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It’s essential to learn from recent mega-attacks how to better improve our security and mitigate cyber risk. Key to this is an understanding by each and every individual and employee that they play a part. The now-tired expression “security is not just IT” has never been more relevant with the increasing use of ransomware, business email compromise, and social engineering. You don’t need to be a cyber expert to practice responsible behaviors, and ignoring threats or thinking that it’s someone else’s job to prevent them creates unnecessary vulnerabilities that otherwise could be prevented.
The underlying theme in several of the headline-grabbing breaches this year is that they could have been stopped with relatively simple methods. For example, the WannaCry attack and the Equifax breach both exploited vulnerabilities that would not have existed had proper patching taken place. While this may seem like an IT department failure, it may actually be indicative of a lack of organizational cybersecurity culture, which should be promoted at all levels, proactively managed, and funded.
Week two of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) promotes the concept that cybersecurity in the workplace is everyone’s business – and stopping threats requires a unified approach. TSC Advantage is a NCSAM Champion, and as such, we have provided four ways to mitigate cyber risk to help combat the most common threats.
Understand the role of HR, finance, and legal in cyber
Cyber risk needs to be addressed in a cross-functional manner that goes beyond just the IT department. Otherwise, organizations can potentially put themselves in dangerous situations. For example, if one department unilaterally signs an agreement with a third party – like a cloud provider – without input from both the IT and legal teams, they are willingly accepting the risks and vulnerabilities that the third party possesses. Neglecting to collaborate with other departments and review the cybersecurity practices of a vendor or the legal language of the contract can be the difference between being a headline tomorrow and avoiding threats/risks entirely.
A collaborative approach to security that spans several domains is necessary due to the multiple ways adversaries are capable of accessing systems, such as sophisticated fraudulent emails that mimic payment instructions from a chief financial officer or which encourage undiscerning employees to click links. The basic cybersecurity plan of any organization should be to anticipate enterprise threats by assessing its unique threat profile and developing appropriate training and responses. In order for this plan to be successful however, it must be integrated across the enterprise and not kept in a silo. We recommend creating a cybersecurity steering committee or working group which includes representatives from each department.
Create an incident response team
Waiting until after a breach has occurred to determine a course of action is a waste of time and money. Bouncing back as quickly as possible is crucial to both preventing business interruption, as well as maintaining customer loyalty, hence the need to prepare in advance. At a minimum, here are four things that an incident response (IR) plan should include:
Define the organizational structure of your IR team. You need to figure out which members are part of the team and what exactly is expected of them. Also decide which parties will need to be alerted during an incident, and specifically under what circumstances they need to be contacted.
Determine what is considered an incident – and what isn’t. In other words, figure out what standards must be met to advance something from an event (which can be routinely handled) to an incident. Also consider the type of attack when determining next steps – is your response altered for a DDoS attack versus an insider leaking information or a connected third party who has been breached? Definitions vary from organization to organization, so prepare in advance and decide what works for you specifically.
Follow an IR framework. Clarify what organizational steps need to take place during every stage of your response to the incident. For example, step one is to log events into a ticketing system, which is followed by a specific member of the team evaluating each one. If it is determined that the event be deemed an incident, the IR team is then activated and predetermined business officers are notified, etc.
Create a documentation methodology and repository for every incident. This will help you learn what worked successfully and what did not. The repository should include after-action reports (AAR) and root cause analyses that occur once an incident is closed.
Encourage employees to flag potential cyber incidents
In an ideal world, employees would report all anomalies, like social engineering attempts or insider threat red flags, but we shouldn’t assume that everything will be reported. Notification from employees shouldn’t be expected to replace systems that detect, monitor, and mitigate threats, like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, well-designed networks, secure ports, logs of device access to the network, and rule based log analysis.
However, relying on these systems doesn’t mean employee reporting should be ignored or that it’s only one person or department’s job. If you identify a threat indicator, you can’t sit back and think that a colleague will also see it and report it, or that it isn’t your responsibility to do so. Effective cybersecurity requires a team effort, so ensure that you are doing your part to keep your organization safe.
Frequently test your systems
It’s not enough to put processes in place and think that you are protected. You need to test your systems to ensure they are doing what they should be. When you do test, make sure to include stakeholders from multiple departments like security, IT, and human resources at a minimum. Consider also including social engineering in the test, both the classic type (i.e. asking someone to hold the door and following them inside a secure space) and the digital version (i.e. phishing emails).
While testing is important, it’s not sufficient to simply perform a test and read a report. Instead, conduct an AAR in which you discuss what went right and went wrong during testing, as well as how to correct any mistakes moving forward. This will help improve your systems and bolster your organization’s security.
The business reasons for addressing cybersecurity in the workplace are obvious. How to get all employees proactively involved is a challenge many organizations are just starting to tackle.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Apple’s new feature designed to give users more privacy when browsing the web will not be available in China, one of the iPhone maker’s most important markets.
Apple revealed a new service called iCloud+ at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. One of the features included in that is “Private Relay.”
When users browse the internet using Safari, their data will be sent through two separate servers in order to mask the user’s identity and what sites they are visiting. As a result, even Apple or the user’s network provider cannot see that data.
It’s a little like a virtual private network (VPN) where users can route their internet traffic through a server located somewhere else in the world to mask their browsing activity.
China so-called Great Firewall effectively allows authorities to block websites from being accessed within China including Google and Facebook. VPNs are often used to get around China’s strict internet controls.
An Apple spokesperson told CNBC that Private Relay will not work in China and some other countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Belarus and Uganda.
Apple said it could not offer the feature in these countries due to local laws.
Using unauthorized VPNs to access blocked websites is illegal in China. While Apple’s Private Relay is not technically a VPN, it acts in a similar way.
In 2017, the U.S. technology giant removed a number of VPN services from its China App Store to comply with local regulations.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped working in China and is now only accessible via a virtual private network (VPN).
China blocks many foreign apps and services including those from Facebook and Google. But Signal had previously not been barred by the so-called Great Firewall.
Signal claims to be end-to-end encrypted, meaning the company itself nor any outsiders can view the contents of messages between a sender and the intended recipient. This also means authorities cannot snoop on messages.
CNBC tested Signal on three different devices and messages did not go through, suggesting it has been blocked by authorities. The app was still available for download via Apple’s China App Store.
Signal was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
The messaging app, however, still worked when used with a VPN. A VPN or virtual private network allows users to protect privacy and circumvent internet restrictions by connecting to servers around the world.
Signal being blocked in China highlights the increasing internet censorship in the world’s second-largest economy.
Downloads of Signal surged earlier in the year after rival WhatsApp changed its terms of service to allow the sharing of some data with its parent company Facebook.
Signal is relatively small in China with 510,000 downloads to date from Apple’s App Store, according to Sensor Tower. But the app provided a rare avenue for sending encrypted messages through a foreign platform without a VPN.
Still, the dominant messaging app in China remains Tencent-owned WeChat with over a billion users.
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Dubai, April 2 (IANS) A computer virus from China has been targeting users in India as well as in China, and as many Indian companies are based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), they need to be 'extra careful', an expert has said.
Virus attacks on computers have increased to such an extent that officials in Dubai have warned computer users to be alert and vigilant, the Gulf News reported.
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Nick Black, technical manager of Trend Micro, a computer security company, told Gulf News that the attacks were not targeted at specific networks.
He said that in the last few days, a virus from China has been 'floating around and is targeting users in India and China'. Since many Indian companies are based in Dubai, 'they need to be extra careful', he said.
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If you think yours was one of the 40 million credit or debit cards involved in a data breach at Target, security experts recommend a policy of watching and waiting: Watch the account you used at the retailer on a daily basis, and wait, because there’s no telling when it will be tapped by thieves.
With the information that was obtained in the data breach between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 — cardholder names, card numbers and the three-digit security codes — crooks can use them for online transactions or manufacture duplicate cards.
“This could be something that hits your card months from now, so you need to continue to be vigilant,” says Yaron Samid, chief executive officer of BillGuard, a company that offers a free service monitoring credit and debit cards for unusual activity.
Don’t look for crazy, big-ticket charges, Samid says.
Sophisticated hackers are more likely to make small purchases, sometimes aimed at checking the viability of an account.
“These folks are not going to put a $10,000 charge on one card,” Samid says. “They’re going to put a $1 charge on 10,000 cards.”
Small charges are less likely to be noticed and disputed, he says, and a single charge – even if it’s for just 99 cents — enables the crooks to resell the stolen information at a premium, according to Samid.
A validated stolen card number is worth more than an untested one, he says.
Credit Vs Debit
If you used a credit card at Target, you have more protection than if you used a debit card. That’s because consumers are protected from the fraudulent use of a credit card. You still have to report the fraud to your card issuer.
A fraudulent charge is typically credited back to the consumer’s account after a fraud report is made. The card issuer then investigates the complaint and, unless the charge is found to be valid, the credit will be made permanent.
With a debit card transaction, money immediately comes from the consumer’s bank account. After filing a fraud report with the bank, it is then in the bank’s hands when — or if — to return that money.
Either way, if a fraudulent charge is spotted, consumers should get a new card.
But experts say it’s better to err on the side of caution, and — at least for debit card holders — get a new card now.
“I do see this as a very severe breach. Take it very seriously,” says Mark McCurley, senior information security adviser for Scottsdale, Arizona-based IDT911 Consulting, a company that does data breach prevention and post-breach analysis.
McCurley says he used his debit card at a Target store during the period the numbers were stolen. He requested a new debit card and PIN number.
“That’s how seriously I’m taking the matter,” he says.
At a minimum, change your PIN number, experts advise. If the thieves have captured your PIN, you can prevent them from getting a cash-back during a transaction or using your card at an ATM machine, McCurley says.
Molly Snyder, a spokeswoman for Target, says there is no indication at this point that PINs were collected by the thieves.
Target’s Response
Target is getting out the word to potential victims through the media and on its website, Snyder says. Consumers who have the store’s credit card or have an email address on file have been or will be notified directly, Snyder says.
Customers with questions about the breach are asked to call 866-852-8680.
At this point, credit monitoring is not being offered to potential victims. Additional information will be posted to Target’s website, Snyder says.
A notice to the retailer’s customers is posted on the company’s site, with information about putting a security freeze on credit reports, and other post-breach basics.
“If you shopped in a U.S. store during that time period, we encourage you to watch your accounts.” Target has addressed the problem, she says, and assures consumers that future transactions will be protected.
Robert Siciliano, online security expert for internet security company McAfee Inc., says consumers shouldn’t have to get identity theft monitoring or freeze their credit in this case.
“It didn’t affect the users’ Social Security number,” Siciliano says. “This is plain and simple a credit card breach. Bad guys use (Social Security numbers) to open up a new credit card. In this case, they don’t have to. They already have the best data they can to turn into cash.”
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We are routinely told that cybersecurity awareness must increase, and that everyone within an organisation must be briefed, but despite these warnings CISOs have been found to be failing to drive progress globally.
The increasing commonality and severity of cyber-attacks has required CEOs to be more engaged in security, with reputational and financial consequences potentially crippling. Despite this, a worrying 19 per cent of CISOs said they share knowledge of all breaches with the CEO and the board.
A deep problem has potentially been unearthed in this research from F5 Networks, as 58 per cent of CISOs said that IT security is a standalone function, a viewpoint that is incongruent with the attitude that everyone should be engaged in security.
Just 22 per cent of the respondents said that security is directly integrated across the business, indicating that the majority of organisations globally are not collaborating to achieve heightened security.
In regard to the potentially major fallout from a cyberattack, only 45 per cent of CISOs have emergency funds reserved to handle a critical incident.
Mike Convertino, CISO, F5 Networks, said: “This new research provides a unique view into how CISOs are operating in today’s challenging environment… In many organisations, IT security is not yet playing the strategic, proactive role necessary to fully protect assets and defend against increasingly sophisticated and frequent attacks.”
These concerning findings are made all the more worrying by the possibility that the world is on the cusp of IoT crisis, with insufficiently secure devices flooding into society. CISOs do appear to be aware of the importance of this, as 80 per cent say that IoT will change security requirements.
CISOs also believe that AI and machine learning will be important in cybersecurity strategies in the near future, with 70 per cent agreeing with this globally.
“Cybersecurity challenges are intensifying worldwide and we need CISOs to step up and be more influential at the top… We also need business-leaders to recognise the growing threat cybersecurity poses in its many shifting forms. The measure of an organisation is how it pre-empts and responds to risk and – more than ever before – CISOs must lead the charge in this respect,” Convertino said.
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A student uses a computer. (Courtesy of Howard University News Service)
Howard University (HU) resumed online and in-person instruction in the third week of September after a ransomware cyberattack brought most activity to a halt for several days.
For the time being, students, faculty and staff have access to some of the university’s most common applications.
As administrators explained on Sept. 12, recovery will happen in phases and in a manner that ensures continuity of operations.
In the aftermath of service disruptions and the compromise of important data, some students, like Kaya Freeman, relished the gradual return to normalcy.
“Some people clicked a link and gave their passwords to the hackers,” said Freeman, a freshman from West Bloomfield, Mich.
“It’s been hard in terms of watching television, using your computer and writing papers. Teachers postponed deadlines because you can’t go online unless you have a hotspot. It’s affecting our schoolwork but you do what you can on campus.”
A Growing Threat
In ransomware attacks, hackers use phishing emails to steal user credentials and access to IT networks.
They then block institutions’ access to networks and leverage stolen information to demand their target pays a hefty sum. Over the last couple of years, tactics have included threats to sell stolen information on the darkweb if demands aren’t met.
In 2020, the average ransom demand totaled more than $312,000, a report by Unit 42/Palo Alto Networks determined.
Since its detection of unusual activity on Sept. 3, HU has collaborated with external forensic experts and law enforcement officials to fully investigate the cause of the ransomware attack and its impact.
HU told The Informer that its response team, composed of in-person and remote personnel, has used its resources to add new secure systems.
Such tools build upon security updates the university has implemented over the years with the aid of what officials described as expert cybersecurity partners.
Over the last few days, much of HU’s focus has been on protecting data and strengthening its network, all while keeping HU community members abreast of the ongoing situation.
“Faculty, staff, and students should soon expect audits concerning devices and access credentials associated with university work and operations,” Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Tashni-Ann Dubroy and Provost & Chief Academic Officer Anthony K. Wutoh said in a Sept. 10 statement.
“These audits will require sweeping of phones, laptops, and other digital work tools, which may be susceptible to data breaching. All university usernames, email addresses and other login credentials will be verified for authenticity, access privileges, and activity.
Preventing Future Ransomware Attacks
Throughout the pandemic, and in the months leading up to the full return to in-person learning in the U.S., threats of ransomware attacks, phishing emails, identity theft against K-12 and collegiate institutions have increased.
In July, cybersecurity group Check Point Security recorded an average of 1,700 cyberattacks per week, an increase of nearly 30 percent from the first half of the year.
That’s why experts encourage institutions to tighten access to critical documents and utilize encryption to deter hackers. Additional safeguards include multi-factor authentication, software updates, and training employees to detect phishing attempts.
Finding Community in all the Confusion
On Monday, HU freshman Kayla Austin attempted to jump back into the rhythm of academic life, but found doing that a bit difficult. By the late morning, her dorm still didn’t have wifi, and one of her teachers, unable to access the Blackboard academic portal, canceled class.
Throughout much of last week, Austin traveled to Georgetown to access wifi, complete homework, and conduct her photography/videography business. She said such moments not only taught her lessons in time management, but highlighted the importance of having a village.
“The community has made up for it in a sense,” said Austin, 18, who hails from the suburbs of Chicago.
“My teachers have been accommodating. My assignments have been pushed back, but a lot of us will have to spend some time getting our classes back on the right track to make up for what we’ve gone through this past week.”
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Singapore state investor Temasek has led a $550 million funding round in Israel-based cloud security firm Orca Security, boosting the company’s valuation to $1.8 billion.
The extended Series C fundraising round also saw strategic investments from SAIC and Splunk Ventures. The round boosted its valuation 50 percent in just seven months to $1.8 Billion, Orca Security said in a statement on Tuesday.
Orca Security’s C round also includes substantial participation from venture capital firms CapitalG (Alphabet’s independent growth fund), Redpoint Ventures, GGV, ICONIQ Capital, Lone Pine Capital, Stripes, Adams Street Partners, Willoughby Capital, and Harmony Partners.
“Our growth is exploding because Orca Security simply works. We provide fast agentless deployment, 100 percent coverage of all cloud assets, and automatic prioritization of the alerts that demand quick action,” said Orca Security Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Avi Shua.
Orca Security said it will leverage Temasek’s investment portfolio and global network to deepen its penetration into the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and beyond, and into key industries such as telecom, financial services, transportation, consumer goods, and more. Orca Security plans to have over a dozen employees in the APAC region by the end of 2021.
Orca Security will also continue to expand its footprint and customer base in the UK, and across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The company is opening a physical office in London, where it will have an expanded sales presence, and a new R&D center–its first outside of Tel Aviv. Orca Security plans to have over two dozen employees working in London by the end of the year.
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Experts say most individuals would not know what to do should they suffer a ransomware attacks, such as the one that brought Nine Entertainment ‘to its knees’ in March. Photograph: Tomasz Zajda/Alamy Stock Photo
Mon 12 Jul 2021 13.30 EDT Last modified on Mon 12 Jul 2021 13.31 EDT
Australian organisations are seen as soft and lucrative targets for ransomware attacks, according to cybersecurity experts who warn the problem will get worse unless the Morrison government fills the “current policy vacuum”.
A report published on Tuesday cites a raft of attacks over the past 18 months, including one that brought Nine Entertainment “to its knees” in March and left it struggling to televise news bulletins and produce newspapers.
Other victims include logistics company Toll Holdings, numerous health and aged-care providers, and the global meat producer JBS Foods, whose Australian operations were affected.
But experts from the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre say the legality of Australian companies paying ransoms to attackers is “murky at best” and most individuals would not know what to do if they fell victim to a ransomware attack.
The government needs to clarify the legality of ransomware payments and set up a mandatory reporting scheme, writes Rachael Falk, the chief executive of the cybersecurity research centre, and her colleague Anne-Louise Brown.
In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals typically look for vulnerabilities in organisations’ computer systems, before locking up, encrypting and extracting data so computers and their files are unusable.
Attackers then demand payment to decrypt and unlock systems and sometimes threaten to leak stolen data if the request is rebuffed. The ransoms are typically paid in difficult-to-trace cryptocurrencies.
“A current policy vacuum makes Australia an attractive market for these attacks, and ransomware is a problem that will only get worse unless a concerted and strategic domestic effort to thwart the attacks is developed,” Falk and Brown write in a policy brief for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
“Developing a strategy now is essential. Not only are Australian organisations viewed as lucrative targets due to their often low cybersecurity posture, but they’re also seen as soft targets.
“The number of attacks will continue to grow unless urgent action is taken to reduce the incentives to target Australian companies and other entities.”
The policy brief says a nationally representative online survey of 1,000 Australian adults in April 2021 “painted an alarming picture of just how little the Australian public understands ransomware”.
The survey – commissioned by the Cyber Security CRC – found 77% of respondents said they would not know what to do if they fell victim to a ransomware attack.
When respondents were then given a set of options, 56% said they would contact the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), which is part of the Australian Signals Directorate.
The ACSC advises organisations not to make payments, arguing there “is no guarantee the cybercriminal will decrypt files” and the willingness to pay may make the organisation vulnerable to further attacks in the future.
But the policy brief says businesses grapple with the legal consequences of whether to pay and worry that every minute matters.
The policy brief says the Australian government should not criminalise the payment of ransoms.
Instead, it says, the government should adopt a mandatory reporting regime. An organisation would face a legal obligation to report the nature and root cause of a ransomware attack to the ACSC within, for example, three weeks.
The “non-punitive” reporting scheme would apply regardless of whether a payment was made and should preserve the confidentiality of victims.
“It wouldn’t be about naming and shaming,” the policy brief says, arguing it would give the ACSC improved access to vital and timely intelligence.
The information would then be de-identified and released publicly to “help better inform other stakeholders on how to reduce vulnerabilities”.
The proposal comes amid calls from Labor to require Australian organisations to inform the ACSC before they make a ransomware payment to a criminal organisation.
Labor’s cybersecurity spokesperson, Tim Watts, said last week the government needed to act because ransomware was “completely out of control in 2021”.
Tuesday’s report makes eight recommendations including a proposal for the ACSC to publish a list of ransomware threat actors and aliases, together with details of their modus operandi and key target sectors and suggested methods to reduce the risk of falling victim.
It’s also suggested that the federal government use its procurement programs to prod businesses to improve their practices. Minimum cybersecurity standards would be imposed on contractors that wished to supply goods and services to the government.
The paper proposes a nationwide public ransomware education campaign to highlight the key causes of vulnerabilities.
It says that effort should be backed by a business-focused campaign to encourage organisations to improve their “basic cybersecurity and cyber hygiene”.
The director general of the ASD, Rachel Noble, told Senate estimates last month the agency was able to alert two other organisations they were targeted by the same ransomware attackers who crippled Nine Entertainment thanks to the agency’s “classified” powers.
Currently, the ACSC does not report how many ransomware incidents it knows have affected Australian organisations and individuals, but it said last year the number was increasing.
The top-five sectors to report ransomware incidents to the ACSC in 2019-20 were health; state and territory government agencies; education and research; transport; and retail.
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Tyson Macaulay is the security liaison officer (SLO) for Bell Canada. In this role, he is responsible for technical and operational risk management solutions for Bell's largest enterprise clients. Macaulay leads security initiatives addressing large, complex, technology solutions including physical and logical (IT) assets, and regulatory/legal compliance requirements. He supports engagements involving multinational companies and international governments.
Macaulay also supports the development of engineering and security standards through the Professional Engineers of Ontario and the International Standards Organization (ISO) SC 27 Committee. Macaulay leadership encompasses a broad range of industry sectors from the defense industry to high-tech start-ups. His expertise includes operational risk management programs, technical services, and incident management processes. He has successfully served as prime architect for large-scale security implementations in both public and private sector institutions, working on projects from conception through development to implementation. Macaulay is a respected thought leader with publications dating from 1993. His work has covered authorship of peer-reviewed white papers, IT security governance programs, technical and integration services, and incident management processes. Further information on Macaulay publications and practice areas can be found online at: www.tysonmacaulay.com.
Previously, Macaulay served as director of risk management for a U.S. defense contractor in Ottawa, Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA; 2001-2005), and founded General Network Services (GNS; 1996-2001). Macaulay career began as a research consultant for the Federal Department of Communications (DoC) on information networks, where he helped develop the first generation of Internet services for the DoC in the 1990s.
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The ransomware crisis has put the cyber insurance industry under extreme pressure, increasing both the frequency and value of its customers’ claims. As a result, providers are putting up their premium prices and turning away prospects without sufficient cybersecurity precautions. Meanwhile, cyber insurance is becoming a condition for doing business in some sectors.
For some companies, this squeeze on the cyber insurance sector could provide the impetus to make overdue investments in cybersecurity. For others, it could leave them uninsured against catastrophic risk.
Lloyds of London’s Lloyds Market Authority recently updated its policies to limit underwriters’ exposure to cyber risk. (Photo by CHUNYIP WONG/iStock)
Why ransomware is putting cyber insurance providers under pressure
Insuring against cybersecurity incidents has been a lucrative business for the insurance industry. Gross written premiums for cyber insurance – the combined value of the premiums an insurer expects to receive during the course of a policy – has more than doubled since 2016, according to insurance group Howden Group Holdings
But the ongoing ransomware crisis has put the sector under extreme pressure, as a growing number of victims are being squeezed for eye-watering sums.
“You’ve got two very interesting dynamics happening, both at the same time,” explains Lori Bailey, chief insurance officer at Corvus Insurance. “One is a huge increase in claim frequency, which is a result of the ransomware epidemic over the last couple of years.”
These two dynamics are squeezing the insurance industry’s ability to pay out on its customers’ claims. "Carriers, and more specifically re-insurers, really struggle with this dynamic in the market,” says Bailey.
They don't have enough money for everyone. The amount of money necessary to cover the potential clients is too great.
Andrea Rebora, PwC
An insurer’s ability to cover risks is limited by the funds it has available to cover the costs of a claim. In the case of cyber insurance, those costs are astronomical, Andrea Rebora, cybersecurity associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a PhD candidate at Kings College London. "They don't have enough money for everyone,” he says. It’s an absurd amount of money.”
As a result, insurers are putting up their premium prices and limiting the circumstances in which they will pay out. UK insurance marketplace Lloyds of London recently unveiled new rules stating that underwriters will no longer cover damage caused by “war or a cyber operation that is carried out in the course of war” including “retaliatory cyber operations between any specified states”.
Providers are also becoming more discerning in who they will insure, says Rebora. "There is clear proof they are not only increasing their prices, but that they can also pick and choose." Insurers are demanding evidence of effective cybersecurity defences before accepting a new client. “They want to see everything to the detail of what a client is doing to protect their networks or train their employees, to see if they have an incident response plan and so on,” Rebora explains. “They need to make sure that the client is worthy of their services."
This means that cyber insurance, in the traditional sense, may not be available to every company that wants it. "Some organisations… won't be insurable through typical commercial channels and coverages," analysts at Forrester predicted last year.
Some are therefore exploring other means. A “captive insurer” is an insurance provider that is wholly owned and controlled by its policyholders. The benefits include “the ability to tailor coverage for hard to insure or emerging risks,” according to accountancy firm PwC.
Bailey expects large companies to use captive insurers to mitigate cybersecurity risk. “Many companies have formed a captive insurance company for harder-to-place risk, or to take some of the risk onto their own balance sheet," she says. “I certainly think this is a trend that would absolutely continue in the future.” This is not an option available to everyone, however.
Cyber insurance: a condition of doing business?
For companies unable to secure cyber insurance, it may not just be risky but an impediment to their business, as it is becoming a condition of doing business in some areas. “In certain industries and certain revenue segments it's not uncommon to see a requirement for cyber insurance before engaging in a contract," says Bailey.
As a result, Forrester’s analysts predict, "a cyber policy will become a need-to-have rather than a nice-to-have."
This means that, despite the stress it places on their business, the ransomware crisis has put insurance providers in a position of considerable influence. “Because of these current trends, insurance companies have quite a fair amount of power,” says Rebora.
For some companies, the ongoing squeeze on the cyber insurance market may provide the impetus to invest in up-to-date precautions and protections. But for those without the capital or capability to do so, it could lead to lost opportunity and exposure to potentially insurmountable risk.
How long will the squeeze last? Estimates vary: Simon Milner, an agent at Miller Insurance, expects it to be resolved in the next two quarters, while Howden Group Holdings suggests it could last until at least 2025.
But it is not just individual companies that are at risk. The constraints of the insurance sector’s finances mean it may not be able to handle a catastrophic cybersecurity incident affecting multiple parties, warns Bailey.
"If there is some sort of large-scale cyber event, could the private sector and the insurance industry withstand that? Ultimately I think it would take something from the public sector in order to manage any kind of large-scale catastrophe,” she says.
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Due to a conflict of interest regarding the name SICS between the summit 4SICS and Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Omnisiens announces the fourth summit to be arranged under the new name CS3 STHLM. Three CS stand for Cyber Security, Control Systems and Critical Structures, and STHLM is an official acronym for Stockholm. CS3 STHLM takes place in Stockholm this October 24-26.
Top level cyber security experts from all over the world will gather again in the old concert venue Nalen in Stockholm for the internationally acclaimed summit. Owners of arranging company Omnisiens, Swedish cyber security experts Erik Johansson and Robert Malmgren, state:
-”We changed the name because we had to, but we are convinced our target group will find us, and that it won’t be such a big deal. Ticket sales are up and running, and we look forward to presenting yet another exciting mix of speakers and topics.”
Interest for the summit is expected to escalate while awareness of hacker attacks and vulnerabilities in IoT (Internet of Things), rises.
Tickets are on sale with an early bird price until June 30.
Selected topics from previous years, among ca 12-20 per year: In depth analysis of the attacks against Ukraine with Robert M Lee from Dragos and Anton Cherepanov together with Robert Lipovsky from anti virus company ESET who presented a thorough walk through of what is known about the virus ”Black Energy”, which was used against power companies in Ukraine.
Internet of Things; John Matherly, creator of Shodan, called the world’s most dangerous search engine leads a discussion of escalation of IoT with a number of the world’s leading experts on the subject.
Hackable pacemakers discussed by scientists Marie Moe and Eireann Leverett, they present weaknesses and possible threats against Moe’s own pacemaker. A kind of threat that led Dick Cheney, previous Vice President of The US, to discountct his pacemaker from the Internet to avoid being targeted by hackers.
The summit’s moderator is since the start Anne Marie Eklund Löwinder, AMEL, Head of Security at IIS, The Internet Foundation in Sweden, and one of seven crypto officers in the world with a key to the Internet root zone.
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https://cs3sthlm.se/press/2017/04/21/cyber-security-summit-4sics-relaunches-as-cs3sthlm.html
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Researchers from The College of Texas at Austin and North Carolina State College have found for the primary time a novel property in advanced nanostructures that has to this point solely been present in easy nanostructures. Moreover, they’ve unraveled the interior mechanics of the supplies that makes this property potential.
In a brand new paper printed this week within the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, the researchers discovered these properties in oxide-based “nanolattices,” that are tiny, hole supplies, akin to issues like sea sponges in construction.
“This has been seen earlier than in easy nanostructures, like a nanowire, which is about 1,000 occasions thinner than a hair,” mentioned Yong Zhu, a professor within the Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NC State, and one of many lead authors on the paper. “However that is the primary time we have seen it in a 3D nanostructure.”
The phenomenon in query known as anelasticity. It pertains to how supplies react to stresses over time. When the supplies studied on this paper had been bent, tiny defects moved slowly in response to the stress gradient. When the stress is launched, the tiny defects slowly return to their preliminary positions, ensuing within the anelastic conduct.
The researchers additionally found that when these defects transfer backwards and forwards, they unlock vitality dissipation traits. This implies they’ll dissipate issues like stress wave and vibration. The fabric might sometime function a shock absorber, however as a result of it is so light-weight and skinny, it will be on a really small scale. The researchers say it might make sense as a part of chips for electronics or different built-in digital gadgets.
“You would probably put this materials below the semiconductor chips and defend them from outdoors impression or vibration,” mentioned Chih-Hao Chang, an affiliate professor within the Walker Division of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin.
Now that these anelastic traits have been found, the subsequent step is to regulate them. The researchers will study the geometry of the nanostructures and experiment with completely different loading situations to see find out how to optimize the anelastic efficiency for vitality dissipation functions.
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https://cybersecuritymate.com/intriguing-materials-property-present-in-advanced-nanostructures-might-dissipate-vitality-sciencedaily/
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27th September 2022 – (Beijing) China on Tuesday released a new investigation report in which it said further evidence has been found to show the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is behind “thousands of cyber attacks” on a Chinese university.
With the technical support from a number of European and Southeast Asian countries, Chinese experts were able to retrace the technical features, attack weapons and paths used in the cyber attack against China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University, according to the report published by China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center in collaboration with internet security company 360.
They have found that those attacks originated from the NSA-affiliated Office of Tailored Access Operation (TAO), which had exposed its own technical loopholes and operational missteps during the attack, the report said.
Earlier probe has found that 41 types of cyber weapons were used by TAO in the recently exposed cyber attacks against the university.
Among the 41 types of cyber attack tools, 16 are identical to the TAO’s weapons that have been exposed by hacker group “Shadow Brokers,” and 23 share a 97 percent genetic similarity with those deployed by TAO, said the report.
The remaining two types need to be used in conjunction with other cyber attack weapons of TAO, the report said, adding that the homology of the weapons suggests they all belong to TAO.
Technical analysis found that the cyber attackers’ working time, language and behavior habits, and operation miss have also exposed their links with TAO.
The report detailed the process of TAO’s infiltration into the Chinese university’s internal network. TAO first used “FoxAcid,” a man-in-the-middle attack platform, to hack into the university’s internal host computer and servers, and then gained control over several key servers with remote control weapons. It then controlled some important network node equipment including the university’s internal routers and switches, and stole authentication data.
Hiding in the university’s operation and maintenance servers, TAO stole several key configuration files of network equipment, which were used to “validly” monitor a batch of network equipment and internet users.
The Chinese investigation team found that TAO captured personal information of some people with sensitive identity on the Chinese mainland. The information was sent back to headquarters of the NSA via multiple jump servers.
The report said the true identities of 13 attackers have been found out.
The report, revealing details of the U.S. cyber attacks against the Chinese university, was released to offer lessons to countries across the world so that they can more effectively identify and prevent cyber attacks by TAO.
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https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/china-discloses-more-evidence-of-cyber-attacks-by-u-s-security-agency%EF%BF%BC/
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Cybersecurity's purpose is to ensure the security and resiliency of the Firm's computing environment, protect customer and employee confidential information, and comply with regulatory requirements globally. We accomplish this through strong information security leadership and active collaboration with line of business information risk managers to provide high quality security solutions and services that are focused on improving the Firm's risk posture. The Cybersecurity team is composed of firmwide functions (IT Risk Management, Infrastructure Security Solutions, Identity & Access Management, and Application security) as well as business-aligned risk & resiliency management teams that affect the technology risk program.
The Cyber Security Red Team Lead is tasked with leading a team of qualified and highly skilled attack operators who are tasked with identifying and containing advanced cyber security threats targeting the firm. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in leading advanced network exploitation operations, to include Cyber Red Team operations. Additionally, candidate will have proven experience with in-depth technical analysis of computer networks culminating in the identification of existing and potential vulnerabilities that if exploited would allow unauthorized access to JPMC systems.
At least 5 years experience performing and leading network exploitation operations.
U.S. Intelligence Community background highly preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading and managing cyber operations and personnel.
Must be able to manage new and existing cyber security requirements, ensure personnel are fully trained and certified via internal JPMC standards, and implement control and risk procedures to insure all Red Team operations are conducted within strict accordance of JPMC Cyber Security standards and directives.
The ability to coordinate, work with and gain the trust of business stakeholders to achieve a desired objective.
Able to articulate and visually present complex forensic investigation and analysis results.
Able to work under pressure in time critical situations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Ability to communicate effectively with business representatives in explaining forensic findings clearly and where necessary, in layman's terms.
Ability to communicate with other industry forensic professionals to ensure solid partnerships with key external stakeholders to ensure that the forensic investigation process remains at a word class level.
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After opening over 300 bank accounts across the country and renting them out to cybercrooks of Jamtara -- also known as phishing capital of India -- to receive money siphoned from victims of cybercrime, 24-year-old Ram Pravesh was arrested by the police.
A full-fledged investigation has been started to learn how Pravesh managed to open so many accounts before getting caught.
The accused is a resident of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh, as per the DCP (southwest) Gaurav Sharm, and was getting Rs 5,000 per month for each account used by crooks as commission.
Police started trailing the suspect after an investigation into a complaint of cyber fraud wherein a woman was duped of Rs 98,000.
“In her complaint, the woman said that one of her payments on PhonePe app was not getting processed, so she searched for its customer care contact on Google. She found a phone number and called up. The receiver introduced himself as an employee of the company and asked her to verify her identity by conveying the OTP, which she had received on her number,” the DCP said, reported TOI.
Technical surveillance was mounted on the basis of information received locally and a raid was conducted in his hometown.
The accused was finally apprehended and Rs 25,000 were recovered from him.
“He has disclosed many names who are involved in this pan-India racket. Many other cases of online fraud are yet to be identified,” the DCP added.
Fraudsters take undue advantage of various process and system vulnerabilities, and positive consumer sentiment to purchase products or services with huge discounts, especially during festival seasons.
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https://ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/24-year-old-arrested-after-renting-300-bank-accounts-to-the-phishing-capital-of-india/87499777
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It is said that, “those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it“. In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware virus spread quickly around the world infecting thousands of computers and locking owners out of their files. Prior to this, Microsoft patched the EternalBlue vulnerability in March, before the May outbreak of WannaCry took place. Despite the extensive damage the WannaCry outbreak caused, organizations did not take heed to security experts warnings to apply security patches to their Microsoft Windows-based computer systems. It was warned that it was only a matter of time before the next digital attack would fall upon us.
And that brings us to our current status where beginning yesterday morning, Tuesday June 18th, Petya ransomware malware started spreading across Europe.
UPDATE #1: While initial analysis identified this attack as a variant of ‘Petya’, its behavior patterns indicate that it is in fact a new strain reminiscent of the ‘Wannacry’ ransomware attack. It has therefore recently been dubbed ‘NotPetya’ or ‘Petna’.
UPDATE #2: We have identified several unique hashes, these are listed below and in the link above.
Petya ransomware utilizes the SMBv1 EternalBlue exploit, operating in the same manner as WannaCry . This exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows machines. At least one of the tools used by the WannaCry ransomware was used with Petya, making it so successful and affecting nearly 300,000 computers worldwide within only a day.
As we stated above, Microsoft has patched vulnerabilities for all versions of Windows operating systems, but many users are still vulnerable and various malware variants are exploiting the flaw in order to deliver ransomware with cryptocurrency mining.
Those Who Fell Prey To Petya
The Petya cyber attack has spread across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain forced to shut down. And the stories have been hitting Twitter like a storm. Here are a few examples:
In the Ukraine, various banks as well as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which had to switch to manual radiation monitoring. The National Bank of Ukraine claimed that they are dealing with an unknown virus and that several of their banks were affected as well as financial institutions. “As a result of cyber attacks, these banks have difficulties with customer service and banking operations,” a statement said.
As for Kyiv’s energy generating company, Kyivenergo was attacked and had to shut down all their computers.
DLA Piper, a global law firm confirmed that their offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East and the US were instructed to turn off their computers as a precautionary measure. Those from within the firm have stated that email and phone systems have been affected with many systems also locked down.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was monitoring their radiation levels manually after having to shut down their Windows system that their sensors were using.
Apply patches against EternalBlue (MS17-010) and disable the unsecured SMBv1 file-sharing protocol on your Windows systems and servers.
Block emails from wowsmith123456 [at] posteo.net (.exe files)
Update anti-virus on all systems.
Close off inbound TCP ports (135, 445, 1024-1035).
Prevent running .exe files within %AppData%.
If the virus is detected, the computer should not be turned off (cmd / k shutdown-a) and the format should not be taken.
On a non-infected machine, create a file called perfc in the C:Windows folder and make it read only to prevent the encryption routine running in case of infection.
Intercept reboot post-infection to prevent encryption (shutdown and employ file recovery techniques to extract critical data before restoring to a known good backup).
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https://cyberint.com/blog/research/wannacry-is-back-with-the-vengeance-no-wait-its-petya/
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Microsoft is starting off 2017 with a minimal set of patches – 4 bulletins and 15 CVEs, 12 of which are Flash related. The first bulletin this month resolves a single vulnerability in Microsoft Edge and, since this vulnerability is Edge specific, it means we don’t have an IE bulletin this month. The vulnerability is an elevation of privilege created by a lack of cross-domain policy enforcement with the about:blank page.
CVE-2017-0002 was publicly disclosed.
The final bulletin this month is an unauthenticated denial of service vulnerability in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service better known as LSASS. A malicious authentication request could result in the targeted system crashing.
CVE-2017-0004 was publicly disclosed.
As always, VERT recommends that you apply all the patches as soon as possible but also that you fully vet patches (when possible) before applying them to production systems.
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https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert/vert-threat-alert-january-2017-patch-tuesday-analysis/
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The incident response services market size is estimated to grow from USD 13.09 billion in 2016 to USD 30.29 billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.3% from 2016 to 2021. The rising security breaches targeted on enterprises, increasing sophistication of cyber-attacks, and improved return on investments are the main driving forces behind increased adoption of incident response services. With the rapid advancement in technology, there has been an increase in the usage of digital solutions, connected devices, and IT systems. This usage of technology attracts hackers to gain access to confidential customers and company data for their personal benefit. Due to the rise in the number of security breaches targeting business applications and data, organizations across the world are deploying cyber security solutions and adopting incident response services to recover the loss at a faster pace. However, the shortage of technical expertise and lack of awareness regarding advice threats are restricting the growth of the incident response services market.
The Information Technology-Enabled Services (ITES) vertical is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The increased integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the different processes of industries, governments, families, and consumers, along with the rising sophistication levels of cyber-attacks, have led the IT and telecom sector to focus more on their cyber security activities as well as services that can respond quickly to such incidents.
In terms of market size, North America is estimated to hold the largest share in the overall incident response services market in 2016. The region, including the U.S. and Canada, has shown increased investments in the market, and a number of vendors have evolved to cater to the rapidly growing incident response services market. Considerable growth is expected in the region during the forecast period. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. Due to the increasing sophistication levels of threats, countries such as India, Japan, and Singapore have all updated or launched new national cyber security policies.
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Once upon a time, it was not possible to downgrade Windows Server forest and domain functional levels once upgraded. Enter Windows Server 2012 R2 and it's Active Directory enhancements, as detailed by the video below, backed by PowerShell automation capabilities. This enablement makes the forest and domain functional level downgrade even easier. Do keep in mind however that the lowest functional level that can be utilized is Windows Server 2008 R2.
In this Step-By-Step, we will be using a domain controller with forest and domain function level set to windows 2012 R2. PowerShell will be utilized as there is no GUI to perform this downgrade.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2016/01/20/step-by-step-downgrading-a-windows-server-domain-and-forest-functional-level/
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Security researcher Andreas Kurtz has identified a vulnerability that leaves email attachments downloaded by iOS 7’s Mail app unprotected by Apple’s Data Protection technologies. In short, data protection enhances the built-in hardware encryption by protecting the hardware encryption keys with your passcode. Apple specifically notes that this “provides an additional layer of protection for your email messages attachments, and third-party applications.”
Apple has confirmed the vulnerability officially for us, and says it will fix it in a future update, but such a fix didn’t make it into the recent iOS 7.1.1 update.
How Data Protection Works — Data Protection ensures that even if a bad guy gains physical control of your device, he can’t access protected files without knowing your passcode, even if he can break the rest of the iOS device’s security. This is especially useful to thwart attackers (or law enforcement) who connect to a device and extract a copy of the entire file system, after which they attempt to decrypt it offline. If you don’t enable Data Protection by configuring a passcode, your iOS file system is encrypted in a way that is easy to circumvent by tethering your device to a computer.
Adding a passcode engages both additional hardware security to protect your device from unapproved physical connections, and it encrypts application data storage (including email) using both your passcode and a hardware key that’s both unique to your device and nearly impossible to extract or copy. Even if someone has a complete copy of your file system they must brute force both of these codes together to see your files, which is nearly impossible to do off the device.
The alternative is to try to brute force your passcode on the device (through a tethered connection to a computer), but the encryption chips are designed to slow down this kind of attack to make it far less effective. In fact, it’s nearly impossible if you have a passcode longer than 6 to 8 characters. Data Protection is extremely effective, although older iOS devices (before the iPhone 4S and iPad 2) lack some of the special hardware and are thus more vulnerable.
Limitations to the Attack — Although Kurtz says that he was able to access the filesystem using “well-known techniques,” these techniques require technical know-how and some of the tools are compatible only with the iPhone 4 and earlier, as mentioned. Plus, we’re already in the territory of the attacker needing full physical access to the device, so this isn’t the sort of thing that could be used broadly via malware or a network connection.
An attacker either needs your passcode (in which case they have everything anyway), or he needs a jailbreak that works without a passcode, allowing him access to the file system. That’s how Kurtz was able to attack an iPhone 4. It’s unclear how he was able to reproduce on an iPhone 5s and iPad 2 running iOS 7.0.4, since more recent devices running iOS 7 aren’t susceptible to a jailbreak without the passcode. It’s possible that Kurtz had already jailbroken his iPhone 5s and iPad 2, so they weren’t as protected as a normal device would be. The bug means that email attachments still aren’t encrypted on those devices, but there isn’t a way to get to them.
Regardless, the practical upshot is that unless you receive highly sensitive information in email attachments and are at risk for being targeted in person by those interested in your data, there’s little to worry about here. Enterprise admins will want to alert users still relying on the iPhone 4, since email attachment data on those could be exposed if an attacker were to gain physical access.
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https://tidbits.com/2014/05/05/ios-7-email-attachment-vulnerability-real-but-limited/
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Do Macs get viruses? Do Macs need antivirus software? The short answers are yes (and no), and yes (and no). In this article we look at the dangers faced by Mac users, and the pros and cons of using Mac antivirus software.
The Mac is generally considered to be safe and secure, and there are a number of reasons why Macs are considered more secure than PCs. Malware writers are less likely to target Mac users because of the perception that it has a far smaller market share than Windows. There is also the fact that the Mac operating system is Unix-based, and Unix offers a number of security features built in.
In addition, Apple has included a number of security measures that make attacking a Mac particularly challenging. These include Gatekeeper, which blocks any software than hasn’t been digitally signed and approved by Apple from running on your Mac without your agreement.
However, there are still risks and from time to time Macs have become targets. We outline some of the attacks below.
Yes, they do. Numerous Mac viruses and Mac-specific attacks have been documented.
But let’s be clear, first of all, that Macs are indisputably more secure than Windows PCs. The Mac operating system is Unix-based, and Unix offers a number of security features built in, like the way that executable code and data is stored in separate folders. (This is why deleting an app on a Mac is so simple.) In addition, Apple has included a number of security measures that make attacking a Mac particularly challenging, including Gatekeeper, which blocks any software than hasn’t been digitally signed and approved by Apple. If you try to open an app by a developer that Apple hasn’t verified you will see the message: “[This app] can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.”
Apple goes to great lengths to protect you from malware by making it impossible for you to download it in the first place. The company has built-in anti-malware protection in Mac OS X and macOS. For example, before you can open a file your Mac will check it against a list of malware, and even if there is no reason for concern there, it will not allow you to open an application from a developer that it hasn’t already hasn’t approved.
OS X’s malware scanning tool, Xprotect, works invisibly and automatically in the background and requires no user configuration. Apple has a list of malicious applications that it checks against when you open downloaded applications. Updates happen invisibly too. This is similar to having antivirus software from another software developer running on your Mac, with the bonus of being written into the operating system and therefore it doesn’t hamper the speed of your Mac.
If you download and try to open files contaminated with malware, you may see an explicit warning that the files will “damage your computer”, along with a reference to type of malware. You should delete the file immediately.
In addition, macOS blocks downloaded software that hasn’t been digitally signed – a process in which Apple approves the developer. This leads to the familiar error message when you try to use or install unsigned software: “[this app] can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.”
The system at work here is called Gatekeeper and can be controlled via the Security & Privacy section of System Preferences – select the General tab and choose from the options underneath Allow Applications Downloaded From. To turn it off, click Anywhere.
Setting this option to Mac App Store and Identified Developers is the best plan. All software downloaded via the App Store is signed, so you’ll only see Gatekeeper warnings with a minority of apps you’ve downloaded manually. You can bypass its protection when needed – assuming you’re sure an app or installation package is safe, just hold down Ctrl, then click it and select Open. This will mark it as being trusted.
Software that is approved by Apple is also Sandboxed, which means apps do only what they’re intended to do. App sandboxing isolates apps from the critical system components of your Mac, your data and your other apps, so they shouldn’t be able to access anything that could allow them to do any damage.
There’s also anti-phishing technology in Safari that will detect fraudulent websites. It will disable the page and display an alert warning you if you visit a suspect wesite.
You’ll also notice that plug-ins such as Adobe Flash Player, Silverlight, QuickTime and Oracle Java won’t run if they aren’t updated to the latest version – another way of ensuring your Mac is safe.
In addition to Gatekeeper, which should keep malware off you Mac, FileVault 2 makes sure your data is safe and secure by encrypting it.
Despite Apple’s best efforts, Mac malware does exist, we describe some cases below…
Apple is also sometimes in a race against time to update the list of malware in its Xprotect file, leaving the system exposed for a few days. And in the past there have been flaws delected in the OS that could allow access to your Mac, such as the SSL error that meant it was possible for a hacker to access your machine if you were using public WiFi, more on that below.
In February 2017 researchers found the MacDownloaded software lurking in a fake update to Adobe Flash. When the installer is run you’ll get an alert claiming that there is adware on your Mac.
You’ll be asked to click to “remove” the adware, and when you enter your password on your Mac the MacDownloader malware will attempt to transmit data including your Keychain (so that’s your usernames, passwords, PINs, credit card numbers) to a remote server.
Luckily the threat seems to be contained for now: the remote server it the malware tries to connect is now offline.
The best way to avoid such attacks is to always check on Adobe’s site to see if there is an update to Flash you should be installing.
The MacDownloader malware is thought to have been created by Iranian hackers and was specifically targetted at the US defense industry. It was located on a fake site designed to target the US defence industry (so likely not yourself). In this case the phishing attempt would have been activated via a Flash file, and since Apple has stopped Flash opening by default, again this is unlikely to have affected you.
Word macro virus
PC users have had to contend with macro viruses for a long time. Applications, such as Microsoft Office, Excel, and Powerpoint allow macro programs to be embedded in documents. When these document are opened the macros are run automatically which can cause problems.
Mac versions of these programs haven’t had an issue with malware concealed in macros because since when Apple released Office for Mac 2008 it removed macro support. However, the 2011 version of Office reintroduced macros, and there has now been malware discovered in a Word macro, in a Word doc about Trump.
If the file is opened with macros enabled (which doesn’t happen by default), it will attempt to run python code that could have theoretically perform functions such as keyloggers and taking screenshots. It could even access a webcam. The chance of you being infected in this way is very small, unless you have received and opened the file referred to (which would surprise us), but the point is that Mac users have been targeted in this way.
Mac users should still be fairly safe from macros thanks to a warning that appears on screen should a user attempt to open a document containing macros.
Fruitfly
According to a report in January, the Fruitfly malware had been conducting surveillance on targeted networks for possibly two years.
The malware captures screenshots and webcam images, as well as looking for information about the devices connected to the same network – and then connects to them.
Malwarebytes claims the malware could have been circulating since OS X Yosemite was released in 2014.
Apple is already detecting Firefly via own built in anti-malware tool. Apple has all the malware definitions in its XProtect file which sits on your Mac, and everytime you download a new application it checks that none of those definitions are present. This is part of Apple’s Gatekeeper software that blocks apps created by malware developers and verifies that apps haven’t been tampered with.
KeRanger
KeRanger is ransomware. Ransomware is, in general, a sub-category of malware that involves dodgy software sneaking itself on to your computer and then encrypting files against your wishes. You’ll then be left with two apparent options: never be able to access those files again, or pay the ‘ransom’ to decrypt them. (Ransomware is one of the terms defined in our Apple jargon buster.)
For a long time ransomware was a problem that Mac owners didn’t have to worry about, but March 2016 saw the appearance of the first ever piece of Mac ransomware KeRanger, distributed along with a version of a piece of legitimate software: the Transmission torrent client. Transmission has since updated to remove this malware (and Apple has taken steps of its own) but not before a number of unlucky users got stung.
The KeRanger attack runs from a file named OSX.KeRanger. A. The KeRanger file somehow snuck itself into the Transmission 2.90 update and would be installed alongside it. If you were unlucky enough to have downloaded and run Transmission 2.90, you would also run the KeRanger file.
Chances are you are safe, even if you do use Transmission: the KeRanger file would only have been present in the download on the Transmission website between 4-5 March.
Apple has since revoked the GateKeeper signature and updated its XProtect system (part of File Quarantine) to block KeRanger.
But if you are using Transmission, you must upgrade to the latest version, Transmission 2.92, immediately. You’ll find more information about KeyRanger on the Transmission website.
Palo Alto Network’s Claud Xiao and Jin Chen explain how KeRanger works:
“The KeRanger application was signed with a valid Mac app development certificate; therefore, it was able to bypass Apple’s Gatekeeper protection. If a user installs the infected apps, an embedded executable file is run on the system. KeRanger then waits for three days before connecting with command and control (C2) servers over the Tor anonymizer network. The malware then begins encrypting certain types of document and data files on the system. After completing the encryption process, KeRanger demands that victims pay one bitcoin (about $400) to a specific address to retrieve their files. Additionally, KeRanger appears to be still under active development and it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their back-up data.
“Palo Alto Networks reported the ransomware issue to the Transmission Project and to Apple on March 4. Apple has since revoked the abused certificate and updated XProtect antivirus signature, and Transmission Project has removed the malicious installers from its website. Palo Alto Networks has also updated URL filtering and Threat Prevention to stop KeRanger from impacting systems.”
If you want to make sure you don’t get caught out by KeRanger – and how to remove a range of other malware attacks – read How to remove Mac malware, viruses and ransomware for free.
What is the Safari-get Mac scam?
In November 2016, and accelerating into the New Year, the security company Malwarebytes started documenting Mac-targeted denial-of-service attacks originating from a fake tech support website.
Like many Mac-targeted attacks, it depends on ‘social engineering’ or user error: you click a link in an email, and the malware is smuggled on to your Mac. This then triggers the attack.
There are two versions of the attack; the one you get depends on your version of macOS. Either Mail is hijacked and forced to create vast numbers of draft emails, or iTunes is forced to open multiple times. Either way, the end goal is to overload system memory and force a shutdown or system freeze.
Screenshot courtesy of Malwarebytes
(In fact, the real end goal is to get you to call a bogus Apple support number, whereupon you will presumably get charged to hear a fake solution by the people who caused the problem in the first place.)
You can avoid this issue, fortunately, by updating macOS: Malwarebytes suspects that Sierra 10.12.2 includes a patch for this, since up-to-date machines were not affected by the problem in testing.
Apple SSL , Gotofail error
This caused issues for Mac users back in 2014. The problem was with Apple’s implementation of a basic encryption feature that shields data from snooping. Most websites handling sensitive personal data use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security), which establishes an encrypted connection between a server and a person’s computer so that snoopers cannot read the traffic and extract information like credit card numbers or log-in credentials. If an attacker intercepts the data, it is unreadable.
However, Apple’s validation of SSL encryption had a coding error that bypassed a key validation step in the web protocol for secure communications. There was an extra Goto command that hadn’t been closed properly in the code that validated SSL certificates, and as a result, communications sent over unsecured Wi-Fi hot spots could be intercepted and read while unencrypted. This could potentially expose user password, bank data, and other sensitive data to hackers via man-in-the-middle attacks. Criminals could also supply fake data that makes it appear an authentic web service has been cryptographically verified.
These kinds of attacks are known as a man-in-the-middle attack and it is a form of eavesdropping in which a hacker makes an independent connection between a client and its destination server. The hacker is then able to relay messages between them, making the client and server believe they are talking to each other over a private connection.
In order for this type of attack to be possible, the attacker would have to be on the same public network.
Apple quickly issued an update to iOS 7 and iOS 6, but took longer to issued an update for Mac OS X, despite Apple confirming that the same SSL/TSL security flaw was also present in OS X. Read more about the iPad and iPhone security flaw here.
Apple said it had a fix ready for OS X and would release it “very soon”. The fix came late the following night.
Apple has its own security research team, but it depends on users and independent researchers to help by reporting any flaws they find in Apple products.
To this end, Apple has an incentive programme that rewards such discoveries with payments of up to $200,000, depending on the seriousness of the flaw. But it was the last major tech company to set up such a scheme. (Microsoft set up its own bug-reporting incentive programme in 2013, and was itself criticised at the time for leaving it so late.)
On 4 August 2016, Apple security boss Ivan Krstic announced the Apple Security Bounty Program. “We’ve had great help from researchers in improving iOS security all along,” Krstic said. “[But] we’ve heard pretty consistently… that it’s getting increasingly difficult to find some of those most critical types of security vulnerabilities. So the Apple Security Bounty Program is going to reward researchers who actually share critical vulnerabilities with Apple.”
The top reward is $200,000, given to those who discover vulnerabilities in Apple’s secure boot firmware components; for less critical flaws the bounties drop through a series of smaller figures to a bottom tier of $25,000. Wired has the details.
We imagine most Mac users will be pleased to hear that Apple has finally launched an incentive programme to encourage more widespread reporting of its vulnerabilities. Incentivising security researchers to let Apple know about a flaw instead of passing it on to hackers (which may still, sadly, be more lucrative) makes Apple products safer for everyone.
Do I need antivirus software for my Mac?
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition offers always-on virus protection for free, meaning that the app sits in the background and immediately alerts you should an infection take place.
Alternatively, iAntivirus by Norton, ClamXav and Bitdefender all provide on-demand scanning for zero cost, meaning you can run them whenever you feel it’s necessary to check for virus infections.
We look at the best options in our Best Mac antivirus software group test.
Should I install MacKeeper?
Whether Macs need an antivirus is still open to debate, but increasing numbers of Mac owners feel the need to install one – so much so that in 2011 one of the biggest Mac malware infections was via a fake antivirus app called MacDefender.
Another Mac antivirus company that is often thought of as unscrupulous is MacKeeper. There are various reports that suggest it is a scam or at worst malware. However, according to reports MacKeeper is not a scam, but unfortunately its aggressive advertising leads many to believe that it is, and perhaps it is unfortunately named (too similar to the fake antivirus app above). There are also complaints that it is difficult to uninstall.
How to update macOS
Apple issued a patch for the gotofail bug in an update to OS X Mavericks. Mac users running Mavericks were advised to update to OS X 10.9.2. Mac OS X Mavericks has since been replaced by macOS Sierra, but checking regularly for OS updates remains a key part of a sound security strategy.
The 460MB-860MB update (depending on your system) patched the vulnerability along with 32 other vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. These vulnerabilities include six in QuickTime and four that could be used to bypass sandboxing. Sandboxing – a requirement for all apps sold in the Mac App Store – restricts apps from accessing files and data in other apps, as well as other network resources, protecting the user.
Along with the vulnerability patches in OS X 10.9.2, Apple also provided several non-security fixes to deal with reliability, stability and performance issues, as well as a few that beefed up some integrated features and tools.
Check if your system is up to date by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left of the menu bar. Then click About This Mac.
If you are still running a version older than OS X 10.9.2 head to the Mac App Store and click on the Updates tab. Wait while your Mac searches for updates. We had a couple of minutes of waiting before the new update showed up.
Once the update appears, click Update.
You will need to restart your computer once the update has downloaded. Our 460MB download took about 8 minutes (during which time we were still able to work) but then the restart and install took almost 20 minutes, bringing the total install time to about 25 minutes in total.
More info: Apple patches critical ‘gotofail’ bug with Mavericks update | OS X 10.9.2 arrives to fix SSL vulnerability
And for our in-depth guide to updating Mac operating systems, see How to update macOS.
How to get updates automatically macOS can update automatically in the background – both system updates and any apps installed via the App Store. Bearing in mind hackers have been known to exploit bugs that get fixed via updates, enabling this feature is a good idea and can be done by opening System Preferences, then clicking the App Store icon. Ensure there’s a check alongside Automatically Check for Updates, and tick the three boxes beneath, which will enable downloading and installation of updates.
Some updates might require a reboot, in which case you’ll see a notification message telling you so. To view which updates have been applied recently, open the App Store app, then click the Updates icon.
I can’t update my Mac – is my Mac safe?
As in iOS, the Mac OS X Mavericks flaw is limited to SSL connections over unsecured Wi-Fi networks, in Safari (Firefox, Chrome and other browsers are said to be secure.) However, other Apple and non-Apple applications are said to be affected, including Apple’s Mail, FaceTime, Calendar, Keynote, and iBooks. Third-party applications, such as the desktop Twitter application and possibly VPN (virtual private network) connections, are also said to be affected, depending on their configurations, according to Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher.
The danger is mitigated somewhat since an attacker must be on the same network as the victim. However, you could be open to attacks if you are using a shared network and someone is snooping on that network. This could be someone in your local Starbucks.
Secured Wi-Fi networks, such as home and business networks with encryption enabled, are not affected.
If you can’t yet install Apple’s fix here are some tips for using your Mac safely.
1. Don’t connect to public Wi-Fi networks.
2. The flaw affects any application on the Mac that uses SSL/TLS, including Safari, messaging apps and even Apple’s software update, so avoid using iMessage 3. Don’t use Safari. Use alternative browsers like Chrome and Firefox. The browsers Chrome and Firefox are not affected because they use NSS, which is a different set of cryptographic libraries for client and server communications.
Despite the flaws and attacks described above, Macs are generally a lot safer than PCs. As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, there are a few reasons why Macs are more secure than PCs. One is the simple fact that malware developers are less likely to direct their attention to the Mac because of the perception that it has a far smaller market share than Windows. However, even more significant is the fact that the Mac operating system is Unix-based.
However, there are a few things worth doing to make sure you are completely secure when using your Mac.
How to turn on your Mac Firewall
The firewall defends your Mac against unwanted incoming connections from the Internet or other computers on the network.
Check to ensure the firewall’s enabled by opening System Preferences and selecting the Security & Privacy option. Click the Firewall tab and ensure it reads Firewall: On. If not, click the Turn On Firewall button. For fine-grained control over which apps are protected, click the Firewall Options button.
Steer clear of browser plug-ins
Recent vulnerabilities with the Java and Flash plug-ins have highlighted the fact that there are cross platform threats that even Mac users need to be aware of. If there’s a major malware outbreak exploiting a buggy plug-in, XProtect will automatically disable it until an update is installed. Additionally, Safari in Mavericks lets you control what sites can use individual browser plug-ins. A policy of denying all sites plug-in access is a good one, unless they absolutely can’t function without them.
To set permissions, open the Preferences dialog (Cmd+comma) and click the Security icon, then click the Manage Website Settings button. Select the plug-in on the left, then click the dropdown alongside When Visiting Other Websites to set overall permissions, or select the site within the list to set individual permissions.
Avoid installing the Oracle Java Runtime software if you can but if you have no choice, or you’ve already installed it in the past, it’s a good to turn off its browser plug-in. To do so, open Java within System Preferences, click the Security button of the window that appears, and ensure there isn’t a tick alongside Enable Java Content In The Browser.
Store passwords online with iCloud Keychain
Keychain is the OS X system tool that remembers usernames and passwords for websites, apps and even system tools like Wi-Fi.
With OS X Mavericks the Keychain data can be backed up to iCloud, and also synced across any iOS 7 devices or Macs running Mavericks. This is clearly useful but raises security concerns. Apple says it uses “industry-standard encryption techniques” to store and transmit this sensitive password data, adding that the data “cannot be read by Apple”. Additionally, Apple never co-operates with government collection of data.
iCloud Keychain works in two slightly different ways, depending on whether you configure a security code while setting it up. With a code your Keychain data is backed up in iCloud. If you opt not to create a code, your Keychain data is merely synced across iOS devices and Macs. Backup in iCloud is a good insurance policy against theft of your device(s) or Mac(s).
To setup iCloud Keychain on a Mac, open System Preferences and click the iCloud icon. Put a tick alongside the Keychain box in the list. After entering your Apple ID password (not your Mac login password!), you’ll be prompted to enter a 4-digit numeric security code. To avoid doing so, or to if you worry a 4-digit PIN isn’t enough protection, click the Advanced button. For a stronger passcode consisting of a word, numbers, or even a whole phrase, click Use a Complex Security Code. To avoid a security code entirely, and thereby deactivate iCloud backup of keychain data, click the Don’t Create Security Code option.
Once you’ve entered a security code, you’ll be invited to enter a mobile phone number. Additional security codes can be texted to this number should you attempt to recover your iCloud Keychain in future.
To give a new device or Mac access to your Keychain, access iCloud via the Settings app in iOS (or via System Preferences on another Mac), then tap the switch alongside Keychain (or put a tick on the box on the Mac). Then click Approve With Security Code, and type your security code when prompted.
Alternatively, or if you opted not to use a security code, return to the iCloud panel of System Preferences on your Mac to authorise new devices or Macs. This can be done by clicking the Details button alongside the Keychain heading and entering your Apple ID password.
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<blockquote data-quote="Guilhermesene" data-source="post: 965604" data-attributes="member: 80139"><p> From what I understand, people leave HIPS in "Learning" mode for a few days, after that time HIPS they turn on "Interactive" mode because most of the rules have already been created and the ones that haven't will be asked to decide what action to take.</p></blockquote><p></p> [QUOTE="Guilhermesene, post: 965604, member: 80139"] From what I understand, people leave HIPS in "Learning" mode for a few days, after that time HIPS they turn on "Interactive" mode because most of the rules have already been created and the ones that haven't will be asked to decide what action to take. [/QUOTE]
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Live TV Now is a suspicious browser extension created by the infamous SpringTech Technologies, a company responsible for making dozens of similar threats. All products from this developer offer unique features to attract web users. In case of Live TV Now, it is offered as a tool to get access to popular online video content and related media right at the homepage or new tab window. However, during diagnostics, we observed that it can do so many tricky things that endangers users online privacy and security.
As of this writing, Live TV Now was removed from Chrome web store due to bad reputation. It can sneak onto the computer via software bundling scheme wherein it is enclosed with freeware like games, tools, utilities, download manager, media player, and so on. The moment this freeware is run, adware is also loaded onto the computer that will make way for Live TV Now to be installed on the browser. Next, it will alter internet software configuration so that homepage and other vital pages of the program will redirect to unwanted search engine like Tv.mysearches.co, Search.hlivetvnow.co, and many more.
Aside from infuriating browser redirect issues, presence of Live TV Now is one thing that user must not take for granted due to privacy risks that it possesses. This type of adware is capable of gathering various online data from the compromised browser. Live TV Now can collect information like search inquiries, frequently visited websites, and some personal identifiable data. Thus, it is highly suggested to immediately get rid of Live TV Now to bring back the browser to its normal and safe working state.
5. Select Live TV Now or relevant entry and remove it from Safari.
6. Lastly, go to Safari Settings once again and select Downloads from the drop down list.
7. If LiveTVNow.safariextz is present, click on Clear button to remove the unwanted extension.
5. Press Windows Key + R and then, type appwiz.cpl command.
6. Program and Features window will open. Arrange the list in chronological manner with recently installed applications on top. To do this, click on ‘Installed On‘ column.
7. Select Live TV Now or recently installed unwanted entry. Then, click on Uninstall to remove it from Windows system.
Stage 2: Scan and Delete Adware with AdwCleaner
In addition to the procedure, we suggest scanning the computer with AdwCleaner tool. Possibly, there are some traces of Live TV Now on the browser that was not deleted during the preceding steps. This tool will scan the computer and check for presence of malicious applications.
1. Follow the link below to download the tool called AdwCleaner.
Click here to download AdwCleaner (this will open a new window) 2. When the download has completed, please close all running programs on the computer especially browsers affected by Live TV Now.
3. Browse the location of the downloaded file and double-click on adwcleaner_Ver.exe to start running the tool. Then, click on Scan button.
4. AdwCleaner searches the computer for malicious programs, extensions, plug-ins, adware, and any items that may be associated to Live TV Now.
5. Clean or Remove all suspicious and harmful items identified after the thorough scan.
6. After the cleanup procedure, rebooting the computer is required to finalize the removal of detected threats.
Stage 3: Remove Live TV Now Add-on and Cleanup the Browser
Preceding steps may have removed Live TV Now from the browser already. This next procedure is needed to double-check that browser is free from any adware remnants especially from Live TV Now. Avast Browser Cleanup is a free tool that restores the browser to its initial, clean state. It will get rid of annoying browser extensions, toolbars, and search hijackers.
1. Click the link below to download this free tool.
Avast Browser Cleanup Download Link (This will open in a new window)
2. To run the installer, please double-click the executable file avast-browser-cleanup-sfx.exe.
3. Run the tool to start analyzing the browsers. It will state whether browser is free from threats or cleanup is needed. Perform suggested cleanup if the tool found suspicious extensions, add-ons, or plug-ins.
4. If Avast Browser Cleanup verifies if you want to permanently delete suspicious entries, click Yes to proceed with the removal of Live TV Now.
Stage 4: Scan the Computer with Sophos Virus Removal Tool
Lastly, we will scan the computer with a multi-function security program. This will inspect the computer for possible presence of virus, malware, rootkit, adware as well as unwanted homepage like Live TV Now.
1. Download Sophos Virus Removal Tool from the link below. Save the file on your computer where you can easily access it.
Sophos Virus Removal Tool Download Link (this will open a new window)
2. Once the download completes, browse the location of the file. Double-click to run the program and begin the install process. If Windows prompts for User Account Control, please click Yes to proceed.
3. On first windows of installation wizard, click Next to continue. Then, it will display the program’s License Agreement. You need to Accept the terms in order to proceed.
4. On succeeding windows, click Next or Continue to carry on with the installation. After completing the installation process, Launch Sophos Virus Removal Tool.
5. Internet connection is required when running this scanner in order to download important updates. Make sure that everything is up-to-date to effectively remove malicious program like Live TV Now.
6. Click the button to carry out the Scan. This will check the system for presence of malicious objects, malware, and viruses. The tool reveals items that were found linked to Live TV Now and other suspicious entities. Be sure to remove all identified threats.
1. Open Google Chrome application.
2. Type this strings in the address box: chrome://settings/ and then, press Enter on keyboard.
3. Scroll down and expand Advanced settings area.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page until you see Reset and Cleanup section.
5. Click on Clean Up Computer. On next page, please click FIND to proceed.
This feature of Google Chrome aims to find harmful software and remove it instantly. If unable to delete Live TV Now, the other option is to Reset Google Chrome settings to its original defaults. Just go back to previous page (Clean Up Computer) and reset the settings. See more details on this page.
Reset Mozilla Firefox to Default
If Mozilla Firefox is affected by Live TV Now and procedures above were not helpful, we suggest that you carry out these steps. This process can fix the issue by restoring Firefox browser to default factory state. Most browser data will be affected but not bookmarks, browsing history, passwords, and internet cookies. Extensions and other installed plug-ins maybe deleted by this function. Therefore, if you wish to remove specific extension only, please see manual add-on removal from this link.
1. Open Mozilla Firefox browser and type the following in the address bar: about:support 2. Browser will be directed to a page of Troubleshooting Information. You will notice a section on upper-right corner of the screen stating ‘Give Firefox a Tune Up‘. Click the Refresh Firefox button.
3. Confirmation window will pop-up, click Refresh Firefox to continue.
4. The reset process will automatically close the browser and proceed with the restoration. Next, it will display a list of restored data. Live TV Now should be gone by now. Click Finish to close the current window and open a fresh window of Mozilla Firefox.
3. Select Reset Safari from the drop-down list.
4. Pop-up window will appear. You may select all boxes for total reset or follow the options below if you only want to remove Live TV Now from Safari browser.
5. Please restart Safari browser for changes to take effect.
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Under the pressure of the global financial crisis and climate change, Australian water utility, South East Water (SEW) identified a need to clean up its carbon footprint.
The organisation services more than one and a half million customers over three and half thousand square kilometres and was keen to embed sustainability in its decision making process with a focus on environmental impacts, community and cost.
SEW ICT operations manager, Stuart Brockwell, told attendees at Melbourne’s CIO Summit that, like many companies, the organisation faced the ongoing issue of “doing more with less”.
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“The challenge for us was to identify areas where we could make a difference - both financial and environmental - without compromising the service,” Brockwell said.
The company has increased staff numbers by 38 per cent over the last two years, exacerbate budget restraint problems. So Brockwell and his team put SEW’s burgeoning data centre under the microscope.
“It’s surprising just how much money organisations spend on running their data centre each year," he said. "Like most IT managers, we had no visibility of our electricity bill and could not accurately track the consumption of power in our data centre.”
By removing 100 servers from our three-year refresh cycle we saved in excess of $600,000 in hardware costs alone
With the saying "you can't manage what you don't measure" ringing in their ears, the IT team installed smart meters. The move enabled Brockwell to track the power consumption in real time. The results were eye opening; 30 per cent of the power for the company’s head office locations was directly attributable to the data centre.
“With more than 150 physical servers in our data centre, we had a ratio of just under one server for every four staff in the organisation. People had become so accustomed to having dedicated hardware for their applications they were reluctant to move to a shared infrastructure model,” Brockwell said.
“A combination of room design and old racks meant the air conditioners were struggling to meet cooling requirements,” he said. “Our data centre was located on the first floor and we’d reached the upper limit of our capacity, to the point where our facilities manager refused to allow us to make any changes to the facility without first getting sign off from a structural engineer.”
Taking “tentative steps" into the world of virtualisation, SEW developed testing environments, building confidence within the organisation for shared infrastructure.
“As confidence progressed over time we continued to work with the business, starting with virtualising just a few servers in early 2007. In December that year we had reached a target of 85 per cent virtualisation across our server fleet.”
Upon reaching that goal, Brockwell and his team were able to remove 10 racks from the data centre, equating to almost two tonnes of tin removed from the facility within 12 months. Power consumption also reduced significantly, enabling the shutdown of several air conditioner units.
“By removing 100 servers from our three-year refresh cycle we saved in excess of $600,000 in hardware costs alone, and the overall reduction in carbon emissions as a result of virtualisation was the equivalent of taking more than 100 cars off the road each year.”
Managed print services
In addition to virtualising its server fleet, SEW’s print fleet was also experiencing symptoms of age including a high rate of failure and costly ongoing maintenance. Paper wastage was also high.
The organisation had 600 staff and 120 printers, scanners and photocopiers across its office locations, resulting in a ratio of just one printer per 13 staff.
Following a “rigorous” vendor selection process, SEW signed a five-year managed print service deal with Canon for 16 multi-function devices for two offices and installed complimentary swipe card readers on each machine.
“Using business cards, staff can now walk up to any printer in any of the offices, swipe their pass on the printer and it will print out the staff member’s print job," Brockwell said.
“For those printing confidential documents, there is no longer need to run to the printer. With the swipe card reader, your print job is sitting there safely and securely waiting to be printed.”
According to Brockwell, the new devices proved faster than the old machines despite the swipe card implementation as they reduce time spent printing large documents.
“One of the key areas we really wanted to focus on was paper waste and so we implemented a policy where any print jobs that had not been printed within 48 hours were automatically purged from the system,” he said. “This allowed us to reduce uncollected print outs reducing the average paper consumption by four per cent per year.
“As a percentage, that equates to a 15 per cent saving in our print outs each year and that was just what wasn’t printed.
“We also defaulted our printers to black and white, with 70 per cent of print jobs now printed in black and white so we’re also seeing savings there, especially when you consider colour printing is 10 times more expensive.”
With staff numbers now in excess of 800, Brockwell said the tools have enabled SEW to manage its print fleet without having to increase the number of printers.
Some 44 printers were removed from the organisation, as well as 15 photocopiers.
The installation of a TV, video camera and computer in each meeting room has also driven down the need for staff to bring minutes, agenda items and presentations in printed form, Brockwell said, and has had an added benefit of staff using the TVs as video conferencing devices between offices, reducing the need for unnecessary travel between locations.
“We achieved a significant savings of $86,000 which included costs for repairs, considerable and power consumption across our managed print fleet, and while doing so we also managed to achieve a saving of 40 tonnes of greenhouse gas directly attributable to our printer fleet and the printing process.”
Another area subject to a green clean-up was SEW’s 800–strong desktop fleet, of which one third is replaced each year.
The organisation traded its old fleet for an ultra slim desktop design which uses the power supply equal to that of a laptop and implemented a policy to turn the machines off overnight.
“We found that on average, 150 machines were being left on every night unnecessarily so we started publishing a list of those being left on to try and encourage people to be proactive in turning off their PCs,” he said. “We find that on average now less than 10 machines are left on everyday.”
Following the hire of a new CIO earlier this year, SEW has begun to work on its new IT strategy to take it through to 2018, Brockwell said.
This will seek to address the use of fax as well as the replacement of the company’s storage area network (SAN) and virtual server fleet which are both up for replacement.
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Samsung has also joined the FIDO Alliance and been appointed to the Board of Directors.
FIDO is meant to boost interoperability among strong authentication devices and eliminate the need for multiple usernames and passwords. The specifications define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that supplant reliance on passwords to securely authenticate users of online services. Security devices and browser plugins will allow any website or cloud application to interface with a broad variety of existing and future FIDO-enabled devices that the user has for online security, wrapping in biometrics, TPM and other technologies.
“Combining FIDO-ready authentication with the new biometric security feature on the Galaxy S5 means users will no longer need to type passwords or login details when they shop,” said Hill Ferguson, chief product officer at PayPal, in a statement. “Users of the Samsung Galaxy S5 can now benefit from a uniquely secure and seamless online, mobile and in-store shopping experience across the millions of merchants that accept our trusted PayPal service – this means that consumers don't need to sacrifice convenience to increase security.”
In the S5 implementation, the Nok Multifactor Client (MFAC) Mobile Edition (also called the FingerPrint Passport) allows the Galaxy S5 fingerprint sensor to connect securely to online services. And then on the back end, PayPal has deployed the Nok Multifactor Authentication Server (MFAS) to provide the authentication infrastructure that communicates securely with the client on the Galaxy S5.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to collaborate with Samsung and PayPal to help drive secure mobile payments around the globe,” said Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO at Nok, in a statement. “By providing the FIDO-ready solution, we are bringing the vision of the FIDO Alliance on a global scale, and at the same time providing PayPal, Samsung and their customers with an easy-to-use and more secure solution.”
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Writer: PL&B UK Correspondent & Information Age Privacy Writer. She has been published in academic publications including The Journal of Data Protection and Privacy by Henry Stewart.
Trainer: Former Associate of Henley Business School’s GDPR Transition Programme; Contributor to University of Toronto’s Privacy Management in the Digital Enterprise Certificate (privacy engineering module); delivers bespoke in-house training to SME clients and workshops to the public. On the menu for 2020 — on-demand training videos.
*Lawyer: *As a Data Privacy Specialist with My Inhouse Lawyer, she advises a portfolio of SMEs on GDPR implementation. Her blended approach of legal, technical and operational dimensions is focused on helping them develop robust internal privacy programs to enhance trust and de-risk the business.
Community: new member of the UK Privacy by Design panel (IOT/1/-/5) (BSI). She has organised privtech roundtables and privacy meetups and plans to hold Digital Detox workshops for consumers, solopreneurs and privacy professionals alike.
Connect with her on LinkedIn: linked.com/in/AbigailD. Follow her on Twitter @LegallyAbigail or get in touch via email to [email protected]
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A recent study polled 2,250 IT decision makers to find out what threatens their network the most in 2018. 77% of the IT individuals polled said that their biggest fear was negligence and fraud from email attacks.
Email protection is much different than blocking unfettered Internet access. Most organizations have systems in place that block malicious sites. Vendors sell software that blocks known malicious sites, and the database is updated regularly to allow IT administrators to choose topics to filter based on categorization from the vendors. It’s not a 100% foolproof method for blocking sites, but it does help filter much of the content that could be harmful to the corporate network.
Several vendors also offer email filters that block executables, attachments that contain macros, or just email that’s considered spam. Even public email vendors such as Gmail or Yahoo attempt to filter malicious phishing emails and place them in a spam box. With corporate email, it isn’t enough to place email content in a spam filter, because many employees will still fall for much of the scams by going into their spam inbox and reading the content or running executables. Plus, employee accounts are more lucrative for criminals.
Email Addresses are Easy for an Attacker to Find
For these reasons, attackers use email to trick naive users into entering their credentials or running malicious software. They scour social media looking for key personnel to target. LinkedIn is especially useful because many people use it and put their entire work history, current employer, and title on their personal pages. They have connections openly available to anyone who wants to go through the list to find other employees to target.
With a list of key personnel (usually ones that have higher level access than other users), the attacker sends emails or even uses social engineering to contact the target. In many cases, the attacker is able to gain access to the network using emails with a link to a site that looks like an official vendor or corporate entity. Users enter their username and password and the site sends the information to the attacker.
Some users are aware of the mistake if the site returns errors, but others don’t realize that they’ve made any mistakes until their account is compromised. Security administrators must be able to determine that these attacks have happened and monitor user access. Some attackers wait until after hours to log in to avoid detection, but this isn’t always the case. The network administrator and security team must put intrusion detection devices on the network to determine when an attacker is on the network.
Detecting these types of attacks is difficult because the attacker is using official credentials. It’s much different than detecting unusual traffic patterns or too many failed login attempts. Staff should also be educated on social engineering techniques because many times, an attacker will just call and convince the victim to provide credentials over the phone.
GateKeeper stops some social engineering attacks, particularly ones that involve access to the physical machine and websites.
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https://gkaccess.com/phishing-and-email-fraud-are-top-security-risks-for-corporate/
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I'm on Debian and I have a folder, with thousands of files inside it, that has a size of about 14GB. From this folder I have created two encrypted archives: one is a password protected .7z archive, the other is a TAR archive encrypted with ccrypt (.tar.cpt).
(From now on I will assume that .7z/7zip archive means password protected .7z/7zip archive)
I have noticed that opening the 7z archive and inserting the password, lets me see the actual content in about 1-2 seconds, maybe less (there's almost no human perceptible time difference from opening this file and the same .7z file without encryption). However, to be able to see the TAR archive content, the ccdecrypt command on the .tar.cpt file much longer about 5-6 minutes. After that I can open the TAR archive and see the actual content in about 1-2 seconds. This leaves me with some questions:
1. Is a 7zip archive's content encrypted?
The difference in time for decrypting two files of about the same size (the .7z is only about 100MB smaller because the files are already in compressed formats) makes me think that while ccrypt encrypts all the content of the TAR archive, 7zip only encrypts the archive containing the files, like if it was a folder (which vaguely is), making difficult to break through it, but the actual content of the archive remains unencrypted. So being able to see the content only takes few seconds with a .7z archive (the time to decrypt the containing archive/check the password), while seeing the .tar files implies that all the 14GB content is ccdecrypted. Did I make the right assumption? If not, can someone please explain me how these two encryption methods differ and work? This specific 7zip archive hides the filenames before the password is inserted, if that's somehow relevant.
2. Does that means minor security of the 7zip archive?
If the assumption in the first point is correct, does that imply that a password protected 7zip archive is less secure than a "fully encrypted" .tar.cpt archive? I know that using 7zip leaves a lot of traces/temporary files of the hypothetical extracted/decrypted archive, but my question is about the actual security of the encrypted archive itself. Furthermore, I will encrypt/decrypt the archive only on my desktop PC, while the file will be stored on a server, so even if someone will ever take control of the server (and not of my PC of course), he will not be able to find any traces of a decompressed archive, given that the archive is never been decompressed on the server, right?
3. Is there a true UNIX alternative?
Is there a software typical of the UNIX world that makes possible to encrypt a TAR archive in the 7zip way, so that i can protect stuff not-so-security-critical (if a .tar.cpt is actually more secure than a .7z like I've assumed) in a way that makes possible to see the files in 2 seconds instead of 5 minutes? I've nothing against 7zip, it's a great utility, but I'm wondering if the pure UNIX world has something similar to offer (I suppose certainly yes). Furthermore, creating an uncompressed TAR archive takes much less time than creating his 7zipped counterpart, even at minimum compression settings, so being able to apply the "7zip crypting method" to a .tar file would be really convenient.
Other UNIX encrypting software like gpg, mcrypt and the old unsecure crypt all make the same ccrypt type of encryption (I mean that they encrypt all the content, not considering the encryption method), while gzip, bzip2, etc., if I am not wrong, cannot encrypt nothing at all, given the UNIX tradition "Do one thing and do it well".
Initially, the fact that is possible to extract a single file from an encrypted 7zip archive in a bunch of seconds, more or less like with an unencrypted one, was for me another reason to think that the content wasn't actually encrypted, because I didn't know that even a single file can be decrypted from a .7z (and wasn't passed enough time to let me think that the whole archive was decrypted to give me that single file).
Furthermore, I recorded the extraction times of the encrypted and unencrypted versions of the same 7zip archive, and the difference wasn't noticeable at all. I thought that this was another proof of the content being unencrypted, but I was one more time wrong, because I wasn't considering that modern CPUs have encryption bult-ins for popular algorithms like AES (as suggested in the accepted answer).
The 7zip archive can apparently be set to 'no compression' only through command line, or at least not through GUI with Ark (setting the slider to 'minimum' still compresses the archive). Without compression (-mx=0 switch, from the same answer) the .7z size and making time are, more or less, identical to those of the .tar counterpart.
Even not considering the advantage in time of a .7z header over .tar.cpt to show the file list, ccrypt only uses 1 core for encryption/decryption, which makes the process even slower.
I edited the question to make it more readable. Having the accepted answer appropriate quotes, I hope it's still fully understandable.
Note that ccrypt is actually really bad. – forest May 14 '18 at 1:17
I have checked your link, thanks for letting me know. However, since I posted this question I started using encrypted 7z archives already for other reasons (and it seems like it was the right thing to do after all). – mars Jun 12 '18 at 12:20
(I have never used ccrypt. My answer about it is limited to what they claimed in their page) 7z actually encrypts both the archive header and the actual file content, but with the same password. When using 7z to create an encrypted archive, you have the option to also encrypt the header (through the command-line flag -mhe=on, default is off). As long as you supply a password, the actual file content is always encrypted regardless of whether you encrypt the file header.
The use of file header by 7z (and zip and rar) is just to allow you to quickly browse through the files/directories stored in the archive, for both encrypted and unencrypted archive. tar does not have any such file list due to historical reasons.
So your assumption is incorrect.
I can't say for ccrypt, but 7z is safe enough in terms of encryption (as long as you choose a good password). As you have mentioned, 7z uses AES-256 for encryption and AES-256 is safe. 7z is open source and there are no security flaws (malicious or honest) that could tamper encrypted 7z's security.
Note that you are using a password to encrypt your 7z archive. That means if somebody got your 7z file, he can try every possible passwords one by one until he comes to your password. (That's why you should always choose a good password) 7z uses key stretching (100,000 iterations IIRC) to slow down such process, but if your password is too short or is too common (e.g. "Passw0rd" or "Letmein"), that malicious guy can hit your password quickly. There have been genuine password crackers for encrypted archives which uses this trick.
Seriously, .tar archive is nothing more than a large file. You can always compress/encrypt it using 7z. This will produce a .tar.7z file though you are free to rename it. This means multiple files are grouped into a .tar archive, then compressed/encrypted with 7z in whatever way you like. This is particularly useful in *nix administration since tar preserves owner/permission info but 7z doesn't. But in your case if you don't care about these, a simple 7z is more than enough.
As a sidenote, you don't need to compress with 7z if you don't want. You can set the compression level to 0 (-mx=0 in command line). This way 7z simply packs your file and encrypt them, without doing the time-consuming compression/decompression.
However, even if opening a single file in the 14GB .7z archive isn't as quick as in the .tar archive
It depends on the algorithm used to compress 7z and tar files. There are multiple compression algorithms to compress a file, and each algorithm can be configured to different compression levels. In general, the smaller the output file the longer it takes. Since you mentioned that 7z saves you 100 MB there is a trade off in time.
Also, when you open the file list of .tar, you have already decrypted and decompressed all the files. It's just the matter of getting the bytes you want. But for .7z only the archive header is shown. The actual files have not been decrypted/decompressed yet. If you compare the time taken from double-click on file list to getting the file, tar is almost always the winner.
About tar: No. You still need to extract the whole archive to get even a single file. What the software does under the hood is to extract everything to temp folder / memory, then copy only the file you select to disk, and let the rest cleared by OS. The file list appears after decryption and decompression has been done. – Link Ng Nov 24 '16 at 15:10
Extracting the 14GB .tar takes about 1 minute and 10 seconds, clicking the right button and selecting extract on a single file put the file in the specified folder almost in realtime. Shouldn't be passed at least the same minute and 10 seconds to make possible to extract that single file? :) I'm doing that with Ark. – mars Nov 24 '16 at 15:15
Another thing: about not being mandatory to compress with 7zip, with compression set to the minimum, .7z archive still is about 100MB smaller than the .tar counterpart, and takes longer to be created (about 1 minute for .tar with 4 cores at about 85% VS about 20 minutes for .7z with 4 cores at 100%). However this is done with Ark through Dolphin file manager, maybe it can be done with no compression only from command the line? Let me try. – mars Nov 24 '16 at 15:42
Assumption 1) is incorrect. Using the password on an 7Z, RAR, ACE or a lot of older archivers allows you access to the file 'tree'. You will still have to extract (decrypt) each file if you want to actually access something. This is valid since the MS-DOS era.
So you practically access an index of your files, nothing more.
Also note, that the decryption key is tested against every file. Archivers only automate this and apply the same key for all files, but you can actually encrypt each file using a different passsword if you want.
-Edit- You can actually study the 7Z code here.
So i have ti suppose that 7zip (and others probably) Can decrypt only a specific file in the archive? Isn't this a bit unsecure in someway against encrypting even filenames like in the above command? I think that at this point however, extracting the whole encrypted archive should take much more time that extracting the unencrypted version! I'll try later. – Yes, you can decrypt and extract a single file independently on the others. There is one exception to this: if the archive is made in solid mode , the encryption is applied over all data and a specific file will be dependent on previous ones being decrypted. Also note that extraction time is dependent on how well optimized the encryption/decryption algorithm is. Key size is also a performance factor. Try comparing Truecrypt and Veracrypt at volume access time as an example. – Overmind Nov 25 '16 at 7:10
Added link with 7Z source code; may clear things up if you're a programmer. – Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
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Effective incident response is essential to minimizing the impact of a security incident and allowing the organization to return to normal operations as soon as possible. To this end, an incident response plan will ensure actions can be taken in a coordinated, controlled manner.
However, a one-size-fits-all incident response plan is unlikely to be effective. When developing a plan, organizations should take into account contextual factors related to their particular business. For instance, a company that deals with massive amounts of personal customer information may place its highest priority on protecting that data, whereas another organization that relies on its Web presence may prioritize recoverability to ensure essential services remain up and running.
The Importance of Context
The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers regularly updated guidance on incident response. The latest iteration includes changes to incident response prioritization criteria. Previously, the guidance divided incidents into five categories: denial-of-service (DoS), malicious code, unauthorized access, inappropriate usage, and multiple component. However, this has proved to be difficult to apply in practice, since almost every incident ended up being classified as multiple component because most incidents crossed across multiple categories.
In the latest version of its manual, the concept of categories was replaced with the threat vectors deployed by attackers. The following are the threat vectors identified:
In October, the White House issued its Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan, which directs federal agencies on how to better identify and address cybersecurity threats. It offers lessons that are applicable to any organization, not just government agencies.
The plan lays out a series of objectives, the first of which is to prioritize the identification and protection of high-value information and assets. This means organizations should look at the context of their business operations to understand what is most valuable, allowing them to prioritize where action should be taken first. Organizations should consider where and how the greatest impact will be felt and develop an incident response plan that reflects this. This strategy ensures the most effective actions are taken to keep the business running.
By determining where to prioritize response, organizations will be better able to spend their security budgets in the most effective way possible. If an organization does not have sufficient capabilities to do this itself, there are services available that can help the company put together a tailored, effective incident response plan. However, regardless of whether a third-party partner is involved, the response plan must cater to the specific needs of the organization and ensure the right processes and tools are in place to accelerate response and sustain resilience in today's complex and targeted threat landscape.
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Facebook has officially rolled out end-to-end encryption to all users of its Messenger platform through a new feature called Secret Conversations. This feature will allow the nearly 1 billion users of the platform to protect their chats from outside eyes, and set them to self-destruct.
If this news sounds familiar, it’s because Facebook began beta testing the feature among select users back in July. Facebook-owned WhatsApp began offering encryption in April 2016, and Apple’s iMessage and Google’s Allo also offer the service. Facebook posted a Help Center list of tips here.
The new feature is based on the Signal Protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, which is also what powers the encryption behind WhatsApp and Google Allo. However, Allo recently came under fire from Edward Snowden, who took to Twitter to urge his followers not to use the messaging platform.
It’s important to note that, while encryption is available to all users, it is an opt-in feature. That means that it won’t be turned on by default; rather, the user will have to enable it. Thankfully, it’s a pretty simple process.
First, it’s important to understand how it works. Both the sender and the recipient will have a device key to verify the encryption. But, just because you have sent the message with encryption doesn’t mean that the recipient won’t share it with others via a screenshot or by other methods. Make sure it is someone you trust.
To turn on Secret Conversations, start from the home screen on the Messenger app, and tap the icon to compose a new message. In the top right corner of the screen, you will see the word “Secret,” which you should tap. Then choose who you want to send it to, and compose your message. If you want to set a timer, tap the clock icon in the text box portion of the message and set it for the amount of time you want the message to be accessible by the recipient.
Currently, the feature is only available on the iOS and Android versions of the app, and the encrypted messages will only show up on the devices used to create and open the messages, according to the Facebook Help Center.
When you are looking at your conversations, the ones with a padlock icon next to the name of the person you’re communicating with are the Secret Conversations. But, these conversations have some limitations.
According to Facebook, “With secret conversations, you can send messages, pictures and stickers. Secret conversations don’t support group messages, gifs, videos, voice or video calling or payments.”
What’s interesting is how easy it is to bypass the encryption. According to Facebook, a user can report an encrypted message if they believe it goes against Facebook’s Community Standards. And, if a message thread is reported, “recent messages from that conversation will be decrypted and sent securely from your device to our Help Team for review. We won’t tell the person you’re talking to that you reported it.”
Those violations can include “bullying or harassment, threats, and sexual violence or exploitation.” Also, even if a conversation has been set to self destruct or disappear, Facebook can still access it if it is reported. This is an interesting take on encryption and privacy, to say the least.
The 3 Big Takeaways For You Guys
Facebook Messenger enabled end-to-end encryption for all users with Secret Conversations, but it has some interesting loopholes.
Secret Conversations have device keys to verify encryption, and can be set to disappear after a certain time, but Facebook can still access and decrypt them if they are reported.
Facebook Messenger follows companies like WhatsApp, Apple’s iMessage, and Google Allo in offering encryption, which seems to be more in demand with users.
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https://techgeek365.com/facebook-just-added-encryption-messenger-app-not-private-think/
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The email aggressively targeted Netflix growing 110 million subscriber base, and as can be seen below, it’s easy to see how an average user might be tricked believing the message truly originated from Netflix. The look and feel of the email is decidedly Netflix inspired and, equally as important, the email itself isn’t suspiciously forceful or coercive. Indeed, the tone and diction of the message are on par with legitimate emails typically sent out by subscription based companies when a credit card is unable to be processed.
Incidentally, this isn’t the first time scammers have targeted Netflix subscribers with a phishing campaign, but this appears to be the most sophisticated and well thought out effort we’ve seen yet. As a quick example, a similar email which made the rounds a few months ago seems more overtly fake with the “Account Disabled !” title at the top.
There’s a @netflix scam now happening. Don’t fall for it! pic.twitter.com/5V3J6NBS1Y
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First, nielsson welcome to the forum.
As this was your first post, you may not be aware that there are already a huge number of threads here about CIS. There's no need to start a thread that simply says "Use CIS - it's great!". So, we'll close this one.
Take a look around and read among the many ongoing threads discussing more in-depth details about the product.
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Digital Shadows: APT37 is back with a new cyber espionage spear phishing campaign. It exploits cloud-related platforms to distribute malware, evade detection, and minimize the group’s footprint
APT37, after a period of inactivity, has launched a new spear phishing cyber espionage campaign. It has been announced by Digital Shadows cyber security experts. The lure are North Korean refugees and the campaign exploited cloud-related platforms. This to distribute malware, evade detection, and minimize the group’s footprint, a popular tactic of the Pyongyang’s APT. Furthermore, because the spear phishing emails contained hyperlinks that led to malicious files, the emails were able to bypass many security tools, as there were no attachments to be analyzed and deemed malicious. This campaign marked APT37’s first appearance since Microsoft seized 50 of the group’s web domains in December 2019. Despite that recent setback, it clearly remains persistent and committed to gathering foreign intelligence.
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I;ve been using AVG, zonealarm. I have Malwarebytes. I'll run that right away
My comp guy ran some different programs yesterday can cleaned up a mess of trogens.
DRAGON OF DARKNESS wrote: With my exprience, if you get hard viruses to remove, its almost always better to backup your files and just reinstall... because its not worth the time and hassle to remove, and alot of times its never quite the same after ...
he is correct. with me owning a computer business sometimes i like to find them and get rid of them but still i reformat the system afterwards. It is a challenge
Well your absolutely right guys! All kinds of things went haywire, frustrating beyond belief.
So my guy did a backup on his external HD and a reinstall.
I think I know how I got that virus. Dumb, dumb!
My AVG was set to scan at 2 AM instead of PM. But my comp is turned off at that time, so no scans were being done. Dumb, dumb!
A good AV should protect your computer even if you do not do a manual scan -- and an automatic scan set for say 2 AM when your computer is off, should start rolling at 7 or 9 AM or whenever you typically switch it back on.
So no, it's NOT your fault really, you just have a bad AV.
If I were you or your tech guy, I'd completely uninstall the AVG, and then install either NOD32 as a subscription-based AV ; or for a 100% free solution, to obtain a Beta copy of Microsoft Security Essentials when the Beta is opened in the US on Tuesday.
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Capital One, one of the largest banking corporations in the US, revealed Monday that it is the latest company involved in a security breach affecting consumers. This time, over 100 million individuals in the United States and six million in Canada have been affected.
The breach was, according to federal prosecutors cited by several media sources, the work of a single hacker, a Seattle-based woman currently in custody of the FBI.
Capital One said “no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised.” According to the statement, though, “about 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers” and “about 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers” were compromised.
In a statement, Capital One CEO Richard D. Fairbank said, “While I am grateful that the perpetrator has been caught, I am deeply sorry for what has happened…I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right.”
Capital One stated that the breach occurred March 22nd and 23rd of this year, though it wasn’t discovered until July 19th as a result of an internal investigation. Prompted by an external security researcher, the inquiry identified a cloud-computing service as the point of vulnerability and the method which the suspect used to gain access.
Most of the data stolen was what consumers and small-business owners entered when they applied for a Capital One credit card “from 2005 through early 2019,” the bank said.
“This information included names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income,” the statement added. The hacker also stole “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information.”
This news comes on the heels of Equifax’s settlement for its own data breach in 2017, which will provide up to $125 to those affected if approved.
While it’s impossible to know the extent of the damage from this breach, there are a few steps you can take to help protect yourself. We’ve written about credit monitoring services, which alert you to possible fraud, in the past, as well as how to freeze your credit if your information has been stolen. Most importantly, however, is making sure that you keep yourself safe online in order to stop hackers in their tracks.
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Yesterday, we showcased a monstrous byproduct of Britain’s national healthcare system. Today, we hop across the pond to do the same. This is creepy (via Brit Hume):
Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000. But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry. “I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression,’’ said Richardson, who is a paraplegic and set up her cruise in collaboration with a March of Dimes group of about 12 others. The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get “medical clearance’’ and be examined by one of only three doctors in Toronto whose assessments are accepted by Homeland Security. She was given their names and told a call to her psychiatrist “would not suffice.’’
First off, good luck securing a last-minute doctor’s appointment in Canada. Secondly, it gets weirder:
At the time, Richardson said, she was so shocked and devastated by what was going on, she wasn’t thinking about how U.S. authorities could access her supposedly private medical information. “I was so aghast. I was saying, ‘I don’t understand this. What is the problem?’ I was so looking forward to getting away . I’d even brought a little string of Christmas lights I was going to string up in the cabin. It’s not like I can just book again right away,’’ she said, referring to the time and planning that goes into taking a trip as a disabled person. Richardson said she’d had no discussion whatsoever with the agent at the airport about her medical history or background.
An inquiry into how this happened is underway, with Ms. Richardson’s MP calling the episode “enormously troubling.” But I’m sure Americans have nothing to fear regarding healthcare-related data security breaches. After all, Kathleen Sebelius “feels like” Healthcare.gov is secure. Case closed, right?
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This was a headline story and ‘astonerii’ and I discussed it at length. The woman in question wrote a book and has a website promoting it. Try http://ellenrichardson.ca
There is no privacy issue since she has published the details herself.
gh 11:41 AM Did the border guard access her book information? Is that how he found she had been depressed? Is being depressed a reason to deny entry?
KMC1 12:04 PM Isn’t the question ,why was she refused entry to the U.S?
mags 12:05 PM So, they keep her out, but they let Piers Morgan stay? Something is wrong in topsy-turvy land.
GWB 12:11 PM gh, I like Canada. You believe the US government barred this woman from entry because of her book and website about struggling with depression? I tend to agree with her MP that no matter the explanation, this whole episode is troubling. Is battling depression a crime? A national security risk? She also suggested that the official had access to her records.
Guy Benson 1:26 PM I agree, stop bashing the Canadian health care system.
First, for non-emergency surgery, yes indeed, you do wait for a time; it can be anywhere from a month to six months. I repeat: non-emergency surgery. For emergency and serious illnesses, there is rapid treatment within that week.
Kindly prove such an assertion. There are no problems finding a doctor – and unlike the system the US is setting up, where many doctors are going to refuse to take patients on, eg, Medicaid, no such problems exist in Canada.
Third, the payments come out of the federal and in particular, provincial taxation. Health care is not run by the federal centralist government but by the provinces. And, there are no deductibles; your treatments and visits are paid from day one. Therefore, the focus is on preventative care, while the high deductibles and enormous monthly costs in Obamacare mean that the focus is not on preventative care but on risk and traumatic care.
As for her entry to the US, it was the US customs and border control that barred her entry – and as others have noted, the only question is: How did a foreign government (the US) obtain access to the private health care records of a, I assume, Canadian citizen. I suspect that we are not being given the full story.
ETAB 2:11 PM gh, I like Canada. But I want nothing to do with their healthcare system. It’s not “ignorant” to oppose long waiting lists for surgery, and lotteries for the privilege of seeing a doctor.
Come January, you are going to have more people without healthcare in the US than the entire population of Canada. People in glass houses …
I do not favour socialized medicine but the horror stories written about the Canadian version in the US media are grossly exaggerated. It is nothing like the NHS in Britain, which seems to be a real nightmare. The NHS was not too bad when I was a small child though (I left the UK when I was 9).
Guy Benson 1:26 PM
No I don’t believe any of that. You seem to have severely impaired reading comprehension or a wild imagination. Either of those might explain your articles on hot-air. Just read exactly what I wrote above without filling in between the lines with your own interpretation.
gh 2:18 PM I checked the link to her book and, as I thought, we are not being given the full story. I suspect that she was barred from the USA, not because of clinical depression or its hospitalization, but because of her three suicide attempts (one of which paralyzed her), which all brought her into contact with the judicial system. These are no longer crimes (at one time they were!) but I suspect that they are on file and the US border control would have been concerned about her going into the US to carry out yet another attempt.
ETAB 2:20 PM Second, there is no such thing as a ‘lottery to obtain a doctor’. ETAB 2:11 PM
Where I live, in Western Canada, the family doctors have long waiting lists. You have to wait for someone to die or move in order to get a family doctor. When I had the flu my husband called his family doctor and the lady at the reception told him bluntly that his doctor doesn’t take street patients. It’s not the doctor’s fault, he is a very nice man. It’s the system.
If you don’t have a family doctor you have to go to a Medical Clinic. That’s a lottery, because you never know what kind of doctor you will get.
Gelsomina 2:46 PM gelsomina – going to a Medical Clinic is NOT a lottery, which, by definition, means that you either get X (the prize) or do not get X. However, going to a Medical Clinic, and in towns and cities there are multiple such walk-in clinics means that you will see a doctor. It doesn’t mean that you will not be lucky enough (win the lottery) and will be unable to see a doctor.
As for the doctors in the clinics, they are all registered practictioners, exactly as is a family dcotor. The difference? They prefer to work in a clinic rather than set up their own private practice. And you can get inadequate and incompetent family doctors as well (we all have such anecdotal experiences). So, your assumption that ALL family doctors are good, and ALL medical clinic doctors are bad, is empirically false.
My question to you, is that you didn’t seem to have any family dcotor of your own – all your life?! Why would you have to ask for your husband’s doctor? Or is it the case that you had just moved there and hadn’t set up your own doctor?
And in the US, with Obamacare, the fact that doctors are leaving the system; that they are refusing to take on Medicare and Medicaid patients, and – that dangerous, dangerous setup of high deductibles, is not a top functioning medical system.
ETAB 3:11 PM Certainly, in Canada, and elsewhere, doctors have a full list of clients and some cannot take on new patients. But that is the case everywhere and has nothing to do with how the doctors are funded.
I absolutely disagree with you on this point.
I have relocated several times in the last 20 years for employment. I have NEVER had a problem finding a new GP during that time.
I have had nothing but very good experiences with the US health care system over my lifetime. We allowed the Marxists to throw the baby out with the bath water when we allowed obozocare to pass.
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The city which has the qualification of being a software hub and has a significant chunk of IT professionals, may soon need to build up a Cyber Crime Cell to only handle instances of ransomware cases.
The term ransomware in the IT space refers to cyber criminals locking consumers’ devices – from desktops, laptops, tablets, mobiles and more recently, wearables paired with smartphones, using unbreakable encryption on users’ files. The criminals then demand ransom to send a code to the user to ‘unlock’ his own device and access his own data.
Partner Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crimes) here, K.C.S. Raghuvir said similarly as ransomware was concerned, individuals were reluctant to whine and uneasy as it included discussing individual information – be it cherished family photographs, government forms and saving money records or even their surfing explicit destinations, he said.
However, the police officer said that with cyber crimes in general on the rise and what with cases of ransomware infection cropping up in Hyderabad, he was sure a separate cell would be needed to tackle the problem. At an interaction organised by Symantec, its Country Manager Ritesh Chopra said while ransomware cases across the world were pegged at about 1.2 lakh in 2014-15, the past 12 months had seen it achieve new levels of maturity and menace.
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The Best Deals! In-Vehicle Pcs Summer Super Sale from acrosser Technology. This summer, Acrosser Technology from Taiwan announced a super sale for all old customers.
This super sale included 3 best-selling models from the Acrosser In-Vehicle Computer line.
AIV-APL1V1FL is an entry-level but powerful in-vehicle computer equipped with Intel Apollo lake SoC chipset and supported up to 8GB DDR3L 1866 MHz SO-DIMM memory. AIV-APL1V1FL had built-in various car computing and communication technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, CAN-Bus, vehicle power management, and 3G/4G can provide powerful communication ability in different scenarios. AIV-Q170V1FL is a high C/P ratio model and equipped with the latest Intel Skylake-S 6th Core I CPU, features 4 x POE GbE LAN port with RJ45 connectors (802.3at, total 60W max), 2 x swappable 2.5” SSD bay, 8 x USB 3.0 ports, and supports 3 x Mini PCI-e (For 4G & GPS module with 2 x SIM card Socket, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, G Sensor, Dead Reckoning, can bus or OBD II J1939, and etc. )
AIV-TGH7Ex is the 1st one in the world to adopt the newest Intel 11th Gen. Tiger Lake H high-performance platform for wide operation temperature in-vehicle computers. Powered by the latest 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7/i5 Processor, AIV-TGH7Ex Series delivers high-performance data computing, and the newest Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics and TSN technology provide graphics real-time operation. With CANBUS communication port design, a wide range of 9V to 32V power input with power ignition on/off time control, and over-voltage protection, AIV-TGH7Ex is a powerful solution for in-vehicle computers, passenger information computers, charging equipment controllers, Autonomous Mobile Robot controller and any AIoT/Industry 4.0 applications.
To know about acrosser’s best-selling SD-WAN Whitebox-AND-DNV3A2/A3, we made a product video only for you. Please kindly check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTwldwZTFQo
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The AND-DNV3A2/A3 is equipped with the latest 4/8 core SoC Intel® Denverton C3000 Platform and 1 x SO-DIMM DDR4 Memory which allows AND-DNV3A2/A3 to deliver high computing ability and stable performance.
To enhance the connection ability, AND-DNV3A2/A3 not only built-in 6 copper Gigabit RJ-45 LAN ports, but is also equipped with, 2 x fiber SFP ports and 2 x 10GbE Fiber SFP+ ports. These various media and bandwidth of Ethernet connections, ensure the appliance can fit in different applications and infrastructures.
To increase wireless flexibility, AND-DNV3A2/A3 provides 1 x M.2 Socket for optional Wi-Fi module, 1 x M.2 B key socket for 4G/5G module, and support dual SIM sockets as well.
Regarding the storage capacity, AND-DNV3A2/A3 provides a 1 x 2.5” SATA-III port for HDD/SSD and optional onboard eMMC 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB, M.2 B key socket(shared with the one for 4G/5G) for 2242 SATA-III SSD and M.2 M key socket for 2242/2260/2280 NVME SSD (For A3).
In addition, AND-DNV3A2/A3 can support special ODM features like “Dual DC power” or optional PoE ports that make your product unique and competitive in the market. All aspects, no matter the specification or cost, of AND-DNV3A2/A3 are very balanced Generally speaking; AND-DNV3A2/A3 is the best SD-WAN White-box and network appliance that you should know about. Without a doubt, acrosser’s new AND-DNV3A2/A3 is perfect for your small home office and budgeted firewall, VPN, SDN, and SD-WAN solution.
To enhance the product reliability, AND-EL6KE1 built a redundant power supply to prevent unpredictable accidents. To empower the connection ability, AND-EL6KE1 is equipped with 4 copper Gigabit RJ-45 LAN ports and 1 fiber SFP port, and also provides 6 antenna ports and 3 Mini PCIe slots (co-lay with M.2) to increase wireless flexibility. Up to three wireless modules can be installed at the same time in AND-EL6KE1 (including multiple Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks and 4G and 5G cellular modules).
Overall speaking, AND-EL6KE1 is perfect for UTM, NGFW, firewall, VPN, SDN, NFV, vCPE, and SD-WAN.
The AND-APL1E1/E2 is a new ultra-compact network box with a 155 x 92 x 32 mm tiny size dimension. It is powered by Intel® N3350 SoC and designed to be easy to deploy in home offices, small businesses, and branch offices as well.
Even AND-APL1E1/E2 is such a small network box, Acorsser still designs it as a durable, reliable network appliance. It is definitely a good choice for budget buyers and ideal for deployment as a VPN, Firewall, SD-WAN, NAC, vCPE in any environment with a limited budget.
COM Express, a computer-on-module (COM) form factor, is a highly integrated and compact computer that can be used in a design application much like an integrated circuit component. Each module integrates core CPU and memory functionality, the common I/O of a PC/AT, USB, audio, graphics (PEG), and Ethernet.
Today, the COM Express module is a small but powerful tool that can be applied to various kinds of industries. This quarter, acrosser Technology came out with 4 brand-new COM Express systems on modules for customers to develop their AI/IoT applications.
All Acrosser COM Express modules are built-in with high-speed and powerful performances that are suitable for applications that are in need of multi-tasking, multi-threading, or video rendering.
These 4 different COM Express modules are:
ACM-XE21B6 — COM Express Basic Type 6 module is powered by Intel Core i7/Xeon D which can offer rich features and up to 24 PCIe lanes Expansion, high graphical capabilities, and design flexibility to help facilitate quick deployment.
ACM-XD15B7 — COM Express Basic Type 7 module is powered by Intel Xeon D which can provide up to four 10 GbE interfaces and up to 32 PCIe lanes Expansion, is suitable for data center, server, and high-bandwidth video applications.
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ACM-TGLUE0— COM Express mini Type 10 module is powered by the 11th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family which can deliver outstanding computing and up to 4 PCIe lanes Expansion, graphics, and media performance.
All Acrosser COM Express modules are designed for delivering outstanding computing, graphics, and media performance to different kinds of Industrial AI/IoT, military, aerospace, gaming, medical, transportation, Internet of things, and general computing embedded applications including automation control, medical imaging, digital signage, gaming machines, and retail/POS/kiosk applications, and more.
OS Support: Window XP, Window Embedded CE 6.0, Window 7(32bits), DOS.
Acrosser AMB-VDX3H2 is a fan-less, small size, low power, rugged-design single-board computer which is the best solution for Embedded Systems in industrial control, industrial automation, factory automation, transportation, Mil/COTS, telecommunication, instrumentation, CNC machines, MMI, HMI(Human Machine Interface), CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), machine tools applications.
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November 02, 2017, Taipei– acrosser Technology Co., Ltd. (Acrosser) proudly announces its latest in-vehicle product, the brand new AIV-APL1V1FL, the new Intel Pentium-N4200 fan less in-vehicle computer which is perfect for all kinds of telematics solutions.
The most important part of telematics is communication technology, in AIV-APL1V1FL, this powerful in-vehicle computer equipped with Intel Apollo lake SoC chipset and supported up to 8GB DDR3L 1866 MHz SO-DIMM memory. AIV-APL1V1FL had built-in various communication technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, CAN-Bus, and 3G/4G, which can provide powerful communication ability to different scenarios. Moreover, AIV-APL1V1FL also equipped 2 x swappable 2.5”HDD bay which can provide massive data saving and processing during communication.
Besides, AIV-APL1V1FL, designed with rich I/O for reading sensor data and control device to build intelligent telematics PC systems. Its rich I/O including 1 x VGA port (DB15) ,1 x DVI ,3 x Mini PCI-e,2 x GbE RJ45,1 x RS-232/422/485,3 x RS-232,4 X USB 3.0,8-bit GPIO (4 In, 4 Out),1 x MIC in,1 x Audio out, 4 antenna holes(1 x SMA for GPS, 1 x SMA for 4G,2 x SMA for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth),SIM Slot x 2,DB9 connector(support CAN 2.0A/2.0B protocol) and On-board TPM 1.2 / 2.0(Optional). Within these rich I/O, AIV-APL1V1FL can meet different needs from various purposes.
To sum up, AIV-APL1V1FL designed with many important keys features such as wider operation temperature, anti-vibration; fan-less, rugged body, and higher flexibility. Within powerful performance, AIV-APL1V1FL can be used in the following scenarios:
1. Fleet management from tracking application to management application.
2. Installed on trucks to adding telematics to provide advanced driver management to prevent dangers and to take proactive measures to improve fuel economy and costs.
3. Installed on public transit to adding a video surveillance system for driver coaching, vehicle performance tracking, and safety monitoring.
4. Installed on ambulance to improve route planning, telemedicine service, and avoid unexpected danger.
Acrosser Technology, a global pioneer in the evolution of industrial computing, had committed its valuable resources to further develop its in-vehicle computer product lines. Because of these efforts, the AIV-APL1V1FL had developed as a perfect machine for most telematics applications. Acrosser Technology not only provides products with high reliability and availability but also in-vehicle computers with the best scalability and manageability in the industry. Acrosser Technology is your best choice for building telematics applications in today’s IoT environment.
We thank everyone for taking time from your busy schedules to visit our booth at 2021 APTA from November 7 to10.
It was our pleasure and honor in having enjoyed many inspiring feedback and requests during the show. We were impressed by the number of visitors and the great interest in many of our new products, especially with our first Autonomous Driving Server AAD-C622AX.
All requests will be taken care of by our sales department staff and will respond to you as soon as possible. If you do not receive any feedback from us, please contact us again
Overall, we are very excited and enthusiastic about the large number of visitors to our booth. It was a great opportunity for us to present our latest products. If you have further inquiries, or in case you want more information about our products, please feel free to contact us at: https://www.acrosser.com/en/Contact/Inquiry
For pricing and availability, please send your inquiry at: https://www.acrosser.com/en/Contact/Inquiry
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* combination of non-invasive, invasive and semi-invasive attacks can break the security in majority of microcontrollers, FPGAs, secure memories and some ASICs and custom chips Click to expand...
Note: See link above for articles on bullet items quoted.
Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip.
Today's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. This is false. While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious. Click to expand...
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시작 갤러리에서 제어판을 선택합니다. ”프로그램” 범주 아래에서 “기능”을 언급하지 않고 “프로그램”을 선택하십시오.제거할 개인화된 바이러스 백신을 선택한 다음 제거/변경을 선택합니다.메시지가 나타나면 컴퓨터를 다시 시작하십시오.
“고급” 월간 뉴스로 이동한 다음 “재설정” 링크를 클릭하십시오. “Internet Explorer 설정 재설정” 창이 열릴 것입니다.
기본 설정을 재설정하고 모든 ActiveX 컨트롤을 지우려면 재설정 선택을 클릭하십시오.
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Often, companies and individuals rely too much on security software to provide their only solution to combat malware or cyberattacks. Security software such as antivirus solutions, firewall, and other malware detectors are often considered to be the first and last line of defense against cyberattacks. However, even all the security software combined cannot safeguard a company completely against potential cyberattacks. Hackers today have multiple ways to bypass security software and take down a company.
Although well-configured and powerful security software does a considerable and commendable job in securing against cyberattacks, it alone often cannot provide the total security needed. Good tools need to be paired and implemented in a good security plan under the supervision of security experts.
Small or medium-sized businesses are not targets
Many startups and SMBs do not prioritize cybersecurity. This is because of the myth assuming that cybercriminals only target big companies. The media often adds to the myth because it typically only reports a cyberattack when a major company is the target.
However, the sheer number of ransomware and other cyberattacks in the past year have clearly shown the world that every company and every individual can be a victim of cyberattacks. According to a recent study by SwitchFast, over 51 percent of companies and over 35 percent of the employees think that they are and will probably not be the target of cybercriminals. This misconception needs to be curbed right away, and every individual as well as companies both small and large need to understand that everyone is a potential target for cyberattacks.
IT deals with cybersecurity
Most companies and its employees believe that cybersecurity is the concern of the IT department in their respective company. However, it is an absolute essential for each employee to understand that everyone holds equal responsibilities toward safeguarding themselves as well as the company against the cyberattacks.
Today’s cyberattacks are more sophisticated than ever before. Hackers are weaponizing practically every weak point to evade a company’s privacy. Each and every employee, therefore, need to understand this and share the responsibilities of building a secure workplace. Endpoint security vulnerabilities are one of the most commonly known means for cyberattacks, which debunks this myth. Organizations and companies must make an effort to educate and train their employees to understand the importance of cybersecurity.
Protecting yourself is good enough
Organizations or companies must consider every other member’s security in their community. Although a company might be strongly configured or built to resist cyberattacks, every individual within the company can act as a weak link for the cybercriminals to intrude in the system.
A company’s cybersecurity policy may be effective for everyone who works for the company. But is everything else in the corporate ecosystem — which includes contractors, service providers, and external employees — secured against hackers? Almost everything in a company’s ecosystem can be a weak link for a potential cyberattack. And not all companies take this into account,
Cybersecurity is for defense only
This is a shortsighted view of an essential IT aspect. Yes, the major goal of cybersecurity is defense, but you should see it as much more. Apart from protecting your company against cyberattacks and malware, cybersecurity measures can offer various other advantages such as reduced operational costs, increased productivity, better client relationships, and better customer satisfaction.
A good cybersecurity plan can help organizations save money and reputation while boosting productivity. A proactive approach must be followed when it comes to cybersecurity. Although the return on investment from cybersecurity might not be immediate, it will certainly reap many benefits for the companies and organizations — especially if you do not suffer any cyberattacks.
Having secured passwords is enough
Yes, strong passwords are an absolute essential in good cybersecurity practices. However, that alone is not enough. There are several ways an attacker can breach into the systems protected by passwords. Almost all businesses are moving toward multifactor authentication for better security.
Most software service providers offer multifactor authentication as an added security feature. On top of this, logging and monitoring activities within an organization is also an important aspect to ensure safety and security.
The biggest of all cybersecurity myths: Complete cybersecurity can be achieved
No one is 100 percent resistant to cyberattacks. Cyberattacks these days are much stealthier, more powerful, sophisticated, and disrupting. The battle to main tan cybersecurity is ongoing and is not a single task that once configured or performed can be kept aside. For any company or individual to stay cyber-safe, they need to constantly improve their security measures, stay updated with the global news on the latest forms of attacks, and maintain healthy and powerful security standards.
And a good place to start is to stop believing these cybersecurity myths.
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The estimates of the amount of sales-and-use tax revenue that would be deposited in the Performance Audits of Government Account is determined by applying the 0.16 percent diversion rate specified in the initiative to the sales-and-use tax collections projected in the June 2005 revenue forecast produced by the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council.
The General Fund reduction of $17 million estimated for the 2005-07 Biennium assumes an effective date for the initiative of Dec. 8, 2005. The General Fund reduction of $25 million that is estimated for the 2007-09 Biennium reflects the fiscal impact of the initiative over a full, 24-month biennium.
Permanent Defense will be making the OFM’s fiscal impact statement available as a PDF from the Release Center.
This week and this month, Permanent Defense is proud to celebrate three years of political activism in Washington State – opposing Tim Eyman, fighting for real tax reform, and promoting the value of public services.
February 2005 marks the end of our third year of operation and the beginning of our fourth.
The last year has been Permanent Defense’s most successful year to date. Working together with our friends and allies, we have accomplished much of what we set out to do a year ago.
Last year, in this statement, I wrote about how imperative it was that we stop Tim Eyman and his initiative factory from causing further devastating harm to Washington State. Thanks to your hard work, and our cooperation with other groups opposed to Eyman, we successfully defeated both I-864 and I-892.
I’m proud of what this project has been able to accomplish, and I’m confident that we will continue to be successful in our efforts to change Washington State for the better.
We defeated Initiative 864 in July of 2004, destroying a threat that would have brought certain disaster to local governments and public services across the state. We fought this issue for a year (June 2003 to July 2004) and won, dispelling Eyman’s myths and rumors about the tax climate.
We defeated Initiative 892 in November of 2004, with voters rejecting Eyman’s attempt to proliferate our state with slot machines by a landslide. We mailed flyers, distributed yard signs, appeared in the media, and attended community events to voice our opposition to I-892.
We debuted a new e-newsletter for the press – Permanent Defense Focus!, which has helped to counter the lies that Tim Eyman continually feeds the media.
We retooled our site through January Launch, July Relaunch, and December Update, with lots of new sections and features, especially the Release Center and the Permanent Defense Forum.
We had three times the traffic to our website this year of what we had in 2002 and 2003 combined, with thousands of visits to our site.
In the years since Permanent Defense was founded, Tim Eyman has had one initiative which passed at the polls: Initiative 776. All of the others have been failures. Eyman is currently is in an 0 for 4 slump and is trying to break out of it by qualifying an initiative to the people that would overload our state with audits.
Eyman’s proposal would have the state shelling out around $90 million every biennium so we can pay to audit every single state agency, program, and account and would require the auditor’s office to expand by four times its current size over the next decade.
Fortunately, the state House and the state Senate are considering much more practical legislation that has the state auditor’s support.
We will continue to vigorously oppose Eyman on all the issues. And we will step up our efforts to fight for real tax reform, including pushing for a state homestead exemption.
We’ll talk about a long term plan for fixing Washington’s tax structure, including alternatives to the state sales tax and the obnoxious “business & occupation tax”. We’ll also talk about tackling the state’s current funding problems.
We will continue to roll out improvements and additions to our website during the next year. So, I hope you’ll stand with us as we embark on the beginning of another year of political activism, and take a moment to pause and reflect on our achievements and accomplishments from the last one.
Thanks for your involvement. Here’s to another successful year!
Washington State GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi likes to promote himself as a sunny independent thinker who will bring prosperity to Washington State.
But what most people don’t know about Dino Rossi is his extremist positions – including his ties to initiative profiteer Tim Eyman, as well as his similarity to previous GOP candidates John Carlson (2000) and Ellen Craswell (1996).
Did you know that:
Dino Rossi supported Initiative 200, Tim Eyman’s first initiative, which attacked affirmative action, back in 1998.
“He [Rossi] supported anti-affirmative action Initiative 200.” (Seattle Weekly, Dino Buys Big Time, 8/4/2004) “He [Rossi] supported I-200, the successful anti-affirmative-action initiative championed by [John] Carlson.” (The Stranger, The Salesman, 8/19/2004)
Dino Rossi supported Initiative 807, Tim Eyman’s 2003 attempt to require a supermajority vote of the Legislature for any tax increases.
“Rossi welcomed Eyman’s newest proposal. ‘I’m pleased he’s moving forward on this. If we (Republicans) get the majorities in the House and the Senate, we may save Tim the trouble,’ he said.” (AP, Eyman’s initiative would make it hard for legislators to raise taxes, 10/23/02)
Dino Rossi supported Tim Eyman’s I-695, which slashed road and transit funding, and defended it in the spring of 2000.
‘”There’s a lot of people politically in a little bit of a box,’ said Sen. Dino Rossi, the ranking Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee. ‘They [opponents] said the sky was going to fall if 695 passed, and unless a little bit of the sky does fall they’re going to sound like they were telling stories during the campaign.'” (Seattle Times, Legislators employ I-695 to promote long-held agendas, 1/9/2000)
Dino Rossi supported slashing public services, sponsoring bills which proposed more tax cuts in the wake of I-695.
“Last year (2000), he [Rossi] was among several lawmakers offering tax-cut bills, catching the momentum generated by Initiative 695, [Tim Eyman’s] $30 car-tab measure.” (Seattle Times, Property-tax-cut talk is big in 5th, 10/18/2000)
Dino Rossi supported the “direction” of Tim Eyman’s I-745, which would have required 90% of transportation funding to be spent on roads.
“But Sen. Dino Rossi, R-Issaquah, the top Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said the state has barely tried to keep even with needed highway construction. [Of Eyman’s proposal], he said, ‘It’s going in the direction many of us have been trying to push. That’s not to say mass transit doesn’t have a role, but it’s not the Utopia people say it is.'” (AP, Seattle P-I, I-695 sponsor sets sights on gridlock with initiative, 12/16/1999)
Dino Rossi supported an unsuccessful Tim Eyman effort to kill Sound Transit’s light rail effort in 2003.
“Sen. Dino Rossi, R-Issaquah, said he hasn’t seen Eyman’s proposal but supports the concept of a revote because the light-rail project has changed in recent years. ‘Why not put it back on the ballot?’ said Rossi, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. (Seattle Times, Eyman kicks off effort to kill light-rail project, 2/15/2003)
Tim Eyman endorsed Dino Rossi’s bid for governor from Day One, and has repeatedly referenced Rossi in his emails to supporters.
“Initiative king Tim Eyman cheered on Rossi from the crowd. ‘Taxes are out of control and tax increases should be a last resort,’ Eyman said later. ‘Rossi embodies that philosophy not by what he has said, but by what he’s done.’ After his speech, Rossi posed with his wife and four children as the crowd chanted ‘Dino! Dino!'” (King County Journal, Rossi says he needs $5 million, 11/11/2003) “Our taxpayer-protection efforts over the past six years have changed Washington’s politics forever. This was an incredibly successful election for taxpayers: * Dino Rossi ran for Governor touting his courageous efforts to balance a $2.6 billion deficit without raising taxes. He’s on the verge of victory due to his efforts to protect taxpayers from the insatiable desire of politicians to raise taxes.” (Tim Eyman, Email to Supporters, 11/3/2004)
The Washington State Democrats also have a page where Dino Rossi’s conservative positions are outlined in comparison to Craswell’s and Carlson’s.
It’s clearly apparent, from their own words, that Tim Eyman and Dino Rossi are friends and allies, sharing the same ideals and philosophies on taxation.
Though Dino has supported many of Eyman’s initiatives, this year he tried to skirt the issue and refused to comment on supporting either I-864 and I-892 in order to soften his image as he ran for Governor.
And that bid for the governor’s seat was firmly and openly supported by a very eager Tim Eyman, who longed to see someone of his own creed occupying the Governor’s Mansion. Ever faithful, Tim has even recently urged his supporters to back Rossi’s call for a revote.
Permanent Defense exists to oppose people like Tim Eyman and Dino Rossi, who, in positions of power, have shown are capable of contributing to a more regressive tax structure and damaging the public services of Washington State.
To counter Tim’s lies and deceitful statistics, Permanent Defense’s Andrew Villeneuve journeyed to Olympia with fellow activists David Goldstein and Steve Zemke to talk to reporters and confront Eyman at his press conference for I-892 at the Secretary of State’s Elections Annex.
We were successful in throwing Eyman off script as he attempted to go through his rehearsed sales pitch. Although Eyman refused, and still refuses to admit it, the initiative is primarily about an expansion of gambling. It places 19,000 slot machines into neighborhood bars, bowling alleys, and restaurants.
Eyman ignored questions about I-864, the other initiative he claims to be attempting to be qualifying for the ballot. He completely disregarded questions from reporters, brushing them off and attempting to shut them down. The press refused to be daunted, however, and continued to ask questions.
Eyman was interrupted during his press conference by Zemke, who heads Taxpayers For Washington’s Future, an ally of Permanent Defense. Eyman had propped up a graph showing a general rise in property taxes since 1980 and was complaining about the increase in taxes to the press.
But Tim’s graph didn’t take into account inflation, or population growth, or new development (which causes an increase the number of properties assessed by the state). Steve correctly pointed out that Eyman’s graph was worthless because it did not make apples-to-apples comparisons.
More people means more public services, which requires money. More properties means more revenue for the state. And any economist knows that inflation is a continual increase in the cost of products and services, which is a factor that influences the entire economy- including property values.
Tim’s claim that his initiative has wide popular support is also a myth. Tim hasn’t run a campaign powered by volunteer supporters in years. All of his initiatives since 1999 have relied on paid signature gatherers to get on the ballot. I-892 is no exception.
There is no broad-based movement in the state of Washington agitating for these anti-tax initiatives. But there is an alliance between Tim Eyman and the gambling industry, with the goal of swindling voters into believing that I-892 is a good initiative because they’ll save a few bucks on their property taxes. I-892 is the most massive expansion of gambling in state history.
Alone on Monday with no sidekicks in tow, Tim Eyman himself reminded us all he’s just become a mouthpiece for the gambling industry. For the past fifteen weeks, Eyman has paid himself to the tune of $3,100 a week. That’s more than many Wal-Mart employees make in a month.
The backers of I-892 are giant gaming and gambling conglomerates, like Great Canadian Gaming of British Columbia, which is accused of allowing loan sharking in its Canadian casinos and not keeping true to an investment made jointly with Allegiance Capital of Texas. The investment was a floating casino, a “cruise ship” of sorts, which now sits off of Taiwan and is a den of prostitutes.
Other backers include Michaels Associates of Nevada, which was recently fined $50,000 by the WSGC for lax oversight that resulted in a $250,000 embezzlement, and Washington Gaming, the third largest donor, which is currently more than $900,000 delinquent in state taxes.
Washington Gaming co-owner Tim Iszley is a leading member of the Entertainment Industry Coalition, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on paid signature gatherers to get 892 on the ballot.
The initiative was financed by out of state, foreign gambling interests, and its signatures were collected by out of state workers from California and other areas.
I-892 was sold to Washingtonians by petitioners as an initiative to cut their property taxes. Petitioners conveniently failed to mention that the initiative would bring about the biggest expansion of gambling in state history.
Washington voters will vote no on I-892 in November because they will know the initiative is bad for their communities. Permanent Defense remains dedicated to its mission of opposing Eyman and will continue to fight against I-892 until its defeat in November.
It would be great to cut taxes and all. But has anyone stopped and thought about what it will do to the Fire and Police departments?
I am a volunteer fire fighter out in a rural are in King County. My Chief met with the King County Police Chiefs and Fire Chiefs, and they are all concerned about this 25% cut.
King County would not be able to fund King County Medic One and therefore we would not have ANY paramedics in the South King County area.
And one of bigger issues is that departments like mine would be shut down. Our district is adjacent to Maple Valley and Enumclaw.
If this 25% cut went through, Maple Valley and Enumclaw would not be able to cover our 26 square mile district. There would be no fire or aid protection in that area.
And if you look in Eastern Washington, it’s almost ALL volunteer departments So, say goodbye to our forests if they catch fire, because there won’t be anyone to put them out.
So…please, please, please take what I have said into consideration before supporting this 25% cut.
From Tim Kienitz, Clark County Fire District #6:
As a firefighter I am faced with the potential of losing my job. That in itself is a bad thing, as I have a family to support. The worst part of it is what it would do to the community that I serve.
The service of EMS and Fire protection we offer to the community would be crippled because of manpower cuts and service would suffer. I fear that because of the political climate in the country about taxes people will not understand that the money they pay goes to protect their very lives.
From Shawn, a suburban firefighter:
I am a member of a mid sized fire department with less than 50 paid employees, serving a mostly suburban community. Recently we met with our administration regarding a contingency plan in case I-864 passes. Losing revenue by cutting property taxes in our Fire District translates to laying off 15 firefighters and firefighter paramedics and closing one of our 3 fire stations.
In turn, our response times would increase and service levels would decrease to that of the early 90’s while our call volume will have doubled from the same time. I hope the voters in the state of Washington will come to realize that this initiative WILL gut our public services and our Fire Departments will lose their effectiveness in making a timely response to their emergency.
Protect your quality of life and your local community… decline to sign Initiative 864.
Tim Eyman’s new plan to add to the state’s list of woes involves a $400 million state property tax cut. Eyman says education would be shielded, but that claim is as phony as Eyman himself.
He’s proposing to pay off the $400 million cut, which would have been deflected onto criminal justice and other state programs, by opening up the rest of the state to gambling. It’s an idea so pitiful it goes below the legislature’s half-hearted plans to fix our state’s regressive tax system.
The latest plan, a complete disgrace, just serves to prove the profligate initiative filer is all about announcing and not about doing. For the past ten months, Eyman has done nothing but announce new plans and shake his electronic tin cup.
Last June he said his intention was go after state property taxes. In the meantime, he was busy collecting money for himself. In December, he announced a new version of his 25% property tax slashing plan: local property taxes, not state property taxes, would be targeted. Since then, he’s supposedly been working on Initiative 864. And now, he announces he plans to attack state and local property taxes – and use expanded gambling to cover the costs of cutting the former.
Eyman doesn’t produce results for his supporters. He has had no successful initiative since 2002. And his plans slash millions of dollars from parks, libraries, pools, police, & fire response.
Real savings from reduced taxes equal real cuts, and at the local level, the cuts are direct. What’s the great thing about saving a couple hundred dollars a year if your local fire station is forced to shut down?
Eyman never mentions that insurance rates could also rise if Initiative 864 is passed. He also never takes note that his initiative badly hurts the local governments that are already doing an efficient job. And he proposes to jack up gambling to pay for his latest idea.
The two-part tax-cut drive is not much of a new twist for Eyman. He’s changed his story so many times that it’s more like a ten part plan, with each part of the plan changing the part that came before. The new plan would only add to the woes now facing Washington State. Eyman would have us believe that we’d be better off laying off local firefighters and policemen and saving money, but he’s wrong.
Eyman’s constant mantra about government waste, corruption, and inefficiency is tiring and old. Year after year, it’s the same laundry list of complaints: Sound Transit, vehicle tabs, property taxes, the state Legislature, and on and on.
The new initiative will not shield education. It’s a lie that is so pathetic, it’s hard to describe. Schools are hardly shielded when funding for libraries, pools, parks, and extra curricular programs is slashed.
Education is more than just school. Kids need support outside of school, especially kids in need of help. And the money that will “save” education will come from prisons and the criminal justice system.
Is Seattle destined to be the Las Vegas of the Northwest? If Eyman has his way, Washington will transform into a lawless society like Haiti where a powerless government can do nothing to serve or protect its citizens, or another Reno/Las Vegas, the “sin capital of the world.”
Initiative 864 and his new plan will not create new jobs. His plan will, in fact, cut jobs. Washington has a regressive tax system, but Tim’s initiatives just make an already broken system worse.
The reason that Kemper Freeman Jr. and the Lemattas of Vancouver give money to Eyman is because the initiatives give huge windfalls to wealthy property owners. Both the Lemattas and Freeman own a lot of property.
Don’t let Tim Eyman and Voters Want More Choices deceive you. There is no free lunch. A 25% property tax cut, and a state property tax cut to boot, is madness and insanity. It will break more than it will fix.
There is no benefit in having less firemen and policemen on patrol. There is no way to make up for library cutbacks, park closures, and mothballed pools. The cuts that would result from Initiative 864 would be so sweeping, so drastic, that there would be no way to plug them.
It’s exciting and amazing to think that Permanent Defense is now two years old and still going strong! As we celebrate our two year birthday, I’d like to say thank you to all our supporters, who have responded to our requests to lobby legislators and promote real tax reform. Those of you who have subscribed to Extra! have done a great thing- you’ve committed yourselves to staying informed on what’s going on in Washington politics.
As in years past, we need to stop Tim to protect our state. And we’re confident that we can do it this year. Tim’s proposal is so downright awful that people are becoming opposed to it as soon as they hear about it.
Initiative 864 is too devastating to ignore. If we don’t act, we will lose the quality of life we enjoy in our communities.
I’d like to reflect on some of the things we’ve accomplished this past year- from February 2003 to February 2004.
We saw the defeat of Tim’s initiative last year, Initiative 807, in July, after fighting it with our allies David Goldstein and Steve Zemke. We won, and Eyman’s measure never made it onto the ballot… his first initiative failure in four years.
We relaunched our site in July with a redesign, including new features, and content. We launched our new domain name, www.permanentdefense.org, to make our site more easily accessible. We continued to send messages to the media and to legislators about the defects in Tim’s plan.
Last spring, last summer, last fall, and last winter, we have been preparing to fight the 25% property tax initiative. It’s here, and we’re fighting. Opponents to I-860/I-864 filed a ballot title challenge and language challenge, causing Eyman to try and “back out” of his initiative and go for legal advice. Opponents also made the rounds with the media in December 2003. A surprised Tim was then confronted with questions from his ready opponents while he tried to reel off his latest proposal- the 25% property tax initiative.
Incredibly enough, Tim hasn’t even told his supporters about his filing of Initiative 860, or Initiative 864. That’s because he knows it’s being challenged and doesn’t want his people to even know it.
Just like when Tim shut them out in the dark for years about his pocketing of $165,000. Instead, Tim attempts to rouse fury and anger out of his supporters towards Washington government. One of the worst things about Tim’s across the board tax cuts is that it really penalizes the local governments doing a good job… the ones that can’t cut any “fat”. Tim thinks everyone should be accountable to his “standard”, but his proposals hurt the localities that are already efficient. This doesn’t make any sense!
With our alternative Homestead Exemption proposal, which was endorsed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, we offer the means for real tax reform, not just the “slash and burn” advocated by Eyman and his fellow cronies. Eyman wants to burn down the “rainforest” so that the wealthy can use the land for cattle grazing.
That’s not our approach.
We want positive human interaction with the “rainforest”- an effective solution for Washington’s regressive tax system. Our proposal directly benefits middle and lower income families. It doesn’t give large windfalls to the rich as Tim’s proposal does.
Two years of opposing Eyman is a great track record. And we’re now excited to bring you January Launch, which commenced on January 30th. You can read all about it via the link from our home page. Please take the time to check out the new content.
Tim Eyman has unveiled his newest initiative effort for 2004 after the apparent failure of Initiative 807- axing property taxes by 25 percent. The profligate initiative filer’s latest attempts at controlling the state fiscally appear to be failing, with I-267 falling apart last December and I-807 now short of money and signatures.
Eyman promised a “voter veto” of any taxes passed in Olympia this year, a blatant attempt to intimidate Legislature. There is no such thing as a “voter veto” in this state or this country (a referendum is not a veto, it is a forced public vote on a bill). Tim is trying to goad people into believing that there is. To “get revenge”, he’s going to try to slice property taxes again- meaning that public education, parks, pools, police, fire, healthcare, and libraries would have to suffer once more.
Eyman will be attempting to get this initiative on the November 2004 ballot.
The following is an original statement by Tim Eyman on July 2nd (in italics). Interjected between each blockquote is Permanent Defense’s response, in roman font.
If politicians had one ounce of compassion for the average taxpayer, I-776 would not be necessary.
Politicians care about taxpayers, Tim. The problem is, we don’t give them enough money to fix Washington’s problems. It’s not their fault we keep blowing holes in the budget every year.
Washington is the 2nd highest taxed state in the nation- I-776 keeps us from hitting #1.
Please, Tim. Stop spreading lies. In 2001 you said we were the 4th highest taxed state. Do you mean to tell us that, despite your initiatives, we moved up in your fraudulent rankings? Incredible!
I-776 offers $30 tabs on your car, truck, motorcycle, motorhome, and other vehicles. Working class folks, not just rich people, should be able to afford a newer vehicle. $30 is reasonable.
Obviously not. We are out of money for transportation infrastructure and you don’t care.
When political judges vetoed voter-approved I-695, politicians frantically embraced $30 tabs during that election year.
Well, no wonder. They were surprised by our misinformed vote and didn’t have the courage to fix the motor vehicle excise tax in a responsible way.
Gary Locke said “Despite the court’s ruling, we have no intention of returning to the old system of high license tab fees. $30 license tabs are here to stay.”
It actually costs more than $30 to pay your registration even if you repeal excise taxes.
Passing I-776 also sends politicians a message: don’t increase taxes and fees unless you ask voters’ permission first (read I-776’s language).
Remember, Tim, you’ve gotten into hot water before by having more than one subject in an initiative. Once again, you try to do too much.
With voter approval, politicians must convince us that current revenues are being spent as effectively as possible before we OK more – that’s accountability.
Well, they try, but you blast them with the usual: you always say politicians are lying.
I-776 ensures a long-overdue revote on light rail.
We don’t need a revote. What we need is more mass transit. The people of Seattle voted in Greg Nickels as mayor in 2001. That means that the majority of people in Seattle want light rail, because Nickels is a strong advocate of it.
By ensuring “$30 Tabs for Everyone”, I-776 brings accountability to the worst government agency in state history: Sound Transit. I-776 repeals car taxes which provide 20% of their funding and forces this reckless rogue agency to get renewed.
Actually, Sound Transit may not be affected. Sorry, Tim. The agency can use its dollars to repay its debt, so I-776 will do nothing to Sound Transit’s Central Link project.
If politicians still want light rail, then put a new tax package before the voters.
Why? Your initiative won’t stop Sound Transit, and we in Puget Sound approved Sound Transit in 1996 anyway by saying yes to Sound Move.
Beginning construction with a majority opposed is arrogant and unacceptable.
The majority of people in this region want light rail.
In January, a poll commissioned by the King County Council showed 68% of King County voters wanted a revote on light rail (the numbers in Pierce and Snohomish must be stratospheric).
No, we haven’t. We send different messages at each election.
$30 tabs and voter approval for tax and fee increases. I-776 sends that message again.
Because it wasn’t irresponsible enough the first time?
Anything but an overwhelming “Yes” for I-776 will be seen by politicians as an endorsement of higher taxes. I-776 helps everyone so we ask for your support this November.
It doesn’t help us at all. It eliminates funding for road improvements and transit.
We’ve faced some extraordinary challenges this year.
Exactly, and none of them weren’t deserved.
But standing here today, there is no doubt that Permanent Offense, its’ leaders and its’ supporters, have never been more unified and more energized.
Uh huh. That’s what you’d like people to believe.
Our supporters kept their eye on the ball, stayed focused, and made I-776 a reality. More than 250,000 citizens voluntarily signed our I-776 petitions because they believed in the simple principle that politicians should keep their promises.
Actually, Tim, you used paid-signature gatherers to buy your way onto the ballot. Most people are too polite to refuse signing a document that someone is earning wages from.
But frankly, it would be incredibly inconsiderate of us to not give credit to those most responsible for our continued success: our opponents, our detractors, and their allies in the press.
Tim thinks we help him, but we don’t.
Permanent Offense – the four of us – would be nothing without you.
That’s why you took money from your supporters, isn’t it, Tim?
It is incredibly gratifying to me to watch our initiatives continue to elicit such contempt from the elitists in government, business, labor, and the ivory towers of the media but continue to garner overwhelming victories by regular voters each and every year.
A misinformed voter will vote on anything that puts money into his or her pocket. You and your lies, Tim.
To watch you all sputter and huff and puff with no real impact on the electorate is an illustration of the disconnect you have with the hopes, dreams, and fears of the average taxpayer.
Tim, you’re the one that stole the money. You are completely out-of-touch and we’ve seen no indication that your attitudes will change anytime soon.
Work yourself into a lather if you want to concerning our efforts to limit taxes in Washington state, it makes no difference to me, because to the average voter, you have all reached the point of near-irrelevance.
Earlier, you complained about people playing dirty, Tim. You yell at opponents for doing it, then you encourage it. Way to be consistent.
Throughout our campaign, we have sent our supporters a monthly letter keeping them updated on our progress. I’d like to read an excerpt from the letter we sent in May:
Our opponents and their allies in the press have pulled out all the stops to derail our efforts to protect taxpayers this year. Big Labor’s fraudulent scheme to attack our bank account, the government’s lawsuit against Tim, blaring smear headlines in the newspapers, scoffing editorials, and politicians’ vicious threats and scare tactics.
It has been the most ruthless, relentless, shameless, transparent effort to stop an initiative campaign in state history. They’ve emptied their chamber on us. They dropped their A-BOMB. We’ve seen their worst.
We didn’t do everything we could have done to stop I-776, but we never stooped to breaking the law. There’s not much one can do against paid-signature gatherers.
Let’s take all their venom and use it to energize us. Let’s absorb all their attacks and become stronger.
You’ll only get weaker when you’re forced to deal with the Attorney General’s lawsuit against you.
If we work together and succeed this year despite all THIS, there’s no limit to what we can accomplish in the future.
That must be why you’re begging you’re supporters for money to pay your legal defense bills with.
Our supporters took that message to heart. The qualification of I-776 for the ballot is a testament to the faith, loyalty and junkyard-dog determination of our supporters. It is truly an extraordinary accomplishment and one that is worthy of the history books.
Three words: Paid-signature gatherers. Junkyard dog determination, indeed.
Thanks to our supporters’ perseverance, Permanent Offense and Tim Eyman will be a punching bag for pompous politicians, pious political practitioners, and premadonna press people for years to come. We hope so. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. Because thanks to our supporters, there’s no limit to what we can accomplish in the future.
There’s a huge limit. When you’re forced to pay the state for breaking the law, we’ll laugh, and when you use paid-signature gatherers again, we’ll point it out. You lied, and it’s obvious if you’d take your supporters’ money without asking or saying anything, then cover it up, you’re not to be trusted with government management.
Tim’s words are, once again, up front and cleverly themed to include nothing about any money-taking, only the fact that “I’ve busted my butt off for years” and “my need to be compensated”.
Tim’s message is once again full of potholes. When he says, “we’ve beaten them handily year after year”- referring to business groups, labor unions, and the press – he has conveniently forgotten that only one initiative out of four was really successful. Two were tossed out by courts, one failed, and one is unfortunately on our books.
Tim says that voters, year after year, “agreed with our common-sense ideas of reasonable taxes and increased accountability.” In reality, the public was misinformed. Tim is essentially calling budget-slashing, transportation-gutting, police & fire-chopping, ferry fare-skyrocketing, park-closing reasonable.
After I-695 was thrown out in court, the Legislature went back and re-instituted it. This is the first year we haven’t been able to backfill the giant hole I-695 blew in state and county budgets. By approving I-747, voters decided that police, firemen, and public employees’ salaries really didn’t matter very much.
Tim’s “team”, Permanent Offense, can’t even manage their own finances. They let Eyman sneak thousands under their noses, then they turn around and expect us to take their advice on how to manage government. Simply ridiculous.
As for the accusations about the Washington State Labor Council playing dirty… he’s just exaggerating to attract attention. We don’t condone what WSLC tried to do, but it’s nothing compared to Eyman’s trickery.
Eyman also says that he gets “an avalanche of phone calls, emails, faxes and letters from supporters offering their encouragement.” We haven’t seen any of that correspondence, Tim. How do we know you’re telling the truth?
Tim says that, after I-695, “I figured that I-695 was such a tremendous victory for taxpayers and that it sent such a clear and unambiguous message to politicians I figured my work was done.”
It’s obvious why politicians didn’t accept I-695’s message: it was an irresponsible initiative.
Eyman then goes on to proclaim that, after I-695 “It’s also when I made a decision: that I couldn’t work for free.” So you decided to sneak money and lie about it! Real clever, Tim! All the while trying to hold the “moral high ground” against your opponents.
Tim laments that there are people, such as politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and others: working around the clock, all year long, to raise the taxes of Washingtonians. But no one does that. That’s what Tim would like people to believe. He asks people “to stand with me now”. Why should anyone do that?
Obviously he’s a liar, a cheat, and deceiver.
It’s time to send Tim and pals a real clear message: Stop. Enough. If voters have the sensibility to reject Initiative 776, then it will prove that finally people understand that Tim Eyman and Permanent Offense don’t have the public interest at heart.
Their goal is to help themselves.
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Also: one of Sonic's co-creators has gone to work for Nintendo now. 0 mxmarks agoaj wrote: » and that's why we post at http://forums.garfield.com/
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The rumor is flat-out bogus. VR, Game Dev, and Retro Gaming. www.TheSonicReblog.com
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I sense bias. Steam | Blog | Twitter | BoardGameGeek0 SmokeStacks License Number 137596 Reading the sad tale of Sonic 2 HD just reinforces my belief that with very few exceptions the Sonic fanbase is the worst videogame fanbase of all time.
I mean, good lord, these people are worse than NMA. 0 TheSonicRetard SmokeStacks wrote: »
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I think that's a sign that I need to go into media blackout mode on Episode 2. Oh that reminds me, we have a recording of Slyvania Castle Zone's music now, and the direction (or rather instrumentation) is much different from Ep 1.
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incidentally, Episode Metal is now 8 zones long (or 32 acts), which are played back to back like a normal sonic game, meaning it's the length of a full Genesis title. TheSonicRetard on April 2012
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I double-dipped like 9 months ago when they put all the Sonic stuff on sale on XBLA.
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Wasn't the last reboot actually Sonic Unleashed? 0 Riokenn No it was 06.
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Posts: 124 Dad finds downloading one programme daunting, let alone running the 8-steps.
They are on a dial up connection as far as I know. If Mum's computer runs through Dad's with a wireless connection and Dad's computer goes into screen saver mode, could this also affect the download into Mum's computer?
My partner and I went out to Cyprus April last year and Dad had paid for a NOD 32 licence and thought he was protected without having downloaded the programme. I did this for him and put the same licence key number in Mum's computer as well so that she was also protected. This licence has of course expired. I don't know off by heart how I did this, but I left Dad with some instructions, which he cannot find. As far as I know, they have only had NOD 32 installed in both computers. He knows about uninstalling them and has done this.
Posts: 124 Thank you everybody for your suggestions but Dad has now phoned me to say he has managed to download the programme successfully.
He had got both licence numbers in emails to his computer. When he spoke to me, I had suggested he open one of these emails and forward it to Mum's computer. Open the email there and click on the Eset connection to download through the email. He did this and it worked, so we don't need any more help.
Thanks for the update. Glad to hear it got set up.
For the future, since it is a dial-up connection and time makes a big difference, if the program itself can be downloaded and saved to the desktop, you can disconnect from the internet connection to install it.
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“The cybersecurity guidance we issued today is an important step towards helping plan sponsors, fiduciaries and participants to safeguard retirement benefits and personal information,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Ali Khawar. “This much-needed guidance emphasizes the importance that plan sponsors and fiduciaries must place on combatting cybercrime and gives important tips to participants and beneficiaries on remaining vigilant against emerging cyber threats.”
The guidance announced today complements EBSA’s regulations on electronic records and disclosures to plan participants and beneficiaries. These include provisions on ensuring that electronic recordkeeping systems have reasonable controls, adequate records management practices are in place, and that electronic disclosure systems include measures calculated to protect Personally Identifiable Information.
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I just got my A+ certification after 2 weeks of reading a study guide. Ive been building home computers for family and friends. Some experience in setting up and maintaining network of several computers with the WAN/LAN configurations but no college training at all. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the Network+ exam. From what I've heard and read, most of the information in there is outdated and pretty useless in the real world.
IMO you'd be better off doing the ICND1 and go from there.
Thanks for the quick responses guys.
Just by simply reading books? Absolutely not. You're going to need to get some hands on and apply what you've read. Setting up a home network isn't going to cut it.
You can use a simulator, or you can use real gear, but you're going to have to actually do it.
But above all, welcome to the forum! My goal is not to scare you off, its very possible to learn the CCNA material by self studying. Its just going to take more work than you seem to believe.
Absolutely not. thanks alan. Where do I find a simulator for such topic?
No, because Network+ includes a lot of ancient crap that no-one uses any more (eg Appletalk ). I studied for it about three or four years ago, so it may have changed since then.
It probably can't hurt to read through the book to get some grounding in networking in general, but I wouldn't bother sitting the exam. It costs twice as much as CCNA, and an employer probably wouldn't recognise it as much as a Cisco qual.
thanks alan. Go here to use it. The labs begin with setting up GNS3 and go through all of the CCNA exam topics.
Start here and grab a copy of GNS3.
Thank you for all your help guys.
Another vote for ICND1. Skip Network+. Your job wants a CCNA, you said it yourself. And you sound like a pretty smart guy, but don't underestimate Cisco exams. Everyone on techexams will tell you Cisco exams are harder than most of the CompTIA exams.
Drawing on my own experience I know that Microsoft exams are harder than CompTIA exams.
You should be able to subnet fairly quick for the ICND1. Lab experience will really help you. Also try to study from more than one source. If you want a really thorough text try picking up Odom's book. It's well written and thorough.
You really need to crack open the book and start learning before fiddling with a simulator(packet tracer) or emulator(GNS3). My guess is, you are where a was a few years ago. I thought I had some experience with networking from setting up home networks. Boy was I in for a surprise. There is a lot more to it than just unpacking a linksys wireless router, assigning an IP address, plugging in some cables, joining workstations and servers to a domain, and sharing resources.
I started with Net+, which did enlighten me. I had a broad understanding of networking when I passed the Net+ exam. But, and I mean a huge BUT, CCNA is Net+ on serious steroids. In fact, I think we have a saying here that states CCNA=Net+^9. If you have the "experience" I did, setting up a generic SOHO, CCNA will require you to go through the book 2 or 3 times and labbing after every chapter. It took me 6 months of dedicated study/lab time each night before I felt I was comfortable with sitting for the exam.
I actually went backwards. I got my ICND1 THEN went for my Net+.
Once you clock a few years under your belt, IMO A+ and Net+ are useless. Especially if you already have ICDN1. Alot of the material in Net+ is already presented in ICDN1 and ICND2.
A+ and Net+ are mainly for people who want to break into the field and have no exp or only are interns. I only got them later in my career for complicity sake.
As for if you feel you are ready, for ICND1 you can pass it with a normal Cisco 851 router. Connect to it, play around with the commands, and you should be fine. ICND2 is a beast compared to ICND1 -- don't take it lightly.
The CCNA is not just a certification but a right of passage for a network tech. With that said its no small feat. Don't be discouraged, its an attainable objective as any other cert however the time investment on this one may be far greater.
Depending on how much networking experience you have a wouldn't recommend starting with a book. Start with a good CBT and graduate to a book and practice questions. Buying a small cisco router and switch, in my opinion, is a must if you really want to know the IOS.
If you have the resources take a college level CCNA course.
My question is: based on those experiences, do you think its possible to get the Network+ and CCNA certifications by reading study guides?
I really want to get this job in my company that requires the CCNA certification. Im currently in the customer care area and in the second year of my BAS degree. I havent learned anything related to the IT field yet, just a whole bunch of general courses and some Javascript and C#. I'm planning on spending my spare time reading study guides but I'd hate to waste my time attempting the impossible
It does help to have Network+ knowledge going into CCENT/CCNA training, but you don't need it. Network+ didn't mean too much to employers for me and if you plan on going into CCNA id skip it.
I am not bashing Network+ it is certainly a good cert to have I just think I certainly agree with skipping Network+ IF your goals are going into cisco certs. that once you have CCENT or CCNA having Network+ is kinda mute.
The only reason I considered taking Network+ is because I thought it was necessary in order to transition to CCNA. If skipping Network+ is the recommendation here then no Network+ it is
I agree with others in that if you are planning to do CCENT and/or CCNA than you may want to skip over Network+. If anything, once you have your CCNA, you could easily pass Network+. I wouldn't say that Network+ is an easy exam/cert, as it is not a cakewalk but it is certainly not on the level of CCNA.
I just passed my Security+ and Network+ last week, 2 days apart. I got my A+ in July and i've been working in IT for a year and a half, mainly desktop support with no professional networking experience.
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Since recently doing some projects on cryptography, and cryptography libraries are most dependent on the Linux open-source environment, so build cryptography development environment in Ubuntu becomes very necessary. This article describes the steps necessary to build cryptography development environment in Ubuntu, at the same time some minor settings to enhance the experience.
Ubuntu system is installed and set up the root account.
I installed Ubuntu 13.10. Since the development process requires frequent changes of various conf file or modify / usr file folder, so administrator privileges under sudo clearly unable to meet our needs, we need to establish the root account, so that we can carry out future work.
Open Terminal, modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-ubuntu.conf file:
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Although our basic development environment set up is completed, however, depending on each person's needs, we need to download a separate library files they need, for example, frequently used openSSL.
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The hacking group known as “Anonymous” released the personal information of over 2,000 public transportation customers throughout the San Francisco area. This was supposedly done in retaliation for the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) shutting down mobile services on Thursday night.
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Prof. Labode Popoola, the Vice Chancellor of Osun State University, Osogbo, has urged youths to shun cyber crime and engage in productive ventures through Information and Communication Technology(ICT).
Popoola gave the advice during the opening ceremony of ICT Entrepreneurship Training for students of the state’s tertiary institutions on Monday in Osogbo.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the training with the theme, “Youth Empowernment 2019: Awakening Entrepreneurship in Youth through ICT Training,” was organised by Omoluabi Mortgage Bank in collaboration with the university.
The vice chancellor noted that ICT had became the focus globally, adding that it was necessary for youths to convert their ICT ideas into business ventures rather than cyber crime.
He said the training would equip the participants and inculcate in them the spirit of ICT entrepreneurship as well as help them build the capacity to develop business plans related to ICT operations.
Mr Tunde Olatunji, the guest speaker, said youths could be self reliant through ICT without necessarily relying on a white collar job.
Olatunji, a member of Osun House of Assembly, said that the world was moving at a very fast pace through ICT, adding that there was the need for the youths to be ICT compliant.
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He, however, appealed to government to provide an enabling environment for youths that would enable them to develop ICT.
Earlier in his remarks, Dr Florence Yusuf, the Director of Entrepreneurship Centre of the university, said the training was meant to equip the undergraduates with ICT-driven entrepreneurial skills.
Yusuf said the participants would be equipped with the skills needed for them to begin ICT entrepreneurship businesses.
Mr Ayo Olowookere, the Managing Director of Omoluabu Mortgage Bank, said the training was to impart ICT knowledge on the youths to be self reliant.
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In 2013, an article appeared in Communications of the ACM entitled ‘Cybercrime: it’s serious, but exactly how serious?’ The short answer, and the short version of this paper, is this: we still don’t know, but we’re working on it. In that article, which highlights the incisive analysis of ‘cost of cybercrime’ surveys by Florêncio and Herley [1], there is a challenging quote from Ross Anderson [2]: ‘Stop wasting money on measuring cybercrime… spend it on the police instead.’ Many information security professionals applaud increased funding for efforts to bring cybercriminals to justice – after all, there are other threats against which information systems must be defended besides criminals – but does it make sense to rid ourselves of our current dependency on cybercrime surveys? Hopefully, some historical context and a review of the issues will help us answer this question.
Protecting citizens and their property against harms caused by criminal activity is a basic function of modern society, as is the counting of crimes that occur despite society’s efforts to prevent them. Criminology is the science that studies these aspects of human behaviour, and criminologists have a lot to say about measuring crime. The origins of both sociology and criminology are closely related to early efforts at tabulating and analysing ‘moral statistics’ such as births, deaths, education levels and criminal acts, notably Guerry’s research in nineteenth century France [3, 4]. Guerry was the first to map criminal activity and demonstrate the potential to increase our understanding of crime through the analysis of multiple variables, like location and level of education, relative to types of crime. In their 1829 Statistique Comparée de l’État de l’Instruction et du Nombre des Crimes, Guerry and Balbi showed that the north of France had the highest levels of both education and property crime [3].
Over the next 100 years, the governments of many countries went through the process of formalizing the collection of social statistics, including recording crimes against persons and property, driven in part by a desire to assess society’s progress in efforts to discourage crime. This process involved much debate over what should be recorded – for example, should it be crimes reported or criminals indicted? crimes prosecuted or convictions obtained? By 1930, both the United States and the United Kingdom had settled on the use of ‘uniform crime reports’ that track specific crimes reported to law enforcement [5]. In the US, eight predatory, common-law classifications were selected: the four ‘violent crimes’ of homicide, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; plus the four ‘property crimes’ of arson, burglary, larceny ($50 and over), and motor vehicle theft [6].
Setting aside the extensive debates over the accuracy and validity of these official records, there is strong consensus that they conceal the ‘dark figure’ of crime, defined as: ‘occurrences that by some criteria are called crime yet that are not registered in the statistics of whatever agency was the source of the data used’ [7]. Some crimes that are reported are not recorded, and some crimes are just not reported, for a variety of reasons, starting with ignorance of the crime. As Kabay put it, ‘a certain unknown number of crimes of all kinds are undetected’ [8]. Even when known, crimes may not be reported for reasons such as: fear of retribution or humiliation; issues of complicity; or a perception that reporting is pointless. In the case of commercial victims, non-reporting may be due to fear of brand damage, exposure to liability, and possible loss of business. (As for reporting computer crimes, the CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey tracked four frequently cited reasons for not reporting to law enforcement: ‘negative publicity, competitors would use to advantage, unaware that could report, and civil remedy seemed best’ [9].)
One approach to measuring crimes not reported to the authorities is the victim survey. By 1982, both the US and the UK had instituted regular surveys that ask households about their experience of victimization, known as the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the British Crime Survey (BCS) respectively. Historically, criminologists were slow to study businesses as crime victims [10], and when computer-related crime began to emerge as a serious issue for businesses, governments were slow to measure it. This led to the emergence of cybercrime surveys conducted by commercial and non-governmental entities, some of whom could be said to have their own agendas [11].
The reasons for measuring crime are long standing, numerous and compelling, as are the functions within society that such measurements may assist. One can posit at least nine different ‘markets’ that seek crime metrics for a variety of reasons, as suggested in Figure 1 (while ‘Researchers’ could be considered a tenth ‘market’, we can also assume they serve the other nine).
Figure 1: The markets and motives for crime metrics.
The motives for measuring crime are also numerous. The following list is adapted from a report from the 2010 Oxford Internet Institute forum: Mapping and Measuring Cybercrime [12]:
Identifying areas for further research.
While the above were listed in the context of cybercrime, they apply to all forms of crime, and can be grouped into three categories: strategies, resources and performance. For example, security strategy for banks is informed by knowing that 3,961 bank robberies were reported to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2014, and that bank robbery is more likely to occur on Fridays, in commercial districts, and can be fatal (as it was for 10 perpetrators that year) [13]. Such statistics inform all of the functions listed above, particularly when they are compiled every year to create longitudinal data from which additional conclusions can be drawn, and about which useful questions can be asked, such as: why is robbing banks a less popular crime in America today than it was 10 years ago, when there were 7,720 robberies? (In the 1990s, the FBI logged, on average, more than 8,000 bank robberies per year.)
When it comes to cybercrime, there is no official longitudinal collection of statistics, so we are left to make what sense we can of isolated data points. For example, it has been estimated that the criminals who stole payment card data from Target ‘earned’ $53.7 million in the first two months of selling it on the black market [14]; but we know that the total amount stolen in bank robberies in 2011 was just over $38 million [15]. You don’t need to be a criminologist to see that risking death for a crime that yields, on average, less than eight grand, is far less appealing if you can steal and fence data at scale from the relative safety of a comfy chair.
So, while there appears to be a growing consensus that the misuse and abuse of computers and their network connections with criminal intent has become an increasingly serious problem for many businesses, consumers and governments [16, 17], there is still no official barometer to tell us if cybercrime is really on the increase, and if so, at what rate. Only once has the US government attempted a comprehensive assessment of the impact of cybercrime on business [18]; that was in 2006 and the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJR) recently stated: ‘At this time, we do not have any information about any additional reports on this topic becoming available in the future’ [19]. This situation is frustrating to numerous constituencies, from the judiciary – ‘We need cybercrime metrics to track the damage it inflicts and to develop strategies for dealing with it’ [20] – to security managers: ‘Don’t we owe it to ourselves and to the world to figure out how well we’re really doing, instead of leaving it to gut feelings and anecdotal evidence?’ [21].
So far this paper has glossed over one obvious problem with measuring cybercrime: how to define it. For the purposes of this paper, cybercrime is taken to mean: ‘crimes in which computer networks are the target or a substantial tool’ [22]. This definition preserves the spirit of one of the earliest definitions of computer crime: a crime ‘in which a computer was directly and significantly instrumental’ [23]. General objections to ‘cybercrime’ are noted; however, as Wall observes, ‘“cyberspace crime” would have been a more accurate descriptor [but] the term “cybercrime” prevails as the accepted term’ [24].
The weakness of cybercrime as a categorization, ably explicated by Brenner [20], is also acknowledged, as is the observation made by Anderson et al. that: ‘the boundary between traditional crime and cybercrime remains fluid’ [25]. The terminology of crime also needs a word or phrase to denote crime that can be perpetrated without any digital elements, such as ‘physical crime’ or the term used in this paper, ‘traditional crime’. That seems to work, although we are grateful to Montoya et al. for pointing out that it probably has a limited shelf life [26]. We generally eschew ‘meatspace crime’, although it can be a dramatic counterpart to ‘cyberspace crime’. (Meatspace appears to originate in Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984), entering the OED in 2001.)
As suggested earlier in Figure 1, there are multiple constituencies for data pertaining to computer abuse, from security professionals charged with defending systems, to law enforcement officials responsible for prosecuting lawbreakers, and lawmakers attempting to maintain a state of law and order in which the benefits of digital technology can be enjoyed. Other interested parties include: vendors of security solutions seeking to educate the market for their products; society at large, which is the presumed beneficiary of digital technology’s capabilities; and society’s self-appointed watchdogs, the media.
Taber was prescient in pointing out that none of these ‘markets’ are well served by poorly defined data, with the possible exception of less scrupulous vendors and the media, the latter apparently thriving on confusion when it comes to reporting anything computer abuse-related. Taber argued that none of the studies he examined substantiated the authors’ claims that computer crime was a problem, declaring ‘“Computer crime” is a media creature, largely fed by computer security industry press releases’ and decrying the drafting of computer crime laws ‘justified by such inadequate research’ [23].
The Not So Golden Age of Computer Crime Surveys
Regardless of what Taber thought, Parker had no illusions about computer crime studies and would later join those calling for caution in the use of computer crime statistics, which proliferated towards the end of the last century. In 1996, a company called Computer Security Institute (CSI) began conducting a ‘Computer Crime and Security Survey’ with help from the FBI [328]. CSI described itself as a membership organization for information security practitioners and about 4,800 members were contacted by mail for the first survey; 428 responses were received, from people with job titles ranging from corporate information security manager to data security officer and senior systems analyst. The organizations surveyed included corporations, financial institutions, government agencies and universities.
Despite some flags raised by the research methodology, like the low response rate and the fact that responses were anonymous, this first CSI/FBI survey was big news. It was cited at length in testimony to the US Senate by its editor, Richard Power, who presented several observations and recommendations that most information security professionals in 1996 heartily endorsed: the problem of computer crime is ‘only getting worse’; there is an ‘insufficient level of commitment to information security’; there is a need for ‘in-depth, periodic risk analysis’ and developing ‘strong, enforceable policies on a broad range of information security issues’; there is a need for ‘security awareness for users’; and ‘a great need for an emphasis on information security in computer science curriculum and on computer ethics as a critical aspect of good citizenship’ [28].
For validation of the survey’s results, Powers looked beyond its methodological shortcomings and cited other studies that appear to show similar results, together with reports of incidents that exemplify the survey’s findings. CSI reports were produced annually until 2010 when the project went dark, but the template that Powers created endures to this day: conduct computer crime survey, validate by cross-reference, make recommendations based on results, garner attention, and boost security awareness. Unfortunately, the template has serious flaws. Consider comments from Schneier in 2001:
‘The results are not statistically meaningful by any stretch of the imagination – they’re based on about 500 survey responses each year… This data is not statistically rigorous, and should be viewed as suspect for several reasons. First, it’s based on the database of information security professionals that the CSI has (3,900 people), self-selected by the 14% who bothered to respond. (The people responding are probably more knowledgeable than the average sysadmin, and the companies they work for more aware of the threats…) Second, the data is not necessarily accurate, but is only the best recollections of the respondents. And third, most hacks still go unnoticed; the data only represents what the respondents actually noticed.’ [29]
Despite this, Schneier also says, ‘but it is the most interesting data on real-world computer and network security that we have’, thereby crystallizing the computer crime survey dilemma: we’re so short of metrics, we’ll take what we can get, even when the purveyor of those metrics warns us of their limitations. For example, Power had few illusions about the CSI data and took pains to include caveats in every edition of the survey, including warnings from Parker in 1999 and those of Schneier, cited above, in 2002.
New Century, New Fears
Clearly, by the end of the last century, information security professionals were on notice that computer crime surveys might not accurately reflect reality. A white paper by Kabay in 1998 had spelled out the statistical realities, including the ascertainment problem; this formed the basis of a chapter on the topic in Wiley’s Computer Security Handbook [8]. Yet, the surveys kept coming. By 2003, Ryan and Jefferson felt compelled to publish ‘The Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Statistics in Information Security Research’, in which they analysed 14 different surveys [30]. Twelve were found to have compounded erroneous extrapolations of data by failing to limit responses to one per company. The resulting reports were sometimes presented as being representative of company experience, even though a statement that ‘two thirds of companies experienced cybercrime committed by an employee’ may be entirely inaccurate if more than one response per company is allowed.
By 2005, the range of companies reporting computer crime metrics included security vendors like Symantec and the big consulting firms that became EY, PwC, Deloitte and KPMG. These private sector efforts were joined by some government initiatives, such as the annual reports produced by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). In 2000, IC3 started reporting on many different Internet-related complaints, mainly from US citizens [31]. In 2014, the organization received 269,422 complaints from the public and estimated the associated dollar losses at over $800 million. While IC3 performs a very valuable role triaging and referring for investigation all manner of Internet-related rip-offs, as well as alerting consumer organizations to the latest scams, the data it reports has limited value as a precise measure of cybercrime. As Viega pointed out, reporters are self-selecting and validation of whether or not a crime was actually committed is weak [21]. Furthermore, the criteria by which reports from victims in other countries are included are unclear. As for the calculation of losses incurred, these depend too heavily on unchecked victim estimates. As Ryan and Jefferson noted, relying on such estimates introduces considerable potential for error [30], a phenomenon that Florêncio and Herley would later take great pains to explain [1].
Another series of surveys debuted in 2004, associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Coordination Center (CUC). The E-Crime Watch Survey was conducted online by CSO Magazine with help from both CUC and the US Secret Service [32]. This survey was run again in 2005 and subsequently, with Microsoft involvement, in 2006 and 2007 (missing reports are referenced by media, e.g. 2007 in Information Week [33]). It apparently disappeared in 2008 but re-emerged in 2010/11/12 as the CyberSecurity Watch Survey (with Deloitte). This morphed into the US State of Cybercrime Survey in 2013 and appeared under the same name in 2014 but with Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) instead of Deloitte [34]. The number of respondents to these surveys ranged between 500 and 1,000.
While the original ‘Watch surveys’ were very upfront about methodology and limitations, the 2014 ‘State of Cybercrime’ report exemplifies both the selective presentation of results and inconsistency of terminology that has plagued commercially sponsored cybercrime surveys, for example mixing and matching terms like: crime, attack, breach and incident. While billed as a survey of cybercrime in the United States, the PwC report offers no definition of what constitutes a cybercrime and uses the terms ‘incident’ and ‘threat’ more than ‘crime’ or ‘cybercrime’. For example, the report states that 72% of respondents think outsiders like hackers are the source of ‘cybersecurity incidents’, and contrasts this with ‘insider events’ reported by only 28% of respondents. The document goes on to note that one third of respondents think ‘insider crimes are more costly or damaging than incidents perpetrated by outsiders’. This same statistic appears in a PwC report on the global state of information security [35]. Unlike the US report, the global report declares insiders to be ‘the most-cited culprits of cybercrime’, but the data appears to come from a table titled ‘Sources of security incidents’. While mixing crimes and incidents undermines efforts to use the data for security decision-making, a deeper issue is the lack of access to the actual survey data, or even a full set of results. PwC only releases ‘Key Findings’ and asserts that ‘the full report is proprietary and not available to the public’ [36].
The Government Steps In
In 2006, the US federal government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) took a stab at measuring the cost of cybercrime to businesses and the results were relatively impressive. More than 36,000 businesses were contacted for the National Computer Security Survey, a stratified, random sample designed to produce national and industry-level estimates [37]. Over 8,000 businesses responded, an overall response rate of 23%. By comparison, the CSI/FBI survey averaged 500 responses and the response rate never exceeded 15%. Nevertheless, the BJS statistician made it clear that even this level of response was ‘not sufficient to support national or industry-level estimates’.
While the report turned up 22 million incidents of cybercrime in 2005, the vast majority – 20 million – were defined as other computer security incidents, primarily spyware, adware, phishing and spoofing. As to the cost of this activity, 91% of the responding businesses sustained monetary loss and/or system downtime, with the monetary losses pegged at $867 million. Sadly, the US government never repeated this study, which would have at least given us multiple snapshots in time to compare (requests to the BJS for more recent data on cybercrime’s impact on businesses are currently referred to the ‘Key Findings’ report by PwC [19]). Not that all is well with other government crime reporting. For example, units of measure are apt to change, and there are gaps: for example, the BJS figures for identity theft for 200–2010 are by households affected, but 2012 data are by persons; and the FBI lost some of the bank robbery data pertaining to 2012 to 2014 [15].
Practical Impossibilities?
One possible explanation for the DoJ’s decision not to repeat the 2005 study is that, as Florêncio and Herley explain, large stratified random samples are necessary if you want to generalize results [1]. As with personal wealth, the concentration of cybercrime losses tends to be unevenly distributed across the population and so representative sampling gives an unrepresentative estimate. When losses are limited to a small group of companies within survey samples, this tends to amplify the problems caused by small sample sizes and low response rates with respect to reported losses. Consequently, ‘outliers can cause catastrophic errors’. Florêncio and Herley helpfully catalogue the ways in which erroneous outliers can occur, notably through a lack of input validation, an ironic weakness in the case of computer crime surveys (classically demonstrated by the gap between the number of sex partners reported by men and women [1]).
Another practical impossibility would appear to be educating the various ‘markets’ for cybercrime statistics on their appropriate use. While many of us security professionals should know better, too often we find it hard to avoid citing statistics to make a point, but all too easy to avoid making the appropriate disclaimers; at times it is as though we are co-dependent with the entities that publish the numbers.
Consider the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). The first DBIR appeared in 2008, and DBIRs have been widely quoted every year since. From the very first edition, this report included a disclaimer, while making a habit of announcing numbers in a manner that conveys a confidence not necessarily supported by the data. Take two examples from the 2015 report: mobile malware and the cost of breaches [38]. Under the catchy headline ‘I Got 99 Problems and Mobile Malware Isn’t Even 1% of Them’, the report gives the impression that mobile devices are not a serious breach vector. Yet an infection rate of 0.03% is cited for ‘higher-grade’ malicious code on smartphones, which translates to over 33,000 seriously compromised devices in the workplace, based on 140 million Americans at work, and 80% of them using their personal devices for work [39]. One is reminded that the Verizon data set is limited to a subset of known breaches. As for the cost of breaches, the 2015 DBIR declares that this is $0.58 per record, a number strongly disputed by the Ponemon Institute [40], which puts the figure closer to $200, in a classic example of the ‘orders of magnitude’ problem cited by Hyman [2].
Damage Assessment as a Crime Metric
Regardless of survey results, it is easy to feel that the prevalence and impact of cybercrime are currently higher than ever, yet the Internet appears to keep growing, in terms of users, nodes, traffic, applications, and so on. But is it growing as fast as it would if there were less cybercrime? One useful possible measure of cybercrime might be the extent to which it discourages adoption of Internet technology; and there is strong evidence that ‘a substantial fraction of cybercrime’s overall costs to society can be traced to indirect opportunity costs, resulting from unused online services’ [17, 41]. In a recent study, Riek et al. used European survey data to confirm the ‘negative impact of perceived risk of cybercrime on the use of all three online service categories’ (these were banking, shopping, and social networking) [17]. The data came from the European Commission’s annual Eurobarometer Cyber Security Survey, the third edition of which was published this year, compiling responses from more than 27,000 respondents in 28 countries.
While the EU publishes the top line findings of the Cyber Security Survey, including high levels of concern about online security, the raw data is also made available, enabling secondary analysis of the type performed by Riek et al. They analysed the 2013 data, which clearly showed that perceived risk of cybercrime deters use of online services, increasing ‘avoidance intention’. The ability to repeat this and other studies from a full and solid set of data offers considerable potential to answer questions such as: when does cybercrime reach levels that seriously impact the digital economy?
Good security researchers know the limits of their knowledge and confidently assert that limit when asked questions for which there is no good answer. At least that is the way it should be. Unfortunately, within the security industry, this aspiration is not always appreciated by the folks in sales and marketing and PR, not to mention the media and the general public. There is a big demand, and widespread exposure awaits, for numbers that give dimension to the great unknowns, such as: is cybercrime increasing? What is the most common form of attack? Who hacked Sony?
That last question is a tricky one, given that there have been numerous hackings of cyber assets that have Sony in the name, but it may point the way, not to better metrics, but to better use of the metrics we do have. Many security researchers, notably those involved with malware investigations, appear to be comfortable stating that attribution is very difficult, if not impossible. That doesn’t downplay the threat or make it less real, nor does it change the security strategy required to defend against it, so perhaps we should more frequently assert that measuring cybercrime is very difficult, if not impossible.
light-fingered employees. Retail establishments are routinely victimized by criminals. As one of the world’s oldest trades, retailing has had centuries in which to come to terms with the reality of things going missing, falling off the back of a cart, being billed but never delivered, lifted by customers and employees, and so on. There is even a name for this: shrinkage, which encompasses shoplifting, employee theft, vendor fraud, accounting errors and process failures [42]. Shrinkage is often expressed as a percentage of retail revenue, for example 1.48% in the US, somewhat less in the UK. In the UK, employees are thought to account for 15.9% of shrinkage. In the US that figure is 42.9%. In monetary terms, US retailers lost $43 billion to employees in 2013. Even a conservative calculation of employee theft at Target, which apparently has a good reputation for shrinkage control [43], puts the annual loss at over $400 million in 2013, roughly twice the $200 million figure cited for the cost of the 2013 data breach.
For cybersecurity folks there is plenty of schadenfreude to go around here. For a start, retail security experts are by no means happy with the way shrinkage is calculated, arguing about definitions, methodology, and so on [44]. More pertinently, retail provides an example of how companies can function successfully while enduring X amount of criminal activity. Security researchers should at least consider whether this could be a model for coping with some forms of cybercrime.
Figure 2: Property crime rates in the US.
At first glance, this pattern, prosaically dubbed ‘the crime drop’ by criminologists, would seem to offer hope to beleaguered consumers and CISOs alike. Although the causes of this phenomenon, also seen in the UK and other countries, are keenly debated, it could mean that crime rates can go down, which means we may not be fighting cybercrime forever. Sadly, we do not have the data to say this with any certainty. Criminologists are slowly beginning to realize that the crime drop shown in Figure 2 might have something to do with cybercrime (some clue here: [46]; no clue here: [47]; lots of clues here: [48].). Indeed, the crime drop may be a form of crime displacement, a phenomenon well documented in the literature of traditional crime but not applied to cybercrime until relatively recently [49]. There are five types of crime displacement: changing location, changing timing, choosing alternative targets, applying different tactics, and trying a different type of crime [50]. Could criminals be trying cybercrime instead of ‘traditional crime’? Exploring this possibility could be a productive focus of future cybercrime research. Another promising direction is indicated by Riek et al. who note ‘research on online service avoidance as a response to perceived risk of cybercrime is rare and isolated’ [17]. If such research revealed that fear of cybercrime was hurting corporate profits then we might see greater attention paid to combating cybercrime.
So, was Anderson correct, should we shift the cybercrime survey budget to law enforcement? In the US, where the US government appears to be spending very little money on gathering reliable cybercrime metrics, the question is somewhat academic, and a partnership between private industry and academia might be the way forward if we still have the heart to try and measure this problem, and the willpower to hold our biases in check (while concurrently lobbying our elected representatives to increase funding for sensible cybercrime deterrence measures).
References
[1] Florêncio, D.; Herley, C. (2013). Sex, lies and cyber-crime surveys. Economics of information security and privacy III, New York: Springer 35–53. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/149886/SexLiesandCybercrimeSurveys.pdf.
[2] Quoted in Hyman, P. (2013). Cybercrime: it’s serious, but exactly how serious? Communications of the ACM, 56(3), 18–20.
[30] Ryan, J.; Jefferson, T. (2003). The Use, Misuse and Abuse of Statistics in Information Security Research. Proceedings of the 23rd ASEM National Conference. ASEM 15–18 October 2003.
[31] IC3 annual reports from 2001 to 2014. https://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreports.aspx.
[32] Partial list at CERT. http://www.cert.org/insider-threat/research/cybersecurity-watch-survey.cfm?.
[33] http://www.informationweek.com/government/cybersecurity/survey-shows-security-pros-overconfident/d/d-id/1059021?.
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“A terror attack on maritime infrastructure can cost the economy greatly,” said Kevin Cresswell.
It’s the fundamental structure of a system or organization. The basic, fundamental architecture of any system (electronic, mechanical, social, political, etc.) determines how it functions and how flexible it is to meet future requirements.
Among ’s infrastructure is the supply chain, which includes an obvious dependence on commerce through worldwide sea lanes.
“What’s worse for is the fact that most of the important straits and trade routes are controlled by Muslim countries (the Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab). Likewise, the long history that Muslims have in maritime warfare and stressing crusader commerce increases the possibility of returning to that form of jihad.” That 2002 statement was made by Abu Ubeid al-Qurashi, a leader of al-Qa’ida.
In today’s economy the ocean sea lanes represent the “femoral artery” of the nation’s trade. The safety and economic security of the depend in substantial part upon the secure use of ports and marine transportation to protect this flow of goods. Ships and associated infrastructure operating within the maritime domain are largely under the ownership of the private sector and for years they have been both targets of and potential conveyances for dangerous and illicit activities.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks showed existing gaps not just in aviation and land security but in maritime transportation as well. Ships and ports are major players in global trade. Actions have been taken to improve the situation but, given the scale of maritime trade and the larger scale of commerce moving through the global supply chain in cargo containers, the task is far from complete.
A maritime-related terrorist attack could disrupt or even halt world seaborne trade and thus the global trading system. Multinational companies and trade-reliant firms have a vested interest in hastening this result because an interruption in the supply chain would keep their goods out of the market and cost them money.
So how secure is maritime trade and the inter-linked supply chain on land?
Over 50 percent of the world population lives within 50 miles of the sea.
Over 95 percent of the value of trade takes place over the sea.
At any one moment there are 93,000 merchant ships transporting 5.7 billion tons of cargo, in the vast, largely un-policed isolation of the world’s oceans.
Recent estimates of the yearly value of goods moving in seaborne international trade exceed $3.5 trillion dollars.
The industry is complex: An attack on a owned vessel registered in the , with Malaysian crew, traveling from to
Much of what occurs in the industry in respect of vessel movements, activities, cargoes, and ownership is often difficult to discern.
In the last 30 years only two percent of terrorist incidents have been in the maritime arena mostly because terrorists have been tactically conservative with little experience of the ocean. In the past there have been a profusion of accessible, land-based targets available to choose from, offering substantial returns and visibility. But as security continues to be heightened at land and air borders, restrictions on movement have led terrorists to seek alternative targets. Terrorist organizations such as al-Qa'ida could very likely launch seaborne assaults because floating targets have not been “hardened” in the same manner.
Ports were constructed to be widely accessible to facilitate speed of business. They were built with mass storage facilities which were cost conscious not security aware. With its myriad boltholes, hiding places and cover in inshore waters and ports, the maritime environment presents an attractive opportunity for terrorists. Of all transportation, it is the most necessary for global trade and equally the most vulnerable.
Maritime infrastructure and commerce are therefore the soft underbelly of all states. It can be attacked with little expense or endeavor and offers an array of exciting potential targets that fit the terrorists’ operational objectives of achieving mass casualties and gaining maximum media impact while inflicting catastrophic economic harm. Terrorist organizations can overcome their military and technological weaknesses through an asymmetric approach based on creative process, surprise, speed and adapting weapon systems. Disparate groups will increasingly adopt a combination of seaborne tactics and weapons originally designed for land use. It is a threat of global proportions originating from both states, non-state and non-traditional organizations that could jeopardize economic prosperity.
Al-Qa’ida has demonstrated its ability to emulate successful tactics from groups outside its own umbrella. It may be argued that disruption rather than eruption through asymmetry itself is the basis for all successful military operations. The marine aggressor will use one of eight options:
Surface approach - port access, surface swimming or small craft using blind arcs or jetties in harbors.
Surface attack - standoff weapons alongside or from surface craft.
Underwater attack - swimmers, mini-subs, remotely operated vehicles.
Improvised explosive devices - (IEDs) in brown water or alongside.
Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks or CBRN – ingestion, absorption or explosion.
Aerial – Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, suicide attack airframes, micro lights, or small RC aircraft.
Cyber/psychological operations – Some terrorists have declared mastering high technology "a religious duty.”
Novel technology and novel explosives.
The attack could be aimed at a military vessel, commercial or a cruise liner. It may aim to disrupt oil flow through the or target a cruise liner perhaps through food or water contamination. The threat of action may be sufficient to cause widespread economic disruption. An attack on a major U.S port is inevitable sooner rather than later and could endanger a company’s regular operations through a disruption of the supply chain.
HOW TO PREVENT A SUPPLY CHAIN INTERRUPTION
The indirect and induced effects of a terrorist attack on a port the size of , for example, would be an economic catastrophe for the private sector. A Berkley Symposium on risk and public policy in March 2006 estimated that a 120 day closure would result in the loss of nearly $34,071 million in output and a quarter of a million job losses.
The costs associated with a prolonged and systematic disruption of the marine transportation system may be avoided by implementing tested contingency and continuity plans, which exceed industry standards. These recovery and reconstitution plans must manage risk and uncertainty within acceptable levels.
In order to balance the maritime asymmetric threat effectively, security leaders must first understand it and then react in an equally robust manner. Security planning within the industry requires innovation and creativity in design, concept and application.
While public efforts will continue to enhance the capabilities of current systems and develop new capabilities and procedures to locate and track maritime threats and illicit activities, the private sector has a duty to pursue initiatives to maximize domain awareness, expanding and enhancing risk analysis and mitigation. Contingency and continuity plans must be developed and exercised in a coordinated manner. Effectively this “blend” of public and private maritime security activities needs to be initiated on a global scale into an integrated effort to address all maritime threats.
SIDEBAR: Identity Management and Biometrics
Technology and applications are coming together just in time to be employed in the protection of ’s infrastructure.
For example, Aware’s biometrics software is now working with Sun Microsystems’ Java System Identity Manager to deliver personal identity verification (PIV) and other mission-critical biometric identity assurance solutions. The integration enables fingerprint-based biometric authentication for establishing single sign-on and identity federation. Bridging the gap between physical and logical access is one of the biggest challenges facing U.S. and global governments.
Advanced biometric functionality includes:
Fingerprint, face, and iris autocapture and enrollment.
Standards-compliant formatting and parsing of interoperable biometric data structures.
Secure transport and archival of biometric images, templates, and metadata.
Connectivity with card management systems and certificate authorities.
Kevin Cresswell is senior consultant in global services with Control Risks. He was instrumental in formulating maritime asymmetric intelligence sharing among the and British governments. He has been involved in conducting maritime security assessment and training since the inception of the International Ship and Port Security Code of Practice in 2002.
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Kindsight partners with Internet service providers (ISPs) to provide consumers with an additional layer of protection against identity theft and other threats. The Kindsight Identity Theft Protection Service detects threats in your Internet traffic, sends you alerts and shows you step-by-step how to remove threats that put your personal information at risk. The Kindsight service is always on, always-up-to-date and cannot be disabled by criminals since it is embedded in the ISPs network. The Kindsight service is offered for a monthly fee or, like search engines, at no cost through relevant advertising. Visit www.kindsight.net for more information.
In the following interview, Brendan Ziolo, VP, Marketing for Kindsight discusses 1:1 with Rake Narang, Editor-in-Chief of Info Security Products Guide, on taking a practical proactive approach to fighting online fraud.
Rake Narang, Editor-in-Chief: How serious is the current online threat scenario for home-based users? What's your online fraud outlook for the next 1-3 years? Brendan Ziolo, VP, Marketing for Kindsight: The online threat scenario is quite serious and growing. Recent reports indicate that malware is on the rise and in some cases the number of attacks has doubled over the past year. What is even more frightening is that the attacks are more sophisticated and focused on stealing your personal information, including user name and passwords and even money directly from your bank account. Unfortunately, it appears that this online identity theft will continue to grow over the next few years and that social networking sites will increase thus becoming a major vector for ID theft, phishing and malware distribution. Brendan Ziolo is VP, Marketing for Kindsight where he develops and leads the company’s marketing and communications strategies. With over 14 years of security and technology marketing experience, Brendan has launched several start-ups and built their brands when he held senior marketing roles with Sipera, Certicom, Espial and TimeStep (acquired by Newbridge Networks).
Rake Narang: Which types of users are most susceptible to online fraud and identity theft? Brendan Ziolo: All users are susceptible to online identity theft. However, younger adults are particularly susceptible due to their heavy use of social networking sites and sharing of information. However , if you learn about how criminals can steal your identity, you’ll be better protected. This includes not clicking on links in emails or opening attachments, not sharing information online that can lead to identity theft, ensuring your computers are fully protected including using an additional layer of protection against online identity theft. The more educated and proactive users are in protecting themselves means they’ll be less susceptible to online identity theft. Rake Narang: How is the growing popularity of smartphones and mobile Internet devices creating further threats of identity theft? Brendan Ziolo: Basically, these new devices provide criminals with a new vector of attack. And while these attacks are not yet common, the more popular the device, the more likely criminals will find a way to exploit it. Rake Narang: What can consumers do to immediately protect their personal information stored on their computers? And what pro-active prevention steps can consumers take to remain safe in the long run?
Brendan Ziolo: To protect personal information stored on your computers, you need to take the following steps on all computers in your home network:
Install up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware software on all the computers in your home. Cybercriminals always target the weakest link, so it is not enough to only have it running or updated on only one of the computers.
Ensure all the patches for your operating system and other software programs are regularly installed and kept up-to-date.
Configure and enable firewall programs or devices to stop uninvited access to your computers.
Ask your ISP if they have a security layer that analyses your network traffic to provide protection when your anti-virus and other security precautions fail to keep your personal information safe. This network-based security service provides an additional layer of protection against identity theft and other online threats.
Rake Narang: What steps can any consumer whose computer has already been compromised take to become secured again and prevent further online threats? Brendan Ziolo: If your computer has already been compromised then the installed security software may also be compromised. That’s why it’s important to have a security layer that analyses your network traffic to provide an additional layer of protection against identity theft and other online threats. If your computer has been compromised, you should download one of the temporary online scanners that are available from a number of the anti-virus vendors. This tool will detect and remove threats that could have compromised your existing anti-virus software. Once you have removed the threat, then you should update your OS, plug-ins and applications. And finally, you should update and/or re-install your anti-virus protection to prevent further threats. There are services available to help fix computers that may have already been compromised or if these tools don’t clean the problem initially. Rake Narang: What advice would you give travelers who may be using public wi-fi and other connectivity service at airports and restaurants to connect their personal computers online but may not always have the time and seriousness to download and install security updates and other patches at that moment? Brendan Ziolo: Unfortunately, the best precaution to take when using public wi-fi is to not login to any site that asks for your user name and password. While many sites, may encrypt the initial login the rest of the session may be open and criminals could sniff some personal information and/or hijack your account. If you are going to login to one of your accounts, including banking, email and social media, you need to be absolutely sure the entire session is encrypted from the moment you log on to when you log off. You also need to be careful that the public wi-fi access point is actually from the organization you think as it could be a hacker close-by that has setup a fraudulent access point and is using it to capture your information. Company: Kindsight
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http://infosecurityproductsguide.com/people/Brendan-Ziolo.html
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Facebook visitors in Japan have more than doubled in the last year according to a Nielsen/Netratings study, which put Facebook ahead of a Japanese social network that allows users to hide behind pseudonyms.
Japanese Internet users have been slower than those in other countries to move to Facebook, in part because the culture is more adverse to revealing one’s identity or sharing pictures online. On Mixi, long Japan’s dominant social network, most users are anonymous or use nicknames, only revealing themselves to people they have met in person.
Facebook received 17.2 million unique visitors from among Japanese Internet users last month, according to a Nielsen/Netratings report released Tuesday, more than double the 8.2 million in May 2011. The number of unique visitors also jumped sharply from April, up 16 percent month on month.
Despite the sharp increase, Nielsen said that only about 29.1 percent of Japanese Internet users now visit Facebook, less than half of the 67.2 percent in the U.S. or the 39.3 percent in nearby South Korea.
After years of failing to gain traction in Japan, Facebook surged in popularity in the country in 2011. The site benefitted from the popularity of the “The Social Network,” a movie about its early days, and an increase in people looking to connect online in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan’s northeast coast.
While there is no question that Facebook is increasingly popular in the country, there is some to debate as to whether it has passed Mixi. Last year Nielsen changed the way it calculated page views, causing a sudden drop in the number of unique visitors it calculated for Mixi, and dropping the Japanese site below Facebook.
Mixi responded by noting that Nielsen tracks only PC users in Japan, where many people do the majority of their browsing on mobile phones. The site said about 85 percent of its users access through phones.
The less intrusive Twitter has also been very popular in Japan, setting records for tweets after sporting events and making Japanese one of the most-tweeted languages.
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Opqz File Virus is a dangerous ransomware virus programmed by cyber crooks. It sneaks into the targeted computer by stealth when users download a freeware third party application or open an spam email in PC. Well, once infiltrates, it will drop some very malefic codes in your boot drive which allows this treat to execute automatically at system start-up. Being a crypt-malware it is quite good at encrypting files. Opqz File Virus is capable to encrypt all kinds of data found on infected computer such as texts, documents, presentations, PDF’s, music, videos, pictures and many more. It will make your files completely inaccessible and can eventually delete your important data s well. Opqz File Virus is certainly very dangerous for your data files and hence it should be removed at the earliest.
Opqz File Virus aims to extort money for victims. It forces the users to pay money by using their own data. It simply blackmails you to pay in exchange of the access of your encrypted data. Well, it demands the ransom money through a ransom note which will appear on your system screen after encryption of all files. It threatens the users to pay the ransom as soon as possible. Additionally, it also warns you that if you don’t pay the money or try to remove this threat then all your important data will get removed permanently from your PC. The worst thing about this threat is that it will delete your data even when you pay ransom money. Therefore, in such circumstances it would be quite sensible to remove Opqz File Virus completely from infected computer without wasting any further time.
We all know ransomware viruses encrypts victims important data and force the users to pay money. Hence, after removing Opqz File Virus, it becomes simply impossible for the victims to access their encrypted data again. Well, not anymore, There is a way to restore your files even without paying any ransom money. Usually, security researchers provide decryption key to some nasty ransomware viruses. However, it take time. Experts study the ransomware, find it loopholes and then find decryption key which might work. Needless to say you can’t for that long as doing so you may not left anything to recover. Meanwhile, there is a quick, easy and reliable way to restore all your important files that has been locked, encrypted or deleted by Opqz File Virus.
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Type “msconfig” into Run box and click OK button.
“System configuration box” will appear on your PC.
Go to “boot” tab and select “safe boot” option and press “Step”.
Double Click on My Computer or This PC icon on your computer screen.
Press the View tab, choose Show hidden files and folders and then clean the checkbox for Hide protected system operating files.
Press Yes on the warning and then press OK, you will find if any hidden files has been created in that specific drive by Opqz File Virus.
Now click on Uninstall a program under Programs category.
Finally select and remove unwanted program including Opqz File Virus from your system.
Go to Start menu and select “Control Panel” option.
Press “Windows logo + R” buttons together on your keyboard.
The Run box will appear type regedit in the box and click on OK button..
Now find out Opqz File Virus related malicious registry entries.
Delete all the harmful registry keys created by Opqz File Virus.
Open your Google Chrome browser then click menu button right corner on Chrome browser then select More Tools then select Extensions (visit directly from address bar “chrome://extensions”).
Firstly disable the strange extensions related with Opqz File Virus and delete from your Google Chrome browser.
Reset your Google Chrome Browser
Press Menu button from right corner on the Google Chrome browser then visit directly from address bar “chrome://settings”.
Press on the “Settings” option and scroll down your mouse to search “ Show advance settings…” option.
Click on “ Reset settings” for removing unwanted settings from your Google Chrome Browser.
Oftentimes a noxious malware modifies the core system files that you can’t undo manually.
Choose “ Troubleshooting information”.
Click “ Refresh Firefox” on the top of right corner of the window.
Then after a small window will open press again “ Refresh Firefox”.
Open your IE and press on setting menu on the top of the right corner of your IE browser, then press on the Internet option.
Select “ Advanced” tab and click on “Reset” button.
Choose More (…) and then press on Settings buttons.
Press the View advanced settings option.
Press the < Add new> under “Search in the address bar with”.
Enter the search engine you want and press Add as default.
If you have followed the above guide carefully then you have successfully removed this nasty virus from your computer. This section is specially written to help you in avoiding these kind of threats in future. As prevention is always better than cure, so you can also avoid threats like Opqz File Virus from your system by following these simple tips :-
Use a powerful anti-virus application for the safety of your PC.
Do not download freeware application from unsafe sites.
Always scan any email attachment before opening.
Keep checking your system for updates regularly.
Always prefer official websites to update your system programs.
Make sure that your Firewall protection is active.
Do not click on fake pop-ups and misleading advertisements.
Try to avoid visiting suspicious or pornographic websites.
Use Advanced or custom installation method.
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https://www.pcmalwarerepair.com/opqz-opqz-ransomware-remove-opqz-recover-opqz-file
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Combining Rackspace Cloud’s RBAC with Cloud Files’ ACLs allows you to control read or write access to a particular container and for a particular user.
Recently, I talked to the leader of a marketing department for a global snacking company. She wanted to create a Cloud Files container for each brand in the company’s portfolio, and then she wanted to create a user for each brand manager, so each brand manager could access the files for only their brand. By combining a feature in Rackspace Cloud with a feature in Cloud Files, the marketing leader could create users with the right access controls.
Introduction to RBAC
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a Rackspace Cloud feature that allows account owners to create users and assign them roles. RBAC has two levels of granularity:
Cloud-level granularity – This allows you to create users and assign users roles that apply to all Rackspace Cloud products. (Cloud Files and nearly all other Rackspace Cloud products work with RBAC. Check the list of participating products for more information.)
Product-level granularity – This allows you to create users and assign them roles that apply to only a particular Rackspace Cloud product. (Again, Cloud Files and many other participating products work. Check the list of participating products for full details.)
Introduction to Cloud Files ACLs
Rackspace Cloud Files Access Control List (ACL) is a Cloud Files feature that allows account owners to specify read or write access to a particular container and for a particular user. ACLs are great because they provide another level of granularity beyond what RBAC alone provides.
This blog post shows you how to set up a new user (with RBAC) and apply container-level access control (with Cloud Files ACLs).
Create a User with RBAC
RBAC is integrated in the Control Panel, so you can set up a new user by starting at https://mycloud.rackspace.com/. After you enter your username and password, you see your homepage. Look at the top right-hand area of your homepage for your username. Click your username and select User Management.
On the User Management page, click the Create User button. On the next page, fill out the Login Details section for your new user. Then in the Product Access section, choose the Custom (Per Product Access) radio button. All the product access roles are defaulted to No Access. Leave the Files product role at No Access. Finally, fill out the Contact Information section. Your screen should look similar to this:
Finally, click the Create User button at the bottom of the page. At this point, you created a user within your account and gave them No Access to the Cloud Files product.
X-Container-Read – This container header can contain a comma-delimited list of users that can read the container (allows the GET method for all objects in the container).
X-Container-Write – This container header can contain a comma-delimited list of users that can write to the container (allows PUT, POST, COPY and DELETE methods for all objects in the container).
You can set these special headers only on containers, and they apply to all objects within the container. The values for these container headers can have zero to many users.
For example, let’s suppose that you have a container importantContainer within Cloud Files. Let’s also suppose that you created a user importantUser1. You can provide this user with read access to importantContainer by setting its X-Container-Read header to importantUser1. Likewise, you can provide this user with write access to importantContainer by setting its X-Container-Write header to importantUser1.
The account owner does not need to be included in either ACL because the account owner always has read and write access to everything in their Cloud Files account. If you created three important users, you can set the header values to importantUser1, importantUser2, importantUser3, where space before or after a comma is acceptable.
Now, let’s see these ideas in action by using curl.
Authenticate using curl
First, you need to authenticate with the Rackspace Cloud Identity service using your username and apiKey.
curl -X POST https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens -d '{ "auth":{ "RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{ "username":"theUserName", "apiKey":"00a00000a000a0000000a000a00aaa0a" }' -H "Content-type: application/json"
Using the token ID as the X-Auth-Token and the proper URL, you can create a new container and provide your user with the right access. To use these commands, you’ll have to replace the X-Auth-Token and the URL with your information from the Identity Service. (You can combine the PUT and POST commands by appending the two headers from the POST to the PUT command.) curl -i -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: 00a00000a000a0000000a000a00aaa0a' https://storage101.iad3.clouddrive.com/v1/MossoCloudFS_0a0a000a-000a-000a-000a-00a00000a00a/importantContainer
Now the user importantUser1 has read and write access to only importantContainer.
Note: The user importantUser1 must use the Cloud Files API to access the container. Because importantUser1 was given No Access to Cloud Files during the user set up, the Control Panel does not allow the user to click the Files tab. Instead, if you don’t mind whether the user can read all objects in your account, but you want the user to write to only specific containers, you can change the Files role from No Access to Observer.
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Join Patrick Townsend as he discusses why businesses need to secure their SharePoint servers, how easy it can be, and where he sees users falling down with their data protection strategy.
79 episodes available. A new episode about every 37 days averaging 17 mins duration .
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https://player.fm/series/security-insider-podcast-edition/securing-sharepoint-with-encryption-and-key-management
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In accordance with ECU Australia's User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until the issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, if access to your account remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual account closure. We encourage you to restore your ECU Australia account as soon as possible to help avoid this.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
According to this emailed message, which purports to be from Australian based credit union, ECU Australia, the recipient's ECU account access has been limited due to a report of unauthorized credit card use. The recipient is instructed to open an attached web form and fill out the requested details in order to restore access to the account.
However, the email is not from ECU Australia and the claim that the recipient's ECU account has been limited is a lie. In fact, the message is a classic phishing scam designed to steal credit card details from unsuspecting account holders. Those who fall for the ruse and open the attached file as instructed will be presented with the following form in their web browser:
The bogus form asks for name and address and credit card details. After the victim clicks the "Submit" button, all of the requested information can be collected by the criminals behind the scam and used for credit card fraud.
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http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ecu-phishing-scam.shtml
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We continue to work on searchable snapshots, discussing use cases, the technical building blocks, the features to be built out of this, and how it fits into the broader Elastic ecosystem. The initial deliverables are focused on providing a new cheaper warm tier on our hosted Cloud service, while future phases of the project are geared towards a new cold tier with near unlimited scaling capabilities.
On the development front, We have added timing information to the stats we collect regarding retrieving data from the blob store when searching a snapshot, and has also added support for frozen searchable snapshots. By limiting the number of searchable snapshot shards that can be searched concurrently we expect to deal more gracefully with datasets whose total size exceeds the size of the cache.
We are adding a dedicated API to mount an index from a snapshot into a cluster. This API, which takes repository, snapshot, and index name as input allows to effortlessly make an index in a snapshot available for search, and will serve as a basis to implement ILM actions that transition regular indices to snapshot-powered indices.
We have been benchmarking our current searchable snapshots implementation using different datasets (pmc, nyc_taxis, geonames) over different challenges and with various cache size settings. With this, we were able to confirm that the execution of search queries on snapshot-backed indices has similar performance to regular indices, as long as the cache is large enough to fully cache the shard data. We also investigated how the feature performs when only a part of the data can fit into the cache. Here, the results vary more based on a number of factors, and we're looking at ways to improve our current implementation. We also measured raw S3 download performance by running full-restore benchmarks, and identified potential optimizations to make searchable snapshot restores faster (more parallelization; smaller downloads on checksum verifications; async fetch of larger files) as well as fixed a number of bugs in the process.
Create API Key on behalf of another user
We have an open PR to that would allow one user (typically a system user) to create an API key on behalf of another user (typically an end-user).
The API requires credentials for the end-user (a username+password, or an access token), but means that the authorization check is performed against the system-user rather than the end-user.
We intentionally do not allow users to create API keys by default. For example, we want to support situations where a cluster administrator requires that users must authenticate via SAML using a second factor device. If those users were allowed to create API keys, that would give them an alternative means of authentication to the cluster that does not use the SAML identity provider and by-passes the intended security controls.
However, API Keys have uses within Elastic products for storing a credential that allows a background process to act on behalf of a user. The primary example for this is the Kibana Alerting project. An alert that interacts with Elasticsearch needs to be able to authenticate to Elasticsearch as the user that created the alert, but should not (and may not be able to) store the user’s password. Because alerting uses that API internally and never exposes it to the user, the risk profile is different; it does not give the user a way to by-pass the main authentication process.
So it’s OK to let Kibana create API keys for users that are not permitted to create API keys of their own. But, we do not want Kibana to be able to create API keys for any user it chooses - if it could do that, then it would be able to create an API key for the elastic user, and gain superuser privileges. So, this new API allows Kibana to create API keys for users who would not necessarily be able to do that on their own, but requires that they first authenticate to Kibana (so Kibana is effectively restricted to only create API keys for users who are logged in at the time).
Console bugfixes
We fixed a regression in Console’s proxy that would always overwrite the “host” header forwarded from Kibana. This regression was introduced in 7.5.0 and the fix ships with 7.6.2.
We also squashed a few other bugs in Console like respecting loading of autocomplete items selected in settings and restoring autocomplete for the index settings endpoint.
geo_line aggregation
We have recently been revisiting his geo_line aggregation prototype (WIP commit here), looking at how to best utilize our existing allocation-efficient data structures. GeoLine is an agg that can stitch together "consecutive" points to create a single line shape. Think of a cargo vessel with a beacon that reports GPS coordinates once per hour. If you stitch those individual datapoints together, you get the spatio-temporal path the ship has taken.
We migrated a prototype to use primitive arrays within Object BigArrays that grow with the help of Lucene's array utils. Sorting of these arrays is done with the help of Lucene's IntroSorter. Need to sync with the Lucene folks to understand if that is the best sorter for the job, it is being chosen for now because it is the simplest.
Ingest: Performance and Retries
We continue work on the POC to batch shard operations together. Performance testing exhibited how poorly this interacts with the existing request-count-limited queues, for which we are investigating solutions. Benchmarking also shows the effectiveness of batching fsyncs together when there are very high levels of concurrency.
We worked with a community contributor on changing the response code when indexing is blocked due to disk space usage exceeding the flood stage, now indicating that this condition is retryable, as the index block will automatically be released once enough disk space is available again. This fixes an issue where our ingest clients were not retrying requests in this situation based on the erroneous response status code.
The LatLonPoint implementation used by Elasticsearch projects geo data into the plane. What it means is that when you define a polygon, the edges of the polygon follows cartesian geometry.
Geo3DPoint is another Lucene's implementation that projects geo data into an ellipsoid. In this case, edges of a polygon are defined using spherical geometry, and those edges are in fact geodesics of the ellipsoid. Until now, this implementation could only be used with the WGS84 ellipsoid. We have changed it so it can take any ellipsoid.
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https://www.elastic.co/blog/this-week-in-elasticsearch-and-apache-lucene-2020-03-06
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Cloud-based services offer extra storage space, and many allow you to sync files across multiple devices. But that’s not all: Some can help you collaborate on projects, back up your PC, share photos, and stream music, too. We rounded up 20 cloud offerings across multiple categories, comparing their features, storage limits, and pricing.
To read the story about each category of cloud services, click the appropriate heading below, or use the contents box to the right.
Want to bring your music collection with you? Through Amazon Cloud Player, Apple iCloud, or Google Play, you can enjoy tunes almost anywhere.
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1. CISOs must speak in a language that business decision makers can understand and relate to.
2. There should be collaboration and constant vigilance. Work with representatives from all areas of the business, and re-evaluate often.
3. Cybersecurity should be built into the grass roots of product development.
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https://www.egonzehnder.com/functions/legal-regulatory-compliance-professionals/news/security-roundtable-risk-management-whos-responsible-whos-accountable
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A new variant of the proliferate Locky ransomware, dubbed IKARUSdilapidated, was found conducting a fresh, massive spam campaign earlier in August. Locky’s new variant used “zombie computers”
Read full news article on IBTimes.co.uk
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https://www.secnews24.com/2017/08/31/new-locky-ransomware-spam-campaign-uses-zombie-computers-to-send-over-62000-emails-in-just-3-days/
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This was stated by Mohammad Shoaib Director Cyber Crimes Wing Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) while briefing the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication, which met with Rubina Khalid in the chair here on Tuesday.
The FIA officials also proposed amendments to improve Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016, as some clauses are impeding effective investigation of cases and successful prosecution.
“FIA neither has a preventive mandate, nor can it indulge in legal monitoring of cyber crimes. It only has a post crime mandate, resulting in obstructions in controlling cyber crimes”, said Shoaib.
The committee asked PTA and FIA to come up with proposed amendment regarding an effective monitoring and investigation mechanism under the PECA, 2016 within a week.
The Committee after detailed discussion came down to the conclusion that monitoring of cyber content should be in domain of FIA instead of PTA so that it can monitor the content and then start inquiries and investigation without any loss of time in getting complaints from PTA or other sources.
The Committee took briefings from PTA and FIA regarding their mandate and initiatives to curb social media offences, especially in cases where children are kidnapped and used for pornography.
The Committee was told that the FIA only has limited investigative powers and cannot initiate an inquiry on its own unless it receives a complaint from an individual and or any organization.
Under the PECA, 2016 the monitoring mechanism has to be developed and followed by PTA, a role which should be ideally given to FIA. The Committee directed the two bodies to come up with an amendment seeking the same and present it before the Committee. The Committee also decided to write to the Secretary Interior to give update as to what are the obstacles in signing MLAT for effective cyber-crime fighting in coordination with global social media platforms.
Unlike Pakistan, countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Indonesia and Malaysia have entered into agreements with the US. “Even India has signed the MLAT with the US and because of this New Delhi is able to get access to objectionable contents within 24 hours. Pakistan needs to sign the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the US to remove the objectionable content and will have access to cyber crimes data, FIA officials added.
The committee was further informed that cyber crime rules for FIA are issued after two years, while for PTA these rules are yet to be formulated/approved by the IT Ministry.
An FIA official informed the committee that due to increasing trend of cyber crime in Pakistan, FIA Cyber Clime Unit (NR3C) has expanded its Cyber crime Reporting Centers from 5 to 15. The strength of Cyber Investigators at Cyber Crime Reporting Centers are to be increased to meet the growing challenges and volume of cyber complaints in Pakistan. All the Cyber Crime Reporting Centers are to be equipped with state-of-Art digital forensic capabilities, which will enable them to conduct forensic analysis of laptops, computers, mobile, iPad etc.
A total of 06 inquiries and 07 cases have been registered at the cyber crime wing of FIA regarding child pornography. Investigations are under-way to finalize these inquiries.
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https://propakistani.pk/2018/10/17/pakistan-has-no-access-to-cyber-crimes-data-due-to-absence-of-treaty-with-us/
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As an adult, discovering that your identity has been compromised is a scary occurrence. Once identity thieves have your personal information, they can drain your bank account, run up charges on your credit cards and even file a tax refund in your name. Unfortunately, identity theft can happen to anybody — including children.
Children are easy targets because they typically do not start using their information until early adulthood, when applying for college, loans or their first credit card. Child identity theft may be underreported by family members who may be linked to the fraud, as well as households in which individuals do not discover that they have been victimized until after they are 18 years old.
According to a 2012 survey by the Identity Theft Assistance Center, one in 40 families with children under the age of 18 had a least one child whose personal information was compromised. The survey also revealed that identity thieves most often steal children’s Social Security numbers because children seldom have a credit history. Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal, Southwest Texas and the Permian Basin encourages parents to regularly monitor their children’s credit report to prevent devastating damage to their future.
Since November is National Child Safety and Protection Month, your BBB advises parents to protect your child’s identity:
Safeguard your child’s personal information. Keep your child’s personal identifiable information in a safe place, such as his or her Social Security card, date of birth and birth certificate.
Monitor your child’s credit report. As soon as you get your child’s Social Security card, you should start monitoring his or her report. Request a free credit report from annualcreditreport.com.
Keep anti-virus software updated. Some identity thieves create viruses designed to search computers for documents containing your child’s Social Security number. Try not to store important numbers or passwords in files or folders located on your computer.
Safely dispose of personal documents. Shred all papers that include your child’s personal information before you throw them out and delete computer files that you no longer need.
Source: http://www.oaoa.com/news/business/bbb_column/article_4810dd0a-8b39-11e5-a921-0f8975e68cba.html
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/bbb-children-are-vulnerable-to-identity-theft-as-well/
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Robot Genius today announced the availability of its new anti-malware download/plug-in, RGguard. RGguard is a web browser plug-in that protects users from all types of malware including spyware, adware, rootkits and other malicious programs on the web. RGguard knows not just the domain, but also the full path URL that points to each instance of malware. The exactness of the alerts reduces false positives keeping restricted sites to a minimum, and also keeps 'noisy' security alerts to a minimum.
RGguard is a lightweight browser enhancement, compatible both with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It provides a clear warning whenever the current site contains malware, harmful software. Users may also access a list of every executable publicly available from the site, including details about what each actually does.
"Rather than identifying threats by fuzzy keywords and links, RGguard attacks the most common vector for malware propagation: executable programs, the same ".EXE" files users have known for two and a half decades," said Stephen Hsu, chairman and co-founder of Robot Genius. "Malware purveyors bundle harmful software with innocuous screensavers, toys, and games. These programs wait before causing trouble, making identifying the cause of the problem difficult. Using RGguard, surfers can see exactly what various scanners said about a program before downloading it, check the total installed size, or even whether it installed device drivers."
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Last but not least, the term “machine learning” is popping up with increasing frequency in the world of enterprise software; Workday has even created a venture fund to further work in the area. It’s already begun enriching our software tools with new capabilities, and it looks pretty certain there’s much more to come. We’re not at ‘Ex Machina’ levels yet — but we may be closer than you think. It’s going to be fun to see what 2016 brings.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/418829/5-ways-2015-changed-enterprise-software-forever.html
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Verizon’s fifth annual Mobile Security Index (MSI) report has revealed that 21% of cybersecurity teams ban the use of public WiFi.
The Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022 findings are based on an independent survey of 632 professionals responsible for security strategy, policy, and management. They also buy, manage, and secure mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices for their companies.
The report found a continued rise in significant cyberattacks in the last year involving a mobile/IoT device, up 22% year-over-year, that resulted in data or system downtime. Additionally, with 85% of companies surveyed stating that they now have a budget dedicated to mobile security, Verizon says there has never been a more pressing need to apply those funds to cyber threat mitigation.
Verizon Business CEO Sampath Sowmyanarayan says downtime is money lost for businesses regardless of industry, size or location on a map.
“Compromised data is trust lost, and those moments, although not insurmountable, are tough to rebound from,” he says.
“Companies need to dedicate time and budget on their security architecture, especially when it comes to off-premise devices: otherwise they are leaving themselves vulnerable to cyber threat actors.”
Security mitigation should be a top priority
Awareness of the impact of a cyberattack is clear, with 64% of respondents saying that public awareness of cybersecurity risks will increase in the future. This is partly attributable to nearly two-thirds (66%) of companies stating they had previously been pressured to sacrifice mobile-device security “to get the job done,” with 52% succumbing to that pressure.
Verizon says the MSI details four sectors of the mobile threat landscape: people and behaviours, apps, devices and things, and networks and the cloud. Additionally, it provides expert insights into how to help safeguard against pending cybercrime attacks, such as establishing a “zero trust network access” (ZTNA) model and a secure access service edge (SASE) architecture, which are designed for a mobile-first and cloud-first world.
So what has been the impact across business sectors?
Enterprise: The report found that 23% of respondents suffered a mobile security compromise. Of those, 74% said the impact of the mobile security compromise was major and over a third (34%) said it had lasting repercussions. Furthermore, four out of five (81%) organizations said their mobile device security spending increased over the past year, and 76% believe it will also increase over the coming year.
Retail: Almost nine out of 10 (88%) businesses are concerned that a mobile security breach could impact their brand or customer loyalty. However, 70% said increased mobile use is essential to staying relevant to consumers, while 41% said this presented a daunting security challenge.
Financial Services: More than nine out of ten (93%) executives believe cybercriminals see their sector as a more lucrative target than other industries.
Healthcare: Nearly nine out of ten (87%) healthcare organizations are concerned that the highly confidential nature of patient data makes them a target for cybercriminals, and 85% say they are concerned that a security breach could compromise patient care. Conversely, three out of four (76%) organizations agree that adopting telehealth presents healthcare providers with an excellent opportunity to improve patient care.
Manufacturing, construction, and transportation: Four out of five (79%) believe a mobile security compromise could disrupt their entire supply chain, resulting in serious financial implications. However, 76% of organizations agree that adopting mobile-based services by shop floor workers is essential to improving productivity.
Public Sector and Education: Almost nine out of ten (87%) said that employee expectations for remote/flexible working is forcing them to re-evaluate how they operate. Another 72% of respondents agreed that the increased use of mobile-based services by public sector employees is essential to accelerating the digital transformation of public services.
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https://channellife.com.au/story/more-than-a-fifth-of-cybersecurity-teams-ban-the-use-of-public-wifi
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The above 4 topics are not going away any time soon. Knowledge, standards maturity and technology advances, should all allow each of those areas to bounce a grade within the next 18-24 months. But what other concerns are on the horizon?
Well skills immediately spring out. Cyber security in general is known to have a basic skills shortage. Digital Identity seems to fall in to that general trend and some of these topics are niches within a niche. Getting the right skill set to design micro services security or consent management systems will not be trivial.
What about new threats – they are emerging every day. Bot protection – at both registration and login time – not only helps improve the security posture of an organisation, but also helps improve user analytics, remove opportunities for false advertising and provide a clearer picture to a service’s real organic user community. How will things like ML/AI help here – and does that provide another skills challenge or management black hole?
The final topic to mention is that of usability. Security can be simple in many respects, but usability can make or break a service. As underlying ecosystems become more complex, with a huge supply chain of API’s, cross-boundary federations and devices, how can the end user be both protected, yet offered a seamless registration and login experience? Dedicated user experience teams exist today, but their skill set will need to be sharpened and focused on the security aspect of any new service.
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https://securityboulevard.com/2019/02/2019-digital-identity-progress-report/
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http://freecreditreportblog.net/identity-theft-protection-getting-the-appropriate-coverage/
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TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - UT Tyler said they were the target of a ransomware attack which occurred in May.
According to a letter sent out to members of the university, they were notified by Blackbaud, a third-party database provider, of the security incident. The letter said Blackbaud discovered and was able to stop the ransomware attack back in May, They said Blackbaud revealed to them on July 16, that a cybercriminal accessed copies of some customer files containing constituent information. Blackbaud said that by working with security experts and law enforcement, they were able to confirm that the stolen data was destroyed and not used by the cybercriminal.
The university says at this time, they are not aware of fraudulent activity that has occurred with any constituent records and they continue to work with Blackbaud to learn more.
The university said the data included publicly available information as well as relationship history/engagement information. Blackbaud said that credit card information, bank information, and Social Security numbers were not accessed by cybercriminals.
You can read the full letter below.
From the University of Texas at Tyler:
I pray that this letter finds you and your family well. Thanks to the generosity of Patriots like you, when UT Tyler classes safely open this fall, we will enroll our largest freshman class in history and award a record number of philanthropically-funded scholarships. We continue to be grateful for your support.
With that gratitude comes a responsibility and commitment to keep you fully informed of matters involving any records we maintain. We were recently notified by Blackbaud, a third-party database provider, of a security incident. Blackbaud is the world’s largest provider of software and online applications that support philanthropic and communication activities, serving more than 45,000 clients that include universities, healthcare organizations, nonprofits and foundations in more than 100 countries. The University of Texas at Tyler, The UT System Administration and most other UT institutions use one or more Blackbaud products.
What happened?
We understand that Blackbaud discovered – and was able to stop – a ransomware attack in May. Based on the information we received from Blackbaud on July 16, a cybercriminal accessed copies of some customer files containing constituent information. Blackbaud worked with security experts and law enforcement to respond to the ransom threat and they report having received confirmation that the stolen data was destroyed and not used by the cybercriminal.
Immediately upon notification of the incident from Blackbaud, the UT System Administration and UT institutions have been working diligently by conducting an array of internal reviews with our legal, information security, and privacy experts to determine the exposure of our records, if any. At this time, we are not aware of fraudulent activity that has occurred with any constituent records, and we continue to work with Blackbaud to learn more.
We take the protection and proper use of your information very seriously and are remaining vigilant as we continue to monitor and learn more. We respectfully recommend that you do the same.
Blackbaud has reported that it has already implemented several security changes to protect constituent data from any subsequent incidents.
You can read Blackbaud’s notification of the security incident here:https://www.blackbaud.com/ securityincident
And you can review more details about Blackbaud’s security, risk, compliance and privacy programs here:https://www.blackbaud.com/security
We are profoundly sorry for this breach. You have entrusted your generosity to us, and we will work even harder to ensure our business partners protect your privacy and safety.
If you have additional questions, please reach out to us at [email protected] or at 903-566-7054.
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https://www.kltv.com/2020/08/05/ut-tyler-targeted-by-ransomware-attack-may/
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"One of the common things that administrators must deal with on an ever-increasing basis is the regular changing of the password for shared and privileged accounts, such as the built-in administrator or root account, a firecall account, or perhaps even a process account."
In the September 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine, Chris Stoneff examines shared and privileged accounts, he explains security vulnerabilities caused by these shared passwords, he discusses how these accounts complicate management, and ultimately he gives guidance on how you can better manage these accounts and improve security in your organization.
Read the full article online now.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tnmag/2008/08/28/security-understanding-shared-account-password-management/
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Enterprise architects are often asked to prioritize initiatives and projects. To complete this task, they need their organization’s strategies, goals, tactics and objectives. Too often, these can be very difficult to gather either because architects have never been aware that they existed or sometimes because they simply and plainly don’t exist.
To extrapolate these strategies and objectives, there are numerous business models that are being used for business design. We’ll examine eight of the most common business design methodologies and examine how each one of them can relate enterprise architecture.
As shown in Figure 1 below, the balanced scorecards, value chain, Hoshin Kanri, business model canvas, and the business motivation model are very useful to describe and understand an organization at the corporate and business levels. The business model canvas, and the business motivation model as well as the design thinking, customer journey map and simple SWOT analysis can be very useful at the product and marketing level. As for the design thinking framework, the customer journey map approach and SWOT analysis, they are ordinarily used at the initiative or project level.
The balanced scorecards framework is a strategy performance management methodology popularized in the 1990s with a semi-standard structured report, that can be used by business stakeholders to keep track of the execution of key activities in their organization that are within their control. Balanced scorecards are also used to monitor the consequences arising from these activities. These key activities can either be financial, customer-oriented, geared toward internal business processes or about learning and growth.
This business design methodology is frequently used within more traditional organizations at the corporate or business unit level. Balanced scorecards provide an enhanced alignment of projects and initiatives to the strategy of the organization. It also improves performance reporting of key activities. Once in place and operational, this methodology facilitates initiative and project management for enterprise architects since each initiative or project can now be elaborated based on the objective of each key activity of the balanced scorecards. Enterprise architects can rapidly identify related value streams, capabilities and their supporting applications that need to be enhanced for each one of these strategic initiatives.
Value chain
The value chain business framework is probably more in use then balanced scorecards within organizations. A value chain is a set of activities that an organization performs in order to provide a valuable product for specific markets targeted by the organization. The value chain concept was first depicted by Michael Porter. The concept of value chain is based on a process view of an organization. Organizations are viewed as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs.
How value chain activities are conducted defines costs and affects profits. The primary activities of an organization’s value chain include inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing & sales, and finally services. The support activities are comprised of the firm infrastructure, human resources, sourcing & procurement, advertising and finally services. The combination of all primary and support activities in a value chain of an organization must then generate an optimal profit margin.
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Detailed business processes are very often linked to each one of the primary activities within the value chain of an organization. As for enterprise architects, they traditionally have often linked functional capabilities to the primary and support activities within the value chain of an organization.
Hoshin Kanri
Hoshin Kanri originates from Japan and was popularized in the 1980s especially in the manufacturing industry. Hoshin Kanri is a 7-step process used in strategic planning in which strategic goals are communicated throughout the organization and then put into action at three levels of the organization. The 7 steps of Hoshin Kanri are 1- establish the vision and assess the current state, 2- develop breakthrough objectives, 3- define annual objectives, 4- cascade goals throughout the organization, 5- execute annual objectives, 6- have monthly reviews, and step 7- perform an annual review.
The main advantages of using this methodology include providing focus and drive towards specific and important goals of the organization; and creating a shared vision of a precise strategic plan. If in place, this methodology facilitates initiative and project management for architects by linking them to actions derived from the 3 levels of the Hoshin Kanri methodology. Again, enterprise architects can identify related value streams, capabilities and their supporting applications that need to be improved for each one of these initiatives or projects.
Business model canvas
The business model canvas is very complementary to the first three business design methodologies. Out of all business design frameworks available, this approach is the only one that clearly describes the business of an organization on one page. Everyone within an organization should have access to the organization’s current business model canvas to have an overview of what’s going on.
This more recent methodology has become extremely popular among start-ups, small and medium-sized companies. The business model canvas is a visual chart with 9 distinct building blocks describing a firm's or product's value propositions, customer segments, customer relationships, channels, key activities, key resources and assets, key partners, cost structure and revenue streams. It assists organizations in aligning their activities by illustrating potential trade-offs.
The business model canvas is commonly used as a business model to guide speed and agility in project delivery, as it is centered toward the offering of customer-driven value propositions composed of specific products and services. Figure 2 above demonstrates how to bridge your business model canvas to your business architecture to optimize the marketing and operating modeling of an organization.
Each element of the Key Activities building block can be related to capabilities, value streams and initiatives. The Key Resources/Assets building block can be crossed mapped to elements of the organization, capabilities, information/data and initiatives. The Value Propositions building block can be linked to value streams, products/services and journey maps. As for the other six building blocks of the Business Model Canvas, they will usually be linked to specific elements within the organization, capabilities, initiatives, value streams and stakeholders among others.
As for business and IT stakeholders involved in the strategic initiatives shaping the future of the company, they should also view the future state of the organization’s business model canvas that highlights the changes in all nine elements of the business model canvas.
Business motivation model
Many enterprise architects performing business architecture will usually include in their practice the business motivation model. Adopted by the Object Management Group, the business motivation model provides a scheme and structure for developing, communicating, and managing business plans in an organized manner.
Here are basic definitions. A mission is a short statement of why an organization exist, and often specified more precisely with a vision statement to be achieved within a finite timeframe and made of a series of long-term goals and short-term objectives. Strategies consist of high–level plan items that also include short-term tactics to achieve an organization’s major goals under conditions of uncertainty. A goal is a desired result that an organization envisions, plans and commits to achieve within a finite timeframe. As for objectives, they are essentially short-term goals whose achievement brings an organization closer to its long-term goals. Objectives are derived from tactics, which are conceptual short-term actions to deliver and execute a strategy.
Should its organization have either the balanced scorecards, the Hoshin Kanri business model methodologies or another type of business model in place, an enterprise architecture team should easily be able to extract the goals and objectives necessary to design the architecture of initiatives and/or projects. Understanding the strategies, goals and objectives of its organization, makes its possible for an enterprise architect to select and build the relevant value streams to be examined, the most adequate capability measurements, and design precise business outcomes for its initiatives and projects.
If goals and objectives are nowhere to be found in the organization, the enterprise architecture team will need to extract them from management. Obtaining goals and objectives would be ideal. Many enterprise architects often have to fallback on less precise strategies and tactics because of the reluctance of some managers to commit to precise goals and objectives.
Design thinking
As for the design thinking methodology, it relates more to products and services that are offered by an organization and it is not strictly speaking a business design methodology. It refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical 5-step process by which design concepts for new products and services are developed by designers and/or design teams.
These steps consist of i) empathize, ii) define, iii) ideate, iv) prototype, and v) test. ‘Empathise’ means to develop a deep understanding of the challenge. ‘Define’ implies to clearly articulate the problem to solve. ‘Ideate’ involves brainstorming potential solutions, select and develop the ideal solution. ‘Prototype’ requires to design a series of prototypes to test all or part of the solution. Finally, ‘Test’ means to engage in short-cycle testing process to refine and improve the solution. Many of the key concepts of design thinking are identified through studies, across different design domains, design cognition and design activity either in laboratories or in natural contexts.
Design thinking has several advantages. It provides to it users the opportunity to view a problem from different perspectives. Design thinking also encourages creative problem solving. It also increases the odds that the outcome meets the organization’s objectives and the client’s desires.
Customer journey maps
Examining customer journey maps is becoming the norm within many customer-oriented organizations, as it is a visual representation of every experience your customers may have with you. It describes the story of a customer's experience with either your products, services or brand from their original engagement and into possibly a long-lasting relationship.
A customer journey map can easily be associated to a value stream and its value stages as shown in this article entitled ‘Architecting and delivering optimal customer journeys’. A customer journey map is made-up of several steps and sub-steps that a customer can experience. Each step includes facets, like the interaction type with other stakeholders that a customer may experience. It will often also include the customer’s goals, the opportunities and challenges that the organization offering a product has, the various touchpoints that the organization can have with its client and the emotion experienced by the customer at each step of its customer journey.
There are numerous reasons why customer journey maps are so popular within organizations. They are very useful to bridge the communication gap between sales, marketing, and operations. They provide a better understanding of the customers by building a higher emotional connection with them. Finally, customer journey maps also identify holes, where initiatives need to be planned with all the necessary value stages and enabling capabilities to fill them with effective touchpoints. Journey maps do not need to be limited to customers. They can also apply to partners, vendors, regulators, internal stakeholders, etc.
SWOT analysis
Finally, SWOT analysis are very common and simple to understand. They can be used just about everywhere by enterprise architects at the business unit, product, service, initiative and project level. It was invented in the 1960s by Albert Humphrey. SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique used to help an organization identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning.
Each one of these eight business design methodologies can enhance the work of an enterprise architecture team. They should use what ever business or product model methodologies that are in used in their organization to model their business architecture artifacts. If none are in place, they should fallback to the business motivation model and extract at minimum strategies and tactics from their business managers.
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https://www.cio.com/article/3490387/8-common-business-design-and-architecture-models.html
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Cybersecurity will continue to remain a challenge for organisations unless they heavily invest in security protocols that take into account the needs of both businesses and customers in a smart city, experts at Gitex Technology Week 2021 said.
Mahmoud Samy, VP for EMEA Emerging Region at Forcepoint, explained that the physical disruptions to working patterns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that businesses had to move to remote working systems almost overnight. Since then, cybersecurity teams have had to scramble to secure the evolving hybrid workforces and ever-expanding SaaS applications in a manner that doesn’t hinder work processes – and the solution has been to move workloads to the cloud.
“Data is the building block of today’s digitized economy,” he said. “In today’s reality where people are working from everywhere, progressive organisations must address the protection of precious information assets in a perimeter-less networking environments. Data-first SASE ensures organisations can secure data access and usage, by closing down attacks and opening up data use.”
Ransomware, he added, continues to make headlines. “Sadly, there is a thriving industry in ‘ransomware as a service’. While this business exists, malware developers can continue to create new ransomware variants, while the delivery of malware is outsourced to different criminal entities who pay for access to the latest builds. In this way, a ‘standard’ cybercriminal can gain access to relatively sophisticated malware, even if the techniques for delivery stay the same.”
Gordon Love, VP of MEA Sales at Mandiant, also agreed that the biggest challenge for businesses today is the threat of ransomware, which has evolved over the past couple of years. Mandiant has adopted the term “multifaceted extortion” to characterize this evolved form of ransomware. The many facets of this attack include deployment of data encryptors, theft of proprietary and sensitive data, public shaming using the stolen data and other additional coercive tactics.
Attackers have become much more sophisticated in their attacks but, more importantly, so have the defenders, he said. According to Mandiant’s mTrends 2021 report, global median dwell time dropped below a month for the first time. Organisations are now detecting incidents in only 24 days – more than twice as fast as they did in 2019.
“Cyber actors have evolved their tactics, techniques and procedures,” he said. “We are now seeing adversaries leveraging exploits more often than other vectors. For example, in 29 per cent of cases, more than one distinct threat group was identified in the victim environment –nearly twice the percentage noted in 2019, proving that actors are sharing collaborating and sharing resources. In more than half of the intrusions investigated in 2020, we observed that adversaries used obfuscation, such as encryption or encoding, on files or information to make detection and subsequent analysis more difficult.”
Similarly, Gaurav Mohan, VP of Sales, SAARC & Middle East at NETSCOUT, said that enterprises have dealt with a constantly evolving cyberthreat landscape. As such, many organisations find themselves defending a more distributed and vulnerable environment, as the shift to hybrid work and online collaboration services create vulnerabilities that attackers are quick to exploit.
In addition to conventional attacks on Internet-facing services, he noted that cybercriminals are also focused on disrupting ongoing operations within a company, such as the inbound and outbound use of VPNs, firewalls, and cloud-based tools by employees working from home.
“In short, cybercriminals have become bold in their ability to hit users where it hurts,” he said. “Many attacks target customer-facing services and applications and enterprise digital infrastructure. In both cases, these attacks directly affect the organisation’s ability to service customers, thus impacting revenue and profitability. Enterprises have also seen a surge of cyberattacks ranging from phishing, data breaches, and ransomware in the past few months.”
The consequences of these attacks ranged from critical data loss to financial damage, he revealed. “Adversaries thrive on constant innovation. Armed with an ever-improving set of tools that have lowered the bar to entry for launching more complex and more disruptive attacks, cybercriminals have eagerly leveraged the weaknesses of organisations in the region.” “We can logically expect to see threat actors target vulnerabilities exposed by the global crisis and discover and use new attack vectors that poke at the weak spots of our new normal,” he added. “After all, cybercrime is a multi-billion-dollar business. It is therefore imperative that defenders and security professionals remain vigilant to protect the critical infrastructure that connects and enables the modern world.”
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https://www.khaleejtimes.com/technology/gitex-2021-cybersecurity-tops-agenda-for-smart-cities
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Security researchers at TrenMicro have identified a new type of malware that update their configuration in a very interesting way. This means that compromised machines are configured to download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries without victim’s knowledge.
The first type of configuration is the standard C&C settings where it allows attacker to send instruction to victim machines and customize the hosts or update the malware to use another type of configuration. This technique makes the botnet resist in case of functionality issue.
The second configuration file is containing several process names for antimalwares and hostnames of the compromised network. JPEG images may not only include configurations but it also host a binary content that allows malware authors to update the malicious software packages at any moment.
The way that cyber-criminal are hiding their activities is becoming more and more complex to not identify their network and techniques. Hosting a malicious image on web server is hard to detect with the security software. This makes the attack more resilient and not spotted by security software.
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http://www.sectechno.com/image-hosted-on-web-server-serving-malware/
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