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Three data security risks are converging, creating the perfect security storm in today’s education sector—more student data, more breaches, and more federal and state regulations. While the security storm presents significant challenges, there is a solution that can help make data more secure and schools more compliant—data encryption.
One of the leading federal compliance regulations governing data privacy in schools is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Signed into law in 1974, FERPA set some ground rules for educational institutions that receive federal funding, and gave parents the right to review, challenge, and consent to the disclosure of their children’s educational records.
Records protected by FERPA include grades, standardized test scores, health information and behavioral reports. After students turn 18 or transfer to an institution of higher education, those rights transfer to the student.
Essentially, FERPA prohibits K-12 educational institutions from disclosing personally identifiable information (PII) in education records without written parental consent. For students over the age of 18, or in higher education, they have more control over their educational records.
However, the world has changed a lot since 1974—due in large part to the proliferation of technology in the classroom—and additional protections are necessary to keep three leading student data privacy risks at bay, and stay compliant with FERPA.
Risk 1: Expansion of Student Data
Schools have always collected a wide range of data—including enrollment information, performance stats, test results, learning disabilities, special needs, health records, and disciplinary actions. With the advent of digital learning and devices in the classroom, new forms of data are now being created—and lots of it. It’s all adding up and putting schools, as the custodians of student data, in a precarious position.
Increased data creation and use has the potential to transform education for the better, and in many instances already is, but it can also put sensitive student information at risk of landing in the wrong hands through the misuse of technology, poor data security policies, and insufficient privacy controls. This puts schools at risk for breaches, public relations debacles, and non-compliance penalties.
Gaps in FERPA itself add to the challenges. For example, the regulation allows schools to share students’ education records under certain circumstances. Most educational technology companies, such as gradebook systems and classroom learning programs, receive student information under the “school officials” exception. It says that a school may share education records with third-party service providers if there is a “legitimate educational interest” in disclosing the information, the third party is performing a service the school would otherwise perform itself, or the third party is under the school’s “direct control.” But it’s not always clear what data third parties receive and what they do with it.
Another FERPA exception permits the disclosure of “directory information” as long as parents can opt out. Examples of directory information include name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, and dates of attendance. Once released, directory information may be used for any purpose.
Risk 2: Increase in Data Breaches
Data attacks within the education sector are on the rise. According to the annual 2018 Breach Level Index Report, the number of personal records exposed due to security breaches in the education industry ballooned from 4.5 million in 2016 to nearly 33.5 million records in 2017. In the first six months of 2018, the education sector experienced 86 breaches that impacted over 12 million records. Significant data breach incidents include:
In December 2018, a San Diego School District announced that it had been hacked and that the data of more than 500,000 students and staff had been exposed. Over 50 email accounts of district employees were compromised in the attack, resulting in the exposure of a wide range of personal data—from health information to social security numbers.
In 2017, a hacker stole 77 million user accounts from Edmodo, a social learning platform used widely in K-12 schools around the world. The breached information included usernames, email addresses, and passwords. The data was reported to be up for sale on “the dark web.”
In April of 2017, a security researcher found that Schoolzilla, which offers data warehousing services and tools to school districts, had been backing up students’ PII to a publicly accessible location on Amazon S3. Data of over 1.3 million students and staff members were exposed.
In 2013, the Social Security numbers of over 300,000 University of Maryland students and alumni were breached. This breach resulted in not only a huge FERPA penalty, but also a bill for $2.8 million for credit-monitoring services to those affected.
Risk 3: More Federal and State Regulations
Each year, state and/or federal legislative bodies continue to introduce more regulations surrounding student data. If schools don’t comply, federal funding is at risk. Non-compliance will also result in a hefty fine, with an average cost of $245 per breached record. FERPA isn’t the only federal law governing schools though. Schools must also secure student data under three other federal regulations:
Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA). The law applies to student surveys, instructional materials, and evaluations funded by the federal government that deal with highly sensitive issues. Parents have the right of written consent before their children are required to participate.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The primary goal of COPPA is to allow parents to control what information is collected online about children under 13. The law applies to websites, online services, and programs and apps that collect, use, or disclose children’s personally identifiable information (PII) at home or school.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The main goal of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule is to ensure that individuals’ health information is protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide high-quality healthcare. This includes healthcare data flowing from schools to healthcare entities and back.
Along with these federal laws, most states also have their own data security and privacy laws that schools must follow. As of April 2019, 40 U.S. states had passed 116 laws, with more state regulations predicted to come online in the near future. Effective policies and regulations at both the state and federal levels can help ensure that student data is used for its intended purpose—to support student learning.
Key transmission. The right key management framework enables key sharing that is both secure and easy.
Authentication. Only verified recipients are able to unlock encrypted data, because only they receive the decryption keys.
Authorization. Verifies the actions that people can take on encrypted data once they’ve been authenticated.
Policy management. Allows an organization to add and adjust security control capabilities for all data.
Key storage. Schools retain control of their encryption keys rather than putting them into the hands of third parties.
It’s more important than ever that educators and institutions know the law, follow best practices and invest in security measures to protect students. Data encryption, while not a bulletproof measure on its own, is a critical component of a comprehensive information security policy to maintain student privacy—not to mention federal funding.
For more information on how K-12 schools are keeping their students’ data secure with an easy-to-use layer of encryption protection on top of their G Suite application, request a demo and talk to a Virtru data security expert today.
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POWAY, Calif., Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, today announced findings focused on the manufacturing sector from the Apricorn 2021 Global IT Security Survey. The survey results demonstrate that IT professionals in manufacturing have a greater awareness of the cybersecurity risks that come from remote work when compared to professionals in other industries, such as education, financial services and healthcare.
"The manufacturing supply chain is something that consumers have become much more aware of since the start of the COVID pandemic, as products from silicon chips to gasoline have, at times, been very hard to come by. As such, any loss of company data or disruption to that data can likewise, cause a ripple effect, impacting production, resources, deliveries and of course, revenue," said Kurt Markley, U.S. Managing Director, Apricorn. "Amidst the news of many data breaches and supply chain disruptions, I was pleasantly surprised to see that many IT professionals in manufacturing are proactively taking these ever-present threats seriously. Remote and hybrid workforces that operate without stringent cybersecurity policies and encryption technology are at an increased risk of breaches, lost and/or stolen data."
Employees who work in remote or hybrid positions in the manufacturing sector appear to be more aware of the heightened IT security risks and the cybersecurity vulnerabilities presented by remote work. Of note, 61% of respondents confirmed that individual employees working from home in the manufacturing industry think of themselves as targets that attackers can use to access company data. This is compared to only 30.6% in education and 47.9% in financial services whose employees view themselves as targets.
IT professionals in manufacturing also appear to be cautious of technology that poses additional risks, but stop short of further protection strategies. Nearly 98% of respondents in manufacturing say their organization has concerns about the data protection and the integrity of documents stored in cloud-based services. Yet when questioned about alternatives, only 34.15% say that encryption has been used when transporting devices and data, despite the fact that 68.29% say that encrypted USB storage devices should be used by their organizations.
"Hardware encrypted storage devices are a strong, complementary storage option for highly sensitive data that is stored in the cloud," added Markley. "Data redundancy is critically important for continuity and business resiliency in the event of a breach or data-loss event. Many companies in the manufacturing industry are aware of the risks of remote and hybrid work. But there is still room to improve their risk mitigation strategies."
The full survey report is available for download at Apricorn.com
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“He acted like my basic needs were an inconvenience,” she said. “I was only asking for some affection, and he would turn away from me or tell me I was being needy. It made me feel awful about myself.”
My neighbor was describing her marriage, and it sounded eerily familiar.
I related all too well to her feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy. I, too, had been in a relationship with someone who couldn’t meet my needs for emotional closeness.
And, like my neighbor, I had blamed myself.
I thought something was wrong with me. I believed that my need for affection was excessive. Surely, I wasn’t normal to need that much love and care.
It wasn’t until later that I realized my partner’s emotional unavailability had nothing to do with me. It was about him and his fears and issues.
According to PsychCentral, “Emotional unavailability refers to someone who doesn’t respond to your emotional needs or cues. An emotionally unavailable man or woman has persistent difficulty expressing or handling emotions and getting emotionally close to other people.”
This can manifest in many ways, including a reluctance to open up about feelings, a lack of empathy, or an avoidance of intimacy.
People who are emotionally unavailable may be afraid of being hurt or feeling the discomfort of vulnerability.
The different faces of emotional unavailability
Emotional unavailability is not one size fits all. There are different degrees of emotional unavailability, which can manifest in various ways.
Some people may be emotionally available sometimes, but not others. And some may only be emotionally available to certain people, like friends or family members, but not romantic partners.
“It is often difficult to spot whether someone is emotionally unavailable, especially in the early stages of a relationship. They can be charming engaging, and make you feel like they are committed. But as time goes by and the relationship deepens, you may feel lonely and dissatisfied and unsure why.” — Imi Lo, Psychology Today
Many different factors can contribute to emotional unavailability.
Trauma is often the catalyst for emotional withdrawal. Someone who’s experienced abuse, abandonment, or rejection may struggle with being emotionally available. They may have trouble trusting others or opening up about their feelings.
Other times, emotional unavailability can be the result of attachment issues. People who didn’t have a secure, healthy attachment to their caregivers in childhood may have trouble forming healthy attachments as adults. They may be afraid of intimacy or closeness.
And sometimes, emotional unavailability is simply a matter of fear. Fear of intimacy, rejection, or abandonment can all contribute to keeping emotions at bay.
“Because they tend to “turn off” emotions and have poor insight, people who are emotionally unavailable might also exhibit low empathy — the inability to understand or share someone else’s feelings.” — Julie Marks and Sandra Silva Casabianca, PsychCentral
Is emotional unavailability a bad thing?
Many people see emotional unavailability as a negative trait. And while it can certainly make life more complicated, it’s important to remember that everyone has a different comfort level regarding intimacy and emotional closeness.
Some people may need more time to open up, and that’s OK. The important thing is that you’re honest about your feelings and comfort with the people in your life.
Is there any hope for the emotionally unavailable?
The good news is that emotional availability is not a permanent state. People can and do change, and it is possible for the emotionally unavailable to open up.
If you’re in a relationship with someone who appears to have an emotional barrier, remember that it’s not about you.
The key is to communicate openly and honestly about your needs and expectations. If your partner is unwilling or unable to meet your needs, take some time to assess what is best for you.
It’s also essential to work on your self-esteem and emotional availability. If you’re not comfortable with yourself, having a healthy, intimate relationship with someone else will be difficult — regardless of how emotionally available they are.
Building self-confidence and learning to love yourself is a journey, but it’s worth taking. When you can be emotionally present for yourself, you’re more likely to find someone who can be emotionally present for you.
Have you ever been in a relationship with someone emotionally unavailable? What was it like for you? Let us know in the comments.
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Different graphics cards are made for different tasks. Both Nvidia and AMD offer a wide range of hardware, from GPUs built to bolster the video capabilities of home theater PCs to lofty high-end cards that crush games even at 4K resolution. Here, we’ll go over every GeForce graphics card Nvidia offers today, sharing information about the type of performance you can expect from each—including the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and Titan V.
In general Nvidia’s current generation of GTX 10-series graphics cards offers extreme power efficiency compared to AMD’s rival Radeon RX series, and Nvidia backs up its hardware with a potent array of software, including the GeForce Experience hub, Ansel super-screenshots, and ShadowPlay video capture. GeForce cards can also be used to stream your PC games to your TV via Nvidia’s powerful Shield console.
Looking for general buying advice and more of a compare-and-contrast versus AMD? PCWorld’s guide to the best graphics cards for PC gaming can help you select the best option for you, no matter your budget.
The only current Nvidia card unworthy of the “X” in “GTX,” the GT 1030 can help speed up image editing on productivity machines while simultaneously unlocking the ability to play e-sports games like Overwatch and League of Legends at 1080p with solid frame rates. Playing most AAA PC games will probably push the GT 1030 past its limits unless you severely dial down graphics settings, and potentially the resolution. This modest, highly efficient graphics card draws its power from your motherboard alone, meaning you don’t need an extra power supply pin to use it. That feature, combined with Nvidia’s potent video playback capabilities, make the GT 1030 a great option for home theater PCs, too.
The GT 1030 starts at $70 on AmazonRemove product link, with low-profile models like the Zotac GT 1030 going for $75Remove product link. Its AMD competitor is the slightly more expensive $80-and-up Radeon RX 550. We haven’t tested the GT 1030 yet, but based off the specs, it’s likely to be a wee bit faster than its Radeon rival.
Moving up the stack, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti are solid entry-level graphics cards, offering performance on a par with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in many cases. You can expect modern AAA games to hit frame rates ranging from 30 fps to 60 fps at 1080p, but you’ll need to dial some visual settings down to Medium in most games to approach that upper target. The GTX 1050 Ti delivers roughly 10 percent more performance than the GTX 1050, and both easily surpass AMD’s Radeon RX 560. Another bonus: Most models don’t need an extra power connector.
The GTX 1050 starts around $120 on AmazonRemove product link and comes with 2GB of memory. It’s a solid option if you stick to e-sports games or can tolerate Medium graphics in AAA games.
Consider stepping up to the GTX 1050 Ti and its 4GB of RAM if you mostly want to play modern games on High graphics settings. It currently starts around $160 on Newegg, a $20 or so markup over suggested pricing, but the memory and performance increase makes it worthwhile. Don’t waste your money on a 4GB GTX 1050 non-Ti.
Nvidia’s next options are two different graphics cards with, confusingly, the same name. The 6GB GeForce GTX 1060 ($270 on AmazonRemove product link) is a drop-dead awesome graphics card, delivering flawless 60-fps 1080p gameplay with full visual fidelity, a damned good 1440p/High experience, and even virtual reality support.
Despite its name, the 3GB GTX 1060 ($220 on Amazon) isn’t the same as the 6GB GTX 1060. Yes, it has less onboard memory—and the limited 3GB capacity can sometimes affect performance in some games at 1080p if you crank the eye candy—but it also has lesser internal hardware, offering about 10 percent less performance. If you buy it, stick to 1080p alone, and be aware you may need to turn down texture settings.
The 3GB and 6GB GTX 1060 compete against the Radeon RX 570 and RX 580, respectively, and need a six-pin power connector. AMD’s cards hold a bang-for-buck advantage—when prices aren’t wildly inflated due to Ethereum mining, that is.
The GeForce GTX 1070 ($400 on AmazonRemove product link) delivers performance on a par with the GTX 900-series’ Titan X flagship. Look for it to deliver solid 60-fps 1440p gaming performance at high graphics quality, or a great 1080p experience on a blazing-fast 144Hz monitor. You’d also be able to play some games—mostly older ones—at 4K resolution if you don’t mind dialing down graphics settings, dipping somewhat below 60-fps frame rates, or investing in a G-Sync monitor like the $600 Acer Predator XB281HKRemove product link. It requires an 8-pin power connector.
AMD’s $400 Radeon RX Vega 56 goes head-to-head with the GTX 1070—and it wins so many of those battles that Nvidia wound up releasing a whole new graphics card.
The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ($450 for Nvidia Founders Edition) released a year and a half after the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080—and a couple months after the 1070-toppling Radeon RX Vega 56. Despite its name, the card’s GPU more closely aligns with the one inside the GTX 1080. In fact, performance fell just short of the GTX 1080 in our testing, and with a solid overclock it might even surpass stock GTX 1080 performance, especially if you buy a customized card with advanced cooling and power capabilities, like the superb EVGA GTX 1070 Ti SC Black Edition ($470 on Newegg). This card is the best 1440p gaming option available, and again, you can even play at 4K if you drop graphics settings a bit in most games.
It beats Radeon Vega 56—but Nvidia restricted the clock speeds of customized GTX 1070 Ti models to stock performance in order to keep them from beating the GTX 1080 out of the box, too. Manual overclocks are still allowed, and board makers like EVGA and Asus are baking tools to auto-overclock the GTX 1070 Ti into their software.
Every GTX 10-series graphics card Nvidia offers today is a worthwhile purchase. Nobody knows when Nvidia’s next round of GeForce cards will land, presumably packing the same Volta GPU architecture as the Titan V. It could be the middle of 2018. Don’t delay buying a graphics cards in anticipation of Volta—but it is coming.
Once again, check out PCWorld’s guide to the best graphics cards for PC gaming for buying advice and more details about where Nvidia’s lineup, well, lines up compared to AMD’s Radeon cards.
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The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, and AlgoSec, the leading provider of business-driven network and cloud security management solutions, today announced the results of a new study titled, “Cloud Security Complexity: Challenges in Managing Security in Native Cloud, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments.”
The survey of 700 IT and security professionals aims to analyze and better understand the state of adoption and security in current hybrid cloud and multi-cloud security environments, including public cloud, private cloud, or use of more than one public cloud platform.
Key findings of the study include:
Cloud creates configuration and visibility problems: When asked to rank on a scale of 1 to 4 the aspects of managing security in public clouds they found challenging, respondents cited proactively detecting misconfigurations and security risks as the biggest challenge (3.35), closely followed by a lack of visibility into the entire cloud estate (3.21). Audit preparation and compliance (3.16), holistic management of cloud and on-prem environments (3.1), and managing multiple clouds (3.09) rounded out the top five.
Human error and configuration mistakes the biggest causes of outages: 11.4% of respondents reported a cloud security incident in the past year, and 42.5% had a network or application outage. The two leading causes were operational / human errors in management of devices (20%), device configuration changes (15%) and device faults (12%).
Cloud compliance and legal concerns:Compliance and legal challenges were cited as major concerns when moving into the cloud (57% regulatory compliance; 44% legal concerns).
Security is the major concern in cloud projects:81% of cloud users said they encountered significant security concerns. Concerns over risks of data losses and leakage were also high with users when deploying in the cloud (cited by 62%), followed by regulatory compliance concerns (57%), and integration with the rest of the organizations’ IT environment (49%).
“As companies of all sizes are taking advantage of the value of the cloud with its improved agility and flexibility, they are also facing unique new security concerns, especially when integrating multiple cloud services and platforms into an already complex IT environment,” said John Yeoh, Global Vice President of Research, Cloud Security Alliance. “The study findings demonstrate how important it is for enterprises to have holistic cloud visibility and management across their increasingly complex hybrid network environments in order to maintain security, reduce the risk of outages and misconfigurations, and fulfil audit and compliance demands.” “This survey makes clear that there is no one-size-fits-all cloud deployment model: organizations are choosing to adopt and use cloud resources in the way that suits their business needs. But this cloud flexibility also creates many security challenges for today’s enterprise. Irrespective of how they choose to use cloud resources, end-to-end visibility across the networks is critical to meet security and compliance obligations,” said Jeffrey Starr, CMO of AlgoSec. “Robust network security management and automation become increasingly mission critical. We see organizations moving to automate security management across native cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid network estates, driving agility while ensuring continuous security for next-generation enterprise environments.”
Commissioned by AlgoSec and conducted by the CSA, the survey also looked to uncover insights on topics such as workloads being used in or moved to the cloud and how they are being deployed/migrated; types of cloud platform(s) being used by companies; common security challenges faced by companies when deploying workloads in the cloud; methods of managing risk and vulnerabilities in the cloud environment; and causes of network or application outages and the amount of time it took to remediate.
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https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/cloud-security-alliance-study-identifies-new-and-unique-security-challenges-in-native-cloud-hybrid-and-multi-cloud-environments/
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Lenovo is starting its CES party a bit early, announcing new and upgraded ThinkPad laptops and a 2-in-1 with Intel’s new Kaby Lake chips and a slew of new features.
The new ThinkPads are getting better screens, faster DDR4 memory and more storage capacity. Features like USB-C ports, optional LTE connectivity, precision touchpads and optional infrared cameras for Windows Hello are being offered across the ThinkPad X, L and T series.
Lenovo also introduced the ThinkPad Yoga 370 2-in-1, which is the first model in the brand with a 13.3-inch HD screen and a Thunderbolt 3 port.
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The upgraded products are mainly workhorse ThinkPads, but Lenovo is also expected to separately announce flashier laptops and 2-in-1s at CES.
Lenovo doesn’t mess around with the design of mainstream ThinkPads, which have a strong following, but you can expect thinner and lighter laptops with longer battery life.
The ThinkPad Yoga 370, which weighs 1.37 kilograms, will be available starting at $1,264 in March. The device turns into a tablet when you rotate the screen 360 degrees. It will include up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. In addition to Thunderbolt 3, it has two USB 3.0 ports, a MicroSD slot and an HDMI port.
A cheaper option with a 13.3-inch screen is the ThinkPad 13, which comes with an HD screen and NVMe SSD storage. It will be available this month starting at $674.
One upgrade in the popular X200 series is the ThinkPad X270, which has a 12.5-inch screen, and the same look and feel as its X260 predecessor, which has Skylake. The laptop has up to 16GB of DDR4 memory and up to 1TB of SSD or 2GB of hard-drive storage. It also has USB-C, HDMI, two USB 3.0, SD card and a SIM slot. It will be available in March starting at $909 with a 1366 x 768 pixel non-touch screen.
The powerful ThinkPad T-series, which is a favorite among business buyers, stands out for its sleeker look. The screens have thinner borders and the laptops are smaller and lighter as a result.
The ThinkPad T470 (starting at $914, available in February) is available with or without an HD screen, while the T470p (starting at $1,049, available in March) and T470s (starting at $1,099, available in February) are available with screen resolutions up to 2560 x 1440 pixels. The laptops have a wide range of storage and memory options, but only the T470 has a Thunderbolt 3 port. For those who don’t want integrated graphics, the T470p can be configured with Nvidia’s N16S-GTR discrete graphics card, which is mainly designed for laptop workstations..
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T570 is the most loaded laptop of the bunch, and can be configured with a 4K 15.6-inch touch display, Intel’s superfast Optane memory, Nvidia’s GeForce 940MX discrete graphics and up to 32GB of DRAM. It will be available in March starting at $909. It will weigh 2.04 kilograms, and can also be configured with a Snapdragon LTE modem. It will also include an HDMI slot, three USB 3.0 ports and one Thunderbolt 3 connector.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3153590/lenovos-popular-thinkpads-speed-up-with-intels-kaby-lake-chips.html
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This week my guest is futurist Eva Galperin who is the director of cybersecurity at the electronic frontier foundation, which might be argued to be the world’s leading non-profit when it comes to defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
As you’ll hear her explain, Eva specializes in issues around vulnerable populations, such as journalists, activists, and people who are victims of domestic abuse.
In this episode we not only explore the privacy and security issues facing such groups as well as the wider population, but we also dig into questions about regulations, the issues created by our blindness to cultural differences, unique digital IDs, online voting, data ownership, and more.
You can follow Eva's work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation @ https://www.eff.org/about/staff/eva-galperin or follow her at https://twitter.com/evacide
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fbl37-eva-galperin-cybersecurity-privacy-and-cultural/id1468766317?i=1000544128132
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Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is a legal term pertaining to information security environments. While PII has several formal definitions, generally speaking, it is information that can be used by organizations on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.
Non-sensitive PII can be transmitted in unsecure form without causing harm to an individual. Sensitive PII must be transmitted and stored in secure form, for example, using encryption, because it could cause harm to an individual, if disclosed.
Organizations use the concept of PII to understand which data they store, process and manage that identifies people and may carry additional responsibility, security requirements, and in some cases legal or compliance requirements.
In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information defines “personally identifiable” as information like name, social security number, and biometric records, which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity.
In the European Union, directive 95/46/EC defines “personal data” as information which can identify a person via an ID number, or factors specific to physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
In Australia, the Privacy Act 1988 defines “personal information” as information or an opinion, whether true or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained—a much broader definition than in most other countries.
In New Zealand, the Privacy Act defines “personal information” as any piece of information that relates to a living, identifiable human being, including names, contact details, financial health, and purchase records.
In Canada, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Privacy Act defines “personal information” as data that on its own, or combined with other pieces of data, can identify an individual.
From a legal perspective, the responsibility for protecting PII is not solely attributed to organizations; responsibility may be shared with the individual owners of the data. Companies may or may not be legally liable for the PII they hold.
However, according to a study by Experian, 42% of consumers believe it is a company’s responsibility to protect their personal data, and 64% of consumers said they would be discouraged from using a company’s services following a data breach. In light of the public perception that organizations are responsible for PII, it is a widely accepted best practice to secure PII. A common and effective way to do this is using a Data Privacy Framework.
Creating a Data Privacy Framework
A Data Privacy Framework is a documented conceptual structure that can help businesses protect sensitive data like payments, personal information, and intellectual property. The framework specifies how to define sensitive data, how to analyze risks affecting the data, and how to implement controls to secure it.
While there are established data privacy frameworks such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the ISO 27000 family of standards, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there are benefits to creating a custom framework for your organization.
A custom Data Protection Framework will help you put an emphasis on the most sensitive and valuable data within your organization, and design controls that are suitable for your organizational structure, culture, regulatory requirements, and security budget.
Change Management—tracking and auditing changes to configuration on IT systems which might have security implications, such as adding/removing user accounts.
Data Loss Prevention—implementing systems that can track sensitive data transferred within the organization or outside it, and identify unnatural patterns that might suggest a breach.
Data masking—ensuring that data is stored or transmitted with the minimal required details for the specific transaction, with other details masked or omitted.
Ethical walls—implementing screening mechanisms to prevent certain departments or individuals within an organization from viewing PII that is not relevant to their work, or that might create a conflict of interest.
Privileged user monitoring—monitoring all privileged access to files and databases, user creation and newly granted privileges, blocking and alerting when suspicious activity is detected.
Sensitive data access auditing—in parallel to monitoring activities by privileged users, monitoring and auditing all access to sensitive data, blocking and alerting on suspicious or anomalous activity.
Secure audit trail archiving—ensuring that any activity conducted on or in relation to PII is audited and retained for a period of 1-7 years, for legal or compliance purposes, and also to enable forensic investigation of security incidents.
User rights management—identifying excessive, inappropriate, or unused user privileges and taking corrective action, such as removing user accounts that have not been used for several months.
User tracking—implementing ways of tracking user activity, online and while using organizational systems, to identify negligent exposure of sensitive data, compromise of user accounts, or malicious insiders.
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https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/personally-identifiable-information-pii/
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All businesses-no matter how big or small-can be targets of ransomware attacks. Working with a quality IT company can help minimize the security risks to your business.
We may only hear about larger ransomware attacks, such as the Sinclair Broadcast Group. However, ransomware attacks can happen to any size business, in any industry, and in any location.
Fortunately, employing the right IT services and preparation an help safeguard your business.
What is Ransomware?
Simply put, ransomware is a form of malware. It encrypts your files. Then, the hacker demands a ransom to restore your access to your data upon payment.
For company’s that negotiate with the hackers, the cost can range from a few hundred to a few million dollars. Typically, this is paid in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
How Ransomware Can Take Over Your Business
First, ransomware can infiltrate your system through email phishing campaigns. This is an all too common type of cyber attack where hackers pretend to be a colleague or vendor to trick you into opening a malicious file.
Second, ransomware can take hold when employees visit infected websites and download the malware onto their computers. Often times, the criminals target highly-trafficked sites. Other times, they attack obscure sites that receive little traffic but still rank on search engines for specific searches.
Finally, a more aggressive form of ransomware can sneak in to your system via software updates. The criminals often target a software update that is used by a large number of machines. Once they find a vulnerability, they use this as an entry point to take over your computers.
Common Types of Ransomware
There are three main types of ransomware: File Locker Ransomware prevents users from accessing their files until the ransom is paid; Crytolocker Ransomware encrypts targeted files and demands a ransom to decrypt them; Locker Ransomware locks the computer’s desktop.
However, they all have one thing in common: if you do not pay the ransom, your data is gone forever. In most cases, there is no possible way for you to retrieve your data without paying the ransom or restoring from a backup that was created prior to being infected by ransomware.
How an IT Company Can Help Protect Your Business from Ransomware
Once hackers have infiltrated your system with ransomware, you need to act quickly. This can be achieved through hiring the services of an IT company. They will run security audits and tests on your network and computers to detect vulnerabilities.
However, what can an IT company do for you prior to being victimized by ransomware? A quality IT company will be able to offer several preventative and proactive measures to help you avoid catastrophe.
1. Education & Training
Like all threats in life, education is vital in helping spot red flags. As an IT company, we know how quickly ransomware can affect a business. Our clients often do not. Therefore, it is imperative to provide education to your staff on the best practices and common risk factors.
CST will explain and warn your staff the dangers of: visiting unfamiliar websites, clicking links on spam emails from unknown senders, downloading files without knowing where or who it is from, or using a weak password.
2. Create a Data Backup & Recovery Plan
Have you ever had to write an important letter or email that was not saved on your computer? You then spend hours looking for that file or trying to recreate the written work. If ransomware gets into your system, the same scenario will play out if you do not have backups of your data.
Regular backups of your entire system are vital to protect yourself from ransomware and other cyber-attacks. When it comes to IT, planning ahead can make all of the difference between ease and peace-of-mind versus fear and uncertainty.
Backups are essential for minimizing malware threats. An IT company can store your backup data offline and offsite, so that it is 100% unaffected by the ransomware attack.
3. Firewall Setup & Maintenance
A firewall is a service that inspects data coming in and out of your computer. Most firewalls are installed on servers to protect businesses. Firewalls help protect against viruses, malware, 3rd party intrusion, DDOS attacks and more.
Your firewall is likely to be your first line of defense when it comes to cybersecurity. However, in order to be effective, it needs to be properly managed and maintained.
4. Keep Devices & Softwares Up to Date
It’s important to keep up on updates for both your anti-virus software as well as your operating system itself. These updates fix security holes that malicious hackers exploit to steal personal information or infect computers with new strains of ransomware or malware.
Professional IT companies will update antivirus software automatically. This reduces the chances of infection by delivering crucial patches directly to their clients devices.
5. Setup a VPN & Secure Remote Access
These days, more companies rely on remote work. Working from home has been especially popular since the COVID-19 pandemic began back in early 2020.
A VPN (virtual private network) encrypts all data coming in and out of a device before transferring it over the internet. This keeps important information safe from hackers.
Additionally, your IT company should offer secure remote access (SRA) software with endpoint protection. SRA allows you to securely connect from anywhere in the world and work on files as if you were in the office.
Conclusion
As simple as it seems, ransomware has caused a mountain of data loss. These days, more and more hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in file encryption to make a quick buck.
If you haven’t yet done so, consider hiring an IT company to secure your network and protect all the important files stored on your system. This will go a long way in avoiding future ransomware attacks.
CST Technology Solutions is a full-service IT consulting firm that offers businesses a single point of contact for all their computer and networking technology needs. We offer the expertise and service levels of a national IT company at a cost structure that makes sense for companies of all sizes.
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https://cstts.com/news/ransomware-explained-how-it-works-why-you-need-an-it-company/
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Ever since the global outbreak has spread across the world, many false information and rumors have been circulating about it on social media, while taking advantage of the situation arising out of it, getting their personal information from consumers. They are trying to harm them.
The PTA Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has also issued several important instructions to the citizens to avoid these attacks and warned against messages sent in the name of Corona.
According to the PTA, online crime makers are trying to exploit the epidemic, with hackers doing it to gain financial benefits.
According to PTA officials, there is a risk of cyber attacks in the name of the Coronavirus, so avoid using open Wifi in public places.
Authorities directed that sensitive information, passwords, or credit card information be avoided online, while Internet service providers should also be wary of cyberattacks by Corona’s name.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has warned that downloading files associated with emails could cause the system to be hacked so keep your software varia application updated and downloaded from trusted links and licensed websites.
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https://emeatribune.com/pta-risk-of-cyber-attacks-in-the-name-of-coronavirus/
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By default, when something goes wrong we try to catch it, interpret it and give you a friendly warning message.
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if ($endpoint. Payload. DatabaseMirroring.EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm) { if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess($endpoint. Parent.name, "Changing database mirroring endpoint $($endpoint. Name) encryption from $($endpoint. Algorithm) to AES") { $endpoint. Payload. DatabaseMirroring. EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm = [Microsoft. SqlServer. Management. Smo.EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm]::Aes
if ($endpoint. Payload. ServiceBroker.EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm) { if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess($endpoint. Parent.name, "Changing service broker endpoint $($endpoint. Payload. ServiceBroker.EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm = [Microsoft. SqlServer. Management. Smo.EndpointEncryptionAlgorithm]::Aes
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https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/dbadisa/0.1.7/Content/public%5CSet-DbsEndpointEncryption.ps1
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The US and China spat over American missiles in the Pacific is nothing new. But this time, they’ve entered a new war of words – over cybercrime.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel set out his stall at Singapore’s Shangri-La conference: “The United States has expressed our concern about the growing threat of cyber intrusions, some of which appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military. As the world’s two largest economies, the US and China have many areas of common interest and concern, and the establishment of a cyber working group is a positive step in fostering US-China dialogue on cyber.”
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https://www.euronews.com/2013/06/01/us-defence-secretary-fires-warning-to-china-over-cybercrime
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A number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks, Fox News reported Friday.
The story, the details of which were contested by the World Bank after it ran, quotes unnamed sources as saying the banking group was victimized by at least six major intrusions from the Summer of 2007 through September of this year.
At least two of the intrusions appear to have originated from the same batch of IP addresses within China, the report said. The first of the intrusions, from China, was discovered in Sept. 2007 when the FBI apparently informed the bank of the problem which it discovered while it was conducting an unrelated investigation. It apparently allowed the perpetrators to gain full and complete access to a secret data hub maintained by the organization in Johannesburg, South Africa for a period of at least six months, the Fox News story said.
Another of the breaches, this time involving the bank's treasury network in Washington D.C, appears to have been perpetrated by a contractor or contractors working for India's Satyam Computer Services, the story said. The Satyam employee or contractor infected some workstations at the banks headquarters in Washington with keystroke logging software, which then sent any information it captured to a still unknown location.
Following the discovery of the breach, the World Bank Group immediately shut down its communication link with Satyam's offshore development center in Chennai, India. Satyam, one of India's largest IT services companies, has been handling several IT services functions for the World Bank since July 2003. The contract was due to be renewed this September but was allowed to lapse.
Jim Swords, a U.S.-based spokesman from Satyam, declined to comment on the status of the contract with the World Bank. He read a prepared statement to Computerworld in response to the initial report. The statement basically neither confirmed nor denied the details in the Fox report.
"Upon learning of this report today senior executives initiated an internal investigation to determine the validity of these claims, however unlikely. We will share the findings of the investigation at the conclusion of these efforts," the statement said.
Another pair of intrusions, in June and July, originated from the same group of IP addresses in China as the first attack had come from. This time, however, whoever was behind the attack first compromised an external server run by one of the bank's units and used it to gain access to a server belonging to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the World Bank's insurance arm.
The hackers used their access to basically map out the entire system topography, including the types of servers and the types of files on the servers, the Fox report said, quoting an unnamed insider.
The story also contained a link to a purported internal World Bank memo, dated July 10, that appeared to be an update to some staff about the June/July server breach. The memo noted that a "minimum of 18 servers had been compromised in total, including a domain controller, the main authentication server and a Human Resources server containing scanned images of staff documents. In total, five of the compromised servers contained sensitive data, the memo noted. The intrusions appear to have been the work of someone using an senior system's administrator's account to gain access.
The story portrayed the breaches as having triggered an extensive internal investigation by the World Bank's technology group and least two security assessments by external firms.
A spokeswoman at the World Bank asked Computerworld to submit a request for comment via e-mail, but then did not respond to two subsequent messages seeking clarification on the initial news report.
However, in a response apparently sent to Fox News after it ran the story, the bank said the story was wrong and riddled "with falsehoods and errors." It also said the unnamed sources had provided misinformation, and that the leaked e-mails that were linked to the Fox story had been taken out of context.
The World Bank has also sought to downplay the seriousness of the intrusions by saying that it has been repeatedly attacked in the past, but at no point had any sensitive or personnel information been compromised.
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https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123314/report--world-bank-servers-breached-repeatedly.html
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The Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics (IS/BAN) of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University invites applications for two anticipated tenure-track assistant professors, starting in September 2023: one focused on Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence and the second in Cybersecurity Management and Policy. The IS/BAN Department offers BBA/MBA/MS Programs in information systems, cybersecurity, business analytics, and business operations & healthcare analytics. The Cybersecurity Innovation and Research Center, opened in 2019, is a joint project of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Center is a 1,000-square-foot facility equipped with AI-powered gamification learning systems and cutting-edge security devices. Students in the IS/BAN Department have the ability to engage in hands-on labs and research opportunities.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:1) Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence PositionThis position requires an earned doctorate (or ABD) in Business Analytics, Management Science, Statistics, MIS, or a closely related field with research focus in business analytics and artificial intelligence areas. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in business analytics and artificial intelligence, such as database, data mining, programming, machine learning, deep enforcement learning, data visualization, healthcare analytics, and sports management analytics. Candidates are expected to have proficiency in multiple software packages (e.g., Java, R, Python, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, etc.).
2) Cybersecurity Management and Policy PositionThis position requires an earned doctorate (or ABD) in MIS/IS/CS or a closely related field with research focus in cybersecurity areas. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in cybersecurity areas, such as information and network security, ethical hacking, IT risk management, IT security auditing, digital forensics, and security policy/regulation, as well as engage with industry professionals and a broad range of stakeholders.
The successful candidates will perform scholarly research leading to publications in the area(s) of specialization as required for tenure, and will be expected to provide services to the university and community, profession, and other services/duties as assigned by the department chair. The candidates should have a strong desire to work in a collaborative environment, support our students through the mentoring process, and serve the Hofstra community.
In addition to this application please upload: (a) cover letter with salary requirement; (b) curriculum vitae; © a copy of academic transcripts; (d) two samples of publications; (e) teaching evaluations, if any; and (f) contact information of three references.
Review of applications will begin in September 2022 and continues until the position is filled.
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https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2642006/assistant-professor-of-cybersecurity/
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Citrix on Monday informed customers that it released firmware updates for its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway products to prevent threat actors from abusing the appliances to launch and amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Several people reported a few days before Christmas that they had started seeing DDoS attacks abusing their Citrix ADC and Gateway devices. Citrix confirmed that malicious actors had been targeting its products in an advisory published on December 24 and the company promised to release updates that would prevent attacks by January 12. However, it managed to release the updates one week sooner.
“As part of this attack, an attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC DTLS network throughput, potentially leading to outbound bandwidth exhaustion. The effect of this attack appears to be more prominent on connections with limited bandwidth,” Citrix said in its advisory.
The company claimed “the scope of attack is limited to a small number of customers around the world, and further, there are no known Citrix vulnerabilities associated with this event.”
The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) feature targeted by the recent DDoS attacks is designed to secure communications between applications. Marius Sandbu, one of the first people to spot the Citrix DDoS attacks, has published a blog post explaining the role of DTLS and why such attacks are possible.
In order to prevent abuse of its products for DDoS attacks, Citrix on Monday introduced a “feature enhancement” for DTLS. Users can either enable this feature, or they can disable DTLS if it’s not needed.
Another mitigation recommended by several experts involves blocking UDP port 443 traffic on the firewall. This is the port targeted by the attacks.
It’s not uncommon for Citrix’s ADC and Gateway products to be targeted by hackers. A vulnerability disclosed in late 2019 has been exploited by both profit-driven cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat groups.
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https://www.securityweek.com/citrix-releases-updates-prevent-ddos-attacks-abusing-its-appliances
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The White House charted progress today following the conclusion of its two-day virtual Ministers and Representatives from the Counter Ransomware Initiative Meeting, and outlined several priority efforts to reduce the risk of ransomware attacks globally.
The two-day virtual assembly hosted 30 foreign partners to discuss joint efforts to counter ransomware attacks. Among those in attendance: the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, European Union, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
According to a release from the White House, the governments recognize a need for urgent action, common priorities, and complementary efforts in combating ransomware attacks.
“Efforts will include improving network resilience to prevent incidents when possible and respond effectively when incidents do occur; addressing the abuse of financial mechanisms to launder ransom payments or conduct other activities that make ransomware profitable; and disrupting the ransomware ecosystem via law enforcement collaboration to investigate and prosecute ransomware actors, addressing safe havens for ransomware criminals, and continued diplomatic engagement,” a joint statement from the meeting participants reads.
The joint statement outlines Resilience, Countering Illicit Finance, Disruption and other Law Enforcement Efforts, and Diplomacy as pillars of this joint effort.
“From malign operations against local health providers that endanger patient care, to those directed at businesses that limit their ability to provide fuel, groceries, or other goods to the public, ransomware poses a significant risk to critical infrastructure, essential services, public safety, consumer protection and privacy, and economic prosperity,” the nations stated. “As with other cyber threats, the threat of ransomware is complex and global in nature and requires a shared response.”
The White House emphasized that international partnerships are key in combatting transnational criminal organizations, and said it hopes that this week’s meetings will “galvanize global political will” to fight against ransomware activities.
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The information security compliance analyst is responsible for managing security reviews and assessments and ensuring that internal systems and technologies are compliant with security standards and regulatory requirements. This role develops and implements campus-wide security initiatives helps researchers, departments, and organizations across campus to ensure compliance with industry and legal regulations, and works with those groups to develop policies, procedures, and technical solutions to achieve compliance. The role will work with groups to evaluate risk with contracts for new and existing services.
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Experience with government contracts and grants and working with Legal, Contracts, Grants, Purchasing, and IRB groups.
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Verizon is a Fortune 500 company and prides in servicing 99% of Fortune 500 companies as well as Government Agencies around the world. In Canberra, we run a key business unit - the Government Security Operations Center (GSOC) that supports a number of Australian Government departments.
We have hired 25+ staff this year due to expansion of services and new contracts and are urgently seeking to add another experienced Network Security Engineer. We would be looking for someone who has some experience in delivering new capabilities/major projects. Someone who has exposure applying their technical expertise across an entire environment to ensure its supportability and stability.
Our GSOC is focused around collaboration and success and you will be a part of a skilled operations team managing dynamic multi-tenanted and dedicated secure gateway environments. These environments utilise a range of technologies that are underpinned by a framework that ensures security, reliability and agility for our customers. Because of these extensive environments you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies across multiple vendors including Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, Cloud Computing, Checkpoint, F5, Juniper, Palo Alto, Splunk, BlueCoat and more.
You need to demonstrate that you can be a “Technical Lead” across a broad variety of network technologies. Ideally, you will work as a mentor within the team and not be focused on pumping out BAU changes etc.
Engaging with business and technical teams as the advisory gap to implement good cloud security principals and best practice.
Supporting the reliable service delivery of Verizon’s managed secure gateway services for Australian Federal Government customers.
Delivering high quality outcomes at a senior level including project tasks, complex incidents and requests as well as and performing proactive and reactive maintenance activities.
Providing input into the design and assisting in the delivery of major infrastructure projects including technology and hardware refreshes, new capability, and new services and on boarding of new customers.
Acting as a point of escalation and mentor for Tier 1 and 2 engineers.
Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
Four or more years of relevant work experience.
Three or more years of networking experience with detailed knowledge of network protocols such as OSPF, BGP4, GRE Multipoint, DMVPN IPSEC, 802.1q.
Experience with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances and software-defined storage solutions.
Knowledge of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices.
Ability to interact with technical and management staff to develop and problem solve technical requirements.
Experience in designing, implementing and documenting solutions.
Experience with architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of Cloud based infrastructure and its solutions.
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HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that lead to depress client security and digital identities that have been exposed and should live considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice workings with clients to identify the extent that digital identities get been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to handle each type of exposure.
HackNotice monitors the hacker community, which is a network of individuals that portion data breaches, hacks, leaks, malware, spyware, ransomware, and many other tools that are often used for financial fraud, account accept overs, and further breaches and hacks. HackNotice monitors the hacker community specifically for breaches, hacks, and data leaks that bruise consumers. HackNotice applies industry specific knowledge and advanced security practices to monitor for trends that designate breaches, hacks, and exposed digital identities.
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The term ransomware derives from the English word “ransom.” It means ransom. Ransomware is a severe malware that attempts to block the use of systems or data.
Ransomware is malicious software that blocks the use of computers or data and demands a ransom for release.
There are methods such as the encryption of files used. Well-known examples of this type of malware include CryptoLocker, WannaCry, or Locky.
However, the malware can affect a wide variety of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, or Android and hardware platforms such as servers, PCs, tablets or smartphones.
The Common ways of infection are via e-mail attachment, via infected websites, by downloading infected software or via prepared data carriers such as USB sticks and memory cards.
Many current virus scanners detect numerous variants of the encryption Trojans and prevent infection. Once the malicious software has settled on a computer.
Some of the malicious programs can spread in the networks as computer worms over incomplete security vulnerabilities.
That’s what ransomware does: lock system
Ransomware locks your computer with a so-called lock screen. It will tell you that an alleged authority is displaying a message. Your system is locked.
If your computer gets with ransomware, a message appears at system startup purporting to be from the police or similar authority.
It states that you as the user, have committed an illegal act. To settle the penalty, you should pay a sum of money.
It is promised to suspend the suspension after payment of the penalty.
And also, it Comes above messages, and you can assume that your PC infects with ransomware. Do not pay any amounts, and the blocking will remain.
What are the different ways of working ransomware?
Simple blocking methods are fading of windows, which can no longer close by inexperienced users and make it difficult to use the computer.
The software displays hints on how to remove the blockade by paying a ransom. Often this kind of barrier can be canceled with little effort. Data will not be affected in this case.
The programs begin without the user being able to encrypt files on the hard disk and connected storage such as cloud storage or server drives.
If the files encrypted, then the user no longer has access.
And also, The crypto-trojan urges the user to pay a ransom to gain possession of the key. Only with this key, the decryption of the files is possible.
The malware can use different ways of working. As a rule, these two variants are:
The same protective measures have to take against viruses and Trojans. It has to be aware of current virus software, closes security gaps and responsible use of e-mails or external data.
Regular backups allow you to recover the data without paying a ransom. It is essential to keep the backup data separate from the system.
And also, An active-backup hard disk connects to the computer also affects by the encryption of the crypto trojan, and the backed-up information is unusable.
Removal of ransomware
If ransomware detects on a machine, the system shuts down immediately to stop the encryption of data.
Before that, Some anti-malware programs then allow you to remove the ransomware without paying a ransom.
Already encrypted files restore using published decryption tools.
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There is no such thing as one hundred percent security, at least not in today's IT infrastructures. Any merchant or processor thinking that validated compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) makes them immune against any hacking attempt whatsoever, or the liability incurred as a consequence of a breach, needs to realize this. Information security is about managing risks, and the PCI DSS provides a set of security requirements that address many of the most often seen vulnerabilities, and related attacks, in infrastructures that process payment card data. Compliance with the requirements means that an organization has properly implemented a baseline security program that contributes to keeping the overall security risks in the payment card processing world at a reasonable level. It may be reasonable for the industry as a whole to calculate that a few breaches a year, as opposed to hundreds and thousands of them, are acceptable. That doesn't mean that for your organization it is acceptable to risk being one of these few.
Measures implemented in an infrastructure that are fulfilling the PCI DSS requirements may be reasonably suited to address all of the potential IT security risks in an individual organization, or they may not be. The only way to know is to implement a risks-driven IT security practice. Identify, qualify and quantify the information security risks that exist in your specific business and operational environment, and then reduce these risks to a management-accepted level by implementing appropriate security mechanisms and monitoring their effectiveness. A large enterprise with thousands of employees and dozens of branches may determine that the risk of data compromise in their internal network is significantly higher than in a small firm with a dozen co-workers, and act accordingly by encrypting sensitive data on these lines.
Regardless of whether this is required by PCI DSS or not.
Information security needs to be managed intelligently. Compliance with industry and legal requirements that address specific areas of concern needs to be maintained, but this needs to happen in the larger context of managing overall risks in specific environments. Implementing an information security management system that addresses an organization's specific threat situation and protection needs, in combination with maintaining whatever compliance is imposed by third parties on the organization, is the way to go. This is why standards like ISO/IEC 27001, and initiatives like FISMA, not only give you a set of controls, but also require you to perform a risk assessment on your own. PCI DSS compliance should be a side-effect of good information security management, and not the other way around.
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Metso has announced a new version of its Metso Expertune PlantTriage control loop monitoring software. The newest version further improves process plant operational efficiency, reduces cybersecurity risks, and helps to improve profitability.
This version provides a clearer view of PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) tuning benefits via a new Performance Evaluation dashboard and a Performance Summary panel. These features show the effect new tuning parameters will have on valve duty, relative response time, robustness, and performance.
In addition, the PlantTriage Level Wizard is an advanced tool that tunes level controllers for surge tanks. The purpose of surge tanks is to maintain a constant flow to the next stage of the process. Proper tuning guarantees maximum use of surge, while preventing the tank from emptying or overflowing. The Level Wizard helps to get the balance just right.
“Expertune PlantTriage is well-known for identifying the root causes of control system performance issues. Version 18 offers interaction analysis with greater resolution. Two analysis tools, Process Interaction Map and Interaction Hot Spots, are used to find the underlying root cause of an upset or event,” says Senior Product Manager Steve Obermann. “Our clients can now find both short and long-term interactions, ranging from one minute to as long as 14 days. These tools can pinpoint the root cause of a specific incident. This will help greatly in analysing short duration or sporadic events."
The latest version also includes advances in cybersecurity. Users may now choose encryption on communications with PlantTriage servers. Other improvements make the browser interface more secure, robust, and less vulnerable to attack.
Expertune PlantTriage monitors plant control loops 24 hours a day, diagnosing issues, and prioritizing opportunities for improvement. It connects to any DCS that supports OPC connectivity; it can also be integrated with a plant historian for access to process data. With PlantTriage monitoring hundreds or even thousands of control loops, plant personnel can focus on the recommended improvements to deliver more results in less time.
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Security firm Check Point has uncovered what seems to be a successful, and long-running, cyber-surveillance campaign called “Volatile Cedar.” Check Point found that targets of the attack included, but were not limited to, defense contractors, media companies, telecommunications, and educational institutions. The attack is said to have originated in Lebanon and possibly has political ties in the region. According to an article in Techworld, previous cyber-campaigns originating from Lebanon have been either extremely unsophisticated or targeted at other countries in the region. However, Volatile Cedar is different. According to the report, this campaign has been in operation since 2012 and has successfully penetrated a large number of targets across the globe. During this time it has allowed the attackers to steal data and monitor a large volume of victim’s actions.
The actors involved in this campaign do not appear to be using flashy mechanisms like zero day attacks or complex malware but, instead, enter networks via vulnerable webservers. Once compromised, webservers are infected with a trojan called “Explosive” which allows them to carry out reconnaissance.
This custom-built piece of malware offers remote access, data exfiltration, key logging, as well as functionality to allow for lateral movements within the compromised network.
Another very interesting aspect of the Volatile Cedar campaign is how far the actors are willing to go to remain undetected, monitoring system resource consumption and antivirus detection results with the “Explosive” tool. It will even block external communications and obfuscate traffic to mask its activity.
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If you’re not sure how the infection infected, there are a couple of ways it might have happened. Ransomware generally employs quite basic methods, but that’s not to say that more elaborate ones won’t be used as well. When we say simple, we are talking about methods like spam email, infected ads and downloads. You probably got infected when you opened a malicious email attachment. Cyber crooks add the ransomware to an email made kind of convincingly, and send it to hundreds or even thousands of people, whose email addresses were sold by other crooks. It is not really that unexpected that users open these emails, if they’ve little knowledge with such things. If you vigilant enough, you would see certain signs that give it away, such as the sender having a nonsense email address, or countless mistakes in the text. People tend to drop their guard down if they are familiar with the sender, so hackers may feign to be from famous companies like Amazon or eBay. It is better to be safe than sorry, thus, always check the sender’s email address, even if the sender is familiar. A red flag should also be the sender not addressing you by name in the greeting, or anywhere else in the email for that matter. Your name will definitely be known to a sender with whom you’ve had business before. To be more clear, if you’re a user of eBay, your name will be automatically put into emails they send you.
To summarize, make sure that the sender is who they say they are before you rush to open the attachment. And when you visit dubious sites, be cautious to not engage with adverts. By simply clicking on a malicious ad you could be permitting all kinds of malware to download. It’s best to ignore those advertisements, no matter what they’re offering, because they are always never reliable. By using questionable sources for your downloads, you might be unknowingly jeopardizing your device. Downloads via torrents and such, are a risk, therefore at least read the comments to make sure that you are downloading secure files. Vulnerabilities in software could also be used for malicious software to enter. So that those vulnerabilities cannot be used, you need to update your programs as quickly as an update becomes available. Patches are released frequently by software vendors, you just have to install them.
If you are lucky, the ransomware did not delete your shadow copies. They are made by your system automatically for when system crashes.
Go to the official website (shadowexplorer.com) and acquire the Shadow Explorer application.
Set up and open it.
Press on the drop down menu and pick the disk you want.
If folders are recoverable, they will appear there. Press on the folder and then Export.
* SpyHunter scanner, published on this site, is intended to be used only as a detection tool. More info on SpyHunter. To use the removal functionality, you will need to purchase the full version of SpyHunter. If you wish to uninstall SpyHunter, click here.
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Android antivirus apps are still one of the most popular types of applications in Android. There have been arguments over and over again as applications providing antivirus and anti-malware applications on Android and arguments are generally guaranteed. However, some people, either as having that additional security or simply want to be more prudent in case, and there is nothing wrong with that. In this list, we will check out the best antivirus Android apps and anti-malware Android apps.
Most of the antivirus app is avialable as free and paid versions on Google Play Store. We have put down the best antivirus Android apps together such as McAfee, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Lookout, AVG, Notron, Avast, 360 Security and many others that will help to make your Android device secure from the harmful malware :
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Dutch scientific financier NWO is making 2.3 million euros available for five major cybersecurity projects at the University of Twente. This is part of the NWO Cybersecurity call (with 10 projects in total). "This is a great success for the UT's cybersecurity research," says Andreas Peter, one of the involved researchers.
The UT scores well in the call ‘Cyber Security - Digital Security & Privacy’. Out of the ten projects that received funding, five are a project at the UT. The grants were awarded to projects by Johann Hurink (Full Professor of Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming), Pepijn Pinkse (Full Professor of Adaptive Quantum Optics), Aiko Pras (Full Professor of Internet Security), Anna Sperotto (Associate Professor in Design and Analysis of Communication Systems) and Andreas Peter (Associate Professor in Security & Privacy Engineering). In addition, Andreas Peter is also involved in a sixth project together with Eindhoven University of Technology.
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https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/2019/12/470854/2.3-million-from-nwo-for-five-ut-research-projects-on-cybersecurity
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The top ant-virus in the USA has a range of features for protecting your personal laptop, mobile product, and the net. Its real-time security defends against destructive files prior to them getting onto your device. In addition, it evaluates downloading 360 total security review and websites to ensure they are totally free of malware. You can test it out which has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Kaspersky is a popular brand of anti-virus software. It gives you several degrees of protection, from your basic platform level, which usually costs $30 12 months, to the Total top antivirus security software usa Constancy package, which in turn costs $50 a year and protects up to 12 devices, and in some cases includes parent controls. Kaspersky also supplies free versions of their anti-virus applications. However , these types of applications tend not to provide the ideal security.
It is critical to choose a good antivirus to patrol your personal information and economical accounts. You’ll also need to select a great antivirus with parental equipment if you have young children. While basic antivirus security is important, you’ll want to look for added security features. If you use general public Wi-Fi a lot, you’ll want to find an antivirus with a VPN or parent controls. Norton 360, for instance , has these types of features and even more.
After getting your antivirus software, you’ll probably need to make an account while using company. This kind of account will help you to manage your subscription and configure your software around devices. It will also allow you to make payment approach, adjust your level of privacy settings, and receive merchandise notifications.
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o2 are running FREE workshops throughout August aimed at helping you discover how to keep your family safe online and will also cover basic digital skills. Click here to find one near you and book tickets.
With o2 in partnership with the NSPCC and DigitalMe, who work closely with schools on the digital front, I know I will be heading to one. Details on the Glasgow workshop can be found here.
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10 Common Software Security Design FlawsGoogle, Twitter, and others identify the most common software design mistakes -- compiled from their own organizations -- that lead to security woes and how to avoid them. It's not all about the security bugs: Mistakes in how a software application's security is designed can lead to major breaches like that suffered by the mega-retailer Target.
Security experts from Cigital, Google, Twitter, HP, McAfee, EMC, RSA, Harvard University, George Washington University, Athens University of Economics and Business, the Sandosky Foundation, and the University of Washington as part of the IEEE Center for Secure Design published a report today that pinpoints 10 of the most common software security design flaws they collectively found in their own development programs.
"When you can solve a problem at the [software] design phase, it automatically solves a bunch of problems later on in the stages," says Neil Daswani, who is with Twitter's security engineering team. "It's very cost-effective to solve security at the design stage."
The organizations came up with a top 10 list during a workshop session this spring, where each brought along examples of design flaws it had experienced. "What we did as a group of companies is dump out a list" based on the overlap in all the design issues brought to the table, Daswani says.
To date, the security industry has mostly been laser-focused on finding and eradicating security vulnerabilities or bugs. There are plenty of lists available, such as the OWASP Top 10, that provide the most common software bugs in development. But design flaws -- such as using encryption incorrectly or not validating data properly -- can also be exploited by attackers or lead to security bugs. These flaws can be less noticeable on the surface but just as deadly if abused by an attacker.
"Getting software designers and architects what they need to think about when building software is just as important as getting developers to think about bugs," says Gary McGraw, CTO at Cigital and a member of the team behind the new "Avoiding the Top 10 Software Security Design Flaws" report. "Unfortunately, not much attention is paid to that."
With cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, for example, a simple design change can wipe out the possibility of those bugs in an application, he says. "You can make a change to the design of the API" of an application that could eliminate an entire category of bugs.
According to McGraw, Target's data breach was a real-world example of a design flaw leading to a hack. The environment was "crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle." As a result, it was "easy to get to the middle where all the data was stored" once the attackers had compromised the point-of-sale system. "The design of the communications and storage… were [poorly] done," he says. "Often a bug provides a toehold into a system to be exploited because of bad" security design.
Twitter already is implementing its own software security design flaw prevention program based on the report. Daswani says an internal Twitter document specifically recommends how to design its software securely. "For example, we recommend the use of a certain number of templating frameworks -- the developers choose one -- so it's more likely that their code won't be vulnerable to cross-site scripting" and other bugs.
One reason XSS is so prevalent in software today is that, when you build a web application, it's easy to design it with inherent flaws at the user interface. "If you're not careful about what data you output to the user interface, sometimes the browser at the other end can get confused and think the data might be code that has to be executed," he says. "By recommending a templating language, it makes a clear delineation on what is considered code and what is to be considered data. That sure makes it harder to have a bug like cross-site scripting."
The report recommends how to prevent each of the 10 most common software security design flaws:
1. Earn or give, but never assume, trust. 2. Use an authentication mechanism that cannot be bypassed or tampered with. 3. Authorize after you authenticate. 4. Strictly separate data and control instructions, and never process control instructions received from untrusted sources. 5. Define an approach that ensures all data are explicitly validated. 6. Use cryptography correctly. 7. Identify sensitive data and how it should be handled. 8. Always consider the users. 9. Understand how integrating external components changes your attack surface. 10. Be flexible when considering future changes to objects and actors.
"It's [an] important point that the vendor community in software security and even OWASP has a very myopic focus on bugs," McGraw says. "That leads some customers to believe that software security is a bug problem" only, but design flaws account for about half of software security issues.
Tom Brennan, global vice president of the OWASP Foundation, says the approach of attacking the source of the problem makes sense, and his organization is on the same page as the others.
"I am glad to see colleagues promoting a proactive risk approach to the core source of the problem and not the symptoms," Brennan says. "IEEE, MITRE, OWASP, ISC2 ASAC, and other associations have been shifting the focus in security from bug hunts and finding bugs to identifying common design flaws to communicate more effectively with the technology risk officers."
In practice, "as a penetration tester, we continue to identify, prioritize, and make recommendations for individual findings," he says. "Providing guidance from individual vulnerabilities to eradication of entire classes of problems elevates the discussion to the board of directors" level.
Daswani says the best time to ensure secure coding is from the get-go, with development and design teams working together. "It's important to include development teams as part of the design. Entire classes of bugs can be knocked out."
Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist at WhiteOps, calls the design flaw approach interesting. "The hard problem in computer security is operationalization -- how do we take the hard-won lessons learned from years of getting hacked and apply them to real-world systems that really need to be protected?" he says. "The IEEE here is doing something interesting. This guidance is for architects -- not necessarily of the end software, but of the frameworks that everything is built out of. These are security principles for our Legos and, if made properly concrete, will be helpful."
Addressing potential design flaws even as early as during the requirements phase could help.
"It's important to ask questions that identify what all the different ways the software will get used," Daswani says. "The more you can put in design-level criteria and decisions in place, the more you can help mitigate entire classes of bugs before the code is even developed."
A copy of the full report is available here for download.
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@RyanSepe and @MarilynCohodas, I think you are right that we need to introduce the generations that follow us with the fundamentals of information/cyber/digital security much earlier than college or university. Looking back at how fast technology has evolved in our lifetimes, one can only imagine what technologies the next generations will bring reinforces the fact that we have to educate eariler and make it a part of there every day lives.
I think software security in the education system today is looked at as somewhat of a security specialization and not a practice that is available in normal software development programs; in my experiences. I will say that it's great to see the communities of InfoSec professionals actively involved in providing elementary schools with basic information/cyber/digital security but after this, it really needs to be continued as part of daily curriculum.
Your middle inquiry obviously uses reductio ad absurdum to berate the above statement. However, unfortunately you have heard of this being the case. With your example and with secure code. Many times its not until a breach happens where institutions decide there is a change needed to be made, and some software developers may be unaware of the hole in the first place. Hence new vulnerabilities. Is this due to a security flaw or a new attack strategy or maybe both? You cannot protect against something you are unaware of. (Heartbleed) It wasn't until this was discovered that a design flaw was even brought to light. This is highly unfortunate and our jobs as security professionals to try and show core value in security to other departments in the institution.
I agree with many of the points you make. Especially in the ways of education being the key. But to say that people that are surrounded by technology and have it ingrained in their daily lives opposed to a test group that has doesn't have it and is provided later in their lives is a frivolous and prideful notion.
I would say that security as a newer notion is valid, wherein people that are born in this generation will be the ones I speak of overall or the generation after. Security needs to a principle taught from a young age. Only than will people outside security be reached in its entirety.
This is also the reason that well-known security vulnerabilities continue to be a problem, even decades after the remedies were first understood. The developer community gets a new crop of newbie programmers every year. They have never had to think about secure programming while doing class assignments, and they're even less likely to have done so if they are self-taught.
Yes, there are well-known fixes for old security flaws. At least, they're well-known to us experienced programmers. It's our responsibility to spread the word and educate all developers to program in a secure way by default.
cart and horse remember: the O/S must protect the apps rather than the reverse. you are always going to have a bad app someplace and if that can get an un-authorized update into the o/s you're toast.
you must start with a secure o/s and then proceed with the authentication of inputs particularly software but also data particularly anything financial or sensitive in nature.
CVE-2014-2130Published: 2015-03-05Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) provides an unintentional administration web interface based on Apache Tomcat, which allows remote authenticated users to modify application files and configuration files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by leveraging administrative privileges, aka B...
CVE-2014-9688Published: 2015-03-05Unspecified vulnerability in the Ninja Forms plugin before 2.8.10 for WordPress has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to admin users.
CVE-2015-0598Published: 2015-03-05The RADIUS implementation in Cisco IOS and IOS XE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via crafted IPv6 Attributes in Access-Accept packets, aka Bug IDs CSCur84322 and CSCur27693.
CVE-2015-0607Published: 2015-03-05The Authentication Proxy feature in Cisco IOS does not properly handle invalid AAA return codes from RADIUS and TACACS+ servers, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication in opportunistic circumstances via a connection attempt that triggers an invalid code, as demonstrated by a connecti...
CVE-2015-0657Published: 2015-03-05Cisco IOS XR allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (RSVP process reload) via a malformed RSVP packet, aka Bug ID CSCur69192.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. officials said Monday recent cyberattacks on American banks and oil companies have been traced to hackers with direct links to Iran's government.
Officials speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity said the perpetrators of the cyberattacks are working closely with the government of Iran.
"We strongly believe there is a relationship between the people typing the code and people running the government," one official said.
"It certainly is the case that Iran is improving its capabilities in the cyber field. We're paying attention. We are concerned about their increasing ability to operate in this realm," another U.S. intelligence official told CNN.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week warned state actors are escalating their cyberattack attempts and said the U.S. government must take advantage of this "pre-9/11 moment" to increase security and avoid devastating attacks.
Iran has denied involvement in the attacks on oil industry targets. Mehdi Ahkavan Bahabadi, director of the Iran Cyberspace Center, has said one of the "main aims" of the U.S. government is to "make itself look like the victim."
James A. Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an essay Friday on ForeignPolicy.com that the United States is "ill-prepared" to deal with Iran's new cyber abilities.
The New York Times reported the recent cyber attacks were relatively crude hacking efforts involving "denial of service" incidents.
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SSL Still Mostly MisunderstoodEven many IT professionals don't understand what Secure Sockets Layer does and doesn't do, leaving them vulnerable, new survey showsMost users ensure their Web sessions are using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) before entering their credit card information, but less than half do so when typing their passwords onto a Web page, according to a new survey.
Just what SSL does and doesn't do isn't clear to many users, and the way Websites implement it doesn't help: "The biggest issue is the general population doesn't know what SSL is, why they're using it, and it's ingrained in them that it always makes them secure, which is not always the case," says Tyler Reguly, senior security engineer for nCircle, who surveyed a cross-section of users -- technical and nontechnical -- and shared the results of his findings today during a panel presentation about SSL at the SecTor Conference in Toronto.
Reguly's survey found that while 83 percent of users check they're using an SSL-secured session before entering their credit card information on a Website, only 41 percent do so when typing in their passwords. "It's scary that people care so little about their passwords than they do about their credit card numbers," he says. "You see surveys saying that anywhere from 30 to 60 percent of users are using the same password everywhere, so they're probably using it for online banking, too."
It has been a rough year for SSL, with the groundbreaking man-in-the-middle hack by researcher Moxie Marlinspike, which dupes a user into thinking he's in an HTTPS session when in reality he has been taken elsewhere by the attacker, as well as a demonstration by researcher Mike Zusman showing how several certificate authorities (CAs) themselves are vulnerable to attacks when issuing SSL certificates. And Dan Kaminsky at Black Hat USA exposed critical flaws in X.509 certificate technology used in SSL.
Zusman, who spoke on Reguly's panel along with Robert "RSnake" Hansen of SecTheory and Jay Graver, lead engineer at nCircle Network Security, says it's not just the general consumer population who doesn't understand SSL, which encrypts a Web session and authenticates the identity of a Website. "It's still a challenge in the infosec community. I was doing a penetration test with a team last week, and the development team asked why we found all these vulnerabilities in their product when they were using SSL," he says. More than half of the respondents don't know what Extended Validation SSL (EVSSL) is and how it differs from SSL, while 36 percent say they do. Interestingly, most of them are aware that SSL traffic can be sniffed without their knowledge.
Even so, nearly one-third say the only purpose of SSL is to encrypt their traffic so it can't be sniffed. Reguly and Zusman say aside from a need for better user education about SSL, much of the problem lays with how Web developers deploy SSL. One respondent, for example, said SSL would be more effective if an invalid or expired SSL certificate blocked a user from visiting the site rather than offering click-through options. "It would create a lot of headaches, but would be very effective in nixing problems when invalid certs are in production and giving users the option to click-through and end up getting exploited," says Zusman, who is a senior consultant with the Intrepidus Group. Another issue is that users become annoyed and eventually ignore SSL and browser security messages that appear when they hit a site with an invalid certificate, or a browser warns them of a potentially dangerous site, Reguly says. Nearly 50 of the survey's nontechnical respondents just clicked through security warnings without paying attention to them, he says. Meanwhile, 51 percent of the survey respondents said they rely on browser error messages to alert them of flaws in Website security. And that's not what browsers technically do, Reguly says. "That actually shocked me that over 50 percent said this," he says. "This speaks to the misunderstanding people have about browsers [and SSL]," he says.
The challenge is that there's no simple way to deploy SSL. "It's not one click. It's a multistep process that involves configuration, time, and effort, and most don't want to invest that energy" to do it properly, he says.
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CVE-2014-2130Published: 2015-03-05Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) provides an unintentional administration web interface based on Apache Tomcat, which allows remote authenticated users to modify application files and configuration files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by leveraging administrative privileges, aka B...
CVE-2014-9688Published: 2015-03-05Unspecified vulnerability in the Ninja Forms plugin before 2.8.10 for WordPress has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to admin users.
CVE-2015-0598Published: 2015-03-05The RADIUS implementation in Cisco IOS and IOS XE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via crafted IPv6 Attributes in Access-Accept packets, aka Bug IDs CSCur84322 and CSCur27693.
CVE-2015-0607Published: 2015-03-05The Authentication Proxy feature in Cisco IOS does not properly handle invalid AAA return codes from RADIUS and TACACS+ servers, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication in opportunistic circumstances via a connection attempt that triggers an invalid code, as demonstrated by a connecti...
CVE-2015-0657Published: 2015-03-05Cisco IOS XR allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (RSVP process reload) via a malformed RSVP packet, aka Bug ID CSCur69192.
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Just went to verify some details of a post I read somewhere else about AK alerting on a couple of files in SPF 4.2.
Unfortunately, I got the pop-up below.
It was my understanding that the program would always detect keyloggers, that registering it was only necessary if you wanted to be able to have AK clean any found keyloggers.
Spy1 -- Antikeylogger does alert on 2 files in SPF... (i have SPF 5 on my XP).... and i also got that pop-up notice that AK must either be registered or uninstalled.
so i uninstalled it through the Add/Remove feature of Windows and it doesn't take it out of the Start menu nor does it delete the folder from Program Files... (had to manually take it out of both those places.
You were right though about not having to register the ealier version of AK...i've had it on my Win98se longer, and it's still working fine.
I am also of the understanding that AK wont expire....thats what their website clearly stated...if this is not the case...an the company lied..than I would not want anything more to do with them in the future. Recently I downloaded AK with the intent to purchase.... well not now.
Snappy I had to use msconfig to remove AK from start-up before un-installing..... thereafter everything was removed.
If you go to their website, there is a page that lists keyloggers and a link to a site that *rates* keyloggers. Well, guess what? Raytown owns that site and surprise, surprise, their own keylogger is the top rated!
I wouldn't trust Raytown at all. They produce how many different keyloggers? They market them by dozens of names and then tries to have it both ways by selling this Anti-Keylogger program. No thanks.
I just got one of my tech newsletters that rated Trapware's product which I can't think of the name right now as the top rated anti snoopware program. I do remember it caught almost 25% more of these products than its nearest competitor. Not bad.
But Raytown is a URL that will never see the light on my monitor. brian
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Ally Becki (Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg High School), Makenna Burch (Tulsa, Okla., Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College/Jenks High School, Marie Kiefer (Melbourne, Ky./Bishop Brossart High School) and Jazmyn Turner (Marion, Ind./Wabash Valley Community College/Marion High School) are set to join the Cardinals for the 2021-22 campaign.
“The addition of these four young ladies to our Ball State family have us thrilled for our future,” said Sallee. “Their collective talent is through the roof and I believe the impact they will have on our program from day one will be significant!”
Becki, a 5-9 guard from Brownsburg High School, starts her senior season as the No. 2-point guard in the state of Indiana for the class of 2021 according to Scouting Indiana. She was also recently named to the All-USA Central Indiana girls basketball preseason Super First Team.
The IndyStar Miss Basketball contender is projected to take Brownsburg High School on another run for a IHSAA state title. Becki has helped lead the Bulldogs to their second sectional title in three years while also notching 20 wins for the second-straight year.
Becki has been successful from the start of her high school career, earning a spot on the varsity squad as a true freshman. She averaged 11.7 points, 2.7 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game in her debut season for the Bulldogs. As a sophomore, Becki managed to score 13.4 points per game, while dishing out 4.4 assists and pulling down 5.5 rebounds per contest. She also received the All-State Underclassman Subway Award in each of her first two seasons with the Bulldogs.
Becki continued to make a strong presence on the court her junior year with her highest rebounding average yet, at 7.2 per game, while also scoring 11.5 points per game. For her play, Becki was tabbed Subway Supreme 15 and selected to the junior All-Star team. A three-time All-Hendricks County award winner, Becki was also a member of the 2018-19 IndyStar girls basketball preseason Super Team.
Her play helped lead Brownsburg to a 4A No. 6 IHSAA State ranking last year and a regional title. Becki dropped a career-high 33 points, 10 rebounds, five assists along with two blocks and one steal in Brownsburg’s 77-52 victory over New Palestine in the semi-finals of the IHSAA Decatur Central regional on Feb. 15, 2020.
Burch, a 5-8 guard from Tulsa, Okla., will join the Cardinals’ family next fall after transferring from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College. The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report has Burch tabbed as the No. 8 best (JUCO) junior college freshman and the third best guard.
Prior to Oklahoma A&M College, Burch was a high school standout for the Jenks Trojans. The highly decorated player earned OGBCA (Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association) All-State First Team honors as a senior. She was tabbed as the top guard in the state back-to-back seasons, after winning the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Ms. Outside honor.
A First Team All-Frontier Conference recipient and voted the MVP for the Trojans, Burch was ranked the No. 2 guard in the state of Oklahoma by Prepscouting.net and was No. 5 overall.
Burch was a scoring threat for Jenks Trojans her junior year, scoring the most points in Oklahoma 6A Girls Basketball, after finishing with 404 points that year while averaging 20.2 points per contest. It comes to no surprise that Burch is also a member of the Jenks High School 1,000-point club. She wrapped up her senior season averaging 16.8 points per game, 4.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.4 steals while totaling 1,151 points for her career, 357 rebounds and 142 assists.
Sallee on Burch:
“Kenna is a walking bucket plain and simple! She is the type of guard that can hurt you with or without the ball. She plays the game with an edge and I absolutely love the swagger she brings to the floor. At the end of the day, she flat out competes and I cannot wait to watch her do just that here at Ball State!”
Kiefer, a 6-3 forward from Bishop Brossart High School, led the Mustangs to a 24-6 record last year while averaging 18 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks per game. Not only is Kiefer’s inside game strong, but she also finds success from 3-point range, shooting 37.5 percent from behind the arc last season. Overall, she connected at a 54.3 clip from the field.
“Marie is our kind of forward…she is long, agile and extremely versatile. She impacts the game on both ends of the floor with an ability to block shots and guard multiple positions defensively and then run the floor like a gazelle and finish at the rim or pop a 3! Marie will be a true stat stuffer here.”
Turner will join the Ball State roster next year after wrapping up her second season at Wabash Valley College. The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report has Turner tabbed as the fourth best JUCO (Junior College) player in the country prior to her return to the court. Last season, Turner was the second-highest scorer on the team, averaging 15.3 points per game. She shot a staggering 61 percent from the floor, including an impressive 55 percent from 3-point range. Turner started 30 of the Lady Warriors 32 games as a true freshman and helped Wabash Valley win the Region 24 women’s basketball championship. The program also earned a spot in the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletics Association) Division I women’s basketball tournament, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For her play, Turner was recognized as a NJCAA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-Star.
Prior to Wabash Valley College, Turner was a four-year letter winner at Marion High School where she played in 103 games. She tallied 1,347 career points with the Giants while averaging 13.1 points per games and 6.7 rebounds per contest. She had a breakout senior season averaging 17.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Turner shot above a 50 percent from the field in both her junior and senior seasons. An invitee to the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 Senior workout, Turner earned All-North Central Conference First Team honors her senior year while also being named to the 2019 Chronicle-Tribune County Player of the Year.
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Users are reporting that the BlackBerry Mobile site is infected with the Coinhive cryptocurrency miner, which uses unsuspecting visitors’ CPU processing power to mine for the Monero virtual currency.
A Reddit user discovered the code on the site and posted about it—noting that only the global www.blackberrymobile.com site, owned by TCL Communication Technology Holding, is affected. Redirect sites for specific countries and those properties owned directly by BlackBerry Ltd are not infected.
TCL has not publicly commented on the situation, but Coinhive weighed in on the Reddit thread saying that the site appears to have been surreptitiously infected—making it the latest to be targeted by Monero-focused cybercriminals. There has also been potentially malicious planting of the miner on premium websites, like Showtime, and the LiveHelpNow widget, among others, and a recently discovered campaign inserts miners into digital ads.
“We’re sorry to hear that our service has been misused,” the company said. “This specific user seems to have exploited a security issue in the Magento webshop software (and possibly others) and hacked a number of different sites. We have terminated the account in question for violating our terms of service now.”
Coinhive, launched in September, offers website owners an alternative to advertising for monetization: Website owners can sign up to the service and embed scripts into their web pages to make page visitors mine for Monero, thus indirectly paying for content. The activity is pooled, making for potentially massive combined mining power, gleaned from masses of users with average hardware visiting a website.
As a result, there has been a rising tide of web-based mining. Symantec recently said that there has been a 34% increase in the number of mobile apps alone incorporating cryptocurrency mining code.
However, the service is not without controversy. In addition to cybercriminal exploitation, the ethics of the business model are murky at best, unless a website discloses to visitors that mining is in effect and/or allows a surfer to opt out. The Pirate Bay, for instance, has caught criticism for nontransparent use on its site.
“Despite Coinhive’s best intentions, unscrupulous operators quickly latched onto the idea of secret mining in the hope that users will not notice,” Symantec said. “The mining process can start quickly and quietly in the browser without anybody noticing, unless insufficient throttling is used, in which case the CPU load may max out during the users' session, which would be an easy telltale for end users to spot.”
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Sdbot. IFK is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
Sdbot. IFK prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
Sdbot. IFK redirects attempts to access web pages of certain banks to spoofed pages, with the aim of logging information entered by the user in these pages.
Sdbot. IFK redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.
Sdbot. IFK uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
Computer networks (shared resources): it creates copies of itself in shared network resources to which it has access.
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http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=130361
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by compumike (454538) writes: Hah, didn't even think of that when I posted it. Hope the editors realize it's a real (safe for work) technical term -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test [wikipedia.org]
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Security incidents and breaches have become not if, but when, scenarios for most organizations. According to recently released data from the Breach Level Index, there were 974 security breaches alone in the first half of 2016 – and those are only the breaches that were made public.
Getting your Board of Directors to understand the need to plan ahead should be easy. The tricky part is learning how to best communicate with your Board at each stage of an incident. Here is what you need to know.
The information security community tends to look down on Internet of Things research and dismiss it as junk hacking. While the recent Mirai botnet attacks have raised the profile of embedded security, owning a “smart “ device still isn’t as sexy as owning a MacBook Air.
But popping IoT devices can potentially cause much more damage. Exploit vulnerabilities in enough set-top boxes, cameras and other embedded systems and an adversary can construct a botnet that’s capable of taking down the Internet for a large swath of the U.S.
News and trends in cybersecurity. See our most featured articles for this week
This time we talk about simple first steps of strenthening up your digital assets security. We continue talking about cybersecurity news. Check our featured articles for this week
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http://blog.sapience.io/talking-about-security-incidents/
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China cyber security law sharing – China has only recently released its new Cybersecurity Law, which has given the government unprecedented control over the country’s internet usage and associated data. This has raised concerns from foreign businesses and other entities that are wary of who might have access to their electronic information. This is a real concern, as the law now requires businesses to store certain types of data on servers inside of the country’s ‘Great Firewall’.
Implementing effective risk management – Having your data compromised is bad enough, but afterwards there can be fallout strong enough to bring any company to its knees. What are the real risks that could result from a breakdown of cyber security, and what steps should your organization be taking to properly insulate itself from them? Our panel will be on hand to delve into these topics and more related to cyber security risk management.
Cyber security of international schools – International schools have a special kind of risk attached to their data protection, as they are dealing with sensitive information of both children and their families. Using this sector as a case study, the people in these institutions that deal with cyber security every day will be on hand to discuss their unique challenges. This will help attendees to identify what their particular challenges may be, as well.
For those working at international schools, specifically, there will be discussion of recent cyber attacks, attempted extortions, and how these kinds of events can impact a school’s image.
Protecting online privacy of international schools with risk management tools – Find out the real world steps that international schools’ leadership have taken to address their cyber security concerns. There are a number of tools out there to bolster cyber security, and you should know what they are.
Pacific Prime China is an established insurance intermediary in China with over 500,000 individual and corporate clients worldwide. Part of the Pacific Prime group, the organization has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and Dubai. For 17+ years, we have been providing insurance and risk management solutions to corporate and other organizations through some of the top insurance providers in the world. Through our experience, Pacific Prime has amassed the knowledge necessary to advise clients on cyber security protection. International schools, in particular, are a specialty market that we serve and have keen insights into.
Presenter Sylver Zhong has a statement for potential attendees of the seminar: “In light of the recent changes to the new China Cybersecurity Law, Pacific Prime, together with Ernst & Young, has prepared a seminar to address the unique issues international schools face in China. The aim of the seminar is to help you understand how this affects your school and how to implement quality risk management solutions for cyber security.” Mr. Zhong, as well as the rest of the Pacific Prime China team, hope to see you on January 31st for what promises to be an enlightening event on a very important subject.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about the event, or insurance more generally, please feel free to contact us today! Our knowledgeable insurance advisors will gladly make themselves available to you to help in any way they can.
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This list is not comprehensive and does not reflect our general software coverages.
If you would like to browse through all our coverage content, search our Vulnerability and Exploit Database.
Browse vulnerability checks by category
You can view all vulnerability checks by category in your Security Console. Available categories and the checks therein will depend on your current product and content versions.
In your Security Console, click the Administration tab on your left navigation menu.
In the “Scan Options” section, click manage next to “Templates”.
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How To Remove Trojan:JS/Tracur.E, A Guide To Remove Trojan:JS/Tracur. E From Your PC
Best way to remove this virus is to usa a automatic virus removal tool. Learn How To Remove Trojan:JS/Tracur. E From Your PC using automatic virus removal tool. This "Virus Removal Guide" will help you to remove this virus and many other malwares like Trojans, Spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, computer worms and many more. This virus removal guide includes instructions on how to download virus removal tools to automatically remove the virus. So lets go directly to the Virus Removal Tool Download Page and learn How To Remove Trojan:JS/Tracur. E, A Guide To Remove Trojan:JS/Tracur. Trojan:JS/Tracur. E is a malicious Trojan application that downloads and executes arbitrary files in the PC and ruins its performance completely. Once infected, it shows high security risk for the compromise system environment and Trojan:JS/Tracur. E is able to stop internet access and post a warning message to drive computer victims mad. Trojan:JS/Tracur. E is always running in the background of your system which bypasses Windows firewall and connects to a remote server in order to allow a hacker to remotely access your computer. Trojan:JS/Tracur. E helps malware communicate inside the system. It is important that all Trojan:JS/Tracur. E associated malware be detected and removed with an antispyware program to ensure safe web browsing. “Trojan:JS/Tracur. E should be removed as early as possible. Click the “Download Now” button to download Trojan:JS/Tracur. E removal tool.”
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* Trojan:JS/Tracur. E installs without your consent * Trojan:JS/Tracur. E installs other types of spyware/adware * Trojan:JS/Tracur. E may hijack, redirect and change your browser * Trojan:JS/Tracur. E displays annoying popups while you surf the web * Trojan:JS/Tracur. E compromises your privacy and security
* Trojan:JS/Tracur. E is difficult to uninstall How Did I Get Infected With Trojan:JS/Tracur. E ?
Trojan:JS/Tracur. E and badware just like it usually gets into your PC due to the following causes.
* Freeware or shareware: Many times freeware or shareware is secretly bundled with spyware. It is how the developers earn money for the time they spent. It’s a sneaky, but it’s fairly common.
* Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for mistakenly downloading an infected file, including software like Trojan:JS/Tracur. E .
* Questionable websites: Malicious or questionable websites can install programs such as Trojan:JS/Tracur. E through security holes and automatic downloads, such as video codecs. If you feel your browser is unsafe, consider using the newest version of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer.
1. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. Then stop all the Trojan:JS/Tracur.E processes.
2. Click on the Processes tab, search for Trojan:JS/Tracur. E process, then right-click it and select End Process key.
3. Click Start button and select Run. Type regedit into the box and click OK to proceed.
4. Once the Registry Editor is open, search for the registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Trojan:JS/Tracur. E.” Right-click this registry key and select Delete.
5. Search for file like %PROGRAM_FILES%\Trojan:JS/Tracur. E. and delete it manually.
6. Search for file like c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Trojan:JS/Tracur.E\ and delete it manually 7. Search for file like c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Trojan:JS/Tracur.E\ and delete it manually
However, please note that manual removal of Trojan:JS/Tracur. E is a time-taking process. Moreover, it does not always ensure full removal of Trojan:JS/Tracur. E infection due to the fact that certain files might be hidden or even may be restored automatically after you restart your computer. In addition, such a manual interference might damage the Computer. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal of Trojan:JS/Tracur. E. By selecting Spyware Doctor for this purpose you will be able to save your time and get the required result.
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I wrote last week about a new project we’ve [Mozilla] started, informing our users when they’re running out of date versions of popular plugins. We focused our initial efforts on the Adobe Flash Player and now, a week after launch, Mozilla’s Numerator, Ken Kovash, has a blog post up looking at the results.
Those results have been nothing short of awesome. In the first week that the project has been live, we’ve seen 10 million people click through from our page to Adobe’s update site. As Ken points out, this is not just a huge number, it’s also about 5x higher click through than that page typically sees.
We’re continuing to look for ways to help our users stay safe and up to date. We’re working to roll other plugins into our web-based checking, and the Firefox team is also building an integrated check that will let you know whenever a site you visit is trying to use an outdated plugin (more on that soon). This is just the beginning.
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http://infosecisland.com/articleview/1114-Plugin-Updating-Project-Follow-up.html
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You’ve finally decided to move your storage and apps to the cloud. Great, but it is not just a question of uploading files to a new server. What do you know about your cloud provider? Is their infrastructure secure? Do they meet all of the privacy or security standards you need to meet? Do you even know the questions you need to ask? Here are 5 of the most important questions to ask your potential service provider before you sign your contract.
1. What security are you, the service provider, responsible for and what security am I responsible for? This might seem obvious, but terms of service differ from provider to provider. Normally you can expect the service provider to be responsible for security for its infrastructure only and you, as the client, need to layer on security for your apps and data. The kind of security you are able to layer on and, more importantly, test, will depend on the kind of service you buy. For example, many providers will not permit you to run penetration tests against the production servers, but often the providers will have a separate set of servers with the same network security to which you can run pen tests. Also, you need to bring your own identity and access management to the cloud; don’t expect the provider to offer any granular security.
On the plus side, you should expect the provider to have 24/7/365 network monitoring of the infrastructure that will go a long way to reduce network outages. Your service-level agreement will spell out a lot of these details, but often there will be a lot of questions left unasked and unanswered. Do not let the legalese of the SLA intimidate you — if the service provider does not make understanding both theirs and your rights and responsibilities easy to understand, you might want to look elsewhere 2. Which security and privacy standards do you meet? Compliance is a big deal and you will do yourself no favors if you opt for a cloud provider who cannot demonstrate that they meet the same standards you must. For example, you would not want to hire a provider that cannot meet HIPAA compliance certification if you are in the medical field. Make sure you ask for and receive copies of the requisite certifications you need to be compliant in your industry. Your auditors and compliance team likely will want to vet any contract first as well.
3. If your company handles data about Europeans, is your cloud provider compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? GDPR is a new set of privacy rules from the EU that go into effect in May 2018. Fines can be extremely high for serious violations of privacy for EU citizens — up to four percent of worldwide revenue (not profits) or €20 million, whichever is higher. Make sure that your cloud service provider can demonstrate that it is in compliance with GDPR regulations. This is no small task, but in the long run it is worth ensuring that your service provider, along with its supply chain of service providers, are compliant with security and privacy regulations.
4. What’s your business continuity plan? Companies are well aware that they need to keep backups of their data and have a business continuity plan in case an emergency hits, but so must your cloud provider. Ask your provider to show you their business continuity plan and ask them about their data backup strategy. If your provider does not back up your data or have plans to keep you operating in case their site is hit with an emergency, you might well want to look elsewhere. If their plan does not meet your compliance requirements, you need to address that before signing on the dotted line.
5. Do you provide an audit trail? Bad things sometimes happen; there’s just no getting around that. Ask your service provider if they have an audit trail that shows which of their employees took certain actions on their systems, whether it was conducted directly at the cloud provider’s site or if it was done remotely through an API or a web interface. Having that audit trail that identifies the provider’s employees will help you determine if data was the victim of an attack or perhaps a benign action that might have impacted your data accidentally or as collateral damage.
Obviously there are a lot of questions that must be asked before you sign a contract with a cloud provider. We will look at other questions in other stories, but for now, these are among the most important you will need to address.
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https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/sc-security-ops-center/5-questions-to-ask-cloud-services-providers-about-security/
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Revolutionary changes with respect to networking technologies has lead to a paradigm shift in the ways in which we knew the World Wide Web so for. In the contemporary scenario, data is being skewed from just a few data nodes or measurements, network structures are being used for recovering temporal and necessary overlaps, and libraries and consortia such as CAIDA, LANRL are offering solutions to computer networking issues by allowing access to all kinds of data.
Read on for how a computer support specialist uses smart and well conceived networking tools to detect and rectify various problems.
Networking specialists are adept in the field of data synthesis and management for effective networking and provide correct inputs about the issues linked with computer generated web based programming applications. They include the right research tools with quality reporting, assessment of reporting metrics in real time, and better data analysis results. They merge data in network packets, ensure accuracy of all kinds of data assimilation, and allow for progressive retaining of information or data via quick assorted assessments, for setting up networking channels in computers and management information systems alike.
Get in touch with networking specialists and data programmers to enable data packaging and routing through technology and internet protocol servers. Proper data management and correction of related issues will provide high end programming and better results!
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http://www.lenitytech.com/blog/effective-management-of-complexities-in-the-field-of-internet-computer-networking/
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WinZip is a file compression piece of software. This means that it takes a file (or a group of files) and compresses them into a zip folder. This zip folder (.zip) will need to be extracted before the files can actually be used or accessed (which WinZip also can do) which is arguably an inconvenience, as unzipping time is based on the file size and can take hours if the files are gigabytes huge, but unfortunately the decision on whether to download a zip or not is not usually up to you, so having the best program to unzip it at your disposal is probably your best option.
Why WinZip though? There are hundreds of other pieces of software which do the exact same thing, right? While this may be true, WinZip was the very first file compression software created, and actually created the zip format.
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http://www.sharewareconnection.com/titles/cloud-encryption1.htm
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일반적으로 삽입 및 업데이트 작업이 많은 응용 프로그램에서도 데이터베이스 읽기 횟수가 데이터베이스 쓰기 횟수보다 10 대 5 정도로 훨씬 많이 일어나기 때문에 일반적인 SQL Database의 Index Fill Factor (인덱스 채우기 비율) 값은 0 (각 페이지를 100% 데이터로 채움)으로 설정합니다.
기본값 이외의 채우기 비율을 지정하면 채우기 비율 설정에 반비례하는 양만큼 데이터베이스 읽기 성능이 저하됩니다. 또한, 인덱스에 더 많은 페이지가 포함되므로 읽기 성능이 저하되어 데이터 검색에 필요한 디스크 IO 작업이 늘어납니다.
다만, SharePoint (2010~)의 경우에는 내부 테스트를 통해 채우기 비율이 80%일 때 가장 효율적으로 작동하는 것으로 확인되었습니다. (확장 지원 및 조각화 최소화)
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/spsofficesupportko/2017/02/17/sharepoint-database-index-fill-factor-%EC%B1%84%EC%9A%B0%EA%B8%B0-%EB%B9%84%EC%9C%A8-%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95-%EB%B0%A9%EB%B2%95/
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Where does all of this spyware come from? All of a sudden, I started getting all kinds of popups on my computer and my search-from-address-bar in IE went to Shopnav (bastards!). I'm careful and knowledgeable, but somehow, this crap got installed on my machine.
It's nothing that Spybot Search and Destroy couldn't fix. But even after that, my IE search was left using "DRSN Search". BLAH! UPDATE: See this blog entry for how I fixed the DRSN issue.
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Megastar Sharon Cuneta. File photo
MANILA, Philippines -- Actress-singer Sharon Cuneta, who has been a target of online criticisms, sees nothing wrong with the controversial Republic Act (RA) No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act .
In her official Twitter account, Cuneta explained that while she supports freedom of speech, she does not favor anonymous criticism.
"Madaming nasasaktan kasi nagtatago sa ibang identity ang iba at tumatapang. Wala nang privacy ang mga tao. Pag may free speech, dapat may responsibility. Eh ang iba parang 'di na tayo human beings, wala nang delicadeza. Dapat lang ma-punish ang mga naninirang puri. Pag sinira mo ang pangalan ng isang taong wala naman masamang ginagawa, para mo na siyang pinatay," Cuneta said when asked by one of her followers about her stand on the new law.
She added: "I'm all for the punishment of cybercrime. Some people have just gone too far. "Cybercrime law? If you're a decent person to begin with, WHAT'S THERE TO FEAR? Ano 'yon, ang pumiyok, guilty? @ciara_anna," she told.
It was Cuneta's uncle Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III who proposed the online libel provision into the Cybercrime law.
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http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/10/03/12/sharon-sees-nothing-wrong-cybercrime-law
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Over the course of 2015, cyber attacks got somewhat less frequent but significantly more targeted and financially damaging.
According to its annual roundup of cybercrime breaches and vulnerabilities in Canada, global security software provider Trend Micro reports blocking more than 52 billion threats in 2015, a 25 per cent decrease from 2014.
But while the number of attacks is decreasing, they’re becoming more precise in their targeting, more advanced in their methodology and more financially damaging to both individuals and corporations.
“We’re seeing more of a focus from cyber criminals,” said Mark Nunnikhoven, Trend Micro’s vice-president of cloud research, based in Ottawa. “We’re seeing more and more attacks that are targeting banking details and ransomware, where there’s a direct payoff for cyber criminals, whereas in previous years we saw more attacks that had indirect payoffs, like turning your machine into a bot to send spam or using it in an attack later on.”
Financial cybercrime in Canada
When it comes to physical credit card thefts and forgeries, Canada has remained well protected, thanks to the adoption of chip-and-pin technology.
“It’s a relatively pain-free security control for us as citizens,” said Nunnikhoven. “What we’ve seen in the criminal underground is a distinct difference in what Canadian credit card information is worth versus, let’s say, U.S. credit card information.”
Nunnikhoven adds that Canadian financial institutions automatically flag all transactions that don’t include both chip and pin, which has devalued Canadian credit card information on the black market.
As a relatively affluent country, however, Canada is not immune to cyber attacks against its financial institutions, which are being targeted specifically through the Angler Exploit Kit, explains Nunikhoven.
“What we saw is evidence of these kits being tailored toward Canadian brands and Canadian banks,” he said. “We saw attacks being specifically run against the top Canadian banks and some of our top credit unions, as well as our big telcos.”
An ‘explosion’ in ransomware
Instances of ransomware attacks, which encrypt and freeze personal devices until such time that a ransom is paid to the attackers, has grown significantly over the past year.
“I think we’re going to see an absolute explosion in ransomware,” he said. “It was big last year, it’s going to be bigger this year, and that’s due to the fact that it’s a massive money-maker for criminals.”
While these attacks primarily targeted personal devices in 2015, Nunnikhoven has reason to believe the threat could extend to businesses this year.
“What we started to see is ransomware targeting things like web servers, taking businesses offline,” he said. “I think that’s going to become more popular from the criminal’s perspective, because that’s an even more attractive money maker, especially for e-commerce [companies].”
How IT staff can protect employees
When it comes to protecting themselves and the business from such attacks, Nunnikhoven’s suggestion to IT security staff is, first and foremost, to double down on the basics.
“The No. 1 infection vector is through phishing emails, so you want to make sure your employees are aware of what a phishing email looks like,” he said. “More importantly, you want to filter as many of those out as possible on the mail server so your users never have to make that decision.”
Nunnikhoven adds that companies should also increase filters on outbound Internet traffic to protect users from infections that get through, “because it’s a safety net to make sure that even if your users click on a phishing link, they won’t get that infection.”
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https://blog.allstream.com/cyber-attacks-becoming-more-precise-damaging/
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Because there are four MacBook Air models that match the A1304 model number, you may wish to lookup yours by Order Number or Serial Number for greater precision. MacBook Air "Core 2 �
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The 11-inch MacBook Air is a great option for those who want the portability of a tablet but find themselves wanting to attach a keyboard to it most of the time. The 11.6-inch display boasts the
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While ransomware is still a risk, it's not the primary attack vector used by hackers to make money, according to IBM.
The 2019 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index was released on Feb. 26, providing insight into the attack landscape over the course 2018. The report, based on data observed by IBM from monitoring over 70 billion security events a day around the world for customers, found a few things that IBM researchers didn't expect to find.
"One of the biggest surprises from our perspective was the significant decline in ransomware compared to the past few years," Michelle Alvarez, threat research manager for IBM X-Force IRIS (Incident Response and Intelligence), told eWEEK. "We anticipated we would see somewhat of a reduction given the extensive communication efforts by the security community and law enforcement around 'don't pay the ransom'; however, the 45 percent drop in ransomware attacks in the period of one calendar year is pretty significant."
Data Point No. 1: Goodbye ransomware, hello cryptojacking.
There was a sharp decrease in the volume of ransomware attack attempts across devices monitored by IBM X-Force over the course of 2018. IBM reported that the number of ransomware attempts in the fourth quarter of the year (from October to December) declined to less than half (45 percent) of the attempts in Q1.
While ransomware attempts declined, unauthorized cryptocurrency mining activity, known as cryptojacking, rose.
"Over the last couple of years we've been highlighting the increase in network attacks leveraging cryptomining tools, but the massive increase in cryptojacking attacks—450 percent over the same time frame—has really brought this threat to the forefront," Alvarez said.
Data Point No. 2: BEC is increasingly lucrative.
While ransomware is on the decline and cryptojacking is growing, IBM found that often the more lucrative form of attack is Business Email Compromise (BEC). In a BEC attack, a fraudster looks to trick a victim into paying a fraudulent invoice for services.
BEC scams accounted for 45 percent of the phishing attacks tracked by IBM X-Force in 2018, and it's a trend that is continuing.
"In Q1 2019, one of the major threats we're still seeing from an incident response perspective is Business Email Compromise, which was one of the top phishing scams we observed in 2018," Alvarez said.
Data Point No. 3: Vulnerability reporting is on the rise.
At the end of 2018, IBM X-Force reported that it was tracking 140,000 known vulnerabilities, and of those, 42,000 were reported in just the past three years.
Of the known vulnerabilities, IBM estimated that approximately one-third do not have patches. The overall rise in the volume of vulnerability disclosures is seen by IBM as contributing to an increasing attack surface.
Data Point No. 4: U.S. is No. 1 when it comes to malware command and control.
Looking at its own set of globally monitored spam traps, IBM X-Force identified the U.S. as the country with the most malware command and control (C&C) servers. C&C servers direct victimized systems to send spam and deliver malware.
According to IBM X-Force, 36 percent of the total number of global C&C servers are located somewhere in the U.S.
Data Point No. 5: Cyber-attackers are going after the transportation industry.
The most attacked industry in 2018 was the finance and insurance sector, at 19 percent of all incidents tracked by IBM X-Force. While attackers going after financial services is not a surprise, what was surprising was a surge in attacks against the transportation industry.
Transportation was the second most attacked sector in 2018—moving up from 10th place in 2017. Overall, attacks against the transportation sector accounted for 13 percent of all attacks monitored by IBM.
Data Point No. 6: Misconfigurations have grown though impact is muted.
Publicly disclosed misconfiguration incidents increased 20 percent year-over-year in 2018. Yet, even though more incidents were reported, there were 52 percent fewer records compromised in 2018 than in 2017 due to misconfigurations.
Data Point No. 7: Non-malware attacks are a growing concern.
While malware is still actively used by attackers, the majority (57 percent) of breaches IBM X-Force IRIS responded to did not involve the use of malicious files.
Instead of malware, attackers are making use of different non-malicious tools to evade detection, including PowerShell and PsExec.
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http://enterpriseapps.eweek.com/security/ransomware-attacks-decline-as-cryptojacking-grows-ibm-x-force-reports
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3. Use sp_OA sp's. Example of this is below (courtesy of Bill Hodghead)
if exists (select * from sysobjects where id = object_id(N'\[dbo\].\[sp_displayoaerrorinfo\]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1) drop procedure \[dbo\].\[sp_displayoaerrorinfo\]
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Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 2.3 gets excellent marks for its detection rates. It’s a lightweight antivirus that takes care of your system without using lots of system resources or having nagging pop ups all the time. Panda Cloud Antivirus is based on cloud computing, and is only partially installed on your system and keeps core files on a dedicated server on the Internet. Thanks to this special cloud structure, Panda Cloud Antivirus doesn’t have to be manually updated. You can simply forget about complicated configurations and having to download new signature files. The cloud-based functionality doesn’t mean you remain unprotected when disconnected from the network: Panda Cloud Antivirus features a local cache that keeps the program up and running.
Cloud AV’s interface retains its gray color scheme and modularized presentation of features for a usable, uncluttered combo. It’s easy to navigate, and is blissfully distraction free. Your security status sits at the top, a blue shield indicating that your computer is safe, a horizontal green bar graph indicating real-time protection, a magnifying glass to indicate scanning, and indicators for viruses detected and files in Panda’s recycle bin. Below that, there’s the link to the Firewall, which is grayed out in the free version, the Panda-provided process monitor that uses crowd-sourcing to determine a process’s safety, and the USB key “vaccine,” which scans USB sticks for threats.
Panda Cloud Antivirus Free can make a semi-quick scan (called Optimized Scan), a full scan (called Scan My Computer) and a custom scan for specific folder, files, and drives. Where ancillary features used to be exceptionally light, they’ve now begun to fill out – even in the free version. You can customize the scans to detect potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), toggle off behavioral detections and analysis, archive file scans, and how the scan reacts to detected threats. There’s an exclusion list, and quarantine management, which is the “recycle bin”.
Cloud Antivirus Free also comes with a browser toolbar for simplified secure searches, browsing data removal, and toolbar cleaning. Another nice feature in Panda Cloud Antivirus is the USB vaccine tool, which protects your computer from potentially dangerous files in USB portable memory devices.
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CompTIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Council publishes “Are We Safe?” a guide to assessing cybersecurity risks, policies and practices for leaders at organizations large and small.
The Council is made up of business and technical experts whose mission is educating and enabling executives to collaborate and communicate in ways that increase vigilance and improve solutions. In this spirit, the group developed a set of questions that all business leaders should ask.
Here are three we consider most critical:
“Do we keep a live inventory of assets?” “Maintaining—and continually updating—an accurate inventory of both physical and virtual assets, including all devices, licenses and policies is critical to help determine your cyberposture and vulnerabilities,” according to the guide. Key areas to review regularly include hardware and software, data and policies.
“Are my employees properly educated about cybersecurity threats?” Don’t just supply staff with information. “It’s more important to show them why they need to understand the information and the ramifications for failing to act appropriately.” The guide advocates random testing as an effective training technique, as the practice leads to more cautious behavior.
“If we were hit by a major attack, how confident are you that we could recover quickly?” The guide emphasizes that three plans should be in place before an incident occurs: incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity.
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SysThief. A is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
SysThief. A prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
SysThief. A redirects attempts to access web pages of certain banks to spoofed pages, with the aim of logging information entered by the user in these pages.
SysThief. A redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.
SysThief. A uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
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A new type of malware targeting Apple computers is undetectable by a good chunk of antivirus solutions.
Right now, OSX/MaMi, discovered by security researcher Patrick Wardle, the damage the malware can do remains limited, but there is the potential to do more.
The malware typically spreads through the typical methods that involve phishing and linking to the infection, such as email attachments or sending links to pages hosting the content.
“As is often the case with new malware, it’s currently marked as ‘clean’ by all 59 engines on VirusTotal,” Wardle said. This will hopefully change shortly as AV products start adding detections.”
While antivirus solutions do not detect the malware, the easiest way to find if a system suffered compromise is to check the DNS settings.
If infected, the DNS servers are 82.163.143.135 and 82.163.142.137, and removing them as well as the malicious certificate the malware deploys on a compromised host is the easiest way to clean the system.
To remove the DNS servers, you need to open System Preferences and head over to Network > Advanced > DNS. Delete the two entries mentioned above.
In order to move the compromised certificate, launch the Keychain app and open the System section in the top left side. The malicious entry is called cloudguard.me, and simply right-click it and hit the delete option.
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It’s nearly the end of another week, which means it’s time to review the weekly happenings in cyberspace. Before diving into breaches and threats, let’s look at the positive events. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a cybersecurity guide called Cyber Essentials for small businesses and government agencies. Google has announced a collaboration called ‘App Defense Alliance’ with three security firms to boost malicious app detection. Meanwhile, senators have introduced ‘The Harvesting American Cybersecurity Knowledge through Education Act’ bill to improve cybersecurity education programs.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released ‘Cyber Essentials’, a cybersecurity guide for small businesses and government agencies. It includes a list of actionable items that entities can practice to reduce cyber risks.
Google announced a partnership called ‘App Defense Alliance’ with three cybersecurity firms. This collaboration will aim at enhancing the detection of Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs). The partners will analyze the dataset before an application goes live on the Google Play Store.
Senators have introduced a new bill called ‘The Harvesting American Cybersecurity Knowledge through Education Act’ that enhances the existing cybersecurity education. This legislation will provide better resources and pathways to strengthen America’s cybersecurity workforce.
Google has launched a new open-source silicon root of trust project. Named ‘OpenTitan’, this project focuses on boosting the cybersecurity posture of servers, storage, and other devices in data centers. OpenTitan is said to be managed by lowRISC, a non-profit organization.
The Bad
Several security compromises were reported this week. Media giant Nikkei was hit by a BEC scam that resulted in a loss of around $29 million. Cadena SER and Everis in Spain suffered ransomware attacks that disrupted their networks. In other news, Facebook disclosed that about 100 partners may have accessed the information of members in certain Facebook groups.
Nikkei, one of the world’s largest media corporations, lost around $29 million to a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam. An employee was tricked into sending the funds to an attacker-controlled account. The company is said to be in the process of recovering the stolen funds.
Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER and an NTT DATA company Everis were hit by ransomware attacks. SER is said to be impacted by an unknown ransomware strain that forced the radio station to disconnect all its systems from the internet. Security experts believe that Everis’ data was encrypted by the BitPaymer ransomware.
Facebook disclosed that around 100 partners may have accessed user information such as names and profile pictures of members in certain Facebook groups. The social media giant said that although there was no evidence of access abuse, the partners have been asked to delete retained member data. An audit is also said to be conducted to confirm the deletion of data.
A BEC scam hit the City of Ocala in Florida this week. This scam involved the impersonation of an employee of a firm that the city is currently working with. More than $742,000 was redirected to the scammer-controlled accounts in this incident.
The personal and billing data of some Three UK customers were left exposed for a brief period of time. The British telecom firm said that no sensitive financial information was exposed and that it is investigating the matter. A similar incident was reported in February this year.
The Canadian Nunavut region government suffered a ransomware attack that impacted most government services including finance, legal, and medical systems. Officials are working with cybersecurity experts on investigating the attack. Most of the impacted files are expected to be restored from backups.
The Utah Valley Eye Center notified 20,000 patients who were the victims of a data breach that happened a year and a half ago. The breach occurred on June 18, 2018, when hackers gained unauthorized access to a third-party portal of the clinic. The potentially compromised information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers.
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro disclosed a security incident involving a malicious insider threat. Names, email addresses, support ticket numbers, and some telephone numbers may have been compromised due to this incident. A Trend Micro spokesperson reportedly said that around 70,000 customers have been impacted.
Maritime services provider James Fisher & Sons (JFS) revealed that it fell victim to a cyberattack last week. As a precautionary measure, the firm has shut down its digital systems. The company’s IT staff, law enforcement officials, and a third-party company are working on recovering data from the backups.
Veritas Genetics, a DNS-testing firm has confirmed a security breach that exposed customer information. The firm said that it detected unauthorized access to a customer-facing portal recently. Genetic data, DNA-test results, and health records are not contained in the portal.
Several systems in the Brooklyn Hospital Center were infected by a ransomware attack. The hospital chose not to pay the ransom and decided to recover data from the backup. Unfortunately, the data recovery process failed and resulted in the permanent loss of patient data.
Maine healthcare provider InterMed suffered a data breach that impacted the personal health information of 30,000 patients. The potentially compromised information includes names, dates of birth, health insurance information, and clinical information.
New Threats
This week’s highlights include a number of new vulnerabilities and malware strains. The infamous Nemty ransomware was observed to be delivered by the Trik botnet. The Emotet Trojan has resurfaced in a fresh wave of attacks. On the other hand, a new ‘Light Commands’ vulnerability that can be used to hack smart voice assistants has been disclosed.
Researchers observed that the Nemty ransomware is being delivered by the Trik botnet, which has expanded its reach. The Nemty ransomware is spread to systems with exposed Server Message Block (SMB) network communication protocol. The malware has been observed to be in continuous development since its first appearance in August 2019.
The infamous Emotet Trojan has been observed in a new wave of attacks. Researchers noted that the malware had undergone changes in functionality and deployment. The malware authors had used a new list of words to create process names.
A new attack technique that can exploit the ‘Light Commands’ vulnerability to hack smart voice assistants has been discovered. The vulnerability is a design flaw in the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones that convert voice commands into electrical signals. Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to perform malicious activities.
A new Megacortex ransomware version has been discovered by researchers. This version encrypts files, changes logged in user’s passwords and threatens to publish files if the ransom is not paid. The new version has a number of changes compared to the previous version, including the usage of .m3g4c0rtx extension.
Google has identified a vulnerability in Libarchive that can be exploited to execute code on the target system using a malformed archive file. Tracked as CVE-2019-18408, this flaw impacts operating systems including Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD. The affected operating systems have rolled out patches for this flaw.
A new phishing scam that uses fake court summon emails to deliver information-stealing malware has been spotted. The distributed malware, Predator the Thief, is capable of harvesting usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallet contents, and browser data. This campaign is targeting employees in the retail and insurance sector.
Security experts noted that scammers were using legitimate web analytics tools including those developed by Google, Bing, and Yandex to track the success of phishing campaigns. The data collected from these campaigns were used to tweak the campaigns to boost success rates.
Attackers have been observed using a specially crafted ZIP file to bypass secure email gateways to distribute the NanoCore RAT. This campaign employs spam emails that appear to be shipping information from an Export Operation Specialist of USCO Logistics.
The Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Department of Defense released a notification on a new data collector malware called Hoplight that is reportedly used by Hidden Cobra, a North Korean cyberespionage group. The malware is said to be sophisticated enough to disguise network connection.
Researchers disclosed a vulnerability in Amazon Ring doorbells that exposed the passwords of connected Wi-Fi networks. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious actors to launch massive attacks. Amazon has fixed this vulnerability in all Ring devices.
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https://cyware.com/weekly-threat-briefing/cyware-weekly-threat-intelligence-november-04-08-2019-dc6d/
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Catherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported on something we have predicted would happen in this blog. The article started out with:
"Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.
Whoever was behind this incident appears to have used AI-based software to successfully mimic the German executive’s voice by phone. The U.K. CEO recognized his boss’ slight German accent and the melody of his voice on the phone, said Rüdiger Kirsch, a fraud expert at Euler Hermes, a subsidiary of Munich-based financial services company Allianz SE."
This is essentially the next step up in the escalation of using social engineering in a case of CEO Fraud. You need to step your employees through new-school security awareness training to prevent human errors like this.
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.test Ransomware : How does it spread to Windows 8 ?
This malware is primarily being distributed through bundled software and spam emails attachments. Actually, hackers are using spam campaigns to lure inexperienced Windows System users into installing .test Ransomware on their Windows System. Torrent sites and adult sites also promote such type of malware as an useful application. Even, while surfing internet you may see suggestion to install Adobe flash player update or Java update, if you install them your Windows System become victim of the malware. This way the malware arrives onto your Windows 8.
Finally, you have got all the needful information. Now, you should follow .test Ransomware Deletion guide carefully.
I. Press Windows logo button on your keyboard and from Shut down option click Restart.
II. During the Restart Process, keep pressing ‘F8 button’ repeatedly.
I. Press and Hold Win+R button to open Run Box.
II. Now, type ‘control panel’ (without quotation mark) and hit the Enter to open ‘Control panel’.
III. Next, choose ‘Uninstall a program’ from Programs menu.
IV. Now you should to find .test Ransomware or other suspicious apps, select it and Take Down one by one of them by clicking on ‘Uninstall’ option.
II. From the appeared Window, click Task Manager.
III. Now, you can find troublesome processes and kill them by selecting them one by one and clicking on End Task option.
IV. Using this technique, you can Take Down troublesome processes associated with .test Ransomware.
Easy Guide To Reset Mozilla:43.0.1
I. Open Firefox and tap the icon that seems like three stacked lines at the top right of the browser window.
II. Click the question-mark icon at the bottom of the drop-down menu.
III. Choose ‘Troubleshooting information’ in the slide-out menu.
IV. Click the ‘Reset Firefox’ button at the top right of the new Web page.
Remove .test Ransomware From Internet Explorer 10-10.0.8250.00000
I. First, open IE and go to Manage Add-ons from Tools menu that appears on middle-top.
II. A new window appears, from there choose Toolbar and extensions.
III. Now, find .test Ransomware from there and click Remove.
IV. Also find and Take Down useless extensions and delete them.
II. At the top right, click More Settings.
III. At the bottom, mouse click Show advanced settings.
IV. Under the section “Reset settings,” click Reset settings.
V. In the box that appears, click Reset.
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The FBI advises ransomware victims to refrain from paying the ransom for the following reasons.
The hackers are criminals, after all. Therefore, they may not release the stolen information, even if they received payment for it.
The business may be seen as an easy target after paying the ransom and could become a more frequent victim of future attacks.
Even if the encryption key is provided after payment, it may not work. In addition, there could be additional malware hidden for a later attack.
If the attacker is operating from a sanctioned country, paying the ransom may be illegal under U.S. law.
Why You Should Pay
What happens if you pay the ransom? Some recent trends suggest that paying the ransom may be a good idea.
Sometimes, the cost of recovery exceeds the amount of the ransom. In May, Baltimore was attacked with ransomware that blocked access to government systems. The city refused to pay the demand of $76,000. After two months of struggling, the attack is estimated to cost over $18.2 million in lost revenue and restoration costs.
If the threatened release of files could do irreparable damage to the company’s reputation, the company may decide the risk is not worth it.
Most hackers, ironically, behave honorably when restoring the data after receiving a ransom payment. These cybercriminals need businesses to trust that they will get their data back for their ransom demands effectively.
Your Best Move
The best move is to obtain cyber insurance and adopt a comprehensive cyber security program that will help the business avoid falling victim to a ransomware attack. Ultimately, if a company is attacked, whether to pay ransomware depends on whether the business can withstand the hit. Variables to consider are the nature of the attack, the nature of the business, and the nature of the risk.
When a ransomware attack victimizes a company, it feels as if there is no good solution. However, the best choice for the organization is to create a quality security infrastructure to avoid becoming a victim in the first place.
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https://connectedrisksolutions.com/cyber-attack-should-your-clients-pay-ransoms/
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Remove directorydoll.com (User Guide)
How to delete directorydoll.com from windows pc effectively:
directorydoll.com is identified as a potential redirect virus that causes several issue to your system by displaying of irriating pop-up ads and annoying messages. Its malicious effects badly damage the various parts of the computer system and makes user unable to access various applications from the system. Apart from this it also modify the DNS as well as settings of the web browser including the web home page and deactivates the installed security programs of the system. Redirects user search to unsafe, bogus and dubious web pages to add on more threats to the system. So at the earlier you should remove directorydoll.com from your PC.
directorydoll.com also replace the registry files in order to add its own files with in the system. It utilise large resource of the system that leads to degrades the performance of the system. As it makes your system completely sluggish and reduce the browsing speed of Internet. Also trace the online activities of the web browser, web index, search results, IP address, web history to send tese informations to remote server. Makes user unable to access files, data, documents from the system as it has been loss by malicious effects. So it is better to uninstall directorydoll.com from your computer.
Common Symptoms of directorydoll.com infection :
directorydoll.com spyware is malicious computer application which enters into your PC secretly while you browsing the infected websites and after clicking on infected links. Due to this you might face a number of unexpected problems when you work on computer. Common Symptoms of directorydoll.com spyware infection:
when you open the internet then browser does not open your default home page, it redirects to unsafe and malicious websites. Internet browsing speed becomes slower.
sometimes when you starts your windows PC and can not access your computer data and it gets locked. Your computer desktop setting changes automatically and various types of unwanted shortcuts appear on your desktop.
you will notice that your PC performance became slower and it takes time during the system start and shutdown.
antivirus programs don't work properly and it has been disabled. It becomes unresponsive and unable to detect the infections. You can not install a new antivirus program in your computer.
PC is restarting itself after every now and then and lastly it becomes crashed.
All types of pop up messages and advertising notifies that the PC is infected and needs protection.
Lots of application starts automatically when you start your computer and sometime when you open any application then it does not work properly.
It can affect a large number of system across the whole world simultaneously. It comes with a capability of spreading itself from system to system. Moreover it tries to target western countries since they have large number of internet users. System Target
It generally target Windows PC. It can attack on any OS including XP, W 7, W 8, etc.
Browser hijacking; Its kind of hacking the browser like Firefox, chrome, etc. by changing the homepage setting and URL,thus taking you to some fake and malicious website deliberately.
Identity theft; Stealing your personal details like credit card number, passwords, etc. online is quite common and directorydoll.com can easily make you a victim of this.
Unnecessary and annoying pop ups.
Fake and malicious emails.
Above discussed are some of the major consequences of directorydoll.com attack . One may encounter lots of different and even more danger consequences. One should never ignore if any thing unusual happens to the system. To be safe, every one should go for a directorydoll.com removal tool as soon as any of the symptoms is seen.
User guide to remove directorydoll.com with directorydoll.com removal tool :
Step 1: Download and install directorydoll.com removal tool
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With the rise in the sophistication of cybercrimes, VPNs have become a staple in the cybersecurity diet of many.
However, as users of a tool a VPN might be, the fact remains that are still a couple of vulnerabilities present that cause more damage than good.
Perhaps even more alarming is the ruse of ‘false security’ that a VPN has to offer to users. With claims of complete privacy while browsing online, it’s quite understandable as to why some users might let their guards down, and become the potential victim of a VPN gone rogue.
However, with that being said, there are still ways in which users can remain on the top of the potential threat posed by a ‘bad’ VPN, starting by simply knowing about features that might sabotage the functionality of a VPN and turn it from an ally to a threat.
A significant loophole that comes with using a VPN is the reliance that every VPN has on encryption keys. If you didn’t already know, an encryption key refers to the technology that allows for one end of the online communication to be encrypted and the other end to be decrypted.
Although encryption keys aren’t particularly limited to VPNs, the fact is that one end of the encryption key is wholly exposed to the public, via the device on which the VPN is connected.
Moreover, a recent example demonstrated at the Black Hat USA 2019, revealed that a vulnerability within the Palo Alto Networks SSL VPN had increased the strength and impact of cybercrime since the vulnerability targeted a hard-coded password for the encryption key.
With that out of the way, users need to look for VPN providers that minimize the threat posed by hard-coded encryption keys, along with the dangers of storing these encryption keys insecurely.
As simple as it may sound, the most effective step in remedying the danger posed by a vulnerable encryption-key handling routine is to patch any bugs and to update regularly.
#2- Subpar Encryption
For many people, the primary function associated with a VPN is usually high-grade encryption. Keeping this in encryption, it gets really hard to imagine a VPN provider would fall short of its defining feature.
Unfortunately, however, this seems to be the case in several VPNs, since the VPN industry is filled with an arsenal of outdated encryption algorithms that were once thought to be safe but were later found to house vulnerabilities.
Encryption algorithms, such as DES, 3DES, SHA-1, and RSA, are amongst those encryption models that have exhibited several vulnerabilities, including the likes of length extension attacks and susceptibility to using brute-force methods.
On the other end of the spectrum, the VPN market is littered with VPN providers claiming that they offer ‘military-grade’ encryption, with little to none quantifiable evidence to back their claims.
While on the hunt for a VPN with high-grade encryption, try to keep an eye out for algorithms such as the AES algorithm, ECDH, SHA-256, or the RSA algorithm with a 1536 or 2048-bit key. However, there’s still a slight chance that your online security could go awry with the improper implementation of algorithm programs, which is why you must keep your VPN updated and patched regularly.
#3- Reliance on weak VPN protocols
Out of the five majorly used VPN protocols, most of them will do a perfect job of everything that a VPN ought to do, including providing users with the luxury of a private connection.
As is the case with encryption algorithms, not all VPN security protocols are created as equal. The bad news, however, is the fact that a significant portion of VPN providers still rely heavily on these outdated protocols, including the PPTP protocol.
The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) might be the bane of all VPN protocols since, despite the fast speeds, the protocol leaves a lot to be desired in terms of security. Another archaic protocol, which is still in use for some reason, is the L2TP protocol, which offers zero encryption, leaving all online communication susceptible to hackers and other nosy third-parties.
Another popular security protocol, IKEv2 (often used with the IPSec encryption protocol), has also had its fair share of troubles, with whistleblower Edward Snowden linking the contract to the NSA conducting espionage, by figuring out how to crack the encryption.
Out of the two remaining VPN protocols, OpenVPN stands out as the best security protocol available to software engineers today. However, as far as VPN protocols are concerned, the future seems bright since the modern protocols such as Wireguard and SoftEther are slowly establishing themselves as pioneers in the VPN markets.
#4- An untrustworthy VPN provider
Over the course of the points we’ve made above, we’ve mentioned a VPN provider several times. The massive amount of trust users put into the VPN provider they’ve chosen speaks volumes of the desperate cybersecurity conditions of our times.
However, turning to a free VPN provider might be even more dangerous than going without one, since it creates the illusion of privacy, without actually providing any. Moreover, this false sense of security provides sketchy VPN providers easy access to the online activities of thousands of their naïve users.
When a user opts for a free VPN, not only do they keep tabs on the browsing activities of thousands, the collected (read: stolen) data is then sold to advertisers for targeted advertising, which means you’ll be bombarded with adverts you’re more likely to click on.
Even more alarming is the fact, which was brought into light by a study conducted by the ICSI, that free VPNs are much more likely to contain malware when compared to their paid counterparts.
When you combine the nosiness of free VPN providers, along with the fact that they throttle bandwidth along with slowing down connection speeds, renders them entirely unusable. Unfortunately, however, there is still a significant portion of VPN users who’d prefer to put their safety on the line, rather than invest in an effective and robust paid VPN.
#5- Insufficient single-layer protection
Despite the ever-persistent threat of becoming the victim of a sophisticated cybercrime present in users, there are still a lot of VPNs that only offer a single layer of protection. This single layered protection doesn’t do a lot in terms of security except masking the actual IP address of the user with the IP address of one of its servers.
When we take into consideration, the ease with which hackers these days can break into complex governmental networks, it becomes quite evident that a single-layered protection approach has several loopholes in it, and allows users to turn into easy victims of cybertheft and espionage.
While looking for a VPN, keep your focus on VPNs that have a more multi-layered approach to providing security, including features that mask the end user’s IP address, along with giving a blacklist of URLs to avoid.
Moreover, VPN providers should be able to withhold an organization’s IT infrastructure when employed within a corporate or business setting.
#6- Weak user authentication system
Along with the traits mentioned above, a VPN that allows for easy authentication bypass is a VPN that you should stay away from! In order to achieve the ultimate level of security via a VPN provider needs to provide a robust authentication system to users.
When a vulnerability allows cybercriminals access to a user’s credentials, a weak authentication system allows the threat propagator to gain access to the resources provided by the VPN. When this happens, the hackers can then carry out an arsenal of activities under the ruse of a user.
Furthermore, in some instances, hackers can go as far as to alter the software’s code, along with accessing critical information, about other users subscribed to the same VPN provider as well.
To conclude
We’d like to remind our readers of the fact that despite the shortcomings of the VPN technology (and some providers), it is still an essential security tool that helps foster cybersecurity and privacy while browsing. We recommend the use of CyberGhost.
If users remain mindful of what features to look out for a while searching for a VPN, they might just come across a VPN that suits their specific security needs the best.
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Written by Jonathan Greig, Contributor on Aug. 16, 2021
Colonial Pipeline is sending out breach notification letters to 5,810 current and former employees whose personal information was accessed by the DarkSide ransomware group during an attack in May.
The company admitted in an August 13 letter that on May 6, the ransomware group "acquired certain records" stored in their systems.
"The affected records contained certain personal information, such as name, contact information, date of birth, government-issued ID (such as Social Security, military ID, tax ID and driver's license numbers) and health-related information (including health insurance information). Not all of this information was affected for each impacted individual," the letter said.
Bloomberg reported in May that before locking down the pipeline's business systems, the group stole almost 100 GBs of data.
Colonial Pipeline said it was offering victims of the hack two free years of "identity restoration" and credit monitoring services from Experian. They urged those affected to check their credit reports for any unauthorized activity.
The letter was first reported by Bleeping Computer and a company official confirmed to CNN Business that personal information was lost during the ransomware attack.
The attack on Colonial Pipeline, which left significant parts of the East Coast without gas for several days, kicked off a swift change in the government's response to ransomware incidents. Since the attack, multiple new regulations have been released for critical industries in general as well as the oil and gas industry specifically.
Colonial ended up paying a ransom of $4.4 million to the DarkSide group due to the urgency of the gas crisis, but US law enforcement managed to get a portion of it back.
Due to increased law enforcement interest globally, the people behind DarkSide shuttered their operation and some members reformed under a new name: BlackMatter.
The Record spoke with the operators behind BlackMatter, who specifically cited the Colonial Pipeline attack as "a key factor for the closure of REvil and DarkSide," adding that the group has now "forbidden that type of targeting and we see no sense in attacking them."
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/colonial-pipeline-sends-breach-letters-to-more-than-5000-after-ransomware-group-accessed-ssns-more/
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McAfee, a leading provider of antivirus and endpoint security software, announced terms for its IPO on Tuesday.
The San Jose, CA-based company plans to raise $759 million by offering 37 million shares (21% secondary/synthetic) at a price range of $19 to $22. At the midpoint of the proposed range, McAfee would command a fully diluted market value of $9.6 billion. The company plans to offer a quarterly dividend, with an annual dividend yield of 1.7% at the midpoint of the price range.
McAfee is a leading brand in cybersecurity used by consumers, enterprises, and governments. Its consumer-focused products protected over 600 million devices as of June 27, 2020.
McAfee was founded in 1987 and booked $2.7 billion in sales for the 12 months ended June 27, 2020. It plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol MCFE. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, TPG Capital BD, BofA Securities, Citi, RBC Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, UBS Investment Bank, HSBC and Mizuho Securities are the joint bookrunners on the deal. It is expected to price the week of October 19, 2020.
The article Leading cybersecurity brand McAfee sets terms for $759 million IPO originally appeared on IPO investment manager Renaissance Capital's web site renaissancecapital.com.
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Wireshark is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including a buffer-overflow issue and denial-of-service issues.
Exploiting these issues may allow attackers to crash the application and deny service to legitimate users. Attackers may be able to leverage some of these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, but this has not been confirmed.
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A good mobile phone antivirus course can shield your product against destructive threats, rip-off sites and other on the net dangers. It could possibly block particular sites and applications, and limit the application of unsecured Wi fi networks. This may also protect the battery life and protect against unnecessary data utilization. If you are worried about mobile secureness, you should know more about the various choices. Read on to get helpful advice regarding mobile antivirus security software. You may download the application free of charge, although make sure that this matches your needs.
Kaspersky Mobile phone Antivirus, also known as Kaspersky Internet Security for Google android, is one of the many popular mobile phone antivirus programs. This application offers near-perfect malware protection and a minor system effect. It also provides a good contact blocker, as well as parent controls. In addition , the no cost version does not have ads. Other advantages of Kaspersky Mobile Malware include auto scans for new applications, software lock and blocking of known scam sites. Despite the great features and low cost, Kaspersky’s free rate is limited in scanning malware and locate lost or taken phones.
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The crypto-jacking malware epidemic is far from over – and it appears the latest victim of this disturbing trend is the website of the US-China Association of Commerce (USCAC).
Security researcher Troy Mursch from Bad Packets Report has found that the USCAC website is infected with a malicious script designed to steal visitors’ computing power to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency.
For the record, the malicious script found on the USCAC is more commonly known as Coinhive. This means that whoever sneaked in the script is currently banking on the popular anonymous cryptocurrency Monero.
For safety reasons, we have decided not to link directly to the affected website, as Mursch warns that the page could direct users to “fake tech support scams and other malware downloads.”
The reason for this breach likely is the fact that the USCAC site runs on an outdated version of the Drupal content management system (CMS). Indeed, Mursch emphasizes the USCAC source code indicates the last time the website got an update was back in December 2011.
For context, USCAC describes itself as a “community of entrepreneurs and professionals” with 300 Western and Chinese members and thousands of business organizations. Its goal is to “enhance friendship and understanding” between the American and the Chinese governments.
“Websites that use outdated versions of Drupal (CMS) are highly vulnerable and can be exploited en mass.” Mursch told Hard Fork. “Unfortunately I’ve found 115,000 Drupal sites that are at outdated — some haven’t been updated in many years. So far, we’ve found hundreds of these sites affected by crypto-jacking attacks.”
Indeed, this is not the first government website to be featuring the cryptocurrency mining malware.
Earlier this year, Mursch revealed a list of 400 compromised websites that were similarly running outdated Drupal versions. The list of affected pages included government sites of countries like the US, Mexico, Turkey, Peru, South Africa, and Italy; other notable examples included the sites of Chinese giant Lenovo, Taiwanese hardware maker D-Link, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
It is particularly worrying that well-funded institutions like the ones above have failed to adequately update their websites and protect their users against such attacks. But Troy hints that Coinhive might also be partially responsible for the recent outbreak of crypto-jacking malware.
Mursch told Hard Fork that prior to a report he and fellow researcher Brian Krebs published in March, Coinhive used to “let abuse run rampant” on its platform. “They still do, but at least now they can cut a key off,” he added. Disabling a key essentially means no more mining for the Monero user who owns the key. However, Mursch notes that malicious actors can easily request and get a new key – which could turn the affair in a vicious circle.
Mursch told Hard Fork that he has not yet reported the issue to USCAC, pointing out that it is unfeasible for him to contact the operators of all 115,000 affected websites. Instead, he has been collaborating with the Drupal security team and the US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to spread the word.
Mursch’s advise is for all website operators using Drupal’s content platform to update to the latest available version as soon as possible.
While Mursch remains concerned the crypto-jacking epidemic is here to stay, he advises there are some measures you can take to protect yourself: you can find out more about this here.
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https://thenextweb.com/news/us-china-cryptocurrency-miner-malware
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To operate, you must bring all the software that can be useful to solve every problem. Using a USB pendrive, you can take the most important applications to save data and eliminate various viruses, such as rootkits, malware and others.
Well, if you do not have these free antiviruses yet, I’d like to show you the best, most effective portable antivirus software you can add to your collection of portable software to scan for viruses and eliminate them.
Let’s immediately see what are these 5 portable antiviruses on USB stick, which can solve various problems related to a virus attack.
ClamWin is one of the most popular free portable Antivirus. You can quickly connect your pendrive to your computer and scan for viruses. You can choose which drive or which folder you want to scan. There are no limitations with scanning. Real-time scanning is not available. Also, scheduled scanning is disabled because it is not useful in a portable environment.
With ClamWin, you can also filter out file extensions from scans and limit the scan to even a certain number of files. Furthermore, you can send a notification email yourself if a virus is detected. The most important aspect is that the virus definition database is updated regularly.
2. Spybot – Search & Destroy
Spyware is one of those things that antivirus software sometimes can not track down. So, an antispyware is a must in your tool collection on pendrive. Spybot – Search & Destroy is one of the most used portable antispyware available on the Internet. You can scan the entire system or a particular file scan. Spyware is quarantined and you can get the scan statistics from there.
Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes tens of thousands of spyware and malware from the PC. You can also clean the traces coming from the use of software and registry correction. Spybot is freeware for personal use. Many cleaning and immunization features require administrator rights that will be required at startup.
3. Kaspersky TDSSCleaner
The Rootkits are one of the main problems in a computer system. Rootkits hide the existence of malware and anti-virus software does not recognize them during the scan. In this case, an anti-rootkit software is also necessary. Kaspersky TDSSKiller provides security and prevents the rootkit from exploiting the system. It is possible to remove some of the common and known rootkits that could affect your computer system.
You just have to start the scan and the report will be generated. You can change the scan parameters in which system drivers and system memory can be filtered from the scan. In addition, you get additional options to verify the digital signature of each software.
During the file deletion process, you may run into an alert such as “Access denied” or “I can delete the file“. This occurs when one of the malware has hit that file and does not allow you to delete it. In this case, FileASSASSIN can come to your aid. It will not only delete the file, it will also terminate the processes that have been affected by the malware. Just select the file and press Run.
If you wish to delete the file from the software itself, then you will have to select the option. Otherwise, the file will only be unlocked and you can delete it manually.
These are some of the best known free portable antiviruses for each category of virus. From these antiviruses on a USB stick, you can delete rootkits for malware that do not allow you to delete files. If you think that I have not reported an antivirus that is worthy of being included in this list, then let us know in the comments that we will insert it.
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By now, most people know about the perils of identity theft, where someone steals your personal or financial account information and makes fraudulent charges or opens bogus accounts in your name. ID theft can take a serious toll on your credit and take months or years to fix, even if you spot it quickly.
Lately, a not-so-new twist has been getting a lot of attention — medical identity theft. That’s where someone gains access to your health insurance or Medicare account information and uses it to submit phony insurance claims, obtain prescription drugs or medical devices (often for black-market resale), or get medical treatment in your name.
Besides its high cost (an estimated 1.8 million victims paid more than $12 billion in related expenses in 2013, according to the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance), medical ID theft can have deadly consequences as well: Suppose someone poses as you and gets an appendectomy; if you later entered the hospital with abdominal pain, your medical file would show that your appendix was already removed and you could be tragically misdiagnosed.
Here are a few tips for avoiding medical ID fraud and steps you can take if it happens to you:
First, it’s important to understand what medical ID thieves are looking for and how they access your information. Your medical files are often full of information they crave: account numbers for Social Security, health insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, contact information, email address, etc. Some doctor’s offices even keep your credit card number on file (bad idea). All it takes is one stolen employee laptop or an intercepted piece of mail or email to leave you vulnerable.
Sophisticated thieves will also hack computer networks of insurance companies, pharmacies, medical equipment suppliers or anyone else who might have access to your medical records. And unfortunately, the black market for stolen information is so tempting that employees have been known to steal data. Plus, think about all the news stories of corrupt doctors and clinics defrauding Medicare for millions of dollars.
Common signs of medical identity theft include:
Provider bills or insurance Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms that reference medical services you didn’t receive. (Verify all dates, providers and treatments for accuracy and look for duplicate billing.)
Calls from debt collectors about unfamiliar bills.
Medical collection notices on your credit report.
Just as you shouldn’t hesitate to ask your doctor or nurse whether they washed their hands, so you should feel free to ask what security precautions their business office takes to protect your personal and medical information. Here are a few preventive measures you can take:
Never reveal personal or account information during unsolicited calls. If in doubt, hang up and call your doctor’s office or insurance company directly. The same goes for emails.
Be suspicious if someone offers you free medical equipment or services and then requests your Medicare number.
Never let people borrow your Medicare or insurance card to obtain services for themselves. Not only is this illegal, but it could be disastrous if your medical histories become intermingled (think about differing allergies, blood types, etc.)
Regularly check your credit reports for unpaid bills for unfamiliar medical services or equipment. This could indicate someone has opened a new insurance policy using your identity and is running up charges. (You can order one free report per credit bureau each year at www.annualcreditreport.com.)
Safely store paper and electronic copies of medical records and shred unneeded forms.
Don’t post detailed medical information on social media sites.
If you suspect or know that your information has been compromised, ask for copies of your medical records from each doctor, clinic, hospital, pharmacy, lab or health plan where a thief may have used your information. Although you’re legally entitled to see these records, you may have to pay a fee. If a provider denies your request, file a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
Ask your health plan and each medical provider for a copy of their Accounting of Disclosures, which lists everyone who got copies of your medical records. By law, you’re entitled to one free copy per provider, per year.
Next, write to your insurer and medical providers by certified mail to explain which information is inaccurate, along with copies of documents that support your position. Ask them to correct or delete each error and to inform everyone they may have sent records to (labs, other doctors, hospitals, etc.) Keep copies of all correspondence and logs of all phone calls or other related activities.
Notify the Federal Trade Commission, whose Identity Theft site contains information on fraud alerts, credit freezes, how to work with police and much more.
File a complaint with the government-sponsored Internet Crime Complaint Center, which forwards cybercrime complaints to appropriate law-enforcement and regulatory agencies.
Contact the IRS’ Identity Protection Unit.
Report Medicare- or Medicaid-related crimes to the Office of Inspector General’s Fraud Hotline.
Bottom line: Medical identity theft is serious business. Make sure you’re taking every precaution to protect your medical records.
This article is intended to provide general information and should not be considered legal, tax or financial advice. It’s always a good idea to consult a legal, tax or financial advisor for specific information on how certain laws apply to you and about your individual financial situation.
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A new malware threat has been discovered in the wild and is affecting iOS devices in China and Taiwan, according to cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks.
YiSpecter malware - as it's called - initially broke through Apple's software by parading as a free porn app and later on spread through other means such as the hijacking of traffic from national ISPs.
Once the malware has infiltrated the operating system, it can mess up a user's phone by installing unwanted apps and replacing legitimate apps. It disguises with the logos and names of legitimate apps and results in users not being able to manually delete the apps.
In addition, the malware can also force apps to display full-screen ads and change bookmarks and default search engines. The malware can also hide icons from iOS Springboard, the app that runs iOS' homescreen.
YiSpecter is said to have been active for around 10 months now and affects both jailbroken and non-jailbroken phones. Users are advised to download apps only from the App Store.
The news follows recent reports of a malware attack on the App Store through a corrupt version of Xcode known as XcodeGhost, which was found in 39 different apps.
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https://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/05/china-and-taiwan-hit-by-new-ios-malware-threat/
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Maybe you’re thinking about finally purchasing some wireless headphones, or replacing your old office chair. Or maybe, you’ve got your mind set on bigger things — a real investment in the strength and health of your business.
Improving your businesses’ cybersecurity standing could be just the thing! We’ve put together a list of top 5 things you should consider adding to your businesses cybersecurity wish-list.
Last but not least, we recommend that for the best protection possible, you should consider purchasing two-factor authentication software. The reasons and benefits are simple — the average user has about 40 accounts but only a handful of passwords, which means that passwords are being reused and are not necessarily protected. 2FA can help with that. Adding an extra layer of protection to your accounts makes it that much harder for hackers to gain access to your account.
This holiday season, treat your company to the best 2FA system on the market, LoginTC.
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https://www.logintc.com/blog/whats-on-your-cybersecurity-wish-list/
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Security master was famous under the name of CM security. It is an incredible antivirus with its full suite of popular and most required features. Security Master is not a best free antivirus for Android. In fact, it is more than that. It provides more features other than protection against android viruses, malicious ads, the most popular Trojan hacking tools. Security Master is equipped with various other beneficial tools such as privacy matters, surfing security and the tools which enhance the performance of your machines.
Security Master automatically checks applications as soon as you click to install them. If it finds anything harmful for your android, it automatically prevents the threats. It has a schedule scan option and also allows you to scan your mobile whenever you feel so.
Security Master provides you 200mb of data daily to use through VPN. You can use its VPN according to your own needs. In settings, it has option to use VPN when you are connecting to applications with security risks. Cache and junk files are cleaned through it. Its privacy tools are marvelous and gives you more controls over your private access through passwords.
If someone tries some wrong password, Security Master automatically takes a picture of the thief. Incoming alerts is another welcomed feature of Security Master. Clearing the browsing history automatically after your surfing, is its enhanced security feature.
Security Master not only records the phone temperature but suggests a list of application which are eating up system resources. It lets you shut down unwanted application. In this away the high temperature of the android phone can be fanned off.
Security Master analysis the hidden application using the battery of your phone and provides details about how much battery you will save after closing such applications. A golden facility! Is not it?
One of its sections is devoted to gaming security only. If you are not interested in games you can turn it off.
Easy to use interface makes it user friendly. You can achieve what you want to do just with in an eye blink.
Sum up: If you need a real master of security, Security Master would be your first priority. It is fully optional with its free version. It provides gaming security, theft security, password security and much more in the form of free but limited VPN.
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Guru3D.com highy recommends you to install Windows AntiSpyware, which is a FREE security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding over fifty (50) ways spyware can enter your PC.
Participants in the worldwide SpyNet community play a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, and updates are automatically downloaded to your PC so you stay up to date.
The latest beta refresh, build 1.0.701, extends the Windows AntiSpyware beta expiration date to July 31, 2006 and provides new signature updates to help protect against recently identified spyware.
Existing users of the beta (Build 1.0.615) will receive a software update that includes the new beta refresh. The latest beta refresh is also available for download through this site.
The latest beta refresh, build 1.0.615, addresses issues pertaining to how Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) provides information to the user about processes running on a PC, solves an issue regarding the delivery of new anti-spyware signatures for some customers and provides new signature updates to help protect against recently identified spyware.
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https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/microsoft-antispyware-1-701.html
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After a receiving a U.S. intelligence assessment on Russian’s interference in last year’s elections, President Donald Trump vowed that he would have a team present him with a review of America’s cybersecurity efforts within 90 days of taking office.
But Thursday was the 90-day mark and no plan has been presented. The missed target date, one of several blown deadlines in the administration’s first months, has resulted in uncertainty as to who is running the cyber review and when it might be completed. The White House insisted Thursday that a plan was in the works but did not offer any timetable.
“The president has appointed a diverse set of executives with both government and private sector expertise who are currently working to deliver an initial cybersecurity plan through a joint effort between the National Security Council and the Office of American Innovation,” said spokeswoman Lindsey Walters.
She did not address why the deadline was missed.
Sad.
The 90-days deadline was one of Trump’s own making, saying on January 6th of the need to “aggressively combat and stop cyberattacks”. Oh, and he couldn’t resist saying that the Republicans’ computer systems were much defended than the Democrats’, so nyeaahhh nyeaah!
“While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines. There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful.
“Whether it is our government, organizations, associations or businesses we need to aggressively combat and stop cyberattacks. I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office. The methods, tools and tactics we use to keep America safe should not be a public discussion that will benefit those who seek to do us harm. Two weeks from today I will take the oath of office and America’s safety and security will be my number one priority.”
A week later, Trump returned to the topic of a cybersecurity review within 90 days on Twitter:
It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued. Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists. Probably released by “Intelligence” even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days!
Readers may recall that days before his inauguration as US President, Donald Trump announced that Rudy Giuliani would be heading-up his cybersecurity team. Within a matter of hours, security researchers found a number of fundamental security problems with the website of Giuliani Partners, “an international security consulting firm.”
Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and gives presentations on the topic of computer security and online privacy.
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This is just another in a series of mean-spirited carps at Donald Trump. I did not vote for him, or for Clinton. As a US citizen, however, accept the legitimacy of his election under the rules then, and now, in force, just as I accepted the legitimacy of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, although I also did not vote for him.
The executive order requiring a report from the major government departments seems not yet to have been issued. There were articles reporting on the contents of a putative draft in the Washington Post around the first week of February which required things that I judge are relatively easy for departments like the Department of Defense that have established, active, and decently implemented information assurance policy to meet. Departments that are less prepared may have more difficulty or find it impossible to meet those requirements. Their pushback, through their respective cabinet secretaries, may be part of the reason that the order has not yet been signed.
In any case, the order will become effective when it is issued, or at a later date specified within it, not earlier. Continuing the drumbeat of criticism for alleged presidential failures serves no purpose beyond catering for the opinions of those who still feel aggrieved by Trump’s electoral victory and are ignorant of the realities of politics and the difficulty of managing a very large organization in which many actors have substantial independent authority, power, and the ability to call on outsiders for support.
It’s not fair to describe what happened at Facebook and Cambridge Analytica as a data breach - it’s much worse than that. An autonomous Uber vehicle kills a pedestrian. And sextortion continues to be a serious problem.
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The Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland, faces numerous cybersecurity challenges as its digital infrastructure continues to evolve and become more complex. In response, the region has developed a community of cybersecurity influencers and thought leaders who play a key role in promoting cybersecurity awareness, education, and best practices. This article provides an analysis of the role of cybersecurity Åland Islands.
Cybersecurity Åland Islands are individuals who are recognized as experts in the field of cybersecurity and who are actively engaged in promoting cybersecurity best practices, education, and awareness in the region. These individuals may include cybersecurity professionals, academics, government officials, and representatives from the private sector.
One of the key roles of cybersecurity region is to promote cybersecurity awareness and education among citizens and businesses. This includes the development of cybersecurity education programs, the provision of training and workshops, and the use of social media and other platforms to raise awareness about cybersecurity threats and best practices.
In addition, cybersecurity region play a key role in shaping cybersecurity policy and strategy. These individuals may provide input and advice to government officials and other decision-makers on issues such as cybersecurity infrastructure, data protection, and incident response.
Furthermore, cybersecurity region play a key role in promoting cybersecurity innovation and research. This includes the development of new cybersecurity technologies, the promotion of research and development in the field of cybersecurity, and the identification of emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
The role of cybersecurity region is becoming increasingly important as the digital landscape evolves and cyber threats become more sophisticated. These individuals play a vital role in promoting cybersecurity awareness, education, and best practices, as well as shaping cybersecurity policy and strategy in the region.
In conclusion, cybersecurity influencers and thought leaders play a key role in promoting cybersecurity awareness, education, and best practices in the Åland Islands. These individuals are recognized as experts in the field of cybersecurity and are actively engaged in promoting cybersecurity innovation, research, and policy. As the region’s digital infrastructure continues to evolve, the role of cybersecurity influencers and thought leaders will become increasingly important in ensuring that the region remains protected from cyber threats.
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Privacy advocacy groups have expressed support for the goal of improved cyberprotection, but they have taken issue with components of the latest White House proposal. It "relies heavily on privacy guidelines that are currently unwritten," said CDT Senior Counsel Harley Geiger. "What these guidelines say and when they are applied will be critical to protecting Internet users."
As members of the U.S. Congress started to prepare for the upcoming legislative session, President Obama lost little time in putting cybersecurity near the top of a to-do list for lawmakers. During a visit to the federal National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center, Obama called for additional legislation to improve information technology protection.
Speaking to NCCIC staff last week, Obama said that "protecting our digital infrastructure is a national security priority and a national economic priority."
He noted that during the past six years, "we've pursued a comprehensive strategy, boosting our defenses in government, sharing more information with the private sector to help them defend themselves, [and] working with industry through what we call the Cybersecurity Framework, not just to respond to threats and recover from attacks, but to prevent and disrupt them in the first place."
Information-Sharing and Cybercrime Proposals
Obama outlined two major objectives for legislative action.
The first proposal would facilitate better information sharing between the private sector and government on cyberthreats. It also would enhance collaboration and information sharing within the private sector, according to the White House.
The proposal provides measures to ensure that the government would protect privacy and civil liberties while safeguarding critical information networks. The program includes liability provisions that protect private companies from legal actions that might arise from sharing consumer information for purposes of coping with cyberthreats.
It "builds and improves upon legislation that we've put forward in the past," and reflects "years of extensive discussions with industry," Obama said. Both the U.S. House and Senate last year addressed cyberthreat information sharing, but proposed measures failed to become law.
The second administration proposal provides for the prosecution of parties who sell botnets, and criminalizes the overseas sale of stolen U.S. financial information. Additionally, the measure would expand federal law enforcement to deter the sale of spyware used to stalk or commit ID theft, and give courts the authority to shut down botnets engaged in distributed denial of service attacks and other criminal activity.
The Obama proposal reaffirms components of previous proposals to update the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, so that it applies to cybercrimes. It clarifies the penalties for computer crimes, and it makes sure those penalties are in line with those imposed for similar non-cybercrimes.
It modernizes the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by ensuring that insignificant conduct does not fall within the scope of the law, while clarifying that the CFAA can be used to prosecute insiders who abuse their ability to access information.
Support With Reservations
Industry reaction to the White House proposals was guarded. Both private sector parties and privacy advocacy groups expressed support for the goal of improved cyberprotection but took issue with components of the White House program.
"Our industry shares the president's commitment to protecting the security and privacy of Americans' personal information, and we appreciate the White House's engagement on this critical issue," said Frank Keating, president and CEO of the American Bankers Association.
While the ABA supports the information-sharing objective, the administration's approach to liability protection remains an issue of concern. Coverage of business-to-business, as well as business-to-government information sharing, needs to be addressed, said Doug Johnson, ABA's senior vice president for payments and cybersecurity policy.
The Financial Services Roundtable, which represents banking, insurance and credit card companies, expressed similar concerns, indicating that the Obama proposal was simply a starting point for addressing the issue in Congress.
"It is critical that companies have the tools they need to battle cybercriminals and shield customers from breaches. Strong information-sharing laws will be a critical part of winning that battle," said FSR President and CEO Tim Pawlenty.
The financial industry will be working closely with Congress this year to ensure that needed information-sharing legislation, with appropriate protections, moves forward, the FSR said.
The administration's proposal "is right that sharing is important, so long as we agree that we're all in this together and that we have some degree of common cause as we face cyberadversaries," said Mike Lloyd, chief technology officer at RedSeal.
Privacy advocates immediately registered concerns about the administration's program.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation contended that expanded information sharing would pose a serious risk of transferring more personal information to intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
The White House rightly criticized a 2014 Senate proposal that allowed the unnecessary transfer of personal information to the government, said the EFF.
However, the latest administration proposal is "very similar to the language" of the 2014 Senate measure, EFF legislative analyst Mark Jaycox told the E-Commerce Times.
Another advocacy group, the Center for Democracy & Technology, asserted that the administration's proposal had significant problems regarding law enforcement's access to Internet user information.
"The White House proposal relies heavily on privacy guidelines that are currently unwritten. Privacy protections and use restrictions must be in effect before information sharing occurs," said CDT Senior Counsel Harley Geiger.
Congress Will Set Its Own Course
Given recent cyberhacking attacks of Sony and the U.S. military's Central Command, and the terrorist attack in France, the environment for congressional action on cyberlegislation is positive.
"I think there already was good momentum in Congress for acting on cyberlegislation, and the White House proposal just added to it. There is a better chance of enactment of legislation this year than there was in 2014," ABA's Johnson said.
However, key lawmakers made it clear that the White House proposal was unlikely to make it through the legislative process without modification.
"Enabling effective information sharing between and among private companies and the federal government with real liability protections can improve our nation's cybersecurity by providing businesses the tools they need to defend themselves, and by providing government with a better assessment of the threats we are facing," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"The president's proposal is an important first step in developing that legislation," he added.
"Cyberattacks are a growing danger to the United States, our economy and our national security. This Congress needs to strengthen our defenses against these attacks by passing an effective information sharing bill," said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
I am glad to see President Obama putting forth his ideas to address this critical issue," he added. "They will receive close consideration as the House Intelligence Committee crafts a cyberbill.
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IRAs, are a effective means to get ready for retired life. They are likewise fairly prominent with around 22% of all properties kept in mutual funds stood for by Individual retirement accounts. This corresponds to an quantity of $4.9 trillion.
But mutual funds are not the only financial investment choice for IRAs– vice versa. Gold, silver, and also cryptocurrencies can all play a important role in strong retirement plans. Alternate financial investment options like these can be extremely important due to the fact that they expand your profile as well as reduce your dependency on fiat currency.
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One outstanding platform offering Individual retirement accounts with cryptocurrency is Coin IRA.
As one of several new economic firms sustaining crypto Individual retirement accounts, Coin IRA allows you to make cryptocurrency investments with your retirement account.
An account from Coin individual retirement account will include the same tax obligation advantages and also attributes that you would anticipate from a standard individual retirement account. Still, selecting an IRA account that’s right for you can be a obstacle.
In this evaluation, we’ll help you understand just how a crypto individual retirement account matches an total retirement plan. After that we’ll offer you the information you need to decide if Coin IRA is the appropriate investment system for you. Maintain checking out to discover much more.
While there are various other crypto Individual retirement accounts that supply offline property storage with outstanding safety, few various other IRAs provide you the option to save your assets in your very own pocketbook in the house. While this would not be the ideal decision for everyone, it’s excellent to have the choice.
When you buy crypto in money accounts, there’s a minimal financial investment need of $30,000. This is a whole lot for inexperienced financiers. This acquisition minimum is waived for Bitcoin IRA account acquisitions.
The tax benefits of using a self-directed individual retirement account to purchase cryptocurrency are the same as the benefits related to any kind of common individual retirement account. Just like other pension suppliers, Coin individual retirement account enables you to create various types of accounts, including Traditional and also Roth IRAs.
With a Standard individual retirement account, you reach invest in cryptocurrencies using pretax income. You’ll just require to pay tax obligations when you start taking money out of your account, once you get to old age.
With a Roth IRA, you need to pay tax obligations first on the money you spend, however you will not need to pay any taxes on your possessions when you retire.
Picking between different sorts of IRAs is always a gamble. If you select a Standard IRA, you need to really hope that revenue tax obligations today are higher than they will certainly be when you retire, making the financial investment beneficial. With a Roth IRA, you’re presuming that you’ll be much better off paying tax obligations now, so you won’t need to manage them after retirement.
Coin individual retirement account sustains 6 of the most popular cryptocurrencies.
While this is a rather common offering for crypto IRAs, when you consider that there are countless cryptos around, it may be frustrating to more speculative or daring investors.
For how long Does it Require To Fund My Individual Retirement Account?
Coin individual retirement account does not give a particular time frame for establishing and also funding an account. For many crypto Individual retirement accounts, you can generally expect account set up to take 1-3 company days. Moving over funds from a different IRA can take in between 1-3 weeks.
It deserves noting that, although Coin IRA has an on-line system for handling your account and also positioning professions, you must validate professions over the phone to finish them. This is a precaution Coin IRA requires to stay clear of fraud, yet it can be troublesome.
Can I Transfer Existing Funds or Rollover An Additional IRA Into My Coin Individual Retirement Account?
Yes. If you currently have a self-directed Standard individual retirement account, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, or basic IRA, you need to have the ability to move your financial investments into crypto holdings with Coin IRA.
If your retirement account is currently managed by your employer, points might not be as basic. You need to talk with the manager of your retirement plan to find out if your individual retirement account is qualified for surrendering.
Although you can use savings in fiat money to buy crypto with Coin IRA, you can not just transfer existing crypto holdings into a crypto IRA. The internal revenue service sights cryptocurrency as a type of home, not money, so just transferring your crypto from a non-IRA account into an individual retirement account is not possible. However, if you currently have a crypto IRA from a various service provider, you must have the ability to roll over your account to a Coin IRA strategy.
iTrustCapital Fees and Account Minimums.
Though traditional as well as Roth IRAs generally come without a month-to-month charge, self-directed individual retirement account providers that supply rare-earth element investments need to charge an account upkeep charge. This charge goes towards tax obligation reporting as well as guaranteeing that your investments are stored in a risk-free, IRS-approved facility.
iTrustCapital costs all customers a regular monthly maintenance cost of $29.95. This cost sets up your self-directed IRA, assists move existing assets to your new individual retirement account, manages storage space of the physical assets kept in your account or government-approved facilities and also funds tax obligation coverage.
When you open up an iTrustCapital account, you’ll be asked to connect a debit or charge card. Regular monthly fees are billed to the card on file.
In addition to regular monthly upkeep costs, you also pay a cost to iTrustCapital each time you include an investment to your account. When you transfer cryptocurrencies on iTrustCapital, you’ll be billed a 1% deal fee. This suggests that if you were to invest $5,000 into Bitcoin through your individual retirement account, you ‘d obtain $4,950 well worth of crypto after your profession removes. The impressive $50 returns to your individual retirement account supplier.
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Costs for precious metals differ depending on the existing area. The term ” place” refers to the present price of the steel. These costs are continuously transforming, which implies that the quantity of silver or gold that you’ll be able to purchase using your IRA payments will certainly differ as market demand changes.
iTrustCapital costs a charge of $50 over the current area for each and every ounce of gold you contribute to your IRA as well as $2.50 over the present area for every ounce of silver added to your individual retirement account. Like your cryptocurrency financial investments, this fee is deducted from the total quantity of silver or gold that you buy each time you make a profession on iTrustCapital’s system.
All-in-all, the minimum amount you can money your iTrustCapital account with is $3,500. Criterion individual retirement account investing rules apply in relation to contribution limits and distributions. When you reach old age, you can select to make withdrawals in your financial investment choice instead of offering your financial investment and also asserting its worth in cash.
Want different financial investments in your IRA? The procedure isn’t so easy.
That’s where iTrustCapital is available in.
iTrustCapital allows you buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and also Ethereum, along with silver and gold, through a self-directed individual retirement account.
Discover if iTrustCapital is a safe alternative and also just how it compares to Bitcoin individual retirement account and Coinbase in this testimonial.
WHAT IS ITRUSTCAPITAL?
iTrustCapital is a self-directed individual retirement account service provider headquartered in Irvine, The golden state and established by chief executive officer Morgan Steckler in 2018.
With iTrustCapital, investors can trade in high-growth properties like cryptocurrencies, gold, as well as silver, 24-hour a day, with all the tax advantages of retired life investing.
iTrustCapital is best for those that intend to include major cryptocurrencies, gold, and also silver to their IRA, and those that are interested in maintaining those techniques over the long-term.
iTrustCapital’s business design is relatively basic. They make it feasible for customers to add non-traditional financial investments (cryptocurrencies and rare-earth elements) to their IRAs.
Similar to various other Individual retirement accounts, iTrustCapital’s crypto IRAs provide tax benefits. Depending upon whether you pick a Conventional or Roth IRA, your account will be either tax-deferred or tax-free.
Traditional IRAs are funded with pre-tax dollars and also tired sometimes of withdrawal. Roth IRAs are moneyed with post-tax bucks, yet tax-free to withdraw from. Which is better depends upon whether tax obligations are greater or lower sometimes of retirement, which regrettably there’s no chance to predict.
You can fund your account by either transfering an existing individual retirement account, rolling over an existing employer plan, or funding an entirely new IRA account.
When your account is moneyed, you can utilize iTrustCapital’s system to buy and sell the possessions you want. The trading system is real-time as well as readily available for trades 24/7.
They display all available possessions in an easy-to-read listing as well as give pricing information for each. Acquiring or offering an asset is as very easy as clicking a button: “Buy” or ” Market”.
They have straightforward trading fees at 1% per purchase. They need $2,500 minimum to start, plus $1,000 in a subsequent down payment.
iTrustCapital is a digital possession individual retirement account trading system that sustains the acquisition as well as trade of cryptocurrencies via financial investment pension. The business has actually been focused on a lower-risk method geared towards new, much less financially wise financiers in cryptocurrency as well as physical silver and gold.
iTrustCapital’s easy-to-use interface simplifies the generally complex world of financial investment for anyone. They provide alternate profile services with lower rates and also fees than their competitors, opening up retirement investments to a broader series of capitalists, whether they be experienced or otherwise.
Capitalists can trade as well as acquire properties using one of 3 sorts of Individual retirement accounts: a Conventional IRA, Roth IRA, or SEP INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
iTrustCapital just supports 8 cryptocurrencies (at the time of writing this). The platform is simple and simple, however it may not benefit advanced capitalists. For people who desire to invest in crypto and also do not desire to spend a whole lot of time, this is excellent.
Services Offered.
iTrust Capital offers IRAs that cover 2 assets– digital currency and also physical gold. These opportunities are available in low-fee, clear HSA accounts.
If you currently have an individual retirement account, they provide a team of professionals that can aid browse the process for rolling your account to their platform. Typically, the process is straightforward and without tax obligation issues or charges.
When you established an IRA account, you can buy and sell assets whenever you desire. You additionally have your very own dashboard that will help you keep an eye on your account and also activity. With real-time monitoring of your accounts as well as transactions, absolutely nothing is stopping you from purchasing any kind of possession at your own rate.
Professions work out within one service day, without any restriction on the variety of deals per day.
Your portfolio is shown on a customized control panel housing an encrypted digital wallet. There are graphes for both the price of digital currency as well as gold. If you wish to make an investment, this will certainly help you see exactly how things could alter.
iTrustCapital deals an extremely affordable configuration.
To buy your account, you require $1,000. Yet if you lose money, there is no minimum total up to keep your account open. On the various other end, iTrust additionally has no account limit. It is accessible for a wide range of economic placements. You likewise require to have at the very least $30 to make a trade, however there is no optimum quantity required.
The solution sets you back $29.95 each month, yet this does not consist of the various other costs that they charge. They just bill 1% of each trade, and also there is no broker charge or scaling based on the size of your possessions.
iTrust Resources supplies simple prices as well as a straightforward trading system to streamline the process for capitalists.
To help with trading in electronic currency and physical gold markets, they maintain costs as well as costs transparent.
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Gen. Paul Nakasone Commander U.S. Cyber Command
Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said cybersecurity is national security and opens up a “new strategic environment of competition,” Signal Magazine reported Wednesday.
“Competition in the sense of our adversaries, near-peer adversaries, that are looking at being able to operate below the level of armed conflict to do a number of different activities, conducting strategic campaigns against our nation in areas such as cyber security or influence or other areas that impact our economy,” Nakasone said Tuesday at an event.
Cybercom is now preparing to ensure the security of the 2022 midterm elections and Nakasone discussed how the command works to counter cyber threats as more countries attempt to interfere with U.S. democratic processes.
“What has changed with influence in regard to the elections, first of all, there is more than one adversary,” he said. “It began with just the Russians, and now it is the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, it is a number of different actors.
Nakasone said the command is working to gather information on threat actors and facilitate data sharing with partner agencies.
“In terms of 2022, our focus right now is obviously being able to generate the insights of what adversaries are doing and who might be doing that. [That focus] will move very, very quickly to being able to share that information with a broad range of partners,” he noted.
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By Masoud Manzari, P.Eng. and Mark Tigchelaar, P. Eng., GeoSolv Design/Build
In the last article, we covered the relationship between projects and risk.
In this is the third and final installment, we will discuss the right way to manage geotechnical risk as it pertains to high-risk projects.
The first item that should be discussed is the geotechnical investigation itself – which should be done first (or at least early) on any planned construction project.
Standard Penetration Test (SPT) investigation methods are a “tried-and-true,” 100-year-old technology which have been, and should be, the backbone of most geotechnical investigations. Unfortunately, more often than not, SPT becomes the sole method of investigating for all soil conditions, regardless of the size or complexity of the project. It’s true that SPT is indeed an excellent way to collect some soil samples, check lithology and provide qualitative strength data. However, SPT does come with some rather significant limitations with regard to specific soil types, and is often fraught with potential machine and human error including drilling method errors, hammer efficiency errors, soil sampling disturbance errors, drill type errors, mathematics or interpretation errors, to list a few.
There are numerous investigation methods that need to be applied correctly to ensure a project’s investigative stage is conducted in the most thorough and risk-adverse way possible based on the unique geotechnical conditions of the area (e.g. soft soil versus hard soil) and complexity of the project (e.g. low-rise building versus bridge). There are methods such as geophysical surveys, piezocone (CPTu), pressuremeter, dilatometer, direct shear, triaxial testing, consolidation testing, among others, all of which supplement a conventional investigation that is based on SPT. Dependent on the unique circumstances of a project, one or more of these methods should be included in the scope of the geotechnical investigation for a truly reliable design that mitigates underground and structural risk.
An important way to control the cost of a geotechnical investigation while reducing risk is to undertake staged or phased geotechnical investigations, by which a smaller scope initial investigation provides clarity on the second phase of an investigation that may incorporate more advanced testing techniques targeting issues highlighted in the first phase. Phase II perhaps incorporates more than one investigation technique to further drill down on items of interest identified in Phase I. Often early geotechnical investigations do not encapsulate the full intention of the project scope as it may still be in development. A Phase II investigation later in the project cycle can help to capture the importance of any design development that may have happened and can help instruct further investigation (i.e. bigger structures with more basements may require deeper geotechnical borings in Phase II).
As positive as managing geotechnical risk can be to an owner’s bottom line, excess conservatism in design can negatively affect the bottom line. Unlike geotechnical risk, excessive conservatism usually goes unidentified, and owners often don’t have any idea how much money is wasted. When the scale and/or quality of geotechnical investigation is low, contractors can easily over or underestimate the cost by as much as 30 per cent! If there is not enough data to properly manage risk or accurately estimate the project’s construction, don’t expect a cutting-edge design to lower costs. Unfortunately, unlike geotechnical risk, there is no reliable study to determine how much money is lost on overly conservative designs.
There are examples of projects where owners ended up paying much more than what was needed due to an overtly conservative design. On the other hand, there are other projects where the thorough geotechnical investigation lowered the perceived risk and allowed the owner/designer to allocate funds more effectively. A good quality investigation can lead to cost-effective solutions such as ground improvement. Solutions like this need a quality engineering assessment, and a proper engineering assessment needs reliable information.
Allocation of the geotechnical risk is another tool in risk management. However, some owners do not have a realistic expectation of the concept. Increasingly owners are attempting to download all of the risks onto the contractors without truly understanding the consequences and reliability of this approach.
Contractors should always take the time to price out the risk properly. Even in an ideal scenario, with adequate subsurface information available to the contractors and plenty of time to properly analyze the information, contractors often end up assessing the risk and then price it in their bid. Competitive bidding does not necessarily result in a lower bid or full transfer of the risk. Without proper investigation and a short bidding period, there will always be a limited understanding of the scope of the risk by the contractor. The contractor will either 1) accept the risk by throwing money at it, 2) ignore the risk and claim later or 3) refuse to bid due to unacceptable risks.
The balance of court decisions dealing with changed soil conditions demonstrates that site investigation clauses in contracts are not always upheld. The majority of changed soil condition cases are settled without going to court and owners eventually pay a penalty. Among the cases that go to court, the success rate for owners is around 40 per cent.
In conclusion, geotechnical risk can certainly be minimized, shared, transferred or accepted, but it cannot be ignored or ever eliminated. Each and every project is unique and requires specific planning for a cost-effective and thorough geotechnical investigation, coupled with background research on the site and surrounding area.
Scale or cost of the investigation are not the only issues in determining the effectiveness of a geotechnical investigation. The best way for the owner to manage geotechnical risk is to retain only the most qualified geotechnical firms to provide quality early pre-bid data. Quality of geotechnical data is influenced by procurement method for geotechnical services, which significantly affects risks in construction and overall project cost. It has been proven that going the cheap route when it comes to geotechnical investigation services simply costs owners more in the end.
A properly planned multi-phased investigation with a budget from 0.5 per cent to 2.2 per cent of the project cost is proven by historical evidence to be effective on most projects. It’s also important to build in contingency costs for the effects of phased information unearthing something unforeseen or changes along design development warranting further investigation.
Savings in the bid price have been achieved four to 15 times the cost of a thorough and proper geotechnical investigation. Remember, in the end you pay for a site investigation whether you have one or not.
If a decent investigation is not conducted, you will pay for it through overly conservative design, construction delays, contractor claims, and of course, lawyers. Eventually litigation costs end up being much higher than the cost of initially hiring competent engineers and conducting a proper geotechnical investigation.
In closing, remember, don’t be afraid of risk, just give projects the due diligence they deserve. When people in all areas of a project work together to mitigate the risks involved, everyone wins.
Masoud Manzari is a senior geotechnical and hydrogeological engineer with over 23 years of experience and has been involved in a wide range of civil engineering projects, specifically for structures built on challenging soil sites.
Mark Tigchelaar is president and founder of GeoSolv Design/Build Inc. Tigchelaar is a licensed engineer in both Ontario and Alberta, chair of the industry Advisory Board of York University, and the past chair of the Canadian Geotechnical Society-Southern Ontario section.
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Corporate buzzwords are famously annoying. While they’re often intended to convey a positive or progressive intent, this business jargon can often becoming meaningless on its own, standing mostly for whatever management trend has caught senior leadership’s attention for that moment. “Outside the box”; “That’s in my wheelhouse”; “Have a dialog around”; “Agile”; “Lean and Mean”; “Operationalize”; “Gap analysis” – anyone who works in an office has heard and, probably eventually been aggravated by, these words and phrases.
From a compliance perspective, there is one corporate buzzword which is enjoying current prominence that is more harmful than others: “future-proof.” This term describes the aspiration of businesses to stay focused on improving today’s practices in order to be ready for tomorrow’s risks. It aspires toward a proactive, strategic model of compliance risk management. Thinking differently about compliance risks in trying to prevent or mitigate future problems instead of just responding to past ones is a more rigorous, assertive approach.
However, the concept of future-proofing is intrinsically flawed and worse yet, dangerous to rely upon. The idea that absolute certainty can be brought to compliance risk management is a moral hazard in the discipline. Responding to and anticipating risks can be dynamic and forward-looking. A crucial part of the practice of compliance is bridging the gap between what individuals and organizations must do or not do, and what they may, but claiming to predict future results sets an unrealistic business expectation. A robust compliance program is not an insurance policy, nor does a heightened awareness of compliance risk allow an organization to read the tea leaves and assure management and stakeholders that only calm seas lay ahead due to preparing a controls framework.
Rather than suggesting perfect immunity against changes in regulations and law and emerging risks, compliance officers should set realistic expectations with the businesses they serve. No one can tell the future, though of course for the right price any person will offer a guess. The allure of the unknown should not distract from concrete compliance demands.
The future will show what it holds in due time, and before that happens the best approach is to meet the current standards and exceed them in specific areas where the organization has shown vulnerability or seeks more risk and exposure. Complete compliance with current regulations and laws and a governance structure which supports and promotes all of an organization’s policies, procedures, and most importantly philosophies are non-negotiables. Companies cannot fail to get this part right before concerning themselves with what may be out of view over the horizon.
Let’s also not focus on the future at the expense of the past – real lessons should be learned from mistakes and experiences. Instead of just forgiving and forgetting, use what happened yesterday to derive a more informed assessment of the as-is situation and design a compliance program that capably responds to this instead of being overly formal and stale. Making a commitment to the practice of compliance as an ongoing function means that as the business evolves so does compliance, along with it instead of blindly ahead of it.
Certainty cannot be promised – indeed, this reality is one of the reasons why a responsive, strategic compliance advisory program is essential to any organization’s risk management efforts. Avoid making undeliverable assertions about future perfection and instead, focus on learning humbly from yesterday’s mistakes, out-performing the present’s expectations, and remaining open for the insights and challenges which are yet to come. Instead of future-proofing – focus on future-sustaining.
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A hacking group — suspected to be the Russia-linked Turla Team — reregistered at least three old domains associated with the decade-old Andromeda malware, allowing the group to distribute its own reconnaissance and surveillance tools to Ukrainian targets.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant stated in a Thursday advisory that Turla Team APT, also known by Mandiant’s designation of UNC4210, took control of three domains that were part of Andromeda’s defunct command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to reconnect to the compromised systems. The endgame was to distribute a reconnaissance utility known as Kopiluwak and a backdoor known as QuietCanary.
Andromeda, an off-the-shelf commercial malware program, dates back to at least 2013 and compromises systems through infected USB drives. Post-compromise, it connects to a list of domains, most of which have been taken offline.
There is no relationship between the Turla Team and the group behind Andromeda, making the co-opting of previous infected systems quite novel, says Tyler McLellan, senior principal analyst at Mandiant.
“Co-opting the Andromeda domains and using them to deliver malware to Andromeda victims is a new one,” he says. “We’ve seen threat actors reregister another group’s domains, but never observed a group deliver malware to victims of another.”
The slow spread of Andromeda allows attackers to wrest control of infected systems for free.
“As older Andromeda malware continues to spread from compromised USB devices, these re-registered domains pose a risk as new threat actors can take control and deliver new malware to victims,” Mandiant stated in the advisory. “This novel technique of claiming expired domains used by widely distributed, financially motivated malware can enable follow-on compromises at a wide array of entities.”
While the hijacking of another group’s infected assets is uncommon, it has happened in the past, with hackers fighting over compromised machines, stealing each other’s systems, or using the same vulnerability to infect a system and overwrite a previous infection. In the early 2000s, for example, the MyDoom worm infected systems but left the compromised computers open to further attack, leading to a scramble between hackers looking to increase their stable of exploited systems.
Today, cybercriminals are more likely to compromise systems and then sell those infected machines, or credentials to access those systems, on underground forums and dark markets as part of the initial access broker subeconomy.
A Slowly Moving Galaxy of Andromeda Infections
The attack began in December 2021, when an infected USB drive was inserted into a system at a Ukrainian organization and an employee inadvertently clicked on the malicious link. The cyberattack infected the system with a version of Andromeda first seen in March 2013 by the antivirus scanning service VirusTotal, Mandiant stated.
Mandiant first detected the attack in September 2022. Turla is a Russian-based threat group, but it has targeted a wide variety of organizations in some 45 countries over nearly two decades, according to the MITRE ATT&CK page.
While there is no relationship between Turla and Andromeda, using the Andromeda malware to infect other systems has helped keep the Turla operation under the radar, says Tyler McLellan, senior principal analyst at Mandiant.
“Despite Andromeda being old and not likely operational today, we still see a lot of victims,” he says. “As a user inserts a clean USB into an already infected system, that new USB can become infected and continue the spread.”
Carefully Selected Targets: A Very Specific Threat
The attackers attempted to remain as stealthy as possible by profiling systems to determine the most interesting targets and then only attacking a handful of those systems. Mandiant only observed the Turla-controlled servers active for short periods of time, usually a few days, with weeks of downtime, the company stated.
“Mandiant identified several different hosts with beaconing Andromeda stager samples,” the company stated in the advisory. “However, we only observed one case in which Turla-related malware was dropped in additional stages, suggesting a high level of specificity in choosing which victims received a follow-on payload.”
The Turla Team operation underscores the importance of eliminating vectors of attack and responding to incidents, even if they appear to be low priority, McLellan says.
“Companies should pay attention to what USB’s are in their environment and discourage employees from using them where possible,” he says. “This incident should also raise concerns of what longer-term malware infections are in your environment, and could a threat actor co-opt that C2 infrastructure to gain access.”
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https://thecyberpost.com/news/security/threat-intelligence/russia-linked-turla-apt-sneakily-co-opts-ancient-andromeda-usb-infections/
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Enough with the bore, let’s get down to the gore! Join Annie Weible and Brendan Shay each week for Serial Spirits. Candid, and often controversial true crime, paranormal, and cryptid conversation.
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Indiana University student Lauren Spierer vanished on June 3rd, 2011 while out with friends. Mystery still surrounds her disappearance, and her remains have never been found. Join Shay and Weebs as they revisit this story and dive deep into the mysterious circumstances surrounding this still unsolved cold case.
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Who are the current day desperados? Tech-educated people. They are after something way more valuable and easier to access than the bank’s money: information. And, since we all traffic in information, the size of the market is huge.
Tom then turned over the presentation to Scott, who manages a team of people whose purpose in life is to combat the modern-day desperados.
The deeper portion, the Dark Web, makes up 6% of the Web. Most of us spend the majority of our time in the 4% of the Surface Web but there’s more to the Dark Web than there is to the Surface Web.
With that clarification of the Web, Scott moved on to motivation.
91% of breaches start with a phishing attack.
While there are many tactics we can use to prevent attacks, a lot of prevention comes down to our users, and what we are doing on a training and awareness level. As a point of interest, Scott cited a scary statistic about phishing attacks: 26% of the successful ones involve someone clicking on the attachments to invoices.
Phishing prevention comes down to awareness—employee awareness, from the base all the way up to the top of the company org chart.
One in a hundred emails contains malware.
Phishing attacks caused $3.1 billion in losses in 2016.
30% of phishing messages are opened.
Phishing emails have six times the click-through rate of genuine marketing emails.
These attacks are happening so often that statistically, the phishers will probably succeed more often than not. The Dark Web is big business. These are not simply hackers; these are top-notch Web marketers.
Most malware is not executed by simply opening an email. The act of clicking on the link inside the email is what triggers the malware; that’s either going to launch the malware or take you to a site that requests credentials.
Third-party software that can’t be automatically updated is where the majority of issues occur. Common examples include programs like Chrome, Java, Adobe.
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Ransomware typically starts off with a user navigating to a website, and clicking on something they shouldn’t have clicked on. The exploit is then downloaded from that website to the user’s computer. At that point, the exploit is inert; not harming anything on the target computer—and can be removed before the software does damage. There are security tools—behavioral-based protection—that can detect encryption in-process and stop that process before the hack is successful. However …
If the exploit goes unnoticed … user interaction, a time-delay process, or some sort of call out to the hacker may then trigger further action for the exploit to download the malicious payload portion of the activity, which is where the software is going to encrypt the data on the user’s system. At that point, there’s not a lot that can be done. Once a form of ransomware has been triggered, there’s typically not a cleanup tool (like Malware Bytes) that can be used to recover.
Curiosity: When we click on certain emails, we’re curious.
Habit: We’re conditioned to click on buttons.
Urgency: There’s always a sense of urgency; e.g., this decryption key won’t work in 3-5 days.
Trust Factor: Depending on who sent the email, if a friend’s email got hacked, and then he sent out a bunch of emails, you might open that email.
Scott then breezed-through a bunch of technical ways we all can use to prevent hack attacks on our systems.
Security Awareness Training: This is the most powerful mechanism for technical prevention. Making it clear to all users what is happening and how they might inadvertently assist hackers—and keeping that information top of mind, regularly.
Check the domain name by hovering over the link to actually see where the link will resolve, compared to what the “link title” says.
Managed simulated phishing campaigns: testing users to see who needs training; celebrate success of the campaign or discipline those who fell for the scam.
The whole concept of these technologies is that each of these example prevention technologies—and that’s not all of them—is a Point Solution; a point where your device is going to be encrypted, and that’s going to take care of one specific problem. Then there’s another Point Solution which is your Firewall. And there’s another Point Solution which is the EndPoint Security.
The goal today is to synchronize all of our security procedures into one package; to have a security strategy, compared to employing different pieces of technology to stop different individual threats—and maybe they don’t even talk together—so there could be holes in that strategy.
The point is: going out and buying an anti-virus solution and firewall and encryption software is going to be better than not having anything but that action is not going to be as good as developing a full strategy which starts with looking at the organization as a whole and then determining, “How do I go about this?”
Scott suggests starting at a higher level and determining how you’d develop a strategy for the company as a whole and determining where your biggest risks are and then figuring out how you can synchronize all the pieces.>Security Guarantee
Wrapping up, Scott admonished his audience, “With those things, we can almost guarantee we’re secure. Right? Nope. Not a chance.”
If the hack did start with you, then you’re required to notify all of the people that you have breached.
Then you’re required to provide monitoring to the people affected.”
State Data Laws
There are only two states in the Union that do not have data laws: Alabama and South Dakota. If your company has a breach of over 250 consumers, then you have to report that to the State, and they want to see what the notification you sent out looks like.
Every member of the audience will be able to find some company in their industry on the Oregon Department of Justice website’s Data Breaches Page; nicknamed the Wall of Shame.
[Author’s Note: most common categories listed on this website are hotels, restaurants, retail stores, grocery stores, coffee shops, realtors (for those of you who buy your house with a credit card…), drug stores, universities and school districts, health care providers and labs, investment firms, and cellular service providers.]
Tom explained, “We’re told that each notification that goes out costs about $200 a head. So if you are the conduit for a major breach and you are a small business, they say half of you are done; you would not be able to afford the cost of going through the mitigation process. Every time you run a credit card, every time you have a batch of information that’s available, as Scott pointed out very well, the issue is not just that you have that, and they want that information, but if you are the conduit for that information getting hacked, then you are responsible.”
Scott: “And, the scary part is: the consideration is not just the cost of notifying all of your consumers … to me, it’s the P.R. And, especially in health care, what we’ve seen in the past year is that HIPAA breaches used to be that thing that was talked about, and now, the fines that are coming down for ending up on this list are is simply debilitating.”
When you have an insurance policy and you discover a breach, you can call your insurance agent and the first thing they do is call a forensics guy to come out—and forensic techs are specialists. These specialists come out and figure out where the breach happened. They’re already set up with all 50 states to send out the notifications and then they set up monitoring. Again, you could do all that yourself or you can choose to transfer that risk to somebody whose primary job is to simply handle the situation.
We have this tremendous opportunity, particularly in America and the West, to allow the market forces of insurance to level that which can destroy our business. And, right now, in the information world, these intrusions are the new threat. We all insure our buildings. We all insure our cars. We’re all worried about many other threats to our businesses, but we have to consider information as a threat to business continuity.
These days, we would say, “be careful”, “be aware”, and make sure that part of your insurance program includes talking to somebody about information; not only what you are doing with that information but how you’re going to handle an attack, if and when something happens.
The desperados—those who are out there attacking us and our computers—are going to be there. How are we going to manage that? And the best way to manage that risk is in tandem: not only deal with the physical part, but also the risk management portion of what you’re going to do if and when a breach happens.
Risk Managers
Scott: “And, really, as Tom said, the risk management is the issue, and we feel our job is to present you and our clients with the risks that are out there. On the same level, you are welcome to accept some risks. Right? We can’t plug every hole. And, there are certain risks that we know we have to address as best we can. And there are others about which we say, ‘I’m OK with accepting that risk.’ So have that discussion and keep the idea top of mind.”
There’s no job position that is invulnerable … from the bottom of the ladder to the top. Nobody is immune from attack.
Safe Links Protection for Outlook.
* Be sure to hover over “labeled” links to see where the link will resolve … and be sure the domain is not: You’reScrewed.com
Also: check the address of the sender if you are concerned about a “friend” who has emailed you.
The following commentary is provided by a freelance CyberSecurity Consultant, and serves to buttress the excellent CyberSecurity Seminar information.
[Author’s Note: History has demonstrated that we all must be very careful with email. The following examples of previous cyber attacks—or, exploits—provide warnings about the potential for delivery of destructive payloads. The purpose of recounting these attacks is to educate users as to how an exploit can be presented as innocuous but can in fact be very destructive. As Scott and Tom discussed during their presentation, the bad guys are working around the clock to devise new and clever ways to entice people into falling into traps in order to enrich themselves.]
Clicking on a link, or worse, just viewing an email message—even one sent from somebody you know—can be enough to activate the attack code. Usually this is by exploiting a bug.
Some famous exploits have included the Windows library that renders graphics, so simply viewing a picture in your web browser or email client is enough to compromise your system. Most often this happens when the email is viewed as HTML. This is why many email clients don’t automatically render HTML email; they show just the text part, then make you click a button to view the HTML version.
One known attack took advantage of a bug in the Microsoft DLL that renders images, so a carefully crafted image attachment was used for a while as an attack vector. Same thing for multi-byte character handlers. There was also an attack that took advantage of a bug in the handler for the SMTP header; in that case the attack could happen even if the body of the email was completely empty.
Other attack vectors take advantage of the helper programs automatically started by your web browser and/or email client based on the MIME type of the payload.
This is why one of the recommended security measures is to disable HTML messages in your email client and use text email only. And never open an attachment no matter who sent that email—many viruses spread by taking over a machine and then emailing itself as an attachment (usually disguised as a funny message with pictures, a Word document, etc). So, just because you know and trust somebody, that doesn’t mean opening attachments they send to you is a good idea.
Attack payloads pretty much have to be written to target a specific OS (NOTE: that’s not a comprehensive statement, but covers the majority of them). Windows is by far the most used OS, followed by MacOS, Linux, and ChromeOS, so that’s what the vast majority of attack code is written for. Therefore, those of us who want to have less worry about that sort of thing do most of our public Internet interaction on systems that are too unpopular for virus writers to bother with. OpenBSD is a very good option.
The exploits presented above merely represent the tip of the iceberg, but getting back to the simplistic statement: simply visiting a web page or viewing an email that has attack code can be enough to compromise your system.
The attacks mentioned above have, presumably, been addressed. These specific attacks are not likely to be effective these days. But it’s a game of constant escalation as the attackers keep finding new exploits which the white hats are not yet aware of.
One can’t say that there is currently a known effective attack that can compromise a system simply by reading a plain text email, but one can say that examples have repeatedly been shown that this type of thing is certainly possible.
Patches have been released for the particular examples cited.
What could go wrong with this: Amason is taking photos of your front door to show when packages have been delivered.
And then, there’s this recent article on LogicWorks.com: Government Cloud On The Rise: NSA, DOJ Move To Amazon Web Services … and, further AWS information: Cloud Computing for Defense.
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https://roguetechhub.com/core-business-services-cybersecurity-seminar-february-2018/
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Regulus Cyber, creator of the first “anti-virus” software to protect satellite navigation and timing across a wide range of applications, including automotive, mobile, IoT and critical infrastructure, today announced that the company raised $4M. Part of a future Series B-Round, the funds will be used to enhance their R&D and sales efforts around supporting the recent U.S. executive order that emphasized the protection of positioning, navigation, and time provided by GPS.
The funding was led by SPDG Ventures (the holding company of the Périer-D’Ieteren family, owners of Belgium’s largest automotive business) and joined by btov Partners (investor in Facebook, OrCam, and Volocopter) with all previous investors participating including Sierra Ventures, Canaan Partners Israel, F2 Capital, the Technion TIOF fund and Technion R&D foundation.
“There are 8 billion GNSS receivers in use worldwide, powering 7% of global economic activity,” said Rainer Schmueckle, one of Regulus’ new investors and previous COO of Daimler Group/Mercedes. “Having researched this domain, we realized Regulus is uniquely positioned to address the rising need to protect this trillion-dollar technology, from hacking.”
Several weeks ago Regulus Cyber also announced signing an agreement with HARMAN, one of the world’s leading Automotive suppliers. The solution will be part of HARMAN SHIELD, the company’s robust offering for risk management to vehicle manufacturers and mobility companies.
The Regulus Pyramid GNSS is a software solution that uses machine learning to detect spoofing and defend any GNSS receiver, device, or chipset against it — ensuring the security and reliability that are essential to safe and accurate navigation. GPS spoofing attacks are becoming more common and are often very difficult to detect and protect against. Pyramid GNSS uses a combination of patented algorithms, developed over years of spoofing experiments to protect against attacks at the firmware, operating system, or application level. Furthermore, Regulus Cyber had recent breakthroughs in their capability to completely mitigate spoofing as well.
“The importance of protecting GPS has come to the forefront as President Trump and other governments around the globe define new regulations to protect it,” said Yonatan Zur, CEO of Regulus Cyber. “GPS controls so many facets of our lives from transportation, infrastructure and law enforcement. Having a safe and secure software that protects GPS devices is no longer an option; it’s an integral component to the safety and security of so many industries.”
As a result of the growing demand, Regulus Cyber appointed Nir Sasson as Chief Business Officer to lead global business development activities and solidify their partnerships with timing and location manufacturers and users. Prior to Regulus, Mr. Sasson was the Co-Founder and CEO of Autotalks, leading the company from inception to become a worldwide leader in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication technology, securing deals with automotive OEMs and Tier 1s, creating a strong presence in global markets, and securing funding from financial and strategic investors.
“Our growth in fund raising, recruiting top talent, and partnering with industry leaders is another step in becoming a major player in the GPS protection space,” said Mr. Zur.
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https://aitechtrend.com/regulus-cyber-raises-4m-after-signing-deal-with-automotive-tier-1-and-expanding-gps-cybersecurity-product-capabilities/
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Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD) is responding to a new email phishing scam that claims to be from the IT Service Desk Support. The email states that Webmail has been improved and that staff and faculty should click on the link to update it. The link directs the user to a malicious Web page which attempts to steal the user's credientails.
The following is a sample of the recent fraudulent email. If you receive this message (or any message similar to it), please report it as a phishing scam by forwarding the email message as an attachment to [email protected]. Detailed instructions on reporting scams are available at http://technology.pitt.edu/phishingscams.
CSSD strongly recommends that you do not reply to unsolicited emails or emails from unverifiable sources. Avoid clicking on links contained in such emails, as these may lead to sites that contain harmful software. If a link looks suspicious, you can hover over the link with your mouse to preview the URL without clicking on it.
In addition, CSSD recommends that all users install Symantec Endpoint Protection software and use the LiveUpdate feature to get the latest virus definitions. As a complement to Symantec Endpoint Protection, CSSD offers Malwarebytes Premium for individuals and departments at no cost. Students, faculty, and staff can download Malwarebytes and Symantec Endpoint Protection at no cost through the Software Download Service at My Pitt. Departments can submit a help request to obtain Malwarebytes for multiple machines.
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http://www.technology.pitt.edu/news-and-alerts/phishing-alert-outlook-web-app-upgrade-scam-0
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