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In a much expected move, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has called for adults above the age of 40 and above to go for type 2 diabetes test. However, for residents of South Asian, Chinese, African-Caribbean or Black African descent, age limit recommended is at least 25.
One can go for the assessment from their GP surgery or community pharmacy and that’s what can make them all the more conscious of their health. Apart from this, they can also go for self assessments online.
It is believed that timely assessment can do wonders for people. There is need for people to be made more aware of the disease and its diagnosis so that they can get in touch with their GPs for further treatment before things become all the more worst. In the name of an "evidence-based, intensive lifestyle-change programme", people can get themselves identified with the onset of type 2 diabetes.
It is known that one can suffer from Type 2 diabetes in case the body refuses to produce the required insulin level. With some three million people in the UK affected with the disease, it is believed that there are many more who would succumb to the disease, says Professor Mike Kelly, director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence at Nice.
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In a recent interview with Computerworld's JR Raphael, Android vice president of engineering Hiroshi Lockheimer described the new security system that's being added to version 4.2 of Android.
"The feature is an extension of the security technology Google introduced for the Play Store this past February," Raphael writes. "While that technology worked exclusively on the server side, analyzing apps that were uploaded to the Play Store, the new system works with your device and scans any apps you install from third-party sources (a process known as 'sideloading')."Android’s security system is opt-in. Users who download an app from a third-party source will be prompted the first time around to let Google check them for harmful behavior," writes SlashGear's Brittany Hillen. "The users can then opt-in by tapping 'Agree,' or dismiss it and take the risk. If you opt-out the first time around but change your mind later on, you can enable the feature in Security via Settings. "Enabling the added security via settings adds a new step to the installation process: Google will sample a given app and compare it to a broad list of 'known applications' that combines Play's catalog with popular apps that may not be available in the store," writes The Verge's Chris Welch. "(Purchases made from Amazon's Appstore for Android fall into this category, for instance.) Most installations will proceed as normal, but in the rare event that Google detects a problem, it will prevent things from proceeding any further. "In addition to identifying malicious apps before they’re installed -- or at least attempting to do so -- the system will also warn users when they’re about to send SMS messages to premium numbers, thus letting them to allow or cancel the text," writes Android Authority's Chris Smith. "Assuming malware apps do get installed on Android 4.2 devices, and assuming their monetization scheme involves quietly sending such costly texts to short numbers, the feature could save users spending money they don’t know they’re actually spending." | https://www.esecurityplanet.com/mobile-security/google-explains-enhanced-security-features-of-android-4.2.html |
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Cybersecurity company Zec0ps has uncovered exploitable vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS MobileMail application, which is found on iPhones and iPads. In its report Zec0ps said: “we surmise with high confidence that these vulnerabilities – in particular, the remote heap overflow – are widely exploited in the wild in targeted attacks by an advanced threat operator(s).”
Suspected targets of this type of attach include individuals from a Fortune 500 organisation in North America, an executive from a carrier in Japan, a journalist in Europe, and other high-level executives.
The earliest attack of this type is believed to be from January 2018 on iOS 11.2.2. However, Zec0ps believes that the vulnerability has existed in the Mail app since at least iOS6, released in 2012.
Zec0ps found that all the tested iOS versions have this vulnerability, including iOS 13.4.1. The remote heap overflow vulnerability can even be triggered without any user interaction on iOS13, meaning a victim wouldn’t even have to click on a link.
Additional kernel vulnerability would provide full device access.
Victims would most likely not be able to tell if they were hacked, as the only sign of it is a temporary slow down or a sudden crash of the application. In failed attacks, emails sent by the attacker would show the message “This message has no content” (see example below).
In order to have the best chance of avoiding this type of cyberattack, Zec0ps said: “To mitigate these issues – you can use the latest beta available. Once a Mail app has been compromised, the hacker could leak, modify and delete emails. If using a beta version is not possible, consider disabling the Mail application.” Outlook and Gmail are not vulnerable.
The newly released beta update of 13.4.5 does contain a patch for these vulnerabilities.
Source: Zec0ps
The cybersecurity firm said that they were aware of at least one ‘hackers-for-hire’ organisation selling exploits that used vulnerabilities that leverage email addresses as a key identifier. | https://www.channelnews.com.au/hackers-for-hire-exploit-security-vulnerability-found-in-apples-mail-app/ |
Cybersecurity is for every company.
Cybersecurity isn’t reserved for major corporations that collect huge sets of credit data and personal information. Every company that relies on the internet must be aware of today’s cybersecurity risks and take steps to close vulnerabilities.
The details below will inform you on the steps to take to decrease the chances of a cyber attack. This is a apt starting point for a company’s IT support to handle with minimal budget changes.
Beyond developing plans for our clients, implementing the strategies and proactively monitoring their digital security, it’s our role as a managed services provider to educate technology-reliant businesses on cybersecurity best practices.
*Note – every company is unique. This is meant to be a guideline, not a guaranteed protection template. For in-depth assistance, contact us for a consultation.
1. Develop the framework of a cybersecurity plan
Decide who in your organization will be responsible for developing, implementing, and enforcing the cybersecurity policy.
While you may decide to enlist the help of a MSP for the implementation of cybersecurity, you need a senior management personnel within the company who will be the point person and have the authority to make high-level decisions. This will be especially important in case of a breach where quick action is needed to mitigate loss.
Document, document, document.
The more comprehensive you are, the better prepared your company will be in the event of a breach or cyber attack. Clearly lay out your goals, commitments, plans and procedures ( see Step 2 ).
Define how each role in the company (from CEO to entry-level) is responsible for adhering to cyber policy.
For example, stating that each employee must follow the company’s internet policy and keep their devices updated at all times.
2. Review & implement your existing information security policies.
You likely already have several “lower tier” security policies in place, such as an Acceptable Use Policy and an Internet Access Policy. These dictate a particular set of rules for employees to follow to help protect your network’s security.
If you don’t have these in place, create them.
These policies cover use of company laptops, cell phones, email procedures, internet usage, remote access, and employee-owned devices.
Plan on reviewing these policies yearly to ensure they cover any new advancements in cyber technology.
Set up yearly training as needed.
3. Employee Education on Cybersecurity
Your policies will only be as good as your employees’ knowledge and willingness to adhere to them. In addition to the points above, here are 3 specific action items to take:
Arm your employees against email phishing scams. The more knowledgeable they are against how and what phishing scams look like , the safer your digital assets will be.
Educate on how hackers are most likely to get into your system . Many times it’s “simple” things like an employee ignoring a Windows security patch update that can create a vulnerability for a hacker to exploit.
Make sure your employees know what to do if they think there is any type of security breach. Who do they alert first? Define your internal escalation process and practice it with your employees. You don’t want a real crisis to occur and only then learn of weak spots in your process.
4. Physical Security Helps Ensure Cybersecurity
With all the focus on protecting these digital assets, it could be easy to overlook steps needed to protect the physical devices that house your cyber information.
Is your data center secure? Is it housed in a location where only authorized personnel can get in and out? Don’t forget to check that list of personnel periodically to ensure that ex-employees no longer have access.
Is your office space secure? How easy is it for “the public” to come in and walk around? Laptops, cell phones, and USB drives can be swiped under your nose, and with it, granting access to your network with hardly any effort.
While you may find yourself frustrated at the complexities of creating (and remembering) an acceptable password for the different applications you use in your daily personal life, there is of course, a good reason for it. You need to be doing the same thing for your business.
Implement a password policy. Employees should be using complex, random, long passwords or password phrases (recommended to be at least 10 characters) to log into their devices, in addition to any linked business accounts.
Incorporate a schedule to change passwords on a regular basis
Consider adding two-factor authentication to regularly-accessed accounts. This would be the strong password plus answering a “secret question”, PIN, or even providing biometric data like a fingerprint.
Do not store any passwords in spreadsheets or word documents. It’s just too easy to breach these. Look into secure password programs for your employees that need to access linked accounts. The programs act like a vault, auto-populating passwords into sites (that the employees have been cleared for) without displaying what the password is.
The following steps are more advanced and may require the assistance of a Managed Services Provider.
7. Decommissioning Users and Devices
Terminated employees, even those that leave on good terms, can become security liabilities, intentionally or not.
Have a procedure in place to decommission user accounts and devices.
Your IT department should have a log of what devices are loaned to which employees to ensure proprietary equipment is returned.
8. Have a Centrally-Managed Antivirus & Malware Programs
Viruses, ransomware, keyloggers, botnets, Trojans–the cyber world is full of devious, malicious programs. Unfortunately, there is not really one antivirus or antimalware program to rule them all. The best security system will have multiple layers of protection.
Not sure which programs would be best to protect your business? Contact us for a consultation.
9. Limit Access to Critical Assets
Not everyone in the company will have the same “need to know” access to information and passwords. Your marketing team, for example, doesn’t need to have full access to your developers’ sandboxes. Nor do customer service reps need to see your accounting spreadsheets for the whole company.
Set up proper privileges for each employee. Review these on a periodic basis.
10. Third Party Patch Management and Windows Updates
As mentioned in Step 3 , keeping up-to-date on patch updates to operating systems and softwares is critical. Not updating leaves your network and devices vulnerable to hackers.
It can become a time-consuming task to follow up on every employee and device to ensure patches have been applied. Utilizing managed IT services to oversee this process for you can free up valuable resources.
*Important note: Microsoft is sunsetting Windows 7 in the upcoming year. Contact us about planning a transition strategy when this change takes place.*
11. Advanced Threat Protection: Firewall Packet Inspection
Firewalls are a critical component to your company’s network security. And as cyber crime increases and evolves, so does firewall security by necessity. How comfortable are you with managing your firewall? How about when it comes to determining whether you want to use a stateful inspection versus a packet-filtering firewall?
Determine what your current firewall settings are and if they are optimized for your organization.
12. Continuous Vulnerability Scanning
It cannot be understated that cybersecurity requires constant vigilance. While your company laptops may be up-to-date and protected by your resources today, a vulnerability in the software could be discovered overnight–and cyber criminals are quick to pinpoint these weak spots.
For large organizations, continuous scanning can also provide insight into performance trends (of the security system), be connected to feeds, provide authentication scans and more.
13. Disaster Recovery and Replication
Take a moment to imagine all of your digital assets have been wiped out. Now wipe that cold sweat of your forehead and breathe a sigh of relief if you have all that data backed-up and securely stored (in a location that is not your main server).
Ensure you have a regular backup schedule and the information is stored securely.
The threat of cyber attacks requires a multi-layered approach and strategy. Having a managed services provider at your side can ease the stress of setting up, implementing, and maintaining the resources to keep your business safe and up-and-running.
For help with your cybersecurity planning, contact Copeland today. | https://www.copelanddata.com/blog/how-to-develop-a-cybersecurity-plan/ |
The new Dubai Declaration was presented to President Aliu during a special ceremony at the UN agency’s inaugural Cyber Summit and Exhibition in Dubai, which ran from 4-6 April and being conducted in close partnership with the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates.
“New and more sophisticated digital technologies and processes are coming online daily it seems, impacting as they do our network and its relationships with shippers and the travelling public,” President Aliu stressed to the more than 500 experts from 90+ countries attending the ICAO Summit.
“What this means for cyber security and cyber safety stakeholders is that threats are emerging at an ever-increasing rate.”
At ICAO’s 39th Assembly last October, world governments signaled their awareness and concern on cyber risks and threats through Resolution A39-19 on Addressing Cyber security in Civil Aviation. Concerning variations currently persist among States, air navigation service providers, aircraft and airport operators, and others in terms of the cyber mitigation measures being set out – highlighting the need for improved sector-wide collaboration.
“Some may suggest this points to a role for near-term ICAO provisions to be established,” President Aliu continued, “however we are still at too nascent a stage to determine appropriate and practical standards in the Annexes to the Convention on International Civil Aviation.”
He also noted that civil aviation should continue to appreciate and reinforce the inherent mitigation capabilities of pilots and air traffic controllers, aviation’s traditional ‘first responders’, and highlighted that the sector’s increasing connectivity to external networks, and the use of public communication infrastructure for transmitting data and exchanging information, represent further risks which must be carefully managed.
“The basic interconnectedness we have all grown accustomed to in our day-to-day digital lives is now also a basic characteristic of on-board and ground-based aviation systems,” he remarked.
“This makes them potentially vulnerable to outside cyber-attack, and explains why the logical or physical segregation of safety critical systems is a crucial first step for global aviation.”
The conclusions and commemorative Dubai Declaration emerging from the ICAO/UAE Summit will help to establish near-term prioritization of suitable back-up systems and procedures, cyber resilience steps, and security overlays, in addition to the more intensive collaboration needed and clarity on roles and responsibilities.
Much of this strategic planning and guidance will be enshrined in ICAO’s new Global Aviation Security Plan (GASeP), the development of which is being fast-tracked after calls for its accelerated development by world States. The GASeP is expected to be launched by the end of 2017, following a State consultation period. | http://www.gcaa.com.gh/extweb/index.php/article1/item/364-icao-summit-formalizes-new-dubai-declaration-to-ensure-global-aviation-remains-united-proactive-on-cyber-security-preparedness |
While all Internet attacks obviously require a certain level of sophistication, in the world of cyberwarfare the Directed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the most simple: ping a target server with more requests than it can handle, so legitimate users can’t get through or the server crashes.
It can also be effective, which is why the DDoS has become a common form of cyberattack, now bring employed by countries as cyberware gains state-sponsorship.
This week, expertIP looks at some of the more high-profile DDoS attacks in cyberhistory. | http://blog.allstream.com/five-dastardly-distributed-denial-of-service-attacks/ |
The Director of the National Center for Cyber Security at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Dr. Basel Alomair, said Saudi Arabia was subjected to 60 million cyber attacks in 2015, meaning the kingdom witnessed 164,000 cyber attacks a day.
Speaking during the Jubail Cyber Security Conference, Omair said that 120 countries plan to use the internet to launch cyber attacks, adding that hackers change their strategy on a daily basis.
“We must be one step ahead of them to protect ourselves,” he said.
He also said that cyber attacks get more complicated each year, adding that the rate of successful attacks per year is 18% while the rate of failed ones is 26%, i.e. an average of 445 billion.
IT engineer Afnan Shoudri, an information technology expert, said that some private and governmental sectors have greatly contributed to technological development while neglecting to develop the systems that protect users. | https://english.alarabiya.net/media/digital/2017/05/02/60-million-cyber-attacks-targeted-Saudi-Arabia-in-one-year |
Any data that travels across wires or through the air is vulnerable. Depending on the value of the data and the need to protect it, network managers often elect to encrypt transmissions. This, essentially, uses an algorithm, called a key that changes the data before it is sent. The receiving station then uses the key to restore the data to its original content.
Although encryption is an effective privacy safeguard, it can vary based on the type and size of the key. Smaller keys are easier to break than larger keys. However, longer keys require more computation, and this can slow transmissions.
In addition, companies must ensure that the keys they use remain protected. In response to the vulnerability of the keys, some vendors use asymmetric encryption that uses two keys. The sending station creates a unique key, private key and encrypts that key using a public key. The receiving system recognizes the public key, decrypts the private key and uses that to decipher the actual message.
Keys can be any size, but most range from 40-bits to 256-bits. Popular types of encryption include:
WEP (Wired Equivalency Privacy) -- specification for wireless connections; the current standards call for 40-bit encryption, but a 128-bit specification is planned.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Encryption -- implements public and private encryption keys to secure transmission.
DES (Data Encryption Standard) -- implements a 56-bit key for encryption.
3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard) -- uses multiple keys and multiple encryption/decryption passes to enhance the security provided by simple DES.
IPSec (IP Security) -- provides encryption for the IP protocol. Network managers can choose to encrypt the entire packet or only the data. The workstation uses a public key that triggers a proprietary key from the server that exists for the session.
PKCS (Public Key Cryptograph Standard) -- provides encryption keys for workstations outside of the corporation. The most popular version in use number 11.
Blowfish, also know as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) -- allows systems to negotiate a complex number for each session. The number serves as the key for scrambling and restoring data during transmission. | https://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsecur/article.php/881471/CrossNodes-Briefing-Encryption-Products.htm |
Note: This Kibana verification step is not required and it may be easier to simply skip to the next section if you're not already comfortable with creating "system" index patterns in Kibana.
First, let’s make sure we’re working with the correct Kibana deployment. For Elastic Cloud users, this will simply be the Kibana instance within the same deployment as Workplace Search.
On the left side, click on Deployments > [deployment name] Kibana.
Once in Kibana, verify via Discover that you can match on the following index pattern: .ent-search-workplace-search-analytics-ecs-ilm-logs-*.
For other types of installations, we need to ensure that the Kibana deploy we’re working with is pointing at the same Elasticsearch cluster as Workplace Search. This is because Workplace Search stores analytics event data directly in Elasticsearch indices. Don’t worry, Workplace Search is making use of index lifecycle management to ensure older analytics data gets aged out.
Next, we will take that ndjson file and plug it into Kibana using the UI.
From the main sidebar of your Kibana instance, look near the bottom and find Stack Management.
From there, we want to click into Saved Objects.
Our next step is to click Import and select our ndjson file. Once you do so, you will see a green check mark that acknowledges success, followed by a new set of objects in the Saved Objects list.
With our objects in place, it is time to see our new dashboard.
Search volume: How many searches were invoked.
Click volume: How many results were clicked.
Top queries: The most common queries your team used.
Content source clicks: The number of clicks, by content source.
Elastic Workplace Search will continue to enhance this tracked analytics data. A usage question that’s still somewhat difficult to visualize in Kibana is: what are the top searches that result in zero clicks? A possible approach is to make use of transforms to produce summary events. For further reading on topics like this, you can find a great writeup in a prior blog post: Analyzing online search relevance metrics with the Elastic Stack. Rest assured, look for functionality like this and more in future versions of Workplace Search.
Workplace Search brings unified search across all of your organization’s workplace tools, like Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Salesforce, and more. Sign up for a free trial of Elastic Workplace Search on Elastic Cloud and bring a fast, functional organization-wide search experience to your team. A tremendous amount of key features are available for free under the Elastic Basic license. | https://www.elastic.co/blog/analyzing-elastic-workplace-search-usage-kibana-dashboard |
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Running penetration tests of a mature web application is always a great challenge. Systems are usually well hardened, and scanners fall short of flagging anything interesting, requiring an experienced security engineer to identify vulnerabilities using advanced exploitation methods.
On the other side, some applications are going for their first release ever or release after a major code change. That usually involves issues not related to security – for example, functional bugs, which the penetration testing team must address before they can provide valuable results.
Following are some of the key takeaways from a web application penetration test engagement we did recently, which involved web and mobile application sharing a common backend.
Not starting on time
Software projects are almost always late for various reasons. And for the same reasons, the scheduled penetration tests will not start on time because critical functional issues will have precedence. Or some bugs may be exposed only when the testing environment is set up for the testing.
According to the 2019 Gartner survey, 45% of products aren’t launched on time.
From those that do, 42% suffer from launch failures.
With hard go-live deadlines, the penetration test must be executed in a shorter time period, requiring last-minute availability arrangements of the workforce and may require additional help of subcontractors to cover the agreed number of hours.
Test platform issues
Ideally, the test platform will be ready on time and with code-freeze for the duration of the penetration test. In a not-so-ideal scenario, the platform will have to be shared with other teams, causing extra effort to rule out false positives because both teams can perform the same changes, causing confusion on each side.
If there is no code freeze, the development team will roll out releases with fixes. It is critical to agree on a testing plan so already tested parts of the system don’t have to be re-tested. This can be further enforced by having a changelog accompanying each code release.
Functional bugs
Errors in the tested applications should usually be already discovered by the client’s internal team testing the functionality before the penetration test. But as quick changes and last-minute hotfixes are applied, new bugs can be introduced to the code that can either hinder further penetration testing or must be reported to the client – eating away time of security experts that are not looking for security vulnerabilities but are writing functionality bug reports.
To address this issue, the estimated effort needs to account for handling functional bugs that will be encountered during the penetration testing.
Too many trivial vulnerabilities to report
Simple vulnerabilities take little time to detect, but they require detailed reporting with the same quality and effort as issues with higher severity. If there are too many simple issues, the security engineers will deplete the allocated time on them, leaving the serious ones untouched. The fact that low-impact findings are not the highest priority during the pre-release period is decreasing the value client is getting out of the penetration test even more, as they will be remediated later – usually after the release.
If daily updates about new findings are provided to the client, having too many findings will again take time allocated to testing for reporting these.
Basic vulnerability scanning should be integrated into the software development process to weed out the easy-to-spot issues using automated tools. The penetration test report should include more serious issues worth manual exploitation.
No time to test remediations
So eventually, security issues that were reported by the penetration testing team will be remediated by the developers and scheduled for a retest. But with the product already live, there will be untested remediations and potentially vulnerable code exposed to the Internet for some time.
In the past, there were a lot of examples where remediations were not done correctly, and just by slightly altering the payload, the original vulnerability would be again exploitable.
To be safe, plan the engagement a little ahead when high severity vulnerabilities are to be expected.
Below are some more lessons we learned that are more generic and are not related only to newly released web apps.
Do static code analysis first. It’s cheaper
Some vulnerabilities can be detected by static code analyzers or dynamic scanners (SAST and DAST), which can spot usual suspects quite easily in large codebases. Something that would be very tedious and not effective when done manually. Testers will spot and report some of the vulnerabilities, but the code coverage and number of findings will be significantly lower due to time constraints.
Penetration tests are usually performed as black-box engagement (which means no access to sources, system, logs, etc.), which should simulate a real-world scenario where attackers try to exploit systems without additional details. Nice idea, but there is one very limiting factor: the timeframe for the engagement. Let’s say both pen-testers and attackers find a loophole, where the application sends contents of a local file based on the filename provided as user input. To figure out all filenames on the system, a tool needs to be built that will try all possible letter/number combinations to disclose sensitive files and their content – and as there are a lot of combinations to try, it will eventually make the testers run out of time. They will report the issue but miss further exploitation steps that the attackers would leverage in real-life – maybe by using a different vulnerability.
So, in the end, the black-box approach will benefit mainly the attackers. | https://securityscorecard.com/blog/penetration-tests-of-newly-released-web-applications |
In languages like C, unsigned integer overflow reliably wraps around; e.g., UINT_MAX + 1 yields zero. C standard says that signed integer overflow leads to undefined behavior.
If operands are of different types while comparing, the compiler will promote all to the largest. If one is char and other is int, compiler will convert char to int. | https://sites.google.com/site/jestinjoy/course/advance-information-security-concepts |
Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.
Trojan:JS/Medfos.B is a malicious JavaScript file that redirects search queries when you search online using AOL, Ask, Bing, Google or Yahoo.
The trojan is usually installed by Trojan: Win32/Medfos.B as a Google Chrome browser extension called "ChromeUpdateManager 1.0". It is a member of the Win32/Medfos family, a family of trojans that install malicious extensions for Internet browsers and redirect search engine results.
In the wild , Trojan:JS/Medfos.B is usually dropped by Trojan: Win32/Medfos.B as "chromeupdate.crx" in the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder.
The file is a Google Chrome browser extension package that disguises itself as a legitimate Chrome extension. The package contains the file "manager.js", which is the malicious JavaScript file detected as Trojan:JS/Medfos.B.
We have observed the malware installed with the name "ChromeUpdateManager 1.0", as in the following image: | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Trojan%3AJS%2FMedfos.B |
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SIEMs have been the foundation of security operations for decades, and we should acknowledge that. However, SIEMs have made a lot of great promises, and to this day, have not fulfilled many of them, in particular, the vision of automatic correlation of detections holistically. This is the key problem we work to address at Stellar Cyber with our Open XDR platform.
Let’s clarify that claim. When you say correlation of detections, what do you mean and why can’t SIEMs do it?
Detections are an event that looks anomalous or malicious. And the issue today in a modern security operations center (SOC) is that detections can bubble up from many siloed tools. For example, you have firewall and network detection and response (NDR) for your network protection, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) for your endpoints’ protection and Cloud Application Security Broker(CASB) for your SaaS applications. Correlating those detections to paint a bigger picture is the issue, since hackers are now using more complex techniques to access your applications and data with increased attack surfaces. Your team is either claiming false positives or an inability to see through these detections and get a sense of what is critical vs. noise. The main purpose of SIEMs is to collect and aggregate data such as logs from different tools and applications for activity visibility and incident investigation. That said there are still a lot of manual tasks needed, like transforming the data including the data fusion to create context for the data, i.e., enrichment with threat intelligence, location, asset and/or user information.
So let’s get back to the headline, why is this so key for security professionals?
Let’s take Analyst firm, Gartner, as an example. For their Security Summit, their number 2 trend — out of Top 7 Security and Risk Trends for 2020 — is a renewed interest in implementing or maturing SOCs with a focus on threat detection and response. They further note, “In response to the growing security skills gap and attacker trends, extended detection and response (XDR) tools, machine learning (ML), and automation capability are emerging to improve security operations productivity and detection accuracy.”
That is telling, but let’s take a step back and say more about why XDR is new, and not just a wrapper on an existing tool.
XDR is a cohesive security operations platform with tight integration of many security applications on a single platform. SIEM is one of many such natively supported applications and works with the others, including User and Entity Behavior Analysis(UBA & EBA), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) and Firewall Traffic Analysis (FTA), threat intelligence, etc. At Stellar Cyber, we define Open XDR as focusing on automatic threat detection and incident response use cases by correlating security events from many security tools. These are the primary challenges with SIEM-only products, which make them the tool primary for log management and compliance.
Correlation of individual security events into a high-level view.
Centralized response capability that interacts with individual security products.
Cloud-native micro-services architecture for deployment flexibility, scalability and high availability.
And additionally for Stellar Cyber, the idea of Open XDR means we have an open ecosystem to ensure you leverage your existing security tools and best practices. We believe we reduce risk without disruption, and improve the fidelity of all your existing tools.
So, rather than being just one tool like a SIEM, Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR correlates inputs from many different tools, including its own integrated toolset and existing ones already in place, to produce higher-fidelity alerts, reduce false positives, and supercharge analyst productivity. | https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/why-are-leading-market-research-firms-so-excited-about-xdr/ |
For an increasingly sophisticated, global community of cybercriminals, health care pays - both figuratively and literally.
EHR implementations and numerous other interoperability initiatives have dominated health care industry technology agendas for nearly two decades. Although the resulting “connected landscape” has driven a treasure trove of operational efficiencies and patient care improvements, it also serves as host to the most lucrative attack surface across industry.
The cyberattack by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm in 2017 demonstrated this point. Clinical networking vulnerabilities and the consequences of a successful breach were exposed in dramatic fashion. Whether history will record WannaCry as the industry’s wake-up call already seems irrelevant, as health care networks continue to be compromised in an increasing number of ways and at an unprecedented pace.
Cyberattacks against health care organizations jumped 60% in 2019, while crippling Trojan ransomware programs like Emotet and TrickBot climbed by 82% between the second and third quarters, according a 2019 Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report by Malwarebytes, an anti-malware provider. Whether the subject of an external attack or caused by internal human error, the problem is that most health care delivery organizations don’t have the technology or expertise to detect and react to either in a reasonable timeframe.
In fact, the 2019 Cost of Data Breach Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute confirmed that the average time for a health care organization to identify a breach is 236 days - almost two months longer than the average across other industries - and then an additional 93 days to contain it. Even more alarming, the average total cost of a data breach in the health care industry is $6.45 million. The total damage - whether to patients, devices, care delivery systems or record keeping infrastructure - is hard to imagine. And keep in mind, these are self-
Sometimes referred to as “bringing down silos,” the interoperability trends of the past several years are essentially a push for new front-, middle- and back-office connections. Specific to cybersecurity, the adoption of “smart devices,” also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), has exploded. It seems that every device in use anymore, whether to facilitate patient care directly (e.g. patient monitors, infusion pumps, radiology, etc.) or to improve the way systems are managed - from cameras to elevators to HVAC - are “talking” to one another. As expected, the data being generated are proving to be immensely valuable and strategic, as the resulting operational efficiencies include improved clinical workflow coordination, faster revenue cycles, smarter major system management and better patient care.
Of course, the downside with every added “endpoint” is increased risk caused by poorly managed devices, many of which can cause financial harm, not to mention system-wide care delivery issues and patient safety nightmares. And while debates continue over the severity of direct patient risks, those arguments are losing traction because the disruption caused by a successful breach can impact patient care many other ways.
Although the very idea of a hack to a connected medical device is horrifying, a successful compromise of an HVAC system or an elevator complex can also have a shutdown effect. While all connected assets are not created equal, it is important that health care leaders understand how they’re all part of a larger, interdependent system.
Unfortunately, the reality is many health care systems have little visibility into which medical (and general IoT) devices are connecting to their networks, where these devices are located, how they’re connected, who’s using them, how they’re being used and their respective security posture. This makes it nearly impossible for even the most tech-savvy organizations to create an effective security strategy because you can’t manage what you can’t see.
The solution is visibility
For these reasons, connected asset visibility must be comprehensive and include highly granular device-profiling detail. This is definitely a case where the more data, the better, and enriched, contextualized data are best. So, it’s not just about discovering what’s connected inside your network. Instead, what’s required are detailed device-specific profiles, including an understanding of the device’s needs and workflow, knowledge of how the device interoperates, how it is being used and its security posture.
Due to the proprietary nature of both clinical and medical devices and the unique, often undocumented communication protocols that they use, visibility remains a major challenge. And given how these assets are maintained, updated, patched, etc., a continuous view into their status is essential, whether for good, safe operations or security purposes.
When that kind of continuous, real-time visibility is available, most things are possible. For example, instead of health care technology management workers scrambling to determine if a newly published threat is relevant, any/all existing and newly published threats can be instantly correlated. Armed with knowledge, anomalous behaviors at the network level can also be detected and safely terminated. The list goes on. The operational benefits can actually change the organizational profile of those enlisted to execute the improvements.
In short, you must establish an accurate baseline and build security programs from the ground up. You must know your endpoints at the individual level and build from there. In doing so, you can not only create and enforce appropriate security policies, but also overhaul preventative maintenance programs and rationalize replenishment programs.
The hyperconnected future
Telehealth and the bring-your-own-device trend are driving an even more connected landscape. And because COVID-19 will result in permanent changes that continue to drive both, management and security challenges will clearly increase. Looking ahead, it’s not difficult to envision a future where a majority of care is delivered through mobile, remote-capable monitoring solutions, so leaders must take notice.
Recognizing that budgets and cybersecurity experiences vary, a logical first preparatory step is to take inventory of the devices used by clinicians to conduct remote consultations, followed by an inventory of mobile devices used to remotely monitor the conditions of patients. Are they hospital-issued devices or personal? What type of information are they transmitting and what, if any, security policies exist? What is the difference between device counts under mobile device management pre-COVID-19 versus the number of devices in use post-COVID-19?
The good news is that the market’s leading solution providers are genuinely on top of the problem space. The bad news is that separating the marketing hype from reality can be difficult.
Choosing vendors that are focused on the acute care subvertical makes sense, since cross-industry solutions rarely work in health care. If the right vendor is selected, financial offices can justify their investments against a business case that is based on operational improvements that can be monetized - and ultimately benefit patients. | https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/mitigating-health-cares-cybersecurity-risks-era-hyperconnectivity |
Cybersecurity risks have been front of mind for a while, but what are boards doing to make sure they’re aware of them and are properly prepared to deal with them? Not enough it seems. Academic research sponsored by Nasdaq and Tanium shows a serious accountability gap in all the territories studied – the U.S., the UK, Nordic countries, Germany and Japan.
With only 10% of executives surveyed regularly briefed on cybersecurity threats relevant to their business, and 91% of board member surveyed having trouble interpreting a cybersecurity report, the lack of awareness and readiness is significant. So are boards sleepwalking into a risk landscape that could seriously threaten long-term value creation - whether from serious data loss itself or consequential financial loss from the attrition of investor and customer confidence?
The importance of risk management to corporate governance is not new, and boards have a firm grip on general operational and strategic risks, having developed policies and procedures over the years - to identify enterprise risks, assess the nature of them, agree how to manage or mitigate them, and to monitor the effectiveness of the systems and related disclosures. But should cybersecurity risks be firmly established as principle business risks and be subject to much closer board attention? It still isn’t in a lot of cases, but it probably should be: boards should be trained to properly understand the cyber-language; be aware of the implications of a breach; and be briefed on threats and the changing regulatory environment.
Cybersecurity risk is still seen as an esoteric and “techie issue” but it certainly shouldn’t be, with the incidences of serious breaches and financial harm on the rise. Also, the EU regulatory landscape is heating up with significant changes coming for those offering goods or services (even for free) within or into the region. After three years of political negotiation the EU data protection framework has now been agreed (the General Data Protection Regulation), and together with the EU cyber security directive (the Network and Information Security Directive) they represent a sea change in responsibilities and sanctions.
How can you prepare?
First, read our report to learn more. Management should then assess the accountability gap in their own organization and agree actions with the board to narrow it. A starting point will likely be to provide more timely and clear communication to directors - transferring knowledge, understanding and expertise to the very top of the organization.
Boards will then begin to understand risks beyond the general – now more than ever, directors need to be able to scratch a few more layers below the surface. After which, the board can start to strengthen and foster a culture of responsibility and ensure it permeates throughout the organization.
Management should keep an eye on what should matter to the board - strategy, long-term value creation and business sustainability – and if there is a risk to these from a cybersecurity point of view discuss it and spend time with directors to ensure the risks are understood, in turn enabling directors to fulfil their responsibilities. As Joan Conley, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary at Nasdaq, Inc. notes in the report, “good governance is good business”.
To read the cybersecurity research report, “The Accountability Gap: Cybersecurity & Building a Culture of Responsibility” and discover the seven challenges that predict cybersecurity vulnerability, click here.
Blake Stephenson -- After being called to the English Bar in 2007, Blake has held governance, risk and compliance roles and has had a particular focus in regulatory compliance and good governance in UK markets infrastructure. His experience in this regard is from SIX Swiss Exchange and the UK's Financial Services Authority (now Financial Conduct Authority), where he supervised the London Stock Exchange Group. Blake also spent time as an advocate towards the European political institutions while working at the Futures and Options Association (now FIA Europe). Since joining NASDAQ in 2013 and before joining the Directors Desk management team in 2015, Blake was the Associate General Counsel in London, ensuring regulatory and governance compliance for NASDAQ's London interests. In addition to being called to the Bar, Blake has a degree with honours from the University of Kent, Canterbury, a Graduate Diploma in Law and a CISI Diploma in Investment Compliance. | https://business.nasdaq.com/marketinsite/2016/Why-Directors-Should-Scratch-Below-the-Surface-of-Cybersecurity-Risks.html |
The year 2020 saw the global pandemic of COVID-19 making the entire world switch to remote working, shaking up IT security practices and corporate standards that workers and businesses have been accustomed to.
Experts have looked back at some key aspects that shaped cybersecurity during the year of the pandemic and made some important predictions. While the world remains in the grip of the virus; making projections into the future is as hard as ever. But if there is something we know, is that cyberattacks have evolved and spiked – and the need to safeguard organisations against threats is an absolute must.
The overnight shift to remote working has been critical to many organisations. Cybercriminals have pounced on the innate vulnerabilities of dispersed workforces and their IT systems, looking for gaps to exploit.
Here are some cyber security predictions based on the latest trends in IT security, and some tips for businesses to stay alert and keep protected against risks.
Trends in cyber security impacting remote working 1. Increased ransomware attacks due to remote working
The escalation in ransomware threats has been a notable trend for the past months. Ransomware is a form of cyber-extortion, and while it has been going strong for many years, it took a turn for the worse in recent months.
More and more ransomware attackers have focused on tightening the screw on the victims with data exfiltration and extorsion. Some of the latest attacks have seen malicious operators innovating with their threats to publish, sell or auction stolen data if no payment is made.
With attackers deploying a range of new and more complex ways to ensnare their victims, businesses have had to innovate to stay protected against risks. The focus is on assessing their preparedness to fend off attacks.
Many remote workers are using their own devices and personal Wi-Fi connection for work. This practice is not as protective and strong as a corporate network, leaving them at risk of attacks.
As employees keep using their own networks, we can expect cybercriminals to continue to take advantage of the situation.
But we also expect businesses to become more adept and tighten up their security protocols for remote employees.
In the meantime, remote workers will need to stay alert and watch out for scams and other phishing attacks.
2. Social media threats expected to rise
Social media is used by not only individuals, but virtually every business too – and business accounts on social media are also at risk.
Cyber attackers are expanding their tactics to social media, and their target now goes beyond individuals, to reach businesses as well.
Why attack on social media platforms? Well, most social channels count with poor authentication and little verification, which increases rate of success for the attacker.
While working remotely, employees need stay vigilant when posting, signing up for online events, or communicating on their own or on behalf of the business.
3. Senior employees at increased risk of attacks
The latest evidence suggests that senior employees have become a target and are currently those most likely to need ransomware protection. Senior members of staff are frequently in a position to authorise payments, which makes them more vulnerable.
So, it seems that cyber criminals are making a point of targeting c-suite staff members and high-ranking individuals.
Similarly, attackers are increasingly focusing on individual workstation, rather than company-wide IT infrastructure. They are doing this looking to acquire personal information, which they can then use to threaten or embarrass senior employees.
So far, the type of ransomware attacks that targets individuals has been used by groups under a strain known as “Clop” ransomware. This strain of malware has been around for just over a decade, and it seems clear that other criminals are adopting similar strategies to attack.
4. Automations becoming a cybersecurity threat
Organisations have tried to merge their security solutions for remote workers, in order to reduce costs. In doing do, businesses have applied hyperautomation to automate many processes with different tools like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and robot process automation (RPA).
Unfortunately, these automations have posed a risk. Hackers are using automation too in order to attack business networks and systems. The attackers look to spot patterns and find vulnerabilities in systems, then collect data and repurpose it to train the malicious systems, and attack similar software.
To stay protected, businesses need to use endpoint security systems. Reportedly, less than 50% of businesses with remote employees are using endpoint security systems.
For 2021, we expect to see a rise in the number of employees becoming more accustomed with endpoint cybersecurity systems. | https://www.itcybersecurity.com.au/cybersecurity-trends-to-watch-our-for-in-2021/ |
The global attack campaign by APT41 reported earlier by FireEye seems to be in continuity till date. The threat actors have been targeting Citrix, Cisco, and Zoho network appliances via exploitation of recently disclosed vulnerabilities. The samples of payloads targeting Citrix appliances were executables compiled to run on FreeBSD. Multiple victims have been traced in industries such as healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, government and technology services in multiple regions around the world, such as North America, South America, and Europe. The new backdoor Speculoos is being delivered by exploiting the CVE-2019-19781 Citrix vulnerability.
Speculoos was delivered by exploiting CVE-2019-19781, a vulnerability affecting the Citrix Application Delivery Controller, Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances that allowed an adversary to remotely execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability helps direct the victim appliances to retrieve Speculoos over FTP using the command /usr/bin/ftp -o /tmp/bsd ftp://test:[redacted]\@66.42.98[.]220/<filename> as reported by FireEye. The Speculoos backdoor is an ELF executable compiled with GCC 4.2.1 to run on a FreeBSD system.
Upon execution, the payload enters a loop that calls a function to communicate with the following command and control (C2) domain over TCP/443. If it is unable to communicate with the domain above, Speculoos will attempt to use a backup C2 at 119.28.139[.]20, also over TCP/443. If it is able to connect to either C2 server, it will carry out a TLS handshake with the server using the hardcoded buffer in the binary which is used as the first packet in the handshake. Before sending the hardcoded buffer to the C2 server, Speculoos modifies offset 11 with the current time and offset 15 with 28 pseudorandom bytes generated by iterating through the domain string, adding the current time and then using XOR on each byte with 7 multiplied by the byte’s offset as a key. | https://www.rewterz.com/threats/rewterz-threat-alert-apt41-using-new-speculoos-backdoor-to-target-organizations-globally |
By recognizing the fact that cyber criminals will find a way to exploit vulnerabilities, financial companies can improve the way they deliver their services, manage security risks, and train their employees.
For over half a decade, cyber security issues have been a bane for many industries. But firms operating in the financial sector have been the worst affected due to their inability to keep up with the security requirements of the modern world. Most cyber criminals attack firms operating in the financial sector because that’s where all the money is. However, with banks and other firms quickly learning how to strike a balance between being open and being secure, instances of digital break-ins have reduced significantly. That being said, here are some of the potential cyber security threats that the players in the financial sector should watch out for : | https://www.infinitiresearch.com/thoughts/cyber-security-threats-financial-sector |
Artificial Intelligence, in all of its forms, is here to stay. Any process a machine takes over can be considered AI. In this case, we’ll talk largely about the personal assistant functions which users activate using voice commands. Things like Siri and Alexa offer their users the chance to have a personal assistant perform the tedious jobs of looking up information, dialing numbers, and even pulling up data.
If you’ve been on social media at all in the last few years, you’ve seen the memes and jokes about these devices. Most show lovely families using their AI with a quote that says something like, “Wiretap, give me a good recipe for biscuits.”
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone’s not really out to get you. These jokes are only amusing because they’re based on a possible truth.
The convenience is often too much to pass up. Most consumers aren’t exceptionally concerned about being wiretapped. The reality is that it is possible. In fact, it’s been proven that there’s a way to hack an Echo.
What About Artificial Intelligence in the Office?
There is no doubt that this form of AI will be gaining traction in the work place. Amazon has already announced their Alexa for Business.
Consider the possibilities that this type of AI represents in streamlining efficiency in the work environment. You can look up intricate sales data, revenue cycle management reports, and call a client without stopping your current work. All of these tasks can be accomplished automatically by simply asking for them. This frees you up to continue working, without pausing to complete things your AI can do for you.
Another positive attribute of this type of advanced artificial intelligence? Most employees are comfortable using this technology. People are already using similar programs in their personal life.
But in your personal life, the convenience outweighs the risks. Does the same hold true for business?
Cybersecurity Risks for Businesses – Does AI Compute?
There’s a distinct advantage to applications that allow employees to complete tasks more efficiently. But for businesses, there may be a heightened risk in using this type of technology.
This is another possible entry point for hackers, but the ramifications here are intense. Gaining entry to a business’ AI personal assistant would mean that hackers could potentially record every spoken command in the office, and gain access to all of the accounts linked to that device. That could represent a large data breach and it might not be easily detectable. Another possible hacking scenario uses high frequency sounds to command the device to complete tasks the hacker orders – this might include sending files to an outside location or visiting a site that downloads Malware directly onto devices in the office.
Where individual users might not have a great deal to fear in this type of hack, a business can’t overlook the possible risk. The data involved in a business breach might open you up to litigation and compromise the integrity and reputation of the corporation to a startling degree.
More than 40% of cyber attacks are aimed at small businesses. Larger corporations have also fallen prey to different forms of hacking and ransomware attacks are up – costing large corporations, healthcare organizations, and even individual people millions of dollars. Without the proper data recovery and cybersecurity in place, many entities wind up paying the ransom – even in the case of some police departments!
This is a large threat for any size business – a majority (60%) of those attacked wind up out of business in less than a year.
Ransomware and the cyber attacks previously leveled at businesses didn’t infiltrate this form of AI. But this form of AI is only now becoming available. It’s a logical assumption that hackers will be targeting weaknesses in these devices in the future.
Protocols for Securing Your Business Interests
Artificial intelligence in the form of voice commanded personal assistants will enter the workforce. In fact, they’re already in the workforce through employees. Hackers can currently target high ranking employees through their own personal assistant devices.
If you thought avoiding the technology could keep you safe from the possible risks, that would be like hiding your head in the sand. It won’t work.
On the plus side, the sky is falling paranoia isn’t completely warranted, either. You already use devices with voice applications, such as your phone or a computer with video chatting capabilities. So, you don’t need to get rid of any device that might be compromised. Instead, a good practice is to be aware of the risks.
The best formula for cybersecurity is always in updating your knowledge and planning for every possibility.
We can only guess, at this point, what forms new cyber attacks might take with regard to this technology. But here are some good practices to follow to make certain your business and interests are as secure as possible:
Offer Employee Training. A large portion of data breaches occur because the hacker gained access through an employee. This often happens because employees don’t use password protection, use poorly crafted passwords, or click on infected links. This is often unintentional and a regular update of safety protocols and cyber-safety can improve their performance in this area.
Evaluate and Improve On Site Security. Hackers aren’t usually rogue geniuses who can use code alone to break into your system. They often infiltrate through the real world, such as access to employee computers which aren’t password protected.
Develop a Plan for Each Scenario. Your business should work with your IT team to develop a plan, similar to a fire drill, to make sure that any attack can be handled with as little damage as possible.
AI is the wave of the future and the applications offer a great deal in terms of improving productivity. As with all new technological advances, your business should make a proactive effort to assess the security issues. | https://blog.dashlane.com/ai-business-cybersecurity-impact/ |
More than half believe that channelling marketing communication through a blog is ‘quite’ or ‘very’ realistic. These are the results of the Say Communications’ survey report, ‘Blog the Brand Builder?
The 50 marketers who were polled also voted Twitter and LinkedIn the most popular social networks with 80% usage. And two out of five had a blog or a YouTube site and 70-80% of them considered these ‘useful’ or ‘very useful’.
The inspiration for the report was last year’s suggestion by the Prime Minister’s ‘blue sky thinker’ Steve Hilton that government press officers could be replaced with a single blog. Say joint managing director Louise Stewart-Muir says the idea was to see if a similar strategy might appeal to cash-strapped marketers.
And three would have given him a knighthood.
The report is subtitled – Talking Point: Have Your Say – because it aims to prime a bigger conversation. For the moment however, results suggest that for B2B SMEs:
PR is the most popular communication discipline with increasing focus on thought-leadership. Four out of five businesses considered PR and events as a key part of their marketing communications mix and three out of five aimed to provide thought-leadership in their industry sectors.
Social media is increasing in importance for monitoring and engaging with audiences. Around two in five are using social media to engage with their markets and over three quarters are monitoring their reputation online.
Blogging suits the smaller business looking to build brand and thought-leadership profile. Smaller companies and thought-leaders are most enthusiastic about the publishing online. Thought-leadership, brand-building and SEO were considered the big benefits.
For business wondering how to get started, Stewart-Muir has a simple suggestion: ‘Be clear on your business objectives and then map the social media terrain to locate your target audiences and their communications channels. Engage by listening to the online conversation and when you are ready join in.’ ‘Blog the New Brand Builder’ looks into current practice in B2B marketing communications, the importance of online reputation, and the opportunities offered by social media.
One of the best events I've attended for years. Inspiring, thought provoking speakers who were really happy to share their experience and expertise. I loved the format! Head of Engagement, The Co-operative Group
Case studies were fantastic and the industry reports are extremely useful for that wider view of insight we're not so exposed to within our every-day roles. Customer Experience Manager Europe, HSBC
One of the best events I have been too, great speakers, atmosphere, content/mind share - really enjoyed it and will be there next year. Keep me informed of future events. Retail Specialist, AT&T | https://engageinfosec.com/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-is-the-question/ |
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Sweden ranks the highest atop the latest list of the world's most reputable countries, in the 2016 Country RepTrak®, the world's largest annual survey of country reputations.
"The 2016 Country RepTrak® shows that traditional, objective measures, such as size and economic output have little bearing on the general public's emotional connection to a nation," said Nicolas Trad, executive partner at the Reputation Institute. "Being welcoming, safe and beautiful are the top three drivers of a country's reputation, and nations with a strong reputation are better positioned to welcome more tourists, increase exports, improve diplomacy and attract foreign investment, knowledge and talent."
The 2016 Country RepTrak® scores and rankings are based on more than 58,000 ratings collected in the first quarter of 2016. They measure consumer perceptions of whether the country has an advanced economy, an appealing environment and an effective government. While few of the world's largest and most powerful countries earn strong reputations, scores closely align with rankings of other measurements, such as happiness, peace and government integrity.
"While Canada leads the world in external perceptions as a great place to study or visit, the research shows we can improve the perception of the nation as a business destination and desirable investment environment," said Daniel Tisch, President and CEO of Argyle Public Relationships, a leading Canadian expert in reputation management. "With a long-term program to build a better business brand, backed by tangible policy change and delivery of positive business experiences, Canada can regain its status as the world's most reputable nation.
Consumers who perceive a country as having a strong reputation report being more likely to visit it or to recommend living in, working in, investing in, studying in or buying products from, that country.
Other findings of the 2016 Country RepTrak® include:
Sweden claimed the top spot after two consecutive years in third place.
Ireland moved into the top 10, while Belgium dropped out.
No countries rated as "excellent" (identified by a Pulse score of 80 or higher).
Since 2015, France has seen the biggest improvement in reputation, up 4.9 points.
Russia also saw a significant reputation boost of 4.7 points, but it still rates as "poor" with a Pulse score of 39.82, good enough for 65th place on the list, ahead of only Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq.
Turkey saw the largest drop in reputation, down 7.0 points to 42.73 and 58th place overall.
The full list is at https://www.reputationinstitute.com/research/Country-RepTrak | https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/87235-sweden-ranks-highest-in-survey-of-country-reputation |
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeUbiquiti, a company whose prosumer-grade routers have become synonymous with security and manageability, is being accused of covering up a “catastrophic” security breach — and after 24 hours of silence, the company has now issued a statement that doesn’t deny any of the whistleblower’s claims.
Originally, Ubiquiti emailed its customers about a supposedly minor security breach at a “third party cloud provider” on January 11th, but noted cybersecurity news site KrebsOnSecurity is reporting that the breach was actually far worse than Ubiquiti let on. A whistleblower from the company who spoke to Krebs claimed that Ubiquiti itself was breached, and that the company’s legal team prevented efforts to accurately report the dangers to customers…. | https://yanac.hu/2021/04/01/ubiquiti-is-accused-of-covering-up-a-catastrophic-data-breach-and-its-not-denying-it/ |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Trigyn Technologies has been awarded an Agreement to provide IT Strategic Sourcing Services by the State of Louisiana, Division of Administration, Office of Technology Services (OTS). The award is for an initial duration of one year, with an option by the State of Louisiana to renew in one year increments, up to a maximum of three (3) years.
Trigyn’s award is for the Service Area of Information Security, an area in which Trigyn has experienced significant growth, and holds similar contracts with a number of its Public Sector and Commercial clients today.
This award allows Trigyn to leverage 30 years of IT Services experience, along with its extensive presence in more than 20 States as well as its services to State and Local government entities in 16 states and the District of Columbia. | https://www.trigyn.com/trigyn-awarded-state-louisiana-information-security-it-contract |
Technology.am (Apr. 6, 2009) — Now your all activities are traced on computer system by Keyboard monitoring software. A keystroke recorder captures internet browsing activities screenshot and send log file to specified email via FTP.
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Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.
Gillett recently forecast that some 375 million tablets will be sold globally in 2016 -- compared to around 56 million in 2011. That prediction is nearly double the amount projected by IDC, which said worldwide tablet sales will hit 200 million in 2016.
There is one major reason for the different predictions: In Gillett's report, tablets figure prominently in many settings, including the workplace, where the devices are useful for sharing and working in groups. "There's no barrier of a vertical screen, no distracting keyboard clatter, and it just feels natural" to share a tablet among co-workers compared to "spinning around a laptop," Gillett wrote in his blog.
For these reasons, " tablets will become the preferred, primary device for millions of people around the world," he said. (See also "The Future of the $200 Tablet.").
In 2016, one-third of the tablets sold will go to business users, Gillett said. The total installed base of tablets by that year is expected to reach 760 million. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/255119/tablets_will_rule_by_2016_analyst_says.html |
The Internet can be a dangerous place for the young, exposing them to e-threats such as malware, phishing schemes, pornography or material promoting the use of drugs and violence, among others.
Perhaps the most pervasive threat, though, is cyber-bullying- threats, harassment, humiliation and other torment from another child or teen using digital technology such as text messaging, e-mail or instant messaging.
This study focuses on assessing the frequency and context of cyber-bullying. A sample of 1,740 parents from five countries was used. The parents were interviewed about their children’s Internet habits, especially those that reflect contact with virtual friends.
Results
The first step was to find the age of the children/teenagers and the time they spend online.
Three major age-classes of children/adolescents were obtained: 7-10 years (13%), 11-15 years (47%) and 15-18 years (40%).
The time spent online was analyzed using these age classes.
The survey found that 7-10 year children spend an average of less than one hour on Internet daily, while 15- to 18-year-olds spend more than one hour and less than three hours per day online. The most time spent online is by the 2nd age class: 11-15 year-olds.
The parents were also asked about their children’s friends. Do they know them? Who are they?
87% of parents said they met 65 percent of their children’s virtual friends. The other 35% are just “virtual” – the respondents don’t know them in real life (didn’t interact directly with them). Most of their children’s friends are schoolmates and relatives, while some are individuals they know only in the virtual environment.
Regarding activity on the Internet, 16-18 year adolescents do various research projects for homework (43%) and hang out on social networks (31%) while most 11-15 year-olds chat using instant messaging platforms (87%).
However, the danger of socializing with inappropriate persons shows its ugly face regularly: 89% of the parents recognized that theirchildren had been threatened, harassed or humiliated on the Internet. Moreover, 54% admitted that their kids had been very affected by these incidents. As a consequence of these cyber-bulling events, the children became sad, angry, violent, or apathetic. 19 % of parents sought specialized help for their children.
No private information or other content arising or deriving from this inquiry has been collected. No data or confidential information pertaining to individuals or companies was or will be disclosed, used for any other purposes or against the persons who revealed it. | https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/cyber-bullying-from-name-calling-to-gang-harassment-affects-most-children-1168.html |
When Microsoft launched Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions in January 2013, the new model was widely expected to mean faster feature rollouts and improvements to the Office suite. But other than personal subscriptions, Microsoft has yet to deliver any significant updates since then. Office Metro apps aren't even out yet, nearly two years later.
The dearth of updates may soon end, however, as The Verge says a new update to Office—dubbed 'Office 16'—is in the works. The new Office update is currently being tested internally and also being shared with some Microsoft partners.
It's still early days for this new version of Office so things are subject to change, but it appears the "Tell Me" helper from Office Online is headed to the desktop.
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The Office update is being tested with an optional black theme and Tell Me integration, according to screenshots revealed by The Verge. (Click to enlarge.)
If you're not familiar with this feature, it's a virtual assistant for Office, but without the annoyance of an animated character like Clippy. Instead, it's just a search box and a light bulb icon in the ribbon that lets you search for actions in plain English.
Other significant changes that appear in the works are automatic image rotation in Word, based on the camera orientation described in the photo's metadata. There's also an option to manually adjust orientation if Word gets it wrong, the Verge reports.
Outlook will also make it easier to sync a limited amount of email at once including options for 1, 3, 7, or 14 days—an ideal setting for tablets and laptops with limited onboard storage.
The only other big change to leak is the addition of a black theme for the Office apps. The Verge says the black theme was one of the most requested features for Office 2013, probably owing to the fact that Office 2010 had a similar option.
As for the Ribbon, haters will have to continue to hate as the primary interface for office introduced with Office 2007 is here to stay.
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Look but don't touch: The Mizrahi fashion holograms at Grand Central photo: Albert Ferreira/Startraksphoto.com
‘Is that a fashion show on the TV?” cries a little kid wearing nerdy spectacles and gold sneakers, standing in front of a giant screen in Grand Central Station. “Where are their heads? The head is missing for her!”
No, little kid, that is not a mere TV program. Those are high-definition holograms, and this is “Target’s Virtual Fashion Presentation: the World’s First Model-less Fashion Show,” according to its promoters. In truth, it looks pretty much like a TV program to me, too. As for the models’ headless state, these willowy Ichabod Cranes are, according to Isaac Mizrahi, one of six designers featured in the model-less fashion show, meant to represent a sort of mannequin Everywoman. “They’re not intimidating like a real model can be!” he tells me. “They’re not sultry or bitchy. They’re as friendly as possible.” Well, it’s hard to be bitchy without a head, though not impossible—the fact that these headless holograms are far slimmer than probably 98 percent of Target’s target audience gives them a kind of silent hauteur.
I’ve come to Grand Central to see this show at the special press preview, though in fact anyone walking by can see it, too—a 10-minute reel in which a variety of beheaded sylphs wake up, stand in front of an armoire while Target clothes swirl above the space where their heads would be, play in a rock band, get married, etc. According to Mizrahi, it’s great to have a show in a train station because “the love of clothing is a human right!”
After the Target show, which is on a continuous reel and set to entertain commuters for two days, I walk around the station. I love Grand Central, though I am actually far more familiar with the revolting hellhole that is Penn. For years I had this theory that the reason Grand Central is so much swankier than Penn Station is that Penn’s trains go to undistinguished, hateful little towns like Massapequa Park, where I grew up, while the majestic Grand Central services wealthier burgs. (I conveniently forgot that trains from Penn also go to the Hamptons.)
But, I mean, think about it: Grand Central has the Oyster Bar, while Penn’s culinary fare doesn’t rise above pizza and pretzels. Penn has its own entrance to the 34th Street Kmart—not that there’s anything wrong with that—but Grand Central has Tumi luggage, the funny French gadget store Pylones, and even a lingerie shop that employs the unfortunate name Pink Slip.
As it happens, my theory, like so many other things I believed for years, turns out to be entirely untrue: The old Penn Station was at least as nice, if not nicer, than Grand Central, until it was ripped down in 1964 after a lost preservation fight. If any good can be said to have come from this debacle, it is that the wholesale destruction of this landmark was in large part responsible for spearheading the modern preservation movement.
Actually, I am wandering around Grand Central in an attempt to find Dave Isay at the StoryCorps booth. Isay, the founder and executive director of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions, is a good friend of mind, but fond as I am of him, I’ve always been a little iffy on this StoryCorps business, in which ordinary people—as opposed to famous ones—record the earthshaking events in their lives for posterity. So far, StoryCorps has recorded 15,000 interviews, which sounds to me about as appealing as being buttonholed at an endless cocktail party by thousands upon thousands of characters boring you to death with far too much information. Now, in addition to being broadcast weekly on NPR (which I never listen to; it reminds me of school), a bunch of these interviews have been compiled in a book called Listening Is an Act of Love.
When I finally find Isay, tucked away at his booth in a far corner of Grand Central, near Eddie’s Shoe Repair, he is eating carrots out of an ever-present baggie, one of his more endearing traits.
“This room used to be called the kissing room,” he tells me, because long-distance trains departed nearby. Then he ushers me into the booth, which is covered on the outside with little pictures of orange-and-yellow people. Inside, there are three big mikes, since most people come to the booth with someone close to them whom they plan to drag secrets out of. The third mike is for the facilitator, in case you or Grandma are suddenly tongue-tied. After you’re done talking, you get a copy of the tape to take home; another copy goes to the Library of Congress.
The soundproof booth is slightly creepy, a cross between an old-fashioned listening booth in a record store and a confessional, and it probably functions as a bit of both. “This is a sacred space. People deal with the big life questions in here,” Isay tells me. He says his fondest wish is to follow in the big shoes of Studs Turkel, whose famous 1974 oral history, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, was likewise composed of interviews with just plain folk. “It’s such a simple idea. It’s not rocket science,” Isay says between carrot bites. “We opened four years ago, and now we’re one of the fastest-growing nonprofits. It’s kind of honoring the angels in your life. Lynn, wasn’t there someone you met who really changed your life?” Um, no. None of your business.
Isay is undeterred by my skepticism. “It’s collecting the wisdom of humanity!” he says. “They’re the stories of everyday people’s profound moments—the driver of the B26 bus on City Island is just as important as Britney or Paris. It’s all about how lucky we are to be alive!”
Well, I say reluctantly, I guess I should listen to a couple of these things. Are they short? It turns out you can press a button on the outside of the booth and hear some of this stuff, but I don’t want to stand by myself in a kissing room pressing a wall, so Isay suggests I go home and listen to the stories on storycorps.net.
So I do, and I am surprised that they are addictive as YouTube videos. And they feature real people, not holograms. I hear from a man talking about desegregating a Southern school when he was eight years old and a woman who helped a German POW find his lost Bible on her father’s farm more than 60 years ago. And I am ashamed to say that by the time I log off, I am totally in tears. | https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/11/13/social-engineering/ |
Google has recently released a Data Saver extension for Chrome Browser, bringing the company’s data compression feature currently in beta to the desktop for the first time. You can download the extension from the Chrome Web Store.
This new Data Saver extension for Chrome helps you reduce data usage by compressing the pages you visit. It could come in handy if you sometimes go online from your laptop via a mobile hotspot or your smartphone.
Google’s data compression feature first showed up in March 2013 as part of the Chrome 26 beta release for Android. It was labeled “experimental” for many months, and only officially arrived for mobile users in January 2014 with the launch of Chrome 32 for Android and iOS.
Here’s the extension’s official description:
"Reduces data usage by using Google servers to optimize pages you visit. Browse more for less!
When this extension is enabled, Chrome will use Google servers to compress pages you visit before downloading them. SSL and incognito pages will not be included."
At the time, Google promised the service could reduce data usage by up to 50 percent while browsing the web on a mobile device. Yet the feature still isn’t widely used because it is turned off by default.
If you’re on a poor Internet connection or just want to avoid an annoying data cap, you could give this extension a shot. We’re not sure if the “up to 50 percent” figure will hold up for the desktop, and so we’ve reached out to Google for more information.
The feature is certainly much more useful on mobile: It can save you money if you’re on a tight data plan, in addition to speeding up page loads and beefing up security. Chances are that browsing on the desktop is already quite speedy for most people, and Google’s Safe Browsing feature is already built into Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Data Saver is currently in beta and doesn't support secure (HTTPS) pages or incognito pages. It's available already on Chrome for Android and iOS, though, and now you can turn it on for your computer. | https://www.bestcybernews.com/2015/03/google-launches-data-saver-extension.html |
Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Uber, accusing the firm of violating the State’s breach notification law. The suit, filed yesterday, is one of several actions that the human transportation giant is currently facing as the result of allegedly waiting more than a year to inform the public of a significant data breach.
Uber disclosed last November that it suffered a major breach over a year earlier, and there appears to be evidence that the firm even paid hackers to keep quiet about the success of their attack. Since 2006, however, Pennsylvania has required companies operating in the State to notify anyone affected by a data breach within a “reasonable” amount of time, a standard that the State alleges Uber’s actions did not meet. As there are at least 13,500 Uber drivers in Pennsylvania whose private data (including names and drivers’ license numbers) may have leaked during the Uber breach and who were not informed for over a year about the potential compromise of their information, and because State law provides for fines rising up to $1,000 for each violation, Uber could potentially be on the on the hook for $13.5 million. In its suit, the State also claims that Uber violated its Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law – which could result in the State seeking additional money as well.
“Uber violated Pennsylvania law by failing to put our residents on timely notice of this massive data breach,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro said. “Instead of notifying impacted consumers of the breach within a reasonable amount of time, Uber hid the incident for over a year – and actually paid the hackers to delete the data and stay quiet. That’s just outrageous corporate misconduct, and I’m suing to hold them accountable and recover for Pennsylvanians.”
Uber’s delayed notification of the breach was also exploited by scammers who, among other things, tricked Uber customers into believing that they would receive a $50 credit towards rides on Lyft, Uber’s main competitor, in exchange for resetting their passwords after the breach – while, in reality, the passwords were not reset through the tainted process, but, instead, were captured by the criminals perpetrating the scam. | https://josephsteinberg.com/pennsylvania-sues-uber-over-year-long-delay-in-reporting-data-breach/ |
We live in a world that has never been so interconnected, so technologically proficient, as it is now. Thanks to the development and further advancement and implementation of technologies the world over, cybersecurity has evolved from being a niche concept to being an essential strategy for global virtual security measures, largely thanks to VPN services. Online security breaches are so common, in fact, that if you have not been affected by one directly, you are either not aware of it, or are part of a very minute group of very lucky individuals. In short, it is always a matter of time before anyone finds themselves subjected to a virtual security breach. Even with cybersecurity being what it is these days, most people are unaware of just how important it is to instil cybersecurity into their daily lives – and to maintain it as time goes on. We live in a world that we constantly incorporate more of our data into its digital stratosphere, and what that means is that, with more of our information and ourselves in the virtual landscape all the time, we must have a clearer focus on ensuring that we are as safe online as we can possibly be. This requires constant attention, but it is no longer a luxury – it is a necessity.
As the world has become more technologically efficient, we have become more invested, even reliant, on those emerging and strengthening technologies. Thanks to our rising dependence on technological empowerment, the costs of ensuring cybersecurity have never been as high as they are right now. According to IBM, for example, the average cost of a data breach is estimated at $3.86 million, with the average cost coming in at around $148 per record. Security threats come in the form of identity theft, financial fraud, and emotional and mental distress, and the threats are coming at an increasingly rapid pace all the time. It can be disheartening to realise just how at risk we are at any given time of the day and/or night, but in the end what is most important is our understanding that cybersecurity risks are always going to present themselves, until such a time comes that we can protect ourselves entirely and without fault – which, if we are being honest, is not likely to happen in the near future.
The very nature of technological advancement is that it continues to speed from elevation to elevation. Consequently, then, so too does the sheer volume of prospective cybersecurity threats. There are, of course, protective measures that individuals, businesses, and whole industries can take to increase their protection online – think use of a VPN (virtual private network), or password encryption and protective platforms, to name a few examples. These protective measures are not only great for peace of mind, but they genuinely function extremely well. If we are going to so willingly invest so much time and effort into instilling more and more of ourselves into the virtual landscape, then we must also be willing to take the time and make the effort to ensure that we are doing our very best to maintain our protection at all costs possible. While nobody is ever 100% safe from cybersecurity threats, there is much to be said about doing the legwork to ensure as much protection as you can.
The safety and security of the online landscape is more important than it has ever been before. We have never invested as much time and energy into online presence as we currently are. When the internet began to take flight, we were introduced to a whole new frontier in instantaneous global communication. Thanks to that life-changing (and world-changing) phenomenon, we have gone on to enjoy a world of opportunities and innovations that would otherwise not have been possible. Because of the ease and efficiency of the internet, the marketplace and more of our lives began to go virtual, and the result is that time and again we are faced with the realisation that nothing worth having comes easily – including virtual protection. Cybersecurity is more of an issue than it has ever been right now, because we are continuing to invest more of ourselves into its reaches. With no end in sight for this type of investment, we must be willing to be responsible for all possible outcomes – even if those outcomes are not necessarily positive. Cybersecurity is the core of everything.
In this modern era, we are more interconnected than we have ever been. Thanks to the fast rise of technological advancement and digital innovation, we are embedding more and more of our lives into the virtual landscape all the time. With this increased trust and utilisation of the virtual landscape, comes the inevitable realisation that we must also increase our efforts to ensure our cybersecurity. As fast as the technological disruption rise was, the increase of which there are cyberattacks happening is far quicker and more intense. With the average financial cost of a data breach being near $4 million, it is more important than ever that we pay incredible attention to just how crucial protecting ourselves online really is. In an ideal world, we would all be safe and secure anywhere, any time, but the reality is that we are not, and we must be willing and able to instil and maintain protective measures, or else be prepared to deal with the inevitability of a cyberattack in the future. | https://campuspress.yale.edu/tribune/costs-of-affecting-cybersecurity-have-never-been-higher/ |
It was recently discovered by WizCase that the personal data of more than three million US senior citizens were exposed due to a security breach.
Indeed, researchers found out that a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket led to data such as users’ surnames, emails, and phone numbers to be leaked online. Around 2,000 ‘scrubbed’ reviews, from which the user’s sensitive information had been wiped or redacted have also been found.
This cloud security breach could potentially be very dangerous as senior citizens were mainly targeted and they are particularly vulnerable to fraud. Indeed, the attack can include phishing emails that lead the user into inputting sensitive data into malicious websites or trick them into providing financial information.
It was also reported that the breach was now secured but it is still unknown if those affected were contacted.
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For all of the enthusiasm around electronic health records (EHRs), the systems that providers have put in place are still limited in their effectiveness because, too often, they don’t talk to one another and only add to the administrative burden that they are intended to help reduce.
Those were among the complaints aired Tuesday at a Senate hearing considering the state of EHRs, the first in a planned series of meetings as lawmakers consider legislation to update the 2009 HITECH Act, which provided a roadmap for implementing the systems and developing standards.
Interoperability has long been a challenge in the EHR space, and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT recently issued a 10-year roadmap to address the issue in medical records and other systems and applications.
“An interoperable health IT ecosystem makes the right data available to the right people at the right time across products and organizations in a way that can be relied upon and meaningfully used by recipients,” the ONC said in its report (available in PDF format here).
[ Related: Federal IT Leaders Seek Support From Developers for EHR Adoption ]
But the testimony of the witnesses at this week’s hearing made it clear that the vision of a fully interoperable records system is a long way from reality.
The most recent government figures indicate that 48 percent of physicians have adopted EHRs, while electronic records are in place at 59 percent of hospitals.
That marks a steep uptick in the years following the HITECH Act, which established the “meaningful use” certification process for EHRs. But Julia Adler-Milstein, an assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan, cites estimates that only between 20 percent and 30 percent of providers are using EHRs to communicate with physicians at other institutions.
“It may be surprising to discover that the true barriers to such exchange are largely not technical ones,” Adler-Milstein said.
“An agreed-upon set of standards, implemented in a consistent way, would undoubtedly facilitate interoperability, but the underlying issue is that we don’t have the incentives in place to make this a reality,” she added. “EHR vendors do not have a business case for seamless, affordable interoperability across vendor platforms, and provider organizations find it an expense that they often can’t justify.”
Other complaints about the EHR rollout and meaningful use are detailed in a new report by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. The authors of that paper (PDF) cited an unpublished survey conducted by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, in which 0 percent of respondents said that their EHR system had helped cut costs or reduce the burden on staff.
Robert Wergin, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, who has a practice in Milford, Neb., echoed that sentiment at Tuesday’s hearing.
“Four years ago my practice implemented an electronic health record, and I have to say it wasn’t pretty,” Wergin said. “Regulatory burdens are interfering with the doctor-patient relationship.”
The authors of the Brookings report suggest that lawmakers could tweak the meaningful use program and reporting requirements to focus on “outcome-oriented performance measures,” and call for increased efforts at setting standards for reporting patient information directly through EHRs.
Peter DeVault, director of interoperability at Epic Systems, an EHR provider based in Verona, Wis., argued that the ability of systems to communicate with one another is challenged by a variety of factors, including the absence of a strong legal framework to facilitate information sharing and a single, nationwide directory of providers and organizations that are able to exchange data on a common standard.
“Often I hear that the problem with interoperability is the lack of standards, and I would argue that’s a minor problem compared to some of the others. We’ve had standards for several years now for being able to interoperate with some kinds of data,” DeVault said, calling for greater coordination across the ecosystem of vendors, providers and other organizations.
“In my opinion, it’s not a technological problem to create these standards,” he said. “It certainly does require the participation of at least a core group of vendors.”
He expressed concern that practices that have rolled out EHRs are having to devote more staff hours to technical and compliance issues that those systems entail, diverting already scarce resources away from treating patients. Adler-Milstein argued that too many EHRs require providers to log information that has very little to do with improving patient care, which creates both an administrative burden and a big data problem when too much superfluous information comingles with what’s actually relevant.
“I often hear physicians using the technical term ‘gobbledygook’ to describe the information that they find in the clinical notes fields of their EHR,” Adler-Milstein said. “They also express frustration with the amount of time they have to spend documenting information that’s not directly relevant to patient care. Simply put, the multitude of clinical, billing and regulatory requirements for what must be documented in the EHR is compromising the quality of the data in the EHR, and if the data isn’t good, simply having it be electronic isn’t going to get us anywhere.”
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Chloe Squires has been appointed as the new Director General for Homeland Security at the Home Office and Senior Responsible Officer for Counter Terrorism, replacing Tom Hurd who stepped down last month.
Chloe Squires, who took up the role on 1 April, has been with the Home Office since 2019 and has spent over a decade working across the national security community.
Most recently she was Director of National Security in the Home Office (from May 2019) and led on a range of national security issues including aspects of counterterrorism, the domestic response to hostile state activity, implementation of the Investigatory Powers Act and associated oversight mechanisms, the operational relationship with MI5 and the use of national security related immigration and disruption powers.
Before joining the Home Office, Squires was Director of Strategy at the National Cyber Security Centre. She jointly authored the UK’s first Cyber Security Strategy in 2011.
"I’m thrilled to have been offered the role at this exciting time for the mission. I look forward to working with my brilliant colleagues across the Home Office and its partners to help deliver the government’s vital agenda in this area," said Squires.
An Oxford graduate with a degree in Modern History, Squires has spent most of her career working in the national security sphere on both domestic and international issues. Amongst other areas she has led on NATO, national security legislation and compliance and crisis management. | https://www.govx.digital/people/new-homeland-security-chief-has-strong-cybersecurity-background |
Excellent communications skills required.
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Initiate and conduct information system security, risk assessments to determine areas of vulnerability to CITGO information assets; determine information asset owner's acceptable level of risk and recommend policies, procedures and technology to eliminate vulnerabilities to bring risk down to acceptable levels. Initiate project planning to implement safeguards adopted by the completed risk assessment.
Implement and maintain information system security schemes to provide confidentiality, integrity and availability of CITGO information assets at Houston and remote sites. Ensure that assets are protected through monitoring and incident response. Coordinate information system scheme upgrades with IT and information asset owners to ensure exposure to the organization's information assets is maintained at acceptable levels.
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Conduct information security awareness programs to educate CITGO management, employees, and information asset owners on information asset protection policies and procedures to ensure each employee understands his/her role in protecting CITGO information assets. | https://careers-citgo.icims.com/jobs/4904/system-security-analyst/job |
Cloud computing changes many aspects of how libraries and other organizations manage security and privacy.
Libraries must pay close attention to the security of the technology applications they implement to support their work and provide access to resources for users. Any lapse can bring incredible harm to the library as an organization and to patrons if their personal information becomes compromised or exposed.
Security concerns are more serious than ever. The internet has become increasingly hostile territory, with all systems and services that the library might operate under constant threat. No organization can responsibly operate systems connected to the internet without sophisticated layers of defense against the inevitable barrage of attacks. Libraries are not immune to these attacks. Attackers do not spare organizations with benevolent missions.
The ongoing transition to technology services delivered through cloud computing has changed many aspects of security and privacy. Much of the technical burden has shifted from the library to its technology providers. Libraries must ensure proper security practices through contractual requirements. Unfortunately, individuals and organizations that perpetrate malware attacks have also gained ever more powerful tools deployed through cloud technologies. Libraries must continue to rank security as a top concern when selecting and implementing any technology component.
Ransomware: Be Prepared
The likelihood of security incursions is substantially higher than ever before, and the consequences are more severe. For example, ransomware attacks have turned into a profitable activity by attacking all manner of organizations, including governmental entities, nonprofits, and libraries. These attacks take advantage of the same techniques that have been around for years, such as tricking users into opening an email message with a malicious payload. When opened, the malware may be capable of working its way through the data files of the organization and encrypting them with a digital key known only to the attacker. Once encrypted, the associated applications will likely fail, and the data files will be inaccessible. The organization often receives a message from the intruder, demanding financial payment for the digital key needed to decrypt the files. The intruder usually requires that the payment be made in Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. Transactions made in cryptocurrencies can take place without revealing the identity of the recipient.
Cryptocurrencies provide the mechanism that makes computer attacks profitable. In previous times, intruders would seek data files or other content that might carry some financial value. The new business model for system intrusions is based on locking organizations out of their own data and demanding payments that may be less costly and disruptive than the alternative of complete system rebuilds and data restorations.
Payments can be received by the attackers with relative safety, due to the anonymity of cryptocurrency platforms. Organizations that make the payment demanded usually receive the correct digital keys needed to restore their systems. If there was a low probability of successfully unlocking the encrypted files, organizations would have little motivation to consider responding to the ransom payment. Some organizations may avoid paying their attackers on principle, even if other means of recovery prove to be more costly and involve extended periods of disruption.
Recovery from a ransomware attack can be exceptionally difficult. Once the malware has been identified and deactivated and its entry point is secured, the encrypted data and program files must be restored. Unless the attack was identified early, even the backup copies of data may be encrypted. A complete rebuild of the systems involved and restoration of data files can take days or weeks. Paying the ransom to receive the digital key to decrypt system files can be a faster path to recovery, but it may perpetuate future attacks.
Ransomware Attackers Proliferating
The development of effective malware requires a high level of technical expertise and a detailed understanding of the many levels of security that protect an organization’s network and its internal systems. With previous types of system intrusion, the tools needed to conduct ransomware attacks have proliferated. And once these tools have been developed, they can be shared or sold and used by others with less expertise. Such nefarious scripts and other tools have become widely available to individuals or organizations that want to engage in these attacks.
In the past, the term “script kiddie” designated individuals with little technical knowledge making use of available tools to attack computer systems. The availability of these tools accelerates the volume of attacks since the attackers are no longer just the elite experts, but almost anyone with a computer, time, and a willingness to take risks.
The rising level of concerns about ransomware and other types of attacks means that libraries must be extraordinarily vigilant about the security of their systems. Any weaknesses in the organization’s technical infrastructure will have a high likelihood of being discovered and exploited. Defenses against attack include technical approaches and efforts to address how individuals behave when using email and other applications on the library’s network.
The library’s technology infrastructure must be designed and administered to enforce strong security. Most libraries work within networks administered by their parent institution (such as local government, an academic campus, or a corporate or nonprofit organization). In my experience, these institutional networks implement very high standards of security protection. Libraries often find that the security measures enforced by their IT departments are overly restrictive. But given the increasing threat levels, institutional networks must implement strong defensive measures.
Institutional networks will almost always include a firewall that protects its perimeter, scanning all incoming and outgoing traffic to detect and trap any identifiable malware. These firewalls can be extremely effective against malware introduced via email, shared files, or other pathways into the institutional network. Network-based malware protection provides an important layer of defense from malware attacks and other security incursions. Workstation-based malware detection must also be implemented. Both Microsoft Windows and Apple OSs have integrated malware protection that works quite well, provided their automated update features are enabled.
One of the most important defenses against malware involves using the most current version of all software applications and OSs. Software vendors continually apply updates to address any known security issues. Libraries leave themselves unnecessarily vulnerable if they delay installing available updates. It is especially important to keep the OSs on all library computing devices on the current versions, including desktops based on Windows and Apple OSs, as well as any tablets or other mobile devices. Web browsers must be continually updated to current versions, not only to enable security improvements but also to ensure proper display of websites.
Keeping OSs and applications current offers strong protection against almost all malware attacks, except for the dreaded zero-day attacks. These attacks exploit some vulnerability in an application that has not yet been identified by its developer or had a fix created to defeat it. Fortunately, zero-day attacks are relatively rare.
Libraries must pay careful attention to security in the CMSs they use for their websites. Platforms such as WordPress may have vulnerabilities if they are not carefully deployed and updated with security patches. Intruders can easily detect the signature of obsolete or unpatched versions. Permissions and passwords for access to the site must be carefully managed.
Assuring Cloud Security
Libraries have steadily moved toward gaining access to their applications as cloud-based services rather than software that runs on local computers or servers. Applications deployed through cloud services or other vendor-hosted arrangements have no software operating on local computers or servers.
Hosted application will usually reside in large-scale data centers with sophisticated monitoring systems for security events, as well as hardware or security faults. In most cases, hosted services will be more secure than those hosted locally. This generalization must not be taken for granted, and libraries must remain vigilant that their providers implement strict security practices for the applications on which they rely.
Libraries using cloud services depend on the providers to implement proper security precautions and to implement practices that protect privacy. The technical operation of these systems is performed by the vendors, as is full responsibility for ensuring comprehensive security. Although the library may not have a direct role in implementing security measures, it must take a proactive role in monitoring and oversight. It should ensure, for example, that security protections are stipulated in any contract for a hosted service. In addition to standard disaster planning and recovery procedures, contracts should stipulate that all components of the application provided be continuously updated with security patches.
When selecting new technology applications, libraries should require vendors to provide a comprehensive description of the security measures they have implemented. Also consider vendors that have achieved ISO certifications in relevant areas (such as ISO/IEC 27017, which documents conformance to security controls for cloud services). Libraries should also regularly review vendor security practices, privacy policies, and other relevant documentation. Vendors should be asked to disclose any known security breaches related to the products the library has implemented.
When implementing cloud-based services, libraires must also follow good security practices in administering their accounts. Any accounts associated with these services should be secured with strong passwords or other authentication mechanisms. Most services support or require two-factor authentication, which makes it almost impossible for intruders to gain unauthorized access.
Libraries must also ensure that the web browsers used to access cloud services are fully updated and that all sessions are encrypted through HTTPS. Connections that use HTTP are not encrypted and are vulnerable to network eavesdropping, which is a security concern and also compromises the privacy of any information viewed during the session. Not enforcing HTTPS encryption for a web-based services is a red flag that it is insecure and warrants immediate attention.
The likelihood of a security incursion has never been greater. Follow these tips to keep ahead of bad actors.
Design your library’s digital infrastructure around strong security measures.
Make sure you are using the most current versions of all software.
Be mindful of your web CMS’s vulnerability issues.
For cloud-based systems, take a proactive role in monitoring and oversight.
Require vendors to provide a comprehensive description of their security measures.
Follow good security practices for admin accounts, including strong passwords.
Assure that web browsers are fully updated.
Encrypt all web sessions with HTTPS. | https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan22/Breeding--How-to-Secure-Library-Systems-From-Malware-Ransomware-and-Other-Cyberthreats.shtml |
Adrian Lane, writing at Securosis (Adrian is also an Analyst & CTO, of the company)has published a timely piece targeting the deep inclusion of security into DevOps. Today's Must Read, and one of many from the folks at Securosis, a snip appears below. Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, without further ado, Mr. Lane writes (sorry, one more ado... Note the last bulleted point in Mr. Lanes' snippet below):
Reduced errors: Automation reduces errors that are common when performing basic – and repetitive – tasks. And more to the point, automation is intended to stop ad-hoc changes to systems; these commonly go un-recorded, meaning the same problem is forgotten over time, and needs to be fixed repeatedly. By including configuration and code updates within the automation process, settings and distributions are applied consistently - every time. If there is a incorrect setting, the problem is addressed in the automation scripts and then pushed into production, not by altering systems ad-hoc.
Speed and efficiency: Here at Securosis we talk a lot about ‘reacting faster and better’, and ‘doing more with less’. DevOps, like Agile, is geared towards doing less, doing it better, and doing it faster. Releases are intended to occur on a more regular basis, with a smaller set of code changes. Less work means better focus, and more clarity of purpose with each release. Again, automation helps people get their jobs done with less hands-on work. But it also helps speed things up: Software builds can occur at programatic speeds. If orchestration scripts can spin up build or test environments on demand, there is no waiting around for IT to provision systems as it’s part of the automated process. If an automated build fails, scripts can pull the new code and alert the development team to the issue. If automated functional or regression tests fail, the information is in QA or developers hands before they finish lunch. Essentially you fail faster, with subsequent turnaround to identify and address issues being quicker as well.
Bottlenecks: There are several bottlenecks in software development; developers waiting for specifications, select individuals who are overtasked, provisioning IT systems, testing and even process (i.e.: synchronous ones like waterfall) can cause delays. Both the way that DevOps tasks are scheduled, the reduction in work being performed at any one time, and in the way that expert knowledge is embedded within automation, once DevOps has established itself major bottlenecks common to most development teams are alleviated.
Cooperation and Communication: If you’ve ever managed software releases, then you’ve witnessed the ping-pong match that occurs between development and QA. Code and insults fly back and forth between these two groups, that is when they are not complaining about how long it is taking IT to get things patched and new servers available for testing and deployment. The impact of having operations and development or QA work shoulder to shoulder is hard to articulate, but focusing the teams on smaller set of problems they address in conjunction with one another, friction around priorities and communication start to evaporate. You may consider this a ‘fuzzy’ benefit, until you’ve seen it first hand, then you realize how many problems are addressed through clear communication and joint creative efforts.
Technical Debt: Most firms consider the job of development to produce new features for customers. Things that developers want – or need – to produce more stable code are not features. Every software development project I’ve ever participated in ended with a long list of things we needed to do to improve the work environment (i.e.: the ‘To Do’ list). This was separate and distinct from new features; new tools, integration, automation, updating core libraries, addressing code vulnerabilities or even bug fixes. As such, project managers ignored it, as it was not their priority, and developers fixed issues at their own peril. This list is the essence of technical debt, and it piles up fast. DevOps looks to reverse the priority set and target technical debt - or anything that slows down work or reduces quality - before adding new capabilities. The ‘fix-it-first’ approach produces higher quality, more reliable software.
Metrics and Measurement: Are you better or worse than you were last week? How do you know? The answer is metrics. DevOps is not just about automation, but also about continuous and iterative improvements. The collection of metrics is critical to knowing where to focus your attention. Captured data – from platforms and applications – forms the basis for measuring everything from tangible things like latency and resource utilization, to more abstract concepts like code quality and testing coverage. Metrics are key to know what is working and what could use improvement.
Security: Security testing, just like functional testing, regression testing, load testing or just about any other form of validation, can be embedded into the process. Security becomes not just the domain of security experts with specialized knowledge, but part and parcel to the development and delivery process. Security controls can be used to flag new features or gate releases within the same set of controls you would use to ensure custom code, application stack or server configurations are to specification. Security goes from being ‘Dr. No’ to just another set of tests to measure code quality. - via Adrian Lane writing At Securosis
Over time the last bulleted point on Security, is a concicise description of both functional and technical answers (and a sea change of inclusion in optimized DevOps environs) to the often observed-by-developers 'No, you cannot do that' perception of information security team members... Most certainly Todays' Must Read. Enjoy. | https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2015/9/20/securosis-building-security-into-devops |
Hackers have been infiltrating the networks of companies that run nuclear plants in the United States, including in Kansas, since May.
The New York Times reports that U.S. officials suspect foreign governments, including Russia, are behind the attacks.
The hacks reportedly targeted companies that operate nuclear plants, including Wolf Creek nuclear plant in Burlington, Kansas, which is a 90-minute drive southwest of Kansas City.
Bill Gross with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobbying group, says these hacks are no “cause for worry.” He says Wolf Creek and other nuclear plants run on digital networks independent of their owners’ corporate networks.
“They’re fully isolated. There’s no way to get data into the plant from the outside without somebody doing it by hand,” Gross says.
Officials at Wolf Creek have said no "operations systems" have been affected.
But Marty Rosenberg, editor of Energy Times, a digital publication that reports on the energy sector, says the public should be concerned about the attacks.
"Utilities have publicly reported that they are under attack constantly, daily, by bad actors, cyber terrorists, foreign governments, criminal elements that are probing their system, trying to get control of data about customers, about energy use," Rosenberg says.
He agrees with official statements that the hacks have not compromised any operational systems at the nuclear plant.
Still, he says cyber attacks are a huge threat to the United States, not just to nuclear facilities but to many industries. As industries continue to evolve in a digital age, he says governments and ordinary citizens must be vigilant.
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran issued a statement Friday condemning the attacks.
“Reports of cyberattacks on the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation in Burlington, Kansas, and other nuclear power plants across the country are deeply concerning and a serious threat to national security," Moran said.
“I am working with the appropriate authorities to learn more about the cyberattacks at Wolf Creek and ways in which our federal government can work more closely with the private sector to protect our critical infrastructure systems from cyberattacks.”
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken the only nuclear power plant in Kansas off of its special "watch list" for plants with problems needing closer scrutiny, but some new issues have arisen.
The NRC has listed Wolf Creek in the “degraded performance” category for more than a year. That’s the next-to-the-lowest of four ratings. Those problems have been resolved, and the plant has been upgraded to normal status.
A company that issues health care ID cards for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and other insurers said it had experienced a data breach that may affect more than 400,000 Missouri policyholders.
Newkirk Products Inc. said the breached data varied by plan but generally only included information found on members’ ID cards.
Kelly Cannon, a spokeswoman for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, said financial and medical information was not exposed. | http://kcur.org/post/cyberattack-targeting-kansas-nuclear-facility-highlights-bigger-cybersecurity-threats |
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Some think it’s where sexual deviants access child pornography or where devoted drug users go to purchase their substance of choice; others see it quite differently as a marketplace completely void of personal information – the first of its kind.
On the “deep web” lies the Silk Road. It’s an anonymous online market, a place few have visited. That being said, at one point in time, it was the largest online drug market on the planet. You could purchase anything from Black Tar heroin to prescription drugs like Adderall, and all for far below retail price.
But the Silk Road wasn’t simply a destination for hardcore drug users – it was a movement that helped fuel the anti-establishment, anti-government and pro-privacy movements that many around the world support.
With all payments made with Bitcoin, an encrypted and untraceable form of currency, business transactions could finally be conducted without the involvement of controlling entities. At last – the power was with the people.
But all things come to an end. The creator of The Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht – also known as Dread Pirate Roberts – was sentenced to life in prison for actions taken across the “dark net.”
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Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc. | https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/cyber-security/searching-the-deep-web-and-the-unmapped-internet/ |
LibreOffice is a free use and open source office software package that has a relatively large number of users. Recently, web application security specialists reported a flaw that could compromise the integrity of a system by simply opening a malicious file.
According to reports, this condition exists due to a code execution vulnerability that, if exploited, could allow a hacker to inject malware into the compromised system after the user interacts with the specially crafted file. This software package is one of the most popular alternatives to the use of Microsoft Office suite and is suitable with Windows, Linux and macOS systems.
Just a few weeks ago, LibreOffice developers released the latest version of their software, adding fixes for two severe vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2019-9848 and CVE-2019-9849). However, hackers managed to develop a method to bypass newly implemented fixes, mentioned web application security specialists. Although the details of this “counter-attack” are still unknown, the impact of the vulnerabilities is known to remain highly considerable.
The first vulnerability (CVE-2019-9848), still existing in the latest version, resides in LibreLogo, a vector graphics script that is delivered by default with the LibreOffice package. This feature allows users to specify pre-installed scripts in a document that will run under certain circumstances, such as mouse interactions.
As for the vulnerability, it could allow a hacker to create a malicious document to execute arbitrary python commands without the victim being able to detect this unauthorized activity. Nils Emmerich, the researcher who discovered the vulnerability, even released a proof-of-concept for exploiting this particular flaw.
Exploitation of the second vulnerability (CVE-2019-9849) would allow the injection of remote arbitrary code into a document; the flaw persists even if LibreOffice’s “Stealth Mode” is enabled. This feature is not enabled by default, but users can turn it on to tell a LibreOffice document to retrieve remote resources only from trusted locations.
International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) web application security specialists recommend potentially affected users update or reinstall their LibreOffice versions to remove the LibreLogo component at least until the company releases the full update patches.
Hack into Outlook email accounts with just a music .wav file
Easily get root user privileges in Linux 6.3.1 using this vulnerability via exploit code | https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/07/29/critical-libreoffice-vulnerability-allows-hackers-to-take-control-of-exposed-devices/ |
Jackson County, Ga., paid cybercriminals $400,000 to remove ransomware that infected its IT systems. The ransomware, known as Ryuk Ransomware, hit the county on March 1 and impacted multiple county agencies, including the Sheriff’s Office.
Last Thursday, the government reported in a Facebook post that “all County email services are down.” While the ransomware attacked forced most of the county’s IT system’s offline, its website and 911 emergency system was still operational.
Following the infection, Jackson County officials did notify the FBI and also hired a cybersecurity consultant. In order to restore access, the consultant negotiated with the cybercriminals who infected Jackson County’s system and the county paid $400,000 to the hacker to regain access. After paying the ransomware operators, the county received a decryption key which unlocked the ransomed files.
“We had to make a determination on whether to pay,” Jackson County Manager Kevin Poe told Online Athens in an interview. “We could have literally been down months and months and spent as much or more money trying to get our system rebuilt.”
Poe also told the Georgia-based newspaper that the cybersecurity consultant paid the hackers in bitcoin, per their request. The county then reimbursed the consultant. He noted that the hackers specifically requested bitcoin, which is difficult to trace.
While the investigation has not been completed, Poe said that the FBI has indicated the hackers may be based in Eastern Europe. However, investigators have yet to determine how the hackers gained access to Jackson County’s computer system.
“They’ve been in our system I guess a couple of weeks,” Poe said. “They really plotted their attacks before they hit us. They totally crippled us.”
Jackson County wasn’t the first locality to be hit by ransomware–or even the first one in Georgia. Atlanta was the victim of a ransomware attack in March of 2018. However, unlike in Jackson County, Atlanta did not pay the ransom. That attack had a significant financial impact on the city.
“The attack significantly disrupted City of Atlanta operations, impaired certain governmental functions, and caused it to incur substantial expenses in the coming weeks and months,” the Department of Justice said in a release when the alleged hackers were indicted in December of 2018. “To date, the attack has inflicted millions of dollars in losses.”
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Gas hubs in Europe – there are many. Which one will become the most dominant in the market?
Continental Europe is still far from being a mature energy market, despite the proliferation of natural gas hubs in the region. Although the European Commission has passed so far a couple of directives, these are not enough. Of course these directives are positive steps – but they have not done enough to create a standard framework for trading. A framework such as that of the US or UK is still far behind.
Which is why Amsterdam-based Maycroft Consultancy Services has published a research report Towards a competitive European natural gas market. This report focuses not only on the situation on the European continent, but also the US and UK markets. The research is based on in-depth market analysis and several interviews with industry experts concerning the development of the European gas trading market. Especially interesting are their views on which hubs and exchanges will be the likely winners and losers.
According to a survey of European natural gas experts, the Bunde-Oude natural gas hub on the German-Dutch border is the most likely candidate to become the Henry Hub of Europe. | https://www.kyos.com/energy-power-risk-management-gas-hubs-jockey-position/ |
With new technology comes new security concerns. But when that new technology is in the medical field, the cybersecurity vulnerabilities can be particularly devastating.
The Department of Homeland Security is currently investigating two dozen medical devices and other pieces of health technology equipment for potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities. In the wake of two computer bugs that infiltrated and wreaked havoc on hospital computer systems around the country, Shellshock and Heartbleed, the health care community is especially sensitive to cybersecurity breaches and the vast amount of financial and reputational damage such breaches can cause.
For additional analysis on vulnerabilities to medical devices and FDA recommendations on best practices, please click here. | https://www.polsinelli.com/intelligence/mobile-health-devices-and-cybersecurity |
A lot has been made recently about cybersecurity, and for many people it has caused them to alter the way they go about doing things. With more people more cognizant of their individual data privacy, and how to combat phishing and other social engineering attempts, you’d think major data breaches would be snuffed out regularly. It only takes one person, however, to fail to be vigilant for it to negatively affect a whole organization.
We’ve tried to keep a detailed record of this year’s largest data breaches. These are the major breaches that have happened this fall.
Providence Health Plan - 122,000 members have had their personal information leaked as an unauthorized party accessed the company’s servers. Plan member names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, member ID numbers, and subscriber numbers were involved in the leak.
Facebook - An unprotected server with over 419 million records was discovered, giving outside entities access to Facebook’s user ID and phone number. In some cases, user’s names, genders, and locations were also leaked.
State of Louisiana - The State of Louisiana has been a victim of a ransomware attack that took down many state agencies’ servers. Although no data is said to be lost, the state’s crucial computing infrastructure was down for several days as systems were restored from backup.
Over eight billion records have been exposed so far in 2019, and the truth is that you need to process like your business could be next. Keep in mind, there are 7.7 billion people living on the planet.
If you would like help keeping your business’ data secure and redundant, reach out to the IT professionals at Omega Technical Solutions today at (703) 743-3056. | https://www.omegatechnicalsolutions.com/blog/updating-the-latest-major-data-breaches |
Regulation might drive the finance sector to lead cloud adoption.
One of Australia’s leading thinkers on IT strategy in the banking sector has proposed that encryption be used to overcome regulatory barriers preventing the finance industry from adopting cloud computing services.
The banking and finance sector has eyed off the potential to drive down IT costs using highly commoditised, virtualised computing stacks housed in offshore data centres – the largest in the region of which are based in Singapore.
But the sector is governed by regulations that prevent customer data from being hosted offshore.
All outsourcing agreements in the sector are signed with oversight by the regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA).
Speaking at an Australian Information Industry Association breakfast, Paul Ventura, head of architecture, technology and integration for Westpac-owned BT Financial Group told the audience that he respected and even appreciated APRA’s oversight.
“Who here thinks [Government] policy is helpful?” he asked the room, the majority of which were made up of representatives from the banking and IT industries.
“It’s a double edged sword,” he noted. “While policy can sometimes be considered inhibitive, well-structured policy can in fact drive innovation in areas where we might have been complacent in the past.”
Ventura, stressing that it was his personal opinion and not necessarily the corporate position of his employer, said he was grateful for the clarity APRA’s November 2010 open letter on cloud computing to the banking and finance sector provided.
It recognised, he said, why the sector was attracted to the new business model, but clearly set out their obligations: “It was a reminder that customer information is sacrosanct and has to reside in Australian territories.”
Ventura now expects this clarity to drive innovation: “This is the carrot and stick that drives us toward different ways to approach the problem,” he said.
Ventura encouraged the audience to consider where the next wave of innovation might come from to solve the problem, and offered up his own suggestion.
“Yes, information has to be safe and secure, but what if we encrypted data in such a way that it doesn’t matter where it is at any point it is touched?” he said. “That’s an area policy hasn't yet addressed.”
Questions
iTnews has run this idea past various subject-matter experts in the days since Ventura's presentation.
On the technology available to date, analysts cast some doubt over whether encryption would be an adequate solution for legacy banking and finance applications.
Most of today’s systems require data to be accessible by the application in an unencrypted format. Whilst encryption may be a solution for archival storage located offshore, data that requires regular access or manipulation by any given system hosted inhouse would therefore not make a great candidate for cloud storage.
Any re-architecture of the online banking system to cater for this issue could potentially cost more than the savings earned from taking the data offshore.
IT architect Rodney Haywood said encryption might be “standard fare” for archival data, but “for compute you need to see the data at some point.” “If the keys are held onshore, does that mean all the data has to be shipped across the ocean to get decrypted here before it's usable?” asked Justin Warren, an IT management consultant and contributor to iTnews. “Is that cost effective, or would you be better off just building a data centre locally?”
IBRS analyst James Turner, who has studied APRA's attitudes to cloud computing in detail, also said he doesn’t expect “throwing encryption at the problem would instantly get a gold star from APRA”.
APRA’s outsourcing requirements are “fundamentally at odds with some of the basic mechanics of cloud computing," he noted.
“For example, the tenet that the data could be anywhere: depending on the architecture of the cloud vendor, data could be replicated multiple times in multiple locations. Data at one point it may persist in other locations.
“The introduction of encryption would add a whole new level of sophistication to the outsourcing model, which some cloud providers wouldn't be able to rise to. The process maturity around key management, securing any relevant communications from the cloud vendor back to the enterprise, and then the fun of auditing to verify that these processes are all being adhered to - that's going to present a challenge.”
Answers
But Ventura said the banking and finance sector need only look to the Defence sector for examples of how encryption could work for banks considering cloud adoption.
The encryption smarts available from local start-up Cocoon Data, he noted, are able to secure data when it is in transit, at rest or in use. Cocoon was recently certified EAL 4+ by Defence Signals Directorate (DSD),
The company already claims to count Defence, a major Australian bank and Federal Government departments as customers.
It's server-side encryption technology allows electronic files to be ‘owned’ by the creator of the document – allowing the creator to adjust security settings that allow access to the file even once it has left a secured system.
Ventura also noted technologies and services from Goldkey, Tarmin’s GridBank tools for securing cloud storage used in Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint deployments, as well as open source alternative SECS as examples of where the innovation is headed.
These technologies are in-use, Ventura noted, and more are being developed with markets like Defence, government and banking and finance in mind.
IBRS’ Turner said he would not underestimate the potential impact any security breakthrough in the banking sector would provide the wider cloud computing industry.
He agreed that banking and finance offered a “lucrative market” to cloud computing which could drive innovation in the area.
“Larger cloud vendors are already working to provide solutions which will be palatable to the banking industry,” he said.
“Cloud vendors will win doubly when they can sell to the banks in volume – first from revenue from the banks, second as a proof-point to other industries. They could say, look, the banks trust us.
“That will open the door to a slew of late adopters who will be a very profitable market for cloud vendors, as at that time the cloud vendors will have mature practices and pricing models in place.” | https://www.itnews.com.au/news/analysis-can-encryption-bring-banks-to-the-cloud-259106 |
Google has confirmed reports of extremely powerful Android malware (opens in new tab)and notified victims that they are being targeted.
On a blog post (opens in new tab)Benoit Sevens and Clement Lecigne of the company’s Threat Analysis Group said cybersecurity researchers at Lookout were right when they discovered and warned users about the existence of a dangerous Android virus. (opens in new tab) called Hermit.
Hermit is reportedly built by an Italian software development company RCS Lab, and was initially used by state-sponsored actors to target certain individuals in Italy and Kazakhstan.
Extremely potent malware the malware (opens in new tab) is extremely powerful and, once installed on the device, can access its command and control (C2) server to collect various modules, including call loggers, audio recorders (both ambient and telephone), photo and video collectors, SMS and email readers and location trackers.
Hermit works on all versions of Android and is even able to root your device to grant yourself even more privileges.
Still, the app needs to be downloaded on the device. This cannot be done through Google’s official Android repository, because it cannot be found there. Instead, victims are lured into downloading the app via phishing SMS messages and, according to TechCrunchthe attackers worked with the victims’ telecom providers to force them to download the app.
Now, with the confirmation of Hermit’s existence, Google has started contacting victims to warn them that they are being targeted. No word on the number of people in question, but given the malware’s potential, we can assume it’s just a handful of high-profile individuals, possibly politicians, journalists, and civil rights activists.
Google also obtained a version of the malware designed for Apple devices and said it abuses the company’s corporate developer certificate to allow the app to load. He took advantage of six new exploits, two of which are zero-day (opens in new tab). Apple is already working on a fix for one of them. | https://casinogamblingcasino.com/this-android-malware-is-so-dangerous-even-google-is-worried/ |
Responsible for leading the Compliance, Financial Crime Risk and Conduct Risk assessment programs, including the integration of related activities with the ERMF and other risk management frameworks in the Group.
Collaborates with stakeholders from Risk and the business to develop tactical and strategic solutions to enhance and streamline the risk assessment processes for Compliance, FC and Conduct.
Lead Compliance, FC and Conduct risk assessment, oversight, governance and testing meetings. Also responsible for the overall programs including ongoing process improvements, managing and tracking assessment activities, and follow-up of assigned actions.
Lead the design and delivery of a portfolio of Compliance, FC and Conduct risk tests scripts to monitor compliance with regulation and internal policy.
Oversight and delivery of Compliance, FC and Conduct ongoing scenarios assessment workshops, so that Group anticipates threats, assesses vulnerabilities, and ensures readiness and resiliency.
Compilation, validation and monthly delivery of Group Compliance, FC and Conduct risk appetite monitoring, including escalations, referrals, and tracking.
Analyze compliance, FC and conduct risk events, perform root cause analysis on respective controls and ensure remediation is well designed to avoid repeat of risks and/or issues.
Support the Business teams in Compliance, FC and Conduct risk self-identification processes and ensure self-identified issues in relation to first line controls are well analyzed and documented with properly designed remediating actions, and track actions to completion.
Engage in risk discussions with internal/external auditors, regulators and other risk functions within the Group.
No less than 12 years of compliance, financial crime and conduct risk management experience, with significant portion in risk assessment, governance and testing within a large international bank.
Strong understanding of compliance, FC and conduct risk obligations and requirements within the banking industry.
Good experience in leveraging analytics and technology solutions to manage risk assessments and other initiatives.
Critical thinking skills to understand and analyze complex problems.
Effective communicator with strong writing and verbal abilities to communicate across all levels of the Group.
Ability to develop strong relationships and collaborate with senior business and function leaders to influence change.
Proven focus on deliverables, organized, and ability to manage multiple high priority deliverables.
Self-starter, highly organized, and detailed-oriented.
Strategic and critical thinking and the ability to concisely convey complex regulatory concepts and possible solution sets.
Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
Exercise high level of discretion and confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of the scope of work.
Extremely detail oriented with ability to elevate details into strategies.
If you wish to apply for the position please send your CV to Chalden Du Toit at [email protected] | https://www.caglobalint.com/recruitmentafrica/job/head-compliance-risk-assessment-governance-nairobi-kenya/ |
Compared to many other industries, construction companies have been slower to take up cyber insurance. Because they typically don’t hold large amounts of sensitive data and aren’t solely reliant on their computer systems to carry out their business operations, construction companies don’t often believe that they are overly exposed to cyber risk.
Nevertheless, even if a business doesn’t hold vast quantities of data or isn’t wholly dependent on their systems to function, it is still likely that the business in question has some form of cyber exposure. Most modern businesses will hold some data on employees and third parties, use email to communicate with customers and suppliers, and use business bank accounts to receive and disburse funds electronically.
The construction sector is no different, and one area where they are particularly exposed is funds transfer fraud. Most construction companies will regularly work with suppliers and subcontractors to carry out their projects, and these partners will usually invoice the construction firm for the goods and services provided. If the company pays these invoices electronically, then they can fall prey to cybercriminals who are constantly looking for opportunities to intercept these payments and divert them to fraudulent accounts.
One of our policyholders affected by such a loss was a small construction firm with revenues below $50 million. The business specializes in commercial construction projects, ranging from office buildings to warehouse units and regularly makes use of specialist subcontractors to assist with projects.
Digging for login credentials
The scam all began when an employee fell for a credential phishing email. Credential phishing emails are used by malicious actors to try and trick individuals into voluntarily handing over their login details, typically by directing them to a link that takes them through to a fake login page.
In this case, the employee received an email purporting to be from Microsoft which stated that in order to implement some urgent new security features on his Office 365 account, he would have to verify his account details by clicking on an attached link. Not wanting to miss out on these new features, the employee clicked on the link and inputted his email login details. However, despite the email appearing to come from a legitimate source, the employee had unwittingly handed his credentials to a fraudster.
To make matters worse, the construction firm had not enabled multi-factor authentication on staff email accounts, so the fraudster was able to use the credentials to access this employee’s email account remotely. This allowed the fraudster to monitor communications to and from the account and gain valuable information about the nature of the policyholder’s business and the employee’s role within it.
The employee whose email account had been compromised was one of the firm’s project managers. As part of his role, he regularly liaised with subcontractors and they would often send invoices over to him, which he would then pass to the finance department for payment. As it happened, a few weeks after the fraudster had gained access to the inbox, an email was sent over to the project manager from the managing director of a firm that had been subcontracted by the construction company to carry out some structural steel fabrication work on a project. The email had an invoice attached for a month’s worth of work done on the project, amounting to $93,425. Having spotted an opportunity, the fraudster chose this moment to strike.
Fraudster hammers out a plan
The first step was to set up a forwarding rule in the project manager’s email account. Forwarding rules are settings that can be applied to an email account which ensure that emails that fall within certain criteria are automatically forwarded to a specific folder or to another email account. In this case, the fraudster set up a forwarding rule that meant that any emails that featured the steel fabrication firm’s genuine domain name were immediately marked as read and sent directly to the account’s deleted items folder.
The next step was to set up an email address impersonating the managing director of the steel fabrication firm. In order to do so, the fraudster created an email address which, to the untrained eye, was exactly the same as the managing director’s, but crucially omitted one character from the domain name. So rather than reading [email protected], it read [email protected].
The final step was to send an email to the project manager. In the email, the fraudster explained that the firm had recently changed banks and that the previous invoice had mistakenly included the old account details. The email went on to say that the new bank account details could be found on the new invoice attached to the email and that the construction firm should update its records so that all current and future payments went to the correct account.
The fraudster had used exactly the same invoice template as before, including the same company address, logo and statement of work, with the only amendment being the bank account details. In order to give the email an added sense of authenticity, the fraudster took the original email that had been sent by the subcontractor to the project manager and forwarded it on to the fake email account. The fraudster then replied to this original email when sending the fraudulent email to the project manager, making it appear as though it was part of the original email chain.
Missed verification opportunity
With the email forming a part of the original email chain and coming from a seemingly identical email address, along with the exactly the same invoice template, the project manager never doubted the legitimacy of the request. Assuming that the change of account was valid, the project manager sent the amended invoice over to the finance department for processing.
In theory, it was at this point that the scam should have been thwarted. The construction firm had previously sent out an email to staff regarding the verification of account changes, stating that all requests for account changes should be followed up with a call to an individual at the company requesting the changes to confirm that everything is in order. If this verification procedure had been carried out, it’s unlikely that the fake invoice would have been paid. Unfortunately, the member of the finance department dealing with the request failed to carry out this procedure and updated the bank details, resulting in the full $93,425 being transferred to the fraudulent account.
It was only when the managing director of the steel fabrication firm called up the project manager, several weeks later, to inquire about the status of the payment that the scam was uncovered. Both the banks involved and local law enforcement agencies were informed about the loss, but by this point it was too late and the funds had already been transferred out of the fraudulent account. With the funds deemed unrecoverable and the steel fabrication firm still expecting payment, the construction firm had little choice but to pay the invoice for a second time, resulting in a significant loss to the business. Thankfully, however, the construction firm was able to recoup the funds under the cybercrime section of its cyber policy with CFC.
Smarter criminals and other key takeaways
This case highlights a few key points. Firstly, it shows just how skillful cybercriminals are becoming at parting businesses from their money and how difficult it is for businesses to spot a fake.
In this case, the fraudster managed to successfully impersonate Microsoft and manipulate the project manager into volunteering his email login details; set up a forwarding rule to prevent any emails from the real subcontractor reaching the project manager and jeopardizing the scam; set up a fraudulent email address that was virtually identical to the genuine subcontractor’s; make it look as though the fake email sent to the project manager was part of the original email chain; and send over an identical invoice template to the one used by the genuine sub-contractor.
Secondly, it illustrates how human error plays a major role in cyber losses. Many organizations don’t think they need to purchase cyber insurance because they believe they have the IT security and risk management procedures in place to prevent a cyber loss. But as with so many cyber-related events, this loss stemmed from human error and it’s very difficult for any business to eliminate this risk entirely. The fraudster was able to compromise the email account because the project manager fell for a sophisticated credential phishing scam, and the funds were successfully intercepted because an employee in the finance department failed to carry out a verification procedure.
Finally, it highlights how almost all modern businesses have some form of cyber exposure. Even though the policyholder in this case was a construction firm that didn’t solely rely on its computer systems to carry out its business operations, the company still used emails to communicate with subcontractors and made payments electronically. All it took was for just one email account to be breached for the business to be defrauded out of $93,425. But by having a cyber insurance policy in place, the company was able to successfully recover the loss, illustrating the value that cyber insurance can bring to any modern business. | https://www.abexinsurance.com/cyber-criminals-scam-construction-firm-out-of-cash/?doing_wp_cron=1685259599.1594829559326171875000 |
The role and value of private security officers has always been clear to those in the security business. But “guard jokes,” from cartoons to movies are taking a back seat to reality as Newtown and other (now routine) mass shootings awakened the general public’s consciousness to the value and need for trained, professional security officers. The 26 murdered in a Newtown, Connecticut, school join a tragic list of 151 mass shooting victims in 2012. A recent report by Mother Jones, “A Guide to Mass Shootings in America,” identified 62 mass shootings since 1982, including 25 since 2006. The guns used in 49 of those incidents were obtained legally. The NRA has promoted the use of armed guards in every school after Newtown (calculated to cost $5.4 billion) as the solution: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” says the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre. But addressing the active shooter threat requires more than a “fight fire with fire” discussion.
As every security professional understands, there is no silver bullet to stopping threats or eliminating vulnerabilities. Security 500 research has identified the use of a “layered” security approach so that if one measure fails, secondary and backup measures take effect. It is the intersection of people, processes and technology – strategically designed and well executed – that identify risks and create resilience for enterprises.
In Marlboro, New Jersey, the 2013 school year began with an armed officer in every school. Marlboro Mayor John Hornik says, “Ask any parent in Newtown if they wish they had an armed guard in their school. The world changed after Newtown.” He is also looking at long-term solutions including technology and building design. Additional news stories from Emporia, Kansas; Elwood City, Pennsylvania; and Maricopa County, Arizona, followed Marlboro’s announcement that arming security officers was being implemented or armed volunteer patrols would become regulars within the schools.
This issue’s Special Report: Security Officer Success, focuses on the people, the officers that are in the spotlight as those we will trust to have a calming effect, be a deterrent and when necessary be the first responders, thereby putting themselves on the front line.
Doug Fogwell, Senior Vice President of Allied Barton wrote in Security this past October, “These hard-working, highly trained men and women are our country’s first responders who have a wide range of skills – from the sensitivity to deal with lost children to the ability to respond to and effectively address criminal activity. Security officers are often put in high-risk situations as they confront and detain criminals engaged in theft, trespassing, gang activity and other unlawful behavior.
“Real world security officers work in partnership with local law enforcement, and some security officers have previously served in law enforcement and military positions.
“State-of-the-art training is crucial in keeping the flourishing physical security workforce ready and able to take on the daily challenges they face. Nowhere is technology’s power more visibly demonstrated than with training that educates, empowers and connects the vital security officer sector.”
And security officers are becoming more vital. The Freedonia Group forecasts the private security officer industry will grow 4.6 percent to $25 billion in revenue by 2014 (forecast prior to Newtown). The U.S. Department of Labor identifies 1,033,000 private security officers employed. The training, purpose and role of the profession need to be made clear to those it seeks to serve, through information and education – marketing really.
Not all officers (or their job descriptions) are created equally. What is the purpose and role of the uniformed officer in a specific setting or situation? Does the public expect that person in uniform to be the first responder to take appropriate action in any emergency? It is unlikely all 1,033,000 professionally trained officers are ready to do so. For example, is an “asset protection officer” at a retail store trained for a medical emergency, fight or fire? Or is that officer simply there for loss prevention? It is an important question because the retailer may face greater liabilities if an officer takes action for which he is not trained.
Question: If a school district employs armed guards to protect teachers, students and administrators, is that the limit of their role? Are they expected to just stand post (like the Royal Guards and ignore tourists) as protectors and look the other way from smoking in the bathroom, asset theft or drugs? Does protecting students from outside threats stop there? Or is that officer now a deterrent against all things illegal? And if so, will the public have to weigh protecting their children in a violent world against raising them in a “Big Brother” world? The debate has already begun in communities across the country.
As a result, the officer profession is at a critical point in the public eye. The role, training and scope of the private officer role will be at issue as calls for more security and armed officers increase, in all public places including schools. This is an important time for communication and training across your enterprise to ensure clear understanding of exactly what your stakeholders and board should and should not expect from their professional officer corps. And as Mr. Fogwell stated, no one should expect or get the “Mall Cop” character. This article was orginally published in the print magazine as "‘There’s an Officer on Deck’."
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A new Android banking Trojan has been uncovered in several malicious campaigns throughout the world. Dubbed ‘Nexus’ by Cleafy security researchers, the instrument is promoted as portion of a Malware-as-a-Support (MaaS) subscription and gives attributes to complete account takeover (ATO) attacks.
“In January 2023, a new Android banking Trojan appeared on numerous hacking discussion boards underneath the title of Nexus,” wrote the corporation in an advisory revealed on Tuesday. “However, [we] traced the first Nexus infections way ahead of the general public announcement in June 2022.”
Analysing Nexus samples very last 12 months, Cleafy discovered code similarities concerning the malware and SOVA, an Android banking trojan identified in mid-2021. At the time, the group thought Nexus to be an current model of SOVA.
“Despite the new MaaS system launched under the name Nexus, the authors might have reused some elements of SOVA internals to publish new functions (and rewrite some of the present ones),” explained Cleafy.
“Recently, the SOVA creator, who operates underneath the alias ‘sovenok,’ started sharing some insights on Nexus and its romance with SOVA, calling out an affiliate who formerly rented SOVA for thieving the total resource code of the undertaking.”
About functions facilitating ATO functions, Nexus offers overlay attacks and keylogging pursuits built to steal victims’ credentials. It can also steal SMS messages (to attain two-factor authentication codes) and information and facts from cryptocurrency wallets.
Examine far more on banking trojans below: Researchers Learn Approximately 200,000 New Mobile Banking Trojan Installers
“Nexus is also outfitted with a system for autonomous updating,” Cleafy wrote. “A focused operate asynchronously checks against its C2 server for updates when the malware is managing.”
The malware also includes a module able of encryption, probably ransomware.
“This module appears to be to be below advancement due to the existence of debugging strings and the lack of utilization references,” the company clarified.
Far more frequently, Cleafy mentioned that the absence of a virtual network computing (VNC) module (that would permit for distant access) at present restrictions the action range and capabilities of Nexus.
“However, according to the infection amount retrieved from many C2 panels, Nexus is a actual threat that is able of infecting hundreds of products about the entire world,” the security crew warned. “Because of that, we are not able to exclude that it will be ready to get the phase in the up coming several months.” | https://thecybersecurity.news/general-cyber-security-news/new-android-banking-trojan-nexus-promoted-as-maas-25333/ |
This guide will give you an overview of how to use the encryption feature for Portworx volumes. Under the hood, Portworx uses the libgcrypt library to interface with the dm-crypt module for creating, accessing and managing encrypted devices. Portworx uses the LUKS format of dm-crypt and AES-256 as the cipher with xts-plain64 as the cipher mode.
All encrypted volumes are protected by a passphrase. Portworx uses this passphrase to encrypt the volume data at rest as well as in transit. It is recommended to store these passphrases in a secure secret store.
Encrypted shared volume allows access to the same encrypted volume from multiple nodes.
Using a Storage Class parameter, you can tell Portworx to encrypt all PVCs created using that Storage Class. Portworx uses a cluster wide secret to encrypt all the volumes created using the secure Storage Class.
Note that the cluster wide secret has to reside in the px-vol-encryption secret under the portworx namespace.
Now you have to give Portworx the cluster wide secret key, that acts as the default encryption key for all volumes. | https://2.1.docs.portworx.com/key-management/kubernetes-secrets/pvc-encryption-using-storageclass/ |
The WannaCry ransomware infestation is a wake-up call for all entities connected to public networks, such as the internet, to recognise cyber security is a necessity and not a nice-to-have. This extensive ransomware attack is non-targeted and global, so any computer system that’s accessible and lacking recent Microsoft patches will be completely vulnerable and could be infected right now.
Organisations only implement robust cyber security programs if mandated or legislated. Yet, maintaining a robust patch management and network segmentation policy would have almost completely mitigated the threat of this ransomware infection.
Use vendors’ response recommendations. Microsoft and major anti-virus vendors have provided detailed mitigation steps.
Backup critical systems and ensure they’re not connected and online; the rotation of backups is also highly recommended.
Ensure incident response plans and procedures are available, understood and encompass all aspects of the organisation such as legal and Public Relations considerations. | https://www.foregenix.com/blog/8-critical-steps-to-reduce-the-risk-of-ransomware-infection |
A Linux botnet malware known as XorDdos has witnessed a 254% surge in activity over the last six months, according to latest research from Microsoft.
The trojan, so named for carrying out denial-of-service attacks on Linux systems and its use of XOR-based encryption for communications with its command-and-control (C2) server, is known to have been active since at least 2014.
"XorDdos' modular nature provides attackers with a versatile trojan capable of infecting a variety of Linux system architectures," Ratnesh Pandey, Yevgeny Kulakov, and Jonathan Bar Or of the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team said in an exhaustive deep-dive of the malware.
"Its SSH brute-force attacks are a relatively simple yet effective technique for gaining root access over a number of potential targets."
Remote control over vulnerable IoT and other internet-connected devices is gained by means of secure shell (SSH) brute-force attacks, enabling the malware to form a botnet capable of carrying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Besides being compiled for ARM, x86, and x64 architectures, the malware is designed to support different Linux distributions, not to mention come with features to siphon sensitive information, install a rootkit, and act as a vector for follow-on activities.
In a further sign that the malware could act as a conduit for other threats, devices originally breached with XorDdos are being subsequently infected with another Linux trojan called Tsunami, which then deploys the XMRig coin miner.
In recent years, XorDdos has targeted unprotected Docker servers with exposed ports (2375), using victimized systems to overwhelm a target network or service with fake traffic in order to render it inaccessible.
XorDdos has since emerged as the top Linux-targeted threat in 2021, followed by Mirai and Mozi, accounting for more than 22% of all IoT malware observed in the wild, per cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
"XorDdos uses evasion and persistence mechanisms that allow its operations to remain robust and stealthy," the researchers noted.
"Its evasion capabilities include obfuscating the malware's activities, evading rule-based detection mechanisms and hash-based malicious file lookup, as well as using anti-forensic techniques to break process tree-based analysis."
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'It is not easy putting a dollar value on the human genome, so only time will tell if these innovative, blockchain approaches to genetic data trading will pay off for individuals.' via James Levenson, writing at Bitcoinist | https://www.infosecurity.us/?category=Blockchain |
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Developments on the European data protection front continue at a fast pace. As the process of implementation of the now-final General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) is announcing a workshop on implementation questions in Brussels in July. Meanwhile, uncertainty continues for trans-Atlantic data transfers as both the European Parliament and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) weigh in with views for negotiators on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) announces the intention to initiate proceedings in the Irish High Court that may put before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) the validity of EU standard contractual clauses (or model contracts).
Significantly, none of the EU authorities commenting on — and criticizing — the Commission’s draft adequacy decision in support of the Privacy Shield has fully addressed the CJEU’s standard of essential equivalence between the EU and U.S. legal orders for privacy and data protection. The Parliament, WP 29 and EDPS each focuses only on their perceived inadequacies regarding the U.S. system. They do not compare the U.S. to the actual legal order in the EU, which includes a margin of discretion for Member States regarding surveillance and includes the EU’s international trade law obligations under Article 216 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The actual EU legal order permits surveillance as set out in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which tests national systems (surveillance methods and safeguards) as a whole, to assess whether there is sufficient protection against abuse. Without such a full comparison, “equivalence” cannot be meaningfully judged. Moreover, as demonstrated in Sidley’s Essentially Equivalent Report, it turns out that the safeguards, oversight, redress and other checks and balances over national security surveillance practices in the U.S. are within the margin of discretion permitted under ECtHR case law. Unless EU authorities take full account of the EU legal order, they will go beyond the legal standard prescribed by the CJEU and risk infringing the EU’s international trade law obligations.
The Irish development initiates a process regarding the principal alternative to Safe Harbor and the Privacy Shield that is likely to unfold over the next year or more. The WP29 consultation begins to address numerous questions of interpretation that need to be addressed over the next two years. Both warrant close attention.
Irish Review of Model Contracts
While the status of the Privacy Shield remains uncertain, many companies are making use of other international data transfer tools such as model contracts and binding corporate rules. The WP29 reaffirmed the validity of these mechanisms. Now the validity of model contracts looks to be soon tested by the IDPC. This development raises the specter of whether a similar challenge involving binding corporate rules could be next.
The IDPC has had before her a complaint by Max Schrems, the Austrian law student whose case led to invalidation of Safe Harbor, that model contracts suffer from the same defects as the Safe Harbor. In a statement, the IDPC acknowledged a question as to whether model contract clauses offer EU citizens the redress required under EU Charter of Fundamental Rights against U.S. companies if European data protection rights have been impinged. Accordingly, the IDPC announced a plan to apply to the Irish High Court for declaratory relief as to the validity of model contracts. As model contracts derive from EU law, the Irish High Court in turn will have to consider whether it is competent to determine the issue or should refer the question to the CJEU.
Invalidation of model contracts could cause a huge shake-up of global data transfers because following the invalidation of Safe Harbor, model contracts are the most popular international data transfer tool, and thousands of companies rely on them. While the initiative from the IDPC adds to the uncertainty surrounding the transfer of EU citizens’ data to the U.S. in the wake of the CJEU’s Schrems judgment last October, it also could spill over to transfers to many third countries other than the U.S.
EU Consultation on GDPR and Workshop on July 26
In addition to dealing with international data transfers, companies face the need to assess the impact of the GDPR, which entered into force on May 25, 2016 and will become directly applicable in Member States on May 25, 2018. As the implementation deadline approaches, there are numerous questions of interpretation.
To assist in answering such questions, Article 70(1) of the GDPR calls for guidance on several issues from the new European Data Protection Board (EDPB) prior to implementation. This includes examining many questions covering the application of the GDPR and issuing guidelines, recommendations and best practices to encourage a consistent application of it; issuing guidelines, recommendations and best practices for further specifying the criteria and conditions for decisions based on profiling; or issuing guidelines, recommendations and best practices for the purpose of further specifying the criteria and conditions for personal data transfers.
The WP29 work plan issued on February 29 indicates the intention to address an action plan for transitioning into the new legal framework, starting with setting up procedures for the operation of the EDPB. Other questions addressed in the work plan are how to prepare the “one-stop shop” and consistency mechanism, issue guidance for controllers and processors and establish communications around the EDPB and GDPR. We understand that the WP29 will soon announce two days of meetings in Brussels on July 26 and 27 on the issues framed in its work plan. The first day will be a workshop with stakeholder associations, the second day will involve discussions with the European Commission. Companies should consider how they may use the opportunity of the upcoming July workshops to present issues through relevant umbrella organizations.
Article 70 (1) and the GDPR present numerous additional questions not yet addressed in the WP29 work plan. These include:
Profiling — Every individual has a right not to be subject to profiling that produces “legal effects … or significantly affects him or her.” How should these terms be defined and applied?
We also understand the WP29 is eager for concrete input from stakeholders on implementation issues, and is considering what form future consultations will take. Given the number and complexity of the issues involved in implementing the GDPR, we believe a continuing process of written notice and comment could be invaluable in informing decision-makers and guiding businesses in how to interpret and apply the GDPR. Companies should also consider additional questions and concerns to shape the interpretation of the GDPR and the process over the next two years and what more concrete and detailed issues of implementation they may want to present by way of written comments in July or afterward.
European Parliament Resolution on Privacy Shield
On May 26, the European Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield documentation. This resolution generally supported the proposals for Privacy Shield for advances such as the appointment of an ombudsperson in the U.S. Department of State, the prominent role given to EU data protection authorities to investigate claims relating to data protection and the introduction of a redress mechanism for individuals.
The European Parliament nevertheless identified some “deficiencies” in the current draft of the Privacy Shield, namely the current complexity of the redress system and the need to make this more “user-friendly”; the lack of independence of the proposed U.S. ombudsperson and the inadequacy of the powers to effectively carry out his or her duties; and the lack of clarity on the “written assurances” provided by the U.S. in relation to the proposed safeguards for bulk collection of EU citizens’ personal data for national security purposes.
Accordingly, the European Parliament has asked the European Commission to take the following steps to address these deficiencies: implement in full the recommendations of the WP29’s Opinion on the Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision; conduct periodic robust reviews of the adequacy decision, particularly in light of the recent adoption of the GDPR; and continue negotiations with the U.S. to combat the perceived current deficiencies under the Privacy Shield arrangement.
This resolution is nonbinding on the Commission. Nevertheless, the Parliament’s actions add weight to the April 13 WP29 Opinion on the Privacy Shield. With the probability of having to defend the Privacy Shield framework before the CJEU, it is likely that the Commission will wish to take into account these issues in its revised adequacy decision, which it will present to the Article 31 Committee at the beginning of June. Despite pointing out certain perceived deficiencies, the European Parliament stated that the Privacy Shield has achieved “substantial improvements” over Safe Harbor, and this would suggest that the Commission may not be far from a final adequacy decision.
EDPS Opinion on Privacy Shield
On May 30, the EDPS, Giovanni Buttarelli, issued his opinion on Privacy Shield. He describes the Commission’s draft adequacy decision on the Privacy Shield as “a step in the right direction” but said it ultimately needs “robust improvements” to cover all safeguards for EU individuals deemed essential. According to the EDPS, significant improvements are needed including the Commission’s getting additional reassurances from the U.S. in terms of necessity and proportionality of access to data by U.S. authorities. In relation to transfers for commercial purposes, the Commission should make its determination by looking to the future and the requirements under the GDPR. While the opinion acknowledges that the assessment of whether EU data protection regimes are “essentially equivalent” under the CJEU standard “should be performed in global terms though respecting the essence” of the EU data protection framework, the EDPS (like WP29 before him) appears to insist that every EU principle be recapitulated in the Privacy Shield documentation separately and in quite a granular way.
Perhaps the most concerning part of the EDPS opinion for international businesses of all kinds relates to possible “indirect” effects on model contracts and binding corporate rules as alternatives to the Privacy Shield to legitimate transfers not only to the U.S. but also to other third countries. The EDPS opinion states:
“many of the elements considered in our Opinion are indirectly relevant for both the Privacy Shield and other transfer tools, such as the Binding Corporate Rules (hereafter: BCRs) and Standard Contractual Clauses (hereafter: SCCs). It also has a global relevance, as many third countries will be closely following it against the background of the adoption of the new EU data protection framework.”
right of redress and oversight (requiring further development, greater independence, enforcement by U.S. authorities and continuing involvement of EU data protection authorities, and streamlining to be less complicated and more effective).
The EDPS goes further than the WP29 in expressing concerns over the reservation in the Privacy Shield documents for the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to conduct bulk surveillance in certain circumstances. The WP29 acknowledged that EU jurisprudence has not ruled out untargeted surveillance and looked to guidance from the case law of the ECtHR. In contrast, the EDPS notes the “constitutional traditions common to the Member States,” but does not mention the ECtHR case law. Similarly, the EDPS Opinion mentions that surveillance practices “may also relate to intelligence in other countries,” but does not refer to international trade obligations regarding equal treatment, which have been quoted in every Article 25(6) decision to date. Instead, the EDPS takes an assertive stance, urging the Commission to use the Privacy Shield as a signal not only to the U.S. but also to Member States “given the obligations incumbent on the EU under the Lisbon Treaty” so as to prevent “legitimising this routine” of surveillance, which “should only take place as an exception.”
The assertiveness of the EDPS appears to be aimed not only at the Commission but also at the U.S. Congress and intelligence agencies. While the EDPS “welcomes the efforts towards increased transparency” in the information provided by ODNI and acknowledges the guidance provided in President Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive 28 to expand safeguards for U.S. citizens to people outside the United States, he calls for further policy and legislative amendments in the U.S. to “help meet the adequacy requirements.” The EDPS also suggests involving EU representatives in U.S. intelligence oversight where U.S. national security agencies process personal data transferred from the EU. In addition, although the CJEU judged that self-regulatory data transfer mechanisms are permissible so long as they are backed by supervision and redress adequate to ensure compliance, the EDPS expressed the view that, as a self-regulatory mechanism, the Privacy Shield should be only a short-term measure and should be replaced in the long term by more binding commitments. | https://datamatters.sidley.com/2016/06/02/privacy-shield-general-data-protection-regulation-key-developments/ |
Kara Reeder reports on the increased risk associated with downloading Android apps.
According to Juniper Networks, Android malware jumped a whopping 472 percent since July 2011, reports Computerworld, with the bulk occurring in September and October. The malware, which appears in Google's Android Market or the dozens of alternate download sites, is often disguised as legitimate applications, with the most popular malware apps targeting communications and GPS data, notes CNET News. Juniper says among the Android malware samples, 55 percent are spyware, while 44 percent are considered SMS Trojans.
Google has been hit by three different waves of malware this year. Why is Android a popular target? A big part of the problem is that Google doesn't control what apps can be installed in an Android device like Apple does. In a blog post, Juniper isn't shy about laying the blame at the foot of Google:
These days, it seems all you need is a developer account, that is relatively easy to anonymize, pay $25 and you can post your applications. With no upfront review process, no one checking to see that your application does what it says ... Sure, your application can be removed after the fact ... But, how many unsuspecting people are going to download it before it is identified as malicious and removed? This is precisely what is playing out in the mind of mobile malware developers today. | https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/android-malware-sees-exponential-growth/ |
Negosentro | Today, businesses—whether small or large—are constantly exposed to the risk of cyber-attacks leading to the leakage of personal information.
When customers patronize you using details of their credit cards to make payments on your business platform, they do that trusting that their information will be kept secure. This information is often the target of hackers and intruders.
Many times, there are obvious signs that your business computers have been attacked but because of a lack of understanding about threats and how to handle them, many people delete the affected file thinking they have gotten rid of the threat. It is often these kinds of attitude that hackers capitalize on to get information or seize control of your PC.
Business owners and companies have to take up the responsibility of shoring up and taking strategic steps to secure themselves against security breaches. Here are some tips on how you can secure your business against hackers:
Educate your employees about cyber-attacks: Employees should be properly enlightened about the nature of cybersecurity attacks; how to prevent it and what to do in the event of one. They should be taught about phishing and other kinds of methods hackers use to infiltrate a system. They should also be taught to strictly stick to the company security policy on the usage of computers and information.
Use the best antivirus for business and other security programs: Set up security programs such as firewalls to block threats and restrict access to suspicious websites. Also, install antimalware and antiviruses to protect your PC against threats.
Secure your network: Prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your networks physically and digital. Restrict access to your network equipment and business PCs. Strong passwords should be set and should be changed occasionally for the avoidance of doubts.
Develop and implement security policies: Develop, implement and enforce security policies that will better reduce the vulnerabilities of your networks. Your policies should be enforced such that employees have to comply and they should also be penalized for non-compliance. Restrictions on surfing social media and online gaming during working hours should be primarily addressed in these policies.
An integral part of the policies also should be ensuring that programs and system O.S are always updated—since updates often fix discovered vulnerabilities in a program.
Hire security experts: Hiring security experts is a more advanced but also more secure way to protect your business against hackers and intruders. Some organizations hire white hat hackers to hack their systems and expose their vulnerabilities. These experts help a business to optimize and fine-tune their security policies through their suggestions.
The best way to secure your business against hackers is not to adopt one or a few of these tips. The best way is to integrate all these tips into creating a security policy that will make your business better secured against any form of cyber-attacks and security breaches.
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Deltares has been granted to lead a consortium, formed with Mozambican engineering company CONSULTEC and with contribution of UN-HABITAT, for the World Bank and the Mozambican Ministry for Health (MISAU). The objective is to understand risks to the health sector in Mozambique through an in-depth multi-hazard disaster risk assessment of health infrastructure.
Maputo’s central hospital; source credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Hospital_Maputo,_July_2018_(2).jpg
Mozambique is a country threatened by several natural hazards, the most frequent being droughts, floods and tropical cyclones. The country has a 2,770-km long coastline, which is exposed to cyclones between November and April. Eleven major cyclones hit the coast of Mozambique between 1984-2010, bringing torrential rainfall and flooding as well as strong winds. Human settlements are mostly concentrated along the Mozambican coastline and in floodplains due to historical, economic and social factors. Their degree of exposure to hydro-meteorological hazards increases the vulnerability of services and infrastructure, particularly schools, housing and health facilities.
In March and April 2019, Mozambique was struck by two consecutive major cyclones with significant impacts on local populations, business, and core infrastructure. More than 1.7 million people were affected, with damages and losses amounting to US$3 billion and an estimated US$3.4 billion of total cost for recovery and reconstruction.
A major activity in this project will be the implementation of a multi-hazard approach into Delft-FIAT (Flood Impact Assessment Tool), an open and flexible framework for (flood) risk assessment which is applicable for other hazards too. In addition to numerous national and regional flood risk studies, Delft-FIAT has been successfully applied e.g. for tropical cyclone impacts in Vietnam, drought risk assessments in South-America and the multi-hazard risk study to the Mozambican classrooms.
This project will have three major components, including site visits to several health units in four provinces, and will last for about 5 months.
Output from “Safer Schools Mozambique” project (2017/2018). Expected annual damage to classrooms, caused by strong cyclonic winds. | https://www.deltares.nl/en/news/multi-hazard-risk-assessment-health-sector-mozambique/ |
The average person can read 100,000 tokens of text in ~5+ hours, and then they might need substantially longer to digest, remember, and analyze that information. Claude can now do this in less than a minute. For example, we loaded the entire text of The Great Gatsby into Claude-Instant (72K tokens) and modified one line to say Mr. Carraway was “a software engineer that works on machine learning tooling at Anthropic.” When we asked the model to spot what was different, it responded with the correct answer in 22 seconds.
While it may not sound impressive to pick out changes in a text (Microsoft Word can do that, but only if it has two documents to compare), consider that after feeding Claude the text of The Great Gatsby, the AI model can then interactively answer questions about it or analyze its meaning. 100,000 tokens is a big upgrade for LLMs. By comparison, OpenAI's GPT-4 LLM boasts context window lengths of 4,096 tokens (about 3,000 words) when used as part of ChatGPT and 8,192 or 32,768 tokens via the GPT-4 API (which is currently only available via waitlist).
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To understand how a larger context window leads to a longer conversation with a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude, we made a diagram for an earlier article that shows how the size of the prompt (which is held in the context window) enlarges to contain the entire text of the conversation. That means a conversation can an last longer before the chatbot loses its "memory" of the conversation.
Enlarge / A diagram showing how conversational language model prompting works.
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According to Anthropic, Claude's enhanced capabilities extend past processing books. The enlarged context window could potentially help businesses extract important information from multiple documents through a conversational interaction. The company suggests that this approach may outperform vector search-based methods when dealing with complicated queries.
A demo of using Claude as a business analyst, provided by Anthropic.
While not as big of a name in AI as Microsoft and Google, Anthropic has emerged as a notable rival to OpenAI in terms of competitive offerings in LLMs and API access. Former OpenAI VP of Research Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela founded Anthropic in 2021 after a disagreement over OpenAI's commercial direction. Notably, Anthropic received a $300 million investment from Google in late 2022, with Google acquiring a 10 percent stake in the firm.
Anthropic says that 100K context windows are available now for users of the Claude API, which is currently restricted by a waitlist. | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/anthropics-claude-ai-can-now-digest-an-entire-book-like-the-great-gatsby-in-seconds/ |
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Neustar has vowed to support the National Institute of Standards and Technology's cybersecurity framework by incorporating the guidelines into the company's security and risk management policies.
Lisa Hook, Neustar's CEO and president, said Friday the company lauds the NIST for developing the framework with public-private collaboration and industry-wide applicability in mind.
Hook added that Neustar also commends President Barack Obama for focusing on cybersecurity preparedness and “bolstering cybersecurity across both private and public sectors.“ “Neustar supports the president's cyber initiatives and has adopted the NIST cybersecurity framework for its own security and risk management practices,“ she said.
The NIST framework, released in February 2014, incorporates industry standards for cybersecurity best practices.
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If you have followed us for a while now, you would know that there are files and their names in the security industry. For example, we have malware as well as ransomware which are the two common types of files used by hackers to attack any system. There is also a file called adware which is common but not on the same level as malware is. Although adware is a type of malware, it is different in sense that the files it injects inside the system are more harmful in different ways.
From the name, you must have basically understood that adware is a malware that injects ads in the system. Well, that is right and what adware does is show you random ads on your smartphone without you knowing from where it came. So you will see ads on the lock screen, inside apps as well as even in system settings where you least expect them. However, a new report has come right now which reveals that a significant number of Android users were hit with adware last year that was “undetectable”.
Let’s assume that you have a malware on your device then the first thing you would do is to reset the phone but this adware would not go away with a factory reset too. So what are your options other than throwing away your phone if you are not a techie.
This is exactly what the hackers took advantage and infected system directories of the phone. Because a report mentions that “A system partition infection entails a high level of risk for the users of infected devices, as a security solution cannot access the system directories, meaning it cannot remove the malicious files,” We believe that wiping system partition is the only option but then you have no OS left and that could be a brick for most people without proper knowledge of the phones.
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Child custody disputes are not pleasant and often represent one of the most difficult aspects of a challenging time for families. Because of the contentious nature of these disputes, psychologists who are involved in child custody evaluations are often the target of licensure complaints or lawsuits filed by dissatisfied parents. This article will discuss child custody evaluations in Colorado and how psychologists can help mitigate the risks associated with this type of work.
There are two ways in which a court in Colorado may seek an evaluation related to a child custody dispute. The court can appoint a Child and Family Investigator (CFI) to investigate, report, and make recommendations regarding issues specifically identified in a court order. These reports are relatively quick, inexpensive, and focused. A CFI may be an attorney, a mental health professional, or any other professional with training and qualifications acceptable to the court.
Alternately, the court may order a Parental Responsibilities Evaluation (PRE). These evaluations are more comprehensive than CFI reports and may only be conducted by licensed mental health professionals or social services personnel who meet statutory qualifications. This article focuses mainly on the statutes governing PREs; however, the risk management strategies discussed will apply to both types of evaluations.
Applicable legal and ethical requirements of PREs.(E1)
If the evaluation is in an area beyond the training or experience of the practitioner, the statute requires consultation with a professional competent in that area. The requirement that evaluators be competent in the “applicable legal and ethical requirements of PREs” implies that they must comply with guidance including the APA Ethical Guidelines(E2), the Mental Health Practice Act(E3), the APA Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Divorce Proceedings(E4) and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Model Standards for Child Custody Evaluations.(E5)
Evaluators are also required to disclose any familial, financial, or social relationship that the evaluator has had with the child, parents, attorneys, or the judge within 7 days of being appointed. In addition, in order to make specific recommendations, the evaluator is required to interview and assess all parties to the dispute and have access to “pertinent information from outside sources.” There are few circumstances where an evaluator is permitted to make specific recommendations without meeting this standard, and if the requirements are not met, the evaluator must “state with particularity” the limitations on the findings and recommendations in the report.
As noted above, the nature of child custody evaluations makes them inherently risky for practitioners. While it is impossible to prevent people from suing or filing complaints, it is possible to practice in a way that minimizes the risk of a suit or complaint against a licensee being successful.
One important way to manage the risk associated with PREs is by establishing competence in the area of child custody evaluations. Psychologists must become familiar with the statutes governing these evaluations, with the APA Ethical Code, and with other relevant guidelines such as those mentioned above. Practitioners should review applicable statutes in their entirety before conducting PREs to be sure they are complying with all statutory requirements and be prepared to explain the clinical rationale behind any deviations from relevant guidance in the event of a licensure complaint or lawsuit. As with any area of practice, the psychologist must consult with competent professionals regarding any area that is beyond the psychologist’s own competence and training.
It is also helpful to have detailed informed consent forms for these evaluations which specify the nature of the relationship with the psychologist, the purposes of the assessment, the limits of confidentiality, and other relevant issues. Both the APA and AFCC Guidelines address this issue in further detail.
Finally, it is important for psychologists to be aware of their role as evaluators, not therapists or advocates for the parties. Parents and attorneys will seek support for their respective sides and may put pressure on psychologists to advocate for one parent over the other or to express an opinion without sufficient information. Parents may also pressure an evaluator to act as a therapist for them or for the child, and psychologists must resist the temptation to step into multiple roles with the parties.
A full exploration of risk management strategies for child custody evaluators is beyond the scope of this article, but the above suggestions can be helpful ways to mitigate the risk of engaging in this type of work. The brief overview provided in this article is intended to provide general information only and does not constitute legal advice. When engaging in work as a child custody evaluator, it may be helpful to have the assistance of an attorney familiar with the field to help identify how you can mitigate the risks associated with such work. Please feel free to contact me for additional assistance if needed. | https://frascona.com/risk-management-for-child-custody-evaluations/ |
At this town hall workshop organized by the ICCA-CPR-New York City Bar Association Working Group on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration and Wolters Kluwer with generous support from the International Chamber of Commerce, members of the Working Group will lead a discussion on cybersecurity in international arbitration and present the Draft Cybersecurity Protocol for International Arbitration.
The Draft Protocol is intended to raise awareness about cybersecurity risks and to provide a framework that parties and arbitrators can look to in order to determine reasonable cybersecurity measures for their arbitrations. During a public consultation period that extends through the end of 2018, the Working Group is seeking feedback from the arbitration community about the Draft Protocol, and this event will be an opportunity to provide your insight and discuss anticipated revisions to the Draft Protocol based on feedback received so far. | https://www.cpradr.org/events-classes/upcoming/2018-11-13-consultation-workshop-on-cybersecurity-in-international-arbitration |
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A dialog pop up appears, you have to make sure all the checkboxes are activated. Select the beginning of time in the drop down list and then click to Clear Browsing Data as shown in the image
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Munich, May 3, 2021 - cyan AG and Claro Chile, a subsidiary of the América Móvil Group, have signed a long-term contract for the introduction of cyber security solutions. Claro Chile's current 6.4 million customers in both the B2B and B2C sectors will be offered security solutions from cyan in the future. The full range of security solutions in OnNet Security, OnDevice Security and Child Protection will be offered to private end customers as well as companies.
Frank von Seth, CEO of cyan AG: "We are very proud to have won Claro Chile as the first national company of the America Movil Group as a customer and confident that others will follow. As in other cases, we have scored particularly well with our Seamless Security approach, which allows the mobile operator to offer network-integrated as well as endpoint-based products from a single source and thus ideally protect their customers against dangers on the Internet."
cyan AG (XETR: CYR) is a leading, globally active provider of intelligent IT security solutions and telecom services with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. The main business areas of the company are cybersecurity solutions for end customers of mobile and fixed network internet service providers (MNO), virtual mobile network operators (MVNO) as well as financial service providers. cyan's solutions are integrated into the business partner's infrastructure and then offered to their end customers ("B2B2C") under their name ("white-labeled").
Today, the group of companies has more than 50 international customers, through which cyan products are sold to approximately 50 million end customers. cyan can offer products along the entire value chain from platform, data optimization to cyber security. In addition, cyan operates its own Research & Development Centre with the aim of identifying trends in the industry at an early stage and developing optimal product solutions. In December 2018, cyan was able to win a global group contract with Orange in an international tendering process. cyan's cooperation partners include the world's leading insurance broker Aon or Magenta Telekom.
Further information is available at www.cyansecurity.com | https://ir.cyansecurity.com/news-events/single/2086877/cyan-ag-and-claro-chile-sign-contract-for-cyber-security-solutions/ |
Matt Morris, vice president of strategy and products at cybersecurity company NexDefense, thinks a cyber attack might be the way forward.
He told Metro US: ‘This would undoubtedly represent a better option than wide-scale conventional, or nuclear attack. But, is it truly feasible?
‘There were two precision cyber security weapons developed around the same time when the US and Israel felt compelled to intervene into the Iran’s rapidly progressing nuclear program.
Since then, Stuxnet has been widely discussed and debated, celebrated and bemoaned by experts and critics all over the globe.
But Stuxnet’s brother, Stuxnet 2.0, has largely gone undiscovered since that time.
He continued: ‘Stuxnet 2.0 was designed to work with the same type of Siemens industrial control systems used to monitor and control centrifuges. According to reports, it is believed that both the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs leverage the same general equipment and that Stuxnet 2.0 is simply waiting to activate once it detected Korean-language settings.’
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But Matt said it’s now clear that North Korea is in a different phase of development versus where Iran was at the time.
He said: ‘US National security adviser has stated that “all options” are on the table, and it is clear that cyber security remains one of those options.
‘But given that North Korea does not connect most of its infrastructure to the outside world virtually ensures that there will not be a situation where the US can disarm them with a simple mouse click or two.’
However, citing King’s College in London, Matt explained that the US may have already leveraged its cyber capabilities before to seriously impeding North Korea’s mid-range ballistic missiles, leading to an estimated 88 per cent failure rate.
‘The bottom line is that the US is dealing with a different, more technically savvy and sophisticated foe with North Korean,’ he added.
‘But considering some level of success increasing failure rates for arms, it is possible that Stuxnet 2.0 or other similar types of future precision cyber attack may be already be partially achieving their ultimate goal.
‘If the US, though cyber means, is able to introduce uncertainty and doubt about whether or not North Korean’s missiles will even fire properly if and when the time comes, this could be hailed as a major success.’ | https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/28/is-a-cyber-attack-the-best-way-to-take-down-north-korea-6963989/ |
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The electric power sector has features that make it a useful case study for cybersecurity governance. The electric grid is not an island unto itself — it depends on critical infrastructure in the telecommunications, natural gas pipeline, water, and other sectors to keep the lights on. Numerous federal, state, and local agencies are involved in some aspect of cybersecurity, including standard setting, collection of intelligence on threats, information sharing, and response to cyber attacks. Furthermore, international consistency and cooperation is desirable because the U.S. electric grid is interconnected with grids in both Canada and Mexico. Notably, a significant portion of the grid (the bulk power system) already has cybersecurity standards developed and enforced by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The industry itself has extensive voluntary efforts underway and some power companies have already spent significant resources to protect customers from costly disruption of electric services.
Against this background of complex governance structure and interdependencies with other sectors, policy makers and the electric utility industry must grapple with a number of specific questions as they develop an approach for protecting the electric grid. For example, does the current allocation of authority among federal agencies and between the federal government and states make sense? Should portions of the grid beyond NERC’s reach be subject to mandatory standards, or would a voluntary approach be more effective? How and when should information be shared between the intelligence community and industry and what are the implications for keeping customer data private? Are there gaps that need to be filled in the existing system of cybersecurity protection and threat response? How will we pay for the needed protections to electric power systems and who will bear the costs?
Some of these questions would be addressed in whole or part by legislation and policies under discussion by Congress and the Executive Branch. In April, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which expands information sharing between the private sector and government. The Senate considered broader legislative proposals in the 112th Congress including the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, but was unable to reach consensus. President Obama issued an Executive Order in February with a framework for how the federal government should organize itself to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.
Despite these and other important efforts in Congress and the Executive Branch, cybersecurity for the electric power sector raises a number of challenging and contentious issues that are unlikely to be resolved in the near term. Additionally, although there are a number of protections that can be taken for critical infrastructure in general, each sector has unique legal standards and institutions that will determine how it is best addressed by government and the private sector.
In light of the growing threats to the grid and concerns that existing standards and institutions may be inadequate to combat and respond to these threats, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is convening the Electric Grid Cybersecurity Initiative. The initiative, which is a joint effort between BPC’s Energy and Homeland Security Projects, will work to develop recommendations on the appropriate roles for the numerous government and private actors involved with electric grid cybersecurity in North America. The initiative is co-chaired by General Michael Hayden, former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Director; Curt Hébert, former Chairman of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Susan Tierney, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Energy. The co-chairs will be supported by an advisory group composed of both energy and security experts from academia, industry, and government. | https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-should-government-and-industry-secure-electric-grid-cyber-attacks/ |
June 7, 2012 | By Corynne McSherry What!: Appeals Court Affirms South Park Parody Was Obvious Fair Use In an important ruling for free speech, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today affirmed that a parody of a popular online video called "What (In the Butt)" (NSFW, unless you happen to work at EFF!) was a clear case of fair use and that the district court's early dismissal of the case was correct.
South Park aired the "What" parody in a 2008 episode critiquing the popularity of absurd online videos. Two years later, copyright owner Brownmark Films sued Viacom and Comedy Central, alleging copyright infringement. Recognizing the episode was an obvious fair use, a federal judge promptly dismissed the case. Brownmark appealed, claiming that fair use cannot be decided on a motion to dismiss, no matter how obvious. Viacom fought back, and EFF filed an amicus brief in support, explaining that being able to dismiss a case early in litigation—before legal costs can really add up—is crucial to protect free speech and discourage frivolous litigation.
The appeals court agreed, calling the district court’s decision “well-reasoned and delightful”: We hold that the district court could properly decide fair use on [an early motion] . Despite Brownmark’s assertions to the contrary, the only two pieces of evidence needed to decide the question of fair use in this case are the original version of WWITB and the episode at issue.
The opinion joins a growing body of precedent affirming that it's proper to dismiss some copyright cases early, and that it's possible in appropriate cases to determine whether a use is noninfringing without engaging in lengthy discovery. These rulings are important not only to protect speech, but also in fighting back against copyright trolls. Trolls depend on the threat of legal costs to encourage people to settle cases even though they might have legitimate defenses. Citing EFF’s brief, Seventh Circuit acknowledged the problem:
[I]nfringement suits are often baseless shakedowns. Ruinous discovery heightens the incentive to settle rather than defend these frivolous suits.
Exactly. We’re pleased to see another court strike a blow in favor of free speech and explicitly recognize the growing problem of abusive copyright claims. Let’s hope future courts follow suit.
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The need for a skilled information technology and cybersecurity workforce is an issue raised at almost every gathering of federal agencies and industry leaders. The overarching conversation may be about the latest zero trust mandates, or the most recent guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, but a key, underlying element remains: the need for skilled cybersecurity staff.
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“A secure cyber ecosystem is as much about people as it is about technology,” noted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in its 2023-2025 Strategic Plan, which focuses on reducing risk and building resilience to cyber and physical threats facing the nation’s infrastructure. The plan also strives to “cultivate and grow CISA’s high-performing workforce,” as one of CISA’s primary objectives.
Cyber resilience starts with people
Recruiting, retaining and developing cyber talent is a challenge for most federal agencies as they seek to build cyber resilience. Currently, more than 714,000 cybersecurity jobs are open nationwide, with nearly 39,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions in the public sector, according to CyberSeek. Additionally, the Department of Labor projects a 14% increase in the need for information security analysts in the federal government through 2030, as cybersecurity is an imperative for bolstering national resilience.
Of course, many workers feel called to serve their country or support the mission of a specific department. But the government struggles to recruit the volume of workers that it needs. Just over 7% of all permanent, full-time federal employees are under the age of 30, compared to more than 19.7% of all private sector employees. The federal workforce includes 16 times more workers over the age of 50 than under the age of 30.
Consider President Joe Biden’s recent student loan forgiveness program, which targets individuals making less than $125,000 or households making less than $250,000. It will help 43 million people, according to the White House. This program is life-changing for many borrowers.
Taking this idea further could be revolutionary for the federal government. Imagine this scenario: The federal government offers one year of loan forgiveness for each year of cybersecurity service. Such a program would be an amazing recruiting tool, enabling agencies to better compete with the perks at Silicon Valley startups and tech giants. In exchange for four years of work, students could be free of their student loan debt.
An existing program provides $10,000 a year in student loan forgiveness, up to a lifetime maximum of $60,000 for cyber employees in the federal government. This is a great start, but it might not be a sufficient incentive for someone with larger loans. The average annual tuition at a private four-year college is $38,185, and most borrowers incur charges for room and board on top of that.
Imagine if just 0.5% of the 43 million people now eligible for federal student loan forgiveness applied for federal cybersecurity jobs in exchange for four years of college loan forgiveness. That would give the government 215,000 people to choose for their cybersecurity vacancies. Even if only a fraction of selected workers stayed past their four-year term, the government would still benefit tremendously from their contributions.
A loan forgiveness program like the one outlined above would enable federal agencies to behave more like the private sector, and perhaps even give them a recruiting advantage against private sector tech organizations.
While the federal government’s retirement benefits are a silver lining at the end of a career, loan forgiveness could be the pot of gold that entices a new wave of workers to serve their country now, and some of them will sign on for the long haul. | https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2022/11/creativity-can-enable-cybersecurity-hiring-in-the-federal-government/?readmore=1 |
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A new study from security consulting firm CI Security tracks the rise and fall (and potential rise again) of cyberattacks against hospitals, and offers advice on how they can shore up their security. Published on Thursday, "The Healthcare Data Breach Report" specifically looks at data breaches reported by healthcare organizations from January through June 2020.
First half of 2020
For the first six months of the year, data breaches involving the protected health information (PHI) of patients dropped dramatically, according to CI Security's review of data sent to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). During this period, the number of breaches dropped by 10.4% compared with the second half of 2019, while the actual number of reported breached records plunged by almost 83%.
Looking at the numbers, 3.8 million patient records were breached through hacking and IT incidents in the first half of 2020, compared with 30 million records over the prior six-month period. That 30 million number includes two major incidents that compromised 22 million records alone. But even removing those two breaches would leave the number at around 8.3 million.
Going back further, a total of 8.3 million records were breached through hacking and IT incidents in the first half of 2019, while 7.4 million were breached in the second half of 2018. So the 3.8 million reported in the first half of 2020 marked a low point, at least in recent years.
Hacking accounted for most of the records breached during the first half of 2020. But CI Security found an increase in the improper disposal of records, mostly due to a single incident involving 550,000 records. The analysis also discovered a jump in the number of records lost from theft, most of which were obtained due to a single stolen laptop that exposed 654,000 records.
Healthcare organizations have continued to improve their cybersecurity programs.
Some healthcare organizations misunderstood the HHS exceptions issued during the pandemic, leading them to believe they had a coronavirus-related extension beyond the required 60-day window.
Healthcare organizations were simply too busy to report data breaches.
Some healthcare organizations were hopeful that cybercrime groups, which promised to "go easy" on healthcare during the pandemic, would keep their word. But a number of reports on phishing campaigns and other attacks from cybercrime gangs and nation-states show that they actually took advantage of stressed healthcare facilities during the first half of the year.
Some healthcare organizations have been so distracted by the pandemic and associated emergency operations that they have been breached but don't yet know it. This is the most ominous explanation, but seems plausible given that the average time it takes for healthcare organizations to spot a breach is 329 days, according to IBM's 2020 "Cost of a Data Breach" report.
Second half of 2020
The decline in breaches against hospitals is not expected to last, according to CI Security, which expects cyberattacks to surge over the next six months. The firm based its dour forecast on two factors.
First, hospital records still represent a valuable target for hackers. While a credit card might sell for $100 on the Dark Web, a patient's medical records could go as high as $1,000.
Second, COVID-19 has triggered a variety of new attack vectors. More employees are working from home. Previously retired personnel and temporary workers were brought on staff to help with the workload. Telemedicine capabilities have increased. Drive-through testing and other locations have been added. New equipment and connections to new suppliers have been set up. Plus, new coronavirus-related requirements were put into effect for sharing patient data. As a result, there are now a lot more areas vulnerable to security threats.
Flexibility. Organizations that performed best built structures that flexed but didn't break under the pressure of the pandemic. From their ability to quickly add capacity supporting WFH (Work from Home) to telemedicine expansion to quick facility adjustments (including designating entire facilities for COVID-19 patients), those built to change quickly and securely were most able to stay ahead of evolving demands.
Perspective. Organizations that conducted regular and more intense disaster preparedness, incident response, and system outage exercises did better than those that didn't. With those efforts, well-practiced organizations didn't panic. They created command centers staffed with experienced leaders who anticipated challenges, resulting in better decision making, which drove organizations in the right direction as opposed to becoming a victim of the pandemic and associated cyberattacks.
Communication. In the heat of any crisis, communication and collaboration are everything. The most successful organizations opened all channels, were painfully transparent, and were willing to adjust the speed and direction of change to avoid problems. Organizations with regular communication had teams that were more focused, less distracted by the rumor mill, and more sensitive to front-line challenges.
Put your Security Operations Center (SOC) into overdrive. Make sure you're on top of the team's monitoring and detection efforts. If you assume you've been breached all the time, you'll create a culture that's driven to detect and respond quickly to cyberattacks, limiting the damage, and quickly returning operations to normal. If you don't have a 24/7/365 SOC monitoring your network, find a partner that can fill this gap.
Practice good cyber hygiene. If you had a strong cybersecurity program in place before the pandemic but got sidetracked, return to your governance and risk rules for equipment, staff, vendors, and applications ASAP. It might feel like red tape, but security and privacy discipline lowers your risk for a cyber incident. If you have to short cut processes, be sure to record all noncompliant variances in detail, then initiate, track, and report on those remediation projects.
Add a project manager to the security team. Most health systems have paused major projects, and so any idle project managers could be great additions to a security team. Project managers can track variances ("shortcuts" you may have taken in an emergency) and nag the team to stay focused on remediation. They can also work with business and clinical partners, drive user education, review new requests, and act as administrators for certain applications.
Communicate, communicate, communicate. Continue to teach end-users about dealing with the wave of tempting phishing emails they regularly see. Help your remote teammates with work-from-home best practices, including changing network passwords, not using personal computing equipment for work, and making sure all software is updated and patched. Double-check processes in place for financial account transfers of any kind. | https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-hospitals-can-better-protect-themselves-against-data-breaches/ |
The practical answer to the question “What is a phishing website” is that it is a website set up to steal your identity, or at least part of it. It does this by trying to convince you that it is a legitimate website, which needs those details to perform an action from which you will benefit.
The bad news is that phishing websites are now one of the most common scams on the internet. The good news is that there’s a lot you can do to keep yourself safe from them. Here is a quick guide to help.
1.Security software is your first line of defense
Invest in a reputable anti-malware product with an integrated firewall for both your computers and your mobile devices. A good firewall will probably catch the majority of links to phishing websites. It is, however, useful to know how to spot the tell-tale signs of a phishing website in case one slips past it.
Please be aware that none of these indicators is necessarily a foolproof way to tell whether or not a site is a phishing website but usually you can look at them in combination to get a very good idea.
2.Check your emails carefully before you even think about clicking on a link
Scammers who run phishing websites will often approach people through email to try to persuade them to click on a link that will take them to a phishing website. There are three common giveaways that an email is being used as part of a phishing scam.
The email address doesn’t match the purported sender. When you set up an email address, you choose what name you want to be displayed. This is very convenient but it also opens up possibilities for scammers to take advantage of people who are short on time. What’s more, it can be hard to see the full email address on a mobile device.
It is, however, important to make the effort because if you do you will catch a lot of phishing emails very easily by the fact that they claim to be from a brand company but use a free email address.
Speaking of emails, phishing emails will generally use your email or a generic greeting instead of your name. They will also tend to claim that some form of urgent action is required.
3.Check links thoroughly before you decide whether or not to click on them
If you’ve done all of the checks mentioned above and are still not sure whether or not an email is legitimate, or, if all you have is a link, then there’s still a lot of checking you can and should do before you decide whether or not to click on it.
Take a good look at the link you are being asked to click and only that link. Be aware fraudsters sometimes mix real links with fake ones. For example, they might reference their privacy policy and send you to the real company’s privacy policy to reassure you.
If the link contains any strange characters, then it is probably a phishing link. The strange characters are a sign of URL encoding, in other words, disguising the real address. If the link is embedded or shortened, then it is also probably a phishing link. Use a decoder or expander to check the real address.
4.Be careful of pop-ups requesting your information
If you get to a site and see a pop-up requesting your information then be very suspicious. Sometimes scammers direct you to a real website but use a malicious pop-up to get your information. They may have placed the pop-up on the site by buying advertising space through a third-party agency. This strategy is known as malvertising.
5.See if a site implements HTTPS
The presence or absence of HTTPS is often given as a sign of security and it is to an extent. The problem is that implementing HTTPS slows down a site (albeit only slightly) so even legitimate companies often only implement it on key pages, such as login pages. What’s more, it’s actually fairly easy (and free) to implement HTTPS at a basic level, so it’s becoming more common for fraudsters to use it to convince people that a site is secure when it isn’t.
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After spending a half-decade operating undetected, an APT (advanced persistent threat) known as “ProjectSauron” has been uncovered by both Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. A group called “Strider” has been using Remsec, an advanced tool that appears to have been designed for spying.
According to Symantec, the malware has been active since at least October 2011. Symantec became aware of ProjectSauron when their behavioural engineer detected the virus on a customer’s systems. Kaspersky’s software detected the malware in a Windows domain controller as an executable library registered as a Windows password filter.
The spyware can deploy custom modules as required, and has a network monitor. Once it has infected a system, it can open backdoors, log keystrokes, and steal files. It is heavily encrypted, allowing it to avoid detection as it takes control, moving across the network and stealing data. As many of its functions are deployed over the network, it resides only in the computer’s memory, not on disk. This, along with the fact that several components are in the form of Binary Large Objects makes it extremely difficult for antivirus software to detect.
So far, evidence of a ProjectSauron infection has been detected in 36 computers by Symatec, spanning seven separate organizations in Russia, China, Sweden, and Belgium, as well as individual’s PCs in Russia. Kaspersky has found more than 30 infections across Russia, Iran, and Rawanda, and suspects that Italy may also have been targeted.
Both Symantec and Kaspersky have suggested that a nation-state may be behind this APT. Kaspersky has collected 28 domains and 11 IP addresses in the US and Europe that may be connected to ProjectSauron campaigns. While it appears that the spyware has gone dark, no one can confirm whether or not Strider’s efforts have ceased. If Strider is in fact a nation-state attacker, these infections will likely continue to crop up.
The fact that ProjectSauron operates by mimicking a password filter module is yet another indication that it may be time for technology users worldwide to move away from relying on passwords, favoring instead biometrics and other more sophisticated security measures.
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Adobe on Tuesday delivered a new version of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8 to correct a number of critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take remote control of an infected computer.
The update -- which addresses nine flaws in version 8.1.2 and earlier -- includes a fix for a stack buffer overflow issue that was reported by four security companies: TippingPoint, Secunia, Core Security Technologies and iSIGHT Partners.
That bug could be exploited by hackers to gain access to a vulnerable system by tricking a victim into clicking on a specially crafted PDF file that contains malicious JavaScript, according to Core.
Andrew Storms, director of security operations at network security firm nCircle, said in an email that a public proof-of-concept is available for the vulnerability, which resembles a now-patched Foxit Reader bug that was disclosed earlier this year. An Adobe spokesman said that the company is not aware of any proof-of-concept code.
"This presents a significant risk to the enterprise as Adobe PDF files are a mainstay for corporate communications," he said. "Also, users are not as aware of the potential security risks associated with Adobe files as compared to Microsoft Word or Excel."
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MILWAUKEE, September 5, 2017 –Johnson Controls introduces the newest versions of its C•CURE 9000 security and event management platform from Software House to now include greater credential security and flexibility in smart card encoding by integrating with two new smart card technologies.
New personnel and credential management functionalities for the Software House C•CURE 9000 v2.60 SP1 (standalone) and v2.61 (unified with victor from American Dynamics) adds support for NXP MIFARE DesFire EV1 and EV2 smart card encoding. This allows multiple applications, such as access control, vending, and parking to be combined into a single contactless smart card, with the user in complete control of the card’s memory and key material. To further protect against card tampering, the encoding setup features an optional Anti-Cloning diversified key, per NXP’s Generic Access Control Data Model.
Fast and secure data transmission is made possible with advanced AES-128 encryption. Both smart code encoding platforms are ideal for transportation, government, education and other vertical markets which require a high level of security and fast credential data transmission speed.
“With support for both MIFARE DESFire EV1 and EV2 smart code encoding, the latest versions of C•CURE 9000 give more autonomy to end users by allowing them to set and manage their encoding keys themselves,” said Rick Focke, Senior Product Manager, Building Technologies & Solutions, Johnson Controls. “Giving our customers the tools to exert more control in customizing our solutions to meet their specific needs is always a goal for our product development teams as they refine and expand our security solutions.”
MIFARE DESFire EV1 cards can hold up to 28 different applications and 32 files per application. MIFARE DESFire EV2 smart cards, the second evolution of the MIFARE DESFire open architecture platform, can hold an unlimited number of applications and include a proximity check feature to protect against relay attacks, while employing a virtual smart card architecture for privacy protection.
This newest version of the C•CURE 9000 security and event management platform also includes USB webcam support for badging. Also, visitor management capabilities of the platform have been extended to include multi-language support and the ability to assign a QR code to a visitor that can be used at the self-service kiosk application upon arrival. A visitor simply scans the QR code and the app auto-populates the visitor information into the appropriate fields for quick and easy check-in. The information is then sent directly to the host to notify him/her of the visitor’s arrival.
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Japan’s newly appointed cybersecurity minister Yoshitaka Sakurada has caused outcry in Japan upon revealing that he has never used a computer in his professional life. The embarrassing admission was first reported by Kyodo News on Nov 15 and generated a mixture of incredulity and bemusement, as well as a whole lot of facepalm emojis, online.
“Since I was 25 years old and independent I have instructed my staff and secretaries. I have never used a computer,” the newly appointed minister admitted last Wednesday at a parliament meeting.
Sakurada took up his post just last month in a cabinet reshuffle after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s re-election. One of his responsibilities includes cyber defense for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Politician Masato Imai from the opposition Democratic Party was shocked to hear this, stating, “I find it unbelievable that someone who is responsible for cyber-security measures has never used a computer at work.” However, Sakurada reassured the assembly that other officials in his department had the necessary knowledge and experience.
Takeshi Saiki of the Democratic Party of the People still had concerns, and followed up by asking Sakurada whether USBs are being used at Japan’s nuclear plants — a major concern following a virus being introduced to an Iranian nuclear plant via USB. Their conversation went as follows:
Saiki: “Do Japan’s nuclear power plants have USB jacks?”
Sakurada: “We don’t use them in general.”
Saiki: “I’m asking whether the plants have them or not.”
Sakurada: “We don’t allow their use.”
“At least choose someone who can use a computer. All this guy is good for is signing off on legislation.” “Even kindergarteners know more than this guy.”
“Oh man…I feel him. I’ve been at my job for the last 5 years and have no idea what I’m doing.”
While some Japanese have commented that a younger person may be more tech-savvy and suited for such a role, there’s a real disconnect between the younger generation and politics in Japan. Just two years ago the voting age was reduced from 20 to 18, and yet young Japanese are the least likely age group to vote in elections, while around 30% of voters are 65 or older. With the upcoming Olympic Games and other international events like the Rugby World Cup, let’s hope someone more qualified steps up to the plate soon.
On Friday, Sakurada attempted to clarify his comments, according to Reuters.
“Referring to the comment I made on 14 November, I do not use computers at home on a daily basis, but at the office, I obviously use it for various work,” he said.
In spite of the public outcry, Sakurada is still cybersecurity minister and is presumably trying to figure out exactly what a USB is and where he can stick it. Maybe one of his staff can help him understand this pretty simple concept. I hear they should have the “relevant knowledge.”
For more about Japanese politics, check out some of our related articles. | https://blog.gaijinpot.com/japans-cybersecurity-minister-admits-he-has-never-used-computer/ |
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ThreatQuotient, a security operations platform provider, today announced that it raised $22.5 million, a mix of debt and $13 million in equity. The company says it’ll use the proceeds to expand its workforce and the availability of its products globally.
More than three quarters of IT security leaders anticipate a major breach involving a critical infrastructure organization in the near future, according to a Black Hat USA survey. It’s estimated that 31% of organizations have experienced cyberattacks on operational technology infrastructure. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Gartner found that organizations planned to invest $17.48 billion in infrastructure protection in 2020.
ThreatQuotient was founded in 2013 by Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang as a part of an effort to build a centrally managed source of cybersecurity solutions. The company’s product, ThreatQ, is designed to serve as a threat intelligence platform with an integrated, self-tuning library that features a workbench allowing for threat detection and response.
ThreatQ can score and prioritize cyber threats based on customers’ parameters as well as facilitate aggregation, operationalization across systems and teams. It offers configuration and integrations in addition to workload and enrichment, coordinating inefficiencies that span security operations.
Using ThreatQ, team leaders can direct actions, assign tasks, and see the results in real time. They can also import and aggregate data sources and export intelligence to third-party tools via integrations with feeds and security systems.
“ThreatQ [uses] analytics and machine learning to determine relevance and priority for specific companies. This is the basis for our dynamic scoring and self-tuning capabilities. As more data and context is captured in the threat library, the platform will reprioritize the data to ensure priority is known and appropriate actions are taken,” CEO and president John Czupak explained to VentureBeat via email. “ThreatQuotient also offers [a] cybersecurity situation room designed for collaborative threat analysis, shared, accelerated understanding, and coordinated response. Built on top of the ThreatQ platform, [it] allows for the capturing, learning and sharing of knowledge.”
ThreatQ can be deployed solely on-premises or in cloud-based environments, plus software-only distributions for virtual machines. ThreatQuotient also offers a family of appliances to meet various performance requirements.
In 2020, 115-employee ThreatQuotient says it secured a “record” number of new customers in 12 countries, bringing its customer base to over 100 companies. The startup also claims to have achieved a “record” number of transactions following the launch of a fully managed version of its platform.
“As a result of strong performance in 2020, we welcomed an opportunity to secure additional funding and add new investors to our syndicate. ThreatQuotient is meeting a critical need for security operations solutions, and we have significant expansion plans to continue this momentum,” Czupak continued. “Fortunately, we are in a position where the products and services we provide are critical to our customer’s security operations. In some cases, opportunities accelerated because security became higher on the list of priorities for organizations during the pandemic.”
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