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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is partnering with industry on a new awareness campaign to increase use of multifactor authentication, which CISA calls “one of the strongest tools to prevent cyber intrusions,” while also taking steps to counter “vigilance fatigue” among cyber defenders.
CISA is unveiling the “more than a password” campaign at the RSA conference that begins today in San Francisco, and has launched a new webpage “with resources, how-to guides, and social media content.”
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Working from home. Ransomeware. Frequent breaches. IT security teams are feeling stress as they try to keep data secure.
Yassir Abousselham, CIO of Splunk, told Forbes that “we have to deliver the same level of security protection to employees and contingent workforce regardless of location: office, home, a coffee shop hotspot.”
Rob Lemos, writer at TechBeacon, collected some of the data security trends that we can expect throughout 2021:
Increased Privacy Regulation – California has the new Consumer Privacy Act, and Europe has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More than half the states in the US are considering bills to increase data security.
Reduction in Storage of Personal Data – The penalties and problems that could result from keeping personal data from customers are beginning to outweigh the potential benefits.
Data Privacy is now a Priority Issue for Executives – More CEOs and other executives realize the importance of complying with data regulations.
Disinformation – It has become increasingly easy with social networks and other internet tools to spread information that isn’t correct. Businesses need to have guidelines for how to share information and how to correct information that isn’t correct.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s mobile phone number was on a list of targets for potential surveillance in the Pegasus spyware case.
The UK’s Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday night that the leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of 14 heads of state and heads of government, including Ramaphosa, French President Emmanuel Macron and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
It said Ramaphosa appeared to have been selected by Rwanda in 2019.
Macron was on a list of targets for potential surveillance on behalf of Morocco, Le Monde newspaper reported.
The Guardian reported: “The appearance of a number on the leaked list — which includes numbers selected by governments that are clients of NSO Group, the Israeli spyware firm — does not mean it was subject to an attempted or successful hack.”
NSO insists the database has “no relevance” to the company.
The French presidency said if the revelations about Macron’s phone were true, they would be very serious. The authorities would investigate them to shed all necessary light on the reports, it said.
Le Monde said according to sources, one of Macron’s phone numbers, which he had used regularly since 2017, is on the list of numbers selected by Morocco’s intelligence service for potential cyberspying.
Morocco issued a statement on Monday denying any involvement in using Pegasus and rejecting what it called “unfounded and false allegations”.
Moroccan officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report about Macron on Tuesday.
An investigation published on Sunday by 17 media organisations, led by the Paris-based non-profit journalism group Forbidden Stories, said the spyware made and licensed by NSO had been used in attempted and successful hacks of smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists on a global scale.
NSO issued a statement on Sunday rejecting the reporting by the media partners, saying it was “full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories”.
Its product is intended only for use by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight terrorism and crime, it said.
An NSO spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment on Tuesday on the reports in Le Monde and other French media about Macron.
Le Monde stressed it did not have access to Macron’s phone and therefore could not verify if it was spied upon, but it could verify other phones, including that of former environment minister Francois de Rugy, and was able to verify the latter was spied on.
The Guardian, one of the media outlets involved in the investigation, said the probe suggested “widespread and continuing abuse” of NSO’s hacking software. It described it as malware that infects smartphones to enable the extraction of messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.
NSO Group founder Shalev Hulio told Tel Aviv radio station 103FM on Tuesday that the published list of alleged Pegasus targets “is not linked to NSO”.
“The platform we produce prevents terrorist attacks and saves lives,” he said.
Hulio said that during its 11-year existence, NSO has worked with 45 countries and turned down almost 90 countries. He declined to name any of them.
“I think, ultimately, this will end up in the courts, with a legal ruling in our favour after we file defamation suits because we won’t have any other choice,” he said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees.
They said the secret campaign targeted Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, AVG Technologies NV AVG.N, Avast Software and other rivals, fooling some of them into deleting or disabling important files on their customers' PCs.
Some of the attacks were ordered by Kaspersky Lab’s co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky, in part to retaliate against smaller rivals that he felt were aping his software instead of developing their own technology, they said.
“Eugene considered this stealing,” said one of the former employees. Both sources requested anonymity and said they were among a small group of people who knew about the operation.
Kaspersky Lab strongly denied that it had tricked competitors into categorizing clean files as malicious, so-called false positives.
“Our company has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors into generating false positives to damage their market standing,” Kaspersky said in a statement to Reuters. “Such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least questionable.”
Executives at Microsoft, AVG and Avast previously told Reuters that unknown parties had tried to induce false positives in recent years. When contacted this week, they had no comment on the allegation that Kaspersky Lab had targeted them.
The Russian company is one of the most popular antivirus software makers, boasting 400 million users and 270,000 corporate clients. Kaspersky has won wide respect in the industry for its research on sophisticated Western spying programs and the Stuxnet computer worm that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 and 2010.
The two former Kaspersky Lab employees said the desire to build market share also factored into Kaspersky’s selection of competitors to sabotage.
“It was decided to provide some problems” for rivals, said one ex-employee. “It is not only damaging for a competing company but also damaging for users’ computers.”
The former Kaspersky employees said company researchers were assigned to work for weeks or months at a time on the sabotage projects.
Their chief task was to reverse-engineer competitors’ virus detection software to figure out how to fool them into flagging good files as malicious, the former employees said.
The opportunity for such trickery has increased over the past decade and a half as the soaring number of harmful computer programs have prompted security companies to share more information with each other, industry experts said. They licensed each other's virus-detection engines, swapped samples of malware, and sent suspicious files to third-party aggregators such as Google Inc's GOOGL.O VirusTotal.
Employees work at the headquarters of Kaspersky Labs, a company which specialises in the production of antivirus and internet security software, in Moscow July 29, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
By sharing all this data, security companies could more quickly identify new viruses and other malicious content. But the collaboration also allowed companies to borrow heavily from each other’s work instead of finding bad files on their own.
Kaspersky Lab in 2010 complained openly about copycats, calling for greater respect for intellectual property as data-sharing became more prevalent.
In an effort to prove that other companies were ripping off its work, Kaspersky said it ran an experiment: It created 10 harmless files and told VirusTotal that it regarded them as malicious. VirusTotal aggregates information on suspicious files and shares them with security companies.
Within a week and a half, all 10 files were declared dangerous by as many as 14 security companies that had blindly followed Kaspersky’s lead, according to a media presentation given by senior Kaspersky analyst Magnus Kalkuhl in Moscow in January 2010.
When Kaspersky’s complaints did not lead to significant change, the former employees said, it stepped up the sabotage.
INJECTING BAD CODE
In one technique, Kaspersky’s engineers would take an important piece of software commonly found in PCs and inject bad code into it so that the file looked like it was infected, the ex-employees said. They would send the doctored file anonymously to VirusTotal.
Then, when competitors ran this doctored file through their virus detection engines, the file would be flagged as potentially malicious. If the doctored file looked close enough to the original, Kaspersky could fool rival companies into thinking the clean file was problematic as well.
VirusTotal had no immediate comment.
In its response to written questions from Reuters, Kaspersky denied using this technique. It said it too had been a victim of such an attack in November 2012, when an "unknown third party" manipulated Kaspersky into misclassifying files from Tencent 0700.HK, Mail.ru MAILRq. L and the Steam gaming platform as malicious.
The extent of the damage from such attacks is hard to assess because antivirus software can throw off false positives for a variety of reasons, and many incidents get caught after a small number of customers are affected, security executives said.
The former Kaspersky employees said Microsoft was one of the rivals that were targeted because many smaller security companies followed the Redmond, Washington-based company’s lead in detecting malicious files. They declined to give a detailed account of any specific attack.
Microsoft’s antimalware research director, Dennis Batchelder, told Reuters in April that he recalled a time in March 2013 when many customers called to complain that a printer code had been deemed dangerous by its antivirus program and placed in “quarantine.”
Batchelder said it took him roughly six hours to figure out that the printer code looked a lot like another piece of code that Microsoft had previously ruled malicious. Someone had taken a legitimate file and jammed a wad of bad code into it, he said. Because the normal printer code looked so much like the altered code, the antivirus program quarantined that as well.
Over the next few months, Batchelder’s team found hundreds, and eventually thousands, of good files that had been altered to look bad. Batchelder told his staff not to try to identify the culprit.
“It doesn’t really matter who it was,” he said. “All of us in the industry had a vulnerability, in that our systems were based on trust. We wanted to get that fixed.”
In a subsequent interview on Wednesday, Batchelder declined to comment on any role Kaspersky may have played in the 2013 printer code problems or any other attacks. Reuters has no evidence linking Kaspersky to the printer code attack.
As word spread in the security industry about the induced false positives found by Microsoft, other companies said they tried to figure out what went wrong in their own systems and what to do differently, but no one identified those responsible.
At Avast, a largely free antivirus software maker with the biggest market share in many European and South American countries, employees found a large range of doctored network drivers, duplicated for different language versions.
Avast Chief Operating Officer Ondrej Vlcek told Reuters in April that he suspected the offenders were well-equipped malware writers and “wanted to have some fun” at the industry’s expense. He did not respond to a request on Thursday for comment on the allegation that Kaspersky had induced false positives.
WAVES OF ATTACKS
The former employees said Kaspersky Lab manipulated false positives off and on for more than 10 years, with the peak period between 2009 and 2013.
It is not clear if the attacks have ended, though security executives say false positives are much less of a problem today.
That is in part because security companies have grown less likely to accept a competitor’s determinations as gospel and are spending more to weed out false positives.
AVG’s former chief technology officer, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, said the company suffered from troves of bad samples that stopped after it set up special filters to screen for them and improved its detection engine.
“There were several waves of these samples, usually four times per year. This crippled-sample generation lasted for about four years. The last wave was received at the beginning of the year 2013,” he told Reuters in April.
AVG’s chief strategy officer, Todd Simpson, declined to comment on Wednesday.
Kaspersky said it had also improved its algorithms to defend against false virus samples. It added that it believed no antivirus company conducted the attacks “as it would have a very bad effect on the whole industry.” “Although the security market is very competitive, trusted threat-data exchange is definitely part of the overall security of the entire IT ecosystem, and this exchange must not be compromised or corrupted,” Kaspersky said.
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Patches for Actively Exploited Excel and Exchange Server 0-Day Bugs are now available from Microsoft.
Microsoft has released security updates as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release cycle to address 55 vulnerabilities across Windows, Azure, Visual Studio, Windows Hyper-V, and Office, including fixes for two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Excel and Exchange Server that could be abused to take control of an affected system.
Of the 55 glitches, six are rated Critical and 49 are rated as Important in severity, with four others listed as publicly known at the time of release.
“Earlier this year, Microsoft was alerted that APT Group HAFNIUM was exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Exchange server,” said Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys.
“This evolved into exploits of Exchange server vulnerabilities by DearCry Ransomware — including attacks on infectious disease researchers, law firms, universities, defense contractors, policy think tanks and NGOs. Instances such as these further underscore that Microsoft Exchange servers are high-value targets for hackers looking to penetrate critical networks,” Jogi added.
Hackers use a zero-day vulnerability in macOS to target Hong Kong users with a new implant.
Google researchers on Thursday disclosed that it found a watering hole attack in late August exploiting a now-parched zero-day in macOS operating system and targeting Hong Kong websites related to a media outlet and a prominent pro-democracy labor and political group to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor on compromised machines.
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Tracked as CVE-2021–30869 , the security shortcoming concerns a type confusion vulnerability affecting the XNU kernel component that could cause a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges. Apple addressed the issue on September 23.
The attacks observed by TAG involved an exploit chain that strung together CVE-2021–1789, a remote code execution bug in WebKit that was fixed in February 2021, and the aforementioned CVE-2021–30869 to break out of the Safari sandbox, elevate privileges, and download and execute a second stage payload dubbed ‘MACMA” from a remote server.
The Robinhood trading app suffers a data breach, exposing the personal information of 7 million users.
Robinhood on Monday disclosed a security breach affecting approximately 7 million customers, roughly a third of its user base, that resulted in unauthorized access of personal information by an unidentified threat actor.
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#1 Apple paid $5000 for stored XSS. Want to know how Hamzadzworm found it? Read it here.
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Attackers behind the Flame espionage malware that targeted computers in Iran used more than 80 different domain names to siphon computer-generated designs, PDF files, and e-mail from its victims, according to a new analysis from researchers who helped discover the threat.
The unknown authors of Flame shut down the sprawling command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure immediately after last Monday's disclosure that the highly sophisticated malware had remained undetected for at least two years on computers belonging to government-run organizations, private companies, and others. The 80 separate domain names were registered using a huge roster of fake identities, and some of the addresses were secured more than four years ago.
"The Flame C&C domains were registered with an impressive list of fake identities and with a variety of registrars, going back as far as 2008," Kaspersky Lab expert Alexander Gostev wrote in a blog post published Monday. "In general, each fake identity registered only 2-3 domains, but there are some rare cases when a fake identity registered up to 4 domains."
Names used to obtain the domains included Adrien Leroy, Arthur Vangen, George Wirtz, Gerard Caraty, Ivan Blix, and at least 15 others. They claimed to reside in a host of cities in Europe and elsewhere, in some cases at addresses that turned out to belong to hotels such as the Appart’Hotel Residence Dizerens in Geneva or, with a slight modification, the Apple Inn in Amsterdam. Other fake identities used addresses of shops, organizations, or doctor's offices. Because of the effectiveness and complexity of Flame and its targeting of Iran and other Middle Eastern computers, researchers have speculated it was sponsored by a wealthy nation-state.
Flame's C&C infrastructure relied on a roving set of servers that changed over time. The locations of what Gostev characterized as a "huge operation" included Hong Kong, Turkey, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, Latvia, and Switzerland. The blog post said researchers managed to capture traffic that infected machines sent to the command servers with the help of Web hosting provider GoDaddy and OpenDNS, a free service that provides domain name system lookups for individuals and organizations. Such "sinkholing" on C&C servers is a common practice when ongoing malware infections are discovered.
"Having seen the large variety of fake domains, we contacted GoDaddy and sought the redirection of all the malware domains to our sinkhole," Gostev wrote. "Additionally, the OpenDNS security team supported the redirection of malicious domains to our sinkhole in order to protect OpenDNS users."
Over the past four years, the Flame C&C infrastructure relied on at least 22 separate IP addresses. Servers that ran the channels appeared to be running the Ubuntu Linux distribution. They used the secure sockets layer protocol to encrypt information as it was uploaded. The servers also had the ability to encrypt exfiltrated data using the SSH protocol, most likely as a backup in the event SSL wasn't available for some reason.
Flame shares some similarities with Duqu, another piece of highly sophisticated espionage software that researchers suspect was also spawned with the resources of one or more governments. Like Flame, Duqu took a keen interest in AutoCAD drawings stored on infected systems. To limit the number of pilfered documents and avoid uploading data that was of no interest, Flame extracted a 1KB sample of PDFs, Excel documents, and word-processing documents. "The malware then compresses and uploads the sample text to a command-and-control domain where, presumably, the attackers would pick through the contents and instruct the malware to then grab only specific documents that interested them," Gostev explained.
In some respects, Flame was less discreet than Duqu. For example, Duqu cloaked the true identity of the attackers by using SSH port forwarding to hide the locations of remote servers that hosted malware scripts. Flame, by contrast, ran malicious scripts directly on the servers. "From this point of view, we can state that the Duqu attackers were a lot more careful about hiding their activities compared to the Flame operators," Gostev wrote.
Infected Flame machines that accessed C&C and control servers used the password "Lifestyle2" to authenticate themselves. It's the totality of Flame that suggests it was sponsored by the resources of nation state.
So if they find out who did it, will Iran declair war on them? thats the real question...
Well, Iran cannot declare war on anyone, they are not powerfull enough. They will just suffer the wrath of the USA utilizing any means they can to attack Iran without direct war.
Any, not just a wealthy, nation state can afford a team of programmers and provide fake identities. I am not convinced on that account.
No one else is convinced on that account either, at least in isolation. The password was hardcoded into the malware, but could be changed as necessary.
I'm confused what hardcoded means. Sounds like this password was just a common one used initially.
I'm assuming it was written into the code - no real password change interface, if you want to change the password, gotta rewrite the code and push out an update.
That's not much of a question. Assuming that it was Israel, the US or any NATO country, they have no reason to declare war. Iran has been waging successful proxy wars for well over a decade by arming the various terrorist groups that fight against us.
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." - Thucydides
Stealing secrets is espionage, just like nations (even nominally friendly ones) have been doing to each other for millenia. I don't believe this is usually considered an act of war, though I don't know what international law has to say on the matter. Stuxnet is a greyer area, since it was actually used to destroy property.
Interesting stuff to be sure. I'm wondering why no one noticed the spikes in traffic that this would surely have caused.
Run it at night, or maybe while some updater process is also running? Hell, Windows has a built in "feature" that allows certain data transfers happen while the network is otherwise idle. It is used to make Windows update downloads less noticeable from a user standpoint.
Extremely unlikely. Acts of espionage rarely lead to declarations of war, even ones as serious as the US flying U2s over Russia, or Russia stealing nuclear weapons information from the US.
"was sponsored by a wealthy nation-state. ", "spawned with the resources of one or more governments".
Let's cut the crap, and say what we're all thinking. Flame was designed and built by the United States Government for the purpose of stealing information from Iranian government, businesses, and other middle-eastern targets.
It's like the fart in the elevator that nobody admits to, but we all know the fat guy with the taco bell bag, and the guilty look did it. We're just too polite to go making accusations that can't be proven with 100% reliability, so we'll never know for sure.
Makes me wish some other country or union would grow a pair and challenge the US for global dominance, but everyone's too busy dealing with their own problems to care right now.
Well, I'd go for the nation-state simply because of what it does, but to say only a wealthy nation-state can write sophisticated code is just ignorant.
My own consulting outfit, back in the day, could easily have done something like this - looks pretty simple to me. We never noticed that government programmers were even close to as good as we and many other private outfits were - this might have changed, but back then, no way - they were the dumbest kids on the block then.
No big traffic spike, they thought ahead and throttled the data xfers, as I read on another (security) blog. Remember, if you, an Ars reader, can think of that in a few seconds - so can the guys writing the code.
My outfit used to capture viruses all the time (never caught one as an infection) and look inside with DevStudio's reverse tools and some tools we wrote for that job. The change to pro code happened years ago. At first, they were pretty much all written in Borland C, used only a couple of clever tricks (push a system call address on the stack and "return" to it, stuff like that) and more than half still had the debug info in them, for crying out loud! So you could even get the source code, in effect.
Then after a few years of that, suddenly no such amateur thing - more like organised crime was paying competent (but not in morals) programmers to write better code. The tricks got a lot slicker, the byte count per functionality went way down...and we saw things that looked to us like a similar level of sophistication as described for this. None of them were so stupid as to waste bytes by including a frigging code interpreter, though - that's an interesting twist indeed, that has to be a pretty huge waste of bytes... so maybe yeah, it was the government after all - that's so dumb I can hardly believe it -
Such an attack is well thought out, with lots of technical knowledge and exploits several well hidden zero day exploits, stolen certificates, then the whole infrastructure that was in place. Certainly no amateurs that just want to get some credit card info could pull that off. Luckily for us (and the attackers) there's hardly a reason to be so sophisticated - why bother going the extra 10% which amounts to 100%+ more work when 90% will still work just as well.
And why "amount of bytes" would be THE definite measure for an exploit isn't clear to me. I'd go for how long it can stay undetected (extremely long), what level of access it has (full) and how easy it is to infect other targets (infected millions of machines). The interpreter seems like quite the clever idea to make life for heuristic tools harder. Yes smaller makes it easier to hide and faster to transmit, but in this day and age that doesn't seem that problematic.
... Because the *new* power wouldn't engage in espionage! I mean, a country spying on another country? Say it ain't so!
The capabilities of the virus don't seem so outlandish as to state that it takes a wealthy nation state to produce this code. Hell, some kid with a few stolen credit cards could have coded this up for all we know. The only indication that it was written by a Nation State is what it does. It's not there to commit a crime. It's not there for the lulz. It's there for espionage. The only people that would engage in such espionage are Nations and large companines.
Sure, I'd be surprised if it wasn't done by a country. I think Assuming it's the US is a silly assumption though. The US is far from the only country that cares about Iran. We just happen to be the most likely suspect. Be hilarious if it turns out it was just some kid in his parents basement though.
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July 14, 2017 · by damienbod · in .NET Core, MVC, OAuth2, Security, Uncategorized, Web · 14 Comments
This article shows how to implement two factor authentication using Twilio and IdentityServer4 using Identity. On the Microsoft’s Two-factor authentication with SMS documentation, Twilio and ASPSMS are promoted, but any SMS provider can be used.
Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreID4External
Create an account and login to https://www.twilio.com/
Now create a new phone number and use the Twilio documentation to set up your account to send SMS messages. You need the Account SID, Auth Token and the Phone number which are required in the application.
// Plug in your SMS service here to send a text message.
_logger. LogInformation("SMS: {number}, Message: {message}", number, message);
The user is redirected to the send SMS page. Click the send SMS button. This sends a SMS to the phone number defined in the Identity for the user trying to authenticate.
You should recieve an SMS. Enter the code in the verify view. If no SMS was sent, check your Twilio account logs.
After a successful code validation, the user is redirected back to the consent page for the client application. If not redirected, the return url was not set in the model.
What do you do in your angular SPA (using IdentityServer and asp.net identity) for coping with the different account management tasks like change password, add 2FA, add mobile phone, verify number, etc; … Sometimes there is a need that there tasks are accessible directly from the SPA.
Do you just call the MVC views directly from the angular app (e.g. via window.location.href or via a popup) or do you use another approach for this?
Thanks a lot for shedding a light on this.
Thanks a lot for the prompt reply.
Your scenario is about admin screens (admin on other regular users) in angular which are served by one broad web api controller (the userManagement controller).
My scenario is not directly about admin on other users, but for regular users who want to update there password, activate 2FA, add a mobile phone, the forgot password scenario…
Now, anywayn when the user logs in, the asp.net Account/login view is used for this, so the user is anyway redirected away from the SPA.(potentially via a SPA managed popup)
So, if i understand you correctly you would suggest to make for the above mentioned use cases corresponding asp.net web api controllers in such a way the scenarios can be managed directly from SPA screens rather than the asp.net mvc screens.
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An 81-page document issued by a so-called Ransomware Task Force makes no mention of Windows or Microsoft, apart from the fact that one of the co-chairs who drafted this document is from this company.
This is the best indicator of exactly what this exercise in verbiage is all about; it is merely another eyewash to divert attention away from the fact that practically all the attacks that have caused the private and public sector enormous grief have been on systems running Windows.
Recognising the cause is the best way to get rid of the effects, but naming the main culprit would have put more than a few noses out of joint. Hence, we have this exercise, which was described by one cynical security industry person as “all fart and no poo”.
I remain genuinely concerned that a small number of apex ransomware groups are getting hundreds of millions of US dollars in payment each year.
That gives them more money to buy zero day exploits than many big nation states.
It’s like giving rocket launchers to YouTuber fans.
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) April 29, 2021
It is testimony to Microsoft’s clout in the security industry and its ability to spin and hire the best PR people that it has not invited the wrath of those who have suffered from ransomware attacks.
The Institute for Security and Technology, a non-profit under whose aegis this document was drafted, says it is “dedicated to advancing solutions to national security challenges”.
And further, “our goal is to provide the tools and insights needed for companies and governments to outpace emerging global security threats. Our non-traditional approach has a bias towards action, as we build trust across domains, provide unprecedented access, and deliver and implement solutions”.
The working group co -chairs of the Ransomware Task Force.
The organisation has a very nice-looking website, but makes no mention of where it gets its funds, though it does solicit money.
One of the major recommendations made by this group is tighter regulation of the cryptocurrency sector, a favourite bete noire of the US Government. “Governments should require cryptocurrency exchanges, crypto kiosks, and over-the-counter trading ‘desks’ to comply with existing laws, including Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, and Combatting Financing of Terrorism laws,” it says.
Ransomware Task Force reveals comprehensive framework– “Make it 1997 again through Science or Magic” pic.twitter.com/0cBxjzNorx
“An internationally co-ordinated effort should be developed to develop a clear, accessible, and broadly adopted framework to help organisations prepare for, and respond to, ransomware attacks. In some under-resourced and more critical sectors, incentives (such as fine relief and funding) or regulation may be required to drive adoption.”
The RTF has backed off even the most common advice offered by people who deal with ransomware attacks: stop paying ransoms. About this, the wishy-washy recommendation is “…the Ransomware Task Force did not reach consensus on prohibiting ransom payments, though we do agree that payments should be discouraged as far as possible.” In other words, two bob each way.
The report is a waste of time, repeating all that has happened over the past few years and offering nothing new. Had the RTF, for instance, suggested that the US improve its relations with Russia to the point where US President Joe Biden could ask his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to take a harsher line towards the ransomware gangs that operate from Russia, that would have been worth highlighting.
It is well known that the Russian Government line towards ransomware gangs operating from within its borders is to let them do what they want, provided no Russian entity is put in danger.
The RTF document is nicely formatted, with illustrations and the Institute for Security and Technology will surely earn some funds, both public and private, from this marketing exercise which will ensure it can keep its sinecures filled.
This is another document that will gather digital dust on some hard drive deep in some establishment. Meanwhile, the security industry will be licking its lips at the prospect of what can be earned from the next ransomware hit.
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Of the 1 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 06/28/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 06/28/2008.
Malicious software includes 1 trojan(s). Malicious software is hosted on 5 domain(s), including jezl0.com, 1-2times.com, yellas.gr.
Malicious software includes 415 trojan(s), 2 scripting exploit(s), 2 adware(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 9 new processes on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 29 domain(s), including 1-2times.com, enterinmind.com, 202.75.49.0.
7 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including countermediagroup.com, trafagon.cn, 78.109.29.0.
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Microsoft announced thatWindows Server 2012, arguably the most significant server release Microsoft has ever offered, has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and will be generally available for evaluation and purchase to customers around the world on September 4th. Microsoft will also be hosting an online launch event (see below).
These dates are much earlier than most of us speculated earlier in the year, but it's really not surprising considering the overall very high quality of the product we've seen since the initial Developer Preview was released.
You can read Chief Architect Jeffrey Snover's blog announcing this milestone. The Windows Server 2012 launch page will allow you to save the date, and show you a few of the people involved in making it happen (I think I see Brianna there).
Q. If I install the Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate (RC) today, will I have to reinstall when the release to manufacturing (RTM) version is available, or can I use a license key to make it RTM?
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Companies should start thinking about how to start building and sustaining cybersecurity culture.
This may span across various measures to design culture change strategies, execute them and continuously improve the cybersecurity culture to ensure effective cybersecurity risk management.
With clear objectives in place, companies can combine strategies with a rigorous measurement process.
This article presents a roadmap describing how companies can start building and lay the foundation for sustaining cybersecurity culture to enable effective cybersecurity risk management. The steps in the roadmap are based on the author’s practical experience gained from supporting organizations to build and sustain a cybersecurity culture. The roadmap includes five sequential steps:
This article has been outlined according to these five steps. In the following, each step will be described together with examples supporting how your organization can start working with each step. The outcome of each step will also be described. The purpose with the roadmap presented in this article is to provide guidance to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) on the steps needed to establish a program to build and sustain a cybersecurity culture, a cybersecurity culture program.
There are three articles related to sustain cybersecurity culture, this being the last article. The first article emphasized on the importance of why a cultural change program is essential for an effective cybersecurity program supporting an organization’s business objectives. The second article sheds light on why organizations are struggling to build and sustain a cybersecurity culture.
1) Make the strategic objectives
The first step is to start thinking about what the strategic objectives are with the cybersecurity culture program, i.e., what your organization wants to achieve in the future by building cybersecurity culture and what the value is for the change in culture. The target culture and the value it provides to your organization should be clearly defined in a vision statement and acknowledged by stakeholders.
Don’t define a vision statement just for the sake of it. While keeping it short, also try to address the reasons why cybersecurity culture is key to your organization.
This can include ensuring that your workforce adapts to a change in the threat picture, external and internal requirements and technology and thereby supporting the continuous improvement of the organization’s cybersecurity risk management. One example could therefore be:
To build and continuously improve our culture for cybersecurity to maintain cyber risks at acceptable levels and thereby support our organization to achieve its business objectives.
While the vision statement should provide a clear image of the future of the organization in terms of cybersecurity and how culture change supports this image, the program’s change goals are set as specific targets that move your organization towards the defined vision. Change goals help you and your team to stay focused and on track. The change goals should be the starting point when performing both a human risk analysis in the second step and the definition of metrics or KPIs to measure the deployment and impact of the program that are defined when designing the culture change strategy (step three). The ambition should be to utilize the metrics defined in step three to track how well your organization is doing in fulfilling the defined change goals. To provide one example that can be used as an inspiration, three change goals are exemplified below:
During the second step, the current state of cybersecurity culture is assessed. The purpose during this step is to ensure that the right human risks will be addressed in the culture change strategy developed in the third step i.e. designing a culture change strategy.
The employees at risk are identified and the gaps in the existing processes are identified. To define the measurement instrument, a human risk analysis (HRA) first needs to be performed. The HRA provides working hypotheses and limitations to the measurements. This covers the top-risks that are the important to address in your organization. This can be done through one or a series of working meetings with your team and/or stakeholders from the business side and can result in 3-6 risks that need to be measured. Evidence to test the hypothesis can be collected through several means and you should decide which mean is most effective to your context in regard to time and cost.
EY framework to measure and assess cybersecurity culture focuses on three pillars. Together, these pillars provide a holistic assessment of the current cybersecurity culture.
The organizational measures describe all measures that you and your team employ to establish cybersecurity awareness and govern proper behaviors throughout your organization. The basic hypothesis is that what you do here influences the motivation and ability of your organization’s employees to adhere to policies and requirements and thereby shaping proper cybersecurity behaviors.
The measures include a role responsible for the culture change program (e.g., Head of organizational culture change, Chief Information Security Awareness Officer, CISAO and so on). It also includes sufficient resources (FTEs and dedicated budget), a formal culture program strategy, policies and guidelines. These guidelines govern cybersecurity behaviors, awareness raising activities and training on both minimum-security requirements for all employees and specific training for high-risk groups. Finally, it includes an established measurement process for monitoring program deployment and effects in relation to program change goals.
Data can be collected by identifying and reviewing relevant documentation and performing interviews, workshops or focus-group interviews with stakeholders. Relevant documents to review includes organizational charts, reporting lines, role descriptions, strategy, policies and procedures. It also includes results from stakeholder analysis/target group analysis, awareness and training material, defined security requirements for different training target groups and defined metrics. Stakeholders to interview include CISO, CISAO, HR and business leaders.
Motivation and ability:
This pillar describes an individual’s motivation and ability to act in accordance to cybersecurity rules and to combat cybersecurity threats. The pillar contains dimensions such as leader communication, norms about cybersecurity, awareness about policies or rules and common threats, perceived knowledge or skills and intentions to protect an organization’s information assets.
Data can be collected through surveying employees and performing focus-group interviews with a set of employees. If the survey methodology is used, questions to measure changes in motivation and abilities among employees can be a part of an annual cybersecurity survey. Furthermore, to obtain an indication of employees’ motivation and prioritization of cybersecurity, e-learning completion rate and page views of published messages on the company’s intranet can be analyzed.
Cybersecurity behaviors:
This pillar captures an individual’s cybersecurity behavior. The pillar defines cybersecurity behaviors in two dimensions; adherence to the organization’s policies and rules and resistance to cyberattacks.
Data can be collected by utilizing scenario-based surveys, phishing simulations, password cracking exercises, analyzing data from already installed tools etc. These four examples are shortly described below.
Scenario-based surveys are surveys where written hypothetical scenarios are used to measure behavioral intentions and self-reported behaviors. To attempt to capture the employee’s actual cybersecurity awareness, a “smoke-screen” approach can be used to collect survey data. That is, the true purpose with the survey, which is to collect data on cybersecurity behaviors, is masked by providing a false context to the survey, e.g. a survey on “work efficiency”. If a “smoke-screen” approach is not used, the scenarios could be a part of the annual survey of cybersecurity. Regardless of the chosen approach, the scenarios should be constructed based on the performed HRA where hypotheses of the organization’s top-risks are identified. This could result in utilizing scenarios that reflect actual threats relevant to the organization, such as phishing threat, weak password practices, unsecure handling of classified information, etc.
Phishing simulations can be performed to measure resistance to common cyberattacks as a single activity in the assessment phase and as part of a cybersecurity culture change program. It can be used before and after a performed training (e.g., e-learning course) to measure effects of the training.
A password cracking exercise is used to find weak passwords, not crack as many as possible. Password cracking can be used as a single activity to measure users’ adherence to the organization’s password practices and to measure effects of performed training and thereby measure potential changes in password behaviors.
Analysis of data from tools already installed in the organization involves the assessment of behaviors and actions performed by insiders accessing the company network. It is enabled by identifying datapoints and collecting data from tools, e.g., monitoring- and incident reporting tools that represent user actions or behaviors.
Once the data collection methodology has been chosen and the data has been collected and analyzed, the results is mapped to the working hypotheses and thereby the actual top-risks, high-risk groups and gaps are identified which provide valuable input to the culture change strategy.
In the third step, a formalized strategy for the implementation of the culture change program is designed. Here, activities to reach change goals are defined and prioritized.
The results from the culture assessment is used to understand what needs to change, to address the top risks of the organization and which groups constitute a risk.
To clarify how this should be done in a structured way and to avoid encountering unexpected problems during the implementation is the main purpose in this step. The following pointers are important to adhere to:
Defining important stakeholder to the program, including stakeholders that you need on your side for supporting the program (supporters) and stakeholders that need awareness training (target groups).
Defining training requirements, learning topics and learning goals per target group. For instance, the target group “all personnel” might need training on the organizations top-risks, i.e., minimum cybersecurity requirements, “developers”, “HR-personnel” and “IT-support personnel” might need add-on specific training relevant to their role.
Identify the most efficient means to provide training to each target group. Some examples of training are:
Define metrics or KPIs based on the defined learning goals per target group to measure deployment and change impact of performed training and communication activities.
Establish a process to measure deployment of the program and effects on learning goals. This is similar to the measurement methods defined in step 2 (Assess the current culture state).
Plan execution of training by establishing a training and awareness plan where prioritized activities are outlined. Also, responsibilities for performing and monitoring the training are assigned.
Example of program metrics
Metrics and KPIs are utilized to track and measure the deployment and impact the program have on change goals. Based on your defined overall change goals and learning goals for prioritized target groups; you and your team can find the metrics that fits your context and purpose. However, to provide some guidance, here are a set of example metrics. In a very simplified way metrics can pertain to three categories:
Distribution: Measures distribution of training, e.g. launched e-learning modules, Face 2 Face (F2F) sessions (lectures, one-one induction for new hires), published awareness raising articles on internal channels and others (e.g., competitions, surveys, quizzes and phishing simulations)
Completion: Measures completion of training, e.g., e-learning completion, survey completion and page views of published articles.
Impact: Measure changes in cybersecurity attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, e.g., improved cybersecurity attitudes, beliefs through user survey assessment, increased reporting of phishing e-mails, decreased number of false positives in phishing reporting, increased amount of documents classified according to information classification rules, decreased amount of classified documents distributed externally, increased number of passwords complying to password requirements, etc.
The fourth step is about executing the culture change strategy and monitoring the deployment of the program. That is, delivering communication and training activities targeting employee’s motivation and ability to adhere the organization’s policies and combat cybersecurity threats. Communication activities will serve to increase awareness of your organizations top risks and how to manage them, and also provide knowledge of your organization’s existing policies and rules. Training activities will teach employees how to detect and report potential cyber threats in practice.
The metrics and KPIs defined in step three (Design a culture change strategy) will be employed to measure the deployment of the program. Effects of training is evaluated in the last step.
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Ads by BestSaveForYou is regarded as dubious infection which belongs to the adware program and it is mainly used to generates lots of bogus pop-up advertisements within your all versions of system browsers. Most of the times, this adware program stealthily invaded into the system with the help of free programs such as video player, download managers, music players and other third party applications. It is install itself as a suspicious plug-in or extension which is typically added to the your system with junk emails, third party toolbars and some others. Once Ads by BestSaveForYou is infiltrated into the system then it shows varieties of countless pop-up advertisements which could be popping up on the desktop screen every minutes.
On the other side, when you attempt to access certain websites then it can redirect you to its affiliated websites or other third party domains that contains unwanted banner ads, endless deals and other false search information. Ads by BestSaveForYou has been programmed by cyber offenders whose prime intension is drive web traffic to sponsored web pages and to gain more profits by pay-per click techniques. Most of the times, it enters bundled with lots of unknown cookies items. At this moment, when you try to visit any website then you can see that your search pages would be hijacked. As a matter of fact, Ads by BestSaveForYou can suddenly attach itself with commercial web pages which consists lots of affected plug-ins, games, videos, fake Java update scripts.
Moreover, some security experts says that it is technically not a PC malware but it may be connected with high level programs and also contributes tons of misleading issues on the browsers as well as system. If Ads by BestSaveForYou presents in your Windows machine for long period then it frequently records victim's browsing history, bank account details, search queries, IP address, credit card credentials, bookmarking details, email login information and critical data. To make bad matter, group of online hackers could be misuse for unethical activities. If you do not get rid of this adware infection then it will put your entire system is at deep condition. Ads by BestSaveForYou is so frustrating and stubborn program which can take up big part of memory spaces and system resources. That's reason, it makes your system processing speed very sluggish and weird. So it is very important to eliminate Ads by BestSaveForYou quickly.
1. Click on Manage add-ons option from the drop down menu on going through Gear icon.
2. Now if you find any suspicious extension in the Toolbars and Extensions panel then right click on it and Delete option to remove it.
1. Press Opera menu, hover to Extensions and then select Extensions manager there.
2. Now if any browser extension looks suspicious to you then click on (X) button to remove it.
1. Select More(…) then Settings followed by View advanced settings button.
2. Under Search in the address bar with box click on <Add new>. Now you can choose from the available list of search providers or add you preferred search engine and click Add as default.
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Is your anti malware program alerted you with Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware infection? Are you encountering a lot of issues while producing access to the data stored in your PC? Is the particular infection asking you for making payment of specific amount of ransom funds? If your answer is usually yes the you will be infected with Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware threat.
Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware is known as a newly detected computer which has been spotted by cyber security experts that attacks most version of Microsoft windows OS. The infection as well those of numerous different shady ransomware courses, obtains silent perforation inside the system without being notified by the users. It upon becoming installed successfully in the system, first of all will take complete control over that and then deletes the Shadow Volume Replications and System Restore things created previously. Keeping this aside, in the case of this ransomware infections, the victim’s photos, videos, text, music, presentations, databases and spreadsheets are also enciphered. The crooks after the completion of the entire security process, generates a note onto the made their victim device’s which described to be ransom note for Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware.
Well analysts strongly recommends not to make the asked payment to Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware, since researches include clearly proven that paying never supply the users with decrypted files. Instead it encourages the thieves more to practice other awful practices within the system. There are several techniques used by the developers of this nasty ransomware virus to disperse it all around the world. An individual of your most usual means for spreading this malware is malevolent spam email campaign. Such type of messages are generally deceitful and it may trick unsophisticated PC users in to opening malicious data file attached on these phishing mails or perhaps deceive them into clicking on a contagious web link. As a result most importantly, you should remove Scarab-Bin2 Ransomware from your PERSONAL COMPUTER as quickly as possible and bring back the vital data files by using backup copies.
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Asia Pacific (APAC) accounts for 35.9 per cent of the global number of cyber security events, according to the latest findings of the 2018 First Half Review of the Breach Level Index, released by Gemalto.
The report by the international digital security company also indicates that the APAC region was subject to 27.2 per cent of compromised records worldwide.
However, the actual figures could be much higher since most countries in Southeast Asia don’t require a compulsory report of data breaches.
Overall, the total number of records compromised worldwide in the first half (H1) of 2018 was 4,553,172,708. The number marks an increase of 133 per cent over the first half of 2017, making 2018 the year when more data has been stolen to date.
From a sector perspective, social media giants including Twitter and Facebook witnessed the greatest number of compromised records in H1 2018 at 2,555,000,000.
That’s a 14,927 per cent increase from the previous year. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of incidents involving social media held steady at just six.
"This year social media has been the top industry and threat vector for the compromise of personal data, a trend we can expect to continue with more and more sectors leveraging these platforms to reach key audiences, especially political teams gearing up for major elections," said Jason Hart, vice president and chief technology officer for data protection at Gemalto.
"We also expect to see more data breaches reported by European Union countries bound by the new General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] and in Australia with the new Notifiable Data Breaches law.
"We should be careful not to misconstrue this as an increase in overall incidents in these areas but rather as a more accurate reflection of what is actually going on."
The industrial sector saw the highest growth rate amongst all other sectors, and healthcare companies experienced the greatest amount of security events in H1 2018 amongst all the industries at 256.
Malicious outsiders and identity theft on the rise
Identity theft was once again the most prevalent data breach type tracked in the Breach Level Index. It accounted for 3,972,437,893 compromised records - approximately 87.2 per cent of the accounts breached in H1 2018.
This number also represents an important growth of 1,128 per cent for identity theft over the previous year.
‘Malicious outsiders’ was identified as the leading factor behind most security incidents (56 per cent) - a change from last year’s prime data breach source, which was accidental loss.
Malicious outsiders were the agents behind Singapore’s most serious data breach to date, where the personal information of some 1.5 million patients was stolen in July from SingHealth, the country’s largest public healthcare provider.
Data protection legislation in Southeast Asia
Earlier this month, the Personal Data Protection Commision of Singapore (PDPC) imposed financial penalties of S$6,000 (US$4,362) and S$7,000 (US$5,089) respectively on Grabcar and Club the Chambers in two separate data breach cases for failing to make reasonable security arrangements to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of individuals' personal data.
In the case of Grabcar, the PDPC received a complaint from one of the company’s drivers whose personal data was disclosed after unauthorised disclosure through a Google Forms survey created by GrabHitch (a commercial arm of Grab).
Singapore’s PDPC has quickly established itself as one of the most rigorous and involved regulators internationally.
Despite the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) being a far cry from the European Union’s GDPR, nonetheless it is the most strict data protection legislation currently in place in the Southeast Asian region, where some countries still haven’t developed comprehensive data protection legislation.
Although there are no mandatory requirements under the PDPA for data users to notify the PDPC or individuals in the case of a data breach, the PDPC issued a best practice guide in May 2015 to help organisations manage personal data breaches effectively, and more recent guidelines provide practical tips on avoiding and managing risks such as accidental data disclosure.
It is recommended that affected individuals be notified immediately if a data breach involves sensitive personal data and the PDPC should be notified as soon as possible of any data breaches that might cause public concern or where there is a risk of harm to a group of affected individuals.
The PDPC's first public consultation reviewing the Act ("PDPA Consultation") closed in October 2017, and focused on 'approaches to managing personal data in the digital economy', with topics including 'challenges for alternatives to consent' and mandatory breach notification.
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Analysts predict that cyber security will continue to be a top priority of enterprises around the world in 2022 and beyond. As of this published post, cyber attacks in 2022 are on track to greatly outnumber attacks that occurred in 2021.
There has never been a more important time than now to have a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer protect your business from attacks by cybercriminals, nation states, and insiders. Have you considered a vCISO to help you achieve a greater level of cyber hygiene and to help secure your operations?
The following information will help explain the benefits of a vCISO and some of the tasks they manage for organizations to keep their data safe. Read on to learn how developing and implementing a strategy for cybersecurity is a baseline requirement for all organizations today.
Responsibilities of a vCISO
A Virtual Chief Information Security Officer is a skilled executive that focuses on all cybersecurity aspects of IT. They work with the CIO to protect and streamline your IT environment. The vCISO is responsible for making sure that company policies and procedures follow all compliance requirements.
Another responsibility of a vCISO is helping you structure your IT security program. They help assess problems by regularly testing your infrastructure, and should be able to assist in the following areas:
Most small businesses lack a CISO and may not have a CIO, or CTO either. In those cases, they often have an internal IT director who is responsible for everything IT related including security. This scenario often exists because they don’t have the budget for leadership at that level.
A vCISO is an affordable solution for small businesses as a vCISO offers high-level security consulting at a fraction of the cost of an in-house senior-level employee.
Depending on the program, a small business may have the option of using vCISO services as needed, even if only for only a few hours per month for specific tasks. Hiring a full-time CISO with benefits and a salary is much more costly in comparison.
A vCISO offers regular security planning for your business via high-level technical consulting. They create an action plan to improve your organization's security that is in the form of a living document. Another role of a vCISO is to suggest and oversee large projects that keep businesses safe from outside threats. This may include implementing a Ransomware Response plan, identifying security gaps, and developing new protocols aimed at keeping your business safe.
The importance of disaster recovery planning became more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. A vCISO can help form the infrastructure to support a fully remote workforce that can operate securely. They can also ensure that proper backups are in place if operations are compromised due to a natural or manmade disaster, or a ransomware attack occurs.
Signs That You Need a vCISO
We briefly covered some of the benefits of a vCISO for small businesses, but a vCISO can also benefit large and complex companies. More infrastructure and employees increase security risk factors.
Do you have a lot of data to protect? A vCISO can assist an organization in identifying what data needs protection. In this case, their first task would be to identify and prioritize data that would cause the most damage if compromised.
You may need a vCISO if your industry is highly regulated. Industries like finance and healthcare handle data, such as Protected Health Information (PHI), that is highly sensitive if leaked. These businesses are subject to more strenuous regulatory compliance requirements and substantial monetary sanctions are often levied for data breaches that resulted from poor security planning and implementation.
A vCISO is an excellent option if your business requires a wide range of expertise. A CISO is just one person whereas a vCISO service may utilize an entire team of experts with different specialties.
It can take a long time to hire and onboard the right CISO for your company. Hiring a vCISO takes a fraction of the time yet brings the same level of cybersecurity that a CISO might bring.
What to Look for in a vCISO
Adaptive intelligence is crucial for vCISO services to be successful. Choose a service that's able to quickly understand your company’s operational environment, security goals, compliance requirements, and company ethos. A good security plan is one that protects the firm while minimizing disruption to daily activities.
Business acumen and great communication are signs of a good vCISO service. A combination of business skills and tech ability is ideal. A great vCISO is skilled at high-level presentations like those that involve the board and c-suite.
Make sure the vCISO brings along a team with a broad range of expertise and knowledge. You’ll need that level of expertise as your company and security needs grow.
A vCISO should be vendor-neutral and not have a vested interest in the products they suggest. Remember to confirm this during the initial interview with a screening question that addresses this issue.
Look for a vCISO that will work with you to assemble a program that fits your budget. Determine if their level of involvement fits your company's needs. Decide if fractional, temporary, or periodic involvement works better for your current needs and budget.
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https://info.janusassociates.com/blog/improve-your-cyber-security-it-compliance-by-hiring-a-vciso
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Easy guide to secure VNC server with TLS encryption This method has been tested on CentOS 6 & 7 but should work on other versions/OS as. VNC Connect is secure out-of-the-box. All connections are encrypted end-to-end, and by default remote computers are protected by a password. This will create an SSH tunnel between the VNC server and the client. The format of the command to encrypt a VNC server-client connection is as follows. TEAMVIEWER ON WINDOWS MOBILE
Centos 7 vnc server encryption Alternatively, you can operate vncviewer through the terminal. To start or enable the service, specify the display number directly in the command. See Section If Gnome Desktop is not installed on your Linux machine then use the below command to install. Similarly to enabling the vncserver service, you can disable the automatic start of the service at system start:. Enter vncviewer -h on the command line to list vncviewer 's parameters.
Centos 7 vnc server encryption Xvnc 1 — The manual page for the Xvnc server configuration options. Can somebody help. To get the currently set default target unit, use:. Timothy Wahlstrom July 31, at pm. Mike July 30, at am.
Centos 7 vnc server encryption Works for root user but unable to duplicate the process for any other user on the system. Select the Misc. Pablo April 1, at pm. Note that this is not the desktop the normal user sees, it is the Xvnc desktop. Follow rest other steps. The VNC server can be configured to start a display for one or more users, provided that accounts for the users exist on the system, with optional parameters such as for display settings, network address and port, and security settings.
Centos 7 vnc server encryption Connection completes with success but when I want to logout it ask for confirmation on the first attempt, with a timeout of 60 seconds to automatically disconnect. System default target unit should be graphical. If required, to prevent disconnecting any existing VNC connections to the same display, select the option to allow sharing of the desktop as follows: Select the Options button. For operating the vncviewerthere is a pop-up menu containing entries which perform various actions such as centos 7 vnc server encryption in and out of full-screen mode or quitting the viewer. To allow all VNC connections from a specific address, use a command as follows:. Santosh V November 24, at pm.
The number 1 that we added to the new file name is the display number that will be used for this particular instance of the service. The first will be , then and so on. Immediately after copying you need to edit the new file using Vi, Nano or another text editor, and replace [USER] with the name of the user created recently in our case, vncuser. This is how the file should look after the update except for the long commented part at the beginning :.
Once you do this, you can reload the VNC daemon and run vncserver 1 with the following commands:. Before proceeding, verify that the service is running by entering the systemctl status command:. Another test that you can perform before trying to connect to the server is to look at the active network sockets using the ss command: if everything works correctly, you should see that the VNC server is working and uses TCP port Execute the command:. Since our VNC service is listening on TCP port , you must be sure that such a port is open and accessible to external clients.
Therefore, if you have a firewall installed, you must create an appropriate rule that allows VNC clients to connect. How many ports to open will depend on how many VNC server instances you need. The command to open this port on Firewalld:. It will not be superfluous to mention that you can also restrict this port to certain groups, IP addresses, network cards, or other simple or complex firewall rules.
Otherwise, you need to install one of them: the TigerVNC server will start a parallel instance of this desktop environment for each login session, which means that we must have at least one GUI. If you need a lightweight alternative, we can offer Xfce, a free, open-source environment for Unix-like platforms that works great with TigerVNC.
GNOME also works great, but it quite resources intensive: if you want to save resources on your server machine, Xfce might be the best choice. To install it, enter the following:. If you decide to use Xfce , you will also need to modify the file that was executed when the VNC session started. Remember to specify TCP port if you followed our guide. Connection problems - Firewall configuration : if you see pop-up errors that the client cannot connect to the remote host, you need to check your network and firewall configuration to make sure there are no blocking problems that could prevent the client from connecting to TCP server port Black screen with the mouse - updating YUM or reinstalling the GUI : if you see a black screen with a working mouse cursor, it probably means that your VNC connection is working fine, but there is something that prevents the GUI from starting correctly desktop.
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https://triambaka.xyz/teamviewer-create-account/1-centos-7-vnc-server-encryption.php
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FlashpointsImage Credit: U.S. NavyUS: Hackers Will 'Pay A Price' for Cyber Attacks In a recent speech, the head of the NSA notes that the U.S. will retaliate against malicious actors in cyberspace.
By Franz-Stefan Gady for The DiplomatMay 12, 2015 The chief of U.S. Cyber Command reiterated that the United States will step up its active cyber defense postures in order to deter attacks on U.S. critical information infrastructure.
During his speech at George Washington University, Navy Admiral Michael Rogers, who also heads the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), emphasized that hackers will “pay a price” that “will far outweigh the benefit” should they target the United States.
Specifically talking about the cyberattacks on Sony Pictures (see: “US Sony Hack Response: A Message to China?”), Rogers explained his rationale behind “naming and shaming” North Korea — the alleged perpetrator — over the hack. Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
The whole world was aware that Sony Corporation had suffered an offensive act that destroyed data as well as destroyed hardware. What concerned me was, given the fact that this is a matter of public record, if we don’t publicly acknowledge it, if we don’t attribute it, and if we don’t talk about what we’re going to do in response to the activity … I don’t want anyone watching thinking we have not tripped a red line, that this is in the realm of the acceptable.
Delineating this red line is an integral part of any cyber deterrence strategy, yet is extremely difficult for policymakers to figure out the figurative red line in cyberspace that would trigger severe, active defense measures by nation states such as strategic retaliatory strikes.
However, Rogers emphasized that the United States will use a whole spectrum of means at its disposal to dissuade a malicious actor for launching attacks including economic sanctions, as was the case in the Sony hack:
Because an opponent comes at us in the cyber domain doesn’t mean we have to respond in the cyber domain. We think it’s important that potential adversaries out there know that this is part of our strategy. The whole goal is, you do not want to engage in escalatory behavior (…) it’s situational. What you would recommend in one scenario is not what you would recommend in another.
Rogers’ remarks correspond with the Pentagon new cyber strategy (see: “What the Pentagon’s New Cyber Strategy Mean for China”), which does note that “the U.S. military may conduct cyber operations to counter an imminent or on-going attack against the U.S. homeland or U.S. interests in cyberspace.”
However, the strategy stresses that “the United States will seek to exhaust all network defense and law enforcement options to mitigate any potential cyber risk to the U.S. homeland or U.S. interests before conducting a cyberspace operation.”
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http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/us-hackers-will-pay-a-price-for-cyber-attacks/
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If your good at what you do the tattoos should not matter too much. You're not customer facing usually. With that being said, if your hiring manager does not like tattoos, you will have a hard time. Still, it is often easier in IT right now since it is a growing field.
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
Good thread, always wanted to know how this affected getting jobs within the IT field....
Anyway on my 2 cents on the subject; I don't see how visable tattoos would affect yourself getting a job in anyway shape or form. I could imagine you'd be wearing a business shirt and pants to work daily so I don't see how the tattoo's would even be visable (That is unless you have them over your face, which therefore might be a problem.) I don't think that anyone would like to get their face tattooed though...
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This is a scenario that a client recently asked about, and through my research, I discovered some limitations. The question, in short, is: Can we use/reference Application Security Groups (ASGs) in a Network Security Group (NSG) through VNet Peering?
First, allow me to explain the environment architecture.
The Environment
Within this environment, there are multiple Azure subscriptions (all using the same Azure AD Tenant), and within each subscription, there is a Virtual Network (VNet). In this case, SubscriptionA is the ‘Core’ services (like AD, DNS, etc.), SubscriptionB is the ‘Production’ services (i.e. apps/services), and SubscriptionC is the ‘NonProduction’ services.
Each Virtual Network (VNet) is connected to the other via VNet Peering (i.e. SubscriptionA-to-SubscriptionB, and SubscriptionA-toSubscriptionC, but not SubscriptionB-toSubscriptionC). Within each VNet, there is one large Subnet. This particular client is more future-forward thinking and implemented a single large subnet versus the more traditional multi-subnet (i.e. Web/App/Data). This is more future-forward, because, we don’t really have to worry about IP Addresses. This allows us to be more flexible
Side Note: I’ve worked with customers that, unfortunately, have not architected their Azure networking properly, and subsequently created too many Subnets with too few IP Addresses, and found themselves in a very difficult situation.
With all of those components in place, I jump over to the Network Security Group (NSG) in Virtual Network (VNet) ‘A’ and attempt to add a new inbound security rule.
As you can see from the screenshot, the only Application Security Group (ASG) that appears in the list, is the local one.
The problem with all of this is, according to the Application Security Group (ASG) documentation …
If you specify an application security group as the source and destination in a security rule, the network interfaces in both application security groups must exist in the same virtual network. For example, if AsgLogic contained network interfaces from VNet1, and AsgDbcontained network interfaces from VNet2, you could not assign AsgLogic as the source and AsgDb as the destination in a rule. All network interfaces for both the source and destination application security groups need to exist in the same virtual network.
This means that you cannot create an Application Security Group (ASG) with its location aligned to the target Virtual Network’s location, and associate any deployed Virtual Machine Network Interface Cards (NICs) that are not within the exact same location.
In short, you cannot use Application Security Groups (ASGs) for Network Security Group (NSG) rules, across Virtual Network (VNet) peerings. Meaning, you cannot have a properly segmented hub-and-spoke network design.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, however, this is not an official post and the views expressed are my own. I offer no guarantees for the accuracy of the information shared and is for educational purposes only.
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https://adinermie.com/using-application-security-groups-asgs-with-vnet-peering-and-their-limitations/?shared=email&msg=fail
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Mayo University Hospital has set up a helpline for urgent calls from patients who have concerns regarding their medical condition following the cancellation of their appointments this week.
The direct number for these calls is 094 904 9310 and lines are open from 10:00 to 12.30 and 14:00 to 16:00.
All other calls to the hospital should continue to be made to the normal phone lines.
The ransomware attack on the HSE IT systems is having an ongoing impact on services at the Castlebar facility.
The Manager of Mayo University Hospital Catherine Donohoe has been giving more details to Midwest News...
Over €1.5 million allocated for Mayo roads damaged by severe weather
Funding of over €1.1 million has been allocated for road improvement measures across Co Mayo, where severe weather events have damaged local and regional roads. It will allow for flood alleviation measures, bridge repairs, road protection works and the…
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https://midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/47889-muh-launches-patient-helpline-as-fallout-from-ransomware-attack-continues
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autoPatient is committed to protecting the privacy of our clinics and their patients. We stay appraised of developments in data protection laws to ensure that you can be confident in your safety while using our platform.
This page is intended to explain what the rules are, how they apply to your use of the autoPatient platform and the steps we have taken to comply.
You should review this document in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and contact a specialist legal professional if you require more information or advice.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Regulation (EU) 2016/679, more commonly known at the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU regulation aimed at harmonizing data protection and privacy laws across the EU. The provisions of the GDPR apply wherever personal data of an EU data subject is involved.
The GDPR is focused on giving individuals more control over how their data is used by companies, and making the collection and processing of data more transparent.
The GDPR was incorporated directly into UK law following the end of the Brexit transition period, meaning that UK businesses still have to comply with its provisions through the ‘UK GDPR’.
The GDPR imposes various obligations on a person depending on whether they are a controller or a processor of personal data.
A controller is an entity which decides to process personal data, and makes decisions regarding the basis of processing and the methods which will be used. Controllers have certain obligations regarding personal data, which you should familiarize yourself with before collecting personal data from your customers.
As a result, you are responsible for ensuring that you have a legal basis on which to process the data, and that you do not retain the data for any longer than is necessary.
You should ensure that you understand your obligations as a controller, and update your own systems and policies to allow the lawful transfer of personal data to autoPatient. autoPatient is a data processor. We, through the autoPatient platform, store and manage the data you have collected under your instructions. A processor is an entity which processes data for and on behalf of a controller. They make no independent decisions regarding the data or its processing, as they only process it on behalf of the controller and must comply with all instructions given by the controller.
When you use the autoPatient service, you are a controller. You are in control of the data you upload to the autoPatient system, what you do with that data, and why. We will never use any personal data which you have uploaded to the autoPatient system for our own purposes or without your instruction.
Steps we have taken to ensure GDPR compliance
We take our duties as a processor very seriously. We have put in place a number of procedures and taken a number of steps in order to ensure that we remain compliant with the GDPR and that you are able to lawfully send personal data collected by you to us, for example:
Our data processing agreement utilizes the Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure that you are able to lawfully send personal data to us in the USA.
We are able to detect personal breaches and to inform our customers as soon as possible.
We are able to deal with subject access requests and rights of erasure requests, and ensure that we inform you when a data subject has made such a request to us.
We have assessed and documented the personal data processed by us on your behalf.
We have assessed our security and upgraded this where necessary to ensure that it is appropriate for the level of risk we face in relation to a data breach.
HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act of 1996, which is a United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
The act, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on Aug. 21, 1996, contains five sections, or titles:
National Provider Identifier Standard. Each healthcare entity, including individuals, employers, health plans and healthcare providers, must have a unique 10-digit national provider identifier number, or NPI.
Transactions and Code Sets Standard. Healthcare organizations must follow a standardized mechanism for electronic data interchange (EDI) in order to submit and process insurance claims.
HIPAA Privacy Rule. Officially known as the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, this rule establishes national standards to protect patient health information.
HIPAA Security Rule. The Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information sets standards for patient data security.
HIPAA Enforcement Rule. This rule establishes guidelines for investigations into HIPAA compliance violations.
The two requirements that apply to the relationship between autoPatient, a customer Agency, and the agency’s client (the Practice) are the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPPA Security Rule. The details of each of these rules can be found here:
In the relationship between autoPatient and its clients, the client (practice) is considered “the HIPAA covered entity” and autoPatient and the client are considered “HIPAA Business Associates”.
autoPatient has worked with The Compliancy Group consultancy to ensure that we are in full compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPPA Security Rule, so that we can enter into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with our customers.
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https://autopatient.co/data-security/
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Cybercriminals have developed botnet malware that contains domain generation algorithms (DGAs) that generate huge numbers of domains (Conficker C’s DGA generates 50,000 domains aper day) in response to law enforcement agencies that successfully have shut down botnets by taking malicious domains offline.
By generating thousands of domains daily and registering only a few of them, cybercriminals manage to retain control over a least a portion of their networks, even if some of their domains are taken offline.
With a team of global security researchers, we are able to track connections between criminal networks, malicious domains and compromised IP addresses. This enables to gain visibility of malicious domains as soon as they are registered.
By making use of malware reverse engineering techniques it is possible to for researchers to expose DGA domains, allowing them to block them before the criminals start to make use of them.
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https://www.pipelinesecurity.net/home/products/threat-intelligence/malware-malicious-networks-threat-intel/
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Your enterprise is at the crosshairs of an increasingly complex array of targeted attacks, advanced threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
Only complete visibility of all your network traffic will keep you ahead of today’s purpose-built attacks which bypass traditional controls, exploit network vulnerabilities, and steal sensitive data, communications, and intellectual property. Trend Micro Network Defense detects and prevents breaches at wire speed anywhere on your network to protect your critical data and reputation.
Proven wire-speed Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System proactively detects and prevents vulnerabilities, network exploits as well as identity and application awareness to enable contextual visibility and enforcement.
Integrated network-wide breach detection identifies targeted attacks and advanced threats, including proactive blocking through integration with the TippingPoint Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System,Trend Micro, and third-party security investments.
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http://apac.trendmicro.com/apac/business/cyber-security/
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Do you know what search.findeer.com is?
search.findeer.com is an unreliable search engine that might replace your homepage. Unfortunately, it is compatible with all the major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox; thus, you will not be able to escape from it. Our researchers have found out that search.findeer.com is closely associated with Offertz, which is classified as a potentially unwanted program; thus, the presence of search.findeer.com might mean that your system contains this unreliable application. You will have to delete it from the system in order to get rid of search.findeer.com. Luckily, it is not difficult to do that; however, you should definitely read throughout the article if you feel that you need some guidance.
It might seem that search.findeer.com is a completely decent search engine; however, we still think that you should not use it because this search provider might present you with various sponsored links that might lead you to unreliable websites. The researchers of spyware-techie.com have tested this search provider and found out that you will not see genuine search results after entering the keyword into the search box because search.findeer.com will provide you with links that will take you to the websites of Offertz partners. Besides, it seems that search results will be modified according to your activities on the web as well. As you can see, it is not worth using search.findeer.com, which is why we advise you to get rid of it as soon as possible. Search.findeer.com screenshot
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It is very likely that search.findeer.com has replaced your homepage without your permission. You should get rid of it as soon as possible because search.findeer.com might collect some details about your online behavior. Even though it is not interested in personal information, some computer users might still feel uncomfortably knowing that the publisher of search.findeer.com is aware of their activities. Luckily, you can stop all the suspicious activities by deleting search.findeer.com from the system.
search.findeer.com is closely associated with Offertz; thus, it is not surprising that you will be able to get rid of this search engine, if you delete Offertz from the system. The instructions provided below the article will help you to do that. Unfortunately, other serious computer infections might hide on your system as well; thus, we believe that it would be very clever to scan the system with an antimalware tool, for instance, SpyHunter as well.
How to get rid of search.findeer.com
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http://www.spyware-techie.com/search-findeer-com-removal-guide
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Keeping @sbcglobal.net e-mail after service cancellation
I have several @sbcglobal.net email addresses, and currently am subscribed to Uverse TV, Internet and Phone. I am considering cancelling service, but want to maintain the email addresses. Is this possible? I currently access my email exclusively through the yahoo web portal.
So, if I don't follow the instructions provided in the link (which is for removal of the addresses), and just cancel the service, my @sbcglobal.net addresses will remain in tack?
Does the sbcglobal.net address cease or not?
This is a simple enough question to answer straight. When I first got AT&T dsl about 9 years I was asked to integrate?my @sbcglobal.net account with an @yahoo.com account so that I could access the email via the web.? This apparently is all that is needed to maintain the @sbcglobal.net address.? I canceled my AT&T dsl internet about 4 months ago, and am still using my sbcglobal.net email account with no problems.?I guess the solution is to create an @yahoo.com email address and integrate it with your @sbcglobal.net email address.?
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https://forums.att.com/t5/Email-Internet-Security/Keeping-sbcglobal-net-e-mail-after-service-cancellation/m-p/3384995
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In 2011, Kevin Mitnick released his much-awaited memoir, Ghost in the Wires, which detailed his exploits as “the world’s most wanted hacker.” And while he’s known for being a computer hacker, the truth is that he almost always gained access to target networks through human psychology, using a set of techniques broadly classified as “social engineering.” For example, he talked his way into multiple large telephone companies to heist procedural manuals that provided him access to the companies’ most confidential data. In other words, the notorious Mitnick was actually a social engineer first and a computer hacker second.
Mitnick intuitively understood that social engineering is often the easiest, most direct route to getting access to data. He knew that because humans are more fallible than computers, “the human factor” is the most important vulnerability in any organization.
“Social engineering” as a category usually includes “phishing” (using email or deceptive web advertising to entice the recipient to click a link, enter a password, or download a file). However, in the context of today’s post, we are specifically referring to physical activities that can provide access to coveted data. Once social engineers gain access to the target network, they can move laterally throughout the environment, stealing confidential information, installing cryptomining malware, or compromising critical infrastructure.
The following techniques are a few of the more common tactics that the co-author of this post, Keith Kops, Splunk’s Global Head of Safety and Security, has seen in his years on the job, often as a penetration tester:
“Classic” social engineering techniques: This category includes things like this renowned phone hack (also known as “vishing,” which is a combination of the words “voice” and “phishing”) that employs a recording of a baby crying in a truly nefarious fashion, as well as in-person manipulation. For example, in a penetration test, one red team contracted an ambulance to go to a physical facility that was well-protected with multiple gates and vehicle controls. Without checking credentials or verifying its mission, corporate security allowed the ambulance through each set of security gates and ushered the fake medics up to the datacenter (whoops!).
In another example, a red team employed a social engineer posing as a jogger to approach the front desk of another organization and ask to use the restroom. After chatting with the security guard, the “jogger” convinced the security guard to invite them back later for a tour of the facilities. Bam!—access to the datacenter.
Diversion: One red team carried out a masterful diversionary technique by approaching a security kiosk (where officers kept temporary badges for visitors) and creating a commotion, while another team member furtively entered the kiosk and “stole” an access badge. In another scenario, the red teamers flew a noisy drone over a secure facility to create a distraction, while a team member hopped the fence.
Exfiltration: The word “exfiltration” is often used in the context of someone breaching or logging on to a network in order to gather confidential digital files or other valuable data and remove them from the environment (via email, for example). But exfiltration can also manifest in physical form. For example, an insider might request a key to a shredding bin from corporate security. Although access to these bins is typically well-controlled, there are examples where employees have talked security personnel out of the key to a shred bin, citing an excuse, such as accidentally dropping an important document inside the bin. Once they’ve gained access, the bad actor can collect important documents containing confidential information.
Brute-force attacks: Whereas in cybersecurity, a brute-force attack involves using a piece of software to crack passwords (by automatically entering password after password until stumbling on the right one), in physical security, a brute-force attack involves breaching a physical barrier, such as a security gate (as in the example of the drone diversion in #2, above). These attacks may be used alone or in combination with one of the other tactics described earlier.
While most large enterprises provide employee training to raise awareness of common social-engineering tactics, the human factor can never fully be eliminated. That’s why the most effective corporate security requires both physical and digital defenses.
While Splunk’s products can’t help you prevent physical social-engineering attacks, they can help you detect, investigate, and remediate cyberthreats. To step up your cyberdefense game, we suggest checking out Splunk Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU), which maps common attack techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, as well as to kill-chain phases, CIS controls, and more. ESCU contains Analytic Stories that combine a narrative/background on each attack technique (such as ransomware, cryptojacking, WMI abuse, and so on) with pre-configured Splunk Enterprise Security searches. If you don’t have Enterprise Security, you can still use ESCU to read up on the issues and educate yourself on effective detection techniques. And it’s free! Check it out in Splunkbase.
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https://www.splunk.com/blog/2018/11/02/social-engineering-the-nexus-of-physical-and-digital-security.html
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First we load our Sysmon data. From sysmon data, we care primarily about file writes (code 11) or timestamp changes (code 2), so we filter for that [ | inputlookup ransomware_notes_lookup | rename ransomware_notes as TargetFilename | eval TargetFilename="*" . TargetFilename | table TargetFilename]
From line one we have our process launch logs, now we need to filter that down to just the potential attack tools. We do this via a subsearch. A subsearch goes and runs another search, and then takes those results and inserts them into the main search. You can copy-paste that subsearch into a new search window and see what the results look like -- it will return a single column with the name "TargetFilename" that include a number of our search strings. That will effectively be inserted into our main search, giving us a really long search string without having to maintain a really long search.
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https://docs.splunksecurityessentials.com/content-detail/sser_ransomware_note_files/
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In an updated blog post on G-Suite blog, Google announced that it will bring a new security feature for Google account holders. These account holders also happen to rely on the Chrome browser for its Web browsing activity. Google hopes to increase security by verifying users’ login to Google accounts they control.
This is designed to prevent anyone from stealthily logging in Google accounts that may be malicious third parties. However, not all Google users will see this new interface because this is specifically for third-party logins. Google said that the new security features will be launched on May 7.
After signing in on the SAML Provider website, users will see a new interface from accounts.google.com that asks the user to identify the Google account they want to sign in. If the Google account belongs to the user himself, then they can continue to log in. If not, the user may need to investigate the matter because it means that someone may try to trick the user into logging in to another Google account that should not access these services.
This is designed to prevent phishing attacks that may attempt to trick users into stealing their malicious accounts. The new interface will only be displayed once per device to minimize interference with users. In the future, Google states that users should see it less and less because the system has acquired “context-aware” functionality.
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On January 2, 2018 a major vulnerability was disclosed that impacts nearly all end user and server technology in use today. This notice is meant to urge you to pay special attention to systems that are impacted, as many will require out-of-cycle intervention. If you are running systems that are highly secure and they have not been patched, consider an immediate removal from production until the vulnerabilities can be resolved and systems cleared.
This post is not meant to be a comprehensive aggregation of information. You can find several reference links at the bottom with more up-to-date information. Several updates will be made to this article in the coming days for specific information around our primary technology partners.
Meltdown deals with all Intel processor technology since 1995, excluding Itanium and Atom (pre 2013). The Spectre vulnerability is much broader and impacts most modern CPU architectures including AMD and ARM (mobile technology). Vendors have known about and have been working on the vulnerabilities for some time.
But the nature of the vulnerability will require physical chip replacements or at least OS/application level software patches to protect against the vulnerability. Patches to operating systems will guarantee the flushing of memory space and maintain security, but they come at an expensive, context-switching overhead cost. This overhead will result in a measurable slow down on most systems.
You can find more information on the overall impact here.
Antivirus Software Special Note on Microsoft Windows
Some antivirus software vendors were making use of unsupported calls into Windows kernel memory. These calls were causing systems to have unexpected behavior including stop errors and blue screens. As such, Microsoft added a registry key that will be required to be present before the patches will install. Ensure your Antivirus vendor sets this key, or that they are compatible, and set the key manually. Exercise caution with setting this key and registry changes in general.
ESET update information can be found here.
Find more registry key information here.
More information on antivirus vendor tracking from Kevin Beaumont here.
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Iminent Emoticons is a browser plugin developed by IMinent. This extension offers users a whole new way to chat by adding new emojis, memes, and other interesting features to social media chats. However, upon further investigation, we did not manage to get this extension work or show up in any chat.
While installing this extension may display additional ads throughout your browsing sessions depending if it has an affiliate link for the desired search terms. It may also change your default search engine and home page to search.iminent.com (depending on the extension version).
Malware has been detected in this extension by several anti-virus programs and is therefore not recommended to keep on your computer.
Browser hijackers can get into a computer by some means or other, for instance via downloads, file sharing, and e-mail too. They can also be deployed through the installation of a web browser toolbar, add-on, or extension. A browser hijacker may also come bundled up with some freeware which you unintentionally download and install, compromising your PC security. Some of the well-known hijackers are Iminent Emoticons, Babylon Toolbar, Conduit Search, OneWebSearch, Sweet Page, and CoolWebSearch.
The existence of any browser hijacker on your computer might drastically diminish the browsing experience, track your online activities that result in serious privacy concerns, diminish overall system performance and cause application instability also.
The best ways to get rid of a browser hijacker
Certain browser hijacking can be easily reversed by discovering and eliminating the corresponding malware application through your control panel. But, most browser hijackers are hard to get rid of manually. Irrespective of how much you try to remove it, it may keep coming back again and again. Rookie computer users shouldn’t ever attempt the manual form of removal methods, as it needs in-depth system knowledge to carry out fixes on the computer registry and HOSTS file.
Installing and running antivirus applications on the affected computer could automatically delete browser hijackers and also other malicious applications. One of the greatest tools for fixing browser hijacker malware is SafeBytes Anti-Malware. It will help you get rid of any pre-existing malware in your system and gives you real-time monitoring and protection from new threats. Employ a system optimizer (such as Restoro) along with your anti-malware software to fix various registry problems, eliminate computer vulnerabilities, and enhance your computer’s overall performance.
1) Download the anti-malware on a virus-free PC.
2) Plug in the USB drive to a USB port on the clean computer.
3) Run the setup program by double-clicking the executable file of the downloaded application, with a .exe file format.
4) Select the drive letter of the USB drive as the place when the wizard asks you where you want to install the anti-virus. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation.
5) Now, transfer the pen drive to the infected PC.
6) Double-click the EXE file to run the Safebytes tool right from the pen drive.
7) Run Full System Scan to identify and get rid of all sorts of malware.
Highlights of SafeBytes Anti-Malware
To help protect your computer or laptop from many different internet-based threats, it’s important to install an anti-malware application on your personal computer. However, with so many anti-malware companies in the market, nowadays it is difficult to decide which one you should buy for your computer. A few are worth your money, but many aren’t. You should pick a company that creates industry-best antimalware and has gained a reputation as reliable. Among few good programs, SafeBytes Anti-Malware is the highly recommended software for the security-conscious user.
SafeBytes anti-malware is a highly effective and easy-to-use protection tool that is designed for users of all levels of computer literacy. With its outstanding protection system, this tool will instantly detect and get rid of most of the security threats, including browser hijackers, viruses, adware, ransomware, PUPs, and trojans.
SafeBytes has excellent features when compared with various other anti-malware programs. Here are some of the best ones:
Robust, Anti-malware Protection: This deep-cleaning anti-malware software program goes much deeper than most anti-virus tools to clean your PC. Its critically acclaimed virus engine locates and disables hard to remove malware that hides deep within your PC.
Active Protection: SafeBytes provides complete and real-time security for your PC. They’re extremely effective in screening and getting rid of different threats since they’re constantly improved with new updates and safety measures.
Web Security: SafeBytes provides an instant safety rating to the web pages you are about to visit, automatically blocking unsafe sites and ensuring that you are certain of your online safety while browsing the web.
Faster Scanning: SafeBytes Anti-Malware has a multi-thread scan algorithm that works up to five times faster than any other protection software.
Minimal CPU and RAM Usage: This application is not “heavy” on the computer’s resources, so you’ll not see any performance issues when SafeBytes is working in the background.
24/7 Online Tech Support: For any technical problems or product support, you can get 24/7 expert assistance via chat and e-mail.
SafeBytes will keep your computer protected from the latest malware threats automatically, thereby keeping your web experience safe and secure. You now may realize that this particular tool does more than just scan and eliminate threats from your PC. So if you’re trying to find a comprehensive antivirus program that’s still easy to use, SafeBytes Anti-Malware is exactly what you will need!
Technical Details and Manual Removal (Advanced Users)
If you don’t wish to use malware removal software and like to eliminate Imminent Emoticons manually, you could do so by going to the Add/Remove Programs menu in the Control Panel and deleting the offending program; in cases of web browser plug-ins, you could remove it by visiting the browsers Add-on/Extension manager. You may also want to reset your home page and search engine providers, and also delete temporary files, browsing history, and internet cookies.
If you choose to manually remove the system files and Windows registry entries, utilize the following checklist to make sure you know exactly what files to remove before executing any actions. Please keep in mind that only experienced computer users should try to manually edit the system files because deleting any single vital registry entry results in a major problem or even a PC crash. In addition to that, some malware is capable of replicating or preventing deletion. You are urged to do this procedure in Safe Mode.
Files:
%PROGRAMFILES%\IMinent Toolbar\TbHelper2.exe %PROGRAMFILES%\IMinent Toolbar\tbhelper.dll %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\IMinent Toolbar\uninstall.exe
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\access connections.resources.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\acwizres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\diagres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\f5res.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\guihlprres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\iconres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\iminent_toolbar.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\mainguires.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\p2pres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\svchlprres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\tbcommonutils.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\tbcore3.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\trayres.dll
C:\Program Files\iminent toolbar\update.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\setup3.iminent.com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\setup2.iminent.com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\setup3.iminent.com
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After Apple announced watchOS 3 at WWDC in June, I snagged a copy of iOS 10 and installed it on my iPhone 6s Plus. Then I upgraded my Apple Watch to watchOS 3. I had low expectations for watchOS 3, but I was delighted to find that it was far better than I’d thought. I’ve been running the developer preview of watchOS 3 for the last few weeks on my 38mm Space Gray Apple Watch, and I’m astounded at how it makes my watch feel like a whole new device. In some ways watchOS 3 almost makes me think I’m running a second generation Apple Watch since the overall experience is so much better than watchOS 2.Here are five reasons why I love watchOS 3:1. The DockIn watchOS 3, Apple finally dumped the Friends feature and replaced it with a Mac-like Dock when you press the side button. The company also did away with the old Glances and replaced them with Cards. This simple change has made my Apple Watch feel almost like a brand new device. When using watchOS 2, I hardly ever pressed the Friends button. I knew it was there but it just wasn’t a feature I needed to use on a daily basis. But now the side button pulls up the Dock instead, and I use it multiple times each day. It’s very easy to swipe between cards (or use the Digital Crown), or to swipe up to remove them. You can also long press on a card to move it and change the order of the cards in the Dock. Your most recent app will appear at the end of the list of cards in the Dock, and you can press on the "Keep in Dock" button if you want to add it to the Dock. I have all my most frequently used watchOS apps on the Dock, and the great thing is that they are refreshed in the background regularly. So I can quickly see information without having to wait for apps to refresh, it’s a much better system than the old Glances.2. Control CenterThe Control Center is another way that watchOS 3 has become more like iOS. If you swipe up from the bottom of your Apple Watch, you can see the Control Center. The Control Center gives you quick access to certain important Apple Watch functions. The Control Center lets you quickly see your battery life, switch Airplane Mode on or off, enable or disable silent mode, turn on or turn off Do Not Disturb, ping your iPhone, or even lock your Apple Watch. I’ve found the Control Center in watchOS 3 to be extremely useful. It’s a real timesaver compared to having to go into my Apple Watch’s settings to change the functions I listed above.3. Easy watch face switchingAnother sweet new feature in watchOS 3 is the ability to swipe right or left to change your watch’s face. This is something that I had not expected Apple to do at all, but it is a much faster way of switching faces than using Force Touch. It also makes using multiple watch faces much more viable. At different times of the day, I will switch to a different watch face in watchOS 3. But in watchOS 2 I more or less used the same watch face as changing it involved more steps.4. Better messaging interfaceApple has now added three buttons to the watchOS 3 Messages interface. The buttons make it easier to access emojis, dictation, sketching, taps, heartbeats, etc. Tapping the first button gives you access to your emojis, the second button lets you access common responses, dictation and the ability to scribble a message via handwriting, and the third button lets you sketch. Overall these changes to the messaging interface in watchOS 3 are very well done. I particularly liked being able to scribble a message, the feature is remarkably accurate and very easy to use.5. The Breathe appApple has included a new app called Breathe in watchOS 3. It’s a simple but useful feature that reminds you to take a break and breathe every four hours or so. While I’m not sure that Breathe will appeal to everyone, I can say that I actually like it. It’s yet another way that Apple is trying to improve the health and well being of its customers. Even if you’re initially skeptical about Breathe, give it a try and stick with it for a while. You might find that it’s a great way to take a moment to calm down, relax and center yourself.watchOS 3 is the best version of watchOS yetAs you can tell, I’m quite taken with watchOS 3. In many ways it feels like the watchOS we should have gotten right from the start. But I can’t blame Apple for needing a few versions to get watchOS right, the Apple Watch is an entirely new platform after all. But watchOS 3 shows that Apple has been listening carefully to Apple Watch users, and the company has made sure to make the improvements necessary to make watchOS a terrific platform.watchOS 3 will be released this fall, and it’s going to make a lot of Apple Watch users very happy indeed. Here's a video preview of watchOS 3 that will walk you through many of the new features:
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On July 13-16 Microsoft will be holding its annual partner event, the Worldwide Partner Conference, in New Orleans. WPC 2009 is the company’s premier event for the business partners who generate more than 95 percent of Microsoft’s revenue.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, will kick off day two of the event with a keynote focused on how STB is helping partners seize opportunities even in tough times.
Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing, and Neil Charney, general manager of Application Platform Communications, will then dive deeper into the partner opportunities with core infrastructure and application platform solutions during their value keynotes on days one and two. For more information, please visit the WPC 2009 virtual pressroom and the Infrastructure PressPass site.
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When I developed the computer-aided detection programme to identify tuberculosis at an early stage, I never imagined it would lead to winning first prize at Microsoft’s South Africa leg of the Imagine Cup. The competition was tough as there were many great projects – all of them meeting this year’s criteria, which was ‘Solving the World’s Toughest Problems’! It all started a couple of years ago when I overheard my fellow University of Johannesburg students discuss their Imagine Cup entries. It intrigued me. Immediately, I was inspired by the extent of their creativity and that their projects actually had the potential to address real-life issues. And I thought – hey, I can do that too!
Under the guidance of my honours project mentor, Mr Duncan Coulter, I started working on an image processing application. The great results of the project turned out to defy even my biggest expectations, as I realised it could be applied to help solve a serious problem. Mr Coulter was instrumental from initial design through to the final implementation. His general guidance, feature suggestions and design ideas were incredible.
The project started out as an application that statistically analyses the texture properties of arbitrary images such as tiles, clothing or paper. Using that data, I found areas that are similar to other given samples. Once I was able to identify and analyse those types of textures, I observed the merits of applying it to more complex textures, such as those that need to be analysed in the early detection of tuberculosis.
I realised the imaging system would be perfect in assisting a radiologist in identifying areas that have a high probability of containing tuberculosis structures as result of their texture properties.
Tuberculosis is an endemic disease affecting South Africa on so many levels, socially and economically, and it made sense to me to expand my thinking to try and address this issue. The results so far have been quite promising. As it turned out my project fit perfectly into the theme of the Imagine Cup.
What’s more, I get to represent my country and pick the innovative brains of like-minded fellow contestants at the Imagine Cup in Sydney later this year.
Innovation in South Africa is at such a promising stage, especially among the youth. We have many talented up-and-coming developers. Competitions like Imagine Cup gives them an awesome opportunity to produce great ideas for the future – possibly even “the next big thing”. The projects showcased at the last national Imagine Cup finals demonstrated this.
With the right mindset our students can compete with anyone in the world. But we have to overcome this notion of trying to imitate ideas from the USA and other countries. We as South Africans have our own style and we use technologies that give us a unique edge. Individuals should be encouraged by business and government alike to create cutting edge solutions, rather than take the safe option.
My view is that as our students move into industry, this attitude will hopefully filter through to the public and private sectors, making South Africa a top competitor globally.
As for my own dreams – I will continue development of the project as part of my master’s thesis and hopefully the system can undergo field trials in the not too distant future. The potential for this research to assist so many people is a great motivator. If the system can help stem the tide of a rampant TB epidemic in our country, it will all be worthwhile.
Tags Imagine Cup South Africa tuberculosis Comments (3) Cancel reply Name * Email * Website Hans says: March 19, 2012 at 6:56 pm What a good project, can't wait to see future work. Deserves to go further…
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Seminole State College of Florida has been recognized by the Chronicle of Education as a Great College to Work For in 2018 and has achieved Gold status for the second consecutive year by the State Board of Education. Employees at Seminole State College advance their careers in a rewarding culturally diverse environment that cultivates the leaders of tomorrow with the skills they need today.
We currently have a great opportunity to join our team of talented and diverse Faculty and Staff as a Manager of Risk Assessment and Compliance. The Manager of Risk Assessment and Compliance administers the college wide risk management function and all related activities. Responsibilities include collaborating with the Florida College System Risk Management Consortium and other internal partners to ensure risk compliance, conducting assessments and managing college-wide, property/casualty insurance programs including coordination of Worker's Compensation.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in risk management, business administration, safety, or a related field. 2. Four years of progressively responsible experience in risk management, liability insurance and/or workers’ compensation.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Certificate of Risk Management (CRM) or Associate Risk Manager (ARM). 2. Experience in enterprise risk management (ERM). 3. Experience with data collection, analysis, and preparation of written and oral reports.
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The Weather Network is one of Canada’s most visited websites and they have built a web slice for IE8 that allows you to keep an eye on your local weather.
You can grab it here –> http://www.theweathernetwork.com/desktop/webslice
Canada.com is one of the sites I visit for Canadian news and they also have built a Web Slice that has some really cool interactive features.
When you see this icon on Canada.com, or any other website, click on it to add the slice to your Favorites bar.
Accelerators
The feature I use the most so far has to be the Accelerators. I love the fact that I don’t have to copy and paste any more, just select the text and search, define, email, blog, map or…the list goes on.
You can find more Accelerators here http://www.ieaddons.com/en/accelerators as well as guidance on how to write your own here http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2008/10/04/ie8-rocks-creating-custom-accelerators.aspx
For IT professionals who use Firefox and IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW
Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well.
Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however.
Sharing of thoughts and information is what blogging is all about. This way we can learn from each other. Post A Comment!
These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use.
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We have made some changes to the version checks during package application to enable customers and partners stay current on the latest platform as far as possible.
For example, AOT packages that are created (built) on a platform update 3 development/build environment can be deployed on Dynamics 365 for Operations environment that are running on platform update 3 or any newer (compatible) release of the platform.
We now have a permanent page in the LCS Blog that will be kept up to date with the known issues in Lifecycle Services that Microsoft is tracking and is currently investigating. This can be accessed from the Announcements section on the LCS dashboard.
We're always looking for feedback and would like to hear from you. Please head to the Dynamics 365 Community to start a discussion, ask questions, and tell us what you think!
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Watch the replay of "Preventing Disaster: How to get ahead - and stay ahead - of business and product risk".
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When it comes to wiping out computer virus threats, bullguard review is one of the better antivirus courses on the market. Additionally, it is very easy to install and apply. The installation wizard is not hard and only takes a few clicks to complete. In addition , the company’s support representatives are useful and answer inquiries punctually. They have a lot of online resources obtainable, including a extensive FAQ section and multiple manuals.
Moreover to classic anti-virus features, bullguard review offers features that protect you from malware and phishing scams. Their firewall prevents incoming moves and keeps track of network activity for shady behavior. It also warns you if websites in search effects host trojans or try to phish your data. discover here BullGuard also removes spam and keeps the inbox clean.
AV-Comparatives set bullguard through the paces during testing and found it as a solid choice for Windows several protection. It performed well inside the lab tests that measure traditional virus recognition and real-time scanning. Additionally, it scored full of our tests that gauge the rate of false benefits.
Some of the additional features include a tune-up utility (available on Internet Secureness and Superior Protection), which in turn helps speed up your computer by cleaning out short-term files, customizing memory usage, and fixing broken registry entries. A parental control feature allows parents monitor their children’s on the net activities, plus the Identity Security characteristic works to prevent stolen visa or mastercard details and also other personal information right from falling in to the wrong hands.
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More than a few enterprise security managers must have shuddered when they heard about the lawsuit filed against...
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A Miami man blames Bank of America for more than $90,000 stolen in an unauthorized wire transfer to Latvia. Joe Lopez filed a lawsuit on Feb. 7 claiming that Bank of America had not alerted him to malicious code that could -- and indeed had -- infected his computer. A forensic investigation by the U.S. Secret Service revealed that a Trojan called Coreflood, which acts as a keystroke logger, had compromised one of his PCs. Should Bank of America be liable? Share your thoughts in our SoundOff forum. "A win for Lopez could really rock the already shaky foundations of e-commerce, from Internet banking and trading to online shopping," said Stephen Cobb, a security expert and the author of Privacy for Business. "An unresolved tension has always existed between the responsibility of financial institutions to fully disclose the risks inherent in Internet usage and their desire to get more people to use the Internet." This is the first known case of a U.S. banking customer suing for a loss that was the result of a hacking incident. Though the cause of the infection hasn't been determined, many experts say the likely culprit was phishing, either through an e-mail or Web site that pretends to come from a legitimate company and solicits the recipient's confidential information.
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Samsung will reportedly partner with Verizon Wireless on its recently announced Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet. The partnership, reported by BoyGeniusReport, is based on an alleged screenshot of Verizon's internal systems, which list the Samsung tablet. The official announcement of the 7-inch tablet is slated for September 2. Samsung has only disclosed only a few details about the Galaxy Tab so far. However, in a bid to drum up anticipation for iPad 'killer', Samsung released earlier this month a teaser video of the Galaxy Tab tablet. The video doesn't reveal much, except the 7-inch screen size, and the fact that it will have a rather sizeable camera on the back, something missing from Apple's hit-selling tablet.
According to BoyGeniusReport, Verizon will be the carrier of choice for Samsung's Android tablet.
Specifications Unknown
Mimicking Apple, Samsung kept most of the details of the Galaxy Tab under wraps so far. However, this left plenty of room for speculation and rumors. Chinese site iFanr had some hands-on time (with photos) with a Tab prototype earlier this month, and let slip that the tablet will have a 1024 by 600 pixels AMOLED screen, 3.2-megapixel camera, and a front-facing camera for video calls.
Earlier reports also indicate the Samsung Galaxy Tab will run on a 1GHz processor (like the Samsung Galaxy S series smartphones, together with GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity.
As for software, the Galaxy Tab will come with Android 2.2, together with support for Adobe Flash. Support for SWYPE typing technology would be embedded with the software keyboard, but there's no word whether Samsung's TouchWiz Android UI modifications will allow for Android Market functionality. Pricing for the Samsung tablet is also on the unknown list. If Verizon indeed proves to be the exclusive carrier for the Tab, then there is the possibility of subsidized prices, probably above the usual $199 (with a two-year contract) high-end smartphones sell for right now.
Image from Ifanr WebsiteImitation As Flattery
From the photos at iFanr, Samsung flattered Apple's connection cable for iPads and iPhones, with its own white version of the 30-pin connector.
The browser interface on the Tab looks strikingly similar to Apple's Mobile Safari for iOS. Samsung's TouchWiz customized Android UI, as seen on Galaxy smartphones, also imitates Apple's iOS look with square icons in a grid.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/204523/Samsung_Galaxy_Tablet_Is_Verizon_bound_Report_Says.html
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Epic Games' Infinity Blade is the first real game to utilize Unreal Engine technology on a handheld, and it's easily the most impressive looking game available on the iPhone. It actually plays quite similarly to Nintendo's Punch-Out series, albeit with gorgeous animation and RPG elements like the ability to buy new weapons and armor for your fighter. Blocking, slashing, and dodging blows is the cornerstone of the gameplay, and as you die, opponents simply become more and more difficult to finish off.
It's unbelievable that Infinity Blade runs as well as it does on a mobile phone, and hopefully it's a sign of more to come from Epic Games and other ambitious developers.
Why It's Better on iPad: OK, you see those awesome graphics, right? It looks even better on the iPad. Heck, we'd even say that it rivals some console games, and for an iOS device, that's pretty darn impressive.
A stellar example of minimalist video game design done right, Tiny Wings is a perfect storm of accessibility. One-touch gameplay that's easy to learn, but difficult to master; a charming, colorful palette that's constantly changing with each new game; and host to a seemingly endless array of diverse objectives that're always increasing in difficulty. There's a reason that German iOS dev Andreas Illinger's little-App-that-could has sold more than two million copies -– and we'll tell you what that reason is. Um, right after we wrap up this game.
Why It's Better on iPad: Watching your feathered friend soar through the sky is impressive on the iPhone and iPod, but seeing the skies really open up on iPad is a thrill.
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Angry Birds Rio may be a shameless tie-in for the computer animated movie Rio, but that doesn't detract from the quality that developer Rovio put into the game at all. Consider this sequel/expansion a vastly more polished version of the original Angry Birds, as you try to free your exotic feathered friends from captivity in all-new levels and puzzles. Sure, there's no war with the Green Pigs here, but the gameplay will still have you replaying level after level as you try to bust the feathered mascots free of their cages.
With all the updates added so far, Angry Birds Rio brings over 130 new levels to your iPhone, so expect to get comfortable as you try to aim the furious fowl at just the right angles to rack up the highest scores you possibly can.
Why It's Better on iPad: Hey, with an iPad, you can see so much of the levels that you really don't need to zoom in. Aiming's a lot easier as a result. But more seriously, the new levels in this franchise-themed spin-off are just great to see on the iPad's high-definition screen.
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In the objective of fulfilling of its legal obligations, LeadNet doo Belgrade, company registration number 21377180 (hereinafter: Company or Controller) collects and processes personal data related to persons applying for job positions on the labor force market. Collected personal data includes: CV data – name and surname, address of residence, contact information, data on acquired work experience, education data, data on acquired certificates and skills, Letters of Recommendations, Motivation Letters and other personal data mandatory for employment purposes.
Data shall be used for the purpose of legal obligations pertaining to personal data processing, for the needs of fulfilment of concluded agreements or concluding of agreements, as well as for the purpose of fulfilment of Controller’s legal obligations, and only assigned employees of the Controller shall have access to such data.
Pursuant to the Law on Personal Data Protection (Official Gazette of the RS no. 87/2018), the representative of the business partner, to whom the personal data refers to, is hereby notified as follows:
Collected personal data may, for the purpose of processing, be transferred to data processors/third parties/data recipients in compliance with the above-defined objectives of collecting and processing of personal data.
Collected personal data may be transferred to countries outside of the Republic of Serbia and the EU in the objective of fulfilment of contractual obligations. In the event that the countries or international organizations, to which personal data is being transferred to, do not possess the appropriate level of protection, the transfer of personal data shall be allowed only if model contract or binding corporate rules are in place; or through harmonization with approved certification mechanism or privacy protection frameworks in order to ensure the protection of personal data.
In the objective or exercising its rights, the person to whom personal data pertains to, may submit a written request to the official address: LeadNet doo Belgrade, Kralja Milutina 30, 11000 Belgrade, marked “For Personal Data Protection“.
The Company has appointed Controller employee Sladjana Ginic as person responsible for personal data protection, whose contact information is as follows: [email protected], +381 11/450-48-17.
The person to whom personal data pertains to, has the right to, at any given moment, lodge a complaint related to processing of relevant personal data, based on his/her specific situation.
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Properties of PUP.PC Purifier infection
PUP.PC Purifier invades user system with the very objective of destroying user’s PC in every possible way and the effects starts reflecting right upon the infection find its way into user system. Its fake scanning tactics, notification & alerts and more keep the infected PC occupied and renders it functionality useless considerably and this is what calls out for the need to get the infection wiped off completely at the earliest it could be.
Below you can find brief documentation on properties of PUP.PC Purifier threat
Fake Scanning & False Reports Generation – the rougeware upon entering the system would pretend as if scanning system and following this it shows fabricated alert messages & pop-ups all in order to scare users & let them believe of the non-existent PC infections. Further, it would try to convince users for downloading fake anti-spyware to get rid of the falsely reported threats.
Fake pop-ups, alerts & notifications keep on showing every time while working on the system and this often causes interruption in user’s work meant to be performed
PUP.PC Purifier is designed with interface similar to that of other rouge programs of the category or those like genuine anti-spyware programs, which is what makes it difficult for the users to identify & differentiate between the two.
High pressure marketing tricks – aided with those fabricated alerts & messages, PUP.PC Purifier threat enforces advertising tricks asking users to purchase full version of the program so as to get rid of the infection. Yet the fake sayings need to be relied upon and the only thing required to be done at the earliest is removal of PUP.PC Purifier as soon as it is detected.
Antivirus software running on PC may be disabled by the threat in order to avoid its recognition. Likewise, other security applications running on system may be stopped from running as an impact of the infection. Download PUP.PC Purifier Automatic Remover tool to clean your pc
Fake Scanning and Rogue Activities by PUP.PC Purifier
PUP.PC Purifier is identified as a highly dangerous infection for Windows system as it not only does harm the system in all possible way, but also does modify registry entries to generate numerous alerts & notifications. All these are specially fabricated messages meant to scare users. With decisive tricks cyber criminals pretend to carry system scan post which they would notify of numerous infections in system, which actually do not exist. Further, implied from its tactics it would ask user to download those rogue anti-spyware programs it promotes in order to get the existing infections cleaned from system. But, users here need to keep note of the fact all that it states is not true and need not be relied upon. Also, the need to remove PUP.PC Purifier at the earliest is important, since the longer the threat stays in PC, more will be the damages caused which in acute cases may end up with system crash as, that would eventually result in loss of all files & folders from system.
Common alert message & reports shown by PUP.PC Purifier threat
Your system might be at risk now.
Windows reports that computer is infected.
PUP.PC Purifier Automatic Removal Tool Features –
The Automatic PUP.PC Purifier Removal tool as the name suggests is specifically designed to clean PUP.PC Purifier & associated PC infection permanently & quickly as it can be. The tool is equipped with number of advanced functions that lets it perform numerous tasks in one with all efficiency. A brief review of the software feature is as discussed below –
Effective Scanning Capability – the program is engineered with the most powerful scanning technique with which computer memory to registry keys, cookies & more could be scanned for having the infections found & removed off.
Custom Scan – with the help of this very feature specific folder may be selected & specified for scanning, instead of getting the whole drive scanned as the case requires. Memory, Cookies, Rootkits, Registry & like scan types could be specified as required & this takes much less time to be accomplished than what full scan would take.
Spyware Help-desk – this refers to the special help support that users can seek from the technical support team for having any sort of detected malware cleaned from the system.
System Guard – this blocks malicious processes from executing by integrating proactive protection elements of several types into a single panel.
In addition to the above mentioned features, there does exist the option to backup objects which can be restored using rollback feature, the functionality of exclusion which allows specific programs not being scanned during scanning & many more. So download the PUP.PC Purifier removal tool to remove the infection from the PC.
User guide to remove PUP.PC Purifier infection using PUP.PC Purifier removal tool
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http://www.spyware-buster.com/remove-pup-pc-purifier-how-to-delete-pup-pc-purifier
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To show the info about DNS server.
Shodan host search To collect host service info from Shodan. Request Shodan API key to enable the feature.
FTP connect with anonymous To check if it has anonymous access activated in port 21. FTP users can authenticate themselves using the plain text sign-in protocol (Typically username and password format), but they can connect anonymously if the server is configured to allow it. Anyone can log in to the server if the administrator has allowed an FTP connection with an anonymous login.
SSH connect with Brute Force To check ssh connection to scan with Brute Force. Dictionary data is in data/dict.
Some HTTP parameter names are more commonly associated with one functionality than the others. For example, the parameter ?url= usually contains URLs...
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Enterprise digital rights management (EDRM) is on the rise thanks to the ever-more connected aspect of how people work.
An Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey sponsored by Seclore has found that the need to collaborate with third parties, including partners, contractors, customers and more is making sharing files commonplace. About a third—34%—of participants indicated that 26% to 50% of their employees regularly share files with individuals external to their organizations. This dynamic correlates to the need for security controls such as EDRM that protect sensitive information when it travels outside of the corporate firewall.
EDRM is required for both compliance and data security purposes, ESG noted. Both reducing enterprise risk and attaining and maintaining compliance with industry regulations were cited as the expected outcomes from the use of enterprise digital rights management functionality. The parity of results between the security and compliance business drivers parallels technologies such as security information and event management (SIEM) technologies that have also been employed for both uses cases.
And in terms of which files are shared, participants reported that a multitude of sensitive file types are regularly shared with external parties including intellectual property (49%), customer information (49%), proposals and pricing documents (48%), legal agreements (47%), financial statements and business plans (44%), and more.
The survey also found that the loss of sensitive data is a top of mind concern, and is assumed to be happening. Not only did 98% of respondents cite the loss of sensitive data as a top or significant concern, but many also indicated it was very or somewhat likely that their organization has already lost data via a variety of ways in the last 12 months. Of note, participants cited data loss vectors such as files being inadvertently emailed to the wrong person (cited by 67% of respondents), unauthorized access (66%), and lost portable storage devices (61%).
Traditional methods of sharing files are still frequently utilized, including FTP, portable storage devices, and email, which were reported as in use by 58%, 60%, and 79% of respondents’ organizations respectively.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/filesharing-drives-new-security/
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How to Remove Vermillion.FTP.Daemon.for. Windows. NT.v1.Denial.of. Service from Your Computer^
You can effectively remove Vermillion.FTP.Daemon.for. Windows. NT.v1.Denial.of. Service from your computer with Exterminate It!.
After installing the program, run a scan to display a list of the files associated with Vermillion. FTP.Daemon.for. Windows. NT.v1.Denial.of. Service in the Scan Result screen and remove these files. For information about running scans and removing malware files, see the Exterminate It! Help.
A trojan is a program that is disguised as legitimate software but is designed to carry out some harmful actions on the infected computer.
Unlike viruses and worms, trojans don’t replicate but they can be just as destructive.
These days trojans are very common. Trojans are divided into a number different categories based on their function or type of damage.
How Did My PC Get Infected with Vermillion. FTP.Daemon.for. Windows. NT.v1.Denial.of. Service?^
The following are the most likely reasons why your computer got infected with Vermillion. FTP.Daemon.for. Windows. NT.v1.Denial.of. Service:
Your operating system and Web browser's security settings are too lax.
You are not following safe Internet surfing and PC practices.
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Detailed technical specifications of the AMAG SR-SCK5 Access control controller, one of over 744 Access control controllers in our catalog. Download datasheet or contact manufacturer to make product inquiries.
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Running a business is a constant battle. There is never a moment when you can lean back, rub your hands together, and congratulate yourself on a job well done.
There are always problems to attend to, competitors to fight, external forces like the economy making your life harder, and evolving market trends that force you to innovate and find new ways to satisfy your customers.
Of course, many of these issues can threaten the future health of your business, which is why it is imperative that you fight them at all costs.
A corporate data breach is one of the most feared problems a business can face.
Although it is easy to brush this off as a problem that always happens to other, more careless companies, any business can be targeted – and it takes strong defenses to protect yourself from it.
There are several reasons why a corporate data breach is so damaging.
First, it can compromise your employees, customers, and your financial information. This can wreck the lives of anyone involved and drain your company’s coffers.
A breach can also inflict heavy damage to your reputation, which is difficult to recover from.
One of the best ways to combat a potential data breach is to ensure you have the latest antivirus software and specialist network protection software installed on every corporate computer and device.
What’s more, you need to update the devices to ensure there are no glitches or weaknesses a hacker can break through.
What’s more, you need to keep managing your CMS, website, and any other central digital tool you use to minimize any chance of loopholes, viruses, or other issues from cropping up.
If you want to learn more about cybersecurity and how to keep your data secure, click here.
Enforce strict password policies
Another sensible way to safeguard your business against data breaches is to ensure you have a strict password policy in place.
Few people actually bother to set strong, unique passwords for each of their accounts.
Due to the sheer number of passwords, the average person needs to remember; your employees may cut corners by using a simplistic, personal password for corporate accounts or fail to secure them with two-factor authentication.
To help this, make it a company policy for passwords to be of a certain complexity. If your team is unsure about how to do this, arrange training sessions to teach them about password best practices.
Have an IT support team
Finally, you should consider enlisting the services of a full-time IT support team.
It is invaluable to have a group of experts managing your IT estate, closing any gaps in your security, advising you on cybersecurity best practices, and being on hand to remove any intruders if you suffer a data breach.
It will also give you the peace of mind that you are doing everything you can to avoid a breach, which removes the stress of thinking you may have left yourself vulnerable.
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https://www.meritline.com/how-to-prevent-a-corporate-data-breach/
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U.S. Army Expanding PackBot Contract With iRobotiRobot has expanded its catalog of military and security robots in recent months, including very small LANdroids used by soldiers in urban settings. The expanding applications of ground tactical robots manufactured by iRobot has resulted in the Army awarding a contract to the company valued at up to $200 million for equipment and service over the next five years.
According to an announcement from iRobot on Tuesday, the contract from the United States Army's program executive office for simulation, training, and instrumentation replaces an earlier contract that had been solely for purchases of iRobot PackBot robots.
The company, which makes robots for both military and commercial markets, noted that it has delivered more than 1,700 PackBot robots to date.
"As the Army continues to utilize ground tactical robots with greater frequency, new applications for these robots are being identified," said Joe Dyer, president of iRobot government and industrial robots, in a statement. "We are pleased that this contract will allow iRobot to expand our product offering as the Army sees fit, as each of our robots possesses specific capabilities that allow troops to complete a wide range of missions."
Earlier this summer, the Army awarded $17.5 million to iRobot to deliver 220 PackBots. The company has developed additional military and security robots in recent months, including very small devices called LANdroids that are so small that a single dismounted soldier can carry multiple versions of the robots to be thrown about in urban settings; the robots then communicate via mesh network, self-configuring even when some have been blown up or otherwise disabled.
Last month, iRobot unveiled a low-cost tactical robot for public safety organizations that can climb stairs, test for dangerous chemicals, and alert public safety officials of the results. Called the Negotiator, the small robot is slated for delivery by the end of the year.
CVE-2013-7445Published: 2015-10-15The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.x mishandles requests for Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) objects, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an application that processes graphics data, as demonstrated b...
CVE-2015-4948Published: 2015-10-15netstat in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x, when a fibre channel adapter is used, allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2015-5660Published: 2015-10-15Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in eXtplorer before 2.1.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that execute PHP code.
CVE-2015-6003Published: 2015-10-15Directory traversal vulnerability in QNAP QTS before 4.1.4 build 0910 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0 RC2 build 0910, when AFP is enabled, allows remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by leveraging access to an OS X (1) user or (2) guest account.
CVE-2015-6333Published: 2015-10-15Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 1.1j allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving addition of an SSH key, aka Bug ID CSCuw46076.
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy with debts of $63.6 million
Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy, its lawyer told Japanese media at the Tokyo District Court
Embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is filing for bankruptcy protection with liabilities of ¥6.5 billion (US$63.6 million), according to Japanese media reports.
A lawyer for the exchange, which had suspended bitcoin withdrawals weeks ago, made the announcement at a press conference at the Tokyo District Court.
CEO Mark Karpeles also apologized for the exchange's collapse, according to media reports.
The fall of Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest exchange for the digital currency, came amid reports that about 744,000 bitcoins had gone missing, either due to criminal fraud or theft.
Its website went offline this week as U.S. and Japanese authorities began looking into the situation surrounding the Tokyo-based exchange.
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/539457/bitcoin_exchange_mt_gox_files_bankruptcy_debts_63_6_million/
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Restore Ransomware is classified as a ransomware that completely damages targeted Windows system. It sneaks secretly without users notification when freeware such as PDF creators, software updates, music players, video streaming, etc. is downloaded. Once Restore Ransomware is activated, it makes harmful modifications in PC settings and encrypts all files or folders. It makes your data inaccessible and demands a big ransom from you in order to decrypt your files. Moreover, it also affects browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome and thus exploits your surfing. Hence, it is mandatory to remove Restore Ransomware quickly without doing any delay.
While inside a computer, Restore Ransomware displays fake security warnings about hazardous threats and scares you in believing that your PC is badly attacked. But these alerts are completely fake being intended to extort money from you. Apart from this, it also steals all your sensitive information like login name, password, credit card number, FTP credentials, etc. No doubt, presence of the ransomware would make your PC condition worsen and also retards its performance. Therefore, we strictly advised to permanently delete Restore Ransomware from the attacked computer using a proven anti-spyware program.
How Restore Ransomware Invades In Your PC
It infiltrates in your PC bundled with freeware third party application.
It is also delivered with spam emails.
It infects your PC due to using infected media drives.
Visiting questionable or porn site can inject Restore Ransomware in your machine.
Due to clicking malicious links in your computer.
While sharing file from one PC to another via p2p network.
Due to using pirated software in your system.
It may enters your system while watching online videos.
Risk Involved With Restore Ransomware Virus
Restore Ransomware is certainly a very dangerous computer threat which can proves to be highly risky for your computing machine. Once it manages to get activated in your system it quickly start performing several malicious activities in your system. It is capable to cause several harmful issues in your system. Some of the most destructive issues caused by Restore Ransomware virus is discussed bellow.
It injects several malicious codes in your system.
It makes your PC very slow and unresponsive.
It keeps redirecting users on various questionable sites.
It steal users sensitive information.
It promote different undesirable ads on your browsing screen.
It disable all security measures in infected machine.
Restore Ransomware will secretly download other harmful threats in your PC.
It causes frequent system crash and hard drive failure issues.
It allows the hackers to access in your computer remotely.
Open Firefox browser and click on gear (☰) icon to open Menu.
Click on Add-Ons option from drop down menu.
Go to Extensions option from left panel.
First of all open Firefox and click gear (☰) icon.
Now click on (?) icon from drop down list to open Help Menu.
Choose “Troubleshooting Information” and hit “Refresh Firefox” button.
Well, Microsoft Edge browser does not have the extension option so you should better reset browser settings to remove Restore Ransomware from your Edge browser.
Open Internet Explorer and Click on “Tools” menu from upper right corner.
Select “Internet option” from drop down list.
Choose “Advanced tab” and click on “Reset” button.
Check out “Delete personal settings” check box, and click on “Reset” button.
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Thefts of personal information during a cybersecurity breach erode trust on the part of customers investors, employees, and other stakeholders, demonstrating the link between cyber risk and social risk. The new disclosure and reporting requirements embedded in the Security and Exchange Commission’s latest regulations governing the oversight of cybersecurity underline the link between governance risk and cyber risk.
All this evidence shows that either cybersecurity is already part of ESG, and, perhaps, a more appropriate abbreviation should be ESGC. Most enterprise risk management policies have already expanded their oversight from purely financial risk to these other areas, including cybersecurity. Cyber risk can be as harmful to a company’s reputation and value as any other ESG issue, and the damage is inflicted and experienced in much the same way. As cyberattacks increase in size and frequency, the direct and indirect damage to companies — including loss of customer confidence, reputational damage, potential impact on the stock price and possible regulatory actions or litigation — arguably touches all aspects of ESG.
It’s important for companies to respond to growing stakeholder concern about these issues through transparent disclosures that detail how they manage these risks across all the ESG pillars and, in some cases specifically, focus on the “C” of cybersecurity. Board oversight of cybersecurity and technological risk may be strengthened if it is handled by the same committee that oversees ESG risk.
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The FBI is looking for a contractor to “proactively identify and reactively monitor” social media accounts for national security threats.
According to the July 8 request for proposal, the FBI is seeking “access to tools that will allow for the exploitation of lawfully collected/acquired data from social media platforms that will be stored, vetted and formatted by a vendor.” “The mission-critical exploitation of social media will enable the Bureau to detect, disrupt, and investigate an ever growing diverse range of threats to U.S. National interests,” adds the RFP.
The firm fixed-price contract would begin in Sept. 29 for a base period of one year, with four additional years possible.
“The use of social media platforms, by terrorist groups, domestic threats, foreign intelligence services, and criminal organizations to further their illegal activity creates a demonstrated need for tools to properly identify the activity and react appropriately. With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms in a timely fashion,” the RFP continues. “Consequently, the FBI needs near real time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available in furtherance of its law enforcement and intelligence missions.”
On the statement of objectives, the FBI said it wants to receive alerts “derived from constant monitoring of social media platforms based on keywords relevant to national security and location” with priority content filtering for “specific subjects, identifiers, geographic location, keywords, photographic tagging.” “Notifications are sent via email to either a team account or individual user accounts based on real time threat, incidents as they tie to the geolocation of interest. Selected tool must allow for customization of delivery frequency, content of interest and geographical layers by the user directly,” the procurement document adds. “…Users are able to select to monitor the development of a notification-of-interest, as well as seek relevant historical social media traffic for further analysis.”
The Bureau also wants to “obtain the full social media profile of persons-of-interest and their affiliation to any organization or groups through the corroboration of multiple social media sources,” including “user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers, along with likely additional account with similar IDs or aliases.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned at a September 2018 conference that incidents have shown “the reach and influence of social media propaganda on our youth” with radicalization at “younger and younger ages.”
In April at the Council on Foreign Relations, Wray said Russia remains a significant threat to election security as “they use social media … to try and spin us up and pit us against each other and to undermine Americans faith in democracy.” “They’re not beating around the bush in terms of how pervasively they’re monitoring social media content,” ACLU National Security Project senior staff attorney Hugh Handeyside tweeted about the RFP.
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Ex NFL player has been found guilty to one count of unauthorized access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, leading to 12-year imprisonment.
South Florida native and former National Football League (NFL) Player, Kenbrell Armod Thompkins, 33, pleaded guilty this week over charges of identity theft and COVID-19 relief fraud. Thompkins reportedly stole other people’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to obtain COVID-19-related unemployment insurance benefits.
The culprit admitted in federal district court that between August 16, 2020, and September 25, 2020, he used stolen social security numbers and confidential PII of Florida residents to acquire unemployment insurance debit cards from California and to withdraw thousands of dollars from such cards.
According to the US Department of Justice, the US District Court Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. will be sentencing Thompkins on January 6, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in Miami.
In 2020, the Covid Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress to help individuals and business entities financially survive the COVID-19 pandemic through the provision of state unemployment insurance benefit programs. However, the FTC reported that complaints related to identity theft more than doubled between 2019 and 2020, reaching a value of 1.38 million. This tally also includes complaints made related to identity theft that caused unemployment insurance fraud.
Financial institutions such as banks typically equip themselves with AI-powered KYC verification technologies to detect fraudulent documents such as credit cards during the initial stage of onboarding. Additionally, AI models detect suspicious patterns within seconds, resulting in the timely prevention of identity fraud and resulting financial crimes.
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Europol says the impact of a global cyber attack is unprecedented.
More than 200 000 victims in 150 countries have been affected after the WannaCry ransomware virus took control of users' files, demanding payments; Russia and the UK were among the worst-hit countries.
State Security Minister David Mahlobo is this week expected to discuss the cyber attack which has also hit South Africa.
READ: Cyber attacks hit more than 150 countries since Friday
Heino Gevers is the Director of Customer Experience at Mimecast.
He has made repeated calls for consumers to avoid paying the $300 bit coin ransom in order to have your files unlocked.
Most importantly what customers and consumers should be concerned about is how easy it is to be exploited to one of these ransomware attacks.
Zizi Kodwa says the ANC must not only improve its vetting processes but start introducing lifestyle audits for its employees.
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Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Hulu video are just fine.
At Rancocas Valley Regional High School, cybersecurity systems are set to block student access to social media but allow teens to stream music and video on classroom devices, according to records released after a legal appeal to the New Jersey Government Records Council.
Beginning Nov. 8, this news organization filed open records requests with all Burlington County school districts.
Four months later, on Jan. 10, district officials released the requested information while apologizing for the delay.
“I reviewed the District’s initial response which did not include all of the documents I advised them to produce,” said George M. Morris, attorney for the school district. “Not sure where there was a breakdown in communication.”
Public schools are required by federal law to protect students from inappropriate content.
The information released by area schools districts shows that they have different standards for filtering content, protecting students and staff as well as the equipment financed by taxpayers.
In October, Cherry Hill School District in Camden County discovered some of its computer systems had been locked down and some district computer screens displayed the word “Ryuk,” a term associated with ransomware attacks.
Rancocas Valley is home to some 2,100 students from Eastampton, Hainesport , Lumberton, Mount Holly and Westampton.
In addition to streaming audio and video, Rancocas Valley students are allowed to access shopping, news and media, sports and travel websites, records show. A long list of blocked content includes dating, gambling, pornographic materials, sex education, tobacco, “sports hunting” and “war games.”
So far, records were provided by Bordentown Regional, Burlington City, Burlington Township, Cinnaminson, Delanco, Eastampton, Florence, Lenape Regional, Lumberton, Maple Shade, Medford, Moorestown, Mount Laurel, North Hanover, Palmyra, Riverside, Riverton, Shamong, Southampton, Springfield and Westampton.
Similar records requests are pending with Beverly City, Chesterfield, Edgewater Park, Evesham, Mansfield, the Northern Burlington County Regional School District and Willingboro schools.
Appeals have been filed with the New Jersey Government Records Council.
Under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, government agency must respond within seven days after receiving a request. Government agencies “must ordinarily grant immediate access to budgets, bills, vouchers, contracts,” according to the records council.
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The repercussions of identity theft can range from embarrassment to serious legal and financial injury. Assess your risk, safeguard your identity, and hire an attorney in Springfield, Missouri if your identity gets stolen.
According to Federal Trade Commission data, Missouri residents reported 13,372 incidents of identity theft in 2021. Fortunately, only 628 of those reports came from the Springfield metro area. One of the most common types of identity theft, especially recently, involves fraudulent applications for government benefits. In fact, KY3 News reports that a local teacher was recently the victim of unemployment fraud. The thief stole her identity and applied for unemployment benefits in her name. Sadly, this type of identity theft has seen a huge increase over the last 2 years.
What Is Identity Theft?
Identity theft is one of the most common crimes in the modern world, and criminals are constantly finding new ways to steal your information. These crimes involve the fraudulent use of components of your identity, such as SSNs, driver’s licenses, or credit cards.
Thieves may have already used your identity to open new financial accounts without your knowledge. Other criminal actions can include fake tax returns, fraudulent purchases, and receiving medical care under your insurance. While dealing with customer service departments for a solution, an experienced Springfield, MO attorney can fast-track the process. In some circumstances, taking this step is necessary to get the attention of companies and recover your losses.
How Does Identity Theft Happen in Springfield, Missouri?
Identity theft can happen in many ways. Hackers are constantly advancing their data-stealing techniques. However, there are some long-standing causes of identity theft that every consumer should be aware of:
Data Breaches – Companies often store personal financial information for subscriptions, auto-pay, or express checkout. Hackers can break into these companies’ servers to extract the personal information of thousands of people at a time.
ATM or Card Skimmers – Hackers can place devices called skimmers that read your card’s information when you use it. The most common places for skimmers to are in ATM devices or at gas pumps. Some have even found their way into convenience stores and pharmacies.
Digital Malware and Viruses – Hackers can access your information through phishing, fake websites, and file-sharing networks. Be vigilant when receiving emails from questionable accounts or when browsing online. Often, hackers will disguise their phishing attempts as recognizable brands or platforms.
Physical Theft – Thieves can access your personal information by stealing your mail, purse, or wallet. It’s critical to keep your personal belongings secure and shred confidential information before throwing it out.
Change Of Address – Another creative way hackers can steal your information is by changing your address with different services you use. Once the mail reroutes to the new address, they can access the information you normally get sent to your real address.
Public WiFi – While public WiFi networks are convenient, they rarely encrypt the connection. Most competent hackers can break into public networks and remotely access devices connected to them. Only use public WiFi networks if absolutely necessary, and always with a VPN.
The first thing you can do is immediately contact your financial institutions and suspend any compromised cards. Some companies will also allow you to block any further usage directly from their app.
The next step is to contact the institutions where you have discrepancies. If you see suspicious transactions, reach out to the places or services where they occurred. Additionally, you should close any accounts or cancel any subscriptions that may have become compromised.
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office provides identity theft resources, both for prevention and damage control. One recommendation is to report the crime to local law enforcement, such as the Springfield Police Department. In addition, you should contact one of the three credit bureaus and have them place a fraud alert in your credit file. Unfortunately, you will typically have to contact your banks and creditors directly to close accounts or dispute charges.
You should also consider a credit monitoring account if you don’t already have one. These services provide oversight on your credit accounts and alert you when there is suspicious activity. You can either temporarily freeze the account or close it out entirely. A qualified Springfield attorney can also help you right some of the wrongs you may encounter along the way.
Identity Theft Protections
Take proactive steps to protect yourself from identity theft. Some of these steps may seem like common sense. However, it’s surprising how often people disclose personal information without a second thought. We recommend you take the following precautions to avoid someone stealing your identity:
Do not respond to any unsolicited requests asking for personal information.
Do not click any suspicious links in unsolicited emails.
Enable all security and two-step verification protocols on your electronic devices.
Use complex passwords and change them frequently.
Install any firewall and malware detection software on your electronic devices.
Properly shred or tear up any documents with personal or financial information before discarding them in the trash.
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1. What is the #1 reason most people don’t lock up their website?
Lack of awareness of the risks and consequences, and the belief especially amongst small business owners that they’re too small to be noticed by hackers. They’re not aware that most hackers use automated tools to find vulnerable sites. Most small business owners are too busy to think about security in any depth. While they’re often aware generally of security issues, they often don’t connect those threats with their own business. So they don’t set aside the time and resources need to make sure even the most basic website security precautions are followed.
2. Why is website security so important?
Your website is your brand, your storefront, and often your first contact with customers. If it’s not safe and secure, those critical business relationships can be compromised. The threats can come in many forms – infecting a website with malware in order to spread that malware to site visitors, stealing customer information, like names and email addresses, stealing credit card and other transaction information, adding the website to a botnet of infected sites, and even hijacking or crashing the site.
A single security breach could be a death-knell for a small business. Most states now have strict data breach laws, and many come with stiff fines, penalties, and other costs. Even if a security breach at a small business website doesn’t trigger a data breach, it can still have a huge impact on customer trust if customers find out about it.
An unprotected website is a security risk to customers, other businesses, and public/government sites. It allows for the spread and escalation of malware, attacks on other websites, and even attacks against national targets and infrastructure. In many of these attacks, hackers will try to harness the combined power of thousands of computers and sites to launch this attacks, and the attacks rarely lead directly back to the hackers.
3. Some people may not think of web security as a way to build trust with customers. They may think that it’s simply a way to prevent malicious attacks. While prevention is important, how does web security build trust with customers?
Consumers are nervous about the security risks of the internet. For example, identity theft has been the number one consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Commission every year for the last thirteen years. Consumers seem to sense, because it’s common sense, that most small businesses can’t afford the best security and therefore it’s more likely their website presents a higher risk – whether it’s purchasing or just browsing.
The more a small business can do to build trust in the security of their website, the more likely customers are to visit, stay, buy, return, and recommend. That’s why security seals are important. Not only do they provide reassurance to customers that the website is secure and the business is aware of the risks, but customers are also so used to seeing these seals on websites, they tend to notice when a site has none.
4. What industries need to be particularly careful about securing their website?
No industry is immune. Hacking is not just about stealing data. Hackers want to create watering holes where they can hide malware as a way to spread the malware to any visitors to that site. They also want to enlist those compromised sites in Distributed Denial of Service (DDS) attacks on other sites. Any site can serve that function. When it comes to data theft, financial services, healthcare, and retail seem to be especially popular.
5. Does the FCC provide any info to help small businesses?
In October, 2011 the FCC re-launched the Small Biz Cyber Planner 2.0, a free online tool to help small businesses develop their own cybersecurity plan. The security team that helped develop the original planning tool included Symantec, Visa, and Neal O’Farrell, an advisor to SiteLock.
6. October is National CyberSecurity Awareness month. Why October? (Does it have anything to do with the holidays approaching?)
Not sure but probably picked October because the holidays are one of the busiest seasons for hackers and cybercrooks and a good time to raise awareness. SiteLock has joined other leading security and technology companies to champion this cause because awareness is a critical first step in securing business and personal assets 7. What’s the most important step that business owners should do today to protect their website?
It’s tough to pick just one. Some easy steps are to create a security plan, even a simple one, share it with everyone involved, and stick to it. Manage your passwords carefully, especially website access. And keep all computers and mobile devices free from malware so they’re not used as a launchpad for a website attack. Of course, it would be smart to enroll in a service like the one we offer at SiteLock. It’s affordable to even the smallest business yet provides the same types of website security that even the biggest businesses enjoy.
8. Does choosing the right hosting provider make a difference for web security?
Of course, the hosting company is a key to website security. The host provides the infrastructure upon which the site will be built. Just like building a house, you need a strong foundation in order to be safe. It also matters how you go about building the house, which is an important piece that website owners sometimes don’t fully understand. While the host provides the infrastructure, the site needs to be secure as well. In fact, websites are now a much more popular entry point than servers or networks, accounting for up to 80% according to a recent report from Verizon. We often use the analogy of an apartment complex. The host provides the security for the building, so if the front door hangs open and there is no buzzer system, that is the host’s responsibility. If you leave your apartment door open, though, it is still your responsibility. This is the same way with a web host and website owner.
9. How does a Content Delivery Network provide a better experience to users?
Content Delivery Networks, or CDN’s help accelerate a website’s performance. Faster sites are much more pleasant to interact with for customers, so they are more likely to stay longer and come back or buy something if they can interact with the site quickly and easily. Maybe more importantly, faster sites rank higher on search engines, so more users will see the site and can get there. SiteLock offers every iPage customer access to our TrueSpeed Content Delivery Network, which has the additional benefit of providing protection for the site owner through our TrueShield web application firewall, which blocks malicious traffic to the site.
10. Anything else business owners should know about web security?
Be proactive. It is much easier to build in security right from the start than it is to clean up after a compromise. All too often, we work with website owners who did not think about security until it is too late. The resulting downtime, reputation damage, and clean-up are much more difficult and can be much more expensive than starting with security in mind. This is definitely a case where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published on Oct 14, 2013, it has been updated for relevancy and accuracy.
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Sometimes we have to make a tough decision to hold our parents accountable for their actions.
But is there a boundary on how much our parents can infringe upon us, their children.
Redditor i-red-that-won faced that question as she took to the popular subReddit “Am I The A**hole?” or “AITA” to see if she’d made the right choice when she felt infringed upon.
“AITA for filing a police report on my mother?”
Our original poster, or OP found out that her mother had weaseled her way out of a bad situation by throwing her daughter under the bus.
“Quick backstory, when I was (15?) my mom took my SIN and hooked up cable under my name and racked up the bill and left it to later reflect on my credit bureau.” “Fast forward this year I’m getting calls from a collection agency saying that I owe $1800 for cable/internet from 2014, I say I have no clue what they are talking about and ask the address/phone number and voila it is my mothers address and phone number.”
After initially denying it, OP’s mom fessed up.
“I call her, she lies for a couple weeks about it but eventually says she did do it but ‘I always wanted to give you and your sister what you wanted and couldn’t afford to maintain the bills I’m sorry’ blah insert gaslighting and her being manipulative and making me feel like crap about it.”
And now mom has left OP in between a rock and a hard place.
“The collections agency is now saying I have to make a police report stating fraud in order to get this off my credit bureau, my mom is texting me paragraphs saying how she’s going to go to jail and that my young sister won’t have anyone to take care of her blah.”
Before she can go forward with it, OP needs to know she can do the right thing.
“Am I an a**hole for making the police report? My credit is really important to me and she’s making me feel like a* for even considering doing that.”
Reddit agreed that OP was making the right choice for her future.
“NTA however everyone who is saying they won’t take her to jail for identity theft, are crazy. Over 999$ is a felony, and if she has any priors they can and will put her in jail. Keep that in mind because the people saying she won’t go to jail are probably wrong.”~squidnie650 “NTA. But can I suggest something else?” “As a former loan officer and working in banking for 15 years I will tell you crappy parents do this to their children all the time and will continue to do so as long as they can get away with it.” “I echo the sentiments of other posters that said to not trust debt collection agencies because they bought that debt and want their money back.” “What OP needs to do (assuming OP is based in the USA) is:” “-Add a Fraud Alert to the credit report at all three credit bureaus: Experian, Transunion, and Equifax. It means no new credit can be opened under her name and SSN without the lender contacting her at a phone number she provides the credit bureaus. So if mom gets shady again, she will be stopped. Assuming mom doesn’t have OP’s phone.” “-Go to www.annualcreditreport.com to get her free credit reports that she is legally entitled to (FYI everyone with a SSN is allowed to get their credit report from each credit bureau once a year)” “-Review the credit reports and find anything that’s not hers (this includes other debts and possibly information like phone and address) and dispute them through the credit bureaus. Disputes will prove she was a minor when these occurred and should be removed.” “-Rebuild credit by opening a secured credit card. What that is, is a credit card backed by a savings account OP opened. So for example her credit union will give her a credit card with a $500 limit. Then OP has to open a savings account and deposit $500 that cannot be touched. After a two years (sometimes less) OP can then close out that savings and take the cash back and be left with just the credit card. In the event OP is bad at paying back the card, the credit union will use the money in the savings to pay off the card balance, and then close it.”~Mission_Spray “I don’t fully understand the legal implications but I do know you should never accept legal advice from a debt collector. FULL STOP. It’s like the police, they don’t have your best interest at heart. This may not be the only option. For example contacts signed by minors are voidable. Talk to a lawyer not the debt collector. Obviously your mom did a sh*tty thing, but having her arrested on the advise of a stranger with opposing interests is not a good idea. ESH.”~asami47 “NTA. Lawyer here, but not your lawyer. Is SIN a typo for SSN? If it is, and if you are in the US…consider the following possibilities, but your own attorney because I’m speaking generally.” “Minors cannot make contracts. If you were 15 when your mom did this, company may be out of luck. Shouldn’t matter that they didn’t know they were contracting with a minor.” “They may be past the statute of limitations, in which case they are also screwed. Different scenario. When did you turn 18? Assuming a statute of limitations of three years after you turned 18, they may be screwed.” “Lots of times companies will attempt to collect even if they know that can’t do it legally. Suggest you cross post in r/legaladvice to get other opinions.”~Gregorfunkenb
Though one major standout piece of advice across the board—do not take legal advice from a debt collector.
“NTA but before you do anything you need to contact equifax or TransUnion to get a copy of your credit report. They will send you this in the mail for free. Then once you get it you need to recontact them and ask them what you need to do to remove the entries that are there as a result of fraudulent activity. Do not take advice from some dude at a collection agency.”~curmudgeonchief “NTA – The first thing to do is pull your credit report. If she used your information to get cable, it is very possible that she used it for other things as well. You need to know how big of a problem you have before you decide how to handle it.” “Next think about your relationship with your mom. After this do you want a relationship with her? What about the rest of your family.” “Think about what you need in the short term financially. By short term I am thinking 3 to 5 years. Do you need to get a car loan any time soon? What about a house loan? What kind of job are you looking to get (some will pull your credit report). Are you wanting to rent an apartment alone?” “As long as this is on your credit report as unpaid and even if you pay it off this will affect you. You will not be able to get loans and if you do the interest you will have to pay will be considerably more than other people have to pay. Landlords might not be willing to rent to you. You might have to pay more for car insurance. It can, depending on the type of job, prevent you from getting a job. Are you willing to be okay with that?” “On the other hand if you file a police report, those problems go away. Assuming this is your mom’s first offense, it is unlikely she will go to jail but it is possible. She will definitely be in trouble which can include fines or community service. The odds are she will blame you for this and might very well be able to convince the rest of your family that you are the bad guy here. After all she is “family” (didn’t stop her from doing this in the first place though, but logic rarely has a place in these things). Are you willing to lose your relationship with her?” “No matter what you decide, you are not wrong. It’s a horrible position to be in. I’m sorry you are facing that.”~RedditDK2 “NTA but before you make a police report id seek advice from someone qualified. The collection agency only care about getting their money. They don’t care about your credit score or your mother or anything.” “Not sure where best to go for advice. A tax accountant? A lawyer? Not sure. ”~henchwench89 “You were a minor and could not legally enter into any contracts. Don’t always believe collection agencies…they lie sometimes. Usually after 7 years the bill they’re trying to collect expires anyway and unless you’re dumb enough to assume the debt that’s not even yours by paying on it, it shouldn’t even be on your credit next year anyway.” “I’m NOT defending your mom or what she did, just saying by law you have the right to demand (in writing) that they prove the bill is yours (which it’s not) and if they can’t do that in 30 days, you can tell the credit bureau to remove it. You have to file a formal complaint that the debt is not yours to the credit agencies (there’s 3 main ones). I’d hate for you to listen to the collection agency and they trick you into doing something that will keep it on your credit for another 7 years.” “Collections agencies buy debt and the original debtor has already written most of it off. There’s no need to put your mom in jail or report it even though what she did was dead wrong. It’s not going to help like you think it will as far as your credit and may make establishing your own credit harder by having a fraud alert on your name.” “If you’re sure she won’t do it again, focus on establishing good credit and this will soon be off your record. You’ve got every right to be mad, but focus on fixing this the right way. Don’t communicate with the collection agencies anymore, just talk to the credit reporting agencies and contest in writing the charges that are on there. The fact you were a minor should make this pretty easy to establish this was not your debt and have it removed.”~BernieTheDachshund
Though, Redditors are not sympathetic toward mom either.
OP has been put in a really tough position with people yelling at her from both sides.
“My mom racked up 8 grand in my name. I had no idea until a federal agent showed up at my job asking me why I never paid on a loan (I’m a government contractor. Not paying bills a serious no-no). Loan went to two different collection agencies, I couldn’t get the original loan paperwork. Collection agencies sometime buy loans from companies.” “Word to the wise, DON’T pay on it. Yes, do get a fraud report. Little known fact, if you don’t pay on it, after 7 years the loan goes away. My credit report was totally clear after 7 years. Do get a credit check on yourself periodically. This way you won’t get blind sided. I’m sorry this happened to you. It does suck when people you trust screw you over. NTA”~capricorn40 “NTA. If you live in US and are a minor (under 18) you cannot sign a legal contract that requires payment. That contract is unenforceable.” “Also, any collection calls in US you have the right to tell them DO NOT CALL me any more. They can then choose to take you to court (unlikely, see above) or give up. You are not liable for this debt. And you have the right to post a statement to the Credit Bureaus that you are not the person listed on this claim.” “You COULD file a fraud claim, but that is not necessary.”~wilburstiltskin “My sister took my credit and destroyed it. 35k for me alone. It has been hell. I did prosecute her ( for many other reasons including the fact she took my drivers license) and I still feel guilt like you would never believe. It has weighed on me for the two years since I have gone NC with her and bio mom.” “I sometimes cry myself to sleep over it. But I do not regret it. Actions have consequences. I cry over being the one to pull the trigger, but if I didn’t I would not be where I am now. If you do this, know that either way, she did wrong you. And either way, you cannot let her actions destroy your life. ”~cutely-insane “Just came on to say 1. NTA if you report to the police and she gets arrested, that’s entirely her fault. and 2. If you’re based in the US, you can file that it isn’t your debt and the collection agency has 30 days to prove it is in fact yours (which often times they can’t because in purchasing the debt they misplaced/never got the original paperwork, or they just don’t get around to it).” “I’m not proud to say I’ve done it a few times with unpaid debt I got myself into and it was removed from my credit report way before the 7 year mark. to add: please don’t come for me for doing what I did, it wasn’t right and I wouldn’t do it again, just mentioning it so OP has an option aside from reporting mom to the police. ”~logicalideals
Thankfully it seems like OP doesn’t need to send her mother to prison, per se, but none of this is OP’s fault and some of Reddit even understands if she chose to have her mother arrested.
The complex and dizzying system of profiting off of debt may actually come to OP’s rescue, in this case, as she will not be liable for this debt.
May all these stories have such fortunate endings.
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https://percolately.com/police-report-mother-identity-theft/
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Joy Winter May 1 Originally published at cypressdatadefense.com ・4 min read
Companies are increasingly spending money on cyber security. However, attackers are launching more sophisticated cyber attacks that are hard to detect, and businesses often suffer severe consequences from them.
In the first half of 2019 alone, data breaches exposed nearly 4.1 billion records. This is why it is imperative for businesses to empower themselves with the knowledge of how strong their cyber security is, what potential vulnerabilities exist, and how those risks can be mitigated.
Performing a cyber security risk assessment helps organizations strengthen their overall security. The primary goal of a risk assessment is to determine what the critical assets are and if a threat exploits those assets, how much it would cost to mitigate those risks and to protect your assets from a breach.
A cyber security risk assessment is the fundamental approach for companies to assess, identify, and modify their security protocols and enable strong security operations to safeguard it against attackers.
It also helps to understand the value of the various types of data generated and stored across the organization. Without determining the value of your data, it is quite difficult to prioritize and assign resources where they are needed the most.
In a cyber security risk assessment, you also have to consider how your company generates revenue, how your employees and assets affect the profitability of the organization, and what potential risks could lead to monetary losses for the company.
Once you have identified all this, you should think about how you could enhance your IT infrastructure to reduce potential risks that might lead to financial losses to the organization.
Furthermore, a cyber security risk assessment helps inform decision makers and support proper risk responses. Most C-suite executives and higher management professionals don’t have the time to delve into the minute details of the company’s cyber security operations.
A cyber security risk analysis serves as a summary to help them make informed decisions about security for their organization.
Most organizations don’t have a large budget for security risk assessments, especially small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), so it’s best to limit your scope of assessment to the most critical business information.
Spend time to define a standard for determining the importance of information and prioritizing it. Companies often include asset value, business importance, and legal standing.
Once you have created a standard and it is embedded in your organization’s cyber security risk analysis solution, use it to categorize information as minor, major, or critical.
The first and most important step to perform a cyber security risk assessment is to evaluate and determine the scope of the assessment.
This means you have to identify and prioritize which data assets to assess. You may not want to conduct an assessment of all your employees, buildings, trade secrets, electronic data, or office devices.
You need to work with the management and business users to create a comprehensive list of all the valuable assets. Some assets could be valuable because they largely impact your company’s revenue, while others could be valuable because they ensure data integrity to your users.
Once you have identified and prioritized assets that are crucial to your company, it is time to identify threats that could impact your organization.
A threat can be defined as an occurrence, individual, entity, or action that has the potential to harm operations, systems and/or exploit vulnerabilities to circumvent the security of your organization.
There is a wide range of threats that could impact an enterprise ranging from malware, IT security risks, insider threats, attackers, etc.
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https://dev.to/joywinter90/how-to-perform-a-cyber-security-risk-assessment-a-step-by-step-guide-43kc
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The reported hack of major consumer and business data aggregators has intensified doubts of the reliability of knowledge-based authentication widely used in the financial services industry, analysts say.
The computer systems of LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet and Kroll Background America were hacked by an underground identity theft service that sells social security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of Americans, Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter and author of the KrebsonSecurity blog reported on Wednesday. Krebs uncovered the hack following a seven-month investigation of the criminal site ssndob[dot]ms. The hack is significant because of the wealth of personally identifiable information (PII) collected by the three companies. The CSO password management survival guideLexisNexis operates one of the largest electronic databases for legal and public-records related information. Dun & Bradstreet licenses information on businesses and corporations for use in credit decisions, and Kroll provides information to companies for employment and drug and health screening. The amount of data stolen was not known, however, ssndob files uncovered by Krebs indicated the service had access to the companies' computer systems from three to six months. "This is a very serious breach and is much more significant than the mass credit card breaches we have been hearing about over the past few years," Avivah Litan, an analyst with Gartner, told CSOonline.[Also see: Cybercriminals shift focus to bank employees]While banks usually cover losses from credit-card fraud, the damage caused by crooks using people's PII is not so easily fixed. To authenticate people applying for credit, loans, mortgages and other financial services, banks will ask questions based on information in records compiled by data brokers. The latest breaches raise more doubt on the effectiveness of so-called knowledge-based authentication (KBA), which banks already knew was becoming increasingly less reliable. "This breach will definitely and seriously undermine trust in KBA among financial services companies who understand the implications and have to deal with them every day," Litan said. "The banks already knew KBA was broken in part, and now they will be incented to move much more quickly into alternatives. "Indeed, financial institutions will have to move beyond using a single source for information on loan applicants. "This marks the beginning of an era in which identity proofing, verification and vetting information will have to be sourced from multiple sources and providers," said Andras Cser, an analyst for Forrester Research. In a study released a year ago, Gartner said its clients reported an average failure rate of 10% to 15% on KBA that relied on public data, such as credit bureau or driver's license records. Fraud contributed to the failure rate, along with wrong information or people forgetting the answers to questions. To better protect against fraud, Gartner recommends a "layered approach" for identity proofing that includes several verification methods, including the use of internal information, which has proven more reliable than data gathered by aggregators of public records. For websites that use KBA for people who have forgotten passwords, Cser recommended also using technology that can identify the accessing device and link it to the customer. Vendors include iovation, ThreatMetrix and 41st Parameter , he said. Other alternative authentication services include those that specialize in vetting customer-provided data in loan and credit applications and online registration, Cser said. Service providers include ID Analytics.
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The American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA) experienced a data breach a few months ago; they were compromised from August of last year until March of this year. This breach was big enough that it caused the AMCA to file for bankruptcy. Organizations like Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, and BioReference Laboratories are on the hook because their patient records were accessed as part of this breach.
In the past few weeks, even more organizations impacted by the breach, including Inform Diagnostics and CompuNet Clinical Laboratories, had to notify patients that their information may have been compromised.
This is a prime example of the risks that healthcare organizations assume when contracting with third-party vendors. Third-party risk is a problem that costs the healthcare industry $23.7 billion a year, and represents the majority of security breaches outside of phishing email attacks. This AMCA breach was massive; recent updates bring the total number of affected patients to 24.3 million. Events like this are the main reason cybersecurity is so top of mind for healthcare providers.
Cybersecurity Challenges in Small Organizations
A recent KLAS-CHIME white paper identifies overarching cybersecurity practices and some subpractices that every organization should focus on to tackle cybersecurity issues. Though larger organizations have a lot of work to do, many smaller organizations remain more vulnerable than their larger counterparts.
Not surprisingly, smaller organizations in particular struggle with budget concerns and not having the necessary staffing resources. The white paper shows that small organizations are less likely to have a dedicated CISO or board-level committee and sufficient governance. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that these smaller healthcare organizations are often in smaller communities that savvy security professionals are less likely to move to.
Other best practices, like network access control (NAC) and multifactor authentication (MFA), are common at larger organizations, but no more than half of the smaller organizations are using these options.
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Those same cybersecurity concerns exist as smaller organizations look to manage their third-party risk. Their resource constraints make them less likely to be able to purchase helpful software or to engage a services firm for help. These smaller organizations are also faced with fewer staff members that can manually track and manage third-party risk.
A CISO friend shared with me that “you’re never completely secure; it’s all a matter of mitigating risk, lowering your risk scores, and accepting risk. And where you accept the risk, just try to do the best you can to control it.” Healthcare organizations must inevitably work with outside vendors to deliver care, so how can small and large organizations alike take steps to mitigate third-party risk? Below are a few examples of how organizations have addressed this challenge through software, services, and industry initiatives.
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Some organizations look to software solutions for help. Organizations can then migrate from using Excel spreadsheets for tracking third-party vendors to using these solutions that automate the processes of having a vendor fill out a risk assessment and scoring/stratifying vendors based on that risk. These solutions then track all the vendors and where they are in their processes.
But there are limitations to what these solutions can do. One CISO told me, “Nobody is going to come to the market with some fabulous solution for vendor risk management. Vendor risk management is a lot of hard, boring work. It is tracking people, assessing how they manage their program, and assessing how they get their SOC reports. There is no elegant, fancy way to do that. There are tools you can use to rate and aggregate that data, but at the end of the day, there’s not a lot of technology there.”
Another common option is to address third-party risk through professional services firms that providers can outsource to. Such services can assist already busy IT teams in higher-risk situations like bringing on a new vendor. A CISO noted, “I am augmenting our team’s risk-assessment process; they ask us for help when we do product or company risk assessments when a new vendor is coming in or when we are going to contract with a new company.”
The Provider TPRM Initiative
The Provider Third-Party Risk Management Initiative (TPRM), established last September, seeks to safeguard patient safety and information. Led by the CISOs at leading health systems like Allegheny Health Network, Tufts Medical Center, and Vanderbilt, the initiative has set requirements to effectively manage information security-related risks in their supply chain. If a vendor is not HITRUST certified, these providers will be much less likely to consider engaging with them.
The initiative goes into effect September of 2020, giving vendors two years to go through the HITRUST certification process.
A CISO I was recently speaking with shared his thoughts on the Provider TPRM Initiative, saying, “If I can get a vendor to hand us the HITRUST certifications for the products or services we are buying from them, that will reduce our risk assessment needs. We may still need to lean on professional services firms for other things in that risk assessment, but this pretty much eliminates our own questionnaire. That should help our risk assessment process internally and will make things easier on the vendors.
“Vendors get pounded with millions of different spreadsheets to fill out for these risk assessments. That is a big waste of time in the industry for my team and for the vendor’s teams. We are going to put the condition in our vendor contracts that if the vendors hand us HITRUST certification, we won’t put them through risk assessment pain. I think the Provider TPRM Initiative is going to have an impact eventually, but I really don’t know how long that is going to take.”
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For my CWNA, I got the Sybex book + Voucher + Test for $ 199.99 from www.cwnp.com
I found a similar deal for CWSP in the same website but it says that they are offering only the "Official Study Guide" + Voucher + Test.
I was quite comfortable with the Sybex book for my CWNA and did not like the way the official study guide was presented.
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The DOJ's reps -- along with the new FBI boss -- keep making noises about device encryption. They don't like it. What they want is some hybrid unicorn called "responsible encryption," which would keep bad guys out but let law enforcement in. The government has no idea how this is supposed to be accomplished, but it has decided to leave that up to the smart guys at tech companies. After all, tech companies are only in it for the money. The government, however, answers to a higher calling: public safety -- a form of safety that apparently has room for an increase in criminal activity and nefarious hacking.
There's one cellphone company that's been conspicuously absent from these discussions. A lot of that conspicuous absence has to do with its conspicuous absence from the cellphone marketplace. Pretty much relegated to governments and enterprise users, Blackberry has been offering encrypted messaging for years. But it's been offering a different sort of encryption -- one it can remove if needed.
Enterprise users hold their own encryption keys but individual nobodies have their encryption keys held by Blackberry. Blackberry would likely be held up as the "responsible encryption" poster boy by the DOJ if only it held enough marketshare to make an appreciable difference. Instead, it's of limited use to the DOJ and FBI.
But that doesn't mean Blackberry isn't willing to submit multiple height bids whenever government says jump. Over the past couple of years, it has come to light Blackberry routinely decrypts messages for inquiring governments. Apparently, there's some sort of golden key law enforcement can use to access communications -- one multiple governments seem to have access to.
There are still some unanswered questions about enterprise accounts -- the ones Blackberry doesn't hold the keys to. This poses the same problem for law enforcement that other, more popular phones do. But rather than point out the problems with the government's demands for "responsible encryption," Blackberry has irresponsibly chosen to proclaim its willingness to hack into its own customers' devices if the government asks.
[CEO John] Chen, speaking at a press Q&A during the BlackBerry Security Summit in London on Tuesday, claimed that it wasn't so simple for BlackBerry to crack its own protections. "Only when the government gives us a court order we will start tracking it. Then the question is: how good is the encryption?
"Today's encryption has got to the point where it's rather difficult, even for ourselves, to break it, to break our own encryption... it's not an easily breakable thing. We will only attempt to do that if we have the right court order. The fact that we will honor the court order doesn't imply we could actually get it done."
Oddly, this came coupled with Chen's assertions its user protections were better than Apple's and its version of the Android operating system more secure than the one offered by competitors.
This proactive hacking offer may be pointed to in the future by DOJ and FBI officials as evidence Apple, et al aren't doing nearly enough to cooperate with US law enforcement. Of course, Chen's willingness to try doesn't guarantee the company will be able to decrypt communications of certain users. But I'm sure Chen's positive attitude will be used as leverage in talks with tech companies the DOJ clearly believes have added encryption to their devices solely as a middle finger to US law enforcement. This belief clearly isn't true, but the DOJ in particular has already show it's willing to be completely disingenuous when arguing for weakened encryption.
Finally, Blackberry may be opening up to law enforcement but it won't be sharing anything more with its remaining users.
Chen also said there were no plans for a transparency report that would reveal more about the company's work with government. "No one has really asked us for it. We don't really have a policy on whether we will do it or not. Just like every major technology company that deals with telecoms, we obviously have quite a number of requests around the world."
This seems a bit unfair. Blackberry will be offering more to the government and telling the public less. Then again, the general public is likely no more interested in a Blackberry transparency report than it is in Blackberry smartphones.
If this data was held in a safe, and only the purchaser of the safe had the key, this would be the government asking Blackberry to break into another person's safe just because they want them to.
Blackberry has agreed to help them break into the safe. They hire a team of experts that could create a new key. The safe is opened, and everyone is happy.
...except this is a digital world instead. In the world of computer science, this 'key creator' is quite literally an encryption vulnerability that now has been created and documented. It undermines the credibility of all encryption from Blackberry. So much for the 'more secure than Apple' statement after this occurs, because you are holding on to a vulnerability you refuse to patch.
Because that is exactly what you signed up for.
I interpret Chen's comments differently. I don't believe he is irresponsibly offering to hack his company's encryption. If we recall the way it played out with Apple: they refused, then the FBI said they had found a way to hack the encryption anyway.
Not sure if my interpretation is correct. But if it is, which company's encryption seems more secure?
"I think that too many times people forget that digital is not the same as physical analogs."
I have never likes this oversimplification because on a technical level it is wrong.
Data still takes up physical space. This data is stored inside of an actual "physical" safe as well which requires a physical key to open too, just like the "traditional" safes we tend to think of when someone says "safe".
The only difference between these safes is how they operate for logically.
Both safes still use atomic particles to fully function. remove all electrons from both safes and they both literally fall apart!
But because humans are ignorant, fearful, and weak, we allow people to tell us what we can and cannot do with our property. This problem cannot be solved because too many humans want to control too many other humans... for their own good after all.
That 'experts' didn't just crack the one safe they were trying to get in; they literally cracked every safe Blackberry has ever made! With just a few kilobytes of data, this 'key creator' code can be stolen and used against any safe in existence.
Judging by his quote "The fact that we will honor the court order doesn't imply we could actually get it done," this may not be true. They might just run a brute force attack. Good way to get government funding for a supercomputer, if these agencies are dumb enough to ask (and if anyone other than those agencies was using Blackberries).
FBI: with some funding, I'll also try to crack encryption for you. I might run a few other jobs in the background... it takes way too long for me to compile Chromium, and I'll need to access fbi.gov for this job, right?
Great job quite literally slitting your own throat, Blackberry. In this analogy, the throat had been slit years ago and there's little blood remaining.
There is a big difference between Apple hacking it's phones and Blackberry doing it. Now take this with a grain of salt as I have not worked with BB servers in a long time.
BB owns servers. Someone sends an email from their phones, it goes through a server owned by BB and then to the server of the company, assuming they have one. Same goes in reverse when email is sent to a user.
This allows BB to open the server and have access to mail as it comes through. They can hack it from there (assuming the servers can't already open them from within.)
Apple does not have their own servers. They would need to go to the phone or the company's email system
With modern encryption algorithms there is no way to recover a private key unless the deployment of the encryption is flawed.
Any responsible company would have some experts employed specifically to try and find such flaws (and immediately correct them).
There is one thing that the tech companies could do on behalf of the government.
This would be to provide a spoofed (extra) public key for a user who has been targeted by a court order (just like an old fashioned wiretap). Thus any communicatiopn sent to the user would be readable because there would always be an extra copy encrypted with the government key.
This assumes that the tech company is managing the public keys. If the users do this themselves then it cannot be done.
It cannot decrypt communications sent prior to the court order.
It cannot decrypt communications sent only to other users.
It does not undermine the encryption scheme itself.
Using Blackberries didn't necessarily mean using BB's servers.
Enterprise users could run their own BlackBerry Enterprise Server and use their own keys without Blackberry having access. That includes small business and personal servers.
And of course you could still use your own standard encrypted-connection IMAP/SMTP servers.
It seems to me he is trying to say that he could be compelled by a court order and would still probably not be able to hack Blackberry's encryption.
That would be a good statement, if better worded, but there's still the problem that we don't know what capability they have. They say they can't hack enterprise customers, but they use secret code and protocols, so how can we know? So when they say they'll comply, but they encryption is unbreakable, we don't really know non-crypto-based attacks they're offering. Maybe they'll sign a custom firmware just for the one phone, that sends the password to the FBI.
It would be a powerful statement if we actually knew the manufacturer had nothing better than bruteforce. Were I to design a phone, I'd make sure I'd have no access and no information about users, then offer to "comply" by giving the FBI the zero information I have about users. Still only with a valid warrant that I might contest anyway.
His comments might have no technical basis. They could be pure market positioning for a government-enforced windfall.
Blackberry went from owning the smartphone market to having a vanishingly tiny share. That is a trillion dollar screw-up. It puts them near the top of the worst business misses of all time.
With that perspective, it's understandable that the CEO would grasp at any straw that might cause a government to mandate them back into relevance.
Not a general backdoor - only a backdoor into communications to a particular user.
Not a compromise to the encryption algorithm either - only to a particular mode of deployment.
So to gain an edge, they should be offering to hack their competitor's encryption, not their own. Below the belt, but effective!
But they are focusing on enterprise security software. So same accomplishment, different market.
Minus the 'security' bit anyway, as their CEO seems to be making it very clear that their customer's data is 'secure' only so long as the company graciously allows it to be.
Given their CEO's eagerness to throw their own customers under the bus in order to appease the dangerous liars trying to screw the public over, I'd say this line should be followed by a 'yet' to be more accurate. Because given the demands for Unicorn Gates don't allow for any system to be 'warrant-proof', you can bet that his assurance that he'll try to undermine some of the company's encryption will be used to pressure him to add in backdoors to the rest of the services offered as well.
Can't have any locks that can't be opened by law enforcement after all, and if he's willing to help with one set clearly he's obligated to help with the other set, unless he's no different than the companies he's lambasting for caring more about profits than stopping criminals.
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As we all know that most antivirus comes in two variaties i.e. free and paid. Free antivirus has almost all the essential features which keep your computer safe from the most commonly occurring threats or viruses. Whereas, you can find advanced premium features in paid versions and they are expensive. It is always a good idea to go for a free antivirus rather than put your computer at a risk. Free antivirus software can run on any operating system. There are many features of free antivirus softwares. The following are the features of some free antivirus available in the market : - > AVG keeps your system free of spyware and viruses. When you come online, then it secures your inbox to filter spam emails and check your attachments properly before you download them. This antivirus also protects you from online scams by protecting your private data.
> Another good antivirus is Avast!. It is also Free Antivirus, which comes with many options for malware cleanup. It also keeps you safe when you view any website. It has a feature that it can be installed and run even when your computer is on "Safe" mode.
> If you are looking for an antivirus, with cloud assistance, then Kaspersky is the best. This antivirus has many versions for home and businesses. It can protect your computer from rootkits, worms, spywares, Trojans, viruses and malware. It performs instant checks on the files and applications installed in your computer and the websites which you browse.
> Another antivirus is Bitdefender which is a free antivirus formulated especially for Windows operating system and is known for its auto and early boot scans without slowing down the system. This antivirus comes with anti-rootkit which prevent hackers from accessing your computer.
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A hardware startup called OnBeep is doing its best Star Trek imitation with Onyx, a clip-on communicator that works over any distance.
The Onyx is a palm-sized orb that clips onto a lapel, sleeve, or bag strap. It has a built-in speaker and a big button in the middle for activating the device’s microphone. When connected via Bluetooth to a companion iOS or Android app, it lets a group of users communicate over the Internet with either a Wi-Fi or cellular connection.
OnBeep is taking pre-orders for the Onyx now and plans to start shipping by year-end, though the company isn’t promising delivery in time for the holidays. A single Onyx will cost $99, and a pair will cost $195, but app and service are free.
Why this matters: Eyes-free, push-button cellular communication has been done before—most notably by Nextel around the turn of the century—but no one’s managed to modernize the concept for smartphones. That’s what OnBeep is attempting to do, with a device that works across different networks and operating systems.
While some walkie-talkie style apps do exist already, they tend to rely on advertising for revenue and “really want you looking at the screen,” OnBeep CEO Jesse Robbins said in an interview. “For us, we’re really focused on this heads-up experience.”
Push-to-talk: The next generation
While we haven’t yet seen the Onyx up close, it doesn’t seem like there are any glaring gotchas. OnBeep is promising high-quality, low-latency audio with no limits on how many people can be in a group, and the company says Onyx will work fine as long as it’s placed above the waist.
As for battery life, OnBeep claims that the Onyx will last through at least 12 hours of active use, which involves around 10 to 20 communications per hour. Robbins said the company has seen instances of longer battery life, but doesn’t want to overpromise. The device charges through an included micro-USB cable.
OnBeep’s Onyx has a microphone, speaker, silent switch, volume controls and headphone jack.
Users who want to keep communications private can plug in headphones through the device’s included headphone jack, but there’s no wireless option for now. OnBeep has considered adding support for Bluetooth headsets, with the Onyx’s button still acting as the voice gateway, but Robbins didn’t give a timeline.
After launch, OnBeep will be working on premium features that it can sell within the app. For instance, some users may want additional security or archival features, along with tighter controls over who can invite new members to a group. (Right now, anyone in a group can invite anyone else.) In general, the company is still thinking about ways to branch out, and while Robbins wouldn’t rule out video-based products, he said it’s currently a huge challenge given the constraints of mobile devices.
Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Robbins says Onyx was only made possible recently through the maturation of Bluetooth, faster wireless data connections and new ways for hardware startups to get to market.
“Until recently, you had to be carrier or handset manufacturer to do this, and no one seems to like the services they’ve built so far,” Robbins said. “That left an opening for us to go through.”
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Using HTML5, music service Deezer has added an “offline mode” that can be accessed directly via a browser, the company said on Tuesday.
The new feature will at first be available on Google Chrome, but it will also be available on other browsers soon, according to the company, which didn’t offer any details on timing.
The “offline mode” allows Deezer Premium+ subscribers to download their music library to their computers and to access it without being connected.
This feature also anticipates the future evolution of all mobile applications toward HTML5, which will streamline the development process for services accessible on every device, according to Deezer.
One of the advantages of Web-based applications compared to native ones is that users never have to upgrade, Deezer said.
Deezer isn’t the only company that thinks HTML5 has something to offer. On Tuesday, IDC and cross-platform development vendor Appcelerator published a report that detailed a growing interest among mobile developers for HTML5. Seventy-nine percent of respondents report that they will integrate HTML5 in their apps in 2012, according to a joint statement.
Thanks to its partnerships with Facebook, Orange and Belgacom, Deezer is now available in more than 50 countries and will be accessible worldwide at the end of 2012. The music service announced its global launch plans in December with the goal of launching the service in 200 countries by June.
Unlike competing services Rdio and Spotify, Deezer won’t be available in the U.S., a decision the company has attributed to market saturation and low growth forecasts. Deezer has also decided not to launch in Japan for the same reasons, the company said in December, a decision it is sticking with.
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My laptop is windows 8 pro Sony SVS1312P9EB.
Just to make you aware a many windows 8 laptops as mine now boot in uefi mode. This mode odes not have an mbr as it uses a gpt partition style.
I was infected by the pceu virus, and using guides on here and other places attempted to remove it.
I was unable to boot into any type of safe mode or system restore.
In the end, I took the laptop apart and removed the hard drive, plugged into a sata/usb adaptor and manually removed the infected files.
This was a real pain to do. I have since checked and now it is all clear.
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Malicious programs that exploited vulnerabilities in applications and operating systems caused serious epidemics in 2001: CodeRed, Nimda, Aliz and BadtransII. The large-scale epidemics caused by these worms changed the face of computer security and set trends for malware evolution for several years to come.
Endless variants of LoveLetter (aka ILoveYou), Magistr and SirCam also enlivened the malware landscape, keeping users and antivirus vendors on their toes.
Vulnerablities
A vulnerability is a hole in a legitimate application or operating system that can be exploited by a virus writer: malicious code penetrates the system via such loopholes.
Viruses and worms that exploit vulnerabilities are particularly dangerous in that they are installed and activated automatically regardless of user action. For instance, Nimda penetrated computers even when the infected email was simply viewed through the preview window in MS Outlook. CodeRed went a step further: it scanned the Internet for vulnerable machines and infected them. According to Kaspersky Virus Lab statistics, malware exploiting vulnerabilities made up almost 55% of all malware detected in 2001.
The interest displayed by virus writers in vulnerabilities was justified. Traditional infection techniques used by classic file viruses, where the user initiated the infection cycle, were no longer as effective as previously. Therefore, virus writers eagerly adopted the new technique.
Email and the Internet – primary sources of new threats
Kaspersky Virus Lab statistics showed that virus attacks via email rose by 5% in 2001 in comparison with 2000 and made up almost 90% of the total number of virus incidents in 2001.
2001 proved to be a watershed in the evolution of virus attacks via the Internet. Previously, most Internet-related infections occurred when users downloaded and executed files from untrustworthy web sites. In 2001 a new infection technique appeared: users no longer needed to download files – a visit to an infected web site was enough. Virus writers substituted infected pages for clean ones. Most users were infected by malware that exploited vulnerabilities in MS IE. In some cases compromised sites offered free programs that turned out to be malicious.
A significant number of malicious programs targeting Linux appeared in 2001. Ramen opened the season on January 19 and penetrated a large number of corporate networks within days. Victims included NASA (USA), A&M University (USA) and hardware vendor Supermicro (Taiwan).
The attacks swelled into an avalanche with Ramen clones and new Linux worms appearing one after another. Most of these malicious programs exploited vulnerabilities in the operating system. The rapid spread of these threats underlined the lack of preparation by Linux developers, who had been sleeping peacefully, sure that Linux was a completely secure environment. Many Linux users hadn’t even bothered to install the patches that were available for some of the exploited vulnerabilities and fell easy prey for these worms.
Fileless worms – a new challenge
So-called fileless worms turned out to be one of the nastiest surprises of 2001. These worms were able to self-replicate and function on infected machines without using files. These worms exist only in RAM and spread as specially configured data packets.
This new technique gave antivirus experts some difficult moments. Traditional antivirus scanners and monitors proved helpless against this new threat, since up to that time antivirus engines had detected malicious programs during file operations. Kaspersky Lab was the first to develop a new antivirus filter that scanned incoming data packets in background mode and deleted fileless worms.
Worms for Windows increase
While classic viruses, (predominantly macro and script viruses) visibly dominated throughout 1999-2000, 2001 was the year of worms for Windows. By the fall, these worms had caused about 90% of all registered virus infections.
The reasons for this trend were two-fold: on the one hand new technologies allowed virus writers to create better worms, and on the other, antivirus vendors had developed effective protection against macro and script viruses.
Virus hoaxes
Virus hoaxes were all the rage in 2001, with 10 new warnings about a dangerous new virus registered by March. And nervous users, frightened by the large-scale outbreaks in 2000 scrambled to forward these warnings to friends and relatives. California IBM and Girl Thing proved especially effective. A letter warning users about a new ILoveYou outbreak scheduled for Valentine’s day was also extremely effective.
Some of these hoaxes were so effective that copies of the messages were still circulating around the Internet several years later.
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Another year has passed and along with it another set of massive data breaches to look back upon. In a digital age when we are providing more and more personal data to businesses and conducting most of our financial transactions online, we would expect companies to keep up with the threat landscape.
But the headlines continue to pile up, one after another, leaving a fairly long “What Not to Do” list in their wake - as well as damaged reputations, monetary fines, and lost customers.
So today we’re taking the time to review some of the largest breaches of 2017 and what we can learn from each of them.
Cell phone numbers, names, addresses, and additional personal information.
What Happened? The breach happened in 2016, but it wasn’t made public until November 2017. Two attackers accessed a GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers, found a set of login credentials, and used those credentials to access an infrastructure account that handled computing tasks for the company. Within that infrastructure, the attackers discovered an archive of rider and driver information. Uber has admitted to failing to disclose a cyber attack and even paid hackers to not release the stolen data and keep the breach quiet.
Could it Have Been Prevented? Yes. This could have been prevented if Uber had used a more stringent, zero-trust approach to its perimeter security that would have required access to services be authenticated, authorized and encrypted.
An attack doesn’t have to be sophisticated to be successful. Had Uber simply been more diligent about their cybersecurity practices then this breach could have been prevented. But what added further damage was Uber’s failure to report the breach. If the company remediated the problem and laid out a plan for avoiding future attacks, the impact would have been much less.
Usernames, passwords, birthdays, phone numbers, and in some cases, security questions and answers.
What Happened? Talk about a blunder! While the data breach happened in 2013, Yahoo didn’t announce it until 2016. And if that wasn’t bad enough, they had to make a second statement in 2017 acknowledging all 3 billion users had been affected - not just the 500 million that they originally reported. The data breach was likely conducted through a cookie-based attack that let the cyber criminals authenticate as any other user without supplying the password.
Could It Have Been Prevented? Yes, the largest security breach in the history of the internet could have been prevented. According to a former employee on the security team, Yahoo’s executive team did not see security as a top priority.
Cybersecurity is a problem that every level in a company faces. Leadership and all members of the executive management team must be committed, and that commitment must radiate throughout every level of every department in order to maintain truly effective security.
How Many People Were Affected? The company would not say how many people were potentially affected nor does it know exactly who may have been compromised.
What Did They Get? Payment card details (credit card numbers, names, expiration dates, and verification codes.)
What Happened? A total of 41 properties in 11 countries were affected in this breach. Hackers gained unauthorized access to payment card information from cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk of certain Hyatt-managed locations between March 18, 2017 and July 2, 2017
Could It Have Prevented? The most important takeaway with this attack is that the breach could have been detected much earlier with the right security monitoring tools and policies in place. This breach went undiscovered for nearly four months and was also Hyatt’s second breach in two years. Clearly not enough lessons were learned in the first go around.
One way to identify potential threats or suspicious events is with a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. A SIEM system correlates data across multiple systems in order to identify issues and patterns. With a SIEM platform in place and monitoring by a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), it is possible Hyatt could have caught this breach much sooner.
Personal information including social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and driver license numbers.
What Happened? Given the very sensitive personal information Equifax deals with, this breach was particularly alarming. The breach was reported to have been caused by single employee error. What was that error? Not installing an updated software patch.
Yes. Patching is one of the most fundamental aspects of a security program, especially for a company that deals with this level of personal information. All patches should be installed immediately as they are released.
What Did We Learn? Patch. Patch. Patch. Also, when the risks are this high, employee security training is a no-brainer. Every employee should have a thorough understanding of potential threats, how their actions can create or prevent vulnerabilities, and how to be proactive and effective as a company’s first line of defense.
No business is too small to be targeted by cyber criminals or to suffer a major security breach. Learn from the mistakes of the big guys and implement a fully-comprehensive security strategy to protect your company's most valuable asset: your data. Know your network and know what’s happening on your network. Contact SLPowers today… As a SOC 2 certified Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), we’ll get you there.
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With the pace of change being extreme in today’s business world, people who can adapt rapidly are usually the most successful. You can’t afford to lag your competitors.
To be successful with change, you must gain new skills.
Jeff Haden in his article: “How To Master Any Skill (No Talent Required)”, talks about not only applying the hard work to learn a skill but the need to get out there and make mistakes to really master a skill. Jeff goes on to show several examples about how this works.
You can’t be timid and wait until you master a skill, you need to go ahead and make mistakes. You need to also learn how to minimize the impact of those mistakes, however.
Managing risk in any project is not about hoping that something unexpected will not happen or taking actions once something does happen.
Risk planning should occur early in the planning phase, where the project team looks at what might happen and puts risk elimination, monitoring and reaction tasks into the project work plan.
The team should have one or multiple sessions where they use Failure Mode and Effect techniques to identify potential risks. Each risk should be rated as to the probability of occurring and impact on the project. The team and the sponsors should agree at what level of probability/impact contingencies and risk reduction activities need to be put into the action plans. Lean principles say that risk elimination should be designed into the end product from the beginning. Each project team member needs to include risk monitoring activities into his/her plan, based on the risk management discussions. Risk should be discussed at every team interaction, where, not only is the current risk profile is updated, but a mini FMEA should be performed to identify any new risks.
Every team member must put risk management at the top of their priority to prevent any unplanned project upsets.
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The relentless march of Windows 10 Insider previews continues with the release of build 14951 for PCs and Windows Phones. This latest glimpse at the future of Windows reveals several interesting tweaks—including a Microsoftian rival to the iPhone’s Live Photos.
If you install Windows Insider build 14951 on a Surface Book, Surface Pro 4, Surface Pro 3, or Surface 3, its revamped Camera app can “extend your still captures with a snippet of video,” writes Windows Insider boss Dona Sakar. After you’ve enabled Capture living images in the Camera app’s settings, the feature kicks in automatically whenever the subject of your picture’s moving when you click the Capture button. (Update: To be clear, Living Images have existed on Lumia phones since 2014, but they’re new to Surface devices—and still a Live Photos rival.)
Further reading: How to join the Windows 10 Insider preview program
Speaking of which, those capture buttons receive a higher-contrast makeover in this preview build, and you can dive into Camera’s settings directly from inside the app. (Camera interface tweaks abound in this build.) You’ll also be able to set a timer from the Camera dashboard and use the spacebar to capture images on PCs.
Windows Insider build 14951 also adds new Windows Ink improvements for manipulating those images after they’re taken. Windows 10’s native Photos app picked up Ink support via a new Draw button, and it records your scribbling steps so you can share your marked-up pictures as videos if you’d like.
The build also introduces Windows Ink “Stencils,” starting with a new protractor tool that “combines functions of both protractor and compass into one – now you can draw an arc or a complete circle of an arbitrary size with little effort.” Windows Ink’s ruler now displays the numerical value of angles, as well.
Last week’s Windows 10 preview build introduced advanced customization for precision touchpad gestures, and this fresh release builds upon them with volume control options and the ability to tie touchpad gestures to the keyboard shortcuts of your choosing. Nifty!
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (a.k.a. the tech supporting Bash on Windows) has been updated from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04, as well. For a full list of tweaks, improvements, and known issues in Windows 10 Insider build 14951—these releases always pack in a ton—be sure to read Microsoft’s announcement post.
Why this matters: All of the new features rolled into Windows preview builds eventually land in the next major Windows 10 release, assuming they aren’t loathed by testers. Microsoft’s expected to talk about the next major Windows 10 update—rumored for March 2017—at its Windows event in New York next week. While we wait, you can supercharge the standard version of Microsoft’s operating system by digging into PCWorld’s deep-dive of Windows 10’s best tips, tricks, and tweaks.
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A malicious software which can encrypt your documents files and show you a message to contact hacker for ransom money. Usually a bitcoin digital money. The most dangerous thing about ransomware is that it is impossible to recover files without paying the ransom.
The new version of ransomware that hit the world a few days early is the Wannacry ransomware. According to a report Ransomware virus hit about 230,000 systems worldwide. The UK’s health organization NHS is one of the major victims. It mostly hit the windows versions which were not up-to-date.
Wannacry damage to systems around the world.
How does it attack?
Emails with ransomware attachments are always circulating on the internet for many years. You may have got many of them in your spam mails. It cannot harm you unless you execute them. There is a big mis-computation that ransomware is spreading and there is nothing to stop it and it will break the whole internet. It’s rather easy to avoid them when you are cautious about the email attachments and keep your antivirus and operating system up to date.
With great power comes great responsibility, if you are an Admin or a Manager who has access to all of the company files. A single mistake like this can bring your company down. Ransomware are mostly automated attacks and they can only trigger if someone executes them. But after execution, they can spread across the insecure networks like a worm. Also, they cannot do damage to routers, switches, Linux, and Mac systems.
How the NHS got affected by Wannacry?
The report says that it attacked outdated computers. Also, four in five hospitals were unaffected. The affected hospital has got some security software updates from the provider which were also not applied.
We have tested a version of ransomware and it was very threatening to documents on the system. There is no way you can recover the documents, it is only possible with a secret key from a hacker, which can decrypt the files. Mostly hacker has left their signature and contact information. It mostly hit the documents and multimedia files. Ransomeware doesn’t affect the system files. There is a version that can lock down your PC as well but I guess it’s rare.
It mostly spread through emails and websites which have infected download links mostly files convert into zip format and when you click on them they will hang your system during this system hang period ransomware starts accessing all your documents, photos, and multimedia files and starts encrypting them. The encryption of a large number of files is a highly CPU intensive task and it makes your system stuck and it will stop responding to mouse and keyboard inputs.
Ransomware goes to all the targeted files which you have access suppose your system is connected to your phone, external hard disk, and a network drive. So all the documents files that your PC has access to at that time will get encrypted and become unusable. Antivirus can detect most of the ransomware but there is always a new version of ransomware, which can reach your system undetected if you are not following proper security measures.
Backups are the most important thing which can save you. I know it is not in our nature to take backups unless we got hit by a disaster but it is always best to have a backup plan so that you can recover to a week early, rather than starting over a new company.
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Illustration photo of the Dropbox app
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Coronet said on Thursday it has entered into a partnership with Dropbox (O:) that is expected to bring the Israeli cybersecurity firm millions of new users for its data breach protection platform.
As part of the partnership, Coronet said it will complement Dropbox’s own security features with the integration of its platform, which detects and blocks suspicious behavior.
Coronet focuses on small-to-midsize businesses. “We believe this market is underprotected because it can’t afford enterprise-grade security and even if it could, it can’t manage it because it’s complex,” co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer Dror Liwer told Reuters.
Coronet, which partners with Lenovo among others, has about 1.5 million users.
The Dropbox partnership will “probably brings millions of new customers for the company,” who will pay an additional $2.00 a month to get Coronet’s offering, Liwer said.
Coronet has raised just under $20 million and its main investor is Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Ashton Kutcher’s fund Sound Ventures also invested. The company plans a new round of funding in the spring of 2019.
“We need more money to fund growth,” Liwer said.
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This year, the IRS ranked email phishing schemes as a top tax scam to make the yearly Dirty Dozen list. This type of scam targets taxpayers as well as tax professionals by using fake emails and bogus websites to collect sensitive taxpayer information.
The best way to avoid scams now and throughout the year is to keep in mind that the IRS doesn’t initiate contact with taxpayers via email, phone or text to request personal or financial information. If you get unsolicited email from what appears to be the IRS or an organization related to the IRS, report it by sending it to [email protected].
Gilliland & Associates, PC is a full-service CPA firm specializing in tax planning for individuals and businesses in the Northern Virginia area. We are based in Falls Church, VA and also service clients in McLean and Tysons Corner, VA. Gilliland & Associates is known for our superior knowledge and aggressive interpretation and application of tax laws. We help you keep more of your earnings by finding you the lowest possible tax on your business or personal tax return. You can connect with us on Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Migrating to the cloud introduces immense benefits for companies and individuals in terms of efficiency and costs. With respect to security, the effects are quite diverse, but it is a common perception that using cloud services impacts security in a positive manner. Opinions, however, diverge many times even on defining who is responsible for ensuring the security of cloud resources.
Covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, first the security of the infrastructure is discussed: hardening and configuration issues as well as various solutions for authentication and authorization alongside identity management that should be at the core of all security architecture. This is followed by some basics regarding legal and contractual issues, namely how trust is established and governed in the cloud.
The journey through cloud security continues with understanding cloud-specific threats and the attackers’ goals and motivations as well as typical attack steps taken against cloud solutions. Special focus is also given to auditing the cloud and providing security evaluation of cloud solutions on all levels, including penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.
The focus of the course is on application security issues, dealing both with data security and the security of the applications themselves. From the standpoint of application security, cloud computing security is not substantially different than general software security, and therefore basically all OWASP-enlisted vulnerabilities are relevant in this domain as well. It is the set of threats and risks that makes the difference, and thus the training is concluded with the enumeration of various cloud-specific attack vectors connected to the weaknesses discussed beforehand.
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There has been a serious need for Security companies in Bristol to address cybersecurity, after several cyber-attacks which has been on a constant rise in the recent years. Both government agencies, private and public companies are victims to these attacks, and whenever this happens, vast reams of data are obtained thereby compromising the people’s privacy thereby giving rise to a hitch in organizational performance and reputation.
While emphasis is placed on the cloud security, people often tend to forget that the data that they have in the cloud or in software are housed in a physical computer, therefore as they guard against hackers and cybercriminals, they need seek the services of Security companies in Bristol to secure their hardware because a stolen PC is a gateway to obtaining confidential data. Bristol is a center for so many company offices and even headquarters, even though cyber-attack can be carried out from anywhere in the world, physical attack has to be carried out In person, thus the need for a professional Bristol security guard company is paramount to the safety of those data that are stored in the hardware that is kept in the offices.
When companies employ the services of security companies in Bristol, they gain more trust from their employees, there have been cases where thieves were caught by human security that were deployed to safeguard a company, this saved the company from having a lot of first-hand personal and official information from getting into the wrong hands.
Companies can avoid a dent on their image by doing the needful, we should not feel that there is no need for human security of hardware components, because even if they are not stolen, a microchip or software that leaks information can be installed in them by the intruders/thieves. If there is no security personnel deployed on site, the hoodlums will have enough time to make some hardware changes that can do damages in real-time, thus the need for a Security company cannot be overemphasized.
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Conduct some research and find an organization that has been recently (in the past ten years) pressured by societal or political forces to address information security in ways they may not have otherwise.
Do you agree with the societal or political forces? Why or why not? Support your assertions with credible sources.
Having a robust information security system often grants organizations a competitive edge when it comes to attracting more consumers or clients than their rivals. Customers or the public often lose confidence in organizations when security systems of the firms are compromised by hackers (Tariq, 2018). Citibank happens to be among the financial institutions that is on record for witnessing intense criticism from the public and political forces following the breach of their information systems.
In 2011, Citibank’s network was breached by hackers, who managed to access data of approximately 200, 000 holders of credit card in North America. This event led to the company facing a backlash from lawyers and lawmakers (Reuters, 2018). In my view, the criticism directed towards Citibank by the political forces was in order. Bansah (2018) argues that compromised information systems in financial institutions often results into a significant reduction of the client base. Moreover, successful cyber-attacks on financial organization can result into tremendous financial losses that can adversely affect economic growth, businesses, investors, and families. As such, when it comes to addressing information security, financial organizations should demonstrate their dedication towards attaining the highest security level, and always being up-to-date with the newest technology or techniques (Gonzalez et al., 2013). Security incidents and data breaches in banks call for rapid response aimed at mitigating the impact of such events on these institutions and demonstrating due care. In relation to this, Tariq (2018) and Martins et al. (2014) assert that financial institutions should strengthen their event response teams, while ensuring that appropriate encryption is employed with all data.
Organizational staff should also be frequently trained to enable them acquire and sustain their disaster response and business continuity management capabilities (Jingguo-Wang et al., 2015). Such an undertaking will ensure that employees are updated on the emerging security concerns and trends.
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https://academiascholars.com/addressing-information-security-a-case-of-citibank-2/
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Monero (XMR) has actually become the target for cyberpunks over the past couple of days. Recently, BCFocus reported about a susceptability in the Monero pocketbook that enabled cyberpunks to loot XMR from crypto exchanges. This time, it is stated that over 200,000 routers have been hacked making use of a malware in Brazil to secretly mine Monero (XMR).
The online cyberpunks are said to have targeted a certain brand name of routers, named MicroTik. Simon Kenin, a researcher from TrustWave, discovered the deceptive attack as well as was the initial to report it.
Simon said,
” Let me highlight exactly how poor this strike is, there are hundreds of thousands of these tools around the globe, in operation by ISPs as well as various companies and also organisations, each tool offers at least tens if not hundreds of individuals daily. Miners, on the other hand, can be a great deal more sneaky, so while a solitary computer system would certainly yield more cash from ransomware if the user ends up paying, an attacker would certainly prefer to run a stealthy miner for a longer amount of time. The strategy being that at some point the mining would certainly be as lucrative as, otherwise more than, the one-time ransom money payout.”
Though the malware does not hack right into purses and steal from crypto investors, it is claimed to dramatically affect the computer power of a system, as well as removes a lot of electrical energy. The malware secretively mines crypto from a computer system without the customer having the faintest idea about it.
The malware secretly ran the coinhive script (commonly made use of to mine Monero) in the background while the user kept servicing their system. Additionally, a record from Forbes claimed that a small silicon chip utilized within the routers aided the hackers in extracting the coins.
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https://abitcoinresource.com/news/monero-xmr-mining-malware-attack-claims-200000-victims/963/
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One of the security enhancements that were announced in Android 5.0 Lollipop was that data encryption can be enabled by default on all new devices but eventually it will not.
Google backtracked with this new security feature, merely encourage manufacturers to enable encryption of data without forcing as we can see in the document of the Program Compatibility Android 5.0 which details the requirements that must be met by manufacturers to launch their devices with Android.
9.9 Full-Disk Encryption
Implementation If the device has a lock screen, the device MUST support full-disk encryption private data of the application (/ datapartition) as well as the SD card partition if it is a permanent, non-removable part of the device. For devices supporting full-disk encryption, the full-disk encryption SHOULD be enabled all the time after the user has completed the out-of-box experience. While esta Stated as SHOULD requirement is for esta version of the Android platform, it is very strongly recommended as we expect change to esto a MUST in the future versions of Android.
As we see, Google reports that currently is highly advisable to set default data encryption and that in future versions if it becomes mandatory . Surely Google backtracked by complaints that data encryption affected the read and write speeds , and thus the performance of the devices, which both users and manufacturers did not like too much.
Currently the Nexus 6 and 9 Nexus are the only devices that come with encryption enabled by default, and it seems to be very few, because new devices presented with Android 5.0 as the new Moto E , M9 One HTC or Samsung Galaxy S6 come without encryption enabled.
Surely Google compels the manufacturers to enable default data encryption on new devices when only affecting performance, either by using faster memory, the system F2FS files and / or processors that are able to encrypt and decrypt older speeds.
So the thing finally left untouched since Android 3.0, which is the user who decides whether or not to enable encryption of your devices from security settings.
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https://axeetech.com/android-5-0-finally-not-use-default-data-encryption-on-new-devices/
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“Part of the program includes an internship program,” explained Atlas Insurance Agency president Myles Murakami.
Atlas Insurance is an independent agent of First Insurance Company of Hawaii, but the whole program was a collaborative effort among insurance companies, agencies and other industry groups, such as Hawaii Independent Insurance Agents Association.
The local board that spearheads the Risk Management and Insurance Certificate Program is comprised of insurance company representatives, UH-West Oahu administration and the insurance commissioner.
According to UH-West Oahu, the certificate program provides training in risk management for personal and commercial lines of insurance, and prepares students for the CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter) examinations.
Courses within the program cover personal property and liability insurance, life and health insurance, retirement planning, business law, loss prevention and more.
The idea behind the internship program is twofold: The student is able to gain real-world experience, and the insurance company can get a firsthand look at a potential employee.
According to First Insurance Company of Hawaii, the program “strives to educate young people on the various opportunities and career paths that the insurance industry can provide.”
It is a simple and effective way for local insurance industry workers to help fill the gap.
Established in 2010, the certificate program was implemented because of shortage in the industry.
“It would only get worse as the Baby Boomers like myself are getting ready to retire in the next five to 10 years,” Murakami continued. “In order to address that concern, the answer was to see if we could get a program going to start building the talent pool.
“The whole point is to try to get the highest level of professionalism …”
In fact, Forbes listed actuaries as one of the top 10 high-paying, flexible jobs in 2013. The problem? College students know little of the field and its potential career opportunities.
“It’s a great opportunity for Hawaii,” said Murakami. “It’s the closest program around the country that has any kind of risk management insurance program on the West coast.”
The only other two universities that have implemented a risk management program are Cal State Fullerton and Washington State University.
“It’s pretty impressive that we’re one of the states that offers it (an insurance program),” Murakami said. For more information, visit uhwo.hawaii.edu.
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http://www.midweek.com/uhwo-graduates-first-risk-management-insurance-class/
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If you think your small business is safe from cyber attacks, think again. The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) has published some disturbing data which suggests that 43% of cybercrimes specifically target small business.
More concerning is that 60% of small companies that experience a cyber breach go out of business within six months of being hit.
ASBFEO suggests that a lack of time and resources can lead to complacency among business owners and that many (87%) believe that antivirus software alone will provide enough security. The increasingly sophisticated approach by perpetrators suggests otherwise. Email phishing, malware, ransomware, denial of service and watering hole attacks are becoming more commonplace and harder to spot, putting businesses at risk.
In response, ASBFEO has released the 'Cyber Security Best Practice Guide', which draws information from a more detailed report, which can be found here. The guide and report provide useful information for business owners who wish to understand the risks and employ the most appropriate prevention methods. In addition to utilising online resources such as www.staysmartonline.gov.au, the guide recommends speaking with accountants, IT specialists and specialist government agencies to determine which tools offer the best defence against attack.
ASBFEO says small business shouldn't avoid establishing an online market presence purely because of the threat, as the opportunity and benefits could be immense, but that sensible precautions should be taken to ensure a secure environment. For more information, visit www.asbfeo.gov.au/cybersecurity.
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http://www.poolandspareview.com.au/content/business/news/small-business-susceptible-to-cyber-attack-1038768673
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On 28 October, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued circulars to fund management companies, licensed trust companies, corporate finance firms, broker dealers, insurance brokers and financial advisers highlighting various internal controls that firms should implement.
The circulars summarized the good and bad practices of almost 300 firms identified during recent thematic inspections relating to anti-money laundering/countering terrorist financing (AML/CTF) measures and business conduct.
The circulars also contain useful guidance on the correct implementation of AML/CTF obligations as well as on some new measures that the MAS has recently introduced. Firms should:
Perform ongoing monitoring of customer relationships.
Comply with the requisite frequency for employee training.
Perform timely and adequate customer due diligence. Fund management companies were reminded that before April 2015, their definition of customers includes underlying investors into unlisted investment vehicles that they managed. Licensed trust companies were reminded to verify the identity of the protector of the trust and effective controller of the settlor.
Conduct checks of any service provider to whom Customer due diligence was outsourced to.
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https://www.kroll.com/en/insights/publications/financial-compliance-regulation/mas-clarifies-supervisory-expectations-in-key-areas
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An inspection by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has exposed the failure of government organizations to implement cybersecurity requirements.
The ANAO’s fourth report on the cyber resilience of government departments and agencies states that except the Treasury Department both the National Archives and Geoscience Australia failed to implement the top four mandatory cybersecurity strategies instructed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).
“This audit identified relatively low levels of effectiveness of Commonwealth entities in managing cyber risks, with only one of the three audited entities compliant with the Top Four mitigation strategies. None of the three entities had implemented the four non-mandatory strategies in the Essential Eight and were largely at early stages of consideration and implementation. These findings provide further evidence that the implementation of the current framework is not achieving compliance with cybersecurity requirements and needs to be strengthened.” the ANAO said in its report.
The top four mandatory strategies include application whitelisting, application patching, OS patching, and the control of administration rights. Also, there are four non-mandatory but recommended cybersecurity mitigation strategies for all the government bodies. According to ANAO, execution of these four measures has been mandatory since April 2013.
The ANAO also revealed that Geoscience Australia is vulnerable to cyberattacks due its lack of compliance with any of the essential eight cybersecurity guidelines.
“Geoscience Australia was assessed as vulnerable, with a high level of exposure and opportunity for external attacks and internal breaches and unauthorized disclosures of information. Geoscience Australia has traditionally had a culture of scientific independence that it had allowed to override resilience considerations,” the report found.
Agreeing to the ANAO’s recommendations, Geoscience Australia responded to the report stating “Geoscience Australia is committed to improving its security compliance and cyber resilience to a level of appropriate for a government organization that plays a role in providing scientific information and services to industry and the broader community,” the agency said in a statement.
A parliamentary committee has also suggested making it mandatory for government bodies to implement Australian Signal Directorate’s essential eight cybersecurity guidelines to create a positive cyber resilience culture.
While the cyberthreat landscape is crossing boundaries, multiple nations are coming together to safeguard the cybersecurity landscape. Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. recently...
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On Day 2 of Simplify PKI 2021, David Mahdi returned to give another cracking session, this time on Machine Identities. Machine identities is a concept he touched upon briefly in his previous session on Journey to a World Class Crypto Center of Excellence (get insights from the session here), and in this session, he gave a full-blown account on machine identities, their impact on cybersecurity, and management practices. Let’s dive in.
Digital business is booming. For digital business to work, there has to be trust between the various digital components, and cryptography is fundamental in bringing that trust.
One of the crucial elements in building digital trust is Identity and Access Management (IAM). With the secure identity requirements engendered by Digital Transformation, IAM is poised to be the Next Big Thing. Gartner predicts the IAM market to grow to $19 billion in 2024 from the current (2021) $11 billion.
However, IAM has one major concern- it’s focused primarily on humans. IAM handles authentication, identity management, identity orchestration, digital signatures, access to private networks, etc. only for humans. Modern identity decisions are at the intersection of various business units and teams, such as DevOps, Cloud, Security, IAM, and Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams.
This approach may have been relevant years ago, when humans had complete control over networks. However, with identity becoming the new perimeter, that is no longer the case. IAM has a major missing part, and that is machine identities. Machine identities are nowhere in the picture, even in the current state of digital business.
Gartner defines five pillars that support the overarching IAM concept, namely, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Authentication, and Access Management. At the core of the four technology pillars, lies IAM Program Management, which deals with the people and processes part.
Developers need certificates to code-sign their software, identify container workloads, and as identities for supervised and unsupervised bots in RPA. In RPA, bots interact with each other to accomplish a task, after which they vanish, and a new set of bots are created. Careful identity management is required to establish and maintain trust in such dynamic environments.
Machine-to-machine interactions are far exceeding human-to-machine interactions, which is why the emphasis now needs to be on managing identities, data, and contacts. This further substantiates the earlier statement that identities are the new perimeter. All of Gartner’s research in this space points to the fact that machine identity management is essential in 2021 and beyond.
But first, what are Machine Identities?
To define what machine identities, let’s compare them to the familiar human identities. Human identities can be defined by roles, such as employees, partners, customers, vendors, and consultants. Likewise, machine identities could be workloads, such as containers, virtual machines, applications, and services, or devices, such as mobile, IoT/OT, desktop, and computers. Identities could also lie somewhere between humans and machines, such as bots. A supervised bot could be the clone of a human, acting as a proxy and handling those repeatable tasks that a human would normally do. In this case, the bot is more of a human identity, or a derived version of a human identity. An unsupervised bot would be a machine. An example of an unsupervised bot would be a chatbot, which gets created as soon as a customer opens the chat pop-up. The chatbot would have been configured to handle all the interactions on its own, and needs to be authenticated to access other machines to fetch data and present it to the customer. For this authentication, the chatbot needs an identity, which is not a smartcard or an OTP or a token. The identity in this case is usually a certificate or a key, which is created as soon as the chatbot gets instantiated.
In such dynamic environments, machines and their identities could span thousands, or hundreds of thousands in number. Spreadsheets are no longer a viable option to manage this enormous volume of identities. Organizations need automation if they are to manage machine identities efficiently.
The Identity Lifecycle
Every identity, human or machine, goes through a lifecycle. Let’s take a look at the human identity lifecycle. Say you’re opening a new bank account. The first stage in the identity lifecycle is on-boarding, or identity affirmation. This is the stage where you submit your identity proofs, such as your driver’s license, social security number, etc. Once the bank does a background check and affirms your identity, it registers you as a user.
The next stage is ongoing access, or user authentication. Now, every time you need to access your account, you enter the username and password that you created during on-boarding, or get authenticated through an OTP sent to your registered mobile number or email address, or even through the biometric authentication on your mobile device.
Finally, we have identity recovery. This isn’t essentially a stage, but rather an event contingent on the user forgetting the password, or losing the authenticated device. This is the stage where password resets happen. Fraud detection is another aspect of this stage, where the app makes sure a malicious bot isn’t trying to access your account, or that your account hasn’t been hacked.
Machine identities, too, go through a similar lifecycle. First, the machines are discovered – which part of the network they’re in, their type (server or client), etc. Then, their identities such as keys and certificates are generated. Again, there are variations to how the generation happens, based on the type of deployment. Keys could be generated on-prem and pushed to the cloud, or they could follow a BYOK (bring your own key) approach, or they could be generated in one cloud and used in another in multi-cloud deployments.
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Next comes distribution. This is the stage where the generated identities are stored in a secure place, called the trust anchor. This could be a secure vault in laptops and mobile devices, or hardware or software security modules.
Following distribution are rotation and revocation. An identity cannot be used forever because that makes it susceptible to hacking. It has to be renewed, or destroyed and regenerated. A case in point is the unsupervised chatbot example we saw earlier. Chatbots are ephemeral – they get instantiated when the user clicks the chat pop-up, they handle a session, and die away. When they vanish, the identities associated with them need to be destroyed.
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https://www.appviewx.com/blogs/machine-identity-the-often-overlooked-piece-of-the-cybersecurity-puzzle-takeaways-from-gartner-analyst-david-mahdis-session/
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