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Jason Elmore is a military veteran, having served in the US Air Force for 12 years. His expertise in cybersecurity and DoD projects led to an illustrious career as a cybersecurity consultant and SIEM specialist serving Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. He observed while working with clients that one of the biggest challenges organizations face is in understanding what their risks are. Though they are eager to adopt endpoint, email, and mobile security solutions, the organizations don't have a fundamental understanding of why these solutions are required, what type of protections they provide, or their impacts on business. Elmore established Tuearis Cyber in order to communicate with organizations and elucidate the risks they face and the security technologies that specifically apply for their situation. With a customized and holistic consulting approach, Tuearis ascertains the best technology solutions for the security of an organization and then works within the clients’ constraints to help them develop policies, and also deploy and manage technologies.
Tuearis is encountering client needs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic due to remote working adaptations. Organizations have missed numerous protections during the transition that can lead to severe cybersecurity issues. "Organizations are struggling to keep their externally-accessed systems secure with the increasing number of endpoints paired with new remote workers unaware of necessary data security measures," says Elmore. With a holistic approach to security, Tuearis focuses on understanding organizations’ needs to deliver a customized endpoint security solution that best suits their requirements. Tuearis’ Managed Endpoint Defense program acts as a complete security package and offers behavior-based Antivirus software, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Web Security, Threat and Vulnerability management, and more. These functions facilitate monitoring, management, and remediation of endpoints wherever they are in the world, and whatever network they are connected to.
We are mitigating that risk
To augment the Managed Endpoint Defense program’s capacity, Tuearis’ Security Operations Center (SOC) collects and correlates data from applications, on-prem servers, cloud servers, and other devices on the network to alert their security operations team ahead of potential threats. Tuearis additionally offers email security, mobile device management, unified endpoint management, and more to the clients to further enhance their cybersecurity posture.
Tuearis advocates the unique philosophy of acknowledging that no two organizations are alike as security needs vary according to the client’s business goals, infrastructure, growth projections, and other factors. Hence, the company first establishes a mutual understanding of the clients’ needs, budget constraints, and the risks they face. Utilizing all of the acquired information, Tuearis works with the leadership and the stakeholders in each organization to help build a cybersecurity program for the specific needs of the organization. "We make sure customers of all sizes feel like they're a part of the process, and hence we have a customer retention rate above 90 percent," states Jason.
To demonstrate a customer success story, Elmore recounts the ransomware attack on 23 organizations in Texas, in 2019. However, the attack was unsuccessful due to the security program that Tuearis had built and was running for a particular client. Tuearis foresaw and stopped the ransomware attack from having an impact on business operations. In fact, the client was completely unaware that an attempt to encrypt their network had taken place until Tuearis informed them!
Compliant with the HIPAA, PCI, HITECH Act regulations, and more, "We ensure our services are evolved, matured, and running all the time so that our clients are secured, not just today, but tomorrow, as well," states Elmore. Tuearis plans to continue advancing their technology and processes to provide value and mitigate risks for organizations. The company has new offerings lined up for Q3 and Q4 this year, which are expected to be game-changers for many organizations. "We don't want organizations to be afraid to grow their business because it introduces a new risk. We are mitigating that risk,” concludes Elmore.
Tuearis Cyber is a Veteran owned business providing security solutions nationwide. The Tuearis team has been involved in a number of high profile cases and performed post-breach forensic analysis, remediation, and various SIEM projects for companies such as Spirit Aerosystems, American Airlines, Target, AIG, Dyncorp, Protiviti, IBM, and Robert Half, as well many small and medium sized businesses and governmental organizations
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This lab contains a DOM-based vulnerability that can be exploited as part of a web cache poisoning attack. A user visits the home page roughly once a minute. Note that the cache used by this lab has stricter criteria for deciding which responses are cacheable, so you will need to study the cache behavior closely.
To solve the lab, poison the cache with a response that executes alert(document.cookie) in the visitor's browser.
With Burp running, open the website's home page.
In Burp, go to "Proxy" > "HTTP history" and study the requests and responses that you generated. Find the GET request for the home page and send it to Burp Repeater.
Use Param Miner to identify that the X-Forwarded-Host header is supported.
Add a cache buster to the request, as well as the X-Forwarded-Host header with an arbitrary hostname, such as example.com. Notice that this header overwrites the data.host variable, which is passed into the initGeoLocate() function.
Study the initGeoLocate() function in /resources/js/geolocate.js and notice that it is vulnerable to DOM-XSS due to the way it handles the incoming JSON data.
Go to the exploit server and change the file name to match the path used by the vulnerable response: /resources/json/geolocate.json.
X-Forwarded-Host: your-exploit-server-id.web-security-academy.net
Send the request until you see your exploit server URL reflected in the response and X-Cache: hit in the headers.
If this doesn't work, notice that the response contains the Set-Cookie header. Responses containing this header are not cacheable on this site. Reload the home page to generate a new request, which should have a session cookie already set.
Send this new request to Burp Repeater and repeat the steps above until you successfully poison the cache.
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We don’t usually report on financial news here, but a recent financial move by up-and-coming industry leader Hikvision warrants attention. Specifically, Hikvision in Hangzhou, China, has secured a $3.1 billion line of credit from the government-owned China Development Bank.
Companies use a variety of financing tools to provide the currency they need to fuel growth, so in that regard, Hikvision’s move is to be expected. Given their ambitious growth timeline, both in China and throughout the world, it’s no surprise that they would be creating mechanisms to finance that growth.
The surprise here is the size of the move. To put $3.1 billion into perspective, consider that Canon paid $2.8 billion when they bought Axis, and that transaction generated tons of interest in the industry and, arguably, shook up the whole market. Obviously, with $3.1 billion of credit at their disposal, Hikvision is well equipped to shake up the industry, too.
For fast-growing Hikvision, $3.1 billion is an amount greater than its reported sales revenue of $2.78 billion in 2014.
“The company is focused on global growth,” says Alex Asnovich, Head of Marketing at Hikvision USA. “Talking about North America, we are opening our new Hikvision USA headquarters in the Los Angeles area in the summer of 2016. We have our new logistics facilities in Miami to support North and South Americas. We recently opened our Hikvision Canada headquarters office in Montreal and started our own bilingual English and French Canadian tech support center on the East Coast.”
Hikvision’s R&D operations
R&D is also a big part of the picture. I saw the scale of Hikvision’s R&D operations first-hand on my China visit earlier this year. The company has more than 5,400 engineers, including more than 2,000 software engineers. I also saw the construction site for a new 28-floor facility, adjacent to Hikvision’s other two high-rises in Hangzhou. When the new tower opens in 2018, a large part of it will be devoted to research and development. Hikvision has said its research focuses on such topics as perceptive technology, intelligent analysis, Big Data and cloud storage.
“We also plan to build up our R&D resources in North America,” says Asnovich. “Globally, our new European facilities are opening in 2016 in a new building the company owns, and we are also opening new branches and facilities on other continents.”
Hikvision is looking beyond security, too, and the line of credit will help to finance expansion into market segments such as robotics, industrial machine vision, and drones. There was a hint of what’s to come at the China Public Security Expo in October in Shenzhen, where attendees crowded around a demonstration of a Hikvision drone (available now in the Chinese market).
Could an acquisition be in Hikvision’s future? “The line of credit we recently received could prepare us in advance of an M&A opportunity, if and when a good prospect arises,” Asnovich comments. Possible Hikvision acquisitions in the United States have long been a topic of cocktail hour rumors and speculation in the security market.
“It is certainly a large amount of money for the security environment,” says Asnovich. “However, it’s not atypical for many other industries. This is not the first time for Hikvision to receive a substantial line of credit.” For example, the company recently was also extended lines of credit for 5 billion Chinese Yuan (around $0.77 billion USD) from international financial organisations such as Deutsche Bank, Citibank, HSBC, and others.
Needless to say, Hikvision’s future ambitions in the security market, and others, are well financed. If the amount of available funds reflects the scope and nature of that expansion, we might expect some dramatic moves from Hikvision in 2016. | https://www.sourcesecurity.com/insights/hikvision-3-1-billion-line-credit-security-co-3425-ga-co-12558-ga-sb.19248.html |
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Semtech, a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that several of its leading customers, including CIAAIoT, EasyLinkin, IOCA, RisingHF, and Winext Technology, have integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol with Cloud-based platforms developed by Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, to deploy smarter Internet of Things (IoT)-based monitoring applications for residents in quarantine scenarios.
These solutions provide healthcare workers with data and insight into community health, allowing more optimized workflows for the distribution of efficient healthcare services during the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
With the current COVID-19 outbreak in China and worldwide, the task of monitoring and managing quarantined and isolated personnel remains a critical challenge. Health services employees, including disease control and prevention teams, are increasingly leveraging smarter applications based on IoT to provide efficient, high quality care to their communities.
Traditional quarantine methods, including camera usage, door sealing and locking, are limited in effectiveness and typically unable to effectively monitor the status of building exits and entrances.
Additionally, these methods require frequent manual inspection, which increases labor costs and exposes maintenance workers to contact with isolated persons. LoRa-based solutions bring real-time insight into quarantined buildings and replace manual processes.
CIAAIoT and EasyLinkin integrated LoRa-based magnetic door sensors with Alibaba Cloud’s Cloud-based application development platform and services to create a “smart doorkeeper” solution for efficient building monitoring.
IOCA, RisingHF, Winext Technology, and other leading LoRa-based device manufacturers collaborated with Tencent Cloud to leverage its LoRa-based door sensors in a new Cloud-based door seal monitoring solution.
These products have successfully been deployed into the residential communities of China’s Hubei province, as well as Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou.
Both Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud’s Cloud-based monitoring solutions are comprised of a LoRa-based gateway and connected door sensor, and immediately begin the transmission of accurate door use data upon deployment. These LoRa-based applications offer the following features:
Data collected from the LoRa-based solutions is easily viewable on Alibaba Cloud or Tencent Cloud’s Cloud-based platforms for trend analysis and insight into quarantine effectiveness, as well as enabling the optimization of personnel management.
In addition to quarantine monitoring, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud’s solutions offer the capabilities to deploy in shopping mall security, hospital patient care, child safety protection, and other scenarios to monitor the status of door and window use in real time.
“Smarter technologies and IoT applications play an important role in providing high quality health services during COVID-19. Semtech’s LoRa devices and LoRaWAN protocol provide an easy to use and deploy solution to quickly connect systems and provide optimized, effective healthcare in communities,” said Mike Wong, Vice President of China Sales for Semtech. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/17/semtech-lora/ |
Is there an explicit or implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution?
State laws around data protection are the best we have in terms of legal privacy rights. That puts the U.S. on par with many countries that have no legal right to privacy. But the next President’s opinions could shape how this essential right is protected moving forward.
How can we secure the U.S. from cyberattacks that could lower citizens’ standard of living or maybe even result in the loss of life?
If the next administration isn’t thinking about how to secure utilities and infrastructure, we’re in trouble. They’re already among the prime targets for terrorists and other groups, they’re vulnerable, and the aftermath of an attack would be highly disruptive.
Do cyberattacks represent the single biggest risk to the ongoing functioning of the U.S. government today?
They might cite partisan bickering or other risks, but it’s safe to say that the government can’t function like it used to after email leaks and other hacks by state actors and hacktivists have embarrassed multiple officials, causing some to step down from their positions. And while the breaches (that we know about) have been relatively small to date, it’s only a matter of time before a major attack hits. Credit: Pixabay
How will the pace of technical change impact the U.S. economy? What role does education play in this space?
Technology makes our lives easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. But it also eliminates jobs, infringes on privacy, and creates more targets for hackers. We need leaders who not only understand the benefits of technology, but can protect us from the negatives. | http://www.cio.com/article/3137560/security/10-cybersecurity-questions-trump-and-clinton-should-answer.html |
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Ethical hacking is a key component of risk evaluation, auditing, and counter-frauds.
Ethical Hackers is high and it is one of the rapidly growing careers in IT and banking sectors.
Due to an increased threat of vulnerabilities, ethics is high in comparison to other profiles. | https://www.tutorialspoint.com/prime-pack/ethical-hacking-prime-pack/index.asp |
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Information Security at PTFS Europe is the responsibility of all members of staff. We have in place an effective Information Security Management System (ISMS) which has resulted in ISO27001:2017 and CyberEssentials accreditation.
The Scope of our ISO27001 registration is the provision of implementation, hosting and support services for a range of products in the library sector within the UK and European markets.
Our ISMS encompasses all systems used by PTFS Europe in our work of software installation, configuration, data conversion, software development, training, data and systems hosting and customer support for a wide range of customers in the library sector.
Our security policy has the following objectives which we track using a set of appropriate key performance indicators:
Objective 1: PTFS Europe will continuously monitor for and identify emerging security threats, implementing preventative measures on an ongoing basis.
Objective 2: PTFS Europe will deliver its service in a secure environment such that it minimises the risk of major security incidents and service down time.
Objective 3: PTFS Europe will regularly analyse risks to information in its care and enhance protective measures as new risks arise.
In pursuit of these objectives we have analysed all parties with an interest in information security at PTFS Europe to identify their security needs and expectations. We continuously scan the legal and regulatory environment for changes that affect our security policy and our processes and procedures fully meet the requirements of GDPR legislation.
Physical security at PTFS Europe, a virtual company, is supported by our policy on teleworking. And though information security is the responsibility of all staff, our Information Security Manager has primary responsibility for ensuring that the large number of servers we base our business on are correctly configured, supported, patched and protected.
Physical data security is enhanced by the infrastructure around our data hosting arrangements with all data being held on remote servers located within an outsourced data centre which has ISO27001:2017 level security in place.
To ensure business continuity resilience, daily backups of all customer and internal systems are taken. All servers are backed up to three third party data centre locations with high-capacity power supplies and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems.
Access to our data is closely controlled and is detailed in our Access Control Policy and no third party access is given to any of our internal systems or documentation.
We have carried out a full risk assessment of the potential for a breach of security as documented within our separate Risk Assessment Document. Any and all security incidents are logged on the helpdesk ticketing system (RT). In the event of a security breach, our Disaster Recovery Plan outlines the procedures to be followed in the case of disasters.
This policy and the ISMS is monitored and reviewed by the Senior Management team to ensure we meet our security objectives, analyse and respond to risks, train and support our staff appropriately and continuously improve our policies and procedures. | https://www.ptfs-europe.com/information-security-policy/?s= |
A smart contract security audit examines and comments on a project’s smart contract code. Typically, these contracts are written in Solidity programming language and provided via GitHub. Security audits are particularly valuable for DeFi projects that expect to handle blockchain transactions worth millions of dollars or a huge amount of players. The audits usually follow a four-step process:
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2. The audit team presents their findings to the project for them to act upon.
3. The project team makes changes based on the issues found.
4. The audit team releases their final report, considering any new changes or outstanding errors.
For many crypto users, smart contract audits are essential when investing in new DeFi projects. It’s become a standard for projects that want to be taken seriously. Certain audit providers are also seen as industry leaders, making their audits more valuable in investors’ eyes.
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Advertising: are used to deliver relevant ads (on the site and/or other sites) based on things we know about you like your Usage and System Data (as detailed in Section 1), and things that the ad service providers know about you based on their tracking data. The ads can be based on your recent activity or activity over time and across other sites and services. To help deliver tailored advertising, we may provide these service providers with a hashed, anonymized version of your email address (in a non-human-readable form) and content that you share publicly on the Services.
Social Media: enable social media functionality, like sharing content with friends and networks. These cookies may track a user or device across other sites and build a profile of user interests for targeted advertising purposes.
You can set your web browser to alert you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, limit the types of cookies you allow, or refuse cookies altogether. If you do, you may not be able to use some or all features of the Services, and your experience may be different or less functional. To learn more about managing Data Collection Tools, refer to Section 6.1 (Your Choices About the Use of Your Data) below.
With Your Instructors: We share data that we have about you (except your email address) with instructors or teaching assistants for educational content you access or request information about, so they can improve their content for you and other students. This data may include things like your city, country, browser language, operating system, device settings, the site that brought you to KRYZA, and your activities on KRYZA. If we collect additional data about you (like age or gender), we may share that too. We will not share your email address with instructors or teaching assistants.
With Other Students and Instructors: Depending on your settings, your shared content and profile data may be publicly viewable, including to other students and instructors. If you ask a question to an instructor or teaching assistant, your information (including your name) may also be publicly viewable..
With Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: We share your data with third-party companies who perform services on our behalf, like payment processing, fraud and abuse prevention, data analysis, marketing and advertising services (including retargeted advertising), email and hosting services, and customer services and support. These service providers may access your personal data and are required to use it solely as we direct, to provide our requested service.
With KRYZA Affiliates: We may share your data within our corporate family of companies that are related by common ownership or control to enable or support us in providing the Services.
With Business Partners: We have agreements with other websites and platforms to distribute our Services and drive traffic to KRYZA. Depending on your location, we may share your data with these partners.
With Credit-Granting Organizations for Continuing Education: If you take a course to fulfill a continuing professional education requirement, we may share that information upon request of the organization granting the continuing education credit.
With Analytics and Data Enrichment Services: As part of our use of third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics and data enrichment services like ZoomInfo, we share certain contact information, Account Data, System Data, Usage Data (as detailed in Section 1), or de-identified data as needed. De-identified data means data where we’ve removed things like your name and email address and replaced it with a token ID. This allows these providers to provide analytics services or match your data with publicly-available database information (including contact and social information from other sources). We do this to communicate with you in a more effective and customized manner.
To Power Social Media Features: The social media features in the Services (like the Facebook Like button) may allow the third-party social media provider to collect things like your IP address and which page of the Services you’re visiting, and to set a cookie to enable the feature. Your interactions with these features are governed by the third-party company’s privacy policy.
To Administer Promotions and Surveys: We may share your data as necessary to administer, market, or sponsor promotions and surveys you choose to participate in, as required by applicable law (like to provide a winners list or make required filings), or in accordance with the rules of the promotion or survey.
For Advertising: If we decide to use an advertising-supported revenue model in the future, we may use and share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users. We may also allow advertisers to collect System Data through Data Collection Tools (as detailed in Section 2.1), to use this data to offer you targeted ad delivery to personalize your user experience (through behavioral advertising), and to undertake web analytics. Advertisers may also share with us the data they collect about you. To learn more or opt out from participating ad networks’ behavioral advertising, see Section 6.1 (Your Choices About the Use of Your Data) below. Note that if you opt out, you’ll continue to be served generic ads.
Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of KRYZA, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services.
We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy.
During a Change in Control: If KRYZA undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition or in contemplation of a transition (including during due diligence).
After Aggregation/De-identification: We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.
With Your Permission: With your consent, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.
Security
We use appropriate security based on the type and sensitivity of data being stored. As with any internet-enabled system, there is always a risk of unauthorized access, so it’s important to protect your password and to contact us if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.
KRYTA takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal data that we collect and store. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, however, no system can be 100% secured, so we cannot guarantee that communications between you and KRYZA, the Services, or any information provided to us in connection with the data we collect through the Services will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Your password is an important part of our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with any third party, and if you believe your password or account has been compromised, you should change it immediately and contact our Support Team with any concerns.
6.1 Your Choices About the Use of Your Data
You can choose not to provide certain data to us, but you may not be able to use certain features of the Services.
To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism in the promotional communication you receive or by changing the email preferences in your account. Note that regardless of your email preference settings, we will send you transactional and relationship messages regarding the Services, including administrative confirmations, order confirmations, important updates about the Services, and notices about our policies.
If you’re located in the European Economic Area, you may opt out of certain Data Collection Tools by clicking the “Cookie settings“ link at the bottom of any page.
The browser or device you use may allow you to control cookies and other types of local data storage. To learn more about managing cookies, visit https://cookiepedia.co.uk/how-to-manage-cookies. Your wireless device may also allow you to control whether location or other data is collected and shared.
To get information and control cookies used for tailored advertising from participating companies, see the consumer opt-out pages for the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance, or if you’re located in the European Economic Area, visit the Your Online Choices site. If you’re located in Japan, visit the Digital Advertising Consortium. To opt out of Google’s display advertising or customize Google Display Network ads, visit the Google Ads Settings page.
To opt out of allowing Google Analytics to use your data for analytics or enrichment, see the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Apple iOS, Android OS, and Microsoft Windows each provide their own instructions on how to control in-app tailored advertising. For other devices and operating systems, you should review your privacy settings on that platform.
If you have any questions about your data, our use of it, or your rights, contact us at [email protected]
If you are a student, visit your profile settings page and follow the steps detailed here.
If you are an instructor, follow the steps detailed here.
If you have any issues terminating your account, please contact our Support Team.
6.3 Our Policy Concerning Children
We recognize the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Individuals younger than 18 years of age, but of the required age for consent to use online services where they live (for example, 13 in the US or 16 in Ireland), may not set up an account, but may have a parent or guardian open an account and help them access appropriate content. Individuals younger than the required age for consent to use online services may not use the Services. If we learn that we’ve collected personal data from a child under those ages, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Parents who believe that KRYZA may have collected personal data from a child under those ages can submit a request that it be removed to [email protected]
Users who are California residents have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, (“CCPA”). If you are an eligible California user, included in these rights are:
“Right to Know” — You request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you and access a copy of your personal information.
“Right to Correction” — You have inaccurate personal information about you corrected.
“Right to Deletion” — You request deletion of personal information that we have collected about you.
“Right to Non-Discrimination” — If you choose to exercise any of your rights under CCPA, KRYZA will treat you like all other users. In other words, there is no penalty for exercising your rights under CCPA.
“Right to Opt-Out” - You opt out of the sale of your personal information.
CCPA has a specific definition of a “sale” and while KRYZA does not, in the traditional sense, sell your personal information or the personal information of any of our users, we do use cookies that make non-personally identifiable information available to select third-parties. To opt out of such a “sale,” click on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link at the bottom of this page.
To exercise any of these rights under CCPA, please email [email protected]. CCPA allows you to designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf. For your protection, we may require that the request be sent through the email address associated with your account, and we may need to verify you and/or your agent’s identity before fulfilling your request.
Additionally, for more information about the personal information we collect and how we collect it, please see the sections above entitled “What Data We Get” and “How We Get Data About You.”
To learn about the business and commercial purposes for which your personal information is collected and the categories of service providers who have access to your personal information, please see the sections above entitled “What We Use Your Data For” and “Who We Share Your Data With.”
As a California resident, you also request certain details about what personal information we share with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To submit your request, send an email to [email protected] with the phrase “California Shine the Light” and include your mailing address, state of residence, and email address.
Since there is no widely accepted standard for the browser-initiated Do Not Track signal, we do not currently recognize or respond to Do Not Track signals.
7.4 Users in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and United Kingdom (“UK”)
If you are located in the EEA or UK, you request access to your data in a portable format and to request the rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, or objection to processing of your personal data. You also obtain a free copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses referenced in Section 7.5. You may use the information in Section 6.2 to submit your request. Additionally, if you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you also lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.
Personal data is also processed outside of the UK, Switzerland, and the EEA by our KRYZA group companies, or our service providers, including to process transactions, facilitate payments, and provide support services as described in Section 4. We use Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission to facilitate transfers of personal data from the EEA to third countries and have entered into data processing agreements with our service providers and KRYZA group companies to restrict and regulate their processing of your data. By submitting your data or using our Services, you consent to this transfer, storage, and processing by KRYZA and its processors.
8.1 Modifications to This Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. If we make any material change to it, we will notify you via email, through a notification posted on the Services, or as required by applicable law. We will also include a summary of the key changes. Unless stated otherwise, modifications will become effective on the day they are posted.
As permitted by applicable law, if you continue to use the Services after the effective date of any change, then your access and/or use will be deemed an acceptance of (and agreement to follow and be bound by) the revised Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy supersedes all previous Privacy Policies. | https://kryza.education/courses/what-is-a-smart-contract-security-audit-2/lesson/what-is-a-smart-contract-audit-2/ |
Serious violations of worker rights occur at Apple's other suppliers in China, even as Foxconn tries to improve working conditions, according to a labor rights group in New York.
Conditions at Foxconn remain far from satisfactory, wrote Li Qiang, executive director of China Labor Watch, in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook that is appended to a 132-page report [PDF] on an investigation by the group. But Foxconn is better in treatment of workers than some of Apple's other suppliers in China, he added.
Apple's suppliers in China mistreat workers, making them work overtime beyond legal limits, paying them low wages, and exposing them to dangerous working conditions, according to the report released last week.
The investigation of other Apple suppliers in China reveals that serious work-related injuries and worker suicides are by no means isolated to just Foxconn but exist throughout Apple's supply chain, Li wrote in an introduction to the report.
The abuse of factory workers making Apple products came under scrutiny earlier this year following a New York Times story that described poor working conditions at the factories of contractors making the products.
The Fair Labor Association conducted a month-long investigation on Foxconn factories and issued a report in March revealing underpay, worker abuse and health and safety risks for workers. Based on recommendations in the study, Foxconn and Apple pledged to take steps to address the issues.
In a May report, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based organization, alleged that the workers at Foxconn, which makes Apple products like the iPad and iPhone, worked up to 80 hours a week in April leading up to the release of the new iPad.
The investigation by China Labor Watch of ten factories of Apple's suppliers from January to April also found the widespread use of "dispatched workers," which have no formal relationship with the factories but are under contractual obligation to intermediary companies called "dispatching companies," according to China Labor Watch.
'Dispatch Labor' Use Skirts Reforms
Except for Foxconn in Shenzhen, which transferred all dispatched workers to direct-hire status in 2011, all other investigated factories used dispatched labor, which accounted for up to 90 percent of their total workforce in Suzhou, the report said. Dispatched labor as percentage of workforce was lower at 70 percent in Shenzhen.
The contract that workers end up signing is often not with their factory but with some labor dispatch company that they know little about, according to the report. Many times they assume they are being hired directly by the factory.
The use of dispatch workers allows factories to prevent them from forming unions, employ them short-term without having to pay severance compensation, and shift responsibility for worker injuries onto another party.
Dispatched workers have no limitation on the amount of overtime that they work, the report said. Some have to work more than 150 hours of overtime every month, which is above China's legal limit of 36 hours of overtime per month.
Labor dispatching demands special attention because Apple does not address it in its Supplier Responsibility Progress Reports [PDF] and because it has a substantial impact on workers' rights, the report said. If Apple were to take the problem into account, the number of supplier factories that meet Apple's standards would fall considerably, it added.
The report also noted that the use of intermediaries to get access to labor is to an extent driven by shortages of workers in the region, and also because it helps companies get workers quickly if demand spikes in an unpredictable market. "With recruitment spots on every street corner, referral agencies can gather large groups of workers in no time at all ...," it said.
Foxconn workers (Source: ABC News)
As part of its ongoing supplier responsibility program, Apple has conducted thorough audits at every facility in China Labor Watch's report, it said in a statement on Thursday. Seven of these audits took place over the past 12 months, and several locations are scheduled for follow-up inspections this summer. In some places, its auditors found issues similar to those described by China Labor Watch, including overtime violations, it said.
The suppliers were required to address the problem, Apple said. "For the past five months we have been monitoring working hours for over 700,000 workers throughout our supply chain and the results are available on our website. Last month we found 95% compliance with our code of conduct, which limits working hours to 60 per week."
Foxconn did not respond to a request for comment.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is [email protected] | https://www.pcworld.com/article/258496/apples_chinese_suppliers_violate_worker_rights_says_labor_group.html |
Apple iPad Air Hits StoresApple's latest tablet is now available at Apple, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart stores, starting at $499.
10 Epic iOS 7 Tips (click image for larger view) Apple retail stores opened at 8 a.m. Friday to eager tablet buyers looking to get their hands on the latest iPad. The iPad Air, a new version of Apple's full-sized tablet, is available starting Friday; the iPad Mini with Retina Display won't be available until later this month.
The iPad Air is available to consumers in a wide range of countries, including the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K., among many others. The new tablet features a brand-new design that is slimmer and lighter than last year's model. It lost nearly an inch in width and one-third of a pound in weight. It still has a 9.7-inch, 2024 x 1536-pixel Retina display, which is capable of displaying HD content. The iPad Air comes in black and white and is powered by Apple's 1.4-GHz dual-core A7 processor with the M7 coprocessor. It has 1 GB of RAM and storage between 16 and 128 GB. The tablet includes front and rear cameras (1.3 megapixels and 5.0 megapixels, respectively) and a number of sensors, and, if you don't mind spending a bit more money, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G/4G cellular radios. [ Is Apple's fifth-generation iPad a game-changer? Read Apple's Next iPad: Gateway To Mobile Revolution. ]
The 16-GB Wi-Fi model costs $499. Pricing ranges up to $929 if you choose 128 GB and cellular radios. Walmart and Target are selling the 16-GB Wi-Fi iPad starting at $479 -- a $20 discount. Apple stores may match that price for customers who ask for it. Lines formed in several locations, though fewer than in years past. CNN points out that there were people waiting at stores in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Tokyo. CNN also noted that only 419 people were in line at the 5th Avenue store in midtown Manhattan. Its data suggests this year's line was half the size of last year's when the iPad Mini launched and just 35% of when the iPad 2 launched. InformationWeek scouted out one Apple store in New Jersey, and there was no line at all. The new iPad Air was selling briskly, however, with one going out the door every couple of minutes based on our observations.
Apple, which shipped 14.6 million iPads during the second quarter but 14.1 million during the fourth, needs to move some iPads this weekend and throughout the rest of the holiday quarter. The company has recently lost ground to inexpensive tablets running Google's Android platform, but the new iPad models could help it recover its market share. If Apple moves more than one million units over the course of the first weekend, it will likely announce this on Monday morning.
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One of the major reasons why Microsoft Windows was criticized by advanced users earlier is the fact that the OS did come with no sort of advanced security measure! Even as Apple was trying to make its Mac OS as secure as possible, Microsoft stood still. Nevertheless, it is probably due to this fact that the tech giant introduced its Microsoft Security Essentials, which was a totally free antivirus solution that could be installed in Windows PCs, if they prefer it to other paid antivirus security suites out there. Following the impressive acceptance it received, Microsoft implemented the security tool in Windows 10 — namely, Windows Defender. So, when you purchase a Windows 10 PC, it comes with an in-built antivirus suite, which is a good thing from the first look.
That having said, some people are confused about whether they should just go on with Windows Defender or get an effective paid antivirus with more features. Check our article on whether or not Windows Defender sufficient for your computer. In this review of Windows Defender, we have taken different aspects of this in-built security suite to the account so that you can choose well in the end.
About Windows Defender
Technically speaking, Windows Defender is a security product that has been developed to detect and remove all the kinds of malicious stuff a PC comes across. Earlier known as Microsoft Security Essentials, it was later integrated to Windows 10, as an integrated program. As of now, Windows Defender is available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and the Windows Server 2016. Its availability also covers Windows XP and Windows Server 2013. It means that you can get it for almost all the Windows-powered devices out there. As we said, Windows 10 contains it by default, with all those proclaimed features and continuous upgrades from Microsoft. Talking of the current situation, Windows Defender is having a bunch of noteworthy security-oriented features that make sense for the common user.
But, our question is — whether the tool is worthy for the advanced user? To answer that, we shall discuss its various aspects in the coming sectors.
Antivirus Protection
This is perhaps the most important section in this Windows Defender review, because people are really concerned of the protection they get from malware. As of now, since we cannot test all those antivirus suites, we shall have to rely on the cross-antivirus protection tests done by expert communities and security researches. According to those tests on Windows Defender, however, the antivirus has a really poor situation when it comes to antivirus protection. The scores are very low and pathetic, from the advanced user’s point of view.
If we take the case of AV-TEST results — which is the standard when it comes to antivirus protection scores —, it has given 3.5/6.0 for Windows Defender, which is really poor. Even while other antivirus suites, such as Bitdefender, are able to find around 100% the commonly-found threats, Windows Defender misses some, bringing its score to rather around 99%. For the common user, once again, this isn’t a big deal. However, when you are handling with some best kept secrets and confidential stuff with you, you cannot really depend upon the antivirus protection capabilities that are available for Windows Defender.
Summing up, we can say that the antivirus protection of Windows Defender is just decent — nothing more, nothing less! For the advanced guys, this isn’t the safe scene.
Installation & Integration
As we said earlier, there is no process of installation if you are running Windows 10, there is no installation required for running Windows Defender, although the previous version may need you to. Even when you’re required to do its installation, it’s going to be a piece of cake. You can finish the installation in around a few seconds or minutes. So, we will give it a five-star for the easiness of installation.
Again, if we take its case of integration, there’s high-five for Windows Defender. Being a security product that’s built by Microsoft, it can work well with Microsoft Windows environment, in an impressive manner. Once installed, it gets into the veins of your OS, thus ensuring protection on all the sides of it. Until the point you install a third-party suite for security, Windows Defender stays as the well-integrated security protector for your Windows PC. Regardless PC is Windows 10 or older; the power of integration is there.
As an advanced PC user, you need additional features to have streamlined security — for offline and online worlds of yours. So, it is necessary to analyze the features that are offered by Windows Defender, to see whether it does well the job of extra protection. To see that, we need to compare the feature-list with a standard antivirus that is trusted, and we choose Bitdefender.
Even while the third-party antivirus comes with stunning features such as URL screening, email protection, website account manager, security-dedicated browser, password manager and different modes of support, we can’t find any of them in Windows Defender. You are just left with the standard scan scheduling and real-time protection, as it has been offered by the antivirus. By some tweak you can block Adware using Windows Defender. Also, while the third-party antivirus solutions are offering security plugins for the other browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, Windows Defender wants you to stick on to Microsoft Edge if you needed bit of extra protection from web-based threats out there. And, to be noted, even that protection is not actually included in Defender, but actually is outsourced from Edge’s SmartScreen filter.
We’ve already told you that Windows Defender does not have many options to offer as an antivirus suite, in spite of its scanning and scheduled scanning. Also, the developers of Defender know the design philosophies well.
It may be so that Windows Defender has an impressively simple and effective user interface. You are not left with buttons or sections, despite for the simple shortcuts. So, for the common users of Windows 10 or older versions, Defender will be the most simple and effective antivirus with an awesome interface to rely upon.
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Popular restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced that it was hit with a massive cybersecurity attack.
The attack, which was first reported by Chipotle on April 25, hit most the chain's 2,250 locations and allowed hackers to steal credit card information from customers, reports The Inquisitr.
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During the investigation we removed the malware, and we continue to work with cyber security firms to evaluate ways to enhance our security measures. In addition, we continue to support law enforcement’s investigation and are working with the payment card networks so that the banks that issue payment cards can be made aware and initiate heightened monitoring.
In response to the incident, Bellwether Community Credit Union of New Hampshire has filed a class-action lawsuit against Chipotle and is seeking damages, reports Credit Union Times.
The suit alleges that the breach forced financial institutions to cancel or reissue cards, close accounts, stop payments, block transactions, issue refunds, increase fraud monitoring efforts, and deal with cardholder complaints and confusion. It also claims lost interest and transaction fees due to reduced card usage.
The suit challenges Chipotle's "public statements to customers after the data breach plainly indicate that defendant believes that card-issuing institutions should be responsible for fraudulent charges on cardholder accounts resulting from the data breach."
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A previous Chipotle data breach is also referenced. "Despite its 2004 data breach, Chipotle quite obviously failed to upgrade its data security systems in a meaningful way so as to prevent future breaches," the complaint alleged.
The cybersecurity attack comes just when Chipotle was recovering from the 2015 food contamination outbreak that sickened hundreds of its customers. On that occasion, Chipotle's customers in Minnesota were infected with salmonella and nearly 100 more came down with norovirus after eating at the restaurant's Southern California locations. | http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/chipotle-customers-are-risk-after-cyber-attack |
NEEH ransomware is a malicious and secretive rootkit. And it hides in the computer when it just enters. Usually, after users have feeling that they have infected with NEEH ransomware, terrible outcome caused by NEEH ransomware happend. and by far, users always have to swallow this outcome and pay ransom as required. It is recommend you to periodically back up the important data and general check the system condition. And it could help you to detect NEEH ransomware out before it carries out scams.
According to researches from our team, NEEH ransomware is capable of encrypting almost all major files on the infected machine, such as photos, videos, MS Office files, .pdf, and .txt extension files. Once it made it, it left a TXT file or BMP file to tell you what have happened to you files and what you should do to get your files back, that is to pay around $500 to buy the description key. It also warns that your files will be lost forever if you do not pay within 24 hours or 48 hours. This is the typical way that hacker makes money, to encrypt files and scare you to send the random money.
Spam email is main source for NEEH ransomware and other rasnomware to infiltrate in the computer system. And it is always enclosed on the attachments. So it can be installed when this is opened. Besides, NEEH ransomware can come from other way: website exploits. NEEH ransomware gets infected from the unknown websites with redirect links. And the NEEH ransomware extensions or add-ons are download and installed when this websites is opened. So users should be careful when they are visiting the spam emails and unknown websites. We recommend you to be away from these websites and emails to protect the system from infections.
Option Two (Highly Recommended and for All Users) – If you are just a common computer user who is not good at handling computer problems and deleting system threats, you are highly recommended to use SpyHunter Malware Scanner to check your computer with antivirus tools.
NEEH ransomware is quite stubborn computer virus good at hiding itself. If you cannot find out and delete all its malicious files, it may come back and become stronger and more harmful. Therefore, our tech team suggest you installing SpyHunter to assist you, which is one of the best anti-malware tool capable of tracking and removing all the files of computer threats include Adware, Hijacker, Trojan and Ransomware. Now please download SpyHunter to help you detect NEEH ransomware and all other hiding threats easily:
1. Click “Download Now” button below to download SpyHunter Anti-Malware safely:
2. Once SpyHunter is downloaded, double-click the icon to install Spyhunter:
3. Once SpyHunter is installed, click “Start Scan” to detect to see if there are virus on your system:
4. Once SpyHunter completes the scan, you can View Scan Results and click “Next”to removw the virus and fix the problem for your computer.
5. after removing NEEH ransomware, you can keep System Guard ON and enable guard.
1. Open Chrome, then click “Customize and control Google Chrome” button, and then click on Settings 2. Under the Chrome Settings page, scroll down to the bottom, then click on Show advanced settings button 3. After clicking on Show advanced settings button, scroll down to the bottom and click on Reset browser settings button 4. A message box will pop up to inform that your browser settings will be restored to their original defaults, click Reset button when it appears
Step 1. Delete nasty extensions installed by NEEH ransomware from Safari in your Mac
Open Safari on your Mac, select the Safari dropdown menu and click the Preferences button.
Choose Extensions, and find the plugins you want to remove, click the Uninstall button.
Antivirus – Remove all potential malware and virus from your Mac.
Disk Cleanup – Clear up all junks and nasty files.
Dashboard – Optimize entire system to boost all system function.
1. Always select Advanced / Custom Installation whenever installing any software;
2. Always update software from their official websites; 3. Always make a scan on free download files and email attachments; 4. It’s better not visiting any Porn websites; 5. Install a top class antivirus software and keep the Firewall up all the time. Here we recommend you the antivirus – WiperSoft and Spyhunter for Windows users, and Combo Cleaner for Mac users. | https://waystoprotectcomputer.com/2021/11/totally-delete-neeh-ransomware/ |
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The majority of consumers say that they would stop doing business with a company once it experienced a data breach, according to a new survey by digital security company Gemalto.
The company surveyed over 10,000 consumers in 11 countries who currently use online or mobile banking, social media or online retail accounts.
70% reported that they would end their relationship with a business if it experienced a serious data breach. 69% do not think that businesses are taking the task of securing customer data seriously enough.
But the problem is not only with the companies. Gemalto found that often consumers are not taking adequate steps to secure themselves. 56% use the same passwords for multiple accounts, and 41% do not take advantage of two-factor authentication services offered by companies.
A central problem lying at the heart of the issue is confusion over which party is responsible for securing data. 62% of consumers believe that it is the companies responsibility, which means that businesses are be required to take additional steps to protect consumers.
Retail brands were the most at risk of losing consumers following a data breach, with 61% saying they would no longer do business with. This was followed by banks (59%) and social media site (58%). 93% said that they would consider pursuing legal action against the company that suffered the breach.
“Consumers are evidently happy to relinquish the responsibility of protecting their data to a business, but are expecting it to be kept secure without any effort on their part,” says Jason Hart, CTO, Identity and Data Protection at Gemalto.
“In the face of upcoming data regulations such as GDPR, it’s now up to businesses to ensure they are forcing security protocols on their customers to keep data secure. It’s no longer enough to offer these solutions as an option. These protocols must be mandatory from the start – otherwise businesses will face not only financial consequences, but also potentially legal action from consumers.”
Action needed on both sides
The survey results also show that consumers have clear trust issues with certain industries compared to others.
While 58% believe that social media sites are one of the biggest risks to their personal data, only 20% thought the same about travel sites despite the fact the amount of data held is likely to be similar.
33% thought that banks were the most trustworthy businesses when it comes to securing data, despite the fact that these organisations are the most frequently targeted by, and the most common victims of, data breaches.
“It’s astonishing that consumers are now putting their own data at risk, by failing to use these measures, despite growing concerns around their security,” Hart continues.
“It’s resulting in an alarming amount of breaches – 80% – being caused by weak or previously stolen credentials. Something has to change soon on both the business and consumer sides or this is only going to get worse.” | https://tlkfusion.com/majority-consumers-say-stop-business-companies-following-data-breach/ |
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Own and evolve the PCI compliance program. Responsible for maintaining PCI compliance and any compliance remediation. Conduct quarterly PCI reviews and yearly audits.
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Cyberthreats are constantly evolving in order to take advantage of online behaviour and trends. The COVID-19 outbreak is no exception.
Cyber criminals are exploiting the current pandemic for commercial gain by targeting individuals and organisations with COVID-19 related scams and phishing emails. We've already seen hackers attacking the World Health Organization, cyber criminals hitting a COVID-19 vaccine testing facility with ransomware, healthcare workers being targeted with Windows malware using coronavirus information as the lure and hackers targeting Zoom domains.
Phishing attempts were cited as the leading threats by 55% of respondents, followed by malicious Web sites claiming to offer information or advice about the pandemic (32%). This newsletter provides you with an overview of phishing related malicious activity.
Cyber criminals rely on basic social engineering methods. By taking advantage of human traits such as curiosity and concern around the coronavirus pandemic, they can persuade potential victims to click on a link, download an application or open an attachment that’s been compromised.
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These emails will encourage the victim to click on a link that cyber criminals use for stealing valuable data, such as usernames and passwords, credit card. information and other personal information.
In some cases, criminals craft an email that persuades the victim to open an attachment or download a file or an application. When the victim open the attachment the malware is executed, compromising the victim’s device.
You should remain alert to increased cyber threats relating to COVID-19 and take proactive steps to protect yourself and your organisation. | https://www.lawtrust.co.za/news/2020/05/01/cyber-security-newsletter---1-may-2020 |
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If recognising the problem is half the battle…then CEOs are ready for the cyber security challenge
If you agree with that old expression that recognising the problem is half the battle, then members of the cyber security profession have cause for optimism, at least based on the findings of KPMG's 2018 Global CEO Outlook.
That's because our annual survey of the world's leading CEOs revealed a higher - and perhaps more realistic - level of concern about the threat of a cyber attack compared to last year. But before we celebrate this breakthrough attitudinal-shift among senior executives, remember that the bigger battle, and harder work, lies ahead.
What did CEOs say?
It's clear that there is a rising sense of `cyber certainty' among the CEOs, as they recognise that the likelihood of their organisation becoming a victim of a cyber attack is a case of `when,' and not `if'. Almost half of the executives held this view and they now rate cyber security threats as the second highest risk to their firm's future growth, up from fifth place in our 2017 survey.
In addition, more than half of the CEOs stated that a strong cyber strategy is critical to engendering trust with their key stakeholders. And they feel a sense of urgency, since only 51 percent of survey respondents said they are well-prepared for a cyber attack.
How has cyber security made its way onto the radar of so many CEOs? It's partly due to the number of high profile cyber incidents in the past year, which have turned cyber into a universal threat across industries, from shipping to manufacturing, and beyond the traditionally-viewed higher risk sectors such as banking or technology.
I know that within my home geography, the Asia Pacific region, many of our clients are now making cyber a mandatory topic at the board level. These top leaders are approaching us with urgent requests, such as “What is our cyber exposure? Can you help us quantify the value at risk?” and “Can we develop plans for the unknowns? How do we deal with the exposures we do not know?”. They are also showing increased interest in operational resiliency and means to ensure continuity of business during and after major cyber events.
Turning awareness into readiness
There are a number of steps that CEOs need to take to convert this `cyber concern' into `cyber confidence'.
First, CEOs need to ensure their entire senior management team understands that cyber must be a strategic-level priority. The reality is that an organisation that implements one-dimensional, tech-focused solutions concentrated on protection alone will miss the big picture and may put the organisation at greater risk. Cyber security can't just be a technology problem, but rather it must be a holistic one, by which cyber security considerations are imbedded at the earliest levels of product and service design, so that safety measures and risk assessments are baked into company strategies from the start, rather than letting cyber fears stunt company innovation and digital goals down the road.
Second, CEOs must translate their words into actions by playing an active part in cyber security discussions. That means interacting directly with the executives responsible for cyber including their Chief Information Security Officers, to help understand the key issues impacting the business, champion their work and help deliver their mandates across the business environment not specifically within the technology space. I was so encouraged to hear that 59 percent of our respondents see protecting customer data as a critical personal responsibility. That high level of personal accountability will likely translate into greater engagement by CEOs in the cyber measures developed and managed by their IT teams.
As CEOs take increased personal responsibility for cyber issues, they are acknowledging that there is no alternative. Having recognised the problem exists, it's time to start the real work of fortifying their organisation against cyber threats that are no longer a matter of `if' but `when?' | https://home.kpmg/im/en/home/insights/2018/06/if-recognizing-the-problem-is-half-the-battle-then-ceos-are-ready-for-the-cyber-security-challenge.html |
CVS and Costco are warning customers that an online photo service data breach may have occurred.
The online photo service for both companies was shut down pending an investigation.
CVS, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain says the site is being switched off as a precaution and that it has also sealed off related mobile device apps.
Payment information on the site is collected by an outside vendor, CVS Health Corp. says, and it's kept separate from its main CVS.com website and the computer system used in its pharmacies. Payments made through CVS.com and in CVS stores are not affected.
The online photo service sites for CVS, Costco and Walmart Canada are operated by PNI Digital Media, which suffered a hacking incident in 2014.
The companies wouldn't say how many customers could potentially be affected, but urged customers to check for any unusual activity on credit card accounts. | https://www.ajc.com/business/cvs-costco-warn-possible-data-breach-with-online-photo-service/IruL8IuMF5K9625bNQK9UK/ |
Vishing (brief for “voice phishing”) increased greater than 500% throughout the in 2015, according to a research by TechRepublic. As a matter of fact, in March 2022 circumstances of vishing rose to the highest degree ever before recorded, turning into one of one of the most usual sorts of cybercrime.
Vishing is a form of social engineering, a course of fraud that tricks individuals right into sharing delicate details. In a common strike, cybercrooks posing as legit companies send out emails regarding major problems, provide a get in touch with number as well as demand an immediate callback to deal with the issue.
When an e-mail recipient recall, an imposter responses as well as insurance claims to need qualifications to deal with the issue. As soon as inside your network perimeter, criminals swipe useful data or inject harmful code, such as ransomware.
Below’s one common vishing situation: Staff members receive urgent emails cautioning that their PCs might be endangered. When they call the emergency line provided, somebody claiming to represent your IT support group inquires to validate their individual IDs as well as passwords so the attack can be obstructed.
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Other systems involve straight theft. Just recently a regional company informed one of our offices to a monetary vishing attempt. In this instance, the phony service associate on the phone requested instant repayment using PayPal before making emergency IT services.
As is finest technique, this attempted incursion was instantly reported to the FBI’s Web Crime Grievance Facility at www.ic3.gov. If any person in your company encounters similar dubious task, you need to do the same.
In the meantime, education, learning and also persistence are the best defenses versus vishing and other cyber-cons.
Train workers on a regular basis just how to identify and report vishing and various other phishing methods. Assistance these initiatives by shielding your network with the latest anti-spam and also anti-virus remedies. Plus, carry out a strenuous monitoring program.
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Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has announced details of its new Secure Access Architecture. This new framework would expand Fortinet‘s Internal Segmentation cybersecurity strategy, enabling organizations to seamlessly segment devices and the access layers across wired and wireless networks.
There’s an alarming gap between the expanding access layer and adequate cybersecurity protections, according to independent research commissioned by Fortinet. The company’s Secure Access Architecture now provides a broad platform of integrated, high-performance cybersecurity solutions that span from the client to the cloud and everything in between.
Gartner predicts that there will be 33 billion connected endpoints by the year 2020 with a majority comprised of new “headless” device types driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). The proliferation of devices and applications is posing serious challenges for organizations that need to ensure the protection of their entire network and guard against advanced cybersecurity threats.
Fortinet’s Secure Access Architecture is engineered to deliver integrated protection against data breaches and cybersecurity threats at the access layer, while unifying network operations and administration. This would ease the management burden on IT and arm administrators with advanced tools for deep analytics and reporting, while providing them with a flexible and broad set of access deployment offerings:
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Cloud – Controller-less, cloud managed wireless Access Points with integrated Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) capabilities would be the ultimate deployment offering for organizations who want integrated security and access managed entirely in the cloud.
The Secure Access Architecture is a key component within Fortinet’s Internal Segmentation strategy, “securely” isolating the access layers from mission-critical infrastructure and high-value data. Foundational to Fortinet’s Internal Segmentation is a new generation of “innovative” firewalls – firewall technology that can keep up with the multi-gigabit speeds of internal networks.
The Secure Access Architecture also encompasses a breadth of advanced solutions within Fortinet’s broad end-to-end cybersecurity platform including endpoint management, wireless access points, switches, wireless LAN management, application control, advanced unified management and many more. These solutions are all backed by FortiGuard Labs’ threat intelligence research and advanced cybersecurity services.
“We’ve made access infrastructure security a priority and have architected a solution that integrates scalable, flexible, high-performance access networks with state-of-the-art cybersecurity technologies,” said Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Fortinet. “Leveraging Fortinet‘s Secure Access Architecture, our customers can enjoy the very best access layer security in the market.” | https://hostingjournalist.com/fortinet-elevates-its-cybersecurity-architecture-to-the-access-layer/ |
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It is estimated that 200 million children under five globally have poor cognitive development, a lack of health and nutrition and inadequate stimulation and care. Poor developmental outcomes for children under five can last a lifetime and even extend through an intergenerational cycle of poverty and marginalization. In an attempt to combat this the program called ‘Kizazi Kijacho’ (‘Next generation’ in Swahili) will use novel longitudinal and experimental data to provide actionable evidence for policy makers, donors and practitioners about the design of cost-effective, scalable, sustainable and integrated ECD parenting programs, from the prenatal period until the child’s 3rd year of life – the “first 1000 days”.
As part of this program, a project funded by the Swedish Research Council recently started its activities through a workshop. The project will build the core infrastructure for the Kizazi Kijacho program and aims to make major scientific and policy contributions to the ECD sector, globally and nationally in Tanzania.
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“My device is too old to be hacked”: While it is true that older devices may be less vulnerable to certain types of attacks, any device can be hacked if it is not properly secured. It is important to take steps to protect all devices, regardless of their age, by installing security software and keeping the operating system and apps up to date.
“I don't have anything worth stealing, so I don't need to worry about cybersecurity”: While it is true that not everyone has valuable financial or personal information on their device, hackers may still be interested in accessing other types of information, such as login credentials or personal data that could be used for identity theft. It is important to take steps to protect all devices and sensitive information, even if you do not think you have anything particularly valuable stored on your device.
“Antivirus software is all I need to protect my device”: While antivirus software can provide some protection against certain types of threats, it is not a comprehensive solution. It is important to use a variety of security measures, including firewalls, strong, unique passwords, and caution when downloading apps and clicking on links, to fully protect your device.
“I can't do anything to protect my device, so there's no point in trying”: While it is true that no device is completely invulnerable to cyber threats, there are many steps that individuals can take to protect their devices and sensitive information. It is important to take an active role in securing your device and staying aware of potential threats.
When people think of cybersecurity, they think of protecting their computers and laptops. However, mobile devices are often overlooked due to their size and portability. This can create a false sense of security.
With a wide variety of mobile devices now being used in the workplace, it is more important than ever to understand the security threats that exist and how to mitigate them. Here, we will explore the various mobile security threats, how they can be used as a point of attack, and what steps organizations and individuals can take to prevent them.
What are mobile security threats?
Mobile security threats refer to any potential risk or vulnerability that can compromise the security and privacy of a smartphone.
Suppose you receive a suspicious text message claiming to be from your bank, asking you to click on a link to verify your account information. You click on the link, which takes you to a fake website that looks like the bank's login page. You enter your login credentials, assuming you are logging into your bank account. However, the website is actually run by a hacker, who now has access to your login information and can potentially access your bank account. Now, the hacker can use the stolen login information to transfer money out of your account without your knowledge and permission.
Top Mobile Security Threats 2022
Data Leakage: Data leakage, also known as data exfiltration, refers to the unauthorized transfer of sensitive data from a device or network. This can occur through various means, such as email attachments, cloud storage, or even through the physical transfer of data on removable media due to weak security protocols, such as encryption, firewalls, and password protection. It has serious consequences, including financial loss, damage to reputation, and loss of customer trust.
Unsecured Wi-Fi: Attackers sometimes set up a fake(unsecured) wireless network and trick you into connecting to it. Once you connect to the fake network (Wi-Fi hotspots), the attacker can then intercept your internet traffic and access any sensitive information you transmit over the network, such as login credentials or financial information.
Malware: Malware is malicious software that is designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the user's knowledge. It can take many forms, including viruses, worms, and trojans, and can be delivered through a variety of methods, including email attachments, downloads, and even social media links which they claim to be from a legitimate source. Once installed on a mobile device, malware can give hackers access to sensitive information, such as login credentials and financial data. It can also be used to track a user's online activity, send spam, or even take control of the device.
Phishing Attacks: Phishing attacks are a common mobile security threat that involves sending fake emails or text messages that appear to be from a legitimate source, such as a bank or government agency, in an attempt to trick the user into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks are often sophisticated and can be difficult to detect, as they are designed to mimic the appearance and language of legitimate communications.
Spyware: Spyware is a type of malware that is designed to monitor and track a device's activities and steal sensitive data. It can be installed on a device without the user's knowledge and is often used for tracking location, intercepting text messages and emails, and accessing login credentials and other personal information. Once installed, spyware can be difficult to detect and remove as it may not show any visible signs of being present on the device. It can also be programmed to disable security software and hide from view, making it even harder to detect.
Broken Cryptography: If the cryptographic algorithms or protocols being used are flawed or outdated, they can potentially be exploited by hackers to gain access to protected data. This can occur through a variety of methods, including exploiting known vulnerabilities, using weak or easily guessable keys, or using cryptographic protocols that have been deprecated or are no longer considered secure.
Improper Session Handling: Improper session handling is a security vulnerability that occurs when an application or website does not properly manage the sessions of its users. This can allow attackers to access sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions.
Session hijacking: This involves an attacker intercepting a user's session and taking control of it. This can allow the attacker to access sensitive information or perform actions on the user's behalf.
Session fixation: This involves an attacker setting up a session with a user's device and then tricking the user into accessing it. The attacker can then access the user's session and perform unauthorized actions.
Session prediction: This involves an attacker predicting the session ID of a user and using it to access the user's session.
Rising Mobile Secure Threats 2023?
SMiShing: SMiShing (short message service phishing) is a type of cyberattack that involves sending fraudulent text messages to mobile devices in an attempt to trick the recipient into divulging sensitive information or installing malware. These messages often appear to be from legitimate sources, such as banks or government agencies and may contain links that lead to fake websites or download malicious software. SMiShing attacks can be particularly effective because they can bypass email spam filters and are often opened and acted upon quickly. The attacker may also use the victim's personal information to make the message seem more legitimate.
BYOD: The “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend, in which employees use their personal devices for work purposes, can present significant mobile security risks. When employees use their own devices for work, it becomes more difficult for businesses to ensure that these devices are secure and compliant with corporate security policies.
The Proliferation of IoT devices: IoT devices, such as smart thermostats, security cameras, and smart appliances, has introduced a new set of security risks for mobile devices as they often have weak security protocols. One common way that hackers can exploit IoT devices is through “botnets”, which are networks of compromised devices that can be controlled remotely. Hackers can use these botnets to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which overwhelm a website or network with traffic and make it unavailable to users.
The Growing use of Mobile Payment Systems: Mobile payment systems often rely on the use of near-field communication (NFC) technology, which allows devices to communicate with each other when they are in close proximity. This technology can be vulnerable to “skimming” attacks, in which an attacker installs a device on a payment terminal that is able to intercept and steal data from NFC transactions.
Install security software: Install antivirus and firewall software on your mobile device to protect against malware and other cyber threats.
Keep your device and apps up to date: Make sure to keep your device's operating system and apps up to date with the latest security patches.
Be cautious when downloading apps and clicking on links: Only download apps from trusted sources, and be careful when clicking on links, especially in emails or on social media.
Use strong, unique passwords: Use strong, unique passwords for all of your accounts and avoid using the same password for multiple accounts.
Avoid using public Wi-Fi networks: Public Wi-Fi networks can be unsecured and may allow hackers to intercept your data. Avoid using public Wi-Fi whenever possible.
Use a virtual private network (VPN): Consider using a VPN to encrypt your data when using a public Wi-Fi network.
Enable two-factor authentication: Enable two-factor authentication on your accounts to add an extra layer of security. | https://gtn.com.np/2023/01/mobile-devices-as-point-of-attack-cybersecurity-wake-up-call/ |
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Repeated breaches of data protection laws by government departments raise huge question marks over plans for the national identity register required for ID cards and biometric passport, an influential parliamentary human rights watchdog has warned.
MPs and peers on the Lords and Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights said repeated losses of personal information by departments had increased their concern, and announced they ” intend to take a close interest in the government’s detailed proposals for the national identity register as and when they emerge.”
In a hard-hitting report the committee insisted the privacy of personal data is guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the Data Protection Act. The report demands that detailed rules must in future be written in to all relevant primary legislation to “help ensure that data protection becomes a primary concern of managers and frontline staff in the public sector.”
The committee listed 18 previous occasions where it had expressed concern at the lack of data protection provisions in government bills, including one creating the unified HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department – responsible for the 25 million child benefit records data loss last year – where it had flagged up the ” inadequacy of safeguards relating to HMRC information sharing powers”.
The committee questioned the role of justice minister Michael Wills, responsible for data protection and human rights issues – who said he was not personally responsible for ensuring other departments obey the law – insisting he must be more proactive.
The MPs were also surprised to discover government departments have senior officials designated as “human rights champions” about whom it had never heard.
Committee chairman Andrew Dismore said people had been shocked at the loss of child benefit data and demanded individual information should be treated “as sensitively and carefully as hard cash”.
“The government must demonstrate that it appreciates the seriousness of what needs to be done,” he said.
“The fundamental problem is a cultural one. There has been a rapid increase in the amount of data sharing in the public sector, which can be useful, important and necessary, but this has not been matched by the even more necessary strong commitment to safeguard the right to respect for privacy.” | https://rinf.com/alt-news/human-rights/mps-raise-fears-over-data-protection-for-id-register/ |
Researchers analysing the impact of domain typo-squatting on Fortune 500 companies found that 151 lost sensitive information by senders using mis-spelt email addresses.
The researchers from security firm, Godai Group, claimed to have collected 120,000 emails or 20 gigabytes of data over six months from the companies they profiled.
The exercise employed so-called ldquo;Doppelganger Domainsrdquo; that exploit the common practice by large companies of using subdomains to identify regional offices.
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Over the period it netted the researchers emails regarding trade secrets, invoices, employee information, network diagrams, usernames and passwords, according to Godai Group.
quot;Attackers are already taking advantage of this vulnerability and they can be harvesting sensitive information from your company already,quot; Garrett Gee, founder of Godai Group, said in a statement.
Unlike earlier typo-squatting that relied on a misspelling a domain, such as Youtube.com to Yotube.com, the Doppelganger contained identical spelling to the real domain but omitted the dot between the host/subdomain and the domain. For example, instead of using us.company.com, the fake domain would be uscompany.com.
The researchers discovered that Doppelganger domains had already been registered in China for some of the largest companies, including Cisco (ksciso.com), Dell (chndell.com), HP (chehp.com), IBM (caibm.com, seibm,com) and Intel (ausintel.com).
[ Prepare to become a Certified Information Security Systems Professional with this comprehensive online course from PluralSight. Now offering a 10-day free trial! ] ldquo;While it is unknown if these domains are used in a malicious fashion, it is apparent that some targeting is happening here. If in six months we were able to collect 20 gigabytes of data, imagine what a malicious attacker could gain,rdquo; they said.
The missing dot domains were useful for passive attacks, where an attacker established an email server to catch every message containing the mis-spelled domain, or active socially engineered attacks against specific individuals.
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Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was actually no hack at all.
In an interview with CSO Online’s Robert Lemos, Hoglund explains that Anonymous, the hacker-collective of online mischief makers that exposed the trove of HBGary emails, never entered the company’s network, and in fact may not have even been aware of its existence until long after the fact. Instead, Anonymous members used a stolen password to gain access to the companies email spool.
The email spool was hosted in Google’s cloud service. Hoglund reportedly spent the better part of Super Bowl Sunday trying to shut-down the HBGary site but only ended up getting the run-around from a Google service call center in India. As his company was in the process of getting “owned,” so to speak, Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected Hoglund to jump in order to validate his identity. By the time he proved himself and was able to get technical support on the phone, the damage had already been done.
Hoglund warns CISOs considering cloud storage to make sure that they establish a contractual emergency service agreement with their provider and suggests setting up a local email retention policy so that a company’s entire email archive is not stored in one accessible location out in the cloud. He also recommends the use of two-factor log-in authentication, a relatively cheap service that Hoglund believes could have prevented the HBGary blunder altogether. And finally, Hoglund advises for the configuration of IP restrictions, so that there is only one administrator account that can only be accessed from one location.
As for Anonymous, Hoglund claims that leading up to the attack, they weren’t even on his radar. He admits to not taking them seriously, and viewing the collective as “a bunch of kids who DDoS sites offline,” something most people see as little more than a virtual sit-in. Besides, he says, his company was focused primarily on securing their customers from advanced persistent threats (APTs) from China.
“That has been the bulk of our research for quite a while because most of our customers have suffered attacks from, what appears to be, state sponsored Chinese intelligence,” Hoglund tells CSO Online. “It’s espionage stuff, so we were heads down on that.”
In the wake of the attack, Hoglund has focused his attention more intently on anonymous, and learned that they aren’t really what they claim to be.
“There aren’t very many, first of all,” he says. “There are not thousands, they are not a legion,” which they claim to be. Hoglund contends these are intimidation tactics, the fruits of a pseudo-journalist fueled, media manipulating propaganda machine that Anonymous uses to instill fear in their opponents.
He goes on to tell Robert Lemos, that through his research he has learned that Anonymous essentially consists of a dozen or so of what he describes as “criminal hackers” engaged in a wide range of activities, including what Hoglund claims is the theft and publication of private company data.
“There have been cases where death threats have been left,” says Hoglund. “It’s just ridiculous, and it’s completely unacceptable. I had no idea about any of this before I was attacked.”
Hoglund says that the most relevant threat right now is malicious insiders with access to a worldwide audience. In that light, Anonymous and its nascent Anonleaks site is just one example of a larger trend that includes Wikileaks, and Crowdleaks, among others. All these groups are recruiting and monetizing insiders, he says.
He draws a line between Wikileaks, which he describes as an entity that at least functions similarly to journalism, keeping their sources anonymous, and the others, who engage in acts of cyber-thuggery by criminally hacking into computers and stealing data.
“Let’s be clear here,” he says, “Anonymous is not protecting Wikileaks. Anonymous is a group that hacks criminally into systems, and we are talking about probably over five corporations that I know of right now in the United States that are being actively targeted by them. When they get access, they are going to steal the data off those systems, e-mail, files off the file system, they are going to do everything they can, and then they are going to leak it and manipulate it and create stories about it. Basically, that is their platform.”
Hoglund’s recommendations and insights are especially timely in light of the recent high profile and sophisticated attack which targeted well-respected security company RSA and resulted in the theft of secrets related to its SecurID two-factor authentication product.
Even after directing all his resources to studying Anonymous, Greg still doesn't have a clue.
There are thousands and thousands of anons. Only a small percentage of them is needed (and skilled enough) to hack into HBGary and expose their plans to criminally and unethically destroy Wikileaks - a topic conveniently left out of this conversation.
But that was really just one tiny action of a much larger movement.
Anyhow, Greg, publish your research. Let us see what your claims are based upon. It will become apparant soon enough that your services aren't worth paying for.
Anonymous on March 23, 2011
Hoglund is straight up lying about the hack not getting in to his servers. There was evidence that they used their access through rootkit.org to get access to the ticketing software they use for support. Thats the server they escalated privileges on.
Also, shifting the blame to Google is shameful. Instead of shifting the blame maybe they should own up and admit they weren't prepared for a sophisticated attack
But there's more -- in the super fast world we live in today proof of identity at snail mail pace prevents preventions from taking place.
I hope WWIII actions will not be put on hold by some call centre sargent preventing Generals from talking. While millions of rockets are fired!
Greg Hoglund has been lying since the beginning of the entire affair, with a view to deflecting criticism from both himself and his wife who together ran HBGary, Inc.
Their first bald-faced lie was uttered in an attempt was to try to distance HBGary from HBGary Federal, by stating that HBGary only owned a 15% stake in HBGary Federal, and that HBGary Federal was under separate management.
When Aaron Barr and Ted Vera joined HBGary, HBGary Federal was described by Hoglund in an email to all staff as a wholly- owned subsidiary of HBGary. Also, HBGary Federal's incorporation documents were signed by Penny Leavy-Hoglund. Furthermore, those same incorporation documents show that Penny Leavy-Hoglund herself accounted for almost one-half (48%) of the initial start-up capital. That, plus HBGary's 15% stake gave the Hoglunds an almost two- thirds majority ownership (63%) in the company.
Greg's next bald-faced lie was to imply that Anonymous had falsified some of the emails taken. Unfortunately for him, many of Aaron Barr's emails (including some of the most damning ones) had valid S/MIME digital signatures made with an Individual Class 1 Signing Certificate purchased from VeriSign by Mr. Barr in April 2010. (Some of the other parties involved also used digital certificates as well, also certifying their emails as genuine.)
Greg now would have us believe that Anonymous didn't really hack into his systems; instead, he asserts they only used social engineering and relatively simple exploits. If anything, that's even worse than claiming that they used something new and unforeseeable. He continues to lie in a frantic (not to mention pathetic) attempt to deflect attention and/or blame from his company's appallingly shoddy security practices.
Frankly, Mr. Hoglund's assertions that Anonymous never made it into his network proper, doesn't pass the smell test. Hoglund has ZERO credibility. Hoglund and his wife lied to the press about the ownership/governance of HBGary Federal; he further lied in insinuating that the emails taken were falsified.
Only an idiot lies when the documentation exists (and furthermore can be produced) that shows that you are lying. So, having been caught lying to the press -- TWICE -- why should anyone take anything Hoglund and/or his wife says at face value?
His company's reputation (if not continued survival) depends on having people believe that his networks were not penetrated, so he's going to do everything he can to try to hammer that point home. The problem is, having provably entered-into a pattern of lying, Hoglund's credibility is in the toilet.
Finally, whether the attack was sophisticated or not is immaterial -- what IS material, is THAT THE ATTACK WORKED.
Reading over the IRCchat they arranged with Anon suggests that they knew that everything in the emails was accurate and they were extremely worried what kind of damage it would cause to their company. Even then, both Hoglund and his wife were telling lies- lies that could and were easily proven untrue (in realtime by Anon using the emails). It apparently took them weeks of deliberation to come up with this spin on things and it is probably the best they can come up with but it is totally implausible.
As far as the charge that the emails were falsified? Most of the emails I saw were of the prosaic type and contained personal information that could have come from no other sources.
C on March 24, 2011
This seems like a bad PR stunt for HBGary. Yes, the email portion of everything didn't involve a hack, yet still look at the untold damage social engineering did on his companies. Hell, they are facing potential federal investigation as a result. I know he is trying to downplay Anonymous, but he also seems to be downplaying social engineering as a threat. Not to mention that rootkit.org was hacked, but he conveniently glosses over that detail.
And I reject them as being whitehat at this point. HBGary Federal was up to some pretty sleazy shit according to those emails that were leaked, something else Hoglund has been conveniently not addressing.
Whatever I guess, repeat something enough times and it becomes true in the public eye.
White - Black is difficult to view if the negative is quickly flashed with the positive. And after a while difficult to tell which is positive - negative! Take LSD!
Troy was lost with the trophy left by the "losers", the "winners" not realizing what was happening all 3000 years ago! The irony is that Cassandra the future seer was not listen too. #
It is this ambivalence that I love. | https://threatpost.com/hbgary-ceo-speaks-out-anonymous-hack-032311/75059/ |
How does ENS and AMSI integration determine good vs. bad scripts, it seems to detect that legitimate uses of powershell scripts is "bad" so it blocks it, without providing a way to put in exceptions (developers asked if we could whitelist based on code signing)
The idea of AMSI integration is great, because it helped detect an Invoke-Mimikatz that our penetration tester ran, however, the answer I'm getting from McAfee support is to "turn it off" by throwing it into observe mode.
@kpham90 The answer from Support should not be to disable the feature. It is possible they may have suggested observe mode as a temporary way to avoid the false positives in the interim, in the event they are getting out of hand and to prevent removal of your needed script, while you can still monitor for suspicious behavior and take action if necessary.
I second Daveb3d's suggestion; you should work with Support to submit the script to McAfee Labs as a false positive detection. This will allow you to get the answers as to why the script was triggering and to resolve the detection once confirmed as a false. Instructions for proceeding with the submission can be found in KB85567
"the answer I'm getting from McAfee support is to "turn it off" by throwing it into observe mode." > That's the PROBLEM we see with the IPS/EXPLOIT Filter. They are afraid of killing complete enterprise of they SUPPLY new rules Activated. So they supply them OFF or in MONITOR mode (Not even Monitor).
Well never understood that. They don't want the risk on their side BUT we have should monitor 24/7H if NEW IPS come in, test overnight deploy to all our customers (HOW?) and then at the end Zero Days anyway goes though?
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Australian poker machine manufacturer, Ainsworth Game Technology, is on a mission to “harmonise” global operations and become more in sync with its international counterparts.
That’s according to Ainsworth Game Technology, Americas, COO, Ryan Comstock, who told CIO Australia the vision is to “provide much needed consistency” and has deepened its technology relationship with Pronto Software in a bid to get the job done.
“Being an international brand, there was a need to harmonise our operations with the Australian parent head office, as well as achieve a more holistic software solution that included inventory management and manufacturing,” Comstock said. “We were also at the stage where we were looking to start producing gaming machines in the US and realised that we were outgrowing our previous ERP software solution.”
The news comes as the company recently slashed its forecast pre-tax profit for the June half by more than 50 per cent, blaming competition and regulatory issues.
Ryan Comstock
Established in 1995, Ainsworth is a global manufacturer and supplier of gaming solutions. It’s now the fifth-largest gaming manufacturer in the United States, and outside of Australia, the company employs 240 staff in multiple US and Latin America offices including Florida, Las Vegas, Mexico and Colombia.
With a fully integrated operation, Ainsworth manages its entire product development cycle, from conception through to installation, service and support.
International ties
Pronto Software began working with Ainsworth in 2000 to deploy its ERP and BI software to help the company gain greater efficiencies and seamlessly integrate its Australian operations.
“Pronto Software has been supporting our Australian operations since March 2000, and the US business implemented the solution in 2012,” Comstock said. “We started with Pronto Xi 670 and upgraded to Xi 710, which unlocked more reporting capabilities. Our move to Pronto Xi 730 delivered even more reporting insights as well as real time Business Intelligence (BI) which improved the decision-making ability of our management team.”
Comstock said the company has recently been working with Pronto Software to deploy a tailored, hybrid solution that could operate both on cloud and on-premise.
“Ainsworth’s Australian operations are fully cloud hosted for ease of maintenance, uptime and the seamless reliability that comes from operating in the cloud. In contrast, our US operation maintains its version of Pronto Xi on-premise.
“Pronto Xi’s unique hybrid model allows for the different solutions to sync up each night, automating operations and reporting.”
He said transitioning to Pronto Xi was an “obvious choice” as it was being used by its Australian parent company, allowing the US operations to operate on the same platform as Australia.
“We also required a seamless transition to a system that allowed Ainsworth US to be globally aligned and in sync to provide much needed consistency. “We also made the decision to deploy Pronto Xi because of its user-friendliness, scalability and reliability. This means that our two business teams can stay aligned from a product and regulatory requirement perspective. The build materials, purchasing, as well as accounts payable and receivable are all connected across the company’s global operations.”
Comstock said it’s been an interesting journey and one that he was heavily involved in the decision-making process, from start to finish.
“I was initially brought on board to evaluate whether Pronto Xi was the best solution for us. After attending the training session in Australia, we were pleased with how well Pronto Software could deliver a highly tailored solution that could handle all aspects of our business’ unique operations in the US, and in particular, the rental of gaming machines.” Asked the main benefits of the technology thus far, Comstock said it has helped on the regulatory front and in delivering deeper insights and reporting capabilities. “Due to the nature of the gaming machine business, Ainsworth is subject to heavy regulatory requirements, which in the US varies across more than 200 jurisdictions. We, therefore, face complexities with our products that require various regulatory approvals. Each piece of hardware and software has to be specifically evaluated and approved for each jurisdiction. “In order to maintain regulatory compliance, we have a dedicated Technical Compliance group that maintains data in Pronto Xi meant to prevent orders being processed for unapproved products in any particular jurisdiction. That ability to also have an in-house-developed CRM software for this regulatory compliance that seamlessly interfaces with Pronto Xi was key for our operations.” Additionally, he said Pronto Xi has also helped the company unlock a plethora of business intelligence and reporting capabilities that has greatly impacted decision making, giving the company a granular overview of each of its machines. “By understanding the performance of each machine, under-performing machines can then be upgraded. BI also provides clarity and insight in terms of evaluating the popularity of certain games in specific geo-locations, thus increasing overall revenue. “Pronto’s manufacturing module has also allowed us to lower inventory levels while maintaining machine supply to key customers. This gives us the capability to make accurate ordering decisions at the right time, rather than carrying excess inventory to cover peak business needs. Pronto Xi is also synced with the in-house app so that sales staff can order compliant products. This has resulted in an increase in productivity and compliance.”
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Comstock said the company is already seeing promising results since implementing Pronto Software’s solution.
“We have been able to gain much better control of our inventory and improve management of our ordering cycle and lead times. We’ve actually been able to maintain lower inventories because we have precise enough information to make ordering decisions at the right time.”
He said next steps include evaluating the mobile aspects of Pronto Xi, with a view to further enhance integration in the future.
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The exact number of records accessed in this information security breach is unknown, but it is thought to be somewhere in the region of 60 and 250 million.
Records accessed included the email addresses of around 60 million companies, which included big names such as Best Buy, Capital One, and Verizon.
How it happened?
The Epsilon security breach was set into motion when an employee working for the company received a phishing email. Unfortunately for all involved, that employee clicked on a dodgy link, which cybercriminals then used to access the employee’s credentials.
Once they had these credentials, they were able to gain access to the company’s databases, which they used to obtain not only email addresses, but the names and addresses of many of Epsilon’s clients. | https://blog.acumin.co.uk/the-8-largest-information-security-breaches-epsilon-2011/ |
Sprint's new $69.99 unlimited "mobile-to-mobile" wireless plan could start a wave of price cutting if AT&T and Verizon feel the need to respond. The plan, being announced today, knocks roughly a third off Sprint's current pricing.
Called "Any Mobile, Anytime" the unlimited service will include voice, data, text, e-mail, GPS navigation, and sending videos and images from one mobile phone to another. Perhaps, Sprint should have called its plan "The Works."
Couple this pricing with a $99 Palm Pre handset and potential customers may find it easier to choose the Sprint/Palm combo over AT&T and Apple's more expensive alternative.
If that happens, it might prompt a pricing response from AT&T. And if that happens, Verizon might be likely to follow suit. Expect weeks to months of "wait and see" from both competitors, however. Competition is heating up as carriers battle for revenue.
Sprint said customers on its Everything Data and Everything Data Family plans will automatically be migrated to the lower-cost mobile plan on the first day of their next billing cycle. The new plan replaces the former "Simply Everything" plan, priced at $99.99-a-month. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/171738/Sprint_Launches_70_Unlimited_Mobile_Calling_Plan.html |
Cyber-thieves are using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in order to distract banks from spotting and reversing fraudulent wire transfers initiated on behalf of their customers.
The FBI has recently issued an alert about fake emails that purport to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) and distribute a variant of the Zeus banking trojan.
According to the bureau, after infecting computers with this notorious piece of malware, the fraudsters steal online banking credentials and launch DDoS attacks against the financial institutions used by the victims.
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The attacks serve as a diversion, said Neal Quinn, vice president of operations at DDoS mitigation provider Prolexic, in a phone interview. Cyber-thieves believe that this will distract the bank's personnel and prevent them from spotting the fraudulent activity, he explained.
DDoS attacks against financial institutions are not new and Prolexic has observed them for a long time, said Quinn. In the past such attacks were launched by phishers to add credibility to their claims that banks are having technical difficulties.
Similar attacks can also be directed at the fraud victims in order to prevent them from accessing their online banking accounts and spotting the fraud too quickly. This gives fraudsters enough time to transfer the stolen funds to accomplices before the banks are notified and reverse the transactions.
Prolexic wasn't able to confirm incidents where the attackers had this particular motive, but Quinn agreed that it's a plausible scenario. Online banking systems can be attacked for a similar reason -- to prevent victims from accessing them and noticing the unauthorized transfers.
Another interesting aspect of the fraud operation reported by the FBI is the method used by attackers to obtain the stolen money. This involved placing orders at jewelry stores in advance and picking up the expensive items when the funds got transferred into their accounts.
Traditionally, fraudsters employed individuals known as money mules to set up bank accounts and receive the stolen money. In many cases the money mules were not even aware that they're part of an illegal operation and believed that they're working as local managers for foreign companies.
However, since banks have strengthened their security and the general public has been alerted about fake job offers posted online by fraudsters, cyber-thieves have had to come up with new ways of receiving the stolen funds. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/245502/cyberthieves_using_ddos_to_distract_banks_and_victims_from_spotting_fraud.html |
As the depths of the global cyber-attack become clearer, Israeli cyber experts explained on Tuesday that thanks to the widespread awareness and preparations in Israel, only a few companies were affected by the virus. However, officials from the Eset IT security firm warned that the world will continue to witness more and more ransomware cyber-attacks and recommended that companies review their protocols, update their operating systems and remind their employees not to open emails from unknown senders.
As Tuesday progressed, more and more countries reported that they have fallen victim to the major cyber-attack. Ukraine stated that government agencies, large banks and even the airport in Kiev were struck by the attack.
According to Eset, Ukraine was certainly the country that was affected the most by the cyber-attack, followed by Italy, Israel, Serbia and Hungary. Additional countries that were hit include America, Britain, Argentina, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia and Vietnam.
Despite Israel’s surprising ranking, cyber experts in Israel are not worried. “In our labs, we have been working on an analysis of the same ransomware from the morning already,” explained Ido Naor, an analyst at Kaspersky Lab. “We’ve seen thousands of attempts to infect but only a very limited number of companies were harmed.”
Naor explained that Kaspersky Lab is tracking the Bitcoin account to which the ransom payments are to be sent. “At the moment, it appears that only a few payments have been made,” he stated. “We are seeing a much greater sense of preparation on the Israeli side compared to the other victims.”
Amir Karmi, the technology manager at ESET Israel, explained that the world has been witnessing more and more waves of ransomware attacks. “It appears that we will continue to see attacks that utilize tools that were leaked from the NSA,” he said. | https://www.jerusalemonline.com/cyber-experts-israeli-firms-are-prepared-for-cyber-attacks-29378/ |
In this post, our Windows Phone Development MVP, Vikram Pendse talks about a feature of calling a number from Calendar Appointment.
Windows Phone device gives you a lot of features and functionalities which you can leverage in your daily life. Let it be Camera, Music, Socials, Games, Emails etc. “Calendar” is one of the must have features on any phone. Enterprise and Business people just can’t live without it. Usually Lync Meetings/Other Meetings syncs up with Calendar. But there are lot of other scenarios in life which are more personal.
Let us take an example: Your family member is undergoing some Medical treatment and you need to collect Blood Report. You can very well set a reminder on your phone or some short/sticky notes. Now if you want to call the Lab and wish to know status of the report. Usually you go to People Hub or somewhere in the Notes or old SMS reference and try to get Numbers. How about I can attach a Telephone Number to the Appointment and more over how about I can place a call from there itself. Saves lot of Time and Navigation. But is it possible to do such things? On device yes! Manually you can do it on device. Programmatically? Or via some App? That is what I am going to talk about in the below article.
This article is about SaveAppointmentTask in Windows Phone 8 SDK. This is pretty handy and you can save appointments from your application. Basically it is a Launcher, Those who don’t know about Launchers & Choosers in Windows Phone, I recommend to read more here (MSDN Link) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769542%28v=vs.105%29.aspx
SaveAppointmentTask comes handy and we can customize various parameters and aspects programmatically via C#. First let us see how we can get SaveAppointmentTask.
SaveAppointmentTask is a sealed Class comes from Namespace Microsoft. Phone. Tasks. We can create new instance of SaveAppointmentTaks and will be then able to play with its various attributes. Let’s see the Home Screen first. There are 2 Buttons with a Result Textblock which shows the recently added Appointments once you click on Load Appointments, but in this article our focus will be on “Take Appointment”, so here we will be looking at adding a new Appointment.
Now let’s see the Code Snippet here which will Display up the Appointment Wizard from our application and we can either Edit or Delete it. Currently we have set the entire attributes from Code and we can just Save and let it go, here is the snippet:
saveAppt. Reminder = Reminder. FifteenMinutes; saveAppt. AppointmentStatus = Microsoft. Phone. UserData. AppointmentStatus. Busy;
Now Call will actually put a call to given Number and you now don’t need to go anywhere to hunt the Phone Number since its now part of your appointment itself. Saves lot of time especially in case of important appointments or business activities. So on call it will look like following
SaveAppointmentTask gives you the default window where like other Appointments, you can always edit the things you want in the Appointment and save or delete the same. So we saw a unique combo of SaveAppointmentTask and URI. We can take it to next level by adding other complex operations like Maps, Mails, URLs, etc. All you need to do is set the “Location” property or “Details” property of SaveAppointmentTask Class.
“Location” property is String Property and instead of just giving Phone Number or Location as pure text, we can play with things like URLs, Email Address like shown below saveAppt. Location = "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=18.58073000,73.73740000"; saveAppt. Location = "view-source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme"; saveAppt. Location = "tel:+919922210345"; saveAppt. Location = "mailto:[email protected]";
Maps URL string will redirect to the default Internet Explorer Browser and it will open the given location in the string.
View Source will show the URL given in the string inside a default Internet Explorer Browser.
For “tel:” it will open a window for confirmation asking Edit this Number and give with Call and Cancel Button, On clicking on Call it will place a call to selected Number.
We can leverage “mailto” URI scheme for sending a quick email via appointment. In more advance case we can even set Subject and Body as well but that will be too complicated and tricky! Here is the example : | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/indiamvp/2014/01/09/guest-post-using-saveappointmenttask-in-windows-phone-8/ |
New Zealand's central bank has said it was hit by a 'malicious' cyber attack.
BUSINESS NEWS - New Zealand's central bank said Sunday it was responding with urgency to a "malicious" breach of one of its data systems, a third-party file sharing service that stored "sensitive information".
Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr said the breach had been contained and the system was taken offline but it would take time to determine what information had been accessed.
"We are working closely with domestic and international cyber security experts and other relevant authorities as part of our investigation and response to this malicious attack," Orr said.
"The nature and extent of information that has been potentially accessed is still being determined, but it may include some commercially and personally sensitive information," he added.
"It will take time to understand the full implications of this breach, and we are working with system users whose information may have been accessed."
In its latest report, the government agency CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) said cyber attacks had increased 33 percent year-on-year in New Zealand.
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Ryan Wright, the C. Coleman McGehee Professor of Commerce at UVA, specializes in cybersecurity and works with UVA’s information security team to improve cybersecurity at the University. Credit: Dan Addison, University Communications
You probably have a phishing email in your inbox right now.
It might be an obvious scam, but it's more likely to be an insidiously friendly note that looks like it is from a colleague or friend, asking you to click this link or open that attachment. If you do, a hacker could access your username and password, potentially stealing troves of data and compromising your entire organization "Phishing scams have changed substantially over the last three years," said Ryan Wright, the C. Coleman McGehee Professor of Commerce in the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. Hackers, he said, have moved from sending out millions of phony emails to ruthlessly targeting individual users, often using information from social media accounts to pose as colleagues, friends or family members.
Wright researches and teaches about cybersecurity and works with UVA's chief information security officer, Jason Belford, to improve cybersecurity at the University. He is also working with Vice President for Information Technology Ronald R. Hutchins to develop new anti-phishing training for all state employees.
Here are his tips for protecting yourself and your organization.
Understand how phishing scams really work
Email phishing scams are the most common technique hackers use to access individual usernames and passwords and thus infiltrate whole organizations.
Though we typically envision hackers as computer whizzes who build their own programs, Wright said that most simply buy phishing software off the dark web and use it to set up an email phishing scam.
If users click on a link or attachment in the phishing email, they are directed to a phony webpage, such as the Russian-backed sites uncovered by Microsoft this week. Malware coded into the site steals their information, typically their username and password.
Hackers can then pose as a user to access information across an organization. Just one click, from one user, has triggered major hacks at organizations from Target to the U.S. government – despite their best efforts to secure their technical borders.
According to Wright, the average phishing webpage lasts about seven days, because response rates to any phishing email – just like a regular email – drop dramatically after 24 to 36 hours.
"Hackers know that they only need a site up for a few days," Wright said. "They set up millions of them. Identifying them is a bit like playing 'Whac-a-Mole' – you can't take them down fast enough."
Understand that you are the target, not your computer "We tend to think of cybersecurity as a technical problem, but it is really a human problem," Wright said. "Ninety to 95 percent of attacks on organizations are attacks on individual people."
A recent study for Cybersecurity at Work, released this month, found that individual employees are the biggest risk factor for organizations. Nearly two in five surveyed admitted to clicking on a dubious link or attachment – about 40 percent of the workforce.
According to Wright, today's average phishing scam targets about nine people, using information from their LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media accounts to customize each message and pose as family members, friends or colleagues.
"These are very, very targeted campaigns," he said. "It's important to understand that you are the target, not just your computer."
Practice technology mindfulness
You probably think of mindfulness as something better suited to your yoga mat than your inbox, but Wright's research shows that mindfulness training is 38 percent more effective in preventing hacks than traditional anti-phishing training.
That number comes from field experiments Wright and his colleagues conducted at a large organization, sending their own phishing emails to one group trained in mindfulness techniques, one trained in traditional cue-based techniques (i.e. looking for suspicious subject lines, spelling and other cues) and one control group with no training.
"Cue-based training is certainly better than nothing, but the mindfulness training improved results by about 38 percent," Wright said. "When hackers are just looking for one click, that is a pretty significant number."
While cue-based training teaches users to look for a long and often-changing list of email characteristics, mindfulness training focuses on getting users to "stop, think and then act" before clicking something, trusting their instincts if something feels wrong.
"Even the briefest pause alerts your instincts, leading to a better decision the majority of the time," Wright said. "We often use technology fairly mindlessly; if you pause and are more mindful for just a second, then you have already won."
Rely on your co-workers
Wright calls it "the human firewall" – the web of human relationships and interactions that can make it that much harder for hackers to breach an organization. It consists not just of information technology personnel, but of coworkers who rely on each other to spot suspicious activity and communicate with the group.
"Our research has shown that people are far more likely to go to their coworkers with a security question before they go to IT," Wright said. IT departments should encourage that behavior rather than discourage it, he said, and help key influencers in different departments spread correct information.
"If you get a weird email and turn to someone in the next cubicle to ask about it, you've already won," Wright said. "That kind of awareness spreads positive security practices throughout the organization."
Read one cybersecurity news article every quarter
To increase your awareness of security risk, Wright suggests monitoring the popular press for cybersecurity news articles and reading at least one every quarter. Even that little bit of reading will help you stay aware and informed about the latest scams you are likely to see in your inbox, he said. And the higher your awareness, the lower your risk.
"The more security is front of mind, the better decisions people make," Wright said.
As a starting point, he recommends Krebs on Security, a website run by Washington Post reporter turned cybersecurity guru Brian Krebs.
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Now there's a lot more for you to worry about. Security experts have recently discovered a computer bug called Heartbleed that exposes a popular security protocol known as SSL to a possible major breach. Your personal information such as passwords, credit card information and social security number could potentially be stolen. It's as if you thought you closed the door to your home so no one could get in but actually left it slightly ajar.
Initially it was thought the bug would affect only Internet servers but the latest reports indicate Heartbleed could impact routers, switches and firewalls, even personal mobile devices and printers if they're connected to the Internet.
Major websites like Yahoo (YHOO), Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG) and Cisco (CSCO) are working on the problem, but you should too. At a minimum security experts advise consumers to monitor their online transactions closely, looking for any breaches, and update passwords.
Heartbleed is the just the latest technology threat to consumers. Last week The New York Times reported that a computer breach at a big oil company--which remains unnamed--that came through ... wait for it ... a Chinese takeout menu. A Chinese takeout menu! When workers at the oil company read the online menu, hackers who had infected it with gained access to the company's computer network. Related: Today's Trending Ticker: Market favorite FireEye sliding
One very vulnerable sector is the U.S. power grid, which underpins everything, says Stephen Boyer, the chief technology officer and co-founder of BitSight Technologies, which advises companies on how to reduce cybersecurity risks. "The retail sector certainly took a big hit. The energy power generation upon which we all rely is an area of concern. If it were to lose power what are all the other things that would follow on?" asks Boyer. BitSight last year graded the cybersecurity of the energy sector below that of retail. Some examples of such power grid breaches: Central Hudson Gas and Electric in Poughkeepsie, New York last year reported that hackers accessed as many as 110,000 customer accounts and Telvent Canada Ltd, a Canadian energy firm, reported the theft of project files in September 2012. | http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/cybersecurity--the-most-and-least-vulnerable-sectors-163249636.html |
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Gonda Lamberink, an industry expert in cybersecurity, manufacturing, (I)IoT, and supply chain security, has joined Fortress Information Security, a leading provider of cybersecurity supply chain risk and vulnerability management solutions dedicated to securing critical infrastructure. Lamberink joins Fortress after spending nearly 9 years at UL, Underwriters Laboratories, working on cyber and IoT security with product manufacturers across consumer, commercial and industrial verticals.
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As VP of Critical Manufacturing Security Solutions, at Fortress Lamberink is responsible for building a new business selling into and partnering with manufacturers, who serve critical infrastructure organizations, for cybersecurity solutions that meet their value chain needs.
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With all the risk analysis being conducted in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election – and my oh my isn’t there are lot of caterwauling about that signal moment in history these days; just go here, here and here for but a mere few examples – there are a lot of more close-in risks trucking companies should be thinking about.
One specific to the world of “Big Data” motor carriers continue to navigate through and one many may (or may not) be pondering is the liability risks posed by an information breach – specifically, how trucking firms might find themselves in the crosshairs of legal action due to a cyberattack or hacking incident.
Christopher Wiech, a partner in national law firm LeClairRyan, warned in a recent blog post that when cybercriminals attack retailers and other businesses – potentially placing the data of millions of people at risk –corporate executives such CEOs and CIOs may lose their jobs and could be exposed to what he calls “crippling lawsuits.”
All business executives also need be aware of any government regulations that apply, as well as industry or other standards that address data gathering, storage, protection and use, such as payment card industry or “PCI” data compliance standards, Wiech stressed.
"You need to be diligent, because your actions will be closely scrutinized in the event of a hack or other data breach," he warned.
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Wiech added that the first notable case against the corporate or “C-suite” following a data incident is In re Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation, where the plaintiffs alleged that the C-Suite concealed a cyberattack.
"The court dismissed the lawsuit, recognizing that 'the fact that a company faces certain security problems does not of itself suggest that the company does not value data security,'" Wiech pointed out. "But central to the court's analysis in Heartland were the actions taken by the CEO and CFO before and after the data incident."
Yet many executives aren’t taking proactive preventative measures, he emphasized.
For example, Wiech pointed to a recent IBM cybersecurity survey of more than 700 C-Suite executives across 18 industries and 28 countries found that although 94% believe that their company will "experience a cybersecurity incident" in the next two years, only 65% said they were confident about their company's cybersecurity plans.
Also troubling is that some 60% of the CFOs, human resource, and marketing executives polled by IBM said they are the "least involved" in cybersecurity measures, even though they are the individuals responsible for data most coveted by cybercriminals.
Wiech said part of the challenge is the lack of a "bright line" data security standard, putting executives on notice of exactly what their organizations should be doing when it comes to cybersecurity.
"There is no generalized standard for data security; it is a question of business judgment," he explained. "A court or jury will generally consider whether or not the executive made an informed, diligent decision on behalf of – and in the best interests of – the company and its shareholders, what is often called the ‘business judgment rule,’ but those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis."
Even though C-Suite executives are protected by that rule, he stressed that plaintiffs are not being deterred by it in their attempts to hold directors and officers personally liable for the fallout from massive data incidents, he cautioned.
"So CEOs, CIOs and other top executives can take some steps to increase their company's cybersecurity, while potentially creating a stronger defense in case of a lawsuit," Wiech noted.
Here are a few tips he offered:
The CEO, CIO and other top executives should meet on a regular basis, and may consider working with a company’s board of directors to create a cybersecurity committee. "Your cybersecurity committee should include representatives from marketing, IT [information technology] and other technical specialists, as well as internal and external legal advisors," Wiech said.
A cybersecurity committee needs to address specific issues such as the ways the company protects digital and other assets, while considering who has access to your data, and what your legal and other responsibilities are and to whom they're owed, he noted.
Also, consider third-party vendors and others who handle your data, and what their security procedures are: do they measure up to the security protocols you are putting into place?
Yet cybersecurity strategy needs balance too, he emphasized. "A company can build a vault around its data that may be nearly impossible to penetrate, but then you may be unable to use it in a real-time manner, negating or minimizing the business value of the data," Wiech explained.
Finally, do you have processes in place if a data breach does occur? “You need to plan for it before something happens," he stressed.
"Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue, nor is it defensible to be naïve about cybersecurity,” Wiech pointed out. “A diligent C-Suite and boardroom should be cognizant of their company's cybersecurity risks, routinely discuss those risks, and rely on and follow the advice of experts to mitigate those risks."
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LONDON (AP) — Britain can handle the security risks involved with using mobile networks made by China’s Huawei, the cybersecurity chief said Wednesday, adding to a growing debate among countries on whether the company should be banned, as the U.S. wants.
Ciaran Martin, the CEO of the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, said it was important to have “sustainable diversity” in the supply of telecommunications equipment. He added that his agency could handle the challenges involved in monitoring suppliers who may not be considered trustworthy — a hint at Huawei.
Huawei, the world’s biggest maker of switching gear for phone and internet companies, has faced rising scrutiny over U.S. allegations that it could be forced by the Chinese government to provide access to consumer data on its networks.
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As countries roll out new high speed fifth generation, or 5G, mobile networks, they are seeking suppliers and the issue of whether to ban Huawei has become a heated debate.
Some frame it as a cold evaluation of the technical risks. Others see it as part of a broader tussle between the U.S. and China for technological dominance. The U.S. has effectively blocked Huawei for years and is accusing China of stealing technology from foreign companies.
U.S. government officials including Vice President Mike Pence publicly warned European allies against using Huawei during a visit last week.
Authorities and telecom operators in countries such as Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic have been reassessing Huawei’s role in 5G networks while Australia, New Zealand and Japan have already moved to curb the use of its gear to varying degrees.
China has stridently defended Huawei, considered a crown jewel in its push to become a global technology power, and denounced security concerns as part of a U.S.-led plot to restrain the country’s development.
“The United States and a few of its allies are using double standards and deliberately misleading the public on the issue,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday.
“It’s hypocritical, immoral and unfair bullying behaviors,” said Geng.
Experts say Huawei networks are generally cheaper than those of competitors and are of a high quality, making it a difficult decision for governments and telecom operators to shun the supplier altogether. Banning Huawei could also delay the rollout of 5G networks, which are considered necessary for the next generation of internet-connected things, from self-driving cars to smart factories.
The British government is due to complete a review of its policies on the safety of 5G in March or April.
Martin said no decisions have yet been made and “everything is on the table.”
Since 2010, the British government has operated a cybersecurity evaluation center for Huawei equipment, which Martin said was part of “the toughest and most rigorous oversight regime in the world” for the company.
“And it is proving its worth,” he said, according to a transcript of a speech he gave at a conference in Brussels.
The cybersecurity center in July identified technical issues in Huawei’s engineering processes that could make it less safe. Huawei said last month that it would take three to five years to fix the problems.
Martin said the issues his agency identified relate to cybersecurity standards and are “not indicators of hostile activity by China.” He told reporters that mistakes in software are the biggest issue for cybersecurity, more so than the risk of a foreign government getting backdoor access.
Huawei competes with a few big rivals, notably Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson, to supply equipment for 5G networks.
Martin said it’s important not to let the telecom equipment supplier market shrink too much.
“Any company in an excessively dominant market position will not be incentivized to take cybersecurity seriously,” Martin said, adding that such a company could be a “prime target for attack for the globe’s most potent cyber attackers.”
In a sign of Britain’s division over 5G, a security think tank warned the same day against using Huawei gear.
“Allowing Huawei’s participation is at best naive, at worst irresponsible,” the Royal United Services Institute said in a report, which cited factors including the difficulty of finding hidden “back doors” in software.
Germany is still undecided on what to do. It has made clear it doesn’t plan to explicitly bar any single manufacturer, though that leaves open the possibility it could frame system requirements in a way that effectively excludes Huawei.
Officials are wary of the security issues that could arise with Chinese involvement, and the German Interior Ministry said Wednesday that internal discussions were still ongoing on how to proceed.
Advertisement - story continues below “A direct exclusion of a particular manufacturer from the 5G expansion is at the time not legally possible and also not planned,” the Interior Ministry told The Associated Press. “For the Interior Ministry the focus is on adapting the security requirements of the telecommunications network in such a way that the security of the network remains guaranteed, including from possibly non-trustworthy manufacturers.”
The ministry said for that to be ensured, the requirements must be anchored in Germany’s telecommunications law and discussions on how to do that are currently ongoing.
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Today, they operate in 263 locations in more than 100 countries relaying breaking news, covering war and conflict and producing enterprise reports that tell the world's stories. | https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-uk-cybersecurity-chief-oversight-of-huawei-is-working/ |
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I'm taking 701/702 because there is more study material out there. I bought Meyers All in One, seventh edition book. According to the book it says I would need 250 hours to study. Luckily since I am not working now and am only take one more class for my Associates I have the time. but I need really need advice.
Basically I know nothing. I have no experience, I've done basic programming but that doesn't really help here.
Anyway I have Meyers book, Exam Cram and Professor Messer's videos as well as his practice tests and the Comptia site's tests (and the tests in Meyers book). might help to go to a thrift store and get an old pc (I've done this for friends) to mess with. A big thing is that you have different motherboards and the different socket types (processor) that actually looking at (vs a picture/video) is a big difference. When I studied for the A+ I had a friend who worked at a recycle center and I scored a small temp part-time job there taking apart PCs and printers people brought in. Taking apart a laptop may help some but is not a good idea if laptop is still usable..they are more difficult to disassenble/reassemble and more critical that everything go back together right.
No longer work in IT. Play around with stuff sometimes still and fix stuff for friends and relatives.
I can study up to 8 hours per day. It'll be slightly grueling but I don't want to waste anymore time. Just going by the hours I could take the test in May Is there anything else I would need? Do you think 250 hours is enough?
Lots of folks will disagree but if you, as you state, "Basically....know nothing," and have no experience, Strata IT Fundamentals is what you need, most likely. Forget A+ (why pay so much when true newcomers need Strata and/or IC3 from Certiport to get the basics) and buy Mike Meyers and Jernigan's Strata IT Fundamentals book and take the Strata exam. Now, It's a certificate and not "certification." Yet, it's a thorough introduction and, really, if you know the material for this, you can bypass the A+ and the study material for more advanced exams will make a lot of sense. Darril Gibson wrote a good reference for the Strata exam.
If you want to learn something, you can do it. Ignore the negative posts about any CompTia Strata exams and make YOUR own decision. It's your life and money. It's not about passing an exam but you'll get great intro material for far less money. And, unless your job calls for it, there is no need for A+ as you can take (as I did and had NO problems) more advanced certification exams with this foundation.
you know how you learn best. You asked specifically about study advice. This level is great for those that are new to IT and have no or little experience. Also, it will give you a baseline which you can decide what you want to do next.
Save your money and forget 701/702. At least look at the Strata objectives and see if it's what YOU need. Not what others THINK is good. You read the study guides for Strata IT Fundamentals and know it well and you'll have a good intro to IT, a life certificate (again, this will not by itself get you a job in IT but it give you the fundamentals, you can take the exam for about $100 (compare that to A+), and you will be prepared to at least know what path is next.
Again, this is my opinion only but I came from a completely non-IT world into one and Strata is precisely geared for folks NEW to IT. Start with the basics. This is what will probably help you most.
Bottom line: Check out the Strata exam as you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If YOU think it's what you need, then it's a much cheaper and a quite valid way to learn the fundamentals. Honestly, ignore the naysayers regarding Strata. You will learn a lot since you say you are new. From Strata, you'll know what avenue to pursue next.
Thanks! I appreciate all your help.
In response to some of the posts, I am a college student and I want to go WGU, I guess I should have posted that. When I talked to the enrollment counselor he told me to take Comptia A+, it will also clear some classes for me.
Thanks! Oh, in this case, I think exam prices are included in tuition. I wish you the best of luck. | https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/comment/722639/ |
DevOps refers to the “integration of development, IT operations, security, and quality assurance under a single automated umbrella”. In short, it is a cross-business effort to turn software development on its head with shorter cycle times, faster testing times, more automation – and better (and more secure) code.
DevOps looks to do this by establishing a continuous loop where teams across the business work together to plan, code, build, test, deploy, operate and monitor. By doing this, software development becomes more flexible and efficient, and finished products are of better quality.
The benefits of DevOps are well-publicized, from improving the quality of software and the speed to market to reducing the governance and compliance risks.
[ ALSO ON CSO: CSO Survival Guide: Securing DevOps ]
And yet, for all of this, there remains a huge question on the role information security plays in this whole process. There has been a big push for companies to go beyond DevOps and adopt DevSecOps – the process of involving information security in all parts of application development.
This is not easy however. The tricky relationship between security and IT teams is well-documented (and reportedly sometimes even worse in organizations with DevOps teams), while it’s worth noting too that DevOps and DevSecOps have different operating models and objectives.
With DevOps, the aim is to bring the operations team into the development team so that it wasn’t just something to be added on to the end of a project. Sending a release “over the fence” to Ops is now no longer something any sensible company does.
The same applies with DevSecOps – there is a need to ensure that security is not an afterthought for an isolated department to look into, but rather integrated at all stages of a development project and beyond.
Google and Amazon lead the way
Most companies that have adopted a DevOps model have seen a number of early benefits; a recent survey found that companies that embraced a DevOps methodology increased their speed to market by 20 percent, leading to a 22 percent boost in customer relations and a 19 percent increase in revenue.
Another survey revealed that 52 percent of companies to have adopted DevOps methods increased their customer satisfaction and conversion rate, with 38 percent increasing their sales.
Google and Facebook are arguably the early pioneers of DevOps, using DevOps to innovate with their new and existing cloud products, and the same is true of Amazon with its cloud platform AWS.
Yammer cites continuous delivery as key to improving its iPhone app, while US retailer Walmart launched its cloud-based OneOps platform so that developers could develop and launch new products faster, “and more easily maintain them throughout their entire lifecycle.”
Video streaming site Netflix, meanwhile, created the Simian Army, a suite of automated tools used to stress-test Netflix's infrastructure. This allows the company to proactively identify and resolve security flaws before they become serious issues for customers.
Other firms, both big and small, have used DevOps methods to shorten software development from days to hours and it looks like there will be many more adopters later this year; Gartner predicts that a quarter of 2,000 global companies will have adopted DevOps by the end of 2016 as the concept evolves from a “niche to a mainstream strategy.”
A security win?
Despite these early examples, there has been some question as to if DevOps can improve information security, especially with infosec teams demanding complete visibility over the entire computing environment, and constricted by stringent regulation.
Most experts believe that security can benefit from DevOps, with the ‘security by design’ ethos integrated from the start and with security also always balanced with the business objectives.
In addition, by automating security and regulatory compliance tests throughout development, deployment and production cycle, it has been claimed that security can reach a level never seen before.
“DevOps is actually a boon for security folks, who can, with the right automation and operational tools, inject security earlier into the development process, and increase the security of the code that ultimately reaches production,” wrote James D. Brown, chief experience officer at JumpCloud, in an article for Wired.
Simon Chapman, director of UK-based penetration tester Ambersail, told CSO Online that it tests applications this way, saying that a DevOps approach helps his firm to detect and fix security vulnerabilities.
He says that flaws can be fixed faster than before. “Where vulnerabilities are found [fixes] are quick to be implemented. So I guess it's a net security win overall.”
No more Heartbleeds?
Andy Chakraborty, a London-based DevOps and security consultant, and the former global security manager for The Office of Tony Blair, added in an interview: “With modern DevOps there’s a much closer relationship between the people developing the applications and the people who operate the infrastructure systems the application relies on.
“This allows a much better understanding of what the application does and where its weaknesses lie, making it easier to secure. And with the proliferation of security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock, a good understanding of development ultimately allows operations personnel to make more informed decisions.” “As security people, I hear many pushing back on the DevOps movement,” blogged information security consultant Jay Schulman late last year.
“I suggest the opposite. DevOps is about bringing development and infrastructure together to make the process work better. By bringing development, infrastructure and security together, DevOps can make a huge security impact on the environment. Participate in or create cookbooks for security. Create Audit scripts to check for known security items you don’t want going into production.
The week in security: Security staff struggling harder to keep up here ...
Cisco: there’s a bad bug in open source software that a Netflix ... | https://www.cso.com.au/article/595305/devops-holy-grail-information-security/ |
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For years, IT security experts warned governments, companies, and other organizations about the risk of cyberattacks, offering concrete recommendations to help prevent them.
Confirmed May 7, the ransomware attack on one of the United States’ largest fuel pipelines is an all-too-frequent reminder that more needs doing. Now.
Recent attacks have become bolder and more sophisticated and include invasions of government agencies, healthcare providers, schools and organizations of all types and sizes, including the likes of Twitter and Microsoft and the National Basketball Association. But while most attacks are against large, well-known brands, small business also is a big target for bad actors.
One unique response to the recent Colonial Pipeline attack came from the hackers themselves and is the first time I can recall a perpetrator issuing a formal statement. | https://prnewsonline.com/ransomware-prep/ |
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Windows XP SP3 infected with Google redirect malware. I've had one of these previously, but this one has thwarted all removal efforts.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Symptoms: Google links automatically redirected to advertising sites. Also have occasional pop-ups. Taskbar changes from blue to white.
I downloaded Google Chrome, but it's nonfunctional.
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C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgnsx.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 3.0\PhotoshopElementsDeviceConnect.exe
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C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe
The Microsoft malware removal tool is useless on XP.
I finally found a link to Kaspersky, and used their malware removal tool.
So far, virus/malware free, and the Google pages are no longer redirecting. | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/329750/google-redirect-malware/ |
We used Windows 7 Ultimate’s AES-based BitLocker drive encryption feature. To avoid any storage bottlenecks, we decided to create a 330MB RAM drive, which would show the effective performance difference of the Core i5-661 with AES acceleration versus the non-accelerated Core i7-870. In fact, the difference is close to 50 percent. While encryption took seven seconds on the powerful, quad-Core i7, the Core i5-661 dual-core completed the same task in only four seconds.
The AES encryption test by Everest Ultimate Edition reveals fantastic performance gains, although we’d still call this a synthetic measure, unlikely to be duplicated in the real-world.
Despite its support for AES, WinZip 14 was faster on the quad-core due to its higher horsepower. However, the AES-accelerated dual-core still did well and only lost because of the maximum compression setting we chose (after all, we try to maximize compression when sending files around our production environment, so this made the most sense). For a more detailed before/after performance comparison in WinZip 14, check out this page in our Clarkdale launch coverage.
We repeated the test with WinZip using only AES encryption and this time without compression. Voilá! The AES-accelerated dual-core easily beat the quad-core. | http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/clarkdale-aes-ni-encryption,review-31801-7.html |
MpsSvc Service is not running. Checking service configuration:
Checking Start type: MpsSvc ImagePath: MpsSvc ServiceDll: MpsSvc registry key. Checking Start type: bfe ImagePath: bfe ServiceDll: bfe registry key. The service key does not exist.
Checking Start type: wscsvc ImagePath: wscsvc ServiceDll: wscsvc registry key. Checking Start type: ATTENTION!=====> Unable to retrieve start type of BITS. Checking ImagePath: ATTENTION!=====> Unable to retrieve ImagePath of BITS. Checking Start type: WinDefend ImagePath: WinDefend ServiceDll: WinDefend ImagePath of SharedAccess: ATTENTION!=====> Unable to retrieve ImagePath of SharedAccess. The value does not exist.
Checking ServiceDll of SharedAccess: SharedAccess Start type of iphlpsvc: iphlpsvc ImagePath of iphlpsvc: iphlpsvc ServiceDll of iphlpsvc: iphlpsvc registry key. H:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpSvc.dll => MD5 is legit
10:29:48.0343 3912 C: <-> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0\Partition2 10:29:48.0358 3912 E: <-> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0\Partition1 10:29:48.0358 3912 F: <-> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0\Partition3 10:29:48.0374 3912 G: <-> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0\Partition4 10:29:48.0405 3912 H: <-> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0\Partition5
10:30:29.0426 5960 [ 3744DBF2C31CF16DF43EAAB0AE943328 ] asuskbnt H:\Windows\system32\drivers\atkkbnt.sys
10:30:29.0535 5960 asuskbnt ( UnsignedFile.Multi.Generic ) - warning 10:30:29.0535 5960 asuskbnt - detected UnsignedFile. Multi. Generic (1)
10:30:53.0668 5960 Suspicious file (NoAccess): H:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys. md5: CDDDEC541BC3C96F91ECB48759673505
10:30:53.0668 5960 sptd ( LockedFile.Multi. Generic ) - warning 10:30:53.0668 5960 sptd - detected LockedFile. Multi. Generic (1)
10:31:04.0354 5324 Detected object count: 10
10:31:04.0354 5324 Actual detected object count: 10 10:31:15.0352 5324 ASDR ( UnsignedFile.Multi.Generic ) - skipped by user | http://www.forospyware.com/t452014.html |
Leslie Jones' hacking situation is so bad the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security has their top cyber-crimes unit on the case ... TMZ has learned.
As TMZ reported ... the FBI was accessing the case Wednesday after hackers posted nude pics of the 'SNL' star on her website, along with her passport, driver's license and other sensitive info.
We've learned the case is now with Homeland Security for 2 reasons -- it has one of the most sophisticated cyber-crime unit in the country, and Leslie has history with the Dept.
One source tells TMZ Leslie had some sort of problem with catfishing in the past, and Homeland Security investigated the case. There's some evidence a group from Japan may have been the culprit in the current case.
Leslie has remained silent since her website was hacked Wednesday. | http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/25/leslie-jones-hack-homeland-security-cyber-crime/ |
This week host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockley, Greg “Fido” Iddon and Peter Mackenzie.
This week we discuss an attack on the city of Johannesburg that came with a ransom demand and ask “was it ransomware?”; we talk about what the breach at NordVPN means for VPN users; and we reminisce about the ancient floppy disks that, until recently, underpinned the USA’s nuclear deterrent.
Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts – just search for Naked Security. | https://nationalcybersecurity.com/city-under-attack-vpn-hacked-floppies-nixed-naked-security/ |
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As an identity-based approach to network access control, Nevis NRC enforces flexible user access privileges through its inline LANenforcer appliances, ranging from simple IP addresses to highly granular services on an application server. For example, a user within an organizations engineering department can be prevented altogether from sending/receiving traffic to or from an ERP application server. All inbound and outbound traffic that doesnt meet the profile of a users access privileges can be dropped in real time within the network. This prevents an emerging hacking technique that uses network resources as jump stations to launch attacks or gain access to sensitive company data.
By preventing key network resources from being visible to unauthorized users in the first place, Nevis NRC provides us with another critical tier of security, said Jeff Dorsz, telecommunications and network security manager with South Orange County Community College District. One of the keys to resource cloaking is that its available as an out-of-the-box capability that integrates with identity-based policy stores. As a result, LANenforcer configuration efforts are minimal. | http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-security/nevis-launches-identity-based-cloaking/9229888 |
Virtually overnight COVID-19 orders have unleashed a global tsunami of work-from-home employees. Office staff, managers and critical business, administrative and technical executives are now working remotely.
The pandemic has triggered a “step function” increase in work from home employees and devices, creating significant threat exposure. Normally, when an employee requires remote access, appropriate training and secured devices are provided. It seems unlikely that adequate protection has been applied to the COVID-19 remote access demand tsunami. The vast increase in the number of insufficiently secured devices and trained employees has created a huge exposed “attack surface.” The targets – employee, laptop, smart phone, 2nd factor token. The intent – laptop takeover.
RELATED: Working from home: Cybersecurity in the time of COVID-19
The common and effective impersonation techniques of phishing and its more targeted spear-phishing will be aggressively used. During this period of crisis, employees are likely to be hypersensitive to protecting themselves and their families; thereby, even more susceptible to social engineering malicious pretext scams. This means the success rate of these attacks is likely to increase due to their state-of-mind. Training employees to avoid these attack techniques is critical. The typical operational risks related to lost and stolen remote access devices will increase proportionally.
By installing malware, an attacker can take over an employee’s laptop and remotely perform almost anything the employee is authorized to do, often without detection or audit trail.
How to respond. First, apply a risk-based approach to make best use of scarce resources. Identify the employees with access to the most sensitive information, riskiest business functions and those related to money. This is the urgent priority.
To reduce the potential impact of an employee’s credential being compromised, use role-based-profiles and least privilege to limit access rights, especially for administrators with powerful credentials. Remove local administrator rights for employee accounts that are used daily. This drastically limits what an attacker can do. If local administrator rights are required, create a separate, rarely used account with strong multi-factor authentication.
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All remote access should be considered a medium to high risk. Channels should be strongly encrypted. Simple password-based authentication is insufficient. Two-factor authentication is needed. For employees such as executives, administrators and decision makers/approvers, use a physical 2-factor token generator. For the remaining employees use a soft-factor mechanism such as an SMS-text verification to a pre-registered, independent, “out-of-band” mobile device which the attacker is unlikely to control.
Monitoring all remote access channel activity is critical. Legitimate employees have roles and corresponding access and activity patterns. This daily set of activities can establish a “trusted” baseline from which any deviations may indicate a compromised credential. Access activity should be logged and monitored for anomalies as simple as time and location-of-access. A compromised credential will “behave differently.” It may attempt to go places it has never been nor is in scope given their role.
Data loss prevention tools can be used to monitor egress traffic for sensitive and proprietary data and intervene as required. Information Rights Management functions of document management systems can be used to maintain control and protection of sensitive files outside the network.
Many other security measures are required to form a complete protected environment. Consider that remote access should only be permitted from a “whitelisted” registered IP address and from a “MAC address” registered laptop. Before providing access, the device health should be verified and patched. Only use remote access devices for work functions. Do not use for Internet browsing. Inactivity time-outs should be short. Printing should be controlled. Data on remote access devices should be encrypted. Remote destruction capability can manage the increase in device loss and theft. Remote access devices should be used in private and secured physically when not in use. | https://news.itu.int/covid-19-strategies-to-reduce-cyber-risk-while-working-from-home-opinion/ |
This phase Enumeration is done after scanning. As in scanning the hacker collects information about the active targets, ports, services etc.
It is this phase where the hacker will make active connections to the target system and then try collecting more details information using queries etc. The goal is to get more details information about the target that needs to be compromised.
Information such as, usernames, machine names, share paths etc are collected in this phase. The attacker access possible open share files mainly the remote IPC share which can be accessed using IPC$ in Windows.
You can use the net user command to create and modify user accounts on computers. When you use this command without command-line switches, the user accounts for the computer are listed. The user account information is stored in the user accounts database. This command works only on servers.
To run the net user command tool, using the WinX menu, open a Command Prompt, type net user and hit Enter. This will show you the user accounts on the computer. Thus, when you use net user without parameters, it displays a list of the user accounts on the computer.
MS-DOS utility that displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP), which allow the user to troubleshoot NetBIOS name resolution issues.
Normally, name resolution is done when NetBIOS over TCP/IP is functioning correctly. It does this through local cache lookup, WINS or DNS server query or through LMHOSTS or Hosts lookup.
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Over 4,000 burglaries occur every day in America, out of which 72% involve residential properties. An access control system is a great way to enhance the security of your residential property. If you live in an apartment, an access control system can help you manage the flow of people coming and going from the building.
An access control panel is an electronic system that restricts access to a building or home. Only a person who has a keycard or knows the password can get into the property. There are several benefits to this. Here are the main ones:
Say Goodbye to Lost Keys
How many times have you lost your keys or forgotten them inside the house in a rush to go somewhere? With an access control panel, you no longer have to worry about the key getting into the wrong hands or getting locked outside your home.
You can get access to your home with a simple password that you can set yourself and change whenever you want to beef up security.
When operating the traditional lock and key systems, the lock or the key can break or get stuck. This means the homeowner has to wait for a locksmith to come and fix or change the locks.
With an access control panel, in case you forget the password, all you have to do is give the installation company a call and they will provide instructions for bypassing the system over the phone. This way, you can save a lot of time and effort while maintaining the security of your property.
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As more and more point solutions crowd into the security market, many companies are adopting a tools-first approach to security operations. And while tools are important, investing in technology before people can cause big problems.
Without the right people at the helm able to select and then use the tools, most security products end up in the security tool graveyard—unconfigured, unoptimized, unuseful.
In today’s cybersecurity climate, companies need to understand why a tools-first approach can be a dangerous one, and why investing in people first is the smarter approach. Let’s break down three key reasons why.
The CAPEX > OPEX Perspective is Outdated
Two major types of business expenses are capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenses (OPEX). In talking with people in our industry, we’ve found that there’s a common preference for spending capital on tools (CAPEX) before spending it on employee salaries (OPEX).
Why? Asked to do more with less, CIOs, CTOs, and CSOs have invested in a CAPEX approach (tools) with the hopes that the tools can give them a jumpstart on security while continuing to provide value down the road.
Sometimes this can work out. But it’s easy to get trigger-happy, buying lots of products without hiring enough security analysts. After many of these tools are purchased, companies often realize they don’t have the staff or expertise to set up, manage, and derive value from them. Sound the sad trombone, because that can mean lost money and ineffective defenses.
Contrast that with an OPEX approach to security, in which security personnel are hired first. This way the experts are able to select, implement, and manage the tools they know are right for the job, guaranteeing that the company will see value from them.
There is No Replacement for Human Analysis
On a related note, it’s key to hire security personnel who can help you get the most out of your tools. Security tools do a lot of great things. But they still require some human analysis, which is something machines will not be able to do effectively for quite some time.
While tools provide the data to inform decisions, only humans can determine the best course of action and influence change. Humans are able to question the data, run experiments, learn about weaknesses in the system, and implement better strategies and processes to make the organization even stronger.
When it comes to security instrumentation, whether it’s firewalls, antivirus, security monitoring, or threat intelligence, there must be someone dedicated to managing the tools properly. Without the right talent, it doesn’t matter how great your tools are, because you won’t be able to get maximum value from them.
Train current employees. Employees already familiar with your company’s infrastructure, threat landscape, and business model can be perfect candidates to step into a security function. This could mean developers or IT staff, for example.
Starting with security awareness training, begin identifying employees across the organization with an interest in security who, with a little more training under their belts, could be a good fit for the security organization. You can kickstart this training using some of the tips from our posts on creating a culture of security ownership.
Look to colleges with InfoSec majors. Many companies limit their talent scouting to veteran security pros. While it’s good to have experienced members on your team, there are also some big benefits to hiring junior security analysts right out of college. For example:
Once you have the right security personnel and a few high-quality, hand-picked security tools, it’s time to optimize. One of the best ways to ensure that your security organization is functioning optimally is to employ security automation and orchestration. The goal of this is to connect tools together so that data can be shared and correlated, and to automate routine manual tasks so that humans can focus on strategic decisions.
With an orchestration layer for security processes, teams can leverage the power of machine-to-machine automation and use the brainpower of security experts to analyze and strategize, not manually fetch data. | https://blog.rapid7.com/2016/07/07/the-importance-of-investing-in-people-before-tools-in-cybersecurity/ |
As you know, Aobo Mac keylogger is the only Mac špijun softver records passwords, pritisaka tipke, snimke ekrana, posjete web stranice. You can set up a email account such as gmail and enable the email function on Aobo keylogger. Aobo keylogger will send you period email with the logs attached.
Sometimes you may want to pause the logs from sending to you or you don’t want to receive logs any more.
Here is the trick from one of Aobo Mac Keylogger users.
He just changed the password for the email which was used to be Smtp. Then the mac keylogger can’t send the logs to him anymore.
If he wants to receive logs again, he can just change the password back, and the keylogger will continue sending the logs to his email.
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In my previous article Exploring the MS-DOS Stub I stated that after experimenting, the Windows loader only cares about the e_magic and the e_lfanew members from the _IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. Because the rest of the members of the DOS header is used by MS-DOS to execute the stub program. Check it out if you have not.
If you take a PE file and null out the MS-DOS header and the MS-DOS stub program leaving out the e_magic and the e_lfanew values, the PE will still work fine as the rest is not needed by the Windows PE loader. The e_lfanew address at offset 0x3c is important as it points to the beginning of the _IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure which is the actual start of the PE file.
Since those values are not important we can insert an HTML comment from offset 0x2 which is the e_cblp value and begin an HTML comment and end the comment at the end of the PE and append our HTML/PHP/ASP/JSP file contents.
I wrote a simple program in C to automate this task. You can provide your PE file and the HTML/PHP/ASP/JSP file to inject and it will generate an HTML file. You can rename the file into the extension you desire.
If this binary is flagged, we can unload the minifilter driver by calling the ‘FilterUnload’ which is the Win32 equivalent of ‘FltUnloadFilter’. It will call the minifilter’s ‘FilterUnloadCallback’ (PFLT_FILTER_UNLOAD_CALLBACK) routine. This is as same as using fltMC which is a Non-mandatory unload.
For calling this API SeLoadDriverPrivilege is required. To obtain this privelege adminsitrative permissions are required.
Here’s a simple C code I wrote to call the ‘FilterUnload’ API.
One night I was curious about how the Group Policy Manager sets the policies using registry keys. The GUI displays detailed descriptions but not the backend registry key the target policy uses.
Of course, if you Google a policy you can end up finding the target registry value or have a look at the “C:\windows\policydefinitions” folder for the admx files. But I wanted to see for myself how this works behind the scenes. So, I used the API Monitor to monitor the APIs and check the values manually.
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A recent conversation on Twitter struck a nerve with me. The person posited that, "If you're a sysadmin, you're in customer service. You may not realise it, but you are there TO SERVE THE CUSTOMER. Sure that customer might be internal to your organisation/company, but it's still a customer!"
SolarWinds has a deep connection to the IT community.
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Trico in Calif. discloses cybersecurity incident
Trico Bancshares in Chico, Calif., is dealing with a cybersecurity incident.
The $9.9 billion-asset company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it recently shut down its networked systems after detecting unusual activity.
Several of Trico’s internal bank systems are offline, including email, telephones and its customer service/call center. The company said it is working to restore the services as quickly as possible.
Trico said it is trying to determine the scope of the event, including the impact to any data or information maintained on internal bank systems.
The company said that its customers’ balances are unaffected and housed on a secure system that is separate from the network that was breached. | https://www.thebankslate.com/2023/02/trico-in-calif-discloses-cybersecurity-incident/ |
He was delivering the keynote address on the topic ‘e-Security’ during the one-day workshop on ‘Safe and Effective Utilisation of Information and Communication Technology’ organised by the Department of Electronics, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) at its seminar hall here on Saturday.
He said, “According to Information Technology Act, if we send a mail without the permission of other person it is punishable. Without knowing the cyber law and IT Act, people are using information technology.” “Who are the contributors of cyber crime; it is we who are contributors. People share photos in Facebook, it’s fine; but they should share with their respective groups only and not in general. Apart from this, they are also found sharing their contact number in Facebook which is very harmful,” he said adding that these are small things which lead to cyber crime.
A.M. Sudhakara (second from right), System Manager and Head, Computer Centre, University of Mysore, who delivered a talk on ‘e-Security’ at AIISH in city, is seen with Dr. S.R. Savithri, Director, AIISH and Manohar, HoD of Electronics.
He called upon the people not to give any bank details including account number to those who ask them over phone; instead he advised them to have their respective bank and bank managers’ numbers.
During his more than an hour address, Sudhakara briefed about how we need to take care in protecting our private data.
He also mentioned that 50 percent of material on net is fake and hence called upon the people to be very careful while getting information from net, citing the recent example where the Vice-Chancellor of Gadag University was duped to the tune of Rs.69,000.
“Due to lack of implementation of Information Technology Act, there is rise in the number of cyber crimes not only across India but also in the world. Just less than one percent have been punished. There should be some fear among them, only then people will think twice before committing such crime.” “Cyber crimes are also rampant in many Multinational Companies (MNCs) but most of them are not reported. Hence to be on the safer side, a good anti-virus is very important” added Sudhakara. He observed that the State needs more stations and staff to deal cyber crime-related issues.
The day-long workshop enabled UG students to become competent in innovatively employing the tools of technology and to enhance ICT literacy and confidence among them. | https://starofmysore.com/india-needs-three-lakh-people-for-cyber-security/amp/ |
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Install a web server and PHP. One of the most popular web servers is Apache.
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StatPro Group plc (AIM:SOG), the AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analysis for the asset management industry, today announced that it has released the latest version of StatPro Revolution to all clients. This release marks the 64th release of the cloud-based platform and is the third regular update in 2015.
Our latest version of StatPro Revolution continues our expansion of advanced risk management with new relative risk and risk attribution dashboards, supporting reports and enhanced table view configuration options.
These new risk dashboards build upon the risk measures introduced in the last version and provide a dynamic, visual analysis of a portfolio’s risk against a benchmark. StatPro Revolution’s advanced risk management analysis is now combined with our award winning compliance monitoring feature.
To support the new relative risk attribution dashboards we have created two new reports, Value at Risk Attribution and Expected Tracking Error Attribution, which are now available in the report library. The analysis grids within the new risk management dashboards have also been enhanced, allowing users to now configure up to 15 measures to compare against each other.
In addition, StatPro is honored to have won the 2015 Wealth & Money Management Award for ‘Best Portfolio Analysis Platform – UK’, adding to our recent awards for risk and performance analysis.
Dario Cintioli, MD StatPro says, ‘this release marks a key milestone in our strategy of delivering top-quality performance, risk and compliance analytics in a single cloud-based platform. The combination of advanced risk functionality and our award-winning compliance module in one integrated workflow will further benefit our clients, spreading risk analytics throughout their organizations in an efficient and cost-effective manner’. | https://www.softwaremag.com/statpro-revolution-releases-advanced-risk-management-features/ |
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Technological advancements have done a lot to support businesses by making tasks more streamlined and efficient. Online databases save time and ensure convenient access to important information, and financial transactions are easier than ever with digital banking technology. But with these improvements comes a new brand of vulnerabilities.
If your business falls victim to a cyber attack, are you prepared to deal with the aftermath? If all you have is general commercial liability insurance, then unfortunately, it will offer little to no protection against damage inflicted digitally.
Cyber attacks are as many and varied as the technologies we use, and their perpetrators can have any number of motives and aims. Many cyber attacks on businesses are driven by financial motives; an attacker will steal information necessary for identity theft (such as credit card and PIN numbers) or collect personal information that can then be sold to an interested third party. They could also drain financial resources straight from your business itself. Other cyber attacks can disrupt the functioning of your business by inserting viruses or other malware onto your system computers, while politically motivated attackers could seek out and make public sensitive, confidential information about clients or customers that your business holds.
Recognize Your Vulnerabilities
It is a common misconception that huge corporations are the sole victims of cyber attacks, but the reality is that a business of any size could become a target: in fact, more than 70 percent of cyber attacks occur at businesses with fewer than 100 employees.
As a responsible business owner, there are steps you can take to minimize your risk of becoming the victim of such an attack, but at the end of the day, the only way to plan for every eventuality is by selecting a cyber liability insurance plan that suits the needs of your business. Every employee with access to your databases, every transaction between your business and a supplier or consumer, and every communication carried out on your business’s operating system represents a potential entry point for a cyber attacker.
Know the Risks
As has been seen in the coverage of widely-publicized cyber attacks on major corporations, the fallout of such an event can be immense. Recent laws have shifted liability for security breaches increasingly from the banks to small businesses and franchises, so that you could be found fully responsible for a case of identity theft that originated with a card reader in your enterprise.
In addition to the immediate financial impact of such an attack, it is possible that your business may have to cease or severely limit its operations for a time, drastically decreasing revenue. Your reputation could suffer, and third parties who were affected by the theft of confidential information from your databases could initiate costly lawsuits against your business.
Whether your business is a mom-and-pop shop or a multinational corporation, whether you employ a dozen or thousands or people, no one is immune to a cyber attack. If you operate a business, then contact us to explore your options for cyber liability insurance.
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Network Computing Awards 2022: R&S®Browser in the Box from Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity wins in the "Software Product of the Year" category and in the "Product of the Year" category.
Munich, July 27, 2022 - The virtualized R&S Browser in the Box has won the Network Computing Awards 2022 in the "Software Product of the Year" category as well as the "Product of the Year" category. R&S Browser in the Box allows users to surf the Internet without attackers gaining access to corporate or government networks. The virtualized browser closes the "Internet" security gap by providing a "digital" quarantine for hacker attacks: the malware is isolated before it can be executed. This mechanism also protects against attacks via email attachments or web conferences with microphone use and webcam support.
The Network Computing Awards are presented annually by Network Computing Magazine. The award recognizes leading and innovative IT security solutions that help companies comprehensively protect their data. | https://www.rohde-schwarz.com.cn/solutions/cybersecurity/about-us/news-media/media/rohde-schwarz-cybersecurity-r-s-browser-in-the-box-wins-two-awards_255931.html |
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Work with authentication technologies such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0
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The Global Biometric as a Service (BaaS) Market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 19.78% during 2022-27, states MarkNtel Advisors in their recent research report. The market is driven principally by the snowballing need to strengthen security, keep a keen sight on access control, and avoid possibilities of inventory thefts or data breaches among most organizations worldwide.
In addition, with the growing terrorism & rising cases of cyberattacks across several regions, the inclination toward biometric security solutions is escalating rapidly. Several government agencies are using Biometrics in their various operations, including criminal identification, thereby encouraging the overall market growth.
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4. What are the key growth drivers & challenges for the Global Biometric as a Service (BaaS) Market?
5. What are the customer orientation, purchase behavior, and expectations from the Biometric as a Service solution providers across various regions?
Besides, the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 has further augmented the use of these services across different verticals to avoid contact, which, in turn, has developed a massive potential for contactless solutions and is also contributing to the mounting adoption of BaaS models.
Rapidly Rising Demand for BaaS Solutions in Retail Shops to Drive the Global Market through 2027
Based on the End-User, the Retail sector is anticipated to acquire a significant share in the Global Biometric as a Service Market during the forecast period. It owes to an upsurge in the adoption of BaaS models across the retail sector to enable access control for employees and, in turn, curb inventory thefts.
Since governments in different countries are increasingly encouraging using digital platforms, even for street-based stores, the demand for BaaS solutions is rising swiftly to enhance the overall customer experience and create new revenue streams for retailers.
On the other hand, the Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) sector is projected to witness the fastest market growth during 2022-27, principally due to substantial investments by different banks in biometric services to provide safe banking services to their customers.
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In fact, most banks are now integrating mobile applications & wallets with advanced authentications systems like fingerprint scanners, facial & voice recognition, etc., into their finance operations. Hence, based on these aspects, the market shall observe substantial growth across the BFSI sector in the years to come.
With Increasing Instances of Cyberattacks owing to Various Technological Advancements, North America to Observe Significant Market Growth during 2027-27
Of all regions worldwide, North America is an early adopter of new technologies and has an extensive presence of prominent players that bring constant innovations in BaaS solution offerings. The region displays a high rate of sophisticated cyberattacks due to the establishment of several financial & tech-based organizations & the swiftly expanding telecommunication industry. It, in turn, is soaring the need for BaaS solutions to avoid the possibilities of such threats and safeguard financial & critical data of companies.
In the US, several government agencies adopting biometric technology for several security purposes & identification is also contributing significantly to the regional market growth, reveals MarkNtel Advisors in their research report, "Global Biometric as a Service (BaaS) Market Analysis, 2022."
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If you ask IBM’s president and CEO, ‘cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world’. And looking at the latest government statistics, 43% of UK businesses suffered a breach or attack in the last 12 months. That’s nearly half!
It’s clearly a problem. And one we’ll have to work together to combat. So, first things first, how do we get this across in our comms? Let’s look at the numbers and see…
Cyber criminals don’t take a break.
Since 2013, there have been 3,809,448 records stolen from breaches every single day. And that’s just at the time of writing this.
That’s 158,727 per hour, 2,656 per minute, or 44 every second of every day.
For a threat this constant, you’ll need to be consistent with your comms to keep it at bay. Try regular reminders with a different focus each month. From passwords to phishing emails, malware attacks to spam, there’s plenty of different areas to focus on.
Every business is a target. No matter how big or small.
Over two thirds of large businesses (72%) identified a breach or attack in the last 12 months.
And it’s not just big companies that need to watch out, nearly two in ten (19%) charities experienced an attack.
The most common attacks were fraudulent emails, with many criminals impersonating other businesses online.
Make an impact with comms that are relevant to your people 24/7. Don’t limit them with advice on how they can stay safe at work, help them protect themselves at home too. If they’re thinking about cyber safety at home, they’ll be more engaged overall.
We’re all aware of the risks. But no-one really feels prepared.
Just 38% of global organisations say they’re prepared to handle a sophisticated cyber-attack.
And 69% of organisations don’t even believe their antivirus software is capable of blocking the threats they hear about.
You need your people to feel confident about handling any potential cyber security issues. To help them feel prepared, content should be your new best friend. Think short, simple ‘how to’ articles like ‘5 tips for spotting a phishing email’.
You can invest in as much security software as you want. But it won’t make a difference if you don’t train your people.
That’s because 95% of cyber security breaches are down to human error.
Despite this, just two in ten businesses (20%) have had staff undertake any kind of cyber security training in the past year.
And charities come in even lower, with just 15% taking part in training.
Make your comms a learning experience. Quizzes are great for challenging bad behaviours, while general knowledge tests full of hints and tips help with our overall learning.
But it’s not all bad news. We’re taking cyber security more seriously.
By 2020, the estimated number of passwords used around the world will have grown to 300 billion.
Ready to take your cyber security comms to the next level? Good choice. You’re in the right place.
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Cyber attackers have downed the website of the New Zealand Stock Exchange for the fifth day in a row.
The attack, which started last week hit the bourse’s ability to operate normally.
The cyber bullies hit the website repeatedly by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, a common way to disrupt a server by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.
But on Monday, despite the online disruption, trading was unaffected. According to Reuters, the disruption came about an hour after NZX Ltd said it had agreed with the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) on a back-up plan for the release of market announcements in the event of another attack.
The measure would allow it to keep local markets open.
A spokesman for NZX confirmed the website was down, but said trading on its platform, which began at 10.00 a.m. local time (2200 GMT), was continuing as usual through the contingency arrangements.
The attacks affected NZX’s ability to publish market announcements to the public, forcing it to halt trading in order to maintain market integrity, it said.
The closures halted share market trading and disrupted operations in its debt market, Fonterra Shareholders Market and derivatives market. The bourse said it is working with its network’s service provider, Spark, government cybersecurity agencies, and a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Akamai Technologies (AKAM.O) to implement additional security measures.
“NZX has been advised by independent cyber specialists that the attacks last week are among the largest, most well-resourced and sophisticated they have ever seen in New Zealand,” NZX’s Chief Executive, Mark Peterson said in a statement on Monday.
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Mozilla revealed on Monday that the upcoming Firefox 68 will address TLS issues caused by antiviruses by automatically making changes to the browser’s configuration when a man-in-the-middle (MitM) error is detected.
The problems began in December, when Mozilla released Firefox 65. After the launch of this version, the organization started seeing a significant rise in TLS errors that are often triggered by how security software interacts with Firefox.
Security software in many cases needs to inspect the content of HTTPS connections in order to detect threats, and it does this by installing its own root certificates on the device.
Unlike other web browsers, which rely on the operating system’s root store to determine if a certificate is trusted, Firefox maintains its own list of trusted certificate authorities (CAs). This means that the developers of security solutions need to properly configure Firefox for their software to be able to analyze encrypted traffic.
Firefox is designed to warn users when a potential MitM attack is detected and antiviruses have been increasingly triggering these types of warnings, preventing users from accessing websites over HTTPS.
The problem can be addressed by enabling the “enterprise roots” preference in Firefox, which causes the browser to import any root CAs added to the OS.
Mozilla said it initially considered adding a “Fix it” button to the MitM error pages to make it easy for users to enable the “enterprise roots” option, but ultimately decided to add a mechanism that would automatically enable the option and reload the page whenever a MitM error is detected.
The preference will remain enabled if the problem is fixed, unless it’s manually disabled by the user. Mozilla has also advised antivirus vendors to enable this preference themselves instead of adding their root CA to the browser’s root store.
This change will be implemented starting with Firefox 68, which is scheduled for release on July 9.
Version 68 of Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), which is often used in enterprise environments, will enable this preference by default to make it easier for administrators, who often require Firefox to recognize their organization’s own CA.
Mozilla also noted that users can see if a website is using an imported root CA certificate by clicking on the lock icon in the URL bar.
“It might cause some concern for Firefox to automatically trust CAs that haven’t been audited and gone through the rigorous Mozilla process,” said Wayne Thayer, CA program manager at Mozilla. “However, any user or program that has the ability to add a CA to the OS almost certainly also has the ability to add that same CA directly to the Firefox root store. Also, because we only import CAs that are not included with the OS, Mozilla maintains our ability to set and enforce the highest standards in the industry on publicly-trusted CAs that Firefox supports by default. In short, the changes we’re making meet the goal of making Firefox easier to use without sacrificing security.”
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Loss caused by theft of customer information and costs of security incidents response is rising according to a new ENISA report. Security breaches in financial organisations can cause heavy financial losses. Employee information security awareness is the way forward, EU Agency white paper claims.
Safeguarding personal and financial data is key for the financial services industry. According to the 2008 report of the UK Financial Services Authority financial services firms could significantly reconsider their approaches to data security. Both the costs for less by theft of customer information and the cost of responding to security incidents are rising. Security breaches in financial organisations damages both reputation and causes heavy financial losses, difficult to recover from.
Employees are now considered the single most likely cause of security incidents, confirmed in many international surveys (2007 Global State of Security, the 2008 BERR survey, et al). BERR reports that 47% of large businesses suffer from staff misuse of information systems. Technical solutions are no longer the solution nowadays. The cost for training staff constitutes an important financial commitment for any organisation.
The report is an assessment of the environment of financial organisations and their main business drivers. It presents the landscape of international standards, legislation and certification objectives together with major risks, threats and end-users behaviour. Moreover, the paper covers the different phases of implementation of awareness raising programme in financial organisations and assessment of results. It is imperative that all roles are clearly defined and match them to the corresponding security topics, as identified in tables in the report. Finally, the paper contains practical advice, a set of 20 recommendations and 7 case studies provided by a number of financial organisations around Europe. The ENISA Virtual Working Group on "How to organise awareness raising programmes in financial organisations" contributed to this paper. | https://www.darkreading.com/risk/financial-services-industry-needs-to-better-educate-employees-about-security-enisa |
Most people are familiar with phishing, which occurs when cyber criminals, posing as a legitimate company, try to acquire sensitive information. Scammers lure people to bogus websites, where they’re tricked into providing personal or sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, bank and credit card account numbers, or Social Security numbers. Phishing emails may also include malicious links or attachments that automatically activate malware when clicked.
Spear phishing is a more sophisticated, focused approach that targets specific organizations, and very often specific individuals, with a goal of stealing financial information, trade secrets and other confidential data. It’s a more customized form of hacking. Some spear phishing emails appear to be from executives or authority figures within the recipient’s organization. In this form of attack, known as business email compromise, the hacker often asks the recipient to wire money or pay a bogus invoice.
Phishing attacks continue to increase in frequency and sophistication. According to the fifth annual State of the Phish Report, 83 percent of cybersecurity professionals surveyed said their organizations experienced phishing attacks in 2018, up from 76 percent in 2017. Spear phishing increased to 64 percent from 53 percent.
90 percent of targeted security threats originate in email.
Tips to Avoid Email Threats
While more modern, sophisticated threats can be difficult to detect, there are steps you can take to avoid becoming the victim of a phishing scam and compromising your own or your employer’s private information.
Use common sense. For example, phishing emails often contain cryptic messages such as “your account is past due” with a PDF attachment that’s purportedly an invoice or statement. Or, out of the blue, you may receive a link that’s supposedly to an electronic document that you’re supposed to e-sign. If it’s suspicious, delete it.
Look for obvious warning signs. Phishing emails often include a greeting such as “Dear User” or “Hello” with no name after it. Also, if you received an email from a legitimate, established company, it wouldn’t come from a Gmail address, and the company wouldn’t need you to provide your credentials.
Hover or “mouse” over links. This will usually show you the URL without having to click the link. If it looks the least bit suspicious, don’t click it, or call the organization’s customer service line for verification.
Make sure your operating system, browser, applications and security are up to date. You reduce the risk of a security breach when your online tools are current.
GDS can also assist you with Advanced Email Security Services that are fully monitored and managed around the clock. Our solution prevents most phishing and other attacks from ever reaching users’ inboxes, and uses continuous analysis to determine if delivered emails could be malicious. Vigilant end-users, combined with powerful security solutions from GDS, reduce the risk that malicious email will cause devastating downtime and data loss. | https://www.getgds.com/resources/blog/cybersecurity/email-security-threats-are-more-prevalent-and-dangerous-than-ever |
Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three of these bulletins get our maximum severity rating of Critical. The rest are rated Important. However, we encourage customers to test and deploy all applicable security updates as soon as possible.
The three Critical bulletins get our highest deployment priority this month. Those are:
MS10-033 is a remote code execution vulnerability in both Quartz.dll and Asycfilt.dll and is rated Critical on all supported versions of Windows. Specially crafted media files could trigger the vulnerability when a user visits a web page or opens a malicious file.
MS10-032 is an elevation of privilege issue in the affected Microsoft products. There is a potential remote vector if applications fail to properly request the length of the buffer when calling the affected API. All Microsoft applications make this call properly but there may be applications out there that do not. Regardless, installing this update addresses the issue for all vectors. See our Security Research & Defense (SRD) blog for more details on this one.
MS10-036 is a COM validation update. The issue could result in an attack through ActiveX in Office applications. This is not a new attack vector but the underlying vulnerability is and the bulletin addresses it. For additional clarification, I want to point out that Office XP does not have the architecture needed for the update. However, for customers running Office XP on Windows XP or newer operating systems, we have made a shim available that protects against the vulnerability. The shim can be installed via a Microsoft FixIt which can be downloaded from KB983235.
MS10-039 is a SharePoint related update, closing out Security Advisory 983438 which addressed an elevation of privilege vulnerability. We are not currently aware of any attacks against this issue.
As usual, our SRD team has written several blog posts that go in to details on some of this month’s bulletins and I encourage customers to review those for additional insight: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd.
If you have questions about the June bulletins, please attend our public webcast tomorrow which I will be hosting with Adrian Stone from the MSRC. We will go in to additional details on each bulletin and along with a room full of subject matter experts attempt to address all of your questions. Here’s how to register: | https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2010/06/08/june-2010-security-bulletin-release/ |
Yesterday, Synopsys, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WhiteHat Security, a leading provider of application security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The addition of WhiteHat Security will provide Synopsys with significant SaaS capabilities and market-segment-leading dynamic application security testing (DAST) technology to strengthen what is considered one of the industry’s broadest application security testing portfolio. Synopsys and WhiteHat Security, which was acquired by NTT Security Corporation in 2019, share a vision for delivering SaaS-based security testing solutions and building security into the software development lifecycle.
Under the terms of the transaction, Synopsys will pay approximately $330 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Synopsys’ fiscal Q3 2022. Based on its preliminary review, Synopsys currently expects the acquisition to be roughly neutral to FY2022 non-GAAP earnings per share.
“WhiteHat Security helped pioneer SaaS delivery of application security testing and brings powerful technology and expertise into our application security portfolio,” said Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. “WhiteHat Security’s DAST capabilities complement our strengths in static analysis, interactive analysis and software composition analysis, while their expertise in SaaS will accelerate our security testing SaaS capabilities. We are excited about the value this will create for our customers and welcome the WhiteHat Security team as they join us in our mission to build trust in the software that businesses depend on.” “We’re thrilled to join forces with Synopsys in the next phase of our journey,” said Craig Hinkley, chief executive officer of WhiteHat Security. “The combination of our respective strengths and our shared vision for the future of application security presents exciting opportunities for our customers and the broader market. We look forward to continuing to serve the loyal customers that have trusted WhiteHat Security for nearly 20 years and expanding our footprint as part of the larger Synopsys portfolio.”
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“”Breach of security” or “breach”, unauthorized access to and unauthorized acquisition of personal information maintained in computerized form by a person that compromises the security, confidentiality, or integrity of the personal information. Good faith acquisition of personal information by a person or that person’s employee or agent for a legitimate purpose of that person is not a breach of security, provided that the personal information is not used in violation of applicable law or in a manner that harms or poses an actual threat to the security, confidentiality, or integrity of the personal information; Personal information is a combination of (1) name or other identifying info, PLUS (2) one or more of these “data” elements: SSN; driver’s license number; or account number, credit card number, debit card number if accompanied by PIN, password, or access codes PLUS medical data.”
Of course this is just information taken from Missouri. Broader definitions may apply to your specific situation.
Digital viruses and other methods are used to steal client payment and credit card information at the time of a purchase or order.
Do not underestimate those who want to prey on your clients personal information by hacking into your businesses network, personal computers and servers. You need to believe that it really is a war of small business against the bad guys!
And 60% of small businesses that suffer a cyber attack or data breach will have to close up their business within 6 months following an attack.
$217 is the average cost for each client record exposed or compromised.
Let’s do some math. If your company holds 300 customer files with personal information and you suffer a data breach loss, if you’re average, that means you will potentially spend $65,100 on legal, notifications and other steps you must take. That’s a small business! What if your business holds information on 1000 clients? $217,000!
Cyber attacks not only have an associated direct monetary cost but there are additional, unexpected losses that may be incurred. Loss of income due to loss of business, loss of client trust in your business not to mention potential for law suits for damages are just a few of the additional costs a small business may incur.
I’d like to say it’s simple thing to properly protect your business from a data breach or cyber attack, but it is not. Most business owners do not realize that they are in a full scale war against cyber crime. A war against cyber hackers and those who want to steal their client’s information. But it’s not only their client’s information at risk as I’ve pointed out above.
Yes, it’s stealing. How about another word, robbery. How about theft? I’d venture to say most business operations are more prepared and ready to respond against a physical robbery or physical break in than a cyber attack. While the physical assault potential may have increased over the past few years, the opportunity for loss from cyber attacks has grown exponentially. After all, what crook wants to hold a gun in a business owners face when they can simply rob the business blind while sitting on their couch at home!
Kind of sad if you think about it. The crooks have moved ahead while so many business owners have not. The crooks or thief’s who practice cyber attacks and cyber theft or data breach are well schooled in the data protective measures available to small business owners. And they know how to breach a small business owners network. They know how to scrap client data. And they know how to sell that data to those who pay a top price.
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A anti-virus review provides you with information about the reliability, performance, and features of different antivirus software program. It will also tell you about the reliability for these programs.
A large number of ratings will use several criteria to ascertain their rating. For example , they will look at just how effective this software is at finding known dangers, phishing, and zero-day hazards. Some antiviruses will include features like a safeguarded web browser, password manager, or perhaps file security. These features can be useful for certain users.
AV-Test’s September-October 2021 testing observed that Direction Micro Antivirus+ Security provided lower than ordinary false advantages. In addition to their standard safety, the antivirus program offers quick and custom runs.
The Webroot app possesses a clean user interface, easy to use, and provides decent phishing protection. But it really lacks the advanced features of its Android and iOS counterparts.
Norton 360 is actually a powerful anti-virus product https://antivirusmonster.com/the-general-overview-of-avg-antivirus/ that includes normal protection for Glass windows and Mac pc computers. In addition, it has a powerful optimizer to speed up your phone. Contrary to its competition, Norton 360 does not provide PC Wellness cleanup equipment. However , it will do offer a safe browsing program that marks unsafe links.
Other superior options via difficulties players happen to be Bitdefender Antivirus security software Plus and McAfee. Both have good spyware and adware diagnosis scores, however they have significant background lots. TotalAV, however, identifies trojans before it is downloaded.
There are also several totally free antiviruses that you can purchase. However , the majority of do not furnish real-time checking. That makes it tough for them to match new malware. | https://sayka.cl/what-to-anticipate-from-an-antivirus-review/ |
An antivirus software blog can be an very helpful resource for users of anti-virus software. These types of blogs will be written by pros and go over the latest secureness threats. They may as well present review articles of the most popular antivirus applications. By reading these blogs on a regular basis, you are able to ensure that your strategy is protected against malicious anonymous threats. There is also ratings of antivirus applications, which can be very helpful when choosing a new one.
Antivirus software program blogs are helpful for those who are new to pcs, as they give insider information about the latest applications available. They will also reveal tips and advice on safe internet browsing. Some of the most well-known security computer software providers just like ZoneAlarm as well publish anti virus blogs. These types of blogs characteristic tips and reports flashes in safe surfing strategies.
A great antivirus software program blog is users with important information regarding security hazards, privacy concerns, and the greatest security programs. Many of these weblogs also offer feedback of anti-virus applications, which are often very useful to any person using the software. There is no motive not to use this00 invaluable source of computer secureness. If you want to take care of computer protected from cyber problems, antivirus applications are essential. It might protect your personal computer from vicious threats, which can break the system, gain access to your id, or even cause financial damage.
In addition to malware and viruses, ant-virus programs may also detect rootkits, which can be bots or worms that hide inside the system. These types of malicious applications can damage the body or even the web server that works it. Spy ware can also destruction your system by wiping out crucial files, generating ads, and thieving your id. Antivirus applications are designed to identify these adware and spyware and shield your system through the worst conceivable threat — cyberattacks. | https://www.local493.org/antivirus-security-software-software-weblog/ |
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With the demand to set up a remote workforce quickly and efficiently, organizations face new challenges around controlling exactly who has access to corporate data outside the safety of the office network.
Authentication plays a central role in cybersecurity and the evolution to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has helped better secure access. But cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics -- including adding artificial intelligence to their toolkit. As a result, identity and access management (IAM) systems are rapidly implementing very sophisticated AI to further strengthen their security offerings.
MFA provides that critical layer of security and leveraging AI can make the technology more impactful, both in terms of improved security as well as minimal disruptions for end users. | https://ing.dk/insights/how-to-leverage-ai-powered-multi-factor-authentication-mfa-remote-work-241661 |
On your Android smartphone, go to myaccount.google.com/security.
[Under Sign in to Google, select 2-step verification process.
[Scroll to Security Keys and tap the right arrow.
Tap “Add Security Key” in the lower left corner.
Select the “Network” icon on the far right side of the taskbar.
On the Wi-Fi quick setting, select Manage Wi-Fi connections (>).
Select the desired Wi-Fi network and choose Connect.
Enter the network password and select Next.
If you lose your key or decide you no longer want to use the key, you can remove it from your account. Stop using your security key
Go to the 2-step verification section of your Google Account. You may need to sign in.
Select Edit next to the key you wish to remove.
Using your computer or mobile device, open a web browser.
In the address bar, type the router IP address noted in the previous step and press Enter. | https://firstsafeguarding.com/protection-of-life/what-is-network-security-code.html |
Whenever SAS does a system scan (I have it set to auto at 2AM) I am not getting the screen when its done telling me that it found or did not find anything. It always did that before.
Also SAS no longer starts at bootup, I have to start it manually. | https://forums.superantispyware.com/topic/1335-completed-scan-screen/ |
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Here, look for DealRunner or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
Wait until you see Applications folder and look for DealRunner or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for DealRunner and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
Click Settings to open more options.
Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
Find this folder on your computer: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft. MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
Here, select DealRunner and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete DealRunner removal.
Here, select DealRunner and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings.
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
Click Reset to confirm this action and complete DealRunner removal.
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
Here, select Extensions and look for DealRunner or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
Reset Safari
Here, select Reset Safari....
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete DealRunner removal process.
Use the QR scanner to get instructions on your mobile device.
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Cloudwick’s new, first-of-a-kind cybersecurity platform solution combined with Dataiku DSS enables teams to explore, prototype, build, and deliver their own data-driven solutions, including threat analysis, reporting, and more.
NEW YORK, NY – October 3, 2016 – Cloudwick, the leading open source services and solutions provider, has today announced a technology partnership with advanced analytics software maker, Dataiku, to advance cybersecurity. CDAP is a managed cybersecurity data hub platform that ingests and stores trillions of events from PCAP, Netflow, Proxy, IDS/IPS logs, syslog and firewall logs for advanced cybersecurity. CDAP is the first big data cybersecurity platform to provide complete threat visibility, replay and analysis for the Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst, forensic analyst and data scientist. CDAP is offered as both a managed data center and cloud data hub for cybersecurity “. Today’s cybersecurity solutions lack the capabilities required to provide complete cyber threat visibility, data democratization for IDS, IPS, SIEM and advanced analytics due to ingestion, compute and storage limitations,” said Mani Chhabra, Cloudwick CEO. “CDAP modernizes enterprise and service provider cybersecurity and provides a new level for threat detection and prevention.”
Built on Intel Xeon technology and Cloudera’s industry leading Hadoop distribution Cloudera Enterprise, CDAP provides a turnkey cybersecurity data hub platform that provides new cybersecurity capabilities from leading advanced analytic vendors and open source machine learning projects like Apache Spot, and it enhances and extends the capabilities of SIEMs, IDS, IPS, Snort and other traditional tools.
By partnering with Dataiku and enabling the Dataiku DSS advanced analytics software platform on CDAP, teams can explore, prototype, build, and deliver their own data-driven solutions, including threat analysis, reporting, and more.
“For organizations that need tailored data security, Dataiku DSS and CDAP enable teams to build their own,” said Florian Douetteau, CEO and co-founder of Dataiku. “There are specific environments, such as healthcare and financial, in which a custom security solution is required, whether for compliance or procedural reasons. CDAP simplifies cybersecurity and enables organizations to develop their own solution. Dataiku is proud to partner with Cloudwick to provide businesses flexibility in this way.”
We are redefining how cyber threats are handled and a partner ecosystem is a critical asset to our strategy and customers,” said Thaddeus Blake, Cloudwick VP of Alliances. “We’re excited to partner with Dataiku and other independent software vendors who want to develop applications on top of CDAP to deliver increasingly valuable insight to global enterprises so they stay ahead of today’s growing cybersecurity threats.”
Dataiku develops Dataiku Data Science Studio, the unique advanced analytics software solution that enables companies to build and deliver their own data products more efficiently. Thanks to a collaborative and team-based user interface for data scientists and beginner analysts, to a unified framework for both development and deployment of data projects, and to immediate access to all the features and tools required to design data products from scratch, users can easily apply machine learning and data science techniques to all types, sizes, and formats of raw data to build and deploy predictive data flows.
More than 100 customers in industries ranging from ecommerce, to industrial factories, to finance, to insurance, to healthcare, and pharmaceuticals use Dataiku DSS on a daily basis to collaboratively build predictive dataflows to detect fraud, reduce churn, optimize internal logistics, predict future maintenance issues, and more. Dataiku has offices in Paris, New York, and in the Bay Area.
Dataiku raised $3.7 million this year from two investors to grow its sales and tech team and international development initiatives. | http://www.moneyandtechnology.com/2016/10/03/dataiku-cloudwick-announce-technology-partnership-improve-cybersecurity/ |
‘Phishing’ is the term that is used to refer to emails that trick people into giving out their personal and banking information. These messages are made to seem realistic and to come from legitimate businesses such as banks or other financial institutions or telecommunications providers. These scammers are attempting to get information from you like your bank account numbers, passwords and credit card numbers, which they will then use to steal your money and identity.
These phishing emails are becoming frighteningly realistic and often look genuine and use what look to be genuine email addresses and also use a copy the institution’s logo and message format. It is also common for phishing messages to contain links to websites that are convincing fakes of real companies’ home pages to get you to enter your personal details.
You receive an email claiming to be from a financial institution or telecommunication provider that you don’t have an account with.
You receive an email from a claiming to be from a financial institution or telecommunication provider that you do have an account with asking you to follow a link that leads you to a website where you are prompted to enter your bank account details. As a rule – no bank institution will send you an email requesting you to follow a link or provide details personal details. They will always call you if they require anything from you.
The email that is not addressed to you by your proper name.
You receive an email that contains typing errors and grammatical mistakes.
You receive an email that states that your details are needed for a security and maintenance upgrade, to ‘verify’ your account or to protect you from a fraud threat. The email might even state that you are due to receive a refund for a bill or other fee that it claims you have been charged
How to Protect yourself from phishing scams
NEVER provide credit card details or bank account details to anyone online that you do not know and trust. Always use a secure method of payment such as Paypal.
NEVER provide personal, credit card or bank account details over the phone unless you initiated the call and know that the phone number is the correct number for that organisation.
If you believe the email is SPAM, do not open it and delete the email immediately
NEVER click on any links or open any attachments from an email that you suspect to be a spam email.
NEVER call a telephone number that you see in a spam email. Call the company that has been posed in the email directly from a number on their website.
If you want to access an internet account website, use a bookmarked link or type the address in yourself—NEVER follow a link in an email.
Check the senders email address. It may look like a legitimate email address but could differ from actual address or may have a typo. For example, a legit email from Paypal will come from [email protected] whereas a scam email may come from [email protected]. Always check the address.
Check the website address carefully. Scammers often set up fake websites with very similar addresses.
NEVER enter your personal, credit card or online account information on a website if you are not certain it is genuine. Check the spelling of the address and make sure it is a secure address. The web address should always start with Https://
NEVER send your personal, credit card or online account details through an email. | https://supertechman.com.au/gone-phishing/ |
Do not share personal information.
Do not store sensitive information.
Use a strong anti-malware program.
Different types of vulnerabilities:.
Software Vulnerabilities – Software vulnerabilities are when an application contains errors or bugs.
Firewall Vulnerabilities – Firewall vulnerabilities are when the application contains errors or bugs. | https://firstsafeguarding.com/protection-of-life/what-are-the-top-three-most-significant-cloud-security-threats.html |
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