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A new study from HP has highlighted the precarious — and often contentious — situations IT teams are facing when trying to improve cybersecurity for remote workers.
The new Rebellions & Rejections report from HP Wolf Security surveyed 1100 IT decision-makers and also gleaned insights from a YouGov online survey of 8443 office workers who now work from home.
The study found that IT workers often feel like they have no choice but to compromise cybersecurity in order to appease workers who complain about how certain measures slow down business processes. Some remote workers — particularly those aged 24 and younger — outright reject cybersecurity measures they believe “get in the way” of their deadlines.
More than 75% of IT teams said cybersecurity took a “backseat to business continuity during the pandemic,” and 91% reported feeling pressured into compromising security for business practices.
Nearly half of all office workers under the age of 24 said cybersecurity tools were “a hindrance”, and 31% admitted to outright bypassing certain corporate security policies to get work done.
Unfortunately, almost half of the office workers of all ages believe cybersecurity measures waste their time, and the figure increases to 64% among those under the age of 24. The survey found that 54% of 18-24-year-olds cared more about their deadlines than causing a data breach.
Researchers found that 39% of respondents did not fully know what their organization’s security policies are, causing 83% of all IT workers surveyed to call remote work a “ticking time bomb” for data breaches.
Ian Pratt, global head of security for personal systems at HP, said the fact that workers are actively circumventing security should be a worry for any CISO.
“This is how breaches can be born,” Pratt said.
“If security is too cumbersome and weighs people down, then people will find a way around it. Instead, security should fit as much as possible into existing working patterns and flows with unobtrusive, secure-by-design and user-intuitive technology. Ultimately, we need to make it as easy to work securely as it is to work insecurely, and we can do this by building security into systems from the ground up.”
IT leaders have had to take certain measures to deal with recalcitrant remote workers, including updating security policies and restricting access to certain websites and applications.
But these practices are causing resentment among workers, 37% of whom say the policies are “often too restrictive.” The survey of IT leaders found that 90% have received pushback because of security controls, and 67% said they get weekly complaints about it.
More than 80% of IT workers said, “trying to set and enforce corporate policies around cybersecurity is impossible now that the lines between personal and professional lives are so blurred”, and the same number of respondents said security had become a “thankless task.”
Nearly 70% said they were viewed as “the bad guys” because of the restrictions they impose to protect workers.
“CISOs are dealing with increasing volume, velocity and severity of attacks. Their teams are having to work around the clock to keep the business safe while facilitating mass digital transformation with reduced visibility,” said Joanna Burkey, HP’s CISO. “Cybersecurity teams should no longer be burdened with the weight of securing the business solely on their shoulders; cybersecurity is an end-to-end discipline in which everyone needs to engage.”
Burkey added that IT teams need to engage and educate employees on the growing cybersecurity risks while understanding how security impacts workflows and productivity.
Cybersecurity experts like YouAttest CEO Garret Grajek said every new access method, user pool and technology adds attack vectors and vulnerabilities for hackers.
“We just saw that even the best WFH plans might be vulnerable w/ over 500k of Fortinet VPN users being exposed,” Grajek noted. “As with the other attack vectors, enterprises have to assume they will be breached and then ensure that rogue users access and actions are mitigated or limited.” | https://rootdaemon.com/2021/09/10/it-leaders-facing-backlash-from-remote-workers-over-cybersecurity-measures-hp-study/ |
CIOs have a tough enough job as it is. But when their recommendations to better secure the organization following a massive cyberattack are shot down, that job becomes even tougher. That is the situation that has played out with The National Health Service (NHS) of the UK. NHS Digital claims that investing in the cybersecurity recommendations would be too expensive, according to Computing.
The NHS, as you might recall, was hit hard in 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware attack. In response, the government commissioned a review to analyze what happened. That review, conducted by NHS Chief Information Officer (CIO) Will Smart, estimated that the overall cost of the attack came to about £92 million. Of that, an estimated £20 million was spent dealing with the five-day attack. And according to The Daily Mail, an additional £72 million was spent on IT support in June and July to recover from the virus.
To ensure better security moving forward, the report recommended a system-wide IT security upgrade for all NHS trusts, which would require meeting a standard called Cyber Essentials Plus. The recommendations were endorsed by The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Meeting that requirement carries an estimated cost of between £800 million and £1 billion.
According to Computing, the recommendations are a no-go. “NHS Digital has opposed adoption of the recommendations on the grounds that they would not ‘be value for money’.”
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SINGAPORE The WannaCry malware that spread to more than 100 countries in a few hours is throwing up several surprises for cybersecurity researchers, including how it gained its initial foothold, how it spread so fast and why the hackers are not making much money from it. Some researchers have found evidence they say could link North Korea with the attack, but others are more cautious, saying that the first step is shedding light on even the most basic questions about the malware itself. For one thing, said IBM Security's Caleb Barlow, researchers are still unsure exactly how the malware spread in the first place. Most cybersecurity companies have blamed phishing e-mails - e-mails containing malicious attachments or links to files - that download the ransomware. That's how most ransomware finds its way onto victims' computers. The problem in the WannaCry case is that despite digging through the company's database of more than 1 billion e-mails dating back to March 1, Barlow's team could find none linked to the attack. "Once one victim inside a network is infected it propagates," Boston-based Barlow said in a phone interview, describing a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allows the worm to move from one computer to another. The NSA used the Microsoft flaw to build a hacking tool codenamed EternalBlue that ended up in the hands of a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers, which then published that and other such tools online. But the puzzle is how the first person in each network was infected with the worm. "It's statistically very unusual that we'd scan and find no indicators," Barlow said. Other researchers agree. "Right now there is no clear indication of the first compromise for WannaCry," said Budiman Tsjin of RSA Security, a part of Dell.
Knowing how malware infects and spreads is key to being able to stop existing attacks and anticipate new ones. "How the hell did this get on there, and could this be repeatedly used again?" said Barlow. PALTRY RANSOM
Some cybersecurity companies, however, say they've found a few samples of the phishing e-mails. FireEye said it was aware customers had used its reports to successfully identify some associated with the attack. But the company agrees that the malware relied less on phishing e-mails than other attacks. Once a certain number of infections was established, it was able to use the Microsoft vulnerability to propagate without their help. There are other surprises, that suggest this is not an ordinary ransomware attack.
Only paltry sums were collected by the hackers, according to available evidence, mostly in the bitcoin cryptocurrency. There were only three bitcoin wallets and the campaign has far earned only $50,000 or so, despite the widespread infections. Barlow said that single payments in some other ransomware cases were more than that, depending on the victim. Jonathan Levin of Chainalysis, which monitors bitcoin payments, said there were other differences compared to most ransomware campaigns: for instance the lack of sophisticated methods used in previous cases to convince victims to pay up. In the past, this has included hot lines in various languages. And so far, Levin said, the bitcoin that had been paid into the attackers' wallets remained there - compared to another campaign, known as Locky, which made $15 million while regularly emptying the bitcoin wallets.
"They really aren't set up well to handle their bitcoin payments," Levin said. The lack of sophistication may bolster those cybersecurity researchers who say they have found evidence that could link North Korea to the attack. A senior researcher from South Korea's Hauri Labs, Simon Choi, said on Tuesday the reclusive state had been developing and testing ransomware programs only since August. In one case, the hackers demanded bitcoin in exchange for client information they had stolen from a South Korean shopping mall. Choi, who has done extensive research into North Korea's hacking capabilities, said his findings matched those of Symantec and Kaspersky Lab, who say some code in an earlier version of the WannaCry software had also appeared in programs used by the Lazarus Group, identified by some researchers as a North Korea-run hacking operation. The Lazarus hackers have however been more brazen in their pursuit of financial gain than others, and have been blamed for the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, according to some cybersecurity firms. The United States accused it of being behind a cyber attack on Sony Pictures in 2014.Whoever is found to be behind the attack, said Marin Ivezic, a cybersecurity partner at PwC in Hong Kong, the way the hackers used freely available tools so effectively may be what makes this campaign more worrying. By bundling a tool farmed from the leaked NSA files with their own ransomware, "they achieved better distribution than anything they could have achieved in a traditional way" he said. "EternalBlue (the hacking tool) has now demonstrated the ROI (return on investment) of the right sort of worm and this will become the focus of research for cybercriminals," Ivezic said. (Additional reporting Ju-Min Park in Seoul, Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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In such a system, it becomes far more important that you stall legislation than it does to consider the public interest.
Such a situation should be anathema to anything that calls itself a democracy.
I would eat my lawn trimmings if the Senate came up with an alternate CISPA act that had anything, anything at all to do with improving systems security or even national security.
What they say they need, the ability to share detailed technical information to improve general systems security, is already legal. Moreover technical discussions don't require offering personal information wholesale to the government and every other participating corporate entity (at retail).
These guys can barely agree on the proper way to exit a paper bag, let alone how to stiff a bunch of corporations for millions of dollars.
Actually I think his theory is reasonable. There are quite a few politicians who have figured out that the best approach to stay in office while not pissing anyone off is not to pass anything.
'Cybersecurity' in government-speak, where 1950's technology is used but looked upon with suspicion, refers to obtaining and selling personal information without restriction or accountability.
That's what companies like Google and Facebook want: obtaining and selling personal information without restriction or accountability. They're the ones who have the biggest vested interest in keeping privacy laws in their favor rather than in citizens' favor.
Over and over again I read about companies proudly saying how they can cross-reference everything about everyone. They gleefully tell marketers and investors that they know all the details of our lives.
Most of the commercialization of the Internet at this point is about eliminating privacy. So how can CISPA protect what isn't there to begin with?
But such collusion would require the house to pass laws knowing that the senate would deny them, and vice-versa.
I just don't see this type of knowing-agreement happening between these two groups... wouldn't it piss off constituents that either group passed a law they disagreed with? Right this moment, for example, I'm pretty annoyed at my rep for voting for CISPA. I'm also pretty pissed at my senator for other things that she has attempted to pass.
Thus, at the moment, I'm pissed at both for their support of different things... my senator moreso (and I've been voting against her re-election all my adult life)
And what, exactly, does it say about a government when it has come to the point where the most beneficial thing it can do for its populace is nothing at all.
I'd love to see massive changes in campaign finance and corporate lobbying, but when Congress itself determines those issues, it's hard to get the changes made. Maybe if enough voters demand the changes, something will happen. Of course, if states find ways restrict who can vote, that limits change, too. | https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/04120622845/as-expected-senate-has-no-interest-cispa-planning-its-own-cybersecurity-bill-instead.shtml?op=sharethis |
Whether you’re attending ISC West 2017 on your own or with your integrator, or if you’re observing the new security technology arrive from afar, there are many new solutions on the horizon for video surveillance, access management, mobile credentials and much more. We’ve combed through the new security solutions to be announced or showcases this year at ISC West, and we’re presenting a selection of the best and most intriguing here.
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As stated above, information security awareness is educating the campus community about the inherent risks of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of systems & data, and how we can protect these systems & data.
End users are the largest audience in any organization and are the single most important element to reduce unintentional errors and IT vulnerabilities. The following (Table 1 below) is a list of specific guidelines (topics) that will define terms and concepts to help you, as a member of the College, to do your part in keeping our systems & data secure.
From the table below (Table 1), click the appropriate image/link to select the method you would like to use to learn more about these information security awareness guidelines. | http://www.cincinnatistate.edu/on-campus/technology/technology-on-campus-1/information-security |
A cybercrime group operating since mid-2019 has breached the email accounts of high-ranking executives at more than 150 companies, cyber-security firm Group-IB reported today.
The group, codenamed PerSwaysion, appears to have targeted the financial sector primarily, which accounted for more than half of its victims; although, victims have been recorded at companies active across other verticals as well.
PerSwaysion operations were not sophisticated, but have been extremely successful, nonetheless. Group-IB says the hackers didn’t use vulnerabilities or malware in their attacks but instead relied on a classic spear-phishing technique.
They sent boobytrapped emails to executives at targeted companies in the hope of tricking high-ranking executives into entering Office 365 credentials on fake login pages.
Group-IB said PerSwaysion’s entire scheme could be narrowed down to a simple three-step process:
Victims receive an email containing a clean PDF file as an email attachment. If victims open the file, they’d be asked to click a link to view the actual content.
The link would redirect users to a Microsoft Sway (newsletter service) page, where a similar file would ask the victim to click on another link.
PerSwaysion operators acted fast from the moment of a successful phish and usually accessed hacked email accounts within a day.
“After the credentials are sent to their [command and control servers], the PerSwaysion operators log into the compromised email accounts. They dump email data via API and establish the owner’s high-level business connections,” Group-IB said.
“Finally, they generate new phishing PDF files with current victim’s full name, email address, company legal name. These PDF files are sent to a selection of new people who tend to be outside of the victim’s organization and hold significant positions.”
Group-IB said that once PerSwaysion operators sent out a new spear-phishing campaign from a compromised account, they also typically deleted impersonating emails from the outbox folder to avoid detection.
For the time being, Group-IB has been unable to determine what hackers have been doing after gaining access to these email accounts.
Hackers could be selling access to other cybercrime groups; they could be sitting, wating, and stealing intellectual property; or they could be preparing to launch a wire payment hijack (BEC scam) at a later date.
Group-IB said that based on current evidence, the PerSwaysion group appears to be formed of members based in Nigeria and South Africa, are using a phishing toolkit developed by a Vietnamese programmer, and the group’s leader appears to be a suspect going by the name of “Sam.”
The cyber-security firm launched today a website where executives can check if their email addresses have been acquired and targeted by the group in the past.
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Microsoft released software security patches Tuesday, fixing some nasty browser and mail server flaws as well as a bug in SQL Server that was publicly disclosed in December.
The company released four updates, including critical fixes for Exchange and Internet Explorer. Two other updates, for SQL Server and Visio, were rated “important,” meaning it would be a little harder for hackers to exploit the bugs they fix.
The Exchange patch is considered the most important, according to security vendor TippingPoint. Without the patch, hackers could shut down or possibly even take control of an Exchange e-mail server by sending a specially written e-mail attachment. “A compromised e-mail server, in addition to snooping corporate secrets, can be used as a launch pad for attacks against other servers in the enterprise,” TippingPoint said in a statement.
The critical update for Internet Explorer fixes two vulnerabilities in the browser that could be exploited by hackers to run unauthorized software on a victim’s computer. For this attack to work, the victim would have to be tricked into visiting a maliciously crafted Web page. Although no attacks have yet been reported exploiting these bugs, Microsoft believes that now that the patches are out, it will be easy for attackers to work up a reliable attack.
The SQL Server patch had been expected. It fixes a bug in the database software that Microsoft acknowledged late last year. According to the researcher who disclosed the SQL issue, Microsoft has known about it since April and wrote its initial patch for the bug back in September.
In all, the updates released this month are “much more critical” than January’s patches, TippingPoint said. Last month, Microsoft released just one update, for its Windows Server Message Block file and print service.
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This bulletin summarizes information disseminated in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-115, Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which was written by Karen Scarfone and Murugiah Souppaya of NIST, and by Amanda Cody and Angela Orebaugh of Booz Allen Hamilton. The new guide discusses the basic technical aspects of conducting information security assessments, and presents technical testing and examination methods that an organization might use as part of an assessment. See full abstract
The bulletin summarizes the information in the guide to help organizations apply the technical testing and examination methods, and covers methodologies and techniques for information security assessments, phases for planning, conducting and evaluating assessments, techniques for testing and assessment, and organizational approaches to testing. The bulletin also includes NIST s recommendations to organizations for planning and implementing information security assessment activities. | https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/itl-bulletin/2008/12/guide-to-information-security-testing-and-assessment/final |
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U.S. lawmakers will grill current and former executives from Equifax and Yahoo at a hearing today focused on security breaches at their companies that have affected billions of internet users.
With Equifax, the focus is a 2017 incident that affected 145 million Americans’ personal information — including home addresses and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers and credit card data. Representing the company are Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr, its interim chief executive, and Richard Smith, who led Equifax at the time of the intrusion.
For Yahoo, lawmakers are probing a 2013 breach, which the company reported in December of 2016 as it proceeded with its plans to merge with Verizon. Initially, Yahoo estimated that a billion users had been affected, but in October 2017, it acknowledged that hackers actually compromised three billion accounts.
To that end, Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, is set to testify today. She initially resisted appearing before the committee, leading lawmakers to subpoena her. She’s slated to be joined by Karen Zacharia, the deputy general counsel and chief privacy officer at Verizon.
The hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee begins at 10 am ET/7 am PT, and you can stream it here.
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Today’s corporate environment has such a variety of endpoints, like laptops, tablets, and smartphones, that security can become a nightmare. And with more remote workers than ever before, it’s becoming difficult for IT administrators to manage passwords, application settings, and access to networks.
VDI, or virtual desktop infrastructure, can make your desktops more secure. Since all data is stored in the data center instead of on end-users individual workstations, you have more control over data loss and compromise. Just think about how many times you hear about someone’s laptop being stolen out of the backseat of their car to understand how secure a VDI can be.
Another security benefit is how back-end servers provide another layer of security between a user’s desktop and potential hackers. With the proliferation of malware, desktop security can be an arduous task. But with VDI, your data and applications are secured on the servers in the data center, meaning IT administrators can instantly create and delete virtual desktops in case of a security breach.
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Have you felt more secure from cyberattacks because you have a smaller business? Maybe you thought that you couldn’t possibly have anything that a hacker could want? Didn’t think they even knew about your small business.
Well, a new report by cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks debunks this myth. Their report analyzed millions of emails across thousands of organizations. It found that small companies have a lot to worry about when it comes to their IT security.
Barracuda Networks found something alarming. Employees at small companies saw 350% more social engineering attacks than those at larger ones. It defines a small company as one with less than 100 employees. This puts small businesses at a higher risk of falling victim to a cyberattack. We’ll explore why below.
When you’re running a small business, it’s often a juggling act of where to prioritize your cash. You may know cybersecurity is important, but it may not be at the top of your list. So, at the end of the month, cash runs out, and it’s moved to the “next month” wish list of expenditures.
Small business leaders often don’t spend as much as they should on their IT security. They may buy an antivirus program and think that’s enough to cover them. But with the expansion of technology to the cloud, that’s just one small layer. You need several more for adequate security.
Hackers know all this and see small businesses as an easier target. They can do much less work to get a payout than they would, trying to hack into an enterprise corporation.
If a hacker can breach the network of a small business, they can often make a larger score. Many smaller companies provide services to larger companies. This can include digital marketing, website management, accounting, and more.
Vendors are often digitally connected to certain client systems. This type of relationship can enable a multi-company breach. While hackers don’t need that connection to hack you, it is a nice bonus. They can get two companies for the work of one.
Small Business Owners Are Often Unprepared for Ransomware
Ransomware has been one of the fastest-growing cyberattacks of the last decade. So far in 2022, over 71% of surveyed organizations experienced ransomware attacks.
The percentage of victims that pay the ransom to attackers has also been increasing. Now, an average of 63% of companies pay the attacker money in hopes of getting a key to decrypt the ransomware.
Even if a hacker can’t get as much ransom from a small business as they can from a larger organization, it’s worth it. They often can breach more small companies than they can larger ones.
When companies pay the ransom, it feeds the beast and more cyber criminals join in. And those newer to ransomware attacks will often go after smaller, easier-to-breach companies.
Employees at Smaller Companies Usually Aren’t Trained in Cybersecurity
Another thing is not usually high on the list of priorities for a small business owner. We’re talking about ongoing employee cybersecurity training. They may be doing all they can just to keep good staff. Plus, priorities are often sales and operations.
Training employees on how to spot phishing and password best practices often isn’t done. This leaves networks vulnerable to one of the biggest dangers, human error.
In most cyberattacks, the hacker needs help from a user. It’s like the vampire needing the unsuspecting victim to invite them inside. Phishing emails are the device used to get that unsuspecting cooperation.
Phishing causes over 80% of data breaches.
A phishing email sitting in an inbox can’t usually do anything. It needs the user to either open a file attachment or click a link that will take them to a malicious site. This then launches the attack.
Teaching employees how to spot these ploys can significantly increase your cybersecurity. Security awareness training is as important as having a strong firewall or antivirus. | https://www.intechgroup.co.uk/cybersecurity/small-businesses-are-attacked-by-hackers-3x-more-than-larger-ones/ |
And you thought fingerprints were intrusive.
The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist attacks, child abductions or other crimes. The images would then quickly be matched with potential suspects using a database of previously scanned skeletons.
Because every country has a database of terrorist skeletons just waiting to be used.
That is why it is so important that we collect skeleton-scans of all Good Citizens(tm) right away.
I see no problem with this. If you're not doing something wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. The fact that your skeletal image will be stored in a DB should not bother you, it does not define you as a person, it's just part of who you are. For those that have a problem with this; why aren't you on a holy crusade against traffic light cameras, speed cameras, toll plaza cameras, security cameras, john q public taking tourist pictures etc...that happen to capture you in them?
We are in a state of almost constant surveillance of one type or another, I don't see how one can argue successfully that skeletal databases would be a breach of personal privacy when people subscribe to voluntary breaches all the time.
You do it every day when you access a website, when you sign up for a new service and when you send email.
Hmm the claim of "impossible to change is not that valid.
We are changing the length and other properties of bone by surgery all the time these days for cosmetic and other reasons.
My jaw line got altered without my permission ten years ago when my head was karate kicked into a street sign post one morning on the way to work. For a short while I had a left and a right jaw bone not connected in the middle (@BF Skinner no that does not mean I look like a snake 8). The process of rejoining them was problematical and after what felt like an endless round of surgery I had a distinctly different bite and I get an anoying pain when the barometer changes or I fly in an aircraft. Also some of the bones in my sinus areas got likewise changed (giving rise to sleep problems).
@Daniel Wood "I see no problem with this. That's a ridiculous argument. We need less intrusion, not more. The fact there is already to much of it going on, does not justify piling it on further. This isn't about having anything to hide, it's about the right to basic human dignity, and not being treated as a suspect everywhere you go.
* There is no database of skeletons of known terrorists available.
* There is no database of skeletons of currently unknown terrorists available for obivious reasons.
* Scanning your skeleton is only possible with radiation that is strong enough to "reach" your bones.
* "a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight", which means they are talking about ionizing radiation that can damage body cells and thus might lead to cancer.
This is not "just data". This is not "just a privacy issue". This is potential bodily injury.
I cann't tell if you are being sarcastic or complacent...
Each time I read about one of these latest greatest "Bio scans" I'm reminded of a scene in the Futurama episode "A Fish Full of Dollars" where Fry takes his ATM card to the "Big Apple Bank" when he presents it the girl behind the counter says "Mr Fry we do not appear to have your retinal or rectal scan on file"...
You just know that there are two types of people that come up with these "eye watering" ideas those who are on a Tax Money grab and those whose sanity is at best somewhat in doubt.
Privacy be damned, scanning skeletons takes time, man! The math doesn't work ... scan each person's skeleton, and compare the image to a database of (potentially) millions of skeletons? Yeah, THAT won't delay anybody at all.
But yeah, I'll surrender all my privacy since it's already gone.
@A Nonny Bunny: "That's a ridiculous argument. Would you allow the government to put surveillance cameras in your shower, bathroom, bedroom? After all, you're not doing anything wrong there, do you?"
Now who is being ridiculous? When you are in your own private domicile, then it becomes an invasion of privacy.
@alfora: Do you use a cell phone? Do you use wifi? Watch satellite tv, eat microwaved food; ad nasuem.
On the other hand, I agree that this can cause undue bodily injury down the road, but as I just mentioned above, so do all the other things (potentially).
This is where RESEARCH is key, proper research before implementation is warranted for technologies such as this. I have no desire to cook myself more than any of you do.
@ Clive Robinson: How is my comment being complacent? I'll leave that to you and a dictionary to work out. As a relative "newbie" to the security field, I am far from complacent - it's pretty much the opposite.
@ D Brant: No, it wasn't a troll. I do have objections with the act of this, but not with the technology. Perhaps I should have made myself more clear when I said "I have no problems with this"; it was in reference to the research - research paves the way to better and greater things (mostly).
@ Daniel Wood - cellphones use has not been shown to cause anything - on the other hand, nobody with a modicum of knowledge disputes the fact that X-ray do damage DNA, and induce cancers of various types.
It's all good for the research part, OK, but planning to put these scanners in libraries and malls is criminal.
Marshall Eubanks • August 24, 2010 8:39 AM
This article reads like a parody. Some guy is (supposedly) worried about sex offenders in the neighborhood - I know, let's X Ray everyone everyday ! That will surely keep people safe, until they all die of cancer.
Seriously, are these guys stuck in the 1950's ? Penetrating radiation for bone scans ? On a daily basis ? I can remember when children's shoe stores had X ray machines, so Mom could view how the shoe fit, but such common uses of X Rays were stopped for a reason, and as a screening device this has no chance.
From the article : Depending on the selected technology, a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight
From the World Health Organization, INFORMATION SHEET Nov. 2005, on Cosmic Radiation and Air Travel : Aircrew are now recognized in many countries as occupationally exposed to radiation, and radiation protection limits for aircrew are similar to those established for nuclear workers.
If you work through the numbers (and I read the above to mean that, at best, radiation exposure would be similar to air travel, so this is a lower bound), a daily scan would thus amount to 2 to 5 milliSievert (mSv) of radiation each year, substantially exceeding the ICRP guideline of no more than 1 mSv exposure to any fetus during pregnancy, and coming close to or exceeding the guideline of 4 mSv exposure for ordinary workers.
This would, at a minimum, mean that anyone at risk of pregnancy should not be scanned, and radiation workers should not be scanned (as they are typically close to their limits). There is thus just no chance that this would be adopted for regular screening of the general population
Note: DEXA equipment is very expensive.
U. MD researchers proposed a gait-matching identification last year. This would be a MUCH BETTER approach than skeleton imaging, since aerial drones and satellites can capture the gait of people in their training camps and gathering places.
I think sarcastic or naive (not complacent) would have been a better go at it. I come from a criminal justice background and understand the right to privacy and why everyone is so adamant that the government stays out of their lives; however I also honestly do feel that if you have nothing to hide - what's the big deal? I will gladly allow and do so on a regular basis airport screeners to rifle through my belongings. I'm not bringing a bomb, a weapon, or drugs on a plane so I have nothing to hide. I would sacrifice whatever it is you want to call said action above of freedom; for freedom to live - if we don't screen passengers I can guarantee you there would be countless hijackings and bombings starting tomorrow. Who cares if they see my underwear and toothbrush? I would like to brush my teeth tomorrow.
To get back on track, I don't think I was being overly sarcastic with what I said as I do believe in what I said and it wasn't meant to foster the feeling of sarcasm nor "complacency". My comment was meant to express my opinion, perhaps it could have been articulated in a better way.
But I won't apologize for my opinion - whether you're on the far left or not, it doesn't matter.
"Wright State researchers are currently working on identifying key elements and measurements of the skeleton that differentiate one person from another."
Translation: We wish we had a clue how skeleton matching might be accomplished. Please continue to support our modest but adequate lifestyle why we pretend to figure it out.
Subtext: With our powerful X-ray technology, we have discovered that most grant agencies are governed by boneheads.
@Daniel Wood "You can't have an invasion of privacy when you are in public."
While your argument is in general true...it's not entirely true. Warrentless audio taps on a glass phone booth was held inadmissable since the perp had "a reasonable expectation of privacy" not from visible but audio survellience. He demonstrated his expectation of privacy by using the phone booth and closing the door. I believe garbage in cans at the curb is considered the same way. It's not public until it's co-mingled with all the neighbors trash.
The FBI has just been told that dropping GPS tracking sensors on cars is a violation of the US Constitution.
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It is a much more granular entry. Before if it was triggered we'd simply have to disable the entire module.
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The internet is connecting to a growing number of devices and systems around the world. This has pushed the system to network security. Cyber-attackers and black-hat hackers are able to penetrate the system for a greater risk of cyber-theft in the US, and vulnerabilities are greater than ever before, thereby calling for vulnerability management.
The software and systems operating on them are thus, susceptible to cyber-attacks. The identification, assessment of, treatment and reporting of cybersecurity threats is known as vulnerability management. Vulnerability scanning is crucial for companies to limit the chance of cyber attacks.
The vulnerability management 2022 procedure should be conducted regularly to keep up-to-date on vulnerabilities in the system and to ensure that all information about the system is secure and safe. It is possible to make this easier with the help of the rogue logics SOC team.
3. Treatment of System/Software Vulnerabilities
Once the most vulnerable areas have been identified, they require to be treated properly to eliminate the possibility for attack. Treatment is available in three methods.
Completely fixing the vulnerability.
Reduces the chance of attack in the most exposed areas, but it is not a complete eliminate it.
Not taking any steps to fix the areas that are vulnerable to systems as the risk is low.
4. Reporting of System/Software Vulnerabilities
The process of reporting on the method of vulnerability management is vital. It records the procedure used to fix the weaknesses. This document can be useful as a reference point and can help reduce the time required for further vulnerabilities to be addressed in the system.
In keeping a complete report, the burden on employees is also reduced because they are aware of their particular duties and are able to act upon the information in a timely manner.
The use of the best tool can make the process easier. It assists in eliminating the threats of the future and current that are posed by malware.
A comprehensive vulnerability scanner can be a significant method of reducing risk however, it is not the complete story. It’s a way to check for flaws in your system typically by using specific search tools. The search should be able to identify existing weaknesses.
In addition to scanning for vulnerabilities, you may also perform penetration testing. Penetration tests give you an overall analysis of any potential issues.
Review the results
Reporting and the remediation process is a follow-up to an assessment of vulnerability. The report assignment assists the project administrators determine the security level of the system, as well as areas where it’s still insecure and gives this information to the person who is in charge.
The report is often a way to provide managers with something concrete so that they can connect it to the future direction of the business. The reporting process usually occurs prior to remediation to ensure that the knowledge gained through managing vulnerability can be transferred seamlessly to the point of reporting.
This strategy should become a habit.
The strategies to manage vulnerabilities must adapt to the latest techniques employed by hackers in order to ensure long-term security. Programming configuration is one of the benefits of using most efficient scanning tools as well as special services that are able to understand how to effectively run a software for managing vulnerabilities.
A proper vulnerability management strategy can ensure that your data remains secure in the current world of competition in which even large corporations are at risk of cyber-attacks. This article explains how to set up an effective vulnerability management system by using penetration testing and tools for vulnerability assessment. Many organizations don’t have the time or resources to handle this alone, so it is advised to collaborate with rogue logics, who in addition to providing security assessments, they also offer reports, managed service all hours of the day, 24/7, and remediation and guidelines and remediation for vulnerabilities that have been identified. ROGUELOGICS’ services like Assessments and management of vulnerabilities bundles all of these elements into one package to provide an extensive vulnerability management plan and the ability to mitigate risk on a continual basis for your application.
It also discusses the various dimensions needed to ensure that the process is efficient and seamless. By following these guidelines, you’ll be able to protect your business and climb to the top of business.
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SAP’s second-quarter revenues grew 14 percent, driven by strong software sales in all regions, the company reported Tuesday.
Based on IFRS (international financial reporting standards), revenues for the quarter ended June 30 were €3.3 billion (US$4.78 billion according to the exchange rate on the last day of the quarter).
Software revenue jumped 26 percent to €802 million ($1.16 billion), while software and software-related service revenue was €2.58 billion ($3.74 billion), a rise of 14 percent.
Profit after taxes for the quarter was €588 million ($853 million), a 20 percent jump. That outcome compared favorably to the first quarter, when after-tax profits rose 4 percent.
Earlier Tuesday, SAP updated its full-year financial guidance, saying that non-IFRS operating profits for fiscal 2011 will come in at the high end of the previously estimated range of €4.45 billion (US$6.45 billion) to €4.65 billion ($6.74 billion).
Overall, customers are responding to SAP’s “magic” four-pillar strategy that involves its core business software plus mobility, advanced analytics and SaaS (software as a service), co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said during a conference call Tuesday.
“Our innovation strategy is winning. We focused on innovation at the right time in the market,” Snabe said, alluding in part to SAP’s acquisition last year of Sybase, through which it gained an array of mobile software technologies. “Our customers are voting with their investments in these areas.”
However, Snabe conceded that while SAP’s newer initiatives have attracted the interest of customers, they aren’t necessarily making a major impact on SAP’s bottom line just yet.
Business ByDesign, its SaaS suite for smaller companies, now has 550 customers and is on track to meet a goal of 1,000 by year’s end, Snabe said. But ByDesign will not add to profits this year, according to Snabe. “It’s a long-term investment we’re making to redefine the on-demand market.”
Snabe did not give precise sales figures for the Sybase Unwired mobile platform or its HANA (high performance analytic appliance) in-memory computing engine, instead referring to a combined “pipeline” of leads that is valued at more than €400 million ($580 million).
Those products are in turn helping drive sales of SAP’s core Business Suite, since they work in conjunction with data stored there, Snabe said.
There are now some 3,000 prospects in SAP’s pipeline for mobility products, according to Snabe.
Overall, SAP’s results reflect ongoing market trends, according to one observer.
“We’re seeing more and more users finally upgrade to the ERP 6.0 product and moving to newer releases,” said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, via e-mail. “More importantly, BI and analytics is driving a lot of deals as companies transition from entering data to harvesting insight.” “Comparatively, SaaS vendors are growing faster,” he added.
Meanwhile, the European debt crisis didn’t put much of a damper on SAP’s quarter, Snabe said. For one, Germany saw a 30 percent uptick in software revenues, a “remarkable” result given that Germany is SAP’s most mature market, Snabe said.
But concerns loom over what global financial impact will occur if the U.S. defaults on its debt while lawmakers engage in a bitter partisan battle over the country’s debt limit.
SAP believes that the IT industry, particularly software, will continue doing well no matter what happens, but hopefully U.S. officials will reach a consensus soon, Snabe said.
The company had originally planned to release its results on Wednesday, when executives are expected to discuss them further during a conference call.
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Following the 2016 breach, Comelec has since made improvements to its systems to decrease the likelihood of another breach. “Knowing such an attack was possible prompted a series of hardening measures to be undertaken,” Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez says. For instance, interactive elements of the website, such as the precinct finder, are no longer accessible as they provide a pathway to access voter information unavailable to the public.
Furthermore, the website was transferred from Comelec databases to the Department of Information and Communications’ (DICT) facilities. “It is now subjected to the protection of active defenses that are operated and maintained by the DICT,” Jimenez assures. Subsequently, Comelec has also limited the amount of data collected during voter registration. With voter data now in the hands of the DICT, Comelec can focus directly on the country’s electoral systems.
Comparison and contrast
In the United States (US)—and like in many other countries—voting systems are online but are not connected to the broader internet. On the other hand, the Philippines’ automated election system utilizes paper ballots.
Aside from being a primary source document, paper ballots are employed by Comelec to avoid instances of tampering because most of the country’s population is not technologically proficient. “In our experience, an electronic voting system is very difficult for the majority of Filipino voters to deal with,” Jimenez elaborates.
Currently, Comelec does not plan to imitate the US electoral system because “there is no uniform standard of capability in terms of addressing the system,” Jimenez posits. Although Filipinos in urban areas are relatively tech-savvy, those in rural communities tend not to be and face more issues with connectivity.
Protecting the votes
If a cyberattack were to occur during the 2022 elections, those behind it might attempt to alter important information, such as the total number of votes for candidates. However, Jimenez assures that such an attack is unlikely to take place or to succeed, given the precautions put in place by Comelec.
For one, given the use of physical ballots that can be referred back to, the system has a ‘recountability’ advantage that cannot be found with electronic systems. Having recountability means that the Comelec is able to count the votes again in case there is any doubt about the outcome of the elections.
As for the tallying process itself, he explains that multiple iterations of the vote tallies are sent to the central server and that these iterations begin when a precinct releases its results. Then, all the results in that precinct’s municipality are consolidated and sent to Comelec’s servers. The municipal results are then canvassed at a provincial and city level and then at a national level. This means that if there are any discrepancies in the vote counts, they would be evident, making it easier to isolate questionable data.
Moreover, even before any of the results are sent to the central server, the individual precinct results are transmitted to a live website. “[This is] so that at the very first instance, when results are first generated, the public is immediately aware of those results,” he posits.
In the event that this website is overwhelmed due to a distributed denial-of-service attack—a cyberattack used to take down a website by overwhelming it with increased traffic—Comelec also has mirror websites on standby. Considering all of these processes, it would be difficult to manipulate information without it being noticed. Jimenez notes, however, that this does not mean that the system is entirely unreachable.
“Anyone telling you that a system cannot be hacked is lying or doesn’t know what they’re talking about,” he avers. However, since Comelec uses the AES-256 encryption standard—the most secure encryption method in the world—it would take would-be attackers vast resources, time, and knowledge to break through.
What lies ahead
As of the moment, improvements on the voting system are being pilot tested to allow an additional log of votes to be disseminated. With this, the election results would be verified through transmitted election returns and voting logs generated at the precinct.
The traditional and current voting system involves indelible ink stamps to prevent vote duplication, as well as “quick counting” of ballots for immediate publicizing of results. But with the integration of transmitted election returns and voting logs, Comelec would be able to verify voting results more efficiently. “If we can improve this system, we will probably roll it out full scale in 2025,” Jimenez illustrates.
He adds that another way Comelec could improve the country’s election systems is the inclusion of a voter verification component, which would allow precincts to conduct live verification of a voter’s identity on election day. This can safeguard the system from questionable voters.
Additionally, since printed pictures are currently the basis of biometric information, the said process can also prevent predicaments where one vote is in place of someone else—confirming the voter’s identity.
Incorporating these features in the Philippines’ voting system can prevent cyberattacks, as well as avoid identity theft. With the enhancement of the current automated voting systems, the amount of cyberattacks and questionable voters can be decreased during the upcoming May 9 voting day.
However, regardless of the augmentations to the system, Jimenez opines, “It’s imperfect, and it can be improved.” Its current state can reduce cyberattacks to a significant degree, but the possibility of it happening again still remains. Nevertheless, these attacks can be intercepted and stopped with proper cyber defense measures.
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Hello YT, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I do not know about you, but I am slowly returning to “work mode” after a decent amount of time away. When the Scripting Wife and I went to Greenville, South Carolina for an overnighter, I did not even pack my laptop. Later that night I began to have withdrawal symptoms, and I specifically asked her, “Do you even remember the last time we have been away without a computer?” To solve the mystery, no; neither the Scripting Wife nor I remembered the last time we were away from home without a laptop.
On reflection, the last time I left home without carrying a laptop might be back when I was a network administrator, prior to laptops becoming commercially available. In fact, back in the days when I was a network administrator, login scripts were all the rage. Everyone who was anyone would spend weeks and weeks crafting the perfect login script. Nevertheless, to be honest, login scripts back then were the primary means of user management. If one wanted to deploy software to a user, one used a login script. If one wanted to map drives, or printers for a user, again the login script was the mechanism to utilize. In fact, I even had a command that I used to synchronize the time on all the workstations with the domain controller. None of those things is required nowadays. In many cases, a modern network can survive without a logon script. The tool that replaces the old-fashioned logon script is Group Policy.
With Group Policy it is easy to map drives and printers by creating a new Group Policy Object. This is seen in the following figure.
One of the cool things about using a logon script to map drives is that I can use WMI to determine if the script is running on a Server (for example when I need to log onto a server to make changes I do not need a logon script running and mapping a bunch of drives.) Using Group Policy I can also use WMI to perform this filtering. I created a WMI Filter to filter out only Workstations. This is an important technique for Scripters to learn (even if it is a Group Policy thing) and I discuss it in detail in the Using Group Policy to Deploy a Windows PowerShell Logon Script post.
After the drive mappings have been accomplished the Drive Maps screen appears as shown in the following figure.
If you are going to be using Windows PowerShell for logon scripts, they will be assigned via Group Policy. In this case, I would use a standard GPO (Group Policy Object) to perform as many configuration tasks as can be accomplished via Group Policy. Then I would use WMI filtering to perform all the filtering that needs to be performed. Anything else that needs to be done would then be relegated to the Windows PowerShell logon script. (Just as a FYI, I prefer to create single purpose GPO’s instead of massive “configure everything” GPO’s. This makes it easier to enable or to disable as required. In addition, it makes them easier to troubleshoot. Because my GPO’s tend to be single purpose, I always turn off processing of the unused portion of the GPO.
Because I use GPO’s to perform most of the legacy configuration duties that were previously relegated to logon scripts, you may ask what I use logon scripts to accomplish nowadays. The answer is that my “new” logon scripts tend to be special purpose. For example, I like to use Group Policy to create a folder off of the root and to populate it with utility scripts. This is easily accomplished by using the Files portion of the GPO and the Folder portion of the GPO respectively. In the past, I utilized a logon script to create the folder and to populate it with the scripts. One of my favorite things to do is to create a Scripting event log. This is something that cannot be accomplished via Group Policy, and therefore it is a great candidate for a logon script. When I wrote the Weekend Scripter article that collects process snapshots during the login process, I designed the script so that I could use a logon script to call the script. Once again, this is a task that could not be performed with Group Policy, and is a perfect candidate for a Windows PowerShell logon script.
If you are not using Group Policy, you can still use a Windows PowerShell script in a logon script. To do this, you modify your logon.bat file (or whatever it happens to be called) and have it call your Windows PowerShell script. Make sure the script is located on an accessible file share, and that is it. You may want to use the bypass option. An example of this command is seen here.
powershell -executionpolicy bypass -file \\DC1\scripts\myLoginScript.ps1
To summarize, in general, many well managed and well maintained networks get by without using a logon script. This is because most, if not all, of the traditional duties of logon scripts have been co-opted by Group Policy. The advantages of Group Policy are that: it is easy to use, easy to maintain, and easy to back out configuration changes that it performs. I use logon scripts only to perform tasks that Group Policy does not perform.
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We use Group Policy, and I agree that GPO is a cleaner way to get a lot done than a script and that sometimes you simply have to use a script. I also do a little (simple) PoSh scripting, but what I can't find the answer to is related to how a GPO-deployed, PoSh script fits in with execution policy.
Since a user or computer has no choice to trust the domain and whoever manages Group Policy anyway, it would seem reasonable that a script pushed via GPO need not be signed and even that it would run with the default (restricted) execution policy in place. What are my options?
– Can I push a .ps1 via GPO without also adjusting the execution policy? | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2011/01/06/use-powershell-and-group-policy-for-your-logon-script/ |
Rustock remains the most dominant botnet on the spam scene, with spam output that more than doubled since last year, according to new research from Symantec in its annual MessageLabs Intelligence 2010 Security Report. In 2010, Rustock was responsible for more than 44 billion spam emails per day and had more than one million bots under its control. Botnets Grum and Cutwail are the second and third largest respectively, the report said.
Spam rates peaked in August 2010 at 92.2 percent of all email sent when the Rustock botnet was being aggressively seeded by new malware variants and quickly put to use. Overall, spam levels reached 89.1 percent, an increase of 1.4 percent compared with 2009. For most of 2010 spam from botnets accounted for 88.2 percent of all spam.
Spammers used subjects related to current events, as well as intriguing questions, to trap victims, said Paul Wood, MessageLabs "With successful and resilient botnet operations established in prior years, the cyber criminals experimented with many tactics to keep spam campaigns active and fresh this year," said Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services. "From leveraging newsworthy events like the FIFA World Cup to taking advantage of the widespread popularity of URL shortening services and social networks, the spammers deployed a variety of tricks to bypass spam filters and lure potential victims."
One of the most successful security threats of the year was the 'Here You Have' virus, said Wood. | https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126391/report--rustock-still-top-dog-among-spam-botnets.html |
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As organizations increasingly move to the cloud with services such as Office365, Salesforce.com or other business applications, this poses an increasingly difficult situation for security teams. The question we hear most often is “how do we secure direct access to the cloud from our branch offices”? It no longer makes viable financial sense to drive traffic through IDSL lines to head office. So what should you do?
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Whether you manage a network of regional hospitals, international banks or remote coffee shops you will likely have experienced a demand for connectivity to cloud applications. Many of these cloud applications are being delivered to you as a service from others – such as Office365. Moving from costly IDSL lines to SD-Wan networks provides a great way of accessing such services – but only if you can secure that service from prying eyes. To help you understand the issues concerned, and to discuss show to solve them, we have put together the following:
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How customers in different industries are securing their branch networks with Forcepoint. | https://www.forcepoint.com/ja/blog/insights/securing-your-branch-networks-they-connect-cloud |
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The second month of 2023 again saw quite a few investments in cloud, data, and AI startups. Notable among them was Sandbox AQ, a startup spun off from Alphabet Inc last year, raising $500 million as it helps customers prepare for a quantum computing future. Google also invested about $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic in this month.
In acquisition, data analytics firm Sumo Logic announced that it will be acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Bn. Similarly, Accenture acquired Morphus, a privately held Brazil-based cyber defense, risk management and cyber threat intelligence services provider.
Here’s a quick look at some of the funding deals and acquisitions that transpired in February in the cloud, data, and AI space.
Western Digital Corporation announced that funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (“Apollo”) led the purchase of $900 million of convertible preferred stock of Western Digital, along with Elliott Investment Management L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Elliott”) who also invested in the convertible offering. The investment strengthens Western Digital’s financial position and flexibility as the company continues its review of strategic alternatives aimed at further optimising long-term value for its shareholders.
Indonesian-based cybersecurity firm Peris.ai raises funding
Peris.ai, Indonesian-based cybersecurity as a service startup, today announced the new funding led by East Ventures, the leading and pioneering sector-agnostic venture capital firm in Indonesia. Magic Fund also participated in this funding. Peris.ai will allocate the fresh fund mainly to further build and enhance its cybersecurity platform, train machine learning and AI capabilities, and nurture the ethical hacker community.
Ushur, the leader in AI-powered Customer Experience Automation™ (CXA), raised a $50M Series C funding round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from existing investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures. Funds from this round will go toward expanding Ushur’s experience automation portfolio, developing new innovations in AI and moving into new regions and industry verticals.
Singapore based energy technology startup Ampotech raises S$1.7M in funding
Singapore-based energy technology startup Ampotech raised S$1,775,000 in Pre-Series A funding to further its international expansion. The funding round was led by Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus. KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, participated in the round together with existing Ampotech investors Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.
Data analytics startup Blockfenders announces $1.5M pre-seed funding round
Data analytics startup Blockfenders announced a $1.5m pre-seed funding round from a range of institutional and angel investors to enable companies to establish data exchange channels with their internal or external partners so that they can start sharing data securely and granularly with zero trust from any data source including databases, data warehouses and other data platforms. | https://ciosea.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate/funding-files-cyber-security-ai-and-cloud-deal-roundup/98267776 |
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The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans.
In a joint press conference held today with the Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, the DoJ officials labeled the state-sponsored hacking campaign as the largest hacking case ever uncovered of this type.
The four accused, Wu Zhiyong (吴志勇), Wang Qian (王乾), Xu Ke (许可) and Liu Lei (刘磊), have also been indicted for their involvement in hacking and stealing trade secrets, intellectual property and confidential information from several other U.S. businesses in recent years.
In September 2017, credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed it had become a victim of a massive cyberattack that left highly sensitive data of nearly half of the U.S. population in the hands of hackers.
As The Hacker News reported earlier, hackers compromised Equifax servers using a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts Web Framework that the company forgets to patch on time even when an updated secure version of the software was available.
"They used this access to conduct reconnaissance of Equifax's online dispute portal and to obtain login credentials that could be used to further navigate Equifax's network. The defendants spent several weeks running queries to identify Equifax's database structure and searching for sensitive, personally identifiable information within Equifax's system," the DoJ said.
"Once they accessed files of interest, the conspirators then stored the stolen information in temporary output files, compressed and divided the files, and ultimately were able to download and exfiltrate the data from Equifax's network to computers outside the United States. In total, the attackers ran approximately 9,000 queries on Equifax's system, obtaining names, birth dates, and social security numbers for nearly half of all American citizens."The defendants took steps to evade detection throughout the intrusion, as alleged in the [nine-count] indictment. They routed traffic through approximately 34 servers located in nearly 20 countries to obfuscate their true location, used encrypted communication channels within Equifax's network to blend in with normal network activity, and deleted compressed files and wiped log files on a daily basis in an effort to eliminate records of their activity."
As a result of the breach, the credit monitoring company Equifax was fined £500,000 by the U.K.'s privacy watchdog for failing to take appropriate steps to protect its customers and also agreed to pay up to $700 million in fines to settle a series of state and federal investigations in the United States.
The DoJ officials said the FBI started this investigation two years ago with only 40 IP addresses that were involved in the attacks that lead the agency to these four members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute.
All four indicted suspects are still at large, residing in China and have been added to the FBI's Most Wanted Cyber list.
This is not the first time when the U.S. has charged Chinese intelligence officers over hacking and cyber espionage. In 2014, similar charges were announced against five Chinese military officials for hacking and cyber espionage against several American companies.
Besides this, the U.S has also charged the other two Chinese hackers in 2015 for a massive data breach where hackers stole the personal information of over 80 million customers of the Anthem health insurance company.
This story is developing and will be updated shortly as details become available. Stay tuned with The Hacker News on Twitter for quick updates.
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Seoul, May 9 (IANS) South Korea said on Sunday it will strengthen its monitoring system against cryptocurrency-related phishing websites by working with the National Police Agency amid recent surges in prices of virtual money.
The ICT ministry said there have recently been increasing reports of phishing attempts via text messages that lead cryptocurrency users to enter their exchange IDs and passwords on fake websites to steal them and access their accounts.
The ministry said it found and blocked 32 such phishing websites in the past three months, compared with a total of 41 websites detected in the whole of last year, reports Yonhap news agency.
Examples of such websites include www.bithnub.com, compared with the address of local cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb — www.bithumb.com.
The ministry said it will strengthen its 24-hour monitoring system to swiftly block such phishing websites.
The National Police Agency has also been conducting a crackdown on phishing websites since the start of March this year.
The virtual currency has since fallen, trading at around 67 million won on Friday, according to Bithumb.
Amid rising prices, South Korean financial authorities are also cracking down on illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies, such as money laundering, until June.
As of May 4, the police were investigating 21 cases, in which individuals accessed other cryptocurrency users’ accounts and sold their assets.
Major cryptocurrency Bitcoin topped $72,000 per unit in South Korea for the first time in mid-April. | https://britishasianews.com/s-korea-to-clamp-down-on-cryptocurrency-phishing-activity/ |
Dubai, UAE: Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today issued a warning that, based on their research of recent cyberattack trends and existing business practices, organizations around the world currently face a global threat to data privacy and security. The company announced its findings on international Data Privacy Day to alert organizations that immediate action is needed to avoid costly attacks.
The latest research by the cybersecurity experts at the global network of Acronis Cyber Protection Operations Centers (CPOCs) revealed that 80% of companies do not have an established password policy. Between 15-20% of the passwords used in a business environment include the name of the company, making them easier to compromise. Two recent high-profile breaches illustrate this problem: Before its Orion compromise, SolarWinds was warned that one of its update servers had a publicly known password of “solarwinds123”, while former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was hacked because the password was allegedly “maga2020!”.
Of the organizations that do have a password policy in place, the researchers found many rely on default passwords – and up to 50% of those are categorized as weak.
Attackers know these weak password practices are widespread and, with so many employees working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have targeted the less secure systems of these remote workers. Acronis analysts observed a dramatic increase in the number of brute force attacks during 2020 and found that password stuffing was the second most used cyberattack last year, just behind phishing.
“The sudden rush to remote work during the pandemic accelerated the adoption of cloud-based solutions,” explains Candid Wüest, VP of Cyber Protection Research at Acronis. “In making that transition, however, many companies didn’t keep their cybersecurity and data protection requirements properly in focus. Now, those companies are realizing that ensuring data privacy is a crucial part of a holistic cyber protection strategy – one that incorporates cybersecurity and data protection – and they need to enact stronger safeguards for remote workers.”
Financial and reputational risks
While the business community is recognizing that better cyber protection is needed to ensure the privacy of their data and their customers’ data, awareness among digital users continues to lag. One report found that 48% of employees admit they are less likely to follow safe data practices when working from home.
Poor password hygiene and lax cybersecurity habits of remote workers are among the reasons Acronis CPOC analysts expect the financial impact of data exfiltration will soar in 2021, as bad actors can more easily access and steal valuable company data. The trend is similar to one now seen among ransomware attackers, who are stealing proprietary or embarrassing data and then threatening to publish it if the victim doesn’t pay. Last year, Acronis identified more than 1,000 companies around the world that experienced a data leak following a ransomware attack.
Multifactor authentication (MFA), which requires users to complete two or more verification methods to access a company network, system, or VPN, should be the standard for all organizations. By combining passwords with an additional verification method, such as a fingerprint scan or randomized PIN from a mobile app, the organization is still protected if an attacker guesses or breaks a user’s password.
Zero trust model should be adopted to ensure data security and privacy. All users, whether they are working remotely or operating inside the corporate network, are required to authenticate themselves, prove their authorization, and continuously validate their security to access and use company data and systems.
User and entity behavior analytics, or UEBA, helps automate an organization’s protection. By monitoring the normal activity of users with AI and statistical analysis, the system can recognize behavior that deviates from normal patterns – particularly those that indicate a breach has occurred and data theft is underway.
While Data Privacy Day 2021 is an ideal opportunity to bring attention to the risks to data privacy, the researchers at the Acronis CPOCs have identified additional cyberthreat trends that will challenge sysadmins, managed service providers (MSPs), and cybersecurity professionals during the coming year. The full analysis is currently available in the recently released Acronis Cyberthreats Report.
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Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions. With award-winning AI-based antimalware and blockchain-based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on-premises – at a low and predictable cost.
Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,500 employees in 33 locations in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, including 100% of the Fortune 1000, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages. | https://mid-east.info/acronis-issues-warning-of-critical-privacy-risks-in-2021-ahead-of-data-privacy-day/ |
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According to a report from IDG News Service, a newly discovered Android vulnerability allows apps to make unauthorized phone calls or disrupt ongoing calls. By exploiting the security hole, malicious software would be able to place calls to premium-rate phone numbers, potentially resulting in hundreds of dollars worth of charges on the user’s account.
“An attacker could, for instance, trick victims into installing a tampered application and then use it to call premium-rate numbers they own or even regular ones and listen to the discussions in the range of the phone’s microphone,” Bogdan Botezatu, an analyst at Bitdefender, told IDG. “The premium-rate approach looks more plausible, especially since Android does not screen premium-rate numbers for voice as it happens with text messages.”
Researchers from security firm Curesec reportedly discovered the flaw, and they say Google has been informed. They also report that the flaw has been fixed in Android 4.4.4 KitKat, but it is still present in Android 4.1.x, 4.2.x and 4.3.x, as well as in Android 4.4.1, 4.4.2 and 4.4.3.
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Patch Tuesday is again upon us: Adobe today issued updates for Flash Player and AIR, fixing the same critical vulnerability in both products. Microsoft‘s patch bundle of five updates addresses 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office, including one bug that is already being actively exploited.
A majority of the vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft’s June patch batch — 19 of them — are addressed in a cumulative update for Internet Explorer (MS13-047). The other fix that Microsoft called specific attention to is MS13-051, which tackles a flaw in Office that “could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office document..or previews or opens a specially crafted email message in Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the email reader.”
This Office flaw, which is present in the latest versions of Office 2003 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, is already being exploited in targeted attacks, Microsoft said. According to the company’s advisory, this vulnerability was reported by Google. These attacks fit the profile of previous zer0-day incidents, which use targeted email lures and previously unknown vulnerabilities to break into high-value targets.
“When Google encounters flaws that exploit users’ computers, even when the flaws are in other companies’ software, we take strong action to mitigate those attacks,” a Google spokesperson said in response to a request for comment. “Based on the exploit and the way it has been utilized by attackers, we strongly believe the attacks to be associated with a nation-state organization.”
Adobe’s Flash and AIR updates also fix a critical bug that was reported by Google’s security team, although Adobe says it is not aware of any exploits or attacks in the wild against the vulnerability address in its update. The latest Flash version is 11.7.700.224 for Windows and 11.7.700.225 for Mac OS X. This link will tell you which version of Flash your browser has installed. IE10 and Chrome should auto-update their versions of Flash. If your version of Chrome is not yet updated to v. 11.7.700.225, you may just need to restart the browser.
Adobe and Microsoft have each released security updates to fix critical security flaws in their software. Microsoft issued seven update bundles to fix at least 10 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software. Separately, Adobe pushed out a fix for its Flash Player and AIR software that address at least three critical vulnerabilities in these programs.
A majority of the bugs quashed in Microsoft’s patch batch are critical security holes, meaning that malware or miscreants could exploit them to seize control over vulnerable systems with little or no help from users. Among the critical patches is an update for Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10 (Redmond says these flaws are not present in earlier versions of IE).
Other critical patches address issues with the Windows kernel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Exchange Server. The final critical bug is a file handling vulnerability in Windows XP, Vista and 7 that Microsoft said could allow remote code execution if a user browses to a folder that contains a file or subfolder with a specially crafted name. Yikes. Updates are available through Windows Update or via Automatic Updates. | http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/flash-player/ |
The RIMS Conference, presented by the Risk Management Society, is one of the largest conferences for the risk management and insurance industry. We have been avid attendees and exhibitors for over a decade and we cannot get enough of the education, network, and incredible community this event cultivates. As with any conference, especially one that boasts over 10,000 attendees, it can get pretty overwhelming. With an exhibit hall that will log you well over a week’s worth of steps in just a few hours, you’re bound to end up with a strong case of FOMO.
Have no fear, these are our best tips to make the most of your RIMS Conference.
1. Update your digital presence.
Although conferences can be fun and exciting, it still roots in business and professionalism. Whether you’re here to garner new leads, connect with current clients, or form long-lasting partnerships, you need to be on your A-game. Before you even step into the convention hall, make sure your digital presence is updated. We’re talking LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, your company’s website, and anywhere else your name is hosted. Make sure your contact information is easily accessible and most importantly, that your social sites are up to date. The last thing you want is for a potential lead to look you up and find an old email associated with your old company.
2. Pre-connect with contacts before the conference.
Know some people that you really want to meet? Make it easier to connect by pre-connecting! Reach out via LinkedIn or email and genuinely share how you know of them and why you want to connect at the conference. Remember, everyone will be extremely busy during this week, so don’t feel rejected if they can’t meet for a meal or coffee. Instead, ask them where they will be and how you can make it easy by coming to them. They’ll appreciate your thoughtfulness and feel more inclined to connect.
3. Schedule your events, meetings, and happy hours, but be flexible.
There is so much going on this week and it boggles our mind every year. It’s important to stay organized and schedule in the most crucial places you need to be, and jot down backup options in case you have extra time. Take your meetings with business leads and clients first and foremost – the happy hours come second. If you do make it to some fun outings, please be courteous and thank the companies and organizations that hosted you whether it’s via social media or through an email after the conference.
4. Attend an event for a good cause: Spencer Ed/Sedgwick 5K Fun Run
We are proud to be sponsoring the Spencer Ed charity run for the third year in a row. That’s right, we have woken up before the break of dawn to support the future of risk management and insurance for three consecutive years and we’re not stopping anytime soon! All the funds donated to Spencer Ed funds scholarships for up and coming industry students. This year’s race is taking place on Tuesday, April 30th at 6:30am on the Boston Commons. Register here!
5. Follow up with everyone the following week.
It’s going to be a jam-packed week and we guarantee that once everyone returns to the office on Thursday or Friday, it’s still going to feel like a long, tiring week. Give all your new connections a break by following up first thing Monday morning. It doesn’t have to be a long winded email – a simple hello, thank you, and steps on how to keep in touch are perfect. Don’t forget to include a tidbit on your conversation together and how you connected just in case they have a case of the Mondays.
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While terrorism and mass shootings are impossible to miss, some emerging threats are unseen but still potentially devastating — such as cyber attacks. “If I only had so many dollars to allocate to the security of my event,” said veteran planner James Schultze, CMP, “I would probably allocate most of them there, because of all the different ways a hacker can affect a group and its audience through cyber theft. The long-lasting repercussions of that.”
I think most planners are either too trusting of the venue and what it provides as far as service, and/or they’re a little … ignorant of the technical aspects of it.
In Convene’s survey, 23 percent of respondents said their event insurance covers data breaches, while 45 percent said they’ve adopted online security measures for meetings-related data and personal information. “So they shy away from the issue altogether.”
But as more planning and management processes are automated and more event data is moved to the cloud, cybersecurity is only becoming more important. The new Exhibitions and Meetings Safety and Security Initiative has a subcommittee dedicated to it, and the Convention Industry Council’s APEX Standards Committee has created a Cybersecurity Workgroup.
At the facility level, cybersecurity is often a technical consideration related to physical infrastructure. New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Center recently established additional firewall protections on its IT systems, according to Javits’ Alan Steel, and is working with the International Association of Venue Managers on bolstering its Wi-Fi security. “I think our meeting clients are looking at that more on their own individual databases,” Steel said. “Generally speaking, we do not keep their data here within our own databases.”
Indeed, for event producers, dealing with cybersecurity starts with controlling how information is captured, stored, and shared — and not just digitally. Even meeting staff can be careless with it. “People put stuff in the bureaus, the credenzas, etc., that are around the hotel, and especially in the meeting space,” Schultze said. “Sometimes it’s stuff of a highly sensitive nature, not only in terms of corporate espionage but just things that people don’t want other people to know.”
It might not seem as dramatic as bomb threats or active shooters, but the stakes can be just as high. The Exhibitions and Meetings Safety and Security Initiative is working to develop guidelines for convention centers to be certified under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s SAFETY Act. “We believe that cybersecurity enhancements that’ll be part of our application process with DHS’s SAFETY Act office will help identify and put more resources and ears to the ground for identifying and helping DHS and the FBI and others identify terrorist cells,” said IAEE’s David DuBois, CMP, CAE, CTA, whose organization is a founding member of the new security initiative. “We don’t know exactly what the conversations are going to be in our cyber subcommittee, but we think it’s going to add to the overall value of this initiative.” | https://www.pcmaconvene.org/also-in-this-issue/prevent-cyber-attacks-on-your-event/ |
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“Your free margin” shows either the balance of the trade account or the approximate balance in which the trader would want to use for calculating the trade size.
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Traders simply have to modify the input variables which are the risk in percentage form and the risk in pips.
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The “Inputs” tab of the Lot Calculator Risk Management Tool is very important as it allows the users to modify the variables used for the lot size formula.
“Stop loss distance from open order” refers to the risk placed on the trade based on the distance of the stop loss from the projected entry level in pips. Traders should modify this based on their desired stop loss distance.
“Free margin fraction you want to risk for the trade” refers to the portion of the free margin you are willing to risk on each trade. This in a decimal form on the Inputs tab but this equates to the “Risk selected” value on the display, which is in percentage form.
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In this webinar Nick Sanna, president of the FAIR Institute and CEO of RiskLens, will chat with Grant Elliott, CEO at Ostendio, about how taking a data-centric approach can help demystify the process producing more quantifiable results.
During this session, Grant and Nick will dig into the complex questions they often receive from organizations trying to protect against cybercrime. They'll cover everything from the appropriate level of investment to actually reduce risk; to how organizations can defend against a theoretical event that has not yet occurred.
Mark your calendar for November 10th at 10 am ET! The live executive panel is your chance to get your tough questions answered. | https://www.ostendio.com/webinar-risk-management |
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F5 has released an overview of vulnerabilities for some of their networking products, including BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management. Security exposures and 21 vulnerabilities are addressed in the advisory, with 12 High impact, 8 Medium impact, and 1 Low impact vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities include bypassing security restrictions, executing arbitrary system commands, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and escalating privileges.
An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. | https://digital.nhs.uk/cyber-alerts/2022/cc-4143?utm_source=feedly |
We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape that we’ve ever seen. While our current ability to detect and respond to attacks has matured incredibly quickly in recent years, ‘bad actors’ haven’t been standing still. A pandemic-focused year made the events of 2020/21 unprecedented in numerous ways, and the cyber attacks were no different.
As the world transitioned to virtual everything – work, school, meetings and family gatherings – attackers took notice. Attackers embraced new techniques and a hurried switch to remote access increased cyber threats across the board.
Large-scale attacks, alongside ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure indicate that attackers have become increasingly sophisticated and coordinated. It is abundantly clear that the work of IT teams are critical.
Garmin – the navtech supplier suffered a cyber attack that encrypted some of its systems and forced services offline. Though Garmin first reported it as an outage, the company revealed that it was the victim of a cyberattack which resulted in the disruption of “website functions, customer support, customer-facing applications, and company communications.” The press release also stated there was no indication that any customer data was accessed, lost or stolen. Speculation rose that the incident was a ransomware attack, although Garmin never confirmed. In addition, several media outlets reported that they gave in to the attackers’ demands, and a ransom had been paid. Some news outlets reported it as high as $10 million.
Castle-and-moat model
Historically, security models depended on a “castle and moat” type of architecture, with the enterprise network and data centre on the inside, and firewalls guarding the perimeter. Anything located on the outside was considered untrusted. Anything on the inside was considered trusted.
However, trust based on physical location breaks down when users are mobile and when external partners require access. It creates excessive implicit trust – trust that attackers abuse.
Enter zero trust
Instead of assuming everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an open network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust teaches us to “never trust, always verify.” Every access request is fully authenticated, authorised, and encrypted before granting access. Microsegmentation and least privileged access principles are applied to minimise lateral movement. Rich intelligence and analytics are utilised to detect and respond to anomalies in real time.
The term “zero trust” is widely abused in security product marketing. However, it is useful as a shorthand way of describing an approach where implicit trust is removed from all computing infrastructure. Instead, trust levels are explicitly and continuously calculated and adapted to allow just-in-time, just-enough access to enterprise resources.
“Zero trust is a way of thinking, not a specific technology or architecture. It’s really about zero implicit trust, as that’s what we want to get rid of.”
A complete zero trust security posture may never be fully achieved, but specific initiatives can be undertaken today.
Assembly recommends that organisations looking to implement zero trust start with two network-related security projects.
In the past, when users left the “trusted” enterprise network, VPNs were used to extend the enterprise network to them. If attackers could steal a user’s credentials, they could easily gain access to the enterprise network.
Zero trust network access abstracts and centralises access mechanisms so that security engineers and staff can be responsible for them. It grants appropriate access based on the identity of the humans and their devices, plus other context such as time and date, geolocation, historical usage patterns and device posture. The result is a more secure and resilient environment, with improved flexibility and better monitoring.
The shift to a largely remote workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic has created intense interest in ZTNA, with media headlines proclaiming ‘The VPN is dead.’
Although VPN replacement is a common driver for its adoption, ZTNA typically augments, rather than replaces, a VPN. By allowing users access to what they need, and by shifting to cloud-based ZTNA offerings, you can avoid overloading your VPN infrastructure.
Longer term, this zero trust network access security posture can be continue to be used when people return to the office.
Project 2: Identity-based segmentation
Identity-based segmentation, also known as micro or zero trust segmentation, is an effective way to limit the ability of attackers to move laterally in a network once they are in.
Identity-based segmentation reduces excessive implicit trust by allowing organisations to shift individual workloads to a “default deny” rather than an “implicit allow” model. It uses dynamic rules that assess workload and application identity as part of determining whether to allow network communications.
When starting an identity-based segmentation strategy, start with a small collection of most critical applications and servers for initial implementations and expand from there.
Once you have implemented ZTNA and identity-based segmentation, move on to other initiatives to extend a zero trust approach throughout your technology infrastructure.
For example, remove remote admin rights from end-user systems, pilot a remote browser isolation solution, encrypt all data at rest in the public cloud and start scanning containers that your developers are creating for new apps.
Assembly Project One is an opportunity for organisations to improve cybersecurity postures and act rapidly to implement Zero Trust, including multifactor authentication and end-to-end encryption.
Talk to one of our team today to learn more about our cyber security capabilities; how we’re bringing people, business and technology together; and what this means for you.
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As restrictions begin to ease, we are all thinking about how we will be working in the coming months and years. If your staff are heading back into the office you need to remember to reinforce some cyber security basics.
Whilst many large businesses are remaining cautious of returning to the office, the government no longer instructs people to work at home and many businesses are opting for a staggered approach.
Deloitte announced they will increase the number of staff allowed to work in its offices to 50% capacity in July but the firm expects that level to stay in place until September, whilst NatWest brought “priority workers’ back to the office on 19th July.
With many businesses continuing with a more flexible working set up your computer network and work devices must be all secure, especially if employees are working across several devices.
Whether you know very little about cybercrime or why criminals would target your business or you just want to know how to protect your business - the Cyber Resilience Centre is here to give you access to the knowledge, skills and tools to help protect your business from cybercrime.
Commenting on businesses going back to the office, Managing Director of the NWCRC, Neil Jones said:
“With restrictions ending and workplaces reopening, business owners will understandably have questions about their security. Whilst many companies are continuing to work from home, businesses are starting to welcome some staff back to offices." “We work with our partners to protect businesses and are only too aware of the difficulties many micro and small businesses, in particular, have faced during the pandemic when so many of us are working from home and reliant on new and different IT systems."We are on hand to offer trusted guidance and support to the North West business community to reinforce the cyber security basics with executives, managers and staff alike.”
We've put together this ‘Back to the Office’ guide with options for support from the Cyber Resilience Centre team - from upgrading your Cloud Security, implementing Working from Home Policies and tailored Cyber Awareness Training. | https://www.manchesterdigital.com/post/cyber-resilience-centre/backtotheoffice-cyber |
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According to a report developed by a company specialized in financial transactions (Chainalysis, a global consulting, analysis, and market intelligence company focused on blockchains and with emphasis on bitcoins), in the year 2020 alone, there was an increase of more than 300% in ransom demands involving cyber attacks with kidnapped data. This shows that attacks continue to grow at an alarming rate.
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If you need it, we can also provide you with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in a language of your choice. If necessary, please discuss this with one of our specialists.
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A simplistic answer would not be able to explain this matter. But let’s just cover a few topics on the subject below. Without a doubt, the ideal is to hire a consultant or professional specialized in the cybersecurity field.
Organization – A good way to start prevention is to organize and document networks, computers, and systems. Having a good documentation of the IT park can help a lot in the prevention process. Be aware of what software is allowed and used. Create rules so that ordinary users do not install any program on the computers. Know who are the computers, laptops and cell phones that have access to the physical network and Wi-Fi in your home or business.
Strong passwords – Don’t use the same passwords for everything. Avoid birth dates and birthdays. If possible install a password manager that will always suggest and store a password with a high level of difficulty to crack.
Security Solutions – A good security solution includes in its toolkit a good antivirus and a number of other tools with the purpose of reporting, preventing and neutralizing cyber-attacks. The value of a safe, as well as the time and security apparatus invested in protecting it, is directly linked to the list of items you intend to keep inside. If you have very valuable data on your computers then make an equivalent investment to protect your information.
Effective backup policies – Have a good backup policy. Regrettably we have had cases where a client being attacked by ransomware was quite reassured that their backups were up to date. However, when returning the backup files, it was discovered that they were also encrypted by the ransomware. Also remember that a backup is always a second copy of the same information. Making a copy of the information on an external disk and then deleting the information from the computer’s hard drive does not make it a backup. Nowadays there are very secure ways of performing backups. Data center redundant backup policies are the best.
Be careful with email – A lot of bad stuff can get into computers through email. Establish policies so that the e-mails used in the company are only for professional purposes. You can also configure security applications to not allow links and files attached to e-mails to be downloaded, opened, or accessed.
Beware of software cracking programs – Software cracking programs are always from dubious sources. But what are they and what is the purpose of these programs? Imagine that you download the demo version of a certain program. But after a few days of use, the program stops working because the demo period has expired. The way to continue using the program is to buy a legal copy of it. But usually there are sites on the Internet that can provide you “free” software that will crack your program to make it work as if you had bought the original version. Be very careful with these programs. You cannot believe that someone would create such a program and not want anything in return. If this program opens a virtual door in your computer to be accessed after 6 months you will never suspect that the attack came from a trojan horse that entered your computer six months ago.
How does a Ransomware attack take place? What steps do you go through before the attack is completed?
Just as in a grand theft there is a high level of planning, so too in a cyber attack.
For a burglar to break into a house, someone has to open the door or he has to find a way to bypass the security systems. In the same way a hacker will try to get a partner inside your computer to open the door for him to enter. These accomplices can be dubious programs downloaded from the Internet or sent by e-mail. If he is not able to infiltrate these “accomplices” the job will be much harder.
Once the program is installed on the user’s machine, the user is responsible for opening the door and informing the hacker that he has a machine available for hacking. Once this is done, the data encryption process begins.
After attacking the machine, the ransomware can easily spread to infect machines on the network, targeting mainly servers. If the servers are hacked the entire company will be affected. | https://digitalrecovery.com/en/ransomware-recovery/lolkek/ |
Distributed denial of service attacks — long serving as the weapon of choice for low-skill hackers — are getting more complex, with nearly two-thirds involving multiple kinds of attack traffic, according to new figures.
The figures, from Internet infrastructure giant Verisign, cover the second quarter of 2016. They show that DDoS attacks also continue to grow in size. The average peak size of all the attacks experienced by Verisign customers during Q2 was 17.37 Gigabytes per second.
Although that’s down very slightly from Q1 (19.37 Gbps), it’s more than triple the average peak for Q2 last year (5.53 Gbps).
The largest attack the company mitigated during the quarter peaked at more than 250 Gbps, the report states.
But it’s the growth in the complexity of the attacks that’s more attention-grabbing.
Nearly two-thirds of DDoS attacks used more than one form of attack traffic. Source: Verisign
DDoS attacks flood their targets with fake traffic, overwhelming websites so legitimate visitors can’t get access, or bombarding other public-facing infrastructure.
Just over a third of attacks in Q2, 36 percent of them, used a single form of attack traffic. Nearly as many, 29 percent, used two kinds; 19 percent three; 7 percent four; and 9 percent used five or more different kinds.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) floods continued to be the most common form of attack traffic in Q2, being used in 56 percent of DDoS experienced by Verisign customers. The next most common form of attack traffic was Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) requests — which featured in 18 percent.
But Verisign says one of the most troubling tactics is the growing use of application layer, or layer seven, attacks. The application layer is the part of the stack that communicates directly with the end user and attackers typically use HTTP requests, making them hard to distinguish from genuine traffic.
“Application layer attacks … are some of the most difficult attacks to mitigate because they mimic normal user behavior and are harder to identify,” states the report.
Since these attacks can include SQL injection, which sends nefarious instructions to web databases, they can be used to steal information and are often accompanied by much larger UDP or TCP floods, which act as a distraction, pulling company managers’ attention away from the real attack. | https://www.cyberscoop.com/report-ddos-attacks-growing-complex-larger/ |
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Just as you want your home, vehicle, and devices to be safe, email security best practices help you keep your inbox out of the grips of hackers and other bad actors in the data world. Email security can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be.
Email security best practices are essential. Cyber attacks are relentless and always evolving, and email security is no easy business. (Yes, it’s time for some scary numbers, but feel free to skip to the next paragraph.) During 2017 alone, says cyber-security firm Symantec, the average email user was receiving at least 16 malicious emails per month. Over half of all email sent was spam, and over 90 percent of malware was delivered through email accounts just like yours.
So, yeah, things like phishing attacks, malicious email attachments, ransomware attacks, and business email compromise (BEC) attacks are a big, big deal. If you haven’t heard the Reply All podcast episode on how smart people fall victim to phishing attacks, it’s worth a listen.
And the goal of many phishing attacks? To steal your password, so they can then access, steal, or hold hostage sensitive data, from your identity or money to company intellectual property and financial information. However, you also are not powerless. In fact, protecting personal information and company data can come down to you, humble email user.
Solid security starts before the email arrives and continues to what you do with your email account
Before a message arrives, email systems such as Gmail use many behind-the-scenes scanning technologies, malware detection programs, spam filters, and other email security systems to prevent malicious messages from ever reaching your inbox.
Just like Gmail, all company email systems should be going through a web security filter, says Tim Steck, owner of TBS Consultants, an IT services and security firm based in Oregon.
“We put all business client email through a filter,” says Tim. “It weeds out viruses, spam, and other malicious stuff.”
No filter or security system is perfect though. Just as today’s car makers build in safety features from automatic emergency braking to rear-view cameras, safe driving is ultimately up to the person behind the wheel. With cybersecurity, much of safeguarding email security and preventing data loss comes down to the individual going through their inbox.
“At the user level, we always recommend that they do not click on a link in an email when they aren’t one hundred percent sure it came from a legitimate person,” says Tim. “When in doubt, it’s best to call your IT expert and have them examine the email.”
There are other steps you can follow to keep your company email address, personal information, and sensitive information (such as Social Security numbers) safe and secure.
“A lot of it is common sense,” says Tim. “Don’t open emails you don’t know. If it’s an email address you don’t recognize, delete the email.”
Password security: Set a strong password, change it regularly, and don’t share it
The key is to set a strong password and change it regularly, says Tim.
“On a server, we set policies to force password changes every thirty, sixty, or ninety days,” he explains. “Strong passwords should contain three out of four things: lower-case letters, upper-case letters, numbers, and symbols.”
They also shouldn’t contain obvious personal information (like names of your pets or family, hometown, alma mater, or your fave sports teams), the word “password,” or common letter/number substitutions (such as I/1, S/5, etc.) Typically a strong password should be at least eight characters, but when possible go long, such as at 16–30 characters.
Strong random password generator tools can help you create a strong password. Or, instead of a password, use a passphrase. Where a strong password can become a hard-to-remember combination of characters, a passphrase combines multiple words into something that can be both harder to crack but easier to remember.
Don’t share that password either. Sharing passwords increases vulnerability and the likelihood of getting hacked.
Enable two-factor authentication—as long as you can consistently use it
Current email security best practices also recommend using two-factor authentication (2FA for short, also known as multi-factor authentication/MFA). 2FA can take many forms, such as a text message or phone call with a code you enter, a physical fob or key that must be inserted into your device, or entering another piece of data that only you know.
However, 2FA can also become a hassle, requiring password resets or winding up with you locked out of your account.
“Two-factor verification and such can cause more problems than they’re worth,” says Tim. “People sometimes forget what they set, or they don’t have their phone or key with them, or they can’t get reception.”
Successfully using 2FA means being confident that you will be able to consistently perform the secondary function needed to access your account. When allowed in your system, also set redundant factors, such as a backup phone, code, or physical key, to give you options in the event you are unable to use your usual 2FA method.
“We give those options to clients, but they can take a lot of work to maintain,” says Tim. “There can be a lot of resources devoted to resetting passwords.”
Use unique passwords—and keep track of them all with a password manager
The average person now has over 90 online accounts—and each one needs a password.
Yeah, we’re not going to try to remember 90 unique passwords either.
Not only that, each account needs a unique password, not the same password used 90 times for convenience. If you re-use passwords (and most people do), a compromise on one account can quickly snowball into an avalanche of hacks, data breaches, and theft.
That’s where online password managers come into play. Essentially, services such as LastPass, 1Password, Dashlane, and Keeper provide secure online safes for your login credentials. Not only that, but these services can also generate strong passwords, sync them across your devices, auto-fill (saving you some typing), and update passwords for you.
Don’t open or act on unfamiliar emails or any email that seems suspicious 76 percent of organizations say they experienced phishing attacks in 2017. Phishing is where someone is trying to dupe you into clicking a link and entering personal information into what you think is a legit website.
Suspicious emails typically have a sense of urgency (such as claiming your account is about to be locked or deleted). They want you to enter some sort of sensitive information, such as your account credentials. The email address also won’t match the brand’s real address—though it might look similar. The more adamant the email seems that you send over your information, the more likely it’s one of the many phishing emails trying to steal your data.
Real services do not ever ask for your personal information via email. Period.
For this email security best practice, follow a simple rule of thumb: if an email is asking for personal or other privileged information, delete it. Do not click any links in the email. Do not download, open, or preview any attachments.
If the email looks like it’s from a brand that you have an account with, delete the email, go to your browser, type in the URL for the site (or hit the link from your bookmarks), and log in directly. Unless you are expecting an email with a link—a list you know and trust, a confirmation for something you just registered for or ordered online, etc.—don’t click the links in emails. Don’t copy and paste links either.
Leaving links alone also extends to any innocent-looking “unsubscribe” links in that suspicious email. Clicking that only confirms to the hacker or spammer that your email address is legitimate—so they’ll start sending you more malicious junk. Same thing if you reply to the email, so don’t reply to suspicious emails either.
Only open attachments from trusted contacts—and still check those first
Attachments are one of the top ways hackers install malware, steal information, and compromise systems. If you are being wary of attachments, even from trusted contacts, you have a much lower chance of having your email hacked.
For starters, attachments should never be a surprise—and large files are a giant, flaming, screaming red flag. When an attachment comes through, it should be something that you knew would be on the way. If you have any doubt at all, don’t open the attachment. Instead, via a call, text, email, or quick face-to-face, verify whether or not the email and attachment are legit. After all, even trusted contacts can be hacked—and if that happens, some attacks use that compromised email account to send out malware, phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, and more.
If the attachment has a .exe extension, send the email to spam and notify IT. If opened, a .exe file will execute some sort of program—and it will be somewhere between bad and catastrophic.
Files such as Word and Excel can also contain malicious software, especially via macros. Only consider opening these files if you knew they were coming. Even files such as JPGs (images) and PDFs can be faked.
If an unsolicited attachment comes from someone you don’t know, just delete it.
Email security isn’t easy, but it is doable
Attacks on email continue to grow and change—but security continues to adapt too.
“That’s why you go through a good, reliable email security provider,” says Tim. “They get updated almost on the minute.”
While many aspects of email security are up to your email provider, much power is in your hands too. By using and changing strong passwords, leveraging password managers, not sharing your password, and being judicious about which emails and attachments you open or engage with, you are taking big strides toward a more secure inbox for you, and more secure data overall for your company and identity.
At the least, “make sure you know where emails came from,” says Tim. “If you have a strong password and change it often, generally you’re good.” | https://www.teamoutpost.com/blog/email-security-best-practices/ |
Thursday 23rd June 2016 marked a significant day for the UK. As the majority of the public voted to leave the European Union, there has been a lot of uncertainty around the future of the UK and the direction we would be taking following the EU referendum.
With the ongoing political turmoil in the UK, it could be months or years before the British government invokes Article 50, should they decide to do so, followed by a further two years of negotiations.
This uncertainty over the future direction of the UK has the potential of causing paralysis with regards to the strategic planning within certain facets of organisations, particularly those that require long-term investments such as those within the IT sector.
One aspect that has, and will continue, to be heavily impacted by Brexit,* is that of data protection and data sovereignty legislation. With the adoption of online data backup and other cloud technologies becoming more commonplace, the UK government’s stance on data sovereignty will play a key role in the decision making of IT leaders.
Prior to the referendum, it was expected that the UK would have to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which would come into effect in 2018.
Following the vote on the 23rd June, the UK’s need to comply with this regulation is now left unclear. The country may decide to implement their own data protection laws, or may still choose to adopt the GDPR. Either way, organisations will need to consider this when deciding which cloud service providers to partner with.
With no clarity at this stage as to which direction the UK will go, organisations should bear in mind that if the UK as a whole wishes to work with the EU single market on an equal footing, then the UK will require data protection legislation that offers equivalent protection to that of the EU. On this basis, it’s safe to assume that UK legislation will closely mirror that of the EU’s GDPR.
Choosing the right backup service provider
Choosing the right backup provider at such an uncertain time will minimise the level of stress felt by your organisation. The right provider will be able to ensure you of the next steps you should be taking when it comes to protecting your data to remain compliant with any regulations that come into effect.
An assuring indication that a provider takes procedures and security seriously will be if they are ISO 27001 and 9001 certified. There are a growing number of companies who refuse to work with cloud service providers who are not ISO certified. Furthermore, the ISO certifications are evidence of the provider’s attitudes towards the management and security of their platform, meaning you can rest assured you are working with a reputable provider.
In addition, some businesses are already subject to industry legislation which prevents them from storing their data outside of Europe, others are legally obliged to store data within the UK’s borders and for others it doesn’t matter. However, for any business looking to adopt cloud backup, it’s important to understand the location of the provider’s data centre. This is particularly true with the current state of uncertainty amongst business leaders who remain in the dark on how Brexit will impact data protection.
About the author: Paul Evans is Managing Director at Redstor a global provider of data protection and cloud services. | http://www.mibusinessmag.com/2016/09/19/brexit-mean-data-protection/ |
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"We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information", the source said, adding the attacker was a "foreign entity".
No other details about the origin of the attack were immediately available, including the motive.
A cyberattack which appeared to originate from overseas disrupted the publication and distribution of numerous newspapers in the United States, papers hit by the malware said.
"Several individuals with knowledge of the Tribune situation said the attack appeared to be in the form of "Ryuk" ransomware", reported the Los Angeles Times. Director of Distribution Joe Robidoux said print subscribers should get Saturday's paper delivered with Sunday's edition.
In a note posted on the Union-Tribune's website, Light described a computer virus that affected the computer systems for Tribune Publishing, the media company that used to own the Union-Tribune and now owns multiple newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and the Orlando Sentinel.
Tribune Publishing spokeswoman Marisa Kollias said the virus hurt back-office systems used to publish and produce "newspapers across our properties".
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The attack seemed to have begun late Thursday night and by Friday had spread to crucial areas needed to publish the paper.
The virus caused production problems at the California Times printing plant in downtown Los Angeles, where the Times is printed.
The virus "hobbled our ability to publish", Union-Tribune editor and publisher Jeff Light said in a Saturday morning letter to readers. Under an ongoing transition agreement, Tribune Publishing, formerly known as Tronc, continues to print the two West Coast newspapers and provide other essential services.
The Ventura County Star, owned by Gannett Co.
The virus affected Tribune Publishing papers across the country. The systems are shared by the Times and Union-Tribune. "It's serious attacks, not small stuff anymore".
Today, "malware can root into the deepest systems and disrupt very significant aspects of those systems". | http://christianfeministdaddy.com/2018/12/31/cyber-attack-disrupts-printing-of-major-united-states/ |
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Denver — September 4, 2018 — Ping Identity, the leader in Identity Defined Security, today announced that it has been honored with the API World 2018 Award in the “Best in API Security” category. Its AI-driven cybersecurity solution, PingIntelligence for APIs, brings an increased level of security and intelligence into how APIs are accessed and used.
The 2018 API Awards celebrate technical innovation, adoption and reception in the API and microservices industry. To support judging process, the program leverages an advisory board made up of seven industry veterans. Out of hundreds of nominations, these expert judges selected PingIntelligence for APIs based on three criteria: reputation among the developer and engineering community, recent visibility and awareness, and product innovation.
“APIs are increasingly used by hackers to breach organizations and steal data. API infrastructures need strong cyber protection now,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, SVP, Identity Intelligence, Ping Identity. “With our PingIntelligence for APIs solution, organizations of all sizes have the ability to track the use of their APIs and automatically block identified API threats.”
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It’s time once again for the unveiling of the 12 Worst Financial Advisors in America. Last year’s rogues gallery was bad enough that we thought it would be good to keep tabs on these financial wrongdoers.
Thanks to the work of lawyer James A. Dunlap Jr., the principal at James A. Dunlap Jr. & Associates in Georgia, we were able to find more of the bad eggs, who frequently operate under the radar, that make it more difficult for the vast majority of hardworking financial advisors to earn a living.
This year, scams involving death were popular. One involved a company that claimed it was raising money to bid on cemeteries and the other involved theft from a trust of someone who had moved on to the great beyond.
Besides the oddballs, like the advisor who used astrology to choose stocks (it isn’t a good idea, it turns out), there was your typical hedge fund miscreant — that crime always seems to top the money list.
Charles wasn’t really an investment advisor, he was just pretending and that’s why he merits just an honorary spot on our list. If he had only bothered to get his certification he might have zoomed to the top because one of his victims was a woman who was widowed shortly after she forked over a cool $100,000, as reported by fox6now.com.
Charles’s scam was pretty basic. He sent postcards promising to make investments that would keep taxes down for retirees. According to the U.S. Postal inspector, no investments were made. In all, 22 people fell prey to the solicitation. Charles pleaded guilty last month to mail fraud and was ordered to make restitution. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
11. David Laurence Marion (Minneapolis)
Fraud: $2.7 million coin investment scam
Through the wonders of telemarketing, Marion managed to stack up a lot of coins: $24 million worth in annual revenue in 2009 alone, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. After that, the company’s revenues dropped like a sack of change even as gold and silver prices were out of sight. Laurence was indicted last November for fraud involving $2.7 million.
The indictment said Laurence used the money he took from clients and investors to bankroll his gambling habit. The meter is still running on his case.
A stockbroker, Bard was found guilty last month on 21 counts of fraud, involving bank, securities and wire, after a weeklong jury trial in Harrisburg, according to an article on Herald-Mail.com. Bard’s crimes seemed to be garden variety. He used his investment firm, Vision Specialist Group, to defraud 43 investors. The indictment had alleged Bard had lost millions in risky investments and then lied to investors.
Bard could receive 75 years in prison. No sentencing date on the 21 counts was set. Lawsuits and investigations turned up only about one-fifth of the ill-gotten gains from the sale of properties in New York City, Long Island and Florida, and season tickets to the New York Jets. Like the Jets, at this point there’s just not much left in the tank.
This entry is a twofer: partners in crime who led Grifphon Asset Management and Sasquatch Capital for decades. It was a sweet ride for Bruhn and his partner Yusaf Jawed as they raked in tens of millions of dollars from more than 100 investors and never bothered to invest it, according to the SEC.
The scheme came crashing down late last year with SEC charges and word of a criminal indictment. Jawed pleaded guilty to 17 counts of mail and wire fraud, the SEC said, and is awaiting sentencing in Oregon. The SEC accepted a settlement from Bruhn, the lesser light of the two, that barred him from working as a financial advisor.
The scheme included phony documents to show the firm was successful. They trumpeted lavish dinner and travel charges, fees paid to those who found investors and even the creation of a phony sexual harassment suit and settlement.
Evidently, investors took the last item as a sign the company was on the up and up.
The former Reno financial advisor pleaded guilty last week to taking $2 million from six investors, preying in particular on the elderly by persuading them to let him make investments through an e*Trade account that was outside his business. Lane’s wife sent the money to the account. Lane then withdrew it as he wanted to pay for personal expenses or to satisfy other investors. Lane was employed by Bank of America Investment Services in 2010 and 2011. The guilty plea was reported by mynews4.com.
Lane could get 20 years of prison time for each of 12 counts of mail fraud. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 16.
7. Robert Rome (Chicago)
Fraud: Embezzling $4.3 million from trust funds
Rome, managing partner of Rome Associates accounting firm, must have figured that dead men tell no tales. Rome, who was sentenced in August to more than five years in federal prison, for stealing money from trust funds, including the account of someone who had died. He used the money for vacations, cars, boats and jewelry for his family.
Besides the prison term, Rome was ordered to pay $1.7 million in federal taxes that had been skipped. The owners of the trusts got off pretty lucky: they were able to recover the embezzled money from third parties.
5. Richard A. Zakarian (Vermilion, Ohio)
Fraud: $4.4 million, including churches
If there is a special place in the afterlife for those who rip off those who try to help others, Zakarian, a tax consultant, has earned a spot by stealing money from business, charities and even churches. His victims numbered at least 10, according to newnet5.com, which quoted a statement from Steven Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio: "This defendant preyed on non-profits, churches and small businesses that struggled to make ends meet while making their communities better. He never meant to help them, only to defraud them. This was a systemic, deliberate pattern of behavior that took place over the years."
Zakarian was sentenced to 17½ years in prison in August after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud and one count of making and subscribing false income tax returns.
There’s a certain ick factor in scams involving cemeteries even if no bodies were involved. Alleca created Summit Investment, a fund of funds to attract wealthy investors. The plan worked well for a half a decade, although the underlying scam seems to have been made for Dracula. Alleca collected the cash with the stated intent to put it into other private investment funds to cut the risk for investors. He did it by funneling money to the company of an associate. Detroit Memorial was in the business (or so they said) of bidding on cemetery properties.
Where the money really went is unclear, but the losses piled up, hidden by phony accounting statements. More notes were sold. Then Alleca and his partners created two more funds to get loot to pay back investors from Summit. The long arm of the law caught up with Alleca late last year.
Fooshee, or whatever her name is, spent a long time stealing a small amount of money. For that, we’ll put her at No. 3. She used her advisory firm (which had its registration revoked in 2006) to bilk clients, including a retirement center where she was a volunteer bookkeeper. NJ.com reported that a grand jury indicted her last month on charges involving and creating false account statements to inflate by $1.2 million the amount in the accounts. The crimes occurred over a period of nine years.
Fooshee, who now lives in Maine, faces up to 10 years in prison and $150,000 in fines. He husband was also charged as an accomplice.
Persaud probably should have seen his downfall written in the stars. The former securities broker pleaded guilty last month to defrauding investors by using astrology to play the stock market.
Maybe investors should have been suspicious right from the start. Persaud named his brokerage the White Elephant Trading Co. Persaud was sent to prison for three years and ordered to pay back the money to investors, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Gennaco earns our top spot for having the temerity to steal from friends and family. Operating under a slew of names, Gennaco persuaded 40 investors, many of them friends and family, to hand over millions from 2001 to 2011 that he promised to invest in “life settlements” and other investments based in insurance. Instead, he used the money to pay for his living expenses in Winthrop and Jupiter, Fla.
Gennaco, according to Boston.com is remorseful. At least his lawyer says so. He probably is feeling bad now that he has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to 27 counts of mail and wire fraud in August. He was also ordered to pay restitution, although he is reportedly penniless. | http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2013/09/16/12-worst-financial-advisors-in-america-2013?t=risk-management%3Fref=nav |
At any point in time on any day of the week, Microsoft’s cloud computing operations are under cyber-attack: The company detects a whopping 1.5 million attempts a day to compromise its systems. The increased number of ransomware attacks begins with cybercriminals exploiting common cybersecurity errors, and breaching cloud applications which – if correctly managed – could prevent most victims from falling prey to attacks.
Microsoft analyzed anonymized data of real cyber threat activity and, according to the company’s fresh Cyber Signals report, found that over 80% of ransomware attacks can be traced to common configuration errors in software and devices. These consist of applications being left in their default state, allowing user-broad access across the network, security tools being left untested or misconfigured, cloud applications set up in a way that unauthorized intruders are easily getting permission to gain access, and organizations not applying Microsoft’s attack surface reduction rules, which allows attackers to run malicious code using macros and scripts. It’s these misconfigurations that ransomware attackers are looking for as they seek out vulnerable targets for cyber-attacks – often with the added threat of double extortion attacks, where cyber criminals steal sensitive data and threaten to publish it if their demands are not being paid.
Attackers have only been able to get into such as strong position because those responsible for defending networks don’t always have a full grasp on what they’re managing. On the other hand, Microsoft is not only fending off those attacks but also learning from them. All those foiled cyber-attacks, along with data about the hundreds of billions of emails and other pieces of information that flow to and from Microsoft’s cloud computing data centers, are constantly being fed into the company’s intelligent security graph. It’s a massive web of data that can be used to connect the dots between an email phishing scam out of Nigeria and a denial-of-service attack out of Eastern Europe, thwarting one attack for one customer and applying that knowledge to every customer using products including the company’s Azure cloud computing platform, Windows 10 operating system or Office 365 productivity service.
Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike presented his view “That’s what people often misunderstand about attacks – they don’t happen at the speed of light, it often takes months or years to get the right level of access in a network and ultimately to be able to push the trigger and cause a destructive act,”. That might appear like obvious advice, but in many cases, cyber-criminal and nation-state hackers have broken into corporate networks and remained there for a long time without being detected. Some of these campaigns call for intrusions into critical infrastructure where malicious hackers carry out damage which might turn into serious consequences in terms of cyber security. And going through deep knowledge of the Cloud applications network and being able to detect any suspicious or unexpected behavior seems the only way that can go a long way to detect and stop intrusions. “Defence can work if you have time. If you’re looking inside your systems, hunting for adversaries and applying intelligence, you’re able to discover them even if they get in before they do any damage,” Alperovitch adds.
Those cybersecurity threats have sky-high substantially in recent because criminals have built lucrative businesses from stealing data and nation-states have come to see cybercrime as an opportunity to acquire information, influence, and advantage over their rivals. This has made a path for potential catastrophic attacks such as the WannaCrypt ransomware campaign which was being displayed in recent headlines. This evolving threat landscape has begun to change the way customers view the cloud. “It was only a few years ago when most of my customer conversations started with, ‘I can’t go to the cloud because of security. It’s not possible,’” said Julia White, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Azure and security. “And now I have people, more often than not, saying, ‘I need to go to the cloud because of security.’”
It’s not an exaggeration to say that cloud computing is completely changing our society. It’s ending major industries such as the retail sector, enabling the type of mathematical computation that is uplifting an artificial intelligence revolution and even having a profound impact on how we communicate with friends, family, and colleagues.
On the one hand, individuals and companies have had to give up a measure of physical control that comes from knowing all their emails and family photos are on the hard drive of their home computer in the living room, and all their sales or payroll data are stored on servers physically located within company offices. But on the other hand, security experts say, the cloud has allowed companies like Microsoft to create much more sophisticated tools to guard against increasingly cunning attackers. That means instead of having to manage security completely on their own, companies also can rely on cloud service providers like Microsoft who have only one job — to keep your data secure.
Each organization should apply security patches and updates as quickly as possible to prevent cyber-attack and attackers from being able to exploit known vulnerabilities. | https://www.sdt.co.id/news/cloud-applications-are-the-major-catalyst-for-cyber-attacks-microsoft |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the network centric security market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes AdaptiveMobile with the 2013 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Visionary Innovation. The advent of the mobile Internet has far-reaching ramifications for the network security market; the most important one being the dawn of the 'borderless network,' a term coined by AdaptiveMobile to represent the growing interconnectedness of mobile and fixed networks.
The interconnectivity between fixed and mobile opens up mobile devices to low-cost scanning, spamming and malware attacks while the pervasiveness of networks makes the traditional borders of operator and legislative frameworks redundant. Emboldened by international borders reducing the chances of criminals being prosecuted, spammers from one country easily target foreign carriers, setting up an advanced fee fraud scam.
AdaptiveMobile has thrived in this environment by offering a wide-range of security solutions for enterprise and consumer subscribers, in fixed and mobile networks, encompassing multiple bearers (Web, e-mail, SMS, MMS, IM Apps and Voice). It protects 1 billion subscribers around the world and has been deployed at five out of the top 10 operator groups worldwide. Every day, AdaptiveMobile filters more than 2 billion SMS messages, secures 55 million e-mails, protects more than 18 billion instant messages and filters more than 8 billion Web requests.
AdaptiveMobile adopts a three-pronged approach to countering network security threats through its Network Plus® Protection Platform. It includes a security engine capable of performing passive monitoring, active controls and reputation-aware traffic acquisition; a security policy mechanism encompassing a policy server, subscriber self-care and remediation techniques; and a security analytics module, which can perform tasks such as threat analysis, reporting and retention.
"Furthermore, with the evolution to 4G, it is important to have a framework that can address a fundamental long-term evolution (LTE) challenge: the lack of standardization around application layer security. After a threat is detected, there are no standards-based mechanisms to alert other network nodes about the actions that need to be taken to mitigate that threat," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Ronald Gruia. "In order to tackle this issue, AdaptiveMobile has put together a set of guidelines for wireless carriers for either deploying green-field LTE networks or overlaying a security framework within current deployments."
AdaptiveMobile has demonstrated an ability to think ahead of hackers by focusing on future possible nodes of exploitation such as rich communication suite (RCS), which is a potential alternative to SMS, MMS and various IM services. Although the RCS opportunity remains nascent, the company is already investigating ways to detect and mitigate various attack vectors in this area.
"The benefits of AdaptiveMobile's network-centric security approach to an operator are manifold," noted Gruia. "By tackling all attack types, the company can play an instrumental role in reducing subscriber churn, enhancing the trust in the operator brand, encouraging the continued adoption of a new generation of 4G multimedia applications and significantly reducing losses due to cybercrimes."
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About AdaptiveMobileAdaptiveMobile is the world leader in mobile security, enabling trusted networks for the world's largest operator groups and protecting one billion subscribers globally, including over half of all smartphone subscribers in the United States. AdaptiveMobile provides Operators with the most comprehensive network-based security solutions enabling them to protect their consumer and enterprise customers against the growing threat of mobile abuse. www.adaptivemobile.com
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The automotive supply chain is susceptible to cyberattacks due to its inherent safety and reliability requirements, as well the range of data acquired from a layered network of OEMs with each one bringing different components, Clara Wood, automotive research leader at Kaspersky, tells CSO. “The sheer number of components talking to each other can provide an entry point if not properly protected. Any disruption or compromise of the supply chain can have severe consequences, but in the case of vehicles, the potential collateral damage could be very severe, including loss of life.”
As the sector rapidly evolves with the introduction of cutting-edge features and services such as autonomous driving, connected vehicles, electric vehicles, and shared mobility, it is likely to become a playground for malicious actors, Wood says. “Their motivations are likely to vary, encompassing financial gain through tactics like ransomware and IP theft, disruptive attacks, or even cyberattacks driven purely by malevolent intent.”
Securing automotive supply chain demands a layered, comprehensive approach
Securing the automotive supply chain in the modern digital landscape demands a layered, comprehensive approach, Wood says. “In the past, companies typically focused on protecting their immediate systems and networks. However, with the proliferation of connected devices and digital communication, this approach is no longer sufficient.”
Cybersecurity should be seamlessly integrated into all aspects of operations, in a collaborative manner where all suppliers, partners, and stakeholders share the same definition of cyber risk and are on the same page to ensure they all adhere to the highest cybersecurity standards, she adds. “An attack can start at any point in the chain from any supplier, however small, therefore proactively scrutinizing the partner network is absolutely crucial.”
Training and awareness programs are vital to ensure that everyone in the organization, as well as external partners, understands cybersecurity best practices. In addition, tailored threat intelligence reports can provide valuable insights into emerging threats from the dark web and trends specific to the automotive industry, enabling SOCs to protect their networks more effectively. “At the basic level, there is no replacement for patch management, network segmentation, and regular security assessments to set the foundation of a solid cybersecurity strategy,” Wood says. “This can be then fortified with continuous monitoring of the supply chain and having a well-defined incident response plan to react swiftly and effectively in the event of a security breach.”
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T-Mobile has proposed to settle its 2021 data breach by paying $350 million, along with an incremental spend of $150 million in security.
T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle class action claims related to a 2021 cyberattack which impacted around 80 million US residents. Under the proposed settlement, T-Mobile would also commit to an aggregate incremental spend of $150 million for data security and related technology in 2022 and 2023.
In August 2021, a hacker claimed to have stolen 100 million people’s data from T-Mobile’s servers. This included data like names, driver licenses, addresses, and social security numbers. Roughly 850k active prepaid accounts had account PINs exposed.
After the merger with Sprint in 2020, T-Mobile reported having a total of 102.1 million US customers. Despite the claims of the hacker, initial estimates said some 55 million individuals were impacted. Later that number was raised to 80 million.
The settlement
T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle multiple class-action suits stemming from the 2021 data breach. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, T-Mobile said the funds would pay for claims by class members, the legal fees of the plaintiffs’ counsel, and the costs of administering the settlement. It also said it would spend $150 million next year to fortify its data security and other technologies.
T-Mobile said the settlement contains no admission of liability, wrongdoing or responsibility by any of the defendants.
Creating a Cybersecurity Transformation Office that reports directly to the CEO, as well as adding more top talent with decades of cyber strategy experience and leadership to the team.
Engaging in long-term collaborations with industry experts to design strategies and execute plans to further transform the cybersecurity program.
Committing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to enhance its current cybersecurity tools and capabilities.
Conducting nearly 900,000 training courses for employees and partners across the company to understand their critical role in keeping safe.
Impact of data breaches
Data breaches are one of the most reported cyberattacks against businesses—regardless of size and industry. Nowadays, many ransomware attacks are accompanied with data exfiltration and leaks if the victim refuses to pay the ransom.
For many, a breach is proof that companies are not doing what they’re supposed to with their data, and that is to primarily secure it at all cost. Others will argue that a breach is not a matter of “if it happens” but “when it happens.” This, however, doesn't take away from the effort that must be put in to prevent breaches, nor does it lessen the impact it has on affected customers.
So, another good strategy is to have a clear vision of what data you really need from your customers and how long you want to keep hold of them. One of the reproaches against T-Mobile at the time was that a large part of the stolen data belonged to former and prospective customers. | https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/t-mobile-agrees-to-pay-customers-350-million-in-settlement-over-data-breach |
Creating a risk management strategy requires careful planning and execution when ensuring an effective and efficient corporate travel program. Companies that are not proactive in ensuring the health and safety of their business travelers, and that don’t have a comprehensive and strategic risk management procedures into their corporate travel policy make themselves exposed to a lot of financial and legal repercussions.
However, as the global tourism industry continues to diversify, it becomes more challenging for travel managers to ensure that all procedures included in their risk management strategy are implemented properly. Without the right tools and information given out to business travelers, they are much more likely to encounter problems during the trip. These bad experiences may not only affect their safety and comfort but also their productivity especially if the trip requires them to work and submit outputs.
To help you out, here is an infographic from Hyryde which discuss the tips to ensure an effective travel risk management implementation. | https://www.infographicportal.com/travel-risk-management-implementation/ |
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Seth Hanford - March 28, 2013 - 0 Comments Around 12:00 GMT March 16, 2013, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took offline both the spamhaus.org website and a portion of its e-mail services. SpamHaus was able to restore connectivity by March 18; however, SpamHaus is still weathering a massive, ongoing DDoS attack. The DDoS attacks have also had less severe but measurable consequences for the Composite Block List (CBL) as well as Project Honey Pot.
The attackers appear to have hijacked at least one of SpamHaus’ IP addresses via a maliciously announced BGP route and subsequently used a Domain Name System (DNS) server at the IP to return a positive result for every SpamHaus Domain Name System-based Block List (DNSBL) query. This caused all SpamHaus customers querying the rogue nameserver to erroneously drop good connections.
According to the New York Times, Sven Olaf Kamphuis is acting as a “spokesman for the attackers.” Kamphuis is allegedly associated with hosting provider “the CyberBunker,” which is housed in an old, five-story NATO bunker located in the Netherlands. CyberBunker has a reputation for “bulletproof hosting,” not only because of the physically fortified infrastructure, but also for their permissive terms of use, stating “Customers are allowed to host any content they like, except child porn and anything related to terrorism. Everything else is fine.” Kamphuis is also allegedly affiliated with the StopHaus group, which publicly claimed responsibility for the BGP hijack attack via Twitter. Attacks on networks at the London Internet Exchange (LINX), German Internet Exchange (DE-CIX), Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), and most recently, the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX) are reportedly causing Internet delays across the world. The DDoS is perpetrated via open DNS resolvers using a DNS reflection attack. The current volume of the DDoS is reported to be quite large, topping 140Gbps in some instances, while other reports suggest it may have been as high as 300+ Gbps. The DDoS appears largely directed at SpamHaus’ website, e-mail servers, and DNS IPs, or other connectivity. Reliable sources from within SpamHaus inform Cisco that the blacklist data and infrastructure where it is stored has not come under significant attack.
Other anti-spam organizations have been targeted, though none as heavily as SpamHaus. Both CBL and Project Honey Pot were affected by these same DDoS attacks, but their services appear to be operating normally once again.
DNS Reflection
DNS reflection attacks use open DNS resolvers. In a DNS reflection or amplification attack, the attacker issues a request to an open DNS resolver for some large set of data and spoofs the source IP of the victim. The DNS server responds by sending a large amount of data back to the victim’s IP. These types of DDoS attacks will only get worse until the open DNS resolvers around the Internet are closed. Cisco has some resources for how to protect against DDoS attacks, mitigate them with anycast, and secure DNS infrastructure, as well as those on protecting BGP and anti-spoofing countermeasures. Enabling IPS signatures for DNS flooding can also help prevent an organization from becoming an unwitting participant in the flood of traffic bound for the target.
The StopHaus group has set up a website and Twitter account where they have publicly expressed their dislike for SpamHaus and have claimed a role in the attacks.
A post from the StopHaus Twitter account on March 24 reads, “@cloudfare if you truely wanna stop DDoS attacks, routers all need to evenly spread cap on out interface. takes a few tb of ram for stats.” That tweet sounds strikingly similar to an e-mail sent by Kamphuis to the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) mailing list in February 2012 discussing DDoS attacks where Kamphuis states, in part, “there is a fix for it, it’s called ‘putting a f***ton of ram in -most- routers on the internet’ and keeping statistics for each destination… keyword here, is terabytes of ram.” That same post made to the NANOG mailing list links the cb3rob moniker with Sven Olaf Kamphuis. This link is further strengthened by a public Facebook page which also reflects the linkage with the CyberBunker. This moniker correlates with a StopHaus website page that seems to have a transcript of the interview with the New York Times.
No Cisco customers should be directly affected by the DDoS attack; however, network slowdowns or blockages may occur over some links as a result of competing with the DDoS traffic for limited bandwidth. Additionally, at no time were Cisco security devices affected by the BGP injection attack.
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On Thursday 25 March, Catalyst are to hold a webinar reviewing data protection for the Tech sector post-Brexit.
This webinar will tackle ongoing data protection issues NI companies face given the uncertainty over current EU-UK arrangements.
The UK is a major data hub accounting for 11.5% of global cross-border data flows compared to its 0.9 per cent of global population. Within Northern Ireland, the tech sector is flourishing thanks to its highly experienced workforce and cost-competitive location.
The smooth transfer of data between the EU and UK is vital for businesses on both sides. However, a post-Brexit EU-UK data agreement has yet been reached, with businesses seeking clarity on how data protection laws in NI may change over the coming years.
The event features three expert speakers from the Data Protection team of Cleaver Fulton Rankin, including Directors Aisling Byrne and Michael King alongside Associate Nathan Campbell. | https://www.londonderrychamber.co.uk/chamber-news/members-news/catalyst-hold-webinar-tackling-data-protection-for-the-tech-sector-post-brexit/ |
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Anyone who has installed HandBrake for Mac needs to verify their system is not infected with a Trojan. You have 50/50 chance if you’ve downloaded HandBrake during this period.”
If you have Handbrake installed on your Macs, you should check if it is compromised by this Trojan.
In the early Sunday morning of August 3, 2014, a tweet by Mike Evangelist was linked on Hacker News.
Lovely. My @Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker. Not what I wanted to do today. pic.twitter.com/YJ1VLeKqfY
I was somewhat scared by this news as some users at Synology forums reported that they were also victims of SynoLocker which is a CryptoLocker malware which specifically targets Synology NAS. I am managing numbers of Synology NAS for a few small offices and homes. Granted that none of them are directly connected to the Internet, but I have to make sure none of them would be hacked and crypto-locked.
Make sure your Synology NAS is running the latest DSM Operating System.
For now, disable the QuickConnect service.
Disable all port-forwarding if your Synology DiskStation is behind a NAT Firewall. This is a definite inconvenience; better to be safe than sorry.
More importantly, back-up the content of your Synology NAS. Should anything happen, you still have your data. My colleague has a great advice on backing up:
As always, if you have data on your Synology that you consider irreplaceable, make sure that you have it backed up to. I’d recommend using the built in Amazon S3 client. It’s cheap and fairly easy to set up, and should help you in case of a disaster.
I personally also run a backup to another hard drive locally for rapid recovery.
Malware comes with interesting way to deceive users that they are not malicious in any ways. This particular malware has a peculiar icon which looks like a folder marked “ENLISTED” and photo of U.S. Marine.
This particular malware bears filename of “svc-mdek.exe” which is classified as “Rogue. WindowsExpert” by MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. | http://37prime.com/news/tag/malware/ |
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Chances are good you’ve seen bar codes on products scanned at the cash register, but how about something called a QR code, a square looking code that is becoming popular.
“It’s a graphic that allows somebody with a smartphone to scan that and have them be directed to a website or receive some information on their phone that they can do something with,” says Kevin Gennuso, a cyber security expert.
Using a special app, smartphone users scan the QR code and the desired website pops up on their phone screen. KDKA Anchor Kimberly Gill even has a QR code on her business cards that when scanned link to her personal website.
But at a B-sides Pittsburgh cyber security conference on Friday, Eric Mikulas warned colleagues that some QR codes could lead to trouble.
“The danger especially with vulnerabilities and having smartphones everywhere is being led to malicious webpage and having whatever malicious payload they might have on there on your phone,” Mikulas told KDKA Money Editor Jon Delano.
Mikulas reported on his experiment, posting his QR code randomly and finding people just scanned them out the blue. In this case, they were lucky as the code led to his website where he told users — “You’ve been had.”
So if QR codes can damage, hurt, even steal from your smartphones, what can you do about it? How can you protect yourself?
Cyber security experts say there is really no clear answer.
“There’s no way for you to know until you scan it,” says Gennuso.
The best advice: know what you’re scanning.
“Use a little bit of thinking, a little bit of common sense to make sure the code that you’re scanning is the real thing from a trusted source,” he said. | http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/06/01/cyber-security-experts-warn-against-qr-codes/ |
All our E Cadudes came together with E Cadets from our consortium of schools (The Elfed, The Argoed, Mynydd Isa, Westwood, Mountain Lane and Drury) to discuss what they like and dislike about the Internet and Social Media.
Moving forward we will be developing an agreed Online Safety checklist to keep children and young people safe online.
We will also be gathering the views of all Young People and children across our school, through developing a questionnaire through Microsoft Forms.
E Cadet Zone If your child is a Digital Leader, you can follow the link below and it is on this webpage that your child can log in to their E Cadet account. | http://www.southdownprimaryschoolbuckley.co.uk/online-safety-ecadudes/ |
More than a quarter of Irish organsiations are providing no IT support or security for the personal devices workers use to access the company network. This is despite 85pc of firms knowing full well workers can access the company network this way.
The survey by DataSolutions on behalf of Citrix had an even more stark finding – 68pc of firms know staff walk around with private corporate (and potentially customer) information stored on their devices.
The study of close to 100 Irish senior IT executives found that only 14pc actually support 75pc of the devices accessing their networks.
A further 68pc say that corporate applications are stored on the personal devices of their workers.
BYOD = bring your own disasters?
“The emerging workforce are extremely savvy when it comes to technology and have grown up with mobile devices and phones as a part of everyday life,” said Francis O’Haire, a director with DataSolutions.
“It will be essential for businesses to take the steps to provide these future employees with a work environment that suits their expectations.”
More than 95pc of companies surveyed said smartphones and tablet computers – whether company or employee-owned – are in use in their organisations.
According to Grace O’Rourke Veitch, country manager with Citrix Ireland, despite the explosion of BYOD (bring your own device) policies in workplaces around Ireland and Europe, a surprising amount of companies do not have policies in place to protect their data and their customer’s data.
“Mobile personal devices that are outside the control and visibility of the company bring their own new set of security risks. Employees are bypassing the IT department and accessing the corporate network with their preferred communications tools, with the potential for privacy, compliance and risk-management issues.
“Keeping track of all devices on the corporate network, enabling permission-based access and ensuring the security of data should be top priority for any business. Having the appropriate technologies in place will help companies to securely manage the current trend towards the consumerisation of IT,” O’Rourke Veitch said. | https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/mobile-devices-put-25pc-of-irish-firms-at-risk-of-data-breach |
With the fast advancement of technology, many aspects of our daily lives have been affected. Technology has transformed almost everything- from our day-to-day activities, how we do business, and even our finances. And thus, the cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrency, more known as crypto, is a digital currency that uses a computer network instead of the usual central authorities like banks or the government. It also does not exist in physical form like paper money. Instead, it is encrypted, decentralized, and broadly distributed among cryptocurrency users over the internet.
People mostly use crypto as an investment, but it can also be used to purchase common goods and services. Records of crypto transactions are stored in a database called a blockchain.
What is a Blockchain?
A blockchain is an open, distributed ledger of cryptocurrency transactions stored in code. Each cryptocurrency user has a copy of the blockchain, and the software simultaneously updates every copy of it for each new transaction. It is protected with validation techniques to prevent fraud.
Because of the cruciality of blockchains in the crypto industry, hiring data engineers who can deliver is a must.
Where to find the right talent?
At the moment, cryptocurrency companies are challenged in finding the right talent for their business. With the expansive growth of this industry, more companies are now fighting over getting the people to do the job. Recruiting talents has been difficult, given the shortage of talent, skills gap, and increasing competition in the crypto businesses and other industries. Many cryptocurrency firms have resorted to attracting remote talents to address this predicament.
In Asia, Singapore is known as a melting pot for competitive talents. It has also become an emerging blockchain hub since many crypto companies set up an office there. At the same time, Blockchain Association Singapore has been providing various blockchain engineering courses and certifications to further develop in-demand skills like software engineering and roles in compliance and product development.
The Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Enterprises, another industry group, also offered support in bridging the skills gap by partnering with a private education institution in Singapore to launch a Diploma in Blockchain program. | https://www.mkcybersecurity.com/top-blockchain-developers-in-singapore/ |
Note 1: I am not suggesting that XML Encryption specify an API design, absolutely NOT! However, I don�t want XML Encryption to unnecessarily restrict API designs either.
Note 2: Slides with detailed code are included for completeness; they are not essential for understanding this topic.
Scenario A: The XML source has no encrypted parts and is protected through authorization instead. However, there is an authorized app which selects certain credit card info for processing. It wants to query elements and/or content, encrypt, and import the resulting element into a SOAP message.
Scenario B: The XML source has encrypted elements and content accessible by a number of applications. When one of these applications queries an encrypted element, that app needs to decrypt the element but MUST NOT modify the source.
Answer: Yes, one could create a dummy document and copy in the relevant elements before encrypting or decrypting and still conform to the XML Encryption spec as it currently stands. However, this would be inefficient and often inelegant.
Question: The example code you showed doesn�t deal with more complex context situations such as inherited namespaces, default attributes, etc.. How will those artifacts affect the no-replacement processing of <EncryptedData> elements?
Answer: I think this question will only be answered through more coding and application experience. There could be some issues that arise. | http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/Minutes/0720-Redwood/simon-outline.html |
This article is part of the March 2007 issue of Compliance vs. security: Prevent an either-or mentality
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PayPal's Michael Barrett says many firms fear misuse of shared cybersecurity data. He also discusses the evolution of PCI DSS and mobile payment security.
Cybergang plans to use Trojan against U.S. banks
A cybergang in Eastern Europe revealed plans to attack U.S. banks with a Gozi-like Trojan, according to RSA. | http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/ezine/Information-Security-magazine/Compliance-vs-security-Prevent-an-either-or-mentality/Risk-Policy-Elemental-Security-Platform-product-review |
By now, most Americans are used to hearing about how the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI collect massive amounts of personal information on millions of people, American or otherwise. Those are all Federal agencies. But what happens at the local or state level?
As it turns out, a recent EFF investigation has shown that a shady company called Fog Data Science provides state and local law enforcement with precise location data of hundreds of millions of Americans – often without a warrant. The data is collected through thousands of smartphone apps and aggregated by data brokers without any oversight or public disclosure.
In this post, we’re going to look at who Fog Data Science is, what they’re doing, and, to a limited degree, what you can do about it.
Fog Data Science explained
Fog Data Science is a data broker that purchases raw location data collected by popular (and less popular) smartphone and tablet applications. These apps continuously gather your device’s location information and sell that data to data brokers – like Fog Data Science. In most cases, that data is used to sell you stuff. It is most often sold to advertisers and marketing companies that will serve you location-based ads.
But Fog Data Science’s business model is somewhat different. According to some of the company’s internal documents obtained by EFF, Fog Data Science buys billions of data points sourced from tens of thousands of mobile applications from roughly 250 million devices across the United States. It then makes the data available to local and state law enforcement agencies for a subscription fee. That fee is typically between $6000 and $9000 and provides for 100 queries per month – with more queries available for additional fees.
The subscription service is called “Fog Reveal.” It provides a slick website to law enforcement, where they can perform lookups using latitude, longitude, timestamp, and device ID. Police can also access a device’s historical location data going back to 2017.
Area searches enable law enforcement to simply draw one or more boxes on the website’s map and display the location, time, and device ID of every device present in the geographical area within the selected timeframe. The documents remain silent on how large the selected geographical area for a given search can be.
Device searches, for their part, allow law enforcement to specify one or more devices they’re interested in along with a timeframe, and Fog Reveal displays a list of all the device(s)’ location signals and the associated time. Police can track a specific device’s location history over months and even years. And, as mentioned above, there’s no warrant or court order requirement for police to get their hands on this data trove.
In EFF’s words, “This means that police, sometimes without a warrant, have the ability to track the precise movements of hundreds of millions of Americans as they go about their day. This is mass surveillance, often with no judicial oversight.”
No need to worry, Fog Data Science claims it’s privacy-friendly…
Fog Data Science claims to respect user privacy(!) and that it never collects any personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses). But it does enable law enforcement to access historical location data for a given device. And by “historical,” I mean years’ worth of location data.
This allows for – and Fog Data Science explicitly mentions this in its marketing – “pattern of life” analysis. Pattern of life analysis tracks a device over time to reveal where its owner sleeps, studies, works, worships and otherwise associates with others. And yes, you guessed it, pattern of life analysis allows law enforcement to obtain the identity of the device owners – and quite trivially at that.
As the EFF states, having police look at a dot representing your phone on a map may not reveal your name and phone number, but when they follow that dot to where you sleep at night, they suddenly have your address. Not only that, over a decade ago, a study using a 15-month set of data culled from mobile phones found that they needed just four spatio-temporal points to identify 95% of the 1.5 million people in the data set.
So its privacy claims are dubious at best. That it would make such a claim despite being a surveillance company somewhat reminds me of that time in 2019 when Mark Zuckerberg tried to brand Facebook as a privacy champ. It was analogous to oil companies talking about their commitment to the environment or armament companies waxing about world peace – not exactly convincing.
What’s the harm?
We’ve all heard the misguided adages of those who favor giving up our privacy in the modern world. There’s the “They’re only doing it to sell me stuff” and its more philosophical counterpart, “I don’t care. I have nothing to hide”. Brilliant. Now let’s look at the actual harms that become possible when this kind of surveillance is left unchecked.
Allowing police to subscribe to Fog Data Science flies in the face of civil liberties. It’s illegal for police to demand location data from mobile service providers without a warrant, but this, apparently, enables law enforcement to bypass that requirement.
With a Google Maps-like user interface, police can select an area with their mouse and display all of the devices that were present during a protest, for example. They can then follow these people home and subject them to more “surveillance, harassment, and retribution.” For example, police can track devices that have been to a union meeting, a women’s health clinic, a rehab center, an immigration lawyer’s office, etc.
Then there are what I refer to as the circumstantial harms that come with such practices. Let’s say you randomly found yourself near a shop that got robbed or any event likely to come under police scrutiny. In those cases, police would easily be able to see your device was located in the crime’s vicinity and sign you up for more surveillance (without your knowledge or consent, of course).
You should disable ad tracking and its associated mobile ad identifier, which enables data brokers to link all the collected data to your specific device.
Try and limit the number of applications you install on your phone. Many apps collect as much data as possible despite the fact the collected information is not required for the app to function. Think of a puzzle game that requires your location.
Disable location services globally on your phone. Instructions on how to do this are found below.
If disabling location service globally is not feasible for you (i.e., you know some of the apps that you use require access to location services), it may be worth disabling location services for specific apps that don’t actually need location services to function correctly (though they may still collect it). Instructions on how to do this are also found below.
Select Location Services. Under Share My Location is a list of apps that currently have access to location services. Select Select App permissions. A list of apps that currently have access to location services is displayed. Select the app you want to disable.
Select the Deny option to make sure the app won’t be able to access your location even with location services (the general option) enabled.
Select Location. Towards the bottom of the page, you’ll see a list of Google location services.
Select each one of them and toggle the switch to Off.
Wrapping Up
So that’s Fog Data Science, and you certainly want to feed it as little data as possible. But indiscriminate surveillance is difficult to avoid because it’s ubiquitous. So while the above measures will help, the internet will remain a hostile place regarding user privacy. We’ve been aware of the issue for a long time, but we don’t appear to be making much headway.
While we can provide tips and tricks to mitigate this kind of data collection all day long, it’s unlikely to change much. What we need is legislation. We’re going to need governments to step in and put forth laws that bar government agencies from purchasing location data in the first place if we want meaningful protection from these harms.
We would also need consumer data privacy legislation that actually has teeth and is enforceable. And, while we’re at it, how about a ban on online behavioral advertising? That would have the benefit of significantly limiting the amount of location data made available to data brokers.
Until then, we have little choice but to rummage through our device’s settings to turn off as many data faucets as possible and hope for the best. But hey, at least we can’t say we weren’t born in interesting times, right? | https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/fog-data-science/ |
CISOs do not know how effective their security controls actually are. Regardless of information asset value, spending, or number of incidents observed, nearly every company rated its security controls to be equally effective — even though the number and cost of incidents varied widely. Even enterprises with a high number of incidents are still likely to imagine that their programs are “very effective.” We concluded that most enterprises do not actually know whether their data security programs work or not.
Buyers remain uninformed, something we both agree on. Curiously, it isn't an entirely good match for Akerlof, as the buyer of a Lemon is uninformed before, and regrettably over-informed afterwards. No such for the CISO.
Which leaves me with an empirical problem: how to show that the sellers are uninformed? I provide some anecdotes in that paper, but we would need more to settle the prediction.
It should be possible to design an experiment to reveal this. For example, and drawing on the above logic, if a researcher were to ask similar questions of both the buyer and the seller, and be able to show lack of correlation between the supplier's claims, and the incident rate, that would say something.
The immediate problem of course is, who would do this? Microsoft and RSA aren't going to, as they are sell-side, and their research was obviously focussed on their needs. Which means, it might be entirely accurate, but might not be entirely complete; they aren't likely to want to clearly measure their own performance.
And, if there is one issue that is extremely prevalent in the world of information security, it is the lack of powerful and independent buy-side institutions who might be tempted to do independent research on the information base of the sellers.
Oh well. moving on to the other conclusions:
Secrets comprise two-thirds of the value of firms’ information portfolios.
Compliance, not security, drives security budgets.
Firms focus on preventing accidents, but theft is where the money is.
The more valuable a firm’s information, the more incidents it will have.
The second and third were also predicted in that paper.
The last is hopefully common sense, but unfortunately as someone used to say, common sense isn't so common. Which brings me to Matt Blaze's rather good analysis of the threats to the net in 1995, as an afterword to Applied Cryptography, the seminal red book by Bruce Schneier:
One of the most dangerous aspects of cryptology (and, by extension, of this book), is that you can almost measure it. Knowledge of key lengths, factoring methods, and cryptanalytic techniques make it possible to estimate (in the absence of a real theory of cipher design) the "work factor" required to break a particular cipher. It's all too tempting to misuse these estimates as if they were overall security metrics for the systems in which they are used. The real world offers the attacker a richer menu of options than mere cryptanalysis; often more worrisome are protocol attacks, Trojan horses, viruses, electromagnetic monitoring, physical compromise, blackmail and intimidation of key holders, operating system bugs, application program bugs, hardware bugs, user errors, physical eavesdropping, social engineering, and dumpster diving, to name just a few.
Right. It must have not escaped anyone by now that the influence of cryptography has been huge, but the success in security has been minimal. Cryptography has not really been shown to secure our interactions that much, having missed the target as many times as it might have hit it. And with the rise of phishing and breaches and MITBs and trojans and so forth, we are now in the presence of evidence that the institutions of strong cryptography have cemented us into a sort of Maginot line mentality. So it may be doing more harm than good, although such a claim would need a lot of research to give it some weight.
I tried to research this a little in Pareto-secure, in which I asked why the measurements of crypto-algorithms received such slavish attention, to the exclusion of so much else? I found an answer, at least, and it was a positive, helpful answer. But the far bigger question remains: what about all the things we can't measure with a bit-ruler?
Poorly understood protocol and service interactions.
Unrealistic threat and risks assessment.
Interfaces that make security expensive and special.
No broad-based demand for security.
In 2010, today more or less, he said "not much has changed." We live in a world where if MD5 is shown to be a bit flaky because it has less bits than SHA1, the vigilantes of the net launch pogroms on the poor thing, committees of bitreaucrats write up how MD5-must-die, and the media breathlessly runs around claiming the sky will fall in. Even though none of this is true, and there is no attack possible at the moment, and when the attack is possible, it is still so unlikely that we can ignore it ... and even if it does happen, the damages will be next to zero.
Meanwhile, if you ask for a user-interface change, because the failure of the user-interface to identify false end-points has directly led to billions of dollars of damages, you can pretty much forget any discussion. For some reason, bit-strength dominates dollars-losses, in every conversation.
I used to be one of those who gnashed my teeth at the sheer success of Applied Cryptography, and the consequent generation of crypto-amateurs who believed that the bit count was the beginning and end of all. But that's unfair, as I never got as far as reading the afterword, and the message is there. It looks like Bruce made a slight error, and should have made Matt Blaze's contribution the foreword, not the afterword.
A one-word error in the editorial algorithm! I must write to the committee...
Afterword: rumour has it that the 3rd edition of Applied Cryptography is nearing publication. | http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001235.html |
Is anyone here using ESET Internet security products?.
Personally i am using Smart Security, and i love it. It's super lite on system resources. I can't even tell it's running in the background.
The question is how long ago you were using ESET?.
I have started their products this year and no issues at all.
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Since 8 years........ The best version was NOD32 Antivirus v2........it was the lightest and most secure........ then v3 came.......then v4 was still light.... then v5.......bit heavier.......then v6.......slightly heavier but was ok........then v7 and 8......simply unacceptable by any standards.....
now what's light to you might not seem light to me..... it's all about how we use our systems and I as a professional performance tweaker and perfectionist, can notice the slightest slowness to my machine.....
but again.......all that matters is if you are happy.....then who cares what I or others say....enjoy your ESET smart security....... to me..... I have a 5 user / 2 year license that is collecting dust now since when I install ESET NOD32. I feel like I downgraded my internet connection and my laptop specs........now ESET Internet Security is another thing. that's even heavier I would never dare to go near that thing....
I always let ESET know when I have a problem. If I had performance issue I would report it to them right away.
I suggest you guys do the same, if they don't know about it then they can't fix it.
@Mortal Raptor Continue to work with ESET on your issue here please to hopefully get it sorted: https://forum.eset.com/topic/3579-stuttering-in-streaming-videos/
LOL I know that, but I have 10, and so it would be harder for me to discover any significant drop in speed as it is much slower to begin with. 140 to 20 is a much bigger drop for you, than let's say 10 down to 9 or 8 for me.
Do you understand my example now? And "superssjdan" that also have a 150/150 connection said that he does not see any drops like that. So not sure what to make of it. It would of course be good if anyone can reproduce it and work with ESET on this to hopefully get it solved.
I am using Smart Security from v7 continuously. And never faced any issue. v8 doesn't add any weight to the system. Windows v8.1 64 bit here.
Able to buffer videos with out any issues or load sites instantaneously.
Only times i see the issue with slowing down the internet connection, i had to restart router (not the system ) once in 2-4 days.
For those who are having issues with video streaming, it could be the website it's self. For instance YouTube is one of those sites that is having a problem with buffering. Also it could be other Internet security products causing an issue. its every website not just a few.... any video playback is terrible. again i love eset and really hate to say this but it is the truth. no other security software installed tested on a fresh windows 7 install without ANY additional software install at all only windows 7 main drivers and updates. nothing else. since i switched my personal laptop to avira i do not see this issue at all not even one time. | https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/eset-internet-security-products.370203/ |
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TORONTO, Sept. 27, 2022: A new poll on cyber security from RBC shows that while most Canadians (71 per cent) are knowledgeable about various types of cyber threats to their personal information, nearly half of Canadians (47 per cent) are worried that they will be a victim of cybercrime in the coming year.
“As Canadians live more of their life online, cybercrime has also grown year over year and become more sophisticated,” says Adam Evans, Chief Information Security Officer, RBC. “The poll reveals that despite a high level of concern, most Canadians have not yet taken steps to protect themselves and might struggle to recover from a cyber-attack.”
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Cyber criminals have become more sophisticated and continuously evolve. While most people are aware of better-known cyber threats such as malware (60 per cent), phishing (56 per cent) and ransomware (47 per cent) there is lower awareness of newer threats. Only (30 per cent) were aware of pharming and vishing (28 per cent) giving these activities the potential to do more harm.
Pharming is the practice of redirecting internet users to a fake website in order to steal personal credentials. With vishing, criminals call or leave voicemails claiming to be representatives of a reputable company in an attempt to gain banking or other credentials.
Preparing for a cyber-attack
Across all age groups, two thirds (65 per cent) agree they need to develop a personal recovery plan. Yet despite their concerns, just 8 per cent have cyber protection through an insurance policy.
The poll also revealed that older Canadians aged 55+ are much more likely to be concerned about cyber threats and are especially concerned about unauthorized access to online accounts or personal information (83 per cent), having their email or social media account hacked (76 per cent), or being a victim of online fraud and scam (76 per cent).
When it comes to simple steps to protect against cybercrime, the poll revealed that only half of Canadians use antivirus software (50 per cent) or have multi-factor authentication (49 per cent) as security measures. Just over two in five change their passwords periodically (46 per cent) or use a strong password generator (42 per cent).
Younger people in the 18-34 age group are significantly more likely than their older counterparts to say they are knowledgeable about most threats to their safety and security of their personal information. However, they are not more likely to take protective measures:
Only 34 per cent of people in the 18-34 age group have updated antivirus software installed on their devices and only 35 per cent change their passwords periodically.
Keep your banking information secure: use a unique and strong password for each account. Consider using a strong password generator or create long passwords that use multiple phrases that you can remember.
Steer clear of public Wi-Fi: avoid shopping online over a public network even if it is reputable and password protected. Consider using a VPN if you plan to use private credentials to access a website or app while on a public network. Be aware of people looking over your shoulder or surveillance cameras when entering login or banking information in a public setting.
Be wary of phone, SMS and email messages: there are many different types of scams that target people using social media, dating sites, email or by phone. Generally, these attacks attempt to acquire banking info for an immediate or urgent payment. Other types ask for an individual to confirm and/or reset their login ID and password in order to steal account credentials.
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Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Cyber Security Architect to join our team in the Reston VA area to provide unparalleled support to our customer and to begin an exciting and rewarding career within ManTech.
The Cyber Security Architect provides support to the DHS customer and ManTech, focused on providing subject matter expertise to develop and architect the next generation of cybersecurity in support of DHS CDM Program.
Demonstrated experience in security solution design using existing and emerging technologies to achieve enterprise solutions.
A minimum six years of experience working with Security Authorization requirements, developing and enhancing the security risk posture, and analysis and reporting of IT security metrics.
A minimum of four years of experience in security policy and emerging cybersecurity technologies.
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Parameters can be filtered to a specific sheet and/or range of cells, if needed.
Built-in and custom document properties leverage the “Sheet” property to define which property to analyze.
Using the configurable grid, you can adjust levels as needed. Material goes by rows, and Complexity goes by columns. You define the Risk level at each intersecting point.
Files that score high in Materiality and Complexity would normally by High risk files, and files that score low in Materiality and Complexity would be Low risk files. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/spreadsheet_controls/2013/07/19/discovery-and-risk-assessment-server-2013-risk-configuration/ |
CARTES AND IDENTIFICATION 2011, PARIS, FRANCE, November 14, 2011 - INSIDE Secure and Integrated Device Technology (NASDAQ: IDTI) today announced that the two companies have collaborated to bring to market a compact, single-package secure microcontroller and oscillator solution that significantly reduces the bill of materials when designing USB tokens for authentication and digital signatures. Available now in either an SOIC8 or QFN20 package, the INSIDE/IDT offering combines the security, cryptography and connectivity features of the high-performance, low-power INSIDE Secure AT90SO72 secure microcontroller with the stability of the ultra-low power IDT 3MN11G CrystalFree(tm) CMOS oscillator to create the perfect solution for applications where low cost and reduced size are most critical.
"Based on customer feedback, INSIDE has optimized the size and cost of the AT90SO72 to make it particularly well-suited as a secure microcontroller to drive USB authentication and signature tokens," said Christian Fleutelot, general manager, VaultIC SAS business unit and executive vice president for digital security at INSIDE Secure. "Guided by the same strategy, we have now partnered with IDT to provide a very compact solution that makes the design of USB secure smart objects much easier and cost effective."
The INSIDE AT90SO72 is based on a high-performance, low-power, 8/16-bit enhanced RISC CPU and is Common Criteria EAL5+ ready. It features a hardware random number generator, hardware AES (128-, 192- and 256-bit key supported), DES and triple DES. The AT90SO72 also includes the exclusive INSIDE Ad-X(tm)2 advanced hardware crypto accelerator, which supports RSA up to 4096 bits, DSA, Diffie-Hellman and all FIPS-recommended elliptic curves up to 1024 bits. Key generation also is supported for both RSA and ECC.
The AT90SO72 offers a USB 2.0 interface with six software-configurable data transfer endpoints with in-or-out directions for bulk, interrupt or isochronous transfers. The flexible I/O options also include a master/slave SPI controller, I2C (two-wire) controller, up to seven GPIO lines and an ISO 7816 interface. The AT90SO72 features 288K bytes of ROM and 72K bytes of high-density EEPROM, which can be mapped as part of the program memory to provide a highly flexible and cost-effective solution for many applications.
"As the recognized leader in silicon timing, IDT is constantly expanding its product and technology portfolio. The CrystalFree CMOS oscillators are an ideal example of a compelling customer timing solution," said Scott Hills, marketing director of the Silicon Frequency Control Product Line at IDT. "We are pleased that INSIDE Secure selected IDT's CMOS oscillator for USB token solutions where low power and small package size are crucial."
The IDT 3MN-series belongs to a revolutionary product family of ultra-low power monolithic CMOS ICs that replaces quartz crystal-based resonators and oscillators at the thinnest possible form factors without the use of any mechanical frequency source or PLL. These innovative devices empower system designers to integrate bare-dice into thin multi-die packages, or chip-on-board multi-die solutions. The IDT 3MN-series is optimized to work with USB 2.0 full/low speed and USB-InterChip (USB-IC) interface controller ICs, and high-density SIM and smart cards. It features a total frequency accuracy of 2000 ppm over the industrial temperature range with an active-mode supply current of about 2 mA.
Availability and Pricing The INSIDE AT90SO72 is available now with the IDT 3MN11G oscillator in standard, RoHS-compliant SOIC-8 (5x5 mm) and QFN-20 (4x4 mm) packages. Please contact INSIDE Secure for configuration and pricing information.
About INSIDE Secure INSIDE Secure is a leading designer, developer and supplier of semiconductors, embedded software and platforms for secure transactions and digital security. INSIDE mobile NFC, secure payment and digital security products provide security for a wide range of information processing, storage and transmission applications. The company's customers are found in a wide range of markets including mobile payment, identification documents, access control, transit, electronic device manufacturing, pay television and mobile service operators. For more information visit www.insidesecure.com.
About IDT Integrated Device Technology, Inc., the Analog and Digital Company(tm), develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers' applications. IDT uses its market leadership in timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing and sales facilities throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market(r) under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Secure your Social Security number (SSN). Don’t carry your Social Security card in your wallet or write your number on your checks. Only give out your SSN when absolutely necessary.
Don’t respond to unsolicited requests for personal information (your name, birthdate, Social Security number, or bank account number) by phone, mail, or online.
Contact the three credit reporting agencies to request a freeze of your credit reports.
Collect mail promptly. Place a hold on your mail when you are away from home for several days.
Pay attention to your billing cycles. If bills or financial statements are late, contact the sender.
Enable the security features on mobile devices, especially if you have contacts, banking websites and applications saved.
Update sharing and firewall settings when you're on a public wi-fi network. Consider using a virtual private network, which can give you the privacy of secured private network.
Review your credit card and bank account statements. Promptly compare receipts with account statements. Watch for unauthorized transactions.
Shred receipts, credit offers, account statements, and expired credit cards, to prevent “dumpster divers” from getting your personal information.
Store personal information in a safe place.
Install firewalls and virus-detection software on your home computer.
Create complex passwords that identity thieves cannot guess easily. Change your passwords if a company that you do business with has a breach of its databases
Review your credit report once a year to be certain that it doesn't include accounts that you have not opened. You can order it for free from Annualcreditreport.com. | https://www.pvenw.org/articles/prevent-identity-theft |
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Revision Note: V3.0 (September 6, 2011): Revised to announce the release of an update that addresses this issue.
Summary: Microsoft is aware of active attacks using at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar, a certification authority present in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities Store. A fraudulent certificate could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against all Web browser users including users of Internet Explorer. While this is not a vulnerability in a Microsoft product, this issue affects all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. | https://windowsforum.com/threads/microsoft-security-advisory-2607712-fraudulent-digital-certificates-could-allow-spoofing-versio.72580/ |
This year’s sudden, unexpected need for cloud capabilities has helped to shift a very important learning to the forefront: Privacy and security are not corners you can cut. While the need to quickly migrate to the cloud is understandable, it is just as important to implement the necessary steps to reduce the risk of data exposure.
At the beginning of each year, experts from across industries share predictions, highlighting what they believe will be the biggest trends in the coming 12 months. It is fair to say that 2020 has thrown quite a curveball, creating business needs that none of us could have predicted. Take corporate America’s rapid transition to a nearly exclusive remote work environment, which has forced many businesses to accelerate cloud migration plans to ensure productivity and business continuity.
With this in mind, forward-thinking organizations are taking specific steps to address immediate and long-term privacy and security needs. Such steps include taking a DataSecOps approach, supplementing security with privacy, and creating data-focused leadership roles. | https://baffle.io/news/readjusting-cloud-and-data-privacy-predictions/ |
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I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new mobile phone accounts in the names of people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself.
Carrie Kerskie is director of the Identity Fraud Institute at Hodges University in Naples. A big part of her job is helping local residents respond to identity theft and fraud complaints. Kerskie said she’s had multiple victims in her area recently complain of having cell phone accounts opened in their names even though they had already frozen their credit files at the big three credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian and Trans Union (as well as distant fourth bureau Innovis).
The freeze process is designed so that a creditor should not be able to see your credit file unless you unfreeze the account. A credit freeze blocks potential creditors from being able to view or “pull” your credit file, making it far more difficult for identity thieves to apply for new lines of credit in your name.
But Kerskie’s investigation revealed that the mobile phone merchants weren’t asking any of the four credit bureaus mentioned above. Rather, the mobile providers were making credit queries with the National Consumer Telecommunications and Utilities Exchange (NCTUE), or nctue.com.
Source: nctue.com “We’re finding that a lot of phone carriers — even some of the larger ones — are relying on NCTUE for credit checks,” Kerskie said. “It’s mainly phone carriers, but utilities, power, water, cable, any of those, they’re all starting to use this more.”
The NCTUE is a consumer reporting agency founded by AT&T in 1997 that maintains data such as payment and account history, reported by telecommunication, pay TV and utility service providers that are members of NCTUE.
Who are the NCTUE’s members? If you call the 800-number that NCTUE makes available to get a free copy of your NCTUE credit report, the option for “more information” about the organization says there are four “exchanges” that feed into the NCTUE’s system: the NCTUE itself; something called “Centralized Credit Check Systems“; the New York Data Exchange; and the California Utility Exchange.
According to a partner solutions page at Verizon, the New York Data Exchange is a not-for-profit entity created in 1996 that provides participating exchange carriers with access to local telecommunications service arrears (accounts that are unpaid) and final account information on residential end user accounts.
The NYDE is operated by Equifax Credit Information Services Inc. (yes, that Equifax). Verizon is one of many telecom providers that use the NYDE (and recall that AT&T was the founder of NCTUE).
The California Utility Exchange collects customer payment data from dozens of local utilities in the state, and also is operated by Equifax (Equifax Information Services LLC).
Google has virtually no useful information available about an entity called Centralized Credit Check Systems. It’s possible it no longer exists. If anyone finds differently, please leave a note in the comments section.
When I did some more digging on the NCTUE, I discovered…wait for it…Equifax also is the sole contractor that manages the NCTUE database. The entity’s site is also hosted out of Equifax’s servers. Equifax’s current contract to provide this service expires in 2020, according to a press release posted in 2015 by Equifax.
RED LIGHT. GREEN LIGHT. RED LIGHT.
Fortunately, the NCTUE makes it fairly easy to obtain any records they may have on Americans. Simply phone them up (1-866-349-5185) and provide your Social Security number and the numeric portion of your registered street address.
Assuming the automated system can verify you with that information, the system then orders an NCTUE credit report to be sent to the address on file. You can also request to be sent a free “risk score” assigned by the NCTUE for each credit file it maintains.
The NCTUE also offers an online process for freezing one’s report. Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, the process for ordering a freeze through the NCTUE appears to be completely borked at the moment, thanks no doubt to Equifax’s well documented abysmal security practices.
Alternatively, it could all be part of a willful or negligent strategy to continue discouraging Americans from freezing their credit files (experts say the bureaus make about $1 for each time they sell your file to a potential creditor).
On April 29, I had an occasion to visit Equifax’s credit freeze application page, and found that the site was being served with an expired SSL certificate from Symantec (i.e., the site would not let me browse using https://). This happened because I went to the site using Google Chrome, and Google announced a decision in September 2017 to no longer trust SSL certs issued by Symantec prior to June 1, 2016.
Google said it would do this starting with Google Chrome version 66. It did not keep this plan a secret. On April 18, Google pushed out Chrome 66. Despite all of the advance warnings, the security people at Equifax apparently missed the memo and in so doing probably scared most people away from its freeze page for several weeks (Equifax fixed the problem on its site sometime after I tweeted about the expired certificate on April 29).
That’s because when one uses Chrome to visit a site whose encryption certificate is validated by one of these unsupported Symantec certs, Chrome puts up a dire security warning that would almost certainly discourage most casual users from continuing.
The insecurity around Equifax’s own freeze site likely discouraged people from requesting a freeze on their credit files.
On May 7, when I visited the NCTUE’s page for freezing my credit file with them I was presented with the very same connection SSL security alert from Chrome, warning of an invalid Symantec certificate and that any data I shared with the NCTUE’s freeze page would not be encrypted in transit.
The security alert generated by Chrome when visiting the freeze page for the NCTUE, whose database (and apparently web site) also is run by Equifax.
When I clicked through past the warnings and proceeded to the insecure NCTUE freeze form (which is worded and stylized almost exactly like Equifax’s credit freeze page), I filled out the required information to freeze my NCTUE file. See if you can guess what happened next.
Yep, I was unceremoniously declined the opportunity to do that. “We are currently unable to service your request,” read the resulting Web page, without suggesting alternative means of obtaining its report. “Please try again later.”
The message I received after trying to freeze my file with the NCTUE.
This scenario will no doubt be familiar to many readers who tried (and failed in a similar fashion) to file freezes on their credit files with Equifax after the company divulged that hackers had relieved it of Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth and other sensitive data on nearly 150 million Americans last September. I attempted to file a freeze via the NCTUE’s site with no fewer than three different browsers, and each time the form reset itself upon submission or took me to a failure page.
So let’s review. Many people who have succeeded in freezing their credit files with Equifax have nonetheless had their identities stolen and new accounts opened in their names thanks to a lesser-known credit bureau that seems to rely entirely on credit checking entities operated by Equifax.
“This just reinforces the fact that we are no longer in control of our information,” said Kerskie, who is also a founding member of Griffon Force, a Florida-based identity theft restoration firm.
I find it difficult to disagree with Kerskie’s statement. What chaps me about this discovery is that countless Americans are in many cases plunking down $3-$10 per bureau to freeze their credit files, and yet a huge player in this market is able to continue to profit off of identity theft on those same Americans.
· The National Consumer Telecom and Utilities Exchange, Inc. (NCTUE) is a nationwide, member-owned and operated, FCRA-compliant consumer reporting agency that houses both positive and negative consumer payment data reported by its members, such as new connect requests, payment history, and historical account status and/or fraudulent accounts. NCTUE members are providers of telecommunications and pay/satellite television services to consumers, as well as utilities providing gas, electrical and water services to consumers.
· This information is available to NCTUE members and, on a limited basis, to certain other customers of NCTUE’s contracted exchange operator, Equifax Information Services, LLC (Equifax) – typically financial institutions and insurance providers. NCTUE does not include Equifax credit information, and Equifax is not a member of NCTUE, nor does Equifax own any aspect of NCTUE. NCTUE does not provide telecommunications pay/ satellite television or utility services to consumers, and consumers do not apply for those services with NCTUE.
· As a consumer reporting agency, NCTUE places and lifts security freezes on consumer files in accordance with the state law applicable to the consumer. NCTUE also maintains a voluntary security freeze program for consumers who live in states which currently do not have a security freeze law.
· NCTUE is a separate consumer reporting agency from Equifax and therefore a consumer would need to independently place and lift a freeze with NCTUE.
· While state laws vary in the manner in which consumers can place or lift a security freeze (temporarily or permanently), if a consumer has a security freeze on his or her NCTUE file and has not temporarily lifted the freeze, a creditor or other service provider, such as a mobile phone provider, generally cannot access that consumer’s NCTUE report in connection with a new account opening. However, the creditor or provider may be able to access that consumer’s credit report from another consumer reporting agency in order to open a new account, or decide to open the account without accessing a credit report from any consumer reporting agency, such as NCTUE or Equifax.
PLACING THE FREEZE
I was able to successfully place a freeze on my NCTUE report by calling their 800-number — 1-866-349-5355. The message said the NCTUE might charge a fee for placing or lifting the freeze, in accordance with state freeze laws.
Depending on your state of residence, the cost of placing a freeze on your credit file at Equifax, Experian or Trans Union can run between $3 and $10 per credit bureau, and in many states the bureaus also can charge fees for temporarily “thawing” and removing a freeze (according to a list published by Consumers Union, residents of four states — Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, South Carolina — do not need to pay to place, thaw or lift a freeze).
While my home state of Virginia allows the bureaus to charge $10 to place a freeze, for whatever reason the NCTUE did not assess that fee when I placed my freeze request with them. When and if your freeze request does get approved using the NCTUE’s automated phone system, make sure you have pen and paper or a keyboard handy to jot down the freeze PIN, which you will need in the event you ever wish to lift the freeze. When the system read my freeze PIN, it was read so quickly that I had to hit “*” on the dial pad several times to repeat the message.
It’s frankly absurd that consumers should ever have to pay to freeze their credit files at all, and yet a recent study indicates that almost 20 percent of Americans chose to do so at one or more of the three major credit bureaus since Equifax announced its breach last fall. The total estimated cost to consumers in freeze fees? $1.4 billion.
A bill in the U.S. Senate that looks likely to pass this year would require credit-reporting firms to let consumers place a freeze without paying. The free freeze component of the bill is just a tiny provision in a much larger banking reform bill — S. 2155 — that consumer groups say will roll back some of the consumer and market protections put in place after the Great Recession of the last decade.
“It’s part of a big banking bill that has provisions we hate,” said Chi Wu, a staff attorney with the National Consumer Law Center. “It has some provisions not having to do with credit reporting, such as rolling back homeowners disclosure act provisions, changing protections in [current law] having to do with systemic risk.”
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) has offered a bill (S. 2362) that would invert the current credit reporting system by making all consumer credit files frozen by default, forcing consumers to unfreeze their files whenever they wish to obtain new credit. Meanwhile, several other bills would impose slightly less dramatic changes to the consumer credit reporting industry.
Wu said that while S. 2155 appears steaming toward passage, she doubts any of the other freeze-related bills will go anywhere.
“None of these bills that do something really strong are moving very far,” she said.
I should note that NCTUE does offer freeze alternatives. Just like with the big four, NCTUE lets consumers place a somewhat less restrictive “fraud alert” on their file indicating that verbal permission should be obtained over the phone from a consumer before a new account can be opened in their name.
Here is a primer on freezing your credit file with the big three bureaus, including Innovis. This tutorial also includes advice on placing a security alert at ChexSystems, which is used by thousands of banks to verify customers that are requesting new checking and savings accounts. In addition, consumers can opt out of pre-approved credit offers by calling 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688), or visit optoutprescreen.com.
Oh, and if you don’t want Equifax sharing your salary history over the life of your entire career, you might want to opt out of that program as well.
Equifax and its ilk may one day finally be exposed for the digital dinosaurs that they are. But until that day, if you care about your identity you now may have another freeze to worry about. And if you decide to take the step of freezing your file at the NCTUE, please sound off about your experience in the comments below.
Successfully placed a freeze, and requested a report and “score”, at about 1400 hours EDT today, Sunday May 13, via their on-line website.
I have no idea if it “took”, of course, but I did get an immediate e-mail reply with the un-freeze PIN and other information.
I was able to freeze NCTUE on their website.
I also noticed a drop down menu at the top of the form where you can choose NCTUE, Centralized Credit Check System, California Utility Exchange, or New York Data Exchange.
However when I tried the other 3 and filled out the freeze form, I got an error. I hope that is because they don’t have a record of me. In the case of CA or NY it would make sense because I don’t live in either state.
In Australia we cannot freeze access to credit reports for more than a few weeks…then its unfrozen again regardless of what you want.
Writing to the politicians gets responses stating the current rules.
Seems to complex for them to understand or maybe that just don’t care about it.
It’s reasonable for lenders to want to share with other lenders what they know about my being a deadbeat. And it’s OK for me to want to use that system to prevent crooks from opening accounts in my name, by putting a freeze on my report. But it’s unnaturally oblique to achieve this by saying, “Don’t tell anybody about my history as a deadbeat,” which is what the freeze is doing.
What I really want, and what you probably really want, too, is a way to say, the real Me is the person who knows this PIN, or that cryptographic key, or some other method of proving identity, and if you open an account for somebody who can’t pass that test, don’t come crying to me when they cheat you. Since all the fraud we’re trying to address through the credit-reporting system is based on name and social-security number, couldn’t we fix the whole problem with a single official website that specifies a (user-selected) authentication mechanism for each name/SSN pair?
FTC regulators have been systematically de-fanged by the new administration’s appointees in the interests of “economic and consumer liberty.”
Which is oligarch-speak for, “We want to be able to profit in any way we see fit; poison the water, land and air; and rip people off (caveat emptor), without the government interfering with us.” loren George mckechnie May 15, 2018
Technically there could be a good/BAD reason for the “Antivirus Popup” the previous user was seeing. These are lesser known Scams, in a category called “Fake Tech Support”.
Equifax has also not followed Domain Security Best practices, and stood up a new domain site, for handing the breach. They should have handled this on their main website, maybe at a page like http://www.equifax.com/2017breach
securityequifax2017.com equifaxsecurity2017.com (Which one is fake?) The former one.
To add fuel to the fire, the Equifax Social Media team even got confused themselves and actually posted links to the fake scam website, in the haste of the breach. Sending trusting consumers, from the official social media sites, to the scam website.
Just like when you get a cold call, from your supposed credit card company. You hang up, and call the number on the back of your card, then ask about the status of your account. In kind, you go to a search engine, and find the official website, for the site you are attempting to visit. Then check the URL bar for a valid SSL certificate. Then login.
#2. Learn about domains, subdomains, and SSL certificates. While trained professionals can confuse the common user, the common attacks have something which may not seem quite right, to tip of the educated user that a scam is brewing.
There’s one sure fire way to arrange things so that you’ll never have to worry about ANY of this crap ever again, and you won’t have to pay a dime and won’t have to call any dumbass automated phone systems or go to any web sites and fill out forms or anything.
You just have to think outside the box.
In the 1997 movie “Critical Care” directed by Sidney Lumet, Dr. Butz (played by Albert Brooks) makes the point that if you don’t want to suffer the horrible indignity of spending the final days or weeks or months of your life being kept alive, pointlessly, by machines, then the best and most certain way to avoid that fate is to always remain uninsured.
Similarly, the best and most sure fire way to insure that you’ll never have to worry about having your identity stolen is to go out immediately and do everything you possibly can to utterly ruin your own credit rating, and to thenceforth live strictly in the cash economy.
Believe me, if there’s nobody who is going to loan -you- money, then you won’t have to lie awake nights worrying about whether or not someone is going to loan money to someone who is just pretending to be you. They can peruse all of the credit reports on you they want, and if the scammers have any brains at all, they will take one look and give you a pass, as they move on to someone with a solid gold credit rating.
Many thanks for the helpful information. On 5/11/18 I was able to request Disclosure Reports and Freezes by phone for my wife and me. My report arrived by mail on 5/16/18, and we received our Freeze Confirmations and PINs the following day. (We are still waiting for my wife’s report.)
In my report the date of birth was incorrect (the year was right, 1932, but the day and month were not). I called 1-866-343-2821 to rectify and, after giving the last four digits of my social security number and my address, was told to Fax 1-888-826-0688 a cover letter giving my phone number, photocopies of my driving license and social security card and a request to correct the date of birth.
I myself have been reticent to request a freeze, or have much interaction at all with any credit agencies. That’s due to primarily to the fact that I have to GIVE them personal information first…information they may not have. And why would I want them to have my information if it’s not necessary? (Equifax is an obvious example of why NOT to give them accurate information, or any.)
Usually I first try to find out what information any agency has on me, and then decide whether or not to fiddle with it.
Of course, I don’t have credit cards and use cash almost exclusively. So I suppose that my need for any credit agency is minimal to non-existent.
Actually, I’d rather let the agencies have wrong information about me, especially if it contributes to my personal and financial privacy.
5/19: Requested freezes for both me and my wife via NCTUE’s “touch-tone” telephony system.
5/25: Received two confirmation letters — postmarked from Atlanta (i.e. Equifax) — via US Mail, providing 10-digit PINs to allow future “un-freezing”
Moral of this post: Keep sharp lookout for the “PIN letter.” | https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/another-credit-freeze-target-nctue-com/comment-page-4/ |
The U.S. Department of Justice will regularly delete extra data collected in a controversial cellular surveillance tool called a stingray, the agency said Thursday. A new DOJ policy on the use of stingrays, or cell-site simulators, requires the agency to delete all data as soon as a mobile device is located through the technology, and data must be deleted no less than once daily when DOJ investigators are targeting a known device. The new policy covers DOJ divisions such as the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. [ Further reading: The best Android phones for every budget. ]Stingrays, which function by transmitting as if they are cell towers, are used by law enforcement agencies to identify and track mobile devices used by suspects. They do not capture emails, texts and other mobile data, the DOJ said. Some critics of stingrays have suggested the technology can extract encryption keys, conduct denial-of-service attacks and write metadata to a device's internal storage. Privacy groups have criticized the increasing use of stingrays by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. "When used to track a suspect's cell phone, they also gather information about the phones of countless bystanders who happen to be nearby," the American Civil Liberties Union says on its stingray webpage. Stingrays are "military-grade surveillance," the ACLU says. The DOJ's new policy says that if the agency is using a stingray to locate an unknown mobile device, all other data must also be deleted as soon as the targeted device is identified and no less than every 30 days. DOJ investigators must also get court-ordered search warrants to set up stingrays, the new policy said. But the use of stingrays by the DOJ and the FBI will continue, the policy suggests. "Cell-site simulator technology provides valuable assistance in support of important public safety objectives," the policy says. "Whether deployed as part of a fugitive apprehension effort, a complex narcotics investigation, or to locate or rescue a kidnapped child, cell-site simulators fulfill critical operational needs."The ACLU called the DOJ's new policy "a positive first step" but said the policy needs to cover other federal agencies and state and local police departments. An exception to the warrant requirement in "exceptional circumstances" also leaves the door open to abuse, the civil liberties group said. "After decades of secrecy in which the government hid this surveillance technology from courts, defense lawyers, and the American public, we are happy to see that the Justice Department is now willing to openly discuss its policies," Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney in the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said in a statement.
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Step 2: Install the software and open it.
Note:- If you are using Arduino 1.6.6 or higher and windows - you will need to download and install the drivers manually: Download
We can code for Arduino in C and C++ languages.
#include “DigiKeyboard.h” void setup() { } void loop() { DigiKeyboard.println(“Welcome to Green Terminal ! “); DigiKeyboard.sendKeyStroke(KEY_ENTER); DigiKeyboard.delay(5000); }
In this code, we have included the Digikeyboard header file by which Digispark will act as a keyboard. Then we have print Welcome to Green Terminal from DigiKeyboard.println and DigiKeyboard.sendKeyStroke(KEY_ENTER); to Press Enter. | https://blog.lucideus.com/2018/03/pentesting-with-affordable-arduino.html |
A collection of servers, to which you connect to over your network is a VPN where once connected it appears as if you have localized with the servers, thus it looks like you have shifted from your actual location. A great feature is that all the information moving in and out through the VPN is encrypted, making it inaccessible to another party.
Even when you are using a public Wi-Fi network such as at a restaurant, sensitive information such as account login information and credit/debit card details can be protected using VPNs. This gives you a great level of security in the case when you need to work while on the move or out in the field.
In the case when you have government-imposed restrictions on visiting certain sites, using a VPN enables you to gain access to these sites safely.
Selecting a VPN
Some VPNs are free to use and while some require payments. The free ones may have their own risks, as some keep track of your network activity and may misuse them. Also, free VPNs might not be ad-free and you might find annoying ads popping up from time to time.
In comparison, paid VPNs offer a better service through better security, as they do not log your activity and come with much better features to ensure safer use. Also, you won’t see any annoying ads, prompting you to visit their sites.
When accessing a geo-restricted site, the VPN service provider needs to have servers in the region or country where the site is blocked. Also, you need to find out how much browsing data you are allocated and whether it is enough. Check the compatibility of the VPN service with different devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets as you might want to work through these devices, depending on the situation.
After selecting a suitable VPN service, do this final security check. Enter the VPN’s free trial and check if your IP address is being leaked through https://ipleak.net/. If your physical location is discovered, the VPN is not reliable, and you need to find another VPN service.
VPNs play a vital role in protecting businesses from cyber-attacks and if you need any help regarding how to keep your business safe, feel free to contact us.
Products previously purchased to secure your systems may need to be modified or may no longer be needed. Evaluate their effectiveness in the current situation and scrap the ones no longer helpful and update those which need updates. This way you can further minimize unnecessary expenditure while keeping your security systems sharp.
Knowing where you stand will help you know how to bridge gaps in your cybersecurity systems, and for this, you need to periodically assess your systems. To get assistance on how to do an evaluation, contact us today.
Evaluating your previous investments in security will let you know what needs to be upgraded and what is not needed anymore. This way you can cut unnecessary costs.
Knowing where you stand in cybersecurity helps you optimize the security precautions you need to take and will be easy for future investments. For help concerning cybersecurity, feel free to contact us today.
The warnings issued by the FBI concerns the sales of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection credentials by hacker forums. By purchasing such a connection, anyone can control the server to which the credentials correspond to. As credentials of critical facilities such as those of airports might be available, it poses a great risk to the public.
The most popular method of RDP attacks occurs through ransomware, where the user is denied access from the system or data. Access is only allowed upon making a “ransom” payment.
The reason why the availability of such credentials (and at cheap prices) is so risky is that it allows the buyer to access the device remotely and take complete control over it. The device owners may be threatened to be blackmailed or their sensitive documents may be exposed if a sum is not paid. Also, once in control, the crooks have the ability to install harmful viruses which will destroy the system data.
Here is how you can protect yourself from RDP attacks
Try to avoid public, insecure networks. Even with credentials in possession of the hacker, frequent logins can be avoided. A firewall, which prevents illegal logins must be used in devices which use RDP for security.
Using strong passwords for your logins. Breaching weak passwords might only be a matter of time, where malicious robots on the network can crack your password.
Use 2-step login methods, where logging in does not depend only on the password. Here a verification code will be sent to another device such as your mobile phone. You can choose whether or not to keep a 2-step verification in a particular computer and if you do not need it in that computer you will still be safe as 2-step verification will be prompted for if an attempt to log in from another computer is made.
Set the login lockout settings to lockout a hacker, who attempts multiple failed logins. This will block the IP of the would-be hacker attempting to bust your account. This will further enhance the security of your RDP protocol.
Avoid using the 3389 port which is the default. Shifting to another makes it difficult for a hacker to get to your device.
Update your device regularly as the new updates will contain solutions for the latest risks and threats. This includes updating your RDP protocol.
Back up your data in an offline, offsite facility, where it will be safe from malware should anti-virus, Intrusion Protection or patches fail.
Hope this helped you gain some knowledge regarding cybersecurity. For more information regarding cybersecurity and its developments, feel free to contact us.
As a rule of thumb, we make sure to keep our smartphones, laptops, and tablets up to date by updating the software. We know this will keep us secure from the latest threats lurking about in the cyber world. However, a much-overlooked device is the router, which is the actual essential component in keeping us connected. By doing some simple adjustments to the settings in the router, network security can be improved drastically. Here is what you need to know.
In order to manage router settings, you need to enter the router admin console. Though it may look confusing at first, sticking to these simple steps will help you configure your router easily without a hitch. However, it is recommended you save the current settings first just in case you need to revert.
To access the console, connect to your router and type in the router IP address into the web browser search bar. Your router may have one of the following IP addresses – 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1. IP address will be mentioned in your router’s manual (If you no longer possess your manual check online in either ManualsOnline or ManualsLib). If a login is prompted, log in and change the default username and password to one of your choices.
Now that you are logged in, here are 5 setting changes you need to do.
1. Proper encryption
Without proper encryption, your devices may be vulnerable to hackers who might steal your information or use your network to break the law. Having a password protection to enter Wi-Fi gives you a certain level of protection. There exist different kinds of encryption which offers different levels of protection, the most widely used being WPA2. The newest version of security, an update from the age-old WPA2, is the WPA3, which will be supported by routers due to be released into the market soon. You will find encryption settings under the Wireless menu or Security menu.
If you are using a WPA2 security standard router, the best encryption option available would be “WPA2-PSK AES”. Always make sure never to keep your router in the “no security” or “Open” state. If you are currently using WEP, switch to WPA. Some routers may only support WEP or WPA, and it probably needs a firmware update. If this doesn’t get you sorted out, it is probably time to get a brand-new router.
2. Strengthen the security of your network
A VPN or Virtual Private Network is a popular and effective method to improve privacy and security while you are online. With VPNs your IP address is hidden and your identity will be unknown. Encryption makes the data you handle inaccessible for any third party. Though VPNs are usually used through software in your device (such as laptop or smartphone), modern routers have the capability to support VPNs. This way all devices connected such a router will be protected through encryption and by maintaining user/device anonymity. These routers can be used with open source software, where VPN services like OpenVPN can be used.
Having an auxiliary network for your personal devices like smartphones and laptops allows you to protect your major devices, such as those you intend to use for business applications, secure from prying cybercriminals. This can be done by creating a guest network in your existing router or even simply by using a separate router. If you opt to use a guest network, use a different network name (and a strong password) to avoid mistaking the two.
Using a separate network allows you to keep your devices secure from cyber-attacks while you play safe as it isolates the sets of devices you work with. | https://remoteitsupportservices.com/category/cyber-security-and-other/ |
Microsoft published a security advisory containing mitigation measures for an actively exploited zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting Internet Explorer.
Redmond's advisory says that the company is aware of "limited targeted attacks" targeting this vulnerability.
"A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer," says the advisory.
Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind.
Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) browser that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild — and there is no patch yet available for it.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674 and rated moderated, is a remote code execution issue that exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory of Internet Explorer and triggers through JScript.dll library.
A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on targeted computers and take full control over them just by convincing victims into opening a maliciously crafted web page on the vulnerable Microsoft browser.
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"The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user," the advisory says.
"If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights."
Microsoft is aware of 'limited targeted attacks' in the wild and working on a fix, but until a patch is released, affected users have been provided with workarounds and mitigation to prevent their vulnerable systems from cyberattacks.
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Criminal commerce on the Internet would mostly grind to a halt were it not for the protection offered by so-called “bulletproof hosting” providers – the online equivalent of offshore havens where shady dealings go ignored. Last month I had an opportunity to interview a provider of bulletproof services for one of the Web’s most notorious cybercrime forums, and who appears to have been at least partly responsible for launching what’s been called the largest cyber attack the Internet has ever seen.
Off-Sho.re’s intro post to Darkode
Earlier this year, the closely-guarded English-language crime forum darkode.com was compromised and came under a series of heavy distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at keeping it offline. Around that same time, darkode.com welcomed a new member — a bulletproof hosting broker aptly named “Off-sho.re” — who promised to defend the site from future DDoS attacks.
Off-sho.re also said he could offer more robust and crime-friendly hosting services than darkode’s previous provider — Santrex, literally an offshore hosting facility located in the Seychelles, a 115-island country that spans an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Off-sho.re’s timing was perfect: Darkode desperately needed both, and Off-sho.re seemed to know his stuff, so he was admitted to the forum and given stewardship of the site’s defense and hosting.
Off-sho.re recruits Stophaus members on darkode.
STOPHAUS V. SPAMHAUS
Of course, to successfully defend a network against DDoS attacks one must know a great deal about how to launch such assaults. Indeed, Off-sho.re was an integral member of Stophaus, an upstart group of bulletproof hosters that banded together in March to launch a massive Internet attack against anti-spam group Spamhaus.org.
Hundreds of ISPs route or deny traffic based in part on Spamhaus’s blacklists of known, cybercrime-friendly ISPs, and Stophaus formed in response to Spamhaus’s listing of bulletproof hosting provider in particular: A network known alternatively as CB3ROB, a.k.a. “Cyberbunker” because it operated from a heavily fortified NATO bunker in The Netherlands.
Off-sho.re is moderator of the Stophaus forum, and not long after joining darkode.com, he was recruiting fellow darkode members for the Stophaus cause. Stophaus’s records show that another core member was “0ptik,” a competing bulletproof hosting provider. Spamhaus had listed dozens of Optik’s domains, as well as virtually all of the IP address ranges Off-sho.re had rented at abuse-friendly Romanian hosting provider Voxility. It was payback time.
In late March, Spamhaus became the target of what experts called one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet. The method of attack — a DNS amplification attack — was similar to that first seen used in attacks more than a decade ago that targeted the heart of the Internet’s routing system, except that it was by most accounts much larger.
Off-sho.re calls Spamhaus assault “our prank.” “DNS amplification attacks can bring up to 140 Gbps to a single resource from a single controller,” Off-sho.re wrote in a darkode.com posting less than 24 hours after the attack on Spamhaus began. “The beauty of it [is] that the ‘bots’ are just open DNS resolvers in the world.” Linking to a writeup from Cloudflare.com about the attack, Off-sho.re stated that “Some BP hosters were lately united, check out our latest prank.”
Last month, authorities in Spain arrested Sven Kamphuis, a 35-year-old Dutch man, thought to be responsible for coordinating the unprecedented attack on Spamhaus. According to Spamhaus, Kamphuis made claims about being his own independent country in the Republic of Cyberbunker. But according to Off-Sho.re, Kamphuis was just the public face of the movement. “Sven didn’t attack anyone,” Off-Sho.re wrote in an online chat with KrebsOnSecurity.
If Kamphuis was just a mouthpiece, who was responsible for the attack? What is interesting about the Stophaus movement is that Off-sho.re very well may have prompted Spamhaus to finally place CB3ROB/Cyberbunker at the top of its World’s Worst Spam-Support ISPs list, a move that helped to precipitate this conflict.
According to Spamhaus, while Cyberbunker and Spamhaus certainly have a bit of a history together, Cyberbunker wasn’t really a focus of Spamhaus’s blocking efforts until the fall of 2012. That’s when Spamhaus began noticing a large number of malware and botnet control servers being stood up inside of Cyberbunker’s Internet address ranges.
“We didn’t really notice these guys at CB3ROB much until last fall, when they started hosting botnet controllers, malware droppers and a lot of pharma spam stuff,” said a Spamhaus member who would only give his name as “Barry.” “Before that, it was mainly routing for some Chinese guys – Vincent Chan – fake Chinese products.”
Off-sho.re selling BP hosting out of Cyberbunker
Oddly enough, this coincides with Off-sho.re’s entrance on the bulletproof hosting scene (at least as advertised on crime forums). In his introduction post to Darkode, Off-sho.re referenced his bulletproof hosting sales threads at two Russian-language forums — expoit.in and damagelab.org. In these threads, which began in Sept. 2012, Off-sho.re advertised the ability to host ZeuS and SpyEye botnet command and control networks for between $99 and $199 per month, and bulletproof domain registration from $30 per month. More importantly, Off-sho.re proudly announced that he was offering a premiere BP hosting service for $400 a month that was housed in an old NATO bunker in Holland and that used IP addresses assigned to CB3ROB (see screenshot to left).
3May 13 Alleged SpyEye Seller ‘Bx1′ Extradited to U.S.
A 24-year-old Algerian man arrested in Thailand earlier this year on suspicion of co-developing and selling the infamous SpyEye banking trojan was extradited this week to the United States, where he faces criminal charges for allegedly hijacking bank accounts at more than 200 financial institutions.
Bx1′s profile page on darkode.com
Hamza Bendelladj, who authorities say used the nickname “Bx1″ online, is accused of operating a botnet powered by SpyEye, a complex banking trojan that he also allegedly sold and helped develop. Bendelladj was arraigned on May 2, 2013 in Atlanta, where he is accused of leasing a server from a local Internet company to help manage his SpyEye botnet.
A redacted copy of the indictment (PDF) against Bendelladj was unsealed this week; the document says Bendelladj developed and customized components of SpyEye that helped customers steal online banking credentials and funds from specific banks.
The government alleges that as Bx1, Bendelladj was an active member of darkode.com, an underground fraud forum that I’ve covered in numerous posts on this blog. Bx1′s core focus in the community was selling “web injects” — custom add-ons for SpyEye that can change the appearance and function of banking Web sites as displayed in a victim’s Web browser. More specifically, Bx1 sold a type of web inject called an automated transfer system or ATS; this type of malware component was used extensively with SpyEye — and with its close cousin the ZeuS Trojan — to silently and invisibly automate the execution of bank transfers just seconds after the owners of infected PCs logged into their bank accounts.
“Zeus/SpyEYE/Ice9 ATS for Sale,” Bx1 announced in a post on darkode.com thread dated Jan. 16, 2012: | http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/darkode-com/ |
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U.S. Bank IS Risk and Compliance Analyst Thomas Case (at left), Senior Vice President and Information Security Officer Marcia Peters (second from left) and Risk and Compliance Analyst Matthew Kohnen (far right) presented $10,000 worth of scholarships to cybersecurity students (center, from left) Vii Bishop, Alan Alyas and David Autry during a ceremony on Oct. 11 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. (Photo by August Jennewein)
David Autry could probably list each computer he’s ever owned – down to the model.
His fascination for technology began at the age of 7 when he received his first PC, a TRS-80 Model III, for Christmas. The computer came with a basic programming book, and he became interested right away. In the evenings he would work his way through the guide until he grew tired, and by the time he reached junior high, he could disassemble computer games with his buddies for a competitive advantage.
These starter skills helped him transition to large-scale projects, including development of an application that transforms two-dimensional magnetic images of a human brain into a three-dimensional model. Autry is now honing these skills further at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in the Master of Science in Information Systems and cybersecurity certificate programs.
The self-taught programmer is a standout in his UMSL courses and has secured a new $5,000 cybersecurity scholarship from U.S. Bank.
Senior leaders from the organization and UMSL presented the scholarship to Autry at a ceremony on Oct. 11 in the U.S. Bank Executive Education Room of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Alan Alyas and Vii Bishop, both students in the UMSL cybersecurity program, also received individual scholarships worth $2,500 from U.S. Bank as part of a three-year, $10,000 commitment.
“At U.S. Bank, we seek to earn the trust of our customers every day, and it starts with ensuring their information is safe and secure,” said Marcia Peters, a senior vice president and information security officer. “Cybersecurity is at the heart of keeping our customers, employees and communities protected from attacks. In order to maintain that safety, we need smart, well-trained cybersecurity experts to lead the way. That is why we are excited to partner with the University of Missouri–St. Louis to empower our next generation of cybersecurity students.”
UMSL introduced its cybersecurity program in 2014 with a multidisciplinary approach between the departments of computer science and information systems. Since then, it has acquired the only four-year National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education designation in Missouri. The National Security Agency also recently awarded the program two grants, totaling $493,650, toward enhancing curriculum and lab infrastructure.
Faculty and administrators are hopeful these developments as well as scholarship funding will help address the cybersecurity talent shortage in the St. Louis region.
“We are proud to offer a strong, applied curriculum that blends the management and technical aspects of cybersecurity,” said Charlie Hoffman, dean of the College of Business Administration. “We are grateful to U.S. Bank for recognizing the excellence of our program with these scholarships for our talented students.”
Bishop, a 2003 Department of Music alumnus, said he likely wouldn’t be able to finish the certificate program without financial assistance and is thankful for U.S. Bank’s commitment.
Prior to returning to UMSL, Bishop spent a decade playing music in Nashville. His interest in the career change stems from years of practice analyzing and processing data as well as his natural inclination toward mathematics. He is particularly interested in a career in penetration testing to help protect sensitive information from malicious attacks.
“It’s great to be back at UMSL,” Bishop said while addressing the crowd at the scholarship ceremony. “I have much gratitude for providing the way for me to stay in school. This opens a door for me to finish what I’ve started, and for that I’m very grateful.”
Bishop’s decision to pursue cybersecurity at UMSL was sparked by Alyas’ recommendation while the pair worked together at a local violin shop. Before opening the store in the morning, the friends would listen to Johann Sebastian Bach or other renowned composers and analyze the music.
The students are now finding similarities in the way they approach their new coursework.
“What I loved about music was the routine,” Bishop said. “The daily get in there and go at it. I’m finding the same things from mathematics and music in computer sciences and information systems types of work.”
Also an alumnus of UMSL’s music performance program, Alyas returned to campus after researching the MSIS and cybersecurity programs despite having no previous information systems experience. He hoped his background in music would enable him to become a successful cybersecurity analyst as both fields require critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
This assumption has proven to be true. His natural understanding of the behaviors and reactions of people enables him to appreciate the human and social engineering aspects of cybersecurity.
While the transition into the field hasn’t come without challenges, Alyas thanked faculty members for working with him on the material and making him feel like part of the family.
“They don’t just dedicate their time in class but they stay after class to answer my silly questions,” Alyas said. “They are always available via phone, email, or on weekends I can catch them at a coffee shop in the Central West End.”
Chair of the IS Department Dinesh Mirchandani said these students of varied backgrounds are reflective of the population he and his colleagues hoped to reach when developing the curricula.
“We created our cybersecurity program three short years ago with a vision of becoming one of the best programs in the country,” Mirchandani said. “Our goal was to provide students of all backgrounds the skills and experience they needed to enter into successful and fulfilling careers in cybersecurity. My colleagues and I are immensely grateful to U.S. Bank for supporting our vision and our students with these scholarships.” | https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2017/10/23/cybersecurity-scholarships/ |
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We've discussed the issue of compromised security on jailbroken iPhones here in the past. Apple says that, "Security compromises have been introduced by these modifications that could allow hackers to steal personal information, damage the device, attack the wireless network, or introduce malware or viruses." In fact, the jailbreaking an iPhone depends on exploiting of a vulnerability in the iPhone's OS. It is true that jailbroken iPhones - or phones of any type - are inherently less secure than "normal" phones. Security updates made to the device's OS cannot be applied if the user wants to use a jailbroken phone, at least not until the jailbreaking process itself is updated following the issuing of patches. Jailbreaking requires third-party software that is modified after every update to the iPhone's OS, and there is a period between an update and the release of new jailbreaking software during which users are especially vulnerable.
Nevertheless, jailbreaking remains popular. This is one of the reasons why Intego added the ability to scan an iPhone or iPod touch to VirusBarrier X5. (See this article for more on scanning an iPhone or iPod touch with VirusBarrier X5.) If you jailbreak your iPhone, you should be extremely careful, and you should check it often for malware. This entry was posted in Apple, Security & Privacy. Bookmark the permalink. Comments are closed. | https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apple-highlights-risks-of-jailbreaking-iphones/ |
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BATON ROUGE, La. – LA DOTD Federal Credit Union of Louisiana has joined forces with Identity Theft 911 to help protect its members from identity theft. This partnership will offer free identity resolution services should their members become victims of identity theft, and will also provide them with proactive education on how to protect themselves. Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America. The Federal Trade Commission statistics estimate that almost 10 million Americans were victims last year. Surprisingly, the majority of identity theft cases do not result in substantial out-of-pocket expenses for victims; rather, the most significant losses are time and a sense of personal security. Without assistance, a victim can lose over 20 days of work trying to restore their identity.
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Google has teamed up with sister company Jigsaw to offer news sites, rights groups and election monitoring organizations free cybersecurity tools, ensuring voters aren’t thwarted in attempts to access information ahead of key elections.
Protect Your Election is a suite of tools designed to protect these organizations from some of the most common and damaging types of online attack.
It includes Project Shield – a DDoS protection service already offered free-of-charge to rights groups, news sites and the like by Jigsaw.
It fits neatly with the core mission statement of the Alphabet firm – to counter extremism and protect free speech around the world.
Also included in the package are Password Alert, a Chrome extension designed to help prevent phishing by alerting users if a site they’ve visited is trying to steal their passwords.
Finally, there’s 2-Step Verification to help further protect Google accounts against forced entry by enhancing traditional password-based systems with two-factor authentication.
Protect Your Election has already seen success in bringing back online one of the Netherlands’ leading election information sites after a powerful DDoS attack downed it ahead of polling there last week.
And Google/Jigsaw are hoping the suite will help in similar ways to protect organizations ahead of the French presidential elections next month.
“It’s important to provide free protection to these organizations in particular, as they are the groups that provide voters with information they need to make informed decisions,” the firms argued in a blog post. “Today, making information accessible also means protecting it, which is why Jigsaw and Google created Protect Your Election. By making it easier for organizations to defend themselves against these threats, journalists can publish freely and citizens can access the stories, the debates, and the policies when it’s most important to a nation—during a country’s elections—so that everyone can get the full story.”
The launch comes as tech and news organizations gear up to battle attempts to influence upcoming European elections via fake news.
CrossCheck is a journalism verification project launched by the First Draft Network and Google News Lab, with a goal to ensure “hoaxes, rumors and false claims are swiftly debunked”.
Facebook – which has been heavily criticized in the past for its role in publishing fake news – is backing the project.
The social media giant has also launched a separate effort in France with the same end goal, encouraging users to flag articles they think may be fake, which will be subsequently tagged as such if participating news organizations agree.
Fake news hit the headlines in a big way during the US presidential elections, with Russian agents accused by many of spreading fallacious stories designed to discredit Hillary Clinton. | https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-offers-free-security-to/ |
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