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The research-based risk assessment conducted by the National Food Institute can be divided into chemical and microbiological risk assessment with the chemical part covering both population exposure estimation and an assessment of potential effects in humans.
The risk assessment is the scientific part of a risk analysis which consists of a further two elements: risk management and risk communication. Risk analysis is an internationally recognised tool on which public sector decision-making is based in relation to priorities and safeguarding public health. The risk assessment includes hazard identification and characterisation and exposure assessment, and based on these aspects, the risk is characterised.
The National Food Institute conducts research-based risk assessments as part of its scientific work. These tasks include public sector services, primarily for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, but also international consulting via, e.g., the EFSA, the OECD, the EMA and the WHO. The work performed in these bodies is important in order to maintain the level of knowledge in the National Food Institute, to achieve influence and to always keep national authorities updated with the most recent information.
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Watch a short video which explains how experts from the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, carry out risk assessments of food and feed, and how EFSA’s risk assessments are being used by Europe’s food safety authorities as well as how risks are communicated to consumers (video). The video is made by EFSA.
In another video EFSA explains how scientists deal with scientific uncertainty in risk assessments.
Check out this infographic from EFSA, which shows the difference between risk assessment and risk management. In Denmark risk assessments are carried out by food safety researchers, while the political decisions about how to manage a risk are made by the authorities, fx the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. | https://www.food.dtu.dk/english/topics/risk-assessment/risk-assessments-in-general |
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Architecture of the AEGIS system.
EFACEC was looking for a cost-efficient and sustainable safety technology for the development of its new rail transport safety solutions. Ultimately, the company chose the commercial-off-the-shelf safety solutions (COTS) HIMatrix and HIMax from HIMA. In addition to the fact that these safety controllers satisfy the most rigorous rail standards, and thanks to CENELEC SIL 4 approval they are in compliance with a high safety standard, other factors that were crucial for this decision were the modular design and optimal scalability of the HIMA safety controllers.
With the help of HIMatrix and HIMax, EFACEC was able to implement its modular, flexible AEGIS signaling system and the XSafe level crossing controller. Both systems are based on the same hardware and a certified software production, verification, and validation process. The AEGIS system was implemented for the first time on the 1.5km, double-track airport line of the Oporto Metro in Porto, Portugal.
Modular and scalable
The AEGIS system is a new modular concept for signaling systems based on SIL 4 (safety) certified industrial hardware and COTS software. The heart of the system is a locking solution for the rail traffic controller. It is based on the HIMA safety PLC platform and software developed by EFACEC using standard languages in accordance with IEC 61131 and certified function blocks to ensure SIL4 certification; the solution has been validated through T?V-S?D.
XSafe is the latest version of the automatic level crossing system from EFACEC ? it is based on COTS technology. The powerful XSafe controller is based on the SIL4-certified HIMatrix series. Its distributed structure with IP-based communication for connection of the individual modules has proven to be outstanding for this type of application, particularly in terms of connectivity to other rail systems. This enables significant cost reductions, among other things where the cabling is concerned. Thanks to the modularity and flexibility of the HIMatrix platform, XSafe offers a solution that is versatile in its configuration and suitable for virtually any type of level crossing.
?HIMatrix and HIMax satisfy the most rigorous railway standards and safety standards. In addition, thanks to open interfaces and a standard operating system they offer optimum scalability. The modular COTS controllers address all requirements of our customers relative to investment costs and operating costs over the entire service life and beyond,? Luis Roboredo, chief technical officer of transportation business unit at EFACEC.
Safety is of central importance in the rail sector. Thanks to the SIL4-certified COTS-solutions from HIMA, EFACEC was able to implement its AEGIS and XSafe safety solutions cost-effectively, easily, and quickly. In the first AEGIS project the HIMax and HIMatrix COTS safety controllers guarantee reliable and uninterruptible operation of the airport line in Porto.
? Cost advantage: Unlike proprietary technology, the COTS controllers are manufactured in large quantities as standard components. Thus AEGIS and XSafe are particularly cost-effective systems.
? Scalability: Thanks to the modular structure and open programming of the controllers AEGIS and XSafe can be flexibly adapted to the requirements.
? Easy integration: Standard programming languages and open communication interfaces enable easy system integration.
? Maximum safety: Thanks to the SIL4-certified controllers AEGIS and XSafe satisfy the highest standards for rail transport in terms of availability and safety. | https://www.technicalreviewmiddleeast.com/it/information-security/with-hima-s-safety-solutions-efacec-protects-rail-traffic-in-portugal |
01. Analyse the core values with a focus on cybersecurity operations to support your strategic and operational risk management objectives.
02. Analyse potential malicious cyber activity and its effect on corporate risk profile.
03. Apply a risk-focused cybersecurity operations management framework to enable organizations to safely advance business continuity.
04. Develop effective and innovative solutions and management strategies to address problems in cybersecurity. | https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/your-course/subjects/current/mgt2mrm-cybersecurity-operations-management-and-risk |
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Catholic University of Louvain studied 15 months’ worth of anonymised mobile phone records for 1.5 million individuals.
They found from the “mobility traces” – the evident paths of each mobile phone – that only four locations and times were enough to identify a particular user.
“In the 1930s, it was shown that you need 12 points to uniquely identify and characterise a fingerprint,” said the study’s lead author Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye of MIT.
“What we did here is the exact same thing but with mobility traces. The way we move and the behaviour is so unique that four points are enough to identify 95% of people,” he told BBC News.
I assume they use the sell-tower data, not the GPS data. Good luck trying to remove that.
However, you can also use three or four handsets with call forwarding. One for at home, one for while commuting, and one for at work. Each one stays at their location of use. Maybe a fourth one for shopping and trips etc that is only activated when in use.
If they are all at different providers, you might make life of spies a little more difficult.
Dragan’s effort isn’t much help. The phone company certainly knows where your phone is at all times, since it is associated with a tower and triangulated with others. Whether this information requires a warrant for police to access is an issue currently in the courts. But, you have no control over what the phone company does with that information internally or commercially, as far as I can tell. For all I know, they could be associating it with my CC number and selling it to the credit-rating agencies.
At this point, my take is this: the organizations I trust least already have unfettered access to this information. The best I can do is make the information useful to me as well, which means using the location software for the convenience of my family.
There is a simple answer, but it comes at a cost some (many?) might not like to bear.
(1) Get hold of the most antique cell phone you can find. No bells and whistles. Just phone and text capability. (2) Leave it off until you want to make a call or send a text, or you are expecting one by arrangement by other means. (3) Switch it off again directly you have used it. (4) Celebrate your freedom from always being contactable. We used to live like that, and no one suffered unduly because of it.
(Clearly this will not work if you have to have a cell phone and keep it on because of your job.)
In case you think I am some sort of techno-Luddite, that is far from the case. I adopt various detailed strategies to keep my privacy online. But cell phones are impossible in terms of privacy: as long as they ping the local tower, someone somewhere – and, increasingly, more and more organizations, governmental and others – can track your movements.
Oh, and use cash whenever you can.
smith • March 26, 2013 9:03 AM
This is nothing new, see “Understanding individual human mobility patterns” by Gonzalez, Hidalgo, and Barabasi in 2008. They used a data set of 6 million anonymized mobile phone users to find some interesting patterns. Relevant to this article, they showed that by ranking a user’s locations by frequency then the probability of finding that user at a given location is proportional to the inverse of the rank. So needing only four data points isn’t very surprising.
When you think about it, this is pretty obvious. I go to work and back home, with maybe a few other places like a grocery store and favorite coffee shop. Home and work alone would be enough to uniquely identify me.
Not that there aren’t easier methods, of course.
I’m just fearing the day that mobile phone location data might be used to condemn someone in a courtroom setting.
The EFF position is ideal, but impractical. The information collected about people belongs to those who collect it. It is not a search of my person or my property. And restricting only the government from getting this information, while companies are allowed to freely share it, means the sovereign is demoted to that of corporations. So, who’s the sovereign?
I think it takes a constitutional amendment to really fix this, and there’s simply no incentive to do that.
I assume you are aware of the fact, that unless you remove the battery from your phone physically. You did not turn _anything_ off, right? Including your mic, gps etc…?
You assumed wrong. I’m not aware of this fact. You do turn off somethings
– http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/realitymining3.html “The GroupMedia project evolved from our work at the Wearable Computing Group, a.k.a. Borglab, driven by the need for more perceptual socially-aware applications for cell phones and PDAs. We measure speech speaking styles (speech feature processing), head-nodding, body motion (accelerometry) and physiology (galvanic skin response) to understand interest in conversations, effectiveness of elevator pitches, movie audience reactions, speed-dating, focus groups, and group interaction dynamics.” – http://groupmedia.media.mit.edu/
If you have a hunt back on this blog you will see that RobertT and myself outlined in reassonable depth how to go about using pagers to do this with “basher phones” and one or two other bits and bobs.
One way that I’ve thought about further since the “Moscow Rock” incident is using something similar.
Unlike mobile phones etc pagers are fairly light on their batteries and can be used as a “wake up” for more power hungry electronics (simply by hot wiring across their buzzer/vibrate output).
If you were to put a largish battery, pager, wakeup PIC circuit and a gumstick or Raspberry Pi single board Linux system setup as a wireless non broadcast AP in your own ‘rock’ or other casing you would have an effective electronic “dead letter drop box”. Based on the prices I’ve seen for the bits you are probably looking at around 100USD for the electronics and the same again for a suitable case (the battery is going to be the realy expensive part as you would need “super cells” with a very long life and minimal self discharge).
Due to the range of WiFi style dongles with modified antennas I original considered putting one in a reasonable sized IP67 “locking junction box” style case with solar cells bonded to the top and fix it to the roof of a conveniant building near a pub / restaurant / park or other frequently populated area.
After a few experiments I found that the local shopping center with lots of cafes and book shops with coffee shops etc was probably the best place.
A little of both, if it’s not to busy you get left alone as you make the place look popular, if it’s very busy they are often to busy to worry about you. If they do worry you say you are waiting for a friend. Then with a very handy little gadget you can get from a toy shop, press a buttton and it sounds like an SMS has jusst come in on a phone, get your phone out and look at any old SMS frown get up and ask the waiter for directions to a different coffee shop saying your friend texted from there and make a dignified exit. The shop atleast got the price of one coffee (or herbal tea in my case) out of you.
Oh one thing you need to check is some places (including one or two MuckyD’s) don’t set up their WiFi AP properly and I’ve found certain VoIP protocols tunnel through quite nicely without neediing to be disguised as HTTPS traffic via stunnel etc… It’s even truer of the local Mom&Pop Tea Shop…
Lisa • March 30, 2013 2:27 PM
I admit I don’t really think much about the data my cell phone gives any person or organization about me. But the fact that they only need four data points to identify person is both creepy and fascinating at the same time.
Creepy that we can be spied upon so easily. Fascinating that we’re such creatures of habit that we can be so easily identified by where we go and what we do. | https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/identifying_peo_5.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter |
The developers have now adapted their installation instructions. To install Jitsi Meet via Docker, you now have to run a script that sets all internally used passwords to random values. If the passwords are not set or the old default value "passw0rd" use, the start is denied.
In the face of the corona pandemic, video conferencing systems have been very popular recently. Many users have installed Jitsi Meet for this, Golem.de has recently published and operates a corresponding manual even a public server. We have now adapted the instructions. All users who installed Jitsi Meet using our original guide are affected by the problem.
If you already have an existing installation of Jitsi Meet with Docker, you should definitely secure it. The following commands can be executed in the corresponding directory of the Git checkout:
To test whether the whole thing was successful, we have provided a python scriptthat can be used to test vulnerability. The script tries to log into one of the XMPP accounts.
The vulnerability can be used to bypass user authentication on installations that have activated one. Further effects are conceivable, since an attacker has an administration account on the internal XMPP server. | https://no1geekfun.com/vulnerability-unsafe-default-passwords-in-jitsi-meet/ |
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Innovation and ICT Minister Dave Kelly today announced $1.8 million of funding in the upcoming State Budget for the establishment of the State Government's new Cyber Security Operations Centre.
The new whole-of-government Cyber Security Operations Centre will significantly improve visibility of the cyber threats against agencies' networks and the Government's capability to detect and respond to cyber security incidents.
The new operations centre will support existing complementary efforts to improve cyber security resilience across government. It will also expand and complement the existing dedicated cyber security team within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet's Office of Digital Government.
Staff in the new operations centre will be trained cyber security professionals, with the centre also offering further avenues of work and training for cyber security TAFE and university students participating in the Office of Digital Government's work integrated learning program.
The Office of Digital Government will today open applications for the recruitment of a whole‑of‑government pool of cyber security experts.
Successful applicants will be placed in the Cyber Security Operations Centre team, another team within the Office of Digital Government's Cyber Security Unit or in other public sector agencies.
To apply, visit http://www.jobs.wa.gov.au
Comments attributed to Innovation and ICT Minister Dave Kelly:
"Today's launch of the whole-of-government Cyber Security Operations Centre is a first for Western Australia, and the first of its kind in Australia.
"During COVID-19 we've seen a rise in malicious cyber activity in terms of frequency, scale and sophistication.
"The McGowan Government is committed to building the cyber security capability within the State Government, the community and industry.
"The new operations centre will provide unprecedented visibility of threats against agencies' networks, as well as improve the State Government's ability to co-ordinate and respond to cyber security threats against our systems.
"The Cyber Security Operations Centre will create further jobs and opportunities for cyber security professionals in WA." | https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2020/09/Western-Australias-first-whole-of-government-Cyber-Security-Operations-Centre-launched.aspx |
What if a public cloud could process encrypted data without knowing the encryption key? That’s the “data-in-use encryption” problem. And it’s a hard one.
One approach is FHE—which stands for “fully homomorphic encryption.” But it’s incredibly, amazingly, unbelievably slow.
What if you could make it 10,000 times faster? Intel thinks it can, by implementing it in dedicated hardware. In this week’s Security Blogwatch, we fry the fish to complement the chips.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: counting.
This development will be part of DARPA's unfortunately named DPRIVE project … (Data Protection in Virtual Environments). Homomorphic encryption allows you to perform operations on encrypted data without having to decrypt it into plain text, work with it, and then encrypt the output. Microsoft is a fan of the technology.
Okay, that might be a little too simplified. Lucian Constantin reports in longer form—Intel, Microsoft join DARPA effort to accelerate fully homomorphic encryption:
[It] aims to develop hardware and software to drastically improve the performance of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) computation. As part of the program, Intel will develop a hardware accelerator that could make machine learning practical with always-encrypted and privacy-preserving data.
Why this matters: … The best insights from data come from the largest datasets. This includes being able to train a neural network. [But] FHE at that scale is no longer a viable solution: … FHE can increase the size of the data by 100–1,000x, and then compute on that data is 10,000x to a million times slower than conventional compute.
Riiiight, but how does it work? Life gives us Robert Lemos: [You’re fired—Ed.]
FHE uses a specialized type of encryption, known as lattice cryptography, that encodes data using complex mathematical computations that are not able to be solved by current decryption techniques. However, the latest FHE algorithms use a data representation known as Large Arithmetic Word Size (LAWS), which uses data widths of thousands of bits to help mitigate some of the challenges of the algorithms.
The Intel-Microsoft team is not the only one rushing to produce a hardware accelerator for privacy-preserving encryption. Newark, NJ-based Duality Technologies announced in February that it would lead a team to develop its own FHE accelerator, known as Trebuchet. Team members include the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, SpiralGen, Drexel University, and TwoSix Labs.
Interesting, but still clear as mud. Timoteous has a go:
If you have two encrypted numbers, a and b, with homomorphic encryption, you can do operations on them like a + b = c. You still don't know what a, b or c is but you can pass c back to the person who has the encryption key and they can read it.
Why Intel and Microsoft? Danny McClanahan—@hipsterelectron—imagines the DARPA discussion:
Okay folks, we want to develop an accelerator chip for homomorphic encryption. Who are the two corporations most well known for such incredible security flaws they created an entire industry and have directly led to US government data being stolen? Right then, guess that’s settled!
Awesome. So, cheaper privacy ahead? Nope, says grant3:
FHE is still orders of magnitude more expensive than working on unencrypted data, and even the most optimistic future exploration has it remaining many multiples more expensive … (even assuming Intel's greatest dreams are realized). … FHE will make working on unencrypted data feasible but it will not be cheaper.
And Gravis Zero foresees an oint in the flyment:
FHE is the ultimate DRM (impossible to read, only possible to execute), so it's no wonder it's desired.
Businesses would see FHE instructions as a panacea to keep their secrets but the reality is that antivirus would become all but impossible. It would be buyer's remorse from day one of widespread FHE instruction adoption.
Time for a monochrome metaphor? Craig Gentry wrote this, way back in 2008—Computing Arbitrary Functions of Encrypted Data:
Alice owns a jewelry store. She has raw precious materials – gold, diamonds, silver, etc. – that she wants her workers to assemble into intricately designed rings and necklaces.
But she distrusts her workers and assumes that they will steal her jewels if given the opportunity. In other words, she wants her workers to process the materials into finished pieces, without giving them access to the materials. What does she do?
Here is her plan. She uses a transparent impenetrable glovebox, secured by a lock for which only she has the key. She puts the raw precious materials inside the box, locks it, and gives it to a worker. Using the gloves, the worker assembles the ring or necklace inside the box. Since the box is impenetrable, the worker cannot get to the precious materials, and figures he might as well return the box to Alice, with the finished piece inside.
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Chinese-owned social media site TikTok told US senators it is working on a final agreement with the US government that “will fully safeguard user data and US national security interests,” according to a letter seen on Friday (Jul 1) by Reuters.
TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew told senators in a letter dated on Thursday the short video app was working with Oracle on “new advanced data security controls that we hope to finalize in the near future.” Last month, TikTok said it has completed migrating information on its US users to servers at Oracle but it still is using US and Singapore data centers for backup.
TikTok’s letter acknowledged that China-based employees “can have access to TikTok US user data subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols overseen by our US-based security team.” TikTok said as it continues to work on data issues it expects “to delete US users protected data from our own systems and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers located in the US” | https://pakistanaheadnews.com/tiktok-seeks-to-reassure-lawmakers-on-us-data-security/ |
Maze Ransomware Group claims Chop into the Sparboe egg farm in a post on their website.
Maze, a well-known group of cybercriminals, recently reported on their website that Sparboe was attacked. The post contains evidence that data has been stolen from the company.
Maze: a large cybercrime organization
The cyber security company’s threat analyst Emsisoft Brett Callow he said Cointelegraph so far the group with each labyrinth attack You have requested a ransom in Bitcoin (BTC). There also doesn’t seem to be a particularly easy and targeted way to protect companies from such attacks, as the group uses several forms of attack:
“As with other ransomware groups, Maze was found to use several methods to infiltrate corporate networks, including spam, the use of stolen credentials, and attacks on poorly configured or unprotected Internet systems.”
A well-known egg trader is the new victim of ransomware. Will Chickens Use Bitcoin?
Maze is known to attack high profile companies and demand a particularly high ransom. Before, The group threatened to lose millions of credit card numbers after alleged hacking in Banco BCR, a Costa Rican state bank.
Maze seems to be following his usual strategy, that This includes making the victim’s data inaccessible by encrypting and stealing a copy. The group later requests two separate ransom notes to restore access to the victim’s data and another to promise that it will not expire.
According to the Sparboe website The chicken and egg dealer in Minnesota, founded in 1954You now have an estimated annual income of $ 30 million according to the owner’s corporate data website. The farm is a major producer, but in 2011 it was abandoned by McDonald’s and Target, one of his biggest customers after Sparboe was in the middle of an animal abuse scandal.
As CNN reported at the time, the animal rights group Mercy for Animals recorded an alleged undercover video on three Sparboe farms in Colorado, Iowa and Minnesota. The pictures showed workers abusing animals for fun, burning beaks and stacking birds in crowded cages. McDonald’s said in a statement:
“With regard to the videos, the actions are disruptive and completely unacceptable. McDonald’s would like to assure our customers that we treat animals from our suppliers humanely. […] It is important to note that the most alarming video actions at Sparboe’s Vincent, Iowa facilities that supply McDonald’s have not taken place. “ | https://www.europeworldnews.com/a-well-known-egg-trader-is-the-new-victim-of-ransomware-will-chickens-use-bitcoin/ |
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In addition to preventing malware, Avast as well provides a kill switch just for uTorrent. By default, the eliminate switch is off, but you can toggle it off and on to protect the real IP. Avast also provides eight servers primed with regards to torrenting. You may connect to any of these to perform p2p filesharing. The p2p computers can be found within separate tabs within the Avast VPN software. | https://tlahome.vn/avast-antivirus-just-for-torrenting-review/ |
The following guide was created to help Ransomware victims recover .Osiris encrypted files and help them remove the .Osiris File Virus itself (it remains in their system).
Welcome to our article about one of the most recent entries to the Ransomware virus family. The name of the new virus is .Osiris File Virus and in this article we will provide you with some very important information regarding this type of malicious programs and what you need to do in order to prevent Ransomware from getting inside your PC and encrypting your files. We also have a removal guide that you can refer to if the noxious .Osiris File Virus has already gotten inside your machine and locked your data. However, our advice for you, regardless of whether you have been attacked by the Ransomware or you are simply looking for more information, is to read all paragraphs. The tips and guidelines that we have provided can be the difference between having a safe and well-secured PC or one that has been infected by some nasty malware such as the one we are going to be talking about today.
The next list of tips and guidelines will help you provide your PC with enhanced protection against any potential Ransomware attacks, so make sure you remember and use the advice we are about to give you.
Do not visit websites that have a bad reputation and/or are illegal. Being cautious and responsible while surfing the internet is crucial when it comes to protecting your system from malware attacks.
Create a backup copy of all data files that you consider important, so that even if the original ones get attacked by .Osiris File Virus, you’d still have their accessible copies in a safe place.
Do not underestimate the importance of good anti-virus software. Some of them already have anti-ransomware features and they can help you fend off backdoor viruses that are often used to provide the Ransomware direct access to your PC.
Delete any suspicious e-mails without even opening them, since they might be carriers of .Osiris File Virus.
Open the Start Menu and in the search field type Task Manager.
Open the first result and in the Processes tab, carefully look through the list of Processes.
If you notice with the virus name or any other suspicious-looking or that seems to consume large amounts of memory, right-click on it and open its file location. Delete everything in there.
Make sure that the hidden files and folders on your PC are visible, else you might not be able to see everything.
Go back to the Task Manager and end the shady process.
Once you have identified the virus that has encrypted your files, you must acquire the respective tool to unlock your data.
Open your browser and search for how to decrypt ransomware, look for the name of the one that has infected your system.
With any luck, you’d be able to find a decryptor tool for your ransomware. If that doesn’t happen try Step V as a last ditch effort to save your files.
Download the Recuva tool. This will help you restore your original files so that you won’t need to actually decrypt the locked ones.
Once you’ve downloaded the program, open it and select Next.
Now choose the type of files you are seeking to restore and continue to the next page.
When asked where your files were, before they got deleted, either use the option In a specific location and provide that location or choose the opt for the I am not sure alternative – this will make the program look everywhere on your PC.
Click on Next and for best results, enable the Deep Scan option (note that this might take some time).
Wait for the search to finish and then select which of the listed files you want to restore.
Keep in mind it is possible that not all files might be fully recovered. You can check in what condition the files are from the State column in the list of deleted files. | http://malwareresearchgroup.com/osiris-file-virus-remove-2/ |
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This is an alpha release of Stackdriver Incident Response & Management (IRM). It might be changed in backward-incompatible ways. It is not meant to be relied upon for production-critical tasks. It is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.
Access to IRM is currently granted to whitelisted Stackdriver Workspaces only; complete the sign-up form if you are interested.
This page describes how to navigate between the IRM console and the Stackdriver Monitoring console and lists the differences in terminology and behaviors in the two consoles.
The term Incidents has slightly different meaning in Monitoring and IRM.
Incidents in the Monitoring console are equivalent to alerts in IRM. Clicking an incident link in the Stackdriver Monitoring console takes you to the Alert Details view in IRM.
In IRM, incidents are the vehicle for all response and management activities. An alert might or might not already be associated with an IRM incident.
Resolved and recovered
The term Resolved in the Stackdriver Monitoring console is equivalent to the term Recovered in IRM. Recovered is an IRM alert status that indicates that a previously firing alert is back within its normal parameters. In IRM, when an alert is out of its normal parameters, its status is Firing.
In IRM, the term Resolved is a stage in the incident's lifecycle of the incident and the response team's response activities. This incident stage indicates that the incident no longer requires an active response.
For descriptions of incident stages and alert statuses, go to IRM Concepts.
Stackdriver Monitoring alerting policies are the basis for the alerts featured in IRM.
To review the underlying policy: from the Alert details pane within IRM, click the Policy URL. The alerting policy opens in the Stackdriver Monitoring console:
For more information on alerting policies, go to Introduction to alerting.
In Stackdriver Monitoring Alerting, an alert sometimes mistakenly fires and cannot recover on its own; for example, an alert on an instance that's now deleted. In the Stackdriver Monitoring console, you can address this issue by manually selecting Silence for 5 minutes.
In IRM, setting an incident stage to Resolved closes the associated alerts. Marking an incident Resolved indicates that an active incident response is no longer required. When an alert can't recover on its own and there's no root-cause event to address, setting the incident stage to Resolved concludes the incident response.
For more information on incident stages, go to IRM concepts and Resolving an incident.
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An S3 bucket misconfiguration last summer caused Twilio users to load an extraneous URL on their browsers that has been associated with the Magecart attacks. Today’s columnist, Chris Kennedy of AttackIQ, offers tips for how security pros can use security control validation to offset misconfigurations or process problems. (Credit: CC BY 2.0)
People like to ask what keeps me up at night. It’s not a specific threat, but a set of nagging questions: How do we know that our cybersecurity defenses will work when they must? Are our security teams prepared for future threats? Unless security teams test, exercise, and validate their cybersecurity program’s effectiveness, they won’t know the answer to these questions. So, how can security pros change the game for the better?
Here are five ways to make security programs more efficient and effective:
Fine-tune existing security controls. A cybersecurity program consists of a complex ecosystem of people, processes, and technologies that work on detection and security operations. Our research has found that 82 percent of enterprise breaches should have been stopped by existing security controls but weren’t. Security fails because of misconfigurations or user error, and four out of five successful attacks leverage control failures or process problems at the victim organization. Successful security requires continuous validation; absent continuous validation, the program won’t work. Especially as threats evolve.
Periodic compliance audits and red-team tests are insufficient; what’s needed are regular automated security control tests. Historically, organizations have invested in compliance audits and red team testing to validate their security effectiveness. Companies can’t rely on a once-a-year process focused on checking certain boxes to meet compliance requirements and determine security effectiveness. Irregular audits and manual tests cannot achieve the scale and scope required to provide real performance data and achieve optimum cybersecurity. Instead, security teams should aim to conduct regular, automated security control tests across the organization to ensure that security controls work consistently as intended. Each organization will have its own specific requirements depending on its risk tolerance, but an automated testing platform can validate security controls as frequently as the organization requires. This includes hourly or more.
Take advantage of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. For years the security community held back on sharing threat information either because of intelligence classification or competitive constraints. The MITRE ATT&CK framework changed all of that in 2015 by offering the cybersecurity community a single repository of threat actor behavior. The ATT&CK framework operates as a globally-available, free, open framework of known adversary tactics, techniques and procedures. It offers a clear baseline of adversary behavior, eliminating fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Security professionals leverage MITRE’s insights to simulate attacker behavior in real-world scenarios and evaluate their security effectiveness against known threats. Governments all over the world use the framework to focus cyberdefenders on the threats that matter most.
Deploy automated breach and attack simulation tools. Manual red-teaming demands significant time from highly skilled staff, too much to occur at the frequency required for true security effectiveness. That’s why breach and attack simulation tools have grown in popularity. The best products automate scenario-based security testing to find weaknesses and control failures in the security infrastructure. If a new application or a configuration unexpectedly opens a gap in the company’s defenses, security teams can discover it in a timely manner through regular testing. Once the security team becomes aware of such a weakness, they can take steps to eliminate it.
Look for tools that scale and work in a production environment. A strong platform needs to deliver visibility into people, process, and technology effectiveness throughout a security organization. What does that demand from a product? First, it needs to scale across an enterprise. Second, the product needs to work in a production environment; a lab setting never functions as a precise replica of the actual systems the company needs to protect. Third and finally, security teams need an open and adaptable platform for new testing content as the company incorporates new threat information (from internal intelligence or external threat feeds). Absent any of these criteria, the investment will falter.
While automated testing serves as the foundation of breach and attack simulation, security teams benefit the most from a strong platform that can optimize their security program’s effectiveness. Done correctly, an automated testing platform generates real data about the team’s total performance. With real data, security teams can improve dozens of aspects of their security program, including post-incident response remediation, threat hunting, and investment decision-making by identifying issues with current or future processes or technologies. Performance data delivers the foundation for effective security management. Without it, teams are flailing.
By optimizing security organizations can maximize their budgets in uncertain times. Today, security teams face budget limits because of the coronavirus and its socio-economic disruptions. The combination of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, breach and attack simulation platforms, and a threat-informed defense will help companies focus on known threats and validate their team’s performance to make the most of increasingly scarce resources. Security optimization lets security teams pivot towards the future with clarity and optimal performance. | https://www.scmagazine.com/news/five-ways-to-lock-down-security-control-validation |
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A modified version of Intel's Classmate PC launched in the U.K. last week, with distributor Actronix releasing the £239 (US$478) JumPC.
The JumPC is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10 and combines the Windows XP operating system with EasyBits' Magic Desktop user interface, which includes a number of features designed to keep children safe online.
Magic Desktop works on top of Windows, protecting system settings and allowing parents to control which programs children can access. It also features educational and entertainment programs and a web browser designed to ensure children don't visit inappropriate websites.
As for the hardware, the JumPC features an Intel Celeron chip, 512MB of RAM, a waterproof keyboard and a 7in screen. The JumPC is also designed for durability, including a 2GB solid-state hard disk as standard, although a traditional 30GB hard drive is available as an option. The 1.3kg system measures 241mm x 256mm x 42mm. Other features include 802.11b/g Wi-Fi support, stereo speakers, and a webcam.
Actronix said the system has already launched in Italy and Germany, where 30,000 units have already been sold. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/148662/classmate.html |
Sometimes your system may give an error code saying my Avast antivirus is not working. There can be several reasons for this problem. If some software components and features do not work as expected in Avast Antivirus, we recommend that you repair the installation using the Avast Installation Assistant. The repair process resets your software configuration by repairing or replacing obsolete, damaged, or missing program files.
When restoring Avast Antivirus, some individual settings may be retained, but other settings may return to their default values. | https://itnewstoday.net/my-avast-antivirus-is-not-working/ |
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On occasion the virus funds you the accessibility to paying through MoneyPak, a site that provides protect from ransomware pre-paid charge cards. It requires the immediate payment of money if you want the knowledge back. Following your malware makes itself pleasant within your gadget, the person behind it is going to demand that you pay off a particular selection money to retrieve it. You might also really want to install anti-virus or Net security software that could identify and eradicate ransomware hazards until they will lead your PC. Ransomware and other kinds of malware happen to be increasing, which has a growing number of businesses currently being attacked weekly. As of 2015, there’s also mobile ransomware. The very first ransomware, referred to as PC Cyborg or AIDS, was made back in the 1980s.
Cluley, that has worked for lots of security sellers throughout the last 20-plus decades, went on saying that it’s to be hoped that more people and companies will certainly wake until the importance of producing regular copies and keeping them individual from their computers. Encrypting very sensitive data to produce data ineffective whether it’s stolen. The info cannot be recovered except if a fee was paid to decrypt them. The only ways to renew the information is by means of backups. It is crucial to know the malicious application could encrypt new data after a reboot, which explains why we all recommend removing it if you intend on making use of the infected device later on. This process only tells the scammers you’ve got vital data, and you’re ready to devote the sum to defend it. Often, it’s complicated to separate malicious data, which is why our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.
Keep your computer is normally up-to-date. Normally, an affected computer will have several attacks of spy ware. What you will require is another pc readily available to you personally. Make certain you rear up your computer on a normal basis. While protecting a computer from disguised threats may well not look to be a straightforward task, it’s quite likely. There are many different methods ransomware can infect your PC. Whether you’re here using your home pc or a network computer in which you work, a few range of activities you may choose to use guard your self against Ransomware.
There are two kinds of users. In the event that the user is not going to pay the cybercriminal a selected quantity of cash within a number of quantity of period, their data will be lost forever. Surprisingly, however , plenty of users for no reason downloaded it. In addition , he’s asked to pay an excellent in order to avoid obtaining in jail. A lot of users get threats since they are exceedingly sloppy or simply because rush in opening dubious data, so it’s advisable to don’t dash off to and never allow your guard down while browsing the web. In the event the user will not pay within just three days and nights, the amount is certainly going for being doubled. Training users regarding potential hazards and the way to determine phishing efforts and deceitful links is a crucial component to ongoing THIS security.
You don’t wish to further encrypt your files using the incorrect decryption script. Even so, in case you consistently backup the files, the amount of files you lose needs to be minimal. You may not acquire your documents back, however you could rest assured AVG the infection is to cleaned up. On the flip side, if you need to restore the files without paying the ransom, follow the remaining portion of the steps listed below.
Everyone knows they should regress to something easier their data files. Say, as an example, something is attempting to encrypt a whole lot of data files, or the complete Eset NOD32 Software Review Eset Nod… – Eset Nod32 Username and Password keys C drive. Which means, you’re continue to lucky mainly because it really does not really encrypt your files in contrast to what it advertised, and therefore don’t squander your time searching for the decryption key. If it is not going to, we believe it should begin encrypting targeted data at once. | https://henry.legal/top-ransomware-secrets/ |
You just never really know what you're going to get with Microsoft these days. You could get a platform or application that exceeds expectations--like the Windows 7 operating system, or Bing, or you could get something that flops so horrifically that you have to wonder what it was thinking--like the Kin, or the Jerry Seinfeld marketing campaign. Sometimes you get both in the same week, as evidenced by Microsoft's Zune strategy as compared with its vision for tablets.
On the Zune front, Microsoft revealed that it will offer a Mac version of the Zune software by the end of the year. In a Twitter tweet that was subsequently removed, a Microsoft source stated, "I'm glad to confirm that Mac users would be able to use Zune on their Macs to sync with [Windows Phone 7]."
While Apple's iTunes software has been available for the Windows operating system for years, Microsoft has been more stingy with Zune. Of course, it makes sense that Apple would have a much stronger interest in opening its software to the platform that runs more than 90 percent of the desktops out there, while Microsoft could reasonably consider it a waste of time to invest development resources to target the five percent of the desktops running the Mac OS X platform.
However, both the Apple iPhone, and the recently unveiled Windows Phone 7 smartphones rely on the respective music and digital content platforms to sync the smartphones with music, photos, and other data. Microsoft is already late to the mobile party and needs every possible advantage it can find to maximize the potential, and improve the odds of Windows Phone 7 success. Allowing Mac OS X users to join in the Windows Phone 7 fun by providing Zune for the Apple OS makes strategic sense.
Exemplifying the contrast in strategic vision, though, Microsoft seems intent on pursuing a tablet built on the full Windows 7 OS. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even went so far as to promise that such devices will be available before the end of this year. But, although a tablet is a mobile computing device, the emphasis is on mobile, rather than computing. Trying to take a full Windows 7 desktop experience, and cram it into a touchscreen flat panel demonstrates that Microsoft doesn't yet grasp what the tablet revolution is about.
There is a reason that HP appears to be waffling in its devotion to the Windows 7 Slate concept--choosing instead to primarily invest its resources in a tablet based on the WebOS platform it acquired when it purchased Palm. There is a reason that LG abandoned its Windows 7 tablet plans, and is instead focusing on developing a tablet based on the Android mobile OS.
The very fact that Microsoft branded its mobile OS as Windows Phone 7 demonstrates its lack of vision and poor mobile strategy. I realize it was trying to escape the Windows Mobile brand and distinguish Windows Phone 7 as a new platform, but mobile computing goes beyond smartphones.
Once again, Microsoft gets one thing right, and one thing wrong. Providing Zune for Mac OS X to maximize potential pool of Windows Phone 7 users = good strategy. Stubbornly pursuing a tablet concept that demonstrates a lack of understanding of what users want in a tablet = bad strategy. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/364232/microsoft_gets_zune_strategy_right_tablet_strategy_wrong/ |
When sharing links, access level for the shared links should be set at the "Collaborators Only" level to restrict access to a controlled group of individuals you have invited to collaborate on the working folder.
Deactivate links that no longer require access by other users.
Password Protected Shared Link
Do not share sensitive files via an “Open” shared link. If that's unavoidable, use a password to secure the link before sharing it with other users.
When sharing the password protected shared link, send the shared link and the password in out-of-band communication channels to reduce the likelihood of malicious users stealing the credentials. Overview
Box has designed its service to allow users to collaborate on content using one of two features: 1) inviting collaborators and 2) sending share links to your content. Although these features enable easy collaboration of folders and files, extra precautions are necessary to ensure that data is shared only with authorized users. The best way to do that is to set the correct permissions to ensure the security and privacy of your data. In the following sections, we will discuss in more details how to share your content safely through inviting collaborators and sending share links.
This document assumes that users have basic understanding of collaboration and sharing functionalities provided in Box, which is provided at theBerkeley Box service webpage.
A Co-Owner has all of the functional read/ write access that an Editor does. This permission level has the added ability of being able to manage users in the folder. A Co-Owner can add new collaborators, change collaborators access, and remove collaborators (they will not be able to manipulate the owner of the folder or transfer ownership to another user).
One additional option to restrict permission to invite collaborators to a folder is under the Folder Properties, Security tab. Checking the box highlighted below will restrict Editors and other co-owners from being able to invite other collaborators.
Figure 4 - Only folder owner can send collaborator invites.
Recommendation: Set default collaborator access level to “Viewer-Uploader” unless your collaborators require additional access rights.
In addition to read and upload privileges, granting your collaborators “Viewer-Uploader” access will allow them to overwrite an existing file with a new version, moving the previous version of the file to version history for review later. On the flip side, “Viewer-Uploader” access level restricts a collaborator from being able to 1)invite other users to collaborate on the folder; and 2)delete files/folders within the collaborated folder. For more details on what a "Viewer-Uploader" collaborator can do, refer to detailed description of each access level above.
The "Viewer-Uploader" access level helps to avoid the risk of accidental or malicious deletion of data in your collaborated folder, while still providing collaborators with the core collaboration functions such as read and update access. This is especially powerful when combine with defaulting all shared links to "Collaborator Only" access level as described in Recommendation #3.
Recommendation: Create distinct, higher-level folders to organize sensitive vs. non-sensitive data.
To restrict shared links to "Collaborators Only" access level for a folder and its files, follow the steps below (this assumes that collaborators have already been invited to the folder. See section on Collaborator Access Levels section for more details):
This feature disables the shared link for a file or folder. If a collaborator wants to access the file, they’ll have to log into Box and find it in the appropriate folder.
Some times you want to share files with others only for a specific period time, after which you may want to take away access to that file. Box offers ways for you to deactivate the links you shared by way of setting an expired date on the links (applicable only to "Open" and "@Berkeley" links only) or manually disabling the link. Doing so will reduce the likelihood that files and folder, especially those containing sensitive data, become orphaned and unmanaged after a period of active collaboration.
If a business need requires that a sensitive file be shared with users outside of campus, Box allows end users to password-protect public web links, requiring visitors to enter the set password to access the file or folder. Please consult Box and Google Data Use Agreement on appropriate usage of Box for various restricted data types.
For example, email the link, then send the password in a text message or separate email.
Also note that a password protected shared link does not offer the same level of protection as file level encryption, since it only protects the file when accessed through the link. Collaborators may still be able to access the file without entering a password. | https://security.berkeley.edu/resources/best-practices-how-articles/system-application-security/box-collaboration-guidelines |
The controversial Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 has been approved by Pakistan's National Assembly (NA).
The restrictive bill—which has been criticised by the information technology (IT) industry as well as civil society for curbing human rights—was submitted to the NA for voting in January 2015 by the Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Anusha Rahman Khan.
A draft of the cybercrime bill was then cleared by the standing committee in September before being forwarded to the assembly for final approval.
According to critics, the proposed bill criminalises activities such as sending text messages without the receiver's consent or criticising government actions on social media. Those who do would be punished with fines and long-term imprisonment. Industry representatives have argued that the bill would harm business as well.
Online criticism of religion, the country, its courts, and the armed forces are among subjects which could invoke official intervention under the bill.
The bill approved on Wednesday, must also be approved by Senate before it can be signed into law, as reported by Dawn online.
Features of the Bill include -
• Up to five-year imprisonment, Rs (Pakistani Rupees) 10 million ($95,000) fine or both for hate speech, or trying to create disputes and spread hatred on the basis of religion or sectarianism.
• Up to five-year imprisonment, Rs5m ($47,700) fine or both for transferring or copying sensitive basic information.
• Up to Rs50,000 ($477) fine for sending messages irritating to others or for marketing purposes.
• Up to three-year imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs500,000 ($4,777) for creating a website for negative purposes.
• Up to one-year imprisonment or a fine of up to Rs1m ($9,500) for forcing an individual into immoral activity, or publishing an individual’s picture without consent, sending obscene messages or unnecessary cyber interference.
• Up to seven-year imprisonment, a fine of Rs10m or both for interfering in sensitive data information systems. | https://www.newsweek.com/pakistan-approves-controversial-cyber-crime-bill-447671 |
The New Zealand Stock Exchange board is shown on the side of Jarden Building in central Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. New Zealand’s government and overseas spy agency are getting involved after ongoing cyber attacks have disrupted the New Zealand stock exchange several times this week. (Greg Bowker/New Zealand Herald via AP)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government and its foreign spy agency are getting involved after cyber attacks disrupted trading on the nation’s stock market several times this week.
The attacks have affected the private company NZX which hosts the market, halting trading for up to several hours at a time.
Finance Minister Grant Robertson said Friday that ministers had asked the Government Communications Security Bureau intelligence agency to help stop the attacks.
“We as a government are treating this very seriously,” he said, adding that security concerns prevented him from saying much more.
Neither the NZX nor Robertson said if the attackers sought a ransom, as some have speculated.
The security bureau declined to comment. NZX did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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A ransomware attack that hobbled a Georgia county government in early October reportedly disabled a database used to verify voter signatures in the authentication of absentee ballots.
It is the first reported case of a ransomware attack affecting an election-related system in the 2020 cycle. Federal officials and cybersecurity experts are especially concerned that ransomware attacks — even ones that don't intentionally target election infrastructure — could disrupt voting and damage confidence in the integrity of the Nov. 3 election.
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors requested on Friday a 10-year jail term and a fine of 750,000 euros ($888,634) against Alexander Vinnik, who is accused of being behind a 135 million-euro ($160 million) fraud campaign that used ransomware and the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
The 41-year-old Russian, who is also wanted in the United States and Russia, is facing in France charges of extortion, money laundering and criminal association.
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei, one of the biggest makers of smartphones and switching equipment, said Friday its revenue rose 9.9% in the first nine months of this year, but growth decelerated in the face of U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.
Huawei Technologies Ltd. gave no sales figure for the most recent quarter ending in September, but growth for the first three quarters was down from the 13.1% reported for the first half of the year. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/science-and-technology/new-zealand-investigating-stock-market-cyber-attacks/ |
“In extremis, it has been possible to read someone’s letter, to listen to someone’s call, to mobile communications … The question remains: are we going to allow a means of communications where it simply is not possible to do that? My answer to that question is: no, we must not. The first duty of any government is to keep our country and our people safe.”[1]
This has been interpreted as a proposal to prevent use, within the UK, of communications services that use effective end-to-end encryption that prevents interception, but might apply to any communication service that is unwilling or unable to comply with a RIPA interception warrant or equivalent.
Prior to publication of the bill, a report in the Daily Telegraph[3] "Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption" reintroduced speculation that encryption would be regulated. The language of the draft bill, rather than specifying any change in the use of encryption, however the language would oblige service providers to assist in interception which would necessitate an effect on the way in which encryption might be deployed.
The explanatory notes on the draft bill state that existing obligations to Communications Service Providers under RIPA, served with an interception notice, includes "maintaining the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP" (Clause 62 note). | https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_encryption |
The Certified Identity Protection Advisor® designation is a leading international identity theft management certification and a registered trademark of Identity Management Institute® (IMI). The CIPA® program was specifically designed to train and certify identity theft protection professionals who educate, guide, and support consumers with their identity theft prevention, detection, investigation and resolution solutions.
The CIPA® Critical Risk Domains™ (CRD) are defined by IMI to a) identify the knowledge areas that a CIPA® must possess in order to effectively educate consumers and help them manage their identity protection risks, and b) test the candidate’s understanding of identity theft risks, as well as best practices for identity theft prevention, detection and resolution. The CIPA® CRDs are as follows:
1) Awareness: Before identity protection advisors can properly help consumers address their identity theft challenges, they must be aware of and understand the identity theft risks as well as the latest identity protection solutions and best practices. As identity theft threats facing consumers evolve and new fraud schemes and solutions are introduced, an up to date knowledge of such information is absolutely critical to effectively help consumers understand the risks and protect them with the best identity protection solutions and practices.
2) Rights & Obligations: Consumers have certain rights and businesses have certain obligations in accordance with various privacy and identity theft laws. CIPAs must be aware of these laws and understand them in order to protect consumers, claim their rights and effectively resolve identity fraud. Some of these laws relate to consumer rights as well as business obligations around privacy, credit reports, and data breach notifications.
3) Identity Protection Framework: Identity KAOS™ is an identity protection framework which offers 8 overarching principles which form the basis for an effective identity theft protection plan to: a) prevent the theft of personal information, b) detect signs of identity misuse and fraud, and, c) contain and minimize the damage inflicted as a result of the stolen information.
4) Risk Management: An effective identity theft management plan requires the ability to think critically and assess risks to identify threats, discover weaknesses, and propose an action plan to prevent, detect and resolve identity theft. CIPAs must be able to assess a customer’s identity theft situation and propose an executable action plan to meet the needs of their customers.
5) Theft & Fraud Prevention: Proposed identity theft protection action plans must consider steps to prevent the theft of personal information and identity fraud. There are techniques which CIPAs can deploy to manage this risk domain including the use of appropriate Identity KAOS™ principles to protect personal information and disrupt the identity theft crime process to prevent fraud.
6) Fraud Detection: Fraud detection techniques require the use of all available tools and skills for monitoring and detecting unauthorized transactions including but not limited to credit reports, account statements, account activities, and account change alerts.
7) Consumer Reports & Scores: CIPAs must be able to understand the contents of various consumer reports including various terms and consumer scores in order to review the information, identify mistakes or unusual activities, and report findings. Certified professionals must also be able to know the methods and processes for accessing, using, and improving the reports.
8) Investigation & Resolution: One of the increasing needs of consumers is around the investigation and resolution of their identity theft cases. Once identity fraud is discovered or reported, CIPAs must assess the case, propose an action plan, and take swift action to restore the stolen identity of their customers and help them recover damages as much as possible. Fraud resolution actions might include filing police reports, sending dispute letters, documenting identity theft cases, contacting law enforcement and other parties, and engaging other experts as necessary such as attorneys.
9) Relationship Management: As CIPAs work diligently to meet the needs of their customers, they must coordinate and cooperate with many parties to achieve their desired goals. As such, they must possess great interpersonal skills and be able to listen attentively, communicate effectively, act harmoniously and pleasantly, and be dedicated and sensitive in order to obtain the cooperation of others and provide excellent customer service.
10) Services & Resources: The identity theft protection industry is constantly evolving to face new threats and meet the needs of consumers. As such, new services are always introduced, existing services are improved with new feature, and increasing number of paid and free resources becomes available which CIPAs and their customers must know about and use to increase their knowledge or automate their identity protection efforts as much as possible. | http://www.identity-theft-awareness.com/cipa-critical-risk-domains.html |
To accomplish the information security purposes, most businesses deploy an information protection function to safeguard their business confidential information in order to avoid any losses resulting from competitive disadvantage, lost customer loyalty, and confidence, and damaged corporate image as a result of poor corporate information protection controls. Other institutions in business environments where they collect millions of customer private data and must comply with various privacy laws, engage information protection professionals to just comply with the laws. In my professional experience, I have noticed a firm commitment on the part of organizations in sectors such as Financial Services, Healthcare and Insurance to comply with the laws and less enthusiasm or concern with protecting customer information unless the consequences of losing customer private information are understood and impact the business bottom line. Such consequences include violations with the increasing State and Federal privacy laws as well as class action identity theft lawsuits. Although, businesses are slowly discovering the long term benefits of protecting customer information, most are far from understanding the real information security risks and just focus on compliance.
In dealing with information protection purposes, most organizations seem to be “fire fighters” as they wake up in the morning and start looking for fires rather than having an adequate program and plan of action. Having an adequate information security program entails developing, communicating and educating employees regarding corporate policies, standards, guidelines, monitoring, and responsibilities from a position of strength. And, an effective action plan entails proper risk assessment to identify control gaps and solutions for reducing the risks as much as possible. The problem however is that the information protection focus is too often narrowed such as when an organization places heavy emphasis on information technology security risks and institutes the information security function within the information technology organization. A complete and effective information security program requires enterprise-wide coverage and placement of its head of information security at the business level where there is visibility and no conflict of interest. An information protection function placed within the IT organization violates both of these principles. For example, employee education and assessment of vendor controls are corporate functions and do not just involve IT security.
As I mentioned, a few businesses are placing the information protection function at the right level within the appropriate business segment such as having the CISO report to the CFO, COO or even the President of the company with a dotted line to an oversight committee for an independent function. However, less mature and smaller organizations are reducing the visibility and scope of the information protection function for cost saving purposes and due to the lack of total understanding of the risks. Of course the downward economy is not helping my case for such improvements in accomplishing the information security purposes; however, I had also seen this trend in good economic times.
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Blake Sobczak, a reporter for Energy & Environment News, has been on fire lately with his coverage of electric sector cybersecurity. It seems like I'm consistently retweeting his stories and putting them into my Friday News & Notes email (are you subscribed?). So I brought him on the podcast to talk about it.
To me the most interesting discussion starting at 34:55 about decisions to cover stories that are promoted by ICS security vendors. We dig into the CyberReason Honeypot story coverage vs the similar NERC Lessons Learned story that got almost no coverage. We also compare the CyberReason Honeypot story to the Dragos Raspite story. How does Blake determine whether these single source, obvious promotional stories are credible to cover.
This episode was sponsored by CyberX. Founded by military cyber experts with nation-state expertise defending critical infrastructure, CyberX has developed an end-to-end platform for continuous ICS threat monitoring and risk mitigation.
Check out the CyberX Global ICS and IIoT Risk Report and my podcast from last year on the report with Phil Neray. | https://unsolicitedresponse.libsyn.com/website/blake-sobczak-on-electric-sector-cybersecurity |
Cloud adoption has grown rapidly in recent years. While many organizations were already moving to the cloud, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this transition. With the normalization of remote work, companies needed to be able to support and provide critical services to their off-site workforce.
As a result, over 98% of organizations use some form of cloud-based infrastructure, and over three-quarters (76%) have multi-cloud deployments composed of services from two or more cloud providers. These cloud environments host critical business applications and store sensitive company and customer data.
With the move to the cloud comes a need for cloud security. These cloud-based applications must be protected against attack, and cloud-hosted data must be protected against unauthorized access in accordance with applicable regulations.
However, cloud environments differ significantly from on-prem infrastructure, which means that traditional security tools and approaches do not always work effectively in the cloud. As a result, many organizations are facing significant challenges in securing their newfound cloud infrastructure.
Most companies have a multi-cloud deployment. This enables them to take full advantage of the unique benefits of different cloud environments optimized for particular use cases. However, it also adds to the scale and complexity of their cloud infrastructure.
The greater complexity of multi-cloud environments contributes to significant multi-cloud security challenges. Some of the leading challenges that multi-cloud users face include:
Data Protection and Privacy: 57% of organizations find it challenging to properly protect data in multi-cloud environments in accordance with corporate policy and regulatory requirements. Different environments have different built-in security controls and tools, making consistent protection difficult to achieve.
Access to Cloud Skills: 56% of organizations struggle to gain access to the necessary skills to deploy and manage consistent security across multi-cloud environments. Doing so requires in-depth expertise in each environment, which grows more difficult as the number of environments grows.
Solution Integration: Multi-cloud environments involve disparate solutions from multiple vendors. 50% of organizations have difficulty with understanding how security solutions work together.
Loss of Visibility and Control: Achieving visibility and control is difficult in the cloud due to the shared responsibility model and reliance on vendor-controlled infrastructure. 46% of organizations cite this as a major challenge when working in multi-cloud environments.
Preventing Cloud Misconfigurations: With many vendor-specific security settings, ensuring that all are correct is complex.
Securing Major Cloud Apps Already in Use: Rapid shifts to the cloud due to COVID-19 left many security teams playing catch-up.
Reaching Regulatory Compliance: Rapid digital transformation and an expanding regulatory landscape make compliance complex.
Defending Against Malware: As companies shift focus to the cloud, so do cyber threat actors, making malware management a priority in the cloud.
Securing the cloud can be challenging, especially in complex, multi-cloud environments. Some of the biggest challenges that organizations face when attempting to secure their cloud workloads include:
Lack of Qualified Staff: The cybersecurity industry is facing a significant skills shortage, and specialized skill sets are even harder to find. As a result, less than half of organizations (45%) find qualified personnel to fill critical cloud security roles.
Compliance: Most organizations are subject to many different compliance regulations, and the regulatory landscape is rapidly expanding. As organizations shift to the cloud, 39% state that achieving, maintaining, and demonstrating regulatory compliance in this very different IT environment is a significant challenge.
Lack of Infrastructure Security Visibility: Cloud deployments operate under the shared responsibility model where the responsibility for security is divided between the cloud provider and customer. Without visibility and control at lower layers of their infrastructure stack and the inability to deploy traditional security solutions, 35% of organizations struggle to achieve critical visibility into their underlying security infrastructure.
Difficulty in Identifying Misconfigurations: Each cloud platform has its own unique set of security configurations, and most organizations work with multiple cloud providers. For 33% of organizations, the complexity of their cloud environments makes it challenging to rapidly identify and correct misconfigurations before they can be exploited by an attacker.
Setting Consistent Security Policies: With multiple cloud environments, organizations are faced with a variety of different built-in security tools and settings. As a result, 32% of companies claim that maintaining consistent security policies across their cloud infrastructure is a significant challenge.
Cloud Security Automation: Continuous and automated security controls are essential to minimizing the risk and impact of cyberattacks against cloud-based resources. However, 31% of organizations struggle with implementing these automated controls.
Automated Security Enforcement: The scope of multi-cloud environments makes it infeasible to manually configure and enforce security across an organization’s entire environment. Automated enforcement is essential but is cited as a major challenge for 28% of organizations.
#6. Cloud Compliance
Compliance with various data protection regulations and industry standards is a must for most organizations. However, designing and implementing compliance policies for cloud environments is very different from on-prem systems. Some of the biggest cloud compliance challenges faced by organizations include:
Lack of Staff Knowledge and Expertise: Cloud compliance requires specialist knowledge and expertise because it requires not only knowledge of required controls but also how to implement them in cloud environments. Over half (55%) of organizations point to a lack of this combined regulatory and cloud knowledge as their biggest cloud compliance challenge.
Changing Environments: Cloud compliance is a continuous struggle as both regulatory requirements and cloud environments change regularly. Maintaining continuous compliance despite changes in cloud environments is a challenge cited by 43% of organizations.
Complex Audits: Compliance audits and risk assessments can be daunting on-prem where the organization owns and controls all of its infrastructure. Doing so in the cloud with limited access to underlying infrastructure is a challenge called out by 42% of organizations.
Compliance Monitoring: Maintaining compliance requires in-depth visibility into an organization’s systems and security controls. With visibility difficult to achieve in the cloud, 42% of organizations find compliance monitoring tricky in their cloud-based infrastructure.
Changing Requirements: In recent years, new regulations are rapidly being adopted, and existing standards are receiving updates. Keeping up with the evolving requirements is a major challenge for 36% of companies.
Cloud Vulnerability Management: With expanding multi-cloud infrastructure comes an expansion of an organization’s digital attack surface. Monitoring cloud apps and services for vulnerabilities is essential to preventing data breaches and regulatory non-compliance.
Compliance Automation: Manually maintaining and reporting compliance with multiple regulations across multi-cloud environments is complex and unscalable. 27% of organizations claim that scaling and automating compliance is one of their biggest cloud compliance challenges.
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Cloud-based infrastructure can bring significant benefits to an organization. It offers greater flexibility and scalability, and the ability to reduce costs and overhead by outsourcing the management of much of an organization’s infrastructure stack to the cloud provider.
However, these benefits also come at a cost. As organizations transition from on-prem environments to cloud-based infrastructure, they need to integrate their cloud deployments into their existing security policies and architecture. The significant differences between on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure can make this quite an endeavor and present numerous cloud security challenges.
To learn more about common challenges that organizations face in 2022 as they work to secure their cloud-based infrastructure, check out the 2022 Cloud Security Report. Then, to see how your organization can eliminate complexity and achieve security and regulatory compliance in the cloud, sign up for a free demo of Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Security. | https://www.checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/cloud-security/what-is-cloud-security/the-biggest-cloud-security-challenges-in-2022/ |
The new city library in Stuttgart has been equipped with Cliq locking and access control systems by Assa Abloy. This cube-shaped 20,000-square-metre building is thus state-of-the-art in terms of both architecture and security technology. The central library is the first public building to be completed in the new Europaviertel (Europe Quarter) currently under development in Stuttgart.
The Korean architect Eun Young Yi designed the building envelope to feature a double façade with glass bricks and entrances on all four sides, creating the new central library as an inspirational centre of knowledge and culture. Assa Abloy was awarded the contract for fitting the library with a security system. Specifications stated that the building entrances were to be equipped with electronic components that could be centrally managed and could integrate interior doors using mechatronic systems where required.
The new central library in Stuttgart is housed over a total of eleven floors. On the inside, architect Young Yi has created bright, wide spaces linked by numerous walkways. The centre of the building features a brightly lit atrium four storeys high with a skylight made of glass bricks, above which there is a funnel-shaped gallery space. The highest security level in the interior has been provided for the management, administration and data processing departments, for which the Cliq locking system has been used. Each battery-powered Cliq key features an integrated chip for the key and locking cylinder, thus making them unique. Keys can be programmed individually for each user.
“System operators thus have control over their keys. Cliq excels thanks to its high flexibility when a key is lost or users require changes. Key access authorisations can be removed individually by reprogramming locking cylinders,” explains Andreas Wagener, Managing Director Sales and Marketing at Assa Abloy Germany. Access authorisations can also be enabled on a time-limited basis for external service providers such as tradesmen and cleaners.
Since opening, 500,000 books, films, sound storage media, newspapers, magazines, sheets of music, graphics and software packages are available to library visitors. The opening week saw performances and readings from the likes of philosopher Wilhelm Schmid and writer Hatice Akyün. There are also two regular guided tours – one based on the architecture and the other on the library itself. Security is hardly noticeable for visitors during tours, but is highly important for those who run the library. | https://securityupdate.in/stuttgart-library-secured-with-cliq-locking-and-access-control-2/ |
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are a set of security standards formed in 2004 to secure credit and debit card transactions against data theft and fraud. PCI DSS is a set of compliance methods, which are a requirement for any business.
Let’s suppose payment card data is stored, processed, or transmitted to a cloud environment. In that case, PCI DSS will apply to that environment and will involve validation of the CSP’s infrastructure, and the client’s usage of that environment. | https://learn.encryptionconsulting.com/what-is-pci-dss/ |
Chicago, 22 September, 2017: Computer Systems Institute (CSI), a private school with six campuses nationwide headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, has supported South Asian communities in northern Chicago by providing them with student resources for the new school year.
ZAM’s Hope Community Resource Center, a community center located at Devon Street of northern Chicago, received a donation of school supplies with a value of approximately $5,000, from CSI.
ZAM’s Hope Community Resource Center specializes in housing, after school, senior and family emergency programs. The donation from CSI will be used to support low-income families in the Rogers Park, West Ridge and West Roger’s Park communities, by removing some of their education costs. Amongst other supplies, CSI provided school bags that fit the educational needs of close to 200 students of various ages.
Zehra Quadri, executive director of ZAM’s Hope Community Resource Center said, “We would like to express our gratitude to Computer Systems Institute for the generous donation; we are always striving to do more for those in our community and beyond.” “Because of generous donations like those of CSI, we are able to continue to serve low-income individuals from nine different cultural backgrounds in the Chicagoland area and beyond. At ZAM’s Hope C.R.C., we firmly believe that every child deserves to have a great year at school. The backpack donations will help these children thrive both in and out of their classrooms.”
CSI has approximately 2,600 active international students in its six campuses in Illinois and Massachusetts.
As an immigrant herself, Julia Lowder, CEO of Computer Systems Institute said, “Social responsibility is the core of my business philosophy. CSI’s mission is very clear; we were established in 1989 to help people achieve their professional and academic goals. I believe that growing and developing your professional skills helps individuals to lead more fulfilling lives. CSI was founded on that premise and continues to strive to help individuals across America realize and achieve their goals. We are therefore delighted to be able to support ZAM’s Hope Community Resource Center and it students in this small way.” “The community you live in shapes your world view, it supports you when you need help and connects you with other communities so that together we make our lives and the lives of our children better. Whenever CSI opens a school in a new location, we invite the local workforce to get involved and support the local economy. Many of our employees live in the communities we serve. CSI has held blood drives, bone marrow drives, many food drives and other wonderful opportunities for our staff and students to contribute. I am very proud of our students who’ve volunteered at various health organizations and other businesses to support their missions as well as gain new skills and experiences.”
The donation to ZAM’s Hope is part of the #BackToSchool community initiatives of Computer Systems Institute in the 2017 school season.
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Updated to reflect the most recent versions of NordVPN and Mullvad.
Choosing a VPN is a challenge when there are so many available—as our comprehensive roundup of VPN reviews demonstrates. Everywhere you look online, some service is offering to help obfuscate your location and protect your browsing habits from internet service providers (ISP) and anyone else lurking around the web.
Before plunking down your cold hard credit card number, however, there are many questions to ask. Can you trust the company? What are the speeds like? Is there a desktop app and is it easy to use? How many country locations are there, and can you still watch Netflix while connected?
Both Mullvad and NordVPN are big on not tracking you. NordVPN says it doesn’t log any of your activity, though it does maintain a timestamp of your last session status, which is deleted within 15 minutes of you terminating a connection. Mullvad also has a no-logs policy and says all data is sent to dev/null, a nonexistent directory on Linux machines.
When it comes to protecting your identity, Mullvad really excels. NordVPN only requires an email, which is already pretty good, and you can easily use a throwaway address to manage your account.
Mullvad, however, doesn’t even want that much information. When you sign up it assigns a random account number that is your only way to access your account. No passwords that might accidentally reveal identifying information, no email address, nothing.
A key component to trusting a company with your data and privacy is identifying who runs the company and where they are in the world. That’s easy with Mullvad, but until recently it was harder with NordVPN.
The company is finally starting to be transparent about who’s in charge over there, with company co-founder Tom Okman going public. NordVPN also tries to improve trust with third-party audits of its no-logs policy. The reports validate most of the company’s claims; however, the audits were contracted in such a way that NordVPN is prevented from publishing them in full for the public—though NordVPN customers can read them online from their account dashboard.
When it comes to price, NordVPN has the cheaper plan, if you pay for three years upfront. The company’s three-year plan costs a little less than $108, or just under $36 per year.
If you choose to pay year-by-year instead, it comes out to about $84 per year; a per-month plan is $12 per month.
Mullvad’s pricing scheme is much simpler. The company charges you €5 per month, which at this writing is about $5.70.
So where does that leave us? Overall, NordVPN has the cheapest plans, but if you need a month-to-month VPN at a reasonable price it’s hard to beat Mullvad, as most VPNs charge $10-$12 for a single month.
NordVPN’s server lists are easily accessible.
Mullvad runs its own network of servers and offers 33 country locations and more than 300 servers. NordVPN is closer to double that at 58 countries and more than 3,000 servers.
If you do a straight count of the categories above, NordVPN is ahead by two (three if the call on pricing upsets you). The speed, privacy, and trust categories are weighted more heavily since they are the key components of a VPN in our book. For that reason, we’re recommending Mullvad, which should come as no surprise since it’s the top pick in our VPN roundup.
The bottom line is that Mullvad checks almost every box including speed, trust, and security. There are numerous reasons to trust its service with your data. NordVPN has a long track record of service, and has an amazing product. Still, we want even more transparency about leadership and the team running the operation before reconsidering.
By our calculation there’s just no question. When it comes down to NordVPN vs. Mullvad, the latter is the clear winner.
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Cloud App Security supports using OAuth 2.0 to provision a service account (Authorized Account) for SharePoint Online. With the OAuth 2.0 framework, Cloud App Security uses an access token to obtain limited access on the Global Administrator's behalf to run advanced threat protection and data loss prevention scanning on files in the protected SharePoint sites of your organization.
If you have also provisioned a Microsoft Teams (Teams) service account, when the SharePoint site and the team corresponding to a file are selected as a policy target respectively, Cloud App Security applies policies for Microsoft Teams (Teams) to this site unless the site does not hit any policy for Microsoft Teams.
The steps outlined below detail how to provision an Authorized Account for SharePoint Online from Dashboard.
If you decide to perform step 7 later, you can find the App Id under the corresponding Authorized Account from Administration > Service Account.
Perform the following steps to grant Cloud App Security permissions to receive notifications from Microsoft upon any change to the files on your SharePoint sites.
Log on to the Microsoft 365 admin center with your Global Administrator account.
Go to Admin centers > SharePoint from the left navigation.
The SharePoint admin center page appears.
Change the SharePoint admin center URL to {sharepoint_admin_site}/_layouts/15/AppInv.aspx in the address bar, for example, change https://example-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/home to https://example-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/AppInv.aspx, and then open the URL.
On the screen that appears, copy and paste the App Id assigned in step 6 in the App Id field and then click Lookup.
The Title field is automatically filled.
Copy and paste tmcas.trendmicro.com in the App Domain field.
Enter {Cloud App Security_admin_site}/provision.html in the Redirect URL field based on your serving site.
For example, if the URL of your Cloud App Security management console in the address bar is "https://admin-eu.tmcas.trendmicro.com" after logon, enter https://admin-eu.tmcas.trendmicro.com/provision.html in the Redirect URL field.
Click Create, and on the screen that appears, click Trust It.
Change the SharePoint admin center URL to {sharepoint_admin_site}/_layouts/15/TA_AllAppPrincipals.aspx and then open the URL to verify the permission.
If an item for Trend Micro Cloud App Security appears, the permission is successfully granted.
Go back to the Cloud App Security management console and click Submit.
Cloud App Security then updates the SharePoint Online data in your organization. The time required depends on how much data you have in SharePoint Online.
Hover over the notification icon in the upper-right corner of the management console.
If the message "SharePoint Online protected." appears on the Notifications screen, the provisioning is successful.
If for some reason the access token becomes invalid, go to Administration > Service Account to create a new access token for the service account. For more information, see Service Account. | https://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/cloud-app-security-online-help/provisioning/provisioning-for-mic/provisioning-a-share.aspx |
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#1 DanielC88 Windows 7 Home Premium x64 6 posts Shellcode Injection About an hour ago I did an error check on my C drive. I had to restart my computer to do it and after it was done and I had logged back in Comodo Defense had blocked the application explorer.exe. I wasn't browsing the internet in FireFox yet. It said "this is typical of a buffer overflow attack". It said it isolated explorer.exe from the rest of the system and will continue to do so unless I skip the alert but it is strongly recommended that I close the application and contact with it's vendor for a fix. So, I hit terminate and here I am.
Now what? Nothing happened when I hit terminate. Under defense events it says the application is C:\windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe and the flag is Shellcode Injection. Like I said, it didn't alert me until an hour ago but under defense events it's listed as also happening at 11:43 last night. I believe windows ran something last night, can't remember what. I think it was a Windows virus scan or something, it wasn't Comodo that ran it. I am currently running Comodo virus scan to see if anything is in there, but so far nothing. What's a vendor and how do I contact them to fix explorer.exe? Is this something to be concerned about? I'm decent with computers but I don't know a lot, so please keep that in mind.
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#3 DanielC88 Windows 7 Home Premium x64 6 posts I'm not sure which version I'm on, but I use FireFox to browse the internet, I never use IE.
Edit: I just ran Comodo, which found nothing, and Malwarebtyes, which found 34 spyware.onlinegames which have now been quarantined. Did it not do anything to my computer?
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2023 hacks are already getting their finishing touch so they are ready to wreak havoc in the new year. The Google mobile operating system, Android, has grown into a formidable platform that is being embraced by tech-savvy consumers, and even hackers from the dark web earning millions of dollars annually. Today, more than 175,000 apps are available in the Google Play Store to cater to the dependency of Android users looking to enhance their experience.
As such, there is a greater chance for hackers’ apps to proliferate the Google Play Store and even the Apple Store; posing a security risk for users. Hence, you must know how to check if the Android apps you have downloaded are safe from potentially dangerous malware.
What is malware?
Malware is malicious software that hackers code to steal private data. It is used to gain access to a person’s computer or mobile device without their permission. Malware is renowned to install software without the user’s knowledge. Some of the most dangerous malware apps discovered in 2022 have caused financial damage or even loss of personal data, which are often sold on dark web markets or used in phishing campaign scams.
There are many different kinds of malware. Targeted malware aims to steal sensitive data, like email addresses, passwords, or bank account numbers; while unwanted software, like spyware, is installed on a computer without the user’s knowledge. Malware can be categorized into a few categories; adware, spyware, ransomware, worms, and viruses.
How to check if your Android apps are safe?
So, how to check if your Android apps are safe from potentially dangerous malware? To begin, open the Google Play Store app on your Android phone or tablet. Next, scroll down and click on “MY APPS” option. This will open a list of all the apps you have installed on your device. If you are looking for a specific app, you can also type in the search bar or browse through the list of app titles. Once you find the app you want to check, long-press it and then press “Menu”. This will bring up a pop-up menu. From here, choose the option “About”. You should now see an Android app’s details screen.
The growth and popularity of mobile phones and tablets have led to an increase in the number of malicious apps online. With this, comes an increased risk of users falling prey to potentially dangerous malware. Thus, you must know how to check if your Android apps are safe from potentially dangerous malware.
Why Check If Your Apps Are Malware Free?
Google Play Store leads the way with up to 50 percent of Android apps on its platform infected with the malicious code of hackers. And even though the downloaded app is usually from a trusted source, it is still possible that it could be infected with malware. To ensure your absolute safety, you must use some basic security checks to ensure your apps are safe.
These cautionary measures must include ensuring that the app was not previously downloaded from other sources. Unknown developers are usually hacking groups, be wary of apps linked to them, and only download apps with a high rating, stay away from apps with lots of negative reviews.
Beyond the potential security risks posed by unverified apps, other issues arise when you download fake or unverified apps. You will encounter slow loading times, possible crashing issues, and an overall poor user experience. Hence, if you’re looking for ways to improve the experience you’re getting with your Android apps, then you should consider checking if your apps are safe from potentially dangerous malware.
It’s important to note that not all apps are unsafe. You can use check online for cyber security articles that will reveal harmful apps on the Google Play and Apple Store. This will help ensure you only install legitimate apps.
If you are suspicious about a downloaded app, then you must delete it immediately. You must also run an antivirus scan to remove all traces of the harmful app. You can also hire a phone technician to help remove malicious apps from your Android device. | https://darkwebsites.guru/2023/09/22/prevent-android-phishing-scams-in-2023/ |
One Click Message Encryption in Outlook 2007 This post goes out to John Cook, a gent I met on Twitter. As you can see from John’s tweet he’s looking for a way to add a button to the ribbon at the top of an Outlook message. When clicked the button should encrypt the message.
@TechnicLee thanks for responding. What we need is to get the encryption button up to the ribbon on a new message. Outlook 2007
— John A Cook (@JohnACook) June 5, 2012
I’ve put together a potential solution for John, but can’t test it as I don’t have a computer with Outlook 2007 and a certificate. The ribbon in Outlook 2007 isn’t as friendly as the one in 2010, so instead of adding the button to the ribbon my solution adds it to the QAT (quick access toolbar). For those of you who aren’t familiar with the QAT, it’s the icon area on the upper-left of each Outlook window. This Microsoft page explains the QAT in more detail.
The code I’m using for this solution comes from Microsoft KB article #279013, “OL2000: How to Programmatically Sign or Encrypt Mail Messages”. The article describes making a custom form with code behind it that sings/encrypts the message when it’s sent. I’ve adapted the code so it doesn’t require a custom form and is run in typical macro fashion, in this case in response to a QAT button click. The code itself uses the old Outlook trick of finding and simulating a click on a hidden toolbar button. Up until 2010 simulating clicks on hidden buttons was a way to work around some of the limitations of Outlook’s object model. Outlook 2010 eliminated this approach, so this code will not work with 2010 or later.
Since I do not have a copy of Outlook 2007 with a certificate I cannot test the code to ensure it works. It should work, but I can’t say for certain that it will. John will have to test it for himself to determine that.
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We, the undersigned organisations, write to express our concern with vulnerability disclosure requirements under the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The CRA’s objective to encourage software publishers to patch vulnerabilities and report cyber incidents is salutary. However, the CRA’s mandatory disclosure of unmitigated vulnerabilities will undermine the security of digital products and the individuals who use them.
The CRA would require organisations to disclose software vulnerabilities to government agencies within 24 hours of exploitation (Cyber Resilience Act, Articles 11.1, 13.6, 14.4). However, such recently exploited vulnerabilities are unlikely to be mitigated within such a short time, leading to real-time databases of software with unmitigated vulnerabilities in the possession of potentially dozens of government agencies. The more this kind of information is spread, the more likely it is to be misused for state intelligence or offensive purposes, or to be inadvertently exposed to adversaries before a mitigation is in place. In addition, laws that require disclosure of unmitigated vulnerabilities to government agencies create an international precedent that may be reflected by other countries.
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Limit details. The regulation should not require disclosure of technical details of unmitigated vulnerabilities to government bodies that would enable another party to reconstruct the vulnerability or develop code to exploit it.
Prohibit offensive uses. The regulation should include a clear restriction on the use of software vulnerabilities by public bodies, i.e. for intelligence, surveillance, or offensive purposes.
Provide time to mitigate. In the absence of user harm or a substantial incident, organisations should have a reasonable time to remediate or address the vulnerability before requiring disclosure of its details to governments. A typical standard period for the mitigation of known vulnerabilities is 90 days.
Secure vulnerability information. Agencies should be obligated to protect vulnerability information with robust security safeguards and shared only on a very strict need-to-know basis.
Protect good faith security researchers. The regulation should distinguish between vulnerabilities discovered in good faith for defensive purposes and those that are exploited by malicious actors. Good faith security researchers who follow coordinated vulnerability disclosure standards should be protected from retaliation.
We share the goal of strengthening the security of digital products and protecting individuals. The above safeguards will help the CRA achieve its goals of a more resilient and protective technology ecosystem. We appreciate your consideration of our recommendations.
I hold a different viewpoint on this matter. Software with issues should be promptly removed and legal action should be taken against the manufacturer. Such software should not be put to use again. It’s crucial that we persist in revealing unresolved vulnerabilities because malicious parties can obtain this information regardless.
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It turns out that the primary source of Furniture Village’s system failure is a cyber attack. The company only revealed the truth seven days into the database malfunction.
Furniture Village is the United Kingdom’s biggest, most independent furniture retailer with 54 stores nationwide. The furniture giant has been experiencing a “cyber-attack,” but the details are yet to be released.
Cybercrime – 7-Day Database Malfunction
According to The Register, Furniture Village finally confirmed that their database is under a cyber-attack by an unknown individual or group. The attack started in the latter part of May 2021 when the company discovered that a handful of their retailers’ internal systems suddenly malfunctioned because they were down.
Furniture Village’s main website is still up and running, but on the back end, that is not the case.
The company started to experience problems in their systems starting from May 29, when it announced that the company is undergoing some “technical issues.” This included their inability to answer calls from retailers and customers.
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The reported stated that Furniture Village said on Wednesday, June 2, that the company was still experiencing “technical issues with [its] internal systems,” and that their entire team was already working on the issue, trying to resolve it as fast as they could.
The offline databases include phone systems, delivery systems, and even payment mechanisms.
Until Friday, June 4, Furniture Village is still under the heat of the attack. It has been seven days since the beginning of their “database malfunction,” which is quite bothersome considering it is a huge company.
In an interview with The Register, Furniture Village clarified that none of their customers’ data had been leaked despite the seven-day-long attack.
They announced that their team of professionals is continuously restoring all of the system-related functions affected by the attack.
The UK-based furniture giant recently released a statement via their website, and said that a cybersecurity attack hit their company. But with their immediate implementation of security protocols, they were able to contain the scope of the attack successfully.
They added that despite their disappointment with the current event, which they labeled as “unwelcome distraction,” their main focus right now is to support their customers by utilizing manual processes.
As a closing statement, Furniture Village stated that their systems would be available in the shortest time possible.
What’s the Motive for Cybercrime?
At this point, the company and everyone else is clueless regarding the true intention of the attacker.
But according to The Register, several industry experts have a theory that it is due to ransomware flingers.
The UK’s National Crime Agency stated that criminals exploit the cyber web to take part in serious and organized crimes. The agency also said that ransomware attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, both in frequency and impact.
Furniture Village prefers to stay quiet at the time being by declining to release further statements in full detail. | https://www.times24h.com/cybercrime-furniture-village-admits-system-failure-is-a-cyber-attack-7-days-into-database-malfunction/ |
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NSA Lawsuit Proceeding, Despite Government ShutdownPrivacy groups successfully argued that if federal furloughs haven't stopped NSA's call-tracking programs, then related lawsuits shouldn't be delayed. A lawsuit filed against the National Security Agency challenging the legality of its telephone metadata tracking programs will proceed, despite the furlough of many federal workers.
So ruled San Francisco-based U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White, quashing a motion from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stay the case of "First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles vs. NSA." The defendants' motion cited the "lapse of appropriations" -- meaning the partial shutdown of the federal government -- affecting Department of Justice and NSA employees as the reason for why the case should be put on hold, pending Congress resuming full funding for both agencies. But Judge White disagreed, issuing a one-page order Tuesday that said simply, "All deadlines shall remain as previously set," Politico first reported.
The lawsuit against the NSA centers on the agency's bulk collection of telephone metadata, and was filed by 22 organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the organizations in court. [ Has NSA surveillance met its match? See NSA Battles Tor: 9 Facts. ]
In a court filing, the EFF had argued against the government's motion to delay the case, noting that the NSA's surveillance apparatus wasn't furloughed. "Notwithstanding the lack of appropriations, defendants are continuing the bulk collection each day of all the telephone calling records of plaintiffs and hundreds of millions of other Americans," according to a court document filed by the EFF. "Department of Justice lawyers continue to work at that task, including preparing the application for a renewal of the current FISA Court telephone calling records bulk collection order, which expires on or about October 17, 2013." The EFF's filing also referenced a DOJ contingency plan showing that 91% of national security employees were exempted from the furlough. "If it is essential that the spying continue despite the lack of appropriations, then it is equally essential that the question of whether the spying is lawful also go forward," the EFF argued.
The existence of the NSA metadata collection programs, which sport codenames such as Prism and have been in operation since 2006, were revealed this past summer in documents leaked by former NSA contract employee Edward Snowden. According to the EFF, the lawsuit against the NSA "argues that this spying violates the First Amendment, which protects the freedom to associate and express political views as a group."
Organizations joining the lawsuit include church groups, the California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, multiple state branches of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Human Rights Watch and the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, as well as other privacy rights groups.
CVE-2015-1235Published: 2015-04-19The ContainerNode::parserRemoveChild function in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in the HTML parser in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document with an IFRAME element.
CVE-2015-1236Published: 2015-04-19The MediaElementAudioSourceNode::process function in modules/webaudio/MediaElementAudioSourceNode.cpp in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive audio sample values via a cr...
CVE-2015-1237Published: 2015-04-19Use-after-free vulnerability in the RenderFrameImpl::OnMessageReceived function in content/renderer/render_frame_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger renderer IPC messages ...
CVE-2015-1238Published: 2015-04-19Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
CVE-2015-1240Published: 2015-04-19gpu/blink/webgraphicscontext3d_impl.cc in the WebGL implementation in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WebGL program that triggers a state inconsistency.
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Symantec reported the worldwide infection of 3,500 public servers with a malicious script that redirects victims to other compromised websites that could be used to download malware and which the company said could be part of a recon effort for future attacks.
The security firm detected the script using the company's Intrusion Prevention System signature, which detects when a hidden script injected in a compromised website is used to redirect users to a website hosting malicious code and is triggered when a user browses a compromised website. Symantec said the compromised websites all used the same content management system.
At this time no malware was associated with this injection attack and does not lead to any malicious downloads.
“It is likely that the attacks are a reconnaissance activity to learn more about users and utilize that information in another attack. The possibilities for future attacks include the delivery of advertisements, SEO poisoning attacks, or criminals modifying the code to deliver malware and compromise unprotected users,” wrote Christian Tripputi, a security support manager for Symantec.
The attack's modus operandi has a compromised page being loaded user's browser when that person visits the site. The malicious script then waits 10 seconds and then runs remote JavaScript code, which the runs several additional scripts in an attempt to hide the malicious script from the victim.
The scripts then collect information to include: page title, URL, referrer, Shockwave Flash version, user language, monitor resolution and host IP address.
About 75 percent of the infected websites, generally business, .edu and government types, are located in the U.S. | https://www.scmagazine.com/news/malware/symantec-detects-3500-servers-infected-with-a-malicious-script |
When it comes to embedding a watermark–a partially transparent text overlay, typically used to identify that an image is a sample, or credit the source–in digital images, almost any image editing program worth its salt can get this common task accomplished. But when you have dozens or hundreds of images that need the same treatment, sometimes it’s just easier to work with a dedicated tool, such as Watermark Image.
Donationware utility Watermark Image adds your stamp to batches of photography and artwork files.
Donationware utility Watermark Image lets you watermark a single image, but it is best suited to large batches of files, where it can perform the same, repetitive operation innumerable times. Just choose a source directory (where the un-watermarked images are located) and a destination directory (where modified, watermarked image copies will be placed), customize the watermark, then let ‘er rip.
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The user interface is a bit sparse, and the options fairly limited, but Watermark Image really is just a single-purpose application that does what it says, and no more. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/515835/watermark_image_software-2.html |
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Two separate, but related, forces are causing financial regulators to up the ante on cybersecurity.
First, and most long-standing, is a concern with consumer protection. For many years U.S. laws at both the federal and state levels addressed the need to protect information about individuals. These complex and non-uniform laws, at their most basic, may require reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access to, or use of, personal information. They may also require notice of a breach to be given, often within a short time frame, to multiple stakeholders (including, in some cases, state agencies and enforcement) and that steps be taken to provide credit protection. If you are not already familiar with these laws, you are likely to be in breach of them. Similar—and in some cases more onerous—laws can be found in other jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, the UK and the EU. Expect these types of laws to grow more arduous as consumers react to renewed incidents of lost data. Importantly, many of these laws are based on the residence of the individuals whose information you hold, not the location of your business activities, offices or jurisdiction of charter.
The second factor triggering a heightened interest in cybersecurity is the recognition that a large cyber-attack could damage the fabric of our economic system. Concern with this type of "systemic risk" is an evolving area. U.S. regulators do not have a magic bullet that will make it go away. The SEC, for example, is likely to simply say, "do the right thing for your business." What is the right thing? At the very least today doing right is likely to include base-lining your business to the NIST framework and developing a cyber-incident response plan.
Expect future requirements to include a mandate to disclose cyber-incidents more broadly than is currently the case. Also expect cybersecurity to remain a focus of regulators. The FSOC will continue to instruct all financial services regulators to make cybersecurity a top priority. As noted in its annual report: “The Council recommends that government agencies enhance information sharing between the public and private sectors …. Financial regulators should continue to … update their examination policies … in light of the evolving threat environment.” – FSOC Annual Report, page 15. | https://www.regfg.com/single-post/2014/11/10/why-the-regulatory-focus-on-cybersecurity |
Sony will delay releasing its third quarter earnings report because of Sony Pictures continuing to struggle with repair of its crippled computer systems. Company officials want to release Sony's earnings report on March 31, and have asked regulators for additional time to get its IT situation sorted.
It will take until early February until SPE systems are fully restored and operational because of the "amount of destruction and disruption that occurred, and the care necessary to avoid further damage by prematurely restarting functions," according to Sony.
Despite The Interview bringing it close to $50 million from the box office, online rentals and sales, it has been a constant headache for the film studio. During CES, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai said current and former employees suffered "one of the most vicious and malicious" cyberattacks to target a company - and applauded them for their continued resolve. | https://www.tweaktown.com/news/43081/spe-computers-still-functioning-normally-data-breach/index.html |
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“White Hat hackers are security consultants and good hearted people that find vulnerabilities on sites and services and report them to the company to prevent them from being hacked in the future. Many companies offer ”Bug Bounty Programs” where they ask White Hackers to try and hack their sites in order to find loopholes, and in return they get a cash award for it.” “The bigger the security breach they find, the more money the company is willing to pay. Hackers looking for those kinds of bugs and vulnerabilities on sites to get those kinds of awards are referred to as Bug Bounty Hunters,” explains Johan Edholm at Detectify. | https://blog.detectify.com/2016/03/17/it-security-faq-5-what-is-white-hat-vs-black-hat-hacking-and-what-is-a-bug-bounty-hunterprogram/ |
to select multiple users in your domain.
I have chosen to use DomGroupMembers from tip 4647 to invoke the UserMustChangePassword.bat script, which you place in a folder in my PATH.
The syntax for using UserMustChangePassword.bat is the general syntax for DomGroupMembers, which is:
DomGroupMembers "DomainGroup"call UserMustChangePassword.bat %user%" \[ExludeList\]:
where "DomainGroup" is any domain group, such as "Domain Users" or "Eastern Sales".
NOTE: You must change the PDCName in the UserMustChangePassword.bat script to be your PDC emulator.
You may also remove the @echo User %1 must change password at next logon line, if you don't wish to display the users who have been affected.
UserMustChangePassword.bat contains: | https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/jsi-tip-4755-how-can-i-set-user-must-change-password-next-logon-all-members-domain-group |
Windows Phone Book Chapter 9, Email, is now complete in first-draft form. I’ve added this chapter to the in-progress Windows Phone Book document and will move on to a new chapter.
This update includes introductory material—I’m going to start removing conclusion material from other chapters in an attempt to keep the page count down—and new sections on Email and accounts and viewing attachments.
As noted in previous updates, this chapter was a breeze, and while I’m sure I’ve inevitably left out some content I’ll need to add later, I want to believe that future chapters can come together like this one did: Quickly. I’m not sure what’s next as far as new writing goes, but looking over the TOC, I’m leaning towards Games (Chapter 16) or Internet Explorer (Chapter 11).
But I also need to wrap up that incomplete Videos, and Podcasts chapter. I did previously copy and paste in the content from the appropriate part of Xbox Music Book, and then moved things around as necessary. But I still need to go through it and make sure it makes sense. In fact, maybe I’ll do that next. | https://www.itprotoday.com/email-and-calendaring/windows-phone-book-email-chapter-complete |
3 INSTRUCTIONS TO VENDORS ACME's data protection strategy includes the requirement to ensure the security of data protection controls, regardless of the location or the party responsible for those controls. As a vendor, you serve a crucial role to achieve this goal and your cooperation is greatly appreciated. All vendors are expected to meet the minimum controls identified in this document. In some cases ACME, may require a written response that may be an attestation of compliance, a submission of supporting documentation, or both. If ACME requests a written response from your organization, you are required to submit an electronic copy of the document(s) confirming compliance. If there are any requirements that are out of scope or that cannot be complied with, those requirements must be fully explained with a business justification and if there are any compensating controls that may exist to reduce risk associated with one of ACME's vendor requirements not being met. Please note that if your organization processes, stores or transmits ACME data that is considered sensitive, additional data protection controls may be required. 3 of 20 4 VENDOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW VENDOR COMPLIANCE POLICY Vendors must protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ACME Consulting Services, Inc. (ACME) data and systems, regardless of how the data is created, distributed, or stored. Vendors security controls must be tailored accordingly so that costeffective controls can be applied commensurate with the risk and sensitivity of the data and system, in accordance with all legal obligations. Management Intent: The successful implementation of ACME s program depends on the successful implementation of each vendor s security controls. MANAGEMENT DIRECTION FOR VENDOR INFORMATION SECURITY The objective of this Vendor Compliance Program (VCP) to provide direction to vendors for information security requirements that are in accordance with ACME s business requirements, as well as relevant laws and other legal obligations for data security and privacy. 1 ACME is committed to protecting its employees, partners, clients and ACME from damaging acts that are intentional or unintentional. Effective security is a team effort involving the participation and support of every vendor that interacts with ACME data and/or systems. Therefore, it is the responsibility of VENDOR to be aware of and adhere to ACME s information security requirements. Protecting ACME data and the systems that collect, process, and maintain this data is of critical importance. Therefore, the security of systems must include controls and safeguards to offset possible threats, as well as controls to ensure the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the data: Confidentiality addresses preserving restrictions on information access and disclosure so that access is restricted to only authorized users and services. Integrity addresses the concern that sensitive data has not been modified or deleted in an unauthorized and undetected manner. Availability addresses ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information. Security measures must be taken to guard against unauthorized access to, alteration, disclosure or destruction of data and systems. This also includes against accidental loss or destruction. SCOPE The requirements of the VCP applies to all vendors, contractors, consultants, interns or other third parties that support ACME. INTENT ACME s Minimum Security Requirements (MSR) for information security are comprehensive in nature. Therefore, ACME expects VENDOR to also have a comprehensive set of information security policies, standards and controls to protect ACME s data and systems. VENDOR s information security program must be reasonably designed to achieve the objectives to: Ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (spii) and ACME business information; Protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the confidentiality, availability or integrity of such information; and Protect against unauthorized access to or use of such information. 1 ISO/IEC 27002: 4 of 20 5 BEST PRACTICES ALIGNMENT The ISO/IEC represents industry accepted best practices for information security. Therefore, ACME s minimum security requirements for its vendors are consistent with ISO/IEC requirements to ensure due care and due diligence in maintaining an information security management program. INFORMATION SECURITY DOCUMENTATION In order to reduce possible confusion, VENDOR must be aware of and abide by ACME s use of terminology for information security documentation: (1) Core policy that establishes management s intent; (2) Control objective that identifies the condition that should be met; (3) Standards that provides quantifiable requirements to be met; (4) Procedures that establish how tasks must be performed to meet the requirements established in standards; and (5) Guidelines are recommended, but not mandatory. Figure 1: Information Security Documentation Framework 5 of 20 6 VENDOR S INFORMATION SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES INFORMATION SECURITY GOVERNANCE 1. Contract: Before VENDOR can collect, use, transfer or store ACME business information or systems, VENDOR must have a valid contract, statement of work, or purchase order with the privacy and security language in place. 2. Information Security Management: VENDOR must develop a data security program that documents the policies, standards and controls in use that relate to the provisions outlined below. This security plan must include organizational, administrative, technical, and physical safeguards and standards appropriate to the size and complexity, the scope of the activities and the sensitivity of the information at issue. 3. Management Commitment: VENDOR must have executive level direction on information security and be able to demonstrate management commitment. 4. Information Security Function: VENDOR must have an established information security function that has VENDOR s enterprise wide responsibility for promoting information security. 5. ACME Specific Security Coordination: VENDOR must appoint an individual to coordinate the information security arrangements specific to ACME. 6. Security Audit / Review: The VENDOR s information security program must be subject to thorough, independent and regular security audits/reviews. 7. Records Retention: VENDOR must maintain a formal records retention program. INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY 1. Security Policy: VENDOR must have a documented Information Security policy in place which meets applicable industry standards and which is subject to review by ACME under a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This policy must be reviewed on a regular basis by VENDOR. 2. Security Architecture: VENDOR must establish an information security architecture that provides a framework for the application of standard security controls throughout the VENDOR s enterprise. HUMAN RESOURCES SECURITY 1. Requirements for Employment: VENDOR must maintain contractual agreements with employees, contractors, consultants and/or other third party staff that formally documents their responsibilities for information security. 2. Roles and Responsibilities: VENDOR must define and document security roles and responsibilities of employees, contractors and third party users to incorporate ACME s data protection control requirements, to the extent permitted by applicable law: a. All employees, contractors, and third party users must be notified of the consequences for not following your security policy in handling ACME data. b. All assets used to manage or store ACME data must be protected against unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference. c. All employees, contractors and third party users must be provided with education and training in privacy and security procedures and the correct information processing requirements. d. All personnel with access to sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (spii) must complete a privacy training class and be knowledgeable of any specific privacy requirements for the data being handled. Refresher training is required at least on an annual basis. 6 of 20 7 PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY 1. Facilities: VENDOR must secure facilities where ACME data is stored, processed or transmitted: a. The number of entrances to the information processing facilities in which ACME data is stored must be limited. i. Every entrance into these areas requires screening. (e.g., security guard, badge reader, electronic lock, a monitored closed caption television (CCTV). ii. Access logs must be recorded and maintained. b. Physical access must be restricted to those with a business need. i. Access lists must be reviewed and updated at least once per quarter. c. Process, training and policies must be in place to determine visitor access, after hours access, and prevent tailgating into controlled areas. d. Emergency exits in controlled areas must sound an alarm when opened and include automatic closure. i. Any alarms must trigger an emergency response. 2. Physical Protection: VENDOR must actively manage the physical security controls and ensure all buildings throughout the VENDOR s enterprise that house critical IT functions (e.g., data centers, network facilities and key user areas) are physically protected from unauthorized access. 3. Hazard Protection: VENDOR must ensure computer equipment and facilities are protected against natural and man made hazards. 4. Power Supplies: VENDOR must protect critical computer equipment and facilities against power outages. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 1. Host System Configuration: VENDORS must configure host systems according to an industry standard. a. Systems must be configured to function as required and to prevent unauthorized actions. b. Examples of best practice configuration include, but are not limited to: i. Center for Internet Security (CIS) ii. US Department of Defense Secure Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) iii. OEM best practices (e.g., Microsoft, VMware, Oracle, etc.) 2. Mobile Devices: VENDOR must maintain policies, standards and procedures covering the use of mobile/portable devices. a. The use of mobile devices (e.g., smart phone, ipad, tablet, USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives, MP3 players, e book readers, etc.) must be: i. Subject to approval; and ii. Access must be restricted. b. Controls must be implemented to ensure that sensitive information stored on these devices is protected from unauthorized disclosure. SYSTEM MONITORING 1. Event Logging: VENDOR must log all key information security events, including but not limited to: a. All actions taken by any individual with root or administrative privileges; b. Access to all audit trails; c. Invalid logical access attempts; d. All individual user accesses to cardholder data; e. Use of and changes to identification and authentication mechanisms, including but not limited to: f. Creation of new privileged accounts and elevation of privileges; and g. All changes, additions, or deletions to accounts with root or administrative privileges; h. Initialization, stopping, or pausing of the audit logs; and i. Creation and deletion of system level objects. 2. System Network Monitoring: VENDOR is required to develop and implement a process to review logs and security events for all system components to identify anomalies or suspicious activity that includes: 9 of 20 8 GLOSSARY: ACRONYMS & DEFINITIONS ACRONYMS BCP. Business Continuity Plan PDCA. Plan Do Check Act CDE. Cardholder Data Environment CERT. Computer Emergency Response Team CIRT. Computer Incident Response Team DRP. Disaster Recovery Plan EPHI. Electronic Protected Health Information IRP. Incident Response Plan ISMS. Information Security Management System FACTA. Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act HIPAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act NIST. National Institute of Standards and Technology PCI DSS. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard SOX. Sarbanes Oxley Act KEY INFORMATION SECURITY TERMINOLOGY In the realm of IT security terminology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IR 7298, Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, is the primary reference document that ACME uses to define common IT security terms. 0F2 Deviations to terminology from NIST IR 7298 are at the discretion of Corporate IT Security (CIS). Key terminology to be aware of includes: Asset: Any piece of information of any physical item that can be linked to a ACME business objective in an asset. The loss, disclosure to unauthorized people, or any other compromise of an asset could have a measurable, negative impact to ACME. Asset Owner: Person who is ultimately accountable for ensuring appropriate classification, handling, and/or controls are in place for the asset. Ownership responsibilities may be formally delegated to another user, but accountability for assets remains with the asset owner. Asset Custodian / Data Steward: A term describing a person or entity with the responsibility to assure that the assets are properly maintained, to assure that the assets are used for the purposes intended, and assure that information regarding the equipment is properly documented. Cardholder Data Environment (CDE): A term describing the area of the network that possesses cardholder data or sensitive authentication data and those systems and segments that directly attach or support cardholder processing, storage, or transmission. Adequate network segmentation, which isolates systems that store, process, or transmit cardholder data from those that do not, may reduce the scope of the cardholder data environment and thus the scope of the PCI assessment Control: A term describing any management, operational, or technical method that is used to manage risk. Controls are designed to monitor and measure specific aspects of standards to help ACME accomplish stated goals or objectives. Control Objective: A term describing targets or desired conditions to be met that are designed to ensure that policy intent is met. Where applicable, Control Objectives are directly linked to an industry recognized best practice to align ACME with accepted due care requirements. Data: A term describing an information resource that is maintained in electronic or digital format. Data may be accessed, searched, or retrieved via electronic networks or other electronic data processing technologies. 2 NIST IR 19 of 20 9 Encryption: A term describing the conversion of data from its original form to a form that can only be read by someone that can reverse the encryption process. The purpose of encryption is to prevent unauthorized disclosure of data. Guidelines: A term describing recommended practices that are based on industry recognized best practices. Unlike Standards, Guidelines allow users to apply discretion or leeway in their interpretation, implementation, or use. Information Security: A term that covers the protection of information against unauthorized disclosure, transfer, modification, or destruction, whether accidental or intentional. Focus is on the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of data. Information System (System): A term describing an asset; a system or network that can be defined, scoped, and managed. Includes, but is not limited to, computers, workstations, laptops, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, and mobile devices. Least Privilege: A term describing the theory of restricting access by only allowing users or processes the least set of privileges necessary to complete a specific job or function. OTHER INFORMATION SECURITY DEFINITIONS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IR 7298, Revision 1, Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, is the approved reference document used to define common IT security terms. 180F3 3 NIST IR rev1/nistir 7298 revision1.pdf 20 of 20
MICROS Systems, Inc. Enterprise Information Security Policy (MEIP) August, 2013 Revision 8.0 MICROS Systems, Inc. Version 8.
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High street shoe retailer Office has escaped being fined by the Information Commissioner (ICO) after a security breach sometime in the months before May 2014 compromised the personal details of one million customers.
The breach happened after a hacker gained access to an older unencrypted database of customers up to August 2013 held on a parked server, which contained names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and website passwords.
Office put forward a web of arguments to explain its failure to secure the data. The firm said it had put in place “several technical measures” to protect the server and had even carried out a penetration test to check on their effectiveness, the result of which was not recorded because the database was being decommissioned.
The firm had also intended to remove recognisable customer data from the database but decided against that option because it might add complexity, disruption and downtime, it said.
Office did admit it had no formal policy on data retention and had not trained staff on data protection. This implies that the database might have sat in its decommissioned but vulnerable state for some time, or even indefinitely.
“The breach has highlighted two hugely important areas of data protection: the unnecessary storage of older personal data and the lack of security to protect data,” said ICO group manager, Sally-Anne Poole.
“All data is vulnerable even when in the process of being deleted, and Office should have had stringent measures in place regardless of the server or system used.
“The need and purpose for retaining personal data should also be assessed regularly, to ensure the information is not being kept for longer than required.”
Given the scale of the breach – one million is a substantial number of customer records for any retail hack – the fact that the ICO hasn’t fined the firm is surprising.
According to Poole, the information didn’t appear to have been abused after the hack and didn’t involve financial data. This is strained ogic. If the data was non-financial it is hard to know how the ICO can be sure it wasn’t abused as this might not become apparent for some time.
As for the fact that financial data was not involved, it could be argued this is beside the point. Customer data such as name, address, phone numbers and passwords are of critical importance to the individuals concerned, far more so than financial data that would be covered by Office’s liability for any loss anyway.
Office has signed an undertaking to address the data protection issues raised by the incident.
Office will think itself lucky to escape without a fine. Last July, travel firm Think W3 Limited was hit with a £150,000 fine for a breach involving around a million customers. That incident involved several hundred thousand valid credit card details which cllearly counted against the firm.
In 2010, Shoe was sold to private equity company Silverfleet Capital by Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter for a reported £150 million. Its current owners are believed to be preparing the retailer for a stock market flotation. | https://www.computerworlduk.com/applications/shoe-retailer-office-escapes-ico-fine-despite-serious-data-breach-3594670/ |
With the number of available threat intelligence sources continuing to grow, a third of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) feel under pressure as they cannot consume cybercrime intelligence easily or effectively. To help large companies overcome this challenge, Kaspersky Lab has launched Kaspersky CyberTrace – a free threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool. It aggregates and evaluates disconnected data feeds to help identify what threats pose a danger to the organization and ensure security teams focus on the right areas.
The variety of threat intelligence sources available on the market doesn’t always translate into protection from cyberattacks, as organizations struggle to decide which are relevant and most important for them. Security information and event management (SIEM) or network security controls get overloaded with a large number of Indicators of Compromise (IoC), and the fact that threat data is provided in different formats only worsens the situation.
To make it easier for enterprises to keep up to date with the latest threats, Kaspersky CyberTrace retrieves continuously updated threat data feeds from multiple threat intelligence sources – including Kaspersky Lab, other vendors, open source intelligence or even custom sources – and automatically and rapidly matches them with incoming security events, offloading SIEMs from this high-load operation.
If IoC from threat intelligence feeds is found in any log source within an organization’s environment, Kaspersky CyberTrace automatically sends alerts to SIEMs for ongoing monitoring and validation to reveal additional contextual evidence for the security incidents. The tool integrates smoothly with a variety of SIEMs, including IBM QRadar, Splunk, ArcSight ESM, LogRhythm, RSA NetWitness, and McAfee ESM, as well as other security controls such as firewalls and gateways.
Kaspersky CyberTrace helps prioritize tasks by giving analysts a set of instruments for conducting alert triage and response through categorization and validation of identified matches. On-demand lookup of indicators or scanning of logs and files enables advanced in-depth threat investigation, which accelerates forensic and threat hunting activities. The tool also provides feed usage statistics to measure the effectiveness of feeds and their relevance for a certain environment.
“Being aware of the most relevant zero-days, emerging threats and advanced attack vectors is key to an effective cybersecurity strategy. However, manually collecting, analyzing and sharing threat data doesn’t provide the level of responsiveness required by an enterprise. There’s a need for a centralized point for accessible data sources and task automation. Kaspersky CyberTrace helps organizations better understand their risks, increase the productivity of their security teams and ensure more robust protection against cyberthreats,” comments Sergey Martsynkyan, Head of B2B Product Marketing at Kaspersky Lab.
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Facebook is cutting back on support for political campaign advertising.
A lousy year for Facebook just keeps getting more miserable. Last week, further new emerged about a data breach endangering millions of users’ personal information.
The social network said 30 million accounts had been compromised, down from an earlier estimate of 50 million. So that was a little bit of good news from Facebook.
But it will provide cold comfort to the 14 million who had even more information accessed by hackers. According to CNN:
For the 14 million worst hit by the breach, the attackers were able to access the following information, Facebook said: “username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.”
Facebook said it will send a message to the 30 million users affected in the coming days and will be posting information to its help center.
Facebook is regulated by Irish authorities in Europe as its European headquarters is located there. A spokesperson for the Irish data regulator said of Friday’s announcement, “The update from Facebook today is significant now that Facebook has confirmed that the personal data of millions of users was taken by the perpetrators of the attack.”
The hack was just the latest bad news for the social media company, which has been under fire for allowing the spread of fake news on its platform, disregarding the intellectual property of creators, cavalier treatment of data and the Russian propaganda effort to disrupt the 2016 election.
On top of all that, the company said this summer its user growth had stalled, a development that led to great concern among investors. | https://dependablewebsitemanagement.com/facebook-data-breach-woes-continue/ |
Everyone in the IT services space has faced at least one or more cybersecurity challenges, whether with their users or even their own internal IT infrastructure. From corrupted patches to malware, from DDOS to physical failure of equipment. While not all incidents were necessarily tied to hackers, they did have a negative impact on the businesses we try to support.
In this post, I am going to go over what I feel are the top five areas that any bsiness should be doing to help strengthen their security posture and face the onslaught of threats in 2018.
1. Cybersecurity Training
If you aren’t educating your staff on cybersecurity best practices, it’s just a matter of time before human error takes over. They could click on a malicious link in an email because they assume it is from a trusted source, or they might still believe a Nigerian Prince really does need their help. To address this, you should start with the basics.
Note: If you need help finding some options, please don’t hesitate to reach NetTec NSI.
2. Password Management
Seriously ... it’s now 2018, yet the top passwords that were hacked last year were still “123456” and “password.” This needs to change, but we need to have a plan in place in order to do so.
There are a lot of ways to go about improving password management, and I won’t go into details on the specific vendors that can help here, but here are some requirements to look for. First, password managers are a must. Second, two-factor authentication is critical. And finally, it’s important to have the ability to know when passwords are being shared and with whom.
For example, when an employee leaves and the shared password isn’t changed, it puts the whole organization at risk. Simply setting the Group Policy Object (GPO) to expire a password after 30 days (or some other variation) isn’t going to solve this problem. Increased password security should be part of your training, in addition to using a password manager. We can’t be expected to remember every password as varying levels of complexity, so it’s critical to use a password manager that allows you to generate complex passwords.
3. Compliance
At NetTec NSI, we help businesses achieve compliance and make sense of all the rules and regulations. I suspect many of you reading this are dealing with meeting some regulatory compliance deadline from NYDFS to NIST-171, so how can you help?
First and foremost, dot your i's and cross your t's with the regulation you need to meet or help your company meet. Documentation is critical here, and in many cases if you have a documented process and procedure—even if it has not yet been mapped to satisfying a control—it is better than having nothing at all.
We must always keep in mind new technologies that can be exploited as most regulations don’t yet incorporate current technologies and threats into their requirements, so be aware.
You can have all the compliance in the world and still not be secure. Look at the controls in the regulatory requirement, and address it from a security business best practice first, and the control or regulatory requirement second. In doing so, you will have a secure environment and satisfy the auditors when they come calling.
4. Permissions
People, people, people ... you don’t need Local Admin rights to surf Facebook. In fact, regardless of what does require administrative rights or master key, you don’t need those credentials for your day-to-day—so stop using them.
Strangely, I still get asked why this is such a big deal—and again, it goes back to training and education. Hackers can’t install malware on your computer or start adding users to Active Directory if—when they hack your profile—it doesn’t get them the power they need to make those changes. You’ll notice I said “when” because it’s inevitable that at some point—either in the past, or someday in the future—you will likely experience some level of compromise in your digital world. This leads me to number five.
5. Incidence Response Plan
I don’t want to downplay any of the other elements of secure infrastructure or business security best practices, but throughout 2017 and as we go into 2018, there is an emphasis being placed on having an incident response plan. Security incidents are starting to occur more often, and how you handle an incident could have a serious impact on your business and your clients’ business. When handled correctly, it may have little to no impact at all.
Start internally and create an incident response plan for your own company. If you need assistance with where to start in creating this plan, either click below or contact us directly!
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As technology continues to evolve rapidly, so do the techniques used by adversaries. This may be considered a given, but it is important to appreciate how attackers may leverage existing and commonly used applications within an environment to attempt to seize control and achieve their objectives. These post-exploitation tactics are something that the CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor homes in on and detects, generating alerts when it observes a process acting suspiciously, to ensure our customers are alerted and kept up-to-date with precisely what is happening in their environments.
In most cases, an attacker will attempt to gain some form of code execution — either arbitrary code execution (ACE) or remote code execution (RCE) — to further their reach into an environment and achieve their objectives. If an adversary obtains code execution in a targeted environment, they have succeeded in gaining a foothold to continue their attack. How they choose to continue is determined by their end objective. For example, some common next steps may include reconnaissance, privilege escalation, information stealing, or dropping and executing further payloads. The impact that this may cause can only truly be measured by the victim after the damage has been done, but suffice to say, it is never a positive situation for any company.
CrowdStrike takes a layered approach to security to detect and prevent post-exploit activity, such as attempted malicious code execution throughout these multiple layers. It is important to understand that the concepts of ACE and RCE are not bound to a specific operating system (although particular instances will be). This is why we research and simulate vulnerabilities — to provide customers with the best available defense against exploitation of vulnerabilities delivered through these types of attacks.
To help illustrate the Falcon platform’s diversity in its ability to detect these types of unwanted code-execution vulnerability attacks, this blog discusses examples of both RCE and ACE vulnerabilities in Windows, Linux and Mac. We take a deep look into how the Falcon sensor identifies these threats to keep your environment safe.
Windows: Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
In Windows, there are RCE vulnerabilities that affect the MSHTML browser engine. Attackers can create malicious Microsoft Office documents exploiting these vulnerabilities, and then trick users into opening them. In essence, attackers place a special object within a document file. When the victim opens the tainted document, an attacker-controlled external URL is contacted, and its contents are downloaded and subsequently executed by the MSHTML engine.
At the time of its disclosure, this vulnerability was reported to have been observed being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has stated that MS Office opens documents in Protected View or Application Guard for Office, therefore providing some form of prevention against the exploitation of the vulnerability. However, if an attacker is able to craft a document which the user trusts and in turn, enables editing, the vulnerability may be exploited.
Customers taking advantage of our Spotlight service are able to input CVEs (such as this one) and get results returned on endpoints that may be vulnerable to the related types of attack. Also provided is a wealth of information in relation to the CVE and required steps for remediation. One of the links provided within a Spotlight scan for a CVE is a link to the vendor advisory for further reading. In the case of this example the related advisory published can also be found here.
Figure 1. Spotlight returns results of hosts vulnerable to CVE-2021-40444 (Click to enlarge)
Additionally, after in-depth testing to replicate how these vulnerabilities are triggered, common patterns emerge regarding the process trees generated from exploiting them.
Figure 2. Falcon process tree for MSHTML browser engine remote code execution (Click to enlarge)
This included activities like productivity applications writing binaries with unique, targetable values such as file name, file type or behavior. Discovering this ensured that the relevant detection research teams could target several different levels of the process trees, which, when all seen together, indicated this RCE attempt in a myriad of different scenarios.
Even after the initial work had been conducted (and the associated detections released), further analysis uncovered additional areas throughout the kill chain that yielded high true positive detection rates for activity relating to this RCE behavior. This subsequent analysis uncovered specific file types being written to targeted locations on disk which matched a unique process lineage. For the best possible coverage for customers, this avenue was further explored and confirmed to indicate behavior associated with MSHTML browser engine RCE. As a result of this research, multiple detections were pushed out to all customers to form a multi-layered defense against exploitation attempts for this vulnerability and ensure that customers are protected.
Linux: Targeted Arbitrary Code Execution in Specific Server Types
One example of a Linux vulnerability involves Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) injection in specific server types and data center software. For instance, a specially crafted request can be sent to vulnerable endpoints on the associated server or data center instance. Furthermore, this could be exploited by either a remotely authenticated attacker or, under the right circumstances, an unauthenticated attacker, which would lead to arbitrary code execution, potentially raising the severity of the vulnerability to critical.
After its initial public disclosure on August 25, 2021, the CrowdStrike Falcon® OverWatch™ threat hunters began to relentlessly investigate any implication that CrowdStrike’s customers may be under attack via this method. Through their investigations, the associated teams quickly began to see the attack surface for this vulnerability widen from purely Linux-based exploitation attempts to including Windows attempted exploitation.
With their knowledge of the exploit and their observations on attempted attacks against customers, OverWatch hunters were quick to identify early signs of attempted exploitation. One such example includes attackers writing and decoding a Base-64 encoded string to a file in the confluence directory. You can read more on the Falcon OverWatch hunting team’s efforts here.
Due to the severity of this vulnerability, other internal teams also began performing parallel research efforts to ensure that CrowdStrike’s scope of coverage against this vulnerability ensured maximum coverage. These scenarios are thoroughly researched and tested in controlled environments to obtain as much relevant telemetry as possible. This way, the research teams can find patterns related to the behavior of the exploit and determine ways in which the Falcon sensor’s layered approach can detect it. Specific points of interest can emerge, such as similarities in the process lineage itself, the associated command lines used on each level, and specific behavioral traits displayed by the endpoint.
By reviewing the telemetry and associated process trees in successfully exploited scenarios, the teams can craft detections based on both patterns that emerge in the process trees and observed behavior displayed by the endpoint. This helps further reduce false positive detections and strengthens the probability that the associated activity relates to exploiting a known vulnerability. Associated exploit activity observed in testbed detonations included various attempts at persistence, network connection activity, recon activity, and attempted file download, among many others. Targeting the process actions and its requests of the endpoint helps ensure that the CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor produces high-fidelity detections for customers.
Figure 3. Falcon process tree for observing and killing malicious post-exploit behavior occurring on a vulnerable server (Click to enlarge)
What’s interesting about the above screenshot (which shows the related activity being blocked) is that it highlights a common post exploit method where attackers often attempt to utilize wget/curl (etc.) in order to retrieve further payloads to run in targeted environments to extend their reach. This method is also seen with the more recent Log4j exploit attempts (shown in Figure 4) where CrowdStrike prevented the malicious actions from occurring.
Figure 4. Process tree of post-exploit log4j attempted malicious download (Click to enlarge)
macOS: Pre-install Scripts
Another tactic using post-exploit code execution in macOS environments involves malicious post/pre-install of package scripts. In essence, malicious scripts leverage the macOS Installer API during an installation process. This type of behavioral manipulation is yet another avenue that attackers can exploit to gain a foothold into a network. While not technically considered a “full” RCE (as it still requires user interaction to run the initial install), this technique is another form of RCE that attackers can use to compromise an endpoint and subsequently a network.
Figure 5. Falcon process tree for malicious pre-install package scripts (Click to enlarge)
For instance, Silver Sparrow is a malware example that uses this method. The user runs a seemingly innocent .pkg file and unknowingly triggers RCE, which can be used for persistence, connect to a command-and-control (C2) channel, perform active recon on the target machine or conduct other attacker-related activities.
The important thing to recognize here is that this malware is a pre-installer, which means that the code is run at the very beginning of the .pkg files execution. This means that the end user is already infected by the time the installation of the .pkg file has completed. Fortunately, the CrowdStrike Content Research and Response team was able to investigate and mitigate the associated behavior to ensure that this type of scenario does not play out in customer environments.
With the emergence of this technique, CrowdStrike’s Content Research and Response team began investigating this activity to identify and prevent it within customer macOS environments. We quickly began to understand the methodology of the attack by reviewing existing telemetry and the associated data generated from further testing. After obtaining a thorough understanding of how this attack is conducted, and the risk which it could pose to customers depending on the potential weaponization, the team found a way to ensure that the associated activity is killed before it has a chance to execute. After rigorous testing, CrowdStrike’s Content Research and Response team were then able to ensure high-fidelity preventions were put in place to combat this type of exploit attempt by targeting it at multiple stages of the process lineage.
The Ultimate Value of CrowdStrike’s Threat Research and Layered Approach to Security
Vulnerability exploitation research enables CrowdStrike to protect customers better. Coupled with our on-sensor and in-the-cloud machine learning and behavior-based protection, the Falcon platform can detect threats and protect customers. As with most vulnerabilities, the best option is to ensure that systems across any environment are part of a good patch management plan. CrowdStrike Falcon® Spotlight™ is a scanless, “always on” vulnerability management solution for all of the endpoints in your infrastructure shining insight into areas of your environment that may require further attention in order to ensure a strong security posture is maintained.
Using an example from the above scenarios, we can see how Spotlight comes in to assist with its ability to utilize scanless technology to determine which endpoints in your environment may be susceptible to specific vulnerabilities simply by searching the CVE ID. This specific CVE has an ExPRT rating of Critical and a severity of High. Reviewing the detections against this CVE provides a wealth of information including remediation details, vendor advisories, references, probable sources and much more. (ExPRT rating is based on a dynamic rating ML model, that may differ from traditional CVSS scores. Learn more here.)
Figure 6. CrowdStrike Falcon® Spotlight dashboard (Click to enlarge)
We can also see from the examples above how CrowdStrike’s Falcon OverWatch threat hunters are quick to respond to an ever-evolving threat landscape, connecting the dots and piecing together critical bits of information to obtain the upper hand and keep our customers’ environments safe.
Additionally, we can see how other teams such as Content Research and Response also investigate, analyze and create associated detections and preventions around suspicious activity — which has potential to cause significant harm into customer environments if used under specific circumstances — while ensuring that related but benign activity is left to run unimpeded.
On top of all of this, there are more additional layers of security used, such as our various machine learning models which weren’t even discussed.
The examples above describe how a technique, such as code execution, can come in various flavors across different operating systems and how CrowdStrike researchers investigate them to protect customers from exploitation and the multiple layers of protection we employ to ensure our customers’ environments remain safe. We strive to ensure that our customers are kept safe from post-exploitation activity that could have a devastating impact if missed by adopting a layered approach to security. Attackers often find new ways to blend into environments, making it more challenging to detect their attempts to gain a foothold into endpoints and networks. At CrowdStrike, we remain dedicated to our mission to stop breaches.
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How are hackers moving money in the wake of U.S. authorities taking down online currency service Liberty Reserve?
After a temporary lull in online payment activity, cybercriminals have increasingly been turning to a service known as Perfect Money, said Idan Aharoni, the head of cyber intelligence at EMC Corp's RSA security division. "We expected a large migration to another e-currency, and that has happened," Aharoni told Reuters on Friday.
Together with shutting down the Liberty Reserve site in May, the Department of Justice charged seven employees of the Costa Rica-based operation with having facilitated $6 billion in money laundering. As part of that takedown, U.S. authorities also filed a civil action against 35 exchanger websites related to Liberty Reserve, seeking that their domain names be forfeited.
Those efforts lead to the inevitable question of how the service's existing 1 million worldwide users might next move money without leaving a trail.
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Last week, an unnamed source told TechWeekEurope that multiple carder forums -- marketplaces for buying and selling stolen credit card information -- have adopted Perfect Money as their new default payment method. Other carder sites, meanwhile, have also reportedly added Perfect Money -- as well as WebMoney, also known as WMZ -- as new payment options. Still, based on chatter on underground cybercrime forums, some hackers' requests to join Perfect Money have recently been rejected on the grounds that their "type of activity is not welcome."
Could Perfect Money be actively trying to avoid the ire of U.S. banking regulators and law enforcement agencies and thus the fate suffered by Liberty Reserve? The service issued a customer advisory on June 15, warning that "all accounts that belong to U.S. citizens/residents/U.S. companies will be disabled on 1st of July." On that date, those accounts were set to be frozen, and no more transactions would be allowed. "Please do not postpone taking action to withdraw your balance," it said.
Closing out an account wouldn't be cheap, with Perfect Money charging a fixed $100 fee, plus 3% of the amount withdrawn. In addition, while the service promises a 4% annual interest rate on balances, it also charges fees for internal transfers (0.5%), wire transfer deposits (1.5% and up) and wire transfer withdrawals (4%).
On the upside, the online payment service offers more robust security than the average bank, including sending optional one-time codes sent via SMS -- each of which costs a customer $0.10 to generate -- for logging in. The service also records the IP address used to set up an account. Every time someone attempts to access a particular Perfect Money account from an IP address that's not on file, the service emails a one-time access code to the account holder's verified email address, which must be entered into the website before the transaction can proceed.
But who runs Perfect Money, and to which banking regulators might the service be answerable? That's not clear. According to some news reports, the service is based in Panama. But that country's financial regulators have said that Perfect Money has no registered offices in the country.
More clues: The service is customized for use in 20 different languages -- but says it provides customer support only in English -- and the website has been registered using Iceland's top-level domain name. The website also lists a mailing address in Hong Kong, but no phone number or email address. A query made via the website, requesting information on where the service is based, as well as what steps it's taken to avoid being targeted by U.S. financial regulators, wasn't returned.
To what extent would an e-currency service be responsible for policing its customers? Seth Ginsberg, a lawyer for former Liberty Reserve principal Mark Marmilev -- who's pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges -- said that e-currency providers shouldn't be punished because some people use the services to disguise illicit activities.
"It's my understanding that Liberty Reserve was designed to compete with mainstream financial providers. The fact that it may have been misused by various customers should not reflect on the company," Ginsburg told Reuters. Indeed, the BBC reported that many legitimate users outside the United States simply viewed Liberty Reserve as a cheaper alternative to PayPal. For example, the service offered instant transfers, and a maximum service fee of $2.99 per transaction.
"There is a legitimate need for alternatives to the mainstream financial market, so the fact that there's another company out there filling the void left by Liberty Reserve is not surprising," Ginsburg said.
For comparison purposes, in December the Department of Justice slapped British multinational bank HSBC with a record $1.9 billion fine for its "blatant failure" to implement money-laundering controls, which resulted in terrorists being able to use the bank to move money. Aside from that fine being levied, however, no arrests were made. | https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/cyber-criminals-find-new-online-currency-service |
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Trend Micro released its annual security roundup report, “2016 Security Roundup: A Record Year for Enterprise Threats,” which showed that ransomware cyber threats hit an all-time high last year.
According to the company, its data proves 2016 was really the year of online extortion.
Ransomware and Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams increased in popularity in 2016, with a reported 752 percent jump in new ransomware families, which resulted in $1 billion in losses for enterprises worldwide.
“As threats have diversified and grown in sophistication, cybercriminals have moved on from primarily targeting individuals to focusing on where the money is: enterprises,” Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer for Trend Micro, said in a press release.
One factor that contributed to the rise in ransomware occurrence, Trend Micro noted, was the increase in profitability the cyberthreat presented. Despite the fact that individuals and companies are often advised to not pay ransoms, cybercriminals are still able to make a significant amount of money from these schemes.
BEC scams have also become quite lucrative for cybercriminals.
The report revealed that companies around the world lost $140,000 on average as a result of falling victim to BEC attacks. The scams also point to how successfully fraudsters are able to use social engineering to target and manipulate enterprises.
“Throughout 2016 we witnessed threat actors extort companies and organizations for the sake of profitability, and we don’t anticipate this trend slowing down. This research aims to educate enterprises on the threat tactics actively being used to compromise their data and help companies adopt strategies to stay one step ahead and protect against potential attacks,” Cabrera continued.
In 2016, Trend Micro and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) discovered 765 vulnerabilities, of which 678 were reported to ZDI via a bug bounty program.
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Cyber-security management is a continuous process and not a one-time event, said Ajay Tyagi, Chairman of Sebi on Monday. Tyagi, while speaking at the inauguration of joint certification course in Cyber Security Foundation by NISM, CERT-In and C-DAC, said Sebi has been constantly stepping up its cyber security efforts both internally as well as externally.
Related to market infrastructure institutions, intermediaries, mutual funds and its internal measures, he also highlighted the Sebi’s cyber-security efforts.
“Clearly, cyber security management is not a one-time event but a continuous process – it is not a project but a journey”, he added.
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While Steganos Safe is not a free encryption software, it's really worth the price when you truly have some essential data that have to be kept secure.
While the remaining encryption software we've looked at has targeted encryption on local machines, BoxCryptor includes something special. BoxCryptor helps to encrypt your documents on your cloud.
This brings up questions such as Dont cloud services already implement encryption Yes, they all do. However, the encryption implemented only keeps outsiders away. The cloud services can get the document if they choose to.
With BoxCryptor, even the developers of the software do not have access to the encryption keys talkless the administrators of this cloud system.
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In case you have very important files to be kept confidential, BoxCryptor are the solution. The software might not come cheap, but it's worth the purchase price. But, you can stay informed about this free plan, which only permits you integrate two cloud providers and two apparatus.
While BoxCryptor helps encrypt files to be used for cloud storage platforms, CertainSafe serves as a cloud storage platform itself.
CertainSafe, unlike regular cloud storage systems, is constructed strongly to ensure the safety of your information using end-to-end safety measures.
This is done using a split-key approach so that CertainSafe cant look into your own files. CertainSafe also ensures the encrypted data is broken into different parts and saved on different servers so that, in rare instances of hackers breaking into a host, the whole document wont be uninstalled.
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Folder Lock on the outside might appear to be a normal encryption program. But , there are a few features that ensure it makes this list. Folder Lock remains one of the quickest encryption tools when compared to other people.
Folder Lock implements the AES-256 encryption method to ensure that files and data are given adequate protection. It also has the ability to hide files and clean up footprints when deleting documents just like Steganos Safe.
Folder Lock allows you to create lockers." Lockers read this article are another layer of protection over already encrypted documents and can be uploaded to cloud storage platforms.
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With Folder Lock, then you have to make a secure password for each and every encrypted document asides the password to gain access to the computer software. You can even place decoy passwords to mislead hackers Home Page and view logs of unsuccessful login attempts.
There are other quality encryption tools on the market, depending on your needs. However, this article cant cover all of them.
You likely know that information encryption is one of the best protection methods on the market you can use to keep all your digital assets secure.
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The encryption process uses a key and an algorithm to turn the reachable data into an encoded piece of information.
To decode the encrypted data and render it back to its original type (which can be readily understood), one needs access to the ciphering algorithm and the secret key that was used.
Encryption makes it possible to safeguard sensitive information from cyber criminals or other online threats and make access harder to them. At the exact same time, its a method that can be used to record considerable amounts of information or to procure private communication over the Internet.
Finding the very best encryption software to keep your data secure could prove to be a daunting task. This is exactly why we believed it is useful to make this list and help you decide on the best encryption software tools.
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Indeed, AudioToAudio toolbar is a troublesome virus that may create a whole lot of vulnerabilities onto your Windows System. It may degrade your Windows System performance and introduce so many other threats to your System. Generally speaking, AudioToAudio toolbar is a type of malicious software program that is programmed to work in the favor of its developers and bring so many troubles to you. It is possible that the virus may take over on your Firefox and displays a wide range of commercial ads while your online session to generate online marketing revenue on the basis of your per click or per purchase.
Even, in some cases, we've seen malware performing other type of malicious activities such as stealing confidential data and online banking credentials from the affected Windows 10. Further, malware connects affected Windows System various remote locations and downloads potentially malicious files and updated on the scheduled time. What is worse, AudioToAudio toolbar may allow remote hackers to access your Windows 10 and monitor your private activities using your Webcam or stealing your private images or videos. In so many case, we've seen that remote hackers steals private files and blackmail the victims to extort money. Notably, such type of virus can also encode your files and ask you to pay off ransom. Hence, Removal of the AudioToAudio toolbar is a must.
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Many businesses have witnessed the benefits of cloud firsthand. To enable developers to do what they want, when they want, as fast as they want, they are adopting an “always-on” culture to streamline inefficiencies and maximize productivity; however, this degree of freedom doesn’t come without security challenges.
Achieving agile security in the cloud is a challenge many companies are beginning to face as they deploy cloud environments. To create a security mindset among developers while providing security tools that matched the pace of development, businesses are using new technologies, best practices and a DevSecOps approach to accelerate innovation while maintaining security. These tactics allow developers to securely tap into cloud infrastructure and agile development without slowing innovation. Below are 10 guidelines that will help your organization achieve agile security.
Sami Laine is a Principal Technologist at CloudPassage. In the last 17 years in the internet security industry at CyberSource, PassMark Security and RSA, he has helped some of the world’s largest payment processors, retailers, banks, brokerages and enterprises fight fraud, malware and web threats and is now focused on helping companies embrace agile security practices.
Change the Mindset of Dev and Ops Teams – Developer and operations teams often see security as the anchor dragging productivity in the sand. While cloud has brought these two closer together, security is often an outlier. Introduce a new perspective that demonstrates how security can keep up with the pace of development, from day one.
Introduce a DevSecOps Approach to Security Teams – In order to move on projects and continuously iterate and deploy new products and solutions, enlist security teams to become “security as a service,” allowing them to operate as a supplier within your organization’s walls. Make sure rapid response teams are running 24/7, and that product security teams are aligned with the same trajectory as the rest of the organization.
Standardize on Core Security Principles – To achieve an “always on” culture while maintaining an agile and secure state, aim to execute on three core security principles that map back to DevSecOps: API-driven security, security at speed, and security on-demand.
Adopt “API-driven security” – Steer away from traditional security systems managed by people logging into a console. By taking the human element away from the process, your organization can establish a continuous integration methodology, which gives consistency of delivery. For example, if a security policy needed to be adjusted, you’ll only do it once, eliminating inconsistency in the system or unnecessary outages.
Create a Security Rapid Response Team – Fast response times are imperative to giving a tech company competitive advantage. To enact “security at speed,” implement continuous measuring, testing and monitoring in an effort to iterate quickly.
Make Use of the Cloud – To achieve “security on-demand,” deploy cloud-based technology to ensure your security posture was never static. Your organization can also work closely with leading enterprise security vendors to build scalable commercial and technical models to allow for on-demand security systems. This gives your security teams the ability to scale infrastructure up and down as needed.
Deploy a Code-Driven Security Infrastructure – Security shouldn’t have to be built up from scratch over and over. Deployment of a code-driven security infrastructure allows for the repeatable and automated build and management of security systems.
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Reports show up to 65% of security professionals actively think about quitting as a result of stress. While this number sounds shockingly high, experts note it’s hardly a surprise to those inside the industry. Security teams face myriad complicating factors in their day-to-day operations, and pinpointing the most urgent challenges is the first step toward addressing cybersecurity issues, boosting job satisfaction, and encouraging team morale.
One of those challenges is the continued sprawl of threat environments. Today, a typical security team manages thousands of different cloud services and hundreds of applications. With workforces shifting online, they must find ways to secure remote endpoints. And as the digital footprint of most organizations continues to expand, hiring tends to remain stagnant, leaving fewer professionals to handle a growing number of tasks. Combine this with the emergence of increasingly complex threats, and it’s no wonder security teams feel so overwhelmed.
Another notable issue is the unprecedented level of noise and false positives. Organizations struggle to keep pace with alerts—and when they do act, investigations take too long. Attacks occur in minutes, but responses may take months to resolve. The average attacker has an estimated nine months to explore their environment undetected. Hampered (and too often defined) by outdated software, security infrastructure lags.
Clarifying priorities to achieve focus
Encouragingly, experts say they’re seeing more customers beginning to approach cybersecurity with a framework mindset. Users seek a plan that emphasizes prioritization, with a focus on what’s relevant to their particular industry. They recognize the perception that security acts as an obstacle to DevOps agility, and want to embrace a more supportive security posture.
While no team can manage everything efficiently, a focused team is an efficient team. Security is not one-size-fits-all, so this means finding the right framework for your particular team. What are you protected against now? What are your “crown jewel” assets? It’s critical to track progress over time in order to assess which implementations prove successful, and measure resource expenditures against security benefits. With the appropriate focus, security can learn to work smarter, not harder, to improve business outcomes.
But unless your team is educated in the proper processes, you risk rendering even the perfect framework useless. With a well-communicated incident playbook, it should be abundantly clear who is in charge of what before a crisis strikes. You don’t want to be unsure who notified customers following a breach—or whether they’ve been notified at all. In training, simulate likely emergency scenarios in table top exercises. When addressing staffing needs, weigh the pros and cons of third-party outreach alongside internal hires.
Reducing remediation time: Performance analysis and automation
When there’s team consensus around goals, priorities, roles, and responsibilities, it’s much easier to analyze performance and drive improvements. Conduct audits regularly, noting improvements as well as repeat findings. These should help teams derive smarter recommendations over time, and ideally keep users from making the same mistakes over and over again.
Security leaders must find creative ways to amplify impact, not noise. The good news is the security industry is warming to automation. Because automation minimizes response time and process redundancies while improving threat detection reliability, it’s increasingly embraced for its ability to efficiently target pain points.
In addition to streamlining mundane, repetitive processes, automation allows analysts to focus on triage, instead of getting bogged down in false positives. And with the right tools, security teams don’t have to spend time building their own platforms, which further reduces friction. According to our experts, users report finding automation tools strangely addicting; it’s not uncommon to hear, “What can I automate next?”
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Drilling and Completion Operating Plant mobile heavy equipment were largely the source of the noise. This equipment was in operation continually for 12 hours to 24 hours and 85 per cent of the equipment surveyed registered average noise levels above the occupational exposure limits (OEL) as shown in Image 1.
Drilling and Completions field personnel were monitored throughout a 12-hour shift with results compared against a threshold noise level of 82dB(A) OEL (shift adjusted).
included a combination of personal protective equipment (PPE), administrative and engineering controls for risk management. However, in some instances the engineering controls appeared to be ineffective, for example, doors left open on generator enclosures.
PGI Noise HRA found personal noise levels recorded to be significantly more than the levels previously assessed by industry, with 90 per cent of participants exposed to noise levels above the shift adjusted OEL as shown in Image 2.
NIHL is further compounded when there is exposure to physical (vibration) and Ototoxic chemicals such as carbon monoxide, organic solvents, mercury, lead etc.
covering acoustically highly reflective surfaces such as metal with rubber matting and dampening resonance of machines which transfer energy through vibration.
controlling transmission path between source and receiver, for example, attenuating transmission through enclosures or barriers.
develop or include a worker health monitoring program with an audiometric testing as per AS/NZS 1269.4 to workers that are potentially exposed to noise limits exceeding the OEL
implement Hearing Protector Program (HPP) as per AS/NZS 1269.3 involving worker consultation, for example, fit testing of hearing protector devices (HPD) develop and implement training program including information on noise hazards, impact to hearing when exposed to hazardous noise, and the selection, use, maintenance, and storage of HPD.
¹ LAeq,8h means the eight-hour equivalent continuous A-weighted sound pressure level in decibels (dB(A) referenced to 20 micropascals; determined in accordance with AS/NZS 1269.1: Occupational noise management-Part 1: Measurement and assessment of noise emission and exposure.
² LC,peak means the C-weighted peak sound pressure level in decibels (dB(C) referenced to 20 micropascals; determined is accordance with AS/NZS 1269.1: Occupational noise management-Part 1: Measurement and assessment of noise emission and exposure.
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The Bromium Labs team was able to get their hands on some live malware exploiting the Microsoft office vulnerability.
First and foremost, on an unpatched workstation Bromium did its job by hardware isolating the Microsoft Word document into a protected virtual machine so that the host workstation was never infected.
Secondly, it shows the amazing analytics of Bromium to show exactly what the malware was attempting to do.
As a follow up to my earlier blog about a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Office, the Bromium Labs team was able to get their hands on some live malware exploiting this vulnerability. The Bromium Labs team used an unpatched workstation to launch the malware to demonstrate two important parts of the Bromium Secure Platform. Watch: How Bromium Stops Zero-Day Threats.
Let’s start with a summary of the Microsoft Office exploit.
The vulnerability in Microsoft Office was first reported by McAfee in a blog last week, although exploits of the vulnerability date back to late January 2017. This particular exploit works on all versions of Office, which means it is entirely possible that it has existed for years and all the major anti-virus vendors and Microsoft didn’t know. This means that computers all over the world could have been compromised for years. This includes computers that are part of the United States Federal Government with potential national secrets.
What makes this vulnerability even more threatening is the fact it doesn’t follow the trademark behavior of traditional malware. Traditional malware targeting Microsoft Office normally delivers the payload via macros. This exploit uses a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology. This is an important component of Microsoft Office.
The exploit is delivered by what seems like a normal Microsoft Word document. Once the Word document is launched, a connection is made to a Command and Control server operated by hackers. An HTML file is then downloaded and launched which will give the remote hacker full-control over the workstation. If the exploits works as planned, the original Word document will close and another fake copy of the document is opened. However, at this point the workstation is owned.
Why Bromium customers never felt any impact from this exploit.
It all starts with the fundamental approach Bromium takes to malware. Instead of analyzing each document to see if it is malicious or not, Bromium treats any untrusted document (anything downloaded or received from an untrusted source) as potentially malicious. Instead of opening a Microsoft Word document in the traditional method, Bromium launches a special hardware-isolated virtual machine that launches the Word document. This is important because any malicious code that is executing is happening inside a disposable virtual machine. As soon as the user closes the Word document, any malicious activity or installation of malware is destroyed along with the virtual machine. Because of this game changing technology, Bromium endpoints are not susceptible to zero-day vulnerabilities like this one in Microsoft Office.
In the screenshot below, the live malware that exploits this Microsoft Office vulnerability is launched on the unpatched workstation. The utility on the right titled, “Bromium vSentry Live View” shows all the actively running hardware isolated virtual machines on the workstation. In the case of the malicious Word document, it was placed into “Micro-VM 0033”. Transparent to the user, the Word document resides inside of “Micro-VM 0033” and if any damage is done, it happens inside that virtual machine.
While the Word doc is running in the micro-VM, there is a sophisticated introspection engine that is also looking inside of the virtual machine. This introspection allows Bromium to look at any and all abnormal events that are happening. The added benefit that Bromium delivers over traditional Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions is there is no additional “noise” confusing the detection of abnormal events. Because “Micro-VM 0033” is only running Microsoft Word, any other applications that cause traditional EDR solutions to produce false positives is weeded out.
When the user closes the micro-VM, a full forensic trace of this attack is available. The capture from the virtual machines shows all changes and accesses to the virtual machine while it is up and running.
The following screenshot shows the detailed trace of this Microsoft Word exploit to include connecting to the Command and Control server.
This most recent exploit further proves that the only viable path forward to ensure your organization is never compromised is to look at protection instead of detection. We’d love to tell you more about virtualization-based security. Contact us for a demo, meeting or both!
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It is often assumed that antivirus is all you need to keep your laptop or desktop secure, but that’s only part of the picture. Promethius is Indianapolis’ trusted outsourced IT provider, and we are here today to talk about a common but often misunderstood topic – computer security.
Tony: What I see in computer security just when I’m talking to the “average joe” is that I think we tend to see security as a simple “checkbox.” Specifically, we think that if we have traditional antivirus on our computers, that’s all we need. Check that box and I’m good to go.
My question to you is “Is just having antivirus on my computer enough to say that my computer is secure?”
Aaron: No, it’s not. Antivirus is just one of the pieces of the puzzle for sure – a big one. But stand-alone antivirus is simply not enough to protect you from all that’s out there. We take a multi-stage approach to securing a computer or network. And the level of security we implement is dependent on the particular use of that computer.
For you basic user, a good antivirus product is the start. We also like to see internet browser protection to keep the spyware and malware off the computer. We also want to ensure that if the computer is heavily used and files are stored on its hard drive, it has a robust backup that is cloud-based and automatic.
Another important security piece is the regular maintenance and upkeep of patches (in other words, install patches and updates as they come in). Those patches and software updates are what “spackle” the little holes that viruses, spyware and malware are getting into. We want to make sure that you are getting those updates routinely and that they are being applied in the correct way.
Tony: Well I think that’s some much-needed detail to the topic of IT security, and as I suspected, antivirus isn’t enough on its own. It’s part of the security picture, but it’s not the whole picture.
And so now you have this information about how to make your computer secure, but what do you do? I suppose there are two ways to go. One, you can try to gather all these pieces yourself, but as I said earlier, Promethius is a managed services provider here in Indianapolis.
So maybe we can use this as a teaching tool to explain a bit more about managed services. When you hire a managed services company, part of the benefit is that you don’t have to shop for all these IT security pieces one-at-a-time and on your own. A managed services provider will roll all these pieces (antivirus, browser protection and backup) into one service.
Aaron: That’s right. We’ve done the research. We know the products. We know the technology that they are using. We have ways to automate security and to control things from a much higher level. Our expertise helps us to avoid security missteps which often cost money.
We can put you in the right computer security mix for your needs (not everyone’s security needs are the same). We can help you take the mystery out of securing your laptop.
Tony: I think that’s a good foundation on computer security. Thanks for watching. If you are in Indianapolis and need help with your security, give us a call at 317/733-2388. | http://promethius.com/blog/is-antivirus-all-i-need-to-keep-my-computer-secure |
Another phishing email. I’ll explain the boxes at the top later – that is me, not the email. Blurred regions are emails
Again, links go to some website. WordPress again. People, you need to update your WordPress! And stop using all the plugins
No, I’m not saying WordPress is terrible. I’m using it for this site. I’m saying (as with all things) you need to patch early, and patch often! Too many times people spin up a WordPress site then basically ignore it for update, and then it gets hacked.
The link (once I changed the email address) goes to a fake login page. Interestingly not a fake Microsoft, just a random one. It pulls the name after the @ to put it in the blurred regions. So lets say it was ‘[email protected]’ you were using, it says ‘Whitehouse Online Webmail App’. Also, Copyright 2019?
And it redirects you to the domain for your email.
Now to explain the boxes on the email. Microsoft Rules, basically. The red one triggers on any email from external, that doesn’t match our domain. Then you have to whitelist anything that legitimately spoofs your domain. The yellow one is just triggered on any external emails. Not 100% but works pretty well. I should do another post explaining it, but in short I used this and made a second one based off of that. | https://xokes.com/2021/05/13/2021-05-13-phishing/ |
Today, most companies are focusing on data security issues and finding ways to ensure that sensitive information doesn't fall into the wrong hands. According to Paul Giardina, senior vice president for marketing at Protegrity Corp. in Stamford, Conn., there are 10 safeguards that can help companies protect themselves from falling victim to data breaches.
Giardina, who discussed security issues at the 2006 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo, held Sept. 17-21 in Orlando, Fla., said that companies should pursue "defense in depth" and add different layers of security as risk and value of the protected data increases.
Security threats can be addressed in specific ways to help mitigate the risks. However, the following 10 solutions are "just the start of data security processes," according to Giardina. "There is no silver bullet." 1. Comply with multiple, overlapping regulations.
In the past few years, the U.S. has introduced new regulations including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Gramm-LeachBliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), various state breach disclosure laws, and laws in other countries governing some international firms. The Payments Card Industry rules (the newest version of which came out in September) encompass portions of all these laws, some of which overlap.
But rules don't overlap in many areas. So, Giardina recommended that companies map out a grid showing the different rules and how different IT projects might affect them. With the grid, the company can outline which technology projects will do the most good and bring them into compliance with the most laws, and then prioritize them that way.
According to Giardina, adhering to regulatory compliance should be the minimum level of security for a company. Security technology projects also exist that make sense from a corporate standpoint, but they aren't needed for security reasons.
2. Payment Card Insurance (PCI) compliance is a problem for more than 85 percent of merchants.
Visa and MasterCard have required compliance for more than 18 months so merchants could protect themselves from being subject to fines resulting from a data breach. But less than 15 percent had met PCI standards as of January 2006. Even if the percentage had doubled in the past 9 months, the majority is still short of the standard, which includes 12 different steps (http://www.pcisecurity standards.org/pdfs/pci_dss_v1-1.pdf).
First, Giardina recommended prioritizing projects based on which security holes present the highest risk to the company (i.e., adding firewalls for personal computers), and then ease of implementation.
3. Find ways to implement reasonable data security measures.
Implementing data security presents several challenges, Giardina said: Laws and regulations use the test of reasonableness of data security to determine the liability of the organization. "What's reasonable, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder," he said.
Generally accepted guidelines might become default reasonableness standards, Giardina said. So companies are advised to maintain records of implemented security controls, policies, and enforcement of behavior that are reasonable. If a security breach should occur, it will not leave them liable for negligence.
And what is reasonable? The ability to cite best practices and industry benchmarks of technology deployments to demonstrate that your enterprise security program is reasonable, Giardina said.
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One of a new business's first steps is to install office tools for day-to-day communications, including a router with wireless access, phone lines, and a file server. The Sutus Business Central 200 combines these devices in a single appliance, simplifying setup and helping you avoid having to configure multiple pieces of unrelated gear individually.
Some of 's specs are strangely dated, such as single-band, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 250GB of storage; and a single gigabit ethernet port. But for the most part, the unified approach works, getting your small business running quickly with minimal configuration hassles.
The Business Central 200 targets offices with anywhere from a handful to 25 employees. It could fit well in a retail shop, connecting to your point-of-sale system or security cameras, or it could serve as the backend communications spine of your service-based office. You can even install another Business Central 200 at a satellite office, permanently bridging phones and files through the virtual private network (VPN).
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Depending on the reseller, you can either obtain the hardware preconfigured or have your IT administrator set it up. The Business Central 200's main box attaches to your Internet connection, and you build out your network over its eight 100-mbps ethernet ports and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. VoIP phones attach to the network, and the device provides power-over-ethernet so you don't need to plug the phones into an outlet. You can even use the included bridge to connect a traditional phone system.
Sutus bases the price of its Business Central 200 hardware on the number of users, even though the license is fixed and doesn't require renewal. The $2199 rate provides basic server and phone gateway hardware for five users. The price for up to a dozen users is $2898, and hardware for up to 25 users costs $3897. VoIP handset hardware and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) service cost extra.
Installation
Unpacking the gear reveals the main hardware box and an analog phone gateway box. If you order phones--we tested three--resellers typically bundle Polycom handsets. You just connect everything and complete the configuration in a Web browser. In most situations, you'll be able to get through the initial installation in less than an hour, but then you may spend several hours exploring all of the features.
The Business Central 200 is platform-agnostic, working with Macs, Windows PCs, Linux computers, and various mobile devices, including certain phones. You configure settings though a Flash-enabled Web browser instead of through an OS-specific client.
The hardware box runs Linux and is powered by open-source tools. So theoretically, you could put together software with the same features for free. But the product's interface is its real strength.
When adding a new user account, you enter the log-in and password once, and will create a phone extension, a private network-storage space, and an e-mail account.
You can also create phone, storage, and e-mail assignments as group workspaces. With a shared, group workspace for the sales department, for example, you can create a phone extension, an e-mail address, and a storage area that are accessible to all members at the same time. This simple, powerful management feature makes worthwhile, even though some of its individual specifications disappoint.
Router
The Business Central 200 creates wired or wireless networks simply. Just enter a Wi-Fi password and plug in your cables.
The box has enough ports for basic wired networks, but only includes one gigabit ethernet port (in addition to the eight 100-mbps ethernet ports). If you want the fastest transfers for your network, you'll have to add a gigabit switch right away
Wireless networking is adequate, too, but similarly less than ideal. The device supports 802.11b/g, not the latest 802.11n interface. Worse, networking options are rigid. The device requires WPA security, so if you install it at a café (for example), visitors must enter a password. A dual-band access point would make more sense, separating public traffic from your private network, but you get only the single wireless connection. And WPA falls short of other wireless security options. Sutus representatives said that an update will eventually enable dual-SSID and WPA2 options.
Otherwise, the router performs well, even if you're shielded from deep configuration. A built-in stateful-packet-inspection firewall filters traffic, and the device comes preconfigured to lock itself down better than an off-the-shelf, consumer router can.
The integrated VPN lets you remotely connect and share files or VoIP calls as if you were in the office. It supports 256-bit AES SSL encryption through IPSec or PPTP, keeping your data secure.
Phone
VoIP phone service requires an additional subscription from a third-party SIP provider. The Business Central 200 is preconfigured to support XO, Megapath, Broadvox, Babytel, and many others. Expect to pay around $150 per month for three concurrent lines of service that you can then share across internal extension numbers. You'll also need to buy VoIP handsets, which cost about $115 each (The system supports third-party VoIP software, which works well on it, but most people will want a real handset, too.). Since the basic Business Central 200 hardware includes a gateway for dealing with analog phone gear, it can automatically route incoming faxes to your traditional fax machine.
With VoIP activated, reception, call forwarding, and other options can make your small business seem bigger. You can configure an incoming call to pass through up to three steps, such as ringing your desk, ringing the receptionist, and then going to voice-mail. You can even route calls to an external number, such as your mobile phone. If you install a second Business Central 200 at another office, you can ring remote coworkers by dialing their phone extension, or you can arrange that only the phones in the East Coast will ring in the early morning hours until your West Coast branch employees arrive at work.
Sutus says that you need only minimal bandwidth to support VoIP features--about 1.5 mbps downstream and 600 kbps upstream for four concurrent calls. The router includes quality-of-service rules to shift bandwidth to VoIP when needed, and it connects through temporary pinholes instead of leaving VoIP ports always open.
Server
With just 250GB of storage shared between two 250GB RAID 1 drives, gives short shrift to file-sharing needs--and you can't upgrade the drives yourself by swapping in inexpensive storage alternatives. Other storage features are mixed.
Two USB 2.0 ports let you connect an external drive to handle scheduled backups of the built-in drives, but you can't use external disks for server space, and you can't set to back itself up offsite automatically; Sutus representatives say that this feature will come in an update.
Windows, Mac OS, and other computers can easily mount the SMB shared storage in the desktop. Your main account and shared workspaces reveal personal and group areas.
But omits drop boxes and public storage, both of which would be helpful for some workflows. For example, you might have an external client who wants to upload big files--with a drop box, you wouldn't have to create a new user account and talk the client through the VPN. Or you might want to publicly host big files that external clients could download. The Business Central 200 doesn't support FTP or any non-VPN method of connection.
The built-in Web server can provide a workaround for hosting external files, but it's less versatile as FTP. The Web server can also host your home page, but it doesn't support databases or scripts needed for complicated sites. Still, if your business needs those features--for commerce, say--you probably need an offsite Web host or much more extensive internal hardware.
For e-mail or for your Website, you can use a free yourcompanyname.sutuscentral.com domain, or you can configure the server to use your own domain. In either case, the mail service uses secure IMAP, keeping messages available on the server no matter how you connect. Server-side spam filtering, aliases, vacation messages, and other e-mail standards are available, too.
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The Business Central 200 package often feels a step or two behind current standards, favoring 100Base-T ethernet, 802.11b/g, and WPA, and lacking upgradable storage and FTP. If you need to configure every minuscule aspect of your router, server, or phone system, you'll run into situations where you can't proceed.
But isn't aimed at advanced techs. It's for businesses with a stretched IT person who knows a little about everything, or for companies with no IT staff. The integrated help system explains nearly every feature you might encounter through text, and the unified user settings automatically enable phone, e-mail, and storage accounts at the same time. A scrappy startup will value this ease-of-use more than various extra features they might not use.
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BOSTON, Mass., April 9, 2019 iboss today announced native integration of iboss cloud with Microsoft Cloud App Security to deliver expanded control and visibility for cloud applications approved by the organization as well as restrict access to unsanctioned applications such as a personal Dropbox account. In addition, advanced controls extend protection for data residing within Microsoft Office 365 and Azure to protect corporate data as well as to meet regulatory compliances. The integration allows all Microsoft CAS capabilities to be leveraged in seconds eliminating the need to deploy log collectors, streamlining the deployment and reducing overhead cost. The iboss cloud includes comprehensive cloud application security controls for data as it moves between users and the cloud. Complimenting this security with Microsoft CAS allows organizations to easily protect data as it rests within Microsoft and other popular cloud applications. As the capabilities are delivered in the cloud, this allows organizations to protect users regardless of device or location ensuring protection is in place at all times.
According to IDC, almost half of IT spending will be cloud-based in 2018, “reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60-70% of all software, services and technology spending by 2020.” Securing access to cloud applications is one of the top concerns of IT professionals.
Traditional cloud application security solutions offer a ‘watch and alert’ but do not prevent users from accessing unauthorized cloud applications. Through the partnership, iboss cloud and Microsoft Cloud App Security allow organizations to proactively identify, control and prevent users from accessing unapproved applications on or off the network in real time.
“The combination of iboss cloud application security and Microsoft CAS provide the necessary security and visibility organization’s need to operate in a cloud-first world,” said Paul Martini, CEO and co-founder of iboss. “At iboss, we are focused on ensuring organizations can secure Internet access for users, regardless of location which is required in a world where perimeters no longer exist.” | https://www.iboss.com/blog/iiboss-cloud-expands-its-cloud-app-security-and-visibility-through-microsoft-cloud-app-security-partnership/ |
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In this presentation by seasoned incident response counsel, Allison Bender, you will gain a risk-informed perspective on the role of counsel in cybersecurity governance and incident response. Also, learn strategies for more effective communication and cooperation with other cybersecurity stakeholders (e.g., IT, IT Security, HR, Communications, business leaders, senior executives and the board); and take away practical tips for prioritizing efforts that help tame the chaos of cybersecurity incident response while maintaining privilege as appropriate.
Allison Bender counsels Fortune 50 companies and startups in a range of industries on cybersecurity and privacy matters in the U.S. and internationally. Drawing from her roots in government, national security, and R&D, she helps clients navigate legal issues associated with emerging technologies and aids clients in strategically managing legal, financial, and reputational cybersecurity risks. Allison translates technical, operational, legal, and policy issues to create practical solutions for clients’ legal challenges. Her cybersecurity and national security preparedness counseling is informed by over 80 incident response efforts. When drafting corporate policies and considering product design options, Allison’s advice is seasoned in the management of breaches involving personal data, intellectual property, payment card information, export controlled technical data, and other regulated information. Her experience also extends to counseling on cybersecurity and national security due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, vendor management, and transactions. From DHS, Allison brings experience in incident response as well as cybersecurity policy, information sharing, liability, and incentives. She was the primary operational legal counsel for the federal response to the Heartbleed vulnerability, the USIS-KeyPoint data breach, and the Healthcare.gov data breach. | https://www.csee.umbc.edu/2018/03/talk-cybersecurity-team-sport-understanding-counsels-role/ |
Vulnerability is the thing I’ve been running away from ever since I was in elementary school where I was outcasted enough to believe that I had to build walls and keep people out as a defense mechanism. Vulnerability is the icky feeling of being able to get hurt. It is putting yourself out there without any armor and taking the risk of getting scrapped knees and elbows (or falling off a cliff).
Ironically, vulnerability is also the very thing I have decided to embrace (struggling to everyday) when I decided to pursue this uncomfortable thing called “entrepreneurship.”
Can you think of any other career path that holds you completely accountable for everything? The success of your venture as well as the failures are 100% on your shoulders and you don’t have the comfort of blaming upper management or employees working underneath you for your outcomes. You are judged personally for every professional decision and there is no distinguished line between work and life, the line you would have had if you had worked in a traditional job. Just the idea of this haunts me.
Can We All Stop Being Hypocrites?
Funny enough, our society applauds several entrepreneurs and champions them for their risks, vulnerabilities, and efforts in overcoming adversity. We have a soft spot in our hearts for the stories we hear of someone putting their own self on the line and being rejected by investors, by stores, sometimes even by their family, to only be able to stay afloat amongst the sea of pain.
Why do we cheer them on from a distance but cannot imagine ourselves being exposed as they are? Essentially, we want to experience their vulnerability but we don’t want to be vulnerable ourselves. We see vulnerability as courage in others, yet weakness in ourselves.
Stop this nonsense.
The moment I decided that starting my own company was the path for me, I ditched the comfy blanket and made the ultimate tradeoff deciding I was going to face my fear of being vulnerable. I was going to embrace that icky word and begin to tear down my walls (I still am, slowly but surely).
In fact, one of the most impacting TED Talks I have ever seen was Brené Brown’s “The Power of Vulnerability.” Currently, I am reading her book “Daring Greatly” which my cofounder beckoned me to read. Let me tell you, every page is like a slap on the face.
“It’s where courage and fear meet” — It takes a certain person to make that first decision to get into entrepreneurship, a very courageous type of person. However, this courage can only get so far before we are faced with scary obstacles and hurdles. We need to rely on the momentum of that initial courage to get us past these times when our confidence is faulty and we are fearful.
“Being all in” — You have your whole being dedicated to your venture as there is no more work-life balance. It is a lifestyle and therefore, you will always be all in. You embody your startup as it embodies you.
“Infinitely terrifying and achingly necessary” — If you have an entrepreneurial soul, you will feel unsatisfied unless you’re able to create and move at the beat of your own drum. Satisfaction won’t be found unless you’re at the steering wheel, therefore it is “achingly necessary” for you to embrace this path along with its discomforts.
“You are halfway across a tightrope, and moving forward and going back are both just as scary” — There’s a lot to lose and a lot to gain at the end of the day. Stepping out on that rope was a risk you were willing to take and turning back can become as detrimental as if you have completed it.
Embrace it.
Overall, it becomes very clear that entrepreneurship requires being vulnerable and the sooner this is accepted, the sooner we can progress and overcome our fear of this uncomfortable, weirdly liberating, feeling.
“Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose.” | https://likeagirl.io/entrepreneurship-is-the-epitome-of-vulnerability-2/ |
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Cybercrimes are one of the biggest thorns for the cybersecurity of an organization. An event of cybercrime not only causes financial strain, but it can also harm the brand image of a firm immensely. Many companies are experimenting on various solutions that can provide impeccable security and prevent any cybercrimes.
The demand for cybersecurity professionals is growing by the day, and according to estimation, more than three millions cybersecurity jobs will go unfulfilled by the end of 2021. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help companies to bridge the gap of cybersecurity. The technology has already started to gain widespread recognition for its innovative solutions. The biggest hindrance in the path of adoption of AI-enabled tool for cybersecurity was the differentiation of attack styles and threat levels that make it difficult for machine learning (ML) algorithms to predict a threat accurately. However, with the increase in the volume of logged data, the predictive accuracy of AI solutions in detecting malicious activities have also enhanced to a great extent. Here are a few benefits of AI adoption in Cybersecurity:
Prediction: Organizations can be hugely benefitted if they detect an attack before it commences. The advancements in the ML techniques are enabling companies to predict an attack before it happens. The ML tools analyze the collected data to make decisions about any new events and raise alarm if it finds any malicious activities. Many cybersecurity service providers have started designing an automatic advanced threat identification tool that uses real-time behavioral, reputational, and big data analysis with ML algorithms to contextualize detections.
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Prevention: Security and firewalls do not provide adequate security in today’s era, as hackers bypass these security barriers with ease. AI-enabled tools have the potential to improve cybersecurity barriers, enabling cybersecurity teams to strengthen their cybersecurity solutions. For instance, an out-of-band (OOB) authentication mechanism that uses AI solutions, can offer companies with more secure user identification methods. The mechanism uses a series of inputs to confirm a user’s identity.
Organizations can gain a lot by leveraging smart technologies to improve their cybersecurity solutions. These technologies can augment the cybersecurity solutions, and can be an ideal ally for cybersecurity teams of an enterprise. | https://www.cioadvisorapac.com/news/significance-of-artificial-intelligence-in-cybersecurity-nwid-1513.html |
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2011) It is well established that a mood disorder can increase an individual’s risk for substance abuse, but there is also evidence that the converse is true; substance abuse can increase a person’s vulnerability to stress-related illnesses. Now, a new study finds that repeated cocaine use increases the severity of depressive-like responses in a mouse model of depression and identifies a mechanism that underlies this cocaine-induced vulnerability.
The research, published by Cell Press in the August 25 issue of the journal Neuron, may guide development of new treatments for mood disorders associated with substance abuse.
“Clinical evidence shows that substance abuse can increase an individual’s risk for a mood disorder,” explains senior study author, Dr. Eric Nestler from Mount Sinai School of Medicine “However, although this is presumably mediated by drug-induced neural adaptations that alter subsequent responses to stress, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon were largely unexplored.”
Dr. Nestler and colleagues examined whether histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation (H3K9me2), a prominent type of chromatin modification, might be involved in the effects of repeated cocaine use on vulnerability to depressive-like behaviors. Histones are found in the nucleus where they package the DNA into chromatin, and changing the number of histone methyl groups can alter gene expression. A reduction in H3K9me2 reflects a decrease in the number of histone methyl groups, and previous human and animal studies have found a link between histone methylation and mood disorders.
The researchers found that cocaine increases the susceptibility of mice to stress in a well-established model of depression and that decreased H3K9me2 in the nucleus accumbens, a major reward center in the brain, was a central mechanism linking cocaine with stress vulnerability. Importantly, knockout of an enzyme called G9a that controls H3K9me2 in the nucleus accumbens was sufficient to enhance an animal’s vulnerability to stress, while excess G9a in the same region blocked the ability of cocaine to increase stress susceptibility.
The researchers went on to show that this G9a-mediated resilience to stress was mediated, in part, through repression of the BDNF-TrkB-CREB signaling pathway. This is significant because BDNF-TrkB-CREB signaling is increased in the nucleus accumbens by exposure to stress or cocaine and promotes both depressive and addictive behaviors. “Together, our results provide fundamentally novel insight into how prior exposure to a drug of abuse enhances vulnerability to depression and other stress-related disorders,” concludes Dr. Nestler. “Identifying such common regulatory mechanisms may aid in the development of new therapies for addiction and depression.”
Herbert E. Covington, Ian Maze, HaoSheng Sun, Howard M. Bomze, Kristine D. DeMaio, Emma Y. Wu, David M. Dietz, Mary Kay Lobo, Subroto Ghose, Ezekiel Mouzon et al. A Role for Repressive Histone Methylation in Cocaine-Induced Vulnerability to Stress. Neuron, Volume 71, Issue 4, 656-670, 25 August 2011 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.007
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Crimes that use computer networks or devices to advance other ends include: Fraud and identity theft (although this increasingly uses malware, hacking and/or phishing, making it an example of both “computer as target” and “computer as tool” crime) Information warfare.
Cyber Crimes can be defined as: “Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm, or loss, to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet (networks including but not limited to Chat rooms, emails, notice boards and groups) and mobile phones (Bluetooth/SMS/MMS)”.
Cyber Crime may threaten a person or a nation’s security and financial health. Issues surrounding these types of crimes have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright infringement, unwarranted mass-surveillance, child pornography, and child grooming. There are also problems of privacy when confidential information is intercepted or disclosed, lawfully or otherwise.
Cyber Crime has emerged as a critical issue for all commercial organizations and for individuals. Modern forms of communication and data storage offer many advantages but also present challenges, exposing us to exploitation by those who seek to unlawfully acquire our data or access to the technology on which we all rely.
To meet these challenges and threats, we have put together a team of experienced Advocates. Our team has many years of expertise in handling crisis management issues around the theft and loss of data, privacy and harassment as well as dealing with fraud and other financial crime. We also deal with the issues raised by the inter-dependencies of commercial relationships where increasingly, questions such as who should bear the risk of Cyber Crime in the supply chain are being addressed.
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In a robust effort to enhance national digital safety, the Netherlands is amalgamating three key cybersecurity organizations—NCSC, CSIRT-DSP, and DTC—into a unified cyber organization by 2025, aiming to fortify the nation against cyber threats through streamlined threat reporting and a coordinated response strategy.
In a strategic move to bolster national digital safety, the Netherlands is integrating [3 OCT 2023] three pivotal cybersecurity organizations: the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), the Computer Security Incident Response Team for digital services (CSIRT-DSP), and the Digital Trust Center (DTC). These entities will converge into a single, unified national cyber organization by the end of 2025. The collaboration aims to streamline the reporting of threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring a more robust and coordinated response to cyber threats across the nation.
The triad of NCSC, CSIRT-DSP, and DTC will intensively collaborate to safeguard every organization in the Netherlands, spanning from public to private and small to large entities, against cyber threats. The ‘better view of the threat’ initiative is a cornerstone of the Dutch Cybersecurity Strategy, ensuring that all entities, whether victims or targets of cyber threats, are promptly warned and adequately informed. This cooperative approach aims to fortify the nation’s digital landscape against the ever-evolving spectrum of cyber threats.
A new one-stop shop for sharing information with the government is being established, housed at the NCSC, to prevent fragmentation in digital resilience efforts. Security researchers, ethical hackers, and both domestic and international partners can share information about cyber threats and incidents through this single point of contact. The NCSC will assess the quality of reports and activate the notification process across the three organizations, adhering to a transparent and unambiguous assessment framework, thereby ensuring that vital information reaches the necessary parties promptly and efficiently.
Moving forward, the three cyber organizations will also cooperate extensively in other areas, such as utilizing each other’s IT systems. Over the coming months, they will continue to develop an integrated, scalable, and robust warning service to support Dutch businesses in safeguarding their IT systems against cyber threats. The government, recognizing the imperative to keep organizations abreast of company-specific cyber threats, will proactively inform entities about potential threats, underscoring its commitment to national digital security. | https://dovthelachman.com/dutch-government-unifies-three-cybersecurity-entities-to-enhance-national-digital-safety/ |
While cybersecurity is a complex issue that requires a multifaceted approach, assessing your security posture serves as the foundation. Security testing can identify security flaws and weaknesses, help you develop more targeted security controls, and validate your existing measures.
NIST SP 800-53 recommends a comprehensive risk management program as part of a business’s due diligence for information security management. Control assessments are one critical aspect of this process. But unfortunately, there is no one-and-done solution to analyzing computer security risks. Each cybersecurity test explores a slightly different aspect of your posture. Depending on your needs and environment, your business should conduct at least some of the following assessments.
Trying to secure your environment without a clear idea of what’s going on is a lot like trying to paint your house blindfolded. You’re likely to focus too heavily on some areas while completely missing others. Plus, you might not adequately account for Windows.
Vulnerability assessment
Vulnerability assessments are probably the most common cybersecurity evaluation. Systematic automated testing searches for flaws in assets, which may include networks, applications, data, software, infrastructure, and more. Identified issues can then be categorized based on the level of risk, allowing you to prioritize remediation efforts.
Types of vulnerability assessments include network-based scans, wireless network scans, host-based scans, database scans, and application scans. Each is incredibly self-explanatory.
Cybersecurity audit
This security assessment provides a broad overview of your policies, procedures, and operations to identify potential weaknesses. While the details of the audit depend partially on your industry and organization, auditors may inspect system reports, interview staff, and test your systems. This essentially maps your posture, which you can use to find a path to a more secure environment.
Many compliance standards require regular audits, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOX.
Risk assessment
A risk assessment analyzes how a cyberattack might impact mission-critical IT assets. To do this, you must identify key business objectives and the assets necessary to meet them. Then, weigh the likelihood of each cyber risk, and determine its potential impact. Brainstorming for all the ways things could go wrong may not seem like a fun idea, but security teams can use this information to prioritize cybersecurity risk mitigation efforts. It may also be beneficial for preparing an incident response plan.
According to NIST SP 800-30, risk factors may include threats, vulnerabilities, predisposing conditions, likelihood, and impact.
Compromise assessment
This security test looks at activity, event, and network logs for signs of compromise within your environment. In 2022, companies took an average of 207 days to identify a breach. Even relevantly mundane problems, like slow internet speeds, can be a sign that threat actors have accessed your environment. A compromise assessment collects evidence to pinpoint these breaches so you can mitigate damage.
Some organizations conduct compromise assessments monthly or quarterly just in case. However, compromise assessments are particularly important if you’ve noticed signs of a breach or you’re considering a merger or acquisition and need insight into the target company’s posture.
Penetration testing
Penetration tests (also known as pen tests) manually exploit vulnerabilities through ethical hacking to simulate an attacker’s perspective. While a vulnerability assessment uses automated testing to search for exploitable weaknesses, pen testing takes a hands-on approach to illustrate how a threat actor could launch an attack.
Penetration testers may be certified ethical hackers, though certification isn’t essential.
Red team assessment
Sometimes classified as a type of penetration test, red team assessments take attack simulation a step further. A team of skilled professionals prepares for and launches a stealthy full-scale simulated attack that aims to move laterally and escalate privileges without detection. This requires significant time and resources. A red team assessment may target the business’s plans, policies, systems, and people to test the organization’s defensive capabilities.
Red team assessments are one of the most advanced methods of simulating a real-world threat, so they tend to be more expensive. Therefore, they’re usually employed by organizations with sophisticated security postures.
Bug bounty
A bug bounty offers bug hunters a financial reward for reporting exploitable vulnerabilities in public-facing systems, websites, or software. Bug bounty hunters are usually highly skilled professionals who specialize in uncovering flaws, so participating in a bug bounty program is kind of like having an expert team you only pay for results.
While bug bounties can be a convenient way to outsource work, bug hunters can’t test internal systems, and you can’t verify that they assessed the full scope of external assets. Therefore, bug bounties are best used in conjunction with other tests.
Social engineering testing
Social engineering testing assesses your users’ security awareness. Since 82% of breaches involve a human element, your team members may be your greatest cybersecurity strength or your inevitable downfall. Regular training can prepare staff to recognize social engineering attempts, such as phishing, spear phishing, whaling, vishing, and smishing. However, you won’t necessarily know if the training worked. Social engineering tests simulate common tactics to see how employees respond, thereby testing both their knowledge and the effectiveness of your training program.
The C-suite also frequently falls for social engineering attempts. A successful attack against one of your executives could be utterly devastating. While you may be tempted to exclude higher-ups from your testing, no one should be exempt. If a leader is susceptible to social engineering, it’s better to learn hard lessons now rather than after they’re forced to resign in disgrace.
Application security testing
Application security testing (AST) targets app development to determine weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the source code. It uses automated tools for more efficient scanning. Catching issues up front can save time and resources down the road.
AST tools may be categorized as static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), interactive application security testing (IAST), mobile application security testing (MAST), software composition analysis (SCA), or runtime application self-protection (RASP). Each uses a slightly different approach to detecting vulnerabilities.
While security testing is critical, not every business is equipped to perform assessments in house. You may need to hire a third-party information security analyst. Paying for an assessment can seem like a big investment, but it’s a lot more affordable than dealing with the aftermath of a successful attack.
You can use the results of your cybersecurity testing to continuously improve your posture. In addition, consider leveraging threat intelligence to understand emerging threats that may target your business. Cyber insurance can also add an extra layer of protection to your security operations.
One of the best ways to prevent security issues is updating software regularly. Developers release patches to address vulnerabilities. If you don’t apply those patches, you’re opening yourself up to a world of hurt you could have easily prevented. Plus, the right tools make it remarkably easy. You look like a cybersecurity superhero without putting in tons of work.
PDQ Deploy and Inventory work together for next-level patch and inventory management. Update machines and maintain visibility with just a few clicks. The PDQ blog and YouTube channel are also jam packed with information to help you stay at the top of your cybersecurity game. | https://www.pdq.com/blog/cybersecurity-tests-for-your-environment/ |
“In general the TSA and the DHS consider any infrastructure as 'critical' when it can impact the health and safety of large numbers of American Citizens.
“The new directive signifies that the federal government recognises self-regulation can only provide so much protection to these infrastructures and that it can vary wildly.
“There are many existing standards and regulation set forth that include financial sanctions and I have no doubt that the directive from the TSA will be no different.
“Keep in mind that defence is harder than offence. When any company tries to protect information assets, they have to defend against ALL attacks and vulnerabilities; the adversary must successfully exploit but one.
“It's not surprising that the attack on 23 US natural gas pipeline operators happened, nor is it surprising that this is the first we're hearing of the incidents. If an organisation is not compelled to disclose an incident, then they will choose not to.
“Spear phishing and social engineering remain successful techniques on oil and gas as well as every other sector because they prey on the most vulnerable part of the technology stack – we humans that use that technology – or the “chair-keyboard interface,” as I like to call it. The best firewalls, anti-virus, patch management, and vulnerability assessment programs in the world won’t stop a bad guy if you invite them in.
“The tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used in these incidents were sophisticated because some of them involved malicious software that would have been advanced at the time, and infrastructures to support the phishing campaigns and command and control (C2) systems that allowed for unauthorised access once the victim had been compromised. Even back then, technical controls already existed to prevent phishing emails from having been received and to have prevented malicious software from executing properly. The widely success of the attacks suggests those controls were not implemented at all, not implemented properly, or were defeated by criminals.
“What's missing from the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory released by the FBI and the DHS, and likely out-of-scope for such a publication, is HOW companies should implement the mitigations.
“Asset management is another mitigation that the advisory misses. Asset inventory is mentioned several times in the mitigations section, but it's a bit buried. Let’s be clear – before an organisation does ANYTHING, they should take on asset management/inventory first. You cannot protect what you cannot see, and none of the recommendations will begin to approach 100% efficacy if there are blind spots within the network.”
Read the annual Extreme issue of World Pipelines magazine for insight into cutting edge pipeline technology and projects. | https://www.worldpipelines.com/equipment-and-safety/26072021/damon-small-ncc-group-reacts-to-us-cybersecurity-developments/ |
This week I’m speaking at Sapphire’s excellent NISC8 Conference in St. Andrews on “The Art of Business Continuity Management”. It’s a subject close to my heart as I’ve been an active practitioner for the last two decades. I’ve also seen it change enormously. It used to be called Disaster Recovery Planning until business managers hijacked the subject. I recall that happening at the start of the nineties. Visiting an overseas Shell operating company, I explained to their Managing Director the importance of continuity planning for IT services. He told me to forget IT and focus on the oil and gas evacuation process. It was a much higher priority for him. So for the next ten years I had the pleasure of exploring the fascinating world of oil wells, pipelines and tankers.
I thought it was pretty challenging in those days to coordinate a single management response across a complex value chain in a large organization. But things are even tougher today. Everything is becoming virtualized. Global supply chains, storage area networks, grid computing, web services and extended-enterprise working have transformed the business operating environment. You can’t draw a line around processes any more. And they’re highly volatile. As much as you try to nail them down, they keep changing.
So what’s the bst approach to modern Business Continuity Management? In my view the answer is simple, though far from straightforward. The trick is to apply the same transformation to the solution that we’re experiencing in the problem space. We need to virtualize the management process, building virtual response team structures, virtual crisis rooms and flexible response processes. | https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/David-Laceys-IT-Security-Blog/How-Business-Continuity-is-Changing |
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