then it is likely that the system is affected with COMCAT.DLL malware.
Step 4: Once the Installation is Finished, restart your PC.
Step 5: It will take some time for the Comodo Internet Security to update the antivirus.
Step 6: Proceed with a quick scan that automatically begins after the update.
Step 7: If threats are found during the scanning, you will be prompted with an alert screen.
Step 8: Comodo Antivirus will remove COMCAT.DLL malware from your computer including all other malwares!
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Advertisers'Do Not Track' Protests Fail Smell TestAn almost comic war of words continues between advertisers and Microsoft regarding do not track technology in Internet Explorer 10. Funny thing: The only tracking option advertisers want is opt-out. Have you heard the joke about the advertising trade body that offered consumers a choice about their online privacy? It goes like this: Technology firms and online advertisers come together to design a way for consumers to opt out of being tracked online, via a simple Do Not Track (DNT) preference setting in Web browsers. Then Microsoft says that it will ship its latest browser, Internet Explorer 10, with the DNT flag activated by default. In other words, seems to go Microsoft's reasoning, why not let consumers instead choose whether they'd like to opt in to being tracked? Only that's not the choice that advertisers had in mind. Cue the outrage, with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) launching a concerted advertising campaign to denigrate Microsoft's pro-consumer privacy moves. Unfortunately, the above is no joke, although the proceedings have taken on the appearance of a folly, with ANA president and CEO Bob Liodice warning in a statement that "Microsoft's decision undercuts the effectiveness of our brand owners' Internet advertising and undermines the industry's self-regulatory system." [ Is consumer privacy an oxymoron? See Cyber Spying Justice: Unserved. ]
Featuring hot-button marketing speak, the ANA's statement also channels advertisers' "profound disappointment" over the "shocking departure" Microsoft has taken from the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) program that crafted DNT, which has seen the browser maker "unilaterally impose choices on the consumer" that "would threaten the vast array of free or low cost online offerings that define the consumer online experience." Furthermore, Microsoft had the gall to do so "before consumers even have the opportunity to determine whether it is of value to them."
CVE-2011-4403Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Zen Cart 1.3.9h allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) delete a product via a delete_product_confirm action to product.php or (2) disable a product via a setflag action to categories.ph...
CVE-2012-2930Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in TinyWebGallery (TWG) before 1.8.8 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add a user via an adduser action to admin/index.php or (2) conduct static PHP code injection attacks in .htusers...
CVE-2012-2932Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in TinyWebGallery (TWG) before 1.8.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) selitems [] parameter in a copy, (2) chmod, or (3) arch action to admin/index.php or (4) searchitem parameter in a search action to admin/...
CVE-2012-5451Published: 2015-04-24Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in HttpUtils.dll in TVMOBiLi before 2.1.0.3974 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (tvMobiliService service crash) via a long string in a (1) GET or (2) HEAD request to TCP port 30888.
CVE-2015-0297Published: 2015-04-24Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3.1 does not properly restrict access to certain APIs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java methos via the (1) ServerInvokerServlet or (2) SchedulerService or (3) cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via the ContentManager.
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CGI has an immediate need for an Infosec / ATS Monitoring specialist to join our financial services team in Reston, VA. This is an exciting full-time opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the largest leaders in the secondary mortgage industry. We take an innovative approach to supporting our client, working side-by-side in an agile environment using emerging technologies.
This is the chance to further advance your career. Why?
It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this changesupporting our clients digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.
At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.
Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.
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While it’s our goal to distribute vulnerability-free versions of all components, this isn’t always possible. Kubernetes and KOTS are made from many components, each authored by different vendors.
The best way to stay ahead of vulnerabilities is to run the latest version and have a strategy to quickly update when a patch is available.
How We Scan
Our build pipeline uses Trivy to scan for and detect known, published vulnerabilities in our images. It’s possible that other security scanners will detect a different set of results. We commit to patching vulnerabilities according to the timeline below based on the results of our internal scans.
If you or your customer detects a different vulnerability using a different scanner, we encourage you to report it to us in a GitHub issue, Slack message, or emailing [email protected] Our team will evaluate the vulnerability and determine the best course of action.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) involves fabricating physical objects from a data file using computer-controlled processes with little to no human intervention. It includes Additive Manufacturing (AM), 3D printing, rapid prototyping, etcetera. The technology is advancing rapidly and has the potential to significantly change traditional manufacturing and supply chain industries, including for information and communication technologies (ICT).
On February 3, 2015, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Computer Security Division will host a one-day symposium to explore cybersecurity needed for DDM, to include ensuring the protection of intellectual property and the integrity of printers, elements being printed, and design data. Speakers from industry, academia, and government will discuss the state of the industry, cybersecurity risks and solutions, and implications for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain risk management.
The call for abstracts is now closed. Submitters will be contacted by December 19, 2014 and notified of their status. Final slides for presentations should be submitted in PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint format no later than 5pm Eastern time January 19, 2015.
All extended abstracts and slide sets must be unclassified and free of copyright protection and proprietary information. Extended abstracts and slide sets from presenters will be published in a NIST Interagency Report as proceedings. As such, the material will be considered in the public domain.
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Our Client to be secured and protected from increased cyber threats and compliant to industry standards.
This role covers information protection, including data loss protection and data classification, and threat protection, including security information and event management (SIEM), user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), point products like anti-virus (AV) and intrusion detection system/intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS) and penetration testing.
The Service Delivery team consists of approximately 20 staff who support and operate the Company's services and there is an opportunity in that team for a Cyber Security Manager to oversee and govern all security services.
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Consumerization Of IT: Security Is No ExcuseAt most companies, you can't just say "no" to consumer devices. Here's a plan to take the lead on information security issues.
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Sorry to break this to you, but if you're looking to use security as the reason to keep consumer technologies out of your company, you'll have quite an uphill battle. Not because the security risks aren't real (they are), and not because you can guarantee the data security on the devices (you can't). It's because, as with virtualization, the business benefits significantly outweigh the security risks. As I heard one CIO say recently: "Consumerization is a parade. You can either get out in front of it to stop it and get trampled, or you can grab the baton and lead the parade."
Consumer devices are taking hold quickly in enterprises in part because it's easy to access company data without having to get IT involved. Any employee with ActiveSync access to corporate email can get that email on their personal smartphone or tablet in less than a minute. The first challenge in securing personal smartphones and tablets is knowing when those devices are being added and removed from the company network, and knowing if they adhere to company policy. Bob the engineer could connect with to his corporate email with a BlackBerry today and a brand new Android phone tomorrow. The problem is your company's email server most likely can only push a security policy to BlackBerry or Windows Mobile devices. Without proper management, you don't even know that Bob is no longer adhering to company policy. Don't despair. Securing the unknown starts with a tried-and-true technique: default deny. Through the use of mobile device management tools such as MobileIron, you can prevent devices your IT team hasn't researched or approved from connecting to company resources. Heck, you can even make it so that any device needs your mobile application installed on it before it can receive a single corporate email. These mobile device management applications can prevent unwanted applications from being installed, can force removal of certain apps, and can even remotely wipe devices, even if your email platform doesn't support security policies on those devices. If a device is rooted or jail broken, you can prevent it from connecting to your infrastructure altogether. Oh, great, you're thinking: This guy thinks I'm going to default deny and then spend my life managing a whitelist of every single Android smartphone variation and every firmware variation. To read the rest of the article,Download the Apr. 4, 2011 issue of InformationWeek
CVE-2011-4403Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Zen Cart 1.3.9h allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) delete a product via a delete_product_confirm action to product.php or (2) disable a product via a setflag action to categories.ph...
CVE-2012-2930Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in TinyWebGallery (TWG) before 1.8.8 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add a user via an adduser action to admin/index.php or (2) conduct static PHP code injection attacks in .htusers...
CVE-2012-2932Published: 2015-04-24Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in TinyWebGallery (TWG) before 1.8.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) selitems [] parameter in a copy, (2) chmod, or (3) arch action to admin/index.php or (4) searchitem parameter in a search action to admin/...
CVE-2012-5451Published: 2015-04-24Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in HttpUtils.dll in TVMOBiLi before 2.1.0.3974 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (tvMobiliService service crash) via a long string in a (1) GET or (2) HEAD request to TCP port 30888.
CVE-2015-0297Published: 2015-04-24Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3.1 does not properly restrict access to certain APIs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java methos via the (1) ServerInvokerServlet or (2) SchedulerService or (3) cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via the ContentManager.
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Notorious North Korean APT lures victims into downloading malware with fake documents that are made to look like they belong to Airbus, General Motors, or Rheinmetall.
The Lazarus group is spreading malicious documents that are designed to trick job-seeking engineers into thinking they are sent by defense contractors.
Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have been tracking Lazarus activities for months. According to AT&T Alien Labs’ Fernando Martinez, an investigation revealed that the individuals behind the phishing scheme pretended to be representatives of major defense contractors such as Airbus and General Motors. The engineering targets were located in the US and Europe.
They detected the new campaign when Twitter users reported several malicious documents from May to June of this year.
The researchers identified three different documents which contained macros, Martinez wrote.
“The core techniques for the three malicious documents are the same, but the attackers attempted to reduce the potential detections and increase the faculties of the macros,” he wrote.
Due to the use of compromised third-party infrastructure for communications and Microsoft Office macros, the latest attacks are “in line with the Lazarus’ past campaigns,” Martinez wrote. “We continue to see Lazarus using the same tactic, techniques, and procedures that we have observed in the past.”
While the main techniques used in the three malicious documents are the same as before, the attackers made new efforts to evade detections and increase the capabilities of the macros. Also the new campaigns have different methods of carrying out malicious activities, researchers noted.
One of the new features is that the macros try to obscure their activities by renaming Certutil, a command-line program in Microsoft Docs.
The ultimate goal of the payloads is to perform arbitrary code injection into a running process by using the Mavinject.exe component.
However, researchers noted a progression in the process of injection, where explorer.exe was used to do “the dirty work:” “The macro executes the mentioned payload with an updated technique,” Martinez wrote. “The attackers are no longer using Mavinject, but directly executing the payload with explorer.exe, significantly modifying the resulting execution tree.”
Once the payload is executed, the macro will execute it and send its beacon to the C&C, which will try to wipe the temporary files to remove any evidence of malicious activities.
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Join Paul Graham, Certified Netskope Cloud Security Implementation & Integration Consultant at Somerford, for a dedicated Netskope Interoperability webinar, focussing on eliminating phishing risks within an organisation.
We explore Netskope’s Threat Protection features, and how it decodes and inspects traffic that other security solutions cannot, such as unmanaged cloud services, sync clients, mobile apps, and TLS-encrypted cloud services and websites, to identify and address threats.
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RiskIQ, a leader in internet security intelligence, has released its annual “Evil Internet Minute” security intelligence report. The report taps RiskIQ’s proprietary global intelligence and third-party research to analyse the volume of malicious activity on the internet.
With the security perimeter bleeding into the entire internet, the 2021 Evil Internet Minute aims to illuminate the top threats facing organisations today and put the year’s cybersecurity research into context by framing it on a micro-scale.
The report examines industries like eCommerce, which saw a record $861.1billion in sales yet faced $38,052 in losses to online payment fraud per minute. It also highlights the healthcare sector, which spent $13 per minute on digital security breaches. The report further revealed that cybercrime now costs organisations a whopping $1,797,945 per minute.
The motives of cybercriminals include monetary gain, large-scale reputational damage, political motivations, and espionage.
“Cybercrime is easier than ever to participate in. Better threat technology makes cybercriminals more effective and wealthier than ever before,” said RiskIQ CEO Lou Manousos. “We have compiled the vast numbers associated with cybercrime over the past year with help from our Internet Intelligence Graph and third-party sources to help businesses and researchers better understand what they’re up against.” 2020 saw unprecedented attacks leveraging vulnerabilities in SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange, massive-scale incidents that challenged our notions of cybersecurity and the inner workings of the global threat landscape.
To defend their organisations, security teams need actionable security intelligence that provides a bird’s eye view of the global attack surface and illuminates threats most relevant to their unique attack surface. Solutions must clearly show the nature of an organisation’s internet relationships and how they fit into the broader global attack surface.
“We are grateful to see an analyst join the RiskIQ Community every 17 minutes to leverage data that gives them a unique vantage point of their organisations and the threats they face. We know that more knowledge and community participation makes a big difference in stopping threat actors in their tracks,” Manousos added.
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Is Rhetoric bad? It can be if it does not spark the required actions. It can be if it’s not loud enough when it needs to be. If we were speaking louder or smarter would we not point out that "shutting the entire Internet domain down due to infringing material on a single web page" as proposed in SOPA is akin to treating a headache with a hammer?
As in anything reactive, it will not address the real issue and will cause more harm than good. Right intention, wrong action. We should also highlight security implications of the explosion of smart phone usage and its growing trend. We are rapidly heading toward a mobile Internet world. IDC forecasts mobile Internet users to grow by 16.6 percent annually and surpass PC and other wireline users by 2015.
Boston Consulting Group estimates value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016. But is this sustainable without an proactive and strategic security and privacy foundation? So what is the security foundation we can set in place? If there is one area that screams for a security grassroots effort and proactive action it is the creation of mobile applications that are secure and protect user privacy. We are aware of the issues such as: Traditional access control is simple, but permission-based access has become very challenging – applications request the user’s permission to access sensitive data explicitly. We are expecting users to be system administrators without adequate training, which is not feasible. More on that in a later posting.
Secure application distribution – verification, author identity etc.
Encryption of sensitive data stored on the devices and during transmission.
There are established guidelines and standards on secure development from groups such as OWASP, vendors and security professionals around these issues which can be used by businesses creating applications.
The question is how to achieve acceptance and adoption of these standards in the application DNA. What is required is a gatekeeper?
I cannot think of a better gatekeeper than the application stores – Android marketplace and Apple’s App Store. They are in the position to list security as necessary criteria for acceptance.
Also, both Apple and Google have application interfaces that developers can use for secure development. They have to better publicize the existence and training for the developers in order to aid adoption.
Another area that is low hanging fruit for fundamental security - commercial web sites. For starters, they should assimilate due diligence for third parties, especially advertisers. One cannot assume partners are doing the right thing, even large companies with credibility. A large bank recently was in the news recently for a security breach due to an ‘indirect object reference' vulnerability, an application security vulnerability that has been on the OWASP top 10 for years.
I am surprised they did not bow their heads as an apology as in the case of SONY (I have defined a proactive Secure SDLC program for a non-financial company and cannot reconcile to a negligent security development approach in financial industry, sorry). Web sites should ensure advertisers do not have security vulnerabilities or contain harmful content. Both are equally important as there have been precedents of good ads being corrupted due to vulnerabilities.
Malicious advertisements have spiked in the last year and are a popular and extremely efficient avenue for exploiting web browsers. Some companies block all advertisements on their networks but make exceptions for marketing teams who need to view them for business purposes, so at best they narrow the threat window but do not eliminate the threat entirely. Average home users now face the highest risk of infection by malvertisements. These are two suggestions, I am sure there are a lot more. Let’s start somewhere…
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AVG anti-virus is an antivirus software developed by AVG Technologies. The company likewise develops privacy and performance software program, as well as power software. Founded in 1991, AVG was just lately acquired by simply Avast and it is now area of the Avast family members. AVG malware is designed to prevent malware scratches, as well as maintain your computer operating at peak efficiency.
Users can run a quick scan or a deeper study of their computer system. They can as well run a efficiency scan to detect toxins files and optimize the system’s efficiency. AVG as well provides reputable protection from over the internet threats, with features including Email Defend and Web Safeguard. The reads are quick and powerful, and the user interface is not hard and easy to navigate.
Assembly is easy and quick and only has a minute or two on a Mac. Yet , it takes a little bit longer to setup on Computers. During installation, users can also opt for the default browser and select which features to install. Also, there are an option to add additional features in the future. All of the features are easy to access and configure, producing the software a pleasure to work with.
If you knowledge problems after installing AVG, you can speak to the company immediately or use their help forums. AVG’s support site comes with a FAQ section. It includes links to specific topics and toll-free telephone numbers. If you need even more support, you can even contact their particular sales team to get a free discussion. The company is additionally www.neoerudition.net/data-room-and-abilities-for-employees active on social media, and offers Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube accounts.
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By Loknath Das - 28 days ago - in Gadgets News The Mirai Worm is a seemingly unstoppable piece of malware that targets the garbage-security Internet of Things gadgets that have proliferated through the world; these gadgets then used to deliver equally unstoppable floods of traffic that endanger whole countries.
Because Mirai (and its cousins) use your devices to target other people, you might never even know that your gadget is destroying the world.
For the past week, security researcher Pascal Geenens has been tracking what appears to be a vigilante response to this threat, a competing worm he’s dubbed “Brickerbot,” which infects these insecure IoT devices and renders them permanently inoperable. Brickerbot is mutating fast, with four versions appearing in a week, each more powerful than the last.
Brickerbot appears to be a botnet hosted on thousands of vulnerable gadgets that are spared euthanasia in order that they might serve as executioners.
There are other vigilante botnets competing with it: Hajime has infected at least 10,000 devices, and is a successor, of sorts, to the Wifatch botnet, which shut down vulnerable devices in 2015.
Pascal Geenens, the researcher who first documented what he calls the permanent denial-of-service botnet, has dubbed the fiercest new instance BrickerBot.3. It appeared out of nowhere on April 20, exactly one month after BrickerBot.1 first surfaced. Not only did BrickerBot.3 mount a much quicker number of attacks—with 1,295 attacks coming in just 15 hours—it used a modified attack script that added several commands designed to more completely shock and awe its targets. BrickerBot.1, by comparison, fired 1,895 volleys during the four days it was active, and the still-active BrickerBot.2 has spit out close to 12 attacks per day. “Just like BrickerBot.1, this attack was a short but intense burst,” Geenens told Ars. “Shorter than the four days BrickerBot.1 lasted, but even more intense. The attacks from BrickerBot.3 came in on a different honeypot than the one that recorded BrickerBot.1. There is, however, no correlation between the devices used in the previous attack versus the ones in this attack.”
Commands performed by BrickerBot.3 are identical to those carried out by BrickerBot.1 except for several new ones that put new processes into the background until all resources are exhausted.
Shortly after BrickerBot.3 began attacking, Geenens discovered BrickerBot.4. Together, the two newly discovered instances have attempted to attack devices in the research honeypot close to 1,400 times in less than 24 hours. Like BrickerBot.1, the newcomer botnets are made up of IoT devices running an outdated version of the Dropbear SSH server with public, geographically dispersed IP addresses. Those two characteristics lead Geenens to suspect the attacking devices are poorly secured IoT devices themselves that someone has compromised and used to permanently take out similarly unsecured devices. Geenens, of security firm Radware, has more details here.
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Utilities Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool and Kaspersky Rescue Disk Wizard removed from the product installer. The product has links to the Knowledge Base for instructions on how to download these tools, instructions, user actions to restore the infected PC.
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– Analysis of web sites & emails which helps as internet security.
– E-Mail IMAP & NNTP protocol checking support for email security.
– Unique safe money technology, anti-banner, virtual keyboard, instant safety checks, URL advisor, system watcher and two-way firewall.
– Powerful modern tech analyzer is capable of detecting and disabling unknown malicious programs based on their behavior.
– Background Working without losing system performance – Gadget for access of form fast and simple to them functions.
– Proactive malware scanner and virus removal tool that protects your PC.
– Ban-list of blocked computers by IDS subsystem (with un-block feature).
– Rescue disk to block suspicious behaviors and disinfection of the system after an attack.
– Advanced damage clean-up (the windows registry, command files, *.lnk files, hosts
– Open the Settings window in Kaspersky. In the Settings window, go to the Additional section and select Self-Defense in the right frame.
3- Exit and completely close the program.
4- Go to the crack folder, open trial resetter and reset application. Press CTRL + ALT , it shows 3 buttons and click activate then select the license file. Now it is activated!
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Meta, a company of Facebook and Instagram, has filed a joint lawsuit against the phishing activities taking place on its social network.
Meta filed the lawsuit in collaboration with San Francisco-based fintech company Chime. Chime works in mobile banking services.
META has filed a case against two Nigerian men who carried out the phishing attack. As mentioned in the case, these two Nigerians use Facebook and Instagram to pretend to be Chime. Cyber attackers have cheated money by imitating chimes.
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With Meteor Tutors, Anita Grace MacDonald has developed a safe and state-of-the-art solution for sophisticated online tutoring. A pianist, former opera singer and school headmaster turned entrepreneur, she is dedicated to creating safe, high-tech environments online.
The thought leader in online safety developed and launched Meteor Tutors as a global online and secure video educational platform, matching qualified and vetted tutors with clients on a secure 2 factor ID site, with facial and fingerprint technology for app lessons.
The educational safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults is further provided through police background and IP checks of the tutors. After registration, tutors for traditional subjects such as music and language education are then connected with a match education algorithm for students worldwide via the mobile or web app.
Science and the arts are taught for exam preparations, auditions, school entrance scholarships or simply having fun by industry-trained and qualified tutors and top global exam boards.
“Our student-tutor matching requires a one-time only registration process to filter personal needs and wishes. We are aware that education needs a certain amount of commitment, and this starts with the student providing this information. From there, the educational journey is seamless,” MacDonald explains. Thousands of hours of real-time testing have gone into the state-of-the-art tutoring engine, which is backed up by daily updates.
To understand how start-ups turn out to be uncompromising in their field, a look into the founder’s journey is of high value.
MacDonald is a Scottish music prodigy who grew up with little money but a grandmother who nurtured her musical talent, leading her to become one of the few working class students to be accepted to a Royal Conservatoire, the RCoS in Glasgow, followed by numerous performances and awards as a pianist, and a professional career as an opera singer, with career highlights such as singing in the Albert hall for the Queen Mother’s birthday.
When she had kids, MacDonald started her career in education and was promoted rapidly, from Head of Music to Head of Year, Head of 6th Form, Assistant Headteacher, and finally passing her Senior School Headteacher qualification in 2004 where she would also function as Head of Safeguarding. She later opened her own school for musical prodigies, and after a few years of face to face, began to move into online tuition, via other video platforms. MacDonald quickly realised that the unregulated random nature of online video conferencing needed to be more formal to adhere to safeguarding guidelines, and started to create Meteor Software which was globally rolled-out in 2019.
MacDonald about her tech entrepreneurship: “It was like the natural next step. I was always into technology, and so are my kids with my daughter studying computer science, and my son being Head of IT. My path to entrepreneurship feeds from my extensive experience in education and in life, leading to a no-compromise approach to education in virtual spaces.”
Meteor Tutors is a live and pre-recorded video platform, affording tutors the ability to teach live and video for additional passive income. Meteor online software uses industry standard video conferencing solutions and automated engagement and payment services for ease of utilisation. Users book events, tuition, workshops and meetings with global payment options that are fully integrated and automated. Notifications are set automatically so that both parties – student and tutor – are alerted of upcoming lessons to avoid missing classes. In-class functionalities include multiple camera usage, screen share, whiteboards, and in-chat, amongst many others. Lessons and chats can be recorded and provided to parents. The Meteor tutors app is available on the app stores free to all users.
The EdTech solution with superior video conferencing quality in 4K video and Hi-Fi audio quality, added by highest security and privacy standards is now also available for employee training and seminars with Meteor Fireball. Corporates profit from a solution with a minimum timeout facility equivalent to the software of financial institutions. Employee safety is promoted through virtual spaces that block common threads like online bombings.
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Cybercriminals are using insiders to gain access to telecommunications networks and subscriber data, recruiting disaffected employees through underground channels or blackmailing staff using compromising information gathered from open sources – according to a Kaspersky Lab intelligence report into security threats facing the telecommunications industry.
They operate and manage the world’s networks, voice and data transmissions and store vast amounts of sensitive data. This makes them highly attractive to cybercriminals in search of financial gain, as well as nation-state sponsored actors launching targeted attacks, and even competitors.
To achieve their goals, cybercriminals often use insiders as part of their malicious ‘toolset’, to help them breach the perimeter of a telecommunications company and perpetrate their crimes. New research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals that 28% of all cyber-attacks, and 38% of targeted attacks now involve malicious activity by insiders. The intelligence report examines popular ways of involving insiders in telecoms-related criminal schemes and gives examples of the things insiders are used for.
Using publically available or previously-stolen data sources to find compromising information on employees of the company they want to hack. They then blackmail targeted individuals – forcing them to hand over their corporate credentials, provide information on internal systems or distribute spear-phishing attacks on their behalf.
Recruiting willing insiders through underground message boards or through the services of “black recruiters”. These insiders are paid for their services and can also be asked to identify co-workers who could be engaged through blackmail.
The blackmailing approach has grown in popularity following online data breaches such as the Ashley Madison leak, as these provide attackers with material they can use to threaten or embarrass individuals. In fact, data-leak related extortion has now become so widespread that the FBI issued a Public Service Announcement on 1 June warning consumers of the risk and its potential impact.
The insiders most in demand
According to the Kaspersky Lab researchers, if an attack on a cellular service provider is planned, criminals will seek out employees who can provide fast track access to subscriber and company data or SIM card duplication/illegal reissuing. If the target is an Internet service provider, the attackers will try to identify those who can enable network mapping and man-in-the-middle attacks.
However, insider threats can take all forms. The Kaspersky Lab researchers noted two non-typical examples, one of which involved a rogue telecoms employee leaking 70 million prison inmate calls, many of which breached client-attorney privilege. In another example, an SMS center support engineer was spotted on a popular DarkNet forum advertising their ability to intercept messages containing OTP (One-Time Passwords) for the two-step authentication required to login to customer accounts at a popular fintech company.
“The human factor is often the weakest link in corporate IT security. Technology alone is rarely enough to completely protect the organization in world where attackers don’t hesitate to exploit insider vulnerability. Companies can start by looking at themselves the way an attacker would. If vacancies carrying your company name, or some of your data, start appearing on underground message boards, then somebody, somewhere has you in their sights. And the sooner you know about it the better you can prepare,” – said Denis Gorchakov, security expert, Kaspersky Lab.
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Cybercrimes are on the rise in the USA, and business owners need to be alert to the most common ways these criminals operate. The losses incurred by a business after a cyber attack can be staggering, particularly when the personal information of clients has been stolen. There are five general types of cybercriminals, and several techniques to help companies avoid the risk of a data breach:
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Like every camp in the country, we're starting to kick our summer prep into high gear. In going through some of our 2015 photos, we came across some nice shots of our boys campers getting to work on our Key Log and thought we'd share them with you. It's been a great addition to our programming at Mishawaka. We also strapped a GoPro to the side of the log and created a gif of the footage. I'll send that along separately. Please feel free to share these pictures on your own social media accounts--we are big fans!
We're looking to send some staff members to get trained as instructors before camp starts this summer. Are there training sessions in the Twin Cities coming up soon?
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The presentation discusses the use of machine learning for malware detection and how it can be used to measure changes in malware distribution over time.
The malware landscape has evolved from viruses to more complex forms such as rats, DDoS, and nation-state weapons.
There are two major static detection paradigms: signatures and machine learning.
Machine learning tends to generalize well but has a higher false positive rate.
A confidence metric can be used to measure changes in malware distribution over time.
Model decay is happening faster as old samples are retired and there is less change happening as a result of new samples being introduced.
The rate of new low confidence samples is rising at about 1% per quarter and high confidence samples are falling at a rate of about 4% per quarter.
The same methodology can be applied to measure changes in malware distribution within a single family.
The speaker uses a toy problem to illustrate how a deep neural network can be used to classify malware based on statistical pattern recognition. The problem involves plotting a scatter of data on a graph and defining regions based on whether the data is good or bad. The neural network uses weights to define the computation and is trained on labeled data to improve its accuracy. The speaker also uses real data to show how a confidence metric can be used to measure changes in malware distribution over time.
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A global professional services firm is looking for an articulate and professional Information Security Analyst to join its team based in Central London.
In order to be suitable for this role you must be an accomplished technology professional with great communication skills and a passion for cyber security. Working directly with the IT Director you will play a key role in maintaining and developing information security policies and procedures, ensuring that effective controls and reporting mechanisms are in place. You will create security dashboards and reports, perform vulnerability tests, make recommendations for improvements and harden systems.
Demonstrable expertise in the support, management and development of security systems, including: Firewalls, host and network intrusion detection/prevention, web filtering, AV (security suites) and technical security controls (eg Identity and Access Management).
Professional security certifications, such as: CISM, CISSP, ISO27001 Lead Implementer would be advantageous to your application but is by no means essential.
If successful, you will have the opportunity to become a seasoned Information Security Analyst within a highly professional, global business with impressive growth plans. This is an incredible opportunity for a personable IT Security Analyst to join a business that offers a clearly defined career path alongside excellent benefits.
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“Recent events, specifically the well-publicized Google incident, have reminded us of the continued challenges faced by foreign and US companies operating in China,” US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told a meeting of the US China Business Council in Washington.
He called on China to continue making strides to be “more transparent, predictable and committed to the rule of law” to reassure American firms.
“If there is backsliding on these issues, it will affect the appetite of US companies to enter the Chinese market and ultimately that will be bad for both the people of China and the United States,” Locke said.
Google has threatened to abandon its Chinese search engine, and perhaps end all operations in the country over the recent cyberattacks. It has also said it is no longer willing to bow to Chinese government censors. But China has said the hacking charges were without foundation.
The White House said last week President Barack Obama was “troubled” by Google’s statements it had been attacked by China-based hackers, and demanded official answers.
The Google row, which erupted two weeks ago, has threatened to damage Sino-US ties, which are already dogged by trade and currency issues, US arms sales to Taiwan and climate change.
Some US groups are calling on Washington to challenge at the World Trade Organization China’s so-called “Great Firewall” of Web censorship. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said meanwhile that the US software giant intends to remain in China and while it is “committed to protecting and advancing free expression throughout the world” it is subject to local laws. “In many countries throughout the world, Internet and technology companies must comply with laws that impact privacy and freedom of expression, particularly peaceful political expression,” Ballmer said in a blog post.
“We have done business in China for more than 20 years and we intend to stay engaged, which means our business must respect the laws of China,” he said.
“At the same time, Microsoft is opposed to restrictions on peaceful political expression, and we have conversations with governments to make our views known,” Ballmer said.
“In every country in which we operate, including China, Microsoft requires proper legal authority before we remove any Internet content; and if we remove content, we give users notice,” he added.
Locke, the first Chinese American commerce secretary, also criticized China’s so-called indigenous innovation accreditation system, which he said provided domestic firms that use Chinese intellectual property a leg up in bidding on government procurement projects. “While this practice may have the laudable goal of nurturing a stronger innovation ecosystem in China, it significantly disadvantages US companies, indeed all foreign companies, interested in bidding for contracts worth an estimated 85 billion dollars annually,” he said.
The US commerce chief said the program also appeared “to be at odds” with assurances the Chinese leaders provided to the United States during key bilateral economic and trade talks last year.
“This indigenous innovation issue is one that the Obama administration takes very seriously, ” he said, adding that the US authorities would “press this issue” with Beijing.
Locke plans to lead a trade mission, the first cabinet-level trade mission of the Obama administration, to China and Indonesia in May, focusing on promoting US technologies related to clean energy and energy efficiency.
On the perennial issue of copyright piracy with China, he said he would also push his counterparts to take “more aggressive steps” to protect and enforce intellectual property rights.
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Nov 30, 2021That said, a small company will usually have a budget of less than $5 million. On the other hand, a mid-sized company will spend between $5 and $20 million. Lastly, a large company will most typically spend between $20 and $50 million per year. While these figures are far from cheap, we all know that cyberattacks are significantly more expensive.(1)
Cybersecurity budgets explained: how much do companies spend on … – AT&T
A recent study by Deloitte and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center found that financial services on average spend 10% of their IT budgets on cybersecurity. That’s approximately 0.2% to 0.9% of company revenue or $1,300 to $3,000 spent per full time employee.(2)
For larger companies (1,000-9,999 employees), the most common spend was $250,000-$999,999, while large enterprises with more than 10,000 employees were more likely to spend over $1 million on their security programs. What are the security spending priorities? As new threats emerge, organizations change their security priorities accordingly.(3)
No wonder cyber security spending on products and services is on the rise. According to Gartner’s IT industry key metrics 2019, security spending is forecast to grow from $106.6Bn in 2019 (up 10.7 percent from 2018) to $151.2Bn in 2023, a compound annual growth rate of 9.4 percent. IDC’s worldwide semi-annual security spending guide is …(14)
Answer (1 of 3): My response is applicable to a few startup companies I’ve met which have a staff size of under 20 and a value of around a million to five. A majority of them depend on CDN’s like Akamai to protect them from attacks such as DDoS however a few do not rely solely on CDN’s but includ…(15)
(1). How Much Do Companies Spend On Cybersecurity? – Security Forward
(2). Cybersecurity budgeting and spending trends 2020: How does yours …
(13). The Cost of Cybersecurity and How to Budget for it
(14). Three benchmarks to inform cyber security spending plans for 2020 (15). How much do small businesses spend on cyber security solutions … – Quora
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Dell has unveiled a wireless dock that can handle speeds of up to 4.6Gbps, allowing wireless connections from a laptop to USB storage devices and one or two monitors.
This is the first usable product based on WiGig (wireless gigabit, aka 802.11ad), which uses the 60GHz band to allow short-range transmissions far more powerful than standard Wi-Fi on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. As we noted last month in our overview of WiGig, the Dell Lattitude 6430u Ultrabook was the first product to include a WiGig chip, but it had no other WiGig products to connect to. Dell filled that gap this week with the Dell Wireless Dock D5000. The dock is tri-band, meaning it supports 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 60GHz transmissions.
"Designed for use in offices, meeting rooms and classrooms, the Dell Wireless Dock offers quick and easy connectivity to displays, projectors, networks, speakers and other peripherals for unparalleled connectivity and convenience," Dell's announcement said. "The new dock supports up to two external displays with both DisplayPort and HDMI, features ample peripheral connectivity via three USB 3.0 ports and facilitates easy collaboration with a front Audio In/Out port for voice over IP at speeds of up to 4.6 gigabits per second. The Dell Wireless Dock can also be easily managed connect with the updated Dell Connection Manager that now supports both WiGig and Wireless LAN settings."
The Ultrabook and dock include a chip from WiGig silicon vendor Wilocity and Qualcomm Atheros. WiGig is based on the new Wi-Fi standard 802.11ad, which theoretically allows speeds of up to 7Gbps, perfect for large file transfers and video streaming. At the Consumer Electronics Show last month, Wilocity demonstrated WiGig-enabled laptops and tablets powering HD monitors, and ultra fast file transfers between computers and WiGig-enabled docks and routers.
Dell sells the Wireless Dock by itself for $270, or for $187 when added to a purchase of a Dell Latitude 6430u. Adding the dock may delay ship times.
While WiGig is limited today to this one laptop/dock pair, those pushing WiGig believe it will expand over the course of this year and especially in 2014. The Wi-Fi Alliance group is expected to begin certifying 802.11ad products at the end of 2013, providing greater assurance that products from different vendors will be able to work together. Wilocity is soon coming out with a second generation of its chip that will be able to power wireless routers.
60GHz transmissions are easily blocked by walls, but the future routers should be able to support traditional Wi-Fi standards to let devices fall back to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands when people roam around their homes or offices. Wilocity's second-generation chip will also support 802.11ac on the 5GHz band, which is pretty fast itself.
Jon Brodkin Jon is Ars Technica's senior IT reporter, covering the FCC and broadband, telecommunications, wireless technology, and more.
Once they iron out any compatibility issues and figure out secure negotiation/attachment so I can walk into some office and connect to some other company's dock once they give me credentials, I will be more interested.
Interesting. Not necessarily interesting enough to pay for, yes, but still interesting.
I could see this more with some NFC-like tech. Plunk your laptop (or tablet) over an NFC spot on a public desk (like at a school), it automatically pairs with the relevant wireless dock.
I've never understood why more office furniture manufacturers and laptop OEMs haven't gotten together to make a mounting setup for laptop docks. The easiest way to cut down on cable clutter, and more importantly, wasted desktop space, would be a dock mounted to a swing / slide out platform. Add in a wiring loom pre-routed for the desk setup and it would be golden.
If my laptop was more of my primary machine and I used it in the office with a larger monitor, full keyboard, etc. I would certainly have it setup to dock vertically out of the way mounted to a wall or underside of the desk.
if it was just a power cable I'd agree the dock was a pointless extravagance; but mine gives me the ability to connect power, 3 external displays, my keyboard, two mice, a USB hub, ethernet, and my headphones all in one go. Well obviously it's a new technology. There's no reason to assume going forward that these limitations will remaine.
That's 10 connections for the price of one as is a major convenience factor and I've got a few more ports that aren't used if I need to hook more stuff up.
This. A wireless dock shouldn't have that sort of limitation.
That's unfortunate. I had assumed that the interfaces between WiGig and HDMI/DisplayPort/USB/etc would be standardized, rather than a proprietary implementation.
I think he was being facetious. Dell isn't as good about cross-line compatibility as people like to believe.
Actually, I think this is the Intel technology.
But yes, it is more popular on Macs for now.
Also, each WiGig dock will only work with a specific model number and year of laptop...
Do you have a citation or is this just speculation? Yes this type and many others already pay in excess of $200 for a new docking station from Dell. I'm surprised this new edition is as cheap as this.
but it's in fact an INTEL industrial standard and we are even able to find OTHERS computer manufacturers with TB support, or motherboard with it.
It's not apple proprietary. (well, usb is pretty heavy on the cpu, it may be evil ^^ )
Previous Lattitude docs only needed replaced across major families of laptops C series, D series, E series. The D series went through five model years before being replaced, and its wired nature required replacement to change the available ports that were available. We'll see.
So we are going with baseless speculation then. What a great way to contribute. You could of at least phrased it as a question.
WiGig is a standard so it may very well be compatible with other WiGig computers.
Not to mention that Dell Docks have been very compatible with other models in the past. I was able to use some of our docks across Latitude D630s and Precision M4300.
Of course our M4500s did require new docks. I think that had to do with the higher wattage(they also changed the power supply).
This. My dock (Port replicator) has connected to it my keyboard, mouse, Monitor (2 available), my printer, power, headphones, ethernet, webcam, USB hub, (I keep the laptop lid closed so I can't use the built in one, and still has about 5 ports unused (one of which I have no idea what it is).
You know, even usb was first on a mac, still, nothing evil there.
No. It wasn't. It was merely more popular on Macs (relatively, given the tiny marketshare of Mac) because the first iMacs didn't have any legacy ports, so you were kinda forced into using USB.
As for Thunderbolt, it's nice but a) it's very much a Mac-thing right now, and b) wireless is nicer still.
Especially given it makes the remote PC possible - I don't know what the range of WiGig is, (other than short apparently), and how well it penetrates various materials, but being able to theoretically stow your PC and just have the dock, wireless keyboard/mouse and wallmounted display at your desk is pretty nice. Put the PC in a closet and enjoy the silence, while still having a fast interface for external storage, display etc.
It's a moot point right now, though, because as limited as thunderbolt support is, WiGig is even more limited.
This. The wireless dock seems really interesting, but it's not too much trouble just clicking my laptop in place at the moment,
That was kind of my point, that it was an extravagant solution for a niche market. The idea of a dock is great, lots of laptops need that. The idea of a wireless dock is kind of cool on top of that. It being $200 (compared to a lot of docks that are half the price or less) and being so limited in compatibility is not cool.
The advantage is for Dell themselves. A hardware dock connector takes up a decent size chunk of space on the motherboard, and because it's location is fixed limits their ability to vary designs between model years or models within a single year. As the size of the mobo continues to shrink ot make more room for batteries this is increasingly a problem.
WiGig is implemented on the same module as normal WiFi, which means that from a design standpoint it's free. It also lets them potentially add/change ports on a dock without waiting several years for when the next hardware refresh lets them change the dock connector pin out (thunderbolt also has this advantage, but until it becomes integrated in the chipset will still eat board space).
...or you could plug a single Thunderbolt cable into your laptop and have a wired connection that's much faster and more stable. Except for the period when laptops with the old dock are being phased out for those with the new doc this generally is the case internally. The companies buying laptops with docks generally aren't those with BYOD computer policies.
I find the dock useful enough that even if my employer did go BYOD I'd still spend the money on one and a compatible laptop because it makes taking it away from the desk much less of a hassle.
Unless Dell is also incorporating wireless power into this device, it seems like this would be quite limited in its usefulness.
Interesting I guess. Not $200 interesting but I guess it is probably aimed mostly at the executive office level type, the kind that fears a cable they have to plug in when they bring in the laptop. Pair this up with some kind of inductive power charging pad for the laptop and a wireless mouse and keyboard and you finally have that magic desktop look. Just need a holographic display for the whole thing.
There's 3 USB 3.0 ports on the dock, no need for wireless keyboard/mouse. All the cables plug into the dock (monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, ethernet). And the laptop connects to the dock wirelessly over WiGig in order to access everything plugged into the dock.
IOW, all that's currently missing is the wireless charging pad.
Plop the laptop on the charging pad, and everything auto-connects to the dock, and you use the dock as if it were "the computer".
At work, we have so many people that do the cable shuffle (keyboard, mouse, power, monitor) but absolutely REFUSE to plug in an ethernet cable ... and then complain non-stop about how crappy the wireless connection is. Uhm, hello!? It's one extra cable to get 1 Gbps; what do you expect over 300 Mbps 802.11n? Gah!
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I'm waiting for someone to add some inductive charging coils right into the dock itself, and add WiGig to smartphones. Then, you just plop your smartphone on top of the dock, and presto, there's your desktop.
Docks with physical connectors work great because you don't have to touch a single cable. You just push your laptop into the dock, and it's all ready to go.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is why we'd never adopt these in our office. I'm the businessy type person who has one of these (although I'm a junior auditor, it's useful because I'm in and out of the office endlessly). I walk in, dump my laptop on the dock and get back to work. The wireless factor doesn't really make a difference, it's not that hard to line the laptop up on the dock and everything else is already plugged in. It's not even a price difference, my dock costs $200 already (there are higher end ones for $300).
Wigig is hugely useful, but this seems a solution without a problem. Let me know when I can wirelessly connect my desktop to my tv to save me having to have a separate HTPC, that would be hugely useful.
This + wireless charging would be awesome.
Dell already did that years ago with the Z series. It used some sort of short-range ultra-wideband wireless to auto-dock to your desk when in range. And it came with a laptop stand that wirelessly charged the battery. It was really expensive. It added about $2k to the laptop for those things. Although, if Apple offered that for my retina book, I might pony up.
Edit: It was a Dell Latitude Z600 made in 2009. It's always stuck in my head because of all of the cables I routinely plug into my macbook pro.
The argument that this would work for meeting rooms supposes that everyone in the organization (and all visitors) use a laptop with the correct protocol (when pigs fly).
You could use the imaginary Thunderbolt cable in the meeting room to catch the imaginary pig.
As good as Thunderbolt is it’s unlikely to gain traction outside of Apple only organisations unless Intel integrates it at the chipset or CPU level.
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You can't protect the unknown. Before you can even begin to think about how you'll manage your data and lower your risk, you need to know exactly what you have on hand. A bank couldn't accurately report a loss if it didn't know exactly how much money it had in the vault, and the same is true of your data.
Knowing your data means knowing where it resides on your file system, what it contains, and who can access it. Manually searching through every subfolder would take months, if not years. By the time you finish, your findings would already be useless as your data is constantly changing. Automation is the only way to produce an accurate and up-to-date picture of your data.
2. Control Data Access
Once you know your data, you then need to determine who can access it. The vast majority of breaches occur due to employee error, often because of phishing attacks. Of course, you can't simply lock all of your data away. How can you regulate data access without excessive limitations that hinder productivity?
A smart platform can give you a good idea of who needs to access a given piece of data. Consider looking at historical access records to see which users interacted with the data. Then you can tell the platform to apply a set of rules for similar pieces of data. This way, the sales team can modify data relevant to their department, but your creatives won't accidentally compromise it if they get caught in an attack.
3. Standardize Data Transfer Policies
Remote work has made data risk management a nightmare forCDOs and CTOs alike. Your IT staff has crafted a secure bubble within the walls of your offices, but outside those walls anything is possible. Your employees may not have secure Wi-Fi at home, for instance. They could have compromised equipment also.
Therefore, it's important to put limits on data transfers and prevent all of your sensitive information from leaving the confines of your secure servers. Cloud storage is a useful tool for remote work situations, but you then run into the problem of creating duplicate data when you have people working in the office and at home.
You can avoid these problems and ensure that your data doesn't run amok by using an intelligent platform that keeps track of your files and helps you find redundant or outdated versions.
4. Keep Your Data Clean
Speaking of redundant and outdated data, it's important to keep this data out of your system at all times. These files pose a risk since you're unlikely to notice them or pay them much mind. But they're the most likely to be stolen by cybercriminals.
Trivial data likewise clutters your file system and could contain data you don't want out in the open. Even though you want as much data as possible to derive useful insights with your BI tools, realize that every megabyte adds to your risk. Ideally, you should only have the data you need to use on hand and everything else resides either in cold storage or is deleted.
5. Automate Everything
If everything we've said so far sounds like a lot of work, you're right. It would be an insurmountable task for a few individuals, and even with a whole team it would be a miserable undertaking. There's only oneway to have a clear understanding of your data every day: Automation.
Automation can apply restrictions to files according to your preferences. You can limit access with a single click. As new files are generated or acquired, an automated platform parses them and determines what rules to apply. Best of all, once the platform knows your data, you can know it better too. Just use the powerful search function.
If you want less risk for your business, more control over your data, and actionable information, then you need Aparavi. Our smart data management platform will help you understand your data and keep it from spiraling out of control. Get a data risk assessment from us today to see just how Aparavi can help your enterprise.
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Just as you can have motion sensors in your office to detect suspicious movement when you’re not there, you may have monitoring on your network to detect suspicious traffic. Similar to your physical security, this may be a service provided by a third party. If you have a Wi-Fi network for your workplace, make sure it’s secure, encrypted, and hidden. To hide your Wi-Fi network, configure your wireless router or access point not to transmit the network name, called the Service Set Identifier.
This can be employee data, bank and transaction records, business plans, and customer records. UpGuard is a complete attack surface and third-party risk management platform. Our Security Ratings Engine monitors millions of businesses every day. UpGuard also provides protection against third-party data leaks, which can be entrusted to a team of cybersecurity experts to facilitate the rapid scaling of the security program. While these are some examples of high-profile data breaches, it’s important to remember that there are even more that never made it to the front page.
Unfortunately, when a business owner closes, he has to put his own assets at risk. You will be surprised to learn; Many entrepreneurs had to ask the public for help. Although the monetary cost of a data breach is a significant concern, the impact on the brand is a different story. This is especially true in sensitive industries where an attack can shake customer trust in brands and entire market segments.
Many of us have heard of the scams of British Airways, Target and Equifax, which resulted in heavy fines and made customers doubt their trust in the companies. It’s no wonder that companies start with the intention of making profits. However, when a business is shut down, business owners have to worry about sudden losses. In some cases, when a business owner takes out a loan from a financial institution, they need to repay it on time.
Other conditions for data breaches include unintentional disclosure of information, data leaks, cloud leaks, information leaks, or data leaks. Information risk management has never been more important than it is today. The fact is that whether you are an individual, a small company or a large multinational corporation, you rely on computer systems every day. We need to understand the difference between cybersecurity and information security, even as the capabilities become more and more similar.
There are definitely no plans to switch to another IT services company in the foreseeable future. They have always done everything to provide high quality professional IT services to meet all the requirements we place on them within the deadlines we set. Prevent your website from going down: As a business, you’re probably hosting your own website. If your system becomes infected, there is a very real chance that your website will be forced to shut down. This means that not only do you lose money for lost transactions, but you also lose the trust of customers and certain viruses can often cause permanent damage to a system. Make sure you have a physical and cloud backup that syncs at least once a week.
Nearly 60% of data breaches occur through compromised third-party vendors, so closing data breaches from vendors can prevent most data breaches. Basically, our society is more technologically dependent than ever and there are no signs that this trend is slowing down. Data breaches CMMC readiness that could lead to identity theft are now publicly posted on social media accounts. Sensitive information such as social security numbers, credit card information, and bank account information is now stored in cloud storage services such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
If employees work from home, make sure your home system is protected by a firewall. That said, insurance alone can’t be called a cybersecurity plan, and most policies include strict regulations that dictate what specific steps the company must take to get coverage. This means that if there is an attack and loss and your company makes a claim, the insurance company will verify that you have followed the required policies and procedures before paying the claim. Therefore, cybersecurity insurance policies are a great tool for enforced compliance with cybersecurity plans.
If you have multiple copies of your data in two different locations, they will remain safe in case your internal servers are destroyed or breached. What is Typosquatting Learn more about the dangers of typosquatting and what your company can do to protect itself from this malicious threat. The Best Cybersecurity Websites and Blogs of 2022 This is a comprehensive guide to the best cybersecurity and information security websites and blogs. Book a free, personalized onboarding call with one of our cybersecurity experts. If you’re in an office or shared network, you can ask your network administrator to perform a network-wide scan for misconfigured or infected devices. This can be access to your microphone, contact list, location, photos and health data.
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“Our forensics and security teams have been working around the clock since we first became aware of a potential breach Tuesday morning, working with leading IT security firms, including Symantec and FishNet Security, in that regard. There is no higher priority for us at this time than to rapidly gather the facts so that we can provide answers to our customers. We know these types of incidents can cause frustration and concern, and we apologize for that.”
Chief executive Frank Blake is apparently keeping a low profile and has made no public statements at this time. Incredibly, Home Depot, with a market cap of $122 billion, only learned of the massive cyber broadside when American and European banks noticed thousands of credit cards for sale on cyber criminal websites like Rescator.cc and traced them back to Home Depot.
Malwarebyte’s head of intelligence Adam Kujawa told VentureBeat Tuesday the attack bore the hallmarks of the Russian crew who breached the point-of-sales network at Target in December and stole over 70 million customer credit cards for $100 million in losses. That attack cost Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel his job.
Yesterday, Drake said Home Depot was working with law enforcement agencies in the investigation, although she refused to say which ones. (Traditionally, in large-scale attacks like this, the FBI and US Secret Service work the cases.)
The rest of Home Depot’s release on the brewing tsunami below:
“It’s important to note that in the event we determine there has been a data breach, our customers will not be responsible for any possible fraudulent charges. The financial institution that issued the card or Home Depot are responsible for those charges. We will also offer free identity protection services, including credit monitoring, to any potentially impacted customers.”
Chris Weltzien, chief executive of security outfit 6Scan, said the attack was the talk of security specialists.
“The latest batch of stolen cards are being sold under the name ‘American Sanctions,’ and initial sanctions for the annexation of Crimea [were] put in place in April/May time frame,” Weltzien wrote in an email. “Home Depot does a huge business in their own credit cards.”
For the millions of Home Depot customers frantically checking their credit card statements, the ultimate onus is with the retailer, who said they’d pick up the check for any losses incurred by the attack. Drake’s statement, the rest of it below, offers little directive other than to call up your bank:
“Customers should closely monitor their accounts and reach out to their card issuer should they notice any unusual activity.”
With the breach purportedly happening in the spring and the company learning of it through third parties, it would go a long way toward investor confidence if Blake made a statement to the concerned public.
If not, his CTO should be polishing his resume.
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Modding is about fine-tuning games to suit your tastes, making changes and alterations to games based on whatever you (and mod creators) see fit.
You could change something visual, you could change how your character gains power, or you could swap out the entire game soundtrack for a fan-made orchestral version. Some folks are picky about the lighting; others may change up the game’s difficulty in ways that the default Easy to Hard scale doesn’t quite fulfill; and some may just be patching some buggy parts for the benefit of the game’s fan community.
The most popular mods for the most popularly modded games tend to be aesthetic mods that tweak the look and sound of a game. For many, it’s about making things prettier, more realistic, or to push their hardware a bit further than the game can on its own.
Take Skyrim, one of the most heavily modded games of all time, and take a look for some of its mods. The most subscribed mod on Skyrim’s Steam Workshop is a water retexture mod called Pure Waters by Laast. At NexusMods, the most downloaded Skyrim mod is a high resolution textures pack called Skyrim HD - 2K Textures. Skyrim has so many amazing visual mods that it’s easy to see why all kinds of games are finding new life through HD remakes.
But a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s Skyrim running unmodded, but with Bethesda’s HD Texture packs installed…
Audio mods are only popular in some games, but they can do interesting things. Fallout 3’s GNR Enhanced adds theme-suitable music the radio and improves some of the immersion in the scripts of Three Dog, the game’s radio DJ. Other audio mods focus on quality, such as swapping out the sounds of the various guns in the games for what’s considered more accurate, higher quality versions. Towbie’s Realistic Weapon Sounds for Fallout 4 is a good example.
But there’s also a reverse side to aesthetic mods, especially visual ones. Some mods focus on decreasing visual quality, to allow games to run better on underpowered hardware or simply increase the frame rate for a more buttery feel. Many competitive players reduce graphical quality just enough so that the important details are still visible, but the framerate can be as high as the hardware will allow it to be. If a game’s options don’t quite cover what you need, you’d look to something like Torcher’s Texture Optimization Project for Fallout 4.
Fixing bugs and enhancing system compatibility are the key reasons for technical modding. Sure, it may feel like every classic game is getting an HD remaster this week, but not all fan favorites are so lucky. A supportive modding community can help add a much-needed layer of modern polish.
For example, the legendary isometric RPGs of yesteryear—like Baldur’s Gate, Fallout, and Planescape Torment—were designed for 4:3 display ratios and resolutions in the 640x480 through 1024x768 range. Nowadays, most gamers are running 16:9 ratios supporting 1920x1080 and higher resolution. Playing the older games on modern monitors results in ugly black bars surrounding the picture, or worse, visual stretching and distortion. To fix this, mods like the_bigg’s Widescreen Mod change how the game scales up for higher resolution, though you may need to pair it with something like GhostDog’s Planescape: Torment UI mod. GhostDog’s mod tweaks the UI and text in classic games running at modern resolution, so everything can be seen, readable, and not wildly warped.
Here’s how Planescape: Torment looks running windowed at default resolution on a 1440p display…
Gameplay mods change how you play a game, covering aspects like difficulty scaling, character progression systems, control schemes, adding or removing certain mechanics, or even interface changes.
A perfect example of a mod that alters difficulty is Brutal Doom. This mod for the earlier Doom games—not the 2016 edition—effectively cranks everything up to 11 by adding a ton of enemies and giving foes new tactics. (It also greatly expands the gore and destruction that Doom is famous for.)
The first Dark Souls game on PC used a sort of emulation to effectively translate keyboard and mouse into controller actions, and generally lacked control options. The resulting frustrations lead to the creation of the mod Dark Souls Mouse Fix and its current iteration, Dark Souls Input Customizer. These mods ditched the emulation and added raw mouse input, mouse acceleration and sensitivity settings, and key mapping. These control mods not only provide options for PC purists, but also opportunities for gamers with disabilities who depend on custom hardware and button mapping to get their game on.
Many gameplay mods can complement each other that provide a fresh experience to a game. Grim Dawn, an action RPG by Crate Entertainment, has a popular mod compilation called DAIL that combines a bunch of gameplay mods into one. DAIL can adjust the number of enemies that spawn in the game for a range of new difficulty options; it triples the amount of class trees for your character; and includes additional game types that mirror Diablo 3’s rift system or Gears of War’s Horde Mode… which takes us to the final mod category.
Minecraft with FTB Beyond modpack installed.
Some mods drastically overhaul the entire game, and sometimes spark new games and genres of their own. League of Legends, DOTA, and the entire MOBA genre was birthed by a mod for the original Starcraft called Aeon of Strife. Counter-Strike started as a Half-Life mod. DayZ and battle royale games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sprung from the Arma modding scene. And you can find full-length expansions, new factions, and more for Elder Scrolls games.
These are heavy duty mods. If you want to learn more about content and “total conversion” mods, check out PCWorld’s list of 10 influential game mods that truly changed PC gaming.
Bottom line
Modding video games is a lot like playing card games or board games with house rules. While some people like to just skip the jail mechanic in Monopoly, others might want to pull out their favorite Warhammer 40k figure to take over the board in the name of the Emperor. Likewise, some gamers might want to replace Skyrim’s dragons with Macho Man Randy Savage or Thomas the Tank Engine. Anything is possible!
Now you’re armed with everything you need to know to start modding PC games. Have fun!
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3237246/how-to-install-pc-game-mods.html?page=2
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According to experts at Endgame security firm, crooks are buying many .om domains to carry on typosquatting attacks.
Crooks are buying many .om domains to carry on typosquatting attacks. According to experts at Endgame security firm, crooks are buying many .om domains with the purpose to fool clumsy users that mistype .om instead of .com .
Security researchers say that the .om domain from the country Oman are being exploited in typosquatting attacks and that more than 300 domains were bought and are using US company names, like Citibank, Dell, Macys and Gmail.
“Our research revealed that there is at least one major .om typosquatting campaign targeting many of the world’s largest organizations. It has already targeted over 300 well-known organizations, including Netflix, and given the spike in activity in February, is likely to only attempt to expand its reach in March.” states the blog post published by the security firm.
Mac OS X users are being targeted to be fooled by the typosquatting campaign and trick them to install malware, when they mistype a website and end up in a page where a fake Adobe Flash update pops up, and the user is tempted to install “flash” update, but in fact its installing the Genieo, an advertising component.
“[the victim] mistyped the domain “www.netflix.com” as “netflix.om” in his browser, accidentally dropping the “c” in “.com”. He did not get a DNS resolution error, which would have indicated the domain he typed doesn’t exist. Instead, due to the registration of “netflix.om” by a malicious actor, the domain resolved successfully.” continues the post. “His browser was immediately redirected several times, and eventually landed on a “Flash Updater” page with all the usual annoying (and to an untrained user, terrifying) scareware pop-ups. “
Genieo is an adware / malware that usually poses as an Adobe Flash update, as a said previously, once the person clicks on it, it will drop an OS X DMG container. Once clicked on the DMG file, Genieo will install an extension in various supported browsers.
In the case of a Windows, user who visits one of the websites used by typosquatters , they will be redirect to an ad network where they are inundate with ads, like surveys, free electronics, antivirus products, and so on, all leading the user to download and execute something.
“But given the volumes of misdirected traffic to .om, this could be used as an effective tool to distribute much more serious threats,”
In the investigation conducted by Endgame, 334 .om sites were analyzed, and looking to the registration pattern, 15 different hosting providers were used and many of the websites are hosted in providers located in New Jersey.
The problem is that .om domain is country code top-level domain, also called ccTLD, this means that ccTLDs are not related with an internet corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and disputes need to be solved by using local laws of Omar.
I strongly suggest you pay attention when typing the URL of a specific website, unfortunately, a great number of .om websites are already used by crooks for illegal activities.
If you are interested of the entire list of suspicious domains give a look here.
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Hello there all, and firstly i'd like to thank EVERYONE for all the help that i get when i come online. Now I currently use a 6 months free edition of Kaspessky Internet Security 6.0..which came on an edition of PC Advisor..i think is superb...it does not expire till 28/08/2007,... BUT I've gone on the kspersky website.... but it seems that as i've get 6 months free, that I cannot even register on the site.....even though i have a license number that comes with my 6 months free subscription.... I'm ready to purchase the FULL YEAR pncewhen my free subscription ends.... but i do not wish to REMOVE the current version i have now, as i've heard rumours you have to totally uninstall kaspersky....as i'ce had problems doing this in the past....just need general advice...or correct links. thanks Fingees 18:51 01 May 07
I don't use that one, but if you have any qualms about removing your existing security, all you have to do is download and save. then go off line.remove your old stuff and install the new.as you obviously had no trouble installing your present security, you should have no problem installing the new. Somebody may give you some info about the correct way to uninstall your present stuff, without problem. It obviously has to be uninstalled if that's what they recommend.all the best. lulubelle 19:17 01 May 07
Hi julius44,I also have a 6 months free version of Kaspersky Internet Security Suite. I got mine from Computer Shopper (Not that it makes any difference). I had no problem updating my copy, which was version 614, to version 621. I just installed over the top of the old one. However it does depend on which version you have got installed as to whether you can do this. There is a great forum for Kaspersky and they should be able to answer al your questions. Here is the link........click hereHope this helps julius44 19:28 01 May 07
Hi lulubelle, n thanks for the advice..........so when u upgraded did u have to pay the full £40 for the 1 year? I have been on the link, thanks will have to go back onto it later.....Also have u had any problems using kaspersky? I've 2 months into my 6 months free tiral, and i think it is pretty superb...i've never had any problems on my pc since i have it, and it also seems to go easy on system memory unlike Norton, etc, my only qualms, is that it says the 6 months free includes automatic updates..... but i've always had to click the update button to get the updates.......even though the update are set to auto.... lulubelle 20:17 01 May 07
The upgrade was free. If you have a key or activation code, all upgrades are free, until of course your subscription expires. Kaspersky will notify you approx. 2 weeks before your subscription expires, and then you will be able to pay the £40 for the year. Try setting the updates to hourly, or even every half hour. Right click the K icon on your taskbar.. then...Settings/Update/. Put a tick in the middle setting then click the Change button. You can then set the update to whatever you prefer. If you have it on automatic, it will only update once every 2 to 4 hours. It might be, that it would update on it's own, but you are just not online long enough. I haven't had any problems, so far, and I think it is a great product. I will definitely be forking out my £40 when my subscription runs out. julius44 20:45 01 May 07
Thanks lulubelle, u r a star. I think u've explained it to me fully now.... i'll just wait till closer to the period and hopefully like u said, they'll send me an email to renew my subscription. I'll also set the update thing as u mentioned. once again thanks for your help This thread is now locked and can not be replied to.
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This Data Protection Addendum, the "Addendum", is entered into by and between America Multi-Sport, LLC., "RDLaunch.com", and the customer agreeing to this Addendum, the "Customer".
This Addendum will be effective from the Addendum Effective Date (as defined below) and replace any previously applicable data protection addendum.
"Adequate Country" is defined as a country which is deemed adequate by the European Commission under Article 25(6) of Directive 95/46/EC or Article 45 of GDPR.
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"Processing" is defined by the applicable and "process", "processes" and "processed" will be interpreted accordingly.
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"Data Transfer Mechanism" is defined as an alternative data export solution for the lawful transfer of Customer Data (as recognized under ) outside the EEA.
"Data Protection Laws" are defined with respect to a party, all privacy, data protection, information security-related, and other laws and regulations applicable to such party, including, where applicable, .
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"Model Contracts" are defined as the Standard Contractual Clauses for Processors as approved by the European Commission under Decision 2010/87/EU in the form made accessible in the RDLaunch.com Workspace.
"Security Incident" unauthorized or unlawful confirmed breach of security that leads to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to Personal Data in Data Processor’s control.
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Other capitalized terms not defined herein have the meanings given in the Agreement.
Terms Defined by RDLaunch.com with Respect to GDPR:
"Data Subjects" are defined to include the individuals about whom data is provided to RDLaunch.com via the Services by (or at the direction of) the Customer.
"Details of Processing Subject Matter" subject matter of the data processing the Customer Data.
"Duration of the Processing" duration of the data processing until the termination of the Agreement plus the period from the expiry of the Agreement until deletion of all Customer Data by RDLaunch.com in accordance with the terms of the Addendum.
"Categories of Data" is defined as data relating to individuals provided to RDLaunch.com when Customers sign up, login, use the product, interact with the website, and interact with the ads.
They are commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure of the Service or Customer Data.
3. Termination:
This Addendum forms part of the Agreement and except as expressly set forth in this Addendum, the Agreement remains unchanged and in full force and effect. If there is any conflict between this Addendum and the Agreement, this Addendum shall prevail to the extent of that conflict in connection with the Processing of Customer’s Personal Data.
This Addendum will be governed by and construed in accordance with governing law and jurisdiction provisions in the Agreement, unless required otherwise by applicable Data Protection Laws.
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This regulation applies to the processing of the personal data in the context of the activities of the establishment of a Controller or a Processor in the EU.
This Addendum applies where processes Customer Data that originates from the EEA or that is otherwise subject to on behalf of Customer in the course of providing the Service pursuant to the Agreement.
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Customer will act as the Data Controller and RDLaunch.com will act as the Data Processor under this Addendum. Both Customer and RDLaunch.com shall be subject to applicable Data Protection Laws in the carrying out of their responsibilities as set forth in this Addendum.
Customer retains all ownership rights in the Customer Data, as set forth in the Agreement. Except as expressly authorized by Customer in writing or as instructed by Customer, RDLaunch.com shall have no right directly or indirectly to sell, rent, lease, combine, display, perform, modify, transfer, or disclose the Customer Data or any derivative work thereof. RDLaunch.com shall act only in accordance with Customer's instructions regarding the Processing of the Customer Data except to the extent prohibited by applicable Data Protection Laws.
Additional instructions not consistent with the scope of the Agreement require prior written agreement of the parties, including agreement on any additional fees payable by Customer.
Customer agrees that RDLaunch.com is authorized to use Subprocessors (including without limitation cloud infrastructure providers) to Process the Personal Data, provided that RDLaunch.com:
Enters into a written agreement with any Subprocessor, imposing data protection obligations substantially similar to this Addendum; and
Remains liable for compliance with the obligations of this Addendum and for any acts or omissions of the Subprocessor that cause RDLaunch.com to breach any of its obligations under this Addendum.
Information about Subprocessors, including their functions and locations, is available on request and may be updated by RDLaunch.com from time to time in accordance with this Addendum.
7. Security:
RDLaunch.com shall implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect Personal Data from Security Incidents and to preserve the security and confidentiality of the Personal Data, in accordance with RDLaunch.com's security standards.
Customer acknowledges that the Security Measures are subject to technical progress and that RDLaunch.com may update or modify the Security Measures from time to time provided that such updates and modifications do not result in the degradation of the overall security of the Service purchased by Customer.
RDLaunch.com shall ensure that any person who is authorized by Customer to process Personal Data (including its staff, agents and Subprocessors) shall be under an appropriate contractual or statutory obligation of confidentiality.
8. Onward Transfer:
RDLaunch.com may, subject to complying with this Section 8, store and process Customer Data anywhere in the world where RDLaunch.com, its affiliates or Subprocessors maintain data processing operations.
To the extent that RDLaunch.com processes any Personal Data protected by GDPR and/or originating from the EEA in the United States or another country outside the EEA that is not designated as an Adequate Country, then the parties shall sign the Model Contracts.
The parties agree that RDLaunch.com is the "data importer" and Customer is the "data exporter" under the Model Contracts (notwithstanding that Customer may be an entity located outside of the EEA).
In which event, the Alternative Transfer Mechanism shall apply instead (but only to the extent such Alternative Transfer Mechanism extends to the territories to which Personal Data is transferred).
9. Regulatory Compliance:
At Customer’s request and expense, RDLaunch.com shall reasonably assist Customer as necessary to meet its obligations to regulatory authorities, including Data Protection Authorities.
RDLaunch.com shall (at Customer's expense) reasonably assist Customer to respond to requests from individuals in relation to their rights of data access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. In the event that any such request is made directly to RDLaunch.com, RDLaunch.com shall not respond to such communication directly without Customer's prior authorization unless Laws.
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At Customer’s request, RDLaunch.com shall provide Customer with written responses to all reasonable requests for information made by Customer relevant to the Processing of Personal Data under this Addendum, including responses to security and audit questionnaires, in each case solely to the extent necessary to confirm RDLaunch.com’s compliance with this Addendum.
RDLaunch.com will provide such information within thirty (30) days of Customer’s written request, unless shorter notice is required by Customer’s regulatory authorities.
RDLaunch.com shall, within ninety (90) days after request by Customer at the termination or expiration of the Agreement, delete or return, at Customer's choice, all of the Personal Data from RDLaunch.com’s systems. Within a reasonable period following deletion, at Customer’s request, RDLaunch.com will provide written confirmation that RDLaunch.com’s obligations of data deletion or destruction have been fulfilled.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Customer understands that RDLaunch.com may retain Customer Data as Laws, which data will remain subject to the requirements of this Addendum.
A description of RDLaunch.com's response to the Security Incident, including steps RDLaunch.com has taken to mitigate the harm caused by the Security Incident.
Where and when Laws, RDLaunch.com will provide the relevant Data Protection Authorities with information related to RDLaunch.com’s Processing of Personal Data. RDLaunch.com further agrees that it will maintain such required registrations and where necessary renew them during the term of this Addendum. Any changes to RDLaunch.com’s status in this respect shall be notified to Customer immediately either via email or in-app notifications.
To the extent RDLaunch.com is required under Data Protection Laws, RDLaunch.com shall (at Customer's expense) provide reasonably requested information regarding the Service or prior consultations with Data Protection Authorities to enable Customer to carry out data protection impact assessments.
"Data Processor" party that Processes Personal Data on behalf of, or under the instruction of, the Data Controller.
"Third Party" shall mean any natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or any other body other than the Data Subject, Data Controller, Data Processor, Subprocessors, or other persons who, under the direct authority of the Data Controller or Data Processor, are authorized to Process the data.
"Nature and Purpose of the Processing" purpose of the Processing the provision of the Service to Customer and the performance of RDLaunch.com's obligations under the Agreement (including this Addendum) or as otherwise agreed by the parties.
"Security Measures" are defined as the measures that RDLaunch.com agrees to use. 3. Termination:
All activities under this Addendum (including without limitation Processing of Customer Data) remain subject to the applicable limitations of liability set forth in the Agreement.
This Addendum and Model Contracts will automatically terminate upon expiration or termination of the Agreement.
4. 5. RDLaunch.com’s obligations under this Addendum shall apply to RDLaunch.com’s employees, agents and Subprocessors who may have access to the Personal Data.
7. Security:
Customer is responsible for reviewing the information made available by RDLaunch.com relating to data security and making an independent determination as to whether the Service meets the Customer’s requirements and legal obligations under Data Protection Laws. 8. Onward Transfer:
The parties agree that the data export solution identified in Section 8.B shall not apply if adopts an Alternative Transfer Mechanism. 9. Regulatory Compliance:
10. RDLaunch.com shall take reasonable measures to mitigate the harmful effects of the Security Incident and prevent further unauthorized access or disclosure.
RDLaunch.com
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We currently only support Cloud One Container Security Runtime Events.
See the table below for supported Cloud One access roles.
We do not currently support Custom roles in the Preview release.
You will first need to set up an IAM role for cross accout access to provide Trend Micro Cloud one with the permission to push findings to your AWS Security Hub.
Create a new IAM Policy to allow BatchImportFindings to your security hub resource(s).
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https://cloudone.trendmicro.com/docs/integrations/security-hub/
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Have you wandered the aisles of Best Buy or Kmart within the past year? You might want to check your credit card accounts: Thanks to a security issue with customer service software (basically, an online chat tool) used by several big-name companies, thousands of shoppers may have had their names, addresses, and credit information stolen by hackers.
Just one day after Delta Air Lines and Sears confirmed that their customers may have been affected by the recent data breach, Best Buy and Kmart released statements about the technical transgression as well. The firm that provides the online chat tool, [24]7.ai, said that the hack — which happened between September 27 and October 12 of 2017 — “may have compromised certain customer payment information.” The scarier part? Customers who didn’t even use the online chat tool, but simply made purchases online, may be affected by the breach, as well.
Instead of panicking, visit the websites each company has set up to help consumers who believe they may have been impacted find out what steps they should take next.
Sears Holdings — the owner of both Kmart and Sears — released a statement ensuring customers that the breach was limited to Sears.com and Kmart.com, and only in the timeframe between September 27, 2017 and October 12, 2017. Consumers who used a Sears-branded credit card or who had a saved card to their Sears.com or Kmart.com profile, were not affected.
In hopes of easing everyone’s mind, Sears Holdings created a website of FAQs and a toll-free hotline. For more information about the breach, please visit www.searsholdings.com/update or call 888-488-5978.
Best Buy
Best Buy has remained surprisingly calm during this fiasco, stating that only “a small fraction” of its online customer population could have been affected in the incident. Even so, the company has made it clear that its customers’ privacy is of the utmost importance. In response to the hack, Best Buy released a website where customers can ask questions or address any concerns.
If you think you’ve been impacted by the [24]7.ai breach, call your bank to report the fraudulent charges immediately. Remember to check your statements and be on the lookout for strange activity. To be on the safe side, request a brand-new card and destroy the old one.
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https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/%25primary_category%25/kmart-sears-best-buy-data-breach-157717
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US swimmer Michael Phelps fully exhales while swimming in a qualifying heat of the 200-meter freestyle at the Olympic Aquatic Centre during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004.
You should always be exhaling while swimming, except when you turn your head above the water in order to inhale, according to SwimSmooth.com. Technically, you could breathe out of the nose or the mouth, but breathing through the nose reduces the chances …
The difference between swimming without breathing, and swimming with breathing is purely turning of the head (hopefully!). So when you go to reintroduce breathing having done a couple of spells of no breathing/swimming with a snorkel, you want to aim for the only change being that turn of the head. Don’t forget that hip movement – that will be what makes turning your head to either (or 18/03/2008 · One had begun swimming just three months before and become discouraged by lessons with traditional coaches who did little more than hand him a kickboard. As I watched the group do their first strokes, I knew breathing would need to be a priority.
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In today’s digital age, cybercrime is a growing threat to businesses and individuals alike. Cybercriminals use a variety of tactics to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information, steal identities, and commit financial fraud. One of the most effective ways to combat cybercrime is through the use of identity verification services.
Identity verification services are tools and processes that are used to confirm the identity of individuals who are attempting to access sensitive information or conduct financial transactions. These services use a variety of methods, such as biometric authentication, document verification, and knowledge-based authentication, to ensure that the person attempting to access the information or conduct the transaction is who they claim to be.
The role of identity verification services in the fight against cybercrime is critical. By verifying the identity of individuals who are accessing sensitive information or conducting financial transactions, these services can prevent cybercriminals from gaining unauthorized access to this information and using it for fraudulent purposes.
Identity verification services can also improve the customer experience by reducing friction in the authentication process. By using advanced technologies like biometric authentication, identity verification services can streamline the authentication process and provide a seamless customer experience. This can help to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, leading to increased revenue and business growth.
In conclusion, identity verification services play a critical role in the fight against cybercrime. By verifying the identity of individuals who are attempting to access sensitive information or conduct financial transactions, these services can prevent cybercriminals from using stolen information to impersonate someone else online, prevent account takeover fraud and fraud in financial transactions. They can also help businesses comply with regulatory requirements, mitigate business risks, and improve the customer experience. Click here to learn more.
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https://net-coalition.com/role-of-identity-verification-services-in-the-fight-against-cybercrime.html
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Most product vulnerabilities are now discovered not by the affected vendor, but by outside sources like third-party researchers, and they’re all over the map.
Vulnerabilities that create potential security holes in Internet of things (IoT) and industrial control system (ICS) products just keep growing.
More than 600 were disclosed in the first half of this year, according to Claroty’s latest ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report. Most are high or critical severity, can be easily and remotely exploited, and make the affected component completely unusable. One quarter have no fix, or can be only partly remediated.
An example of the potential wreckage that could be caused by unknown vulnerabilities lurking in the software supply chain is the recently named BadAlloc cluster in RTOS and supporting libraries from multiple suppliers. These can be exploited for denial-of-service attacks or remote code execution.
Millions of IoT and operational technology (OT) devices — as well as consumer systems like cars, and medical devices — are potentially affected. Yet OEM and asset owner users alike didn’t know these flaws existed until Microsoft disclosed them in April.
That’s why vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs) exist. As Bugcrowd’s 2021 Ultimate Guide to Vulnerability Disclosure explains, VDPs have been set up to provide “a mechanism for identifying and remediating vulnerabilities discovered outside the typical software development cycle.” They’re usually run by federal entities, industry organizations, and some large product vendors.
But most VDPs govern vulnerabilities in products, not processes or configurations. Unfortunately, there’s very little consistency among them. “These programs are all over the map: even U.S. federal agencies do their own thing,” Ron Brash, director of cyber security insights for Verve Industrial Protection, told EE Times . “None of them are set up for maximum efficiency.” Even those with good mechanisms, such as the NIST and ISO/IEC programs, have disparities between those mechanisms: what’s reported and how, enforcement, and how the required changes are made by a given group.
Brash also faulted a lack of transparency in reporting. The U.S. government hasn’t developed the code for the COTS-type products it generally purchases, so federal agencies don’t have real ownership and must act as traffic cops, he said. “The persons who should be doing the ‘policing’ don’t have the knowledge to truly understand the issues at hand, or their impact; can’t effectively remediate vulnerabilities due to budgets, approvals, an inadequate EoL platform, or the inability to provoke a vendor into providing a fix; and don’t have the means to apply consequences or force improvements.”
Ownership is also lacking for a given advisory, and for synchronization of what’s done about it across government programs and vendor portals. “It’s all best effort,” said Brash. “The large vendors often take ownership, but their multiple business units might all do it differently. Since each product can combine multiple products, the number of vendors multiplies even more.”
CVE reporting system has limitations
CISA sponsors the two most central U.S. VDPs: the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the slightly older Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, run by MITRE, which details publicly known vulnerabilities. CISA also hosts the ICS-CERT advisories, which include exploits and issues.
“Even if we ignore the whole disclosure process and research aspects, the [CVE reporting] system is arcane and complex,” said Brash. “Most asset owners don’t have the knowledge required to adequately understand OT/ICS security advisories, or to act on them. So, they become paralyzed by the sheer amount of information.” This complexity becomes clear watching Brash’s YouTube presentation, a 101 for deciphering them.
The CVE system doesn’t include everything: a growing number of vulnerabilities don’t appear there. According to Risk Based Security, 2,158 vulnerabilities were published in July, 670 of them without a CVE ID.
“CVEs are limited to vulnerabilities affecting a wide array of software that many companies may use,” independent security researcher John Jackson, founder of ethical hacking group Sakura Samurai, told EE Times . “[But] a vulnerability could be specific to logic in software or on a server that only one company owns.”
Federal VDPs target mostly federal agencies, said Brash. Little is available for commercial companies: a few industries have their own regulators, such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) for electric utilities. Although federal agency policies and procedures could be mirrored for use in private industry, those can change with every presidential election, he pointed out.
“Some open-source community projects are managing vulnerability disclosures fairly well,” said Brash. “For instance, some parts of the Linux kernel are well managed; others not so much, and that’s not even considering the overall Linux ecosystem. And when compared to other free and open-source software projects, or even various proprietary products, they too have highly variable security practices.”
“A lot of VDPs require hackers to not discuss their findings, yet the programs don’t pay them, or give them any incentive to even hack,” said Jackson. “In addition, they are usually poorly managed or mismanaged by non-security personnel, and that makes collaboration difficult. VDPs using Bugcrowd are a good start because they let hackers collaborate effectively and triagers can take a look at the vulnerability first to confirm it. Still, this doesn’t mitigate the need for regular security.”
A 2016 report from the NTIA Awareness and Adoption Group said, “The vast majority of researchers (92%) generally engage in some form of coordinated vulnerability disclosure. The threat of legal action was cited by 60% of researchers as a reason they might not work with a vendor to disclose. Only 15% of researchers expected a bounty in return for disclosure, but 70% expected regular communication about the bug.”
According to Bugcrowd’s 2021 Ultimate Guide, 87% of organizations with their own VDP reported getting a critical vulnerability from it. But while 99% say they consider joining their VDP with a bug bounty program, only 79% say they actually pay researchers for “impactful findings.”
Because the problem becomes especially complicated with vulnerabilities in embedded, IoT products, the disclosure process should be standardized, said Brash. There must also be “a stick to enforce it,” on both the asset owner end and the OEM product developer end. He envisions a registry for embedded IoT products like the ones for car recalls. “I believe it should be on the vendor’s and system integrator’s plate to make sure an asset owner is at least informed of a vulnerability in their asset. Like with a car recall, the owner can then decide to accept the risk, get it fixed, or buy a different product.” > This article was originally published on our sister site, EE Times.
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https://www.embedded.com/arcane-complex-vulnerability-disclosure-programs-hinder-security/
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A private high school in Illinois was recently the victim of a targeted DDoS. The culprit: a 14-year old student who now is facing potential criminal charges. Seems a familiar story, yes?
How are schools supposed to manage public social profiles created for them (with or without their consent or knowledge) on major technology platforms? It’s a recipe for mischief as recent stories illustrate (“These Virginia school names got a strange makeover in Google searches“, “Little Miami High School profile hacked on Google“).
When schools select software with no regard for student privacy or security, students *should* speak up and demand better (“Exam Software Sparks Law Center Student Backlash“). This isn’t a new issue, but a notable challenge to the practice.
I’m pretty sure this article from Australia (“How hackers are getting inside our kids’ classrooms“) includes all of the most common hacker tropes, coupled with some interesting technical claims. Having said that, if schools are running open, unsecured WiFi networks, they are asking for capital-T Trouble.
Fortnite is popular. Really popular. So popular its now attracting some unwanted attention (“A Sexual Predator Is Allegedly Extorting Kids for Explicit Photos in ‘Fortnite’“). Be sure kids are equipped to seek help if things go wrong.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) takes aim at Google’s conflicts of interest in determining the default features available in its Chrome browser: “Google Chrome, the largest browser in the world, has no built-in tracker blocker, nor has the company indicated any plans to build one.” (“Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line“).
Blockchain is (not) the future of education (“Chinese headmaster fired after stealing school’s electricity to mine cryptocurrencies“). And, speaking of China: “China’s brightest children are being recruited to develop AI ‘killer bots,’” which is really quite the lede.
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https://k12cybersecure.com/blog/k-12-cybersecurity-news-you-can-use-november-15-2018/
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Integrity: We are committed to protecting the value of clinical care across the pharmaceutical system. We are truthful and honest in our commitments with all our partners.
Inclusion: We advocate for change that benefits us all, a smarter system that works together. We embrace our differences as well as the unique perspectives our employees and partners bring with them.
Access: We are focused on breaking down barriers to bring choice back to the healthcare experience. We want to help all our partners get the right prescription care at the right cost.
Accountability: We take ownership of the quality of our work and the outcomes we deliver. Our focus is on delivering a best-in-class experience for our partners while achieving bold targets.
Progress: We believe in moving healthcare forward in everything we do. We strive for a culture that is innovating better ways to deliver pharmaceutical care.
Job Description
Waltz Health is looking for an experienced Information Security Specialist to become part of a rapidly growing healthcare company that delivers innovative consumer-based services that deliver affordable pharmacy-based healthcare. The Waltz Health Information Security Specialist implements and maintains the information security architectures and solutions for the organization. Provides security design assistance on new products and internally - developed projects.
You will be reporting to the CISO. You will:
Plan, define, and maintain policies, standards, configuration, and operation procedures and guidelines regarding security, identity, and access.
Monitor data security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Ensure compliance with industry security program policies and standards such as SOC 2, NIST CSF, and HITRUST.
Identify probable system exposure, compromise, problems, or design flaws.
Implement new security infrastructure architecture or design changes.
You will be successful because you have these skills and traits:
Are able to collaborate with business stakeholders to promote security program awareness and associate education.
Engage industry user communities to leverage best practices, identify emerging cyber threats and industry forums.
Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of current information risk assessment techniques, required.
Working knowledge of IT standards, federal and state compliance regulations, and security frameworks including HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, ISO27001, and PCI-DSS are required.
Are enthusiastic, positive, and hardworking.
Are flexible with job roles and responsibilities – i.e. be willing to jump into new projects and have a scrappy start-up mentality.
Are a clear communicator who is comfortable working with all levels of the organization.
Thrive working independently, autonomously, and can adapt to changing needs of a growing company.
Are able to think effectively, critically and creatively.
Bachelor’s Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
5 years progressively responsible information security assessment or audit experience, required.
Benefits for Full-Time Employees
Ground floor opportunity with one of the fastest-growing startups in health tech.
Competitive compensation, including meaningful stock options.
Flexible vacation and a work culture that allows for taking time to recharge.
Medical, dental, vision, 401K, commuter benefits, and more.
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https://simplify.jobs/p/932c353c-e962-42b7-b5d0-e56659734077/Information-Security-Specialist
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Today we are going to test the ESET 2022 version.
ESET is a company based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Very popular with gamers because it is very light, ESET has relied on the Cloud Reputation for its version 2022.
Besides, I didn't find it very efficient... but it's the beginning...
It's already a good thing that ESET integrates this module, but its operation is strange. I think the best would have been a Sandboxing system like Avast, or like Kaspersky's, allowing the launch and then monitoring the behavior to prevent infection...
Thanks for testing, it is much appreciated.
Just some observations, all ESET products has reputation cloud based protection and that is some thing that has been present for years (LiveGrind), what is new is the LiveGuard module, it is somewhat a cloud detonation sandbox for new and/or untrusted files.
ESET does behavior blocking like Kaspersky too, albeit it is not so much capable, ESET "pure" behavior blocker is not that mature, but combined with all modules and best-in-class signatures and heuristics it is more than enough.
Personally I would classify Bitdefender, ESET and Kaspersky as the top 3 mainstream paid solutions and Emsisoft, F-Secure and G-Data as the top 3 paid niche solutions, I would easily use and recommend any of those.
Real-time protection is always disabled for extraction and analysis of the pack.
Then I make sure everything is enabled to continue.
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1/ 🚨 A recent surge in phishing scams via Google search ads has led to users losing approximately $4 million.
ScamSniffer has investigated multiple cases where users clicked on malicious ads and were directed to fraudulent websites.#PhishingScams #GoogleAds pic.twitter.com/vuKCgSuFnV
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Raymond Malinay-Lopez spoke out about his experience with online bullying after a photo of him labeled as someone who has HIV circulated in Facebook early this month. The viral photo, which was uploaded last July 4, had the logo of his school and the AIDS Society of the Philippines. It included a warning that said he “has intentionally been spreading the HIV virus by promiscuous sexual acts.” Turning to the same website where he was victimized, Lopez posted a long status message on Facebook to fight back.
“What a strong accusation. I was so shocked, everyone is calling on my mobile. Hundreds of Facebook messages, phone messages telling me if it’s true. I saw the images and everyone sent me the link,” he said. “No one deserves to have their name slandered over social media in that manner, and such hate speech ought to stop,” he added. To finally clear the issue, Lopez posted a photo of a document from the Bernardo Social Hygiene Clinic in Quezon City showing that he does not have HIV.
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Google’s Project Zero cybersecurity research unit on Thursday announced that it’s making some changes to its vulnerability disclosure policies, giving users 30 days to install patches before disclosing the technical details of a flaw.
Project Zero has announced three major changes to its vulnerability disclosure policy in 2021, compared to 2020. Until now, if Project Zero researchers found a security hole in a product, it was disclosed after exactly 90 days, regardless of when a patch was released or whether a patch was available at all. The impacted vendor could request a 14-day grace period and disclosure could happen earlier based on a mutual agreement.
For 2021, the disclosure deadline of 90 days remains unchanged, but if the vulnerability is patched within that 90-day timeframe, technical details will only be made public 30 days after the release of a fix, to give users time to install the patch. The 14-day grace period can still be requested by the vendor.
In the case of actively exploited vulnerabilities, technical details have been disclosed 7 days after the initial report, even if the bug hasn’t been fixed, and vendors could not request a grace period before disclosure.
Starting now, if the vendor manages to patch the vulnerability within 7 days, technical details will only be disclosed 30 days after the fix is released. The goal is to give users more time to install the patch and avoid scenarios where other threat actors could use the disclosed information for their attacks. In addition, vendors will be able to request a 3-day grace period for vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.
Another change is related to disclosure during the 14-day grace ..
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Ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming sophisticated and costly. Analysts predict that there will be a ransomware attack every 2 seconds by the end of 2031. To support an organization’s cyber resilience requirements, IT teams must overcome significant limitations of legacy point products and siloed data infrastructure.
Join technology experts from Cohesity & HPE to explore why organizations need a modern approach to cyber resilience for their hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Maxime Ingrao, a security researcher at Evina, has discovered a new family of malware that can infect Android apps via Google Play.
Ονομάζεται Autolycos (Αυτόλυκος) — από την eponymous Greek mythological figure, known for her mastery of theft and deception. This is exactly what malware does.
Since June 2021, Ingrao has identified eight infected apps on the Play Store — which have been downloaded more than three million times.
The way the malware works makes it difficult for Google to distinguish infected apps from normal ones. This is also the reason why it has not been detected for so long.
To scam as many users as possible, the scammers behind Autolycos promote the apps on Facebook and Instagram pages.
Ingrao identified 74 ad campaigns for one of the infected apps: the Razer Keyboard & Theme app.
3. It interferes with the privacy and individual and social rights of other users.
4. Advertises products or services or websites.
5. Contains personal information (address, phone, etc.).
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10/04/2009 · So a wheel width of 9 inches would be connected to the wheel hub 4.5 inches “into” the wheel. With a positive offset though, the wheel is connected to the hub closer to the outside of the wheel. So a wheel with a “30” offset would be connected to the wheel hub 4.5 inches
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Fellow ISC Handler Tom Liston already covered the emergence of hacked DNS zones (What's In A Name) a couple weeks ago. Back then, the majority of the sites that we found affected by the problem were used to peddle porn and enhancement pills. Not so anymore - the current round of hacked zone files now leads to malware. [Yes, malware. So if you go investigating any of the hostile sites mentioned here on your own .. don't blame us for what happens to your computer]
The problem is only slowly starting to surface in the Google search results, but it is plenty evident in passive DNS loggers like RUS-CERT's: http://www.bfk.de/bfk_dnslogger.html?query=91.196.216.50#result
The domains affected have been abused for the past several days to push copies of the BlackHole Exploit Kit. The IP range used changes about every three, four days:
Note how the exploit code politely checks which version of Java is present, and only launches the exploit on Java installations that are not running the very latest update. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case for the majority of Java deployments out there. Today, almost two weeks after this latest wave of exploits started, the exploit code for CVE2011-3544 is still only detected by roughly half the anti-virus companies onVirusTotal.
Also note the encoded parameter passed to the Java applet (param name='p' value='e00..'). This passes the URL of the next stage executable to the applet, and specifies which EXE the applet should download and run once the exploit is successful. The URL is encoded with a mechanism that uses a lookup table to map between encoded and cleartext characters, but can be reversed by looking at the (heavily obfuscated) source code of v1.class.
The file names v1.jar and v1.class have been used by this exploit kit for a couple days now. In case you are wondering about infections in your company and you have a decent proxy log, searching for downloads of v1.jar, followed by a later download of an executable .. well, will tell you that you've been had. (Not finding anything is though no guarantee of course that you have NOT been had .. there are several other file names in use by the exploit).
While the Java exploit for CVE2011-3544 isn't the only one in the kit, it is likely by far the most successful for the bad guys at the moment. Considering the malware mess that Java vulnerabilities have caused for PC users in the past several months, any continued advice to patch it seems cynical at best. If you have to keep it installed, by all means, patch it. But if you can get away with it, the better option is to throw Java off your computer completely. Chances are high you won't miss it.
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Scareware is a type of cyberattack that involves hackers scaring people into downloading malware by clicking on malicious links or visiting infected websites. For example, many hackers use scareware to scam users into thinking that their devices are infected and make them buy scam software for protection. In most cases, hackers initiate their scareware attacks by displaying fear-inducing messages as pop-ups on the users’ screens, with text that tells them that they are under attack or have been infected with malware and need to act now. In reality, the scam software that users download from these pop-ups is malware that is programmed to steal the user’s personal data.
Hackers also distribute scareware via spam email and notifications, which appear on your screen from nowhere and in large quantities, offering you software and services from rogue security companies. So if you suddenly start receiving emails or see banners on your screen telling you that your device has malware on it and offering you software to remove it, then you are most likely the target of a scareware attack.
In 2010, The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper unknowingly began placing scareware pop-ups on its website as Best Western Hotels ads, which redirected visitors to fake websites that infected their devices with malware.
In 2019, Office Depot and Support.com paid a settlement of $35 million because they admitted to knowingly offering a fake antivirus program to their customers by sending them messages that their devices were in danger. They used scareware to steal valuable information from the victims and sell it to other companies.
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Today’s a good day to ditch your bulky laptop and upgrade to Microsoft’s stunning Surface 2-in-1. The Microsoft Store is selling a Core i5 version of the Surface Pro 6 for just $1,000Remove non-product link, complete with a fancy Type Cover keyboard thrown in. That’s $330 off the list price for the two items, and thus a really great deal.
This particular Surface Pro 6 features an eighth-generation Intel Core i5 processor, a 256GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM. That’s not a bad combination at all for a laptop-y tablet you can use while out and about town or traveling. The Surface Pro 6 is rocking a 12.3-inch display with 2736-by-1824 resolution (267 pixels per inch). It also has one USB 3.0 port, headphone jack, microSDXC slot, and a mini DisplayPort.
We reviewed the Surface Pro 6 back in October, awarding it with an odd “average” star rating of 3.5 out of 5 while still marking it as an Editors’ Choice product. That’s because this tablet doesn’t do much to advance the Surface line compared to its predecessors, but it still offers great battery life with solid performance, and the Surface design is still excellent.
Overall, it’s hard to go wrong with the Surface Pro 6, but some people do find the Type Cover unsatisfying to use. We found the keys to be a bit stiff, although it’s still very usable for long periods. If you’ve been considering swapping out your laptop for Microsoft’s sleek 2-in-1, make your move while this deal’s still going on.
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Cybersecurity for manufacturing is a fundamental business consideration that organizations in the industry can no longer afford to ignore.
Manufacturing is fraught with operational and regulatory risks, loss, theft, cybersecurity and political unrest across a global supply chain. These risks are often responsible for a production halt, costing organizations’ and their partners millions of dollars.
With the emergence of new technologies both as a deliverable and within the supply chain, cybersecurity for manufacturing has never been a bigger concern.
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Cybersecurity for manufacturing companies is essential for protecting sensitive data and systems from cyber attacks. These attacks can come in many forms, such as viruses, malware, and hacking, and they can cause significant damage to a company's operations and bottom line. By implementing strong cybersecurity measures, manufacturing companies can reduce the risk of these attacks and keep their sensitive data and systems safe. This can help the company maintain its competitive advantage and avoid costly disruptions to its operations.
Manufacturing companies generate and collect a lot of sensitive data, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and customer information. This data is valuable not only to the company but also to potential attackers who may want to steal it for their own gain. Cybersecurity measures help protect this data from being accessed or stolen by unauthorized parties.
Additionally, manufacturing companies often rely on complex and interconnected systems to operate their businesses. These systems include everything from production and supply chain management to product development and quality control. If these systems are compromised, it can disrupt the company's operations and cause significant financial losses. Cybersecurity measures help prevent these attacks and keep the company's systems running smoothly.
Furthermore, cyber attacks can damage a company's reputation and trust with its customers. If a manufacturing company experiences a data breach or other cyber attack, it can harm the company's reputation and cause customers to lose trust in the company. This can lead to a loss of business and revenue. By implementing strong cybersecurity measures, manufacturing companies can protect their reputations and maintain the trust of their customers.
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Risk assessments should be carried out before an activity to identify and minimize potential hazards before occurring. The risk assessment for a water play activity should include the risks, the identified potential hazards, who are actually at risk, the level of risk after evaluation and the appropriate action to be taken to minimize the risk or hazard.
The risk assessment that was carried out for the outdoor activity I have called ‘puddle play’, was for children between the age of 3 and 4 years. However this risk assessment will change according to the children’s age, developmental level and abilities. For example the suitable depth of water in the puddles would be different for a baby of 9 months old to a child of 4 years. This is because there is an increasing chance of the younger child drowning than the older child because the older child has a higher sense of danger.
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NIIT University is offering a future-proof B.Tech program in computer science engineering with specialisation in cutting-edge technology. The future-ready curriculum is designed to help students connect with multiple dimensions of the tech and business environment.
The curriculum of the program focuses on ensuring that the students are part of future careers. The B.Tech in computer science engineering emphasises on digital transformation technologies. It is designed to provide an overview to students on computing along with an understanding of concepts and principles, and skills. The curriculum includes big specialisation in Big Data engineering, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud Computing.
The president and vice-chancellor at NIIT University, Dr Prabhu Aggarwal said, "NIIT University is playing a pivotal role in building competencies for the future to meet the requirements of the industry. These BTech programs have been designed to make the students future-ready and offer recession-proof careers in today’s evolving work environment.”
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Ransomware is a worldwide threat, targeting large corporations down to home users. But in a disturbing trend, attacks are frequently being committed against all levels of local governments, from the city of Atlanta, Georgia to school systems in Montana and South Carolina. Ransom demands in these cases range from several hundred to tens of thousands of dollars to unencrypt the data.
As Maureen Gray, COO of Blue Ridge Networks, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm, explains, it’s a matter of opportunity. “To a hacker, they seem like the proverbial ‘low-hanging fruit.’ Local governments may not have the same level of cybersecurity as state or federal agencies or large corporations can employ, as they just don’t have the same funding available,” Gray explained.
Governments have the additional burden of delivering uninterrupted services to the public. A hack can interfere with operations from licensing and trash collection all the way to public safety and health. So, some local governments have chosen to pay the ransom.
That goes against the recommendations of law enforcement and many cybersecurity experts. But, if it comes down to a few thousand dollars versus spending millions to recreate the data and recover from the hack, why not just pay up?
Gray said there are two key reasons. “First, it encourages the hackers to continue trying to extort money from you and other victims. Second, there’s no guarantee you’ll get your data back, your systems are still compromised, and realistically, you’ll still have weeks or months of cleanup to do.”
No one is immune to these threats, Gray said, but added that including a layer of defense on top of common security best practices can mitigate these types of breaches. “Typically, the first step in cyber best practices is to seriously examine your network for obvious vulnerabilities. Are you running the latest operating systems everywhere, and have all security patches been applied? Are your users’ passwords strong? Is your data regularly backed up? And are you engaging your users to help maintain security?” Often, the answer to a lot of these questions is no. Updating, patching, and backing up data are all time-consuming and tedious tasks that even some of the largest organizations’ IT teams have trouble keeping up with. To alleviate some of the strain, organizations need to look to implement a non-intrusive breach prevention system that mitigates these vulnerabilities without depending on critical security patches, scanning, or updates.
A good deal of malware gets onto a network through a simple click – a user clicks on a link in an email or visits a website that downloads code to the user’s system. That code proliferates quickly, often spreading throughout the network in a matter of minutes.
The risks are increased by mobile device usage. “Smartphones, tablets and laptops come in and out of the network from both employees and third-party vendors or contractors,” Gray said, “and that means more opportunities for malicious code to slip past the network’s protections.” She also pointed to home computers and USB flash drives as a source of attacks. “If you log in remotely or copy files from an infected system and move them onto a clean one, it opens the door to a ransomware attack.”
For local governments looking to step up their cybersecurity posture, Gray says security tools need to keep up with the attacks. She suggests that endpoint security should be considered as part of the strategy. “By implementing a breach prevention tool that stops breaches before a compromise occurs, without the need for scanning or detection, you can render malicious code harmless early and actively prevent it from executing and doing any damage to the enterprise network.”
Her advice to local governments? “Think of security as a way of life,” Gray explained, “It’s an ongoing battle, but in the end, the right policy, the right tools and the right attitude from your users can give you the advantage.”
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Managing project risk is a project manager’s responsibility. The project manager may first identify or recognize risks, but the project team working on them together should decide how to manage those risks and mitigate them as much as possible. In project management, the project risk management process is a project life cycle activity whose primary function is to identify project risks and evaluate the likelihood of their occurrence. It also attempts to quantify each project risk’s effect on both project objectives and constraints.
Many project managers make the project risk management process their strategic project planning and preparation for the project team. Team members will use it to determine if a project is feasible or not. This way, they would already know whether they need to proceed with the project or not.
How project risk management today is different from project risk management in the past. Past project risk management processes relied heavily on expert judgment, but current project managers rely more on available tools and resources for project risk identification and analysis. These project management tools and project manager and project team knowledge of those tasks that have risks can help manage project risks more effectively.
This project risk management article provides you with an opportunity to dig deeper into the management risk of projects and discover ways to manage project risks effectively.
1. Involve Project Team in the Risk Management Process
The project team needs to be involved in identifying, analyzing, and evaluating project risks. In this process, the Project Manager is responsible for delivering information to stakeholders for their collective review and acceptance. The project manager will need to evaluate risk identification and analyze risks while ensuring consideration of all perspectives.
The identification process should not be done in isolation as it will likely result in oversights of foreseeable problems. Risk identification should always involve input from project stakeholders such that they can provide feedback on suggestions. There is an involvement of all project teams, also knows as stakeholders, in identifying project risks.
If the project implementation team isn’t a part of project risk identification, project consensus will likely be issues regarding project milestones and associated risks. The team is an integral part of project risk identification. They’re the best people to identify and recommend actions that will reduce project risks.
The project implementation team is responsible for creating project deliverables as defined by the project manager. This project team is also responsible for ensuring project success. The project team should be involved in all project planning activities, including project risk management, affecting their performance and success.
Ensure all risks are clearly defined and communicated to all project stakeholders. A clear understanding of the project risks helps everyone on the implementation team carry out project responsibilities.
2. Clearly Define your Project’s Objectives
Before you start the project risk management process, you need to define your project’s objectives clearly. The project objectives should be realistic and attainable with the resources available. It is essential to identify your project’s primary goals and what risks the project needs to mitigate. A project plan specifies how you will achieve these objectives.
Setting project objectives before project risk management allows for a project plan based on realistic expectations. There are factors to consider when undertaking your next project. It fits with the company’s overall strategic plan is crucial, but equally significant is planning for any problems concerning confidentiality, security standards, stakeholder management, or even intellectual property infringement.
As the definition of risk in ISO 31000: 2018 defining risk as effects of uncertainty in objectives. Assess project objectives to determine any events that can affect the success of the project. While project objectives are easy to define, project success is more challenging to decide on, and it needs consideration of several factors, especially a risk assessment.
3. Identify Potential Risks that might Inhibit your ability to meet those Objectives
When preparing a project for the uncertainty involved in its success, the first step is to identify all potential risks. Identification is carried out by compiling them into a project risk register and then assessing whether or not they are likely with an appropriate probability rating and what would happen if those risks came true.
Before embarking on any project, the first thing you want to do is risk identification through your Project Risk Register. It would help if you considered natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, storms, human error. It may result in equipment failure, financial setbacks due to lack of funding, inability to find suitable contractors or workers at certain times during construction phases, and many more situations arising out of uncertain events outside our control which might affect.
Identifying potential risks will ensure that projects are fully understood and measures put in place to mitigate the risk and allow for an overall smoother business process. Furthermore, it is essential as a leader or manager to understand your employees’ perspectives to create opportunities for them when they need help with their workload.
Identification of these risks isn’t just about mitigating what could happen. Identifying the many different issues at hand ensures that our company remains successful by understanding where we may be lacking and how this impacts others on various levels. It is essential before it becomes too costly- both financially and emotionally.
4. Assess Key Risks for Mitigation
It is necessary to assess risks to plan for contingencies and prevent “worst-case scenarios.” When identifying the risks of a project, there are three primary categories for risks. They are systematic, reputational, and technical. Systematic risks often arise from mistakes or flaws in the business processes that govern a specific industry or are widespread across sectors. Reputational risk can cause customers, partners, or regulators to refrain from doing business with you due to the negative press of your organization. Technical risk is the risk that changes in technology or adverse events will interrupt production while seeking out competitive advantage, causing a reduction in business viability.
First, you have to assess the risks inherent in each vital component of your project. Scope risk is how likely there’ll be a need for changes or additional work due to scope creep. Quality Risk has two features: quality issues and testing errors. The more time spent on these tasks will mean fewer opportunities available for bugs like this to crop up later during development stages which are much more complex (and take longer) than fixing them early on when they’re more accessible and less costly.
Project managers are always on their toes when assessing and mitigating risk for an upcoming project. They need to look at all times about what could go wrong with a project. They have learned lessons from previous projects and know the importance of being prepared for any eventuality.
5. Document any Identified Risks
The best way to identify, document, and manage risks is by using a risk register. The risk register will be in the form of excel or word documents to assist the risk population. A risk register is a tool used in risk management. Project risks need management buy to identify risk owners for potential threats. New risks identified need management action
A trade-off needs between the predictive accuracy of a management plan and the level of implementation required in the organization to support it. Risk planning and identification are most effective when they focus on the probability that something will happen rather than only identifying what might go wrong if it did (Issue Register). The project’s risk register outlines the various types of risks in a project.
Documenting risks is a crucial part of any project for many reasons. One reason to establish your risk management plan is to have an accurate account if something does go wrong. However, it also helps identify factors and variables in the planning process which may need attention or change.
It’s important to review all identified risks carefully. There are no assurances on what will occur when we take action on our goals, be they personal ones such as fitness goals or professional ones like client acquisition. Documenting potential pitfalls allows us time now (or at least forewarning) instead of scrambling later with nothing prepared should tragedy strike unexpectedly–which sadly happens more often than not!
6. Evaluate the Probability and Impact for each Identified Risk
To determine how to best combat a project’s risks, one should first evaluate the risk before deciding whether it can be reduced or eliminated. Assessing the probability and impact of each of these identified risks can keep your projects safe from harm. Consider what you can do to lower or eliminate those specific threats before moving on.
It’s crucial when analyzing all potential threats that we consider both the likelihood of occurrence and severity if they do occur because different factors will have varying effects depending upon which category. For example, low probability but high-impact fallout warrants immediate intervention; conversely, the probability is higher than impacts so long as actions to reduce those chances further down.
Evaluating the probability and impact for each identified risk is essential in determining how to best combat a project’s risks by understanding how risk affects your project as well as its likelihood of happening.
7. Prioritize Risks
Risks have three levels of impact on a project: high, medium, and low. High risks are prioritized first, with budgets and resources to mitigate their effects given priority. A risk is ranked high if it has a catastrophic impact on the project objectives. An example of such a risk event is building an app dependent on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. If anything is happening at these companies, this could be classified under high-level risks. Similarly, security vulnerabilities also constitute a “high” ranking because they create substantial threats against our digital assets that need protection through mitigation techniques before any damage occurs.
The mitigations chosen to improve controls needs monitoring, and we’ll use the data gathered from these actions to determine what level of risk is acceptable for our company.
9. Monitor& Track Key Project Risks
The crucial step in dealing with project risks is to monitor and track them continuously. Without a clear awareness of the state and trends of these risks, the risk management strategy becomes opaque and irrelevant- neither valuable nor helpful. Benefits of proactive attitude, it’s necessary to figure out how to regularly identify, assess, prioritize and communicate project risks while still at an early phase.
Monitoring risks is a crucial part of managing them. But before addressing the key project risks, it is necessary to understand what they are and how to identify them.
Risks occur when an event can create negative impacts on our business objectives or results in possible losses. Risks are classified into four categories; strategic risk, financial risk, operational risk, and compliance risk .
Through each phase of a project come different types of risks – environmental, cost escalation due to delivery delays from suppliers. It’s easier to manage these risks as soon as we know what we’re trying to control – whether it’s process monitoring or tracking specific goals. It ensures that adjustments happen on time and that coverage
It monitors and tracks key project risks; it’s essential to analyze them thoroughly. For example, if a threat was “vendor falls through,” what could it cause? Defects in your product. So you might want to have contingency plans in place for that scenario. One of these steps would be re-pricing your products with different vendors who may need less time or work than others.
The critical point to remember is that managing risks is not about being perfect- it’s about doing your best. As long as you identify and monitor them, the proper steps are taken when necessary. It’s also worth mentioning that if any of these strategies seem too overwhelming for you or your team, we’re always here to help! We’ll work to ensure to create a system that minimizes risk and maximizes results.
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Ever since the casinos established worldwide, these have been one of the main targets for thieves and burglars. As casinos involve regular monetary transactions, these act as perfect targets for robbers. With the constant rise in the interference of third parties, particularly the fraudsters, a majority of the casino companies integrated high-standard security and even recruited loss prevention officers to prevent the unauthorised access to their casino, to help their customer play with cozino.com/dk without being afraid. As online casinos have established now, the threat from these scammers remains even, only the landscape has altered.
Cybersecurity, in such platforms, plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of your online casino platform. Here’s how cybersecurity could be of great use for protecting your online casinos.
The Risk of Hacking
According to the research, most of the casino industries that don’t have a robust security system are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Here, taking preventive measures is not only important to prevent loopholes and access to the third party but it is equally essential to keep up the trust of your customers in your casino. This is because, the casinos that are vulnerable to cyber attacks are probably disclosing the customer’s confidential details to the fraudsters, who might utilise these details to either hack customers financial details or harm their casino accounts. Apart from the responsibility of the casino sites to protect the data of their customers, there are several reasons why these online companies should opt for tight security.
The trust and reputation that a particular casino has gained over time will just vanish in a split second if it is hacked. This will harm the overall goodwill of a casino.
In addition to customer’s security, the loss prevention is also an essential factor which could save millions to the online gaming industry. Having an insecure website and mobile applications, casino industries are allowing potential losses. In fact, such insecure websites can even cause substantial losses to the casinos. Hence, to avoid exposing your confidential casino details to the third party, opting for cybersecurity loss prevention system is worth it.
Cybersecurity isn’t that simple how it looks as it makes your system more complicated, increasing the pressure on casino operators. However, nothing could be worse than exposing your casino details to the hackers. So invest in cybersecurity right now and provide a safer experience to your customers.
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Before starting my review of the day, I would like to thank the author for sending the e-copy of the book to me in exchange of an honest review. (that didn’t affect my opinions or thoughts in any way) 😁 “A suspense novel from page one, and you never knew which way the character or storyline was going to go.” –Reading Is My Remedy
Kenny Elliot has decided to quit his job as a police detective with a knack for perceiving things beyond the scope of ordinary people. He dreams of leading a normal life with Carmen, the woman he loves, and the mother of his child. But when the pastor of his church asks for his help, he discovers that a fellow police officer, David Yates, has gotten himself into a jam that only someone like Elliot can handle.
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Bob Avey is the author of the Detective Elliot mystery series, which includes, Twisted Perception (2006), and Beneath a Buried House (2008). In addition, he has published various short stories and non-fiction articles. He lives with his wife and son in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma where he works as an accountant in the petroleum industry.
When he’s not writing, reading, or researching crime, and crime scene investigation, he spends his time roaming through ghost towns searching for echoes from the past. Through his writing, which he describes as a blend of literary and genre, he explores the intricacies and extremities of human nature.
Bob is a member of The Tulsa NightWriters, The Oklahoma Writers Federation (active board member for 2006), The Oklahoma Mystery Writers, and Mystery Writers of America.
When I read the synopsis of this book, I wasn’t quite sure of what to expect from it. It said that Detective Eliot has a knack for perceiving things beyond the scope of ordinary people, I didn’t think much of it really, like I thought maybe it was just ,you know, normal stuff?!?!
However, upon reading the first few chapters, I discovered that’s not the case! There’s really some weird things happening right there, like really weird! I won’t say anything specific because I want this to be a spoiler-free review, but let’s just say that the plot itself is something that just don’t can’t happen everyday! as far as I know at least and that was what captured my attention and made me wonder if such things can happen… I’m still wondering, I shouldn’t think too much of it since it’s a work of fiction and all, but I’m just Curious to know!
Kenny is a Tulsa detective who wants to quit his current job and start a new normal life with his family. Though, his boss won’t accept his letter of resignation because, even though he’s not really the best cop out there, he managed to come out on top in various cases that no one could ever solve. Kenny is the kind of cops who works alone with an unorthodox style, relying more on instinct and intuition than hard facts. In fact, he’s usually if not always relying on his gut-feelings throughout the whole book, and it was kinda odd reading a story about a detective who does something because he knew/felt like it was the right thing to do, because somehow he’s just attracted to it.
Hope y’all enjoyed reading my tiny review!….. and see ya! 👋 *I’m a BD affiliate so every time you purchase something through my link, I’ll get a small commission at no extra price for you. Thank you! 💖
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Decree 285 of May 28, 2021, that regulates Law 81 of 2019.
The great value of this legislation, now regulated by Decree 285 of May 28, 2021, is in its comprehensive intention, since it is not directed at a specific sector, but to any enterprise, business or profession that manages a database from Panama and maintains personal data. Its content is even extensive, as a general regime and minimum standard of compliance, to entities in regulated sectors such as banks, insurance companies, financial institutions and telephone companies. Therefore, it is of vital importance to have knowledge of it.
This decree regulates Law 81 of 2019 and elaborates on those aspects that were not specified up until now, for example, the standards for graduated sanctions, considering factors such as intentionality, recidivism, damage caused, nature, amount and length of time the infringement lasted; all of which makes it possible to impose the corresponding sanctions on a proportional basis. The regulation also stipulates that every person must be warned about his or her rights (access, rectification, cancellation and opposition) (ARCO) before giving consent for the use of his or her personal data so that his or her consent is considered informed and unequivocal.
In addition, the data protection officer, his profile and functions are contemplated. It should be noted that, while it is not mandatory for private sector companies to appoint a data protection officer, their appointment will be taken into consideration for the graduation of sanctions.
Another important aspect addressed in Decree 285 is that of cross-border data transfers. Here the parameters for transferring data between countries are established, applying the concept of “adequate guarantees”, such as clauses between the agent who transfers the data and the agent who receives it, according to models of contractual clauses that are validated by the controlling authority, that is, the National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information (ANTAI).
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has likened the fear of cyber crime to the levels of panic seen during Cold War.
Speaking in Sydney, Australia, he said: “We used to fear the atomic bomb when I was young, and you used to come home from school and sirens would go off for a test on every corner.
“Now we fear all the cyber attacks and hacking. What’s the next one we’re going to hear about?
“Is one going to come close to me? Is it going to hit me? Could they really take out our electrical system, take out our internet, how far can it go? And it’s getting worse and worse year by year, not better and better.”
But he said it was wrong for the US government to recently try to order Apple to unlock the phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
He also gave a warning about on-demand taxi app Uber
He said: “What if the FBI was able to go to any company, any time they felt like it and said you have to build a product our way? I don’t think that’s right.
“What if the FBI can’t get into a phone? They’ve still got all the records in this recent case, they’ve still got all the records from the phone company — of every communication that was made, of every SMS message that was sent.”
Mr Wozniak left his role as vice-president of research and development at Apple in the 1980s and sold most of his shares.
However he is still an employee of the company and receives an annual salary.
He also discussed on-demand taxi app Uber, saying he was concerned about how much it pays its drivers, and fears that it could become a monopoly.
He said: “Their drivers don’t really realise necessarily at first that they aren’t making much money and may be losing money on the wear and tear of their cars.
“It is a danger when any group becomes a very powerful monopoly because they can take advantage and use it in bad ways.”
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories uncovered a vulnerability in open source genome mapping software that has now been fixed by developers. Credit: Brent Haglund
A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a patch to fix the problem. The issue has also been fixed in the latest release of the software. While no attack from this vulnerability is known, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology recently described it in a note to software developers, genomics researchers and network administrators.
The discovery reveals that protecting genomic information involves more than safe storage of an individual's genetic information. The cybersecurity of computer systems analyzing genetic data is also crucial, said Corey Hudson, a bioinformatics researcher at Sandia who helped uncover the issue.
Personalized medicine—the process of using a patient's genetic information to guide medical treatment—involves two steps: sequencing the entire genetic content from a patient's cells and comparing that sequence to a standardized human genome. Through that comparison, doctors identify specific genetic changes in a patient that are linked to disease.
Genome sequencing starts with cutting and replicating a person's genetic information into millions of small pieces. Then a machine reads each piece numerous times and transforms images of the pieces into sequences of building blocks, commonly represented by the letters A, T, C and G. Finally, software collects those sequences and matches each snippet to its place on a standardized human genome sequence. One matching program used widely by personalized genomics researchers is called Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA).
Sandia researchers studying the cybersecurity of this program found a weak spot when the program imports the standardized genome from government servers. The standardized genome sequence traveled over insecure channels, which created the opportunity for a common cyberattack called a "man-in-the-middle."
In this attack, an adversary or a hacker could intercept the standard genome sequence and then transmit it to a BWA user along with a malicious program that alters genetic information obtained from sequencing. The malware could then change a patient's raw genetic data during genome mapping, making the final analysis incorrect without anyone knowing it. Practically, this means doctors may prescribe a drug based on the genetic analysis that, had they had the correct information, they would have known would be ineffective or toxic to a patient.
Forensic labs and genome sequencing companies that also use this mapping software were temporarily vulnerable to having results maliciously altered in the same way. Information from direct-to-consumer genetic tests was not affected by this vulnerability because these tests use a different sequencing method than whole genome sequencing, Hudson said.
Security cybersleuths
To find this vulnerability, Hudson and his cybersecurity colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used a platform developed by Sandia called Emulytics to simulate the process of genome mapping. First, they imported genetic information simulated to resemble that from a sequencer. Then they had two servers send information to Emulytics. One provided a standard genome sequence and the other acted as the "man-in-the-middle" interceptor. The researchers mapped the sequencing results and compared results with and without an attack to see how the attack changed the final sequence.
"Once we discovered that this attack could change a patient's genetic information, we followed responsible disclosure," Hudson said. The researchers contacted the open source developers, who then issued a patch to fix the problem. They also contacted public agencies, including cybersecurity experts at the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, so they could more widely distribute information about this issue.
The research, funded by Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, continues testing other genome mapping software for security weaknesses. Differences between each computer program mean the researchers might find a similar, but not identical, issue, Hudson said. The LDRD funding also supports membership in the National Science Foundation's Center for Computational Biology and Genomic Medicine.
Along with installing the latest version of BWA, Hudson and his colleagues recommend other "cyberhygiene" strategies to secure genomic information, including transmitting data over encrypted channels and using software that protects sequencing data from being changed. They also encourage security researchers who routinely analyze open source software for weaknesses to look at genomics programs. This practice is common in industrial control systems in the energy grid and software used in critical infrastructure, Hudson said, but would be a new area for genomics security.
"Our goal is to make systems safer for people who use them by helping to develop best practices," he said.
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Researchers have disclosed details about a now-patched high-severity security flaw in Packagist, a PHP software package repository, that could have been exploited to mount software supply chain attacks.
"This vulnerability allows gaining control of Packagist," SonarSource researcher Thomas Chauchefoin said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Packagist is used by the PHP package manager Composer to determine and download software dependencies that are included by developers in their projects.
The disclosure comes as planting malware in open source repositories is turning into an attractive conduit for performing software supply chain attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2022-24828 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of command injection and is linked to another similar Composer bug (CVE-2021-29472) that came to light in April 2021, suggesting an inadequate patch.
"An attacker controlling a Git or Mercurial repository explicitly listed by URL in a project's composer.json can use specially crafted branch names to execute commands on the machine running composer update," Packagist disclosed in an April 2022 advisory.
A successful exploitation of the flaw meant that requests to update a package could have been hijacked to distribute malicious dependencies by executing arbitrary commands on the backend server running the official instance of Packagist.
"Compromising [the backend services] would allow attackers to force users to download backdoored software dependencies the next time they do a fresh install or an update of a Composer package," Chauchefoin explained.
That said, there is no evidence the vulnerability has been exploited to date. Fixes have been deployed in Composer versions 1.10.26, 2.2.12, and 2.3.5 after SonarSource reported the flaw on April 7, 2022.
Open source code has increasingly become a lucrative target of choice for threat actors owing to the ease with which they can be weaponized against the software supply chain.
Earlier this April, SonarSource also detailed a 15-year-old security flaw in the PEAR PHP repository that could permit an attacker to obtain unauthorized access and publish rogue packages and execute arbitrary code.
"While supply chains can take different forms, one of them is significantly more impactful: By gaining access to the servers distributing these third-party software components, threat actors can alter them to obtain a foothold in the systems of their users," Chauchefoin said.
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QUOTE: Last week, security researchers announced a new vulnerability for Android phones which could allow installed apps to be modified without the user being aware of it. Almost all Android devices are vulnerable, as the vulnerability has existed since Android 1.6 (Donut), and currently only the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been patched to protect against it. The vulnerability – known in some quarters as the “master key” vulnerability – has attracted considerable media attention, but it has not always been accurately reported. We have updated Trend Micro Mobile Security to protect our users, but at the same time we wish to clarify what’s going on, what the threat is, and what users can do.
The vulnerability is related to how Android apps are signed. All Android apps have a digital signature from their developer, which verifies that the app actually did come from the developer and was not modified en route. An app can only be updated if the new version has a matching signature from the same developer. This particular vulnerability is in that last step. What researchers have found is a way for attackers to update an already installed app even if they do not have the original developer’s signing key. In short, any installed app can be updated with a malicious version.
This vulnerability can be used to replace legitimate apps on an Android device with malicious versions. Apps with many permissions – like those from the phone’s manufacturer or the user’s service provider – are at particular risk. Once on the device, they can behave in the way that any malicious app would, except the user would think they were a completely legitimate app. For example, a modified/Trojanized app for a bank would continue to work for the user, but the credentials would have been sent to an attacker.
Recommendations
* Device owners should be extra cautious in identifying the publisher of the app they want to download.
* Enterprises with BYOD implementations should use this news to prompt all users to update their devices, and to highlight the importance of keeping their devices updated.
* IT should see this vulnerability as another driver to move beyond just device management to focus on deep device integrity checking and securing corporate data.
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We have found it to be clean of any form of badware (viruses, spyware, adware, etc.). You can view the full scan logs below.
We will test Prevent Restore again on the next version release so make sure you check back for updated reports in the near future.
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ECLS Command-line scanner, version 13.0.24.0, (C) 1992-2019 ESET, spol. s r.o.
Module loader, version 1018.1 (20190709), build 1054
Module perseus, version 1559.1 (20200123), build 2102
In order to keep your computer free of malware, we recommend that you always have an antivirus program installed, especially when downloading and installing new programs from the web. At least once a day, run its database update program. This will allow your antivirus to stay up to date with the latest badware threats and better protect your computer data.
If you don't have a powerful antivirus solution already protecting your computer, you should install one from our recommendations: Avast Free, AVG Free, Avira Free, Bitdefender, Kaspersky (50% Discount), NOD32.
2. Choose a safe web browser
An important aspect to keep in mind is what web browser you use. Most browser exploits and viruses target Internet Explorer so it's best you consider an alternative. The safest web browsers available Today are considered to be Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Besides being free, they are both fast, have pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, with privacy and security features. Give them a try: Download Mozilla Firefox or Download Google Chrome.
3. Learn more about securing your PC
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I was one of the ones that took the test when ISC2 had the longest delay in what felt like history for results. I think I was one of the only ones that failed when the results finally got released. 681... oh so close. Kick in the nuts to have to wait 6 weeks to just barely fail.
Whatever. That's life. Got back at it and scheduled the test the next day, brushed up on what I knew my weaknesses were. Halfway through the test I knew I was passing. I was breezing through the answers, around 150 questions and 2 hours in I took a break and had a snack. Finished up strong. Last 50 questions or so had me second guessing to the point where my entire mood changed. Flagged around 30 questions and only changed 3 or 4. Hit submit.
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Proverbs 6:6-11Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep, So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler And your need like an armed man.
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This page is committed on the elimination of browser hijacker named wOfficeMusic. To contribute to the said cause, this post contains areas for PC Removal Guide, Mac Removal Steps, and ways to Clean the browser settings.
wOfficeMusic is classified as browser hijacker because it can override settings on internet browser application like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Edge. This browser threat can accomplish such illicit changes against the will of computer user. wOfficeMusic targets the browser program and aims to replace user’s preferences on homepage, new tab pages, and search engine. After wOfficeMusic infects a computer, the mentioned browser areas will have Searchamz.info as the new default setup. This only means that all search queries of web user needs to pass-through the Searchamz.info server.
Assuming that web user runs the setup in Default mode, wOfficeMusic gets installed on the browser together with the host application. As mentioned earlier, wOfficeMusic will represent the homepage and other vital parts of internet program. The unwanted program is the new processor of user’s online search and therefore, do not expect to have decent search results while wOfficeMusic is controlling the browser.
Aside from unreliable search outcome, wOfficeMusic can be the ground for privacy theft as it can collect various data about web users and their online activities. It can log information such as favourite websites, browsing history, search keywords, IP address, and many more.
To sum up, it is clear that wOfficeMusic is a browser hijacker that invades online privacy of web user. Therefore, we suggest immediate removal of this unknown search tool. Guide to get rid of wOfficeMusic from infected computer is presented on the next section.
wOfficeMusic Removal Procedure for PC
Below is a systematic instruction that is very useful in getting rid of the potentially unwanted program (PUP) from compromised Windows computer. Aside from removing the malicious browser extension, this guide is also helpful in deleting internet hijacker and pop-ups.
In order to totally eliminate the threat, it is vital to follow the process in exact manner.
Quick Fix - Scan the PC with Combo Cleaner for Windows
Combo Cleaner is a trusted PC security and optimization tool equipped with powerful virus and malware detection engine. This program can get rid of browser hijacker like wOfficeMusic through this procedure.
1. Download the application from the following page:
4. At the end of the setup process, click Finish to run Combo Cleaner.
5. The tool will update the signature file, please wait for this process to complete.
6. To begin checking for threats like wOfficeMusic, click on the Start Scan button. Wait for this scan to finish.
7. At the end of the scan process, click on Remove all threats to delete wOfficeMusic hijacker including all malicious objects from the computer.
Free features of Combo Cleaner for Windows includes Disk Cleaner, Big Files finder, Duplicate files finder, and Uninstaller. To use antivirus, privacy scanner, and to delete identified threats, users have to upgrade to a premium version.
2. Type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar and press Enter on keyboard.
3. Find wOfficeMusic or relevant entry and remove it from Google Chrome browser.
3. Choose Extensions on sidebar menu.
4. Look for object that is pertaining to wOfficeMusic and remove it from the browser.
After deleting the malicious browser extension, it is expected that the hijacker is also gone from the homepage.
5. Press Windows Key + R and then, type appwiz.cpl command.
6. Program and Features window will open. Arrange the list in chronological manner with recently installed applications on top. To do this, click on 'Installed On' column.
7. Select wOfficeMusic or recently installed unwanted entry. Then, click on Uninstall to remove it from Windows system.
2. Once the download completes, browse the location of the file. Double-click to run the program and begin the install process.
3. On first windows of installation wizard, click Next to continue. Then, it will display the program’s License Agreement. You need to Accept the terms in order to proceed. If Windows prompts for User Account Control, please click Yes to proceed.
4. On succeeding windows, click Next or Continue to carry on with the installation. After completing the installation process, Launch Sophos Virus Removal Tool.
5. Internet connection is required when running this scanner in order to download important updates. Make sure that everything is up-to-date to effectively remove malicious program like wOfficeMusic.
6. Click the button to carry out the Scan. This will check the system for presence of malicious objects, malware, and viruses. The tool reveals items that were found linked to wOfficeMusic and other suspicious entities. Be sure to remove all identified threats.
The above procedures should have totally eliminated the wOfficeMusic browser hijacker. However, if you found that there are still remnants of the threat, please proceed to manual removal of associated objects as outlined below.
Step 3 : Scan and Delete Adware with AdwCleaner
In addition to the procedure, we suggest scanning the computer with AdwCleaner tool. Possibly, there are some traces of wOfficeMusic on the browser that was not deleted during the preceding steps. This tool will scan the computer and check for presence of malicious applications as well as invalid browser entries that produces hijacking, redirects, and pop-ups.
1. Follow the link below to download the tool called AdwCleaner.
» Download AdwCleaner
2. When the download has completed, please close all running programs on the computer especially browsers affected by wOfficeMusic.
3. Browse the location of the downloaded file and double-click on adwcleaner_Ver.exe to start running the tool. Then, click on Scan button.
4. AdwCleaner searches the computer for malicious programs, extensions, plug-ins, adware, and any items that may be associated to wOfficeMusic. It will also check for suspicious entries on browser settings that is associated with the hijacker.
5. Clean or Remove all suspicious and harmful items identified after the thorough scan.
6. After the cleanup procedure, rebooting the computer is required to finalize the removal of detected threats.
In addition to the procedures above, resetting the affected browser program and clearing the cache are extra methods to completely eliminate wOfficeMusic. You can execute the guide on resetting internet browser below.
Procedures to Remove wOfficeMusic from Mac
This section contains comprehensive guide for Mac users. It will help you remove the subject malicious browser extension from internet software. In the same manner, the procedure is helpful in stopping redirects, pop-ups, and browser hijacking activities.
Procedures on this page are written in a manner that can be easily understand and execute by Mac users.
Quick Fix - Scan the Mac Computer with Combo Cleaner
Combo Cleaner is a trusted Mac utility application with complete antivirus and optimization features. It is useful in dealing with adware, malware, and PUP's. Moreover, it can get rid of malicious browser extension like wOfficeMusic that is responsible for displaying unknown homepage and pop-ups.
To quickly remove wOfficeMusic without going through the complicated process, please click on the button to download the removal tool. You may need to purchase full version if you require to maximize its premium features.
1. Locate the add-on or extension that is relevant to the hijacker. To do this, please follow the following depending on affected browser.
Safari - Choose Preferences from the Safari menu, then click the Extensions icon. This will open a window showing all installed extensions.
Chrome - Select Preferences from the Chrome menu, and then click the Extensions link found on the left pane.
Firefox - Choose Add-ons from the Menu. Look at both the Extensions and Plug-ins lists when it opens a new window.
2. Once you have located wOfficeMusic or any relevant item, click on Remove or Uninstall, to get rid of it.
3. Close the browser and proceed to the next steps.
2. Go to your Finder. From the menu bar please select Go > Go to Folder...
3. Press Command + V on your keyboard to paste the copied string. Press Return to go to the said folder.
4. You will now see a folder named LaunchAgents. Take note of the following files inside the folder:
On some occassions, the malware is represented by a domain name that is closely related to the subject. Like in this case, it can be wOfficeMusic with associated .com, .net, .org, and so on .
If you cannot find the specified file, please look for any unfamiliar or suspicious entries. It may be the one causing wOfficeMusic to be present on your Mac. Arranging all items to see the most latest ones may also help you identify recently installed unfamiliar files. Please press Option + Command + 4 on your keyboard to arrange the application list in chronological order.
Important: Take note of all the suspicious files as you may also delete the same item on another folder as we go on.
5. Drag all suspicious files that you may find to Trash.
8. Look for any suspicious items that are similar to the ones in Step 4. Drag them to the Trash.
9. Repeat the process on the following non-hidden folders (without ~):
2. Run Malwarebytes Anti-malware for Mac. It will check for updates and download if most recent version is available. This is necessary in finding recent malware threats including the wOfficeMusic malware and browser hijacker and pop-up provider.
3. If it prompts to close all running web browser, please do so. Thus, we advise you to PRINT this guide for your reference before going offline.
4. Once it opens the user interface, please click on Scan button to start scanning your Mac computer.
5. After the scan, Malwarebytes Anti-malware for Mac will display a list of identified threats, wOfficeMusic is surely part of it. Be sure to select all items in the list. Then, click Remove button to clean the computer.
2. Select Users & Groups from the preferences window.
3. You may need to Unlock this area in order to make changes. Click on the Lock icon on lower left corner of the window.
4. Next, select user account that runs wOfficeMusic.
Some user complains that there is no way to change browser settings because it is grayed out by wOfficeMusic. In such situation, it is important to check if there is unwanted profile. Please do the following:
1. Quit any running applications and launch System Preferences from your Dock.
2. Under System Preferences, click Profiles.
3. Select , wOfficeMusic or any relevant profile from the left pane. See image below.
4. At the bottom of this window, click minus [-] button to delete the account. Please refer to image above.
5. Close the Profiles window and open the affected browser to change all settings associated with wOfficeMusic.
1. Open Google Chrome Internet browser.
2. On the address bar, type chrome://settings/reset and press Enter key.
3. Under Reset and clean up section, choose Restore settings to their original defaults.
4. Click Reset settings button to clear all entries of wOfficeMusic.
5. Close the existing tab and restart Google Chrome. That should have removed wOfficeMusic extension and associated objects.
Reset Mozilla Firefox to Default
This section describes how to remove unwanted extension from Firefox that may be related to wOfficeMusic. This process can fix many browser issues by restoring Firefox to factory settings without affecting your essential information (bookmarks, browsing history, passwords, and Internet cookies) on the browser. If you desire to remove only specific extension, please see manual removal of add-on from Firefox.
1. Input the string about:support on Firefox web address and press Enter on keyboard.
2. You will now see the Troubleshooting Information page of Mozilla Firefox.
3. You will notice a section on upper-right corner of the screen stating Give Firefox a tune up. Click the Refresh Firefox button.
4. If confirmation window appears, click Refresh Firefox to continue.
5. Firefox browser will close and start the resetting process. When done, it will display a list of restored data. wOfficeMusic should be gone by now. Click Finish to open a fresh version of Firefox.
4. Click on Manage Website Data button.
5. Select unwanted entry like wOfficeMusic and click the Remove button. If you choose to Remove All, you may be logout from most visited websites and online services. Therefore, we advise to remove suspicious item one at a time to prevent changing behavior towards your favorite websites.
6. If it prompts, please confirm your actions.
7. Next, we will need to clear the Cache. Back at the Safari Preferences window, choose Advanced tab.
8. Navigate to the bottom and activate Show Develop menu in menu bar.
14. Go back to Safari Preferences window and click on Search tab.
15. Select your desired Search tool under the Search engine section.
16. You may not restart Safari browser.
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https://malwarefixes.com/wofficemusic-virus/
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The Docker Official Images are a curated set of Docker repositories hosted on Docker Hub. They are designed to: Provide essential base OS repositories (for example, ubuntu, centos) that serve...
but, as a logged in user, I cannot see any vulnerability scanning results (check the links below).
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Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52858
Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079475.html
Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74608
Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1902
Url: https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-1902
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https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-1902
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Cevn Vibert is chair of the Cyber SIG (Special Interest Group) for the Institute of Measurement and Control. He has spent over 30 years in Industrial Control Systems (ICS/IACS/IIOT) and has been “industrial cyber”-focused for the last 20 of those; during his career he has launched and managed major UK Critical Infrastructure security projects and solutions, and cyber and physical security demo labs. As part of our “Cyber Spotlight” series of interviews, we asked Cevn for his thoughts on aspects of the cyber security sector.
Using ten words or fewer, sum up the UK’s current cyber security capabilities in your view.
I'd like to see greater provision of cyber apprenticeships. I’d like to see mobile ‘cyber buses’, actively taking the word out onto the streets and into organisations. I’d also like to see far more interconnectivity and joined-up thinking between groups of vendors, end users, systems integrators, government organisations and academia. For example, academia struggles with funding to get gadgets, vendors struggle to get the right kind of third party views and independent external input, end users struggle with resources, SIs struggle with resources and funding. If groups want to test real world cyber security, then how do they do this with appropriate budgets and a useful timescales? How can we securely network these resources together in an independently managed fashion? If a university needs devices from four different vendors, can they connect to them securely over this managed network and could they do this either for free or via an annual subscription?
Cyber security, physical security and operation security and resilience gamification should be much more widespread and accessible in a modular fashion. Multiple groups running security scenarios working as disparate-role teams have shown enormous benefit in cross-enterprise awareness.
Cyber security culture needs to be as high on the corporate agenda as health and safety. In some instances it is interlinked.
I’d also like to see clearer career pathways for practitioners; we need to avoid losing people because they don’t see where their next career opportunity is coming from, or can’t engage with mentors or peers.
I could speak for hours – and often do, at conferences – on these very subjects. For me there are several very definite themes, encompassing education, recognition, certification, risk and impact management. We have some way to go but the pace of improvement is dramatically accelerating.
We need better education at for all, at all levels, with sensible recognition certificates. By this I mean that cyber education needs to be appropriate to the level of ‘student’, that it needs to cover the right subject matter, and access to that education needs to come at the right price. Completing a curriculum needs to result in an appropriate certification for all ages and all organisational levels. And by that, I mean from primary school kids up to chief executives.
We also need to acknowledge that people new to the sector gain experience very quickly, especially at the start, and, we need to acknowledge those experiences that they gain; I’ve thought about an ‘experience badge’ system to promote the reality of experience, not just certification.
What do you find to be the most common misconceptions people have about working in cyber security?
For me, there are very specific misconceptions, notably that Industrial Cyber is the same as IT Cyber. They aren’t apples and apples; they are apples and pears. For example, you need to do some good research before doing a pen test on an industrial system. Organisational seniors (CxOs) need to fully understand impacts and be properly informed of the risks and of the mitigations proposed.
Another misconception is that cyber security is all about being a hacker. There are actually thousands of roles across all disciplines, and new entrants can always find roles and then adapt to fit new skills and most enjoyment.
The purpose of the Institute of Measurement and Control is to promote best practices and shared knowledge of Industrial Cyber Security in applications, industries and infrastructures. The Institute was one of the founding members of the Cyber Security Council, having been involved in the formation project. The Institute’s Cyber Special Interest Group(SIG) is one of the fastest growing groups in the Institute.
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https://www.ukcybersecuritycouncil.org.uk/news-insights/blog-posts/cyber-security-spotlight-on-cevn-vibert-institute-of-measurement-and-control/
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Dunford, R., Harrison, P. A., Jäger, J., Rounsevell, M. D. A., & Tinch, R. (2015). Exploring climate change vulnerability across sectors and scenarios using indicators of impacts and coping capacity. Climatic Change, 128(3-4), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1162-8
Dunford, R. ; Harrison, P. A. ; Jäger, J. ; Rounsevell, M. D. A. ; Tinch, R. / Exploring climate change vulnerability across sectors and scenarios using indicators of impacts and coping capacity. In: Climatic Change. 2015 ; Vol. 128, No. 3-4. pp. 339-354.
Dunford, R, Harrison, PA, Jäger, J, Rounsevell, MDA & Tinch, R 2015, 'Exploring climate change vulnerability across sectors and scenarios using indicators of impacts and coping capacity', Climatic Change, vol. 128, no. 3-4, pp. 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1162-8
/ Dunford, R.; Harrison, P. A.; Jäger, J.; Rounsevell, M. D. A.; Tinch, R.
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[In these early days of the new year, many of us are focused on praying for peace. This morning I received an update from an NGO that I’m involved with (Mennonite Central Committee) that is actively involved in peace work in Iran. They offered this prayer, adapted slightly from Richard Rohr:]
O Great God of Love, thank you for living and loving in us and through us. May all that we do flow from our deep connection with you and all beings. Help us become a community that vulnerably shares each other’s burdens and the weight of glory. Listen to our hearts’ longings for the healing of our world. Today we pray especially, and deeply, for peace in the Middle East. May leaders be drawn to the table of negotiations and away from the temptation to more missiles. You are hearing us better than we are speaking; we offer these prayers in all the holy names of God. Amen.
[Every day before lunch and supper at SSU, we gather for a daily reading. This fall, Katie Gorrie – librarian and poet-in-residence – helped us gather a new set of quotes, excerpts and poetry. Here is one example:]
You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody. Don’t avoid the pain. You need it….Be still with it, let it come, let it go, let it leave you with the fuel you’ll burn to get your work done on this earth.
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https://together.ssu.ca/tag/vulnerability/
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Cybersecurity is a necessary foundation for tech-enabled growth. It underpins secure digital services that can be powerful tools to fight corruption, strengthening a country’s business environment. Cybersecurity can also support job creation, an urgent need on a continent where 60% of people are below the age of 25. The Government of Burkina Faso sought to improve the country’s cyber security through the development of internet infrastructure and a data center. Cybastion Institute of Technology, an American small business, put together a technical proposal to help the government achieve its goals. Cybastion CEO Thierry Wandji, who immigrated to the U.S. from Cameroon, combined technical expertise with cultural fluency to both identify this opportunity and develop the proposal. The Government of Burkina Faso expressed interest but wasn’t convinced that Cybastion had sufficient funding needed to implement the project.
“We don’t have significant exposure into smaller countries; quite frankly, we’re unfamiliar with them. This is something Prosper Africa was able to do very well. They were able to assist us in effectively validating what we were being told.”
Prosper Africa introduced Wandji to U.S. Government officials in Burkina Faso and potential investors to help bridge the financing gap. As a result, Cisco Capital went on to provide much of the equipment needed to implement the project while Vista Bank provided the financing. This partnership held the key to unlocking the deal and beating our Dr. Wandji’s competitor. The U.S. Ambassador in Burkina Faso also attended the launch of the project to reaffirm the U.S. Government’s commitment to advancing two-way trade and investment between the United States and Burkina Faso.
“If we didn’t have the U.S. Ambassador, it would have seemed like the U.S. Government didn’t trust my company, or that they just weren’t interested. It was very, very important to have her there with the Prime Minister to show the U.S. was backing this.”
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https://www.prosperafrica.gov/news/impact-story/u-s-businesses-team-up-to-support-cybersecurity-in-burkina-faso/
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HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and Major Canadian Military Contractor Compromised in Ransomware Attack – Infosecurity Magazine was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.
If you are a user of Major Canadian Military Contractor Compromised in Ransomware Attack – Infosecurity Magazine their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for Major Canadian Military Contractor Compromised in Ransomware Attack – Infosecurity Magazine you may have been alerted to this report about Major Canadian Military Contractor Compromised in Ransomware Attack – Infosecurity Magazine . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.
If Major Canadian Military Contractor Compromised in Ransomware Attack – Infosecurity Magazine had a breach of consumer data or a data leak, then there may be additional actions that our clients should take to protect their digital identity. data breaches, hacks, and leaks often lead-in to and cause identity theft, account have overs, ransomware, spyware, extortion, and malware. account takeovers are often caused by credential reuse, password reuse, easily guessed passwords, and are facilitated by the sharing of billions of credentials and other customer information through data leaks, as the direct result of data breaches and hacks.
HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that leading to lower client surety and digital identities that have been exposed and should be considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice workings with clients to identify the extent that digital identities have been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to grip each type of exposure.
HackNotice monitors the hacker community, which is a network of individuals that share data breaches, hacks, leaks, malware, spyware, ransomware, and many other tools that are often used for financial fraud, account accept overs, and further breaches and hacks. HackNotice monitors the hacker community specifically for breaches, hacks, and data leaks that hurt consumers. HackNotice applies industry specific knowledge and advanced certificate practices to monitor for trends that indicate breaches, hacks, and exposed digital identities.
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According to Google’s advice, the most serious issue is the Media Framework vulnerability, which if exploited may allow a local malicious programme to acquire access of isolated application data, entirely evading operating system safeguards. The vulnerability does not render the affected devices useless; rather, it compromises their integrity if the vulnerability is exploited. The latest security patch (2021-08-01) issued at the beginning of the week addresses three high-severity vertical privilege escalation flaws in Framework, two elevation of privilege issues, and three information exposes vulnerabilities in System.
It is possible that the user could be exposed to malicious software, custom data, or unauthorized accounts with full administrative capabilities if the privileges and functionality provided by this program are not sufficient to prevent a threat actor from attacking them. Three other vulnerabilities, all rated as moderate severity, were also fixed in the August 2021 Android Security Bulletin, the company said. Qualcomm’s closed-source components were found to contain other vulnerabilities that have not yet been reported
The August 2021 Android Security Bulletin fixes several security vulnerabilities affecting various hardware components and software issues. Another security patch level, 2021-08-05, is included in this month’s security update, that addresses 24 vulnerabilities impacting Qualcomm closed-source components, Widevine DRM, MediaTek components, and Kernel components, among other things. The most serious of the newly addressed vulnerabilities is a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow a threat actor to execute any command with the privileges of the kernel if successful. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could potentially gain complete control of an administrator account, allowing him to perform malicious actions on behalf of the account as if it were a privileged user.
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There are so many important headlines we do not want to get lost ‘below the fold’ for our membership, and this update is one of those headlines.
On March 2nd, overshadowed by the State of the Union that evening, the Senate unanimously passed the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, which was actually various bills made into one piece of legislation.
A vital piece of the consolidated legislation was a cyber incident reporting bill, mandating critical infrastructure owners notify the Homeland Security Department within 72 hours of a hack and 24 hours if the organization made a ransomware payment.
After the Senate approval, “attention turned to the House, where the supporters of the cyber incident reporting mandate vowed to get the legislation to the president’s desk. However, they predicted the measure would likely have to be attached to another, must-pass piece of legislation, like the annual defense policy roadmap.” (2)
On March 11th, “lawmakers approved the bill…as part of a sweeping $1.5 trillion government funding deal. The House passed the legislation earlier [in the] week.” (3)
On March 15th, all these efforts came to fruition as President Biden signed the cyber incident reporting bill into law.
Predictions that the act would need to be attached to a critical piece of legislation for passage were correct, as “The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act…was attached to the spending deal that keeps the federal government open until September…. [the act] requires that critical infrastructure operators alert the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 hours of a breach and 24 hours if the organization made a ransomware payment.” (1)
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When it comes to your cybersecurity, working with freelancers is just as frequent a tactic as having it all managed by members of your internal IT team.
However, while outsourcing to another team does take a lot of the strain and burden of carrying out cybersecurity projects off your shoulders, it doesn't mean you can leave it all up to them. Clearly, there are critical steps for businesses outsourcing cybersecurity projects and, in this article, we look at 20 of them.
For the sake of the project's success and the security of your data, you have to work with your third parties, whether it's a cybersecurity freelancer or outsourced service provider. This is even truer if your third parties are only involved in part of the project and you have internal IT/security staff working alongside them.
Here, we're going to look at what you still need to consider, regardless of whether you're working with your own IT team or with freelancers, as well as tips on how to make sure your outsourced partners are working as effectively as possible.
Benefits Of Outsourcing Cybersecurity Projects
When it comes to outsourcing, some are of the belief that it's unwise to outsource anything that's crucial to your core processes and responsibilities. Given how important cybersecurity is, you might consider hiring internally to fill your skills gaps rather than outsourcing it. However, here are some benefits of outsourcing to consider:
Immediate access to experts: Platforms like TopTal is making it easier to name specific requirements, such as experience with certain technologies, systems, or regulatory compliances, and to find professionals already equipped to take them into consideration.
Around the clock support: By outsourcing, you can work with those who can match your specific time and availability needs. As such, you can get support no matter time you need it.
Set-up time and affordability: The cost in both time and money when it comes to working with an in-house team and building it internally can delay your cybersecurity projects.
Freelancers allow you to quickly gain access to the skills you need to hit the ground running, so to speak.
Real professional experience: There is a skills shortage in the IT industry, and it can be hard to find hires beyond the freshly graduated level.
As such, many freelancers and outsourced teams bring real experience and insight into cybersecurity so they can better identify threats and relevant solutions.
Outsourcing aspects of your cybersecurity project can, in essence, allow you to ensure regulatory compliance, access to the skills you need, and help you manage the costs of the project.
As such, you're less likely to come up against delays that could hold you back from those all-important cybersecurity goals.
1. Identify Whether Outsourcing Is Right For You Or Not
When you first take the time to consider your cybersecurity solutions, there are primarily two choices you have to consider: building an internal team to handle your IT risks or outsourcing it partially or fully. Each option has their pros and cons, which need to be seriously considered.
Naturally, the positive of building a team internally is that you have full control over the method and technologies put in place to protect your business. You can change the procedure, oversee security activities, and prioritize tasks as you see fit. Furthermore, you're building a team with specific familiarity with your own business's needs.
However, setting up such a team is a large investment, and comes with all the responsibility of an employer.
Working with a cybersecurity service provider or freelancer means that you have much more immediately affordable access to the expertise that your need.
You don't have to go through the recruitment process, you don't have to pay the high initial costs of employment, and you aren't going to have to worry about training them, either. There is a little control that's sacrificed when working with third parties, however.
If you're certain that outsourcing is right for you, then there is still a lot of steps to take to ensure that they can work as well with your organization as possible.
2. Perform A Cost Analysis And Budget For Your Cybersecurity
Though working with a freelancer can help you plug the gap in your cybersecurity/IT team's skills in a more cost-effective way than hiring in-house, it's still an investment that needs some serious consideration. As such, you should try to find the return on investment of working with cybersecurity freelancers and, as such, what your budget for them should be.
How much you are willing to spend will likely involve collaborating with members of your existing IT team, as well as any finance executives or bookkeepers within the team. From there, you are likely to find outsourced cybersecurity providers that can scale to different levels of costs.
For instance, an MSSP team can be less expensive up-front, but a long-term commitment that needs to be fit into your ongoing budget, while a freelancer may cost more to hire initially, but you don't have to worry about ongoing costs quite as much.
3. Understand The Scope Of Your Cybersecurity Needs
First of all, before you start building your defences, you're going to need to have a better understanding of what, exactly, you have to defend. When working with a top-tier cybersecurity provider, they will be able to help you learn more about your own needs by taking a look at the IT systems in place.
However, by being able to identify your own cybersecurity scope, you can also figure out where the gaps in the knowledge of your prospective partners might be.
Defining the inventory of IT assets is essential. This includes not only technology and applications, but locations, people, and processes.
Your computers, your networks, any Cloud software or storage you're using, any devices connected to business assets, the people who use these assets, and the physical wiring and other connective hardware all count as part of that scope.
4. Understand Your Greatest Cybersecurity Threats
Before you lay the foundation of a cybersecurity plan and enlist the help of a freelancer in order to help make it a reality, you should also try to develop an awareness of what your greatest risk might be.
This can be done in a variety of ways, but it's important to have the team who interacts with the different IT systems involved in the discussion.
You can select interviewees from amongst your team or generate questionnaires for them to fill in. They may not have cybersecurity expertise, but because they work on the "front lines" of the system, they may be well equipped to spot threats that you might otherwise miss out on.
You should also consider looking at the most common cyber threats, and whether they pose a significant threat to your business. This includes rogue employees with access to your systems, phishing scams, ransomware, and more.
It's easy to find a list of the most common cybersecurity threats and to compare them with your systems and what protections you may or may not already have in place to deal with them.
5. Start Finding And Shortlisting Your Cybersecurity Solutions Partner
The two fact-finding steps above should be considered because they're important when it comes to choosing the right cybersecurity solutions partner. There are a variety of ways to find outsourced cybersecurity, each of which should be considered.
First, of course, is the step of simply Googling it. You can also ask around amongst your network. There may be a chance that past partners, associates, or clients have worked with someone recently that they would be able to recommend.
When it comes to finding the specific expertise that you need, however, then online IT networks like TopTal could offer the quickest route to the relevant expertise. With it, you can create listings specific to your security scope, and find those with the necessary qualifications to meet your precise needs.
6. Be Sure You Can Find Providers That You Can Trust
You should be able to ask them how they can protect against the specific risks that you're more concerned about, as well as any others that might not be on your mind. Similarly, you should ask them about whether they're able to secure the full scope and scale of your IT system.
Another way that you can make sure that the cybersecurity services is right for you is to get an idea of how they work and who you're going to be interfacing with. In most cases, it's best to work with someone who is based locally or at least willing to make the trip to your property. There are a lot of off-premises cybersecurity tools that are of effective nowadays, especially in the field of crisis management and backup.
However, it's always preferable to have someone who can make the trip to your office, look at your setup, and help you identify both vulnerabilities you didn't know about, as well as methods of plugging those holes.
Of course, you have to be savvy about what experience they have and what they're promising. You don't want to entrust your system to recent college graduates, but rather those who have real experience in providing IT security services to a company like yours.
Similarly, you should beware of any providers who talk about offering a 100% guaranteed rate of protection or a magic solution that will suddenly erase threats. Those don't exist in the world of cybersecurity. Instead, you need a partner who can react flexibly to both known and new threats.
7. Ensure That Your Team Is Ready To Carry Their Weight
Not only do you, as a business owner, manager or leader, have to be aware that there are still responsibilities on you when it comes to working with your cybersecurity contractors and helping them carry out their objectives. The same expectation is going to echo across to the rest of the team or the organization, as well.
It's important to do what you can to install a security culture into your organization. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as holding training seminars, making cybersecurity a frequent topic of team meetings, and by giving them the route and space to share their own IT security concerns and questions.
Having an effective IT security policy and a set of best practices that can be easily disseminated throughout the office is just as important. If you don't already have that set of practices, then you should consider working with your cybersecurity freelancer to create it.
8. Consider What You Want To Retain
Naturally, since we are looking at the steps for working with freelancer cybersecurity providers and what you can do to ensure that projects involving them run smoothly, we can assume that you have chosen to outsource some of the labour involved in the project.
However, it's just as important to decide what you're going to retain and what aspects of the project your internal team are going to handle.
Take the time to decide who is responsible for different tasks in the project, such as governance, risk management, compliance, and so on.
Where roles overlap between your outsourced cybersecurity partner and your own team, there must be clearly set divisions of labour and means of communication between them so they can work efficiently and without major barriers.
9. Take The Necessary Steps To Safeguard Confidential Information
Third party cybersecurity partners are likely to handle some amount of confidential or sensitive data. The more they handle, the greater the potential risk to your business, a risk that needs to be mitigated.
If they are hosting any of your data off-site, then a visit to those sites to evaluate their own data protection and security controls may be essential, for instance. Otherwise, you should consider limiting how much confidential data your security providers are going to handle themselves.
For working on highly sensitive data, you may also want to consider things like virtual meeting rooms and offices that offer file security and the ability to access files online for a brief period of time, rather than sending files directly to those that you're working with.
Some level of trust will likely need to be afforded to whichever freelancers you work with on your cybersecurity projects, but it's up to you to decide what that level of trust is.
10. Ensure Your Cybersecurity Provider Is Ready For Disaster
With all going well, your cybersecurity partner will put in places the technologies and processes that can protect your systems and data on a day-to-day basis, when everything is going precisely as it should. However, what about in the event of a disaster?
Disaster management and backup services from a cybersecurity specialist can help you protect against your own crises. But what about a crisis that hits your provider? Are they able to keep up their operations if their business or equipment is hit by natural disasters, blackouts, or other crises?
Ask your vendor or freelancer what their approach to crisis management is and ask them how they can continue to work in the event that such a crisis happens. You may even want to consider running a simulation with them, to see how they will be able to handle your needs while their own infrastructure is compromised.
As such, your cybersecurity partner should be ready to help you implement your continuity plans in the midst of a disaster even if they're currently managing their own crisis.
11. Set Your Objectives In Stone
Hand in hand with your cybersecurity provider, you should naturally be going through the steps of developing a comprehensive and effective security plan in coordination with key decision makers and relevant leaders in your business.
However, it's important to make sure that the objectives of this plan and the steps that are going to be taken towards it are formally documented. For one, there is always the chance that you may not be working with your existing cybersecurity partner in future.
You need to make sure that your next partner or, indeed, your own internal IT team is able to carry on the work that has been completed up to that point in time.
Furthermore, any senior leaders, board members, and C-suite members have to be informed of strategies, how they could affect the business, and to give them their approval.
Furthermore, setting your objectives and plan down will give you and your outsourced cybersecurity partner the opportunity to identify any costs of implementing the plan, allowing you start budgeting for it as early as possible.
12. Define Your Requirements For Outsourced Provider With A Service Level Agreement
With the steps above, you have detailed the steps of your cybersecurity project, what parts you want to outsource, and which parts you want to retain. From there, you have to then define the requirements of the work you need from your outsourced partner.
Ensure that both you and your freelancer of choice sign a service-level agreement detailing the scope of their work, the objectives they have to fulfil, and the steps by which they will carry out their work.
Without detailing those requirements and ensuring that they are acknowledged and agreed to, it can be difficult to control how your freelanced cybersecurity partner works as a member of your team.
Furthermore, should they not live up to their end of the bargain, the agreement will serve as proof that they knowingly didn't provide the services that they have promised, allowing you some level of legal protection and recourse.
13. Establish The Need For Regulatory Compliance Standards
There is a range of different regulatory compliance bodies that your team may have meet the standards of. Your team may be well versed with regulations such as the GDPR, but you need to make sure that your chosen freelancer is, as well.
On platforms like TopTal, many will list the regulatory bodies and standards they are familiar with, but it might be wise to go over them together and perhaps even to make compliance part of their service level agreements.
14. Create A Means Of Open Dialogue
Simply put, with a matter that is as important and complex as your cybersecurity, you can never risk being left "out of the loop." Nor can you risk being unable to reach your provider when you need them most. As such, creating or ensuring a method of open dialogue and transparent communication is crucial.
Many of the teams you might work with will ensure this by having a case manager assigned specifically to act as you "go-to" person. Platforms like TopTal can ensure a similar level of open communication by using an app that gives you a direct line to your cybersecurity partner.
This openness and transparency in communication is just as important for the reason that you and your provider are going to have different perspectives on the requirement and implementation of the plan.
As such, you should also establish clear responsibilities for when and how to communicate with one another. For instance, if they have taken another step towards an objective in your IT security plan, they should know to inform you about it so you can stay up to date on your progress.
15. Ensure A Secure Connection For Your Freelancers
As mentioned, it's only natural that you're likely to share some sensitive data with the freelancers and teams who are responsible for carrying out your cybersecurity projects. As such, they must have a secure way of accessing that data.
If you're working with those who aren't physically on-site with you, your team, and your equipment, then you need to make sure that they are least working from secure locations, and on secure networks. Though the majority of IT freelancers will be well aware of this, public Wi-Fi hotspots have become a common a serious risk to the cybersecurity of businesses that work with third parties.
You may be able to set some standards of security for your outsourced cybersecurity providers. This can include providing them with them means to encrypt their traffic, such as paying for a VPN that they can make use of.
Otherwise, ask them what hardware, software, and networks they will work with while helping you with your own cybersecurity projects. If they're not able to provide a good answer on how they will secure their connection and the data they send/are sent, then you may want to consider working with someone else instead.
These NDAs a typically used whenever confidential information is being disclosed from within the business to anyone who works outside it. They are also commonly known as confidentiality agreements, though sometimes confidentiality clauses can be a part of service level agreements.
If you're in need of an NDA and you don't have a legal team that's ready to create one for any freelancers or third parties that you work with, you should consider hiring some outside counsel to create one. There are some things that can't be included in an NDA, such as any information that the signatory had before signing the NDA.
If your freelancer or outsourced cybersecurity provider is not willing to sign any kind of NDA, then it may be worth looking elsewhere. That's a significant red flag and it shows that perhaps they are not ready to be trusted with your sensitive data.
If you're using external freelancing networks like TopTal, you should look into whether they have the freelancers on their network sign any privacy agreements or NDAs, digitally or otherwise. Some platforms may take care of the work for you.
17. Support The Work With A Collaborative Process Model
Collaborative project management and communication software can help you easily connect your internal team with third-party providers of support and expertise. As such, it's much easier for everyone involved in the project to communicate, to collaborate, and to share resources.
Without effective means to look over the workflow of a project and to communicate from team to team, it's easy for bottlenecks to form. As such, an internal member of staff could be waiting on your freelancer to complete a part of the project before they're able to proceed with their own.
As mentioned, having clear lines of communication with your freelancer or outsourced cybersecurity team is essential, especially if they're not working on-site with you and your team. Project management and collaborative process models (like AGILE) can be essential for just that reason.
18. Ensure Regulatory Compliance Throughout
As mentioned above, establishing your regulatory compliance standards and which bodies you need to meet the standards of, whether they be GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC, or otherwise. Throughout the project, your Data Protection Officer should be ensuring regulatory compliance of all team members and processes.
However, they also need to check in on your freelancer to make sure that they're working within the bounds of the relevant regulations, as well. Make sure your Data Protection Officer is informed of their role in the project and the need to assure their compliance. Failure to do so can result in penalties.
In the case of the GDPR, noncompliance could see your organization being fined for up to 4% of annual earnings or up to €20 million.
19. Work On Relevant Skills In-House
If you have your own internal security team, you should be trying to help them develop their own skills, experience, and understanding of your security needs. Freelancers and third-party service providers can help you fill your skills gap for a project, but unless you plan to incorporate them in the long-term, you have to evolve your own security team, too.
Have your internal IT and cybersecurity professionals work with your outsourced freelancers and companies. Not only can it improve your relationship with them but can siphon some experience and insight to have it incorporated in your own organization.
Security is a key concern in modern business and must also be a central part of your work culture. As such, regardless of their existing expertise, you should have your relevant team members continuously developing relevant skills in-house. As such, you may eventually be able to stop relying on freelancers and outsourced teams, entirely.
20. Consider The Outcomes Of The Partnership
Finally, once the project is over, it's worth taking a look back over the partnership you had with your outsourced cybersecurity professional and how well you worked together. There are a range of reasons to review the partnership.
Firstly, consider the role that the freelancer played in the team during the project. Is that role still necessary for other projects going forward and, if so, are you going to need to rely on outsourced help yet again to fulfil it? Will you be able to fashion someone in-house to fulfil the same role, will you consider hiring someone, or does freelancing meet your specific needs for the moment without accruing too much in the way of costs?
Of course, it's worth looking at the outcomes simply to figure out whether you would want to work with that specific freelancer yet again. With platforms like TopTal, you can leave reviews and comments on the professionals you work with, so when you're in the market for a freelancer again, you can see if your old partner is available, should you want to work with them.
Are You Ready To Outsource Your Cybersecurity?
Outsourcing with the right team, the right preparations, and the right protections can ensure that your business is protected from all kinds of cybersecurity risks. Many would agree that "the right team" is the most important part of that equation.
Don't rush into any contracts or agreements before you've had a good look at the market and found the team that seems the best equipped to handle the needs of your business in particular.
Hopefully, you've found the steps and tips to outsourced IT success helpful. Regardless of how your outsourced team or freelancer handles it, you should always be aware that it's still your responsibility at the end of the day.
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TM ONE’s cybersecurity solution helps Malaysian enterprises and public sector build digital trust and cybersecurity resilience, by managing five (5) key areas of risk – cybersecurity, compliance, privacy, ethics and social responsibility.
A closer look at what we can learn from past attacks in Southeast Asia and beyond.
It was just another day in January 2021. Some Malaysians had gone onto the official website of the state of Perak to access public services, only to be greeted by a startling message. “Hello admin, we just found your website is vulnerable for hacktivist. Please check your website and make sure it is patched before your website gets stamped again,” the warning read.
16 other websites for local governments and universities were also defaced. This was part of a campaign by hackers from Anonymous Malaysia to highlight weaknesses in the Malaysian government’s cybersecurity, reported ZDNet.
No hacks have been discovered since February 2021, The Malay Mail wrote. But the incident points to the potential vulnerabilities of public servers and the importance of securing them. How can governments learn from breaches such as this to build cyber resilience and digital trust?
Cyber hacks through the years
Malaysia certainly isn’t alone in being targeted by hackers. Singapore suffered a much publicised breach in its health data systems in 2018. 1.5 million Singaporeans had their personal information leaked onto the dark web, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Besides leaking personal data, cyber attacks can seriously disrupt our lives especially when they target critical infrastructure. Estonia’s major attacks in 2007 crippled banks, the media and some government agencies. Public servants couldn’t use their email to communicate with one another, and media outlets couldn’t deliver the news.
The threat of cyber attacks can escalate to threaten human lives. Earlier this year, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment facility in Florida through its remote access software. A German patient died as the first hospital she was sent to had been hit by hackers, and she couldn’t reach another hospital in time.
On a global scale, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks impacted more than 150 countries and caused US$4 billion in losses worldwide. Perhaps most frighteningly, the attacks affected a third of National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts in the UK, with ambulances rerouted and 19,000 appointments cancelled, according to Kaspersky.
In Malaysia, TM ONE, the enterprise and public sector business solutions arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), strongly believes that protecting critical infrastructure must become a key priority for enabling a digital Malaysia future. TM ONE has developed a Cyber Defense Centre (CYDEC), which is a fully Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that can detect, respond, predict and prevent cyber threats from a wide range of digital services in real time. These services include 5G, Cloud, Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT) and other Critical National and Information Infrastructure (CNII).
These solutions are crucial for organisations to safeguard their business, customer data and brand reputation from cyber threats and cybercriminals.
CYDEC was developed locally in Malaysia, and provides public and private sectors with digital trust and cyber resilience capability and capacity with its Global Cybersecurity Security Operation Centre (G-CSOC).
It is endorsed by both local cyber authorities, such as CyberSecurity Malaysia and the National Cyber Security Agency of Malaysia (NACSA), and has a Global Telco Security Alliance partner with telco giant Telefonica.
“With remote working here to stay and cloud becoming a critical component of an organisation’s digital transformation, decisions around what can be done in-house and what should be outsourced or purchased as a service can be game-changing for Malaysian enterprises seeking to turn “new normal” into an opportunity,” Maznan Bin Deraman, Head of Innovative Solutions & Cybersecurity Services, TM ONE told Business Today.
What we can learn
Never waste a crisis, as they say. Every breach presents an opportunity for governments to learn from mistakes and strengthen their cyber defenses.
The Florida water treatment facility incident, for instance, highlights the importance of security as people shift to remote working. “The problem is not the fact that remote software existed. I think the problem is that an adversary got hold of the credentials such that the adversary was able to access it,” Damon Small, Technical Director of Security Consulting at NCC Group North America, told CNN .
“Critical infrastructures will need to implement strong authentication methods when using remote access systems”, he emphasised. The world needs a passwordless-based with blockchain secure authentication to defend against credential theft.
“With more organisations and services moving to the cloud, we now see a greater evolution of threats and cybercrimes,” urged TM ONE’s Maznan. “There is an urgent need to protect digital infrastructure, data in the cloud and at every endpoint.”
As for WannaCry, its solution seems disproportionately simple for such a large scale attack. “Were it not for the continued use of outdated computer systems and poor education around the need to update software, the damage caused by this attack could have been avoided,” Kaspersky wrote.
Indeed, education and awareness are crucial in a nation’s cyber defense. Last year, Singapore launched a Safer Cyberspace Masterplan to raise general cybersecurity levels in the country. The plan will help businesses and individuals, Gwenda Fong, Assistant Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore told GovInsider.
Nations will need watertight strategies and advanced Active Cyber Defense (ACD) to safeguard their digital borders. TM ONE CYDEC enables this for Malaysian organisations with real-time monitoring, simplified solutions and a comprehensive range of tools.
“Especially with the implementation of Malaysia’s Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDIGITAL), TM ONE CYDEC will ensure that government institutions can digitally transform while having the added assurance of knowing that public data is kept secure and in compliance with regulatory requirements,” Maznan concluded.
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Malayan Banking Berhad (“Maybank Group” or “the Group”) is the largest financial services and banking group in Malaysia. The Group serves its 22 million customers through a robust portfolio of financial products and services, including consumer and corporate banking, treasury activities, insurance, and asset management. These contributed to the Group’s annual revenue of MYR 51 billion in 2020. For the same year, Maybank Group had an operating income of MYR 6.48 billion and was the winner of the world’s best consumer digital bank in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Despite topping local and international market charts with notable digital milestones like QRPay and Maybank Trade, the Group’s M25 plan persists on digitalisation as a key-value driver. The strategy is similar to its Digital Bank of Choice strategy set in 2020. With customers spoilt for choice in today’s market, it is a challenge to reach that pinnacle of customer experience and preserve customer relationships at the same time, especially if a brand doesn’t fully invest in digital roadmaps and collaborations.
“We must always have the user behaviour in mind when we are creating new digital services and/or products. Digital banking providers who provide the best user experience and can solve customers’ problems will continue to be relevant,” said Datuk John Chong, Group CEO of Maybank Community Financial Services.
In this article, you will see Maybank in its journey to improve service delivery capabilities in the era of hyper-digitisation and competition.
Improving the digital banking experience
Maybank takes inspiration from the rapid rise of digital banking and fintech startups in its pursuit to continue enhancing customer experience. The bank’s mission is to provide customers with simple and convenient access to its financial services using ubiquitous digital solutions.
In 2018, the Group revamped the Maybank2U mobile application and website to offer a seamless transacting experience. The mobile application, which now features enhanced payment capabilities and customer personalisation, boasts over 12 million mobile downloads with an impressive 7 million active users (excluding website users) in 2020. New upgrades have allowed customers to generate dynamic PayNow QR codes for on-demand transfers. The mobile app also features a display of remittance options for more transparent overseas fund transfers. Apart from that, other Maybank2U experience-enhancing functions include Scan & Pay, a personal debit and credit spending tracker, and a customisable savings planner.
As the Group recognised the growing importance of digital products and services, it launched MAE (Maybank Anytime, Everyone) by Maybank2U in 2020. This complimentary mobile banking and e-wallet application seamlessly integrate online banking with one’s lifestyle needs. MAE not only allows customers to have full access to their savings accounts, pay bills and transfer funds. It also offers newer fintech solutions such as expenses monitoring, in-app virtual debit cards and ‘Tabung’, an individual and group-goal based saving feature.
Maybank Group received numerous feedbacks from customers with negative experiences from self-service options, such as chatbots and FAQs. Looking to offer a better solution, the Group implemented E-CLEVA, an integrated live video chat solution. With this new capability, insurance claims teams could provide real-time assisted claims support for motor and fire insurances, allowing the bank to process claims digitally and within 15 minutes.
Building operational efficiency with digitalisation
As customers stay at home during the movement control order, Maybank Group saw a significant surge in the number of digital transactions and users on its platforms — zakat payments before the festive period, for example, has increased by 227% year-on-year (Y-o-Y). At the same time, QRPay saw a transaction volume growth of over 650% Y-o-Y. With active mobile users expanding by 34%, Maybank Group had to deploy cutting-edge technologies to maintain its business outcomes at a rapid speed.
The Group placed a heavy focus on automating its back offices, namely to streamline back-end processes by implementing machine learning for processing credit applications, branch operations, remittances and trade services. It reinvented the technology stack to support every layer of banking operation by adopting technologies like robotic process automation (RPA), ICR/OCR (Intelligent or Optical Character Recognition) and application integration for certain ‘open’ operations.
Other digitalising efforts include migrating transactions from branches onto the online payments platform and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Anomalous Parts Detection for vehicle claims submission. The Group also launched a fully digital Know Your Customer (KYC) capability, enabling a customer to onboard through app-integrated video calls.
Maybank Group measures the success of all digital initiatives through two (2) measures — straight-through processing (STP) rates and customer turnaround times. These measures allow the bank to track and analyse the efficiency of its services, enabling more productive service delivery capabilities across various operations.
Enabling convenient, safe and secure transactions
The rise of digital banking is analogous to a double edge sword — on one end, you have greater convenience at your fingertips. But on the other side, digital vulnerabilities and frauds can now affect us more than ever. Maybank Group mitigates these risks by internalising a robust cybersecurity infrastructure that covers internal governance, human knowledge and network capabilities.
The Group employs a best-of-breed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology that enables continuous real-time monitoring of any internal or external cyberattacks. Coupled with its Regional Security Operations Centre, which centrally manages the operational level of system security, the bank’s security specialists can quickly and continuously detect and respond to malicious activities using the Splunk Enterprise Security platform.
Driven by the surge of digital transactions, Maybank announced in April 2021 that it is discontinuing the SMS TAC (transaction authorisation code) for approving online transactions on both its apps. The bank intends to protect its customers with improved online banking security. Customers will switch to Secure2U as the preferred authorisation method for most transactions, excluding Financial Process Exchange (FPX) and Direct Personnel Expense (DPE). This alternative feature adds an extra layer of protection. Transactions can only be approved within 50 seconds on a registered device using Secure Verification (one-tap authentication) or Secure TAC (a six-digit TAC number generated on the mobile app).
This new ability creates a safer and more conducive way for customers to transact. At the same time, Maybank Group can build a digital ecosystem that enables safe and secure transactions continuously, fostering digital trust with its users.
Accelerating growth through key partnerships
As non-banking institutions with digital banking licenses flood the market, Maybank Group ensures business competitiveness by engaging in strategic partnerships to introduce new products while enhancing existing offerings. The bank focuses on creating close C-level collaborations with technology disruptors to foster customer stickiness by integrating lifestyle propositions with financial services.
At a time where customers are increasingly adopting digital products in their lifestyle, Maybank Group joined hands with the ride-hailing company, Grab, to drive the acceptance and ubiquity of cashless payments further. By integrating the two payment systems, customers of Maybank and Grab can choose between using their GrabPay or Maybank QRPay mobile wallets at the merchants they support. Direct cash top-ups on the GrabPay mobile wallet via Maybank2U enrich the online experience between these two digital apps.
The partnership with Grab doesn’t stop there. Maybank Group unveiled a new dual-faced credit card that enables customers to seamlessly collect GrabRewards points that they can then use to redeem vouchers and other rewards. Aiming to serve younger consumers further, the Group also teamed up with an e-commerce powerhouse, Shopee, to offer a lifestyle and e-commerce credit card. Similarly, users obtain rewards – Shopee Coins which they can spend on future online or offline purchases.
The Group also partnered with various property leaders including, UDA Holdings, Tropicana Corp. and i-City to offer “HouzeKEY”, an alternative home financing solution for first-time home buyers. Another partnership with Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) saw the launch of ASNB e-channels on the bank’s platform. The collaboration enables cross-system transactions and the viewing of account balances via Maybank ATMs or the Maybank2U app.
Maybank is poised to conquer the fast-growing digital banking space with its wide range of digital products and services, seamlessly integrated into a customer’s everyday life. The Group continues to defend and grow key customer markets in the era of digitalisation without losing sight of its core principle; humanising banking.
Banks have been at the forefront of digital transformation. They have always been the leading adopters of technology and have led the way to show how customer journeys can be digitalised.
As consumers, we seldom have to go to banks now and the banks have come to the consumer’s smartphone. Add to this the plethora of new innovative financial services made available by start-ups and tech giants alike. Consumers are besieged with choices.
Despite all the progress, this is still Day One for the banking industry. The per-capita consumption of financial services in our country and globally is still at low single (3 to 4 services) digits. Financial services are the backbone of every personal life, and every business and industry.
“There are huge opportunities to improve this consumption by taking away points of friction and improving accessibility. TM as a digital enabler to the banking industry, we see there are four (4) distinct innovation opportunities as we look into the next decade”, says Hizam Ghazali, Head of Digital Services, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM).
While we saw a massive uptake of digital banking in the last 18 months, it has brought about a huge spike in cybercrime. Banking related phishing attacks have seen a twenty-fold increase in the same period of time. The situation is aggravated as the less digital-savvy population, which is the most vulnerable, starts adopting digital banking services. Banks are responding to this challenge with increased measures to authenticate users and add additional layers of security. These additional security measures are impediments to the greater use of digital banking. We believe there is an opportunity for banks to use some of the latest technologies including biometrics and AI to enable a secure yet frictionless experience.
Research firm, twimbit has estimated that the per capita consumption of financial services is set to explode and reach about 15 to 20 services by the end of the decade. While the competition is intense, there is enough opportunity for all market participants, simply because of the growth in innovation.
“I am excited about how the financial services industry is going to evolve in the coming decade. The convergence between these four (4) innovation opportunities will open a plethora of new possibilities. We are seeing more banks, e-commerce businesses and other financial institutions adopting digital components such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to enhance its daily operations, processes and of course, customer experience. We look forward to partnering with the industry to enable this new vision of possibilities,” Hizam added.
Q The Government’s initiatives under JENDELA, Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and MyDIGITAL, are imperative building blocks to drive digital transformation in the country. However, 70% of digital transformations fall short of their objectives. What makes digital transformation challenging for enterprises?
According to IDC, 55% of Malaysian organisations do not have an integrated enterprise-wide digital transformation strategy, and 91% of Malaysian enterprises are either on stage one or two, of a five-stage IDC maturity curve. Many of the challenges faced broadly falls under access and complexity.
The lack of access to the required skills is a large challenge, especially talent steeped in what IDC terms as third and fourth platform technologies and technology delivery models. These include cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobility (underpinned by 5G), and big data analytics and machine learning, all of which need to operate in a secure environment. Implementing digital transformation requires multi-domain expertise spanning business and technology, which is hard for enterprises to acquire. Emphasis is often placed on processes and not outcomes. Employees often need to be retrained. Business continuity takes precedence over targeted investments.
Q How are enterprises creating more value by leveraging on technologies to ensure successful transformation?
In the journey towards establishing a Digital Nation, the private-public and people are embracing technologies hence accelerating digital transformation efforts.
BFSI: Techwire Asia found that more than 70% of Malaysians are looking forward to a digital banking revolution. Malaysian banks are transforming digitally to align to customer needs, improve operations, meet compliance, enable open ecosystems by leveraging emerging technologies to address new opportunities.
Healthcare: The healthcare sector is turning to digital solutions to realise the promise of connected digital healthcare. Enhancing patient experience, increasing diagnostic accuracy, and improving patient care are some of the goals that the healthcare sector is hoping to achieve as a result of digital change.
Q Why TM ONE is the right partner in supporting your transformation journey?
Emerging technologies are shaping the industries from continuous remote diagnostics, conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI), distributed cybersecurity, industrial robotics and automation and more.
To facilitate and accelerate digital adoption, TM ONE has built its offerings along four (4) technology pillars of digital transformation – Cloud, cybersecurity, smart services and professional services. Cloud carries the weight of digital change squarely on its shoulders. TM ONE Cloud α empowers enterprises with a comprehensive, customised, end-to-end, cloud solutions that deliver agility, innovation and growth. It is complemented by TM ONE cybersecurity solution, known as CYDEC (Cyber Defence Centre), which offers the best continuous, real-time and predictive protection spanning private and public networks, data, identity, and devices and infrastructure–to mitigate attacks on brand and reputation, online fraud, and mobile channels. Smart services are the most visible ambassadors of digital transformation, taking Malaysia a step closer to the Digital Malaysia aspiration. Whereas TM ONE Professional services help leaders create vision and roadmaps, enabling predictable, business-aligned digital transformation.
The Malaysia Cyber Security Strategy 2020-2024 (MCSS) outlines the key objectives and five strategic pillars that will govern all aspects of cybersecurity planning and implementation in the country. One of the focus areas is to improve national cyber resilience against cyber threats.
In line with the 10-year Malaysia blueprint road map of MyDIGITAL as announced by the Government, we will see a transformation of Malaysia into a digitally-driven, and regional leader in the digital economy and cybersecurity will be at the forefront. Organisations will need to build stronger digital trust and cyber resiliency resulting in a better-protected digital infrastructure and cleaner data in the cloud, through every endpoint.
“In the distant past, Incident Response and Forensics were an option. However, today the ability to detect, respond and mitigate in a prompt manner are essential services. Detection capability depends on level of threat visibility. Response capability is dependent on the level of rotection measures in place. We cannot perform effective response, without proper control measures in place. Reality is off-the-shelf systems, be IT, IoT, IIoT and OT systems are vulnerable, in their default state. Thus, at TM ONE, designing security into the solution is inevitable,” says Raja Azrina.
Q To sustain during the lockdown, organisations migrated their services and operations online. As more are moving to the cloud, it is important to remain aware of the lingering security risks. Where should you start?
Managing security incidents that affect your business in real-time can be confusing particularly to any organisation that is in the early period of its digital transformation.
Many businesses need real-time protection from cyber threats, as delays in determining attacks can have significant financial implications. Having limited and detached equipment, tools, and system hinder organisations to own effective and efficient end-to-end cybersecurity services. Finding out trusted well experience digital solutions providers are daunting while sorting it internally with a lack of trained and qualified in-house professionals and immature recovery planning is also a challenge.
For holistic cyber defense protection, your cybersecurity solutions need to be able to detect, respond, predict and protect your systems and data from the breach in real-time, 24/7.
–Q Your company’s data represents your most critical assets and protecting them should be high on your list of priorities. How does a trusted partner ensures your digital assets are protected in real-time?
Your partner is your first line of defense in ensuring the safety of your cyber ecosystem. Having the right experts who can manage your cybersecurity portfolio, with the ability to reach your data house digitally and also physically closer to your location is crucial. It offers a worry-free convenience, so you can focus on your core business operations without compromising on security.
TM ONE Cyber Defense Centre (CYDEC) offers fully-managed security services that detect, respond, predict and prevent cyberattacks. It protects a wide range of digital assets and services including those powered by the cloud and 5G, such as IoT applications, information technology and operational technology systems, primarily within Critical National & Information Infrastructure (CNII).
TM ONE’s recent partnership with Telefonica Global Solutions, combined with our own cybersecurity experts with extensive experience, CYDEC’s capability and capacity offers you a business value approach, enabling you to achieve faster identification of potential risks, addressing the gaps in security implementation, and providing you with the right recommendations based on information security strategy. These will ensure that organisations can quickly, accurately and strategically build their cybersecurity resilience in this new wave of digitalisation.
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The security planning for last week's Boston Marathon included preparation for a bombing emergency.
We spend months planning for the marathon. We did a tabletop exercise the week before that included a bombing scenario in it," Kurt Schwartz, the state's undersecretary for homeland security, told a panel at Harvard University.
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All that is needed to gain access to any LEAF's telematics system is the car's VIN, researcher says.
Automaker Nissan Motor Company has temporarily disabled a remote telematics system in its LEAF electric vehicles after a security researcher showed how attackers could abuse it to gain access to the car’s battery charging and climate control systems from literally anywhere in the world.
In an emailed statement to Dark Reading, Nissan said its NissanConnect EV app is currently unavailable following the security researcher’s disclosure and Nissan’s own internal investigation of the issue. The statement described the problem as involving the dedicated server for the NissanConnect app, which enables remote control of the LEAF’s temperature control system and other telematics.
“No other critical driving elements of the Nissan LEAF are affected, and our 200,000 LEAF drivers across the world can continue to use their cars safely and with total confidence,” the statement read. “The only functions that are affected are those controlled via the mobile phone – all of which are still available to be used manually, as with any standard vehicle.”
Nissan’s move to temporarily disable the NissanConnect EV app follows Australian security researcher Troy Hunt’s description this week of a method to take remote control of the system on any LEAF vehicle, using little more than the car’s Vehicle Identification Number (VIN).
According to Hunt, the problem has to do with the Application Programming Interface (API) that brokers the connection between the user’s smartphone and Nissan’s app servers. The manner in which the NissanConnect’s APIs authenticates requests to the services running on the back end servers are so weak that a VIN is all that is needed for someone to access and remotely control a LEAF’s telematics system.
Hunt said that when he looked at how the NissanConnect mobile app talked to the online service, he found the service responding to app requests without requiring any authentication beyond just the VIN. In other words, there was nothing to tie API calls made by the mobile app to a specific vehicle. Without even logging into the Nissan system, or authenticating identity in any way, an attacker could control the telematics on any NissanConnect-enabled vehicle anywhere, using its VIN.
In addition to gathering information like the battery charge status, the vehicle’s movements and when the vehicle was last operated, an attacker could use the vulnerability to potentially drain the battery by turning the climate control on and off.
From a pure security standpoint, the vulnerability is much less severe than previously discovered flaws in connected vehicles that allow attackers to take control of critical safety systems such as the vehicle’s braking, steering, and transmission functions.
But the breathtaking ease with which it can be exploited is disturbing, Hunt noted. The unique VIN for each LEAF is at the bottom of the front windscreen and is visible from the outside, so getting a VIN is not difficult. It’s also possible to find VINs for LEAF or any other vehicle on the web with little difficulty.
“Gaining access to vehicle controls in this fashion doesn’t get much easier – it’s profoundly trivial,” Hunt wrote. “As car manufacturers rush towards joining in on the “Internet of things” craze, security cannot be an afterthought nor something we’re told they take seriously after realizing that they didn’t take it seriously enough in the first place,” he said.
The incident is sure to fuel further concerns about the attention that automakers are paying to securing connected cars against remote attacks. Over the past few years security researchers have demoed multiple remote attacks against connected vehicles prompting concern from lawmakers and transportation safety officials alike.
Hunt’s demonstration of how easy it is to decipher the communication between the car and the back end server highlights how security is often an afterthought when companies Internet-enable various technologies said Reiner Kappenberger, global product manager for HPE Security. “We are lucky in this case that the attacks were only focused on functionality in the air-conditioning and heating system of the car and were done by a ‘white hat’ and not a criminally minded black hat hacker,” he said in a statement.
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John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee anti-virus computer software, has been found dead in a prison cell. According to the Associated Press, McAfee was discovered by officials at the Brians 2 penitentiary, where he was being held in, near Barcelona. At this time, CNBC reports that "McAfee’s lawyer told Reuters that McAfee apparently hanged himself." The news outlet notes that security personnel attempted to revived 75-year-old McAfee but were unable to. The prison's medical team eventually certified his death.
Notably, there had just been in a preliminary hearing, hours earlier, where it was ruled that McAfee could be extradited to the United States. He was to face criminal charges on alleged tax-related crimes. The initial statement about the death of an inmate at the prison did not specifically identify McAfee by name but did include details that were only unique to his case.
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. https://t.co/pxpdiLV3uv
— CNN (@CNN) June 23, 2021
In October, McAfee was arrested at Barcelona's international airport, on the U.S. charges, which are still pending in Tennessee. "From 2014 to 2018, McAfee allegedly failed to file tax returns, despite receiving considerable income from these sources," the U.S. Justice Department stated in a previous filing. Separately, McAfee was also charged in a Manhattan federal court for an alleged "pump-and-dump" scheme involving cryptocurrencies.
McAfee was a computer programming mogul who lived a very eccentric life. After selling his antivirus software company, which he named after himself, he attempted to run for President. On two different occasions, McAfee made a bid to land the Presidential nomination for the Libertarian party.
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In 2019, McAfee and five other people were detained in the Dominican Republic. At the time, Caribbean island officials stated that the group was suspected of carrying high-caliber weapons while traveling on a yacht. The officials also stated they suspected there was ammunition and military-style gear.
McAfee maintained his social media presence over the years, but his wife Janice took over while he was behind bars. The last post on McAfee's Twitter account was from Father's Day, and it was a retweet from Janice's account. "These eight months John has spent in prison in Spain have been especially hard on his overall health both mentally and physically, as well as financially," the post read in part. It added that McAfee was "undeterred from continuing to speak truth to power."
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Malware is an extremely real concern for the users of mobile devices. These attacks are definitely not limited to data theft and monetary injuries. Malware can also destroy info on the device and leave a backdoor for near future attacks. Trojans can also be set up in mobile phones without the customer’s knowledge. This article will discuss how mobile anti virus can guard your mobile device and also its particular data out of malware. Here are the steps to take to guard yourself. This post will also discuss the benefits of cellular antivirus and different types.
Spyware is particularly prevalent about Android devices. While Google android does not get infected by traditional viruses, it can nonetheless get infected with malicious programs. These kinds of programs have been designed to access and control the device without the user’s expertise. One type of Android os malware is called Triout. It covers within an Android-phone and screens user activity. A good mobile phone antivirus may detect and block this kind of malware and protect the device by it. Here are the steps to take when installing a mobile antivirus security software.
Detection: Infections on mobile phones are mostly brought on by third-party applications and programmers. You should carefully verify permissions of apps you download from the internet, and be aware about any dubious behavior in your device. It might be necessary to stay updated considering the latest version of device protection software. The below list of cellular antivirus software will help you choose the www.mobilessecur.net/try-nordvpn-free-trial-for-your-mobile-protection ideal antivirus for your device. Really is endless this review has helped you decide which mobile anti-virus to use for your requirements.
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Everything you need to know about the principles, application and thinking behind applying Microsoft’s Zero Trust approach to your cyber security.
So, your perimeter has gone and the bad guys are finding new ways to gain access. How can you adapt your cyber security solution to better defend against the modern threat landscape without sacrificing productivity?
The answer lies in adopting a Zero Trust approach.
In this blog, we’ll explain what Microsoft means by a Zero Trust approach, its core technologies and principles – and we’ll outline the initial steps you can take to apply it.
What does Zero Trust mean?
Less trust seems a strange way to achieve greater cyber security, but bear with me.
For a long time, IT security followed the old castle and moat approach. Organisations locked their precious data deep inside a digital stronghold and built well-fortified defences around it.
Bad guys outside, good guys inside. Easy. At least it was – until the walls came down.
The past decade has seen that well-defended structure blown apart. The rise of remote working, cloud services, BYOD and the Internet of Things means a new approach to cyber security is required.
With threats now coming at you from all angles, unverified trust leaves you dangerously exposed.
Hence the emergence of the term ‘Zero Trust’. An approach that Microsoft describes as “an ‘assume breach’ security posture that treats each step across the network and each request for access to resources as a unique risk to be evaluated and verified.” *
Zero Trust works on the assumption that all activity is malicious until proven otherwise.
Now that might sound heartless, but the modern threat landscape has made it necessary – a situation only exacerbated by the rapid change undergone as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Don’t assume that just because something is on your network and seems legitimate that it is.
Access decisions should be based on several factors, including user identity, location, device compliance, classification of data and any relevant issues based on this access request. This should then be continuously verified throughout the session.
Least privileged access
Least privileged access means restricting user access rights to just the resources that are required to carry out the task at hand.
This is achieved by implementing just-in-time and just-enough-access policies. These, coupled with information protection policies, will help protect data wherever it travels and ensures the relevant level of access to your files is provided.
Assume breach
This one is important as it frames the whole mindset with which you should approach your security.
By doing so, you reduce the attack surface and prevent lateral movement by segmenting your network, users and devices when threats are detected.
You should ensure that all sessions are encrypted and utilise analytics to get visibility of threats and improve threat detection.
Identity and security are often thought of as individual entities, but the truth is that managing your user identities is crucial to realising the security benefits of a Zero Trust approach.
A robust identity platform and approach is essential. Provisioning and managing the lifecycle of your identities and enabling a single sign-on approach to EVERYTHING is critical.
I’d recommend doing this by applying Conditional Access policies within Azure AD and assessing risk through Azure Identity Protection. This helps you gain confidence in your authentication request and approval process.
SSO can then be achieved through publishing your applications within Azure AD and using the Azure Application Proxy for any on-premises applications.
With your identity management under control, you now have a much easier and effective way to apply policies to the many authentication requests that occur.
And I’m not just talking about applying second-factor authentication (which you absolutely should), but it also gives you the ability to evaluate other aspects to gain assurance and understand the risk involved from any given authentication request.
This insight then allows you to apply even greater controls in line with your established risk tolerance.
Once your identity management is in good nick, you need to understand the risk presented by the device being used to access your resources.
Having the ability to understand if a device is known and managed is one thing – understanding if that device has all the necessary security controls in place is another.
Achieving this across different platforms can be challenging but it’s important to do so.
The ability to dynamically understand both the device’s – and related identity’s – current risk status should drive the decision process when granting access to resources.
Whilst a device could be compliant in its configuration, you need to be able to, in near real-time, understand if that device is behaving suspiciously.
Policies can then be configured to either block access or direct the connection through a different route where additional visibility and protection can be applied.
Microsoft’s Intune solution can provide management and policy enforcement for your end-points to gauge their compliance while an Azure AD and local AD hybrid setup can be used to indicate ‘known devices’.
Advanced endpoint security solutions such as Microsoft Defender ATP, managed through Microsoft Threat Protection, can provide continuous assessment of devices.
Routing your riskier connections through Microsoft Cloud App Security will provide additional in-line protection through its reverse proxy capability.
Global admin is only for when things hit the fan
Providing users with more access than required is an age-old problem.
Nearly everyone knows it’s bad practice to hand out global admin rights for simple tasks, but it’s still happening. The reason being is that it makes life easier for the admin to just provide free reign to a user rather than configure specific limits that they may end up having to amend later.
For Zero Trust to work, this mindset needs to change. You need to reduce your security footprint as much as possible to close off unnecessary and easy access for uninvited guests. This can be achieved by ensuring that users only have the privileges required to do their job.
Adopting a just-in-time approach for your privileged accounts allows the user to only use their privileged role when they need it and removes the access when they don’t.
The success of adopting a Zero Trust approach depends largely on an organisation’s ability to apply these best practices and couple it with an assume breach mindset.
It really is a case of not if but when. Nowadays, there are just too many ways a malicious actor can gain access to have 100% confidence that they’ll be stopped at the front door.
Having the ability to see and understand suspicious or malicious activities within your environment (cloud or on-premises) is an absolute must-have in a Zero Trust world.
Azure ATP will provide comprehensive visibility into what’s going on within your environment from an identity perspective and works with Microsoft Sentinel to achieve a wider correlation of events and activities.
Microsoft Sentinel will then provide you with the ability to correlate security insights across a wide range of sources, giving you visibility across the entire attack chain.
Adopting an assume breach mindset whilst using the necessary tools to give you this visibility needs to be considered across all your devices, applications and services, infrastructure, identities, data and networks.
Compile an inventory of your assets and IT infrastructure. What types of data do you have and where is it kept? What degree of protection is required?
With the traditional perimeter gone and data moving freely between devices in different locations, your security needs to follow the data trail.
2. Network segmentation
For Zero Trust to work, you have to be able to limit lateral movement within your network when a breach occurs. Think of it like shutting the fire doors to contain a blaze and prevent its spread.
Segment your network by separating different layers of your applications into different network VLANS managed by rules that dictate what can (and importantly can’t!) travel from one VLAN to the other.
Separating layers of the application, such as the database, application processing and application interface components, will make it much harder for malicious users to gain control. This should be considered for both your Azure-hosted infrastructure and on-premises infrastructure.
3. Configure access
Once you know your risk and have appropriately divided your network, you can begin to think about who you’re going to give access to based on defined identity rules.
This is where you can stipulate the use of MFA and control access based on role, device, application and more. Be sure to configure your network so that granting access to one environment does not mean automatic access to others.
In Zero Trust, every access request is scrutinised to ensure validity.
4. Don’t forget your people
Throwing state of the art technology at the problem will only get you so far. Ensure that you educate your users on why the changes are being made, how to use the technology properly and invest in teaching them good cyber hygiene habits and Zero Trust tenets.
Human beings will always be fallible and – intentionally or not – pose a significant risk to your IT security. So proper tech adoption planning is critical to reaping the benefits of a Zero Trust approach.
5. Enable least privileged access
Prioritise your most valuable assets and look to apply fine-tuned privileged access controls now that you’ve got your identity management working flawlessly.
This is where that just-in-time access comes into play and helps give your security a boost. Ideally, you would eventually have this degree of control over your entire estate, but first and foremost start with protecting your key resources and data.
6. Analyse, analyse, analyse
Zero Trust is driven by data. For a Zero Trust approach to be successful, you’ll need an effective way to monitor the activity of your environment that removes the alert fatigue and heavy lifting from your IT security team.
Software such as Microsoft Sentinel is ideal for this purpose. Constantly evaluating access requests and weighing them against factors such as location, time, device, frequency, etc. Giving you near real-time feedback of any suspicious activity, whilst facilitating verified requests to proceed with next to no interruption to the end-user.
Conclusion
Zero Trust will continue to increase in its importance. Not only to improve your overall security position, but also as an enabler for effective remote working.
Our new world of flexible remote access will only grow in demand and complexity. I see this as a positive move, but we need to make sure that however and wherever we work, we can do so with the confidence that we’re secure.
Adopting Microsoft’s Zero Trust approach to everything you do will help to get you there.
Take your first steps towards adopting a Zero Trust approach with these practical tips.
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https://thirdspace.net/blog/what-is-microsoft-zero-trust-security-model/
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The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the "MSCPROP.DLL". A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
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https://cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2021072239
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usually it's better to learn to program versus learning a programming language. If you learn to program, the program language is just another tool.
And to that end, Python and Ruby are great places to start.
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https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/79541/which-programming-language-is-a-must-know-for-info-sec-professionals
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Scammers may use text or email messages to lure you into providing your personal information. They might try to get your account numbers, passwords, and Social Security numbers. They could have access to your bank account, email, and other accounts if they obtain this information. These phishing scammers are able to launch thousands of attacks every day, and many of them succeed. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI, people lost $57 Million in phishing scams within a single year.
Scammers are known to change their tactics frequently. However, there are signs that can help you identify a phishing email or text.
Phishing email and text messages can look like they are from a company that you trust. These messages may appear to be from a bank or credit card company, a social network site, an app or online store, or even a payment website.
Phishing email and text messages may tell you a story to get you to click on a link or open an attachment. They could:
Imagine that you received this email in your inbox. Are you able to see signs it is a scam? Let’s take another look.
It looks like an email from Netflix. The email even has a Netflix header and logo.
Your email states that your account is currently on hold due to a billing issue.
This email uses a generic greeting: “Hi Dear.” It is unlikely that the account has an identical greeting.
You are invited to click on the link in the email to change your payment details.
Although it may appear real at first glance, the email is not. These email scammers are not connected to the companies they claim to represent. People who provide their details to scammers can be subject to serious consequences if they send phishing emails. They can also damage the reputation of the businesses they are spoofing.
1. Use security software to protect your computer. You can set the software to automatically update so that it can handle any new security threats.
2. Set software to automatically update your mobile phone. These updates can provide the protection you need against security threats.
3. Multi-factor authentication is a way to protect your accounts. Multi-factor authentication is a method of increasing security that requires two or more credentials to log into your account. Multi-factor authentication is what this is. You can use two types of additional credentials to log into your account:
You have something you have, such as a passcode that you receive via an authentication app.
You are what you scan — your fingerprint, retina, or face.
Multi-factor authentication makes it more difficult for fraudsters to log into your accounts, even if they get your username or password.
4. Backup data is important. Backup your data and ensure that they aren’t connected directly to your home network. Copy your files to an external hard disk or cloud storage. You can also back up your phone’s data.
What to do if you suspect a Phishing Attack
You may get an email, text message or phone call asking you to open an attachment or click on a link.
If you get a “No”, it may be a phishing scheme. Review the How to recognize Phishing tips and look out for signs that it is a scam. Report them and delete the message if you find them.
If you get a “Yes”, contact the company by calling the number or visiting the website. The email may not contain the correct information. Malicious malware can be installed by attaching files and linking to them.
How to Respond to a Phishing Email
IdentityTheft.gov is the place to go if you suspect that a fraudster has access to your personal information. You’ll find the steps you need to take based upon the information you have lost.
Update your security software if you suspect that you clicked on a malicious link or opened an email attachment that contained malware. Next, run a scan.
How to Report Phishing
Report any phishing emails or texts you receive. Your information can be used to fight scammers.
Step 1. If you got a phishing email, forward it to the website of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which is [email protected]. You can also send phishing text messages to SPAM (7726).
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https://manageditservicescolumbia.com/avoid-phishing-recognize-scams/
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The process through which potential adverse effects of human exposures to hazardous activities or agents are systematically and scientifically characterizes is known as risk assessment. Both public and private organizations greatly rely on risk assessment when making risk management decisions. Performing a complete risk assessment is always a dreadful task that requires an extensive collection of data by qualified researchers. Deciding whether risk assessment results should be used for making risk management decisions depends on the importance of the problem being analyzed and the impact of the given scientific issues on the lives of human beings. Risk assessments normally have a number of limitations that government agencies tend to ignore when making risk management decisions (Van der Sluijs et al., 2005).
Risk assessment is currently used to examine the relevance of toxicity to human beings, account for differences in population exposures, describe uncertainties among populations, evaluate risks of chemical mixtures, and assess risks of radiation and harmful micro-organisms to human beings. Specifically, exposure assessments are often based on many assumptions and invalidated mathematical models that greatly interfere with the validity and reliability of data obtained. The simplicity and complexity of exposure assessments depends on the existing risk management. According to Van der Sluijs et al. (2005), exposure assessments are based n assumptions that focus on individual chemicals.
Furthermore, predictions about population’s exposure are often done using unvalidated mathematical models. State’s decision makers build these mathematical models based on limited information obtained from different populations. The results obtained fail to give the actual exposure magnitudes which make it difficult to identify the variability that exists among populations. Another limitation of unvalidated mathematical models used in exposure assessments is the fact that they fail to incorporate other sources of exposure and the relationships between exposure sources (The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management).
Prior to using exposure assessment to make risk management decisions, State’s decision makers need to ensure that designs of exposure assessment can help them to meet risk management decisions. As Van der Sluijs et al. (2005) put it, risk assessments are different with the main sources of variation being their contents and design. Some exposure assessments are complex while others are simple. State’s decision makers sometimes rely on simplistic estimates of exposure obtained from limited data, numerous assumptions and insufficiently validated mathematical models.
Conversely, some exposure assessments are too complex to provide information needed to make clear risk management decisions. In order to use exposure assessments to make useful risk management decisions, State’s decision makers must design their exposure assessments to address a specific issue and that can be use to make uncomplicated risk management decisions. The design of exposure assessment should be determined at the beginning of the assessment to avoid complications that may arise during decision making (The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management).
Another thing that State’s decision makers must be aware of is that meaningful decisions are normally obtained from realistic exposure scenarios. However, many decision makers have used estimated risks obtained from nonexistent situations because of fear of documenting minimal exposures. When they do so, they tend to ignore information about the magnitude and frequency of population exposures. The use of less extreme exposure scenarios to make risk management decision may give unrealistic information which may not be useful in assisting a given population (The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management).
According to Van der Sluijs et al., (2005), exposure assessment should not be conducted using hypothetical exposure situations. Again, those conducting exposure assessments should not only rely on populations with maximum exposures but they should use representative estimates in to examine chemical exposures in their geographic areas of interest. Risk management decisions should be made using refined data that reflects a uniform exposure distribution across populations (Van der Sluijs et al., 2005). Additionally, State’s decision makers should rely on actual data obtained from the field but not on assumptions obtained from theoretical situations. Much emphasis must be laid on the actual characteristics of a given population as this information may be used to predict future exposures (European Commission, 2013).
Risk management decisions can greatly be useful if they are used by the government to assist highly exposed populations. Therefore, exposure assessments should seek to identify highly exposed populations for the most appropriate protective measures to be implemented. Certain populations are at higher risk of chemical exposures than others and this variation is associated with differences in eating habits, occupational exposures, behavior patterns, and cultural practices across populations (The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management). Ideally, risk management decision should always be made by focusing on high-risk subpopulations. Unfortunately, State’s decision makers rarely seek for relevant information from citizens and therefore fail to consider specific exposure conditions found in different settings such as among minority group populations, communities of given socio-economic status, and populations with different types of occupations (European Commission, 2013).
(2005) , the risks of chemical exposure can result from increased doses as well as differences in contaminant concentrations. It is therefore important that risk assessments be conducted with the aim of identifying populations that are at higher risks of chemical exposure than others. In order to obtain relevant information about the actual sources of exposures, the affected parties should be involved directly to identify various exposure factors that exist across populations. The information obtained can be used by State’s decision makers to identify the best method of limiting chemical exposures among populations that are at a higher risk of exposure than others (European Commission, 2013).
A good exposure assessment should account for variations in susceptibility to assist State’s decision makers to understand how to handle different populations that are at risk of chemical exposure. For example, genetic and metabolic variations can make some populations more susceptible to chemical exposures than others. Unfortunately, individual information on differences in susceptibility is not included in the current regulatory approaches that are concerned with reducing risks of chemical exposures. The absence of specific information about susceptibility makes exposure assessments to rely on assumptions, thereby preventing protection of sensitive individuals (The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management).
Therefore, risk assessments should include susceptibility factors as way of recognizing variations among populations especially with reference to chemical exposures. Instead of basing their decision on assumptions, State’s decision makers should use information obtained from a range of populations in order to make specific risk management decisions that can help protect those populations (European Commission, 2013).
In conclusion, risk assessments provide very useful information for making risk management decisions. For example, exposure assessments give information that is used by State’s decision makers to make risk management decisions that aim at limiting chemical exposures. Unfortunately, exposure risk assessments are always based on many assumptions and validations that may prevent the usefulness of risk management decisions made by State’s decision makers. People who are charged with the responsibility of conducting risk assessments need to be conversant with the limitations of using risk assessment in risk management decision making presented in this paper, in order to make necessary corrections when doing their work.
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https://uniquewritersbay.com/new-uses-limitations-risk-assessments-risk-management-decision-making/
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Deploying a specialized honeypot program such as KFSensor, HoneyPoint, and Honeyd offers many advantages (see "Intrusion detection honeypots simplify network security"). They can ease setup, mimic large networks using a single host, and prevent attackers from carrying out exploits by serving up fake instead of full services. But any old computer -- or Cisco router, Ethernet switch, or control system, for that matter -- can serve as a useful early-warning system.
To use an old PC as a honeypot, start by removing any remaining data, user profiles, and applications (unless you want those applications to be part of your honeypot trap). I generally recommend that the computer receive the same patching and antimalware policies and software as the other computers in your environment; you want it to blend in. Then install any software that makes the honeypot attractive to snoops: Web server, SQL Server, FTP, SMTP, NetBIOS file sharing, and so on.
Finally, place the honeypot inside the perimeter, in places that seem to garner a lot of network traffic -- data centers, busy client segments, server farms, and more. Traditionally, honeypots were placed in the DMZ or forward facing on the Internet. For a business, honeypots provide the most value as early-warning systems when they are placed inside the protected perimeter. You want to know what malicious item has made it past the hardened exterior and into the soft, chewy center.
You should enable all logging on the honeypot computer, especially logons and firewall auditing-only policies. You want to catch and alert on any attempted logons, pings, and enumeration activity. You will probably spend a day or two filtering out normal broadcast and exploratory traffic, such as DHCP broadcasts, NetBIOS broadcasts, and pushing probes from your antimalware install servers. After all the normal, expected probes are filtered out, you want to alert on every other item. Even the best hackers have to probe and explore an asset to learn how it can be compromised.
When an alert is generated, make sure someone responds and looks to see why the remote origin point is trying to touch a fake asset. Unlike your firewall logs, which are full of noise from events that are often legitimate, a properly filtered honeypot is worth its weight in gold. Every connection attempt and probe needs to be explored.
Because a honeypot often catches trusted insiders attempting unauthorized acts (in my personal experience, about half of the catches are insiders), it's best if the honeypot is known to only a few people. Use a code word when referring to it in emails because you never know when an attacker hasn't compromised your email system. Not even the people assigned to responding to honeypot incidents need to know of its existence. All they need to be told is that an intrusion detection system alerted on the suspicious traffic.
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https://www.infoworld.com/article/2624664/intrusion-detection-on-the-cheap--roll-your-own-honeypot.html
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On December 17, 2021, Typhoon Odette (International name: Rai) hit the Philippines’ Palawan Island, causing severe damage to protected areas including (PPSRNP), Cleoptra’s Needle Critical Habitat, Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape, and El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area.
The full impact of the storm has not yet been assessed; at PPSRNP, where preliminary surveys have been conducted, more than 2,200 trees were damaged on the park’s fringes and sightings of birds were down by 90%.
Experts say the storm-damaged forests can recover — if they aren’t disturbed by human incursions, fires, or additional storms.
When park ranger Allan Daganta travels to work from his home in a village just outside Palawan’s (PPSRNP), he’s usually welcomed by a cool forest breeze. That, he says, has changed since December 17, 2021, when Super Typhoon Odette (Rai) hit Palawan, turning the park’s once-thriving forest from green to brown.
“Now, every time I drive to work I can feel the hot weather,” Daganta told Mongabay a month after the catastrophic storm, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, struck the island. “I was born and raised here and in my 51 years of existence, it’s so far the strongest typhoon to ever ravage the park.”
On duty a few hours ahead of the storm’s ninth and final landfall over northern Palawan, Daganta left the ranger station to seek safety at a colleague’s house. Shortly before noon, the park started to feel Rai’s ire. The howling wind toppled trees and flattened houses and park buildings, and the sea raged, swallowing up patrol and fishing boats anchored on the shore.
Old photo of the (PPSRNP) taken in 2014. Image by Sophia Lucero via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
Super Typhoon Rai turned the park’s once-thriving forest from green to brown. “During its onslaught, all I can exclaim was, ‘Oh, God, let this storm pass by,’” Daganta said. “The next day, fallen trees made roads impassable. When I returned to the station, its galvanized iron roof was torn down and all you can see inside were fallen tree branches.”
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At the forest edges alone, at least 2,200 trees, including many century-old native dipterocarps, were damaged, based on park management’s initial estimates. The full extent of forest destruction left by Rai in the 22,202-hectare (54,862-acre) PPSRNP remains unknown; fallen trees have obstructed trails into the forest’s interior, hampering ground assessment.
The strongest storm to hit the Philippines in 2021, Rai dismantled numerous park facilities and villagers’ homes, displacing more than 3,500 families a week before Christmas. It also destroyed 86 boats, once mainly servicing tourists but converted for fishing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. No casualties were recorded at the park, but the death toll across the Philippines reached 407, including at least 22 in Palawan.
The impact on wildlife has yet to be calculated.
PPSRNP is a UNESCO World Heritage and Ramsar site known for its impressive cave system and intact old-growth forests. The IUCN notes that it’s home to a large number of bird species, including the endemic Palawan hornbill (Anthracoceros marchei), Palawan peacock pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) and Philippine cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), all of them threatened species. Wildlife law enforcement initiatives afford protection to commonly traded endemic mammal species taking refuge here, such as the Palawan pangolin (Manis culionensis), porcupine (Hystrix pumila) and bearcat (Arctictis binturong).
“It’s heartbreaking to see the devastation that the typhoon caused, not only to the forest, but to the wildlife as well,” park biologist Nevong Puna told Mongabay. “The adverse effect was huge, especially to birds depending on the canopy either for food or shelter.” During an assessment two weeks after the storm, bird sightings were down by 10% from pre-storm levels.
PPSRNP’s neighboring key biodiversity areas, Cleopatra’s Needle Critical Habitat, Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape and El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area, were also hit by Rai, but assessments there are still ongoing, and the government and conservation groups have not yet provided figures on the true extent of the impacts of the storm on forests and wildlife.
The strongest storm to hit Philippines in 2021, Rai dismantled numerous park facilities and villagers’ homes, displacing more than 3,500 families, and destroyed 86 boats. Image courtesy of (PPSRNP).
Where did the wildlife go?
The state-run weather bureau reported that when Rai made landfall in Palawan, it had sustained winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 205 kph (127 mph), battering the central and northern portions of the province. “With its vast coverage, how far could the birds, mammals, and other wildlife have gone? So there’s a slim chance of escape,” Puna said.
Biodiversity expert Neil Aldrin Mallari said it’s possible some animals fled to more sheltered areas before the storm struck. “Wildlife have strong senses, most of them might have retreated,” he told Mongabay. “For those who were not able to retreat, because they’re not that mobile, like frogs, they might have perished.”
Mallari, the chief scientist at the nonprofit Center for Conservation Innovation Ph Inc. (CCIPH), said he’s also concerned about the long-term survival of wildlife that did make it through the storm. “We hypothesize that, because of the strong typhoon, the flowers that would have been fruits by summertime, serving as food for wildlife, they might have been blown away; therefore, there would be famine in the wild, and eventually the wildlife might die out.”
Botanists are also concerned about the park’s plant life. “The hemiepiphytic and epiphytic species, like orchid, are the most affected as they cling on branches of the trees,” said Maverick Tamayo, research director of the nonprofit Philippine Taxonomic Initiative (PTI), which includes PPSRNP among its study sites.
Tamayo also noted that karstic or limestone-dwelling species are especially vulnerable to typhoons. “Those that have a poor root system, for example, Amorphophallus species and tubers, can be carried away by the heavy rainfall since these species only thrive in humus within crevices of the limestones,” he told Mongabay.
On a positive note, he said, the passage of a typhoon can facilitate nutrient availability: “Typhoons can return and even out the nutrients in the forest through translocation … But still, typhoons, especially the strong ones, can have more negative impacts rather than benefits. For instance, opportunistic invasive species seeds and propagules can be effectively dispersed further.”
Scientists are concerned about both plant and animal life that were affected by the typhoon. Prospects for a green recovery
Park superintendent Elizabeth Maclang said the destruction could have been even greater, and credited activities that have effectively protected the forest and managed the restoration of degraded areas. However, she said the park was not adequately prepared for a storm of this magnitude: “In the past, we’re spared [from] typhoons as strong as this, so we’d become complacent, and now we’re caught unprepared. Our big realization from this? Invest in the improvement of our disaster readiness.”
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report stated with “high confidence” that “the proportion of intense tropical cyclones (Category 4-5) and peak wind speeds of the most intense tropical cyclones are projected to increase at the global scale with increasing global warming.”
This further imperils developing countries like the Philippines, which on average see at least 20 major tropical storms per year. Maclang is among the activists and climate negotiators in the Philippines calling on developed countries to set up a fund to compensate vulnerable countries for climate-linked losses and damages. “Our park hosts ‘globally significant habitat for biodiversity conservation,’” she said. “What we’d lose, the world would lose, so we urge developed countries to partake in raising this long-sought climate fund.”
Some efforts to increase climate resiliency are already in place. The park’s management has partnered with USAID’s Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity, Oceans, and Landscapes (SIBOL) project, which launched in 2020. Some funds have already been channeled for post-Rai interventions in Palawan, including a “green assessment” set to begin in February, which will enlist the help of environmental authorities and nearby communities to pinpoint the changes in ecosystems since the typhoon struck.
The results of the assessment will be used to create hazard, vulnerability, and community resources maps, aimed at guiding park management in crafting a plan to increase the park’s resilience to climate risks.
“We’ll help determine areas that will pave the way to green reconstruction, restoration, and rehabilitation,” Mallari said. “In other words, it’s a pathway to a more resilient community.” With the assistance of community members as citizen scientists on a cash-for-work scheme, his team will also work to identify suitable habitats for various species, and their level of tolerance to disturbances before and after the typhoon.
Experts are looking towards green reconstruction, restoration, and rehabilitation solutions. Hitting the tipping point
Experts say the damage at PPSRNP is reversible, but note that it will take time to see full ecosystem recovery.
“If we leave it as it is and nature will take its course, it will definitely recover,” said Rogelio Andrada II, forestry and protected area management professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Andrada said the inner forest, where post-Rai surveys have not yet taken place, may be in better condition than forest fringes, which received the most destructive wind force. In addition, standing trees without leaves are not necessarily dead and can sprout again, provided they don’t suffer from drought or attacks by insects, fungi or bacteria.
Without disturbances, the mix of tree species originally occupying the park can be expected to return naturally after about a decade. “Recovery starts the next day after a typhoon hit the area,” Andrada said. “But if you want it to return to climax vegetation, that would take a lot of time.”
The occurrence of equally strong or stronger typhoons in the future, as well as the incessant presence of people in opened canopies, could disrupt this recovery process, he added. Moreover, park management is concerned about the risk of wildfires since no rains have occurred since Rai struck.
One technique that could speed recovery is “assisted natural regeneration,” which Andrada said entails replanting denuded areas with original species and ensuring these are protected from disturbances that could impact their growth and survival.
Mallari stressed the need to prevent further forest loss in Palawan, which he said is nearing the “tipping point,” beyond which ecosystems can no longer weather environmental pressures and perform their vital functions. As of 2015, the most recent year for which official figures are available, the province had just 694,459 hectares (1.7 million acres) of remaining forest cover, representing around 46% of its land area. Losing 10% more of this forest, Mallari said, is tantamount to hitting the tipping point.
“The challenge for us now is how we give it a hard reset, and if we’re able to, let’s make it count because if we further let this degradation to continue, Palawan is moving towards that ‘point of no return,’” Mallari said. “If we hit that tipping point, any increase in population, for example, has an exponential effect on your loss of natural ecosystems. And the more ecosystems you lose, it increases your vulnerability when another Odette [Rai] comes. It becomes a vicious cycle.”
This article https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/typhoon-exposes-biodiversity-haven-palawans-vulnerability-and-resilience/ with permission from Mongabay.
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https://palawan-news.com/typhoon-odette-exposes-biodiversity-haven-palawans-vulnerability-and-resilience/
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