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FIXME: This category should replace the [[:Category:Environmental Problem].
FIXME: Revision as of 18:00, 29 May 2009
FIXME: This category should replace the Category:Environmental Problem.
This category includes everything that is outside of the source code but is still critical to the security of the product that is being created. Because the issues covered by this kingdom are not directly related to source code, we separated it from the rest of the kingdoms. | https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php?title=Category:Environmental_Vulnerability&diff=prev&oldid=63144 |
HERZLIYA, Israel, March 16, 2021 – Safe-T® Group Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: SFET), a provider of secure access solutions and intelligent data collection, today announced the availability of a joint Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution in collaboration between its wholly owned subsidiary, Safe-T Data A.R Ltd., and ImageWare Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: IWSY), a provider of defense-grade biometric identification and authentication for access to data, products, services or facilities. The joint solution delivers the first ever biometric-based ZTNA solution.
The way business gets done has forever changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In years prior, most employees worked in an office environment with remote staff being the exception instead of the rule. Employees connecting to the corporate network in the office were under control of the organization, fully trusted and broadly granted access with just a username and password.
Today, offices are distributed and remote, with access to an organization’s data resources required from not only employees, but contractors, partners, and customers. This new office paradigm creates the need for different levels of trust across different users and connection types. Add in that software and services are now a mix of on-premises and cloud systems with the majority of access requests coming from remote, sometimes unknown, untrusted devices, and the complexity and risks of access control management are at unprecedented levels.
“To adequately safeguard corporate infrastructure in today’s dispersed work environment, companies require increased span across services, precise user identification, and a risk assessment of the connecting devices,” said Eitan Bremler, Co-Founder and VP Corporate Development at Safe-T. “This is something way beyond the scope of current remote access and authentication solutions like VPNs and passwords provide.”
The joint solution between Safe-T’s ZoneZero™ and ImageWare Authenticate addresses all access challenges with a simple and secure ZTNA solution. Before granting access, the solution collects and matches biometrics, either in cloud or on-premises, to ensure the user’s true identity. Once biometrically authenticated, the solution grants access on a need-to-know basis only while still providing users (managed and un-managed) fast and seamless access to the resources they need.
“With the new demands brought on by remote work, it has become clear that virtual private networks and passwords are no longer effective in securing access to data and services,” said Kristin Taylor, CEO and Chair at ImageWare. “The addition of biometric authentication to Zero Trust provides an additional layer of security through precise identification while also improving the user experience with quick, contactless authentication. Our joint solution brings best-of-breed in Zero Trust and biometrics for unparalleled access management security for today’s remote world.”
ImageWare Authenticate delivers precise user assurance through a rich suite of on-device and cloud-based biometrics such as a face or palm print, for fast, convenient access control with a level of security only biometric authentication can provide.
Safe-T’s ZoneZero™ changes the way organizations grant secure access to their services. ZoneZero™ acts as a Perimeter Access Orchestration, or PAO, platform, providing central management of all secure access technologies and use cases for ZTNA.
Together, ImageWare Authenticate and Safe-T ZoneZero™ have established an unrivalled ZTNA solution, controlling who can have access to all corporate resources and how this access is granted. The result is a true user-assurance-first, secured-access-second approach: ImageWare Authenticate for biometric authentication and Safe-T ZoneZero™ for access to corporate services.
Safe-T Group Ltd. (Nasdaq, TASE: SFET) is a provider of Zero Trust Access solutions which mitigate attacks on enterprises’ business-critical services and sensitive data, while ensuring uninterrupted business continuity. Safe-T’s cloud and on-premises solutions ensure that an organization’s access use cases, whether into the organization or from the organization out to the internet, are secured according to the “validate first, access later” philosophy of Zero Trust. This means that no one is trusted by default from inside or outside the network, and verification is required from everyone trying to gain access to resources on the network or in the cloud.
Safe-T’s wide range of access solutions reduce organizations’ attack surface and improve their ability to defend against modern cyberthreats. As an additional layer of security, our integrated business-grade global proxy solution cloud service enables smooth and efficient traffic flow, interruption-free service, unlimited concurrent connections, instant scaling and simple integration with our services.
With Safe-T’s patented reverse-access technology and proprietary routing technology, organizations of all size and type can secure their data, services and networks against internal and external threats. | https://version-2.com.sg/2021/03/safe-t-imageware-systems-introduce-the-first-ever-biometric-based-zero-trust-network-access-solution/ |
Hybrid IT has disrupted traditional IT due to its ability to introduce emerging technologies quickly. But what is hybrid IT? It’s a combination of “internal and external services, usually from a combination of internal and public clouds,” according to Gartner.
Enterprises, while reluctant to give up control of their data or face potential compliance challenges, recognize the benefits of using public and private cloud services. Security remains the primary concern for many chief information officers (CIOs) in adopting hybrid IT and cloud technologies as they pursue application modernization.
The concern is not without reason: Time and again, there have been major breaches in security where cybercriminals have managed to hack into prominent companies’ data. Not only do such breaches compromise user data and privacy, but they also create bad press for the affected companies and their cloud service providers (CSPs).
For this reason, cloud security is of the utmost importance in the context of cloud migration.
Cybersecurity Breaches Are Common
Cybercriminals are always on the prowl for opportunities to break into systems. Traditional, on-premise systems are not immune to such attacks. According to a 2014 survey from software company Alert Logic, there is no indication that cloud applications and data are more vulnerable than traditional systems, Forbes reported.
Therefore, it’s a myth that cloud computing is inherently less secure than a traditional approach. In fact, due to an increased focus on cloud security, applications and data on the cloud are becoming safer than in traditional systems.
The most notable recent hack that hit traditional systems is the WannaCry ransomware, which affected Microsoft Windows systems in May 2017. It was estimated that the attack impacted more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries — with billions of dollars in total damages.
The State of Cloud Security
Cloud technology is getting safer every day, but cybercrime techniques are simultaneously growing more sophisticated. This means that the challenge for cloud service providers is to keep one step ahead of cybercriminals.
Likewise, companies are implementing various measures to make the cloud more secure, but that doesn’t mean organizations that are migrating data can rely completely on the security of cloud infrastructure. Some of that security is also out of their control — Gartner warned in 2015 that through 2020, 95 percent of cloud security failures would be due to customer error.
Therefore, cloud security follows the shared responsibility model, which includes both the security “of” the cloud and “in” the cloud. It’s the CSP’s responsibility to protect the infrastructure that provides the services. Configuration, such as that of identity and access management (IAM) and firewall, security of the applications hosted, encryption of data and integrity of data is the responsibility of the customers.
Using this dual security model, both CSP and customers will own equal responsibility for ensuring the security of the data on the cloud. This model ensures that highest priority is given for the security of the cloud.
Secure Migration Processes
CSPs are already taking sufficient steps to ensure cloud security. If customers also step up to the plate by following the right processes and adopting a security testing strategy, the cloud will become much more secure as a result.
CIOs and transformation leads who are concerned about security can also use security as a driver for application modernization. In fact, business stakeholders are more likely to provide funding for applications and infrastructure identified as vulnerable.
During migration planning, application security must be considered a top priority. Companies must ensure that applications are free from vulnerabilities and compliant with security standards before they are migrated to the cloud.
Many security services can be utilized during application modernization. Using all or some of these services will increase the security of the applications being migrated substantially.
In static scanning, the source code is scanned to find any security vulnerabilities. Going through code with tens of thousands of lines can be cumbersome and time-consuming, so automated tools are used for this purpose.
In dynamic scanning, the web application and/or REST APIs are tested dynamically by sending various malicious requests and checking for any existing vulnerabilities. There are many well-known tools available for automated dynamic scanning.
With the help of these tools, scanning services will help find many vulnerabilities — although the tools by themselves cannot find everything. The scanning can be integrated into the development operations (DevOps) workflow to automate the process. By fixing such vulnerabilities in applications before they are migrated, risk can be greatly mitigated.
Security Posture of Middleware and Third-Party Code
Applications that use old middleware components could be prone to security threats. Many of the applications being migrated may also use open source or third-party code. Even if the application’s code is designed and implemented in a secure manner, the middleware or third-party code may contain vulnerabilities that may eventually affect the application and lead to data loss.
An application’s security is only as good as its weakest component, so all middleware and third-party components need to be checked for vulnerabilities before migrating to the cloud.
Applications that have been developed the course of years may use legacy technology. These applications may have been written using old programming languages that may not be sufficiently secure. Such legacy components may have known vulnerabilities, and it is possible that they may not have been fixed due to end of maintenance or lack of support.
When migrating to the cloud, such legacy code or technology may lead to serious security concerns. But for a good security posture, it’s necessary to identify all such legacy components and modernize them to mitigate security risks.
Employ a Threat-Modeling Service
Adopting security standards during the development cycle — rather than fixing defects at a later stage — is always a good practice. For any application under development, threat modeling should be done during the design phase. Quite often, the development team may not be aware of the security aspects while designing and developing an application. Threat modeling helps in building a secure design by identifying security risks and mitigating them early on.
A security architect can facilitate collaboration between the development and threat modeling teams, answering a series of questions to identify weak areas in the design. This strategy can include reviewing an architecture diagram and evaluating how sensitive data is stored, how users are authenticated, how authorization is managed, what encryption algorithms are used and how session management is handled.
Addressing the risks identified during threat modeling ensures a secure posture and decreases the chance of security loopholes being carried into later stages of development. Identifying such risks early on can lead to cost savings down the road.
After following these processes, a company can identify major vulnerabilities. The applications that are found to be vulnerable to security threats should be the top priorities for modernization.
Security Techniques After Cloud Migration
Security needs a multi-pronged approach. Various methods can be used to enhance security posture before migrating applications to the cloud. Adopting these measures will help considerably to address security risks in the applications being migrated, but these methods alone may not be sufficient to address all risks.
Once these applications are migrated, the cloud infrastructure also needs to be assessed for any security weaknesses.
Create Access Control and Security Groups
Once applications and data are moved to the cloud, they are accessible from anywhere, and, therefore, need to be protected from unauthorized users. Simply relying on username and password authentication doesn’t provide enough security, as it’s vulnerable to various types of attacks. Apart from authentication, a proper authorization mechanism needs to be in place to ensure the authenticated user can only access the data they are supposed to access and not any other confidential data.
Therefore, access control plays a vital role in safeguarding private data. IAM and proper configuration are essential to ensure that only the right people have access to the particular resources. Security groups can also be used as an additional measure to configure filter rules to define how incoming and outgoing traffic must be handled between source and destination.
Implement Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is a testing methodology that tries to find and exploit security vulnerabilities in an application or infrastructure by simulating an external attack using various tools and techniques. The idea is to mimic an attack to find any existing security loopholes before a cybercriminal can. This method uses a combination of automated tools and manual techniques. As part of this, the person performing the penetration test tries not only to find potential vulnerabilities but also to exploit those vulnerabilities to gain access to the system, acquire sensitive information or bring down the service.
Automated scanning, also known as vulnerability assessment, can be used to find vulnerabilities, but automated scanners cannot be counted on to find every single vulnerability in an application. Vulnerability assessment is mainly used to find potential weaknesses over a breadth of areas in a short timeframe.
The emphasis is more on detecting potential vulnerabilities and less on exploitation. Scanners work on pre-defined rules, and different scanners will have their own strengths and weaknesses. These tools also may generate many false positives.
Penetration testing has become a necessity because it not only covers a breadth of areas but it also achieves a depth of testing that automated scanning cannot. Penetration testing utilizes a combination of tools and extensive manual tests to unearth vulnerabilities that a vulnerability assessment would be unable to find.
Exploitation of vulnerabilities also shows the impact those vulnerabilities could have on the business. Penetration tests are performed not only on applications but also on the network and infrastructure to ensure that they are secure.
Guard Against DoS and DDoS Attacks
Attacks that bring down a system and cause system downtime are called denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. DoS attacks can take various forms. Some examples of DoS attacks include user datagram protocol (UDP) flood, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) flood and SYN flood, which aim to flood the network or consume network resources to deny genuine traffic. These are best handled at the network or infrastructure level using firewall rules and an intrusion detection system (IDS).
Application-level (layer 7) DoS attacks are hard to detect, as they appear as normal traffic and follow protocol rules. These types of attacks can bypass a firewall and target applications directly, which can be hard to detect.
Cybercriminals are able to bypass defenses against DoS attacks by employing a technique called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This is an attack where the malicious traffic originates from multiple sources. IDS and firewalls find it difficult to identify and block such an attack. Advanced techniques, such as next-generation firewalls, source rate limiting and DDoS traffic scrubbing services, can be employed to guard against such attacks.
Successful DoS attacks can cause service disruption and customer data loss and can significantly dent the reputation of a CSP. Thus, it’s necessary to have a good defense against such attacks.
Try Threat Detection
By taking a strategic approach to security, a company can ensure that applications migrated to the cloud are reasonably safe against most attacks. However, cybercriminals are getting smarter and bolder by the day as they continue to expose new vulnerabilities. This means it’s important to keep a watch on such attacks on the cloud. This is where threat detection plays a major role in keeping such attacks at bay.
Having a good threat-detection mechanism is a must to ensure that cyberattacks are detected in time. The volume of data is increasing exponentially — and it’s impossible to detect such threats manually. With the help of analytics and cognitive technologies, threat detection and response can be handled much more efficiently. | https://securityintelligence.com/an-in-depth-guide-to-application-modernization-and-cloud-security/ |
Wombat Security Technologies (Wombat), a leading provider of cyber security awareness training solutions, today announced the latest version of its award-winning Security Training Platform to arm Information Security Officers with the powerful tools they need to train employees how to recognize and avoid today's complex cyber-attacks. Wombat's Security Training Platform, which has recently received high industry accolades including a new "emerging group" product review from SC Magazine - is the only cyber security learning system on the market today that leverages progressive training techniques to effectively improve human response against cyber-attacks. It provides an integrated approach, combining employee assessments and in-depth training to strengthen a company's security posture. This combination allows security officers to proactively identify weaknesses and address them through a program of continuous improvement and ongoing employee training and assessments.
Recently named as a finalist of the Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 Award as well as a finalist for the Golden Bridge Business Award as a security awareness and training innovator, Wombat is launching the most powerful version of its Security Training Platform. The updated product suite addresses the market need for new methods of cyber security training that employ interactive software modules and games to engage users, coupled with employee assessments and simulated attacks to measure success – and ultimately deliver quantifiable results.
"Staying current is a big benefit of the program," said Peter Stephenson of SC Magazine. "I tend to avoid security awareness sessions because keeping the class relevant and keeping the class awake is a huge challenge. The Wombat program solves both of those issues and adds the benefit of providing ways to validate outcomes and show progress. I never have seen a more creative and effective approach to information security training."
Wombat's Security Training Platform, enables businesses to easily manage their security awareness training and employee assessment program from one cloud-based, Enterprise-grade solution. Wombat's Security Training Platform enables security officers to:
"We are very pleased with the customer adoption of Wombat's Security Training Platform since launching last September. We have won companies with household names in numerous vertical markets, including some of the largest companies in the world," said Joe Ferrara, President and CEO of Wombat Security Technologies.
Ferrara continued, "In the past, the goal of security training has been to 'check the box' whether for an audit, compliance reasons, or to show company executives that the security team was doing its job. Today, successful training needs to be measured and provide actionable data about the strengths and weaknesses in any organization. With our latest version of the Security Training Platform, Wombat continues to deliver the cutting-edge security training advances needed to help today's businesses defend against increasing cyber security threats."
The latest version of Wombat's Security Training Platform is available today. For pricing and/or more information about this award-winning product, please visit http://www.wombatsecurity.com/trainingplatform.
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Veeam Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, has partnered with Lenovo on the NEW Lenovo TruScale Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution. As the first data protection solution added to TruScale, Veeam will provide Lenovo users with ‘pay as you go’ BaaS via Lenovo’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. The unified solution is designed to modernize enterprises’ data protection strategy, help manage exploding data volumes, and handle the increasing performance and multi-workload[i] availability demands of a 21st century infrastructure, while also lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) with a flexible cost model.
“From resource constraints to ransomware attacks, IT organizations are faced with the constant risk of downtime and data loss,” said John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer at Veeam. “As a leader of Modern Data Protection, we’re proud to be a part of Lenovo TruScale to deliver expert-built and managed BaaS and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). This new Veeam and Lenovo solution will help enterprises reduce the complexity of modernizing their data protection strategy from legacy solutions and ensure confidence in the protection of their data. They can focus on what matters most — their customers, innovation and strategic initiatives to propel their business forward.”
The new enterprise-level modern data protection leverages Lenovo Thinksystem Servers and DE, DM Storage series combined with Veeam Backup & Replication™. This optimized solution for daily IT requirements maximizes availability and simplicity with highly efficient performance and robust data management. Key capabilities of Lenovo TruScale Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) with Veeam include:
“We are excited to have Veeam as a key element of the Lenovo TruScale platform to help customers accelerate their digital transformation and innovate faster,” said Dale Aultman, TruScale and Managed Services, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo. “Lenovo TruScale delivers the devices, infrastructure, services and solutions, from pocket to cloud, that our customers need, with the simplicity and flexibility of a scalable consumption model. Veeam is the first data protection partner being added to TruScale for Data Management portfolio, allowing customers to control their data while letting Lenovo manage the infrastructure. This partnership provides customers with robust and reliable data protection and data loss prevention, future-proofing their businesses as they digitalize.” “Lenovo and Veeam have developed a successful alliance based on providing infrastructure and data resilience to many enterprises around the world. This BaaS announcement is significant as it further extends the partnership in a way that gives end-users more very timely options to consume and leverage both companies’ respective technologies against a backdrop of heightened data loss events and cyber-risks.” – Christophe Bertrand, ESG
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In this tutorial, we will show the simplicity of the process of enabling Full Disk Encryption (FDE) and Secure Boot on Ubuntu Core on platforms with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support. A quick introduction for understanding the concepts and a simple walk through the process of preparing and flashing an Intel NUC image, will be followed.
FDE and Secure Boot are key security features which have been incorporated into Ubuntu Core 20 release, complementing the out-of-the-box security characteristics already available in previous versions.
Bear in mind, Ubuntu Core is production-friendly, not necessarily developer-friendly. We recommend you use Ubuntu Core for “fire and forget” purposes where you won’t want to iterate on the software.
With Ubuntu Core, you are able to execute remote updates and patches for your appliances and devices, but for development and prototyping, we recommend Ubuntu Server. Let’s start!
Ubuntu Core 20 uses full disk encryption (FDE) whenever the hardware allows, protecting both the confidentiality and integrity of a device’s data when there’s physical access to a device, or after a device has been lost or stolen.
Built-in FDE support requires both UEFI Secure Boot and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support, but its implementation in Ubuntu Core is generic and widely compatible to help support a range of hardware. TPM-based FDE seals the FDE secret key to the full EFI state, including the kernel command line, which is subsequently unsealed by the initrd code in the secure-boot protected kernel.efi at boot time.
For further reading about FDE, you can find the key aspects here and more extensive documentation can be found here.
Fundamentals of Secure Boot
The boot process can be detrimental to computers, if not secured. This is the case because booting is the initial stage of a computing cycle. Kernel, hardware peripherals, and user space processes are initiated at boot. Therefore, a vulnerability in boot firmware can have cascading effects on the entire system.
Secure Boot is an operation booting mode which denies the execution of any software which is neither signed nor certified, assuring software integrity.
You can read the full Secure Boot story here.
Understanding model assertion
Using FDE and Secure Boot features in Ubuntu Core is as simple as selecting the right image to flash. Ubuntu Core does the rest for you on the booting process.
Although it is possible to build your own Ubuntu Core images, the easiest starting point for any user is to make use of pre-built images. Latest stable images can always be found here.
In either case, each image has an associated model assertion file, a text-based document that contains the fundamental definition of the image for a specific device. It describes what the system image includes and is signed by the brand account owning the device definition.
Encrypted: Filesystem gets encrypted on first boot.
Unencrypted: Filesystem is not encrypted.
Error output: The image doesn’t boot. An error message is generated.
Invalid: It’s not possible to generate an image with such combination.
Full Disk Encryption and Secure Boot are key features of Ubuntu Core. They don’t need to be specifically enabled on a configuration or on-boarding process, they are out-of-the-box features which will be applied if the combination of platform and image model assertion allows it.
In summary, security is no longer an option but a compulsory feature with Ubuntu Core when hardware TPM is available on the platform, making the process as simple as installing the image on the device.
I’m pretty sure there is working secure boot for Ubuntu Desktop in the installer.
The above is documentation for Ubuntu Core though which is designed (and functions) quite differently to Ubuntu Desktop or Server installations …
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
A discussion about secure-boot on Desktop or Server should really take place in a new thread in the proper category … | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/enabling-secure-boot-and-full-disk-encryption-on-ubuntu-core/20652 |
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Risk assessment is the topic of the newest special publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments (NIST Special Publication 800-30, Revision 1), an extensive update to its original 2002 publication, is the authoritative source of comprehensive risk assessment guidance for federal information systems, and is open for public comments through November 4.
"Risk assessments can help federal agencies effectively evaluate the current threat, organizational and information system vulnerabilities, potential adverse impacts to core missions and business operations-using the results to determine appropriate risk responses," said NIST Fellow Ron Ross.
Overall guidance on risk management for information systems is now covered in Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View (NIST SP 800-39), issued last March. * The updated SP 800-30 now focuses exclusively on risk assessments, one of the four steps in risk management, says Ross.
As threats to computer systems grow more complex and sophisticated, risk assessments are an important tool for organizations to rely on as part of a comprehensive risk management program Ross explains. Risk assessments help organizations:
maintain ongoing situational awareness of the security state of an organization's information systems and the environments in which those systems operate.
The guidance in the revised publication has been significantly expanded to include more information on a variety of risk factors essential to determining information security risk, such as threat sources and events, vulnerabilities and predisposing conditions, impact, and likelihood of threat occurrence. The publication describes a three-step process to help organizations prepare for risk assessments, successfully conduct risk assessments and keep assessment results up to date.
Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments also describes how to apply the risk assessment process at the three tiers of the risk management hierarchy outlined in Special Publication 800-39. Sample templates, tables and assessment scales for common risk factors are provided for users to adapt to their own organizational risk assessments based on the purpose, scope, assumptions, and constraints of the assessments.
Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments is the fifth guideline developed for the unified information security framework under the direction of the Joint Task Force, a joint partnership among the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, NIST and the Committee on National Security Systems. The task force will continue to collaborate on protecting federal information systems and the nation's critical information infrastructure. | https://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/risk-assessment-guide-addresses-federal-information-systems-602429 |
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If you're connecting to servers over the secure shell (SSH) protocol using an OpenSSH client, you should update it immediately. The latest version patches a flaw that could allow rogue or compromised servers to read users' private authentication keys. The vulnerability stems from an experimental feature known as roaming that allows SSH connections to be resumed. This feature has been enabled by default in OpenSSH clients since version 5.4, released in March 2010, but is not present in the OpenSSH server implementation. As a result only clients are affected. The vulnerability allows a server to read information from a connecting client's memory, including its private keys. It has been fixed in OpenSSH 7.1p2, released Thursday. One possible mitigation is to add the undocumented configuration option "UseRoaming no" to the global ssh_config file. Due to the way SSH works, where the server's identity is cryptographically checked by the client before authentication, man-in-the-middle attackers cannot exploit this vulnerability.
This means that an attacker would either have to convince a user to connect to a rogue server or to compromise a legitimate SSH server and then steal its users' private authentication keys. The latter scenario is a more likely, according to researchers from security firm Qualys who found the vulnerability. SSH allows authentication based on public-key cryptography and, in fact, this is the most secure and preferred option. The client first generates a private and public key pair. The public key is shared with the server and the private key is only stored on the client and used to prove the user's identity. The theft of users' private SSH keys through this vulnerability could give attackers persistent access to servers compromised through other means. Even if the initial entry points used by the hackers were to be identified and fixed, they would still have SSH keys to log in as legitimate users. In addition, some people reuse their SSH keys across multiple servers, just as some people reuse their passwords across multiple websites. This means that the compromise of a user's SSH key could put more than one server at risk. "This information leak may have already been exploited in the wild by sophisticated attackers, and high-profile sites or users may need to regenerate their SSH keys accordingly," the Qualys researchers said in an advisory. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/592251/openssh-patches-information-leak-could-expose-private-ssh-keys/ |
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GRA collects and uses personal information about staff, learners and other individuals which it required in order to enable to provide education and other associated purposes. In addition, there may be a legal requirement to collect and use information to ensure statutory obligations are complied with including the Data protection Act [1998] and the General Data Protection Regulation.
GRA is registered as Data Controllers, with the Information Commissioners Office [ICO] detailing the information held and its uses. GRA undertakes to obtain and process data fairly and lawfully by informing all subjects of the reasons for the data collection, the purposes for which the data are held, the likely recipients of the data and the data subjects’ right of access. Information about the use of personal data is printed on the appropriate collection form. If information is given verbally, the person collecting the data will explain the issues before obtaining the information.
The GDPR regulates the “processing” of personal information which has a very broad meaning and includes obtaining, storing, viewing, using, updating, disclosing and destroying any data held electronically, in structured manual records and to a limited extent to unstructured manual records. GRA is committed to using personal data responsibly to protect and keep secure from loss or destruction.
This policy outlines the responsibilities of all staff (including 3rd parties under contract, and or self- employed) with regard to the Data Protection Act (1998) and the General Data Protection Regulation. Staff are required to handle and process data in any of GRA’s records or systems in accordance with this policy.
– Ensure any new or planned projects that involve Personal Data are preceded with a Data Privacy Impact Assessment.
– Ensure training is provided relating to responsivities and awareness of GDPR including induction mandatory training and ongoing risk assessments and checking.
– Ensure that access controls are limited to role relevance.
– Ensure any personal data is collected in a fair and lawful way.
– Gain explicit consent where required.
– Explain at the outset why information is being collected, what it will be used for and with whom it will be shared.
– Ensure that only the minimum amount of information needed is collected and used.
– Ensure the information used is up to date and accurate.
– Ensure data held about individuals will be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which the data is being held. Data held about individuals will not be kept for longer than necessary for the purposes registered. It is the duty of the nominated Data Protection officer to ensure that obsolete data is properly erased – Ensure information is kept safely.
– Ensure that if information is given verbally, the person collecting the data will explain the issues before obtaining the information – Ensure the rights people have in relation to their personal data can be exercised.
– Dispose of data appropriate and without unnecessary delay.
– Ensure that anyone managing and handling personal information is trained to do so.
– Ensure that anyone wanting to make enquiries about handling personal information, whether a member of staff or service user, knows what to do.
– Any disclosure of personal data will be in line with relevant legislation, and internal policies and procedures.
– Any sharing of data to third parties is covered by a data sharing agreement.
– Data held will be as accurate and up to date as is reasonably possible. If a data subject informs GRA of a change of circumstances their record will be updated as soon as is practical.
The Data Protection Acts extend to all data subjects a right of access to their own personal data. In order to ensure people only receive information about themselves it is essential that a formal system of requests is in place.
Requests for access must be made in writing. In order to ensure GRA has met the Security requirements of the GDPR the following information will be required before access is granted:
– Physical security: appropriate building security measures are in place, such as alarms, deadlocks and computer hardware cable locks. Only authorised persons are allowed in the computer rooms. Disks, sticks and printouts are locked away securely when not in use.
– Logical security: security software is installed on all computers containing personal data. Only authorised users are allowed access to the computer files and password changes are regularly undertaken. Computer files are backed up regularly.
– Procedural security: all staff [including 3 rd parties under contract and/or self-employed] are trained in their Data Protection and GDPR obligations and their knowledge updated as necessary. Computer printouts as well as source documents are shredded before disposal. Individual members of staff can be personally liable under law under the terms of the Data Protection Acts. They may also be subject to claims for damages from persons who believe they have been harmed as a result of inaccuracy, unauthorised use or disclosure of their data. A deliberate breach of this Data Protection & GDPR Policy, including unauthorised disclosure of personal date to a third party by any staff member [including 3 rd parties under contract and/or self-employed] will be treated as a disciplinary matter and may also involve personal criminal liability /legal action
Data Security Breaches
GRA takes the risk to security loss very seriously and adheres to the legal framework set down by the Information Commissioner’s Office and industry standards. In the event of a data breach or suspected data breach GRA management will respond and manage any such breach in line with GDPR recommendations. Actions may include:
– Containment and recovery – GRA will respond to the incident immediately which includes a recovery plan and, where necessary, implement procedures for damage limitation.
– Assessing the risks – GRA will assess any risks associated with a breach, as these could affect any procedures after the breach has been contained. In particular, GRA will assess the potential adverse consequences for individuals; how serious or substantial these are; and how likely they are to re occur.
Complaints about the above should be made in accordance with GRA’s complaints procedure.
Further advice and information is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office www.ico.gov.uk | https://www.gragb.com/data-protection-gdpr-policy/ |
Keeping your information secure from criminals is a top priority for our firm, and we take clear and actionable steps in our security measures.
With cybersecurity extending far beyond traditional laptops and desktops, we need to be very vigilant in protecting our personal information. Many of the electronic devices we are enjoying today, from cell phones and tablets to video games and car navigation systems, are in fact computers – all which introduce new risks.
In an effort to assist you in identifying these risks and avoid attacks by the ‘bad actors’ who are taking advantage of these technological advancements, we have expanded the ‘Cybersecurity’ section on our website. Along with articles and information from our Chief Information Officer, we will now be sharing security tips from the US Department of Homeland Security and other organizations that provide us with invaluable cybersecurity information. Additionally, we have added an Identity Theft Reporting and Recovery section. This section contains immediate steps that should be taken, as recommended by the Federal Trade Commission (the ‘FTC’), when falling victim to identity theft. Also provided in this section is the link to the FTC’s identity theft website (www.identitytheft.gov). The website provides extensive information on identity theft, allows for immediate reporting of an incident and assists in all aspects of recovery.
As Chief Information Security Officer, I am always available to answer any questions you may have about our firm’s cybersecurity plan, as well as cyber information posted on our website.
Our website is not to be considered an offer or solicitation to buy, or an offer to sell a security, nor an offer of our investment advisory services, to any person in any jurisdiction where such offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful. We use reasonable efforts to use information from reliable sources but cannot guarantee its accuracy or completeness. Our advice and services are personalized upon specific needs and circumstances of each individual client; our website is for informational purposes only. Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Certain links, provided for your convenience, may take you to other sites.
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Note: Installation requires Administrator privileges on the computer.
The Download button above (recommended) will download a file that works with both 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions of Outlook 2007 and above on a Windows 10/11 computer. You can also download a 32-Bit MSI or 64-Bit MSI installer. | https://encryption4outlook.com/softwaredownload/ |
Jack Jones serves as Chairman of the FAIR Institute and is co-founder and Executive Vice President, Research & Development at RiskLens. As a three-time CISO with a career-long passion for information risk management, Jack continues to lead the way in developing effective and programatic ways to manage and quantify information risk.
His well-rounded experience in the field includes assignments in the military, government intelligence, consulting, as well as the financial and insurance industries. He is also the author of another notable resource, his award-winning book "Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach". | https://www.risklens.com/blog/free-ebook-an-executives-guide-to-cyber-risk-economics |
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This box should be easy. This machine was created for the InfoSec Prep Discord Server (https://discord.gg/RRgKaep) as a give way for a 30d voucher to the OSCP Lab, Lab materials, and an exam attempt.
The box was created with VMWare Workstation, but it should work with VMWare Player and Virtualbox. Upon booting up it should display an IP address. This is the target address based on whatever settings you have. You should verify the address just incase.
Find the flag.txt in /root/ and submit it to the TryHarder bot on Discord to enter the give away. The command is only available for so long. So if you are just joining the server or doing the box for fun, the command won’t be there any longer at a later time.
*Please do not publish any write ups for this box until August 7, 2020 as this is probably when the give away will end. After that, fair game! * A big thanks to Offensive Security for providing the OSCP voucher.*
80/tcp open http syn-ack Apache httpd 2.4.41 (Ubuntu) |_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) |_http-generator: WordPress 5.4.2 | http-robots.txt: 1 disallowed entry
At the root of the site, enumeration finds a text file named “secret.txt”… interesting..
In this file, we find a base64 encoded string which we decode using Cyberchef. The result is a SSH private key:
ssh [email protected] -i secret_id_rsa
It works.. we now have a foothold as “oscp” user. | https://h3xit.io/posts/vulnhub-infosec-prep-oscp/ |
Think politics is tumultuous now? Wait till the transhumanists join in...
Q. Why is Baidu sharing its secret self-driving sauce? A. To help China corner the market
Spyware is becoming a tool of domestic abuse, according to security researchers.
Privacy-invading software packages are most commonly associated with surreptitiously snooping on victims to find out the passwords they use for online banking sites or bombarding them with invasive pop-up ads. But spyware can also be used as a tool to monitor and control their spouses by abusive partners, McAfee researcher Anna Stepanov warns.
"With so much of our lives dependent on computers and other technologies such as cell phones, the use of spyware is ideal for abusers, who often feel the need to control all aspects of a victim’s existence," she writes. "Monitoring a victim’s online, cell phone, or general computing activity is of more value than ever in controlling or hurting a victim."
Safe computing has joined finding safe housing as a list of requirements for people fleeing abusive relationships. "There is a strong movement within the [US-based] National Network to End Domestic Violence to educate victims and the general public about safe computing," Stepanov adds. "Many security companies have made sizable monetary donations to this organization to assist in education and to provide aid for securing networks within shelters for victims of domestic violence."
The changing uses of spyware and its continuing evolution are dealt with in a white paper by Stepanov titled Spyware: A Morphing Campaign.
Commercial products such as FlexiSPY, which records information about an individual's mobile phone calls and SMS messages before sending them to a remote server, have already generated controversy over the last couple of years. Packages such as FlexiSPY and Mobile Spy, another similar product, are marketed as a means for parents to keep watch on their child's phone, or enables employers to enforce an acceptable use policy on their staff. The legality of both products has been questioned.
A mobile phone is an obvious target for snoopers, but email inboxes are also a tempting target for control-freaks looking to keep tabs on their partners. Stepanov's research shows that cybercrime in its traditional sense is not the only motive for planting spyware. ® | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/spyware_domestic_abuse/ |
Over the past two years, distributed denial-of-service attacks have grown in strength and in purpose - they now are often used as a tool of extortion, says Richard Meeus of security vendor NSFOCUS. How should security leaders prepare to respond to these strikes?See Also: 2017 Predictions on Data Security: Insights on Important Trends in Security for the Banking Industry "We are now seeing our fourth generation of DDoS attacks," says Meeus, vice president of technology for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at NSFOCUS. "What this means is using the internet of things - all those devices ... that are being manipulated to launch huge attacks."
Meeus compares DDoS to a street corner mugging. "It's quite a blunt tool, but it's incredibly effective because it can take your entire organization offline," he says. "That doesn't mean just taking your website offline, but it means taking your email offline, your B2B, your B2C and any interaction you have with the outside digital world."
How NSFOCUS is helping global customers defend against DDoS and extortion attacks.
Meeus brings to NSFOCUS IB more than 10 years of experience in both appliance and cloud-based services. In addition to evangelizing the NSFOCUS brand and products and integrating products and services on both a global basis and within EMEA, he is also responsible for leading the pre-sales team. Previously, Meeus was at Akamai for more than two years, where he led the security pre-sales team for EMEA and dealt primarily with cloud-based DDOS and WAF services. In addition, he has held senior engineering and technical sales positions at Prolexic, CriticalPath and Mirapoint Software. | http://www.careersinfosecurity.in/ddos-extortion-evolution-a-9578 |
Screening for Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and their relatives helps avoid any appearance of impropriety in business dealings.
In addition to establishing the need to identify Politically Exposed Persons, Anti-Money Laundering regulations stipulate relatives or close associates of PEPs should be monitored. Screening for PEPs and their relatives or close associates is yet another important tool in your Risk Management Program, whether it’s helping you avoid any appearance of impropriety in your dealings with PEPs, or in your decision to stop doing business with them altogether.
Descartes Enhanced Risk Management solutions provide a full range of audit recording and due diligence that automatically record screening details and allow users to easily demonstrate their compliance activities.
* Relatives include wife, husband, siblings, children, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, cousins, step-children, etc. Close associates are people who have a close business or personal relationship with a PEP. | https://www.descartes.com/lp/enhanced-risk-management-solutions/anti-corruption-compliance |
Facebook has the never-ending job of protecting its users from their own curiosity and it isn’t easy. Big events such as Osama Bin Laden’s death are always potential tools for people to prey on the unsuspecting Facebook user. In this case, it was the promise of satisfying a morbid curiosity to see photos of Bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse.
Last week scammers tried tricking Facebook users into spamming their friends accounts with a link supposedly from the BBC showing Osama’s body after U.S. troops got through with it, but all the link did was let a virus into their address book that spread the obnoxious message to everyone connected with the user.
“Clickjacking”, as it is known, tricks a person into accessing links and/or “Like” buttons by hiding the code underneath content that piques your interest — such as a video of that thing Justin Bieber did to that girl that “YOU WON’T BELIEVE”. Facebook claims it has fixed the hole in their system that let this particular virus run rampant through their community, but that never means we should drop our guard and think it’s safe (or wise) to click on the next implausible link that comes our way.
It is always in human nature either to ignore the advice to be careful or to say, “I’ll never forward anything or like anything else on Facebook again.” Let’s take the smart and cautious middle road, people, and just use a little common sense instead of either being cavalier or paranoid.
KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE. “Like” and “Share” items of interest to your audience. If you are doing business and networking, stay away from the taboo subjects of sex, politics and religion (unless you are either a politician or a nun, of course, and that IS your business). Some family subjects are always safe to share such as a new child or grandchild in the house, but don’t go overboard. Let your audience gush over the news and give you a reason to gush more and upload more of those baby pictures.
CHECK SNOPES.COM FIRST! I can’t emphasize this enough! People either don’t know about snopes or forget to check before their itchy trigger finger hits that “send” button. Snopes.com gives you the lowdown on all the urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation out there that is or was circulating. Typing a few keywords into their search engine will bring up articles that either prove or disprove that incredible story you can’t wait to share. Remember the tired old, but reliable phrase, “If it is seems too good to be true, IT PROBABLY IS.”
MSNCB’s Technolog tells us, “Facebook’s new ‘Self-XSS Protection’ is meant to prevent spam spread by users tricked into cutting and pasting malicious code into their address bars. According to the Facebook blog, ‘Now, when our systems detect that someone has pasted malicious code into the address bar, we will show a challenge to confirm that the person meant to do this as well as provide information on why it’s a bad idea.'”
They will also be providing free tools for “safe surfing” by Web of Trust, so be on the lookout for them and they won’t take you by surprise.
My favorite tool so far has been the new “Login Approval” system implemented last month. I had hired an East Coast social networking promotion company to take care of promoting my jewelry and design business in the hours of the day either too early for me or while I am busy offline creating new designs. A great idea, but a surprise when I received an email of an attempt to log into my Facebook account from somewhere located in Maine. I knew who it was, called them to confirm they had attempted to login in to begin my campaign, and then verified the attempt as a valid one. It was a minor delay to my time and I appreciated it because it showed that Facebook was on the ball and now had a way of further safeguarding our internet accounts. You will not hear me complain ever about this new tool and the next person whose account is compromised by a hacker won’t complain either.
~ synopsis provided by Kristine Cherry, an internet guru/social networking junkie who will gladly help you if you ever have a question about a suspicious email or Facebook notification you get. | http://www.civicsitedesign.com/tag/clickjacking/ |
Researchers at cybersecurity company eSentire discovered a spear-phishing incident using more_eggs by malware group Golden Chickens targeting LinkedIn users. The firm’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) was able to stop the attack.
The attack is described as a “fileless” and “backdoor.” The report explained that the threat actors target victims by using their current position in LinkedIn and sending them a seemingly innocent job offer, which will trigger the attack when clicked.
The report said, “For example, if the LinkedIn member’s job is listed as Senior Account Executive – International Freight, the malicious zip file would be titled Senior Account Executive – International Freight position (note the ‘position’ added to the end).”
Clicking on the offer will initiate the installation of more_eggs, which will download additional plugins that will let hackers access the target system.
TRU director Rob McLeod, Sr. noted, “What is particularly worrisome about the more-Eggs activity is that it has three elements which make it a formidable threat to businesses and business professionals.”
First, the malware uses regular Windows activity to operate, making it difficult for anti-virus and automated security solutions to detect, giving it the advantage of stealth.
Moreover, it uses job offers to target individuals. Detonating the malware is also quite easy with the help of weaponized job offers. Users just need to click on a link to initiate the download of a malicious file that will in turn download other malware.
Lastly, more_eggs takes advantage of the public health situation, which has rendered thousands of people unemployed. The targeted and weaponized job offers are likely to be detonated by more individuals looking for employment.
McLeod added, “Theses three elements make more_eggs, and the cybercriminals which use this backdoor very lethal.”
Golden Chickens has been selling more_eggs to cybercriminals as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) product. The group’s customers are the ones conducting the attacks.
Threat Post gathered opinions from cybersecurity experts to help avoid more_eggs. According to Netenrich CIO Chris Morales, being vigilant about spear-phishing activities is the best way.
Knowing the signs of a malicious file is the first step. For LinkedIn users, the use of the word “position” at the end of the job title can be telling.
Meanwhile, Morales noted that the motivation for this campaign remains unclear as there is “not much to gain from an unemployed worker using their own personal device.” However, infecting a medical device or a device with such information can be favorable to hackers. | https://www.myce.com/news/spear-phishing-malware-more_eggs-target-linkedin-users-96288/ |
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Understanding Sykipot... hackers's new strategies uncovered!
Written by JAIME BLASCO, LABS DIRECTOR, ALIENVAULT | 08 April 2013 For some time, AlienVault has been analysing a group of hackers who have focused their efforts on targeting the Defence and Government industry. Jaime Blasco, Labs Director at AlienVault has recently found some new developments with these hackers, known as Sykipot.
Below is the analysis on the new developments which will unveil:
1. New vulnerabilities that this group have used using during the last 8 months 2. The new infrastructure they have used.
3. Several examples of the campaigns they have launched 4. New versions of the Sykipot backdoor they have used to access the compromised systems.
As we can see it shows the information present in https://smartpay.gsa.gov/cardholders.
“The GSA SmartPay program, established in 1998, is the largest charge card program in the world serving more than 350 federal agencies, organizations, and Native American tribal governments. In FY10, approximately 98.9M transactions were made and $30.2B were charged using the GSA SmartPay charge cards, creating $325.9M in refunds.” “Eligibility for the program is determined by the GSA SmartPay Contracting Officer. Federal agencies, departments, tribal organizations, and approved non-federal entities can apply to obtain charge card services under the GSA SmartPay program.”
We are not going to show how this vulnerability is exploited since we have showed it in previous blog posts, you can find a good description here.
searching-job.net is another domain registered by the Sykipot actors (registered by This to view it
Apart from gsasmartpay.org we have found several domains registered by the Sykipot actors that they have probably used to phish users in the last few months. Some of the most suspicious ones are detailed below:
dfasonline.com registered by This to view it
In September last year, the Sykipot actors registered several domains to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (CVE-2012-4969).
In this case the host www[.]photosmagnum[.]com was used as the C&C server.
[sykipot_payload_file].exe -startupEx [sykipot_payload_file].exe -startup1 cmd /c [sykipot_payload_file].exe -startup
Then the malicious payload will be injected into Internet Explorer.
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For two years, a former emergency department worker of Florida Hospital Celebration gained unauthorized access to more than 763,000 electronic patient health records and sold 12,000 of them to a co-conspirator (and operator of two chiropractic centers) to solicit patients for legal and chiropractic services. While they may have viewed this as a way to quickly gain a network of potential clients, the HIPAA Privacy Rule dictates that they clearly accessed ePHI inappropriately and misused the data by selling it.
The insider threat means covered entities and business associates have to stay vigilant by monitoring and investigating any suspicious activity. From a technical perspective, daily log review is a service that involves monitoring, analyzing and reporting on user and system activity to help detect patterns of normal use and pinpoint potentially malicious users.
Another technical service to help monitor your files and systems is file integrity monitoring (FIM), which can directly alert you of any anomalies and tell you when a file is altered or destroyed. FIM is recommended to help meet HIPAA compliance, as it can satisfy the HIPAA standard §164.312(b) that requires covered entities and business associates to:
Implement hardware, software and/or procedural mechanisms that record and examine activity in information systems that contain or use electronic protected health information.
Since the Florida hospital is part of a 37 hospital network under Adventist Health System, the system now faces a class action lawsuit as a result of the data breach with affected individuals seeking damages for failing to secure ePHI (the former worker has been sentenced to a year in federal prison).
The lawsuit points out that employees that weren’t authorized to access the information were, in fact, able to with only log-in credentials; they permitted to share credentials; and their logins were allowed to be used to access multiple computers at the same time from multiple locations. It also maintains that they failed to train and monitor its employees’ access to sensitive information, according to HealthCareInfoSecurity.com
And it claims the hospital’s failure to segment and control its database in compliance with the HIPAA security regulations and industry standards fell short of its promises in patient agreements and privacy policies, according to the lawsuit document. While proper policies and procedures are an important aspect of meeting the administrative security standards of HIPAA compliance, they don’t really matter unless an organization’s employees are aware and abide by them.
Policies should meet the HIPAA Security Rule’s organizational, policies and procedures documentation requirements, §164.316(a):
Implement reasonable and appropriate policies and procedures to comply with the standards, implementation specifications, or other requirements of this subpart, taking into account those factors specified in § 164.306(b)(2)(i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) [the Security Standards: General Rules, Flexibility of Approach].
This standard is not to be construed to permit or excuse an action that violates any other standard, implementation specification, or other requirements of this subpart.
A covered entity may change its policies and procedures at any time, provided that the changes are documented and are implemented in accordance with this subpart.
Staff training is also required by the security awareness and training standard of the Administrative Safeguards required by the HIPAA Security Rule, 164.308(a)(5):
Implement a security awareness and training program for all members of its workforce (including management).
The lesson learned here is that one employee at one hospital can cause a significantly costly and messy legal case for the health system at large, if they fail to meet HIPAA compliance – people go to jail, legislation gets drawn out for years, and loss of credibility can deter the most loyal consumers. A wake-up call to healthcare CIOs, the technical, administrative and physical safeguards required by HIPAA are worth the ongoing investment if they wish to avoid the consequences of a data breach.
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These days it's not enough to have a web-application firewall (WAF). The key to using hardware devices in a mitigation strategy is understanding what these devices can and cannot do. Defending against today's increasingly sophisticated application-layer attacks can be resource-intensive. WAFs require large amounts of computing resources and processing, which can degrade performance. The fact is that most devices represent a single point of failure. Moreover, by definition on-premises hardware attempts to stop an attack only after it's entered the data center - when it's simply too late.
Enter the new era of cloud-based mitigation services that reside outside of your data center and stop malicious traffic before it can penetrate your company's infrastructure. You have choices to make here, too. You can go with always-on mitigation that acts like a shock absorber that protects your network by taking the first big hit of a cyber-attack. Or you can choose an on-demand solution that you can engage once an attack is suspected to intercept your incoming traffic using mitigation services where legitimate traffic is forwarded on and malicious attack traffic is scrubbed.
Yet another option is Website Protection Service providers who utilize CDNs to provide network- and application-layer security for Web sites and applications. As a cloud-based proxy, these networks sit in front of your IT infrastructure and deliver traffic from your end users to your Web sites and applications. The cloud platform examines network traffic for known threats and passes only legitimate traffic to the Web application. Chapter 3 in "Threats and Mitigations: A Guide to Multi-Layered Web Security" discusses the advantages and caveats of using each of these solutions, or blending them in a multi-layer mitigation strategy.
Don't wait until your business is targeted by a cyber-attack. Download our free eBook, "Threats and Mitigations: A Guide to Multi-Layered Web Security," which covers everything you need to know about the types of cyber threats, how to secure websites, how to protect applications against data theft, how to choose a web security solution, and how to make your network less vulnerable to attack. | https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/09/your-network-is-under-attack-what-are-your-mitigation-options.html |
Windows 7: Virus: apps won't launch (.exe files) 21 Aug 2011 | http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/182332-virus-apps-won-t-launch-exe-files.html |
AT&T is the first North American telco to join the Global Telco Security Alliance. (Pixabay)
On Wednesday, AT&T became the first North American telco to join the Global Telco Security Alliance, which launched last year.
Etisalat, Singtel, SoftBank and Telefónica were the founding members of the security alliance when it was first announced in April of last year. AT&T joined the group as an equal member.
The Global Telco Security Alliance is another example of there being more safety in numbers when service providers and other organizations share information related to cybersecurity attacks.
AlienVault develops tools that identify and manage cyberattacks through its Unified Security Management platform.
The addition of AT&T heightens the Alliance’s ability to share insights and best practices for customers globally by tapping into the expertise of more than 6,000 security experts and a global network of more than 28 security operations Centers.
The members of the Alliance now cover more than 1.2 billion customers in more than 60 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
The Global Telco Security Alliance plans to expand its scope of activities and global footprint over time and is "open" to adding new members in the future.
"Cybercriminals have well established and organized communities that cooperate to produce cyber threats and it’s time large network operators work together to help deliver disruptive innovations and enable our global customers to detect and respond to threats faster and protect their digital footprint," said Barmak Meftah, president of AT&T Cybersecurity, in a prepared statement. | https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/at-t-signs-up-for-global-cyber-security-alliance |
IT IS a sad fact that people most likely stick to the old habit of borrowing needed financial assistance from usurious lenders rather than try a new mechanism in lending that promises a more “humane” approach to it. Read more Mendoza: Quotable quotes for teachers 2 days 13 hours ago Lorenzo E. Mendoza
DIRECTOR'S Cut: (This portion features the thoughts of Atty. Alberto T. Escobarte, Ceso IV, regional director, Deped 11 to all stakeholders and recipients of the efforts to improve the basic education). | http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/opinion/2012/09/21/lee-cybercrime-prevention-act-2012-244029 |
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Mike Robbins.
Mike F Robbins is a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell and a SAPIEN Technologies MVP. He is a co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition, and is a contributing author of a chapter in the PowerShell Deep Dives book. Mike has written guest blog posts for the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog, PowerShell Magazine, and PowerShell.org. He is the winner of the advanced category in the 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games. Mike is also the leader and co-founder of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group. He blogs at mikefrobbins.com and can be found on twitter @mikefrobbins.
A few months ago I wrote a blog post called Some Cases of Unexpected Case Sensitivity in PowerShell, and I thought I would expand on that topic a bit here as a sequel to that original post.
Everything is case insensitive in PowerShell, right? Well, that’s what we’re normally taught, but it’s actually not quite that simple. The answer to whether PowerShell is case sensitive is, “It depends.” In general, PowerShell is not case sensitive, but there are a number of caveats to case sensitivity, some of which are intentional, and some that are unexpected.
foreach ($user in $($Search. FindAll(){ $stringSID = (New-Object -TypeName System. Security. Principal.SecurityIdentifier($($user. Properties.objectsid),0)).Value $objectGUID = [System.Guid]$($user. Properties.objectguid)
Thanks for clarifying a somewhat confusing issue for us, Mike.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions, send email to me at [email protected], or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.
Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy Tags guest blogger Mike F Robbins Scripting Guy! scripting techniques Strings troubleshooting Weekend Scripter Windows PowerShell Comments (3) Cancel reply Name * Email * Website jrv says: January 10, 2016 at 12:31 am Thanks Mike. Excellent discussion and very useful. Case sensitivity gets nearly everyone very quickly especially when working with ADSI. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2016/01/09/weekend-scripter-unexpected-case-sensitivity-in-powershell/ |
Nowadays, companies are securing users who are accessing applications from various places through variety of devices, and all this is pressurizing IAM i.e., identity and access management systems. Additionally, consumers expect easy authentication and access to all accounts and information. Moreover, identity infrastructure faces traditional challenge of various links to multiple targets and sources. All this creates an unmanageable “n-squared” problem.
N-squared problem is reason of rapid adoption of federation standards including Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OpenID connect and OAuth. These technologies include things such as next-generation firewalls, applications monitoring systems and sandboxing systems that permit any malicious code to be executed and all that without harming corporate environment.
One of the other main reasons behind IAM as top security initiative is that it enables right individuals to access right information and resources at right time and reason as well. It ensures appropriate access of resources across heterogeneous technology environments. IAM is important for any enterprise, because it is business-aligned. Organizations that can develop IAM capabilities can reduce identity management costs and become significantly more agile to support new business initiatives.
On the ending note, its various features make it top security initiative and its investment has grown from 7% to 10% in 2014, and is still growing. | http://www.aitc.io/blog/Why-Identity-Access-and-Management-is-required-in-Information-Security |
ePLDT is the industry-leading digital transformation partner of enterprises in the Philippines. Leveraging on the expertise and world-class telecommunication infrastructure of its parent, PLDT Group, ePLDT delivers customized information and communication technology (ICT) services. Through its suite of multicloud and data center solutions, managed services, and cybersecurity capabilities, ePLDT enables enterprises to roll out strategies that will help them achieve their digital transformation ambition.
Alexis Bernardino, Customer Field CISO/Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist at ePLDT, captures the company’s mission succinctly: “Our mission is to provide the best-in-class data center and cloud services anchored in cybersecurity to enterprises in the Philippines as they embark on their digital transformation journey. ePLDT established its own security operations center of SOC in 2016 with a strong and sound cybersecurity practice and has been monitoring the cybersecurity predictive, preventive, detective, and responsive capabilities of the PLDT Group, including its mobile subsidiary, Smart Communications.”
The adoption of newer technologies such as 5G, IoT, hybrid, and multicloud environments has opened up a whole new range of attack entry points and threat vectors for both ePLDT and their enterprise customers. Another challenge that required immediate attention was the increasing need for regulatory compliance for both ePLDT and their customers.
As companies transitioned to the cloud, ePLDT wanted to strengthen its capabilities toward full visibility, elevating the predictive and responsive aspect of the cybersecurity tools in their arsenal. With increasing digital adoption, in both ePLDT and their customers’ environments, there is a paradigm shift from on-premises to the cloud as the physical and virtual worlds merge. “The most critical aspect we needed to address was gaining full visibility across all assets and applications running in hybrid and multicloud environments, so as to prevent breaches. Within ePLDT and across our enterprise customer environments, increased cloud adoption meant misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that needed to be mitigated,” explains Alexis.
Both ePLDT and their enterprise customers are working on hybrid and multicloud environments in parallel. Alexis and his team have been using the Palo Alto Networks solutions and were well aware of their credibility and leadership in the industry. For network, infrastructure, and perimeter security, ePLDT used NGFWs, VM-Series virtual firewalls, and Prisma Access from Palo Alto Networks. To secure their enterprise customers’ cloud transformation journeys, ePLDT and Palo Alto Networks offer Cloud NGFW for AWS (powered by VM-Series virtual firewalls), Prisma Access, and Prisma Cloud.
As the industry’s most complete cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Prisma Cloud provides codeto-cloud security in and across any cloud. “Our partnership with Palo Alto Networks has evolved over the years and the company has consistently delivered on their promise. They have been part of our tier 2 perimeter security, protecting our data center. They have also helped strengthen defenses against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) across the Philippines through the PLDT and Smart Communications Child Protection Platform,” says Alexis.
As ePLDT looked at Zero Trust strategy implementation, security consolidation through a platform approach was a critical component. ePLDT identified Palo Alto Networks as their partner in the cloud security journey, due to Palo Alto Networks capability to provide end-to-end security for the network, cloud, platform, workload, and user. The solution also assured ePLDT’s enterprise customers of a secure digital transformation journey. “As we help Philippine companies digitally transform their businesses through cloud adoption, they understand the need to approach security more holistically. Prisma Cloud brings that holistic approach to help secure their applications from code development to cloud delivery on a single platform. This makes it very easy to adopt additional security and compliance capabilities without the need for a lot of training,” shares Alexis.
Palo Alto Networks blocks 224 billion threats daily through their Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS). Powered by this network security platform, our ePLDT SOC has visibility into 250 million indicators of compromise—now we are able to block and mitigate these threats for our customers.
With the Palo Alto Networks solution, ePLDT and its enterprise customers can operate securely in hybrid and multicloud environments. A single pane of glass manages all cloud assets, providing enhanced visibility, helping identify network traffic, and eliminating unused resources, which leads to cost savings. Organizations need to guard against cyberattacks—whether these are attempted or successful—as the consequences range from service disruption, information exfiltration, intellectual property theft, and reputational and/or financial damage.
With Prisma Cloud, the requirements for adopting point solutions into an operational security framework are significantly reduced, leading to cost savings. “Having a secured and highly available infrastructure, whether on-premises or on cloud, translates to operational efficiency and significant dollar saving. The reputational value of partnering with a strong cybersecurity company cannot be measured. This collaboration of ePLDT and Palo Alto Networks is a partnership born in the cloud and forged in cyberspace,” says Alexis.
Currently, ePLDT is undergoing a transformation journey in its cloud and data center, and is looking at implementing a Zero Trust strategy. With Palo Alto Networks, ePLDT can be assured that this can be done with ease and flexibility. Victor S. Genuino, President & CEO at ePLDT shares, “At ePLDT, our success lies in the ability to push boundaries and help our customers embrace digital transformation, while keeping cybersecurity at the forefront. We need to work with a forward-looking cybersecurity partner, which we found in Palo Alto Networks.”
Alexis concludes with some sound advice to CISOs as they make the paradigm shift to the cloud. “As organizations adopt disruptive technologies, cybersecurity should also be top of mind. An end-to-end cybersecurity perspective must be fully considered and realized in this evolution. Inculcate a mindset of vigilance and foresight within your organization as only the cautious survive in this ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.” | https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/customers/visibility-compliance-and-full-spectrum-cloud-security-for-epldt-and-their-enterprise-customers |
The typical gate access security system uses an operator or an opener. This device is equipped with a motor that is used to open and close the panel or panels of gates. It is rather vital to note that the different types of gates, swinging and sliding, work with different types of openers.
This opener is connected to the panels via a set of working metal parts. These parts move and make the opening and closing possible. Different types of gate have differences in the parts and mechanisms used to make the panels function properly.
These modern technology openers come with a receiver and with a transmitter. The transmitter does the opening and the closing quick, easy, and convenient. You only must point it towards the gate and press the button. It serves as a remote control for the gate access system.
The modern systems for gate access security system have openers and transmitters which are being used to roll code technology. The access code then is changed automatically after every opening and closing. In this way, a thief will find it virtually impossible to learn or guess the code.
The motors of the openers are irreversibly geared. This makes it very difficult for anybody to force the gate to open. This gives you that very feel of security and you get protection from both thieves and vandals.
The intercom has become a standard security feature. To add more, most people prefer to add a camera that is connected to a monitor inside the property especially in the residential areas where family stay. This provides for an even higher level of security for your loved ones.
Lastly, it is imperative for you to know that there is a huge array of selection of security gate access systems. There are above-ground and the ones concealed below-ground systems. The opener can be powered via the mains power supply or it can also be from a battery. There are also innovative models which work with solar power. | http://www.linksdirs.info/2018/02/21/custom-gate-access-control/ |
we are getting to a point where we have to complete a research paper. You have two choices for this research paper:
1. You want to research a current topic in Cryptography and write a 10-page paper. An example of a topic is Cryptography in WPA3. Another topic is Beyond AES, what do you see is the adequate encryption algorithm. The 10-page paper must include the following:
a. Introduction with a problem statement and a thesis ( 1-page) | https://customwritingshelp.com/2021/04/30/cryptography-paper-information-systems-homework-help/ |
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\DirectCD.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnf.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\hp psc 900 series\Bin\hpobrt07.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KEM.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\AiO\Shared\Bin\hpoevm07.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOSTS07.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOFXM07.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\EXCEL.EXE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE
C:\Program Files\eScription\EditScript\EditScriptClientMain_6_1_0.exe
C:\Program Files\eScription\EditScript\DatabaseRequestServer_6_1_0.exe
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C:\Documents and Settings\Mayela\Desktop\VIRUS\HijackThis.exe
Welcome to the MalWare Removal forums! My name is tim. I'll be glad to help you with your computer problems. HijackThis logs can take some time to research, so please be patient with me. I know that you need your computer working as quickly as possible, and I will work hard to help see that happens. In order to help me help you, please observe the following while we work: 1. If you don't know, stop and ask! Don't continue, we don't want to start all over again! 2. Understand that cleaning your computer can sometimes take multiple passes/posts, and it's important to follow the steps as listed including re-running scans as listed 3. Please reply to this thread, do not start another.
If you can do those three things, everything should go smoothly.
Anti-virus programs take up an enormous amount of your computer's resources when they are actively scanning your computer. Having two anti-virus programs running at the same time can cause your computer to run very slow, become unstable and even, in rare cases, crash. If you choose to install more than one antivirus program on your computer, then only one of them should be active in memory at a time. There are basically two types of these programs: On-Access and On-Demand On-Access Scanners As the name implies, it runs in the background all the time the PC is turned on and running. The main function of an on-access scanner is to monitor activity on your machine. On-Demand Scanners As the name implies, are scanners that only run when you ask them to. Such as: Online Scans and scanners that run on your machine but are not actively scanning your machine.
I would suggest that you uninstall or disable one and you can keep it for a backup scanner. The important thing which ever you keep is updated often. Both your Java and Adobe Acrobat are outdated and vulnerable versions.
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Ok now I need you to run a scan to see more of what is going on with your computer.
Run an online scan at Kaspersky If you have a and extra tool that blocks popups(I hear beep when mine pops it) you will have to click on it and allow Kaspersky 's popup link.
I will print your instructions and work on this in a little bit. I just wanted you know regarding the McAfee, I just downloaded the trial version 2 days ago to see if it could help me get rid of that sysprotect popup. My plan was to uninstall it once the computer is running better and keep on just using my Norton.
Thanks tons though! I really appreciate this. Regards,
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C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnd.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Digital Imaging\Unload\hpqcmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KEM.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033\OLFSNT40.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\AiO\Shared\Bin\hpoevm07.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOSTS07.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOFXM07.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\057B4890.htm Suspicious: Exploit.HTML.Mht skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\058C1A7E.cla Infected: Exploit.Java. ByteVerify skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\058F447A.cla Infected: Exploit.Java. ByteVerify skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\064673B1.htm Suspicious: Exploit.HTML.Mht skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\1BA02816.cla Infected: Trojan. Java. Femad skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\3ACF35BC.tmp Infected: Trojan. Java. ClassLoader. Dummy.a skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\3D6B052C.tmp Infected: Trojan. Java. ClassLoader.c skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\50654D32.tmp Infected: Trojan. Java. ClassLoader. Dummy.a skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\52B912FE.tmp Infected: Trojan. Java. ClassLoader.c skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\62BD4CAF.cla Infected: Trojan. Java. ClassLoader. Dummy.d skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\65BC7D7A.ocx Infected: not-a-virus:AdWare. Win32.Coupons skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\6BDB7CA5.cla Infected: Trojan. Java. Femad skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\6BDB7CA5.exe Infected: Virus. Win32.Bube.l skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\6BE2509E.exe Infected: Virus. Win32.Bube.l skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\6E114D1D.htm Suspicious: Exploit.HTML.Mht skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\6E9967FF.tmp Infected: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.IstBar.gen skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\749D46DA.tmp Infected: Exploit.Java. ByteVerify skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\7BDD1126.tmp Infected: Exploit.Java. ByteVerify skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\7BF26BEB.tmp Infected: Trojan-Downloader. Java. OpenConnection.v skipped
C:\Documents AntiVirus\Quarantine\7FE94872.tmp Infected: Trojan-Downloader. Java. OpenConnection.v skipped
C:\Program Files\XoftSpy\uninstall.exe/stream/data0002 Infected: not-a-virus:RiskTool. Win32.PsKill.n skipped
C:\Program Files\XoftSpy\uninstall.exe/stream Infected: not-a-virus: RiskTool. Win32.PsKill.n skipped
C:\Program Files\XoftSpy\uninstall.exe NSIS: infected - 2 skipped
C:\WINDOWS\system32\geeba.dll Infected: not-a-virus:AdWare. Win32.Virtumonde.bo skipped
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mljgh.dll Infected: not-a-virus:AdWare. Win32.Virtumonde.bo skipped
1692: C:\Program Files\Visual Networks\Visual IP InSight\SBC\IPClient.exe
1768: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnf.exe 1844: C:\PROGRA~1\DELLSU~1\DSAgnt.exe 1944: C:\PROGRA~1\ESCRIP~1\EDITSC~1\EditScriptProcMon.exe 1984: C:\Program Files\ewido anti-malware\ewidoctrl.exe 2284: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Distillr\acrotray.exe 2292: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\hp psc 900 series\Bin\hpobrt07.exe 2392: C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KEM.exe 2496: C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KHALMNPR.EXE 2584: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033\OLFSNT40.EXE 2640: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe 2852: C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe 2932: C:\Program Files\ewido anti-malware\SecuritySuite.exe
4036: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Console\NSCSRVCE.EXE 4040: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOSTS07.exe 4060: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOFXM07.exe
128: C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe 200: C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe 252: C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\NORTON~2\NPROTECT.EXE 308: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnd.exe
1304: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe 1324: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe 1340: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe 1420: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe 1436: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
1768: C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOFXM07.exe
Updating Java - I did not find anything in my Add/Remove Programs with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in the name; hence I did not remove anything.
Updating Acrobat - I have Acrobat professional and need to keep it to create pdf files; hence, I did not remove it.
ewido - I did do the scan as instructed and it did remove I think 2 items. Maybe I didn't provide you with the correct report? Should I scan again or could I possibly obtain the report in another way?
HJT unistall list - I ran it, but it will not let me save. Everytime I click on Save list, the program closes and it is not saved anywhere that I can find.
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.bak1
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.bak1 Has been deleted!
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.bak2
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.bak2 Has been deleted!
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.tmp
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.tmp Has been deleted!
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.ini
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.ini2
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hgjlm.ini2 Has been deleted!
Attempting to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\mljgh.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mljgh.dll Has been deleted!
C:\Program Files\ewido anti -malware\ewidoctrl.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Distillr\acrotray.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KEM.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOSTS07.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\AiO\Shared\bin\hpOFXM07.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Console\NSCSRVCE.EXE
C:\Documents and Settings\Mayela\Desktop\VIRUS\hijackthis\HijackThis.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
Just FYI, I just wanted to let you know that so far, since the last instructions, the unwanted popups have not come up yet. Thank goodness! I hope whatever you told me to do worked. I appreciate this tons!
Thanks again and please let me know if I need to do something else. | https://www.malwareremoval.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10458 |
Approximately 15 million residents in the United States have their identities used fraudulently each year, according to Rob Douglas, an identity theft and scam expert. It is estimated that these activities accumulate financial losses adding upwards of $50 billion. At Estes Designs Mailbox and Streetscapes, we not only provide the highest-quality mailboxes for your home or business, but we care about our customers. Estes Mailbox and Streetscapes provides an excellent solution to prevent stolen mail and possible identity theft. Our innovative mailbox security system is designed to fit conveniently into any mailbox without altering the exterior appearance. This identity theft insert will provide safety for your mail and only be accessible to you, the homeowner because only you will have the key. It also does not inhibit your regular routine of using your mailbox, for outgoing mail just leave it on top of the insert for the mail carrier to take.
Purchase this product and start protecting your mail and identity today. | https://estesmailbox.com/protect-your-identity-with-an-identity-theft-mailbox-insert/ |
The fact that cars are a target to hackers is not surprising. Discovering a vulnerability in a car brings fame to ethical hackers, while unethical hackers can sell their finding to automotive gangs. One of the examples is vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-27254, which affects many modern Honda cars.
The vulnerability allows an attacker with the ability to capture the unlock radio signal sent from a key fob to remotely unlock the car. No expensive hardware is necessary, the only thing needed is a device worth a couple of hundreds of dollars, that is capable of capturing and re-transmitting radio signals. Such devices are legal and publicly available for research and educational purposes.
We prepared a video about a use of such device in real-world:
After capturing the unlock signal, the attacker can store it and use it at will. The vulnerability stems from the lack of a technique called rolling codes. It means that each time you unlock your car, the same unlock signal is sent to unlock the car. Capturing and re-using this signal is called a replay attack in expert terminology.
Replay attack, in general definition, means capturing information and re-using it later in a malicious way. Typical example is capturing a hash of a password during authentication (hash is an output of a one-way formula) and then re-using it later to log in.
One of the techniques to mitigate replay attacks is rolling codes. Rolling codes are supposed to make attackers life significantly harder, as captured code cannot get directly re-used. The concept of rolling code means that a different signal is sent with each successful unlock. Car expects new values based on an internal counter that’s keeping track of all the unlocks. Implementing rolling codes is considered best practice with remotely unlocked devices, such as cars.
Figure 1. A simple visualization of rolling codes.
The vulnerability affects Honda vehicles made in model years 2016 to 2020. Honda responded with no intentions to fix the vulnerability of those vehicles, leaving owners worried. The only way to protect yourself is to start using physical keys and placing your key fob into a Faraday cage after each use. | https://www.istrosec.com/blog/honda-vulnerability/ |
"If you’re looking to buy a Windows RT tablet, security vendors said, don’t expect to be able to protect it with third- party antivirus or other security software. In fact, it seems that Microsoft may block third-party antivirus vendors from developing security solutions for Windows RT.
Microsoft won’t allow such software to be sold on its online store, which is the only way to load applications onto Windows RT devices, security vendors say. It’s not known whether Microsoft will develop its own security solution for Windows RT, although most security observers assume Microsoft will do so." | http://pbokelly.blogspot.com/2012/09/is-microsoft-blocking-antivirus-apps.html |
We’ve all had our moments of weakness when trying to control ourselves; eating that donut on your diet, losing your temper with your kids, becoming upset when you’re doing your best not to. It isn’t like we plan on these lapses in judgment. It’s more like they just sort of happen.
There is scientific evidence that explains this phenomenon of everyday life. Self regulation, our strength to inhibit impulses, make decisions, persist at difficult tasks, and control emotions can be spent just like a muscle that has been lifting heavy weights. When we spend our strength on one task (trying to control your emotion around a petulant boss), there is less to spend on others (avoiding the Ben & Jerry’s when we get home).
The funny thing about being vulnerable to saying, eating, or doing the wrong thing is that humans are typically unaware that they are in a moment of weakness, unlike the strain and fatigue we feel in our muscles after a workout. Fortunately, new research conducted by University of Kentucky psychologists Suzanne Segerstrom and Lise Solberg Nes suggests that there may be a biological indicator to tell us when we are working hard at resisting temptation and consequently when we are vulnerable to doing things contrary to our intentions.
A measure of cardiac regulation called “heart rate variability” (HRV) appears to be linked to self regulation according to the article published in the March issue of Psychological Science.
The authors conducted a two-part study in order to test their hypothesis. In the first, participants were instructed to fast for three hours in order to take part in what they believed was a “physiology of food preference” experiment. Participants’ HRV was monitored while they were presented with a tray of cookies, candy and….carrots. Temptation, in this case, was indicated by giving into the tastier but decidedly less healthy snack of cookies and candy.
HRV as it turns out was considerably higher when people were working to resist temptation (eating carrots rather than cookies and chocolate) than when they were not, suggesting that HRV was mirroring the self regulation taking place.
In part two of the experiment, after resisting or giving into temptation, the authors had the participants attempt to complete difficult anagrams, some of which were impossible to solve. The authors measured how long participants persevered at the anagrams and as predicted, those who had exerted high self regulation by resisting sweets were more likely to give up earlier on the task.
Moreover, the people who had higher levels of HRV by nature, regardless of giving into temptation, were likely to endure longer at the anagram task.
HRV was not singled out as an indicator on a lark. Segerstrom and Solberg Nes noted that the brain structures involved in self regulation overlap considerably with the structures that control HRV which suggested that HRV would accurately reflect self regulation.
So, will we be wearing a cardiac monitor in the near future to gauge whether we are vulnerable in our self regulating abilities? It’s doubtful, say the authors. However, when considering special populations with more serious consequences of self regulatory failure (say, alcoholics) HRV feedback could be helpful to determine when those critical relapses in regulation will happen.
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Hackers have apparently hijacked potentially thousands of vulnerable MongoDB databases and demanded ransoms for the return of critical data, with some victims paying up, according to security researchers. See Also: 2017 Predictions on Data Security: Insights on Important Trends in Security for the Banking Industry
Security experts are warning organizations to take immediate risk mitigation steps, including hardening and updating databases and ensuring disaster recovery plans reflect the emerging threat.
"For the attacker to do this they had to gain some level of privileged access that allowed them to exfiltrate the data, which means this database or the OS were not secured very well." Researcher Victor Gevers, co-founder of the not-for-profit GDI Foundation, says he discovered in December that a hacker dubbed Harak1r1 was compromising misconfigured MongoDB servers left open to external connections and attempting to extort ransoms for stolen data after erasing the databases.
In a Jan. 5 tweet, Gevers writes that the GDI Foundation in December "warned 60 companies" about the "open MongoDB" that GDI had identified and by Jan. 2, "47 were hit by harak1r1." Gevers determined that the Harak1r1 attacker is hijacking unprotected MongoDB databases, stealing and replacing their content, and asking for a Bitcoin ransom to return the data, Bleeping Computer reports.
More than 1,800 Mongo databases have been taken over so far, according to statistics collected by Shodan, a search engine that indexes Internet-connected devices, and at least 11 victims paid the ransom, according to Blockchain.info, Bleeping Computer reports.
"After accessing these [Mongo] databases, the attacker steals their content and denies access to it by replacing the databases with one called 'WARNING,' containing one table with one record, both called 'WARNING' too," Gevers told SecurityWeek.
Victims are instructed to send 0.2 bitcoins, worth about $194, to a specific Bitcoins address to recover their data, SecurityWeek reports.
In Dec 2016 @GDI_FDN warned a 60 companies for an open MongoDB47 were hit by harak1r1 on 1/2. On 1/5 0wn3d overwrites note on 33 of them.— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) January 5, 2017
Meanwhile, the blog Databreaches.net reported on Jan. 5 that Gevers says there could be at least two additional bad actors besides Harak1r1 demanding ransoms for attacks on Mongo databases.
Gevers did not respond to my inquiries about the issue.
A spokesman for MongoDB Inc., which offers the open source database, offered this response: "The vulnerable instances of MongoDB are unsecured and left open on the internet. We strongly encourage all users to take adequate measures to secure their data, and to use the latest version of our product that provides the most up-to-date security features." The spokesman advises users to visit the company's blog post about MongoDB security features.
One Apparent Victim: Emory Healthcare
MacKeeper Security Research Center claims that among the apparent victims is Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
In a Jan. 4 blog posting, MacKeeper claims that on Dec. 30, its security researchers discovered a misconfigured Mongo database that "contained hundreds of thousands of what appeared to be patient records and other sensitive information" belonging to Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. "The IP was hosted on Google Cloud and results for domain names hosted on that address (Reverse IP) identified Emory Brain Health Center," MacKeeper writes.
"On Jan 3, 2017 when the research team went back to review the data it was identified that the database had been a victim of the Harak1r1 the 0.2 Bitcoin Ransomware. This non-traditional ransom method actually takes and removes the victims' data and holds it until the ransom is paid. The data is wiped out completely from the database and is not simply encrypted like most common types of ransomware attacks."
MacKeeper claims that about 200,000 Emory Healthcare records appear to be impacted. But the healthcare provider has not verified any details.
In a statement provided to Information Security Media, an Emory spokesperson says: "We are in the process of gathering information, but we don't have anything else at this time" to share about the alleged incident.
How to Mitigate Related Risks
Security experts tell me that organizations can take several steps to avoid becoming the next MongoDB hacker victim - or a victim of similar attacks on other vulnerable data.
"Organizations should always maintain routine backups of their databases and also have a documented recovery process in place in case something like this were to happen," says Brian Bartholomew, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
"Keeping database software up to date and following standard practice regarding accounts and access should help shrink the exposure and risk to ransomware like this," he adds. "Organizations should also be educating employees and IT teams about ransomware and the dangers of this threat."
As for misconfigured databases leaving entities vulnerable, "essentially this is a hardening issue," says Mac McMillan, CEO of the security consulting firm CynergisTek. "Organizations need to work with the vendor ... to harden or secure the database and the operating system and ensure that it is maintained in terms of patches, configuration and access actively.
To avoid becoming a victim of hijacking attacks, Dan Berger, CEO of the security consulting firm Redspin, advises organizations using MongoDB to "block access to certain ports and check to see if any secret admin users have been added to MongoDB accounts, or if any suspicious files have been recently saved, or if there are any unauthorized access attempts in the log files." | http://www.careersinfosecurity.in/blogs/database-hijackings-whos-next-p-2355 |
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Roditrev.B is a virus that spreads to other computers by copying its code to other files or programs.
Roditrev.B uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
File infection: it infects different types of files, which are then distributed through any of the usual means: floppy disks, email messages with attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FTP, IRC channels, P2P file sharing networks, etc.
Roditrev.B uses the following infection strategies:
Direct action: it infects a specific number of executable files every time the virus activates, without going memory resident. | https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=144402 |
It has been a busy day for me these past few days, specially yesterday which is Christmas. Having a long day yesterday was quite amazing seeing kinds in the streets wearing their best dresses accompanied by their parents to go from places to places just to get a gift from their grandparents or uncles or aunties. Also, in the past few days their has been a lot things that has been done and going on with me specially in which the holiday is concern,that is why this is again the time for me to sit down and write down an update for you guys. Well, just to get back to business,The corporate world has made a substantial migration from the Blackberries of old to iOS and Android. In a scramble to pick up that corporate market share, Samsung created Knox, its own security software designed to fortify Google's OS, and make it secure for business environments. However, a "serious vulnerability" has been found in Knox which could put users' data at risk.
According to cyber security researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, emails and data communications on Samsung devices are among the data susceptible to the exploit. Hackers are able to record and "easily interpret" the data which is supposed to be protected. The worst part of the vulnerability is that a capable malicious attacker could insert hostile code via the breach, thus creating system-wide harm.
The chink in Knox's digital armor was reportedly found earlier this month. Samsung has denied the severity of the vulnerability and has argued that the handset which was tested did not have all of Knox's features installed.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is being considered for use by the US Department of Defense's staff, including internal use in the Pentagon. If a foreign manufacturers' handsets aren't deemed secure, then there is no way the US government will consider using the phones. Samsung could therefore be losing a lucrative government contract if Knox can't make the cut. | https://www.tekkiepinas.xyz/2013/12/vulnerability-found-in-samsung-knox.html |
Making up for cyber attack losses is not like a regular theft, says Joseph Drissel. Navigating cyber losses is one of the more challenging business realities that small and mid-sized business owners face today. And while cyber security is top of mind, many business owners risk extensive financial exposure when their networks store not only their own proprietary information, but that of their clients and customers. Understanding the basic needs for substantiating an insurance claim can mean the difference between being made whole and being left holding the bag.
If you do business in any sort of collaborative environment (read: everyone), then you likely have your customers’, clients’ or partners’ receipts, account numbers, financial data, manufacturing and supply chain information, marketing plans, intellectual property, trade secrets, contracts, agreements, and any number of other “secret sauce ingredients” on your network. Any and all of it can be stolen in a cyber attack.
Harrison Linder, M.D., Mercy Medical Center, Inc. See More People on the Move As well-intentioned as your local police precinct is in solving breaking and entering cases, today’s police investigative units simply don’t have the capability to analyze and document your data loss when cyber attackers break into your network. And unless you’re a business with national security implications, chances are good that the FBI won’t get involved —– and even if they do, there is only so much that they can do in the private sector network.
What should a small or mid-sized business owner do when they have suffered the loss of valuable data? Your insurance policy is a good place to start. But if we take the crime scene investigation analogy one step further, there’s no police report for you to use when it comes to filing a claim. The simple fact is this: if someone broke into your office and physically stole your computer, then calling the police would be the first logical step in substantiating the crime and cataloguing the associated losses. The challenge with cyber attacks, however, is that there is no centralized cyber 9-1-1. Enlisting the help of a digital forensics expert will help you determine what transpired on the network, account for the data has been lost, and then help you quantify that loss so that an accurate claim can be filed.
Oftentimes, there is no visible physical evidence of the crime — at least to the untrained eye. Your networks might run slower, or maybe your anti-virus software picked up on some abnormalities, but unless you have a team of cyber experts monitoring your networks, you often have no indication that your networks have been breached. Cyber attackers can break in, steal all they want, set up systems to monitor your networks on an ongoing basis, monitor your keystrokes — and you won’t even know it since most business owners are not focused on this aspect of the business..
If you do find that you’ve been the victim of a cyber attack, however, I recommend involving an expert forensic analyst with deep experience in network based intrusions and reverse engineering when you’re seeking to file a claim on your insurance policy. In addition to conducting a focused, intrusion-oriented digital forensics assessment to determine past and ongoing data losses due to the advanced persistent threat (APT), an experienced analyst can help you determine your current exposures and provide an interpretation of any data security breaches. Additionally, you should ask for a comprehensive identification of information security weaknesses and potential hot points to minimize your chances for future cyber attacks, which also may be useful in reducing your premiums moving forward.
Should you find that your current policy doesn’t provide the extent of coverage you’re seeking, there are an increasing number of cyber liability insurance policies available to add on as riders. No matter what you insurance needs, however, in order to effectively substantiate losses and file the most accurate claim, make sure you include data forensics analysis in the mix to ensure the optimal claim.
Joseph Drissel, CEO of Cyber Engineering Services in Columbia, will be writing a regular column on cyber security for baltimorebusinessjournal.com.
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Yes, that describes the statue that has taken Wall Street by storm. But it could also be the many female executives the Baltimore Business Journal covers regularly. | http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/how-to/technology/2013/06/how-to-recoup-losses-from-a-cyber-attack.html |
In recent months, Microsoft has made a couple of moves to make its Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software more widely used. First, the company relaxed licensing restrictions, making it permissible to use MSE in businesses with ten or fewer PCs; prior to this change, the software was only licensed for home users. Now, the company has started to distribute the software through its Microsoft Update distribution system.
Last month Ars asked antivirus vendors their thoughts about the expansion of MSE into small businesses. Their responses could best be summed up as "it's good that Microsoft is raising awareness of computer security, but our software is still much better."
The broader distribution of MSE to consumers might not be as welcome. When Ed Bott at ZDNet asked Symantec and McAfee their thoughts, their stance was much the same as it is was before: "Microsoft's software offers only basic protection; ours is so much better, people really should use it." Infoworld is reporting that Trend Micro might not be so conciliatory.
Speaking to Infoworld, Carol Carpenter, the general manager of the consumer and small business group at Trend Micro said, "Commercializing Windows Update to distribute other software applications raises significant questions about unfair competition." She continued, "Windows Update is a de facto extension of Windows, so to begin delivering software tied to updates has us concerned. Windows Update is not a choice for users, and we believe it should not be used this way."
Microsoft Update, which updates a broad range of Microsoft products and occasionally offers new ones, requires a deliberate opt-in: it isn't enabled by default. Moreover, MSE will only be offered to customers who do not have an existing antivirus product installed—and in any case is offered as an optional download.
Though an antirust suit over an optional download that is only offered after enabling an optional feature seems unlikely, that competitors would even raise such concerns shows Microsoft's uniquely peculiar position in the industry. The third-party software vendors are more than happy to insist that Windows needs antivirus software and that using a Windows machine without such software is dangerous—but if Microsoft agrees with their assessment and tries to improve the situation itself, they threaten to cry foul.
It may be anticompetitive to include MSE with a Windows update, but the software gets the job done, for free, and using minimal resources.
I'd have to agree here, frankly most of the third party antivirus software on windows is a cure that's almost worse than the disease.
I suppose they looked at the 90s, and realized that given an in MS will happily use Windows to push competitors out of the market. I'm actually surprised no one complained sooner, and I suspect they were happy to pass on the home market in favor of the business market where I suspect people are more willing to spend money to keep up to date.
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Oh and this. You can tell a product is utter crap when people pass around instructions on how to disable McAfee (in violation of corporate policy!) just to get work done.
Nah really, I find it a bit hard to swallow that anti-virus companies complain about Microsoft trying to keep their OS secure.
It's like the typographs union going on strike over DTP software (yes, they did that here in Denmark).
I can see the anti-competitive part but honestly if it wasn't for MS previous poor habits the entire anti-virus industry may have never existed in the Windows world.
That and I have very little sympathy for the large vendors of this crap-ware someone keeps convincing management they need beyond basic protection.
Essentially the same argument against including any software with an OS. MS should ship a $70 version of Windows 7 with nothing but a bare bones OS--no notepad/Wordpad, Paint, Briefcase, Disk Management, etc. Nothing, nada, zilch. Not even an advanced folder browser. Afterall of these features were at one time competitive pieces of software. Heck, I remember "I Can Hear It" offering a robust Windows 3.1 sound augmentation system that essentially got mirrored in later Windows. MS could in turn offer the "robust" OS version for $120 or whatever that includes all these features that most of us find essential aspects of the OS.
I think it would be an interesting experiment. You would end up with a number of community versions--maybe even paid bundles of commercial software--that attempts to do-one-better than MS (e.g. OpenOffice/AVG/FireFox; a Google/Chrome-like offering, etc) and MS would be free for the "full version" to full on compete in every way.
Until that day I am happy MS is offering free antivirus software. It is an essentialy part of good computing and any robust OS should offer features to make the experience secure as possible.
I do love to hate Microsoft... but really, I have less problems with MSE than any other similar antivirus program on the market. They've all gotten too bloated, and nobody can offer absolute protection.
And, what's wrong with Microsoft protecting people from bugs in their own software? It should be noted that Apple has been doing this too...it's actually built into the OS... but I don't see any antitrust lawsuit going their way, and they live for litigation.
"Trend Micro's response shows a poor understanding of the action Microsoft has taken. not through Windows Update, but through the related Microsoft Update service."
Actually, this is not true. If Microsoft wants to make Windows more secure via windows update, they do that by patches. Even my Spybot S&D + AVGFree 1-2 punch, which was tidy and effective, doesn’t compare. Microsoft really got it right with MSE.
I find it interesting that what is supposed to be protecting the consumer is being used to protect profits.
Trend Micro is essentially using a loophole in the law to protect themselves and screw the consumers who are not tech savvy which I think is anti-competitive in itself.
Anyone know of a decent AV? MSE maybe detects 50% of whats out there, if you are lucky. Sym is a joke, pure bload. McA locks computers up. TM .. well, they are not worth talking about.
I hear NOD32 (64) is good, any others? Must have a native 64bit version to be taken seriously ...
BTW: MSE have NEVER, ever shown up on my windows update for Windows 7 64bit. I had to manually download it ... I take it, that is different for other versions of windows?
I wouldn't mind seeing other free AV solutions offered along with MSE, and I can see why they'd complain, but at the same time something needs to be done about all the people going around with no (or expired) antivirus. Anti-competitive? I can easily see it. Taking care of a major, unaddressed problem that isn't being taken care of? I can see that too.
If MS is successfully sued over this, then I want Apple sued over iTunes and Safari being the default options on OSX, and iTunes only syncing with iPods/iPhones.
Risking the loss of my identity, getting a virus, being part of a botnet, was not enough for me to want to install third party anti virus software.
It wasn't until MSE was available that this software existed on my computer. It wasn't windows update that got it for me when I changed my mind. I went and downloaded it.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention but Windows has more security protections then OSX.
Microsoft should put there efforts into making Windows secure, so additional software is not necessary. Oh wait, then they'd have to cut into there 90% profit margin.
Of course, with MSE acting as a major profit center for MS, they have no incentive to find ways to make the core Windows OS more secure. Besides, it isn't like MSE could be any clunkier than it currently is.
It has been true up until literally this week - it was either yesterday or Wednesday that I got Microsoft Security Essentials as an "Optional" update in Windows Update. I was in a hurry and clicked it without thinking and wondered why, when I got home, that it was installed on my system.
I'm not positive what prompts that - it could be possibly that I do not have an anti-virus program installed on my computer, but nevertheless - I am 100% positive that through Windows Update - and that is a VERY recent thing, which would explain the abruptness of this timing. In this case, I 100% agree with Trend in that what Microsoft is doing is anti-trust. I don't deny that MSE is a superior product - however, I do agree with the sentiment that they should not be offering it through Windows Update, and that is, indeed, anti-trust.
I think it's questionable wether this qualifies as anit-trust. Security should be an inherent part of any operating system or maybe they should be force to take out the firewall, yeah that's the answer, plus and security features in the browser too.
The way I see it, MSE is just another step Microsoft is taking to make their OS's as secure as possible. I don't see a reason why anti-malware/-virus should be separated from the core OS when you do get things like a web browser and media player included with the OS.
I guess it would be "unfair competition" if Microsoft managed to write a 100% secure OS too, eliminating the need for anti-virus software... Maybe they should leave some security holes deliberately open just to keep the anti-virus market alive...
Also MSE is way better than other anti-virus viruses, that use tons of memory and CPU, thrash the hard drive and annoy you with popups all the time.
Bring on the Free AVG and the MS security Essentials.
My friend, what you want is Nod32. It runs in the background, you don't notice it, it does everything and it's consistently one of the best AV, both in detection heuristics and resource usage. The only times I notice is when it say it has been updated or it has blocked an attack, and even that notification is only shown for a few seconds.
But yeah, MSE is opt in, so this anti-trust seems stupid. Of course this is how some companies do business: when your product isn't competitive, sue the ones that are.
That isn't what Microsoft says, and it isn't my experience. It goes out through Microsoft Update, which you have previously opted into, not Windows Update.
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If they want to make it more secure via an stand-alone program like MSE, they should not release it through Windows Update. They haven't released it through Windows Update, and anti-virus software guards against a kind of threat that patches cannot protect against.
That'd be a valid argument if most of this stuff was getting in via security holes. Nowadays, that's no longer the case, most malware infections happen via social engineering. Nothing MS, Apple or anyone else does in software can prevent malware installations caused by some dumbass falling for "Type in your password to enlarge your penis!"
If MS gets dinged for "antitrust" for automatically providing anti-virus software for free (and also opt-out), then the anti-virus companies should get slapped around for automatically charging $60 from accounts and making people jump through hoops to cancel a payment they never asked for.
As it stands, MSE is by far the lesser of two evils. 1 minute Uninstall vs 10 minutes searching for a contact number and 20 minutes listening to service double-speak. Hmm, tough choice.
EDIT: And apparently I need to read better, because MSE seems to be opt-in, not opt-out. Another +1 to MS...I'm slowly being reconverted. I might actually give MSE a shot over the weekend.
To the people defending Microsoft, MSE prompts you to remove other anti-virus software for it to be installed. Understandable again, but when it is offered as, essentially, a "patch" for Windows (as what windows update is), that is where the anti-trust issue comes in.
Even if this is so, I'd disagree. It's made clear what it is, and it's not selected by default - in fact, to install it you have to go into the "advanced" mode and explicitly tick it, then go through a wizard to install, which displays the MSE logo and mentions the product by name several times, along with a prominent Cancel button in most steps. If you just click "Install Updates"/"Express" mode, then you are never offered the update. If you leave the computer to auto-update, the same thing happens.
I agree with most of the comments above. Not only should MSE be in windows update, it should be 100% bundled as part of the OS. The OS being secure should be the job of the OS, not some 3rd party.
I have probably seen an equal number of problems from AV products, as I have from actual viruses and malware. (norton anyone?) or maybe when mcafee and avg were bricking machines by erasing user32.dll
Who knows about protecting Windows better than Microsoft? Hell, MS already had to bend to the will of these AV vendors when they were trying to make Vista more secure by not allowing 3rd parties access to certain things for the pure standpoint of that thing being more secure.
It's listed as optional. The grand majority of Windows users never once touch Windows Update's settings. Optional updates do not get installed on the default settings. Users have to jump through hoops for the Microsoft update service to even appear. The end result? I would be surprised if more than 10% of consumers (not businesses) even visit the update website (XP) or open Windows Update for something other than click the restart button AFTER an update has been installed (Vista/7).
I actually have Trend Micro Internet Security and I have respect for the product. It's very unintrusive, takes few resources and has served me well and my family. I certainly recommend the product a lot when asked about a paid security solution. I myself am moving over to MSE when my current subscription expires, but keeping the rest of my family on it because they're used to it and they're the type of person who needs that extra protection. I'm not.
So maybe the fact that I have an antivirus is preventing MSE from appearing in my Windows Update because all I have right now is the Zune Software update as a (surprise!) optional update probably because I have XNA 4.0 installed.
Yes, because they're simply raking it in from those MSE downloads, aren't they.
Raking it in from home users and businesses with 10 or less computers, yep
Pity we can't do an "Apple" test. Could Apple do it and get away with it? Maybe they should too. It might be seen as a positive, even necessary thing.
Of course, I think the reverse needs to happen to Apple... could Microsoft do it and get away with it? No? Then neither should Apple. | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/trend-micro-cries-antitrust-over-microsoft-security-essentials/?comments=1 |
Spark Cast may have a homepage at spartcaststart.com, but it does not mean it is possible to download the application directly. This program is part of a big family of adware applications called SuperWeb. There are countless applications in this group, and some of the most recent names include Platamoose, Bliss Search, AdvanceElite, and so on. All of these applications have fake homepages.
We saying that Spark Cast’s homepage is also fake because the download button does not work – clicking it redirects you to a blank page. What is more, the main homepage does not provide you with enough of relevant information on Spark Cast. It merely says that with this application you can “see quality searches.” On top of that, it says that Spark Cast is compatible with all main browsers, but in reality the newest Google Chrome versions block this extension.
What does Spark Cast do?
The fact that Google Chrome blocks Spark Cast should be enough to convince that this extension is not reliable. Technically, the program should improve your web search experience, but we have enough ground to believe that Spark Cast does quite the opposite – it hinders you by collecting information on your web browsing habits. When it has enough data collected, the application generates commercial ads that are related to your web search history.
Take note that Spark Cast does not embed the ad content on its own. It outsources the content via affiliated parties, and it states clearly in the application’s privacy policy that Spark Cast is not responsible for the third-party content. Hence, if you click Spark Cast ads and you land on a corrupted website, the application will not be liable for it. | http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/remove-spark-cast |
In the affected computer: it converts the computer into a platform for taking malicious action surreptitiously: spam sending, launch of Denial of Service attacks, malware distribution, etc.
FastFat. C does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc. | https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=133710 |
Over the previous decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delivered a few bits of direction to organizations identifying with network safety. The SEC has expressed on different events that digital-related dangers are probably the main issues confronting present-day financial backers. The SEC has found ways such as DFARS cyber security to help organizations see how to make appropriate safety efforts. The SEC has likewise sought after disciplinary activities against many organizations and people for digital-related wrongdoing. The SEC keeps a rundown of digital-related legitimate actions taken against people and other entities on its site. These recorded activities remember implementation for regions like computerized coin contributions, account interruptions, hacking, insider exchanging, market control, protection controls, and public revelations. One massive piece of direction from the SEC was delivered in 2011. This direction explained that no current divulgence necessity expressly alludes to online protection hazards and digital occurrences; various exposure prerequisites might force a commitment on registrants to reveal such dangers and incidents. All in all, network safety data is sufficiently significant to be viewed as material and should be imparted to financial backers. For instance, financial backers might have to realize that the firm has a security technique set up, the pertinent dangers, how past breaks have affected the business, and how future breaks might hurt the firm.
The SEC direction clarifies how firms can effectively unveil the legitimate measure of data without making new network safety dangers by uncovering excessively. Since the arrival of this direction, numerous public organizations have expanded their exposure to significant network protection chances. The SEC supported an interpretive delivery that gives further direction concerning network safety disclosures. This archive reaffirms the significance of online protection. It provides a more top to bottom structure to assist organizations with setting up the appropriate cycles and conventions that will assist them with unveiling network safety-related dangers and security breaks. For instance, the SEC helps organizations that information to remember a network safety break is viewed as material data and that insiders with the knowledge on an episode can’t exchange stock until the data has been unveiled to the general population. The archive likewise builds up rules about which data is viewed as material and regulations on when exposures ought to be made. | https://lsap2010.org/read-about-federal-cybersecurity-regulation-and-guidance/ |
First discovered by malware security researcher, Michael Gillespie, Prus is a ransomware-type virus that belongs to the Rotor malware family. After successful infiltration, Prus encrypts stored data using the AES-128 and RSA-2048 encryption algorithms. In addition, it appends each filename with the developer's email address and ".prus" extension. For example, "sample.jpg" becomes "sample.jpg! [email protected] !.prus". Encrypted data immediately becomes unusable. Following successful encryption, Prus places a text file ("informprus.txt") in every folder containing encrypted files.
The new text file contains a ransom-demand message in Russian and English. It is stated that data is encrypted and can only be restored using a unique decryption key and decryption software. Unfortunately, this information is accurate. As mentioned above, Prus uses RSA and AES cryptographies and, thus, two unique keys are generated individually for each victim. Restoring data without these keys is impossible. Cyber criminals hide them on a remote server and blackmail victims for their release - to recover data, victims are encouraged to contact cyber criminals and are then asked to pay a ransom. The cost is not specified in the text file - these details are provided via email. Note, however, that ransomware developers usually demand $500-1500 and, in most cases, payments must be submitted using cryptocurrencies. No matter what the cost, you should never agree to pay. Research shows that ransomware developers often ignore victims, once payments are submitted. Therefore, paying typically gives no positive result and users are scammed. Do not attempt to contact these people and certainly do not submit any payments. Unfortunately, there are no tools capable of cracking Prus encryption and restoring data without paying. The only solution is to restore everything from a backup.
Threat Type Ransomware, Crypto Virus, Files locker.
Symptoms Cannot open files stored on your computer, previously functional files now have a different extension (for example, my.docx.locked). A ransom demand message is displayed on your desktop. Cyber criminals request a ransom payment (usually in Bitcoins) to unlock your files.
Distribution methods Infected email attachments (macros), torrent websites, malicious ads.
Damage All files are encrypted and cannot be opened without paying a ransom. Additional password-stealing trojans and malware infections can be installed together with a ransomware infection.
The main reasons for computer infections are poor knowledge of these threats and careless behavior. Caution is the key to computer safety. Therefore, pay attention when browsing the internet and downloading, installing, and updating software. Avoid using third party downloaders/installers, since developers monetize them by including rogue apps. Software should be downloaded from official sources only, using direct download links. Similar rules apply to software updates. Keep installed software up-to-date. To achieve this, however, use only implemented functions or tools provided by the official developer. Furthermore, never attempt to 'crack' installed applications. Software piracy is considered a cyber crime and the risk of infections is extremely high. Think twice before opening email attachments. Files that seem irrelevant and those received from suspicious/unrecognizable email addresses should never be opened. Lastly, have a reputable anti-virus/anti-spyware suite installed and running - these tools will help you to detect and eliminate malware before the system is harmed. If your computer is already infected with Prus, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate this ransomware.
The appearance of Prus ransomware text file ("informprus.txt"):
Text presented in Prus ransomware text file ("informprus.txt"):
Files were encrypted with AES-128+RSA-2048 crypto algorithms.
There is no way to decrypt your files without unique decryption key and special software. Your unique decryption key is securely stored on our server. For our safety, all information about your server and your decryption key will be automaticaly DELETED AFTER 7 DAYS! You will irrevocably lose all your data!
1 email: [email protected] (Response time within 24 hours) 2 email: [email protected] (replacement mail in the event that no reply in 24 hours by email 1)
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Right-click on each connection point and select "Disable". Once disabled, the system will no longer be connected to the internet. To re-enable the connection points, simply right-click again and select "Enable".
Step 2: Unplug all storage devices.
As mentioned above, ransomware might encrypt data and infiltrate all storage devices that are connected to the computer. For this reason, all external storage devices (flash drives, portable hard drives, etc.) should be disconnected immediately, however, we strongly advise you to eject each device before disconnecting to prevent data corruption:
Navigate to "My Computer", right-click on each connected device, and select "Eject":
Step 3: Log-out of cloud storage accounts.
Some ransomware-type might be able to hijack software that handles data stored within "the Cloud". Therefore, the data could be corrupted/encrypted. For this reason, you should log-out of all cloud storage accounts within browsers and other related software. You should also consider temporarily uninstalling the cloud-management software until the infection is completely removed.
Identify the ransomware infection:
To properly handle an infection, one must first identify it. Some ransomware infections use ransom-demand messages as an introduction (see the WALDO ransomware text file below).
This, however, is rare. In most cases, ransomware infections deliver more direct messages simply stating that data is encrypted and that victims must pay some sort of ransom. Note that ransomware-type infections typically generate messages with different file names (for example, "_readme.txt", "READ-ME.txt", "DECRYPTION_INSTRUCTIONS.txt", "DECRYPT_FILES.html", etc.). Therefore, using the name of a ransom message may seem like a good way to identify the infection. The problem is that most of these names are generic and some infections use the same names, even though the delivered messages are different and the infections themselves are unrelated. Therefore, using the message filename alone can be ineffective and even lead to permanent data loss (for example, by attempting to decrypt data using tools designed for different ransomware infections, users are likely to end up permanently damaging files and decryption will no longer be possible even with the correct tool).
Another way to identify a ransomware infection is to check the file extension, which is appended to each encrypted file. Ransomware infections are often named by the extensions they append (see files encrypted by Qewe ransomware below).
This method is only effective, however, when the appended extension is unique - many ransomware infections append a generic extension (for example, ".encrypted", ".enc", ".crypted", ".locked", etc.). In these cases, identifying ransomware by its appended extension becomes impossible.
One of the easiest and quickest ways to identify a ransomware infection is to use the ID Ransomware website. This service supports most existing ransomware infections. Victims simply upload a ransom message and/or one encrypted file (we advise you to upload both if possible).
The ransomware will be identified within seconds and you will be provided with various details, such as the name of the malware family to which the infection belongs, whether it is decryptable, and so on.
Encryption algorithms used by most ransomware-type infections are extremely sophisticated and, if the encryption is performed properly, only the developer is capable of restoring data. This is because decryption requires a specific key, which is generated during the encryption. Restoring data without the key is impossible. In most cases, cybercriminals store keys on a remote server, rather than using the infected machine as a host. Dharma (CrySis), Phobos, and other families of high-end ransomware infections are virtually flawless, and thus restoring data encrypted without the developers' involvement is simply impossible. Despite this, there are dozens of ransomware-type infections that are poorly developed and contain a number of flaws (for example, the use of identical encryption/decryption keys for each victim, keys stored locally, etc.). Therefore, always check for available decryption tools for any ransomware that infiltrates your computer.
Finding the correct decryption tool on the internet can be very frustrating. For this reason, we recommend that you use the No More Ransom Project and this is where identifying the ransomware infection is useful. The No More Ransom Project website contains a "Decryption Tools" section with a search bar. Enter the name of the identified ransomware, and all available decryptors (if there are any) will be listed.
Run the Recuva application and follow the wizard. You will be prompted with several windows allowing you to choose what file types to look for, which locations should be scanned, etc. All you need to do is select the options you're looking for and start the scan. We advise you to enable the "Deep Scan" before starting, otherwise, the application's scanning capabilities will be restricted.
Wait for Recuva to complete the scan. The scanning duration depends on the volume of files (both in quantity and size) that you are scanning (for example, several hundred gigabytes could take over an hour to scan). Therefore, be patient during the scanning process. We also advise against modifying or deleting existing files, since this might interfere with the scan. If you add additional data (for example, downloading files/content) while scanning, this will prolong the process:
Proper file management and creating backups is essential for data security. Therefore, always be very careful and think ahead.
Partition management: We recommend that you store your data in multiple partitions and avoid storing important files within the partition that contains the entire operating system. If you fall into a situation whereby you cannot boot the system and are forced to format the disk on which the operating system is installed (in most cases, this is where malware infections hide), you will lose all data stored within that drive. This is the advantage of having multiple partitions: if you have the entire storage device assigned to a single partition, you will be forced to delete everything, however, creating multiple partitions and allocating the data properly allows you to prevent such problems. You can easily format a single partition without affecting the others - therefore, one will be cleaned and the others will remain untouched, and your data will be saved. Managing partitions is quite simple and you can find all the necessary information on Microsoft's documentation web page.
Data backups: One of the most reliable backup methods is to use an external storage device and keep it unplugged. Copy your data to an external hard drive, flash (thumb) drive, SSD, HDD, or any other storage device, unplug it and store it in a dry place away from the sun and extreme temperatures. This method is, however, quite inefficient, since data backups and updates need to be made regularly. You can also use a cloud service or remote server. Here, an internet connection is required and there is always the chance of a security breach, although it's a really rare occasion.
We recommend using Microsoft OneDrive for backing up your files. OneDrive lets you store your personal files and data in the cloud, sync files across computers and mobile devices, allowing you to access and edit your files from all of your Windows devices. OneDrive lets you save, share and preview files, access download history, move, delete, and rename files, as well as create new folders, and much more.
You can back up your most important folders and files on your PC (your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders). Some of OneDrive’s more notable features include file versioning, which keeps older versions of files for up to 30 days. OneDrive features a recycling bin in which all of your deleted files are stored for a limited time. Deleted files are not counted as part of the user’s allocation.
The service is built using HTML5 technologies and allows you to upload files up to 300 MB via drag and drop into the web browser or up to 10 GB via the OneDrive desktop application. With OneDrive, you can download entire folders as a single ZIP file with up to 10,000 files, although it can’t exceed 15 GB per single download.
OneDrive comes with 5 GB of free storage out of the box, with an additional 100 GB, 1 TB, and 6 TB storage options available for a subscription-based fee. You can get one of these storage plans by either purchasing additional storage separately or with Office 365 subscription.
Creating a data backup:
The backup process is the same for all file types and folders. Here’s how you can back up your files using Microsoft OneDrive
Step 1: Choose the files/folders you want to backup.
Click the OneDrive cloud icon to open the OneDrive menu. While in this menu, you can customize your file backup settings.
Click Help & Settings and then select Settings from the drop-down menu.
Go to the Backup tab and click Manage backup.
In this menu, you can choose to backup the Desktop and all of the files on it, and Documents and Pictures folders, again, with all of the files in them. Click Start backup.
Now, when you add a file or folder in the Desktop and Documents and Pictures folders, they will be automatically backed up on OneDrive.
To add folders and files, not in the locations shown above, you have to add them manually.
Open File Explorer and navigate to the location of the folder/file you want to backup. Select the item, right-click it, and click Copy.
Then, navigate to OneDrive, right-click anywhere in the window and click Paste. Alternatively, you can just drag and drop a file into OneDrive. OneDrive will automatically create a backup of the folder/file.
All of the files added to the OneDrive folder are backed up in the cloud automatically. The green circle with the checkmark in it indicates that the file is available both locally and on OneDrive and that the file version is the same on both. The blue cloud icon indicates that the file has not been synced and is available only on OneDrive. The sync icon indicates that the file is currently syncing.
To access files only located on OneDrive online, go to the Help & Settings drop-down menu and select View online.
Step 2: Restore corrupted files.
OneDrive makes sure that the files stay in sync, so the version of the file on the computer is the same version on the cloud. However, if ransomware has encrypted your files, you can take advantage of OneDrive’s Version history feature that will allow you to restore the file versions prior to encryption.
Microsoft 365 has a ransomware detection feature that notifies you when your OneDrive files have been attacked and guide you through the process of restoring your files. It must be noted, however, that if you don’t have a paid Microsoft 365 subscription, you only get one detection and file recovery for free.
If your OneDrive files get deleted, corrupted, or infected by malware, you can restore your entire OneDrive to a previous state. Here’s how you can restore your entire OneDrive:
1. Then, click Options and select Restore your OneDrive.
If you're signed in with a work or school account, click the Settings cog at the top of the page. Then, click Restore your OneDrive.
2. On the Restore your OneDrive page, select a date from the drop-down list. Note that if you're restoring your files after automatic ransomware detection, a restore date will be selected for you.
3. After configuring all of the file restoration options, click Restore to undo all the activities you selected.
The best way to avoid damage from ransomware infections is to maintain regular up-to-date backups.
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A bank client was the victim of phishing: through this social engineering technique, The thieves called her on the phone, posed as employees of the institution, acquired her home banking username and password, emptied her savings account, and took out a loan in her name. for several hundred thousand pesos.
The denunciation of this fact led to a unprecedented recent drop, which established that the bank is not exempted from its responsibility if a client voluntarily shares their bank details with cybercriminals.
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Sofor the first time the main argument of the institutions was discarded facing lawsuits for phishing cases: the customer is solely responsible.
Now the bank must assume the punishment for a crime of which it is not guilty. Can you imagine that firefighters had to pay for the reconstruction of a building after putting out the fire? This is almost the same.
I think This ruling invites us to reflect because it takes into account only a part of the actors. It is clear that the culprit is not the institution, much less the client. The person responsible is the cybercriminal. Sounds obvious, I know. But it has to be said. Beyond the philosophical ethical debate and the trivialization of the issue by the media, which could even promote the increase in cybercrime, legal efforts must also be put into providing a legal framework that protects victims and punishes the real perpetrators of the crime.
The regulations and the personal data protection model as a basis
Each market has its regulations for organizations, private companies and users to operate. In Argentina, great efforts are made in terms of cybersecurity, especially in the banking industry. From my point of view, this allows for one of the most successful models in the region, with the balance between security and usability necessary to create an excellent user experience.
I believe that cases like the one exposed could establish a new starting point for updating the applications and for getting to work so that each link in the chain can have responsibility for 100% of their actions.
I know that the banking system has the tools required to prevent massive attacks. I am also aware of the specialization of criminals to date. Therefore, convinced that the key is the education of users in cybersecurity by the government, companies and educational institutions.
Necessary Pay attention to the details. For example:
Do not click on links or download attachments that come to us by email, social networks or messaging services from unknown senders.
And if we believe that it is from our bank or from a trusted institution, make sure that it is not false, since sometimes the name can have some subtle change to try to deceive us.
Banks will never request sensitive data from us through these means. So, if in doubt, we should always contact customer service before responding to any digital communication.
When we need to enter the official website of our bank, do not search for it on Google because cybercriminals can pay for false duplicate pages to appear as ads among the first results. We should always write the web in the address bar or have it in our favorites. But no recommendation beats the security of a mobile application: by far, the safest way to operate is through them.
Another fundamental tool, implemented years ago by banks, is the second authentication factor: if you don’t have it, you have to activate it and never share it, so that no one can access your account from another device. And finally, always have the software updated, both on our computer and on our cell phone.
These recommendations can help us face the dangers of the digital world, where for example Microsoft last year blocked more than 35.7 billion phishing attacks and other malicious emails sent by criminals. However, to reduce cybercrime, we must put the spotlight on the criminals, the true villains of this story. | https://acesnewyork.com/phishing-5-tips-to-avoid-being-a-victim-of-cybercrime/ |
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Google also mandates verified boot for devices with AES performance over 50MB/s. Who verifies it? Google verifies it (with NSA consent)?
Or is it completely, 100% open source such that I can compile my own boot loader and sign it with my own key and install it myself? Anything else really just means that the NSA have a backdoor to your device that you cannot remove because your boot loader is locked against you.
Journal The actual OS portion of it is, actually. It is the Google apps and framework (e.g. non-AOSP) and hardware-specific drivers (e.g. not part of Android) that are not open source. Test this by fetching a system image for your phone (assuming a Nexus device, where Google is actually the one releasing the binaries; there is no guarantee that a different OEM doesn't change things, in fact that is quite common.. so, again, a Nexus device), extract the /system partition, and replace the binaries with your own versions compiled from source (same version of Android, of course, so drivers and the Google bits still work), roll that back into the image, and flash it.
10 to 1 it'll boot and work just fine. If you weren't an AC I'd put money on it.
by Behrooz Amoozad ( 2831361 ) writes: Well, You could literally do that if You put a fly in a box with your phone in it and ground the fly with a thin wire.
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by swillden ( 191260 ) writes: The Android verified boot specification requires that unlockable devices allow you to install your own verification key, to verify your own system images. Boot loaders mostly aren't open source, unfortunately, so it'll be an OEM-provided bootloader that's using your key. Google is working on that. The starting point is the new Pixel C tablet, which uses ChromiumOS's open source boot loader, so the full stack is open (though there are still bits of closed firmware, sigh).
by Behrooz Amoozad ( 2831361 ) writes: yes, there are compiler flags to help you ensure that.
You can get the source code and compile it once and match it against all phones. It's pretty easy to verify you can just dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p# | sha1sum -
This [debian.org] is a good example of how linux distributions are trying to achieve this.
by Behrooz Amoozad ( 2831361 ) writes: the usual flags are the ones that make sure extra debug info like kernel version and name of the source files are not included in the build. just using gcc -o a.out file.c produces a reproducable binary most of the times(sometimes it depends on the source code, freakishly weird macros and crazy stuff we programmers do because of our pride) verizon is legally required to provide the flags they used as per GPL license for the GPL licensed part of code.
I guess the only way is to check each one on its own.
self-serving. Not according to the standard definitions of self-serving which includes: 1. Serving one's own interests, especially without concern for the
by swillden ( 191260 ) writes: One of the conditions that Google should be forcing RIGHT NOW is that manufacturers (and carriers) must provide a mechanism to allow updating the operating system (or to replace it entirely).That mechanism exists, and has existed, and has been mandated, for years.
The challenge is getting manufacturers and carriers to use it.
by D.McG. ( 3986101 ) writes: https://www.apple.com/business... [apple.com]
According to Apple, one of the many keys in the chain is unique to each device, imprinted into the silicon when the chip is fabricated, and not exposed on any pins of the chip. This doc is a great read, and even goes into how each file is encrypted with a different key.
by cloud.pt ( 3412475 ) writes: on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:20PM (#50775969)
So, if I get this right, Google just made boot-level customization useless, because verified boot will pretty much prevent CWM, TWRP, unlocking the bootloader etc. There goes also easy rooting, easy custom ROMs (CyanogenMod), easy backups, MultiROM, fastboot de-bricking for the semi-knowledgeable, sideloading, custom flashing............. Right? RIGHT?
by BronsCon ( 927697 ) writes: Fuck the police, we have every right to encrypt our data to keep it out of the hands of criminals. Criminals, who, of course, will encrypt it if they get it. Except that most criminals aren't that smart.
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...Where in this case your heart is your PC gaming collection. To celebrate hitting 100 million users or to celebrate the launch of Steam Music or just for the hell of it Valve is selling the Valve Complete Pack (Left 4 Dead, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and about nineteen other games) for 75% off through October 1.
That's 24 games for $25, which is a great deal...provided you don't already own some (if not all) of the most important/influential games of all time.
Get ready for your close-up
There are rumors floating around about a possible first-person mode in Grand Theft Auto V's future. A Reddit user found a list of upcoming features on Rockstar's site that included "A brand new first person mode for vehicles that shows the interior of the vehicle, including working speedometers, tachometers, dash lights, and more" and also "A brand new first person mode while on foot."
Rockstar is tight-lipped on whether or not the feature exists, however, and the relevant Google cache has already been 404ed.
Evil Within your computer
Bethesda published the Recommended Specs for its upcoming survival horror game The Evil Within this week and they're absolutely absurd. Like, a quad-core i7, a GTX 670 with four gigs of VRAM, and 50GB of storage space. Heavens to Betsy.
Of course, keep in mind that Bethesda pulled the same stunt with Wolfenstein: The New Order saying you'd need an i7. Meanwhile I was over here playing it on a two-generation old i5 with no problem.
So what I'm saying, basically, is take these specs with a grain of salt for now. I'll be able to tell you more when we do our review—the game releases October 14.
TV tie-in game
I thought we'd left this era of garbage behind us, for the most part, but earlier this week Activision announced it's creating a Duck Dynasty video game.
Oh what, you want video? You want to put visuals to the Lovecraftian nightmare I just described? Be careful: When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
You hear that? "You do this right and you gonna be a true-blooded Robertson duck-man." Playing this game when it releases on October 14 will literally turn you into some sort of human/duck hybrid monster. Maybe this is the real Evil Within.
Those are totally normal system specs. What's more interesting is comparing them to World of WarCraft's original 2004 system specs, as Polygon did:
-Windows System 98/ME/2000/XP-800 MHz or higher CPU-256 MB RAM-32 MB 3D graphics card with hardware transform and lighting, such as GeForce 2 or better-4 GB available hard drive space-DirectX 9.0c-A 56k or higher modem with an Internet connection
If you missed it, last weekend I was at the Oculus Connect conference down in Los Angeles where Oculus VR made the schematics of the original development kit headset open-source, announced a new Crescent Bay prototype which I got a hands-on demo with, and showed off the upcoming GearVR headset which I promptly fell in love with.
Steam pushed two major updates this week: the Discovery Update, which makes it easier to find games, and Steam Music, which allows you to play your tunes right through the Steam interface. We also put together a PCWorld curator page if you'd like game recommendations from us.
Corsair put out an RGB-enabled Cherry MX keyboard, Nvidia debunked moon landing conspiracy theories with its new Maxwell video cards, I went hands-on with the new Total War: Attila, and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a shadow of what it could've been. See you next week!
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Designed to protect identities and secure access, SafeNet’s GOLD authenticator is a highly effective two-factor OTP device that offers the added security of PIN protection and challenge response.
Straightforward to use, yet offering an added layer of security beyond regular one-time passwords, the GOLD is activated with a personal identification number (PIN), which prompts the authenticator to provide a one-time, dynamic password. The user then enters this password into the Web or network application to authenticate their identity.
The GOLD authenticator gives online services providers, such as banks, payment portals and brokers/dealers, a highly secure means of offering their customers a protected online environment for carrying out financial transactions and accessing confidential information.
In addition to offering PIN protection, GOLD’s advanced OTP and challenge response capabilities are designed to combat online fraud such as phishing, and help online service providers and banks maintain password integrity by making it more difficult for customers to loose or share passwords. The challenge response mechanism requires users to validate a numeric challenge on their GOLD authenticator. Only after validation, does the GOLD generate an OTP passcode which is used to complete the authentication procedure.
Flexible and Scalable Management The GOLD authenticator is available with the SafeWord 2008 “out of the box” OTP authentication solution suite, or with the SafeNet Authentication Manager enterprise platform. Both management platforms offer flexibility and scalability, allowing organizations to centrally manage GOLD with other SafeNet authenticators, or add these in the future as business needs grow. | http://www.cyprotect.com/hersteller/safenet/multi-factor-authentication/otp-authenticators/gold-otp |
Mailvelope is an extension for your browser (in Firefox it is called an "Add-On", in Chrome an "Extension") and it expands the functionality of your web-browser. Mailvelope offers email encryption with PGP for the Firefox and Chrome browsers.
If you've been using a webmail provider, you can send encrypted emails with the help of Mailvelope using the same provider and the same email address.
The provider's user interface in the browser now contains the additional Mailvelope component. This ensures that your sensitive information remains inaccessible to your webmail provider
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Microsoft announced today the first public preview of a new Microsoft 365 security feature named Double Key Encryption.
"Double Key Encryption enables you to protect your highly sensitive data while keeping full control of your encryption key," Microsoft said today.
"It uses two keys to protect your data - one key in your control, and a second key is stored securely in Microsoft Azure.
"Viewing data protected with Double Key Encryption requires access to both keys. Since Microsoft can access only one of these keys, your protected data remains inaccessible to Microsoft, ensuring that you have full control over its privacy and security," it added.
Microsoft says the new feature was specifically designed for highly regulated industries, such as financial services or healthcare, or for companies that need to safely store sensitive data in the cloud, such as trade secrets, patents, financial algorithms, or user data, and need the highest level of protection to satisfy both regulatory requirements and internal protocols.
Two example scenarios where Double Key Encryption can help include:
Scenario 1: Sensitive Intellectual Property: Big Pharma company, Contoso, would like to move their sensitive information to the cloud, but some formulations of their market leading drugs need to be kept secure even during migration to the cloud. Using the Cloud provider's key to encrypt the data is not enough security assurance for Contoso, as there is a concern that the cloud provider may grant some third-party access to the data or have an operator that may inadvertently decrypt sensitive information (i.e., during a technical support call). In such a case, Contoso, would like to encrypt the sensitive content with their key, and then proceed to re-encrypt with the Cloud Provider's key.
Scenario 2: Regulated Environments: A Government Agency is about share confidential information via a cloud platform with some of their contractors. The Government agency needs to ensure that the information remains opaque to third parties based on their regulated government data policies. The Agency encrypts their content with Double Key Encryption and shares such content via a cloud platform with their contractors; thereby, guaranteeing that the cloud provider does not have access to the content and only the intended recipients have access.
Image: Microsoft
Double Key Encryption is also integrated with the Azure Information Protection unified labeling capabilities, allowing tenants to create multiple DKE labels, and protect data with different encryption keys, while also applying different group policies and access restrictions based on the users who need to access the data.
Once the label deployed, users will be able to activate it for any document and have the file automatically encrypted and protected while managed inside a company's Microsoft 365 account.
Image: Microsoft
Double Key Encryption will be available starting today as a public preview for Microsoft 365 E5 and Office 365 E5 customers.
Additional information will be available later today, such as official documentation and GitHub repositories. Links to be added when they go live.
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The APT is attacking banks and military organizations in Eastern Europe.
A simple telephony honeypot received 1.5 million robocalls across 11 months
Researchers say that most campaigns take place in short-burst storms and that answering a robocall doesn't mean you'll be targeted more often in the future. ... | https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-double-key-encryption-enters-public-preview/ |
Romania police arrested 20 suspected phishing fraud suspects on Wednesday.
Stefan Negrila, chief of the organised crime police in the western Romanian city of Timisoara, said the alleged hackers set up counterfeit banking websites that they used to trick surfers in Italy and Spain into handing over sensitive login credentials.
Phishing mule accomplices in the targeted countries then used these stolen credentials to "cash out" compromised accounts in a fraud whose losses might run into hundreds of thousands of euros, The International Herald Tribune reports [1].
Police in Romanian separately arrested another unnamed hacker who allegedly used the servers of US universities and government agencies to launch attacks on banking websites, the paper adds.
In other cybercrime-related news, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has developed a data standard for the submission of e-crime reports. The format, recently submitted as a standard to the Internet Engineering Task Force, would allow information on scams to be far more easily collated, exchange and searched than is currently possible, IDG reports [2]. ®
Romanian police cuff 40+ over €millions telecom blag (17 December 2010)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/17/romania_telecoms_fraud_arrests/
Police cuff 70 eBay fraud suspects (7 April 2010)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/07/romania_cybercrime_bust/
Alleged Romanian phishers (finally) hauled into US courts (30 September 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/30/romanian_phishers_extradited/
FCO warns over bogus credit crunch relief phishing email (8 April 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/fco_phishing_scam/
Romanian phisher gets 50 month prison term (30 March 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/30/romainian_phisher_sentenced/
Romanian police arrest Pentagon hack suspect (20 March 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/20/pentagon_hack_suspect_cuffed/
Convicted Romanian hacker is hot commodity in Italy (2 March 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/romanian_hacker_recruited/
Phishers automate attacks using 'Google hacking' (2 March 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/02/phishing_hackedserver_survey/
Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage (25 February 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/ gmail_im_phish/
Cybercrime losses tax UK small business (19 February 2009)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/19/cybercrime_small_business_survey/ | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/12/romanian_cybercrime_bust/print.html |
The Linux and Mac operating systems fill a relative niche in the world of technology, yet that has never stopped loyal followers of either platform from being a very vocal minority Quixotically tilting at windmills and proudly asserting the superiority of their given OS.
Although they’ve both been around for decades, Linux and Mac combined make up less than ten percent of the overall operating system market. Steve Ballmer recently underscored this simple fact, telling an audience that “ninety-five percent of the world’s computers run Windows. They don’t run Mac, they don’t run Linux.”
Market share alone does not make an OS better. Many arguably superior technologies have lost the marketing war and faded to oblivion. However, Katherine Noyes–a PCWorld peer of mine and Linux aficionado–makes the bold claim that Windows is bad for business. Sheer market share aside, there are a number of reasons that Microsoft Windows is undeniably good for business.
1. Cost. Yes, Linux is open source and available for “free”. I just downloaded the latest release of Ubuntu Linux without spending a dime. However, Linux in general–and specifically Linux in a business environment–is a prime example of “you get what you pay for.”
First of all, if a business wants any support for the platform, it must get Linux with a support agreement…for a fee. Second of all, the cost of the actual operating system is a mere fraction of the total cost of ownership. Operating systems and software have to be deployed, monitored, maintained, supported, updated, patched, and protected. Microsoft Windows has the tools and infrastructure necessary to accomplish these tasks across 100 or 10,000 PCs efficiently and cost-effectively.
2. Productivity. Windows, in particular Windows 7 with Windows Server 2008, has features such as DirectAcess and BranchCache that greatly enhance connectivity and productivity on remote systems whether they are located in a satellite office across the country, or connecting from a coffee shop on the other side of the world. The time and frustration normally invested in VPN and remote access connections affects productivity and has a real-world impact on business.
3. Management. This was already mentioned as a function of cost, but its worth mentioning again. Most of the tit-for-tat comparisons made regarding Linux or Mac OS X vs. Windows are based on a head-to-head match between individual systems. But, businesses many systems–hundreds, or maybe thousands or tens of thousands.
It isn’t enough for a given platform to have a unique feature or incremental performance boost over another. IT admins need a desktop OS culture that can be easily monitored and maintained across a high volume of systems no matter where they are located.
4. Compliance. Depending on the business, IT admins have to address and comply with a variety of regulatory and industry mandates: SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GLBA, BASEL-II–you name it. Windows provide tools like BitLocker to encrypt data stored on the hard drive, and BitLocker-to-Go to encrypt data on removable media, and AppLocker to restrict which software can run on the platform to those designated on the white list.
I have no doubt that there are similar tools available for either Linux or Mac OS X. However, IT admins don’t just need tools that work on the individual systems, they need solutions that can be configured, maintained, and monitored across the infrastructure on systems both local and remote. Microsoft provides such a framework, and it is the framework that IT admins and end-users are most familiar with.
5. Software. How many of the software applications that businesses rely on–whether commercial, off-the-shelf applications, or custom software developed in-house–runs on Linux or Mac? Buehler? Anyone?
Even if a business finds equivalent software to use on a Linux system, will it connect to and function seamlessly with the other business-critical applications? There is a cascading domino-effect associated with software decisions that has an impact beyond the software application itself.
I don’t question that it is possible to find or develop an alternative capable of filling the same role on other OS platforms. I question, though, the business value of swimming upstream and making every software decision more complicated than it has to be.
I won’t even go into the monoculture or security fallacies that Linux and Mac OS X loyalists cling to. I will simply point to a post from Marcus Ranum from years ago explaining the false logic of the monoculture argument, and reiterate that despite all desperate claims to the contrary Linux and Mac OS X are both vulnerable as well and that the reason Microsoft is the prime target is a function of its market share more than the underlying security of the operating system itself.
To some extent, operating system preference is equivalent to religion. Arguing that one religion is “better” because it has twenty times more followers falls on deaf ears. The five percent that follow the smaller faith are still absolutely positive that it’s not just the best, but the “right” one.
Thankfully, it’s simple to illustrate the benefits of the Windows operating system for businesses without even getting into a discussion over whether Windows is better or worse than Linux or Mac OS X on any technical level, and the reality is that Windows is indisputably the best operating system for business. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/503818/why_windows_is_good_for_business.html |
Data protection is hugely important to businesses across the globe. Particularly after the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were put in place back in 2018. In order to ensure they’ve got the best security systems in place, companies must understand how they collect and store data, as well as how it moves through their organization and how it is used. And while some will have dedicated employees or even teams to manage their data and cybersecurity efforts, it can also be helpful to ensure all staff is provided with data protection training.
This doesn’t mean everyone has to be an expert at cybersecurity, GDPR, and data protection, but even just a very basic understanding can have a number of benefits for your company. Still unsure about investing the time and money into data protection training for your staff? In this guide, we’ll take a look at just seven reasons why this is a worthwhile investment and one you should consider this year.
1. To ensure you’re GDPR compliant
While GDPR does not set out any legal requirements to provide all staff with data protection training, there are some regulations that stipulate certain members of the team must be well-educated on the subject. But that aside, providing all staff with at least a basic understanding of data protection can help to ensure your business stays GDPR compliant.
There are a number of reasons for this, some of which we’ll cover in more detail below. But in a nutshell, educating all staff can make spotting a security risk easier, ensure all breaches are reported within the allotted 72 hours, and reduce the risk of human error leading to a cyberattack or data breach.
2. To reduce room for human error
Sadly, a lot of cybercriminals prey on employees as a way of hacking into a company’s systems. This might be by targeting them with phishing emails, by pretending to be a legitimate business or governing body to extract information from them or simply by hacking their account with the password they use for everything!
Of course, these unsuspecting workers aren’t deliberately causing a data breach, but often they are the easiest target for a cybercriminal. As such, educating all staff on the signs of a scam or any red flags they should be aware of can really help to reduce the risk of human error.
3. So they’re able to understand and report a breach
An important part of the General Data Protection Regulations is reporting a data breach within 72 hours of it taking place. If your team is better able to recognize the signs of a breach they’ll be able to spot these more quickly if your business has become the victim of a hacking. Not only this, but it means they’ll be better equipped to report the breach within the timeframe, knowing who they need to report it to and how to get in touch with them as quickly as possible.
4. To reduce the risk of a security breach
Following on from some of the points above, by providing staff training to all employees you can reduce the overall risk of a security breach. This is not only because you reduce the room for human error, but also because if all staff are aware of the warning signs, they can report any issues before they get worse. This gives the security team more time to get ahead of any potential threats.
It will also teach staff better password safety practices and how to be careful when processing and using data. As a general rule, the more people that understand data security best practices and what they should and shouldn’t be doing with regards to cybersecurity, the less likely your company is to fall victim to a breach.
5. Because they may be handling personal data
One of the biggest reasons that all staff should be offered data protection training is because they are most likely to be the ones dealing with data on a daily basis. Even if they’re only dealing with a handful of sensitive data, it’s vital that they understand how to keep this information safe and the security measures that are in place to help them do this.
What’s more, as part of GDPR individuals have the right to request access to their data at any time, as well as asking for it to be deleted and removed from your systems. Your teams need to be prepared to deal with any access or deletion request they get within a 48-hour window. They need to know where to find the data, how to remove it from the systems if required, and how to present it to said individual in a secure manner. Data protection training can ensure this is all done properly and efficiently.
6. For accountability and responsibility
Another important part of data protection is taking responsibility and accountability for the cybersecurity efforts in your business. Offering staff training not only boosts your security efforts, but it also proves to govern bodies, vendors, and customers that you’re taking responsibility for your security efforts and doing everything you can to ensure that the data you process is safe from a breach. This can really help to build the reputation of your business, but it also means you can build a better case should you, unfortunately, fall victim to a hacking or data breach.
7. For awareness
And the final reason you should offer staff training is for awareness. If you put cybersecurity and data protection at the heart of everything you do, you stand a better chance of keeping your data safe and staying GDPR compliant. By educating every member of staff and generally raising the level of awareness surrounding data protection, your teams will go about every task with cybersecurity at the forefront of their mind, reducing the risk of human error.
The best way to combat anything is to raise awareness around it, and offering staff training is the perfect way to ensure that everyone you employ has at the very least, a basic understanding of the importance of data protection and how to spot the signs of a scam. | https://www.outtechus.com/7-reasons-why-your-staff-need-data-protection-training/ |
Posted Date: Summary:Symantec vulnerability assessments help to reduce the cost and complexity of vulnerability management with automated scans, actionable reports, and a cloud-based architecture that requires no software installation or maintenance.
This solution is a good starting point for organizations that want to quickly assess the extent of their website vulnerabilities. Website vulnerability assessments are also ideal for organizations that already use a compliance vulnerability scanning solution such as those for PCI and need a complementary solution to cross-check the results of their scan for an added layer of security. When used in combination with your Symantec SSL Certificate and daily website malware scan, vulnerability assessments help you to secure your website and protect your customers. Landing Page Body
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Pda.mybidsystem.com – Just One of a Series of Search Engine Derails
While Pda.mybidsystem.com’s content has neither been endorsed nor repudiated by top PC security companies, Pda.mybidsystem.com has been found to be a new destination of note for browser hijacker-based PC threats. Browser hijackers can utilize various strategies to redirect your web browser, although SpywareRemove.com malware analysts have observed that changes to the operating system’s Hosts file is particularly common (and should be undone by appropriate anti-malware programs or a PC security expert).
Redirects to Pda.mybidsystem.com may occur in various web browsers but are most common after attempts to click search result links from Google.
Redirects from Pda.mybidsystem.com-promoting browser hijackers may also use different destinations. Interaction with sites that are promoted by browser hijackers is generally ill-advised and potentially harmful for your computer, unless, of course, third-parties can verify the safety of Pda.mybidsystem.com and similar sites. In cases of seemingly harmless sites like Pda.mybidsystem.com, typically their only purpose is to harvest revenue from pay-per-click and other ad-based sources – making their search results of questionable worth, if not necessarily malign.
Steering Around the Insistent Gravity of Pda.mybidsystem.com Redirects
Pda.mybidsystem.com redirects may be avoidable by evading the search engines that trigger them, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers always recommend the immediate deletion of browser hijackers. Common functions that can also be included with browser-redirecting capabilities include:
Spyware functions that monitor and steal personal information – especially information that’s submitted through forms in your web browser.
Botnet functions that use your computer’s resources for illegal actions, including DDoS attacks. SpywareRemove.com malware research team has found that such attacks can also hamper your computer’s overall performance in cases of low resources (such as RAM).
Browser pop-up windows, such as phishing scams for fake contests and ads for fraudulent security software.
Browser hijackers are still being distributed, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts suggest taking appropriate actions to protect your PC from a potential browser hijacker infection, if such safeguards aren’t already in place. | http://www.spywareremove.com/removepdamybidsystemcom.html |
Pearson data breach: details of hundreds of thousands of U.S. students hacked | https://sdccoe.org/breach/pearson-data-breach-details-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-u-s-students-hacked/ |
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d. Making changes to the application, product or service; e. Repeatedly gaining access to the application, product or service or sharing access with others; f. Using brute force attacks to gain access to the application, product or service. This is not a vulnerability in the strict sense, but rather repeatedly trying out passwords.
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The Cybersecurity Program is one of the College of Computer and Informatics Sciences programs at Amman Arab University. One of the latest trends in information technology depends on the rapid development of digital infrastructures, such as computers, servers, networks, information systems, and others. It needs to be crystallized on the safety of networks, information, and people to adopt a more comprehensive concept of digital security, later called cyber security or cyberspace security.
Cyber security is all the technical, organizational, and administrative means used to prevent the exploitation and unauthorized use of systems, devices, and equipment by others. It helps to ensure the continuity of the operation of information and applications and systems, enhance the protection, confidentiality, and privacy of personal data, and take all necessary measures to protect people and users from any risks when using any of the components of cyberspace.
The cybersecurity program is one of the programs that will change the pattern of data protection for companies and businesses. It was developed for its unique advantage and the lack of specialists in meeting the needs of the local and regional technological market. Thus, qualified student competencies in the field of cybersecurity will be prepared to meet the needs of the labor market locally and regionally, capable of completing distinguished scientific and practical projects in a way that contributes to developing technical infrastructure, strengthening the knowledge economy, and developing Improving performance in local community institutions.
With the explosion of the information revolution and the advent of the digital age, especially in the 21st century, and its many repercussions due to the emergence of cyber threats and crimes, it has become a significant challenge for national as well as international security to the extent that many researchers considered cyberspace as the fifth field in wars after land, sea, air, and space. This necessitated the need for security guarantees within this digital environment, which crystallized mainly in the emergence of cyber security as a new dimension within the field of security studies. It has gained the interest of many researchers in this field.
• Intrusive Security and Malware Analyzer.
• Network security engineer and security observer.
• Smart security software developer.
• System, network, and web penetration lab.
In light of the preceding, the Bachelor’s Program in Cyber Security is an urgent national need to supplement the national and regional labor market and learn about the latest information and communication technology developments in protecting wireless networks and preventing their penetration.
Acquiring theoretical and practical skills and knowledge in the cybersecurity field.
Providing professional competencies and practicing their profession with confidence and the ability to compete locally and regionally.
Continuing to learn and promote professionally amid technical changes.
Qualifying students to work effectively within teamwork, assume ethical and professional responsibilities, and realize the needs of society.
Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions.
Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program's discipline.
Apply security principles and practices to maintain operations in the presence of risks and threats [CY].
Possess the necessary theoretical and applied skills and knowledge in the field of cybersecurity.
Continue learning and professional development amid technical changes.
Work effectively within teams, bearing ethical and professional responsibilities, and know the needs of the community.
Students Outcomes (SOs):
Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program’s discipline.
Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.
Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles. | https://www.aau.edu.jo/en/academics/faculty-computer-science-and-informatics/cyber-security-program |
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Google is about to begin an ambitious project to notify some half a million people that their computers are infected with the DNSChanger malware.
The warning that will appear at the top of search results for people whose computers are infected.
The effort, scheduled to begin this afternoon, is designed to let those people know that their Internet connections will stop working on July 9, when temporary servers set up by the FBI to help DNSChanger victims are due to be disconnected.
"The warning will be at the top of the search results page for regular searches and image searches and news searches," Google security engineer Damian Menscher told CNET this morning. "The text will say, 'Your computer appears to be infected,' and it will give additional detail warning them that they may not be able to connect to the Internet in the future."
The malware, also known as "RSPlug,"Puper," and "Jahlav," was active until an FBI investigation called Ghost Click resulted in six arrests last November.
DNSChanger worked by pointing infected computers to rogue Domain Name System servers that could, for instance, direct someone trying to connect to BankOfAmerica.com to a scam Web site.
The way the alerts work is both simple and clever: When one of the replacement servers operated by ISC under court order talk to Google's servers, they reply with a special Internet Protocol address. Because connections to that IP address can safely be assumed to be from infected PCs, the alerts can be displayed in search results.
Computers became infected with DNSChanger when they visited certain Web sites or downloaded particular software to view videos online. In addition to altering the DNS server settings, the malware also prevented antivirus updates from happening.
Google took similar steps last summer when it displayed security alerts to infected computers that were connecting through intermediary servers called proxies. | https://www.cnet.com/au/news/google-will-alert-users-to-dnschanger-malware-infection/ |
A new phishing campaign uses a trio of enterprise cloud services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and IBM Cloud, as part of an attempt to steal your login credentials.
In this campaign, the domain “servicedesk.com” is used in the “From:” (envelope) address matches the domain listed in the last “Received:” header, making it more easily bypass spam filters.
And more importantly, lack of DMARC, DKIM and SPF validations on the “servicedesk.com” domain enable spammers to take advantage of this domain as demonstrated in these attacks.
Using three well-known enterprise solutions like IBM Cloud hosting, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Dynamics to host the phishing landing pages adds legitimacy to the campaign.
This is especially true as domains hosted on Azure (windows.net) or IBM Cloud automatically get free SSL certificates that contain these companies' names, adding even more legitimacy.
Fraudsters looking to collect login details are increasingly turning to public cloud services to host lure documents and phishing pages, making it more difficult for targets to detect the attack.
The trend has gained traction among cybercriminals, who rely on multiple cloud services to host phishing landing pages and the lure documents redirecting to them.
Sneaky tactics
Researchers at Check Point describe in a report today that the attackers relied on Google Drive to host a malicious PDF document and Google’s “storage.googleapis[.]com” to host the phishing page.
Google’s cloud services are not the only ones abused this way. BleepingComputer analyzed a recent phishing campaign that used Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and IBM Cloud.
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Once the potential victim takes the bait and follows the Access Document link, the phishing page hosted in Google Cloud Platform loads asking to log in using Office 365 credentials or an organization’s ID.
Check Point highlights that victims are unlikely to spot the scam since the pages load from legitimate sources and at the end of the process a genuine PDF document from a reputable company is delivered. | https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/new-phishing-campaign-abuses-a-trio-of-enterprise-cloud-services.430873/ |
incident. It was introduced by an employee of a third-party contractor that does business with the utility, according to the agency. DHS reported the incident, which occurred in October, along
critical infrastructure. In addition to not identifying the plants, a DHS spokesman declined to say where they are located. Interest in the area has surged since 2010 when the Stuxnet computer virus was used to attack Iran's nuclear program.
generation facility. The report did not say who the agency believed was behind the sophisticated virus or if it was capable of sabotage. DHS
routine cyber crimes. They include viruses capable of espionage and sabotage. A DHS spokesman could not immediately be reached to comment on the report. The Department of Homeland Security almost never identifies
infrastructure facilities in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2012.Attacks against the energy sector represented 41 percent of the total number of incidents in fiscal 2012. According to the
When you cant even write a coherent sentence, go back to school.
“Many critical infrastructure control systems run on Windows XP and Windows 2000, operating systems that were designed more than a decade ago. They have “auto run” features enabled by default, which makes them an easy target for infection because malicious software loads as soon as a USB is plugged into the system unless operators change that setting, Clarke said.”
Bull Bleep. Win XP has DEP to prevent that. Its unlikely the network didnt have virus scan etc. The author subtly changed subjects from “control system” to “windows 2K-XP”, I doubt most readers caught it or have enough computer background to notice the distinction.
ITs very dishonest or incompetent writing.
Further, its not evdidenced, or credible, that a virus took a whole plant down for a month, especially when:
1.) there are backup controls, that should be manual 2.) no explanation of how that took the entire PLANT down 3.) no explanation of how that happened and resulted in the whole plant being down for a month, when it only takes minutes to a few hours to reload all the computers\
Sorry, too much engineering background to accept this trash.
This is all BS reporting designed to float the hysteria that the Gummit needs to control computer networks.
You make some very good, common sense points in your comment. If these USB sticks are such a big problem, why in 2013 are critical power companies allowing the use of such devices?
What is your opinion that this might be a ill-fated attempt at sabotage, corporate or national? Also, concerning this dishonest or incompetent writing.. perhaps this journalist needs to research his or her subject matter better! Then again, i am sure a news organization like wired would be 10X better suited for this subject matter. Jan 16, 2013 9:13pm EST -- Report as abuse
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The excitement of finding a vulnerability in piece of commercial software can quickly shift to fear and regret when you disclose it to the vendor and find yourself in a conversation with a lawyer questioning your intentions. This is an unfortunate reality in our line of work, but you can take actions to protect your butt. In this post, we’ll take a look at how Vulnerability disclosure is handled in standards, by bug hunters, and by large organizations so that you can figure out how to make the best decision for you. Disclosure Standpoints
While it’s debatable, I think hacking, more specifically vulnerability discovery, started to better the overall community – e.g. we can make the world a better, more secure place by finding and fixing vulnerabilities within the software we use. Telling software maintainers about vulnerabilities we find in their products falls right in line with this idea. However, there is also something else to consider: recognition and sharing. If you spend weeks findings an awesome vulnerability, you should be publically recognized for that effort, and moreover, other’s should also know about your vulnerability so they can learn from it. Unfortunately, vendors often lack the same altruistic outlook. From a vendor’s perspective, a publically disclosed vulnerability highlights a flaw in their product, which may negatively impact its customer base. Some vendors even interpret vulnerability discovery as a direct attack against their product and even their company. I’ve personally had lawyers ask me “Why are you hacking our company” when I disclosed a vulnerability in their offline desktop application. As time progressed, vulnerability discovery shifted from a hobby and “betterment” activity to a profitable business. There are plenty of organizations out their selling exploits for undisclosed vulnerabilities. Plus, a seemingly even greater number of criminal or state-sponsored organizations leveraging undisclosed vulnerabilities for corporate espionage and nation-state sponsored attacks. This shift has turned computer hacking from a “hippy” activity to serious business. The emergence of bug bounty programs has really helped deter bug hunters away from criminal outlets by offering monetary reward and public recognition. It has also demystified how disclosure is handled. However, not all vendors offer a bug bounty program, and many times lawyers may not even be aware of the bug bounty programs available in their own organization, which could put you in a sticky situation if you take the wrong approach to disclosure. General Approaches
To give better perspective, let's look at some existing standards that help guide you in the right direction. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process - The Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process established by this IETF draft is one of the first efforts made to create a process that establishes roles for all parties involved. This process accurately defines the appropriate roles and steps of a disclosure; however it fails to address publication by the researcher if the vendor fails to respond or causes unreasonable delays. At most the process states that the vendor must provide specific reasons for not addressing a vulnerability within 30 days of initial notification. Organization for Internet Safety (OIS) Guidelines for Security Vulnerability Reporting and Response - The OIS guidelines provide further clarification into the disclosure process, offering more detail and establishing terminology for common elements of a disclosure such as the initial vulnerability report (Vulnerability Summary Report), request for confirmation (Request for confirmation receipt), status request (Request for Status), etc.. As with the Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process, the OIS Guidelines also do not define a hard time frame for when the researcher may publicize details of the vulnerability. If the process fails, OIS Guidelines define a “Conflict Resolution” step which ultimately results in the ability for parties exit the process, however no disclosure option is provided. The OIS also introduces the scenario where an unrelated third party discloses the same vulnerability – at that time the researcher may disclose without the need for a vendor fix.
Microsoft Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) - Microsoft’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure is similar to responsible disclosure in that its aim is to have both the vendor and the researcher (finder) work together to disclose information about the vulnerability at a time after a resolution is reached. However, CVD refrains from defining any specific time frames and only permits public disclosure after a vendor resolution or evidence of exploitation is identified. Coordinator Policies
Coordinators act on the behalf of a researcher to disclose vulnerabilities to vendors. They provide a level of protection to the researcher and also take on the role of finding an appropriate vendor contact. While coordinators goal is to notify the vendor, they also satisfy the researcher’s aim to share the vulnerability with the community. This sections discusses gives an overview of coordinators policies. Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - The CERT/CC Vulnerability disclosure policy sets a firm 45 day timeframe from initial report to public disclosure. This occurs regardless of if a patch or workaround is released by the vendor. Exceptions to this policy do exist for critical issues in core components of technology that require a large effort to fix, such as vulnerabilities in standards or core components of an operating system. Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Disclosure Policy - ZDI is a coordinator that offers monetary rewards for vulnerabilities. It uses the submitted vulnerabilities to generate signatures so that its security products can offer clients early detection and prevention. After making a reasonable effort, ZDI may disclose vulnerabilities within 15 days of initial contact if the vendor does not respond. Researcher Policies
Security companies commonly support vulnerability research and make their policies publically available. This section provides an overview of a handful: Rapid 7 Vulnerability Disclosure Policy - Rapid7 attempts to contact the vendor via telephone and email then after 15 days, regardless of response, will post its finding to CERT/CC. This combination provides the vendor a potential of 60 days before public disclosure because it is CERT/CC’s policy to wait 45 days.
VUPEN Policy - VUPEN is a security research company that adheres to a “commercial responsible disclosure policy”, meaning any vendor who is under contract with VUPEN will be notified of vulnerabilities, however all other vulnerabilities are mostly kept private to fund the organization’s exploitation and intelligence services. Trustwave/SpiderLabs Disclosure Policy - Trustwave makes a best effort approach to contacting the vendor then ultimately puts the decision of public disclosure in its management’s hands if the vendor is unresponsive. Summary of Approaches
The following table summarizes the approaches mentioned above. Policy
Finder can send request for status if vendor does not comply. After three days, go to conflict resolution. 30 day suggestion from vendor receipt, although should be defined on case by case basis. After resolution by vendor. | http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2014/06/approaches-to-vulnerability-disclosure.html |
This makes sense. I just tested my iPad and this is true. Only the domain is displayed unless you click the address bar.
While Vivaldi does show correctly the green lock (please never stop doing this) and it also shows the address green on sites like PayPal (again, never stop doing this) I think this can and should be improved.
I think the whole address bar should be green like browsers did in the past. Not just one part, for sites that use those sort of certificates.
Then I also tested a long url and again its easy to trick Vivaldi users. The domain is completely gone and you can fake the domain.com in the last part by using subdomains or folders. This is such a stupid trick that malware authors use it all the time. Why not just keep showing the domain even if the URL is extremely long? Same is true for Unicode characters.
The idea to also highlight example.com in a different color or font is also useful.
With just a simple visual changes. Vivaldi could advertise over other browsers that its more secure against phishing. Think about it. Visual changes = Improving Security sounds like a deal breaker for me.
Showing only the domain could be a very good step forward.
However, I disagree about the "green security indicators". The web is moving to be Https first. That means that instead of training users to seek out a green bar, we should be training them to avoid a red one.
If every site on the net is Https, including phishing sites, then a user might go to a phishing site, see green and think "this must be safe".
Better would be to just use the domain, as you suggest, and not colour it at all, to force users to look at the domain to decide if a site is safe. I suppose it would be worthwhile using some kind of domain based trust filter, but ones I've come across in the past are rather sub standard.
You could argue for a special case for ev certificates, but I'm not convinced of the value of them for general users anyway.
To put it another way, why bother with the green bar if everything is green. It also gives a false sense of safety.
Yes, I'm also inclined to this. Just like Safari does it. It just shows the domain and nothing more. If you want the whole URL just click it.
Show Full Address just shows the protocol or hides it, nothing more.
it also hides the parameters after the base address, for example all the search parameters after doing a google search.
In some cases it might not be necessary to hide all the domains. For example, "forum.vivaldi.net".
But you could use a heuristic so that if the domain was very long, or longer than the address bar, maybe you could hide it in those specific instances to only show the domain+tld.
That might be a good middle ground to "ease" users into the concept of focusing more on looking at the actual domain.
Yes, that could also work. Maybe also the subdomain but nothing further as then you are just starting to get into the same problems as showing the full URL. The deeper you go the easier it is to trick someone.
Its not hard to do this, the regex basically checks the valid allowed extensions so it detects .com.uk is a TLD or in that case a ccTLD. One level down is just the domain and another one a subdomain. Anything else is discarded. I assume Vivaldi already has a list of the valid extensions which its checking. Most browsers do which they download every day. So in that case it should not be a problem as long as you cannot trick the browser. How robust this anti-phishing approach is depends on how good or bad the browser is detecting things without being tricked.
If a user clicks on the address bar or maybe even hoovers with the mouse, it then displays the full URL in case you need to copy, edit or see it. For normal human beings that usually never do this, they would just see the domain and nothing more making browsing extremely safe and secure with Vivaldi against phishing schemes.
I would add that subdomains should still be highlighted in the following form, making the domain bold or maybe a different color. Just to make it more secure in a visual way and it would also be appealing for those that want to showcase the sub domain as the address to go.
That is not enough. If you check the example I did before, I never used parameters. You can make fake URL's very hard to spot with just nested subdomains and folders alone. That is still displayed on Vivaldi with the setting unmarked so hence the phishing works exactly as designed. | https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/29817/anti-phishing-address-bar |
The U.K. National Health Service signed an agreement with Microsoft to upgrade its legacy computer systems to Windows 10 to improve its cyber resilience after the global WannaCry cyberattack shut down one-third of its health trusts last June.
The hope in updating all NHS devices to Windows 10, according to officials, is to improve its cybersecurity posture and improve the health system’s ability to respond to attack.
After falling victim to WannaCry, NHS staff was locked out of their systems and 20,000 appointments were canceled. Some trusts were offline for a number of weeks. What’s notable was the severity of the impact, as NHS wasn’t the initial target of the hackers.
WannaCry was able to proliferate due to the health system’s failure to patch its legacy systems. While Windows 7 users were hardest hit by WannaCry, users of XP, the system used by NHS, also were vulnerable to attack. The U.K. government ended support of the outdated software in 2015.
“We’ve been building the capability of NHS systems over a number of years, but there is always more to do to future-proof our NHS as far as reasonably possible against this threat,” Jeremy Hunt, secretary of health and social care, said in a statement.
“This new technology will ensure the NHS can use the latest and most resilient software available – something the public rightly expect,” he added.
The migration announcement comes just two weeks after a U.K. Commons Public Accounts committee revealed all 200 NHS trusts failed its cybersecurity assessments. Officials took that report as a wake-up call, as it’s helped to improve its understanding of the health system’s readiness for another cyberattack.
Among a list of recommendations, the group gave NHS until June 2018 to determine its plans to improve its cybersecurity posture in the event of another cyberattack.
The centralized agreement with Microsoft will give NHS a consistent security approach and modernize its operating system. It’s the second agreement signed between Microsoft and the health system this year. The two signed a support agreement just three months after WannaCry.
The vulnerabilities of NHS computer systems are similar to those faced by U.S. health systems: outdated systems, limited budgets and patching difficulties. An issue highlighted in January by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. | https://wfamilymedicine.com/health-news/u-k-nhs-to-improve-cybersecurity-posture-with-windows-10-migration/ |
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As mentioned at the beginning of this article,social engineering attacks are almost always based on the art of manipulation. That’s because it’s easier for attackers to exploit a person’s gullibility and/or natural inclination to trust other people than to launch a sophisticated attack on a device or software.
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The Wannacry ransomware outbreak that continues to unravel across the globe is the latest in a long line of prominent cyber security threats. With time, these attacks are only likely to become more frequent, sophisticated and widespread.
The Indian IT Secretary recently stated that the impact of ransomware in India is currently limited to six incidents. In sharp contrast, other estimates peg attempts at over 48,000 and counting, with over 700 successful infections.
If the government figures belie (as they often do) the true impact of attacks such as Wannacry, this creates big problems for everyone.
For one, it delays the time specialised first-responders like the government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) take to kick into high gear and take the necessary steps to prevent an online pandemic. It also creates a false sense of security in users who may not take critical steps at their level to prevent a much larger network attack.
An important step in ensuring the government is on the ball, is reporting such incidents to the authorities -- something that may not strike most people, but is the law, and non-reporting is punishable.
So what qualifies as a report-worthy "incident" under law?
Rules relating to CERT-In's functioning classify the following instances as those which are required to be mandatorily reported as soon as possible: (i) targeted scanning/probing of critical networks/systems (ii) Compromise of critical systems/information (iii) Unauthorised access of IT systems/data (iv) Defacement of website or intrusion into a website and unauthorised changes such as inserting malicious code, links to external websites, etc. (v) Malicious code attacks such as spreading of virus/worm/Trojan/botnets/spyware; (vi) Attacks on servers such as database, mail, and DNS and network devices such as routers (vii) Identity theft, spoofing and phishing attacks (viii) Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks (ix) Attacks on critical infrastructure, SCADA systems and wireless networks and (x) Attacks on applications such as e-governance, e-commerce, etc.
Most of these instances are self-explanatory, and the current ransomware attack falls within several of these categories -- (ii), (iii), (v), (vi) (vii) and (viii) all have elements of a ransomware attack.
If you find that you fall within one of the instances above, the next question that arises is who needs to report them and how.
Under the CERT-In Rules, the reporting requirement lies on "any individual, organisation or corporate entity affected by cyber security incidents" (which include the mandatory reportable incidents set out above, although the definition itself is wider). Reporting incidents to CERT-In can be through several channels (email [email protected], call the helpdesk at 1800-11-4949, or fax 1800-11-6969).
The website http://www.cert-in.org.in/ also provides an incident reporting form to be filled in, which must cover details such as the timing of the incident, affected systems, symptoms observed and relevant technical information.
If you are an enterprise user and have system administrators, the best person to carry out the reporting exercise would be the head of the team. Remember that the reporting is required as soon as possible, and a general yard-stick (though not specifically set) would be within 24 hours of the incident.
Although a direct penalty is not provided for under the CERT-In Rules, its umbrella legislation does, and non-reporting could attract one of several potential penalties (currently open to interpretation), ranging from Rs 5,000 a day or Rs 150,000 per failure, to Rs 100,000, imprisonment (yes) of up to one year, or a combination of the two.
Additional reporting requirements apply to "intermediaries" under the IT Act, banks are mandatorily required to specifically report cyber security incidents to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) within 2-6 hours (see https://tinyurl.com/moca57f and https://tinyurl.com/l5ajkqq), and telecom operators have a similar obligation under the Unified License Agreement where a breach of a license term (such as reporting) carries a hefty fine of Rs 50 crore for each breach.
Finally, if you're affected by ransomware and are being asked to pay a ransom in Bitcoin to decrypt your data, beware that virtual currencies such as Bitcoin and the wallets and exchanges that enable Bitcoin transactions in India continue to function in a legal grey area, although some form of regulation is on the anvil.
Thus, beyond the practical problem of paying a ransom in Bitcoin and the attacker rescinding on his promise to decrypt your files, making such payments, especially overseas, could result in the RBI coming knocking at your door.
As a long-term strategy, individuals and organisations alike would do well to adapt industry best-practices relating to cyber security (whether or not they are mandated to do so by law), ensure that policies adopted in this regard are in sync with legal reporting requirements, and that all relevant stakeholders are made aware of what those requirements are and how to address them in a crisis situation.
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General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will overhaul how businesses process and handle data. The Wired.com need-to-know GDPR guide explains what the changes mean for you
In May this year, Europe’s data protection rules will undergo their biggest changes in two decades. Since they were created in the 90s, the amount of digital information we create, capture, and store has vastly increased. Simply put, the old regime was no longer fit for purpose.
The solution is the mutually agreed European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force on May 25 2018. It will change how businesses and public sector organisations can handle the information of customers.
The regulation has spawned a raft of GDPR experts who want to help businesses prepare for the changes GDPR will bring – and make a tidy sum for their expertise.
Elizabeth Denham, the UK’s information commissioner, who is in charge of data protection enforcement, says she is frustrated by the amount of “scaremongering” around the potential impact for businesses. “The GDPR is a step change for data protection,” she says. “It’s still an evolution, not a revolution”. She adds that for businesses and organisations already complying with existing data protection laws the new regulation is only a “step change”.
Still, plenty of confusion remains. To help clear things up, here’s WIRED’s guide to the GDPR.
What is GDPR exactly?
The GDPR is Europe’s new framework for data protection laws – it replaces the previous 1995 data protection directive, which UK law is based upon.
The EU’s GDPR website says the legislation is designed to “harmonise” data privacy laws across Europe as well as give greater protection and rights to individuals. Within the GDPR there are large changes for the public as well as businesses and bodies that handle personal information, which we’ll explain in more detail later.
After more than four years of discussion and negotiation, GDPR was adopted by both the European Parliament and the European Council in April 2016. The underpinning regulation and directive were published at the end of that month.
After publication of GDPR in the EU Official Journal in May 2016, it will come into force on May 25, 2018. The two year preparation period has given businesses and public bodies covered by the regulation to prepare for the changes.
Each member state in the EU operates under the current 1995 data protection regulation and has its own national laws. In the UK, the current Data Protection Act 1998 sets out how your personal information can be used by companies, government and other organisations.
GDPR changes how personal data can be used. Its provisions in the UK will be covered by a new Data Protection Bill which has now been published by the government. As noted by data protection expert Jon Baines, the UK’s data protection plans include everything within the GDPR – although there are some minor changes.
The UK government’s new data protection legislation, which will implement the vast majority of GDPR was published on September 14, 2017. The bill must pass through the House of Commons and the House of Lords before it becomes law.
The government says the law sets out a number of exemptions from GDPR, which include added protections for journalists, scientific and historical researchers, and anti-doping agencies who handle people’s personal information. The bill is currently passing through the legislative bodies but has been subject to some amendments. In one instance, cybersecurity researchers were concerned the bill would make it impossible to research improper anonymisation of data. A new ammendment covers “effectiveness testing” and says that researchers must inform the ICO within three days if they can identify people from anonymised data.
Once the new bill is passed and becomes an Act of parliament, the 1998 Data Protection Act will be repealed.
Is my company/startup/charity going to be impacted?
In short, yes. Individuals, organisations, and companies that are either ‘controllers’ or ‘processors’ of personal data will be covered by the GDPR. “If you are currently subject to the DPA, it is likely that you will also be subject to the GDPR,” the ICO says on its website
Both personal data and sensitive personal data are covered by GDPR. Personal data, a complex category of information, broadly means a piece of information that can be used to identify a person. This can be a name, address, IP address… you name it. Sensitive personal data encompasses genetic data, information about religious and political views, sexual orientation, and more.
These definitions are largely the same as those within current data protection laws and can relate to information that is collected through automated processes. Where GDPR differentiates from current data protection laws is that pseudonymised personal data can fall under the law – if it’s possible that a person could be identified by a pseudonym.
So, what’s different?
In the full text of GDPR there are 99 articles setting out the rights of individuals and obligations placed on organisations covered by the regulation. These include allowing people to have easier access to the data companies hold about them, a new fines regime and a clear responsibility for organisations to obtain the consent of people they collect information about.
Helen Dixon, the data protection commissioner for Ireland, who has major technology company offices under her jurisdiction, says the new regulation was needed and is a positive move. However, she adds that while large businesses are aware of the upcoming changes there needs to be a lot more knowledge in smaller companies, including startups. “One of the issues with startups is that when they’re going through all the formalities new businesses go through, there’s no data protection hook at that stage,” Dixon says.
So, if you’re only just hearing of GDPR, here are some of the bigger changes to be prepared for.
Accountability and compliance
Companies covered by the GDPR will be more accountable for their handling of people’s personal information. This can include having data protection policies, data protection impact assessments and having relevant documents on how data is processed.
In the last 12 months, there’s been a score of massive data breaches including millions of Yahoo, LinkedIn, and MySpace account details. Under GDPR, the “destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to” people’s data has to be reported to a country’s data protection regulator – in the case of the UK, the ICO – where it could have a detrimental impact on those who it is about. This can include, but isn’t limited to, financial loss, confidentiality breaches, damage to reputation and more. The ICO has to be told about a breach 72 hours after an organisation finds out about it and the people it impacts also need to be told.
For companies that have more than 250 employees, there’s a need to have documentation of why people’s information is being collected and processed, descriptions of the information that’s held, how long it’s being kept for and descriptions of technical security measures in place.
Additionally, companies that have “regular and systematic monitoring” of individuals at a large scale or process a lot of sensitive personal data have to employ a data protection officer (DPO). For many organisations covered by GDPR, this may mean having to hire a new member of staff – although larger businesses and public authorities may already have people in this role. In this job, the person has to report to senior members of staff, monitor compliance with GDPR and be a point of contact for employees and customers. “It means the data protection will be a boardroom issue in a way it hasn’t in the past combined,” Denham says.
There’s also a requirement for businesses to obtain consent to process data in some situations. When an organisation is relying on consent to lawfully use a person’s information they have to clearly explain that consent is being given and there has to be a “positive opt-in”. A blog post from Denham explains there are multiple ways for organisations to process people’s data.
As well putting new obligations on the companies and organisations collecting personal data, the GDPR also gives individuals a lot more power to access the information that’s held about them. At present a Subject Access Request (SAR) allows businesses and public bodies to charge £10 to be given what’s held about them.
Under the GDPR this is being scrapped and requests for personal information can be made free-of-charge. When someone asks a business for their data, they must stump up the information within one month. Everyone will have the right to get confirmation that an organisation has information about them, access to this information and any other supplementary information. As Dixon points out, big technology companies, as well as smaller startups, will have to give users more control over their data
As well as this the GDPR bolsters a person’s rights around automated processing of data. The ICO says individuals “have the right not to be subject to a decision” if it is automatic and it produces a significant effect on a person. There are certain exceptions but generally people must be provided with an explanation of a decision made about them.
The new regulation also gives individuals the power to get their personal data erased in some circumstances. This includes where it is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected, if consent is withdrawn, there’s no legitimate interest, and if it was unlawfully processed.
GDPR fines
One of the biggest, and most talked about, elements of the GDPR is the power for regulators to fine businesses that don’t comply with it. If an organisation doesn’t process an individual’s data in the correct way, it can be fined. If it requires and doesn’t have a data protection officer, it can be fined. If there’s a security breach, it can be fined.
These monetary penalties will be decided upon by Denham’s office and the GDPR states smaller offences could result in fines of up to €10 million or two per cent of a firm’s global turnover (whichever is greater). Those with more serious consequences can have fines of up to €20 million or four per cent of a firm’s global turnover (whichever is greater). These are larger than the £500,000 penalty the ICO can currently wield and, according to analysis, last year’s fines would be 79 times higher under the new regulation.
But Denham says speculation that her office will try to make examples of companies by issuing large business-crippling fines isn’t correct. “We will have the possibility of using larger fines when we are unsuccessful in getting compliance in other ways,” she says. “But we’ve always preferred the carrot to the stick”.
Denham says there is “no intention” for overhauling how her office hands out fines and regulates data protection across the UK. She adds that the ICO prefers to work with organisations to improve their practices and sometimes a “stern letter” can be enough for this to happen.
“Having larger fines is useful but I think fundamentally what I’m saying is it’s scaremongering to suggest that we’re going to be making early examples of organisations that breach the law or that fining a top whack is going to become the norm.” She adds that her office will be more lenient on companies that have shown awareness of the GDPR and tried to implement it, when compared to those that haven’t made any effort.
When implemented, GDPR will have a varying impact on businesses and organisations: for instance, not every company will require a data protection officer. To help prepare for the start of GDPR, the ICO has created a 12-step guide.
The guide, which is available here, includes steps such as making senior business leaders aware of the regulation, determining which info is held, updating procedures around subject access requests, and what should happen in the event of a data breach. In Ireland, the regulator has also setup a separate website explaining what should change within companies.
The ICO says that “many of the GDPR’s main concepts and principles are much the same as those in the current Data Protection Act (DPA)”. It adds for businesses already complying with the current data protection law, its highly likely they will be meeting many of the GDPR principles.
As well as this guidance, the ICO says it is creating a phone service to help small businesses prepare for GDPR. The service will provide answers about how small companies can implement GDPR procedures and starts at the beginning of November 2017.
What big tech is doing
Facebook and Google are preparing for GDPR by giving customers more access to their information.
Facebook has revealed it is going to roll out a global privacy setting hub. We don’t know what this will look like yet but chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has said the company will “put the core privacy settings for Facebook in one place and make it much easier for people to manage their data”. The company has also revealed what it is calling its privacy principles. These set out the ways it intends to handle personal information.
Meanwhile, users of Google’s services have been prompted to update and review their data. Google has updated its ad settings and people have been seeing notifications saying they should review their privacy settings. A specific page for GDPR and the businesses Google works with has also been set up.
Looking for more?
We don’t claim to have all the answers. In between a lot of GDPR hype there are some incredibly useful resources that have been published on the regulation. Here’s where to go if you’re looking for more in-depth reading:
– The full regulation. It’s 88 pages long and has 99 articles.
– The ICO’s guide to GDPR is essential for both consumers and those working within businesses.
– EU GDPR is the Union’s official website for the regulation. It details all you need to know and has a handy countdown clock for when GDPR will come into force.
– The EU’s Article 29 data protection group is publishing guidelines on data breach notifications, transparency, and subject access requests. | https://cybersecurity.integrateagency.co.uk/what-is-gdpr-wired-com/ |
At a recent event marking the launch of Trend Micro’s regional headquarters in Singapore this week, the company’s executives cited Singapore’s vision and influence over ASEAN in cyber security matters as one of the reasons for choosing the city-state as its regional hub.
Yet, it was only in 2015 when the government set up the Cyber Security Agency (CSA), about two years after a series of high-profile defacements of Singapore websites – including that of the prime minister’s office – that cyber security was cast into the spotlight in Singapore.
How then, did Singapore go from not having a central agency to coordinate cyber security efforts that were taking place across various security agencies, to becoming a regional thought leader that has been attracting cyber security firms to invest more in the city-state?
Having the willpower and foresight to bring together planning and development functions related to cyber security across the government under a single agency in the prime minister’s office certainly helps, but the impetus lies in Singapore’s highly connected economy and pervasive use of technology in critical sectors like financial services.
Not acting fast enough to put cyber security among the top of the national agenda would have negative impact on investor confidence and the economy, given that Singapore is a regional business hub where many multinational companies have based their Asian headquarters.
That in turn drives greater demand for cyber security expertise at all levels, turning Singapore into a top magnet for such talent in both public and private sectors, and propelling Singapore into its cyber security leadership position in ASEAN.
A more cyber secure ASEAN is good for all member states, including Singapore. Besides supporting efforts by ASEAN countries, dialogue partners and various CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) mechanisms to boost cyber security in the region, Singapore has also been running the annual ASEAN CERT Incident Drill for more than a decade.
In addition, Singapore plays a facilitating role as the Voluntary Lead Shepherd under the auspices of the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime/ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime.
In 2016, it invested S$10m in the ASEAN Cyber Capacity programme to enhance the region’s cyber security capacity and capabilities, and currently hosts the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation, a key node in Asia to support international cyber crime-fighting operations and build regional capacity to counter cyber crime.
Singapore’s influence in cyber security will continue to grow over time, not only in ASEAN but also on the international stage. As a testament to that, CSA’s CEO David Koh was conferred the first Billington Cyber Security International Leadership Award in March 2018 for his leadership in cyber security and contributions in strengthening cyber security in Singapore.
Koh has also made significant contributions towards shaping international and regional cooperation on cyber norms of behaviour and cyber capacity building. Under his leadership, Singapore was ranked number one in the International Telecommunication Union’s Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) for 2017.
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For example, in the first three standards, under the section “corrective action” in one standard it is stated that the laboratory shall establish a policy and procedure for implementing corrective action. Another standard goes into more detail by stating that an investigation process shall be included to determine the underlying cause(s) of the problem. Because of copyrights, I can’t reproduce these sections, but I don’t see that people in a clinical laboratory would say after reading this section – “aha, now I know exactly what to do”
The standard on risk management is much more informative but does not provide detailed guidance on risk management tools or a worked example that would help a clinical laboratory to set up a risk management program. Moreover, this standard is for manufacturers, not users of devices such as clinical laboratories. This is an important point, since process errors within a clinical laboratory can and have contributed to patient harm, including deaths (1).
There is no current regulatory requirement for a clinical laboratory to perform risk management as described by EP18. Moreover, as this document has been developed, clinical laboratory subcommittee members expressed some reluctance to use these “industry tools”. There is no easy answer to this.
Perhaps, the fact that adverse events traced to clinical laboratory error (1) are amenable to prevention using these tools will help. The risk of litigation and fines (2) might also be a motivating factor. The rest of the hospital does have a regulatory obligation to perform at least one FMEA per year.
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Phishing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Someone out there puts bait on a line and dangles it out there, waiting for someone to bite. And every time I hear the term “phishing,” I’m reminded of a scene in the Pixar film Finding Nemo. Dory and Marlin are transfixed by a shiny little animal down in the dark trench, playing with it – until they realize that their shiny little friend is actually an anglerfish intent on eating them alive. (You can watch the scene here.) Phishing e-mails basically work on the same concept. The e-mail spoofer presents something that looks legitimate and enticing, seeking a Dory who will fall for the scheme. These e-mails take many forms, from the easily recognizable (think of our old friend, the Nigerian Prince, who promised people millions of dollars if they would just send him their bank information) to the slick and sophisticated.
If you check your spam messages, you’re likely to see plenty of the unsophisticated phishing attempts. E-mails from alleged online dating sites asking for responses, messages regarding an inheritance from a long lost relative in a remote country, you have qualified for a great prize in the latest sweepstakes – all with questionable grammar and laughable claims at best. They are mass e-mails all sent with the hope that a handful of unsuspecting people will click and follow through. But because they all follow a formula and pretty much everyone receives them at some point, they are more easily recognized. It is the truly sophisticated messages that are more difficult to filter.
More sophisticated phishing can look like completely legitimate messages—a lot of times the spoofers dress up their messages with real company logos and addresses, and can appear to come from a real organization. Sometimes, the sender’s information can appear legitimate (for example, “[email protected]”), or will show simply a name, like “Generic Bank Support.” And that’s the point – if you received an e-mail from [email protected], would you click it? I hope not. This is the anglerfish’s shiny bulb. It looks beautiful, it looks real, and we are comforted by seeing our bank logo on the e-mail and webpage. If it has the company logo, it must be okay, right? Not necessarily.
The appearance of legitimacy is meant to lead people to let their guard down. Then you get to the message. Many of these e-mails will feature a message addressed to a vague general group – “dear member” or “dear customer” can often be used when sending mass e-mails to see who takes the bait. The message may ask you to click a link to “confirm account information,” perhaps with a time element, urging you to do so within 24 to 48 hours or else. We know that real bank websites take their security seriously – you may have to enter a password and then a randomly generated PIN or answer security questions to access your account information. But banks will never send e-mails asking for your passwords.
If there is a link in an e-mail, it is worth taking a closer look at where that link proposes to take you. If you hover your cursor over the link (without clicking!), where does it lead you? Does it match what appears in the e-mail? Does it show a website that you are familiar with? If it appears to lead to a site that you would not expect (a misspelled company name in the weblink, for example), it’s likely bait for phishing. Make sure you know your bank’s regular website address. If the link leads you to www.genericbank-company.com, but your bank’s web address is www.genericbank.com, be wary.
Of course, these types of e-mails, with the sophisticated logos and the links for personal information, are only one form of phishing. There are many other forms, all geared towards luring unsuspecting people to give information away. Sometimes the intent is to take money, sometimes the intent is just to take information and use it to cause problems. Either way, once you’ve clicked that link, typed in your password, given away your account information, there is no way to un-ring that bell. It is important to understand where our e-mail comes from. And while it is unfortunate, we have to be vigilant when it comes to our communications. That means checking and double-checking the source and making sure we are aware of the red flags, especially when it concerns our personal information. If there is any question about the legitimacy of a website, of a link, of an e-mail, the best way to keep your information safe is to click the Delete button instead of the link itself. If your gut tells you something’s fishy, chances are it’s phishy. | https://carolinawordsmith.com/phishing-think-before-you-click/ |
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When speaking about surfing the online world, we would like to do it more quickly, less complicated, wherever we are and with no complications. The old-fashioned strategy to connect for the Internet through a cable deprives us from a number of points, which could make our "surfing" to not be a properly spent time. The word wireless entails a great deal of new meanings with regards to free Online "riding": no wires, no cords and virtually any place we want. But in addition to this freedom comes plus a latency of danger. Why? Simply because you private information just isn't moving within a cable from point A to point B. Its truly "floating" inside the air. For most from the time, this is not a problem. But when somebody knows how to grab details from the air, loads of challenges can take place, like identity theft or the stealing of a credit card number. When you surf the net, there's a series of recommendations it's important to keep in mind:
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•Never make enterprise or economic transactions on a public network. Use this sort of network to check your email, to watch a football match or read the headlines. This precaution is valuable simply because these kinds of Wi-Fi network usually are not set up by you, so you do not understand how secure they are. | http://jimmi100.snack.ws/keep-secure-wi-fi-network-security-strategies.html |
In the 1972 film, The Godfather, Marlon Brando — playing Don Vito Corleone — uttered ten words. And those ten words, simple as they may be, is one of the best-known lines in any film.
He said, “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
And, it seems like the operators behind the RobbinHood ransomware are taking a page from Corleone’s book. In fact, their latest ransomware note is one big offer — pay us or lose your data, Bleeping Computer reports.
The RobbinHood ransomware is responsible for two major incidents this year — the attack on Baltimore city and another attack, which affected systems in Greenville, North Carolina.
Even worse, unlike other types of ransomware, there is no decryption tool available for RobbinHood.
So, without the operator’s private key and unlocking software, “it’s impossible to recover files.” This fact is one of the reasons that RobbinHood ransomware is so dangerous. And while this is bad news for victims, the cybercriminals behind the attacks are boastful of this fact — “their latest message directs their victims to past incidents involving their ransomware.”
The instructions also warn victims not to work with the FBI, other security organizations, or to upload files to the VirusTotal scanning platform. ” Most importantly, turning off the systems, renaming the files, or trying to recover the computer “will damage your files,” the warning goes.”
So what can organizations do? Always backup your systems and make sure you have a proper incident plan in place. | https://news.layer7data.com/2019/10/07/cyber-shakedown-the-new-technique-robbinhood-ransomware-operators-are-using-on-victims/ |
Most large accounting firms have consulting divisions that offer advice and guidance to customer organizations in a variety of areas. These consultation services typically involve specialized risk management and insurance recommendations. These recommendations include input on how and why to form a captive insurance facility, how to manage a complicated business interruption clam, or how to apply a variety of alternative risk transfer solutions more financial in nature than traditional insurance solutions. Investment Banking Firm
Managing investments for others requires the ability to evaluate potential investment opportunities based on the performance of the company. Distinguishing companies that are financially sound and well-managed from those that are not requires the consideration of many factors related to risk and insurance. These factors include a review of the company’s current risk management program, the number and types of open claims, the potential for future claims, the adequacy of contractual protection from lawsuits, and management’s attitude toward risk. Potential investors will want an in-depth study of these and other risk-related factors before committing their funds. Specific Risk Management Staff Positions
Risk Manager and Assistant Risk Manager
Every business, large or small, has the need to develop a sound risk management plan. Often thought of as “The Insurance Program”, a truly refined risk plan involves far more than simply the purchase of insurance. Businesses must also consider, and possibly implement, many other facets of risk management.
In large companies, these functions are the responsibility of a professional risk manager and his or her staff. The size of a typical risk management department can range from 3 to 30 individuals. Professional risk managers for medium to large companies earn salaries averaging from $150,000 to $300,000+ and their staff members are proportionately compensated.
Businesses rarely purchase their numerous policies directly from insurance companies. Most use agents or brokers as an intermediary to navigate the complex world of available coverage offerings. The agent or broker assembles a package of options for the business reflecting the offerings of several competing carriers.
Key positions in these businesses require detailed knowledge of the insurance products and services being offered as well as the ability to negotiate effectively to obtain the best deal for their clients.
Producer
Producers are responsible for the production of new business and the retention of existing accounts. They are typically skilled insurance executives with years of experience in various support roles. The Producer helps the client design a risk plan and supervises the presentation of insurance applications to a variety of carriers with the intention of creating the best possible mix of policies for the client. Producers also assist their clients with loss control programs, self-insurance issues and the use of contracts in transferring risk to others. Producers are responsible for every function associated with a given account, thus they are well compensated. Producers’ salaries range from $75,000 to over $1 Million annually.
Account Executive Account Executives are responsible for supporting the producer or producers on a number of separate accounts. The Account Executive oversees the day to day administration of the account. The routine duties of the Account Executive include issuing billings, creating endorsements, providing certificates of insurance to outside requestors and reporting claims. Account Executives typically earn between $50,000 and $150,000 annually. | http://bauer.uh.edu/departments/finance/risk-management/jobs.php |
May. 25,2021 | Security Microsoft Cloud
The news has constant reminders of the risks of an unsecure infrastructure. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware event recently caused blood pressure spikes in boardrooms and C-Suites all over the world.
Microsoft continues to expand their security and compliance offerings, with a dizzying and confusing array of services, bundles, and add-ons to your 365 subscriptions. As we come into June, the end of the Microsoft fiscal year, clients are getting heavy pressure from management to “do something” about the very high-risk security and compliance requirements in today’s enterprise – and Microsoft is happy to sell “solutions”. But are they really the only and best solution?
This ambition is ironic considering the latest high-profile hack has been attributed by Nicole Perloth, New York Times Cyber Security reporter, to a vulnerable version of Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft of course has denied this citing lack of evidence (so far).
IT pros know that people are always going to be the weakest link in tech security, but Microsoft knows that FUD sells, and that the most important thing is to get the contract inked, before June 30th. And buying some software always seems preferable to buying training for end users, regardless of any evaluation of the relative effectiveness of those alternatives.
Obviously, there are plenty of viable alternatives for every product that Microsoft sells. Almost all of our clients have multiple solutions already in place, and for the most part, working just fine. So, what is to be gained by ditching those and using Microsoft instead? And do any of these solutions truly provide the protection that the board demands? The answer is of course, no. Humans are always going to be the weakest link from the C-Suite to the rank-and-file IT worker.
The real question is, what alternatives do you have to Microsoft’s monopoly bundling game? If you are in the unenviable situation of being tasked by leadership to ‘fix it’, but not extra budget to get it done, do not despair – there are many options that can satisfy your Board, Shareholders, Customers, and mitigate the security risk.
Convert those into specific, negotiable strategies to control costs while delivering the protection your company needs.
Our immediate and free advice? Don’t sign your next Microsoft renewal until you have fully evaluated your options and understand what you are, and are not, getting from Microsoft.
It’s never too late. Contact us today to have a quick conversation and get some peace of mind.
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It’s an unavoidable security reality: portable devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets require a bit more security consideration than static devices that “live” on site.
But their sheer lose-ability and steal-ability is just one issue. We also have to think about the wireless networks they interface with when out and about; the security of the authentication factors they use; and the company IT policies (or lack thereof) that their users are party to.
Encrypting your data “at rest” (i.e., when it’s sitting on your drives or device storage) is excellent security practice. You should absolutely consider encrypting data on servers, PCs, and other static devices.
However, the true protective power of at-rest encryption really comes into its own when you use it to protect the data on laptops and mobile devices. Therefore, if the devices are lost or stolen, the data held within is safe from prying eyes. Most modern smartphones will have some level of onboard data encryption enabled by default, though it always pays to give your own device settings a quick check. Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo has published this handy guide to help you secure your Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android devices using their own in-built capabilities.
Properly Dispose of SIM Cards & Mobile Numbers
SIM cards may seem like just another bit of metal and plastic detritus, but when you’re moving to another network, changing your SIM, or disposing of a number, SIM cards aren’t just something you should simply discard.
First, let’s talk about disposing of the physical SIM itself. Firstly, make a note of the SIM’s ICCID – that’s the long serial number on the back of the SIM. This way, you can better document that the card has been destroyed. The actual destruction part is easy – simply cut the whole SIM card through the metal part with scissors.
However, that’s just the physical part of the equation. If you’re porting the same number to a different SIM or network, just destroy the old SIM and discard it however you see fit. But if you’re retiring a mobile number, there are a few other things to bear in mind.
Firstly, multi-factor authentication. Is that mobile number set up to receive multi-factor authentication texts or calls from a given login or piece of software? If so, then remove that number from those logins or simply close those accounts outright if someone is leaving your company.
Networks reuse numbers that are no longer in use. You don’t know who’s going to get their mitts on that number next, so you don’t want to give them the ability to authorise themselves as the number’s previous owner!
Secondly, logins. An increasing number of tools allow you to log in with your mobile number instead of the usual email address or username, so make sure that any such accounts are deactivated or their login credentials changed.
If you’re getting rid of a device with on-board storage like a mobile phone or pen drive; or you’re getting rid of an old PC with a hard drive or SSD, you need to make sure that the data on those drives is securely destroyed.
Let’s discuss mobile security first. Remove any microSD cards, log out of all accounts on the device, and enable encryption as above. Let the encryption complete, and then perform a full factory reset. A full device wipe on top of already encrypted data should be more than enough to keep you protected.
Advice surrounding hard drives, pen drives, and SD cards depends on how sensitive that data is and/or how paranoid you are about ensuring its destruction. Yes, we know that Windows’ Quick Format does look like a tempting option on a hectic, time-poor day, but it’s nowhere near enough to render the drive’s data irretrievable.
Software is available that can format a drive, overwrite the whole drive with junk, then format it again. You can carry out as many “passes” of this process you like – the more you do, the less likely the data on the drive will be recoverable.
However, if you don’t need to reuse the hard drive and the data on it is particularly sensitive, then physically destroy it. Crush it, hammer it, give it a trendy new piercing in a drill-press, the world’s your oyster! Just don’t microwave it, ok?
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are a little easier to securely wipe. Head to your drive’s manufacturer’s website and see if they have software available for your drive called “Secure Erase” or something similar. This resets the memory chips to a completely neutral state, effectively destroying any data held within whilst still leaving you with a usable drive.
Exercise Caution Around External Storage Devices
If you don’t know or trust the origin of a pen drive or Bluetooth enabled device – don’t attach/connect it to your enterprise network. Simple as.
There are a couple of things that could go wrong if you do go plugging in strange devices willy-nilly. Our advice? On the more innocent end of the spectrum, you may be asked to plug in a pen drive that a colleague has brought from home or be asked to connect to their personal phone’s Bluetooth on a networked device. Our advice? Refuse politely but firmly.
Their home devices and network may not have the same levels of protection as your enterprise network, so by plugging that device in, you may end up infecting your workplace.
Our next potential happenstance is considerably more insidious. If a cyber criminal is targeting your organisation, they may place a tempting-yet-infected device in the premises car park, ready for someone to waltz by and enact that age-old psychological bylaw of “finders keepers”. It’s called a baiting attack.
The attacker may up the ante by making that drive particularly tempting. Low-capacity no-name pen drive are ten-a-penny nowadays, but a sleek 64GB drive? A name brand 4TB portable drive? It might be enough to turn someone’s head. Stay vigilant.
Don’t Leave Bluetooth Enabled
Yes, Bluetooth is super useful. It links our mobiles to our headphones, cars, and wearable devices. Yet whenever a given technology becomes widely used and available, cyber criminals will surely find a way to exploit it. So, the more we rely on Bluetooth, the more it becomes fraught with cybercrime potential.
Attacks like BlueJacking (wherein Bluetooth-enabled devices are hijacked to send spammy messages), BlueSnarfing (where Bluetooth is used to steal data from a Bluetooth-enabled device); or simply eavesdropping on a conversation taking place over a Bluetooth headset can be disastrous for any organisation.
So always switch Bluetooth off when you’re not explicitly using it. Never be tempted to switch it on in a busy, public place, especially on devices with sensitive data. It’s not just audiophiles that lament the retirement of the headphone jack – it’s us security bods too!
Beware of Random Apps – Even on Legit App Stores!
Naturally, the security community will advise against installing mobile apps manually (such as installing random .apk’s on an Android device) and ask you to only use apps that are available through your device’s app store. However, even this may not be as secure as you’d think.
In spring 2022, Google removed dozens of apps from their Play Store – and from user devices – after they found that these apps were hoovering up user data, directly contravening Google’s developer terms. There was a similar incident in 2019 when the Big G removed thousands of apps for many of the same reasons.
However, it’s not just the apps themselves you need to be careful of. Ads in apps are sometimes sneakily designed with fake exit buttons, fake “update now” options, and annoying notifications, all designed to confuse.
So, what’s a mobile security savvy device user to do? This is what we suggest:
Only install the bare minimum apps needed, directly from the device’s app store.
Only log in to the bare minimum accounts needed for each mobile device.
Keep Bluetooth, location data, WiFi, and mobile internet off when not in use.
Save personal apps for your personal devices – Google recently removed weather apps, religious/prayer apps, and speed camera detection apps from their library following data collection concerns.
Avoid using apps with ads for professional purposes.
Don’t Assume Password Protected Public WiFi is Secure
Nowadays, we’re all aware of the dangers of using open WiFi networks with no password to keep baddies at bay. Most locales like coffee shops and hotels have caught up, providing password-protected WiFi access. But how secure is that password if it’s printed on menus, advertised on sandwich boards, or made available to anyone who has ever visited the business?
The answer is: not very. Even if the hacker has to enter the premises to pick up the WiFi password, this still grants them the same access they would enjoy if the network was open. If you’re a hospitality venue reading this: don’t publish your WiFi credentials for all to see!
Hackers with the right access and know-how can potentially snoop on the network activity of other users and inject malicious code. Or they can set up an “evil twin” network access point – a seemingly exact replica of the establishment’s WiFi that’s designed to fool people into connecting to it – only to harvest any sensitive data that flows through.
Some confident criminals may simply “shoulder surf” – peering over your shoulder to see if they can gather any sensitive info from your screen or intercept any passwords typed in.
To avoid snooping in public, simply turn off WiFi when you’re not using it and make sure “public sharing” is off when you do. If you’re in a coffee shop doing something that doesn’t need internet access, don’t enable it. Don’t interact with anything sensitive like emails on public WiFi without a VPN. And never do anything financial over a public network!
Related Reading: 7 Enterprise Wi-Fi Risks You Need to Know About Today
Biometrics Are Great… Until They’re Not
Most smartphones and a good many laptops nowadays come preloaded with some kind of biometric authentication capability. This is great – biometrics are far more secure than passwords. Rather than using a forgettable or phishable password, a simple fingerprint or retina scan can provide unparalleled authentication clout.
However, don’t be tempted to throw your hat in the ring with just any biometric authentication offering or supplier. Just as hackers go on the lookout for passwords now, there’s a strong possibility that they’re also on the hunt for biometric authentication data too. A phished password is a pain but it can be changed. A fingerprint can’t.
This isn’t the only concern with biometrics. At present, facial recognition technologies have a massive racial bias, with an MIT study finding that facial recognition tools performed over 40% worse on darker skinned women than white men. For the time being, our advice is to use a reliable biometric authentication system (we like Microsoft Hello) and use non-facial biometrics as part of a robust cocktail of multi-factor and passwordless authentication measures.
Good Offline Policies Minimise Online Risks
The best security starts offline, with cautious, well-thought-out policies. Yes, policies surrounding static devices, internet usage, passwords, and physical access security are essential, but don’t forget mobile security policies too!
Set concrete rules around what is allowed when using employee-owned devices (“BYOD”) and COPE (company-owned, personally enabled) devices. Understand the risks of shadow IT and insider threats and establish robust, proactive policies. Also, make sure any documented data leak prevention policies are singing from the same song sheet as your firewalls and IPSs.
But don’t forget the cultural aspect of setting policies, either. If your policies are fair and your team believes in the good that those policies bring about, they’re more likely to abide by them. However, if the team sees the policies as draconian decrees boomed down from on high, they’re likely to be a bit more cynical. Present policy changes as a dialogue and back up your policy decisions with sound reasoning.
Part of this is instigating a blame-free culture around cyber infractions. Nobody wants to be raked over the coals for making a silly mistake, and doing so instils a culture of blame and fear. In turn, this dissuades people from coming forward and owning up to their own cyber mistakes.
Seek to create a culture centred towards transparency and openness. Towards owning up to and learning from mistakes. So, when someone does inevitably make a cyber mistake, they’re more inclined to report it to management immediately so rapid action can be taken. Much more favourable than keeping it hush-hush and letting the hackers win! | https://www.justfirewalls.com/9-practical-ways-to-strengthen-your-companys-mobile-security/ |
Hi everyone. I'd like to try and fix my girlfriends Macbook Air for her. When she's using Google Chrome webpages will often come up with ads or surveys and popups. Pages are also prevented from loading and instead a new tab will come up with a webpage that was not requested.
I've tried looking in the advanced settings of Chrome and in the extensions. I don't see any browser extensions that look out of place (the only one's are google adons like Docs and excel). I also don't see any programs that look out of place.
I've tried to install AVG, but it seems like whatever is on her computer is preventing me from opening it. I should also mention that nothing seems to happen unless she is using a browser. | https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-air-with-virus-or-malware.2034832/ |
With high-profile security breaches constantly making headlines, people are highly conscious of the very real threat of a cyber-attack and the increased need to ensure both IT and Data security for their business and customers.
Therefore, it is critical that all businesses today take the necessary steps to best protect them, their business and their staff from these attacks.
We offer a broad range of solutions to help our customers best protect against, prepare for and respond to potential cyber-attacks. | https://www.intuity.ie/it-security/ |
As it turns out, not all Android malware detection apps are as good as they claim.
The latest performance results, from the independent testing organization AV-Tests, shows that quite a few Android Antivirus apps are less than adequate to protect your Android smart phone and Tablet from threats.
Figure 1: Red boxes indicates a family of malware that went undetected, while orange through green indicates partial to full detection of threats from a given malware family.
Figure 1: Red boxes indicates that malware went undetected; orange through green indicates partial to full detection.
According to AV-Test’s CEO, Andreas Marx, desktop antivirus vendors that migrated to Android generally perform the best, therefore solutions such as Lookout and Zoner were standouts because they are mobile only products.
Top Performers
If you use Avast, Lookout, Dr. Web, Zoner, F-Secure, Ikarus, or Kaspersky you will be happy to know that they detected 90 percent or more of the 618 types of malicious Android APK files that were used in the test.
While AVG, Bitdefender, ESET, Norton (Symantec,) QuickHeal, Trend Micro, Vipre (GFI,) and Webroot; and two mobile-only vendors, AegisLab and SuperSecurity detected between 65 to 90 percent of the threats. Marx is of the opinion that they were still good antivirus solutions because some of the threats that brought down their scores aren’t really threats in certain environments.
Below Average
The third group, which included Bullguard, Comodo, G Data, McAfee, NetQin and Total Defense, scored between 40 and 65 percent detection rates. The report however gives some explanation as to why some mobile antivirus solutions faired so poorly. The reason may be due to the insufficient sample infrastructure partly due to the fact that threats are quickly removed from the Android Market.
Even so, it is still worrying that there were other apps that detected nothing at all. AV-Test acknowledges that there is the possibility that these apps may be able to detect malware, just not the ones in the test kit. Still, it is worrying that some Android Antivirus apps don’t work. | https://www.johnsphones.com/applications/android-apps/your-android-antivirus-app-may-be-useless |
So I just came off a contract with the DoD. A job I really didn’t want to take but it payed extremely well. I have another job offer with the DHS ICE dept. Another government job I really don’t want, I don’t like ICE or INS at all. However, it comes with 15% pay increase and job title advancement. Which in this economy is a mixed blessing.
I’m not particularly fond of the government. Not that I hate America or anything, but the ability to hold back the little voice inside me screaming “fascist” is always a concern. I made it though the last job ok with actually a page full of bright shiny new references and everything. So it’s not that I’m not a good worker.
I just can’t help but feeling like a sellout.
No the ref's are fine. I got along with most of my co-workers alright. I had to bite my tongue when one lady was going off on people speaking Spanish on her Vacation when she stopped over in Miami International Airport. Then there's that overall vibe of America #1 no matter what we do, woohoo!
I donno, I'm probably over thinking it.
I think it would be an excellent addition to your resume. You can't beat all the holidays you get when working a federal job either!
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Apple prompted me to use two-factor authentication, and I finally enabled it. I got a follow-up email confirming it, and it said that I had a limited time to easily turn it off.
I figured, an extra measure of security wouldn't hurt. But then, I only have two Apple devices at any given time nowadays (my desktop iMac, and my iPhone). I'm afraid that if I ever lost my iPhone…. then what? If my iMac somehow needed to send me "Authentication Code" (for example doing a clean install on iMac upgrade) and I no longer have my iPhone… then am I locked out of my Apple ID for good?
I personally think all accounts should be protected with an additional layer of security (such as two factor) as passwords alone are proven time and time again to be too insecure.
To answer your specific question, you can setup an emergency recovery phone number where a recovery code will be sent to if you have no devices to hand that can get a code - it doesn't have to be your personal iPhone (and is probably better off not being your phone due to the fact that if you lose it you lose 2 ways of authenticating): it can be any phone (including land line). | https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/two-factor-authentication-should-i-use-it.2023060/ |
Office 365 has a good deal of security available out of the box, however much of it needs to be fully configured from the defaults. Add to this the additional security options Microsoft 365 Business brings to the table on top of what Office 365 provides as standard. Services like Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Legal Hold and so on are included with Microsoft 365 Business and most also still need to be configured appropriately.
Configuring security options is nothing new. IT Professionals have been doing it for years. That won’t change just because services are now in the cloud.
Even after you have configured all of these services appropriately, there are more security options you can add on from Microsoft. I think that probably the best add on security service you can bolt on to your Microsoft/Office 365 environment is .
You can simply add the to any existing tenant and then assign it to your users. As you can see from the above (in $AUD), it is pretty cheap for what I’ll show it can do for you.
Now before I get too far down the path of explaining I need to let you know there is a more advanced version of this service called Microsoft Cloud App Security that I’ll cover in more detail in an upcoming article. Here, I’m going to focus on . If you want to know the differences between the two services take a look at:
Once it has been enabled select the Go to button.
You’ll now be taken to the console and a list of policies as you can see above. These are the default policies that are created for you and it is possible to create your own policies which I’ll cover soon.
Take a moment to have look through the list of default policies and you’ll find the cover some very common scenarios.
In this case, I’ve click on the Mass downloaded by a single user policy to view the details.
The real heart of the policy is the Create Filter for the policy section a little down the page as shown above. This is where you create the rules to determine when an alert should be activated.
A little bit further down the screen you’ll find the section to manage the alerts. Here you’ll see the option to send an email, text message and the new preview option to trigger a Microsoft Flow. This new Microsoft Flow feature will allow you to automate just about any action if the alert is triggered.
The Governance section at the bottom of the page shows you the default actions that you can take when an alert is triggered, including the ability to suspend the user and force them to sign in again.
The above shows you a custom policy that I have created that will alert me when an Office 365 administrator logs on outside my corporate network.
Once you have customised the default policies and add any custom ones all you need to do is wait until an alert is triggered.
When you receive an alert via email it will look like the above with links to take you straight to the policy match.
You can now view any alerts in the console as shown above.
When you select an alert you can dig deeper into the details as shown above as well as Dismiss or Resolve it by recoding how it was (these are in the top right corner of the screen).
Not only can you configure and view very detailed alerts but you can also view the Office 365 Activity Log as shown above. This is very, very handy and much easier than having to use the interface in the Security and Compliance center or an exported CSV file.
If you click on an item you again get a huge amount of information as shown above.
The above shows you the failed logon activities, each of which you can drill into for more information.
So the second things the can provided is a detailed way to browse and investigate the Office 365 Activity log.
Another thing can do is ingest the logs from on premises firewalls and UTM devices and display them in a dashboard as shown above. Here you can see exactly what cloud apps are being used in your environment. The idea is that it helps you identify shadow IT and prevent the leakage of corporate data from non authorised applications.
That’s a lot of power for a very small price in my books and makes a worthwhile investment for your environment. If you want even more power then you can look at Microsoft Cloud App Security which I’ll detail in an upcoming article.
If you are serious about monitoring your Microsoft/Office 365 environment quickly and easily, then nothing beats Cloud App Security. For most, will do what is required but remember that for only about $1 more, Microsoft Cloud App Security has even more power.
You can of course sign up for a 30 day trial of either product in your tenant today and try it for yourself. I’m pretty confident when you see everything that it can do you’ll happy add to the tenant going forward.
So when you get Microsoft/Office 365, I suggest Cloud App Security (either Office 365 or Microsoft) as something that you should add for sure if you are serious about security (and who isn’t these days?).
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Findings from Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Reports (DBIR) indicate 24% of the confirmed data breaches are found in retail and restaurants, the second largest sector after financial organizations.
DBIR is an annual study of global security trends through a combined effort from various global organizations. This is the sixth year of this study, where 19 global organizations including law enforcement agencies,national incident-reporting entities, research institutions and a number of private security firms contributed their findings on data breaches. The study confirmed that 621 confirmed data breaches with 47,000 reported security incidents were identified in 2012. Among the confirmed data breaches, a total of 156 of them came from the retail environment or food services industry. "Organized criminals love finance, retail and they love restaurants," said Paul Black, Asia Pacific Regional managing Principal Investigative Response. "The reason for that is they all have credit card terminals. "Black noted that most of these credit card terminals are available in public areas and connected to the public network. They are physically and virtually accessible to install malware for capturing credit card information. The report also stated the correlation between attack motives, the victim industry and attack tactics. Financial motives drove most of the physical attacks, which includes skimmers inside ATMs, POS devices and gas pump terminals. Black added that most organized criminals are driven by financial motives and their technics are not very advanced, but they tend to launch targeted and calculated attacks. He added that to protect financially motivated physical attacks, technical IT issues may not be the only way. He suggested a longer term solution which includes process reengineering and users education. In addition, complying with PCI security standards are good best practices for retailers to be protected from physical attacks. But he added that organizations also need to update their compliance, as software and technology continue to advance. "If people are PCI compliance they are usually fairly safe," said Black. "But different motivations are shifting the way people attack the system. It's not good enough just to tick the box, it should be an on-going process."
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