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"Do we have specific credible evidence of a [body bomb] threat today? I would not say that we do, however, the importance is that we all lean forward."
Why the headline of this article is "NZ warned over 'body bombers,'" and not "Napolitano admits 'no credible evidence' of body bomber threat" is beyond me.
I know it's a serious issue, but....
... however, the importance is that we all lean forward.
When I read that I had. to laugh, it just reminded me so much about the "PR consiquences" of what another "Ass Bomb" that have been discused so often.
As was said in the film Evolution "theres always time for lubricant".
My reading of this is that the threat does not exist, however, we shall announce the possibility of such a threat in case it is not being actively worked on, and subsequently implement targetted measures to protect against it in the event it does become a genuine threat outside of our imagination.
Or in summary, we are back where we started, sans large sums of money.
I heard a rumour that the TSA wanted to ban anyone who'd watched the Karate Kid, or similar movies. Obviously, anyone who even thought about Bruce Lee would immediately appear on the no fly list.
On a serious note, I suspect that someone with good martial arts training could easily have done the 9/11 thing, without bothering with their knives.
All of them, presumably. For the terrorist, that is a good exchange, especially as they consider their death to be martyrdom.
There is no defence against someone who wants to die and believes they will be rewarded with a place in heaven. TSA is powerless and just burns billions of dollars for nothing.
Surely not, Bruce. If I can figure it out, you can too.
Mark • May 15, 2012 8:09 AM
Unfortunately we do pander to the Americans whenever they ask anything. Just look at Kim Dotcom as an example... or our copyright law.
There's only been an terrorist attack on NZ soils, and that was in 1981 I believe. One reporter died. But I know John Key wouldn't let facts like that get in the way of a chance to have a Free Trade Agreement...
@epic fail: "Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole..."
how very apropos! How hard would it be for AQ to infiltrate the masses of low-paid/high-turnover TSA screeners, and worm their way higher in the organization? Guess we'll find out. Captain Obvious • May 15, 2012 9:06 AM
I recall this being tried before, to little effect.
The whole point of a hero diving on a grenade or bomb is to save everyone around them. We meat sacks are great at absorbing lots of energy, so any attack using this strategy will likely just be a mess.
@Steve Jones: "Also, even now they could easily overpower an air marshall and take their weapon(s) off them. How many passengers would they have to execute before the pilot opened the door? All of them, presumably."
Good luck. It seems unlikely that an air marshal would carry enough ammunition to dispense all passengers, and more likely that after the first execution the terrorist would be clobbered and beaten to death by the remaining passengers (fighting skills and martyrdom prospects notwithstanding).
Muffin • May 15, 2012 9:31 AM
Or how about "Napolitano pulls shit out of ass, finds it's not a bomb"...
The real reason is that body scanners are produced by US companies, and the USA wants to sell them. And in order for others to buy, it first has to convince them there's a need for them.
Steve Jones • May 15, 2012 9:54 AM
@boog: Depends on a lot of factors, but human psychology being what it is, if you cause enough terror, people are easily controlled. Some nationalities are more gung ho than others, of course, so the terrorists would have to choose a more malleable people. For example, grab a baby and rip it's throat out, then grab another one. That'd likely cause enough "shock and awe" to take control. Just thinking out loud really, ready for my next movie plot.
BTW, I'm assuming the air marshals have very limited ammo, to stop it falling into the wrong hands.
First, as has been said a billion times, but reiteration is fun and sometimes necessary for younger people and newtimers; substitute the [body bomb] for [Boogie Man] for a funny game of Mad Libs.
Second, hmmm, "Lean forward"...sounds a little like the MSNBC slogan. Look it up yourself, connect the dots and implications of state-controlled news.
Third, as commenter "Steven Jones" concluded, "There is no defense for someone who wants to die"--and I've tried to point out previously here and elsewhere that when you have extreme economic imbalance like we are seeing today and in turn people who have little to nothing to live for...they may gain a desire to die and subject their misery on as many people as possible...
Bruce, why the headline is what it is, is not beyond you. You know damn well, as do many others. Stories are crafted by "Public Relations Firms", who plant stories that are "suitable" to their clients. Being the (typically correct) cynic all the time gets old and too depressing for most. They can't handle the truth.
"New Zealand will have greater access to information about threats as our once frosty relationship with the US continues to thaw."
I'm guessing that information flow is not one way.
On the other hand, we are spending millions at the moment because our agricultural border security has been downgraded (to pay for the non-existent human threat stuff?) and 10 days ago we found one, yes ONE, Male Queensland fruit fly in Auckland.
It is now costing us a fortune to find out whether it was the only one or whether there are more, especially females.
If they turn out to have immigrated here it could cost us billions. While our "leaders" have been distracted by the idiotic and pressurised by the paranoid, not to mention pushed towards buying useless but expensive US screening tech to stop detonating underwear, the actual threats are not being prevented.
Pretty much the same everywhere. The reason we never see the Black swans is because we are too busy cowering from our fantasies.
@Orin Don't be so sure. Our PM, John Key, is a major arse kisser when it come to the U.S, in the vain hope he'll negotiate a free trade deal.
He's the most corrupt leader we've ever had. He changed the labour laws when the studio threatened to film the Hobbit elsewhere, and he's attempting to change gambling laws to allow more pokie machines (one armed bandits) in our biggest casino in return for the casino building a multi-million dollar conference centre.
New Zealand has no physical security for domestic air travel. None.
It's simple human intel around the airport. There's no air/land side in the airports' domestic terminals, anyone can walk all the way to the gate, then the agent just checks that they have a ticket. There's no threat, so no need for ridiculous security. (Int'l flights, on the other hand, have to have int'l required security, so that's different)
Look at the bright side: as long as there's no real threat, the countermeasures will be 100% effective.
I seem to recall a related joke about polar bear repellant but I can't remember the details....
NZ does have security for domestic flights out of both Auckland and Christchurch. I can't remember if they're there in Dunedin or Wellington.
Flying from Invercargill, my hometown, to anywhere, there isn't anyone scanning anything thankfully. The international flights have the same stupid rules as elsewhere.
I don't think there is a strong likelihood of terrorism in NZ. The French Government blew up a Greenpeace boat in 1985, but that's about it.
Short of racial profiling against the French, I don't think there's any point wasting any more money on countermeasures.
NZ generally has nothing much worth invading for, and is too small for anyone to really care. Which is fine by me.
WHILST i would agree the incidence is low they have had a few home grown "terror" issues.
One that was foiled (I can't find an Internet refrence) was if I recall coorrectly a 14year old "republican" boy who decided to assassinate the (UK) Queen on a visit. His weapon of choice was a 0.22 rifle and he had gone to a lot of trouble working out angles and ranges so that he had "zeroed" the weapon correctly. If he would have actuall made the attempt or would have succeeded had he tried is a bit of a mute point after the amount of work he had put in...
I think the Kiwi's need more protection from their own "hair brained" politico's than the "foreign government agencies" that the political idiots invite in... boog • May 16, 2012 9:39 AM @Z. Constantine: "...the doors open inward..."
Are you sure about that? I'll buy that the exit over the wing might open inward, but it seems a quick image search for "airplane door" reveals many counterexamples. (although your comment about the pressure differential may still be valid)
That said, I meant for my comment to be presented entirely within the context of Hollywood and terrorism-fear physics and airplane design; if they want doors to open outward, then doors open outward.
Ask a religious Muslim to participate in a tree lighting ceremony; ask about marriage laws in Muslim countries, ask about liberal democracy spreading to the Muslim countries replacing authoritarian autocratic dictatorships who enforce their power through religious police. Sounds a little like the Roman Catholic Europe we liberated ourselves from a few hundred years. Except now a new version has emerged to exploit our pluralism and multiculturalism, accepted without examination or thorough analysis. The battle rages and yet the minds are as naive and closed as ever in their sheltered little homes beyond the glossy computer screens. Maybe $6 gallon gas will clue-out the sarcasm. Unix Ronin • May 16, 2012 5:44 PM
I don't have any credible evidence, but I have it on excellent authority that the world is going to be eaten by a giant mutant space-goat.
Man, it's not been good for this world, after all I've got it on excellent authority it started by being sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Arkalceasure.
[For those of a younger generation or three who don't get it CDon't Panic" just go and read the works of the late Douglas Adams, I'm sure you will appreciate them as they give you a different way of looking on the world.]
"There have been one or two other internal "terror" events for political reasons in the past either supposed or real (NZ playing Rugby in SA and vice versa during apartheid kicked up a few issues)."
I'm rather surprised that you would equate protest with terrorism. But then, when one's MO is to turn yourself into an instant expert on everything courtesy of Wikipedia and Google, I suppose the results are about what one would expect.
Nor did I say they were, however "the lady who leans forwards" however almost certainly was.
With regards the SA/NZ rugby the history of it as reported in quite a few places indicates that by todayss standards terrorist tactics were used against the protestorss.
Oh and the root of "terrorism" actually indicates state against the people.
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There are many ways attackers can try to infiltrate an enterprise, but many times enterprises make it so easy that the attackers don’t have to try too hard. Consider the current state of orphan SSH (Secure Shell) keys and how these keys represent one of the biggest risks in the enterprise.
These keys are a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services and are used for system to system automation and authentication, application integration, system management and other common functions. Should an attacker get ahold of these keys, they could find it very easy to burrow their way deeper into the network.
Ylonen: We’ve worked for five years with half of the top 10 banks in the U.S., U.K., Germany and several stock exchanges; some central banks. And we are finding anywhere from several hundred thousand to several million SSH keys granting access to their servers. I don't know how familiar your readers are with SSH. Basically SSH Keys operate like passwords and provide access, but without the need to enter anything. And we are finding, typically, anywhere from 50 to 200 keys per server. This is in traditional enterprise environments with tens of thousands of servers.
For instance, in one bank we found 3 million keys. Another bank found 4.5 million keys. The fewest we've seen in the Fortune 500 companies that we’ve looked at has been in the hundreds of thousands of keys. It turns out these keys are almost always unused. In fact, something like 90 percent is unused, in most cases. Something that was from years ago but never removed when the people left.
And SSH keys are the only credential that users can still provision in a default configuration.
Are they mostly server and system admins who are creating the keys? Do you see poor implementations in regulated industries, such as healthcare?
It's mostly server and system admins. But also developers and database admins who want a quick, easy single sign-in access to of all their database servers. They create this convenience to do their jobs more easily, but it violates policy. And it creates a lot of risk because these keys accumulate and remain valid forever.
In fact, in one of our engagements at a healthcare organization, we tried an SSH key that was created 10 years ago and it still worked. We are finding keys that are 16 years old, in some of the biggest banks and some of the very highest profile technology companies in the U.S.
Considering all of that, how can SSH keys be leveraged by attackers?
These are effective to spread laterally and more deeply into an organization. When you get to one machine, you can use that to jump to another machine, to another, and so on. And given that there are typically about 50 to 200 keys granting access to each server, the probability that if you break into a server that you would be able to find private keys from that server and use those to log into a few other servers is high.
These keys are used for many critical business functions, such as backup recovery for data centers, server to server communications, system integration automation, and crucial business transactions. That’s why enterprises basically have to close their doors if SSH stops working. There are too many dependencies. At one bank we had a case where they authorized the removal of an SSH key, and suddenly the phone started ringing and some major transaction wasn't going through. So this isn’t as easy as just starting to remove keys.
We've been trying to educate them for the last several years, but still: most people don't really seem to understand the extent of the problem. Or what you can do to an enterprise with loose SSH keys, and we have hackers coming in all the time. And with these keys they can continue to attack silently, and unnoticed to other parts of infrastructure. The initial attack could be an insider. It could be something penetrating through using malware, or through e-mail using malware. And they’ll find a key and move deeper from there.
We have seen attackers buy keys. We have seen cases where SSH keys were being sold by insiders.
This seems like a tremendous risk for those organizations that don’t work to actively manage these keys. It’s something that could potentially deny access to many crucial IT services, or be used to clandestinely siphon data.
If you can infiltrate and get a hold of the keys, for instance, you can not only access the database but potentially modify the database, bypassing the actual database software to modify the files on disk. Or you can start reprogramming firmware and destroying backup volumes, and bring the whole enterprise down. And if you think of cyberwarfare, the whole idea is that you find access, you penetrate and you maintain that access. Remain secret. And then, if and when a decision is made to really disrupt something then you are able to do that very quickly.
■ RELATED: The CSO password management survival guide
There’s no silver bullet to remediate this. It's not really a technical problem. It's not a vulnerability in itself. It's a management issue. Enterprises can establish processes for terminating or removing keys when people leave. And they can establish processes for revalidating or reauthorizing access between applications on a regular basis.
That's pretty much the essence of it. There needs to be a controlled provisioning process, which involves taking the configuration so that users can still provision some tools to automate that process of monitoring and revalidation. And scanning the infrastructure, and removing all the unused keys. It all starts with creating a policy to manage the life cycle of SSH keys, and then enforcing that policy. Unfortunately, many enterprises don’t even have that policy.
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https://www.csoonline.com/article/3196974/unmanaged-orphaned-ssh-keys-remain-a-serious-enterprise-risks.html
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An access control system allows you to control who has access to your premises. Access control systems can operate gates, doors and barriers and are available in various installations, such as video and telephone entry systems or computer-controlled systems operated by magnetic cards or proximity readers.
These security systems can be installed in a variety of premises including factories, offices and industrial sites, hospitals, care homes and hotels, schools, colleges and universities. An access control system can also be connected to Building Management Systems (BMS).
Logic Fire and Security install and maintain a wide range of access control systems to suit your specific site, and provide a safer and more secure environment for you and your colleagues.
A door entry system which enables entry for visitors who can’t access the site via the access control system.
Each system enables complete control over who can access buildings and sites and specific areas can also be set up to be accessed by selected people.
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The requirement by HIPAA for conducting risk assessments has been in place since 2003. However, few health care providers have completed the assessment.
The rule was put in place to help healthcare providers uncover potential weaknesses in their security policies, processes and systems.
It requires organizations that handle protected health information to put in place and then regularly review their administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the security of their patients’ protected health information.
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Simon Grice has put up a blog aggregator called Personal Digital Identity (which Simon calls “PDI”). I get the clear sense that since last October’s Digital Identity World, PDI has been coming into its own as a distinct subset of the digital identity space. From an XRI/XDI perspective, this makes sense, as individuals are the ultimate authorities, and thus the reason for the “=” i-name/i-number space in XRI architecture.
But just as “=” is only one of five global contexts in XRI (organizational – “@”, general – “+”, special – “$”, and physical – “!” are the other four), my gut is that PDI will only be successful as one facet of the “identity metasystem” that Kim Cameron posits will be necessary to achieve ubiquity.
Still, it’s significant that a critical mass has formed around the necessity of this particular facet. Because, as Kim’s First Law implies, PDI is the sun around which the rest of the metasystem planets must revolve.
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NIST has published an update on its work on the new Secure Internet Domain Routing (SIDR) standards designed to provide the internet the security that is currently lacking from the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
BGP was designed in 1989 as a short-term fix for the earlier Exterior Gateway Protocol that could no longer handle the rapidly increasing size of the internet, and was in imminent danger of meltdown. The problem is that BGP was designed without any security, despite it being fundamental to the operation of the internet.
BGP controls the route that data takes from source to destination. It does this by keeping tabs on the availability of local stepping stones along that route. The availability of those stepping stones is maintained in regularly updated routing tables held locally. The problem is that there is no security applied to those tables -- in effect, the entire map of the internet is built on trust; and trust is in short supply in today's internet. Whole swathes of traffic can be hijacked.
"BGP forms the technical glue holding the internet together," explains NIST in Tuesday's post; "but historically, its lack of security mechanisms makes it an easy target for hacking."
The trust model underpinning BGP is easily abused, and has frequently been abused. Generally speaking, most abuse is thought to have be accidental -- but there have been enough suspicious incidents to demonstrate that the theoretic concern over BGP's security is not unfounded. Since the routing tables are locally stipulated and internationally distributed, a telecommunications company in one country is able to change the data routing for the entire world.
"As a result," warns NIST in a separate publication (SIDR, Part 1: Route Hijacks-- PDF), "attacks against internet routing functions are a significant and systemic threat to internet based information systems. The consequences of these attacks can: (1) deny access to internet services; (2) detour internet traffic to permit eavesdropping and to facilitate on-path attacks on endpoints (sites); (3) misdeliver internet network traffic to malicious endpoints; (4) undermine IP address-based reputation and filtering systems; and (5) cause routing instability in the internet."
One of the best known examples of route hijacking occurred in February 2008 when a Pakistani ISP tried to block YouTube after the government deemed a video depiction of Muhammad to be offensive. Its attempts to hijack YouTube deliveries to Pakistan effectively hijacked the world's YouTube making it virtually inaccessible anywhere. While the intent was intended, the result probably wasn't -- but other examples appear to be more clearly malicious.
In April of this year, 36 large network blocks were hijacked by the Russian government-controlled Rostelecom company. Researchers concluded that the BGP tables had been altered manually, probably at or by Rostelecom. What made it suspicious was the high concentration of technology and financial services companies that were included: such as MasterCard, Visa, HSBC and Symantec.
Because of the changes made to the BGP routing tables, traffic flowing into the affected networks was rerouted through Rostelecom's routers. "I would classify this as quite suspicious," said Dyn's Doug Madory at the time. "Typically accidental leaks appear more voluminous and indiscriminate. This would appear to be targeted to financial institutions."
Other examples include a scheme that ran for months in 2014 redirecting traffic within the Bitcoin infrastructure and resulting in the theft of $83,000 in Bitcoins; and a 2013 attack that detoured bank, telephony, and government data through routers in Belarus and Iceland.
While known BGP abuses have been relatively small in scope and limited in duration -- and sometimes accidental -- the vulnerabilities are real. "The fact that they haven't been dramatically exploited yet shouldn't make you feel better," warns NIST's Doug Montgomery. "Think of how much of our critical infrastructure relies on internet technology -- transportation, communication, financial systems, et cetera. Someday, someone will have the motivation."
NIST has been working with the DHS and IETF to develop a new set of BGP standards that will eliminate the problems. "The set of standards, known as Secure Inter-Domain Routing (SIDR), have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and represent the first comprehensive effort to defend the internet's routing system from attack," wrote NIST yesterday.
There are three separate components that comprise SIDR: Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI); BGP Origin Validation (BGP-OV); and BGP PATH Validation (BGP-PV). RPKI allows third-parties to cryptographically validate claims to ownership of internet address blocks and internet autonomous systems. Origin Validation provides protocol extensions and tools to allow BGP routers to use RPKI data to detect and filter unauthorized BGP route announcements. PATH Validation provides further protocol extensions that allow BGP routers to cryptographically verify the sequence of networks (the autonomous systems path) that comprise a BGP route.
The Origin Validation will deter simple route hijack attacks and misconfigurations (accidents), while PATH Validation will deter more sophisticated and stealthy route detour attacks. Together, says NIST, they provide a complete solution to the routing vulnerabilities identified in the original BGP.
Specifications for the three components are now complete. The third component -- PATH Validation, also known as BGPsec -- was published by IETF as RFC 8205 in September. Uptake, however, is a different matter. The first of the components (RPKI) is defined in RFC 6480 published in February 2012. By 2016, although all five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs -- AFRINIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) were RPKI able, adoption of route origin authorizations had been slow and patchy. ~7% of global BGP announcements were then covered by ROAs. RPKI adoption in Europe (~30% of its announced address space covered by ROAs) and Latin America (~13% of its announced address space covered by ROAs) was proceeding much faster than in North America (~3% of its announced address space was then covered by ROAs).
With the specification for the final SIDR component in place, NIST will now redirect its efforts. "With their publication," says the NIST announcement, "NIST's efforts will shift to helping the industry with adoption, including developing technical deployment guidance as well as working on improving the performance and scalability of implementations. As part of this technology transition effort, NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) recently announced plans for a new project focused on Secure Inter-Domain Routing."
With SIDR, the 1989 temporary internet fix known as BGP is finally gaining security. Whether it can be globally implemented before a serious and well-resourced BGP attack disrupts the entire internet remains to be seen. As Montgomery said, "Someday, someone will have the motivation."
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https://www.securityweek.com/nist-readies-tackle-internets-global-bgp-vulnerabilities?quicktabs_1=1
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Editor’s Note: Elastic joined forces with Endgame in October 2019, and has migrated some of the Endgame blog content to elastic.co. See Elastic Security to learn more about our integrated security solutions.
If you missed our introductory post about the Event Query Language (EQL) or our recent announcements about the public release of EQL, then we're sorry we missed you, but have no fear, this is your getting started guide with EQL.
Event Query Language Refresher
As a quick recap, EQL is a language to express relationships between events and additionally has the power to normalize your data regardless of data source and not constrained by platform. EQL is already integrated into the Endgame platform to bolster our behavior-based detections, but now that EQL has been open-sourced, you too can adopt the language and start writing your own adversarial detections, regardless of underlying technology. Whether you want to simply search with EQL, perform basic hunting via basic data stacking and filtering, or express complex behaviors as part of hypothesis-based hunting, EQL’s flexibility as a language can help improve your team’s effectiveness in many different ways.
We also built a library of analytics written in EQL, aimed to provide a new way for the infosec community to detail detections of attacker techniques. The EQL Analytics Library comes with a set of behavior based detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK™, and can convert between various data formats. Please feel free to contribute analytics or contact us so we can help provide the blue perspective to the various red emulations out there.
We know you are excited to execute an EQL query, so let's get some data ready for you.
Our initial release required interested users to generate data. Being aware that this might represent a barrier to entry for some, we have provided a static test dataset to use while exploring the tool and syntax, which can be found here. This data was generated by executing subsets of Atomic Red and RTA while simultaneously collecting events using Sysmon. We additionally normalized the data, but that is not required to get you started on EQL. Keep in mind, we know the data is not perfect or complete, and we would gladly welcome a hand.
Helpful PowerShell functions for parsing Sysmon events from Windows Event Logs can be found in our utils directory, from within eqllib. The code below is from utils/scrape-events.ps1
Getting logs into JSON format can be done by piping to PowerShell cmdlets within an elevated PowerShell.exe console.
Get-ChildItem $AtomicFilePath -Recurse -Filter *.yaml -File | ForEach-Object { $currentTechnique = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_.FullName) $parsedYaml = (ConvertFrom-Yaml (Get-Content $_.FullName -Raw ) $AllAtomicTests. Add($currentTechnique, $parsedYaml);
Enough is enough, let's write some rules! Please start by familiarizing yourself with EQL grammar and syntax, seen here or even from our initial blog post.
For demo purposes, we will use the dataset titled, normalized-sysmon-T1117-AtomicRed-regsvr32.json, which is an Atomic Red Team test for regsvr32 misuse. We encourage you to try some of these practices on larger datasets, which we have provided.
Let's first get a feel for how many events we have in the data.
$ eql query -f normalized-T1117-AtomicRed-regsvr32.json '| count'
Great, so we have data, let's try to understand it further. Maybe since we know this is T1117, we want to just look for regsvr32?
$ eql query -f normalized-sysmon-T1117-AtomicRed-regsvr32.json "process_name = 'regsvr32.exe' | count"
{"event_type": "image_load", "image_name": "regsvr32.exe", "image_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "pid": 2012, "process_name": "regsvr32.exe", "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "timestamp": 131883573237140000, "unique_pid": "{42FC7E13-CBCB-5C05-0000-0010A0395401}"}
As we can see, we have an atomic test loading scrobj.dll. Let’s check out our current analytics in eqllib. First, let’s look at the Suspicious Script Object Execution analytic:
image_load where image_name = "scrobj.dll" and process_name in ("regsvr32.exe", "rundll32.exe", "certutil.exe")
If we look at our dataset, what do we see?
$ eql query -f normalized-T1117-AtomicRed-regsvr32.json "image_load where image_name = 'scrobj.dll' and process_name in ('regsvr32.exe', 'rundll32.exe', 'certutil.exe')" {"event_type": "image_load", "image_name": "scrobj.dll", "image_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\scrobj.dll", "pid": 2012, "process_name": "regsvr32.exe", "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "timestamp": 131883573237450016, "unique_pid": "{42FC7E13-CBCB-5C05-0000-0010A0395401}"}
Very cool, what about our Atomic Blue analytic within eqllib? We can run our existing analytic to see if it matches. The analytic looks like, process where subtype.create and process_name = "regsvr32.exe" and wildcard(command_line, "*scrobj*", "*/i:*", "* -i:*", "*.sct*")
Now, let’s switch to eqllib to use the available rules with our survey capability:
$ eqllib survey -f normalized-T1117-AtomicRed-regsvr32.json eqllib/analytics/defense-evasion/T1117-scrobj-load.toml {"event_type": "image_load", "image_name": "scrobj.dll", "image_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\scrobj.dll", "pid": 2012, "process_name": "regsvr32.exe", "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "timestamp": 131883573237450016, "unique_pid": "{42FC7E13-CBCB-5C05-0000-0010A0395401}"}
Through EQL, you can also look across different events types. This is important because it can allow us to bolster up commands for tighter detections and reduce the occurence of false positives. Here we check to see if the subsequent image load of the scrobj.dll and network event for downloading the remote sct file or other C2 actions are also occurring, which indicates that the technique progressed and more likely succeeded. We can do all these things with EQL!
{"event_type": "image_load", "image_name": "scrobj.dll", "image_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\scrobj.dll", "pid": 2012, "process_name": "regsvr32.exe", "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "timestamp": 131883573237450016, "unique_pid": "{42FC7E13-CBCB-5C05-0000-0010A0395401}"} {"destination_address": "151.101.48.133", "destination_port": "443", "event_type": "network", "pid": 2012, "process_name": "regsvr32.exe", "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\regsvr32.exe", "protocol": "tcp", "source_address": "192.168.162.134", "source_port": "50505", "subtype": "outgoing", "timestamp": 131883573238680000, "unique_pid": "{42FC7E13-CBCB-5C05-0000-0010A0395401}", "user": "ART-DESKTOP\\bob", "user_domain": "ART-DESKTOP", "user_name": "bob"}
We could also take stdout and pipe to powershell or JQ and make pretty tables --the power is yours.
I feel Atomic Blue
If you were the overachiever and detonated all the Atomic Red Team tests, then welcome Atomic Blue (https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/atomicblue.html).
In the EQL Analytics Library, the analytics that map to Atomic Red Team are called Atomic Blue Detections. In our earlier blog post, we showed how these are detections that work in tandem with Atomic Red Team, since both are heavily influenced by the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Checkout our current coverage by surveying the rules against the data you just collected by executing:
confidence: A gut feel about the confidence of the rule--how likely the analytic will match suspicious activity.
created_date: When the rule was originally created.
description: Short description of the analytic. This should describe how it works, what is supposed to be detected, and potential false positives.
name: Title the rule as descriptive, but not overly verbose.
notes: Any disclaimers, caveats or other notes that would be helpful to share to the audience.
os: What operating systems the analytic is written for. We’ve only written analytics for Windows so far, but welcome more!
references: Links to blogs or other sources of information to support the technique or analytic logic.
techniques: A mapping to the relevant ATT&CK techniques, (e.g. T1015).
This isn’t necessarily all of the potential tactics on the technique pages for ATT&CK, and often depends on the detection details.
This is another powerful aspect of EQL. EQL queries are platform agnostic and can run on any data source, as long as we provide a data source schema mapping. For example, a process identifier is denoted by the pid field. If a new data source reports its process identifier with a field such as process_id, we represent this mapping from the process_id -> pid. From there, any usage of pid is immediately compatible.
We can also define more sophisticated mappings. In Sysmon, there is no field to represent the file name for a running process. Our schema calls this process_name, but in Sysmon it’s nested within the Image field. Since mappings can also be defined with functions, we can define a mapping from baseName(Image) to process_name. This mapping works for both normalizing data and actual queries. For instance process_name = "net.exe" will be converted to Image = "*\\net.exe". This is just one way that we achieve compatibility with various data sources with different data model choices.
This is a powerful construct - analytics written once can be run on a wide variety of data sources and platforms. All we need is a mapping when field names are different.
Currently we have Microsoft Sysmon mapped, with more sources to come. But, you don’t have to wait for us. As you can see from the sysmon.toml schema, adding your own data sources is straightforward and it is automatically parsed by eqllib.
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Connectivity and advanced technologies are essential for smart cities, but they also bring with them the risk of vulnerability to disruptive cyber attacks. And for budget-strapped cities that can't afford the investment in IT staff with cybersecurity expertise or the support of a knowledgeable technology partner, the risk is worrisome.
But help may be on the way. Colorado Springs, Colorado, has big plans to build a National Cyber Intelligence Center. Its key roles are expected to focus on the needs of the military and area technology companies and perform cybersecurity R&D and information sharing. But it also will work with other agencies and public officials -- including city leaders -- to train them to deal with threats.
The new center, which will be housed in a former manufacturing plant, was announced recently by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who will ask the state legislature for funding for the project with additional money anticipated from industry and foundations, according to an article in The Gazette, the Colorado Springs newspaper.
While details on the specific structure of the center and when it will open are yet to be decided, it will be operated by a collaborative group including the military, industry professionals, higher education, cybersecurity vendors and others.
The new center is envisioned as eventually becoming a national cybersecurity and an economic blessing for the city.
Referring to the region's technology companies that said they support the creation of the cybersecurity response center, Gov. Hickenlooper said "They said they need someone to call if they are hacked and to notify other companies that they could be vulnerable to the same sort of attack. We also need a Cyber Institute to train public officials -- mayors, governors, city council members and county commissioners -- because they will have to make decisions and allocate resources for response."
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https://smartcitiescouncil.com/article/why-colorado-springs-wants-be-cybersecurity-hub
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As many of you know, when I am not protecting people and their businesses, I’m often out taking pictures. My camera of choice has been the Nikon d300, which is over five years old now. As with all technology, when cameras age, they become increasingly unreliable and it became apparent over a year ago that my camera was experiencing legacy issues. The weather protection was weakening, the sensor was staring to fail and the batteries were draining faster and faster. If I am going to practice what I preach, it was time to ruthlessly eradicate legacy.
“Ruthlessly eradicate legacy” is one of my mantras when it comes to infrastructure management. Older systems take a surprising amount of resources to maintain and use. Modern technology is easier to update, cheaper to operate and easier for people to use. It also has modern features that can drastically improve capabilities. With servers, this means killing all that no longer get updates (Windows 2000, for example). With cameras, it means time to say goodbye to my old friend and look at other options.
This is not a camera post, however, so I’ll cut short the decision process and say that I settled on a d800 or d800E. For my purposes, there are no differences, so I went out looking for a good deal. After all, Black Friday is coming and now is the time to look for electronics. This, however, is where the story gets interesting.
In doing my research, there were indications that while camera accessories go on sale periodically, the high-end camera bodies and lenses I like only drop in price when a successor comes out. This means I’m stuck at the high end unless I buy used. Moreover, in the Nikon world, warranty is a huge factor and is significantly reduced when you buy used, so it only makes sense to look at that option if you are going to save over 20% off the purchase price.
Which is why, when I found a d800E on Amazon, I got a little excited. In fact, I got a little too excited. I almost got scammed.
The list price on a new d800E is $3,299.99 (which is why my d300 got to be five years old before I considered a replacement), but this camera listed on Amazon.com was just $1,836.73. 56% off is clearly a better deal than 20% … but the deal is a little too good. In fact, it’s so good that a lot of people are going to leap on the deal, so I had to move fast.
Adam Levin of Credit.com wrote an interesting story documenting Wisconsin’s complete inability to secure public information.
Last week, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue revealed that it had accidentally made public 110,795 Social Security numbers and tax ID numbers of Wisconsin residents. The numbers were mistakenly embedded in a real estate report and posted to the department’s website for almost three months before being removed.
This is the fourth time since 2006 that Wisconsin state agencies have been involved in the public release of Social Security numbers.
We see the stories in the news each and everyday.
Malware hit Android. Malware took advantage of known flaws in Windows. Source code was released for a new family of malware. The thing is … none of this is really news.
I’ll make it simple for you. You can ignore all the rest of the malware stories that come out this year if you remember the following points:
Attackers get better day-by-day. After all, if they didn’t, they’d lose.
As defenders, you must also get better day by day. If you don’t, you’ll lose.
Since we can’t control what the attackers do, the best you can do is play to not lose. This means:
1) Harden your systems (patch them, check users/passwords, remove uneeded software).
2) If you can’t harden your systems, get rid of them.
3) If you can’t harden your systems or get rid of them, implement compensating controls and understand where the gaps leave you exposed.
4) If you can’t do any of these three, get help. Sorry to toot my own horn here, but this is what we specialize in. You don’t need to be perfect, you just have to be getting better a bit faster than the attackers do.
5) If you can’t get help, give up. Just post your banking credentials, customer list and passwords on your website. The attackers are going to get them anyway. If you’re not going to protect yourself, just give up and enjoy the ride down as best you can.
A common misconception among Mac users is that their Apple products are immune from malware and security issues often seen in Microsoft products. A decade ago, this was pretty much true. Mac OS had a streamlined approach to security that was difficult to crack, but more importantly, Apple users were massively dwarfed by Microsoft and weren’t worth the time to target. Hackers wanted the easy score, not something they actually had to work at. Unfortunately, many Mac users still believe they’re impervious to threats, but they are ignoring two major changes in the computer landscape.
1) After years of abuse, and rightfully so, Microsoft has now surpassed Apple in terms of protection. Since the Windows Vista introduction in 2007, their OS has employed ”address space layout randomisation (ASLR) which is implemented so as to obscure most of what an attacker needs to conduct, for example, shell code injection attacks.” Despite acquiring ASLR in 2007, Mac OS has yet to implement this same degree of protection.
2) Apple has seen fabulous growth in the personal computer market. In 2003, Apple had just 2.06% of the desktop computer market. Just five years later, that number was at 14% and has now diversified further with the advent of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad. Not surprisingly, Mac OS malware has grown in excess of 200% in the last three years!
Unfortunately, many companies are ignorant to this environmental shift and still assume their Macs are as secure as ever. Take for instance an advertising agency we recently consulted with. This agency employs over 50 individuals and boasts several Fortune 500 accounts. Like many ad firms, Macs are their computer of choice.
Recently, one of their biggest clients had a security breach that originated from the agency office. The agency and client shared a portal where they frequently transferred images, files and documents. Besieged by a nasty piece of malware, the portal was rendered unusable.
What the agency didn’t realize is their Mac computers were hosting Windows-based malware. While the malware had zero effect on their Mac computers, it ran amok on the client’s Microsoft desktops after it was unknowingly transferred through the portal. This issue is prevalent in many Mac environments. According to Sophos, “A 100,000 strong snapshot of the millions of Mac computers which have recently downloaded Sophos’s free Mac anti-virus software, revealed that 20% of Mac computers were carrying one or more instances of Windows malware.”
Needless to say, if the agency realized that their fleet of Mac computers weren’t secure and at the very least invested in Sophos’ free Mac anti-virus software, this entire scenario would have never happened. If you are a Mac user or your company runs a Mac-based operation, please do us all a favor and download the aforementioned free anti-virus software. And if you really want to make sure all your bases are covered, give us a buzz and we’ll set you up with a free security review as well.
LinkedIn wasn’t the only major web presence with a security breach last week. Popular streaming music service, Last.fm, sent out emails this weekend to their 40+ million subscribers regarding a password breach and were quick to point out the breach only affected a “small fraction” of users and that “this follows recent password leaks on other sites …” I suppose if everyone else is doing it, you might as well join in on the fun!
As a Last.fm user, I received one of their customer emails. Unfortunately, it went straight to my Spam box and I didn’t see it until this morning. Here’s what it said:
Much like the LinkedIn breach, the same rules for changing your password that Josh outlined last week apply with Last.fm. In case you missed his post, read it here. Otherwise, here are Josh’s tips for creating a strong password:
Change your password to something random, long and complex… at least 20 characters.
Do not use this password anywhere else.
If you don’t remember these sorts of passwords easily, use a tool like KeePass, LastPass or1Password.
If you are responsible for the security of others, get them to change their passwords too.
Isn’t that easy? Now go and change your Last.fm password and your LinkedIn one, too, if you haven’t already done so. And if you’re looking for love via eHarmony (data breach last Wednesday), change that password, as well!
RJS Lean Security. The Smarter Way
The idea of perfect security is a trap.
Unlike you, attackers are not limited by resources, budgets, laws or ethics. They can launch any number of attacks from anytime or anywhere. This means you have to maintain a strategic balance between defense and response. Learn More
Always stay a move ahead of your opponent.
If you are constantly focused on reacting, you are not taking the time to learn and adjust your security strategy based on your experiences. Your attackers are constantly evolving, so you must, too … just a little faster. Learn More
Make better use of what you already have.
Before you invest in yet another expensive security project, fine-tune the security products you have in place. Are your defense systems fully-patched? Have you turned on all the necessary bells and whistles that came with your original product? Learn More
The right security strategy for right now.
The days of defining and executing a rigid multi-year security plan are over. Since attackers are incentivized for rapid change, you must also adapt to the always-evolving threat landscape. An inflexible security plan will create holes quicker than you can fill them. Learn More
Part of your team, not instead of your team.
Without a highly-skilled and experienced staff of security experts, it is extremely difficult to remain unscathed from the many possible attacks waged against your organization each day. Thus, it is sometimes necessary to leverage the knowledge of others. Learn More
A smart investment for smart growth.
Once your internal operations are working well and you are effectively using what you have, it's time to grow. But before you purchase another layer of protection, first identify what really matters to your business and create goals you can measure to see if your next project will indeed be a success. Learn More
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A Fire Risk Assessment must be carried out and reviewed regularly on workplace premises. This will identify what is needed to prevent a fire and keep people safe.
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See how automated data modelling removes the time and error associated with system complexity, working from a small data set recorded during manual testing. With the data model, creating virtual data becomes trivial, using data generation to produce request-response pairs for every possible test. Accurate and complete virtual environments can then be spun up on demand using the re-usable generation, with comprehensive test data populated simultaneously into the test environments. That means the right test data, populated in the right environment on demand, making true continuous testing a reality.
Watch Break the Barrier to Continuous Testing with Parasoft to see how modelling and synthetic data generation combine to enable truly continuous testing.
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus 12 provides essential defense against malware with the legendary ESET NOD32 engine at its core. It built on ESET’s trademark best mix of detection, speed, and usability.
It offers Gamer Mode for lightweight protection while gaming and the latest edition brings a host of under-the-hood improvements, including Ransomware Shield.
Explore the great online, securely protected by award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus detection technology. It’s trusted by over 110 million users worldwide to detect and neutralize all types of digital threats, including viruses, ransomware, rootkits, worms, and spyware.
It also protects against techniques that seek to evade detection, and blocks targeted attacks and exploits.
The Antiphishing feature protects you from illegitimate websites that try to access your sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords.
Antivirus and Antispyware. It provides proactive protection against all types of online and offline threats and prevents malware from spreading to other users.
Anti-Phishing. Protects your privacy and assets against attempts by fake websites to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords or banking details.
Exploit Blocker. Blocks attack specifically designed to evade antivirus detection and eliminates lock screens and ransomware. Protects against attacks on web browsers, PDF readers and other applications, including Java-based software.
Advanced Memory Scanner. Enables improved detection of persistent malware that employs multiple layers of encryption to conceal its activity.
Cloud-Powered Scanning. Speeds up scans by whitelisting safe files based on the ESET Live Grid file reputation database. It helps to proactively stop unknown malware based on its behavior, by comparing it with our cloud-based reputation system.
Idle-State Scanning. Aids system performance by performing in-depth scans when your computer is not in use. It helps detect potential inactive threats before they can cause damage.
Device Control. Allows you to block storage media – CDs, DVDs, USB sticks and disk storage devices. Lets you block devices connecting via Bluetooth, FireWire and serial/parallel ports.
Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS). Lets you customize the behavior of the system in greater detail. Gives you the option to specify rules for the system registry, active processes, and programs to fine-tune your security posture
Script-Based Attack Protection. Detects attacks by malicious scripts that try to exploit Windows PowerShell. It also detects malicious JavaScripts that can attack via your browser.
Ransomware Shield. Blocks malware that tries to lock you out of your personal data and then asks you to pay a ‘ransom’ to unlock it.
UEFI Scanner. Protects from threats that attack your computer on a deeper level, even before the start of Windows – on systems with the UEFI system interface.
Enjoy the full power of your computer
Small System Footprint. Maintains high performance and extends the lifetime of hardware. Fits any type of system environment. Saves internet bandwidth with extremely small update packages
Gamer Mode. ESET NOD32 Antivirus automatically switches to silent mode if any program is run in full-screen. System updates and notifications are postponed to save resources for gaming, video, photos or presentations
Portable Computer Support. Postpones all non-actionable pop-up windows, updates and system-hungry activities to preserve system resources so that you can focus on gaming or films
Install and forget, or customize to meet your exact requirements
One-Click Solution. Lets you view your protection status and access the most frequently used tools from all screens. Offers comprehensive, one-click solutions to potential issues.
Smooth Product. Upgrades Benefit from new protection technologies as soon as they become available, for a continuously high level of security.
Settings for Advanced Users. Offers in-depth security settings to fit your needs. Allows you to define maximum scanning depth, scanning time, size of the scanned files and archives, and much more
ESET SysInspector. An advanced diagnostic tool that captures critical information from the system to troubleshoot a broad range of security and compatibility issues.
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The cyber-security industry could find it much more difficult to recruit skilled staff from abroad under new immigration rules being put forward by the government in a white paper today.
Among the proposals is a £30,000 minimum salary for long-term work visas. The salary threshold would have been used as a proxy to assess the ‘skill level’ of a job with the aim of limiting low skilled immigration which is seen as a threat to British workers.
While salaries for medium and highly-skilled cyber-security professionals is much higher than this limit, it could cause problems recruiting for entry-level analyst roles, some of which pay less than this. It could also affect the partners of those considering coming to the UK who work in less well-paid professions.
The government wants to reduce net immigration to the UK, a key message it feels came out of the EU referendum in 2016 from a public keen to reduce the number of low-skilled workers undercutting the wages of British citizens post-Brexit.
Home secretary Sajid Javid said that the current level of 273,000 is "very high" and should be cut so that immigration is no longer a burden on communities and infrastructure.
However, precise policy objectives have not been forthcoming from the government today. For instance, Javid refused to reiterate the Conservative Party manifesto pledge to reduce immigration to tens of thousands. Asked repeatedly on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme this morning if the government was sticking to the manifesto pledge, Javid said only that "the objective is to bring net migration down to more sustainable levels".
And the £30,000 minimum salary, widely trailed in the past few weeks as a key plank of the proposals, will now be put out for consultation. The base salary figure would apply to EU nationals applying for five-year visas, a limit that already applies most non-EU workers.
Despite the lack of clarity on other matters, it is clear that the government intends to scrap the current annual limit of 20,700 high-skilled workers from the EU and elsewhere applying for Tier 2 visas, a recommendation of the Migration Advisory Committee.
Any restrictions on immigration are only going to exacerbate the cyber-security skills gap. Between 30 and 40 percent of cyber-security professionals in the UK are from the EU, according to Spencer Symmons, director at the CPS Group, a tech recruitment firm, and he estimates that there is currently a shortage of around 50,000 cyber-security professionals in the UK.
The UK is already becoming less attractive to EU immigrants, he said: "While there are all sorts of reasons contributing to that, the overriding factor is the instability in our politics and our economy. Once the dust settles on Brexit and the path forward is clearer, I imagine the UK will continue to attract top talent. Some of the best businesses in the world operate here, and those candidates chasing the best opportunities will continue to make the move."
David Warburton, senior threat research evangelist for the EMEA at F5 Networks, is concerned that throttling immigration levels will deter students from studying in the UK, having a knock-on effect on recruitment.
Warburton said: "Despite the promise of a higher than average graduate starting salary of £30,000, these new immigration measures can act as a deterrent for the high percentage of foreign, undergraduate and post-graduate students studying information security in the UK. These students could soon start to consider studying in countries offering the same education with an easier path to employment."
In his experience, it can take up to nine months to fill a vacancy, but that could get much worse. "With new immigration policies, we could see vacancies left unfilled for 12 to 18 months. It goes without saying that understaffed cybersecurity teams will have a detrimental impact on an organisation's defences, leaving them open to more vulnerabilities," he said.
Jeff Curley, head of online and digital at Radware, said that "many organisations look towards graduates and other entry level staff to fill level one positions in their security operations centres. The impact on these organisations will be that to stand a chance of getting so-called medium-level skilled migrants from the EU they will need to go over the £30,000 threshold, thereby increasing their security analyst annual salary budget."
Curley agrees that political instability overall is making the UK less attractive to skilled foreign workers who can easily find work in other countries. "The potential to save money and transfer the pot at a favourable exchange rate back to the migrant's home country has been significantly damaged by the low value of the pound since the 2016 referendum. Plus the UK is simply no longer at the top of the list for prospective employment countries due to an unstable political atmosphere creating doubt that the UK would be the safest move for a migrant that had the choice to go elsewhere," he said.
Simon Hember, director at Acumin, a specialist cyber security recruitment consultancy, agreed that the UK is already becoming a less attractive place for foreigners to build a career. "The UK already loses out to several other countries on the highly competitive global security market, and if we cut or loosen ties with EU agencies such as Europol, we risk losing further influence. Global collaboration is extremely important in the fight against international cyber-crime, and we may risk our position as a leading force in the battle," he said.
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https://www.scmagazineuk.com/new-immigration-proposals-would-widen-already-yawning-cyber-security-skills-gap/article/1521593
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Uninstall Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com - How to remove uninstall Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com
How to uninstall Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com from windows pc effectively:
My default browser was working absolutely fine but when from last night I am unable to search any particular query and my homepage has also been replaced to Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com. I am totally confused as I haven't done anything malicious. I am looking for the actual guide to remove this threat completely from my infected PC. Please suggest me the helpful guide.
5. Affected OS: – All versions of Windows Operating System
6. Risks Involved: – Fake security alerts, malware attacks and system performance degradation.
Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com is notified as browser hijacker that can get into your PC anytime and it mostly targets web browser to implant its malicious activity. Once your PC gets in contact with this threat, it will claim to bring the best search result for the user but actually its a malicious program. This browser hijacker is designed by cyber hackers to redirect search query to its malicious websites in order to generate money for them. Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com also has the potential to secretly monitor all web search activity done by user and later on it share all the stimulated information with it developer.
Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com is no doubt a notorious infection that completely replaces the browser homepage with its malicious domain name and it just not ends here it also brings crucial modification into the master boot system too. This browser hijacker also displays lots of irrelevant pop-ups, update of installed program, fake messages and much more. The presence of this infection also affects the performance of the targeted PC and can be quite dangerous if it remains for long time into your PC. Though its recommended to remove Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com completely from the infected PC in quick time.
Common Symptoms of Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com Infection
It is really nightmare for computer user when their machine begin to act strangely. Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.comis very powerful malware that has the capability to damage system completely. It opens the backdoor and allow unauthorized access to PC and download additional infected files in system. It hide its code deeply in system and track and keep and collect all record whatever user are performing on their system. It is not easy for user to identify that system has got affected with spyware. With some signs and symptoms user can know if the system is at risk.
Common signs and symptoms which shows by Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com
System slow down: Once spyware it enter in system sat up system resources. Programs get slowly loaded, fail to open, hard drive run slow.
Redirection of Home page: When system get affected by Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.comspyware web browser starts displaying different web page instead of home page or redirect to some infected site.
Mid Browsing Redirects: Along with new home page, automatically user get redirected to 10 or 20 pages and redirect to one to which user never redirected before.
Computer Lock-ups: In between work computer system suddenly become unresponsive.
Desktop Distortions: Suddenly chat Windows, dialog box and other programs start looking different.
Download Speed Decrease: It takes control of system and even affected bandwith.
New Icons: Icons which exists on system get rename and shows several other icons which are of no use. This also indicate that system got under dangerous spyware.
Thus to get rid from signs and symptoms it is important for any user to remove it from system as soon as possible.
How Spyware Enters Windows PC
Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com is identify as one of dangerous threat which enter in system taking advantage of system security and its loopholes. It enter in system without user consent and collect the information and send to third party(who send this spyware). System become victim of Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com when it enters in system using following tricks and technique.
Clicked on pop up Window: Sometimes whenever user get message or pop up on Window without thinking they clicked in Window which make easy for spyware to enter in system. It is so powerful that even when users click cross Window it install itself in system.
Opening Spam email attachment : It make itself enter in system by spam email attachment. It rapidly get spread in system once user open email attachment.
Peer to Peer network: Chances of infection becomes high users working on shared network. Once user download any files from same network whole system gets affected with it, which really difficult to detect and remove from system.
Bundling with free software: It attach itself with free software available of videos, movies, and other application. Need to beware this is only made to inject your system.
Removable storage device: Using device which is infected with spyware and after that using it in your system can damage users system also.
It make its entry very easily in system but it is not possible to remove Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com easily from system.
To block any dangerous and malicious threat to enter in system there is “System Guard”. This helps computer system to protect from any future spyware.
User guide to remove Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com with Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com removal tool :
Step 1: Download and install Search.yourcurrentnewsnow.com removal tool
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http://delete-all-spyware.blogspot.com/2015/12/uninstall-searchyourcurrentnewsnowcom.html
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Wall Street's upheaval has put consumers at greater risk for phishing scams, a type of fraud in which individuals try to acquire personal information through deception. The share of spam emails that involved phishing scams has hit a high globally, according to U.K.-based Internet security firm Marshal. Bank of America, Citibank and Wachovia, in particular, have been popular Phishing targets.
The uncertainty provides an opening for scam artists called phishers, who send out seemingly legitimate emails asking for personal information such as passwords, usernames and Social Security numbers. That info is often used to open bogus credit card accounts, for example, or to tap into your bank accounts. Phishing can take the form of an email, phone call or letter. The scams range from the complex to the relatively transparent. Those that succeed work because they appear to come from a bona fide financial institution.
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http://www.mainstreet.com/article/money/investing/protect-yourself-phishing-scam
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President elect Obama may have to give up his Blackberry when he starts his new job at the White House. The concern comes in the form of e-mail security. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas.
A decision has not officially been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.
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http://kellepcharles.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-blackberry-email-security-issue.html
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Healthcare organizations must regularly assess the security risks in all their applications, not just those containing protected health information, says risk management expert Angel Hoffman.
Far too many healthcare organizations have failed to update older risk assessments, which puts all data at risk, she stresses.
"Cybercriminals find healthcare quite interesting because we're not as secure as we think we are," she says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.
When healthcare organizations conduct thorough risk assessments, they often discover "gaps there weren't even aware of," including those in supply chain systems and financial systems, she notes.
Even smaller organizations struggling with limited resources must assess risks and fill in the most critical gaps in security, she stresses. "Don't just do nothing, because [now] you are vulnerable, and you will be a victim [of cybercrime] eventually," she says.
The importance of conducting regular background checks on employees.
Hoffman, senior healthcare practice lead at the security consulting firm Coalfire, has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare. She has served as a chief compliance and ethics officer in addition to multiple other management positions and has developed privacy, security and electronic data interchange programs for several organizations as well as compliance programs for physicians and long-term care facilities. Hoffman also serves as an adviser to several organizations, including the National Learning Health System Governance and Policy Framework Initiative of the Learning Health Community, which is working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/interviews/fixing-broken-risk-assessments-i-3068
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Orange has announced the addition of three smartphones to its device range, including its first LTE smartphone, the Lumo.
The operator has had some success with it own branded phones, including the Monte Carlo, which was Orange's best selling phone throughout 2012 in Spain. The operator is hoping to build on that success with the new line-up.
In addition to an LTE connection, the Lumo has a 4.5-inch screen with a 960-by-540 pixel resolution and an 8-megapixel camera. It is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor.
The Lumo is one of an increasing number of LTE smartphones that are intended to expand the availability of the 4G technology beyond high-end smartphones. Other products in this growing category include Samsung's Galaxy Express and the Optimus F series from LG Electronics, which was announced on Thursday.
"It is all about the continued democratization on the mobile Internet," said Patrick Remy, vice president of devices at Orange, regarding the Lumo.
Just like LG, Orange didn't announce what its LTE smartphone will cost.
Orange is also introducing the San Remo and the Nivo. The latter will be Orange's most affordable smartphone, but it still has a 4-inch screen and a 5-megapixel camera. The San Remo has a 4.7-inch display housed in a shell that is 8.2 millimeters thick. The phone is also equipped with an 8-megapixel camera. All three models are based on Android 4.1, and they also have an 802.11n Wi-Fi connection and A-GPS.
Going forward, Orange will use four-letter words, like the Lumo and Nivo, instead of cities when naming its own-branded phones, according to Remy.
The smartphones will start shipping during the first of the year across a number of Orange markets including Romania, Slovakia and Spain, although not all countries will carry all three devices. Pricing will be announced with local availability, but will be in line with previous Orange smartphone pricing, according to the operator.
All three devices will also be on display at Mobile World Congress, which starts on Feb. 25 in Barcelona.
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이 가이드에서는 GKE 클러스터를 포함한 여러 서버를 만드는 방법을 안내합니다. GKE는 클러스터의 노드에 Compute Engine 인스턴스를 사용합니다. 이러한 각 인스턴스의 요금은 Compute Engine 가격 책정에 준하여 노드가 삭제될 때까지 청구됩니다. Compute Engine 리소스 요금은 초 단위로 청구되며 최소 사용 기준은 1분입니다. 클러스터 관리 비용은 없습니다.
Container Registry를 사용하여 저장소를 호스팅하는 경우, 스토리지 및 데이터 전송 요금은 Container Registry 가격 책정 페이지를 참조하세요.
필요에 따라 scan.sh 스크립트의 바이러스 백신 검사 옵션과 conf 디렉터리의 콘텐츠를 맞춤설정합니다. 자세한 내용은 공식 구성 문서를 참조하세요.
start.py를 수정하여 cron 일정을 맞춤설정합니다.
git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/community 작업 디렉터리 gcp-cos-basic-fim로 이동합니다.
Dockerfile 폴더에서 Container Registry 이미지를 빌드하고 푸시합니다.
DOCKER_REPO="[YOUR_REPO_NAME]gcr.io/${DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID}"
워크로드 이미지를 수정하여 파일 시스템의 다른 모든 부분을 읽기 전용으로 설정합니다.
작업 디렉터리에 특정 콘텐츠가 필요한 경우 시드 파일을 다른 디렉터리에서 시작한 후 인스턴스가 시작되면 작업 디렉터리로 복사하도록 이미지를 수정합니다.
Cloud Console에서 Compute Engine > VM 인스턴스 > 인스턴스 만들기로 이동합니다.
부팅 디스크를 Container-Optimized OS [version] 정식으로 변경합니다.
팁: Docker 버전을 확인하여 올바른 Chromium OS 기반 이미지 버전을 선택합니다.
스캐너에서 생성된 로그 파일을 캡처하려면 로깅 및 모니터링에서 Logging 사용 설정과 Monitoring 사용 설정을 선택합니다.
필요에 따라 인스턴스를 구성한 다음 만들기를 클릭합니다.
이제 AV 및 FIM 컨테이너를 Container-Optimized OS 서버에 배포합니다.
Cloud Logging을 사용 설정한 경우 출력도 자동으로 Cloud Logging에 전송됩니다.
basic-fim Docker 컨테이너를 만듭니다.
clamav 컨테이너의 기본값은 상세 로깅입니다. 로깅 수준을 변경하고 특정 디렉터리를 제외하려면 scan.sh를 수정합니다.
clamav과 basic-fim 모두 시스템 지원 서비스입니다. daemonset 구성에 "namespace: kube-system"을 추가하여 이러한 컨테이너를 시스템 네임스페이스에 배치하는 것이 좋습니다.
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https://cloud.google.com/architecture/installing-antivirus-and-file-integrity-monitoring-on-container-optimized-os?hl=ko
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using System. Security. Cryptography; using System. Security. Cryptography. Xml;
import System. Security. Cryptography. *; import System. Security. Cryptography. Xml.*;
// receiver knows which algorithm to use for decryption.
edElement.set_EncryptionMethod(new EncryptionMethod(
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/system.security.cryptography.xml.keyinfoencryptedkey(v=vs.80).aspx
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Not sure there is a best--for all systems, all times, and all users.
Also, I am not a fan of all-in-one security packages.
You need a firewall, an antivirus program, and spyware protection (detection and removal at least; some provide real-time protection as well).
You can research alternatives at download.com. For each type, rank search results there by Cnet editors' ratings and read their reviews for their best choices; also rank search results by users' reviews, because editors don't review everything. (To sort search results there, just click on the corresponding column head.)
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Reddit announced today as it suffered a data breach in June, hackers compromised the (2FA) enabled employees’ accounts and gained read access to the Reddit systems.
Reddit CTO Chris Slowe says “between June 14 and June 18, an attacker compromised a few of our employees’ accounts with our cloud and source code hosting providers.”
From this attack it shows the SMS-based authentication is not enough as the attacker’s intercept the SMS messages, if you have not moved to token-based 2FA it’s a wake-up call.
“They were not able to alter Reddit information, and we have taken steps since the event to further lock down and rotate all production secrets and API keys, and to enhance our logging and monitoring systems.”
Email Address and credentials Accessed – Reddit Data Breach
Hackers accessed an old database backup copy that contains Reddit’s user data such as the Email address, username, salted hashed passwords and all content (mostly public, but also private messages) from way back then.
Reddit CTO Chris Slowe says the database is very old one from 2005 through May 2007 and Reddit started sending a message to affected users and resetting passwords on accounts where the credentials might still be valid.
We had a security incident. Here’s what you need to know. from announcements
The hack attack took place between June 14 and June 18 and Reddit reads the attack On June 19 and Reddit confirms the attackers gained read-only access. If you have signed up to Reddit after 2007 there is nothing to worry about.
As the attacker had read access to our storage systems, other data was accessed such as Reddit source code, internal logs, configuration files and other employee workspace files, but these two areas are the most significant categories of user data.
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Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, said: “Cybersecurity is not an isolated challenge; rather we should view it as a critical component of how we live our lives and do business online. Since it is also constantly changing to respond to new and evolving threats, it requires a holistic approach – increasing our cyber-resilience and working together on all levels, from citizens and companies to Member States. The key objectives of the present mapping are
Promote the European cybersecurity offering and promote in general.
In a speech to the European Parliament, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated that “cybersecurity and digitalization are two sides of the same coin. This is why cybersecurity is a top priority.”
Some of them are possibly the future cybersecurity champions of tomorrow.
On the other hand, France is home to very large digital integrators, some of them being worldwide groups. There is traditionally a solid stack of German IT Security in all classical fields of government security, business IT and consumer-oriented security. We can visit this every year at Europe’s leading gathering for IT security, the “ITSA” trade fair in Nuernberg. As in the French market, our focus laid on Independent software vendors, cloud applications and platforms, and SaaS companies. We have not included a large number of professional service companies and software houses.
Our analysis
The ECA network could help these high-potential companies to find their way to the European scale as fast as possible. We found that, despite the geographic proximity, scale-ups & start-ups look rarely for partnerships and customers in other European markets and industry clusters. These Start-ups can be the future European Champions driving innovation and disruption with new digital products and approaches such as artificial intelligence.
We are eager to partner with actors that help us map other European markets like Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux-Region, UK, and southern Europe. Please get in touch if contribute to this project.
If you have ideas please write to us at [email protected]
Europe has the expertise to lead in the field.”
The mission of is to contribute to the strengthening ecosystem by supporting the growth champions of tomorrow.
Connect the relevant stakeholders, invite them to get to know each other, learn from each other, and collaborate.
Raise awareness with potential buyers in all types of corporations on the best possibility to identify and acquire European Cybersecurity technology.
Sécurité à la Française
France has created two of the oldest Firewall companies, Netasq and Arkoon, now merged and renamed Stormshield, and part of the pan-European Airbus Group. It will be interesting to look at the evolution of the Cybersecurity solutions they provide to customers, with a probable if not that fast shift from US products to European ones. This move will be encouraged by the trend by some big decision-makers to consider “local” digital (and cybersecurity) offerings.
So everything in order? It took a few prominent data hacks and security breaches to realize that the unprecedented level of internet connectivity poses a different level of cyber threats and vulnerabilities. The map includes as well a number of innovative SMEs that have grown without excessive venture funding and are now at scale-up or established company size. Companies are owner-driven SMEs that are growing within their own cash flows or are backed by bank loans. Our analysis
We want to encourage them to open up for such a European perspective, as large Customers and Partners look more and more outside its national borders for fast-moving tech.
In Germany and France, we see relevant companies in key areas of cybersecurity. Please get in touch.
The mapping that snapshot to the public database to the members of the ECA. If you want to either modify your company’s information on this map or apply for your company to be included, you can fill out our Cybersecurity Survey here.
Another great way to get involved is to become an official ECA member! To be strong and relevant, an ecosystem needs transparency, the members need to be aware of each other and ideally share the goal of collaboration and mutual support. The aim of the ECA Focus Groups is to gather those stakeholders and to support networking, collaboration and joint business perspectives.
A sectorial mapping of the most important members of the ecosystem is the starting point for all of our Focus Groups. We start with a restricted geographical focus (in this case France + DACH) and will enlarge our mapping over time with the help of the ecosystem.
The European cybersecurity offering is vibrant and Europe provides a very fertile environment: leading industrial and technological groups, world-class R&D capabilities, as well as incredible talent, give Europe the potential to be frontrunning in the cybersecurity sector in the world.
The more our world goes digital and the more digitalization progresses, the more we are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. We need to protect our markets, citizens, economies and society from outside threats and gain a sufficient level of sovereignty to be able to rely on our security on European technology built with European funding and European values.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated this digitalization, with a sudden and large-scale move to teleworking, the use of digital services in hospitals, laboratories, and government services, and the explosion in online schooling.
But the story does not stop at firewalls. As threats have soared, so has the Cybersecurity offering. New companies have risen, in fields such as data protection, email, and anti-malware security, endpoint protection, IoT and industrial systems security, code analysis, and cleansing.
As some of those new companies, now 8 or 10 years old, are scaling up, newborn startups emerge and bring new technologies and ideas to the surface. Counting French-born products only, more than 50 cybersecurity editors are represented in our mapping, As some of them are complementary, an ecosystem could emerge. This view seems even more valid at the European scale, to start with France and Germany. The ECA cybersecurity mapping is not only designed to spread useful information, we see it as a good tool for fostering the Cybersecurity business at an unprecedented scale.
Sicherheit made in Germany
Companies but also the Germany government has finally made cybersecurity a key priority topic of their policy “agenda”.
Germany’s start-up scene is on the move alongside the new paradigms of cloud-based infrastructures & services, protecting big data applications and vast IoT connectivity and the number of companies has been tripling in the last 5 years. Established players such as Genua, Rhode & Schwartz, or Bundesdruckerei have also made significant efforts, as well in M&A. Industrial partners and VC investors make courageous investments – all these are elements that suggest that the “security boom” can be sustainable.
In this mapping, we have included around 70 companies from Germany, hereof about 40 scale-ups and 30 startups “to watch”. In some cases, PE investors are providing buy-out and growth funding for international development at a later stage of the company. We think it is important to include such innovative companies that would not show up on VC rankings.
Our analysis
The initial analysis shows that most companies are focused to grow & scale in their home market first. Still, one key topic to watch is “Industrial Cyber Security”. Here, Germany, but also France are the frontrunners in Europe and provide a thriving ecosystem of industrial groups, technology leaders, and research capabilities that are looking out for European solutions to their cybersecurity challenges. The call for more European regulation and data sovereignty is an opportunity for European scale-ups.
which are positioned on most innovative and novel fields of cybersecurity for our “Watchlist”.
The database includes all relevant information and also provides the possibility to filter and export the selected companies. If you want to become a member please read this page and apply.
The ECA team has also reached out to all companies on this mapping to better know them and provide guidance for European Development.
The ECA Cybersecurity Focus Group is working on a Cybersecurity Buyers Guide that will provide operational guidance to decision-makers. View all membership information and options on our website.
If receive the mapping as a PDF document or address any other question or remark, you can get in contact with by writing a mail to [email protected]
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https://european-champions.org/blog/cybersecurity-made-in-europe-mapping-the-european-cybersecurity-scale-up-ecosystem/
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In this Q&A, one network engineer describes how he's adapting his wireless network design to overcome challenges from the old world as well as the digital age. Continue Reading
In Wave 2, 802.11ac tackles density with multi-user MIMO
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by Robert C. Thomas | Jan 2, 2020 | bitdefender |
Bitdefender antivirus protects your device from harmful virus attacks. However, sometimes due to this antivirus you can face a lot of problems. Such as, your system might get slowed down. Occasionally, it conflicts with the Windows firewall.
In this situation, uninstalling the Bitdefender antivirus can be the ultimate choice for you. Want to know how to uninstall Bitdefender? then here are the procedures to follow.
If you are using Windows 7 Operating System, then first, click on the Start icon. From the available options choose Control Panel. Now, within the Control Panel, go to the bottom and double click on the Programs & Features options.
Under the Programs and Features tab, locate the Bitdefender and choose the Uninstall option. On the next window, tap on the Remove option. Then, according to your situation, select any of the given options.
I want to reinstall it 2) I want to permanently remove it.
Tap on Next to continue. Wait for sometimes as the uninstalling procedure might take some time to complete. Once done, reboot your machine to take the effect of the changes.
For Windows 8,8.1 OS
Go to the Control Panel by using the Windows Start menu. Under the Control Panel, scroll down and tap on the ‘Uninstall a Program’ option. Else, you can select the ‘Programs and Features’ button.
Thereafter, search for the Bitdefender antivirus. Once you find it, click on the Uninstall button. Next, tap on Remove on the window that pops up on the screen. Like the previous one, select either ‘I want to reinstall it’ or ‘I want to permanently remove it’ depending on the situation.
Hit the Next option to complete the rest of the procedure. Wait as this process might take some time to complete. When finished, restart the computer and now you have successfully uninstalled the Bitdefender antivirus.
How to Uninstall Bitdefender on Windows 10?
In the beginning, click on the Start icon and thereafter proceed to the Settings tab. Within the Settings, tap on the Apps icon. On the next page, find Bitdefender and choose Uninstall.
Again tap on Uninstall to confirm the changes. Tap on Remove option. Now, either tick on the ‘I want to reinstall it’ or also you can select the ‘I want to permanently remove it’ option.
It totally depends on the situation. Tap on Next. Keep patience as the uninstall procedure can take some time to complete.
After completion of this, reboot your Windows 10 device.
Proceed to the menu bar. From there click on the Go option. Thereafter, choose the Applications button. Under the Applications window, you will find the Bitdefender folder. Open it.
Now within the Bitdefender folder, scroll down and double-click on the Bitdefender Uninstall. After that a new window will appear on the screen. Here, scroll down and select Uninstall.
Furthermore, enter the administrator password and confirm the changes. After that, the uninstall procedure will be started. Once completed, tap on the Close option. Thereafter, a web page will open and ask you to complete a survey. In case you don’t have enough time, close the page.
Afterward, visit the Macintosh HD. Thereafter, click on Library as well as move the Bitdefender folder to Trash. While doing this, you might again need to enter the administrator password.
If the Bitdefender icon still shows on the Dock, then right-click on it . Then, click on Options. In addition, tick on the Remove from Dock option.
Once you have successfully uninstalled the Bitdefender, then remove the given Kernel extensions.
In the beginning, open the Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus application. Afterward, hit the Menu button and choose Account info. On the next window, tap on the Uninstall button and type the PIN.
If a confirmation message appears, click on Yes.
Alternatively, you might disable the Device Administrator settings. To do so, proceed to the Settings area and tap on the Security button. Unmark the dialog box present beside the ‘Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus’ icon to disable the Device Administrator.
Then, tap on Deactivate and after that, tap on the Ok button.
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Developers and lenders are failing to properly assess the risks when it comes to supply and demand, and the inner-city Brisbane unit market is a prime example of this.
Analysis by RiskWise Property Researchshows unit over-supply in inner-city Brisbane has created weakness in the market leading to a high level of risk for investors and therefore lower valuations and rising defaults on settlements.
It comes as Lendlease asserts the over-supply of units in the Brisbane market will peak this year. The developer is bracing for rising defaults on settlements in the short-term as buyers fail to complete purchases, according to an article in the Australian Financial Review.
Valuers of Brisbane apartments have been criticised recently, with one developer collecting data showing that the average time spent on-site for 58 valuations was just over four-and-a-half minutes for each apartment.
However, RiskWise CEO Doron Peleg says it is incorrect to blame the valuers as they simply present the fair market value at the time.
“The issue of oversupply is not a new problem and has been there for a few years and the continuous weakness of the unit market in inner-city Brisbane should have raised red flags for developers and lenders,” Mr Peleg said.
“What we are seeing now is the realisation of the risk that should have been identified at least a couple of years ago. Defaults have been rising and will continue to do so.”
The following table shows there has been negative capital growth for a number of years, accompanied by a large number of units in the pipeline creating a significant addition to the current stock.
Even as early as June 2016 in Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) Brisbane Inner-City, price growth was -1.8 per cent with 17,417 units in the pipeline - an addition of 24.5 per cent to the current stock.
“One of the key factors was developers’ lack of foresight in regards to unit oversupply as well as the impact of lending restrictions introduced in 2014,” he said.
“It seems there was no methodological and structured risk-management approach including identification, assessment and mitigating action plans to address those risks. Overall, it seems they were too optimistic about the projected market value, and it is highly likely that the price they paid for the land was also too high.
“This takes us back to the feasibility stage which includes the assessment of the projected fair market value and the likelihood of defaults and their potential consequences. Developers and lenders have to find the right balance between taking risk and making profit.”
Mr Peleg said it must also be remembered the value of off-the-plan property could decrease between the original contract date and settlement resulting in capital loss, as the equity in the home could be reduced, and this was well known in inner-city Brisbane.
He said oversupply in the Brisbane unit market had led to price reductions. Brisbane City, Fortitude Valley and South Brisbane have all been named in the Top 10 of the RiskWise 2017 list of the 100 Worst Off-The-Plan Suburbsthroughout Australia. Suncorp has also flagged Inner Brisbane City, including Brisbane City, New Farm, Teneriffe, Fortitude Valley and many others, on its lending blacklist.
According to the RBA, investor activity has a tendency to drive the property markets.
“Currently, there are a large number of high-rise properties being offered to a smaller number of investors. This is because there are less investors in the market mainly due to credit restrictions,” Mr Peleg said.
“Also, lenders are being more cautious about their loan to value ratios (LVRs) and more discerning about who to lend to, meaning there are less buyers in the property market.
“This has resulted in a reduction in activity and this has a major impact on the market, particularly in Brisbane.
“The current valuations made by valuers are simply a reflection of the realisation of the risks and changes to unit prices, and represent the fair market values of the properties at the time.
“The point is that if developers and lenders put more proper risk-management practices in place, this could all be avoided.”
Mr Peleg cited three areas for potential improvement:
1) The feasibility assessment should include thorough identification, assessment and mitigating actions particularly in relation to the projected market value of off-the-plan dwellings.
2) Construction lenders should accurately assess the risks associated with such developments. These risks relate to supply and demand, credit restrictions and tighter lending protocols.
3) Property valuations and / or projections should clearly flag potential risks, particularly in high-risk areas, that might be subject to significant price corrections. In relation to inner-city Brisbane there have been a large number of valuations and those provide opportunities to highlight the risks.
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Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States in recent years by spreading two infamous ransomware families—Cerber and CTB Locker.
Under Operation Bakovia—a major global police operation conducted by Europol, the FBI and law enforcement agencies from Romanian, Dutch, and the UK—raided six houses in East Romania and made five arrests, Europol said on Wednesday.
Authorities have seized a significant amount of hard drives, external storage, laptops, cryptocurrency mining devices, numerous documents and hundreds of SIM cards during the raid.
One thing to note is that all of the five suspects were not arrested for developing or maintaining the infamous ransomware strains, but for allegedly spreading CTB Locker and Cerber.
Based on CryptoLocker, CTB Locker, aka Critroni, was the most widely spread ransomware families in 2016 and was the first ransomware to use the Tor anonymizing network to hide its command and control servers.
Emerged in March 2016, Cerber ransomware works on ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model that helped it to gain widespread distribution, allowing any would-be hacker to spread the malware in exchange for 40% of each ransom amount paid.
While CTB Locker helped criminals made $27 million in ransom, Cerber was ranked by Google as the most criminally profitable ransomware that helped them earned $6.9 million up in July 2017.
As with most ransomware, CTB Locker and Cerber distributors were using the most common attack vectors, such as phishing emails and exploit kits.
"In early 2017, the Romanian authorities received detailed information from the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and other authorities that a group of Romanian nationals was involved in sending spam messages," Europol said in its press release.
"The spam messages intended to infect computer systems and encrypt their data with the CTB-Locker ransomware aka Critroni. Each email had an attachment, often in the form of an archived invoice, which contained a malicious file. Once this attachment was opened on a Windows system, the malware encrypted files on the infected device."
Although the authorities did not release the actual identities of the arrested individuals yet, Europol released a dramatic video of the arrests, where you can see how armed officers stormed the suspects' residence.
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A comprehensive new report which was compiled by Juniper Research has projected that spending on Internet of Things cybersecurity solutions is set to rise by an incredible 300% in the next five years. The global research firm has estimated that investment in Internet of Things cybersecurity solutions will reach $6bn globally by 2023.
The Internet of Things for Security providers: Opportunities, Strategies & Forecasts 2018-2023 by Juniper Research, highlights rapid growth, with spending by product and service providers (in consumer markets) and end-customers (in industrial and public services markets) to rise nearly 300 per cent over the forecast period.
Juniper, which provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, claimed that there are major differences in the way in which IoT business risk is perceived and perceptions on how regulation should be applied. It cited the home as an example of where poor long-term device support and little fear of ramifications in case of a breach would serve to keep spending low.
"The interconnected nature of the IoT means that even innocuous devices like the connected fridge can become a threat. Vendors see that risk as low, while little has been done from a regulatory perspective to protect consumers," explained research author Steffen Sorrell.
As a result, Juniper forecasts that smart home IoT security spending would be less than 17 per cent of the consumer market in 2023.
In contrast, the research identified glaring security issues in the smart energy market. However, it noted that strict minimum standards, such as those applied by Germany and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, would drive spending impetus, with IoT smart energy security spend reaching $1 billion annually in 2023.
The research forecasts that the rise of edge computing services to enable near-real-time IoT applications would present additional security challenges, which in turn will drive industry spend. It cited an increased attack surface as raising business risk. Meanwhile, the need to ensure data reliability would emphasize the need for lifecycle management and device security solutions.
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2013 year changes for tax 1099 forms 1099-MISC, 1099-OID, 1099-DIV and 1099-INT are now available.
1099 form layout changes for 1099-MISC, 1099-OID, 1099-DIV and 1099-INT required for the United States is now available for tax year 2013. The KB 2918317 was recently published to CustomerSource and PartnerSource. Please view the KB document found here to download the latest changes for 1099.
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From 'Tales of the Weird and Unusual', we recently worked a long running incident where at customer was having issues with their OAB in Exchange 2010, and our customer was hoping we could do a blog article on it. What we were finding is that the generation was working as expected, however it was the distribution point from the generation server that was failing. (Basically the OAB's were not updating between CAS01 and CAS02 in the diagram below)
In this instance, we are not using public folder distribution, but rather web distribution. We could see on CAS03 that our OAB's were getting generated, it's just the updated files were never making it to CAS01 or CAS02. After ruling out network as being an issue, this left us wondering what was going on and we were finding that we couldn't browse via SMB to the fileshares. We would set to C:\ for our fileshare, but we weren't even able to browse to it, but we could see where it was configured:
We then had the customer patch the system, and make sure it was up to date 100% as the customer was missing some windows patches. This still did not fix it.
No Antivirus/third party. (Uninstalled as part of the troubleshooting process, as we were going to have to take an iDNA and AntiVirus + iDNA do not behave well, as discussed here. )
It didn't leave us many other options, and we ended up taking an iDNA of explorer.exe to see if we could determine what was going on and where. In the iDNA, we saw there we were referencing a very odd registry key! The provider name under [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder] was referencing LanmanWorkstationt not LanmanWorkstation vs. What we should have saw:
We then had the customer go back through their change control (and you are doing your change control like this, right?) and discovered some 3rd party software they were using had updated this registry key as part of it's patching process.
Once we reverted the change and implemented the correct key, restarted the system, the OAB was being distributed to their CAS, and in turn was being sent to their clients.
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Good dog. [Photo: Boston Dynamics]
While everyone loves cuddly pets, wouldn't it be awesome if you could train them to do more than respond to their names, sit, and beg? A robotic creation by Boston Dynamics aims to be the sturdy and loyal companion to any serviceman who has to go long distances on foot.
The four-legged bot, named AlphaDog, was designed to carry heavy military objects and be able to walk on any terrain that soldiers and marines may have to endure without vehicles. The best part? The machine does not need a driver, because it can either follow a particular person with its computer vision, or use its GPS to navigate to a location by itself.
AlphaDog is still in the prototype testing phase, so it doesn't look quite like the concept drawing above just yet. However, the prototype can carry up to 400 pounds across 20 miles of terrain before needing to be refueled. The bot does take its time reaching its destination--24 hours to carry 180 kilograms of kit over that distance.
AlphaDog, which also goes by the name Legged Squad Support Systems (LS3), is being funded by DARPA and the U.S. Marine Corps, and it should be completed for its first proper walk sometime next year. While AlphaDog is slightly daunting to look at, this could be a really beneficial tool for various forces that need to carry objects without the help of large vehicles.
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ASIO has warned of the “unprecedented” scale of the threat of foreign influence as Prime Minister Scott Morrison revealed Australia’s major political parties have suffered a cyber attack by a “sophisticated state actor”.
Speculation has turned swiftly to China as being potentially responsible for the attack, which was first revealed as targeting Parliament House computer networks.
“The current scale foreign intelligence agency activity against Australian interests is unprecedented. Hostile intelligence activity poses a real and existential threat to Australian security and sovereignty,” ASIO Director-General Duncan Lewis told Senate estimates on Monday.
“The harm from this threat may not manifest itself for many years.”
Earlier, the Prime Minister told Parliament on Monday that it was now known that the Liberal Party, Labor Party and the Nationals were also targeted.
The Morrison government has not publicly stated that the chief suspect is China.
“Our cyber experts believe that a sophisticated state actor is responsible for this malicious activity,’’ he said.
“Our security agencies have detected this activity and acted decisively to confront it. They are securing these systems and protecting users.”
While the cyber attacks appear to have all the hallmarks of the attacks against the United States by Russia – when the Democratic National Committee was hacked – Mr Morrison said there was no evidence to date that this was the case.
“Let me be clear though, there is no evidence of any electoral interference. We have put in place a number of measures to ensure the integrity of our electoral system,’’ the PM said.
“I have instructed the Australian Cyber Security Centre to be ready to provide any political party or electoral body in Australia with immediate support, including making their technical experts available.”
Labor leader Bill Shorten said “our party-political structures are perhaps more vulnerable and we have seen overseas that it is progressive parties which are more likely to be targeted by ultra-right wing organisations.” “These institutions can be a soft target and our national approach to cybersecurity needs to pay more attention to non-government organisations.
“Our agencies should not just be providing advice to political parties but actively assisting in their defence,” he said.
ASIO also moved yesterday to reject reports “wrongly asserting that the Chinese community is a target for ASIO”.
It followed weekend reports over the saga of Huang Xiangmo, a big political donor who has had his permanent residency stripped from him.
“In Australia we have many millions of residents from many ethnic backgrounds,” Mr Lewis told Senate estimates.
It’s critical that we avoid commentary that will instil fear and taint such a community which makes such a positive contribution to Australian life.
“And as the director-general of intelligence I can say categorically that from a security point of view the overwhelming majority of people of Chinese heritage are of no investigate interest to ASIO. We should not impugn the many for the actions of a few.”
The computer networks of Australia’s major political parties were also part of a sophisticated cyber attack by a “state actor” that affected the networks of federal parliament, the prime minister has confirmed.
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Just as I was scrolling down my favorite blogs the other day, an article by Matt Friedman for Networking Pipeline popped up. In essence, Friedman advocated to think ahead and figure out just how safe your computer network is. Once you have an idea about your level of vulnerability towards viruses, worms and hackers bent on doing harm to your network, you can implement an appropriate solution.
According to Friedman, “every great journey begins with a single step, and even if you only have ten minutes to devote to the project, you can still use that time to get the security ball rolling. “I think the key is not to think about securing your network in ten minutes,” says Jason Hilling, Director of Managed Security Services Product Management at Internet Security Systems, “but to get the whole process started in those ten minutes.” Here are some of Friedman’s key points:
Evaluate your security policy: “Every organization needs some kind of security policy, but it is often surprising how many do not. The problem, of course, is that network security is often perceived as a technological problem that you can throw money and gadgets at to make better. If things were that simple, then worms and hackers would be a thing of the past.”
Vulnerability Management: “One of the most important things you can do when you have limited time is to find out where you are vulnerable,” Hilling says. “To a certain extent, everything follows from this.”
Patch management: “Once you have the process in place to identify vulnerabilities, you then have to ask how you are going to patch them,” Hilling says. “Patching can be the most important thing you can do.”
I might add: if you don’t know how to do this, let an expert take a look at your network and teach you the basics of patch management. It doesn’t have to cost a lot, but will serve you well.
Get informed: The best way to stay on top of security vulnerabilities, of course, is to make sure you know about them before they bit you in the tender parts. That means taking the time to scan the latest warnings and maybe even reading your favorite networking or security websites over coffee. It doesn’t take long to stay informed once you are informed but, as with everything else, you have to take the time to start the process.
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The attacker who stole Hacking Team’s data gained access to an employee’s computer while the victim was still logged in.
The attacker either had direct physical access to security engineer Christian Pozzi’s PC or they used malware to achieve a similar level of access. Whichever way it was, we can tell that Christian was logged in at the time simply by looking at a folder name among the files that were leaked onto the internet.
Christian’s password files have been published online and most commentators have focussed on the low quality of many of these passwords. However, look at the folder in which these files were stored: /Truecrypt Volume/.
The detail that jumped out at me, but does not seem to have been mentioned in (m)any reports, is that Christian stored his passwords in text files that were encrypted inside a TrueCrypt volume. TrueCrypt is a free but no-longer-supported program.
Presumably Christian felt that such valuable data should be protected, and he’d be right. But there are clearly security limitations to using encrypted volumes.
It is very likely that the victim was logged in and had opened this volume when the files were stolen.
Encryption like TrueCrypt is excellent at protecting data when the user is logged off. Greg Hoglund of HBGary once told me that it’s such an effective system that if his team couldn’t crack a volume in a few days they would simply give up.
The lesson to learn from this story is that even excellent encryption has its limits. Hard disk encryption is great for protecting lost or stolen computers and disks, but it won’t hinder attackers who have access to your computer while you are logged in. Whether they creep over to your desk during a rest break, or install malware remotely over the internet, it amounts to the same thing.
Benefit from Hacking Team’s failure by reconsidering the wisdom of storing passwords on your computer.
You could also reduce the length of time that encrypted volumes are mounted to the minimum; press Windows logo key + L (Lock) before you leave your Windows PC unattended; and invest in anti-malware solutions that are capable of detecting and blocking targeted attacks.
That last recommendation is not trivial to implement and most likely will include some level of white-listing, which can be effective but a pain to implement - either for the administrator or the user.
This article was originally published on Simon PG Edwards’ blog.
An IT journalist since 1995, Simon has worked on some of the UK's biggest computer magazine titles. Dennis Publishing publishes titles including Computer Shopper, PC Pro, Computer Active, Web User, Mac User and IT Pro.
One of Simon's areas of expertise is anti-malware testing and he is Technical Director of Dennis Technology Labs, an independent security testing business.
Simon is a founder member of AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation, and was chairman of its Board of Directors between 2013 and 2015.
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Since taking over as CEO of HCL Technologies in 2005, Vineet Nayar has been promoting his idea of corporate differentiation: "Employees first. Customers second."
It's a practice that's worked well for HCL Technologies, whose revenues have grown from $762 million in 2005 to $2.7 billion in 2010. Nayar has worked hard to actively engage employees in the outsourcing company's strategy and future. He went so far as to invert the company's hierarchy so that management is accountable to employees, and he describes the reorganization in his book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.
CIO.com talked to Nayar about his "employees first" strategy, how it plays out in the IT outsourcing industry and how it benefits customers.
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CIO.com: What does "employees first" mean? You say it's about more than higher salaries or pizza parties on Fridays.
Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies: What we've done is to invert the pyramid and create a star organization. Our management is accountable to employees as much as employees are to management. We do that in many different ways.
One way is our 360 degree performance reviews. My colleagues in management and I are reviewed by [the HCL parent company's] 70,000 employees, and we make the results available on the intranet for all to see.
If an employee has any kind of problem—a transfer request, harassment by a manager, a complaint about strategy, an A/C that's broken—they can create a trouble ticket that must be closed within a certain period of time.
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We have created an environment that pushes the envelope of transparency in order to increase accountability and trust. We have democratized the organization.
Global outsourcing vendors do not demonstrate transparency or flexibility. They are contractually driven.
We're customer-focused, not contract-focused. We give customers transparency in pricing, in what our input costs are. We open our books. We offer transparency in performance: how many people are working on an account, what's going right and what's going wrong. We offer a huge amount of flexibility to scale up or down. We're interested in developing long-term relationships, not meeting contractual requirements.
Within reason, we work with our customers. The reason we have been able to grow to a $2 billion company [during a recession] is because we present ourselves as the complete opposite of the competition.
We conduct workshops free of cost for boards and executive teams related to this philosophy. We offer our "employees first" tools and software to our customers free of cost. But that's not our business.
The theory behind sharing this is that the customer will begin to see us not as an IT company, but as a thought leader. When they think of HCL, we want them to think of innovation.
If you think about Apple, for example, they have defined their core value not as customer centricity, but innovation. As long as they keep innovating faster and better, their products will find the customer. No one buys an iPad because they need it. (I'm still trying to figure out what to do with mine.) They buy it because it's from Apple.
HCL Technologies has 55,000 employees worldwide. How do you institutionalize and sustain the "employees first" philosophy on such a large scale?
There's a huge investment in this, particularly as we expand into new geographies and hire new people. We spend a tremendous amount of time on induction. I've been traveling for a month and a half talking to employees and customers, explaining what we're doing, why we want to do it, and who our role models are.
Who are your role models?
The evolution of the family unit is one of my inspirations. Families used to be a command and control structure. Today, it's a collaborative relationship where parents say, "I'm your friend," and everyone has a voice. If we can harness the energy of youth and enable them to contribute, that will unleash a lot of energy.
Second, I look to religion. If you think about religious institutions, people go there, they give their money to them, and they come away feeling good. At work, people go there, we pay them, and they come away feeling bad. Why is that? What higher order do [religious institutions] appeal to so that you feel good there when you feel bad here?
You've talked about having held up a mirror to employees at HCL when you took over in order to motivate them, but, from a financial standpoint the image was pretty rosy: The company's compound annual growth rate was 30 percent. What flaws were you pointing out?
I had to tell our employees we will be obsolete if we don't change. The customer is not asking for the value we used to deliver, they're asking for new value. And we're not ready.
It's easy to gloat about the fact that we have been successful. My job is to say you are one inch from being obsolete. It's not about that 30 percent growth. I have to create dissonance. We went from 30 percent growth to 35 percent growth, but what's more important is to look in the mirror and see where you are aging. It can't be a one-time exercise. It has to [occur] annually, weekly, daily. The mirror says it all.
How do you go around telling employees that despite their hard work, they are on the edge of obsolescence, without crushing morale?
It's a challenge. It can sound like moaning or groaning if you don't create a positive culture around it.
You have to decide what business you're in and what you feel good about—the past or the present. A diamond cutter gets excited seeing a rough diamond. Steve Jobs isn't excited about the iPad; he's thinking about the new stuff. You climb the Himalayas not to say you've arrived, but because you enjoy the experience of climbing the mountain. You have to be excited about taking on challenges. Slowly the company is changing itself, and employees are excited to be the first on the block to do something.
You say CEOs are becoming irrelevant. But judging by their salaries, they're still valued many times over the "average" employee.
What CEOs do today is irrelevant. CEOs are very important. They're the head of the institution and have to have a lot of competence to be there. They are a company's most valuable asset.
But they have to understand that if they continue to run their companies the way they always have, they will be obsolete. If you're doing the same thing you did five years ago, is it relevant anymore? You are still the organization's most valued person, but what the company expects from you today may be very different.
I've talked to 56 boards in the last six months about our management philosophy. It think [the fact that they ask me to come] shows that companies want to move away from the command and control structure to a more collaborative environment. CEOs are very smart. They understand that what they're doing is irrelevant, and they're starting on this journey of self discovery. That's encouraging.
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Previous blog, I was talking about hacktivists and while cybercrime is so common, there are still a lot of ethical hackers who are protecting the network system against crimes. I thought these crimes were the only cause of cyber-attack until now.
Consumers generate personal data every time they go online. Sometimes they knowingly provide it to third parties – but sometimes without realising (Warner, 2011).
This information can easily be available to hackers, moreover it allows for total control and surveillance over user’s information, resulting in a situation of stolen identity. “The law does not keep pace with industry developments or consumers‟ expectations” (Warner, 2011)
The internet is known as river of copies, holding infinitive data that is kept in the cyber world not ever being deleted. The internet doesn’t like deletion; data wants to be free. Hacker has the ultimate decision if newly found information should be distributed or not, or to use it for their personal advantage as a distributed network.
If online personas can be hacked, individual’s credit card, passports, and credentials can easily be stolen as well, which can create an ugly world of cybercrime. Never-ending!
Cybercrime is defined as crimes committed on the internet using the computer as either a tool or a targeted victim (Aghatise, 2014).
The term Sock puppets refers to false online personas who are equipped to seem like real people while entering online discussion through blogs, message boards, chats, and more. With a false persona, a user could discredit opponents, or create the semblance of consensus (Mitew, 2017).
Back in 2011, The Guardian reported The US military to be “developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda”.
It’s blows my mind, thinking how many debates and conversation I have read so far are completely authentic and completely veracious.
I am not able to come to a final thought, has it ever happened that one sock puppet is interacting online with another, without being aware of each other. Comment down below about what you think.
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Strong cryptography or cryptographically strong are general terms applied to cryptographic systems or components that are considered highly resistant to cryptanalysis.
Demonstrating the resistance of any cryptographic scheme to attack is a complex matter, requiring extensive testing and reviews, preferably in a public forum. Good algorithms and protocols are required, and good system design and implementation is needed as well. For instance, the operating system on which the crypto software runs should be as carefully secured as possible. Users may handle passwords insecurely, or trust 'service' personnel overly much, or simply misuse the software. (See social engineering.) "Strong' thus is an imprecise term and may not apply in particular situations.
This term cryptographically strong is often used to describe an encryption algorithm, and implies, in comparison to some other algorithm (which is thus cryptographically weak), greater resistance to attack. But it can also be used to describe hashing and unique identifier and filename creation algorithms. See for example the description of the Microsoft .NET runtime library function Path. GetRandomFileName.[1] In this usage, the term means difficult to guess.
An encryption algorithm is intended to be unbreakable (in which case it is as strong as it can ever be), but might be breakable (in which case it is as weak as it can ever be) so there is not, in principle, a continuum of strength as the idiom would seem to imply: Algorithm A is stronger than Algorithm B which is stronger than Algorithm C, and so on. The situation is made more complex, and less subsumable into a single strength metric, by the fact that there are many types of cryptanalytic attack and that any given algorithm is likely to force the attacker to do more work to break it when using one attack than another.
There is only one known unbreakable cryptographic system, the one-time pad, this is not generally possible to use because of the difficulties involved in exchanging one-time pads without their being compromised. So any encryption algorithm can be compared to the perfect algorithm, the one-time pad.
The usual sense in which this term is (loosely) used, is in reference to a particular attack, brute force key search — especially in explanations for newcomers to the field. Indeed, with this attack (always assuming keys to have been randomly chosen), there is a continuum of resistance depending on the length of the key used. But even so there are two major problems: many algorithms allow use of different length keys at different times, and any algorithm can forgo use of the full key length possible. Thus, Blowfish and RC5 are block cipher algorithms whose design specifically allowed for several key lengths, and who cannot therefore be said to have any particular strength with respect to brute force key search. Furthermore, US export regulations restrict key length for exportable crypto products and in several cases in the 1980s and 1990s (e.g., famously in the case of Lotus Notes' export approval) only partial keys were used, decreasing 'strength' against brute force attack for those (export) versions. More or less the same thing happened outside the US as well, as for example in the case of more than one of the crypto algorithms in the GSM cellular telephone standard.
The term is commonly used to convey that some algorithm is suitable for some task in cryptography or information security, but also resists cryptanalysis and has no, or fewer, security weaknesses. Tasks are varied, and might include:
Cryptographically strong would seem to mean that the described method has some kind of maturity, perhaps even approved for use against different kinds of systematic attacks in theory and/or practice. Indeed, that the method may resist those attacks long enough to protect the information carried (and what stands behind the information) for a useful length of time. But due to the complexity and subtlety of the field, neither is almost ever the case. Since such assurances are not actually available in real practice, sleight of hand in language which implies that they are will generally be misleading.
There will always be uncertainty as advances (e.g., in cryptanalytic theory or merely affordable computer capacity) may reduce the effort needed to successfully use some attack method against an algorithm.
In addition, actual use of cryptographic algorithms requires their encapsulation in a cryptosystem, and doing so often introduces vulnerabilities which are not due to faults in an algorithm. For example, essentially all algorithms require random choice of keys, and any cryptosystem which does not provide such keys will be subject to attack regardless of any attack resistant qualities of the encryption algorithm(s) used.
PGP is generally considered an example of strong cryptography, with versions running under most popular operating systems and on various hardware platforms. The open source standard for PGP operations is OpenPGP, and GnuPG is an implementation of that standard from the FSF.
The AES algorithm is considered strong after being selected in a lengthy selection process that was open and involved numerous tests.
Examples that are not considered cryptographically strong include:
The DES, whose 56-bit keys allow attacks via exhaustive search.
Wired Equivalent Privacy which is subject to a number of attacks due to flaws in its design.
The Clipper Chip, a failed initiative of the U.S. government that included key escrow provisions, allowing the government to gain access to the keys.
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SDTS enables secure replication of Microsoft SQL databases for remote monitoring, centralized data analysis, or offsite backup and disaster recovery. Databases are replicated one-way, typically from a higher security source network or domain to a lower security destination domain. The source database and network can be isolated from external cyber threats, thus maintaining data integrity and business continuity, while external users and applications can still access real-time database information on the destination network.
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- The number of users in ThreatConnect’s threat intelligence platform grew by 157% in 2015, and the platform is used by 50% of the Fortune 100, and 20% of the Fortune 500. In the fourth quarter of 2015, ThreatConnect acquired ten more Fortune 500 clients.
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Issa, incredulous, told the panel, "None of you today can tell us who failed to do their job?"
Issa had previously put the question to Baitman, who started to respond that his department "is a federated agency, the job of for running...."
Issa cut him off: "Ok, not your job. This is an orphan."
But Karen Evans, a top White House official who served as de facto CIO during the administration of President George W. Bush, and who testified later in the day on a separate panel, said she would have resigned -- particularly after seeing that the website's problems had prompted President Obama to talk publicly about them.
"I would have offered my resignation," said Evans.
In her analysis of the chain of responsibility, the person most responsible, the one whose job it would have been to make a policy, political and technology evaluation of Healthcare.gov, is the CIO of HHS. "The CIO is supposed to be nexus, the tech savvy person on the staff," she said.
Evans, a nearly 30-year veteran of federal IT before retiring, served during part of the Bush administration as the administrator for E-Government and Information Technology at the White House, with responsibility for the federal budget. The Obama administration remade that post into the federal CIO job.
In her prepared testimony, Evans called Healthcare.gov a "classic IT project failure that happens in the Federal Government too frequently."
Evans said the failure wasn't in the complexity of the rollout, the procurement process, or the testing.
"The functionality and shortcomings of Healthcare.gov are the result of bad management decisions made by policy officials within the Administration; they did this to themselves," said Evans, in her prepared testimony.
At this hearing, current IT officials worked to assure the committee that site was improving daily, and can now "process" nearly 17,000 registrants per hour, or five per second, with almost no errors.
It was also revealed at that Todd Park, the federal CTO who was also called to testify, had slept on the floor for a week in the Healthcare.gov project offices, as developers and managers wrestled with the site's problems.
The causes of the management problems appear wide-ranging, but much may have to do with how uncertain regulations and ongoing changes posed new technical issues for the IT staff.
The Governmental Accountability Office, in its testimony Wednesday, said "too often, federal IT projects run over budget, behind schedule, or fail to deliver promised functionality."
Patrick Thibodeau covers cloud computing and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed. His e-mail address is [email protected].
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We know a lot of you have been waiting for this, and so it is with great excitement that we announce that Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) has been released to the web and is available for immediate download! This is the first release using the new servicing model for Exchange Server 2013. In addition to this article, the Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 release notes are also available.
Note: Article links that may not have been available at the time of this post's publishing are now available. Updated Exchange 2013 documentation, including Release Notes, is now available on TechNet.
CU1 is the minimum version of Exchange 2013 required for on-premises coexistence with supported legacy Exchange Server versions. The final build number for CU1 is 15.0.620.29. For more information on coexistence, check out the Planning and Deployment documentation, and this Ignite webcast covering deployment of and coexistence with Exchange Server 2013.
Prior to upgrading or deploying the new build onto a server, you will need to update Active Directory. For those of you with a diverse Active Directory permissions model you will want to perform the following steps:
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes schema changes. Therefore, you will need to execute setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms.
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes enterprise Active Directory changes (e.g., RBAC roles have been updated to support new cmdlets and/or properties). Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 includes changes to the permissions within the domain partition (e.g., Exchange Servers have been granted the ability to modify msExchActiveSyncDevices class on inetOrgPerson objects). Therefore, you will need to execute setup.exe /PrepareDomain /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms in each domain containing Exchange servers or mailboxes.
Note: If your environment contains only Exchange 2007, and you upgrade to Exchange 2013, keep in mind you cannot deploy Exchange 2010 in that environment at a later time. If you foresee a need to deploy Exchange 2010 servers into your environment, deploy an Exchange 2010 multi-role server (with all four servers roles) prior to executing Exchange 2013 setup.exe /PrepareAD. As long as you retain at least one role of each legacy server, you will continue to be able to install additional servers of that version into your coexistence environment. Once you remove the last server role of a legacy version, you will no longer be able to reintroduce that version into the environment.
Once the preparatory steps are completed, you can then deploy CU1 and start your coexistence journey. If this is your first Exchange 2013 server deployment, you will need to deploy both an Exchange 2013 Client Access Server and an Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server into the organization. As explained in Exchange 2013 Client Access Server Role, CAS 2013 is simply an authentication and proxy/redirection server; all data processing (including the execution of remote PowerShell cmdlets) occurs on the Mailbox server. You can either deploy a multi-role server or each role separately (just remember if you deploy them separately, you cannot manage the Exchange 2013 environment until you install both roles).
If you already deployed Exchange 2013 RTM code and want to upgrade to CU1, you will run setup.exe /m:upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms from a command line after completing the Active Directory preparatory steps or run through the GUI installer. Deploying future cumulative updates will operate in the same manner.
Note: Unlike previous versions, in Exchange 2013, you cannot uninstall a single role from a multi-role server. For example, if you deploy the CAS and MBX roles on a single machine, you cannot later execute setup to remove the CAS role; you can only uninstall all server roles.
Mailbox Sizes in Exchange Server 2013
As you start migrating your mailboxes to Exchange 2013, one thing you may notice is that your mailboxes appear to be larger post move.
As you can imagine, with hosting millions of mailboxes in Office 365, accurate storage reporting is essential, just like in your on-premises deployments. One of the learnings that we accrued into the on-premises product is ensuring that the mailbox usage statistics are more closely aligned with the capacity usage within the Mailbox database. The impact of reporting space more accurately means that mailbox quota limits may need to be adjusted prior to the mailbox move so that users are not locked out of their mailbox during the migration process.
Our improved space calculations may result in a mailbox’s reported size increasing on average of 30% when the mailbox is moved from a legacy version of Exchange to Exchange 2013. For example, if a mailbox is reported as 10GB in size on Exchange Server 2010, then when the mailbox is moved to Exchange 2013, it may be reported as 13GB. This does not mean that migrating to Exchange 2013 will increase your capacity footprint by 30% per mailbox; it only means that the statistics are including more data about the space the mailbox consumes. 30% is an average value, based on what we have experienced in Exchange Online. Customers with pilot mailboxes should determine what their own average increase value may be as some environments may see higher or lower values depending on the most prevalent type of email within their mailboxes. Again, this does not mean there will be an increase in the size of the database file on disk; only the attribution of space to each mailbox will increase.
In Exchange 2010 you could not use a group as an owner for another group for membership management. Instead you had to deploy explicit permissions on groups or use a script as a workaround.
Since Exchange 2010’s release both Microsoft Support and the Exchange Product Group received resounding feedback on the need for this capability. The good news is that with Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 groups can once again be owners of groups for membership management.
The Best Copy Selection algorithm now honors MaximumActiveDatabases.
Auto-reseed now supports disks that have Bitlocker encryption.
Many probes, monitors, and responders have been updated and improved over the RTM release.
Get-HealthReport cmdlet has been streamlined and its performance has been optimized.
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 will support the Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM); this management pack will be available at a later date. This management pack is supported on SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012.
On behalf of the Exchange Product Group, thanks again for your continued support and patience, and please keep the feedback coming.
As an Exchange On-Premises customer, this is a great news.
We look forward to upgrading to Exchange 2013 On-Premises.
I'm getting performance counters errors after installing. Errors like this:
Performance counter updating error. Counter name is Current Connected Sessions, category name is MSExchangeRemotePowershell. Optional code: 3. Exception: The exception thrown is : System. InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
at System. Diagnostics. PerformanceCounter.InitializeImpl() at System. Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.get_RawValue() at Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.set_RawValue(Int64 value)
Last worker process info : System. ArgumentException: Process with an Id of 12248 is not running.
at System. Diagnostics. Process.GetProcessById(Int32 processId) at Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.GetLastWorkerProcessInfo()
Performance Counters Layout information: FileMappingNotFoundException for category MSExchangeRemotePowershell : Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics. FileMappingNotFoundException: Cound not open File mapping for name Globalnetfxcustomperfcounters.1.0msexchangeremotepowershell. Error Details: 2
at Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics. FileMapping. OpenFileMapping(String name, Boolean writable) at Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics. PerformanceCounterMemoryMappedFile. Initialize(String fileMappingName, Boolean writable) at Microsoft. Exchange. Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter. GetAllInstancesLayout(String categoryName)
I had been struggling with too many problems previous release for a few days.
Today I downloaded, installed and tested, that one is working. Good job guys!
We just finished a CU1 deploy at a greenfield site (sole Exchange 2013 RTM).
Happy to report that once we figured out the prerequisites needed on Server 2012, running the AD prep steps, and then CU1 itself that our Exchange 2013 RTM to CU1 update was successful.
We are now getting some weirdness in the Event Logs such as service failure and restart attempts with (service already started) on MS Exchange RPC Client Access Service. Exchange Search Service seems to be crashing, and then we are getting MSExchangeFASTSearch exception errors.
In the "How do you know this worked" in the AD preparation, I can't find anywhere in the documentation the values for CU1.
For example, msExchProductID I have 15.00.620.029 but the documentation has 15.00.526.032 which I assume is still for the original release. And so on for the other checks.
I'm pretty sure I'm good to go but it would be nice to have the corresponding CU1 checks documented, unless I'm missing something…
Well, this CU1 setup has been a f…. nightmare! On one exchange server it failed at first because I had set the powershell execution policy through GPO. If you do, setup will not only fail, but it will if run again constantly deactivate all exchange related services and then fail when it tries restarting them.
Still trying to install on the second exchange server. I get this:
" was run: "Process execution failed with exit code 1052.".
The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
@Steve and others – here are the values you can use to validate successful preparation of Active Directory. I'm working to get this information updated in the topic ASAP.
In the Configuration naming context, verify that the msExchProductId property in the CN=<your organization>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain> container is set to 15.00.620.029.
Note: If the msExchProductId property is set to 15.00.620.029, Active Directory has been successfully prepared. You don’t need to check any of remaining values in this list. The information below is for information purposes only and for those who separate the PrepareSchema and PrepareAD steps.
In the Schema naming context, verify that the rangeUpper property on ms-Exch-Schema-Verision-Pt is set to 15254.
In the Default naming context, verify that the objectVersion property in the Microsoft Exchange System Objects container under DC=<root domain is set to 13236.
I have deployed 2 pilots for coexistence with Exchange 2007 and 1 Production environment in progress. I have the following problems:
1. In production environment, once mailboxes are moved from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013, outlook 2007 clients cannot connect and always keep asking password (same behaviour that I had on coexistence from ex2007 and ex2013 RTM). In pilot environments I don't have this problem. Configuration of Outlook Anywhere and Autodiscovery as well as Virtual Directories and Certificates are identical and they are done according documentation with CU1.
2. Once mailboxes are moved from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013, mailboxes cannot be moved back to Exchange 2007. The migration task starts and then shows "total mailbox 0, synced 0, finalized 0, failed 0" and no error in return.
@Brian. Thanks for the suggestion, I will folloup on forums. Just for information for other people I think we Isolated the problem, but I am working with Microsoft Support to better understand.
Actually we tested Outlook 2007 SP3 with Outlook.exe newest version 12.0.6668.5000 (updated today with a Windows Update on the computers).
CU1 broke the ability to use pipelineing with Set-ServerComponentState.
Typically if $Servers is a list of server objects (retrieve with Get-ExchangeServer) and I do $Servers | Set-ServerComponentState -Component foo -State bar -Requester Maintenance, then Cmdlet throws an Exception (object reference not set to an object). When using the same command using the -Identity parameter (eg: in a foreach) either using the "Name" or "Fqdn" property, this works as a workaround…
Therefore, CU1 B2B upgrade failed miserably.
Workaround: do a "repair" of the EWS virtual directory. Eg from a standard shell on the server:
Add-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft. Exchange. Management. PowerShell. E2010
Another bugy release. I know this was delayed, but really it should have been delayed another month at least. We had one server where, as Benoit suggests in this thread, had to have the entire EWS rebuilt. Now the latest is we are waiting on a post CU1 patch in order to backup the system. For some reason the backups are no longer working in this release, but they were in the rtm. OWA seems flakey and public folder support really doesn't work. Sharepoint integration for discovery also doesn't seem to work.
Total failure as far as I'm concerned. Exchange people have spent way too much time worrying about the cloud offerings and it shows. The on-premise version of Exchange, as it stands now, is the buggyst version of Exchange I've ever tried to use.
Where is Sent Items Management? This feature was put into Exchange 2010 SP3 formally, but forgotten in Exchange 2010 RTM CU1? How did that one get past QA? Imagine telling your customer that yes, you have this great feature in SP3 and once we install SP3 you will be able to upgrade to 2013. However, if you go to Exchange 2013, you will lose this same great feature.
While I understand that Sent Items Management is not a game changer or a show stopper of a feature, it still makes the point that CU1 still seems rushed even with the late release date.
I would also like to add that according to the EAC, when I add a new database I need to restart the Information Store service on the server.
1. How do I get past the 50 database limit? In Exchange 2010 you could create up to 100 databases. Now with the new improved Exchange 2013 engine we can only have 50? So, what's the trick to raising this limit?
2. How do we get team mailboxes working from an owa client?
3. How can we view more than about 20 folders in offline mode? We have execs with hundreds of folders and OWA offline mode is not going to work unless we can access all folders offline. How can we adjust the available folders to sync offline?
4. When are you going to replace all the neat troubleshooting tools that were in the Exchange 2010 toolbox and add them into the EAC?
This means that Exchange 2013 is only capable of supporting HALF what Exchange 2010 was capable of? That's nuts. Exchange 2013 should be like 4x as many databases. And in addition, we now have to stop all databases just to add a single database?
Not sure this is progress by any means.
At our company we have six Exchange 2010 servers. Due to RPO and RTO requirements, we have to create multiple D.A.G. with many databases. We're maxed right up with the primary databases, secondary copies, and a third copy as well. If the 50 GB database limit is true, then we can not upgrade to 2013 because it would mean we'd have to deploy 12 Exchange servers to do the same task. This also means that if we want a 3-copy DAG solution, we can't deploy over 16 primary databases on a single Exchange 2013 server.
I had no idea Exchange 2013 was so limited. Is this really true? Is there a workaround or is there an expectation in the next service pack that this limit will be raised?
Korbin – you are EXACTLY correct.
I remember the old WOSSA (Windows Operating Systems and Services Architecture) and Architecture exams…waaaay back in the day when I was passing the MCSD track for VB5. Microsoft has thrown out a number of their own previous interface recommendations that were there for a very good reason!
It is simply astonishing to me that in the year 2013 we're having conversations about products that can't co-exist with previous versions, don't provide any method of rollbacks, and can't be upgraded in-place. I'm speechless honestly. I really speaks volumes to the state of things at Microsoft.
2. ZERO taste in color options. (The entire universe is about options, not limitations!) 3. The text is hard to see even with 20/20 vision 4. The interface is very unpleasant.
5. Free email providers offer far more aesthetics and flexibility than OWA with Exchange 2013 6. In OWA, the address list is hard to find 7. Managing Public Folders is not an option in OWA. It was fine in 2010 but useless in 2013. Someone had to break it!
8. If User A creates a Public Folder (PF) using Outlook 2010 client, that A does not (NOT) see that PF in OWA. Unless user A goes to subscribe that PF. The situation is not funny when we are talking about hundreds of PFs.
9. In MAC, EVERY PF, had to be subscribed in Outlook. Now the same is true on OWA!
10. Speaking of MAC, they are going beyond retina display while OWA is going the other way!
11. What's wrong with selecting a group of users and enabling their email address? You can’t multi select users to mail-enable with highly polished Exchange 2013!
The whole Office 2013 color scheme is a tragedy. Huge amounts of screen space wasted by bright white. 90% of some screens are just a wasteland of white screaming into your brain and giving you a headache. OWA2013 is the same way, and you are correct, there are many problems. Public Folders are broken, plain and simple. Shared mailboxes don't even work at all, so you can just throw that feature right out of your current plans. Even the OWA offline mode is a joke as it will only sync 20 folders and no more. If you look on the Technet forums you will see hundreds and hundreds of complaints about this same thing.
It's a cruel joke that is being played on us Exchange Administrators, that's for sure. Release products WAY before they are ready and spend the next year patching things up so we can finally have a RTM-capable experience.
Surely even the Microsoft team can see all the deficiencies in their product. Even with CU1.
TransportAgentFactory: Microsoft. Exchange. Transport. Agent. AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgent. AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgentFactory
AssemblyPath: C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV15TransportRolesagentsAddressBookPolicyRoutingAgentMicrosoft. Exchange. Transport. Agent. AddressBookPolicyRoutingAgent.dll
My upgrade from 2013RTM to CU1 ran perfectly – a big thumbs up.
I am disappointed that, in OWA, there appears to be no way to mark email in the public folder as junk – you cannot even move mail from a PF, other than delete mail. I was also expecting more functionality to manage the anti-spam/malware from the ECP to be added. I really think that MSFT need to do more in this area.
Don't blame the Exchange team. I'm sure they had to release this by a certain date which Microsoft has imposed.
I think I will skip CU1 until there is a rollup or something similar to fix the bugs. Exchange team, can you confirm if there will be the usual rollups for CU1, or are we waiting for CU2?
"Don't blame the Exchange team. Imagine releasing a product and knowing that your customers can't install it alongside the previous version. How can anyone overlook critical system functionality? If someone did impose this on the Exchange product group, then they should be canned. No developer would want their product shown in this light. I still feel the state of 13 has currently not caught up to the 10 version. The colors are simply god-awful too.
It is no longer necessary to run the makegallinked.exe tool or change the schema definition properties of the GlobalAddressList attribute in Active Directory to enable you to create more than 1000 GALs. Once you reach the default limit of the GlobalAddressList attribute (approximately 1250 with the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory schema) you will receive a warning that the GAL you are attempting to create will only be accessible by users with a mailbox on Exchange 2010 SP2.
NOTE: It is not supported (nor is it necessary) to run the makegallinked.exe tool or change the schema definition properties of the GlobalAddressList attribute in Active Directory in a new Exchange Server 2010 SP2 installation, you simply need to ensure the Active Directory is operating at the correct forest functional level and you use only the 2010 versions of the New-GlobalAddressList cmdlet.
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And this makes sense.. I still can create GALs in Ex2010 even I'm way above 1250 limit…
Unfortunately it is not the case with Exchange 2013. I introduced Ex2013 into this organization. installation went smoothly. I have working coexistence. What doesn’t work is GALs.. I CANNOT create any new GALs. I receive weird error:
WARNING: One or more global address lists were missing from the Active Directory attribute. This is likely caused by using legacy Exchange management tools to create global address lists.
and it is failing with statement that "One or more attribute entries of the object "CN=Mincrosoft Exchange,CN=…" already exists.
Looks like Ex2013CU1 "forgot" about removed GAL limitation in Ex2010SP2. It seems that it is missing some GALs (we I have ~300 GALs on top of official 1250 limit) and it cannot create new one because it thinks that it already exists, but it is not..
Has anyone else ran into this issue. Is there a potential workaround or fix? Is there quick fix to enable linked attrobute for GlobalAddressList and GLobalAddressList2?
Anyone knows if the Public Folder FIASCO is going to be handled a bit more professionally on CU2? There are more limitations on OWA when it comes to managing (or doing anything for that matter) Public Folders than what can be done on PF using OWA – basically close to nothing! It was fine on 2010 OWA but totally botched up on 2013. I guess the developers were in tuned with old mantra – "PFs are gonna go to SharePoint"
If the direction is "move to Share Point" then we need to know before we spend more resources on testing 2013.
As of today, Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant URL still displays that upgrading from Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 is “COMING SOON!” This shows that how poorly the internal departments (Exchange Team) are coordinating.
So far, in my tests, I found no reasons to upgrade due to so many bugs, limitations, poor OWA design, PF management, and performance hits! Now that multiple roles are running on a single MB server, I noticed a major difference between the performance of Exchange 2010 box and Exchange 2013 box. All the updates are cosmetics (with poor ingredients I must add) and not much to gain. Did anyone notice that Exchange 2013 is actually more similar to Exchange 2003? (Including the removal of 0 with 1).
We are just planning our Exchange Server 21013 migration because there is a opportunity to do it as part of other server upgrades. Nothing i read here fills me with any confidence in the product. The concept and execution of how CU works just sounds brain damaged with so many obvious ways to go horribly wrong i can't imagine how it ever got to see the light of day.
I too have been using exchange since V4.0 and the starting with 2007 version it has just gone down hill in horrible ways since then and continues to loose some of its best features each edition. Management of exchange is certainly a much greater chore to do basic everyday tasks than ever before. Microsoft clearly have very little idea of how their product is used in the real world and I suspect a very healthy contempt for those of us who are not happy with what we've been lumped with.
Exchange used to be such a good product, it is barely a shadow of its former self.
Hi @Brian, there was a question done by @Jjj saying: "This update does not recognize disabled owa access. If I go into the eac and disable owa, the user still has access. Owa is really flakey inngeneral and public folder data is not working right either.
What a mess exchange has become."
And you say to check the KB 2835562. I read the article and the workaround suggested is:
For on-premises Exchange Server
Use Active Directory Users and Computers to disable mailbox access by removing the user’s ability to log on to the Active Directory environment. To do this, follow these steps:1.Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
2.Locate the user whose information you want to edit. To do this, use the Find feature. Or, browse to the organizational unit to which the user belongs.
3.Double-click the user, and then, in the <UserName> Properties dialog box, click the Account tab.
4.Under Account options, select Account is disabled, and then click OK.
Is it my bad english or I understood to disable the user account? I mean, disable the user account? What if the user goes to the office, needs to logon to his machine, needs to logon to Lync or any other service that use authentication?
(isn’t easier to send the employee on undetermined vacations, delete his user account. When MS decides to release CU2 we call the employee back "hey man, vacations are over, come back to work", and we recreate the account? XD)
Anyways, there are 2 workarounds I see for this situation.
1. If you have domain-joined ISA or TMG, you can put the users exceptions directly in the OWA publishing rule. Bingo!
2. The above option will only work for Internet users. Any internal user may browse the OWA site bypassing the Publishing server.
Create a Deny rule when you want to prevent access to Web content for specific roles, groups, or users. If you want to further restrict the actions a client request can take, you can also specify that the server will only evaluate this rule when the client attempts to use certain HTTP verbs—for example, GET or POST."
As the article says, applies to W2008R2. So I don’t know if this would work in W2012 (which has IIS8). But if you have Ex2013 running under W2008R2, feel free to test!
Hi all. First of all, I'm not a MS employee. Actually, I'm unemployed, and doing some freelance jobs for the past 3 months. I'm just giving my opinion about it.
Many of the comments I saw in this article, is the complain about not able to perform "in place upgrades", or roll back the CU version.
This is no new for us guys! ever since Exchange 2003 (released back in 2003), there was no in place upgrade already. Of course Exchange 2003 is 32bits, and Exchange 2007+ are all x64 (Ex2007 x86 was released, but not supported in production environments). So everyone here, working with Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010, are already used to this situation. why are complaining now? Again, this has been going since 2003. So, again, this is no new for us.
I agree with all of you saying there is no rollback option. At least in Exchange 2007/2010, the model was: service packs (full builds) and rollup (update builds). Rollups were able to be removed without affecting the whole product. but talking about SPs, it was not possible.
So saying that I update from Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2, it is the same situation we have now for Exchange 2013.
My suggestion here for Exchange 2013, would be that in some way, we could rollback to the previous CU. If I have been installing like 10 CUs, if I want to remove the #10, at least, I should be able to rollback to CU9.
Anyways, the workaround I see here (and the one I used for Exchange 2007/2010) is, before performing any upgrade, to take a full AD backup, and an Exchange backup (more important DBs and Certificates of the server involved).
If I was upgrading, Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2, and something went wrong in the middle, I could expect that:
.attributes in AD may reflect the exchange server in SP1, and some other attributes in SP2.
.In the server itselft, some exchange binary files could be SP1, or SP2.
.same for registry information, some could reflect SP1 settings, some SP2 settings, and the famous "watermarks" in each role.
1. restore your AD backup. (all attributes, schema changes, and domain permissions in AD should be back to SP1).
2. then you can just format the server, reset the Computer account, reinstall the box with same name, rejoin to the domain, and install exchange (with SP1 installation files) with the "recoverserver" switch.
3. After the installation, just restore your DBs, and certificate.
the server should be, back again, working in SP1.
You all may think, "something that should take an hour at most, will take me 4 or 5", yes, I agree with you. "this will require a lot of admin interaction, and work with DCs and Exchange", yes, I agree as well. "In large organizations, restoring AD will cause a replication storm", YES! I agree with you again. "what about AD changes that were performed during the upgrade time? if there was any work done in AD, that would be lost by restoring our back!", yes, but be honest with me, many times we upgrade Exchange, we demand a maintenance window, and not much changes are done in AD aside the ones we performed, the possibility is that there are no other changes done. But…
We found the SCOM 2012 management pack for Exchange 2012 more than doubled the replication traffic to our remote backup site. Do you guys know what you're doing? Evidence of how poorly your product works suggests not.
Does it make sense to anyone that monitoring the health of the product should add more traffic than 200 active users of the product? Absolutely ridiculous! Needless to say, we can't afford the bandwidth to run the management pack because is it so badly implemented.
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Microsoft has been impressing pundits and users with its Windows Phone mobile OS, but its merged desktop/mobile operating system, Windows 8, stole the show at the Mobile World Congress as the company released the official Consumer Preview version of the OS.
For those who missed out on all the buzz surrounding Windows 8, here’s a brief overview.
Windows 8, unlike Windows 7, is actually two interfaces in one. It combines a tablet user interface, which is outfitted with what Microsoft is calling the Metro style, while the desktop UI keeps largely the same look and feel as Windows 7.
Taking a two-pronged approach allows Microsoft to radically diverge from the conventions it has pretty much been tied to since Windows 95 in the Metro UI, while keeping things familiar for Windows loyalists with the traditional desktop UI.
Jensen Harris, director of program management for user experience on the Windows team, walks through a comprehensive guide to Windows 8 and both of its interfaces in this official video from Microsoft.
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Coming from the System Center Configuration Manager documentation team is news that the Configuration Manager documentation library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx) has been updated on the Web and the latest content on the Web has Updated: August 1, 2010 at the top of the topic.
This month they've been focusing on the Configuration Manager 2007 R3 content including an update to the existing documentation that clarifies a support statement around branch distribution points. They've also been republishing topics that contain links that don't work and "Note" or "Important" icons that don't display correctly.
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The days of handwritten homework assignments, heavy printed textbooks, and mailed paper report cards are slipping away. Learning is digital in the 21st century. Students often complete their homework, communicate with classmates, check their grades, and conduct research for assignments online.
The internet speeds up students’ ability to study and instantly connects them with more information than a printed school library could possibly hold. However, the cyber world of modern education can be dangerous, both to your students and to you as a teacher.
Your students are more tech-savvy than you can possibly imagine. While many adults rely on the occasional tutorial to learn how to use a new program or application, students are digital natives. They intuitively know how to use apps, mobile devices, and online platforms, since they’ve been using them their whole lives.
This means that, with the right motivation, your students could probably figure out how to hack into your accounts. For example, if a student wasn’t satisfied with her grade, she might be able to figure out your password and change a grade or two. Similarly, a student who wanted to play a joke on you could change all the images in your PowerPoint presentation.
You need to know how to protect both yourself and your students from cyber attacks.
In some cases, students might be the culprits of cybersecurity issues in your classroom, but in others, they might be the victims.
While many young people are able to easily learn digital programs and might even have some hacking skills, they still have a lot to learn about the world. They may not be savvy enough to spot every cybersecurity risk that they encounter.
As a teacher, you can both directly protect your students and teach them about cybersecurity so they can better safeguard themselves online.
Protecting Your Classroom
Cybersecurity threats can be alarming, but fortunately, there is a simple solution to help keep you and your students safe: education! After all, knowledge is power.
By educating yourself and your students about cybersecurity, the latest applications, and other features of modern technology, you can spot and resolve digital safety issues before they put your classroom in danger.
As we discussed above, your students are often more tech-savvy than you. They probably know how to use every feature of the most popular online programs and digital devices. This could give them an enormous advantage over you if they wanted to hack into your accounts.
Your first instinct might be to completely ban digital devices in your classroom. However, this isn’t likely to work. According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2018, “95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly.’”
This means that your ability to actually eliminate cell phone, tablet, or laptop use during class is very limited. Fighting digital devices in the classroom will most likely be futile and frustrating. Instead, make your students’ time online a productive part of class by integrating your students’ devices into your lessons (for more information on this, see our lesson plans).
As a teacher, you probably have numerous online accounts. As well as your personal email and social media accounts, you also have multiple school and education software accounts.
Now, imagine if your students had access to all the information stored on those accounts. They could read your personal emails, change their online homework assignments and grades, look at other students’ reports, publish fake updates to your social media profiles, or hack you in many other ways.
Hacking into your accounts probably isn’t very challenging for your students. To make matters worse, many schools also don’t have great cybersecurity systems in place to help you protect your accounts.
To protect your important information from potential student hackers, it’s crucial that you understand how to protect and secure your accounts.
Below, we provide our suggestions for keeping your user accounts secure. This advice applies to your online teacher portals, personal accounts, emails, and social media platforms. We recommend that you:
Use your school email address to create education-related accounts. This will help keep your personal email address separate from accounts students may have access to.
Create complex passwords. Your passwords should be a mixture of upper- and lowercase letters, and include numbers and symbols. These types of passwords are more difficult to guess.
Change your passwords frequently. Experts advise switching your passwords every six months, but since that’s already most of the school year, we recommend changing your passwords every three months.
Use a different password for each unique account. For example, the password you use for your teacher portal shouldn’t be the same as the one you use for your personal Facebook. This means that if someone guesses or hacks one password, they won’t be able to access all of your accounts.
Check to see if your password is strong enough using a password meter, like ours. These tools calculate how difficult or easy it would be to guess or hack your password.
Use a password manager to generate and store your passwords on your device or browser. A password manager uses a special database to create and store strong passwords so you don’t have to remember them.
Use biometric passwords such as fingerprint access when available. These are very secure as only you can use them.
Take advantage of strong authentication or two-factor verification when it’s available. These systems typically require you to enter both your password and a special code sent to your phone or email. Strong authentication offers the best protection for sensitive accounts like your email address or bank account. Many services offer strong authentication on an opt-in basis. Ask your service provider for help if you’re not sure how to get started.
This should help keep your accounts safe from students and other potential hackers.
You probably rely on your smartphone to stay in touch with friends, check your email, and post to social media. You may even use a mobile device to assign and grade homework or conduct research for your class.
Smartphones are incredibly convenient and useful, but they’re also very vulnerable to student hacking.
Your smartphone may be expensive, but the data stored on it is even more valuable. Photos, social media accounts, personal messages, bank accounts, and all sorts of other private information are stored on smartphones.
If you don’t take proper precautions, a student, fellow faculty member, or stranger could access any of the sensitive data on your smartphone or tablet. There are four ways you can protect your mobile devices from potential hackers:
Keep your devices updated. Hackers work to find flaws in technology companies’ security systems, and they’re almost as fast as the companies trying to stop them with updated software. No system is 100% secure, but updating your software is one of the most important ways to protect your phone. We recommend that you turn on auto-update features for all apps and devices
Use biometric passwords. As mentioned above, biometric passwords are one of the most secure login options for your digital devices. Keep your smartphone and tablet safe by setting up fingerprint passwords where possible. Minimally, use a traditional password for your mobile device.
Disable wi-fi and Bluetooth as often as possible. They’re great when you’re actually using your device. However, when you’re offline, leaving wi-fi and Bluetooth on lets hackers know that you’re there. We recommend disabling your wi-fi and Bluetooth when you’re not using your device. This will limit your visibility to nearby devices.
Customize your encryption settings. The factory settings for your device and its various apps may not be ideal for cybersecurity. If your device is not encrypted by default, turn encryption on. You should also adjust your privacy settings to limit different applications’ access to your data.
You probably don’t discuss your romantic relationships, political opinions, or favorite celebrities with your students. However, if you don’t properly safeguard your social media accounts, your pupils could easily access all of that information.
Most teachers would rather keep their social media accounts and personal lives private from students, and for good reason. According to an article in Inc. magazine, “privacy matters more to Generation Z. They are very careful and intentional about managing their online reputation.” Since students are concerned with their own reputations online, they’re also very aware of yours.
As their teacher, you need to be careful about what your students can find out about you online. If they know about your recent breakup, see pictures of you at a concert, or learn what you think about a controversial issue online, they might feel less comfortable in your classroom or question your authority. It’s important that you remain a trusted, respected figure in their lives.
Many teachers are tempted to delete all their online information, but that’s not necessary. After all, you should still be able to use the internet to connect with your friends, express yourself, post photos, and more.
To keep your personal information safe from your students (and anyone else you may not trust), you need to cleverly conceal your online presence.
Google yourself. If you can find it on a search engine, your students can too. Googling yourself will reveal almost any personal information that is publicly available. Once you know what data about yourself is online, you can find its source and delete anything you wouldn’t want your students (or anyone else) to see.
Adjust your privacy settings. Many accounts are set up with minimal privacy as the default. If you want to keep your personal data away from students, make sure your posts, tweets, and other social accounts are private and visible to only your friends or followers. This way, your students won’t be able to easily find this information.
Delete and/or deactivate accounts you aren’t using. If you have an old social media account you’re no longer using, you should delete or deactivate it. This will prevent imposters hijacking the account and posting as you. If you want to keep your old accounts, make sure you set them to private.
These guidelines will help you enjoy the benefits of social media while protecting your online reputation.
Your school network is probably the primary way you and your students access the internet. It can also be a good way to block certain unsafe or inappropriate sites and improve your school’s cybersecurity. Unfortunately, it could also be vulnerable to breaches, which could put you and your students at risk.
There are many ways students can bypass the network and access blocked sites. As our article on this topic points out, students can use a VPN, proxy, or portable browser to get around the school network. These tools could allow them to unblock websites and load inappropriate online content while they’re in your classroom. This could be dangerous and disruptive.
Now that you’re aware of how students can get around school network blocks, you can work with technology professionals to prevent them from doing so. You can also be on the lookout for unsuitable online content students might bring into your classroom.
Furthermore, if your school network isn’t password-protected, this could make it even more unsafe. Hackers lurk on public wi-fi looking for users’ personal data and trying to take control of their devices. This could leave you, your students, and school administrators susceptible to malicious attacks.
In fact, in September 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) issued a PSA warning about the increasing cybersecurity risks faced by schools. The FBI stated that the widespread collection of sensitive information in schools “could present unique exploitation opportunities for criminals” and could result in “social engineering, bullying, tracking, identity theft, or other means of targeting children.”
Clearly, both you and your students face cybersecurity risks if your school network is unsecured. If your school network is open, you can work with administrators and IT professionals to make it more secure.
We recommend adding a password to your school’s wi-fi and changing it every three months. It may also be useful for the school to hire a cybersecurity professional to help set up more advanced anti-hacking systems.
According to the non-profit Kids Health, “cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person.”
The organization explains that “sometimes cyberbullying can be easy to spot” as in the case of “a text, tweet, or response to a status update on Facebook that is harsh, mean, or cruel.” However, Kids Health points out that “other acts are less obvious, like impersonating a victim online or posting personal information, photos, or videos designed to embarrass another person.”
Unfortunately, cyberbullying is epidemic in many schools. A September 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 59% of US teens have been bullied or harassed online. The study found that 90% of teens believe online harassment is a problem that affects people their age.
The same survey found that “majorities of young people think key groups, such as teachers, social media companies and politicians are failing at tackling this issue.”
As you might assume, cyberbullying can have a devastating long-term impact on children and adolescents. Like other forms of bullying, it can lead to real-world consequences that affect a victim’s whole life. Kids may experience depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem as a result.
They may also want to avoid school, affecting your ability to teach them the skills they need to succeed in the adult world.
As a teacher, you may be an adult onlooker when it comes to cyberbullying. It can be tricky to identify bullying and to understand the best way to intervene when it’s happening on an online platform, forum, or private messaging service that’s inaccessible to you. However, since you need to protect your students from its upsetting effects, it’s vital to know how to spot it in your classroom.
Trolling: intentionally posting provocative and insulting messages about sensitive subjects, such as racist and sexist material, in order to elicit a response. Merriam-Webster defines the verb “troll” as “to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content.”
Flaming: sending provocative messages to incite an argument. According to Lifewire, “flaming is about hurling insults, transmitting bigotry, name-calling, or any outright verbal hostility directed at a specific person.”
Harassment: specifically targeting an individual or group with persistent actions meant to make the receiver(s) frightened or upset. Harassment can develop into cyberstalking.
Cyberstalking: according to the Cyberbullying Research Center, “cyberstalking involves the use of technology (most often, the internet!) to make someone else afraid or concerned about their safety…Cyberstalking behaviors may include tracking down someone’s personal and private information and using it to make them afraid, texting them hundreds of times a day to let them know you are watching them, ‘creeping’ on their social media accounts to learn where they are so you can show up uninvited, or posting about them incessantly and without their permission.” Cyberstalking is against the law in many places.
Catfishing: stealing someone’s online profile or setting up fake profiles to lure others into starting online relationships. This form of cyberbullying can also be used to spy on, shame, or manipulate children, teens, and even adults.
Fraping: impersonating someone or logging in to their profile to post inappropriate content. This is a serious offense and, according to Business Insider, “is now a crime that could get you 10 years in prison, in Ireland.”
Griefing: abusing and angering people via online gaming. According to Oxford Dictionaries, a “griefer” is “a person who harasses or deliberately provokes other players or members [of an online game or community] in order to spoil their enjoyment.”
Outing: publicly sharing someone else’s personal, private, or embarrassing information, photos, or videos. This can be very damaging, especially amongst children and adolescents, who may not react compassionately.
Roasting: when an individual or, usually, a group, gangs up on an individual online until the victim “cracks.” The Bark Blog explains that “roasting is a term from comedy where a comedian roasts another person with good humor” but it becomes problematic when done “without the consent or desire of the individual to be roasted.” Although it “can start out innocuous and light-hearted…that is not where it always ends.”
If you notice your students discussing these types of activities in relation to themselves or their classmates, you should pay attention. Discussing cyberbullying with your pupils could help you save them from its hazards.
Appears more lonely or isolated. Cyberbullied children may withdraw from their friends or feel as if they can’t trust anyone.
Unexpectedly or suddenly changes his or her friendship group. Sometimes, students’ own friends are the culprits of cyberbullying. In these cases, the student may no longer want to spend time with the friends who have bullied him or her.
Suffers from seemingly sudden changes in personality. This could include becoming withdrawn, anxious, sad, or angry.
Cries frequently, unusually, or in seemingly strange circumstances. A student may become upset in apparently odd circumstances when dealing with the consequences of cyberbullying. This could occur when other students mock the victim or remind him or her of what happened online.
Is getting worse grades. Cyberbullied students’ academic performance may decline due to feeling upset, being scared, or being unable to focus.
Seems distracted or lacks focus in the classroom. Students who have dealt with cyberbullying may be worrying about their fear or embarrassment instead of thinking about their schoolwork.
Misses school frequently. Students whose classmates have cyberbullied them may want to avoid school so they don’t have to deal with their attackers.
Loses interest in extracurricular activities. Cyberbullied children and teens may want to quit their athletics teams, dance programs, theater productions, or other activities to get away from their attackers. They might also be less interested in extracurricular activities because they feel ashamed, shy, or afraid to get hurt again.
Suffers from an increasingly negative self-perception. Children and teens who are victims of cyberbullying often feel less confident as a result, since they may believe the negative things their attackers say about them.
Isn’t doing as well physically. The emotional and mental stress of cyberbullying may cause victims’ physical health to worsen.
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https://www.screadingproject.org/teacher-s-guide-to-cybersecurity
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Basing a county/municipal information security (infosec) and cybersecurity framework on HIPAA is a logical choice, especially if you have one or more covered entities (CE) in your organization.
How do you know if you have or are a CE? If some department or division within your organization is a healthcare provider, a health plan or a healthcare clearinghouse, they are a CE. If you have clinics, doctors, psychologists, clinical social workers, chiropractors, nursing homes or pharmacies, you are a CE [i]. Moreover, many counties have divisions or departments that function as accountable care organizations (ACO), managed care organizations (MCO), healthcare clearinghouses or health maintenance organizations (HMO). These are all common functions, especially within large county governments.
Are you in compliance?
If anything described above applies to your county or municipal organization, one or more divisions of your organization is a CE and is required to be in compliance with both the HIPAA Security Rule and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
In my experience, most county governments that have covered entities are out of compliance. Where does your organization stand?
I suspect what often happens is that executives look at something like information security policy requirements and say:
This has tech words in it. IT handles tech stuff. Therefore, I’ll turn it over to IT to handle.
What a huge mistake. An organizational policy dealing with the manner in which information is handled, regardless of whether or not HIPAA regulations apply, requires communication and coordination with legal, HR, IT, information security, risk management, archives, county clerks and other divisions within your organization. It’s not a tech issue; it’s a high-level, interdisciplinary executive function. It is an information governance (IG) issue, and it shouldn’t be handed off to your IT director or CIO to address unilaterally.
If you have covered entities in your organization and have limited or nonexistent enterprise security policies, I would recommend that you consider building your entire enterprise information security policy on the HIPAA Security Rule in order to raise the entire organization up to that level while also getting compliant with federal law.
Why? It is highly probable that your organization uses shared facilities, shared IT infrastructure and shared services. Multiple information security levels create a significant management challenge and are certain to cause chaos and confusion. Multiple security stances will lead to security gaps and ultimately to breaches. Keep it simple and operate at the highest standard using generally accepted, good practices.
Develop your policy with the HIPAA Security Rule
There are two major components to HIPAA, the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. For the purpose of this discussion, only the Security Rule matters, but we’ll definitely discuss privacy another day.
The original HIPAA Security Rule document, 45 CFR Parts 160, 162 and 164 Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule, is 49 pages of small print. However, the meat of the document is contained within the final six pages and includes a handy matrix on page 48 (8380 of the federal register).
These three major areas break down into at least 43 separate policy areas where your organization must build safeguards, including risk analysis, contingency planning, backup, passwords, HR sanctions and terminations, disaster recovery, encryption and many more.
Using the components in the matrix should enable you and your IG committee to quickly generate a suite of security policies and procedures that, when implemented and enforced, will vastly improve your current information security stance.
These are all policy areas that must be addressed as a matter of good practice whether or not you are a covered entity. This is why HIPAA is an excellent starting point for municipal governments that are infosec policy deficient.
Next Steps
1. Find out where your organization stands in terms of information security policies and procedures.
2. Find out whether or not you have covered entities in your organization. Must you comply with HIPAA? Are you compliant?
3. Meet with your IG committee to discuss your findings.
4. If you don’t have an IG committee — start one!
5. Download and review the HIPAA Security Rule. Use it to build your organization’s information security policies.
6. Use either the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) approach or the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) approach to maintain continuous improvement.
7. Begin building a culture of security in your organization.
We’ll continue the discussion next week, so check back then.
Weak or nonexistent cybersecurity programs represent a massive organizational risk to county and municipal government agencies in the United States. County and municipal executives are often unaware of these risks because they assume that their IT Director, CIO, or an external vendor is managing security and addressing the risks. It is rare that such an assumption is correct.
While the Ponemon Institute[i] found that “federal organizations have a stronger cybersecurity posture than state and local organizations,” the Brookings Institute[ii] concluded that “the vast majority of public agencies lack a clear cybersecurity plan.” Much of the available research is based on small samples and I believe that these studies may understate the scope of the problem. Based on my 23 years of working with public sector organizations, I can state with confidence that most lack any cybersecurity plans at all.
Your job as a municipal executive is to provide leadership and management in order to get the big picture right throughout your organization. What follows is advice on how to ensure that an appropriate cybersecurity program is established and functional in your organization. I recommend that you, the municipal executive, assume high-level responsibility for cybersecurity oversight. You don’t need to know the technical details, but you must know whether or not the appropriate frameworks, infrastructure, policies and procedures are in place and working correctly.
Definitions
The need for information security is as old as civilization and possibly as old as life on earth. Information Security (Infosec) was invented to protect the first secret – whenever and whatever that was. Infosec is not solely a human artifact — my Great Dane always felt the need to maintain security concerning the location of his favorite bones and dead woodchucks. Techniques, methods and models for protecting information haven’t changed all that much and the methods of cybersecurity are largely based on models for protecting physical information.
Information Security refers to the discipline and processes to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all your information regardless of form. Cybersecurity is a subset of information security and applies to digital data. In this article, I may use them interchangeably even though they are not, but counties and municipalities need an Infosec plan that includes cybersecurity.
“A lack of skilled personnel is a challenge at both federal and state and local organizations. ”[iii] One problem is that many public sector IT Directors and CIO’s don’t have the knowledge, training and background to plan and deliver acceptable, standard’s based comprehensive information security programs. They are often unaware of widely accepted standards, guidelines and frameworks that are readily available, so cybersecurity planning is often amateur and homebrewed. Moreover, HR and hiring managers often don’t understand the required skills[iv] and look for the wrong people.
The largest municipal agencies may employ a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) but the vast majority of public sector organizations do not have a dedicated information security executive and staff, nor should they necessarily require one.
IT staff members are rarely trained in or even familiar with relevant statutory compliance requirements. I have come to expect a deer in the headlights look from public sector CIO’s and IT staff when inquiring about security policies, privacy policies and other matters of security and compliance. Questions about HIPAA Security Rule compliance, for instance, are almost always met with “What’s that?”
A jumble of regulations
Municipal organizations may have dozens of departments, divisions, or lines of business with varying regulatory requirements from numerous federal and state agencies. Municipal governments do a lot. They may be involved in building bridges, managing traffic signals, providing water, waste, electric and sewer services, supervising elections and recording deeds while providing physical and mental health services and dental care.
A typical County government may have to comply with regulations like HIPAA[v] (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and 42 CFR[vi] while also complying with policies from CJIS[vii] (Criminal Justice Information Systems) in addition to compliance with state regulations from organizations such as an Office of Mental Health, or Department of Health. Additional requirements for records management from State Archives agencies add to those complexities and often contradict other regulatory requirements.
Counties and municipalities may have highly distributed management structures which function as silos rather than as a cohesive team. In some states, the silos may be a “feature” of constitutional government where elected officials manage some departments and may not be accountable to central executives. One result of this is that a county executive, and consequently County IT, may not have global control of IT and information security because other elected officials choose not to cooperate. Some real world examples I have seen include:
County Judges and their staff members refuse to sign and abide by acceptable use policies.
County Sheriffs refusing to cooperate with an IT security audit claiming their security policy and processes are “secret.”
Social Services commissioners unilaterally declaring that HIPAA regulations don’t apply to their operations.
Silos in organizations create massive gaps in security management. When multiple parties are responsible for security, no one is responsible.
What’s the first step in establishing your cybersecurity program? It has nothing to do with cybersecurity.
Information Security and cybersecurity must be components of your overarching Information Governance (IG) Program, overseen by an interdisciplinary team with executive support. Treating cybersecurity as a standalone program outside of the context of your organization’s information universe will produce a narrow approach. Do you currently have an IG program?
I can hear some grumbling right now. “Jeff, when do we get to the important stuff?”
IG is the important stuff. There are no silver bullets. There are no miracle pills that will address your information security requirements. No miraculous hardware or software will magically keep your information safe unless you have the right policies in place. There is some real work to do here and the P-things are the most effective tools to pack for your InfoSec journey. You will develop these from your IG Program:
I like Robert Smallwood’s succinct definition of Information Governance: “security, control and optimization of information.“[x] In order to develop sound InfoSec and cybersecurity programs, you must know what you are protecting and why you are protecting it. The purpose of the IG program is to map, understand and manage your entire information universe. The map you create will serve as the foundation for your information security programs.
In a municipal government organization, an IG committee may include legal, HR, records management, IT, finance, and auditors, as well as other departments. Let’s say your municipality has a public health clinic, recorder of deeds, personnel/payroll and a sheriff. This means you have medical records, prisoner health records, recorded 911 calls, police reports, mortgage documents, confidential personnel records, payroll records, social security numbers and a lot more. The people with special knowledge about the nature and disposition of all this information must be on your committee.
In some organizations, information and security policy is developed at the whim of the CIO or IT Director. Is that IT Director expert in statutory requirements and industry best practices for all the areas mentioned above? I doubt it. This is why you need a cross-functional team to map the universe and make a comprehensive plan.
Once you have a comprehensive understanding of your information universe, develop security policies and programs for implementation and enforcement of those policies.
Use an existing framework. Designing comprehensive information security programs is more complicated than installing firewalls and anti-virus software and there is a great deal to think about.
There are many freely available information security tools in addition to standards and frameworks that require payment or membership in an organization. You can build a successful security program using only free tools, but my crystal ball is on the fritz today so I can’t see which tool is best for your organization. I wish I could tell you there is a one-stop shop, but there isn’t. You will have to evaluate your situation, do the research and make informed decisions about the best approach for your organization. Following is a brief discussion of some of them.
If a division of your public sector organization provides clinical services, it might fit the definition of a covered entity (CE). If so, that division is required to comply with applicable federal regulations including the HIPAA Security Rule. The regulation provides a clear, jargon-free framework for developing information security policies and programs. While it won’t address all the requirements for a municipal cybersecurity program, it can help you build a solid foundation for your security programs. I don’t have any official data on HIPAA Security Rule compliance in municipal organizations, but my personal experience is that it is extremely low. Is your CE compliant? If not, why not bring your entire organization up to HIPAA standards?
I have worked extensively with HIPAA regulations and NIST products for nearly 2 decades and I like them a lot. If they are not a good fit for your organization, there are other resources, including the following three.
Establish an IG committee and program.
Discover and map your information universe.
Establish an information security framework and security policy.
Develop and implement your cybersecurity plan, based on the above.
Use a cycle of continuous improvement.
Four critical challenges to state and local government cybersecurity efforts. Government Technology. The need for greater focus on the cybersecurity challenges facing small and midsize businesses. Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, October 19, 2015. US Securities and Exchange Commission.
How state governments are addressing cybersecurity. Brookings Institution. Gregory Dawson and Kevin C. Desouza. March 2015.
World’s oldest hacking profession doesn’t rely on the internet. CNBC
Government Technology. July 17, 2015.
Human error is to blame for most breaches. Cybersecuritytrend.com.
Ponemon Institute. October 2015.
[ii] The vast majority of the government lacks clear cybersecurity plans. Brookings Institution. February 3, 2015. Kevin C. Desouza and Kena Fedorschak.
[iii] The state of cybersecurity in local, state and federal government. FCW.
If you found this information useful, or would like to discuss cybersecurity in your organization in more detail, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]. I would be glad to discuss your situation.
This article first appeared in cio.com at http://www.cio.com/article/3184618/government-use-of-it/county-and-municipal-cybersecurity-part-1.html
Lack of compliance with the HIPAA security standards is common in county and municipal government agencies even though many of these organizations have covered entities (CE) under their umbrellas. For some reason, almost everyone got the memo on required compliance with HIPAA privacy rules in 2003, but many organizations missed the subsequent memo on required compliance with security rules by April of 2005.
Nearly 14 years have passed since the security rule was published, and I have no explanation for the compliance lacuna that exists today. If you are an executive, manager or provide IT services for a CE, your security policy should be as well-worn as your kids’ Harry Potter books.
If someone (i.e. an auditor) asks about your compliance program, you should be able to succinctly summarize it and immediately provide documentation of your compliance activities. If this doesn’t describe your organization, you are not alone and there is no time like to present to begin the process.
Compliance isn’t a one-time, passive event and there are routine steps you must take ensure the CIA (confidentiality, integrity and availability) of your clients’ protected health information (PHI).
Maybe I’m just an old-fashioned Luddite, but I prefer to be treated by a doctor rather than a corporation. A private practitioner who has a personal relationship with me is much more likely to take steps to ensure my privacy. Once those records are on a corporate network, my chances of privacy are considerably diminished. If my records are accessible to a RHIO (regional health information organization), the probability that I have medical privacy is near zero.
The problem isn’t necessarily one of policy or procedure; it’s more human behavior. Clerks and bureaucrats at Giga Health Services or the RHIO don’t know me and aren’t likely to care if my records are released to someone who shouldn’t see them. Their pockets are too deep for me to sue, and chances are that I wouldn’t ever even know whether my information was inappropriately or illegally disclosed.
Opt-out programs are a privacy abomination
In the cases where I have refused to sign releases, I was at least presented with the option to opt in based on informed consent. Opt-out programs are far more insidious, and I know of at least one DSRIP (delivery system reform and incentive payment) program in New York that is using opt out as the basis for its privacy policy. The most vulnerable behavioral health clients, some of whom are paranoid or unable to understand the impenetrable legal jargon, will receive letters in the mail with an opt-out form to sign and return. If they don’t return the form, they have automatically agreed to the release of their medical information. Does that constitute informed consent? Will they understand it? Will they even open the letter?
Providers, CIOs, mental health directors, public health directors, and consumers should all be campaigning against the erosion of privacy that results from extensive sharing of health information. Instead, they are drinking the Kool-Aid and rolling over.
The Affordable Care Act has exacerbated the problem considerably, and I read all too much from healthcare IT industry pundits about the need for increased sharing of information and more “visibility.” This is all rationalized by dubious claims about saving lives and “improving outcomes.”
In county and municipal government, it is often the case that consumers getting public or mental health treatment may also be involved with other departments, including social services, law enforcement, the court system and probation.
“We’re all on the same team, we’re all county employees. Why not show us what’s in those records?” asks the sheriff. The correct response from health officials should be “Get a subpoena, prepare to show cause, and we’ll see you in court buddy!” Unfortunately, a common response is “Sure, let’s have a look. We’re all team players here.”
I know what you’re thinking. “Those people might be criminals! They wouldn’t do that with my records.” Yes they will. Even worse, you might be saying “I have nothing to hide. I don’t care who sees the information.” Not everyone would feel the same way, and many public figures have refused to release their medical records and even their academic records.
Once we begin to get cavalier about disclosure of PHI and other personal information, we are way past the slippery slope stage. We’re already rolling down the mountain in an avalanche. Redisclosure is governed by federal and state law and the problem isn’t restricted to local government entities. State and federal law enforcement and intelligence officials are likely to be granted access to PHI and all sorts of other personal information as well, without any of the legal protections that should be in place.
What’s the role of IT in protecting privacy?
CIOs should be playing a greater role in protecting privacy, but very few IT professionals have had any training on the subject. How many IT people do you know who are familiar with 42 CFR Part 2?
There are so many questions. What happens when IT directors receive subpoenas to provide protected information? Would they fight, or comply? Would they have any idea of how to respond? And what if your SaaS vendor gets the subpoena, circumventing professionals who will know how to respond? Is that addressed in your contract? Extensive training in privacy should be part of the tool set of every IT professional, but this is not currently the case.
So, next time you go to the hospital, read the release and privacy policy before you sign it. Let’s all opt out together!
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This isn’t about partisan politics or law. It is about good, common sense IT Governance. The ongoing revelations of the Clinton e-mail scandal demonstrate a total failure of IT Governance at the highest levels of the US Government. Not only is no IT Governance in evidence, the situation has displayed astonishing hubris, casual disregard for information security, and a massive sense of entitlement of all the parties involved. Common sense, good judgement and even a basic understanding of handling sensitive information seem to be completely absent. Where were all of the tens of thousands of security professionals employed by the federal government? Who was keeping an eye on the ball while all this was going on?
Having served for four years in Army intelligence, I can assure you that had this situation been perpetrated by minions and peons in the military, the culprits would already have been behind bars facing long sentences in military prison. Were similar revelations made about highly regulated corporations required to comply with regulations such as GLBA and SOX, we would have already seen dozens of executives and managers doing perp walks and making plea deals to stay out of prison.
We can’t easily fix what goes on in Washington, but you can take steps to ensure that your organization does not suffer this kind of embarrassment. I hope you are using this as a lesson and an opportunity to review your Acceptable Use, e-mail and information security policies and procedures. Make sure that all your policies, processes, and procedures comply with best practices, applicable regulations, and common sense. And make sure your staff receives annual training on these policies and procedures.
In general, large corporate entities tend to have strict policies because of the enormous quantity of regulatory compliance issues they face. However, many municipal and county organizations have elected or appointed officials who use personal e-mail addresses for conducting official business. There is absolutely no reason for this. E-mail is a dirt cheap commodity and a strict policy on e-mail is likely to prevent embarrassment, civil litigation, or criminal indictments down the road.
Here are some tips for e-mail usage and your policies:
Never, never send confidential information in an unencrypted e-mail. E-mail is not a secure method of transmission.
Never put anything in an unencrypted e-mail that you wouldn’t want the entire world to see. Even if it is encrypted, the recipient may decrypt it and accidentally (or purposely) forward it to EVERYONE. This happens all the time. Moreover, if your e-mail is FOIL’ed or subpoenaed you may find yourself in an embarrassing situation.
Everyone on your staff should be using business e-mail for business purposes, and personal e-mail for personal purposes. Don’t cooperate with bad actors by communicating about a business issue to a personal e-mail account.
Consider an e-mail archiving solution and have it configured to comply with all applicable regulations affecting your operation.
Consider whether or not a DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution would make sense for your organization.
If you require assistance determining appropriate e-mail and acceptable use policies, send me an e-mail at [email protected].
Who should be responsible for HIPAA Security Rule Compliance or Information Security Compliance in your organization? There is no easy answer to this question, but as the Executive responsible for the organization as a whole, compliance is ultimately your responsibility. At another level, Information Security is everyone’s responsibility. The law has been on the books for 20 years and compliance has been required for the last 11 years. I didn’t know is no longer an acceptable response. But, maybe you really didn’t know? You have a lot on your plate, but now is the time to fix it.
I will provide you with one possible high level look at how responsibilities might be distributed. First, someone in your organization should fill the role of an Information Security Officer. Depending on the size of your organization, this may only need to be a part time role. Nevertheless, you need a Go To person for problems, policies, issues, and questions about information Security. Because of conflicts of interest, this role should never be delegated (in my opinion) to a person on the Information Technology staff. Attorneys, or staff members with backgrounds in law enforcement, security, regulatory compliance or investigation are often good choices for this role.
Privacy Rule issues should probably be handled by individual departments based on their exposure, but there should be some organization-wide privacy policies as well. The HIPAA Security Rule covers physical security, technical and electronic security, and administrative security issues, so those roles will be filled by different, applicable departments or subject matter experts. For instance, compliance with the physical security components may be addressed by someone in your Facilities department, for instance.
As far as technical safeguards and full compliance with the Security Rule are concerned, that is a discussion for another article.
If you are larger than a Mom and Pop operation, you should have a Comprehensive Information Security Policy. If you are running a municipality or corporation with dozens or hundreds of employees, the lack of such a policy probably constitutes organizational malpractice or malfeasance at some level. Moreover, your policy shouldn’t be just a dusty book on the shelf – all your employees should have had training on and understand the policy.
You can wait for a catastrophic security event to wake your organization up, or you can take action now to prevent an embarrassing and costly revelation. For instance, if your organization is required to comply with HIPAA, the wake up call could come in the form of a multi-million dollar fine from HHS or civil litigation. Or you might end up paying ransom to buy back your data from data pirates. These risks are real and well documented.
Once your Information Security Committee is assembled, its time to get to work. The first step is going to be a Risk Assessment. Since you have already established your Information Security committee, begin the Risk Assessment process by cataloging and categorizing all your information resources. Information in this catalog may include paper files, network and computer files including backups, archival and historical records, microfilm, tax records, specifications, etc. There are payroll records, health insurance records, possibly protected medical information, HR information, meeting records, AR and AP records. All of these records may contain information protected by local, state or federal statute. There may be proprietary information related to manufacturing or other information such as videos, films, sound recordings that you may want or need to protect in some way. Use an interrogative process to identify, catalog, and categorize all this information. The output of this process should be a detailed document that clearly identifies all of these assets.
It may be appropriate to contract a qualified consultant for the Risk Assessment process. Why? Regardless of how intelligent and qualified the members of your staff are, they are probably immersed in your organizational culture. They may have biases and make assumptions because “we have always done it this way.” Outsiders may be able to see past the assumptions and biases that your staff members can’t
Once you have completed this process, you will almost certainly have found information that you didn’t even know you had. If you found sensitive information without any plan for protecting it, you might have trouble sleeping until your committee comes up with a plan.
Once you know what types of information for which you are responsible, ask yourself and the Subject Matter Experts on your committee what statutes apply. There are at least a handful of regulations that always apply, and there may be dozens of regulations dealing with information-specific data you have to consider. You probably also found information not protected by statute that needs to be addressed. Do your current policies cover all the information in your catalog? In a subsequent article, I will continue with the next steps for securing your information.
Thinking of your staff will not change overnight.
If you have a large catalog of unprotected, sensitive information, changing the thinking of your staff toward privacy and security may take a while – months or years. Also, this is a perfect time to do a Business Process Review of your information collection operations. Maybe your forms are decades old and no longer reflect current practices. For instance, do you really need to collect social security numbers from the public? If you are collecting this information, are you handing a Privacy Policy when you ask for information? Are the people providing information truly giving informed consent?
If you want to discuss Information Security in your organization, send me an e-mail at [email protected].
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Before you run out and purchase one of these systems, there are a few things you’ll need to layout.
Determine what you will use for people to identify themselves when entering. The options include stand-alone lock with key pad, proximity reader, and key pads.
Define how people will exit each area. Options include push-to-exit button, push bars, emergency releases and motion censors.
Choose your locking device. Options include electric strike locks, electric deadbolts, electrified locksets, and electromagnetic lock.
Research the software you’ll use. The system you implement should reduce complexity for your administrators, not add to it. Choose a software package that has an intuitive user interface and is easy to understand. Also a biggie, make sure it’s compatible with your organizations primary operating systems.
There may be a few steps to deciding on an electronic access system and implementing one, but if you’ve got concerns over how easily accessible your building is, contact us to see if an electronic access system is right for your Boston business.
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Security assessments, penetration testing, web server security, brand protection… to management, they can seem nothing more than just checkboxes at times.
They often come with steep price tags, and with ever-tightening budgets it can be difficult to convince your managers to invest in security tools.
To sweeten the deal and perhaps encourage management to take security seriously, there are trustworthy tools available free for your use.
High-Tech Bridge is a company that understands web security. As part of its ongoing commitment, it provides four free ImmuniWeb products that you can use to test mobile apps, SSL/TLS security, trademark monitoring, and web server scanning, amongst others.
Why are these worth testing? Let’s take a look at each in turn.
Mobile app security and privacy
Whether your organisation develops or uses mobile applications as part of your day-to-day operations, they can be the most vulnerable.
ImmuniWeb Mobile App Scanner references the OWASP Mobile Top 10 security guidelines to test mobile applications running on Android and iOS.
It’s easy to use: Type in the name of the app and choose it from the dropdown list or upload your mobile app’s APK/IPA into the system. In just a few minutes, you will receive a detailed audit report via email, not only with common weaknesses amid OWASP Mobile Top 10 but various best-practices and privacy findings. The report is available only to you and is deleted automatically after 90 days.
SSL/TLS security and compliance
SSL/TLS encryption is now a fundamental part of any website – in fact, Google is beginning to penalise any website that doesn’t use ‘https’ and is deemed not secure.
If you use SSL/TLS encryption, you want to make sure it’s up to standard. There are also a range of compliance guidelines you must follow: PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST to name just three.
ImmuniWeb SSLScan is able to test all of these, as well as SSL certificate expiration for enumerated subdomains, insecure third-party content, and test for email servers’ SPF, DKIM and DMARC implementation.
Intellectual property, trademark, and brand protection
Typosquatting is a common trick used by criminals to lead unsuspecting people astray. They do it by creating domain names that look similar to a genuine website name. When people type in an address, a simple typo could land them on a page that looks genuine enough, but is in fact fraudulent.
What’s more, cybercriminals could also be using your brand as part of a spoofing campaign – for example they will often clone genuine emails as part of malicious phishing attacks.
ImmuniWeb Trademark Monitor searches the web to find cybersquatted, typosquatted, and phishing attacks across the internet and social media that infringe your trademarks or spoof your brand.
Organisations and web users are starting to realise that there are major security risks when they use unsecure web applications and vulnerable website.
However, website owners and system administrators underestimate the importance of secure web configuration that can reduce attacks against websites – and users.
ImmuniWeb WebScan is a web server security test that can check for HTTP headers presence, validity and secure configuration, HTTP methods allowed by the web server, web server version and other software-related tests. It can even detect altered JS libraries.
Last, but not least the product also fingerprints the CMS and its competent to map against all known vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Find our right now how many insecure plugins your WordPress has.
All of these free tools are available High-Tech Bridge, a trusted vendor that can give you a quick view of your security status.
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Just five years ago, information security in the Asia Pacific region was simply another job function to most IT people.
Today it is an entire industry, with companies spending as much as 10 percent of their annual IT budgets on security.
Previously, information security was mostly related to physical security, application change control and systems administration. These functions were usually carried out by a small group of data processing practitioners - security was not a full-time discipline. Security was not specifically mentioned in their job descriptions, and often they had other job duties such as system and technical support.
The process of change was painful and slow, but it has finally arrived. Today, almost every large company has a dedicated professional (or position to fill) for handling information security issues. Even for medium-sized enterprises, IT managers are given the authority to contract with outside security consultants to address their organization's information security requirements.
Contributing to this growing awareness of information security concerns in Asia Pacific is a corresponding incidence of cybercrime. In Hong Kong, for example, the number of cybercrimes, including hacker attacks, criminal damage, online shopping fraud and online bank theft, etc., accounted for 317 cases in 1999 and 368 cases in 2000, resulting in millions of dollars of losses. Although the actual number dropped by almost one-third in 2001, the number of online banking and shopping fraud cases increased. This sounded alarms for many individuals and organizations. Not only did many companies and government organizations increase their head count for information security personnel, but they also increased the budgets for security-related projects.
With security positions and job functions growing, the growing ranks of infosec professionals have become a significant part of the general IT work force. From statistics collected in Asian countries, the number of certified information systems security professionals (CISSPs), for instance, has grown from 65 in 2000 to 661 by the end of 2001. Of the 661 total number, 287 were in Hong Kong, the largest number of CISSPs of any city outside the United States. Korea has the second-largest number of CISSPs with 193, and Singapore has 61. The Asia Pacific region experienced the greatest growth of infosec professionals and practitioners in the world last year, with Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore leading the region.
The Changing Security Landscape
Despite the fact that larger Asian organizations have fully understood the security problem, many mid-sized firms continue to hire security officers to simply buy security tools and install them. It is a problem that most of these companies have implemented some security solutions, but very few of them know what they are doing or if their defenses are effective.
In these businesses, the decision-making process for implementing security is often based upon minimally reducing the risk involved. For example, management generally believes a firewall is installed for protecting intruders from the Internet, and systems scanners are used when there is a need to satisfy a corporate audit on its computer systems. However, what's not clearly understood is that these safeguards become obsolete as soon as a firm's business changes direction and incorporates new applications.
Trained information security professionals realize that this fragmented, symptomatic relief approach to problem solving does not work. Solutions based on this approach are not only short-lived, but they usually only address the security requirements of a just a few groups within the company. Security solutions should be designed to support the company to reach its business objectives. Security solutions that only address specific threats will cost an organization more in the long run.
Infosec professionals in Asia are constantly educating these businesses that a comprehensive security policy should be developed to give guidance for management and general staff to implement the level of security the organization needs. Specific security technologies such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection systems, content inspection, etc., and other automated tools can then be implemented to achieve the goals and objectives of corporate security policy and mission statements. Only with such an approach can an organization's business objectives and security requirements be synchronized.
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With the counsel of information security professionals, executives of many large private and public enterprises in Asia have recognized these values. That is why the demand for professional certifications surged nearly 1,000 percent between 2000 and 2001.
These employers see the importance of a professional certification in information security to not only qualify an individual for his/her experience and knowledge in infosec, but also be reassured of the high ethical standards of the infosec candidate.
The next group to educate in Asia regarding certification are smaller, medium-sized firms. They must learn that a certified individual such as a CISSP can help top management understand the needs and visualize the benefits of information security. That individual should help the company achieve the business objectives of the organization using appropriate security tools. These certified individuals are not expected to implement every single solution that they select or recommend themselves. They should have sound knowledge to select the right tools and solutions and be able to manage qualified individuals to implement solutions.
The Asia-Pacific market is still at the early development phase, despite the fact that it is experiencing the fastest growth rate in the world. In light of this, (ISC)² opened an Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong in January 2002. The new office will be responsible for working with partners to host training and examination events throughout the Asia-Pacific region. A training and exam schedule is currently being developed by the Hong Kong office. (ISC)² plans to more than double the number of CISSPs in Asia by the end of 2002.
Chester Soong, CISSP, is director of certification services for the Asia Pacific region (ISC)² (www.isc2.org).
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Over the past few years we have brought on board many a company that has started out on the path of rolling their own logging solution. Very often companies start down this path…largely because they can (there’s a bunch of open source technologies)…and it’s free, so you can get started with zero down.
But as we all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and rolling your own solution contains a number of hidden costs, such as some beefy servers for when your log volumes grow, your VALUABLE time wiring together the initial solution and, most costly of all, maintaining and managing your solution as it begins to span a set of clustered servers. In some cases this works well for organizations, and they manage all their logs in-house with their custom built solution, often combining a number of open source components.
However, one trend we continue to see is that as companies grow, their logs grow, and so do their in-house custom solutions along with all their complexities. As these systems become more complex, more time is required by the engineers who built them in order to maintain and manage these. The more hassle these systems become, the more likely organizations are to jump off the “roll your own” complexity elevator.
We’ve also noticed a trend in the types of systems that get developed in house over time. They generally start off fairly simplistic and can grow into much more sophisticated solutions. Below we outline the different “role your own logging” stages we have come to see over the past few years:
Stage 1 – The insurance policy
The most basic logging solution is generally used as an insurance policy, “just in case” you need access to your logs at some point in the future. This usually involves a combination of Syslog and Logrotate to manage logs on each individual server and a mechanism to archive the logs periodically (e.g. daily). The most common approach we see is where companies simply use S3 for such archiving and which does the job nicely.
This solution is pretty basic as it doesn’t really give you a good way to interrogate your logs if you need to and simply acts as a mechanism for storing logs in case of an emergency. That being said, this is often the first step people take as they enter the roll your own logging complexity elevator.
Stage 2 – Searching for the needle
Once logs are being kept around the question often arises – “hey, can we search across this data?” – usually in the face of some operational outage or customer support query. The log archiving solution above doesn’t really help here as it doesn’t provide any simple way to search your logs.
Enter Logstash. Logstash is an open source tool that indexes log data and allows you to search across it, so it’s often the first place people turn to start digging into their logs given there’s no requirement for money down up front. The main issue we hear from users of open source solutions is that, as log volumes increase, so does the amount of time spent having to manage it, in particular if your back-end requires clustering. Note you’ll also have to host Logstash (e.g. on some AWS instances) and this cost will grow over time also.
Stage 3 – Show me the Metrics
Logs are addictive! Once you start digging into them you’ll find more and more valuable info that you can use for a range of different use cases. IMHO the real power of logs is when you can begin to use your logs as data! At Logentries, we regularly see relatively small systems that produce in the order of 10’s or 100’s of log events per day. These events can contain vital pieces of data for understanding your systems (e.g. response time, memory usage, cpu usage). Where logs become really powerful is when you can identify important field values in your data, and then role up these values into a metrics dashboards to visualize and understand key trends. You can thus use your logs to dynamically build reports that give you different views into your system for a range of different use cases (e.g. performance monitoring, product usage, web analytics, etc…).
Using ‘logs as data’ is becoming more and more common and when rolling your own solution this can again be achieved with something like Logstash by combining it with Statsd and Graphite. Again this does not require any hard cash investment, but you will spend time managing and configuring this, which can become more challenging in particular as your data volumes grow.
Stage 4 – The deep dive
The final type of the roll your own logging solution we see is where companies also write their log data to something like HDFS – whereby they are running more complex queries against their data (e.g. to identify correlations or associations between error events that lead to serious issues, or to build reports such as funnel or cohort reports for web analytics).
This type of analysis can be super powerful and is really only limited by the quality of your data (i.e. what data you decide to include in your log events) and the intelligence of your data scientist 🙂 However at this stage you really require deep expert skills and someone who can play the data scientist role at your organization. So again, while your solution might not require a cash investment upfront, you are going to require the some serious tech skills and someone with the time to invest in building out your Hadoop cluster and queries.
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Novak Djokovic has opened up about the ‘vulnerability’ that has made his Wimbledon triumph all the more meaningful to him.
Djokovic endured a tough couple of years as his form gradually declined amid complaints of an elbow injury, before he finally succumbed to the injury and took time away from the tour to correct it.
This year, the Serb initially struggled upon his return before starting to show some signs he was returning to his best at the end of the clay court season, a point punctuated by a strong showing at Roland Garros.
This month, though, Djokovic underlined his return to the top by beating world number one Rafael Nadal en-route to winning Wimbledon and restoring hmself the top ten in the rankings.
In an open letter on his website, Djokovic addressed his fans on his struggle, saying: “In 2017, the injury of my right elbow was so severe that I was forced to be out from the Tour for 6 months,” the letter read.
“Injury was one of the issues, the other big one was any motivation. I didn’t have problems to practice and to enjoy the tennis court but I had mental hurdles when I had to compete.
“I have always respected people that share their most vulnerable moments as their turning points in finding true strength that inspires so many people.
“I was vulnerable so many times in the last few years. And I am still vulnerable. I am not ashamed of it. In contrary, it makes me more true to myself and others.
“For the last 2 years, I wasn’t patient with my tennis expectations. I wasn’t wise in strategising. And I certainly wasn’t clearly hearing my body telling me that there is something serious happening with my elbow.
“I was trying to find solutions somewhere else and solution was always inside of me.
“After many changes made with training, racket, team members, I didn’t know if I would be able to get back on the desired level of tennis.
“Fortunately, I had help from all the divine forces that guided me to the right direction. Direction that is good for me. The one that will bring me peace and balance.
“I am aware of the efforts and dedication that many people have invested in me in the last few years in order for me to get back to the level of tennis that gets me a Grand Slam title.
“I would like to extend my greatest appreciation, respect and Love to all of the people that have believed in me and helped me to get to win another Wimbledon trophy.”
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Data-Driven test automation is only as good as the test data that feeds it. Rigorous testing requires a varied and realistic set of data, containing every combination of positive and negative values that needs to be tested. However, many of these vast combinations are missing in the copies of production data that are often provisioned slowly to testers. This repetitious, unwieldy data instead focuses almost exclusively on expected results, and cannot detect the majority of costly bugs first time round.
Test data also compromises testing speed, in addition to quality. A lack of automated test data allocation and re-usability forces testers to hunt repeatedly for the exact data combinations they need among the large production copies. They must create any missing values and combinations manually, inadvertently creating invalid data combinations. Automated tests then fail when there are no defects in the code, and bad data destabilizes automation frameworks. Competition for a limited number of data copies also creates delays among testers, while one automated test often consumes the data needed by another test.
Test Modeller automatically registers parameterised Micro Focus UFT scripts and corresponding data tables, enabling automated generation for existing frameworks.
Automated test generation algorithms generate a set of test data that “covers” every data combination needed for rapid and rigorous UFT testing.
A test data catalogue embeds re-usable TDM processes at the model level, finding and making up-to-date test data automatically as tests are generated.
The test data catalogue means that a TDM process only needs to be configured once, enabling testers to parameterise and re-use it in parallel from a simple form.
Automated data look-ups hunt for data for tests as they are generated, going directly into databases, or via APIs and front-end applications.
A full range of test data utilities prepares data automatically as a standard step in automated test execution, finding, subsetting and cloning data in batch.
Synthetic test data generation automatically creates any new data required, rapidly producing a set of data driven tests that hit every positive and negative combination.
“Just in time” test data preparation ensures that data is up-to-date and valid for each test, avoiding the delays created by automated test failures.
Assigning unique values to each and every test avoids the bottlenecks created when one test consumes data needed by another test.
Test data is validated and updated each time tests are generated and run, making sure that each test has valid and up-to-date data associated with it.
Multiple coverage profiles target testing on high-risk or critical data combinations, reducing the number of UFT tests without undermining testing quality.
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https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/resources/data-driven-micro-focus-uft/
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Chait has some fun with Krauthammer, who somberly observed last week that "If [one] goal of the Paris massacre was to frighten France out of the air campaign in Syria … they picked the wrong country," for "France is a serious post-colonial power." So where's the fun in this? When the craven frogs refused to abet W.'s Iraq fantasy 12 years ago, Krauthammer just as somberly noted that France only "pretends to great-power status." We were better off, averred Krauthammer, without them: "Why in God's name would we want to re-empower the French in deciding the post-war settlement?"
Lucky for Charles Krauthammer, amused assaults such as Jonathan Chait's will never touch him. They will do him no harm whatsoever, nor will they injure those who hang breathlessly on Krauthammer's every word. He is invulnerable to attack and thus insufferably ineducable — again, as are his auditors.
This point — that of the right's total "epistemic closure" — was driven home to me yesterday in several dissociative moments of utmost folly. I almost always know better. But for reasons unknown, Sunday I twice tweeted Breibart's John Nolte to let him know that his latest policing of "Big Journalism" (how the latter, said Nolte, had maliciously distorted Trump's views on Muslim databases) was in laughable error. I provided an informative link. Twice, I heard nothing back.
In desperation, I then did something I had never done before. I remarked (complete with said, informative link) that Nolte's piece was "false."
Almost instantly a Breitbart reader responded: "Ahh, How is this false. I have listened to and read the whole interview many times and sorry but I am not seeing what your talking about." I had already provided the evidence, which the reader didn't bother reading. So in my response I spelled it out. In return, I got this: "Well, the problem I see and many out there is ... Now that is bad on Trump..if your a candidate you need to be sharp and on the ball [ellipses original]" — "This reporter capitalized on the situation and you can hear him get more and more excited while he is proposing these ideas to Trump and Trump seems to be taking his bait."
It never occurred to this Breitbart reader/commenter that the point of my post wasn't really about Donald Trump and Muslim databases at all. It was about John Nolte, Breitbart's resident vigilante of wicked "Big Journalism," having distorted a story about Donald Trump and Muslim databases — and duping his readers, which is what these readers claim to detest most about the lamestream mainstream liberal media.
I'd like to believe that were I a conservative, I'd resent such treatment from the "conservative" press. The Breitbart reader? He neither noticed nor cared, and his first and second responses to my first and second comments caused to me realize the utter futility of a third. So I let the matter drop.
It's invulnerable.
Because the Washington Post's geopolitical strategist and Fox News commentator lives — as do his followers — completely walled off from scrutiny. In Breitbart's comment section, I commented. Trump was busy and not paying good attention to what this reporter was asking him. One simply cannot penetrate the right's exoskeletal obliviousness — from top to bottom, and bottom to top. It's invulnerable.
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https://www.pmcarpenter.com/2015/11/the-invulnerability-of-the-rights-knowing-what-it-knows.html
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Q: Hello, friend. You don’t know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. There is only one combination of numbers that gives you the answer. Know what to do. You better hurry up. Make your choice.
This is a challenge I made last year for Disobey and Nixu Challenge. The idea is to make a script that solves the puzzle.
Q: There’s Linux/Tsunami DOS related traffic in the access.log. What is the corresponding IP address of potentially infected host?
Google: “Linux/Tsunami DOS” and find out User-Agent x00_-gawa.sa.pilipinas.2015.
~$ grep "x00_-gawa.sa.pilipinas.2015" access.log
Q: IP address 61.160.247.11 has the most entiries in the access.log. How many?
~$ grep "61.160.247.11" access.log|wc -l
~$ host somethingspecial.helsec.fi has address 127.0.0.1
for plugin in pstree pslist psscan psxview dlllist getsids handles netscan filescan malfind svcscan cmdscan consoles; do vol.py -f finalboss.mem --profile=Win10x64_17763 $plugin |tee $plugin.txt; done
This will run some basic plugins and write text files out of them for further analysis. There are some wrappers that do this more efficiently (f.e. multithreading & dump artifacts) but this is good start. =)
Q: What is the process ID (PID) of the process, which started the malicious execution (e.q. opened the carrier file (the macro document)?
This question is basically reversed version of the Malicious document question. Let’s grep the name from handles and get the same output. =)
This one is more tricky. The Word is not parent process of this process as the macros execute.
We can see PowerShell process executed by WMI. This kind of behaviour should be investigated more closely and could be the one! However, we can’t verify it without investigating the macros:
... 0xffff980f7292f240: WmiPrvSE.exe 3416 840 100 2020-02-12 20:52:49 UTC+0000 audit: \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe
Set objStartup = objWMIService.Get("Win32_ProcessStartup")
Set objConfig = objStartup. SpawnInstance_ objConfig. ShowWindow = HIDDEN_WINDOW
Q: Some suspicious powershell was executed. What was the executed command (starting with powershell -flag1 -flag2 etc…)
We already extracted the PowerShell from the file with oletools. To convert it to form required by the question, we can just calculate it by pasting it to file and adding print(yQf) at the end and running it with python:
$Ref = [Ref].ASsemBlY.GetTYPe('System. Management. Automation. Amsi' + 'Utils'); $Ref.GEtFieLD('amsiInitF' + 'ailed', 'NonPublic,Static').SetVaLUE($NuLL, $tRUE);
~$ strings -a finalboss.mem > Q: strings_ascii.txt ~$ grep "Host: 172.16.194.129" -B3 -A1 strings_ascii.txt
Q: One of the processes was injected. What is the process id (PID) of that process?
In this case, there was no clear file signatures available in the malfind output.
00002350 c3 ff 48 8b f8 8d 75 01 b8 4d 5a 00 66 |....H...u..MZ..f| 00003b50 cc 48 83 ec 18 4c 8b c1 b8 4d 5a 00 66 |...H...L...MZ..f| 000144c0 8b c1 b9 4d 5a 00 66 39 08 74 03 33 c0 c3 48 |...MZ..f9.t.3..H|
The file header seems to be there but in odd location.
The svchost.exe also has “This program can not be run in DOS mode.” basic header that is in every PE format executable.
~$ strings -e l finalboss.mem > Q: strings_utf.txt ~$ grep -i "sekurlsa" strings_utf.txt
Maybe we should get better wordlist? Let’s try this one: https://github.com/jvesiluoma/wordlists/blob/master/fin-swe-passwdlist.7z ~$ wget https://github.com/jvesiluoma/wordlists/raw/master/fin-swe-passwdlist.7z
No bonus. This list was supposed to have the password. However, it might be in cleartext in memory so let’s make password list from memory:
$ cat strings_endian.txt|sort -u > Q: from_memory.txt $ sudo john --format=NT --wordlist=from_memory.txt hash.txt
Scanning target.helsec.fi (167.71.0.121) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 167.71.0.121
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 167.71.0.121
Discovered open port 31337/tcp on 167.71.0.121
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 53.39 seconds
Raw packets sent: 2040 (89.580KB) | Rcvd: 1050 (42.037KB)
Q: What abnormal UDP port is open on target.helsec.fi?
I’ve no idea what I’ve been thinking when I created the challenge. The listener I coded does not response anything which means there’s no way to solve this challenge out. =)
Okay. We found personals and web-console directories, let’s continue:
~$ ffuf -u http://target.helsec.fi/web-console/FUZZ -w /usr/share/wordlists/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt
.git/ [Status: 200, Size: 23, Words: 2, Lines: 2] index.html [Status: 200, Size: 49, Words: 1, Lines: 2]
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https://blog.dfir.fi/posts/2020/07/0x06-cyber-security-essentials-ctf/
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have uncovered a protein that is key to the development of blood cancers caused by a common genetic error.
The discovery is a missing piece in the puzzle of understanding how high levels of a protein called MYC drive cancer development, and may to lead to future strategies for early treatment or possibly even prevention of these cancers.
Seventy per cent of human cancers have abnormally high levels of MYC, which forces cells into unusually rapid growth.
Dr Stephanie Grabow, Dr Brandon Aubrey, Professor Andreas Strasser and colleagues at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute discovered that blood cancers driven by MYC could be prevented by lowering the levels of another protein, called MCL-1.The research was published today in the journal Cell Reports.
Dr Grabow said the developing cancer cells were dependent on MCL-1, a protein that keeps stressed cells alive by preventing programmed cell death (apoptosis). "No one had realised just how vulnerable cells undergoing cancerous changes are to a relatively minor reduction in the levels of MCL-1," she said. "We found that MCL-1 is critical for keeping developing cancer cells alive through the stressful events that cause the transformation of a healthy cell into a cancerous cell.
"This result is particularly exciting because MCL-1 inhibitors are already in development as anti-cancer drugs," Dr Grabow said. "Our colleagues had previously discovered that reducing the activity of MCL-1 is a promising strategy to treat malignant MYC-driven cancers. We have now shown that the same approach might be able to prevent those cancers from forming in the first place."
Dr Aubrey, who is also a clinical haematologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, said the research could inform future strategies to prevent cancer.
"Early treatment or even cancer prevention are likely to be a more effective way to fight cancer than treating an established cancer after it has already formed and made a person sick," he said.
"Cancer researchers are building a better picture of who is at risk of developing cancer, and enhancing how we can detect early stage cancer in people before it has grown to the point of causing illness. Our research has suggested that dependency on MCL-1 could be a key vulnerability of many developing cancers. In the future MCL-1 inhibitors might have potential benefit for treating the very early stages of MYC-driven cancers, or we may even be able use these agents to prevent people from getting cancer in the first place," Dr Aubrey said.
Credit: UT Arlington Distributing information through quantum communication is an extremely secure method because…
Madrid is the autonomous community that spends the most on the Spanish…
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https://scienmag.com/new-vulnerability-revealed-in-blood-cancer-development/
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This session will cover a practical 5 stage model that had been implemented by the Australian Federal parliament and can be adopted to build cyber resiliency in any organisation.
Current threat environment faced by the Australian Parliament will be highlighted.
Stepping through an adaptable model adopted by the parliament to deliver prediction, protection, detection, response and measurement capabilities in it cyber practices.
Senior executives who are rarely involved with cyber security often find the space technical and complex. Without support, the success of implementing a cyber security solution or strategy can be difficult. This roundtable will focus on:
How to prioritise cyber security issues and accentuate necessity when risks require immediate attention.
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I heard encryption based purely on XOR and Rotation is inherently weak. The paper Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX says:
It is also easy to prove that omitting addition or rotation is devastating, and such systems (XR and AX) can always be broken.
But I am not able to find any information on how to actually do it. Can anyone give a hint?
(Update:) @CodesInChaos pointed out: "You can describe each output bit as the XOR of a fixed set of input/key bits. This results in a few hundred linear equations modulo $2$, which can be solved efficiently." For simple XR cipher, I understand how it works. But there are issues for me for more complex ones. Illustrated as follows:
Suppose a toy XOR/Rotation based cipher (cipher 1) which encrypts a 4 bit plaintext $P$ to a 4 bit ciphertext $C$ with a 4 bit key $K$. The encryption process is as follows (with example $p = 1001$, $k= 1000$, and $c = 1110$, all additions are modulo $2$ additions):
$E_1$. Right rotate $P$ by 2 bits, producing $M$ ($1001 \rightarrow 0110$),
So far so good. But what if the rotation bits in the above step $E_2$ is not a constant 2, but changes with the input plaintext? For example, let's modify the above cipher a little bit to this (cipher 2):
$E_1$. Right rotate $P$ by $n$ bits, producing $M$. In which $n$ = the upper 2 bits of $P$ ($1001 \rightarrow 0110$),
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$\begingroup$ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_cipher This is a brief example about how one could use XOR for encrypting. But this is usually done within something more complex. $\endgroup$ – Brandon Jan 17 '13 at 15:32
XOR operations, fixed bit movements (as in taking the 2 topmost bits or concatenating bits etc.) and data dependent rotations form a functional complete set of operations. This means that you can realize any function between fixed length binary strings, including all possible blockciphers, using them.
To show that these operations form a functional complete set one can show that all operations of another functional complete set can be realized. For example the set {NOT, AND}:
Realizing a NOT operation is easy, since this is only a XOR operation with a 1 constant.
Realizing an AND operation requires the data dependent rotations. Given the inputs $a$ and $b$ construct the value $v = RotLeft_{a}(0b)$. The leftmost bit of $v$ is now the result of the AND operation of $a$ and $b$. This can be verified by looking at the possible input values: If $a$ is zero the rotation is does nothing and the leftmost bit stays zero. If $a$ is one the rotation will move the value of $b$ to the leftmost bit and the result is one exactly if $b$ is also one.
This would turn any algorithm that could break any cipher based on these operations efficiently into an algorithm that breaks any arbitrary cipher efficiently, unlikely to exist and certainly not known.
Nevertheless I would not assume that most or even many of the ciphers constructed from these primitives are secure. For example: if there are only few data dependent rotations and it is feasible to enumerate all possible rotation count combinations, the system can be broken by just trying to solve the resulting linear system for each combination.
$\begingroup$ Thanks @jix. Your answer makes sense to me. I revisited the ARX paper and think the weak XOR/Rotation systems the author mentions should probably be non-data-dependent. $\endgroup$ – Penghe Geng Feb 10 '13 at 16:30 $\begingroup$ Hi @jix, can we use rotational cryptanalysis on ciphers with modulo multiplication operations? (e.g. Multiplication modulo $2^{16}+1$, where the all-zero word (0x0000) is interpreted as $2^{16}$ (denoted by a circled dot ⊙) $\endgroup$ – freak_warrior Dec 9 '14 at 4:35
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https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6045/how-to-break-an-arbitrary-xor-and-rotation-based-encryption
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If you were hoping that John Oliver would do a deep dive on the iPhone encryption debate: good news. Today’s the day.
The main topic of this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight was encryption, particularly as it relates to the FBI’s demands to be let into an encrypted iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooters.
Oliver starts with an oh-so-brief recap of why encryption is important in the first place, then uses historical examples to explain why the idea of forcing Apple to intentionally introduce a backdoor is such a risky one. I won’t say too much lest I spoil it, but it’s definitely worth a watch whether you’ve been following the topic or not.
Come for the refreshingly insightful rant, stay for the never-not-going-to-be-funny auto-correct jokes.
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https://preprod.techcrunch.com/2016/03/14/john-oliver-dives-into-the-iphone-fbi-encryption-debate/
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In the previous article, Playbooks & Watchlists Part 1: Inform the subscription owner I have presented one scenario of using Watchlists in Playbooks. I also presented some best practices: how to query a watchlist using Azure Monitor Logs connector, and also how to use the output data.
In this blogpost I'll present another interesting use case and some new ways to work with the Watchlists data.
Allow-listing is a strategy for allowing certain identities or sources to access sensitive resources or to exclude them from security protections. An example for such scenario can be a set of IP addresses which might trigger new alerts, but known to the SOC as coming from approved sources. In a case where a new alert consists only approved IPs as its entities, we might want to save the analysts time and auto close the incident.
Of course, more steps and actions can be taken and added to this playbook for other steps taken in this case by the SOC. Also, the same practice can be adopted for Deny-list scenarios.
An Azure Sentinel Watchlist lists all approved IP addresses.
Watchlist-CloseIncidentKnownIPs Playbook is attached to an analytic rule that attaches IPs to the outcome alerts.
Everytime a new alert of this analytic rule is created, the playbook is triggered, receiving the alert with the contained alerts as an input.
For each IP entity in this alert, the playbook queries the Watchlist includes it.
In case the IP is in the Watchlist, it will be added to "Safe IPs" array.
Else, it will be added to "Not Safe IPs" array.
A informative HTML comment will be written to the incident that contains this alert, to inform about the IPs in each category.
If all IPs were found safe, the incident will be closed with Benign Positive classification reason.
In this step I check the length of the response array from the query, using the Logic apps expression length(collection). If it is greater then 0, we have found the IP in the watchlist.
Therefor, we will add this IP to the Safe array; otherwise, to the not safe.
In this use case I have created a simple table, where each row represents an ip address.
I created the table using Office 365 Excel, and then saved it as a CSV file (save as).
Check the terms and conditions and click purchase.
The ARM template, contains the Logic App workflow (playbook) and API connections is now deploying to Azure. When finished, you will be taken to the Azure ARM Template summary page.
Click on the Logic Apps name. you will be taken to the Logic Apps resource of this playbook.
Confirm API connections
On the left menu, click on API connections.
For each product being used in this playbook, click on the connection name - in our case, it is only the Azure Sentinel connection.
Click on Authorize to log in with your user, and don't forget to save.
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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/playbooks-amp-watchlists-part-2-automate-incident-response-for/ba-p/1771676
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https://grahamcluley.com/sophos-security-threat-report-2011-social-networking/
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Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, has revealed the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for businesses around the world.
The report, which examines virus and hoax reports in the month of June 2004, shows the Hungarian Zafi worm dominating the virus chart, accounting for almost a third of all viruses spotted by Sophos’s global network of monitoring stations.
“The Zafi-B worm, which calls for changes to Hungarian legislation, such as the introduction of the death penalty to reduce crime, uses sophisticated social engineering tricks to dupe innocent recipients into opening the attachment and launching the virus,” said Carole Theriault, security consultant, Sophos. “First seen on 11 June, Zafi-B, which spreads itself by peer-to-peer file-sharing systems and email, using a wide variety of different languages, is proving to be a real pest.”
Sophos analysed and protected against 677 new viruses in June. The total number of viruses Sophos now protects against is 91,488. Sophos figures have shown that over 7% of emails circulating during the month of June have been viral.
“Perhaps due to extensive media coverage, Sasser has dropped from the top spot as the most prevalent virus, suggesting that computer users are wising up and ensuring that their computers are patched against security vulnerabilities,” continued Theriault. “Indeed, an interview with the suspected author of the Sasser and Netsky worms was published in Germany this month, further publicising the worms.”
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2004/07/01/top-ten-viruses-and-hoaxes-reported-to-sophos-in-june-2004/
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American industrial giant Honeywell this week announced a new cybersecurity monitoring and incident response service for industrial organizations.
The new service, named Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response (AMIR), is part of Honeywell’s Forge managed security services offering. It’s designed to help security teams detect and respond to attacks targeting industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks.
Honeywell says AMIR is designed to continuously monitor OT environments for suspicious events. It collects and analyzes data from multiple sources, and alerts operators when a potential threat has been detected.
“Honeywell’s Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response solution provides a combination of advanced cybersecurity software, experts, and playbooks with remediation guidance in order to better detect, prevent, analyze, evaluate and coordinate the response to cybersecurity threats occurring within OT environments,” said Jeff Zindel, VP and GM at Honeywell Connected Enterprise Cybersecurity.
Zindel added, “Staffed by cybersecurity experts with specific OT experience, AMIR offers a tremendous resource to complement any existing IT/OT cybersecurity program and help ease the burden of cybersecurity challenges.”
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https://rootdaemon.com/2021/06/10/honeywell-launches-ot-cybersecurity-monitoring-and-response-service/
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On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed three new cybersecurity rulemakings that, if adopted, would affect a wide range of market participants, including SEC-registered broker-dealers.
The first of the proposed rulemakings centers around a new proposed rule under the Exchange Act (“Proposed Rule 10”) which would impose new cybersecurity-related requirements on a wide range of market participants, including among others, broker-dealers, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (the “MSRB”), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), clearing agencies, national securities exchanges, and transfer agents.
The second of the proposed rulemakings is a series of amendments to Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) (“Reg SCI”), which applies to most self-regulatory organizations, ATSs meeting certain volume thresholds in NMS stocks and non-NMS stocks, plan processors, certain competing disseminators of consolidated market data, and certain exempt clearing agencies. The proposed amendment (“Proposed SCI Amendment”) (collectively with Proposed Rule 10, the “Proposals”) would expand the applicability of Reg SCI to include registered security-based swap data repositories (“SBSDRs”), certain “SCI broker-dealers” meeting either total asset thresholds or transaction activity thresholds in certain types of securities, and additional exempted clearing agencies. also amend several specific requirements under Reg SCI, including imposing additional requirements related to systems classification, third-party/vendor management, cybersecurity, and other provisions.
The third proposed rulemaking involves amendments to the rules under the Exchange Act, the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “40 Act”), and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”), which require that certain institutions safeguard customer information and properly dispose of consumer report information. The proposed amendments (“Proposed S-P Amendment”) would broaden the existing safeguard and disposal rules and further require the adoption of an “incident response program.” We discuss the Proposed S-P Amendment further in a separate alert memorandum.
Key Takeaways from the Proposals
All Registered Broker-Dealers Would Be Required to Establish, Maintain, and Enforce Written Policies and Procedures Reasonably Designed to Address Their Cybersecurity Risks. obligate all broker-dealers to have written policies and procedures to address their cybersecurity risks and, at least annually, review and assess the design and effectiveness of those policies and procedures. The scope of “cybersecurity risks” is broad and encompasses financial, operational, legal, reputational and other adverse consequences that could stem from cybersecurity incidents, cybersecurity threats, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities (all defined terms in Proposed Rule 10).
SEC Notifications Required for Significant Cybersecurity Incidents in Real Time. require all Market Entities (a term that includes all registered broker-dealers) to notify the SEC “immediately” if they have a reasonable basis to conclude that has occurred or is occurring. Covered Entities (a term—described below—that includes only certain broker-dealers) would also be required to file Part I of the Proposed Form SCIR to the SEC within 48 hours of establishing such reasonable basis, and continue filing amended Part I filings throughout the event. These Part I filings would not be made public.
Public Disclosures About Significant Cybersecurity Incidents Also Required. require all Covered Entities to file Part II of the Proposed Form SCIR which requires, among other things, a summary description of each significant cybersecurity incident the entity experienced during the current or previous calendar year. Part II of the form updated “promptly” as events unfold with significant cybersecurity incidents. Part II would be disclosed publicly on EDGAR and be displayed on Covered Entities’ business websites.
Reg SCI’s Requirements Would Cover More Market Participants and Would Be Expanded Significantly. expand the scope of market participants subject to the requirements of Reg SCI, including registered SBSDRs, certain “SCI broker‑dealers” meeting either total asset thresholds or transaction activity thresholds in certain types of securities, and additional exempted clearing agencies. SCI entities enhance their policies and procedures related to, among other things, SCI systems inventory, classification and lifecycle management, maintenance and security of SCI systems, as well as oversight of certain third-party service providers to covered systems. Reporting requirements for SCI events, as well as record keeping and annual review requirements, would also be increased. Each of these measures would carry significant initial and ongoing costs for affected entities.
Cybersecurity Requirements Overlap. The SEC has noted that the Proposed SCI Amendment overlaps with the Proposed Rule 10 and Reg S-P and, in many instances, compliance with the current and proposed cybersecurity requirements of Reg SCI.
impose sweeping cybersecurity-related requirements on a wide range of market participants, including every registered broker-dealer. Under the proposed rule, the broadest range of requirements would apply to “Covered Entities,” defined to include FINRA; the MSRB; national securities exchanges; certain SEC-registered broker-dealers; clearing agencies; SBSDRs; security-based swap dealers registered pursuant to Section 15F(b) of the Exchange Act (“SBS Entities”); and transfer agents.
also apply, in more limited respects, to all “Market Entities,” defined to include both Covered Entities as well as SEC-registered broker-dealers that are not Covered Entities.
Measures to detect, respond to, and recover from a cybersecurity incident and written documentation of any cybersecurity incident and the response to and recovery from the incident.
For these purposes, Proposed Rule 10 defines an “information system” to mean “the information resources owned or used by the market entity, including, for example, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by the information resources, or components thereof, organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of the covered entity’s information to maintain or support the covered entity’s operations.”
Annual Review. Covered Entities would be required, at least annually, to review and assess the design and effectiveness of the required cybersecurity policies and procedures, including whether the policies and procedures reflect changes in cybersecurity risk over the time period covered by the review, and then to prepare a written report that describes the review, the assessment, and any control tests performed. The written report would also need to explain the results of any tests performed, document any cybersecurity incident that occurred since the date of the last report, and discuss any material changes to the policies and procedures since the date of the last report.
If Proposed Rule 10 is adopted as proposed, Covered Entities careful in crafting such written reports. While the SEC explained that the requirement is “designed to impose a discipline on Covered Entities to be vigilant in assessing whether their cybersecurity risk management policies and procedures continue to be reasonably designed to address this risk,” we expect that, in examinations and enforcement actions, the SEC Staff would be quick to request these reports and use them to make determinations about whether the Covered Entities have complied with the policies and procedures requirements under Proposed Rule 10.
SEC Notification and Form SCIR Part I. require certain notifications by Covered Entities relating to any “significant cybersecurity incident.” The term “cybersecurity incident” would be defined to mean an “unauthorized occurrence on or conducted through a Market Entity’s information systems that jeopardizes the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the information systems or any information residing on those systems.” The term “significant cybersecurity incident” would be defined to include any cybersecurity incident (or group of related incidents) that (1) significantly disrupts or degrades the ability of the Market Entity to maintain critical operations, or (2) leads to the unauthorized access or use of the information or information systems of the Market Entity, where the unauthorized access or use of the information or information systems results in or is reasonably likely to result in substantial harm to the Market Entity, or substantial harm to a customer, counterparty, member, registrant, or other user of the Market Entity, or to any other person that interacts with the Market Entity. Conceptually, then, define to be one that either significantly impacts the Market Entity, or one that significantly impacts those who interact with the Market Entity. While there is no “materiality” threshold for either of these standards, each one is limited to incidents that qualify as “significant cybersecurity incidents.”
Covered Entities provide “immediate written electronic notice” if they have a reasonable basis to conclude that has occurred or is occurring. The notice made to the SEC, and if the Covered Entity is (i) a broker-dealer, to the broker-dealer’s examining authority, and (ii) a transfer agent, to its appropriate regulatory authority. The SEC does not provide exact details on what constitutes “immediate” notice, particularly given that the entity must draw a conclusion formed upon a reasonable basis that an incident is “significant”—something that might not be immediately apparent to the team conducting a review or seeking to mitigate an incident. The SEC explains that the notification requirement is “designed to alert the Commission on a confidential basis to the existence of impacting a Covered Entity so the Commission staff can begin to assess the event,” and that it is “not intended as a means to report written information about the significant cybersecurity incident.”
include a separate requirement for Covered Entities designed to provide detailed information about the incident—Part I of the proposed Form SCIR, which would be filed via the SEC’s EDGAR system. Covered Entities would have to file this form with the SEC within 48 hours of having a reasonable basis to conclude that has occurred or is occurring. Furthermore, Covered Entities file an amended Part I of the proposed form within 48 hours of certain developments relating to the significant cybersecurity incident:
An internal investigation pertaining to being closed.
Similarly to the notice requirement, Covered Entities that are broker-dealers provide a copy of such a form to their examining authorities, and transfer agents provide a copy to their appropriate regulatory authorities. These Part I filings would not be made available to the public to the extent permitted by law.
In her dissent to the proposal, Commissioner Peirce highlighted several challenges that entities are likely to face if Proposed Rule 10 is adopted as written relating to the notification and Form SCIR Part I filings. She noted that firms experiencing significant cybersecurity incidents, which are likely to be hard at work in containing the breach and fixing the problems in their systems, may need to, within the first 48 hours of discovery, divert resources from those efforts to fill out a detailed government form, which provides for potential individual liability on the person signing the form. She also noted that the requirement that firms report the conclusion of any internal investigation into the issue is tantamount to asking a firm to report information about policies and procedures failures, and fails to consider that this requirement might dissuade firms from performing such internal investigations. Her dissent queries whether the proposal takes the view that firms that undergo significant cybersecurity incidents are foremost potential federal securities law violators rather than victims of a cyberattack.
Public Disclosures. In addition to the notification obligations to regulators, Covered Entities publicly disclose certain information on Part II of Form SCIR, which would also be filed through the SEC’s EDGAR system. Specifically, a Covered Entity disclose (i) summary descriptions of its cybersecurity risks that could materially affect the entity’s business and operations, and (ii) a summary description of each significant cybersecurity incident (as defined above) the entity experienced during the current or previous calendar year, including the persons affected; whether any data was stolen, altered, or accessed; the effect of the incident on the entity’s operations; and whether the entity has remediated (or is currently remediating) the incident. Covered Entities that are carrying or introducing broker-dealers would also need to provide Part II of Form SCIR to customers at account opening, when information on the form is updated, and annually (using the same means that the customer elects to receive account statements), and all Covered Entities post a copy of Part II of Form SCIR on its business website.
Covered Entities would also be required to promptly provide updated disclosures on Part II of Form SCIR if the information required to be disclosed about cybersecurity risk or significant cybersecurity incidents “materially changes,” including “after the occurrence of a new significant cybersecurity incident or when information about a previously disclosed significant cybersecurity incident materially changes.” Each method of the disclosure—the EDGAR filing, the posting on the website, and if the entity is a carrying or introducing broker-dealer, the delivery of copies to customers— updated if such information “materially changes.”
Regulatory requirements to make public disclosures about cybersecurity incidents are not risk-free propositions. As the SEC itself explained, “[r]evealing too much information could assist future attackers as well as lead to loss of customers, reputational harm, litigation, or regulatory scrutiny.” The SEC explained its intent to balance the need to disclose this information publicly so customers and investors can be aware of potential issues with the need to avoid these potential pitfalls, and that the requirement is “designed to produce high-level disclosures about the Covered Entity’s cybersecurity risks and significant cybersecurity incidents that can be easily reviewed by interested parties in order to give them a general understanding of the Covered Entity’s risk profile.”
Recordkeeping. require a Covered Entity to make several different types of records. While the proposed rule itself would not specify how long these records preserved, the SEC also proposes to amend the recordkeeping rules for broker-dealers, transfer agents, and SBS Entities to include these Proposed Rule 10 records as records that preserved and maintained by these existing requirements, typically for three years.
Requirements for Non-Covered Entity Broker-Dealers
Market Entities that are not Covered Entities (i.e., the broker-dealers that would not fit into one Covered Entity categories (“Non-Covered Broker-Dealers”) comply with a more limited set of requirements than Covered Entities.
Like Covered Entities, Non-Covered Broker-Dealers establish, maintain, and enforce written policies and procedures reasonably designed to address their cybersecurity risks. Unlike for Covered Entities, not specify the minimum elements that included in the policies and procedures—though the SEC notes that “a Non-Covered Broker-Dealer may want to consider whether any of those required elements would be appropriate components of it[s] policies and procedures for addressing cybersecurity risk.”
Non-Covered Broker-Dealers would also be required to annually review and assess the design and effectiveness of their cybersecurity policies and procedures, including whether the policies and procedures reflect changes in cybersecurity risk over the time period covered by the review, and to make a “written record” that documents the steps taken in performing the annual review and the conclusions. Unlike for Covered Entities, not require a Non‑Covered Broker-Dealer to create a “written report” of the annual review. The SEC explained that a “report is a means to communicate information within an organization” and that a record “among other things, is a means to document that an activity took place, for example, to demonstrate compliance with a requirement.”
Non-Covered Broker-Dealers provide immediate written notice to the SEC upon having a reasonable basis to conclude that has occurred or is occurring. Unlike for Covered Entities, not require Non-Covered Broker-Dealers to file Form SCIR—either Part I (for detailed information on significant cybersecurity incident updates within 48 hours) or Part II (for publicly disclosed summary information).
Other Notable Points
Substituted Compliance for Non-US SBS Entities. The SEC is also proposing to amend Rule 3a71-6 to permit certain SBS Entities that are not U.S. persons to seek an SEC determination that the requirements under a foreign financial regulatory system satisfy the corresponding requirements of Proposed Rule 10, meaning that the non-U.S. SBS Entity would not need to comply with the proposed rule.
Crypto Assets. While Proposed Rule 10 does not set forth any special requirements for Covered Entities or Market Entities that maintain information systems involving crypto assets, the SEC noted that crypto assets are “exposed to cybersecurity risks” and are “attractive targets for threat actors,” and, therefore, “information systems that involve crypto assets may be subject to heightened cybersecurity risks.” The SEC also noted that Market Entities and Covered Entities engaged in “business activities involving crypto assets . could be exposed to these heightened cybersecurity risks.” While not a strict requirement, then, it appears that the SEC will expect Market Entities and Covered Entities to pay particular attention to information systems involving crypto assets as they design and review their policies and procedures under Proposed Rule 10.
significantly expand the scope of market participants subject to the requirements of Reg SCI, and would add additional requirements designed to conform Reg SCI to technological and other changes the SEC has observed since the adoption of Reg SCI in 2014. Reliance on new and evolving technology has been driven, in part, by the growing prevalence of remote work and the increased utilization of third-party service providers. The SEC points to technological advancements as evidence of both greater sophistication and interconnection of the markets, and of heightened risk of exposure to cybersecurity and operational vulnerabilities for key market participants.
The SEC describes the proposed amendments to Reg SCI as “[c]onsistent with the goals of addressing technological vulnerabilities and improving oversight of the core technology of key U.S. securities market entities.” The SEC noted its prior statements in Reg SCI’s original adopting release, that the SEC was endeavoring to take a “measured approach” to the entities subject to Reg SCI, and only making an “incremental expansion” from entities covered under the prior ARP Inspection Program. By contrast, this proposal would result in far more than an “incremental expansion” of the entities currently covered by Reg SCI.
Reg SCI
Applicability. Reg SCI imposes requirements on “SCI entities.” Today, entities that qualify as SCI entities include self-regulatory organizations (such as national securities exchanges, covered clearing agencies, FINRA and the MSRB), ATSs meeting certain volume thresholds in NMS stocks and non-NMS stocks, plan processors (exclusive disseminators of consolidated market data), certain competing disseminators of consolidated market data, and certain exempt clearing agencies. SCI entities are subject to Reg SCI’s obligations with respect to “SCI systems,” “critical SCI systems,” and “indirect SCI systems.”
The term “SCI system” is defined to include “all computer, network, electronic, technical, automated, or similar systems of, or operated by or on behalf of, an SCI entity that, with respect to securities, directly support trading, clearance and settlement, order routing, market data, market regulation, or market surveillance.” Because this definition includes any “securities,” the SCI systems of an SCI entity may pertain to any type of securities, including NMS stocks, listed options, security-based swaps, digital asset securities, or others.
A “critical SCI system” is defined to include a subset of SCI systems which lack or have limited substitutes and represent potential single points of failure. These include SCI systems that directly support functionality relating to clearance and settlement systems of clearing agencies, trading halts, initial public offerings, and others that “[p]rovide functionality to the securities markets for which the availability of alternatives is significantly limited or nonexistent and without which there would be a material impact on fair and orderly markets.”
Indirect SCI systems are defined to include systems of an SCI entity which, “if breached, would be reasonably likely to pose a security threat to SCI systems.”
Systems Requirements. Reg SCI currently requires SCI entities to establish, maintain, and enforce policies and procedures “reasonably designed to ensure that its SCI systems and, for purposes of security standards, indirect SCI systems, have levels of capacity, integrity, resiliency, availability, and security, adequate to maintain the SCI entity’s operational capability and promote the maintenance of fair and orderly markets.” Reg SCI requires that such policies and procedures include, at a minimum, (i) current and future capacity planning; (ii) periodic stress testing; (iii) systems development and testing methodology; (iv) reviews and testing to identify vulnerabilities; (v) business continuity and disaster recovery planning (inclusive of backup systems that are geographically diverse and designed to meet specified recovery time objectives); (vi) standards for market data collection, processing, and dissemination; and (vii) monitoring to identify potential SCI events. Reg SCI provides that policies and procedures may satisfy these requirements to the extent they are consistent with “current SCI industry standards,” which is in turn defined to include information technology practices that are “widely available to information technology professionals in the financial sector and issued by an authoritative body that is a U.S. governmental entity or agency, association of U.S. governmental entities or agencies, or widely recognized organization.”
Compliance Requirements. Under Reg SCI, each SCI entity must maintain and enforce policies and procedures to ensure its SCI systems operate in a manner that complies with the Exchange Act and Exchange Act rules, and the SCI entity’s rules and governing documents. Reg SCI provides that these policies and procedures must include, at minimum, (i) testing of all SCI systems and any changes to SCI systems prior to implementation; (ii) a system of internal controls over changes to SCI systems; (iii) a plan for assessments of the functionality of SCI systems designed to detect systems compliance issues, including by “responsible SCI personnel” and by personnel familiar with applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and the SCI entity’s rules and governing documents; and (iv) a plan of coordination and communication between regulatory and other personnel of the SCI entity, including by responsible SCI personnel, regarding SCI systems design, changes, testing, and controls designed to detect and prevent systems compliance issues. Reg SCI defines “responsible SCI personnel” to include “for a particular SCI system or indirect SCI system impacted by an SCI event, such senior manager(s) of the SCI entity having responsibility for such system, and their designee(s).” As with the policies and procedures related to SCI systems, SCI entities are required to periodically review the effectiveness of those policies and procedures and take prompt corrective action to remedy deficiencies.
SCI entities must also maintain and enforce policies and procedures that include (i) the criteria for identifying responsible SCI personnel; (ii) the designation and documentation of responsible SCI personnel; and (iii) escalation procedures to quickly inform responsible SCI personnel of potential SCI events.
SCI Events. Reg SCI currently imposes obligations upon SCI entities regarding three different types of “SCI events,” which include (i) systems disruptions (events in an SCI entity’s SCI systems that disrupt, or significantly degrade, the normal operation of an SCI system); (ii) systems compliance issues (events at an SCI entity that cause any SCI system to operate in a manner that is out of compliance with the Exchange Act or the SCI entity’s rules or governing documents); and (iii) systems intrusions (any unauthorized entry into the SCI systems or indirect SCI systems of an SCI entity). Reg SCI requires SCI entities to take the necessary corrective action to mitigate harm to investors and market integrity, and prescribes a framework for notifying the SEC under Rule 1002(b). Reg SCI also requires SCI entities to disseminate information to their members or participants regarding certain SCI events, to generate quarterly reports to the SEC regarding material changes to SCI systems, and to comply with business continuity and disaster recovery testing requirements and recordkeeping requirements.
Proposed Amendments to the Definition of SCI Entities
Definition of SCI Entities. The SEC is proposing to expand entity to include, and therefore subject Reg SCI’s requirements to, additional market participants, including registered SBSDRs, certain “SCI broker-dealers” meeting either total asset thresholds or transaction activity thresholds in certain types of securities, and additional exempted clearing agencies.
SBSDRs. expand entities to include SBSDRs, due to their key role in the SBS market. Because SBSDRs rely on automated systems and work to limit systemic risk and promote stability of SBS markets, the SEC would include SBSDRs in entities to ensure SBSDR systems are “robust, resilient, and secure.” The SEC’s concern is that vulnerabilities of SBSDRs could lead to significant failures which could “disrupt price transparency and oversight of the SBS market.”
SCI Broker-Dealers. expand entities to include registered broker-dealers that exceed one of two size thresholds. The SEC expects the thresholds would capture only the largest broker-dealers, and estimates that 17 entities would currently satisfy one proposed thresholds. The SEC’s purpose for including this limited number of registered broker-dealers is the concern that the unreliability or unavailability of broker-dealers with significant total assets or transaction activity, either measured across multiple markets or “predominately in a single market,” risks disruption to orderly market functioning. While Reg SCI currently applies to national securities exchanges and to certain ATSs that meet trading volume thresholds, the SEC is concerned that the growth of electronic trading has caused certain broker-dealers to become “similarly dependent on sophisticated and interconnected automated systems.”
Total assets threshold. The first size threshold would be based on a broker-dealer’s size as measured by total assets. This would include a registered broker-dealer which, in at least two of the four preceding calendar quarters, had total assets equal to five percent total assets of all security brokers and dealers. The assets of each broker-dealer would be based on the total assets reported to the SEC on the broker-dealer’s FOCUS Reports in Part II, Item 940. The denominator in this case will include total assets of all security brokers and dealers as calculated by the Federal Reserve Board and published quarterly in the Federal Reserve Economic Data website. Based on recent data, a registered broker-dealer with total assets of approximately $250 billion in two of the preceding four calendar quarters would meet the proposed threshold. Should a broker-dealer exceed the threshold in two of the four preceding calendar quarters, it will become subject to Reg SCI beginning six months after the end of the second such quarter, and will continue to be an SCI entity for as long as it continues to satisfy one thresholds.
Transaction activity threshold. The second threshold would be based on the size of a broker-dealer’s transaction activity in several specified asset classes. The SEC has observed that, “[i]n several asset classes, the transaction activity of each of a relatively small number of broker-dealers constitutes a share of trading that could, if affected by a systems issue, negatively impact fair and orderly markets.” These asset classes include NMS stocks, exchange-listed options contracts, U.S. Treasury Securities, and Agency securities. The Proposed SCI Amendment is designed to capture those broker-dealers that, by themselves, make up a sizable portion of the trading activity in one se asset classes.
In contrast to the total assets threshold, which is measured on a quarterly basis, the transaction activity threshold would be measured using the time period of “at least four of the preceding six calendar months.” To monitor whether or not a broker-dealer meets the proposed threshold, the release notes that a broker-dealer would need to determine its in the specified asset class each calendar month, and divide that number by the total reported for the same month. The denominator may be pulled, for NMS stocks, from plan processors of the CTA/CQ Plans and the Nasdaq UPT Plan. For listed options, the denominator may be pulled from the plan processor of the OPRA Plan. For U.S. Treasury Securities and Agency Securities, the denominator may be pulled from FINRA.
NMS stocks. The NMS stocks threshold is tied to a broker-dealer’s activity “on or as a trading center.” A broker-dealer would be an SCI entity if it traded equal to 10% reported. Transactions in which the broker-dealer trades on a national securities exchange or executes off of a national securities exchange or an ATS would be included. Notably, this calculation would not include transactions for which a broker-dealer is a non-executing counterparty in an off-exchange, non-ATS transaction. If, however, a broker-dealer operator of an ATS trades as a participant on its ATS or acts as a counterparty to every trade on its own ATS, the volume would be counted as trading activity of the broker-dealer.
Exchange-listed options. The proposed threshold with regards to exchange-listed options contracts is the transacted equal to 10% reported by an applicable effective national market system plan.
U.S. Treasury Securities and Agency Securities. The proposed threshold with regards to both U.S. Treasury Securities and Agency Securities is the transacted in an amount equal to 10% “total made available by the self-regulatory organizations to which such transactions are reported.” A “U.S. Treasury Security” would be defined to include securities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. “Agency Security” would be defined to include debt securities issued or guaranteed by a U.S. executive agency or a government-sponsored enterprise.
SCI Broker-Dealers and Crypto Asset Securities. To the extent a broker-dealer satisfies the total assets threshold, that broker-dealer would need to assess whether any systems pertaining to its activity in crypto asset securities meet the definition of an SCI system or an indirect SCI system. In determining whether a broker-dealer meets a transaction activity threshold, the broker-dealer must first determine whether any crypto asset securities are NMS stocks, exchange-listed options, U.S. Treasury Securities, or Agency Securities, and if so, include those crypto asset securities in the tally for that class of assets. No crypto asset securities currently fit into these categories, though it is possible the market will develop such that these crypto asset securities come into existence.
Further, any SCI systems or indirect SCI systems supporting activity related to crypto asset securities that are one of the enumerated asset classes would be subject to the requirements of Reg SCI. While the SEC acknowledged that no special purpose broker-dealers specifically authorized to maintain custody of crypto asset securities—which are the only broker-dealers authorized to maintain custody of crypto asset securities—exist, the SEC reiterated that SCI entities trading in crypto asset securities will need to apply Reg SCI as appropriate to that activity. We expect that, at least in the short term, this requirement would be more impactful to broker-dealers than the requirement to count crypto asset securities toward the total asset thresholds. If an SCI entity uses systems that otherwise meet the definition of an SCI system for activities with crypto asset securities, the SCI requirements would apply in full for such activities.
For broker-dealers that meet the definition of an SCI entity solely because of the transaction activity threshold, the SEC has proposed that SCI systems for those broker‑dealers will include “only those systems with respect to the type of securities for which an SCI broker-dealer satisfies the requirements [of entity].” Thus, if a broker-dealer exceeds the 10% trading activity threshold only in NMS stocks, for example, only those systems meeting the definition of “SCI system” and involving NMS stocks would be in scope.
Exempt Clearing Agencies. expand entities to include all “exempt clearing agencies.”[1] In the SEC’s view, the similarities in function and importance of exempt clearing agencies supports the need to treat all exempt clearing agencies similarly for purposes of Reg SCI. The SEC points to rapid innovation and interconnectedness of technology supporting such clearing agencies’ systems related to margin obligations, netting and payment, movement of funds and securities, and end-of-day settlement procedures. In the SEC’s view, the “increasing reliance on new technologies” necessitates attention “on the potential for such services to introduce operational risk or introduce single points of failure into the national system for clearance and settlement.”
Proposed Amendments to Obligations of SCI Entities
In addition to expanding the group of entities subject to Reg SCI, the Proposed SCI Amendment would significantly update a number of the obligations applicable to those SCI entities, potentially adding considerable time and cost to resources required for compliance.
Systems Classification and Lifecycle Management. add additional requirements to policies and procedures of SCI entities with respect to their SCI systems (including SCI systems, indirect SCI systems, and critical SCI systems, as discussed above). First, SCI entities develop and maintain a written inventory of their systems and classification of those systems, which represents a codification of current practice. An SCI entity’s policies and procedures would also be required to include a program regarding the life cycle management of these systems, including “the acquisition, integration, support, refresh, and disposal of such systems.” In particular, the SEC would expect a properly refreshed and updated system to include up-to-date software and security patches.
Third-Party Provider Management. SCI entities are required to manage their relationships with third-party providers through due diligence, contract terms, and monitoring. In particular, SCI entities are responsible for having processes and requirements that ensure SCI systems that are operated by a third party are able to satisfy the requirements of Reg SCI. update the requirements applicable to SCI entities regarding third-party provider management in several important respects:
SCI entities would be required, in their policies and procedures, to include programs to manage and oversee third-party providers that “provide functionality, support or service, directly or indirectly, for [their] SCI systems and, for purposes of security standards, indirect SCI systems.” These programs include a number of specific elements, including (i) initial and periodic third-party provider contract review; and (ii) risk-based assessments of each third-party provider’s “criticality to the SCI entity.” These contract reviews must include a review of contract terms that may be inconsistent with Reg SCI requirements, and the risk-based assessment should consider third-party provider concentration, among other things.
With respect to third-party providers that provide functionality, support, or service related to those SCI systems that are “critical SCI systems,” the Proposed SCI Amendment would include a requirement that SCI entities have business continuity and disaster recovery plans designed to address the unavailability of those third-party providers.
SCI entities designate third-party providers necessary for maintenance of fair and orderly markets in the event of activation of that SCI entity’s business continuity or disaster recovery plans, and to require those third-party providers to participate in scheduled functional and performance testing of those plans.
The SEC’s release also focuses specifically on the increased use of cloud service providers (“CSPs”). The proposals include a number of specific applications of an SCI entity’s responsibilities in the context of CSP relationships. In particular, the proposal instructs SCI entities that they should not view their relationship with a CSP as “turn[ing] over its Regulation SCI-related responsibilities to the CSP.” Further, the proposal reminds Reg SCI entities, when considering CSP relationships, they should keep in mind Reg SCI’s requirement that policies and procedures include business and continuity recovery plans “reasonably designed to achieve next business day resumption of trading and two-hour resumption of critical SCI systems following a wide-scale disruption.” The proposal also notes that, in the context of CSPs, SCI entities should be cognizant of Reg SCI’s notice and dissemination requirements, and data security and recordkeeping obligations.
Security Systems. In light of the evolving nature of cybersecurity events since Reg SCI’s adoption, the Proposed SCI Amendment would “enhance” the cybersecurity provisions of Reg SCI to significantly increase the potential scope of testing and reporting obligations. In particular:
Policies and procedures of SCI entities include programs to prevent the unauthorized access to SCI systems and the information residing in them, including specific access controls.
Penetration testing would be required at least annually (rather than the current requirement of once every three years).
The definition of a “systems intrusion” (triggering resolution and notice requirements) would be expanded to include both “any cybersecurity event that disrupts, or significantly degrades, the normal operation of an SCI system,” and “any significant attempted unauthorized entry into the SCI systems or indirect SCI systems of an SCI entity, as determined by the SCI entity pursuant to established reasonable written criteria.” Notably, this expansion would sweep in attempted but unsuccessful unauthorized entry into an SCI entity’s SCI systems or indirect SCI systems.
The de minimis exception to current reporting requirements regarding systems intrusions would be eliminated, thereby requiring that all systems intrusion, regardless of impact, be reported pursuant to Reg SCI.
SCI Reviews. update substantive and procedural requirements related to an SCI entity’s reviews of its SCI systems and indirect SCI systems. Currently, Reg SCI requires SCI entities to maintain policies and procedures for annual reviews of SCI systems by objective personnel, and reporting of the results of those reviews to the board of directors (or equivalent) of the SCI entity and to the SEC. require, in particular, three assessments to be performed by objective personnel, including (i) an assessment of risks related to capacity, integrity, resiliency, availability and security; (ii) an assessment of internal control design and operating effectiveness (including specifics, such as logical and physical security controls, developmental processes, systems capacity and availability, and others); and (iii) assessment of third-party provider management risks and controls. Each of these reviews, particularly that of third-party providers, would potentially require considerable expenditure of resources and attention by SCI entity personnel, as well as by management and boards. Comments on both proposals are due 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.
[1] To date, the SEC has granted exemptions from clearing agency registration to three matching entities: DTCC ITP Matching US, LLC; Bloomberg STP LLC; and SS&C Technologies Inc. The SEC has also granted exemptions to certain non-U.S. clearing agencies for limited clearing activities: Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking, S.A.
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Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking to phone support today have been told that all user passwords are being reset to help address the site's login woes. And the tech supports behind Healthcare.gov will be asking more users to act in the name of fixing the site, too. According to registrants speaking with Ars, individuals whose logins never made it to the site's database will have to re-register using a different username, as their previously chosen names are now stuck in authentication limbo.
The website for the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") launched just last week. With all the scrutiny and debate happening, if ever there was a website launch that was "too big to fail," this was it. So, of course, it did—depending on how you define "failure." The inability of Obamacare portals to keep up with the traffic demands initially put upon them has been seized by politicians and conservative pundits as evidence that Obamacare "is not ready for prime time" in the words of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Now, a week later, the site appears to be stabilizing, with waiting times dropping dramatically for those who haven't been able to register before.
A test of the site this morning had me waiting four minutes to get to the signup page; others got on instantly. But problems persist beyond the front door. The contractors responsible for the exchange—CGI Federal for the website itself, Quality Software Systems Inc. (QSSI) for the information "hub" that determines eligibility for programs and provides the data on qualified insurance plans, and Booz Allen for enrollment and eligibility technical support—are scrambling to deploy more fixes. Technical support call center operators continue to handle an onslaught of calls from users who can't get back into the system after registering.
In addition to would-be Healthcare.gov registrants notifying Ars about the password reset and login limbos, Ars learned that changes made to profiles already within the system may not be saved either—a problem that is only indicated by a very non-descriptive error message.
Ars attempted to contact the contractors with Healthcare.gov but did not receive a response as of this writing.
Enlarge / Healthcare.gov's profile page, where you provide your personal data, may not save changes you make...
Enlarge / But the only hint you'll get about it is this error pop-up.
Three years is not enough
CGI has had some experience with these exchanges in the past. It built the Web portal for Massachusetts' "Romneycare" and is building exchanges for a number of other states. So with that experience behind them, why, with three years to prepare, did these sites have such a rough first week?
Those familiar with how Federal IT projects usually roll will suggest an alternative question: with three years to prepare a system that is expected to cost $683.81 million—and much of that preparation being bureaucratic haggling over the rules for its operation—how did the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CGI manage to get anything up at all?
Federal IT projects are infamous for blowing out the "iron triangle" of project management—cost, scope, and schedule. Healthcare.gov hits all three sides of the triangle. Because of the legislative mandate for Healthcare.gov and its state-run cohorts, the project was handed a massive scope. With Congress eager to cut its throat, the program has been highly budget-sensitive. And with a hard deadline of October 1 and a heavy up-front regulatory process required to create the specifications for the portal, three years was a very tight deadline.
Based on the Federal IT Dashboard, which tracks the project status and risk for most of the federal government's major IT programs, it would appear that HHS and the Obama Administration were relatively confident that the exchange sites would launch on time. However, they were less confident about it coming in under budget. Known as the "CMS CCIIO Healthcare Insurance Exchange IT Investment," the program was assigned a "medium risk" evaluation (A "3" on a scale of 5) at the end of July. That rating wasn't because there was concern about the schedule. Instead, the risk rating was assigned because HHS' Chief Information Officer Frank Baitman was concerned about potential cost overruns for the website implementation.
There were even earlier causes for concern. Back in March, concerns about the funding levels for the program prompted Baitman and HHS management to rate the program as "high risk"—giving it a score of 1 out of 5. In June, the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan auditing body that provides oversight reports to Congress, said that it was still a crapshoot as to whether the system would work on time. This uncertainty persisted because the hub being built by QSSI still hadn't been completely tested (the hub is responsible for making automated decisions about eligibility). While the policies to govern how the hub works—and how various state systems were supposed to work—had been completed, there was still a lot of code to be written to make those policies into an actual system.
All of that pushed the development of the system closer and closer to the deadline. As one reddit user posted when the site ran into trouble on October 1, "My wife works on this project but not as a developer. Last night she said, 'I have no idea how the site is going to go live tomorrow.'"
Garbage in, garbage out
The result of the headlong rush to October 1 was a system that had never been tested at anything like the load it experienced on its first day of operation (if it was tested with loads at all). Those looking for a reason for the site's horrible performance on its first day had plenty of things to choose from.
First of all, there's the front-end site itself. The first page of the registration process (once you get to it) has 2,099 lines of HTML code, but it also calls 56 JavaScript files and 11 CSS files. That's not exactly optimal for heavy-load pages.
Navigating the site once you get past registration is something of a cheese chase through the rat-maze. "It's like a bad, boring video game where you try to grunt and hack your way through to the next step," one site user told Ars.
Once you get through all that, it’s not clear that it's going to do you any good. Underlying problems in the back-end code—including the data hub built by QSSI—have been causing errors in determining whether individuals are eligible for subsidized plans under the program. In DC, that means health care plan prices won't be available to people registering through DC's portal until November. It may also mean that others who have registered already at the federal and state exchanges may get sticker shock later.
Because the only thing stopping people from dying by the millions from food poisoning is the FDA. Right.
Ever read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair? We were letting the free market decide what is and isn't tainted meat.
She's 7 months and will be home schooled. I went through the public education debacle and won't do that to my daughter. My point exactly. How is healthcare different?
It's unfortunate, but you were benefiting from the old system which left a lot of people out cold, especially when they ended up being kicked out of their plans for a technicality on their initial application form, or a condition they just found out about that gets labeled "pre-existing". Can you trust that wouldn't have happened to you?
Hopefully though, with the exchanges and actual direct competition, premiums will go down. It would have helped if a public (not-for-profit) option was included among the for-profit insurance plans, so you could push to have that added back.
I think everyone would want to hear about a solution that results in lower premiums for everyone, so if you have any ideas...
Blue Cross / Blue Shield is non-profit, and it's participating in just about all of the exchanges.
That's how a progressive taxation system works, yes. Those who are incredibly successful in our society gain benefits from it, like roads, schools, potable water, non poisoned food, and have a responsibility to help those who are less individually successful.
And by responsibility you mean the wealthier among us are obligated, right? Those "incredibly successful" people you are referring to are tax payers. The idea that they are using the roads and therefore owe everyone else is a specious argument. Would we have roads if no one was paying taxes?What is the obligation of the people who are not contributing to the tax base?
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Nonsense! The interstate highways system did not really exist until the 1956. If you said Wal-Mart couldn't be as big without the interstate you might have a point but then, if WalMart wasn't as big, a lot of people wouldn't have jobs or would be doing something else like, say, farming? (Besides, "Interstate highways and their rights of way are owned by the state in which they were built," not the federal government.) Also, by employing individuals who then become taxpayers, WalMart is actually maintaining the highways indirectly. Try building a road with no tax revenue. You don't say so but your argument is based on the implicit assumption that ther eis such a thing as "government money". There's no such thing. The government only has what it takes from us.
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or without employees educated in our government run schools.
You mean schools paid for by tax dollars, right? And taxes are collected from people who actually pay taxes, right? Who do you think is getting the free ride here? You really should stop taking your talking points from Elizabeth Warren. They were dumb coming from her too.
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So when they make massive amounts of money in large part because of the public's largess it isn't asking too much that they repay that debt to society.
So let me get this straight. You're suggesting that those with more are beholden to those with less for no other reason than that they have more? Sorry no. That I make more money than you does not give you claim to what's mine. And lest you forget, the wealthier among us are as much a part of the "public" as the public. Hosts don't owe parasites a damn thing!
Since I had no insurance I went to a free clinic who told me I had stomach flu and I'd be fine. A week later and a total of three misdiagnoses by the free clinic, I finally went to the hospital where I was told I had about twelve hours to live if I didn't get directly into surgery.
I guess you should have gone to the emergency room right away.
Take Wal Mart, they could not operate their business without the government maintained interstate system to transport goods within the US, or without employees educated in our government run schools. She deserves a proper education that will teach her to think for herself and analyze problems rather than parrot out what is in a poorly written, over priced, and heavy book. I don't want your money. Have you even bothered to see what is being taught in schools? Have you talked to a teacher about that? Try it some day; I have. Further, this isn't about education, this is about healthcare. There are plenty of education threads out there.
Give a specific example of "what is being taught in schools". Also, this isn't a healthcare thread, its a website IT thread about a healthcare website. This whole conversation is basically a tangent.
GAH, you got me. But healthcare is a bit more towards the topic.
What about bad science? I'm pretty sure you don't have to search far, or even past Ars, to find great examples.
About two years ago I was going to college and working a low paying part time job to make ends meet when my appendix burst. What I am upset about is that a single payer system would have made a lot more sense. When I am young and in school I don't pay for it, and as I get older and pay more taxes I subsidize others. Kind of like how currently I am subsidizing the elderly who in their turn subsidized the elderly when they were young.
And had I had insurance I would have gone to a real doctor and gotten a better diagnosis and my hospital stay would have been shorter, the surgery less invasive (by the time I went in my appendix was literally in shreds) and it would have cost everyone less money. I could have graduated college two years earlier and made more money and paid more taxes. Everyone wins.
Nice try, though.
Oh, then feel free to explain to me how my family benefits from loss of coverage that we're paying more money for? Also, this isn't a democracy; it is a republic.
And don't forget welfare for walmart employees.
The problem with that is that Walmart is only making about $7,700 per employee ($17B net/2.2M employees). While it's a popular whipping boy for low wages, it's not like they're ExxonMobil, raking in ($44.9B net/77K) $583,000 profit per employee.
If they can't make a profit without having the US government subsidize the majority of their employees wages with food stamps and welfare, they're doing it wrong.
Thanks sooo much! I created an account and was unable to finish the sign-up on the Affordable Care site. I ditched the old user name, created a new one and it worked!
Too bad the rest of the world doesn't know this that are still having trouble even loging in...
Thanks again, ya'll saved me a lot of head-scratching.
We have public education because as a society we've decided that a well-educated populace is necessary for a functioning democracy, as well as to have a versatile workforce. Everyone benefits from its existence, even if you never have kids yourself.
Obviously I don't know what particular coverages are that you are losing, so its hard for me to address that.
Yes, our form of government is that of a republic, but what is it that we say we want to spread to dictatorships? Democracy. It may not be strictly correct, but as the word has been used, a republic where everyone is eligible for vote in the system is basically a type of democracy, functioning by democratic principles.
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You mean examples like English and spelling being taught in math and art classes or are you more along the revisionist history lines? I'm not sure what you are referring to by teaching English and spelling in math and art, but on the face of it, I don't know why that would necessarily be a bad thing to have the subjects interconnected, if that's what it means, but I'd have to know more about it. And what bad science are you referring to? As far as science is concerned, the point of science classes is to teach the current state of scientific knowledge, how it was developed, and how to use the scientific method.
I'm guessing this was a joke, but I'm not sure...?
The D3 launch wasn't rock solid. The first few days were fraught with problems. WoW's launch was far worse. There was serious lag, especially in the AH, for the first 2 years.
The point here isn't to bash or promote Blizzard. They got D3's problems under control quickly and WoW's problems were understandable--they had FAR greater demand then they anticipated and they didn't have the ability to quickly scale to demand in 2005 like people can today.
Anyway, with that said, I'm not surprised that the health portal had major issues on launch. I've never seen any high demand system, such as a game or popular social networking site, not struggle under the load initially. However, I *am* surprised at how deep the problems go. For it to struggle under load for the first couple of days would be one thing, for it to be poorly designed even on the front-end (I.e., excessive JS and CSS) is very concerning. If it's messed up on the front end then it stands to reason that it is on the back end as well. I agree with Ars. It makes me wonder if it was ever stress tested before release.
Edit: My browser clipped the second line of Nijyo's reply. I see now that his D3 comment was a joke
On topic, for whatever it's worth I just went through the signup. It all worked and many parts were quite fast, but I still occasionally saw those red error boxes, with a message saying something along the lines of "application data not saved". Oddly enough, it still displayed the information I entered in the summary. The identity verification with experian seemed to work this time as well.
I do have to wonder about those reports that insurers are getting incomplete info after seeing those warnings. Perhaps it's saving data in two places, and one isn't actually completing.
I also had an issue with the confirmation email. It came immediately and when I clicked the link to verify, the site told me the verification code was expired. I guessed that their clock was off or the email arrived before the code made it into some db somewhere, so I waited a few minutes and hit the link again, that time with no error. Still much bug hunting for these people I think...
Also for the various folks that seem to think the online process is the only option, here's a deep link to the printed application: http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Form ... 042913.pdf
eToys.com (a new owner of the domain name is trying to revive this)
Go.com (Disney keeps the shell of this up, sort of a dot.com bubble zombie)
Regardless of your politics, I hope the rest of the system is ran by people with far more competence or we are in real trouble.
The bottom line is when government's in charge of something, all you can do is "hope." If a private company disappoints its customers, the customers can stop buying their products quickly and make the company go bankrupt and disappear. But when you put the government in charge, you can't take your tax money away when they do something wrong and give it to another entity. At least not without waiting years and hoping you can elect people who want to do it. Therefore there is no way to incentivize the government to work harder or smarter. It's terrifying and baffling that no matter how many times this lesson is demonstrated, people still suggest giving the government a complete monopoly over an industry with something like single-payer, government-run health care.
Keep in mind your government is elected by all Americans. Therefore as an institution it stands to reason it will only be about as intelligent as the average American. Which is yet another reason why the government should be tasked with as few responsibilities as possible.
I'm currently living in Canada. I still work in the US and have US health insurance, but my wife's family and our friends in Canada don't. In the short few years I've been here I can tell plenty examples of things like my wife's cousin who died in his 30s from cancer that would have likely been curable if he could have gotten in to see a specialist before it advanced to the point where it was inoperable. My father in law who waited a year in pain for a knee replacement, which resulted in problems with his other knee. My wife's friend who after finally getting her doctor to give her a referral now has a 2 year wait to see a neurosurgeon about her back problems, and even after seeing the doctor will likely wait a third year before she can get surgery if it is necessary. Three years of often severe back pain that significantly decreases her quality of life. Generally five to six hour waits in the emergency room to see a doctor if the problem isn't obviously, imminently life threatening. I know someone who recently spent over 5 hours waiting in the emergency room with a broken bone before they could see a doctor. Getting a cast on it required another 5 hour wait at the bone clinic.
Canada isn't a poor country, and this is 30 minutes from the US border, not in some remote location. This is the kind of care we can expect under a single payer system. This is something we should be doing everything we can to stop, because as bad as our current system is, a single payer system is going to be much worse for the vast majority.
Canada's system isn't perfect but at least trying to care for it's population is the priority, here it's profits. I can't tell you how ashamed I am every time I see an add for a hospital, it similar to having for profit police or fire departments.
I never find the site that enables me to pay my federal taxes to go down or freeze or have problems. It works. But, hey, this couldn't because the money flow is going in the opposite direction...
Probably because it's had over a decade (maybe two nowadays?) to be fine tuned. Originally very few people filed taxes on-line, allowing capacity to be ramped up steadily over many years. The system still isn't perfect, though.
True enough. But ObamaCare could have been staged over time, too. It could have had that 48 hour confirmation thing suggested above. or gasp, even paper applications like you still have to mail in when you "register to vote online".
And you didn't answer my question about why the states couldn't have totally managed this end to end.
Because some states closed their eyes, put their hands over their ears and went la-la-la-la-la, pretending it would all go away. The Supremes didn't play ball with their plan, and 'on principle' they won't take the federal money and have no state exchange so they are stuck.
For the same reason they delayed the employer mandate a year. The roll out plan is perfectly clear in retrospect. Surely you see it by now. If you don't see it yet, then you probably can't hear me talking either.
What is not yet clear to me though, is if this botched website is also part of the plan. I don't see how this possibly helps Obama; surely he wanted millions to sign up. I think this really is a screw up, and Obama is likely enraged at the moment. BTW, don't think for a moment that the people at the top are bumbling idiots.
If that's the case, then he's ready to throw whatever Federal resources it takes to fix the problem.
But he can't at the moment, because the government (the part he would use here) is shut down; funds are frozen; nobody can move, until some sort of spending authorization comes up from the Republicans. Well, one that he will sign.
I've been wondering what their game was; Obama could have waited them out for a year if need be; they had nothing.
But this makes some sense now. How many days is Obama willing to wait, while his website crashes and burns? All he has at the moment is the existing team. They are still funded, but if they could fix it, they would have already done so.
So that's what the Republicans have on Obama at the moment; the immediate needs of this website; and the slightly less immediate needs of the roll out in general. And every day they wait, Obama loses a few Obamacare supporters. I think he lost Jon Stewart the other day.
So, if time is on their side, then they can wait him out. And don't let the debt ceiling thing fool you. The debt ceiling has nothing to do with defaulting on the national debt. There's plenty of revenues to cover principal and interest on the national debt. Obviously, if they didn't raise the limit, something would go under-funded in the near future. But, on the day the payment is due, Obama would have to choose not make that payment, and send the nation into default. He would never do such a thing. And even if he tried, Congress would simply authorize it themselves, and on this one, yes; you'd have a two-thirds majority in about 30 minutes. I don't even think the President has that authority anyway. It's just a scare tactic.
I bet in hindsight, Obama regrets ramming this thousands of pages bill through in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. After a marathon sleep deprived session where they didn't care about getting a single Republican vote. After the mid-term results were in, where the Republicans would sweep to power in the house, all of whom ran against Obamacare.
I wonder if he realizes that not only could he have had it anyway, but better; he could have used it to truly split the Republicans long ago, and that he could have had his House majority back too. I mean, split them more than they split themselves on their own.
I know. Twas nice having it all handed to me by my fairy god mother and not having to sacrifice anything or bust my ass off at all. Very nice indeed. I think I'll go take the Bently out for a spin, now.
First, and as an aside, the irony of flaunting your personal success on publicly funded roads is simply too rich not to comment on.
This is to everyone's benefit, including yours and your daughter's. You have "taken" from other people's prior tax expenditures, political activism, and time on the job enforcing and providing these goods, whether you wish to admit it or not. But, contrary to the propaganda, that is not an inherently bad thing. It's just how (functional, successful) societies work.
It sucks, but sometimes many really do outweigh few. This isn't communism, it's common sense.
I know. Second, I'd invite you to get out of your sheltered life and visit someplace like Beijing, where I live, and where the government doesn't rein in the private sector. You claim we could do without the FDA; every day people here learn about a new source of food contamination due to companies cheaping out on ingredients and safety. Health insurance is another area where little interest, absent government regulation, in providing coverage to those who are already sick, make too little money, and so on, but at the same time impacts everybody by decreasing the quality of our workforce, limiting job mobility, and forcing us to pay the costs of care once those people seek treatment. The fact that your coverage became more expensive and/or lower quality is terrible. WOW! Based on your reply I'd wager you think I actually do have a fortune that was granted to me by a fairy godmother. Sheesh!
You want to know what her family's biggest fear is right now? That the Zambian people will elect the same type of scum that rules over Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and ruin their country the same way that Mugabi ruined Zimbabwe.
Must be nice having enough money to raise a kid without any assistance at all.
I know. You claim we don't need the EPA; every day people around China breath smog-choked air that cuts years off of their lives.
Governments provide public goods that no interest in providing. At the same time, in a medical emergency, I'm going to imagine you could downgrade to a BMW and pull through on the coverage you have now. The relative pain of a few folks like you has been deemed worth it for the benefit of the country through a legitimate political process of elections and law-making, just as it has been for the business owners who had to stop putting wood chips in the sausage or dumping industrial waste into the Cuyahoga. WOW! Your sarcasm detection mechanism is BEYOND busted! Sheesh!
Second, never EVER assume anything. My wife is from a small country called Zambia. Born in Lusaka and lived in Ndola. Stayed there for a month to see what her life was like. So, yes, I do know the evils that a government is capable of. Ever heard of Rhodesia? And finally, who the hell are you to tell me that my family should suffer so you can have it easy? I'm not out here busting my ass off to babysit the likes of you. I work hard day in and day out for my family; especially my little girl. You feel entitled to insurance then you go out and earn it; don't steal it from me. I pray that you never suffer the fate you've wished on others. I would never wish ill on people or steal from them so that I can gain.
I apologize for missing the sarcasm on your Bently comment. I thought your sarcasm ended after the first sentence and that you were emphasizing how successful you had been for yourself.
You tell me not to assume things, then tell me how I'm stealing from you and making your family suffer so I can have it easy. You have no idea what I do or how I'm insured (hint - it involves paying money that I earned, not you, for a plan offered through my employer). Enough said.
I'm glad you've been to Zambia, that's great. I agree that Mugabe is an inhuman fiend who has destroyed Zimbabwe. But I'm not sure how it's relevant. The point was that absent government involvement in many fields, we get really bad outcomes. This has been witnessed in both the US historically and in other countries at present, like China. A major part of the motivation for the ACA was that health care is another of those fields in which free markets function poorly, both because consumers have little information on how much care they will demand over their lifetimes (e.g. you can choose not to smoke but might still get lung cancer - we just can't know) and because there's no private profit to made insuring the already sick. Moreover, these gaps cost all of us when the uninsured show up at the hospital.
You claim never to wish ill on people, and yet you are perfectly happy to see them go without insurance at all so that yours can be cheaper. I'm sure you'll tell me after this that you suffered as an uninsured child with some malady, but it appears you've given little thought to whether it might be better for some people to pay more so that other people can not die or be financially crushed for life through no fault of their own. What is your solution for those people? Take it a step at a time - should someone who gets leukemia at 24 (yes, these people exist) ever be allowed to get insurance again? Your answer would seem to be "no," since that was the result under the old system. But why not? What moral argument can possibly be made for punishing people in that way? And if your answer is "yes," who's going to pay for the difference?
The first person to say that private business could have done better gets to go stand in the corner with this dunce cap.
Private business did do it better.
He implied that private industry couldn't have done it any better, and I gave him an example of a company doing just that.
The point isn't that some private entity can do it better--the argument being refuted is that private businesses *always* or *generally* do it better than government could do in-house.
And in the perfect world it would work something like that, but as those Walgreen's ads used to point out, "We don't live anywhere near Perfect". Canadians have a 'single payer' system in each province, it's not run by the feds. (Their private health insurance companies offering additional care to just fine thanks) The 'Affordable Care Act' runs to 1990 pages because of all the exceptions, compromises and plain double dealing required to get it passed.
Just remember the additional private health is restricted to pharmaceuticals, dentists, eye care. Actual private doctors are against the law. Also the federal governments provides the mandates each province has to meet. Only one province has actually gone against the law, and they were threatened with losing their federal dollars. Also given that we have redistribution of taxes between provinces it's hard to say each province has any autonomy.
The reality is you are getting payments from people, who otherwise already get the services for free. Who do you think pays for that hospital visit of an uninsured person? Who do you think pays for medicine for those that can't afford it? Either the drug company or the hospital is charging you more without you knowing it. Maybe they should add that part to your bill next time..I'm sure a lot of people would change their tune.
And if all the ACA does is shift those costs and actually give more people options other than going to the emergency room, we should be seeing lower premiums, not dramatically increased ones. How do you explain that?
Don't know my guess a failure in the free market... happened before ACA, it's going to happen after. But I imagine it has more to do with your provider not being able to drop your coverage on a whim. Increased age of dependents, pre-existing probably also play a part.
The only exception to this policy is that we may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities.
Someone already posted that. It still doesn't support the claim though. No medical records are involved here, it refers just to the exchanges. In other words, they'll be able to tell police and the IRS whether you purchased insurance and what you purchased. SHOCK! SCANDAL!
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BradEgeland.com #PMP #PPM The Big Data age is finally here. Information is currently available in unbelievable proportions measured in what is globally known as zettabytes (ZB). One zettabyte represents a billion terabytes. The incredible thing is that the information proportion is still growing exceptionally. In fact, the IDC revealed that global data would increase from 23ZB in 2017 to 174 Zettabytes by 2025.
Depending on the type of your organization or the industry you are in, you could be having massive volumes of internal and external data readily available for creating viable projections, mining, and applying predictive analytics.
Using data gives entities the power to boost the customer experience, effectively direct operations, and enhance income streams. Generally, the health of your organization improves significantly when data is assessed accurately. Furthermore, big data is an essential and powerful risk management tool.
Consider the various human interactions that generate data, including vendor transactions, financial interactions, app experiences, emails, webpage views, and social media posts. These interactions offer an excellent opportunity to obtain organizational risk insight, which facilitates the reduction and assessment of threats.
Once your business uses big data in managing risk, you will get a comprehensive overview that assists you in structuring your financial revenue streams. This means that in case you are utilizing big data in managing risk, you may not be utilizing all that information to benefit your company.
How to Boost Risk Management Using Big DataTo comprehend how you can utilize big data in organizational risk management, it is vital to assess the critical risk management principles.
Risk is virtually part of every company’s decision. Avoiding risk is difficult, particularly when a business is seeking to diversify products, achieve a new goal, or grow. Nonetheless, the decision-making process regularly involves uncertain results. ISO 31000 defines risk as to the impact that uncertainty has on objectives.
The answer to dealing with all that uncertainty lies in risk management. The main risk management elements are prioritization, evaluation, and identification of risks, and not to mention, the steps involved in reducing the negative risk aspects such as controlling and monitoring. Each of these aspects in risk management boasts a direct correlation specifically to the use of big data.
The sizeable historical data stores and real-time big data analytics deliver a considerable system for extracting useful information instantly. When integrated with robust analytics that analyzes potential risks, companies can reduce uncertain objectives while increasing their clarity in making decisions.
Big data can be applied across different industries as opposed to just the fintech industry, which for a long time has been using data systems in weighing risks and evaluating opportunities.
The application of big data in managing risk can prove useful in various industries including e-commerce, manufacturing, retail and healthcare and can be used in a wide array of corporate threats, including regulatory risk and business impacts.
Big Data Applications in Specific Risk ManagementVendor Risk Management: Third-party associations can generate regulatory problems, as well as pose a threat to your company’s operations and reputation. Vendor risk management helps you in evaluating the severity of risks, selecting vendors, and creating internal controls for mitigating risk.
Money laundering and Fraud prevention: predictive analytics give a comprehensive and precise technique of preventing and mitigating suspicious/fraudulent activity, which is necessary in a period where money laundering actors are applying sophisticated methods. Numerous significant data risk mitigation and management methods are used by governments and global lending entities, including unit price, text, unit weight analytics, web, and trade partners’ relationship profiles that are useful in identifying shell companies.
Spotting Churn: Churn is a significant organizational risk. Losing customers affects the bottom line considerably. In a white paper, Fred Reichheld claimed that customers enable a business to generate more profit every year they stick with a given company. For instance, a 5% rise in the retention of customers in the financial services industry produces a profit increment of over 25%.
Credit Management: Credit management risk can be reduced by assessing the data relating to both historical and recent expenditure, not to mention the patterns of repayment. New sources of big data, including customer interactions with banking or financial institutions, mobile airtime purchases, and social media behavior boost the ability to analyze credit risks.
Manufacturing sector-related operational risk: big data can provide various parameters that help in assessing supplier dependability and quality levels. Sensor technology data can also assist in detecting costly production defects early enough.
Real Estate: Even though location is highly vital, determining the ideal spot can be a risky process. Starbucks is among the well-known leaders in the application of big data to grow. The company utilizes a predictive tech platform that assesses various demographics, including average income, maps, and traffic patterns in the recommended location, effects on the other stores around, and identifies the profit and feasibility potential of new store openings and real estate purchases.
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http://www.bradegeland.com/blog/big-data-and-risk-management
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Previously, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013-2019 had serious security vulnerabilities, and attackers could directly invade the server to download all emails.
Investigations show that tens of thousands of Exchange Server have been attacked worldwide, including but not limited to governments, enterprises, universities, hospitals, and other institutions.
In view of the extremely high risk of vulnerabilities, Microsoft has continuously issued multiple security bulletins to remind organizations to fix them, but there are still many government and enterprise organizations that did not immediately install security updates.
This led to the initial 10 hacker groups that exploited vulnerabilities to attack, and ransomware also participated in attacking the private information of organizations for ransom.
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The latest report released by the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team stated that a hacker group named the Black Kingdom launched an attack from March 18th to 20th.
Microsoft claims that there are about 1,500 servers attacked by this ransomware, but not all infected servers have entered the stage of ransomware or encrypted files.
Some servers have been infected but ransomware has not yet been deployed. Therefore, companies can avoid ransomware if they use detection tools released by Microsoft to check and clean up.
However, Microsoft also emphasized that the system was infected but did not deploy ransomware. It is also possible that hacker groups have reserved access rights, and the attack will be launched after collecting key confidential information.
The Black Kingdom ransomware has also offered to pay a ransom to some victims. The hacker group asked the infected company to pay $10,000 for the key.
If the company is not willing to pay the ransom in exchange for the key to decrypt the file, the hacker group may also publish all the company’s e-mail records on the Internet.
Microsoft statistics found that its victims are located in many countries or regions, including the United States, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Greece, etc.
Although the files were not encrypted on some of the attacked servers, there were ransom notes. It is not clear whether the hacker group failed to deploy the ransomware.
Microsoft emphasizes that companies must promptly investigate whether servers are infected and back up data, and also promptly clean up viruses to prevent attackers from infiltrating the intranet.
For Microsoft Exchange Server-related fixes and security bulletins, please click here to view, and please fix the vulnerability as soon as possible.
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Corporate Audit Services (CAS), the Internal Audit function within Capital One, is a dedicated group of audit professionals focused on delivering top quality assurance services to the organization’s Audit and Risk Committees. The CAS department is considered one of the leading internal audit functions within the financial services industry and is highly regarded within Capital One. CAS professionals are experienced, well-trained and credentialed, and operate within a highly collaborative team environment to deliver value added opinions, recommendations, advice and counsel. In addition, the CAS prides itself on having a dynamic and challenging atmosphere for both personal growth and professional opportunity.
Capital One is seeking an energetic, self-motivated Technology Audit Senior Manager interested in becoming part of our Corporate Audit Services team. The candidate will focus on information security and technology activities to identify, assess, control, and manage cyber risk throughout the company. Areas of focus will include the maturity and sustainment of the overall information security program, emerging technologies (e.g., cloud, APIs), digital capabilities (e.g., mobile), as well as reviews of Technology processes, applications, and core infrastructure. In addition, the Sr. Manager will work closely with members of the Technology and operational audit teams as it relates to assessment of new and evolving threats, as well as emerging and core technologies that support key processes. Each audit enables the candidate to demonstrate business, technical and industry knowledge while assessing business risks, identifying key controls, and performing risk-based testing of technology controls. The candidate will also facilitate knowledge sharing of best practices and industry trends to team members, and contribute to thought leadership activities within the IS Audit team. The candidate will work independently, with guidance from Audit management as needed. Career development and growth opportunities exist through our established training programs within the Corporate Audit Services team, as well as in Technology and business functions. The candidate will be expected to maintain all organizational and professional ethical standards.
Here's what we're looking for in an ideal teammate:
You believe insight and objectivity are core elements to providing assurance on the effectiveness and efficiency of Capital One’s governance, risk management, and internal control processes.
You adapt to change, embrace bold ideas, and are intellectually curious. You like to ask questions, test assumptions, and challenge conventional thinking.
You develop influential relationships based upon shared risk objectives and trust to deliver outstanding business impact and elevate Audit’s value proposition.
You’re a firm believer that a rich understanding of data, innovation, and technical knowledge will only make you a better Auditor. This will require leveraging the power of data analytics and furthering your technical know-how, so you’ll want to ensure that technology doesn’t scare you off.
You're a teacher. You have a passion for coaching and investing in the betterment of your team.
Lastly, you create energy and an environment that make it easy to attract, hire, and retain top talent.
Responsibilities:
Leads audits or significant components of audits, including the annual capstone information security program audit, cyber risk management, technology risk management, core data center infrastructure, application, and project audits, as well as audits of emerging technologies and digital capabilities. Develops engagement planning documentation to communicate rationale for scoping decisions and develops audit programs to ensure adequate coverage of risk.
Monitors current threats, vulnerabilities, emerging technologies and associated risks. Networks with peers from other organizations to stay in front of emerging risks and trends.
Designs and executes internal control testing for audits, demonstrating a degree of audit expertise consistent with experience level. Understands the broader context and implications of the various risks affecting the business.
Supervises and coordinates work assignments amongst audit team members. Provides timely feedback and coaching to audit staff.
Leverage available data and analytical tools during the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of audit delivery.
Establishes and maintains good auditee relations during engagements. Identifies the expectations of the auditee and takes actions to support the auditee experience.
At least 7 years of experience in information systems auditing, at least 7 years of experience in information security / cyber / technology, at least 7 years of experience in risk management, or a combination.
At least 3 years of experience managing audit engagements.
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http://careers.womensenergynetwork.org/jobs/10713148/sr-manager-technology-audit-information-security-cyber
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Solution is: Instructor-Lead Hands-on Training on a Computer with Practice.
This course is designed to help computer users (i.e. Technical, Sales, or Administrative) on staff at a company who are using a Computer, Internet, and E-Mail for their daily work in the business environment.
The Awareness Training is Essential for the Safe Operation for almost every Business. Employees must be aware of Potential Threats and Vulnerabilities they face and understand how to apply appropriate countermeasures.
The more employees that understand about the nature of computer security threats, the more these employees are educated to protect the confidential data and business operation and will comply with the rules and regulations mandated by different agencies.
We’re here to help your Employees to Teach and educate a proven “Cyber Security Awareness Training” which works best for your Environment and Needs.
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A new Technical Note and Manual (TNM 11/05) has been published by the Fiscal Affairs Department on a topic that is of utmost importance to treasuries and ministries of finance but usually neglected: operational risk management (ORM) and business continuity (including disaster recovery) planning. The author is Ian Storkey, a well known international expert on treasury and debt management, including ORM.
This TNM should have a profound effect on how treasuries operate. Developing an ORM framework and a BCP/DRP should become a priority for treasuries and ministries of finance (MoFs). Why is this? As Ian Storkey mentions, for the simple but very important reason that they are responsible for managing very substantial government assets and liabilities and handling many large value transactions and as a consequence any risk exposure can have damaging fiscal effects and in addition generate severe reputational and political damage. Operational risks[1] are one category of risks that can produce these effects (as other risks can do as well). Operational risks are usually defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. ”[2]
Despite their relevance, operational risks are not well known by most treasuries. They are familiarized with financial and business risks but not with operational risks. As Ian Storkey underscores, awareness of operational risks is low in the public sector, and very few MoFs have a business continuity and disaster recovery plan (BCP/DRP).[3]
ORM is common practice, particularly by private financial institutions. Central banks should have good ORM and BCP/DRP due to their obligations under BIS and other regulatory requirements; but the same standards do not apply to the ministries of finance or treasuries. They normally do not face the same regulatory pressure to put in place adequate measures to monitor and control operational risks and maintain a BCP/DRP, as is the case with central banks.
Fortunately, this situation of neglect of ORM has started to change. In Latin America, for instance, Mexico, Colombia and Peru are developing (or starting to develop) ORM frameworks, including BCP/DRP. Chile has a well developed ORM but other countries in the region have yet to begin the process.
Ian Storkey TNM is an effort directed to promote and support changes in this area, including organizational (governance) and cultural changes. The TNM being published answers the following four key questions:
ORM aims to ensure the integrity and quality of the operations of ministry of finance and treasury using a variety of tools including audit, recruitment policies, system controls, and a fully implemented and regularly tested BCP/DRP. These are some of the tools that a government could use to assess, monitor and manage operational risks. Treasuries should have in place a BCP/DRP to ensure its ability to operate on an ongoing basis and limit losses in the event of any business disruption.
As Mr. Storkey mentions, an ORM framework provides a definition of operational risk and lays down the principles of how operational risks are to be identified, assessed, monitored, and controlled or mitigated.
As he underscores, unlike market or credit risk, operational risk is mainly endogenous to the ministry of finance. Apart from external events such as natural catastrophes, it is linked to the business environment, nature and complexity of treasury operations, the processes and systems in place, and the quality of the management and of the information flows.
Developing an ORM framework (including BCP/DRP) is a long and gradual process. It takes time and effort to not only identify and understand the risks but also the mitigation techniques in an environment that is constantly changing.
Mr. Storkey recommends as one of the first steps to implement an ORM that a “risk champion” be appointed to take overall responsibility for it. ORM is more effective if the “risk champion” is located in the risk management unit of the MoF. Once the organizational structure has been established, he recommends that the development and maintenance of an ORM framework for treasury should follow a six-step process:
continuous improvement of the ORM framework through regular testing and updating.
Business continuity planning (or management) is the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, frameworks and programs to assist the treasury in managing a business disruption, as well as build treasury resilience. Business continuity planning assists in preventing, preparing for, responding to, managing, and recovering from the impacts of an incident or disruptive event; it is therefore that part of ORM that establishes cost-effective measures and suitable risk intervention approaches for each activity should an event occurs, using one or more of the following strategies: i) prevention or avoidance; ii) transference; iii) containment; and iv) acceptance and recovery.
A DRP documents the recovery component of the BCP. It facilitates the i) smooth transition to recovery operations following a major incident or event (or disaster); ii) escalation of recovery operations in the event of a prolonged disruption; and iii) return to normal operations as quickly as possible. Activating the disaster recovery plan will be necessary for major incidents or events that impact on the working environment of the treasury or ministry of finance and require relocation to an alternate site. An important part of the DRP is the structure of incident management and recovery teams along with the administration and IT support.
Should ORM by the MoF be the result of explicit and separate regulations? Even though Mr. Storkey does not discuss this issue in the TNM, he prefers an approach where the underlying government finance and fiscal transparency and responsibility regulations require the identification of fiscal risks and provide a statement on how the main fiscal risks identified will be managed. A number of governments have a risk statement in the budget and/or annual financial statements that outline the government’s risk management policies to address all the major financial risks – some now include statements on ORM (such as the UK). FAD has promoted the approach of preparing a statement on fiscal risks[4] and operational risks should be part of that statement.
Mr. Storkey also thinks that government treasuries should adhere to international standards that are well documented – for example, the IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency (2007) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards such as IPSAS-15 and 19, which require disclosure of risk policies, although they do not explicitly include operational risk. While the code and standards need to be updated to explicitly include ORM, the principles of disclosure established by these standards are still relevant.
[1] Operational risks include: loss of key personnel; infrastructure and technology failures covering computer systems, power, telecommunications, data and physical records; failures of third party key service providers such as the commercial banks and internet providers, and other outsourced operations; human errors or failures, including theft; and building damage as a result of natural disasters or terrorism.
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Specific Instructions for the above files : (Can not be uploaded as a single file because of the size.)
After downloading the imf-offline-db1927.zip file, ( and other files, rename imf-offline-db1927.z0x.zip files to imf-offline-db1927.z0x files &), open and then unzip all files contained within for the core files - core000.def, core016.def, and core030.def .
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After downloading the imf-offline-db1933.zip file, ( and other files, rename imf-offline-db1933.z0x.zip files to imf-offline-db1933.z0x files &), open and then unzip all files contained within for the core files - core000.def, core004.def, and core016.def .
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https://forums.iobit.com/forum/general-forums/news-offers/11015-iobit-malware-fighter-latest-offline-iobit-database/page56
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Web for pentesters 1, LDAP,File upload and XML attacks.
In this post ill be walking through the web for pentesters 1 LDAP, file upload and XML attacks. These are the last of the exercises for the virtual machine and will conclude this series.
First off what is LDAP? LDAP (lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol for accessing and maintaining a directory over the internet. So it basically allows a user to access a directory remotely and modify it as if they where on that physically on that machine.
For this example you will need to create a new file with the code above and the extension .php.blah, you swap blah for something else, just make sure the server can’t process it.
Upload the file, click the link and you should get the same error you got in example 1. Now all you have to do is append ? cmd=cat /etc/passwd to the URL and you should get the passwd file displayed.
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https://alexsemaan.au/2016/09/18/web-for-pentesters-1-ldapfile-upload-and-xml-attacks/
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i see only one way: exclude "Running processes" from Scan Location in the policy. But unfortunatlly this is not an option.
additional information - i'm using McAfee ENS 10.7, McAfee Agent 5.6.6, McAfee ePO 5.10 (Update 9)
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is to overhaul its data and systems security shortly, with the deployment of new organisation-wide antivirus and anti-malware suites.
The deployment, due to be completed by June this year, will involve run across five tiers of hardware: Desktops and laptops, stand-alone systems, physical servers, virtual infrastructure, and the AFP’s NetApp network attached storage (NAS).
The AFP said it intended to use multiple vendors for its antivirus and anti-malware deployments, especially between its server-based and desktop environments. Despite this, each product will be capable of being managed centrally with timely detailed reporting and alerts to the AFP.
“It is not intended that one application vendor be successful in addressing all facets of the computing environment; therefore solutions are expected to include best-of-breed for a defence in-depth outcome,” the documents read.
“To achieve this outcome the AFP will consider solutions that provide for all tiers, or any combination of all tiers.”
The AFP said it would consider the use of applications which would enable VMware-based virtual servers to off-load AV scanning to the hypervisor.
The AFP also noted that it operated a number of desktop and server standard operating environments (SOEs), and any software would need to support Windows XP 32-bit, Windows 7 32- and 64-bit operating systems.
The organisation operates a fleet of Microsoft Windows-based servers from NT4 to Windows 2008 R2. Red Hat Linux midrange systems are also maintained.
Earlier this month, the AFP said it was also increasing security around its printing, stating it would roll out a secure mobile print, copy and scanning solution at its Edmund Barton Building complex.
The solution will allow staff to activate and print a job on any network connected printer or multifunction device through use of a proximity card near the print device.
In May, the AFP said it would look to upgrade its SAP environment so it can securely move, replicate and test data between its SAP development, SAP test and SAP production environments.
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https://www.cso.com.au/article/373967/afp_overhaul_antivirus_anti-malware_security/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=tagfeed
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) has shut down over 2,000 computers after some systems got infected with the SamSam ransomware on Wednesday, February 21.
The agency’s IT staff is working with its antivirus provider McAfee to remediate affected workstations and safeguard other endpoints before reintroducing PCs into its network.
DOT officials told local press that crucial systems were not affected, such as those managing road surveillance cameras, traffic alerts, message boards, and others. The agency’s Twitter feed continued to show traffic alerts after the agency shut down much of its employees’ IT network.
Colorado DOT will not pay the ransom
In a rare sign of transparency, officials revealed the name of the ransomware —SamSam. This is the same ransomware strain that infected hospitals, city councils, and ICS firms in January.
The hackers made over $300,000 from those attacks. One of the victims, an Indiana hospital agreed to pay a $55,000 ransom demand despite having backups. Hospital officials said it was easier and faster to pay the ransom than restore all its computers’ data from backups.
DOT officials said they don’t intend to follow suit by paying the ransom demand and they will restore from backups.
SamSam ransomware making a comeback
The SamSam ransomware is a ransomware strain that’s been deployed by a single group. Infection occurs after attackers gain access to a company’s internal networks by brute-forcing RDP connections.
Attackers then try to gain access to as many computers on the same network as possible, on which they manually run the SamSam ransomware to encrypt files.
In the recent campaigns, SamSam operators usually asked for a 1 Bitcoin ransom and left a message of “I’m sorry” on victims’ computers.
The SamSam group had been previously active in the winter of 2016 but have come back with new attacks. These new attacks have been detailed in reports published by Bleeping Computer, Secureworks, and Cisco Talos.
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https://cyber.tn/samsam-ransomware-hits-colorado-dot-agency-shuts-down-2000-computers/
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You’ve probably seen the commercial already, with a businessman in a suit touting his social security number for all to see, claiming that his service can protect you from potential identity theft disasters. Needless to say many in the industry are somewhat skeptical of such a service and whether Lifelock can really provide significant (not impossible, mind you, no service like this could ever hope to be completely invulnerable) protection against would-be thieves. While there’s been plenty of speculation, I decided to go to their site and take a look for myself. As per the site’s how-to guide, their steps to protect your identity are broken down into six parts (If you’re curious as to how this measures up against other identity theft services, you can take a look at this Lifelock Comparison Chart):
Credit Bureau Fraud Alerts: They contact the credit bureaus and request free fraud alerts on your behalf, which is usually done in short order. While I’m certain you could do this yourself, Lifelock claims that it will not charge you extra for the privilege.
Alert Maintenance: They will continue to request fraud alerts every 90 days, though one again I’m sure you could do this on your own given proper discipline and planning.
Removal from Junk Lists: Lifelock will request to have you removed from all sorts of junk mailing lists. Once again something you could do on your own.
Credit Report Request: Every year, they will request your free credit report from each major credit bureau and send it directly to you. As with previous steps, this can be done on your own.
Wallet Lock Service: If your wallet is lost or stolen, you can call a Lifelock support representative and they’ll walk you through canceling all necessary accounts/credit cards.
Identity Theft Monitoring: The only part of the service that you’d be hard pressed to do on your own, they will watch for your information on “known criminal websites.“ They will also watch for new address information with your name in a variety of nationwide databases, alerting you if someone has attempted to change your address.
Ultimately, the service seems to be an issue of convenience with some additional security measures mixed in. I wouldn’t say its a necessity for everyone, but it likely would make your life easier in the case of losing your wallet or if a would-be thief makes an attempt to change your personal information. Common alerts and reports are certainly useful to find out about any suspicious activity as early as possible, but this can be done on your own for free. If you’re looking for additional information on the service, I’d take a look at Lifelock Reviews. They provide additional information about the service, and a more thorough investigation into a Lifelock Scam possibility.
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http://www.thefinancecastle.com/2008/07/31/identity-theft-and-finance-should-you-pay-for-protection/
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You can also choose to first put software it finds into a quarantine, to make sure that it in fact is malware, before deleting it. This program digs deep -- not only will it find and kill spyware, but it will even detect "traces" such as Registry entries, and kill them as well.
a-squared doesn't offer real-time spyware protection, and won't protect your PC against getting infected in the first place; for that you'll need another piece of anti-spyware. But it's free, and so is ideal to use as a second or third spyware killer on your PC.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/231874/asquared_free.html
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Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (POMED / Flickr)
Saudi activist Omar Abdulaziz filed a lawsuit against Israeli cyber warfare company NSO Group in Tel Aviv on Sunday, on the basis that the company’s malware intercepted conversations between the activist and slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The lawsuit alleges the spyware company violates international law through selling its software to oppressive regimes that use it to violate human rights, CNN reported.
Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, where he was killed and dismembered by a hit squad sent from Saudi Arabia.
After a number of attempts at muddying the waters, Saudi Arabia eventually admitted the Washington Post columnist was slain inside the building.
Abdulaziz is one of Khashoggi’s close friends and a Saudi activist living in political asylum in Canada. Abdulaziz and Khashoggi were speaking on an almost daily basis between October 2017 and August 2018, according to CNN.
One day before Khashoggi’s disappearance, University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab published an investigation revealing that Abdulaziz was likely spied on by the Saudi government using Israeli technology. Citizen Lab later added that Khashoggi was targeted as well.
“The hacking of my phone played a major role in what happened to Jamal, I am really sorry to say,” Abdulaziz told CNN. “The guilt is killing me.”
The malware that reportedly infected Abdulaziz’s phone, called Pegasus, is made by NSO Group and is only sold to governments.
Pegasus hacks smartphones by sending the targeted device a compelling message that contains a link. These have included fake messages purporting to be an urgent notification regarding a family member. According to Citizen Lab, Abdulaziz was sent a fake notification for a package delivery.
If the recipient clicks on the link, the system installs sophisticated malware on the device that can go undetected and send information back to those doing the spying.
Pegasus reportedly gives operators access to the user’s location, emails and messages as well as access to the phone’s camera and microphone, among other functions.
“It is 100 percent clear that [Jamal Khashoggi] received one of these text messages containing a link,” Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at Citizen Lab, told CNN in October.
WhatsApp messages
Abdulaziz shared more than 400 WhatsApp messages exchanged between him and Khashoggi with CNN.
The pair mainly discussed creating a joint digital activism project, which they dubbed “cyber bees,” aimed at documenting Saudi human rights abuses in short films that could be easily shared.
Their messages also criticized Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who is widely suspected of giving the order to abduct and kill Khashoggi.
“NSO should be held accountable in order to protect the lives of political dissidents, journalists and human rights activists,” Abdulaziz’s lawyer in Jerusalem, Alaa Mahajna, told CNN.
Abdulaziz targeted
Abdulaziz told CNN he was approached by two Saudi government emissaries in May who asked to meet him in Montreal.
Abdulaziz met with the officials and secretly recorded hours of conversations in which officials offered him a job on behalf of the crown prince.
The government officials also suggested Abdulaziz visit the Saudi embassy to pick up some paperwork, but Abdulaziz declined at the advice of Khashoggi, who warned Abdulaziz to only meet them in public spaces.
“Abdulaziz’s recorded messages are telling because Saudi Arabia has always claimed its crown prince had nothing to do with plots like the one leading to Khashoggi’s death, blaming that incident on a failed rendition attempt, masterminded by advisers and subordinates from the security staff,” CNN reported.
Pegasus offered to Saudi Arabia
Israeli daily Haaretz revealed in November that NSO Group had offered the Saudi government an advanced version of its system, called Pegasus 3, and described it as “an espionage tool so sophisticated that it does not depend on the victim clicking on a link before the phone is breached.”
Representatives of NSO Group met with Abdullah al-Malihi, a close associate of a former head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, and Nasser al-Qahtani, a top Saudi official close to the crown prince, in June 2017 in Vienna, according to Haaretz. The Saudis expressed interest in NSO’s technology at the meeting.
Al-Malihi and al-Qahtani met with “officials of Israeli companies in which other Israelis were present” multiple times after that, and “an agreement was made to sell the Pegasus 3 to the Saudis for $55 million.” “Israel is willing to sell these countries security-related technologies, and they forge closer ties with Israel in the strategic battle against Iran,” Haaretz reported.
Lawsuits against NSO
Amnesty International has also said it intends to pursue legal action over NSO Group after one of its staff was targeted by Pegasus in an effort to spy on them earlier this year.
Amnesty is also demanding that Israel’s defense ministry revoke the spyware company’s export license, citing “a series of egregious human rights violations.”
Mexican journalists and a Qatari citizen have also filed lawsuits against NSO Group in Israel and Cyprus, accusing the company of participating in illegal spying, The New York Times reported in August.
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