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Mobile units, reminiscent of clever telephones, have accomplished computing and networking features such as conventional own desktops. Their profitable consumerization has additionally develop into a resource of soreness for adopting clients and enterprises. particularly, the common presence of information-stealing purposes and different forms of cellular malware increases huge safeguard and privateness concerns.
Android Malware offers a scientific view on state of the art cellular malware that ambitions the preferred Android cellular platform. overlaying key issues just like the Android malware heritage, malware habit and class, in addition to, attainable safeguard techniques.
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http://slipsten.com/lib/android-malware-springer-briefs-in-computer-science
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Note: The following is part of our roundup of USB-C battery packs. Go there for details on how we tested this device.
Let’s get this out of the way: The Anker PowerCore+ 28600 is expensive; it’s currently listed at $110 on Amazon. Ouch.
That said, it includes a 30W USB-C port on the pack itself, along with two USB-A ports. That translates into a pack that can charge your phone, MacBook, and Nintendo Switch without much fuss.
The 26,800mAh (96.48Wh) is efficient to boot. Our testing found it to have an efficiency rating of 83.43 percent, outperforming the most recent crop of power packs we tested.
The total time it took to recharge this pack with the included 30W wall adapter was just under five hours. By comparison, the slightly larger Aukey 30000 required almost double the amount of time to refill.
The power button on the top of the device has a ring of indictor lights to let you know how much juice is left in the tank.
Included in the box is the pack, 30W wall adapter, USB-C-to-USB-C cable, and a carrying pouch.
Beside the price, another downside is the pack’s heft. It’s not oversized, just heavy, at 1.27 pounds, and will surely add some weight to your bag.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3216531/consumer-electronics/anker-powercore-26800-pd-review-everything-you-want-in-a-battery-pack.amp.html
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When choosing an antivirus web destination, the initial and most crucial factor to look for is ease of use. A large number of enterprise users are not IT consultants, and using a complicated anti-virus program can be frustrating. If the application is too difficult for the normal user, it is going to likely under no circumstances get the common use it demands. A good anti virus portal will probably be easy to use, so the user does not have to spend several hours trying to get it to work.
Functionality is another essential aspect to look for. While most people can install malware software, many people shouldn’t have the specialized skills essential to operate an antivirus website. A simple interface can make malware safeguards much easier and make you free to concentrate on other tasks. It’s a good idea to try a free trial first before buying the software.
MacKeeper: This Mac anti-virus portal delivers great prevention of spyware which is one of the major picks among Mac users. It also includes parental control features and offers a thirty-day money-back guarantee if it wouldn’t protect the Mac. Recharging options https://techentricks.net/ipvanish-kodi-how-to-set-up very easy to down load and work with, and has its own features you might want.
Malware protection is also a top priority for many people users. The free adaptation of Malwarebytes has sturdy malware protection and a reliability package, though that lacks advanced features. Additionally, it comes with a money-back guarantee and a sixty-day trial, that ought to help you decide whether the product is in your case. MacKeeper is another good antivirus portal, and it is user-friendly. It is easy-to-use macOS i cellphone application is likewise an excellent feature.
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https://skypacificjet.co.ke/choosing-the-best-antivirus-portal/
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Nirmata announced a report that features an analysis of the current cloud native policy management market adoption, including the technologies used and the challenges that organizations face.
The study surveyed over 600 IT professionals who are using Kubernetes. The survey highlights that nearly 50 percent of users in cloud native environments have adopted some level of policy management solution in their Kubernetes environment.
The state of cloud native policy management
Nearly 50% of respondents reported having policy enforcement deployed in production; another 17% have deployed it into non-production environments; 30% indicated they are experimenting with it; and 6% reported no adoption.
The top use case for policy management is for Kubernetes Admission Control (more than 31%); followed by application authorization (more than 24% of respondents).
Despite its relatively recent introduction, Kyverno is being rapidly adopted with nearly 10% of respondents reporting they are using it for Policy enforcement.
Configuration management, a driver of policy management adoption, ranked third in security tools that are adopted today, and fourth in organization’s future for adoption.
Nearly 40% of respondents say budget is their top challenge to advance their policy management maturity; followed by more than 34% who say lack of skill sets.
“Our report findings showcase how current policy management is reaching a tipping point to broad adoption – regardless of industry or development team size,” said Ritesh Patel, VP of Products, Nirmata.
“Yet we know that some businesses continue to face critical challenges in realizing its full value due to shortcomings in application reliability, security and efficiency. To generate value requires DevSecOps teams to gain visibility into what’s happening in each cluster and implement necessary guardrails as the organization scales – and that requires a policy management solution built to handle the scale and complexity of Kubernetes environments. Kyverno, a CNCF project and a Kubernetes-native policy engine addresses these challenges elegantly.”
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/12/29/cloud-native-policy-management/
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Nezew. A is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Nezew. A does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=100820
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Securing your organization, and updating your work from home policy, is not as simple as flipping a switch.
It's best to take a two-pronged approach to ensuring that your employees can work remotely without concern for security.
You’ll want to simultaneously start making changes to your technology while also educating your employees about what they need to be doing from their end. If you address one side without the other, you’ll be wasting your time. The technology you deploy is useless if your employees use it incorrectly or fail to use it.
Set up two-factor authentication: Requiring the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) involves adding an additional layer of security to login entry points.
Use a VPN and encrypted communications: Anytime a device needs to transmit or communicate sensitive data, it should be done over a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection.
Use antivirus software: On any work-furnished device, make sure you are installing and regularly updating antivirus software. This may not be an aspect you have full control over if allowing your employees to use their personal computers or devices.
Be careful with remote desktop tools: Depending upon how remote desktop services are set up, they may expose the endpoint computer to unnecessary risks.
Data at rest encryption: Make sure all of your devices have encryption for the data physically stored on that endpoint device. Or, use a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to remove the risks associated with data being stored on an end user device.
Data loss prevention (DLP): Using DLP software can help to protect sensitive data by controlling what end users can share or do with that data.
Employee Approach
Now that you’ve taken steps to secure your network and put in place the technology you need to do that, it is time to ensure that your employees are doing their part to keep your data safe.
This is where training comes in. It will ensure that employees know what is expected of them and how to maintain all of the security measures put in place.
Training should be a integral part of your work from home security policy and encompass:
Training on the basics: Train your users on the basics that they need to know with regards to best practices including password strength, phishing emails (which have exploded in number since the start of the COVID pandemic) and sites, physical use of devices, etc.
Instructions for connecting: Provide your employees with clear instructions for how they should connect to the corporate network, what requirements you have for their home router, and what types of connections are safer than others (e.g. public Wi-Fi connections).
Provide a solution that is fool-proof: While it should never replace training, providing users a solution that requires no specialized technical knowledge and will be secure over any connection can go a long way in reducing the problems that individual users can introduce.
What is incredibly important to remember as you embark upon this journey is that it does you no good to blame your employees or give up on their ability to help keep you secure. Instead, recognize that it is your responsibility to help find solutions that will be as simple and effective as possible for them to use with as little training as possible.
Often viewed as “older” technology, hardware-based VPNs don’t get a lot of love. But if you are looking for a remote work solution that is highly secure, easy to use, with minimal set-up requirements, and cost-effective, you should absolutely consider implementing one.
In many cases, hardware-based VPNs actually provide better security, are easier to use, and require less maintenance than their software-based counterparts, meaning they are the perfect fit to help maintain security when employees work remotely.
Outfitting your remote work team with a hardware VPN is also the best choice to ensure that you maintain security when your employees work remotely, especially if they are using their personal devices to connect.
No software is required for end user devices. This makes it very simple to connect both employer-provided devices and personal devices alike.
Centralized IT support, maintenance and management is much less involved. For the most part, once initial installation and setup of the server-side software is complete (usually in as little as 10 minutes), there isn’t much to worry about.
No software compatibility concerns. No software to install means no concerns about device operating systems, patches, updates or application versions.
Firewalling and isolation. End user devices that connect through our GoSilent Cube never actually touch the networks they connect to, and are completely protected (and hidden) from them.
Smaller attack surface. Because the end user device is completely obfuscated from the network, the applications and operating system on that device no longer offer an attack surface.
Lower risk of “VPN hijacking.” Because the end user device is completely obfuscated from the network, it is much more difficult to steal VPN credentials from the device.
Greater control over where traffic is sent. A hardware-based VPN can be configured to only allow traffic to flow to a single endpoint.
Potential to connect multiple devices. GoSilent can be used as a Wi-Fi hotspot to protect multiple end user devices (like a mobile phone, laptop and tablet) all at the same time.
Reduced risk of misconfigurations and user error. Because there is nothing to configure on a GoSilent, there is nothing to misconfigure. It is as simple as plugging the GoSilent Cube into the end user device (or connecting the two over GoSilent Cube's LAN).
When to use hardware-based VPNs:
There are some very clear use cases where a hardware-based VPN is the right choice in helping maintain security when employees work remotely. Some of those situations, specific to remote work, include:
Public Wi-Fi connections: Where end users need to connect over public Wi-Fi, or may encounter captive portals, a hardware-based solution is far superior to a software VPN due to its ability to completely obfuscate the IP address of the end user device, as well as its ability to isolate the captive portal within the GoSilent sandbox environment.
Networks with untrusted devices: Where end user devices need to connect over networks that will likely have many other untrusted devices on them (think home Wi-Fi networks), the same benefits apply.
If your organization is looking to implement a company-wide, secure solution for remote work that is not overly expensive, difficult to manage or maintain, and simple for end users, a combination of VDI and a hardware VPN may be the right fit.
Combining Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with a secure hardware VPN allows your employees to securely connect to your internal network from their own devices.
A VDI allows you to work remotely through a virtualized environment that lives on your central server. End user devices connect via the VDI to virtual machines that you have set up on your server and users can execute work as if they are on your internal network.
With VDI, no data is stored on the end user device. Instead, the user simply sees what is on the screen of the virtual machine and can interact with it, but not store data from it. VDI supports a wide range of end user devices, from laptops and desktops to tablets or mobile devices.
Combining this environment with a secure hardware VPN, like the GoSilent Cube, protects all traffic and information flowing across the connection between the end user device and the central network.
The primary benefits of executing a solution like this are:
Makes BYOD secure: Prior to this, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) may have been allowed for your organization, but would have posed significant security concerns. An architecture like this allows for the use of personal devices with no risk to your data.
Faster to implement: Getting a solution like this up and running can happen very quickly, and with little involved effort by your IT team required.
Better technical investments: The combined VDI and VPN solution will be less expensive overall than providing laptops for your entire team. Reusing server space and device-agnostic VPNs is much easier, as each has far more applications, than reusing a laptop.
No risk to your data: Because no data is ever stored on an end user device, and all of the changes or modifications to your data happen physically on your servers (inside your network, inside your data center facility), it is actually more secure than providing employer-issued devices (which can be lost or stolen) to your team.
Significantly lower management and maintenance: Managing the updates, patches and setup of the combined VDI and VPN solution requires almost no support from your central IT team.
Allows users to mask connection endpoints: If you have employees that regularly travel around the world, including to untrusted regions, it can be beneficial to your organization to mask the IP address from and to which your employees are connecting to prevent malicious actors from obtaining that information or taking action on it.
Prior to COVID-19, government agencies would typically identify a core group of individuals that needed remote work capabilities for continuity of operations. This group was primarily selected due to a role that required them to be connected whenever they work from home or on the road, in the course of normal life circumstances.
Another deciding factor in allowing remote work for specific government employees hinges on what kind of data they access in the execution of their job. The more sensitive the data, the less likely that they would be allowed to access it remotely.
Agencies might also have determined an additional percentage of staff that they want to have prepared to work remotely should the need arise. In this case, they would have procured the equipment for an additional, say, 10% of their team to be covered. They might not have deployed or set-up all of this equipment, but would have had it available in case the need arose.
In most cases, the combination of the two groups above would have allowed for a percentage of a particular agency’s staff to be up and running remotely. The remaining staff would then be placed on administrative leave and their work halted.
In general, the costs associated with having enough government-furnished devices ready for every employee of a government agency are simply not feasible.
More specifically, in the situation, we've experienced recently with the Coronavirus, where remote work needed to be ramped up very quickly, and with little involvement from central IT support staff, this approach is not only impractical but completely impossible.
A secure, fast, and easy-to-implement solution:
As I mentioned previously, combining VDI with a secure hardware VPN can allow government employees to securely connect to the internal network from their own devices, at home, with very little hassle.
Because VDI does not allow the end user to download or store any of the data they are accessing, it is ideal for BYOD situations and environments with insecure Wi-Fi connections, especially when used in conjunction with a secure hardware VPN like our GoSilent Cube.
Coronavirus Cybersecurity Question #5: Should this change my general remote working security policy?
The events of the last few months have exposed some serious shortfalls in how businesses and governments approach remote work.
As a result, I expect we'll see some widespread and lasting changes to address those issues in the months and years following COVID-19.
Some of these have already begun to happen.
For example, earlier this year, the US Department of Defense released its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. CMMC is a set of cybersecurity requirements that private contractors must meet in order to be eligible to bid on defense contracts -- and their compliance must be audited and certified by an approved third party.
I predict that, similar to the expansion of worker health and safety requirements for private sector businesses with the establishment of OSHA in 1971, you’ll see the private sector roll out requirements similar to those detailed in the CMMC framework.
We will eventually see a centralized government body, like OSHA, that will manage and certify businesses to an expected level of cybersecurity, and that centralized body will require that supply chain partners adhere as well.
In the meantime, there will more than likely be an audit into the shortfalls and gaps amongst US Governmental agencies in meeting their missions and objectives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) Audit will likely be conducted to understand what our gaps were in dealing with remote work for such a large portion of government employees and provide recommendations to Congress to fix them. These recommendations will ultimately inform a plan, or policy, on how to approach a pandemic or similar experience in the future.
There will likely be new mandates that come out of this process that requires government agencies to be set up to maintain a certain level of operability remotely in the event something like this happens again. Regardless of those requirements, I believe we will see a concerted effort across the board within the US Government to find a way to mobilize a much larger remote workforce quickly should the need arise.
Coronavirus Cybersecurity Question #6: How can I implement a CSfC approved solution for remote work?
If you are looking to build a CSfC approved solution specifically for remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the CSfC office has specifically prioritized the review and certification of solutions for addressing remote work.
In an effort to help government organizations get up and running faster, the CSfC office launched an initiative in March to focus on remote work initiatives already in their pipeline for review. Any remote work solution has been moved to the front of the line.
If you are looking into CSfC-level solutions for remote work, a combined VDI and VPN solution may be a great fit as long all portions of the architecture are using approved components from the CSfC Component List.
Final thoughts
Bottom line -- remote working security policy will never be the same after COVID-19 is over.
The organizations that will thrive in the future will be those that have a solid plan for allowing remote work at levels that could include the entire organization. That plan will require a combination of security tools, policies, and practices, as well as a robust and ongoing employee training program.
In short, the time to begin is now.
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https://www.archonsecure.com/blog/covid-19-coronavirus-cybersecurity-telecommuting-remote-work-security-faqs
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What should I do about the _5_ HOWDO_text.html file?
Along with _HOWDO_text.html and _HOWDO_text.bmp, _5_ HOWDO_text.html file belongs to one of the most dangerous cyber threats today — the ODIN virus. This cyber infection which originates from the infamous Locky virus emerged quite quickly but has already managed to take over numerous computers worldwide. Looking at the pace of its distribution and the inflicted damage, this ransomware may soon stand on the same level or even bypass its notorious predecessor. In fact, it has already followed its footsteps by targeting the civil infrastructure and infected computers of the fire department in Honolulu. So, frankly, seeing _5_ HOWDO_text.html file on your computer may mean some bad news for you. If this happens, scan your computer with Reimage anti-malware or other antivirus utility without delay.
Now, returning to the file itself, we should talk more about its purpose. _5_ HOWDO_text.html and the rest of the previously mentioned file variants are placed on the computer after the ODIN ransomware encrypts the documents it finds on your hard drive or cloud storage. These files contain a ransom note which explains that the computer data has been encrypted, provides more information on the RSA and AES scripts that were users for the encryption and explains how this issue can be fixed. In other words, the hackers provide links to the websites of an anonymous Tor Browser on which the users have to transfer the set amount of ransom money. In addition to these addresses, the victim is also given a unique identification number according which his/her particular machine can be recognized and decrypted. Sadly, this rarely happens because the virus creators tend to disappear with the money. Therefore, it is better to delete ODIN and remove _5_ HOWDO_text.html file without even trying to analyze it.
How does this infectious file spread?
As we have mentioned, _5_ HOWDO_text.html is placed on the computer after ODIN virus infiltration. This means that it only travels along with the infection. You may get tricked into installing this ransomware by the malicious spam campaigns that send you infected attachments by email. Also, the malicious script can be sneaked into your computer by a Trojan or some other exploit kit. Online links and ads is yet another way this virus can get through, and it only proves that this virus is very dangerous and its means of infecting the system are highly unpredictable.
How should you approach the _5_ HOWDO_text.html removal?
To remove _5_ HOWDO_text.html, you must remove ODIN ransomware as well. If you do not decontaminate its malicious processes and simply delete the ransom note, ODIN may easily restore its previous setup and continue terrorizing you for money. More importantly, messing up with separate virus files may even end up in the loss of the data that has been encrypted. Thus, we strongly suggest leaving the virus elimination to professional antivirus utilities like Reimage which will take care of ODIN and its ransom note’s_5_ HOWDO_text.html removal methodically and safely.
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https://www.2-spyware.com/file-_5_-howdo_text-html.html
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Log4j is a library used by many systems around the world. The Log4j vulnerability, named Log4Shell, is hard to detect because it can be used directly or indirectly in systems you’re not even aware you have. According to Jen Easterly, the U.S Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security director, Log4Shell is one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities recently discovered.
TL;DR; You need to update Log4j to a version >= 2.17.0. If you think you’ve been hacked, you can follow this playbook: https://www.trustedsec.com/blog/log4j-playbook/
The patches for Log4j got many false starts. At the moment I am writing these lines, It took 3 patches before we could consider the patch secure.
The first vulnerability is the CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution vulnerability. The second is the CVE-2021-45046, also a remote code execution vulnerability, a bit more complex. These two vulnerabilities affects Log4j versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.16. Moreover, the CVE-2021-45105 is a specific vulnerability that causes a Denial of Service (DOS) attack on the affected system.
Since Minecraft administrators identified the first case of the Log4Shell vulnerability in Minecraft, several organizations, including Microsoft, have swiftly fixed this problem. In addition, TechCrunch identified other companies like Apple, Twitter, and Cloudflare as being vulnerable to the Log4Shell attack. The web monitoring service Greynoise identified that several hosts have started scrutinizing the Internet to identify vulnerable servers to the Log4J vulnerability.
One of the easiest ways you, as the system administrator, can mitigate this vulnerability is by updating your Log4j version to 2.17.0 or later. These versions have ensured the vulnerability behavior is disabled by default. For those using earlier versions, you can mitigate the issue by setting your system property log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups to true. This change is possible through adding the Java parameter: –Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true. However, it is important to note that it is simply a mitigation and that bypass exists. The only way to be certain there are no problem is to update to the latest version (>= 2.17.0). Of course, update your Java distribution to the newest release. This updating process will ensure your system obtains the newly added security updates.
If you are developing software, you should use a tool to scan your code and it’s dependencies. Many tools exists to scan your software, like Synk Open Source, which allows you to identify the vulnerabilities present in your open source libraries, plus any case of a Log4j exposure.
Impact of the Log4j Vulnerability
Nowadays, hackers are constantly scanning the Internet, hoping to identify any server that is vulnerable to attacks. Once they identify a vulnerable server, they produce dangerous payloads to take control of them. For instance, a hacker can attack a web server and force it to log a carefully crafted payload. This attack will come with a dangerous text that the Log4j will identify as an instruction. Once it is recognized as an instruction, the hacker has managed to manipulate your system’s Log4j library and exploit the vulnerability.
The malicious instruction can then be used to control the targeted server remotely. They may also turn the target server into a bot in a botnet. The botnet utilizes several hijacked computers to perform coordinated actions. Or hackers could use this vulnerability to deploy ransomware.
The Belgian defense ministry had their systems affected by a Log4Shell attack.
Log4j Vulnerability Mitigation Steps
Different enterprises have started releasing patched software. It means we need to update all applications that use Log4j directly or indirectly.
Closing websites is another option many organizations rely on because it reduces the attack surface and the risk. This restriction ensures mitigations and patches can be deployed before hackers can remotely exploit the Log4j vulnerability.
As such, tackling this vulnerability will require coordination between several parties, including system operators, software developers/distributors and the Log4j developers, as they come up with the Log4j vulnerability fixes.
Feel free to leave your comment down here for any questions or comments.
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https://www.tristandostaler.com/the-log4j-vulnerability-explained/
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VB.LQ is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
VB.LQ prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
VB.LQ 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.
VB.LQ redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.
VB.LQ does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=110621
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A career in our Threat, Intelligence and Vulnerability Management practice, within Cybersecurity and Privacy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients implement an effective cybersecurity programme that protects against threats, propels transformation, and drives growth. As companies pivot toward a digital business model, exponentially more data is generated and shared among organisations, partners and customers. You’ll play an integral role in helping our clients ensure they are protected by developing transformation strategies focused on security, efficiently integrate and manage new or existing technology systems to deliver continuous operational improvements and increase their cybersecurity investment, and detect, respond, and remediate threats. Our team helps organisations to rapidly and effectively respond to threats against potential security incidents by helping to detect, respond to, investigate, and remediate threats across the incident management life cycle.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of comfort zone.
Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.
Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.
Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations.
Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
Focus on building trusted relationships.
Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Understanding Windows and Linux operating system setup, management, and power usage, e.g., cmd, bash, network troubleshooting, virtual machines
Identifying security critical vulnerabilities without utilizing a vulnerability scanning tool, i.e., knowledge of exploitable vulnerabilities and ability to execute stealthy penetration testing engagements
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.
For positions based in San Francisco, consideration of qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records will be in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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https://www.askcybersecurity.com/cybersecurity-penetration-testing-manager/
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As the CTO of CTERA and someone who has been with the company since day one, I couldn’t be more proud to witness our remarkable journey unfold. Looking back over the last 15 years, our mission has been clear – to provide a cyber-resilient, globally available repository for files. As we celebrate this milestone, I’m thrilled to present our latest breakthrough – CTERA Ransom Protect.
In a world where technology is evolving at a rapid pace, cyber threats are also escalating in their sophistication. It’s a daunting fact: ransomware attacks are becoming an alarming security concern, causing billions in financial and reputational damages annually. Traditional endpoint-based antivirus and EDR solutions are gradually proving inadequate against the ever-evolving landscape of zero-day cyber threats. But here at CTERA, we refuse to be passive bystanders. We believe in active innovation to stay ahead of these evolving threats.
In the new CTERA Ransom Protect, we have harnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence to counter the rapidly mutating menace of ransomware attacks. Ransom Protect is no ordinary defense mechanism – it’s an advanced ransomware protection engine integrated into the CTERA global file system. This breakthrough brings together early threat detection, immediate threat response, and rapid recovery. Best of all, it achieves this without third-party add-ons or compromising system performance. The AI and machine learning algorithms at its heart, trained on an extensive dataset of attack flows, can detect and block ransomware attacks in seconds.
AI is the superstar in the cybersecurity world and we are unleashing its potential. We’ve trained our AI and machine learning algorithms on an extensive dataset of attack flows. The result? A system capable of identifying and blocking ransomware attacks within mere seconds! It’s like having an omnipresent guard, vigilantly scanning for suspicious user behavior.
Key features of CTERA Ransom Protect include:
Real-time AI Detection: Identifies behavioral anomalies suggesting fraudulent file activity and blocks the offending users within seconds.
Incident Management: Includes an incident management dashboard to monitor ongoing attacks in real-time. Retains comprehensive incident evidence and logs securely for post-attack forensics.
Instant Recovery: Works in tandem with CTERA’s global filesystem for near-instant recovery of any affected files. Snapshots are securely stored in an air-gapped, immutable cloud object storage.
Independence from Signature Updates: Can detect zero-day threats without reliance on traditional signature update services.
One-Click Deployment: Can be activated with a single click as a standard feature in CTERA Edge Filer, simplifying the deployment process.
I strongly encourage you to watch our short demo video, embedded below. It provides a hands-on look at Ransom Protect’s advanced capabilities, illustrating just how effectively it can safeguard your digital assets.
Reflecting on our journey thus far, I am filled with pride. CTERA Ransom Protect is not just a new feature —it’s a testament to our commitment to always provide businesses with the most advanced defenses against cyber threats. It embodies our mission to continually redefine cybersecurity norms and to stay at the forefront of technology.
Thank you for being a part of our journey. For more information about CTERA Ransom Protect, please visit here. Let’s march ahead, hand in hand, into a safer digital future.
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In our digital world, cybersecurity isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity.
Even small businesses have data to protect: customer information, financial information, product designs, and more. The cyber threat landscape changes every day, and every business is a potential target. Customers want to work with businesses who protect their information. Most government contracts also require some level of cybersecurity certification.
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Gaobot. MOC is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: passwords saved by certain Windows services.
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 awaits remote-control orders received through IRC or FTP.
Gaobot. MOC prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
It terminates processes corresponding to several security tools, such as antivirus programs and firewalls, to prevent detection.
Gaobot. MOC 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.
Email: sending emails that include a copy of itself as an attachment. The computer is infected when the attachment is run.
IRC: It sends a copy of itself to all users connected to the channel to which the infected user is connected.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=111512
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Pushails.com – a dubious website which might indicate adware infection
Pushails.com is a malicious website that uses social engineering in order to make users subscribe to intrusive ads
Pushails.com is a push notification virus that users might encounter accidentally while browsing the web or after being redirected on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, MS Edge, or another web browser. The page itself might present a variety of phishing[1] messages that ask users to allow notifications to be shown. If agreed, pop-up ads of dubious nature will show up in users’ screens without warning, even when the web browser is off.
While the Pushails.com website does not pose any danger as long as nothing is downloaded/clicked on, frequent redirects to scam and other malicious places on the internet might be a symptom of adware[2] infection. These ad-supported applications are often spread via software bundles (access users’ computers without permission) or fake update prompts, display intrusive ads, and gather a wide range of information about users in the background.
Distribution Adware is usually downloaded alongside freeware acquired from third-party sources. Push notifications start appearing on users’ desktops soon after they press “Allow” on the push notification prompt within the Pushails.com website
Symptoms Intrusive pop-ups, auto-play, interstitial, banners, in-text links, and other types of ads show up on many of the visited websites; web browsers’ search engine and the homepage address might be altered to something different (e.g., Yahoo); redirects lead to suspicious or even malicious sites; pop-up notifications show up directly on the desktop
Risks The consequences of adware infection may vary, depending on user input. In some cases, users might be tricked into installing malicious software/PUPs, disclose their personal information, suffer from financial losses due to scams, and even experience identity theft
Termination To stop push notifications, you should access settings of your web browser, as explained below. In case the adware is involved, eliminate it either manually or automatically
Recovery In some cases, adware or malware infections might leave the machine almost unusable due to significant changes and system file damage. To avoid reinstallation or if a quick fix for crashes/errors is required, perform a scan with Reimage Cleaner Intego repair software
Pop-ups, ads, redirects, and other suspicious browser behavior can sometimes be difficult to untangle and find the root cause for. Nevertheless, the first thing that you should check for is adware – it might redirect you not only to Pushails.com, but also to X-rated, scam, and malicious script-equipped websites.
Adware is deceptive software that is almost never installed intentionally, as its developers often rely on deceptive distribution methods such as software bundling or fake update/virus infection alerts. Unfair individuals create fake websites which claim that something is missing from their computer, or that Flash player is out of date, and they are urged to download those items. Therefore, users are unsure where the Pushails.com redirects came from in the first place.
Typically, Pushails.com virus infection can exhibit the following symptoms:
Web browser fails to load certain pages, operates slower, etc.
Since adware brings to suspicious sites, Pushails.com might be one of them. As soon as users access the site, they are met with the following message:
Pushails.com wants to Show notifications
Click Allow to watch the video
While the notification prompt is legitimate feature of most browsers, malicious actors are abusing it for their own advantage. The message implies that, as soon as users click “Allow,” Pushails.com will disclose some type of video. However, this is just a trick to make users to subscribe for notifications, and no video will ever be shown to them afterwards.
Quite often, users cannot make a connection between the notification prompt and the ads that start showing up on their desktops. Thus, they do not know how to remove Pushails.com ads once they start showing up. What makes matters worse is that links displayed pop-ups might lead to more malicious sites, and make users install other PUPs or malware, or make them disclose their personal information.
Pushails.com is a push notification virus that users can acquire after being redirected by adware
Thus, Pushails.com removal is very important for computer security reasons. To eliminate notifications if such were subscribed to, you should visit the settings of your web browser – we explain how below. However, if the notifications and ads do not stop even after tweaking web browser settings, there is a high chance that adware is involved and should be eliminated as well.
To do that, you can either rely on manual guide we provide at the bottom of this article. Additionally, in some cases, a full browser reset might be necessary. Finally, we recommend scanning machine with anti-malware program, as well as a repair tool such as Reimage Cleaner Intego for fix virus damage that may have been caused to your system.
Protect your computer from PUPs
Potentially unwanted programs are called so for a reason – apps of dubious value that are promoted as useful tools with obscure functionality. In most cases, such programs do not bring any significant benefits to end-users, as their functionality is worthless (for example, a toolbar which is meant to display “enhanced search results” actually feeds users with ads in order to monetize on clicks). While many ad-supported applications are relatively harmless, some behave more like malware – modify various settings without permission, and then establish persistence, preventing users from performing their removal.
In other words, you should never trust adware, and never invite it to your computer in the first place. Here are some tips from security experts[3] that could help you achieve just that:
Watch out for various tricks, such as misplaced buttons, misleading offers, fine print text, etc.
Stop Pushails.com notifications and browser redirects
Pushails.com removal can be performed in different ways, as it highly depends on user actions and whether or not adware is installed. In the case of the latter, you should access the list of the installed applications as per instructions below and look for anything suspicious: download managers, toolbars, system optimizers, driver updaters, and similar apps should be uninstalled. If you are not sure about this process, you can instead scan your machine with anti-malware, which would eliminate adware for you automatically.
To remove Pushails.com pop-up notifications that are displayed directly on your screen, you would have to access the settings of your web browser and perform the following actions:
Click on Pushails.com and select Remove Website
In case Pushails.com remains on your web browser, you should reset it, as explained below.
You may remove virus damage with a help of Reimage Cleaner Intego. SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner and Malwarebytes are recommended to detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
Reimage Intego has a free limited scanner. Reimage Intego offers more through scan when you purchase its full version. When free scanner detects issues, you can fix them using free manual repairs or you can decide to purchase the full version in order to fix them automatically.
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https://www.cybersecurityplan.org/pushails-com/
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IBM said 60pc of organisations raised their product or service prices due to a data breach.
Consumers are feeling the effects of data breaches as the average cost of a breach has reached a record high of $4.35m, according to the latest IBM Security report.
The report suggests data breach costs have increased by nearly 13pc over the last two years. It also highlights the lingering impact these breaches can have, as nearly 50pc of the costs are incurred more than a year after the breach.
Rising costs are also causing impacts for consumers, as 60pc of surveyed organisations raised their product or service prices due to a data breach. IBM noted that this is occurring at a time when the cost of goods is soaring worldwide amid inflation and supply chain issues.
Compromised credentials continued to be the most common cause of a breach, standing at 19pc. This was followed by phishing at 16pc, which was also the most costly cause of a breach, leading to $4.91m in average breach costs for responding organisations.
IBM’s report last year noted that the rapid shift to remote working and operations during the pandemic had an impact on the average cost of a data breach.
Critical infrastructure impact
IBM found that ransomware and destructive attacks represented 28pc of breaches among critical infrastructure organisations studied. This includes companies in financial services, industry, transport and healthcare.
Despite the risks that a data breach poses for these organisations and global warnings about cyberattacks in this space, only 21pc of critical infrastructure organisations studied have adopted a zero-trust security model.
IBM said 17pc of critical infrastructure breaches were caused due to a business partner being compromised first.
Healthcare in particular is facing the pressure of rising data breach costs. This sector saw the highest-cost breaches for the 12th year in a row. Average data breach costs for healthcare organisations increased by nearly $1m to reach a record high of $10.1m.
A report last month by cybersecurity firm Rapid7 found that financial data is leaked most often from ransomware attacks, followed by customer or patient data.
It doesn’t pay to pay
In cases of ransomware attacks, paying a ransom is generally not advised by cybersecurity experts. IBM’s report suggests that companies do not feel benefits if they choose to pay the demands of a ransomware attacker.
The report found businesses that paid ransom demands saw only $610,000 less in average breach costs compared to those that chose not to pay, not including the ransom amount.
However, when accounting for the average ransom payment – estimated to be $812,000 in 2021 – the report suggests businesses that pay could net higher total costs, while also potentially funding future cyberattacks.
Hybrid cloud advantage
IBM found that businesses that adopted a hybrid cloud model observed lower breach costs compared to businesses with a solely public or private cloud model.
Hybrid cloud environments were also the most prevalent infrastructure among studied organisations, at 45pc.
The report highlighted that 45pc of studied breaches occurred in the cloud, emphasising an importance of cloud security. However, 43pc of organisations in the report stated they are only in the early stages or have not started implementing security practices to protect their cloud environments.
More than 60pc of studied organisations said they are not sufficiently staffed to meet their security needs. These organisations averaged $550,000 more in breach costs than those that said they are sufficiently staffed.
“The more businesses try to perfect their perimeter instead of investing in detection and response, the more breaches can fuel cost of living increases,” said IBM Security X-Force global head Charles Henderson.
“This report shows that the right strategies coupled with the right technologies can help make all the difference when businesses are attacked.” 10 things you need to know direct to your inbox every weekday. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic’s digest of essential sci-tech news.
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In the affected computer: it converts the computer into a platform for taking malicious action surreptitiously: spam sending, launch of Denial of Service attacks, malware distribution, etc.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it opens one or more ports to allow remote access to the computer and takes action that compromises user confidentiality; it awaits remote-control orders received through IRC.
Sdbot. GVY prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
It prevents scanning tools from running, such as Windows Registry Editor, FileMonitor, etc.
It terminates its own execution if it detects that a memory dump program is running, such as Procdump.
It terminates its own execution if it detects that a debugging program is active.
Sdbot. GVY 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.
IRC: It sends a copy of itself to all users connected to the channel to which the infected user is connected.
Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=112403
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Despite the fact that free of charge antivirus software doesn’t price out of pocket, it’s important to find the right one for your requirements. With the growing number of secureness breaches, you will need to protect your details to https://superbcv.com/secure-data-room-that-takes-everything-under-control avoid severe consequences.
The very best free anti-virus software will offer a lot of features, and will maintain your computer shielded against viruses and other online threats. It’s important to look for a support that provides real-time protection, a real-time reader, and other features.
AVG is a fantastic free antivirus security software. Their real-time scanning device protects your laptop or computer from viruses while you’re browsing. It’s also helpful for deflecting malicious downloads and emails.
Kaspersky is another popular absolutely free antivirus software. It includes a feature called Self-Defense that inhibits unauthorized changes to app documents. It also runs your PC designed for adware and rootkits. It could great for detecting adware that can decelerate your PC.
House windows Defender is a free malware option that gives basic security. It includes a real-time scanner, which you can routine. It’s also great for blocking scam moves and ransomware attacks. It’s simple to use and includes parent controls. This as well provides credit monitoring equipment.
Bitdefender is yet another free antivirus security software option. It offers real-time security, a strain scanner, and an anti theft suite. Additionally, it provides a username and password manager and VPN. It could good for a variety of devices, including Windows, Mac, and Android. The paid out version features additional features, like a VPN. It provides customer support, which includes phone and live chat. Additionally it is free to try the top quality version just for 30 days.
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https://imoldos.com/getting-the-best-free-antivirus-computer-software/
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A few months back at Black Hat USA 2009 a few members of Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) delivered our first, of what is expected to be many, training sessions to conference attendees. Well, here we are three months later with Black Hat DC 2010 just around the corner and we (Cisco SIO) are back on the agenda again to deliver our hands-on Detecting & Mitigating Attacks Using Your Network Infrastructure training session. One small change for round 2 though, John Stuppi will be joining us as an instructor for our training session in Arlington, VA. Welcome aboard John – oh if he only knew what he was getting himself into. ☺
As described in a previous blog post by one of my fellow instructors and esteemed Cisco Security blogger, Tim Sammut, we will be informing and teaching attendees about the built-in features, solutions, and capabilities that exist in devices within your network infrastructure and how to make practical and effective use of the devices to monitor, detect, prevent, and trigger responses to attacks and threats.
Learn leading network security practices from experts who develop these techniques and put them to practical use.
Security engineering teams often focus on the security of networked workstations, servers and applications, neglecting the network itself. Many networks also receive only rudimentary security implementations that are often deployed inconsistently. These scenarios not only fail to completely protect the network from the threats of today, they fail to fully utilize the network to detect and mitigate attacks against the computing infrastructure of an organization.
One of the key messages of our session is not just the native functionality and capabilities existing in the devices within your network infrastructure, but it is how you as an operator can tactically and strategically implement and deploy them based on a six-phase methodology to incident response. What’s even better is that you as a student are able to do this yourself since our training session also includes hands-on lab objectives. So you are now in the hot seat per se and as Ty Webb from Caddyshack would say, “The Zen philosopher Basha once wrote, ‘A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.’ He was a funny guy.“
Our Chairman and CEO, John Chambers, has stated on many occasions, “The Network Is The Platform.” Chambers has also stated, “When the network becomes the platform what does it mean? It means that you can deliver things faster than before.” Lets take a step back and look at this from a security perspective and how it relates to you as an operator. You have this interconnected collection of devices, known as your network infrastructure, that transports and processes traffic that is critical to your business, its operations, and delivery of services. So, how can your network infrastructure help you? Well, it is the platform that has the functionality and capabilities to deploy and implement the multiple security solutions and techniques that we will cover in our training session. But lets not stop there, it is your swiss-army knife in the toolbox, giving you multiple options to choose from when you are trying to decide which feature, technique, or solution to deploy when handling an incident. Think of it like this, when your handling an incident – your network infrastructure is the human-body and your the brain telling it how to react or not react for that matter.
So, come join us in Arlington, VA and during the hands-on labs you may learn some new tricks that you can pull out of your magic hat during your next incident, or you may learn something you can implement and deploy the next time you re-architect your existing network infrastructure or during the design of a new network infrastructure.
FYI, since Black Hat DC 2010 only offers training sessions on two days (January 31st and February 1st, 2010), our two-day session will only be delivered once. At Black Hat USA 2009, we had full sessions, so hurry up and register and we will see ya in a few months.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Security software market leader Symantec introduced its first network access control package here at the ongoing RSA Conference on Feb. 7, jumping into the expanding device authentication and security remediation arena established by networking giant Cisco Systems.
Labeled as Symantec Network Access Control, or SNAC, the product boasts a range of features and support for various computing platforms—including Ciscos and Microsofts versions of the technology—with officials of the Cupertino, Calif., company pitching the package as a vital new piece of its overarching corporate risk management strategy.
That effort, launched in October 2006, evangelizes the use of integrated products for solving both security and regulatory compliance issues for businesses, versus the use of stand-alone technologies from multiple vendors to solve various problems.
NAC systems are increasingly being adopted by organizations to verify the security posture of devices as they attempt to log onto IT networks.
While Cisco and other networking companies were the first to begin marketing the tools, primarily as a feature on their switches, a wide range of vendors from stand-alone startups to enterprise security giants such as Symantec are trying to grab a piece of the market.
/zimages/4/28571.gifCisco believes its NAC technology will continue to lead the market for years to come. Click here to read more.
Due in March, the SNAC system will be based around so-called agentless endpoint enforcement, meaning that there is no full-time software client installed on end users PCs. Among the other features detailed thus far by Symantec are support for Apples Mac OS X operating system—as well as Microsofts Windows—and integration with the 802.1x industry standard for network authentication.
One of the primary benefits of the Symantec product is its agentless, or “dissolvable,” software client approach. With so many security products already residing on enterprise desktops, keeping the NAC systems impact on performance and memory to a minimum—and having more control over the application through its centralized distribution to endpoints—is a key differentiator, according to company officials.
Like other NAC products with so-called post-admission capabilities, the SNAC system claims pervasive coverage, keeping tabs on users and machines for potential misuse even after they have been approved for access to a corporate network.
The new package was developed through internal development and using the technologies brought onboard via Symantecs August 2005 buyout of Sygate. Just exactly what plans Symantec had for Sygates technology has been a topic of debate among industry watchers since the security giant announced the deal.
“We feel that Sygate gives us one of the most developed solutions on the market as they have essentially been doing NAC since 2001, long before we even talked about this type of product using that term,” said Patrick Wheeler, senior product manager for endpoint security at Symantec. “We felt it was important to provide not only policy enforcement and host configuration security, but also to offer pervasive endpoint enforcement on any type of networking equipment our customers use.”
One of the frequent criticisms launched at Cisco over its NAC technologies is that they are focused mainly on the vendors own networking hardware. Like many other NAC vendors that dont make their own networking gear, Symantec is touting its more agnostic approach as a major selling point to enterprises that maintain heterogeneous environments.
By providing a combination of security scanning tools—some of which have the ability to test the security of devices such as printers that have been cited as potential weak points in NAC systems when left open to attacks that spoof the machines identities to evade authentication—Symantec believes it can separate itself from the pack by delivering a more comprehensive approach to the technology.
/zimages/4/28571.gif2007 will see greater need for tight access control. Click here to read eWEEK Labs analysis.
“The idea is to avoid having any gaps in visibility, and you need to make sure that you can assess everything on your network for compliance policies, even these other types of non-PC devices,” Wheeler said. “We feel its a major advantage to be vendor-agnostic from a networking standpoint. While just as we would love for the world to be all Symantec for security, its particularly important for customers to be able to provide protection over multiple platforms, and there are some major vendors out there who cant make that claim.”
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Ldpinch. RJ is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: passwords saved by certain Windows services; keystrokes, in order to obtain information for accessing online banking services, passwords and other confidential information.
It sends the gathered information to a remote user by any available means: email, FTP, etc.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it changes the security settings of Internet Explorer, decreasing its security level; it opens one or more ports to allow remote access to the computer and takes action that compromises user confidentiality.
Ldpinch. RJ accesses several websites to download files, which it then runs. These can be any type of file, although they are normally malware.
Ldpinch. RJ 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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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=120422
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Are you looking for out-of-the-box Exchange Server functionality that can help you satisfy corporate-policy or regulatory-compliance requirements? In "Exchange 2003 Advanced Journaling," May 2005, InstantDoc ID 45644 and "An Exchange 2003 Journaling Primer," April 2005, InstantDoc ID 45348, I outline the capabilities and operation of Exchange journaling, which you can use to capture messages that users on an Exchange database send or receive. However, Exchange journaling doesn't distinguish between internal and external messages. If you want more granular control over your archiving operations, consider using another native Exchange tool: Exchange Server ArchiveSink.
You can use ArchiveSink to selectively capture and store messages that are routed to specific groups of individuals. Ostensibly, ArchiveSink was created as a diagnostic tool, intended for use in troubleshooting message flow. But Microsoft enhanced the tool in Exchange Server 2003, and that version makes a handy "poor man's" email-archiving tool. Exchange 2003 implements the tool as a transport event sink that you can install on an Exchange 2003 server running Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later, then configure to capture all or a subset of messages that pass through a specific SMTP virtual server or servers on that system. Email that requires local delivery (i.e., email from one user to another on the same server) still passes through an SMTP virtual server, so this type of email can be archived as well. There are no restrictions on the number of SMTP virtual servers that can participate in the ArchiveSink operation.
ArchiveSink is part of the Exchange 2003 release to Web (RTW) toolset; you can download the tool at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/default.mspx. The download consists of a self-extracting executable (archivesink.exe). When executed, this file creates a directory that contains a .dll file (archivesink.dll), an installation script (archivesink_setup.vbs), some brief documentation (archivesink.doc), and an End User License Agreement (EULA—eula.txt).
Copy everything but the EULA from the extraction folder to the Exchsrvr\bin directory on the Exchange server on which you plan to run ArchiveSink. (At the very least, put archivesink.dll and archivesink_setup.vbs in this directory.) To install ArchiveSink on and bind it to a virtual server, open a DOS command window and target the Exchsrvr\bin directory. Then, run the installation script, using the following syntax (typed on one line):
cscript archivesink_setup.vbs action vs_id \[location\] where action is install, uninstall, or display; vs_id is the ID of the SMTP virtual server on which you want to install ArchiveSink; and location specifies the directory to which you want the tool to archive messages. The location parameter is optional for the uninstall and display actions but is required for the install action. If the location directory doesn't exist yet, ArchiveSink will create it when the tool first archives a message.
For example, to install ArchiveSink on my default SMTP virtual server, I would issue the command cscript archivesink_setup.vbs install 1 c:\vs1archive
Note that in this example, I opted to archive messages to the C drive. Don't do this on production systems! Instead, use a dedicated disk or storage volume. ArchiveSink-captured messages can quickly amount to a huge volume of data, depending on how many messages pass through the SMTP virtual server. Before you put the tool into production, analyze your existing traffic patterns, then estimate and provide for adequate storage.
Note that the vs_id parameter in this example is the number 1. To determine the ID of a particular SMTP virtual server, open Exchange System Manager (ESM) and navigate down through your Exchange organization in the following order: the Administrative Groups folder, the folder for the administrative group that holds the SMTP virtual server, the Servers folder, the folder for the Exchange server that hosts the SMTP virtual server, the Protocols folder, then the SMTP folder. Right-click the desired virtual server object and select Properties from the context menu. Go to the Messages tab; the SMTP virtual server ID appears as part of the value in either the Badmail directory or Queue directory text box. The example that Figure 2 shows reveals that the vs_id for my default SMTP virtual server is the number 1 (as part of the value vsi 1). You can also determine the number by looking at the Logging settings on the General tab.
To determine whether the utility has been successfully installed and bound to a particular SMTP virtual server, you can run the installation script with the display action. For example, if I issue the command cscript archivesink_setup.vbs display 1
I would get the data that Figure 3 shows.
After you install ArchiveSink, you must then enable message archiving by setting the value of the REG_DWORD Enable Message Logging entry (under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\ArchiveSink\vs_id\ registry subkey) to 0x00000001 (i.e., enabled). Because the sink is tied to the SMTP protocol, you must restart the IIS Admin service before the registry change will take effect.
After you've enabled archiving, ArchiveSink will write archived messages to the directory that you specified during its installation. The installation process creates two subdirectories in the specified location. The first subdirectory, Smtp Messages, holds archived SMTP messages that pass through the SMTP virtual server. The second subdirectory, Mapi-Gateway Messages, holds messages submitted by Messaging API (MAPI) clients that connect to the Exchange server and picked up by the SMTP virtual server. For each archived message, ArchiveSink creates two files: an .eml file, which is the actual archived message, and an .xml log file that contains the message header information. Both files have the same filename—arch_random number—but different extensions.
Operation
ArchiveSink works by using two transport event sinks: the OnMessageSubmission event and the OnPostCategorize event. The first event, which the Enable PreCat entry (under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\ArchiveSink\vs_id\ registry subkey) controls, is enabled (i.e., set to 0x00000001) by default when you install ArchiveSink. The second event, which the Enable PostCat entry (under the same registry subkey) controls, is optional. Generally, you need to enable only one of these two entries, but they aren't mutually exclusive.
By default, when SMTP or the Information Store (IS) submits a message that passes through the SMTP virtual server on which you've installed ArchiveSink, the OnMessageSubmission event is triggered. This event is triggered just once for each message submitted to the Exchange transport system. When this event is triggered, ArchiveSink captures the message to an .eml file and generates a corresponding .xml log file. Figure 4 shows an example of this file, which clearly specifies the message's originator and recipient details as well as a cross-reference to the corresponding .eml file. All recipients, including BCC recipients, are captured and exposed.
You can also enable the OnPostCategorize event by setting the Enable PostCat entry, which is disabled by default, to 0x00000001. When the Exchange categorizer, which determines final routing information, processes a message that's addressed to more than one recipient, the categorizer will bifurcate the message into multiple instances. For example, if I address one message to two recipients—[email protected] and [email protected]—the categorizer creates two instances of the message: one for each recipient. When you enable the OnPostCategorize event, ArchiveSink creates a set of archive files (i.e., an .eml and .xml file) for the message, then creates an additional set for each instance. Thus, my message to two separate and distinct recipients results in six archive files, as Figure 5 shows. The additional files have the filename format arch_random number_postcat.eml and arch_random number_postcat.xml. Note that the files have different names.
The OnPostCategorize event also displays the actual recipients within a distribution list (DL), assuming that the server on which you run ArchiveSink expands the DL. However, the default behavior (i.e., enabling only the OnMessageSubmission event) doesn't display the members of a DL because those members are determined only during categorizer processing. Thus, for more comprehensive and accurate logging, enabling OnPostCategorize event logging is essential.
Additional Configuration
ArchiveSink's functionality and the extent to which it captures messages is governed by its associated registry entries (under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\ArchiveSink\vs_id\ registry subkey), which Figure 6 shows. I've already discussed three of these entries (i.e., Enable Message Logging, Enable Precat, and Enable PostCat); let's take a look at what the other entries do.
By default, ArchiveSink archives report messages such as delivery and nondelivery notifications and read receipts but doesn't archive system messages such as public-folder replication messages. If you want to archive such messages, set the value of the Archive System Messages entry to 0x00000001.
Enabling the Dump P1 entry (i.e., setting the entry to 0x00000001) creates an additional file that contains archived messages' P1 headers. This file has a .p1 file extension (the rest of the filename follows the ArchiveSink naming convention). P1 headers aren't stored in human-readable format, but Microsoft might ask you to capture them for diagnostic purposes. Typically, however, you should leave this entry disabled (which it is by default).
When enabled, the Enable Mapi-Gateway Messages entry instructs the Exchange server running ArchiveSink to capture messages that are submitted from MAPI clients such as Outlook. This entry is enabled by default, but you can disable it (i.e., set the value to 0x00000000) if you want to capture only messages that the server processes in an SMTP relay capacity. Doing so can reduce disk space usage and processing overhead.
The Enable Smtp Messages entry is enabled by default and controls the capture of SMTP messages that the SMTP virtual server relays or receives. If you want to capture only those messages submitted by MAPI clients on a particular server, you can disable this entry (i.e., set the value to 0x00000000).
The Mapi-Gateway Messages and Smtp Messages entries define the locations in which ArchiveSink stores archived MAPI and SMTP messages, respectively. Anytime you make changes to any of the ArchiveSink registry entries, you must restart the IIS Admin service.
Something for Nothing
ArchiveSink provides no native indexing or search capability, and archived data volumes can quickly grow and become unmanageable, especially on heavily trafficked email servers. However, with a little ingenuity, you can implement scripts or utilities to create a searchable index of archived messages and periodically upload archived messages to Microsoft SQL Server, a data-management system, or an archive store.
ArchiveSink functionality merely proves that a message was sent from a mailbox and received by the SMTP virtual server. To meet the complex and comprehensive challenges of full regulatory compliance, you'll typically need to consider a more sophisticated third-party compliance solution. Still, you can achieve a degree of compliance without spending tens of thousands of dollars. Whether that's sufficient for your organization is something that only your company, its compliance department, and its lawyers can decide.
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US is said to have attacked Iran’s military computers. [Photo: Internet]
US military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday.
Two officials told The Associated Press that the strikes were conducted with approval from Trump. A third official confirmed the broad outlines of the strike. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the operation.
The cyberattacks — a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions — disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said.
Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month.
The IRGC, which was designated a foreign terrorist group by the Trump administration earlier this year, is a branch of the Iranian military.
The action by U.S. Cyber Command was a demonstration of the U.S.’s increasingly mature cyber military capabilities and its more aggressive cyber strategy under the Trump administration. Over the last year U.S. officials have focused on persistently engaging with adversaries in cyberspace and undertaking more offensive operations.
There was no immediate reaction Sunday morning in Iran to the U.S. claims. Iran has hardened and disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint U.S.-Israeli creation, disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the late 2000s.
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It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
Dropper. UE 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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A drafting firm is essential in getting particular design ideas constructed by architectural and engineering teams of a building project.
But a drafting company does more than provide drawings for residential and commercial construction projects. In some cases, they also provide inputs for the manufacturing sector, create complex drawings for mechanical products such as pieces of equipment, ships, airplanes, and the like.
Having a robust and effective cybersecurity plan is crucial because of the significant files created, kept, and shared between and among drafting companies and their clients. Here’s how to develop and upgrade your own.
What Makes A Good Cybersecurity Plan
A cybersecurity plan is an essential tool protecting your business, customer, and employee information and assets. It’s an institutional document that contains information about cybersecurity policies and procedures, both reactive and proactive.
Before coming up with this important paper, a drafting firm must perform a thorough cyber security risk assessment to perform preparatory measures, which will be discussed later.
A good cybersecurity plan involves two fundamental principles: it should effectively safeguard your business from external and internal threats and be proactive by minimizing threats caused by users’ mistakes.
You have the option to do this if you have an in-house IT team at your disposal. Create clear guidelines on each stakeholder’s duties and responsibilities before starting.
A cybersecurity assessment involves listing all IT assets, including networks, servers, storage systems, computers, and similar devices. Find out which business data is stored where you can determine which properties need the highest security priorities.
Defending your computer-aided design (CAD) files from possible loss must be paramount. Thus, server and storage devices that keep sensitive information should be protected at all costs.
2. Identify And Rank Risks, Threats, And Vulnerabilities
In the context of cyber security, the risk is defined as potential damage due to several online risks. At the same time, threat describes a process that amplifies the likelihood of a cyber incident. On the other hand, vulnerability refers to weakness in IT assets that increase the chances of a data breach.
There are general risks that all entities face in the digital space including phishing attempts, malware and ransomware attacks, and the like. Your drafting firm must be able to determine various online security concerns and which can inflict the worst damage to your business.
Drafting companies are essentially service providers—which means they’re responsible for gathering some level of sensitive information from their clients. Drawings of revolutionary and state-of-the-art products, for example, can be attractive to hackers planning to get access to them and sell these to clients’ competitors for a hefty cost.
3. Select Your Protection Methods
For every risk, threat, and vulnerability identified, your company must be able to provide protective measures to prevent or minimize each item.
List down the measures required to keep IT assets safe: Being proactive is crucial in cybersecurity. Identify IT assets that can protect your drafting business data using tools such as firewalls, anti-virus and malware-fighting software, and encryption and backups, among many others.
Identify best practices before setting up company policies: With enough knowledge on the risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and protective measures, it’s time to formalize your drafting company’s policies. Consider looking at best practices employed in the industry but customize them to fit your business setup and resources.
Make room for regular cybersecurity training sessions: Your staff plays a crucial role in cybersecurity, so much so that they’re often dubbed as the human firewall. To avoid your employees from inadvertently exposing business and client information, organize regular cybersecurity awareness and training sessions and include them in your plan. Aim to create a culture of security in the workplace.
4. Formulate Mitigation Procedures To Handle Threats
Lastly, risk mitigation is as crucial as prevention when it comes to cybersecurity. No matter how strong you think your measures may be, no business entity can completely eliminate online risks.
To guarantee that your drafting firm can protect sensitive data, establish steps if a breach is detected. The key is to isolate the danger and threat to minimize damage. An incident plan must also include each staff’s responsibilities in the event of a data breach.
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When the user updates the certificate template, the nTSecurityDescriptor field is overwritten with one that provides all access to all authenticated users. This means it's critical that the template be restored when the operator is finished. A backup is created every time the template is read, but it's not restored automatically because the actions taken once the module has completed will likely involve another module such as icpr_cert.
The existing MsDtypSecurityDescriptor class has a new .from_sddl_text method to create a new instance from Microsoft's (relatively) human-readable Security Descriptor Definition Language. This means the SID in the ACEs can be specified by copying the included template file and changing it to whatever the user would like. They could for example set it to the SID of the current user, or the domain admins group, etc.
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The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation in Blink in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and compromise the system.
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There are some things that you can do to prevent bladder cancer. Although the exact cause of bladder cancer is not known. Risk factors include smoking, age, gender, race, chemicals, and chronic bladder problems like bladder stones, using cyclophosphamide, and pioglitazone hydrochloride, personal history like if you have had bladder cancer before, fluid intake, schistosomiasis, and arsenic. Those are just to name some of the risk factors that can increase your risk greatly of getting bladder cancer. Some of those factors can be changed to decrease your odds. Not smoking is one of the best ways to decrease your risk factors with bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is three times more likely to be diagnosis in men than in women.
Lifestyle choices you can make in your life to decrease your modifiable risk factors for this disease.
This section is a tough one because the exact cause of bladder cancer are not known and because of that, there is really no certain was to prevent it. Like I said before smoking is one of the leading causes of bladder cancer and literally
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This symptoms of this detection are the files, registry, and network communication referenced in the characteristics section.
Viruses are self-replicating. They are often spread by a network or by transmission to a removable medium such as a removable disk, writable CD, or USB drive. Viruses may also spread by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is shared by another computer.
Please use the following instructions for all supported versions of Windows:
1. Disable Windows System Restore. For instructions, please refer to: http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/disabling-system-restore.aspx
2. Update your McAfee Anti-Virus product to the latest version (when possible), and ensure the latest DAT and Engine and any applicable EXTRA.DATs are installed.
3. Run a full system scan. (On-Demand Scan) 4. Reboot, as soon as it is convenient, to ensure all malicious components are removed.
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Shown off at a Microsoft event at Computex in Taipei on June 3, 2015, this Windows 10 Toshiba Satellite laptop is a 2-in-1, with a high-resolution 4K screen and an infrared camera that works with Windows Hello, the user authentication feature of Windows 10.
Shown off at a Microsoft event at Computex in Taipei on June 3, 2015, this Windows 10 Dell XPS 15 has a carbon fiber finish and a 15-inch thin-bezel InfinityEdge display.
Shown off at a Microsoft event at Computex in Taipei on June 3, 2015, this Windows 10 hybrid 9-inch tablet from HP can attach to and detach from a full-size keyboard, which sits in its own case.
Shown off at a Microsoft event at Computex in Taipei on June 3, 2015, this Windows 10 11.6-inch, 2-in-1 notebook from HP's x2 series has a magnetic hinge design, Bang & Olufsen speakers and a red anodized finish.
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When writing a script, you don't always get it right the first time. That was a worthwhile lesson that our engineering team recently learned. Every month when Microsoft releases security updates, our engineering team must automate their installation. Generally, this is a simple task of running the patch executable with switches for silent remote deployment through HP's ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Package (RDP), our deployment standard for Windows 2000 servers. However, there are times when a security update isn't a simple install. For example, that was the case with the security update commonly known as the graphics device interface (GDI) update associated with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 "Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution" (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-028.mspx). The GDI security update affected various versions and editions of Windows and its components, including the Windows .NET Framework 1.1 and Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
In the side-by-side execution model, Framework 1.1 and 1.0 coexist on a system, which lets developers use either or both versions in their applications. However, in most cases, it's simpler to upgrade to version 1.1 and not support side-by-side execution, provided the applications compiled for version 1.0 continue to function as expected. (In most cases, applications compiled for version 1.0 will continue to work properly on version 1.1. For more information about the versions, see "Versioning, Compatibility, and Side-by-Side Execution in the .NET Framework," http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/technologyinfo/versioncomparison/default.aspx.)
Because the GDI security update affected both Framework versions and we support side-by-side execution, it was essential for us to detect each server's Framework version and service pack level to ensure that the correct update would be applied. Moreover, because the Framework is an optional install in our Windows 2000 build, we also had to ensure that servers with no Framework installed didn't receive a GDI update. Thus, we decided to create a script that queries a server for its installed products and identifies the installed Framework versions and service pack levels if found. Although it took a few attempts to get it right, the result was worth it.
The First Attempt
There are multiple ways to confirm that a product is installed on a system. For example, you can read the registry, read an .ini file, or look for a specific file. Because both Framework versions were installed with Windows Installer (i.e., .msi packages) we found it easiest to use Windows Management Instrumentation's (WMI's) Win32_Product class and its properties. Using WMI's ExecQuery method to query the Win32_Product class returns instances of the Win32_Product class that represents products installed with Windows Installer. We then enumerated and compared the names of the products installed on a system with the display names of Framework 1.1 and Framework 1.0.
As Listing 1 shows, the script begins by declaring the computer name on which the script is to run. The strComputer variable stores this value. Because the script is to connect to the local computer, strComputer is set to a period. Next, the script calls the GetObject method to connect to WMI's root\cimv2 namespace, which contains the Win32_Product class.
Callout A in Listing 1 shows the heart of the script. This code stores the Windows Query Language (WQL) query in the wqlQuery variable, then calls WMI's ExecQuery method to run that query. Running the query returns a collection of objects, which the code assigns to the colProducts variable. Using a For Each... Next statement, the script iterates through the collection. The Select Case statement in the For Each... Next loop compares the name of the product (exposed by the Win32_Product class's Name property) with Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft .NET Framework (English) to confirm if any or both Framework products are installed on the server.
The Second Attempt
The WQL query in callout A in Listing 1 is a general query that will return a collection of all installed .msi packages. Thus, the For Each... Next loop must iterate through the entire collection. Because we were interested in only querying for the Framework, we decided to optimize the query by modifying it to include a Where clause that limited the search to only the installed Framework products. Listing 2 shows the script with the optimized query.
We also optimized the ExecQuery method by including the wbemFlagReturnImmediately and wbemFlagForwardOnly flags, as callout A in Listing 2 shows. The wbemFlagReturnImmediately flag ensures that the WMI call doesn't wait for the query to complete before returning the result. The wbemFlagForwardOnly flag ensures that forward-only enumerators are returned. Forward-only enumerators are generally faster than bidirectional enumerators. (To learn more about the ExecQuery method and its parameters and flags, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/swbemservices_execquery.asp?frame=true.)
The Third Attempt
Easier is not always better, as we learned after running the script in Listing 2. Although it was easiest to write a script using Win32_Product class, the class took up to 20 seconds to return the results, even with the optimized query. Because we were to run this script on more than 200 servers, the long wait wasn't acceptable. As an alternative, we decided to try a different approach: check the registry to confirm whether the Framework was installed on each server. The result is the script that Listing 3 shows.
Like the scripts in Listing 1 and Listing 2, the script in Listing 3 begins by setting the strComputerName variable to the local computer, but this is where the similarity ends. The differences begin with the WMI moniker statement in the GetObject call, which callout A in Listing 3 shows. In the other two scripts, the WMI moniker included the root\cimv2 namespace. For registry management, WMI provides the StdRegProv class. All WMI versions include and register the StdRegProv class, so WMI places this class in the root\default namespace by default. Thus, you have to connect to the root\default namespace (and not the root\cimv2 namespace) to use the StdRegProv provider.
StdRegProv exposes the GetStringValue method, which you can use to read the data from a registry entry whose value is of type REG_SZ. When you use the GetStringValue method, you must include four parameters in the following order:
Key tree root. The key tree root parameter specifies the target hive in the registry. Web Table 1 shows the UInt32 values (i.e., numeric constants) that represent the hives. The default hive is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which has a value of &H80000002.
Subkey. The subkey parameter specifies the registry path (not including the hive) to the registry entry that contains the value you want to retrieve.
Entry. The entry parameter specifies the name of the entry from which you're retrieving the value.
Out variable. The GetStringValue method reads the specified entry's value into a variable. You use the out variable parameter to specify the name of that variable.
All applications that can be uninstalled create a subkey under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall key. Thus, the Uninstall key is the base key under which the script looks for one of three subkeys: Microsoft .NET Framework (English), Microsoft .NET Framework Full v1.0.3705 (1033), or \{CB2F7EDD-9D1F-43C1-90FC-4F52EAE172A1\}. Microsoft .NET Framework (English) and Microsoft .NET Framework Full v1.0.3705 (1033) both represent Framework 1.0. When I first downloaded Framework 1.0 a while back, the subkey created was named Microsoft .NET Framework (English). If you download and install Framework 1.0 now, the subkey name is Microsoft .NET Framework Full v1.0.3705 (1033). (Microsoft sometimes changes names to make them more meaningful.) The \{CB2F7EDD-9D1F-43C1-90FC-4F52EAE172A1\} subkey represents Framework 1.1.
As callout B in Listing 3 shows, the script uses a constant and two variables to provide the registry information. First, the script sets the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE constant to &H80000002. That constant is used for the GetStringValue method's key tree root parameter. Because the script is checking three subkeys under the Uninstall key, the script uses two variables—strKey and arrKeysToCheck—to specify the subkey parameter. The strKey variable holds the string SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. The arrKeysToCheck variable contains an array that includes three elements: the strings Microsoft .NET Framework (English), Microsoft .NET Framework Full v1.0.3705 (1033), and \{CB2F7EDD-9D1F-43C1-90FC-4F52EAE172A1\}.
In Listing 3, the GetStringValue method's entry parameter is DisplayName. Remember that the Win32_Product class's Name property exposes the name of the products installed by Windows Installer. In the registry, the DisplayName entry stores the Name property's value. GetStringValue's last parameter is the strDisplayName variable.
When the script runs, it iterates through the arrKeysToCheck array and calls the StdRegProv's GetStringValue method for each element in the array, as callout C in Listing 3 shows. After GetStringValue passes the DisplayName entry's value to the strDisplayName variable, the script displays the value.
On completion, the GetStringValue method returns a 0 if successful or some other value if an error occurred. Because the Framework was an optional install in our environment, there are instances in which none of the three subkeys exist in the registry. Such instances could cause the GetStringValue method to fail and throw an error, which in turn could cause the script to fail. To avoid this problem, the On Error Resume Next statement appears before calling the For Each... Next loop to ensure that the script continues to run, even if GetStringValue throws an error.
Success!
The script in Listing 3 provided our engineering team with a viable, fast solution that determined whether Framework 1.1, Framework 1.0, or both were installed on a machine. However, we also needed to determine the Framework service pack levels. So, we decided to build on Listing 3 and add code to check for service pack information.
After some investigation, we discovered that Microsoft doesn't provide a direct means to detect Framework service pack levels. However, there are indirect means. For Framework 1.1, you can check the SP registry entry under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v1.1.4322 subkey. A value of 1 means that Framework 1.1 SP1 is installed.
Checking the registry won't work for Framework 1.0. Instead, Microsoft suggests that you check the version of the mscorcfg.dll file. Web Table 2 shows the correlation between the file versions and the service pack levels.
With the service pack information in hand, we started writing the DetectFramework.vbs script that Listing 4 shows. The first part of DetectFramework.vbs should look familiar. It uses the StdRegProv class's GetStringValue method to read the DisplayName entry's value into the strDisplayName variable. However, rather than display strDisplayName's value, the script starts to go through a series of embedded If...Then...Else and Select Case statements. If the GetStringValue method returns a value of 0 (i.e., the method was successful and thus a Framework version is installed), the script proceeds to a Select Case statement that determines whether strDisplayName's value is the string Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or the string Microsoft .NET Framework (English).
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. When strDisplayName contains the string Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, the script checks the SP registry entry for the value of 1. To do so, it uses StdRegProv's GetDWORDValue method, which reads data from a registry entry whose value is of type REG_DWORD. Like GetStringValue, GetDWORDValue requires four parameters specifying the hive, the subkey name, the entry name, and the name of the variable that will store the entry's value.
After GetDWORDValue reads the SP entry's value, the Select Case statement at callout A in Listing 4 compares that value against the value of 1. When a match occurs, the script displays the message Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 found. When a match doesn't occur, the script displays the message Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 found. In other words, although Framework 1.1 was installed, SP1 wasn't.
Microsoft .NET Framework (English). When strDisplayName contains the string Microsoft .NET Framework (English), the script checks the version of the mscorcfg.dll file. The Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library's FileSystemObject object provides the GetFileVersion method, which returns the version of a given file. This method requires only one parameter: the path to the target file.
Before using GetFileVersion, though, the script checks for the file's existence. Although mscorcfg.dll must exist on the system if Framework 1.0 is installed, it's good scripting practice to check for a file's existence before attempting to get its version number. This practice ensures that the script won't stop with a File Not Found error at runtime.
To check for the mscorcfg.dll file's existence, the script uses the FileSystemObject object's FileExists method, as the code at callout B in Listing 4 shows. Like the GetFileVersion method, the FileExists method's only parameter is the path to the target file. If the file exists, the script calls the GetFileVersion method.
The Select Case statement at callout C in Listing 4 compares the version number that GetFileVersion returns with the four possible version numbers shown in Web Table 2. When a match occurs, the script displays the corresponding message that identifies the service pack level.
To confirm that DetectFramework.vbs correctly detects the installed Framework version and service pack level, we tested the script by running it on a server installed with Framework 1.0 only, a server installed with Framework 1.1 only, a server installed with both versions, and a server that didn't have Framework installed. Further, after installing the latest service pack for each Framework version, we tested the script to ensure that we received the expected results. And expected results are what we received.
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Agile Group offers Advisory, Training and Assessment services to organizations seeking higher operational effectiveness, greater flexibility and lower operating costs to gain a competitive advantage.
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Update Rings - this feature allows Administrators of the program to chose when in the validation cycle an update is received.
Anti-Exploit Techniques - a new set of powerful techniques which further enhances existing technologies to fight targeted attacks. These are integrated into the existing Advanced Threat Control module.
Web Access Control Rules - The categories list has been updated with multiple new categories added.
Exchange Protection - This can now be enabled/disabled when editing a customer with a monthly license subscription.
The above features are now in place for all current users of Bitdefender Gravityzone in the cloud and will be rolled out to Bitdefender Gravityzone on-premise users from the 27th Sep 2016.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) are urging everyone to protect themselves against the latest powerful malware attack. The NCA are working to combat the two forms of software virus called GOZeuS (also known as P2PZeuS) and CryptoLocker.
Users are infected when they click on attachments or links and with an unprotected computer, this malware is downloaded and will monitor a user’s activities. The short video below explains how this virus allows cyber criminals to access your PC, capture private information and extract cash from users.
It’s estimated that GOZeuS (also known as P2PZeuS) is responsible for the fraudulent transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds globally. There are potentially more than 15,500 infected computers in the UK.
Individuals are advised to back up all files, photos, videos - all important information. Businesses are also advised to make sure their anti-virus protection is up-to-date and to make their employees aware of this threat and the implications of downloading attachments from unknown sources.
While the NCA are working with the FBI, Europol, banking organisations, internet security and ISP sectors, their Get Safe Online campaign is providing advice and tools to help everyone understand how they can protect themselves online.
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RammSanderson Ecology Ltd was commissioned by Midbrook Buildings to prepare a site specific Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) for the proposed redevelopment of flood damaged buildings at the Riverside Garden Centre in Hertford, following the flooding of the River Lea in February 2014.
The site was found to lie within Flood Zone 3 (with a greater than 1% annual probability of flooding) of the River Lea and Bayford Brook. This site had been subject to a successful planning application for the redevelopment of the main retail structure in 2010. As a result of this the new building was constructed to a flood resistant and resilient design. This building was successfully protected during the 2014 flood event.
The Key objective of the project was to assess the risk of flooding at the site and provide details of appropriate mitigation measures.
Recommendations were made to set finished floor levels of the proposed buildings 600mm above the 1 in 100 year + climate change flood level with specific consideration for the displacement of flood waters from the site to adjacent land with recommendations for flood storage compensation.
A flood evacuation procedure was recommended detailing the requirement to sign up to a flood warning service. This will allow the successful implementation of flood resistant measures (such as shutter boards on doors) to protect the development from future damage.
Site specific recommendations for surface water management were made to prevent an increase in surface water runoff towards the adjacent watercourse. This involved the use of SuDS including permeable paving and a network of swales and infiltration strips to store, balance and control surface water runoff prior to its discharge from the site.
Due to the sites use as a garden centre, a comprehensive rainwater harvesting system was designed to collect runoff from hard surfaces and buildings for use within the site. Excess runoff was then discharged to the River Lea at a controlled rate equivalent to the pre-development brownfield runoff rate less 20% for betterment.
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If you’re looking for free antivirus software just for Windows, there are various great choices to choose from. Most major antivirus vendors deliver their free versions with their products. The free of charge version can help them collect data and improve their secureness platforms. You can also use them in multiple devices without paying nearly anything. However , you will need to know that cost-free antivirus equipment may not offer all of the features you’ll need.
Antivirus software defends your computer out of various web threats. It works by cleaning out existing malware and protecting against new ones from getting a foothold. The best totally free antivirus programs offer www.artworkinaction.com/vpn-in-usa/ real-time spyware protection. Some also combat phishing and malware-hosting websites. These features can help totally free antivirus programs outperform paid out programs.
For anyone who is in a crunch, consider installing Malwarebytes, a totally free version that focuses on viruses protection. Although it lacks features like password operations and parental regulates, it even now provides remarkable protection against harmful software. In addition, the free of charge version comes with an extension with regards to Google Chrome which offers web protection.
There are plenty of free malware options on the market, but every one has its very own set of features. Some free of charge antivirus programs only identify malware, whilst others include anti-phishing, web safety, and advertising blocking. Among the best free ant-virus programs are only limited to an individual platform, but it really is still a good idea to try more than a single product to ensure you get the ideal one for your requirements.
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The activity programme will be designed to support participants in recognizing the way they perceive risk and to apply the learning into their work with young people in their organisations.
The participants will come from various levels of understanding of what risk is so the programme will be designed to ensure that from an early stage they would have a common understanding of it. The programme will focus on the various elements that shape people’s reaction to risk i.e. legal dimension, customs, attitudes, life experience, reactions to new environments, the use of power and how abuse is defined in different cultures. The aim of the training course is to increase the quality of international projects in the Youth in Action Programme through the development of participants’ competence in risk assessment and risk management.
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The individual is an employee of a company, and should not have posted the information. The information is their corporate information, not the employee's home account. When doing recon for a pen test the information was discovered, and the company would like it removed.
The original poster tried emailing, but it bounced back so I am posting this on his behalf.
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Now install the program from the file. Daily Scan feature and report also.
Both suites had a small impact on the computer's shutdown time, slowing it down only by about six to seven seconds longer than an unprotected computer. Flaming or offending other users.
If you want to use the virus removal software, then your system must satisfy the minimum system requirements. Phishing is the technique through which you can fool other people and take out all their personal information from their own mouth and use it against them. So with this program, you will not have to worry about malware and viruses.
So, maybe you have your laptop may always be safe. The anti-phishing system helps protect you from artificial websites so you get the data of a particular person. The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. The antivirus software safeguards the devices from malware, worms, rootkits, spyware, and ransomware. Entertains you with the safest internet browsing and blocks all the phishing and spamming links.
The hackers and the data snoopers are waiting to steal your data using the internet or other ways. There's nothing gained by making things harder to find, and even savvy users will probably have to take more time than necessary to get up to speed. Though the benchmarking is generally solid, we found the interface too annoying and the installation too cumbersome to award it higher marks.
The definition files are the only files which have all the information about the viruses and in the other antivirus software, you have to download these definitions daily after time to time. Also, it includes a very simple and easy to use user interface. They can easily understand. Because the web should not be a safe place.
You can install on different versions of Windows devices which is of free of cost. The new version of this anti-malware software takes very strong action against this fooling technique.
You can use it in your personal system for protection. Pros none this sucks Cons it sucks. You can also activate it from the system tray. Now copy and paste keygen file into software directory.
Summary I have installed the trial version on my friend's computer and they seem to be pleased with it. But it won not be you depress for your decision. Firewall troubleshooting wizard allowing for a quick resolution of issues by the firewall blocking certain communication. As soon as your press the download button and download this anti-virus from there official website then after you have finished downloading and installing this software.
You can also download the definition files which are required for your system so this means that you can save some hard disk space of your Personal Computer else then the other software applications. So, if you do not save your tools. And ways to make your Internet experience safer by some online study modules.
Download ESET NOD32
What it lacks are many of the modern ancillary features that justify the higher price. It's an in-depth approach that we wish other vendors would take, because at the end of the day, it's going to be your own wits that keep you safest. This is perfect for movies and presentations, as well as games. No doubt, this antivirus software is one of the best devices.
Its collection of features, while not revolutionary, are nevertheless extremely well implemented. Operating silently in the background not disturbing me with pop-ups and irritating alerts. Thank You for Submitting a Reply,! For example, the feature will block the threats even when the threats try to attack the unplugged device.
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Iconic One Theme Powered by Wordpress. The price of this software is the same as the other antimalware software but it is much powerful antimalware scanner than any other virus scanning software. So, have including the cybersecurity training tips and ways to make your web experience safer through some online learning modules. First, from the main windows, perform a complete scan to keep information about your laptop and document. Also, this is an awesome application for the best users.
No, luck 28 kudi da mp3 you can install and use this powerful antivirus without administration rights. This amazing software has been written on the assembly language which makes it much more efficient and the most intelligent antivirus as compared to the other antivirus software.
It captures and disables all known and unknown Trojans, adware, spyware, adware, rootkits, and various web threats. You can schedule scans, too. Having a user-friendly interface. With just one you can start any process. Pros good in detecting Cons it slow pc performance.
Although you are even thinking to change your antivirus program, you must try out this. Fully protect you from viruses, malware like trojan, spyware, adware, rootkit, worm, ransomware, zero-day exploit etc. Provides you the full internet security and is also anti-phishing. You have successfully activated your product.
Thus, it works effectively and really fasts. New activation system not requiring a username or password. Improved performance while copying files with Live Grid-enabled. So, if you are considering changing your antivirus software, you need to check it out.
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With intrusion prevention strategies becoming more sophisticated day by day, Network Security has turned out to be a huge necessity. Long gone are the days when businesses managed to operate with an unprotected network.
Network Security comprises of two basic types of securities. The first relates to the security of data information i.e. to protect the information from unauthorized access. And the second is the computer security i.e. to protect data on the computer and to thwart the hackers.
Exsuntra Solutions has evolved with a vast array of Network Security Solutions that eliminates any security threat in a Network.
We need to pay attention to Internet Security for the following reasons:
To protect the private information from the outside users on the net.
To protect the information from undesirable editing, accidently or deliberately by the unauthorized users.
To protect the information from being lost and allow it to be sent to its desired destination appropriately.
To protect the message from undesirable delay in the transmission lines route so as to render it to the required destination in time, in case of emergency.
Exsuntra Solutions provides Network Security Solutions to firms ranging from small, medium, large scale and Government Establishments.
The following services are what you get when Exsuntra Network Security Solution is deployed to manage your data and IT infrastructure.
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Achieving PCI compliance in Amazon Web Services (AWS) involves determining where AWS compliance efforts intersect with your own compliance efforts. Who is responsible for documentation? And do the same concepts of network segmentation and separation apply within AWS, and if so how? These and many other questions arise when you combine PCI compliance with AWS.
To hear the answers to these and many other questions regarding PCI compliance on AWS with the VM-Series virtualized next generation firewall , please join Palo Alto Networks and Warren Rogers for a webinar on Tuesday May 3 at 10 a.m. PDT.
This is an interesting customer case study. First off, Warren Rogers chose to pursue PCI compliance not because it was a requirement, but because they wanted to improve their security posture and enhance their customer value proposition. Second, if you remove the notion of cloud and virtualization, all of the same questions, considerations and processes Warren Rogers addressed are applicable to PCI compliance on a physical network.
About Warren Rogers: Warren Rogers is a 37-year-old, privately held company that provides the leading fuel system monitoring solution in the industry. Its entire IT infrastructure is housed in AWS, and the Warren Rogers All-Point Monitoring System provides the most accurate and complete information of the fueling operation including every tank and every line. Their customers include companies like QuikTrip, Wilco/Hess, CircleK and many more.
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https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/04/how-to-achieve-pci-compliance-in-aws/
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AutoArchive is on by default and runs automatically at scheduled intervals, removing older and expired items from folders. Older items are those that reach the archiving age a user specifies (the default archiving age varies by the type of Outlook item). Expired items are mail and meeting items whose content is no longer valid after a certain date, such as a mail item set to expire two months ago that still appears in a user's Inbox.
Users can specify an expiration date on items in Outlook at the time they create or send the item or at a later date. When the item expires, it is unavailable and shows in a folder list with a strike-out mark through it.
When AutoArchive runs, it can delete items or move items to an archive folder, depending on the settings you specify.
The archive file is an Outlook data file (PST file) that appears as Archive Folders in the Outlook folder list. The first time AutoArchive runs, Outlook creates the archive file automatically in the following location:
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Archive.pst
Running an archive manually does not trigger retention settings enforcement.
Retention Group Policy settings in Outlook can be configured to follow company policies, to encourage users to retain documents and items for only a fixed period of time. Retention settings implementation requires AutoArchive to be enabled, but retention settings take precedence over AutoArchive settings.
Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179124.aspx#section2
The following registry keys let's you control the retention policies. These are located under:
If retention policies are enabled you will be able to see in Auto Archive dialog box the following message. Also this message will be displayed in your folders:
RetentionInbox: Indicates the threshold (in days) at which items in the Inbox are acted upon.
RetentionMail: Indicates all mail folders, not including the Inbox.
RetentionCalendar: Dictates the maximum age (in days) for a calendar item in any folder.
RetentionOther: Holds the threshold (in days) for all other folders acted upon by AutoArchive (including the Deleted Items folder).
RetentionDelete: Determines whether the item subject to the retention policy is permanently deleted or moved to Deleted Items folder.
RetentionPath: Stores the path to the company intranet Web page pertaining to the corporate retention policy.
Note: Retention policies are applying also on PST folders. Running an archive manually does not trigger Retention Settings enforcement.
Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321907
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/outlooking/2010/02/09/retention-policies-in-outlook-how-are-these-working-along-with-auto-archiving-feature/
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Launched in November 2014, the ACORN is a collaboration between the Australian Government and all state and territory police agencies, which makes it easier for people to report cybercrime, and provides a stronger mechanism for police to manage cases and identify trends. ACORN reports are already helping to build a much-needed national intelligence database of cybercrime, which will help make Australia a harder target in the future.
Over 10,000 reports were lodged with the ACORN within the first three months, which hints at the prevalence of cybercrime in Australia. The majority of complaints relate to online scams and fraud, and online trading issues affecting those who buy and sell items over the internet.
As libraries, we can play an important role in raising awareness of cybercrime and how to report it, because our users are vulnerable. Free Wi-Fi spots are an attractive target for cybercriminals seeking to steal personal information such as passwords and banking details. Young people are prolific users of social networks where cybercriminals can bully or harass; older Australians can often be vulnerable due to a lack of experience online; and those between 25 to 40 years are the most active in the digital economy making them most likely to be affected by cybercrime. All of these groups turn to us for advice and support.
One of the most important weapons we have to combat cybercrime, is not only a computer literate public, but also a cyberliterate public. So training courses available at libraries offer a valuable service in educating internet users on how stay safe online, how to engage in the digital economy and how to report an incident when it occurs.
Innovative programs such as eSmart Libraries are already empowering communities with tools and resources to stay safe in the online world. The ACORN complements this and other educational initiatives as a user-friendly mechanism to report online crime and to learn more about the types of activities that constitute cybercrime.
The ACORN website has valuable resources available that can be distribute throughout various channels within libraries, including PowerPoint slides that can be inserted into any computer/internet training course delivered.
With increased community awareness, and stronger reporting and intelligence frameworks such as the ACORN, a rise in cybercrime can be prevented.
For more information or to download ACORN resources for your library, visit the website at www.acorn.gov.au.
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https://www.alia.org.au/ideas-campaigns-and-events-your-library/help-stamp-out-cybercrime-acorn
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When you receive documents with new tax numbers (OiB) from customers, vendors and contacts, you can update excel file you created in first step with it. You should update VAT Registration No. field in Excel file in Customer, Vendor and Contact worksheets.
After you’re finished updating data and are satisfied with it’s time to import it back to Dynamics NAV.
First, make sure that new tax number validation rules are set in Dynamics NAV. You can do this following these steps:
1. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, on the main menu, click Administration, Application Setup, General, Countries/Regions to open the Countries/Regions form.
2. Select Croatian record (code HR) and click Country/Region, VAT Reg. No. Formats to open HR – VAT Registration No. Formats form.
3. Verify that 2 lines containing 11 pounds (# symbols) exist in the table, as new tax number in Croatia is formatted in a way that it contains 11 numeric characters.
After this, you can proceed to importing data you prepared in excel file created in first step. 1. Click Application Setup-> Company Setup-> Data Migration in Administration application domain to open Migration overview form.
2. Click Functions-> Import from Excel on Migration Overview form to import data from Excel file.
3. When asked, select folder and Excel file from which to import data and click Open.
4. System will import data and notify you when it’s done.
5. To verify that something was really imported, verify that No. of Migration Record is different from zero in Migration Overview form.
6. If some errors occurred (like new tax number didn’t comply to format set earlier), you can see this by clicking Drill Down button in No. of Migration Errors field in Migration Overview form.
7. When all errors are removed (No. of Migration Errors is zero) for all lines you need to apply migration data. Select all lines, clicking Edit, Select All to select all lines in Migration Overview form
8. Click Migration, Apply Migration Data to apply migration data
9. To verify data was applied, verify that No. of Migration Record is zero in Migration Overview form 10. Also, you may open any of your customer, vendor and contact records in the system and verify that VAT Registration No. field contains the value set in excel file.
To make sure your VAT reporting will take VAT Registration numbers correctly have a look at these KB articles which describe a small modification needed to VAT Sales Book and VAT Purchase Reports to enable this.
KB article 978075: The VAT registration number in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 Service Pack 3 must be replaced with new tax number according to new tax number regulations in Croatia
KB article 978076: The VAT registration number must be replaced with a new tax number in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 Service Pack 1 with Feature Pack 1 according to new tax number regulations in Croatia
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https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2010/01/06/how-would-i-use-rim-and-style-sheet-tool-to-handle-change-of-tax-number-oib-in-croatia-part-3-of-3/
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Former federal chief information officer Tony Scott has joined law firm Squire Patton Boggs as senior data privacy and cybersecurity advisor, the firm announced Monday.
Scott -- who President Obama appointed to become the federal government’s CIO in 2015 -- said in a statement Monday that he plans on bringing his federal and industry experience to the firm to help clients deal with cyber incidents while also tracking the changing regulatory and policy landscape on cybersecurity.
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https://insidecybersecurity.com/daily-briefs/former-federal-cio-joins-law-firm-cyber-practice
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Dubbed Joanap, the botnet is believed to be part of "Hidden Cobra"—an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors' group often known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace and backed by the North Korean government.
Hidden Cobra is the same hacking group that has been allegedly associated with the WannaCry ransomware menace in 2016, the SWIFT Banking attack in 2016, as well as Sony Motion Pictures hack in 2014.
Dates back to 2009, Joanap is a remote access tool (RAT) that lands on a victim's system with the help an SMB worm called Brambul, which crawls from one computer to another by brute-forcing Windows Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing services using a list of common passwords.
Once there, Brambul downloads Joanap on the infected Windows computers, effectively opening a backdoor for its masterminds and giving them remote control of the network of infected Windows computers.
If You Want to Beat Them, Then First Join Them
Interestingly, the computers infected by Joanap botnet don’t take commands from a centralized command-and-control server; instead it relies on peer-to-peer (P2P) communications infrastructure, making every infected computer a part of its command and control system.
Even though Joanap is currently being detected by many malware protection systems, including Windows Defender, the malware's peer-to-peer (P2P) communications infrastructure still leaves large numbers of infected computers connected to the Internet.
So to identify infected hosts and take down the botnet, the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) obtained legal search warrants that allowed the agencies to join the botnet by creating and running "intentionally infected" computers mimicking its peers to collect both technical and "limited" identifying information in an attempt to map them, the DoJ said in its press release.
"While the Joanap botnet was identified years ago and can be defeated with antivirus software, we identified numerous unprotected computers that hosted the malware underlying the botnet," said U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna.
"The search warrants and court orders announced today as part of our efforts to eradicate this botnet are just one of the many tools we will use to prevent cybercriminals from using botnets to stage damaging computer intrusions."
The collected information about computers infected with the Joanap malware included IP addresses, port numbers, and connection timestamps which allowed the FBI and AFOSI to build a map of the current Joanap botnet.
The agencies are now notifying victims of the presence of Joanap on their infected computers through their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and even sending personal notifications to people who don't have a router or firewall protecting their systems.
The US Justice Department and FBI will also coordinate the notification of overseas victims of the Joanap malware by sharing the data with the government of other countries.
The efforts to disrupt the Joanap botnet began after the United States unsealed charges against a North Korean computer programmer named Park Jin Hyok in September last year for his role in masterminding the Sony Pictures and WannaCry ransomware attacks.
Joanap and Brambul were also recovered from computers of the victims of the campaigns listed in the Hyok's September indictment, suggesting that he aided the development of the Joanap botnet.
This article was published on Hack Hex website, under Security section, written by Dawood Khan. Share & leave us some comments on what you think about this topic or if you like to add something.
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Hello, After I`ve used CwShredder my winxp (just after start) reports that Windows cannnot find F:\system 32\services\msxmidi.exe. It also suggests that i can remove the regisry entry, but I can`t find that entry anyway. Is there any way I can fix that? I have deleted the msxmidi.exe file but the report still coming after I start the windows,
And one more thing CWSchreder also found this file smcfg.exe and asks me if I should delete it.
After 2 days of messing with this.. I too was getting this home page, also a"XXX" Start Menu shortcut, and overwrites to my hosts file. It was worse when it started. My dial-up connection was being redirected, a TIB Browser was installed, and probably a few more I don't remember anymore. AdAware would seemingly clean up some of this, but it would return on a reboot. XoftSpy found even more but could not permanently remove them. After downloading HijackThis and using it to search this and other forums, I've managed a clean sweep.
It involved deleteing system32.dll, mstasks1.exe, mstasks2.exe, etc. I wish now I had written it all down, but I don't have that kind of patience.
I've always kept up with my latest XP Critical Updates, InoculateIT signatures, and AdAware updates, but all of this infection installed very quickly. I LOVE HijackThis and this forum. I will be subscribing to the newsletter as soon as I get the site white listed on Tuesday. I found the site by googling the 213.159.117.134 ip address. Amazing! Back to top
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How to work best with law enforcement.
Prior to joining the Toronto Police Service, Bagnall spent 20 years working in the IT industry, primarily within financial services. During that time, he spent more than 12 years working in Bermuda as a senior network analyst for the Bank of Butterfield, then became an IT manager for Flag Telecom. From there, Bagnall was named senior vice president of IT for Capital G Bank (Now Clarien Bank) before returning to Canada in 2005. He has been a member of the Toronto Police Service since April 2006 and has worked in primary response, community response, criminal investigations and divisional fraud Investigations. In February 2015, Bagnall joined the computer cybercrime section of intelligence services, where he is a cybercrime investigator.
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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Peter Lemme has been a leader in avionics engineering for 35 years. He offers independent consulting services largely focused on avionics and L, Ku, and Ka band satellite communications to aircraft. Peter chairs the SAE-ITC AEEC Ku/Ka-band satcom subcommittee, developing ARINC 791 and 792 characteristics and contributes to the Network Infrastructure and Interfaces (NIS) subcommittee developing Project Paper 848, standard for Media Independent Secure Offboard Network.
Peter was Boeing avionics supervisor for 767 and 747-400 data link recording, data link reporting, and satellite communications. He was an FAA designated engineering representative (DER) for ACARS, satellite communications, DFDAU, DFDR, ACMS and printers. Peter was lead engineer for Thrust Management System (757, 767, 747-400), also supervisor for satellite communications for 777, and was manager of terminal-area projects (GLS, MLS, enhanced vision).
An instrument-rated private pilot, single engine land and sea, Peter has enjoyed perspectives from both operating and designing airplanes. Hundreds of hours of flight test analysis and thousands of hours in simulators have given him an appreciation for the many aspects that drive aviation; whether tandem complexity, policy, human, or technical; and the difficulties and challenges to achieving success.
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If your ant-virus software is supplying you with problems, make an attempt to repair that. You may have one more malware that may be blocking the antivirus from scanning your whole body. If this is the case, you should try reinstalling the antivirus security software or applying system restore to correct the problem. Whenever all else neglects, you can complete an antivirus security software www.newitsystems.net/a-well-structured-data-room-for-fundraising-meetings/ fix assembly. Besides that, you must make a back up of the personal files before proceeding. Yet , this will not really solve the situation immediately.
Some other cause of antivirus errors is certainly when your plan settings usually do not match your preferences. This mistake typically shows up as a crimson or green icon. If you click the icon, some text will be viewed with a link to fix the issue. To fix this concern, you must get deeper. You may also perform a great antivirus personal unsecured modernization. If perhaps none worth mentioning steps function, you can attempt to fix the situation with a totally free antivirus plan. Otherwise, you should look at investing in a prime antivirus system.
You should avoid installing a new anti-virus application when you have a recurring problem. You may have to do a total diagnostic scan. Sometimes, you may have to restart your personal computer to comprehensive this step. If everything else fails, you can also try to eliminate your anti-virus again. Just make sure to back up your software package before circumventing it. Usually, you may drop your information. Assuming you have any other problems, you should speak to the malwares merchant.
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https://www.eucalipgroup.com/2022/08/08/factors-behind-antivirus-problems/
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The rally starts in Monaco's Casino Square on Thursday before two short night stages north to Gap. He added: "It's hard to say much more at the moment as we are in shock with what has happened".
The judge expressed hope that the panel's view of the 1986 law "can be rectified as soon as possible by a higher judicial authority or by the Congress". But right after the July ruling, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer said the outcome "provides a major victory for the protection of people's privacy rights under their own laws rather than the reach of foreign governments". Back in December 2013, Magistrate Judge James Francis in the Southern District of NY authorized a search warrant for all emails and other information belonging to the Microsoft user under investigation. "I'm disturbed by the idea that you can have an invasion of rights or privacy without ever disclosing it", he said."We learned things of which we were not aware". Most of the orders have no fixed end date. Microsoft moved to vacate the warrant for the content held overseas on 18 December 2013.
And if there is ever a lack of friends on your couch, you can tackle the arcade games solo in a quest to climb the leaderboards. Yooka-Laylee launches for Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac and Linux on 11 April, and has been confirmed for release on Nintendo Switch. Gyan Fires Ghana Into AFCON Quarterfinals
The Black Stars prepare for their second group C tie against Mali, with Frank Acheampong replacing, injured Baba Rahman . A loss will see them out of the tournament, which they are returning to after 39 years of absence. 21 January 2017
China's GDP growth falls to 26-year low
The Chinese economy finished the year with a stronger than expected performance, growing 6.8 per cent during the fourth quarter. Bremer Trust National Association Cuts Position in Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)
The current share price indicates that stock is -6.98% away from its one year high and is moving 26.41% ahead of its one year low. Cantab Capital Partners LLP purchased a new position in Exxon Mobil Corp. during the second quarter valued at about $183,000. 25 January 2017
The two mines produced a combined 8.1 million metric tons of coking coal and about 3.7 million tons of thermal coal past year . Yancoal is 13 percent owned by Asian commodity trading giant Noble Group, which is backed by China's sovereign wealth fund. Trump to Cut Business Regulations by 75%, Taxes to 15-20%
We're the only one that makes it easy to come into the country ... many other countries, they can't believe what we do. "The problem with the regulation that we have right now is you can't do anything", he said at the meeting. Trump loaded up Central Intelligence Agency event with cheering supporters, intel sources claim "We're going to start winning again, and you will be leading the charge". He added: "We have not used the real abilities that we have". Davis-Monthan AFB placed on lockdown
More updates will come once they are available", it wrote Monday. "There are unconfirmed reports of gunshot sounds". After almost being locked down for an hour, the base lifted the lockdown around 1:35 p.m. Trump reinstalls Churchill bust, gives makeover to Oval Office
Reporters also noted that a bust of former British prime minister Winston Churchill has returned to the office. He also added a bust of Teddy Roosevelt on one of the bookshelves, and swapped out some of Mr. South Mississippi tornado leaves four people dead
The university tweeted that the Hattiesburg campus is closed until further notice: "Students are being escorted from campus". Roofs were torn from homes and churches, and trees blown down when a tornado hit southern MS early on Saturday morning. Oil resumes advance as report shows USA crude stockpiles drop
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http://godekalb.com/2017/01/25/microsoft-victory-in-overseas-data-privacy-case-stands/
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I first called upon businesses to implement “Big Privacy” in 2014. At that time my main concern was that the law had not kept pace with technology; that digital innovators were free to do as they desired with the data they collected. The data collection landscape, while complex, looked nothing like it looks today.
In just the last year investment in AI exploded: rising from 25 percent to nearly 70 percent of early adopters (according to the Constellation 2018 AI Study). Big data and AI are infamously providing corporations and governments with the means to know us “better than we know ourselves.”
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https://governmentcurated.com/tech/big-privacy-the-data-privacy-compact-for-the-era-of-big-data-and-ai/
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We have just released the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Performance Benchmark SDK. You can log in and download the software from InformationSource, and get the documentation from the Microsoft Download Center as a white paper.
We're always looking for feedback and would like to hear from you. Please head to the Dynamics 365 Community to start a discussion, ask questions, and tell us what you think!
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https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2013/05/31/new-performance-benchmark-toolkit-is-live/
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“Symantec Corp. SYMC +1.04% invented commercial antivirus software to protect computers from hackers a quarter-century ago. Now the company says such tactics are doomed to failure.
Antivirus “is dead,” says Brian Dye, Symantec’s senior vice president for information security. “We don’t think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way.”
Antivirus products aim to prevent hackers from getting into a computer. But hackers often get in anyway these days.
If Symantec has an opening, it is that no security company has determined how consistently to defeat the most ambitious hackers from China, Iran and the former Soviet bloc. Hackers linked to Iran last spring breached the digital perimeters of energy companies and one of the U.S.’s five biggest banks but were caught before moving further into the systems.
Analysts say Symantec’s software runs on so many machines that it may be able provide more guidance on which hackers can be ignored and which are truly a problem.”
"Optimists these days learn English, pessimists learn Chinese, but realists learn how to operate an AK-47." .
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” .
“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” - Friedrich Hegel quotes (German Philosopher (1770-1831)" “The Fed has had very few periods of relatively good performance. For most of its history, it’s been a loose cannon on the deck, and not a source of stability.” - Milton Friedman (1999) .
"You'll pass out before you die." .
"Everybody knows that if I’m at 100 percent they have to fasten their seatbelts, like on an aeroplane." .
"To race bicycles is to drink greedily from a bottomless chalice of agony." .
Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be way, WAY harder to buy a Norwegian Black Metal album with your phone at 9:15 on a Thursday night .
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http://jimmyfromshinagawa.blogspot.com/2014/05/antivirus-is-dead.html
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How to check if your computer is infected with cycle.exe malware?
Each malware is different and causes unique problems to the system. You will notice one or several of the following symptoms if your system is infected with cycle.exe malware:
Go to the process tab and right-click on the cycle.exe and open the file location
If the file is located outside C:\Program Files, then it is likely that the system is affected with cycle.exe malware.
How to remove cycle.exe malware from system using Comodo Antivirus?
Ideally, replacing the existing cycle.exe file on your computer with a different version procured from the internet is advisable. To remove the file using Comodo's trusted and effective antivirus software, follow the steps below:
Step 4: Once the Installation is Finished, restart your PC.
Step 5: It will take some time for the Comodo Internet Security to update the antivirus.
Step 6: Proceed with a quick scan that automatically begins after the update.
Step 7: If threats are found during the scanning, you will be prompted with an alert screen.
Step 8: Comodo Antivirus will remove cycle.exe malware from your computer including all other malwares!
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https://file-intelligence.comodo.com/windows-process-virus-malware/exe/cycle
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Our solutions are designed to deliver financial value—addressing both the challenges you see and the ones you’ve yet to uncover—and we implement collaboratively and cross-functionally to create ownership and capability among your teams, because transformation shouldn’t stop when our team wraps a project.
Impact Advisors’ multi-faceted, highly skilled team will unlock the full potential of your revenue cycle, transforming your business through improved margins, enhanced patient experience, and greater satisfaction of empowered, high-performing teams.
Data-driven solutions that align supply with demand, capture efficiencies, and enable you to better source, retain and manage teams.
Combining operations, clinical, analytics, and IT expertise, we develop and implement tech-enabled optimization solutions to improve your supply chain’s financial and operational performance.
Clarifying roles and responsibilities, streamlining processes, centralizing services, and utilizing automation can drive significant cost savings (10%) and improve employee engagement without negatively impacting the support delivered or patient care.
Empower your teams with clinically-optimized, evidence-based, tech-enabled care pathways. We work with hundreds of leading hospitals, health systems, specialty care and physician groups to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, availability, and outcomes of clinical care. Our experts understand the workflows and know the EHR systems, building trust quickly among your clinical teams to accelerate results.
Leveraging the full depth and breadth of our clinical (Nursing, ED, Lab, Peri-Op, and Imaging), operations, analytics, and IT expertise, we partner with your teams to develop and implement clinically optimized, evidence-based, tech-enabled solutions that drive CMS quality and patient satisfaction scores up.
We work with clients who are just starting to move from volume to value or who are already in a value-based care arrangement and need to improve their operational and financial performance.
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Getting full value from technology investments requires doing a lot of things right. Or just one… choosing the right partner. Impact Advisors has been helping clients select, plan, implement, optimize, and scale technology for over 15 years. We push you to think beyond surviving the challenges of today to a position of strength and unparalleled performance.
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Now is the time to be bold. We have your back, helping you develop innovative and holistic strategies to compete, evolve, and grow, and we’ll demonstrate their viability and value. Next—and this is where you will find we’re different—we help you fund those strategies with targeted improvement initiatives and “hard-wire” changes with structures and systems that ensure sustainability and continuous improvement.
Informed, agile decision-making is a critical enabler for any organization, especially those on the leading edge of innovation. Our experts will help you access and leverage data, turning it into actionable insights.
The complexity of pulling together two or more organizations (or pulling them apart) cannot be understated, and that’s after the grueling process of determining it’s the right thing to do in the first place. Impact Advisors offers expertise at every stage—due diligence, planning, integrating, and operating—to help achieve your M&A objectives and deliver the value expected.
For any significant organizational change to succeed, people must understand it, adapt to it, and embrace it. Impact Advisors brings a structured approach, certified change experts, and a strong commitment to helping you cultivate these responses instinctively, for this change and those to come.
There is far more information in the survey than we can cover here in this space, so we highly recommend reading the full report. The connection between a ransomware attack and adverse effects on patient care is obviously not surprising, but the scope of impact reported by hospitals and health systems speaks volumes. The fact that more than one in five respondents said they experienced an increase in mortality rate as a result of a ransomware attack should be a wake-up call for hospitals and health systems everywhere.
We think another alarming finding from the survey is the second chart above. A single hospital typically has thousands (in some cases even tens of thousands) of medical devices in their inventory, with potentially hundreds of different categories and subcategories of equipment – each with its own target refresh cycles, mix of vendors, and patient safety considerations. Many of those devices – particularly older ones – may not have been originally designed with information security in mind. With the number of network-enabled medical devices rapidly increasing, concerns about the “nightmare scenario” of a cybercriminal hacking into a device directly connected to a patient are at an all-time high. Despite those well-founded fears, the second chart above underscores that there are still basic foundational issues that need to be resolved at many provider organizations. Put bluntly, there is only so much risk that can be mitigated from an information security perspective if a hospital or health system doesn’t know the location or age of all the medical devices it owns.
Effective management of medical devices – whether responding to FDA recalls, accurately forecasting budget needs, or protecting against rapidly evolving cyber threats – requires a comprehensive, real-time enterprise device inventory that can fuel proactive, analytics-driven processes and provide an accurate depiction of overall risk.
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https://www.impact-advisors.com/article/the-vulnerability-of-medical-devices/
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Furthermore, This application has the ability to keep away all the hackers to snatch your banking data by making duplicate sites. Also, It blocks all the ads and spam emails that can harm your personal pieces of information and data. However, You can make your PC safer and more secure by using Avast Internet Security License Key. It has the features and tools that protect you from all kinds of malware and adware. Similarly, it provides a complete firewall to your system and the data placed in it. Also, It provides its user with different features according to their working systems. If you are using it on a Windows PC it gives you protection from Viruses, ransomware, scams, and other attacks. easy to use and user-friendly software.
Avast Internet Security Activation Key works smoothly on all kinds of operating systems. It has more fast data scanning speed also you can scan your complete system in just a few minutes. It works with it best quality on the windows than any other antivirus or software working like this. As, if you’re a PC owner, the stronger your protection, the better. You can use it online and offline. In offline PCs, it can perform all the security features. When you put an external device like Flash Drive or a memory card it can automatically start the scan. After scanning the complete file or card gives a complete report of the viruses in it. Also, this software allows you to remove the virus-containing file or remove the virus from the file. Due to these features, it becomes one of the best antivirus all around the world.
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Similarly, This application has the ability that it can automatically stop the downloading of files or software which can harm your PC. Also, It provides you with all the notifications about the scanning and the virus-containing files. You can download it with all its working features easily. Moreover, You can use Avast Internet Security Keygen on your Mac easily. Your Mac is not resistant to viruses, adware, and malware. Moreover, malware isn’t even the only threat that any Mac users face. if you don’t have the right and safe security software on your Mac you can be attacked by these threats. Malicious websites and vulnerable Wi-Fi networks can also jeopardize your safety. If you are using a public wifi network it will give you complete protection from all kinds of online scams and data loss.
Also, You can use the application of this software on your Android devices for making your device safer and more secure. However, Android phones are safe from both malware and theft. So, having the best anti-malware and anti-theft protection in your pocket can save you a lot of problems like saving your money and data. After all, iOS security isn’t about unnecessary antivirus and malware protection. IOS users can use it on their devices. So, it’s about making sure iPhone and iPad users are safe every time they go online. Similarly, insecure Wi-Fi networks and identity theft can put anyone at risk.
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Makes you PC safe secure and faster than ever.
It has advanced technology working tools and features.
It can automatically detect the elements that harm your PC.
However, It has the ability that it can easily remove all the latest and hidden malware and adware.
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You can use a single purchased plan on several Windows, Mac, IOS, and Android devices.
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https://hit4pc.com/avast-internet-security-torrent/
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The picture above is the first “computer bug” found in 1945. As a piece of techno-folklore, this was a literal bug!
In the past several months since the release of the CRM 4.0, we’ve had the usual stream of customer issues come in through our support channel. No software is bug free and even with all the rigorous testing that we do, there are things that get overlooked.
CRM for Outlook is a product surface that gets a lot of end-user exposure and we hear loud and clear when our customers are hitting issues. Our support and engineering teams regularly work together to address these post-ship bugs and release hotfixes which focus on customer satisfaction with maximum impact. Though we have more fixes in the pipeline, I wanted to take a few minutes and acknowledge that we hear your pain and pass on info for fixes to common problems that exist today.
Note: The hotfix package for KB950088 is a cumulative hotfix which resolve all the issues below.
1. Outlook hangs during initialization (progress toolbar displays “Loading…” and never finishes)
This must-have fix is likely the most common perf/stability issue out there, especially on Outlook 2007. This fix resolves the issue. A current workaround exists by turning off the To Do bar.
3. Contacts with birthdays earlier than 1/1/1970 causes Outlook to crash
This was caused by an API change by one of our dependencies.
5. Cannot Promote an E-mail where the name of the attached file contains a ‘&’ symbol.
If the attachment to an e-mail contains the ‘&’ symbol, it will fail to track in CRM.
7. OWA Sent Emails Get Stuck in Outlook Draft Folder When Outlook Is Open And CRMADDIN is Enabled
When you have both Outlook and OWA open, and you have the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Microsoft Office Outlook installed, and you send an email form OWA, the email will be stopped in the Draft folder instead of being sent. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950088 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 8. Microsoft Outlook stops responding when you open, close, reply to, or forward e-mail messages in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
When you normally use Outlook client in Microsoft CRM 4,0 to answer and replying to email, it happens from time to time that the OUTLOOK process crashes, outlook is restarting. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954800
9. CRM Outlook client and/or Desktop Client hangs in presence of other Outlook add-ins
Outlook hangs and doesn’t allow any interaction when BCM or other Addins are present http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952046 (Not yet Published) 10. Phone call activity due time is changed after the activity is snoozed or dismissed.
The scheduled due time of an activity is unexpectedly changed to “12:00 AM” after you specify a snooze time or you dismiss the activity in a reminder in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956720
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https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2008/08/06/crm4-outlook-client-issues-and-fixes/
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Google introduced the MediaProjection service to the Android Framework in Android 5.0. This gave Android application developers the ability to capture screen contents and/or record system audio. Prior to android 5.0 application developers required their applications to run with root privileges or sign their applications with the device’s release keys in order to use system protected permissions to capture screen contents.
With MediaProjection, application developers no longer need a root privileges nor do they require to sign their applications with the device’s release keys. Furthermore, there are no permissions that are required to be declared in the AndroidManifest.xml in order to use the MediaProjection service.
To use the MediaProjection service, an application would simply have to request access to this system Service via an Intent. Access to this system Service is granted by displaying a SystemUI pop-up that warns the user that the requesting application would like to capture the user’s screen.
It was discovered that an attacker could overlay this SystemUI pop-up which warns the user that the contents of their screen would be captured, with an arbitrary message to trick the user into granting the attacker’s application the ability to capture the user’s screen.
Impact
This vulnerability would allow an attacker to capture the user’s screen should the user tap of the SystemUI pop-up that has been overlayed by the attacker with an arbitrary message.
The lack of specific android permissions to use this API makes it harder to determine if an application uses the MediaProjection service.
This vulnerability is particularly severe since the SystemUI pop-up is launched within the context of the attacker’s application making it possible for an attacker to detect the pop-up and draw an overlay without the user noticing.
Cause
The primary cause of this vulnerability is due to the fact that affected Android versions are unable to detect a partially obscured SystemUI pop-ups. This allows an attacker to craft an application to draw an overlay over the SystemUI pop-up which would lead to the elevation of the application’s privileges that would allow it to capture the user’s screen.
Furthermore, the SystemUI pop-up is the only access control mechanism available that prevents the abuse of the MediaProjection service. An attacker could trivially bypass this mechanism by using tapjacking this pop-up using publicly known methods to grant their applications the ability to capture the user’s screen.
Interim Workaround
This vulnerability has currently only been patched in Android 8.0. However, due to the issue of version fragmentation within the Android ecosystem there are a number of Android devices that can’t upgrade to Android 8.0 or no longer receive updates from device vendors that would still be vulnerable. According to the Android developer dashboard as of 02-Oct-17, approximately 77.5% of active android devices are still vulnerable to this particular attack[1].
However, this attack is not entirely undetectable. When an application gains access to the MediaProjection Service, it generates a Virtual Display which activates the screencast icon in the notification bar. Should users see a screencast icon in their devices notification bar, they should investigate the application/process currently running on their devices. An example of which is shown below:
Solution
This vulnerability has been addressed in Android 8.0 and Android users are advised to update to Android 8.0. Google has released a patch for older devices and as such users are recommended to update their Android devices.
Android application developers can defend against this attack by enabling the FLAG_SECURE layout parameter via the application's WindowManager. This would ensure that the content of the applications windows are treated as secure, preventing it from appearing in screenshots or from being viewed on non-secure displays.
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https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/screencapture-via-ui-overlays-in-mediaprojection/
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Vicomtech is leading the research of the network regarding identity verification using biometrics, protection against identity fraud, decentralized identities, and privacy protection. This activity was identified as a key issue for the protection of the systems by the organizations members of EGIDA and in fact it is one of the four main technical activities of the excellence network.
Choosing this set of tasks makes it possible to advance in the different aspects of identity management, both in its identification through biometric systems, and in the protection of said systems against attempts to impersonate malicious actors. It is important to note that, although biometric technologies are not new, at present their use has exploded due to their inclusion in mobile phones as a comfortable and viable alternative to traditional keys, and to the portability of sensors: face, voice, footprint, etc. It also highlights the fact that the industry standards themselves indicate that spoofing detection must be carried out in specialized and independent modules, since the evidence shows that identification algorithms are not effective in detecting spoofing attempts.
In addition to biometrics, we also analyze the storage and management of the identity repository following standards, best practices and applying new technologies, trying to return the sovereignty of personal data to its owners. To do this, systems must be created that do not require blind trust in a third party to control identities, but rather the distribution of their storage will be sought, but that leave control of the information to the user.
Finally, the privacy weaknesses that technology currently presents generating a strong impact on people’s trust, will be analyzed. On the one hand, work will be done on the anonymization of personal information, in an intelligent way and considering the context of the data. On the other hand, machine learning models applied to decision-making are acquiring a high relevance. Therefore, the network will also analyze the robustness of the resulting models against attempts to extract the personal information used during their generation. The potential discrimination that certain biases of the model can bring to the people who use them will also be taken into account.
These four objectives are perfectly aligned with the rest of the activities, and allow to rely on the results of the encryption activity, as well as to supply basic technologies that can be used for the identity management of the new distributed systems: IoT, 5G, etc. With all this, a multiplier effect is sought and to achieve a greater dissemination and impact of research in this area.
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https://egidacybersecurity.com/en/identity-and-privacy-technologies-within-the-framework-of-egida/
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Children have so much technology around them - intuitive devices, attractive gaming, online project work, omnipresent search engines, social media and videos. Teachers and parents have pressures as well as reasons of their own to have mixed reactions about embracing and fearing cyber choices. WorldReady's sessions on this topic are highly engaging, fast-paced interactive, age-appropriate modules for student age groups starting from Kindergarten till 12th Std to touch on a variety of topics, most popular being Digital Footprint, CyberCitizenship, CyberBullying, Sexting (for 15yrs+), Consent etc. Scenarios, videos, quizzes, debates, simulations, real cases from India within high paced sessions makes it a hit with Stds 5-9 who embrace the space to know more and have informed conversations with cyber and behavioural experts.
Parents and teacher sessions are packed with content on local and international research on incidents of cyber issues, real cases of handling cyber issues, diagnosis, watch-outs, remedies, solutions and tips to keep schools/homes CyberSafe. Some residential schools opt for awareness sessions on Pornography-reated awareness for parents too. This practice offers Students sessions for different age groups, parents sessions, teacher sessions, school audits, online sessions, Family safety guidebook, school guidebook.
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http://worldready.in/cybersafety/
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The threat landscape is constantly evolving, with hackers finding new and ingenious ways to attack businesses. One constant, however, is the prevalence of email as an attack vector, ever since its rise in popularity in the 1990s.
The wide usage of email has made it a ripe target for hackers, and today, 95% of all hacking attacks and data breaches involve email. Domain spoofing, in which an attacker pretends to send an email from a legitimate domain, is a tactic often used in phishing - which accounts for 80% of cyber attacks.
With email a vital form of communication not only between and within organisations, but with consumers in our digital age, we explain how you can defend your organisation against domain spoofing and the benefits you'll see from doing so.
What is DMARC?
DMARC – which stands for domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance – is an email authentication protocol that helps protect against spoofing activity.
Through DMARC, domain owners can monitor what emails are sent using their domain and receivers have a clear way of reporting illegitimate emails.
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The domain owners confirm their messages are protected by two existing authentication techniques, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). On the receiving end, emails that don't use SPF and DKIM are rejected or put in the junk or spam folders.
An organisation's DMARC record is published alongside its DNS records. These records help the organisation see who is sending emails through their domain and make it easier for internet service providers to perform a DMARC check and stop malicious messages.
Growth of DMARC
The DMARC guidelines were first published by PayPal, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! In 2012.
Security experts in the financial industry were the first to adopt DMARC more widely, and since then it has grown in popularity. A report from Valimail showed that the number of domains using DMARC rose from 125,000 in January 2017 to almost a million in January 2020.
SPF and DKIM are more siloed methods of domain authentication, which DMARC is meant to address, combining the use of these methods and adding a reporting function.
DMARC is beneficial at a small scale, improving your reputation and increasing your visibility into your email programme, but it also benefits the wider email community by setting a consistent standard that increases the overall trustworthiness of email communications.
However, DMARC is slightly limited in what it can do. It only protects against direct domain spoofing, in which someone is saying they are sending from a legitimate domain, rather than 'cousin' domain attacks that originate from domains that are, say, only one letter off from a legitimate domain.
In addition, DMARC only really offers protection against impersonation when it's combined with an enforcement policy. When purely used for visibility, it gives an organisation great insights but doesn't do anything to stop impersonators. Through enforcement, you can set policies to deal with unauthorised emails that stop them before they are even sent out.
With three billion messages per day still including a spoof of the sender's identity, DMARC is by no means a conclusive solution to email attacks, but it is still an important tool that all organisations can easily enact to protect themselves, their customers and partners, and their reputation as a trustworthy, safe business.
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https://www.itpro.com/security/phishing/359702/what-is-dmarc-and-how-can-it-improve-your-email-security
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Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI.
In an alert issued last week, the FBI warned that it had observed a significant increase in reports from companies who had received emails requesting valuable W-2 information from either spoofed or compromised email addresses.
Typically an attacker might pose as a member of the targeted company’s senior management, tricking an unwitting member of staff to send them workers’ IRS W-2 tax form data.
In some cases the initial communication may be a friendly, “Hi, are you working today?” that then leads to a fraudster requesting copies of all employees’ W-2 forms to be sent to them.
The data held on the forms holds enormous value to criminals because a single W-2 record contains an employee’s name, address, income, and Social Security Number, alongside other personal information.
The stolen information can then be used by fraudsters to file fraudulent tax returns, or sell the data on to other criminals via underground criminal websites.
Although it’s possible for individuals to be targeted, it appears that more criminals are targeting businesses where there are opportunities to steal large amounts of data.
The IRS reported last month that it received reports of over 200 companies who received such attacks during 2017, impacting hundreds of thousands of employees who had their identities compromised.
For instance, last year we described how hackers had managed to breach the tax portal of US military contractor Northrop Grumman and gained access to workers’ W-2 paperwork for the 2016 tax year.
In that case it is believed that unauthorised users were able to access the portal, run on Northrop Grumman’s behalf by Equifax, after a legitimate user’s login details were stolen.
Clearly multifactor authentication or disabling access to the portal from outside the Stealth Bomber maker’s own network might have provided a higher level of protection.
Other high profile corporations who have fallen foul of W-2 tax information breaches include Snapchat and Seagate, after staff were targeted by business email compromise scams.
Business email compromise, also sometimes known as “whaling” or “CEO fraud,” is a growing problem. Until firms educate staff about the threats, and put measures in place to reduce the chances of criminals succeeding in spiriting away the sensitive information, you can expect to hear many more reports in the future.
Use out of band authentication to verify requests for W-2 related information or wire transfer requests that are seemingly coming from executives. This may include calling the executive to obtain verbal verification, establishing a phone Personal Identification Number (PIN) to verify the executive’s identity, or sending the executive via text message a one-time code and a phone number to call in order to confirm the wire transfer request
Verify a change in payment instructions to a vendor or supplier by calling to verbally confirm the request. The phone number should not come from the electronic communication, but should instead be taken from a known contact list for that vendor
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https://securityboulevard.com/2018/02/form-w-2-data-thefts-are-rocketing-warns-fbi/
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https://publicfinanceinternational.org/subscribe/login?destination=news/2018/09/auditors-name-cybersecurity-chief-concern
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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Continuing our tradition of introducing guest speakers, here is a post by MVP and Microsoft Partner Scott Colson. Scott is the first guest speaker for 2007.
The CRM security model is a complex beast that provides a lot of granular control over who can do what with a given CRM record. I’ve recently been called on to resolve some more complex security scenarios which have really opened my eyes to two key concepts in the security model: cascading access and sharing.
Before getting into these concepts, I want to review the security basics: privilege, access, and roles.
Users can have different privileges on different record types. The ability to execute a privilege (e.g. open a record for viewing) on a given record type is referred to as having access. A user is granted access based on who owns the record and how close the user is to the owner within the CRM organizational structure. There are 5 defined access levels in Microsoft CRM:
• No Access – Simply put, the user is not granted access.
• User Access – The user is granted access to only records they own • Business Unit Access – The user is granted access to records owned by anyone in their current business unit.
• Parent Access (a.k.a. Deep Access) – The user is granted access to records owned by anyone in their business unit and to records owned by anyone in a child business unit within the organizational hierarchy • Organization Access – The user is granted access to any records owned by any user within the organization.
Access and privilege work together to define what a user can do to a given record. For example a user may be granted User Access for the create and write privileges and Business Unit Access for the read privilege, which allows the user to view records that are owned by any user in their business unit, create their own records, and edit their own records. The user would not be able to view or edit records owned by users that were not in their business unit
Roles: Making security manageable
Microsoft CRM provides security roles as a way to manage access and privilege for each record type in CRM. Roles are analogous to Windows security groups: each CRM user is assigned one or more security roles and each security role defines the access levels and privilege for each CRM entity.
When a user is assigned more than one security role, the user is authorized the least restrictive access/privilege combination from all of the assigned roles. So if a user is assigned the Sales Person security role which allows User Access for the create, read, and write privileges on a contact record and the user is also assigned the Sales Manager security role which allows Business Unit Access for the read and write privileges, then the user would have Business Unit Access for the read and write privileges since is the least restrictive combination.
Cascaded Access – If you own the “parent” you own the child
It turns out that there is a loophole to the security model that I call Cascaded Access. Cascaded Access basically means that if a user owns the “parent” record in a relationship then that user will inherit User Access to “child” records associated with the parent. It is important to note that when you receive Cascaded Access to a record, you have no more privilege than you would if you owned the record. This is best explained by example.
Assume a CRM organization with two peer business units. Each business unit represents a sales division within the organization. Company policy is that all sales representatives are granted Organizational Access for the read, append, and append-to privileges and Business Unit Access for create and write privileges on account and contact records. Additionally, sales representatives are granted Business Unit Access on the read, append, and append-to privileges and User Access on the write and create privileges for opportunity records. All users in the organization are granted User Access for the create, read, write, and delete privilege on activities.
In this organization, Gail works in the business unit 1 and Jim works in business unit 2. Given the security setup, you would expect Jim to be able to see Gail’s account and contact records but not her opportunity records and you would expect Gail to see Jim’s account and contact records but not his opportunity records. You would also expect that they cannot see each other’s activities. You would be correct.
However, here is the loophole. If Jim is working on an opportunity associated to an account that Gail owns, then Gail will be granted User Access to the opportunity record, even though it is owned by a user from a different business unit (which appears to violate the security role setup.) My first thought when I saw this behavior was that it was a bug. But on further thought, I realized it makes a lot of sense. After all, if I were Gail, and Jim was working on an opportunity for my account, I would certainly want to know about it and track it.
Cascaded security appears to apply to all user-owned record types; however, I have only verified it on accounts, contacts, opportunities, incidents and activities. In my tests, the cascading worked down three levels (i.e., I could see activities related to opportunities related to contacts related to my account) but it may have worked even deeper in the record hierarchy. One thing to note with regard to activities is that cascading only applies to activities that are actually regarding a record. Access does not cascade based on recipients.
Sharing and Teams– Granting access across the organization
If you look at the way the access levels are setup (user, business unit, parent, organization) you see that the pattern is up and down the CRM org chart. Sharing gives you a way to grant privilege across the org chart. Teams give you a way to define groups of people from anywhere on the org chart.
Going back to my earlier example, let’s add a few more players. Kevin and Janice work with Gail in business unit 1. They both have a lot of experience with projects involving CRM integration and therefore, get brought in on certain opportunities to assist other sales reps. In order to give the access to the opportunity records they have both been added to the CRM Integration Specialist Team.
Jim is working on an opportunity that involves a significant integration and he needs some help. In order to get help, he sends an email off to Kevin and then goes into CRM and shares his opportunity record out to the CRM Integration Specialist Team.
Jim shares the record by selecting it and then going to the Actions menu and selecting Sharing. This opens a window that allows Jim to select the team and define the privileges he wants to assign to the team. (Note that he cannot share access that he doesn’t have, so in this case he could not actually share access to the delete privilege.) Jim grants the team access to the read and write privileges on his opportunity record.
Once this is done, Kevin (and Janice) can open the opportunity record and modify it. Additionally, because of Cascading Access, he can also view all of the activities related to the opportunity that he could not have viewed previously. However, Cascading Access through sharing is more restrictive than regular Cascaded Access. Since Jim only shared access to read and write privileges on the opportunity, Kevin only has Cascaded Access to the read and write privileges on the related activities.
In addition to a scenario involving teams, sharing also gives users a way to temporarily turn over a record management to another user. Rather than assigning all of my accounts to another user when I go on vacation, I can just share them out and only give the level of access needed.
BTW sharing is also used by the CRM system to during record assignment to grant previous record owners access to the record. When you assign a record that you own to another user, the record is automatically shared back to you with all 6 privileges. This gives you the opportunity to reclaim ownership of the record (at least until the new user removes your sharing rights.)
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https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2007/01/17/cascaded-security-privileges-and-sharing/
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There's an app for that" has become the mantra of users, developers and IT alike. The explosion of applications is clear - just look at the icons populating phones, tablets and computers everywhere. With all that code comes new risks - unprotected web applications that communicate with mobile apps, unencrypted login information flying around Wi-fi hotspots, and consumer applications and games that try to gain access to corporate contact lists, data and settings.
This SlashGuide will discuss the evolution of malware attack surface from endpoint to server to app, what to look for when sourcing or developing code, and what tests you should be performing now to keep enterprise data safe and malicious code out of your shop.
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https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/whitepapers/assuring-application-security-deploying-code-that-keeps-data-safe-w-1620
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This paper describes the details and results of a benchmark testing effort around the multi-tenancy and xRM capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, the virtualization features of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, and the enterprise capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 running on IBM System xSeries hardware with intelligent quad-core Intel Xeon processers and Intel SSDs. Results demonstrate a solution that can scale to support a complex enterprise solution ecosystem with multiple applications and 20,000 concurrent users, achieving discrete atomic response times of less than one second.
The CRM E2 team especially recognizes the efforts of Brian Bakke, Grant Geiszler, Nitasha Chopra (Intel), Peter Scharlock, Matt Valentine, and Mark Matusiefsky (Intel), as well as the broader CRM Product Development team, for contributing to and reviewing this paper to help ensure its completeness and accuracy. If you have any comments about the document or suggestions about how we might improve it, please forward them to the CRM Enterprise Content Feedback alias ([email protected] ).
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https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2010/06/30/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-xrm-application-scalability-study/
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Click on “Start” menu, tap on “Power” icon and hit “Restart” button while pressing Shift key.
Choose “Troubleshoot” option from the screen and then tap on “Advanced options”.
Select “Startup Settings” and then press Restart button.
Click on “Start” and select “Restart” option.
Continuously pressing “F8” key when the Windows System starts booting.
In your system screen, you will see “Advanced Boot Options”.
Press “Alt + Ctrl + Del” keys simultaneously on your keyboard to open “Task Manager”.
Choose “Task Manager” option from the appeared screen and click on “Processes” tab.
Select malicious processes of VirusEncoder Ransomware and tap on “End Process” button.
Clear Away VirusEncoder Ransomware From Mozilla:49.0.1
Launch Mozilla Firefox. Tap on gear icon to open browser menu.
Select “Add-ons” and click on “Extensions” or “Appearance” panel.
Select VirusEncoder Ransomware add-on and tap on “Remove” button.
Removal of VirusEncoder Ransomware From IE 8:8.00.6001.17184
Open IE and press “Alt + T” button to open the “Tools” menu.
Choose Manage Add-ons option and tap on “Toolbars and Extensions” tab.
Here, you can find VirusEncoder Ransomware related malicious add-ons.
After selecting unwanted extensions, click on “Disable” button.
Select Help option and click on “Troubleshooting Information”.
From top of the page, click on “Refresh Firefox”.
Hit on “Refresh Firefox” button in the appeared dialog box.
VirusEncoder Ransomware will be eliminated In Simple Steps from your Mozilla:49.0.1 after successful resetting.
Click on Advanced Tab and hit the Reset button.
Check mark the “Delete Personal Settings” option and tap on “Reset”.
Then after, click on “Close” button and restart your IE 8:8.00.6001.17184.
Hence, you will find the permanent Removal of VirusEncoder Ransomware after resetting the browser.
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https://www.delete-spyware.com/delete-virusencoder-ransomware-from-windows-10
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AVG antivirus is a modern, simple interface that is user-friendly. When it is launched, it displays an overview of your device’s security status. It displays clear messages that inform you if the program’s virus definitions are kept up to date and if the security package is in active. AVG scans external storage for malware and other threats. It also performs a performance tuning that speeds up your system by clearing junk files and extending the battery’s life.
AVG’s premium packages offer more robust features to provide a better security experience. For instance, the premium plan provides anti-ransomware security to keep your files and data safe from hackers who attempt to extort money by hijacking your device. Furthermore, AVG Ultimate includes web and email protection to guard against spam and phishing attacks. A file shredder is included as is a more secure banking and webcam security.
AVG users can take advantage of a range of free features, including a photo vault which stores images in an encoded format, as well as a cleaner to optimize Android devices through the deletion junk files. A majority of the other features of AVG are available only to paid subscribers. It has an identity protection feature that detects leaks https://winfieldparker.com/ of passwords and the capability to remotely locate lost phones and more sophisticated antitheft devices like a camera trap which secretly captures a photo of anyone attempting to steal the device.
AVG’s powerful security against malware is confirmed by a solid record in AV-Test’s monthly tests. This includes a flawless score in the test that was conducted between March and April this year.
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https://sedaptv.com/avg-antivirus-review-2/
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General Dynamics is seeking a professional and highly motived candidate for a Cybersecurity Engineer position which will support cybersecurity related requirements for a Navy Command and Control (C2) system. This position requires a high level of technical understanding along with the ability to guide and perform Authorization/Certification and Accreditations (A&A/C&A) through enforcement of standards assessments authorization, and certification criteria. Qualified candidates should possess knowledge and experienced in the following:
1. Configure systems following Department of Defense (DoD) A&A and C&A guidance and perform assessments which evaluate compliance with established cyber security policies and regulations.
2. Assist with conducting Security Testing & Evaluation (ST&E) for enclave and system accreditations while providing corrective actions to resolve or mitigate identified risk.
3. Advise the customer through the RMF process to assist with development, modification, and review while providing artifacts for accreditation and/or re-accreditation.
4. Have the ability to work independently on multiple accreditation packages for programs connected to specific NIWCPacific customers.
5. Provide engineering guidance based on DoD and Industry Security Best Practices, security requirements and cyber security trends and solutions; focused towards risk assessments and mitigations.
6. Provide system engineering, integration, and life-cycle support for a variety of Navy Research and Development systems.
7. Have the flexibility to understand and adapt to evolving cybersecurity inspection criteria.
8. Ensures the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications through technical enforcement of organizational security policies using ACAS and HBSS ePolicy Orchestrator.
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GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
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https://www.gdit.com/careers/job/7d3d8f48c/cyber-security-analyst-senior/
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Over a hundred leaked company credentials from third-party breaches (LinkedIn, MySpace, Dropbox, etc) where your employees have reused their company email and password on a third-party site (an admin used their company credentials to log into Domino’s to order pizza for the company happy hour).
These are real and surprisingly common examples.
Cybersecurity breaches for large corporations affecting millions of users like Target or Equifax get all the media attention. But new research from RSM and a review of cybersecurity insurance data shows that 96% of cybersecurity insurance incidents filed with insurance companies currently are for small and mid-sized companies.
Because cybersecurity attacks are increasingly automated, it is easier and easier for hackers to go after thousands of companies at the same time at no extra cost or effort for them. In sales, there is a motto that it costs the same effort to sell a $100k deal as to sell a $10k contract (so why bother with the small contract?). For hackers, the opposite is true. The cost per hack of an SMB company is minimal and the number of SMB cyber events is growing by 10% year over year.
It costs the same to hack a million accounts at one time, and once in, there is usually less security to get at critical data. By contrast, many very large corporations are regulated with better rules about consumer and private data management. The effort to hack a very large company is manual and thus costly. Large companies, even if breached, have layers and layers of firewalls protecting and segmenting important data, so the payoff is can be limited.
Cyber Insurance Stats
Cyber event types and costs are increasingly deviating for large versus small companies. For large companies, it is less about stealing IP and often more about stealing consumer data. For SMB companies, it can be about IP and legal payoffs, or a data breach.
The data is showing a divergence in the types of attacks in the same industry by size of target. In other words, cyber insurance filings are showing that the type of attacks in one industry on the very large companies, will show very different types of attacks on the smaller companies in that industry. Leading-edge SMB tech companies with unique data or IP will be more heavily targeted than older, large companies in the same industry.
And the data shows that the majority of large companies pay 25% of the costs per record than smaller companies, because larger companies tend to have made larger security investments upfront with better security preparation, so the relative cost hit is less than for a small company that may lose all its data or IP. The equivalent incident in an SMB is 4X the cost on average than the same kind of incident in a large company.
Overall, though, total incident costs have been dropping for a few years. Many cyber experts believe that we are in a calm before the storm, where the current hacking techniques are known, and more companies are implementing some sort of security procedures, so it is better than it was a few years ago. The expectation, though, is that it will get worse again, and most likely focus on attacking privacy.
SaaS companies need to be super vigilant about cybersecurity and customer, prospect, and marketing data. Cyber vigilance is critical for two key business reasons:
1) SaaS companies are under increasing pressure from customers to show that the vendor is complying with all possible security and privacy regulations. Customers want proof that their data is secure, not just in your system, but in any third-party systems that touch your data:
Think about all the SaaS services that you use: cloud-based customer engagement analytics, your cloud-based security app that tracks customer IP addresses, your CRM provider, your marketing provider with access to all your customer names and emails, etc.
2) Acquisition due diligence. For companies preparing for an exit, it is always better to be prepared for anything that potential acquirers or investors might throw at you. Acquirers want to know:
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As SVP of Research and Strategy at The Online Publishers Association (now Digital Content Next) and as the President and Founder of Powers Media and Entertainment Consulting, she specialized in benchmarking and corporate development for digital publishers. Prior leadership positions involving digital business development and start-ups include being SVP, Corporate Development at United Media (Scripps Howard), and VP, Information Services at Fairchild Publications (CapCities/ABC – Disney). Eleanor has served on the board of Rainbow Broadband, a start-up internet broadband access company for B and C class buildings in NYC, and Endurance Business Media, a real estate franchise publishing company.
James oversees Accounting, Planning, Treasury, Human Resources, and Information Technology functions at Maxwell Health. He is excited to have a hand in helping evolve Maxwell Health’s positive, mission-driven culture.
Prior to Maxwell, James was the Chief Financial Officer at Evariant, where he helped build the Accounting and Finance functions and scale the business through multiple rounds of funding. Before Evariant, James held Finance roles at American Tower, Kaz, and Decision Resources Group.
Greg is responsible for overseeing Pepperjam’s finance and accounting operations. Prior to joining Pepperjam in 2017 Greg served as IBM’s Security SaaS CFO and additionally was responsible for rebuilding IBM’s global SaaS financial management and planning processes.
Greg joined IBM in 2013 via the acquisition of Fiberlink, a leading SaaS Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform, where he was a member of the leadership team who launched and scaled the EMM platform prior to its sale to IBM. Prior to Fiberlink Greg held financial leadership positions at CIGNA and State Farm Insurance.
Sherri is a seasoned finance and operations professional with deep experience in the operations and financial structures of emerging growth companies. Sherri began her career on Wall Street with Salomon Brothers and then became an equity research analyst with Adams, Harkness & Hill, a Boston based investment bank where she covered information technology services companies. After leaving the capital markets, Sherri became a Managing Director at Internet Capital Group (ICG), an Internet venture capital organization with 80 business-to-business e-commerce companies in its portfolio.
Sherri has spent the last 15 years working with start-ups in the information services and consumer goods markets in a variety of financial and operational roles. Most recently, she was the CFO of JOOS, LLC where she helped to build JOOS into the largest fresh-pressed, organic fruit and vegetable juice provider in New England. She joined OPEXEngine to be a part of a rapidly growing high tech Company that has an impact on how financial professionals make day to day operating decisions.
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In his various leadership roles, he has driven financial operational and business strategy, scaled organizational infrastructure, raised outside capital and arranged financing, implemented financial reporting, customer care and KPI driven process improvement, accelerated product innovation, and expanded operations into global markets. His industry expertise includes technology, media, financial services, and consulting.
Lauren Kelley is the founder of OPEXEngine. After 25 years in fast growth high tech companies, she founded OPEXEngine to solve the problem that high tech companies lack good quality benchmarks from a neutral provider — especially operational benchmarks — to reduce risk and improve efficiency and growth. Lauren is also a big believer that data and benchmarks level the playing field in decision-making, reducing all sorts of biases that can cloud management decision-making, affecting efficient growth.
Prior to OPEXEngine, Lauren led WW revenue and operations for internet and ecommerce pioneer, ATG, as SVP of WW Sales and Strategic Development, from start-up through ATG’s IPO (with one of the highest market valuations in the industry). ATG was later acquired by Oracle. Before ATG, Lauren managed part of Borland Software’s European business from Paris, France; and helped build Compaq’s East European business from Munich, Germany.
Lauren has a BA from Tufts University and M.I.A. in political economy from Columbia University. Lauren’s professional career started as an international economist in the Office of Computers in the US Department of Commerce, where she represented the US supercomputer industry in trade negotiations in Japan and Europe. Lauren’s entrepreneurial career started in elementary school when she created tie dyed wastebaskets and enlisted her friends to help her sell them by calling numbers in the phone book with similar phone prefixes – an early, manual version of direct marketing.
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https://www.opexengine.com/saas-cybersecurity-due-diligence/
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CASCAde (Confidentiality-Preserving Security Assurance) is an ambitious project to establish the capacity to certify complex data structures and system topologies, such that their security properties can be proven in zero-knowledge. It involves a team of cryptography, system security and usable security researchers.
As part of CASCAde, the group is seeking a researcher either with PhD awarded or a PhD thesis about to be submitted to investigate novel digital signatures on graph data structures and the certification of system topologies for subsequent proofs of knowledge.
The post is available fixed term for 3 years and is full time.
Click here for further details
For informal enquiries, please email [email protected]
The University holds a silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality, and the University holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to support the career development of our researchers. We are also a member of the Euraxess network.
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http://jobs.acm.org/jobs/research-assistant-associate-in-security-cryptography-erc-starting-grant-confidentiality-preserving-newcastle-upon-tyne-northumberland-ne1-7ru-102046348-d
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Traditionally, shops relied on legacy controls that consisted of green-screen menus, command-line restrictions, and application-level security. We didn't lose sleep over credit card fraud or disclosure of "personally identifiable" information.
We granted everyone *ALLOBJ special authority or simply left the *PUBLIC authority set at the IBM-supplied default value of *CHANGE. The operating system could secure data at an object level, but most administrators didn't see the need for complicated configurations when we could simply present a menu and limit user activities in a matter of moments.
That dynamic changed forever with the birth of OS/400's TCP/IP services.
Evolving Data Protection Needs
Brand names have changed, but utilizing network services remains simple. Users leverage powerful tools, such as FTP and ODBC, to access data and server functions without the restrictions imposed by legacy controls. While object-level security is enforced by every interface, open public authority and permissive private authority mean this potent security layer remains transparent. Ironically, many of us audit our servers for authority failure (*AUTFAIL) events without considering that we must enact authorization rules before an authority failure can occur!
While IBM is often unfairly blamed for providing backdoors to the database, the reality is that years of cutting corners are catching up with us. IBM provided an impenetrable object-level security infrastructure as well as exit points to register those exit programs to do whatever extra tasks we programmed them to do. In my opinion, there are no backdoors into the database and the only blame IBM deserves is their questionable choice of establishing *CHANGE as the public authority default—something that can easily be altered during server setup.
Powertech Takes Control
Powertech recognized the need to audit and control requests originating from the network. Leveraging the IBM-supplied exit points for tight OS integration, Powertech authored a commercial-grade exit program solution called PowerLock, providing out-of-the-box oversight of those TCP services. Enhanced and rebranded as Powertech Exit i, it remains the de facto standard others are compared to. While I encourage using object-level security as a foundation, Exit i can vastly improve the threat landscape for those who find retrofitting to be an unrealistic goal.
Those who claim object-security perfection often realize that IBM i supports only one authority setting for each user/object combination, a far cry from the number of access methodologies available today. Of even greater concern are users who can execute commands through interfaces independently of their profile's "limit capability" restriction (this arguably is a backdoor) as well as the fact that data transfers are not considered auditable events!
Layer Security Solutions for the Greatest Level of Protection
Exit i provides an integrated layer of control that augments IBM security with a rules-based analytics engine, designed specifically to audit and control users accessing the system through network services. Restrictions can be enforced for users, TCP/IP locations, and objects. Real-time notifications can alert administrators of select authorized or unauthorized transactions. Transaction history can be recorded into a tamper-proof repository that satisfies stringent audit mandates, including PCI, or escalated to an external SIEM/Syslog server leveraging the capabilities of Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i. Configuration is accomplished using either a proven green-screen interface or a new adaptive, mobile-friendly browser interface. An advanced dashboard is now included to visually monitor transaction volumes for identification of data anomalies, and you can run activity reports though the native report generator or via Powertech Compliance Monitor for iBM i.
Few investments can improve the security of this critical business server as dramatically as a robust exit program solution like Exit i. During my audit work, this remains the best way to facilitate rapid risk reduction. Without Exit i, users may be able to download or modify business data using simple desktop tools and even execute commands without permission. The 2014 State of IBM i Security study reports that an alarming 66% of servers lack even a single network exit program and only 6% have coverage for all 27 network exit points. The time has come for a fundamental shift in how we perceive Power System security. I welcome an opportunity to show you what the most trusted name in IBM i network security can do for your organization. Sign up for a free demo of Exit i today.
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https://www.helpsystems.com/resources/articles/why-network-security-650
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The diagnostics utility gathers information about the software that can not be obtained if you run it in another user context.
Login to Windows as the user experiencing the problem.
The diagnostics utility gathers information about the machine’s configuration and the user’s settings. Information regarding the machine’s Full Disk Encryption and the server cloud packets are kept in an encrypted state, which are inaccessible by anyone outside of your organization.
As of Version 3.3.0.88 and later, the following files may appear in the ZIP file:
admin_log.txt Contains information gathered via the Administrative component, locations of software files, Key-Files, active processes, driver information and disk information Always (Admin) blat_log.txt Contains information related to upgrade processes used during installation and upgrades Always current_dlploy.txt Contains logging information about cloud communications within a managed environment Managed dlpcrashdumps.txt Contains information about any components that have generated crash dumps Always eediag_log_.txt Contains information gathered whilst running in the User context, including current Key-File state and some system information Always evt_application.txt Contains recent entries in the machines Application event log Always evt_crash.txt Contains a log of all application crashes recorded in the Application event log Always evt_deslock.txt Contains recent entries in the machines Endpoint Encryption event log Always evt_power.txt Contains a log of power events, start up, shutdown and power interruptions Always evt_system.txt Contains recent entries in the System event log Always
SafeStart.txt Contains information reported by FDE Safe Start, if it was used Always
Services.txt Contains information about all currently installed Services Always sysinfo.txt Contains information that is normally sent back to an Enterprise Server Always system.nfo Contains an export from MSInfo32, a Microsoft system information tool Always (Admin) update_db.xml Contains encrypted copies of updates and responses when is used in a managed environment Managed x_dlploadr.bin Contains the FDE meta data, where x will be the drive letter the file was found on FDE Encrypted _dlploy.txt Contains logging information about cloud communications within a managed environment, one for each user profile found Managed (Admin) _esdirect.txt Contains logging information for the auto-enrollment feature in a managed environment, one for each user profile found Managed (Admin)
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https://www.1totaltech.com/support/eset-endpoint-encryption-diagnostics-utility/
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Over the last little while, there’s been nothing new on the extortion phishing scam front. In fact, I even Tweeted about the lack of action:
It's strange….. I've now gone weeks without getting a tip about some extortion phishing scam where the sender claims to have seen you watch porn. Perhaps this scam is over and done with?
I write you because I attached a trojan on the web site with porno which you have viewed.
My trojan сaрturеd аll yоur рrivаtе datа and switchеd оn your cаmеrа which reсorded thе асt of yоur sоlitary sex. Just аftеr thаt thе trojan saved your соntact list.
I will erase the cоmpromising vidеo rеcords аnd infоrmatiоn if yоu send mе 500 EURO in bitcoin.
This is аddrеss for pаyment : [Bitcoin Wallet Address Redacted]
I give yоu 30 hours аftеr yоu oреn my mеssage for making thе раymеnt.
As sооn аs you rеad the mеssagе I’ll sеe it right awаy.
It is not nеcessary tо tell me thаt you havе sent money to me. This аddress is сonnесtеd to yоu, my system will erаsеd аutomaticаlly after trаnsfеr сonfirmаtion.
It’s fortunate that their mail is full of alerts.
Personally, I use camera cover and I have noticed that in the past years, people are using more of those, it probably gives some comfort, even if you have nothing to hide.
Regular format/cleaning builds some confidence as well.
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https://itnerd.blog/2018/11/27/just-when-i-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-on-the-internet-i-get-alerted-to-a-new-extortion-phishing-scam/
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M3S is working exclusively with a large-scale IT end user in Singapore, we are looking for an experienced and talented IT Security Lead Engineer.
We are currently looking for a Security Lead Engineer who will be involved in security operation and security technology exploration. This role requires you to perform vulnerability scan (OS and Application level) with industry enterprise tools, performing security assessment of desktop software, managing vendors for security infrastructure implementation and operation, and assist with security incident investigation. You will also be required to be on standby with on-call availability including nights, weekends and holidays may be needed on ad-hoc basis or urgency basis.
This role is part of the Security Implementation and Management Services (SIMS) department which oversees the Company's first line of defence.
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https://www.morganmckinley.com/sg/job/singapore/it-security-lead-engineer/1045463
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In January, WhatsApp turned on compatibility with Face ID and Touch ID, which are Apple's biometric security features. The upgrade allows users to set a time interval from which the app would ask for authentication.
Users can choose "immediately" or postpone having to reauthenticate until after one minute, 15 minutes or an hour. It's a convenience-versus-security tradeoff feature that's common in many mobile apps. Those who frequently open WhatsApp may not want to be nagged to authenticate again.
But a Reddit user described how authentication can by bypassed if a user hasn't set the time interval to "immediately."
Circumvention
The authentication requirement can be circumvented through Apple's sharing extensions, which allow material from one application to be shared with another. For example, someone can access a web page through a mobile browser, then send a link to the content through to an email account.
"We are aware of the issue and a fix will be available shortly. In the meantime, we recommend that people set the screen lock option to 'immediately.'" —Facebook
The Reddit post describes the circumvention as this: Once the sharing extensions have been opened, a user can select the WhatsApp icon. No authentication is required when the app starts. If someone then exits to the iOS home screen and opens WhatsApp again, no authentication is required.
The post notes that if WhatsApp does ask for Touch ID or Face ID, trying the sharing extension trick a second time may work.
Low-ish Risks
The bug probably doesn't pose a huge risk as long as users keep control of their device.
But in certain scenarios, this could allow someone to read WhatsApp messages. iOS doesn't require users to set a passcode to lock the phone, so a device with no passcode would be vulnerable to this if left unattended.
Alternatively, most users do set a passcode or Face ID or Touch ID. Users can also set a time period in which reauthentication is required at a device level, although it is automatically set to "immediately" if Touch ID or Apple Pay is enabled.
If a user requires immediate authentication after a device has been locked, an attacker would have to get past that barrier first. But if no authentication on the phone itself has been enabled and the device is left unattended, this could conceivably be useful.
The bug is another gaff for Facebook that follows a string of other incidents that have brought regulatory attention, lawsuits and calls for better data stewardship.
Facebook has faced criticism for a failure to stop misleading content on its network and allowing Russian actors to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The social network has since pledged increased investments in security and human reviewers.
It also is still managing the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal - the voter-profiling firm that improperly obtained profile details for 87 million users. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering a fine of up to $5 billion against Facebook after concluding its investigation into the social network's privacy controls and sharing of personal data (see: Report: Facebook Faces Multibillion Dollar US Privacy Fine).
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/whatsapp-flaw-could-enable-ios-message-snooping-a-12039
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After the so-called WannaCry ransomware cyber attack infected over 200,000 computers over 150 countries, the specter of growing security issues in an increasingly interconnected world could help strengthen the nascent cybersecurity industry and sector-related exchange traded funds.
The recent WannaCry attack leveraged a hacking tool built by the U.S. National Security Agency, which leaked online in April.
“This is an emerging pattern in 2017,” Microsoft President Brad Smith told Reuters. “We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world.”
A cyber risk modeling firm estimated the total economic data at $4 billion, including costs associated with business interruption as companies and government agencies recover from the attack, according to a Direxion note.
The attack affected a diverse group of all sizes. For instance, auto maker Renault suspended manufacturing at some plants in Europe to prevent the spread of the virus, along with a Nissan manufacturing plant in England, hundreds of hospitals and clinics in the British National Health Service, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and FedEx Corp. The virus was found in 400 computers at a Jakarta hospital, disrupting the registration of patients and finding records.
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https://www.etftrends.com/etf-investing/increased-cyber-attacks-could-be-a-boon-for-cybersec-etfs/
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Automobile makers should prevent drivers from using their in-vehicle electronic devices to browse the Internet and send text messages while their vehicles are moving, the U.S. Department of Transportation has recommended.
Auto makers should also lock out drivers in moving cars from reading text messages, viewing photographs, displaying scrolling text, and using video apps, the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recommended in voluntary guidelines released this week.
[ Further reading: The best Android phones for every budget. ]The guidelines recommend that “that in-vehicle devices be designed so that they cannot be used by the driver to perform these inherently distracting activities while driving,” the NHTSA said in a report.
Risky manueversAn NHTSA study found that text messaging, browsing and dialing resulted in drivers taking their eyes off the road for the longest time of electronic activities the agency studied. Text messaging increased the risk of a crash or near-crash by two times and took drivers’ eyes off the road for an average of 23.3 seconds, the agency said.
Activities performed when completing a phone call—reaching for a phone, looking up a contact and dialing the number—increased the risk by three times, the agency said.
“Distracted driving is a deadly epidemic that has devastating consequences on our nation’s roadways,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
The study did not find a direct increased crash risk from the specific act of talking on a mobile phone, although the related actions created additional risk. Portable hands-free and in-vehicle hands-free mobile phone use involved additional tasks that increase risk 50 percent of the time, the agency said.
Concerned partiesThe Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group, praised the NHTSA for “recognizing the importance” of hands-free technology, but it raised concerns about the recommendation that auto makers disable in-dash electronics without also addressing handheld devices.
“Our concern is that limiting built-in systems without simultaneously addressing portable devices could result in drivers choosing not to connect their phones in order to access the functionality they want,” the alliance said in a statement. “That would be a troubling outcome, given the NHTSA finding announced today that visual-manual tasks associated with hand-held phones and other portable devices increase crash risk by three times.”
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036306/us-dot-auto-makers-should-disable-indash-electronics-when-cars-are-moving.html
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April 17, 2019 -- Indegy announced it has received patent #10,261,489 from the United States Patent & Trademark Office for software technology that detects misconfigurations and hostile attacks in industrial control networks using active querying. The patented invention is part of the Indegy Industrial Cybersecurity Suite, which provides active and passive detection of threats in industrial control system (ICS) based environments.
Industrial Control Systems use Programmable Controllers (PLC and DCS) to manage processes. Any changes to the firmware, application logic or configuration parameters of a controller, whether caused by human error or intentionally by a hostile attacker, can result in potentially life threatening physical and environmental damage. A recent investigative report published by the Wall Street Journal revealed that Russian agents have already hacked into the US electric grid.
The patented invention works in the following way:
The Indegy product requests that a controller, which controls one or more field devices in an industrial control network, report the code it is currently using.
Indegy compares the code reported by the controller with a stored baseline version of the code.
When a discrepancy between the code reported by the controller and the baseline version is detected, Indegy automatically issues a notification.
Indegy also reduces the number of devices needed to achieve 100% visibility since it eliminates the need to tap into every network switch.
Finally, Indegy works in environments that don’t have managed switches.
The Indegy Industrial Cybersecurity Suite is purpose-built to provide real-time situational awareness and visibility into ICS networks. It combines behavioral anomaly detection with policy based rules for threat detection and mitigation, and visibility into asset inventory. Industrial facilities including critical infrastructure such as utilities, water, energy, pharmaceutical and manufacturing use Indegy to automate operational oversight processes, identify human errors such as misconfigurations and failed maintenance, and protect against malware, cyber attacks and insider threats.
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https://www.automation.com/automation-news/indegy-announces-patent-for-industrial-control-network-cybersecurity-software
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United States senators are urging more regulation on cryptocurrencies in the wake of two major ransomware attacks.
Two U.S. senators on the Intelligence Committee suggested that lawmakers should take increased measures to regulate and trace cryptocurrencies over the weekend. The recommendations come after a second major ransomware attack within a month that has demanded payments in digital currencies. According to the Forbes report, Senator Roy Blunt unleashed a tirade on cryptocurrencies and the anonymity they provide on NBC News on Sunday. Financial regulators worldwide are targeting cryptocurrencies and calling for more strict regulations.
Ransomware attacks concern regulators.
Earlier, two ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and meatpacker JBS sparked widespread gas shortages and meat plant shutdowns. Colonial paid the hackers around $4.4 million in Bitcoin, and it was unclear whether JBS had paid a ransom at the time of writing. JBS reported that the attack originated from a criminal group likely based in Russia. The FBI believes a group with ties to Russia called DarkSide carried out the attack on Colonial Pipeline. Ransomware attacks have been a major concern for regulators and law enforcement agencies across countries because of the sophisticated technology used and ransom being paid in bitcoin and other privacy coins, which makes it difficult to catch the criminals.
Crypto ransomware attacks are on the rise.
Senator Roy Blunt stated that lawmakers should not allow cryptocurrencies to operate “behind the scenes,” calling them the “ransom payment of choice” for hackers. Cash remains the first choice of most criminal activities, but digital currencies with high anonymity properties are increasing in popularity for these types of incursion. Senator Mark Warner called for more transparency if a company does pay.
Referring to a cyber attack by Russian hackers who unleashed a computer virus on 18,000 government and private networks worldwide, the senator said, “What I’m really worried about is if we saw the kind of massive, across-the-system attack that took place last year, the SolarWinds attack. If that attack had been an effort to shut down our system, our economy would have come to a halt.”
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https://coinnounce.com/u-s-senators-are-calling-for-more-regulation-on-cryptocurrencies-after-ransomware-attacks/
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It will always be a must-do to avoid opening spam email messages or email accessories from unknown sources. When pc users open the document made up of the YobaCrypt Ransomware, the YobaCrypt Ransomware is normally installed in the form of an executable document around the infected pc. The YobaCrypt Ransomware uses the AES 256 encryption to make the victim’s data files inaccessible totally. Furthermore, to avoid PC security analysts from studying its contents, the YobaCrypt Ransomware itself uses a large obfuscation. The YobaCrypt Ransomware tactic is easy, and common to many encryption ransomware Trojans: the YobaCrypt Ransomware will encypher the victim’s data files to demand a ransom payment in trade for the decryption key. Unlike many other ransomware Trojans, the YobaCrypt Ransomware does not tag the files that have been encrypted by changing their name or adding an expansion to their first brands. During its strike, the YobaCrypt Ransomware goals the following document types:
.3GP, .7Z, .APK, .AVI, .BMP, .CDR, .CER, .CHM, .CONF, .CSS, .CSV, .DAT, .DB, .DBF, .DJVU, .DBX, .DOCM,DOC, .EPUB, .DOCX .FB2, .FLV, .GIF, .GZ, .ISO .IBOOKS,. JPEG, .JPG, .Essential, .MDB .MD2, .MDF, .MHT, .MOBI .MHTM, .MKV, .MOV, .MP3, .MP4, .MPG .MPEG, .PICT, .PDF, .PPS, .PKG, .PNG, .PPT .PPTX, .PPSX, .PSD, .RAR, .RTF, .SCR, .SWF, .SAV, .TIFF, .TIF, .TBL, .TORRENT, .TXT, .VSD, .WMV, .XLS, .XLSX, .XPS, .XML, .CKP, .ZIP, .JAVA, .PY, .ASM, .C, .CPP, .CS, .JS, .PHP, .DACPAC, .RBW, .RB, .MRG, .DCX, .DB3, .SQL, .SQLITE3, .SQLITE, .SQLITEDB, .PSD, .PSP, .PDB, .DXF, .DWG, .DRW, .CASB, .CCP, .CAL, .CMX, .CR2.
The YobaCrypt Ransomware communicates with its Command and Control server to get configuration instructions also to relay information about the infected computer. The YobaCrypt Ransomware provides its ransom note by means of a program windows which has the YobaCrypt Ransomware’s ransom notice. One aspect of the YobaCrypt Ransomware which has captured some attention is that the YobaCrypt Ransomware will use a screen locker component. Some pc users possess reported which the YobaCrypt Ransomware’s ransom be aware will double like a display locker, preventing pc users from accessing their machines before ransom is paid.
First of all press the ‘Power’ button at the Windows login screen. Now further press and hold ‘Shift’, on the keyboard and then tap ‘Restart’.
Make selection of ‘Troubleshoot’ → ‘Advanced options’ → ‘Startup Settings’ and then finally press ‘Restart’.
Further go back to the ‘Task Manager’ and then terminate the vicious process.
Now make right on it again and then choose ‘End Process’.
Next, go to the folder having malicious files associated with YobaCrypt Ransomware and Erase them immediately.
Procedure 4 : Repair Windows Registry
Firstly type WIN key + R key combination simultaneously on the keyboard.
Secondly, in the box type ‘regedit’ and hit ‘Enter’.
Now type the ‘CTRL + F’ and then write the YobaCrypt Ransomware in the search type field for locating the vicious executable.
In a case if one do have registry keys and values associated with the name, one should Delete them, staying carefully i.e., not deleting the legitimate keys.
Procedure 5: Delete YobaCrypt Ransomware Using YobaCrypt Ransomware Scanner
Step 1 : Scanner – Just after downloading and installing the YobaCrypt Ransomware Scanner, make selection of Scan Computer Now option for initiating the scanning procedure. This step facilitates scanning of memory, files, registry files and cookies. In order to scan the specific files, one can make selection of custom scan.
Step 2 : YobaCrypt Ransomware and associated threats found- Upon the completion of the scanning procedure, list of vicious threats including YobaCrypt Ransomware will be detected.
Step 3 : Spyware HelpDesk – It is the most comprehensive feature of YobaCrypt Ransomware Scanner which makes it more effective than several other traditional security program. Users can easily contact and make usage of the support desk 24×7 regarding any assistance associated with YobaCrypt Ransomware uninstallation. Nonetheless, it is only possible with the licensed version of the program.
Step 4 : System Guard – This system enables protection several YobaCrypt Ransomware and several other vicious threats in future. It being in-built in nature, do includes potential of blocking the infected process from being executed.
Step 5 : Network Sentry – This feature of YobaCrypt Ransomware Scanner furnishes the users with facility to acquire complete control over the entire PC and it’s respective settings. This feature prevents the system’s browser settings and DNS settings from being altered. Hence, the system stays protected from being rerouted to several vicious domain.
Step 6 : Scan Scheduler – This feature enables to preset a default time on which the system might undergo complete scan. One can make selection of any one day of the week or month regarding scheduling the scanning for. Nevertheless, it is essential to turn on the PC during the time the scanner get scheduled.
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https://www.malwares.news/simple-steps-to-delete-yobacrypt-ransomware-from-windows-xp
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There is a difference. Google is an advertising company, this *is* their core business. Apple earn their money selling devices and MS licenses.
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It's already here. They're called smartphone apps.
Actually, that is probably the holy grail for malware. If you can sneak an app past Apple's testing by delaying its activities you would open up a whole lot of phones to infections. Given the readiness of people to d/l and trust smartphone apps you could probably get away with it for quite some times I doubt many people look for suspicious behavior once your inside the walled garden; just look at what today's apps can (somewhat) openly collect. The challenge is to build one that avoids detection and bypasse
Not really. The nice/nasty thing about Apple's walled garden, depending on your point of view, is that if just one user notices and reports your malware doing something it shouldn't Apple can revoke the relevant certificates and it's game over within a matter of hours.
Since one also has to provide proof of identity and pay a subscription to get the certificates in the first place unless the author took a lot of trouble to create a false identity they could be tracked down and prosecuted.
Exactly. If the ${INSERT_SPY_ORG_HERE} wants to know what you are doing, you will only be presented with a notice that one of your apps has been updated. The government with the most influence over the companies that control the app stores wins the spy war. There are three majors. They are all multinationals based in the U.S.
When any one of these companies stops playing ball with the U.S., their IRS tax bill will come due. That's your clue to how well they are protecting your privacy.
Far older than that. It is called MS Windows and MS office and those were only the first large-scale implementations of the idea. The strategy is called "embrace and extend". Really, has this person been living under a rock?
AC? Meet download.cnet.com [cnet.com]. All the crap you could ever want, nicely bundled with more spyware than you care to imagine. If you're ever in the market for some free software, and dumb enough to use Google to find it, chances are you'll be presented with a forest of hits all directing you there.
Quality has nothing to do with it. These guys have made a business out of bundling mediocre with bad or downright malicious, and have put in a lot of effort to appear high enough on search engines to catch eyes. Malware authors don't need to produce anything useful at all.
A friend of mine worked on a customer's machine that had some uber virus in it. He told me all the tech details, but thanks to one to many Hoegaardens I forgot them. He was only able to isolate the virus by hooking up the customer's HD to a Linux box and fix it.
Long story short, he innocently contacted Cnet to tell them that software XYZ had a virus in it, ony to be told something along the lines of "yeah, we know, but we get paid to put them there, so there's nothing we can do about it."
That was his point- at least, in the talk at IP Expo; it hasn't made it so well to the article. The goal is to make effective malware harder and more expensive to write 1 threshold.
Research by Prof. Giovanni Vigna of the University of California leads him to believe that the malware of the future will come in a friendly form, be genuinely useful and may not reveal its intentions for a protracted period of time.
Some of it will even turn the American public library system into an infectious host. Adobe Digital Editions 4 [slashdot.org] scans your hard drive and sends some of the data it finds, in the clear, back to Adobe.
I bet that software pirates already have injected malware in many warez, mainly heavy graphics games. Doing so they could discreetly control a lot of powerful machines.
No, the software itself isn't infected with malware, actually. What happens is they infect the keygens or cracks. This is because most software applications are actually signed, as are installers, so they don't bother infecting that - they distribute the original installers with all the original signatures intact.
But since to use it requires running the crack executable to get the key, well, the user will just double-click it, get their machine infected, and the key to unlock the program they just installed.
And it's been happening a long time - it's why cracks and keygens are long tagged by AV apps - because while there are a few clean cracks and keygens, you can bet most you find on torrent sites and elsewhere are infected.
Well, you can chose not to play of course.
It's a real shame too. Used to be that you could buy a game and then download a clean installer without the DRM malware in it, and enter your code from the retail packaging. Now you have no choice but to accept the malware, even on a legitimate purchase. I thought this died out now that everyone's using Steam. You could buy a retail box which is just an installer that copies the bulk of the data to your hard drive (saving you a download), but in the end it was just
I've had to remove steam. Boot times are incredibly slow when it is installed. It doesn't install malware; it IS the malware.
There's a gift, which may be ongoing, but it has a nasty payload.
Never had either an STD or computer malware.
Paranoia is your friend, 'cause they ARE out to get you.
It's not that you don't take chances, but that you recognise the dangers and take a few precautions. Not "going down" on the woman you just picked up at the bar might save you a case of HIV (Magic Johnson, for example). Doesn't mean you can't have some fun together, but use condoms, for pity's sake.
Don't download "cute" crapware. Don't visit sites Firefox and its plugins warn you are attack sites. Don't blindly give away your bank account info (at least in the Corporate States of America, where you have
Except you used the word paranoid. What you are describing is being careful, Paranoid and careful are not the same thing. Paranoid is when a person responds to unjustified fears, or to justified fears in an unjustified way. To quote the definition from Websters "having or showing an unreasonable feeling that people are trying to harm you, do not like you, etc.". Note the word unreasonable. This is what sets it apart from being careful, which I presume you meant.
Just because you're paranoid . (Score:2)
Transmission rates based on infected partner's progression stage [oxfordjournals.org]
Risk based on type of sexual act [catie.ca]
It is difficult to get HIV from a woman. Not impossible, but the odds are very low.
Well, not that low, only half the odds, according to study 2.
Now getting HIV from taking it on the butt, it is much more dangerous
Yup. 0.08/0.04 (vaginal) vs 1.4 (annal receptive). About 20x more odds.
And then black woman have a much higher rate of HIV.
Technically, its "women in poorer communities". It happens that in the US black ethnic are often at the bottom of the social scale due to past racial discriminations, etc. but even there they are not alone at the bottom of the scale.
On all this counts, Magic Johnson is not exactly the best example.
There is a site, www.thebuddyforum.com that sells just such a thing. These are the obnoxious bots you see running around your favorite MMORPG, stealing your kills, farming gold, powerleveling, etc. They have to be sandboxed to hide them the anti-cheating tools, and have to run in environments without virus scanners because... they are malware themselves. (In an attempt to sandbox ones of these to get a hash to report to hackshield, my anti-virus software deleted the bot multiple times. Yes I had to *ing 1 threshold.
Reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s when millions of accounts for a german online service (T-Online) have been stolen - by 3rd party tool for that service that offered additional services including up/downing your connection (which was essential for those high, minute based rates back then. Butso it had your password, of course)
It was a PITA to convince people to stop using that tool because it was so usefull.
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Well this makes it easy then.... (Score:2)
Don't forget weatherbug, realplayer, every "coupon" program in existence, Sony rootkits, Diablo 3... I could go on.
"Malware" has come packaged with semi-useful software right since the beginning. Even the most naive of grandmas don't typically install standalone viruses deliberately.
So black hats are going to spend a bunch of resources making something useful that a lot of people are going to want...and then break their system? Reminds me of when they defrosted Dr. Evil and right after he made his demand for ONE MILLION DOLLARS his minions were telling him their legitimate businesses generated $2billion last year.
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And I mean my subject literally. This is precisely how we ended up with mitochondria and much of the junk DNA in our genome. Some foreign invader played the long game so well that it just became part of the organism.
It will be interesting to see if we get to a point where the malware is so useful, that instead of cleaning it out we just find a way to keep the good parts.
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By the Numbers
A look at what moved the private cybersecurity market in January 2023 by the numbers.
Approximately $1.1B was invested in 52 cybersecurity companies across 30 unique product categories in January 2023, up from $890.8M in December 2022.
26 companies across 16 unique product categories were acquired or had a merger event in January 2023. Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs) and Professional Services continue to be the most acquired kinds of companies.
~81% of funding went to United States-based companies with ~6.5% going Israel-based companies and 5.4% going to United Kingdom-based companies.
2023 Compared to 2022
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Buyers remain cash and resource-strapped through January and will last until at least Q2 2023.
As predicted, January 2023 was much more muted in terms of funding activity for high-dollar transactions. Expect a bit of easing up on that in February in terms of companies coming out of stealth mode.
February 2023 will be very telling for the cybersecurity industry. Most of the major public cybersecurity companies will be announcing their Q4 2022 earnings reports along with Q1 2023 forward-looking guidance and we will get a sense of just how resilient the large
Funding Events by Round Type
17 Seed round events equal to $59.9M 7 Venture round events equal to $107.0M 6 Series B round events equal to $122.9M 5 Pre-Seed round events equal to $2.2M
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Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) provides a thorough and efficient method for systematically reviewing complex systems for safety concerns. A commonly applied PHA method is the Guide-Word Style Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) approach. HAZOPs are a team effort and its results variy based on the experiences and safety culture of team members.
One common issue that often arises during HAZOP sessions is the influence of the mindset of the HAZOP team on low-probability/high-consequence scenarios. Often personnel consider low-probability/high-consequence events as not credible because they have not experienced or have not heard about a similar situation that they can relate to. This includes reliance on active safeguards and operator expertise to make the scenario very unlikely. The reasons underlying such mindset can be traced to the difficulty understanding low probability events and a sense that the status-quo is sufficient to maintain safety.
This presentation focuses on how to create a sense of vulnerability among the team prior to and during the HAZOP. From the experiences of the presenter, the sense of vulnerability directs the team to better identify low-probability/high-consequence events within their operations. Of specific concern are scenarios where the safeguard(s) or over-reliance on operators’ actions could be insufficient. Examples are provided from actual cases to illustrate the various pitfalls of improper mindset.
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https://refiningcommunity.com/presentation/importance-of-maintaining-a-sense-of-vulnerability-during-coking-hazops/
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At the RSA security conference in San Francisco Tuesday, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced a new, security-enhanced Alchemy Au1550 network processor aimed at bolstering security without bogging down servers and applications.
AMD said the Au1550 — armed to support both SSL and IPsec virtual private network (VPN) protocols with a true random number generator (RNG) — is capable of sustaining an unlimited number of VPN tunnels simultaneously, thanks to technology licensed from SafeNet.
AMD said the security features of the network processor address the needs of enterprise customers, which are designing networked environments that require security along with high performance in a low-power processor that costs less.
“We’ve taken the IP safebox from SafeNet, and moved it into the Au1550 silicon,” AMD product marketing manager Rob Oliver told TechNewsWorld. “What would have been two or more chips is now one.”
Safe and Still Speedy
AMD said the newest Alchemy family processor implements the entire VPN packet protocol in hardware, offloading the job to the CPU so that software doesn’t have to get bogged down in computations.
AMD’s Oliver, who said the Au1550 is intended primarily for the embedded market, argued that with the addition of voice and video to VPN data duties, processing requirements go up.
“You need a higher performance processor,” Oliver said. “Having that capability provides performance headroom so things like gateway products can make use of the [security] functionality.”
Aberdeen Group research director Eric Hemmendinger told TechNewsWorld that the goal of both network and compute-side hardware security products, which have yet to be widely deployed, is speed.
“The balancing act required at some point along the line is what is important to do from a performance perspective that doesn’t cost you from a flexibility perspective,” Hemmendinger said. “When you move it into the silicon, it becomes harder to change.”
Silicon Security
AMD, which also has built security enhancements into its Athlon and Opteron processors for use with a new Windows XP service pack, touted the security engine, memory controller and other features of the Au1550, which directly supports Windows .NET, Linux and VxWorks. The Au1550 — priced between US$21 and $34 for versions ranging between 333 MHz and 500 MHz — is currently sampling with production availability expected in the second quarter of this year, AMD said.
Chip king Intel also is moving more security functionality to its Pentium chips, and networking companies such as Cisco are building security into network hardware products, including routers and switches. Among the more prominent changes emerging as chipmakers tackle security is the separation of data and instruction memory, a strategy vendors hope will help address common software vulnerabilities known as buffer overflows.
Hemmendinger, who referred to smaller companies such as Fortinet that are pushing security into silicon as much as they can, said hardware security on the network side represents delivery of security features that might be more economical. On the compute side, however, Hemmendinger said the approach is still “a solution that is in search of a compelling problem.”
Wants over Needs
While AMD said the new Alchemy processor meets the needs of its customers and offers greater flexibility in speed-versus-bandwidth tradeoffs, Hemmendinger indicated that chipmaker moves in the past — such as a similar announcement from Intel at the RSA conference two years ago — have been met with resistance.
“We haven’t seen a huge uptick,” he said of hardware security. “The reason is they are all ubiquity plays.”
Hemmendinger explained that some players in the security and software space were threatened by Intel’s play and, as a result, resisted adopting the security-in-CPU strategy. In addition, the analyst said, silicon and hardware-based security solutions have missed the mark in terms of providing needed security without impacting performance.
“A lot of these products we’ve seen hoisted into the market are more what the buying community wants to do, not what the buying community needs to do,” he said.
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Authy. If you’re not using two-step authentication for online services that support it, you’re doing it wrong. And if you assume that the ugly Google Authenticator app is the only way to generate one-time security codes, well, let me tell you about Authy. Simple and well designed, Authy is “a Google Authenticator app” in that it can generate codes for services, like Evernote and Dropbox, that would normally ask you to use Google’s app. Authy is secure and fully compliant with the standards required by two-step authentication; it has a clean UI, it’s free and Universal, and it comes with a Mac utility to share codes locally over Bluetooth.
Because it’s an app that I use every day, I thought that Authy deserved a separate mention on the site; I replaced Google’s terrible Authenticator app with Authy, which provides a cleaner interface, support for multiple devices, and a Mac utility to share tokens using Bluetooth Low Energy.
Authy is a Google Authenticator app: when you’ll configure it with services that support two-factor authentication with Google Authenticator (like Dropbox and Evernote) you likely won’t see a text description saying “You can use Authy too” – you’ll just see “Use your Google Authenticator to retrieve your secure code”. If Authy is installed on your device and set up correctly, you don’t need the Google app at all.
Setting up Authy for the first time is easy. Once downloaded, you’ll be asked to go through a series of confirmation steps such as verifying your email address and phone number and scanning a QR code to add your first account. QR codes are used every time you want to add a new account, and the app comes with a built-in Camera to scan a code and authenticate you. If you lose or upgrade your phone, your email and cellphone number will be used to restore your account and previously configured external accounts.
The design of Authy is clean and it doesn’t drive you crazy. Accounts are listed in a sidebar with icons and usernames, and you can tap on them to switch to a single account view where you can view your token and copy it with a single tap through a button that doesn’t require the iOS tap & hold menu. As usual, codes expire every 20 seconds and they are tied to your token ID.
Authy is available on multiple devices: by going to Settings > Devices and allowing Multi-device, you’ll be able to access your accounts on multiple devices at once (like an iPhone or iPad) with the same set of secure tokens. Backups are encrypted with a secure key (which I keep in 1Password) and the Authy app can be given an optional passcode for extra security.
There’s a free Authy Bluetooth app available on the Mac App Store that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to use your iPhone as a token generator for your Mac: once paired, an iPhone can be locked and put away in your pocket and the Authy Mac app will be able to generate tokens from it, automatically copying them to the clipboard, ready to be pasted in, say, a website in Safari. The Mac app, which sits in the menubar, can also fetch tokens using keyboard shortcuts for individual accounts, which is handy. However, in my tests with an iPhone 5 and a mid–2011 MacBook Air, I noticed that I was often getting on-screen notifications for Bluetooth disconnections, which forces me to quit the app and only open it when needed.
My understanding is that Authy is making money as an Enterprise solution for companies who want to roll out better security on their network or platform, with an API also available to developers. For consumers like me, Authy offers a solid alternative to Google Authenticator that I’ve been using for months on my iPhone and iPad mini without issues or even a minute of downtime. With a combination of something I know (my passwords stored in 1Password) and something I have (my devices with Authy and local Mac with Bluetooth) I can enjoy the benefits of two-factor authentication without cringing every time I have to copy a token.
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President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba explained the role of the newly created Ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation led by Patrick Chinamasa.
Charamba also revealed that Mugabe chose Chinamasa because of his background in law to lead the development of laws for the ministry. He also said that Mugabe wants Chinamasa to draw experiences from authoritarian regimes such as China, Russia and North Korea which have shut down access to social media. Said Charamba:
I want to give these words from the President. He said Ministry iyoyo, one, its new, ndiyo riva redu kubata makonzo aya anoita mischief using cyber space. He (President Mugabe) is very clear because this is a new ministry; it needs law development, which is precisely why he thought of no other than a person with legal competence to handle that area. Then, of course, he also wants the new Minister to be able to draw from the experience from other countries. He specifically made reference to Russia, he made reference to China, and he made reference to the Koreans as countries who have done exceedingly well in terms of ensuring some kind order and lawfulness in that area. He then spoke about the structures to make sure that the Ministry then takes a workable form. And of course to use his (President Mugabe) words again, it’s called a protective Ministry, which means to protect the interests of the State.
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Over the past several years, businesses have increasingly adopted self-service business intelligence (BI). In its November 2016 “Self-Service BI Market – Global Forecast to 2021” report, Research and Markets forecast the global self-service BI market would double to $7.31 billion by 2021.
The benefits seem clear. Whereas traditional BI is frequently seen as slow and rigid, self-service BI promises ease of use and agility. With self-service BI, business users can get access to the data and insights they need, when they need them, without having to rely on IT, which can often be a bottleneck with traditional business intelligence. By bypassing IT, the business can better capitalize on opportunities and quickly react to problems.
Dave Mariani, founder and CEO of startup AtScale, provider of a universal semantic platform for BI on big data, believes self-service BI offers many advantages, but he also sees several unintended consequences that organizations adopting the self-service model need to address. In his years as vice president of engineering for advertiser analytics and then vice president of development, user data and analytics at Yahoo, Mariani experienced these pitfalls first-hand.
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Following are five side effects of a self-service BI strategy that you’ll want to avoid.
1. Business metrics chaos
To get value out of BI tools, business units need to feed them data. In general, this means business units stand up and manage their own data marts — subsets of data warehouses that contain data specific to a business line. Because individual business units are typically responsible for all the hardware, software, and data that comprise their data marts in a self-service BI environment, those business units will inevitably create their own definitions and metrics. That's not such a big problem if that business unit is the only user of the data, but it becomes a large problem when trying to compare reports from different business units.
"You've gone from a central model where there was tight control of the business metrics, and you've put that in the hands of the masses and it creates conflicting definitions," says Mariani.
Mariani notes that during his tenure at Yahoo, the company's business units had myriad definitions of ad impressions and visits.
"Everyone calculated them on their own," Mariani says. "It's a problem because now the business is not aligned. They're all telling different stories. That causes a lot of consternation. They don't trust the numbers anymore because people have come up with their own definitions to satisfy their own goals."The average organization cannot get anything done just relying on one business unit," adds Bruno Aziza, AtScale's chief marketing officer. "For example, sales and marketing need to work together. If they can't name the problem, they can't fix it. If you can't drive alignment, it's really hard to solve a problem." 2. Business users forced to become data engineers
Self-service BI and data marts can lead to some quick wins for business units, but as data marts grow and the data changes, business users must spend increasing amounts of time managing them. Eventually, if the data grows big enough, the business users that once sought a way to bypass IT may need to go to IT for help, and dump a gnarly mess in IT's lap.
"Basically, we're asking our business users to become data engineers," Mariani explains. "That's less efficient; it's definitely not the best way of accomplishing the goal. The business units may have some early success with standing up new visualizations or dashboards, but when the data changes, they have to fill that role that IT has been filling historically, and they're not able to do it. They then have to call in IT to bail them out, and IT is not prepared or happy to bail them out."
Some organizations have tried to address this problem by embedding business users in IT, or deploying IT pros to individual business units, where they act as brokers between the lines of business and IT.
"That was the model we had at Yahoo," Mariani says. "Each business unit had their own IT and data teams. That's where we saw the proliferation of different tools, platforms, ways of storing the data. It was too costly and created an enormous amount of complexity."
In response, Mariani says, Yahoo's analytics team created a single data service that the business units could access via their BI tools.
"The single data service created tremendous value for the business as opposed to the distributed model," he says.
3. Data security suffers
With business units owning and managing their own data marts, the overall business loses control of the security of its data. The data tends to proliferate throughout the organization. Sensitive business data may end up sitting in spreadsheets and other BI tools on laptops and other devices, and it can become impossible for the organization to keep track of where copies of the data exist. Data origination and data lineage can become highly problematic.
"A loss of control of the data means also a loss of security," Mariani says. "You've got TDEs [Transparent Data Encryption files] sitting on laptops, core data assets are now being distributed through the organization with no way to secure it." 4. Self-service doesn’t scale
Self-service BI has arisen, in part, to achieve greater agility for lines of business. It has traditionally taken IT a long time to provide the data and insights that lines of business need to capitalize on business opportunities. Self-service BI offers the promise of giving business units access to the data and insights they need, when they need them. And in many ways, it has delivered on that promise. But as soon as you need to scale your BI efforts, the challenges become apparent.
"Self-service is faster than the queue for IT," Aziza says. "But it's small thinking for big data. It works for you and it works for your business unit. But it's just a matter of time before it's not able to scale to the need you have."IT is thinking long-term and thinking about the future more than a lot of business units that are just trying to solve a problem," Mariani adds. "But the business hates that centralized model because they don't want to queue up and they don't trust that IT is going to be able to deliver them what they need in a timeframe that is acceptable. At Yahoo, it took me a month to add one new dimension to look at display ads. The business can't wait a month."
Consider an apparel retailer. It can use self-service BI to perform analysis for a single brand. That may provide useful insights quickly, but the retailer knows its customers shop across multiple properties and brands. And if each business unit is working with its own definitions and metrics, scaling analytics across multiple brands becomes a Herculean task.
Once you reach this point, IT typically needs to step in to apply order to the mess, and the agility you've gained through self-service BI often takes a severe hit.
5. License costs add up
At the end of the day, self-service BI often costs more than the centralized technology it replaced. First, there's the technology cost: Each of your business units will need to buy licenses for their preferred BI tools, and you'll lose out on the economics of scale you benefit from when buying for the entire organization. Then again, allowing business users to work with their preferred tools may be worth that cost. Beyond the technology cost, though, there's also the cost in human labor.
"It definitely costs more," Mariani says. "You can't get economies of scale if you let the business roll their own. And human labor is an issue. You basically have to distribute that knowledge. You need people out in the business to understand that whole stack to do it right. That's a tough ask, especially if it's not their primary job."
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Last week Symantec made a splash by declaring that somewhere between 1 and 5 million Android users were infected with the Android. Counterclank software, classifying it as a Trojan and declaring it malware. Almost immediately skeptics questioned the validity of Symantec's conclusions, notably competing security vendor Lookout Mobile. Lookout declared that while the 13 apps were questionable from a privacy standpoint, the Android. Counterclank API used within was aggressive adware, not malware. Yesterday Symantec retracted their original claims in a blog post, noting that while the advertising in question is aggressive, it doesn't meet the definition of "malicious".
Lookout Mobile claims Android. Counterclank is adware, not malware
Casual piracy is an unfortunate problem in the Android Market, and it looks like it's only growing with Android's popularity. According to Paid Content, popular novels like the Harry Potter and Vampire Diaries, as well as titles from Stephen King and Patricia Cornwell. Google promptly removed the books after being alerted, but not before thousands of illicit copies were downloaded. The apps were free from a publisher calling itself "UKER", and presumably hoped to make money off of advertising.
Android. Arspam is the latest malware threat, says Symantec
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A budget-friendly remote access trojan (RAT) that’s under active development is selling on underground Russian forums for about $7 for a two-month subscription, according to BlackBerry researchers today.
The backdoor Windows malware, dubbed DCRat or DarkCrystal RAT, was released in 2018, then redesigned and relaunched the following year. An individual who goes by the handles boldenis44, crystalcoder, and Кодер (Coder) developed the RAT, we’re told, and works to improve it on a daily basis.
Despite its bargain price, and being the work of a lone developer as opposed to custom malware sold by a well-funded, sophisticated crime-ring, miscreants can perform a range of nefarious acts with DCRat due to its modular architecture and plugin framework.
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Microsoft's TechEd conference is always a wellspring of IT- and developer-related news and information, and this year's show, held in New Orleans for the first time since Katrina, is no exception. On Monday, Microsoft pulled out the technological big guns and promised customers a seamless and measured migration from on premise servers to the cloud, and on their schedules. As important, Microsoft is also offering a hybrid cloud computing model, one where customers can mix and match on premise and hosted solutions. This represents a breadth of capabilities that competitors can't match.
Sound like marketing hype? Sometimes it's the simplest of examples that can drive home a point. Right in the middle of Monday afternoon, network activity at the Morial convention center slammed to stop, ruining session demonstrations and triggering curses from attendees and press alike. After being told repeatedly that "they are working on it," I gave up trying to get online and figured I would use my notes from the morning's keynote to start preparing this column. I'm so efficient.
There was just one problem. My notes weren't in a Word document stored on my laptop's hard drive, they were online. This is unusual for me, but it ended up being instructive. The problem with a pure cloud solution, even for something as simple as data storage, is connectivity. If you're online, great. If you're not, you can't get work done. As the kids would say these days, FAIL.
In any event, the network finally came back up and I was able to access my notes. (And make an offline copy, just in case.) Looking over the announcements of the day, it's striking how much is going on at this show. So let's start with the cloud, which was a central element of Microsoft president Bob Muglia's keynote address on Monday.
Cloud computing. "We are at the cusp of a major transformation in the industry called cloud computing," Muglia said. "We are focused and committed to working with partners across the industry to move you forward into the cloud." Microsoft's cloud efforts are multi-tiered, with products and offerings such as Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Microsoft Online Services (MOS, hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint and other servers), and even consumer products like Windows Live, MSN, and Xbox Live.
For businesses, Microsoft is pushing a model where there is no single cloud, but there are rather many clouds, both private and public. The idea here is that a cloud is simply a new kind of data center, and that these entities can be built to serve different needs. "Clouds will run and be built in multiple places," Muglia said. "They'll be built in your data center with private or sort of do-it-yourself clouds that you'll create. Partners in the industry will build clouds. They're creating both public as well as really dedicated clouds that are dedicated to a given customer within partners or hosting data centers. And of course Microsoft is building an Internet-scale cloud with Windows Azure."
Some of the innate benefits of cloud computing are easy to overlook. If you decide to use Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering, for example, you're not just signing up email, calendaring, and contacts management capabilities. You're also outsourcing the management of that service (which would internally be a server), and the management of the underlying OS platform on which it runs. (Microsoft uses System Center internally for this.) Microsoft handles updating each, both from security and functional perspectives, leaving you to focus on the core business of your business.
And then there's the hybrid model. In this scenario, you may need to keep some resources internal, be them email servers, applications, data, or whatever. With Microsoft's cloud offerings, you can mix and match on premise servers and hosted services and, generally speaking, do so seamlessly. This model also lets you move to the cloud at your pace, and to the level of commitment with which you are comfortable (or able, from a regulatory or compliance perspective).
There are some immature aspects of various cloud computing solutions, but these are being whittled away very aggressively. I still feel that the cloud is inevitable, and that the benefits of moving to this model will be realized by companies of all sizes.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Microsoft has gotten itself into a bit of a naming pickle with Windows Server in recent years, what with Windows Server 2008 being part of the Vista + Service Pack 2 (SP2) codebase and its newer Server 2008 R2 version being essentially a major update, and not a minor revision as its name suggests. And then there's the terribly named Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, which isn't a traditional service pack at all. In fact, depending on your needs, you might consider this a major upgrade as well.
R2 SP1 features two major functional changes over its predecessor. The first is Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, which closes the gap with VMWare by providing a way to configure virtual machine (VM) memory usage in a range. As the needs of the VM change over time, more or less memory is allocated dynamically, and automatically, within that preset range.
The second is RemoteFX, which offloads GPU and compression processing of remote desktop data to the server. The primary scenario here is thin clients, which will soon be built into computer displays and not have any onboard graphics processing. Using RemoteFX and an appropriately tricked-out server, you'll be able to display HD video, run Aero glass, use high-end graphics applications like Auto CAD, and perform other tasks that wouldn't typically be possible on a thin client. It's a pretty limited use case right now, with lots of prerequisites. But this could prove very interesting, over time, to those that wish to highly manage their environments.
Microsoft didn't talk about this in the keynote, but RemoteFX also brings a second bit of functionality around USB redirection improvements. So with this release, a wider range of devices will work, including scanners, all-in-one-printers, Windows Mobile phones, and so on.
The big news with SP1 this week was the revelation that Microsoft will deliver a public beta by the end of July. The final version is expected by the end of 2010.
Windows InTune. We discussed Windows InTune a few months back, but Microsoft's upcoming cloud-hosted management service is going to make a big splash over time, I think. The initial version is targeted at smaller businesses that haven't standardized on a centralized management solution but if I'm reading the tea leaves right, this could effectively kill in-house management in businesses of all sizes. Microsoft didn't provide much in the way of an InTune update at the show, but I was told to expect more news soon. So if you missed the chance to get in on the first wave of the public beta, sit tight.
Windows Phone. Closest to my heart, perhaps, Microsoft finally offered a glimpse at how it will position its upcoming smart phone platform, Windows Phone, with regards to business customers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the thinking here mirrors the overall strategy with Windows Phone. That is, Microsoft will initially focus on what it sees as the core needs of this market and will then rapidly work to fill the more niche needs of other customers as well. So out of the box, Windows Phone 7 will provide spectacular email, calendar, and contacts management, with support for multiple accounts (including multiple Exchange accounts), excellent email triaging capabilities, an Office hub for managing and working with on-device and SharePoint-based documents (Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and OneNote notes), and the like.
From a management perspective, Windows Phone will support the most often needed Exchange policies--things like password requirements, factory reset, and remote wipe. And it will provide some way for enterprises to distribute private applications to their employees, though this last bit is still a work in progress. (It will most likely involve distributing applications through a private area of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.)
What this means is that Windows Phone will not initially offer all of the management capabilities of Windows Mobile 6.5 when it first ships. For this and other reasons (such as international availability), Windows Mobile 6.5 will also be supported for some time to come. But Windows Phone will also evolve rapidly to add these features, I'm told.
There's so much more, but I'm out of time--they're closing the press room a mere 10 hours after I got here--so I'm off. If you're interested in more news from TechEd 2010, however, be sure to check out my ongoing coverage, which is linked over on the right.
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The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the service was used by the man behind the parliament attack.
Khalid Masood, the 52-year-old Briton who killed four people in a rampage in Westminster on Wednesday before being shot dead, reportedly used the Facebook-owned service moments before the assault.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News it was "completely unacceptable" that police and security services had not been able to crack the heavily encrypted service.
"You can't have a situation where you have terrorists talking to each other—where this terrorist sent a WhatsApp message—and it can't be accessed," she said.
Police said Saturday that they still did not know why Masood, a Muslim convert with a violent criminal past, carried out the attack and that he probably acted alone, despite a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State group.
"There should be no place for terrorists to hide," Rudd said in a separate interview with the BBC.
"We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp—and there are plenty of others like that—don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other."
She said end-to-end encryption was vital to cyber security, to ensure that business, banking and other transactions were safe—but said it must also be accessible.
"It's not incompatible. You can have a system whereby they can build it so that we can have access to it when it is absolutely necessary," she told Sky News.
Rudd said she did not yet intend to force the industry's hand with new legislation, but would meet key players on Thursday to discuss this issue, as well as the "constant battle" against extremist videos posted online.
"The best people—who understand the technology, who understand the necessary hashtags—to stop this stuff even being put up, not just taking it down, are going to be them," she told the BBC.
WhatsApp 'horrified' by attack
WhatsApp said it was working with British authorities investigating the Westminster attack, but did not specify whether it would change its policy on encrypted messaging.
"We are horrified at the attack carried out in London earlier this week and are cooperating with law enforcement as they continue their investigations," a company spokeswoman told AFP.
US authorities last year fought a legal battle with tech giant Apple to get it to unlock a smartphone used by one of the shooters in a terror attack last year in San Bernadino, California.
The FBI's own experts ended up breaking into the device.
Social media giants are also coming under pressure over extremist content being posted on their sites.
Germany this month proposed imposing fines on social networks such as Facebook if they fail to remove illegal hate speech from their sites.
Google, meanwhile, has faced a boycott by companies whose adverts appeared alongside extremist content on its internet platforms, particularly its video-sharing site YouTube.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-03-uk-whatsapp-encryption-london.html
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced awards totaling about $30 million for the development of new tools and technologies to strengthen protection of the nation’s electric grid and oil and gas infrastructure from cyber attack.
With support from the DOE, energy sector organizations in California, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington State will develop new systems, frameworks and services that advance the cause of more resilient energy delivery control systems.
Since 2010, the DOE has invested more than $100 million in cybersecurity research and development through awards and funding provided to industry, universities and national laboratories.
All of the DOE’s cybersecurity efforts align with the Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity, which was developed by the energy sector in coordination with the DOE. The roadmap outlines a strategic framework over the next decade to design, install, operate, and maintain a resilient energy delivery system capable of surviving a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions.
The eleven projects, which will combine advanced expertise in power system engineering and cybersecurity, will include testing of the new products to demonstrate their effectiveness and interoperability. Energy delivery control systems are designed and operated specifically to control the physical processes that result in the delivery of continuous and reliable power.
Final award amounts are subject to negotiation.
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https://www.power-grid.com/2013/09/23/doe-makes-30-million-in-new-cybersecurity-investments/
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Tucked in the Wall Street Journal's article predicting a smaller, cheaper iPhone is a hint that Apple's $99-per-year MobileMe cloud storage service may go free by summer 2011, which is traditionally when Apple announces new music-related products and services.
The WSJ says that Apple is "considering" eliminating MobileMe's pricing structure and turning it into a "locker" for photos, music and videos -- essentially the streaming iTunes in the cloud scenario, a rumor that's been floating around for years. Last year Apple made the "Find My iPhone" app -- which has previously been a MobileMe exclusive -- free to iOS owners, which is a sign that the company was slowly pushing toward the land of no price tags.
The WSJ sources also claim that social networking will be a big component of MobileMe overhaul. Let's hope this means Apple has been working on improvements to Ping, the company's social attempt that received the dubious honor of being NPR's Worst Idea of 2010. Giving a Ping-integrated MobileMe experience a social makeover could be a great way to introduce e-book lending to iBooks, and perhaps even a subscription-based MP3-lending service, much like Zune's Social sync.
Now's the perfect time to make MobileMe free, especially since Google's attempt at online music, appropriately named Google Music, could be coming any day now.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/219565/will_mobileme_finally_go_free.html?tk=rel_news
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Crimson RAT is a remote administration tool that our research team recommends deleting from your operating system. It was found that Crimson is actually a publicly available, free RAT that is coded in Java and is cross-platform. What does that mean? That means that anyone can employ it and exploit it. It is impossible to say how many different versions of this tool exist, but it is important to understand that malicious parties might have exploited it as well. If that happens, the remote administration tool could be used in various malicious ways that are discussed further in this report. Needless to say, our research team recommends removing Crimson RAT, and you can learn more about the process and the threat itself by reading this report. If any questions pop up in your head while reading, please share them via the comments section below and our research team will try to respond as soon as possible.
While malicious remote administration tools are not very rare – in fact, many different kinds of threats have RAT capabilities – it is not often that you hear about RATs. Some of the most infamous infections from this group include Bifrost, Blackshades, and DarkComet. Malicious RATs are capable of doing all kinds of things, which include dropping malware, removing or creating files, hijacking the mouse and keyboard, logging the information you type into login boxes, showcasing bogus security warnings, and shutting down the computer. Remote administration tools that are created to aid users are capable of downloading files, controlling the mouse, using the keyboard, and many other things, but malicious RATs take it all to the next level so that they could gain something out of the entire situation. The goals behind such RATs are very unpredictable. Some of them might want to spread malware. Others might want to steal personal data. Whatever it is, it cannot be good, which is why we recommend that all users consider deleting Crimson RAT as well.
According to our research, Crimson was first offered back in 2012. Since then, tons of different versions of this tool might have emerged. The creator of the tool informs that it is not yet fully developed and that the first complete version is expected to be available in 2018. That put aside, some version of this remote administration tool has been available since 2012, and malicious parties have been exploiting it. One version of this RAT used a file named “windows_defender.exe”. This file was placed in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft_Windows\ folder. Other versions have used files with random characters in their names, and they were placed in %APPDATA% and %ALLUSERSPROFILE% directories. This proves just how unpredictable this malware can be. Needless to say, this might make detecting and removing it quite difficult. In fact, users are most likely to discover this malware as they perform routine system scans using legitimate tools. Obviously, if scans are not performed, Crimson RAT could remain active for a long time. Was it downloaded with your permission (this might have happened if you were communicating with schemers)? If it was, you might be able to find and delete Crimson RAT yourself.
The instructions below provide you with a few basic steps that should help you remove Crimson RAT. Obviously, if you cannot identify the malicious process and the malicious file, erasing this malware manually can be very complicated. If you are unable to successfully eliminate this threat yourself, you have the option to download and use anti-malware software. You should not hesitate about using this software because, at the end of the day, it can provide you with the most useful services. Besides automatically eliminating existing malware, it also can ensure trustworthy, full-time protection against other silent and clandestine threats that might target your operating system in the future.
Select the process and click End Process.
Right-click the file and click Delete.
Launch RUN by tapping Win+R keys and then enter regedit.exe.
In Registry Editor move to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RUN.
Right-click and Delete the {random name} value associated with the malicious .exe file.
Empty Recycle Bin to eliminate these components completely.
Run a full system scan to check if you have successfully delete the malicious RAT.
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http://www.spyware-techie.com/crimson-rat-removal-guide
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