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A flaw has been identified in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) that permits multi-factor authentication (MFA) to be bypassed with ease. The flaw is being monitored as CVE-2018-8340 and was noticed by Andrew Lee, a security researcher at Okta.
ADFS is used by many groups to help secure accounts and ADFA is used by vendors including SecureAuth, Okta, and RSA to add multi-factor authentication to their security products.
To exploit the flaw a hacker would need to obtain the login details of an employee and have a valid second factor authentication token. That token could then be used as authentication to log onto any other person’s account if their username and password is known.
A threat actor could easily obtain a username and a password by carrying out a phishing campaign. The amount of phishing attacks on healthcare groups that have been reported recently show just how easy it is to fool employees into disclosing their login details. A strong attempt on an account with a weak password would also be successful.
Obtaining the second factor token is a little more complicated. The second factor is often a mobile phone number or email address or a smart card PIN number. That data could also potentially be obtained through phishing or through a successful attempt to get the IT help desk to change a user’s MFA token.
The flaw would be simple to exploit by an insider, since that person would already have a valid MFA token registered on the system. All that would be need to gain access to the account of another employee would be their username and password.
The flaw is due to the way ADFS communicates during a login. When an effort is made to login, the server sends an encrypted context log which includes the MFA token. However, the context log does not include the username, so no check is carried out to ensure the MFA token is being used by the correct person. If a hacker used a browser to gain access to an account using a known username/password and MFA token, and a second browser with just a username and password but no MFA token, a sole MFA token could be used to obtain access to both accounts.
Two-factor authentication is a vital security control that can stop unauthorized account access even if a threat actor has successfully obtained login credentials, although this flaw indicates that the system is not impenetrable.
The system weakness has now been addressed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates on August 14. Healthcare organizations should ensure that the patch is applied quickly to ensure their MFA controls cannot be easily skipped past. | https://www.compliancehome.com/microsoft-adfs-flaw-allows-skipping-past-of-multi-factor-authentication/ |
Although the world of mineware is not new to the security industry, it continues to grow as adversaries develop new capabilities to compromise systems and turn them into bots used for mining cryptocurrency. In this blog, we hope to provide some deeper insight into the world of mineware. We will discuss in-depth one of the most notorious mineware malware variants out there, “WannaMine.”
Our deep dive will analyze the latest WannaMine variant currently being used in the wild, dubbed “WannaMine v4.0,” and outline how you can successfully identify and remediate a WannaMine v4.0 infected host.
Cryptojacking and WannaMine
In essence, cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of a computing device to mine cryptocurrency. It occurs when adversaries compromise an organization’s systems and use their resources to mine cryptocurrency, freeing them from having to purchase hardware and electricity (more detailed information can be found in previous blogs on cryptomining and cryptojacking). Many times, this malicious mining occurs without the victim ever realizing it due to a lack of security monitoring.
As adversaries and cybercriminals searched for better ways to compromise hosts en masse, the creation of a malware dubbed “WannaMine” was born. WannaMine is a mineware malware variant created for the sole purpose of installing and running Monero software on a victim’s system and using its processing power to mine Monero for the adversary. WannaMine plays on the naming convention used for the notorious ransomware mentioned at the beginning of the article, WannaCry. This is likely because WannaMine leverages WannaCry’s exploitation code, “EternalBlue,” to compromise hosts and propagate the Monero mining software.
WannaMine v4.0 Analysis and Remediation Overview
Like its predecessors, WannaMine v4.0 leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread and compromise vulnerable hosts. Its design is similar to WannaMine v3.0 in that it stores the EternalBlue exploit binaries in a directory located in C:\Windows; however, the directory in version 4.0 has been renamed “NetworkDistribution.” Instead of leveraging a single hard-coded service name like WannaMine v3.0, version 4.0 will randomly generate a .dll and service name based on a list of hard-coded strings. It does this in order to maintain persistence on the host.
We will start with a quick high-level overview of the remediation steps that are needed, and then follow with a more detailed step-by-step walk-through.
The remediation of WannaMine v4.0 can be broken into the following three steps:
STEP 1. Killing the Malicious svchost.exe and dllhostex.exe Processes
As you can see in Figure 1 and 2. , Falcon will immediately block the launch of WannaMine’s main XMRig mining module (dllhostex.exe) and then quarantine the binary. Since the process has been killed and the binary removed, we must find the svchost.exe process that is being used to run the malicious service and kill it.
Using Falcon’s process explorer, you can see that the parent process of dllhostex.exe is svchost.exe.
Figure 1. Process execution tree indicating svchost.exe as the parent process of dllhostex.exe
Figure 2. Further detail of specific process information within the UIBy looking over the process details within Falcon, we can quickly grab the process ID associated with the svchost.exe that is running the malicious WannaMine DLL.
Figure 3-4. Process execution tree provides process ID information
From there, we can query that specific svchost.exe process, via the process ID obtained from the Falcon UI, in order to gather the service group name being used for the malicious service, in this case the netsvcs service group.
Figure 5. PowerShell query to output svchost service group name. tab
Note: Depending on whether the SVCHOST is grouped (Microsoft refactored the way SVCHOST groups services in Windows 10 1703; read about that here) or if it is a single process, the removal process will vary. Windows 10, by default, will spawn an individual SVCHOST process per module but Windows 7 will group. Killing the grouped PID is not an option here as we want to minimize downtime for the clients we work with. Review Appendix A.3 for further insight into this grouping.
To be more specific, we can actually query the SVCHOST process using “tasklist” to output the service name associated with it, which happens to be the exact name of the malicious WannaMine DLL.
Figure 6. Tasklist output to display associated service name. tab.
As an extra step, you can also query the registry key that SVCHOST based on the service group name of “netsvcs” found in the image above.
From the output below, we can see the “MicrosoftNetBIOSManager” DLL module that was added to the netsvcs service group. This has the same name we found previously, using the commands above.
Figure 7. Registry query output showing newly added malicious dll module name
Based on that information we can pivot and check the registry key where Windows services are stored to see if we find an associated service named “MicrosoftNetBIOSManager.” As expected, we see that there is such an entry. Looking at the values stored within the Parameters key we find the exact path to the malicious .dll:
Figure 8. Registry query command to output path location to .dll on disk
Figure 9. Output of registry query command showing path location to the malicious .dllTo confirm that this is the malicious DLL we are looking for, we can calculate the hash for the binary
Figure 10. Built-in RTR command to gather filehash information.
Figure 11. Output of the filehash command for the malicious .dll
Once we have the hash of the DLL, we notice that this has not been seen in VirusTotal, which is abnormal for a legitimate Windows dll stored in the System32 or SysWow64 directories.
In our lab environment, we infected a Windows 10 host at a specific date and time. Once infected, we inspected the creation timestamp of the malicious DLL. The time stamp provided was invalid, stating the DLL was created months prior to the initial infection. This indicated timestomping techniques had been used.
Figure 12-13. Shows a creation date that pre-dated the in-lab installation
A clearer indication is seen on a Windows 7 host where the timestomping goes back to 2009. (See A.2 Timestomping Example.)
Figure 14. Another image showing timestomping being used on a Windows 7 host
Reviewing the compiler timestamp for the binary, you can see that it was created recently — in 2019 and not 2009.
Figure 15. Reviewing compiler timestamp information that proves timestomping is in fact being used
Another method to highlight the malicious dll being loaded by SVCHOST comes from outlier analysis (Figure 16.). We see the hard-coded path for MicrosoftNetBIOSManager (Figure 17.) which is odd and adds context to the above indicating this isn’t native to the OS.
Figure 16. Registry query used to show further outlier information indicating the difference between the known legitimate and malicious .dll. tab.
An example of the many ServiceDLL fields and what they look like before filtering again on the hard-coded path C:\Windows\System32\ as opposed to %systemroot%.
Figure 17. Output of the registry command indicating the differences
Now that we have confirmed the SVCHOST process is indeed the one associated with the malicious WannaMine service, let’s kill the process. Gracefully stopping the service will end the process.
Figure 18. PowerShell command to stop the malicious service. tab.
STEP 2. Removing the Persistence
While discovering and killing the svchost.exe process being used to launch the WannaMine service, we found and confirmed the service name being used for persistence.
Now we remove the service so WannaMine v4.0 no longer has persistence in place.
Figure 19. Powershell command to remove the service after it has been stopped. tab.
Figure 20. Output provided after running the service removal command
Just like that, we have removed the malicious service and relinquished WannaMine v4.0’s persistence!
STEP 3. Removing Remaining Artifacts
Now that we have killed the SVCHOST process and removed the persistence, it’s time to clean up and remove the remaining artifacts.
Based on our research, WannaMine v4.0 has a few specific artifacts that it places on the host. The first one is the NetworkDistribution folder located in C:\Windows. This folder contains all of the Equation Group binaries (e.g., EternalBlue, Double Pulsar, etc.) and needs to be removed.
Figure 21. Depicts the folder named “NetworkDistribution” and some of its contents
Figure 22. Command used to remove the entire directory
The next artifact to remove is the malicious DLL that we discovered in step one. This is located in C:\Windows\System32.
Figure 23. Next, we have the dllhostex.exe that is the binary that WannaMine v4.0 uses to run the XMRig miner module. As seen Figure 1, Falcon quarantines this binary; however, if it was not quarantined you can find it in C:\Windows\System32.
Figure 24. Built-in RTR command used to remove the XMRig miner module binary
Lastly, a registry entry that contains the descriptive text for the service.
Figure 25. PowerShell command to remove the remaining registry artifact. tab.
Figure 27. Output provided by the PowerShell runscript listing the artifacts found on the host
Figure 28. Output provided by the PowerShell runscript listing the removal commands that you can use to completely remediate WannaMine v4.0
Recommendations
Gain advance visibility across your endpoints with an endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution such as the CrowdStrike® Falcon platform. Turn on next-gen antivirus (NGAV) preventative measures to stop malware.
Keep systems up to date: Patch for MS17-010 to stop EternalBlue exploitation.
Segregate the network where possible to limit lateral movement.
Monitor / filter / block at the network level for known coinminer sites.
Detect network scanning. Contain unapproved hosts as fast as you can.
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The CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Team reduces the time needed to remediate endpoints by providing the skills and expertise required to take proper action. The Team does the remediation for you, eliminating the arduous task of reimaging the endpoints and reducing the risk of a breach.
The Falcon Complete Team has been following the numerous iterations of the WannaMine malware and are well-versed in the removal of the latest variant, WannaMine v4. This removal is done by taking a surgical approach and removing the many artifacts that WannaMine scatters on the host, all without having to reimage the system.
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On patient zero, the injected process, SearchIndexer.exe begins scanning the local subnet for EternalBlue vulnerable hosts.
Figure 29. Process execution information within the Falcon UI indicating network lateral movement
Newly infected victim (Figure 30) has been found and exploited by EternalBlue. Notice LSASS process dropping out a new persistence SVCHOST service and newly generated dll.
Figure 30. Process execution information within the Falcon UI showing signs of a newly infected victim that was exploited via Eternal Blue
A.2 TIMESTOMPING EXAMPLE
Again, timestomping on the dll has occurred — even more notably than previously on our patient zero — to further evade detection, setting it back into 2009.
Figure 31. Runscript output indicating timestomping being used
Figure 32. Native RTR output indicating timestomping being used
Figure 33. Image showing compiler timestamp for the binary
A.3 WINDOWS 7 SVCHOST GROUPING EXAMPLE
With a Windows 7 host, the SVCHOST grouping is also important: You should not kill off the PID as this would disrupt the OS and could cause instability with the host.
Figure 34. Image showing numerous services grouped with this specific svchost process
By stopping the service gracefully, we can see it no longer shows under PID 996.
Figure 35. Image showing the malicious service has been removed from the process without killing other legitimate system services
Additional Resources
Find out how CrowdStrike can help your organization answer its most important security questions: Visit the CrowdStrike Services webpage.
Learn how any size organization can achieve optimal security with Falcon Complete by visiting the product webpage.
Learn about CrowdStrike’s comprehensive next-gen endpoint protection platform by visiting the Falcon products webpage. | https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/weeding-out-wannamine-v4-0-analyzing-and-remediating-this-mineware-nightmare/ |
This blog was originally published by Pivot Point Security here.
These days cloud service providers (CSPs) don’t just need to prove to customers and other stakeholders that they are secure—they also need to demonstrate that they have a strong privacy program. But how can CSPs make a convincing attestation about complying with privacy regulations like GDPR?
In response to this industry need, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has added a GDPR compliance component to their suite of programs.
CSA’s GDPR compliance program has three parts: the GDPR cloud controls, an implementation guide that shares best practices, and the CSA Code of Conduct. CSPs can then review their privacy posture in relation to these benchmarks.
The attestation is an evidence-based self-assessment. CSA provides guidance on what evidence to collect and how to collect it. (Generally, the required data is not confidential.) Then an independent third party, an international law firm specializing in privacy, reviews the submission. They provide feedback on whether the evidence is adequate and may ask for additional evidence.
Once a CSP’s GDPR self-assessment is vetted, CSA issues them a certificate that’s good for one year. If you need to demonstrate compliance with other privacy standards, you can do it by mapping controls from GDPR to the other framework.
Certifying the CSA Code of Conduct
In 2022, CSA is looking to get its privacy Code of Conduct approved by the European Data Protection Board. Then they can offer third-party certification against their CSA Code of Conduct, which exceeds the GDPR requirements and is specific to the cloud—a combination unique in the industry.
What makes CSA’s privacy program so valuable is that CSPs have few other options to demonstrate their privacy postures. One is a SOC 2 report that includes the Privacy principle. The other is adding the ISO 27701 privacy requirements to the scope of an existing ISO 27001 certification.
The CSA’s GDPR compliance program, soon to be expanded and made more generic and applicable to other privacy regulations besides GDPR, is a third option. And it’s currently the only option for CSPs that don’t already have ISO 27001 or SOC 2 programs in place. | https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2022/07/14/how-the-cloud-security-alliance-addresses-privacy/ |
1. Communications with beneficiaries and supporters
One of the objectives of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to shield people from being pestered with unwanted marketing communications (including fundraising appeals). Which is laudable. But when does a communication count as marketing? The rules don’t always seem to apply to non-profit scenarios – especially because there is an additional set of rules when the communications are by phone, email or text.
Much of the time the solution can be found by following two principles:
Make sure that people know how and why you want to contact them.
Give them as much choice as possible: if they don’t want to hear from you, or don’t want a particular kind of contact, you would have to have a very strong justification for not allowing them a choice or for going against their wishes.
You can spend a lot of time debating whether the choice should be opt in (we need you to say ‘yes’) or opt out (you can say ‘no’), and the rules can seem a bit complicated. But at the end of the day if you behave reasonably and treat people the way you would like to be treated no one is likely to complain.
2. Staff and volunteer training
If anyone – staff or volunteer – gets it wrong in how they handle data about the people you are in contact with it’s the organisation that gets the blame. We could be talking about using the data in unapproved ways, sharing it when it shouldn’t be shared, taking insufficient care of the data when they are working from home or out of the office, or making mistakes in what they record and how they record it.
There is lots of scope for error.
Small organisations don’t have a lot of time or money for training staff, let alone for training volunteers, especially when there are lots of people all doing small amounts of work, and possibly with a high turnover.
But enforcement action has been taken by the Information Commissioner against charities for failing to train volunteers appropriately, so the risk is real – including the possibility of significant fines.
Even a volunteer-run HIV support group was fined £250 when they sent out an email to their several hundred group members that contained the private email addresses of everyone in the group.
Your volunteer code of conduct probably talks about confidentiality already, but as a minimum it should also address key Data Protection matters, and all volunteers should be reminded of their responsibilities from time to time.
3. Subject access
People are gradually becoming aware of their right of ‘subject access’ – in other words to have a copy of the information that any organisation holds about them. For a small organisation it can be quite a scary event if someone puts in a subject access request.
Again, the rules can be complicated: potentially you have to go through all your records (including, for example, emails) to find any reference to the person who has made the request and then go through all the material to decide which information does have to be disclosed (most of it) and which should be withheld, perhaps because it breaks the confidentiality of someone else.
The rule here is not to panic.
It’s better to get it right, even if you have to tell the person that it might take longer than the month you are allowed. This is one area where it’s definitely worth looking on the Information Commissioner’s website for guidance on how to proceed.
There are other rights that people might try to exercise: the ‘right to be forgotten’ (which isn’t as drastic as it sounds) and the right to have incorrect information corrected (which is one you would definitely want to comply with.
Lots of collaboration takes place within the voluntary sector, which is a good thing. We could be talking about anything from a one-off joint event to a long-term programme where the same clients or beneficiaries receive a range of services, each provided by a different organisation.
When any collaboration involves sharing data about individuals, things can get a bit complicated. Different organisation have different recording systems, and probably slightly different approaches to how they use and look after people’s data.
Given goodwill on all sides, reaching agreement on how to manage these differences shouldn’t be a problem – but it’s something you must think about, and preferably before your collaborative activity takes place.
You love getting money from funders, right? Do you also love the funding agreement they make you sign? Many voluntary organisations find that their funding agreement contains provisions about the handling of personal data which either don’t make sense legally or impose impossible conditions.
Getting technical for a moment: it is usually wrong for a funder to state that they are the data Controller and the funded organisation is a Processor. That would only be true if the funder actively tells you how to manage the data you collect, and if the data belongs to them at the end of the project. It’s much more likely that the funded organisation is a Controller, possibly a joint Controller with the funder.
If any funder puts forward a funding agreement that seems wrong, or that you don’t understand, it is worth taking advice. You might be able to get this advice for free from the Information Commissioner’s Office, or you might have to ask a friendly lawyer.
Don’t be afraid to ask for support if you find that things are getting complicated.
The Information Commissioner’s helpline (0303 123 1113) is, understandably, very busy at the moment, but if you really aren’t sure about something it’s a very useful resource.
For further information about the General Data Protection Regulation and key areas it covers including personal data; legal basis for processing; the six principles and compliance - have a look at my The Elements of GDPR resource.
This blog has been produced as part of our Digital Leadership 101 series of training and advice for CEOs and trustees of small charities, funded by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and run in partnership with The FSI, NAVCA and London Plus. | https://superhighways.org.uk/latest/data-protection-5-simple-ways/ |
The passing of Bill C-51 by the federal government will facilitate surveillance of emails and internet activity at the expense of privacy, freedom of expression and circulation.
Social actors will be the first targets of the increased surveillance. Both as a preventative and protective measure, it is crucial that the impacted organisations engage in secure online behaviour when using internet tools and ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies).
By social actors, we mean activists: econological, student, community, union, feminists, political, indigenous groups among others.
We offer in Montreal a training session on secure online communications. | https://www.alternatives.ca/en/agenda/participate-cybersecurity-training-session |
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) offer immense innovation opportunities across various industry sectors.
FREMONT, CA: Earlier augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) were considered science fiction, but now they have become more than experimental technologies. They are rapidly entering the mainstream, especially in the consumer world of collaborating media. But it is not just things like video games that are being transformed by the increasing growth of VR platforms because there are some profitable businesses for AR and VR. According to experts, these technologies will become extremely crucial in the future. | https://www.thecybersecurityreview.com/news/why-is-the-popularity-of-ar-and-vr-increasing-among-industrial-sectors-nwid-125.html?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=thecybersecurityreview_topslider |
Despite alarmist news reports, cybercrime against individuals rarely involves money—at least not directly. Even if a cybercriminal manages to steal your U.S. credit card number, Federal law insists the credit card company can’t charge you more than $50 no matter how much the cybercriminal spends using your card. (Most reputable credit card companies in the U.S. take this a step further and eliminate all fraudulent charges from your bill at no cost to you.)
But what cybercriminals often do to individuals is steal parts of their computer—computer processing power, memory, and bandwidth—so that they can send spam, infect other computers, and attack corporate websites. These attacks slow down your computer and get you in trouble with your Internet Service Provider (ISP), making you less productive and wasting your time with malware removal software and explanatory phone calls to your ISP.
Cybercriminals can do even worse damage to individuals, as in the case of child pornographers who try to avoid the police by storing their illegal images on computers belonging to people like you. They break into your computer and use it download these illegal images so that the police investigate you instead of them.
In addition to the direct damage cybercriminals do in their successful attacks against individuals, there is also the very high cost of blocking their attacks. Many of us pay for anti-virus software and firewalls to keep hackers out of our computers, the cost being more to keep a business safe from hackers. That’s not money we want to spend—we spend it because we must. If the nearly 2 billion people online pay an average of just $10 USD per year on cybersecurity (some people obviously pay more and some people pay nothing), that’s over $20 billion U.S. dollars in cybersecurity—a huge part of the cost of cybercrime.
Consumers have fairly strong financial protection from credit card fraud or PayPal fraud, but corporations and other large organizations don’t typically get the same guarantees. If you deal in thousands or millions of dollars a day, nobody wants to provide you outside fraud protection—so you have to provide it yourself. This creates an opportunity for clever hackers who can penetrate these large organizations and steal their money.
In addition, large organizations very often have a small number of competitors who may be willing to use cybercriminals to attack their competition. After all, if you really need to order your textbooks today and Amazon.com is offline, you will probably use Barnes & Nobel. (Not that I suspect either Amazon or Barnes & Nobel of illegal activity.)
Cybercriminals can also use large organizations the same way they use consumers but on a massively increased level. A system administrator I know who works for Google worries a lot about getting hacked, because if you hack him, you can get access to thousands of Google servers. Not only does the hacker get access to those thousands of servers, but he gets access to servers which most of the rest of the Internet trusts. If you hack Google’s email servers, you can send messages from GMail which look legitimate to every other mail server on the Internet but which can now contain spam.
There’s also another type of cybercrime which few people talk about but which most experts think is the most damaging type of cybercrime to corporations—internal attacks. That’s when a legitimate employee or contractor abuses his or her access within the company to attack the company out of spite, revenge, or just to make money. Because these attackers have legitimate credentials, there’s a limit to what a company can do to protect itself from internal attackers.
Finally, there’s cybercrime against governments or against institutions which are critical to a nation. These alleged cybercrimes are usually perpetrated by one government against another by government hackers, so (in a sense) they aren’t actually cybercrime. (Sovereign nations each get to define what actions they think are crime, so if a nation hires a hacker, that hacker’s actions aren’t criminal within the nation which hired him anymore than a soldier who kills enemy troops is a murderer.)
There are very few good statistics about government-against-government cybercrime, but the best guesses indicate that it causes several billion dollars of damage a year. Although many news stories in the U.S. focus on cybercrime against American institutions, it’s important to note that recently declassified documents from the Cold War show American hackers attacking Soviet institutions as far back as the 1970s. It’s likely that the U.S. and many other western nations still use hackers in a sort of economic warfare against countries they don’t like. | https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/cost-cybercrime-030031112.html |
An automated and independent malware testing service has taken a quick break from analyzing malware such as worms, information stealers, and rootkits so that it can crunch some numbers — and the news isn’t good for enterprises that rely exclusively on prevention-based security software packages.
Bad actors are racing to create new malware types and strains that are specifically designed to penetrate gaps in conventional breach prevention software. As reported by David Braue of CSO Online, the aggregated the results of the regular monthly test of 33 different malware threats, and found that in the second half of 2014 none of the eight security packages included in its analysis — each of which are produced by major vendors — detected 100% of threats. The best-performing package detected 86% of malware, while the worst detected just 12%. The average detection rate for all eight packages was 55%.
“Malware authors continued to outpace security vendors in the second half of 2014, releasing so many and so varied malware strains that in some months security tools from major vendors did not detect any of the malware they were presented with,” writes Braue.
Despite the feeble malware detection rates, the report’s findings do not invalidate the necessity of prevention-based software packages. They still need to be part of an enterprise’s overall cybersecurity system. However, these findings starkly highlight that:
[See example in new version of Dyre malware]
Many enterprises are currently under attack right now, but are unaware because their breach prevention software has not set off any alarms. Indeed, attacks at Target, Home Depot, K-Mart, and many other high-profile enterprises lasted for months before they were detected.
Enterprises need to augment their breach prevention software with new technology that enables them to rapidly detect actual infections, identify compromised devices, and remediate malware at every stage of the kill chain.
The bottom-line is that in today’s evolving cyber threat landscape, preventing 100% of malware infections with any (or even every) software package available is not just unlikely: it’s impossible.
The sooner that enterprises accept this fact and start focusing on detection, the safer their assets, people, customers, and reputations will be. | http://www.seculert.com/blogs/malware-slips-by-prevention-based-security-software |
Researchers from Intego have discovered the OSX/OpinionSpy spyware in 29 free Mac OS X screensavers currently online at 7art-screensavers(dot)com.
According to the company's security alert, despite the fact that the "market research" program also known as RelevantKnowledge, claims to collect only browsing and purchasing information, a deeper investigation reveals a much more intrusive approach.
It injects code, without user intervention, into Safari, Firefox and iChat, and copies personal data from these applications. Code injection is a form of behavior similar to that of a virus, and this malware “infects” applications when they are running to be able to carry out its operations. (It infects the applications’ code in the Mac’s memory, and does not infect the actual applications’ files on the user’s hard disk.)
It regularly sends data, in encrypted form, to a number of servers using ports 80 and 443. It sends data to these servers about files it has scanned locally, and also sends e-mail addresses, iChat message headers and URLs, as well as other data. This data may include personal data, such as user names, passwords, credit card numbers, web browser bookmarks, history and much more
If a user deletes the original application or screen saver that installed this spyware, the spyware itself will remain installed and continue to operate.
The authors of these screensavers have bundled the RelevantKnowledge application within the installation process, which naturally cannot continue unless the user accepts the EULA describing the program as the "Trees of Knowledge".
The RelevantKnowledge spyware/adware app, is a well known Windows based pest, with a surprisingly high number of people still willing to install it, in order to access the freeware application used as the lure. The risks involved? Excluding the intrusive, spyware-like practices of the application, in 2006, several researchers discovered a remotely exploitable flaw within the application, allowing anyone to perform keylogging and monitoring of active windows content on every host running it.
Clearly, the people attempting to monetize their screensavers using RelevantKnowledge, are not just borrowing tricks from the playbook of the Windows malware author, using the ubiquitous "freeware application" as a lure, but have ported the spyware to Mac OS X.
The screensavers' site, as well as the MishInc FLV To Mp3 application remain online. Considering the fact that it's only a matter of time until they rebrand these applications, in between switching to new layouts, it's worth emphasizing on the fact that, there's no such thing as a free screensaver unless it's bundled with something malicious these days.
Mac OS X malware (New Mac OS X malware variant spotted; Mac OS X SMS ransomware - hype or real threat?) is no longer an urban legend, and neither are the remotely exploitable flaws targeting Apple's OS, or the third party apps/plugins running on it. | http://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-watch-free-mac-os-x-screensavers-bundled-with-spyware/ |
In our working days, it can be difficult to fully concentrate on tasks 100% of the time, especially when churning through a backlog of emails.
The truth is, many of us believe that we're able to spot the signs of a fraudulent email, without actually knowing what the real signs are. Simply knowing not to interact with an email that is asking for personal information isn't enough to avoid a phishing scam - especially with these attacks becoming more and more cunning.
From the automatic ‘mailer’ technique of launching a high volume of emails targeted towards the more susceptible users - to the more direct technique of ‘spear phishing’ a specific individual of certain importance to an organisation, all of us have the potential to take the bait. That is why spotting the warning signs of a phishing attempt is important.
But if/when you receive an email asking for personal information, it's time to be smart.
Legitimate organisations should never request sensitive information via email, especially banks. If you are suspicious of the email, then contacting the original sender can be a good option to take. Looking out for ‘red flags’ or warning signs is also a good technique. If the email is asking for information such as your password, then this should be reported to your IT department.
-Don't give in to scare tactics
Phishers like to get you to react quickly - and they have a range of proven techniques to do so. Scare tactics, such as threatening to disable an account or delay services until you update certain information, can often make an employee unwittingly hand over their personal information through a state of urgency. Fraudulent emails that appear to be from your IT support team asking for a password change is a common example.
Be sure to contact the merchant directly to confirm the authenticity of their request, and raise the issue to IT should your suspicion increase.
-Look out for spelling and grammar mistakes
Employees tend to be common targets for hackers and they will continue to be until employees stop reacting to phishing emails and happily giving away their information.
Most phishing emails contain blatant indications of being fake. Punctuation can often appear different to that of legitimate ones, with typos, excessive exclamation marks (especially for scare tactics) and capital letters indicating that they might not be from an authentic source.
Even the way in which the email greets the user can be a suspicious sign. Common examples are ‘Dear Sir/ Madam’ and ‘Dear Customer’, which both noticeably show a lack of personal details, such as your name, not being available to them.
Although many of these mistakes are genuine errors by the attackers, intentional mistakes are also used in order to pass spam filters, improve responses and to weed out the more savvy recipients who are aware of such scams.
-Look out for dodgy links or attachments
Never use links in an email to connect to a website - unless you are absolutely sure it is authentic. Instead, open a new browser window and type the URL directly into the address bar. Often, a phishing website will look identical to the original - look at the address bar to make sure that this is the case.
In some phishing emails the URL will look legitimate, hovering your mouse over the top of the URL will show you the real address. If the address is different from the one displayed, there is a high chance its a phishing email.
Pop-up phishing involves fraudulent messages that "pop up" whilst your surf the web. Phishers will infect legitimate well known websites with malicious code that causes pop-up messages to appear when someone visits the website.
The content of the pop-up message usually presents the visitor with a fraudulent warning, usually about security on their device. The aim of these phishing pop-ups are to prompt the visitor to download a tool "to fix the problem" these tools are usually anti virus applications or firewalls. Once the visitor downloads the tool their device will become infected with some form of malware.
One effective but simple way to prevent phishing emails is to utilise an effective spam filter software program in your email system.
The spam filter will filter out any spam, including phishing emails. (however, some phishing emails can still make it into your inbox)
Read Next: Your Complete Guide To Employee Phishing Scams.
Since most phishing emails have specific characteristics, its easy for the spam filter to identify such emails before they even reach your inbox. The most advanced spam filter is Gmail, its very easy to enable your spam filters on Gmail:
go to Settings (in the top right hand corner)> The click Account and Import> Click Send Mail> Fill in the details in the pop up box and follow the instructions.
Enabling this will not only prevent phishing emails but it was also give you an rich interface for your email address.
-Implement 2FA and MFA
Using a strong password to protect your accounts will simply not cut it. Cyber security threats are continuing to grow in variety and sophistication, this is why its crucial to do what ever you can to protect your data.
You might not realise it, but most people regularly use 2FA. For example, when swiping your debit card you are asked to enter you pin code or write a check. Two factor authentication requires two ways of providing your identity through two different means.
As well as 2FA, multi factor authentication is an added layer of security on your online accounts. Instead of requesting two forms of security MFA will request 3-4 types of authentication such as:
Phishing your employees is one of the most important ways to combat the threat of phishing. With email being the main source of business communication these days, its a favourite target for cyber criminals.
Many organisations invest heavily in tools and other technology gadgets, this is a great way to protect devices but there not the weakest link in the security chain... it your employees.
Phishing your employees has numerous benefits. It allows you to locate individual knowledge gaps and provides you with a clear into how vulnerable your organisation actually is.
Phishing simulations bring reality to your employees and unconsciously creates a mindset that scrutinises emails before taking action.
We have a free phishing tool that enables you to launch your own phishing simulation with ease and track your users' open and click rate.
-Regular backups and updates
Backing up your data makes it a lot easier to retrieve it. Conducting regular backups has multiple benefits, one obvious reason to back up your data is the recover in the event of a breach. With cyber security threats constantly evolving, backing up your system on a regular basis is incredibly valuable.
As well as helping the recovery of your data backing up adds an extra layer of security. When you implement remote data backup, you store your data in a secure location.
Upgrading your software is another crucial element of strong security. By keeping software up to data you and your end users can ensure their system works smoothly and prevents the system from crashing. When updating your software it comes along with new features and services that can offer great value to your organisation and employees. | https://blog.getusecure.com/post/an-it-managers-guide-to-preventing-employee-phishing-attacks |
As more time passed, we began to forget year by year. A handful of enlightened spirits returned again and again. In every age, they guided humanity away from its new shadow leaders to freedom.
The wise know all too well that every species undergoes events of natural destruction, either brought on by the cosmos or themselves. The time is approaching for another such event to take place, yet it has not been engineered by aliens or galactic forces, but a minority of our own people. Every man, woman and child will have to fight for their very survival, but sadly a majority of them will be unprepared. Political leaders that are mere puppets to the powers that be will induce the downfall of our modern global civilisation… There will be a gruesome battle across the Mediterranean, as invaders will lay siege against the Vatican. All will be destroyed, before invaders will break through to its secrets vaults. Yet, nothing will be lost. Not only the Akashic Records carry this information that can be accessed from anywhere, copies will also remain on Earth held by only a small elite.
In the view of a sadistic, narcissistic psychopath, the freedom you hold is an illusion that they have created to pacify you. Yet, they rely on the attachments that you have formed in the world. Your family, friends and every single one of your needs as well as desires makes you vulnerable, since they can easily be controlled or even replaced with toxic substances that make you even more reliant on their costly medical care. From the moment of birth, we not only repeat a cycle of birth and death…They ensure that few shall never break free.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a process of continued assimilation through violence and silent genocide. Your life is in the hands of people that you may not even believe exist…People that laugh at how many wholeheartedly believe they are free in a world where freedom is illegal. If this possibility does not scare us, or does not validate further investigation, then our ignorance of the world, we live in, may become a prison that we cannot escape from.
However, if we become so afraid of losing that we never try, we shall never dare to win. Spiritually speaking, if we are pure of heart, then all we can do is win, even if we suffer seemingly irreconcilable losses. One of the most important truths that we have forgotten is the power of our being. The power that any ordinary person can change the world.
In a world, where what you believe is designed to serve a carefully thought-out purpose, believe nothing and question everything. Be kind, but do not destroy yourself. Honour the essence of your being and trust that there are higher powers at work, which can never be harnessed through dark deeds or for dark purposes.
The prophet Mohammed rode into battle alongside his female lieutenant, whereas the present-day interpretation of Islam has made women prisoners in their own homes. It has made them tools of self-gratification for men from the moment they can crawl. It is not only despicable, it is highly dangerous, as to the mental health of their victims. They are creating ticking time-bombs in charge of raising future generations, which can only result in hich rates of violent crime and suicide.
Generation after generation has been subjected to psychological torment and has been beaten into sexual submission, as a blatant abuse of the religious authority of the state. In such a country, where there is no protection for women, their offsprings can never be of optimal psychological health, regardless of the gender. They are raised with extreme forms of Stockholm syndrome, after being beaten, sexually abused and coerced into religious worship. Every inch of their identity is stripped from them…Every basic requirement from the food they eat, the clothes they wear to what they say is controlled by the men in their lives. Now, is that a life, in which any of us can ever be at peace with the world or ourselves?
Sharia Defies Human Rights
Women have it hard enough in the West without the inference of religious laws being thrust upon those that are enslaved and oppressed by them. No country should be governed by laws that advocate gender biases, it only festers corruption and inequality. For those few women that survive, cold indifference becomes a state of being. Some ex-Muslims that I have spoken to live in fear of Islam. As apostates, Sharia laws means condemning them to death. It seems that men, women and children are becoming slightly more afraid with each day that Islamic Laws will create an Islamic State, where no justice can prevail.
There is a difference between being ‘islamophobic’ and being weary of the surge of migrants that are taking a hold of the West, so Educate Yourself. Do not believe what you read in the Newspaper, unless you can be 100% certain that is not propaganda. Know your cultural history, read more books, trust your gut and see for yourself what is happening in your community.
Organised Religion has no room in state politics or in the administration of the law. Particularly, when it defies human rights and common sense. Since the abolishment of capital punishment, what use is there for religion in the court-room? Prayer cannot change the verdict of a judge. It cannot protect the guilty or shield the innocent, as much as sending a thought into the universe can alter the course of cause and effect. It is unethical to demand religious devotion and/or worship of a non-believer. We were all born with free will. We have the right to be free from religion. That does not mean we have to thrust our beliefs down everybody’s throats, but we can act in defence of our right to free expression.
In a world, where religious freedom is political and political expression is religious. It becomes obvious that they reversed the rules on us in an attempt to infiltrate. It’s psychological warfare 101 to turn the target nation in on itself to weaken its defences. Without the ability to defend itself, it is ready for the taking. (Particularly, if you’ve already taken the outer zones)
France: While the protests are still ongoing for at least the next month, the no-go zones appear to be expanding. Although the Erdogan, the Turkish PM, criticises the French for their way of handling the demonstrators, if the tables were turned, we would witness a press-blackout followed by a significant reduction in the population. Erdogan is demonstrating another tactic of political infiltration, using our own weapons religion, politics and law against us.
The only thing that can possibly win against this is war. The time when complete non-resistance or non-cooperation across Europe would have been effective has passed. Now, our options are limited by the number of people we can dedicate to the problem of violent crime in our streets. The more people support the political freedom of their country, the less violence will need to be applied to regain their policies and territories. The less people take action, the more brutal the measures have to be. When outnumbered against hordes of battle-trained war refugees with more reinforcements hiding in close proximity, the situation can become life-threatening in seconds.
Germany: With about 1.5M refugees, only about 446’000 have been granted asylum. Although the remainder have not left the country, Germany has not taken any action. With daily sexual assaults by 3-15+ economic migrants converging on a single woman, law enforcement is reluctant to pursue the matter for religious/political reasons. An asylum seeker does not commonly exhibit hostile tendencies or commit violent crimes in the country that has given him or her refuge. If their application is denied by the state, they may resort to petty theft to support themselves, but they do not rape and pillage whatever catches their attention at the time.
A good tactician plays with his target, as a cat would with a mouse. They feign weakness, in the form of poverty and immobility, until they suddenly pounce upon their target. Yet, economic migrants are not as skilled at covert warfare, which plays in our favour by altering us to the threat the moment it began. However, the instant Merkel announced her open-door policy, welcoming millions into the country, she opened the country to political invasion. Without the forced deportation of millions of economic migrants that have remained long after their legal right to stay expired, Germany will continue to suffer. As Merkel refuses to assist her people out a sense of false pride in her decision, she is a representative of the people…And in every country, people have the right to simply refuse public support. It is even our human right to refuse elected officials, if we feel our political freedoms are threatened or compromised. Merkel opened the front gates and invited in a Trojan horse that she is now refusing to acknowledge or even comment on. Her unwillingness to respond to negative feedback make her highly dangerous and perhaps unstable. Ironically, her decision has made Germany more powerful in the European Union, but it has sacrificed its people to achieve this and most likely the future of the EU.
Although only 250’000 people would be required to gather in Berlin to overwhelm authorities, there is consistent evidence that the retaliation against political resistance in the fight for political freedom would be more than just instantaneous.
Austria: An EU exit would be perhaps one of the most peaceful solutions. Having grown up in the area, we never needed border control, remember what that was like? When you could walk through the Alps without worrying about migrants, lurching in the bushes. Now, even locking the door or excellent security system cannot stop the high increase in burglaries, rapes and random violence. Only 50’000 protesters are required to overwhelm die Wiener Behörden in a unified movement for the rights of men and women alike to regain political control over their country.
Switzerland: In a recent attack in May 2016 at a Swiss border, caught on CCTV, a group of approx. 2″ migrants blocked the road. The car stopped, the driver and passenger exited vehicle and before they knew it another 15 migrants descended into them out of the woods nearby. When in doubt, always stay in your car, lock the doors and drive and dial the police, if necessary. In the footage, a car sped by and took some of the migrant off their feet (without visibly injuring any of them). However, the content quickly turns into a snuff film as they knock out the driver and group around the female passenger after giving her a bloody nose and take her trousers off…
Here’s what happened & what is yet to come:
As a female psychologist in a profession that’s pretty much a boys-club, I may be scarcely heard or acknowledged, but I’m afraid to say that I turn out to be right more often than I’m comfortable with. Some women enjoy the thrill of the “I told you so.”, I just find it adds animosity to an already tense, if not hostile situation. (Being right for women is like telling someone to move their shit on the stairs, before they stumble over it. Nobody cares when you say it but you can be guaranteed that there’s going to be a crash, bang and wallop in the near future)
Hinduism: 400 million Hindus were slain during Muslim invasion and occupation of India. Survivors were enslaved and impregnated or castrated. India’s population is said to have been around 600 million at the time of Muslim invasion. By the mid 1500’s, the Hindu population had been reduced to approx. 200 million. (The conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. “Hindu slaughter.”)
Mass Rapes: In April 2016, a group of male refugees, heading for Europe accidentally wound up across the border of Russia. They 40-50 of them charged into a night-club and began to seize the female staff and guests for their own twisted pleasure. Although it did not take long until Russian law enforcement intervened and administered their own brand of justice.
Public Beheadings: As tensions increase, they will undoubtedly attempt to make an example of public and/or religious figures. Lyle Zimmermann fell victim to this fear-tactic, when he was attacked a tube-station and almost publicly beheaded. This is just another example of how the verse of the sword is misused to target any religious organisation that they cannot infiltrate. This commonly accomplished by spreading fear and ridding them of their most beloved members.
HIV & Other STD’s: The surge of migrants and continued number of sexual assaults is likely to propagate many incurable sexually-transmitted conditions. Most commonly reported conditions reported in survivors are HIV and Hepatitis. Considering this inconceivable fate, survivors would be at a higher risk of suicide. Victim support in these cases is essential, but often neglected, but there is much that we can all do to provide a safe place for them to begin the healing process. (Although there’s nothing that can’t be treated with a bi-annual dose of 9-Liquid Ounces of cannabis in a country, where it is legal, these strands are most likely more invasive, but still originate from the same man-made strain. To flush and restart the system would necessitate an additional 1-2 liquid ounces per month. It is recommended to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and processed food in-between treatment, but pure blunts or hemp & cannabis joints have shown to aid recovery. It should be noted that every liquid ounce is comparably three times more than a solid ounce of freshly grown medicinal cannabis, so don’t underestimate the amount required for this endeavour. In this case, better too much than too little and sooner rather than later.)
Religious & Political Warfare: Over the previous centuries, Islam has destroyed a great deal of spiritual, academic culture. Entire Buddhist and Hindu temples that have existed since before the birth of Christ were eradicated or burnt to a cinder. From a Western perspective, there is no amount of resistance from a single individual that can combat the birth-rate of the migrant population. One against 50 only works, when you have an uzi with unlimited ammunition, a suicide-vest or (if you’re a woman) a cyanide pill. (Especially now since every good muslim should have at least 4 kids) Only political resistance from small groups or large crowds, which invariably devolve into violence, would make an impact.
Political Infiltration: All migrants require is humanitarian tolerance in a host country, and the political freedom of women is directly threatened. Women are snatched off the streets, impregnated and detained in no-go zones against their will. We often speak of racial bias but we only criticise and improve our own conduct. While their blatant disregard of the Western cultures as well as laws grows disguised as religion, we are too busy arguing over the finer points of morality. Our judicial systems are morally superior through the sheer fact that we do not prohibit women from leaving their homes unaccompanied. We do not allow child marriages and yet migrants are abducting more children from playgrounds. If they disappear, we cannot judge their ‘way of life’, which is inherently detrimental to women. The mere existence of Sharia Law in this world is a hate-crime against women. Dare I say, the mere existence of Islam, for their punishment of apostasy with death, is a crime against humanity and every freedom we hold dear.
Mosques Everywhere: A success for Islam would be to establish a mosque at every single street-corner in every single country. Countries, which embrace Islam, must allow Sharia law. By doing so, they weaken their stance on human rights, opening themselves even further to the possibility of being subjected to religious laws that did not originate from the country.
Mass Executions of Non-Believers: In Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the United States and Europe, one does not need to look very far to see mass executions swept neatly under the carpet. A large amount of the no-go zones were acquired and expanded through harassment and violent crime. In London, Berlin, Sweden and Denmark, they are extending their grasp in the community by extorting shop-keepers. If they refuse to pay, they will vandalise the store and often grievously injure staff. These are all basic warfare tactics that mark the first stage of a religious and political invasion.
Brexit: Although this culture of violence has spread to the United Kingdom, it appears as if most of the illegal migrants that smuggled their way into England are too occupied by the EU referendum. Their vote and yours will determine, whether British culture will become history. Brexit would be only means to stop the inflow, while it is still manageable, but that does not end the economic warfare tactics of the EU. However, the more countries would leave the EU and cooperate to re-build than without a Brexit. It’ll take time to rebuild every fraction that the EU surgically sliced out of Britain, ranging from steel, the docks, import and export to the military. However, if the protests in France give the migrant population the advantage they seek, the entirety of Europe would feel the hostile presence that has taken ahold of their communities. As Hitler once said, all you need to do to control Europe is conquer France, yet England has always been the key piece. Without Britain, you have nothing, which explains the consistent surge of illegal migrants and repeated attempts to break through Calais. It is military strategy, rather than a benefit or healthcare scam. That and they are still trying to get back at us from last time, when they swore holy war against the British Empire (although most historians are asked by the EU to omit that part).
Point-Based Immigration: If the system survives the propaganda pumped out by mainstream media, and make it through to a trial run, it would certainly not collapse the global economy. Far from it, it would offer the British Isle the opportunity to re-build their infrastructure. To produce and manufacture, instead of import everything from EU. Especially since the product quality has been severely diminished, as the products are not able to face the harsh environmental conditions. For example, german-made propellers for wind-farms are not capable of withstanding a certain speed of winds, hence they continually break down due lower wind threshold. In simple terms, they overheat quickly and break due to deliberately poor craftsmanship. (This costs the taxpayer thousands every single time that maintenance is required. For a fraudulent scam, they’ve amassed vast sums from only that one product. One shudders to crunch the numbers of all EU-products with high incident report rates) However, much it has been requested by the public to switch back to British models, this issue could no longer be ignored after an EU exit. Other countries would benefit from the economic growth of Britain, as they have many times before. The world is only as strong as its weakest, most exploited countries. Although not as exploited as some countries, the EU is still attempting strategically crush Britain beyond the point of return.
Civil War: Brutality is the only means to justice in a society, in which there is no judicial system outside of religious law. A system, in which the people do not serve to protect each other…In which freedom of expression and sacredness of life are a faint memory of the past. With the press-blackouts, police orders to keep the migrant crisis quiet, repeated assaults and foiled terrorist attempts, it is only a matter of time, until the people do what they are good at…Fight for the most basic rights of all living beings. To protect themselves and the rights of women in future generations.
These times remind me of the reign of Cesar. As a form of entertainment for the masses, hordes of Caucasian slaves were led into the arena to face hordes of Middle-Eastern slaves. Only this time, for the entertainment of the elite, hordes of Middle-Eastern migrants surge to every corner of the globe. While we are on the brink of mass extinction, depopulation measures are still in full swing, as evident by the increase in fatalities as a result of disease, violent crime and protests across the world.
Hard times are right before us, although this may be hard to believe, the signs are everywhere. That notwithstanding, we are all afraid to lose what we have, but what we could possibly gain by seeing our situation through equals a new humanity…In more than one way:
World-War: Islam is evidently forcing its way into many countries that are not very fond of its presence or its laws. Currently, everyone is simply waiting for a small spark to ignite the fuse and burn through Europe. Despite the fact that many people are in denial that Islam is setting up strategic invasion points in the form of strong holds. Moreover, these mosques have been found to contain smaller and larger arsenals of weapons, ranging from semi-automatic firearms (in the UK) to a nuclear warhead (in France).
Mass Extinction: With every passing day, a substantial number of animals succumb to the exposure of toxins that we are pumping into their environment. Without them, our survival is not only compromised…Our entire way of life would change in the blink of an eye. It should be noted that whereas wild animals lose their natural habitat through disaster, extreme temperatures or deforestation. Additionally, once their natural habitat has been ravaged, they cannot maintain a steady food or water supply without impinging on what we consider to be ‘ours’. Many cannot find refuge amongst humanity, except for kill shelters. On a separate note, the number of animal deaths is accelerating beyond the amount of human casualties. If we were to lose as many members and/or variants of our own species, we would be overcome with sorrow, despair, or even desperation…We would not be able to deny that which is happening right in front of us.
Rationing: California is the perfect example of how a normal area, located can almost hunger and thirst to death by the water. Survival techniques such as evaporating salt-water into a drinkable form are of little use, when the pollutants condense along with water molecules. Conversely, crop failures due to extreme weather and natural disaster has become more widespread than anyone would like to admit.
Mass Suicide: Canada has declared a state of emergency as a result of over 100 suicides, involving Native Americans, in a period of 6-8 months. To elaborate, Native American teachings are very specific, when it comes down to ritual suicide. Similar to the Vedas, they do not permit ending one’s life, unless to avoid suffering through the inevitable. (Like the Hopi prophecies predicted when white man seized a large proportion of indigenous territories) A friend of mine consulted a Native American on the subject and she confirmed that selective traditions allow for desperate measure, but they generally warn that even if justified, suicide has consequences that affect the next rebirth.
Wealth Inequality: According to NASA, civilisation collapse is often fuelled by unequal wealth and resource distribution. Now, we already know a handful of people own almost everything. (Please view William Domhoffs research) But when times are hard, food as well as water becomes scarce. During the California drought, the rich transported trucks full of pristine bottled water that was denied to the average person. To die of thirst takes approximately one week, dependent on how fast dehydration becomes terminal. It is a slow, grinding process that encompasses a shut-down of clear thinking. (For example, if you’ve ever been really hungry or thirsty, multiply this by a million. You can’t think clearly, breathe without nausea, dizziness or stabbing pain. The longer time progresses, the more you’d be willing to do to satisfy base survival needs.) Truth be told, it takes a great amount of effort and self-discipline to keep one’s head, even when the situation is not on an apocalyptic scale.
Climate Change: Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal, which means everyday living will become less secure and more dangerous. No area around the globe can be safe from something that is reshaping the planet as a whole. Bear in mind that geo-engineering is terra-forming that has the byproduct of changing the climate by default…We are not merely changing the content of the oceans and soil, but also the atmosphere. Long-term exposure would invariably alter the face of the planet to a Venus equivalence. (Please see Geo-Engineering Equals Terra-Forming)
Earthquakes: Over several thousand years, the tectonic plates remodel themselves. Previously, this divided the plates into the continents that we see now, but earthquakes that occur around the fault-lines always carry the risk of fracturing them over time. In the case of the United States, many think that this would just result in a country being split in half. However, the entire west coast is susceptible to disappearing into the ocean. This is easy to imagine, when compared to arthritis. Arthritis causes two joints to rub against one another, regardless of whether synovial fluid production is highly efficient. Natural wear and tear occurs in the joints as we age, since they are not efficiently replenished or injured through physical trauma. Similarly, tectonic plates naturally float on liquid core, which equally rubs together, when the liquid cannot sufficiently absorb the impact, which causes earthquakes. When joints rub together to hard they often grind themselves down slowly over time, but more often than not bone fragments break off. When tectonic plates grind, earthquakes along a specific line become intensified. If you are living in an area with earthquakes, chances are they’ll get much worse, if they haven’t torn up the asphalt in various susceptible locations already…(In which case, you can get a map and analyse the geographical risk, by connecting the dots and monitor the situation. Fracking sites and vulnerable nearby locations that have already been hit can be highlighted as likely future disaster sites.)
Floods: Sea-levels are rising, as the Arctic is melting, which is old news. What we don’t consider is that this inflow of fresh, clean water can end one of two ways. (a) We utilise the water faster than it melts, which would not be surprising if temperatures continue to rise, pushing the planet beyond the point of recovery. The planetary environment would be irreversibly changed. (b) The planet engages in a natural reset, which takes the form of up to 40-100 year winter, an ice age or a massive natural disasters that allow nature to re-establish balance in order for the planet to survive instead of succumbing to man-made environmental changes.
The refugee crisis of 2015 (that is still waiting to reach its peak) has highlighted the Western resource and wealth inequality to the extent, where people are no longer able to deny its effects. The most common stressor that disturbs the balance of any relationship is money problems. It is one thing to be unable to afford going out on Friday night, it is quite another to scavenge for food. Women and men alike have their breaking point. However, it appears that over the previous years, men have been more greatly affected by the recessions than women. Once survival is threatened, all bets are off. The balance of power in the relationship is altered beyond the point of return.
One does not have to be mentally or emotionally unstable to break it off, when one’s partner is unable to provide. In many Western cultures, this behaviour is even encouraged. In fact, one would have to be either so mentally stable/unstable that it borders on sociopathic tendencies to stay. However, it also results in countless broken homes and single parents fending by themselves. Although everyone should have to prerogative to act as they choose, it is hard times that determine the strength of a relationship. If we all were to stray at the first sight of trouble, mankind would have never made it to present day. Nonetheless, many blood-lines most likely only survived, because they did whatever was necessary to ensure the continued existence of themselves and therefore their genetic lineage. One may argue that the current disposable nature of society has driven its inhabitants to view their relationships as equally disposable. While divorce sky-rockets, few strive to patch things up, regardless of what mistakes were made. The problems have begun to extend beyond the relationship and can rarely be reconciled, merely overcome.
For example, adultery has less of an impact on the outcome of relationships than money concerns. Whereas many can forgive the occasional slip-up, constant financial worries are overcome far less often. From personal experience, I can attest to the fact that long-term relationships are hard work, but they are also very rewarding, if you are with the right person. After two years, the relationship is still relatively fresh, however, many couples decide to tie the knot after approximately a year (dependent on age). In other words, the length of a relationship only partly affects the impact of financial woes. When women are put in the position of fuel poverty, starvation or homelessness, the majority will seek a more suitable mate that can meet their base requirements. However, the minority are either so in love that it does not matter or they are invested in the relationship for different reasons. Although it is often assumed that sex is a primary reason for this, I’ve always found it insufficient and unrealistic. Sexual pleasure can cloud the mind so far, before other needs become more pressing. Besides, homeless couples rarely have the opportunity to be intimate. Their bond is one much deeper. Theirs is one that goes beyond the material. In fact, research suggests couples that endure traumatic experiences or persistent hardship are more likely to stay together. In a way, the trust that is forged between couples when surviving life-threatening circumstances is profound and far less often betrayed. Couples describe a sense of knowing their partner at their best and at their worst. However, they also emphasise the uncertainty of entering a new relationship with a new partner that may not cope as effectively. One particular couple that I was acquainted with suffered great ordeals, only for the husband to pass on from a fatal head-wound two months after they had finally resettled. The wife found herself at the beginning of a complicated, long-winded grieving process, in which she closed herself off from the world. The one thing we had in common at the time was the fact that she could not imagine a relationship with any other type of man. When she began dating after a year of therapy, she asked me to call her an hour in to provide her with an emergency exit strategy. Despite the fact, she was comfortable socialising, she was bored out of her mind, listening to his macho tales. All she could hear was incessant jabbering about the newest gadgets, newest fashion and the woe-is-me tales of ex girlfriends that were probably drawn way out of proportion. As was evident, they were rather ill-matched. For most women, a financially stable man is irresistibly attractive, but wealth can disappear in an instant. Bankruptcy, financial hardship or other unfortunate experiences affect the way a minority of women operate. Particularly, when it comes down to selecting a mate.
Few men and women cope well during financial turmoil, which is understandable, since it is a matter of working progress. In Apocalypse & the Middle-Classes, I explained that different social classes cope differently when disaster strikes. The lead-up to mass extinction is grinding society to a halt, in some of the most inhumane ways to keep itself going for as long as possible. Without adequate food production and distribution to all of the planet, over a quarter of the species already live in poverty without proper nutrition. Adding the refugee crisis to the equation only shows how thin we are stretching ourselves with highly destructive tools to feed, clothe and shelter all. Once more, it highlights inadequate wealth and resource production, distribution and renewal. The resources we take, we do not replenish. The manner through which we produce these resources is not merely flawed but environmentally hazardous. Without addressing the root cause of our problems, we are and/or will be forced to resort to extreme measures to survive. In sum, our way of living inevitably affects our reproductive behaviour. For some women that means trading up, for others that means turning tricks, but for a small minority it means to reflect on the bigger picture. Each of those three coping mechanisms have their roots in fallen civilisations. Although prostitution is thought of as the oldest of all professions, it is generally discouraged and disapproved of in modern society, even in the most dire circumstances. Therefore, it is a road less travelled. Looking for another mate is considered the more logical option. But when everyone is just as worse off, who are you going to choose? Mass extinction invariably impedes on the logic of reproduction, in times where the survival of the species is threatened. This could result in reproductive behaviour reverting back to a time when the sacrifice of one’s own life for the life of the infant was a common occurrence. In other words, we may revert back to a time when we would had to selflessly play against the odds of our long-term survival for the sake of short-term happiness. The brutal truth is that few would willingly choose that end, if push comes to shove. Conversely, there are always be those that will.
“Some people view love and romance as a sacred bond between two individuals. Other people see love as a game, where the goal is to manipulate another individual and gain emotional power over a partner.”
In conclusion, it is often argued that women are driven to go where the food is on an evolutionary basis, unless conditioned behaviour or other events supersede the most basic survival mechanisms. This is particularly the case in societies where farming is not an option or prohibited by law. It is inferred that this is what makes us more likely to cheat, but only a small minority of women have it so bad that it justifies adultery, as they could technically decide to leave at anytime. Commitment issues are only a small part of why relationships fail. Uncertainty, misrepresentation, distrust or outright deceit are all the more manifest in presence of commitment and abandonment issues. On a separate note, a former client of mine always used to say “Women are like money’s. They won’t let go of the old branch until they’ve got a new one.” Despite his troubled past with women, he has a point. Ironically, his statement is true for a large percentage of men and women. Research suggests men and women are more prone to jumping from one relationship into another when the partner is far from what they’re looking for and a more suitable mate presents itself. However, it begs the question whether emotional attachment serves as an indicator of balance in the relationship. As an unhealthy degree of emotional attachment can develop in any relationship, it is often useful to take time and reflect…To continuously invest effort and resources into the relationship as a sign of commitment, if it is one-sided can hamper marital bliss and equality. However, some are not capable of reciprocity, even if the issue is addressed repeatedly. Particularly, where money is tight and emotions run too high for personal comfort. In that case, one has to either accept that they may not change or walk away.
Professor Lorenz Böllinger has recently stated within Swiss Newpapers that the “War on Drugs is over.” He stated that the majority of individuals in Germany must not become swayed by the recent legalization of Cannabis within the United States. He further added that it was impossible to stop individuals from consuming drugs. The professor also referred to it as the classical gateway drug. He is blatantly within the system and has been supporting individuals that have committed apparent child molestation. He is merely another corporate whore that is attempting to maintain his control within the power house. Liberal, in the Germanic realms, is merely another term for societal conformity. We are back within a war over drugs. Pharmaceuticals versus herbal soothers and the politics behind it. Countless individuals are losing billions, whilst a natural alternative is becoming accepted worldwide.
As evidenced throughout the entire period of decriminalization and legalization of marijuana within the United States, the economy is recovering, whilst violent crime rates have been lowered exponentially. Hemp and Marijuana are eventually crawling back into society after centuries of illegalization. Yet, how did this happen? How did it become illegal in the first place? Power and greed. The control of a substance. Before Cannabis and Hemp were criminalized, they were utilized instead of fossil fuels. Fields of hemp and marijuana would be grown within a time-span of 2-3 months, allowing for a constant fuel and medicine supply. In vitro, cannabis has a higher efficiency than chemo and radiation therapy and most other chemical supplements. The time has come, in which humanity returns to a natural way of living. A manner that does not cripple half of its population and utilizes them as a slave-force. The time has come for individuals within the system to take sides. Countless professional individuals have been driven to their ruin, since they supported a concept that would benefit mankind as a whole, yet lightens the wallets of the rich and powerful. The corrupt individuals that are currently in power can only linger in a state of control, if they are permitted to do so by the populous. The cloud of smoke that surrounds them will slowly disappear, as mankind awakens to the corruption within the corporations, politics and religion. The illusion that has been created in order to control mankind is dependent upon a failing education system, upon a state of inner helplessness. Cannabis, undoubtedly, removes all of the above. Marijuana, the former substance placed inside the peace pipes of the Native American Indians, has a history that stretched back further than the present struggle for power. Truth be told, within Switzerland, numerous batches of cannabis are sprayed with pesticides and worse. A dear friend of mine suffered the consequences years ago. The chemicals that are sprayed and even added to the FDA approved, pre-rolled joints, kill people. It damaged the health of the individual. This was not the point of cannabis or hemp. It was meant to be a product that allows for self-sufficiency. That allows the common man to stand up for themselves and produce their own livelihood. Hemp, in essence, has over 50’000 applications, therefore one could literally grow ones own and construct whatever the heart desired. For instance, in the 20-30’s, plastic that was constructed out of hemp was 20’000 times stronger that the average plastic used in modern society. There’s a scientific equation, in which concrete and hemp and merged, expanding and detracting with the heat and water, allowing it to be infinitely stronger and last very much longer. Conclusively, the battle of the legalization of cannabis has merely begun and it is merely the first step into a more eco-friendly and financially viable system. As long as corporate individuals such as Professor Lorenz Böllinger remain in the seat of power and perpetuate the lie of the system, society will be under the thumb of the corrupt and the unjust. Cannabis has been proven to expand consciousness, which would trigger an elevation in self-awareness and concentration. All that is required in order to overthrow a system, based upon nothing more than control and greed. We are currently facing the death of our planet and inevitably our species, yet with the legalization of cannabis, we can still turn it all around, cleansing the soil and the air simultaneously.
The breeding of intelligence within society has become considered a needless trait. Individuals are taught to follow orders rather than question them, if even they result in their undoing. We are educated that height and strength are highly desired characteristics within the mating process, yet psychologically that is a coping mechanism that has outlived its usefulness. Violence and self-defence is mostly against the law now, so why the aim for the tall, muscle-bound thug? Truth be told, safety is an illusion. Inevitably, you will die. Once you can accept that, you can move forward. There is countless evidence that the genomic code is equally affected by environmental factors as it is with genetic factors. Needless to mention, if one were to scroll forward in time to the time-frame, in which the entire genetic code can be understood, to the degree when each sub-molecular particle can be manipulated in order to benefit the individual, such as genetically increasing intelligence, it would not be too much of a stretch to imagine that this information could easily be sent back in time. The scientist providing himself with his life’s research in order to save years of study and progress further in a shorter period in time. Although one would be confronted with one simple paradox, the study would still have to be completed…It is a measure of saving time, rather than saving oneself the effort. If the entire genomic code was to be completely decoded, the construction of artificial intelligence becomes an effortless exercise that would allow society to evolve on a larger scale. If the IQ of the globe were to be raised, the rate of information processing would therefore increase. It should be noted that society has become a web of NLP and subliminal messaging. Individuals have become too focused upon immediate gratification and unable to develop social will within the politics of fear. Time has come for that cycle to be broken. Ultimate control can only be achieved through consent. The people remain at the very core of the power-house, as it may. Yet, if it were to implode, they will also be at the very heart of it. Nevertheless, if society were to become focused upon the breeding of genius intellect, the power structures would require to alter their game. In conclusion, it can be assumed that scientific research (not stratagems) has been sent back in time at one point or another, whether it was in this planet constellation could be argued. The 20-30 year copyright hold over technology, for instance. As civilisations, we are 30 years behind in the release of technological advances. The modern technology that we have now as around in the early 80’s, which falls into a gap year, in which the birth of those individuals outweighs every other age group combined 2 to 1. That which currently controls society, may it be aliens or time-travellers, are undoubtedly ahead of us. Technologically, mentally and perhaps even physically. One actions of theirs influences the cornerstones of society. They are directly controlling every aspect, from the bedrock upwards. Once time-travel is involved in the equation, all bets are off. Nothing is safe. Everything remains in a state of flux outside of your control. Our world becomes nothing more than a book on a shelf within a distant higher dimension, although for us, the story has not yet finished. The intention is to bankrupt every single human being that is outside of their circle of control. Helplessness and terror is a state of mind, yet the media is trying their damndest to implement it at every step. Truth be told, that which has come to define us has individuals has become riddled with hypocrisy.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. Your involvement is required. If everyone that read this post were to be more pro-active towards solving these problems within society, towards outing individuals that are blatantly violating the human rights of others, social change would be guaranteed within a year. | https://quantummediocrity.wordpress.com/tag/social-engineering/ |
Colleges in five states are hosting more than 200 students in cyber boot camps this summer as part of a program to relieve a critical shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals.
This is the second year of camps organized by the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a government and industry effort launched in 2009 to address cybersecurity workforce needs through a collection of long-term programs.
“We are looking for at least 10,000 of the most highly skilled, capable people in the nation to become the hunter-warriors of the cyber world,” said former fed Karen Evans, the challenge's national director.
The talent hunt is being conducted on a number of fronts, beginning with identifying promising students at the elementary school level and continuing through encouraging the creation of degree programs at universities and career paths in government. The boot camp program is a near-term effort primarily for college students to help expand the current manpower pool and encourage development of university degree programs for students who are coming up from high schools.
This year’s boot camp program, which has slots for 260 students at five schools, is a significant expansion from last year’s pilot program, which included 55 students at three schools. But “we still have a long way to go to get to 10,000,” said Evans, former administrator of e-government and IT at the Office of Management and Budget.
Creating new educational programs and raising awareness of educational and career opportunities among students and parents will be a long-term job, she added. “In the meantime, cyber crime is really growing. Demand isn’t going down.”
The U.S. Cyber Challenge grew out of the Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency report spearheaded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report states that improving professional training and workforce development is an essential component of improving cybersecurity.
In 2009, citing what some experts called a radical shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, a government/industry coalition that included CSIS, the Defense Department's Cyber Crime Center, the Air Force Association, the SANS Institute and a number of universities and aerospace companies, announced the U.S. Cyber Challenge program to:
Identify students with the proper skills and interests.
Establish cyber boot camps to foster those interests.
Sponsor national competitions to increase awareness.
The need for accelerating workforce development has become even more obvious in the past two years, with a growing number of high-profile breaches targeting government and government contractor IT systems. DOD has created a U.S. Cyber Command to defend against such attacks and conduct offensive operations in the new cyber domain. But civilian, military and private-sector infrastructure operators are all competing for the same limited pool of professionals.
“It’s not really a technology issue, it’s a people issue,” Evans said of the apparent inability to protect critical IT systems.
The boot camps were launched last year with three state programs at California State Polytechnic University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and Wilmington University in Dover, Del.
This year’s program includes two state camps, at California State Polytechnic University and Delaware Technical and Community College in Dover, and two regional camps at the University of Missouri at Columbia and the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va. A camp for state high school students is also being held in Maryland at the Community College of Baltimore County.
The one-week camps are invitation-only, and students are chosen based on scores from the Cyber Quests online competition offered by the U.S. Cyber Challenge in April and the results of other competitions, including Cyber Foundations, CyberPatriot, NetWars and the DOD Cyber Crime Center’s Digital Forensics Challenge.
Participating students receive training from college faculty and IT professionals in a range of areas, including penetration testing, reverse engineering, forensics and ethical behavior. There is also a job fair and a one-day “capture the flag” competition with a $1,000 scholarship for winning team members in each camp, provided by (ISC)2.
The program is still in its development phase so it is too early to assess results, although the federal CIO Council and the Homeland Security Department are developing an assessment framework, Evans said. “We’re on the input stage,” she added.
She said the efforts have been successful in identifying students outside the traditional science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula who have the appropriate interests and skills. The challenge now is to maintain those interests and expand the workforce by opening career paths for students outside the young white male demographic that has traditionally dominated cybersecurity. | https://gcn.com/GIG/gcn/Articles/2011/06/30/cybersecurity-boot-camps-Cyber-Challenge.aspx |
CVE-2020-13777: TLS 1.3 session resumption works without master key, allowing...
GnuTLS servers are able to use tickets issued by each other without access to the secret key as generated by `gnutls_session_ticket_key_generate()`. This allows a MITM server without valid credentials to...
I guess that Runbox webmail is likely not affected.
However, by default exim seems to use GnuTLS. Are you using it? | https://community.runbox.com/t/runbox-affected-by-gnutls-vulnerability/1231/1 |
CDR (Call Detail Record) analysis is a crucial tool for law enforcement and telecom operators, but it also raises concerns about individual privacy. So, here are key pointers highlighting these concerns:
Data Retention: One of the most significant concerns is the duration for which telecom operators retain CDRs. Basically, prolonged data retention could potentially expose sensitive information and threaten individual privacy. Extended retention periods not only increase the risk of data breaches but also raise questions about the necessity of holding onto personal data beyond its immediate purpose. So, striking a balance between data retention for legitimate investigative purposes and safeguarding individuals’ privacy rights remains a complex challenge.
Unauthorized Access: CDR analysis by police or other agencies requires stringent access controls. Unauthorized access to communication data can lead to privacy breaches and misuse of information. Stringent security measures and strict protocols are essential to prevent unauthorized personnel from accessing and misusing the data.
Data Aggregation: Aggregating CDR data can reveal comprehensive profiles of individuals, potentially infringing on their privacy rights. The act of consolidating various data points from multiple sources raises concerns about the creation of detailed, intrusive profiles. Striking a balance between the legitimate need for analysis and the privacy rights of individuals is a critical consideration. Effective safeguards, anonymization techniques, and robust privacy regulations are necessary to ensure that data aggregation does not encroach upon personal privacy boundaries. Achieving this balance is essential to maintain public trust and respect for individuals’ rights in the face of advancing technology.
Security Measures in CDR Analysis
In the realm of Call Detail Record (CDR) analysis, robust security measures are paramount. Here are key considerations for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of CDR data:
Encryption: CDRs must come with encryption to safeguard against unauthorized access. Encryption guarantees that even in the event of data compromise, it remains unreadable to unauthorized individuals, maintaining data confidentiality.
Access Controls: Strict access controls are vital for CDR analysis software, such as the C5 CDR Analyzer. Access should be limited to authorized personnel, and rigorous user authentication and authorization processes are essential to prevent unauthorized entry.
Audit Trails: Maintaining comprehensive audit trails is crucial. This practice tracks who accesses the data and for what purpose, ensuring accountability and facilitating the prompt identification of any unauthorized or inappropriate usage.
To address these concerns, many countries have implemented strict regulatory frameworks governing CDR analysis. These regulations outline the permissible purposes for which CDR data can be analyzed and the safeguards that must be in place. In some regions, these regulations are even more stringent when law enforcement agencies are involved.
CDR analysis software is a powerful tool with diverse applications. However, it must be wielded with caution and responsibility, especially in the context of data privacy and security.
Balancing the need for CDR analysis with the imperative of safeguarding privacy is an ongoing challenge that requires the collaboration of technology providers, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement agencies.
By implementing robust security measures, adhering to strict regulatory frameworks, and upholding individual rights, we can strive to strike the delicate balance between the security benefits of CDR analysis and the protection of individual privacy. | https://latestbizjournal.com/2023/11/10/data-privacy-and-cdr-analysis-striking-the-delicate-balance/ |
Fidonav.com functions in a quick manner. As soon as it enters your operating system, this browser hijacker makes modifications to various files and registry entries that are directly associated with your browser's default settings. It is worth noting that Fidonav.com is fully compatible with popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. This means that vast amount of Internet users could be affected by this hijacker; thus, being aware of this dubious program's existence is critical. The main change triggered by this hijacker is of your default homepage. This will cause annoyance and frustration because you will be forced to use a suspicious third-party website as your default homepage at all times whether you want that or not. Furthermore, it is also crucial to notify you that this hijacker can establish a lasting connection with an adware server. If this happens, you will start noticing an unusually large amount of third-party web content while you are surfing the web. In the majority of cases, such content manifests as various sponsored ads, coupons, and pop-ups. In some instances, you could be presented with so much of questionable content that your browser might crash without any warning. If you wish to regain your browser's default settings so you could surf the web the way you like, you must execute a complete removal of Fidonav.com at the very same moment that it is found up and running on your PC. If you fail to do so, the invasive changes and interruptions will continue to bother you.
It is also important to note that Fidonav.com is usually distributed deviously. In most cases, this browser hijacker is spread via bundled installers, which is a dangerous instance. That is so because other questionable programs could come along. Therefore, we highly advise you to check your entire operating system for suspicious software if the hijacker in question is already up and running on your PC. Furthermore, it is crucial to highlight that some ads, pop-ups, and coupons coming from a questionable adware server might host potentially dangerous redirect links. If you happen to click such an ad or pop-up, you might be taken to suspicious and even harmful websites. You could find yourself on fake online shops, which are created by cyber criminals for a sole purpose of stealing your credit card data or other sensitive information. In other cases, you could find yourself on web pages that run an arbitrary code execution exploit, which can trigger a remote installation of some unknown malware. It should be quite obvious that Fidonav.com is a dangerous application that you should not be running on your personal computer. Make sure to use the instructions that we provide below to delete Fidonav.com once and for all.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
Right-click a registry value entitled Start Page and select Modify.
Replace the unwanted URL with a new one and then click OK. | https://anti-spyware-101.com/remove-fidonav-com |
“My Show fake? You Could Not Recognize What Fake Is" Omotola. J. Ekeinde
Sexy Nollywood Diva Omotola Jalade Ekeinde was recently accused of staging a fake reality TV show "Omotola The Real Me" by a fan via Twitter . Omosexy then replied by tweeting “My Show fake? Hahaha…. U could not recognize what fake is if it stared you hard in the face and punched you! #sangostriketheirteeth”
Sango strike their teeth means thunder strike their teeth. Do you agree with the fan's comment? | http://chizys-spyware.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-show-fake-you-could-not-recognize.html |
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Apple releases its first transparency report: (CNN) – Apple is opening up about how many government requests it gets for customer information. CNN, November 6, 2013
States Take on Privacy: Tired of waiting for Congress to pass comprehensive privacy legislation, state lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands, and not a moment too soon. Legislatures across the country have enacted laws to regulate the kinds of information that companies and law enforcement agencies can collect about individuals and how it can be done. The New York Times, November 2, 2013
Financial Fraud
Overlooked Anti-Fraud Investments: Despite upticks in account takeover fraud, small business owners still aren’t doing enough to enhance their ACH fraud defenses, say Michelle Di Gangi and David Pollino of Bank of the West. BankInfoSecurity, November 1, 2013
Reasonable Security: Changing the Rules: Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code, which deals with reasonable security measures for banks, needs a major update, says attorney Dan Mitchell, who represented PATCO Construction in a high-profile account takeover dispute. BankInfoSecurity, October 28, 2013
Cyber Security Management
Phishing Messages Trick One in Five Employees Into Clicking: Survey: In a study of employee susceptibility to phishing attacks, security-awareness training firm ThreatSim finds that an average of 18 percent open phishing messages and click on the malicious link inside. eWeek, November 7, 2013
Gender gap: Why information security needs more women: A new report on infosec spotted significant differences in how men and women prioritize needed skills. Here’s why greater diversity in the field matters. TechRepublic, November 4, 2013
Enterprise defenses lag despite rising cybersecurity awareness: Organizations are showing more interest in cybersecurity through executive involvement and higher spending. Nevertheless, the added attention is new and more resources need to be directed at defending against cyberattacks, a study shows. CSO, November 2, 2013
Monitoring Where Search Engines Fear To Tread: The deepweb – anonymized networks that are not indexed by search engines – are hard to monitor, yet companies should seek out signs in their networks. DarkReading, November 1, 2013
How To Avoid CryptoLocker Ransomware: Over the past several weeks, a handful of frantic Microsoft Windows users have written in to ask what they might do to recover from PC infections from "CryptoLocker," the generic name for an increasingly prevalent and nasty strain of malicious software that encrypts your files until you pay a ransom. Unfortunately, the answer for these folks is usually either to pay up or suck it up. This post offers a few pointers to help readers avoid becoming the next victim. KrebsOnSecurity, November 1, 2013
Google Updates ReCAPTCHA Technology, Moves Away From Distorted Text: Google announced a change to its reCAPTCHA authentication system late Friday wherein the company will begin creating different types of puzzles for different users, use numeric CAPTCHAs and move away from more obscure, hard-to-read distorted letters. ThreatPost, October 28, 2013
World Cybersecurity Leaders Call for Cooperation: Governments and businesses spend $1 trillion a year for global cybersecurity, but unlike wartime casualties or oil spills, there’s no clear idea what the total losses are because few will admit they’ve been compromised. Cybersecurity leaders from more than 40 countries are gathering at Stanford University this week to consider tackling that information gap by creating a single, trusted entity that would keep track of how much hackers steal. Time, November 5, 2013
New command center will protect L.A. infrastructure from cyberattacks: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has set up a new command center to minimize the threat that hackers, terrorists or foreign enemies will disrupt water, power, transportation and public safety systems. LA Times, November 2, 2013
3D-Printing ‘Encryption’ App Hides Contraband Objects In Plain Sight: If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated digital shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. Forbes, November 4, 2013
Clutter in the airwaves: Mobile payment security: While already ubiquitous in much of the world, mobile payment options are gaining traction in the United States, reports Stephen Lawton. Dr. Stahl Quoted, SC Magazine, November 1, 2013
Cyber Calendar
ISSA-LA November Lunch Meeting – Beating Hacker’s With Their Own Tools: In today’s world of advanced cyber threats, security professionals need to implement new methods and strategies to gain the upper hand in protecting their business. Thinking like an attacker isn’t really good enough. However, incorporating hacker methodologies & tools will give security teams the situational awareness and intelligence needed to respond quickly to new & previously unknown threats. The security industry is changing. For some, it’s a good thing, and for others, they’re watching their antiquated ways of failing to prevent exploits become irrelevant for smart security teams. ISSA-LA, Event Date: November 20, 2013
The IT Summit would like to thank Citadel Information Group for allowing us to provide this information to you. | http://www.theitsummit.com/cyber-security-news-of-the-week-november-10-2013/ |
Keyless fobs, which should not be confused with standard remote fobs, allow drivers to easily open and start their vehicle without pressing the fob or even having to remove it from their pocket.
Keyless entry systems on cars offer convenience to drivers, but can in some situations be exploited by criminals. Concerned drivers should contact their dealer for information and guidance, and follow our simple security steps.
We are working closely with the Police and vehicle manufacturers to address this vulnerability, continuing our approach that has driven vehicle crime down 80% from its peak in 1992.”
Check if your keyless entry fob can be turned off. If it can, and your dealer can also confirm this, then do so overnight.
Store your keys away from household entry points. Keeping your keyless entry fob out of sight is not enough – thieves only need to gain proximity to the key to amplify the signal.
Be vigilant. Keep an eye out for suspicious activity in your neighbourhood – and report anything unusual to the Police.
Review your car security. Check for aftermarket security devices.
Vehicle Theft Data
Recent ONS data states that 91,000 vehicles were stolen in 2016, up from 70,000 in 2013. However, this data relates to all vehicles, including mopeds, motorbikes and vans. Car crime peaked in 1992, a year which saw 620,000 thefts.
Figures revealing the exact number of cars which have been compromised using the transmitter relay attack are not available, due to the way vehicle thefts are recorded. | http://motoringworldng.com/keyless-entry-vulnerability-guidance-concerned-drivers/ |
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Cybersecurity: Keep it basic. Keep it collaborative. Keep it strong.
It’s no secret: Information security is a complex and ever-changing world fraught with risk. But adding the most recent tools to your organization’s cybersecurity portfolio to try to mitigate new threats may be the wrong approach to security improvement. Today, it’s more important to focus on taking care of the fundamentals, which are too often eclipsed by the latest market developments.
“In the past, you might have been able to get away with not having all the basics in place — maybe the firewall settings weren’t right, or you didn’t have the right identity and access control or patching regimes in those environments. That’s no longer the case. Our dispersed, mobile, multi-cloud environments make it essential to have all those basics well covered.”
— Mark Hughes, DXC president, Security
In this MIT SMR Connections Executive Conversation, Mark Hughes, president, Security at DXC Technology, and Boulton Fernando, vice president and chief information security officer at Toyota Financial Services, discuss minimizing complexity in the cybersecurity landscape. They weigh in on related topics including the benefits of taking more inclusive approaches to building security teams and leveraging collaboration as an essential component for security success.
The truth is that security basics haven’t been deployed as well as they should have been, which has become more obvious in our dispersed, mobile, multi-cloud environments. Getting back to basics means, for one thing, making the best use of the security tools you already have in place.
“At DXC, we often see customers who haven’t yet fully implemented a particular tool, which falls out of favor before it’s fully deployed,” says Hughes. “That means much of its value is never attained before a new tool appears. It’s important to be very careful about swapping things out without considering what’s already there and the utility you could realize if you just finished deploying it.”
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Putting the focus on the basics also means establishing clear ownership and governance over data, within collaborative relationships. “It’s important to collaborate and have cybersecurity people embedded within the parts of the organization that are responsible for the actual running and processing of the data and the customer information in our systems,” Fernando says. “We want them to understand they’re not on their own, and it’s not just all put on them, but as an owner of a system that is processing information, you do have responsibilities that you have to discharge properly. Collaboration is critical, but you still need to be diligent about understanding who is responsible for what, and making that very clear.” Bottom line: Security should never be about “us vs. them.”
Today many organizations are experiencing a significant shortage of security personnel. They’re adapting by leveraging new hiring pools and attracting people to the profession earlier in their careers.
That said, “organizations can employ armies of security people. But by definition, the basics don’t need a security specialist to manage,” says Hughes. "It’s really about people using healthy practices.”
To that end, security leaders understand that everyone in the organization represents the front line of defense – and that it’s their job to do the tireless work of promoting security awareness. | https://dxc.com/us/en/insights/perspectives/article/cybersecurity-keep-it-basic-keep-it-collaborative-keep-it-strong |
A cyber-incident targeting the Australian utility enterprise, Energy One Limited (EOL), might extend its reach internationally as the company’s corporate systems in the UK have also shown signs of impact.
This multinational enterprise, renowned for providing software and services to the wholesale energy market, announced that they had implemented measures to minimize the consequences of this event. In addition, they have communicated with the Australian Cyber Oversight Centre and select UK governing bodies.
Based on a document endorsed by Andrew Bonwick, the Board Chairman of EOL, it became clear that the company’s corporate infrastructure was impacted on August 18, 2023. This information was released on August 21 and made public on the Australian Securities Exchange website (ASX).
At present, EOL is rigorously analyzing the incident’s extent and is in the process of determining if any other systems may have been compromised.
In Bonwick’s release, it was mentioned that a focal point of their ongoing inquiries revolves around establishing the potential breach of personal data and/or client-oriented systems, and pinpointing the attacker’s initial access point.
Rob Bolton, VP EMEA at Versa Networks, emphasized the importance of both clients and staff maintaining a calm demeanor. He advised vigilance against potential phishing emails or any unsolicited messages. Furthermore, Bolton commended EOL on their efficient response, noting the significance of prompt action in minimizing damage. He mentioned that prompt containment strategies can be the distinguishing factor between ensuring services and systems remain accessible to clients or not and avoiding the unauthorized access of sensitive data.
In his reflections on the event, Darren Guccione, CEO and co-founder of Keeper Security, shared that while Energy One is in the process of scrutinizing, rectifying, and gauging the incident’s reach, it has temporarily disabled certain connections between its main and customer-oriented systems. He added a word of caution for energy providers who are clients of EOL’s software and services to remain extra vigilant during this period and scrutinize any irregularities.
Several security aficionados have highlighted that this episode seems consistent with the modus operandi of cyber criminals who have the energy sector and pivotal national establishments in their crosshairs.
Simon Chassar, CRO, Claroty, articulated that the situation with Energy One is symptomatic of the escalating cyber incidents targeting the energy sector. Reflecting on alerts from UK’s NCSC and a renowned International Security Agency, he shared that industries like energy, due to their indispensable role in daily societal functions, are under elevated threat. Any disturbances in these areas might bear extensive repercussions, ranging from affecting the national fiscal landscape, triggering shortages, to pausing societal progression.
It’s worth noting that EOL has been a prominent entity on the Australian Stock Exchange since 2007 and has a significant presence in both the Asia-Pacific region and the UK and Europe. | https://infosechub.net/cyber-incident-at-australian-utility-firm-energy-one-extends-to-uk-systems/ |
The overall split of the browser market is, however, little changed. Internet Explorer sits at 55.81 percent of the desktop market, an insignificant drop of 0.02 points. Firefox nudged up, gaining 0.09 points for a 20.30 percent share. Chrome fell slightly, losing 0.10 points for a 16.35 percent share. Safari grew 0.07 points to 5.38 percent, and Opera was all but unchanged, dropping 0.01 points to 1.73 percent.
The major desktop browsers appear to have fairly firmly cemented positions. After many years of losses since its monopolistic peak, first to Firefox and then to Chrome, Internet Explorer's share has steadied, with the mass defections to other browsers at an end. Firefox is in a solid second place, and while it once looked almost certain that Chrome would overtake it, Google's browser has lost ground.
Internet Explorer 10 got off to a slow start as it was only available for Windows 8 for the first four or so months of its existence. The Windows 7 version has, however, changed everything. Unlike past versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft rolled it out as an automatic update from day one, slowly distributing it to more markets around the world. The result is a substantial acceleration in its use. Over April it picked up 3.09 points, for a 6.04 percent share. This is a bigger single-month gain than Internet Explorer 9 ever received; its best month was gaining 2.6 points in March 2012.
Unsurprisingly, the gains are coming largely at the expense of Internet Explorer 9. It lost 2.45 points in April. The bad news for Web developers is that older versions of Microsoft's browser are little changed. Internet Explorer 6 held steady at 6.26 percent. Version 7 dropped slightly, falling 0.12 points to 1.82 percent, and version 8 was also down, falling 0.15 points to 23.18 percent. As such, somewhat less than half, 43 percent, of Internet Explorer users are using "Modern" (9 and 10) versions; the rest remain resolutely legacy.
As for Windows 8, it's growing, but rather more slowly. It was up 0.65 points for a 3.82 percent share. This is ahead of the most common version of OS X, 10.8 with a 2.82 percent share, but still behind Windows Vista, which dropped 0.24 points to 4.75 percent. Windows 7 and Windows XP are still far out in front, with a 44.72 and 38.31 percent share, respectively.
Sample of one anecdote, but what the hell: I installed IE10 on my mint pristine Microsoft-startup-programs-and drivers-only Alienware system running Windows 7. It had no issues when it ran IE9.
IE now crashes at completely reproducible places on certain web sites. For example, googling for a USPS tracking number, then clicking the link to USPS will crash the tab every time.
My home folder icon on the desktop now gives me this error: these files have come from the internet and may not be safe. Click for details.
I have auto updates disabled, and tend to wait around a week before I update.
Why? Because I like to wait & see if there are bugs etc.
It's interesting that while Firefox's line looks pretty stable, the Chrome line seems to mirror IE -- that is, the decrease for Chrome is balanced out by the increase for IE at the same points in time.
I don't know any reason why Chrome users would be more prone to switching to IE (it makes little sense) but that's how the graph reads to me. Firefox users just keep on using Firefox.
I wonder what is causing people to go back to IE.
It's very fast and clean, and keeps out of the way nicely.
The only features that are keeping me from switching to IE full time are a lack of mouse gestures, and inability to create custom search prefixes from search fields.
After being able to type 'yt whitest kids u know' in the address bar to do a youtube search for whitest kids u know, or 'wp HMS Victoria' for a wiki search on the HMS Victoria for so long I can't use a browser that doesn't support that feature. I'm hoping that the IE team keeps adding features, because I wouldn't mind dropping Opera due to its incompatibility with some sites.
It certainly isn't the new metro-style scrollbar. That thing annoys the crap out of me, with it's extra large arrow buttons and weird spacing... :|
You've being doing this for as long I can remember and it makes your articles suffer for real world practicality for your readers. Arstechnica doesn't block non-American readers. For a global audience, global stats are the right ones to show.
Why would you want U.S. only stats? Do you run a U.S. only corporation or something? All of these browsers are marketed worldwide so it would make sense to give worldwide stats.
Well, it's getting better. Firefox and Chrome are no longer way ahead in terms of features. Firefox is still my main browser -- I haven't tried IE 10 yet -- but I no longer cringe when I fire up IE for some reason.
EDIT: Erm, wait, I am running IE 10. I suppose I don't recall upgrading and the difference hasn't been huge to me.
I've just learned to ignore these article as they are useless.
You need to get out of the country more. There is a whole wide world out there.
"Chrome and Firefox continue to show strong automatic update performance and continue to show a bunch of users that have disabled or refused automatic updates for reasons unknown."
I'm not sure what the problem is but FF's automatic update isn't working on my Moms laptop (will investigate in person at in a week and a half). She's running a non-admin account on a daily basis; with FF 17(?) originally installed from an admin account. I thought the auto-update service would update the browser even though no one normally logged in with an admin account; but about a month ago she emailed me for help because she ran into a site that blocked her for not running the most recent version.
I keep trying the new versions of IE, but they always take an irritatingly long time to load, or create a new tab. The new tab bit is particularly irritating because until you get that empty URL box, typing in the URL will affect the tab that was already open, not the new tab.
Creating a new tab in IE10 works instantly on my laptop.
You should probably check if there are any plugins that slow it down, I had this issue in the past with a an ill behaved plugin.
You can check the plugins from the "Manage add-ons" option in the tools menu.
Ahh...a me.
Automatic updates wouldn't cause IE9 to spike....
Akamai IO, who also provides daily results, doesn't show anything comparable, though they don't allow their data to be narrowed to particular countries.
Ahh...a me.
IE's settings menu is also a mess. Why isn't it searchable? I can only assume it's because Microsoft hates us all.
It seems like Microsoft has been trying to push really hard for people to swap back to IE.
Here is a reason - if you have a touch-enabled Windows machine (i.e. many of the Windows 8 machines) IE is the only browser that has smooth behavior with touch (scroll and zoom). I am not talking about Metro apps but the regular Windows desktop. It seems like Windows has some touch APIs or something for scrolling and zooming and IE was the only browser that bothered to use them.
Ahh...a me.
IE often doesn't work just fine. IE9 doesn't support this push state magic, for example: http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html . I think IE10 does, but I'm sure there will be cool new things that IE10 won't support.
IE 10 is missing Fullscreen API, Touch Events, Orientation Events, and WebGL. Presumably more as well, but those four are the ones that I have run into in the real world.
It certainly does support touch events. I can't argue about orientation, full screen, or Webgl support. They're super early, experimental stuff and many browsers that have support aren't following the latest spec, which is constantly changing.
IE10 supports touch, but it doesn't support Touch Events, as that's an Apple-patented API that W3C wanted to standardize, but couldn't, due to Apple's refusal to offer a royalty-free patent license.
IE10 supports instead an API called Pointer Events. Chrome and Firefox are, I believe, planning to also implement Pointer Events. But this won't help Apple, thanks to the WebKit/Blink fork.
Ahh...a me.
First you build a website, and then you try to fix the bugs in IE. Then they stuffed it full of proprietary extensions (ActiveX, etc) to lock in a market. And then they disbanded the team. Why would they do this? I believe you have world-wide data there. The anomaly I cited is US only and is swamped in StatCounter's WorldWide data as well.
World-wide is very nice, but for developers in the US such as myself it's the US data that is really interesting.
Regarding opera mini, anyone with the older Blackberries (pre-Bb10) use it from time to time. Opera mini and opera in general have very good memory management. Some websites with very large pages can max out the old blackberry browser.
Opera is going webkit in the future, so it may become a memory hog again.
Incidentally, the colors on that line chart are a challege for the colorblind, AKA me.
I think it's a quirk of StatCounter's data collection. Yes, as I say, Akamai doesn't seem to have national filters.
If it's just a US thing then it seems to me even more likely that it's a StatCounter quirk rather than a genuine phenomenon. Spiking IE10 due to automatic updates would be one thing--but spiking IE9 too?
Ahh...a me.
JButler -- I think if you had the opportunity to ask 100 web developers what they thought about MSIE, well 99 of them would tell you how much they hate MS and want IE to go away.
I'm sure I've spent months of my life on this. It's a big deal and I'm not ready to forgive and forget.
For the record: MS created IE. They built it up until it destroyed the competition it had. They made sure that the bugs that got in during the mad dash to defeat Netscape would never get fixed.
Because they saw that the web would one day be a competitor to locally installed software. And they held back the progress of the web for nearly ten years.
It's ok to be angry about this.
This is getting to be a tired, old argument.
You prefer one browser and you make your sites using it, then you begrudgingly need to make sure it works on other browsers. The primary "other browser" is Internet Explorer, so you get angry at it.
Trust me, as someone who is on the other foot (corporate, starting on IE and then making sure it works on Firefox/Chrome/Safari), your angst shouldn't be targeted at Microsoft and it is not hard to make a site that works on all of them.
You just can't use all the fancy features of your preferred browser. You need to stick to the standards.
Which I might add is the same reason why IE6 is still around, because someone tailored their application too heavily to non-standard features of the browser.
So, the problem is in your head, not the browser.
Also, Netscape is not dead. It's alive and well but named Firefox now and has a loyal following (myself included).
Ahh...a me.
No, no, no, no. You are making a false equivalency. There are web standards, and then there is IE. When you develop to the standard, all the browsers fall in line with very few exceptions. Webkit, Mozilla, Opera, all behave in more or less the same way.
IE, traditionally, does not. For this reason, if you look at the source of your favorite website, you'll see that there is css for all browsers, and then there is css for ie7, and then css for ie8, and then css for ie9. IE10 is nearly there, but of course not quite. Still missing significant functionality.
And even if you accept the notion that Microsoft is allowed to build to their own standard, how can you excuse the neglect they showed IE 6? Developers had to workaround bugs in this product for TEN YEARS. Here:
I actually really like IE. You can do that with Chrome too, but it's a bit of a hassle to set up. The day when Opera get separate thread processes and all that performance/stability jazz is the time I switch back to Opera. It's just an unbeatable feature-set. | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/internet-explorer-10-share-doubles-again-on-the-back-of-windows-7/?comments=1&post=24406991 |
Energy and manufacturing companies won delays in Dodd-Frank Act requirements to report derivatives trades they use to hedge business risks. The so-called end users, who trade as clients of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., need the delay to test data systems, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a press release yesterday. The rules were to take effect today.
Users of interest-rate and credit swaps will have until July 1 to comply with the reporting rule, according to the CFTC statement. The deadline for users of equity, foreign exchange and other commodity swaps was extended until Aug. 19. Non-financial counterparties gained an extension to Oct. 31 for certain reporting requirements for all swap asset classes.
“I am troubled by the arbitrary and ad-hoc manner in which this relief was provided,” CFTC Commissioner Scott O’Malia, a Republican, said in a statement. “The application of date, product and participant distinctions makes compliance and implementation confusing for the end users.”
The CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission are implementing derivatives provisions of Dodd-Frank, the 2010 regulatory overhaul, after largely unsupervised trades helped fuel the 2008 credit crisis. New rules planned for the $639 trillion global swaps market require that trade information be reported to so-called swap data repositories that function as central record-keepers.
The Commercial Energy Working Group, an alliance of companies that weren’t identified individually, requested a six-month delay through lawyers at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP in a March 1 letter to the CFTC.
“Of all the different groups that would be responsible for reporting, they are probably the least prepared,” Brenda Boultwood, vice president of industry solutions at Palo Alto, California-based MetricStream, which helps clients manage regulatory compliance, said in a telephone interview before the delay was announced. | http://www.treasuryandrisk.com/2013/04/10/swap-users-get-more-time-to-report-trades?t=risk-management |
The good news is that Windows Vista, Outlook 2007, and Exchange 2007 have the fixes in them.
The bad news is that chances are that you are not running any of those...
The good news is that if you are running Exchange 2003 SP2 you can get a fix... Soon.
you will need to go to SP2. Ok, that probably is good news.
But... If you have been holding off on installing some fixes because of the "Send As" changes, well... We updated the store.exe on this fix and it includes the "Send As" fix, so you are going to want to get your users configured correctly if you haven't yet already. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912918/en-us for more information.
I kid about this because it is going to probably hurt. I know that this will be somewhat painful for some of our larger customers. Fortunately, it looks like the product groups have done some good work in getting this information together. Please take a look at the first article for steps on how to make this as smooth as possible. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gerod_serafin/2007/01/08/updated-dst-2007-information/?replytocom=633 |
Changing the desktop background image, and color scheme is just as easy. On the menu bar--which is now at the bottom of the display--click System, then hover over Preferences to open that menu, and select Appearance. There are eight built-in color themes to choose from, or you can create a custom color scheme, or click the get more themes online link to surf a virtually endless list of theme options-including one called Vista Basic which essentially mimics Windows Vista if you want a more familiar look and feel.
If you click on the Background tab on the Appearance Preferences, you will find 21 different background images to choose from within Ubuntu Linux. Just like the themes, you can also select your own image to use as a background image, or you can click the get more backgrounds online link and find hundreds of images to choose from. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/229418/day_4_tweaking_the_look_and_layout_of_ubuntu_linux.html?page=2 |
SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 28, 2019 — JetStream Software Inc., an innovator in cloud data protection, today announced Series A funding of $7.7 million to advance the company’s unique technologies that enable managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and continuous data protection to enterprise customers, government agencies, and research and educational organizations.
Led by Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC, the Series A investment is also supported by JetStream Software’s private and institutional seed investors. New to the funding round is Illuminate Ventures. The investment will support continued product development, innovative go-to-market strategies, and increased engagement with key strategic partners.
Many information technology operations are rapidly shifting from on-premises systems and software to cloud-based services. Data protection is the top use case for enterprise hybrid cloud. As a part of this trend, data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity are increasingly provided by trusted MSPs and CSPs, who often lack native cloud DR capability. This shift presents new challenges and opportunities in the multibillion-dollar market for data management software.
JetStream Software’s flagship product, JetStream DR, is a first-of-its-kind solution designed specifically for cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity. The software empowers service providers to deliver near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) to maximize data protection as well as near-zero recovery time objectives (RTOs) to maximize system recovery and availability. Additional technical innovations include:
The JetStream DR software is compatible with any type of datastore, including VMware Virtual SAN or Virtual Volumes, traditional block or file storage, or any hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) from any vendor. MSPs/CSPs can provide VM recovery for all types of customers from a single, centrally-managed environment to a large-scale data center infrastructure.
With the scalability and cost efficiency of VM recovery from object storage, plus compatibility with all types of virtualized environments, JetStream DR enables MSPs/CSPs to realize cloud economics in their DR service offerings. By replacing legacy, single-tenant data protection systems and recovery processes running on-premises, customers benefit from more convenient adoption and management, better performance, and overall lower cost of ownership.
On the investment, Digital Alpha Managing Partner Rick Shrotri said, “We are excited to invest in a team providing a highly differentiated technology with critical advantages for DR and business continuity as the market becomes increasingly cloud-centric. JetStream Software has developed a unique data management platform that will play a key role in the cloud transformation of the data protection industry. This initial investment by Digital Alpha will help JetStream Software add key contributors to its team and pursue larger business opportunities and strategic relationships. As the team achieves these objectives over the near term, we look forward to continued investment in the company.”
The investment decision process included rigorous technical testing, commercial validation from channel partners, and synergy with the Digital Alpha cloud portfolio, including Cloudian and UKCloud.
Tom Critser, CEO, JetStream Software, said of the investment, “Digital Alpha brings unique advantages to our business and a strategic vision that sees our business leading the enormous transformation that is happening in our industry. The Digital Alpha portfolio is characterized by game-changing players in cloud transformation, and we will benefit greatly from Digital Alpha’s financial support, shared strategic vision, and deep industry relationships.”
In conjunction with the investment, Digital Alpha Principal Aurin Bhattacharjee will join the board of directors of JetStream Software. Mr. Bhattacharjee has more than seven years of experience at Google, most recently managing M&A strategy, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market planning for the Google Cloud Strategy and Operations team. He was previously with Google’s Corporate Finance team, where he worked on investments, financings and acquisitions. | http://www.jetstreamsoft.com/2019/05/28/jetstream-software-secures-series-a-funding-led-by-digital-alpha-to-advance-draas-and-cloud-data-protection/ |
Cloud computing is widely adopted in all IT environments due to its efficiency and always availability. In the era of cloud computing there is a need for a next generation financial technology to secure electronic cash. Blockchain technology for secure use of electronic cash is widely popular as it helps in communication between peers without involving third parties. It provides security via authentication of peers which share virtual cash, encryption, and hash value generation. According to a global financial industry survey, the market for security based blockchain technology is expected to grow to USD 20 billion by 2024.
Today we look more in detail about how blockchain technology helps financial transactions in cloud computing, its challenges, blockchain solutions in cloud computing etc.
What is Blockchain Security?
Blockchain technology allows all members to keep a ledger of all transaction data and update ledgers to ensure integrity whenever any new transaction happens. Internet and encryption technologies have made it possible to verify transaction reliability and single point of failure arising from third parties have been addressed. The blockchain is a broker free (P2P based) technique, thereby doing away with all transaction fees imposed by third parties.
Ownership of transaction information resides with many people making hacking tough and security expense is saved, transactions are auto approved and recorded by mass participation. System can be easily implemented, connected, and expanded using open source and transaction records are openly accessible making them public and reducing costs incurred on regulatory compliances.
Blockchain is structured to save data in a form similar to distributed databases and designed to make random manipulation tough as network participants verify and save blockchain. Each block structure comprises a header and body.
The header contains hash values of previous and current blocks and nonce. The block data is searched using an index method. Block does not contain hash value of next block but it is added as a practice.
Hash values stored in each peer in block are affected with previous block values, hence it is very difficult to alter or falsify registered data. Data alteration is only possible if 51% peers are hacked at same time which is difficult to achieve in real life scenario.
Public, key based verification, and hash function both can be decrypted and used in blockchain to provide security.
The ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) electronic signature algorithm is used to verify digital signatures generated between peers during transactions used to provide no data alternation happened during the transactions.
The hash function is used for verification of block data containing the transaction information that is not manipulated and to find the nonce value to get a new block to ensure integrity of transaction data during bitcoin transactions.
The integrity of transaction details is verified using public key-based encryption of hash value of transacted data. Using the root hash value which accumulates hash value of every transaction, enables determination of bitcoin data that was altered since root hash value is modified if value changed in the process.
Bitcoin is vulnerable to malware infections as it is often traded on widely used devices such as smartphones, Peer systems. But one of the strengths of bitcoin is it is difficult to manipulate and alter the ledger as many peers share the transaction ledger.
Blockchain technology is related to usage of cyber money however the various security issues that might occur in blockchain arrangement related to blockchain agreement, transaction, wallet, and software needs to be addressed.
Blockchain settlements – Is a sequential connection of generated blocks; it can be divided into two as two latest blocks generate temporarily when two different peers mining answer for generating blocks at the same time. If an attacker has 51% mining capability it can gain control of blockchain and include falsified transactions.
Transaction security – Scripts used in input and output in programming language different forms can be created. A bitcoin using improperly configured locking script could lead to misuse hence usage verification of script accuracy in transaction is important.
Wallet security – The bitcoin wallet stores information related to the personal key of the address used for generation of unlocking scripts. Loss of information in wallet could lead to loss of bitcoin therefore bitcoin wallet become target of attack through hacking. To ensure security of Bitcoin wallet usage of multisig for multiple signatures is introduced. Multisig only allows a transaction when there is more than one signature and can be used as the redundant security feature of the wallet.
Software security – Bitcoin core software is not free from the problem of software malfunction such as bugs. The CVE-2010-5139 vulnerability happened in August 2010 caused by integer overflow, an invalid transaction wherein 0.5 bitcoin was delivered as 184 trillion bitcoin was included in a normal block, and the problem took almost 8 hrs to resolve.
Transparent System: The Blockchain is a transparent system that prevents any suspicious activity in the network. Its sequential storage capability ensures that every transaction is validated, allowing for the establishment of a secure, interconnected, and orderly chain of blocks. This Blockchain-powered cloud storage also generates transaction records to authenticate ownership and identity.
Decentralization: Blockchain technology divides data into smaller pieces and distributes them across multiple computer networks. This eliminates the need for a central control point. Each computer, or node, holds a complete copy of the record, eliminating the risk of data loss in cloud storage. Even if one or two nodes are accessed incorrectly or corrupted, the entire dataset remains intact. Blockchain also eliminates the necessity for a middleman or “trusted third party.”
Ensures Data Security: One of the main challenges in cloud storage is the prevention of data tampering and ensuring data security. Blockchain provides a solution by allowing the tracking and backup of transaction history, which confirms any instances of data tampering. By storing hashes for the data blocks, Blockchain enhances the authenticity of the data. Therefore, any tampering with the data will be easily detected.
Protection against Hackers: Traditional cloud networks are susceptible to hacking, resulting in potential data loss or corruption. Blockchain networks offer a higher level of security. The data within a Blockchain network is encrypted, decentralized, and undergoes verification by all participating nodes. Once a transaction is recorded on the ledger, it becomes extremely challenging to modify it without detection. This is due to the invalidation of signatures and the requirement for confirmation from all nodes. Hacking into a Blockchain network would necessitate simultaneous hacking of all nodes, a task that is currently beyond the capabilities of cyber criminals. | https://cloudwithease.com/blockchain-technology-improves-cloud-security/ |
New data finds that Millennials—the new generation of workers born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s—are highly dedicated to their jobs and often times work well beyond normal business hours. Yet they remain fiercely independent in their work habits—craving greater freedom and flexibility to work whenever and wherever they feel most productive.
The proliferation of mobile technology seems to be eroding away at the very notion of “normal business hours.” Some 60 percent say their employers already expect them to be accessible during off hours, while 70 percent work up to 20 hours or more outside the office each week. Roughly one-half of Millennials surveyed say flexible work hours and the freedom to work from any location would improve their work/life balance.
“It’s no surprise that Millennials are highly dependent on mobile technology to support flexible and productive work habits,” said RingCentral President, David Berman. “The vast majority seem to expect to use their own devices for work, rather than the company providing it for them. That creates a bit of challenge for companies that have to find a way to deal with BYOD as part of their business phone system.”
The flexibility Millennials crave naturally requires employees to manage their businesses and personal communications separately. At the same time, it is critical for the company to ensure that communications with customers and partners is managed professionally and efficiently. To accommodate this responsibly, companies must formalize a BYOD policy and implement solutions that support a wide range of devices.
“In a global economy where business is conducted around the clock, it’s reassuring to employers that Millennials are so willing to be available on a flexible schedule and use their own devices to do so,” Berman said. “But, that means it’s our responsibility as employers to provide them with accessibility, solutions, security and freedom to work how and when it’s best for them and the company.”
The online survey was conducted in early 2014 within the United States by Survey Monkey on behalf of RingCentral. It was completed by individuals age 18-32 from 346 businesses of all sizes. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2014/07/11/empowered-millennials-expect-byod/ |
The code in this plugin is benign. It does not do any database reading or writing, other than to the wp_options table using the Settings API which most plugins do. It does not accept user input other than from the admin page, which only logged-in administrators have access to.
As soon as I find out more information I will update this post.
It's a mostly unconfigured WordPress blog; it's just got the original "Hello World" post and comment. I actually just got another nearly identical phishing email, with a similarly formatted URL, but for a different blog and different plugin. So it's probably not directly related to this plugin.
My guess is that they are hitting some other exploit on unsecured WordPress lbogs which allows them to overwrite php files in the plugin directory and sticking some payload in there.
It's probably set up specifically to deliver a malware payload, so no other effort was made to configure the site.
Notice that none of the links point to the existing PHP files (wp_plugin_repo_stats.php or uninstall.php). It's always some other file (like wps.php or colors.php which is not in the download package). So it's not like the plugin has some native vulnerability which is being exploited using query parameters.
See also http://michaelseese.blogspot.com/2013/04/paypal-spam.html, does this mean Akismet has some backdoor in it too? Doubt it. It's probably as you say, putting files into a folder of a plugin.
I haven't visited any of the malware URLs so I can't even say if the plugin files are actually being used to do anything harmful. | http://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-on-possible-vulnerability |
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With the turning of the leaves and the first cold fall nights, usually at NopSec it means that the 2017 edition of our annual State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report is due. This year we are particularly excited because we collaborated with the exploration of a potential threat intelligence source and also our partnership with the AlienVault Labs Security Research Team for the research related to malware correlation.
The analysis of this year’s vulnerability trends could not come at a better (or worse) time since several relevant data breaches hit the news wires lately. The “400-pound gorilla” in the house is Equifax, with its multi-million customer records data breach and its patchable vulnerability on Apache Struts exploited by attackers to gain access to the compromised data. We will see from our 2017 State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report that these patch management delays are quite common, but avoidable nevertheless.
In the 2017 State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report we analyzed over a million of our customers’ anonymized unique security vulnerabilities. (By unique we mean security vulnerabilities that affect a specific customer, a unique host, on a unique TCP/UDP port). For the most part we use CVE and CWE categorization to correlate vulnerabilities, together with the presence of the 30+ unique threat intelligence feeds that NopSec Unified VRM utilizes, which include exploit-db and Metasploit exploits, active malware and targeted attack data, vendor patch data, social media conversations involving the related vulnerabilities and host value and impact information.
The 2017 report focused on what the industry verticals have in common in terms of vulnerability categorization, which vendors and industries are affected the most by which vulnerabilities, which components affect the most the vulnerability risk determination, whether we could draw the same conclusion reached in terms of the vulnerability risk and social media correlation as far as the Dark Web is concerned, and how to use these data to efficiently manage your vulnerability risk management program.
Before going on the discussion of our report’s results, a few disclaimers are due. First of all, this is not a random or representative sample. The data comes from our clients’ vulnerability population, which is necessarily skewed toward the industries most represented, including financial services and health care. Also, the sample is not all encompassing and cannot be considered representative of the population of vulnerabilities. This is also not an Intrusion Detection System, meaning the system cannot be used to predict security intrusions. With that said, this research can still offer important insights to people that would like to improve their vulnerability risk management program.
Also our research determined that the likelihood of a vulnerability having an exploit, given its number of Twitter interactions, is proportional to the rate of Twitter interactions for those vulnerabilities that do have an exploit. What that really means in plain English is that both public exploit presence and social media interactions are good predictors of a vulnerability risk of causing any damages (Figure 6).
After considering social media data as a predictor of vulnerability risk, we turned our attention to Dark Web data. We gathered open Dark Web CVE vulnerability mentions in non-restricted forums and markets on the Tor-browsable Onion-router networks. Particularly, we were looking for vulnerability CVEs for sale that had no previous disclosure in public exploits.
Threats and attacks are predictable based on the analyzed data. We need to prepare for those! Use ”good hygiene” vulnerability management and correlated threat intelligence.
Organizations of diverse sizes and industries continue to struggle to efficiently and accurately prioritize vulnerability risks and remediating efficiently found security vulnerabilities.
Approach with caution combining data mining and machine learning. Give this work to professionals to draw the right conclusions
Go back to the basics of security, assessing assets’ risk and threat modeling and mitigation.
Thanks for the attention and see you next time at mid-year mark for our next NopSec State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report. | https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/2017-nopsec-state-of-vulnerability-risk-management-report |
The email was flagged urgent and screamed in capital letters: YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED! The message said a software update was needed to avoid major system disruption, and to click a link and enter a network password.
The NRC employee who received the email thought the message looked suspicious. Instead of clicking on the link, she forwarded the message as an attachment to the NRC’s Computer Security Incident Response Team.
Within minutes, a CSIRT member was analyzing the email on a computer unconnected to the NRC network. He quickly determined the message was bogus, a “phishing” attempt to gain unauthorized access to the system. He instructed the employee to delete the message and block the sender to avoid receiving any further attempted intrusions from that Internet address.
Had the employee provided her username and password, she could have exposed the NRC’s computer network and its sensitive information to compromise and possible disruption. Personal information about NRC employees would have been at risk, as well as sensitive pre-decisional information about agency policies and licensees.
While Safeguards and classified information about the security and status of nuclear plants is maintained on separate higher security systems, the information we process on the NRC corporate network must also be protected.
CSIRT, part of the NRC’s Computer Security Office, is a small group of experts, all highly trained in cyber defense. Their mission is to detect and thwart attacks on the NRC’s computer networks and prevent “spills” of sensitive information. Such attacks can come through phishing attempts, such as the fictional incident described above, malware implanted in website advertisements or viruses and malware on portable data devices.
The team routinely works with other federal agencies, including the Homeland Security Department’s U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) to stay up to date on the latest vulnerabilities. They even practice “white hat” hacking to test the NRC’s systems.
As a response team, CSIRT investigates suspicious emails that have already passed through the NRC’s extensive SPAM filters and Internet firewall, robust cyber security defenses mounted by the Office of Information Systems.
About 10 million emails are directed to NRC.gov addresses each month, and nearly 90 percent of them are blocked by the agency’s network security technologies as spam or for carrying viruses or suspicious attachments, says Mike Lidell, IT Specialist in the OIS Security Operations and Systems Engineering Branch. The OIS team administers the NRC’s firewalls, intrusion detection systems and spam filters.
While the percentage of blocked emails seems high, Lidell says it’s pretty much “par for the course” for any large organization or government agency. Emails that get through the initial line of defense are scanned again by the internal servers and a third time by the end-user’s individual computer. Internet data returned from the Web is scanned by NRC servers and individual workstations as well to guard against “drive-by downloads” of malicious software.
As Lidell points out, the “defense in depth” is necessary because the attacks are always evolving and changing. Thorne Graham, CSIRT’s team leader, praises a fourth line of defense against email attacks on the agency’s network: The NRC’s 4,000 employees. All NRC employees take annual online computer security training.
“Our best defense is the individual employee,” Graham says. “Security is everyone’s business.”
REFRESH is an occasional series where we republish previous posts. This originally ran in November 2014.
October is “Cyber Security Awareness” month. While we typically focus on how to secure our personal information, we’d like to update you on the NRC’s efforts to ensure U.S. commercial nuclear power plants are protected from cyber threats.
The NRC has been very forward-thinking in developing cyber security requirements for nuclear power plants. The cyber threat is always evolving, and so is our approach. We first imposed cyber security requirements in Orders issued after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Drawing on our experience with those steps, we formalized regulations in 2009.
Our “cyber security roadmap” spells out how nuclear plant licensees were implementing our 2009 cyber regulations, as well as our approach to assessing cyber needs of other licensees.
Nuclear plants are meeting these requirements in two phases. During Phase 1, they implemented controls to protect their most significant digital assets from the most prevalent cyber attack vectors. This phase was completed in December 2012, and our inspections of Phase 1 actions will be done late this year.
During Phase 2, which will be completed in 2016-2017, licensees will complete full implementation of their cyber security programs. They will add additional technical cyber controls, cyber security awareness training for employees, incident response testing and drills, configuration management controls, and supply chain protection
Like other NRC programs, cyber security involves “defense in depth.” Crucial safety- or security-related systems (both digital and analog) are isolated from the Internet, giving them strong protection. Such “air gaps” are important, but not sufficient. Licensees must also address wireless threats, portable media such as discs or thumb drives, and other avenues of attack. Physical security and access controls, including guarding against an insider threat to the plant, also add to cyber security, as do cyber intrusion detection and response capability.
The NRC will soon publish a new regulation requiring nuclear plant licensees to notify the agency quickly of certain cyber attacks.
With these efforts already accomplished or underway, you can see the NRC takes cyber security seriously, and we’re doing our best to stay flexible and ahead of the ever-changing threat. You can find more information about the NRC’s cyber security program on our website. | https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/tag/cyber-security/page/2/ |
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As you know, virtualization software allows you to run multiple virtual machines on the same physical host. Each virtual guest runs in a separate environment so errors with the operating system or application will not take down other guests running on the same physical host.
Often small and medium businesses require application functionality similar to enterprise businesses; they just do it on a smaller scale. These applications might include file and print servers, e-mail servers, databases and Web servers. Smaller companies may have a single server running all of these applications. Even in this scenario, companies can benefit from virtualization for security reasons alone. Additionally, server virtualization can help heighten security, make restores quicker, improve fault tolerance and reduce server maintenance costs. Aslo see the Server Virtualization White Paper.
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Let’s assume that the server is running Exchange 2003 and Outlook Web Access (OWA). With a single server, the OWA server is the same server that also stores the company’s e-mail, database, files and other valuable information. If a hacker is able to compromise the OWA server, they will have access to the entire server, not just OWA, because all of the data resides on the same server.
Larger companies typically install a dedicated front-end server that only handles OWA traffic and does not contain any mail databases or other information. If a hacker manages to hack this machine, they still have to compromise the back-end Exchange Server in order to access any data.
In this single-server scenario, you could set up an Exchange server as a virtual server that is accessed from the Internet. A smaller company would benefit from having a dedicated front-end server without the overhead of purchasing a separate server. If the company is hosting its own Web site this OWA front-end server could also double as a Web server. Only the Web page information would reside on this virtual server, not any of the company’s critical data files. Simplified Bare-Metal Restores
In this single-server scenario, if the server is running Windows Server with Active Directory it is the only domain controller (DC). If you’ve ever had to perform a bare-metal restore of a single server that was acting as a single DC and had other applications running on it like Exchange and SQL Server you know this is a complicated and challenging process. Virtualization can help in this area as well.
There is one file for each virtual guest’s hard drive as well as a configuration file that is stored on the host server. When a server is virtualized a consistent generic hardware platform is created for the virtual server guest regardless of the physical hardware. This means that any virtual guest can run on any server host, because the hardware platform is always the same.
A common backup strategy is to get an image backup of all of running on the host over the weekend. A script can be created to shut down on the host and then these files can be backed up to tape or copied to a different location on the host server. During the week, differential backups are performed on each virtual server guest.
In order to restore any virtual server, you must restore the latest image backup of the virtual server and then run the latest differential restore. Because the weekend backups are essentially an image backup of the server, you don’t have to worry about going into Active Directory Server Restore mode or remember not to make the server a domain controller during the recovery process of the DC. If the host server entirely crashes you would have to obtain a new server, install the host operating system, install the tape backup software, catalog the tape and then restore your virtual server images and virtual server software. Assuming that you have each server virtualized by application, you could restore the most critical servers first. This would allow your users to gain access to these critical services without having to wait for the entire server to restore. Reduced Maintenance Overhead
Virtualization can also save you significant time when you have to bring up a new server. We suggest staging server images with the different operating systems you may need. This can save you at least an hour or more of setup time when you have to bring up a new server.
For example, you can build an image of Windows Server 2003 with the latest service pack and hot fixes, but don’t join the domain. When you need to build a new server, you can copy this virtual server disk file on the host to a different location and rename it. Then you can create a new virtual server on the host and add in the virtual disk you just copied. When you start the virtual server, all you have to do is rename the server, join the domain, and install the latest hot fixes. This entire process can be completed within 15 minutes, compared with an hour or more to build the server from scratch.
In a small company you may need to run computers with different operating systems that usually require separate servers. With virtualization you can run virtual servers with different operating systems on the same physical host.
In the small and medium market space VMware’s VMServer has the best support for guest OSes. You can run almost any Microsoft OS as well as a wide variety of Linux and Unix OSes on the host server, potentially eliminating the need to purchase additional separate servers.
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Most of the previous scenarios assume that the company has a single server; thus, the single point of failure is not an issue because virtualization will not decrease the fault tolerance of the server. If a single server fails, virtualized or not, the company will go down.
But what if your company has more than one server? Let’s assume that a company has nine servers that run various applications. It may be possible to consolidate these servers onto three physical hosts and still provide fault tolerance if one of the hosts is lost.
If the servers are due for upgrades, instead of purchasing nine new servers, you may be able to consolidate three virtual server guests onto one physical host. Of course, these servers will have more processor, memory and disk capacity than single-purpose servers. In this multiple-server scenario, you can even configure the virtual guests as “warm” guests on a different host server. By combining the power of Windows Server 2003 R2’ Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) and virtualization you can easily move virtual guests to a different host in the event of a server crash.
Assuming you perform an image backup of all of on the weekend and run differential backups throughout the week, you can move to a different host and recover the servers faster than if they were running on dedicated machines.
Over the weekend you can copy all of the server guest files running on a host to a folder that is replicated with DFSR. DFSR will then replicate these guest files to a different host server.
DFSR has two features that make it ideal to replicate virtual server guest files: remote differential compression (RDC) and cross-file replication (CFR). RDC will examine a file and only replicate the changes made to the file to a remote server.
Cross-file replication examines a file and searches for files that are available locally to create the desired file. This lends itself very well to replicating virtual server guest files because most of the information in the file remains static and they have a significant amount of the same information stored in them. Although the files themselves can be quite large, the differences in the files on a weekly basis may only be between 100MB to 3GB. After the initial replication, the actual time to replicate the virtual guest files should be short. You can create on the other hosts, but leave them down and only bring them up if you have a problem with one of the host servers.
In this three-host-server scenario, let’s assume you lose host server A, which has three virtual servers running on it. Assuming that you already have the virtual guest files replicated to the other two host servers, you could bring up two guests on server B and one guest on server C. Then you would need to restore the latest differential backup to get the servers as current as possible.
If you design your server host farm with this in mind, make sure to have enough processor, memory and disk capacity to handle the failure of one host server. If you do lose a host server and use this strategy, you should be able to bring up all three guests within a few hours or possibly even faster, depending on how long it takes to restore the last differential backup.
The major drawback to this strategy is the additional storage required to keep “warm” virtual server guest files on the other host servers. This virtual-server configuration also lends itself very well to having a remote disaster recovery warm site or other remote location. Instead of copying the files to a local server, you could use DFSR to replicate the virtual server guest files to a remote server. Virtualization Drawbacks
Of course, there are some drawbacks to virtualization. One of the biggest is a potential decrease in fault tolerance. But if you have multiple hosts and copy the virtual server guest files to other server hosts, you can bring up on different hosts if one of the servers crashes.
With Virtual Server 2005 and VMware Server a guest server can have a maximum of 3.6GB of memory. If your server requires more than that it shouldn’t be virtualized.
You will probably need more memory on the host server and an OS that is capable of addressing this memory if you plan to host more than a few virtual server guests. Assuming that you plan to run four virtual server guests on a server host, roughly 6GB to 10GB of memory on the host is necessary. This, of course, depends on the memory requirements of each virtual server guest. Need to improve the efficiency of your business' servers? Find that you're not achieving capacity and that your applications aren't running at peak performance? Learn how virtualization might help your company run a tighter (and more secure) server ship, and how one small business implemented a virtualization solution, in our White Papers. | http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2007/03/server-virtualization-small-medium-sized-companies |
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Microsoft has rated this as Exploitation Detected on the latest software release on the Exploitability Index. | https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert-threat-alert-may-2022-patch-tuesday-analysis |
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Yesterday, mobile giant T-Mobile said that it suffered a data breach beginning on November 26 that impacts 37 million current customers on both prepaid and postpay accounts. The company said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that a “bad actor” manipulated one of the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) to steal customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses, dates of birth, account numbers, and service plan details. The initial intrusion occurred at the end of November, and T-Mobile discovered the activity on January 5.
T-Mobile is one of the US’s largest mobile carriers and is estimated to have more than 100 million customers. But in the past 10 years, the company has developed a reputation for suffering repeated data breaches alongside other security incidents. The company had a mega breach in 2021, two breaches in 2020, one in 2019, and another in 2018. Most large companies struggle with digital security, and no one is immune to data breaches, but T-Mobile seems to be approaching companies like Yahoo in the pantheon of repeated compromises.
“I’m certainly disappointed to hear that, after as many breaches as they’ve had, they still haven’t been able to shore up their leaky ship,” says Chester Wisniewski, field chief technical officer of applied research at the security firm Sophos. “It is also concerning that the criminals were in T-Mobile’s system for more than a month before being discovered. This suggests T-Mobile’s defenses do not utilize modern security monitoring and threat hunting teams, as you might expect to find in a large enterprise like a mobile network operator.”
Because of limits on the API (an interface that facilitates communication between two software programs), the attacker did not gain access to Social Security numbers or tax IDs, driver’s license data, passwords and PINs, or financial information like payment card data. Such data has been compromised in other recent T-Mobile breaches, though, including one in August 2021. In July 2022, T-Mobile agreed to settle a class action suit about that breach in a deal that included $350 million to customers. At the time, the company also committed to a two-year, $150 million initiative to improve its digital security and data defenses.
T-Mobile, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment from WIRED, wrote in its SEC disclosure that in 2021, “We commenced a substantial multi-year investment working with leading external cybersecurity experts to enhance our cybersecurity capabilities and transform our approach to cybersecurity. We have made substantial progress to date, and protecting our customers’ data remains a top priority.”
It clearly hasn’t been enough, given the recent incident, which exposed data for roughly a third of the company’s US-based customers.
“How many of these does T-Mobile have to have?” wondered Jake Williams, a longtime incident responder and an analyst at the Institute for Applied Network Security. “API security is just starting to be something people are really focusing on, which was a mistake. Detecting API abuse is not easy, especially if the threat actor is moving low and slow. I suspect there’s a large number of these in general that simply go undetected. But the bottom line is that T-Mobile’s API security clearly needs work. You shouldn’t be having mass API abuse for more than six weeks.” | https://www.technologyinthearts.org/t-mobiles-new-data-breach-shows-its-150-million-security-investment-isnt-cutting-it/ |
We got updates from Microsoft, Adobe, Wireshark, Oracle (dropping on April 16), and Opera. We also have a boat-load of end-of-life notices, which raise a number of security concerns that are very timely to discuss, given the recent Arizona Tea ransomware attack that brought the company to a grinding halt.
Microsoft has released 15 updates resolving 74 unique CVEs this month. These updates affect the Windows OS, Internet Explorer and Edge browsers, Office, SharePoint and Exchange. Two of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-0803 and CVE-2019-0859) resolved in the Windows OS are being used in exploits in the wild. These are Win32k elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities that could allow a locally authenticated attacker to run arbitrary code in kernel mode.
Adobe has released seven total updates resolving 43 unique CVEs. Adobe Reader, Acrobat, AIR, Flash, and Shockwave are the most concerning here. You can get updates for Reader, Acrobat, AIR, and Flash, but Shockwave has reached its end-of-life so no update is available for its seven critical vulnerabilities.
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Wireshark released three updates resolving 10 CVEs. Wireshark is one of those overlooked IT tools that can pose a significant risk to your environment. Ensure it gets updated or removed where it is no longer needed. | https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/reflecting-on-april-patch-tuesday/ |
As the world depends more on digital systems, the exposure to cyber and data security threats continues to grow at rapid rate. Malware and ransomware attacks in increased by over 350% in just one year – that’s why learning how to protect your company with the fundamentals of data security and privacy has never been more vital.
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PCI vendor Trustwave has published the results of recent research in a report called Payment Card Trends and Risks for Small Merchants. Their findings indicate that nine out of 10 incidents of secure card data being breached occur at Level 4 merchants – those that process less than 20,000 ecommerce transactions or less than 1 million aggregate transactions annually. Point-of-sale software was the most often breached system type, being the compromise point in about 75 percent of breach incidents. Infosecurity has the story:
Trustwave said that small merchants have been slow to validate compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). “The big constraints [on small merchants] are time and money”, said Greg Rosenberg, qualified security assessor at Trustwave.
One of the findings that surprised Rosenberg in the study was the relatively short amount of time it takes for merchants to achieve their initial PCI DSS compliance. “About 82% of all of the merchants we dealt with…were able to complete PCI DSS compliance in under 12 hours”, he told Infosecurity.
Another finding that stood out for Rosenberg was that areas where small merchants are often deficient in terms of PCI DSS compliance are not expensive to fix. “These were things like having proper policies and procedures in place and security awareness training; these are low cost items that can be relatively easy to institute”, he said.
Smaller merchants tend to rely on their acquirer or independent sales organization (ISO) to initiate PCI DSS compliance validation. Without directive or enforcement of such initiatives, many will forgo basic steps to protect their networks and their customers’ cardholder data because they feel they do not have the time or the proper resources, or they’re just not aware of the requirement, the survey found.
These institutions, often referred to as the program sponsors, help enforce compliance, mitigate risk and in turn, provide a security benefit for the merchant, as well as the greater population by helping to combat data security threats.
The report, which was a supplement to Trustwave’s 2011 Global Security Report, also found that two groups – food and beverage and retail – made up 75% of all credit card breaches. Of those breaches, 85% affected small merchants.
“Food service tends to lead the pack [in data breaches]. The first challenge for them is that they are using broadband connectivity. They are not using the traditional stand-alone terminals….With the additional network complexity obviously comes the opportunity for someone half way across the world to reach into their network and exploit vulnerabilities that haven’t been addressed”, Rosenberg observed.
The food and beverage industry accounts for a large portion of merchant portfolios as well. So there is a direct correlation that leads these businesses to be more highly weighted in the survey”, he said. “There tends to be high turnover, and they are a fast-paced industry”, he added.
Other key findings in the report showed that merchants that fail to validate compliance with the PCI DSS fail at six of the 12 requirements more than 90% of the time. These statistics provide further evidence that ISOs and acquirers should implement compliance programs to help secure their merchant population, the survey said. | https://www.paymentsjournal.com/trustwave-study-says-90-percent-of-card-data-breaches-at-small-merchants/ |
Many health and safety experts now consider cybersecurity to be a growing issue in the sector. While you might think of the two issues as completely separate, it is becoming clearer that they overlap in a number of ways.
There are different types of damage that cyber risk can cause. There is informational risk, where important data can be lost. Just as troublesome is operational risk, where cybercrime can damage the running of a business. Additionally, concepts like reputational and financial risk arise from the others but are separate in themselves.
However, there is another type of challenge: physical risk. This can occur from unexpected physical damage or events caused by cyberattacks.
It is not always the intention of the hack to cause physical damage. Yes, there are instances of industrial sabotage, where the hackers’ motivation is to cause problems for large businesses, but this is not always the reason that physical damage occurs. Quite often it is an unforeseen consequence on the part of the hacker as they were actually only looking to gain access to the system.
Cybercrime can create physical problems
One of the worst examples of a physical risk that came about due to a cyber-attack actually occurred back in 2014. A German steel mill had its system hacked by cybercriminals, and the team was unable to access parts of the infrastructure that allowed aspects of the mill to be shut down.
This led to a situation where a blast furnace could not be shut off in the normal way. Subsequently, the furnace overheated and this caused catastrophic damage. Fortunately, the situation was eventually contained.
Any time that a company controls potentially dangerous machinery or equipment using a computer system, it is a health and safety issue that relates to cybercrime.
More recently, a hacker in Florida gained access to a city’s water supply and tried to pump in a ‘dangerous’ amount of chemicals. The incident happened in the city of Oldsmar, with the hacker briefly increasing the amount of sodium hydroxide (lye) in the water treatment system, before it was spotted and reversed by a worker.
Operational disruption can cause health and safety issues too
We spoke above about the different types of risk to a business – one of these was operational risk. On the surface, operational problems would not appear to be a health and safety issue, but of course, this depends entirely on the kind of work a business is carrying out.
For example, it might be the case that a company is using electronic equipment during electrical maintenance at physical premises. If hackers were able to bring down a company’s system at a crucial moment this could lead to critical buildings being left without power.
On a different note, it may be that a company’s system continuously monitors employees. This could be a control measure to ensure that lone workers are safe. If these measures are no longer in place due to a malfunctioning system, these workers could be put at risk.
Indirect health and safety issues
It is the case that cybercrime can create a number of indirect health and safety issues, especially when we consider another type of risk mentioned above: informational risk. Here we see the potential for hackers to get access to the personal details of employees including contact details, health and financial information.
Knowing that this has taken place can cause a great deal of anxiety and fear for members of staff – and of course, health and safety planning needs to take care of mental health as well as physical health.
The importance of preventing cybercrime
What we can see from these cybersecurity issues is that physical challenges that result in health and safety issues are often preventable. Good health and safety planning should take into account the potential issues that can arise, should a business suffer anything from a data breach to a full-on takeover of the system.
Prevention is always better than cure, and it can be smart to work with cybersecurity professionals to put powerful defences into your system.
The measures you can put in place
There are many types of preventive measures that a health and safety team can take in conjunction with the IT department. For example, assessing defences regularly with the help of penetration testing is important. As is putting simple but effective measures in place such as stronger passwords and multi-factor authentication.
“As a penetration tester, a major issue that I see regularly is a failure by organisations to enforce multi-factor authentication across systems and applications,” says Jed Kafetz, Head of Penetration Testing at Redscan.
“Multi-factor authentication provides an important secondary layer of defence in the event of a password being stolen and is especially important given people’s tendency to reuse passwords across accounts. If adopted more widely, I can confidently say that there would be far fewer security breaches.”
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Security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered critical vulnerabilities in the antivirus product developed by U.K.-based security firm Sophos and advised organizations to avoid using the product on critical systems unless the vendor improves its product development, quality assurance and security response practices.
Ormandy, who works as an information security engineer at Google, disclosed details about the vulnerabilities he found in a research paper entitled "Sophail: Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus" that was published on Monday. Ormandy noted that the research was performed in his spare time and that the views expressed in the paper are his own and not those of his employer.
The paper contains details about several vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus code responsible for parsing Visual Basic 6, PDF, CAB and RAR files. Some of these flaws can be attacked remotely and can result in the execution of arbitrary code on the system.
Ormandy even included a proof-of-concept exploit for the PDF parsing vulnerability which he claims requires no user interaction, no authentication and can be easily transformed into a self-spreading worm.
The researcher built the exploit for the Mac version of Sophos antivirus, but noted that the vulnerability also affects Windows and Linux versions of the product and the exploit can easily be translated to those platforms.
The PDF parsing vulnerability can be exploited by simply receiving an email in Outlook or Mail.app, Ormandy said in the paper. Because Sophos antivirus automatically intercepts input and output (I/O) operations, opening or reading the email is not even necessary.
"The most realistic attack scenario for a global network worm is self-propagation via email," Ormandy said. "No users are required to interact with the email, as the vulnerability will be automatically exploited."
However, other attack methods are also possible -- for example, by opening any file of any type provided by an attacker; visiting a URL (even in a sandboxed browser), or embedding images using MIME cid: URLs into an email that is opened in a webmail client,the researcher said. "Any method an attacker can use to cause I/O is enough to exploit this vulnerability."
Ormandy also found that a component called the "Buffer Overflow Protection System" (BOPS) that's bundled with Sophos antivirus, disables the ASLR (address space layout randomization) exploit mitigation feature on all Windows versions that support it by default, including Vista and later.
"It is simply inexcusable to disable ASLR systemwide like this, especially in order to sell a naive alternative to customers that is functionally poorer than that provided by Microsoft," Ormandy said.
A website blacklisting component for Internet Explorer installed by Sophos antivirus cancels the protection offered by the browser's Protected Mode feature, the researcher said. In addition, the template used to display warnings by the blacklisting component introduces a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability that defeats the browser's Same Origin Policy.
The Same Origin Policy is "one of the fundamental security mechanisms that makes the internet safe to use," Ormandy said. "With the Same Origin Policy defeated, a malicious website can interact with your Mail, Intranet Systems, Registrar, Banks and Payroll systems, and so on."
Ormandy's comments throughout the paper suggest that many of these vulnerabilities should have been caught during the product development and quality assurance processes.
The researcher shared his findings with Sophos in advance and the company released security fixes for the vulnerabilities disclosed in the paper. Some of the fixes were rolled out on Oct. 22, while the others were released on Nov. 5, the company said Monday in a blog post.
There are still some potentially exploitable issues discovered by Ormandy through fuzzing -- a security testing method -- that were shared with Sophos, but weren't publicly disclosed. Those issues are being examined and fixes for them will start to be rolled out on Nov. 28, the company said.
"As a security company, keeping customers safe is Sophos's primary responsibility," Sophos said. "As a result, Sophos experts investigate all vulnerability reports and implement the best course of action in the tightest time period possible. "It's good that Sophos has been able to deliver the suite of fixes within weeks, and without disrupting customers' usual operations," Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, said Tuesday via email. "We are grateful that Tavis Ormandy found the vulnerabilities, as this has helped make Sophos's products better."
However, Ormandy wasn't satisfied with the time it took Sophos to patch the critical vulnerabilities he reported. The issues were reported to the company on September 10, he said.
"In response to early access to this report, Sophos did allocate some resources to resolve the issues discussed, however they were clearly ill-equipped to handle the output of one co-operative, non-adversarial security researcher," Ormandy said. "A sophisticated state-sponsored or highly motivated attacker could devastate the entire Sophos user base with ease. "Sophos claim their products are deployed throughout healthcare, government, finance and even the military," the researcher said. "The chaos a motivated attacker could cause to these systems is a realistic global threat. For this reason, Sophos products should only ever be considered for low-value non-critical systems and never deployed on networks or environments where a complete compromise by adversaries would be inconvenient."
Ormandy's paper contains a section that describes best practices and includes the researcher's recommendations for Sophos customers, like implementing contingency plans that would allow them to disable Sophos antivirus installations on short notice.
"Sophos simply cannot react fast enough to prevent attacks, even when presented with a working exploit," he said. "Should an attacker choose to use Sophos Antivirus as their conduit into your network, Sophos will simply not be able to prevent their continued intrusion for some time, and you must implement contingency plans to handle this scenario if you choose to continue deploying Sophos."
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There number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is on track to exceed 21.5 billion by 2025, which will create countless ways for cybercrooks to enter networks and do their worst. With that in mind, the IoT Cybersecurity Act was enacted in the United States last December.
The legislation outlines security requirements that federal devices connected to the Internet of Things need to contain moving forward. Since IoT devices can be particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks, they need to be secure to protect sensitive data. This act reaches beyond government agencies to the manufacturers creating federal IoT devices and any government contractors using IoT devices.
The NIST has a big role in the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act. The act requires NIST to create guidelines and standards for managing federal IoT devices by early March 2021, and the organization is still working on the guidance. The guidelines will address the cybersecurity risks that IoT devices might have and to establish minimum security standards every five years to keep up with any new data concerns.
NIST released drafts of the guidelines shortly after the law passed in December 2020, which discussed the proper security requirements for IoT devices. The drafts covered what agencies need to look for to ensure their devices are secure and how manufacturers should configure devices that they make for the federal government.
While the final draft of this guideline is under review, your organization can begin auditing your compliance obligations by reviewing NIST’s draft publications for the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act. To best navigate these guidelines, partner with 2W Tech. We’re an IT consultant with decades of experience in compliance regulation, and you can rely on our Cybersecurity Compliance Program to keep you compliant with your industry’s mandates. Contact us today to learn more. | https://2wtech.com/the-iot-cybersecurity-improvement-act-aims-to-safeguard-u-s-governments-iot-devices/ |
The upshot of a creative human intellect is new innovations Technology is one of the best innovations of all time, and it has dominated the universe since its beginning.
The entire world is now reliant on technology. It is now difficult to escape from this new paradigm. The majority of the industry has made the switch from manual to automated systems.
However, technology comes with its own set of problems. Cyber-attacks have emerged as a new set of issues in today’s globe. The financial services industry, which is seen as the global economy’s backbone, has been the most targeted.
The world shifted to a remote working routine as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. During COVID-19, there was a significant increase in cyber-attacks around the world, ranging from phishing to sophisticated supply chain management. Cyber-attacks have spiked by 300 % in this pandemic situation, according to FBI reports.
As per Google, at the outset of the pandemic, it blocked over 1800 million coronavirus phishing attempts every day. In the year 2020, Microsoft announced a data breach involving 280 million records, while Twitter reported that 130 celebrity accounts were targeted in a significant cyber-attack. 500,000 Zoom accounts were also hacked, according to the report.
On March 21, 2021, CNA Financial, one of the major insurance companies in the United States, was apparently targeted by a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack.” The company’s employee and customer services were interrupted for a few days, which forced the company to shut down “out of an abundance of caution” to prevent additional damage.
The company announced on its own website that it had been the victim of a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack.” Although when CNA was asked about the incident, company’s spokesperson declined to comment on the ransom. But further stated that it treated the incident in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and published advice, including OFAC’s 2020 ransomware guidance.
Acer, a well-known computer firm, was the target of a ransomware assault and was demanded to pay a $50 million ransom, which is the biggest known ransom to date.
An unidentified leaker uploaded a 125GB cache of Twitch data to 4chan as a torrent on October 6, 2021. The source code, internal company records, salary, and certain other private details of a few of the network’s top stars and channel managers were also included in the breach.
At the beginning of 2022, the Twitter account of India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was compromised. The hackers renamed the account ‘Elon Musk’ and began tweeting “great job,” as per the sources.
Cybersecurity is a global issue that affects equally small and large businesses alike. To remedy this, businesses must take cybersecurity seriously and allocate sufficient resources to it. | https://worldecomag.com/in-the-covid-19-world-cyber-security-begs-much-attention/ |
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Adobe has released scheduled security updates for its Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday in order to fix many critical vulnerabilities, including one that is already actively exploited by attackers.
The Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates include fixes for 27 vulnerabilities, 24 of which could lead to arbitrary code execution if exploited successfully. One of the other flaws could allow attackers to bypass the sandbox protection in Adobe Reader, the company said in a security advisory.
The sandbox mechanism is a feature first introduced in Adobe Reader X that’s designed to prevent the successful execution of malicious code on the underlying system even if a traditional arbitrary code execution vulnerability is exploited.
Adobe advises Reader and Acrobat users to update their product installations to the newly released versions: Adobe Reader XI (11.0.03), Adobe Reader X (10.1.7) and Adobe Reader 9.5.5 for Windows and Mac; Adobe Reader 9.5.5 for Linux; Adobe Acrobat XI (11.0.03), Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.7) and Adobe Acrobat 9.5.5 for Windows and Mac.
The security updates released for Flash Player address a total of 13 vulnerabilities that could cause crashes and potentially allow attackers to take control of the affected systems.
Users of Flash Player for Windows and Macintosh should update to Flash Player 11.7.700.202, while users of Flash Player for Linux should update to Flash Player 11.2.202.285, Adobe said in a security advisory.
The Flash Player versions bundled with Google Chrome on Windows and Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically updated together with those browsers through their respective update mechanisms.
The company also released updates for Adobe AIR, a runtime for running rich Internet applications that includes Flash Player, as well as for Flash Player for Android 4.x, 3.x and 2.x.
Adobe is not aware of any exploits or attacks in the wild targeting any of the issues addressed in the security updates for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player, the company said in a note about the new security updates sent Tuesday via email.
A security hotfix has also been released for versions 10, 9.0.2, 9.0.1, and 9.0 of Adobe’s ColdFusion application server software. This hotfix address two flaws, a remote code execution one and one that could allow an unauthorized user to remotely retrieve files stored on a vulnerable server.
The company warned ColdFusion users about the second vulnerability, identified as CVE-2013-3336, last week after receiving reports of the flaw being actively exploited by attackers.
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She says the last decade "has been tough, but inspiring", and admits that it was a lot of pressure for a 19-year old girl to handle. But now she's 30 and Kelly says she is smart enough to know it's time to stop, catch her breath, and be proud of what she's accomplished. | http://www.magic1019.com/ANOTHER-COMPUTER-VIRUS-THREAT/11277702 |
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Panda Antivirus Pro 2014 download comes with an online installer meaning that when you start the installer, it will download the latest versions of components needed for running the antivirus.
The interface is very neat and clean. You will see a tile for each major function. The first tile tells you whether you are protected or your system security needs attention. The statistics are also shown in two separate tiles, one showing scanned files and another showing threats blocked.
You can start a scan manually or see the reports through their respective tiles. The antivirus and firewall can be turned on or off from the tiles interface.
Below the tiles, you will see three icons. The first icon “Network Management” shows you some information about your network. The second icon is the “USB Vaccine” which will let you disinfect USB Flash drives. The third icon is the “Virtual Keyboard” which can be used to secure yourself from keyloggers.
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What I want to do here is setup a CCNP/CCIP-capable lab, or at least something close to it. Back in my earlier study days, I purchased a bunch of lower-end Cisco routers on Ebay and wonder if this would be sufficient and if you have some diagram concepts that you can recommend, which would be similar to what you see in your training or tests. | https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/comment/346295/ |
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The Director of Information Security has university wide responsibility regarding all matters of information technology security. Provides security oversight for all information technology assets, including infrastructure, end-point devices, applications, communications technology, etc. This position works closely with the IT leadership team to create, articulate and implement university-wide security vision and strategy to support the high quality and reliability of the services offered by UCO OIT. Oversees the creation and maintenance of the university's information technology security policies and practices, lead security risk assessments and their management for the university, and develop and manage university wide education and training regarding information technology security policies.
Partner with the University stakeholders and other IT domains to define and establish an enterprise wide Information Security Management Program (SMP) with supporting organization structure and clear ownership and accountability.
Direct/oversee all activities related to Information Security – Cyber Security, Incident Response, Risk Management, Policy Development / Enforcement, Security Monitoring, and Security Compliance
Deploy an information security and risk management framework, leveraging industry best practices, that can support a cross-organizational strategy for information security management.
Develop, implement and maintain a University-wide information security plan.
Prepare, document, maintain and disseminate information security policies and procedures including information security controls, incident response planning, and identity and access management policies. Make sure that cyber security policies and procedures are communicated to all personnel and that compliance is enforced.
Ensure information security compliance through implementation of university-wide information security training and periodic security audits. These audits should be scheduled periodically and be both internal and external in nature.
Review and respond to breaches or incidents in the confidentiality, integrity or availability of institutional data including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities.
Ensure compliance with the changing laws and applicable regulations.
Identify vulnerabilities, threats and incidents in the university's information technology infrastructure and work with OIT service owners to resolve these issues.
Maintain a current understanding of the IT threat landscape for the industry. Constantly update the cyber security strategy to leverage new technology and threat information.
Manage, coach, and mentor direct reports and others in the organization.
Ensure team members’ technical skills are kept current by identifying and supporting appropriate training and other professional development opportunities.
Facilitate effective communications and knowledge sharing between IT Managers by facilitating regular leadership team meetings for those within area of responsibility.
Oversee key performance indicators and Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics to meet management targets.
Report performance to senior leadership on a frequent basis.
Understand and proactively manage the funding/budget for area of responsibility.
Proactively negotiate and manage the contracts for all consultants and contractors working within area of responsibility.
Assists in the development and maintenance of an IT Policy framework and a holistic set of IT Policies for the university.
Create, support and drive change leadership and transformational initiatives. Leads and promotes efforts for innovation, creative problem solving, and continuous improvement in the organization.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Proven experience as an Information Security Officer or in a related role.
Proven management experience in IT field.
Professional Certifications in field of information security, e.g. CISSP, GIAC, preferred.
Experience working in Higher Education and within a large university environment, preferred.
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Familiarity with FERPA, state and federal guidelines on privacy, transactions and security.
Familiarity with security industry trends and best practices.
Knowledge of systems risk and risk assessment concepts.
Knowledge of information technology security monitoring and identity systems
Excellent understanding and knowledge of the field of information technology security.
Excellent leadership skills, the ability to work collaboratively within a team, and ability to inspire team members.
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Strong written and verbal skills with proven project management experience.
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Demonstrated capacity for self-directed learning and ability to exercise independent thinking and judgment.
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My year old pc windows 7 64 bit has really slowed down. I've run avast av and spybot and got rid of any show problems. There is nothing on avast and the problems show up on spybot I manage to clear by running as an administrator.
However, my pc is still very slow. I don't think that it is my router as my laptop is not running any slower than it normally does. So I am thinking (and please feel free to tell me otherwise) of running superantispyware. Do I need to run this from a separate memory stick? I seem to remember doing this before and I am also assuming that I have to disable avast.
Thank you again for all your help. I always appreciate any support from this site!
Many thanks for your replies. I had forgotten about CCleaner (my mind is addled nowadays)! So I will use that. Good advice.
Buteman, my process show to be 67, cpu usage 1% and physical memory 31%. Is this normal?
Also, is Hitman Pro akin to superantispyware? I've not heard of it before.
Hitman pro is the new one on the block and works very fast.
If it finds anything nastie the you have to activate the licence to remove it.
it will then last for 30 days but will remove anything that it finds in that time.
If after 30 days you have to pay for it or remove it.or keep it and still run it ,it will not remove anything but will warn you if you have problems.
I prefer it to Malwarebytes,
Under processes in Task Manager system idle process should be showing about 96% which is normal.
If it is not showing there will be a little box bottom left just tick it to show processes from all users.
If anything else using up a lot of the CPU let us know what. Remember to look under processes.
Sorry for the delay in replying but I've had a devil of a job logging into this site. I have run CCleaner but if anything, my PC seems to be slower.
I did look at the Task Manager idle process and it is showing to be around 96%. I can't see anything else that is using a lot of cpu.
Use it with, You should not need to disable anything before using.
Have you tried shutting down the tea timer in Spybot as that has been know to slow down things.
I will say I don't think much of Spybot I know others like it and it was very popular years ago maybe think of using Superantispyware instead.
If you are not sure not sure about running Hitman Pro run Malwarebytes free instead.
I take it you are running the 32 Bit version of Internet explorer just remember to have compatibility mode switched on.
if it is only this site you find slow don't worry about it we are all in the same boat it is slow for us all.
Maybe download and use Firefox just to see if that runs any quicker.
Further to my last post. I have now run Hitman pro. I notice that it doesn't interfere with any existing AV's etc.
It found no infections! Good I know but.............. Not sure where I go from here.
I have tried several times to post a reply. I do hope that I haven't replied several times,as I do keep hitting the refresh button (sorry).
It is the 64 bit version of Hitman pro I ran and I always use Firefox now. (Good advice given to me on this site a while back now).
You have not downloaded another Host file lately have you. I was using the MVPS host file before I realised it was that which was slowing my Internet Explorer down.
What about an ad-blocker do you use Adblock Plus with Firefox as that should speed things up a bit.
Have you tried a defrag or maybe run sfc /scannow in command prompt you do not need the W/7 disc for that..
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What is Business Listing Search (BusinessListingSearch.net)?
BusinessListingSearch.net is commonly referred to as a redirection virus though Businesslistingsearch.net is technically malware, categorized as a browser hijacker. Business Listing Search utilizes the livesearchnow.com adware platform, and changes infected internet browser settings without permission of the computer user by attaching and installing malicious browser helper objects (add-ons, Toolbars) such as and Scour Toolbar.
When infected with the businesslistingsearch.net redirection virus and , internet searches and general keys inputted into an infected browser’s address bar redirect to and/or through businesslistingsearch.net and other websites such as livesearchnow.com. The infection also causes home pages to change to BusinessListingSearch.net without user consent.
Also note, Businesslistingsearch.com offers many suspect online products for black hat cyber criminals and freeware developers to earn revenue through affiliate programs.
What is Business Search Toolbar?
Business Search Toolbar is a browser helper object, add-on, and extension Toolbar. Also referred to as a browser hijacker that is associated with adware and spyware
Business Search Toolbar is allegedly used to browse the internet for “different” results but the only results displayed by Business Listing Search and are paid for or malicious (See below).
If your internet browser is affected by Businesslistingsearch.net redirections and without your consent you are most likely infected by malware, viruses, and/or Trojans. These infections may occur by a third party bundled with Business Listing Search products, or via malicious associated links.
BusinessListingSearch Virus Dangers
There are many dangers concerning browser hijackers, adware, and spyware in general involving credit theft, identity theft, and other severe forms of cyber criminal activity.
Browser hijackers in form of Toolbars are often developed for companies and introduced to a “victim’s” computer for the purposes of collecting, tracing, and tracking browser and computer activity, including personal data and keyboard strokes.
The only results displayed on BusinessListingSeach.net are paid for and/or are malicious. When attempting to search for the term “botcrawl” on Business Listing Search, the only results were that of a third party malware Scour and other sponsored listings (pictured below).
BusinessListingSearch.net and may open a backdoor for third party malware, viruses, and Trojans.
BusinessListingSearch.net and associated websites, or websites utilizing the same adware platform may display spam advertisements including popups and in text. Advertisements displayed may promote malicious third party links or clicks to earn revenue via CPC.
Use the options below to detect and remove malware infecting your browser and computer system and repair internet browser settings.
3. Uninstall Business Search Toolbar
If BusinessListingSearch.net software is installed on your compute remove it immediately using the steps below.
These steps must also be performed before attempting to remove add-on and extension from attached internet browsers.
1. Click on the Wrench or 3 bar icon next to the address bar and navigate to Tools > Extensions.
2. Look for any suspicious extensions and Toolbars that may be related to the Businesslistingsearch.net virus such as and remove them by clicking the trashcan icon adjacent to the add-on/extension.
1. Click the 3 bar or wrench settings icon and select Settings.
2. In the Search section select the Manage search engines… button.
3. Remove BusinessListingSearch.net by clicking the X next to the URL when highlighted.
If BusinessListingSearch.net is set as the default search engine, add and chose another search engine (such as Google.com) as a default engine by selecting it (Google.com) and clicking the make default transparent blue box that appears shown in the image below.
7. Delete Cache And Cookies
If you visited BusinessListingSearch.net and other websites, or clicked third party links it is recommended to delete your browser data. You can delete your browser cache and cookie files in your browser’s preference or settings options.
Many websites use cookies to gather data and information about the computer system, user, and over-all activity. | http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-businesslistingsearch-net-redirection-virus-and-uninstall-business-search-toolbar-hijacker-malware/ |
The managing agent of a block of flats in London has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay almost £13,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety law.
Douglas and Gordon Ltd pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Southwark crown court on 29 June 2008. The leasehold owner of the premises in Gloucester Terrace, Paddington, Atomlynn Ltd, was fined £33,000 after pleading guilty to one offence under the Order and ordered to pay costs of £6,440.
Following a fire in one of the flats, London Fire Brigade carried out an audit of the communal areas. Officers found a number of fire safety breaches which included a failure to install a fire alarm system and a failure to ensure that the electrical intake cupboard was locked.
A fire risk assessment had been carried out but the managing agent and leaseholder had failed to act on its significant findings, said London Fire Brigade. These included the failure to make an emergency plan, ensuring that fire doors were self-closing and installing emergency lighting.
Assistant commissioner for fire safety regulation, Steve Turek, said: “London Fire Brigade will continue to take action against managing agents, lease owners or landlords who do not take their fire safety responsibilities seriously. Failure to comply with the law can, as this case has shown, result in a prosecution.”
In a statement issued following the sentence, Douglas and Gordon Ltd (D&G) said:
“D&G and its legal and technical advisors were surprised at the level of the fine as they believed the breaches represented a low level of risk, the avoidance of which is the central criteria for implementing fire precautions under the Order.
“The introduction of the Order has caused difficulties for landlords, managing agents, consultants and enforcing authorities alike when it comes to applying the legislation to blocks of flats like Gloucester Terrace. This was demonstrated by the five separate fire risk assessments D&G commissioned for the building, all of which provided different advice. We welcome the Government’s commitment to the provision of new national guidance on fire precautions in blocks of flats, which will be developed by CS Todd & Associates Limited.”
The company added that since 2008, it has worked to ensure that all of the 150 properties it manages are compliant and that its clients are properly advised of their responsibilities. | https://www.thepowerservice.co.uk/building-managers-fined-100000-after-failing-to-act-on-fire-risk-assessment/ |
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Clearwire next month will finally introduce client software for linking Apple Macintosh laptops directly to its WiMax service, as well as introducing a dual-mode USB modem for WiMax and Sprint Nextel's 3G network.
The would-be national WiMax carrier offers tabletop and USB modems, and in April it introduced the Clear Spot standalone modem with built-in Wi-Fi. But so far, it has only provided Windows drivers, so Mac users have not been able to use the Clear service directly, though they can hook up via Wi-Fi through the US$139.99 Clear Spot. On Aug. 17, Clearwire will begin offering a Mac driver as a free download for customers, according to Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer.
Clearwire doesn't offer a driver for Linux devices to use its modems, but someday the company will offer open-source code for outside developers to write their own drivers, according to CTO John Saw.
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On Aug. 1, Clear will start selling the Clear 4G+ modem, a USB device that can connect users' laptops to WiMax service where available and to Sprint Nextel's 3G EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) network in other areas. It is the company's first major step to overcome its limited national coverage area. The device will cost $79.99 after an instant rebate. A service plan including WiMax and Sprint 3G service will be available for $80 per month with a two-year contract. The dual-mode service will be available for Macs in the fourth quarter.
Clearwire announced the upcoming products as it launched commercial WiMax service in Las Vegas, its fourth major market. The Las Vegas network covers 638 square miles of the city's metropolitan area and reaches 1.7 million potential customers, according to Clearwire. It joins Baltimore, Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. Clearwire will turn on WiMax in other cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas, before the end of the year, as well as convert from its older proprietary wireless system in markets including Seattle and Hawaii. The carrier plans to serve 80 markets with 120 million people by the end of next year.
The Clear WiMax service delivers 3Mb per second (Mbps) to 6Mbps, with bursts as high as 10Mbps, according to Clearwire. It starts at $20 per month for home and $30 per month for mobile service, and combined plans are also available. A day pass costs $10.
August will also see the release of one of the first handheld devices equipped for use on the Clear network, Samsung's Mondi, according to Clearwire. Samsung unveiled the MID (mobile Internet device) in April and said it would be available from Clearwire in the second quarter. The device runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and features Wi-Fi and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Pricing was not provided.
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The Clear service and devices are sold online, at Clear stores and at select retail stores. They are available at six Best Buy and 24 RadioShack stores in the Las Vegas area, Clearwire said. The ultimate vision is to have most client devices sold through retail stores instead of Clearwire. | https://www.cio.com/article/2426175/clearwire-wimax-driver-for-mac-due-next-month.html |
We’ve discussed the importance of privacy assessments here in the past. It is a frustrating realization, indeed, when a company discovers a data breach involving data that it never needed or even knew it kept.
A proactive company-wide privacy assessment allows your business to carefully evaluate on its own timeline (rather than in the panic of breach response) the company’s data collection, sharing, storage, and security practices. Vulnerabilities can be identified and addressed, and “stale” privacy and security policies can be updated to reflect current practices.
Let’s assume that you are on board with the importance of a privacy assessment. (You are, right?) How do you convince management that the benefits of taking time to conduct a privacy assessment outweigh the risks of diversion away from other priorities?
Here are a few reasons you can give your company’s leaders to explain why they should authorize a privacy assessment:
Regulators are serious about privacy, so you should be, too. Federal and state regulators have made consumer privacy and data protection a top priority. The Federal Trade Commission, in particular, has been flexing its muscles in this area. Recently, in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., the Third Circuit upheld the FTC’s “unfairness” authority to bring an administrative action against Wyndham for inadequate data security practices. The FTC has also exercised its “deception” authority to fine companies for (among other things) failing to live up to promises made in their written privacy and security policies. State Attorneys General are also key regulators in this area. For example, North Carolina’s Attorney General includes identity theft among the top consumer protection issues of focus for his office. Enforcement actions are a real risk and simply cannot be ignored.
Privacy matters for all businesses, not just the healthcare and financial services industries. There’s a temptation to think that if you’re not in the healthcare or financial services fields, privacy isn’t a significant risk. That is a faulty assumption. If your business collects information from customers or visitors to its website, or if your company holds sensitive information (employee social security numbers, for example), your company needs to confront and address data privacy and security policies and practices. Certain kinds of data are subject to regulation—do you know what, if any, regulated data your business has? An assessment will help you answer this question.
An assessment on the front end will save you time, energy, and money when it comes time to respond to a breach. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That’s as true in the data privacy and security arena as any other. A privacy assessment that involves stakeholders from all areas of the business in the discussion—IT, marketing, human resources, legal—allows the company to understand and make informed choices about the data it collects, uses, and shares, and how it stores and disposes of that data. If your company has gone through a recent assessment, you will be ahead of the curve in the vital early hours and days of the discovery of a data breach.
Insurance is important, but it is not a cure-all. Insurance is a terrific and necessary arrow to have in your risk management quiver. But data privacy and security are complicated, and there is no single magic bullet. Insurance, fortunately, can address covered monetary losses. But insurance cannot address non-monetary harms like brand and reputation damage, which can result from a data breach. Yet a company’s brand and reputation are key assets of the business. A privacy assessment that results in concrete action to address privacy risks is a step your company can take to protect its hard-won reputation and secure the brand. | https://www.brookspierce.com/digital-media-and-data-privacy-law-blog/How-to-Talk-to-Management-about-a-Privacy-Assessment |
As a tech chief, chances are you deal with ‘mini crisis’ situations regularly. But how do you respond when something truly terrible happens? How do show leadership while staying calm so you can think through how to best manage the situation?
Watch what happens during a crisis – some leaders rise to meet the issue head on while others freeze with uncertainty. These crisis events sometimes effect an individual operational system. Other times, they impact large-scale transformation programs, which can wreak havoc on your organisation’s reputation.
So being able to manage through a crisis is part and parcel of your transformation.
Let me illustrate this using a personal example. A number of years ago when I was chief information officer at CUA, we were going live with a major core, online and mobile banking system change. As this was being planned with the CEO, he suggested we go live in ‘crisis mode.’
Thus the entire management team and transformation team would meet four times a day for two weeks until everything had settled down. The crisis meetings included weekends, and I can assure you that having clear communications and the right people in the room made a huge difference in addressing the evolving situation and scenarios we faced. This is a great attribute to bring to your enterprise.
1. Plan for the worst
It is essential to start with a comprehensive plan. You will always find that there are some unforeseen elements that crop up in a crisis, but building this crisis management plan means that there is a common understanding and framework that can be applied.
You can make always adjustments to a plan when there is a new variety or emergence of a new threat, but not having a starting position is reckless.
The plan has to address common crisis situations and provide confidence to management, staff and customers that when an incident occurs, it can be invoked. It is usual to feel overwhelmed in a time of crisis; so take the time in advance to anticipate how to react and how to communicate to various stakeholders.
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Then ‘test’ this plan to ensure that it actually works as expected. Recently, when I was working in Japan, we created a crisis simulation plan to model what happens if there’s a missile attack from North Korea.
This was not a scenario that was in the current crisis management plan for this large enterprise and the executives had to improvise in reacting to the situation. The plan also had provisions for what would need to be done following a cyber security attack.
The crisis leader – who in some cases is you – will need get the broader team to investigate the specific issue and determine root cause. During a crisis, it’s often the case that symptoms are reported first that are not directly related to the actual issue.
This will usually require a cross-functional team that have the requisite knowledge and competencies. Be sure to reinforce that no communications both internal and especially external are to be made without your express approval. This is when you need to have the media trained staff to take the ‘stand-by’ statements and start to draft potential responses.
Ideally, you have the crisis management plan projected onto a wall for all to see and a second projector that shows the log of events. This level of transparency will be critical to enable all the team to track progress and ensure that information is widely shared.
The war room should remain open around-the-clock during the crisis and you will need to ensure that there are no conflicting bookings for this room.
People working on the issue may also be the same staff who are responsible for the issue that occurred. To have them worried about repercussions is not going to create the appropriate mood. Remember that you set the tone with IT and with the business. The business is going to be sensitive and edgy; perhaps looking to blame others for the outage.
Be calm and confident but at the same time concerned and communicative. I’ve seen examples of outages at banks where multiple teams are involved in a major crisis that has brought down core and online banking systems.
In this cases, it was not certain where the issue began and there was ‘blame shifting’ occurring. Randomly laying blame is not going to help the situation and you need both teams to work together to resolve the issue.
You set the tone by communicating at all times – this is your key role. Create a checklist for notifying management. As soon as you become aware of a major crisis, notify management. There is usually a protocol as to how communications are made and through what medium.
The trick is that everybody wants to know root cause and more details than are available. Accordingly the CEO, the entire c-suite, and board members may all need to be notified. A major crisis has high profile and potential negative external impact so this requires your absolute attention.
6. Restore services
Ok, so the magic happens and your crisis is averted. In some cases, there are good self-healing mechanisms and in others, a reboot of all your systems might do the trick. The restoration of services is when the team and you, as CIO, can all breathe out.
But don’t forget to breathe in again because your work is not yet done. There is comprehensive checking and validation required to understand the real impacts, and what other unintended issues have been created by this crisis. The impact on IT operations is now over but business operations issues are mounting up and it’s time to turn your attention to finalising the ‘root cause’ analysis.
You should insist that within 10 days of the crisis that the team will convene to review any lessons learned. This is often a very painful exercise and needs to be completed and then reported back through various management governance processes.
It is often ideal to have a neutral third party to run this exercise, which can potentially be quite destructive. This last stage can involve regulators and external customers/partners so don’t relax yet.
In truth, it is impossible to avoid a major IT crisis. Like I said upfront, transformational activities will create opportunities for this to occur. We have to embrace and welcome these shifts as they can drive positive change into the enterprise. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/632718/how-deal-major-tech-crisis/ |
Managing risk means actively protecting your data and IT environment. You need to be able to catalog your information assets, review the threats against them, find ways to control the risks, establish risk mitigation procedures, and then document all your efforts.
Cataloging your risk requires you to look at all information storage locations (physical and electronic) in your enterprise, and then review their access. Those threats include external ones such as hackers, and internal ones such as weak passwords.
Controlling risks requires finding ways to lock down your information environment, whether using a firewall or establishing role-based authorizations for access.
Mitigating risks means thinking about ways to lessen the impact of a potential event, such as through regular backups of your important data. Then document all of the decisions you make regarding your risk management, to demonstrate to others that you’ve taken a thoughtful, serious approach to risk management.
What Is an RMIS?
RMIS is an IT system that assists you with risk evaluation. It allows you to document your information assets, controls, mitigation procedures, and compliance requirements in a single location. Although RMIS were initially used for gathering information to provide to insurance brokers, many IT professionals now use these systems to help assemble necessary data to perform audits.
Consolidating the risk information and automating communications among stakeholders means that your risk manager and IT department can work more efficiently together. An RMIS allows organizations to understand their risk, so they can establish controls that will help them mitigate those risks. Another benefit to using RMIS: as cyber insurance becomes more important to avoid the financial shocks of a breach, organizations must provide the best data available to help their cyber insurers set accurate premiums.
High-risk event detection and mitigation.
Better organizational transparency and collaboration.
A successful RMIS is meant to provide workflow capabilities and information to multiple siloed groups within one corporate enterprise, while also providing a holistic picture of risk that allows users across the platform to make better decisions and avoid risk.
Permissions-based dashboards provide specific user profiles with the information they want in helpful, fast, and straightforward ways. This leads to richer, more flexible, and customized reporting.
For example, individuals with the appropriate rights can choose to report any related data fields in the system rather than only those assigned to a single, siloed business function. Even better, this reporting may be disseminated automatically by day, week, month, quarter, and more, assuring that the information reaches the essential individuals who require it.
An RMIS also entails streamlining workflows using warnings, approval processes, and tracking to turn manual operations into more efficient, automated ones.
This offers users a comprehensive, auditable history, allowing different persons to view the same data while assuring data integrity. An intelligent system with this set of checks and balances can reduce mistakes, organize and manage data, increase communication, create more efficient procedures, and stimulate more significant innovations.
The correct RMIS can interface with your existing systems without requiring considerable, time-consuming, and costly development. For example, a modular RMIS, with adjustable modules and unique integration solutions, may open doors to your silos with little development effort.
With ZenRisk’s risk assessment tools and role-based authorization capabilities, you can provide all employees with the information they need to implement your risk management strategies. Empowering employees with the information they need allows you to maintain a strong corporate culture.
ZenRisk’s reporting tools provide easy-to-digest reports with graphics that clearly explain your risk profile. These reports give your board the necessary information they need (and no more than that, so directors aren’t overwhelmed) while saving you creation time.
For audits and documentation, ZenRisk provides a single source of truth by aggregating all records, reports, policies, procedures, and control listing in one place. Streamlining the audit process saves time and money and produces more substantial audit outcomes.
Schedule a demo to learn more about how ZenRisk can help your company establish an enterprise risk management program that effectively aligns with business objectives. | https://reciprocity.com/blog/how-can-rmis-support-risk-management/ |
NuGet\Install-Package Ekin. Encryption -Version 1.0.1.30044
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The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.
#r "nuget: Ekin. Encryption, 1.0.1.30044" #r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
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May 31st, 2012 Orion Integration Group Browsers, Security 2012May30_Security_A, LillyJade, malware, Pay-per-click, QS_2, security, trojan As technology and programs become more sophisticated, so do the viruses and malware that affect them. Traditional malware is transmitted as a program that users have to download onto their system. A new malware program has been developed to transmit over Facebook, and instead of infecting a system, it infects a browser, making it nearly undetectable to virus scanners.
The malware software is called LillyJade, and is available for download at underground websites. When a hacker downloads the program, they can modify it to meet their needs. They then release it as a browser plug-in (software that adds functions, e.g., the ability to automatically translate a website), to your browser. It transmits itself by sending messages to an infected user’s Facebook friends with a link encouraging them to download the plug-in.
At this time, the purpose of the malware appears to be to conduct “click fraud.” It shows fake ads on sites like Facebook, Yahoo and MSN. These ads are usually pay-per-click, which means that any time an infected user clicks on one of these fake ads, the hacker gets paid.
There are two interesting things about this program. The first is that it infects browsers, not systems. This makes it nearly undetectable to virus scanners, which scan for infected files on your computer’s hard drive. The second is that the program can be modified to run on nearly any browser regardless of the operating system.
Tips to avoid being infected
Here are four tips on how to minimize the chance of being infected by malware like this.
Keep your browser(s) up-to-date.
Don’t click on suspicious links.
If a friend messages you with a link, encouraging you to click on it, verify with them that they sent the link.
Don’t install browser plug-ins, unless you’re sure they’re from a vetted source.
As with any malware threat, proper preventative measures will normally be enough to ensure that your system is safe. If you’re unsure if your system is secure, or would like to implement more robust security measures, please contact us. We have a solution for you. | http://www.oi-group.com/2012/05/new-malware-infects-via-browser/ |
When you deploy projects containing VM instances that host your websites you have many options on how you decide to apply security protection. One of the method is using Cloud Armor but it requires you to setup a load balancer and not all of Google cloud users are familiar with it.
Another method is to integrate your on-premises firewall with Google cloud. Fortigate offers this feature in its security fabric connector. | http://motasem-notes.net/google-cloud-security-training-with-fortigate-firewall/ |
After someone steals your wallet, purse or mail.
By stealing personnel records from employers.
By pretending to be financial institutions or businesses and sending spam email (called phishing) or pop-up messages in an attempt to get you to reveal your personal information.
Identity thieves will also rummage through the trash at your home or workplace looking for bills or other documents with your personal information on it.
To protect your identity, you should:
Enroll in Identity Theft Protection. NASA Federal has partnered with Aura™ Identity Guard® to provide our members with comprehensive protection against today's modern threats.
Review your credit reports. You can do this for free annually! Visit AnnualCreditReport.com or call 1-877-322-8228, which were established to handle consumer requests by the consumer reporting companies Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
Place a fraud alert on your credit bureau files if you feel information has been exposed.
Adopt daily practices like shredding your personal & financial documents, staying aware of the latest scams, protecting your home computer with anti-spyware, virus detection software and firewalls. Keep these programs up to date.
Secure your mail by utilizing a Postal Service Mail Box or by placing your outgoing mail into locked mailbox.
Sign up for estatement services – not only does it protect your monthly statement, it also cuts down on paper and postage expense!
Safeguard your Social Security Number – don’t leave your Social Security Card in your wallet and ask why when a person requests your SSN for business purposes.
Don't leave a paper trail. Never leave ATM, credit card or gas station receipts behind.
Know with whom you are speaking with before providing any confidential information. If you are not sure about the legitimacy of the caller, hang up and call back by utilizing a telephone number familiar to you.
Never click on links sent to you by an unsolicited email.
Be alert for warning signs of possible Identity Theft, such as:
Regular bills that do not arrive as expected.
Denials of credit for no apparent reason.
Account Statements or credit cards in the mail that you were not expecting.
Calls or letters concerning purchases you did not make.
If you think your identity has been compromised:
If your bank accounts have been compromised, immediately notify those Financial Institution(s). Make a note for your file of what Institution was contacted, who you talked to and the date/time your call was made.
Place a verbal password on your accounts to prevent thieves from calling in and finding out more about your financial transactions.
Close or transfer those accounts that have been compromised or tampered with to a new account number.
Request that any account that was fraudulently opened in your name be closed immediately.
Confidential information such as account numbers and social security numbers should not be sent by email for security reasons. Instead, please contact us directly at 1-888-NASA-FCU, send us a secure message through eBranch Online Banking or Mobile Banking, or visit your nearest branch.
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The EasyEmailSuite (a.k.a EasyEmailSuite Toolbar or EasyEmailSuite Extension) is presented as a all-in-one login and access application for email reading/writing, but it is classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Product ) and a browser hijacker by the majority of the malware researchers, mainly because it has suspicious distribution method – bundling, modifies the default URL for the New Tabs on users’ browsers without authorization or consent and when active, it could monitor and collect various browser data. Furthermore, our malware experts pointed out the fact, that the EasyEmailSuite Toolbar is developed by the notorious Mindspark Interactive Network Inc. and is powered by the MyWay web search, which is pretty suspicious, as this due is known for the many PUPs and browser hijackers, which they have already built and released. Basically, that’s why our security experts are recommending all users, that have EasyEmailSuite Toolbar installed on their systems, to run a full system malware scan, using an up-to-date and reliable anti-malware software, just like the award-winning SpyHunter.
Usually, EasyEmailSuite comes packed together with some popular free or “ad-supported” software products and is set to install by default, after the user accepts the EULA and he/she didn’t opted-out the express/recommended/default installation. The possible distribution of the EasyEmailSuite Toolbar varies and is not limited to 3rd party toolbars, free PDF editors, free Video editors, free Video downloaders, peer2peer downloads, SPAM, infected e-mail attachments, suspicious torrents etc.
EasyEmailSuite may keep track of your browsing activity and could monitor and collect all kind of browser data, including search terms, search result URL, browser history, email addresses, account credentials including username & password, cookies, financial information like bank accounts, credit card numbers etc. The collected data will later be either sold or shared with some 3rd party companies, which will use it for their own marketing purposes. That’s why we strongly recommend you to avoid leaving such kind of infections unattended and to terminate them asap, because they represent a serious threat to users online identity and computer safety and security.
If you take a close look at the EasyEmailSuite Toolbar, you will find it almost identical with the TelevisionAce, TVStreamNow, TransitSimplified, GetFlightInfo, AtoZmanuals, MyTransitGuide, EmailFanatic, DailyLocalGuide, FormDocToPDF, TrackAPackage, EasyPDFCombine, MyMapsExpress, MyMapsWizard, EasyDirectionsFinder, InternetSpeedRadar, all of which were already classified by our experts as PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Products) and as browser hijackers.
! Please note that these kinds of infections could potentially bring up other malware to your computer and even cause loss of data. We strongly recommend you to not underestimate such threats.
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1. Remove EasyEmailSuite Toolbar from the Installed Programs List
Open the Run dialog window by using the keyboard shortcut Win+R.
In the newly opened Run window type appwiz.cpl and press Enter – you should see the list of programs installed on your PC.
Select ALL entries related to EasyEmailSuite, next go ahead and sort by date the installed programs’ list and select All suspicious entries near the infection date and uninstall them.
2. Remove EasyEmailSuite Toolbar by resetting web browser settings to default
We’ve made a lot of tests and experiments and concluded, that the best way to get rid of browser extensions, toolbars, new tabs, and settings is to reset the web browser’s settings back to default. If you follow the instructions below, you will end up with a brand new browser.
Open the Run dialog by using Windows Key + R shortcut.
In the Run window, type in inetcpl.cpl and hit enter.
Internet Properties window will appear – click the Advanced tab.
Click on the Reset… button, which is near the bottom.
Reset Internet Explorer Settings window will appear – make sure to select Delete personal settings checkbox.
After select Delete personal settings, click the Reset button.
In Reset Internet Explorer settings window, click the Close button and restart your browser for the new settings to take effect.
How to reset Internet Explorer Settings to default
* Please note that in order to save your favorites, you need to export them before resetting the browser as you will lose all personal settings.
* Make sure to select Delete personal settings checkbox, because this option defines the removal of all customized browser settings.
If you want to reset Google Chrome settings to default, we strongly advise you to use the Google Chrome Cleanup tool, however, the tool requires Windows 7 and above, for earlier Windows versions, proceed with manual reset – use the instructions below.
Open the Google Chrome Menu, by clicking on the ⋮ icon, which is located on the top right side of the main Chrome window.
When you are in the Google Chrome Menu, click on the Settings.
A new Settings tab will open – scroll down to the bottom and click on Show advanced settings … link.
In the newly reopened Settings tab, scroll down to the bottom and click on the Reset Settings button.
A Reset settings confirmation window will request a confirmation – go ahead and click the Reset button.
In the Help sub-menu click Reset with Add-ons Disabled …
A Restart with Add-ons Disabled window will appear – go ahead and confirm by clicking the Restart button.
Firefox SafeMode window will appear – just continue by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.
Finally, Refresh Firefox window will request you to confirm, that you want to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default – go ahead and click Refresh Firefox button.
How to reset Mozilla Firefox Settings to default
3. Remove EasyEmailSuite Toolbar from all web browser shortcuts
Some applications are modifying web browser shortcuts, making the web browser load a particular web page on every start. We recommend checking your browser shortcuts by hand or just using the following application to check them for you – browser shortcuts repair tool.
If you want to manually repair these shortcuts – right-click on the shortcut using your mouse and select properties – make sure that the shortcut’s Target Line doesn’t have any arguments, except the actual browser location. The easiest way to solve this issue is just to remove your old shortcuts and re-create them.
4. Remove EasyEmailSuite Toolbar by deleting the related files or folders in the locations below
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In February this year, Anthony Albanese, pledged $6 million towards a new eSmart Digital License program involving Australian schoolchildren aged 10 to 14.
'eSmart' was launched in December 2021 by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation in partnership with the DQ Institute and Accenture, a Rockefeller-funded company that was recently awarded a $230 million contract to overhaul Australia’s Director ID program.
Under the benevolent guise of ‘cyber-security’ and “helping children navigate the online world”, the eSmart program seeks to embed ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ (SEL) assessments and measurements within the education system.
Using “gamified learning”, “interactive story worlds” and “relatable scenarios”, children must achieve “milestones” and “earn badges” before being rewarded with an eSmart Digital License.
Those overseeing the program will be monitoring its impact and accuracy, tweaking it here and there, as they aggregate and analyse the data against a globally standardised set of S.E.L metrics.
🕹Currently there are over 2,200 eSmart Schools across the country involved in the Foundation’s self-described “behaviour-change initiative”.
It is being trialled here first, but the goal is to expand it worldwide.
Programs like eSmart are being used to train children’s minds by plugging them into an endless array of technology and wearable tech devices.
👁With webcam, algorithms, A.I and eye-tracking data, they are able to capture and analyse children’s human emotions and reactions. 👁
The whole thing is directly linked to Digital I.D, QR codes and blockchain.
Developed by the founder of D.Q Institute, Dr Yuhyun Park, another of Klaus Schwab’s ubiquitous Young Global Leaders, the program uses “AI-based linking and predictive methodology” to customise its “assessment and scoring” tools.
So are Accenture and Rockefeller Foundation who have partnered with Gavi, Microsoft and IDEO to drive ID2020.
🕹All these groups are determined to socially engineer children into becoming “agents of positive change”, who promote “consensus”, views on “sustainability”, and other globalist “values”.
The psychological profiling assigned to each child, through programs like eSmart, will follow them into adulthood and be used by governments and others to form decisions about them as adults.
🕹Once you understand this, it is easy to see how the ‘Social and Emotional’ obedience agenda is closely tied to the Global Digital Citizen workforce agenda and social credit scores.
‘Cyber-safety’ is just one of many fig-leaves they will use, as they psychologically profile and condition our children into a lifetime of obedience. | https://www.nutritruth.org/single-post/australian-childrenare-at-the-forefront-of-an-experimental-new-social-engineering-program |
This week’s list spotlights New Mexico’s top computer networking companies, ranked by 2013 total revenue in New Mexico. The list also includes each company’s total revenue in New Mexico from computer networking, total employees in New Mexico, primary markets/industries served, as well as the top local executive.
See which computer networking companies topped the list in the accompanying slideshow.
To see the full list, look in the June 20 weekly edition of Albuquerque Business First.
Information on the computer networking companies list was supplied by individual companies through questionnaires. If you’d like to be surveyed for an industry list, please email me at [email protected].
Click on the accompanying slideshow to see which lists are coming up.
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'Four hours to walk off pizza calories' warning works, experts say11 Dec 2019 01:12Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.
GP Manish Shah guilty of sex assaults on 23 female patients10 Dec 2019 17:02Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.
A third of hospitals 'increased parking charges'10 Dec 2019 01:13Income from fees jumps 10% in a year, with hourly charges of up to £4 levied.
Online prescribing 'must get safer'10 Dec 2019 07:40A UK coroner warns there could be more deaths unless regulation is tightened.
Boy slept on hospital floor due to lack of beds09 Dec 2019 14:57Jack was photographed lying on a pile of coats on a hospital treatment room floor.
Health workers' strike: Nurses begin further 48 hours of action10 Dec 2019 15:06Members of the Royal College of Nursing are refusing to do things like working unpaid hours. | https://clarendonmc.co.uk/pages/General-Data-Protection-Regulation-GDPR |
I think our data security is probably worth a small amount of upfront spend so any non-free methods would be appreciated too.
Our systems are a mish mash of mySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, PHP, ASP.NET etc systems though I guess that does not matter too much. All the systems are secured in as much as they are patched and the firewalls are set sensibly so outside people cannot get directly to the database boxes etc.
It is XSS and similar attacks that we wish to prevent. What do YOU use to give you confidence in your systems? ');DROP TABLE answer;
If the security of your site is worth nothing to your company then that's what you should pay. For my company the security of our data and the brand image has quite a high value.
We pay a whole bunch of money for regular scans, we've trained the developers in basic hacking/security of applications, our code reviews include a security review and now we're looking at AppScan from IBM (which is expensive but in the long run probably cheaper than all the pen' testing we pay for).
You get what you pay for. Making sure you understand the owasp issues would be a good start though.
Personally, I choose not to be confident in the security of our systems. I am convinced there is always something that I am missing and thus I keep looking for it.
What you seem to be looking for is something to make others feel confident (even if that confidence is an illusion). Penetration testing is probably the right choice for that. Depending upon the tool, it shows potential vunerabilities in a nice report and then you can report how you mitigated them.
We use IBM AppScan and it is a good tool for this. As with any tester of this type you will find yourself following a lot of bad leads. Most of them are not false postives per se, more just things that might be an issue or appear to be and you will have to investigate and determine if they actually are.
I would not put a lot of faith in this kind of testing. If you app scans clean it really does not mean your app is clean. Does not mean it is worthless, but don't make it out to be more than it is.
The next thing I would look into is static analysis tools in your various languages. A lot of these are free. Hand in hand with that is developer education. That is usually a pretty cheap solution to the issue, just making sure they understand what the risks are.
There is no silver bullet, no simple answer, you need to define security as an EVERYONE problem and make sure it is given both priority and commitment.
I do also have a company do penetration testing / social engineering every year or so as well but with dotDefender I'm at least happy that I've got a baseline security blanket to protect my sites.
Of particular interest to me was that their app is fully x64 compatible - necessary since I'm using x64 web servers. | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/253545/is-there-a-good-service-for-checking-website-server-vulnerability |
It looks like Antivirus 10 is spreading through a lot of different deceptive and tricky methods. It includes the use of viral advertising and redirects, fake installers (adobe flash update scam), and one of the most common installation techniques is by bundling with other cost-free programs. Along with this, Antivirus 10 is being promoted by the developers as a legit software.
Fear is the main weapon of the Antivirus 10 fake optimizer. This program performs the scan of the computer and shows results with fake errors to scare users. And when a user sees the message that \”your computer is infected with viruses and malware he wants to remove them completely. Purchasing Antivirus 10 license is definitely not the best way to protect your computer from viruses. Along with these fake claims about malware that doesn’t exist, this program will show you different pop-ups about new scans and suggestion to purchase their license.
Becuase of this the Antivirus 10 program is considered as a rogue AV and should be removed as soon as possible. It can be very difficult to locate and remove this program on your own, so we advise you to use an advanced removal tool for these purposes. Follow the removal step below to do that.
What is PUPs? PUP stands for potentially unwanted programs. This type of virus different from the average virus because users often install it by themselves. Often, if the user skips installation process, he can miss that some additional program can be installed with the program. Such virus often infects the user’s computer with adware, virus what will display banners, coupons and pop-ups every time user ho to the Internet. Such online ads will display different very interesting offers, so user clicks on it and the creator of the virus get their pay-per-click revenue. If you notice PUP on your computer be ready that your system can be infected with 2 or more viruses simultaneously. This type of virus is very dangerous because it can install many additional programs without any notification. If you notice such virus on your computer, then we highly recommend to follow the guide below and remove it completely. You should do it as fast as possible before viruses destroy your PC!
How to prevent your PC from being reinfected with Antivirus 10 in the future.
GridinSoft Anti-Malware offers excellent solution which may help to prevent your system from being contaminated with malware ahead of time. This feature is referred to as “Real-Time Protection”. By default, it is disabled once you install the software. To enable it, please click on “Protect” button and press “Start” as demonstrated below:
This options helps you to prevent execution of malicious programs and to avoid their installation ahead of time. When certain malware tries to install itself into your system, GridinSoft Anti-Malware and its Real-Time Protection module will terminate this installation attempt ahead of time. You may click on “Confirm” button to continue blocking this malicious program, or to select “Ignore this file” and allow the malicious application to be installed (at your own risk):
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The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the ImageIO framework. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted TIFF file, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system. | https://cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2021072245 |
A new report by GenØk-Centre for Biosafety, which is the Norwegian National Competence Centre for Biosafety, provides a detailed discussion of uncertainties, knowledge gaps and research needs related to the potential use and introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It covers GM plants, antibiotic resistance marker genes, GM vaccines, gene therapy and medicinal products containing or consisting of GMOs, GM microorganisms, GM trees and GM salmon.
For instance, most new GM plants are “multistacks”, i.e. containing several transgenes for both herbicide tolerance and insect resistance, but data on the adequacy of the use of less complex parental lines for environmental risk assessments (ERA) of such multistack plants are lacking. In terms of GM trees, it has not been investigated how these will interact with the complex forest, soil and aquatic ecosystems, as a whole. The study makes a list of recommendations for further research to address all the gaps identified. These include: the need for the development of uncertainty analyses that can be used for increasing the quality of environmental risk assessments of GMOs, routine assessments of the accumulation of herbicide residues in GM plants, long-term assessments of GM trees to determine whether transgene expression is stable over time, and studies on the effects of GM crops and trees on aquatic organisms.
The Executive Summary of the report is reproduced below. The full report is available at http://genok.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/16102015_Uncertainties_and_Knowledge_gaps_related_to_Environmetal_Risk_Assessment_of_GMOs.pdf
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This report provides a detailed discussion of uncertainties, knowledge gaps and research needs related to the potential use and introduction of GMOs. The environmental risks associated with such alteration of the genome are evaluated on the basis of present scientific knowledge and analysis of available literature. The report identifies many unresolved scientific uncertainties and potential adverse effects related to GMOs and their impacts on ecosystems, as well as on animal and human health. Particular attention has been given to GMOs relevant in a Norwegian context. The report emphasizes today’s challenges, but also outlines needs for the future, as new GMOs are becoming increasingly more complex. Examples of such novel GMOs are discussed under the different subchapters.
The most significant identified areas of uncertainty and knowledge gaps in each section are summarized below.
Common themes
However, there are common themes which resonate throughout the report, and which contribute to uncertainty and knowledge gaps related to GMOs in general:
• The novelty of the introduced genes and their products within the context of the recipient organisms, and the potential effects (e.g. pleiotropic effects, interactions with endogenous proteins etc.) that may occur as a result of their introduction.
• Knowledge regarding unintended changes (e.g. recombination, positional effects etc.) introduced into the genomes of recipient organisms due to genetic modification is sparse, and exacerbated by lack of access to test materials and sequence information.
• The imprecision of both the methods used to perform genetic modification, as well the techniques used to characterize the resultant GM organisms.
Uncertainties plants • Most new GMPs are “multistacks”, i.e. containing several transgenes for both herbicide tolerance and insect resistance. Data on the adequacy of the use of less complex parental lines for environmental risk assessments (ERA) of multistack plants is lacking.
• How co-exposure of one or more herbicides may affect gene expression in the plants is uncertain. Both the expression levels of the transgenic proteins, and other gene products in multistack GMPs is difficult to assess due to lack of data.
• Data on herbicide accumulation in herbicide tolerant GMPs is lacking.
• Unwanted and unintended effects on non–target organisms have been observed and indicate that Cry-toxins are less specific than previously claimed. There is a lack of studies on alternative modes of action for these agricultural toxins.
• Availability of GM plant test material is limited and hampers the possibility for testing by independent scientific institutions. This undermines the quality and credibility of risk assessments.
ARM genes may be transferred to other organisms (microorganisms etc.) through horizontal gene transfer.
Uncertainties viruses • Available data on baseline information of naturally occurring viruses is generally lacking in ERA.
• The potential for recombination, complementation and reactivation is difficult to assess due to lack of data.
• Molecular basis for host ranges, molecular characterization and immune status of the host and non-target hosts has little data.
• The potential for GM virus shedding and the potential for infection in non-target species is not well understood.
Uncertainties microorganisms (GMMs) • There is an incomplete understanding of how GMMs become established within an environment.
• Containment strategies used under field conditions for GMMs (GM bacteria, GM algae, GM fungi) are highly challenging, and the potential for escape is not well explored.
• There is little or no data on how to deal with escaped GMMs.
• Knowledge regarding environmental impacts of large populations of GMMs and their effect on the receiving environment is lacking.
• There is a lack of knowledge on the capacity of GMMs to maintain or transfer transgenes within or between populations.
• Potential for, and possible impacts of, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between GMMs and non-GMM species is not well understood.
Uncertainties trees • The present knowledge on GM trees and the dynamics of gene flow are not fully understood.
• The practical utility of containment strategies for GM trees is not well understood.
This is highly relevant for GM trees.
• How GM trees will interact with the complex forest, soil and aquatic ecosystems, as a whole, is not investigated.
Uncertainties salmon • Salmon is a highly complex and plastic species, thus there might be many effects of genetic modifications that we will not observe in captivity. The production and the effects of GM salmon on the environment is at present uncertain.
• GM fish health and welfare conditions are unknown.
Recommendations for further research • There is a need for development of uncertainty analyses that can be used for increasing the quality of ERA of GMOs.
• The potential for combinatorial effects of transgenes expressed in multistack GMPs are high, and the relevance by the use of parental lines as representative controls of stacked events should be assessed.
• The accumulation of herbicide residues in GMPs must be routinely measured.
• Potential transfer of ARM genes to microorganisms and to other organisms should be investigated.
• Natural environments must be investigated for the presence of reservoirs of ARM genes, in order to elucidate whether the use of ARM-containing GMOs could potentially augment the environmental level of resistance.
• Persistence of GM viruses, and in what form (virion, DNA, RNA or protein) they exist outside their hosts, needs to be elucidated.
• Molecular characterization and the basis for host range of GM viruses, as well as immune status of host and at-risk non-target hosts needs to be investigated.
• Long-term assessment of GM trees is required to determine whether transgene expression is stable over time, through seasonal variations and dormancy cycles.
The effect of GM crops and trees on aquatic organisms must be assessed • Effects on welfare and the environment by GM salmon production and use need to be investigated.
• Impacts on wild salmon upon escape by GM salmon must be elaborated.
In a Norwegian context we will in addition recommend:
• Monitoring of baseline data in the environment of ARM, herbicides, natural reservoirs of viruses, target and non-target organisms.
• Evaluation of the relevance of current methods and models in ERA for Norwegian conditions.
• And, if needed, development of new methods and models to be used for ERA and environmental monitoring of GMOs in Norway.
GMOs are made by inserting a gene (or several genes) encoding a wanted trait into an organism (of the same species or a different species). Common themes
This report covers numerous kinds of GMOs in different environmental contexts. • Ecosystem complexity and how environmental factors may affect transgene expression is not well understood.
• There is lack of data for the presence, use and potential transfer of antibiotic resistance (ARM) genes in GMPs. • Potential impact of resource competition between GMMs and other microbes in the environment.
• Data is missing on transgene stability of expression over longer time frames. • More open ERA processes are needed, together with scientific institutions’ access to GMO test material for independent testing and validation of data.
• Aquatic ecosystems have been neglected in previous ERAs. | https://biosafety-info.net/articles/assessment-impacts/risk-assessment/uncertainties-and-knowledge-gaps-in-the-environmental-risk-assessment-of-gmos/ |
Schools and colleges across the UK have shown they are in a class of their own by becoming the latest to receive gold, silver or bronze awards for first-rate cyber security teaching with North East Futures UTC being the only State school in the Region to receive this recognition.
The programme recognises schools and colleges that can show their dedication to inspiring the next generation of cyber security experts and addressing the UK’s cyber skills gap.
North East Futures UTC was shown to have demonstrated a range of work aimed at engaging pupils, including offering lunchtime coding clubs, sessions where pupils could pitch Internet of Things concepts, and running projects linking computing to medical sciences. | https://www.nefuturesutc.co.uk/silver-award-from-national-cyber-security-centre |
Microsoft is delaying by a full year two of its four software patching/upgrade systems, company officials told those attending the worldwide partner conference here.
Microsoft’s Windows Update Services (WUS), the product formerly known as Software Update Services (SUS) 2.0, is now due to ship by mid-2005, rather than mid-2004. And the new Microsoft Update (MU) Service, a new patching system designed to provide fixes to not only Windows, but also Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server and other core Microsoft products, also is now due out by mid-2005, a year later than anticipated.
Microsoft officials said at the partner show that SP2 will be released to manufacturing in August, and be available to consumers over the course of the next few weeks and months via download, CD and preload on new PCs.
Nash said Microsoft is not planning to phase out any of these mechanisms any time soon. Microsoft’s patching systems/services are crucial to its customers.
In addition to delivering Microsoft’s monthly bundle of patches/fixes to users, they also are the vehicle via which Microsoft rolls out impromptu patches for viruses, worms and other malware. | http://www.cybersecurityinstitute.com/index.php/weblog/more/microsoft_delays_by_a_year_delivery_of_two_new_patching_systems |
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A fresh pack of erasers, packages of lined paper neatly hole punched for binders, the familiar scent of hand sanitizer. They can all only mean one thing: back to school season is here. As a planner addict who has always had a weird need to hoard all the school and paper supplies, it’s one of my most favorite times of the year. It’s also the perfect excuse to freshen up and update my planner to reflect all the new schedules and incoming information for the new school year. As a professional planner addict, I have years of experience and it’s my hope that these tips will help you to set up your planner for back to school season.
In the planner world, it doesn’t get much better than the Pilot G2 pens, which should make it no surprise to learn that they’re the number one selling pen brand in America. They don’t bleed through paper, come in four point sizes, and offer a variety of vibrant colors, which is a planner babe’s dream come true. We like to color code. Like, a lot! I use my Pilot G2 pens for everything and treat myself to a fresh new pack every year. When those school supplies come out at Walmart, it’s my own personal version of utopia. I wander down aisle after aisle of pretty folders, fresh notebooks begging to be written in, and of course fresh packages of my beloved Pilot G2 pens. Yes, I get specific about my pens, friends. When you love paper as much as I do, you get serious about the pens you use.
My fellow planner addicts often experiment with pen tests and share the results so others can see how the pens actually hold up in real life. I completed my own pen test with my new set of Pilot G2 pens and they didn’t disappoint me. Though, I wasn’t surprised. They’re always so smooth and colorful!
My paper planner gets me through life, but I’d never make it out of the school year alive without my trusty sidekick that helps me to keep our family’s lives together. That’s why I take setting it up for the school year seriously and update it frequently. Using my paper planner has helped me to keep it all together, even when I’m feeling like I’m busting open at the seams. There’s no limit to what I can do when armed with my planner and a set of Pilot G2 pens. | http://blogs.highdesert.com/our-holly-days/2017/08/09/how-to-set-up-your-planner-for-back-to-school-a-pilot-g2-pen-test/ |
A Sony spokesman said Thursday that the credit card numbers belonging to millions of PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity users were encrypted when they potentially were compromised by hackers.
While Sony has not confirmed that card information was stolen in the attack, which happened between April 17 and 19, the company was encrypting all of the data when the breach occurred.
"The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken," according to a question-and-answer document posted by Nick Caplin, head of communications for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Left unencrypted were other assets, such as usernames, physical addresses, email addresses, birth dates and PSN/Qriocity credentials -- all of which were compromised. The hackers also may have obtained purchase histories, billing addresses and password challenge answers.
Some 77 million registered users were affected by the breach, according to Sony, making it one of the largest reported data-leakage incidents of all time.
Caplin said Sony "cannot rule out the possibility" that card numbers and expiration dates -- but not security codes, such as CVC numbers -- were exposed. As a result, the company advised gamers to monitor their financial account statements.
Even if the card numbers went untouched, the hackers got away with valuable information to use in spear phishing attacks that could net them even more precious data, such as credit card, tax identification or Social Security numbers, experts have said.
PSN and Qriocity remain down, and Sony promises enhanced security when the services return online, including "moving our network infrastructure and data center to a new, more secure location." In addition, users will be required to change their passwords when the services return, slated for sometime next week.
Qriocity is Sony's music, games, book and video on-demand service.
Meanwhile, Sony is facing its first legal challenge after a lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco. The complaint contends that the company waited too long to tell users about the breach, which placed them at risk of credit card fraud.
In addition, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has written a letter to Sony, asking the company why it waited nearly a week to notify users about the breach. | https://www.scmagazine.com/news/breach/sony-confirms-playstation-network-cards-were-encrypted |
I can’t entirely promise tonight’s episode makes a lot of sense. Martin is back from Kyoto, and seriously jetlagged, and I don’t think I was a whole lot better. Sure, we cover the usual collection of security news, but the episode is filled with non-sequitors and other dissociated transitions. On the other hand, we do stick fairly closely to security related topics. In other words, listen at your own risk.
[Martin]It made perfect sense before I said it out loud. Afterward, not so much.[/Martin]
Microsoft 0day being exploited in the wild.
China is as scared of us as we are of them. See? Your mom was right.
iPhones are vulnerable over SMS. I highly doubt the iPhone is the only phone with this problem.
A “security guard” hacks a hospitals HVAC system. Then goes to jail for additional stupidity. Good thing most bad guys are dumb, or we’d *really* be in trouble.
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Samsung has announcedprofits shot up in the three-month period through December, with a big boost from its burgeoning lineup of smartphones and tablets.
The Korean electronics manufacturer said it booked 4 trillion won ($US3.6 billion) in net profit, up 17 per cent from a year earlier, while revenue rose 13 per cent to 47.3 trillion won.
Samsung's products range from large-screen TVs to semiconductors, but its mobile division was the star of the latest quarter, generating nearly half of its operating profits.
The company cited strong performance in its Galaxy handset line and flat-screen TVs. Samsung said it will continue to broaden its smartphone lineup with both high-end models like the Galaxy S II and mass-market phones like the Galaxy Ace. It will also try to create new product categories, as with its Galaxy Note, a 5.3-inch mobile device with a stylus that it bills as something between a phone and a tablet.
"We are actually generating new demand in the Note category. That will be continued based on our hardware competitiveness with the addition of brand and user experience," said Younghee Lee, a vice president in the company's mobile division during the earnings call.
The Note launched in Europe late last year and is due out in the U.S. soon with AT&T. Samsung said it will continue to come out with devices that run on high-speed LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks, which it has been faster to embrace than rivals like Apple.
The company's success across a wide range of consumer electronics has come as many of its competitors attempting the same thing have faltered. Sony, which presents its quarterly earnings next week, is on course for a US$1 billion loss in its current fiscal year through March.
Samsung said that even with the strong showing over the holiday season, overall 2011 profit slipped 15 percent, weighed down by its large component businesses, which include DRAM and NAND flash memory as well as the LCD panels used in TV sets and monitors.
The quarterly earnings were in line with the guidance the company released earlier this month. Samsung's fiscal year coincides with the calendar year. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/413608/samsung_smartphones_tvs_help_drive_strong_4q_profits_even_rivals_falter/ |
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Recently, another sophisticated sample of a ransomware was discovered. The malware is dubbed Satana (“Satan”), which might imply Russian-speaking origins. The Trojan does two things: It encrypts files and corrupts Windows’ Master Boot Record (MBR), thus blocking the Windows boot process.
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If the MBR becomes corrupted — or gets encrypted — the computer loses access to a critical piece of information: which partition contains the operating system. If the computer can’t find the operating system, it can’t boot. The malefactors behind ransomware like Satana took advantage of this arrangement and enhanced their cryptolocker with bootlocker capabilities. The hackers swap out the MBR, replacing it with the code of the ransom note, and encrypt and move the MBR somewhere else.
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In the summer of 2021, a collaborative network of journalists and NGOs published the report “The Pegasus Project,” unveiling the use and misuse of spyware technology. The scale of surveillance that was uncovered by a major data leak shocked the public: a list of 50,000 phone numbers infected with the software that monitors every activity on a targeted person’s smartphone. It included well-known journalists in countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Azerbaijan, but also less obviously, in France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, to name just a few examples.
Now, one might argue that some of the targeted journalists in countries already struggling with press freedom would not have been surprised to find out that their work and even their private lives were under close observation by authorities – however unethical and contradicting with democratic principles this practice is. Yet in the same leak published in the Pegasus Project, independent experts and researchers identified the phone numbers of high- ranking state officials such as France’s President Macron and some of his cabinet members. Another targeted person was the chief police commissioner of Istanbul who led the investigation on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate – a killing that triggered worldwide condemnation and horror. Khashoggi’s wife and one of his closest associates were also being surveilled with Pegasus via their smartphones.
Not only are states using the spyware to fight terrorism, as they usually claim to do when questioned about Pegasus, but also to spy on foreign government officials. The French newspaper Le Monde’s piece about Moroccan agents spying on French President Macron’s smartphone provoked a diplomatic crisis in an already tense relationship between the closely linked countries which, quite understandably, harmed trust and confidence between the two countries. As much as Pegasus empowers law enforcement, it also comes with a high level of risk to vital bilateral relations, as this example proves. The Moroccan authorities surely did not appreciate their spying activities going public, especially since a fifth of all leaked phone numbers were allegedly registered into the Pegasus system from Moroccan soil.
After having investigated Pegasus’s customers and victims, where does this leave the Israeli group NSO Technologies, the outfit which provides the software? Which principle do they apply when clients order? How does the tool work? Let’s first dive into the technical details of the software.
Decrypting privacy: a lucrative hack and a blow to democracy
In order to gain access to encrypted applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, E-Mail, calendar, etc., the phone’s system core must first authorise the decryption of the app and the contained information and functions. Pegasus can do this with a so-called “zero-click attack,” which enables the spyware to infect the phone’s system. An example of a zero-click attack is a “missed call” notification that the user opens without having to click any further links. This coding method is called “sandboxing.”
Even though Google and Apple advertise rewards for researchers uncovering security gaps, they cannot compete with the astronomical sums offered by private companies such as NSO or Zerodium, a British-American hacking group that bid up to 2.5 million USD to individuals developing “zero-click attack sandboxing.” For the research of the Project Pegasus, experts from Hidden Stories and Amnesty International compared the operating systems of infected phones with those of non-infected phones. They noticed traces of codes disguised as ordinary iOS or Android codes in which Pegasus made almost invisible replacements, e.g., the number 0 with the letter O or a small l with a capital I. Experts tested 48 of the 50,000 phones on the leaked infected numbers list. All the devices showed evidence of Pegasus and matched the additional data accessible to the journalists. This was proof of the existence of the large-scale surveillance which was leaked to the research collaboration. The results of these tests were also confirmed by the independent Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, Canada.
NSO uses the global fight against terror to justify the sale of its spyware. The company was founded in 2010 by three friends who met during their service in the military intelligence body “Aman” of the Israel Defense Forces. The export of the firm’s software underlies regulations that are monitored by the Israeli Ministry of Defense; therefore, its customers must be approved by the Israeli authorities and comply with national security interests. The company states that it strictly follows the respect of human rights and privacy laws and that it does not use Pegasus to limit the freedom of expression. It further claims to constantly review contracted clients and potential breaches. Following the investigations around the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, NSO cancelled its contract with Saudi Arabia. Most recently, NSO has been blacklisted in the United States while Apple and Facebook are suing the company in US courts to ban NSO from using Apple software or devices for its operations. American officials justified the decision as a means of promoting human rights values as a vital part of US foreign policy.
States’ desire to increase control and surveillance is understandable considering security problems worldwide, such as the fight against extremist terrorism or drug cartels. However, once the software falls into the hands of autocratic regimes, it gives the state an unprecedented power to observe its own citizens. The temptation to go beyond simply monitoring suspected criminals is huge, especially for states with very low or suppressed democratic checks and balances. This poses a serious threat to press freedom and journalistic principles. Journalists must be able to communicate incognito in order to keep their sources and themselves safe. What is more, Pegasus is featured on an international list of cyber weapons. Authorities show a disrespect for the freedom of expression and democratic values when they use an espionage tool against individuals who are committed to the progress and development of their own society. A government spying on a foreign country’s officials harms trust and destabilises bilateral relations, as described in the case with Morocco and France. The illicit use of Pegasus by some governments diverts its intended function to tackle security problems and instead creates an atmosphere of surveillance and control which is unhealthy for any society. | https://www.polemics-magazine.com/tech-env/cyber-attacking-democracy-how-the-spyware-pegasus-threatens-the-freedom-of-speech-and-the-work-of-journalists |
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China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone service provider, on Wednesday said it had mostly recovered from the earthquake that hit Sichuan, China earlier this year.
The company also reported new information about other aspects of its business in interim financial results posted for the first six months of this year.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan in early May knocked 4,457 base stations out of service, “the most extensive damage ever to our base stations and network equipment,” China Mobile said in a statement.
In the worst affected areas, the company noted 20 percent out of service rates.
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„More and more foreign funded organizations operate in Hungary with the aim of covertly interfering in our domestic affairs. These organizations could jeopardize our independence. What do you think Hungary should do?”
This is one of the questions asked of Hungarians in the government’s „Stop Brussels” National Consultation for 2017. The National Consultation, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally addresses every single recipient, is sent out by mail to the homes of every Hungarian adult. Issues addressed in the 2017 National Consultation include migration, the EU, and non-governmental organizations.
As the questionnaires arrive the National Assembly of Hungary is debating controversial NGO bill that many have suggested bears a strong resemblance to similar legislation in Russia and Israel. The bill would require civil society organizations to register themselves as being “foreign-funded” if they receive more than 24 thousand USD from abroad annually.
On schedule to be adopted by the Hungary’s Fidesz controlled parliament in three weeks time, the bill would force NGOs critical of the government – such as Transparency International Hungary, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee – to register as “foreign-funded” organizations, and would also require them to present this label conspicuously in all their public communications, websites, leaflets, studies, etc.
To make sure they receive as much feedback as possible, the government also launched an official National Consultation website on April 8th, 2017.
Visitors to the website must provide their full name, age, and email address before they can start answering questions about NGOs, migration, and the EU’s interference in Hungary’s domestic affairs. There’s a link at the bottom of the website that takes users to the privacy and data protection policy page. In the last paragraph of the policy page, the government explicitly promises users that „personal data provided by users will not be made public, will not be transferred to any third party, and will not be sent abroad.”
This short and straightforward sentence is commonplace in the privacy and data protection policy sections of the Hungarian internet.
In this case, however, the statement is completely false: all private user data from the Hungarian government’s National Consultation website were forwarded to servers in Russia.
Let’s just track everything
Almost all websites use some kind of user-tracking software in the form of a piece of code embedded in the website itself. This code enables a site’s owners to track web traffic to see how many people visited a site within a given time frame, but it also provides details including how many pages each visitor used and how they navigated through the website. This information is valuable to someone running even the smallest personal blog.
There is a considerable industry dealing with web statistics.
The largest player in the market is Google with its service called Analytics. But there are others, such as Comscore, Alexa, Adobe, and so on. In Central and Eastern Europe, a company called Gemius provides the market standard tracking solution, but Google Analytics is also widely used.
But there is another relatively large company in this industry, Yandex, which is often referred to as the Google of Russia due to its search engine and other services they provide. Yandex also has a web tracking software called “Yandex Metrika”, but this service is rarely used outside of the Post-Soviet states. According to Viktor Tarnavsky, a representative of Yandex’s, a thousand Hungarian websites use Yandex Metrika as their tracking solution, a miniscule number in the Hungarian market.
While Google Analytics uses anonymous technology to count visits, click, and track navigation paths, Yandex has additional features. Yandex Metrika gives website owners the option to track every keystroke of their visitors, recording, for example, what users type into fields on their page. This feature, known as “webvisor” is turned off default — precisely because of privacy concerns. Website owners are warned by Yandex to be extra careful should they choose to enable this feature because “web visor” will record sensitive data in any field on the site not specifically marked as “protected” by the site’s owners.
The Hungarian government, it turns out, decided to use Yandex’s tracking code on the National Consultation office website. It did so with the “webvisor” feature enable, but neglected to mark the fields containing personal data as “protected”. This means the system forwarded the personal information of all users to Russia, contrary to the claims on the site’s privacy and data protection policy.
Wanton misinterpretation
On Saturday, April 8th, using publicly available online tools, 444.hu recorded the Hungarian government’s National Consultation website forwarding a dummy email address (created for testing purposes) to an IP address registered to Yandex in Moscow. On Sunday morning, April 9th, a few hours after we published our detailed findings, the Hungarian government proceeded to remove the Russian code from their website. They released a statement a half an hour later claiming that all private data had been handled in accordance with the law. The code was removed, the government claimed, because „it enabled a deliberate misinterpretation of the situation”.
Later that day, Zsolt Molnár, opposition chairman of the National Assembly’s National Security Committee, announced he would move for an inquiry into the issue at the committee’s closed-door meeting scheduled for the following day. Opposition parties MSZP and LMP called for the National Data Protection Agency to open a formal investigation into the matter.
On Monday morning, April 10th, MPs of the governing Fidesz party walked out of the National Security Committee’s meeting when opposition MPs raised the issue of the Russian code. Because of the committee’s rules, the walk-out prevented opposition MPs from formally addressing officers of Hungary’s National Security Agency present at the meeting.
Later that day, the National Data Protection Agency announced it had launched a formal investigation into the use of the Russian code to determine whether the personal data of Hungarian citizens had been forwarded to Russia.
When the Kremlin asked, they told them everything
The use of Yandex’s code and the sending of Hungarian citizens’ personal data to foreign server isn’t only problematic because the government explicitly promised it wouldn’t do it.
Just before their IPO in 2011, Yandex released a document concerning risk factors associated with operating in Russia. In the document, Yandex admitted that their online payment service (which is similar to PayPal) provided Russia’s state security agency, the FSB, with personal information of users who donated money to an anti-corruption website launched by Russian opposition blogger Alexey Navalny.
Amy Brouillette a manager for the Ranking Digital Rights, an NGO which ranks global tech companies based on factors like personal data protection told 444.hu that Yandex and other Russian tech companies are bound by law to cooperate with the state security service. She said they wouldn't even know if the government choose to access their data, since their systems are directly connected to those of the state security apparatus. Brouillette said she wasn't aware of any EU or NATO members states government’s using Yandex’s code.
Viktor Tarnavsky of Yandex did mention one NATO member whose government uses their service — Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Tarnavsky, Russian government websites exclusively use the Yandex tracking code. He told 444.hu, „Russian government sites are not allowed to use Google, we have strict laws on protecting data in our country.” | https://444.hu/2017/04/17/data-protection-agency-investigates-govt-sending-personal-data-of-hungarian-citizens-to-russia |
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[Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker behavior and outlines investigation guidance.]
LemonDuck is an actively updated and robust malware primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives. As we discussed in Part 1 of this blog series, in recent months LemonDuck adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.
LemonDuck spreads in a variety of ways, but the two main methods are (1) compromises that are either edge-initiated or facilitated by bot implants moving laterally within an organization, or (2) bot-initiated email campaigns. After installation, LemonDuck can generally be identified by a predictable series of automated activities, followed by beacon check-in and monetization behaviors, and then, in some environments, human-operated actions.
In this blog post, we share our in-depth technical analysis of the malicious actions that follow a LemonDuck infection. These include general and automatic behavior, as well as human-operated actions. We also provide guidance for investigating LemonDuck attacks, as well as mitigation recommendations for strengthening defenses against these attacks.
LemonDuck activity initiated from external applications – as against self-spreading methods like malicious phishing mail – is generally much more likely to begin with or lead to human-operated activity. These activities always result in more invasive secondary malware being delivered in tandem with persistent access being maintained through backdoors. These human-operated activities result in greater impact than standard infections.
In March and April 2021, various vulnerabilities related to the ProxyLogon set of Microsoft Exchange Server exploits were utilized by LemonDuck to install web shells and gain access to outdated systems. Attackers then used this access to launch additional attacks while also deploying automatic LemonDuck components and malware.
In some cases, the LemonDuck attackers used renamed copies of the official Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool to remediate the vulnerability they had used to gain access. They did so while maintaining full access to compromised devices and limiting other actors from abusing the same Exchange vulnerabilities.
This self-patching behavior is in keeping with the attackers’ general desire to remove competing malware and risks from the device. This allows them to limit visibility of the attack to SOC analysts within an organization who might be prioritizing unpatched devices for investigation, or who would overlook devices that do not have a high volume of malware present.
The LemonDuck operators also make use of many fileless malware techniques, which can make remediation more difficult. Fileless techniques, which include persistence via registry, scheduled tasks, WMI, and startup folder, remove the need for stable malware presence in the filesystem. These techniques also include utilizing process injection and in-memory execution, which can make removal non-trivial. It is therefore imperative that organizations that were vulnerable in the past also direct action to investigate exactly how patching occurred, and whether malicious activity persists.
On the basic side of implementation this can mean registry, scheduled task, WMI and startup folder persistence to remove the necessity for stable malware presence in the filesystem. However, many free or easily available RATs and Trojans are now routinely utilizing process injection and in-memory execution to circumvent easy removal. To rival these kinds of behaviors it’s imperative that security teams within organizations review their incident response and malware removal processes to include all common areas and arenas of the operating system where malware may continue to reside after cleanup by an antivirus solution.
General, automatic behavior
If the initial execution begins automatically or from self-spreading methods, it typically originates from a file called Readme.js. This behavior could change over time, as the purpose of this .js file is to obfuscate and launch the PowerShell script that pulls additional scripts from the C2. This JavaScript launches a CMD process that subsequently launches Notepad as well as the PowerShell script contained within the JavaScript.
In contrast, if infection begins with RDP brute force, Exchange vulnerabilities, or other vulnerable edge systems, the first few actions are typically human-operated or originate from a hijacked process rather than from Readme.js. After this, the next few actions that the attackers take, including the scheduled task creation, as well as the individual components and scripts are generally the same.
One of these actions is to establish fileless persistence by creating scheduled tasks that re-run the initial PowerShell download script. This script pulls its various components from the C2s at regular intervals. The script then checks to see if any portions of the malware were removed and re-enables them. LemonDuck also maintains a backup persistence mechanism through WMI Event Consumers to perform the same actions.
To host their scripts, the attackers use multiple hosting sites, which as mentioned are resilient to takedown. They also have multiple scheduled tasks to try each site, as well as the WMI events in case other methods fail. If all of those fail, LemonDuck also uses its access methods such as RDP, Exchange web shells, Screen Connect, and RATs to maintain persistent access. These task names can vary over time, but “blackball”, “blutea”, and “rtsa” have been persistent throughout 2020 and 2021 and are still seen in new infections as of this report.
LemonDuck attempts to automatically disable Microsoft Defender for Endpoint real-time monitoring and adds whole disk drives – specifically the C:\ drive – to the Microsoft Defender exclusion list. This action could in effect disable Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, freeing the attacker to perform other actions. Tamper protection prevents these actions, but it’s important for organizations to monitor this behavior in cases where individual users set their own exclusion policy.
LemonDuck then attempts to automatically remove a series of other security products through CMD.exe, leveraging WMIC.exe. The products that we have observed LemonDuck remove include ESET, Kaspersky, Avast, Norton Security, and MalwareBytes. However, they also attempt to uninstall any product with “Security” and “AntiVirus” in the name by running the following commands:
Custom detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or other security solutions can raise alerts on behaviors indicating interactions with security products that are not deployed in the environment. These alerts can allow the quick isolation of devices where this behavior is observed. While this uninstallation behavior is common in other malware, when observed in conjunction with other LemonDuck TTPs, this behavior can help validate LemonDuck infections.
LemonDuck leverages a wide range of free and open-source penetration testing tools. It also uses freely available exploits and functionality such as coin mining. Because of this, the order and the number of times the next few activities are run can change. The attackers can also change the threat’s presence slightly depending on the version, the method of infection, and timeframe. Many .exe and .bin files are downloaded from C2s via encoded PowerShell commands. These domains use a variety names such as the following:
In addition to directly calling the C2s for downloads through scheduled tasks and PowerShell, LemonDuck exhibits another unique behavior: the IP addresses of a smaller subset of C2s are calculated and paired with a previously randomly generated and non-real domain name. This information is then added into the Windows Hosts file to avoid detection by static signatures. In instances where this method is seen, there is a routine to update this once every 24 hours. An example of this is below:
LemonDuck is known to use custom executables and scripts. It also renames and packages well-known tools such as XMRig and Mimikatz. Of these, the three most common are the following, though other packages and binaries have been seen as well, including many with .ori file extensions:
IF.BIN (used for lateral movement and privilege escalation)
KR.BIN (used for competition removal and host patching)
M[0-9]{1}[A-Z]{1}.BIN, M6.BIN, M6.BIN.EXE, or M6G.Bin (used for mining)
IF.Bin, whose name stands for “Infection”, is the most common name used for the infection script during the download process. LemonDuck uses this script at installation and then repeatedly thereafter to attempt to scan for ports and perform network reconnaissance. It then attempts to log onto adjacent devices to push the initial LemonDuck execution scripts.
IF.Bin attempts to move laterally via any additional attached drives. When drives are identified, they are checked to ensure that they aren’t already infected. If they aren’t, a copy of Readme.js, as well as subcomponents of IF.Bin, are downloaded into the drive’s home directory as hidden.
Similarly, IF.Bin attempts to brute force and use vulnerabilities for SMB, SQL, and other services to move laterally. It then immediately contacts the C2 for downloads.
Another tool dropped and utilized within this lateral movement component is a bundled Mimikatz, within a mimi.dat file associated with both the “Cat” and “Duck” infrastructures. This tool’s function is to facilitate credential theft for additional actions. In conjunction with credential theft, IF.Bin drops additional .BIN files to attempt common service exploits like CVE-2017-8464 (LNK remote code execution vulnerability) to increase privilege.
The attackers regularly update the internal infection components that the malware scans for. They then attempt brute force or spray attacks, as well as exploits against available SSH, MSSQL, SMB, Exchange, RDP, REDIS and Hadoop YARN for Linux and Windows systems. A sample of ports that recent LemonDuck infections were observed querying include 70001, 8088, 16379, 6379, 22, 445, and 1433.
Other functions built in and updated in this lateral movement component include mail self-spreading. This spreading functionality evaluates whether a compromised device has Outlook. If so, it accesses the mailbox and scans for all available contacts. It sends the initiating infecting file as part of a .zip, .js, or .doc/.rtf file with a static set of subjects and bodies. The mail metadata count of contacts is also sent to the attacker, likely to evaluate its effectiveness, such as in the following command:
Competition removal and host patching
At installation and repeatedly afterward, LemonDuck takes great lengths to remove all other botnets, miners, and competitor malware from the device. It does this via KR.Bin, the “Killer” script, which gets its name from its function calls. This script attempts to remove services, network connections, and other evidence from dozens of competitor malware via scheduled tasks. It also closes well-known mining ports and removes popular mining services to preserve system resources. The script even removes the mining service it intends to use and simply reinstalls it afterward with its own configuration.
This “Killer” script is likely a continuation of older scripts that were used by other botnets such as GhostMiner in 2018 and 2019. The older variants of the script were quite small in comparison, but they have since grown, with additional services added in 2020 and 2021. Presently, LemonDuck seems consistent in naming its variant KR.Bin. This process spares the scheduled tasks created by LemonDuck itself, including various PowerShell scripts as well as a task called “blackball”, “blutea”, or “rtsa”, which has been in use by all LemonDuck’s infrastructures for the last year along with other task names.
The attackers were also observed manually re-entering an environment, especially in instances where edge vulnerabilities were used as an initial entry vector. The attackers also patch the vulnerability they used to enter the network to prevent other attackers from gaining entry. As mentioned, the attackers were seen using a copy of a Microsoft-provided mitigation tool for Exchange ProxyLogon vulnerability, which they hosted on their infrastructure, to ensure other attackers don’t gain web shell access the way they had. If unmonitored, this scenario could potentially lead to a situation where, if a system does not appear to be in an unpatched state, suspicious activity that occurred before patching could be ignored or thought to be unrelated to the vulnerability.
Apply these mitigations to reduce the impact of LemonDuck. Check the recommendations card for the deployment status of monitored mitigations.
Prevent threats from arriving via removable storage devices by blocking these devices on sensitive endpoints. If you allow removable storage devices, you can minimize the risk by turning off autorun, enabling real-time antivirus protection, and blocking untrusted content. Learn about stopping threats from USB devices and other removable media.
Ensure that Linux and Windows devices are included in routine patching, and validate protection against the CVE-2019-0708, CVE-2017-0144, CVE-2017-8464, CVE-2020-0796, CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065 vulnerabilities, as well as against brute-force attacks in popular services like SMB, SSH, RDP, SQL, and others.
Turn on PUA protection. Potentially unwanted applications (PUA) can negatively impact machine performance and employee productivity. In enterprise environments, PUA protection can stop adware, torrent downloaders, and coin miners.
Turn on tamper protection featuresto prevent attackers from stopping security services.
Turn on cloud-delivered protectionand automatic sample submission on Microsoft Defender Antivirus. These capabilities use artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly identify and stop new and unknown threats.
Encourage users to use Microsoft Edge and other web browsers that support SmartScreen, which identifies and blocks malicious websites, including phishing sites, scam sites, and sites that contain exploits and host malware. Turn on network protectionto block connections to malicious domains and IP addresses.
Check your Office 365 antispam policyand your mail flow rules for allowed senders, domains and IP addresses. Apply extra caution when using these settings to bypass antispam filters, even if the allowed sender addresses are associated with trusted organizations—Office 365 will honor these settings and can let potentially harmful messages pass through. Review system overrides in threat explorer to determine why attack messages have reached recipient mailboxes.
The LemonDuck botnet is highly varied in its payloads and delivery methods after email distribution so can sometimes evade alerts. You can use the advanced hunting capability in Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to surface activities associated with this threat.
NOTE: The following sample queries lets you search for a week’s worth of events. To explore up to 30 days worth of raw data to inspect events in your network and locate potential Lemon Duck-related indicators for more than a week, go to the Advanced Hunting page > Query tab, select the calendar drop-down menu to update your query to hunt for the Last 30 days.
InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_all("/c echo try","down_url=","md5","downloaddata","ComputeHash",".bin") or
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