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Fresno, CA - (NewMediaWire) - June 06, 2022 - Operational Security Solutions (“OSS”), the premier provider of full-spectrum risk management services with specialization in secure cash management and logistics, compliance services, security consulting, and facility hardening, announced today that the Company has partnered with a nationwide credit union to support ATM-carrying businesses with fund fulfillment. OSS’ latest service offering is indifferent to the business’ existing banking relationships.
“This game-changing partnership allows us to expand our services to a greater pool of businesses that rely on ATM services,” said Scott Solomon, CEO of OSS. “We are proud to announce this latest development that allows us to support ATM placement without having a banking depository relationship with that business. While we continue to service high risk industries, including marijuana-related businesses, this latest advancement allows us to continue expanding our breadth of services to traditional, ATM-carrying business as well.”
Notably, the demand for ATM fulfillment services continues to grow, with OSS adding three to four new locations to its roster roughly every 30 days.
OSS offers industry-leading security offerings, high-risk industry financial service solutions and relationships, connecting highly regulated businesses that struggle to get banking services with financial institutions that have specific programs designed for the industry or organizations that are unable to be serviced by certain banks. Notably, OSS boasts a no-loss record to-date. To learn more about OSS visit www.opsecsolutions.us. | https://www.newmediawire.com/news/operational-security-solutions-oss-announces-new-financial-institution-partner-launches-new-atm-capabilities-nationwide-6529203 |
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US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016.
In 2016, the US Cyber Command carried out successful operations against the online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS), this is what emerged from declassified national security top-secret documents released on Tuesday.
The documents have been release under a Freedom of Information Act request.
According to the documents, the US Cyber Command “successfully contested ISIS in the information domain,” its operations had a significant impact on online radicalization and recruitment of the terrorist organization.
The first offensive hacking operation dated back 2016 and dubbed “Operation Glowing Symphony” was detailed in the documents released by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
“Today the National Security Archive is releasing 6 USCYBERCOM documents obtained through FOIA which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace.” reads a post published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. “These documents, ranging from a discussion of assessment frameworks to the 120-day assessment of Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY, reveal the unprecedented complexity of the operation, resulting challenges in coordination and deconfliction, and assessments of effectiveness.”
The offensive Operation Glowing Symphony was carried out in November 2016 by Joint Task Force Ares (JTF-Ares), it mainly aimed at disrupting ISIS propaganda efforts by hacking or hijacking online social media accounts, and taking down websites used by the terrorist organization to spread propaganda.
The documents reveal the result of a 120-day assessment US Cyber Command conducted after the completion of Operation Glowing Symphony.
The assessment pointed out problems faced by the US cyber units, including the challenges of storing a huge amount of data contained in the hacked ISIS servers and accounts and the difficulty in coordination with other coalition members and US government agencies.
The Operation Glowing Symphony was approved in 2016 by president Barack Obama. It was initially approved for a 30-day period in late 2016, but it was later extended.
Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY is considered an important mileston in the counter-terrorism efforts and demonstrates the efficiency of the US offensive cyber capability against online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS).
“Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY was originally approved for a 30-day window, but the a July 2017 General Administrative Message reported the operation’s extension to an unknown date. Whether the operation is currently ongoing or not, it is public knowledge that JTF-ARES continues to operate.” continues the post. “It is also increasingly apparent that the counter-ISIS mission, JTF-ARES, and Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY are viewed within the US military’s cyber-warfighting community as not just a chapter in counter-terrorism and ‘low-intensity conflict’, but as demonstrations of the nation’s offensive cyber capability and a model for conducting an “American way” of cyber warfare.”
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A fix included in the OpenSSL updates released last week introduced a critical vulnerability that could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, the OpenSSL Project warned on Monday.
OpenSSL versions 1.1.0a, 1.0.2i and 1.0.1u were released on September 22 to address more than a dozen security holes. One of the issues affecting OpenSSL 1.1.0 is a low severity denial-of-service (DoS) bug related to excessive allocation of memory in the tls_get_message_header() function.
The flaw, reported by Shi Lei of Qihoo 360 and identified as CVE-2016-6307, is considered “low severity” because it can only be exploited if certain conditions are met.
The OpenSSL Project rolled out a fix in version 1.1.0a, but Google Security Engineer Robert Swiecki soon discovered that the patch created a critical use-after-free vulnerability related to large message sizes.
“The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to write to the previously freed location,” the OpenSSL Project wrote in its advisory.
The critical flaw (CVE-2016-6309) can result in a crash, but it could also lead to arbitrary code execution. The problem has been addressed with the release of OpenSSL 1.1.0b.
OpenSSL developers also announced on Monday the release of version 1.0.2j, which patches a missing CRL sanity check issue affecting only version 1.0.2i (CVE-2016-7052).
The OpenSSL Project hopes that by quickly releasing a patch for the critical vulnerability, users will update their installations directly to the newest versions instead of the ones made available last week.
The most serious weakness fixed last week is CVE-2016-6304, which can be exploited for DoS attacks by sending an excessively large OCSP Status Request extension to the targeted server. Another interesting issue fixed last week, albeit a low severity one, is Sweet32, a recently disclosed attack method that can be leveraged to recover potentially sensitive data from a large volume of encrypted traffic. | https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-patch-low-severity-issue-creates-critical-flaw?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Securityweek+%28SecurityWeek+RSS+Feed%29 |
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Employing best practices to address your organisation’s current cybersecurity concerns.
The Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment (CSMA) is a gap analysis and risk assessment that employs cybersecurity best practices as well as recognized cyber frameworks to answer the questions about your current security programme, like your biggest risks, the potency of your cybersecurity strategy, etc. Amidst the growing reliance on technology, these assessments are essential for an organisation of any size, but particularly the big ones.
By measuring your organisation’s strategic position in the face of cyber threat, the Cyber Security Maturity Assessment. It instils observing specific policies that protect essential assets, infrastructure, applications, and data. The evaluation also focuses on the best course of action that can be adopted by your business for each control area, as well as organisational effectiveness and instils more maturity in internal policies and procedures.
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Studying the cybersecurity risks and their potency, undertaking suitable measures to fight them, drafting comprehensive reports on myriad aspects.
We take control of the key cybersecurity areas by determining their potency against risks, and present you with a comprehensive report to read and acknowledge the posed cybersecurity threats and a detailed review of the steps undertaken.
The focal points of this assessment include, legal and regulatory compliances, operational and technological aspects of workplace efficiency, crisis management, business continuity among others.
The analysis of the current security framework of your organisation.
Identification of vulnerabilities that can prove to be detrimental for your cybersecurity infrastructure.
Maturity assessment of your cybersecurity infrastructure, making it suitable to the future needs of your organisation.
Valuable insights on the shortcoming of your cybersecurity mechanism, and how to overcome it.
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Tsaaro reviews the existing documentation that deals with cybersecurity, meet the people in charge of its implementation, checks their practical application by your organisation. Takes control of the six key cybersecurity areas by determining their potency against risks.
Our skilled and experienced team of experts provides you with the exact details and pinpointed approach to solve your organisation’s cybersecurity issues; we are flexible in our approach which helps us adapt better to the needs of your organisation.
At Tsaaro, we equip you with all that you need to know about your cybersecurity infrastructure, inform you about the areas that require correction, which can be corrected, and implement them for you. We also help you identify the threats you possibly cannot fight for the very nature of those, in the face of ever-evolving technology and help mitigate & minimise damage.
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Consumers never see the process, only the end results, but marketers are always busy finding marketing moves that align with current trends. As 2019 slowly rolls around, it's time to ramp up your advertising methods to meet your marketing goals.
Although 2019 is a new year, some 2018 marketing trends haven't yet lost their value and can still be applied. Marketing professionals must consistently find ways to seamlessly and effectively integrate new trends with existing trends. Since technology is constantly and rapidly growing, new consumer opinions and new laws and regulations must be considered while implementing strategies.
When considering new marketing strategies to implement in 2019, marketers pay attention to upcoming trends and government regulations. It isn't too early to figure out which marketing tactics to implement right away in the new year. We have compiled a list of the top trends to utilize in the coming year.
So, you've got sufficient website traffic, a low bounce-rate and have packaged a tempting and generous offer to bring your prospective customers over the line. Brilliant! But what's concerning is the low uptake of your core offering. Why are your customers so ambivalent about such a fantastic deal?
Sales guru Zig Ziglar once said that there are a mere 4 reasons why people won't buy from you. These are:
The most challenging aspect of any search engine optimization strategy is staying current. The Google gods are indeed fickle masters: every year, the headquarters in California roll out more than 500 changes to their search algorithm (Moz).
To help you stay current with the latest search engine trends, I've aggregated and analyzed seven SEO strategies that remain valid in 2018. We'll discuss each strategy in-depth, and teach you how to implement it most effectively.
If you run a WordPress eCommerce website, your main goal is likely to convert as many sales as possible. However, there is a big difference between forging strong relationships with loyal customers and simply throwing marketing strategies at whomever will take the bait.
Because in the end, the stronger the ties you have with your loyal customer base, the longer they will remain faithful to your brand. In fact, 94% of companies see "higher engagement and conversions rates" with a dedication to customer service.
This is because ultimately, those that cater to their customers in a more personalized way - think effortless shopping experiences, convenience, and excellent product inventory-will experience an increase in sales as a result.
With more and more people using their smartphones and tablets to not only browse the internet, but also do online shopping and run important business and life activities, it's a good idea to make your website mobile-friendly. And that includes using mobile popups.
However, Google recently announced some changes around mobile search results in 2017. One of those changes being the mobile friendly tag, which could be taken off of any sites that use "intrusive interstitials."
This has some people concerned about whether or not they should continue to use mobile popups, but fear not! You can still use mobile popups, you just have to do so in a way that complies with Google's new requirements.
Looking back at 2016, the year was one of the biggest yet for video marketing. More and more outlets adopted this form of advertising than ever before, and this massive adoption rate created new practices and trends that no one really saw coming.
Although all forms of marketing change and adapt over time, few go through changes as quickly as that of video marketing. The Internet Age is one that doesn't slow down for anyone, and this is extremely applicable when talking about online video advertising.
While the core principles and practices will always remain true, the way in which we approach video marketing has seen some big evolutions that you need to properly adhere to if you want to stay ahead of the curve throughout the year. Here are the top 5 video marketing practices that you need to be implementing in 2017.
According to the Pew Research Center, Millennials are the nation's largest living generation. They are a age bracket that lack a long attention span; they crave experiences, activism, and constant connection. They are an age group that doesn't settle, which means your marketing initiatives have to be a bit more creative in order to attract the right attention.
If you're a business that wants to attract millennials, but haven't figured out how, these are some of the best tactics you can use to create a relevant relationship between your brand and Generation Y.
Slowly becoming famous for being the Comic-Con of short films, movies, music, and talks on a variety of topics, SXSW has ended, but not without a recap of the best moments. From politics to technology, and numerous other topics of conversation, the event offered something for everyone.
Celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, SXSW happens yearly to help creative people achieve their goals. The event educates and inspires people on a variety of topics. If you couldn't make it this year, but still want to know about the highlights, please read on.
Last year I went to Content Marketing World for the first time. Prior, I had been to several other content/social focused conferences and all are good in their respective niches. But Content Marketing World is really the mother of all things when it comes to content marketing.
Last year, the keynote was delivered by John Cleese which, as you can imagine, was awesome! How do you top John Cleese? It's not easy but the folks behind CMW have done it. This year the keynote speaker will be Mark Hammil. Yes, that Mark Hammil!
Despite what the advertising industry rumblings might lead us to believe over the past few years citing the decline of television as we know it, television advertising is instead alive, well, and producing solid results. In a recent MarketShare study that analyzed advertising performance across industry and media outlets like television, online display, paid search, print and radio advertising, MarketShare found that TV has the highest efficiency at achieving key performance indicators, or KPIs, like sales and new accounts. When comparing performance at similar spending levels, TV averaged four times the sales lift of digital.
In fact, 2016 could wind up being one of the most profitable years ever for TV advertising, thanks in part to Super Bowl 50--which set the stage with its $4.8 million, 30-second commercials. According to Advertising Age, total ad spending on commercials in the Super Bowl from 1967 through 2016 (and adjusted for inflation) was $5.9 billion. | http://www.adrants.com/portfolio/koken/app/koken/Shutter/Contracts/KokenEncryptionKey.php |
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships.
Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law literature, Lisa Rodgers illustrates how this extends to the design of regulation for precarious work. The book’s logical structure situates vulnerability in its developmental context before moving on to examine the goals of the regulation of labour law for vulnerability, its current status in the law and case studies of vulnerability such as temporary agency work and domestic work. These threads are astutely drawn together to show the need for a shift in focus towards workers as ‘vulnerable subjects’ in all their complexity in order to better inform labour law policy and practice more generally.
Constructively critical, Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work will prove invaluable to students and scholars of labour and employment law at local, EU and international levels. With its challenge to orthodox thinking and proposals for the improvement of the regulation of labour law, labour law institutions will also find this book of great interest and value.
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By Brian Dowling (January 5, 2022, 3:59 PM EST) — A Russian national’s murky finances, legal know-how and familiarity with yachts, helicopters and private aircraft make him too much of a flight risk to release from jail while awaiting trial for an alleged $82.5 million insider trading scheme, a Boston federal judge said Wednesday.
Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin, who was extradited to the U.S. in December from Switzerland, is accused of working with four others to use stolen pre-released corporate filings to predict moves in the companies’ stock prices. The scheme made the group $82.5 million, according to a related civil case filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. …
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We’re hosting a partner-to-partner experience, called P2P Connection, so you can find and connect with other partners while at WPC. Film your one-minute pitch about who you are and what your company does. We’ll showcase the videos in our lounge throughout the conference for viewing by other attendees. When your video is selected, we’ll make the introduction so you can connect.
Prepare your P2P pitch in advance, using the prompts below. For best results, stop by on Sunday or Monday to record your video. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msuspartner/2016/07/07/come-meet-us-in-the-us-regional-lounge-at-wpc-2016/ |
A 15-month-old shareholders’ derivative litigation against Home Depot for inadequate security measures which caused the 2014 data breach has been dismissed by an Atlanta court, Daily Report says. Judge Thomas Thrash said there was no evidence by the plaintiffs that the management had provided misleading information and failed to counter threats.
"As long as the outside directors pursued any course of action that was reasonable, they would not have violated their duty of loyalty," the judge wrote in his statement. The shareholders, he however added, had not blamed the management for deliberate deceit but for failure to update security despite red flags raised about non-compliance.
Cybercriminals in 2014 had hacked Home Depot’s security network using third-party credentials, and installed malware, which copied payment card details of 56 million shoppers across the US. The home improvement retailer agreed to $13 million compensation to affected customers following class-action lawsuits against it. | https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/derivative-suit-against-home-depot-for-2014-data-breach-dismissed |
from the some-things-are-best-kept-out-of-public-view dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Disk encryption uses software to encrypt the entire hard disk. The onus is therefore not on the user to determine what data should be encrypted, or to remember to manually encrypt files. By encrypting the entire disk, temporary files, which may reveal important confidential data, are also protected. Security is enhanced further when disk encryption is combined with filesystem-level encryption. To provide an insight into the open source software that is available, we have compiled a list of five notable disk encryption tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants easy-to-use data encryption and security." security | https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/09/2018231/Five-of-the-Best-Free-Linux-Disk-Encryption-Tools/insightful-comments |
There is a part of the web that is still hidden from the majority of the Internet users, a so-called dark web that cannot be found by conventional search engines or accessed by standard browsers.
Parts of the dark web reside on the Tor network, which, thanks to its nigh untraceable user anonymity, is a fertile breeding ground for cyber-criminals and illicit dealings. It is the ideal environment for an online illegal goods black market that sells everything from drugs and weapons to hitmen and hacking attacks for hire.
The dark web is a section of the Internet that is not indexed by search engines such as Google and not easily navigated to using a standard web browser.
Accessing the dark web requires specialised knowledge and software tools. An example of this is content that only accessible by using the Tor software and anonymity network, which while protecting privacy, can be associated with illicit activities.
These specialised black markets are flourishing in this nefarious corner of the Internet; criminals are developing points of aggregation where buyers and sellers can operate in anonymity and benefit from escrow services offered by the operators.
Names such as Silk Road (and its successor, Silk Road 2.0), BlueSky Marketplace, Pandora Marketplace, Tor Bazaar Alpha and Cannabis Road have become hugely popular in the criminal ecosystem.
Law enforcement and judicial agencies worldwide have coordinated their efforts against illicit dark web markets on the Tor network. An impressive FBI bust on 5 and 6 November, dubbed Operation Onymous, saw the closure of hundreds of websites operating on the Tor network. Its key achievement was the seizure of the black market Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its alleged manager, Blake Benthall.
Operation Onymous certainly had a significant impact, with well-known sites shut and levels of online illicit deals decreasing. However, security experts observed a rapid response from the criminal underground to the pressure exerted by law enforcement.
Data provided by the non-profit Digital Citizens Alliance Security suggests Onymous shifted the balance in favour of new and surviving black markets, which have now gained market share.
The criminal underground is also demonstrating significant capability to restore illegal activities by building new services. Through its monitoring, Digital Citizens claims it was tracking 18 dark networks at the time of the Onymous crackdown. That number was reduced to seven after Onymous but since then, five new sites have popped up to fill the void.
There are more threats to contend with than just the black markets. The dark web is an ideal environment for the spread of child porn and harbours botnets designed to steal credit card data.
Anonymising networks, and in particular the Tor network, are a powerful instrument in the arsenal of cyber-criminals to conduct illegal activities, such as the takeover of bank accounts. A US Treasury Department report states that the majority of bank account takeovers by cyber-criminals affecting organisations over the past decade exploited the anonymising Tor network.
Bad actors will explore even more the dark web to hide their identity and increase their business opportunities. This requires a significant effort from enforcers and private security firms: hacking techniques used to de-anonymise users have to be integrated with meticulous intelligence activities to infiltrate the principal criminal crews and identify their main operators on the dark web. | https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/dark-web-thrives-despite-operation-onymous-49.html |
The kidnap (payload) can be performed in a variety of ways.
Lockdown access to certain computer function ie. no Internet access, OS not allowed to start.
Encrypt all data (This is evil and scary).
Does nothing but display fake notices to pay for removal of the ransomware.
In the case of the Zeus variant, it isn't so nasty as encrypting all your data. What it does is restricting access to the Internet and open Internet Explorer to a certain webpage. (The webpage is currently down. However, it is likely to extort money by coaxing them that their access to the Internet will be restored, once the ransom is paid. It is also likely to include payment instruction).
The good news for this variant is that the ransomware feature isn't sophisticated. In fact, by tweaking the registry, you will be able to recover your Internet access.
After the initial payload, it will attempt to display notices on how to pay the ransom. They come in a variety of ways to display the demand for "ransom":
Spamming text file all over your directory; etc.
I have personally encountered one ransomware before. After the infection, it encrypted all my data and displayed the following text message in the form of .txt, in all my directories.
Some files on your machine are encrypted and your private informations were collected and sent to us. To decrypt files so you could use them again, you have to buy our decryptor. After you buy decryptor, your files will be decrypted, and we will destroy your private informations from our system, and help you remove malicious software from your system.
Attempt removal of the ransomware eg. using antivirus.
Search online about the ransomware to see if there is any way to reverse the effect of ransomware (But don't bang too hard on this. Malware writers are getting more clever and sophisticated nowadays).
Once removal is complete, change all credential you have (just in case the ransomware contain keyloggers).
What Should I Not Do When I Get Infected?
Never plug in any other removable devices.
The reason being is some ransomware spread through removable devices such as thumb drives. By doing so, you are risking your data in the thumb drive. If you plug the thumb drive into another computer, you are risking the other computer too.
What Are Some Pro-Active Actions I Can Take to Ensure I Can Recover My Data If I Get Infected By Ransomware 1 day?
BACKUP. BACKUP. BACKUP. Always backup critical data. It will be better if it is stored in another location, disconnect from the computer.
Be vigilant. Disable autorun on your computer. Update your PDF reader to the latest version (to reduce attack surface). Update your virus definition on a regular basis.
Some Interesting Facts About the Ransom
Unlike kidnap shown on TV, the ransom demand is usually of reasonable price eg. 60 Euro. The reason being is, they want to entice the victim to pay them the ransom. If they set like 1 million or 10 million, similar to TV drama, the victim will just simply ignore the loss of access/data and carry on with life. With a reasonable price, the victim is more likely to be tempted and pay the ransom to get back the access/data. However, paying the ransom does not imply you will get back your data/access for sure. They are criminals. They can possibly take your money and ignore your request.
They usually asked for payment via Western Union, rather than PayPal, where their account will be closed down after abuse report by the victim. Chances are that their account will be freeze and they will not be able to get the money. | https://www.div0.sg/post/ransomware-the-digital-kidnap |
This guide offers a four-step roadmap for delivering on the imperative to manage risk and resilience in real time by adopting a modern, cloud-based platform that can continuously monitor risk and compliance. The guide will also take a closer look at the best practices for execution.
You’ll discover how proactively managing technology and cyber risks and compliance, effectively managing and reporting on enterprise-wide risk, maintaining business continuity and operational resilience, and managing third-party and supplier risks can enable you to not only operate more safely and efficiently but also increase your competitive advantage. | https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/whitepapers/4-steps-to-manage-risk-resilience-in-real-time-w-11481?rf=RAM_AlsoBeInterestedIn |
There are many ant-virus programs available, although which is the best? Here are a few leading picks to your PC. Fad Micro: This software features strong privateness and protection features to get multiple programs, including Chromebooks. Phenomena Micro is very good at protecting users out of phishing websites. It also includes a money-back guarantee. BullGuard: This application is a powerful anti-malware program using a host of more features. It has an outstanding gamer booster, easy to customize firewall, performance optimizer, and parental regulators.
McAfee: www.programworld.org/best-antivirus-reviews For years, McAfee has been one of the most trusted brands in antivirus protection, and they will begin to produce a top quality product. In expert checks, McAfee’s ant-virus engine could thwart 97. 8% of attacks, but it fell less than some of the different programs on our list. However , it has the still worth considering. If you have several products and want to contain a more robust antivirus software, McAfee’s item may be a better choice.
Another thing to consider think about antivirus applications are whether it’s available for Macs. Even though malware is usually targeting Mac pcs less than PCs, they still want protection from infections. Luckily, anti virus software with respect to Apple computers offers similar benefits. It protects against viruses, malware, and trojans, and even helps to protect Macs. This is essential for Mac pcs, as the quantity of malware written for them continue to be rise. With all the number of risks on the rise, anti virus software is an increasingly important conjunction with any computer system. | https://enarajardin.com/top-antivirus-software-program/ |
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new VoIP-enabled PBXs that support feature-rich services like real-time presence, instant messaging, video conferencing and mobility.
When inside an organization, VoIP leverages the network infrastructure to operate and provide services to its users. However, when moving beyond the LAN boundary, VoIP leverages the Internet -- an unsecure public network.
By design, VoIP is an application, which means its packets are transported over the Internet the same way as general Internet traffic. Using the Internet as a transport medium means VoIP packets are exposed to a hostile and untrusted environment and are in reach of unwanted hackers waiting to seize the opportunity and break into VoIP systems.
This is where VoIP encryption comes into play.
Security analysts and engineers suggest that organizations should encrypt VoIP traffic not only when it traverses the Internet, but also on the LAN and on the wide area network (WAN)/virtual private network (VPN).
Information such as username, password, called number and VoIP provider can be extracted from unencrypted VoIP sessions.
In addition, SIP signaling often uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP) as the transport protocol (shown above) -- a "fire and forget" protocol that does not require a three-way handshake before data is transferred between hosts.
Unencrypted VoIP services can be easily exposed, making them ideal targets for hackers. Different attack patterns are used depending on the target, waiting to compromise the VoIP service and cause major disruptions. One example is TelePacific Communications, whose systems were taken offline in 2011 for several days after a continuous Internet flood (distributed denial-of-service attack) of invalid VoIP registration requests, causing thousands of dollars in damages.
Securing your VoIP sessions via encryption
Encryption can be enabled and configured between different points, depending on your setup and equipment. For organizations with multiple sites and PSTN gateways, it is recommended to encrypt all possible call legs at the head office and remote offices, including voice gateways. By doing so, all packets traversing the LAN and WAN/VPN are encrypted. When Wi-Fi networks are available with an accessible SIP service, encryption is mandatory.
In case of an external VoIP provider, traffic between your organization's IP PBX and the VoIP provider must also be encrypted, as it is usually transported over the Internet.
SIP signaling uses UDP to set up a VoIP call. During this call setup, critical information is passed from the client to the server, including username, password, calling and called party number. TLS is used here to encrypt SIP signaling payload. TLS normally requires a secure certificate so each side can identify itself, but most people usually use self-generated certificates.
SRTP is used to deliver the audio and video over an IP network. SRTP is the encrypted version of RTP. RTP and SRTP still use UDP as the transport protocol.
To maximize the VoIP encryption methods, it is recommended to use TLS in conjunction with SRTP on all VoIP equipment. This setup ensures both SIP signaling and voice/video sessions are properly encrypted and safe from prying eyes.
Depending on the VoIP equipment, it might not be possible to enable encryption if not supported by the firmware. This is often a problem with older SIP IP phones, and therefore it's good to update device firmware to the latest version, even when encryption is supported with the current loaded firmware.
SIP encryption in today's enterprise
Unfortunately, companies often follow industry trends rather than proactively adopt best security practices. As a result, companies with a recently upgraded IP PBX are unlikely to have VoIP encryption enabled or configured. Federal agencies, Army services, police and other similar services are an exemption to this rule.
Most SIP providers, on the other hand, have their infrastructure ready to support encrypted VoIP services -- they are just waiting on their customers to request them.
The driving force that's slowly changing this situation is the attacks, hijack attempts and call-fraud scenarios that are costing companies a lot of money, making IT departments and management change the way they see VoIP and security.
If your company is running an IP PBX with SIP-enabled IP phones and utilizes SIP trunks with providers, now is a good time to begin considering VoIP encryption.
Great information and an essential process, if unfortunate. Despite all the obvious advancements in security protocols and the necessity for rapid implementation, I'm concerned that we're just building better cages while they're building better sledge hammers so we build better cages and they build....
Our whack-a-mole approach to security is only a stopgap at best, breached far too often every time we're distracted, even momentarily. Sure, it's good enough today (if we implement it), but what happens tomorrow? Building a better chicken coop isn't a great solution when we need a fortress. | https://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/tip/VoIP-encryption-urged-outside-and-inside-your-network |
My company has a MediaWiki setup which we are looking to make [partially] client accessible. Ideally each client would be able to see only their own page. Our wiki requires the user to be logged into view or edit, and we have the LDAP plugin (This one, specifically) so we can use our Active Directory credentials.
I see this question has come up before a few years ago, but I didn't see an question dealing with LDAP in particular. Can we manage a specific AD account if we give clients one on our domain for this purpose? Alternatively, is there a way to give clients a login directly into the wiki (sort of like logging locally into the computer, instead of the domain), that we could control the access rights of?
For reference: we are on MediaWiki version 1.19.1, PHP version 5.3.15, MySQL version 5.0.96-winx64, and the installation is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (IIS 7.5).
You can use local accounts in addition to the LDAP accounts to log users in. You have to set $wgLDAPUseLocal to true in your LocalSettings.php. Basically, it adds another option to the domain drop down box on the login form that says "local". Users that want to log in with a local wiki account use that. I would also disable account creation on the wiki and create accounts manually for your clients.
Regardless of whether you use local accounts or AD accounts, for page-level access control, you would have to use one of these extensions. Extension:AccessControl seems to be a popular one. | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11731005/granular-access-control-for-mediawiki-with-ldap |
Access Control is a system which enables an authority to control access to areas in a given physical facilities. An access control point, it can be a door turnstile, parking gate, elevator or other physical barrier where granting access can be controlled using RFID technology.
Data security is generally very high using RFID technology. It also reduces the possibility of duplicating credentials. Secure or proprietary communication protocols can also be used for further more security.
A RFID based Access Control reader does not usually make an access decision but send a card number to an Access Control panel that verifies the number against an access list. Generally only entry is controlled and exit is uncontrolled. In cases where exit is also controlled a second reader is used on the opposite side of the door. The typical RFID card/tag is a RFID based contactless smart card, key fob, wristband or smartphone sticker. | http://www.faithrfid.com/rfid-access-control-a-1.html |
This research by Elmarie Kritzinger, Dr Maria Bada and Jason R. C. Nurse reports on a study into the cybersecurity awareness initiatives for school learners in South Africa and the UK, which are supported by government, industry and academia.
Furthermore, this article provides an overview of similarities and differences between initiatives across countries, and posits as to the reasons why they may exist. The research concludes by presenting recommendations for both countries to improve school cybersecurity initiatives.
Access the article here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-58553-6_10 | https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/cybersecurity-capacity/content/cybersecurity-awareness-initiatives-school-learners-south-africa-and-uk-0 |
There's been a lot of talk recently around how to address America's infrastructure cybersecurity. After attacks like Colonial Pipeline and JBS, everyone across the public and private sectors are wondering what they should be doing to avoid becoming the next major ransomware victim that disrupts their given industry.
While we don't have all the answers, our critical infrastructure experts recently suggested what some security partnerships could look like in the U.S. One of the authors of that post, Joe Marshall, joined the Talos Takes podcast last week with yours truly to discuss CI security and how operational technology can so often intersect with information technology.
A vulnerability called "PrintNightmare" could allow an attacker to execute remote code by exploiting Microsoft's print spooler function. Microsoft originally patched the vulnerability last month, but it was discovered this week that it was more serious than expected after proof-of-concept code made it into the wild. Snort rules 57876 and 57877 will protect against this vulnerability.
The same attackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised Microsoft's support system. The company said Nobelium gained access to "basic account information for a small number of our customers."
Nobelium also is accused of infiltrating the network of Denmark's central bank and lurking for nearly seven months. The group reportedly used the widespread SolarWinds vulnerability as an initial entry point.
More than 700 million LinkedIn users' information is available for sale on a dark web forum. The company says its network was not breached, though, and was simply the victim of data-scraping.
The U.S. Department of Energy is requesting $201 million in its 2022 budget to shore up critical infrastructure security, an increase of 15 percent from this year. The Secretary of Energy told a Senate committee that the recent cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline showed her department that "we do not have cyber standards on pipelines like we do on the electricity sector."
Germany said it thwarted a cyber attack this week on a national data service provider, and also denied the attack targeted the country's critical infrastructure and banks. Officials say the attack was likely "criminally motivated," and defenders kept the potential damage to a minimum.
European law enforcement shut down a popular VPN service used by many cybercriminals. DoubleVPN's domain was seized, as was information they kept on their users. Attackers commonly used DoubleVPN to obscure their identities during attacks.
The U.S. Senate has still yet to confirm a new director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, five months into President Joe Biden's term and heading into a two-week vacation for Congress. Biden nominated Jen Easterly, a former U.S. National Security Agency official, for the post in April.
Description: Cisco warned users this week that a vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance software is being exploited in the wild. The company first disclosed this vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-3580, in October. However, a proof-of-concept recently became publicly available and used in the wild. ASA is a perimeter defense appliance that blocks threats from entering corporate networks. An attacker could exploit this cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) to execute arbitrary code in the context of ASA and view sensitive browser-based information on the victim’s network. An XSS attack occurs when an adversary injects malicious scripts into otherwise trusted websites. An affected user comes under attack if they visit that compromised website.
References: https://threatpost.com/cisco-asa-bug-exploited-poc/167274/ | https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/07/threat-source-newsletter-july-1-2021.html |
We have new updates for Surface Book devices.
Click the headings below to go to the specific location for your device on the Download Center. At the Download Center, click Details then click + More to see all available downloads for the device. For all devices you can follow the similar deployment process that is used for Surface Pro 3 described at Surface TechCenter.
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For Surface Book devices, updates will be posted at https://aka.ms/drivers/surfacebook
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In order to encrypt some of the most important data stored on computers and servers, the Cerber ransomware now tries to kill processes associated with database servers.
The goal for ransomware programs is to affect as many valuable files as possible in order to increase the chance that affected users will pay to have them restored. For consumers these files are things like personal photos, videos, documents and even game saves, but for businesses, its usually data stored in databases.
The problem for hackers is that write access to database files can be blocked by the OS if they're already being used by other processes, which prevents the ransomware program from encrypting them.
[ Further reading: The best antivirus for Windows PCs ]
According to experts from computer support forum BleepingComputer.com, to solve this problem, the latest version of Cerber attempts to terminate many database-related processes: msftesql.exe, sqlagent.exe, sqlbrowser.exe, sqlservr.exe, sqlwriter.exe, oracle.exe, ocssd.exe, dbsnmp.exe, synctime.exe, mydesktopqos.exe, agntsvc.exeisqlplussvc.exe, xfssvccon.exe, mydesktopservice.exe, ocautoupds.exe, agntsvc.exeagntsvc.exe, agntsvc.exeencsvc.exe, firefoxconfig.exe, tbirdconfig.exe, ocomm.exe, mysqld.exe, mysqld-nt.exe, mysqld-opt.exe, dbeng50.exe and sqbcoreservice.exe.
Cerber is sold on the underground market as a service and has affected computer users worldwide. The program is used by cybercriminals who pay its creators a consistent part of their earnings. Researchers estimate that the Cerber gang will earn over $1 million this year.
With ransomware attacks switching focus from consumers to businesses, it's important for companies to identify and isolate their most important data assets through strong access controls.
In order to kill other processes, ransomware programs need to run from privileged accounts, so employees should perform their daily activities from limited accounts. Administrator accounts should be disabled on workstations.
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After users submit their initial request to the application, they must complete and submit a login form with a valid username and password. The Barracuda Load Balancer ADC compares the submitted information with information from the external authentication server. If two-factor authentication is configured, users are also redirected to a challenge page to enter the additional credentials (e.g., PIN or passcode). Users who fail authentication are redirected to a page that notifies them that they have failed authentication. Successfully authenticated users receive a cookie and are redirected to a page that notifies them that they have been authenticated.
Any requests from authenticated users must then be allowed by an authorization policy. When the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC receives a request, it compares the request to all authorization policies. Policies are matched to requests by URL, host, and other expressions. Policies also contain lists of allowed and restricted users and groups. If a matching policy lets the user access the requested resource, the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC forwards the request to the application server. If a matching policy does not allow the user to access the requested resource, the user is redirected to a denied authorization page. | https://campus.barracuda.com/product/loadbalanceradc/doc/41092512/access-control/ |
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Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.23, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
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How does one go about detecting a keylogger or other similar utility that may have been installed on a computer. How does one locate the data that has been stored and remove it as well as the offensive utility.
Note: This a personal home computer not a work or employer owned system. Thanks in advance. #1
2. I am assuming the machine is on.
3. You can do the same in linux, I just don't know the tools.
Ok Firstly. You wanna stop using your plugged in keyboard. Go to the onscreen keyboard on the screen - this will not be logged by a keylogger.
Secondly. You wanna find out what ports you have open, and where they are connecting to. Close all web browsers and everything connecting outwards. Open a process viewer (task manager will do) look for any processes taking up more ram / cpu than the others. Download and install process explorer from sys internals. Use this to "varify" all processes running. Right click process, click properties, click varify.
If any do not varify. They are suspect.
Disconnect the machine from the internet. Any stange exes, and any strange text files. To find these. I would boot into a linux live cd. Grep for exe. See what you find. Grep for .txt or .log see what you find.
If you are still unsure. Make it a unique string. so like "hdnsnakaishtbam292834dsa" something you would not have typed before. Boot into linux, and do a grep for that string. If you find it saved in a text file, or find it anywhere on the drive OTHER THAN the pagefile.sys. You have a keylogger on your machine. Once you find out where your string is stored, you have the temp file of the keylogger. Google its name, and check the folder where it is saved. I hope this helps. I do this for a living. I have detected and removed keyloggers on windows machines before. So I can try my best to help you.
Once you find any suspect files. Upload them to virustotal.com and see what they rank as, either good or bad.
2. 3. Ok Firstly. Secondly. If you see anything going out, not the ip address.
If it is a text keylogger you need to look for several things. Type in some random characters onto the live running machine using your keyboard. You will likely find the keylogger hidding in the same, or a few folders back in the tree.
Great and detailed post. I would do it as Scotty said. Another method you might want to consider assuming it is still in windows is to use safe mode. Just reboot your windows and switch to safe mode then manually delete/uninstall that keylogger. If anyone can teach us how to do it in Linux, it would be a great help. Click to expand...
Yes for linux, I am not so sure. The best thing you can do is unplug from the network, and not restart. That way if anything is transmitting / running now you will get it. If you restart you run the risk that you might not catch it again.
I'm just curious... If there is a keylogger running in Linux, would you be able to find it on your running processes by typing "ps x"? If so, maybe you could just kill that process then search and destroy it. I haven't encountered any keylogger yet so I'm not quite sure. Yes you could if you could find the process. A lot of keyloggers hide at the rootkit level, so finding the process is sometimes difficult, as it can either be hooked into something else like the acpi drivers, for example. I see. Yeah, finding it could be a lot of work. Thanks for the info.
I did a bit of digging and the person on this reference talks about booting from a known safe - CD image and then having to manually scan for anything suspicious. His recommended tools are chkrootkit and debsums. Credits to source. The concept and philosophy of this is sound; happy hunting.
rootkit hunter is good as well. Basically if you think the keylogger is operating at a rootkit level, the best thing you can do is to boot outwith the operating system, then run a virus scan. The easiest way to do this is through a Live CD. It bypasses the controls set b the OS protecting the Keylogger /Rootkit, so you have a better chance of finding it.
If you wan to find it running, do not do this! To get it running, like I said look through all your processes. Commonly, in Windows at least, they will hid in svchost, or something that looks legitimate. Using somethign like process explorer by sys internals, which can help you varify processes would work. For linux, you would have to use... I don't know. Basically your own knowledge. Trial and error. Try shutting down certain threads, and see what happens in the run time.
Using a disk like Hirens Boot CD over a straight linux live CD in a windows Machine would also be advised. As you can go in and disable things running at start up, from the LiveCD. Meaning, if it is running at rootkit level, you can disable it, restart into windows and then re-mediate from there.
The first thing I did when I smelled a RAT was to use my wireless keyboard then used this program http://www.blazingtools.com/antispy.html
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Having a high degree of oversight on the apartment complex and the granted keys is a significant factor when introducing an apartment access control system. From an administrative point of view or for quickly and efficiently managing new tenants and handing out new keys, an apartment access control system will facilitate the easier transitioning of old and new residents.
It is always advantageous to figure out how to better organize your apartment building, from providing a quick way for inhabitants to enter their residences to rapidly making a new key if the initial one is misplaced or taken. The additional capability to switch off the access of an old digital key is also significant, such as when a former inhabitant failed to give back their keys.
Apartment Complex Safety
Residents, work personnel, couriers, property owners, callers, and relatives are all likely to pass through an apartment complex. Ensuring that the building is protected and the inhabitants feel safe is paramount. Securing the apartment is essential, and access control is a great measure. Implementing an access control system inside the apartments can provide a safer atmosphere for everyone and help to avoid potential security issues.
In the case of an emergency like a fire within an apartment complex, an access control system can aid in unlocking all the doors and exits, furnishing a safe and effortless escape route for all the occupants. Such a system is much safer and easier to use than a lock and key building.
Types of Apartment Building Access Control Systems
Key Cards. Smart key card access control is one of the most trusted, respected, and widely used access control technologies available today. It is both low-cost and highly effective. It operates with a credit card-sized credential known in the industry as a 'key' that is either inserted into the reader or scanned by tapping.
Key Fobs. One of the most common applications of access control is key fob access control, which utilizes a key fob or keyring to tap the reader and grant admission to a building. Key fobs are one of the simplest forms of access control to employ and use, which explains why they have become so commonplace in recent years.
Cloud-based Access Control. Cloud-based access control systems offer remote management of access groups, emergency lockdown features, access point reprogramming, and much more. A cloud-based physical system can provide several benefits over legacy systems, including scalability, flexibility, lower upfront costs, seamless integration with building management systems, video surveillance, and fire alarms. In addition, cloud-based access control providers offer 24/7 support, remote control, mobile access credentials, biometric capabilities, CCTV integration, and customizable reports.
Mobile Access Control. Mobile access control is a modern and convenient solution for apartment buildings that eliminates the need for traditional physical keys, cards, or fobs. With mobile access control, tenants use their mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches, as their credentials to access the building and rooms. Mobile access control systems use technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and Near field communication (NFC) to verify credentials and provide maximum security and convenience.
Apartment Intercom Systems with Door Release. An apartment intercom system with door release is an essential security feature for apartment buildings that allows residents to communicate with visitors and grant them access to the building. The intercom system with door release consists of an intercom communication device that connects to the door locks and can open the door lock for authorized individuals. There are two types of door release locks: electronic and magnetic. Wired and wireless options are available for intercom systems with door release, with wired options being more reliable and wireless options being more convenient. Video intercoms are also available and provide additional security by allowing residents to visually verify the identity of visitors before granting access. When selecting an intercom system, it is essential to consider the door release mechanism, the type of lock used, and the building infrastructure and residents' needs.
Keypads. Keypad access control requires users to enter a PIN code on a keypad to gain access to the building or specific areas within the building. Keypad access control systems consist of a keypad, an electronic door lock, and a control panel that manages access control permissions. The benefits of keypad access control systems include their low cost, ease of installation, and the ability to provide user or group-specific access privileges.
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The US administration on Wednesday launched a cybersecurity plan which aims to use voluntary collaboration from the private sector to protect critical infrastructure from computer hackers.
The initiative stems from an executive order issued last year by President Barack Obama after repeated failures in Congress of a cybersecurity law.
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The so-called cybersecurity framework allows the government to lead an information-sharing network but stops short of making mandatory the reporting of cyber threats.
The goal is to protect so-called critical infrastructure, which can include power grids, water systems and financial networks against which a cyberattack could have crippling consequences.
Obama said the voluntary framework “is a great example of how the private sector and government can, and should, work together to meet this shared challenge.” “While I believe today’s framework marks a turning point, it’s clear that much more work needs to be done to enhance our cybersecurity,” Obama said in a statement.
“America’s economic prosperity, national security, and our individual liberties depend on our commitment to securing cyberspace and maintaining an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable Internet. Our critical infrastructure continues to be at risk from threats in cyberspace, and our economy is harmed by the theft of our intellectual property.” – Voluntary tradition –
A senior administration official said the framework is the result of one year of consultations with industry experts and others.
“We wanted this framework to be voluntary because it encourages the widest set of stakeholders to come forward and work with us,” the official said.
“Voluntary standards are a tradition in this country because they work.”
Obama and other officials have continued to press lawmakers for cybersecurity legislation, which could give the government broader ability to prevent and respond to computer attacks.
Lawmakers have been deadlocked on cybersecurity legislation, amid opposition from an unusual coalition of civil libertarians — who fear government snooping — and conservatives who said it would create a new bureaucracy.
US military officials have argued that legislation is needed to protect infrastructure critical to safeguarding national defense, including power grids, water systems and industries ranging from transportation to communication.
Senator Jay Rockefeller, who has spearheaded cybersecurity efforts in Congress, praised the new plan.
“The recent data breaches at Target and other retailers are a stark reminder that our networks continue to be vulnerable to cyber attacks,” Rockefeller said in a statement.
The senator added that the plan “represents the careful thinking of our country?s top security experts. It should become an essential touchstone, not just for critical infrastructure operators, but for all companies and government agencies that need to protect their systems and their data.”
But Greg Nojeim at the digital rights activist Center for Democracy & Technology said the plan is weak on privacy protection after the latest update removed specific privacy language.
“We would have preferred a framework that requires more measurable privacy protections,” Nojeim said.
Suzanne Spaulding, acting under secretary of Homeland Security, encouraged the private sector to adopt the voluntary standards.
“Both the private sector and government have a role to play in strengthening our nation’s critical infrastructure security and resilience, including cybersecurity, and it is imperative that we as a country take coordinated actions to achieve this goal,” she said in a blog post.
But the technology policy think tank Tech Freedom expressed doubt.
“The govt is producing only basic #cybersecurity standards, with little incentive for private sector to participate,” the group tweeted.
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Yahoo will join Google in providing users of its email service with end-to-end encryption, helping to keep the private communications of people protected from the prying eyes of governments and hackers alike. The company made the announcement on stage at the Black Hat security conference earlier today.
According to Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos, Yahoo will publish the source code of the effort later this year. His group “is working closely with Google to ensure that [its] implementations of end-to-end encryption are compatible,” the executive said in a statement.
Google announced its efforts to provide end-to-end encryption to its email users in early June. Hopefully, the Yahoo-Google alliance will spread to other webmail providers, allowing for a network of popular email services to pass encrypted messages between themselves, helping keep a majority of users more secure in their digital papers.
The context for the above are the Snowden revelations that have led technology companies to greatly tighten their information security. Yahoo and Google have previously announced measures to bolster their internal encryption following the revelation that the NSA was targeting the cables between their data centers abroad.
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3 1.0 - Executive Summary We were contracted by Business Solutions in order to conduct a thorough penetration test of their public infrastructure and determine what kind of access a malicious attacker could attain. If the confidentiality/integrity of confidential system information would be compromised The attacker was modeled after a regular Internet user with no previous knowledge of the company. The only information provided was a domain name, and only the server hosting this application was within the scope of work. Through a series of vulnerabilities, we managed to get past the perimeter defenses and into the server. Further network discovery was done in order to obtain a picture of the network configuration and further the attack. During the internal discovery phase, it was discovered that the breached structure was part of an internal network which contained multiple devices. We focused our attention on a machine which appeared to be the Human Resources computer. This target was chosen because it seemed likely that it would host confidential information about company personnel and was therefore deemed a high value target. Further exploitation of the target system resulted in complete control over the HR computer, along with additional credentials that could be used to further the attack. At this point however, it was determined that enough control had been obtained in order to successfully demonstrate the seriousness of the vulnerabilities found. The assessment was conducted in a controlled manner following the recommendations outlined in NIST SP 2 4 2.0 - Narrative Reconnaissance Figure 1: Initial view of the target The first step of the penetration test was to gather information about our target using the starting point given, which is the url. The web application is examined for vulnerabilities and port scans were done in order to identify what ports where open and what services where listening. The port scan revealed two publicly accessible services running; a web server running on port 80 and an ftp server listening on port 21. Figure 1.1 Nmap indicates the presence of a network level firewall filtering probes to other ports. FTP and Web servers are both exposed to the public. 3 5 Service version enumeration was accomplished through banner grabbing and it yielded an apache web server and a proftp server both running outdated versions. As previous proftp versions contained several vulnerabilities, this was chosen as our target. 2.2 First Phase - Compromise Public Server After studying the ftp application, two vulnerabilities were discovered. The first was a publicly known exploit on the mod_copy module which enabled unauthenticated users to move files within the server. This enabled us to move the /etc/passwd file, and due to a permissions misconfiguration, move the /etc/shadow file as well. Figure 2 Improper file permissions yielded access to the shadow file which contained hashed passwords for company executives. An attempt to crack the hash in the shadow file provided no results, at which point we went back to carefully study the ftp application and we identified a previously unknown vulnerability. The proftp application did not seem to strip invalid characters from the username parameter before recording the login attempt to the access.log file. This enabled us to inject a short piece of php which, when executed, would upload a reverse connect shell from our server to theirs. Figure 2.1 The username parameter in Proftp 1.3.5rc3 did not properly sanitize user input before passing it to auth.log Using the first vulnerability, the log file was moved to the root web folder and renamed upload.php. This way it would be treated as a php script when called which would execute the previously injected php code and upload our shell. 4 6 A listener was set up and when the file was called we obtained a reverse shell with the privilege of the www-data user. Figure 2.2 By leveraging a known and unknown vulnerability, a shell was successfully uploaded into the public server. This allowed us to upload more tools to further the attack. 2.3 Second Phase - Pivot With an interactive shell on the server we had the permissions of the www-data user. Rather than attempt to escalate privileges, here we focused on further network discovery and studying what other applications were on the server. Since no developer tools were found on the server, a bash script was uploaded and used (See appendix D) to get more information about the system. Results showed an SQL database and SSH server listening on ports 3306 and 22. Figure 3.0 Once behind the network firewall, reconnaissance of the server revealed a MySQL database and SSH server running locally. 5 7 This indicated a network level firewall was in place which had dropped our previous scans to those ports. During the scan, a Windows machine was identified using the open and closed ports, as well as NetBIOS. Enumeration revealed a wealth of information, such as the machine having shared folders, computer name and more. This was chosen as our target as the name indicated it would be a high value target. Figure 3.1 A scan done from the compromised system revealed it was part of an internal network, and use as our pivot to enumerate the internal environment. The system located at had a telnet server, NetBios, remote desktop and more listening. The computer name indicated that this machine belonged to a human resources staff member, which made it a valuable target due to confidential files stored within it. Further OS fingerprinting revealed this was a Windows XP SP3 machine which was important because Microsoft stopped all support for the XP platform on April 8th 2014, meaning any vulnerabilities discovered after this date would be unpatched. Investigation into the listening services revealed port 445 on this computer was vulnerable to MS Spools CVE , a vulnerability in the drivers for shared printer configuration in various versions of Windows. If exploited, this could lead to complete system compromise. Before we could attack this machine, we had to bypass the network firewall and forward our traffic to port 445. In order to achieve this, all communications were routed through the compromised server and therefore attacked the HR computer from behind the firewall and inside the network. 6 8 Figure Pivoting to the internal target was accomplished by routing all outside communications through the compromised server. After setting up the pivot, the next step was to compromise the computer. 2.4 Third Phase - Compromise HR Using a publicly available exploit, the MS spools vulnerability was triggered and a meterpreter shell chosen as the payload. Under normal circumstances, MS will not provide a remote user control over the computer because it creates the payload but is unable to execute it remotely. To bypass this restriction, the file is written to a directory used by Windows Management Instrumentation. This directory is periodically scanned and any.mof files are processed automatically. This exploit was successfully executed, giving us control over the user s computer. 7 9 4.0 A vulnerability in the outdated and unsupported Windows XP operating system not only gave us access but also allowed us to dump all user hashes to be used in further attacks. A hash dump was done and various password hashes were collected for cracking. Finally, A VNC server was injected into the victim s computer to get a desktop view of the user. Figure 4.1 At this point, the VNC server was used to observe the actions of the target and learn more about the company. 8 10 At this stage, a malicious attacker could further the attack by: - Using the internal systems behind the firewall to distribute backdoors to other areas of the network - Carrying out targeted attacks against any and all employees through information found on the computer, - Destruction and/or stealing of sensitive employee and company data - Distribution of malicious client side code via Business Solutions web page - Leveraging web server access to conduct attacks against Business Solutions partners and clients that maintain a trusting relationship with the company It was therefore determined that although these steps were possible, they were outside the current scope of work. We had successfully shown a direct path from a public server into the company s internal resources including databases and an HR personnel computer, exposing data that could be used to further attacks and compromising all system integrity and confidentiality with the ability to affect availability as well. Figure 4.1 A sequence of vulnerabilities allowed us to bypass network level firewalls to compromise a server on the internal network which was leveraged as a pivot to compromise further hosts on the internal network. 9 11 3.0 - Conclusion Through a series of vulnerabilities, we were able to gain administrative access to critical system resources of Business Solutions internal network. These vulnerabilities would have had a catastrophic impact on Business Solutions day to day activities had they been exploited by a malicious attacker. The outdated software used to exploit the system along with incorrect file permissions indicates a series of failures in software deployment, server management and the patch management program. The project scope for this test was the following: - Determine whether an external attacker could find an entry point into the internal network - If a path was found, determine: o What systems the attacker could reach o If the confidentiality/integrity of confidential system information would be compromised As demonstrated above, these goals were all met. An attack against Business Solutions resulted in complete loss of integrity and confidentiality of personal employee information, as well as access to various company assets. The breach of Business Solutions internal networks can be greatly attributed to flaws in its patch management program and insufficient access controls at the network level. Review of the patch management process and network boundary segmentation must be implemented in order to mitigate the vulnerabilities exploited during the penetration test Recommendations Due to the severity of the impact our attack would have had on the overall organization, it is recommended that sufficient resources be allocated to remediate both external and internal network vulnerabilities in a timely manner. While this engagement was not done to provide a comprehensive list of all security vulnerabilities and solutions, the following actions are recommended: 1. Implement/Review Patch Management Process Outdated versions of software were found both externally and internally, indicating a lack of a patch management process. Maintaining and updating a patch management program in accordance to NIST SP is a necessary component in reducing a company s attack surface. 2. Establish trust boundaries External and internal networks should be separated by different trust boundaries, with packet filtering controls at the nodes in order to reduce an attacker s access to company information. Separate segmented networks should be implemented for different departments within a company to mitigate the risk of an internal compromise having a cascading effect on the rest of the company. 3. Review file permissions and use least-privilege principle The shadow file was accessible because of incorrect file permission settings. Under a default configuration, the shadow file is not accessible to anyone other than the root user. Contents indicated two users with high privilege. Different restricted privilege accounts should be created for all users using the server in order to control impact if one is breached. 4. Conduct regular vulnerability assessments Regular vulnerability assessments are needed for the timely discovery and patching of new previously undiscovered vulnerabilities. For more information on operating an effective risk management program, please consult NIST SP 10 12 Risk Rating Because a direct path from a public structure to a confidential and internal part of the network was discovered during the penetration test, we have determined the overall risk rating for Business Solutions is High. There are multiple paths an external attacker could take in order to compromise internal resources which would impact the systems availability, integrity and confidentiality. 11 13 Appendix A: Risk Rating Scale In accordance with our internal risk assessment scale which follows the guidelines set forth in NIST SP800-30, vulnerabilities are categorized using the following rating system: Likelihood of threat event occurrence The following definitions are used when describing the likelihood of adversarial threat occurrence: Critical An adversary is almost certain to exploit the vulnerability and initiate the threat event. Minimal skill is required and/or automated tools are readily available to exploit. High An adversary is highly likely to exploit the vulnerability and initiate the threat event. Minimal skill is required. Medium An adversary is somewhat likely to exploit the vulnerability and initiate the threat event. Some skill required and/or favorable circumstances required. Low An adversary is unlikely to exploit the vulnerability and initiate the threat event. High level of skill and determination is required. Likelihood threat event results in adverse impacts The following definitions are used when describing the likelihood that vulnerability exploitation will have adverse impacts on the system: Critical If a vulnerability is exploited, it is certain it will have adverse impact on the system. High If a vulnerability is exploited, it is highly likely to have adverse impacts on the system. Medium Figure 1.0 Assessment Scale Overall Likelihood of Threat Event Occurrence Likelihood Threat Events Result in Adverse Impacts Low Medium High Critical Moderate High Critical High Moderate High Critical Medium Low Moderate High Low Moderate Low Manage by routine process Moderate Mark as Priority High Immediate Attention Required Critical Execute mitigation strategy immediately 12 14 Appendix B: Vulnerability Details and Mitigation Patch Management Process Rating: Description: Impact: Mitigation: High Both external and internal networks contained unpatched software. An outdated ProFTP server allowed us access to the internal network where we were able to pivot to access an unpatched Windows XP host. A combination of high impact public exploits and low impact undiscovered vulnerabilities in the software allowed us access to confidential employee data. The patch failures in both instances indicates an absence of a complete patch management plan including process and execution. Both internal and external network hosts must be constantly kept up to date with vendor security patches. This can be accomplished through third party tools for large environments. For more information, please refer to NIST SP File Permissions Rating: Description: Impact: Mitigation: High The shadow file in the external host was readable by the www-data user. The shadow file in the deployed Debian server stores all the salt and password hashes for the user accounts in the system. It is used for user authentication, and therefore should not be readable by anyone other than root. Access to this file will supply malicious attackers with password hashes which, if recovered, will lead to root control of the server and potentially other systems if the credentials are reused. Shadow file permissions should be set to 400 to disable anyone but root to be able to read the file. Least Privilege Principle Rating: Description: Impact: Mitigation: High Analysis of the Windows XP password hashes revealed the current user has local administrative rights. Having only a single account with administrative rights means there was no need for further local privilege escalation. Once the host was compromised we had complete read, write and execution control over any and all files within system. All hosts should be set up using the least privilege principle, in which a user should be given no more privilege than absolutely required to do their job. This way, if the restricted account is compromised, the attacker will have to further escalate privileges in order to have control of the system 13
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Metasploit ing the target machine is a fascinating subject to all security professionals. The rich list of exploit codes and other handy modules of
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The role of the chief financial officer (CFO) has been evolving for some time, from hindsight report generation to forward-looking advisor, business innovator, and change agent. During the pandemic, many finance leaders took ownership of large-scale digital transformation efforts––a trend that is only accelerating. Indeed, a central lesson learned through the challenges of the past two years is the advantage of being able to rapidly adapt an organization to minimize the impact, or avoid altogether, the effects of disruption. Even as we move into a post-pandemic world, disruptive events are here to stay––increasing in both severity and frequency. At the same time, new business models are emerging, such as the subscription economy and service-based experiences like platform-as-a-service (PaaS), that require significant changes to financial and operational models.
Taken together, the need to adapt and overcome disruption and the opportunity presented by emerging business models offer a clear justification of why organizations––and in particular the futurist, change-making CFO––must develop flexibility and adaptability to achieve resilience. This point has not gone unnoticed. According to McKinsey, only 11 percent of companies believe their current business models will be economically viable through 2023, while another 64 percent say their companies need to build new digital businesses to help them get there.1 Despite having so much at stake, many finance leaders face roadblocks on the journey to become more agile. Therefore, this blog looks at 3 forces driving adaptability for CFOs with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance.
1. Modernize enterprise resource planning solutions
The first force driving adaptability is the modernization of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Recent technological advances, such as the shift from the rigid structures of monolithic ERP to highly adaptable, composable business applications, are a primary benefit driver of ERP modernization. This is perhaps one reason that, according to Gartner®, by 2023, organizations that have successfully renovated their ERP platforms will achieve at least a 40 percent improvement in IT agility to deliver business outcomes.2 This will not surprise companies that had completed ERP modernization before or during the pandemic. These businesses grew US corporate equity, assets, and profit ten times faster than corporate debt during the 21 months of the pandemic3––proving that savvy companies, boosted by digital transformation, can rapidly pivot to new sales and services models.
Dynamics 365 Finance offers businesses standardized capabilities on a composable ERP platform. Plus, it can function as both a stand-alone solution, allowing organizations to avoid costly rip-and-replace of legacy technology or as a tightly integrated and extensible system. As CFOs look to modernize existing ERP solutions as a path to unlocking adaptability, Dynamics 365 is enabling the transformation and improving IT agility to embrace new business models.
Learn more in our recent blog: Dynamics 365 breathes composability into enterprise resource planning modernization.
2. Enable a real-time, single source of truth
Though expensive to maintain and resource-intense to customize, legacy ERP often becomes highly customized and fragmented as businesses grow and add new solutions, such as customer relationship management (CRM) or warehouse management systems (WMS). These additions are disparate and disconnected from a central ERP, leaving data silos that are difficult to integrate and reconcile. Without unified data available in real-time across the organization, finance leaders can remain stuck in the function of economic guardians and unable to rise to the role of business innovators.
Dynamics 365 Finance is built on a modern, open platform that can be easily connected to both legacy internal solutions and modern, cloud-based systems via RESTful APIs. This flexibility and extensibility serve to unlock adaptability, automate data harmonization, and create a single source of truth. Ultimately, this allows finance teams and the broader organization to confidently make quicker, data-first decisions.
3. Deliver AI-driven insights
As we have discussed previously, AI is poised to transform the finance function. The core set of financial management processes that support the work of every organization are often highly manual, making them slow to innovate and challenging to transform. While progress has been made through automation, specific tasks, like predicting when a customer will pay an invoice or creating an intelligent cash flow forecast, require more person-hours than are available in a month, let alone on demand. This is because these tasks require comprehensive knowledge of large, complex data sets––a job ideally suited to the application of AI and machine learning.
Dynamics 365 Finance recently announced the general availability of finance insights, a set of AI-powered capabilities that help companies improve the efficiency and quality of financial processes by leveraging intelligent automation. Finance insights provide three new financial management tools: customer payment insights, cash flow forecasting, and budget proposals. When combined with Dynamics 365 Finance, these tools improve business decision-making by delivering AI-driven business insights that are clearer and faster while also improving operational efficiency by utilizing intelligent automation.
Take a deeper look in our webinar with special guest R “Ray” Wang from Constellation Research, Inc., to learn how analytics, automation, and AI can help you achieve financial dexterity.
Maximize financial visibility and profitability
As we have seen here, businesses and the finance leaders who support them need the right technology solutions to drive adaptability if they are to thrive in an era of disruption and to capitalize on emerging trends, such as PaaS, direct-to-consumer (DTC), and the subscription economy. To this end, we walked through three forces that are driving adaptability for CFOs with Dynamics 365 Finance: modernizing ERP systems, enabling a real-time, single version of truth, and delivering AI-driven insights.
To learn more about how Dynamics 365 Finance can help your organization maximize financial visibility and profitability in our new normal, check out our webinar with special guests from The Adecco Group. You can also see Dynamics 365 for yourself with a Manage Financial Risk Guided Tour today.
3- McKinsey & Company, 2022. The CEO agenda in 2022: Harnessing the potential of growth jolts.
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Sounds like you bought a wireless router. Those settings have to do with how secure your data is from people accessing your computer. You should use 128 bit WPA.
when using a wireless router, there are ways to prevent other users to access it. One of these ways is WEP, or Wired Equivalence Protocol, which is extremely insecure. You should try to find an option for WPA, which is a much better encryption method. To get it to work, select whichever method, WEP or WPA, and type in a pass-code that you will use to access your router. If your are going to use WEP, then the difference between 64 and 128 bit is the number of characters your passcodes have to be. But you should really go with WPA, which is a 8 to 30 key password of your choosing. Good Luck
I've had too many issues with WEP and WPA in the past so I just don't bother.
How do I know if it is WEP or WPA? As Singer said, the laptop isn't any sort of encrypted.
The encryption is in the signal coming from your wireless router.
WEP and WPA are both encryption methods for the signal.
Modify the settings so that you are NOT broadcasting your SSID (that's the default router name).
What this does is show that there is a signal, but the name on the signal is not shown, so the only way to get on the router is to have the name in-hand.
Thanks for the info guys. I did most of this last night and I think I am ok now. The only thing I did not do is change the default user and password on the router.
I need to figure out how to do that.
GENERALLY SPEAKING - there is a default IP address that can be used to access the router menu.
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Charles Eagan: Canadian organizations are demonstrating intense growth in their awareness of the need to secure their data. They’re beginning to understand the complexity of security issues as well as their global and shareholder responsibility to protect data, and they’re reaching out to experts more.
Recent mass privacy breaches have raised public awareness of the importance of transparency and responsible stewardship when it comes to how companies manage data.
MP: What do you think is the biggest misconception preventing company executives from understanding the importance of developing a cyber resilience strategy?
CE: It’s a complex topic that I think many executives aren’t sure how to approach. I think the biggest misconception is the belief that as long as organizations have a strong security posture, they’re safe. There’s a certain amount of complacency, likely grounded in the common bias of optimism — a fallacy of invincibility. Executives don’t realize how exponential growth in connected products is making them more vulnerable to cyber intrusion by the day. A strong cyber resiliency strategy includes both recognizing the inevitability of an attack as well as developing a plan to ensure the business can maintain critical functions and quickly return to normal in the face of intrusions.
MP: According to Statista, the number of connected mobile devices is expected to rise to 31.9 million by 2019. As more organizations start to adopt smart technology into their enterprise operations, how will this increase affect enterprise security?
CE: The rapid expansion of the vast global network of IoT connected devices makes cyber intrusion inevitable. All of these connected smart devices and access to those devices become targets with every connected node exponentially increasing the security risk of a network. If a single endpoint in a smart system is unprotected, the entire system is at risk. With this smart world comes a lot more exposure. It can be managed, but it will require that organizations up their games in terms of securing every endpoint.
MP: How can leveraging machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology optimize enterprise security?
CE: Maturing ML and AI technologies are giving rise to new possibilities for cyber threat protection. ML and AI allow us, for instance, to automatically flag unusual patterns and enable the detection of network problems and cyber attacks in real-time.
These technologies are being developed to recognize patterns in our environment and apply complex analytics that will supply deeper insights and greater security.
While the technology is still developing, rapid advances in the science mean we’re getting closer to the end of the flawed model of traditional passwords by replacing them with a digital identity that’s functionally impossible to clone.
MP: What do you see as some of the biggest cyber resilience pain points that company executives should keep on their radars over the next couple of years?
CE: Once awareness has been achieved, CIOs and company executives will face challenges in finding a workforce with the skillset required to support their strategy. It’s been widely reported that there’s a visible talent shortage across the sector, with demand continuing to exceed supply for highly-specialized IT, strategic planning, and cybersecurity skills needed to supply resilience across organizations.
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Follow @infoworld Print| ‹ previous page 123 A couple of improvements that arrived with Version 7.0 are worth noting. First, the multiple client-side agents that facilitated different levels of attack in previous versions of Impact have been replaced by a single, do-everything agent. Still in-memory (on by default), the client agent can now use all network connections through a single listener port, providing a greater degree of flexibility to bypass firewalls and other security devices. The agent also now supports runtime plug-ins that open the door for customized, client-side actions such as patching, installing security software, and gathering forensic information.
Version 7.0 also added support for FreeBSD as a target OS, a long-overdue addition, as well as full pivoting from Vista machines -- the ability to attack additional machines from compromised Vista targets.
Core Impact's automated penetration testing is still quick and effective, and because Impact is not a network vulnerability scanner, its tests are 100 percent free of false positives, which is the primary reason we consider it an essential testing tool. Version 7.5's redesigned attack wizards, enhanced user interface, upgraded agent, and Web application attacks are significant improvents to an already compelling product that can help you improve your organization's security posture by compromising both the machines that reside on your network and the people that use those machines on a daily basis. | http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/product-review-core-impact-penetration-tester-goes-phishing-390?page=0,2 |
This webinar is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively assess health and safety risks in their workplace.
The webinar will focus on the key factors that are critical to conducting a successful risk assessment. This involves identifying hazards, assessing the likelihood and severity of potential harm, and implementing appropriate control measures to mitigate risks. Participants will learn how to identify and prioritize risks, determine the performance level of a system, determine appropriate control measures, and evaluate the effectiveness of their risk assessment and control strategies.
By the end of the webinar, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and have a solid understanding of the key factors necessary for conducting a successful health and safety risk assessment, as well as the skills and knowledge needed to apply these principles in their own workplace. | https://pmcorp.com/events/key-factors-for-implementing-a-successful-health-and-safety-risk-assessment/ |
This hit the headlines a few weeks ago. Though this kind of email is exactly the kind of thing a bad actor would send, it destroys trust. There are much better ways of running targeted awareness and training campaigns (disclosure, I sell services in this area)…:
[…] Although the email may have realistically mimicked a cybercriminal, any business hoping to replicate West Midlands Trains should be wary of promising bonuses it has no intention of paying.
Discreet Law consultant solicitor and employment lawyer Elena Cooper warns that the rail company could be set to “suffer a glut of breach of contract claims”, depending on the wording of its original email.
“There’s a whole argument around contracts, offer and acceptance but, depending on how the email was worded, it could be suggested the employer is formally offering a bonus,” she says. “While I don’t think the employees could win a breach of contract claim, they could certainly argue that a promise has been made and now it is being removed.”
Repost: Still using Basic Auth? Not only is it a bad idea, but your going to be forced to migrate to OAuth so you might as well move now...:
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Radware's Attack Mitigation System Chosen to Protect Multiple Datacenters in the U.S. and Abroad June 09, 2014 05:30 ET
| Source: Radware Ltd. MAHWAH, N.J., June 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radware® (Nasdaq:RDWR), a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, announced it has received a multi-million contract from a global cloud provider for its Attack Mitigation System (AMS), a real-time, behavioral based attack mitigation solution.
AMS' multi-layered solution with Radware's DefensePro® and APSolute Vision® at the core, can protect against large scale and increasingly complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks without impacting legitimate traffic and offers a monitoring and reporting solution that provides real-time identification, prioritization and response to policy breaches, cyber-attacks and insider threats.
Through a lengthy evaluation period that compared anti-DDoS services of other vendors, Radware was selected for its robust features and ability in mitigating various types of cyber attacks. The global cloud provider will deploy the AMS to help protect more than a dozen of its datacenters around the world.
"Our customer has ramped up their global presence and required an effective cyber security solution that can mitigate a wide range of attacks on a much greater scale," says Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions, Radware. "Our customer's success as a global cloud provider is based on the effectiveness of our security product. Our attack mitigation solution will help our customer maintain business continuity and network performance while combating virtually any threat they may face."
Additional benefits that Radware's customer will enjoy is a smaller appliance footprint that is scalable with license upgrades for throughput and a single management application to manage multiple units across multiple data centers, thus saving the organization from additional capital expenditures in the future.
"This type of anti-DDoS protection is paramount for cloud providers. As the infrastructure is shared between multiple clients, a single DDoS attack can put the entire platform at risk affecting those who may not have been directly targeted," added Herberger. "This is the type of investment in security that each and every cloud provider should never second guess."
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Radware (Nasdaq:RDWR), is a global leader of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications, maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
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237 posts since Dec 2012 Reputation Points: -2 [?] Q&As Helped to Solve: 8 [?] Me. Visible = False() or if you want to make it be invisible when you have pressed a certain key then your code should look like this. If certainkeypressed Then
That it and I'm sure you can see that you will have to change the certainkeypressed to that key you want. Hope this answered your Question. Start4me Junior Poster 144 posts since Jun 2011 Reputation Points: 0 [?] Q&As Helped to Solve: 1 [?] Skill Endorsements: 0 [?] -2 1 Year Ago Thanks for your reply mr hacker. Well according to your title you want to make the keyloger be invisible and if I take a look at your code it like you want it to be invisible when a certain key(s) is/are pressed. so there are many ways to make a program be invisible. first if you were asking on just making it invisible when you running it you just need to enter this code on Form load. I would like to clarify what I want. When I run the program, and type anything, the text is shown in the label. However, I want to the program to work when for example I work in Word Document, so the program wont be running on top anymore, but will still update the label while I'm typing in Word. Skill Endorsements: 2 [?] 0 1 Year Ago Ok I think I get you now, you want the keyloger to be invisible but do take keys pressed. Well in that case it so very simple there are 2 ways that I know you can do that. The first way is to make your program be ontop most and then make it be invisible by clicking the form(s) and go to properties then on the forecolor choose Trnansparent then on the BackColor also choose Transparent or Black color But black color do show a form incase it not responding so I prefere you use the Transparent. Now on your TextBox where you will be using to capture the logs select it and go to Properties make it be invisible then all the job left now is on the timer that you will be using to regord the pressed keys this has to record the selected key at the right time. You can also make the program be invisible but make sure the timer that will be recording the pressed keys is started on Form Load then now all matters for you keyloger to record the pressed keys is that it has to be running it dosn't metter whether it visible or invisible. If you still have a problem please post that potion of code you have a problem on so that I and other members will be able to help you. Mr.M Posting Whiz in Training
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PSA and USAV, a division of PSA, are proud to be champions of a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. This collaborative effort among businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, associations, nonprofit organizations and individual commitment aims to empower everyone to own their role in protecting their part of cyberspace.
The overarching message of this year’s theme, “If you Connect it, Protect it,’ dives into the importance of keeping connected devices safe and secure from outside influence, a campaign PSA has been championing through various efforts including cyber-focused events and our MSSP Program. More than ever before, connected devices have been woven into society as an integral part of how people communicate and access services essential to their professional and personal well-being. Data collected from these devices can detail highly specific information about a person or business which can be exploited by bad actors for their personal gain. Cybersecurity Awareness Month aims to shed light on these security vulnerabilities. Over the course of October, PSA will offer guidance surrounding simple security measures to limit the susceptibility of threats to commonly used devices and advocate to our members the importance of cybersecurity for themselves, their customers and their vendors.
For more information about Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 and how to participate in a wide variety of activities, visit staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month. You can also follow and use the official hashtag #BeCyberSmart on social media throughout the month.
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PSA and USAV are releasing an interactive campaign to ensure our members are on the right track towards taking accountability of their connected devices. This four-step campaign will allow our members to assess their current cybersecurity status and explore areas to expand their own company’s protection. One participating member will be randomly selected to win one (1) free registration to PSA TEC and a $100 Nike gift card, a grand prize package valued at over $1500 USD.
First, are we asking people to take the free “light” version of Defendify’s cybersecurity assessment tool, or to sign up for our free Essentials package, then run a quick Cybersecurity Health Checkup (this should take about 15-45 minutes to complete).
Next, submit your score anonymously in the form below. PSA will use this data to gain a better understanding of where our member base stands when it comes to cyber protection.
After learning where you and your company grade in terms of cyber-protectiveness, attend a webinar on October 21st hosted by PSA and USAV with cybersecurity experts Defenidfy and Esentire. This webinar will show you next steps for protecting your business’s important data.
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If you are watching the news in your social media feed, you are more than likely seeing alerts on the increase of ransomware attacks.
As reported by SecurityBoulevard, and according to cybersecurity experts, ransomware attacks have increased 40% to 199.7 million cases globally in Q3 of this year, 2020.
As published on ComputerWeek.com, the coming 12 months will bring increasingly aggressive cybercrime activities as malicious actors continue to pivot their ransomware attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration, and with much of the workforce remaining at home until the second quarter at least, the cybersecurity challenges that were amplified by Covid-19 will persist for the time being. | https://fifthwallsolutions.com/insights_ransomware_12_2020/ |
System Security is latest rogue antispyware application, clone of Winweb Security. System Security can usually appear after downloading and installing video codec which came with Vundo Trojan. Once System Security get in touch with your pc it will generate numerous pop-ups, fake alerts and inform computer user that system is infected with viruses and various Trojans, worms. Also System Security can perform spyware scan and state falsified results with one purpose – trick computer users into buying licensed version .
But remember System Security is useless software and don’t worth a penny. We advise you to remove System Security using CyberDefender. | https://malwareremoval.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/remove-system-security/ |
Dixons Carphone has admitted a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. It has begun investigating the hacking attempt, which it said happened in the past year.
Dixons Carphone said it had no evidence that any of the cards had been used fraudulently following the breach. It said 5.8 million of the credit and debit cards had chip-and-pin protection and that pin codes had not leaked.
As a result, about 105,000 non-EU cards, which were not chip-and-pin, had been compromised, it said. The hackers had tried to gain access to one of the processing systems of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores, the firm said.
Dixons Carphone chief executive Alex Baldock said it was “extremely disappointed” by the data breach and “sorry for any upset”, “The protection of our data has to be at the heart of our business, and we’ve fallen short here.
“We’ve taken action to close off this unauthorised access and though we have currently no evidence of fraud as a result of these incidents, we are taking this extremely seriously,” he added.
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Last week, news began circling around that VLC was being abused by hackers to inject some malware. The issue came to light after Symantec published a report on its Security Threat Intelligence blog.
The Broadcom-owned company, which makes Norton Antivirus, revealed that a group of hackers, which it claims are affiliated to the Chinese government, were conducting cyber-espionage campaigns targeting organizations across the world.
Symantec says that the campaign primarily targeted victims in government-related institutions or NGOs in education and religion, telecom, legal and pharmaceutical sectors. The malware attack campaign, called Cicada or APT10, was first tracked last year. It was active in February 2022, and could still be ongoing. Attackers are targeting victims via Microsoft Exchange Servers in unpatched system deployments, to gain access to their machines. The hackers use various tools in addition to a custom loader, and a backdoor called Sodamaster.
One of these tools is a modified version of the popular open source media player, VLC. Symantec’s Security Threat Intelligence blog mentions the following statement.
“The attackers also exploit the legitimate VLC Media Player by launching a custom loader via the VLC Exports function, and use the WinVNC tool for remote control of victim machines.”
This statement’s wording is quite confusing, and was misinterpreted by some blogs, who wrote that VLC is vulnerable and that hackers are using it to launch malware attacks. This is not correct, VLC is not the reason for the malware attacks like these websites allege. The rest of the report should be taken into context.
The second section of the report (highlighted in the image) mentions that attackers needed access to the victim machines, before they could launch the malware attack. This was confirmed by a member of Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team, in a statement released to Bleeping Computer. They said that some hackers took the clean version of VLC, added a malicious DLL file to it and distributed it, aka DLL side-loading. This file is located in the same folder as the export function’s path, and is used by the attackers to launch a custom malware loader.
Yes, it is. As long as you download VLC from the official website (or a trustworthy site), your computer should be safe from malware, because it does not contain the malicious DLL File used in these attacks.
When you download a program from a third-party site, and that website had stealthily embedded some files into the package, it is no longer an official release from the developer. It becomes a modified version that could potentially be malicious. When such files get circulated, people who use them are at the risk of attacks. Hackers use various tricks such as malvertising, e.g. use a popular program’s icon to convince people into thinking they are downloading the original file, while in fact they are downloading a malware that could infect their system, and could even spread to other users. | https://allcom.se/2022/04/11/symantec-says-that-hackers-distributed-a-modified-version-of-vlc-and-exploited-it-for-malware-attacks/ |
The term “antivirus software” includes many different types of security protection. This is due to it can total av review be used to defend your computer against a variety of risks, including con apps and phishing strategies. Antivirus applications are essential for detecting viruses, earthworms, and other harmful software. In addition, it can also help to keep your computer safe while online. You should choose an malware software depending on your personal demands and tastes. You can read our antivirus program buying tips for learn more about different types of antivirus program available.
MacOS is relatively safe because Apple controls the app retailers. However , trojans can still complete. Malware designed to affect Microsoft windows computers also can infect the Mac, consequently be extra cautious when you’re downloading software. You can install antivirus software program through the Apple App Store or perhaps Google Play. Once you have downloaded the app, stick to the instructions provided in the installation process. Therefore, you can change its configurations to suit your needs. This article will help you choose the best anti virus for your Mac pc.
Antivirus software is available in the form of total subscriptions. They normally are sold in great, better, and best plans. Basic deals often come with features such as real-time virus cover, on-demand spyware and scanning, cloud storage, password manager, system optimization, and enhanced customer service. Many antivirus security software vendors also offer discounts for multiple-year subscriptions. Antivirus computer software can sluggish the device. Yet , many of the popular antivirus packages cost as few as $40 every year and can give protection to your gadgets from various viruses. | https://snowcamp.bg/malware-software-selecting-guide-for-mac-os-x/ |
McAfee today announced increased focus and updated security solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of today’s small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). According to AMI Research the worldwide market for security solutions in the Small and Mid-sized business segment is about $5.1B growing at a CAGR of about 9% annually*. McAfee will offer SMBs the same desktop and network protection as enterprises in an easy to manage solution that is priced for the cost constrained SMB budget.
SMBs are in a unique situation when it comes to defending themselves against the rising tide of cyber threats that cover the business and technology landscape. They can’t afford high-priced IT and security talent on site; they can’t afford a breach that threatens their very existence, and they know that the space they occupy is going to attract more, not less, attention from the hacker community. Additionally, the proliferation of mobile devices driven by the need for any time – any place access to company data and service is adding to the enormous challenge of keeping these companies secure with limited IT resources.
“SMBs face the challenge of increased threats including spam, phishing, viruses and Web attacks that can easily disrupt the network and the livelihood of the business,” said Steve Redman, President, McAfee Asia Pacific & World-Wide SMB Strategy Lead. “Without constant updates, security software becomes obsolete. Keeping the business continuously up to date requires total protection against known and unknown threats. McAfee understands the unique needs of the SMB and has designed solutions to provide them with enterprise class security in an easy to manage format.”
SMB Channel Focus Millions of SMBs are in search of a trusted security advisor representing tremendous growth potential for McAfee and its partners. Over the past year, McAfee has made several strategic investments to provide channel partners the innovation, differentiation and simplicity required to accelerate growth and drive mutual profitability in the SMB market. McAfee provides partners a comprehensive SMB offering that includes: • McAfee Tailored SMB Solutions –From Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to on-premise suites covering email, Web, and endpoint security, McAfee provides custom designed solutions built specifically for the SMB. • McAfee SMB Specialization –Allows partners to take advantage of a full range of enablement tools, turnkey marketing programs, and exclusive profitability programs. Since the program launched nine months ago, McAfee has recruited over 2,000 SMB Specialized channel partners worldwide. • McAfee SMB Deal Registration – Offers partners up to 25% in enhanced margin and a four-hour approval commitment. Launched just nine months ago, the SMB Deal Registration program experienced a nearly 50% increase from the previous quarter in registered deals in Q1 2012. • McAfee Rewards – Compensates partner sales reps for selling qualified McAfee SMB products. For Q2 2012 the SMB Extravaganza Rewards program has tripled its payout for eligible SMB products. • McAfee SmartMarketing – Available in September, 2012, this new e-commerce marketing platform will allow McAfee partners to quickly and easily download and co-brand demand generation marketing assets, including the assets for the McAfee SMB solutions launched today. SMB Solutions McAfee security suites for SMBs safeguard a business’ desktops, file servers, and email servers—with the convenience and ease of maintenance of a single, integrated SaaS solution. With an eye towards the importance of the SMB space, McAfee has added significant functionality to the latest version of SaaS Endpoint, giving customers tremendous scheduling flexibility in the downloading of crucial security updates. This way, the updating process is not disruptive and takes place during off-peak hours. McAfee has taken a good, better and best approach to packaging the solutions for SMB customers and now provides the following suites: • McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite—Defends the devices on your network on all attack routes and is also available as a hybrid suite for those customers who wish to manage on-premises • McAfee SaaS Endpoint and Email Protection Suite— Adds protection from malicious email content before it enters the network, email continuity to ensure uninterrupted access to email, and client-side web category filtering • McAfee SaaS Total Protection Suite—Adds email encryption and pre-built compliance libraries to protect sensitive data and meet compliance requirements, and cloud-based web filtering for antivirus, antimalware, and category filtering to ensure unwanted content never makes it into the network • McAfee Endpoint Protection Essentials—A flexible and affordable endpoint protection solution designed exclusively for small and mid-sized businesses. It offers the freedom to deploy and manage endpoint security using cloud or on-premises or both. Provides essential protection with antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, and website safety ratings through the McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise feature. McAfee offers SMBs the same desktop and network protection as enterprises but without the complexity or cost. McAfee understands SMB constraints and has developed the most comprehensive security solutions in the industry. McAfee business security software delivers complete antivirus, antimalware, email protection, and other critical security designed for the SMB customer. For more information go to: www.mcafee.com/smb
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Antimalware Service Executable, also known as MsMpEng.exe, is a background process used by the built-in Windows 10 antivirus – Windows Defender.
What does the process do? Why is it causing high disk and CPU usage in Windows 10? How to disable it? Read more on the subject below.
What is Antimalware Service Executable (MsMpEng.exe) in Windows 10?
This particular process is Windows Defender’s main background service. It’ll exist and remain as a background process when your Windows Defender is active.
Its job is to scan the files in your computer for malwares and viruses, installing updates for Windows Defender, or anything else that has to do with Windows Defender.
Why is Antimalware Service Executable causing high disk and CPU usage?
When you open a program or access to a file, Windows Defender will scan the particular program or file you are about to open for malware. This will cause the MsMpEng.exe process to run at high resource usage for a short while, especially when the size of the file or program is very large. After the scan is completed, it will stop using any resource until its next task.
If the process continuously running at high disk / CPU usage, it could mean that Windows Defender is performing a regular scan, or is updating its virus definition. Usually, Windows Defender will perform the regular scan only when your computer is idle. But, in some cases, when the scan has started, it wouldn’t stop until it’s completed. You may want to just wait it out.
The point here is that it’s completely normal and fine for Antimalware Service Executable process to run in the background and using up resources to keep your PC from getting infected.
How to disable the MsMpEng.exe process?
Windows Defender will automatically be active when Windows 10 doesn’t find any other antivirus software running on your computer. Technically, to stop Windows Defender from running, you need to have a proper antivirus software installed, such as Avast, Kaspersky, Norton or McAfee.
When Windows detects any active antivirus software on your PC, it will switch itself off automatically. If it doesn’t, it will turn on its real-time protection to protect you from malwares.
Although we don’t recommend turning off Windows Defender, you can still disable it but only for temporary. You can’t just disable it permanently. No matter how many times you try to disable it, it will eventually turn itself back on. This is one of Microsoft’s measures to ensure that your computer is always under protection.
Click on the Open Windows Defender Security Center button.
Next, click on Virus & threat protection, then Virus & threat protection settings.
Under Real-time protection, click on the toggle button to toggle it off.
If you already have an existing antivirus software running on your PC, check if the periodic scanning option is switched on. If it is, Windows Defender will still perform the regular scan despite already having another active antivirus program in Windows 10.
To disable (or enable) the Windows Defender’s periodic scanning, refer to step 1-4 above. In the Virus & threat protection window, toggle off the Periodic scanning under Windows Defender Antivirus options.
Is MsMpEng.exe a virus?
No, the process is not a virus if it’s located at C:\Program Files\Windows Defender or C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform.
You can check it by going to Task Manager > Details tab > right-click on MsMpEng.exe > select Open file location. If it’s not in the mentioned directory or any trusted folder, you may want to run a scan with another antivirus to see if it’s a malware.
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Some 30,000 or so hard drives were scrapped and replaced with new ones last year on Saudi Aramco's internal corporate network after a massive cyberattack destroyed data on the oil and natural gas company's Windows machines. While the massive attack didn't directly affect Saudi Aramco's oil production and exploration systems, it raised the stakes for the increasingly targeted oil and gas industry and also raised concerns of possible market fallout from such attacks.
The oil and gas industry today is in the bull's eye of nation-states, hacktivists, and even cybercriminals, and, like other energy sectors, its industrial control systems are about a decade behind the security curve of the traditional IT environment. While Saudi Aramco said the attack was isolated to its corporate network and didn't directly affect its hydrocarbon exploration and production systems -- which run on isolated networks -- the reality is that a successful cyberattack could have ripple effects and ultimately result in real-world economic consequences in the oil and gas markets, security and oil and gas industry experts say. It could either directly or indirectly disrupt production, competition, and, ultimately, prices at the pump, they say. If Stuxnet were the tipping point for ICS/SCADA attacks, then the data-destruction attacks on Saudi Aramco and on Qatar's RasGas gas company last year represent a major shift from cyberspying on oil and gas companies to more widespread destruction of their operations.
"I wonder if that's their Estonia moment," says Richard Bejtlich, CSO at incident response provider Mandiant, who says his company has been getting more inquiries from Middle East organizations lately. "We're moving beyond the stage of, 'This is a problem, and how do we fix it?'"
A recent Council on Foreign Relations report warns that future cyberattacks on the oil and gas industry could threaten the competitiveness of the U.S. oil and gas industry, pointing to the Saudi Aramco, Qatar RasGas, and cyberespionage attacks on Chevron and other U.S. oil companies, as warning shots.
"Some damage was done in each of these cases, but the costs of future breaches could be much higher, whether to corporate assets, public infrastructure and safety, or the broader economy through energy prices. Successful cyberattacks threaten the competitiveness of the U.S. oil and gas industry, one of the nation’s most technically advanced and economically important sectors," the report said. "While intrusions previously focused on the theft of intellectual property and business strategies, the malware attack on Saudi Aramco reflects a worrying qualitative change toward attacks with the potential for causing physical disruptions to the oil and gas supply chain."
But a widespread energy catastrophe would be difficult to execute electronically. Plant systems, indeed, are not as well-fortified electronically as IT systems in many cases, but they also are not as homogenous, which actually makes them more difficult to penetrate on a larger scale. "There are adversaries trying to get to those systems," says Patrick Miller, president emeritus of EnergySec and managing partner at The Anfield Group. "But it's not like you get into one Windows [machine there] to get into [others]. It's difficult to cause widespread catastrophic damage. You can do pockets, like Stuxnet [did]." That doesn't mean, however, that a high-profile targeted attack couldn't still incur some economic damage. "Any market has an element of confidence built into it. If you erode confidence in the supply or any of its elements," it could affect the market, he says. "A long and slow [attack] could cause quality issues with some of these ... it doesn't necessarily take a frontal assault to [hit] the bottom line. This is an ecosystem," he says.
Could gas prices be affected? "That's not even a stretch -- yes," Miller says.
But physical attacks against the energy sector are the biggest worries today, Miller says. "There's a greater opportunity for cyberattack than there was four or five years ago. The physical attack threat is constant," he says. "The ability to cause long-term catastrophic damage is far greater from a physical perspective."
Eyal Aronoff, co-founder of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, says cyberattacks on the oil and gas industry are more than just "a nuisance" anymore. The biggest threat, he says, is domestic terrorism, typically politically or economically motivated.
Aronoff maintains that the U.S. market is probably safest from economic injury because it's so decentralized, while centralized, government-run oil and gas providers in other nations are sitting ducks. "The U.S. is the most protected because there are hundreds of large companies -- billions of dollars in companies -- in this space ... they are all large enough to overcome any difficulties of a shutdown," he says. "However, companies like Pemex [in Mexico], centralized government companies, are great risk because of their centralized nature."
The combination of a physical and digital attack on a government-owned oil company could have long-lasting effects on the oil markets, such as temporary shortages and a price hit, he says. "That could be devastating and could last for very long time ... it would definitely affect prices at the pump and might create temporary shortages."
An engineer for a U.S. oil and gas company who requested anonymity says the chances of a cyberattack affecting petroleum production and gas prices in the U.S. are "pretty slim."We should prepare and mitigate for it, but the [chances] are still slim," he says. "It would have to be a really big facility" hit that would result in driving up gasoline prices, he says. "And even big plants are somewhat divided into individual units," which decentralizes the target, he says.
The U.S. has fairly diversified production, he says, with pipelines "moving around," so the supply issue wouldn't be as much of a risk. It would more likely result in bad PR and embarrassment for the breached company, he says, which could have a ripple effect on the stock market, for instance.
"There is more flexibility in supply," he says. But there are exceptions: "There are a couple of facilities of offshore crude [oil] that, if taken down, would cause major problems," he says.
A lesser-understood and more insidious threat is the manipulation of the oil trading market by nefarious actors, the Freedom Fuel Foundation's Aronoff says. "Jacking up the price of gas can cause a recession in the U.S.," he says.
Some anomalies in the oil market have raised concerns that organized cybercrime may be attempting to manipulate the market for profit, EnergySec's Miller notes. "There have been some minor situations where just oddities have happened, and the market has reacted ... My Spidey sense is that the blips we're seeing are those parties seeing how the market would react to certain situations."
Miller says the end game could be bankrupting a company, or "devaluing" one. "You might see the transfer of wealth across international borders. If you wanted to buy a company, you would devalue them" surreptitiously and then buy them, he says.
[Old-school but painful data-destroying malware attacks in the Middle East a red flag to revisit incident response, recovery. See The Data-Annihilation Attack Is Back.] Meanwhile, there's the Iran factor. The reported U.S. involvement in Stuxnet and its destruction of the Natanz nuclear facility's centrifuges could come back to haunt it, experts worry. Cyberespionage against oil and gas firms by the Chinese could be just the calm before the storm: "Say what you will about the Chinese and their cyberactivity, but they are very polite in at least they only steal data. I'm a little worried if Iran turns around and says, 'It's payback time,'" says Nick Levay, CSO at Bit9. "It's pretty easy to break into organizations."
Levay says while some energy firms are working hard to close security holes in their infrastructures, others aren't there yet. And that leaves the door open for a determined adversary to do some damage, he says.
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"All frames must be delivered to a node on the local network segment. If the destination IPv4 host is on the local network, the frame will use the MAC address of this device as the destination MAC address. If the destination IPv4 host is not on the local network, the source node needs to deliver the frame to the router interface that is the gateway or next hop used to reach that destination. The source node will use the MAC address of the gateway as the destination address for frames containing an IPv4 packet addressed to hosts on other networks. The gateway address of the router interface is stored in the IPv4 configuration of the hosts. When a host creates a packet for a destination, it compares the destination IP address and its own IP address to determine if the two IP addresses are located on the same Layer 3 network. If the receiving host is not on the same network, the source uses the ARP process to determine a MAC address for the router interface serving as the gateway."
There are circumstances under which a host might send an ARP request seeking to map an IPv4 address outside of the range of the local network. In these cases, the device sends ARP requests for IPv4 addresses not on the local network instead of requesting the MAC address associated with the IPv4 address of the gateway. I notice that routers will use this particular circumstance but never "End Devices like PC's, I always see the end device PC Target IP Default Gateway if the Destination IP is not Local. But I always see routers, Target IP Destination IP Regardless of Local or Remote.
The Router has acted as a 'Proxy' for 192.168.1.100
A 'Proxy APR' is when a Host or a Router responds to a ARP Request that arrives from one of its connected networks, for a host that is on another of its connected networks.
E.g. a Host on Network 172.122.1.0 want to send a Packet to 192.168.1.100, but doesn't have the MAC Address. The ARP Req arrives at the Default Gateway and the Router has the 192.168.1.0 Network connected to another port (or knows the next hop to get to the 192.168.1.0 Network), so it forwards that ARP Req and gets a response from 192.168.1.100. The Router than forwards the reply back to the Host on its 172.122.1.0 Network. | https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/comment/1068371 |
In the field of ERP solutions, data security has been becoming an increasing area of concern.
With the proliferation of online systems, the threat of hackers accessing and making public your company’s private information is a genuine concern. Not only is it a source of public embarrassment, but your company is faced with the potential liability of an excellent or detrimental court case. Tactics include sending phishing emails, ransomware, keyloggers, fake WAPs, baits and switches, eavesdropping, Trojan horses, and many more. Faced with the myriad of methods, how does one protect their company’s reputation from data breaches and other embarrassing and damaging hacker attacks?
2. Open Source or Closed Source Software
Another thing you must decide is whether to use open source or closed source software. In closed source software, the software’s source code is not publicly available. Examples of this are SAP, Microsoft and Oracle.
In open-source software, the source code is made publicly available. Traditionally, it was thought that closed source software was generally safer from data breaches because the source code has not been made public. However, open-source software has a more significant community of users and programmers who find faults and can put up patches which, over time, makes the software more secure.
Right now, I believe that both closed and open-source software have a decent level of data security that can be used for the modern enterprise. Still, it pays to go with a reputable name, and if you plan to use open-source software, I would recommend one with a long history, so weak points and flaws can be ironed out.
3. Define User Access Properly
Software aside, your data security can be sabotaged by poorly defined user access rights. Decide who should get which right. If your policy is too loose, work with your software vendor to tighten it up.
Data access rights should also be divided into at least three categories; read-only, export-permitted and full access (including editing). Give only what is needed and always make sure the log is recording.
4. Implementing the System
When implementing a system, your company is vulnerable to data breaches. To give you a metaphor, this like a hermit crab moving from one smaller shell to a larger, better one. Moving is a moment of vulnerability where the crab (your data) is essentially shell-less.
We recommend that you have not only an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with your vendor- but you also monitor the data migration process to ensure that once data has been exported and migrated into the new system, the exported CSV or Excel file is deleted and the recycle bin emptied. We also recommend that your UAT data should not be stored in your vendor’s server but erased to eliminate the possibility of data exposure to other parties.
5. Define Company Data Ground Rules
Set precise data handling ground rules and make sure your company’s staff are aware and compliant with these rules. Rules can be simple such as ‘Don’t send data via email without first putting password encryption on the file. The password should be relayed with the recipient via another medium such as over the phone, etc.’.
You can also have reminders to reset staffs’ login credentials regularly with strong passwords to lower the risk of an overall security breach. Every company is different, so you have to decide with your management how you would like to set your ground rules, so your data is safe, but productivity doesn’t grind to a halt.
6. Review Systems and Audit
Make it a regular habit to review your company’s system in a regular audit. Doing this can help you find loopholes in your security and getting a security consultant can help you see weaknesses you never imagined. You can also, develop queries to help you monitor the ERP data usage and set alerts for anomalies.
7. Update your software regularly
People often do not see the need to update their software, so most software updates are ignored. Many companies are not using the latest version of their ERP system. Without these updates, companies are not receiving the maximum protection for their data which leaves them susceptible to hacking. | https://www.tigernix.com/home/blog/data-security-age-connectivity |
Security Technologies: authentication; authorization models and mechanisms; auditing and intrusion detection; cryptographic algorithms, protocols, services, and infrastructure; recovery and survivable operation; risk analysis; assurance including cryptanalysis and formal methods; penetration technologies including viruses, Trojan horses, spoofing, sniffing, cracking, and covert channels.
Fundamentals: theory of security and privacy; models of trust; methods for quantifying the risk of the disclosure of private information or the risk a system will be compromised; mechanisms and algorithms that have wide application, including privacy models (e.g. k-anonymity based models and knowledge hiding models), and methods of secure communication with various properties (e.g. non-repudiation or forward secrecy).
Secure Systems: secure operating systems, database systems and networks; secure distributed systems including security middleware; secure web browsers, servers, and mobile code; specialized secure systems for specific application areas; interoperability, and composition.
Privacy Methods: methods to offer location privacy; anonymization techniques for users and their data; statistical disclosure control techniques; private information retrieval; protocols for secure multiparty communications, protecting confidential consumer data, and the like.
Security and Privacy Applications: threats, system tradeoffs, and unique needs of applications; representative application areas include information systems, workflows, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, electronic commerce, electronic cash, electronic voting, copyright and intellectual property protection, telecommunications systems, wireless systems, and health care. Design of security and privacy (user experience and usability).
Privacy and Security Policies: confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, usage, and survivability policies; tradeoffs, conflicts and synergy among security and privacy objectives. | http://www.guide2research.com/journal/acm-transactions-on-information-and-system-security |
The latest evolution of phishing emails includes QR codes as hackers look to maximize the potential of their campaigns.
A new report from cybersecurity researchers SecurityHQ claims to have observed a “significant increase” of such “quishing” emails in these past couple of months. The premise is simple - the majority of today’s email service providers are doing a relatively good job at filtering out emails with malicious URLs inside.
However, they’re not doing as good of a job on the mobile platform, and they can’t scan QR codes, making this a unique vulnerability for hackers to exploit.
Quishing
So, in practice, a victim would get a phishing email containing no links. Instead, right beside the call to action (or in the signature) will be a QR code in a .JPG or a .PNG file which can pass any email security tools.
Even the victim wouldn’t see the link, which is usually the best way to spot a phishing site. They would scan the QR code with their mobile phone, and would be redirected to a malicious landing page, where they’d either be enticed to download something (like malware), log in to a service (giving away their sensitive data to the attackers), or sign up for a service (yet again, giving away sensitive information).
Given the prevalence of email in both private and business environments, and the low cost of sending out emails, phishing remains the number one attack vector for most threat actors.
With phishing emails, which usually impersonate a popular brand, or a person of trust, the attackers try to create a sense of urgency and have the victim do something without taking a moment to think it through. That can be either a limited discount offer, a threat of account termination, or a parcel being returned soon.
The usual goal of phishing is to have the victim grant the attackers access to their accounts or endpoints, either by downloading and running malware, or by sharing login credentials through phishing landing pages. | https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/watch-out-that-qr-code-could-just-be-a-phishing-scam |
Do you like thrilling movies like “The Man Who Knew Too Much” by Alfred Hitchcock or “96 Hours” by Frédéric Schoendoerffer? What both films have in common is the nerve-wracking story about the kidnapping of a family member. Do you find yourself taking the side of the good guys, praying and keeping your fingers crossed that they will set their most valuable treasure free and get them back alive? Well, then you are very close to what some companies had to experience as well with seeing sensitive business data being taken hostage by ransomware. Ransomware, as its name suggests, is malware designed to make a target’s data unusable or to prevent access to computer systems until a ransom is paid, usually in untraceable digital currency. It’s quick, lucrative – and very easy.
Imagine an ordinary working day at the office: You just started, working yourself through your inbox when you spot an official information from one of your business departments with an attached document. You are directed to a download link to access your files. You are not thinking about it because you know your company and your departments, so you just follow the instructions, download your file and open it. At some point later that day you notice that you are no longer able to access your systems and several files with a strange name have been created without your knowing. This is a critical moment because sensitive files on your device might have been encrypted. The truth is: Your files have been taken hostage and the only way to get them back is by paying a ransom.
Ransomware incidents have reached a new level of frequency and we expect the number to continue to increase. Affected companies are often willing to pay whatever sum is demanded so they can regain control and get back to business. It’s quite similar to families being willing to pay kidnappers whatever is required to release their loved ones – a copycat scenario if you will for the Cyber Security arena.
For our January Cyber Threat Bulletin we collected some examples of companies that were hit by such ransomware attacks and experienced varying consequences. Such as Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest hospital system operating 17 hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient centers, as well as psychiatric facility Carrier Clinic. The health system provider was targeted by a Cyber Attack in early December 2019, crippling its computer software systems for nearly five days. The attack impacted the hospital’s computer software systems, from scheduling and billing systems to labs and radiology. As a consequence, the medical teams had to reschedule approximately 100 non-emergency appointments and surgeries.
Galt, California municipal systems, also became a victim of ransomware. The city reported that the full extent of the damage is not known but both the email and the phone systems have been impacted. This includes all Sheriff’s office emails, posting of daily arrest affidavits, updates of jail booking photos, fingerprinting, background checks/criminal histories, distribution of case reports and traffic crash reports.
Last but not least, LifeLabs, a Canadian laboratory testing company, paid ransom money to get back the data of its 15 million customers – including names, addresses, emails, logins, passwords, date of birth, health card numbers (for health insurance) and even highly-sensitive lab test results.
Prepare yourself & keep your data and systems under control
Just like any other cyber threat, prevention is key to a proper defense for ransomware as well. Unlike other types of malware ransomware is extremely hard to detect and can be placed in your systems within seconds - with one file ore even one phone call that opens the door to your network. The best thing to start with is to develop and install the right cyber security (warning) system for your company. Make sure you have a backup strategy for any critical systems and data in place and practice a regular cyber security hygiene, e.g. update patches regularly, monitor your network activity and manage permission rights. Furthermore, train all employees on security threats and risks and how to deal with any type of incident.
Start your security journey today by staying up-to-date about the latest breaches, malware attacks and other incidents. Join us this month and read our latest Cyber Threat Bulletin to find out more about the latest cyber threats, and attacks and how to prevent them from happening in your company.
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(QESP Editor’s Note: The following is a reprint of a 01/02/2019 article in The Mandarin. The original, with Related Posts is available at https://go.pardot.com/e/272522/um-email-utm-source-newsletter/wfsnz/328597165?h=iU3-kiPb1UYYJXrvPRU2yofrP5POrHVHpURechmPRj4)
A new partnership between the federal government’s peak cyber security team and a professional association promises to improve cross-sector collaboration, and might also lead to more consideration of independent expertise in the development of public policy.
The most visible outcome of the deal between the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the Australian Information Security Association is a plan to merge their respective annual conferences into one big get-together in October.
AISA chair Damien Manuel says the new Australian Cyber Conference will be the largest on the sector’s events calendar, a “cornerstone piece for the region” that helps position Australia as a centre for cyber security research, industry innovation and professional collaboration.
The association says it hopes to “further strengthen Australia’s cyber security posture and achieve a cyber secure nation” through the new partnership. Skills development is one of the main ways it can help, in the view of ACSC chief Alastair MacGibbon, who doesn’t want his staff spending time on event management.
“A partnership with the ACSC allows us to take advantage of AISA’s well-established reach and experience delivering events that build the skills of current and aspiring cyber security professionals and providers in Australia, while the ACSC continues to focus on our core business of making Australia the safest place to live, work and play online through our cyber security resilience programs,” MacGibbon said in the statement.
The not-for-profit group welcomes members from academia, government and the private sector, and it has also been working more closely with the industry growth centre, AustCyber, of late.
Damien Manuel
“The membership is quite diverse,” said Manuel, the director of the Deakin University Centre for Cyber Security Solutions. “We have people who are academics in the cyber security space, we have people that are in the risk management space, people in the project management space, senior executives at large organisations, small business owners, and people from different government agencies that deal with cyber security and risk management.”
Of course, the AISA chair would welcome more participation from public servants, and not just those with deep technical expertise who have traditionally joined the 20-year-old association.
Manuel, one of many sharp critics of the government’s new powers to get around encryption, thinks the partnership agreement might also lead to better industry policy, and allow independent experts to have more input on legislation.
“It’ll enable the government to effectively have a cyber security outreach program that they can leverage through AISA and AustCyber and the ACSC to actually get a sense of the direction that the industry needs to move in, or some of the legislation that might need to be changed, or introduced as well,” he told The Mandarin.
He says policy development processes related to cyber security could definitely be improved and hopes they will, with the three organisations working more closely together.
“The other area I think that probably needs to be improved from a whole-ecosystem perspective is, a lot of organisations focus on security awareness; we really need to flip that dynamic to start focusing on behavioural change,” he added.
Manuel sees a need for more public information campaigns “to harden Australia to foreign countries’ influences, cyber scams and things like that” — something like the Slip, Slop, Slap campaign but for cyber security — and says the association is planning to ramp up its efforts to raise awareness in schools and the wider public.
“Security being such a broad topic now that impacts everybody, we need to be conscious that we don’t just talk to people who are in the sector, but also start to expand that messaging out to create an awareness change, and sort of a behavioural change in what people do online, to make sure that Australians as a whole are safe.”
As for the much-discussed skills gap in the sector, Manuel believes employers need to start accepting more new graduates and developing them, to meet the increasing demand for cyber security professionals.
“Everybody is time-poor, everybody is trying to achieve things very quickly, so it’s often easier to poach a known quantity from another organisation because you know that person has already got five or 10 years of industry or hands-on experience, rather than … getting some of the graduates and then investing time to bring them up to speed,” he said.
“So there’s that conversion problem, you could say, where industry needs to come to the table and say it is actually far cheaper for us to get graduates and grow them within the industry, as opposed to continually poaching them… which ultimately drives up the price that people pay for cyber security experts.”
A program of smaller professional events run by AISA will also become more accessible via the government’s network of Joint Cyber Security Centres, which were set up precisely to increase cross-sector collaboration.
“Those events will now start to appear in the JCSC locations around Australia, where there’s room capacity, which is also a great way to facilitate video link-ups because in the past, if we brought in a great speaker we had them in one city and we’d have to fly them around to the other cities,” said Manuel.
“Now we’re able to leverage the JCSC locations and we can do a multi-cast around Australia.”
He says AISA plans to make the conference accessible to parents by offering on-site child care, broaden discussions out to topics like mental health in cyber security, and bring in tertiary students from 20 institutions to compete in this year’s CySCA Cyber Security Challenge and “mix with others in the profession” at the same time.
The association is calling for speakers now and is keen to line up people from a relatively diverse range of personal and professional backgrounds, particularly women, who only make up about 12% of the cyber security industry, according to Manuel. Presenters are expected to be “vendor neutral” and focus on ideas rather than products. | https://qesp.org/article/infosec-professionals-join-acsc-to-improve-national-cyber-resilience-and-hopefully-policy/ |
PC users hoping to sell or donate their used computers should be forewarned: There is likely personal information remaining on them.
A recent Symantec examination of five used PCs purchased at pawn shops showed their previous owners failed to completely erase the hard drives, giving the research team access to sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, real estate transactions, bank account information and company directories.
"The key problem here is that customers don't view their computers as an extension of their wallets from the perspective of protecting their identity," said Eoghan O'Donnell, the company official responsible for transaction security in Symantec's Consumer Products and Solutions division. "Would you ever throw away your wallet without removing your money, bank and credit cards first? I don't think so."
Not surprisingly, Symantec said, more and more computer owners are choosing to dump their computers. According to the National Recycling Coalition, nearly 500 million PCs will be obsolete by next year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 80 percent of those computers will end up in landfills, Symantec said.
O'Donnell said users should be educated on the value of what is stored on computers. They must look at hard drives as their closets – whatever remains there will not disappear until it is cleaned – this time using deletion software.
"Over time, you collect tax returns, financial records, photographs, email – not to mention your computer records - everything you do while you're online," he said. | https://www.scmagazine.com/news/junked-pcs-another-source-of-personal-info |
The latest publication in a long line of reports drawing attention to the State Department’s failure to secure its information technology-dependent systems from cyberattacks reflects a general mismanagement of resources.
“Notwithstanding the expenditure of substantial resources by the Department,” reads a report State’s Office of the Inspector General released Wednesday, “the OIG continues to identify significant issues that put its information at risk.”
The report follows a Jan. 14 letter Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking what steps he’s taken to address the shortcomings detailed in previous IG reports. Warner put the letter in the context of a “long history of information breaches” at State and recent tensions with Iran.
The senator specifically noted an August OIG report that called attention to the absence of “two senior executive service positions responsible for cybersecurity” due to a hiring freeze, and a 2017 OIG report that stated the chief information officer was “not well placed to be held accountable for State Department Cybersecurity issues.”
The report out Wednesday reiterated the 2017 findings, noting “lapses in the performance of duties by Information Systems Security Officers persisted in FY 2019” and pointed to overseas posts where problems were more extensive.
In the Office of Foreign Missions, for example, “the lack of a fully implemented systems development lifecycle methodology” meant staff there was using a system that hadn’t been authorized for operation since 2013, the report said.
The report, which was a statement on the department’s “Major Management and Performance Challenges,” referenced the OIG’s 2019 Federal Information Security Management Act report, which reported weaknesses in all of eight metrics the IG used: risk management, configuration management, identity and access management, data protection and privacy, security training, information security continuous monitoring, incident response, and contingency planning.
And an independent auditor's report on State’s consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2018 and 2019, also released Wednesday, said, “We have reported weaknesses in IT security controls as a significant deficiency in each audit since our audit of the Department’s FY 2009 consolidated financial statements.”
The independent audit also found “significant deficiencies” in State’s financial reporting, budgetary accounting and intergovernmental revenue, among other things.
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Some of these will certainly sound familiar, but the point is to highlight threats that may be amplified in the cloud, as well as those that are unique to the cloud environment.
This CSA threats report is a true community effort. The working group had representatives from a broad range of cloud providers, infrastructure vendors, and cloud customers, including:
I represented Layer 7. I tackled Data Loss/Leakage, and performed some editorial of the paper as a whole. As working groups go, I can tell you that this one simply worked well. I’ve been involved with a number of standards groups in the past, this time we seemed to have all of the right people involved. The group converged on the key issues quickly and decisively. It was a good process, and I’m happy with the results.
We thing we did debate was how best to rate each threat. We finally agreed that the best approach was to let the community decide You may recall that last week I wrote an blog entry soliciting your input to help classify threat severity. Well, the results are in and they are certainly interesting. Perhaps not surprising, the threat of Data Loss/Leakage leads the community’s list of concerns, at around 28%. But what is more intriguing is that there really isn’t too much of a difference between the perceived impact of any threat on the list (all fall between around 8-28%). This is encouraging, as it suggests that we nailed the current zeitgeist in our list. It is just a little disconcerting that there remain seven significant threats to consider.
The latest survey results, and the threats paper itself, are available from the CSA web site. Bear in mind that is evolving work. The working group intends to update the list regularly, so if you would like to make a contribution to the cloud community, please do get involved. And remember: CSA membership is free to individuals; all you need to give us is your time and expertise.
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On Nov. 3, data-protection executives and experts convened at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for the 2016 Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) conference. The topic that carried the day was how to strengthen collaborative defense.
"[The ACSC] was very much started as a collaborative enterprise," William Guenther, chairman of the ACSC, said in his opening remarks. "The bad guys are doing better than the good guys; the bad guys collaborate better informally — and, sometimes, formally."
Consequently, Guenther noted, enterprises have begun sharing InfoSec threat intel themselves. But, he said, it has not been enough.
"Threat sharing: the notion was that sharing threats and looking at threat indicators and signatures of attackers was a critical part of collaboration and defense," said Guenther. "Threat sharing alone wasn't solving the problem, [however]."
Toward the end of his opening address, Guenther called upon all of the attendees and their organizations to create a template for collaborative practices — and strictly measure their actual performance against their respective templates.
"Do we do those things?" Guenther urged attendees to ask themselves. "And [who] is responsible for it?"
2. Take a Cloud's Eye View
"Eighty percent of that [cloud] infrastructure may be something that you don't have visibility into. So how do you know you can trust it?" warned Richard Puckett, vice president of cybersecurity and product & commercial security at GE Digital, in his keynote presentation at the conference, "Beyond Threat Sharing: The Case for 'Collaborative Defense.'"You have to think about cloud a little different. It's not infrastructure you wholly maintain [because] it's somebody else's computer."
Consequently, this requires having a cloud vendor that is willing to work with you instead of pigeonholing you into boilerplate SLAs that don't answer your specific needs. To this end, Puckett reported that, in Amazon Web Services SLAs, "The standard language is 72 hours" for AWS to issue a ticket.
"So for many of you, running critical [systems], is that acceptable?" said Puckett. "No."
Of course, collaborating with cloud providers goes beyond negotiating SLAs. It also goes to actual, ongoing collaboration on security — allowing your own people to get a better understanding of how your cloud solution works from the inside.
"We knew we couldn't do this without the cloud providers themselves," said Puckett. "It's fascinating . the speed at which these teams come together to solve problems, because once they came together, they had great ideas."We've taken people from our operations teams — whether that's in design, intelligence, security operations — [and] they do a day in the life of a cloud provider," explained Puckett, "so they know what the challenges and hurdles are in defending that environment."
Puckett went on to note that this practice is a two-way street involving bringing cloud provider people into your own operation.
3. Let Your Cloud Vendors Audit You
It is common for enterprise customers to ask their cloud providers about how they've performed on audits, if not audit the cloud providers themselves. According to Puckett, however, GE has learned that there is extra value to be had in turning the tables on yourself.
"The other thing we did was we stopped treating them like a vendor," said Puckett of GE's cloud providers. "We knew they were crucial to our survival . so we came up with the concept of a common scorecard. So the idea is [that] they get to measure us just as much as we get to measure them."
To be sure, if they are doing their jobs properly, vendors — cloud vendors included — are not just selling you a widget or a service; they are selling you a solution. Accordingly, your cloud vendors themselves should be a critical and proactive part of your cybersecurity solution. And a true solution requires hard truths.
"They're actually turning around and giving us a score," said Puckett, "and saying, 'You're not that good.'"
4. Turn Your Legal and Compliance Teams into Data Security Pros
Discussing barriers to information sharing during the session that followed Puckett's presentation, panelists spoke often about regulatory and other legal obstacles.
"Oftentimes there are barriers to sharing information post-incident," said Puckett as he participated on the panel. "At the tail end of it, there may be a lot of reluctance to expose [that information]. There may be regulatory reasons why you can't talk about it. "There will always be regulatory restraints," agreed co-panelist Michael Darling, a cybersecurity and privacy director at PwC. "But you can anonymize [the data]."
As valuable as your legal and compliance experts are, they can be made more valuable by empowering them with a little education and enlisting them as collaborators on your cybersecurity team.
"We've actually spent a lot of time [doing this]," said Puckett of GE. "The better educated your legal teams can be, [the better they] can actually help you tear [those obstacles] down a little bit as a group and get better intelligence."
Fellow panelist Mike Papay, vice president and CISO of Northrop Grumman, also reported that his own company involves legal teams — as well as external communication teams and even HR teams — to enhance both the cybersecurity and the compliance perspective within Northrop Grumman.
"Maybe there's an opportunity to engage a forum of HR professionals to talk about information security," posited Papay as compliance-related workers' roles were discussed. "So get them involved and talking about information sharing as well."
Additionally, Puckett pointed out, your legal and compliance teams may well appreciate the opportunity to broaden their horizons and collaborate with people beyond their own silos.
"In May, we brought all of our legal teams together [with our information security people], and I think the lawyers were very excited," said Puckett. | https://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/4-ways-to-upgrade-your-threat-sharing.html |
For a lot of school age youth, life seems to revolve around ”doing what is cool;” however, many students find that the ”cool worries,” like what to wear and who to be friends with, take a back seat. Their concern of their day is not where to sit at lunch, but rather, will they even get to eat a lunch? Like schools across the country, Chicago schools participate in the federal free lunch program, which provides students in need with at least one guaranteed hot meal per day. But what happens when people take advantage of this help? It creates a food fight perhaps not the literal ones depicted on movies, but a more serious food fight, threatening the ability for such free lunch programs to continue.
A recent story from the Chicago Tribune highlighted the problem of school lunch fraud, reporting on findings of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Inspector General who discovered ”more than a dozen instances of falsified lunch applications among city and school employees” at one local high school. The report raised the question of whether this type of fraud could be occurring throughout the rest of the district.
How is the fraud perpetrated? According to the article, the problem is lack of verification. ”Paper-based applications to the program are based on self-reported income figures, but by federal mandate CPS is not allowed to check more than a fraction of the qualifying applications.’? (No checks and balances. I bet there is plenty of fraud here!? CPS is trying to put a stop to school lunch fraud and is on record asking the government for assistance with verification efforts.
And now the issue has reached Capitol Hill. Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois recently sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking how the department will ”’bolster eligibility verification measures”’ in the school lunch program. But while officials involved continue to push for assistance, there is the fear of pushing to point of deletion of the program. The article quoted Durbin as saying? ”I don’t want to push so hard that people say, ‘Oh, let’s forget that program.’ It’s a critically important program for kids from poor families.”
So how do we stop this type of fraud if the push for assistance in verifying eligibility keeps hitting a dead end? (This sure cries out for a public records solution.? That is the question officials are trying to answer as for now, the program allows undeserving individuals to falsify information and order a slice of pizza, with a side of fraud.
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Good one. It just seems obvious that if you are recruiting bombers that need to be invisible, you need to prey upon the most impressionable people with little/no record so you can get a quick turnaround.
That of course creates an interesting dilemma, since you end up essentially saying the profile you are looking for is someone who has virtually nothing to profile other than contact with an extremist.
Several years ago I was passing though a country and someone pointed to an orphanage and said “That’s where we believe Al Qaeda soldiers come from. We once said it was a wonderful place for taking care of all the orphans, but we became suspicious when they went away [to Afghanistan] and never came back.”
“Granted, but subverting the watch lists has got to have an impact on their capabilities.”
Of course. But that’s the wrong way to look at it. Lots of things have an impact on their capabilities. We need to do those partrticular things that are worth the trade0-offs, and not do those things that aren’t.
Filip Maurits • July 15, 2005 1:02 PM
It’s probably easy enough to check whether someone is on a terrorist watchlist: let potential bombers travel around and watch how the security people react.
What I didn’t hear much about yet: on the day of the bombings Tony Blair said: “We will not allow violence to change our society and values?; now, only days later, the UK government is abusing the bombings to push the (for reasons of privacy, security, cost, etc.) very controversial European internet data retention law proposal…
I hate to say this, but most of the security countermeasures I’ve seen the allies announce in the name of counterterrorism and their response to attacks have been plain silly. They announced it’s a war, try to fight it with weapons, desperately try to secure last targets, think technology could pick terrorists from crowd, those terrorist watchlists, etc. (I could continue all day). Did I mention ID cards?
They obviously can’t use the media either. Terrorists watch news just as anyone else as they want to know how effecient their last attack was and how their “enemy” is responding to it in order to optimize their tactics for their next attack.
A much effective strategy would be to actually go after them. How about putting lots of undercover agents out there as recruiters and recruits and then announce to the media there’s thousands of undercover agents out there already infiltrating to terrorist networks worldwide ready to catch any recruiters and potential recruits. I mean, planting distrust and paranoia works both ways.
But instead, they’re wasting billions on things such as trying to secure targets that were attacked last week or even years ago and deploying “new technology” they think can pick terrorists from crowd (and don’t even get me started on those databases with lists of names they’re gonna match on your name to see if you’re a terrorist).
I’m not sure what relevance the fact that one of the bombers had links to a person investigated by the police has. If you’re going to extend a watch list to everyone who has a criminal record, that would include my father who kicked in a headlamp of a car that was (illegally) parked in an awkward place.
But, quite frankly, the way terror networks are set up and resourced, the terrorists are in a much better position to stay off the watch lists than your average citizen. Such a system is just asking for false positives.
Davi Ottenheimer • July 18, 2005 1:11 AM
If the person investigated by police is an extremist with violent tendencies, then the relevance should be clear.
Take for example that Timothy McVeigh’s only official affiliations seem to be as a registered Republican when he lived in New York and a member of the National Rifle Association while in the Army.
Beyond that however he clearly spent a good portion of his time in 1993 travelling between Arizona, Michigan and western New York where he interfaced with extremist anti-Americans. In fact, while it was said he was quiet about most things he aparently was very outspoken about an impending military struggle to overcome economic disparity and to fight communism.
Those “links” were probably far more revealing that the fact that he was known to keep a “very large” gun collection, or even that he highly recommended “nationalist” literature such as the “Turner Diaries” (a rascist and anti-semitic novel by former American Nazi Party official William L. Pierce) to people he met.
McVeigh (like Osama bin Laden) said that he wanted to use the very destabilization tactics that the US Army taught him during war to turn around and fight the US government. His interview on 60 minutes in 2000 indicated how his time in Iraq actually turned him against the US: “I went over there hyped up, just like everyone else. What I experienced, though, was an entirely different ball game. And being face-to-face, close with these people in personal contact, you realize they’re just people like you.”
1) Probability of 1st. Armoured Corps successfully taking out terrorist targets = very low.
2) Probability of some non-person with a pistol at a bus stop somewhere in Karachi successfully taking out terrorist targets = probably high.
Conventional military tactics are wholely unsuited to the current terrorist threat. Unfortunately to increase effctiveness one must think and regretably sometimes act in a way that could be construed as terrorist.
In this battle the most committed wins and while it’s all very well for politicians to make bland comment regarding civil liberties, in most cases this will merely aid the terrorists. They are more than happy to make use of our civil systems and aid structures to help them and denying this to them could be one of the most effective means of combatting the sort of “clean skin” terrorists that committed the atrocities in London last week.
Secondly, the report regarding the IED technology being implemented by the terrorist insurgents in Iraq is very worrying. Perhaps we should wonder how they got hold of the technical expertise for encrypted radio links?
DarkFire • July 18, 2005 6:19 AM
Hmm.. I feel I must qualify the comment I recently posted:
1) When I referred to denial of social security benefits to certain individuals I was referring to those preachers identified as advocating what we would define as terrorist actions and / or extremism.
Applying such a drastic measure to an entire section of the community is too horrifying an idea to contemplate. My post was bady written in this respect.
2) This is a danger that could play directly in to the hands of the extremists – once a prticular people are identified with a particular problem, you are on the road that leads to the evil of Auschwitz. That must NEVER be allowed to happen again. 3) Everyone speaks of anti-terrorism “defence”. Defence is at best passive in nature, and at worst reactive (planning to fight the last war). What we need is active offence.
This potential dissociation of the community is exactly what the xenophobic extremists want to happen.”
And yet, America keeps doing it. Whether it’s HUAC, the Japanese Internment, or trying to justify the Guantanamo detainees, it’s easier to lump ’em all in a group and demonize a group. Oddly enough, I’ve actually seen a Washington Times columnist bemoan multiculturalism and essentially suggest we MUST adopt an us-vs-them mentality.
I disagree. You lament the exclusionary thought process as the path to Auschwitz, but then go on to recommend ‘active offence’ – which has its own risks. I can see why adopting this mentality might be advocated. I just posted a lengthy note on it in the Suicide bombings thread. If this is done it must be done very, very carefully and surgically. We really can’t demonise an entire section of the community. For example, stating “all Muslims are fanatical would-be terrorists? is utterly wrong not to mention morally repugnant. However, stating “Fundamentalist Wahhabi preachers are encouraging suicide attacks and should be dealt with? is probably fairly accurate.
“I disagree. Consider that urban gang warfare is based on the same principle – whack them before they whack us. What does that get the community? A lot of dead kids.?
Hmm. You raise an excellent point here. I think the difference here though is that in the case of the gang warfare there exists a neutral 3rd party who not only have the will to intervene, but do so impartially (theoretically at least). In this case the 3rd party are the Police. However, in the case of the war on terrorism there really isn’t a neutral 3rd party who can assume this impartial peacekeeping role. This has been tried with Poland and Japan sending soldiers to various places. Unfortunately when one faction in a conflict starts to think mythologically they assume the world-view that NO ONE is even capable of being impartial – with us or against us. This lead to attacks on Polish and Japanese forces as readily as it led to attacks on US and British forces. The same thing happened in 1983 when US and British forces were stationed in the Lebanon.
You’re all playing the wrong game. Sure, you’re playing more fairly and more rationally than we Yanks, but you’re still playing entirely the wrong game.
If you want to know how four youths could be motivated to commit such heinous crimes? You Brits appear to be are just as myopic as we Americans when it comes to seeing the fruits of your own crimes. Britain has a long an bloody history in Iraq, from its creation of the Iraqi state in 1921, to British rule through a League of Nations mandate until 1932 (including a brutal put-down of rebellions by British forces in 1919, 1920-21, and 1924, and the extraction of a 75-year concession of all Iraq’s oil to the UK-US controlled Iraqi Petroleum Company), and British rule through a puppet through the mid-1950’s. For decades, both the US and Britain have been more than willing to shed Iraqi civilian lives when it suited their interests, and in the eyes of the Muslim world, that sordid history continues in an unbroken line through today. Ask yourselves this question: how many Iraqi civilians have died at the hands of Allied forces since the start of the invasion? The answer is, something on the order of 10,000 at the lowest end, to 100,000 (per the recent Lancet article) and you get some idea of the toll this war has taken on Iraqi society. (I’m not even counting the 15,000 to 30,000 or so Iraqi military –mostly conscripts–who died defending their homeland from invasion) And remember, that’s after 10 years of Us-UK-backed sanctions caused anywhere between 500,000 deaths (estimate by UNICEF) and 1.7 million deaths (estimate by Iraqi govt.)–of CHILDREN. The human carnage inflicted by the UK and US on Iraq over this period is unthinkable, yet rarely reported even in your estimable press.
Most of you have probably already ceased paying attention because, of course, all that history cannot possibly justify killing 50+ innocent civilians. I wholeheartedly agree. But I didn’t set out to justify it. I set out to EXPLAIN it. These terrorists are not brain-washed nutcases. Their minds haven’t been taken over by nefarious mullahs skilled at mind-control. There are legitimate reasons for muslim anger and hatred towards the West, esp. the UK and US. Once one recognizes this, it no longer seems unthinkable that a few of the most angry would act out in horribly criminal fashion. Rather than seeing this sort of terrorism as unthinkable and psychotic , we should see terrorism as the inevitable result of our own actions against the muslim world. Then perhaps we can get past the reflexive refusal to look at muslim grievances for fear of justifying terrorism. The terrorism cannot be justified. But the grievances of the terrorists against us are shared, in many cases legitimately, by millions of muslims who are not terrorists. It is they whom we may legitimately address, and by doing so, we may also end the motivation for terrorism.
The problem of anti-Western muslim terror will not be resolved as long as we in the West continue to deny the blood on our hands.
former recruit • April 11, 2006 4:11 AM this may come as a shock to some you and do not judge me by what you will first hear.
i used to be part of a terrorist organisation, which i left inspite of family isues.
i decided what i was doing was wrong even though yes, america did “mistreat” me in my earlier years. i decided to move countries so my former group, which shall remain nameless, didnt hunt me down and kill me.
i know first had what terrorists think and feel, how and why they plan their attacks.
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Kenyan Bank KCB entered into partnership with Swiss-based firm NetGurdians to provide clients with protection against the growing risks in the banking operations such as fraud, data theft and information links.
The partnership will see KCB use NetGuardians’ software solution, NG|Screener, which uses a smart behavioural analysis to monitor and analyse all user activities in real time therefore offering continuous control of all operational risks from business to Information Technology (IT).
The solution integrates in a seamless manner into major banking platforms allowing banks to receive alerts when a potential risk is detected with automated reports necessary for auditing and reporting.
“We liked the robustness and flexibility of NG|Screener. In partnering with NetGuardians we gain the ability to detect unusual user behaviour within our infrastructures 24/7, so we can take action immediately when alerted to potential fraud,” said Avi Mitra, the KCB Chief Information Officer.
This collaboration is part of efforts for KCB in enhancing its digital journey, which has seen the implementation of the T24 core banking system that provides fast and efficient customer service and has the capacity to offer technology-driven products.
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“Our clients in Africa, including KCB, are strongly motivated to improve fraud mitigation, operational and IT risk management, transparency and governance,” Winteregg added. | https://www.juuchini.com/2014/10/kcb-to-improve-data-security-in-new-partnership-with-netguardians/ |
Recode Daily: A major European ransomware attack has spread to U.S. companies and hospitals
Plus, Facebook hits two billion users, and every in-joke in the 10-second title sequence of “Silicon Valley.”
A major ransomware attack affected businesses throughout Europe, including airlines and shipping lines, banks and utilities. The infection was concentrated in the U.K., Ukraine, Spain and France, but also spread to some companies in the U.S., including a multinational law firm and several hospitals and health care concerns. [Russell Brandom / The Verge]
Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake complained about the inappropriate behavior of venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck before he reportedly harassed other female founders in Silicon Valley. Caldwell had led an investment in Stitch Fix in early 2013; his venture firm, Lightspeed, removed him from that role after Lake’s complaint, and has said it “should have done more” when it heard the complaints. Caldwell has since resigned from his current firm, Binary Capital. [Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey]
Facebook has reached two billion monthly users, which means more than 25 percent of the world’s population uses the social network every month. As it looks toward three billion, Facebook is building things like internet-beaming drones and laying fiber cable in Africa to bring the internet — and Facebook — to under-connected areas of the world. [Kurt Wagner / Recode]
Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren has stepped down, along with company president Mike Herring and chief marketing officer Nick Bartle; CFO Naveen Chopra will serve as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. The Oakland-based company is also pulling the plug on its operations in Australia and New Zealand. The moves come as the 17-year-old streaming music pioneer prepares to sell a minority stake to satellite music company Sirius XM for $80 million. [Peter Kafka / Recode]
The image of the U.S. has plummeted worldwide under President Trump. A Pew survey of 37 countries said just 22 percent of respondents have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in international matters. And a Toronto hotel will pay millions to the Trump company so it can erase its Trump-brand signage. [Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg]
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Here’s every tiny tech-world in-joke hidden within the title sequence of HBO’s “Silicon Valley.”
With each new season, the show has revised the 10-second sequence to depict the way companies have merged or made headlines — for instance, the overshadowing of Yahoo’s sign with Alibaba’s, the growth of the Alphabet sign over Google’s headquarters and the collision of Uber- and Lyft-branded hot-air balloons. [Lori Dorn / Laughing Squid]
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It’s a plague that’s wreaking havoc in the business community with a whopping ransomware damage price tag of $5 Billion dollars in 2017 (according to a report by Cybersecurity Ventures). It’s growing and it’s not just attacking governments or big businesses. If you are connected to the Internet, it’s likely that you are vulnerable.
Even large companies that spend big bucks to prevent these attacks are still falling victim as we recently saw with the Equifax breach. It demonstrates that even if you do not get attacked directly that you can still suffer damages from breaches to others!
So what’s the answer? Well there are several moving parts to the solution and most IT security companies understand the game. In reality, it still seems that humans are the weakest link as there is always someone who will click on that e-mail to launch the malware attack. To be fair, the attackers are getting more clever in how they entice you to open their “package”. Even messages that look perfectly legit may be the culprit.
Channel partners must figure out the best way of protecting their clients.
Barracuda presented a solid solution for the channel that takes a huge bite out of the problem. They offer a cloud-connected set of products to help people make the bridge between traditional and cloud-based deployments. Everything is geared towards what partners need to prevent threats and recover. Part of Barracuda’s mandate is to educate partners on how to address the new emerging threats. Barracuda’s channel program helps support with systems engineers and a 30-day free evaluation for their customers. | https://e-channelnews.com/barracuda-takes-a-big-bite-out-of-ransomware-and-data-security-breaches/ |
‘Do we really need to spend a load of money on cyber security software?’ you might ask. You have built-in antivirus, so won’t that do?
No. Cyber security is about more than preventing viruses and malware. Criminals have plenty of other tricks for breaking into your organisation, so you must purchase software to close as many gaps as possible.
Why cyber security software is so important
Over the past few years, organisations and individuals have acknowledged the severity of the threat posed by cyber crime. We tracked 557 data breaches last year alone, with organisations of all sizes coming under attack.
Meanwhile, the introduction of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has raised the stakes when it comes to effective security. Organisations that fail to secure data properly, or that violate individuals’ privacy rights, face fines of up to €20 million (about £18 million) or 4% of their annual global turnover.
If organisations are to avoid suffering data breaches, they need to protect their systems. Many people believe that refers to technological solutions – but although that’s our focus here, it’s only one way to secure your organisation.
After all, it’s no good purchasing cyber security software if no one knows how to use it or employees expose data in other ways. That’s why technology must always be complemented with security policies and staff awareness training, in what is often known as the people–processes–technology model.
The reason so many people focus on technology, as opposed to people or processes, is that it does a lot of the heavy lifting in a security framework.
Most data breaches are the result of basic mistakes that all three parts of the model address, but whereas ‘people’ and ‘processes’ are designed to change poor security habits – something that takes time and effort – security software can be plugged straight into the system.
It doesn’t address the root cause of the problem, but it prevents breaches from occurring.
For example, access controls, which limit who can view certain information, doesn’t stop an employee from wanting to view sensitive information (or even explain why this is a security concern), but it does ensure that a breach doesn’t occur.
There are myriad programs designed to protect your organisation in ways like this. In the next section, we run through some of the most common types of software and how they work.
Antivirus software is the quintessential example of cyber security technology. It was originally designed to root out viruses, but modern software now generally includes protection against a broad range of malicious programs, including malware, ransomware, keyloggers, Trojan horses, worms, adware and spyware.
The software scans your computers, looking for files that match its built-in database of known viruses and malware, and either deletes them or alerts you to their presence.
Antivirus and anti-malware software are essential for all businesses that use online systems. Malicious programs are hidden in all kinds of files, and it’s only a matter of time before an employee downloads something harmful or a criminal otherwise infects your organisation.
Firewalls
Firewalls create a buffer between your IT systems and external networks. They monitor network traffic, and identify and block unwanted traffic that could damage your computers, systems and networks.
Implementing firewalls helps protect organisations from criminal hackers trying to break into their networks, and from outgoing traffic originating from a virus.
System monitoring
There are several inexpensive tools you can use to detect suspicious activity on your organisation’s networks.
Such activity includes attempts to access privileged information (whether from an employee or external actor), login attempts from unusual locations, and unusual activity related to the way information was viewed.
Monitoring this information gives you a head start when it comes to active or attempted system compromises.
Access controls
Access controls ensure that staff can only view information that’s relevant to their job. For example, someone in marketing must be able to view contact information for those who have signed up for a service, but they won’t need access to, say, HR files and payroll data.
Walling off those parts of the system ensures that staff can’t compromise that data, either accidentally or maliciously. It also protects organisations should a criminal hacker break into an employee’s account, as they will only be able to view a select amount of data.
How do you know which software is necessary?
The examples we’ve listed will be essential for almost every organisation, as they address universal issues. But what about other types of software, like encryption programs? Should you invest in those?
The answer can be found by conducting a risk assessment. This is a process in which you identify, analyse and evaluate security risks and determine appropriate solutions.
If, once you’ve completed the assessment, you decide that certain software is necessary, then you should purchase it. If you don’t need it, then invest your money elsewhere.
A software solution to help you decide
There’s a lot at stake when you conduct a risk assessment, so it’s a good idea to get expert advice. That’s where vsRisk Cloud comes in.
This online tool helps you conduct an information security risk assessment aligned with ISO 27001, the international standard for information security.
With vsRisk Cloud, you’ll get repeatable, consistent assessments year after year. Its integrated risk, vulnerability and threat database eliminates the need to compile a list of risks, and the built-in controls helps you comply with multiple frameworks, including the GDPR.
Definitely a good read! It’s also all true.
In a world where networks are rapidly expanding in size, scope and complexity it’s definitely becoming more and more worth the time and investment to ensure your security is up-to-date. A last-generation Firewall and AV simply aren’t good enough anymore with threats evolving every day. | https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/is-cyber-security-software-worth-the-investment |
Cognitive Services – Search APIsHarness the ability to comb billions of web pages, images, videos and news with a single API call.
Cognitive Services – Language APIsProcess natural language with pre-built scripts, evaluate sentiment and learn to recognise intent.
Cognitive Services – Vision APIsUse image-processing algorithms to smartly identify, caption and moderate your pictures.
Cognitive Services – Speech APIsConvert speech to text or text to speech, translate text or audio, or add speaker recognition to your app.
Cognitive Services – Knowledge APIsMap information and data in order to solve complex tasks. | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-cosmos-db-network-security-new-ip-firewall-rule/ |
PARIS — Since the November attacks in Paris, the Belgian authorities have conducted dozens of raids, combed whole neighborhoods for well-known militants and even locked down the capital for days, all part of promises to step up efforts to root out jihadists.
Yet none of that evidently disrupted plans for the attacks on Tuesday at Brussels’s main international airport and a subway station in the heart of the capital of the European Union.
The new attacks again underscored not only the weaknesses of Belgium’s security services, but also the persistence and increasingly dangerous prospect of what several intelligence experts described as a sympathetic milieu for terrorist cells to form, hide and operate in the center of Europe.
The attacks have set off a new round of soul-searching about whether Europe’s security services must redouble their efforts, even at the risk of further impinging on civil liberties, or whether such attacks have become an unavoidable part of life in an open European society.
At the very least, they have exposed the enduring vulnerability of Europe to terrorism in an age of easy travel and communications and rising militancy.
Even before the Belgian authorities captured Salah Abdeslam on Friday for his suspected role in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, which killed 130 people, they had detained or arrested scores of suspects directly or peripherally connected to what they described as a terrorist network linked to the Islamic State.
But despite the success in arresting Mr. Abdeslam, Belgium continues to present a special security problem for Europe.
The country of just 11.2 million people faces widening derision as being the world’s wealthiest failed state — a worrying mix of deeply rooted terrorist networks; a government weakened by divisions among French, Dutch and German speakers; and an overwhelmed intelligence service in seemingly chronic disarray.
It is also home to what Bernard Squarcini, a former head of France’s internal intelligence, described as “a favorable ecosystem: an Islamist milieu, and a family milieu,” which played an important role in sheltering Mr. Abdeslam and also perhaps in Tuesday’s attacks.
“It shows that they were in a neighborhood that can shelter cells for months, because it is a neighborhood that is favorable to them,” he said, referring to Molenbeek, a Brussels district. It is where the Paris attackers lived and where Mr. Abdeslam was able to hide among family and friends.
The cultural code of silence in the heavily immigrant district, as well as widespread distrust of already weak government authorities, has provided what amounts to a fifth column or forward base for the Islamic State.
For weeks, intelligence operatives had warned that the next major terrorist attack on European soil was simply a matter of time. Even before Tuesday, Mr. Squarcini predicted that “there will be an even more serious attack” because, he said, “there are already the people in place.”
Indeed, the presumed orchestrator of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who lived in Molenbeek, boasted to his cousin before he was killed that “90” operatives were dormant, ready for another attack.
Some security and intelligence experts saw Tuesday’s blasts as proof that Europe’s open societies, even under states of emergency, will never be risk-free.
But the risks are fatally compounded, some said, by European-wide failures in intelligence sharing and the weakness of a Belgian intelligence service that Mr. Squarcini said lacked the capacity to pick up the “weak signals” of emerging plots.
“The Belgians are too limited to be able to treat several objectives at once,” Mr. Squarcini said in an interview weeks ago.
“After a weekend of mutual congratulations” over the arrest of Mr. Abdeslam, he said Tuesday, “manifestly we didn’t see the second wave.”
But political and social failures have allowed militant cells to become deeply rooted, experts warned, and they were equally or even more worrying. Belgian officials spent weeks looking for Mr. Abdeslam, yet failed to turn up Tuesday’s bombers.
“The mode of action was structured and agreed,” said Ralf Jäger, the interior minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, a German state next to Belgium. “That presumes the formation of a cell. And that is what is frightening: that such a cell could not be discovered.”
Those who are in place in Europe may now possess improved bomb-making skills and tactics, which can be adapted easily to additional security measures put in place by the police and government authorities.
For instance, striking the check-in counter at the Brussels airport inflicted serious casualties and disrupted air travel while circumventing the millions spent on added security screening before passengers board planes.
Mr. Squarcini said airport security may now have to be revised Continent-wide, to take in even the approach to check-in counters — as is already the case in some parts of the world.
Others emphasized that progressive layers of new security measures can go only so far. Absent a military-style occupation, the threat from a well-established network with some degree of local complicity can never be completely forestalled, experts said.
“This shows the limits of the actions you can undertake in a state of emergency,” like the one Belgium had in place for weeks, said Philippe Hayez, a former official with the D.G.S.E., the French external intelligence service.
“These are time-specific, superficial,” added Mr. Hayez, who has written extensively on Europe’s intelligence challenges. “But unless you occupy it militarily, you don’t hold a town just by circulating police cars. We’re talking about guerrilla terrorism. And there’s a population that’s complicit.”
That complicity may be most worrying, he and others said. “We are paying for our naïveté,” said Jacques Myard, a French parliamentarian who sits on his country’s intelligence oversight committee. “It’s not a weakness in intelligence. It’s a weakness in society.” “The sleeper cells have been there, and they are well implanted,” said Mr. Myard, a member of the conservative Republican party. For two years, the intelligence services “have been telling us: We’ve never seen such an influx” of terrorist operatives.
It was unclear whether Tuesday’s bombings were a response to Mr. Abdeslam’s arrest, or long in the works. In either case, said Alain Juillet, who helped reorganize the French external intelligence service as a top official there, “it’s not surprising.” “That’s the only thing one can say,” he said. “We can easily see that Belgium has become a hub.” “So that when you arrest someone, there will be a reaction,” Mr. Juillet said, referring to Mr. Abdeslam.
“All of this is to say that the implantation of the network is more firm than we thought,” Mr. Juillet added. “The police were efficient — and yet this happened. So, there is a very strong implantation in Belgium.”
But the fatal paradox for Europe is that on a border-free Continent, such problems play out transnationally. One country’s failures are necessarily amplified.
Now the problems in Belgium are threatening not only lives across Europe, but also the Continent’s experiment at integration. Whether the European Union, with its commitment to open borders, is strong enough to withstand the strains on top of years of economic crisis already is an ever more open question.
“It seems that the clear targets of the attacks — an international airport, a metro station close to E.U. institutions — indicate that this terrorist attack is not aimed solely against Belgium,” Germany’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said at a news conference in Berlin. “But against our freedom, freedom of movement, mobility and everyone in the E.U.” | https://www.arcanumglobal.com/news/brussels-attacks-underscore-vulnerability-of-an-open-european-society/ |
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Microsoft has announced that they will be giving away 10,000 Microsoft Surface RTs at the upcoming International Society for Technology in Education event in San Antonio, TX. The event runs from June 23rd– 26th, 2013. Hmmm…10,000. That just about accounts for the number of Surface RTs sold at TechEd 2013 North America and by the time the sales numbers roll in from TechEd Europe 2013, Microsoft will have actually made money on the deal.
Probably not intentional, but it doesn't hurt. | http://windowsitpro.com/print/microsoft-surface/teched-2013-attendees-subsidizing-surface-give-aways |
Ans: Computer virus is a program written by the programmer with the intention of destroying and damaging the information and packages residing within the laptop system. If somebody calls you over the telephone or involves your home, and say they work for Microsoft, or Apple, there is a good probability they are fraudsters who want to entry your pc to steal your data. If you’re actually anxious just run a Malware Bytes scan (free obtain) as that gets rid of any Malware that gets on to your PC and will not price you a bean.
Note that such signs should not at all times the results of malware; this could be the results of a spammer sending infected emails along with your e mail handle from another pc, not necessarily yours, or your e mail account may need been compromised by hackers and your pc could really be totally an infection-free. The file allocation table or FAT is the part of a disk used to connect info and is a crucial part of the conventional functioning of the pc. The Biennale virus source code was printed on T-shirts and bought on CD-ROMs with the intention to flip upside down the one-sided understanding of viruses.
Thanks for dropping by dwachira.. Mostly of the free model of anti-virus doesn’t give much safety on your PC. As what you’ve said there is a limitation for a free model. The virus will search by means of the programs in the system and find places to contaminate with the code and then it’s going to activate when that program is run next time. The very first thing I did after I realized it was a virus was pull out the web plug.
They will have to download and set up updates, just like your AV program or internet security suite, earlier than they start scanning. If you’re underneath assault from this ransom virus your recordsdata or documents will be held hostage and you’ll receive a ransom observe, both by email or in a pop-up window that is asking for an sum of money in return for the release of your knowledge or information. System Volume Information is a protected folder so security software may be unable to delete System virus from there. I am at present using a paid subscription for AVG as my Internet security protection. | http://www.aliensonearth.net/the-best-free-bootable-antivirus-rescue-cds.html |
The problem with viruses is that once you get one it is hard to clean the computer. You have to install windows again.
Installing windows again and again is a pain. You have to save all your personal documents, files, etc. And that's not all: bookmarks, saved passwords. Some of the info can't be preserved.
That is why it is much better to prevent that to suffer consequences. Better safe than sorry. »
When you have to look for a hosting company you look at features that you get. The main things are bandwidth, space, mysql databases, domains allowed.
While those are the main features of a web hosting, there are others that have to be checked. Most people ignore them because they think they are not so important, but they are. »
An article with this name was written by me back in 2007, you can read it here . I was always proud with the ability that i can keep the windows operating system clean. It is not easy, but it was easier than installing windows every 2 months. Bookmarks, settings, documents, desktop, browser cache, everything is lost when you install windows again.
Is there a way to clean the windows to prevent reinstalling ? Yes, there it is, if you keep it clean you can keep it as long as you want. My windows, before he died lasted 4 years. »
More and more of our daily computer tasks are moving to the internet. Few years ago i used to have a small software for anything: to tell me the weather, to read books, a calendar software, time tracking software. Now, i use all of them online, calendars, time trackers, document editing.
The bad intended persons may lose interest of trying to get into my computer to show me how i can take advantage of the 500$ antivirus which real cost is 1000$. Now the juice is online. The benefit of getting and placing his offer without approval on a website with decent traffic is similar with infecting hundred of thousands of computers. »
We all know that we are facing a lot of problems because viruses and software vulnerabilities. This is happening mainly because of poor software that lack security issues, and i'm talking here about Windows. If you aren't careful you can end up with all your files infected, and if you don't protect yourself there is not much you can do.
I run a poll here because i want to find out if you use any anti-virus software, and if you do, which one ? Please be honest and vote even if you don't use any anti-virus software. »
We all know that the Internet will be almost everything in the near future. Games are switching from offline to online. Even if you say right now that an online game will never be as good as an offline game, i bet you are right, but this don't prevent people to prefer online games more. They have other advantages, they can be played from anywhere, they are light, etc.
We must accept the change and be a part of it. Big companies will invest more and more into web based games and maybe someday they will be better than offline ones. »
The IP address is an unique indentifier assigned to each computer in a network. That is the definition of the IP address, probably you know this. Many questions raise from this sentence and you put yourself those questions many times: "How they can know where i am from?", "IF they have my IP address they can find out my street address", "They can find my name based on my IP address", "They can get into my computer using my IP address", "Why the IP address those websites show me is not the IP address that i got from my ISP" and many more questions regarding IP addresses.
Maybe when internet was explained to you for the first time you have seen a image with a cloud and everything connected to it. That image is logical and that is probably the right way to think the internet but in reality, the internet looks more like the image above. » | http://www.ipgp.net/tag/internet-security/ |
The two leaders sat down for a working lunch, during which May "outlined the steps the government is taking to bring the Brexit process to a successful conclusion", according to a Downing Street spokesperson.
Since then May has held talks with the Labour party in a bid to find a compromise solution that can win a majority in parliament.
Britain's Parliament yesterday passed an "insurance policy" law created to ensure the country does not leave the European Union without a divorce deal.
Mr Tusk's letter came after the PM arrived in Paris for talks with Mr Macron, who in recent days has warned that an extension to the Article 50 withdrawal process is not guaranteed.
These would limit the power of Britain's commissioner in the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, and the role of the British prime minister at meetings of EU leaders, the aide said.
Ahead of Mrs May's meetings with her French and German counterparts, details of the EU's potential demands for another extension to the Article 50 period began to emerge in reports.
Allison Mack pleads guilty in group's sex cult case
She has pleaded not guilty and was released on a $100 million bond, according to the Associated Press . Prosecutors accused Mack of helping Raniere recruit women to a secret sub-society within the group.
EU Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday urged the bloc's leaders to allow Britain to delay Brexit for up to a year as London and Brussels scramble to avoid a chaotic "no deal" exit on Friday.
Labour business spokeswoman Rebecca Long-Bailey said there had not been "any fundamental shift. but we're hopeful that progress will be made".
European Union leaders, tired by the three-year Brexit crisis, have repeatedly refused to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement May agreed in November, though on Tuesday there was speculation in London that Merkel might be open to doing just that.
But British Prime Minister Theresa May still has a rough day ahead of her as she heads to an emergency summit in Brussels on Wednesday to plead for a new Brexit extension - for the second time in three weeks.
Such an extension would mean the United Kingdom had to take part in European parliamentary elections, a prospect anathema to hardline Brexiteer Tories.
Earlier on Tuesday, an aide to French President Emmanuel Macron said France was not opposed to extending the Brexit deadline but would push for strict conditions to be attached, adding that a year would be "too long".
Nipsey Hussle's Memorial To Be Held At The Staples Center
Kodak Black is apologizing after causing controversy for his comments about the late Nipsey Hussle's girlfriend, Lauren London . I'll try to be like the friend if you need to holla or a shoulder to lean on. "Man, listen.
The country could still crash out of the European Union without a deal if the bloc's leaders refuse to grant a delay.
With further talks scheduled on Tuesday between his team and government ministers, Corbyn said that "the prime minister has not yet moved off her red lines so we can reach a compromise".
A party spokeswoman said: "We had further detailed and wide-ranging talks with Cabinet ministers and officials today".
Conservative MP Mark Francois on Monday called for a vote on May's leadership, despite party rules dictating that a confidence vote can not be held until December - a year after a previous attempt to remove her failed.
MPs will be allowed to vote on this and make their own suggestions as to the length of the delay.
U.S. cautions its citizens as Ugandan authorities mount search for kidnapped tourist
The drones were hovering over the area to see if they could locate the kidnappers and the American tourist with her driver. The country earned US$1.37 billion in 2016 from tourism, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. | http://cybersecuritydojo.com/2019/04/10/parliament-oks-law-barring-brexit-without-deal.html |
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If you showed a business analyst or finance guy how to manipulate a whole year’s worth of data in Excel they’ll probably buy you lunch. PowerPivot for Excel does just that, but before you cash in, you need to be aware of how it works its magic and understand why it compliments rather than replaces your existing investment in business intelligence.
First of all having this power in Excel can be seen as a two edged sword..
On the one hand it is very fast and easy too use, even on a standard laptop (with 2Gb+ RAM). Users just see a pivot table although there are also some slick add-ins to this functionality in Excel 2010.
But could lead the user to create their own BI on a desktop, and this type of spreadsheet has been the exact problem that business intelligence is designed to solve not make worse!
However PowerPivot functionality is also built into SharePoint 2010, enabling the designer of the PowerPivot to share his work with his colleagues, by posting it to a special PowerPivot gallery…
What’s clever about this is that they can quickly slice and dice the PowerPivot but in a browser…
PowerPivot has other really useful features..
The underlying data can be refreshed from the original sources to keep them up to date on a user defined schedule.
It integrates well into Office so users don’t need to learn that many new skills. It also integrates really well with Reporting Services so you can still provide report users with a view of PowerPivot data.
There are monitoring tools in SharePoint which show the resources the PowerPivots are using..
a management screen showing PowerPivot Report Usage
However it is not the total cure for all BI ..
It doesn’t scale that well nor is it intended to. It’s designed for tactical ad hoc BI in a team or small department. So PowerPivots can be considered as sand boxes (and are referred to as such under the covers in SharePoint) which are designed to be quickly thrown together to meet a particular need.
Most Business Intelligence burn a lot of time addressing data quality issues and PowerPivot only consumes data so you’ll still need to address this.
I see PowerPivot as a way of letting the business concentrate on the analysis and presentation of data, in order to meet an immediate need. This leaves the technical team to concentrate on providing good clean data, and to incorporate some of this tactical work in PowerPivot into new & existing enterprise/strategic BI projects as appropriate.
To learn more about PowerPivot, simply go to it’s own special site.. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andrew/2009/12/10/powerpivot-101-an-introduction/ |
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler or HPA: Updates the number of pods (scale up / scale down) in response to a metric & threshold value.
Kubernetes Scheduler: Assigns newly created pods to Kubernetes nodes. You can also use custom metrics to configure your Kubernetes scheduler.
Kubernetes pod scaling
Kubernetes has several mechanisms to control a group of identical pod instances (ReplicationControllers, ReplicaSets, Deployments). You can manually resize these groups at will, and of course, you can also configure a control entity that automatically increases or decreases pod count based on current demand.
The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler periodically queries the configured metric(s) and compares against the desired target value. You can also configure minimum and maximum number of pods, scaling cooldown/delay periods (to avoid sudden bursts of containers rapidly spawning and terminating, also known as thrashing), sync period, etc.
Kubernetes HPA is an extremely useful mechanism, but pivoting just over CPU metrics may not be that interesting for your specific use case.
As you might expect, these Kubernetes entities can be extended to support any metric or group of metrics you desire. For this tutorial we have decided to optimize over the number of HTTP requests per second. This way, if my web service experiences a sudden traffic burst, Kubernetes will automatically increase the number of servicing pods, improving my service quality, when the rush is over it will downsize again, reducing the operative costs on my side.
Former custom metrics method vs Kubernetes 1.6+
Do you have a compatible cluster? excellent! continue reading.
What if you don’t have a compatible cluster yet? No problem, go to the appendix and configure a single-node compatible Kubernetes cluster using a virtual machine.
First you need a service / deployment that will be controlled by the HPA. In case you are using an empty testbed node, you can use the simple Kubernetes Up And Running deployment included in the repository:
git clone https://github.com/draios/kubernetes-sysdig-metrics-apiserver.git $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-sysdig-metrics-apiserver/deploy/00-kuard.yml deployment.extensions/kuard created
Next step is to create an entity that extends the API implementing the custom-metrics-apiserver Golang interface.
There is a Prometheus adapter implementation that will query local Prometheus servers. For this article we want to demonstrate a different implementation of the API server that directly retrieves metrics from Sysdig Monitor if you are using our Kubernetes monitoring product. This way you don’t need to instrument the target pods in any way, as Sysdig provides HTTP request count and many other metrics automatically.
Naturally, you first need to install the Sysdig agent in your Kubernetes cluster to start collecting metrics. Make sure the pods and metrics you want to target show up in your Sysdig Monitor web panel before proceeding.
If you don’t have the Sysdig Agent deployed in your Kubernetes cluster, edit the file kubernetes-sysdig-metrics-apiserver/deploy/01-sysdig-daemon-set.yml, you will find a Kubernetes secret that will contain your Sysdig Agent access token, please note that you need the base64 representation of this token:
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/sysdig-cluster-role created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/sysdig-cluster-role-binding created daemonset.extensions/sysdig-agent created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics:system:auth-delegator created rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics-auth-reader created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics-resource-reader created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics-apiserver-resource-reader created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics-getter created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hpa-custom-metrics-getter created service/api created apiservice.apiregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.custom.metrics.k8s.io created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/custom-metrics-server-resources created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hpa-controller-custom-metrics created
And now, the key component, a pod extending and implementing the Kubernetes custom metrics API.
You need to modify the file kubernetes-sysdig-metrics-apiserver/deploy/03-sysdig-metrics-server.yml and add your Sysdig API token to the Kubernetes secret that you will find there. This token is different from the previous one, which was the Agent token:
It targets the net.http.request.count metric with a target value of 100 requests per minute, if the averaged value of the service gets higher, it will automatically spawn more pods, if enough pods are idle, it will kill some replicas.
$ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-sysdig-metrics-apiserver/deploy/04-kuard-hpa.yml horizontalpodautoscaler.autoscaling/kuard-autoscaler created
Wait a couple of minutes and can execute kubectl describe hpa to get current status.
// GetRootScopedMetricByName fetches a particular metric for a particular root-scoped object.
GetRootScopedMetricByName(groupResource schema. GroupResource, name string, metricName string) (*custom_metrics. MetricValue, error)
// GetNamespacedMetricByName fetches a particular metric for a particular namespaced object.
GetNamespacedMetricByName(groupResource schema. GroupResource, namespace string, name string, metricName string) (*custom_metrics. MetricValue, error)
DescribedObject: custom_metrics. ObjectReference{
APIVersion: info. GroupResource. Group + "/" + runtime. APIVersionInternal,
The new “custom metrics API” method is more complex to deploy (at least the first), but provides a higher level of abstraction and flexibility.
The server code is a PoC, if you want to try this in a real environment you can use it as a starting point, but it doesn’t have any error management or fallback code. We plan to keep improving this code as gets broader adoption but please, don’t hesitate to send over your pull requests or comments to us! Either via Slack or Twitter on @sysdig.
Being able to optimize over ANY custom metric(s) feels so effective, you are probably thinking about your particular use cases now.
Appendix: Kubernetes scaler testbed node
Ok, so you don’t have a compatible cluster just yet. Let’s create one.
First thing you need is a virtual machine, we are going to use Ubuntu server LTS 64 bits. If possible, allocate 2 virtual CPUs and ~3GB of RAM, your cluster may have pod allocation problems with less than that.
Do not configure any swap memory, Kubernetes doesn’t like swap. If the host you want yo use already has swap space, you can always:
git clone https://github.com/mateobur/kubernetes-scaler-metrics-api.git
Next, you install Docker and kubeadm (as root), the custom-metrics specification is still in beta so we pin specific Kubernetes package versions to avoid inconsistencies.
curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add - cat <EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main
And pay attention to the text below it, it has instructions to configure kubectl, join nodes to the cluster, etc.
Acknowledgments: Some of the YAML files used in this article (Node configuration, RBAC roles) are based on the ones provided by Lucas on this tutorial. Thanks Lucas!
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Welcome to Mingis on Tech, Computerworld's new video podcast on IT-related news you can use.
In this second episode, Executive News Editor Ken Mingis sits down with Computerworld senior writer Lucas Mearian and senior features editor Tracy Mayor to discuss the sorry state of medical records security -- up to one third of all personal health files are expected to be breached in 2016.
Also on the docket: As part of Computerworld's Forecast 2016 special report, we asked IT leaders to share their boldest predictions for IT in the year ahead. From a catastrophic cloud meltdown to the rising singularity, Ken and companions cover the most out-there prognostications and toss in a few of their own.
For an audio podcast only, play or download the file below. | http://www.cio.com/article/3018443/security/mingis-on-tech-hackable-health-records-bold-predictions-for-2016.html |
Chinese intelligence services have spent years trying to hack the managed service providers that remotely administer IT systems for large companies, according to warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and PwC. Access to these providers’ systems would give the hackers a jumping-off point into the databases of their primary targets, exposing vast troves of sensitive corporate data.
The charges are the latest example of a broad pressure campaign against Beijing over its theft of U.S. trade secrets. At DOJ, a new “China Initiative” will prioritize Chinese IP theft cases, including government-backed hacking. On Oct. 30, the U.S. indicted Chinese intelligence officers and their hired hackers for trying to steal a wide range of intellectual property, including plans for a jet engine.
In case you haven’t noticed, it doesn’t pay to keep around your old tweets — just ask James Gunn, or Kevin Hart.
People have lost their jobs or seriously damaged their careers because old, immature, or otherwise inappropriate tweets were unearthed.
The things you say on the internet generally follow you — especially on Twitter.
If you’re using Twitter, and you care at all about your career, you should be deleting your old tweets on a regular basis.
Thankfully, there are some easy ways, and even some services, to do just that.
There’s a growing risk that the brand you buy online is actually a fake. Here’s how to protect yourself.
The sale of fake brand-name goods, which once seemed limited to occasional street carts and going-out-of-business stores, has increasingly expanded to major e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon and Walmart.com. The problem encompasses a wide range of products, everything from electronics to cosmetics to household items.
The odds of encountering counterfeits can be especially high if you buy through a third-party vendor—meaning other sellers besides the brand or the authorized retailer—on an online marketplace, according to a recent study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
After buying and testing products from third-party vendors on five popular online consumer websites, the GAO found that 20 out of 47 brand-name products purchased—including shoes, travel mugs, cosmetics, and UL-certified chargers—were counterfeit. For three of the four product types, at least one item that was purchased was determined to be counterfeit, according to the study.
It has now become a tradition among cyber-security firms to issue a series of predictions for the upcoming year. While some companies have their malware analysts or their CEOs put out small lists of predictions, others go completely overboard with podcasts and 100-page reports that are just a few pages short of a full book.
ZDNet’s Zero Day security blog has taken a look over most of these reports, has even reached out to some selected researchers, and has compiled a list of predictions we also agree are most likely to happen next year. If users would like to take a deeper dive into these predictions, here’s a list of the reports we’ve pooled for this gallery: McAfee, Forrester, RiskIQ, Kaspersky Lab [1, 2, 3], WatchGuard, Nuvias, FireEye, CyberArk, Forcepoint, Sophos, and Symantec.
Also, we have skipped APT, cyber-espionage, and cyberwar predictions, as we have dedicated a special article for those.
An app on the device gathered her location information, which was then sold without her knowledge. It recorded her whereabouts as often as every two seconds, according to a database of more than a million phones in the New York area that was reviewed by The New York Times. While Ms. Magrin’s identity was not disclosed in those records, The Times was able to easily connect her to that dot.
The app tracked her as she went to a Weight Watchers meeting and to her dermatologist’s office for a minor procedure. It followed her hiking with her dog and staying at her ex-boyfriend’s home, information she found disturbing.
“It’s the thought of people finding out those intimate details that you don’t want people to know,” said Ms. Magrin, who allowed The Times to review her location data.
Like many consumers, Ms. Magrin knew that apps could track people’s movements. But as smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate, an industry of snooping on people’s daily habits has spread and grown more intrusive.
[Learn how to stop apps from tracking your location.]
To evaluate location-sharing practices, The Times tested 20 apps, most of which had been flagged by researchers and industry insiders as potentially sharing the data. Together, 17 of the apps sent exact latitude and longitude to about 70 businesses. Precise location data from one app, WeatherBug on iOS, was received by 40 companies. When contacted by The Times, some of the companies that received that data described it as “unsolicited” or “inappropriate.” “There are really no consequences” for companies that don’t protect the data, he said, “other than bad press that gets forgotten about.”
An inspector general report found Border Patrol officers didn’t follow standard procedures during device searches, mostly because those procedures weren’t clearly laid out.
“Based on our physical inspection, as well as the lack of a written policy, it appears [the Office of Field Operations] has not universally implemented the requirement to delete copied information, increasing the risk of unauthorized disclosure of travelers’ data should thumb drives be lost or stolen,” the report states.
For their part, Schwartz said EFF was heartened by the fact that the investigation took place and considers the recommendations sound. That said, the foundation would like CBP and the IG to go further.
“I would say it is good the inspector general has done this study and brought these issues to light,” he said. “But our primary reaction is concern that there are so many problems concerning how they’re gathering and storing this sensitive traveler information.”
WASHINGTON — The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of roughly 500 million guests was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort that also hacked health insurers and the security clearance files of millions more Americans, according to two people briefed on the investigation.
The hackers, they said, are suspected of working on behalf of the Ministry of State Security, the country’s Communist-controlled civilian spy agency. The discovery comes as the Trump administration is planning actions targeting China’s trade, cyber and economic policies, perhaps within days.
Those moves include indictments against Chinese hackers working for the intelligence services and the military, according to four government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Trump administration also plans to declassify intelligence reports to reveal Chinese efforts dating to at least 2014 to build a database containing names of executives and American government officials with security clearances.
Other options include an executive order intended to make it harder for Chinese companies to obtain critical components for telecommunications equipment, a senior American official with knowledge of the plans said. | https://www.llrx.com/2018/12/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-december-15-2018/?share=linkedin |
Remember Bitcasa, the ill-fated “infinite” cloud storage outfit who wound up throwing in the towel after only three years? For all their faults (and there were a few!), they did get one thing right: Infinite Drive, which put that vast quantity of cloud storage alongside normal hard drives on the Mac desktop.
CloudMounter volumes are easy to identify in the Finder, with bright, colorful drive icons customized for each service.
Mount up
That approach wasn’t exactly new — Fuse originally blazed the trail, followed soon after by ExpanDrive, who commercialized the virtual file system for FTP servers and other services. CloudMounter ($30 in the App Store) is the latest to deliver cloud-connected storage to the desktop, enabling easy drag-and-drop access right from the Finder.
Like ExpanDrive, CloudMounter lives in the menu bar, with a Connections window where users add FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV servers, or Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Amazon S3 accounts in a few clicks of the mouse. Each service features colorful custom drive icons for quick identification, and can optionally be configured to mount at login so volumes are available at all times.
CloudMounter offers easy set-up for your cloud accounts through the Connections window.
Once mounted, files can be copied or moved like traditional hard drives. There is one caveat: transfers are noticeably slower, because CloudMounter first copies files to a temporary cache, removing them only when the upload is complete. While the initial copy happens relatively quickly, the subsequent upload depends entirely on the speed of your available internet connection.
Cloud drives
For the most part CloudMounter works as expected, but in my tests it wasn’t always as reliable as ExpanDrive, especially with larger, multi-gigabyte files. I also found it less convenient. Cloud volumes don’t automatically appear in the Finder window sidebar like regular drives, although they can be accessed by clicking your computer name under Devices.
Microsoft OneDrive worked most dependably for me, while FTP and WebDAV were often problematic, either disappearing from the Finder or causing server interruption error messages that locked up the desktop until I force quit. Using QuickLook to preview large files was also a sure-fire way to hang up the Finder.
Getting started with CloudMounter is as easy as entering your credentials and clicking the Mount button.
ExpanDrive had similar growing pains early on, so I’m confident Eltima will squash these bugs over time. Work also remains on the user interface, which offers only a vague “file uploading” message in the menu bar, with no indication how long that might take. Finally, CloudMounter lacks support for Amazon Cloud Drive and Box, two options available in ExpanDrive.
Bottom line
CloudMounter delivers cloud storage to the desktop, but ExpanDrive has the upper hand when it comes to reliability and breadth of available services.
This story, "CloudMounter review: Less than perfect cloud storage on your desktop" was originally published by Macworld. | http://www.cio.com/article/3126012/data-center-cloud/cloudmounter-review-less-than-perfect-cloud-storage-on-your-desktop.html |
Larsen operational practices must be followed by a cumbersome safety revision. Failing to do so can result in casualties. Thus, after update of the SAP-based maintenance software at DuPont (without review), an alarm notifying on a hose change due date “disappeared”. As a result, a hose used to transfer phosgene from a cylinder to a process wore out and catastrophically failed spraying a worker in the face and resulting in his death [26]. T0rnkit is a rootkit that aims to install a backdoor for concealing their location. Its target system is Linux. When installing programs used by T0rnkit, the malware stops the syslog daemon, thus Complicating Process Identification by Replacing Process Information 35 hiding the installation process from a system administrator. Consequently, the system administrator cannot detect the installation or even the existence of other malware. Some malware stops or disables software that prohibits their activity on the computer.
Once a process is analyzed there will be a number of security zones ranging from “public safety hazards” to “public relations problems”. A process could be designed from the start to separate those hazards into different equipment, but in most situations individual devices will have multiple hazards associated with them. A single controller could be involved in a hazard to human life and a catastrophic financial event. In the robot painting example a single controller is likely responsible for painting the automobiles and for powering off the robot. | http://austinoneal.com/index.php/ebooks/advances-in-information-and-computer-security-9-th-international-workshop-on |
Information Security Media Group, the leading media provider to the information security community, continued its global summit series with its Breach Prevention Summit at the Renaissance Dupont Circle May 16-17 in Washington, D.C. The event featured influential cybersecurity leaders, including Art Coviello, former CEO at RSA Security; Michael Daniel, president of the Cyber Threat Alliance and former special assistant to the president; and Gregory Wilshusen, director at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The Washington summit brought together leaders from the public sector and a wide variety of business sectors to address the fast-changing cybersecurity environment. Timely topics included the response to the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, President Trump’s new cybersecurity executive order and the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.
“ISMG’s timely Breach Prevention Summit in Washington provided a platform for myself and other industry veterans to address cybersecurity in the era of Donald Trump,” says Steve Chabinsky, the FBI’s former deputy assistant director/cyber.
Technology companies featured in the exhibit hall and in informational sessions included Agari, CA Technologies, NSS Labs, Arbor Networks, Skybox Security and Trend Micro.
“ISMG offers the highest caliber content on its websites to information security practitioners on a daily basis,” says Eric Chabrow, executive editor of GovInfoSecurity. “Our summits give us an extraordinary opportunity to offer in-depth analysis from thought leaders as well as interact with security practitioners, influencers and technology providers.”
In addition to the event in Washington, ISMG has held summits in San Francisco, Mumbai and Atlanta so far in 2017. Upcoming events will be held in Chicago, New York, Toronto, Sydney, London, Singapore, Bangalore and New Delhi.
For sponsorship opportunities or to attend, visit: http://events.ismgcorp.com/. | https://www.govinfosecurity.com/press/ismgs-global-summit-series-continues-successful-washington-event-p-779 |
Honda has confirmed a cyberattack that brought parts of its global operations to a standstill.
The company said in a brief statement Tuesday that the attack caused production issues outside of its headquarters in Japan. "Work is being undertaken to minimize the impact and to restore full functionality of production, sales, and development activities," according to the BBC.
It follows a tweet from the company, now pinned to the top of its Twitter feed, stating that its customer service and financial services are "unavailable" due to the attack.
At this time Honda Customer Service and Honda Financial Services are experiencing technical difficulties and are unavailable. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.
— Honda Automobile Customer Service (@HondaCustSvc) June 8, 2020
Honda is one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world, employing more than 200,000 staff, with factories in the U.K., North America, and Europe.
Details of the attack are slim but an earlier report suggests that the Snake ransomware is the likely culprit. Snake, like other file-encrypting malware, scrambles files and documents and holds them hostage for a ransom, expected to be paid in cryptocurrency. But Honda said there was no evidence to suggest that data had been exfiltrated, a common tactic used by newer forms of ransomware.
The company said that affected factories and plants are expected to be brought back online as early as today.
Brett Callow, a threat analyst at security firm Emsisoft, said a sample of the file-encrypting malware was uploaded to VirusTotal, a malware analysis service, referencing an internal Honda subdomain, mds.honda.com.
"The ransomware will only encrypt files on systems capable of resolving this domain but, as the domain does not exist on the clear net, most systems would not be able to resolve it. mds.honda.com may well exist on the internal nameserver used by Honda's intranet, so this is a fairly solid indicator that Honda was indeed hit by Snake," said Callow.
Honda finds itself in similar company to IT giant Cognizant, cyber insurer Chubb, and defense contractor CPI, all of which were hit by ransomware this year. | https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/honda-global-operations-halted-ransomware-140708898.html |
I’m lying in bed after a long day. My thoughts are jumbled. My mind tries to make sense of a whirlwind of impressions, perceptions, and experiences of the day. I’m beginning to dream.
It’s in the future—ten or twelve years from now. My three daughters are all with me, but they’re older now, approaching middle age.
The conversation isn’t pleasant.
They remind me that I’m showing signs of forgetfulness and confusion. They tell me I shouldn’t be driving anymore. They say they’re concerned I can’t take care of myself.
I become defensive. My daughters don’t see me that often! I know what my capabilities are. I just need to be more careful.
I don’t want to lose my independence. I don’t want those whom I’ve cared for to have to begin caring for me.
With a start, I bring myself back to the moment. I don’t like the direction my dream is taking me.
It’s an irritating and scary dream, but all too possible, if I’m honest with myself.
Reflections on the Dream
As we grow older, I suspect we all have moments in which we wonder whether we’re experiencing normal forgetfulness…or are we showing the first signs of dementia?
We may joke about it, but we have to think about the possibility if we’re realistic.
As lifespans increase and the risks of fraud perpetrated against vulnerable seniors grow, addressing these risks becomes more urgent.
This area of our life is not something we can ignore and hope for the best.
Here are four steps to take to prepare yourself and your loved ones for the possibility you may at some point suffer from diminished mental capability or be at increased risk of financial exploitation.
Step One: Acknowledge the Possibility
Assuming that you’ll be sharp until you take your final breath is comforting, but statistics suggest it’s far from certain. It’s estimated that 35% of people age 85 or older have Alzheimer’s, the most prevalent form of dementia.1
Another study asserts that upwards of 25% of clients like ours over 65 are at risk for poor financial decision-making or exploitation.2
We all hope these statistics won’t include us or our loved ones. But hope is not a strategy.
We need to accept the possibility that one day, we won’t be as clear-thinking as we are today or were a few years ago. That’s not a cause for shame or regret—it’s simply an acceptance of a statistical possibility.
And it’s a subject we should discuss with our spouse, children, or other loved ones. These are the people on whom we may rely as we get older. It’s a conversation to have now, while we can discuss it openly and without defensiveness.
Step Two: Make Clear to Your Family Your Preferences
If held early enough, that conversation can be, well, a conversation. Acknowledge the possibility that in the future, your family may recognize you’re not as sharp as in the past. Or you may be making poor decisions. Or you’re beginning to show signs of dementia. Or you’re spending money irrationally—sending checks to Nigerian princes or handing money over to a “friend” who has a needy daughter.
Make clear to your family what’s important to you. Describe how you would like them to take care of you if you’re not capable of taking care of yourself.
If you have long-term care insurance, let your family know about it. Let them know how you feel today about moving in with your children or other relatives versus becoming a resident of a memory care unit or nursing home.
In doing this exercise for myself, I realize I may disagree with my kids. How will I respond when they tell me it’s time for them to take away the keys or the credit card or that they’re going to invoke the Power of Attorney and take over my finances?
“Surely they’re over-reacting!” I’ll tell myself. “I’m perfectly capable of _ (fill in the blank).”
So, it would help if you discussed how to resolve such a difference of opinion.
Family dynamics are all different. For my family, a solution I find acceptable is if at least two of my three daughters agree that it is time to intervene, I’ll accept their judgment.
I don’t want just one daughter to have that power by herself. But they’re intelligent and loving kids. If a majority thinks I need to give up the keys, surrender the credit card, or move into a memory care unit, I’m telling them now that they should force me to accept that judgment, even if I vehemently disagree with them at the time.
There may well come a time when I’m not as much in control as I think I am. I want my kids to know that I’m trusting them to exercise the same “tough love” my wife and I have had to use from time to time with them.
You may have a different approach. Perhaps you have one relative or friend you trust to make the judgment and who has the strength of character to tell you what you don’t want to hear.
Maybe you have a series of tests or factors that you think would be helpful to make the determination. Perhaps you’re willing to entrust the decision to a family physician.
Whatever the solution, thinking it through before it’s needed and documenting it may make a tough decision somewhat more straightforward, should it be necessary.
Step Four: Revisit the Topic from Time to Time
Finally, it’s important to revisit this topic periodically.
That’s both to remind all the parties involved that plans are in place and to provide an opportunity to fine-tune things as life unfolds.
That this topic may be uncomfortable to ponder or discuss doesn’t relieve us from doing the responsible thing. We owe it to our loved ones and ourselves to think through the implications of dementia or diminished financial capability and how that might impact all of us.
It’s the responsible thing to do.
An Afterword: The Role of Your Financial Advisor
The focus here has been on the family, those likely most involved should you have dementia or become vulnerable to financial exploitation. But your advisor should be familiar with your financial history and goals. They may note signs of impending difficulties and can be a resource to the family.
We’ve had experience dealing with clients who have become vulnerable. We gather “trusted contact” data to identify people who may be able to help ascertain problems. Advisors throughout the industry also undergo training and are becoming more sensitive to the issue. We would encourage readers to share their thoughts on this topic with their financial advisor.
And if you’d like to discuss your situation in more detail with us, give us a call. Let’s talk. | https://investecwealth.com/blog/a-tough-blog-to-write-diminished-mental-capability-and-increased-vulnerability |
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Infographics and maps promising to give you more information about the pandemic are multiplying on the Internet. Malicious tracking apps are locking devices and demanding a ransom fee.
Do not download COVID-19 infographics or maps from unofficial sites. Clicking on a link may install malware on your computer.
Go directly to official websites like the CDC or WHO for current information pertaining to COVID-19.
Do not click on a link directly, instead: STOP and check the website spelling. Open a browser and hand type the website address.
Never enter data that a website should not be requesting – for example, a public website like the CDC will not request login credentials. | https://specialtyinsuranceblog.com/2020/03/23/covid-19-cyber-attacks-increasing/?shared=email&msg=fail |
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The data also suggests that these consumers have reason to be concerned. Nearly half (47 percent) say they have been notified at some point that their information has been compromised by a breach, and of those respondents, another 47 percent say that even after being notified, they still did not feel well-informed or reassured that their data would be safe.
ThreatTrack Security recently published the results of a study that reveal broad concern among enterprises about the vulnerability of their systems against cyber attacks. More than two-thirds of executives are concerned their companies will not be able to stop such threats, and one in five say their biggest concern is not knowing whether an attack is under way. However, these fears seem to have had little influence in encouraging executives to protect their networks by adopting best practices in cyber defense technologies and specialized personnel. Forty-two percent report not having an incident response team in place, and nearly half (47 percent) report that they are not making use of advanced malware analysis tools.
At a time when Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), targeted attacks, zero-day threats and other sophisticated malware have become profitable businesses for malware writers and cyber criminals, many large enterprises are still struggling with how to protect themselves. It is especially telling that, according to the study, 97 percent of enterprises with annual security budgets over $1 million still report concerns that they are vulnerable to malware attacks and cyber espionage tactics.
“Enterprises are facing an unprecedented surge of highly targeted and sophisticated threats that are designed to evade traditional malware detection technologies,” said ThreatTrack Security Chief Executive Officer Julian Waits, Sr. “The only way to battle these threats effectively is with a combination of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals armed with the strongest malware analysis tools available. Companies that don’t employ the right mix of people, process and technology are making themselves excellent targets for the cyber bad guys.”
The independent blind survey of 200 C-level executives at U.S.-based enterprises was conducted by Opinion Matters on behalf of ThreatTrack Security in June 2013. The results highlight the opinions of CSO, CIO, CEO and CTO executives related to the cybersecurity practices of their companies. | https://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/c-level-executives-lack-confidence-in-their-cybersecurity-09.html |
Virgin Mobile begins selling the iPhone without a contract starting June 29 with service plans starting at $30 a month. The Sprint-owned prepaid, no-contract phone service will charge $549 for a basic model, while service will start at $30 monthly.
Apple’s iPhone was available only on contract-based plans from carriers, or unlocked straight from Apple for $649 for the 16GB model. Virgin Mobile is the second carrier to introduce iPhones on prepaid services after Cricket announced it would start selling the phone from June 22 for $400 with a $55 per month service plan.
Tip: If you have an iPhone 4 kicking about, hoping you could hook it to Virgin Mobile’s plans, just make sure it’s the CDMA version, and not AT&T’s.
Virgin will offer the iPhone 4 and 4S with its Beyond Talk unlimited data and messaging plans which cost $35 per month — or $30 if you pay by automatic monthly payments with a credit card, debit card or PayPal account. The 16GB iPhone 4S will be $649 with this plan, or $549 for the 8GB iPhone 4.
Note that data usage is unlimited up to of 2.5GB transfer, after which you are throttled. If you want to use your iPhone as a mobile hotspot with Virgin, that’ll be an extra $15, for which you get 3.5GB of full speed data.
The iPhone from Virgin Mobile will be available online www.virginmobileusa.com, RadioShack, and Best Buy. While Cricket’s iPhones are priced less than on Virgin Mobile (where the iPhone 4S costs as much as it would straight from Apple), the price plans are more expensive on Cricket. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/465124/virgin_mobile_to_sell_prepaid_iphones.html |
Once you get past the big hardware news and industry trends, E3 is all about big, loud and violent video games. Activision’s Modern Warfare 3 will be a big attraction, as will EA’s Mass Effect 3. Sony will make a splash with Uncharted 3, and I’m expecting to see Halo HD out of Microsoft. But my most-anticipated E3 game is Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls, arguably the greatest game of 2009.
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Much like the GDPR rules, Section 10.3 of PIPEDA requires organizations to keep and maintain a record of every breach involving personal information under their control. Organizations are also required to provide a report to the Commissioner with the requested records within a timely manner. Based on the report provided, the Commissioner may publish the information if it is in public interest and/or launch an investigation or audit based on the information in the breach file.
The record-keeping requirement is an important compliance consideration and has the potential to create costs and risks for organizations. For example, there may be additional litigation claims in relation to breaches (including breaches that did not result in notifications to individuals), if the organization does not fully comply or report breaches.
Record-keeping Requirements
Organizations must maintain a record of every breach of security safeguards for a minimum of 24 months after the day the organization determines that the breach has occurred. The record keeping requirement is applicable to all breaches, not only those that give rise to a real risk of significant harm.
In section 6.2 breach records must contain “any information that enables the Commissioner to verify compliance with [the breach notification and reporting provisions]” – meaning the Commissioner must be able to validate whether the organization notified and reported breaches as required by PIPEDA in each case. The regulation does not give organizations specific rules on how the records are archived but they must be able to provide the appropriate information on request.
If the Commissioner has requested a report, the regulation lays out what your organizations needs to provide to comply. The report must be made in writing and sent by any secure means of communication. The requirements are as follows:
The circumstances of the breach and the cause.
The date or period of time when the breach occurred. If the time is not known, the approximate period must be provided.
The compromised personal information and extent of the breach.
The number of individuals affected by the breach. If the number is unknown, the approximate number must be provided.
Clearly laid out steps that the organization has taken to reduce risk or mitigate harm to individuals that could result from the breach.
Indirect notification must be given “by public communication or similar measure that could reasonably be expected to reach the affected individuals.” In section 5, the regulation provides guidance on when should organizations utilize the indirect notification:
Giving of direct notification would be likely to cause further harm to the affected individual.
Direct notification would be likely to cause undue hardship for the organization.
The organization does not have contact information for the affected individual. | https://storagepipe.com/blog/canadas-new-data-breach-notification-rules-what-you-need-to-know/ |
This is a guest post from Amazing Support's David Share as a special contribution to SafeLogic.
In the early days of 2015, the British Prime Minister at the time, David Cameron, put forth an idea to ban all forms of encryption in the United Kingdom (UK) dealing with software and especially embedded in messaging applications. This proposal to ban encryption followed Paris’ Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which the attackers were thought to have been communicating with each other using apps similar to WhatsApp and iMessage. Were this ban to be realized, a backdoor would have to be created into any and all apps, whether web or mobile-based, that utilise end-to-end encryption.
Encryption has become a battleground as of late. Government bodies and those who fear that apps are being utilised for the propagation of terrorism seem to be firmly entrenched of the idea of creating backdoors in these apps. Technology companies, like Apple, and those who are trying to preserve what they perceive as the last vestiges of civil rights and privacies, are fighting to maintain encryption’s independence. Needless to say, both sides have their pros and cons.
Creating a backdoor, according to proponents like Cameron and current British Prime Minister Theresa May, would ensure that law enforcement and government agencies are able to monitor and act upon those that would cause harm to the UK. When using the Charlie Hebdo massacre as an example of how a ban on encryption could have helped, it does make sense.
However, tech companies and cryptography experts fear that the creation of a backdoor does not ensure that it could only be used by the “good guys”. To them, a backdoor is a legitimate vulnerability that could be equally exploited by foreign spies and corrupt police, among others. Businesses are concerned that it may portend the end of ecommerce as we currently know it, since almost all credit card transactions online are done through encrypted channels. If that encryption had a backdoor, it may create a sense of distrust among the consumer base and scare off business. Finally, there is the matter of privacy. If the encryption walls did fall by government command, then users are left terribly exposed and would have to endlessly worry if what they say online can be misconstrued as dangerous or worse, an act of terror.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May
The proposal has been legitimised and is known as the Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB) under Theresa May’s leadership. According to May, the bill does not state that tech companies are forced to create backdoors in their encryptions. However, it does require companies to provide decrypted messages upon the presentation of a warrant. This is a problem in and of itself, as the messages from apps that utilise end-to-end encryption cannot be accessed by anyone without a proper password or code, and that includes the software publisher. So to comply with IPB and present a decrypted message, some sort of backdoor will be needed. Through the use of sly wording, May and the IPB is effectively forcing tech companies to create backdoors afterall, lest they face a potential ban from operating within the confines of the UK.
Already known as the Snooper’s Charter, the IPB will test the limits to which tech companies and citizens are willing to relinquish a portion of their privacy. If the IPB ever becomes law, the government or any law enforcement agency must simply find cause to issue a warrant to gain access to any citizen’s message history. May and her supporters insist that they will only do this to people who may pose a risk to the safety of the nation, but who is deemed to be a threat can take on many meanings. The opponents of the IPB are afraid that this could and would lead to breaches in privacy laws, even going so far as to say that it would go against portions of the European Convention on Human Rights. Those challenging the bill are questioning Britons about whether they want to join the ranks of countries such as China and Russia, which closely monitor and even dictate what sites can be browsed, what data can be accessed and what messages can be sent.
It seems that May and the current government are selling the IPB under the guise of improving national security. However, they have failed to answer opponents’ concerns about the negative effects of the bill - the potential invasion of privacy and the creation of a new vector of attack for malicious hackers. May says that the bill does not infringe on the rights and privacies of the citizens but experts on the matter believe otherwise. More frighteningly, May and her party have yet to come up with a rational solution to the security problems that the creation of a backdoor poses.
If Britons were to stand up and made their voices heard they should do it sooner rather than later. The bill has already made it to the House of Lords and passed its second reading, and is now headed to the committee stage on the 5th of September. As it is, and without strong opposition from within the House or the people, the IPB will almost surely be passed and become law.
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In an article for the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, Kirk Nahra explains what security professionals need to know about privacy law.
Excerpt: Security existed as a business norm long before it became a legal and compliance requirement. Doctors' offices locked their doors at night to ensure no one could access their records. Stores took precautions when they walked the daily cash receipts to the bank. Now, it is enormously more complicated to guarantee data security, which is the physical and technological protection of both personal data and sensitive proprietary information. Appropriate best practices and legal requirements are growing every day, across all industries, and around the world.
At the same time, in a somewhat parallel development that has slightly preceded data security as a legal obligation, companies all over the world now need to make sure they are following appropriate practices relating to how personal information is collected, used, and disclosed. This growing range of privacy obligations should be understood generally by information security professionals, and an effective partnership with company privacy officials is critical to the appropriate protection of companies, their employees, their customers, and any other individuals whose data is being collected by these companies.
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If I’m not mistaken, Android phones already have this capability. What has the feds exercised now is the fact that encryption will soon be the default option on Android phones and on Apple’s new iPhone.
Has there ever been a technology capable of protecting information so securely that law enforcement couldn’t get to it, even if they knew where it was? I feel like there must be obvious examples but I’m blanking on them. People have been using codes since the beginning of time but until recently breaking those codes was a matter of humans matching wits. We’re now at the point where computers are capable of generating codes so long and complex that it would take other computers ages to guess every possible password permutation.
“There will come a day when it will matter a great deal to the lives of people . . . that we will be able to gain access” to such devices, [FBI director James] Comey told reporters in a briefing. “I want to have that conversation [with companies responsible] before that day comes.”
Comey added that FBI officials already have made initial contact with the two companies, which announced their new smartphone encryption initiatives last week. He said he could not understand why companies would “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.”… “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” said John J. Escalante, chief of detectives for Chicago’s police department. “The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone.”
A few of the comments in our Headlines thread on this have me thinking that not everyone understands what this means. One reader wrote defiantly that if the feds, i.e. the NSA, want to know what’s on their phone, they can go ahead and get a search warrant. But … that’s Comey’s point: The new technology would render even valid search warrants useless. Currently, if the cops want to know what’s on someone’s phone, they can serve Apple or Google with a warrant and the company can unlock the phone on the back end. With the new encryption, the company won’t be able to do that; the code is so hard to break that only its owner would know how to unlock it. Terrorists, pedophiles, you name it: As long as they keep their sensitive info on the phone’s hard drive and don’t stupidly upload it to an external server like “the Cloud,” there’d be no way for cops to reach it.
Law prof Orin Kerr wrote a long post about this last week, noting that he couldn’t see any reason for the new technology except to thwart lawful search warrants that have been obtained in full compliance with the Fourth Amendment. (He also imagined a case where cops might need information stored on the phone of a murder victim to solve the case but wouldn’t be able to touch it because of the encryption.) He walked that back a bit in a later post after people pointed out that a phone that can’t be broken by the company that built it also can’t be broken by hackers. It’s fully secure from prying eyes of all kinds — possibly including the NSA, although who knows what capabilities they’ve developed — so long as you’re not sharing the information on it with an outside server, which will be increasingly important as people start putting more and more of their vital data (including health data and financial data) on our phones. As one Headlines commenter put it, if the FBI has a problem with this they should direct their complaints not to Apple and Google but to the NSA. After all, it’s public alarm over mass surveillance and consumer upset over telecoms’ collusion with the feds that created the demand that the companies are now trying to meet with the new encryption tech. Most people, I’d bet, support making smart phones searchable if the FBI has a warrant. But since the only options at this point seem to be “searchable by the NSA” and “searchable by no one,” go figure that there’s a market for the latter.
Two points here. One: It could be that Comey’s worry is overblown simply because so much of our most sensitive is in fact also stored on external servers. E-mails, texts, tweets, Facebook updates, on and on — it’s all landing on telecoms’ hard drives, where the FBI and NSA can hoover it up. It’s hard to believe that, as health tracking apps become more popular, the data they generate will remain completely contained on your phone and not transmitted to some third party as well. Super-encryption might make the FBI’s job harder by forcing them to go knocking on multiple telecoms’ doors to get the info they could extract in 10 minutes if they had your phone, but it probably won’t thwart most investigations outright. Two: It may be that courts will decide that suspects can be compelled to unlock their phones pursuant to a subpoena. That was a hot topic in the first Kerr post that I linked above. The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects you from having to divulge the information stored in your brain, but what about the information stored on your phone? I’ll leave it to legal eagles to argue that out but do note that Kerr thinks people can be compelled to unlock their phones on pain of contempt of court if they refuse. If the Supreme Court agrees, they’ll have created a legal backdoor to replace the technological backdoor that Apple and Google closed. It used to be that cops could make the telecoms unlock your phone; now they’ll make you do it instead.
Under Mt. Rushmore, the president begins his comeback story
Happy Birthday, America. Our complicated history doesn’t lessen your stature | https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2014/09/26/fbi-chief-rips-apple-google-for-adding-unbreakable-encryption-to-their-smart-phones/ |
The Texas Association of Governmental Information Technology Managers (TAGITM) awarded the City of Bryan, Texas with the President’s Excellence Award to acknowledge efforts in developing a cultural shift relative to cybersecurity.
The public power city, about midway between Waco and Houston, created its “Cyber Warrior” program in 2015, although it was not originally known by that name. When the program first began, it was just a series of periodic emails to city leadership to raise awareness at the senior level. “It was a way of planting the seed that this is a real and growing thing,” Bernie Acre, Chief Information Officer for the City, said.
“As awareness evolved at the senior level we expanded it to include employees and council members. Our new goal was to determine everyone’s ‘digital rhythm,’ which incorporates how end-users were natively interacting with technology. This process included every department, including fire, police, electric and water utility services, public works, you name it,” Acre said.
“Our initial focus was to make people cyber aware when they didn’t even think about it. As you can imagine, it was a huge culture shock,” Acre said. “I equate it to when it became mandatory to wear seat belts. We didn’t like the idea and now we do it automatically when we sit down in our vehicles. It is the exact same concept. We have to be more aware. It is a culture, it’s a way of life we have been creating and cultivating here at the City of Bryan.”
As the program evolved, Acre took several key steps. He created a monthly newsletter that is distributed to a broad audience that includes employees, vendors, friends, family, and many contacts in Texas and across the country. He created the position of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in April 2017, and he partnered with KnowBe4, an internet security firm based in Clearwater, Florida.
In November 2017, using the KnowBe4 platform, the City of Bryan launched its first internal phishing campaign, which deliberately challenges users with the same methods hackers use. This initial campaign’s goal was to establish a baseline. As a precursor, only the City Manager was made aware, along with two other members of the IT team.
“The first campaign gave us a baseline benchmark of ~18% click-rate, which was used to determine where our biggest weaknesses were and how we should focus development of cyber-skills among the entire city staff,” Acre said, adding that in March 2019, after 1.5 years of training, end-users achieved the best to date 1.14% click rate.
The campaign sends phishing emails to all users, including council members, that challenge everyone to use their cyber skills and email red flag training to determine the legitimacy of the email. “A real phishing email has the potential of causing catastrophic damage to our network, so we use this tool to keep everyone’s skills sharp,” Acre added.
Using KnowBe4’s customizable platform, Bryan customizes its internal phishing campaigns for its own needs and users. The details of the campaigns are designed by a “very creative” Security and Compliance Administrator, within the Information Technology department and reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, Scott Smith. The very creative emails use current events and upcoming holidays in an attempt to create an emotional reaction, just as hackers and phishing emails do in the real world.
“Everyone has a ‘digital rhythm,’ which is a developed and therefore instinctive way we react and respond to electronic communications and media. We design our internal phishing campaigns to retrain user’s instinctive response to a rational and more logical response versus an emotional one, thereby modifying people’s ‘digital rhythms.’” The ultimate aim, Acre says, is to change people’s behavior so they no longer respond to emails emotionally, but instead logically.
To reinforce the message, the internal phishing campaign includes consequences. If an employee fails an internal phishing campaign (“clicks”), they have two weeks to take a 30 minute cyber security refresher course. If they fail to complete the training, they are locked out of the network. To regain access to the network after being locked out, users must schedule a time, in the IT building with the Help Desk, during normal business hours to take the training.
Additionally, all employee performance evaluations now include a category for Cyber Security Awareness. To achieve a “Meets” in this category, all users must complete three hours of cyber awareness training annually and not have clicked on more than two campaigns throughout the reporting period. A “Does Not Meet” in any one category prevents an employee from achieving an overall “Exceeds” Performance. “In the IT Department, there is a higher expectation for this particular category, and therefore a zero-tolerance policy for Cyber Security Awareness is in effect,” Acre added.
“The number one attack vector for cyber criminals is the individual end users,” Smith said. More than 90% of cyber-attacks occur through some sort of phishing campaign. “When that changes, we will adjust our training,” Smith said. Smith also added that they perform in-person training for each City department, highlighting specific vulnerabilities, fielding questions and giving a personal touch to cyber awareness. Acre added, “the in-person training by both the CIO and the CISO has given the program an added boost and a face-to-face recognition that we are all on the same team at the City of Bryan.”
In addition to creating a monthly newsletter and instituting the internal phishing campaigns, Bryan also branded the city’s cyber security program with the “Cyber Warrior” name and logo. The name reflects Acre’s military background and his enthusiasm for history, particularly medieval history.
Acre had a variety of promotional materials made using the Cyber Warrior logo, including stickers, ID badge belt clips, knowledge coins, stress “shields,” data blockers and camera blockers for laptops. “It keeps the cyber security message front and center,” Acre says. | https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/texas-public-power-city-earns-award-cybersecurity |
Those whose names begin with a common letter such as A, S, and M are more likely to receive spam that those who start with uncommon ones such as Z and Q, according to research.
Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton analyzed e-mail traffic logs from Demon Internet and discovered that those with names beginning with more common characters are more likely to receive spam than those with less common ones. (Read the entire report.)
For example, his statistics show that 35 percent of the e-mail received by someone called Alison will be spam, compared to the 20 percent received by someone called Zadie, even though both may have the same e-mail provider.
This contradicts previous theories that it's the section of an e-mail address after the @ symbol that is important to spammers.
"Marmosets and pelicans get around 42% spam (M and P being popular letters for people's names) and quaggas 21% (there are very few Quentins, just as there are very few Zacks)," Clayton wrote in a follow-up blog post correcting the notion (incorrectly reported here) that alphabetical order was involved in an increase in spam attacks.
Clayton claims that spammers rely on 'Rumplestiltskin' attacks, where they trawl through the dictionary, guessing at names to send spam e-mails too, with a high percentage turning out to be real names.
And Clayton's advice to those fed up with spam - pick your username more carefully. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/150519/spam.html |
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