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U.K. Watchdog Fines Facebook $644,000 Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
(LONDON) — Britain’s Information Commissioner has slapped Facebook with a fine of 500,000 pounds ($644,000) — the maximum possible — for its behavior in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The ICO’s investigation found that between 2007 to 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by giving app developers access to their information without informed consent.
The fine was the maximum allowed under the law at the time the breach occurred. Had the scandal taken place after new EU data protection rules went into effect, the amount would have been far higher.
Social media companies have come under pressure globally following allegations that political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica used data from tens of millions of Facebook accounts to profile voters and help U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign .
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A story on the TechWeb news site today reports that Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software can be defeated if you feed it a specially malformed .cab file. (Microsoft uses .cab files -- that three-letter extension stands for "cabinet" -- to store components of Windows and other applications in compressed form.)
This vulnerability falls under the category of "buffer overflow" attacks, where the attacker tries to crash a program by making it process a too-large piece of data. When the crash occurs, the attacker can run his or her own malicious program in the same chunk of memory the target program had occupied. (The "no execute" virus protection offered by Microsoft's Service Pack 2 update to Windows XP -- when run on certain Intel and AMD processors -- is designed to thwart these attacks,but it's unclear whether it does with Kaspersky's software.)
The Moscow-based company has confirmed this vulnerability in a press release issued today. It says that "no attempts to create and distribute such exploits have been recorded to date," but "Kaspersky Lab experts are currently developing an emergency update of the company's antivirus products."
Kaspersky's software is used in several other companies' security products. Consult its list to see if your antivirus program comes from one of these Kaspersky partners.
Next: Firefox (Site) Hacked Comments Anyone who's used computer long enough knows that the antivirus software virus risk is not a new thing. I've seen plenty of viruses co-opt Norton AV and use it to spread across a system unchecked in my day. That Kaspersky Lab's software has been compromised just goes to prove the problem is not limited to one vendor. Posted by: Peter Paul Sadlon | October 5, 2005 12:38 PM | Report abuse
Or thinking about it further, it also goes to prove the antivirus virus risk problem is not limited to one delivery system be it on the same or a different vendor's software. Posted by: Anonymous | October 5, 2005 12:44 PM | Report abuse
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Typography, the art of font making, is now accessible to everyone thanks to technology. But that doesn't mean it's easy. Even for someone with artistic talent and the patience to create a set of glyphs that together make up a font, there's a little math and a lot of computer science involved. Type 3.2 helps you out with many--but not all--of these aspects of typography.
As font makers go, Type 3.2 is not hard to use. The tools in your Type Toolbox will seem familiar if you've ever used a painting or design program. You get a pointer for selecting nodes, a knife, a freehand pencil, and simple shape tools for drawing rectangles and ellipses. Using these tools to create a glyph design from scratch is more difficult than using a graphic design program (such as the $89 Xara Photo & Graphic Designer) and tracing the glyph; but with perseverance, Type gets the job done. The curve tools, for example, are confusing at first: Type includes tools for creating a Corner Curve, a Smooth Curve, a Straight Corner, and off-curve nodes, as well as a pen for adding straight lines and a fully freehand tool.
Much like FontCreator (which costs $100 for the Home Edition and $250 for the professional version, which permits commercial use), Type lets you trace a glyph that you've created in a drawing program. Type does this extremely well if you have a clean, well-sized vector sample. I also like that Type includes a slider for increasing or decreasing the number of nodes (nodes are the points that make up the curves of your glyph; generally, the fewer nodes you have, the smoother your glyph will look). The node slider is a useful feature that FontCreator doesn't offer. Be aware, however, that the demo version of Type places an X over traced images, rendering them useless.
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Though Type is relatively easy to get started with, you'll have to overcome some difficulties to create a full font. For one thing, using Type to create glyphs that incorporate bits of other glyphs (as most fonts do with the beginnings of the characters for m and n, for example) is not intuitive. And learning how to use Type to fill certain areas of a font and leave other areas transparent (to create a defined look with a 3D font, for instance) takes some time and research. The video tutorials and help menu for Type are informative and--for the most part--easy to follow for basic concepts; but as you advance as a user, you'll find yourself having to rely more and more frequently on trial-and-error.
The demo version of Type doesn't accurately reflect the full program's power and ease of use; in my testing on Windows Vista PC, the Type demo behaved obstinately and annoyingly, whereas the paid version of Type worked smoothly. If you're in the market for a font designer and packager, Type has two key advantages over FontCreator: It costs less, and you can use the resulting fonts commercially. If the demo version doesn't give you enough access to features, you can try downloading the free Type 3.2 Light. This version of the software omits the Freehand, Glue, Knife, Touchup, Trace, and Transform tools; but even so, it gives you a better idea of how the software works than the demo version does. CR8 Software provides a features comparison chart showing all of the additional features available if you purchase Type 3.2.
Frustration seems to be a natural hazard in creating fonts, but Type tries to make the process easier. The online tutorials are helpful, and the program is relatively easy to use--even for someone with limited knowledge of fonts, glyphs, and characters. Nevertheless, you'll need to do your math, science, and art homework to make it work well.
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Just add the 'log' keyword to the end of the ACL statement (for statements that are already in place just enter the full statement again with the log keyword, the ASA will find the old line and replace append it). I often find it handy to use different syslog levels for each ACE depending on how I want to differntiate them, e.g. for something I never want to see (like common malware addresses) I use 'log critical', then I can easily search within my viewer for matches on that ACL name at that level.
We responded to the Year 2000 issue with "Y2K" solutions...isn't this the kind of thinking that got us into trouble in the first place?
You can create a filter view in the ASDM. Alternatively set logging buffered xxxxx, if you are getting a lot of hits at the a low level loggingl then set your ACL statement to something like emergency, set logging buffered to emergency and you should have very little besides your desired ACL hits. Setting the levels on your different ACE log statements will help you create a filter mechanism in your viewer (whether asdm, show log or external app).
But seriously get a Syslog app. Kiwi (free) at the very least or better still Splunk (which is also free to a point). There's no excuse not to and it is the bare essential of logging you need to be doing.
Edit just reread: You say you put the log statement at the end of the ACL, that will only catch what you missed above. You need to create a statement for the specific traffic you want to see, whether permit or deny, then add the words 'log xxxxxxx' to the end of it. E.g.
access-list SUPER-SCAREY-INTERNET permit tcp host 2.2.2.2 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 log warnings access-list SUPER-SCAREY-INTERNET deny tcp host 3.3.3.3 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 eq 666 log critical access-list SUPER-SCAREY-INTERNET permit tcp any 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 eq 666 access-list SUPER-SCAREY-INTERNET deny tcp any log informational.
Any traffic from 2.2.2.2 is allowed to 1.1.1.0/24 but it is logged at Warning level.
3.3.3.3 to 1.1.1.0/24 is denied and logged at critical level.
Anything else to 1.1.1.0/24 is allowed and not logged
Any other traffic is denied and logged as informational.
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If you grew up playing with Colorforms (those vinyl cutouts you'd stick on a cartoon figure) or with Mr. Potato Head, then prepare yourself for a nostalgia trip. Because The Doll Parade is a playful mesh of both classic toys, all managed through the powers of HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9.
You start with a Russian doll shape, and then decide what stick-ons to add, which include headgear, arms, and legs. The arms and legs are animated, and thus your doll will be built to march -- a key feature, as we shall soon see. Once you've added all six parts -- making one combination out of a possible three million -- it's on to the next step: uploading a photo for the face, which will make it entirely unique. (You may also choose from among six preset illustrations, but there's no fun in that.) You can scale and reposition your uploaded image to some degree, but it's best to start with a close and clean head shot. If you don't like the final effect, you can start over and re-mix and re-match until you get it right. When you're done, you can download a still image of your doll, share it on Facebook, or continue on to the big event: the Doll Parade.
The Parade assembles every submitted doll on a single canvas, where they form one giant animated, marching group. Swipe your mouse around the screen, and the marching figures move forward or sideways. The effect is more seamless and more impressive the better your browser can handle the hundreds of simultaneous animations. On any given system, Internet Explorer 9, which enlists your graphics card to render and scale the graphics, will deliver the smoothest experience.
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The risk of cyber attacks is massively overstated, because very few attacks are capable of causing global meltdown, an OECD report claims.
Headline-grabbing events including malware, distributed denial of service attacks, criminal activities and espionage can, at best, cause only local disruption, and it would take a concentrated attack on the technology protocols underpinning the internet to cause a catastrophic meltdown in global communications, the report states.
While the report does not rule out the possibility of a prolonged cyber attack being successful, it notes that several factors would need to come together to achieve that.
Attackers would need to use methods that online security firms are unaware of, and conduct thorough research of targets in order to be successful. They would also need to develop new ways to conceal the means of carrying out the attack and the people behind it, and constantly update their methods as security firms learn to deal with the new threat.
The OECD claims most attacks are hyped up due to lack of agreement on the terminology covering cyber security, with “exaggerated language,” resulting in a catch-all approach to attacks.
“Rolling all these activities into a single statistic leads to grossly misleading conclusions,” the reports states.
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It was a grand experiment that failed miserably: As a means of copy-protecting its music, Sony employed a piece of software from First4Internet. But the technology, as used by Sony, did two bad things: First, it hid itself on computers by using root-kit technology; and second, it opened a remote access connection that called out to Sony (or one of its agencies). This exposed users' computers to worms that took advantage of the stealth technology.
Sony has agreed not to put root-kit technology on future music CDs as a means of protecting its copyrights. But this story is far from over. There are at least two lawsuits pending. There are also viruses poised to take advantage of already-infected PCs worldwide, the number of which may be much higher than anyone previously thought. Worse, Sony's fix for the problem may not be any more secure than the original root kit. Security Watch: To be "0wned" by Sony - CNET reviews
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The point I wish to make here is that SHA1 was effectively deprecated in 2001 with the publication of SHA2. If you are vulnerable to a collision attack, then you had your moment of warning sixteen years ago.
On the other hand, think about this for a moment - in 2005 the Shandong shot was heard around the cryptographic world. Everyone knew! But we now see that SHA1 lasted an additional 12 years before it crumbled to a collision attack. That shows outstanding strength, an incredible run.
On the third hand, let's consider your protocol. If your protocol is /not/ vulnerable to a collision attack then SHA1 is still good. As is SHA0 and MD5. And, as an aside, no protocol should be vulnerable to a collision attack - such weakness is probably a bug.
So SHA1 is technically only a problem if you have another weakness in your protocol. And if you have that weakness, well, it's a pretty big one, and you should be worried for everything, not just SHA1.
On the fourth hand, however, institutions are too scared to understand the difference, and too bureaucratic to suggest better practices like eliminating collision vulnerabilities. Hence, all software suppliers have been working to deprecate SHA1 from consideration. To show you how asinine this gets, some software suppliers are removing older hash functions so, presumably you can't use them - to either make new ones or check old ones. (Doh!)
Security moves as a herd not as a science. Staying within the herd provides sociability in numbers, but social happiness shouldn't be mistaken for security, as the turkey well knows.
Finally, on the fifth hand, I still use SHA1 in Ricardo for naming Ricardian Contracts. Try for the life of me, and I still can't see how to attack it with collisions. As, after all, the issuer signs his own contract, and if he collides, he's up for both contracts, and there are copies of both distributed...
There is no cause for panic, if you've done your homework.
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The UK, US, and Australia have signed an open letter calling for Facebook to suspend its plans to encrypt all messages on its platforms.
Signed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, the letter argues that the encryption plan would prevent law agencies from discovering illegal activity through Facebook.
The letter reads: “Security enhancements to the virtual world should not make us more vulnerable in the physical world.
“Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content, even for preventing or investigating the most serious crimes.”
The letter asks Facebook to design its encryption where governments have backdoor access to its encrypted messaging apps.
Mr Zuckerberg stated that he had acknowledged the risks, especially the risks surrounding child exploitation before announcing the encryption plan. However, he added that he was “optimistic” that his company would be able to identify predators even with the encrypted systems.
The letter adds: “Tech companies like Facebook have a responsibility to balance privacy with the safety of the public.
“So far nothing we have seen from Facebook reassures me that their plans for end-to-end encryption will not act as barrier to the identification and pursuit of criminals operating on their platforms.
“Companies cannot operate with impunity where lives and the safety of our children is at stake, and if Mr Zuckerberg really has a credible plan to protect Facebook’s more than two billion users, it’s time he let us know what it is.”
Facebook have argued that everyone has the right to have a private conversation, and thus end-to-end encryption “protects that right for over a billion people every day,” said Will Cathart, Head of WhatsApp.
According to leaked audio obtained by the Verge, Mr Zuckerberg stressed: “Law enforcement, obviously is not going to be psyched about that.
“But we think it’s the right thing to protect people’s privacy more, so we’ll go defend that when the time is right.”
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The use of alternative data sets for informing stock picks or long-term investments in industries such as retail, airlines, real estate and auto is growing. In the case of mobile location data, investors and others use it as a valid indicator of consumer interest or even sales. But without regular system updates, these indicators may be less than valid. In fact, the information used by money managers to make extremely important business decisions could be dated or even faulty because some location data providers may not regularly revise data baselines to account for factors such as artificial foot traffic growth and historical shifts in mobile usage patterns.
Like marketers and advertisers, more and more investors, fund managers and consultants today include location data showing consumer foot traffic to business locations such as restaurants or car dealerships in their data and analytics tool chest. In fact, an April report from capital markets consultancy Opimas predicts the market for mobile device location data in the money management industry will grow 40 percent annually to $250 million by 2020.
Despite all that excitement around mobile location data, people are unaware of the risks that lurk when providers of that information fail to update their data models.
All that mobile growth results in tons of additional individual data points, which over time reflect changes in usage patterns. The increase in data points can be misattributed as growth in foot traffic because some location data providers do not regularly recalibrate their data models. But if the industry is to hit that $250 million mark, that should change. Revising data models should be common practice to ensure the location information used to gauge foot traffic in store and restaurant locations actually reflects what’s happening in real life.
Before listing several reasons why below, I’ll put this in the context of an investor scenario. Let’s say you’re a mutual fund manager evaluating the performance of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Qdoba-owner Jack in the Box to determine whether they are solid long-term stock investments. Of course, you’d consider recent earnings reports from both companies, and delve into articles about new menu item launches, retail location openings and promotions.
However, if you also include alternative data sets in your evaluation of these fast-casual Mexican restaurant rivals, it likely includes mobile location data indicating how many people visited certain locations and possibly information such as the amount of time patrons spent in those outlets, as well as related demographic data. You might set up a search in a software platform for foot traffic data during a given period for all Chipotle and Qdoba locations. But if your location data provider has not updated its stale models, you might be putting key business decisions at risk due to misleading information.
More mobile devices: While the same number of people may be visiting restaurant locations, a larger percentage of those customers could own smartphones today than did in the past. We need to factor that into data models to prevent mistaking more phones for more people.
More app partners: Most location data firms obtain their data through relationships with app publishers and app networks. If data firms have added apps to their list of app publisher partners, this change must be accounted for when recalibrating the models. Are location data firms taking in more data because there actually is more usage among the same number of devices represented by the same number of apps as six months ago, or could that data influx be the result of new partnerships with additional app providers? Either way, it affects how we estimate the number of people visiting a location.
Shifting mobile app usage patterns: The way in which people interact with certain apps evolves and fluctuates all the time, altering the app usage pattern landscape. Sometimes app publishers change features, more users adopt app categories such as ride-sharing apps, or people get excited about a new gaming app one month and have stopped playing it a few months later. If you recently added the Lyft app to your phone, or haven’t played Pokémon Go lately, you know what I mean.
Geographic and seasonal usage distinctions: People engage with apps differently depending on where they live, too. If you’re on the east coast in the springtime when weather can fluctuate hour-to-hour, you might open a weather app several times a day. People in New Mexico expecting sun may not open their weather apps for days. When fewer people open apps used to pick up on location pings, it doesn’t necessarily mean that fewer people were physically present in a location.
Each of these factors has an impact on the validity of the location data used by investors, marketers, municipal planners and others to make crucial business decisions that affect how budgets are allocated, what stocks are added to a portfolio, or whether a neighborhood gets a new restaurant that could generate jobs.
When location data providers make a point of revising data model baselines regularly, the value of mobile location data has a better chance of reaching its full potential.
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Laptop Magazine Selects Network Associates’ McAfee PC Security Suite 7.0 As The ‘Ultimate Choice’ for Mobile and Notebook Users
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced their bundle of comprehensive online solutions for consumers, McAfee(R) PC Security Suite 7.0, has won Laptop magazine’s “Ultimate Choice” award. McAfee PC Security Suite 7.0, which includes online versions of McAfee(R) VirusScan(R), McAfee Personal Firewall Plus, and McAfee Privacy Service, was selected for the award based on its comprehensive set of security and privacy solutions and its ability to automatically check for updates online. The full review of McAfee Security Suite 7.0 can be found in the Fall 2003 issue of Laptop magazine.
“The utilization of laptop computers and the rapid adoption of wireless connectivity technologies contributed to the rise of mobile computer users. With the McAfee online security services, users are able to protect wireless PCs from a full-range of Internet security threats, allowing them to experience the Internet and mobility more freely,” said Lisa Henderson, vice president of consumer marketing, McAfee Security Consumer division at Network Associates(R). “We are pleased that Laptop editors have recognized and selected our comprehensive and easy-to-use bundle of online anti-virus, personal firewall and privacy services as the ‘ultimate choice’ to secure today’s mobile user.”
In a comprehensive review of security software, Laptop recognized McAfee PC Security Suite 7.0 for its strong personal firewall, anti-virus and privacy programs, but it was a number of unique features within the McAfee programs that caught the attention of editors. These award-winning features include:
McAfee PC Security Suite 7.0, featuring McAfee VirusScan Online, McAfee Personal Firewall and McAfee Privacy Service, is currently available through the company’s Web site for $79.85 (USD). For more information and to purchase McAfee PC Security Suite 7.0 visit: www.mcafee.com.
McAfee Security Consumer division at Network Associates, Inc., delivers world-class retail and online solutions designed to secure, protect and optimize the computers of consumers and home office users.
McAfee’s advanced retail desktop solutions include premier anti-virus, security, encryption, and desktop optimization software. McAfee’s managed Web security services employ a patented system and process of delivering software through an Internet browser to provide these services to users online through its Web site www.mcafee.com, one of the largest paid subscription sites on the Internet with over two million active paid subscribers.
About Network Associates, Inc.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Offering two families of products, McAfee System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the protection and performance of the corporate network, Network Associates offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized businesses, and consumers. These two product portfolios incorporate Network Associates leading McAfee Security, Sniffer(R) Technologies and Magic Solutions(R) product lines. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-963-8000 or on the Internet at http://www.networkassociates.com/ .
NOTE: Network Associates, McAfee, McAfee.com, VirusScan, Sniffer, and Magic Solutions are registered trademarks or trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. Sniffer(R) brand products are made only by Network Associates, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.
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“Download Google Play for Android Google Play is formerly known as the android market but now a vast and influential old android market combined with a store of books google ebookstore multi-format films and world music google music,” it is (badly) explained on the site.
Among the suspicious Android apps offered for download is a Google Play application (google-play.apk), which is actually a Trojan that subscribes the victim to premium number services without asking his or her permission.
The researchers say that even if the Trojan in question is very similar to one discovered last month that has polymorphic abilities, this one has not and tries to avoid detection by having various innocuous files added to it.
“Users are strongly advised to practice extreme caution when dealing with apps and app stores in general,” counsel the researchers.
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The profession of cybersecurity is constantly evolving and increasing in demand. This demand is reinforced by a need for skills that are restrictive to those without the aptitude for computers and coding. The need for these skills can make it difficult for people to break into the industry, thus leading to a shortage of cybersecurity professionals that desperately need to be filled.
While these skills are vast and can span all kinds of different aspects of data security, some skills are more important and are also evolving with the field. These growing, evolving skills can dictate the level of success you enjoy in the realm of cybersecurity and help you succeed. With this article, we hope to fill you in on the most rapidly evolving skills in the field.
Application development security is the number one fastest-growing skill in the cybersecurity field, being one of the most crucial to the aspiring professional. Application development security, as the name implies, revolves around the strengthening of protection for applications.
By default, the process of application development identifies the vulnerabilities of an application and patches them up before the application is released for public use, thereby reducing the number of security issues the users face.
Of course, this application patching can occur after the application has been released if certain issues did not come to light during the development cycle. When it comes to application testing, there are three main approaches that cybersecurity professionals employ:
Static Application Security Testing (SAST): SAST revolves around the experts having a direct understanding of the software architecture of the application. Armed with this knowledge, they can directly locate issues found in the application’s source code and address them.
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST): DAST, unlike SAST, does not require the expert to have any firsthand knowledge of the source code. Instead, the expert uses a functional version of a potential release build to find any issues or vulnerabilities in the application.
Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST): IAST is a form of testing that hybridizes the DAST and SAST approaches of application development for a more comprehensive approach.
This testing is vital to the success of an application in a world wherein mobile business is becoming more common. The integrity of application security is becoming more and more vital, leading to the growth of application development security for cybersecurity professionals to pursue. A study conducted by Atlas VPN found that the demand for application development security is projected to increase by 164% over the next five years. In a few years, there will be over 48,000 openings for jobs revolving around this skill.
Skill #2: Cloud Security
Cloud security focuses on preventative measures and firewalls designed to protect information stored in the data cloud online. Businesses are gradually shifting to cloud storage for their professional data making cloud security a necessity. As threats to data security evolve and become more complex, more systems become vulnerable to a breach, and the cloud is no less at risk than hard data storage devices such as hard drives. This has led to an increase in the need for qualified cloud security professionals to handle and resolve threats and breaches in the cloud’s firewall for their company.
Cloud security, being such a dangerous storage medium, requires heavy-duty security to make it viable for consumers and companies that rely on it for data storage. As a result, cloud security has four essential “pillars”:
Visibility and Compliance: Since cloud storage is a zero-trust form of computing, it requires a degree of transparency for its users to rely on it. By offering an inventory of what the cloud system offers in terms of services, servers, and tools, consumers can determine whether a specific cloud network is reliable enough to entrust their documents, data, and images.
Compute-Based Security: One of the most important pillars is the security the cloud system offers to protect the information you are storing on it. Compute-based security is a two-stage system designed to protect sensitive information stored on the cloud. The first stage is all about automated management of the vulnerabilities of the network. This system automatically identifies holes in the system’s firewalls and corrects them while prioritizing cloud-stored data. The second stage is the operational security of the network, which analyzes activity on the servers for anything that might be malicious or lead to the attempted theft of private or personal data.
Network Protections: Network protections, usually applied to on-site storage, are used by cloud networks to provide a safe data storage environment. By creating “zones” wherein different workloads and processes operate independently in a process called micro-segmentation, all workloads are given their own private security. Cloud networks also apply a security border starting from their network that extends all the way to the user so that your data is pulled and accessed securely from start to finish.
Identity Security: The last of the pillars, identity security is the association of who is accessing the cloud to the authorizations they possess. Cloud networks use login information and account details to ensure that the data and applications a user is able to locate and access within the storage system are the ones they are authorized to find by the system administrator.
According to the Burning Glass report, cloud security skills will start seeing an increase in salary of approximately $15,025.00 as the urgency and need for professionals increase in response to the evolving threats to system integrity. Cloud security is the second most rapidly growing skill after application development security. Burning Glass projects that the demand for cloud security specialists will increase by a whopping 115% in the next five years.
Skill #3: Risk Management
Risk management is, arguably, one of the most important skills for cybersecurity professionals. The skill revolves around analyzing a series of factors about the security of the data for potential risks that might come back and negatively impact the company.
Risk management involves a mathematical analysis and uses a specific methodology to determine where the risks lie successfully. Risk management professionals evaluate the priorities of their company, identify gaps in cybersecurity, and conduct analyses on known cybersecurity issues. Their focus is on committing to future investments based on the analyses they have conducted and using those investments to execute strategies and implement new security controls and practices to maximize security. They also measure and score cybersecurity programs for potential application to their firm.
Risk management professionals can operate with several data frameworks that risk assessment and analyses can be conducted through:
National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF): The NIST CSF is easily one of the most popular cybersecurity frameworks to use as it provides a full map of outcomes and processes using the core functions of cybersecurity risk management: Identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery.
Department of Defense Risk Management Framework (DoD RMF): The DoD RMF is used, as the name implies, by the Department of Defense as a standard to assess and manage cybersecurity threats. The DoD RMF uses six steps to resolve threats and issues: Categorization, selection, implementation, assessment, authorization, and monitoring.
International Organization of Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC): The ISO/IEC is one of the oldest frameworks in service today and uses a strict set of standards to manage risks and threats.
Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR): The FAIR framework was developed by the Open Group that helps companies better understand information that will allow them to implement better cybersecurity practices and habits to minimize the risk of a breach.
Managing these frameworks and analyzing, detecting, and neutralizing threats that lead to superior cybersecurity measures is the core of risk management. Risk management is such a high-demand skill that it is looking at a projected 60% growth over the next five years.
Skill #4: Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is a complicated, refined aspect of cybersecurity that is used to prevent attacks rather than repair them after the fact. Threat intelligence focuses on collecting and analyzing data from previous attacks and known attacks to better understand how the attackers operate. By collating this data and committing it to the cybersecurity practices used in everyday situations allows for faster, more efficient responses to attack attempts by using the information gathered to anticipate how the attacks will proceed.
The threat of attack is an ongoing one that requires vigilance and proper security practices and responses to mitigate the risks associated with a breach. These constant attack threats are known as advanced persistent threats (APTs) that cybersecurity professionals are constantly working to outperform. Threat intelligence analysis allows companies to enjoy a more effective defense due to defenders having a tangible idea of how the attack will play out and giving them information to place defenses in the data networks to cut off the attacks. Threat intelligence can be divided into three types:
Tactical Threat Intelligence: Tactical threat intelligence is all about malware defense. Professionals for tactical intelligence focus on the immediate threats by identifying indicators of compromise (IOCs) like bad IP addresses, URLs, and malicious domains that might put data and devices at risk of a breach. Tactical intelligence is the easiest to gather and can be automated but has a short lifespan. The threats they become aware of can be rendered moot within days or even hours after identification as new, more advanced IOCs are generated to replace them.
Operational Threat Intelligence: Operational threat intelligence is focused on the identification and navigation of hostile data infrastructure. Operational intelligence professionals ask the questions that allow them to understand and anticipate how a threat will unfold by focusing on the attribution (who), motivation (why), and the ‘TTPs’ (how) of the attacker to gain the insight needed to overcome an attack and prevent them from occurring again. Unlike tactical intelligence, operational intelligence can not be automated as the human component is vital for translating how the threats unfold so that measures can be taken against them. In addition, the ‘TTPs’ employed by attackers are not as easily changed as other tools, which vastly increases the lifespan of operational intelligence.
Strategic Threat Intelligence: Strategic threat intelligence is understanding the motivations of attackers to create better defenses. No cyberattacks are ever conducted for the sake of the act itself but are accompanied by some higher motivation that the attacker knows but professionals do not… yet. Strategic intelligence professionals analyze the attacker’s habits to understand their motivation so defenses can be erected to shield networks and data based on why an attack might occur. For example, an attack motivated by corporate espionage would lead to hardened encryption on product details or business strategies stored in a company’s database. Strategic intelligence is, by and large, the most difficult type of intelligence to gather due to the inescapable detail that understanding the human behind the attack is paramount rather than the technical details. As a result, professionals need to interpret the less obvious details about the attacks and the state of the world around them when the attacks occur.
Threat intelligence is one of the most complicated facets of cybersecurity in the world and requires specially trained professionals with analytical minds to fill the ranks. Despite the steep professional requirements to make it as a professional within this skillset, the demand is equally high. The 5-year projected growth for threat intelligence professionals is at 41% as of 2021.
The Final Byte
Cybersecurity is an ever-expanding field that requires a multitude of skills and a vast understanding of computers and data to be a feasible profession for you. As the industry grows, the skills that make or break a professional will grow as well. While the skills we have listed in this article are not the only ones, they are the four fastest-growing skill sets in the field today.
Being able to identify and repair vulnerabilities in an application, understanding how to provide a cloud network that is secure and trustworthy, being able to identify and mitigate potential risks, and being able to gather the information you will need to combat and prevent threats are all coveted talents that will see you go far as a cybersecurity professional.
No matter what firm you may apply to, having these skills will ensure that you enjoy employment for a long time as the demand for your skills grows along with the challenges and threats you will face.
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Following news stories of disgruntled federal employees using encryption technology to criticize the Trump administration, a conservative legal group has filed a Freedom of Information request with the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to enforce federal records laws.
“It appears that some employees at the EPA may be using encrypted apps on their phones to avoid transparency laws in an effort to conceal their communications from internal and external oversight,” wrote Henry Kerner, assistant vice president at the Cause of Action Institute. The group filed the FOIA request on Feb. 2 with acting EPA administrator Catherine McCabe and Chief Information Officer Ann Dunkin.
Specifically, Cause of Action is requesting:
All records created or received by any EPA employee on Signal.
All records reflecting any permission, clearance, or approval granted to EPA employees by the agency, Archivist and/or the National Archives and Records Administration for the use of Signal, or other instant messaging applications, for the conduct of official EPA business.
All records concerning EPA efforts to retrieve, recover, or retain records created or received by EPA employees on Signal.
Kerner, quoting a Politico story, said EPA employees are allegedly using encryption software applications such as Signal and WhatsApp to prevent political appointees from undermining EPA’s mission or deleting valuable scientific data.
As the Senate nears a vote on Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, many EPA employees have spoken to the press or through private channels to express fears about Trump’s agenda, which likely will include cutting EPA’s budget and curbing its regulatory authority on such issues as climate change.
The legal group wants EPA to disgorge some of these employees’ messages.
“Under the Federal Records Act, the EPA has a legal obligation to preserve all records made by employees working on official government business,” Cause of Action wrote in its “Federal Records Act notification” and FOIA request for documents. “This obligation is all the more important if EPA employees are using personal cellular devices or private accounts for such purposes. These messages must also be made available under the Freedom of Information Act. Agency leadership, Congress, and the public have a right to know if federal employees are using encrypted electronic messages to evade transparency.”
One EPA staffer with a “general distrust of this new administration” spoke to Government Executive on condition of anonymity. The employee uses Signal to communicate personal information on personal time. “I take the agency's records very seriously,” the employee said. “We all get frequent training on handling work records, and on the appropriate use of personal vs. work equipment. I’m not doing the people’s business” on the private technology. “There's no reason to discuss work using our personal accounts.”
Personal issues, the employee clarified, includes “opinions and beliefs about national politics.” Addressing the Cause of Action and Trump team’s general effort to crack down on such employees venting, this employee said, “It's pretty obvious this is a witch hunt intended to scare career staff into silence.”
Cause of Action has a history of taking on the government over access to public records. For months, the group has battled agencies on transparency issues surrounding former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while at the State Department
The EPA did not respond to inquiries by publication time.
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The manager gave copies of the database – valued at more than $3.1 million and including “critical, confidential information,” a federal judge said at a plea hearing – to a former DHS acting inspector general to develop a commercial version of the management system and sell that back to other government agencies.
Sonal Patel, 44, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government property, and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors regarding a scheme that ran from 2014 to 2017.
“I plead guilty,” said Patel, a Sterling, Virginia, resident.
Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District for the District of Columbia accepted the plea and set a hearing date for June 5.
As part of a plea deal, Collyer agreed to delay sentencing while Patel cooperates with prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia and the Justice Department’s public integrity section. Under the deal, prosecutors agreed not to charge Patel with any other offenses.
“Our expectation is that Ms. Patel will be cooperating for the next at least five to six months,” after which the government may consider requesting leniency, said Assistant U.S. Attorney David Kent, who is handling the case with Justice Department trial attorney Victor Salgado.
Officials did not name “Co-Conspirator 1” in court papers, but they detailed a government work history and identified an associated Maryland business that the person founded.
A former DHS acting inspector general whose biography appears to match the court filings and appears to have founded a business of the same name, according to online corporate records, did not return telephone messages Thursday seeking an interview.
According to plea filings, Patel worked as a branch chief in the inspector general office’s information technology division and oversaw the development and maintenance of its Enforcement Database System, which was modeled after a similar inspector-general system with the U.S. Postal Service, where Patel worked before 2009.
From October 2014 until 2017, Patel used his “position within the Department of Homeland Security’s office of inspector general to access and create copies of EDS’ source code, (the) database and personal identifying information” of DHS and Postal Service employees “to provide to co-conspirators to develop a private, commercial version of ‘EDS 2.0,’ ” Collyer said, reciting the government’s evidence.
Patel’s partners worked to develop and sell a commercial version to the Department of Agriculture, Collyer said.
Patel in court papers acknowledged instructing a subordinate to send her directions on how to install the copy, and steering the Agriculture Department inspector general’s office to using the commercial version instead of the free government version. In June 2016, her plea statement said, she handed two DVDs with copied data to Co-Conspirator 1 “on the side of the road” before the latter boarded a flight from Dulles International Airport to meet with software developers in India.
The government cited email correspondence from Patel’s work and personal accounts and online meetings in June 2016 and March 2017 between her, Co-Conspirator 1 and an Indian-based software development company, which the conspirator’s company had allegedly contracted to develop a private version of theDHS investigation case-management system.
Court filings also show that Co-Conspirator 1 worked at the DHS from February 2008 until 2013, including as acting inspector general, and before that at the TSA and the U.S. Postal Service, where he supervised Patel.
Prosecutors said Patel also worked with a subordinate, identified only as “Co-Conspirator 2,” on the database system. In total, the three obtained personal data on about 246,167 DHS employees and 6,723 Postal Service employees, prosecutors say.
The database included tracking information for all investigations into allegations of criminal, civil or administrative wrongdoing by DHS workers, contractors, grant recipients, beneficiaries and other associated entities between 2002 and 2017, the department said in a January 2018 privacy notice.
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In the tweet, CD Projekt Red says it's already secured its IT infrastructure and started the process of restoring the stolen data. The hackers even acknowledge that the studio is likely to be able to recover "from backups", which weren't affected by the theft. CDPR also says it's approached authorities including law enforcement and Jan Nowak, President of the Polish Personal Data Protection Office. The studio is still investigating the incident, so the full scope of exactly what's been taken remains to be seen. CD Projekt Red itself doesn't actually specifically confirm that the source code for the above games was stolen, but it doesn't refute or deny that, either. We'll have to wait and see what more develops.
Ubisoft, developer of Watch Dogs Legion, was also hit by a ransomware attack just like CD Projekt Red.
This is the latest in a spate of ransomware attacks on prominent developers. Late last year, Capcom was the victim of a major ransomware attack that resulted in the leaking of huge amounts of internal data. Assassin's Creed and Far Cry developer Ubisoft was also hit by a ransomware group, with many assets including Watch Dogs source code allegedly stolen. It's worth noting that these attacks weren't all committed by the same perpetrator. The Ubisoft attack was carried out by a group calling itself Egregor, while the Capcom ransomware hit was perpetrated by a group using "Ragnar Locker" hacking tools. The group responsible for the CDPR attack has not been named.
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A new Information Security and hacker conference, NolaCon, has been announced, adding to the popular conference circuit in New Orleans. The event expects to gather hundreds of Information Security professionals and enthusiasts from around the globe in one place.
Conference founder Rob Anderson has over 20 years experience in the Information Security world. As a CISSP, a Certified Ethical Hacker, and an NSA certified IAM/IEM, in additional to having worked with both private companies and government organizations, he thought it was time for the city to have its own place in the digital security spotlight.
Anderson said, “The technology sector in New Orleans is one of the fastest growing in the country, and that growth in technology goes hand in hand with growth in information security needs. Through NolaCon, we want to show the broader tech community what New Orleans has to offer.”
The conference, scheduled for June 19th – 22nd, 2014, will include sessions and workshops to discuss some of the most pressing security issues and other related news.
While the current list of speakers is hefty, the organizers are still accepting speaking proposals from experienced security professionals. Confirmed speakers include 15 experts who will cover a range of topics including malware, exploits, vulnerabilities, social engineering, forensics and many more.
Conference days are set for the 20th – 22nd and the training days, which offer intensive sessions and workshops, are the 19th and 20th of June.
NolaCon has announced the conference will proceed with three tracks of speakers, a lockpick village and maker village, as well as a sponsor and exhibitor hall for companies serving the information security space.
Andersen says that though trainers and speakers are being recruited from around the country, many of the speaking spots are reserved for people from New Orleans and surrounding communities to protect the local flavor of the conference.
As a bonus to the local community, organizers are offering half off admission with code “local” – visit nolacon.com for more information and to register.
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Banker. ARQ 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: keystrokes, in order to obtain information for accessing online banking services, passwords and other confidential information.
Banker. ARQ 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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Darkmoon. CS is a backdoor that allows hackers to gain remote access to the affected computer in order to carry out actions that compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed on the computer.
Darkmoon. CS 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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Keco. D is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
Keco. D 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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Prex.G is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
Prex.G 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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Diskmaster. Q is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Diskmaster. Q 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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In this model, an application running on the cloud is offered directly to the end consumer as a service. Being the end consumer, we subscribe the service and start using it. You do not have access to control and manage the infrastructure layer and platform. Here, you do not need to worry about the IT infrastructure, application, and security. In this model, the Software as a Service (SaaS) provider is responsible for managing the underlying infrastructure.
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This post is inspired by a news article which highlighted a recent presentation at RSA. Kelihos, for those that don't know, is a spamming botnet. For the last few years it has been around in some form or another, but its spam output has not been nearly as large as some of the other botnets we regularly talk about, like Cutwail or Lethic.
Anyway, the article is entitled Latest Kelihos Botnet Shut Down Live at RSA Conference 2013. Wow! Cool! A Live Takedown! "But then again", I thought, "that would the third time this particular botnet has supposedly been taken down". So I went over to check our spam traps for evidence of the effect.
And here is what was found, huge amounts of stock 'pump & dump' spam:
Ironically, in spite of this spectacular takedown (or perhaps because of it?), spam output from Kelihos has jumped upwards to spectacular levels. Below is a chart showing the Kelihos spam levels in a daily spam sample over the past three months. Clearly someone has got a whole bunch more bots from somewhere! You can see however a slight dip around 26 February – shown by the arrow – on the day of the live takedown presentation.
So this increase is significant indeed. Today spam from Kelihos bots is making up over 50% of the total spam arriving at our spam traps. That's a big deal. Just to make sure we weren't confusing it with something else, we ran some recent Kelihos malware samples in our lab. Sure enough, classic Kelihos pump & dump as evidenced by this template we extracted from the set of instructions the bot received prior to spamming:
The template matches exactly what we see in our spam traps. We won't go into too much more here, others have recently provided some excellent insight into Kelihos; Lavasoft in particular has a very detailed analysis here.
In the past, there have been numerous much-publicized attempts to takedown Kelihos, and its predecessors, Storm and Waledac. For some reason, it always gets a lot of attention by researchers, probably because its peer-to-peer nature is both interesting, and lends itself to such interference.
But, despite such efforts, Kelihos and its code persists. Each time it merely morphs into something else. It goes to show that botnet takedowns may be flashy, but unless you arrest the people running it, or otherwise hamstring them somehow, the chances of a long term effect are minimal. And even if you do arrest people, code persists, and can be reused by someone else. These days, it's also easy for botnet operators to build their bot numbers again through the use of third-party loaders, or pay-per-install programs, where the criminals simply pay someone else to load their malware onto a bunch of already compromised machines. Symantec recently blogged about this sort of relationship: Waledac Gets Cozy with Virut. In fact, we have been observing Virut loading spambots for years, here is an M86 Security blog from 2009: Virut's Not So Obvious Motive.
So taking down botnets is not simple or easy. It's not to say I don't applaud such efforts. On the contrary, hamper them any way you can, I reckon. Just don't always expect long lasting results.
Thanks to my SpiderLabs colleague Rodel Mendrez for his research and input into this blog.
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The security hole, tracked as CVE-2019-0604, got its first patch in February and another one in March after the first fix turned out to be incomplete. Microsoft described the issue as a remote code execution vulnerability caused by the software’s failure to check the source markup of an application package. It can be exploited without the need for authentication.
“An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server farm account,” Microsoft said in an advisory.
Markus Wulftange, the researcher who reported the flaw to Microsoft through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), disclosed details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code on March 13, one day after Microsoft released the second round of patches.
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If you casually browse tech news today you may come across some scary stuff: millions and millions of emails and passwords (perhaps even yours!) have been dumped online.
Gizmodo called it the “mother of all breaches.” Wired said it’s a “monster breach.” The Daily Mail went with “Biggest EVER collection of breached data.” Mashable advised readers to change their password—again.
But hold on, do not panic.
If you’ve followed our work at Motherboard, you know that millions of passwords get dumped online pretty often. In 2016, for example, we revealed that hackers were trading 427 million MySpace passwords, and 117 million LinkedIn passwords.
This new breach, which is being called “Collection #1,” is actually not that bad compared to other massive breaches in the past if you carefully read what data was exposed. According to Troy Hunt, the security researcher who first reported and analyzed it, this collection of credentials includes 773 million unique email addresses, and 21 million unique passwords.
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But there are some key mitigating factors here. First, as the name suggests, this is a collection of several old data breaches. In fact, of the 773 million unique emails in this collection, only 141 million (around 18 percent) were not included in Have I Been Pwned, Hunt’s invaluable resource of hacked data. And of the 22 million passwords, half were not in the database.
This means that most likely, your old, simple password was already breached a while ago and you should’ve been notified either by the service that was breached or by Have I Been Pwned a long time ago.
As Hunt puts it in his level-headed and informative post, “my hope is that for many, this will be the prompt they need to make an important change to their online security posture.”
That important change you need to make is to make sure to use unique passwords (don’t feel too ashamed, we all re-use passwords but we really need to stop doing it), and enable two-factor authentication wherever you can, as we suggest in our Guide To Not Getting Hacked. Pretty much the only real risk for your online safety when something like Collection #1 happens is cybercriminals breaking into your account using so-called “credential-stuffing.” These are automated attacks where hackers just try every possible combination of email and password from a database they own to log into popular services.
If you use a unique password and two-factor, these attacks will just not work.
Changing habits is hard. And setting up all your password and accounts to a password manager does take a bit of time and patience. But once you do it, you never have to do it again, and password managers actually make your online life easier by autofilling password fields, and even alerting you if your password is not unique.
So, no, no need to panic or freak out. But maybe this is a good day to finally install that password manager app you’ve been hearing about from your more paranoid friends.
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In a Black Hat webcast this week, Ben Williams, consultant with NCC Group, detailed his investigation into security devices. Williams found that many of the network security gateway devices he tested had security shortcomings that could potentially enable an attacker to perform all manner of malicious activities on a vulnerable network.
"The ironic thing about these vulnerabilities is that they are well known types of issues and misconfigurations," Williams said. "There is an implicit trust with security appliances and people think they have been hardened, but that's not always the case."
Williams found a vulnerability in a Sophos email appliance that one of his customers used to check for spam messages. The specific vulnerability has since been patched by Sophos. Williams explained that he used the Burp Suite Professional Edition Web application suite to perform a brute force password attack and was able to gain access in less than 30 minutes.
In general, Williams noted that password attacks against security appliances can be mounted using simple techniques. If users don't change the default password, for example, it can easily be found by an attacker searching through the security appliance's documentation.
In the cases that Williams tested, there were also instances where account lock-outs or brute force protections had not been enabled on the devices. So he could hammer the appliances all day with passwords until one worked. Adding further insult to injury, Williams found the password on the pre-patched Sophos appliance only needed to be four characters and did not require any special characters.
Using Burp Suite Williams was able to easily find XSS and OS command injection vulnerabilities across multiple vendor devices. The simple fact that he found so many common vulnerabilities using a commercially available tool means that many products simply didn't go undergo thorough security testing, he said.
Mitigations
From a mitigation perspective, patching is at the top of Williams' list. Many vendors do patch their security appliances, so it's important for users to stay up to date.
"Unless people apply patches to these devices the issues won't go away," he said.
He also suggests that customers should demand more from their security appliance vendors in making sure the devices are secure.
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The Android-targeting BankBot malware (all variants detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_BANKBOT) first surfaced January of this year and is reportedly the improved version of an unnamed open source banking malware that was leaked in an underground hacking forum. BankBot is particularly risky because it disguises itself as legitimate banking apps, typically using fake overlay screens to mimic existing banking apps and steal user credentials. BankBot is also capable of hijacking and intercepting SMS messages, which means that it can bypass SMS-based 2-factor authentication.
Throughout the year, Bankbot has been distributed as benign apps, some of which made their way onto popular app stores. In April and July of 2017, Bankbot-infected apps were detected posing as entertainment and online banking apps on Google Play. More than twenty were found and exposed during the said months.
Recently we found five new Bankbot apps, four of which made their way into the Google Play Store disguised as utility apps. Two of these were removed immediately, while the other two were made available long enough to be downloaded by a few users. One particular BankBot app was downloaded 5000-10000 times.
This newer BankBot variant targets legitimate apps from banks based in 27 different countries. Also, the total number of targeted apps increased from 150 to 160. Ten United Arab Emirates (UAE) banking apps were added to the list.
When BankBot is installed and running, it will check the package information of apps installed on the infected device. If one of the target bank apps is available, BankBot will connect to its C&C server and upload the target’s package name and label. The C&C server will send a URL to BankBot so it can download the library that contains files used for the overlay webpage. This overly page is displayed on top of the legitimate banking app and used to steal the user’s credentials.
After BankBot downloads the library from the URL, it will unpack the APK cache directory (/data/data/packagename/files).
Figure 1. BankBot sending list of installed banking apps
Figure 2. C&C response with library URL
The C&C server will acknowledge the download with the message “success” an hour after it happens. The delay could either be a strategy the malware uses to avoid antivirus sandbox detection, or it is simply busy generating fake overlay webpages for the device token.
When the server is ready, or when it finishes preparing the webpages, it will send another URL to BankBot to get fake webpage data.
Figure 3. BankBot downloading overlay webpage
After the webpage is downloaded, Bankbot monitors the device for the launch of the target banking application and will display the overlay webpage on top of the banking application screen when the app runs. The overlay will make victims think they are using their usual banking app, tricking them into entering their credentials on BankBot’s fake webpage.
Figure 6. BankBot app on Google Play Store
BankBot seems to be widening its reach and experimenting with new techniques—which is a mounting concern because banking apps are growing more ubiquitous. According to a recent study, mobile banking users in the Middle East and Africa will exceed 80 million by 2017, while another report by ArabNet shows that users from UAE have the second highest rate of mobile banking adoption in MENA. As more people adopt this technology, the apps become attractive targets for cybercriminals.
To combat this threat, users should observe proper mobile safety and online account practices. Any device holding banking accounts should also be protected with effective and multilayered security. Users can strengthen their defenses with comprehensive antivirus solutions like Trend Micro™ Mobile Security for Android™ (available on Google Play) blocks threats from app stores before they can be installed and cause damage to devices.
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In a closed door meeting this week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staff took the H-1B visa debate in a different direction. They invited the heads of some U.S.-based IT services companies, competing directly with offshore outsourcing providers, for a frank discussion away from the public eye.
Among those invited to present at this meeting was Brian Keane, the CEO of a new IT services company, Ameritas Technologies. It opened its first services center in Baton Rouge, La., in July. At its opening, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the center, with its average salary of $63,000, will "create more opportunities for our sons and daughters in Louisiana." It plans to have a staff of 300 by 2016.
Ameritas is hiring local college graduates, most of whom have a computer science degree and some with physics and programming skills. The company puts these new employees through a technical training boot camp to expose them to programming skills needed by businesses. It is very similar to the kind of training that occurred in the 1990s before offshore workers arrived, Keane said.
"The primary use of H-1B visas is to help companies move IT work offshore to countries like India, China and Russia," Keane said at the meeting. Overseas companies are also paying lower wages to H-1B workers in the U.S., "so they can charge lower prices than equivalent U.S. competitors using U.S. citizens as their workforce," he said.
Offshore providers are the major users of the H-1B visas, and last year they used about half of the available visas.
The H-1B visa is a competitive issue for Keane, and he has been in this business for years. He was the former CEO of Keane, a $1 billion IT services company that became a subsidiary of NTT Data Corp. in 2011.
For Keane, the H-1B visa is a competitive issue, but also one with broader implications for the workforce. The widespread use of this visa in the last decade has prompted U.S. firms to eliminate entry level training, which has also discouraged students from entering the field.
"If these outsourcing firms were not bringing in the entry level [workers], or they didn't have such a big pool of H-1B visa people available, then I think it opens the doors to making IT an attractive occupation once again, which I think is so important for an innovative economy," Keane said, in an interview.
The session was organized by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who, with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), are the Senate's two leading H-1B critics. The Senate is considering a bill to raise the 65,000 H-1B cap to 300,000 under a graduated increase formula, and eliminate a cap altogether for advanced degree STEM graduates, students with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. That H-1B cap for STEM graduates is set at 20,000.
The Senate staffers also heard from Systems in Motion CEO Neeraj Gupta, a domestic IT services company with a development office in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"American IT jobs continue to be 'offshored," Gupta said, in his remarks. "While our H-1B and L1 visas make a valuable contribution to the U.S. economy, they are also "enabling" the offshore industry and creating a competitive disadvantage for domestic organizations."
Ron Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology who participated in the session, said the forum raised the H-1B visa as a competitive issue for U.S. companies.
"This is what's new -- it isn't just American workers criticizing the H-1B program. Now you have CEOs making the strong case that the government is tilting the playing field against them for hiring American workers," Hira said.
Durbin and Grassley have proposed a number of restrictions to the program, including limiting any company's use of the H-1B visa to half of its workforce. They have also been interested in changes that would end the lower tier of the prevailing wage rate.
Among the ideas Gupta suggested was to set higher pay for H-1B workers. Keane would like to see eliminating the H-1B visa for entry level workers.
Keane sees opportunity for a domestic IT services industry, in part, because of the changing nature of development. Increasing reliance on development methodologies such as agile has created a need for real-time decision-making and close collaboration. But that also means increasing the supply of domestic IT workers by encouraging college enrollments and training, he said.
Keane said U.S. policy on visas should be changed in a way that encourages students to study software, "as opposed to going down a path, in essence, of suggesting that the only way to solve our problem is to raise the cap and ship more work offshore."
Patrick Thibodeau covers cloud computing and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed. His e-mail address is [email protected].
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/456514/lawmakers_hear_from_ceo_opponents_h-1bs/
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Phishing attacks are one of the most popular methods for bad actors to gain access to a website environment. On this month’s podcast, analyst Luke Leal is with us to talk about these attacks. Topics covered include the motivation bad actors have for these attacks, who is a likely target, and preventative measures.
Plus, host Justin Channell breaks down more website security news from July – including new backdoors, a malicious WordPress plugin, and malware hiding in images and GitHub repositories.
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https://eyk.phmcgpe.net/sucuri-sit-down-episode-3-phishing-attacks-with-luke-leal/
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Security continues to hinder organisations in adopting cloud computing, at least for mission-critical or sensitive data applications. Concerns about sensitive data sitting on infrastructure shared with competitors continue to linger, but the power of cloud computing is now being put forward as an effective way of dealing with increasingly dynamic and advanced threats.
Some security suppliers are even looking at cloud computing to give them the competitive edge in detecting and mitigating previously unknown threats in near real time.
So can cloud computing tackle new and emerging cyber threats, or is this just a new round of security industry marketing hype?
For quite some time security researchers have been saying signature-based technologies can no longer cope with the latest threats. Because attacks are so frequently updated, by the time something is recognised as a threat, a new variant has been released rendering any signature-based security systems impotent.
Research by security firm Imperva has shown that less than 5% of the top 40 anti-virus systems are able to detect previously non-catalogued viruses initially.
The research, which used more than 80 previously non-catalogued viruses, also showed many systems took up to a month or longer, following the initial scan, to update their signatures.
“Enterprise security has drawn an imaginary line with its antivirus solutions, but the reality is that every single newly created virus may subvert these solutions,” said Amichai Shulman, CTO, Imperva.
“We do not believe enterprises are achieving the value of the investment of billions of dollars in anti-virus solutions, especially when certain freeware solutions in our study outperformed paid solutions,” Shulman said.
Cloud-based intelligence databases
In the light of this and other similar studies, those at the forefront of security research agree the time has come for a different approach. Organisations need to detect new threats quickly and mitigate them before too much damage is done, but is cloud computing the answer?
At the very least, Security firm Webroot believes cloud computing is key to the future of defences against malware.
Only by using cloud infrastructure is it possible to scan, analyse and compare unknown software with a variety of malware databases, according to George Anderson, Webroot’s senior enterprise product marketing manager.
Rather than put a comprehensive malware signature file on each endpoint, malware intelligence and assessments are conducted in Webroot’s cloud environment.
Because the software client does not have to receive and process signature files, the software client has a much smaller footprint than traditional software clients.
A cloud-based approach, Webroot claims, means there is no need for continual updates of the software client, faster scans, low impact on system resources and improved effectiveness.
Webroot backs up the low performance impact claim with benchmark tests by PassMark software in which the security supplier scored 78 out of 80 or 97.5%, compared with the 55 out of 80 or 69% scored by its closest competitor.
Customised risk tolerance
According to Forrester Research, the move to using a cloud-based intelligence database to deliver real time threat protection is an established trend with most of the major security players making investments in this area.
Security firms have realised that, by leveraging their install base, they can collect information about file behaviour and start to make trust-based decisions.
This encompasses the simple white- and black-listing of files, yet steps beyond this, allowing users to define their own level of risk tolerance for unknown files, said Andrew Rose, principal analyst in security and risk at Forrester Research.
However, he said, although the cloud-based solution has many benefits, he has some concerns.
“Relying entirely on cloud leaves the endpoint to fend for itself when it is offline. Although sandboxing may offer some assistance, I would be seeking assurances that the local security agent would be sufficiently resilient and flexible to enable sophisticated functionality and ensure protection in an operating system built for collaboration, rather than segmentation,” said Rose.
Signature approach combined with local behavioral analysis
Similarly, he said, the level of protection relates directly to the strength of the provider's intelligence network and this is an area where the established players, such as Symantec and McAfee, have a significant advantage - with billions of existing file trust records and a growth rate of 10s of millions each week.
“Although a cloud-based solution has lots of value, I am still drawn to the hybrid approach, where expansive cloud intelligence networks are supplemented with local behavioural analysis of files, local file activity restrictions and resilient local sandboxing,” said Rose.
This is where Webroot seeks to differentiate itself from traditional signature-based systems as well as other security firms that have seen the potential of cloud-based security intelligence.
Webroot’s systems focus on the behaviour of files that try to execute on a system, regardless of whether or not Webroot has seen that file previously and have a cloud-based signature for it.
Any unknown file is monitored and its behaviour recorded as it tries to execute, said Webroot’s George Anderson.
“Once it is deemed malicious, it is placed in a sandbox on the client for isolated execution and deeper behaviour analysis, while any actions the file may have taken are automatically rolled back to return the system to the last known good state, reversing only the changes that the suspicious file made,” he said. This means that even while unknown malware is active, systems are protected.
Protecting systems offline
Webroot seeks to address the concern about protection while offline by using offline heuristics tuned to the endpoint’s pre-offline software profile to identify and block threatening behaviours from a new software program introduced while the device is offline.
The Webroot client also records changes to files, registry keys and memory locations associated with new software introduced while the device is offline. This process is beneficial if the heuristics did not trigger blocking but the new software is, in reality, malware.
Once the endpoint is back online, a threat assessment is conducted in the Webroot cloud. If the program is determined to be malware, the malicious file is removed and Webroot returns the endpoint back to its last known good state. However, this is possible only with some behavioural analysis capability.
While cloud computing does appear to have the potential to tackle new and emerging cyber threats, it also appears that this alone will not be enough and needs to be paired with a comprehensive behavioural analysis capability to deal with zero-day threats and any periods where systems are offline.
File-scanning misses the big picture
Despite confirming the trend identified by other similar studies, Rik Ferguson, research director at security firm Trend Micro, believes the methodology of the Imperva research is flawed.
“Simply scanning a collection of files – no matter how large or how well sourced – misses the point of security software entirely; the actual file, the payload is simply one link in a long chain of events, and one that is pretty much towards the end of that chain,” said Ferguson.
The Imperva study, he contends did not expose the security products to threats in the way that they would be exposed in the wild.
“Where was the email with the malware attached, or the included URL, an email that could have been blocked based on its source IP, thereby breaking the chain? If it were a URL, then where was the analysis of the content at the URL, looking for malicious JavaScript, shell code, redirects, exploits or even simply a malicious history? Again an area for successfully stopping a threat even before the file arrives. Where was the analysis of the behaviour of the file in the system and on the network?”
According to Ferguson, to decide whether or not a threat would be blocked, it must be processed in a test in the same way it would be delivered to the victim.
“File reputation only represents one layer of security, one interlinked technology among many in any security solution worthy of the name,” he said.
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https://bgmoey.blogspot.com/2012/12/cloud-security-threat-or-solution.html
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Oracle has granted CEO Larry Ellison 3 million stock options, a significant reduction from the 7 million options he received in previous years, according to a regulatory filing.
Other Oracle executives, such as co-presidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, were also awarded smaller stock option grants than in the past, other filings made Monday show. Each received 2.25 million stock options, compared to 5 million last year.
The changes, which were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, come after years of shareholder discontent over Oracle’s executive compensation.
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An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the lower grants were in response to shareholder demand.
Oracle has defended its compensation practices by arguing that stock options aren’t valuable unless the company’s share price rises, an outcome that is good for both executives and every other Oracle shareholder.
Last year, Oracle secretary and general counsel Dorian Daley characterized Ellison as Oracle’s “most critical strategic visionary,” with his pay being more than reasonable given Ellison’s track record.
Ellison owns about one-fourth of Oracle’s outstanding stock, representing more than 1.1 billion shares, according to a regulatory filing.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2459220/oracle-slashes-larry-ellisons-stock-options-following-shareholder-discontent.html
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Two Senators are urging federal transportation officials to take immediate steps to protect consumers from vehicle cyberhackers, passing new legislation designed to protect against vulnerable vehicle electronic systems.
Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and members of Commerce, Science and Transportation committee are calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to establish federal regulations to protect vehicle data systems and consumer’s privacy.
The push for increased vehicle cyber security follows the first auto recall caused by a risk that the vehicles may be vulnerable to hacking.
The new legislation, known as the Security and Privacy in Your Car (SPY Car) Act, would establish consumer protections and a rating system, also known as the “cyber dashboard,” to inform consumers about how well protected the driver’s information is and help maintain security protections.
In a statement issued July 21, the Senators referenced a report published last year, “Tracking & hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk,” which revealed wide gaps in how vehicle manufactures are failing to secure internet and connected features in cars against hackers.
Vehicle Cyber Security Recall
The SPY Act was announced in the wake of a Fiat Chrysler recall that impacts more than 1.4 million Jeep Cherokees that may be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Two hackers revealed they were able to take control of a Jeep Cherokee SUV, accessing the vehicle through an electronic opening in the radio. This is the first vehicle recall related to cyber security.
Fiat Chrysler learned of the problem from a third party in January 2014, and began working on a fix, but did not alert owners, federal regulators, or issue a recall for another 18 months.
The NHTSA opened an investigation into the recall to determine if the vehicles face other security risks as well.
A feature in Wired magazine offered a real-world test by hacking into a Jeep Cherokee, taking over steering, transmission, brakes and controlling the air conditioner, locks and radio.
Fiat Chrysler said there were two known problems concerning the vehicles; the radio accessibility by accepting commands from external sources, and the communications port was unintentionally left open in the cellular communications network. The company said it sealed off the loophole to prevent similar attacks.
This is not the first time Chrysler has faced regulatory scrutiny concerning failure to address recall problems on vehicles. Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty vehicles were affected by a rear fuel tank recall which caused fires when rear-ended. The recall was linked to 51 deaths.
Earlier this week, the NHTSA fined Chrysler $105 million for failure to perform timely recalls and failure to notify regulators and consumers about defective vehicles. This is the largest fine ever levied against an auto manufacturer.
SPY Act
Consumer vehicles are increasingly becoming more connected to the internet and technology features are added for consumer enjoyment. Yet, only two of 16 car companies have developed any capability to detect cyber attacks in real time, with the ability to respond.
Under the SPY Act, the cyber dashboard would be established to determine how well the car is protected. The information collected would be secured and stored onboard to prevent transmission, and owners of vehicles would be made aware of data collection and able to opt out without losing access to important technical features.
Hacking protection will also be put into place, and personal information would be prohibited from being used for advertising and marketing uses.
“Drivers shouldn’t have to choose between being connected and being protected,” said Markey. “This legislation will set minimum standards and transparency rules to protect the data, security and privacy of drivers in the modern age of increasingly connected vehicles.”
The Senators said the SPY Act would help protect personal information as new vehicle safety and monitoring technology is introduced. The need for well-tested software and technology for detecting and preventing attacks needs to be implemented quickly.
“Rushing to roll out the next big thing, automakers have left cars unlocked to hackers and data-trackers,” said Blumenthal. “This common-sense legislation protects the public against cybercriminals who exploit exciting advances in technology like self-driving and wireless connected cars.”
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https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/vehicle-cybersecurity-bill-85398/
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Viber has followed in WhatsApp’s steps with the announcement of end-to-end encryption across all major devices. These include Android and iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, PC and Mac desktops.
This feature will be available over the coming soon to all users who have the latest version of Viber. It includes strengthened security in every voice or video call, message, video and photo, in both group messages and one-to-one communication. As part of this update, Viber also launches ‘Hidden Chats’ allowing users to hide specific chats from the main screen so no-one but the user knows they exist. These chats can only be accessed using a four digit PIN, providing an optional additional layer of privacy to users’ personal communications.
“We take our users’ security and privacy very seriously, and it’s critical to us that they feel confident and protected when using Viber,” said Michael Shmilov, COO of Viber. “Because of this, we have spent a long time working on this latest update to ensure that our users have the most sophisticated security available and maximum control over their communications. We will continue to make this an ongoing priority as digital communication evolves.”
Full End-to-end encryption
Rolling out globally over the coming weeks, users will automatically be protected by end-to-end encryption in all communications on their smartphone once they have upgraded to the latest version of Viber – v6.0 or higher. Users who are also using Viber on an iPad, Android tablet or desktop will be prompted to re-connect it to their phone using a QR code.
All communications can benefit from an additional layer of security through account verification. Users will see a color-coded lock on the right hand side of the screen indicating the level of security:
Grey Lock: During an end-to-end encrypted conversation and call users will see a grey padlock icon. Tapping on this icon will display a tooltip letting users know that messages sent by the participants are encrypted.
Green Lock: Users also have the option of manually authenticating their contacts by selecting that they are ‘trusted’. This means that the selected contact’s authentication key will be monitored for future changes so users can be certain that they’re talking to the right person at all times. Tapping on the green padlock will display a tooltip letting users know that messages sent by the participants are encrypted and your contact is verified.
Red Lock: If there is a problem with the authentication key of a previously trusted user, the padlock will turn red. The breach may simply mean that a user has changed their primary phone; however, it can also indicate a man-in-the-middle-attack. To solve a possible breach state, the participant needs to be re-trusted. Tapping on the red icon will display a tooltip noting that Viber cannot verify this number.
Hidden Chats
Users will now also be able to hide specific one-on-one or group conversations from the ‘chats’ screen so that no-one knows they exist and access them using a four digit PIN. Users can hide the conversation by tapping on the info screen for a particular chat. It will then ask for a four digit PIN or, for iOS users, provide an option for a fingerprint. Users will be notified of a message in a Hidden conversation without the text of the message, or who it is from, appearing on the screen.
This is not bi-directional, meaning if one user hides the conversation, nothing will be changed on the recipient’s side.
This latest update, along with the ‘Delete’ feature – which allows users to delete messages on the recipient’s phone even after they’ve sent them whether the person has seen it or not – demonstrates Viber’s increased focus on putting its users in control of their privacy and personal communications.
Most new smartphone releases of the past few years have been like cat-and-mouse games with consumers and each other. It has been as if morsels of cheese are thrown into the box to make it more interesting: a little extra camera here, a little more battery there, and incremental changes to size, speed (more) and weight (less). Each change moves the needle of innovation ever-so-slightly. Until we find ourselves, a few years later, with a handset that is revolutionary compared to six years ago, but an anti-climax relative to six months before.
And then came Samsung. Probably stung by the “incremental improvement” phrase that has become almost a cliché about new Galaxy devices, the Korean giant chose to unleash a beast last week.
The new Galaxy Note 9 is not only the biggest smartphone Samsung has ever released, but one of the biggest flagship handsets that can still be called a phone. With a 6.4” display, it suddenly competes with mini-tablets and gaming consoles, among other devices that had previously faced little contest from handsets.
It offers almost ever cutting edge introduced to the Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones earlier this year, including the market-leading f1.5 aperture lens, and an f2.4. telephoto lens, each weighing in at 12 Megapixels. The front lens is equally impressive, with an f1.7 aperture – first introduced on the Note 8 as the widest yet on a selfie camera.
So far, so S9. However, the Note range has always been set apart by its S Pen stylus, and each edition has added new features. Born as a mere pen that writes on screens, it evolved through the likes of pressure sensitivity, allowing for artistic expression, and cut-and-paste text with translation-on-the-fly.
The spirit and intention of the amendments to the National Land Transport Act No 5 (NLTA), 2009 put forward by the Ministry of Transport are to be commended. It is especially pleasing that these amendments include ridesharing and e-hailing operators and drivers as legitimate participants in the country’s public transport system, which point to government’s willingness to embrace the changes and innovation taking place in the country’s transport industry.
However, there are aspects of the proposed amendments that are, at best, premature given that the necessary, well-functioning systems and processes are not yet in place to make these regulatory changes viable.
Of particular concern are the significant financial penalties that will need to be paid by ridesharing and e-hailing companies whose independent operators are found to be transporting passengers without a legal permit issued by the relevant local authority. These fines can be as high as R100 000 per driver operating without a permit. Apart from being an excessive penalty it is grossly unfair given that a large number of local authorities don’t yet have functioning permit issuing systems and processes in place.
The truth is that the operating permit issuance system in South Africa is effectively broken. The application and issuance processes for operating licenses are fundamentally flawed and subject to extensive delays, sometimes over a year in length. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that it is very difficult for applicants whose permit applications haven’t yet been approved to get reasons for the extensive delays on the issuing of those permits.
Uber has had extensive first-hand experience with the frustratingly slow process of applying for these permits, with drivers often having to wait months and, in some cases more than a year, for their permits.
Sadly, there appears to be no sense of urgency amongst local authorities to prioritise fixing the flawed permit issuing systems and processes or address the large, and growing, backlogs of permit applications. As such, in order for the proposed stringent permit enforcement rules to be effective and fair to all role players, the long-standing issues around permit issuance first need to be addressed. At the very least, before the proposed legislation amendments are implemented, the National Transport Ministry needs to address the following issues:
Efficient processes and systems must be put in place in all local authorities to allow drivers to easily apply for the operating permits they require
Service level agreements need to be put in place with local authorities whereby they are required to assess applications and issue permits within the prescribed 60-day period.
Local authorities need to be given deadlines by which their current permit application backlogs must be addressed to allow for faster processing of new applications once the amendments are promulgated.
If the Transport Ministry implements the proposed legislation amendments before ensuring that these permit issuance challenges are addressed, many drivers will be faced with the difficult choice of either having to operate illegally whilst awaiting their approved permits and risking significant fines and/or arrest, or stopping operations until they receive their permits, thereby losing what is, for many of them, their only source of income.
As such, if the Ministry of Transport is not able to address these particular challenges, it is only reasonable to ask it to reconsider this amendment and delay its implementation until the necessary infrastructure is in place to ensure it does not impact negatively on the country’s transport industry. The legislators must have been aware of the challenges of passing such a significant law, as the Amendment Bill allows for the Minister to use his discretion to delay implementation of provisions for up to 5 years.
Fair trade and healthy competition are the cornerstones of any effective and growing economy. However, these clauses (Section 66 (7) and Section 66A) of the NLTA amendment, as well as the proposal that regulators be given authority to define the geographic locations or zones in which vehicles may operate, are contrary to the spirit of both. As a good corporate citizen, Uber is committed to supplementing and enhancing South Africa’s national transport system and contributing positively to the industry. If passed into law without the revisions suggested above, these new amendments will limit our business and many others from playing the supportive roles we all can, and should, in growing the SA transport and tourism industries as well as many other key economic sectors.
What’s more, if passed as they currently stand, the amendments will effectively limit South African consumers from having full access to the range of convenient transport options they deserve; which has the potential to harm the reputation and credibility of the entire transport industry.
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http://gadget.co.za/viber-follows-whatsapp-with-end-to-end-encryption/
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Cyber security is no new term for any of us. Even the biggest of organizations making billions of dollars turnover, employing high salaried diligent work force and deploying high-end IT security infrastructure become the victim of cyber attacks. We live in an era where it is obvious to know that if an organization wants to provide secure IT services and platform to their users then they must take essential steps towards ensuring that they do not end up being a victim of any kind of cyber attacks. For more information, visit http://www.siberistihbarat.com/.
Some of the actionable steps such as encrypting portable drives and workstations, implementation of password management systems for their users, regular security checks and analysis of wireless networks, implementing auditable and secure solutions for remote access, carrying out configuration review for security solutions already existing , etc. are some of the ways that should be implemented, but often many organizations do not do so since they lack right guidance or may even run out of budget. But does that mean to just sit idle and wait for the cyber attacks to happen? Certainly not, and that is when cyber security intelligence or cyber threat intelligence comes into picture.
Cyber threat intelligence is a team of IT security professionals undertaking a project of an organization to protect its infrastructure and intellectual property. It means protecting any cyber related information that is vulnerable. Such professional assistance provides clients with all sorts of information related to cyber threat and helps in identifying these possible threats. Cyber threat intelligence has proved to be beneficial for many IT industries and even government firms. It provides a deeper insight into cyber threats and also offers guidance and support for the particular incident.
Cyber threat intelligence platforms are designed to provide a reliable, interpretable, immediately actionable and associable data and information to its users. This platform is incorporated by several industries including e-commerce, telecommunication, banking, energy, public and private organizations and in many information security and information technology units.
If you are also an organization operating in any of these above mentioned domains and wish to secure yourself from any of the cyber threats then USTA (National Cyber Threat Network) is the perfect platform for you.
USTA (National Cyber Threat Network) is a research and development project which started in 2012 and has been approved by Technopark Istanbul. The methods, techniques and tools that are used by cybercriminals to operate are determined under this project, after which, the obtained intelligence is sent to the concerned organization or institution with the help of this platform. USTA (National Cyber Threat Network) is the best intelligence platform in Turkey and has achieved several awards and accolades including the “Best Security Product Of The Year” award in the year 2015.
About USTA (National Cyber Threat Network):
USTA (National Cyber Threat Network) is a platform providing cyber intelligence (Siber İstihbarat) services and solutions for firms against cyber threats. Their modules consist of cyber intelligence module, brand protection module and anti fraud module.
For more information about USTA, please visit Siberistihbarat.com.
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https://standupwrite.com/what-cyber-threat-intelligence-actually-means-in-todays-world/
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“Smart” medical devices offer juicy targets to mischief-makers, and the threat is a global one. From garden-variety hackers, to cyber-mercenaries, to nation-states bent on global chaos, devicemakers face uncharted regulatory and liability risks.
FDAnews has invited global cybersecurity expert Norma Krayem to walk you through the rapidly changing global regulatory landscape and show you new coping strategies.
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https://www.fdanews.com/products/55431-managing-cybersecurity-risks-in-the-medical-device-and-healthcare-sectors---webinar-recordingtranscript
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Reimage is a tool to detect malware.
Social Search Toolbar is spread on the Internet in a form of a toolbar. It is not spread as an individual application, so to look for its official page is useless. Most of the users claim they did not install this toolbar on purpose or claim that can’t remember doing so. As one of the users wrote:
Hello. I have a question about Social Search Toolbar. I’m pretty sure that I did not install such toolbar as I’m not a fan of browser toolbars, extensions, and similar things at all. However, as if our of the blue I have found this toolbar and search.conduit.com homepage installed on each of my web browsers (Google Chrome, Internet Explorer). Could you please explain why my web browser has been compromised?
In fact, Social Search Toolbar hijacker is typically spread bundled with free software. In other words, it is promoted as an ‘optional download’ of various torrent files, download managers, PDF creators, media players, and similar programs. Therefore, if you have found Social Search Toolbar injected into each web browsers, it means that you have installed a third-party software with a bundle. Luckily, it’s easy to understand when a web browser has been hijacked by this pest. Usually, it is distributed bundled with BHO (Browser Helper Object), SocialSearchBar Community Toolbar, search.conduit.com homepage, and SocialSearchBar Customized Web Search engine. Consequently, you will see all above-mentioned components within each of your web browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.). On top of that, you will not be allowed to delete Social Search Toolbar, search.conduit.com homepage, and SocialSearchBar Customized Web Search engine by yourself because all your attempts will be blocked by a BHO. Therefore, you can render a quick solution – Reimage or another professional anti-malware.
SocialSearchBar Customized Web Search.
Therefore, if you want to delete each of these components without much difficulties, you should do that in an automated way. If you are not willing to install additional software, you can use manual Social Search Toolbar guide that is given down below.
You can remove Social Search Toolbar automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareWebroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus, Malwarebytes Anti Malware. We recommend these applications because they can easily delete potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
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Here, look for Social Search Toolbar or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove Social Search Toolbar from Windows shortcuts
Right click on the shortcut of Mozilla Firefox and select Properties.
Go to Shortcut tab and look at the Target field. Delete malicious URL that is related to your virus.
Repeat steps that are given above with all browsers' shortcuts, including Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Make sure you check all locations of these shortcuts, including Desktop, Start Menu and taskbar.
If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Social Search Toolbar or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for Social Search Toolbar and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
Click Settings to open more options.
Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
Find this folder on your computer: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft. MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
Here, select Social Search Toolbar and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Social Search Toolbar removal.
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions.
Here, select Social Search Toolbar and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
Change your homepage and default search engine if it was altered by your virus
Click on menu icon and choose Settings.
Here, look for the Open a specific page or set of pages under On startup option and click on Set pages.
Now you should see another window. Here, delete malicious search sites and enter the one that you want to use as your homepage.
Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
Here, select Extensions and look for Social Search Toolbar or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Open your Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu section. Here, select Preferences as it was displayed previously and select General.
Here, look at the Homepage field. If it was altered by Social Search Toolbar, remove unwanted link and enter the one that you want to use for your searches. Remember to include the "http://" before typing in the address of the page.
Reset Safari
Here, select Reset Safari....
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Social Search Toolbar removal process.
After uninstalling this potentially unwanted program (PUP) and fixing each of your web browsers, we recommend you to scan your PC system with a reputable anti-spyware. This will help you to get rid of Social Search Toolbar registry traces and will also identify related parasites or possible malware infections on your computer. For that you can use our top-rated malware remover: Reimage, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareWebroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus or Malwarebytes Anti Malware.
Use the QR scanner to get instructions on your mobile device.
You can quickly scan the QR code with your mobile device and have Social Search Toolbar manual removal instructions right in your pocket.
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https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-social-search-toolbar.html
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July 12, 2021, 11:47 a.m. ·2 min read
Microsoft has confirmed it's buying RiskIQ, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence and cloud-based software as a service for organizations.
Terms of the deal, which will see RiskIQ's threat intelligence services integrated into Microsoft's flagship security offerings, were not disclosed, although Bloomberg previously reported that Microsoft will pay more than $500 million in cash for the company. Microsoft declined to confirm the reported figure.
The announcement comes amid a heightened security landscape as organizations shift to remote and hybrid working strategies.
RiskIQ scours the web, mapping out details about websites and networks, domain name records, certificates and other information, like WHOIS registration data, providing customers visibility into what assets, devices and services can be accessed outside of a company's firewall. That helps companies lock down their assets and limit their attack surface from malicious actors. It's that data in large part that helped the company discover and understand Magecart, a collection of groups that inject credit card stealing malware into vulnerable websites.
Microsoft says that by embedding RiskIQ's technologies into its core products, its customers will be able to build a more comprehensive view of the global threats to their businesses as workforces continue to work outside of the traditional office environment.
The deal will also help organizations keep an eye on supply-chain risks, Microsoft says. This is likely a growing priority for many: An attack on software provider SolarWinds last year affected at least 18,000 of its customers, and just this month IT vendor Kaseya fell victim to a ransomware attack that spread to more than 1,000 downstream businesses.
Eric Doerr, vice president of cloud security at Microsoft, said: "RiskIQ helps customers discover and assess the security of their entire enterprise attack surface — in the Microsoft cloud, AWS, other clouds, on-premises, and from their supply chain. With more than a decade of experience scanning and analyzing the internet, RiskIQ can help enterprises identify and remediate vulnerable assets before an attacker can capitalize on them."
“The vision and mission of RiskIQ is to provide unmatched internet visibility and insights to better protect and inform our customers and partners’ security programs," said Manousos. "Our combined capabilities will enable best-in-class protection, investigations, and response against today’s threats.”
The acquisition is one of many Microsoft has made recently in the cybersecurity space. The software giant last year bought Israeli security startup CyberX in a bid to boost its Azure IoT business, and just last month it acquired Internet of Things security firm ReFirm Labs.
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Here I enumerate the things which are majority important about antivirus security compatible for windows 8. The compatibility of antivirus program is major aspect for windows 8. As per Microsoft contains in build strongest antivirus is that Microsoft Security Essentials but third party antivirus programs are the choice of customers.
As per Norton Anti Virus, Norton protection works with Windows 8 Release Preview very well and they are working on Windows 8 to give best security against viruses. Norton has not mentioned about windows 8 RTM support but soon it may work with. Norton also offering free beats for windows 8 consumer preview users. For download of Norton antivirus (Norton beta 2013) for Windows 8 RTM and Consumer preview visit here http://us.norton.com/beta/overview/norton-2013.
As per Microsoft, Norton Internet Security 2012 (Version 19.2 and 19.6) compatible with windows 8 consumer preview. The poll conducted by Microsoft shown 74 out of 81 voted compatible.
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As per Kaspersky, for testing purpose they released Kaspersky Internet Security Technical Preview which is specially designed for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Kasperkey testing labs are ready for strongest option of antivirus program for Windows 8 and will release as soon as with Windows 8.
Nothing mentioned about Windows 8 RTM version support but it may work with it. As per Microsoft, Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 (Version 13.0) compatible with windows 8 consumer preview. The poll conducted by Microsoft shown 202 out of 256 voted compatible. For more information visit here http://www.kaspersky.com/windows8/
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Intercepting fiber optic cables echos telegraph hacks.
Last month we learned that the NSA, which wreaked havoc for Obama’s PR team by allegedly snooping on every person with a cell phone anywhere, also managed to tap into tech fortresses Google and Yahoo. That's a bit of a surprising development considering the agency had front-end access to their data via the secretive Prism spying program. NSA, which had no problem gaining access to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal phone, was able to infiltrate the companies by bypassing their high security data centers.
According to a report in The New York Times, the spy agency targeted fiber-optic cable providers that connect data centers globally, rather than hacking into Google or Yahoo directly. The unencrypted cables are owned by companies like Verizon, Vodafone, and Level 3 Communications, which some suspect was the firm that was breached. The Times reports that hitting up connector cables is actually a pretty old school move:
As far back as the days of the telegraph, spy agencies have located their operations in proximity to communications companies. Indeed, before the advent of the Internet, the N.S.A. and its predecessors for decades operated listening posts next to the long-distance lines of phone companies to monitor all international voice traffic. Beginning in the 1960s, a spy operation code-named Echelon targeted the Soviet Union and its allies’ voice, fax and data traffic via satellite, microwave and fiber-optic cables. In the 1990s, the emergence of the Internet both complicated the task of the intelligence agencies and presented powerful new spying opportunities based on the ability to process vast amounts of computer data.
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Proper and careful cyber risk assessment and management allows you and your SMB enterprise the long-range assurance needed in order to plan and fulfill your business goals. Optimum security as well as performance tend to walk hand in hand with most IT networks, either because one is an outgrowth of the other, or because it is specifically planned that way. It just makes good business sense to have your IT network evaluated for security risks and optimized for data and cybersecurity, especially in an age fraught with compliance regulations and cyberattacks of all kinds.
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Using a cyber security framework. Here’s a good starting point for any sized business enterprise: Having an effective framework based on the specific industry the company represents. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) employs a Cyber Security Framework that’s been adopted across multiple high-risk industries such as Healthcare, Education, Financial, and Government. The NIST’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity should probably be read by every CIO or CISO in the land.
Having a combination of hardware and software firewalls. There are many opinions on having either one type of firewall or another (hardware or software), and consequently most people fail to see the cyber risk management and assurance that comes with employing a combination of the two types of firewall.
Using antivirus software protection for workstations and servers. Antivirus software has been a mainstay for IT networks from (nearly) the beginning, because viruses act as key loggers by which system hijackers can record everything a person types (like passwords, usernames, and other security authentication). Having antivirus software installed on both servers and workstations puts guards on both doors, giving you extra risk-management assurance.
Protecting cloud servers and cloud computing traffic. This is a biggie. With literally millions of businesses worldwide migrating their servers and data networks to the cloud, having adequate security in place, in the form of firewalls – such as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) web application AWS WAF – gives you comprehensive control over which traffic to block or allow into your web apps.
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Two U.S. senators today filed a bill that would require the federal government to establish standards to ensure automakers secure a driver against vehicle cyber attacks.
The Security and Privacy in Your Car (SPY Car) Act, filed by Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), also establishes a rating system — or "cyber dashboard"— that informs consumers about how well the vehicle protects drivers' security and privacy beyond the proposed federal minimum standards.
"Drivers shouldn't have to choose between being connected and being protected," Sen. Markey said in a statement. "We need clear rules of the road that protect cars from hackers and American families from data trackers. This legislation will set minimum standards and transparency rules to protect the data, security and privacy of drivers in the modern age of increasingly connected vehicles."
Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) Nearly all of today's vehicles can record driving history.
The legislation would also ban the use of personal driving information collected by automakers from vehicle computer system for advertising or marketing purposes without the owner clearly opting in.
The bill follows a report released by Markey last year -- The Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk -- that called out major gaps in the auto industry's efforts to secure cars from hackers who can take advantage of cellular or Wi-Fi-connected cars.
For example, the report states that only two of the 16 car companies had developed any capability to detect and respond to a hacking attack in real time and most customers don't even know that their information is being collected and sent to third parties.
"Nearly 100% of vehicles on the market include wireless technologies that could pose vulnerabilities to hacking or privacy intrusions," the report said.
Last year, the world's 19 biggest automakers agreed to principles they say will protect driver privacy in an electronic age where in-vehicle computers collect everything from location and speed to what smartphone you use.
A 19-page letter committing to the principles was submitted to the Federal Trade Commisison from the industry's two largest trade associations: the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) and the Association of Global Automakers (AGA). The AAM represents Detroit's Big Three automakers -- Ford, GM and Chrysler -- along with Toyota, Volkswagen AG and others. The AGA also represents Toyota, along with Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor Co., among others.
Carmakers already remotely collect data from their vehicles, unbeknownst to most drivers, according to Nate Cardozo, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"Consumers don't know with whom that data is being shared," Cardozo said. "Take Ford Sync, for example. In its terms of service, it says it's collecting location data and call data if you use Sync to dictate emails."
Location data about drivers is continually sent to manufacturers, which allows navigation systems to update users on traffic and weather conditions and offer other services such as remote payment for parking.
Other examples of vehicle vulnerabilities include:
A 92-page report revealing "the 20 most hackable cars" that was presented last year at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas by two industry experts.
A device built by a 14-year-old to wirelessly communicate with a vehicle's controller area network (CAN) and remotely control non-safety related equipment such as headlights, window wipers and the horn. (He was also able to unlock the car and engage the vehicle's remote start.) The device was publicized at the CyberAuto Challenge in Columbus, Ohio. At least one lawsuit has already been filed against automakers, claiming they have failed to take basic measures to secure their vehicles from hackers.
The SPY Act would address cybersecurity standards to help prevent hacking into vehicle controls systems and data security concerns to help ensure all collected information would be secured from unwanted access while stored on-board, in transit, and stored off-board.
The legislation also calls for vehicles to be equipped with technology that can detect, report and stop hacking attempts in real time. And it calls on the FTC to develop privacy standards on the data collected by vehicles, including transparency, so that owners are explicitly aware of any data collection. Owners would be able to opt out of data collection by automakers and others.
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#1 moreyos Vista and 7 4 posts Delete Recovery Partition? Had bad virus I just installed Windows 7 on my parents laptop, they got that Fake AntiSpyware virus which Geek Squad at BestBuy...geniuses...not. Cost $130 and they "recommend" a $65 antivirus, which my mother thought would be a great idea while not telling me..
Anyways, I installed Windows 7 and I saw in the boot menu the option for Windows Vista... so I am pretty sure it is still there. What do you guys think? Delete recovery partition? I have Windows.old in the C drive which contains all the old program files. So that worries me a bit.
I know there were two partitions when I installed. One was recovery at 10 gigs and the other was like 90 gigs or something (which I installed to)...anyways, I'm hoping to completely get rid of this virus, and I'm thinking now that it may not even affect 7?
#4 moreyos Vista and 7 4 posts I probably should have reformated...I don't know why I forgot that step.
She's having the problem now that her computer freezes for like a minute at a time. I'll probably reformat and start again. Do you think that will fix it?
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Adequate cybersecurity measures are difficult enough for any business to achieve. When it comes to the privacy and protection of customer data, the lack of a national standard means companies must adhere to different requirements for each state they do business in.
Cybersecurity insurance presents a logical choice for companies looking to protect themselves from the consequences of a data breach, but even so, exclusions and evolving threats leave policyholders vulnerable.
The Cybersecurity Association of Maryland (CAMI) shone some light on where these problems overlap at a Sept. 27 Breakfast Club event hosted by the University of Maryland University College at the College Park Marriott & Conference Center in Hyattsville.
Presenters Howard Feldman, a partner in the Whiteford, Taylor and Preston law firm’s Baltimore office, and Cyber Risk Expert Mike Volke of PSA Insurance & Financial Services of Baltimore, led the discussion.
Mike Volke (left), PSA Insurance Cyber Risk Expert, and Howard Feldman, a partner with Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, illustrated the challenges posed to businesses, by a lack of national data privacy standards at a CAMI event in September.
Throughout the United States, cybersecurity laws and regulations change nearly every day, said Feldman.
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“Lawyers like well-settled principles of law,” he said. “That’s what having a stable legal and regulatory market promotes, but [in this environment] it’s hard for businesses to plan, adjust and know what to do.”
So far, Feldman said, Congress has only taken a sector-by-sector approach as different problems arise, while it has been the states themselves that have thought more globally. That disconnect has resulted in a labyrinth of consumer notification laws and regulations for large retailers like Target or Home Depot to follow when they experience a data breach.
“If you represent companies that do business nationwide or state to state … it’s a real pain to try to comply with all 50 state laws,” he said.
Default Standard
Members of the European Union (EU) began enforcing the data privacy and protection requirements of the organization’s universal General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May this year.
In the months that followed, the state of California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, something Feldman considers troubling because the hastily written law has already been amended and is expected to be amended several more times before taking effect in early 2020.
Companies doing business in the state and collecting data from California consumers — meaning virtually every company in the United States — will have to comply with the legislation.
“Unless Congress acts, that’s going to become the default law for the country for data security,” Feldman said.
Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, representative for Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District, acknowledged that California has a powerful economy, but said he believes local officials will fight for what is best for their own citizens and business community.
“I’m confident we can all work together toward robust data privacy standards,” he said. “More effort at the federal level to make sure these issues are ironed out before the California law goes into effect would certainly be common sense.”
Too Many Cooks
Many industries in the United States have lobbied Congress to establish national cybersecurity privacy and data protection standards for a number of years.
“[The GDPR] may be a very onerous standard, but at least you have one standard that applies across the entire European economic group,” Feldman said.
Ruppersberger, however, cautioned against rushing legislation based off the European model, despite its positive privacy measures.
“I am glad more American businesses are proactively protecting online users – like the Cybersecurity Tech Accord and other [measures] — without a legislative intervention,” he said. “Consumers over the last few years are learning so much more about how much of their personal data is held, traded, and sold by the private sector, such as Google and Facebook, and many are demanding to know more about how their data is used. That should push us to create better solutions for our constituents.” “The main issue has been committee jurisdiction,” he said. “Issues like cybersecurity and technology policy are very hard to tackle in Congress because the fault lines lie across many different committees. This is why I’ve co-sponsored legislation to fix how issues such as cyber are delegated in the House.”
Cyber Insurance
According to Volke, cybersecurity insurance requirements are beginning to appear in more business contracts as companies try to protect themselves against the high cost of data breaches.
“Some will exclude liquidated damages and contractually assumed liability, so it’s important to understand what you have in your policy,” he said. “It’s not always possible to push that liability to a third party … through a contract.”
Aside from covering liability, cybersecurity insurance policies can be useful tools that provide forensics experts, legal obligation reviews and other resources in response to a cyber attack, and can also cover costs associated with system damage, malware removal and lost revenue due to business interruption.
The product is still in its infancy, however, with industry experts still struggling to figure out how to underwrite risk without the means to do an intrusive network assessment or require customers to provide one.
While insurers can monitor what a company does to control risk, there’s no way to monitor a completely dynamic threat environment.
“At some point there’s going to be a way for the insurance carriers to get better data and information about the risk they’re underwriting, but it’s not a traditional model for insurance,” Volke said.
On the national level, state legislatures and Insurance Commissioners are currently evaluating cybersecurity regulations, Ruppersberger said, and a few states have actually passed laws dealing with the insurance issue.
“I think Congress has been reluctant to preempt the states on this one, but the passage of state laws has certainly been good for the community as a whole,” he said. “The more businesses and local entities that are having discussions around cybersecurity standards and models, the more secure we will all be in the long run.”
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Premera Blue Cross, a health plan in the Pacific Northwest, is about to get on the Wall of Shame as soon as HHS confirms details of Premera hacking incident where reportedly a cyber-attack exposed personal information of 11 million individuals, the second largest breach on the federal tally.
The initial attack occurred on May 5, 2014 as per Premera’s investigation and Premera notified the FBI. Premera would be notifying approximately 11 million affected individuals by mail and offering two years of free credit monitoring and identify theft protections services, with a dedicated call center for its members and affected individuals.
This would have an adverse brand effect for Premera Blue Cross, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska, and its affiliate brands Vivacity and Connexion Insurance Solutions Inc.
Premera members’ breached information could include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, member identification numbers, bank account information and claims information, including clinical information, and the Social Security Numbers. The Company said, “Along with steps taken to cleanse its IT system of issues raised by this cyber-attack, Premera is taking additional actions to strengthen and enhance the security of its IT systems moving forward”.
More and more businesses are falling prey to cyber criminals. How confident is your organization to say that you are fully prepared? About 40% of cybersecurity breaches in 2014 were in the healthcare vertical. Recent reports indicate that healthcare data is becoming more valuable than the credit card data. HIPAA compliance requires that all PHI information and PHI critical assets be secured.
First, it is essential to protect your information assets, not just assuming that your endpoint computers remain well protected but to extend the protection to include laptops, tablets, mobile smartphones, and removable storage devices as USB flash drives. Knowing your critical assets and their roles in information processing, storage or in transit is very critical. Most often, as organizational members bring in their own devices (BYOD), information control becomes difficult. The 2015 security trend projects that Mobile devices will be increasingly the target of attack for credential and authentication thefts. Therefore, it is essential to implement an effective asset tracking management system for your internal and external/perimeter IT infrastructure.
To be HIPAA compliant – businesses need to do a HIPAA assessment, security scan their PHI assets and do Security Risk Analysis. This is also required for meaningful use attestation for various stages.
Second, with growing vulnerabilities discovered in dormant code – Poodle, Shell Shock, Ghost, the inadequate security built into new technologies, and not updating security patches and updates from software vendors, contribute continuously to exploitation of vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. It is a Great risk for healthcare organizations as long as they continue to use outdated software and rudimentary security. You need to consider proactively acting against continuing challenges in ensuring security of your information assets, improve your security posture with Aegify Security Posture Management. Aegify scanner gives you the following distinct features that other web scanners do not offer:
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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a lithium-ion battery that shuts down as it begins to overheat, potentially meaning the types of catastrophic fires seen in hoverboards, laptops and airliners could become a thing of the past. Lithium-ion batteries are used in just about all portable electronics. They're light, can store a lot of energy and are easily recharged, but they are also susceptible to overheating if damaged. A short circuit in the battery often leads to fire. In the new Stanford battery, researchers employed a polyethylene film that has embedded particles of nickel with nanoscale spikes. They coated the spikes with graphene, a conducting material, so that electricity can flow over the surface. [ 12 hardware and software vulnerabilities you should address now ] But when the temperature rises, the film expands, and at about 70 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Fahrenheit) the conducting spikes no longer touch each other, breaking the circuit and causing the battery to shut down. Stanford University/IDGNS Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, examines a polyethylene film in a lab at the university.
Once the battery shuts down, a runaway thermal reaction is avoided and the battery cools, eventually bringing the nickel spikes back into contact and allowing the electricity flow to resume."We can even tune the temperature higher or lower depending on how many particles we put in or what type of polymer materials we choose," said Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at the university and one of the research team. The research was also carried out by Stanford engineer Yi Cui and postdoctoral scholar Zheng Chen. Details were published on Monday in the journal Nature Energy. Stanford University/IDGNS A polyethylene film is tested for its reaction to heat in a lab at Stanford University.
"Compared with previous approaches, our design provides a reliable, fast, reversible strategy that can achieve both high battery performance and improved safety," Cui said in a statement. The battery is a second job for the nickel-embedded polyethylene material. Bao, the Stanford professor, used the same material in a wearable sensor she developed to measure body temperature.
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http://www.cio.com/article/3021015/researchers-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-wont-overheat.html
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Cables are used for the sake of access of the internet over the networking media. They are faster in nature as compared to other devices used for the internet access. It is not necessary to establish a internet connection for cables because they are always on.
If we discuss about the DSL, it also have the same function that is used for the access of the internet for the sake of gathering different types of information at a good speed but not more then cable. But for the access of internet through DSL requires the proper establishment of connection.
Configuration
Configuration of the high speed internet cable requires two main devices one is client other is server. The cable stars from the server called as Attic and connect to the modem of the personal computer simple.
On the other hand configuration of the DSL is little bit complicated as compared to cable modem. The only thing that is that is required for the installation of the DSL is the phone line which directly connected to the modem or the LAN card of your system.
Speed of Working
If we talk about the high speed internet cable, as it is fact from its name that is has quite higher speed as compared ton other devices. The downloading speed of the cable ranging from 4 Mbps to 16Mbps and uploading speed is 384 kbps to 1.5 Mbps.
DSL is quite slower as compared to high speed internet cable services. Its downloading speed ranging from 768 Kbps to 6 Mbps and uploading speed is128 Kbps to 768 Kbps.
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Updated: 10th Dec. After finding a bug in this approach I added the Backup Operators group to this process. It appears that when you try to delete a GPO from AGPM, it tries to restore the GPO object ownership back to the defaults of “Domain Admins”. When its running it least privilege it no longer has the permissions to do this. The only other group than Domain Admins with this permission is Backup Operators. Thus its necessary to also grant the service account this group access.
Tags AGPM Comments (4) Cancel reply Name * Email * Website Anonymous says: August 27, 2016 at 8:36 am Mike here again. A customer recently asked how they should configure their Advanced Group Policy Management
Anonymous says: August 27, 2016 at 8:36 am I have a caveat to this. These are the correct permissions to give it and everything works correctly though we have noticed a bug in deletion of a GPO that indicates in the progress UI the deletion failed when in fact it actually succeeds. We are investigating this bug. There are two workarounds:
1. Revert back to using Domain Admins for the service account 2. Ignore this error in this least privilege configuration
I will report back if we find anything of further concern though we havent yet.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mkleef/2008/11/18/locking-down-agpm-fit-for-least-privilege/
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On Friday, we highlighted a “secret” NSA map which purports to show every Chinese cyber attack on US targets over the past five years. “The prizes that China pilfered during its ‘intrusions’ included everything from specifications for hybrid cars to formulas for pharmaceutical products to details about U.S. military and civilian air traffic control systems,” intelligence sources told NBC, who broke the story.
The release of the map marked the culmination of a cyber attack propaganda campaign which began with accusations that North Korea had attempted to sabotage Sony, reached peak absurdity when Penn State claimed Chinese spies had taken control of the campus engineering department, and turned serious when Washington blamed China for what was deemed “the largest theft of US government data ever.” “Whether all of this is cause for the Pentagon to activate the ‘offensive’ component of its brand new cyber strategy remains to be seen,” we said yesterday.
As it turns out, the Office of Personnel Management breach will indeed be used to justify a cyber “retaliation”against China, because as The New York Times notes, “the hacking attack was so vast in scope and ambition that the usual practices for dealing with traditional espionage cases [do] not apply.” Here’s more:
The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for the theft of the personal information of more than 20 million Americans from the databases of the Office of Personnel Management, but it is still struggling to decide what it can do without prompting an escalating cyberconflict.
The decision came after the administration concluded that the hacking attack was so vast in scope and ambition that the usual practices for dealing with traditional espionage cases did not apply.
But in a series of classified meetings, officials have struggled to choose among options that range from largely symbolic responses — for example, diplomatic protests or the ouster of known Chinese agents in the United States — to more significant actions that some officials fear could lead to an escalation of the hacking conflict between the two countries.
That does not mean a response will happen anytime soon — or be obvious when it does.
So the US will do something, it just doesn’t yet know what or when or even if anyone will notice, but one thing is clear: “this aggression will not stand, man.”
The problem with “symbolic” responses is that they are merely, well, symbolic, and any real retaliation risks escalating the “cyberconflict.” Then again, not doing anything also risks prompting an escalation:
But over recent days, both James Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the military’s Cyber Command, have hinted at the internal debate by noting that unless the United States finds a way to respond to the attacks, they are bound to escalate.
Mr. Clapper predicted that the number and sophistication of hacking aimed at the United States would worsen “until such time as we create both the substance and psychology of deterrence.”
This echoes the rhetoric from the DoD’s “cyber strategy” released in April which says that “deterrence is partially a function of perception [and] works by convincing a potential adversary that it will suffer unacceptable costs if it conducts an attack on the United States.”
For now at least, it looks like criminal charges are off the table.
The Justice Department is exploring legal action against Chinese individuals and organizations believed responsible for the personnel office theft, much as it did last summer when five officers of the People’s Liberation Army, part of the Chinese military, were indicted on a charge of the theft of intellectual property from American companies. While Justice officials say that earlier action was a breakthrough, others characterize the punishment as only symbolic: Unless they visit the United States or a friendly nation, none of them are likely to ever see the inside of an American courtroom.
“Criminal charges appear to be unlikely in the case of the O.P.M. breach,” a study of the Office of Personnel Management breach published by the Congressional Research Service two weeks ago concluded. “As a matter of policy, the United States has sought to distinguish between cyber intrusions to collect data for national security purposes — to which the United States deems counterintelligence to be an appropriate response — and cyber intrusions to steal data for commercial purposes, to which the United States deems a criminal justice response to be appropriate.“
Instead, the US may look to remove the so called “great firewall” which Beijing uses to censor content it considers to be subversive or otherwise objectionable.
One of the most innovative actions discussed inside the intelligence agencies, according to two officials familiar with the debate, involves finding a way to breach the so-called great firewall, the complex network of censorship and control that the Chinese government keeps in place to suppress dissent inside the country. The idea would be to demonstrate to the Chinese leadership that the one thing they value most — keeping absolute control over the country’s political dialogue — could be at risk if they do not moderate attacks on the United States.
So perhaps there’s a silver lining in all of this: China’s 650 million internet users may, if only for a split second, be free to surf the web without the Politburo filter.
Of course if the US really wanted to do some cyber damage, the Pentagon could hack into China’s National Bureau of Statistics and see what the country’s real GDP figure looks like, and if that doesn’t teach them a lesson, maybe the best option would be to breach China Securities Finance Corporation and hit the “sell” button.
Finally, for those interested to monitor the global cyber war in real time, you can do so via Norsecorp by clicking on the following map.
Evedy corporation that moved MFG to China for the use of slave labor for the last 25+ years had to give the Chinese government all their trade secrets…that was the price of cheap labor…GE even gave China their power plants and nuclear power data. The craven lack of protection for the amazing technology the US and Europe held ought never to have been allowed.
China doesn’t need to steal the MFG of any corporations. The only thing they might not have are the military data….That was the only thing lacking. Every vehicle on the road has Chinese copies, sold by Cherry Motors in China…the data was part of the greedy cost for all that cheap labor…The few who balked at the price could MFG elsewhere. This was all covered in depth in the Wall Street Journal before the government shut them down.
So, if they stole anything, they are military secrets……..
China was also the key player after 2010 in establishing electronic currencies in nations all over the globe which allowed participating nations to trade directly with each other using their own currencies, leaving the dollar out…..They worked overtime in making Hugo Chavez’s Sucre a viable alternative replacing the dollar as world reserve currency.
Today, India, Russia, China, Brazil, much of South & Central America, most emerging African nations including South Africa, Australia and Canada now have alternatives to the dollar….The US dollar is used by the Euro, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the US…most other nations have abandoned the dollar (and the corrupt US leadership) because they no longer trust the US.
After the crash of 2008-2009 which caused entire nations to go bankrupt when nothing was done to repair or fix a thing in the US economy, the world started moving away from the US. Hugo Chavez offered a strong alternative with the Sucre, Russia and China both adopted it in November of 2010, and the US dollar no longer has precedence over other currencies….This is what they seek to repair, and it won’t work. The US leadership ought never to have allowed the offshoring of millions of jobs and much of the trade secretes…Now, the people pay the price. It is an appalling lack of decency, and there is no way to put the genie back into the bottle.
The next crash is around the corner, and nothing is on the horizon to avoid or suppress it. We have fools in power, and we face the end of the greatest way of living for mankind.
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http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2015/08/01/the-cyber-wars-begin-obama-says-us-must-retaliate-against-china-for-historic-data-breach/
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Share this on WhatsApp(Last Updated On: February 5, 2016) Steps taken by Income Tax Department for safeguarding taxpayers from Phishing emailsThe Income Tax Department has been at the forefront of using technology in implementing its –e-Governance initiatives. Most of its routine communication to taxpayers is through email and SMS. Therefore, the Department is very sensitive and alert to attempts made by fraudsters to spoof the Department’s identity to send phishing emails. To ensure that taxpayers are aware that the Department does not seek any confidential or financial information of the taxpayer over email, the below mentioned advisory has been prominently displayed on the national website:“The Income Tax Department NEVER asks for your PIN numbers, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial accounts through e-mail. The Income Tax Department appeals to taxpayers NOT to respond to such e-mails and NOT to share information relating to their credit card, bank and other financial accounts.”The Do’s and Don’t’s to ensure that the gullible taxpayers do not inadvertently play into the hands of fraudsters are clearly mentioned on the website:http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/report-phishing.aspx. All taxpayer reports of phishing emails are forwarded to [email protected] which is a Government of India agency mandated to fight against such threats. Further, the Department has implemented best practices such as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) for its email domains. Use of these protocols enables the e-mail receiver domains such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc to determine whether or not a received e-mail is actually from the defined sender such as the Department and block phishing emails from reaching the taxpayer. Taxpayers are advised to follow these simple checks if they do receive any email purporting to be from the Income Tax Department:
Check for the domain name carefully. Fake emails will have misspelt or incorrect sounding variants of websites of the Income Tax Department. Check the message header – for example in Gmail it can be viewed by selecting the option ‘Show Original’. Do not open such emails in spam or junk folder and do not reply to such emails. Do not open any attachments. Attachments may contain malicious code. Do not click on any links. Even if you have clicked on links inadvertently in a suspicious e-mail or phishing website then do not enter confidential information like bank account, credit card details. Do not cut and paste the link from the message into your browsers. Forward the phishing emails to [email protected] with a request to examine and block the sender. Use anti-virus software, anti spyware, and a firewall and keep them updated. Income Tax Department is committed to encouraging taxpayers to engage with it electronically by following safe and best practices. Source Ministry of Finance 05-February, 2016 1 Share this on WhatsApp
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http://taxheal.com/phishing-emails-steps-taken-by-income-tax-dept-for-taxpayers.html
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Dailyhelmsman.com reported on 27th August, 2014 stating that the University of Memphis or U of M was founded in 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee, US recently became victim of phishing as many students received an email from the "help desk".
Memphis.edu is the domain of University of Memphis but this particular email did not contain that domain at all.
The email asked students to click a link and update their account by filling their online data.
The University of Memphis Help Desk got alerted about the issue when a student called them stating the receipt of the email and he did not know what to do. The attendant of the help desk asked the student to send the email to the office which was then sent to abuse.memphis.edu which is the spam email help line of the University.
Ellen Watson, Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost of Information Technology of the University advised to be very careful while reading unfamiliar emails, as reported dailyhelmsman.com on August 27, 2014.
He continued: "We have stopped more than 7 million spam messages and on many occasions different hackers try to steal other's identity in different ways."
The University has highlighted some important security tips on its official website to minimize phishing scams. They include: Never click on links contained in an unsolicited email as such links often lead to fake Internet sites. For example, a phishing email may contain the link "Click here to update your information" as in the above case and then direct you to a fake business website requesting for personal information. The University advises to always use official URL to visit any institution's website.
Secondly, keep your password secured and all passwords are to be treated as confidential information of University.
Moreover, during second week of July, 2014, students of Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, US, were struck in a similar fashion. From Thursday, 10th June, 2014, many current students and alumni received a spam e-mail entitled "Deactivation of Account111" which officials of Elon University confirmed that they did not send the e-mail and hence students should be careful of that.
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My good friend TechPaul, at Tech-for Everyone, contacted me today to let me know that he will be conducting a drawing to giveaway (10)-ten licenses for the award winning NOD32 Antivirus 4.
You might not have heard of Eset or NOD32, but it has quietly been around, and winning awards, since the early 90′s (the days of DOS). For the last year, I have been using it as my primary anti-malware defense on my principle machine and I have not been disappointed. This Internet security tool passed my every test and I recommend it; and I do so to folks of any skill level. – Tech-for Everyone.
Folks, this is an excellent opportunity to possibly get your hands on some great antivirus software. To enter the drawing, simply click [HERE], and at the bottom of the article “Software License Giveaway: NOD32 Antivirus 4”, “Leave A Comment” and enter a name and valid e-mail address. The contest will end midnight Thursday, May 27th, and the winners announced Friday. Good Luck; and while you are there, give a big “Thank You” to TechPaul!
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How Parents Act: Some parents are so busy protecting kids physically and financially that they end up ignoring what their kids are up to on their phones, laptops and computers. As a result, they find themselves oblivious to the dangers that the youngsters are exposed to.
How they should actually act: Parent should pay attention to what their kids are up to, especially on their phones, laptops and computers, as these three platforms are frequently mentioned in cyberbullying facts. Monitoring or parental control software can come in real handy, though be sure to inform kids about it beforehand so that they don’t feel cheated or spied on.
Ignoring the Change in Kids’ Behavior
How Parents Act: Parents do not have enough stamina and energy to observe the child closely after coming home from a hectic day. Symptoms that tell us there is something wrong, like sudden change in eating habits, sleeping disorder, change in mood and behavior etc. often go unnoticed.
How they should actually act: Parents must know the routine of kids, the time they spend online, their social media friends, their most favorite games, their eating habits and sleeping routine. If they notice a change in routine behavior, they must probe it to get to the root cause of this change. Questions like how are things at school, your mobile working well, what did you do on laptop today etc. will be helpful in this regard.
Failing to understand Kids’ Problems
How Parents Act: Have your kid showed mood swings lately? Is he showing poor performance in weekly tests and quizzes? Is he not obeying you? If yes, then what will your normal reaction be? You would probably get mad at him to such a great extent that you may even punish him.
How they should actually act: If your kid is doing anything that irritates you, whether it’s his changing attitude or poor performance, you must first ask him about it as there is always a reason behind everything. Just because kids can be careless and reckless at times doesn’t mean they are always at fault. You must understand them and their problems. Maybe he is being bullied at school or on social media, and he is too reluctant to share this with you. Get to the bottom of the problem.
Lack of preventive measures
How Parents Act: Parents usually give personal mobile phone and computer to the kid at a very young age, and that too without educating them on safe and responsible use of technology.
How they should actually act: Before granting digital privileges to kids, parents must educate them on responsible use of technology, while also warning them of the potential consequences of irresponsible and reckless online behavior.
There is no better way to fight cyberbullying than to assure kids that you’ve got their back at all times. The problem becomes complicated only because of your absence from your kids’ daily life and failure to fulfill your responsibility of teaching them responsible use of technology.
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https://www.secureteen.com/cyberbullying/fighting-cyberbullying-what-parents-need-to-know/
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Deeplinks Blog posts about February 26, 2009 - 4:30pm | By Corynne McSherry Hey, Warner, Leave those Kids Alone Last month we reported that Warner Music Group was using YouTube’s Content I.D. (aka Video I.D.) tool to effectively censor myriad fair uses. We asked people to contact us if they needed legal help and put up a YouTube removal primer to give folks information about their options. As a result we’ve seen beautiful film montages set to music, videos to assist the hearing impaired, and many other examples of amazing artistic talent that have been censored by Warner Music. Read full post February 3, 2009 - 9:26am | By Fred von Lohmann YouTube's January Fair Use Massacre Fair Use and Intellectual Property: Defending the Balance Free Speech DMCA Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube.comThis is what it's come to. Teenagers singing "Winter Wonderland" being censored off YouTube. Read full post January 7, 2009 - 5:17pm | By Corynne McSherry Fox News Censors Political Expression In a scenario that has become depressingly familiar, a news organization has again used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") to censor legitimate political speech. Citizen Media Law Project reports that YouTube cancelled Progress Illinois' YouTube channel after Fox News had sent three notices of copyright infringement demanding the takedown of Progress Illinois' videos. In the videos, Progress Illinois, a union-sponsored blog, apparently used short clips of Fox News coverage of local and national political events to set up political commentary about those events. Progress Illinois sent a counternotice asking YouTube to restore the video, but that won't happen for several days, i.e. long after public interest in the event Progress Illinois is talking about has waned. Read full post December 1, 2008 - 1:20pm | By Richard Esguerra Change.gov Content Now Under Creative Commons License Free Speech In the last few days, President-elect Obama's transition team took a significant stride towards a more open government by licensing the content of Change.gov under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Using that license essentially means that the transition team is allowing others to freely share and remix what's posted there, provided that reposts are attributed to Change.gov. The move is a victory for the public and the many advocates for a more wired, participatory democracy.
It's also another reminder of the importance of Creative Commons, which affords creators an opportunity to opt for something less than Disney-style copyright restrictions. By embracing a CC license, the Obama team sets a valuable example for others in government, many of whom may have defaulted to "all rights reserved" without considering other options. Read full post November 25, 2008 - 11:33am | By Fred von Lohmann Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation Fair Use and Intellectual Property: Defending the Balance Innovation Coders' Rights Project DMCA Slashdot reports that Apple has sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki, a public wiki site, demanding the removal of postings there by those who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Short answer: Apple doesn't have a DMCA leg to stand on. Read full post Pages« first
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Oracle will detail 405 new security vulnerabilities Tuesday, part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory.
Oracle admins are staring down the barrel of a massive quarterly Critical Patch Update that includes 405 patches.
Business software giant Oracle Corp. revealed 286 of those vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable across nearly two dozen product lines.
Impacted with multiple critical flaws, rated 9.8 CVSS in severity, are 13 key Oracle products including Oracle Financial Services Applications, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Retail Applications and Oracle Support Tools, according to the company’s April Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement, posted Monday.
Each of the bugs will be addressed with mitigation advice or patches by Oracle on Tuesday, coinciding with Microsoft’s April’s Patch Tuesday release of fixes. That will keep system and network admins taxed with a flood of critical vulnerabilities to contend with.
Oracle’s Fusion Middleware alone is reporting 49 “vulnerabilities [that] may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials,” according to the bulletin.
Oracle said in total, its Fusion Middleware family of software has 56 new security patches affecting nearly 20 related services, including Identity Manager Connector (v. 9.0), Big Data Discovery (v. 1.6) and WebCenter Portal (v. 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0).
The mammoth update also includes medium-severity flaws for its Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), use for developing and deploying Java applications. Fifteen bugs, with an CVSS rating of 8.5, are remotely exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker over a network – no user credentials required.
Details of the Java SE bugs, along with technical insights and mitigation guidance for all 405 flaws, will be available Tuesday.
Oracle also patched 34 critical vulnerabilities in the Oracle Financial Services Applications suite, 14 of those being remotely exploitable. Forty-five bugs in Oracle MySQL were identified, nine being remotely exploitable with a CVSS rating of 9.8.
Oracle’s popular Database Server line had just nine security bugs, two are remotely exploitable and have a CVSS rating of 8.0. As with many other Oracle products impacted by flaws this quarter, Oracle said none of the Database Server bugs “are applicable to client-only installations, i.e., installations that do not have the Oracle Database Server installed.”
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A new view of the Mimecast Email Security Risk Assessment.
With this blog I am happy to bring you the 9th consecutive quarterly release of our Mimecast Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) aggregate report, also with its associated funnel infographic. We now have been running ESRA tests, collecting and analyzing the data, and publishing reports for more than two years!
For this blog, instead of discussing the numbers presented in the reports, I go deeper and give you specific, redacted examples of threats that bypassed the incumbent email security systems but were detected by Mimecast. These examples highlight the popular attacks types with cybercriminals as well as the fact that it takes a specialized email security system to find them before they get to your employees.
What is an ESRA?
In an ESRA test the Mimecast service reinspects a participating organization’s emails that were deemed to be safe by their incumbent email security system. This is based on actual inbound email traffic, not on test emails. We run this test over time, usually between a week and a month at each organization. An ESRA test passively inspects and records the security detections that would have taken place with the Mimecast service.
In security terms, an ESRA is a false negative hunting test, where the Mimecast email security service inspects delivered emails for missed spam, phishing, malicious files and URLs and impersonation emails.
Now for some specific examples of email-borne attacks that were missed in the recent ESRA testing cycle.
In this example the attacker sends a simple email to an HR person in which they spoof the display name of an employee of the firm and ask to change the bank routing information for their payroll direct deposit. What a great way to steal an employee’s salary! How many payment cycles will go by before the employee notices they aren’t getting paid?
For Mimecast this type of email is easily flagged as suspicious by matching the display name in the inbound email to the names of staff that are resident in the organization’s Active Directory. In addition, the term “direct deposit” is one of many “hot terms” for which Mimecast is hunting in inbound emails.
Note the domain of the sender looks kind of like a domain owned by Microsoft, “microsoftonline.com,” but it isn’t, it is “microsfrtfonline.com.” If you look at the WHOIS record for this domain, it is pretty sketchy. Do you think your users would notice the difference between those domains? And when they click and “login” to the attacker’s site their credential becomes another one in the wrong hands and available for sale in the black market.
For Mimecast, using Advanced Similarity domain checks against well-known internet brands (such as Microsoft-owned domains), it is an easy check to ferret out this type of attack.
Many attackers use phishing as the best way to establish an initial malware-based foothold in the targeted organization. What better way to do that than with a remote access trojan or some other type of backdoor exploit? To do this you need to get the email with the malware payload passed the email security system that is guarding the door and then get the victim to run it.
A great way to do that is to leverage peoples’ natural curiosity. Unfortunately, the attached Word document in this example (“Customer_Order_Details_374116.doc”) is loaded with a macro that makes the Word file a dropper that goes and grabs the intended malicious code once the file is opened.
These examples are just three of the thousands of missed malicious emails we regularly see as part of our ESRA testing. Are they particularly sophisticated or unusual? No. Why weren’t these caught by the respective organization’s incumbent email security system?
Suffice it say that it is our experience that security systems in general and email security systems in particular must continuously adapt to the latest attack techniques to keep up. We commit to doing just that!
Stay tuned for the 10th iteration of the Mimecast ESRAs this fall.
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PC Download - pc tools internet safety Suite is an all-in-one security solution that consists of virus protection, antispyware, identity safety, antispam, website scores and document transfer safety. A single license buy can defend up to 3 computers or laptops for 12 months. but, we researched their most latest third-birthday party check results and did not see the kind of ratings we had been looking to locate in a top internet safety product. PC Download.
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Computer gear internet protection also affords identity safety by using spotting phishing scams, blocking off cookies and preventing intrusion. to enhance performance it also has non-obligatory sport and fullscreen modes that could pause or postpone scans whilst the laptop is in fullscreen mode. This suite does not consist of parental controls.
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Huntress detects malware by looking for the footholds malware adds to start itself when the system boots or a user logs in. Huntress analyzes persistence mechanisms such as services, scheduled tasks, registry run keys, and other auto-start locations provided by Windows that can be used by malware to establish a foothold. Huntress focuses on finding these malicious footholds, leaving complete system scans, behavioral analysis/process monitoring, and network monitoring to preventive security solutions. This strategy intends to find persistent malware that has slipped past these other solutions.
Since Huntress only looks for footholds, it does not scan every file on the system, monitor running processes, or monitor network traffic.
Ransomware
Huntress can detect early signs of Ransomware through its Ransomware Canaries feature.
Ransomware typically does its malicious activity and deletes itself, often without creating a foothold. Sometimes ransomware will encrypt a desktop.ini file within a user’s startup folder or place a ransom notice that opens when the user logs in. Huntress will flag these "footholds." However, many newer ransomware variants only encrypt data files (PDF, Word, XLS, etc.) and don't drop a ransom notice in a startup location--this type of ransomware infection would not be seen by Huntress at all.
It's important to understand that Huntress is not a prevention tool--it is a detection and response tool. Humans on our end review all of the data from your machine and create incident reports based on Investigations. This ensures you're receiving actionable intelligence with remediation instructions.
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People using a tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other websites in support of WikiLeaks can easily be traced, according to computer security researchers.
Thousands of people have downloaded the "Low Orbit Ion Cannon," a tool that bombards a targeted website with garbled traffic in an attempt to knock it offline. The tool has been promoted by Anonymous, a loose-knit group of online campaigners that has attacked companies that cut off support for WikiLeaks since it began releasing secret U.S. diplomatic cables in late November.
But researchers at the University of Twente in Enschede, Holland, say it is easy for ISPs to identify those using the tool, as it takes no measures to protect the identity of its users, according to their paper.
There are several versions of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon: one is a client application that is downloaded by a user and can be remotely controlled via an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) or be manually configured. The other is a JavaScript-based Web site.
With the client application, the targeted Web site can see the real IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer conducting the attack, the researchers wrote. The IP address can be linked to the ISP providing the service, which can then investigate which subscriber the address corresponds too. The same condition happens when someone uses the Web-based tool.
One method used by those conducting a DDOS attack is to configure the program to use a fake IP address, but the Low Orbit Ion Cannon does not do that. DDOS attacks can also be coordinated using a botnet, or a network of machines that have been compromised. The owners of those computers are usually unaware their computers is infected and taking part in an attack.
The danger with the WikiLeaks attacks is that many of those less tech-savvy people eager to join the online campaign may be unaware that they can be traced.
"The current attack technique can therefore be compared to overwhelming someone with letters but putting your real home address on the back of the envelope," the researchers wrote.
In the European Union, telecommunications operators must retain data for six months, which "means that hacktivists can still be easily trace after the attacks are over," they wrote.
Already, police in the Netherlands have arrested two teenagers in connection with the attacks. Dutch prosecutors said one of them was easily tracked down.
The DDOS attacks, dubbed Operation: Payback, by Anonymous appear to be continuing, according to security vendor Imperva. The Low Orbit Ion Cannon has been downloaded about 67,000 times, Imperva said.
MasterCard, which stopped processing payments for WikiLeaks, was attacked again over the weekend, with statistics showing it experienced some downtime, according to Netcraft. A vast majority of security vendors are now labeling the Low Orbit Ion Cannon a threat and will block the program, Imperva said.
Imperva also said it has been monitoring some of the communication between people coordinating the attacks. Those attackers are recommending development of a system by which people are lured to some other content, such as pornography, but by visiting the website would invisibly launch the DDOS JavaScript tool.
That approach is unlikely to be effective, said Paul Mutton, a security threat analyst with Netcraft. The traffic intended to harm the website would come from a person's Web browser.
Browser traffic is difficult to control, and there is processing overhead performed in the browser that tries to render whatever content comes back, Mutton said. That is in contrast to a dedicated tool that can send huge payloads.
"In a nutshell the Web-based version of the LOIC software is not as effective as the real thing, but they are far easier for anyone to use," Mutton said.
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/371150/website_attackers_could_easily_traced_researchers_say/
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We offer Oracle database configuration security audit as a (Windows or UNIX) system configuration security audit extension, on which Oracle runs.
The objective is to review Oracle databases configuration and to evaluate it’s data security. In addition to founded weaknesses audit also includes technical recommendations for their removing.
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Possible Steps For Removing Rattedropenrigh.info from Internet Explorer
Look at various different errors caused by Rattedropenrigh.info 0x80240019 WU_E_EXCLUSIVE_INSTALL_CONFLICT An exclusive update cannot be installed with other updates at the same time. , 0x00000021, 0x8024C001 WU_E_DRV_PRUNED A driver was skipped., 0x8024200B WU_E_UH_INSTALLERFAILURE The installer failed to install (uninstall) one or more updates. , 0x00000037, 0x00000072, 0xf0815 CBS_E_INVALID_CARDINALITY invalid cardinality, 0x0000002A
To Restart > Click on Start menu > press Shift key and the hit Restart button.
Now as the screen show > select Troubleshoot option.
On the next panel you need to click on Advanced Options.
The again on new section choose Startup Settings option.
Open Run > Type Run on Search box from Start menu.
You can also open Run by pressing Win + R keys together.
Now type regedit and press Enter.
Find and Remove all related registry files of Rattedropenrigh.info.
From right corner of Chrome Browser click on Menu.
Select Settings from drop down list.
When Settings panel will appear > go to search box.
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Steps To Remove Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf
More error whic Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf causes 0x80244007 WU_E_PT_SOAPCLIENT_SOAPFAULT Same as SOAPCLIENT_SOAPFAULT – SOAP client failed because there was a SOAP fault for reasons of WU_E_PT_SOAP_* error codes. , 0x00000061, 0x00000033, 0x0000005D, 0x8024EFFF WU_E_EE_UNEXPECTED There was an expression evaluator error not covered by another WU_E_EE_* error code. , 0x00000027, 0x8024800E WU_E_DS_ROWEXISTS The row was not added because an existing row has the same primary key., 0x80240036 WU_E_INVALID_OPERATION The object’s current state did not allow the operation., 0x0000004A, 0x8024800A WU_E_DS_UNKNOWNHANDLER The update was not processed because its update handler could not be recognized., 0x80242003 WU_E_UH_REMOTEALREADYACTIVE A remote update handler could not be created because one already exists. , 0x00000068, 0x00000124, 0x8024002F WU_E_CALL_CANCELLED_BY_POLICY Operation did not complete because the DisableWindowsUpdateAccess policy was set. , 0x000000BE, 0x80243003 WU_E_INSTALLATION_RESULTS_NOT_FOUND The results of download and installation are not available; the operation may have failed to start.
Common Symptoms of Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf
Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf can overrides your default settings and replaces your homepage.
Displays thousand of endless pop-up ads and links on your desktop screen.
Makes your System performance speed much slower than before.
Add some unknown toolbars, extensions, plug-ins or other suspicious codes within Internet Explorer
Opens System backdoor and brings more malicious threat inside the PC.
Encrypts your stored files and makes them inaccessible.
Collects your all sensitive data and exposed them to the public.
Restart your Operating System and start pressing F8 key immediately until Boot menu appears.
From the appearing list, choose Safe Mode with Networking option using arrow key. Press on Enter Key.
If prompted, log on to your Operating System and then restart Operating System in the normal mode.
Choose the Power icon and hold down SHIFT key to select Restart option.
Now, your Operating System will reboot and load with the Advanced Start up menu.
From the appearing menu, select Troubleshoot option.
Press on “Power” button. Select the Restart option, while holding Shift key on keyboard.
Now a windows will reboot automatically and prompt with several options.
Among all, you have to choose Troubleshoot option.
Method 3 : Delete Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf From Windows Registry Entry
Open Run box by pressing “Windows key + R” together.
Type “regedit” in the run box without quotes and click on OK button.
Locate Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf related all registry entries and Erase it.
Method 4 : Find out all malicious files created by Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf.
Go to the Start menu and choose Control Panel option.
Under the “Programs” section, click on “Uninstall a program” option.
Choose Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf related or unknown program and click on Change/Uninstall option.
From the left pane, choose Apps & Features.
In the right pane, you will see the all installed application.
Choose Yourstableplacenetforcontents.surf related or suspicious program which you want to Erase.
From the top right corner, click on (…) option and then choose Settings option.
Under the Open section, choose a specific page or pages.
Choose Custom option and enter the URL that you want to set as your homepage.
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Jay Ehrlich is Vice President, Global Patient Safety, responsible for the groups who monitor Baxter’s drug, biologic, and medical device products for patient safety issues, communicating and minimizing any of those issues as they arise, as well as anticipating any potential safety issues as those drug and device products are developed. He is responsible for 140+ Safety employees globally and oversees the many aspects of PV, including Regional and Country PV, Safety Operations, PV Compliance, PV Risk Management and Epidemiology, Medical Safety Writing, Medical Review and Signal Detection and PV Technology. He also has responsibility Medical Device Vigilance, responsible for patient safety aspects of Baxter’s medical devices.
After practicing medicine until 2002, Jay began his career in Pharmacovigilance at Abbott Laboratories where he was responsible for Clinical Safety Evaluations, where his primary responsibility was Abbott’s blockbuster anti-TNF alpha biological, Humira. In 2005, he joined Baxter Healthcare, Inc. as the Director of (PV) Safety Operations. He continued his career growth at Baxter in expanding roles, and in 2009, he was promoted to Vice President of the Global Pharmacovigilance function, when he began to integrate the various global PV affiliates into a single global PV organization. In Sept 2013, he was given additional responsibility for part of the Medical Device Safety Organization, where he has focused on creating a single approach for device safety, as well as moving from a reactive approach to a proactive one.
Jay received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1989. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1993. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He practiced Internal Medicine from 1996-2002 in the suburbs of Chicago in both a hospital-owned multispecialty medicine practice and a smaller private practice. He received his American Board of Internal Medicine certification in 1996 and again in 2006 and 2015. He is also a Board Member of the Lake County Board of Health.
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Firefox has slipped behind Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer in web browser security according to a study released this month.
The study by IT security company Accuvant’s R&D labs still tipped open source at the top of the list with Google Chrome hitting the top spot, while Internet Explorer followed close behind with Firefox trailing.
The trick to top-tier security was not so much antivirus or anti-malware software but anti-exploitation technology that initially prevents the attack and “which play a more important role in protecting end users from exploits and persistent malware.”
Part of this initial barrier against attacks is ‘sandboxing,’ which will “prevent certain applications and process from accessing functionality deemed inappropriate.
“We have shown that Google Chrome provided the most restrictive sandbox.”
The white paper by Accuvant identified web browser add-ons as a high security risk if mismanaged by the browser: “Add-ons and plug-ins provide manufacturers and third parties with the ability to develop additional functionality for the browser. Additional functionality also brings on security risk, which can undermine overall browser security posture.” “Google Chrome is the only browser to partially sandbox any of its plug-ins.”
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Implementing an ERP system is an expensive proposition that can cost millions of dollars (with the software licenses, consulting fees, integration costs, training and upgrades factored in) and take months, even years, to fully deploy. And, according to a report commissioned by Panorama Consulting, one in five ERP implementation projects (21 percent) end in failure. [ Related: 8 Enterprise Software Predictions for 2015 ] So what steps can you take when choosing or deploying an ERP solution to decrease the likelihood of failure? Here are eight suggestions from ERP experts, systems integrators and project managers who have successfully implemented an ERP software system. [ Related: On trend: ERP software gets modern data, mobile and social user interface ]1. Choose an ERP solution that best suits your business’s needs (and industry requirements). “Because it’s a major investment of time and money, be sure to create a comprehensive list of requirements with input from multiple key stakeholders,” says Sumanth Dama, CTO, CuroGens, a systems integrator. “Define your company’s core needs,” says Evert Bos, solution architect, Sikich, a professional services firm. “Your system requirements should be a short list of functional and operational must-haves and an equally short list of key strategic requirements that will support your future growth. A well-defined list of requirements will result in a more seamless implementation process and an ERP system with lower total cost of ownership.”“Seriously consider how [the system] would fit into your current IT infrastructure,” says Dama. And “ensure that [the] ERP [you select] can support the regulatory requirements of your business – [and if] you will have to pay big dollars for customizations. Make your choice not solely upon price or vendor alone. ”2. Look at total cost of ownership (TCO). “My best advice to a cost-conscious [organization] deciding on an ERP system is to really look at total cost of ownership,” says David Valade, vice president of operations at Alta Vista Technology. “Yes, the software itself costs money, but as you compare costs for different solutions don't forget about hardware, consulting dollars to implement, internal resources to maintain the software and future upgrade costs that come with it. I know a company that doubled the size of its IT department to maintain an ERP solution that initially looked like a bargain.”3. Vet vendors/integration partners carefully. “Choosing the right vendor is a major part of the process,” says Dama. “Ensure the vendor has done their homework and can get the job done to your specifications. Be sure they’re prepared to give specific estimates regarding TCO and the ROI you can expect for your business and in what period of time,” he says. “Discuss in detail the budget and project completion time and require references from other organizations that have hired them. Also be certain they have the proper experience serving your specific industry.”“When embarking on an ERP implementation, it’s essential for your software and service provider to know your business,” says Paul Magel, president, business applications and technology outsourcing division, CGS. “Every industry has its own requirements, from terminology to specific functionality. A one-size-fits-all ERP will leave you with many gaps and needed customizations,” he says. “Whether you are in a specialized vertical such as footwear or are a well-known apparel manufacturer, ensure your vendor is an industry expert.” 4. Make sure senior management is on board. “One key predictor of how your ERP implementation will go is upper management buy-in,” says Kirk Heminger, marketing manager, Penta Technologies. “Senior management [doesn’t have] to be integrally involved in every step of the implementation process. However, management involvement and backing in prioritizing the project, setting direction, allocating resources and facilitating communication can be the single most important success factor in any implementation process. ”“It’s imperative the team tasked with choosing a new ERP system collaborate with senior leadership team or a member of the C-suite, where one individual from [the] executive team can serve as the sponsor and internal champion of the project to streamline approvals and break down internal silos,” says Rick Hymer, vice president, North America service line leader, packaged based solutions, Capgemini.5. Develop a roadmap. “A roadmap not only ensures a smooth process, but it shows financial stakeholders when the implementation will start, the cost and when they can expect to start seeing benefits,” says Ramesh Iyanswamy, global head of SAP HANA, Tata Consultancy Services. “Roadmaps help manage large, complex technology and business process transformations in a series of well-defined phases, and help take control of cost planning. [Use the] roadmap [to] phase deployment over a period of shorter go lives, spreading out the cost over years.”
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/597155/8-ways-get-most-your-erp-system/
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Microsoft and Adobe released a set of patches today to fix critical vulnerabilities in their products.
In the case of Microsoft, the company released a total of nine security bulletins to patch 37 bugs. Included in that number are critical fixes for Internet Explorer and Windows. The Internet Explorer bulletin addresses a total of 26 vulnerabilities, including one that was publicly disclosed. The most severe of the issues can be exploited to allow remote code execution when a user views a specially-crafted webpage using IE.
"IT’s first priority should be the critical, cumulative update for IE," blogged Russ Ernst, director of product management at Lumension. "MS14-051 includes 26 CVEs for all supported versions of the browser. All are privately disclosed with the exception of one, CVE-2014-2819, which was publicly disclosed just last week at Black Hat. It allows an attacker to bypass the application sandbox and elevate privilege but it must be combined with another remote code execution vulnerability to ultimately be successful."
The second critical update is aimed at Windows.
"The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file that invokes Windows Media Center resources," Microsoft explained in its bulletin summary. "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights."
Outside of those two, Microsoft's other bulletins were 'important', and impact Microsoft OneNote, SQL Server, Windows, Microsoft Server Software and the .NET framework.
In addition to the Microsoft updates, Adobe Systems released patches for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. While the Adobe Flash Player bugs are not known to be under attack, the company said it is aware of evidence of an exploit in the wild being used against Adobe Reader users on Windows in targeted attacks. According to Adobe, the Reader and Acrobat updates address a vulnerability that could enable an attacker to circumvent sandbox protection on the Windows platform. Users on Mac OS X are not affected.
Update: A quote incorrectly stated the number of IE vulnerabilities fixed by MS14-051. It is 26.
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https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-fixes-critical-vulnerabilities-internet-explorer-windows
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Hardware Keyloggers Vs. Software Keyloggers There are two types of keyloggers, hardware keyloggers and software keyloggers.
First is a Hardware keyloggers which records typing, by plugging a tiny device into the computers keyboard. The second method of recording typing is via a software keylogger. This works by the user installing some software on the operating system of the computer, usually Windows 98/XP/Vista.
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Consumers coping with a straining economy face a new threat: Cyber criminals are targeting everything from their gasoline prices to their beef supply and even their vacations.
An ever more aggressive breed of extortionist hackers is adding to the headaches of tens of millions of ordinary Americans by targeting industries critical to daily life, including this week by forcing a shutdown of the world’s largest meat processing company’s U.S. plants. That was barely three weeks after an earlier ransomware attack choked off the country’s largest fuel pipeline, prompting gasoline shortages and a price spike that has yet to fully recede.
The U.S. offers plenty of other attractive targets for ransomware hackers, who in recent years have wreaked billions of dollars in damage by taking down schools, hospitals, drugmakers, police departments, shipyards and other victims with poorly secured computer networks. And that makes ransomware both an economic and political quandary for President Joe Biden, whose hopes for a blossoming economy are already running into unrelated shortages of goods ranging from swimming pool chemicals to cars and houses.
People closely tracking the rise of ransomware attacks, in which hackers lock down a victim’s computer systems and demand a bounty for reopening them, say they don’t expect the trend to ebb — not as long as victims are desperate enough to pay up.
“While the U.S. is showing signs of recovery from the pandemic, cybercriminals are still finding new opportunities to cash in,” said Fleming Shi, chief technology officer of cyber firm Barracuda Networks. “From gasoline to food supply, along with feared inflation, it’s, unfortunately, a perfect storm that benefits the attackers.”
The White House had no specifics to offer Wednesday on how it plans to respond to the attack on the Brazilian food giant JBS’ U.S. plants, which like last month’s hack of Colonial Pipeline appeared to be the work of criminal gangs based in Russia. Press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden intends to bring up the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin at their summit later this month, even if the Kremlin itself isn’t believed to be directly involved in the ransom exploits.
“Responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals,” she said.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it has been working with the FBI since Monday to “understand the [JBS] intrusion and offer assistance,” but not did not specify how much cooperation the company was offering.
“As this and other recent incidents demonstrate, the threat of ransomware continues to be severe,” the agency added.
The FBI separately said it was attributing the attack on JBS to a Russia-based ransomware group known as REvil or Sodinokibi.
Meanwhile, not even local leisure travel is immune from the hackers: On Wednesday, the steamship authority that operates ferries to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts said a ransomware attack was causing delays for customers trying to schedule trips, though the vessels themselves were still operating.
One awkward reality for Biden is that the federal government has only limited legal power to compel security practices in private businesses, even in industries — like food and agriculture — that are considered critical to the nation’s welfare. CISA notes that the industry, which accounts for about a fifth of U.S. economic activity, “is almost entirely under private ownership,” including 2.1 million farms and more than 200,000 food manufacturing, processing and storage facilities.
JBS is one of the industry’s biggest targets, accounting for about 23 percent of the United States’ cattle processing capacity and 18 percent of its pork capacity. While the company had predicted that the “vast majority” of its beef, pork, poultry and prepared foods plants would be up and running Wednesday, the road to recovery after such a cyber incident is hardly as simple as flipping a switch — something consumers were starting to experience first hand.
“[E]ven one day of disruption will significantly impact the beef market and beef wholesale prices,” warned Steiner Consulting Group, an economic consulting firm. Wholesale beef prices have ticked higher following the attack, with choice cuts reaching about $340 per 100 pounds by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Agriculture Department.
Such impacts can be slow to fade: Weeks after Colonial Pipeline reopened its Houston-to-New York fuel spigot, the price of a gallon of gasoline was 10 cents higher in the past week, at an average of $3.05, than it was before hackers broke into the company’s computer systems.
Meat industry experts say it’s too early to tell if the disruption to JBS will result in sustained higher prices for consumers. But the timing of the cyberattack could be problematic: Meat prices have remained high since the pandemic started, and a labor shortage is now weighing on meat production rates and helping to keep prices elevated.
Daily cattle slaughter was down by more than 22 percent on Tuesday compared with a week ago, according to a production report from the U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service.
Patrick Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, suggested that the market impact would hinge on how long the JBS beef plants remained offline. For example, the shutdown of slaughterhouses early in the pandemic caused major ripples in the meat market because the closures dragged on for weeks, leaving a massive backlog of livestock ready for slaughter.
“Any plant closures, even temporary ones, will have market impacts when plants are already operating at or near capacity, but a short-term closure is a lot different than a longer-term one,” Westhoff said in an email.
Nearly a month out from Colonial, gasoline prices are still higher than they were before the cyberattack, although analysts say that was to be expected, ransomware or not. Prices haven’t declined as quickly as analysts had expected once the pipeline resumed its normal delivery schedule, and it’s unclear whether that’s because the economy is gaining steam after last year’s Covid lockdowns or because of government stimulus spending, said Patrick DeHaan, market analyst at the fuel market analysis company GasBuddy.
Overall gasoline demand is 40 percent higher than a year ago, when vacations and even commuting to work or school had all but ceased, and is expected to climb higher as the summer driving season rolls in.
“It’s hard to know if this is inflationary or just people returning to old habits,” DeHaan said. “We don’t know how many people are heading to the pumps with fed money. The economy is searing hot right now, it seems like.”
Other analysts aren’t even sure how much Colonial affected overall pricing. Fuel price increases in the Gulf Coast region tracked closely to those along the East Coast during the Colonial outage, indicating that the hack had limited overall effect, said Rick Joswick, head of the global oil team at analyst firm S&P Global.
Meanwhile, the global oil benchmark price is nearing $70 a barrel, double what it was at this time last year and close to where it was in January 2020, just before the pandemic gripped the global economy.
“We can’t blame Colonial for a huge spike in prices,” Joswick said. “We have to say it’s a global return to pre-pandemic levels of crude prices.”
Ransomware attacks are far from a new phenomenon. In May, researchers at cyber firm BlackFog tracked 22 ransomware attacks — up one from the same month last year. Targets ranged from healthcare giant Scripps Health to the municipal government in Tulsa, Okla., and several school districts to Colonial and JBS. Even before then, North Korean hackers launched a worldwide ransomware attack known as WannaCry that locked up computers at hospitals, universities and businesses in as many as 150 countries in 2017. That same year, a strain of malware called NotPetya caused at least $10 billion in damage in a series of ransomware attacks around the globe.
But what has changed is the stakes. Kimberly Goody, senior manager of Mandiant Intelligence’s financial crime analysis division, said some ransomware perpetrators are targeting more high-earning companies because it’s perceived they can afford ransoms. (Colonial readily paid a $4.4 million ransom, for instance.) “This means that they are increasingly targeting brands that may be household names or major suppliers or manufacturers of products that people are using every day,” Goody said, adding that ransomware actors are typically “opportunistic.”
Meanwhile, Goody said more consumers are taking notice of ransomware attacks “because of the concrete, immediate impact they are having on our lives” including gas shortages, possibly empty grocery store shelves and canceled hospital procedures.
But Joe Nocera, the leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. cyber and privacy innovation institute, said the onslaught may not inspire consumers to be up in arms about the attacks. Instead, they could become numb to them, just as many have become to other types of hacks.
“They were impacted by their credit reports being disclosed a number of years ago, they’ve been impacted personally by account takeover attacks of various financial accounts. They’ve had their own phishing and scams,” he said. “I worry they’ve become a little bit numb and helpless to that.”
The Biden administration also finds itself with limited options, even though it has made tackling ransomware a touchstone of its cyber agenda — including through a recently launched sprint at DHS dedicated to the issue. Still, Nocera said the White House has tools to wield against foreign ransomware gangs.
“You probably aren’t going to be able to arrest [cyber criminals] given some of the places that they operate, but we’ve seen instances where their infrastructure has been disrupted, we’ve heard rumors about their crypto wallets being locked down and the like,” he said. Expect more of those kinds of “tangible consequences,” he added.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/02/ransomware-biden-economy-491642
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I noticed some posts on the SoftGrid Forums lately that could be addressed with some useful scripting with the .OSD files for a SoftGrid package. Scripting within .OSD files is a very powerful feature and can be used to solve or create workarounds for a vast number of situations. This is an excerpt of some text that was created to give the basics of the scripting concept. I try to go into detail on the Whats and the Hows and I also put in several script examples at the end. These examples are actual scripts that have been used in the field. Along with the example is an explanation of what the script is doing. After reading this article however, try to look at just the script example and decipher for yourself what it is doing. A mini self quiz if you will.
Scripts written in almost any language can be passed from the OSD file of a Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization enabled application to a client that has the necessary interpreter in place. Organizations may have preexisting scripts written in Visual Basic, Perl, .bat files, .cmd files, etc. that are required for their applications to run effectively. By following the basic rules of scripting in an OSD file those existing scripts can be leveraged here as well.
The following questions on “When”, “Where” and “How” a script runs need to be answered before the script can be placed inside the OSD file.
All scripts must be placed between the <DEPENDENCY> tags within the OSD files. The Sequence Engineer can choose to either refer to an existing by its file name or can enter the exact syntax of the commands in the script section.
PRE STREAM: Before the application begins streaming. (For instance, if the user needs to open a VPN to Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Server prior to running the application.)
POST STREAM: Run after authorization and streaming but before the Virtual Environment is setup.
PRE LAUNCH: Run inside of virtual environment, before execution begins.
POST LAUNCH: After the application is launched.
POST SHUTDOWN: Clean up activity or deleting settings files.
The following flow chart depicts the sequence of events when scripts are used within an OSD file.
Protect=True: Allows the script to run within the protected environment. This script placement can be very useful for troubleshooting.
Protect=False: Allows the script to run outside the virtual environment. This script placement can be very effective when files need to copied locally to a client but there is no need to penetrate the virtual environment.
TIMEOUT=xx: The client will wait xx seconds for the script to complete before returning an error.
TIMEOUT=0: The client will wait indefinitely for the script to complete.
Wait:
Wait=False: Continue without waiting for the script to finish.
Wait=True: Do not start the next step until the script finishes.
Note: The client does not support a PRE SHUTDOWN event (it is not possible to know the exact instant before a user clicks, for example, the [X] in the upper right corner, or types Alt+F4). The Protect attribute specifies whether the script runs inside or outside the virtual environment. The Wait attribute specifies whether the client waits for the script to finish before proceeding to the next phase. Scripts may be written in any language, but the language must be installed locally on the client machine.
There are two types of scripts that can be used in the OSD file, <SCRIPTBODY> and <HREF>. The following table describes each type. You can decide for yourself which one is the better to use in your situation or environment. I treat this table as a score card for the script types.
Can be used to call an executable by searching for the executable in the client’s Path statement.
Uses the “\” as an escape character and as such requires an extra “\” to pass the actual character.
Does not use the “\” as an escape character.
Can be used to pass non executable commands such as the DOS make directory (md). This is actually a part of the command.com.
When used, the contents of the script are copied to a temporary .bat file on the client’s drive. The .bat file is executed and then deleted when the application is closed.
Does not create a temporary .bat file but instead executes the contents of the script directly on the client.
When used a DOS window appears on the screen during the execution of the script’s .bat file.
No DOS window appears on the screen unless the process being called is a console application.
The SCRIPT tag is a child of the DEPENDENCY tag and the SCRIPTBODY or HREF tag is a child of the SCRIPT tag.
The following list some examples of scripts used in OSD files.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/appv/2007/10/11/scripting-within-an-osd-file/
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John Oliver unleashed his viral fury Sunday night against Internet users who harass women, making a call to support forthcoming federal legislation that would criminalize the growing industry of "revenge porn."
The comedian and host of HBO's Last Week Tonight dedicated the majority of his main segment to condemning revenge porn—the practice of posting nude photos or explicit sexual content of a person online without the subject's consent, often in order to extort and humiliate someone, such as a former romantic partner. Websites capitalizing on the concept have ballooned in recent years, and victims are disproportionately women.
"The Internet is an incredible tool," Oliver said. "But like most tools, it can be used as a weapon." That people can get away with revenge porn "is insane," he added, and "the official response to victims ranges from offensive to ridiculous."
Oliver specifically endorsed the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, a long-stalled measure authored by Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, that will be introduced "in the coming weeks," her office said Friday. The bill, which would make revenge porn a federal crime, comes as websites like Twitter and reddit have moved to tighten rules against posting revenge porn. On Friday, Google announced that it would honor requests to remove nude or sexually explicit images posted without consent from its search results.
Oliver's segments often hone in on an existing policy battle already brewing in Washington—whether it be net neutrality, government surveillance, patent reform or the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques." Sunday's revenge-porn tirade, however, is unique for finding Oliver jumping out ahead of an issue before it has gained much attention on Capitol Hill.
Despite its growth as an industry in recent years, Congress has been reticent to wrestle with revenge porn, instead leaving the issue largely to the states. More than twenty states, including New York, California and Arizona, have enacted a patchwork of laws criminalizing revenge porn.
Speier said she believes that recent actions by Google and other Internet companies are a good step in the right direction—but that there is "still a gaping hole in the law that leaves victims with little or no legal recourse. "Without legislation, there's nothing to stop revenge porn websites and nothing preventing people from uploading this content with impunity," Speier said in a statement Friday. "We already punish the unauthorized disclosure of private information like medical records and financial identifiers. Why should personal images of one's naked body, given in confidence, be any different?"
Speier will have to overcome stiff opposition in order to pass any kind of federal restriction on revenge porn. Many open-Internet and free-speech activists, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union, generally oppose legislation that would expand criminal penalties against operators of revenge-porn sites. The concern primarily rests on fears about tampering with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites such as YouTube or Facebook from being legally liable for third-party content.
Exceptions are made for copyrighted material and content that violates certain federal criminal laws, such as child porn, but websites still are able to avoid liability if they adopt reasonable takedown policies. Speier's legislation would essentially seek to add revenge porn to the list of exceptions.
"I'm well aware that asking law enforcement to police free speech is a dicey proposition," Oliver said Sunday. "No one wants them trawling through message boards looking for violent language. But if a woman shows up to a police station saying someone threatened her life on Twitter, the answer 'What's Twitter?' is woefully inadequate."
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In an era when cyber-attacks are an everyday occurrence, IT security has become one of the biggest problems for firms. However, a US researcher has argued recently that security should be seen in terms of across-the-board company efforts to confront digital information issues.
Christopher Bronk, Fellow in Information Technology Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Houston, Texas, argues that the question which companies who fall victim to cyber-attacks should ask is not “How did it happen?”, but “Why did this happen?” As he writes in his paper entitled ‘Risk-Intelligent Governance in the Age of Cyberthreats’, understanding the way these attacks happen is important, but the first response should be to seek the reasons leading up to the breach of security. If a company is serious about securing its digital communications and general resources in the most effective way possible, it needs to develop and adopt an approach that he calls ‘cyber risk intelligence’. For organisations to become cyber risk intelligent, they must move beyond seeing cyber security as the province of the IT department and understand that it concerns all areas of the company.
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https://atelier.bnpparibas/en/life-work/article/cyberrisk-intelligence-data-security-demands-company-wide-attention
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Apple's iPad 2, unveiled by CEO Steve Jobs in a surprise appearance Wednesday at an invitation-only media event, is thinner, lighter, faster and more full-featured, and incorporates enough changes and updates to maintain Apple's strong sales in the tablet market.
But the competition is likely to get fierce this year as rival tablets finally arrive.
Until they do, though, all eyes are on the second-generation iPad, which goes on sale March 11. Physically, the iPad 2 looks a lot like its predecessor, with a few important tweaks, like front- and rear-facing cameras. The new model weighs in at just over 1.3 lbs. That's about 3 oz. lighter than last year's version, and while a few ounces may not sound like much, every bit of weight that can be shaved off a tablet matters. I've had an iPad since day one, and my wrists certainly noticed the original's 1.5-lb. heft.
New shell, same screen The iPad 2 also features a 33% thinner aluminum shell with a flat back and beveled corners wrapping around the 9.7-in. screen. Despite early speculation that the new iPad would have a higher-resolution screen, the display specs haven't changed; the resolution remains 1024 by 768 pixels, with 132 pixels per inch. Those pixels are close enough to offer smooth images and video but not nearly as packed as the retina display on the iPhone 4. (What did we learn from the speculation? That a lot of people apparently want higher-resolution screens.)
Still, even without a resolution bump, the iPad 2's IPS (in-plane switching) screen should deliver wide viewing angles, with movies and photos looking as good on the new model as on the old.
Storage capacity hasn't changed, either; the iPad 2 will continue to come in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions, priced respectively at $499, $599 and $699 -- the same prices as before. So much for the analyst talk that Apple needed to drop prices to stay ahead of competing tablets like the Motorola Xoom and RIM PlayBook. If you need more room than 64GB, there are cloud storage options such as Dropbox, which I have recommended in corporate environments in the past.
As I noted earlier, this is the first iPad to sport two cameras -- something the rumor mill did, indeed, get right. The front-facing VGA camera is situated on the frame opposite the Home button; the rear-facing camera can shoot 720p video at 30 frames per second, as well as still images.
When I first heard talk of a rear-facing camera, I dismissed it as unnecessary. After all, who would want to hold up an iPad to snap pictures or video -- especially given the growing quality of phone cams? But with FaceTime, the equation makes more sense. FaceTime, Apple's zero-configuration video chat feature, has an on-screen button that flips the view from the front-facing camera to the one facing the rear. I use FaceTime to keep in touch with my family in the Northeast, and the value of the rear iPad camera is more obvious when you want to show someone on a chat what you're looking at.
The addition of the cameras alone will be enough reason for people to either get an iPad for the first time or upgrade from last year's model. And it's an addition that Apple needed to make to stay current with upcoming tablets.
Internal upgrades Internally, the iPad 2 likely gets a memory bump to 512MB and, from Apple, a new dual-core A5 processor. The new chip should help with multitasking, video chats and interactive elements such as scrolling and zooming. (The first-generation model was never known for being slow.) But users will see better gaming performance, especially since the iPad 2's graphics underpinnings have been upgraded too. Fortunately, battery life remains the same, which is good to see, given the hardware improvements.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/221499/Why_Apple_s_iPad_2_will_be_another_hit.html
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By Graham Doessel, Founder and CEO of MyCRA Credit Rating Repair and www.fixmybadcredit.com.au.
It seems these phishing emails are more prolific than ever, and can be an easy trap to fall for with the untrained eye. For example, last week MyCRA received some emails via our published email addresses, purporting to be from credit reporting agency Dun & Bradstreet. The email contained a zip file which if opened, I’m sure would have contained malware. The email looked very convincing at first glance, and was relevant to our profession both with the source and content of the email. It was only after reading thoroughly through the email we identified it was from an international DnB – and we understood it to be a scam. DnB UK had issued an official warning to its customers and clients about this scam. But how many people would fall for it?
These fraudsters must have programs to troll through websites, identify frequently used words, and allocate appropriate phishing emails accordingly. How advanced – and how dangerous this process is.
Stay Smart Online has provided examples of the current ATO phishing messages which appear to be sent from payroll provider ADP, and may include malware attached as a .zip file (currently ATO_TAX_16072013.zip). The banking examples have included malware attached as SecureMessage.zip. An example of the ATO phishing email is below:
If you receive this email, simply delete it. Do not respond or open the attachment.
SSO says many security products are not identifying the attachment correctly as malware, meaning that if you open the attachment, a Trojan will attempt to install on your computer. But the say detection rates are improving quickly as more security vendors add this malware definition to their products; in the meantime, your computer may be vulnerable. Another reason to include automatic updates of your anti-virus product.
Avoid phishing emails
Always be suspicious of unsolicited emails.
Do not click links or open attachments unless you are confident about the sender and information the email contains. The best advice is to simply delete the email.
If you are uncertain about the origin of any email you can always cross check the information by going independently to the company or source’s website or by calling them directly. More information Read Stay Smart Online’s advice about avoiding phishing and advice about spam.
Phishing scams are generally emails or text messages which impersonate genuine companies in the hope of tricking victims into giving out their personal and financial information.
The aim of phishing is to steal information like bank and credit account numbers, passwords, and other crucial data. The ACCC’s Scamwatch website warns that phishing emails are not easily distinguishable from genuine corporate communication:
“Phishing emails often look genuine and use what look to be genuine internet addresses—in fact, they often copy an institution’s logo and message format, which is very easy to do. It is also common for phishing messages to contain links to websites that are convincing fakes of real companies’ home pages.
The website that the scammer’s email links to will have an address (URL) that is similar to but not the same as a real bank’s or financial institution’s site. For example, if the genuine site is at ‘www.realbank.com.au’, the scammer may use an address like ‘www.realbank.com.au.log107.biz’ or ‘www.phoneybank.com/realbank.com.au/login’.”
The ramifications of falling for a phishing scam
Clicking on links in phishing scams can mean just the simple act of clicking on the link can put you in danger. Many phishing emails are designed to infect computers through virus-containing links in the emails. This could mean that you could download a Trojan or similar virus designed to steal your financial information – and you may have no idea its happening.
This could be dangerous for your credit file. Because while you are carrying out your normal online transactions, the Malware that you have installed could be tracking passwords, financial details and personal details about you. This could be used by a clever and determined cyber-crook in order to build a fake identity in your name.
Suddenly credit could be accessed in your name, and you probably won’t know about it until you apply for credit yourself and are refused. This presents real problems for fixing your credit rating, because what we know about removing unfair or inaccurate listings from your credit file is that you must provide evidence and proof that you didn’t initiate the credit. This can be difficult to do when you have no idea how the theft of your information occurred. It can be a nightmare for victims.
So don’t get hooked by a phishing scam. If you receive an email that looks legitimate – go independently to the Bank or other company’s website to verify it. Or use the official Bank phone number (not the phone number presented on the email) to call the bank directly to verify the email is legitimate.
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https://www.mycralawyers.com.au/phishing-email-alert
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I can't rid my pc of the"antispywareupdates.net virus" [
If a file or folder cannot be moved immediately you may be asked to reboot the machine to finish the move process. If you are asked to reboot the machine choose Yes.
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.
For Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the bottom of each menu.
[*]Close all other windows before proceeding.
[*]Double-click on dss.exe and follow the prompts.
[*]When it has finished, dss will open two Notepads main.txt and extra.txt -- please copy (CTRL+A and then CTRL+C) and paste (CTRL+V) the contents of main.txt and extra.txt in your next reply.[/list]
File/Folder C:\Program Files\RegistryCleaner\registrycleaner2008.exe not found.
File/Folder C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\rtelelibu.html not found.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2Fix.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\VCCLSID.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dumphive.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Process.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SrchSTS.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\VACFix.exe moved successfully.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\IEDFix.exe moved successfully.
"QuickTime Task"="C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" [04/24/2005 12:22 AM]
"PicasaNet"="C:\Program Files\Hello\Hello.exe" [] "IgfxTray"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe" [06/22/2005 12:48 AM] "HotKeysCmds"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe" [06/22/2005 12:44 AM] "NeroFilterCheck"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe" [07/09/2001 10:50 AM] "InCD"="C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe" [09/20/2005 11:06 AM] "WinampAgent"="C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe" [06/21/2006 01:14 PM]
[12/14/2004 02:12 AM]
"LVCOMSX"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\LVCOMSX.EXE" [07/19/2005 06:32 PM]
"LogitechVideoRepair"="C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\ISStart.exe" [06/08/2005 04:24 PM] "LogitechVideoTray"="C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\LogiTray.exe" [06/08/2005 04:14 PM] "!AVG Anti-Spyware"="C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe" [06/11/2007 05:25 AM] "AVG7_CC"="C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe" [03/22/2008 10:52 PM]
C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe
C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\FxSvr2.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat_sl.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
Refering to the picture above, drag CFScript into ComboFix.exe
When finished, it shall produce a log for you at "C:\ComboFix.txt" which I will need in your next reply.
Note: Do not mouseclick combofix's window whilst it's running. That may cause it to stall
2005-09-01 16:36 0 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Application Data\hpothb07.dat 2005-07-08 18:26 164 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\hpothb07.dat 2005-07-08 18:26 0 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\Stacy\hpothb07.dat 2005-07-08 18:26 0 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\hpothb07.dat 2005-07-08 18:26 0 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\hpothb07.dat 2005-07-08 18:26 0 ---ha-w C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\hpothb07.dat
"LogitechSoftwareUpdate"="C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe" [2005-06-08 15:44 196608] "SUPERAntiSpyware"="C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe" [2007-02-27 11:39 1310720] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"QuickTime Task"="C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" [2005-04-24 00:22 98304]
"PicasaNet"="C:\Program Files\Hello\Hello.exe" [ ] "IgfxTray"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe" [2005-06-22 00:48 155648] "HotKeysCmds"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe" [2005-06-22 00:44 126976] "NeroFilterCheck"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe" [2001-07-09 10:50 155648] "InCD"="C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe" [2005-09-20 11:06 1397760] "WinampAgent"="C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe" [2006-06-21 13:14 35328]
"Acrobat Assistant 7.0"="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Distillr\Acrotray.exe" [2004-12-14 02:12 483328]
"LVCOMSX"="C:\WINDOWS\system32\LVCOMSX.EXE" [2005-07-19 18:32 221184]
"LogitechVideoRepair"="C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\ISStart.exe" [2005-06-08 16:24 458752] "LogitechVideoTray"="C:\Program Files\Logitech\Video\LogiTray.exe" [2005-06-08 16:14 217088] "!AVG Anti-Spyware"="C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe" [2007-06-11 05:25 6731312] "AVG7_CC"="C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe" [2008-03-22 22:52 579072]
"C:\\Program Files\\Kodak\\KODAK Software Updater\\7288971\\Program\\Kodak Software Updater.exe"=
"%windir%\\Network Diagnostic\\xpnetdiag.exe"= "C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe"= "C:\\Program Files\\Grisoft\\AVG7\\avginet.exe"= "C:\\Program Files\\Grisoft\\AVG7\\avgamsvr.exe"=
This will program will start and scan your system.
The scan will take a while so be patient and let it run.
Once the scan is complete it will display if your system has been infected.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\avg7\Log\emc.log Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7log.log Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7log.log.lck Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr0.dat Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr1.dat Settings\Greg\Application Data\SUPERAntiSpyware.com\SUPERAntiSpyware\SUPERANTISPYWARE.LOG Settings\Greg\Cookies\index.dat Settings\Greg\Desktop\SmitfraudFix\Reboot.exe Infected: not-a-virus:RiskTool. Win32.Reboot.f skipped
C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Desktop\SmitfraudFix.exe/data.rar/SmitfraudFix/Reboot.exe Infected: not-a-virus:RiskTool. Win32.Reboot.f skipped
C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Desktop\SmitfraudFix.exe/data.rar Infected: not-a-virus:RiskTool. Win32.Reboot.f skipped
C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Desktop\SmitfraudFix.exe RarSFX: infected - 2 skipped
C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat. LOG Settings\History\History. IE5\index.dat Settings\Temp\AVP10C.tmp Settings\Temp\AVP10D.tmp Settings\Temp\~DF4BD1.tmp Settings\Temp\~DF4BDC.tmp Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content. IE5\index.dat Settings\Greg\ntuser.dat Settings\Greg\ntuser.dat. LOG Settings\LocalService\Cookies\index.dat Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat. LOG Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\History\History. IE5\index.dat Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content. IE5\index.dat Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat Settings\LocalService\ntuser.dat. LOG Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat. LOG Settings\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT Settings\NetworkService\ntuser.dat. LOG Settings\Stacy\Local Settings\Temp\AntiPhishing\FDE76B9D-4657-4B28-AE87-04EFD23D4EB6.dat Information\MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP680\A0121950.exe Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP681\A0121982.exe Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP683\A0122033.exe Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP683\A0122039.exe Information\_restore{202550A8-7A33-4BCA-9586-051D24DDBF8F}\RP698\change.log Object is locked skipped
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\AppEvent. C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SecEvent. C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system. C:\WINDOWS\wiaservc.log Object is locked skipped
A list of tool components used in the Cleanup of malware will be downloaded.
If your Firewall or Real Time protection attempts to block OtMoveit2 to reach the Internet, please allow the application to do so.
Click Yes to begin the Cleanup process and remove these components, including this application.
You will be asked to reboot the machine to finish the Cleanup process. First, let's reset your hidden/system files and folders. System files are hidden for a reason and we don't want to have them openly available and susceptible to accidental deletion. * Click Start.
SpywareBlaster to help prevent spyware from installing in the first place.
SpywareGuard to catch and block spyware before it can execute.
IESpy-Ad to block access to malicious websites so you cannot be redirected to them from an infected site or email.
You should also have a good firewall. Here are 2 free ones available for personal use:
Since this issue appears to be resolved ... this Topic has been closed. Glad we could help.
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Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the launch of FP5, its fifth generation of high-performance IP routing silicon. As the new heart of Nokia's IP service routing platforms, FP5 will enable service providers to address today's unrelenting requirements to efficiently scale network capacity, enable new higher speed IP services, and provide unmatched protection against escalating network security threats. Building upon four generations of industry-leading network processors, Nokia is raising the bar by adding support for high density 800GE routing interfaces, a 75% reduction in power consumption and new embedded line rate, flow-based encryption capabilities.
As cloud architectures, 5G and Industry 4.0 continue to drive network transformation, service providers require mission critical IP networks to be increasingly secure, agile and sustainable. IP networks must provide guaranteed high performance and integrity in the face of growing threats from network-level attacks and security breaches. They must also be able to adapt to address unforeseen changes and to support service evolution over the lifespan of the network. In addition, IP networking equipment must become increasingly power efficient to minimize impact on the environment.
With the introduction of Nokia's fifth generation FP5 network processing silicon, Nokia brings a new suite of IP routing solutions to market to help service providers transform mission critical IP networks to address these new and evolving requirements.
Nokia has long been at the forefront of providing an embedded approach to IP network security. With FP4, the company transformed volumetric DDoS defense with router-based detection and mitigation. FP5 brings an additional layer of network protection with the introduction of ANYsec' - a new line rate, flow-based encryption capability integrated directly into the chipset. ANYsec supports the delivery of secure IP services including MPLS and segment routing, on-demand and at scale without impacting performance or power efficiency. Service providers can now ensure the integrity and confidentiality of all data flowing through their networks.
With FP5, Nokia brings a generational leap in router network capacity to market. Nokia service router platforms are the first to support high-density 800GE and 1.6 Tb/s clear channel routing interfaces for applications including mobile transport, IP core, peering, BNG and provider edge. New FP5-based line cards will support 14.4 Tb/s (19.2 Tb/s with Nokia's intelligent aggregation capability.) A new series of fixed form factor 7750 Service Router-1 platforms enable the benefits of FP5 to also be realized in smaller network locations.
Nokia's FP5 network processors drive down power consumption per bit by 75%. As FP5 is backwards compatible with FP4 and fully integrated into the latest versions of Nokia's Service Router Operating System (SR OS), all existing features are supported from day one on the new hardware. Through this aligned hardware and software evolution strategy, Nokia delivers unmatched and sustainable investment protection to its customers.
As a fully programmable network processor, FP5 enables the agility required to evolve the network as standards and applications change. Its deterministic performance combined with rich telemetry insight ensure network operators can drive a maintainable and serviceable IP network both today and into the future.
Neil McRae, Managing Director and Chief Architect, BT, said: BT has a long-standing relationship with Nokia, and we are pleased to see that with FP5, Nokia continues to innovate to ensure IP networks have the scale, flexibility and features to help us stay ahead of escalating demand from our residential, mobile and business customers. In particular, we are very happy to see the focus on power optimization as we grow our network, with both BT and Nokia committing to significant reduction in carbon footprint. In the past 18 months, our lives have been turned upside down, and our reliance on networks has been dramatically increased and reliability for customers is crucially important. With security being ever more important for our customers, seeing Nokia's approach to building more security features into the platform is fantastic.
Hiroyuki Oto, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Core Network Development Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC., said: Our network needs to continue to evolve to meet the demands from our consumers, communities, and businesses. With Nokia's latest generation of silicon innovation and their careful attention to ensuring investment protection with the flexibility to adapt to new requirements, we believe Nokia is delivering the right foundation to ensure IP networks can efficiently scale and transform to stay ahead of ever shifting market demands.
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https://www.4rfv.com/SN4YHU58VMOL/nokia-launches-fifth-generation-routing-silicon-sets-new-benchmarks-for-ip-network-security-and-energy-efficiency.htm
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Set the defaults you want (I chose Keep Text Only for all) and click OK. Repeat for all of the Office applications you use regularly (Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
If you decide that you want to maintain the original formatting for a specific paste, you can easily override it on a paste-by-paste basis. Suzanne
Anonymous says: June 12, 2012 at 5:24 pm Hi, There is not such option to "Set Default Paste…" in Excel 2010. There are no "Cut, copy and paste" options as pictured in Excel 2010. So please state clearly that the options you wish were in your software are not. And I am going to spend another extra 2 hours on my workbook now by clicking "Paste special"->"Unformatted text" if I want to achieve something with this Office 2010 nonsense…
I wish my company would not sit in your pocket (or vice versa!) and would go for LibreOffice instead… :'(
ekkis says: July 23, 2013 at 1:58 am Powerpoint has been owned by M$ for nearly 30 years now and something as simple as pasting plain text, for which there is obviously (any google search will demonstrate) overwhelming demand, they fail/refuse to implement.
instead, with every paste I have to click on the stupid "smart" tag to open it, click to select "Keep text only". my thumb hurts from all the clicking.
I so hate proprietary software run by giant imbecile corporations.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hub/2010/11/04/adjusting-your-default-paste-options-in-office/
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Suddenly TweetDeck is a hot commodity.
On Monday, Twitter was reported by the Wall Street Journal to be in "advanced talks" to buy TweetDeck, provider of a popular Twitter client, for about $50 million.
If true, the news would be a surprise to execs at UberMedia, who have reportedly been negotiating their own deal to buy TweetDeck.
A move to buy TweetDeck would be the latest sign of a battle brewing between Twitter, the popular microblogging site, and UberMedia, which owns several popular applications that run on the Twitter platform.
Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group, said it's no surprise that these two companies are coming at each other hard. UberMedia is looking to move into Twitter's space and Twitter is trying to defend the territory it's already built up.
The rivalry started to heat up in February when Twitter suspended UberMedia's three major third-party mobile applications -- UberSocial, Twidroyd and UberCurrents -- from use on its site for allegedly violating its use policies. Twitter reinstated access to the three apps a day later.
Then to make matters even more interesting, CNN.com reported last week that UberMedia is building a microblogging service that would compete directly with the Twitter service.
For months, industry experts have said that UberMedia was in the process of buying TweetDeck, which competes directly with Twitter's Web and mobile clients.
"[Twitter] certainly doesn't want to see anyone do an end run and use one of the most popular [Twitter] clients to steal their customers," said Enderle. "So I see this as largely a defensive but necessary move if they wish to hold on to their base."
Enderle also noted that without TweetDeck, UberMedia would have a harder time building a Twitter competitor.
Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said a move by Twitter to buy TweetDeck would be both offensive and a defensive.
"A popular piece of multi-service client software like TweetDeck is an opportunity to channel users to your site," said Gottheil. "If Twitter owns it, they can keep UberMedia away from it. That's defensive. It can also attract users to Twitter. That's offensive."
Twitter's PR operation posted a tweet saying they don't comment on rumors.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/225628/Twitter_launches_bidding_war_for_TweetDeck.html
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I've noticed that lots of CVE at www.cvedetails.com do not have publicly available exploits. But they have high scores (ex: score higher than 9). With such a high score, I'd thought exploits would be readily available but it's not the case (not even present in exploitdb).
So how would a hacker, from the description at www.cvedetails.com write exploit code? Do hackers do that?
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https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/225446/how-do-programmers-write-the-initial-exploits-from-the-vulnerability-details-in?noredirect=1
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Millions of government employee records apparently stolen by Chinese hackers were not encrypted, and software designed to block known computer breaches has not been installed to protect most of the files, officials said Tuesday.
The latest disclosure came as officials continue to investigate two devastating hacks into the files of the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources agency. The cyberattacks have exposed how vulnerable and outdated are many of the computer systems that the federal government uses to store details collected for job applications, security clearances and other needs.
Intelligence officials are concerned that Chinese intelligence services or others could use the sensitive information, which can include medical histories and other personal details, to blackmail or otherwise recruit spies in the U.S. government and to design carefully tailored emails to infect computers of federal workers with access to secret files.
Chinese officials deny being behind the incursion.
“You failed. You failed utterly and totally,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the officials.
The agency’s inspector general had recommended last year that security on the databases be upgraded. The warning followed a hack discovered in 2014. But the agency didn’t move quickly enough, lawmakers said.
Many electronic files that hold Social Security numbers, health carrier information and other details about the personal lives of officials and government contractors are so antiquated that federal computer experts are unable to encrypt the files at all, said Donna Seymour, the top technology officer for the Office of Personnel Management.
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“Some legacy systems may not be capable of being encrypted,” Seymour told lawmakers, who expressed bafflement and frustration at the lack of progress to improve the outmoded systems.
If sensitive records were scrambled and locked, hackers would not be able to read the data even if they could get the files out of federal servers, security experts note. But some of the electronic files are more than 20 years old and are stored in outdated systems, Seymour said “These problems are two decades in the making,” she said.
The intrusion into personnel files was discovered in April. Computer forensics experts found that hackers had been in the databases for months. They are believed to have copied private information belonging to 4.2 million current and former federal employees and government contractors.
During a second cyberattack, which was discovered by looking for computer activity similar to the earlier breach, the intruders accessed the detailed background forms filled out by millions of intelligence, military and other federal workers who have applied for security clearances. Those forms were stored on shared servers maintained by the Department of Interior.
The security clearance application requires potential hires to list any mental health issues, criminal convictions, drug use and the names and addresses of relatives overseas. Intelligence officials fear that China or another authoritarian government will use the information to blackmail American officials or pressure foreign relatives of U.S. government workers with access to classified files.
Despite the sensitivity of the data held by the Office of Personnel Management, the agency was not using the most up-to-date monitoring software that many other federal agencies use to automatically block known vulnerabilities in the computer systems.
That so-called perimeter system, called EINSTEIN 3A, is managed by the Department of Homeland Security and covers nearly half of the computers used by civilian personnel at 13 federal agencies. But the system is not in place at the Office of Personnel Management or 51 other agencies. The National Security Agency is responsible for protecting intelligence and military servers.
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The security breaches follow a “long history of failing” by the personnel agency to update its information technology infrastructure, said Michael Esser, the agency’s assistant inspector general of audits. For many years, Esser said, agency staff in charge of computer security had no technology background. Also, the agency has never disciplined managers for failing to pass multiple cyber-security audits, he said.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) called for the resignation of the top leaders overseeing the systems that were breached.
“I’m looking here today for a few good people to step forward, accept responsibility and resign for the good of the nation,” Lieu said.
The director of the Office of Personnel Management, Katherine Archuleta, told lawmakers no one has lost their job over the cyberattacks.
U.S. public land workers assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over five-year period
Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers.
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https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-government-data-breach-20150616-story.html
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Yes.. but you who are running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or even Windows XP would like to (or need to) take advantage of this powerful new management platform as well. And now you can!
Here’s the link to the PowerShell Blog that Jeff’s tweet mentions above: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/10/27/windows-management-framework-is-here.aspx
And here’s the KB where you can learn more about it, as well as download these tools: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929
Oh.. and one more link – this one to the Windows Management Infrastructure team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinremde/2009/10/28/breaking-news-you-want-powershell-2-on-xp-server-2003-you-got-it/
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The flurry of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continues to escalate as hackivists around the world choose sides in the conflict.
Members of the pro-piracy group Operation Payback and the hacker social network 4chan, have engaged in multiple DDoS attacks against the websites of anyone they deem to be inhibiting WikiLeaks operations and cash-flow.
Targets have included PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, the Swedish Prosecutors, PostFinance Bank, EveryDNS, and others. Twitter is rumored to be next.
Of note is the attack against website of Senator Joe Lieberman, credited with supplying the political pressure that ousted WikiLeaks from the relative protection provided for a short time by Amazon's massive array of servers.
Also of note is the attack levied against the political action committee website of Sarah Palin after she issued statements that WikiLeaks' Julian Assange should be hunted like a terrorist.
Operation Payback also is reported to have been the subject of a denial of service attack, though no group has yet take credit for it. The attack was said to have intensified after the assault on Senator Lieberman's site began.
The denial of service attacks began in earnest with the initial attacks on the WikiLeaks website on Sunday, November 28. Anti-jihadi hacker The Jester claimed he initiated a non-distributed attack that day with his XerXes DoS tool.
Interviews with The Jester and videos of the XerXeS DoS tool that took down WikiLeaks can be found here.
A stronger attack was on the WikiLeaks sites began on the following Tuesday, and was likely distributed in nature.
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http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/10121-WikiLeaks-Denial-of-Service-Wars-Continue-to-Escalate.html
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Now for the tricky part. The very reason the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti exist is for a new wave of games—ones powered by ray tracing and augmented by machine learning. A huge amount of the Turing GPU’s die is dedicated to the tensor and RT cores required for those newfangled technologies. But even though Nvidia has more than 25 games lined up to support ray tracing or Deep Learning Super Sampling, few to none of those will be available when the RTX 20-series cards launch.
The first ray traced games won’t be available until about a month later, when the Windows 10 October 2018 updates rolls out with support enabled for Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing API (which underpins Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing endeavors). Deep Learning Super Sampling leverages the Turing GPU’s tensor cores and doesn’t need the DirectX Raytracing API, but there’s still no word on when games will roll out with DLSS support. Nvidia didn’t respond when we asked. Fortunately, it sent over some technological demos to let us see the new technologies in action firsthand, though we couldn’t take video of the experiences.
First up: The hilarious Star Wars reflections real-time ray tracing demo by Unreal, which debuted at the RTX 20-series reveal. Yes, we ran this demo directly on our own machine. Here’s the trailer:
It proved just as impressive in reality at 1440p and 4K resolution, though not quite as seamless. The demo was created to run at a cinematic 24 frames. You could unlock the frame rate, but it hovered around there on both the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. What did change was the visual quality.
While the video above looks smooth and sharp, running it on my local rig with the RTX cards exhibited some “graininess,” the visual noise associated with real-time ray traced graphics. This Quake 2 video shows an extreme version of the effect. It’s nowhere near as intense in the Star Wars demo—not even close—but it is there. The graininess almost looks like a film grain effect, but it’s more pronounced on the GeForce RTX 2080, which has 56.5 percent fewer RT and tensor cores than the RTX 2080 Ti. (Turing uses RT cores to calculate ray tracing paths, then uses the machine learning-focused tensor cores to de-noise the resulting visuals.)
The noisiness is most noticeable in the white Stormtrooper armor. It makes the edges of that armor appear jagged—like it hasn’t had proper anti-aliasing applied—when it’s on the edge of that armor, against a dark background. The jagged edge effect mostly went away on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and the demo looks beautiful overall despite these criticisms.
You know what doesn’t look good, though? Running the Star Wars demo on the GTX 1080 Ti, which lacks the dedicated ray tracing hardware of the RTX 20-series. It does still run—the DirectX Raytracing API has a fallback path for all DirectX 12-capable GPUs—but horribly. Horribly. It hit between 7 to 13 frames per second, depending on the scene, with extreme graininess and jagged edges. Watching it legit made me nauseous. If you want to run ray traced games right now, you need a GeForce RTX 2080 or 2080 Ti.
Nvidia also sent over a pair of demos showing off the potential of its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. We covered the technology in our Turing GPU deep-dive, but to keep it short, DLSS uses tensor cores infused with knowledge from Nvidia’s Saturn V supercomputer to apply an antialiasing effect similar to (or better than, with DLSS 2x) temporal anti-aliasing, but at a significantly lower performance hit.
How much lower? Nvidia sent along DLSS-equipped 4K versions of Unreal’s Infiltrator demo and the Final Fantasy XV benchmark (which will be made available to the public on September 20). You can run them with either TAA or DLSS active, although DLSS works only with RTX graphics cards imbued with tensor cores. Cue the FRAPS benchmarking tool!
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Whoa. That’s a massive 39 percent performance uptick across the board with no loss in visual quality, and much better experience overall. The Infiltrator demo chugs and stutters with TAA enabled when the hero’s under fire by a chaingun toward the end, for example, and again when he loads the rocket launcher attachment onto his gun. With DLSS enabled, those scenes become perfectly smooth. That universal 39 percent performance uptick is even more impressive when you consider that the RTX 2080 crams in only about half as many tensor cores as the RTX 2080 Ti.
It’s seriously impressive stuff, and I’m very excited to see if this sort of performance improvement proves sustainable outside of canned demos. DLSS is coming to a slew of games, including heavy hitters like Ark: Survival Evolved, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Hitman 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. The only question is when.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3307102/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-and-rtx-2080-ti-review.html?page=9
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