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At 17.3% CAGR, the Asia Pacific Cloud Security Market is speculated to be worth US$ 29,458.69 million by 2028, says Business Market Insights
According to Business Market Insights’ research, the Asia Pacific cloud security market was valued at US$ 11,297.70 million in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 29,458.69 million by 2028, registering an annual growth rate of 17.3% from 2022 to 2028. Increase in government initiatives and surge in technological advancements in cloud security are the critical factors attributed to the Asia Pacific cloud security market expansion.
Governments are investing in cloud technology and through Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs), they collaborate with businesses in the private sector to advance smart city and smart transportation initiatives. Cloud-based technologies provide dependable, economical, and scalable solutions. Cloud storage solutions are embraced by crucial infrastructure sectors such as communications, IT, energy, and financial services to store private and confidential data. The use of cloud technologies is significantly increasing with such initiatives by various governments, which is likely to favor the Asia Pacific cloud security market during the forecast period.
On the contrary, weak collaborations among organizations and cloud security service providers process hurdles the growth of Asia Pacific cloud security market.
Based on service model, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The software-as-a-service (SaaS)segment held 53.5% market share in 2022, amassing US$ 6,046.16 million. Based on deployment model, public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. The public cloud segment held 55.9% market share in 2022, amassing US$ 6,317.11 million. Based on enterprise size, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and large enterprises. The large enterprises segment held 72.2% market share in 2022, amassing US$ 8,158.52 million. It is projected to garner US$ 19,453.33 million by 2028 to expand at 15.6% CAGR during 2022–2028.
Based on solution type, email and web security, cloud identity and access management, data loss prevention, intrusion detection system/intrusion prevention system, security information and event management, and others. The email and web security segment held 27.4% market share in 2022, amassing US$ 3,095.95 million. It is projected to garner US$ 8,343.58 million by 2028 to expand at 18.0% CAGR during 2022–2028.
Based on industry vertical, BFSI, IT and telecom, energy and utilities, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, and others. The BFSI segment held 25.5% market share in 2022, amassing US$ 2,881.69 million. Based on country, China, India, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the Rest of Asia Pacific. Our regional analysis states that China captured 32.7% market share in 2022. It was assessed at US$ 3,696.61 million in 2022 and is likely to hit US$ 10,216.27 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 18.5% during the forecast period.
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Downloader. KFE is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Downloader. KFE prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
Downloader. KFE redirects attempts to access web pages of certain banks to spoofed pages, with the aim of logging information entered by the user in these pages.
Downloader. KFE redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.
Downloader. KFE uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
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The field of cybersecurity is constantly evolving, and staying up-to-date with the latest trends is essential for professionals in the field. Some of the current trends in cybersecurity include:
Cloud Security: As more organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, there is an increased need for cybersecurity professionals who can ensure that these systems are secure.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Cybersecurity professionals are increasingly using AI and machine learning to detect and prevent cyber attacks.
Internet of Things (IoT): With the growth of connected devices, there is an increased risk of cyber attacks on these devices. Cybersecurity professionals are needed to ensure that these devices are secure.
Cyber Threat Intelligence: This involves the collection and analysis of data to identify potential cyber threats and develop strategies to prevent them.
Zero-Trust Security: This approach assumes that no user or device can be trusted and requires continuous authentication and authorization.
To be successful in a cybersecurity career, there are several skills that are required. These include:
Technical Skills: A strong understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and programming languages is essential for success in cybersecurity.
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Serve in high-impact technical, educational, and leadership role focused on securing both the physical and virtual aspects of UVM’s information environment. Implement, manage, and integrate systems and software that support of the Information Security Office’s mission to identify and remediate threats to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information in the University of Vermont’s information ecosystem. Manage information security projects of significant institutional impact and importance; work closely with Director, senior analyst, and staff responsible for enterprise technology infrastructure operations; and serve as a subject-matter expert/consultant to constituent and leadership groups. Participate in UVM’s Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT), provide functional supervision to one or more Information Security/Identity Management Analysts and student employees operating in supporting roles, and report to Director of Information Security.
Develop and leverage a deep understanding of UVM’s information ecosystem in order to identify intrusion, exfiltration, and other threats to information security using ethical, repeatable, defensible methods. Exercise discretion and judgment and maintain strict confidentiality, while utilizing high level of access to maintain the security of University information, protecting individuals’ privacy, and educating constituents.
Minimum Qualifications (or equivalent combination of education and experience):
Bachelor’s degree in a related field and five years’ experience as an information security professional to include experience in a professional systems administration or network administration role performing cybersecurity incident response, endpoint/network forensics and/or continuous security monitoring required. Expert proficiency in the technical concepts underpinning internet-connected enterprise services required. Effective customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills are required. Effective written communications to produce both procedural documentation and activity/incident documentation in support of office self-assessment reporting required. Demonstrated ability to communicate information security concepts and concrete action steps to both technical and general populations through teaching, writing, presenting, and individual interactions required. Effective interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work and manage projects in a collaborative, cross-departmental, team environment required. Problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills required. Demonstrated ability to evaluate risks, costs, and benefits of security measures required.
Successful criminal background check required.
The University of Vermont’s hilltop campus looks out across one of America’s most vibrant small cities to Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains beyond. Here, students’ educational experience and activities are enriched by our location — from the energy and innovation of Burlington to the forests, farms, and independent spirit of Vermont.
UVM is a Public Ivy and top 100 research university of a perfect size, large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet small enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship. With a commitment to undergraduate education, UVM professors — world-class researchers, scholars, and artists — bring their discoveries into the classroom and their students into the field.
You’ll find UVM faculty and students studying the effects of climate change aboard the Melosira, a research vessel and floating lab; testing new vaccines at the on-campus medical center; launching local start-ups; and working with refugees at Burlington community centers.
Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. The fifth oldest university in New England, UVM boasts a legacy of important firsts in education: the first college to declare public support of freedom of religion and the first to admit women and African-Americans to Phi Beta Kappa.
Today, the university continues to provide endless ways to explore the world, challenge ideas, and dig in on the most pressing issues of our time.
UVM’s hometown perennially appears on national rankings that laud its livability, access to nature and recreation (including the best skiing in the northeast), thriving food and music scene, rising identity as a technology and innovation hub, and its status as a top college town. City perks include an active pedestrian marketplace in the heart of downtown, 8 miles of waterfront along Lake Champlain featuring stunning sunsets over the Adirondacks beyond, and a 12-mile paved bike trail that runs along the lake. Burlington’s nickname, BTV, comes from the code for its airport, just 10 minutes from campus. With Montreal a 90-minute and Boston a 3.5-hour drive away, international and metropolitan culture are easily accessible for weekend adventures.
With a metro-area population of approximately 210,000, Burlington is Vermont’s largest city. In addition to UVM, large local employers include Global Foundries, GE Healthcare, Keurig Green Mountain, Dealer.com, Seventh Generation and Ben & Jerry’s Homemade. Vermont’s public K-12 schools are perennially ranked among the best in the nation.
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As business of identity theft develops every year, equipping your computer with an excellent phishing filter comes to be a growing number of essential. Phishing is actually the strategy of swiping individual details through the Internet. Using this information, phishers can easily produce your life awful.
Phishers are actually unscrupulous offenders that will head to wonderful durations to mislead truthful people by misrepresenting themselves as representatives of trustworthy companies. What they are definitely out to do is actually to entice you into their catch.
Computer system sensible phishers will certainly make fake Website utilizing provider logos to produce them look legitimate. They commonly call their preys by means of instant notifications or e-mails, asking for that they head to a specific Website гидра тор to “confirm” their profile details. Often, they make pop-up home windows which are difficult to withstand.
If you explore the counterfeit web site and also get into any kind of info, you could be opening your own self around having your savings account tampered with, incurring deceptive acquisitions on your bank card profiles or becoming the target of identification theft. When any of these take place, you will definitely possess a long road to recovering what is rightfully your own featuring your personal label as well as identification.
Possessing a phishing filter will certainly shield you through stopping you from getting into private relevant information in to Website which are actually validated to be engaged in phishing activities. Many filters may be installed coming from the Internet at no charge and will immediately upgrade themselves to keep your protection existing. If you decide on a filter which doesn’t come with an automotive updater, you must intend to operate manual updates a minimum of once every week.
Phishing filters include Phishing Broom 2.1.0.1, Phishing Sensor 1.0, Crystal Clear Search Anti-Phishing 1.80. To discover the finest phishing filter for your Net buying and banking practices, do some research online about the plans or inquire a representative from your local Net Solution Provider for recommendations.
Among the very best ways to safeguard yourself coming from World wide web scams is actually to beware anytime an individual get in touches with you to seek your personal information. Most of the times, you launch the substitution of your personal details. You may always talk to for a phone number to establish whether the demand is valid if an individual connects with you to request it.
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You may have no idea that VideoPlus is running on your Windows operating system; however, it is possible that the flooding advertisements are to blame for this. The advertisement-supported program has been developed to create an easy-access for third parties to present various online offers. Needless to say, it is impossible to know if all the presented offers are authentic and reliable, which is why the program is often identified as unreliable. The fact that there is no information on how the application is distributed does not boost the reputation either. All in all, we recommend having VideoPlus deleted.
It is possible that you have downloaded VideoPlus yourself if it was packaged together with third-party applications. Do you know how the program managed to slither in? We would appreciate if you shared your experiences regarding this adware in the comment section below, as this could help many computer users with its removal. You should have no doubts that getting VideoPlus removed is the right move. This application can use the proxy to inject random ads to loading pages, and they may disrupt your web browsing experience. As mentioned before, some of the displayed ads could be unreliable as well, which means that the represented ads are not only disruptive but possibly unreliable as well.
Unfortunately, computer users often do not know how VideoPlus gets in or that it operates the suspicious online adverts. As it has been discovered recently, the ads related to the application do not have an identification, which means that linking them to specific adware may be difficult. Nonetheless, if you find the folder corresponding to the application under %AppData%, and VideoPlus.exe is running, you can be sure that you need to remove VideoPlus. Keep in mind that you may need to delete other unreliable applications, if they have entered the PC bundled with adware, as well.
VideoPlus removal is not a simple task. In fact, the program cannot be uninstalled via Control Panel, which is why many computer users do not even know that it exists. We recommend that you firstly terminate the process of VideoPlus.exe and then delete it from the aforementioned folder. You can follow the manual removal instructions below if you are confused about the operation. We also recommend employing automatic malware removal software to ensure that other hidden threats are deleted as well. Take care of your own virtual security to ensure that it is not threatened in the future.
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Avast is among the biggest labels in the anti-virus industry. With over 435 million productive users, Avast is a popular choice for safeguarding your web activities. The range of programs provides security alternatives for businesses, home users and individuals.
Avast antivirus uses AI in diagnosing every webpage and engine block malicious files. The company also provides a VPN service to help you avoid dangerous online actions.
When a threat is found, Avast directs the aware of its impair lab to analyze the danger. The lab consequently notifies each and every one users. Using this method ensures that the product is always current.
Avast has an email defend, which stops you out of sending trojans. It can also keep an eye on your Wi-Fi network pertaining to vulnerabilities.
Avast also has a built-in adblocker, that can be used to mass unwanted ads. There is also a browser extension, which often can prevent you from getting on hazardous websites.
However , Avast is normally not excellent. Some customers complained that they only experienced thirty days of licenses. A second issue is that the company offers customer data to marketers.
While Avast offers a multitude of protection features, some buyers have concerns regarding privacy. For example, the company’s webpage identifies best headset for conference calls itself because an “advertising partner”. Due to this fact, users may be concerned about this company collecting and selling their very own personal data.
Despite these issues, Avast is a wonderful antivirus solution. It is reputable and easy to work with. You can change the program to meet up with your preferences.
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Feebs. GI is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it terminates processes belonging to security tools, such as antivirus programs and firewalls, leaving the computer defenseless against attacks from other malware.
It prevents scanning tools from running, such as Windows Registry Editor, FileMonitor, etc.
It terminates its own execution if it detects that a debugging program is active.
Feebs. GI uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Email: sending emails that include a copy of itself as an attachment. The computer is infected when the attachment is run.
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Magnet Forensics provides solutions for almost any digital investigation. The original principle was to construct a tool that could easily make Internet communication transparent. This Canadian company now offers tooling for investigating computers, smartphones, cloud data, IoT devices, but also for Triage and Case Management.
The purpose of the solutions of Magnet Forensics was and is still to help investigative teams find evidence and ultimately uncover the truth. Their motto is: ‘Discover the Truth!’. Magnet applies modern technologies for this, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and modern data visualisation.
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Local technology experts across public and private sectors are facing increasingly more complex cyberthreats as well as a higher number of cyberattacks, which make for challenging times as these types of attacks can have great impact in any organization’s bottom line.
With that in mind, cyber security solutions firm Fortinet held the “Cybersecurity Summit 2016” (FCS16) this week at La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort, when company experts shared strategies to meet cybersecurity challenges and promoted the preservation of a positive approach regarding the digital transformation.
“Cybercrime has become a global issue and threats are constantly evolving to exploit new digital vulnerabilities. In 2015, Puerto Rico experienced around 3 million cyberattacks per month,” said Gilberto Rivera, regional manager of the Spanish Caribbean for Fortinet.
“For Puerto Rico’s economy to thrive, companies in the private and public sectors must remain aware of the latest malware strategies and propagating attacks. The FCS16 discussions explain the strengths and weaknesses of virtualization, with special attention to the ‘Internet of Things,’ ‘Big Data,’ cloud and social business.”
During the event, Fortinet executives highlighted why investing in technology will facilitate business growth, described the current security state of companies in the island, suggested the best practices to implement on a national level, and evaluated whether Puerto Rico is properly preparing cybersecurity professionals.
Business practices have undergone radical changes because of the Internet, increased mobility and changes in consumerization. Adapting technological advancements and having a strong online presence has become an instrumental part of remaining competitive, company officials said.
However, as companies move to digital desktops and minimize their data centers for virtual counterparts, cybersecurity is not always considered. Trojans are the most popular malware in Puerto Rico and they infect systems when downloaded as an email attachment or part of a fraudulent program. Businesses must learn to train employees on how to distinguish cyber threats and adapt the latest cybersecurity solutions to prevent a mass hack, executives further noted during the event.
FCS16 offered more than 250 attendees the opportunity to share vital information about threat trends, as well as the best practices and tips to develop new approaches to solve cybersecurity issues with professionals in systems engineering.
The full day of lectures, panel discussions, workshops and one-on-one meetings gave attendees the opportunity to learn from the perspectives and experiences of industry leaders in a unique executive environment.
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Genetic mixing between warm-adapted and cool-adapted species can reduce the risk of extinction due to climate change. Credit: Chris Brauer at Flinders University
Genetic diversity is the raw material that enables populations to evolve in response to changes in the environment—essentially, the more diversity the better.
Rapid climate warming is challenging many species to evolve and adapt quickly enough to avoid extinction, particularly species that don't tolerate much environmental variation, such as those from cooler high-elevation habitats, which may lack genetic diversity important for adapting to climate change.
Hybridization, the process of mixing different species, can potentially help the vulnerable adopt and rapidly exploit novel genetic diversity from species that might already be adapted to warmer environments. However, hybrid populations have traditionally been considered of little conservation value.
New research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change provides rare evidence that natural hybridization can reduce the risk of extinction of species threatened by climate change.
This concept is similar to how the historic mixing between our ancestors and Neanderthals led to improved fitness in some modern human populations.
The team, including lead-author Dr. Chris Brauer, project coordinator Professor Luciano Beheregaray and other biologists traveled to the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Australia to collect samples of five species of tropical rainbowfish along an elevational gradient.
They produced genomic data from the samples and discovered several pure and hybrid populations of rainbowfish. They also identified genes that enable rainbowfish populations to adapt to climate variation across the region and used environmental models to work out how much evolution will likely be required for populations to keep pace with climate change in the future.
Dr. Brauer says that populations of cool-adapted upland species that have hybridized with a warm-adapted lowland species showed reduced vulnerability to future climates.
"These mixed populations contain more diversity at genes we think are important for climate adaptation, and are therefore more likely to persist in warmer environments."
The finding that hybridization (genetic mixing) may facilitate rapid adaptation to climate change has important implications for many threatened species.
MELFU Director and Flinders University Professor Luciano Beheregaray says that this study highlights the underappreciated conservation value of hybrid populations.
"Our findings are good news for biodiversity. They indicate that genetic mixing is an important tool for conservation that can contribute to natural evolutionary rescue of species threatened by climate change."
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There are many reasons why people put off going to the Doctor’s. “I’ll probably be better by the time I get an appointment,” you might say hopefully. Or there are the questions the doctor is going to ask about how you’ve been looking after yourself: just how much exercise do you take? – have you given up smoking yet? – what’s your diet like? – how many units of alcohol are you consuming every week?... and many more potentially embarrassing questions - and you wonder just what you’re going to have to have to admit to.
And then there’s the fear of what the doctor is actually going to do to you. Which bits is he/she going to prod and feel? What am I going to have to reveal of an anatomy of which I’m less than proud? And after all that, what might the treatment involve? – alright if it’s a course of antibiotics, but what about hospital referrals, long courses of drug therapy, operations, the bits which might be unlovely but which we don’t want to live without?
Now try to think what might be in the mind of Naaman, the commander of the armies of Aram (modern day Syria) as he looks for a cure for his leprosy. It wasn’t newly diagnosed,… it was something he seems to have lived with for a long time. He’s a high-ranking General - despite his illness. He’s learned to live with the disease – and perhaps we need to be reminded that what the Bible calls leprosy is not necessarily what we call leprosy (Hanson’s Disease), but was a catch-all term for a number of skin disorders. How many doctors had he seen in his own country, how much indignity had he been put through? – all to no avail, as he continued to suffer a disfiguring condition which didn’t sit at all well with his public prominence.
Naaman seems to have given up hope of a cure. Why should he want to put himself through any more prodding or lay himself open to any more useless courses of treatment? The suggestion that he turns to the prophet who lives in Israel is a last chance for him, an alternative therapy of which he seems highly sceptical.
Naaman goes seeking his cure in the way a General would. He takes his dignity along with him in a big way: piles of silver, loads of gold, fine clothes and a letter from his king – this is the reward for the man who can heal him. But a man who can arrive in this fashion is also a threat. The King of Israel sees the horses and chariots which accompany Naaman: “Now we’re in trouble,” he says. “There’s no hope of a cure. The doctors have never been able to do anything for him. He’s obviously just picking a fight!”
But what Naaman needs is not what kings and generals expect. He goes on to the house of Elisha the prophet, and finds someone quite different from the physician to the royal court he might have expected. He parks his chariots outside Elisha’s house, but the prophet doesn’t even come out. No fussing over this man so concerned for his dignity! And while Elisha saves him from the prodding and probing of a doctor, his remedy is not at all what he wants to hear… “Go and bathe in the River Jordan – and do it seven times!” Has Naaman really come all this way to hear this? If Elisha is so great a prophet, he ought to come out and wave his arms around and cure him! He ought to give heed to Naaman’s important position! If bathing is involved, it shouldn’t be in that excuse for a river, the Jordan, but in one of the mightier rivers of Syria – perhaps it’s as though Naaman had come from Gstaad and been told to take the waters at the Spa in Shotley Bridge! Anyway, no doubt Naaman has tried all that sort of thing before!
Naaman storms off in a rage… Fortunately his servants calm him down. “OK,” they say, “he’s asked something pretty pathetic. But you’d have done it if he’d asked you to do something really difficult. Why not give it a go?” And they persuade him. He swallows his pride, goes to the river Jordan, washes in it seven times, and he is healed.
On one level, the message is that Naaman must recognise that Elisha speaks with the authority of the one true God. And he does! – when he goes home, he takes a trunk-load of Israelite earth with him, so he can worship on the soil of the land promised by God to the Israelites. But there is another level, I think. Naaman’s first need is to recognise that he doesn’t have all the answers. The solution doesn’t lie in being able to throw your weight around. Horses and chariots might win you battles, but they can’t win you your health. Fine clothes may cover up disfigurement, but they don’t cure it. And heaps of money in the end serve only to show you what can’t be bought.
For Naaman, the need is to find humility: to acknowledge his need; instead of issuing his own commands, to listen to others. And finally to give up standing on his dignity. He goes to the river Jordan – and we can imagine the scene: first he has to unburden himself of the warrior’s armour and weapons; then to take off the fine clothes of status; and finally, as he stands naked by the river, to reveal what needs to be healed – not merely a physical condition, but his defensiveness, aggression, his pride.
Naaman cannot find healing as the rich general of mighty armies, but only as a man. Today’s Gospel story tells us something more. Ten lepers come to Jesus for healing. These men are outcasts, forced to live outside the village, careful to keep their distance from this religious teacher. They have no wealth, nothing to offer Jesus. All they can say is “Jesus… have mercy on us!” These are men who have nothing, except the hope that Jesus will do something for them – and whatever it is, they cannot buy it, nor can they expect religion to do anything for them, because their disease has turned them into people who are to be avoided by the religiously upright.
The strange thing is that Jesus doesn’t say yes or no to their request for healing. He just tells them to go and show themselves to the priests. It’s their response of faith that makes them well. St. Luke’s Gospel tells us, “as they went, they were made clean.” In St. Mark’s version of the story, it’s the touch of Jesus that heals the leper. For St. Luke, it’s a matter of hearing what Jesus has to say to us. Do we listen to what he is saying? Are we ready to hear and to act?
We don’t know what happens to most of the ten lepers who are healed, but one of them turns back, praising God and throws himself at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving. The point that St. Luke’s Gospel makes is that the other nine don’t go back. And it’s a very modern and relevant point for our society where gratitude seems to be a scarce commodity. How often we complain, how rarely we give thanks! If only we were ready to show gratitude more often, then perhaps we would recognise just how many blessings we have received.
In this short episode, we see what is at the heart of the Christian Gospel – what we mean when we talk of the Incarnation, of God’s Son taking human flesh. Jesus knows what it is to be human. He knows what it is to be misunderstood and vulnerable. Jesus comes to us and shares in all that we are. He brings healing, he transforms lives, and he does it not by throwing his spiritual weight and power around, but by entering into all that needs to be healed. Jesus comes as the “wounded healer.” Not someone with the answer to everything, but one who can bring hope in our suffering because he knows what it is we suffer – sharing in our humanity, even in the uncleanness of the leper, he knows what it is that needs to be healed.
Do we know our need of healing – our need of God? Honesty with ourselves is one of the hardest things to achieve, which is why it is a good idea to be able to open ourselves up to someone else: a spiritual director, a member of our family, a friend.... And we can make a start by acknowledging our vulnerability, as finally Naaman must do. To stop covering up. To see that for all our ability, wealth and achievements we can’t get it all sorted on our own. And this may help us help others in their need. So we don’t see them simply as people who are the authors of their own misfortune, people who deserve what they’ve got, people we can do without - like the folk of Jesus’ time thought they could do without the people they categorised as “unclean,” like so many people of his time despised the Samaritans, like the many prejudices we find voiced around us and perhaps share ourselves. “People are not loved because they are beautiful; they are beautiful because they are loved.” It’s love in action which Jesus brings to those who have less than nothing to offer. And when we feel unlovely, we do well to learn from this saying – and know that we are loved. And for that, be thankful…
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Over a billion people’s data was compromised in 2018, offering a glimpse of what the cybersecurity and privacy landscape looks like in 2019 and what we could do to mitigate the risks of data breaches.
If your data wasn’t leaked last year then you were lucky. The information of over a billion people was compromised in 2018 as many of the companies we trust failed to protect our data.
From credit card skimming to bugs and ‘leaky’ backends, Daniel Markuson, Digital Privacy Expert at NordVPN reviews the most significant and worst data breaches the world faced in 2018.
380,000 transactions made between August 21st and September 5th were compromised on the British Airways (BA) website and app. The attackers accessed customers’ names, addresses, emails, and payment details. The airline assured passengers that passport and travel details remained secure.
The technique used in this attack was like a digital version of ‘credit card skimming’. It allowed hackers to copy users’ information while it’s being typed into a data entry form. Such attacks tend to target companies that have poor security.
In this case, hackers found a loophole in BA’s booking page, injected malicious code, and instantaneously sent customer data to their own server. The attack didn’t involve hackers penetrating the servers, which is why they only managed to gather the information over a very specific time frame and why they got data not normally stored by the airline, like credit card CVV numbers.
Google+ (500,000 accounts)
A bug recently found in the Google+ platform gave third-party developers access to 500,000 accounts, which included users’ full names, birth dates, genders, profile photos, occupations and even places where they lived.
What’s surprising is that the bug wasn’t noticed for three years. Eventually, when Google found it and patched it, they decided not to inform the public because they feared another scandal just like Cambridge Analytica. Google says that 438 apps had access to sensitive information, but that there’s no evidence that developers misused this data.
Unlike other social media platforms, Google+ struggled to get new users. With the latest data leak, they decided that it’s now time to shut down the platform completely.
Ticket Fly, owned by Eventbrite (27 million accounts)
Ticket Fly, an event ticketing website, was hacked by a cybercriminal calling himself IsHaKdZ who stole the data from 27 million accounts. The hacker broke into Ticket Fly’s systems and replaced its homepage with an image from the ‘V for Vendetta’ film depicting the fictional British Anarchist who protests and fights the fascist government.
He then asked Ticket fly for a one bitcoin ransom and warned them that their security is poor threatening to publish the database after his next attack. However, even though the hack disrupted many events taking place in the US, the company refused to speak to the hacker or pay the ransom.
The hacker never released the data publicly, but Washington Post journalists spoke to the hacker and confirmed that the data was authentic. Despite the havoc, the website was back up and running in about a week.
Uber (57 million users)
This revolutionary taxi company isn’t immune to hacking either. In November 2016, hackers accessed Uber’s cloud servers and downloaded the data of almost 35 million users, including their full names, phone numbers, email addresses and the locations where they first signed up for the service.
If this happened two years ago, why are we talking about this now? Because Uber brushed it under the carpet and failed to notify its customers (and the 3.7 million drivers whose trip summaries, weekly payments, and even driver’s license numbers were also exposed). Instead, Uber paid the hacker a $100,000 ransom, called it a ‘bug bounty,’ and waited for a year to start monitoring the affected accounts.
Lack of communication with their users and failing to follow the procedures of the ‘bug bounty reward scheme’ resulted in Uber receiving a hefty fine of $148m in the US £385,000 in the UK. Director of Investigations at Information Commissioner’s Office UK , Steve Eckersley said:
“This was not only a serious failure of data security on Uber’s part, but a complete disregard for the customers and drivers whose personal information was stolen. At the time, no steps were taken to inform anyone affected by the breach, or to offer help and support. That left them vulnerable. Paying the attackers and then keeping quiet about it afterwards was not, in our view, an appropriate response to the cyber attack.” – Steve Eckersley, ICO Director of Investigations
In September, the social media giant hit the headlines once again as they compromised the security of almost 90 million users. A bug in Facebook’s ‘View As’ feature was discovered that could be used to steal users’ access tokens, which keep the user logged into a website or an app during a browsing session.
Access tokens do not save the user’s password, so Facebook logged out everyone potentially affected to restore the security. However, hackers still managed to steal usernames, genders, and information about their hometowns.
Facebook claims that, so far, it hasn’t noticed any suspicious behavior on compromised accounts. However, this doesn’t mean that this data won’t be used at a later date.
7 million users in December
As if this wasn’t enough to lose trust in Facebook, another bug was announced only a few days ago. It appears that hundreds of third-party apps had unauthorized access to 7 million users’ photos. Worst of all, these included pictures people might have started uploading but never posted.
It’s unknown whether anyone had seen these photos or used them in any malicious way. However, it shows once more how much data Facebook collects and how little control they have over their cybersecurity.
“A lot of people who are worried about privacy and those kinds of issues will take any minor misstep that we make and turn it into as big a deal as possible. We realize that people will probably criticize us for this for a long time, but we just believe that this is the right thing to do.” – Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
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Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across that managed security services provider ecosystem.
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Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Typically one or two sentences for each item below.
1. Managed Detection and Response (MDR): Telus has launched managed detection and response (MDR) services for midmarket customers in Canada.
2. Security Operations Centers: Splunk is focusing its security operations center (SOC) software strategy on a branded platform aptly called Splunk Mission Control. The cloud-based SaaS software — currently in beta testing — allows SOC analysts to detect, manage, investigate, hunt, contain, and remediate threats, the company asserts.
3. Internet of Things (IoT) Security – Legislation: Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate on Tuesday introduced legislation to increase the security of Internet-connected devices, The Hill reports. The legislation is known as The Cyber Shield Act.
4. Election Security – Legislation: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would provide funding for states to shore up election security and create more transparency around online advertisements, The Hill reports.
5. Research – Phishing Attacks and Healthcare: There has been a 300 percent jump in phishing emails sent to healthcare organizations during the first quarter of 2019, Proofpoint research reveals.
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Microsoft announced "a shift in philosophy on how we approach the topic of vulnerability disclosure, reframing the practice of "Responsible Disclosure" to "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure."
CVD: Newly discovered vulnerabilities in hardware, software, and services are disclosed directly to vendors of affected product, to a CERT-CC or other coordinator who'll report to vendor privately, or to a private service that'll likewise report to vendor privately. The finder allows the vendor an opportunity to diagnose and offer fully tested updates, workarounds, or other corrective measures before detailed vulnerability or exploit information is shared publicly. If attacks are underway in the wild, earlier public vulnerability details disclosure can occur with both the finder and vendor working together as closely as possible to provide consistent messaging and guidance to customers to protect themselves."
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We will be running the Microsoft Security Summit 2005 in February 2005. The event will be held throughout February beginning in Sydney and finishing up in sunny Perth.
Security continues to be a major area of concern and focus for IT shops these days so this summit is designed to give you practical guidance that can be applied immediately to help you manage potential security incidents.
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What would our online world be like without cryptography? For a start, security as we know it would not exist. We use (or should use) encryption across all of the touchpoints of the digital information realm — where we store information, how we transmit data and when we share it with others. It is a foundation stone of information online and within our internal networks, too.
For encryption to maintain this high ground, it has to be robust. Robustness does not happen automatically or overnight; in fact, it takes time and a community to achieve it.
In his article, we will look at the idea of “rolling your own crypto” or, in other words, developing your own encryption algorithms and/or schemes.
Some Basics on Encryption
Encryption is used to prevent unauthorized reading of data. The process of encryption takes the original data or plaintext and combines it with a key in such a way as to render the data unreadable. The result of this process is ciphertext; the reverse process, decryption, returns the plaintext from the ciphertext.
Encryption can be divided into two types, symmetric and asymmetric, based on the nature of the key. Symmetric encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption. Asymmetric or public key encryption uses a pair of keys: a public key for encryption and the corresponding private key for decryption. In symmetric encryption, the key must be kept secret but shared between the parties who can encrypt and decrypt. Conversely, in public key encryption, only the private key is secret and is not shared. The public key is available for anyone to encrypt data for the private key holder.
When people write their own algorithm, it usually involves symmetric encryption. Within any given use case, you need both an algorithm and a scheme (or mode) by which the encryption is applied.
The thing to remember is that encryption algorithms are not the end of the story. Encryption is a system. It uses methodologies with many moving parts, including algorithms, encryption libraries, modes of operation and configuration variables during implementation. All of these things form the whole and any part of the whole can be a weak point.
More details on how encryption works can be found in this mini-course on cryptography fundamentals.
Telegram, the mobile messaging app, developed its own encryption scheme known as MTProto. Researchers Jakob Jakobsen and Claudio Orlandi of Aarhus University demonstrated that “it is possible to turn any ciphertext into a different ciphertext that decrypts to the same message.” Telegram uses AES 256-bit encryption, but because they implement it in a non-standard manner it has left potential issues in their product. As the researchers stated:
“The take-home message (once again) is that well-studied, provably secure encryption schemes that achieve strong definitions of security (e.g., authenticated-encryption) are to be preferred to home-brewed encryption schemes.”
Telegram continue to use MTProto but say that they are “continuously working with the community to improve the security of our protocol and clients.”
Some Reasons Why Roll-Your-Own Crypto is Bad News
Having an encryption algorithm is only part of a larger whole when it comes to securing data. Here are some reasons why home-grown crypto is not something you embark on lightly:
Knowing your mode: Symmetric algorithms are divided into two types: stream and block ciphers. With the latter, data is encrypted in blocks of a defined size, e.g., 16 bytes. How each block is combined with previous blocks is defined by the “mode.” You need to apply the right mode of implementation to the right use case. This has to then be checked for security flaws.
An example is the Electronic Code Book (ECB) mode, which is a simple mode with some inherent weaknesses. ECB passes plaintext through the algorithm directly to output ciphertext. This means that a given plaintext will always give the same ciphertext, making it insecure for many applications. Cipher Block Chain mode (CBC) is more secure because it does not have this weakness. Home-grown modes need to be crypto-analyzed for flaws.
Tried and tested: Crypto standards like Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are tried and tested. NIST published AES back in 2001. There were 15 candidate algorithms for the standard back in 1998. The finalists included MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish. Rijndael was chosen, and over several years, comments from the community were taken on AES. The standard then had to go through rigorous validation in NIST’s Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program against various modes.
Differential cryptanalysis can be used to find vulnerabilities in an algorithm: It is used to spot areas in a cipher that are non-random and so can be used to predict the output with a high probability. If you push an algorithm out into the wild without extremely thorough testing, you can bet it will be put through differential cryptanalysis by someone trying to find a vulnerability to exploit.
Test vectors that are code-dependent: Say you write your code in a particular language and you want to use the AES standard in that language. You need to know there are test vectors available to prove you are getting the same results as everyone else. This allows your code to be validated against these test vectors. Roll-your-own will not have these cross-check measures available.
Multiple implementation modes will be needed: Roll-your-own would usually mean that multiple complementary implementation modes would need to be developed. These allow the new algorithm to be used across multiple use cases adding complexity and therefore likely further vulnerabilities that require extensive testing to determine.
Should I or Shouldn’t I Roll My Own Crypto?
The general consensus is no. Even if you are an expert, don’t bother. Workable encryption schemes are much more than an algorithm or a mode alone. They require a community of people working together to cross-reference, test and analyze the design.
Encryption is a bottom-line security measure. Without a deep dive into the system design, often requiring years of testing, can we truly be sure of the robustness of a schema. Fortunately, we already have a number of encryption algorithms and modes that are tested in the wild by a global audience. Because of the existence of tried-and-trusted encryption schemes, we are seeing far fewer roll-your-own attempts, unlike back in the 80s when it was a common practice.
Before you go off and spend a long time creating your own home-grown version of encryption, check out what’s already available first. Become an expert in implementation, not in encryption algorithm or mode development.
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This past November, the Baldwin Wallace Cyber Defense Team outscored 173 other teams to take the top spot on the leaderboard for the National Cyber League (NCL) Fall 2017 Postseason team competition.
“The Cyber Defense team is not an official club. It’s a loose group of students who are interested in computer security, or better known as cyber defense,” said Kenneth Atchinson, PE, Associate Professor of Computer Science and faculty advisor for the team. “They all have an interest in tinkering around in cyber security and want to participate in some kind of challenging event.”
The Fall 2017 team, going by the name of “Ken’s Little Pwnies,” was composed of Kasper, co-captain Jonathan Cartwright ’16, Ian Walton ’20, John Blainer ’18, Dan Jesensky ’18, Andrew Wilhelm ’18, Kurt Wolfe ’18, and Emory Leinweber ’21. Walton also scored third place nationally in the regular season individual portion of the NCL competition.
According to the NCL competition’s website, the individual and team event challenges feature elements of both offensive and defensive cybersecurity and test competing teams in the areas of “Open Source Intelligence, Scanning, Enumeration and Exploitation, Password Cracking, Traffic Analysis, Log Analysis, Wireless Security, Cryptography, and Web Application Security.” “It’s kind of like capture the flag, but with a lot of traps,” said team captain and computer network security major, Meredith Kasper ’20.
“The second part [of the NCL event] is the team [competition],” said Atchinson. “What happens is that people who participated in the individual can form a team, and then the team works on puzzles as a team to gain points and is ranked nationally.”
The NCL individual and team competitions are formatted similarly, said Atchinson, with either single competitors or teams being given a puzzle book full of cyber security challenges. Team members had to compete as many puzzles as possible during the duration of this event in order to earn points and move up the leaderboard.
During the event, student teams compete remotely and may work from any location they choose over the days of the competition, said Kasper, usually the computer science lounge or a BW classroom.
“For the team competition, we all get in a room for as long as we can stand each other and try to team-think all of these puzzles that they give us,” said Kasper. “For the team competition this year, there were, I think, 96 different puzzles all with different levels of difficulty, of course. Some take two or three seconds to solve. Some people spend hours or a day and a half on one puzzle. The competition is two days long, so it’s really imperative that we start as soon as they release those challenges.”
Students also collaborate over group chatting applications such as Discord, said Atchinson. This allows the team to work together at all hours for the duration of the competition.
“I logged into [Discord] early Sunday, and they were chatting at 4 AM,” said Atchinson. “And I’m going like, ‘Guys, do you guys sleep?’ …They work long hours.”
Besides the team’s willingness to sacrifice sleep, Kasper said, another of its strengths was the variety and versatility in its members’ areas of specialty.
“With our team this past year in the fall, we had at least one person for each specialty of the different categories of challenges, and then we had a lot of people who were able to float between,” said Kasper. “That was really great to see, that we actually had a team that was so versatile.”
The group’s versatility, perseverance, and teamwork proved critical to Ken’s Little Pwnies taking the lead from the previous year’s winning team within the final hour of the event, said Kasper.
“Within the last hour of the competition, we had gotten down to having only four unsolved challenges left,” said Kasper. “One of those four unsolved challenges was one of those that really required a team effort, because we all have so many different specialties.”
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AVG Malware is one of the leading brands of pathogen protection goods available today. all you need to know about AVG It was founded in 1999 with a group of research workers led simply by Hans para Saussure. As well as Bruce Maclaren, Joachim Breitenmacher and Ulrich Streck, they created the classic version of AVG. The business released the original product since freeware to allow users to try it out prior to purchasing it. Over the years, various versions belonging to the software experience been released below different names, all together with the same standard features.
AVG Antivirus Free Variation is the most well-liked and best to use variation of the merchandise. It comes with a simple desktop icon and a keyword rich link to a down load page in which the software could be installed. A regular list of virus definitions is usually available, allowing the user to discover common malevolent files quickly. The software is very a lot like that of different free antivirus programs, and the main window has a application menu as well as a couple of tools for scanning. A help function allows you get technical support from the builders.
A higher costed option is definitely the AVG Pro Advanced rendition, which offers more complex features. Features include an Internet safety Middle, personal safeguards options and a danger protection utility. With this device daily malware detection is definitely enabled lacking the wearer’s consent. There are many other anti-virus utilities in the marketplace, however none of them can be as effective as the AVG Antivirus Free Edition. The reason for this really is that the product provides exceptional malware cover that detects malware on the fly and is configured to do a number of works each day. This level of proper protection is absolutely incomparable by some other modern anti-virus program.
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Hello and welcome to the Royalwise OWLS (On-Demand Web-based Learning Solution) platform. I’m Jamie, come with me on this one hour tour of our learning portal.
Learn to enroll in classes using flight paths, easily find your in-progress and completed classes, take control of communications with messages and notifications, and get some much-needed peer support in the Royalwise discussion groups and community forums.
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When we create an account for any online service, we will have a username and a password to secure our account and make it private to us. But in this modern day this type of protection is not enough as we hear on weekly basis of new hacks and new leaks of credentials.
And if our account has been leaked or hacked this could lead to serious problems and issues. As most of us connect everything to our accounts from, payment information to address to mobile numbers ... Major hacks and leaks includes companies like
TOTP is very similar to HOTP except its time based, the setup in an authentication app is the same the only difference is that the code is based on the current time instead of a sequence value.
The sequence value utilised in TOTP is derived from the current unix time (which is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970. and the gap between code is usually 30 sec.
We divide the unix time by that gap, we round it down and we get the current sequence value we pass the sequence value to the same code generation function HMAC-SHA-1 which will provide the code for the current time
Authentication apps will need to repeat this process to generate new TOTP code every 30 sec.
The validation for TOTP code is a bit different from HOTP. The authentication server will check if the code is within a certain window of the current time typically a few minutes. if its within that window its allowed. to prevent code reuse the server will save the code of the last utilised code and require any subsequent login attempt to use a code after that time
EntityFrameworkCore. AspNetCore. Identity. AspNetCore. Identity. EntityFrameworkCore. EntityFrameworkCore. EntityFrameworkCore. Tools
Once all these packages are added and the tool is generated we can check the csproj file to make sure all of the package are there. Now that everything is ready we need to run the command to Scaffold the Identity dotnet aspnet-codegenerator identity -dc MFACode.Data. ApplicationDbContext
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In Reader to Reader: "Easy DHCP Conflict Resolution," July 2001, Chris Wong offers an easier solution to an IP address conflict than the remedy Melissa Wise gave in Reader to Reader: "DHCP Conflict," February 2001. I have an even easier solution that resolves a situation in which two clients are trying to grab the same IP address. To implement my solution, your organization must use WINS.
IP address conflicts usually occur when someone turns off a computer with an expired IP address lease. Often, the DHCP server has already issued the IP address to another computer. The first computer requests to use its original IP address, and if the DHCP server doesn't respond quickly, the computer uses the last IP address the DHCP server issued it. Thus, two computers are using the same IP address, which creates a conflict.
To solve the problem, run WINS Administrator on the WINS server. Double-click your WINS server in the WINS Server list. From the drop-down menu, select Mappings, Show Database. Click the Set Filter button, and enter the conflicting IP address. Note the computer's name that the IP address is registered to. Locate the computer that is using the IP address, and shut down the computer. Then, restart the computer that received the IP address conflict error. Finally, restart the computer that you shut down. Both computers will now have a valid IP address.
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Recent headlines have described news pertinent to ColdFusion-related vulnerabilities and hacks specifically targeting the FCKEditor text editing tool, and the CKFinder file management tool. There have been further indications of attackers uploading a ColdFusion web shell as often seen on vulnerable PHP platforms.
These discussions reminded me of two significant pet peeves.
1) ColdFusion error verbosity and how useful it is to attackers.
2) Negligent vendors who do absolutely nothing about security vulnerabilities they've been advised of; worse still, when the vendor is a SaaS provider.
Thus, a seemingly capable, growing SaaS provider quite simply blew me off.
So be it. Here's my favorite example of something they should immediately fix: A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exhibited in the ColdFusion error page leading to significant information disclosure (ID) while indicating possible SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerabilities. Wow, really?
Yep, all the same IP, as in all on the same server.
Core application vulnerabilities in a primary service offering (SaaS) from one vendor, on one server, affecting hundreds if not thousands of clients.
That's sad. The *only* way these guys could get WORSE is if they displayed the "McAfee Secure" logo :)
On a more serious note... they have zero incentive to care until their customers tell them they need to. Perhaps it's time to have a frank discussion with their customers?
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(b) from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
2.1 We are also obliged to ensure the security of credit eligibility information.
(a) We will maintain systems and procedures to ensure that any suspected or actual Data Breach can be identified, reported and escalated to management responsible for the implementation of the Data Breach Response Plan.
(b) Any staff member of Fed Global who suspects a Data Breach has occurred must ensure that a Data Breach Report Form is completed and sent promptly to the Privacy Officer.
(a) Once a Data Breach has been identified, we will take all reasonable steps that can be taken to contain that breach.
(b) We make a preliminary assessment of any remedial action we should take and provide that assessment to all relevant staff members within 24 hours.
(c) Remedial action is anything we can reasonably do to stop the breach, prevent further similar breaches or prevent harm occurring to the individual whose data has been accessed or lost.
(e) the nature of the breach (i.e. was it loss, access or disclosure of electronic or paper-based data and was it accidental or deliberate); (f) the perpetrator of the breach (i.e. internal staff, contractors, third parties whether local or overseas); (g) the risk of further breaches if remedial action not taken (i.e. is systemic problem or one-off); (h) whether criminality evident (i.e. theft or hacking); and (i) whether the information was encrypted, de-identified or difficult to access.
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Microsoft Virtual TechDays is back for this quarter.
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Now this is a Skype post, but it largely revolves around the failure of the Skype Topology Builder to be able to mirror that Database of the SQL back end, in Skype for Business.
The setup is you have a SQL back end, A SQL Mirror server, and a Witness server. Below is a work around for the Mirror Failing to create, when DTE encryption is enabled on the SQL server:
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Nishad Herath from Novologica will be on the stage twice. In the keynote Nishad will show us how the very same real world optical disc DRM technologies, created with perhaps the best of intentions, can be used extremely effectively for anti-forensic purposes.
In the second presentation Nishad will demonstrate techniques and code which illustrates the various processing options available to modern malware both inside and outside the PC, far away from the CPU.
T2 staff thinks that both of these talks are quite groundbreaking. This is the kind of stuff that you don’t see every day.
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https://t2.fi/2009/09/02/nishad-herath-to-talk-about-optical-disk-drmforensics-and-malware-in-gpu/
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Penetration of ZOOM elements in your browser is not an accident, it is the result of failure with installation of malware samples that usually find place in cost-free utilities. And the problem can be with your current anti-malware that does not perform its important function of defending your computer. Outdated anti-virus databases are the key factor that does not allow your security program to act as it was initially advertised by its developers.
Therefore, your computer has been infected with a dangerous item so it’s time to trash it and switch to some other much better software. Such utility must protect your system in the future and be able to remove this current infection from your system. If you do not know what program can help with, ZOOM elements elimination, than pay close attention to the instructions set forth below, there you can find all necessary information.
After downloading is completed, please install it and run the full scan. Yeah, it will take a time, but security experts always recommend to choose a full scan as your first scan, especially if you suspect that your PC could be infected. Take a look at the screenshots below: it will help you understand what’s going on.
Step 1. Run a full scan of your system
At the end of the scan, the program will offer you to move all malicious items to the quarantine. Just do it clicking on the “Fix Now” button and set your system free from the ZOOM elements infection!
Step 2. Reset your browser settings using an appropriate tool:
Just the same actions: right-click on the ZOOM elements extension in a software list and press “Uninstall”.
Windows 8/8.1: Right-click on Start –> Quick Access Menu –> Control Panel –> Uninstall a program. Choose a ZOOM elements extension among a listed here programs, right-click on it and then press “Uninstall”.
Step 2. Reset your browser settings.
It is necessary to reset browser settings after the deletion of the program from the list of software installed on your PC. For this, use the following tips depending on what browser are you currently using:
Google Chrome Browser: Settings —> Show advanced settings. Click on “Reset settings” in the bottom of the page.
Mozilla Firefox: press “Refresh Firefox” button in the right top corner.
Opera: delete “Operapref.ini file” in folder “C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\” on your computer.
Internet Explorer: Tools —> Internet options —> click on the “Advanced” button and then press “Reset”.
⟵Removal instructions for Searpages.com/se2 hijacker.
Pickaflick.co pop-up removal tutorial.⟶
Storynnews.com push notifications – how to fix your browser?
How to block & remove Topgreatadvanceaflash.icu fake Flash Player update offers?
How to remove Popgreataskaflash.icu?
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., October 29, 2020 – Syxsense, a global leader in IT and security management solutions, announces today it has seen record-breaking growth driven by the demand of secure IT infrastructure to manage the remote workforce.
According to a recent Cisco survey on the Future of Secure Remote Work, most companies were only somewhat prepared to support remote working. This has accelerated technologies, such as Syxsense that allow employees to work remotely and securely, providing businesses with greater flexibility.
Syxsense was the first to provide complete IT management, patching, and security vulnerability scans in a single cloud solution. Syxsense Secure includes malicious process monitoring, automated device quarantine, real-time alerting, and live data that indicates the health of all endpoints in your network or roaming devices. With real-time cloud endpoint management technology, Syxsense creates a baseline defense against known threats by ensuring devices are current with the latest software updates and security patches.
“I’ve been able to address Windows patching for staff who no longer come into our network due to Covid-19, as well as software patching capabilities. Remote management has also been helpful as well as basic system review/maintenance in the background without the user’s input.” – Director of IT, Hospital & Health Care “Being able to monitor inventory, processes, patching and queries in real-time have really helped keep our environment secure and up to date. This has been very important as remote working has increased across the board.” – IT Desktop Administrator, Non-Profit Organization Management “We were starting to see issues keeping our devices up to date prior to Covid but when Covid hit and we were no longer seeing devices in the office. Syxsense was a life saver! It has allowed us to keep eyes on our devices and ensure that they are fully patched against vulnerabilities. The remote-control feature has allowed us to get to devices that we can’t access via VPN.” – Systems Administrator, Utilities “Our company had a problem with management of users working from home. If they did not connect to VPN there was not a lot we could do to keep the machine patched and secure. Ever since we installed the Syxsense agent on all our machines we can keep them up to date and connect to them with one click from the dashboard.” – Systems Administrator, Computer Software
Syxsense is offering free, fully-featured trials for up to 100 devices for 14 days. More information on the software and trial can be found here.
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A blockchain is a peer network of nodes that use a distributed ledger that can be used to track transactions involving value including money, votes, property, etc. The most well–known application of blockchain technology is bitcoin. Transactions on a blockchain are not regulated by any central counterparty: the individuals involved in a given transaction provide their information (including personal information), a record is created that can be verified by nodes in the network. In this sense, the users forming the community act as their own regulators.
In its openness, blockchain technology is full of new opportunities to transact in different ways. However, in the case of a public blockchain, in order to allow security and certainty, every transaction is recorded on a publicly available ledger and the disclosed transaction information is unalterable. This latter rule is one of the most fundamental in the functioning of blockchain. Indeed, data can only be added to blockchain, rather than removed (as each node contains a replication of the blockchain). If a change is applied to a node, such change would be rejected by the other nodes in the network. It provides a great certainty over the time within the chain of transactions. Altering a node would be like activating a time machine: it is impossible not to change the present if you alter the past, the entire chain of information is thus modified.
Although the above is justifiable from a technological standpoint (an can even facilitate anti-money laundering measures), blockchain’s inalterability can raise issues for individuals who wish to protect their privacy (including as regards the nascent and evolving “right to be forgotten”, which is recognized in some jurisdictions). For example, what is an individual supposed to do if the publicly disclosed information she provided in order to complete a transaction becomes inaccurate or if the publicity of her information one day creates an important risk to her safety? Changes in people’s lives could trigger this individual need for an alteration of the information stored in blockchain ledgers, such as insolvency, criminal records, change of name, change of gender, etc. As such, given the decentralized nature of blockchain, how could a court order a change in blockchain the same way it would order a web page to disappear from Google search results?
In this regard, a distinction should be made between anonymity and privacy. Some have argued that bitcoin, even though not private, is anonymous. Indeed, the email address provided when registering for a Bitcoin transaction may be any email address and as such, the link to personal information of the user, such as his name or birth date, may be avoided. However, bitcoin is more accurately described as pseudo-anonymous. As the Office of the Privacy Commissioner explained in one of its few publications on the topic of digital payments and privacy:
…some people suggest virtual currencies can be used to make purchases anonymously. This isn’t necessarily true because the digital trail associated with these currencies can still be tied to an individual, although the trail usually consists only of transaction records rather than personal information. To set up an account in order to use these virtual currencies, however, you may be required to provide some personal information, such as your name, credit card information, banking information, driver’s licence, utility bill or even passport information. While the anonymity of digital currencies may limit the exposure of details related to your payment information, retailers can still combine your purchase information with other information they have such as your name, email address, purchase history or rewards/loyalty points you have with the store.
Even though some technological solutions are under consideration to address privacy challenges with respect to the use of blockchains and to design blockchains that are protective of privacy—such as data encryption or the use of timestamps for information held elsewhere, there could still be a potential benefit to regulatory guidance on privacy matters relating to blockchain technology.
Regulatory developments in respect of digital currencies in Canada have to date mostly been limited to anti-money laundering and taxation matters. However, there is a growing interest in blockchain technology in Canada by various industries including major financial institutions and the Bank of Canada, which is running experiments on interbank payment systems “to build a proof of concept wholesale interbank payment system using a distributed ledger”, as stated by Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins.
In addition, certain securities regulators (such as the OSC and the AMF) are in the process of forming committees to consider Fintech matters. In this context, ensuring data protection in connection with the use of blockchain technology could become an important regulatory consideration going forward.
We welcome your comments on our blog articles. However, we do not respond to specific legal questions in this space.
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https://blog.firstreference.com/blockchain-privacy-data-protection/
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Ahoy! Our community has become acutely aware of the need for skilled infosec folks to help out in all cause areas. The market conditions are that information security skilled individuals are in shorter supply than demand. This book club aims to remedy that problem.
I have been leading the Chrome Infrastructure Security team at Google for 3 years, have 11 years of infosec experience, and 24 years of career experience. My team’s current focus includes APT and insider defense. I built that team with a mix of folks with infosec skills—yes—but the team is also made up of individuals who were strong general software engineers who had an interest in security. I applied this book and a comprehensive, 18 month training program to transition those folks to infosec and that has been successful. Reading this book as a book club is the first 5 months of that program. So, while this book club is not sufficient to make a career transition to infosec, it is a significant first step in doing so.
The goal of this group and our meetings is to teach infosec practices, engineering, and policies to those who are interested in learning them, and to refresh and fill in gaps in those who are already in the infosec focus area.
Find the book as a free PDF or via these links. From the book reviews:
This book is the first to really capture the knowledge of some of the best security and reliability teams in the world, and while very few companies will need to operate at Google’s scale many engineers and operators can benefit from some of the hard-earned lessons on securing wide-flung distributed systems. This book is full of useful insights from cover to cover, and each example and anecdote is heavy with authenticity and the wisdom that comes from experimenting, failing and measuring real outcomes at scale. It is a must for anybody looking to build their systems the correct way from day one.
This is a dry, information-dense book. But it also contains a comprehensive manual for how to implement what is widely considered the most secure company in the world.
Meet for 1 hour on Google Meet every 2 weeks where we will discuss 2 chapters. ~11 meetings over 22 weeks.
The meetings will be facilitated by me.
The discussion format will be:
The facilitator will select a theme from the chapters, in order, and then prompt the participants to offer their perspective, ensuring that everyone has ample opportunity to participate, if they choose.
Discussion on each theme will continue for 5-10 minutes and then proceed to the next theme. Participants should offer any relevant, current news or applicability to cause areas, if time permits.
The facilitator will ensure that discussion is relevant and move the conversation along to the next topic, being mindful of the time limit.
Any threads that warrant more discussion than we have time for in the call will be taken to the Slack channel for the book club (see form below for invite) where participants can continue the discussion and ask more questions about specific implementation details and how to effect that change in an organization.
Dates & Time: Starting date: Saturday April 1, 2023 at 2PM PDT. (timezone conversion). We have core attendees signed up across US, UK and AUS currently; apologies if this does not overlap with your timezone.
Signup: Signup here on this form to receive an invite to the Slack channel and add the event calendar (alternative iCal format) to your own calendar. Changes to schedule will be reflected there.
Special thanks to Wim van der Schoot for the impetus to organize this book club.
Are you aware of the existence of EA Gather Town ? An always-on virtual meeting place for coworking, connecting, and having both casual and impactful conversations.
It could be a good place to host the meetings.
5 months of.. full time work? Something else?
If I understand correctly, the book club is 11 meetings, where each meeting is 1 hour of video plus 1-2 hours of reading beforehand.
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Verify if your email preference is set correctly in QuickBooks.
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Limited Warranty. Bell Canada (including Bell Aliant, a division of Bell Canada) (“Bell”) warrants to you as the original purchaser (“Purchaser” or “you”) the battery purchased for the Fibre Equipment (“Original Battery”) for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase of the Original Battery from Bell (“Warranty Period”) when used in the Fibre Equipment (“Warranty”). “Fibre Equipment” means the Home Hub 3000 modem or UPS (uninterruptible power supply), as applicable, provided by Bell in connection with certain of your Bell services. If the Original Battery fails due to a defect during the Warranty Period, Bell will replace the Original Battery with a new or refurbished battery (“Replacement Battery”). Any warranty coverage that remains during the Warranty Period on the Original Battery (when replaced with a Replacement Battery under this Warranty) will apply to the Replacement Battery. No Replacement Battery has any new or separate warranty coverage. Bell reserves the right to limit the number of Replacement Batteries provided to Purchaser during the Warranty Period.
My Battery Isn’t Working. What Should I Do? Ontario and Québec residents please call Bell at 1 866 310 BELL (2355) and residents of the Atlantic provinces please call 1 866 342-7367, so that Bell can confirm that the Original Battery is within the Warranty Period and attempt to diagnose and correct the malfunction over the telephone. Be sure to keep your proof of purchase to establish the date of purchase of the Original Battery; otherwise Bell may have to estimate the date of purchase.
Exclusive Warranty. To the extent permitted by applicable law (which may vary province to province) and except where prohibited for Québec residents, this Warranty is exclusive and is in lieu of all other warranties, representations, guarantees, terms and conditions, express and/or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In addition to the rights described in this Warranty, Purchaser may also have other legal rights (which may vary province to province).
Limitation of Liability. To the extent permitted by applicable law and except where prohibited for Quebec residents, Bell's total cumulative maximum liability for negligence, breach of contract, tort or any other claims or causes of action, including fundamental breach, in connection with any Battery or this Warranty is limited to payment, upon request, for actual and direct damages up to a maximum amount equal to the purchase price of the Original Battery, and all other damages, including without limitation indirect, special, consequential, incidental, economic, exemplary or punitive damages, are excluded. You may also be subject to other limitations and exclusions of liability, and obligations, as set out in any Bell terms of service that apply to you. These terms survive the expiry of the Warranty.
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The Movement Centre for Targeted Training (TMC) takes the security and privacy of your data seriously. We need to gather and use information or ‘data’ about you as part of our business and to manage our relationship with you. We intend to comply with our legal obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 (the ‘2018 Act’) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) in respect of data privacy and security. We have a duty to notify you of the information contained in this policy.
This policy applies to current and former employees, workers, volunteers, apprentices and consultants. If you fall into one of these categories then you are a ‘data subject’ for the purposes of this policy. You should read this policy alongside your contract of employment (or contract for services) and any other notice we issue to you from time to time in relation to your data.
TMC has measures in place to protect the security of your data in accordance with our Data Protection Policy.
TMC will hold data in accordance with our Data Protection Policy. We will only hold data for as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected it.
TMC is a ‘data controller’ for the purposes of your personal data. This means that we determine the purpose and means of the processing of your personal data.
This policy explains how TMC will hold and process your information. It explains your rights as a data subject. It also explains your obligations when obtaining, handling, processing or storing personal data in the course of working for, or on behalf of, TMC.
This policy does not form part of your contract with TMC and can be amended by TMC at any time. It is intended that this policy is fully compliant with the 2018 Act and the GDPR. If any conflict arises between those laws and this policy, TMC intends to comply with the 2018 Act and the GDPR.
We support children from across the UK with disabilities affecting their movement control, such as Cerebral Palsy, through our specialist therapy, Targeted Training.
Every child deserves to reach their full potential and we want to give them that opportunity. Through a course of Targeted Training therapy children can gain head control, so they can interact with their family; it can help children develop the skills to sit unaided, so that they can play with their friends. For some children it can enable them to walk, which means they can be far more independent. All the achievements made can have a huge impact on the child’s life. Increased movement control enables children to gain functional skills and independence.
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With CES a few short weeks away, I have started making my lists of, “must see” and “appointments to keep”…you are probably starting to do the same. The following are just a few of the booths/locations I plan to visit…of course the list will keep growing until I get on the plane, but as of Dec 22nd this is where I am:
First things first, I want to check out “The Innovations Award Showcase” located at the Venetian in VB3 (near the media room). This annual competition is always a good place to see the latest design and engineering in consumer technology products and get a feel for where the trends are heading.
The Sands has become ground zero for Smart Home and Health and Wellness: two of my main categories. I am going to start at the: HOLLAND STARTUP PAVILION Sands, Hall G – 51522, As the invite reads: “Dutch innovations that improve your life: welcome to the Holland Start Up Pavilion. As the 3rd most innovative country in the world, we proudly present 60 of our hottest startups at CES 2018.” The Pavilion will showcase solutions in the fields of AR/VR, Medtech, Robotics, IoT, Smart Home and Cleantech.
At the Sands there are also two enormous areas for Health and Wellness and Smart Home Technologies. I am looking forward to the Health and Wellness area to see what technologies integrators will be incorporating into a home’s overall system. In the Smart Home area, I am looking forward to going to the Vivant Smart Home Booth (42131) and the Z-Wave Alliance (41717). There is also Honeywell (40931) and I also want to be on the lookout for any new ways our readers can monetize smart-home technologies such as the business model for recurring revenue with traditional home security systems. There will also be a slew of new shade and lighting companies to check out.
Speaking of lighting, you will see increasingly the words “Simulated Natural Circadian Rhythms” being used. Through education and research, we now know the importance of lighting in sleep, productivity and moods and how important that is for our mental and physiological health. There will be plenty of exhibitors with tunable white lights that can glow cooler in the early part of the day for wake-up and work, and warmer in the evening before you fall sleep. (HTSA has partnered with three new lighting companies to pave the way for their members to bring these new technologies to their customers.)
There is also no end to the companies emerging with voice assists. Products from Amazon, Google, and Apple have moved voice control into the consumer consciousness, and user expectations are quickly expanding to demand voice as part of all smart home interactions.
The DSP Group will be exhibiting as part of the ULE Alliance (Intel & VTech are also members), located at Tech West Sands Expo Hall, Level 2, in booths A-D.
According to the DSP Group, their SmartVoice and ULE chipset solutions give smart home devices several benefits including, two-way voice communication and processing, security, outstanding range and accuracy, and low power consumption. Demos at the booths will be ongoing.
No CES would be complete without going to the Venetian and seeing the latest in high performance audio and some video. These are some of the manufacturers I will be visiting and their suite numbers:
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http://technologyinsidergroup.com/business/cybersecurity-smart-cities-health-and-wellness/
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The RAM stands for “random access memory” which is the physical working memory that your PC uses. It is used for running applications and open files. Here, in this post, you will learn about How to Check My RAM Speed Windows 7?
All the open applications, files, and other data are stored here for quick access. RAM is different from your computer’s SSD or hard drive. Whenever you launch a program or open a file, it’s moved from your system’s storage to its RAM.
More RAM leads to open applications, your system will faster. However, RAM depends on what you do such as playing the latest PC games, running virtual machines, and editing 4K videos.
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When a data breach takes place, notifying those affected must be done quickly, thoroughly, precisely and reliably.
The context in which we perform our data breach notification document review is that we are engaged soon after a determination has been made that there was a breach. Typically, particularly for the reviews we perform for the largest consultancies, a tool has already been selected for our use. Those tools are often litigation document review tools, such as Relativity, which may or may not be custom-built for this use. When we have input in the choice of platform, we often suggest a tool designed specifically for this purpose, namely Canopy, https://www.canopyco.io/
Once we receive an assignment, we immediately assemble our team of experienced lawyers/reviewers on the project and they work furiously, long hours, and often weekends, if required, to meet the typically very tight deadlines associated with this type of work. What makes our solution different isn’t only that our reviewers get to work immediately and work hard. Many review teams outside of the US are available immediately and many of their employees work hard, too. What makes us different is our security, both physical and data, the quality of our work, ensured through our experience, and our pricing.
We are certified as compliant with ISO data standard 27001 and ISO quality management standard 9001 (2015). We have redundant personal security, including biometric access into and out of any document review room. The data we review stays in the United States, and we are granted access to it remotely. No cell phones are allowed in our document review rooms and the computers in the rooms are connected to a local area network. Other than the instance of Relativity or other platform, the reviewers do not have general access to the internet from the document review room. The computers are not hooked up to a printer and the USB ports are disabled. It is a dark environment.
People who have had their data compromised deserve, at the very least, to have all reasonable steps taken so that their data is not exposed again.
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Thirty years ago, the concept of cyberwar was in the minds of only a few DOD researchers, academics and novelists. Today our economy is so digitally connected – computers, ipads, blackberries - that we struggle to protect our personal information, intellectual property and government secrets daily, from cyber theft. President Obama indicated the gravity of this threat when he stated recently in the WSJ, “attacks in cyber space pose the most serious economic and national security challenge America faces.”
The reason the President made this statement is that cyber attacks are growing more frequent, sophisticated, and dangerous. From 2009-2011 our nation experienced a twenty fold increase in cyber attacks which amounts to a cyber intrusion every 90 seconds.
This rapid growth of the cyber threat is enabled by the information revolution and our nation’s growing digital connectivity. The information revolution launched by the internet has reached into every corner of our lives. It provides users with many benefits while also exposing them to new risks from cybercriminals, spies and terrorists using the internet as a pathway to our personal bank accounts, intellectual property and even our critical infrastructure.
One of the most sophisticated cyber attacks we have identified is the “Stuxnet” malware which targets critical infrastructure. Stuxnet is an offensive cyber weapon designed to cause physical damage by interfering with a facility’s critical operations i.e., its control systems. If a terrorist or other adversary used Stuxnet malware to seize control of our dams, chemical or power plants, it could inflict massive death and destruction.
Stuxnet is a game changer. It raises the stakes in the war on terror by demonstrating how cyber attacks can destroy critical infrastructure, the backbone of our productive economy. I agree with President Obama that cyber attacks on critical infrastructure will impact our national and economic security, as well as jeopardize the health and safety of our citizens.
Public-Private Partnerships
Most of the critical infrastructure that our Nation depends upon is privately owned and operated. Currently, private industry is responsible for protecting its own assets from cyber attack on a voluntary basis. With the Government having access to intelligence not available in the private sector and the private sector knowing how their systems are configured and operated, the public-private partnership is the best way to improve our critical infrastructure cyber defense.
Federal policy recognizes the importance of the public-private partnership model to coordinate policy and information sharing including the dissemination of sensitive cyber threat information. A 2010 GAO report (July 15, 2010 GAO-10-628) concluded that this model needs improvement. Private sector partners complain that they get very little of what they need most, actionable threat information from the government. The reason usually given is that no secure mechanisms exist for sharing actionable threat information. The private sector also hesitates to share their proprietary information with the federal government for fear of public disclosure.
This inherent mistrust between government and the private sector must be overcome. A cybersecurity regulatory framework, however, is not conducive to a trusted partnership. It inhibits communication and stifles cooperation. The Government should facilitate, not mandate, cybersecurity improvements. This is why I strongly believe we should incentivize critical infrastructure owners to improve their cybersecurity practices rather than mandate those standards.
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October is a busy month in Brazil for kids, parents, schools, advertisers and companies belonging to the “children’s industry,” as Children’s Day was celebrated Oct. 12. For the same reason, civil society entities, advocacy groups and consumer associations, among others, spend time presenting relevant research and activities taken toward child protection from the previous year.
When it comes to data regarding children, numbers are the best way to assess the relevance of the matter. Research shows that 86% of Brazilian children as young as 9 years old, accounting for 24.3 million individuals, interact online through instant messaging (79%), video or music platforms (77% and 75% respectively), or have profiles on social networks (73%). Internet access is mostly throughout smartphones, especially in rural areas. As data protection and privacy is a hot issue in the country, due to the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Law (effective in August 2020), October seems to be a good opportunity to discuss how children’s data is regulated by Brazilian laws, too.
Since the enactment of the 1988 Federal Constitution, Brazil has constructed a legal system in which child protection is understood to be an absolute priority for all stakeholders involved in their development, including families, schools, civil society, companies and the state in all forms. As such, the obligation to protect children from any form of negligence, discrimination, exploitation, violence, cruelty and/or oppression lies with the family, the civil society and the state.
By adoption of the UN Convention on Children’s Rights, Brazil incorporates the principle of "a child’s best interest" as the rule for all decisions and measures to be taken, as well as what interpretation should be given and when a child’s interests are at stake. Within these lines, the 1992 Child and Adolescent Statute establishes that children and teenagers are entitled to all fundamental rights inherent to natural persons, including the right of privacy and intimacy. It furthermore defines a child as anyone who is below 12 years old and a teenager as any individual who is between 12 to 18 years of age. Additionally, it states that the right of respect which children and teenagers are entitled to encompasses the inviolability of their identity and image and the autonomy of ideas, beliefs and values, a provision heavily discussed when debating the legality of children’s advertising, yet another hot topic in Brazil.
The Brazilian Civil Code determines that personality rights, such as the right of a private life, are not transmissible neither assignable, a guarantee that is extended to all individuals, including children and teenagers. Children and teenagers are subject to parents or legal guardians until they reach 18 years old by the code; these individuals will represent them in all situations within civil life. Except in specific circumstances, civil capacity is acquired only after the completion of 18 years old; although, individuals ranging from 16 to 18 are considered "relatively capable" in their acts, such as giving consent or entering into an agreement, they still must be accompanied by an adult.
As the last piece in this puzzle, the LGPD brings specific provisions on child data. Specifically, the new law determines that child’s and teenager’s data should be processed, while taking into account their best interests and existing laws. More importantly, the LGPD requires parental consent for all processing activities. Therefore, the law adopts a higher protective standard if compared to the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, which is aimed to the "operators of websites and online services" in regulating what must be done to "protect children’s privacy and safety online," as specified in the FTC website, or to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which states "conditions applicable to a child’s consent, in relation to information society services" in Article 8).
Consent under the LGPD must be given prior, as well as being free, informed, unambiguous, specific and outstanding — a concept of Consumer Law in Brazil, whereby certain provisions should be "detached" from the rest of the text (either by using different font formatting or another visual presentation). Note these last two requirements apply only to this type of consent and the data subject’s consent related to the international transfer of data. Therefore, this is a more protective type of consent.
Highly inspired in the provisions found under COPPA and the GDPR, such consent is to be given by any parent or legal guardian and controllers are responsible for taking reasonable measures to certify the identity of who grants parental consent within the available technologies. Consent is not required only in cases where the information is to contact parents or legal guardian or when necessary for a child’s direct protection; yet in any case, this information cannot be shared with third parties. Again, as provided for in COPPA, children should not be required to provide personal information to be able to play games online or access any application.
When processing children’s data, controllers must publicly inform under their privacy notice the nature of data collected, purposes of use, and how rights under the law can be exercised by the parent, guardian or child itself. Furthermore, the privacy notice and consent language should be simple, clear and easily understandable, taking into consideration children’s physical and intellectual capabilities, so as to allow them to fully perceive the content. The use of audiovisual resources and other technological measures is encouraged by the law, especially if able to allow greater awareness. This provision is also in line with the Statute of Children and Teenagers in which it states children are entitled to products and services that respect their capabilities and level of development.
Questions then arise as to if other legal basis available in the LGPD could be interpreted to allow the processing of child data. Considering "options" available to the private sector, alternatives beyond consent could be: (a) the processing carried out to comply with a legal obligation; (b) to perform a contract where the data subject is a party; (c) to protect the individual’s life; (d) to provide health services; or (e) the controller’s legitimate interest. However, as defined in the LGPD, the law must be applied in the child’s best interest and taking into consideration other legislation on the matter. Furthermore, attention must also be given to the principles within the LGPD that are applicable to all processing activities and all sorts of data. Ultimately, it will depend on the Data Protection Authority, whose directors have not yet been nominated, to issue guidelines and/or specific regulations on the possibility of processing children’s data, as the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is planning to do in a couple of weeks after carrying out a public hearing on the matter.
In conclusion, to process children’s data in Brazil, any controller must carefully consider provisions in different laws to better address legal boundaries to its activities. Differently from other jurisdictions, Brazil imposes higher standards of legal child protection because it requires parental consent for all individuals below 18 and all processing activities, not only for those related to the provision of online services. How and if other possibilities will be available to controllers and processors of child data once the data authority is established and relevant enforcement makers start to take actions on the matter is yet to be seen.
US rep. reintroduces children's privacy bill
USA Today reports U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., reintroduced her Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act. The bill, which covers minors ages 13 to 17, prohibits targeted advertising against kids, requires privacy impact assessments for all covered entities and allows a ...
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This course is highly practical but it won’t neglect the theory; we’ll start with ethical hacking basics, breakdown the different penetration testing fields and install the needed software (on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), then we’ll dive and start hacking straight away. You’ll learn everything by example, by analysing and exploiting different systems such as networks, servers, clients, websites …..etc. We’ll never have any boring dry theoretical lectures.
The course is divided into a number of sections, each section covers a penetration testing / hacking field, in each of these sections you’ll first learn how the target system works, the weaknesses of this system, and how to practically exploit theses weaknesses to hack into this system.
By the end of the course you will have a strong foundation in most hacking or penetration testing fields and you’ll also learn how to detect, prevent and secure systems and yourself from the discussed attacks.
The course is divided into four main sections:
1. Network Hacking – This section will teach you how to test the security of both wired & wireless networks. First, you will learn network basics, how they work, and how devices communicate with each other. Then it will branch into three sub sections:
Pre-connectionattacks:in this subsection you’ll learn a number of attacks that can be executed without connecting to the target network and without the need to know the network password; you’ll learn how to gather information about the networks around you, discover connected devices, and control connections (deny/allow devices from connecting to networks).
Gaining Access: Now that you gathered information about the networks around you, in this subsection to crack the key and get the password to your target network weather it uses WEP, WPA or even WPA2.
Post Connection attacks: Now that you have the key, you can connect to the target network, in this subsection you will learn a number of powerful techniques that allow you to gather comprehensive information about the connected devices, see anything they do on the internet (such as login information, passwords, visited urls, images, videos ….etc), redirect requests, inject evil code in loaded pages and much more! All of these attacks work against both wireless and wired networks. You will also learn how to create a fake WiFi network, attract users to connect to it and use all of the above techniques against the connected clients.
2. Gaining Access – In this section you will learn two main approaches to gain full control or hack computer systems:
Server Side Attacks: In this subsection to gain full access to computer systems without user interaction. You gather useful information about a target computer system such as its operating system, open ports, installed services, then use this information to discover weaknesses and vulnerabilities and exploit them to gain full control over the target. Finally to automatically scan servers for vulnerabilities and generate different types of reports with your discoveries.
Client Side Attacks – If the target system does not contain any weaknesses then the only way to hack it is by interacting with the users, in this subsection you’ll learn how to get the target user to install a backdoor on their system without even realising, this is done by hijacking software updates or backdoornig downloadeds on the fly. This subsection also teaches you how to use social engineering to hack into secure systems, so you’ll learn how to gather comprehensive information about system users such as their social accounts, friends, their mails…..etc, you’ll learn how to create trojans by backdooring normal files (such as an image or a pdf) and use the gathered information to spoof emails so they appear as if they’re sent from the target’s friend, boss or any email account they’re likely to interact with, to social engineer them into running your torjan.
3. Post Exploitation – In this section to interact with the systems you compromised so far. You’ll learn how to access the file system (read/write/upload/execute), maintain your access, spy on the target (capture key strikes, turn on the webcam, take screenshots….etc) and even use the target computer as a pivot to hack other systems.
4. Website / Web Application Hacking – In this section websites work, how to gather information about a target website (such as website owner, server location, used technologies ….etc) and how to discover and exploit the following dangerous vulnerabilities to hack into websites:
At the end of each section to detect, prevent and secure systems and yourself from the discussed attacks.
All the techniques in this course are practical and work against real systems, you’ll understand the whole mechanism of each technique first, then you’ll learn how to use it to hack into the target system. By the end of the course you’ll be able to modify the these techniques to launch more powerful attacks, and adopt them to suit different situations and different scenarios.
With this course you’ll get 24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we’ll respond to you within 15 hours.
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The financial sector in Bangladesh is evolving faster than ever. The economy is one of the fastest growing in 2020. Cybersecurity has become very important as the country’s digitalisation pace has necessitated the need to secure information assets. A compromise of credentials, or an illegitimate access to privileged accounts can inflict heavy financial losses (data breach) to organizations, which could have strong repercussions on the economy. Therefore the economic well-being of any country is directly proportional to cyber security preparedness.
ARCON is a well-known brand in the country since the last three years with some of the big names from the BFSI segment deploying our enterprise-class solutions. Due to the pandemic and ongoing travel restrictions, ARCON could not hold its annual security conference. However, ARCON along with its local partner conducted an exclusive webinar targeting some of the well-known organizations in the nation. The idea was to highlight the fact that how robust cybersecurity can boost an economy.
Indeed, cyber crime/incidents can have an alarming impact on the global economy. In the Indian subcontinent, almost $215 billion has been lost in 2018 which is almost 1.3% of the entire GDP of SouthEast Asia. By now, it would have soar beyond imagination. It is estimated that by 2021, cyber crime will cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually.
To discuss this situation, ARCON, in an exclusive webinar organized by its partner on 10th November 2020, delivered the views on “Cybersecurity: An Economy Booster”. Mr. Yahya Khan represented ARCON in the webinar and he vividly explained how ARCON solutions are reinforcing adequate security measures for large and mid-scale enterprises to manage and control information security. The broader agenda of the session included:
To start the session, Mr. Khan drew a simple analogy of ‘Who watches the Watchman’ as in most cases people have the prima facie of ARCON solutions as just a cybersecurity solution. However, the pattern of cyber threats have come a long way and ARCON opines that IT operations are no more safe with just risk-preventive solutions. Instead, the risks need to be predicted well in advance. Some of the key takeaways from the session are as follows:
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Misuse of the endpoint privileges is one of the biggest sources of data theft. Poor endpoint management leads to both data theft and ambiguity over access to business-critical applications. ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) bridges the security gap between unmanaged endpoints and IT administrators in an enterprise network by allowing endpoint privileges to the authorized users exclusively. It even helps the risk management team to segment the users based on their roles and responsibilities.
Today Work From Home (WFH) practice has propelled the urgency to implement secure remote accesses to business-critical applications and systems globally. Organizations require a robust IT security mechanism to manage, control, monitor remote access and the IT risk management team is more agile in establishing trustworthiness. helps the administrators to provide safe and seamless desktop support for the employees working remotely.
Lastly, ARCON | PAM is the epitome of administrative ease when it comes to managing privileged accounts in organizations’ network periphery. Factors like high performance, high scalability, secure elevation, one admin console for admin access and smooth deployment process offers a competitive advantage to ARCON.
Before drawing the conclusion, Mr. Khan answered all the questions asked by the attendees related to the features of ARCON | PAM solution. The ease of deployment and administrative ease, security benefits, and the value for money were discussed with lucidity. Considering the economic growth and fast pace of digitalisation, Bangladesh even in this pandemic scenario, is allocating a handsome budget for secure IT infrastructure. This exclusive webinar emphasized the importance of robust cybersecurity controls to boost the economy.
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VMware on Wednesday informed customers that it has released new patches for ESXi after learning that a fix made available last month for a critical vulnerability was incomplete.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3992, was described as a use-after-free bug that affects the OpenSLP service in ESXi. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code.
However, VMware said the attacker needs to be on the management network and have access to port 427 on an ESXi machine in order to exploit the flaw.
VMware learned about the security hole in July from Lucas Leong of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). An advisory was also published in October by ZDI.
“The specific flaw exists within the processing of SLP messages. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the SLP daemon,” ZDI said.
VMware updated its initial advisory on Wednesday to inform customers that the patches had been incomplete. New fixes have now been released for ESXi 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0, but patches are still pending for VMware Cloud Foundation, the hybrid cloud platform for managing virtual machines and orchestrating containers.
VMware failing to patch a vulnerability on the first try is not unheard of. Earlier this year, the company made several attempts to patch a privilege escalation flaw affecting the macOS version of Fusion.
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https://rootdaemon.com/2020/11/04/patch-for-critical-vmware-esxi-vulnerability-incomplete/
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It’s no surprise that the growth of the EV charging ecosystem will outpace the growth of plug-in battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Range anxiety is one of the primary fears of potential EV owners and therefore the ubiquitous deployment of EV charging stations—and all of their supporting infrastructure—is critical for mainstream adoption of electronic vehicles. But the element of EV charging threats must also be taken into account if there is to be a safe and steady adoption of electric vehicles by a broader set of drivers.
In a fast developing market like EV charging, cybersecurity is often underestimated by vendors that have limited knowledge of cyber threats in general, and EV charging threats; specifically, the gaps between technical silos that are open for exploitation by criminals. But make no mistake, 4.5 billion data records were stolen in the first half of 2018 and worldwide cybercrime is estimated to cost $600 billion per year, with connected devices as a particular problem. With heavy investments and incentives from governments and the private sector, 10 million public chargers and 50 million private chargers are expected to be installed globally by 2029, as the EV infrastructure market grows from $3.22 billion in 2017 to $140 billion in 2029, at a CAGR of 36.94 %.
Commercial public charging with Level 2 and 3 EV charging systems is much more complex as commercial systems are supported by a variety of billing, charging and transactional processes. The higher cost of fast charging EV systems provided by Level 2 and Level 3 chargers can be offset by enabling property owners, businesses and municipalities to offer public usage with a variety of pricing and access schemes:
Flexible pricing charged by time-of-day, charge duration, kWh or any combination thereof. Different rates can apply for different drivers or groups of drivers at different times of the day.
Emobility Service Providers (EMSPs or EMPs) offer EV charging services to EV drivers and enable access to a variety of charging points around a geographic area. EMSPs help EV drivers locate charging stations and pay for charging. EMSPs may direct drivers to their own charging stations or to stations owned by others.
Charge Point Operators (CPOs) operate and maintain a collection of charging points and connect smart charging devices to EMSPs. Charge Point Operators may own the infrastructure, merely provide connection to EMSPs, or sometimes own infrastructure as well as provide access to other charge owners.
While some companies focus on specific areas of the ecosystem, such as owning the charging stations, others may perform multiple services such as EMSPs that provide services for locating a charging station, manage the payment, and actually own the EV charging stations.
ChargePoint operates more than 60,000 total charging spots and more than 1,000 Express DC fast spots (Level 3 charging stations). In addition to operation, the company designs, builds and support all of their network’s technology, from charging station hardware to energy management software to the mobile app. They sell and lease a large variety of solutions for home users, high density residences, parking lot operators, vehicle fleets, workplaces, and more. They offer programs that help monetize the charging stations as well as offer charging-as-a-service.
GuardKnox’s patented three-layer Communication Lockdown™ methodology deterministically verifies communications between each element of the EV charging ecosystem. Examining all messages on the routing layer, the content layer and the contextual layer, GuardKnox permits only allowed “legal” communication while dropping all unauthorized or improper communication.
This ensures that EV charging systems and other elements of the ecosystem continue to operate only as specified by the manufacturer, without the need for constant updates or configuration. This makes GuardKnox uniquely ideal for installation in millions of devices dispersed over wide geographic areas, including electronic vehicles of all types (i.e., cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses) and numerous elements of the EV charging ecosystem.
To learn more about securing the EV market, read our blog on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) communications.
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https://blog.guardknox.com/ev-charging-threats-cybersecurity-ev-charging-ecosystem
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Today’s businesses are up against an increasingly organized and sophisticated attacker ecosystem. For example, human-operated attacks exploit vulnerable services and network configuration weaknesses to deploy ransomware payloads, exfiltrate data, and steal credentials. And those threat actors move FAST.
When there’s gaps in your security solution or you’ve got silos standing in the way of end-to-end visibility, ransomware can wreak a ton of havoc before you’re even aware there’s been a breach.
Moving to Azure is one of the most effective ways to protect your business from ransomware – making it easy to manage your entire threat surface in one central location and leverage AI and machine learning to control and secure every asset in your network.
Below, we’ll look at some security standouts in the Azure family and how they help keep you safe from ransomware attacks.
Azure Native Solutions
All 200+ Azure solutions are embedded with native security protections, along with dashboards, automations, and custom controls, and tons of built-in intelligence that make it easy to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Here are a few highlights.
Built-in security & management. Visibility is everything when it comes to risk management. See, when businesses are able to detect anomalies, vulnerabilities, and breaches in real-time, they can take action faster and mitigate potential damage. Azure solutions include built-in analytics and controls that provide total observability and reinforce policies and compliance requirements.
Multi-factor and passwordless authentication. Simple security measures like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) go a long way when it comes to defending against identity-based ransomware attacks. In fact, Microsoft estimates that these basic protections are effective against about 98% of attacks. Azure allows admins to quickly set up MFA, SSO, and passwordless authentication, minimizing risk to Azure resources and the integrations, apps, and devices linked to your account.
Azure Firewall. Azure Firewall protects against common attack vectors like phishing emails and drive-by downloads. It automatically detects threats in unencrypted traffic and uses TLS inspection to ID incoming attacks in encrypted traffic. Its intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) uses signatures to monitor activity, block attempted attacks, and generate alerts.
Azure DDoS Protection. Azure DDoS Protection safeguards apps and resources from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It continuously monitors traffic patterns and analyzes them against the thresholds outlined in your DDoS policy, while adaptive threat intelligence automatically IDs and responds to attacks.
Microsoft Defender for Azure Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a unified security system that protects hybrid and multi-cloud environments from ransomware attacks with built-in extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities, continuous monitoring, and prioritized alerts. Inside you’ll find:
Secure score. Defender continually monitors cloud assets and subscriptions for vulnerabilities and aggregates findings into a numeric score, allowing you to understand where your security posture stands at any time.
Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/secure-score-security-controls
You can click the score for more details re: which resources need attention. Below, you can see the score breakdown for one specific subscription. You can then navigate to Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Recommendations page to learn how to remediate those issues.
Threat protection alerts. Defender for Cloud includes advanced behavioral analytics, machine learning, plus insights from Microsoft’s Intelligent Security Graph – which work together to identify ransomware attacks, zero-day exploits, and other threats. The platform continuously monitors all databases, networks, servers, and cloud services, scanning for incoming attacks and tracking post-breach activities. Additionally, Defender offers interactive tools and contextual insights to help users streamline the investigation process.
Policy management. Defender for Cloud allows you manage security policies across hybrid workloads in one central location. Inside the Compliance Center you can add and store custom security policies based on which conditions you’d like to control (and how), then add them to new subscriptions upon installation.
Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/update-regulatory-compliance-packages
Automate & orchestrate security workflows. Integration with Azure Logic Apps allows users to quickly automate workflows that address common security threats. You’ll also have the option to create playbooks for specific actions like triggering automated incident responses, routing alerts to a specific person, or enforcing compliance.
Advanced analytics. Sentinel’s built-in AI analyzes data points across all connected sources against historical data to correlate alerts into incidents. The platform will then look for patterns and signals that point toward known and unknown threats, and will send out alerts when action is required.
Threat hunting. Sentinel includes hunting search-and-query tools built on the MITRE framework that allow you to proactively search for security threats lurking in your data before the system triggers an alert.
Investigation. Sentinel allows you to investigate specific incidents by searching for a specific case or scrolling through the incidents page and from there, leverage its built-in graph to investigate threats with AI. This allows you to identify suspicious behavior at scale, find the root cause of an attack, and understand the scope and impact of malware across your system.
Below, you’ll see a list of exploration queries for deepening your search based on what you’re trying to learn.
Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/investigate-cases
Notebooks. Microsoft Sentinel notebooks allow you to do more with your Sentinel data like work with Python ML features or create custom visualizations.
Security automation & orchestration. Microsoft Sentinel also allows you to automate controls and threat responses with its user-friendly playbooks tool. There you’ll be able to set custom rules and actions, as well as run plays on-demand.
Final Thoughts
Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions allow organizations to embrace a proactive, holistic approach to dealing with the rising threat of ransomware. But, it can be challenging to figure out what kinds of protections you’ll actually need.
Velosio’s Microsoft experts can help you identify which solutions can best protect your business from ransomware attacks, mitigate risks, and boost productivity and performance. To learn more about your organization’s security posture, complete the free security score investment. Or — contact an expert to learn more about Velosio’s full range of services for Azure Cloud.
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https://www.velosio.com/blog/how-azure-helps-organizations-protect-against-ransomware-attacks/
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That can do the job but you seriously going need to download the Exam Objectives page then you good and i would suggest you get yourself a simulator lab to help you get prepared for those performance based questions.
Albert Einstein.
I have the Exam Objective handy and the first Part 1.0 - 1.9 went smooth..... When I study for the A+, I had a software (CertBlast) that test each area. I wonder if they do the same for the Network +! ......... by the way how many performance based questions did you have on the exam?
"It's better to try and fail than to fail to try." Unkown "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. Albert Einstein.
I searched for that software, be careful what you post they might red card you on that kind of reference but i am not sure what it is. Are sure it's not one of those dumbs?
This is physics." Albert Einstein.
If i am not mistaken i think there about 4 to 5 questions.
I Purchased the book and it came with a CD....... Pretty helpful but I'm going to stick with the objective and use that as my guide.
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The Cyber Incident Management Workshop is a non-technical, informative session designed to help school districts and public junior colleges understand cyber incident management concepts, as well as the key elements that go into planning and implementing a cyber incident management plan. This workshop will be instructed by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The goal of the workshop is to provide attendees with tangible, useful take-away information on how to manage cybersecurity incidents effectively and, ultimately, achieve operational resilience.
This workshop is geared for Cybersecurity Coordinators to enhance their required annual training. This workshop does not take the place of the required annual training necessary for a Cybersecurity Coordinator as per Government Code 2054.5191. More information about Government Code 2054.5191 can be found here and the required training can be found here. This workshop will provide attendees with templates and resources that can assist them developing a cyber incident management plan. It will also provide attendees with information and resources that can assist them in identifying the personnel, equipment, and facilities necessary to implement a cyber incident management plan.
All virtual trainings will be provided through the Zoom online meeting/webinar platform.
To pre-install the Zoom meeting software click the "Download" button under Zoom Desktop Client or click the following link to watch a video tutorial on Joining a Zoom Meeting. Once you are registered and confirmed, a direct Zoom link will be sent to you 1-2 days prior to the training date.
In order to receive a Certificate of Participation, participants must attend entire training on their own individual device.
For more information about the Cybersecurity Workshop, please email [email protected].
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Victims of student data breaches can be entitled to pursue claims for privacy compensation, and we can represent eligible claimants on a No Win, No Fee basis.
Your Lawyers, as leading data leak lawyers, understand the impact that a data breach can have on the victim. Representing thousands of clients and having recovered over £1m in data damages for mostly individual clients, we really do understand how badly privacy breaches can affect the victims.
This is why we do what we do: we are here to help you now, and our legal team is happy to provide free, no-obligation advice about data and privacy matters now.
Victims of a data leak at school could be entitled to claim compensation now on a No Win, No Fee basis with leading privacy experts Your Lawyers – The Data Leak Lawyers.
Our experience in this area of law speaks for itself as one of the first firms in England to pursue No Win, No Fee data breach compensation claims. Representing thousands of data breach claimants for almost a decade, and with over £1m recovered for mostly individual data clients to date, our enviable reputation is the reason as to why many people come to us for help.
And that is what we want to do – we want to help people. Anyone who has suffered distress as a result of a data breach, leak or hack could be eligible to claim with us now.
Those who receive scam emails from data breaches could be eligible to claim compensation on a No Win, No Fee basis now, as the GDPR can entitle people to be able to claim.
Your Lawyers – The Data Leak Lawyers – is a leading firm of privacy compensation experts, representing thousands of people and having launched over 50 group and multi-party cases. With our history and experience dating back to much longer than many other firms out there when it comes to this niche area of law, we have already recovered over £1m in damages for mostly individual data clients.
If your address is leaked to an ex-partner, you could be entitled to claim data breach compensation now on a No Win, No Fee basis.
Your Lawyers, as leading Data Leak Lawyers, has secured over £1m in compensation for mostly individual data clients, and this includes for victims where this very scenario has happened. We may not be able to undo any damage that has been caused, but the GDPR can entitle you to claim, and you could be owed thousands of pounds in data breach damages.
We are seeing more and more reports of school ransomware attacks, and it is concerning to see that hackers appear to be targeting this specific sector of civilisation.
Anyone who has lost control of their personal information could be entitled to pursue a claim for data breach compensation now.
Your Lawyers – as leading Data Leak Lawyers – represent thousands of people for data breach cases and have already recovered over £1m in damages for mostly individual clients. Having been working in this area of law for a great deal longer than most other data firms out there, our experience speaks for itself.
Anglesey schools cyberattack: A small island off the coast of Wales, Anglesey does not have many schools, but all five of its secondary schools were reportedly hit by a cyberattack in late June last year.
In the wake of the attack, investigations began to establish whether or not data had been affected and, if so, to what extent. The unknown element of cyberattacks was clearly demonstrated in this incident, with schools left wondering what the complications could be as they scrambled to deal with the assault on their systems.
Unfortunately, cyberattacks have been hitting the education sector with increasing frequency in recent times, calling into question how effectively school cybersecurity can defend against such targeted attacks. Where schools have not done enough to protect personal information, they could be responsible for a breach of data protection law. If you have been affected by an incident like this, you may be eligible to pursue a data protection breach compensation claim.
In recent months, cyberattacks on the education sector have been rising, and Skinners’ Kent schools were among the targets last year. In early June 2021, it was revealed that Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust had reportedly succumbed to a hack, leaving the school unable to stay open.
At their worst, coordinated cyberattacks can make computer systems inoperable, and the hackers who have taken control may be able to steal personal information. Pupil information was likely put at risk in the hack at Skinners’ Kent schools, enabling it to be stolen by the hackers.
Many schools hold highly sensitive information about their pupils, which can heighten the risk to privacy when a data security incident occurs. Schools, like all organisations, have a duty to eliminate such risk as far as possible. Where they fail in this responsibility, they may be in breach of data protection law.
Following a cyberattack that took place in summer 2021 that affected IT provider Cantium, it has been reported that data leaked from Kent schools has now reportedly landed on the dark web.
If this is the case, there could be people whose personal and sensitive information is now in the hands of criminals and fraudsters who could use it to try to commit fraud and theft. Victims of the data breach, whoever they may be, will need to be very careful and vigilant, and steps will need to be taken to protect anyone that could be affected.
Usually run by local councils, social services hold large quantities of sensitive information about the people under their care. The private nature of the work they carry out means that they are required to keep to strict standards of confidentiality. If they fail to do so, perhaps if a social worker leaked information or failed to keep data secure, they may be in breach of data protection law.
Whether they are children in foster care, people with disabilities, or elderly residents of council care homes, there are thousands of people in the UK who have some form of care provided by their local authority. The integrity of social workers is generally taken for granted but there can, unfortunately, be individuals who let the good name of their profession down.
Their actions may have been accidental or intentional, but in either case, a social worker should be held accountable if they have compromised your right to privacy. By making a compensation claim, you can ensure that you achieve the justice you deserve.
In September 2020, the National Cyber Security Centre issued an alert, warning of increasing ransomware affecting schools, as well as colleges and universities. Earlier in 2021, the alert was updated to warn of yet another spike. The numerous headlines, especially over the summer, suggested that schools have been hit particularly hard, with successful attacks that can harm many people emerging on a regular basis.
Ransomware remains one of the most prominent cybersecurity threats faced by businesses and organisations in today’s digital age. Via ransomware, attackers could gain the power to take control of entire systems or networks. They could bring operations to a standstill, and could potentially steal swathes of private information. Where schools are concerned, ransomware can be particularly dangerous, as these organisations often hold a great deal of sensitive information relating to vulnerable children and young people.
As the ransomware threat shows no sign of abetting, it is essential that schools take action to improve their prevention and response methods, or they could be liable for the exposure of extensive personal data. Where a school has failed to protect the private details of you or your child, you could be eligible to pursue a data breach compensation claim now.
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These sorts of attacks are not yet numerous, but have happened, and will happen with greater frequency, says Eugene Neelou, co-founder and chief technology officer of Adversa.
"Although our research corpus is mostly collected from academia, they have attack cases against AI systems such as smart devices, online services, or tech giant's APIs," he says. "It's only a question of time when we see an explosion of new attacks against real-world AI systems and they will become as common as spam or ransomware."
Research into adversarial attacks on machine learning and AI systems has exploded in recent years, with more than 1,500 papers on AI security published in 2019 on the scientific publishing site ArXiv.org, up from 56 in 2016, according to Adversa's Secure and Trusted AI report.
Yet, that is only a single type of threat. Adversarial attacks on AI systems may be the largest case—and it's certainly the one garnering the most attention—but there are other major cases as well, says Gary McGraw, co-founder and director of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML). The group of machine-learning researchers at BIML identified 78 different threats to machine-learning models and AI systems. Top threats also include data poisoning, online system manipulation, attacks on common ML models, and data exfiltration, according to the BIML report, An Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems.
Late last year, Mitre, Microsoft, and other organizations—including BIML—released the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, which includes 16 categories of threats.
"One of the things you should do right off the bat is to familiarize yourself with those risks, and think about whether any of those risks affect your company," McGraw says. "If you don't think about them while you are coding up you ML systems, you are going to be playing catch up later."
Image Problems
The variety of potential attacks is staggering. To date, however, researchers have focused mainly on attacking image-recognition algorithms and other vision-related machine learning models, with 65% of adversarial machine-learning papers having a vision focus, according to the Adversa analysis. In July, for example, researchers found a variety of ways to attack facial recognition algorithms. The other third of papers focused on analytical attacks (18%), language attacks (13%), and the autonomy of the algorithms (4%), according to Adversa.
The popularity of using adversarial machine learning to undermine image- and video-related algorithms is not because other applications of machine learning are less vulnerable, but because the attacks are, by definition, easier to see, Adversa stated in the report.
"Image data is the most popular target because it is easier to attack and more convincing to demonstrate vulnerabilities in AI systems with visible evidence," the report stated. "This is also correlated to the attractiveness of attacking computer vision systems due to their rising adoption."
In addition, the report also showed researchers focused on dozens of applications, with the largest share—43%—comprising image classification applications, with facial recognition and data analytics application coming in a distant second and third place with a 7% and 6% share, respectively.
Companies should raise awareness of the security and trust considerations of machine-learning algorithms with everyone involved in developing AI systems. In addition, businesses should conduct AI security assessments based on threat models, and implement continuous security monitoring of AI systems, Adversa AI's Neelou says.
"Organizations should start an AI security program and develop practices for a secure AI lifecycle," he says. "This is relevant regardless of whether they develop their own AIs and use external AI capabilities."
In addition, firms should investigate the broader range of threats that affect their use of machine learning systems, says BIML's McGraw. By considering the full range of AI threat, companies will be more ready for, not just future attacks, but poorly created AI and machine-learning systems that could lead to poor business decisions.
"The more people that think about this, the better it will be for everyone," he says.
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Pen testing (or penetration testing) is a security exercise in which a cyber-security specialist seeks to discover and exploit flaws in a computer system. This simulated attack aims to find any weak points in a system's security that attackers may exploit.
This is analogous to a bank paying someone to disguise themselves as burglars to get into their building and access the vault. If the 'burglar' succeeds in breaking into the bank or burial, the bank will receive vital information about how to strengthen security systems.
Ethical hacking techniques, which imitate a cyberattack, assist security experts in evaluating the efficiency of information security safeguards within their businesses. The pen test seeks to breach an organisation's cyber defences by looking for exploitable flaws in networks, online apps, and user security. The goal is to identify system flaws before attackers do.
In the case of networks, the overarching purpose is to improve security by shutting unused ports, debugging services, adjusting firewall rules, and closing any security gaps.
Appknox's Pen testing tool is used to find, evaluate, and report on common online application vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting, to mention a few.
Pen testing can also acquire privileged access to sensitive systems or steal data from a secure system.
Penetration testing is frequently used to supplement a web application firewall in the context of web application security (WAF).
Performed from within the organisation's environment, this test seeks to determine what would happen if the network perimeter is successfully breached or what an authorised user might do to access certain information resources within the organisation.
The testing team has little or no knowledge of the business. It must rely on publicly accessible information (such as the corporate website, domain name registration, and so on) to acquire information about the target and execute penetration tests.
Only a few people inside the organisation are made aware of the testing throughout this exercise. Because the IT and security personnel are not told or informed in advance, they are "blind" to the intended testing operations.
Organisations may use NMAP to construct a virtual map of a network segment and then determine the primary points of weakness that a cyber attacker might exploit. NMAP may be used at any stage of the pen testing process and is a free, open-source programme found at www.nmap.org.
2. Metasploit: Rather than a single tool, Metasploit offers a collection of pen-testing tools. It is a framework that is always improving to stay up with today's ethical hackers, who may also contribute to this platform.
Metasploit, based on the PERL platform, comes with a plethora of built-in exploits that can be used to do various types of pen tests, and many are even customisable. For example, it already has a built-in network sniffer and multiple access points to mount and coordinate various types of cyber-based assaults.
3. Wireshark: It is a network protocol and data packet analyser that can detect network problems and assess traffic for vulnerabilities in real-time. It emphasises data packet features, origin, destination, and more by evaluating connection-level information and the elements of data packets. While it detects possible vulnerabilities, it still requires a penetration testing tool to attack them.
W3AF (Web Application Attack and Audit Framework) is a pen-testing suite developed by Metasploit software developers. Its primary goal is to identify and exploit any security flaws in web-based applications, and it includes a plethora of tools for doing so.
4. John the Ripper: JTR is a quick and efficient password breaker that is now available for various operating systems (Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS). Pen testers may use it to discover weak passwords and fix the underlying flaws in regular password use. JTR was designed and developed on an open-source platform, and it is available at http://www.openwall.com/john/.
What Is the Main Goal of Penetration Testing?
In recent years, penetration testing has become a frequently used security technique by enterprises. This is especially true for companies that retain and access sensitive or private information, such as banks or healthcare providers.
While the primary goal of a pen test is to uncover vulnerabilities or exploit flaws, it is crucial to remember that the primary purpose of a pen test is frequently linked to a business objective with an overall strategy.
As part of the Cyber Security Maturity Certification, Department of Defense contractors, for example, must have proper protocols in place to secure Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) (CMMC).
A penetration test is one of several security measures required to meet auditor criteria, depending on the degree attained by the contractor.
On the other hand, the security objectives of a software firm might differ substantially.
Application penetration testing, for example, aids in identifying vulnerabilities and weaknesses in code that may be vulnerable to an attack. Following that, developers strive to provide patches to update the codebase.
Finally, the sorts of penetration testing done are determined by the business goals, which we shall discuss momentarily.
Reporting on Results
After the testing phase is completed, a report is generated and submitted to corporate leadership and business owners. This is the true worth of any penetration testing project.
This report should give direction and recommendations for lowering risk exposure and practical measures toward resolution.
For a long time, open-source software was known as "free software." Richard Stallman founded the free software movement with the GNU Project in 1983. The free software movement was structured around user freedoms: the freedom to read the source code, alter it, redistribute it—to make it available and function for the user in whatever way the user required it to operate.
There is a free software alternative to proprietary or "closed source" software. Closed source software is extremely secure. Only the source code's owners have the legal right to view it.
Closed source code cannot be legally edited or duplicated, and the user only pays to use the product as intended—they cannot modify it or share it with their community.
However, the term "free software" has created some consternation. Free software does not always mean free to own; it simply means free to use however you see fit. "Free as in liberty, not beer," the community has attempted to explain. "The problem with the previous title, 'free software,' was not its political undertones, but that — to newcomers — the seeming concentration on price is distracting," said Christine Peterson, who invented the phrase "open source."
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With a 100% detection rate for both known malware and zero day attacks in (AV Test’s)[https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/february-2020/avira-antivirus-pro-15.0-190504/] latest round of independent testing, it’s safe to say antivirus protection doesn’t get any better than Avira.
Even better, scanning is smooth and unobtrusive.
You can run a quick scan in under two minutes. And while a more thorough scan does take a while — a lengthy one hour and 17 minutes, to be exact — you can keep using your device without any noticeable glitches or impact on performance. When we ran a deep scan, we continued to browse and stream to our heart’s content without any problems whatsoever.
Alongside quick and deep scanning, you can also run custom scans. You can scan a specific drive, folder or file as well as removable devices such as USB sticks and external hard drives. Top notch protection all round.
Setting up Avira is a bit fiddly. You’ll need to go into your system preferences and change a few things around before it’s ready to go. Luckily, a guide with screenshots and fairly clear instructions help you get going in no time.
Once that’s done, though, it’s smooth going all the way. The app is silent and unobtrusive, with no annoying pop-ups or alerts. It also automatically starts scanning your device when you launch it for the first time, which means you can quickly set your mind at rest that there are no nasty surprises lurking on your system.
The app itself is well-designed. When you run a scan, it opens up a new window, which we found a bit unnecessary. But this is a minor quibble. There’s lots of negative space and big, bold icons. And navigation is quick and easy. We especially liked being able to scan individual files just by dragging and dropping them into the app — a super-simple and useful feature.
Features and Add-ons
When it comes to features and add-ons, Avira punches well above its weight even on the free tier.
While Mac users are only able to get a basic antivirus for free, PC users are in for a treat. Alongside its top-notch antivirus, the free Security Suite includes a VPN with a generous 1GB of bandwidth (more than enough for general browsing, email, online shopping and other light internet usage), a basic password manager and a basic version of Avira’s Home Guard, which scans the smart devices around your home for vulnerabilities.
You won’t be surprised to hear though, that it’s on the Prime package — Avira’s most expensive plan — that users hit the motherlode. You’ll get an unlimited VPN, a premium password manager and apps for your iOS and Android devices alongside features such as a premium version of Home Guard and an ad blocker.
To be fair, Avira does lack some features we’ve seen on other comparable packages. Case in point, there are no parental controls. And, features such as data shredding, encryption and system tune-up only work on PC.
The upside is that Prime will grant you free access to all of Avira’s future product releases, which is a benefit you won’t find anywhere else at this price point.
You can get in touch with Avira tech support by email or by phone, but not via live chat. Seeing as this has become many customers’ preferred method of contacting support, this is a bummer.
To get a hold of a live agent, you’ll also need to have purchased one of Avira’s paid products. Prime customers get VIP support, which means you’re always at the front of the queue, even during peak times.
While you won’t be able to speak to a human if you’ve downloaded Avira’s free antivirus or Security Suite, there’s a wealth of information at your fingertips on their website. There are troubleshooting articles with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and screenshots, tutorial videos and a wordbook — or glossary — that puts technical terms in simple language.
And if you’re technically-minded, you can download Avira’s product documentation and troubleshoot in more detail yourself.
Price
Avira stands out from the crowd by having not one, but two free packages — a basic antivirus for Mac and PC and a more comprehensive Security Suite, though the latter is only available for PC.
There are also three competitively-priced premium packages to choose from: Antivirus Pro, Optimisation Suite and Prime. At $99.99 / €99.95 / £85.99 for up to 5 devices and free access to Avira’s future product lineup, the top-tier Prime package is probably one of the best-value anti-virus packages on the market today.
Here’s a summary of Avira’s product lineup, the cost of a year-long subscription and a roundup of what you get for the price. The prices for Antivirus Pro and Optimisation Suite include one device license. You can also pay extra for a 3 or 5-device licence. The price of Prime includes a license for up to five devices.
While it does lack a few features offered by its competitors, it’s hard to argue with Avira’s quality performance and array of add-ons.
Its free package is exceptional value, especially if you’re a PC user. But, even better, you can get access to its new products and future-proof your devices for under $100 / €100 / £100 a year. If you’re serious about your online security, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better bargain.
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Ondřej Šafář, photo: archive of Eset Hackers primarily target medium and large companies and institutions and one of the highly publicized attacks in this country was the attack on the Rudolf and Stephanie hospital in Benešov which paralyzed the institution for weeks since staff were unable to use x-rays, ultrasound or laboratory instruments and could not exchange information with other hospitals. Although the hospital is now fully operational it is still recovering from the incident and the cost of renewing the hospital’s operational system has so far been estimated at 40 billion crowns.
According to the police the system was attacked by the Ryuk virus created by Russian hackers, which is also reported to have been behind the attack on the Czech coal mining company OKD, as well as being responsible for past attacks on public institutions in the US and Spain.
According to Ondřej Šafář from the antivirus company Eset Ryuk is a specific virus aimed at a carefully selected target.
“Cybercriminals behind Ryuk do not focus on households or small companies. They select potentially interesting targets, big organizations, where in the event of a successful attack, there is a good chance of getting a high ransom for restoring the stolen data. From previous cases we know the ransom money they have been paid out has reached millions of dollars.”
The Ryuk virus does not attack immediately. When it enters the computer, it first thoroughly examines all data and documents without the user's knowledge, and is even capable of shutting down antivirus programs. When everything has been thoroughly analysed, the computer encrypts.
This cipher is basically unbreakable by available technologies, and the key to it is in the hands of the Russian criminal group that created it. According to Ondřej Šafář, the group eventually starts to negotiate the ransom price with the institution targeted.
“The only information you get from the Ryuk operators is that the computer network was attacked by Ryuk and there is a contact address. Usually this is in an e-mail sent via ProtonMail, a service that provides end-to-end encrypted e-mails. This is to make the identification of the attackers as hard as possible. And it is up to you to get in touch and start bidding in order to ascertain at what price and under what conditions they would be willing to decrypt your data.”
Protection of personal data
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, photo: Michaela Danelová / Czech Radio The Central Bohemian Region, which owns the Rudolf and Stephanie hospital in Benešov, does not want to publish details of the attack. However the region’s governor Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová told journalists that the hospital did not pay anyone any ransom money.
"I have no information about anyone having asked for money; that is not something we have had to deal with. We didn't lose a lot of data. We are in communication with the Office for Personal Data Protection and also with the National Office for Cyber and Information Security and are proceeding according to their directions.“
The governor refused to disclose any details regarding what kind of data had been lost, but she ruled out a possible leak of people’s health records.
The National Office for Cyber and Information Security has confirmed that it is dealing with the case but did not disclose any further details. The office never discloses specific details of attacks on the institutions hit, leaving it to them to decide how much information they want to disclose and when.
However at the end of December, the National Office for Cyber and Information Security issued a warning against ransomware attacks, which can be preceded by a series of viruses which can modify, copy, or steal data.
Beefing-up security
Benešov hospital, photo: Google Maps Over the past few weeks the hospital’s IT specialists have been working around the clock to reinstall software in over 600 computers in the hospital’s various departments and gradually retrieve the encrypted data. Governor Jermanová told Czech Radio that patients data had been backed up and that the hospital could not be faulted for neglecting any security requirements. She said that while the hospital was back in operation it would take some time for it to fully recover from the attack.
“The hospital is now providing the full range of services to patients but it will take another five or six months for it to deal with the consequences. The damage done was estimated at 38 million crowns, re-installing the software cost another two million. There is also loss of revenue for care over those three weeks in which many departments were closed. We are still negotiating this matter with insurance companies.”
The hospital should have an accurate estimate of the losses sustained in the course of several months. Meanwhile, the Central Bohemian Region is giving it a 30 million crown subsidy to help tide it over the worst. And experts at the hospital are beefing up security.
The hospital’s director Roman Mrva explains that in the case of institutions such as hospitals this is not always easy to do.
“Our hospital will have very good security, I would say above-standard security. It is not that we were not adequately protected in the past, but this attack was very sophisticated. Our specialists are working according to recommendations from National Office for Cyber and Information Security. We have new Firewall systems and are reviewing the rules governing communication with outside networks. That is the problem with hospitals –you need communication channels with so many outside networks, other hospitals, insurance companies, social services and so on. Also, the firms that service the network need to have access to the system from outside. All this is changing quite radically in order to ensure greater safety.”
The cabinet is currently debating a tougher cyber security bill and the prime minister has said the issue is one of the government’s top priorities.
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A thorough understanding of your cyber security practices and risks.
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On Thursday the cyber-security researchers said that they have spotted a new phishing campaign that is targeting banking consumers in India via SMS forwarding apps.
The phishing site collects victims’ banking credentials and personal identifiable information (PII), post which an Android SMS forwarding malware is downloaded to their devices, according to AI cyber-security firm CloudSEK.
The research team discovered several domains with the same modus operandi and templates.
Researchers from CloudSEK discovered and examined an Android app that pretends to be a bank customer service app. This application requests the user for two permissions on their device to receive SMS and send SMS.
The application’s source code is revealed to be available on Github. The application does not have any obfuscation or evasion mechanisms that make it difficult for anti-virus or other solutions to detect it.
After the app has been installed on a victim’s mobile phone, any SMS containing an OTP received on the device is redirected to the target phone controlled by the threat actor, the report mentioned.
“The banks should also take responsibility in raising awareness about such scams and educate their customers to prevent monetary as well as reputation loss,” said Anshuman Das, Cyber Threat Researcher at CloudSEK.
As part of the hackers’ modus operandi, the victims first fill out sensitive banking information such as card number, CVV number, and expiry date, on the fake complaint portal.
After the banking information is exploited, a malicious customer support application gets downloaded to the victim’s devices.
“No logos or names of the Indian banks have been used in these phishing websites, in order to avoid suspicion and detection. Moreover, the malicious customer support application is not hosted on the Google Play Store or any of the third-party application stores,” said the researchers.
The malicious application is then used to send all the incoming SMS to the scammer’s C2 (command and control) server.
“Even if a user’s accounts are secured by multi-factor authentication, threat actors can still use the app to gather private information, conduct illicit activities on the users’ banking accounts, and access their other accounts,” the researchers warned.
“It is important to be extra cautious when installing new applications. Download apps from reputable app stores like the Google Play store and the App Store only. After installing any application, be careful while granting permissions,” said Das.
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Electromagnetic locks, or mag locks, have been around for over 50 years and have become a very common solution for securing access to openings. At some point, you have probably asked security to “buzz you in” to get through a secure door. Previewing our upcoming session, “More than a Mag Lock: Access Control Basics for CHDs” at the DHI ConNextions 2021 conference in New Orleans, we’ll discuss the appropriate applications for mag locks and other electrified hardware alternatives.
Mag Locks for many years have been the go-to security solution due to the low cost, ease of installation, durability, and minimal maintenance since there aren’t any moving parts. However, advances in security technologies now provide alternatives that may be a better choice for most applications. Mag locks require a constant power source to keep an opening locked and they may not meet newer code requirements regarding reliability, safety, and means of egress.
Commonplace in sliding doors, gates, high traffic openings, and outdoor applications, mag locks are appropriate to use when allowed by AHJ regulations. Always refer to local code requirements when considering desired features and functionality of an opening. Mag locks are fail-safe, meaning that an opening is unlocked when power is removed. For openings required to be fail-secure, mag locks are not recommended, as they may leave an opening unsecured during a loss of power event, posing a security concern.
To ensure correct operation, often the easiest or lowest cost option for securing an opening may work, but may not fulfill all the safety and security requirements needed for the application. Electric strikes and locks are best for fail-secure openings where the door stays locked and requires power to unlock the door, whereas mag locks require power to keep the door locked. Card readers, keypads, and other access control devices can be used to trigger the electric strike when access is granted. A panic bar or other hardware is installed on the inside to unlock the door and allow egress.
In general, alternative electrified hardware devices offer many benefits over mag locks including enhanced protection of property and personnel, keyless entry options, reduced operational costs, and access auditing and reporting capabilities. Single access control systems can be designed for single door applications up to major installations managing thousands of openings. There are a multitude of electrified hardware devices and options, instead of mag locks, that may better secure facilities and provide expansive features scalable to future needs. While mag locks are often a familiar and quick solution to secure an opening, always consider the situations where mag locks may fall short of the best solution for ensuring overall security and safety.
We invite you to attend our session at the DHI ConNextions convention on October 20-21 in New Orleans to learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of mag locks and other access control solutions.
(Warren Doors & Access Control is a commercial hardware distributor and access control integrator headquartered in Pensacola, FL. As a proud family-owned business, our team’s mission is to supply the highest quality products in the door industry while building customer trust through superior service. Visit us online at SecuringTheSoutheast.com)
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Who knew that the great David Bowie had a hidden talent as a cybersecurity expert? Clearly, his famous song intends to reveal a fundamental truth about cybersecurity planning and offer CISOs some great advice. As Bowie was unintentionally hinting, a cyber defense plan that is flexible enough to handle life’s inevitable changes is your best protection against existing and future cyber threats.
Security professionals face challenges in accurately simulating the impact of external and internal changes on cybersecurity plans aimed at defending against nation-state-grade attacks. Unfortunately, this can leave them vulnerable to new attack vectors, attack types, and organizational changes that leave areas of the company exposed.
A static cyber security plan is outdated as soon as it’s finished. Implementing a plan that is flexible and designed to change when there is new information is your best bet at protecting against existing and future threats.
Adaptive cyber defense plans are all-encompassing, scalable strategic plans that can (and should) be modified to deal with threats on the ground. It allows security teams to plan for, manage and defuse new and evolving cyber threats and risks, as well as changing attack vectors, that are coming from external and internal sources.
At the same time, it also allows for flexibility within the organization. As business units evolve together with workflows and requirements, the security needs must adapt as well. Changes in IT, OT, cloud infrastructure, and software can drive the need for adaptivity in the cybersecurity plan as well. New third-party vendors, who may have different security standards or may introduce new risks, need to be adjusted for as well.
An adaptive cybersecurity plan should include every element you’d find in a static plan. It demands continuous risk assessment, 24/7 monitoring, incident response, budget, vendors, and other staples of cybersecurity.
Cautionary Tales
Software giant Kaseya experienced a REvil ransomware attack during the Independence Day weekend in July 2021. The attack was significant enough to garner attention from the US government, who eventually helped apprehend and arrest the Russian perpetrators. However, Bloomberg media reported that Kaseya employees had previously alerted company executives multiple times about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities that ultimately left them susceptible to the attack.
Although the specifics of what happened behind closed doors at Kaseya remain secret if they had a comprehensive adaptive cyber defense plan in place, it could have facilitated a more agile response to internal warnings and helped them strengthened their defenses. It would have been easier for them to pivot in response to internal warnings and shore up their defenses.
Similarly, when the Log4J vulnerability was discovered at the end of 2021, organizations with a robust adaptive cyber defense plan were better able to respond to the threat. They were more prepared to allocate resources to assess their systems and determine if they were running any affected versions of Log4j and apply the patch when it was released.
The Impact of Data Breaches and The Need for an Adaptive Cyber Defense Plan
Data breaches and cyberattacks leave a long-lasting trail of financial heartbreak. In the wake of an attack, there may be exposure of sensitive data, financial theft, and disruption of day-to-day business operations. Ultimately, customers may lose trust and take their business elsewhere.
As threats become increasingly sophisticated and complex, with new nation-state-grade attacks emerging regularly, it is vital for companies to remain proactive in their response.
Threat actors are using a wide array of threat vectors – malware, ransomware, phishing, and social engineering – to target their victims. A robust defense plan considers all of these.
As the digital economy grows and businesses heavily rely on technology, the expanding attack landscape creates a higher risk of breaches. To counter these evolving threats, an adaptive cybersecurity plan is crucial for CISOs to effectively protect their organizations.
The Advantages of Deploying a Proactive Defense Plan Before, During, and After an Attack
Putting an adaptive defense plan in place can help you prevent, react to, and recover from a cyber attack. It enables the security team to be proactive in protecting against complex cyber threats. It allows organizations to anticipate, identify, and avoid potential attacks before they become a reality.
In the unfortunate event of an attack, having an adaptive cyber-defense plan in place allows you to respond to it more effectively. By activating a plan, CISOs can mitigate risks and minimize damage, leading to reduced business and damage impacts.
After an attack, an adaptive cyber defense plan plays a crucial role in mitigating additional risks, minimizing damage, enabling efficient response and recovery, and a quicker return to business.
Ultimately, having a proactive plan reduces the risk of cyber incidents, minimizes the impact of attacks, and ensures business continuity.
How SAGE Can Help
HolistiCyber’s SAGE is an innovative AI-based strategic cyber defense planning platform that helps organizations create and maintain an effective adaptive cyber defense plan. The platform is scalable and editable, allowing businesses to tailor a defense plan to their specific needs. With the implementation of SAGE, businesses can enhance their cyber defense plan, ensuring it remains current and effective. This empowers them to proactively address the ever-evolving threat landscape and strengthen their overall security posture.
One of SAGE’s key benefits is continual feedback, insights, and updates to the CISO on evolving threats and business considerations such as third-party software and industry benchmarking to include in the plan. This means that businesses can be confident that their cyber defense plan is always up-to-date. With SAGE, CISOs can strategically plan, assess risk tolerance, and allocate budgets to address evolving threats. This empowers them to make informed decisions and effectively safeguard their organization.
The Benefits of SAGE for CISOs
SAGE introduces a number of key benefits to your cyber-defense. Its data-driven decision-making enables more optimization, while its ability to prioritize risks, projects, and goals makes your defense approach far more efficient. At the same time, SAGE’s dynamic cyber-defense planning ensures you have the right defenses in play at the right time.
SAGE provides industry-specific benchmarks to give you a better idea of how well your defenses compare to those of your competitors. Finally, it uses business language, making it easier to communicate with leadership, the board, and the C-Suite.
Controlling Your Cyber Future
Adaptive cyber defense plans put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to defending your cyber landscape. Combined with our AI-powered SAGE platform, you have the tools at your disposal to better shield yourself against nation-state-grade threats, even if you aren’t David Bowie.
Learn more about SAGE and how it delivers adaptive cybersecurity plans that optimize your security budget.
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These days security of each and everything is really necessary, because in this era everything is at a real risk if it’s not secured well through proper system. Various mechanisms, viruses and software’s, etc. are developed to access your private stuff. That’s why there is very important need to keep yourself, secured from such security breaches. For the security of a business real steps are required to be taken. Because you can’t compromise over the security of your business related issues. So for that reason a proper and managed system is a necessity. You can’t just ignore it at any cost.
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The functionality of interrelated security centers is pivotal for big organizations involved with high levels of activity. The network security becomes the foremost priority when it has different access points.
It is vital to manage the security framework with a dedicated regime that can outline how to supervise the various activities. The context of every activity is unique and the design to perfectly monitor the flow of network activities will offer the desired leverage in procuring the core activities.
How can this be managed? What is the proposition of the risks involved when security large network configurations?
The incorporating of different methodologies in assessing the vulnerability and the prowess of a network is a complex activity. What is done can be significantly different from what needs to be done.
In this respect the holistic analysis of the variables and their contribution of the network is a considerable challenge. The tracking of the activities and the utilization of powerful automated tools become an instant security need.
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The supervision of the collective security aspects can help in identifying what needs to be done and in which capacity. Have you taken desperate measures in highlighting how the best practices can be implemented in managing the security?
It is high time that the management revisit their security parameters. Managed security services Dubai can plan out supervision regime for administering and regulating the security needs of the organization.
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After getting familiar with the vulnerabilities and the attack methods, participants learn about the general approach and the methodology for security testing, and the techniques that can be applied to reveal specific vulnerabilities. Security testing should start with information gathering about the system (ToC, i.e. Target of Evaluation), then a thorough threat modeling should reveal and rate all threats, arriving to the most appropriate risk analysis-driven test plan.
Security evaluations can happen at various steps of the SDLC, and so we discuss design review, code review, reconnaissance and information gathering about the system, testing the implementation and the testing and hardening the environment for secure deployment. Many different security testing techniques are introduced in details, like taint analysis and heuristics-based code review, static code analysis, dynamic web vulnerability testing or fuzzing. Various types of tools are introduced that can be applied in order to automate security evaluation of software products, which is also supported by a number of exercises, where we execute these tools to analyze the already discussed vulnerable code. Many real life case studies support better understanding of various vulnerabilities.
This course prepares testers and QA staff to adequately plan and precisely execute security tests, select and use the most appropriate tools and techniques to find even hidden security flaws, and thus gives essential practical skills that can be applied on the next day working day.
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Vine's branching out. Videos made with the trendy Twitter-owned mobile app can now be posted anywhere on the Web.
Previously, Vine posts could only be shared within users' networks on Vine itself as well as on Twitter and Facebook. But with an update launched Friday, users can now pull the embed code for any post to embed it on pages across the Web.
The update, which includes some other minor performance improvements, appears designed to broaden the app's reach while still retaining its in-the-moment, personal storytelling vibe.
"When we launched Vine, we described posts as 'little windows into the people, settings, ideas and objects that make up your life,'" Dom Hofmann, Vine's cofounder and general manager, said in a blog post.
"With today's update, you can display them almost anywhere," he said.
There are two ways to grab the embed code with the update: It can either be pulled from a post's page on vine.co, or by using the latest version of the app that was made available Friday.
In the new version of the app, users can tap the "..." button in the lower-right corner of any post within Vine to either share it on Twitter or Facebook, or access a link directing them to a webpage with the embed code. The webpage will generate a different embed code for the video depending on how large the user wants it to appear, and whether it is displayed in a simple, bare-bones fashion or as a "postcard," like how it would appear on Vine.
The new functionality works for users' own posts as well as others'. Vine acknowledges the possible privacy concerns: The embed code options are only available for posts that have already been shared on networks outside of Vine.
Here, for instance, is the page for a Vine video shot this morning by the IDG News Service at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
The post-anywhere features work similarly to the embed functionality already offered by YouTube. The features also raise some questions over whether they might weaken Vine, or Twitter's, grip on its network of users as they see more videos outside the sites. Vine did not immediately respond to comment on these issues.
Twitter launched Vine in January as a mobile video sharing service allowing users to create and post six-second looped videos. It's super-short, in-the-moment style mimicked the way many people already use the site for 140-character messages.
Friday's update also fixes an issue that caused the camera to freeze when starting a new recording, and resolved a bug that caused the camera to record without touching the screen, Vine said.
Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is [email protected]
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Wireshark, an industry-leading network packet analyzer, has released version 4.0.7, which includes defect fixes, protocol updates, and a few enhancements. It continues to be an extensively utilized and popular network protocol analysis tool.
Wireshark, a packet analyzer, is mainly utilized by network administrators and security analysts to analyze network packets and resolve issues, making it a valuable tool for organizations across various industries.
Network administrators and security experts use the packet analyzer Wireshark to investigate network traffic and identify problems, making it an invaluable resource for businesses of all stripes.
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Crash when (re)loading a capture file after renaming a dfilter macro. Issue 13753.
Moving a column deselects selected packet and moves to beginning of packet list. Issue 16251.
If you set the default interface in the preferences, it doesn’t work with TShark. Issue 16593.
On Windows clicking on a link in the ‘Software Update’ window launches, now unsupported, MS Internet Explorer. Issue 18488.
Wireshark 4.x.x on Win10-x64 crashes after saving a file with a name already in use. Issue 18679.
NAS-5GS Operator-defined Access Category: Multiple Criteria values not displayed in dissected packet display. Issue 18941.
TLS 1.3 second Key Update doesn’t work. Issue 19120.
HTTP2 dissector reports an assertion error on large data frames. Issue 19121.
epan: Single letter hostnames aren’t displayed correctly. Issue 19137.
BLF: CAN-FD-Message format is missing a field. Issue 19146.
BLF: last parameter of LIN-Message is not mandatory (BUGFIX) Issue 19147.
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Small business are becoming less reliant on physical locations and offices and allowing their users to become more and more mobile, but they may not be entirely aware of the security risks involved. Cyber criminals are adapting their techniques to specifically target these types of smaller businesses, so how can you leverage newer technologies to harden your exposed attack surfaces without breaking the bank.
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The new hiring authorization gives DHS the power to bring in hundreds of workers with backgrounds in network security, incident response, vulnerability detection and response and other security disciplines. However, the department likely won’t fill all of the positions, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
“Effective cybersecurity requires all partners—individuals, communities, government entities and the private sector—to work together to protect our networks and strengthen our cyber resiliency,” said Napolitano (below) in her announcement. “This new hiring authority will enable DHS to recruit the best cyber analysts, developers and engineers in the world to serve their country by leading the nation’s defenses against cyber threats.”
But that’s an overly optimistic and simplistic view of the situation. Recruiting the “best cyber analysts, developers and engineers in the world” requires a number of things, not the least of which is money. The best security people in the world likely already have jobs that pay them considerably more than what the government can offer. Granted, the chance to help your country while doing interesting work can be a powerful draw, but it is unlikely to outweigh the more tangible benefits of life in the private sector.
DHS and other federal agencies have had a very difficult time recruiting and keeping top-flight security talent in recent years, and it’s unclear why that will change anytime soon. As Brian Krebs points out, even the National Security Agency is having trouble stemming the tide of departures from its security organization, many of whom are leaving to join the new Cyber Command just down the road.
Another problem is that many of the best security professionals in the world don’t live in the United States. Germany, Brazil, China, Russia and other countries have more than their fair share of security talent. And even if experts from abroad wanted to come work for DHS, it would be a long road for them to get in the door. But that’s a minor concern. There are certainly more than 1,000 qualified security pros in the U.S. Getting them to head to Washington is the real sticking point.
It’s encouraging to see the government acknowledging the need for more expertise. As the old saying goes, the first step is acknowledging that you have a problem. But simply throwing bodies (assuming DHS can get them) at the problem won’t be enough. The government, and by extension, the country, is sorely lacking leadership on the issue of cybersecurity and the longer that the White House delays naming a national cybersecurity coordinator, the deeper that deficit will be.
The word from Washington is that President Obama is likely to take the opportunity to name the coordinator this month, which happens to be National Cybersecurity Month. If he does, that will be a nice story. But it will be only the beginning of the fight, not the end.
*Janet Napolitano image via jim.greenhill‘s Flickr photostream.
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Being in infosec compliance is frustrating. We want to protect, not restrict. If you’re a compliance manager, you’ll be familiar with the positive arguments we put forward about how compliance enables business, how it inoculates against legal pitfalls and how it can enhance an organization’s reputation (so important for market competition). In spite of all this, security really is an inhibitor. In this era of technological breakthrough and pressure to innovate, compliance can seem like a ball and chain to technologists. To them, our pitches must sound like claiming seatbelts enhance driving.
What, then, is the modern argument for infosec compliance? From a compliance manager’s viewpoint, batting for it can seem to be a series of long innings, with computer innovation having an impressive variety of pitches.
On the other hand, most technology innovators will not openly oppose security any more than car manufacturers oppose better car safety. Through news headlines and personal experience, they too must be aware of the cost of security breaches, and how commonplace errors can lead to any size of business and any individual getting hurt. Quite reasonably, they will still want to see security controls eased (they won’t say “weakened”). They do want quicker uptake of innovation, especially where it gives advantages (however fleeting) through new ways of working and, of course, to profit margins.
The arguments for security are also frequently undermined by the natural drive for ease of access to data, i.e., ever more convenient availability. Trusted government services even rely on ease of access to meet promises of cheapness and reliability.
Compliance Lives!
Let’s be optimistic and consider the most practical arguments for why compliance should survive in some form or another. Over the past few years, the number of people with computers (and even without) who have been affected by hacking, including its weaponization by criminals to extract money, has exploded. In 2016, 40% of millennials had already experienced cybercrime.[1] The numbers are certain to increase, with 75% of the world’s population[2] expected to have some form of digital access by 2022.
The ways in which people might be hurt in future will change too, as criminals (and, alarmingly, foreign powers) adopt new exploits for new technologies. Consider how our reliance upon Internet technology is increasing daily through the Internet of Things (IoT). And those “things” include ever more personal and domestic services, all very vulnerable to exploitation.
Even if that seems too speculative, we do know for certain that our critical national infrastructure has been targeted for attack for some time,[3] and more recently, even our democratic institutions.[4]
Big Brother/Sister
Technological innovation has become almost entirely private-sector-led since World War 2, but the wartime disciplines and traditions around security did not transfer from that age. Though this is a good thing for both democracy and progress, it also meant that the public sector and military bureaucrats, who were then entirely responsible for security, were left behind while innovation continued to multiply and accelerate.
Nowadays there are few government services that can claim to have better security than those provided by the private sector. And governments increasingly rely on the private sector to supply trusted government services to public, as a way of driving down direct costs to the public finances.[5]
Perhaps unrestricted technology growth will lead to some future tipping point, when a critical mass of people is hurt so badly through cyber-theft of their money, goods and information that they demand security safeguards over technological advances. We have seen no sign of this yet: it certainly does not appear on any current election agenda. People still generally want their government(s) to make the ultimate standards of rules for society, so long as those rules do not stop them going about their peaceful business.
I was a latter-day security bureaucrat. In the three decades I have overseen security, the biggest challenge was making meaningful rules and regulations for innovations that had already galloped through to the next innovation, sometimes before any new rules could be tested. In short, government-centered security compliance simply cannot keep up with security changes.
Trouble With Laws
A big drawback of government controls is the slow process of lawmaking. Elected governments cannot control technological change, yet they can be pressured by electors to “do something” when the technology starts to hurt. But laws need consensus, which can easily be disrupted by the short life cycle of elected governments and their fickle agendas. Drafting new laws also needs expertise and funding, and the target of legislation can change quickly as new technologies create new security exploits.
An example is the UK’s Computer Misuse Act, drafted in 1990 to bridge a hole in UK law that had allowed shoulder-surfing hackers to escape prosecution. That law has had to be continuously amended to keep up with post-1990 exploits like DDoS attacks.[6] But the continuation of such old-fashioned terminology in a title of law is a direct commentary on the inability of government to keep up with infosec.
Since the 1990s we have seen a number of significant new laws which, though not centered on computing, have affected it through regulation of data collection and management. For example, the U.S. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) has had a significant effect on how patient data is handled, while the GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) puts legal constraints in how institutions can share information they hold about individuals. The regulations that underpin these laws have created small islands of good infosec compliance, upon which other infosec best practice can take root and grow. However, being based on a variety of laws, these infosec-backing regulations are not connected and are always at risk of being undermined by the repeal of legislation. Consider, for instance, whether an international banking organization would have better or worse infosec compliance if the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations were withdrawn.
More recently, the growth of connectivity across national boundaries has been a challenge to governments obligated to guarantee the privacy of their citizens. We have seen the first major attempt by the U.S. to accommodate data protection legislation (the GDPR) now enforced in the EU. This is a new area, where compliance is mandated for non-EU-based companies who handle data belonging to EU citizens.[7]
Standards and Best Practice
Non-legally-based standards (e.g., ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS) support infosec compliance. They are more elastic than laws and regulations and able to grow alongside technology to allow for business innovation. They aren’t based on short-term government agendas and usually hold the promise (for organizations) of enhanced trust and therefore more business. These formats can require much effort to initiate and maintain through ongoing compliance checking and maintenance, sometimes by third-party assurance certifications.
Generally, organizations need some incentive to voluntarily increase their infosec compliance, and the promise of better security management measures, though very useful for infosec compliance monitoring, won’t do this.[8] Some U.S. states have even attempted to integrate infosec standards into their laws, but this creates a legislative problem for the lawmakers of those states whenever the regulations need to be changed.
Maturity versus Compliance
The 2014 issue of Presidential Executive Order 13636 (Improving Critical Infrastructure) and the introduction of the Cybersecurity Framework marked a shift from traditional compliance towards the assessment of maturity levels for security. With an emphasis on critical infrastructure, the Cybersecurity Framework is a recognition that former expectations of full security compliance are unrealistic, and that organizations should seek well-developed security systems that are responsive to a wide range of security issues – that is, are “mature.” Organizations can now use a variety of assessment tools to calculate their security maturity and focus upon increasing their resilience as part of a managed program of improvement.
At present, security compliance rests on multi-faceted approaches: A company that handles medical matters may base its compliance upon mandatory (i.e., HIPAA) requirements while reinforcing these through best practice standards such as ISO 27001. Where tools are used to help combine and maintain these efforts (as with the Cybersecurity Framework), it should be fair practice for such an organization to claim they are an infosec-responsible organization, even with the expectation that some security events will occasionally get through its defenses.
Awareness Is Key
The inevitability of security events makes effective infosec awareness programs ever more important. Where automation and policies fail, we have to rely on the human factor as a serious defense.
The effectiveness of an infosec awareness program is now an even more crucial part of any compliance program. Well-managed infosec awareness and compliance materials will support this. With the increased emphasis on maturity, such programs must be innovative, flexible and able to assess user responses to security issues. They also need to underscore relevant legal concerns. As technology is personalized, miniaturized and domesticated, infosec awareness and user responsibility must surely grow.
In my next piece, I’ll look at likely future trends for compliance. I’ll consider the continued drift from corporate computing and office-based technology towards cloud-based data retrieval and the blurring of lines between corporate and personal computing.
John Laskey is a US-based security consultant who previously worked in the British government, where he was responsible for securing systems and advising senior managers about major programs. In the US, John has taught the ISO 27001 standard and is now helping develop and market new InfoSec products and services. He is a member of ISSA (New England Chapter).
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In cyberspace, when it comes to IoT and OT cybersecurity, sophisticated hackers do count on a lag in detection (in enterprises) while engineering their malware and planning their breach strategy. This is why in the case of complex malware, hackers may program it to deploy in batches while accumulating code packets from the C&C unit to take advantage of a delay in detection (also aided by low footprint activities of the malware).
The induced latency on the part of cybersecurity solutions may arise for many reasons. Sometimes it is due to some cybersecurity vendors using myriad solutions that are ‘sutured together’ to form a rudimentary detection engine. By the time data moves from one end of the detection cycle to another, the malware would have got a chance to spread upstream and downstream and into devices and would have already communicated with the C&C unit and shared data.
In other instances, it could also be because the solution is acting at the device level or is a post-facto detector which means that it can only detect malware once it has crossed a certain level of activity in the network. All of these could potentially slow down response and weaken cyber resilience measures and open up new avenues for hackers to exploit.
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With Sectrio, threat detection is rendered a pro-active activity as threats are identified before they have a chance to spread, unlike some of the IoT and OT cybersecurity solutions and vendors out there that work in post-facto mode. Sectrio’s customers are thus rendered secure and do not have to worry about any challenges posed by any deficiency in their solution.
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The persistent vulnerability is located in the explore/contact-sales module of the enterprise.magento.com website web-application. The context validation vulnerability itself is located in the firstname and lastname values. Remote attackers are able to inject the payload as firstname and lastname. The remote vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers or with automatic post scripts to send customers, clients and other random people malicious mails with injected script codes. The attack vector is persistent and the injection request method is POST. The security risk of the vulnerability is estimated as medium but affects the full web-server. The validation on the same server does not encode the outgoing values which results in the wrong encoded outgoing mails through the web formular.
Exploitation of the web vulnerability requires no privileged web-application user account and low or medium user interaction because of the persistent attack vector. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, persistent phishing, persistent external redirect and manipulation of web header or mail context.
1. Open up the website of the sales contact => http://enterprise.magento.com/explore/contact-sales 2. Inject script code as payload in the vulnerable firstname and lastname values of the web formular 3. Click the send button 4. You will get redirected to a thanks page with an id of the session 5. Open your mailbox and watch the mail with the regular validation 6. The injected script code of the contact formular post method request executes after the Dear [First- & Lastname] introduction
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AirEngine 9701-L is a small-capacity, fixed wireless Access Controller (AC) for small- and medium-sized enterprises. It can manage up to 256 Access Points (APs) and provides a GE switch function, achieving integrated access for wired and wireless users. The AC features high scalability and offers users considerable flexibility in configuring the number of managed APs.
When used with Huawei APs, the AirEngine 9701-L can be used to construct small- and medium-sized campus networks, enterprise office networks, wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and hotspot coverage networks.
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This paper aims to examine the hindrances to formulating policies on the use of encrypted communication including the fundamental contradiction between the interests of the government and manufacturers or companies aiming to build the most secure software. By using the concept of encryption workarounds, defined by Kerr and Schneier (2017), as lawful efforts undertaken by governments to reveal unencrypted plaintext of a target’s data, this paper will highlight the intractable path to developing policy responses at the regional and domestic level.
Analysing these bottlenecks that significantly slow down policy formulation will pave the way for a better understanding of the approach that governments should adopt in mitigating technology-driven insecurity. This research effort will be augmented by reflecting on select past examples of governments seeking third-party assistance to decrypt information for the purposes of stemming future criminal or terrorist activity.
Introduction
According to recent estimates, 22 percent of global communication traffic will be protected via end-to-end encryption by 2019. A significant number of popular messaging applications today boast of securing communication on their platforms in this manner, making the information exchanged both inaccessible and unreadable to a third party (Lewis, Zheng, and Carter 2017) ‘End-to-end encryption’ refers to the encryption of messages that are in transit from a sender to a receiver, and while it is not as integrated or widely available as endpoint encryption businesses are developing more user-friendly ways to integrate it into their platforms (The Chertoff Group, 2015). This has easily become one of the defining technological trends in today’s internet landscape.
In August 2018, the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a joint statement on principles of access and encryption. The statement reflected on the increasing use and sophistication of certain encryption designs that present challenges for nations in combating serious crimes and threats to national and global security. While recognising that encryption is vital to the digital economy and a secure cyberspace, the statement emphasised pursuing technological or legislative methods when governments face impediments to lawful access to information for the protection of their citizens, according to the document published by the Australian Department of Home Affairs.
Increasingly, policymakers and legislators around the world are responding to the trend of widespread deployment of encryption in devices in order to take down obstacles to accessing private information. Yet, the joint statement, as well as the broader narrative on encryption around the world is precipitated not only by the increased availability of encryption tools. For example, the recent spate of terror attacks in various European cities has largely influenced the debate in countries like France where an amendment that could require electronic manufacturers to build back doors into their products was debated but ultimately rejected by the National Assembly.
With the intention of empowering law enforcement to stem terrorist activities, other member-states of the European Union like Hungary and Poland are issuing new regulations and amendments that increase not only government access to digital data but also the scope of surveillance.
In the US, Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance by the government had a profound effect on the availability of strong encryption tools; perhaps owing to the need to distinguish governmental activity from commercial products, device manufacturers have deployed default encryption systems that automatically store data in an encrypted manner (The Chertoff Group, 2015).
In August, as Yuthika Bhargava highlighted in her August 23, 2018 The Hindu article, Facebook-owned WhatsApp rejected a demand by the Government of India to find a solution which could trace the origin of a message on its platform. The company argued that traceability would undermine end-to-end encryption and affect the application’s privacy protection duties.
The fact that governments want access to private information for achieving broader national security objectives is not new. However, necessitating assistance from manufacturers of encryption products, and the resulting fundamental discord between government objectives and commercial interests, make the policy process more intractable. This article analyses the bottlenecks to policy formulation that significantly slow down policy formulation, in an effort to pave the way for a better understanding of the approach that governments should adopt in mitigating technology-driven insecurity.
What Constitutes a ‘good’ Encryption Policy?
Encryption policy entails the full array of government activities that guide the development, use, and adoption of encryption technology. It also speaks of a normative judgement on the part of the government about the value of such technology and is underpinned by geopolitical, social, and economic contexts (Budish, Burkert, and Gasser 2018). Therefore, encryption policies can be directly or indirectly used to further certain objectives as they tend to have an impact both domestically and internationally.
A country’s encryption policy can also have ripple effects: given the massive number of interdependencies between international trade, technological trends, and geopolitics, a decision on encryption at the domestic level can impact another country’s public policy, private sector, and regulatory framework.
Encryption policy can be implemented via various tools which are not restricted to only legislation and regulation but also include multilateral treaties, standard-setting through cooperation with all stakeholders, exercising hegemonic status and soft power to influence other governments or corporations to follow similar regulation, and compelling private manufacturers to assist in criminal investigation, respectively.
There are numerous examples of states using one or more of such policy instruments to tackle the increasingly grey areas emerging from the widespread use and deployment of encryption tools.
The Australian government released a draft of the Assistance and Access Bill in August 2018, which provides security agencies with a new set of powers to respond to the challenges posed by encryption. The explanatory document emphasises that 95 percent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) most dangerous counter-terrorism targets actively use encrypted messages to conceal their communications and therefore, the use of encryption is eroding the ability of law enforcement to access intelligible data.
The bill broadens the obligations of domestic and foreign communication providers—which include device manufacturers, application and software providers, and carriage service providers—to allow access to communication.
Moreover, it introduces new computer access warrants for law enforcement, enabling them to covertly obtain evidence directly from a device, and strengthens the ability of security authorities to overtly access data through the existing search and seizure warrants, according to the document published by the Australian Department of Home Affairs.
The Department of Home Affairs maintains that provisions will only be implemented within caveats like technical feasibility and that providers will not be prevented from fixing existing systemic vulnerabilities. However, there are aspects of the bill that raise significant concerns about transparency, oversight, and accountability structures and processes, as reported by Monique Mann in her August 15, 2018 article in The Conversation. It allows for a relevant government authority to issue a “technical capability notice” that would require a communications provider to build a new capability enabling police access to a device or service.
This, coupled with the massive non-compliance fines makes the Australian bill one of the tougher draft legislations to be discussed by a democratic state, stoking worries of a dangerous precedent for other nations.
In the US in August, law enforcement agencies took Facebook to court to obtain access to a suspect’s voice conversations on their Messenger app; the police were investigating members of the MS-13 gang, as reported by Dan Levine and Joseph Menn in their August 18, 2018 report on Reuters.
Given that Messenger voice calls are encrypted end-to-end, the only way to comply with the government’s demand would be to rewrite the code relied upon by all its users to remove encryption, or else, hack the government’s target.
Similarly, global messaging application WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has not wavered in its stance against providing traceability to messages, arguing that doing so would rescind one of its key features, i.e., end-to-end encryption, which means the application retains no user data and access to conversations. The Indian government had demanded, among others, traceability of messages following a series of lynchings purportedly caused by the spread of fake news and misinformation through WhatsApp.
These incidents are illustrative for two reasons: they indicate the different tools at a government’s disposal to shape encryption policy directly or indirectly; and they highlight the perpetual disagreement between, on one hand, software companies wanting the highest levels of privacy, and on the other, state forces mandated to promote security.
What, then, constitutes a good or bad encryption policy? Is there a degree of normativity that can be attached to domestic or international policies on encryption?
At the heart of the policy debate on encryption lays the recurring privacy-security narrative that posits a trade-off between the privacy of citizens and the degree to which the state monitors and intercepts communication for keeping them secure. To a large extent, the diffusion of encryption technology to average users has been largely problematised within this dichotomy and informed by the underlying paradox: the less privacy to the individual, the better security for the nation.
However, in the context of encrypted communications, this poses a problem as there simply is not enough data to indicate the extent to which criminal or terrorist investigations have been hampered by encryption tools. Media reports on the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, for example as highlighted by Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz in their December 17, 2015 report in CNN, quote government officials as saying that the suspects had used encrypted messaging applications to communicate with each other. In the US, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken Apple to court to gain access to the smartphone of one of the suspects in the December 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, as reported by Ellen Nakashima in her April 16, 2016 article in The Washington Post.
While the ubiquitous nature of encryption will be an impediment to successful law enforcement processes and its use could greatly increase in the future, there is currently a lack of empirical data that shows the magnitude of its impact. Caution must be exercised, therefore, when attributing the role of encrypted technologies in foiling overall national security objectives; any policy framework must reflect such consideration.
Encryption Workarounds in the Context of Policy Development
In the context of criminal investigations and the larger question of the impact of encrypted communications, there is another dimension that merits consideration: the existence of encryption workarounds. Defined by Kerr and Schneier (2017) as any lawful government effort to reveal unencrypted plaintext of a target’s data that has been concealed by encryption, the use of encryption workarounds raises significant legal and practical hurdles.
The most important takeaway, however, is that the existence of workarounds could mean that encryption does not cause as remarkable a shift in law enforcement’s investigative powers as thought of. Whenever targets use encryption, governments turn to a set of tools and methods to remove the barrier that denies access to private information. Kerr and Schneier identify six of them—the first three are key-based methods that rely on finding, guessing, or compelling the key which then allows decryption; the latter three focus on government efforts to exploit a flaw in the encryption system, accessing plaintext when the target’s device is in use, and locating a copy of the plaintext.
Each of these methods brings forth certain tradeoffs and raises questions that need to be addressed by future legal and policy frameworks on encryption. For example, accessing plaintext when the target’s device is in use by gaining remote access through technical means, brings with it legal ambiguities on government hacking. There are also substantial privacy and human rights implications associated with this method, including the risk of a paucity of oversight, accountability, and transparency (European Digital Rights 2017).
Similarly, governments can exploit a flaw in the encryption scheme as was illustrated in the San Bernardino terrorist attack. After Apple refused to comply with the FBI’s request to disable the auto-erase feature on the iPhone, the bureau reportedly sought third-party assistance. This brought forth the question of government stockpiling vulnerabilities and whether the government should have disclosed the vulnerability, so Apple could patch it.
Despite the host of ethical, legal, and technical challenges, governments have encryption workarounds at their disposal and they are used, sometimes in combination, to counter encryption barriers.
Security concerns with respect to weakening encryption, in the form of providing exceptional encryption access, for example, have been well-documented and substantiated by security researchers, and recognised—in principle at least—by most governments. ‘Exceptional access’ is defined as giving an individual or organisation access to readable data someone has encrypted and required that the third party be granted access to the plaintext data associated with encrypted data (Vandenberg 2018).
Building on any form of exceptional access would significantly increase system complexity and features to permit such access to law enforcement could be challenging given that their use would be surreptitious (Abelson et al. 2015).
Therefore, creating an exceptional access system with encryption accessible to government authorities and law enforcement officials but not to malicious actors, would be technically impossible or complex enough to implement that the overall safety of communications would suffer (The Chertoff Group 2015). Such an exceptional access system would also compel companies to possibly relinquish best practices developed to make the internet and interactions through it more secure.
With forward secrecy, for example, a new session key is generated for each session that a user initiates which greatly reduces the exposure of an entity that has been compromised. Since the session keys are discarded after each session, any attacker breaching a network can only gain access to decrypted data from the breach until the breach is discovered, rendering historic data safe (Abelson et al. 2015). Therefore, mandating weaknesses in encrypted systems would not only increase vulnerabilities but also hinder innovation and development of security markets.
Challenges to Formulating Encryption Policies
Given the myriad of technical, legal, practical, and ethical questions regarding the use of encrypted technologies and exceptional access to data, there are a number of obstacles that affect policy development at the domestic, regional, and international level. Owing to the global nature of the internet and involvement of actors across countries in availability and development of interconnected communication platforms, the effects of these bottlenecks cannot be clearly delineated at each level given considerable overlaps.
The first set of challenges arises over the question of jurisdiction. Attempting to develop any international access framework and requiring communication providers to guarantee access to numerous government agencies in countries that do not necessarily have the same legal framework would be extremely complex.
Having one set of internationally defined conditions under which lawful access to encrypted communications can be granted would be an immensely arduous undertaking, not least due to the differing approaches of nation-states on freedom of communications, access to the internet, and regulation of cyberspace.
There are unanswered questions regarding enforcement and compliance, illustrated in the ongoing discussions between WhatsApp and the Indian government—is it feasible for a government to mandate a feature like traceability across all applications that are used within its jurisdiction? Not only would it be difficult to get companies to comply with such a rule but mandating it would simply spur an increased use in applications like Tor or an increased use of VPNs, providing alternate methods of secure communication.
Any aggressive enforcement would also negatively affect innovation and industry. The Australian Assistance and Access bill is an example of domestic policies having competing regulations to regional ones as certain parts of the bill can compel companies to override the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) terms in Europe and hand data over to Australian law enforcement, as reported by Chris Duckett in his September 11, 2018 article on ZDNet. Cross-border regulatory differences, therefore, pose an intractable barrier to developing a universally enforceable and accepted encryption policy.
The fundamental discord between incentives of the private sector—including service providers, vendors, manufactures, and software developers—to enhance the security of communications and the larger national security objectives of the government will continue to be a point of contention. A host of new developments discussed earlier in this paper, represent a technological trend aimed at providing the highest level of privacy and security of communications to the average user. Encryption technology aims to create barriers to third-party access, a property that is in the interests of law enforcement to counter during criminal investigations. The San Bernardino case is a prime example of this and there continue to be more such instances.
Therefore, the extent to which third-party assistance can be mandated and necessitated by governments will be crucial. The question of jurisdiction is relevant here as well—can foreign companies be required to fundamentally alter essential features of their application, like default end-to-end encryption for example, depending on where they operate?
The third set of obstacles to encryption policy formulation raises ethical and normative considerations. While this paper has established that moving beyond the privacy-security dichotomy is crucial to developing a comprehensive approach to policy development in this area, encryption policy reflects a normative judgement on the part of the government about the value of such technology.
There is a continual strain of thinking on the part of governments to gain access to encrypted communication without breaking encryption or introducing systemic vulnerabilities. Respecting trust, cooperation, and innovation in the internet ecosystem and to all stakeholders forms the benchmark of democratic digital policies. While states have recognised the significance of encryption in ensuring safe and secure communication, the implications of legislation, if it seeks to counter such provisions, on democratic values, would need to be carefully considered.
Conclusions
As businesses develop user-friendly ways to integrate end-to-end encryption and adopt operational systems that change default local encryption setting from ‘off’ to ‘on’, aiming for the highest level of privacy and security for the user, governments face increasing barriers of lawfully accessing citizens’ private information.
The recent spate of terrorist attacks in Europe have largely influenced policy discussions, stoking fears that encrypted communications will significantly restrict governments’ abilities to successfully stem terrorist and criminal activities. The misuse of messaging platforms by rapidly spreading misinformation has started to fuel similar conversations in India.
However, lack of sufficient data on the impact of encryption on criminal investigations and the existence of encryption workarounds at the disposal of the government may point to a less dramatic shift in governments’ investigative powers than currently perceived. This also necessitates a move beyond the privacy-versus-security dichotomy that the policy debate on encryption lays within. Security concerns and the detrimental impact on innovation and industry of weakening encryption or enabling exceptional encryption access have been well-documented.
These technical, legal, and practical considerations highlight the considerable hindrances to policy development in the field of encryption.
There are unresolved issues with respect to jurisdiction and legitimacy of an internationally-enforceable encryption policy framework. Encryption policy debates also bring forth ethical concerns and the significance of a normative judgement that a state attaches to the value of such technology, particularly in protecting democratic principles.
The dialogue on encryption, therefore, is part of a much larger debate on security, accountability, and responsibility of internet tools. Developing an encryption policy that recognises the principles of mutual trust and responsibility between all stakeholders and accounts for the commercial interests of private companies, state security objectives, and safe online communications for the individual user will define efforts at the national, regional, and international level.
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An aggressive new strain of ransomware is shutting down Windows operating computers all over the world. Although the virus known as WannaCry has already infected over 75,000 PCs in 99 countries, it is actually not that hard to secure your digital data.
The latest ransomware employs asymmetric encryption to hold the target’s information for ransom, using a pair of keys uniquely generated by the attacker for the victim. The attacker makes the private key available to the victim only after the ransom is paid – or very likely does not.
Here are some easy steps to protect your machine and secure your files from falling hostage to online scammers.
#0 Patch!
Security experts advise to install the Microsoft fix—MS17-010—right away. Following the installation, make sure to reboot the system.
The patch that closes the backdoor used by WannaCry to penetrate the system was released by Microsoft on March 14 – apparently shortly after the NSA became aware that its exploit has been stolen, and roughly a month before the Shadow Brokers hacking group exposed it to the world.
In general, patching your system and installing regular Microsoft updates should secure an average PC user from unwanted vulnerabilities.
#1 Beware!
Just as with many other ransomware, the virus can penetrate the system not only through a Windows vulnerability, but also through the “spray-‘n’-pray” phishing attack, which involves spamming users with emails that carry a malicious attachment. The attackers can also lure a victim to click on a URL where malware will be ready to crawl into your machine.
Because ransomware targets everyday Internet users, businesses and public service providers, any individuals or organizations that needs continuous access to its systems should be especially careful what sites they visit and which attachments they open up.
Make use of your antivirus software’s ransomware removal tool, which should scan for and wipe out any ransomware attempts found on your computer.
Most paid subscriptions use real-time protection to keep their clients. Even if ransomware gets past your antivirus, chances are good that within a short while an automatic antivirus update will clear the intruder from your system. Most antivirus companies offer trial versions free of charge to test before subscribing for a paid service, which should be enough if one needs to urgently remove a stray malware.
Ransomware known as WannaCry, Wanna, or Wcry went on a global cyber infection rampage on Friday, infecting at least 75,000 computers in at least 99 countries. The malware adopted to a multi-lingual platform has caused complete data paralysis at banks, hospitals and telecommunications service providers, most notably in the UK, Spain, and Germany.
The virus demands a ransom of $300 to $600 in bitcoin by May 15 to unlock access to data held hostage. The malware is widely believed to have been developed based on the National Security Agency’s zero-day exploit which was leaked last month by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.
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One of the tools for risk managers is risk avoidance. Avoid getting into trouble in the first place. Training employees about their responsibility for data security is critical. One of the primary ways that hackers and thieves gain access to corporate data is through employee error. Therefore, every employee needs training on proper password behavior. Simple guidelines about changing passwords frequently and never sharing passwords are basic but important first steps.
Additionally, employees need the training to identify fake websites and phishing scams. Opening emails with bad attachments and links is a principal source for entry into company accounts and databases. Wahaya IT can provide tips and guidance on training your employees about data security.
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Revenge can be sweet. It's your chance to let the bozos know what we think of them by voting in the Consumerist "Worst Company in America" contest.
The best way to strike back at a company that mistreats consumers is to vote with your feet and withhold your business. But the second best way — and by far the most amusing – may be the annual “Worst Company in America” tournament put on by The Consumerist, a subsidiary of the highly respected Consumers Union.
This year’s contest is now down to two finalists, and as you’d expect, they are companies you love to hate: Bank of America and Electronic Arts. If you hustle you can still vote for your, uh, favorite.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people vote in the tournament, with recent “winners” including wonderful companies such as BP (hello, oil spills), Comcast (can’t get no service), AIG (bail us out!) and Countrywide Savings (we’re foreclosing). EA won last year, and has a chance to be the first company ever “honored” twice with Consumerist’s Golden Poo award.
If you’re a gamer, you already know what you need to know about EA, the publisher of SimCity and other popular titles. Not satisfied with a gross profit of 2.54 billion last year, EA has been pushing microtransactions — in-game purchases of additional content — as a way to pump up its bottom line. What’s more, EA has made it impossible to play SimCity if you’re offline, a move Consumerist called “a blatant, crippling attempt to fight piracy at the expense of consumers’ convenience or privacy.” And finally, EA is earning a reputation for shipping games before they’re ready for prime time.
EA’s defense: We’re not as bad as the company that spilled millions of barrels of oil in the Gulf, or the bank that helped blow up the economy. Seriously, that’s what EA’s COO Peter Moore said in a company blog post with the cloying headline: “We Can Do Better” Darn right you can.
Then there’s BofA. The once iconic San Francisco-based institution was purchased by the soulless NationsBank of Charlotte, North Carolina, some years ago, and has slid downhill ever since. Haven’t heard of NationsBank? That’s because the folks at Nations were smart enough to know that BofA was pretty popular so they simply changed their name.
As Consumerist noted: “It’s been almost five years since Bank of America acquired Countrywide and Merrill Lynch, and all the toxic mortgages and mortgage-backed securities that came with those deals. And every year since, BofA has been criticized by consumers, advocates, lawmakers, regulators, and everyone’s Uncle Eddie for failing to clean up that financial porta-potty.”
And don’t forget that the bank came in last on the American Customer Satisfaction Index survey, or its back-of-the-pack ranking for replying to consumers who registered complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
But there’s much, much more to dislike about BofA and I’ve got to say it has my vote. But feel free to toss that tomato at Electronic Arts. Just so long as you vote. (I’ll update this post when the “winner” is announced.)
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Below is a statement from the Nashua Police Department on a present Scamming Trend in the business world. We at the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce would like to ensure that you and your organization are safe from malicious attacks such as these. If you or someone you know has been a victim of a BEC or Phishing scams, we encourage you to read both the post below and this Document and do not hesitate to reach out for more assistance. We encourage all of our members to be wary of such attacks.
During the past several months the Nashua Police Department has received several complaints of fraud commonly known as “phishing”. Phishing is an online attempt to pose as a legitimate business, most commonly in an email, with the purpose to get an online account holder to disclose personal financial information or provide payment for a service. Phishing attempts typically arrive in an unsolicited email or instant messages, which appear virtually identical to a legitimate communications from a company. Phishing attempts will commonly ask you to provide or “confirm” a user name, password, account number or some other personal information by clicking on a link in an email. Clicking on these email links could then download malicious software to your computer making it vulnerable to future theft of personal information, or the link will redirect you to a website that appears to be legitimate to “confirm” personal financial information, where it is actually being stolen.
Another form of phishing is “spear phishing,” which is a targeted phishing attempt commonly directed toward a business or organization. Spear phishing is also most commonly done using email, but instead of being unsolicited it is sent to a specific person, often a secretary or executive assistant, appearing to come from a person of authority. These emails often request the recipient send money or financial information on behalf of the company. The scams are often successful because these communications appear to come from a trusted person in a recognized format. Businesses should ensure all employees are aware of these types of scams and have layered safeguards in place to ensure money or financial information is not sent to unintended recipients.
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https://www.nashuachamber.com/beware-of-phishing-scams/
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A listing about a government victim disappeared from LockBit’s site. But why? (UPDATE1)
Norwegian data protection authority fines U.S. firm almost $240,000 for failure to notify within 72 hours
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As you may all know SecurityCameraKing.com serves The Surveillance Industry as well as the Access Control Industry. These two industries are different from one another and it can be overwhelming when installing or troubleshooting your system, mainly because transitioning from surveillance equipment to access control is not the same. Access control requires some knowledge of how circuits work. In this article, I will go over some basic circuit knowledge that will allow you to install or know what to do in a case where you will need to troubleshoot your system. This knowledge can come in handy especially in an emergency situation.
Lets start by going over open and closed circuits.
When a device has a label that reads “Normally Open” this means that in a normal state there is no electric current flowing through the circuit. Think of it as a momentary switch (ex. door bell) when the button is depressed it completes the circuit this allows the flow of electricity and the device will turn on a chime in the case of a door bell.
Lets see how a door bell circuit works.
The image on the top illustrates the circuit in an open state where there is no flow of electricity, the image on the bottom shows the circuit in a closed state where electricity will flow, allowing the coil on the electromagnet to become energized and with the assistance of a spring giving you the ringing sound.
Now that we know the differences between open and closed circuits I will go over how an access control panel functions and then we can move on to see how they should be connected and why it is very important to know these two basic circuit functions (Normally Open and Normally Closed).
An access control system is simply a controller that triggers ON or OFF circuits by means of relays. This means that any output from the relays can turn ON or OFF [Open or Close Circuits] devices such as a Mag Lock, which is a high powered Magnet that is normally rated in pounds. Closing the circuit in a MagLock will create an Electromagnetic bond that keeps the door closed until there is an input from a reader to the control panel. The control panel opens or closes the circuit using its relays. The diagram shown below illustrates how a Mag Lock functions in the “Control Panel”. In this case it is the “Switch” part.
Lets see how a “Strike” circuit works. As you can see it works similar to the Mag Lock where the circuits closes and a coil will retract a rod that will allow the person to gain entry. This is called a solenoid.
Here is a Video on how this is accomplished.
Now that we have covered the basics, let’s move to some other details such as Fail Safe devices. These are devices that even when there is no power the device will continue to be in a locked position, keeping the door secure. Fail Safe devices are typically door strikes.
Electromagnetic Lock Types.
With Door Status Switch: This device will show an open or closed door status to the system, allowing you to know if there is a door that is malfunctioning or someone has propped the door with an object.
With Delay: This will give you a few seconds before the mag lock will release the door. This is most common in a high security area.
The use of Mag Locks or Door Strikes are the most popular ways to control the entry or exit of a building.
Lets see how a one door system with a stand alone controller looks like.
This is the easiest way to get a small business with only one door up and running with their access control. In the picture above, we see a Door Lock [Door Strike] connected to the Stand-alone controller with door sensors, as well as an exit and Reader. The user identifies himself with the use of a Card or Keyfob at the reader which sends a signal to the controller. The controller goes in its database and sees that this user has access and then completes the circuit to the Door Strike allowing the person entry.
Seems simple?
Lets try it with a control board instead of a standalone. This is good for a medium size business. In this illustration you will see integration with other devices such as a surveillance system by using its alarm outputs. We can now use the cameras as another form of a motion sensor. We can also integrate the system with a fire alarm panel. There is a lot of possibilities, and it is all about knowing the limitations of each board and system.
Lets move on to battery back up and the use of fuses and Diodes.
When it comes to any security system, one will have the needs to keep these systems running even when there is not power present in the building, either by a malfunction of the Electrical System or by tampering.
There are different capacities of inverters such as 200VA, 250VA, 350VA, 400VA, 450VA, 500VA, 625VA, 1200VA, etc. The capacity of the inverter should be chosen based on how much watt of appliances you power at a time.
For a UPS with 875Va we can use a maximum load of 640 watts. For a UPS with 677Va we can us a maximum load of 540 watts
The main thing we have to understand is that whatever may be the UPS wattage, the battery backup will not vary. The battery backup will only vary depending on the battery Ah and the Usage Load.
To calculate UPS backup, We have a simple formula.
Load is the usage power. Suppose we are running a PC then the load is around 300 watts.
Power Factor varies for device to device, the average power factor is 1.4
Voltage is the voltage of the battery.
For a single battery the voltage is 12v.
If the batteries are connected in a series Voltage = 12 * no. of batteries.
Note: You can use the same formula for calculating the battery backup for UPS or an INVERTER.
Battery back up systems can become complex if you are looking to power the devices for more than 30 minutes. Knowing how to calculate what you need is crucial when purchasing the correct back up system or building your own.
This also functions for a Solar Power system. In the case of a Solar Powered System you will have to take into account the Solar Cells as well as the location and knowing peak Sun hours. Here is an article that goes into detail in regards to solar power.
Lets move on to the Function a Diode can have on an access control System. For this we need to know what a Diode’s function is. A diode is a small device with two terminals [+ side is called the Anode and the – side is called the cathode]. This device allows the flow of current only in one direction. This means that in a case where there is malfunction and there is a device with a short, it will protect the device by not allowing current to flow back into the circuit.
Fuses are devices that have a small strip of metal, usually encased inside a cylindrical glass with two ends that connect to a terminal. They are widely used in the electrical industry as well as the electronic industry. These devices will allow current to flow, but when the amperage is high above its rating the small strip inside will melt, cutting electrical flow while preventing damage to the circuit.
The Fuse is represented by these symbols.
Now that you know about how the circuits work when it comes to Access control, you can safely install your equipment as well as make a wise decision as to what you need. Keep in mind that the conductors carrying the signals from one device to another is also important, as well as grounding properly each control board if utilizing more than one. Consult our Sales team for any questions that you may have and we can also assist you with Designing the perfect system for your needs.
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Despite cybersecurity experts and law enforcement agencies warning against yielding to ransom demands, most organizations still paid their way out on at least one occasion.
As per the 2023 Global Cyber Confidence Index from network detection and response (NDR) firm ExtraHop, of all the organizations that suffered a ransomware attack, 83% admitted to paying the perpetrators at least once.
At the same time, the number of attacks has risen dramatically in recent years. ExtraHop says that in 2021, an average company reported suffering four attacks in five years; last year, however, it was four attacks in just one year. The researchers said this was made possible, among other things, due to significant security debt.
Drowning in security debt
In fact, organizations are “drowning” in unaddressed security vulnerabilities such as unpatched software, unmanaged devices, shadow IT, insecure network protocols, and similar.
More than three-quarters (77%) of IT decision-makers said outdated cybersecurity practices were to blame for at least half of the incidents they experienced, but at the same time, fewer than a third said they would be addressing these problems immediately.
Virtually all (98%) are running at least one insecure network protocol, up 6% year-on-year. SMBv1, a protocol that “played a significant role” in WannaCry and NotPetya, is in use by more than three-quarters (77%) of firms today.
In addition, 53% of firms are running critical devices that can be accessed and controlled from a remote location, while 47% have some critical devices exposed to the public internet.
“As organizations find themselves overburdened by staffing shortages and shrinking budgets, it’s no surprise that IT and security teams have deprioritized some of the basic cybersecurity necessities that may seem a bit more mundane or expendable,” said Mark Bowling, ExtraHop’s Chief Risk, Security and Information Security Officer.
“The probability of a ransomware attack is inversely proportional to the amount of unmitigated surface attack area, which is one example of cybersecurity debt. The liabilities, and, ultimately, financial damages that result from this deprioritization compounds cybersecurity debt and opens organizations up to even more risk.” “Greater visibility into the network with an NDR solution can help reveal the cyber truth and shine a light on the most pressing vulnerabilities so they can better take control of their cybersecurity debt.”
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https://jaspen.com/2023/04/14/most-businesses-give-in-to-ransomware-attacks-and-pay-out/
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Researchers at mobile security vendor Skycure have discovered many iPhone apps are vulnerable to HTTP request hijacking attacks that could permit a hacker to use the app to load malicious content.
The company presented its findings today at the RSA Europe conference in Amsterdam. It declined to name any vulnerable apps so that they will not be targeted by attackers. However, the firm created a custom app of its own to demonstrate how the attack works.
“While the problem is generic and can occur in any application that interacts with a server, the implications of HRH [HTTP request hijacking] for news and stock-exchange apps are particularly interesting,” blogged CTO Yair Amit. “It is commonplace for people to read the news through their smartphones and tablets, and trust what they read. If a victim’s app is successfully attacked, she is no longer reading the news from a genuine news provider, but instead phoney news supplied by the attacker’s server.”
After testing a variety of high-profile apps, the firm found many were vulnerable to the attack. According to Amit, the problem centers on the impact of HTTP redirections caching in mobile applications. The attack scenario starts with a classic man-in-the-middle attack in which the vulnerable app sends a legitimate request to a server. The request is then captured by the attacker, who returns a 301 HTTP redirection to a server controlled by the attacker.
If the attack is successful, the 301 HTTP redirection issued by the attacker is kept in the app’s cache and changes its behavior so that instead of retrieving data from its designated server, the app now loads data from the attacker’s server even after the man-in-the-middle attack is over.
“Many iOS applications cache HTTP status code 301 when received over the network as a response,” Amit explained. “While the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP response has valuable uses, it also has severe security ramifications on mobile apps, as it could allow a malicious attacker to persistently alter and remotely control the way the application functions, without any reasonable way for the victim to know about it. Whereas browsers have an address bar, most mobile apps do not visually indicate the server they connect to, making HRH attacks seamless, with very low probability of being identified by the victims.”
To mitigate HTTP request hijacking, developers should ensure the app uses HTTPS when it interacts with its designate server. In addition, developers can create a new subclass object of NSURLCache that avoids 301 redirection caching and then set the new cache policy so that it used by the app. For users, Skycure advises uninstalling and then reinstalling any app believed to be compromised.
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https://www.securityweek.com/researchers-discover-many-ios-apps-vulnerable-http-request-hijacking/?quicktabs_1=0
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The best anti-virus software in the US is a requirement for anyone who uses a computer. However , picking one can certainly be a challenge. The very best protection readily available can vary significantly from one ant-virus to another. To help you choose the best application for your needs, we have now listed the most notable three applications for pc security underneath. Let’s check out each one of these people. And be certain to check for a free trial offer if you have virtually any questions.
TotalAV is an excellent choice for people who desire an anti virus software package that could protect the PC out of different cyberthreats. Its bundle includes malware software, a virtual exclusive network, a password manager, and product tuneup tools. The software provides real-time protection from various kinds of spyware. In addition , users can established a plan for the program to scan the program. And, for the small fee, they will get a money-back guarantee if they are unsatisfied.
The best anti-virus software ought not to be too resource-intensive. This is because it can cause your PC to run slowly. It can also cause your PC to repeat files or perhaps websites bit by bit. Most malware programs deliver https://programworld.org/vipre-antivirus-review totally free trials or money-back ensures. If you’re unhappy with the program, try one more until you will find one you want. They’re worth the hassle. Certainly feel more secure using one of these programs. While they’re certainly not perfect, they can be a most wonderful choice for your laptop.
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Updated on Friday, Sept. 19 at 5:10 p.m. EST
Keyloggers are one of the most malicious tools for identity theft. But now, a technology has been developed that claims to protect against software that steals keyboard ID entry.
A coalition of German companies that includes Global IP Telecommunications, CyProtect AG and PMC Ciphers, say they have developed a means of encrypting keyboard input before keylogging or screen-capture malware has a chance to record it. They have announced a free beta version of the tool for Windows PCs.
Most keyloggers work by either recording keystrokes as they are being typed, or more diabolically, by taking a screen shot when the user clicks “Enter.” The software then sends the keystrokes or picture to a crimeware server for harvesting.
The anti-keylogger technology works by rendering password recording or screen capture impossible. It does so by presenting a virtual password entry screen on which letters and numbers are drawn figures, not ASCII characters, and the drawing is deleted several times per second during input. The user chooses a character from within a set of flickering characters, and the next characters continue to flash during entry until the whole password has been input.
There is no keyboard input and the screen image redraws faster than a capture utility can register it. In addition, the character image position changes randomly for every mouse click, making the location of the mouse impossible to trace.
The main drawback is that the flickering image is hard on the eyes, but overall the technology seems promising, according to the companies’ researchers.
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Network security is crucial in protecting client information and data. It protects from viruses, keeps shared data secure, and helps with network performance by minimizing overhead expenses.
It also helps avoid expensive losses from data breaches and can save your business in the long run by avoiding much downtime.
The ideal network security solution should protect your network security without impacting the performance, help scale for business growth, and provide a unified approach for streamlined operation.
Your emails are a crucial aspect of your business. Considering that they are subject to threats and security breaches, email security is essential to incorporate. Attackers can hack your information to commit all sorts of atrocities, such as emailing clients on your behalf to deceive or send them to sites full of malware. That may also result in data loss.
However, an email archiving solution will help keep your organizational emails tamper-proof, minimize instances of human error since users are required to adhere to and follow guidelines, and keep you from losing crucial data.
These controls incoming and outgoing traffic on networks, using predetermined security rules. They keep out unfriendly traffic and are a crucial part of daily computing.
Network security depends heavily on Firewalls. These focus on blocking application-layer attacks and blocking malware.
Network Access Control helps you control who can and cannot access your network. You achieve this by identifying the users and devices allowed into your network. You can incorporate several security policies, including controlling what someone can do within your network and blocking unrequired devices.
You can also use behavioral analytic tools to arrive at what normal or abnormal behavior is. With that, you can set up where you’ll get notifications whenever something unusual comes up. That way, you keep yourself from any dangers and threats and control your staff’s web use.
5. Antivirus and Antimalware Software
The antivirus and antimalware software help protect against malware. These include trojans, spyware, horses, viruses, and ransomware. Malware can prove dangerous since hackers can gain entry into your networks and systems to access valuable data, which they can steal or sell to other people.
Antivirus or antimalware software deals with these threats by scanning for their entry and tracking any that might have slipped in your network.
In this article, we explored 6 types of network security protections. From protecting your emails to deploying robust antivirus systems, you should take all the necessary steps to keep hackers at bay.
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Two prominent companies in the storage industry recently reported their second-quarter 2001 earnings. VERITAS Software reported that sales had risen 42 percent ($275 million) for the quarter, a result that met Wall Street's expectations. (The company's cash position grew from $125 million to $1.5 billion.) However, Gary Bloom, CEO of VERITAS, projected that sales for the second half of 2001 would rise only 25 percent to 35 percent—down from previous projections of 35 percent to 50 percent.
"Our results for the quarter were exceptional," Bloom said. "By all financial measures, our financial position has never been better. You start looking at what other people are doing, and you start evaluating an incredible miss by EMC and listening to their comments and looking at their peer group. With everyone else as bearish as they are on their future, we felt our \[previous projections for the rest of the year were\] a little optimistic, given our peer companies."
EMC reported a second-quarter 2001 profit of $109 million on sales of $2.02 billion—a drop of 75 percent in its profits the second quarter of 2001. (EMC had expected sales of $2.40 billion for the quarter.) Information storage (hardware) accounted for 97 percent of EMC's revenue in the second quarter—at $1.96 billion, that portion of the company's revenue was 2 percent lower than during the second quarter of 2000. EMC's software revenues for the quarter rose 42 percent over the previous year to $498 million. Networked information storage revenues rose 56 percent to $714 million. Information storage services revenues grew 73 percent to $232 million. EMC reported that cash on hand and investments reached $4.9 billion by the end of the second quarter 2001.
EMC's top management wouldn't make any forecasts about revenue or gross margins for the third quarter because of the current uncertain economic outlook. However, EMC management implied that the economic situation would worsen—Japan's economy appears to have stalled, and recent problems in Argentina will affect the worldwide money supply.
EMC Chairman Mike Ruettgers announced that many EMC customers are delaying purchases until the economy improves—a trend that you'd expect to be magnified with the high-end storage servers that EMC sells. "These have been the most turbulent economic times of the last 10 years," Ruettgers said. He blamed EMC's diminished profits on the lower margins the company needed to adopt to increase sales. EMC's gross margins dropped from 57.9 percent to 47 percent. Joe Tucci, EMC's CEO, claimed that although the company now faces increased competition in the industry, it's still successfully closing deals against its competition.
Tucci said that EMC is concentrating on five strategic areas: network information storage, information storage software, international business, information power plants (EMC's term for very large storage networking systems), and software for centralized management. At the same time, the company is improving support services for all those areas. One of the company's initiatives is to develop a force of certified technical service people to support its products.
Although several economists had expected the downturn in the US economy to begin to level off and start turning upward in the fall, the recession that has hit the high-tech industry hard will apparently last several months longer. The good news is that unlike Sun Microsystems, which posted the first quarterly loss in its 12-year history, both VERITAS and EMC are still quite profitable.
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http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/veritas-software-and-emc-report-lowered-earnings-diminished-expectations
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Clustering has been a feature of Windows Server since the Windows NT 4.0 days, and the technology has evolved with the OS. In this month's survey on Microsoft Clustering Services (MCS), although 63 percent of respondents said they understand the benefits of clustering, only 30 percent are using it. Of the remaining respondents, 32 percent said they are planning to implement it. The main concerns readers raised in this survey were difficulties with clustering in a storage environment and ease of cluster configuration and management. Readers want to know whether Microsoft is going to make these challenges any easier to deal with, and if so, when and how. Several of the 792 respondents asked questions along the lines of "What improvements in clustering technology are coming within the next 24 months?" and "What is the schedule for enhancements?"
Although Microsoft has a policy of not commenting on future directions and doesn't provide roadmaps, Microsoft's Kurt Friedrich, product unit manager for clustering, and Ryan Rands, senior product manager for enterprise abilities, gave me a glimpse of some intriguing new tools and functionality in the areas of storage and ease of configuration and management. (You can listen to our conversation at http://www.windowsitpro.com, InstantDoc ID 44689. For Ryan's explanation of the various types of clustering Microsoft supports, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "Clustering Technology Overview," InstantDoc ID 44727. And for Kurt's and Ryan's comments on another common concern raised in the survey, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "The Challenges of Clustering with Exchange Server," InstantDoc ID 44728.)
Clustering and Storage
Many readers commented about difficulties with clustering and storage. "We have lots of good news in this space," Kurt responded. "In the past, with third-party Fibre Channel storage solutions, there was very poor standardization other than with the base protocols. The installation, management, and servicing of LUNs and such was proprietary to each third-party storage solution. So when MCS tried to install a cluster, it couldn't even configure the Storage Area Network (SAN) or zone the disk. You had to go back and forth between the Microsoft software and the vendor software."
To address these problems in Windows Server 2003, Kurt continued, "Microsoft has introduced the Virtual Disk Service (VDS) structure, and major storage vendors are now supplying software that matches our VDS side and maps to our standard interfaces. Thus, you can now get such information as what LUNs you have, and you can partition a LUN, take a LUN offline, zone a LUN, etc. All those commands are callable through standard Microsoft software, so we can now automatically detect and configure the storage."
VDS "allows two-way communication with the storage, which wasn't possible in the past, and lets MCS control things in the storage," Ryan elaborated. "But VDS also lets the storage update the OS, which reduces complexity. Instead of having different tools to manage your OS, switching fabric, and storage, VDS can integrate all those tools. You can control the cluster as a unit from one console rather than as individual components."
Kurt said the situation improved with Internet SCSI (iSCSI) "because we had the wisdom of hindsight on the mistakes with Fibre Channel. The iSCSI standards were written to ensure that everything we need for clustering is part of the iSCSI spec. So any device that passes the iSCSI logo has all the new things, like Microsoft's Multipath I/O (MPIO). Anything that's standard will work on any vendor's iSCSI, improving cluster management with storage."
I asked Kurt to explain more about MPIO. "When people install clusters," he replied, "they want redundant everything. So instead of having one host bus adapter (HBA) to connect to the storage box, each server has two, providing two paths to the storage so you don't even need a failover if there's an error."
What clustering problem does MPIO solve? Lack of MPIO "was probably the number one cause of generic cluster problems," Kurt responded. "In the past, storage vendors provided their own plug-in driver stack into Microsoft's stack. That was problematic. For instance, we'd introduce a patch and break a vendor's code, or a vendor hadn't tested all the configurations that we ship. To solve this, we've shipped a Microsoft-standard MPIO driver, and the major storage vendors are now offering providers that use that infrastructure. We've dramatically reduced reliability problems."
Cluster Configuration and Management
The difficulty of configuring and managing clusters was a frequent theme in the survey results. One person asked, "Do you have plans to build an easy configuration tool (wizard, GUI)? Do you have any plan to improve the monitoring tools for MCS?"
The complexity of configuration depends on which version of Windows you're using, Kurt explained. "As we progressed from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003, the installation has become tremendously simpler. Now, you install one cluster node with a wizard, which asks a couple questions, and the node installs itself if the hardware is correctly configured. Then, if you want to add more nodes, you just identify the nodes and the wizard sets them up."
Kurt revealed, "Within the next 6 months, we're going to release a free tool, ClusPrep. Once you've configured your hardware, ClusPrep will tell you whether it's configured correctly or what's wrong with your configuration. We want customers to be able to verify that their hardware is configured correctly before turning on clustering."
Will ClusPrep work only on Windows 2003? "It's designed to work with Win2K as well as Windows 2003," Kurt said. "But the console has to run on either Windows XP or Windows 2003. The systems you will cluster can be either Win2K or Windows 2003."
What about providing more wizards? "We're looking at that for the next release," Ryan replied. "For example, Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server could provide wizards to set up resource groups and resource dependencies. The next release of SQL Server installs the entire cluster in one step."
In addition, Ryan mentioned other new tools. "We recently released the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit, for consolidating file servers using Dfs without a bunch of manual steps. If you have NT 4.0 or Win2K file servers, whether they're clustered or not, this toolkit lets you replicate the data onto a new storage infrastructure and automatically set up Dfs. So, for access, you can still use the old server name and share name, but you're actually being redirected behind the scenes to the new highly available file cluster. That wizard is available today, and customers are using it to consolidate file storage on fewer servers."
In the area of cluster management, Kurt wanted to highlight Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). "The cluster group just released a new MOM pack. It identifies events and advises you about what to do with them."
What about monitoring if you don't have MOM? "You rely on CluAdmin, the GUI administrator package," Kurt answered. "Icons show up when things go bad, we write all cluster events to a log, and you can watch the log. But if you want active monitoring where you can set the thresholds and filters and include extra operations, MOM is a better answer."
Past, Present, Future
One reader commented, "Cluster Services hasn't evolved much since NT 4.0, compared to most other technologies in Windows Server." Ryan responded, "Historically, clustering was only available on proprietary systems, only very large IT shops could afford to implement it, and they could run a lot fewer workloads. Microsoft's goal when we introduced clustering in NT 4.0 was to make it available on commodity hardware and to lower that bar. We've come a long way, but we can still do some things to reduce both hardware and software complexity—I think an example such as the ClusPrep tool is getting us a little further toward that goal."
Looking forward, Kurt emphasized, "The highest goal for Longhorn is simplified management. With our new task model, we want to identify the tasks to run a cluster and make every task implementable as a single-step operation. So if you wanted to add a new node, for instance, instead of saying run this, then do this, then type that, then initialize this, then set this property (as a series of discreet operations, the way we do it now), we'll provide a single operation that says 'Add a node.' Our goal is that any task will have a command that just does that task."
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http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/what-s-store-microsoft-clustering-services
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Last year, a Pakistani Independent Security researcher was awarded $ 10,000 for reporting remote code execution vulnerability inside PayPal. Rafay Baloch had been awarded $ 5,000 by PayPal, He identified a remote code execution vulnerability on www.paypal.com.
Rafay Baloch has written in his personal blog that, ”That’s constituted a huge risk to the organization, since an attacker could have easily managed to execute any command on the server. Therefore the bug was extremely critical; however PayPal took more than 2 months to sort it out,“
This genius had also identified a couple of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and for that he had received an additional $1,000 that has already been addressed by the online payment processor.
Rafay Baloch has been offered a job as a security quality engineer at PayPal. Regarding the offer he said, He is currently doing his Bachelors and he will think about it when it’s completed. He still needs to learn more about it.
Rafay Baloch, has also helped various well-known industries like Microsoft, Ebay, Apple, Adobe, LastPass, Redhat, Barracudalabs, owncloud and so on.. He has reported various vulnerabilities inside their services and helped them to make their products more secure.
My message to the ones who have just stepped up in this field is that there is nothing wrong in learn hacking techniques, what makes it wrong is the way you use it. There is a misconception among people that hackers have good jobs overseas, this is all wrong, if you associate the word hacker with your name then no organization will hire you. As they would think that you might be posing risk to their organization. Don’t run after fame, it will just be for some time.
Instead if you are really interested in pursuing your career in information security, I would suggest you to build your skills. Go after some certifications such as CISSP, CEH, and CPTE etc. And start using your skills to help organizations make themselves secure, by reporting it to them.
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Conventional email encryption technologies are typically complicated, cumbersome and time-consuming. Traditionally, they require pre-registration and subsequent distribution of certificates before encrypted emails can be exchanged. Trend Micro Email Encryption uses Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) in conjunction with in-the-cloud encryption key management to avoid the legacy burdens of pre-registration, key management and the administration that plagued PKI technology.
Internet email lacks security and is vulnerable to compromise at various points as it travels from sender to receiver. Tarnished corporate reputation and lost intellectual property are just some of the consequences businesses must face when email communication is compromised. In addition, businesses also need email encryption for compliance with government and industry mandates such as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), UK Data Protection Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), US HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
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RealNetworks responded today to the recent beta release of Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 7 with a new media suite of its own, the Real Entertainment Center (REC). Essentially, a slightly modified version of the existing RealPlayer with a bundled copy of RealJukebox thrown in for good measure, the new suite includes an Internet radio tuner, a CD ripper for copying CD music to the computer, and a player that is compatible with a wide variety of media formats, including RealAudio, Microsoft's Windows Media, and over 40 other formats. REC takes the all-in-one scheme used by Microsoft Office and applies it to the media market, giving consumers a single location that contains every tool they'll ever need. The difference between RealNetworks' offering and Windows Media Player, however, is not subtle: REC will set you back about $50 if you want the full product, while Windows Media Player is free.
"This has really been optimized for consumers,'' says RealNetworks' Rob Grady. "This has everything for everyone, from hard-core computer music fans to your mom. We really believe consumption of digital media is at an inflection point." The improved RealPlayer (bumped to version 8) found in REC offers enhancements to its streaming audio and video capabilities, while the new RealJukebox application (version 2) offers an improved, Web browser-like user interface and the ability to organize music that's downloaded from the Internet or ripped from a CD. A third application is new to the suite, RealDownload, which makes it easier to download music from the Web.
"\[RealDownload\] sort of completes the suite because content acquisition is a huge thing, because you can't enjoy it if you can't get it," says Grady. He also notes that the company offers a free version of REC, but the added-cost "Plus" version features better sound quality, a full graphic equalizer, and other tools, making it appropriate for high-end users
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Information technology Cyber security as defined by the Economic Times is a set of techniques of protecting networks, computers, programs, and information from unauthorized sources that aim for exploitation.
Cyber security products are conceptualized by their capability to offer authentication procedures, access management, discovery, and response to incidents, data recovery, and security updates or patch management, mitigations of impacts and risk/ compliance management, etc. The products are fundamentally accountable for security of location where data and communication systems are placed, which comprises of servers, network equipment and virtual machines.
Global Security Market
The global information technology security market, as per market research is expected to be worth $170 billion by 2020 as per a leading security advisory firm. Meanwhile the compound annual growth rate [CAGR] is expected to be 9.8% from 2015 to 2020.
The hotbeds for growth are threat intelligence [10% more], security analysis [10%], mobile security [18%] and cloud security which experienced a whopping 50% growth. The international managed security services market is estimated to be $30 billion in 2020 with CAGR of 15.8%. Meanwhile the global enterprise governance, risk, and compliance market is expected to grow up to $119 billion by 2019 at CAGR of 14.6%.
The opportunities:
It is not difficult to foresee a data-driven world in the future. Accumulation and analysis of all of this data will drive various aspects of businesses. Irrespective of the amount of investment, cyber security will be essential. So a key opportunity with a good worldwide scope is the development of security products for such dynamic data collections.
Inter-linked devices allow you to carry your work everywhere you go. But the connection on which these devices communicate needs to be secure. Good cyber security must hence form the basis of such technological advancements.
North America to remain the largest market
North America will continue to hold the biggest market share with 40% of the international cyber security market, followed by Europe. The overall market is fragmented because of the existence of small and big players in the market. By being advanced in the technology area, however North America is therefore always the top in terms of adapting new technology. This is the reason for the country’s maximum market size. Although all the regions are developing at a good rate, market research indicates that Latin America is expected to grow at a significantly high rate during the predicted period with the CAGR of 14%.
North America is expected to retain the position of largest market share and grow at the CAGR of 6% up to 2020. Other highlights include –
Latin America and Middle East and Africa are estimated to gain increased traction during the predicted period
North America and Europe are expected to be the top places in growth rate terms, whereas Asia Pacific [APAC] region is estimated to keep attracting a growing number of security vendors and come close to Europe by the year 2020.
Furthermore, Latin America is the fastest growing information technology security market in the world geographical area wise, poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14% with market size reaching up to an amazing $12 billion by 2020.
Businesses promoting BYOD, customer centered continuous increment for internet based applications and swift ICT growth are cited as factors that are influencing the cyber protection market against financial and intellectual information theft across the world.
As per one market research report, 57% of the computer users around the globe confess to using pirated software. In fact, Microsoft has even launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China. The country intends to bring the issue to limelight and put emphasis on security risks associated with buying counterfeit software. In a recent investigation, Microsoft bought 169 personal computers from different shops in China and all were found to have installed pirated version of Windows with 91% of them contain security vulnerabilities and malware.
The reason cited for people purchasing pirated software is due to price sensitivity. Most people get the pirated version because the original is costly and it is known that legitimate software is not economical. Continuing utilization of pirated security software is cited as the biggest obstacle in the growth of cyber security.
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https://www.aarkstore.com/blog/market-research-indicates-cyber-security-markets-growing-scale/technology/
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Whether you are a landlord, managing agent or employer, if you are responsible for the control of the premises, you must comply with the requirements of the HSE’s ACOP on the Control of Legionella in Water Systems (L8).
All employers with 5 or more employees must commission a Legionella risk assessment on their water systems every 2 years. Failure to comply with the legal requirements surrounding Legionella can result in prosecution.
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