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from Crypto. Util. Padding import pad,unpad from Crypto. Random import get_random_bytes
The output encrypted message in hex and its length is 32 bytes. Let’s check it for this i use ipython!
In CTF we did not given the challenge file to participants because its easy though! So by it’s length we can know it is sum of iv(16 bites) and message(16 bites) in hex.!
In [4]: a = "fefbc34b8c1ec3f371f37ab5378e0e212f3ffd012a824cd16ffe8030d8bcd963".decode('hex')
So what we have to do is just xor char of iv which has index 6 with 1 and after encode in hex and send it.! let’s do it..!
In [13]: a = "fefbc34b8c1ec3f371f37ab5378e0e212f3ffd012a824cd16ffe8030d8bcd963".decode('hex')
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http://dr3dd.me/cryptography/2019/01/10/simple-AES-CBC-bit-flipping-attack/
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Enter text after vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOSx207x2086_64 quiet so that it looks like this vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOSx207x2086_64 quiet text key.
The VPS will now boot into the text mode CentOS installer. You will see a screen in the noVNC console like pictured in the image below.
Step 3: Setup LVM On LUKS Full Disk Encryption
Use the Alt + Right Arrow Key combination to navigate to the TTY2 console to type commands on the command line.
Type the following commands below to create a partition for containing the GRUB2 boot loader, an unencrypted /boot partition and a primary partition that will hold the LUKS partition.
Warning This will allow root login and copying without a password prompt. Kill this SSH server after you’ve retrieved the /tmp/luks-header-backup.img file.
For safekeeping, save a copy of the LUKS partition header. This ensures that if the header of your LUKS partition is somehow damaged, it can be restored. If the header is damaged without a working backup, your data is lost forever.
cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/vda3 --header-backup-file /tmp/luks-header-backup.img
To copy the /tmp/luks-header-backup.img file from the server, a SSH server must be temporarily started, using the secure copy executable scp on a client host, to retrieve it.
Type the following command below to generate the SSH host keys.
To edit the file, press the Insert key and use the arrow keys to navigate to sections of the file that need editing.
In line one, change the number in Port 22 from the default of 22 to a random number of your choice between 1025 and 65535. (Example: port 25782)
Scroll down to line number thirteen, press the End key key.
On the next line, add HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key key.
On the next line, add HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key key.
Press the Esc key, type :wq key to save the file.
The default network interface eth0 needs an IP address. Type the following command below to assign the IP address listed for your instance to the eth0 network interface.
If using the scp command from a command line on a client machine, use the following command below as a template to retrieve the /tmp/luks-header-backup.img file. Replace 25782 with the actual port number assigned in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Replace 192.0.2.1 with the actual assigned IP address.
scp -P 25782 [email protected]:/tmp/luks-header-backup.img .
After the retrieval of luks-header-backup.img file, immediately kill the SSH server by typing the command below in the noVNC console window.
It will contain the following files named centos, control, live-base and live-rw. The centos is the LUKS partition.
Type the following command below to create the LVM physical volume.
You will see text in the noVNC console similar to what is pictured in the image below.
Type the following command below to deactivate the LVM volume group. This must be completed in order to allow cryptsetup to close the LUKS partition in the next step.
On the INSTALLATION SUMMARY screen, click on INSTALLATION DESTINATION (Automatic partitioning selected) (1) under SYSTEM.
On the INSTALLATION DESTINATION screen, select the I will configure partitioning (1) option under Other Storage Options (Partitioning) and click the blue Done button (2) at the top left of the screen.
On the MANUAL PARTITIONING screen, click on the Unknown expandable accordion (1). It will reveal three partitions named BIOS Boot (vda1), Unknown (vda2) and Encrypted (LUKS) (vda3).
With the BIOS Boot partition highlighted in blue (1), select the checkbox option of Reformat (2) next to the File System: accordion and click the Update Settings button (3).
Click on the Unknown partition (1) so that it is highlighted in blue. Select the checkbox option of Reformat (2) next to the File System: accordion. Click on the Encrypted (LUKS) partition (1) so that it is highlighted in blue. A new Unknown expandable accordion (1) will appear. It will reveal two partitions named Unknown (ssd-root) and Unknown (ssd-swap).
With the Unknown (ssd-root) partition (1) highlighted in blue, select the checkbox option of Reformat (2) next to the File System: accordion. Select xfs in the File System: accordion (3), enter / in the text field (4) under Mount Point:, enter root in the text field (5) under Label: and click the Update Settings button (6).
A box named SUMMARY OF CHANGES will pop up. Click the Accept Changes button (1). This will bring you back to the WELCOME TO CENTOS 7 screen.
Click on NETWORK & HOST NAME (Not connected) (1) under SYSTEM.
On the NETWORK & HOST NAME screen, move the slider (1), next to the right of Ethernet(eth0) field, from the OFF position to the ON position. If you want to use a custom hostname instead of the default (192.0.2.1.itweb.services.com) in the Host name: text box (2), change it. When you are satisfied with the options on the WELCOME TO CENTOS 7 screen, click the blue Begin Installation button (1).
On the CONFIGURATION screen, click on USER CREATION (No user will be created) (1) under USER SETTINGS.
On the CREATE USER screen, enter your full name in the Full name text field (1), an username in the User name text field (2), a strong password in both the Password (3) and Confirm password (4) text fields. Click on the Advanced... button (5).
A box named ADVANCED USER CONFIGURATION will pop up. In the Add user to the following groups: text field (1) under Group Membership, enter wheel and click the Save Changes button (2).
The post-installation process will now commence. It will take a few minutes to complete. When it is finished, click on the blue Reboot button (1) to reboot your VPS instance.
Navigate back to the IT Web Services Server Management Screen. Click on the Settings link at the top. Click on Custom ISO on the menu on the left side. On the Custom ISO page, click on the Remove ISO button to unmount the ISO and reboot into your CentOS 7 VPS instance. Click the OK button when prompted and the VPS instance will reboot.
Navigate back to the View Console window to access the VPS instance via the noVNC console. Refresh the window if noVNC has disconnected.
You will be prompted to enter the passphrase (Example: Please enter passphrase for disk primary (luks-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)! :) you created for LUKS partition in Step 3: Setup LVM On LUKS Full Disk Encryption. Enter the passphrase key.
You will then be presented with the console login prompt. You can now close the noVNC console window.
Insert rd.neednet=1 ip=dhcp between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto and rd.luks.uuid=luks-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
Save the file by entering the following keyboard combinations. Press the Ctrl + x keys, press the y key key.
Regenerate you GRUB configuration file by type the command below.
Change the file permissions on ssh_ecdsa_key, ssh_ecdsa_key.pub, ssh_rsa_key and ssh_rsa_key.pub by typing the command below.
sudo chmod 400 /etc/dropbear/keys/*_key; sudo chmod 444 /etc/dropbear/keys/*.pub
Generate public keys using the How Do I Generate SSH Keys? tutorial, found at the beginning of the tutorial under Prerequisites, for your prospective client operating system.
Copy and paste all the text in the public key into the /etc/dropbear/keys/authorized_keys file using the nano program by typing the command below.
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https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/install-and-setup-centos-7-to-remotely-unlock-lvm-on-luks-disk-encryption-using-ssh/
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Baidu-International 3.5.1.41473 PUP.Win32.Push.tripflag.info virus
McAfee-GW-Edition 2013 Win32.Application.Push.tripflag.info virus
Malwarebytes v2013.10.29.10 PUP.Push.tripflag.info virus
Qihoo-360 1.0.0.1015 Win32/Virus. RiskTool. Push.tripflag.info virus
Tencent 1.0.0.1 Win32.Push.tripflag.info virus
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http://www.4-cybersecurity.com/jp/delete-push-tripflag-info-viruswww-4-cybersecurity-com4-cybersecurity-com/
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“Be worried, be very worried,” Edinburgh Napier University professor, Bill Buchanan, tells delegates at Holyrood’s cyber security conference. It followed a live demonstration in which the director of the centre for distributed computing, networks, and security showed – in a matter of minutes – how more than 900 million Android devices could be compromised as a result of Google’s decision not to patch a vulnerability in earlier versions of the software. “If you now have Jellybean 4.1.2, don’t click on a link that I send you [as] I’m watching you,” Buchanan jokes amid an echo of nervous laughter around the room.
A “dynamic, risk-based, context aware” security approach focused on the application and the user is necessary to tackle today’s threat, Gary Newe, a technical director with F5, explains. “[One] that understands that I’m on an iPhone [or] an iPad, that I’m in Edinburgh now and that I cannot possibly be in Hong Kong in 45 minutes. Simple things like that, to pull all that information together and dynamically create policies that allow the good people in and keep the bad people out.”
High-profile attacks such as the one on Target, which saw at least 40 million payment card numbers and 70 million other pieces of customer data stolen, have served to underline the cost of failure. That data breach, which set the US retailer back $148m and financial institutions a further $200m, owed its roots to a heating and ventilation contractor that serviced their stores. “It is clear that supply chain security is becoming vitally important to business in Europe and beyond, so for our SMEs [small and medium sized enterprises] to maintain their attractiveness as business partners, they have to be able to use digital technology, which means they must be able to demonstrate that they are cyber secure,” says Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, John Swinney.
Given SMEs are the “lifeblood of our economy” – constituting 99.3 per cent of all private sector enterprises in Scotland with an estimated 1.1 million jobs – this is not a commitment only a proportion can sign up to, he adds. It is against this backdrop that the DFM has created a new cyber security and resilience unit within government to lead on the development of a cyber resilience strategy for Scotland. A consultation on the strategy will take place this spring with publication scheduled for autumn. “We believe it will be the blueprint to ensuring our infrastructure and people are protected and our economy reaps the rewards of doing business online,” says Swinney, insisting the strategy will “complement” rather than replicate the work of the UK Cyber Security Strategy unveiled a little over three years ago.
A level below central government, East Renfrewshire Council is unique among local authorities in that it has a budget set aside for information security rather than it being part of a larger IT infrastructure pot. “The organisation can take a proactive instead of reactive approach to incidents, emerging threats, and forward planning strategies – there’s no need to vie with other project requests for a pot of money or find a project sponsor,” says the council’s information security officer, Carol Peters, who suggests that all public sector agencies should be mandated to have the equivalent of her post.
Doing so, though, requires a strong skills base. “There should be a wholesale review of how the computing curriculum is delivered in schools and how teachers are supported to make that delivery interesting and relevant to young people,” says head of standards and qualifications at e-skills UK, Dr Tony Venus, who sits on a recently formed group in Scotland mapping progression pathways into the digital sector. The Scottish Qualifications Authority are currently devising a range of national progression awards in cyber security, the first school-based courses in this specific field in Europe.
“Our pursuit of cyber security will not involve monitoring the internet,” Swinney reassures delegates at Holyrood’s conference. “The government believes in the privacy of its citizens, we will protect personal privacy, and I’m firmly committed to the fact that the internet is open and free and should remain as such.”
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https://www.holyrood.com/articles/feature/swinney-scotlands-cyber-security-strategy-will-not-involve-monitoring-internet
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As a relationship coach, vulnerability is a huge subject. Many people are afraid of it or they have no idea what it is. I understand vulnerability can be uncomfortable if the internal work hasn’t been done. Therefore, from that standpoint, it’s understandable. Also, maybe you think being vulnerable will place you in a state of weakness.
However, it could be you’re defining vulnerability based on what the dictionary says, “To be susceptible to physical or emotional harm.” Whatever the circumstances that are preventing you from being vulnerable in an intimate relationship, I want you to look at it from this perspective. Authentic vulnerability can cause growth, increase your connection, and expand the horizons of you and your partner.
When you understand these things, and you know your value, you can trust that you not putting yourself in the dictionary definition of ‘vulnerability.’ Why do I say this? Because being vulnerable and being weak is not the same thing. Knowing who you are and what you want out of an intimate connection produces bravery. Therefore, it’s a strength. Not a weakness.
Know that being vulnerable with your partner can produce more intimacy and affection. It also gives both of you the ability to lean on one another during challenges because of what you know about one another. My hope is that you embrace the beauty of vulnerability, and don’t settle for anything less from your significant other.
If you have any questions, comments, and want help getting the Groove you deserve in your love life, DM me or give me a call.
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https://www.louismorriscoaching.com/vulnerability-is-not-easy-but-its-needed-in-a-relationship/
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Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud has identified that a new mass injection campaign is making its rounds, compromising and injecting content into tens of thousands of legitimate websites. This campaign is an evolution and expansion of an existing injection campaign that Websense® Security Labs™ has been monitoring since January of this year. Our telemetry shows that, to date, at least 40,000 compromised pages have occurred on the Web, redirecting and tricking users to install rogue software.
We see parallels of the injected websites with websites that were affected by the "cookiebomb" mass injection, which was mostly associated with delivering "ransomware" payloads. (Our blog on CookieBomb attack is here). Let's get back to GWload…
We've made three key observations about this campaign. The first is the use of a social engineering technique to lure users into downloading malicious and undesirable content. Although most website injections in the wild redirect to exploit websites, this dominant campaign seems to shift the focus to using a social engineering technique, rather than exploits, to get unwanted content installed on victims' machines. Our second observation is that the time of emergence of this campaign coincides with the arrest of the Blackhole Exploit Kit author 'Paunch,' which could explain the change in mass injection tactics, as actors move from serving exploits to social engineering. This shows that the cyber underground may have contingency plans in place to adapt and react quickly to change. Our third key observation is that the campaign employs an 'end to end' infrastructure of legitimate websites. These legitimate websites become compromised so that they ultimately serve rogue content. The cyber criminals deploy code to defeat ad-blockers and code that 'locks content' and access to the website until a certain action is complete (a technique that in the past has been used with Cost per Action CPA lead-based scams on the Facebook platform. To be clear, conducting CPAlead campaigns is not illegal; however, using CPAlead advertising methods that deceive users is illegal. The ultimate aim of the lure is to install rogue software that compensates the actors through an affiliation program. In this blog we're going to cover the different aspects of this mass injection campaign and share relevant telemetry.
Executive Summary
Thousands of legitimate web pages are compromised in a mass injection campaign we dubbed 'GWload' and detected as early as the week of the 14th of October.
The campaign employs a social engineering technique to lure users into downloading rogue content. Most mass injections found in the wild typically redirect to exploit websites; employing a social engineering technique instead of exploits seems to be a shift in focus to push software installations, adware, and spyware without the user's consent.
The expansion and emergence of this campaign that employs social engineering techniques also coincides with the arrest of the Blackhole Exploit Kit creator 'Paunch,' which could explain the change in tactics of different cyber-crime actors with their mass injections, as they move from serving exploits to social engineering. The campaign employs an 'end to end' infrastructure comprised of legitimate websites under the control of cyber criminals. It was observed that injected code doesn't lead to specially crafted payload websites but to other legitimate websites that became compromised and then are used as the serving points for rogue software installations. This effectively allows rogue content to be harder to detect and defeats detection systems that rely only on reputation.
Actors behind this campaign employ a set of open source tools to defeat ad-blocking technologies. The actors aim to monetize successful rogue installations through affiliate programs. The main payload script of the lure uses 'content locking' tactics that are very common with Cost Per Action (CPA) scams that propagate on Facebook, and the code used in this specific case shows a copyright notice from Adscend Media LLC, which is a company that was sued by Facebook for engaging in scams and fraudulent activity on the Facebook platform.
SHA1: bce71547dec74a39cca484a3b5a2ec9c844c4575 , filename: sctmp.exe (ShoppingChip)
SHA1: d52e3715b0d1f4a43e9aff2347e6b1fc88a3b7e8 , filename: 294823_.exe (ShoppingChip)
SHA1: 2315be5c129efe4fac36850b225ca2ebeec196ae , filename: 0j.exe (ShoppingChip)
SHA1: 0b9e805077320b0ce1e6620488bd34f1c4d7827e , filename: w.dll (ShoppingChip)
SHA1: 184c60aafbb12d1023b1ce2aff4d3708607a75a1 , filename: W.x64.dll (ShoppingChip)
SHA1: 668437f834b3f4e1e2b6383936528d56c17ca3eb , filename: Updater.exe (Amonetize)
SHA1: 44541bd12d0c1454310babb38ef65579544bb7cb , filename: bundlesweetimsetup.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: c077be880adcca469cb8009f9a3f4170497fa011 , filename: spacksyahoo_717_active.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: 827ab81eb687b4fe88ac500d6dae475ba7dd2daf , filename: ExtensionUpdaterService.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: 3e1726b904874101c93b51c784917f2aedd3863c , filename: Extension32.dll (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: ac57ebd667acf5734d3fe5c7f1982440b507bcff , filename: installerhelper.dll (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: 2eabe4f755213666dbbbde024a5235ddde02b47f , filename: registry.dll (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: 6c4c7be6be33413be0017bb31a78921f61b6cd3b , filenmae: sweetiesetup.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: b9fb23cbe82811b97e6c3ad0dac182b8f99c9e9d , filename: 1382915777_45645062_228_4.tmp (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: e1606da015762918176602bf3dd696b88351535b , filename: WSSetup.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA1: 63ec07e905abf4f8bbf85b0b721820e4533cd81e , filename: SetXPDriverSigningPolicy.exe (SweetIM\SweetPacks)
SHA!: a7c1b35254f2c1fc56648823b59fbba6577aa4e7 , filename: Coupon_Scout_102.exe (CouponScout)
SHA1: 8c13adefc4a1726a1f12f986c7f7b77375b8a6e2 , filename: psupport.dll (Bprotector)
The script that is loaded by an injected website with 'GWload' also resides on an injected website and follows a two-stage process (related source code is demonstrated in the images below). The first stage is the 'locker page loader' where steps are taken to prepare the browser to load the 'content locker page'. Among its various actions, it prepares the frame where the 'content locker page' is going to reside and sets a cookie on the user's machine. At this stage, the script won't redirect to the 'content locker page' and lock the website's content if there was no referrer set to the request. This means that the 'content locker page' will show and activate only if the user was referred from another website, such as a search engine result. If everything checks out at the first stage, then the 'content locker page' is loaded, and it blocks the website's legitimate content from the user, permitting access only if 'VLC Media Player' is downloaded and installed. Digging a bit deeper and looking for references in the code section 'gwloaded = false' over the web shows that it's associated with tools that aim to evade browser-based "Ad blockers" software. In fact, the comments at the start of the script claim in plain sight that the script and its contents are the intellectual property of Adscend Media LLC. Adscend Media LLC is a company that was sued by Facebook; Facebook claimed that the company engaged in scam and fraudulent activity on the Facebook platform. A lot of the scams on Facebook employ social engineering tricks similar to this mass injection: they typically condition access to content if certain steps are executed by the user; conditions vary and may include filling out a survey or installing software. This model of on-line advertising is called "Cost Per Action" (CPA) or "Pay Per Action" (PPA), where the advertiser pays for each specified action commenced by the user.
Once the 'content locker page' loads, it prompts the user to download the software with several links leading to the same location at trackergeo.com. This domain acts as a statistics collector; checking the Whois data for that website shows that it was registered by a zhang jing and with email address [email protected]; commencing a reverse Whois lookup on the email address reveals more domains that have a low reputation and that were registered ~14-20 days ago:
trackergeo.com redirects to hxxp://www.winmediaplayer.com/direct-download.html?version=1.1.8.21&iaff1=10084&ci=3793&capp=MediaPlayer, which further redirects to download the installation file at hxxp://www.askdownload.com/download.php?version=1.1.8.21&prefix=VLCMediaPlayer&campid=3793&capp=MediaPlayer&iaff1=10084.
The file downloaded named VLCMediaPlayer__3793_il256.exe (SHA1: 7e8593c36209afa8f065ac00aa3d3b40b738dc00) is the main file that starts the process of installing unwanted software, as we described in the previous section. A summary report from Websense' sandbox ThreatScope™ show that the file tries to connect and download suspicious content from the web address idyllicdownload.com/index.php, a website registered by Amonetize LTD.
winmediaplayer.com and askdownload.com are registered by Amonetize LTD. You can notice the affiliate ID marked in bold above: 10084, this number is how Amonetize can track and associate downloads to affiliates and compensate them accordingly. If we do a reverse Whois lookup on recent domains that are owned by Amonetize LTD we spot some interesting matches:
In this blog we described a mass injection campaign that emerged in the past two weeks and that continues to affect thousands of websites across the globe. We noticed that this mass injection uses a social engineering trick that locks legitimate websites' content to lure potential victims to install applications that participate in Cost Per Action (CPA) advertising schemes. This change in tactics that occurred in the past two weeks coincides with the arrest of the Blackhole Exploit Kit author 'Paunch,' which could suggest that actors adapt to change rapidly to keep their attack going. It was also apparent that certain scripts used by actors to serve social engineering-based attack vectors are interchangeable across different attack platforms; we witnessed with 'GWload' that code that mostly was used in social engineering-based attacks on Facebook has now migrated and is used with mass injections.
Websense customers are protected from injected websites and the different stages of this threat with our Advanced Classification Engine – ACE.
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https://dataprotectioncenter.com/security/gwload-the-social-engineering-based-mass-injection-making-its-rounds/
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Moving critical IT operations to the cloud is extremely attractive to organizations seeking to reduce costs while benefitting from the ability to rapidly scale-up and scale-down those capabilities as needed, but of course security also remains a key concern.
When considering security provider options, organizations should look for solutions that leverage the convenience of the cloud for management but are not constrained by cloud dependencies for efficacy.
Organizations should also seek a provider who can offer protection from emerging threats and has expert security consultants in-house to drastically reduce the organization’s overall attack surface, both on premises and in the cloud.
The Benefits of a Cloud-Native SaaS
Cloud infrastructure providers generally employ a Shared Security Model whereby the provider maintains the security of the cloud, but the responsibility for what is deployed within the cloud resides with the user.
BlackBerry® Cylance® satisfies this requirement with cloud security products that provide feature parity to our best-in-class security solution. We do this by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent both known and unknown attacks coupled with a highly scalable threat detection and response (EDR) solution for root cause analysis and threat hunting.
The BlackBerry Cylance solution protects installations running either Amazon Linux and Windows operating systems and streamlines cloud security operations by utilizing a lightweight agent with a small footprint that does not require regular reconfiguration or signature updates. It also does not result in excessive resource consumption as many competing products do, allowing for significant cost-savings.
Our management console options are designed to meet the specific needs of each customer, and users can enjoy the flexibility of our cloud-based management to centrally control security policies with ease.
Some internal and regulatory mandates require in house management. For these accounts, BlackBerry Cylance also offers both on-premises and hybrid offerings suited to meet those needs.
CylanceON-PREM™ is a standalone version of the CylancePROTECT® security product designed for isolated or air-gapped networks. CylanceON-PREM includes the Cylance Management Console and predictive threat detection models and affords security admins the ability to manually update without compromising internal security mandates by connecting to the internet or cloud services.
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BlackBerry Cylance also provides a highly scalable solution that offers a single management console for all Windows, Linux, and Mac deployments, giving security teams a single view from which to update policies, generate reports, and perform any EDR remediation functions.
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BlackBerry Cylance leverages the cloud for data-intensive advanced statistical analysis in our AI model development, and that conviction model resides directly on the endpoint itself. This offers the benefit of a highly effective pre-execution model that protects the complete attack surface with automated threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities.
Our unique AI approach protects against both known and unknown malware, fileless attacks, and zero-day payload execution on any endpoint, whether online or offline, and in environments where communication with the device is infrequent.
Our platform is not dependent on connectivity for cloud-based lookups for conviction efficacy, which means the solution can also prevent attacks in systems that are air-gapped or isolated from connectivity, and conviction is immediate compared to cloud-constrained solutions that deliver latent, post-event detection and response.
Best of all, BlackBerry Cylance’s Predictive Advantage is third-party validated as capable of blocking emerging threats on average 25 months before they are first detected in the wild (source: SE Labs Report).
Some of the benefits to our customers from this Predictive Advantage are obvious - such as protection from zero-days, polymorphic and repacked/obscured malware. Other less obvious benefits include providing a long window of protection to allow for the proper testing and deployment of patches without fear that systems critical to business operations could be interrupted.
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Secure network architecture is of great importance in protecting an organization’s systems, both cloud and physical. Simply put, an attacker cannot compromise systems that they cannot access. With proper security protocols in place, organizations can reduce their attack surface by preventing an attacker who may have gained an initial foothold to one area of the network from compromising other segments of the network, whether on premises or in the cloud.
BlackBerry Cylance Consulting provides Cloud Security Assessments that evaluate the current security state of the cloud and identifies gaps that could create vulnerabilities. BlackBerry Cylance will closely inspect an organization’s cloud architecture to determine if the rules in place are sufficiently strict, that proper segmentation is in place, and that proper configurations are in place to reduce an organization’s attack surface.
BlackBerry Cylance experts provide recommendations for remediating these vulnerabilities and a roadmap detailing opportunities to improve security across the entire organization.
BlackBerry Cylance Consulting can also provide gap analysis to assess the cloud environment against industry and vendor best practices, incorporating well-known security frameworks into the assessment process to round out vendor best practices with the organization’s enterprise security and privacy strategies.
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https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2019/10/dont-be-fooled-cloud-native-security-shouldnt-mean-cloud-constrained-capabilities
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Basically, fake Flash player or Java download sites install WormCryptor Ransomware onto your Windows using deceptive technique called software bundling. When you visit such sites, they suggest you to use customized downloaders to proceed downloading process. When you do so, the customized downloader installs malicious programs like WormCryptor Ransomware along with your regular installation. The may arrive also through spam emails attachments, infected USB drives, Peer to peer networks and Internet Relay Chat.
Though, to prevent WormCryptor Ransomware attacks, you need to pay close attention while using your OS for any work or just for fun. Especially, while installing freeware, always block optional programs installation through Custom/Advanced option. even, while checking emails, you should never double click shady links or attachments arrived from suspicious source without verifying the senders details first. Do no inject infected USBs to your OS but when you got no option rather than injecting USBs then make sure that you scan it Assistance For using reliable Antivirus. This way you can safeguard your Windows 2000.
WormCryptor Ransomware : Signs of Infection in Windows 2000
WormCryptor Ransomware causes certain Slowdown and OS Crashes.
Appearance of unwanted pop-ups and security warning on your Windows 2000 .
Suspicious hard drive activity such as file deletion/modification.
Due to WormCryptor Ransomware infection your hard drive and CPU may run out of memory.
Unusually high network activities and slow Internet speed.
WormCryptor Ransomware may be responsible for unwanted Firefox redirections and alteration of homepage and default search engine.
Notifications regarding data corruption and ransomware demands etc.
1.Firstly, start your PC and hold SHIFT key, while holding it click on RESTART button.
2.Choose advanced repair options.
2.From currently appeared window click on Organize option.
3.Clicking on it will result in a drop-down list, select Folder & search options.
4.Go to the view tab and hit on “Show hidden files and folders”.
5.Now, Click on Apply option then press OK button.
3.Locate the Options icon and press on it 4.Now, hit on Show Hidden Files and Folders option then, click on Apply option and finally press OK button.
1.Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys in order to open task manager.
2.Now, Windows Task manager display on your PC screen.
3. Hit on Process tab to see all running process in your PC.
1. Open Chrome 48.0.2564 browser.
2. In the address bar, type this: chrome://settings/ and then hit Enter.
3. Go to the end of the page and click on Show advanced settings.
4. Go to the bottom of the page, click on Reset settings to remove all changes made by WormCryptor Ransomware.
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Cyber security attacks impacted 52% of organisations in India over the last 12 months, namely since the time Covid-19 struck. According to a report by Sohphos- a cyber security solutions provider and Tech Research Asia (TRA)-IT analyst, research and consulting firm- of these breaches 71% firms admitted that " it was a serious or very serious attack" and 65% said it took more than a week to fix.
In its report called 'The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan'. the research pointed out that despite the increase in frequency and severity of thee attacks, cybersecurity budgets remained largely unchanged as a percentage of revenue between 2019 and 2021.
15.5 lakh cyber security incidents in 2019, 2020: Govt tells Lok Sabha
However , India reported the highest percentage of companies that have an independent security budget, but more needs to be done.
"Our findings show there is budget allocated for cybersecurity in India, but it isn’t enough. Indian organisations need to view cybersecurity as a value to the business and increase their budgets accordingly," said Sunil Sharma, managing director – sales, Sophos India and SAARC.
According to the report, overall 44% of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) organisations surveyed suffered a data breach in 2020, up from 32% in 2019. Of these successful breaches, 55% of companies rated the loss of data as either “very serious” (24%) or “serious” (31%). About 17% of organisations surveyed suffered at least 50 attacks, per week.
"Overall, 44 per cent As cyberattacks continue to rise, the report found that malware, AI/ML-driven attacks and nation state attacks will be the most serious threats to enterprise cybersecurity over the next 24 months," said the study.
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https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/cyber-security-attacks-impacted-52-of-organisations-in-india-in-last-1-year/81761014
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New data from security firm Tessian found that 673 domains related to the $2T stimulus package have been registered since the U.S. government announced on March 19 it would issue checks.
The domains use common questions or keywords (such as whereismystimuluscheck or COVID-19-stimulus), banking on the fact that many will prioritize convenience over security while seeking out stimulus information. Given the recent launch of a new IRS website that helps Americans track or submit for stimulus checks, Tessian is releasing this domain info since a spike in IRS website searches and traffic regarding stimulus checks is expected.
“Cybercriminals will always follow the money and look for ways to take advantage of the fact people will be seeking more information or guidance on this scheme. Although not every domain registered in the last month may be malicious, it’s possible that these websites offering consulting and business loans could be set up to trick people into sharing money or personal information. Always check the URL of the domain and verify the legitimacy of the service by calling them directly before taking action.
“It’s also important to consider what data you are being asked to share via websites offering calculators or status checks, and what call to action the website is offering after. Cybercriminals could use the information you shared to craft targeted phishing emails that include the ‘results’ of your assessment, tricking you to click on malicious links with the intention of stealing money, credentials or installing malware onto your device.” – Tim Sadler, CEO and co-founder, Tessian
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https://brilliancesecuritymagazine.com/cybersecurity/over-670-stimulus-related-domains-registered-since-u-s-gov-announcement/
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Windows 10 has built-in real-time antivirus named Windows Defender, and it’s pretty good. It automatically runs within the background, ensuring all Windows users are protected against viruses and other nasties. Here’s how it works.
Starting with the Creators Update for Windows 10, Windows Defender’s interface changed a touch. It had been integrated into the new Windows Defender Security Center—which also provides access to security-related tools like family protection, firewall settings, device performance and health reports, and browser security controls. So if you haven’t yet updated to the Creators Update, you ought to still be ready to follow along pretty much.
Microsoft offered a standalone antivirus app named Microsoft Security Essentials within the days of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. With Windows 8, the merchandise was tidied up a touch, bundled with Windows, and renamed Windows Defender. And it’s pretty good if something of an assortment. It’s true that other antivirus apps—like BitDefender and Kaspersky—protect against more viruses in benchmarks.
But Windows Defender boasts some advantages, too. It’s far and away from the only non-invasive app, handling things within the background whenever it can and not nagging you all the time. Windows Defender also plays nicer with web browsers and other apps—respecting their security and privacy settings quite most other antivirus apps.
Like other antivirus apps, Windows Defender automatically runs within the background, scanning files when they’re downloaded, transferred from external drives, and before you open them.
You don’t need to believe Windows Defender in the least. It’ll only crop up to tell you when it finds malware. It won’t even ask you what you would like to try to do with the malicious software it sees—it just cleans things up and quarantines the files automatically.
You’ll occasionally see a notification popup to allow you to know when a scan has been performed, and you’ll usually see the small print of the last scan by opening the Action Center in Windows 10.
If Windows Defender does find a threat, you’ll also see a notification letting you recognize that it’s taking action to wash those threats—and no action is required from you.
Antivirus definition updates automatically arrive through Windows Update and are installed like all other system updates. These sorts of updates don’t require rebooting your computer. That way, you don’t get to worry about updating Windows Defender because it’s all handled quietly and automatically within the background.
View Your Scan History and Quarantined Malware
You can view Windows Defender’s scan history anytime you would like, and if you’re notified that it’s blocked malware, you’ll consider that information too. to fireside up the Windows Defender Security Center, just hit Start, type “defender,” then select “Windows Defender Security Center.”
In the Windows Defender Security Center window, switch to the “Windows Defender” tab (the shield icon), then click the “Scan history” link.
The “Scan history” screen shows you all current threats, plus information about your last scan. If you would like to ascertain the complete history of quarantined threats, click the “See full history” link therein section.
Here, you’ll see all the threats that Windows Defender has quarantined. to ascertain more of a few hazards, click the arrow to its right. And to confirm, even more, click the “See details” link that shows up once you expand a specific threat.
You don’t need to try anything here, but if you didn’t have Windows Defender delete the threat when it had been found, you’d tend the choice to try to do that on this screen. You’ll even be ready to restore the item from quarantine, but you ought to only do that if you’re sure, the detected malware may be a false positive. If you’re conditional, one hundred pc sure, don’t allow it to run.
Full scan: the fast scan only scans your memory and customary locations. A complete scan checks every file and running program. It can easily take an hour or more, so it’s best to try this once you don’t plan to use your PC much.
Custom scan: A custom scan allows you to choose a specific folder to scan. You’ll also do that by right-clicking any folder on your PC and select “Scan with Windows Defender” from the context menu.
Windows Defender Offline scan: Some malware is tricky to get rid of while Windows is running. Once you select an offline scan, Windows restarts and runs a scan before Windows loads on the PC.
Configure Virus and Threat Protection Settings
By default, Windows Defender automatically enables real-time protection, cloud-based protection, and sample submission. Real-time protection ensures Windows Defender automatically finds malware by scanning your system in real-time. You’ll disable this for a brief period if necessary for performance reasons, but Windows Defender will automatically re-enable real-time protection to keep you safe later. Cloud-based protection and sample submission allow Windows Defender to share information about threats and, therefore, the actual malware files it detects with Microsoft.
Click the “Virus & threat protection settings” link on the most “Windows Defender” tab to enable or disable any of those settings.
And then toggle the settings on the screen that appears.
Set Up Exclusions for Certain Folders or Files
If you scroll down the very bottom of that very same “Virus & threat protection settings” page, you’ll also set exclusions—files, folders, file types, or processes that you don’t want Windows Defender to scan. Just click the “Add or remove exclusions” link.
If the antivirus dramatically slows down a particular app you recognize is safe by scanning it, creating an exclusion can speed things up again. If you employ virtual machines, you might want to exclude those large files from the scanning process. If you’ve got an enormous photo or video library that you know is safe, you don’t need scanning to slow your editing.
To add an exclusion, click the “Add an exclusion” button, select the sort of exclusion you would like to feature from the dropdown menu, then point Windows Defender to whatever you would like to exclude.
Just take care to use exclusions sparingly and smartly. Each exclusion you add reduces your PC’s security by touch because they tell Windows Defender not to look in certain places.
What if You Install Another Antivirus?
Windows 10 automatically disables Windows Defender if you put in another antivirus app. While another antivirus app is installed, Windows Defender won’t continue performing real-time scans so that it won’t interfere together with your other app. you’ll still use Windows Defender to perform a manual—or offline—scan as a backup to your preferred antivirus app, though.
If you ever uninstall the opposite antivirus, Windows Defender will automatically kick into gear once more and take over, providing antivirus protection.
However, note that certain anti-malware apps—like Malwarebytes—can be installed alongside Windows Defender, and both will offer complimentary real-time protection.
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https://itechbrand.com/how-to-use-the-built-in-windows-defender-antivirus-on-windows-10/
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IT Security and data protection firm Sophos, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astaro, a privately held provider of network security solutions with $56 million in billings and 30% year over year growth in 2010.
Astaro is the fourth largest dedicated unified threat management (UTM) provider with over 56,000 installations in over 60 countries. The company currently has more than 220 employees in nine countries spanning three continents, including a significant presence in the EMEA region.
The market for multi-function security appliances has continued to grow because organizations of all sizes want better protection against security threats and need to support their users and distributed workplaces in a comprehensive, easy to use, efficient way. According to IDC, the market for unified threat management was approximately $2 billion worldwide in 2010, with a CAGR of 13% 2010-2014.
“Demand for network security solutions with more comprehensive and high-quality protection is accelerating fast, and yet companies are struggling with the complexity of multiple security solutions to serve these needs,” stated Jan Hichert, Chief Executive Officer, Astaro. “We are excited to join forces with Sophos, as we share a common mission and passion for providing the most comprehensive security solutions that are also easy to use. Together, we will deliver to customers the ability to apply consistent security and web and application controls regardless of where the user is or where the network boundary may lie.”
Customer and Partner Benefits of the Combination:
Industry-First Coordinated Protection Between Endpoint and Network: This transaction brings two leading complementary security portfolios together to deliver coordinated protection and policy between endpoint and network. By combining policy, security filtering and information known at the endpoint with the network, Sophos will be able to provide improved security and visibility along with integrated management and reporting.
Solutions Fuelled by Best-in-Class Threat and Data Protection and Web and Application Control: Solutions will offer complete protection to meet complex threats and malware challenges, especially from the web, applications and social engineering vectors that require full visibility and coordination, supported by SophosLabs and renowned malware and threat expertise.
Enriched Channel Offerings: The combination of Sophos and Astaro will offer partners a complete and differentiated range of security solutions and services to meet customer needs not answered in the market today. Partners can deliver coordinated threat and data protection, and policy from any endpoint to any network boundary with solutions that can be deployed in any way: software, virtual, appliance, via a cloud services platform and backed by security updates from Sophos Live Protection for real-time, high-performance protection for end users no matter where they are.
“The combination of Astaro’s comprehensive portfolio of network security solutions alongside our endpoint, mobile, and email and web threat and data protection capabilities will enable us to continue to deliver on our vision of providing complete security without complexity wherever the user and company data resides,” said Steve Munford, Chief Executive Officer, Sophos.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
In May 2010, private equity firm Apex Partners acquired a majority stake in Sophos in a deal reportedly valuing the company at $830 million.
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https://www.securityweek.com/sophos-acquire-astaro?quicktabs_1=1
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In recent years, people have become increasingly reliant on electronic devices. It is crucial now, more than ever, to have adequate security to protect your personal information from viruses and hackers. That’s where antivirus software comes in. Antivirus software, also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malicious software from your computers, tablets, and mobile devices.
There are many different types of malware, viruses being the most well-known. Here we have highlighted some of the lesser-known types of malware that all security-conscious users should be familiar with. To learn more, follow our blog for the latest updates and information.
Disclaimer
AntivirusAdviser’s reviews are the honest opinions of our team of expert cybersecurity professionals. Our reviews are neither paid for nor sponsored by antivirus providers, although we may earn an affiliate commission through some of our referral links.
At AntivirusAdviser, our goal is to provide transparent, informative, and easy-to-understand reviews of antivirus solutions for all devices and operating systems. We hope these reviews will give you the insights needed to make an informed decision about your antivirus purchase.
Why You Need Anti-spyware For Your PC In 2021
The online world is a hub for good people like you, but it is also open to hackers. If you don’t want to experience a cyber attack, you must give your computer the anti-spyware software that it needs. Such software will keep your sensitive files safe and sound because spyware can’t infect a secure computer.
This is also true for viruses. Although you won’t be immune from getting attacked, there’s no need for you to worry. Cybercrime can be controlled with the right programs in place.
What Exactly Is Spyware?
Spyware programs are like criminals who target your home. They will use different nefarious tactics to rob you of your most precious possessions. If you don’t know that they are in your home, you can’t call the police in time to stop them. Will you ever recover your stolen items? Your chances are slim to none, so preventing home invasions will always be crucial.
Also, you should set your focus on stopping spyware from installing on your computer. This form of malware poses the greatest risk. Can it cause your life to spiral out of control? The answer is yes. Someone in another country can get your contact details, credit card numbers and bank account information. This is why you should make it a point to increase your computer’s security.
If losing your life savings scares you, you can’t afford to let a complete stranger steal your identity. In 2018, approximately 1.4 million people filed an identity fraud case with the Federal Trade Commission. Cybercriminals are using stealthier methods, so the problem will continue to get worse. However, you can reduce your vulnerability by being cautious and proactive. Don’t be so quick to download your favorite music and cool games from any website. This is a surefire way for the unwanted software to get on your computer. Infected systems can crash without warning. They will surely do a poor job at protecting your privacy.
Common Methods That Hackers Use:
Keylogger spyware has the ability to monitor your activity every time you log into your computer. The purpose of this is to capture your keystrokes. Since keylogging software is difficult to detect and stop, hackers will be able to figure out your passwords with little to no hassle.
Redirect spyware will send you to phishing websites. They often resemble the real ones, so chances are you won’t realize that you’re on phony websites until it’s too late. You will freely give up your own username and password.
Remote access spyware opens the way for someone else to gain control of your computer. If this happens, the cybercriminal will have complete access to all your files. He or she will collect your information until you do something to solve the problem. They may even use your computer to infect other systems.
Millions of people have encountered the methods listed above. Unfortunately, being aware of these threats won’t save you from the newer software that’s popping up. You need to go a step further by investing in the best spyware removal software.
There’s no shortage of anti-spyware programs. Each one will provide a certain level of protection. Some antivirus apps even come with free spyware protection. However, since every program will be unique in some way, it’s in your best interest to do your due diligence. Compare various products by checking out reviews and testimonials. When it comes to protecting yourself online, making the wisest decisions for your vulnerable computer will pay dividends.
Spyware Removal
The people behind cyber attacks have a major advantage. They can carry out their plans without drawing much attention to themselves. Fortunately, a first-rate spyware detector is a tried-and-true solution. It’s designed to find malicious software that plagues the online world. Whether you choose the free or paid version, anti-spyware will take care of the removal process for you. You simply have to download one. Once it’s up and running, you have to fully scan your system to find the nasty bugs and viruses that are hiding in your computer. The removal process will be over before you know it. Your system will run smoothly because it will no longer be infected.
Do you have a MacBook Air, a Windows 10 laptop or a tablet? You will enjoy the benefits of having spyware-blocking software regardless of which device you have. Paid versions come with more advanced features than the free versions, but it’s okay if you don’t have the money to buy top-of-the-line security products. Free editions have the basic tools needed to detect and counteract many types of problems. Their main goal is to make it possible for you to surf the web safely. As long as you update it on a regular basis, your computer and sensitive files will be out of harm’s way.
The importance of antispyware and antivirus apps can’t be understated. These products will always be indispensable and advantageous to you.
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administrators are on the front lines to thwart these attacks from encrypting data and shutting down critical systems.
Historically, ransomware prevention efforts focused where infections almost always originate -- endpoint devices. But this strategy may be inadequate to protect Windows Server resources. The best way to block ransomware is to practice defense in depth and wrap the organization in multiple layers of protection.
Start with the endpoints
Ransomware prevention should start at those vulnerable network endpoints. Administrators can take three steps to prevent an endpoint from falling victim to ransomware.
First, equip network endpoints with quality, well-maintained antimalware software. While it's a good preventative measure, most antimalware software relies on malware signatures. New malware comes out at a steady rate, which makes it unrealistic to depend on signature-based antimalware software for complete ransomware protection.
Next, administrators should block the use of unauthorized applications, scripts and executable files on endpoint devices through a software restriction policy via Group Policy or Device Guard. Third-party tools can whitelist authorized applications and prevent others from running.
Lastly, execute comprehensive patch management with endpoints. Keeping the operating system and applications patched prevents malware from exploiting security flaws.
Lock down Windows Server
Administrators do not normally use web browsers or mail clients on network servers, which aids ransomware prevention. But if a network endpoint succumbs to malware, there's a chance that server contents could also be vulnerable.
In some ways, administrators should protect Windows Server systems against ransomware with the same techniques used to protect workstations. Keep the Windows Server operating system up to date with patches and set up antimalware software and an application whitelist for the server. Options may be limited by the server deployment type. For example, it may not be possible to run these protection schemes on Nano Server, Microsoft's minimalist version of its Windows Server 2016 operating system.
Adjust user privileges
Windows Server is vulnerable to ransomware through file shares. If a user's device gets infected by ransomware, it can encrypt data on the user's device and use the permissions to encrypt the contents of any file server drives mapped to that device.
Administrators may prevent ransomware from accessing files on network servers by avoiding the use of traditional file servers. For example, store files within a SharePoint document library to offer an extra degree of protection, as long as network endpoints do not have a drive mapping to the library.
But this strategy isn't always practical and does not guarantee protection. As a best practice, restrict users to only have access to the data they need. A limit on user access compartmentalizes damage from a ransomware infection; if the user cannot access the data, then neither can the ransomware.
Implement continuous data protection
In case of a ransomware outbreak, the IT staff needs a way to recover encrypted data.
Continuous data protection products back up data at the block level on an ongoing basis as the data is modified. If ransomware encrypts the contents of a file server, the continuous data protection system would interpret the malicious encryption as a file modification, and write the modified storage blocks to backup. However, protection software also makes it easy for an administrator to roll back the changes and undo the damage caused by the infection.
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https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/Ransomware-prevention-strategies-for-Windows-Server-admins
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The security and confidentiality of client data is of utmost priority. Our corporate headquarters was designed with the security of client data as a significant design parameter. Access to the data center, data library, and server room is physically restricted to a limited number of associates, and the data center is monitored with digital surveillance equipment that can be accessed remotely.
To ensure that client data is not compromised in transfer, we employ the SSL protocol. The encryption method is based on keys only available to the user and the server, making it practically impossible to decode the data sent, even if it is intercepted.
Broniec’s Audit Teams carry company-issued laptops with the latest technology and full resources available. All laptops and data thumb drives are encrypted to protect client data.
After the audit is completed, we will return all original client media, with the exception of an archive copy of the data which is kept in a separate data vault. This archive copy is strictly used for year-to-year comparisons and other audit related purposes for that specific client. Electronic data on auditor computers is securely deleted using 3rd-party data shredding software. Physical data is returned to the corporate office for shredding.
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https://www.broniec.com/technology-tools/data-security/
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On July 2, an attack that used a series of yet-to-be-patched vulnerabilities in Kaseya's Virtual System Administrator (VSA) server software quickly compromised about 100 business clients of managed service provider (MSP) JustTech, encrypting systems in the victims' environments.
The havoc took about two hours to wreak but nearly two weeks to undo. Late last week, La Plata, Maryland-based JustTech — one of dozens of Kaseya-using MSPs hit by the attack — put the final touches on cleaning up the damage from the event and making whole the businesses and government offices impacted by the attack. While JustTech's prior focus on backup and restoration procedures helped its clients recover, the question the company is now pondering is how to stop the next major attack from using another supplier to affect its customers, says Joshua Justice, founder and president of the managed service provider.
"In the coming days, we will be asking these questions of our security vendors and having many discussions around improvements so steps can be taken to reduce the risk of this happening again," he says.
Attack Trend
The attack against Kaseya — attributed to the Russia-linked REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group — is part of a trend of cybercriminals and espionage operators targeting the suppliers of administrative software used by companies to manage their environments. Prior to the attacks on Kaseya's VSA server, ransomware and nation-state groups had successfully compromised remote-management provider SolarWinds, Ukraine-based accounting software M.E.Doc, and system management software Piriform. In each case, malicious code hidden in a software update allowed the attack to spread to a large number of the vendor's customers.
Two decades ago, large companies may have performed their own regression testing on patches and not allowed software vendors access to assets in their networks. These days software updates are often immediately applied and companies often fail to put security controls in front of remotely managed services. The Kaseya attack on July 4, the Independence Day holiday in the United States, led the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to recommend companies move to manual patching for the Kaseya VSA server, as a temporary protective measure.
While some security professionals have questioned whether allowing automatic updates for all software merely turns the perimeter into Swiss cheese, going back to a manual updating process is no longer an option, says Chris Wysopal, co-founder and chief technology officer of Veracode.
"I think without automatic updates, a lot of software would not get updated at all, so I am certainly pro-automatic updates," he says. "It is a security feature, and like all security features, it needs to be implemented right."
The speed at which the attack on Kaseya VSA servers happened prevented most companies from reacting to news of the attack, except to shut down the systems.
Depending on whether the Kaseya server was being used to manage clients' systems, businesses targeted by the attack may have had only a few clients impacted or hundreds. Without good mechanisms in place to limit unauthorized access or detect anomalous behavior, targeted companies had to get lucky to not spread the attack to their clients, says Mike Hamilton, founder and chief information security officer at Critical Insight, a managed security service provider.
"Automation had to be used to effect an attack that is this broad and which happened this quickly," he says. If they were not "using good third-party remote management policy and process," then the companies had to rely on the attack through the compromise update failing to work.
Limiting Exposure
Companies need to limit their exposure to compromises through the supply chain while still gaining the benefits from suppliers. During the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) effort to game out the worst-case scenarios, amplifying attacks through supply chains was identified as a critical weakness, Shank says.
"It isn’t clear how best to respond, as the world — and enterprise operations — becomes more and more connected and codependent every day," he says. "Each of these connections can be a pathway for massively good things but also opens the door to a shared-fate scenario, where a security incident at your supplier is likely to also become an incident on your network."
The REvil attackers disguised the code that they dropped on downstream customers systems as a patch, dubbed "Kaseya VSA Agent Hot-fix," but their initial compromise of on-premise Kaseya VSA servers had nothing to do with Kaseya's update mechanism. Instead, the attackers used an exploit chain of three vulnerabilities to gain access to on-premise VSA servers accessible from the Internet.
Blocking the next automated step — where the attackers used the Kaseya Agent, AgentMon.EXE, to execute a privileged series of commands — means limiting the access that third-party systems have to their infrastructure and networks. SolarWinds and Kaseya usually have administrator access to the systems they monitor and manage, but refactoring the software and strictly applying least privilege could allow companies to more closely monitor what those remote monitoring and management (RMM) systems are doing.
Blocking a single vector through which attackers can gain privileges to broadly attack infrastructure is critically important to prevent flash attacks. Network segmentation could also play a role in slowing down future threats. Most companies are still recovering, but those that are not through the worst of the attack are looking for better ways to prepare for the next attack.
"Critical discussions with [our] team members and clients will be how we reduce the downtime, how we decrease the economic impact, and how we minimize the negative mental health effects on clients and our team members," says JustTech's Justice.
In the end, each participant could have taken action to prevent the eventual attack. As a vendor, Kaseya should have implemented workarounds as soon as possible, especially when thousands — or more — organizations were known to be at risk. MSPs could have put more stringent controls in place to prevent the compromise of one privileged server from being used to amplify the attack. And the downstream companies should have good security software controls in place to block ransomware attacks, even if the company has no technical staff.
In the case of the REvil attack on Kaseya, some security software scanners caught the ransomware component, according to Sophos, which saw a significant spike in detections of ransomware on July 2, the day the attack was initiated.
However, companies also need to talk about what works and not focus on what mistakes companies made that allowed the attack to succeed, says Veracode's Wysopal.
"We don't actually care that much about successful attacks. The ones that we really care about [are] the ones that were near misses," he says. "What did people do that helped save them? Knowing that would really help educate everyone ... it is crazy that we don't talk about this more."
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https://www.darkreading.com/edge-articles/automated-software-supply-chains-run-risk-of-flash-attacks
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Voting on Facebook's proposed changes to its privacy policy concluded Friday morning Pacific time, with voters delivering a strong rebuke of the proposed changes but falling far short of the turnout the company required to consider the vote binding.
Just 13 percent of voters supported Facebook's proposed policy changes. However, the voter turnout of 342,600 came to just 0.1 percent of the number Facebook required to make the vote binding.
Facebook said it would accept the vote as binding if 30 percent of its 901 million active users voted. The required worldwide turnout of more than 270 million users would have required a voting bloc equal to roughly 86 percent of the United States population as estimated by the U.S. Census.
The company said it would consider the vote advisory if participation fell short of the required number.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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EDITOR NOTE: Cyberattacks, ransomware. Over the last two weeks, we saw cyber hackers force Colonial Pipeline, the biggest fuel pipeline for the East Coast, to shut down completely. A week later, cyberattacks on Ireland’s healthcare system had shut down critical segments of its operation. We’re used to thinking of cybersecurity risks as intrusions, like bad actors entering a home by way of an unsecured door or window. The World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab uses the metaphor of a pandemic; an illness of an otherwise normal or healthy system. Both point to “external” threats But perhaps the threat is an intrinsic part of the technology itself--like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde composite. Cyberthreats express the optimal potential of digitization’s negative strengths. And as the financial system ushers in a new digital era, particularly with the emergence of central bank digital currencies, it’s going to be a prime target for those with the skills to hack it. What this means is that your financial security and privacy are best achieved through “cold storage.” But in a world where cash is slowly being phased out, your options are limited. Fortunately, the end-limit is the bedrock of monetary value itself--physical gold and silver, non-CUSIP (making its existence non-trackable and surveillance-proof), in cold storage at a secure precious metals depository. As the article below mentions, Klaus Schwab warned us, "cyber attacks will bring our entire society as a whole to a complete halt"... the question is, "Will you heed the warning?"
A ransomware attack on Ireland’s health services today, along with last week’s cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline in the US, are causing major disruptions to critical health and mobility services that citizens depend upon.
“We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole” — Klaus Schwab, WEF
Ireland’s Health Executive Service (HSE) announced on Twitter that it was shutting down all of its IT systems as a precaution in the wake of Friday’s “significant ransomware attack.”
There is a significant ransomware attack on the HSE IT systems. We have taken the precaution of shutting down all our IT systems in order to protect them from this attack and to allow us fully assess the situation with our own security partners.
— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) May 14, 2021
In the same thread, HSE announced, “We apologise for inconvenience caused to patients and to the public and will give further information as it becomes available. Vaccinations not effected are going ahead as planned,” and that “the National Ambulance Service are operating as per normal with no impact on emergency ambulance call handling and dispatch nationally.”
Update: “It has emerged this evening that the hackers have since demanded a ransom, but full detail on the demands have not been revealed yet,” according to the Independent.
“The HSE has insisted it will not pay any ransom to hackers in the nationwide ransomware attack, its bosses have insisted.”
This morning, Ireland’s Minister of Health Stephen Donnelly tweeted that the attack was “having a severe impact on our health and social care services today, but individual services and hospital groups are impacted in different ways,” Donnelly tweeted.
This is having a severe impact on our health and social care services today, but individual services and hospital groups are impacted in different ways. Emergency services continue, as does the @AmbulanceNAS. Updated information will be available @HSELive throughout the day.
If the situation isn’t resolved by the weekend, HSE Chief Operating Officer Anne O’Connor warned that they may be “cancelling many services.” “More services are working than not today,” O’Connor told reporters on Friday.
“However, if this continues to Monday, we will be in a very serious situation and will be cancelling many services.
“At this moment, we can’t access lists of people scheduled for appointments on Monday so we don’t even know who to cancel,” she added.
While a cyber attack has disrupted healthcare systems in Ireland, the United States has been dealing with its own crisis, with emergency declarations issued across 17 states due to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and subsequent gas shortages.
According to the most recent numbers from GasBuddy, over half the gas stations in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Washington DC are experiencing fuel outages.
Our outage report has been updated this morning. Most recent numbers by state:
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A smile makes a strong impression and belief in everyone. Many surveys report that smile makes more appeal than other physical features. When you have a dental problem, it fails to uphold your broad smile. So it is very important to choose the right dentist to feel confident and comfortable.
You can get help from yellow pages and other directories to find a San Antonio dentist. Also, you can refer to online sources such as https://comfortdental.com/san-antonio-dentist/ to find a good dentist in San Antonio. On this page, we talk about “How to avoid mistakes when choosing a dentist”.
Excruciating toothache confuseswhile choosing a dentist. Most of us make mistakes in this area. So, you’re not going to deal with this issue emotionally. You are asked to look out for a good dentist to keep your dental health, instead of deciding a dentist with an available appointment
You begin to ask and have clear communication from the start. When a dentist is not (or) not be able to explain your specific condition, showing diagnostic report with clear explanations, failed to discuss alternatives, pressure you for treatment is expensive, then it is the right time to walk out of the dental clinic and you may find another option.
First, ask your dentist written quote/view a list of services along with the price before nodding for dental care.
Do not stop your search at the dentist until you find a dentist you can trust and who thoroughly examine your needs. Do not let your pain, even though it is terrible, beyond the needs of your consumer rights by accepting less than you need.
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Unfortunately, Apple’s built-in protections don’t do enough to stop all this. The outdated XProtect antivirus only looks for exact matches to known malware, even though modern malware changes shape constantly. Its malware database is updated only every few weeks.
Meanwhile, the Gatekeeper system in macOS only checks new software for an Apple developer signature, which you or I could get with a $99 license. And if Gatekeeper trusts a piece of software, then XProtect will too.
Third-party Mac antivirus programs have no time for such foolishness. They detect shape-shifting malware and malware no one’s ever seen before. They update their databases several times a day, and double-check what Gatekeeper lets in.
Most of them even scan Macs for Windows malware to prevent local-network attacks. Some of them come with useful extras such as a password manager, system optimizers or VPNs.
What is program?
We tested seven products, free and paid, and we think Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac is program.
Bitdefender had a nearly invisible impact on system performance, caught all Mac and Windows malware in lab tests, rolls back files encrypted by ransomware, and hardens your web browser against online attacks. Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac even offers 200MB of VPN data daily, although that’s just a tease for the unlimited service.
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— Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on your phone if you want to keep your location private, the NSA warns.
— A new attack method can hack a Mac by getting the user to open a malicious Microsoft Office file.
— Be careful buying a used smartphone — it may be too old to get critical security updates.
Close behind is Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac, also a dedicated Mac antivirus program with perfect malware-detection scores but a heavier system impact during scans. It has a features Bitdefender doesn’t, including webcam protection and full parental controls. Kaspersky offers 300MB of daily VPN usage, and its password manager is also limited unless you pay more.
You won’t get such restrictions with Norton 360 Deluxe. Its VPN and password manager are unlimited right out of the box. You’ll pay more, but because Norton 360 Deluxe includes five licenses for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices, it may be worth the extra cost. Norton catches all Mac and Windows malware in lab tests, and its system-performance impact is small. It even includes LifeLock monitoring for misuse of your personal data.
The best Mac antivirus software you can get
Avast Free Mac Security is our favorite free option. It has nearly perfect malware protection, an unlimited password manager and an easy-to-use interface. But it can slow down your system during scans, and you’ll see a lot of ads and suggestions to upgrade to paid Avast products.
Sophos Home Premium is a hidden gem. It doesn’t come with a lot of extra features, but it does protect your Mac’s webcam and has web filters for children and dedicated protection against ransomware. You can protect up to 10 Mac or PCs for a bargain price. We would place Sophos Home Premium higher on this list, but we don’t have recent data about how well it detects malware. However, Sophos’ Mac antivirus for enterprise, upon which Sophos Home is based, does very well in lab tests.
McAfee 2021 Antivirus Plus is also an inexpensive 10-device bundle protecting Macs, PCs and Android devices. It gives PCs a lot of extra features, but not Macs, and McAfee’s full scans can create noticeable system slowdowns. Its consumer Mac malware protection also hasn’t been tested in a while, and McAfee’s enterprise Mac antivirus performs a notch below those of Bitdefender and Sophos.
Malwarebytes for Mac Premium has never been subjected to malware-detection lab tests, but Malwarebytes’ Windows consumer antivirus software does not do well. However, we can recommend using the free version of Malwarebytes for Mac, an excellent cleanup tool that’s the perfect assistant for good Mac antivirus software.
Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac gets flawless malware-detection results in lab tests and has a nearly nonexistent impact on system performance in our own Tom’s Guide tests.
The program also offers ransomware rollbacks, including for Time Machine backups, extensions to harden your web browser, adware blocking and 200MB of free VPN data daily. It recently added tracker blocking to protect your privacy as you move from one website to the next.
Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac’s streamlined, easy-to-use interface places on-demand scans front and center. You may not need to use them, however, because the Autopilot and Bitdefender Shield features keep the software running without much human intervention.
We only wish that Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac didn’t keep trying to upsell us to Bitdefender’s unlimited VPN service. But other than that, it’s a nearly perfect Mac antivirus program and our choice for best Mac antivirus software.
Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac has perfect malware-detection rates, protects your webcam and kills tracking cookies.
It offers the best parental controls of any programs, with content filters, time limits and monitoring of personal data. Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac can even turn off the webcam on a MacBook, a feature that Apple itself doesn’t offer, and the program’s interface is detailed yet easy to use.
There are some drawbacks. The included password manager Is limited to 15 entries unless you pay an extra $15 per year. Likewise, the VPN service gives you only 300MB of data per day; unlimited data costs $30 per year. (At least Kaspersky doesn’t persistently try to upsell you on them.) The malware-detection engine also takes a somewhat heavy toll on system performance during scans.
Norton 360 Deluxe has a ton of useful extras, including unlimited VPN service and an unlimited password manager, two features for which its rivals make you pay extra. It’s also got a two-way firewall, a system optimizer and dark-web monitoring of your personal data.
More importantly, Norton 360 Deluxe has a small impact on system performance, always-available tech support and, last but not least, flawless malware detection of both Mac and Windows software.
You’ll pay rather a lot for these luxuries, however, although the five-device license lets you spread out the cost over several Macs. The interface, while very detailed, is also more complicated that it should be. And we wish that the parental controls, webcam protection and backup software, which come built into the Windows version of Norton 360 Deluxe, worked for Macs as well.
Avast Free Mac Security has many useful extra features, including an unlimited password manager, an external-drive scanner and a malicious-website blocker. Unlike most Mac antivirus programs, it scans email messages and attachments for malware. While Avast’s malware detection is good, it isn’t perfect. Likewise, its system-performance impact is a mixed bag, with very little background drain but a heavy hit during active scans.
Avast Free Mac Security’s interface is easy to navigate, but prepare to be disappointed. Many of the most enticing items, including ransomware rollbacks, are available only to paid users. The system optimizer is just a tease – you can scan your Mac for clutter, but you have to pay to see the results. You’ll also be nagged constantly to buy other Avast programs, such as its VPN service and its anti-tracking software.
Sophos Home Premium can protect up to 10 computers, Mac or Windows, for a low price and its parental web filters can stop kids from seeing objectionable material online. It also has dedicated protections against ransomware and for your webcam and microphone.
Its background system impact is more noticeable than its competitors’, although nowhere near the system impact of some Windows antivirus products. It’s got a relatively small impact during active scans.
The interface is minimal and mostly lives in the menu bar; for more controls, there’s a powerful online management tool. Tech support is 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and limited to email and chat interactions.
We just wish we had some third-party lab-test data about the efficacy of Sophos’ Mac malware scanner, which might place it higher among software programs.
McAfee Antivirus Plus’s generous 10-device license means you can provide antivirus protection for a whole family of Macs (and/or Windows PCs and Android phones) for a reasonable yearly fee.
But the program doesn’t have a lot of extra features for Macs, which makes it hard to recommend for Apple customers. All Mac users really get is a firewall, while Windows users get ransomware protection, cryptojacking protection and a system optimizer. McAfee Antivirus Plus also has a heavy system impact during scans and a confusing interface.
Furthermore, we don’t know really how well McAfee Antivirus Plus protects against Mac malware. There haven’t been any recent Mac malware-detection testing scores for McAfee, so its protection powers are impossible to compare with those software.
Despite its fast scans, light impact on system performance, and bright, easy-to-use interface, Malwarebytes for Mac Premium feels half cooked.
The program doesn’t have many of the extra features its competitors offer, such as malicious-website blocking and email scanning. And because its malware-blocking skills haven’t been evaluated in lab tests, we don’t actually know how good Malwarebytes is at protecting your Mac.
However, we do recommend the free version, Malwarebytes for Mac. It is not truly antivirus software, but an excellent post-infection cleanup tool that also gets rid of the annoying adware and unwanted programs that antivirus software tends to miss.
You might want to let the two-week Malwarebytes Premium trial expire and instead use the free tier alongside some software.
How to choose software for you
First, figure out what you need. Do you have several Macs and Windows PCs at home? Then a multiplatform, multi-device bundle such as Norton 360 Deluxe, Sophos Home Premium or McAfee Antivirus Plus might be ideal. Bitdefender and Kaspersky also offer multiplatform bundles that come with the same software we’ve reviewed here.
Or do you have just one, two or three Macs? If so, there’s no need to go overboard: The one- or three-device versions of Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac or Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac should do you just fine.
Do you have young children or teenagers living at home? Consider Mac antivirus software that comes with parental controls or web-content filters, like Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac or Sophos Home Premium.
Then you have to figure out how much you can afford. If the answer is “nothing,” then try Avast Free Mac Security or the free tier of Sophos Home. The trade-off is that they aren’t as good as many of the paid programs.
But if you can afford to spend $50 a year, then you’ve got a lot of options. Most of the antivirus companies frequently offer discounts of up to 60%, both straight from their websites or through online retailers.
You’ll have to let them automatically charge your credit card the full price when your subscription ends, but you can often uncheck that option beforehand, or override it by buying another subscription on sale first.
How we test programs
To find software, we evaluate ease of use, interface and performance impact. We installed each AV program on the same Late 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display running macOS 10.12 Sierra. It was powered by a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i7 processor and had 8GB of RAM and 70GB of data stored on a 512GB SSD.
We conducted our own tests based on how much each programs affected our laptop’s performance. To do this, we used our custom OpenOffice benchmark, which matches 20,000 names and addresses in a spreadsheet. We measured how long it took to run a quick scan and a full scan while the laptop crunched numbers in the background.
We assessed how easy each programs was to use and the number of useful extra features it offered (including free add-on software).
To gauge how effective each package was at stopping malware, we used the results of evaluations conducted by AV-Test, a well-regarded independent product-testing lab in Germany, and results from other tests conducted by AV-Comparatives, a similarly well-respected company in Austria. (Both labs also test the best Android antivirus apps.)
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OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan) macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.15 (Catalina), 11.0 (Big Sur) and Later Version.
A lot of people want iOS antivirus software for their iPhones and iPads. The truth is that such software doesn’t exist. Apple won’t let third-party apps examine other iOS apps, or even inspect new apps as they’re installed. Anything that claims to be antivirus software swiftly gets kicked out of the iTunes App Store.
Many major antivirus vendors, including F-Secure, McAfee, Norton and Trend Micro, do have “security” apps in the App Store. But these check web links for known malicious sites, locate lost devices or pretend to protect your privacy. None scans an iPhone for malware.
There has been real iOS malware that affects non-jailbroken devices, but it’s very rarely cropped up. In each instance, Apple has pushed out a new version of iOS to stop the malware in a matter of days or weeks. Generally, if you keep your Apple mobile device updated to the latest version of iOS, you should be safe.
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The US has issued an emergency order after revealing that its treasury and commerce departments had been hacked.
All federal civilian agencies have been told to disconnect from SolarWinds, a computer network tool that is being exploited by “malicious actors”.
The US has not publicly identified who is behind the attack.
The incident comes less than a week after cyber security firm FireEye disclosed that its hacking tools had been stolen in a breach.
In its order, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) said the current hack had a high potential to compromise government systems.
Tech firm SolarWinds, which designed the tool, said on Twitter that users of its Orion platform should upgrade immediately to address a “security vulnerability”.
FireEye revealed in a blog post it had identified “a global campaign” from earlier this year to compromise the computer networks of private and public organisations by inserting malicious code into software updates.
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The firm said this included updates to SolarWinds Orion, which give attackers remote access to the victims’ environment.
It added that the campaign demonstrated “top-tier operations tradecraft and resources” consistent with state-sponsored attackers.
Three people familiar with investigations into the most recent attack told Reuters news agency that Russia is believed to be behind the hack.
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U.S. Needs “Cyber Doctrine” to Combat Cyberattacks and Hackers, VP Harris Says
Vice President Kamala Harris pitches U.S. “cyber doctrine” concept to mount a more muscular defense against cybersecurity attacks.
by D. Howard Kass • Dec 27, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris is advocating for the U.S. to set a “cyber doctrine” to mount a more muscular defense against cybersecurity attacks.
“I do believe that it is important for us to have a cyber doctrine,” Harris said in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation that aired on December 26, 2021. “On the issue of cyber, it is important that we work with our allies on these issues…making sure we are all on the same page about what will be interpreted as a threat or not and with some level of consensus about what the [cyberspace] rules and norms are and what they should be,” Harris said.
Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
Harris’ comments follow the Biden administration’s repeated calls for worldwide support and resolve to combat cyber terrorism. In early November 2021, Harris committed the U.S. to sign on to the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, and Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology, huddled with European Union officials, members of the European Parliament and the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels.
The Paris Call, formed in 2018, now includes 95 governments, nearly 350 international, civil society and public sector organizations and some 600 private sector entities. The move to join the Paris Call and Neuberger’s presence in Brussels are tied to a stepped up strategy by the White House to bring cybersecurity to the world’s center stage.
Where MSSPs Fit In: The Paris Call could be welcome news for MSSPs that support end-customers across multiple country borders. Indeed, the Paris Call could help MSSPs to embrace “international cyber norms,” while also empowering MSSPs to more rapidly and more deeply engage government leaders when appropriate.
U.S. support of the Paris Call “does not mark a change in U.S. Government policy, but rather reflects our continuing commitment to act responsibly and partner with like-minded states to promote stability in cyberspace,” the State Department said in an official statement.
President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
Both have as their backdrop President Biden’s cybersecurity-centric executive order last May 2021 focused on improving the nation’s cyber stance, threat intelligence sharing, and cyber attack response efforts, along with plans announced last month to open a Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to promote international cyberspace security, international digital policy and digital freedom.
Neuberger’s trip ran along the same lines as did Harris’ overture to “build international cooperation to tackle cyber threats,” said a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.
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EDITED TO ADD (9/7): The more I read about this, the more obvious it is that intelligence and investigation is what caught these guys, and not any wholesale eavesdropping or data mining programs.
EDITED TO ADD (9/18): This article is a detailed writeup of the actual investigation. While it seems that intercepted emails were instrumental at several points during the investigation, the article doesn't explain whether the intercepts were the result of some of the wholesale eavesdropping programs or specifically obtained for this case.
We have again the situation where the suspects were arrested well before they posed any actual danger.
The suspects reportedly had 1,500 lbs. of hydrogen peroxide, so they were clearly intending to build explosives. They were under surveillance so close that the police were able to swap vats of lesser concentration to reduce the risk.
So, do we convict them of intending harm? We are not very far from Orwell's thoughtcrime.
The legal situation is so weak that the German authorities have held off arresting some suspects, even though they know who and where they are. They might wind up arresting some people and then releasing them, unable to bring actual charges. This happened in the UK 'liquid bombing' case.
Can someone tell me why they can't wait until actual explosives are produced? Then at least we would know that real risk exists. There would be more evidence than just carrying hydrogen peroxide in a van. This would reduce the chance that misguided but harmless people will be arrested without real cause.
I do not think that this is in any way connected. "Deutscher Herbst" was left wing terrorism.
The connection to 9/11 is much more obvious. Especially because the prime targets were US military bases on German territory.
Hydrogen peroxide is mildly dangerous stuff; storing hundreds of kilos in a residential area can turn an incident (home file) in a disaster. Anyone who suggests that making (and storing) kilos of explosives in a residential area is sane should consider the risks and damage of a premature explosion.
I don't care for the terrorists that blow up themselves; but the arrest team and the neighbours run significant risks too. So it's sane to arrest the guys before they have significant amounts of explosives.
Yes, that is what happened. But it was a rented garage.
Although that was quite a good move in terms of intelligence gathering I am highly disturbed that police forces are using secret service tactics.
This is - actually - forbidden by our constitution (sure enough: because of Nazi Germany).
I am curious what lawyers in a trial will say to this.
Well, its good that these guys got busted.
But: Police says they got three out of thirteen. Not a good record.
apparently they got stopped by chance by the highway police, because they driving with the whatever-you-call-it more intensive headlight for no reason.
The day after that they got nervous and decided to escape.
Alex • September 6, 2007 3:33 PM
Have you any idea what you are talking about? Are you prepared to take the risks involved with the actual arrest then? I understand your concerns but acquiring 1500 lbs. of hydrogen peroxide is far, far beyond a Orwellian 'thought crime'.
@ Anonymus (01.21 pm): waiting till they actually have made the explosives?
ok. then YOU make the arrest of the man holding the detonator.
we'll watch from a distance. it makes good youtube video.
This is a very peculiar case indeed.
According to an article in the FAZ (one of Germany's more "serious" newspapers), I understand that this house was searched in April, and nothing was found. At that point, the whole thing became pretty much public - a newspaper article came out detailing the group's alleged membership and nature, details of the investigation against them, including the fact the house had been searched. Only _after_ that article was published, did these people start filling this house with explosives.
The FAZ only asks "are these people that stupid?" It doesn't ask the question that came to my mind - "does the security aparatus think we're that stupid?"
What kind of terrorist group puts 1500 kg of explosives into a house that they know the cops are onto? Conspiracy angle: a non-existent one. The cops searched the house and established (from their reading matter etc.) that these guys had extreme islamist views, and that they were none too bright. So, they were set up to be patsies - the cops get to catch terrorists a few months later, and there's none of the risks of dealing with real dangerous types...
@ German - "law enforcement secrectly exchanged the 35% H2O2 for 3%... on the basis that the terrorist didn't have the capability/knowledge to measure the concentration..."
If you've ever worked with 35% H2O2 you'll know that it's quite easy to differentiate between 3% and 35%. Get a drop on your skin and you'll know quickly which it is. If you want to avoid an arm full of burn marks, better to put a drop on a piece of dyed cloth. But, point taken - these guys didn't suspect enough for it to occur to them to test.
You are wrong (as well as the newspaper). There's a widely known in former USSR proverb: a crater left by bomb explosion is the safest place, when you are bombed, because two bombs never fall to one point. Probably, it's poor translation, but I hope you got the idea.
In fact, it is quite common to think that if you were searched and nothing illegal were found than you are "cleared".
Arrest the guy holding a detonator of a bomb made with 3% H2O2 as an oxidizer? Maybe not such a big deal.
Assuming the facts are exactly as presented in the news (sure...), then they let dozens of potential terrorists go to arrest three men with no bomb and no target, and who were so inept that they could not tell the difference between a 3% and 35% solution of hydrogen peroxide.
More likely, the arrests are simply politically convenient at this time and the charges will ultimately be dropped. We've seen it happen again and again in the United States, Britain, and even here in Canada. I wish more people would actually pay attention.
These mastermind terrorists would probably stumble into a tar pit on the way to the airport with their bomb.
Stop taking this bullshit so seriously. Refuse to be terrorized, and maybe our governments will stop terrorizing any brown person who happens to take a flight to Pakistan.
Stefan Wagner • September 6, 2007 11:15 PM
Well - this plot doesn't smell like fake to me.
Not every terrorist is brilliant, and the plans of Dr. Schäuble for releasing a government - Trojan Horse aren't well supported by that incident, nor does it fit well into a time plan.
Rumors on the Trojan Horse are heard since more than a year, and there is no reason to have such a plot now, last week, next week or this month, next month, previous month.
The news said, they exchanged information by sharing a mail account, and repeatedly updating an email-draft.
Not-so-clever-terrorists in Germany look like a pattern, but of course that's nothing we can rely on.
Associations to "5. Sept." , 1972: Olympic Games, Munich; 1973: Paris; 1977: kidnapping of H.M. Schleyer - don't fit at all, because the date wasn't choosen by the terrorists.
They don't see themselves in a palestinian tradition anyway, which could be a slender association, but the german left wing RAF was an atheistic group by all means.
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After reading the FAZ text, dragonfrog linked to, I'm not that sure anymore about fake-event or not.
The timing issue still stands, but the now the suspicious look too stupid.
A smell of agent-provocateur is coming up.
But since strategies and opinions shouldn't depend on unique events, it won't change my mind either. Anonymous • September 7, 2007 12:15 AM
Good for the Germans. Lock the islamic (yes, I don't capitalize islamic) fascists up and deny them their 70 virgins.
Another German • September 7, 2007 2:09 AM
The "terrorists" were only useful idiots. You should listen to our politicians (the usual suspects: Dr Strangelove Schäuble, Concentration-camps-now-called-Commune-for-"Gefährder" Beckstein, etc...). They are running amok over this. greg • September 7, 2007 2:28 AM the pattern with people who are prepared to die for a "cause", is that they are usually not that smart. Lets face it. Pulling off a few good attacks would not be that hard, if getting arrested or killed is not a down side. Yet we have almost none. Why? Because the only people who what to do this sort of thing are dumb or stupid. And even then most don't want to die or get caught for the cause. Nick Lancaster • September 7, 2007 4:30 AM
I'll say it: good police work. These guys were under surveillance for months. No clown-car close-off-the-neighborhood panic over chalk lines or blinky lights.
And, anonymous ... I don't think your not capitalizing Islamic is going to impress anyone. It's right up there with renaming french fries.
> We are again in this position of criminalizing intent in the name of security. Nonsense. Intent alone is not a crime, but intent plus a definite action to carry forward the plan constitutes the crime of conspiracy to commit an offence in many jurisdictions (many, in fact, have even weaker requirements.) This is not some new development, the history of the law of conspiracy dates back to at least the seventeenth century.
If you are conspiring to manufacture a bomb from hydrogen peroxide, then purchasing large amounts of hydrogen peroxide is the absolute textbook definition of a definite act to carry forward the conspiracy.
@Roger: So will you grant us your explanation of how you will prove someone's conspirational/whatever intention? Because I don't think that purchasing large amounts of anything is a proof to whatever someone may intend or not.
@Stefan Wagner: you are right. there is no possibility to link this event to the Trojan-Horse-thing (or Online-House-Search as media calls it). But still they try - and it won't be the first success for them on that field. And have a look on what's up today on the political calendar: reunion of the ministers on interiors of the german federal states. Who now discuss about whether to install such measures or not - coincedence? I am not too sure about that ...
If the police DID "switch" the H2O2 with 3% rather than 35%, how far away are they from "planting" it.
I suppose a decent set of records and storing the "real" stuff somewhere could show they really did a 1 to 1 swap etc, but this really begs the question around how a small, closed group of people could stack the deck against these guys further than was actually happening.
Perhaps it's easy to tell the difference between concentrated and diluted H2O2, but the folks who had it had no reason to re-test it just to make sure it hadn't spontaneously diluted itself. That would be OCD behavior: every morning go out to the shed and re-test the chemical properties of your explosive ingredients, just in case. A more appropriate measure would be to set up covert surveillance equipment on your own premises, which even dopey Hollywood action movie writers know: the good guys always have to disable the bad guys' security system before the big raid. ("Um, we keep buying detonators, and they keep disappearing from the storeroom... what's up with that?")
Conspiracy to commit murder is a real crime. Calling it thoughtcrime is silly; there's a huge difference between unprovable allegations of thinking of maybe doing something, and hard evidence of taking steps to commit a crime. Putting together an organization with documents and emails and indoctrination sessions and bomb materials is way different than daydreaming about maybe being a bad guy someday.
Also, being arrested isn't the same as being convicted. Cops realize this and aren't stupid enough to arrest people if they don't think there's enough evidence to convict them of a crime. Yes, there is quite a bit of erosion lately of the amount of evidence required to convict someone of planning a terrorist attack, and the indefinite detainment of suspects without a trial (i.e. Gitmo) is deplorable, that but the fact remains that some dork spewing hateful chatter on a web site is different from a team of people assembling materials, and a jury or judge would be able to tell the difference. We just need to continue to fight the efforts of those who want to do away with due process.
The "good old police work" that Bruce refers to is what makes up the difference between "disappearing" everybody who seems suspicious (very scary to law abiding individuals), and convicting suspects who could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have been conspiring to commit a crime. In other words, collecting evidence and building a case. It's hard work, but that's the condition of the authority (and tax revenue) we give our government, and the respect and admiration due to law enforcement officials. They have to follow the rules, or they become a threat to freedom themselves.
You're trying to twist my words. I never wrote that an appartment is safe after it searched, I (quite clear) wrote about ways of thinking.
Next time, please, discuss actual words, not meanings you're trying to invent.
Published: STUTTGART, GERMANY - A U.S. intelligence intercept of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart last year was the initial break that ultimately led to the arrest this week of three suspected Muslim militants accused of plotting massive car-bomb attacks here against Americans, U.S. and German officials said Thursday.
The communications detected referred to apparent terrorist activity and were specific and alarming, said the German and U.S. officials, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
American authorities passed on the lead to German police, who conducted a painstaking investigation that led to the arrests of the three suspects, two of them German converts to Islam.
After receiving the initial lead, police in Stuttgart suspected that militants here were communicating with Pakistan from an Internet cafe, a frequent strategy to avoid detection, but they did not know which one. So they deployed surveillance teams at several dozen Internet cafes in the city, officials said.
So the only details regarding how this plot was discovered indicate this was due to wholesale electronic eavesdropping. This is stated by sources on both sides of the pond, they describe the standard operation of the US wholesale surveillence program, and the details about how this investigation progressed support this statement.
And apparently even in these circumstances, wholesale surveillence won't be credited with anything.
So clearly your assessments of terrorism and surveillance are biased towards supporting your existing conclusions on the subject.
> the NSA, began intercepting suspicious emails between Germany and Pakistan.
So the NSA intercepted emails between 2 foreign nations, where suspect terms were used and German police started investigating this intelligence before they knew the identities of the senders, and this occurred before the other incidents mentioned in this Der Spiegel article.
Because otherwise it would appear you are being intentionally misleading, presumably to avoid having to revise your invariable assessments when it comes to the usefulness of wholesale surveillance in identifying terrorist plots.
I don't find it plausible that you know what you do about the NSA and frequently write about "NSA wholesale surveillance programs" here, but you supposedly cannot tell whether this is what is being described here.
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Since 2014, Ukraine has been used as a testing ground for Russia’s hybrid warfare, fought both in literal trenches, as well as cyber realm. Russia is the main challenger of Ukraine in the cyber domain, as it takes the opportunity to advance its strategic and military interests. Critical infrastructures of Ukraine, websites and computer networks of the ministries, state enterprises, international organisations, media, and others have all fallen victims at one point or another.
“With Ukraine becoming more integrated with the Western internet networks, the country offers a comfortable backdoor for hackers.”
In addition to the ongoing military conflict, Ukraine is also a tempting target because numerous computers run on pirated software, which does not receive the standard security patches on regular bases. American cybersecurity company FireEye identified groups of Russia affiliated hackers of Advanced Persistent Threats - the so-called APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear, Cozy Duke) and APT28 (also known as Sofacy Group, Tsar Team, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear) - that since 2007, targeted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as security organisations such as NATO and OSCE. In the March of 2014, in the midst of the operation of annexing Crimea, Cyber Berkut group (using the APT28 infrastructure) launched DDoS attacks that blocked the work of the websites of Ukrainian state institutions and public organisations, as well as the main website of NATO, after it published a statement by Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen commenting on the referendum on the Crimea’s status.
Large-scale attacks by the Russian military hackers of the Sandworm hit Ukraine’s power grid in December of 2015 and 2016. The resultant blackouts were the first in history to be caused by the actions of hackers.
However, the climax of Russia’s cyberwarfare came in the summer of 2017 with the malware that came to be known as NotPetya (or Petya-A). The very same Sandworm hackers hijacked the update server of Linkos Group that allowed them to create a hidden back door into the thousands of PCs around Ukraine that had M.E.Doc accounting software installed.
The malware spread almost instantly to around ten percent of computers in Ukraine, and affected the work of more than 22 banks, ATMs and point-of sale systems, and practically every governmental agency. It then spread to 64 countries around the world, and even bounced back to Russia, striking the state oil company Rosneft.
Cybersecurity of Ukraine
Prior to all of this, Ukraine had already had some framework in place related to the field of cybersecurity, however, the challenges called for a fast and comprehensive revision and improvement of technical and operational sides of cybersecurity (legal framework, key stakeholders, cooperation mechanisms, technical set-up). In early 2016, the government approved the first Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine, with the objective of “creat[ing] conditions for the safe functioning of cyberspace, application of cyberspace to benefit individual, society and the State”.
“Ukraine strengthened its cyber apparatus by adding new responsibilities to existing organisations, creating new cybersecurity units, and nurturing a more inter-agency approach.”
For example, the Ministry of Defence was tasked with “repelling military aggression in cyberspace” and developing a new cyber unit with NATO’s assistance, the Central Bank became involved and responsible for “establishing requirements for cyber protection of critical information infrastructure in the banking sector”, while the Security Service of Ukraine was tasked to work with the National Police to combat cybercrime, in addition to its more traditional role.
The National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (a working body of the National Security and Defence Council) was created in 2016 to oversee and coordinate the transformation, as well as analyse the state of cybersecurity capabilities, and preparedness for counteracting cyber threats.
Importantly, the strategy paved the way for the Cybersecurity Law that establishes the regulatory framework, outlines for the direction of the state policy, roles of the stakeholders, and introduced the concept of critical infrastructure and critical information infrastructures.
Ukraine-EU-NATO cooperation
In development of its cybersecurity framework, Ukraine oriented towards the EU model in the areas of protection of the networks and counteracting cybercrime and in its cyberdefence on the NATO’s approach which can be seen in recognising the cyberspace as one of the domains of operations.
Ukraine counts on the support from the EU and NATO, while the EU and NATO need an area of peace and stability in the territory of Ukraine, as a guarantee of stability on its eastern neighbourhood/flank and hence their own security.
The EU efforts concentrated on increasing the country’s technical preparedness, helping it to establish effective legal frameworks to address cybercrime and cybersecurity problems, and enhancing its capacity for effective international cooperation in these areas.
So, for example, within the framework of the EU Advisory Mission to Ukraine (EUAM), the EU allocated more than 2.5 million euros to various projects related to the area of cybersecurity. The mission promoted the betterment of the technical equipment of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, conducted training and exchanged experience (with the involvement of the experts from Europol and other EU institutions).
There are also some important bilateral initiatives. Estonia, for instance, has been working closely with the Ukrainian authorities, helping them to set up a secure electoral IT system.
In the field of cyberdefence, major cooperation between Ukraine and NATO was conducted under the NATO Cyber Defence Trust Fund (2014-2017). The Fund aimed to strengthen the country’s CSIRT-type technical capabilities for countering cyber threats. Assistance included the establishment of an Incident Management Centre that helped monitoring cyber security events, as well as laboratories investigating cybersecurity incidents, and included training on how to employ the needed technology and equipment.
In this cooperation the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine were the major recipients of the help from the Trust Fund. For the whole project NATO allocated more than $1 million. The NATO partners (with Romania as the lead nation, acting through the Romanian Intelligence Service) provided additional financial and experience contributions, which resulted in common cyber defence exercises and training, concentrating on how to react to major cyber-attacks.
Evaluation
While Ukraine visibly made some progress in enhancing its cyber capabilities, the defences are not at the level expected from a country under the fire of the Russian cyberwarfare. There are issues in the communication and coordination between the governmental agencies, there is lack of financial incentive to attract the best specialists into working for the government, and there is a sizable problem of the cooperation between the public and private sectors that is crucial for success.
Nonetheless, Ukraine is trying to learn from its mistakes, and importantly for the Western partners – it offers new knowledge. This is why American and European cybersecurity authorities regularly ask for analysis of the major threats in Ukraine to look for experience that can be applied “back home”. In 2019, three years after Russia disrupted the 2016 US presidential elections, European officials were worried that the European Parliament elections were the next on the line. So, the EU watched the Ukrainian presidential elections closely, as it offered insight on the trends.
There were altogether 9000 cases related to cybersecurity, which included malware attacks from Russia associated APT Dragonfly that attempted to gain unauthorised access to Vybory (one of the two central IT systems for elections and which displays real-time updates in the vote count). Nonetheless, overall, the presidential elections of 2019 occurred securely and were not derailed.
Cyber is one of the fields that demonstrates clearly the interdependence of Ukraine, the EU and NATO. Much of the enhancement of the Ukrainian cyberdefence would have not been possible without the financial and training help of the Western partners. Continuing to work on the technical and operational sides is still Ukraine’s internal challenge, however, the way forward is not only to enhance the cyber capabilities at the national level, but also through a continued comprehensive international cooperation. This is simply because the battles fought in Ukrainian cyberspace cannot be contained by the physical state borders.
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We are concerned by yesterday’s [Sunday’s] security incident involving the convoy of Minister of Interior Fathi Bashagha, and we express our solidarity with the minister who is safe and well.
We call all actors for calm and de-escalation at this particularly sensitive time, as well as for a thorough investigation to identify those responsible for this dangerous incident.
Such actions are a strong reminder of the important work remaining to dismantle armed groups as per the ceasefire agreement of last October, and to establish the full control of the security sector in the hands of legitimate authorities.
We encourage all parties to avoid divisions and to adhere to the political process leading to elections on 24 December. The LPDF [Libyan Political Dialogue Forum] road map and the 23 October ceasefire agreement are the only way forward.
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I will recommend NODE-32 from Eset. It's light and effective. It's updated frequently and relatively low priced. If you want extensive network
quick. I use it on every Linux machine to scan shares and MS computers that might have a virus. (Note, use local admin rights not the domain admin rights, each local admin password should be different too. This is because there is a known flaw in MS that compromises all logged in accounts. The hash of machinename+domain and a IT generic password is a start on a decent local admin password that limits your danger.)
When you can afford it, get sophos. IMO the best out there due to the
Im using avg this year 2013 so far no virus or spyware effect my pc.i try do some virus test or hacking test it block it properly.
Another voice for Sophos. It's strictly a corporate app and does run into money. I agree about the support. In over 6 years, they've only given up once on an issue. Simply the best interface I've seen for managing the software.
My only gripe is their relatively slow support for new Windows OS. As of today, they do not have a firewall for Windows 8. Not sure when they will. Also, installing the client on Vista/W7/W8 requires making several updates to the configuration before pushing or pulling the client software. They must be undone afterwards.
Is that for mixed environments (xp, Vista, and7 on the network) ? or do you have to go through that anytime you want to install the client? I've been considering Sophos EndUser Protection and that's the kind of thing I'd like to know more about.
compared to many other products on the market. See the independent tester's result like av-test.org Simply because it "works fine and integrates well with Windows" is a really bad decision point, Khan.
However, in the interest of full disclosure I confess I work for Comodo.
It might be best, therefore to discuss the concerns that some people have over Comodo Internet Security (CIS) instead of just puffing us up.
Comodo is most proud of its "default deny" and Sandbox technology that makes your protection ironclad. However, that technology also results in a lot of messages when sandboxing potential problems, and many of those problems are not actually safe files.
Honestly, I found this annoying at first myself, but the messages gradually stopped because each time I knew there was no problem I checked the box to ignore in the future.
The second thing that comes up is that some labs do not score Comodo high on cleaning threats. Comodo asserts that this is misleading because regardless of the score the sandboxing technolgies prevent the threats from having any impact.
Furthermore, Comodo's approach addresses threats that other virus scanners don't because it does not rely on Blacklists of known viruses. If it does not pass a whitelist check, a file will be sandboxed and you are protected. That's why Comodo claims the protection is iron clad and offers a $500 warranty on its subscription version.
Comodo's free version of the suite includes the same firewall, virus and spyware protection, but not additional features such as the GeekBuddy 24/7 support and the $500 virus-free warranty.
Comodo currently ranked #1 in matousec.com's rankings of 38 security suites.
It is only 1 of 2 rated Excellent and only 1 of 4 recommended by matousec.com
My experience with Microsoft Essentials is not good.
I used to use the free open source ClamWin, which is not highly rated itself, and it regularly caught viruses that Essentials did not catch.
Yes and Windows now provides a free firewall too.
However, neither system is highly rated.
The Comodo Internet Security Suite (CIS) includes both antivirus and firewall protection in its free version.
The only diffrence with the free and subscription is really just the 24/7 support and $500 guarantee.
Otherwise, it is the same software.
Are we talking about business or home environments? Some of these that have been listed as "free" are only free for home use.
In any case, I am a firm believer in AVG. I have been using it at home for at least 10 years and have never been hit with a virus or malware. This includes the wife and kids' PCs. AVG updates itself and lets you know whenever it finds anything.
generate revenue. It also means that you do not have an SLA, and you don't have the level of support you need when there is an incident. Open source
security,support & features with very low cost. I will suggest to go for any one of them. Don't take risk for data security.
Hello, I'm new to the forum and just wanted to add my two cents worth. I never liked the way that Norton took up so much room on my systems or the fact I found it difficult removing it entirely when I had to; I liked ESET at first but got so sick of getting automted responses and never beingg listened to unless my wheels squeaked; I ended up getting Kaspersky IS and in fact have IS 2013 on my pcs now (two vistas one 64 bit, one 32 bit and an xp pro...others in d isrepair curently) Anyway, I am ifected with the ABOUT:BLANK apparently a trojan virus...KIS never knows what I am talking about when I write them about it. They claim it must be so new that they dont know about it. I have had it for several months now. I see others have as well, some posted fixes, none have worked. I also had many I mean MANY different photod editing software rograms disappear from the xp pro system while running KIS IS 2013..they never figured out why or how or helped me with it. Now I am also unable tot run my Power SPec xp pro in safe mode, when previuosly it did so when I hit Fn, Alt and NumLoc. I am so disgusted with Kaspersky it's not funny. Nothing whatsoever has been detected nor anything solved.
I have friens who swer by AVG whether home or business. Some people clasify business use by moreo than 4 pcs, but whatever. You can get it free for home use or pay for bus version.
I intend on installingn it and dumping Kaspesky in a week or less as I am infected with ABOUT:BLANK and missing so many softwree programs etc. I'm tired and stressed by it. I have short term fixes for the virus eg resetting Tols Internet Security settings or rolling back pc, but either has to be done every 24 hrs if you are using the pc ea day. I may notbe as pc savvy ass most of you, would you put up with this? :(
Glad to be lurking for thet most part but had to comment on this. Hope it helps. Cher
debra.carlson replied May 5, 2013
I'm going to echo David's answer ... it's important to read the EULAs as not all of those you list are free for business use. Several I like on your list ARE NOT free for businesses.
Of those free for business, I'm inclined toward MS Security Essentials IF all your machines are and will continue to be Windows. MS has made a committment to this because of its inclusion in Windows 8, which makes me more confident. Some others are very good, but SMB installations tend to need 'hands off' / just works software. My one caveat is to go into the settings and make sure they scan when, what, and how you like. This is true for every security software no matter the size / style of use.
Webroot - ?http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-trials.html
The client is less than 1MB. It uses less than 5MB of RAM.
It's layer after layer of protection. As a cloud-based antivirus program, it flags things as either Bad or Good. Things not flagged as Bad or Good are flagged as Unknown. Unknowns are journaled, meaning that if there is ever a case of something slipping past Webroot in the short term, when the cloud database is updated to reflect the Bad status, it will roll back any and all changes made by what was formerly an Unknown. The Identity Shield protects from anything that might try to steal your data via keylogging, screengrabbing, etc. It's remarkably user-friendly as well.
Happy with Avast. Particularly like the option to provide remote control of another machine running Avast. Enables me to provide tech support for aged parents. Not keen on the sandbox feature - nowhere near as good as sandboxie. But then as I have sandboxie it doesn't matter. Anyway, I got it for the antivirus, not the rest of the bloatware.
Incidentally may I add that I am less than impressed with this page refreshing every minute or so and wiping out my draft post.
I have used Norton, AVG, McAfee, and have settled on MS Security Essentials. It doesn't score well today against some of the other offerings, but I love the small footprint, automatic updating, and scheduling features. Of course, the price is very good, free.
I'm a computer security professional and never put all my eggs in one basket. I also use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware about once a week as well as CCleaner. The one utility I pay for is PC Tools Registry Mechanic. Between it and CCleaner I am constantly finding registry errors to fix. I also maintain system backups on external drives to enable a complete system restore if the need arises.
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Germany’s cybersecurity chief has been fired after allegations of being excessively close to Russia through an association he helped set up.
Arne Schönbohm had led the Federal Cyber Security Authority (BSI) – charged with protecting government communications – since 2016.
German media have accused him of having had links with people involved with Russian intelligence services.
The interior ministry is investigating allegations made against him.
But it confirmed he had been fired with immediate effect.
Mr Schönbohm had come under scrutiny after his potential links to a Russian company through a previous role were highlighted by Jan Böhmermann, the host of one of Germany’s most popular late-night TV shows.
Before leading the BSI, Mr Schönbohm had helped set up and run the Cyber Security Council Germany, a private association which advises business and policymakers on cybersecurity issues.
He is said to have maintained close ties to the association and attended their 10th anniversary celebrations in September.
One of the association’s members was a cybersecurity company called Protelion, which was a subsidiary of a Russian firm reportedly established by a former member of the KGB honoured by President Vladimir Putin.
Protelion was ejected from the association last weekend, and Cyber Security Council Germany says the allegations of links to Russian intelligence are untrue.
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To run successfully, your business must keep all kinds information from falling into the hands of hackers or your competitors. These include customer credit card numbers, vendor contract details, and the Social Security numbers of your employers. So you take reasonable precautions in ensuring network security by locking up your servers in a special room, shredding any printed data, and making computer files accessible to key people.
Others are interested in stealing information from you to sell to the highest bidder. Neither is this spying limited to individuals. A Philadelphia lawsuit recently alleged a school district was spying on kids using the cameras in tablets it had distributed to them. If you notice the red indicator light coming on by your audio and video devices when you haven’t activated them, then someone is using them to spy on you. Turn the computer off immediately and disconnect it from the Internet. Contact us so that we can remove the cause of this spying. Network Security Question: Is Anyone Spying on You?
Despite your efforts, you discover details of your latest project discussed on an industry website or information about your private employee meeting all over the Internet. Your first impulse is to blame a disloyal employee. But the problem may be technological and not personal.
If your desktops, laptops, and tablets have connected cameras and microphones, hackers can easily tap into them to see what’s going on in the office. Many do it simply to prove to their buddies that they can. And groups in China are well-known for using the tactic to spy on other countries.
To protect yourself, avoid clicking on music, picture, or video links unless you’re sure where they’re from or what they are. That cute clip of playful puppies may download spyware onto your network. Disconnect cameras and microphones that are not in use. If you can’t because they’re attached, put opaque tape over the camera lens and mics.
We can also help you with other network security issues.
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Text originally published by Samuel Gichichi on the Cyber Secure Central Forums.
2018 was a problematic years security-wise. Universities, governments, and other big enterprises were all victims of different attacks and breaches. Most corporate heads and board members outlined technology acquisitions and cybersecurity as their top priorities in 2019. Among the commonly considered options are blockchain-based solutions. And just among corporate heads.
NASA has decided to use blockchain technology as a way of enhancing security and minimizing denial of service and other different traffic service attacks. This will be done by implementing a distributed ledger technology majorly used in bitcoin and other renowned cryptocurrencies.
Conversational commerce is becoming famous since a lot of metadata is collected from customers as they exchange information on social media. Many messaging systems use end-to-end encryption to keep their communication secure. However, the use of blockchain to secure data is on the rise.
Currently, many messaging applications do not have a set standard of security protocols and a standardized API framework for enabling cross-messenger communications. Blockchain communication ecosystem comes to solve this issue by creating a system of unified communication. Blockchain acts as a great solution since it secures all data exchanges and enables seamless connectivity across various messaging platforms.
Attackers gain access to systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in end devices. These gadgets can be switches or routers. Unlike before, other devices like doorbells, thermostats, and security cameras have increased the rate of vulnerability. These devices are not checked for security measures when they are introduced to the system.
Blockchain can give these devices sufficient smarts to enable them make independent security decisions without relying on centralized authority. For example, the devices can form a group consensus concerning the regular occurrences in a network, and block any nodes that behave differently.
This technology can be used to protect all the exchange of data between the IoT devices. It can also be used to achieve real-time secure data transmissions and give prompt communications between devices which are geographically separated. Also, blockchain security means there is no centralized authority in control of the network to verify the data going through it which makes it hard for hackers to orchestrate an attack.
Regardless of how blockchain is applied, the primary factor of its use in cybersecurity is decentralization. When network traffic, access control, and data is not stored in a commonplace, it becomes harder for attackers to tamper with information integrity. This technology gives more security and lower chances of an attack.
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https://privacy-formula.com/reader/blockchain-in-cybersecurity-the-future-from-our-forums/
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Rumors suggest that Intel’s forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple’s cozy relationship with Intel and its habit of adopting each new generation of Intel’s processors, this would make a lot of sense.
Sandy Bridge is the first of a new generation of processors (intended to supersede the current range of i3/i5/i7 chips), in which the CPU and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) functions are combined onto one piece of silicon. This reduces costs while at the same time offering performance boosts.
Technically speaking, the graphics function of Sandy Bridge falls into the category of integrated graphics, even though there are massive technical differences between Sandy Bridge and true (poor-quality) integrated graphics.
In the world of gaming, integrated graphics are considered vastly inferior to dedicated, discrete graphics cards. Sandy Bridge seeks to change this perception with new, performance-enhancing integrated graphics. Whether Intel’s marketing drive and performance boost will change the minds of dead-set gamers remains to be seen.
As such, the reliance on what is viewed as integrated graphics in Macs could be a marketing challenge for Apple, which some have suggested is trying to position its Mac as a gaming platform. Valve recently ported Steam to the Mac, for example, and now offers an impressive roster of games. It’s been suggested that the new Mac App Store, due at the end of this month, could also be primarily a games distribution platform.
If Mac devotees do decide to take umbrage at the fact that Apple has turned its back on Nvidia, its current graphics partner for the MacBook range, the irony will be that Sandy Bridge is actually a highly competent gaming platform provided modest settings are used. It’s certainly far in advance of existing integrated graphics chipsets and has more in common with discrete graphics cards.
Apple has used integrated graphics before without suffering major repercussions, although the move drew criticism from reviewers. From 2006-2009, following Apple’s controversial switch to x86 architecture, low-end MacBooks used Intel GMA integrated graphics. However, back then the idea of gaming on a Mac was still a joke, and only a small handful of games were available for the “platform,” outside of simple puzzle/strategy games.
Additionally, Apple’s current high-end MacBook Pro computers are able to switch between integrated Intel HD graphics and a dedicated Nvidia graphics chip, depending on how much power is needed.
That said, we shouldn’t underestimate Apple’s marketing skills. After all, they’ve frequently downplayed computer performance in favor of elements such as attractive aluminum cases, screen quality, and battery life.
Indeed, as a rule, people who purchase Apple computers are less concerned with out-and-out performance: if it’s a fast computer you’re after, get a high-end Dell, or Sony. But if you want a competent computer that brings it with style, get a Mac.
Apple, no doubt, hopes that this will still hold true..
Keir Thomas has been writing about computing since the last century, and more recently has written several best-selling books. You can learn more about him at http://keirthomas.com and his Twitter feed is @keirthomas .
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/499389/apple_switch_sandy_bridge_impact_gamers.html
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Most consumers know how important it is to check their bank and credit card statements regularly for errors. But sometimes, those "errors" are actually calculated crimes ... which originate from within the bank's walls.
"They were hitting my home equity line," said Paul Agne, who was a victim of fraud. "They got $10,000 out on time, $12,000 the other time."
Paul Agne said the thieves who stole his identity did so with the help of an accomplice inside his bank. Officials admitted that criminals could get away with more if they were working from the inside. Rodney Bohanon, a US Postal Inspector, said, "When you have the assistance of someone on the inside that has all the answers to the security questions, it becomes quite easy."
With Paul's personal information, the identity thieves went to work.
"They were taking the money out and opening a joint account in my name and the other person's name," said Paul Agne. "They had four or five of my credit cards which they were charging on. They also had two different driver's licenses in my name."
Paul was just one of many people. "This case was approximately 35 victims with a dollar loss of $1.4 million," said Bohanon.
How can consumers avoid ending up like Paul Agne? Never put your bank or credit card information in the garbage or recycling bin without destroying it. And remain vigilant for inconsistencies on your statements and bills.
"Shred it or burn it so nobody can get the information," said Bohanon. "You should just have to look at your account statements. Check them monthly and when you notice something has happened, contact the financial institution as well as authorities."
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Being security compliant means your IT protocols follow prevailing local and international industry standards, as well as adhere to any laws that apply in your locality. Examples include adhering to local privacy and security of personal information laws if, for example, you record your customers' personal and/or financial details. There are also global standards, such as the ISO/IEC 27000 family, that relate to the security of information management systems and are considered best practice.
These standards are there to help organizations keep their information assets secure. Your business could be subject to fines or worse if you don't act to adequately protect your data assets.
Cybersecurity is now a game of attack, no defense.
It's said that the best defense is a good offense. This is particularly true in cybersecurity, where the average cost of a security breach in the U.S. is more than $200 per compromised item, according to a 2017 Ponemon Study. Considering how many data items can be at risk in the event of a breach, this could rack up quite a hefty bill. The need for proactive, rather than reactive security hasn't gone unnoticed. Gartner predicts global IT security spending to balloon from $90 billion in 2017, to $113 billion in 2020. Here's how businesses can stay one step ahead in a landscape of constantly evolving threats.
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Security officials see cybercrimes nearing the most dangerous of our nation’s concerns, with cyber-threats expected to soon surpass terrorism threats, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. FBI officials are looking to combat crimes ranging from mortgage and health care fraud to child pornography and terror recruitments. These threats are posed by organized cybercriminals, rogue hackers and unfriendly foreign governments.
Private companies often see cyber-threats first. Soon, Mueller said, there will only be two types of companies left: “Those that have been hacked, and those that will be.”
For more on cyber liability, read these stories at propertycasualty360.com:
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The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements strongly urges residents to be aware of online housing scams that request you to pay for government housing assistance. The Department recently learnt of a Facebook account, “RDP House Application 2022/2023”, where fraudsters pose as officials facilitating approvals for houses, keys and title deeds. A Cape Town resident was the most recent victim that discovered she was scammed after arriving at the Department’s office. In anticipating the receipt of a housing opportunity, she paid over R2,000 into a bank account to process her “approval letter” for a house in one of the Department’s projects in Mitchell’s Plain. This particular Facebook account is but one of many online housing scams preying on vulnerable residents. Residents should be aware that no payment is required to be placed on the housing demand database (ie. waiting list), to apply for a housing subsidy, or any related government housing service.
Fraudulent scams have increasingly been reported and appear on different platforms, particularly on social media, requesting citizens to either: pay a deposit or holding fee for a government house; to pay to be approved for a government housing opportunity; or to pay for the processing of an application for example.
“In many instances, vulnerable residents fall prey to these scams in the hope of being assisted, or bumped up on the waiting list, for a government housing opportunity. In most cases, money exchanged due to fraudulent scams is not recovered”, commented Ms Kahmiela August, Acting Head of Department.
“The latest victim, that the Department is aware of, was scammed of over R2,000 by a certain ‘Mr Mashilo’ she met on a Facebook account. ‘Mr Mashilo’ presented himself as a Department of Human Settlements’ official and provided various fraudulent paperwork as proof that the resident will be assisted with a house. Residents should be aware that no government official should ask you to pay any amount of cash for government housing services,” added Ms August.
To be considered for a government housing opportunity, citizens need to be registered on the housing database at their local municipality. To qualify for a government subsidised house, residents need to:
Be a South African citizen or have a permanent residency permit.
Be 18 years or older.
Be married or living with a partner.
Be single or divorced and have proven financial dependents permanently living with them.
Earn a household income of R3 500 or less, before deductions.
Not be current or previous property owners.
Not have received a housing subsidy from the government before.
The Department also has various subsidies available to assist residents earning between R3,500 and R22,000 gross monthly household income. Enquiries can be made at any municipal housing office.
The Department urges residents to be alert to requests for money involving government housing and know that:
No exchange of money is needed to get approval for a government subsidised house.
You do not have to pay to be on the housing database.
Residents are advised to contact the Department, or any municipal housing office, to verify and check a housing social media post or advertisement’s legitimacy. To report any fraudulent scams, residents must contact their nearest SAPS office for assistance.
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/south-africa-western-cape-human-settlements-warns-residents-of-online-housing-scams-socialmedia-hacking-aihp/
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GPO isn't alone. Any agency that publishes or shares information with the public is at risk for posting information that shouldn't have been shared. There are desktop, peer-to-peer file-sharing applications that can leak data, simple configuration changes that can expose information and standard user error. Most of us already suffer from information overload, and it's impractical to think we can stay on top of every configuration change that may lead to a problem.
Steps must be taken to prevent inadvertent data exposures, and one of the most effective ways to know what you may be exposing is to sit down and take a look at your agency's public footprint. Easier said than done, in particular when it's not uncommon to find agency sites posting tens of thousands of pages. So how can you go about making sure you aren't spilling highly-sensitive information?
There are two kinds of organizations: those that have inadvertently exposed sensitive information and those that will.
One approach is to conduct a targeted, user-driven analysis to identify high-value information assets that are in the public domain. Find some areas where someone may find "juicy" tidbits of information. Start with search engines - either internal or external - and do some searches for terms that would clearly indicate a problem: Social Security numbers, taxpayer identifiers and dates of birth seem to be good targets these days. Develop a few worst-case scenarios based on the sensitivities of data managed by your organization, and use these situations to frame your analysis and testing.
Another approach makes use of automated methods to scan for sensitive information. There are some commercial products that can accomplish this, but if it's not in the budget, there are some very sound, free, open-source solutions that can be used to scan large websites or search engines for patterns of interest. Automated scans could be configured to extract information from documents in bulk, looking for classification markings, sensitive keywords, or non-public records that are deemed sensitive or confidential.
Taking this outside-in perspective can help identify problems before they escalate into disasters. Even if you don't identify any immediate concerns, you will gain a perspective on your public footprint that will come in handy if you are called to respond to a major incident involving the loss or exposure of sensitive information.
Eric M. Fiterman is a former FBI special agent and founder of Methodvue, a consultancy that provides cybersecurity and computer forensics services to the federal government and private businesses.
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Did you know that if your company has a data breach related to a hacker or phishing scam you could be looking at days of lost time and possible significant fines? Hackers are coming up with new ways every day to by-pass firewalls and security systems to access your protected information. It’s no longer enough to install antivirus software and hope your business goes unthreatened. Local businesses need a dedicated cybersecurity company, Magic Valley ID to ensure that their information and their client data is protected. SimplicIT has the training and expertise to meet your businesses needs and to keep your data safe.
Simplicit’s cybersecurity company team is ready to protect your business against numerous attacks. One of most common threats is phishing and spear fishing through emails. Hackers design emails to look like they come from a reputable source and lead you to reveal sensitive information through fake logins. Ransomware is a malicious software designed to extort money from the business owner by blocking access to files or the computer system until the ransom is paid. But once the ransom is paid there is no guarantee that the access will be restored. A common cybersecurity threat is malware, a type of software designed to gain unauthorized access and cause damage to a computer. Social engineering aims to get you to reveal sensitive information and can be combined with any of the previously listed threats. Still other common threats include insider threats, distributed denial of service attacks, man in the middle attacks, and numerous different Trojan attacks. No matter the attack, SimplicIT stands ready to be your cybersecurity companies in city, ID.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that 4 out of 5 physicians in the United States has experienced some form of cyberattack. Physicians and health care centers face an added responsibility to protect their patient’s personal health information (PHI).
PHI is any demographic information that can be used to identify a patient such as names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, and medical records and more. If a cybersecurity attack affects any PHI it can result in a HIPPA breach. And depending on the number of individuals and the kind of cybersecurity in place, HIPPA fines can range from $100- $50,000. HIPPA requires healthcare providers to be compliant with the regulations and requirements and to be aware of any possible risks facing their cybersecurity. But if your organization knows about a risk to your data, but does nothing to address that risk, then you may be found in “willful neglect” and be subject to HIPAA fines. SimplicIT is a Cybersecurity firm near Magic Valley, ID is experienced with HIPPA regulations, and the requirements needed to keep PHI safe and your practice free from violations and fines. Don’t risk losing valuable time and money to a gap in your business’ cybersecurity.
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Choosing the best antivirus software for your computer is very important, and the best anti-virus review can assist you decide on which product is right for you. The right anti virus will preserve your computer and give you peace of mind.
The best antivirus application will use multiple layers of protection in order to avoid malicious payloads from reducing your computer. It should also be ready to shield you against scam and malware goes for.
The best anti-virus software will probably be easy to use, and it should present good value for cash. Most quality paid antiviruses include added security features. Some of these features include a internet browser, a fire wall, and a great adware and spyware reader.
AVG Anti virus is a recognized name inside the antivirus market. It has a great adware and spyware reader, and it can discover ransomware. AVG is also known for its hack alert characteristic.
Microsoft Defender Antivirus is yet another top-notch product. It delivers with Home windows 10, and it’s really a heavy hitter. In lab tests, it defeat away Norton, Avast, and Trend Micro. Additionally, it has good protection against rootkits and adware.
Bitdefender is yet another top malware, and it is the well-rounded item. It helps to protect your computer, webcam, and email accounts. my latest blog post Additionally, it has a integrated password manager. It’s not cheap for a every year subscription, although it’s a great value for money. Additionally, it beat out Norton and Tendency Micro in AV-Comparisons Apple pc security assessments.
Malwarebytes is actually a no-frills antivirus program that could remove possibly unwanted applications. It has a great adware reader, a spyware audience, and a user friendly app.
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Customize urlscan.ini as strictly as possible without crippling your Web site
In "Protect Your IIS Server with URLScan," July 2002, InstantDoc ID 25230, I offer an overview of Microsoft's URLScan tool and discuss how to download and test URLScan on a nonproduction server that contains a copy of your Web site. URLScan, which is bundled as part of the IIS Lockdown Tool (available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33961), is an Internet Server API (ISAPI) filter that intercepts every request your Web server receives from the Internet and scans each request for anything unusual. The current version is URLScan 2.5, which you install over URLScan 2.0. (URLScan 2.5's new features let you change the log-file directory, log long URLs, and restrict the size of requests.) When you download URLScan 2.5, the new version adds entries to urlscan.ini but doesn't overwrite current settings.
Now let's delve into the process of customizing the tool for your environment. I take you step by step through urlscan.ini's sections (i.e., \[options\], \[AllowVerbs\], \[DenyVerbs\], \[AllowExtensions\], \[DenyExtensions\], \[DenyHeaders\], \[DenyUrlSequences\], and \[RequestLimits\]) and explain the tool's configuration options.
Verbs (also called methods) are the commands that a browser uses at the beginning of a URL to communicate with a server. GET and HEAD are the most common verbs that Web browsers use for simple browsing. For example, when a browser requests contactus.html, it sends, in part, GET /articles/contactus.html. Browsers use other verbs, such as PUT, POST, and REPLY, to modify Web site content. Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions, for example, use POST and OPTIONS (in addition to GET and HEAD) to maintain Web content.
To control which HTTP verbs URLScan permits or rejects in incoming requests, you can use urlscan.ini's UseAllowVerbs setting. This setting lets you use either the \[AllowVerbs\] section to specify a list of verbs to accept or the \[DenyVerbs\] section to specify a list of verbs to reject. To tell URLScan which section to use, you set UseAllowVerbs to 0 or 1. When you set UseAllowVerbs to 1, URLScan examines only \[AllowVerbs\] and ignores \[DenyVerbs\]—even when you list verbs under the latter section. In fact, if you set UseAllowVerbs to 1 and specify GET in both \[AllowVerbs\] and \[DenyVerbs\], users will be able to GET files from your Web site. When you set UseAllowVerbs to 0, URLScan looks at \[DenyVerbs\] and ignores \[AllowVerbs\]. Conceptually, IIS is most secure when you deny all verbs by default, then list exceptions. Therefore, I suggest you use the \[AllowVerbs\] section to list specific permitted verbs.
\[AllowExtensions\] and \[DenyExtensions\]
URLScan's \[AllowExtensions\] and \[DenyExtensions\] sections work similarly to \[Allow Verbs\] and \[Deny Verbs\] but control which file extensions incoming requests can access. You probably want users to be able to request common Web files (e.g., .html, .jpeg, Active Server Pages—.asp) but not executable files (e.g., .exe, .cmd, .bat), log files, or configuration files.
The urlscan_static.ini file contains a good sample list of file extensions that you can safely permit on most Web sites—and a long list of potentially dangerous extensions. After you determine which extensions you want users to be able to access through your Web site, set UseAllowExtensions to 1 and list the permitted extensions in the \[AllowExtensions\] section. That way, you block all other extensions. I recommend using \[DenyExtensions\] instead of \[AllowExtensions\] only if you must let users upload various types of files to your Web site and share the files with others. In that case, set UseAllowExtensions to 0, list the file extensions you consider to be dangerous in the \[DenyExtensions\] section, and notify your users that they can't use files of those types.
Be aware that \[DenyExtensions\] can break script mappings that you've configured in IIS. For example, if you deny .asp files in urlscan.ini, users can't access .asp pages even when you configure IIS to service .asp files under App Mappings in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Internet Information Server snap-in.
\[DenyHeaders\]
The \[DenyHeaders\] section lets you specify which client request headers that URLScan should permit or deny. For example, you can include Translate: as a denied header to prevent clients from requesting the source code of your Web site pages. (Note that not all settings offer both an \[Allow\] and \[Deny\] section.)
You'll find \[DenyHeaders\] especially valuable because you can use this section to disable WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). Because of WebDAV's vulnerabilities, you should disable it unless you use it to publish to your Web site. To prevent your servers from servicing WebDAV clients, include Translate:, If:, and Lock-Token: under \[DenyHeaders\] and include the verbs PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, DELETE, PUT, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK, OPTIONS, and SEARCH under \[DenyVerbs\], as Listing 1 shows. (Web Listing 1, http://www.windowswebsolutions.com, InstantDoc ID 25581, contains the entire sample urlscan.ini file configured to support FrontPage Server Extensions but to disable WebDAV.) Also, as Web Listing 2 shows, you should include Transfer-Encoding: as a denied header to disable chunked-encoding transfers. (By default, the URLScan-SRP variant makes transfer-encoding a denied header in urlscan.ini.) \[DenyUrlSequences\]
The \[DenyUrlSequences\] section lets you scan a URL for certain dangerous character sequences that intruders often use to trick IIS into running malicious commands. The default sequences that Web Listing 3 shows catch character sequences known to be dangerous to both IIS and Windows 2000, but you might want to add other sequences that can pose a danger to applications to which you forward form input. For example, Web sites often incorporate form input into SQL queries without checking for malicious input that can fool the SQL server into running commands that an attacker selects.
You can also use \[DenyUrlSequences\] to block requests that attempt to access commands or executables you want to protect (e.g., cmd.exe, explorer.exe) or that use any other suspicious strings (e.g., winnt, system32). The Beyond-Security SecuriTeam article "Combining URLScan With FrontPage (HOWTO)" at http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6Z0010U2UU.html includes a urlscan.ini file that blocks Nimba attacks that target IIS. Of course, be aware that blocking these requests can inadvertently block legitimate client requests. For example, if your Web site hosts a discussion forum about Windows NT, blocking the winnt string will prevent anyone from discussing files in that folder. \[DenyUrlSequences\] can also break Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) sites. If you use OWA and want to implement URLScan, read the Microsoft articles "XCCC: IIS Lockdown and URLScan Configurations in an Exchange Environment" (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q309508) and "XADM: Known Issues and Fine Tuning When You Use the IIS Lockdown Wizard in an Exchange 2000 Environment" (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q309677).
\[RequestLimits\]
The \[RequestLimits\] section, which is new in URLScan 2.5, lets you use three settings—MaxAllowedContentLength, MaxUrl, and MaxQueryString—to control the maximum length of three parts of the URL requests that clients send to IIS. This section is important for defeating buffer-overflow attacks that depend on sending large amounts of data in the request. URLScan 2.5 defaults are usually adequate; all values entered should be in bytes.
MaxAllowedContentLength. MaxAllowedContentLength controls the maximum permitted value for the content-length request header. For example, when you set MaxAllowedContentLength to 1024 bytes, URLScan rejects any request with a content length that exceeds 1024 bytes. When you POST or PUT a file to a Web server, content length specifies how long the attached data can be. Thus, MaxAllowedContentLength lets you limit how much data someone can PUT or POST to your server. When you install URLScan 2.5 automatically, it sets this value at about 3GB (about 3,000,000,000 bytes).
MaxUrl. MaxUrl specifies the maximum permitted length for the portion of a URL request that precedes the query string. (The query string is the part of the URL request that follows a question mark and contains the information, usually form input fields, that the browser sends to request a Web page.) If you install urlscan.dll manually and don't update urlscan.ini, the default is 260 bytes. However, when you install URLScan 2.5 automatically, it sets this value to 16KB (16,384 bytes).
MaxQueryString. MaxQueryString specifies the maximum length permitted for a query string. When you don't set a value for this setting, URLScan uses a default length of 4KB (4096 bytes). When you install URLScan 2.5 automatically, it sets the same value: 4KB (4096 bytes).
Setting limits on other request headers. You can also limit the byte size of other request headers. To do so, add a setting for the header by using "Max-" to prefix the header name. (See the URLScan 2.5 documentation at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/tools/tools/urlscan.asp.) Note that if you specify 0 as the header length, you actually instruct URLScan to forgo checking the length. Unless you're familiar with request headers, I recommend that you wait to use these options until Microsoft suggests specific settings.
Filtering Questionable URLs
The \[options\] section contains additional settings that you can use to tell URLScan how to interpret other urlscan.ini sections: NormalizeUrlBeforeScan, VerifyNormalization, AllowHighBitCharacters, AllowDotInPath, RemoveServerHeader, and AlternateServerName. Again, you can set these settings to 1 (true) or 0 (false). NormalizeUrlBeforeScan and VerifyNormalization control the normalization of URLs. Normalization is the process of standardizing capitalization and converting encoded characters to regular characters—for example, changing %2e to a period (.), which \[DenyUrlSequences\] would then catch. AllowHighBitCharacters and AllowDotInPath help you filter URLs to prevent some common attacks. You can use RemoveServerHeader and AlternateServerName to keep IIS from identifying itself to the client.
NormalizeUrlBeforeScan. NormalizeUrlBeforeScan controls whether URLScan normalizes an incoming URL before or after scanning it. I recommend that you leave NormalizeUrlBeforeScan set to 1, which is the default. If you set NormalizeUrlBeforeScan to 0, URLScan might mistakenly approve malicious URLs that the normalization process reveals.
VerifyNormalization. If you set VerifyNormalization to 1, URLScan further normalizes URLs before the program proceeds. This setting is valuable because it can catch double-encoding techniques. For example, an attacker who hides an ampersand (&) in a URL might send %2526, which one normalization pass translates to %26. However, if you set VerifyNormalization to 1, URLScan recognizes that normalization isn't complete and resolves %26 to the ampersand character, which \[DenyUrlSequences\] then catches.
AllowHighBitCharacters. If you set AllowHighBitCharacters to 0 (the default is 1), URLScan rejects non-ASCII characters, which helps defend against attacks encoded with UTF-8 and Unicode. UTF-8 is an encoding scheme that lets you send Unicode in an ASCII stream, but UTF-8 is also another way to hide attacks in URLs. I recommend setting AllowHighBitCharacters to 0 unless you use Unicode to support another language.
AllowDotInPath. When you set AllowDotInPath to 0, URLScan rejects URLs that contain more than one period. (Be aware that some Microsoft documentation is contradictory, but this definition is accurate.) Although the \[DenyExtensions\] section is useful in preventing attacks that involve file extensions, sometimes URLScan can't determine the true extension of a requested file because URLScan runs before IIS parses the URL. By setting AllowDotInPath to 0, you prevent attackers from embedding a period earlier in the path to hide the true extension of the file. Note, however, that this setting also blocks access to any legitimate folders or files that have embedded periods; you might have to rename them.
RemoveServerHeader. Usually, when IIS responds to a client, a Web server identifies in the header the type of Web server software it uses. For example, an IIS server on Win2K would send "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0." Identifying the server and IIS version you use might let an attacker tailor an attack to that version. Setting RemoveServerHeader to 1 prevents IIS from identifying itself, but note that this setting breaks FrontPage Server Extensions.
AlternateServerName. You can take server protection a step further and use AlternateServerName to make attackers think your server is a different type of server. For example, setting RemoveServerHeader to 1 and AlternateServerName to GWS/2.0 might make an attacker think you run GWS instead of IIS. (Note that AlternateServerName works only when you set RemoveServerHeader to 1.)
Log Settings
URLScan's logging capability is useful for diagnosing problems and monitoring attacks. Each time IIS starts, URLScan logs a detailed description of its current configuration. Then, each time URLScan rejects a request, it logs the date, time, and raw URL—and records exactly why it rejected the URL. Five settings in the \[options\] section—EnableLogging, PerProcessLogging, PerDayLogging, LogLongUrls, and LoggingDirectory—control whether and how URLScan performs logging.
EnableLogging. EnableLogging controls whether URLScan logs activity. Because the URLScan log is invaluable, I recommend that you accept the default value of 1 to enable logging.
PerProcessLogging. I recommend leaving PerProcessLogging set to 0, which is the default, to avoid the need to check multiple logs. However, if you run applications at different levels of application protection and therefore in different processes (see http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/iis/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/server/iis/htm/core/iiwarndc.htm for information about IIS's application-protection options), you might want to set PerProcessLogging to 1 to instruct URLScan to create separate log files for each process. URLScan appends the process ID for each process to the corresponding log's filename.
PerDayLogging. I recommend that you set PerDayLogging to 1. URLScan then creates a new log each day, which helps keep your URLScan logs manageable. The format for log filenames is urlscan.mmddyy.log. I also recommend checking your logs at least once a week to note any attacks on your server.
LogLongUrls. When URLScan versions earlier than URLScan 2.5 logged rejected URL requests, the tool limited the line written to the log file to 1024 characters. Usually, that log-file size is long enough to accommodate the entire line, including the URL. However, this new URLScan setting lets you configure URLScan to log very long URLs. If you set LogLongUrls to 1, URLScan logs up to 128KB for each line.
LoggingDirectory. Earlier versions of URLScan created log files in the same folder in which urlscan.dll resided—usually in \%winroot%\system32\inetsrv\urlscan. With URLScan 2.5, you can send URLScan logs to a different folder by setting LoggingDirectory to the appropriate fully qualified path (e.g., C:\urlscanlogs).
Two settings control how URLScan rejects URLs and what information it returns to the user: RejectResponseUrl and UseFastPathReject.
RejectResponseUrl. RejectResponseUrl lets you specify the path (e.g., /errormsgs/badurl.html) to a file on the local server that contains the text for the error page that the server will display when URLScan rejects a request. URLScan creates three server variables that you can reference in your file:
HTTP_URLSCAN_STATUS_HEADER provides the reason that URLScan rejected the request.
HTTP_URLSCAN_ORIGINAL_VERB specifies the verb the client sent.
HTTP_URLSCAN_ORIGINAL_URL specifies the original URL the client requested.
Web Listing 4 contains some sample .asp code, badurl.asp, that shows the server variables in action. The output in Figure 1 shows the text that users would see when they request a URL that includes a period.
In general, be careful how much information you reveal in error messages: You don't want to make life any easier for attackers. I recommend that you avoid showing the client HTTP_URLSCAN_STATUS_HEADER or HTTP_URLSCAN_ORIGINAL_VERB for security reasons, but you might want to return a generic error message such as Your request failed and supply a copy of HTTP_URLSCAN_ORIGINAL_URL along with support contact information. That way, legitimate users can give you enough information to find the rejected URL in URLScan's logs and analyze the problem. (Remember that URLScan reports the same information that it shows to users when you specify HTTP_URLSCAN_ORIGINAL_URL to the URLScan log.) Also, if you've configured IIS to log cs-uri-query (one of several fields you can direct IIS to include in its log), rejected URLs will show up in the IIS log as well.
RejectResponseUrl also provides a useful logging-only mode. When you set RejectResponseUrl to /~ *, URLScan logs the requests you set it to reject but services them as if you hadn't installed the tool. (As Web Figure 2 shows, the URLScan log reminds you that it's running in logging-only mode.)
UseFastPathReject. You might want to report rejected URLs as quickly as possible with the least resource use. If you set UseFastPathReject to 1, URLScan ignores RejectResponseUrl and instead returns a standard 404 error message to the client. When you use UseFastPathReject, the IIS log doesn't log the original URL and other related information, but the URLScan log does.
Adjusting URLScan
You need to configure URLScan as strictly as possible but still make sure the tool accepts the verbs, headers, and file extensions that your Web site requires. To get maximum protection from URLScan, you might need to modify certain areas of your Web site. For example, you might need to change the paths in your Web site or the format of your URLs so that URLScan won't reject legitimate requests. Avoid using periods in folder names or filenames. Also avoid using colons (:), ampersands, percent signs (%), or backslashes (\) in URLs.
In addition, several Microsoft and non-Microsoft add-ons require specific URLScan configurations. To learn about those required configurations, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "Configuring URLScan to Support Specific Products," InstantDoc ID 25614.
URLScan offers defense in depth because it examines any packet bound for IIS against a set of rules that you can define in urlscan.ini. URLScan's approach of preventing unusual requests from being processed offers protection against future exploits.
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Every day, new streams of information flow into corporations, powering up-to-the-minute analysis and smarter decisions. Employees, customers and contractors are all connected as never before, across a multitude of technologies. This hyper-connected era is new ground for many organizations. These sprawling and overlapping networks pose daunting security challenges. The complexity is dizzying, the possible points of attack nearly limitless. CIOs and CISOs are grappling with growing frustrations—and questions.
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The reality of the issue is, nonetheless, that websites have actually dramatically developed over the previous years – and also the methods of old are no longer functional for contemporary business.
Back then, it would certainly be adequate to have a simple internet site with a web page, services, pricing, about us, as well as contact pages.
A potential consumer would certainly most likely to your website, scroll about, check out the different web pages as well as eat material as they please.
Nonetheless, if you are an organisation spending any kind of loan on marketing, you intend to manage what consumers are discovering on your site, existing deals at the right time, and make the most of the income you make from each individual.
ClickFunnels is the simplest method to make high transforming sales as well as advertising funnels.
It is a distinct tool developed specifically to transform potential customers right into buyers.
It truly is an all-in-one option to develop sales funnels as well as includes touchdown pages, e-mail assimilation, billing, webinars, subscription websites, and so far more. No surprise it has rapidly come to be a preferred device for marketing experts.
Below is my in-depth ClickFunnels Testimonial, consisting of favorite attributes, pricing, pros/cons, as well as contrasts versus competitors.
Stripe Payment Phishing: Yet First, Just What Is a Sales Channel?
Sales funnels (also called marketing funnels) are multi-step projects that are developed to move potential prospects with your sales procedure, as well as transform them right into buyers.
Photo a real-life channel. At the top, you put fluid in, which limits to one fixed destination.
In sales, a similar event occurs. At the top, site visitors arrive at your web site, yet not all that get in make it from the various other end as purchasers.
Numerous things need to happen from the moment a visitor enters your funnel, to the time they take action and also successfully finish a purchase.
By breaking down the consumer’s journey right into smaller steps, you could be extra accurate about how when you provide an offer to your target market.
As stated previously, ClickFunnels is the best sales channel software application around today.
The company makes the bold case of giving you whatever you need to market, sell, as well as deliver your items online – and they definitely supply.
Discover split-testing software program … and so on
But ClickFunnels cares for everything with their platform. You not just save a ton of cash by not needing to get various products/services, but you also avoid the technological mess of having to establish whatever up, and could concentrate on exactly what’s really crucial – expanding your company.
ClickFunnels supplies a Totally free 14-Day Test, so you get to explore the device and also actually see if it’s best for your company.
Favorite Attributes
* Promptly Produce Pages Using Themes as well as Aspects *.
Prior to obtaining too far, it is essential to understand that a channel is a collection of web pages put together in a calculated order, with the goal of transforming as many leads into consumers. And also a web page is just a collection of numerous aspects designed to get a person to take a particular activity.
ClickFunnels offers even more than 50 various elements to assist you build the excellent web page. The editor is extremely very easy to make use of and also all you have to do is drag and also drop different components on the web page, and upgrade the text as well as appearance to fit your needs – no coding abilities called for!
ClickFunnels additionally makes your life less complicated by providing you with a lots of cost-free layouts.
Actually, ClickFunnels offers over 37 kinds of web pages for you to mix and match with. These are broken down right into the complying with 10 classifications:
The pre-built layouts are fully personalized, and also are just what most customers make use of.
You have the ability to choose a theme, modify or replace the aspects with your own, as well as your new web page is ready to go.
You can additionally link any type of funnel you develop with your very own email marketing solution (if you do not make use of the one included in ClickFunnels), as well as utilize the ClickFunnels constructed in payment system.
This is additionally a good time to mention that ClickFunnels gives really beneficial as well as understandable training videos when you initially sign up. I extremely suggest going through those due to the fact that they promptly allow you to utilize the tool at its full ability, and also you’ll have much more fun playing around. * Develop One-Click Membership Websites *.
Among the very best functions with ClickFunnels is the capacity to easily create subscription sites and also provide web content to your target market in one area.
Your subscription site will certainly come complete with registration web pages, membership gain access to pages, as well as material pages which you could quickly lock or trickle feed to your consumers inning accordance with purchases they made in your channel.
ClickFunnels membership websites enable you to send e-mails, easily handle your emails, as well as construct a neighborhood all while getting rid of the stress that’s connected with various other services such as Kajabi, or WordPress systems.
It’s actually helpful to not have to get a separate software or plugin to create membership sites.
Nonetheless, ClickFunnels also has their own powerful automation device called Actionetics.
Although you can create, timetable, and also deliver e-mails similar to any other email advertising platform, Actionetics is so much more.
I love Actionetics due to the fact that it not just replaces your email advertising and marketing yet messenger advertising and marketing and also SMS marketing software programs also. This takes automation to an entire new level and also assists you connect the excellent message to your consumers, precisely when they need it. A video clip review of Actionetics will certainly be provided even more below.
* Invoicing and also Payment Integration *.
A fantastic function within ClickFunnels is the capacity to collect all the invoicing information from your customers right on your sales web page. Offering is made so much less complicated when consumers do not have to leave your website.
ClickFunnels incorporates with major payment gateways such as PayPal, Red Stripe, and InfusionSoft, among others.
1. ClickFunnels Requirement Plan – $97/month.
The conventional plan includes all the functions you would need within ClickFunnels, but with limitations on the number of funnels (20) and web pages (100) you can have in your account, as well as the amount of visitors (20K) can see your web pages per month.
You also do not receive innovative capability such as ClickFunnels own email advertising and marketing as well as affiliate tracking devices.
2. ClickFunnels Etison Suite – $297/month.
This strategy includes all the bells and whistles of the conventional strategy, with no restrictions. It likewise comes with two added items generated by ClickFunnels called Actionetics (email marketing) and also Knapsack (affiliate monitoring platform).
In Actionetics – you could handle every one of your calls that sign up for your checklist, send out email broadcasts, and also produce a host of various other automations. In Knapsack – with the click of a computer mouse, you could add an affiliate program to any one of your funnels. After that Knapsack will track your clicks, sales, and how much to pay your affiliate companions.
If there’s one question I get frequently, it’s “Which ClickFunnels Plan should I get”?
The distinction in between both strategies truly is the limitations, and Actionetics/Backpack. If you are a fundamental individual and also don’t expect to utilize more than 20 funnels in your account – the Standard Plan ought to be sufficient.
However, if you plan to have an associate program or intend to keep your e-mail advertising within ClickFunnels and also not make use of a 3rd party software program, the Etison Suite is for you.
You can always begin on the reduced plan as well as upgrade if needed.
3. Funnel Hacks System – $997
For anybody that’s significant about their business, the ClickFunnels Funnel Hacks System is the deal of the century.
The $997 Funnel Hacks System contains robust training programs packed with 6-month access to the ClickFunnels Etison Suite.
This is an amazing bargain because beyond this program, 6-months of Etison Suite alone would certainly cost you $1782.
ClickFunnels versus Everybody Else.
Many people ask exactly how ClickFunnels compares to other landing page builders such as Leadpages, Unbounce, and Infusionsoft.
Essentially it’s not truly a reasonable contrast due to the fact that each of these devices stands out is one area or the other.
The graph over gives a detailed analysis – yet I’ll highlight a few of the major contrasts listed below.
ClickFunnels vs Leadpages
Before ClickFunnels, Leadpages was the big pet.
Leadpages is merely a lead capture software – absolutely nothing even more. You can produce landing web pages, lead boxes, gather leads … that’s practically it. Furthermore, the Leadpages themes are also restricted on customization.
ClickFunnels is even more flexible – it’s much easier to use and also does so a lot more compared to produce lead capture pages.
Basically, Leadpages is really simply a landing web page builder, while ClickFunnels is concentrated around constructing highly incorporated funnels.
ClickFunnels vs Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is not a touchdown page or sales page contractor. It has some of that capability constructed it, but that’s not what it’s recognized for.
At it’s core, Infusionsoft is a CRM system – one that permits you to handle your entire client database. ClickFunnels has this capability with Actionetics, but it’s not almost as advanced as Infusionsoft.
Infusionsoft is additionally very expensive as well as forces every brand-new customer to pay $2000 for an obligatory kickstart coaching package simply to find out how to make use of the complex system (which is infamously hard to utilize).
ClickFunnels Affiliate Program
There are two main courses people go down as ClickFunnels users.
Those that opt to make use of the device for their business – in hopes of one day accomplish both Comma Club (over $1M in income).
And also those that are interested in making passive earnings as a ClickFunnels Associate and winning the Desire Car Contest (where they pay $500/$1000 in the direction of your desire cars and truck if you get to 100/200 active month-to-month signups, specifically).
With a tremendous 40% monthly recurring payment, ClickFunnels conveniently has among the best affiliate programs of any type of system around.
That’s right – you earn money a recurring 40% payment on every associate signup you make with the ClickFunnels Affiliate Program. But, just what does that really equate to?
The basic plan is a $97/month financial investment and also the Etison Collection strategy is a $297/month financial investment. for that reason you make $38.80 each fundamental strategy and $118.80 each Etison Collection strategy … every month!
Typically, every 100 signups will generate $4000/month in associate compensations (basically relying on how many Etison Strategy users remain in there).
Click here to find out more about coming to be a ClickFunnels Affiliate.
The Bottom Line
ClickFunnels is by far the greatest platform if you are seeking to easily build high transforming sales funnels.
Because it was developed from scratch to be the very best sales funnel builder, it defeats all of the competition because regard.
On the surface, it might not be the most inexpensive product available – however if you utilize it to its complete capacity, your company will end up being much more successful and also you will certainly save cash from not having to make use of other tools. Stripe Payment Phishing
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced that it is taking steps to address these concerns, with the establishment of a new consortium to strengthen cybersecurity for fintechs and data aggregators.
Atlanta-based fintech lender Kabbage is one of the founding members of the group, along with global bank Citigroup and Zurich Insurance Group.
Working in consultation with the WEF’s new Global Centre for Cybersecurity in Geneva, the consortium’s first tasks will be to create common principles for cybersecurity assessments, guidance for implementation and a points-based scoring framework.
It will also provide guidance for organizations on how they can improve their assessment scores.
The WEF created the new body after a number of leading experts identified the growing threat of cyberattacks on financial services providers as a major concern for the global financial system. Their assessment and proposed solutions were published in a whitepaper.
Mario Greco, chief executive officer of Zurich, said the consortium will help to establish cybersecurity best practices and reduce the complexity of differing regulations around the world. He also noted that the estimated cost of cybercrime for the next five years is $8 trillion.
Matthew Blake, head of the Financial and Monetary System Initiative at the WEF, said: “Fintechs can only deliver on their customer experience promises if the financial system is able to manage the risks adequately.
“This consortium will offer technology companies a clear goalpost and thus enable them to implement sound cybersecurity measures at the product design stage.”
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The cyber-attack at the Kudankulam nuclear power facility linked to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus presents the question about credible protection of sensitive assets vital to national security. Indian Nuclear Corporation (NPCIL) rejected the unverified report arguing the absence of any external network connection to the facility, later the malware detected was confirmed in investigation. One of the most famous cyber-attacks reported was Stuxnet in 2010 which targeted the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, leading to the acknowledgment of danger from cyber-attack on nuclear facilities. The primary function of the computer worm was to affect the centrifuges vital to the functioning of the uranium enrichment. It had a limited impact on the nuclear plant delaying the production. The most important aspect in the Kundankulam incident was that the nuclear facility was not connected to any external internet connection. But the sophisticated attack presented the possibility of a cyber-attack, which could have caused damage.
Chatham House report lists a nuclear weapon system as vulnerable, especially when a new digital component is added to the nuclear system. The modern industrial system works on the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Design Acquisition), integrating the whole network for efficiency and speed vital to the modern-day economy. There have been several incidents of cyber disruptions impacting secure systems, often related to the hacking communities which are constantly working to expose the flaws in the design and system. The ‘Wannacry’ ransomware affected the industrial system globally based on the exploit of a vulnerability used by the US intelligence agencies. A Homeland Security report presented the findings that Russia was involved in cyber-attacks affecting critical infrastructure including nuclear plants in the US and European countries, since 2016. In all these, the lesson that comes out for cyberspace is that conducting various malicious operations affecting sensitive areas can be accomplished even in ‘secure’ operations.
The most important concern is the capability of these attacks to disrupt and attack the critical infrastructure vital to the functioning of a country. Many countries have invested substantially for the protection of cyberspace with the development of offensive capabilities. These have been demonstrated by the creation of military cyber command with penetration of their network system worldwide. However, the situation becomes more problematic when the line separating non-state actors from state actors becomes blurred. The case was evident in the Lazarus North Korean hacker group or Internet Research Agency which has links to the Russian state pertinent to its role in the 2016 US presidential elections. The link between the terrorist outfits and the criminal organizations is evident and is dangerous as various illicit groups can be hired to divert the source of threat to nation’s critical infrastructure. The capability demonstration is very different in the case of cyberspace, with even smaller power capabilities to harm having the potential to cause tremendous damage, and a lack of credible response in case of an attack furthering the vulnerability. Iran, over the years, has demonstrated its cyber capability with major cyber-attacks targeting Saudi firms and penetrating vital national assets, including banks and a dam in the US too.
The Indo-Pacific comprises major nuclear-armed states, including India, China, North Korea, and Pakistan, apart from civilian nuclear facilities based in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The international order has an underlying tension between the US and its strategic competitors especially in the cyber domain, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea. Each of these countries has pushed for aggressive maneuvers. Their actions have led to cyber conflicts and have comprised attacks on both military and civilian assets. The US and Russia have targeted critical infrastructure such as power grid and inserted the trackers in the system for exploitation in future conflicts. These actions are unprecedented due to the involvement of the civilian infrastructure which had been hitherto avoided.
The alleged cyber-attacks originating from China towards other Asian countries also come with a precautionary posture with investments as targets. The ensuing battle over the technology leadership between China and the US, especially in their contention over the building the future network is vital to the issue of cyber safety and security. Huawei’s role in using its communication network to provide surveillance tools to governments in Africa demonstrates the vulnerability over control and usage of communication networks. The integrity of the system is vital for communication and information especially in case of reliability of command and control operations relying on real-time links. This link to the dimension of the contention between major powers adds to the cyber conflict more evidently. As Brandon Valeriano and Maness assessed in their work, Cyberwar versus Cyber Realities, a large number of cyber-attacks carried out consists of regional rivalries among states as a major factor.
The number of incidents reported, especially concerning the critical infrastructure, is moving up at a fast pace. The defense of the nuclear plants has already been highlighted as indispensable among important security measures required in the contemporary digital world for any country. Rapid integration of technologies in all systems is creating a far more complex interdependent system vital to both the military and civilian infrastructure. Strategic rivalry between states has shifted towards exploiting and disrupting the civilian communication and cyber infrastructure and is increasingly becoming the new normal. In this environment, the usual restraint observed by states is being pushed to higher threshold and in turn persuades the usage of offensive means by states and non-state actors, and nuclear facilities become the most vulnerable infrastructure.
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Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, says a Reuters report.
Sony shut down the network on April 19 after discovering the breach, one of the biggest online data infiltrations ever. But it was not until Tuesday that the company said the system had been hacked and that users' data could have been stolen.
In the United States, several members of Congress seized on the breach, in which hackers stole names, addresses and possibly credit card details from 77 million users, says the report. One U.S. law firm filed a lawsuit in California on behalf of consumers.
Sony's PlayStation Network, a service that produces an estimated $500 million in annual revenues, provides access to online games, movies and TV shows. Nine out of 10 of PlayStation's users are based in the United States or Europe, the report says.
The report says that Sony would need to account for the loss of business -- as well as damage to its brand -- when it tallies up the cost. Other costs include notifying customers of the attack and bringing in experts to cleanse its network.
Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, said the theft could cost Sony more than $1.5 billion, or an average of $20 for each of the 77 million customers whose data was potentially compromised.
Neither Sony CEO Howard Stringer nor Kazuo Hirai, who was appointed to the company's No. 2 position last month after building up Sony's networked services, have commented publicly.
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Researchers at Trellix warn of phishing attacks targeting election workers in advance of the US midterm elections. These attacks spiked ahead of the primary elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania earlier this year, and the researchers expect this trend to continue into the November elections.
“Over much of the last year, Trellix’s global network of threat sensors and the Trellix Advanced Research Center have identified a surge in malicious email activity targeting county election workers in the key battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania coinciding with these states’ primary elections,” the researchers write.
“In investigating the nature of this activity, Trellix identified a familiar password theft phishing scheme as well as a newer phishing scheme seeking to prey on the absentee ballot administration process.”
In some cases, attackers compromised legitimate email accounts and used them to send emails to election administrators.
“Many threat actors such as QBot, Hancitor, Emotet and others have been known to steal and use email threads that make it possible to target specific victims more effectively,” Trellix says. “These actors have found success in using such trusted email correspondence to deliver malicious documents (.zip, .pdf, .docx, etc.) or malicious download links such as that used in this sample.
The election administrator replies to make himself as helpful as possible to someone posing as a trusted partner in the election process. The attacker sends a Microsoft OneDrive link from which the election worker can download the completed absentee ballot applications.”
The researchers conclude that states and counties in the US have varying levels of funding and resources, which complicates defending against these attacks.
“The ‘primary surge’ reminds us the national issue of election security is very much a state and local issue with which state and local entities and infrastructure must wrestle,” the researchers write. “Furthermore, states and localities do not operate on an equal cybersecurity footing.
Some will be more susceptible to attacks than others and many will continue to require the help of the federal government to not only harden themselves to these and other attacks, but also educate local election employees in cyber hygiene to thwart them at their point of attack.”
New-school security awareness training can enable your employees to thwart phishing and other social engineering attacks.
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Aaron Rangel, Director of Product Management, iManage, outlines the types of attacks that DMS systems are susceptible to, as well as the data privacy regulations that apply to information in a DMS and the key elements that must be included in security audits.
In today's heightened security environment, pressure on Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to secure sensitive information across a myriad of applications, both on-premises and across the cloud, has never been higher.
Modern day security attacks involving stolen credentials exploited via phishing schemes have changed the game dramatically. Leading CISOs understand that the same rigour and energy applied to securing the network must transcend the network boundary to encompass hundreds of applications running on-premises as well as across private and public clouds.
To this end, the traditional software security stack has evolved to address the challenge by investing in user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA). These offerings generally work by harnessing the power AI and big data to develop a deep understanding of how individual users and entities such as devices behave and trigger alerts when anomalous behavioural patterns are detected.
While such solutions have seen reasonable adoption and success, their limitations stem from the fact that they are application agnostic. UEBA alerting is based on generic signals like network activity, file movement and source of network traffic, and suffers from the following three important limitations:
This is fast bubbling to the top of CISOs’ priority list. It’s a well-known fact that the DMS holds the “crown jewels" of professional services firms’ (e.g. legal, financial) information assets. Examples include the advice a firm delivers as a part of a consultative engagement, a legally binding contract for an asset sale or purchase, M&A due diligence, derivative agreements, etc.
The DMS contains highly privileged information that is not only prized by internal and external threat actors but must also be secured appropriately to comply with several data privacy regulations. As many firms don’t enforce retention policies consistently, it’s not uncommon for DMSs to contain information spanning 10-20 years.
Another problem is that a vast majority of documents in DMSs are not secured with an access control list and, as a result, even sensitive and confidential information is available to all DMS users.
The risk posed by not locking down privileged content stored in DMSs appropriately has not gone unnoticed by firms’ clients, who now use contracts and outside counsel guidelines to enforce closed need-to-know based security and activity monitoring.
Moreover, regulatory bodies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Serious Fraud Office (SRO) have routinely charged employees, at both law firms and financial services organisations, with insider trading because privileged M&A information was not sufficiently locked down.
Unintentional high-risk behaviour: This kind of risk is not posed by intentional, malicious behaviour, but by poor work habits. Typical examples include: a secretary sending firm documents to an individual who has recently left the organisation. Or a lawyer exporting a high volume of documents to a personal computer before going on vacation.
Abuse of privileged accounts: Administration accounts have broad privileges over content management operations, which makes them top candidates for misappropriation and phishing attacks.
Non-filers: Non-filers are those users who circumvent the DMS. They represent a risk to the firm as these users store content on local drives or other non-sanctioned repositories, which are not under organisational control.
Stolen credentials (phishing attacks): It’s a well-known fact that professionals in M&A, as well as heads of practice areas with public profiles, are prime targets for phishing attacks. Whether the perpetrator is an insider or an external party that has obtained stolen credentials, the signature threat pattern of such an attack is access of content outside the engagements and practice areas the victim typically works across.
Departing employees: Across professional services firms, the risk posed by departing employees is well understood. In law firms, in particular, there is a strong incentive for departing lawyers to take client business away from the firm when they leave. Similarly, it’s not uncommon for the head of a practice to leave and take his team along to a competing firm, or for a group of two to three partners to depart to set up their own firm.
For a managing partner to know beforehand when a partner is likely to leave can be game-changing. Advance knowledge of a likely departure may even give key stakeholders the ability to preempt the departure.
Sophisticated malicious insider: A malicious actor slowly but systematically accesses content across projects that he or she is not involved with, with the intention to find privileged information that can be monetised.
Disgruntled user: Not common, but here an employee simply downloads privileged client content and posts it in a public forum to embarrass the firm.
Having an integrated platform of applications that encompasses document management and collaboration, artificial intelligence and knowledge management – all built on a comprehensive security and information governance foundation – makes it easier to detect and mitigate threats.
The security and information governance foundation must incorporate principles from Zero Trust architecture, including always validate credentials, never trust, micro-segmentation, granular perimeter enforcement, and so on.
This approach represents a shift away from the traditional security model where ‘trust’ is inbuilt in the enterprise architecture – i.e. trust in network, trust between applications, trust in users and administrators and so on.
Securing information on a "need-to-know basis" needs to be a straightforward undertaking. Policy management must make it easy to silo information by department or practice area. This will restrict access to information to only those individuals who are authorised to view respective data in the DMS.
AI and analytics should form part of the technology mix in detecting DMS threat signals. This will ensure that intervention happens in real time to stop data loss that could adversely impact the firm or the firm's clients. All this must happen in close integration with the firm’s enterprise security stack by pushing DMS-centric alerts to a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool.
Implementing this kind of all-encompassing and a simultaneously layered approach to security by creating multiple defenses will make securing the “crown jewels" of the firm’s information assets comprehensive, ubiquitous, and invisible.
Moreover, as firms progress with their digital transformation journeys, which is fast becoming a major programme in many organisations, securing the DMS must be a key aspect of the broader enterprise security initiative.
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https://www.teiss.co.uk/infosec-c-suite-document-management-systems/
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If you’re looking for an antivirus security software program that offers comprehensive security, you’ll want to see Avast. It offers typical anti-virus, anti-ransomware, and anti-Trojan features, as well as a few additional. These addons include a personal firewall, pass word manager, VPN service, and network scanner. It also defends against cracking, malwares, and other threats that plague the web.
Avast offers three consumer-grade ant-virus suites, with a free variety that comes with additional tools. This version protects against basic malwares, wi-fi reliability, password protection, and ransomware. It was originally created for businesses, nonetheless it has quickly become the company’s data room software top source of downloads. It also comes with no cost trials for some of it is other products.
Avast’s user interface is very user friendly, and all of it is features happen to be readily available. There’s a status screen that shows if real-time safeguard is allowed, whether it is advisable to download new antivirus revisions, and if you should restart your PC. Its interface is uncluttered and possesses a classic color scheme, with orange, white, and green. It’s easy to find their way, and the primary screen is not hard and straightforward, with clear tiles for each device.
Avast comes with excellent malwares protection. It stops most of the sites that send malware coming from launching on your desktop. The anti virus even interrupts the download level of the destructive files. There are many files that it may miss, although it’s important to remember that Avast should catch these kinds of files just before they perform on your system.
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When you receive emails claiming to be sent by banking institution asking you to enter your account details, DO NOT do so! Your bank already has your details and clearly would not want them again.
Check if the email that you receive has your name spelt correctly. Fraudsters simply try to guess your name by your email address. DO NOT open emails that have your name spelt incorrectly.
DO NOT respond to emails that seem like they are sent from your bank. Some of the claims made in these emails may be the following:
If you receive such email always check back with your bank directly or speak to the customer service representative of the bank.
NEVER enter your credit card details and password in a website which you suspect is not genuine.
It is a good practice to type in the URL of your bank yourself, or bookmark it if the URL is difficult to remember.
DO NOT follow links to a banking website from another website or email.
Verify a website’s URL carefully before you provide your login details on any web page. Fraudsters create fake websites that have URLs closely resembling the original.
DO NOT share your account details, password, or credit card details with anyone who you do not know or trust.
Important tips to keep your password safe in the Cyber World.
Never tell or share your password or with anyone.
Never write your password on the paper, or send your password in Email or tell your password over telephone.
Always change your password regularly.
Avoid choosing the “Remember/Save my password” option.
Avoid typing the password in-front of others.
Always use the different passwords for different logins.
Do's
Use a password with mixed-case letters (eg, AaBb) and use upper-case letters in the middle and/or end, not just the beginning.
Use a password that is easy to remember, so you don’t have to write it down.
Use a password that you can type quickly, without having to look at the keyboard. This makes it harder for someone to steal your password by watching over your shoulder
Passwords are the secret which is used to protect the valuable personal information that is stored in our computer and in our Online Accounts.
Don’ts
Don’t tell a password over the phone to ANYONE.
Don’t reveal a password in a email message.
Don’t talk about a password in front of others.
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Fake Antivirus Update doesn’t outright claim that your computer is infected, unlike many other scam sites, such as Windows Security has been Compromised, Windows Support Alert, and the 5 viruses pop-ups,. But that doesn’t make this okay. It’s an obviously deliberate copy of Windows settings, it’s clearly meant to make people trust the page. Windows updates are extremely important for security and this fake update is very scummy in how it steals people’s trust. A similar “you may have viruses” type of ad was used by TotalAV.
Know that fake windows security warnings are pretty common online. They are used by tech support scammers to sell bogus security plans. One of the clearest signs of them and Fake Antivirus Update being fake is the URL of the warning: it never is the official one. Scammers use tricks to make their URLs look legit, so here's a good article on how to spot them. Also, your computer won’t warn you about your security in your browser; it will warn you on your desktop.
If you encounter Fake Antivirus Update, just ignore it and don’t download or agree to anything. Avoid even clicking your mouse anywhere on the page, as it might be programmed to trigger who-knows-what. Just close the browser tab. If you can’t get out of the browser, open Task manager by pressing the Ctrl, Shift, and Esc buttons together and then quit your browser.
Where is Fake Antivirus Update from?
I saw Fake Antivirus Update on Protectyourpc-al.club. This URL belongs to a large family of URLs with misleading messages: fake gift card and phone giveaways, fake instant cash loans, etc.
I suspect that many of the victims of this Fake Antivirus Update prompt have their computer infected with adware. Or that they frequent pirating sites, as those are usually full of malicious ads. Malicious ads, notification spammers, online ad redirects, and similar dangerous sites promote Fake Antivirus Update, along with other scams. Does your browser receive unwanted pop-ups from sites like Message-alert.info? Then visit this article on how to block them.
It looks like Fake Antivirus Update may be used to sometimes advertise Onesafe software. That’s not great. For example, take a look at these VirusTotal pages of their Drive Manager and PC Cleaner. Looking at web analytics, it looks like the Onesafe website gets a good chunk of its traffic from adware sites and shady redirects, so it’s not surprising that it would use misleading ads like Fake Antivirus Update.
Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Fake Antivirus Update . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Fake Antivirus Update easier to find.
Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.
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https://www.2-viruses.com/remove-fake-antivirus-update
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Today I will start a new article series, which will discuss all aspects of the SharePoint Variations feature.
The article series will provide insights into the underlying architecture and will also provide details about customization.
But before we can start with the internals we first have to start with the basics.
SharePoint Variations allows copying sites and content from the source variation label to one or more target variation labels. By default, the variations feature copies only the site structure and publishing pages from the Pages library of the source variation label.
The variations feature does not copy other site content, such as lists or other document libraries, unlike the content deployment feature, which copies all content, including lists and other document libraries, from one site to another.
It is possible to configure the variation feature to copy resources like images and documents bound to publishing pages also to target variation sites - but this will only work for documents and images which reside in libraries and folders which also exist in the target site with the same site relative Url.
Another important difference between the variation feature and content deployment is that the copied content in the target variation labels can be changed, unlike the content deployment feature, for which changing copied content on the target is discouraged.
By default, when users navigate to the Variation Root Site, they are redirected to the appropriate top site of a variation label, based on the language setting of their Web browser. For example, if a user's default browser language is French, SharePoint Server 2010 redirects that user to the top site of the French variation label.
It is possible to customize this behavior by replacing or updating the redirection page responsible for the routing with a different page. This new page can implement custom logic to redirect the user based on other criteria (e.g. information from the User-Agent string).
We will discuss the details about how to achieve this in a later chapter.
Terminology
The Variation Feature allows tailoring publishing sites for different cultures, markets, languages, devices or any other criteria defined by a customer.
Variation settings enable site owners to create and maintain a number of different "variations," of the same publishing sites or pages.
Each site collection can have a maximum of one hierarchical structure, which supports variations. Each variation label defines the top site of a sub-tree of this hierarchy. The site, which contains the different site structures (e.g. one structure for English and one for German) of the different variation labels, is the variation root site.
As only one hierarchical structure supporting variations can exist in a site collection it also means that there can only be one variation root per site collection.
The variation root site contains the landing page that contains the logic, which redirects users to the correct label (more details in a later chapter).
The variation root site can be a site at any level in a site collection, including the top-level site. It is not possible to change the variation root site after the variation hierarchy has been created.
Variation Labels
Variation labels are the names given to each of the variants. For example, variant labels could be language names - such as English, French, or German - or devices - such as PDA, mobile phone, Internet Explorer - or a combination of both like Spanish mobile phone, English Internet Explorer etc.
The flexibility is endless as the Variation system allows customers to define a custom routing logic to decide to which label to redirect a user who browses the site (more details in a later chapter).
Up to 50 variation labels are supported in a site collection.
Variation pages are the publishing pages that are stored in the Pages library of the source variation sites and the target variation sites. These pages and any dependent resources such as images and documents are the only content that is copied from the source label to the target labels.
Important: Storing non-publishing pages inside the Pages library of a site is unsupported! Non-publishing pages inside the Pages library of a site in the source label can cause the Variations Create Hierarchies Job Definition timer job to fail.
The variation system needs to keep track about peer sites and pages to ensure that updates performed in the source label are correctly transferred to the target label.
This tracking information is stored in the Relationships List. Each page or site in the variation hierarchy is represented in the relationships list as a separate list item: the Relationships List Entry.
We will discuss the Relationships List in more detail in a later chapter.
you can only choose languages for which a language pack has been installed.
So this can only happen if you have multiple servers in a farm and on one server you forgot to install the language pack.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stefan_gossner/2011/11/14/sharepoint-variations-the-complete-guide-part-1-the-basics/
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UK law firms are now starting to realise that responsibility for cyber security doesn’t just lie within the IT team, and that technical controls alone can’t protect a business from today’s attacks.
I often see the phrase ‘cyber security is a people issue not an IT issue’. It’s true that this needs to be a shared responsibility, but there are some basic things that you should expect your technical team to do to minimise the risks.
Know your infrastructure
It takes an average of 206 days to detect a cyber attack.
This means that a successful intrusion into your network goes undetected for a significant length of time. Your IT team should know normal patterns of behaviour for your network.
The only way to do this is to get to know the heartbeat of your infrastructure.
Early detection of unusual patterns of traffic such as overseas IPs, unusually large amounts of data transfer could help to spot a breach early and minimise the damage, but this is only possible if your team know what normal behaviour is.
Basic email security is essential. User training is crucial, but every IT department should have implemented basic DNS protections for your domain.
This should be a combination of SPF, DKIM and DMARC as a bare minimum. DMARC is recommended by the National Centre for Cyber Security and there are some really good tools around to help with config so there should be no excuses here.
Patch
If not the most basic yet vital protection.
The WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017 spread so rapidly due to unpatched operating systems. Under no circumstances should a firm be using legacy systems that are unsupported by the vendor.
Make sure your team are applying patches as soon as they are released and keeping logs of when systems and software are patched.
It’s particularly important to regularly patch particularly vulnerable software such as Adobe, Java and WordPress.
On 14th January 2020, Microsoft announced that it would no longer be providing technical support for its outdated operating platform Windows 7. Two final patches were issued at the end of January, but now the system lies vulnerable as no other updates are said to be sent out. Upgrading your operating platform to a newer version will prevent this issue from becoming a problem.
Say no
I have lost count of the number of times that I’m asked to provide temporary admin access, make an exception to a control for the benefit of speed etc.
Access control processes are there for a reason. If they are often bypassed, they become not worth the paper they’re written on and can leave a firm open to attacks through elevated permissions.
These attacks need not be malicious but more so a careless action by an employee.
Keep up to date
IT departments should keep up to date with industry and global cyber security trends.
I would expect my team to be familiar with the latest attacks and to make recommendations to prevent similar ones happening to us.
Although this research and reading takes time, it’s a worthy investment.
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It’s that moment of year again. All the significant internet stability companies have released his or her new stability products; together with they’re all endeavoring to best each other with their particular most effective features and instruments.
In case you are in the industry for internet security application, then you have a good wide list to pick from. And this could be good in that you are sure to come across one of which meets your current safety measures wants. But picking out the right software may be tough too, as the particular features and tools can be quite several.
We’ve analyzed and tried all often the leading security products and have found one that requires the most effective online security gmc merit.
BitDefender internet stability the moment again has consumed the first place with regard to malware safeguard with it has the 2012 edition. It possesses released some new features together with tools and it has improved the older a person’s too.
BitDefender protects you from a myriad of spyware and adware threats like adware, spyware, viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and browser hijackers. internetbeskyttelse block out attacks by dynamic-link library code injection, a hacker technique. This threat takes in the address space of the legitimate process and transforms its behaviour from harmless to malicious.
BitDefender in addition protects your PERSONAL COMPUTER by attempts to change its technique files and windows registry take some time. And the idea defends from attempts to access computer recollection.
Another protection feature you get from its antispyware feature is protection of your chat process like Google messenger or MSN Messenger by reducing spam and spyware. Plus this consists of an anti-phishing utility that lets you know often the real URL in case the site in question is fake.
Antivirus
One of often the most important points an individual should look on any time purchasing internet security application is the antivirus program. BitDefender has a superior antivirus security software program that provides been certified and accredited by AV-Test, ICSA and West Coast Labs. They are the most respected third-party try out amenities and they nominate each anti-virus software program a test score determined by its ability to protect against malicious computer software attacks.
BitDefender Antivirus is thus effective because this reads all incoming together with extroverted PC communications. That scans run in timely to help stop hazards before these people infiltrate your PC. It has the Active Pathogen Control have that running watches every particular process working on your computer. It then checks for actions the fact that copy malware and watches processes continuously.
Firewall
BitDefender World wide web Security has a new dual end firewall that obstructions cyber-terrorist, malware threats and web criminals. It works in the office, at your home or on the path and link to often the internet with confidence. But it will surely automatically adjust its controls to suit your place.
It has an incorporated Wi-Fi monitor that defends your PC from undesired attempts to access your own network.
Some sort of disabled firewall is similar to not really having one at almost all, yet gamers routinely flip off their particular firewall options to access together with go PC games. Using BitDefender’s gamer mode, extra fat need to have to modify then you should turn on the fire wall. You will be protected although game playing and the gamer mode may stop disorders while you aren’t in full screen style.
BitDefender proceeds to discharge the perfect internet security software and now we are pleased to see they’ve improved their particular effectiveness once again. So anyone won’t struggle safeguarding your own personal PC’s, laptops, both equally from home and in often the office.
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https://www.gohitcounter.com/best-internet-security-2012-rapid-can-be-the-best-internet-security-program-for-my-pc/
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36 healthcare data breaches of more than 500 records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, during September, a 26.53% drop in the number of breaches from August.
1,957,168 healthcare records were illegally accessed in those breaches, a rise of 168.11% from August. The massive rise in the number of breached records is largely down to four reported incidents, each of which included hundreds of thousands of healthcare records. Three of those incidents have been revealed as ransomware attacks.
Largest Healthcare Data Breaches During September 2019
The largest breach during September was due to a ransomware attack on Jacksonville, FL-based North Florida OB-GYN, part of Women’s Care of Florida. 528,188 healthcare records were possibly compromised due to the attack. Sarrell Dental also suffered a ransomware attack in which the records of 391,472 patients of its Alabama clinics were encrypted. 320,000 records of patients of Premier Family Medical in Utah were also possibly compromised in a ransomware attack. The University of Puerto Rico reported a network server hacking incident including 439,753 records of Intramural Practice Plan members. The exact manner of the breach is unclear.
Those four breaches made up 85.80% of the healthcare records breached during September.
Hacking/IT incidents made up the most of the breach reports in September with 24 incidents reported. There were nine unauthorized access/disclosure incidents and three cases of loss/theft of physical and digital records.
1,917,657 healthcare records were infiltrated in the 24 hacking/IT incidents which made up 97.98% of breached records in September. The average breach size was 958,829 records and the median breach size was 5,255 records.
Unauthorized access/disclosure incidents in September made up 1% or 19,741 breached records. The mean breach size was 2,193 records and the median breach size was 998 records. There were two reported theft incidents including 4,770 physical and electronic records and a single loss incident involving 15,000 records stored on a portable electronic device.
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https://www.netsec.news/healthcare-data-breach-report-for-september-2019-published/
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Doctor Web security researchers have examined two malicious programs for Linux. One of them installs a cryptocurrency-mining application on the devices it infects, and the other runs a proxy server.
The first of the two was added to the Dr.Web virus databases under the name Linux. MulDrop.14. This malicious program attacks only Raspberry Pi minicomputers. Criminals started distributing Linux. MulDrop.14 in the second half of May. The Trojan is a script that contains a compressed and encrypted application designed to mine cryptocurrency. Linux. MulDrop.14 changes the password on the devices it infects, unpacks and launches a miner, and then, in an infinite loop, starts searching for network nodes with an open port 22. After establishing a connection with them via the SSH protocol, the Trojan attempts to run a copy of itself on them.
The other Trojan was named Linux. ProxyM. Attacks involving this Trojan have been noted since February 2017 but peaked in late May. The below chart shows how many Linux. ProxyM attacks Doctor Web specialists have pinpointed:
A significant portion of the attacked IP addresses is located in Russia. In second place is China, and in third place—Taiwan. The below illustration shows the geographical locations from which Linux. ProxyM attacks have been launched:
The Trojan uses a special range of methods to detect honeypots—special decoy servers used by digital security specialists to examine malicious software. Once launched, it connects to its command and control server and, after getting confirmation from it, runs a SOCKS proxy server on the infected device. Cybercriminals can use this Trojan to ensure that they remain anonymous online.
Both of these Trojans are successfully detected and removed by Dr.Web products for Linux, and, therefore, they pose no threat to our users.
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https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=11320&c=23&lng=en&p=0
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The report provides a detailed overview of the industry including both qualitative and quantitative information. It provides overview and forecast of the global malware analysis market based on various segments. It also provides market size and forecast estimates from year 2017 to 2027 with respect to five major regions, namely; North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and South America. The malware analysis market by each region is later sub-segmented by respective countries and segments. The report covers analysis and forecast of 18 countries globally along with current trend and opportunities prevailing in the region.
The report analyzes factors affecting malware analysis market from both demand and supply side and further evaluates market dynamics effecting the market during the forecast period i.e., drivers, restraints, opportunities, and future trend. The report also provides exhaustive PEST analysis for all five regions namely; North America, Europe, APAC, MEA and South America after evaluating political, economic, social and technological factors effecting the malware analysis market in these regions.
MARKET PLAYERS
The reports cover key developments in the malware analysis market as organic and inorganic growth strategies. Various companies are focusing on organic growth strategies such as product launches, product approvals and others such as patents and events. Inorganic growth strategies activities witnessed in the market were acquisitions, and partnership & collaborations. These activities have paved way for expansion of business and customer base of market players. The market payers from malware analysis market are anticipated to lucrative growth opportunities in the future with the rising demand for malware analysis in the global market. Below mentioned is the list of few companies engaged in the malware analysis market.
The report also includes the profiles of key malware analysis companies along with their SWOT analysis and market strategies. In addition, the report focuses on leading industry players with information such as company profiles, components and services offered, financial information of last 3 years, key development in past five years.
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https://www.theinsightpartners.com/reports/malware-analysis-market/
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Employees are on the frontlines of information technology. Smart companies have detailed cybersecurity policies for their employees to follow. Yet, even with such strict measures, it is important to stay alert and ensure your company’s data and network remain secure. Your organization may have the best cybersecurity practices in place, but employees play a huge part in keeping things secure.
Employees are one of the company’s most valuable assets. However, they can also be the company’s biggest security vulnerability. Companies can reduce the chance of security breaches by properly educating and raising awareness among their employees on the best cybersecurity practices. Educating yourself about the day to day things that contribute to successful cybersecurity can go a long way toward protecting your company.
If you do not recognize the sender or URL, do not engage. Before clicking anything that looks suspicious, verify that it is legitimate. Phishing is the most common method for acquiring credentials. These attacks are emails containing links that may appear legitimate to trick users into releasing personal or company information. As an employee, you should be cautious when it comes to emails with attachments or links from unknown senders.
The best way to avoid falling into such a trap is to avoid entering any personal information or credentials in unknown popups, links, or emails. Double-check the sender and protect your company from a phishing attack by reporting any such instances.
Use strong passwords
No matter how much it is emphasized, it is important to use strong, complex passwords for accessing your systems and devices. Simple passwords are the easiest to crack. Having vulnerable credentials will not only put your other accounts in jeopardy but could also be used against your company. Password bypassing tools are becoming even more sophisticated. Therefore, the best way to ensure security is to use professional tools such as locally encrypted password vaults, these tools can create and store complex passwords for you. This way, you can ensure you have a complex password that any unwanted intruder will have to work harder to breach your account.
Also, consider changing your passwords regularly, or setting up Multifactor Identification (MFA) whenever possible. Also, do avoid keeping the same password for multiple accounts.
Most companies regularly hold cybersecurity awareness workshops and training for their employees. This is done to alleviate as many cybersecurity breaches caused by employee negligence, or human error, as possible. As an employee, you should be aware of the aftermath of cyber threats and risks to confidential information. Attend any workshops and classes that can help you identify any suspicious webpages, popups, or phishing emails. Gaining more knowledge of cybersecurity awareness can enhance your skill and help in preventing any avoidable data breaches.
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The ICO continues to update and publish new guidance for individuals and organisations on how to deal with data protection issues during the pandemic. The advice can be found on their general coronavirus information hub. Here, you can drill down into more specific data protection advice on topics such as secure working from home, as well as how to avoid scams during the pandemic. The ICO offers some welcome reassurance in a statement issued earlier this month explaining that they “stand ready to investigate any business taking advantage of the current pandemic” explaining in particular that, where they find evidence of fraud, they will work closely with Action Fraud, Trading Standards and relevant agencies to continue to protect people, raise awareness and stop criminal activity.
The dominant and consistent message issued by the ICO is that data protection law will not stop organisations from responding to the crisis. The hub is being regularly updated to reflect the changes in response to the pandemic.
ICO publishes guidance on their regulatory approach during the coronavirus pandemic
On 15 April 2020, the ICO published guidance on its regulatory approach during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the guidance, the ICO acknowledges the "capacity shortages" and "financial pressures" organisations face due to the pandemic. It noted that the flexibility of the legal framework allows it to commit to an "empathetic and pragmatic approach" to its regulation throughout this crisis.
The ICO specifically pointed out the "severe front-line pressures" forcing health, local and central government, and police authorities to redeploy resources as necessary. The ICO stated it will support these authorities, while providing "practical support" to the public on understanding and exercising their information rights in relation to such authorities. Lastly, the ICO referred to its commitment to proportionality, enshrined in its Regulatory Action Policy, as the guiding principle to its regulatory investigations and enforcement action during this crisis.
With regard to enforcement, the ICO’s position is, amongst other things, that; “Organisations should continue to report personal data breaches to us,without undue delay. This should be within 72 hours of theorganisation becoming aware of the breach, though we acknowledge that the current crisis may impact this.”
In relation to the investigatory process: “We will take into account the particular impact of the crisis on that organisation. This may mean less use of formal powers that require organisations to provide us with evidence, and allowing longer periods to respond.” “[w]e will take into account whether the organisation’s difficulties result from the crisis, and if it has plans to put things right at the end of the crisis. We may give organisations longer than usual to rectify any breaches that predate the crisis, where the crisis impacts the organisation’s ability to take steps to put things right.
“[b]efore issuing fines we take into account the economic impact and affordability. In current circumstances, this is likely to mean the level of fines reduces.” "We will recognise that the reduction in organisations’ resources could impact their ability to respond to Subject Access Requests”.
The ICO has also helpfully provided a 'security checklist' for organisations whose employees are working from home during the pandemic. The main message in this regard is that, while data protection law does not prevent organisations from using IT solutions to meet the challenges as organisations shift towards a 'work from home' model, organisations must ensure that any such solutions must be secure in terms of effectively protecting the organisation and its clients' personal data.
Should you or your company have further questions about the ICO's approach on data protection amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection team at Stephenson Harwood.
EU takes steps to manage Covid-19, mobile data and apps
As countries around the world begin to consider the use of contact-tracing apps as an exit strategy for Covid-19, the UK appears to be following suit. The Government has launched a track and tracing app to be piloted on the Isle of Wight in the first week of May. Access to the app will initially be offered to NHS staff before being made more widely available to download. The ICO has provided oversight on the development of the contact-tracing app, and will continue to monitor it (including to review and comment on the app’s Data Protection Impact Assessment and privacy notice). Elizabeth Denham has stressed that the ICO will not ‘sign off or approve’ the app; but will be an “expert adviser and enforcer”.
The contact-tracing app uses Bluetooth signals between devices in order to alert those who have been in close proximity to someone who later develops and records symptoms (if that individual chooses to let the app inform the NHS). While data will be anonymised, this could clearly have significant data privacy implications, particularly as individuals’ locations will be continuously tracked and there are fears that the unique IDs given to each device could be used to “de-anonymise” people who report symptoms. The Health Secretary confirmed on 4 May 2020 that the app has been designed with privacy in mind and has been signed off by the National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”). Prof John Newton from Public Health England further clarified that the app itself does not hold personal information and “people should feel reassured by all the precautions that have been taken”.
In response to the contact-tracing app trend, the European Commission and the EDPB are also working to promote a common approach to the use of mobile apps and data in fighting coronavirus. The European Commission has issued guidance on the apps supporting the fight against Covid 19 following the publication of its recommendation setting out a “toolbox” for Europe on how to use technology and data to combat Covid-19. The key message from the European Commission is that countries across the EU must adopt a synonymous approach which, in turn, will enable citizens to social distance more effectively without the strict country-wide restrictions on movement we are still seeing today. On 14 April, the EDPB emphasised the need to consult data protection authorities, particularly in the development phase of any contact-tracing app. The EDPB also noted that these apps will not have the desired effect without the majority of the population’s consent and sign-up, which means that the app (and governments alike) must ensure transparency in relation to use of personal data, compliance with privacy laws and protection of citizen’s fundamental rights.
The question of whether true anonymity will be achieved if data points including location and unique identifiers are used remains, and will likely be subject to further scrutiny. In addition, the extent of any data sharing with private sector companies, and controls on the uses for which those companies put the highly sensitive data they receive, will need to be carefully managed to ensure compliance with data protection law.
Zoom, the video-conferencing software, has risen in popularity since the Covid-19 crisis. Many private individuals, companies and even the UK government now use it to host personal and work meetings from home. Zoom claims (on its website) that it "does not monitor" meetings or their contents, and that it "complies with all applicable privacy laws, rules and regulations in the jurisdictions in which it operates".
However, the Financial Times recently reported that, since February 2020, some video/audio conferences initiated on Zoom were routed through two of its data centres located in China, despite the users being based outside China. Zoom said this was a "mistake", and that it had fixed the flaw which occurred "under extremely limited circumstances". According to the FT, Zoom explicitly noted that government users were not affected by this "mistake".
Interestingly, the Taiwanese Department of Cyber Security formally issued an advisory warning on 7 April 2020 to Taiwan's government organisations reminding that any video conferencing software used should be secure. The warning specifically mentioned Zoom as an example of video communication service which has "associated security or privacy concerns", but does not go on to elaborate how those concerns came about.
The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory base at the University of Toronto that focuses on research and development of IT and global security, noted that Zoom's popularity, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, has made it a "high priority target" for "targeted intrusion operations".
This serves as a reminder to users to understand the privacy and security policies of software which they propose to use, whether during this pandemic or otherwise.
On 4 March 2020, Advocate General Szpunar handed down his opinion on the matter of Orange România SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP) (Case C-61/19) (the "Opinion").
This case concerns Orange, a telecommunication service provider which copied customers' identity documents and attached them to paper-based contracts for the provision of its services. The ANSPDCP (Romania's national data protection regulator) took the view that Orange had failed to obtain the customers' informed consent to this practice, and imposed an "administrative penalty" on Orange.
Orange pointed to a clause in the contract which provided that the customer "has been informed of and has consented to…the keeping [by Orange] of copies of documents containing personal data for the purposes of identification." Consequently, Orange brought an action to appeal the ANSPDCP's fine in the Bucharest Regional Court. The Regional Court requested a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU.
In the Opinion, Advocate General Szpunar opined that the clause in Orange's contract (referred to above) failed to meet the strict requirements of the GPDR. In particular, he noted that the customers' consents were not "freely given" as the GDPR necessitates an active indication of consent. He clarified that "passive behaviour", such as "consent in the form of a preselected tick of a checkbox", of which Orange's contractual clause is analogous, did not satisfy the active consent requirement. Advocate General Szpunar also stated that the customers' consents were not "informed consent" as it was not "crystal-clear to the customer that a refusal to the copying and storing of his or her ID card does not make the conclusion of a contract impossible." This ties in with his emphasis that, in the context of formation of contract, a data subject must be told of the "consequences of refusing consent", i.e. whether refusing consent would preclude a contract being concluded.
This serves an important reminder to our readers to keep under review any data processing clauses in their commercial contracts to ensure compliance with the GDPR, the substance of which will continue to be operative after the Brexit transition period ends after 31 December 2020. If you have any queries on the above, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection team at Stephenson Harwood.
The opinion can be accessed here.
Supply chain: risks arising from supply chain partners, particularly in the energy and telecommunications sectors.
Increasing social engineering attacks: the CCG reiterated the need for firms to educate their employees to better identify and report deceptive tactics aimed at persuading the employees to disclose information.
Ransomware: the CCG noted the importance of updating hardware and software, as well as separating key segments of the network to "isolate critical elements" where possible.
Looking ahead, the CCG recommended firms to focus on reinforcing weak links in the following areas, amongst others, to minimise future cyber-attacks:
Cloud security: the increasing reliance on cloud-based software requires such environments to be encrypted, protected and managed. The CCG noted the possible inclusion of "kill switch" technology as a potential response to cyber-attacks.
Development and Security Operations: the CCG pointed out the importance of embedding robust security practises into an organisation's development approach. This can be achieved by "an integrated consideration at each stage of the development process", with particular focus on privacy, security and compliance.
Importantly, the FCA clarified that this document is not an FCA guidance. To find out more about FCA guidance on cyber resilience, please visit the FCA’s dedicated webpage or contact the Data Protection team at Stephenson Harwood.
NHS at risk of cyber-attack amidst Covid-19 crisis
In our March 2020 bulletin, we raised the issue of phishing and spam emails related to the Covid-19 crisis. Unfortunately, cyber security issues arising from the pandemic have not eased off. In fact, they seem to have worsened to the extent that experts are now warning that the NHS is at risk of cyber-attacks whilst it struggles with the physical fight against the virus.
Hospitals in Spain, France and the Czech Republic have all reported being hit by cyber-attacks during the Covid-19 crisis. Similarly, the WHO and the US Department of Health have both been targets of cyber-attacks during this period.
The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport commissioned the Cyber Security Breaches Survey of UK businesses and charities "as part of the National Cyber Security Programme". This survey was carried out by Ipsos MORI, and the Survey was released on 25 March 2020. Please see here to access the Survey.
The Survey aims to highlight to UK organisations the "nature and significance of cyber security threats they face". Worryingly, the Survey found that between 2019 and 2020, 46% of UK businesses and 26% of charities have reported at least one cyber security breach or attack. The primary targets are medium businesses (68%), large businesses (75%) and high-income charities (57%). Approximately one in five UK businesses that have suffered a cyber-security breach or attack also report a "material outcome", either losing money or data.
While the Survey notes that UK businesses are becoming more cyber resilient, it warns that there is more to be done "on a range of diverse topics", including audits, cyber insurance, managing supplier risk and reporting breaches. The Survey singled out suppler risks as an area that is often overlooked when businesses audit their cyber resilience. In particular, it notes that businesses fail to consider the security of non-digital service suppliers that form part of their supplier network.
On Supreme Court’s much anticipated decision in WM Morrison Supermarkets Ltd v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 represents the first data class action in the UK of its kind.
In summary, the Claimants' (5,518 Morrisons' employees) claims arise from Mr Skelton's unauthorised uploading of personal data (including names, addresses, dates of birth, home and mobile phone numbers, national insurance numbers, and details of bank accounts and salaries) relating to nearly 100,000 Morrisons' employees (the "Data") to a file-sharing website in 2014 (the "Breach"). Mr Skelton, who, at the time of the Breach, was a senior internal IT auditor at Morrisons, had become disgruntled by virtue of an internal disciplinary relating to his operating a side-business using Morrisons' post room. Thereafter, Mr Skelton, who had the right to access the Data as a result of his role, copied the Data, uploaded it to a file sharing website (in a manner which was intended to frame another Morrisons' employee), and provided copies of the Data to three UK newspapers.
The Claimants' claimed that, in failing to prevent the Breach, Morrisons was primarily liable for breaches of the Act, misuse of private information, and / or breaches of confidence (the "Primary Claims"), or, alternatively, vicariously liable for Mr Skelton's misuse of private information and / or breaches of confidence (the "VL Claims").
At first instance, Langstaff J dismissed the Primary Claims (as Morrisons had not, itself, misused, or authorised the misuse of, the Data, and had in place appropriate measures to ensure that the Data was not misused by its employees, and was therefore not in breach of the Act), but held that Morrisons was vicariously liable for the Breach, and, accordingly, upheld the VL Claims. This judgment was upheld in its entirety by the Court of Appeal.
The Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal’s decision holding that the VL Claims failed as a matter of principle. In applying the “close connection” limb (i.e. whether a close link exists between the wrongful conduct of the employees and the business of the employer or nature of the employment) of the two-stage test for establishing vicarious liability, the Supreme Court held that an employer should not be liable for an employee’s wrongful act where that act is not engaged in furtherance of the employer’s business, and is an effort to deliberately harm the employer as part of a revenge tactic.
Separately, in relation to Morrisons argument that the Data Protection Act 1998 excluded vicarious liability, the Supreme Court held:
“The imposition of a statutory liability upon a data controller is not inconsistent with the imposition of a common law vicarious liability upon his employer, either for the breach of duties imposed by the DPA, or for breaches of duties arising under the common law or in equity. Since the DPA is silent about the position of a data controller’s employer, there cannot be any inconsistency between the two regimes. That conclusion is not affected by the fact that the statutory liability of a data controller under the DPA, including his liability for the conduct of his employee, is based on a lack of reasonable care, whereas vicarious liability is not based on fault.”
Accordingly, where a data breach arises out of the actions of an employee which satisfy the “close connection” test, vicarious liability on the part of the employer in circumstances where they may have no statutory duty under relevant data protection legislation (or other liability generally (e.g. for breach of confidence), remains a possibility.
UK cooperation with the USA on the "ISIS Beatles" held unlawful by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently handed down judgment in Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 10. This case concerns the 'Jihadi Beatles'; two British nationals who were ISIS members that the USA wanted to prosecute. Theresa May (when she was Home Secretary) initially denied Mutual Legal Assistance ("MLA") for the USA as it could not provide assurances that it the British nationals would not receive the death penalty. However, Sajid Javid, when he became Home Secretary, granted MLA to the USA without seeking the same assurances.
Ms El Gizouli, the appellant, is the mother of Shafee El Sheikh, brought a claim against the Home Office alleging that: (i) English law does not allow the Home Secretary to trespass on the right to life; or alternatively, (ii) the Data Protection Act 2018 (the "DPA 2018") does not permit the Home Office to transfer personal data to law enforcement authorities abroad for use in capital criminal proceedings.
The Supreme Court dismissed the first two grounds, but found for the appellant on the data protection ground. In particular, it held that Section 76(2) of the DPA 2018 provided that the ability of the Home Office to transfer data to a third country under the 'special circumstances' gateway is disapplied where this will affect the data subject's fundamental rights and freedom. Since the USA could not guarantee that, if Shafee El Sheikh is convicted, he would be subject to the death penalty, then his right to life, being a fundamental right, could be affected.
The full judgment can be read here.
UK Supreme Court grants Google permission to appeal Lloyd v Google case
The Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal the Court of Appeal's judgment in Lloyd v Google LLC [ 2019] EWCA Civ 1599.
The facts of the case have been covered in detail in a previous update.
Between August 2011 and February 2012, Google took advantage of an Apple-devised exception to cookie blockers, the “Safari Workaround”, which allowed Google to harvest, without consent, browser generated information (“BGI”) of Apple iPhone users. This BGI, which constituted personal data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “DPA”), gave Google unprecedented insight into the habits and preferences of more than 4 million Apple iPhone users (the “Data Subjects”) which it packaged and sold to advertisers, allowing them to target marketing specifically at the Data Subjects.
Google has already been subject to individual claims before the English Court as a result of these activities, which gave rise to the critical judgment in Vidal-Hall v Google [2015] EWCA Civ 311 which established that damages for non-pecuniary loss were, in principle, available under s.13 DPA.
Mr Lloyd, the former executive director of Which, and a consumer rights activist, is pursuing a representative claim on behalf both of himself, and other affected Data Subjects, under r.19.6 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (the “CPR”), seeking damages under s.13 DPA for breaches of s.4(4) DPA.
Before the claim can proceed in earnest, amongst other things, Mr Lloyd requires the English Court’s permission to serve the proceedings out of the jurisdiction on Google.
At first instance, Warby J refused to grant permission to Mr Lloyd to serve the proceedings out of the jurisdiction, as he considered that Mr Lloyd’s claim did not have a real prospect of success as, amongst other things, he had failed to demonstrate that the Claimants had either: (a) suffered "damage" for the purposes of s.13 DPA; and, in any event (b) had either the "same interest" within the meaning of CPR 19.6(1)1, or were ascertainable as members of a specific class.
However, on 2 October 2019, in a seminal judgment, the Court of Appeal overturned Warby J’s judgment, holding that: (a) the Data Subjects were entitled to recover damages pursuant to s.13 DPA, based on the loss of control of their personal data alone, regardless of whether they had suffered pecuniary loss or distress; (b) the Data Subjects represented in the claim did, in fact, have the same interest for the purposes of CPR 19.6(1); and (c) the Court should exercise its discretion to permit Mr Lloyd to act as a representative for the Data Subjects.
If the Supreme Court upholds the Court of Appeal's decision, it will significantly widen the scope of data protection claims under the DPA 1998, and probably also under the Data Protection Act 2018 (which offers similar remedies at sections 167 to 169), and potentially open the floodgates to US-style class actions by representative Claimants on behalf of classes of affected data subjects.
The High Court judgment can be accessed here. The Court of Appeal's judgment can be read here.
Dutch data protection authority fines sports association
On 2 March 2020, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the "DDPA") issued a €525,000 fine against the Dutch National Tennis Association (the "Association") for breach of data protection laws.
The Association had collected personal data from its members, which the Association then provided to two sponsors for marketing purposes under a data sharing agreement.
The DDPA found that, whilst the Association had lawfully collected its members' personal data, the commercialisation of such data was unlawful. In particular, the DDPA held that the Association could not rely on the members' initial consent (under the membership agreement) to have their personal data processed for its subsequent sale of the same personal data to the sponsors.
This highlights the complications that can arise in relation to commercialisation of personal data. Readers should ensure that they have properly identified a separate ground for processing stored personal data for the purposes of the sale.
First Tier Tribunal orders a general stay on all appeals against ICO rulings
Following the ICO's application for a general stay, on 31 March 2020, McKenna J (President of the First Tier Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber) ordered a stay of 28 days on all appeals against rulings of the ICO. She also ordered that all time limits in any new and current proceedings be extended by 28 days. The stay begins on 1 April 2020 and will be reviewed after it expires on 28 April 2020.
McKenna J made the order in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the fact that the ICO has been temporarily closed as a result thereof. If you have any appeals pending against the ICO and would like assistance on how to proceed, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
The Direction can be viewed here.
British Airways and Marriott International fines by ICO deferred again
In July 2019, the ICO issued notices of intent to fine British Airways £183,390,000 and Marriott International £99,200,396 for alleged breaches of the GDPR arising out of security incidents. In January 2020 confirmed that next steps in the regulatory process (the ICO has 6 months from issuing a notices of intent to issue a fine under Schedule 6 para 2(2) of the Data Protection Act 2018) relating to both fines was be delayed to 31 March 2020.
This deadline passed with no news of the regulatory outcome. It now transpires that the ICO has announced yet another delay, this time due to the Covid-19 crisis. Marriott's deadline will extended until 1 June 2020.
British Airways owner IAG's 2019 annual report explained that British Airways' deadline had been extended to 18 May 2020 to allow the ICO to "fully consider the representations and information provided by British Airways."
It remains to be seen whether these new deadlines will need to be further extended in light of the pandemic, and also what impact the pandemic may have on the amounts of those penalties, in particular, given the ICO’s guidance on the pandemic referred to above, and the economic impact it has had both on British Airways’ and Marriott International’s business.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. accidentally left over 440 million records publicly exposed after failing to password-protect a corporate database, according to a researcher who spotted the oversight.
The misconfigured database was found to contain user emails in plain text, including those sent from internal email addresses; references to reports and internal documents; and IP addresses, ports, pathways and storage information. Additionally, it stored Production, Audit, Error, CMS and Middleware logs. All in all, a grand total of 440,336,852 was left open for public discovery.
Security Discovery researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who authored the blog post, said he discovered the exposed database on Jan. 30 and immediately disclosed the error to Estée Lauder. Reportedly, the New York-based personal care and make-up manufacturer fixed the problem that same day.
In the blog post, Fowler explained the significant of finding middleware in the database: “Data management, application services, messaging, authentication, and API management are all commonly handled by middleware,” wrote Fowler. “Another danger of this exposure is the fact that middleware can create a secondary path for malware, through which applications and data can be compromised. In this instance anyone with an internet connection could see what versions or builds are being used, the paths, and other information that could serve as a backdoor into the network.
It is unknown how long the data leak existed, how many user email addresses were affected and if any additional unauthorized parties were able to access the data.
Fowler told Forbes that the database “appeared to be a content management system that contained everything from how the network is working to references to internal documents, sales matrix data, and more.”
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Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare – and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect May 25, 2018, is returning IT compliance issues to the forefront of corporate concerns.
GDPR, the EU's data privacy and "right to be forgotten" regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. The GDPR – and parallel regs such as France's Digital Republic Bill – can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.
The GDPR provision that will keep IT security teams busiest is Article 32, which requires "a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing" of personal data.
GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan. 1, 2020. But those aren't the only laws or regulations that affect IT security teams. There are plenty of others to worry anyone with words like "compliance,"privacy" and "security" in their job title, from CSOs on down. In our compliance glossary at the end of this article, we list more than a dozen laws and regulations to keep you up at night.
Health data and patient data in the U.S. are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA).
U.S. financial data must comply with consumer-protection laws like the Electronics Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and a litany of regulations under the SEC (such as Sarbanes-Oxley), CFTC, FISMA, and numerous other financial regulatory bodies. Meanwhile, data collected online that might potentially involve minors – regardless of industry – may have to comply with certain requirements under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The same goes for geography. GDPR aside, it has become axiomatic that non-EU countries must comply with current EU regulatory schemes when they have EU users and customers – and the notion was driven home recently (albeit in a context other than that of data protection) when the EU fined Google a record €2.4 billion (then the equivalent of about $2.7 billion USD) for antitrust violations.
The same holds true for other international or even interstate situations involving users or customers in jurisdictions other than their own. Where your customers are located matters. In the U.S., for example, 46 states have their own data breach notification laws (and each such state, accordingly, has its very own definition of such basic terms as "data" and "breach") – with Massachusetts and California's respective breach-notification schemes viewed as the strictest.
States also differ on other data privacy and IT security compliance laws. The states of Nevada, Minnesota and Washington stand out for having their own laws on the books creating liability in certain situations for businesses that handle credit card transactions and are not in compliance with PCI-DSS.
Other industry standards too can have the force of "pseudo-law" – notably, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which federal regulators often apply to financial-services firms and government contractors. Speaking of data compliance at the federal level, data collectors transacting business in the U.S. still must comply with relevant federal laws and regulations on top of any state laws and regulations. The FTC, for example, has an extremely broad regulatory reach (sometimes having overlapping jurisdiction with other agencies) and enforces many laws not mentioned here affecting data practices.
Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. The challenge becomes even greater for large enterprises – particularly when employees (or even entire departments) go rogue with Shadow IT implementations. This is where compliance software can come in handy for keeping track of, maintaining, and enforcing IT-security and data-privacy policies.
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Data itself can be automatically managed, and employee compliance and training can be managed to improve data security and data storage security. Just as there are data-storage solutions that can maximize the efficiency of where and how data is stored, so too are there solutions that, according to Florida attorney Alia Luria, "can analyze your disks and determine where data is stored so it can be classified – and either deleted in accordance with existing policies, secured if not adequately secured, or tracked." [We list some top GRC software vendors below, and in our detailed guide to top GRC vendors.]
Sometimes, however, information security, data privacy, and IT compliance overall are people problems more than they are pure data problems. Luria, who was a founding member of Akerman's data law practice before becoming a partner at Losey Law, therefore urges enterprises who want to better ensure their information security to "consider a policy-management tool that tracks employee training and compliance. "There are a lot of options out there for training modules that track and audit employee participation, testing, and auditing that employees have reviewed policies [that may] apply to information security policies," Luria told eSecurity Planet. She noted that "much of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing, spear phishing, and encryption lapses."
Luria said the increasingly common practice in highly regulated industries (such as financial services and healthcare) is to create and implement their own customized database solutions and tie them to their particularized IT compliance requirements. One company in particular, Wire Wheel, offers data mapping specific to data-privacy compliance – something that Luria notes can be especially helpful with GDPR requirements on the horizon.
According to Luria, however, while there are a great many tools available to aid in pure information security, relatively few are available for data governance or connected to compliance frameworks. "[A] lot of companies [still] do the compliance auditing and analysis piece manually," said Luria.
The result is arguably a perverse jumble of priorities. Employees are often compelled to jump through automated, bureaucratic hoops when actual security is at stake – with manual human interference and education coming into play only when there is a compliance box to be checked off. The difference underscores the fact that information security and IT compliance are different things.
Security, privacy and compliance can conflict
Data security, data privacy, and data compliance are all very much related – with similar goals in mind. The three, however, are not the same thing.
While data protection regulations and laws don't always go far enough, particularly as people, enterprises, and governments debate the usefulness of regulating the Internet of Things to ensure better cyber security and data privacy, the trend lately has been for such legal frameworks to go too far. Compliance can sometimes hinder real security and real data privacy. This often happens when legislators and regulators get too carried away.
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), for instance, so broadly defines what a "creditor" is that businesses that have no need for collecting various bits of PII (personally identifiable information) are compelled to collect and keep it. The law, therefore, directly flies in the face of the FTC's oft-given guidance on data privacy and information security best practices that businesses should only collect information that they need and only keep information for as long as they need it.
For another example, as security expert Bruce Schneier has pointed out, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it unlawful for someone to bypass security mechanisms protecting copyrighted work, thus making legitimate security research on devices containing copyrighted software legally actionable.
And when the blame is not on government overreach, it usually lies at the doorstep of poorly thought out check-the-box compliance measures – such as enhanced visibility of or easier access to PII. In one example, a Massachusetts hospital recently discontinued its practice of clearly labeling large trash receptacles dedicated to the disposal of documents containing HIPAA-protected patient PII. While the practice may have enhanced actual compliance, it also advertised to identity thieves precisely where to look.
A more high-tech (and notorious) example of IT compliance potentially hindering security occurred after New Zealand enacted the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act of 2013 (TICSA). The resulting legal framework effectively drove researchers to pull a Google-sponsored SDN testbed out of the country and move it to Australia. This was because TICSA mandates that network operators notify the government of network changes – a task that is at best impractical when it comes to SDN and NFV because of the near-constant network changes that naturally result from network virtualization. New Zealand has thereby made itself a jurisdiction where virtualized network infrastructures – which can offer many security benefits – appear to be of complicated if not downright dubious legal nature.
The conflicting security-compliance relationship can also work the other way around; security can complicate compliance when enhanced security measures interfere with levels of accessibility required under certain laws and regulations (HIPAA, for example). After all, security and accessibility are exact opposites of each other; perfect security, by definition, means zero accessibility, and vice versa.
As Anthem was being roundly criticized for failing to encrypt data at rest after discovery of the health insurance carrier's 2014 data breach, for example, healthcare journalist Fred Trotter pointed out that such encryption could actually make HIPAA compliance more difficult by hindering legitimate accessibility. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem's data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack. The counterpoint to this anti-encryption position, however, would be that larger and more nuanced security benefits – such as an enhanced organizational security culture – would result from broader encryption deployment and stricter encryption policies, and these benefits could potentially have helped prevent or mitigate a successful hack (similar to the way seatbelt mandates have been found to reduce traffic fatalities).
Examples like these highlight the balance of interests that must necessarily take place when making decisions about how to protect data. Data security, data privacy, and data compliance all co-exist as separate yet equally important circles on a Venn diagram that is best titled "Data Stewardship" – which itself sits on a balance scale opposite the interests of data accessibility. Consequently, these are all elements of risk management. The enterprise that treats these disparate elements as such, using a cost- or risk-benefit analysis, will have the fewest data-related headaches – compliance, security, privacy, or otherwise.
GRC software vendors
And if all this is too much, consider a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software solution that could do at least some of the work for you. MarketsandMarkets lists Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, SAP, IBM, RSA, BWise, Thomson Reuters, and Wolters Kluwer among the GRC market leaders.
GRC software is a $22 billion market that is expected to double over the next five years, with risk management software leading the way.
For more information, see our picks for top GRC vendors.
Top IT compliance regs defined
Here are some of the major laws and regulations that affect information security. We've already spent significant time on GDPR, so we'll focus on other statutes here.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: The 2002 law was a response to corporate fraud and is designed to improve corporate disclosures and transparency. For IT and security folks, that means information control and integrity, business continuity and disaster recovery, and protecting information (and financial performance) from the impact of a data breach or loss.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS): That name pretty much says it all. Anyone taking credit card payments or handling credit card data faces requirements for access control, firewalls, encryption, and software and hardware security, plus other issues such as penetration testing, skimming, phishing, risk assessment, and data breach response.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: This 1999 law requires financial service providers to protect consumer financial information.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): A 2000 law that set standards for online data protection and privacy for children under 13.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA): A 2003 amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires proper handling and disposal of consumer credit reports and other controls to prevent identity theft.
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: The FRCP has a number of sections (Chapter Five, Rules 26-37) that require that electronically stored information be preserved and untampered with so it can be produced in civil lawsuits (eDiscovery).
Industry-specific laws and regulations affecting IT security:
Federal Information Management Security Act: FISMA requires federal agencies to secure their information and systems; the 2002 law applies to contractors too.
North American Electric Reliability Corp: NERC sets standards for the physical and cyber security of electric utilities.
21 CFR Part 11: This section of the Code of Federal Regulations requires secure and auditable systems for electronic records for FDA-regulated industries.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: HIPAA might be the one information compliance law that everyone has heard of. The 1996 law mandated the security and privacy of personal health information. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009 created additional requirements for the security and privacy of patient data.
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQA): This 2009 medical error reporting law requires that patient data be protected.
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards : These 2007 regulations mandate security for high-risk chemical facilities.
In addition to federal laws and regulations, a number of states have imposed data privacy and security requirements covering state residents, such as the new California Consumer Privacy Act, the Massachusetts Data Protection Law (201 CMR 17), and the Nevada Personal Information Data Privacy Encryption Law (NRS 603A). There are also many international laws in countries such as Canada and Mexico, along with the EU's Data Protection Directive, Privacy Shield, Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems, and now the GDPR.
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It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
Spyforms. CI does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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However, convenience proves to reign supreme.
While 87% of consumers want to do more to protect their privacy, 61% agree they accept certain risks to their online privacy to make life more convenient. Even further, many consumers are willing to sell or give away certain person data, with over 1 in 2 being willing to sell or give away their Internet search history (56%) and location (56%), while 41% are willing to sell or give away identification information, such as information on their driver’s license or passport.
Younger generations embrace data sharing, but are also more inclined to take steps to protect their privacy on social media.
While consumers ages 18-38 are significantly more likely to be willing to sell their personal information than those who are 54 and older, they are also more likely to have deactivated a social media account due to privacy concerns1.
Use strong passwords: Don’t repeat your passwords on different sites. Make them complex and pick a random word that includes a combination of at least 10 letters, numbers, and symbols.
Keep your software updated: Cyber criminals frequently use known exploits, or flaws, in your software to gain access to your system. Patching those exploits and flaws can make it less likely that you’ll become a cybercrime target.
Use a full-service internet security suite: Invest in a security suite that offers real-time protection against existing and emerging malware including ransomware and viruses and helps protect your private and financial information when you go online.
Manage your social media settings: Keep your personal and private information locked down. Social engineering cybercriminals can often get your personal information with just a few data points, so the less you share publicly, the better.
Strengthen your home network: A VPN will help encrypt all traffic sent and received from your devices. If cyber criminals do manage to access your network, they will not be able to intercept the data being sent over your network.
Take measures to help protect yourself against identity theft: Key ways to help prevent identity theft include using legitimate sites when shopping online, using a secure network, remaining on the lookout for devices attached to card readers or ATMs and keeping an eye on your credit card statements and credit reports. You should also take advantage of protection tools such as ID theft alerts and EMV chip debit/credit cards as an extra layer of protection.
Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report, this includes one or more of the events listed below.
Detected malicious software (e.g., spyware, ransomware, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, adware, etc.) on a computer, Wi-Fi network, smartphone, tablet, smart home, or other connected device
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Cyber security refers to the practices, processes, and technologies that are used to secure devices, networks, and data from unauthorized access. It involves protecting systems from cyber attacks such as hacking, phishing scams, identity theft and more.
The rise of digitalization has led to an increase in cybercrime which can cause significant financial loss or damage one’s reputation. Cyber security therefore plays a vital role in safeguarding both personal and business information.
Cyber security is not only about securing your PC or mobile device but also ensuring safety on social media platforms where people inadvertently share their personal information with strangers. It requires constant vigilance and awareness of potential threats.
As technology advances at lightning speed so do the methods employed by malicious attackers in infiltrating systems. As such it’s important for everyone to stay informed about new risks and how they can protect themselves from becoming victims of online fraudsters.
What are the human components of cyber security?
When we think of cyber security, we often think of firewalls, anti-virus software, and other technological measures. However, the human component is just as important in safeguarding against cyber attacks.
One of the biggest human components is education. Educating employees on best practices for password management, phishing scams, and social engineering tactics can go a long way in preventing successful attacks. It’s important to establish policies and protocols for reporting suspicious activity or potential breaches.
Another critical aspect is access control. Limiting access to sensitive data or systems only to those who need it can help prevent insider threats or accidental data leaks.
Training also plays a significant role in mitigating risks associated with technology use. This includes keeping software up-to-date, avoiding unsafe websites or downloads, and using secure connections when accessing sensitive information remotely.
Ultimately, cyber security requires a proactive approach from both individuals and organizations alike. By prioritizing education and training alongside technical safeguards, we can better protect ourselves against ever-evolving threats in the digital world.
How can you protect yourself from cyber attacks?
With the increase of cyber attacks in recent years, it’s crucial to protect yourself from becoming a victim. Here are some simple ways to secure your online presence:
1. Strong Passwords: One of the easiest and most effective ways to protect yourself is by creating strong passwords for all your accounts. Use a combination of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
2. Two-Factor Authentication: Enable two-factor authentication on all your accounts where possible, which requires an additional code sent to you via text or email after entering your password.
3. Avoid Suspicious Emails: Be wary of clicking on links or downloading attachments from unknown sources—even if they appear legitimate.
4. Keep Software Up-to-Date: Keep all software up-to-date with the latest security patches and updates.
5. Virtual Private Network (VPN): Using a VPN adds another layer of security when browsing the web by encrypting internet traffic between your device and VPN server
Cyber security risks are a real threat to individuals and businesses alike. One of the most common cyber threats is phishing scams. These scams involve using fake emails or websites that appear legitimate in order to obtain sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers.
Another major risk is malware, which refers to any software designed with malicious intent. Malware can be used to steal personal data, damage computer systems, or gain unauthorized access to networks.
Ransomware attacks have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. These attacks involve encrypting an individual’s files and demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key.
Social engineering is another tactic used by cyber criminals where they manipulate people into divulging confidential information through phone calls, emails or even social media platforms.
Unsecured Wi-Fi networks can pose a significant risk since they provide easy access for hackers looking to intercept sensitive data being transmitted over these networks.
It’s important for individuals and organizations to be aware of these common risks and take appropriate measures to protect themselves from potential cyber-attacks.
Conclusion
To sum it up, cyber security is becoming increasingly important in today’s digital age. It involves protecting our devices, networks, and data from unauthorized access and attacks. However, cyber security doesn’t just involve technical measures; there are human components that play a vital role in ensuring our safety online.
From creating strong passwords to being cautious when clicking on links or downloading attachments, we all have a responsibility to protect ourselves from potential threats. By staying informed and taking proactive measures to secure our online presence, we can minimize the risk of falling victim to cyber crime.
Remember that cyber criminals are constantly evolving their tactics and techniques, so it’s essential to stay vigilant and adapt as necessary. With the right knowledge and mindset, we can all do our part in promoting a safer online community for everyone.
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OnLineGames. I is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
OnLineGames. I does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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Facebook announced that its ThreatExchange information-sharing platform is closing in on 100 participants and has streamlined its application process.
As Facebook’s ThreatExchange information-sharing platform hits its six-month milestone, the social network today announced that its closing in on 100 participants and has streamlined the application process.
ThreatExchange was launched in February as a free vehicle for sharing threat and attack data between members. Contributors can opt in to share data with all exchange members, specific members, or subsets of members in certain industries, for example.
The platform also pulls in open source threat intelligence feeds and gleans information from Facebook’s massive network. ThreatExchange’s initial partner list included Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo, Tumblr, Bitly and Dropbox, but now after a half-year of public availability, it has added new heavy hitters such as Microsoft, PayPal and Dropbox, bringing the total count to more than 90 active participants in seven industries. Facebook said it has more than three million interactions on ThreatExchange per month with companies seeking out intelligence on attacks, including indicators of compromise and IP address ranges involved in attacks.
“The platform has built-in features that allow you to pick and choose relevant information to the threats you face. You can also set controls for how you want to communicate with other organizations on the platform,” said Mark Hammell, manager of Facebook’s threat infrastructure team, adding that there is a dedicated Facebook Group for ThreatExchange members, a GitHub Issues tracker, and email options for discussing threats.
The application process, Facebook said, is now simpler for companies interested in joining and was a necessary step as it soon will be available to a broader range of smaller organizations.
“You can now submit an application on the Facebook Developer site and read the terms and conditions in advance,” Facebook said. “This process makes it easier for security teams to access the necessary documentation for coordinating with their legal advisors.”
Two months ago, Facebook said it added threat descriptors and information about who could be behind attacks to ThreatExchange.
“Participants requested this feature in order to better extract value from the data by prioritizing relevance and quality over quantity,” Facebook said.
ThreatExchange is an API-based exchange; IT admins will be able to consume threat data via the APIs and write signatures and other protections accordingly. Participants can share threat data such as malware samples, lists of malicious URLs and other indicators of compromise that make sense. With the addition of threat descriptors, participants will be able to see which ThreatExchange member shard data, making easier to evaluate its value, Facebook said.
“You can see not only the URLs that are known to be bad, but also see who is making the claim and why,” Hammell said. “That context is critical to people and systems defending against attacks so we built it into the core of ThreatExchange.”
This article was updated Aug. 21 with a clarification from Facebook.
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SURFcert is available to institutes connected to SURFnet.
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Menace actors are more and more turning to a brand new encryption methodology of their ransomware assaults, designed to enhance success charges, in response to SentinelOne.
SentinelLabs researchers Aleksandar Milenkoski and Jim Walter wrote in a brand new weblog put up that “intermittent encryption” is being closely marketed to patrons and associates.
Its main benefits over extra conventional strategies of ransomware encryption are pace and its means to evade risk detection instruments.
By solely partially encrypting victims’ recordsdata, risk actors could cause “irretrievable injury in a really quick timeframe,” the duo wrote.
Additional, intermittent encryption helps to confuse the statistical evaluation utilized by safety instruments to detect ransomware exercise.
“Such an evaluation might consider the depth of file IO operations or the similarity between a recognized model of a file, which has not been affected by ransomware, and a suspected modified, encrypted model of the file,” Milenkoski and Walter wrote.
“In distinction to full encryption, intermittent encryption helps to evade such analyses by exhibiting a considerably decrease depth of file IO operations and far increased similarity between non-encrypted and encrypted variations of a given file.”
Again in mid-2021, LockFile was the primary variant to make use of the brand new method, encrypting each different 16 bytes of a file. It was assessed by a Splunk research earlier this yr to be the quickest out of 10 ransomware variants, encrypting almost 100,000 recordsdata, totaling nearly 53GB, in simply 4 minutes.
That was 86% quicker than the median of 43 minutes throughout all variants studied.
Since LockBit, SentinelOne has recognized a number of ransomware households following swimsuit and adopting intermittent encryption, together with Qyick, Agenda, BlackCat (ALPHV), Play, and Black Basta.
The safety trade might should adapt to the brand new development in an effort to enhance its detection capabilities.
“Given the numerous advantages to risk actors whereas additionally being sensible to implement, we estimate that intermittent encryption will proceed to be adopted by extra ransomware households,” SentinelOne warned.
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Of late, I’ve focused a lot on heroes, including unsung heroes who are facially-challenged or caregivers of such people. In the future, I’ll try to write more about villains—especially those privileged ones who commit violent crime (murder) and nonviolent crime (fraud). The daily news is filled with scores of criminals from underprivileged backgrounds, but with relatively from well-off circumstances.
I”m doing this in part because I’m currently working on a book about crime and want to share some of the fascinating material I’m dealing with. The working title of the book is: “Cleft Soul: how a crime professor’s syllabus came alive, changing him forever. “
So, stay tuned this year for some blogs about people who are terrifying (e.g., serial murderers) as well as ones about people who are, well, just disgusting (cyberbullies).
Background re cyberbullying.
A Harvard-educated lawyer and former Marine has yet to be sentenced in a mysterious “Gone Girl” kidnapping case. Police had initially accused Denise Huskins and her boyfriend of staging the kidnapping.
Matthew Muller, 38, was eventually arrested in connection with the March 23, 2015 kidnapping of Huskins after authorities noticed similarities to a separate home invasion in Dublin, California. Muller was already in custody on charges stemming from that incident. He confessed and awaits sentencing now. He could get life in prison.
“The woman who the Vallejo, California police department wrongly accused of faking her own kidnapping has revealed she still receives cruel messages online almost two years after the traumatic incident.
Denise Huskins was dubbed a ‘Gone Girl’ copycat. But, she was forcibly taken from her home March 23, 2015, by kidnapper Matthew Muller.
Her boyfriend Aaron Quinn, at their home [also, during the crime], said he was drugged and his eyes were covered by her kidnapper. Quinn was told that if he went to the police, Huskins would be harmed and Muller set a ransom at $17,000.
She wrote in the post: ‘Congratulations, person I have never met, never heard of who hates me so much that he went out of his way to message me this disgusting, demeaning, dehumanizing outrage.’
She continued: ‘All I did was survive, and I was criminalized for it. We are trying to do the right thing and let the system do its job.’
Ms Huskins went on to talk about how hurtful messages are and how this reopens old wounds and causes her to relive the horrific two days.
Mr. Quinn is also hurt by the cyber abuse. In an emotional post he wrote: ‘Denise endured unimaginable horrors and should have been treated like a hero when she got home but instead she continues to endure vile messages such as this one.’ ‘Nevertheless she conducts herself with love and grace. She’s my favorite person and unquestionably my hero.’ “
The case was compared by many to the film Gone Girl in which a woman fakes her kidnapping.”
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Celebs with cleft lip & other birth defects——I.
Would be serial killer blows first attempt.
Announcing the addition of collage materials to my website.
Cyberbullying: non-obvious reasons kids of color targeted more.
Cleft lip dad adopts cleft lip baby.
Male privilege and women in elevators.
Brock Turner, Oscar Pistorius: how white privilege works.
Criminologist Yablonsky carried switchblade before seeing the light.
Crim Justice takes a hit with regard to older celebs.
Blind justice takes a hit with regard to lookism and younger celebs.
Lookism and crim justice. Expert research & evaluation.
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PRETORIA 11 February – UNICEF South Africa, Google and other Online Child Safety Campaign partners joined forces today to promote the eleventh anniversary of international Safer Internet Day (SID), which encourages the safe and responsible use of online technologies among young users.
A series of Internet safety workshops for learners, parents and teachers from five Johannesburg schools was hosted in Jeppestown. The sessions aimed to equip learners and parents with tools and knowledge to aide safer and more responsible Internet usage.
“The Internet provides a wide range of opportunities for young people, in terms of communicating, entertainment, information and creating content,” MEC for Education at the Gauteng Department of Education Barbara Creecy, said. “However, like any medium for communication and interaction, it also has some inherent risks. We are happy to see that private sector has joined hands with government in order to ensure that our children enjoy the benefits offered by the Internet, while minimising the risks.”
The event comes only a few weeks after a report released by UNICEF South Africa and the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention in 2013 that investigated young people’s navigation of risks online.
The study was conducted as part of a broader study on school violence in South Africa in 2012. Out of the 121 schools that participated in the school violence study, 93 took part in Connected Dot Com: Young Peoople’s Navigation of Online Risks. Two focus groups were held at most of the schools and in the end a total of 1680 learners participated in the study. The selection of schools was random, and as a result schools across all socio-economic strata were represented.
“The study’s findings have added to better equip parents and teachers as to how children can be protected from harms that exist online,” said UNICEF South Africa Chief of Communications and Partnerships, Thierry Delvigne-Jean. “The findings also show, however, that children are more resilient than we think and that with the right information at their disposal they are able to make informed and mature decisions regarding their safety and responsibility as digital citizens.”
With a strong presence in South Africa, UNICEF is a leading advocate for children. We have the global authority to influence decision makers and the variety of partners at the grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path. For more information about UNICEF and its work in South Africa visit www.unicef.org/southafrica/
For more information about UNICEF’s digital citizenship and safety initiative Voices of Youth Citizens visit www.voicesofyouth.org/citizens
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http://unicpretoria.org.za/2014/02/11/unicef-and-partners-host-online-safety-workshop-on-safer-internet-day-2014/
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MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court will take up in future en banc sessions the plea of petitioners against the Cybercrime law to extend beyond February 5 the temporary restraining order stopping the law’s implementation, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said Tuesday.
Sereno indicated this as the high tribunal, which issued the 120-day TRO right after 15 petitioners sued to stop implementation of the newly-enacted Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, heard oral arguments against the measure.
As the court heard arguments from five pre-assigned lawyers tasked to sum up the key issues raised by various petitioning groups and individuals, Sereno and the newest associate justice, Marvic Leonen, also gave their insights on the law, assailed for its alleged unconstitutional provisions.
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‘Hacktivists’ strike on eve of SC hearing (technology.inquirer.net)
SC en banc meets Tuesday on suits vs RH, cybercrime laws (newsinfo.inquirer.net)
Justices: Cybercrime law can be used to protect citizens (rappler.com)
SC asked to extend restraining order on cyber law (technology.inquirer.net)
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http://hronlineph.com/2013/01/15/in-the-news-cybercrime-law-en-banc-to-tackle-bid-to-extend-tro-beyond-feb-5-sereno-interaksyon-com/
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Forbes magazine is reporting on the latest telecom fraud threat in the VoIP community.
Researcher Ang Cui has recently demonstrated an attack on common Cisco-branded Voice over IP (VoIP) phones that could easily eavesdrop on private conversations remotely. Cui, a fifth-year grad student from the Columbia University Intrusion Detection Systems Lab, has pioneered within an academic career attacking common embedded systems, such as routers, printers and now phones. He repeatedly called these devices “general-purpose computers”, forcing his audience to shift paradigms and understand that the devices that now surround us are, for the most part, insecure by design.
To present the demo, which had never been tried in a public forum before, Cui employed an external circuit board that he said James Bond would have no trouble inserting onto a telephone inside the target organization. Cui suggested he could be a job applicant to get inside or he could simply compromise the lobby phone. Once one phone is compromised, the entire network of phones could be vulnerable.
He said later he could also perform the exploit remotely, no physical-world circuit boards necessary. With the circuit board in place, Cui then used a self-created app on his mobile phone to connect to it and export the mic data from the compromised phone sitting on a table next to the speaker’s dais where the off hook mic now captured Cui’s every word. After passing the mic data over the internet to Google’s speech-to-text service, he then projected on a screen behind him a transcript of his spoken words, each appearing after a slight delay. He said that he could also bypass Google and simply capture the audio file as an “automatic blackmail device.”
Cisco’s statement: “The company maintains a very open relationship with the security community and we view this as vital to helping protect our customers’ networks. We can confirm that workarounds and a software patch are available to address this vulnerability, and note that successful exploitation requires physical access to the device serial port, or the combination of remote authentication privileges and non-default device settings. Cisco thanks Ang Cui and Salvatore Stolfo for allowing our team to validate the vulnerability and prepare a software patch ahead of the presentation.” “A formal release note for customers was issued on November 2nd (bug id: CSCuc83860) and we encourage any customers with related questions to contact the Cisco TAC.”
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https://transnexus.com/blog/2012/cisco-voip-phones-affected-by-on-hook-security-vulnerability/
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Smartphone battery life is a sensitive issue when OEM manufacturers start throwing hardware specs at customers, because the number of hours your device is juiced up often depends on personal usage rather than overall benchmark tests.
Having a state of the art smartphone doesn’t mean it’ll stay powered up for days. It actually may mean that it comes with a lot more features to drain your battery. From tablets to smartphones and any other Android device, a couple of tricks and tips can squeeze out some more precious minutes/hours of performance.
Before enumerating five apps to brighten your day, let’s talk a bit about Bitdefender’s Power Tune-Up that packs everything you need in a single solution. Besides cleaning up cache files and monitoring your 3G traffic, Power Tune-Up enables you to view all processes that impact CPU and RAM consumption. Stopping them before clogging up your device an easily be achieved with the push of a button.
Having two battery widgets that track the remaining “juiceâ€, you’ll always know exactly how many conversation hours you have left or how much standby time your device is in for. Profiles can be customized according to your most specific desires, but if you’re the lazy type, you can simply choose the default battery saving mode and be done with. Power Tune-Up is an all-in one solution and its best asset is that you don’t need to have a rooted device to benefit from all these features. Free of charge and ad-free, it’s an efficient battery optimization solutions for any Android handset.
While there are some other useful apps that deal with battery optimization, there are a couple of modifications that you can tinker with from the “Settings†menu of your device. By checking the “Battery Use†section you’ll quickly discover what apps gobble up the most battery life, thus having to turn them off after you’re done using them should be on your to-do list.
Another major battery drainer is the display. The bigger the screen, the more it will drain your battery. Dimming the brightness is the only thing that can help. Easily achieved by moving the slider in the “Brightness†menu under “Sound and Displayâ€, you can gain some juice for other activities if you’re not particularly fond of having your screen light up the entire room. An interesting survey reported that AMOLED screens reduce power consumption by a factor of seven when using black background images, although your device may look a bit dull.
The Power Control Widget helps turn on/off WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Push sync, and even adjust screen brightness with a single push of a button. Instead of going through endless menus and settings, go to your “Home Screenâ€, hit “Menu†-> “Add†-> “Widgets†and select Power Control.
Concluding this small tips and tricks section with built-in features, worth mentioning is that you need to turn off background-running apps you’re not using and make sure screen timeout is at its lowest. However, if you’re interested in a bunch of apps that can do all of the above and more, we’ve compiled a list of 5 Android apps to help keep your battery juiced up and optimized.
JuiceDefender packs a punch when in optimizing your battery’s performance because it features multiple profiles designed for balanced, aggressive or extreme battery optimization. There’s a Plus version for $1.99 that adds features for those who are a bit paranoid about power consumption.  There’s also an Ultimate upgrade (for $4.99) which enables AutoSync.
For rooted Android devices, you can even control the CPU speed, along with GPS control and 2G/3G switching. As confusing as it may be, fiddling around with all these options will enhance your battery’s performance and earn you some precious conversation minutes.
CPU Tuner is one of the best Android apps for monitoring CPU activity and setting up performance thresholds based on user-defined profiles. Saving battery is all about monitoring your CPU performance and with this app you can do all that in minutes. You can configure triggers based on your battery’s state that activate when you have a call in progress or when you lock your screen.
Data connections usually cause drainage and you can enable or disable them with the flip of a switch (as it were) so you can keep your CPU power consumption at its lowest.  Having a rooted device also helps because the app requires such privileges and you’ll find that it’s a really intuitive and powerful piece of software.
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While these tips and tricks may not guarantee a significant increase in your battery life, they’re only purpose is to optimize power consumption and make sure hardware resources are used properly. Encouraging you to at least try out a couple of the apps and hints, make sure that you always make the most of your smartphone’s battery.
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Hijacking “smart” toasters and refrigerators and hacking corporate ventilation systems are among the new threats envisioned by cyber security experts as an increasing array of items are connected to the internet.
The Internet of Things, a movement that seeks to control everything from factory equipment to traffic lights and household appliances through the web, creates vast opportunities for improved efficiency and convenience. But unless companies address the emerging cyber security risks, the Internet of Things (or IoT) will fail, said Stephen Pattison, the vice president of public affairs at ARM Holdings Plc, the U.K. semiconductor company.
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Bad luck, especially when you're so close.
Try this site for subnetting practice. Doesn't tell you how to subnet, but once you get your head around how to do it, it's a great site for practice questions.
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A relatively new ransomware operation known as Nevada seems to grow its capabilities quickly as security researchers noticed improved functionality for the locker targeting Windows and VMware ESXi systems.
Nevada ransomware started to be promoted on the RAMP darknet forums on December 10, 2022, inviting Russian and Chinese-speaking cybercriminals to join it for an 85% cut from paid ransoms.
For those affiliates who bring in a lot of victims, Nevada say they will increase their revenue share to 90%.
RAMP has been previously reported as a space where Russian and Chinese hackers promote their cybercrime operations or to communicate with peers.
Nevada ransomware features a Rust-based locker, real-time negotiation chat portal, separate domains in the Tor network for affiliates and victims.
Resecurity researchers analyzed the new malware and published a report on their findings. They say that while Nevada ransomware is explicit about excluding English-speaking affiliates, the operators are open to doing business with vetted access brokers from anywhere.
One interesting characteristic of Nevada ransomware is the set of system locales it spares from the encryption process. Typically, ransomware gangs exclude victims in Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries. With this malware, the list extends to Albania, Hungary, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, and Iran.
The payload uses MPR.dll to collect information about network resources, adding shared directories in the encryption queue. Each drive, including hidden ones, is assigned a letter, and all files in them are added to the queue too.
After this stage, the encryptor is installed as a service, and then the breached system reboots into Windows safe mode with an active network connection.
The locker uses the Salsa20 algorithm to perform intermittent encryption on files larger than 512KB for quicker encryption.
Executables, DLLs, LNKs, SCRs, URLs, and INI files in Windows system folders and the user’s Program Files are excluded from encryption to avoid rendering the victim host unbootable.
Encrypted files are appended the “.NEVADA” file extension and each folder hosts a ransom note that gives victims five days to meet the threat actor’s demands, else their stolen data would be published on Nevada’s data leak website.
Targeting VMware ESXi systems
The Linux/VMware ESXi version of Nevada ransomware uses the same encryption algorithm (Salsa20) as the Windows variant. It relies on a constant variable, an approach previously seen in Petya ransomware.
The Linux encryptor follows the same intermittent encryption system. fully encrypting only files smaller than 512KB.
Likely due to a bug in the Linux version, Nevada ransomware will skip all files sized between 512KB and 1.25MB, the researcher discovered.
On Linux systems, the public key is stored at the end of the encrypted file in the form of an additional 38 bytes.
Resecurity says that similarities shared with Petya ransomware extend to encryption implementation bugs that might make it possible to retrieve the private key too, which would allow recovering the data without paying the ransom.
“In order to recover the data encrypted by Nevada Ransomware, we need to know the private key “B” and public key “A”, which are added to the end of the file, nonce for Salsa20 and the size of the file and algorithm used for selecting ‘stripes’ to encrypt (which may potentially be measured or guessed).” –
Nevada ransomware is still building its network of affiliates and initial access brokers, looking for skillful hackers.
Resecurity observed Nevada ransomware operators buying access to compromised endpoints and engaging a dedicated post-exploitation team to perform the intrusion.
The researchers note that this threat seems to continue its growth and should be closely monitored.
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https://itbrands.pk/new-nevada-ransomware-targets-windows-and-vmware-esxi-systems/
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Security breaches in the business world have become commonplace and can have a catastrophic impact on the organization’s people, data, and brand reputation.
True security can only be realized through a comprehensive active approach that incorporates resources throughout the organization. There simply is not a silver bullet that can provide adequate security. However, a company can work to protect itself by incorporating proactive security measures that involve the entire organizational hierarchy.
Developing a security-based culture takes time. Like all things associated with organizational change, it starts at the top. Many organizations layer their information security (IS) team at low levels in the overall organizational hierarchy. Placing the IS team in the bowels of the company conveys a message to the workforce that information security is not of the utmost importance.
The most effective way to prioritize information security is to create a position of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Leaders should create channels for communication about this position and the role of the IS team.
The more IS can be talked about, the more relevant it will become to the workforce. Organizations should develop weekly or monthly security newsletters and other information about current and real-world security breaches to keep the workforce informed and help keep information security top-of-mind.
It’s also important to enlist the workforce’s help because security is the responsibility of all employees. Organizational leaders should look for ways to reward those who have contributed to the overall security of the organization to help build a security-centric organization.
Administrative Activities
There are a vast number of administrative activities that an organization can put into place to address security concerns. However, the success of such activities depends on the company’s ability to implement policies and procedures to ensure adherence and review these policies to ensure they are effectively meeting the needs of the organization. There is no benefit to putting a policy in place if there is no adherence to that policy.
One of the most effective methods to enhance security is through security training and awareness. The type of training and the reoccurrence of such training depends on the employees’ roles and responsibilities. For example, an employee who is a general user should be required to take basic awareness training on a yearly basis. However, those with greater access to organizational data should be required to take more in-depth training.
Executives should develop base-level standards for all employees operating in the security arena. There are a multitude of commercial certifications that employees can pursue. Organizations should determine which certifications meet the needs of the organization.
Security Attentiveness
Security must be included in the design, development, and implementation of all systems throughout the organization’s infrastructure. Legacy systems must either be updated to include security components or be decommissioned and replaced with new systems that have stronger security measures.
Fortunately, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a sound framework on which to ensure security is brought into the fold through a system’s lifecycle. NIST’s Risk Management Framework (RMF) provides a great starting point for organizations looking to incorporate security into their organization’s information technology projects.
While security can never be guaranteed, organizations can minimize the threat by taking a comprehensive and proactive approach. When organizations follow calculated steps to incorporate security in every aspect of operations, executives can significantly reduce the risk and likelihood of a security breach.
About the Author: Dr. Brett Miller is an intelligence professional having spent 20+ years within the national intelligence apparatus supporting mission-critical initiatives impacting national and international security. Additionally, Dr. Miller spent 8+ years as an educator teaching university-level courses in National Security, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Cyber, and Information Assurance. Dr. Miller holds a PhD in Business Administration, Masters of Strategic Studies, M.S. in Telecommunications and Computers, M.S. in Information Technology Systems Management, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Park University. He is a certified Intelligence Community Officer and a graduate of two of the Department of Defense’s most prestigious leadership programs: The U.S. Army War College and the Defense Leadership and Management Program (DLAMP). You can follow Dr. Miller on Twitter: @DrBrettAMiller
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https://inpublicsafety.com/2015/10/protect-the-organization-from-cyberattacks-security-through-active-prevention-stap/
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I'd hope they don't. AV usually has several different scanning techniques and signature-based scanning being only one of them. I'd think there is some sort of a threshold in the most simple scenario, where we count the number of signatures that we know can be malicious. When counter reaches critical mass, executable is flagged. In real world I think it's much more complex than that. Someone familiar with Clam AV may give a better answer (you can look through the code as well)
I ask this question because I wonder if it is the reason why I often read that signature-based only antiviruses are outdated.
If I were to write a virus, I'd embed mutation and obfuscation inside the body. Every time payload is executed the body of a virus mutates by so much that any previous signature would't work.
Alternatively one can use cryptography to encrypt the body. A new encryption round produces new random junk (unless one has a decryption key, which is usually distributed through random domains based on initial seed number and date).
Polymorphic viruses are most likely to be imune to any signature based approach.
Given how easy it is to make such viruses I am not surprised why people say signature-based AVs are outdated and ineffective.
There is not much you can do to prevent an AV signature set from getting outdated. Imagine you would want to create a piece of malware with the goal to infect as many people as possible. You certainly wouldn't want it to get detected by any virus scanners, do you? So what do you do? You let all virus scanners you can get run over your malware, see if they detect it, and when they do you modify and obfuscate your malware until they don't.
Now your malware is undetectable... until the AV scanners find out about it and update so they detect it again.
What do you do now? You get the updated virus scanners and again start to modify and obfuscate your malware until they again can't detect it anymore and you again set it free. Then the cycle repeats.
It's an endless cat- and mouse game between AV vendors and black hat hackers. Both have commercial interests. When one stops updating their product to outsmart the other, they would lose a very lucrative business.
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In January 2019, I had the honor of joining industry colleagues in an open webcast discussion on Cybersecurity predictions for 2019. Vito Sardanopoli, Gary Hayslip, CISSP, Scott King
With the ever-changing threat environment and increasing prevalence of data breaches, today’s CISOs face a daunting task of securing their organization from a variety of threats. But, with so many priorities and a finite budget, it can sometimes feel like an impossible task to decide where to focus. So, what does 2019 have in store for cybersecurity and what are CISOs’ top priorities?
Join Rapid7 and our panel of expert CISOs for our 2019 predictions. Some of the topics our panel will cover include:
1. What are the top cybersecurity predictions for 2019?
2. How will CISOs’ priorities change in 2019? What will become new areas of focus and what will decrease in priority?
3. How will CISO’s investments change in 2019? What areas of cybersecurity do they see receiving more funding?
4. Actionable insights for how to improve your organization’s cybersecurity strategy in 2019
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https://cybersecuritygrowth.com/what-does-2019-have-in-store-for-cybersecurity-a-cisos-perspective/
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As part of our SPA warranties and indemnities series of articles on cyber, accounting and tax, our specialists look at assessing and mitigating cyber risk in mergers and acquisitions.
Buyers are right to be increasingly concerned about the cyber security defences of their acquired companies. With the potential to severely impact operations, the reputation of the business and its value, as well as regulatory fines, it's not surprising that the risk of cyber attack is now being taken seriously.
Two salutary tales
In September 2018, an American printing business suffered a ransomware attack that caused it to cease operations. Accessing the company's systems, criminals demanded payment or they would disable the firm's computers. As a result, the company that bought the business the previous year suddenly suffered a significant decline in value.
Marriott International was recently fined almost £100 million under GDPR as a result of a data breach that the company said it had unknowingly ‘acquired’ along with its Starwood division. A lack of proper cyber due diligence was specifically referenced by the Information Commissioner's Office when it levied the fine.
How can you mitigate cyber risks when buying a company?
In the US, buyers are increasingly carrying out extensive cyber due diligence, looking for weak links in the chain. Other jurisdictions such as Europe are catching up, cyber due diligence should be considered on every acquisition.
The strength of warranties given by the seller in the sale and purchase agreement (SPA), in terms of what they cover and the caps and thresholds for claims, are important to consider. It is not sufficient for sellers to simply warrant that they have ‘industry standard’ or ‘industry best practice’ protections in place, because what satisfies industry standards varies significantly depending on the nature of the business and what would be appropriate in each case.
Warranties that refer to data breaches and cyber attacks restricted by reference to seller’s knowledge may not provide adequate protection for the buyer; it takes on average 191 days for a breach to be detected. It is therefore important to know what steps the seller has taken to identify potential breaches and strengthen its cyber security posture, including testing carried out and ongoing controls.
Specialist insurance cover
A buyer could ask the seller to warrant that the target has adequate cyber insurance cover in place, but the buyer should still satisfy themselves as to the level of cover obtained and any exclusions. Cyber warranties are typically carved out of general warranty and indemnity (W&I) policies and, therefore, specialist cyber cover will be needed.
If cyber due diligence is undertaken, it is more likely that W&I insurers will agree to cover cyber risks in W&I policies.
Other benefits of cyber protection
Effective cyber security protections can provide wider benefits. If a business is being acquired for its intellectual property, for example, it’s essential that this is protected against employee theft and commercial espionage. Additionally, cyber security protections may also provide mitigation in the event of reporting a breach to a regulator.
Buyers should also be thinking about the supply chain of the business they are acquiring. Cyber security processes are moving away from just considering the traditional perimeter defences of a business to looking more proactively at what data might be made available across the supply chain. This is particularly pertinent to online businesses.
Making cyber risk a board-level priority
Some businesses choose not to deal with, or share data with, another entity that doesn’t have basic cyber security certification. In the UK, ‘Cyber Essentials’ is a certification that requires self-assessment against five technical control areas. Other certifications require testing against additional benchmarks, for example, ISO27001 and NIST.
Cyber attacks are increasing at an exponential rate. In the last 12 months, the total cost of cyber security breaches to UK mid-market businesses has reached at least £30 billion. And yet, according to our recent research, 63% of mid-size businesses in the UK still don't have a board member with specific responsibility for cyber security. Additionally, over half of those businesses surveyed (59%) do not have a cyber incident response plan in place.
Buyers need to be cognisant of cyber threats in their acquisitions and the effect this may have on value. Given that cyber attacks are a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ for businesses of all sizes, in all sectors, the old adage, ‘buyer beware’ has never been more relevant. We provide global intelligence-led cyber risk and current threat profiling solutions, with specific, pragmatic and actionable industry best practice to improve cyber security posture and help manage security incidents.
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On the portal No More Ransom arrived decryptor to the latest version of GandCrab ransomware The utility can save from data destruction many thousands users who have suffered from attacks of the coder.
Representatives of Europol reported the appearance of a new decryptor on its website. They thanked for the help in the development of law enforcement services of nine countries, including the UK, Germany and the United States, as well as Bitdefender information security company.
Program works with GandCrab 1, 4 and all versions of the 5th version, einschließlich der neuesten 5.2, which came out simultaneously with the decryptor of the previous generation.
Laut Europol, since the first antidote to the GandCrab appeared, it was possible to recover data of more than 30 thousand users. Als Ergebnis, ransomware victims were able to save about $50 Million.
“The most important thing is that united efforts of [experts from the project No More Ransom] have weakened the market position of the malware operators. In the end, this led to their decline and allowed law enforcement agencies to stop malicious activity”, – said law enforcement officials.
The creators of GandCrab announced the cessation of activity in early June 2019. According to the criminals, a year and a half of malware campaigns brought them a substantial profit, and now they expect to go into a legal business.
Attackers that supported the online portal for renting GandCrab gave their counterparties a month to withdraw funds. During the same time, the ransomware victims were recommended to pay the ransom – after a month, the criminals promised to remove all encryption keys, making it impossible to return the lost data.
Now users do not have to make a deal with fraudsters. Dennoch, experts warn that a malicious person can still create serious problems, since even a temporary loss of access to critical data entails losses.
“Despite the end of GandCrab, ransomware remains a large threat to organisations, with several high-profile attacks in recent months highlighting the danger posed”, – remind in Europol.
The best cure against ransomware remains diligent prevention. Users are strongly advised to:
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https://trojan-killer.net/de/security-experts-finally-defeated-the-gandcrab-encryption/
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Previous week, Colonial Pipeline paid out a ransom of $4.4m to cyber-prison gang DarkSide to get back command of its systems and info.
According to the Put up, a senior DHS official has mentioned that a security directive will be issued this week demanding pipeline firms to report cybersecurity incidents to federal authorities. The directive will appear from the Transportation Security Administration, a DHS device.
This directive will be adopted by a meatier set of regulations in a few of weeks’ time. These principles are predicted to lay out in far more detail what pipeline operators must do to guard their devices from cyber-attacks.
Put up-breach behavior will also be regulated, with companies who succumb to a cyber-attack ordered to adhere to a established of finest methods.
These obligatory regulations will exchange the voluntary cybersecurity rules issued earlier by the DHS.
John Bambenek, menace intelligence advisor at Netenrich, explained that the US government’s “shutting the stable doorway immediately after the horse has bolted” solution to cybersecurity regulation may not be the greatest way to secure critical infrastructure.
“Notification to the federal government of cyber-attacks is much less significant than regardless of what protective rules they issue, but the points are, we have thousands of webpages of policies, restrictions, and research on security for the federal governing administration and they however get breached. A regulatory tactic primarily based on protecting against the last incident is always likely to be missing in phrases of stopping the potential incidents,” he told Infosecurity Magazine.
Lookout’s Hank Schless took a extra favourable perspective of the regulations’ likely impression.
He told Infosecurity Journal: “Employing new laws could be really powerful in the battle against cyber-criminals so very long as corporations truly take motion to align with them. It takes time and assets to align with new restrictions, but this ought to at least serve as inspiration for very similar organizations to get the ball rolling.”
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https://thecybersecurity.news/general-cyber-security-news/us-to-regulate-pipeline-cybersecurity-9495/
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) imposed a fine of £20m on British Airways (BA) for failing to protect the personal and financial details (payment card details) of more than 400,000 customers.
The ICO investigation revealed that the BA had not implemented adequate security measures and as a result, could not detect a cyber-attack, which took place in 2018 until BA was made aware of the attack by a third party two months later.
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http://privacyvox.com/tag/cyber-security/
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As a modern business owner, you're well aware of all the ways technology benefits your business while also putting it at risk. If you use Google Chrome as your browser of choice, you should be aware of the latest Google Chrome update malware scam.
Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about this attack campaign, how to determine whether you have a compromised website, and how to protect yourself against security risks.
Cybersecurity experts have identified at least four different fake "update your browser" campaigns that can trick you into installing malware on your device. This scam was first detected in February 2023 and since then has evolved to provide the attackers with multiple ways to invade your system.
The first way they accomplish this is by gaining access to legitimate websites, which they do in various ways. Once they have access to the website, they modify it to display a pop-up to every user who visits the website. The pop-up informs the user their browser is out of date and requires them to update to the newest browser version if they want to view the website's content.
Once users click on the pop-up, they've compromised their computers.
Avoid phishing scams by never clicking on a link to an unknown site or from an unknown sender.
Learn to identify typical phishing attack behavior, such as generic greetings, asking for financial information, or promotional offers that are too good to be true.
Use multi-factor authentication on all devices.
Invest in high-quality anti-virus protection software.
Regularly back up your data to a secure location.
Use strong passwords and change them regularly.
You can also protect yourself from the Google Chrome update malware scam by practicing good "cyber hygiene" and learning how developers push out updates. For example, Chrome will never prompt you to update the browser through a pop-up. You should only update the browser through Chrome's settings, which notify you of new updates in the upper right-hand corner of the browser.
You should also enable automatic updates. This allows your computer or browser to download safe and secure updates without requiring you to click on anything.
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“What I appreciate most about Eclipse is their proactive approach to IT management. They continuously monitor our systems to ensure they are secure, updated, and running efficiently, which has resulted in improved productivity and reduced downtime for our Radiology practice.”
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https://www.eisystems.com/2023/11/15/watch-out-for-google-chrome-update-malware/
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But while many security professionals are focusing on these challenges, there’s also a huge security benefit that will come in the form of IoT enabled security! Remember, IoT isn’t about the devices themselves, it’s about the network of devices – the benefits from having all of those devices work together to produce actionable intelligence. In a similar vein, securing IoT networks can’t be about the individual security devices, but rather the network of security devices, so that they can work together to produce comprehensive, actionable security intelligence in near real-time – increasing the organization’s overall security posture with little or no human intervention required.
manufacturing To get a better sense of what I’m talking about, let’s use a real-world example. These are complex, fast-paced environments that present extraordinary safety and security challenges. A typical factory floor consists of thousands of uncontrolled access points, and therefore requires multi-layer role-based security. Security controls need to identify the person and the machine to make a determination as to whether or not that person is authorized to operate that specific machine; they also need to validate that the person is who they claim to be, prior to granting access. Integrity of the safety system is also essential, so analytics need to play a major role to proactively recognize potential catastrophes.
Currently, the various safety and security systems don’t work together which limits visibility and control. It’s one thing to know that a piece of equipment is at imminent risk of failure, but without the ability to shut that equipment down automatically, human intervention is required which can take too long to be effective. This is where IoT enabled security can help enormously. By combining numerous systems, including cyber security, cameras, and sensors, IoT enabled security can improve employee safety and protect the entire system from the outside, as well as the inside.
Consider these IoT-enabled security responses for our connected factory example:
By combining IP cameras, video analytics, and sensors, intelligent, real-time decisions can be made about a person trying to gain access to sensitive systems or areas – by checking the picture on the ID badge and comparing it to the embedded ID sensor in the badge, the network-archived image of the employee, and the face of the person presently attempting access – access can be confirmed with a high level of accuracy. In the event that a breach is detected, those same systems can be disabled and an alarm state sent to security personnel for an appropriate human response.
Sensors on machinery and across the factory floor can determine if there is an increased risk of an accident occurring, and take proactive measures to avoid the incident.
The integration of IP cameras with sensors across the factory floor that detect security-critical noises, machine failures, or other dangerous events enable the cameras to automatically zoom in on the precise location of the disturbance and begin recording; meanwhile, an alarm condition can be sent to trigger the required human response.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/digital/iot-security-challenges-benefits
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NetWalker ransomware is believed to be a variant of the Mailto Ransomware family. The .mailto file extension along with an email address is attached as the extension to all of your files, making them inaccessible. All encrypted files will receive the new extension as a secondary one. The NetWalker ransomware drops a ransom note, which gives instructions to victims on how they can allegedly restore their data by paying a ransom fee.
MalwareHunterTeam was able to find an attachment used in a new Coronavirus phishing campaign that installs the Netwalker Ransomware.
Cybercriminals launched a NetWalker (Mailto) ransomware attack against the Illinois Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (CUPHD) website, according to The News-Gazette. The health district’s email accounts, environmental health records and patient electronic medical records were unaffected by the cyberattack.
The NetWalker attack was discovered last week as CUPHD officials tried to deliver Coronavirus (COVID-19) updates to Champaign-Urbana residents, The News-Gazette reported. It temporarily prevented health district employees from accessing certain files.
The new Netwalker phishing campaign is using an attachment named “CORONAVIRUS_COVID-19.vbs” that contains an embedded Netwalker Ransomware executable and obfuscated code to extract and launch it on the computer.
When the script is executed, the executable will be saved to %Temp%\qeSw.exe and launched.
Once executed, the ransomware will encrypt the files on the computer and append a random extension to encrypted file names. Of particular interest, Head of SentinelLabs Vitali Kremez told BleepingComputer that this version of the ransomware specifically avoids terminating the Fortinet endpoint protection client. When asked why they would do that, Kremez stated it may be to avoid detection.
“I suppose it might be because they have already disabled the anti-virus functionality directly from the customer admin panel; however, they do not want to trip an alarm by terminating the clients,” Kremez told BleepingComputer.
When done, victims will find a ransom note named -Readme.txt that contains instructions on how to access the ransomware’s Tor payment site to pay the ransom demand.
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https://www.abijita.com/netwalker-ransomware-infecting-users-via-coronavirus-phishing/
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