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The technology research arm of the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to develop technology to determine ahead of time when soldiers or other government insiders may become a threat to themselves or others.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking ideas for its Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) program, which will produce technology that can sift through the behavioral signs that may lead to someone turning on his or her cohorts, and prevent the action before it happens, the agency said.
"Each time we see an incident like a soldier in good mental health becoming homicidal or suicidal or an innocent insider becoming malicious we wonder why we didn't see it coming," according to an announcement about an ADAMS industry day on Oct. 19. "When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail -- sometimes even an 'obvious' one."
The problem with putting all the pieces of evidence together is the process of analyzing the data, knowing how to spot the difference between normal and abnormal behaviors, and determining how they may lead to a threatening incident, the agency said.
With ADAMS, the agency aims to "create, adapt, and apply technology to the problem of anomaly characterization and detection in massive data sets," according to DARPA. Following the industry day, it will release a broad agency announcement on FedBizOpps.gov seeking proposals for the program.
DARPA hopes the military and the counterintelligence community can use the technology to catch potentially threatening behaviors "before or shortly after they turn," it said. The agency defines an insider threat as one coming from a person already trusted in a secure environment who has access to sensitive information, systems, and sources.
Indeed, security threats from insiders are a chief concern for the federal government, which has seen numerous cases of sensitive information being leaked by trusted employees.
The DoD's ongoing battle with the website Wikileaks, which publishes classified information provided by insiders, is a prime example. In July the U.S. Army formally brought charges against an intelligence analyst, Private First Class Bradley Manning, for leaking classified video footage from Iraq to the site.
Another concern among military officials is suicides by soldiers, which have been on the rise since the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan began. The Army in particular has undertaken efforts -- such as offering suicide counseling when previously psychological treatment was seen as a stigma -- to try to prevent more soldiers from taking their own lives.
At next week's ADAMS industry day, DARPA plans to introduce participants to the program and the agency's interest in applying automated and integrated modeling, correlation, exploitation, prediction, and resource management to the insider-threat problem.
The agency also hopes to identify organizations or individuals who may have valid ideas for ADAMS, and set them up with meetings with potential program managers for potential collaboration on the project.
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https://www.darkreading.com/risk/darpa-project-to-tackle-inside-security-threats
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Finally certified, due to expiration of 800 series this end of June and i already passed the 801 last year. I rushed to get a voucher through getcertifiedforless site last Wednesday then scheduled an exam today. No formal reviews, i've just watched Professor Messer videos and take the Practice Test in examcompass. This is a great day for me.
Do i need to take the Network+ or should i choose CCNA? Aiming to get certification for CCNA Security. Thanks to this forum and to all folks out there.
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https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/120711/finally-passed-802-this-day
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The website can then exchange the code for an OAuth access token and use the token to make API requests on behalf of the user.
Unlike with OAuth 1.x where a request token is passed through the entire flow, there is nothing that ties the request to authorize with the returned code. An attacker can generate a code for their own Facebook account for a target website and can then get a victim to load the code in the website’s callback URL. If the victim is logged in, the website will automatically use the code to link the victim’s account to the attacker’s Facebook account. If the website has implemented Facebook as a secondary login option the attacker can then login to the victims account using Facebook.
I tested this attack against The New York Times, Photobucket, TripAdvisor, StackOverflow, Digg and Formspring all of which were vulnerable.
Facebook was notified of this issue in January. Since being notified they have taken the following actions:
Notified major developers of the issue.
Added a section detailing the issue and the use of the “state” parameter for mitigation to their authentication documentation.
Began updating their SDKs to use the “state” parameter.
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This site has been updated, and re-launched, so we welcome all new malware removal questions and requests.
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https://malwareforum.com/index.php/2021/07/08/csrf-vulnerability-in-oauth-2-0-client-implementations/global-security-news/admin/
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Guys, we have a real phishing problem with this Adult Friend Finder (AFF) hack. This particular adult site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the U.S. and has 40 million registered users. These end-users are a security breach waiting to happen.
You may have heard about it, but in short the story is that the AFF site owed $248,000 to someone, very likely an affiliate that was feeding them web traffic, and apparently AFF did not pay up. The affiliate had a hacker buddy who calls himself ROR[RG] and this guy decided to teach AFF a lesson.
He hacked them, exfiltrated at least 4 million records and then sent them a ransom demand of $100,000 to return the data. Again, apparently AFF did not pay up (again) and ROR[RG] in retaliation posted these records on a Darknet Tor site loaded with a ton of highly personal, sensitive information, including their age, sexual preferences, state, zip code, username, IP address, and if they are married or single, gay or straight, and are looking for a «cheating one night https://www.besthookupwebsites.org/tr/ukraine-date-inceleme/ stand» or more let’s call it unorthodox sexual activities. With a little bit of digging, these people are relatively easy to find. Bev Robb, who does malware and dark Web research, wrote a blog post showing how easy it is.
A rough guess is that 10% of your users may be very worried at this time that their sexual preferences and/or activities are going to come out
FriendFinder Networks, a California-based company wrote that it had hired FireEye’s forensics unit, Mandiant, to investigate along with Holland and Knight, a law firm, and a public relations company specializing in cybersecurity.
«We cannot speculate further about this issue, but rest assured, we pledge to take the appropriate steps needed to protect our customers if they are affected,» it said. The company could not be reached for further comment. UK TV Channel 4 reported it first, and stated exposed email addresses are receiving a wave of spam. Here is their 4-minute segment.
People that have extramarital affairs can be made to click on links in emails that threaten to out them. I already see the phishing emails that claim people can go to a website to find out if their private data has been released. This is a nightmers, phishers and blackmailers who are now gleefully rubbing their hands.
Mass media has jumped on this, the news of this hack is on CNN, NBC, you name it. If any of your users has registered on AFF, they have probably heard about it and are worried. This is a nightmare phishing scenario. Jilted spouses, divorce attorneys and private investigators are undoubtedly already poring over the data.
This is not an easy one. I suggest you take immediate preventive action. It only takes one second for a worried end-user (or admin) to click on a link in an email and expose the network to attackers. I suggest you send something like this to your friends, family and end-users and feel free to edit.
Just one example: you can imagine that a man married to a woman but who is hunting down gay hookups on the side could easily be blackmailed or receive a spear phishing email with a poisoned link that infects his workstation «Last week, news broke that the Adult Friend Finder website was hacked. This is a one of the top adult website for people that want casual encounters, possibly cheating on their spouse. The site has 40 million registered users, and millions of these records are now out in the open, exposing highly sensitive personal information. Internet criminals are going to exploit this in many ways, sending spam, phishing and possibly blackmail messages, using social engineering tactics to make people click on links or open infected attachments. Be on the lookout for threatening messages like this that slip through and delete them immediately.»
As you can see, stepping your users through effective security awareness training is an absolute must these days. For KnowBe4 customers, we have a new Social Networking template that lures people into clicking on a link to the «haveibeenpwned» website to see if their personal sensitive information was hacked. The subject of the template is «Hey, has your Adult Friend Finder secret come out?»
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https://elizabethurbiola.com/adult-friend-finder-hack-is-nightmare-phishing-2/
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This simple - we’re not affected - applies for all ownCloud standard installations, including our docker containers and our SaaS Service at owncloud.online.
If you have Java services connected to ownCloud like Elasticsearch - those need to be checked and updated or mitigated now.
Thanks you for your attention - as we are getting customer and user enquiries we wanted to proactively communicate with you.
As this issue mostly affects Java applications owncloud 10 (written in PHP and JavaScript) and ownCloud Infinite Scale (written in golang), as well as our desktop and mobile clients don’t need a special upgrade at this time, however we do recommend that you keep your complete environment current and follow security recommendations in a timely manner. For ownCloud 10 this would be the 10.8 server version. Staying on the latest versions assures that your systems stay safe and secure!
ownCloud 10 applications use a Javascript library called log4js. This is a different software which is verified to not have this problem.
All our internal as well as customer and user facing systems are already updated.
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https://central.owncloud.org/t/owncloud-not-directly-affected-by-log4j-vulnerability/35493
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Ask the tough questions before you invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. The security of your enterprise depends on it.
When looking at the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) components of information security products, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the glut of marketing buzzwords. As a decision maker, how do you cut through the jargon to fully understand what you're purchasing?
The key is in asking the right questions before purchasing a product. Here is my short list of key issues to address:
Issue 1: Technical Components
Sometimes vendors make big AI/ML claims but their products only use simple classification algorithms on a single type of data. Buyers need to ask which algorithms and frameworks are being used and whether these are existing algorithms or custom solutions developed by the vendor.
When vendors talk about how they implement AI/ML, buyers can get a better sense of whether they're buying a point solution or a more comprehensive one. Note there is no right or wrong answer here unless a vendor point blank refuses to disclose what goes into its AI/ML. What you're really looking for is transparency and a conversation on how its product will use AI/ML to protect your assets.
Before you buy, you need to ask whether a security solution can handle the wide range of data that is only growing in complexity and type. No longer is looking at only log data enough when it comes to modern security practices. Call center audio recordings, video feeds, and other transactional data are the norm. You need to know whether your solution can handle these data sets or whether it's a siloed solution. If your organization's data stretches across silos and the AI/ML only works on certain silos, something may be missing.
Before you buy, ask whether AL/ML models can be applied to different types of data sets. You don't want to find out after the fact that the AI/ML application is limited in scope and doesn't meet your security needs. In addition, ask the vendor to show you examples of the breadth of AI/ML model applications in the product. This is a great way to get to the core of the vendor offering.
Issue 4: AI/ML Updates
AI/ML security solutions must be able to evolve and update as security threats do. To meet the constant onslaught of new threats, vendors must have the ability to update their algorithms. How does the vendor manage these changes in the threat landscape within their product? It's a good idea to ask about how past AI/ML updates have been handled in terms of development, testing, implementation, and licensing.
Licensing is particularly important. You need to know if your organization's data will essentially be held hostage until you've paid to apply a new algorithm. What if you want to apply a different algorithm? Will that also cost you? There isn't one answer here that is the correct answer; however, knowing how this process unfolds in the future will help you prepare for the evolution on the solution that needs to occur.
Issue 5: Security Team Knowledge and Skills
Purchasing a security platform that supports the latest AI/ML toolkits can help build your team's knowledge and skills. Before buying, you need to know whether the solution will build your security team's understanding of your organization's data or whether you will be relying on the expertise of the vendor and its proprietary solution. Ideally, any purchase will help your security team learn how data works internally and increase its understanding of data engineering and data science. It's important to understand the balance between working with vendors and growing your own internal talent pool before you buy.
Another thing to think about: To recruit smart, data-driven security analysts, organizations need to use products and tools that encourage employees' growth and knowledge. Considering how limited the pool of data scientists currently is, using cutting-edge technology is essential for recruiting new talent.
Asking the right questions will help you become a more-informed consumer. Being more informed and purchasing the right security solution means your implementation is more likely to be more successful too. Ask the tough questions before you buy — the security of your enterprise depends on it.
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Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are great examples of early FPS games. Back in that era, as Amiga was slowly losing its gaming supremacy to the PC, Apple wasn’t even on the playing field. However, [Chris Tully] has used the 90s HyperCard platform to create an FPS of his own, and it’s charming in what it achieves.
If you’re not familiar with it, HyperCard was a strange combination of database, programming language, and graphical interface system all rolled into one. It made developing GUI apps for the Macintosh platform simpler, with some limitations. It was certainly never intended for making pseudo-3D video games, but that just makes [Chris’s] achievement all the more impressive.
At this stage, [Chris’s] game doesn’t feature any NPCs, weapons, or items yet. It’s thus more of a First Person Walker than First Person Shooter. It features four small rooms with perpendicular, vertical walls, rendered either greyscale or 8-bit color. Now that he’s got the basic engine running, [Chris] is looking to recreate a bit of a Doom RPG experience, rather than copying Doom itself. He hopes to add everything from monsters to weapons, lava, and working HUD elements. If you want to dive in to the code, you can – HyperCard “stacks”, as they’re known, are made up of readily editable scripts.
[Chris] built the project to celebrate the aesthetic and limitations of the original Mac platform. While it could technically run on original hardware, it would run incredibly slowly. It currently takes several seconds to update the viewport on an emulated Mac Plus with 4MB of RAM. Thankfully, emulation on a modern PC can be sped up a lot to help the framerate.
We love seeing HyperCard pushed far beyond its original limits. We’ve seen it before, too, such as when it was used on a forgotten 90s Apple phone prototype. If you’ve been hacking away on retro software yourself, we’d love to see your projects on the tipsline!
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https://malwareforum.com/index.php/2023/01/28/fps-game-engine-built-in-ancient-macintosh-hypercard-software/hacker-security-news/admin/
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Kristian Fiskerstrand’s sks-keyservers.net tracks the status and statistics of over 80 keyservers around the world. According his data, new keys were being added at around 500 keys per day at the beginning of June. On June 5, The Guardian began publishing Snowden’s leaks. Today, between 1,500 and 1,600 new keys are being added every day.
@konstantinhaase @bascule Bar chart of keys added pr day pic.twitter.com/UHvjH1DjK0
Fiskerstrand says it’s “too early to tell” whether this is indicative of a large increase in adopting PGP encryption across the board. “An increase in the number of users trying it out doesn’t necessarily mean more end up using it frequently,” he wrote.
At the very least, these numbers are good indicators that more and more netizens are becoming proactive about security.
Popular websites such as prism-break.org have offered privacy-friendly alternatives to popular software. As recent polls have illustrated that many Americans are now more concerned about civil liberties than terrorism, more and more people are willing to try new software to avoid tracking and surveillance by government intelligence organizations and private companies.
In the tech sector, a small but significant privacy boom is already under way. New products such as Tox, which promises secure messaging, and old favorites such as Tor, which promises anonymous Web browsing, are making more waves in the mainstream than ever before.
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https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/pgp-encryption-snowden-prism-nsa/
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Founded in 2007, Signicat is a Digital Identity Service Provider operating in Scandinavia and throughout Europe. Signicat provides digital services to financial institutions enabling them to connect different identity schemes and benefit from first class electronic signature.
Signicat is a leading provider of electronic identity and electronic signature. The company offers Identity on Demand solutions enabling companies to issue their own digital ID. Signicat’s product suite offers customers four solutions to achieve a perfectly secure digital identity management, covering the establishment of customers’ eID, secure online connection, electronic signature and secure document storage. Furthermore, Signicat facilitates the connection through their API of numerous eID, such as iDIN and DigiD in the Netherlands.
The firm differentiates its services on the market by offering legally binding solutions, fulfilling the KYC and AML requirements of their clients while combining identity and signature. They are specialized in mixing different online identification modules to address their client’s cross-border needs, making them the largest on the market to do so. Signicat maintains and offers a suite of product client need to be compliant. In the context of an upcoming PSD2, the European market will move towards a stronger customer identification, which they are able to deliver.
Founded in 2007 in Trondheim, Norway, the company is now active in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, UK, Portugal, and the Netherlands, where they have an office in The Hague. As the company targets financial institutions, their main customers are banks and insurance companies, such as Rabobank, who, as the security requirement increase, can benefit from reliable solutions.
Signicat’s team consists of eighty professionals spread into different departments, such as operation, support, R&D, marketing, sales and IT. The work philosophy of Signicat is entirely relying on trust, from internal processes to the delivery of their product: customers trust Signicat’s ability to provide a reliable and fast service, a trust facilitated by the full digital nature of their solutions.
Within their European expansion strategy, the company will open an office in Germany by the end of this year, and is recently active in the UK. They are as well the first ones in Belgium working with the Belgian Mobile ID setup.
Signicat is a member of our network since 2016. They share their belief in the impact potential digitalization will have on the financial ecosystem and society as a whole. Active in several of our events, Signicat and Holland FinTech collaboration will spawn more outcomes in the months to come.
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As a card-carrying extrovert, there's almost nothing I like better than being on stage, making sure a room full of people are being entertained and engaged. Years of piano recitals banished my stage fright (talking on stage is ten times easier than performing up there) and the rest fell naturally into place with preparation and practice.
So imagine my distress when I discovered how nerve-wracking a solo webinar performance can be. By the end of it, I was out of breath, twitchy with nerves and having trouble swallowing-like a 12-year-old getting halfway through Debussy's "Claire de Lune" before freezing at the keyboard. (My mother never let me forget that one.)
The assignment had been deceptively easy. Talk for 30 minutes on a webcast about women and IT career paths. Show a few slides, take a few questions at the end. Never even leave my office chair. How could this not be a piece of cake, performancewise? What I hadn't bargained for was the deadly quiet, the utter lack of audience interaction. No eye contact. No heads nodding. No "sense of the room"-that vital sixth sense experienced speakers hone to alert them to the audience drifting away.
Worse than the sound of one hand clapping, this was the sound of one voice yapping.
"I've had that same problem of no feedback," says Zack Grossbart, author of an upcoming book on working remotely and a master of engaging Web presentations. "One trick is to have a friend in the audience, someone who can show up on your IM and tell you things like 'That worked really well!' or 'You're talking too fast!'"
This 31-year-old software engineer has been working with and coaching remote teams at companies like JP Morgan, 3M, Nortel and Hewlett-Packard since 2001. He's currently a consulting engineer working for Novell (remotely from Cambridge, Mass.) and looking for a publisher for his book, The One Minute Commute. (Learn more at www.zackgrossbart.com.)
The son of two psychologists, Zack comes naturally to his interest in how humans relate to one another. But it was his years of working remotely with a team of fellow engineers at Novell that sharpened his grasp of how to bond with an audience when you can't look people in the eye.
He identifies three big mistakes we often make when presenting remotely:
1. Assuming you have everyone's full attention even though you know perfectly well how much Web surfing and multitasking is, no doubt, going on.
2. Preparing for a remote Web presentation the same way you would an in-person appearance.
3. Failing to adjust your presentation to the technology available to your audience. What are they seeing in real-time as they listen to you?
So let's start with number one: holding the attention of an invisible audience.
"You have to realize that whatever you present, there's no way it'll be more interesting than the entire Internet," Zack points out. "You can't fight it. You have to work with it and pull them back."
You do that by "bursting" your content. He recommends you build in something that dramatically snatches back the wandering attention of your listeners every 8-10 minutes. That may be a visual flare of interest on a slide, a sudden jump in your voice level, or a command that everyone click on a link and follow you to a website. Having a friendly colleague planted in the audience, ready to share an anecdote doesn't hurt, either.
"You're saying: 'Wait a minute! Keep looking!' You're channeling your inner Steve Ballmer," says Zack, fondly remembering a clip of the famously hyper Microsoft CEO launching out of his chair to jump around on stage.
So don't sit there slumped in your chair while presenting remotely. Stand up, move around, project greater energy levels into your voice. Have pictures of friends or family up on the wall so you're talking to friendly faces, not the void.
On big mistake number two-preparing for a remote presentation the same way as an in-person one-Zack stresses the importance of thinking harder about the audience experience. How are you connecting to their interests?
"My presentations all start with a 'Why do you care?' slide," he notes. "Many programs [for remote presenting] have a chat window. Can you have people pose questions during the presentation to answer immediately or afterwards?"
Finally, on the number three problem with the varying tech capabilities of your audience, this engineer-author uses a setup with three monitors and systems running Windows and Linux so he can see how his slides are displaying in different environments. As a result, he's cut way back on animations, going for simplicity and Web links instead.
How I wish I'd found Zack before that fateful webinar. But once burned, twice prepared, right? No wonder I still play "Claire de Lune" with the sheet music in front of me.
As Editor in Chief of CIO magazine and events, Maryfran Johnson is always on the lookout for great speakers and good stories. She can be reached at [email protected].
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/318121/remote_public_speaking_right_way/
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Cyber Security Analyst Jobs are one of the most in demand careers in cyber security work. Security analysts are cyber security professionals that work to prevent and mitigate data and property breaches. According to Forbes, in 2012 there were 72,670 security analyst jobs in the U.S. The median salary was $86,170. In 2015, the number of US cyber security analysts was 88,880 and they were earning $90,120.
The successful job candidate will work to ensure corporate cyber security compliance. The candidate will be responsible for conducting vulnerability and compliance inspections to include, but not limited to scanning the network to identify active devices, fingerprint application and operating systems, identifying vulnerabilities, analyzing the results, manually verifying findings to eliminate false positives or negatives, capturing artifacts, and provide routine status reports.
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https://www.askcybersecurity.com/cyber-security-jobs/cyber-security-analyst-career/
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When RehabCare executives started asking IT for Apple iPads several months ago, CIO Dick Escue didn't miss a beat.
Unlike many of his peers in the healthcare industry, he had no real qualms about security, despite the specter of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Nor did he have misgivings about users loading the devices with personal photos and music, or about the possibility that iPad users would need additional IT support.
While these concerns have other IT shops scrambling, the RehabCare team was ahead of the game. Thanks to a widespread deployment of Apple's iPhone a couple of years earlier, the St. Louis-based provider of acute care services had a formal deployment strategy that it could apply to the iPad and other tablets.
Rather than trying to ban mobile units or deploy them haphazardly, RehabCare's IT group implemented new corporate policies and standardized on mobile management technologies that opened doors for the iPhone, and now the iPad, to be used in the enterprise in a secure, centrally managed fashion.
Based on his prior experience with the iPhone, Escue was well aware that users, not the IT department, are rapidly becoming the driving force behind new technology adoption -- a trend that has come to be known as the consumerization of IT.
"There was a time when work was where you got new technology, but that day is over, thanks to unbounded innovation in the consumer technology world," says Escue, who heads up technology efforts for RehabCare, which has operations nationwide.
With the recent introduction of the iPad 2, the Motorola Xoom and the RIM PlayBook, and new versions of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablets are taking the enterprise by storm.
Gartner estimates that 69.8 million media tablets will be shipped in 2011, and analysts and forward-thinking tech managers say it's time for IT to do more than simply take note of that surge.
As with the iPhone before it, the iPad is cropping up in all corners of the enterprise, brought in by C-level execs, sales folks and people who purchased the devices for personal use and, now hooked, are hungry to use them on the job.
Regardless of whether staffers use their own tablets or company-issued models, the influx means IT needs a systematic approach for managing, tracking, securing and supporting these devices.
"What the iPhone started to show us -- and the iPad is absolutely making clear -- is that these devices are coming in whether you like it or not," says Leslie Fiering, a Gartner analyst. "That means that IT has its work cut out for it."
Mobile Device Management In the early days, enterprise-level security for iPhones was nonexistent, but that's not the case anymore. Apple's iOS 4.x operating system for both the iPhone and the iPad supports an array of security features, including encryption, centralized management and remote data wipe.
Dozens of enterprise mobile device management (MDM) tools offer similar capabilities for other smart mobile devices, enabling IT to do everything from setting policies and configuring devices remotely to performing remote wipes of devices that have been lost or stolen and creating "enterprise sandboxes" -- secure virtual areas where personal data can be kept separate from corporate data using tools like passwords and encryption.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/229451/Managing_the_Tablet_wave.html
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Corp.'s massive data breach and mounting losses from its push into Canada took a toll on the retailer's latest quarter.
The earnings report on Wednesday offered the first detailed look at the financial fallout of the breach and the task ahead as Target seeks to recover from one of the largest credit-card thefts in history. It faces more than 80 related lawsuits, including some from card issuers, as well as federal and state investigations into how the company responded to the attack.
Target's profit fell to $520 million in the quarter ended Feb. 1 from $961 million a year earlier. Most of the drop was because of the weak first year in Canada.
Sales fell 3.8% to $21.52 billion. Concerns over the breach kept shoppers away during the crucial holiday season, leading to a 5.5% drop in the number of transactions, the largest quarterly decline since Target began reporting the statistic in 2008.
Target said sales have improved this month and are running nearly flat with a year ago. The company plans to lower prices and offer more discounts in an effort to keep shoppers coming back.
"We're going to go out and be more aggressive," Target Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel
said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday.
Target's shares rose $3.98, or 7%, to $60.49 on the New York Stock Exchange. The company had warned about the damage to its sales, and investors appeared to be relieved that the damage didn't turn out worse. Wednesday's gain left the company's shares 4.8% below where they were before Target disclosed the breach on Dec. 19. Hackers used stolen credentials from a refrigeration contractor to slip software into Target's computer network that scraped card data for three weeks beginning Black Friday weekend. The attack compromised 40 million credit- and debit-card accounts, as well as the personal data for up to 70 million people.
Discounts needed to persuade customers to keep shopping at Target could weigh on earnings this year. The company projected it would earn $3.85 to $4.15 a share this year, excluding any potential cost from the data breach. Analysts had forecast $4.15.
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Target said it can absorb breach-related costs, which analysts estimate will reach hundreds of millions of dollars. The company will cut back stock buybacks to $1 billion to $2 billion this year from an earlier projection of $4 billion, Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan said. Some analysts were bracing for a bigger cut. Target also said it would raise its dividend around 20%.
Target logged $61 million in fourth-quarter expenses related to the breach, including paying for an investigation, offering credit-monitoring to customers and staffing call centers. Insurance picked up $44 million of the costs. Continued costs are expected dent earnings this year.
The fallout from the breach comes as Target faces other challenges. Its first international push, into Canada, has faced mounting losses as the company offered steep discounts to clear excess inventory. The retailer lost $723 million last year in Canada, where its gross profit margin was just 4.4% in the fourth quarter.
Target expects sales in Canada to double this year, now that the company has a better grasp on how much product to stock and at what prices. The company expects its gross margin to approach 30% in Canada, around the U.S. level.
Web-based rivals continue to grab sales from the discounter, which has been working to build online capabilities that it once outsourced to Amazon.com /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed/quotes/nls/AMZN
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/target-profit-declines-on-data-breach-fallout-2014-02-26-74495655
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BlackMatter ransomware group announces shutdown. But for how long?
The BlackMatter ransomware gang has announced they are going to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.. Will they come back? Probably!
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https://blog.malwarebytes.com/tag/cisa/
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This session will cover practical information and tips to help small business owners and managers to stay safe from hackers.
It will cover what to be aware of, explaining the types of threats and ways hackers find to compromise security and disrupt businesses along with providing tips on how to be prepared for and defend against attacks. Strategies include protecting the borders to prevent attack, being ready to restore from a backup and having cyber insurance to cover the cost of recovering from an attack. Practical guidance will be provided on what to do when (not if) an attack compromises a business, including legal responsibilities to report the breach.
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You have the power to be a good digital citizen.
If you work in the business arena, you likely depend largely upon your IT department to handle computer security issues. If you’re a home PC user, you probably rely upon some form of security software to keep you protected from online risks. But did you know that you can actively combat cyber security threats, regardless…
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Today I attended day one of the Information Security Executive Summit delivered by Tech:Touchstone at the Richmond Hill Hotel. This is a summit where practitioners and end users meet in a speed presentation dating environment. An environment I think works quite well if you are considering purchases in the InfoSec application arena.
The day started with the usual introductions and housekeeping by the event Director Russ Morrow @russmorrow then straight into an Opening Keynote on Data Leakage by the Global Head of Information Security at UBS, who may have been lost in translation a little by basically he was saying that although good any Data Leakage tool on their own are useless. It’s more about policy, processes, procedures, people, culture, very refreshing. Then we moved onto the PCeU and DI responsible for Industry Liaison who shared with us the background of enforcement input combatting cybercrime.
When attending an event similar to this you have to undertake a number of networking and 1-2-1 sessions with sponsors, which is certainly a fair trade for attending and participating. There is always a constant supply of coffee and it’s never the hard sell, so I think most people are happy to trade.
After a break it was the turn of the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and their principle policy advisor, who and you probably won’t be surprised certainly got the attention of those attending supported by a lively discussion.
You can always measure a summit or conference by the facilities, presenters and food provided and so far Tech: Touchstone haven’t disappointed. Mini Fish and Chips on offer, I might be easily pleased but that gets my vote straight away.
Coming up in the afternoon session are speakers from The BIG Lottery Fund talking mobile working and closing with the Head of Information Security from Oxfam. More to follow, but so far very impressed on day one, day two can go either way but that’s down to me as I’m presenting in the afternoon on security risk, assurance and what type of things affect me from a very noon technological int of view.
Of course before any of that is drinks, more networking And a gala dinner as organised and prepared by the renowned chef Brian Turner who retweeted one of my earlier tweets saying I was looking forward to dinner tonight and that was about 10am in the morning.
More to follow but for now if you want to follow proceedings at the summit search and follow #techtouch on twitter.
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"I wish though, that we weren't so obsessed with weight loss and diets, per se". It's hard to know for sure, but recently, a panel of health experts debated the topic for U.S. News and ranked 41 different diets. ".People want to come to Weight Watcher to lose weight, but the cream, or the cherry, or the whipped cream on top of the cake is that you're going to get healthy. "(Learn more about the WWJ program here). "I wish the focus was on adopting a healthy lifestyle, like eating a more plant-based diet, getting regular exercise, getting enough sleep and managing stress, all of which help us live a better quality of life", Heller said. In the latest rankings, the Mediterranean diet also took the titles of best diet for healthy eating, diabetes and heart health, the easiest diet to follow and the best plant-based diet.
If you're gearing up to eat healthier this year, consider including whole grains, seafood, and healthy fats in your diet.
Feel the need to knock off some pounds quickly?
While no single diet is best for everyone, U.S. News' expert rankings are meant to promote the eating styles most likely to improve health and steer people away from misguided diet plans - like the last-place Dukan diet, a restrictive, high-protein system.
In the book, Blatner says you don't have to cut out meat entirely to reap the health benefits of a vegetarian diet. In fact, one study found the diet may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by as much as 53 percent.
More news: A deadly virus progresses: 600 inhabitants of the Congo has contracted Ebola
The easiest diets to follow include the Mediterranean diet, the Flexitarian diet and WW (Weight Watchers). These types of diets can help teach lifelong positive eating habits.
Although the popular Keto diet ranked high for fast weight loss, it landed way down on the Best Diets list - tying for number 38.
And no, unfortunately, there is still no magic fix for losing weight, but there are certain diets that have been shown to be more successful. It's very similar to the Mediterranean plan.
But the diet topping any list isn't necessarily the best diet for you.
Tanev tied it 1-1 at 4:39 of the second, tipping in a point shot from Jacob Trouba. The Jets pulled ahead in the second period with two goals 1:23 apart.
We Won't Change Our Approach For Manchester City - Liverpool Star Arsenal had been playing pretty well this season so we had to stay focused on them, not think about City", said the defender. Liverpool are in dreamland at the moment and their standout superstar Virgil Van Dijk has made a huge statement.
British Home Secretary questions whether migrants are genuine asylum seekers A British man and an Iranian national have been detained on suspicion of helping migrants to cross the English Channel into the UK.
Trump shows off letter from North Korea's Kim Trump has previously said he plans to hold a second meeting with Kim, though a date and location have not yet been announced. The US president also told reporters that he had never emphasized the speed at which Pyongyang would need to denuclearize.
Hollywood celebrity burglaries: Suspect arrested over thefts from homes of stars While it is now unclear how much the stolen property amounted to, police believe it was worth "multiple millions" of dollars. He stole upwards of more than 2,000 items including fine art, diamond jewelry, watches, handbags and more.
Sentry Tournament of Champions: Jason Sobel’s Favorite Round 1 Matchup Props European Golfer of the Year Francesco Molinari will also feature in the 34-strong field, along with Englishman Paul Casey, who will make his first appearance in the tournament since 2010. "It's where it's heading".
Trump Says `Big Progress Being Made' With China After Xi Call In the past, the U.S. and China have imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on over Dollars 300 billion worth of goods. Trump wrote on Twitter that he had "a long and very good call" with Xi over a possible deal.
George pumps in 37 as Thunder top Lakers Westbrook recorded his 115th career triple-double despite his horrific shooting, which included a 1-of-7 showing on 3-pointers. George, who picked up three fouls in first 3:12 of first quarter, scored 20 points in the second half.
Giants GM decries notion that team will trade Odell Beckham Jr Not to mention Odell Beckham Jr . went down with an injury that kept him out of the last four games of the season. When he was asked if that means Beckham will still be in NY in 2019, Gettleman replied, "You heard what I said ".
Chelsea make surprise U-turn on £75m deal for Real Madrid Isco Premier league giants Chelsea have surprisingly called off their case for Real Madrid midfielder Isco after the Spaniard demanded for extra money.
In u-turn, R Ashwin's named in India's 13 for Sydney Test Cheteshwar Pujara and Kohli were set and looked like putting together a huge score before Hazlewood struck first over after tea. Where Australia vs India taking place? . "We know we're not going to win Test matches without scoring hundreds".
‘China, China, China’: New Pentagon chief sets priority Trump could face an uphill battle finding someone who can be confirmed by the Senate in the wake of Mattis' acrimonious departure. Three days later, Trump said he was replacing Mattis with the second-ranking defense official, Pat Shanahan, on New Year's Day.
Black Woman Defends Herself From Attack By A White Man At McDonald’s The family is now able to see the humor in the situation as the suspect is in custody and the employee is unhurt. Petersburg, when police say 41-year-old Daniel Taylor forcefully grabbed her and pulled her up onto the counter.
Apple Warns Of Holiday-Season Revenue Drop Over Disappointing iPhone Sales Firstly, it was the timing of the iPhone XS and XS Max release where both had gone on sale earlier compared to the iPhone X . Apple's decision to cut its sales outlook, "isn't a huge shock at this point", said Shannon Cross of Cross Research.
‘Captain’ Daryl Dragon dies with Tennille at his side She then joined the Beach Boys on tour and she and Dragon began a professional and personal relationship that spanned decades. Dragon's ex-wife, Toni Tennille , "was with him as he took his last breath", said Harlon Boll, a spokesperson for the singer.
NASA spacecraft provides first image from record-setting flyby of Ultima Thule The first signal back to Earth should come about 10 hours after the fly-by, around 9:45am (10:45pm Hong Kong time). That better data won't take long to start turning up. "This thing is going to look cool".
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Infinigate UK has had a busy year working with our established vendor partners, introducing some newer offerings to our portfolio and supporting of highly valued reseller partners – which has not only given us great insight into the challenges faced by the IT security team over the past year but also revealed where 2019 is going to take the market.
So, without further ado, here are our top four areas of focus for the IT security market in 2019.
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These days, this new breed of ransomware notifies users of the fee (or ransom) under the guise of the victim’s local law enforcement agencies. Thus, a user with a ransomware-infected system from France will get a notification from the Gendarmerie Nationale, while a US-based one will likely receive a message from the FBI.
People behind police Trojan/Ransomware have implemented improvements to make this threat more effective. Gone are the days when ransomware simply showed a message that users’ systems are “captured” and that they have to pay for a fee to have them back.
As always, users are advised to avoid downloading software from unknown websites and following links embedded in unsolicited emails.
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On August 16, Liberty University announced that its Center for Cyber Excellence has been formally recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE). The CAE program aims to reduce vulnerability in the national information infrastructure by supporting research and teaching dedicated to cybersecurity and cyber defense. Notably, Liberty University had to undergo a thorough evaluation by the NSA and DHS to ensure it meets the CAE-CDE’s rigorous requirements. Several Liberty University departments, including the Office of the Provost, IT, IT Security, the Registrar, Center for Academic Development, and Career Center, as well as several related schools, including Liberty University’s Helms School of Government and the School of Business, participated in the CAE-CDE assessment.
Dr. Allen Harper, online chair and executive director of the Liberty University’s Center for Cyber Excellence, welcomed the endorsement: “This is a very distinguished honor for Liberty and allows us to join a select community of schools that have programs that demonstrate the nation’s highest levels of excellence in cybersecurity. This designation is widely accepted as the gold standard for a cyber program.” Dr. David Calland, interim dean, noted, “The driving force behind every change we implement in the School of Business is creating increasing value for our students…We are thrilled with this achievement, and we look forward to the impact on our students in the program.”
The CAE-CDE designation applies to Liberty University’s largest cybersecurity degree program, the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with Data Networking and Security specialization, which can be completed either on campus or online. Liberty University is currently also pursuing CAE-CDE for its other cybersecurity degree programs, which include three online and residential undergraduate programs and three master’s level online programs. To maintain its CAE-CDE recognition, Liberty University will need to reapply every five years.
The Growing Demand for Online Cybersecurity Degrees
In 2016, over half of U.S. organizations planned to hire more cybersecurity professionals. However, 59% of U.S. organizations noted that when hiring new graduates for entry-level cybersecurity positions, it is difficult to identify who has an adequate level of knowledge. Worse yet, despite the growing need for cybersecurity credentialing, colleges and universities have been slow to develop online cybersecurity degrees. This is somewhat surprising since cybersecurity is currently one of the most in-demand job categories and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand will increase 28% over the next decade, which suggest it is also growing much faster than average. This current shortage of cybersecurity professionals may be bad news for organizations looking to hire, but it is good news for anyone considering entering the field. In 2017, the median pay for a cyber (or information) security analysts was $95,510 with top earners bringing home even larger paychecks.
Notably, in addition to Liberty University’s online cybersecurity programs, at least a few other schools have been developing robust online cybersecurity degree programs to train the nation’s next generation of cybersecurity professionals. As recently reported on eLearning Inside News, Southern New Hampshire University has also launched an online bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity that is fully aligned with the National Security Agency’s Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education’s standards. Another recognized online cybersecurity degree is offered at the master’s level at the University of Arizona.
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Today, cyber attacks occur with increasing frequency and sophistication, affecting all types of institutions.
Cybersecurity has gone from being a minor player to become a key element of corporate strategy, the management must be planned and executed by a compliance-oriented approach overall strategic aims.
In order to ensure business activity, there must be more involved in planning and knowledge in this area.
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Launched in 2020, the EU CyCLONe network was formally established by the NIS2 directive on 16 January 2023.
Roberto Viola, Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT): ”Cyber crises have no borders and the EU must continue strengthening its capacities especially when it comes to cyber crisis management. I am pleased that the EU-CyCLONe, combining EU and Member States capabilities is testing its resilience and how to act in the case of cyberattacks and large-scale cyber incidents. A stronger cyber response makes the EU a safer continent.”
Juhan Lepassaar, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) said: “The EU CyCLONe is an invaluable asset. Only a stronger cyber crisis coordination will allow us to best mitigate future large-scale incidents and cross-border crises in the EU.”
The chair of the EU-CyCLONE Network (Spain) said: "Crisis management has been a priority for Spain for years. I would like to remember that the origin of CyCLONe was set up in our country, with the celebration of a Seminar in 2019 in Madrid on Large scale cyber incidents and crisis. The first conclusion was the need to set up an Exercise (BlueOlex) to develop the operational layer. These exercise series allow to test EU preparedness in the event of a cyber-related crisis affecting the EU Member States for strengthening the cooperation between all relevant actors. Since then, CyCLONe has been maturing in its procedures, tools, mechanisms and capabilities, managing to lay its legal foundations in the NIS 2 Directive. The 2023 BlueOlex edition, has again showed us the strong commitment that all Member States, European Commission and ENISA have against threats and challenges that, for sure, we will face in a near future to guarantee a more cyber secure and resilient Europe."
What is the objective of the EU CyCLONe?
The network collaborates and develops information sharing and situational awareness based on the support and tools provided by ENISA, also acting as the CyCLONe Secretariat. The network is chaired in turns by a representative from the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Formed by the representatives of Member States’ cyber crisis management authorities, the EU CyCLONe intervenes together with the European Commission in case of large-scale cybersecurity incidents likely to have a significant impact on services and activities falling into the scope of the NIS2 Directive.
About Blue Olex ‘23
BlueOlex ‘23 tested the EU preparedness in the event of a cyber-related crisis affecting the EU Member States and to strengthen the cooperation between the national cybersecurity authorities, the European Commission and ENISA. The aim of the exercise is to build a stronger relationship among the cybersecurity community participating in the exercise, increase the situational awareness and share best practices. Finally, it sets the scene for a high-level political discussion, on strategic cyber policy issues, in particular, shaping a coherent framework for crisis management at EU level.
This edition of the exercise gathered high level executives of the 27 Members States’ competent authorities in charge of cyber crisis management and/or cyber policy, the European Commission and the EU Agency for Cybersecurity. It was the opportunity for them to exercise the interaction between the new network and the EU political level and to strengthen trust and collaboration that is key for joint response.
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In 2003, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) introduced the original Privacy Rule, and in 2009 the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act defined policies, procedures, and processes that are required for companies that store, process, or handle electronic protected health information (ePHI). In 2013, the Final Omnibus Rule updated the HIPAA Security Rule and breach notification clauses of the HITECH Act. This rule extended the HIPAA Risk Assessment to “Business Associates”.
Every organization (Covered Entity or Business Associate) that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information (PHI) has to periodically conduct a HIPAA risk assessment in order to comply with §164.308 of the HIPAA Security Rule, even if that PHI is not electronic.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) may issue fines for non-compliance to Covered Entities AND Business Associates.
For health information, privacy is defined as the right of an individual to keep his/her individual health information from being disclosed. This is typically achieved through policy and procedure. Privacy encompasses controlling who is authorized to access patient information; and under what conditions patient information may be accessed, used and/or disclosed to a third party. The HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to all protected health information.
Security is defined as the mechanism in place to protect the privacy of health information. This includes the ability to control access to patient information, as well as to safeguard patient information from unauthorized disclosure, alteration, loss or destruction. Security is typically accomplished through operational and technical controls. Since so much PHI is now stored and/or transmitted by computer systems, the HIPAA Security Rule was created to specifically address electronic protected health information.
A HIPAA security assessment evaluates an organization’s security and compliance posture against the safeguards specified in the HIPAA Security Rule. It typically consists of interviews, document review and tests of controls. The assessment should be conducted as a risk assessment, but may also consist of a gap assessment against the safeguards specified in the HIPAA Security Rule.
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https://www.brccpa.com/services/services2/advisory/cybersecurity/risk-advisory-services-hipaa-security-privacy-risk-assessment/
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Earlier today, we found a phishing site that poses as a donation site to raise money for the victims of the recent earthquake in Japan. The phishing site http://www.japan{BLOCKED}.com is created by using an open-source social networking system Jcow 4.2.1. It is hosted on the IP address 50.61.{BLOCKED}.{BLOCKED}, which is located in the United States. We’ve confirmed that the site is still active as of this writing.
Aside from hosting a phishing site, the cybercriminals behind this attack also abused the blog function of the website and inserted advertisement-looking posts, possibly to increase the site’s SEO ranking.
Such attacks are not uncommon as we’ve previously documented instances of attacks that leveraged natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Gustav in 2008, Chinese Sichuan earthquake in 2008, the latest attack used the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
Users should remember to choose trustworthy organizations when it comes to handing over their donations.
The Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, through the Web reputation technology already blocks access to this phishing site even if a user is duped into clicking its link.
Update as of March 17, 2011, 10:44 PM Pacific Time
We’ve received report from the Council of Anti-Phishing Japan that they’ve seen a similiar phishing site also leveraging on this tragic event. The phishing page poses as the organization Japan Red Cross Society and asks users to send their donations through PayPal.
The said phishing site is now blocked through the Web Reputation Service. Users are strongly advised to steer clear of such sites, and make sure that they go directly to the websites of their organization of choice when sending donations. The real URL for the Japanese Red Cross Society website is http://www.jrc.or.jp.
Our security predictions for 2019 are based on our experts’ analysis of the progress of current and emerging technologies, user behavior, and market trends, and their impact on the threat landscape. We have categorized them according to the main areas that are likely to be affected, given the sprawling nature of the technological and sociopolitical changes under consideration.
Read our security predictions for 2019.
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When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast in 2012, it caused a power outage affecting nearly 8 million homes and workplaces, including the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
The building's computers couldn't turn on, but police were still making arrests, and his office still needed to prepare cases for trial. So his staff turned to pen and paper, writing out criminal complaints by hand and, on some nights, by candlelight.
The natural disaster cost New York City about $19 billion. What could be equally devastating for the city? According to Vance, the scourge of ransomware.
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Ransomware is malicious software that spreads quickly across computer networks and encrypts them, holding sensitive documents hostage until victims decide to pay the hackers. If a ransomware attack successfully struck the Manhattan DA's office, Vance said the consequences would be "cataclysmic."We had something that presaged for us what a ransomware attack might look like," Vance said. "When Hurricane Sandy came in, it shut down all electricity in the office. We had no power. That's analogous."
Hackers used to attack the average person with ransomware but have discovered that governments are much more willing to pay up because they hold more sensitive data and inherently have deeper pockets. While Vance's office has been fortunate enough to avoid a ransomware attack so far, many government entities across the US have fallen victim to such attacks.
Attacks spiked this year, with more than 70 state and local governments hit with ransomware, according to IT security company Barracuda Networks. The malware has also hit hospitals, businesses and universities, but governments have become a prime target. Barracuda Networks found that two-thirds of all known 2019 ransomware attacks in the US targeted governments.
"These government organizations are not always well-equipped on cybersecurity concerns, which makes them easy targets," said Kevin Latimore, enterprise malware removal specialist for security software provider Malwarebytes. "Not only do they have potential to pay, but they are a soft target."
Local governments are also more frequently opting to pay the ransomware rather than rebuild their systems. After seeing Atlanta spend $2.6 million to restore its systems rather than pay the $52,000 ransom, many officials have decided that it's cheaper to pay the hackers.
Such payments have convinced hackers to target more governments and ramp up their demands, according to security experts. To stave off the increasing threat of ransomware attacks, government officials are turning to cybersecurity companies for help, as the federal government also looks to safeguard state and local governments from major hacks. If government continue to pay, though, experts warn that ransomware will continue to grow in 2020.
"If you feed the seagulls, what's going to happen?" Latimore said. "Not only will the hackers we know about continue, but there will also be others that are attracted to ransomware if it continues to be a source of income."
Ransomware attacks jumped this year after security experts first saw an outbreak in 2017 through WannaCry and NotPetya. The former was a North Korean attack that quickly spread throughout networks in Europe, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and universities. The latter was an attack from Russia on Ukrainian software that spread to hundreds of businesses, causing the most destructive cyberattack in history.
NotPetya cost shipping giant Maersk up to $300 million in lost revenue. The attacks had devastating effects by locking up computer systems, in some cases even forcing hospitals to close permanently.
By the end of 2017, ransomware attacks had slowed down. And at the beginning of 2018, experts believed that hackers were moving on from these types of campaigns. People were backing up their files more often, which at the time served as a functioning antidote to the attacks. Even if ransomware was encrypting people's files, they had backups to rely on.
And then the hackers got smarter.
In this year's ransomware cases, the malware lies dormant on people's networks and sets itself up to cause as much damage as possible before triggering the attack. That often means blowing up the backups.
"Before they drop their encryption, they look to cause maximum pain," Latimore said. "They destroy backups, which leaves many who have that plan to completely start from scratch."
The Ryuk ransomware, one of the most active campaigns in 2019, hit more than 500 schools. Security researchers believe the Ryuk ransomware is named after the god of death in the anime Death Note.
The Ryuk ransomware strain waits until it spreads across a computer's network before launching the attack, researchers say. This is the note an affected victim would see.
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Latimore said the malware was efficient at finding backups and destroying them before launching the full attack.
With little-to-no options left for recovery, local governments started paying the hackers. A ProPublica report in August found that insurance companies helping pay ransoms were essentially encouraging hackers to continue these attacks for profit.
Insurance giant AIG reported in July that ransomware was its second leading cause of claims in 2018 and expected an increase for 2019. While the number of attacks had actually decreased, AIG explained that such attacks have become more costly as the targets have become more specific, particularly local governments with deep pockets and shallow security measures.
As more governments pay, hacker demands increase.
"What we're seeing is that the ransoms are growing steeper," IBM X-Force Vice President Wendi Whitmore said. "Atlanta was asked for $50,000. And then a city much smaller than Atlanta was asked for $450,000."
In the span of one week this summer, two Florida cities paid a combined $1.06 million to hackers over ransomware attacks. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, hackers demanded a $5.3 million ransom this summer and rejected the city's offer of $400,000 to restore its systems.
In response to these massive ransom demands, a coalition of 227 US mayors vowed this summer not to pay hackers over ransomware attacks. But rather than wait for that day to come and put those vows to the test, many governments have decided to shore up their protections against ransomware attacks.
Guarding against ransomware
As the largest city in the US, New York is constantly facing threats of a potential cyberattack. But it wasn't until 2017 when Manhattan's district attorney realized that his department would be helpless if it were hit by ransomware.
Vance isn't the only city official who's had that realization. The city's emergency responders, including the police and fire departments, have started training for cyberattacks, NYC Chief Information Security Officer Geoff Brown said at the Aspen Institute Cyber Summit in October.
The trainings are important to make sure that government officials aren't caught flat-footed if the city ever gets attacked.
"Sometimes people think this is a purely technical exercise, but important decisions need to be made. And that means that decision makers need to think about them before they're in the midst of an actual crisis," Brown said at the summit.
In July, NYC officials took part in IBM's "Cyber Range" exercise in Massachusetts, where the company set up a simulation to show them what it'd be like if the city suffered a ransomware attack.
The company had worked with NYC officials for about two to three months to figure out where the city's weaknesses were to set up the simulation, IBM's Whitmore said. Cities like Los Angeles have also taken part in the simulation, she said.
The goal is for government officials to learn what a ransomware attack looks like and how to respond to it.
"Our simulations are extremely realistic, we have a variety that we can use, and some are completely customized for the organization," Whitmore said.
"Because of the ransomware attacks recently, we've now made decisions to back up more frequently."
Kenn Kern, Manhattan district attorney's chief information officer
For Vance, the experience was eye-opening.
He's now involved in a group chat on the encrypted app Signal with 17 others involved with hospitals, police, public transportation and mobile service providers. The group is constantly sharing information on potential cyberattacks and how to defend themselves from these threats, he said.
The office has also taken extra security measures and precautions to make sure it can withstand a ransomware attack.
"Because of the ransomware attacks recently, we've now made decisions to back up more frequently," said Kenn Kern, the district attorney office's chief information officer. The office used to back up all its files once a day at 3 a.m., but now does it twice a day and is considering doing it more frequently, Kern said.
"We have to have a duplicate copy of basically everything that exists for us as an organization," he said.
Small town woes
Not everybody has massive resources like New York or access to a cybersecurity simulation from IBM. Outside of cities like Baltimore and Atlanta, it's often towns or small businesses that have been ensnared by ransomware attacks.
Matthew Travis, deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, met with governors, mayors and state lawmakers in the summer of 2018. They all had one concern.
"As those officials came up to me, they didn't want to talk about elections, they didn't want to talk about industrial control systems or utilities," Travis said at the Aspen Institute's Cyber Summit. "They didn't want to talk about federal networks or some of the other cybersecurity problems that exist. They wanted to talk about ransomware."
Security researchers from Malwarebytes saw a spike in the number of ransomware incidents in 2019 compared with the previous year.
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Latimore said Malwarebytes has been working with towns to deal with ransomware attacks. In August, the company detailed how it helped prevent ransomware from taking over a school district with about 3,200 students in the East Irondequoit Central School District in western New York.
The school district had 1,400 computers infected with ransomware, and it was spreading fast.
"We started getting Help Desk calls that devices had blue screened and quickly realized we had a significant issue," Joseph Sutorius, the school district's chief information officer, said in Malwarebyte's case study.
Latimore said he was able to find the trojans and completely remove them before the attack spread throughout the network and encrypted all the school district's files.
While that school district was fortunate enough to avoid a major attack, the outlook for local and state governments isn't great for 2020. Still, government officials and lawmakers have at least recognized the threat of ransomware.
This year, the House and the Senate approved versions of a bill that would allow the DHS to invest in resources to help states and cities deal with ransomware attacks. In September, the Senate sent the bill back to the House with changes.
"As cyber threats become increasingly common, it is crucial that everyone from the federal government to local governments like Strafford County have the resources and support that they need to strengthen their cybersecurity," Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat from New Hampshire and a bill co-sponsor, said in a statement.
On Wednesday, the senators had a classified DHS briefing on ransomware, calling it a "growing threat," but something local governments could protect themselves from.
"The continued prevalence of ransomware should really capture our attention. It's costly, devastatingly high-impact, growing, and, in most cases, easily preventable with basic responsible cybersecurity practices," Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Cory Gardner, co-chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, said in a statement. "While often viewed as basic digital extortion, ransomware has had materially adverse impacts on markets, social services like education, water, and power, and on healthcare delivery, as we have seen in a number of states and municipalities across the United States."
Security experts expect ransomware attacks against local governments to ramp up in 2020. But government officials hope that if they can properly protect cities and stop paying the hackers, ransomware will eventually die off.
The Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hopes to provide security measures for everyone, not just major cities that can pay for these protections.
"Large companies, large municipalities can make those investments," CISA's Travis said. "What we're trying at CISA is create toolkits for more rural communities, more rural school districts, small businesses that may not do all those things in terms of cyber essentials."
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https://www.cnet.com/news/ransomware-devastated-cities-in-2019-officials-hope-to-stop-a-repeat-in-2020/
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Multitenancy is a common pattern in Kubernetes. Many organizations deploy Kubernetes-as-a-Service, where one cluster houses many tenants and workloads. This pattern might sound familiar, as cloud computing services like AWS, Azure, and GCP have enabled multiple customers (tenants) to run their business-critical workloads in a single cluster for years.
The benefits of this pattern are well-understood: Infrastructure efficiency is increased as CPU cores and memory have become a commodity. SRE/ops teams aren’t burdened with linear management of N clusters for N tenants, and generalized hardware can be utilized for virtually any workload.
However, with these benefits comes trade-offs: A model of shared compute implies shared infrastructure. In an environment with untrusted workloads, isolation has become a serious security challenge. In Kubernetes there are many shared resources that deserve security attention, but we’re going to focus on networking and discuss the unique network security challenges Kubernetes faces as a multitenancy provider.
Network Perimeters
To gain an understanding of the challenges of network security in Kubernetes, it’s worthwhile understanding the history of network security. The defining principle of network security in the pre-cloud-computing age was the network perimeter security model. In short, this model assumed threats were external to the network, meaning that attacks came from the Internet or an untrusted external network. Workloads internal to the network were trusted and the majority of an organization's security focus was deploying hardened perimeter firewalls that blocked access to internal (trusted) resources from external (untrusted) sources.
This model breaks down in a Kubernetes environment. Multiple tenants run in a single cluster, all using the same network infrastructure. Kubernetes scheduling means virtually any type of workload can be deployed to a worker Node based on available system resources, which means multiple tenants can run on the same worker Node. In short, threats can come from inside the network perimeter or even the same Node where protections are scant and visibility is limited. Because the network perimeter model is no longer suitable in the age of cloud, an emerging pattern of network security called Zero-Trust Networking is gaining ground. Zero-Trust means internal and external resources aren’t implicitly trusted based on IP address for access to resources, even in the same network or worker Node.
Multitenancy and Network Security in Kubernetes
Cilium is one of the least complex ways to achieve secure multitenancy. Cilium utilizes cloud-native-aware network identity and benefits from eBPF which incurs virtually no performance impacts to secure network connectivity. Why does this matter?
Consider our previous blog post, which shows the trusted network model having a history of impacting the security of Kubernetes. Another vulnerability, (CVE-2020-8558) was discovered in kube-proxy where processes bound to localhost (127.0.0.1) can be reachable by Nodes or Pods in the same local network. This is dangerous because certain deployments, such as the kube-apiserver don't require authentication if accessed via 127.0.0.1:8080 because it's assumed localhost is only reachable by other processes in the same Node.
Note: It's strongly suggested to disable this behavior by adding the --insecure-port=0 flag to your kubernetes API server command line arguments.
The linked vulnerability works because of the way iptables routes to a NodePort address and the fact Kubernetes Pods run with CAP_NET_RAW privileges by default, allowing Pods to specify any source IP address.
A simplified explanation is a Pod with CAP_NET_RAW sends a packet with a localhost source IP, destined to a localhost NodePort address (127.0.0.1:xxxxx -> 127.0.0.1:8888) which performs Destination NAT (DNAT) to a NodePort destination IP (127.0.0.1:xxxxx -> 10.0.0.10:9999). Because route_localnet is enabled, the packet is routed and POSTROUTING masquerades the source IP to the IP of the Node (10.0.0.5:xxxxx -> 10.0.0.10:9999). With the source and destination IP configured as the respective Node IPs, this packet is now fully valid and routable. Thanks to squeed for the details in the iptables routing implementation.
Binding a process to localhost has traditionally been assumed safe under the trusted network model “because it assumed that only other localhost processes could reach it”. Because untrusted workloads can run in the same network or on the same Node, the case for Zero-Trust becomes more clear.
eBPF and Secure Multitenant Networks
We'll discuss a couple of concrete examples of how Cilium and eBPF implement aspects of Zero-Trust network principles to enable multitenancy in Kubernetes.
IP addresses aren't suitable for identities in Kubernetes because Pod Replicas can have N number of IP addresses for a single workload. Additionally, correlating a Pod to an IP address is difficult in a highly dynamic environment like Kubernetes, as Pods can be quickly destroyed and re-scheduled, each time with a different IP address. So if you have a Pod with labels frontend, and you delete the Pod and quickly spin up a new Pod, Kubernetes is free to reassign the frontend IP to a new Pod that has the label agent_of_chaos.
To update the security policy in a traditional IP-based model, Nodes have to learn about the Pod shut down and then update the policy rules to remove the IP address from IP allow lists. In the meantime, the agent_of_chaos Pod can initialize using the same IP and send traffic to other Pods with the frontend IP address, and IP-based policy may allow it.
Cilium identifies a network entity with an identity instead of an IP address. Identities are derived from Kubernetes labels and other metadata which allows security logic such as, "Only allow frontend Pods access to backend Pods". This allows for identity-aware security decisions such as Network Policy filtering.
When Cilium initializes the network for a new Pod, it allocates the identity and ties the identity directly to the Pod by applying security policy at the Pod's network device via eBPF. For traffic exiting the Pod, the identity is attached directly to all traffic, so it doesn't matter that it reuses the same IP address, we have a stronger notion of identity to back the security policy.
Another example of Zero-Trust in Cilium is based on the Default Deny principle. We discussed how Cilium disables IPv6 traffic unless explicitly enabled in our previous post but it's worth discussing the motivations that led to that decision.
Given what we know about cloud-native architecture, advances in the latest network protocols, and with decades of networking experience, we wanted to design a performant and secure network. This naturally led us towards eBPF, which provides the level of flexibility and power needed to implement the right approach. Conceptually this means that every network interaction was designed to provide guarantees about how we're handling packets. Because we build Cilium to be high-performance we could compile in a minimum amount of code. If we're not using a function, we should compile it out. By implementing only the set of the features that you need, we minimize the code footprint in Cilium which increases performance and also reduces the attack surface.
Multitenancy brings many advantages but also risks to a Kubernetes environment. Cilium has created a network model where workloads are protected from attacks originating inside or outside of the network perimeter, which therefore moves Kubernetes closer to the future of the Zero-Trust Network. We developed Cilium from the ground up with secure multitenancy built into the design. eBPF gives us the power to realize this in ways that existing implementations simply couldn't.
If you're using (or are looking to use) Cilium for secure multitenancy, head over to our Slack channel and let us know or ask a question. We have a growing and knowledgable community and we're always interested in helping steer you in the right direction.
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https://cilium.io/blog/2020/07/27/2020-07-27-multitenancy-network-security/
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drwxr-xr-x. 7 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 1 14:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 1 14:35 .
-rw-r–r–. 1 oracle oinstall 2848 Aug 1 14:35 ewallet.p12
SQL> alter table ccleveland.emp_non_enc rename to ccleveland.emp_encrypted;
SQL> select * from ccleveland.emp_encrypted;
Remember that your wallet must be open to access your data. If not, the database will raise an error.
10) TDE can be even more fine tuned. Let’s encrypt a single column.
create table ccleveland.emp as select * from scott.emp;
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https://www.datavail.com/blog/quick-easy-setup-of-transparent-data-encryption/
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Common Cyber Attacks: Reducing The Impact helps organisations understand what a common cyber attack looks like and explains why all organisations should establish basic security controls and processes, to protect themselves from such attacks. The full version can be downloaded here (PDF).
It can be read alongside the recently updated 10 Steps to Cyber Security, which offers more comprehensive guidance on the practical steps organisations can take to improve the security of their networks and the information carried on them.
The paper does not provide a comprehensive review of sophisticated or persistent attacks, nor a detailed analysis of how those attacks occurred.
Before investing in defences, many organisations often want concrete evidence that they are, or will be targeted, by specific threats. Unfortunately, in cyberspace it is often difficult to provide an accurate assessment of the threats that specific organisations face.
However, every organisation is a potential victim. All organisations have something of value that is worth something to others. If you openly demonstrate weaknesses in your approach to cyber security by failing to do the basics, you will experience some form of cyber attack.
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Having someone obsessed with you - whether out of anger or unwanted affections - can be a real ordeal, and it's not just high-profile celebrities who find themselves dealing with a foe or "fan" who won't let go. Even if the person doesn't physically threaten you, the fact that someone is following you around, keeping tabs on what you do, and/or contacting you when you want to be left alone is annoying at best and can disrupt your life.
The Internet has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for those with a propensity for this sort of behavior. If you visit chat rooms, participate in discussion boards and email lists, have a web site or otherwise interact with other people on the 'net, you may eventually find yourself the target of a cyberstalker. Someone who gets angry at you because of the political views you express on your webpage or a list message may start bombarding you with nasty email messages, or someone who likes your web page photo may start sending love letters. Sunbelt BLOG: Cyberstalking: Are You at Risk of Being Caught in the 'Net? Linked by shanmuga Wednesday, 12th April 2006 3:05AM
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It's surprising what Wikipedia won't tell you. Capcom's 13-year-old survival horror series is actually known in Japan as Biohazard, which, when you think about it, more aptly summarizes what it's about, i.e. science fictive horror, not to be confused with the supernatural variety.
In any event, Capcom is today boasting it sold four million copies of Resident Evil 5 worldwide since it launched last Friday. That's four million copies shipped to retailers, not sold-through to consumers. The upside of that number is that it's not just an estimate of what's changed hands at the distribution level. We'll have a better (but conversely less deterministic) sense of how many copies were in fact purchased by consumers when the retail analyst firms release their projections in the coming weeks and months.
Sharing the four million club (four million downloads, that is): The Resident Evil 5 demo.
Matt Peckham wishes RE5 was co-op only, because solo play with Sheva is the pits. He's still working through the game at twitter.com/game_on.
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Today I wanted to share my experience with the book, "Daring Greatly" by Brene´ Brown, Ph.D. Dr. Brown suggests that when we embrace what makes us vulnerable, we are able to become our best selves and that shame, comparison, and disengagement ultimately make it impossible to achieve what we set out to do. This is because we never embrace a talent or skill because we are afraid of what people think, we compare ourselves too frequently to others which holds us back from expressing ourselves, or we allow ourselves to disengage from what we love because of what we fear.
One of my favorite moments in the book is when Dr. Brown learned about joy and light from the people who have spent time in "sorrow and darkness". She suggests:
1. "That joy comes to us in moments-ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary." 2. "Be grateful for what you have." 3. "Don't squander joy". She states, "But every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give into those moments, we build resilience and we cultivate hope".
It is in our vulnerabilities, strengths, weaknesses, wounds, and experiences that allow us to either feel the shame of our scars, or embrace what they have taught us and allow us to move forward. In a comparison to the book, "The Velveteen Rabbit", Dr. Brown suggests that those of us who acknowledge that the difficult moments, those that make us struggle, or cry, or feel, those moments, when embraced, allow us to experience joy wholeheartedly.
Throughout the book, Dr. Brown gives us examples and strategies in order to embrace these moments and to live life fully. We are to give in to feelings, but not to the point that it becomes counterproductive or halts our growth. In the final chapters, Dr. Brown goes on to suggest that if we are to become wholehearted, then we need to instill these practices in ourselves and in our children. She writes, 1. Engage with the world from a place of worthiness.
2. Embrace vulnerabilities and imperfections.
3. Feel a deep sense of love and compassion for self and others.
4. Value hard work, perseverance, and respect.
5. Carry a sense of authenticity and belonging with you, rather than searching for it in external places.
6. Have the courage to be imperfect, vulnerable, and creative.
7. Don't fear feeling ashamed or unlovable if you are different or struggling.
8. Move through our rapidly changing world with courage and a resilient spirit.
I highly recommend this book, as it has sparked the beginning of my own self acceptance, to be less afraid when I want to accomplish something out of my comfort zone, and to go beyond what I believe I am able to accomplish.
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http://golaurengo.blogspot.com/2014/01/brene-brown-power-of-vulnerability.html
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Cybersecurity is not a joke and all manner of spiteful software is out there to get you, hence take a look by CBR’s list of the very best free antivirus security software. Antivirus security software picks up, and then simply prevents, disables or strips spiteful programmes or perhaps malwares, often referred to as malware. AVG antivirus security protection software is among the virtually all well-liked safeguard solutions about the industry today. We test, examine, and do a comparison of the most recent malware program for top level safety for your gadget.
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, wobbly for more than a week, is again experiencing outages and interruptions that are impacting multiple products in the U.S. and abroad.
Monday’s problems started at close to 2 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time and at their peak affected about 10 services, including Cloud Services, Virtual Machines and Websites, according to information posted by Microsoft on its Azure status website.
At about 4:15 p.m. ET Microsoft had started to remedy some of the outages and interruptions, but still had a ways to go to get the situation under control and bring the platform to a normal status.
For example, at that time Cloud Services, where customers build, deploy and manage apps on the Azure cloud, was still experiencing performance and availability problems in four out of the six U.S. regions of the platform, in Japan and in Brazil. Simultaneously, Virtual Machines, which lets customers deploy Windows Server, Linux, or third-party software images to Azure, was struggling even more broadly in geographic terms, up only in two of the Azure global regions.
The issues Monday follow a string of outages and service disruptions that also affected several Azure products and impacted customers in various parts of the world all of last week and in the latter part of the prior week.
The problems are very bad news for Microsoft, which has identified the Azure infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service cloud tools as key to its current and future success. Azure competes against very strong PaaS and IaaS vendors, including Amazon’s AWS division, Google, IBM and others.
Azure, along with software-as-a-service (SaaS) products like Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online, is emblematic of Microsoft’s urgent and dramatic shift from being a provider of software that customers install on their premises to a seller of subscription-based cloud services and applications hosted on its data centers.
But for cloud computing services to succeed with enterprise customers, they have to be reliable and their outages and interruptions have to be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, CIOs and business managers lose confidence in the cloud provider.
Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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'The network doesn't lie' and host detection systems are also key tools for the analyst.
Some days start out quiet—too quiet—for a cybersecurity analyst. Others, not so much.
“We never know what is going to happen. A day can start out calm or start out on fire and very quickly go from one or another,” says Jim Treinen, a security analyst for ProtectWise, who spends his days defending both his own company’s network as well as that of its customers.
Treinen, vice president of security research at cloud security provider ProtectWise, says his team is divided into two different groups. The first consists of the classic network security researcher-type analysts, who gather the bits and bytes of network traffic off the wire to determine what is good and bad, and who also pulls apart malware. The second group focuses on security analysis, performing behavioral analysis, machine-learning, and all the heuristic analysis that goes into judging what is legitimate activity and what is not.
And they watch to see what happens next.
“The biggest problem we deal with especially in these large networks is the vast volume of things we need to watch. So where do we focus?”
An analyst can use a combination of tools and clues pulled from monitoring the network to determine which parts of the network to focus on first. This is where the hand-off, or situational awareness, from the previous analysts is helpful, as well as are tools that detect abnormal activity.
The ideal scenario is to intercept attackers before they cause damage or steal information, according to Treinen. If analysts detect adversaries setting up an infrastructure to launch an attack or tunneling into the network, ideally, they would shut the infrastructure down and move to remediate the compromised machines before damage is done. That’s why analysts need to constantly monitor for activity such as a compromised host system calling out for malware updates or applications calling out for command and control type activity.
But the ideal doesn’t always happen. So if a network is under attack, the logical step for the analyst is to develop a case file or incident file and start tracking the assets the security team thinks are under attack as well as track where the attacks are coming from. This activity becomes the focus point in the network.
“Depending on the types of tools you have in hand, you can trade searches off of that or elevate the monitoring of specific applications,” Treinen says.
An analyst will also watch for lateral movement to determine if the adversary is using the primary compromised applications or systems as a jumping point to get deeper into the network. Automated remediation systems, or even the network engineering teams, should start closing systems down if that is warranted.
Doors into the network and systems need to be shut quickly. Analysts are also be focused on preserving any type of forensic evidence the SOC team can use internally to figure out how the bad guys got in or to preserve evidence if the organization calls in law enforcement. The bad guys most likely attempt to clean up after the attack to effectively delete their tracks.
Fighting Attacks: Calm Mode
Analysts can use the quieter times to proactively catch and mitigate attacks and security breaches. “If you have the right team and proactive analysts who are curious by nature and if they see something, they can pull on that thread to see where it leads them,” Treinen says.
Highly skilled attackers leave minimal tracks because they are stealthy. But an experienced senior analyst whose interest in an activity is piqued might be able to yield some fruit doing more in-depth analysis. Attackers are constantly changing the domains and IP addresses they use in order to escape detection, for example. “If you keep enough history and enough memory of what has actually happened on your network, you can discover something you didn’t see before,” Treinen says.
Using tools that reconstruct the state of a network at any given point in time can give an analyst a powerful forensic search capability. Instead of just analyzing log data, the analyst can reconstruct the full network down to the packet-level to see who was talking to whom and which protocols were in use. Or the analyst might find evidence of compromised systems from a zero-day attack lying latent in the network, poised for future attack.
“The network doesn’t lie; it gives you a true recording on what is going on,” Treinen says.
However, it takes more than one approach to find malicious activity; there is no silver bullet. So an analyst must also rely on host-based detection systems. You need a view of both network and host activity to get a full picture of threats, according to Treinen.
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3 years ago, we asked "Should Smart Integrators Lead with Access Control?" pointing out some of the relative strengths of access control and emerging challenges of the video surveillance business.
Now, we more firmly make the case that smart integrators should lead with access control, looking at the relative trends and the advantages that access control provides going into 2016.
Advantages Access Control
Access control has proven impervious to the DIY / trunk slammer trend and has held its pricing. Moreover, access control innovation level is now close to, if not better than video's, with wireless locks, hosted access and mobile credentials all on the upswing.
Wireless: The biggest advantage in wireless locks is that access control is expanding to more doors. The cost of running network cabling to doors and installing discrete hardware components has traditionally limited budgets to controlling perimeter openings, but reducing the cost by using wireless or even wifi locks has freed up project budgets and scopes to include more openings. Indeed, the segment shows up as a strong growth area in a recent survey, and we expect the trend to continue as new wireless products (ie: Schlage's NDE) are released.
Hosted Systems: Unlike video surveillance hosting that requires high performing internet connections and recording servers, access control is much less bandwidth intensive and easier to port to the cloud. The added benefit of avoiding expensive local server costs and instead offering remote central management of even remote sites through the web allow access a fit where before offerings were too costly. Over the past year, new hosted offerings (like BluB0X, Feenics) and acquisition deals (ie: Brivo Bought Out by Drako for $50 Million) have sent clear signs that the hosted access market is heating up.
Mobile Credentials: Finally, although to a lesser extent, mobile device based credential use is driving new development. While early offerings like HID-backed NFC has not taken off, other mediums like Bluetooth Low Energy and browser based override controls have gained acceptance. While traditional SmartCards are not going away soon, the flexibility of using smartphones as credentials are attracting new looks toward access control in an otherwise stale physical security market.
Barriers to Entry in Access Control
The access control market is not easy to get into, requiring special knowledge and experience in order to become profitable. This is a challenge to get in but once in it provides barriers to trunk slammers and DIY users.
Stepping into EAC is not a casual decision and venturing into doors and hardware requires atypical skill for most integrators. Some of the risks to consider are:
Code Knowledge: Because access control can significantly influence Building Egress, it is subject to many safety and building codes. Familiarity with these codes, and how they practically translate into design and operation of EAC is mandatory and failure to comply is subject to punitive actions.
Mechanical Knowledge: The interaction of doors, frames, and hardware is deceptively complex. Understanding how all these components interface, and then modifying that interaction with EAC equipment has no common ground with traditional video surveillance work.
Craft Knowledge: Finally, installing and servicing EAC commonly require trade skills not shared with Video Surveillance. Modifying doors and frames to support electrified locking hardware require uncommon tools and training. Good 'surveillance technicians' do not always double as good 'EAC technicians'.
Low System Turn Over: A leading drawback of access is that new projects simply do not pop up often, even among existing users. Rather, our survey stats and experience show those users tend to hold onto and maintain existing systems for decades, only upgrading/spending additional money when absolutely forced by obsolescence.
Dealer Protected Areas: Another factor is that unlike video, many access manufacturers tightly control which dealers are able to perform work or make sales in a particular area or market vertical. While this may work in favor of established dealers, it may be a significant issue for a new dealer trying to break into crowded markets. While not all access brands are strictly protected, many of the biggest brands (ie: Lenel, Software House) are, leaving less established brands with weaker market positions to be taken up by ambitious installers.
Faking It Harder / More Dangerous: Lots of people off the street can fake doing video surveillance systems and the worst that happens is a poor performing system. With access control, there are legal issues and obscure technical elements involved and a broken access system means people getting locked out or robbed (depending on how it breaks), both coming with severe complications.
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LONDON—The global mass transit security market will grow 76 percent from 2013 to 2018, according to a TechNavio report that assesses the value of this market through examining surveillance, infrastructure, and identification.
“We believe the mass transit security market in America to be valued � a little over $3.2 billion and we believe this market might go as high as $5 billion by 2018,” Navin Rajendra, senior TechNavio analyst, told Security Systems News. This would equate to a CAGR for the North American market of 11.1 percent, Jes Ellacott media relations for TechNavio told SSN by email.
Meanwhile, the global market could grow from $7.27 billion in 2013 to $12.79 billion by 2018—a CAGR of 11.96.
Rajendra said one of the main drivers to this market “has always been the need to respond [to] any catastrophic attack.”
Large investments into the infrastructure of mass transit and the need for an efficient and cost-effective system are also driving the mass transit security market, he said.
Among roads, airplanes, railroads and sea transit systems, Rajendra believes that railroads will be installing more security systems than the other transportation sectors. One reason for this, he said, is that airline security is already reasonably advanced compared to railways, which haven't advanced much.
Expansive opportunities for security integrators will not come immediately after a new transit security project is completed, but instead two or three years after, surmised Rajendra. He suggested that security companies could profit more from the maintenance and upgrading of mass transit security systems than from installation itself.
However, he noted that the bigger opportunities for security companies will be in South America and Asia, due to the North American market for mass transit security being more “matured” compared to these other regions.
Though maintenance of these systems is necessary, and Rajender considers that to be a major opportunity for integrators, he cautioned that mass transit end users must budget for and be willing to cover maintenance costs for the projected growth to come to fruition.
“It's probably a lot easier to install a new security system right in the beginning [of a project]. However, as years go by, it's also very important to maintain those systems and upgrade those systems, and that's something which we feel may not take place as often as it should be taking place,” said Rajendra.
Key vendors involved in this market shift globally and in North America are Axis Communications AB, Robert Bosch GmbH, NICE Systems, Panasonic, and Samsung, he said.
Real-time surveillance, biometric access control and identification systems, motion detection systems, and high definition video surveillance cameras are key technologies that will be used in mass transit systems, according to Rajendra.
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Huawei's security hypervisor is a privileged component that supervises the kernel at runtime by executing at EL2. In a nutshell, it ensures access permissions of physical memory are enforced by making use of a second stage of address translation, as well as trapping modifications of system registers. We have extensively detailed its inner workings in a dedicated blogpost and you're invited to have a look if you want more information on this component.
The kernel is able to call into the security hypervisor by executing the HVC instruction. As a rule of thumb, the latter should distrust any information coming from the former. During our assessment of this component, we observed that this was almost always the case, except in one place: the logging system. This system uses multiple buffers of shared memory that can be accessed both by the kernel and the hypervisor.
On the kernel side, the hhee_logger_init function of the "hisi hhee exception" driver retrieves the physical addresses of these log buffers by invoking the HHEE_LOGBUF_INFO, HHEE_CRASHLOG_INFO, and HHEE_PMFBUFLOG_INFO HVCs.
Because the control structure is located in shared memory, and the values of its fields are not verified by the security hypervisor, the kernel can change them so that the log string is written at a chosen address in the security hypervisor's address space.
The logging functions are similar for the other log buffers initialized by init_crashlog_info and init_pmfbuflog_info.
to head_size + data_size, the end of the data section and thus of the log buffer.
The log buffers are circular, so when curr_off reaches the end, it gets reset to head_size.
While it is possible to write the string at an arbitrary address simply by modifying the data_ptr field, the string that is logged is not controlled by the kernel. However, in our exploit, we only needed this capability to write a single non-zero byte. The reason behind it will be explained in the following section on the forced integer underflow. But for now, let's explain how we constructed this primitive.
The handler of the ARM_STD_HVC_VERSION (0x8400FF03) HVC calls a function that logs the "PMF:cpu %lu\ttid %u\tts %llu\n" string into the LOGBUF_INFO buffer. By setting the data_size field of the control structure to 1, only one character will be needed to fill the buffer and circle back to the beginning. In addition, each character will overwrite the previous one, leaving only the last byte of the string in memory. This is the new line character ('\n', i.e 0x0A) in our case. The figure below shows what the log buffer looks like in this configuration.
During normal use, the check HEAP_SIZE - g_heap_offset < padding + size is not vulnerable and correctly prevents the allocator from returning memory outside of the heap region. However, if the offset is made greater than the heap size (for example, by using our write primitive), the check will pass due to an integer overflow on HEAP_SIZE - g_heap_offset, and the allocator will return memory that is outside of the heap region.
Since the allocations have a size of 0x1000 bytes, the first allocation made outside the heap region will be at 0x134D0000 (and not 0x134CF000 because of the padding). Fortunately for us, this region is located in the log buffer, which is mapped by both the hypervisor and the kernel.
To trigger the allocation of a stage 2 page table, we need to reach the change_stage2_software_attrs_per_va_range function using an HVC. This function takes an intermediate physical address range as an argument that it will change the permissions of. If this range is unmapped in the second stage, or currently mapped as a block, changing its permissions will require the allocation of new page tables.
Step 0: The initial state (assuming no allocation has been made).
Step 1: We fill the heap up until g_heap_offset is equal to HEAP_SIZE by mapping and changing the permissions of physical memory regions located after 0x10000000000. We can monitor the heap offset using the log message written by alloc_memory_inner.
Step 2: We bump g_heap_offset past HEAP_SIZE using our write primitive, by changing its value from 0x5BA400 to 0x5BA40A. As a result, HEAP_SIZE - g_heap_offset is now equal to 0xfffffffffffffff6, which is bigger than padding + size.
Step 3: We trigger the allocation that will be made at 0x134D0000, outside of the heap region and accessible by the kernel, by mapping and changing the permissions of the memory block starting at 0x10000000.
Double-Mapping the Hypervisor
After executing our 3 steps, we end up with a stage 2 page table that is writable from the kernel. By changing the descriptors contained in this page, we can map the hypervisor's physical address range a second time and also make this mapping writable. All that is left is to patch the hypervisor's code and call the modified function to get arbitrary code execution at EL2.
Step 0: The initial content of the kernel-accessible stage 2 page table.
Step 1: We modify the output addresses of the descriptors to map the IPA range 0x10000000 to 0x10200000 to the PA range 0x12F00000 to 0x13100000. We also change the attributes to make the mapping read-write.
Step 2: Using our writable mapping, we patch the HHEE_HVC_LIVEPATCH (0xC6001088) HVC handler with a simple shellcode that returns the current exception level.
Jul. 09, 2021 - A vulnerability report is sent to Huawei PSIRT.
Jul. 22, 2021 - Huawei PSIRT acknowledges the vulnerability report.
Oct. 01, 2021 - The issue is fixed in the October 2021 update.
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In the upcoming Law Society of Singapore-LAWASIA E-commerce and Communications international conference, entitled "Regulating a New World Order", legal eagles from Asia will be gathering to discuss emerging trends in the tech world.
The focus seems to be very much on data protection and social media, with the two topics covering more than half of the airtime. These also happen to very topical issues in Singapore with the new upcoming legislation, as well as the issues arising out of cyber-bullying, online vigilantes, and political blogging.
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A report by HP has found that 44 percent of all of the breaches in 2014 were caused by known vulnerabilities, between two and four years old.
In fact, The Cyber Risk Report 2015 highlights that every one of the top 10 vulnerabilities exploited in the year just gone took advantage of code that was years – and in some cases decades – old, suggesting that for hackers, known ‘tried and tested’ exploits remain the low-hanging fruit.
Art Gilliland, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security products at HP told Tech Europe, “Many of the biggest security risks are issues we’ve known about for decades, leaving organizations unnecessarily exposed.” “We can’t lose sight of defending against these known vulnerabilities by entrusting security to the next silver bullet technology; rather, organizations must employ fundamental security tactics to address known vulnerabilities and in turn, eliminate significant amounts of risk.”
IT Pro Portal notes that the majority of exploits are “defect, bugs and logic flaws,” but adds the main weaknesses all stem from a small number of software programing errors, meaning that old and new vulnerabilities are surprisingly easy to find for hackers.
Server misconfiguration was the number one vulnerability, beating out privacy and cookie security issues, frequently giving hackers access to files, leaving organizations open to damaging attacks.
Personal connected devices were also seen to cause security issues, with the quantities of mobile malware found increasing over the year. The report also mentioned now familiar warnings about the security of Internet of Things connected devices.
The Register summarizes the overall recommendations of the reports as employing “a well-thought-out patching strategy, regular penetration testing, layered security defenses, threat intelligence sharing and a strategy for introducing new technologies.”
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https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/02/25/top-10-breaches-2014-attacked-old-vulnerabilities-says-hp/
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Gaps in network visibility and security face the majority of IT teams, especially as remote and hybrid work continues, says the 2023 Network IT Management Report from Auvik. The report reveals that while 86% of the respondents support a remote workforce at least some of the time, only half are performing Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud monitoring or Wi-Fi management — critical components of the new enterprise network in today’s hybrid world.
SaaS and cloud applications, such as Salesforce, Slack, G Suite, Microsoft 365 and Zoom, are how employees are getting work done. These apps, as well as the Wi-Fi employees are using at home (or at a hotel, a coffee shop, etc.), pose potential security risks to the enterprise network, and thus IT teams must have visibility and solutions for enabling their workforce to be productive while minimizing risk. In recognition of this need and current gaps, 30% of the survey respondents reported that they are planning to invest in Wi-Fi management and/or SaaS and cloud-monitoring solutions within the next 12 months.
41.5% of respondents said network documentation is updated monthly or less often — despite 53% reporting that configuration changes are happening daily or weekly.
61% of respondents believe a lack of time and money are restricting their ability to better serve their colleagues and clients, with budget/costs, security and shortage of skilled professionals being the top three challenges cited by IT professionals.
73% of respondents outsource some of their network-related tasks.
42% of respondents are tracked on the percentage of uptime and downtime at their organization.
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The Data Security principle requires entities to provide reasonable security for, and limited retention of, data collected and used for online behavioral advertising purposes. Consistent with the FTC standard, entities must maintain appropriate physical, electronic and administrative safeguards based upon the sensitivity of the data. Further, data collected and used may not be retained any longer than necessary to fulfill a legitimate business need (e.g., testing and auditing) or as required by law. In addition, the principle sets forth the steps that service providers (e.g., entities that provide Internet service, toolbars, web browsers or comparable desktop applications) must take in connection with data collection and use, including alteration, anonymization or randomization (e.g., hashing) of personally identifiable information; enhanced notice and disclosure at the time the data is collected; and the protection of the non-identifiable nature of data shared with non-affiliates. Under the Data Security principle, service providers will be held accountable for compliance with these principles in connection with their collection and use of data for online behavioral advertising purposes. Thanks to Stacy Marcus for her analysis.
We can now also report to you that yesterday a coalition of 10 consumer and privacy advocacy groups (i.e., Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Lives, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Privacy Times, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and The World Privacy Forum, has released a draft of their own principles, in the form of a Legislative Primer, entitled Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting Concerns and Solutions. Legal Bytes will have a more detailed report for you on this new development in the next day or two, and in the meantime – or any time – feel free to contact me, Stacy Marcus, or any of the Rimon attorneys with whom you regularly work.
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http://legalbytes.com/self-regulatory-online-behavioral-advertising-principle-no-4-data-security/
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NEWS ANALYSIS: The wildly popular phone app from Nintendo now has more users than Twitter and is causing concern where gamers randomly show up in search of Pokémon characters.
WASHINGTON—There already are signs at the National Holocaust Museum and at Arlington National Cemetery asking visitors not to play the Pokémon Go mobile augmented reality game while they are there.
There are reports that some of our nation's lawmakers were seen playing Pokémon Go on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. There have been several armed robberies here of Pokémon Go players by criminals who used the game's features to attract users, who were relieved of their smartphones and other valuables.
But the Pokémon Go phenomenon is not specific to Washington. It has become an international craze to the point that it's now the lead story on some television network news programs. To some extent, the game, which has been available for only a week, seems fairly harmless and even seems to have some benefits—it's getting people outside to walk around in search of Pokémon characters.
But for your company Pokémon Go has a more sinister side. The game has a huge potential as a cyber-security risk, malware vector, safety hazard, on-the-job time-waster for your employees and a waste of your company's computing resources. Worse, the game may become a gateway into your company's data stores and it can introduce malware that spreads within your network.
According to Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, Pokémon Go brings threats from two different areas to people who play the game. If those people are your employees, they can bring those threats into your company. One of the most insidious is the fact that a spinoff of Google's parent company Alphabet is the force behind the game and is handling the location and points-of-interest data for the game.
Niantic Labs uses Pokémon Go to gather information about its users so they can play the game successfully, but the company also has the ability to use that information for other purposes. "It's an app that's designed to track you," Wisniewski pointed out. "Alphabet knows where you're at," he said.
Problems at Niantic Labs have added to the security issues with Pokémon Go. Wisniewski said that because of the company's scalability problems, millions of users are forced to download the app from third-party Websites, where some of the software contains malware along with the game.
One version of the malware, called DroidJack, is able to gain access to anything on your Android phone, including all of your email, your contacts and your text messages. In addition, this malware can access your keystrokes, on-board microphone and camera. Page 1 of 2 1
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http://www.eweek.com/mobile/pokemon-go-brings-physical-data-security-threats-to-your-company.html
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Target said Friday that names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for up to 70 million people were also stolen along with payment card data.
The disclosure---the latest round of bad news for Target customers---comes as the retailer continues to investigate the loss off previously disclosed payment card data. Target first disclosed the data breach affecting 40 million consumers in mid-December.
According to the retailer, the latest disclosure doesn't represent a new breach, but was revealed as part of its first investigation.
Target added that a lot of the data is partial, but the retailer will contact those who had email addresses taken.
CEO Gregg Steinhafel, who has a security crisis that isn't going away easily, said in a statement:
I know that it is frustrating for our guests to learn that this information was taken and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this. I also want our guests to know that understanding and sharing the facts related to this incident is important to me and the entire Target team.
While the fallout from the breach is tough to measure, Target did say that its fourth quarter same store sales will fall 2.5 percent compared to a prior expectation of flattish sales.
The company also said that fourth quarter REDcard penetration---Target's loyalty, credit and debit card---was in line with year-to-date trends before the data breach. Since the breach was disclosed "growth has moderated" but REDcard penetration is stronger than a year ago.
Target said it expects fourth quarter earnings of $1.20 a share to $1.30 a share, down from its previous outlook of $1.50 a share to $1.60 a share. Target also said it plans to close eight stores.
The company added that the fourth quarter may include charges from its data breach, but couldn't get specific.
Microsoft discovers new sLoad 2.0 (Starslord) malware sLoad malware gangs makes a comeback after having operations exposed last month.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/targets-data-breach-it-gets-worse/
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BlackBerry's focus on strong security as a key differentiator for its devices does not mean that they're completely free of flaws. The company released security updates Tuesday for both the OS running on its smartphones and for its enterprise server software.
BlackBerry OS version 10.2.1.1925 was released for the company's Z10, Z30, Q10 and Q5 phone models. It fixes an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow attackers connected to the same wireless network as affected devices to read or modify data stored on them.
The flaw can only be exploited on devices that have the Wi-Fi file-sharing service running, a service that's not enabled by default.
"Using a password for file sharing is not a workaround for this vulnerability," BlackBerry said in a security advisory published Tuesday.
The company also released BlackBerry Enterprise Service version 10.2.2 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0.4 MR7 to fix an information disclosure vulnerability that in certain cases could allow attackers to gain access to credentials stored in the server's diagnostic logs.
"During rare cases of an exception, certain credentials are logged in an encoded form or in plain text," BlackBerry said in an advisory. "For BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, these credentials include shared secrets that are used between the Enterprise Instant Messenger server and device clients to encrypt enterprise instant messages. For BES10, they consist of shared secrets and domain credentials."
Under normal circumstances only the system administrator would have access to the server logs, but the existence of stored secrets inside them can pose a security risk if an attacker gains access to the server through a different vulnerability or by using stolen log-in credentials.
A workaround for this vulnerability is to manually delete the logs or to redact the sensitive information stored in them.
China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips
China's Sunway TaihuLight theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops.
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491183/malware-vulnerabilities/blackberry-patches-vulnerabilities-in-blackberry-os-enterprise-server-softw.html
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Improved cyber security is the need of the hour.
Threats to cyber security have, regrettably, started to dominate both the public and private sectors. All kinds of enterprises were impacted by the pandemic. In fact, the uncertainty surrounding remote work increased cybercrime. As a result, the significance of cyber security services is now more apparent than ever.
Businesses will need to stay one step ahead as cyberattacks become increasingly sophisticated. To safeguard their businesses from cyber attacks, security professionals require significant support from cutting-edge technology like artificial intelligence (AI).
Security personnel may be able to manage bigger and more complicated attacks thanks to AI. It has demonstrated the ability to recognise and rank dangers through the cutting edge cyber security solutions. In a few instances, AI has even automatically corrected security flaws. This article shows how AI might re-evaluate an organization’s requirements for cyber security.
Let’s find out what effect cyberattacks can have on organisations before we continue.
How Cyberattacks Affect a Company’s Performance and Value
The cost of defending a business from online threats is high. It might affect how well your business and its clients get along.
Cyber threats, however, are constantly evolving. According to a poll by Hiscox-Cyber Readiness Report, 28% of the companies that experienced cyber crimes in 2020 were targeted more than five times. As a result of these cyber security breaches, businesses have lost millions. The industries that were hurt the most included financial services, technology, and energy.
Cyber risks are actual and undoubtedly concerning for organisations. Protecting essential digital assets is crucial.
However, it necessitates preparation and resource commitment through cyber security solutions. The majority of the most serious cyber dangers may be controlled with sound security procedures. Although there may be intelligent thieves, artificial intelligence can offer more intelligent protection.
Robust Zero-Day Malware Detection
AI is capable of comprehending all potential outcomes and identifying connections that conventional security solutions would overlook. While standard security measures have their place in cyber security, zero-day attacks cannot be detected or prevented with the use of these measures.
The best way to discover zero-day attacks is by automatically seeing abnormal behaviour and notifying administrators right away. Organizations may be able to improve their security procedures with the use of AI from the top cyber security services.
The whole data flow of a company is visible and secure thanks to artificial intelligence. AI assists businesses in achieving this visibility by analysing each incoming file to look for any dangerous components. Additionally, it examines user and network activity as well as any deviations from normal operations simultaneously.
AI and ML work together to adapt behaviour to novel network circumstances while also continuously adjusting to changing security circumstances. AI-enabled cyber security cannot be deceived by hackers, not even those who employ contemporary ML penetration techniques.
It is not possible to completely halt online security lapses. But before attackers cause havoc, artificial intelligence can help organisations in preventing potential disruptions.
Users can log in to most websites in order to access services or make purchases. As such a site contains sensitive information and private information, you will require extra protection. It’s crucial to make sure that consumer information is secure while visiting your website in order to keep their trust.
An improved security layer can be provided by artificial intelligence. When a user wants to connect their accounts, AI can secure authentication. It is possible to tell whether a login attempt is real or not by using authentication methods like CAPTCHA, fingerprint, and facial recognition.
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https://www.ninesummitstech.com/blog/cyber-security/can-ai-provide-new-age-cyber-security/
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https://clearedjobs.net/job/cyber-security-operations-analyst-principal-sr-staff-ts-sci-washington-district-of-columbia-773122
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Patching vulnerabilities is critical for protecting an organization’s data and assets. 60% of breaches have been linked to a vulnerability where a patch was available but not applied.
However, identifying which vulnerabilities are a priority is difficult, and relying on CVSS scores alone won’t do the job. Of the 18,000 vulnerabilities identified in 2020, nearly 60% fell into the categories of “high” or “critical.”
To truly protect against vulnerabilities, organizations should employ risk-based vulnerability intelligence to understand which threats pose the largest risk and need to be prioritized.
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If you are reading this, you have a computer and an internet connection, and you surely do much more over the internet than only read articles to stay informed. An average internet user will spend at least 50% of their day browsing through various websites, working or studying from home, using social media, shopping, and whatnot. The more time you spend online, the more at risk you are.
The first and the easiest thing to do about it is to sign up with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that takes your security seriously. Providers like Spectrum provide routers with their internet connections that have built-in firewalls and all the Spectrum bundles come with free Internet Security to keep you protected from any malware or viruses while surfing through the World Wide Web.
However,you must understand what pitfalls you may come across so that you can avoid them altogether. Like they say, “Prevention is better than cure.”
What is Cyber Security?
As the name suggests, it is just a practice of protecting your information, thus yourself online when you go about your virtual activities. In this digital era, we are more prone to cybercrimes because almost everything is done online. It could be shopping for groceries, an airline ticket, paying bills, or a hotel booking, there is nothing we can’t do online with a credit card.
All this online activity creates data that is stored on the cloud (an online data server). The cloud storage is accessible on all your devices, but you’re not the only one who can access it. With access points like public Wi-Fiused by millions, hackers are having the time of their lives creating viruses and malware and stealing financial data from unsuspecting users. They evolve and innovate new ways to attack by the day.
Who is Susceptible?
EVERYONE! I cannot say it any louder or clearer than this. Be it a multi-national organization or an individual uploading a photo to their Instagram account, everyone who uses the internet is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Therefore, it would be foolish to believe that such things happen to others only. Weak cybersecurity will lead to your data being accessed by anyone and everyone who wishes to exploit it.
It’s a myth that hackers target only the big fish. Every year millions of dollars are stolen from average people like you and me who believe in this myth and don’t protect themselves adequately. None of us will leave the house without locking it. Likewise, it is important not to leave our online data unlocked for intruders to steal and use as they please.
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Choosing the best anti-virus in your case is an important decision. It can save from many different security risks, including viruses, spyware and malware, along with keep your info private internet. Luckily, there are plenty of high-quality options just for consumers to pick from.
A good anti-virus program will certainly protect your pc by threats that come through the internet, such as e-mails, apps, downloads, and even websites you visit. These courses use heuristic-based detection to detect suspicious behavior. Additionally, they sandbox dubious apps to operate them within an isolated environment where they can’t destruction your computer.
A great number of tools also feature security features such as a VPN service, password manager, and parental control buttons. These extras can be priceless, board portal features most are just flamboyant add ons that will decelerate your product or lead it to perform inadequately.
The best anti-virus tools ought to provide you with a continuously updated repository of well-known cyber dangers to help the tool give protection to your computer against fresh ones. Because of this, you don’t risk getting infected by a malware that hasn’t yet been detected in the crazy.
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https://www.microtech.com.pk/2023/02/22/top-10-best-antivirus-security-software-review/
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AuthorHacking 05-12-07 19:27 recently, my friend made a website with a login page. I hacked the site once but he made a few changes. He set up a javascript alert when the password was wrong to not allow you to go to the next page. The password was encrypted as well as the source. I easily decrypted the source, leaving the password and username. All that is need is the password because it is only tacked on the end of the html to go to the next page. the password was encrypted but im not sure how to decrypt it or what kind of decryption it is. the password is written as 200011356469039500000. Anyone have ideas on how to decrypt the password?
Joined: 13.06.06 Rank: Hacker Level 3Posted on 05-12-07 21:43
Have you tested so that the number itself isn't the plaintext password? http://uber0n.web.
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GodWarn Level: 90Posted on 05-12-07 21:56
Source.
AuthorRE: Hacking 07-12-07 03:34 no the password is not the plain text, i have tried that. the source is as follows Code<script>
for(x = 0; x < username.length; x++) { usercode *= username.charCodeAt(x);
</script><!-- --><script type="text/javascript" src="/i.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">if(typeof(urchinTracker)=='function'){_uacct="UA-230305-2";_udn="freewebs.com";urchinTracker();}</script>Edited by richohealey on 07-12-07 05:42
AuthorRE: Hacking 07-12-07 04:32 smilies.disable()
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Posts: 4192Location: Joined: 14.04.07 Rank: Ah yeah, the Dynamic Drive protection script. Either reverse engineer it (feeble laugh) or bruteforce it.
"The chowner of property." - Zeph[small]�Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. � - Carl Sagan[center]�Since the grid is inescapable, what were the earlier lasers about? AuthorRE: Hacking 07-12-07 18:30
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just think about it. [according to my understanding] = it multiplies 1 by each of the ASCII values of your password.
so if your pass was A, your passcode would be 45.
to reverse it, load up a table of ASCII values, then start dividing, until you get one with NO REMAINDER.
password encryptionspywareMember
Lol. And that is not brute-forcing how? It's just another way of brute-forcing it really. Go with the loop-through-things example Zephyr gave you.
This thing is near impossible to reverse engineer. Takes time. Loads.
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This question is at the center of Dan Doty’s work as a co-founder of Evryman and the mind (and voice) behind Expectful’s new Fatherhood Meditation Library. Dan is passionate about helping men connect with their emotions and vulnerability so that they can serve their partners, families, and communities better.
On today’s episode, Dan walks us down the path that lead him to men’s work, how his relationship with his own father has changed since becoming a dad, and how we can all slow down, feel more, and share our experience with somebody.
Founder of Evryman, Dan Doty is the tip of the spear of a global movement to create emotionally healthy men. At the core of his message is human connection and how connected men can and will lead to a safer and more equitable world.
In his early 20’s, he led groups of wayward young men on therapeutic wilderness expeditions, staying out in the wild up to 50 days at a time. In between time in the woods, Dan became a New York City Teaching Fellow and taught high school in the Bronx. He sat in his first men’s group in New York in 2009, and the future vision of Evryman had its seed.
Dan took a professional detour and joined a television crew as a guide and PA on The Wild Within on the Travel Channel. This turned into quickly producing, shooting, and/or directing over 60 episodes of the hit hunting and food show, MeatEater.
Along with 3 co-founders, Dan launched Evryman in early 2017. The first full day summit of the team members included a 2 hour break to march in the historic Women’s March in New York City. Evryman is creating an entire ecosystem for men to engage with themselves and others in healthy ways. Evryman groups are free, peer led “emotional crossfit gyms” where men meet regularly to support one another. These groups and the men in them are supported by growth oriented retreats, leadership trainings, performance coaching and online education. As the organizations lead facilitator, Dan has been the prime creative force in building these experiences and offerings.
Evryman has exploded onto the public scene with a spate of articles in Elle, Men’s Health and the New York Times, and a deep segment on the Today Show. Thousands of men have been impacted by Evryman and the momentum is growing fiercely.
Dan is a man’s man with a well-developed tender side. He embodies the ability for men to be exactly who they are, and is sharing that message that there are as many definitions of manhood as there are men on the planet. His writing, his podcasts, and his speaking are imbued with a simple and consistent message that we are all good at our core and the best thing we can often do is slow down, get in touch with what we feel, and take the risk to be vulnerable with others.
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https://expectful.com/podcast/meditation-vulnerability-and-fatherhood-with-dan-doty/
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Matrix Group International’s data security policy emphasizes strong passwords and a cautious approach to installing third-party applications.
Editor’s note: Below is a copy of the data security policy for Matrix Group International, published verbatim with minor edits.
At Matrix Group, security of your website, systems, and data is our outmost concern. We implement industry best practices to ensure that your data is secure as it travels across the internet and as it rests within our hosting environment. We need your help. The safety and security of any system is only as secure as its weakest link. To that end, you agree to work cooperatively with Matrix Group to train your staff on security policies and abide by the following security guidelines.
You will use a secure password manager to keep track of your passwords. Passwords will not be stored unencrypted and without password protection.
You will use care when accessing your Matrix-hosted systems from public terminals. Whenever possible, you will use a VPN to connect to systems that contain confidential or sensitive information. You will logout of all systems when completing your session.
You will not store credit card information once the initial transaction is complete. You will not store credit card information for the sole purpose of possibly issuing additional charges, credits, or refunds and instead rely on your payment gateway to process refunds.
You will not store sensitive information in text or comments fields. Sensitive information includes credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, date of birth, or personal health information.
You will maintain up-to-date antivirus software on all systems that connect to Matrix-hosted systems.
You will not knowingly upload programs or files that contain malicious code, including trojans, viruses, and worms.
You will exercise caution when installing programs, code, or plugins to your website, applications, and content management systems. Whenever possible, you will check for security vulnerabilities or verity with Matrix Group that a specific program or code does not contain known security vulnerabilities.
You agree to report any suspicious activity or possible breaches to your Matrix-hosted system or systems that connect to Matrix-hosted systems. You can submit a work request or contact your project manager, a member of the Matrix Group IT team, or a member of Matrix Group senior staff.
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Delaware's Workplace Privacy Act (H.B. 308), died with the end of the legislative session. As readers know from my several prior posts, I won't exactly be mourning the loss. The Bill's companion legislation, H.B. 309, did survive, however, passed by the State Senate during its final session. Although my attention has been focused on H.B. 308, which would have affected all employers operating in the State, H.B. 309 is worthy of discussion, as well. If signed by Gov. Markell, H.B. 309 will prohibit post-secondary schools in Delaware from certain practices relating to student's social-media accounts. Specifically, the Bill will prohibit colleges and universities from:
requiring a student to turn over his or her Facebook username or password as a condition of obtaining or keeping a scholarship; requiring a student to install social-media-monitoring software onto his or her personal phone or computer; and requiring a student to accept a Facebook friend request from a school employee or other agent of the school. Delaware is the first state in the country to pass such a law, although several similar Bills have been introduced in several states, as well as on Capital Hill. So what motivated this legislative initiative? Lest I not pretend to understand the political machine, I'll venture a general guess. Over the past few years, it has become increasingly common for schools to require students on athletic scholarships to be Facebook friends with their coaches, presumably so the coach can monitor the student's Facebook page. Click here to read the entire post.
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John Carlin, former assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice (DOJ), was working in government when the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was the target of a massive hack in 2015. And Carlin noticed a troubling trend—the cabinet leaders didn't understand the security risks associated with their system's weaknesses.
When OPM was attacked, more than 20 million personal records were exposed. OPM was hacked twice, and the attackers gained access to information such as social security numbers for past, current, and future employees.
SEE: Security awareness and training policy template (Tech Pro Research)
When President Obama tried to call the cabinet leaders into a meeting about the hack, it took three separate tries to get them all to show up. They simply didn't understand the weight of what was happening.
Despite the lack of oversight in certain government entities, Carlin said that he sees the same thing among business leaders. IT specialists may understand the threat landscape, but many business leaders don't. And where the government may be trying to provide safety and security for citizens, for businesses, the risk is against your core offerings.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/former-doj-employee-on-what-businesses-can-learn-from-governments-approach-to-cybersecurity/
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The successor to SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, SQL Server Everywhere is a highly portable client-side relational database solution designed to be embedded in applications developed for portable devices and notebook computers, especially applications that might need to synchronize the database with a SQL Server 2005 server. As a member of the SQL Server 2005 family, SQL Server Everywhere supports technologies such as ADO.NET and T-SQL and lets you use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) tools to remotely manage your database. In contrast to SQL Server 2005, however, SQL Server Everywhere is small in almost every measurable way, occupying just 2MB of disk space and needing only 5MB of RAM. You can download a free version of SQL Server Everywhere from the Microsoft download site, and software developers can embed it with their own products without having to purchase a license. You can install it on Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones as well as on Windows XP (and eventually Windows Vista) clients and Windows Server 2003 servers. What It Isn't
Given the small size, it should come as no surprise that SQL Server Everywhere is lacking in some key areas, though its limitations shouldn't disappoint the markets Microsoft is trying to reach. SQL Server Everywhere databases can't exceed 4GB of disk space, for example, because of its 32-bit architecture, and it lacks many SQL Server 2005 features, such as stored procedures and support for using C# and Visual Basic (VB) to create database objects. SQL Server Everywhere doesn't aspire to be a full-featured database server, but rather a compact and lightweight data store for local dynamic applications. Recommendations
Microsoft intends to ship the final version of SQL Server Everywhere by the end of the year. If you support mobile workers who could benefit from this product, I recommend moving the appropriate dynamic applications to SQL Server Everywhere and assessing whether the product's portability offsets its limitations. You can download the SQL Server Everywhere CTP at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId= 85E0C3CE-3FA1-453A-8CE9-AF6CA20946C3. Syndicate
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http://windowsitpro.com/print/t-sql/what-you-need-know-about-sql-server-everywhere
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Exposed records included credit card numbers, email addresses, log in credentials, social security numbers and other personal information, leaving both individuals and business open to significant financial harm.
The guide provided 10 Questions of Risk Assessment so readers could do a quick self audit of whether they were prepared for a data breach. It also provided 8 data security best practices that businesses should implement today.
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https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/in-the-worst-year-ever-for-data-breaches-740-million-records-were-exposed/
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Your digital identity is the gateway to your data, and increasingly, this includes most facets of your everyday life. Whether it’s your social media accounts, your bank details, your chat history or your shopping habits.
With so many accounts to manage and protect, maintaining constant access across multiple devices whilst keeping them all secure can be an increasingly complex task.
With data more valuable than ever, these large collections of personal data are very attractive targets to criminals as are the credentials that unlock access to them.
Recent breaches show that vital personal information for vast numbers of people, often give hackers the key information they need to unlock access to even greater volumes of data or even worse, the ability to use a victim’s identity.
So, what is the answer? Well, one answer gaining more credibility is to move the control of your identity from the companies that you consume services from, to individuals themselves, giving them the ability to control which aspects of their personal what data is used and when.
To achieve the first, a simple and well understood approach can be used, hashing. Hashing is a mechanism used to generate a value from some existing information, using a mathematical function. If you were to change any of the original information and rerun the hash, it would provide an outcome completely different to the original hash.
H ashing is also a one-way function due to the way it is calculated so reversing it is not a trivial task. This therefore makes hashing a very convenient mechanism for hiding underlying data whilst ensuring it hasn’t been changed in transit.
By utilising the above approach, you could hash the details of your identity and use the hash for authentication without revealing the personal data you used to create it, thereby maintaining the security of your data. Obviously, this assumes that the original personal data or identity the hash was generated from was adequately verified before the hash was created but this should not prove a complex task. We do this all the time with physical forms of ID such as passports and driving licenses.
However, creating a hash of an identity is not very useful if no one can use or interact with it. This is where a secure, ubiquitous, transactional system is required and a relatively new one is showing signs of being a good candidate.
Blockchain allows parties to transact securely without any third-party involvement, removing the need for complex (and sometimes costly) intermediaries to enable direct peer-to-peer interaction.
Each transaction is independently verified before it makes it on to the Blockchain ledger which means there is no centralised authority and thereby no single point of failure. This decentralisation is one of the potential benefits from a security perspective. Once the data has been entered in to the blockchain, no one can change it and so it provides verifiable proof of the integrity of the transaction. It also removes the need for human involvement thereby eliminating the need for passwords.
By combining a digital identity verification service with the decentralised blockchain principle, a digital ID can be created from either all or parts of your ID which can then be used to transact for services. For example, you could just authorise the hashed part of your ID that provides your age for purchasing alcohol or just your address for having goods delivered to your home from a courier.
With both a verified ID to authenticate against and a secure platform to transact with, there is no need for your personal information to be disclosed, you just need to set the conditions of what you want to authorise, when you want to authorise it and to who.
Whilst large scale adoption and interoperability of verification services and Blockchain is yet to take place, the ability to build services in to blockchains is becoming more ubiquitous and some companies are already selling ID services in this area.
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https://cybersecuritytrends.uk/2018/06/27/proving-your-credentials-a-potentially-more-secure-future-via-blockchain/
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20. Hazard Identification Dose Response Assessment Exposure Assessment DALYs Probability of infection/illness Reservoirs water Treated water • Sewage • Hospital effluent ARB at MIC Indicator organism Antibiotics ARGs/Integr ons ARB pathogens (e.g., E. coli, K. pneumoniae, etc.) Library of ARB • Frequency • Severity (e.g., last resort AB, pathogen, virulence factor) Risk Controll QMRA approach for Antibiotic resistance MIC/MDR ARGs Virulence genes
21. Occurrence of Antibiotic resistant E. coli <100 CFU/100ml <10,000 CFU/100ml • Prevalence of E. coli in agricultural and urbanized area > 100 times in reservoirs • Among 4 reservoirs, Marina is the highest prevalence of AMR E. coli. • CIP and SXT are the most prevalent. AMK was the least. • Average concentration of E. coli in reservoirs < EPA guideline (200 EC/100ml).
22. Concentration of E. coli O157H7 Eco CEFT-Eco CIP-Eco SXT-Eco MEM-Eco Average 108.58 0.02 0.34 1.01 0.05 Median 1.6 0 0.01 0 Mode 0.04 0 SD 7,537.19 0.23 12.74 91.98 1.08 Distribution lnorm E. coli : E. coli O157H7 = 1: 0.08 Reference: Haas et al., 1999; Howard et al., 2006; Assumption AR E. coli : AR E. coli O157H7 = 1:0.08 23. Exposure and dose-response parameters Distribution Parameters References Exposure duration (h) PERT(minimum, likeliest, maximum) (0.25, 0.5, 2) Mcbridge 2013 Ingestion rate (ml/h) PERT(minimum, likeliest, maximum) (2,10, 20) Dorevitch 2010, 2011 Dose-response model Beta-poison model: 𝑃𝑃 = 1 − (1 + 𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 × 2 1 𝛼𝛼−1 𝑁𝑁50 ) −𝛼𝛼 Exposure for 2nd contact activities (Rowing, canoeing, kayaking) alpha N50 illness/infection rate Reference E.coli O157H7 2.10E-01 1.12E+03 0.35 Hass 1999, Horward and Pedley 2004 Assumption Susceptible and resistant E. coli O157H7 have the same ability to infect to human.
28. 28 𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑹 𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆 % = 𝑪𝑪𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰 − 𝑪𝑪 × 𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 𝑪𝑪𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰 Removal of Antibiotic residues • On average, about 75% and 80% AB were removed in CAS and MBR processes. • Both Secondary clarifier and MBR treatment did not efficiently remove AB. ng/l CAS MBR High >200 Chlotetracycline Oxytetracycline Amoxicilin Tetracycline Oxytetracycline Azithromycin Clarithromycin Sulfamethaxazole Ciprofloxacin Tetracycline Sulfamethaxazole Ciprofloxacin Medium 10-200 Trimethoprim Azithromycin Sulfamethazine Erythromycin Sulfamethazine Meropenem Trimethoprim Lincomycin Meropenem Vancomycin Lincomycin Vancomycin Low <10 Clindamycin Minocycline Chloramphenicol Ceftazidime Tylosin Amoxicilin
29. 29 Removal of Antibiotic resistant bacteria • Prevalence of ARB in the effluent were from 102 to 104 CFU/ml in CAS, and under detection limit in MBR. • Average log removal of ARB in final effluent were about 2.3 in CAS, and 5.5 in MBR. • MBR treatment was highly efficient in removal of ARB. 𝑳𝑳𝑳𝑳𝑳𝑳 𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓 (𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨) = −log𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 𝑪𝑪 𝑪𝑪𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰𝑰 * P=0.016 P=2.5x10-9 30. 30 • Average log removal of ARG were approximately 1.5 in CAS, and 3.0 in MBR. • Compared to the CAS, MBR showed a better efficiency in removal of ARG genes. CFU/ml CAS MBR High >1000 16S sul1 tetO aac6 int1 ermB Medium <1000 qnrB ermB blaCTX-M qnrB tetM blaCTX-M blaSHV tetM blaKPC Low <100 qnrA vanA int1 dfrA vanA sul2 dfrA cfr blaKPC blaNDM1 aac6 sul2 cfr blaSHV blaNDM1 * Removal of Antibiotic resistant genes 31. Overall summary ∗ Antibiotic resistance (AB, ARB, ARG) is already a global concern threatening environmental and community health, not something in future. ∗ Surveillance effort, especially on aquatic environment, need to be raised worldwide to understand the current status, baseline, and guideline for further management. ∗ Culture-based method, qPCR, LC-MSMS, and metagenomics are demonstrated a good method to detect and analyze AR. ∗ There need to be a specific treatment of AR in WWTP to increase removal of AR factors (AB, ARB, ARG) ∗ Burden of disease for AR pathogen needs to evaluate.
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Southampton Football Club has secured a partnership with Acronis as the club looks to strengthen its cyber security solutions, protecting team data assets and optimising data workflow.
As a result of the deal the firm has been named as Southampton’s official cyber protection partner, the partnership will see Acronis safeguard against cyberattacks in order to keep the clubs critical data, applications, and systems safe.
Southampton FC Head of IT, James Grove, commented: “Southampton FC takes cyber protection very seriously. Global organisations like ours often come under fire from cyberattacks, targeting our sensitive data which includes information on our thousands and thousands of fans. Protecting the data we have been entrusted with is a major priority for us, and we have the utmost confidence that Acronis is the perfect partner to help us do so.”
In addition to keeping data safe, Acronis’ solutions, which will be delivered by Cobweb Solutions, are designed to ensure that data is easily accessible to those with authorised permission making data workflow more seamless.
Acronis’ Founder and Executive Officer, Serguei Beloussov, added: “We are proud to be partnering with Southampton FC, a household name in professional football. We are thankful that the team shares our vision and passion for cyber protection, and we are excited to work with partners who are so passionate about keeping their data safe.
“With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic causing many employees to work from less secure home networks, more of the world’s workforce is being exposed to the digital threats. At this time, taking the necessary steps to protect an organisation from both real world and virtual threats amid the pandemic is critically important.”
One of Acronis’ solutions Southampton will be using is ‘Cyber Protect’, which provides fast and reliable backup and AI-based anti-malware, accessible from a single and intuitive console.
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For those individuals installing the Microsoft Forefront 2010, OIT and the IT Security Office (ITSO) are excited to announce a new program to help the campus collaborate in keeping our online network environment safe. The Malware Detection and Remediation Program (MDRP) allows Microsoft Forefront users on the Boulder campus to work in conjunction with the ITSO to report computers impacted by malicious attacks. This enables a faster response and remediation of harmful or malicious software (often called malware, spyware, viruses, etc.) and prevents it from spreading through our network.
During the installation of the updated client, you will be asked if you want to take part in the program. By choosing "yes" in a prompt, the software will report malware and out-of-date antivirus software to the ITSO. No additional action is required by the antivirus customer to participate. The ITSO has developed processes to aggregate collect a report containing network address, infection type, infected file name, antivirus software update status. The content of files on your computer are not included in the report. Providing this information helps to protect the campus by reducing impact of malware from interacting on the campus network and potentially impacting others. The ITSO will also use antivirus software logs when working with departments to ensure that computer systems are secure.
Virus infections on the University of Colorado Boulder campus create a significant burden on the faculty and staff whose computers become infected and the IT staff that remediate the infection. A virus can waste system and network resources, collect or expose sensitive information, and cause software and hardware failures. Fixing these problems post-infection requires a lot of time and effort, usually resulting in rebuilding the system from scratch. This burden is increased exponentially when the virus infects multiple computers on campus. Through effective alerting and correlation with other events on campus, the ITSO will be able to contain virus infections to a far more limited number of systems, decreasing the burden on IT end users and staff.
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Passed the 1Y0-A24 today which gives me my very first CCA. Studying involved living through a production deployment of XenServer Enterprise, experimenting with the free edition at home, and reading the admin guides. All in all not too difficult of an exam, passed with an 81%. They could do a bit better on their wording of some questions and I could do a bit better on my studying of Provisioning Services (read: I didn't.). It was a pretty fun exam though. Next up is XenDesktop since I'll be deploying that in the next month or so.
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1. Are our devices configured securely? How can we verify this?
2. Do we have a security policy deployed to all of our devices?
3. Are the log files being monitored for intrusion or malicious activity?
4. How would we know if any of our devices have been compromised?
5. How can we confirm that the network segmentation or “air gap” is secure? (An air gap is a figurative phrase denoting, in this context, that a company’s corporate network — for servers and employees’ day-to-day work — and the building control system do not touch. If they do, says Fred Gordy, of Intelligent Buildings, it offers intruders a golden opportunity to pivot into the corporate network — “like waving a red shirt in a bull ring.”) 6. Are any of our devices facing the Internet? Have we confirmed this?
7. Are our devices patched with the latest version of vendor software?
8. Do we know if any devices were recently replaced? If so, were they deployed in a way that matches our security policy?
9. Are any of our old devices deployed to locations we no longer manage?
10. How do we audit our devices in a cost-effective and repeatable way?
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In this digital world, where everything is connected and where hackers are very crafty, you can never be too careful when it comes to your online safety and security. There are virtually limitless threats out there that are trying to invade your personal privacy all day long.
In order to stay one step ahead of the threats lurking on the internet, we suggest you take some safety measures to keep your personal information safe from unwanted parties. Let us have a look at them in a little detail.
Always Back Up Your Data
No matter how cautious you may be, always back up your data far from your device. You use a number of devices throughout your day including your personal PC, your work PC, phone, tablet and so much more.
In order to keep your data synchronized and safe from being compromised, try to back up your data on a regular basis. Even if such an incident occurs where you’re your most recent data becomes compromised, if you have a backup of your data, you will not suffer to a great extent.
Always Verify the Domain of Emails
Another thing that you need to be very careful about is the emails you receive. Throughout your day, you might receive a number of emails on your personal and professional email accounts. While most of them may be authentic, some may be posing as authentic, whereas in reality they are there to harm you.
Before opening any email, always check to see whether an email is from a source you trust. There are plenty of times when intruders try to create domains and usernames that may appear to be from one of the ones you trust, but in reality they are similar domains with one or two letters changed in the email address.
Check the URL before Clicking On It
Hackers use a number of tactics in order to get access to your personal data. For instance, they may make use of an ongoing trend in your area and try to grab your attention using that. You may be presented with a link where it might say “Big Sale”, Latest Movie”, etc. but in reality, the link may redirect you somewhere else.
Before you click on any URL hover on it and look at the bottom left of your browser and check to see what is the actual URL you will be redirected to. If the URL looks suspicious, do not click on it at all.
Always Update Your Devices
The software you use in all your devices are always updated by the developers from time to time. This way, developers try to take care of any new threats that may have surfaced and provide you with an updated and more secure software.
Always make it a habit of keeping up with all the updates from developers of the software you are using. These updates serve to be the first line of defense when it comes to keeping your devices secure.
Use a Reliable Internet Service Provider
The most basic and important thing that you need to do is get a connection from a reliable internet service provider in your area. Internet service providers such as AT&T internet to create a secure connection for you to begin with.
In order to stay safe from spying, phishing scams, and many other threats, you need to use a reliable internet service provider. Service providers such as AT&T put up heavy protocols and firewalls that make it very hard for an intruder to get in.
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For a teenage Mark Zuckerberg, high school mathematics class meant dreams of traveling to distant worlds through virtual reality. Those ideas stayed with him as he grew Facebook into the mammoth it’s become today, and they’re now guiding him as he ponders the future of the social media platform.
It will be immersive, it will be bring people closer together, and it will happen sooner than you might think, he said on Sunday in Barcelona.
“I’ve been waiting for the day to come when we can deliver this experience,” he said. “Today, this is now possible. That day is here.”
Zuckerberg was speaking at a Samsung event held to launch two new smartphones and where the South Korean company also unveiled a new 360-degree still and video camera called the Gear 360.
The two companies started working together last year, and in November Samsung launched the $99 Gear VR headset. Users clip in a compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphone to be able to take virtual adventures.
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Attendees watch virtual reality content in Gear VR headsets at a Samsung event in Barcelona on Feb. 21, 2016.
The Gear VR is based on technology from Oculus, a virtual reality company Facebook acquired in 2014 for $2 billion. At the time, some questioned Facebook’s purchase of Oculus, but now the reason for it is clear.
“VR is the next platform, where anyone can create and experience anything they want,” said Zuckerberg. “Pretty soon, we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you’re just right there in person.”
Virtual reality relies on 360-degree videos that capture a scene from all angles. It requires a camera with two or more lenses and software that stitches the video or still images together. That’s what Samsung’s Gear 360 does. Earlier in the day, LG Electronics announced a similar 360-degree camera.
For viewers, similar software is required to make sense of the video and play it either on a conventional screen, where viewers can move the video to look around, or on a virtual reality headset, where they move their heads to look around.
Facebook added support for such video last year and Zuckerberg said there are already 20,000 360-degree videos on Facebook.
“We’ve only just started to explore what’s possible with video and VR,” he said. “It’s still really early.”
To help push the technology forward, Facebook recently formed a number of engineering teams to create new social VR applications, he said.
The rise of VR is very much one of modern technology.
Scientists have been experimenting with VR for years, but it’s only been in the last couple of years that computing and telecommunications has gotten to the stage where it’s possible to do in good quality on reasonable hardware and networks.
But more work is needed.
“One day soon, all of us will have the power to broadcast live,” he said. “To do that, we’re going to have to solve a lot of really complex engineering problems.”
Zuckerberg credited Samsung for helping come up with some of the hardware components required. He said engineers at Oculus and Facebook are also working on reducing network-related challenges.
One recent innovation involves streaming just the part of the video being viewed rather than the entire 360-degree view. That’s helped engineers realize a 4x increase in the quality of video while reducing bandwidth consumption by three-quarters, he said.
Zuckerberg said Facebook and Oculus are committed to VR “for the long term” and new VR games are among the new experiences coming this year.
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The year will be the most exciting yet for Purdue Online, College of Engineering. Over the past year, we have conducted an extensive assessment of online learning. One of the main initiatives for the coming year is increasing Purdue Online collaboration with colleges and schools across Purdue Engineering and delivering broader learning content for students.
This last fall, we brought the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering to an edX platform, as well as introducing a “Teaching and Learning in Engineering” certification online. As we strive to build our online program further, we will be looking into more transferable courses, enhancing course flexibility for students, and considering additional non-degree programs.
In addition to increasing academic opportunities for students, we will continue to focus on faculty support, working to ensure delivery of quality educational material online by providing faculty with the very best in audio, visual and production technology.
We realize that today’s students want more flexibility, more interactive learning and a greater number of academic opportunities with a customizable plan of study to meet their individual needs. Many new initiatives are in the planning stage, and information will be shared with you in an upcoming newsletter, by social media, and through other avenues.
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From left: Martin Shanahan, chief executive, IDA Ireland; Anne-Marie Tierney Le Roux, IDA Ireland; Tánaiste Leo Varadkar; Cian Collins, Advantio; and Ciarán McGloin, Advantio, at Government buildings. Photograph: Maxwell Photography
Cybersecurity provider Advantio is to create 40 jobs in Sligo over the next three years with the establishment of its European cybersecurity headquarters.
The company, which specialises in professional services, is recruiting for product management, security consulting, human resources, customer success and project management roles.
“Our new Sligo operation and security operations centre allows us to enhance our managed detection and response capabilities, build further capacity for our aGuard Payment Cloud operation where we operate and keep our clients’ fintech applications secure and compliant, and ensure that we’re able to continue to service our growing customer base across Europe, ” said Marco Borza, founder and chief executive at Advantio.
“Cybersecurity threats are growing at a rapid pace and our Sligo team will be at the heart of our strategy to help businesses succeed in such a challenging environment.”
International growth
The company is targeting international growth, with the cybersecurity headquarters playing a key role in that plan. It will also offer opportunities to graduates in the northwest.
“We intend to position Advantio as a leading employer of choice for the northwest region,” said Cian Collins, Advantio Ireland country manager. “We’re hiring across a range of disciplines while also building links with local educational institutes to establish a next level graduate programme called the Advantio Academy.
“We’ve also helped establish the Cyber Ireland Northwest Chapter and we’re really excited for the next phase of our growth.”
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar welcomed news of the jobs. “Cybersecurity has only become more important in recent times and the fact that a leading firm in the field has chosen Ireland for its European headquarters is a real vote of confidence in us and our rich talent pool,” he said.
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<p>SYDNEY – 10 November, 2004: The rate of operational deployment of IP telephony by large companies is accelerating rapidly. According to a recent global survey conducted by Australian PROGNOSIS systems management software developer Integrated Research (IR – ASX: IRI), one of the main drivers of this trend is the adoption of IP-based video conferencing by multinationals.</p> <p>The question for most organisations is no longer whether to adopt IP telephony, but how to migrate from their existing PBX infrastructures.</p> <p>“The trend is clear; enterprises are moving from trial to full production deployments of IP telephony as their existing PBXs approach the end of their contract lives,” said Kailem Anderson, Product Manager, IP Telephony products for Integrated Research. “Other key factors driving IP telephony sales are the reduction of operating costs achievable through the deployment of applications such as IP-based videoconferencing and a perception that IP telephony has come of age and is now lower risk.”</p> <p>More than 15,000 executives responsible for IT infrastructure were invited to participate in the online study in September 2004 – a year on from Integrated Research’s similar study on this topic. The U.S. accounted for 45 percent of respondents, while Europe was 21 percent, and Australia/Oceania and Asia accounted for 12 percent. The remainder of respondents were from Africa, the Middle East and unspecified locations.</p> <p>Three out of four respondents stated that they already had, or intended to deploy IP telephony within the next 12 months. Of these respondents, 67 percent had an initial implementation of less than 500 phones. It is then interesting to note that 66 percent stated that they would expand their IP telephony deployment to over 1,000 phones within the next 24 months. A simple conclusion can be drawn from these results that a phased implementation is the preferred integration approach for IP telephony.</p> <p> Large companies seek a phased migration in order to extend the life of their assets, keep existing applications, and minimise requirements for LAN and WAN upgrades. However, when compared with the 2003 survey, the 2004 results show a trend towards larger scale expansions with a 56 percent increase in phase 2 deployments over 1000 phones.</p> <p>These results show a continuation of trends identified in the 2003 survey. Last year respondents indicated the highest priority business driver for IP telephony was increased value through IP applications (66 percent response), followed by lower infrastructure costs (64 percent).</p> <p>This year, 42 percent of those surveyed said they are interested in implementing IP-based videoconferencing, 15 percent have already deployed, 12 percent expect to deploy within one year, and 13 percent are testing.</p> <p>However, the implementation of IP-based video puts pressure on existing converged network infrastructures. Respondents to the 2004 survey indicated that the challenges they expect to face when integrating video services include bandwidth congestion (58 percent of respondents), response time delays (45 percent), and picture quality (41 percent).</p> <p>Anderson adds: “Video traffic is resource-intensive, and service quality is performance sensitive and susceptible to interference from voice and data applications. In order for network administrators to meet end-user expectations, they must have insight into and control over the key components of video quality. Therefore there is a clear and growing need for the adoption of management solutions specific to monitoring, troubleshooting and optimising performance of IP telephony environments to ensure quality of service (QoS).”</p> <p>The 2004 Integrated Research survey shows that organisations are now placing greater emphasis on implementing IP telephony management systems such as the PROGNOSIS IP Telephony Management suite. The 2003 survey revealed management wasn’t considered a high priority at the time. However, this year’s results show that 28 percent of respondents are already using a management solution and a further 32 percent plan to when they deploy IP Telephony. Only 3 percent of respondents are choosing the risky alternative of not using a management solution.</p>
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Infosecurity Europe 2015, one of The State of Security’s top 10 conferences in information security, may be over but now is the perfect time for industry professionals to internalize all of the findings shared at the conference. One such piece of research that demands our attention is Survey.
Commissioned by the HM Government, Survey was conducted by PwC in association with Infosecurity Europe 2015 and Reed Exhibitions. More than 650 UK corporations across all economic sectors responded to the survey, which proceeded via the use of two online questionnaires and “sticky sessions.” below are three key takeaways of the study.
Key Finding #1: Breaches Are Increasing In Number, Scale, And Cost
According to Survey, the number of security breaches has increased in the past year, whereas the scale and cost have nearly doubled.
This trend is highlighted by the fact that 90 percent of large organizations and 71 percent of small businesses that responded to the survey reported a breach this past year. These figures are up from 81 percent and 71 percent, respectively, as compared to last year.
On a positive note, the average number of breaches per year has decreased from 16 incidents for large organizations to 14; for small businesses, breaches have also decreased from six to four since 2014. The survey also indicates that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have dropped across the board.
Even so, 59 percent of respondents expect to see more security incidents this year than they did previously. Additionally, each of these breaches will constitute a greater financial burden for larger organizations, given the rise in a the average cost of a breach from £600,000 – £1.15 million last year to approximately £1.46 million – £3.14 million this year.
Key Finding #2: Infosec Spending Is Expected To Decrease
Another key finding of Survey reveals that 44 percent of both large and small businesses increased their spending in information security last year, which is down from 53 percent and 27 percent, respectively, in 2014.
Additionally, estimates suggest that this downward trend in increased infosec spending will not change over the next year: 46 percent of large organizations and 7 percent of small businesses expect their information security spending to increase in the next year, which is down from 51 percent and 42 percent, respectively, last year.
Two areas in particular, cyber insurance and threat intelligence, are seeing a decrease in investments from all respondents. Nearly 40 percent of large organizations and 27 percent of small businesses currently have cyber insurance (which is down from 52 percent and 35 percent, respectively, a year ago).
Also, whereas 69 percent of respondents planned to invest or were invested in threat intelligence in 2014, only 63 percent planned to invest this year.
These trends may partially reflect the fact that one-third of large organizations say that responsibility for ensuring data protection is still unclear.
Key Finding #3: The Human Factor Is Still a Relevant Security Liability
The third and final noteworthy finding of the survey reveals that despite efforts to increase awareness among staff members, people are as likely to be the cause of breaches as are viruses and other types of malicious software.
In the past year, the number of UK organizations who have invested in staff awareness programs has increased. For example, 32 percent of respondents follow the HMG “Ten Steps to Cyber Security,” which is up from 26 percent last year. Furthermore, 49 percent of both large and small organizations are now badged or are currently working towards receiving accreditation under the Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus programs.
This organization-wide focus towards security is reflected in the fact that 72 percent of large organizations and 63 percent of small businesses now provide ongoing security awareness training, which is up from 68 percent and 54 percent, respectively, in 2014.
Even so, the number of organizations to report a breach due to human error has grown.
Three-fourths of organizations and nearly a third of small businesses cited human error as the cause of at least one breach, which is up from 58 percent and 22 percent , respectively, last year. Half of respondents also revealed that the worst breaches they experienced were caused by inadvertent human error—up from 31 percent in the year previous.
Conclusion
Although it sought out the responses of UK corporations only, Survey may reflect wider trends that stretch across national boundaries.
Organizations have made significant progress in the past year towards protecting their corporate and their customers’ data. However, given the increase in breaches this past year, it is clear that businesses must continue to seek out and mitigate security risks if they are to meet the ever-evolving online threat landscape.
To read about the additional findings of Survey, please click here.
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In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Even when using server authentication, it may require tremendous skill to detect that the website is fake. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users, and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies. Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.
A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996. The term is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking, and alludes to baits used to "catch" financial information and passwords.
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Our Privacy & Data Breach Litigation team focuses specifically on risk mitigation solutions to client data breaches, particularly customer and employee data and privacy breaches, and subsequent investigations and litigation as a direct or indirect result of cyberterrorism, phishing scams, disgruntled employees, natural disasters or in potential non-compliance or violations of the Federal Trade Commission’s requirements for safeguarding data in the US, as well as consumer or commercial law suits in violation of the data privacy regulations set forth by the European Data Privacy Directive (EDPD) and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). We aggressively respond to breaches through the use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to obtain injunctive and other relief.
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Hackers are turning to cryptojacking — infecting enterprise infrastructure with crypto mining software — to have a steady, reliable, ongoing revenue stream. As a result, they're getting very clever in hiding their malware.
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Enterprises are very much on the lookout for any signs of critical data being stolen or encrypted in a ransomware attack. Cryptojacking is stealthier, and it can be hard for companies to detect. The damage it causes is real but isn't always obvious.
The damage can have an immediate financial impact if the crypto mining software infects cloud infrastructure or drives up the electric bill. It can also hurt productivity and performance by slowing down machines.
"With CPUs that are not specifically made for crypto mining, it could be detrimental to your hardware," says Carles Lopez-Penalver, intelligence analyst at Flashpoint. "They can burn out or run more slowly."
Cryptojacking is in the early stages, he added. If a company spots one type of attack, there are four or five others that will get by. "If there's something that could potentially stop crypto miners, it would be something like a well-trained neural network," Lopez-Penalver says.
That's just what some security vendors are doing — using machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to spot the behaviors that indicate crypto mining, even if that particular attack has never been seen before.
Network crypto mining defense
Many vendors are working at detecting crypto mining activity at the network level. "Detection [at the endpoint] right now is very tricky," says Alex Vaystikh, CTO at SecBI Ltd. "It can be on anything from mobile devices to IoT to laptops and desktops and servers. It can be either intentional or unintentional. It is extremely, extremely broad." [ Prepare to become a Certified Information Security Systems Professional with this comprehensive online course from PluralSight. Now offering a 10-day free trial! ]
All cryptojacking malware has one common aspect, Vaystikh says. "To mine any cryptocurrency, you must be able to communicate, to receive new hashes and then, after calculating them, return them to the servers and put them in the correct wallet." That means that the best way to detect crypto mining is to monitor the network for suspicious activity.
Unfortunately, crypto mining traffic can be very difficult to distinguish from other types of communications. The actual messages are very short, and malware writers use a variety of techniques to obfuscate them. "It's extremely difficult to write a rule for something like this," Vaystikh says. "So not many companies can detect it. Pretty much every organization above 5,000 employees has the data already — the only problem is that it is very, very hard to go over the huge amounts of data that they have."
SecBI’s Autonomous Investigation technology deals with this issue by using machine learning to look for suspicious patterns in the vast sea of data that come through corporate networks. There are thousands of factors that SecBI looks at, Vaystikh says. For example, crypto mining traffic is periodic, though malware writers will try to disguise the regular nature of the communication by, for example, randomizing the intervals.
Crypto mining also has an unusual message length. Incoming traffic, the hash, is short. The outgoing results are slightly longer. By comparison, with normal internet traffic, the initial request is short and the response is long. "In Bitcoin mining, I actually upload a little bit more than I download," Vaystikh says. "That is something that we look for." The technology can be applied to public cloud infrastructure like Amazon as well as to on-premises networks, he says.
Even if the traffic is encrypted — and 60 percent of all network traffic now is — the periodicity of the communications, the lengths of the messages, and other subtle indicators combine to help the system spot the infections. In fact, when crypto mining first showed up, SecBI's platform flagged it as possibly malicious before it even knew what it was. "Now, after our users looked at it, they say, 'Ah, it's crypto mining!' and the software now correctly classifies it as well," Vaystikh says.
[ Read our review of SecBI to learn how the software unmasks threats hidden in system log files ]
Over the last few months, SecBI's system has learned to detect cryptojacking, classify it correctly, and it can even take immediate corrective action. "For example, you can automatically issue a new rule to the firewall to isolate that traffic and block it," says Vaystikh.
Not everyone will choose to automate that response, he adds. For example, a legitimate website might have been hijacked. "Our technology has the ability to recommend the best solution — reimaging the machine or blocking the destination — and the customer can choose what is the best course of action in that particular case."
Another security vendor that's analyzing network traffic to spot potential crypto mining activity is Darktrace with its Enterprise Immune System technology. "We have anomaly detection at the network level and can capture subtle deviations on any of your computers," says Justin Fier, the company's director of cyber intelligence and analysis. "If your computer is used to doing XYZ and all of a sudden it starts doing something we've never seen before, it's easy to spot. When it starts happening on thousands of computers, it's even easier to spot."
It's not just the computers that are vulnerable. "Anything with computing cycles can be used for this," Fier says. "We're surrounded by so many things with an IP address that are connected to the internet, that can be connected to make one supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency. One thermostat is not really going to produce anything, but when you put it together into a big mining pool, a hundred thousand of them, that's enough to make a difference.”
Another platform that doesn't make much of an impact in isolation but can add up to some serious money is browser-based cryptomining, like Coinhive. The crypto mining tool runs in JavaScript, and is loaded by infected websites, or, sometimes, by websites where the owners deliberately decide to raise money by hijacking their visitors' machines.
"One or two computers might not be a big deal, but if you have thousands of computers, you start to affect the corporation’s overall resources and bandwidth," says Fier. "Certain corporations might not even be legally allowed to mine cryptocurrencies for various regulatory reasons."
One guaranteed way to defend against browser-based cryptojacking is to turn off JavaScript. That's a nuclear option, since JavaScript is used for legitimate purposes across the web. Antivirus software can also block some browser-based attacks, says Troy Mursch, security researcher at Bad Packets Report, including Malwarebytes, ESET, Avast, Kaspersky, and Windows Defender.
They have limitations. "Antivirus companies and browser vendors haven't clearly established who should be responsible for stopping the bad JavaScript," he says. He adds that network-level detection is critical.
"I have not seen any AV product with endpoint detection of cryptojacking — browser-based crypto mining — based on behavior alone," Mursch says. A more targeted approach is installing browser extensions. He recommends minerBlock.
Another extension that works well is NoCoin, which does a decent job at blocking Coinhive and its clones, says Marc Laliberte, information security threat analyst at WatchGuard Technologies. "But there have been several cases of legitimate extensions being infected with crytocurrency mining malware," he warned.
Like SecBI and Darktrace, WatchGuard offers a network-based defense strategy for cryptojacking. "The WatchGuard firewall can proxy connections and inspect traffic, and looks for malicious behavior like cryptocurrency miners," says Laliberte. "During the past month, we had two cryptocurrency miners in our top ten attack list for the U.S."
The company looks for red flags such as connections to known crypto mining pools, and it uses sandboxing technology. "We like to look at multiple behaviors before labeling something as bad or good," Laliberte says.
The indicators are getting more and more subtle, he adds. "We're really starting to see attackers rewind the clock to where malware wasn't as overt as it was with, say, ransomware," Laliberte says. "An ongoing revenue source is more valuable than a one-and-done attack like ransomware." As a result, the attackers aren't letting their malware go full-bore, he says. "That becomes suspicious. You can't just be looking at resource utilization, but at network traffic and other potential indicators of compromise."
Smart endpoint crypto mining defense
Another approach to cryptojacking detection is to protect the endpoint. According to Tim Erlin, VP of product management and strategy at Tripwire, attackers can evade network-based defenses by using encryption and less visible communication channels. "The most effective way to detect cryptocurrency mining is on the endpoint directly," he says. "That’s why it’s vital to be able to effectively monitor systems for changes and determine if they’re authorized or not."
In particular, the endpoint protection technology has to be smart enough to catch previously unknown threats, not just block known bad activity, says Bryan York, director of services at CrowdStrike, an endpoint protection vendor. That isn't just limited to executable malware, he adds. "Attackers are now using scripting language, taking advantage of software that's legitimately used on your computers and systems, and using it in an illegitimate fashion."
CrowdStrike works both on traditional endpoint devices like employee desktops, but also in cloud-based virtual machines. "We have had some cases where crypto mining software has been installed in cloud environments, like AWS EC2 instances," he says. "We take a similar approach to preventing those. There is also a unique aspect, and that is understanding how it got there. To understand that, you need to use the API log data that's available from AWS. That makes those investigations a little bit more challenging, but a little bit more interesting."
The insider crypto mining threat
When the crypto mining software is deliberately installed by a legitimate user, detecting it is even more challenging, says York. "I just had a case a couple of weeks ago, an investigation with a rogue insider, a disgruntled employee," says York. "He decided that deploying crypto minng software throughout the environment was going to be part of his way out of the door and a way to display his contempt for the company."
What made it particularly difficult was that the insider was aware of how his company was detecting the crypto mining and preventing its spread. "He started Googling us and reading some of the articles that had been published," says York. "We found them in his web browser history. He was actively trying to subvert us."
Corporate policies might not specifically prohibit employees running crypto mining operations using corporate resources but setting up such an operation will probably be risky for an employee. "The bill will show up and you'll get fired," says Steve McGregory, senior director for application and threat intelligence research center at Ixia. "So that would probably be a short-lived scheme, but if you had the ability to control the logs, a rogue employee could make a decent dime on the side for some time."
Educational institutions are particularly vulnerable, he added. "A lot of the people coming to us asking for help are universities," McGregory says. "Students are just plugging their ASIC [crypto mining] system into the dorm room and cranking the electric bill. The university is paying the bill, so it does cost them. The students did not illegally get into the system."
Employees can also plug in their own equipment, he added, and it can be hard to trace the actual cause of a spike in an electric bill. "They'd probably find it by walking around and seeing what the warmest area was," McGregory suggests.
Trusted insiders can also spin up virtual machines on AWS, Azure or the Google cloud, do their calculations, and then shut them down quickly before anyone notices, says Robert McNutt, VP of emerging technology at ForeScout. "This is the real risk organizations should be thinking about since it is much harder to detect, and for some could be very lucrative, thus making it something that could become more common," he says.
External attackers with stolen credentials could do this as well, he adds. In fact, Amazon now offers EC2 instances with GPUs, which makes crypto mining more efficient, McNutt says. That makes it even more costly for the company paying the bill.
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Zscaler, the leading cloud security company, recently announced the expansion of its SD-WAN partner ecosystem with the addition of industry players Riverbed, Nuage Networks from Nokia, InfoVista, and Talari Networks.
As applications leave the data center for the cloud and more traffic is destined for the Internet, companies are turning to SD-WAN to route traffic locally over the Internet to reduce backhaul over dedicated links and deliver a faster user experience. SD-WAN provides centralized management and uses software-defined policies to select the best path to route traffic to the Internet, cloud applications, and the data center.
According to Gartner, By 2020, more than 50% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on SD-WAN versus traditional routers, up from less than 5% today.
SD-WAN makes it easy to establish local Internet breakouts, but local Internet breakouts need to be secured. SD-WAN partners are turning to the Zscaler cloud platform to deliver the security stack as a cloud service, reducing MPLS backhauling and eliminating costly on-premises security appliances, said the company.
Zscaler offers jointly validated solutions with trusted SD-WAN partners Citrix, InfoVista, Nuage Networks, Riverbed, Silver Peak, Talari Networks, VeloCloud, and Viptela. These joint solutions offer customers the confidence to adopt new network architectures for Internet-only branches with speed and ease, without compromising security.
Ray is a news editor at The Fast Mode, bringing with him more than 10 years of experience in the wireless industry.
Ray can be reached at ray.sharma(at)thefastmode.com.
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https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/10963-cloud-security-firm-zscaler-adds-riverbed-nuage-network-infovista-to-sd-wan-partner-ecosystem
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At A Scents of Scotland, we value the security of our customer’s personal information and take all reasonable steps to ensure it is protected at all times.
We will collect some information from you in order to process your order, and also to ensure we can deliver the best possible service to you and keep you up to date with special offers. The information we will collect includes: Your name, address, phone number, and email address. Also, when you check out your shopping basket, you will be asked for your payment information, however we never get to access this information as it is collected securely by our payment service provider, Sage Pay when paying by card, or PayPal when you choose to pay using PayPal.
You are entitled by law to ask us to stop sending you marketing emails, and to request a copy of the information we hold about you. To do this, please just send us a contact form from our get in touch page. We will never share your information with a 3rd party without your prior explicit consent.
Any information we collect or retain about you will be done so in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Our Payment Service Provider is Sage Pay – the largest independent payment service provider (PSP) in the UK and Ireland.
Sage Pay provides a secure payment gateway (Level 1 PCI DSS), processing payments for thousands of online businesses, including ours. It is Sage Pay’s utmost priority to ensure that transaction data is handled in a safe and secure way. Sage Pay uses a range secure methods such as fraud screening, I.P address blocking and 3D secure. Once on the Sage Pay systems, all sensitive data is secured using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards.
Sage Pay is PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliant to the highest level and maintains regular security audits. They are also regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure that their systems are impenetrable. Sage Pay is an active member of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) that defines card industry global regulation.
In addition, you know that your session is in a secure encrypted environment when you see https:// in the web address, and/or when you see the locked padlock symbol alongside the URL. So when buying through A Scents of Scotland’s site, you can be sure that you are completely protected.
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A now-fired city official was arrested in his work vehicle for crimes relating to child molestation and having obscene online contact with someone under the age of 16, according to Cobb County courts on Wednesday.
Patrick Nalley recently moved to Georgia, taking a position with the City of Brookhaven as Director of Parks and Recreation. he was arrested in Cobb County for crimes involving children on Tuesday. The court said that the man enticed a child under the age of 16 to molest them.
In a release from the city government, it said that Nalley was arrested in a sting operation. They said he’d made contact online during business hours with an undercover officer pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. The two had plans to meet on August 15, and when Nalley arrived, he was arrested by the Cobb County Police Department.
“Mr. Nalley is terminated immediately,” Christian Sigman, Brookhaven City Manager, said. “Although we understand the presumption of innocence, we are acting out of an abundance of caution, as our parks and recreation facilities often have hundreds of children and teens recreating or competing in team sports activities during any given summer day. The safety and comfort of our residents and guests and their families are always our top priority in Brookhaven.”
The investigation is active and being handled by the Cobb County Police Department, and his bond with the court is set at $20,000. The City of Brookhaven said that Nalley had also previously been Director of Recreation and Parks of Henrico County, Virginia, as well as Director of Recreation, Tourism and Cultural Development in Amherst County, Virginia. Nalley cleared several separate background checks, the city said, and had no prior criminal record and had solid credit and driving records.
11Alive reached out to Henrico County in Virginia, which said that Nalley resigned in July 2022 “in lieu of termination.” The office did not provide any specifics on his employment with the county.
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/patrick-nalley-brookhaven-employee-arrested-child-predator-sting-childpredator-onlinepredator-sextrafficing/
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…the smartphone app [for Ring] must send the wireless network credentials. When entering configuration mode, the device creates an access point without a password (the SSID contains the last three bytes from the MAC address). Once this network is up, the app connects to it automatically, queries the device, then sends the credentials to the local network. All these exchanges are performed through plain HTTP. This means the credentials are exposed to any nearby eavesdroppers.
An attacker could take advantage of this bug by forcing a victim to reconfigure the doorbell. The attacker could use a Wi-Fi deauthorization ("deauth") attack against the device to make it re-enter configuration mode and could use a malicious Wi-Fi device to make the Ring doorbell drop off its network.
The doorbell's owner would then have to notice that the doorbell is disconnected, which may require the attacker or someone else to ring the doorbell before the targeted owner realizes the doorbell is offline. When the doorbell is put back into configuration mode, the app will offer to reconnect the doorbell to the Wi-Fi network—and then resend the credentials to the doorbell in an HTTP message encoded in XML.
The attacker would then be able to connect to the victim's home Wi-Fi network if there are no other security measures in place to stop them (such as device white-listing or partitioning of the Wi-Fi network).
All affected devices should now be patched, according to Ring and Bitdefender. But this is another example of why owners of "Internet of Things" devices should consider using Wi-Fi routers capable of segmenting networks or offering "guest" Wi-Fi networks that restrict access by connected devices to the Internet only. And deauth attacks can still be used to knock these devices offline—allowing a burglar or "porch pirate" to cover their tracks by disabling video recording.
When those issues relate to basic security and edge security on top of that.....if I had one of these things I would have ripped it out a year ago.
And that's exactly the problem. It was supposed to, but there's a bug in the code.
I'm surprised it doesn't also automatically unlock your electronic door locks by simply pushing the button.
Give them time – they're getting there.
I just consider it an extra layer of safety. Think of all those extra people who can listen and report back should I have an emergency.
I do the same thing with my consumer grade Plume setup. I love how easy they made it to setup a password for internet only, and another for guests which I can specify which devices they have access to (the guest room TV and speakers is all I allow)
The more I read of flaws like this the more I think that the future envisioned by Willian Gibson thirty years ago was less around master hackers exploiting flaws in the system and more people just using off-the-shelf products to collect credentials for their targets.
In a way that's not far off from what Gibson was writing.
Remember, the big hack of the AIs at the end of Neuromancer had Case slotting a Chinese icebreaker into his deck. It was encased in a cartridge, like a solid state video game, and was designed to be user friendly. Like a 0 day with a slick UI.
Was basically the military version of a script kiddie hack, stick it in and sit back.
Until there are laws in place that force manufactures to take these insecure pieces of shit back and refund the full purchase price to consumers, even if it's been 5 years or so since purchase, this shit will keep happening.
Self-regulation clearly ain't cutting it.
I mean, imagine every website and app rolling their own encryption schemes.
So this device, which is generally sold as a means of enhancing home security, not only can potentially have its data turned over to the authorities without your consent, but it's also inherently insecure without specific network segregation. Pretty much this. At a certain point when you get issue after issue after issue after issue you need to question the product in question. They seem to be very good at providing access to the police. It's obvious that mass surveillance is the area they are working hard on while user security is barely an afterthought.
I mean, I just use a doorbell. Was a fiver from Argos.
This. I just have a basic battery powered doorbell that rings a bell in the house. No wifi
On the off chance it doesn’t work I have a Sheltie..
You don't need enterprise grade for that, my Asus router allows up to 3 SSIDs per frequency with each having its own policy, security, and subnet.
Isn't rolling your own one of the worst security practices? Publicly facing websites and utilities should use a standard for security. But for home use, why would you want to roll with a similar scheme? Ideally none of your home should be accessible to the outside world.
You're already going against security best practices by putting your home on the Internet. You should have no expectation that it will be secure, even if you pay extra to have a consultant do it for you, because that's just the nature of Internet-connected Things.
When you build home automation yourself you don't need your devices to talk to the Internet, they just need to talk to each other on your local network. But everything that comes off-the-shelf these days requires an Internet connection, because providing you with an app is cheaper than hiring someone to go on site and perform the setup.
Security is not an afterthought, they're made to be insecure. If they weren't, then you wouldn't have easy integration with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, or Apple HomeKit.
#1 reason I went with an enterprise-grade wi-fi setup (Unifi) at home... so I could segregate my IoT devices from my private and guest networks.
This is what I use as well. USG, POE Switch and 2 APs. 3 Wifi networks - Main, Guest, and IOT. Only IOT devices on main are my Roku's for easy casting/streaming from mobile devices.
Reason #2 was PoE backhaul for multiple access points which ARE NOT routers.
I'll add this comment since this article is about security, which makes my comment *very* loosely related.
Something in the ads that Ars is serving started triggering firewall blocking at my work just in the last week. It's a little concerning when you start seeing Ars pages getting flagged for "phishing" and "malware" based on black and white listing as the ads change on the page.
Apparently "Michael Kors" is ok today, but some other stuff is decidedly not.
So as long as people are trained to expect plug-and-play, then these breaches will be commonplace.
I'm at a point where anyone with one of these, I just shrug and move on. There are enough articles, reviews, and videos out there warning people against buying and installing these devices. Anyone who installs anything like this in or on their house without doing research into it is beyond help. You can only warn your neighbor against not wearing their seatbelt for so long before saying "eff it, let the idiot go flying through his windshield".
My local Nextdoor app is still full of people pushing them. They are relatively cheap and simple and they get to watch porch pirates steal their packages. The average joe gives no craps about someone targeting them trying to get their log in credentials by abusing this above. This is so far above the average thief stealing packages and looking for unlocked door handles. If you have a Nest doorbell and are a high enough value target to warrant the effort of this you likely have something else other than a Nest doorbell, like a home alarm system or something.
On the other hand, I don't understand why ANYTHING is unencrypted anymore.
(I don't have one, and I don't plan on getting one. But if I already had one and it met my needs I wouldn't be freaking out about replacing it. It's a doorbell with a webcam, outside my house.)
While Ubiquity devices (some) allow the separation you mention, they are not the only ones (i.e: DD_WRT, OpenWRT, Merlin and others on supported routers) and have the benefit of being FOSS
Unfortunately many of the Ubiquity devices now 'call home' (link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430997) just like other things AND Ubiquiti reluctantly (grudgingly it seems) now has allowed opt-out of this ... (puts on tin foil hat and wonders if this works) ... instead of opt-in ...... GDPR?
Here's what I've learned about IoT devices in my experiences with using them.
They're insecure by design. Not because it's too difficult to implement proper security, but rather because off-the-shelf IoT is designed to be low effort in order to drive wider adoption.
If you want real security you have to build all of this stuff yourself, which isn't easy. And nothing is plug-and-play when you build for security in mind. The problem is that security is treated as an afterthought.
Traditional thinking is that these companies should be doing security better than the tinkerer with an arduino and a search tab open, but at this point, it sounds like the same design process for so many IoT devices. At least the Instructibles page is likely to warn the tinkerer to change the default password on that Raspberry Pi before enabling SSH.
The lack of security is intentional.
I guarantee you all the engineering teams are very well aware of the security holes, they made their case to their superiors, and were given explicit instructions not to fix them.
It's more expensive to build and support a hardened application, and doesn't make business sense for a consumer product meant to be plug-and-play. Under our current legal climate the risk of any firm getting a serious punishment for these security flaws is low, especially when the knowledge bar is really high for anyone that wants to take advantage of the flaws.
Security is merely an option in this society, not an obligation. You pay for it separately when you're buying consumer class products, whereas it's a given for the enterprise world because there's a lot of money at stake.
Anyone point is insane.
Well, to be fair, "uninformed" would be the better term.
Ordinary, non-technical, consumers who buy a Ring doorbell off the shelf have no idea about any of this stuff. Not only don't they know whether a given device is secure, that don't even know that's something they should know.
About 20% of the houses on my street have Ring doorbells.
When I try to talk to them about privacy, security, etc, I might as well be talking about little green men from Mars. It's hopeless and very frustrating.
In my neighborhood, it's being pushed VERY heavily through the Nextdoor app, our police department, and all of the highly vocal neighborhood busybodies who chatter among themselves via Nextdoor and while walking their dogs. Most of them have no clue whatsoever about WiFi security, privacy, and they are in full-mode "safety trumps liberty" -mode. Pro tip: go into the security field. Job security for life, yo.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/ring-patches-total-lack-of-password-security-during-setup/?comments=1&post=38233699&mode=quote
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After a spell on the portfolio sidelines thanks to an election, IT is well and truly back on the John Howard government's fourth term agenda with political hard-man and Special Minister of State Eric Abetz now hitting the straps to drive home the message on how government intends to do IT business in its $4.2 billion backyard.
Special Minister of State may not sound much like an IT portfolio, but in terms of power dynamics it means Howard has appointed one of his closest allies to ensure IT will perform as a spearhead for a raft of policy changes that will profoundly affect the way the government does business.
That's the business the government wants to do with the community, not necessarily the business IT vendors want to do with the government.
Having taken ministerial command of the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) in November, the last three weeks have seen Abetz launching a flurry of government IT initiatives aimed squarely at improving government services and value for money through smarter use of IT.
This week it has been the standardization of business to the federal government's electronic authentication frameworks. Last week it was a helping hand to make government Web sites more accountable.
While not particularly sexy, both are crucial to implementing Howard's stated intention of making government agencies and departments work together and make IT deliver services rather than digging deeper silos.
Abetz told Computerworld he intends to make life that little bit easier for agencies by providing consistent and cohesive frameworks on which to base IT decisions, with the assistance of guidelines from AGIMO outlining "best practice".
To date, AGIMO's advice on best practice has been for government IT purchasers to look very carefully at what IT goods and services they are buying to avoid costly lock-ins.
"We as a government want to be technology neutral. We also want to look at the cost advantages. We don't want to be locked into technology that doesn't deliver. We want to retain flexibility," Abetz said.
On open source, Abetz says he is greatly looking forward to publicly releasing a government procurement open source guide in six weeks.
That's a nice way of saying in six weeks time, proprietary vendors who can't prove better value to agencies wanting to go to open source offerings will need to invest in bigger and better pencil sharpeners.
And Eric Abetz won't be losing any sleep over it either.
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/9741/howard_hard-man_gets_stuck_into_government_it/
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I. EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP CONCEPT AND EVALUATION IN TERMS OF PERSONAL DATA
The sub-paragraph 1 (one) of the article 2 (two) of the Labor Law No. 4857 (the "Labor Law") defines the "employee" as a real person who works on the basis of an employment contract, "employer" as real or legal persons, or unincorporated institutions and entities that employ employees, "employment relationship" as the relationship between the employee and the employer established. If an employee does a job in favor of the employer's interests within the employer's business organization, an employment relationship would be deemed as construed.
It should be significantly highlighted that the definition of an employment relationship should be considered in the context of personal data protection in the broadest way, regardless of whether the employee is subject to the Labor Law. In this regard, there is no doubt that trainees, seasonal agricultural employees, apprentices, part-time workers, and candidate employees will also be covered within the scope of the employment relationship and will be the subject of the data.
The data subject should be informed in each and any cases where his/her personal data is processed. Within the framework of article 10 (ten) of the PDPL; at the time when personal data are obtained, the data controller in person or the person authorised by him/her is obliged to inform the data subject about the identity of the data controller and of its representative -if any-, the purpose of the processing of personal data, to whom and for which purposes the processed personal data can be transferred, the method and legal basis of the collection of personal data, and other rights referred to in Article 11 (eleven) of the PDPL.
Within the scope of this provision, the employer is obliged to inform the employee and/or employee candidates about for what purpose the employer receives the personal data of both the employee candidates applying for work and its employees, where and how it is stored, for which purposes it will be transferred to whom and how it is used.
Confidentiality Obligation and Explicit Consent
Pursuant to subparagraph 1 (one) of article 3 (three) of the PDPL the explicit consent shall refer as to "a consent which is specific to a subject, based on being informed and given with free will", and transfer, submission, and/or share of any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person within the scope of the PDPL -except for exceptions under the PDPL- shall be subject to the explicit consent obtained. In parallel, as per the provision set forth in subparagraph 2 (two) of article 75 (seventy-five) of the Labor Code states that "the employer is obliged to use the information obtained about the employee in accordance with the goodwill principles and the law and not to disclose the information that the employee has a justified interest in being undisclosed.", the employer is obliged to store the information obtained as being provided with an explicit consent complying with the PDPL.
On the other hand, it can be possible to transfer the personal data of the employee domestically, as well as cross border transfer in multinational companies. Therefore, employers of companies with employees whose personal data is subject to cross border transfer shall absolutely be obliged to obtain the explicit consent of the employee regarding this transfer within the scope of the PDPL. Another point that should be noted here is that employers, as a data controller, are obliged to check that the country in which they will transfer personal data will provide adequate protection, and otherwise they shall not transfer data.
As per sub-clause (b) of subparagraph 1 (one) of article 5 (five) of the Communique On Principles And Procedures To Be Followed In Fulfillment Of The Obligation To Inform published in the Official Gazette dated 10th of March 2018 and numbered 30356, the obligation to inform and obtaining the explicit consent shall be carried out separately. In other words, the employer shall prepare the "Privacy Notice" and "Explicit Consent Approval" documents to be attached to the employment contract issued and signed between the employee and the employee and include them in the personal file by obtaining the original signature of the employee.
As a general rule, employers as a data officer shall obtain explicit consent when processing and transferring personal data belonging to their employees, although subparagraph 2 (two) of article 5 (five) of the PDPL regulates exceptional cases in which explicit consent is not required to be obtained. Accordingly, the employer will be able to share information about employees with the relevant institutions within the scope of its obligations on matters such as taxes, social security premiums and/or salary payments in order to fulfill its legal obligations.
As a fairly common situation in today's recruitment procedures and employee-employer relations, a number of data are requested that are not related to the employees' job definition, their ability and skills about the job, and the information necessary for the execution of the employment contract. Sub-clause (ç) of subparagraph 2 (two) of article 4 (four) of the PDLP accepts the principle of purpose limitation and data minimization as a general principle for personal data processed. For this reason, it shall be adequate to process only the data which is required for the execution and performance of an agreement, enable the continuation of the employment relationship and which is necessary to enable the employer to fulfill its legal obligations arising out of the legislation. For example, if a candidate is asked "whether he/she considers of getting married", "whether he/she uses tobacco and/or alcohol" and/or "his/her religious, sect" in the recruitment processes, the employer who violates the principle of purpose limitation and data minimization in terms of the PDPL and other legislation may be held liable, as well as sanctions arising from the Labor Code may be imposed.
As a result of the employer's obligation to comply with the principle of purpose limitation and data minimization, the personal data of employees shall be stored until the end of the statutory period and deleted and/or anonymized at the end of this period. In this context, particularly the resumes of candidates who are not hired should not be stored and should not be shared with other employers unless they have explicit consent.
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https://www.mondaq.com/turkey/data-protection/997162/lawful-processing-and-protection-of-personal-data-in-employment-relations?type=mondaqai&score=66
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The Department of Premier and Cabinet is seeking to make cybersecurity easier and more relevant to Victorian Public Sector employees to reduce risk to Victorians.
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New reports are published by the FBI pertaining to ransomware groups observed to exploit special financial events to perform their attacks. The ransomware threat groups use financial events such as acquisitions and mergers to target institutions and compel them to pay ransom demands.
The FBI stated that ransomware groups research and acquire the victim’s publicly available data before executing an attack. The information includes victims’ stock valuation and their material non-public information. The information the threat actors hold will be used as bait for victims to pay the ransom demands immediately. And if they don’t, victims will be threatened about having their data be leaked to the public, resulting in backlashes of investors.
Furthermore, these ransomware groups like to target firms participating in time-sensitive financial events because there are higher chances of the ransom being paid.
Ransomware groups can extensively distribute malware; however, the FBI notes that some threat groups also carefully choose victims based on the data they have gathered and stolen during the first stages of intrusions.
Some instances also include ransomware groups urging their fellow threat actors to use NASDAQ stock exchange services as a forefront during extortion.
Concerning this, the FBI has discovered a direct quote from one ransomware group as it negotiated with a victim last year. The threat actor said they are aware of the victim owning stock, and if they do not comply with the ransom demands, the victim’s data will be leaked to NASDAQ that will endanger their stock.
From March to July of last year, the FBI has recorded about three US companies suffered from a ransomware attack while they were in the process of acquisition and merger. Two out of the three companies have negotiated with the threat group privately.
Last April, the DarkSide ransomware group has also shared a message saying that their group and affiliates are encrypting institutions that trade on NASDAQ and other stock exchanges.
Security experts say that ransomware groups will consume every advantage they can find to execute attacks, such as promoting themselves on Twitter, doing press releases, and more. Furthermore, they stated that threat groups have been enhancing their tactics to progress their attacks, and there is no saying that it can be stopped any time soon.
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https://izoologic.com/2021/11/28/ransomware-groups-are-discovered-to-target-time-sensitive-financial-events-as-reported-by-the-fbi/
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A newly disclosed vulnerability could allow attackers to seize control of mobile phones and key parts of the world's telecommunications infrastructure and make it possible to eavesdrop or disrupt entire networks, security experts warned Tuesday.
The bug resides in a code library used in a wide range of telecommunication products, including radios in cell towers, routers, and switches, as well as the baseband chips in individual phones. Although exploiting the heap overflow vulnerability would require great skill and resources, attackers who managed to succeed would have the ability to execute malicious code on virtually all of those devices. The code library was developed by Pennsylvania-based Objective Systems and is used to implement a telephony standard known as ASN.1, short for Abstract Syntax Notation One.
"The vulnerability could be triggered remotely without any authentication in scenarios where the vulnerable code receives and processes ASN.1 encoded data from untrusted sources," researchers who discovered the flaw wrote in an advisory published Monday evening. "These may include communications between mobile devices and telecommunication network infrastructure nodes, communications between nodes in a carrier's network or across carrier boundaries, or communication between mutually untrusted endpoints in a data network."
Security expert HD Moore, who is principal at a firm called Special Circumstances, described the flaw as a "big deal" because of the breadth of gear that are at risk of complete takeover.
"The baseband vulnerabilities are currently biggest concern for consumers, as successful exploitation can compromise the entire device, even when security hardening and encryption is in place," he wrote in an e-mail. "These issues can be exploited by someone with access to the mobile network and may also be exposed to an attacker operating a malicious cell network, using products like the Stingray or open source software like OsmocomBB."
The library flaw also has the potential to put carrier equipment at risk if attackers figured out how to modify carrier traffic in a way that was able to exploit the vulnerability and execute malicious code. Moore went on to say the threat posed to carriers is probably smaller given the challenges of testing an exploit on the specific equipment used by a targeted carrier and the difficulty of funneling attack code into the vulnerable parts of its network.
"A carrier-side attack would require a lot more effort and funding than targeting the mobile phone basebands," he said. "For specific attack scenarios, carriers may be able to block the traffic from reaching the vulnerable components, similar to how SMS filtering is done today."
Dan Guido, an expert in cellular phone security and the CEO of a firm called Trail of Bits, agreed that the vulnerability will be hard to exploit. But Moore also described ASN.1 as the "backbone" of today's mobile telephone system. Even in the absence of working code-execution capabilities, attackers could use exploits to trigger denial-of-service outages that could interrupt key parts of a network or knock them out altogether.
Right now, only gear from hardware manufacturer Qualcomm is known to be affected, according to this advisory from the Department of Homeland Security-backed CERT. Researchers are still working to determine if a long list of other manufacturers—including AT&T, BAE Systems, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, and Ericsson—are similarly affected. For the moment, there's little end users can do to insulate themselves from the threat other than to monitor advisories from device makers and carriers.
Objective Systems has released a "hotfix" that corrects the flaw, but both Guido and Moore said the difficulty of patching billions of pieces of hardware, many scattered in remote places throughout the world, meant the vulnerability is likely to remain unfixed for the indefinite future.
"This kind of infrastructure just does not get patches," Guido said. "So [the vulnerability] is a stationary target that others can develop against. It's easy to set goals towards it."
Not too sure about that. State actors have access to other tools that can better exploit vulnerabilities in other systems more easily.
A stingray on a drone taking over all devices connecting to it as it flies overhead? That would be as powerful as anything else in a government arsenal I'd think.
I read the entire article and looked up this baseband thing, but I'm not sure how compromising the baseband could lead to control of the "entire device". I mean, how can you hack, say, my encrypted health data, by controlling the radio communication interface? Can anyone explain, or is this just FUD?
1) that may be true, but it may also be a distinction without a difference. How much data is generated on your device never leaving your device? Probably not a lot. I can control your data in and out of your phone I can control a lot of you. Yeah technically your phone isn't owned, just all info going in and out. You know, phone stuff 2) it creates easy Attack surface for any holes in the phone. Have a new exploit but it needs someone to go to a dodgy website? Or open a SMS message from a stranger? Not a problem. Look up BadUSB. This is similar. Or maybe even fake an update and have you load an pwn3d firmware. Though android people might know "hey we get no updates" and refuse to load it (I KID I KID!)
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/software-flaw-puts-mobile-phones-and-networks-at-risk-of-complete-takeover/
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For years, consumer technology has resided in two rooms: the office, and the living room. At CES 2015, expect it to colonize the rest of the home.
That's not to say that you won't find traditional PCs and televisions this week in Las Vegas. But consumer firms have moved beyond those mature, traditional markets into mobile technology, wearables, and cars—and they keep moving. This year, the theme of the show may very well be the connected home, as smartphones and tablets take on a new role as control devices for the Internet of Things.
Here are a few names to keep an eye out for: EchoStar (home automation), Dish (an over-the-top video service?), Intel (new Broadwell PCs), Ford (its new SYNC3 entertainment system) and Samsung (just about everything).
Staff from PCWorld, Macworld, Greenbot, and TechHive will be on the show floor at CES this week, scoping out the tech you'll want to know more about, then buy in 2015. Here's what we know so far.
Tech Cocktail Smart home becomes a networked playground
In 1999, TiVo and DVRs defined CES. In 2014, so did wearables. In 2015, it'll be the connected home. There was a time when this technology was accessible only to hardcore hobbyists and wealthy households with the means to hire custom installers. That time has passed. Until recently, most smart-home products depended on a central hub for control. That's the established way of doing things, and EchoStar, the company behind the Slingbox and Dish Network’s Hopper set-top box, will be showing what looks to be a very complete connected-home system. Dubbed Sage, the set-top will be capable of handling lighting controls, door locks, security cameras, thermostats, and all manner of sensors. Despite that complexity, EchoStar is positioning Sage as a DIY system.
We also expect new additions to Belkin's WeMo home automation line, and possibly D-Link's connected-home ecosystem as well. Netgear is supposed to ship its new Arlo home-security camera. Note the trend: networking companies expanding into connected-home peripherals. On that front, we could also see more “Wave 2” 802.11ac routers join the ranks of the Asus RT-AC87U and Netgear Nighthawk X4.
LG Do you really need a fridge that youcan chat with via instant message? Expect to see connected yet practical devices at the 2015 CES.
Meanwhile mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are stepping in to replace those hubs, controlling products like a new wave of smart LEDs we expect to compete with the Philips Hue product line.
In appliances, CES is a kind of dreamy futurescape, where manufacturers can take a break from staid metal boxes and show off gadget prototypes straight out of The Jetsons. In past years, the futuristic appliances we’ve seen at CES were all about connecting you to the Internet—but does anyone need to Facebook from their refrigerator? This year, expect to see function triumph over the outlandish, with integrated smart appliances that share information about your activities to make your home hum along seamlessly. Will the next Nest pop up at CES? We’ll have to wait and see.
It would be much too generous to say wearables are “growing up” this year, but clearly the consumer tech industry is advancing and expanding the definition of what a wearable can be. At this year’s CES, expect a new generation of much more niche and mission-specific wearables—perhaps a reaction to the fact that activity trackers have become ho-hum commodity hardware; that Android Wear and Apple Watch have sucked all the oxygen out of the smartwatch space; and that all current-generation wearables are still struggling to find a receptive audience.
Sensoria Fitness Socks are the first smart socks with infused textile pressure sensors to improve your running form and cadence as well as step count and pace, the company says.
Among the highly specialized flights of fancy we anticipate seeing, a new wearable called Thync promises to alters one’s mood, using “enhanced neurosignaling” to shift one’s “vibe” to either an energized or relaxed state. Fuhu, meanwhile, is planning to demo a “child-friendly, gamified” pedometer, while Sensoria Fitness will show off new “smart socks” that help track cadence and center-of-balance while you run. We should also see Vert, a wearable that tracks your jumping stats (perfect for volleyball and basketball training); GoMore, which is being marketed as a “stamina sensor” that helps calibrate workout intensity; and Linx, a new head concussion monitor that could be great for anyone who competes in impact sports. And those are just the niche players. We’re already hearing that a number of much bigger-name companies will have wearable-tech announcements. The question is: Will they stick to traditional formulas like the conventional activity trackers, or will they go big with innovative risks?
Cars rev to catch up to phones
Smartphones change fast. Cars don’t. That’s made their relationship difficult, but CES 2015 will mark a milestone, where cars aren’t just catching up to smartphones—they’re converging.
We expect to see signs of Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and MirrorLink, the three technologies moving in from the smartphone side. All offer mobile experiences adjusted for car safety. (It’s one thing to walk into someone on the street while you’re texting. It’s another thing entirely to be that distracted while driving two tons of wheels and steel.)
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal Connecting the smartphone to the car -- safely, and without distraction -- will continue to be a theme this year.
Ford’s completely revamped SYNC 3 infotainment platform will also make its first public debut. Announced in mid-December, it promises better touch, voice and app interfaces. But it’s not just Ford: All the car companies and their technology suppliers are eager to show how connected and easy their systems are, now that smartphones have redefined what’s intuitive and user-friendly.
We also expect to see advances in safety and autonomous-driving technologies: more sophisticated LiDAR and other sensors for seeing what’s around the car, and more clued-in braking, steering and other systems for responding to what they see. This is great news in theory. In practice, it can be unsettling to see cars taking over major parts of the driving experience. But this is the future, folks.
In mobile, Sony might seize the moment
We don’t usually expect too much from CES in the mobile space—at least not when it comes to Android smartphones and tablets. Intel and Nvidia typically announce Android-compatible mobile processors, but beyond that it’s usually quiet until a few months later, when Mobile World Congress takes place in Barcelona.
However, rumors point to a fruitful 2015 for Android devices. Samsung may introduce new additions to its already extensive family of tablets. Acer and Asus remain prolific, and we expect to see both mid-range and high-end Android tablets from both manufacturers. It seems like yesterday that Sony unveiled the Xperia Z3 family. Is a next-gen Xperia in the cards? Or just a larger tablet?
Perhaps the biggest rumor in the Android realm is that Sony will debut its next-generation flagship devices at CES 2015. We certainly hope that’s not the case, however, because it feels like Sony just released the Xperia Z3 family. An Xperia Z3 Ultra of sorts seems more plausible.
There are also rumors that LG has something up its sleeve—supposedly a reprise of its curved smartphone, the G Flex, which debuted around the same time last year. We’re also expecting to see some product announcements from low- and mid-range manufacturers like ZTE and Alcatel One, though their devices don’t always make headlines because their products are not immediately available in the U.S. And don't forget about the PC!
For PCs, the biggest news that will cut across all brands will be the unveiling of Intel’s 5th-generation Broadwell-U chips. Consumers got a taste of Broadwell last year with the low-wattage Broadwell Y, otherwise known as the Core M. This time around, Broadwell U brings the new 14-nm process to more powerful Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 chips. As we've seen with the Core M, the new process significantly reduces power consumption compared to the 4th-gen "Haswell" chip. The upshot? Notable increases in battery life on new laptops.
Agam Shah Intel BroadwellPCs have been waiting in the wings. At CES 2015, it's their time to shine.
CES will see the usual conga line of new ultra-light laptops, convertibles and 2-in-1s, some of them debuting new technologies. Expect to see at least several tablets and laptops equipped with Intel’s super-wicked RealSense depth-camera technology. Pen lovers who've glommed onto Microsoft Surface Pro series should also keep their eyes open for competing tablets with active pen support at CES.
Remember the monitors! Last year at CES, we saw 4K monitors dive to prices under $600. While we probably won’t see that kind of aggressive pricing with 5K panels, expect to see more such models at prices that might finally have you reaching for your credit card. At least 30Hz 4K panels appear to be a thing of the past.
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PDFSearchHQ is a malicious browser hijacker infection which sneaks into the targeted computer by stealth and is able to severe damage on your PC. It is a very notorious PC threat which monetize users online activities in order to earn quick profit for its affiliate authors. As soon as it sneaks into your Windows computer system it quickly hijack all running web browsers in your PC including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and many more. It is such a critical malware infection which will keep redirecting users on several unknown sites while surfing Internet. Users should remove PDFSearchHQ browser hijacker at the earliest or else it may ruing your entire browsing experience in just no time.
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Restart your Windows computer to open boot menu.
Keep pressing F8 button until Windows Advanced Option appears on your system screen.
Go to Start Menu and select Control Panel option.
Go to Programs section and choose Uninstall a program option.
Here, from the list of all programs select PDFSearchHQ and then click Uninstall tab.
Click on gear (☰) icon to open browser menu.
Select Settings option from browser menu window.
From browser menu click on Help option.
Select “Troubleshooting Information” option.
Hit “Refresh Firefox” button and confirm the action if asked.
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Open Edge browser and click on “More” or three dots icon.
Click on the “Settings” option and click on “Extensions”.
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Click Manage Add-ons option from drop down list.
Go to Toolbar and Extensions from left panel and select undesired extensions.
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In collaboration with Microsoft, Cisco, Ericsson, PTC, and ODVA, Rockwell will show how to accelerate digital transformation in manufacturing.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, will showcase its innovative, industry-leading technology and services with its partners, including Microsoft and Cisco, at the Hannover Messe 2023 trade fair, April 17 – 21, in Hannover, Germany.
Rockwell will join forces with its PartnerNetwork™ ecosystem and demonstrate solutions that meet our customers where they are in their digital transformation journeys. In collaboration with Microsoft, Cisco, Ericsson, ODVA and PTC, Rockwell will present the technology and services that help solve today’s top challenges for optimizing production, managing risk, empowering the workforce, driving sustainability, and accelerating digital transformation.
“The challenges and opportunities in manufacturing span the entire production lifecycle,” said Sachin Mathur, Rockwell’s director of software and control, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). “Digital transformation is the most effective way for manufacturing companies to drive change. It is no longer a nice-to-have: digital transformation is about figuring out exactly what can be done, how it can be done, and how it will prove return on investment.”
Rockwell and its ecosystem of partners bring comprehensive expertise to gain real-time visibility and contextualized insights for quality control, compliance, traceability, and productivity. Customers benefit from a holistic, end-to-end approach, with integrated solutions through the Connected Enterprise Production System.
Rockwell at PartnerNetwork™ Ecosystem Booths
At the Microsoft booth, there will be significant offerings on display, leading with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, which is now available on Microsoft Azure in EMEA. Microsoft manufacturing solutions and capabilities help improve industrial productivity and leverage the power and scale provided by Microsoft Azure to enable faster time-to-value. “Together, Rockwell Automation and Microsoft are accelerating and simplifying the digital transformation of industrial enterprises with the proven expertise, market-leading technology, and resources needed to deliver better business outcomes,” said Dominik Wee, CVP, Manufacturing and Mobility Industry, Microsoft.
At the Cisco booth, Rockwell will showcase cybersecurity solutions, including the use of a unique edge computing architecture – Cisco® Cyber Vision – that enables security monitoring.
Also on display is Rockwell’s work with Ericsson to combine its world-class industrial automation portfolio and digitalization capabilities with Ericsson’s 5G expertise and enterprise offerings. Providing more flexibility to collect data in real time over secure and reliable wireless networks allows manufacturers to better manage their production assets and drive a higher level of efficiency and sustainability.
Rockwell Automation and PTC will showcase Rockwell’s FactoryTalk® InnovationSuite, powered by PTC. With this offering, the result of a strategic alliance, companies can transform their physical operations with digital technology.
Rockwell is also partnering with ODVA, a standards development organization, demonstrating at Hannover Messe the benefits of EtherNet/IP, CIP Security™, and Ethernet-APL. On display will be recent wireless device additions to Rockwell’s EtherNet/IP product portfolio. CIP Security is part of a defense-in-depth strategy, supported by ODVA, which can help defend against remote cyberattacks on networks.
CUBIC, a company recently acquired by Rockwell, will demonstrate its efficient modular enclosure solutions. “It’s exciting to showcase how the CUBIC modular system offers the utmost in flexibility to design and build electrical switchboards that meet the customer’s most demanding specifications,” said Jesper Fristrup, director, CUBIC.
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When the coronavirus pandemic broke out earlier this year, working from home became the new normal. Virtual communication and collaboration skyrocketed, and Zoom became a household name.
And as quickly as the virus spread, criminals started taking advantage of the situation. They create legitimate-looking emails to steal your identity known as “phishing,” and emails that appear to come from an individual or business you are familiar with, known as “spear-phishing. The telephone equivalent of these tactics is known as “vishing.”
Practicing Email Safety
To avoid becoming a victim of cyberfraud, start by following a few simple guidelines.
First, never include any personal information in an email that you wouldn’t be comfortable putting on the back of a postcard and dropping in a mailbox. Ask yourself: Does this person really need the information they’re asking for to do their job properly? Then examine the email carefully before downloading attachments or clicking on any links.
If something doesn’t seem quite right, and you know the sender personally, the safest course of action is to contact the sender via phone or a separate email (do not respond to the email) to verify its legitimacy. If the sender is a business and the email, looks suspicious, you can ignore it, delete it, or open a separate browser window or tab to visit a website directly.
Unusual greetings, misspelled words and improper grammar. Phishing emails often originate from foreign countries, so the improper use of English is common.
Threatening or intimidating language demanding that you respond immediately. Attempts to scare and intimidate recipients are common tactics used by phishers. If something is seriously wrong, a company would not contact you via email.
Links to a website that do not appear to be affiliated with the sender. You can hover your mouse over the link to see its true origin without opening it.
Messages asking for financial information. A legitimate business will not ask for this by email.
As a precautionary measure, it is often worthwhile to sign up for a credit monitoring service such as Experian, TransUnion or Equifax. These services alert you whenever someone asks for your credit history, applies for a loan or tries to open a credit card in your name. There are also a number of services that provide identity theft protection services, such as LifeLock and others. These services can help protect you from fraud and regain control of your finances if you do become a victim of identity theft. More information is available at IdentityTheft.gov.
How We Protect Your Information
Our parent company, Franklin Templeton, monitors emails 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to help prevent anyone from stealing your private information. Franklin Templeton uses a comprehensive “defense-in-depth” approach to cybersecurity, which includes multiple layers of data protection software and hardware to essentially build bigger walls and wider moats around your personal data.
We also train all employees on how to safely transmit and store sensitive data. Whenever we send you an email, we use sophisticated encryption technologies to transmit information that only the sender and recipient can read. Encryption is a standard security measure that has proven effective at protecting our outgoing communications and keeping your private information private. If you ever have any doubt that an email is actually from us, please call your advisor to verify it. If the phone number provided in the email doesn’t look familiar, be sure to instead use the number you have on file for your advisor.
At Fiduciary Trust, we are also developing technologies that eliminate the need to use email or regular mail channels to share information with you. And, we store all your private information in our own computer systems, using state-of-the-art databases, which are used by national and international corporations around the world. All forms of electronic communications are protected by firewalls on our systems as well as the systems used by Franklin Templeton.
What to Look for From Your Advisors
Of course, cybersecurity is only successful when you cover all the bases. Ask all of your advisors to explain how they are storing, processing and sharing your information. If their responses are highly technical, vague, or difficult to understand, your Fiduciary Trust representative can often translate them into plain English for you. We can also work directly with your outside advisors to ensure your information is being handled safely and we are all moving in the same direction toward your goals.
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- Developing and implement cyber security strategy, processes and procedures for us in conjunction with the IT manager. This includes monitoring, detection and response of cyber security issues and identifying threats and vulnerabilities.
- Maintaining knowledge of developments and future trends in IT and cyber security.
- Developing and identify monitoring, tests and audits of the companies cyber security.
- Being an active member of the response team in cyber security incident.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to convey technical information to people with varying technical abilities.
- Ability to analyse and solve problems quickly.
- Able to complete work and tasks to meet deadlines.
- Aptitude for learning new technologies.
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