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Mike is a PhD economist and Federal 100 award winning cybersecurity expert. He currently serves as the Deputy Program Manager to implement the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, working to catalyze a marketplace of innovative online identity solutions through pilot programs, a private sector-led organization developing the Identity Ecosystem Framework, and early federal adoption of innovative technologies.
Mike has focused on cyber economics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 2011 and was previously with the Department of Homeland Security. He has also worked as a market research manager and software engineer. His dissertation analyzed the conditions that induce firms to invest in preventing data breaches and to report them when they happen.
Steve LeSueur provides Washington area businesses with public relations and communications services. He helps companies develop media strategy, writes press announcements and provides outreach to media. He writes and edits white papers, case studies and reports, and helps business executives write articles for publication. Steve also consults on website redesign and writes Web content.
Steve also serves as a contributing editor for custom media at 1105 Public Sector Media Group, and is a regular moderator of 1105 webcast programs.
Before starting LeSueur Communications in August 2005, Steve served more than five years as editor of Washington Technology, a business magazine published by 1105 Media, Inc. As editor, Steve directed the magazine’s coverage of companies that provide IT services to federal, state and local governments. This included both the Washington Technology website, which publishes daily stories, blogs and other features, and Washington Technology magazine, which provides in-depth coverage of the major business opportunities, events, legislation, policies and emerging technologies in the government IT market.
Before joining Washington Technology, Steve covered national security issues and the defense industry for Defense News.
He holds a master’s degree in history from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and an undergraduate degree in history from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. He wrote the award-winning book, “The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri,” published by the University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, and has published numerous articles on Mormon history.
Ms. Dixon currently serves as the Director of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), a rapidly growing, high performing, operational support organization, reporting to the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). DMDC maintains the central repository of 50 million records for military, civilians, retirees, family members, and selected contractors. It is also the central point in the Department of Defense (DoD) for contract data. DMDC’s four major business lines include: benefits and entitlements, identity management, decision support, and personnel security/assurance. Over 250 employees and 800 on-site contractors (a multi-disciplinary staff ranging from IT to psychometricians and research psychologists and statisticians) work in Monterey, CA, Arlington, VA, or one of three satellite offices in Germany, Korea, SW Asia, and Boyers, PA. Additionally, it supports the operations of over 2000 sites issuing ID cards and over 100 bases using its base access control system around the world, a truly world-wide operation. DMDC’s mission directly impacts the security of DoD’s networks and facilities across the enterprise, identification of potential fraud and abuse, personnel policies and programs, the delivery of the right benefit to the right person at the right time, and most importantly the Department’s goal of a life-time relationship with the entire DoD family.
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ver the course of her career, Ms. Dixon worked for the Navy in positions of increasing responsibility and as a senior analyst for Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1977, she was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower) where she was responsible for military manpower, personnel, and training policy and issues within the Department of the Navy. | https://fcw.com/events/face-to-face/2015/cybersecurity-042915/home.aspx |
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Download and install the antispyware software. Navigate to a second website and download a secondary antispyware utility.
Restart your computer and wait for the manufacturer's logo to appear on the screen. Press the "F8" key repeatedly until a new menu pops up. Scroll down through the list of options and highlight the entry labeled as "Safe Mode."
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Wait for the program to finish downloading the latest spyware detection routines. Disconnect your computer from its Internet connection either by unplugging its Ethernet cable or by powering off your wireless router.
Click on the "Search For Problems" button above the "Update Now" button. Wait for the program to finish scanning your computer's hard drive for spyware, and then click on the "Remove Selected Problems" button. Close down the antispyware program.
Reconnect your computer to its Internet connection. Open the second antispyware utility you downloaded earlier. Run the program's update feature and then disconnect your computer from the Internet again.
Run the program's scan, and then remove any problems it finds. Reconnect your Internet connection and then restart your computer to finish removing the recurring spyware pop-ups from your PC.
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NASA/JPLCuriosity says hello to a rock named Jake. Hi, Jake!
The big news from the red planet this week was Curiosity’s discovery of an ancient streambed, which lends even more proof to the theory that water once flowed freely on Mars’s surface. But don’t worry, there’s still plenty more to catch up on in this week’s update!
Readjusting to a Martian schedule
In our last update, we touched upon the time difference on Mars compared to Earth. A recent article over at Space.com explores the problem with the 40-minute extension of a day on Mars as it applies to the scientists leading the operation back on the green planet.
Since a day lasts longer on Mars, and since the Curiosity rover requires constant attention, scientists have found ways to readjust their internal clocks to keep themselves on a new schedule.
Back in 2008, during the Phoenix Mars Lander mission, Stephen W. Lockley, a neuroscientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital “investigated the effectiveness of a pilot program to educate the mission personnel on how to reset their body clocks more quickly and how to improve their sleep, alertness and performance.” This included taking naps, drinking smaller portions of coffee throughout the day, using light boxes, and staying on a Martian schedule even on days off. The study proved successful, and the men and women being observed were more alert and their performance increased after readjusting themselves.
Touched by a rover
Before setting out on the first leg of its big trek across Mars, Curiosity tested a few of its instruments on a strange looking rock named “Jake Matijevic” after the rover’s surface operations systems chief engineer, who died in August at the age of 64. This is the first rock Curiosity has been in direct contact with since landing.
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In our previous update, we discussed both the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) and the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) as the rover was going through a health checkup. Now Curiosity has finally had the chance to test both tools out on “Jake,” as Fox News points out. Curiosity also zapped the rock with a laser, and although I like to believe that NASA just wanted to blow up a rock, the vaporized pieces of the rock were apparently used to read the rock’s composition and calibrate the instruments on the robot’s arm.
If Curiosity ever does actually blow something up, you can be assured it will make it into a future update.
Snapping Phobos
We couldn’t have a Mars rover update without some pretty pictures, no matter how grainy they may be. In the two weeks since our last update, the Mars rover has managed to take pictures of Phobos, the larger moon orbiting Mars (Deimos being the smaller of the two), both during a partial solar eclipse and in the middle of the day, Discovery reports.
The first image from the rover’s Mastcam shows the natural satellite—which measures 17 miles across—eclipsing a miniscule portion of the sun and creating the visage of a terrifying, omniscient eyeball in space. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010835/mars-rover-update-curiosity-meets-a-rock-named-jake-and-photographs-a-moon.html |
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted Wikileaks' decision to post thousands of pages of classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan and called for criminal charges against the source of the information.
"The publication today by Wikileaks of thousands of highly-classified documents about the war in Afghanistan is deeply troubling and a serious breach of national security," McCain said in a statement Monday.
McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Vietnam POW, said he doesn't buy the claim of Wikileaks founder, Australian Julian Assange, that the organization is politically neutral.
"Wikileaks has a clear agenda, and it is not to win the war in Afghanistan" McCain said. "This biased organization seeks to undermine the achievement of a vital national security interest that more than one thousand Americans have already given their lives to safeguard. This is the height of irresponsibility, and all involved should be ashamed of themselves," said McCain.
Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents containing classified information about the Afghan conflict. Interest in the postings quickly spread globally, and Wikileaks' site appeared to be offline early Monday under the strain of all the traffic, but was up and running Tuesday.
The documents cover developments in the war from 2004 to 2009, and purport to show that the conflict's true course is at odds with statements from the White House and U.S. military commanders.
For instance, Wikileaks claims the files reveal that secret service operators from Pakistan, supposedly a U.S. ally, have been working with Afghan insurgents to sabotage the Western coalition's military and political efforts in the region.
Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and also leaked them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran major stories based on the material on Sunday. Wikileaks has not identified the source of the documents.
In addition to McCain, many other U.S. officials blasted Wikileaks for making the material available. "The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security," said National Security Adviser James Jones, in a statement.
"These irresponsible leaks will not impact our ongoing commitment to deepen our partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan; to defeat our common enemies; and to support the aspirations of the Afghan and Pakistan people," said Jones.
Wikileaks has drawn criticism from the military in the past for posting documents and videos related to the Afghan and Iraq conflicts that officials said lacked context and were therefore misleading to the public. | https://www.darkreading.com/risk/mccain-wikileaks-is-anti-u-s- |
Barnesandnoble.com has customer service centers in all of its stores, allowing customers to check inventory on the Web while shopping in the brick-and-mortar stores. But integration efforts have stopped short of the click-and-brick approach that allows customers to place an order on the Web and pick it up at a store. “That doesn’t seem to be high on the list of customers’ desires,” says Marie Toulantis, who took over as CEO of the online bookseller in February.
Toulantis stresses that Barnesandnoble.com continues to gain market share in sales of new books, music and videos. However, the company is still posting a loss, compared with Amazon.com, which reported an operating profit of $59 million in the fourth quarter of 2001. Toulantis predicts that the e-commerce company will be profitable toward the end of 2003. Barnesandnoble.com’s gross margins, which measure the net sales minus the cost of doing business, were 23.5 percent for the second quarter of 2002, compared with an overall 27 percent for Amazon.com.
Barnesandnoble.com’s shares have also taken a beating. In August, the online bookseller received word that its stock, which hovered under $1 a share for most of the summer, faced delisting from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Toulantis is sanguine about the online bookseller’s future, however. “We will definitely survive,” she says, noting that shareholders Bertelsmann, the German publishing giant, and Barnes & Noble (both of which own 36 percent of the company) are “interested in our survival.”
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As organizations evolve from private, on-premises communications to unified or cloud-based communications and/or collaboration, security becomes a critical component of any solution. There are so many factors reshaping enterprise communication networks today, from virtualization to mobilization and SIP integration to video collaboration, that administrators need to consider their encryption requirements for communications. Communication over the network poses the risk of interception by persons who might have unauthorized access to the network or intercepting traffic across the internet to any cloud base solution. This risk can be reduced by securing the communication data using digital encryption with certificates.
Encryption is used to protect information from being stolen or copied. However, encryption by itself is insufficient. Suppose that you have some private information that you want to send to a trusted recipient like a cloud base service provider. If you encrypt that information, but you mistakenly send the information to the wrong people and encrypt it in a way that the thieves can read it, then you have not protected the information at all. The certificate system is supposed to provide the basis for you to be able to trust that you are sending the data to the intended people and that you have encrypted it in a way that only the intended recipients can read it.
TLS handshake has two specific functions, one is Authentication and Verification, the other is Data Encryption. The PKI system is built on the use of public key encryption. With public key encryption, there are two keys. One of those keys is made public and the other is kept private and known only to the owner of the key. In one typical use of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a message is encrypted using the public key. Then only the owner of the private key can decrypt it. In an alternative use, a special message is encrypted with the private key and it can be decrypted with the public key. In this use, the message is typically a signature, and the arrangement is intended to allow only the owner of the private key to create the signature while anybody can verify that the signature is correct because it is made public so it is available to everybody.
The mathematical relationship between the public key and the private key is sufficiently complex that it would be extremely difficult to compute the private key from the known public key.
Digital Certificate
The Digital Certificate contains information about whom the certificate was issued to, as well as the certifying authority that issued it. Additionally, some certifying authorities may themselves be certified by a hierarchy of one or more certifying authorities (Intermediate CAs), and this information is also part of the certificate chain.
In TLS, servers are configured with an identity certificate issued by a certificate authority. When clients connect to servers, the server presents its identity certificate for the client to validate. The client checks whether the server identity certificate was issued by a certificate authority that the client trusts (among other items). If everything checks out, then the client proceeds and a secure connection is established.
Certificate Authority
A trusted public body, such as a Certificate Authority (CA) will sign certificates for other servers/applications to use. When you trust a certificate, you are implicitly trusting the CA. If the verification of the certificate handshake succeeds, then you can trust that the certificate was signed by a CA that you have trusted. What you can trust, and how trustworthy a CA is, should be decided outside of the certificate system.
In most cases, CAs have their certification policies posted on their website. Many CAs do some checking of the identity of the server (the name of the certificate owner, as shown on the certificate). However, most do not check whether the server runs an honest business and in cases where the CA does extra checks, their certificate signing process will cost more. However, the final decision on what your organization trusts is yours.
Higher Standards
Digital signatures are composed of two different algorithms, the hashing algorithm (SHA-1 for example) and the signing algorithm (RSA for example). Over time these algorithms, or the parameters they use, need to be updated to improve security.
As computational power increases, the hashing algorithms start to become susceptible to hashing collisions. MD5 was used for a number of years until it was found to have a security flaw in 2004 which set the stage for SHA-1. As a result, Certificate Authorities have aimed to comply with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) recommendations, by ensuring all new RSA certificates have keys of 2048 bits in length or longer.
As with other forms of identification, certificate technology has progressed over the years. Current standards mandate using newer algorithms in this ever-evolving industry.
Aged Security
The CA/Browser Forum, an industry body made up of Certificate Authorities (CAs), web browsers and operating systems, recently passed ballot 193 to reduce the maximum validity period for SSL/TLS Certificates to two years (825 days). Prior to this, the standard validity was three years for Domain Validated (DV) and Organization Validated (OV) Certificates; Extended Validation (EV) Certificates have always been capped at two years.
The change went into effect March 1, 2018, and affects all CAs and all types of SSL/TLS Certificates. Longer certificate validity periods can delay widespread compliance with new guidelines since changes wouldn’t go fully into effect until all existing (issued before the update) certificates expired.
Decreasing the maximum lifetime of certificates from three years to two years helps reduce the presence of older, outdated and possibly vulnerable certificates that were issued before new guidelines were put in place.
This also means that the process and time needed to replace and update certificates will happen more often causing higher operating costs to deal with the time need to update such servers and applications with new certificates.
Live Documentation
Because of everything needed to keep track of on a certificate, administrators should track where certificates are, for what purpose and relationship they might have. The documents used in most organization are forever being updated to include additions or changes. These documents must be considered a live document to stay up to date in order capture all the latest information which mean there must be policies in place to keep them that way.
This is an excellent reminder about the role certificate management and inventory tools can play in simplifying administration. Most CAs offer these types of services, which help centralize certificate activity so you can monitor where you have certificates and when they need to be renewed. | https://ceriumnetworks.com/using-tls-encryption-to-secure-your-unified-communications/ |
In his 2023 budget plan, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone wants to spend more money on cybersecurity and policing.
Bellone’s budget proposal comes a month after a cyber attack that left the county’s computers all but crippled. It adds about twenty new positions in the IT department including 10 new security analysts for a cost of around $8 million.
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Bellone also proposes adding 200 police officers and money for additional corrections officers and sheriff deputies. In all, Bellone said his $3.7 billion budget will keep most taxes flat and only raise spending by 1.5%. At the same time, inflation last month was over 8%.
The budget must be approved by the Suffolk County Legislature. Public hearings on the plan will start next week. The Legislature’s Budget Review Office expects to have its report on Bellone’s proposal by the end of the month. | https://www.wshu.org/long-island-news/2022-10-20/bellone-proposes-raising-cybersecurity-budget-for-suffolk-county-in-2023 |
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In recent months, the city has been terrorized by a series of related homicides of white supremacist followers and the brutal beating of the client’s assistant. The media have speculated that several victims have been linked to your client and the police suspect a rival white supremacist group is vying for political power in the movement. The police, however, have no direct evidence of that theory.
In attendance at the courthouse will be news organizations, fundamentalist religious groups, white supremacist groups, and civil rights groups, all picketing what promises to be an emotional trial. Security at the client’s estate has been increased because of threats on his life, but your client likes to speak his mind to everyone, especially the press. He plans to make a grand entrance and wants to meet with the press on the courthouse steps.
You are the head of a security detail of eight individuals for this day’s work. You must plan the expedition from your client’s home and back after the day in court, and security for the client’s estate on the beach. The client’s home is in Laguna Beach, about an hour’s drive by freeway to the courthouse.
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MIT researchers have found a way to extend the working life of mobile computers by drawing power from ultracapacitors rather than batteries.
Ultracapacitors are still three to five years away from becoming the main power source for laptops and handhelds, although they’re already used for backup power in many small consumer products, according to Joel Schindall, a professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The new device is called a nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitor, or NEU.
Capacitors store energy as an electrical field, which is more efficient than standard batteries that generate energy from chemical reactions. Ultracapacitors are even more efficient. The drawback is size—they need to be larger than batteries to hold the same charge.
MIT researchers solved this problem by taking advantage of the enormous surface area of nanotubes: molecular-scale straws of carbon atoms that enable ultracapacitors to store electrical fields at the atomic level.
The new technology could shake up the computer business, where energy efficiency is becoming a selling point. (See “Powering Down,” Page 68.)
How fast a battery charges is also important to users. A cell phone powered by MIT’s ultracapacitor could completely recharge in just a few seconds.
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Alexus got an early start in her career path as a Humana scholar while still in high school. Humana guarantees Alexus a job every summer until Alexus graduates with the hopes of a job offer upon graduation. The scholarship—focused on Black student achievement—also includes a monetary scholarship that pays for her education. Her focus nearly from the start was cyber security. “I really wanted to engage in computer science because it’s a subject I love,” says Alexus. “In cyber security… being able to protect people’s private information and preventing data breaches means I get to help others.”
Alexus spent every summer from 2016 to 2021 with Humana, moving from computer specialist intern to cyber security intern. This past summer, Alexus interned with PNC. She has also paired this interest in cyber security with a dual major in CIS and Accountancy, focusing on forensic accounting.
As a young Black woman in a STEM field, Alexus wants to be an example for other young professionals looking to join the field. “I appreciate being a Black woman in STEM because I can reach out to others who may be unaware or uneasy [entering a workforce] that is predominately a white male population. It’s important that everyone feels included and making a positive impact in their 9 to 5 life.” In 2019, Alexus was a recipient of a Grace Hopper scholarship, allowing her to attend a women-focused-STEM conference in Florida. The experience provided Alexus a chance to network with over 50,000 female professionals and students exploring careers in STEM. It was a game-changer for Alexus.
Being a future leader today
Her drive to change the community around her is reflected in her extra-curricular activity on campus where she serves as treasurer for both the American Association of University Women (AAUW)—UofL and the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA), Greater Louisville Area. Both organizations are geared towards personal and professional development through advocacy, engagement, and education—with an eye to extending those opportunities to women and BIPOC students.
Being in a leadership role in each organization underscores a desire to not only be a member but to be an active participant. Advocating for one’s community means tomorrow’s leaders need to understand the stakes when it comes to having a seat at the table. “Being able to provide professional opportunities to all ethnicities gives us something that we can call our own,” says Alexus. “[NABA] talks about financial literacy—which is really important for the Black community. It’s important for all of us to have access to these opportunities.”
Alexus graduates in December of 2022 and is ready to make her future a reality. “I’m going to do the CPA exam and the certified forensic accounting exam so that I can be able to practice professionally. In the meantime, I’m excited to intern again next summer. I look forward to being in forensic accounting, anti-money laundering, or a security department.” | https://business.louisville.edu/alexusmaddox-cyber-security/ |
Cal Poly Pomona is seeking an experienced Director of Risk Management who possesses unquestionable integrity in the commitment to managing the insurance programs of a robust and dynamic organization. Ideal characteristics and emphasis will be on leadership, breadth of knowledge of insurance, and overall risk management including the ability to develop and incorporate an enterprise risk management approach in a campus environment. This at-will position is within the Division of Administrative Affairs and is under the general direction of the Chief of Staff, Administrative Affairs. The Director is supported through one direct report to assist in the administration and implementation of various programs. The Director is responsible for actively managing and implementing risk management programs and strategies aimed at creating a well-rounded and proactive culture of risk assessment, management, and prevention; develops, implements, and maintains programs and procedures that minimize university risk; and ensures compliance. The CSU Risk Management Authority (CSURMA) has a wide range of insurance programs (24 total) including Property, Special Event, Foreign Travel, Athletic Injury Medical Expense, Student Academic Field Experience for Credited Liability Insurance Program, Student Professional Liability Insurance Program, etc.
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, human resources, or related field; and, five (5) plus years of progressively responsible experience involving risk management and claims management. Experience working in a complex system such as a university, local government organization, or other similar organization is preferred. Specific experience working in the CSU system in risk management is not required but may be considered a plus. No certificates or licenses are required, although any directly related certifications will be highly valued in combination with the required experience and education
The salary offered will be competitive for the region and will be commensurate with career experience. In addition, the salary is augmented by a comprehensive benefits package including CalPERS retirement (2%@55-Classic; 2%@62-New Members). | https://www.ralphandersen.com/jobs/director-of-risk-management-cal-poly-pomona/ |
Degradation of system speed: While working you feel that your PC is running slow than usual and executing speed of system is also decreasing.
Display of alerts: some pop-ups or fake advertisements and error messages starts appearing on your system screen.
Loss of sensitive information: your confidential data like credit card or login details are captured.
Deactivation of PC security tool: you will find that your system antivirus gets damage and unable to detect any threat.
System Crashing: your PC starts too late, becomes unresponsive, important files get corrupt and most of the time it crashes completely and you loose your entire system functionality.
If you find any of above specified symptoms on your system, remove TeslaCrypt threat right now to protect your system from severe damage.
TeslaCrypt Perform Fake Scanning & Rogue Activities
After TeslaCrypt malware gets installed in your system, it starts performing a series of strange activities. This threat makes your PC behaves in improper way and provides the gateway to some other severe malwares to infect system due to which your system get highly prone to crash. This infection posses several rouge activities in your system including:
automatically executed every time when you start your system.
Then this malware generates a fake system scanning and displays false results to threat users.
In these fake results, it states that your PC security is compromised, gets attacked with many severe threats due to which you are unable to perform any work on your system.
But this is not a genuine system scanning and this fake scanning is unable to detect any threat in your system.
In-spite of all this, it corrupts your system applications like Browsers, MS office and Adobe Photoshop.
You need not to worry much about this fake scanning and rouge activities. It is just a scam by remote hackers to make you fool. To save your system, you have to be alert of these fake scanning and delete TeslaCrypt malware immediately.
How TeslaCrypt Enters Windows PC
Sometimes a situation may arise when you think that How TeslaCrypt threat enters into your system in-spite of a powerful antivirus tool in your system? Actually it is very harmful threat specifically developed by cyber crooks which can even damage your antivirus software. This malware is technically designed so that it can easily penetrates your system without any prior notice and successfully hampers your all system function. It finds gateway to enter your system by following means:
when you visit some compromised websites.
Downloading shareware and freeware applications.
When open spam email attachments.
When system is attacked by network infections.
Performing some other risky work online.
This is how TeslaCrypt enters Windows PC, so get rid of TeslaCrypt malware as soon as possible and make your system safe and secure.
Vital Properties of TeslaCrypt
TeslaCrypt is a severe infection configure by computer attackers to perform some destructive activity in the system. Once it gain access to the system, gets automatically executed every-time with Windows login, undertakes fake system scanning and display false alert to scare users. In addition, it deactivates system protection tool, destroy important files and make PC irresponsible to use, or damage it completely. Vital properties of this malware are:
Affects system application and performance: it slows down system speed, change power ratings of PC and corrupt important system applications like MS office etc.
Polymorphic and transferable: this malware contains various similar variants and easily transferable over network connected systems.
Globally Distributed: it is distributed over all geographic reason and infects all Windows version PC.
Fake Identity: this infection is trickfully designed to convince users that it is genuine but it doesn’t have any genuine properties and is all done to trap users.
Steals User Information: it also causes adverse effect on users by recording their confidential information and sending it to remote cyber criminals.
In order to get rid of harmful effects of this threat, remove TeslaCrypt malware from your system and enjoy full system application.
Few months ago, when I started my PC, got scare to see the system’s screen. Numerous pop-ups or warnings were appeared on my system screen. All my system application and important file got corrupted and my system security tool was also deactivated. I felt totally helpless and had no idea what to do.
I tried out several software available online but non of them worked. I still found difficulty as my system was not working properly and was unable to perform any kind of web or system application. I was totally petrified as my system become more and more vulnerable day by day and no effective measure was shown to overcome all these unwanted situations. Then a close friend of mine told me about automatic removal software to get rid of TeslaCrypt infection. This software not only removed all threats and clean my system but is also capable of handling with upcoming future threats.
User friendly interface and can be used easily by beginners or experts.
Provides a complete system protection against violent threats and optimizes system security tool and Windows registry.
Recovers important system files which gets corrupted by this infection.
Has capability to fix various fake alert messages and errors which generates in infected system.
Efficiently work on almost all Windows versions and has an outstanding compatibility.
Easily adapts itself according to system or user’s need.
It performs automatic threat updates and detects even latest malware and deletes them entirely from the system.
User Guide to Run the Software
Automatic removal software is an easy and simple tool to deploy. It is friendly even for novice PC users. If you still get trouble in using it, following simple steps given below will help you through it:
Step 1: To run the software, first you need to download this tool. Once downloading gets over, run the application and follow the appeared installation steps.
Step 2: After successful installation of this tool, a shortcut icon on desktop appears in order to execute this program.
Step 3: Click on this icon to start the scanning process and as a result of this process, a list of all detected malware appears. You can also see the risk level of these threats.
Step 4: If you want to delete these malware completely, go to licensed version of this software and make your PC threat free.
User Testimonials
This automatic removal tool fixes all problems related to severe threats caused by TeslaCrypt on my system. This software undertakes a deep scanning process and detects all malware that exists in my system and completely delete them within just few minutes. My system works efficiently as before and i feel pleased to advise users to purchase this software in order to get complete rid of TeslaCrypt threat consequences. Robert D’souza, California
I get totally frustrate when came to know that my system is attacked by TeslaCrypt malware. Even trying all possible measures, I was unable to find any satisfactory result. Then someone recommend me to use this tool and I get shocked to see the result of this software. It smoothly fixes all threat errors and eventually increases my PC performance. It automatically updates to overcome any future upcoming threats. Now I can use my PC without worry of getting hampered by any infectious malwares. William Flynn, Texas
Very much thankful to experts who develop automatic removal tool of TeslaCrypt infection. This tool help me like a true friend by deleting dangerous TeslaCrypt threat from my computer. This software saves my system from violent threats of remote hackers and severe crashing issues. With this tool installed in my system, I can do my online activity efficiently without of being scared by any data corrupt measures. Martin Smith, Wisconsin
Manual Method to Get Rid of TeslaCrypt Infection
If your system is attacked with dangerous TeslaCrypt malware and causing a lots of troubles and numerous strange activities in the system, then it is most important to get rid of this infection immediately otherwise it may lead to system freeze. Below are some simple steps to remove this infection manually.
Step 1: First thing you have to do is to deactivate your “system restore”. This can be done by right clicking on “My Computer” and selecting turn off option of “system restore”.
Step 2: Restart your PC in safe mode by pressing F8 key during booting of system.
Step 4: Press ‘ALT+CTRL+DEL’ keys to open task manager and then select the malware processes which you want to delete.
Step 5: After that immediately clean entries of Windows registry and all infected files from your system. You can open registry editor by typing regedit.exe in your “RUN” Window.
However, this manual method is helpful to a limited extent and often fails to detect severe malware. To remove the entire existence of infection from your system, purchase the licensed version of automatic removal tool and delete TeslaCrypt malware completely.
Expert Note
Manual method to delete TeslaCrypt threat is effective to some limited extent. To deploy manual method you need to have complete information and knowledge of internal working of your system.
If you have little knowledge about system or you are a novice user, then it becomes fatal for you to use this process. This is so because manual process is highly complex and if by mistake any infected file is left and not deleted, then it easily propagates itself and starts causing untold problems in your system hard disk. Moreover, this manual method has no guarantee that it completely deletes entire malware from your system. In addition, it is a lengthy process and requires lots of user’s patience. As per experts view, automatic removal tool is fast and efficient in fixing any kind of severe damage without causing hazels. So, automatic removal software is recommended by experts to gain best results and to remove TeslaCrypt malware easily.
If you want that your system is not attacked by any malware in future or leads a long life, then you have to take full care of your system. You need to keep several precautions and safety measures to make your computer threat free and healthy. Some of safety measure you can use are:
Install antivirus software in your system and update it regularly.
While working online, never click on suspicious or unsafe links.
Don’t be fooled by fake ads and avoid downloading freeware or shareware applications.
Change your login details time to time and always try to generate strong passwords.
Be careful while opening spam email attachments.
Before using removable storage devices like pen drive, scan them properly. | https://www.vir.us.com/ifiles-are-encrypted-how-to-remove-teslacrypt-ransomware |
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"Robots are really cool in science fiction. But in online advertising, they are a scourge. In 2012, bots will cost advertisers $1.5 billion. Advertisers deserve a real human audience for every campaign. Solve Media is the leading provider of anti-bot technology to online publishers. Just say NO to bots!" [email protected] I'm not sure how a space robot is the same as malware on a computer, but thanks for the new trinket! If any of you have done business with Solve Media and want to offer up some thoughts on the product and its value, go for it.
To comment on this article and other CSO content, visit our Facebook page or our Twitter stream. | http://www.csoonline.com/article/2135365/security-industry/weird-things-vendors-send-me--part-3.html |
Businesses should go on the offence in the fight against cyber-crime as threat actors adopt new and evolving tactics, Bryan Fite, account CISO at BT Security, told an audience at the RSA 2017 Conference in San Francisco.
Modern attack methods have placed the capabilities that were once the domain only of nation-states into the hands of small-time criminals, cyber-gangs and hacktivist, creating a new level of threats.
Fite said ultimately threat actors are outpacing the good guys in terms of innovation and techniques because traditional cyber-defense models of building parameters and security add-ons don't work.
Fite added that even industries such as banks, corporations and countries, which were traditionally expected to protect themselves, are still having problems despite the amount of resources they spend on security.
To cope with these deficiencies Fite said businesses should create a digital road map to identify their assets, protect data, know how to respond to breaches and how to recover lost data. Having identified valuable assets, firms should consider taking extra precautions such as encrypting important information within their systems to make it harder to access in the event of a breach.
Another part of the problem, he said, is that businesses often believe their assets are only in their “secret sauce”, not taking into account the valuable data surrounding their manufacturing process.
“You can reverse engineer the chemical makeup of that,” Fite said, referring to proprietary information. “It's how you take that secret recipe and manufacture that the same way globally and make money and keep the quality control,” that's important to threat actors.
In addition, he said it's important to understand there's gold in the logs and data that companies collect, and they should consider keeping certain information longer than the mandatory minimum so that if something does come up they can look back at their records and learn from them.
In addition to identifying assets, businesses should research who their adversaries are and who would want to target their data as well as have profiles on these potential threats. If they have already been breached, companies should conduct a postmortem analysis on the incident to figure out what can be learned.
As threats evolve, it's also important for firms to cover the human element of cyber-security and stay prepared by having policies concerning blackmail, insider threats and other contingencies such as social engineering attacks. | https://www.scmagazineuk.com/rsa-2017-organisations-go-offence-against-cyber-criminals/article/1475279 |
Becaues ra07 have got a lot good feedback from our clients all over the world, let's take a look.
This one customer said "Our initial assessment of the ARO7 Facial recognition device is very favourable.
We have loaded a database of 1000 faces, and so far of our sample of 30 people it has made no mistak
I am busy trying to arrange with a mining customer to test this on site with a larger sample.
I am very happy with the performance.
I think this could replace our fingerprint scanning in the near future."
Another customer said" Really we are very interested to purchase this RAO7 and offer it with our local solutions, I thinkthat the RAO7 is a great product, but we need tools in spanish. Such as mentioned in myprevious emails we cannot offer to our customers any app in English or Chinese, we areobligated to write our own app in Spanish, I know this is a long work but we have not choice (atleast if you give us a copy of the code your Windows Software and here in Chile we translate it to Spanish). if you have a better idea it is welcome." | https://www.hfteco.com/news/Feedback-of-Dynamic-Facial-Access-Control-RA07_HFSecurity.html |
Communicate Technology PLC (Communicate) was launched in 2011 and specialises in networking and connecting business parks and multi tenanted office spaces.
Communicate has grown to be a national provider of internet – we’re an ISP – technical support, telecoms, AV, hardware and software and cyber security products and services. | https://escalla.co.uk/job/cyber-security-apprentice-communicate-technology-plc/ |
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As PC makers expand their lines to include 3D laptops, analysts say these offerings are likely to interest mostly gamers, with broad adoption stymied by a dearth of content, hardware limitations and hefty prices.
Last month, companies including Asustek Computer, Toshiba and Lenovo announced new 3D laptops with screens ranging from 15.6 inches to 17.3 inches. The laptops are priced at US$1,200 and higher, and come with glasses for viewers to watch 3D content. The laptops are targeted at consumers looking for richer multimedia experiences on PCs.
However, high prices could limit their appeal to early adopters looking for the latest hardware, analysts said. There's also limited 3D movie and broadcast content available.
[ Further reading: Our picks for best PC laptops ]
Laptop makers are trying to position 3D technology as a new way for users to interact with PCs, said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates. But gamers are likely -- as is often the case with new PC technologies -- to be the early adopters because they are willing to pay for cutting-edge hardware that gives them a more immersive experience.
"Some people will wait until there's enough content that makes it interesting for them," Kay said.
But in some cases, smaller laptop screen sizes may not appeal to gamers either, said John Jacobs, director of notebook market research at DisplaySearch.
"If the whole purpose is to get immersed in the game display, you're going to want the biggest screen possible," Jacobs said.
That won't matter to some enthusiasts who want the latest and greatest, though, said Kelt Reeves, CEO of PC maker Falcon Northwest, which sells laptops and desktops to that audience. The additional cost of a 3D screen is small relative to what the company's enthusiast audience is willing to pay for a laptop, Reeves said. The company's cheapest laptop sells for $1,500, and the most powerful desktop replacement models start at $4,000, Reeves said.
"Even if you don't use it that often, I don't see why anyone wouldn't want to have the 3D capability, whether it's for gaming or just watching 3D movies," Reeves said. "These are serious laptop users who want the kitchen sink."
One avid gamer, Amanda Farough, said a $1,000 price tag for a 3D laptop is fairly reasonable. She usually plays massively multiplayer online (MMO) games and shooters, and says that 3D adds more interactivity to the gaming experience.
"I think that 3D gaming will allow for a depth that was previously untapped, especially for genres like first-person shooters and action-adventures," said Farough, who is a Web designer and also a game editor for the Gaming Angels Web site.
But for now, the overall adoption of 3D screens -- including laptops and desktops -- is limited, DisplaySearch's Jacobs said. DisplaySearch is projecting 3D laptop screen shipments to tally 179,000 units this year, out of a total of 217.8 million laptop screens. Shipments will grow to 611,000 in 2011 and 1.7 million by 2012, but will still take up a small share of the market.
PC makers will retain 3D laptops as flagship products on their portfolios, analysts said. But for those PCs to become viable products, publishers need to be pushed to produce more content, analysts said.
There has to be a good lineup of 3D games to attract gamers to laptops, said Gina Reams, a gamer and game designer. She's a fan of role-playing and immersive gameplay, but doesn't know of any good 3D PC games yet available.
Reams said she would buy a 3D laptop "only if there's going to be proven support for it, like a lot of game developers with planned lineups or media companies backing it."
Hollywood studios and content providers like ESPN see revenue streams with 3D, but the content is mainly targeted at TVs and theaters. And recent announcements from the E3 Expo gaming conference point toward 3D development focused at gaming consoles. Nintendo debuted 3DS, a 3D hand-held game console, at the show, while Sony showed off 3D games for the PlayStation.
But some game makers announced 3D games for PCs. Game developer Crytek said that Crysis 2 would be available for PCs in 3D. The game will be published by Electronic Arts.
PC makers are adding capabilities for laptops to play back 3D movies. Nvidia is providing technology for Asus' G73Jw and G53 and Toshiba Dynabook TX/98MBL laptops to decode and play back Blu-ray 3D movies. Lenovo's new IdeaPad Y560d is based on a different technology that does not yet allow for playback of Blu-ray 3D movies, but it can convert other 2D content, such as movies, to 3D.
Samsung has also said that 3D streaming films could be available by the fourth quarter this year, and sites like YouTube have started experimenting with 3D content. Nvidia has also demonstrated 3D video streaming live over the Internet using a video player based on Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia platform.
But 3D TVs provide a more communal experience for gamers and movie-watchers alike, said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at the NPD Group. Multiple people can watch movies or play games at the same time, while 3D laptops are good only for individuals, Baker said.
"We don't expect a lot of movie-watching on laptops in 3D," Baker said.
3D content also requires considerably more bandwidth than regular video feeds, analysts said. That could be a hurdle in delivering streaming 3D movies and online 3D games to homes.
There are other issues associated with 3D such as the need to wear special glasses. Companies such as RealD, Xpand and Nvidia offer different types of active-shutter and passive-polarized glasses that work with different screens. But gamers don't seem to mind the idea of wearing 3D glasses for a better visual experience.
"As a fan of role-playing and immersive gameplay, I would be all right with donning 3D shades for a good experience," Reams said.
Nevertheless, the system makers have to start somewhere, and the new laptops will spread awareness about 3D PCs. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/200285/article.html |
set the combination to whatever you want. Guess what? They all seemed to use the same key to enable setting the combination.
$0.19 USD BIC Pen. Lock had been made and sold for twenty plus years with the same weakness in design.
room. I use many different colors, so it is
When last I flew they TSA had cut the cable ties. I took the suitcase directly to the baggage desk and we examined it together. (Do not pile up books in your suitcase. The TSA does not distinguish between books and Semtex: it considers both equally dangerous.)
Guess what? into the gap. You will spot the axis of the wheel. Now turn the wheel until you see the chamfer pointing directly to you. Proceed with all
room. It is a good idea to slow down the petty thief, but a twist tie from a plastic bag will work. I use the nylon straps used to hold cable bunches in place. The tank cap had a lock inside. All you needed to do is to cut the plastic lock open and to copy the tumbler lengths to a blank key.
has opened them with their master-keys. You are supposed to find a
TSA notice in your bag if it has been opened and searched. Although
pull, not two, leaving the luggage unlocked will a locked lock.
The second time the lock did not come back. I don't use them any more.
ID Tokens have three fields. The first field contains public token attributes, which are always disclosed (e.g., an expiry date, token usage info, semantics of the other fields, etc.). The second field can
ID Tokens are untraceable and unlinkable among themselves. Care must of course be taken when encoding data into them. Traceability of the tokens depends only on the encoded data. Reuse of a same token allows you to
ID Tokens can be revoked individually by their identifiers (à la X.509).
The SDK offers a more powerful revocation technique. A user can prove
ID Tokens can be issued as one-use. Reuse of such tokens allows an auditor to compute the token's private key including the attributes. If identifying data (e.g. an account number) is encoded in the
protocol in order for the token to be usable. The secret in the device can be shared by an unlimited number of tokens. The device's computation is very efficient (no modexp at presentation time). Useful to protect the user against local malware or to enforce the issuer's security policies.
be identity-centric, with clear use cases. The SDK abstracts all the crypto so it should be simple for security developers to use it.
you can see that chamfer of the axis on the left side of the rightmost wheel.
It is visible, but must point down to open. | https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=cryptography%40metzdowd.com&q=date%3A20070227&f=1 |
Brian Royer, SophosLabs October 30, 2012 Interviewed by the Chicago Sun Times in the days following the recent Barnes & Noble PIN pad data breach Jacob Furst, a professor at DePaul University, specializing in information security, offered up at least one defense against data breaches―pay cash.
OK, that’s one way to stop data theft, but in the real world, especially online, that outcome just isn’t practical. Then there’s this observation (delivered, apparently, without tongue firmly in cheek), “Generally, the more convenient something is, the less secure it is.”
For those hearing about the breach for the first time, customers using credit and debit card devices at 63 Barnes & Noble locations nationwide learned that at least one “PIN pad” in each store had been compromised (e.g., tampered with) by hackers. As a result, the bookseller warned its customers to check for unauthorized transactions and to change their PINs to defend against data loss or identity theft. Fair enough. Good advice.
As a security professional, however, I’m not so sure about Mr. Furst’s suggestion that just because something is convenient (e.g., a single-click or swipe), it’s somehow less secure. And you should just get used to it. You know, expect to get hacked. Have your credit card numbers stolen. And have the offender offer you free monitoring services for a year. And watch for irregularities in your monthly bank statement (e.g., when was I in Uruguay and why would I rent a fishing charter when I was there?).
Not so. Not even close.
That mindset suggests that whether you slide your train pass through the reader to enter a subway station, swipe your debit card to pay a tab, or even provide your credit card number online to buy something that someone, somewhere hasn’t thought of first protecting your data before you do.
Allow me to present evidence to the contrary.
Let’s work backward, just a bit. In a former life I worked as a security scribe for a payments processor which exclusively supported card-not-present (e.g. e-tailers) businesses. It was there that I first became acquainted with the PCI Security Standards Council PCI which is responsible for the development of the PCI Security standards including the Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements.
These standards, to which merchants, banks and other institutions must adhere if they want to continue to accept credit cards, aren’t a step you can simply overlook, opt out of or decline to participate in if it’s not convenient. Each of the credit card companies (including AMEX, Discover, Visa and MasterCard) require you, as a merchant, to comply in full with its 12-step standards. And they’ll even take the step of sending out auditors, in this case known as QAS (or Qualified Security Assessors) to make sure you do.
In the case of point-of-sale (POS) PIN pads, the information is encrypted as it’s transmitted. This is also true of card-not-present retailers leveraging tokenization solutions, where the primary account number (PAN) is replaced with a surrogate value called a token. Storing tokens instead of PANs is one alternative that can help to reduce the amount of cardholder data in the environment, potentially reducing the merchant’s effort to implement PCI DSS requirements. And, parenthetically of course, if a cardholder’s card number is masked (or tokenized), it also substantially reduces the amount of risk to a cardholder at a POS PIN pad or use of a credit card online.
By the way, all of the media takes on the B&N breach suggest that customer personal identification number information remained encrypted on the PIN pad, which is one reason the bookseller did not have to publicly announce the breach immediately, but instead share it with authorities to track down the hackers responsible.
Or, how about something closer to home, like transit? Here in Boston according to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), the subway’s commuter and rail pass program – the “CharlieCard” – incorporates a tiny chip implanted into every card. If it’s ever lost or stolen, the card can be blocked from further use and the remaining balance transferred to a new card.
On more familiar ground there’s also smartphone remote wipe technology that lets you (or an IT employee) remotely erase the handheld’s data in case it’s lost or stolen.
So what do these examples prove?
Well, with complete deference to Professor Furst’s position on this, I must disagree with his premise because it presupposes that convenience will always trump security when, at least in my world (likely yours as well), nothing could be further from the truth.
Are there exceptions to the rule? As the good professor will tell you and as common sense dictates, of course. Sometimes hackers find their way round an encryption solution in order to have their way with your personal information. After all, no security solution is ever 100% impermeable. Bad actors and cyber crooks make their way through that usually resilient membrane with astounding regularity. And most of the time when they do, as in the Barnes & Noble breach, it makes the papers. And most of the time if the security measures work, they come away empty-handed (as we hope they do in this case).
However, the examples I’ve shared (and I’m confident there are others) demonstrate overwhelmingly that when it comes to virtually turning over your personal information to someone or some organization in return for a product or service, your information is not at any more risk than it would be if you personally handed over your hard-earned money to a merchant in a typical brick and mortar big box store.
In other words, (and to take the contrarian view of Professor Furst), just because it’s convenient does not make it insecure.
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Security Isn't A Piece Of Cake: It's time we rethink the conventional wisdom about security layering.
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At the PHI Protection Network Conference in Philadelphia this week, FBI officials and security consultants described the increasing threat from ransomware and how some healthcare providers are responding.
The recent and highly publicized Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center ransomware event may be just the tip of the iceberg. “The criminals got paid for doing that with very little risk,” said James Christiansen, vice president for information risk management at Optiv Inc. “We are going to see a lot more of that.” In fact, several people at the conference told anecdotal stories of hospital systems responding to ransomware attacks. Since they don’t involve the “exfiltration” of patient data, health systems are under no regulatory requirement to make these attacks public.
Ben Stone, an FBI supervisory special agent who heads up the cyber criminal squad in the FBI’s Philadelphia Office, said the criminals using Cryptowall 4.0 to encrypt and hold health system files for ransom have evolved their tactics. Originally, it was easier to determine which files were affected. “Now you have no ideas of the files and folder names, so you don’t even know what you have lost,” he said. Also, he said, the attacks used to be untargeted. “But now my belief is that it they are specific and targeted.” Stone said one of the biggest challenges the FBI faces is that the really bad stuff is going on overseas in places like the Russian part of the Ukraine, and other countries where U.S. officials get little cooperation from law enforcement.
The criminals also have grown more sophisticated at “social engineering” to determine which individuals to target with phishing campaigns, and how to make a deceptive e-mail seem realistic, so employees will click on an attachment with malware. One ploy that is running rampant during tax season involves hackers “spoofing” the chief financial officer’s e-mail address and asking someone in accounts payable to send them all the employees’ W-2 forms. Employees comply without thinking, he said. “It is human nature to do what a boss is asking you to do.”
Jonathan Fairtlough, managing director for Kroll Cybersecurity and a former Los Angeles County Prosecutor working on high-tech crimes, explained why the ransomware situation is getting worse. Once the attackers get access to your network, they can use internal tools you have in place to turn off backups and antivirus, and then do the encryption. “They are making so much money that they are expanding and choosing targets for whom loss of data is unacceptable,” he said.
“It is spreading and so laser-focused on healthcare organizations because the systems in a healthcare structure are disorganized, and poor at talking to each other,” Fairtlough said. Another industry weakness is the large number of mergers and acquisitions happening. When a well-run IT shop buys a smaller group, the IT integration starts, and the larger organization finds it has inherited older devices and risky practices and brought them into its network, he said.
Keith Fricke, the principal consultant for tw-Security, described some experiences he has had in the trenches helping health systems dealing with ransomware. Initially, help desks get a call from users getting error messages that files wouldn’t open. This would leave two files, one in txt and one html with messages you had been hacked and instructions on how to pay, said Fricke, who was formerly CISO at Mercy Health System (formerly known as Catholic Health Partners and an information security manager at Cleveland Clinic Community Hospitals.
His team did a triage process and confirmed there were 42,000 files encrypted that they had to recover. By looking at the metadata, they could see a list of files, date modified and by whom. That became a key step in containment and cleanup. They found the workstation and user credentials used, and quickly unplugged that workstation, identified all files encrypted and restored from backup, then began the investigation into how it got infected.
The next time they dealt with it, in patient financial services, the attackers had removed the metadata, so they couldn’t easily tell which files have been touched, and there was no information about the last person to touch it or the creation date. The only option, he said, was to unplug all the workstations, and bring in a SWAT team to find which were infected. It took 16 hours to recover and resume business the next day.
Fricke said one thing he worries about is the potential for patient portals to spread infections in “watering hole” attacks. That is, if a patient’s home PC gets infected with malware, by coming to the portal they may spread the infection to the health system and other users. “I am telling people to have extra diligence when partnering with a vendor on a portal solution, whether they are hosting it or not. I think this is coming as an attack vector. The patients will want to blame the hospital, and you will spend time and money proving it started with the individual’s PC. IT is a train wreck waiting to happen.”
• Ban all personal webmail and surfing on corporate devices.
• Implement a data backup plan with a longer retention cycle. (The longer the timespan between the last full backup copy and the ransom demand, he said, the greater the odds are that the organization cannot fully recover from backups alone, thus being forced to pay the ransom. Require the workforce to store all work-related data on a network drive rather than a local hard drive.
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Everything right from largest payment card information theft, requiring Target’s CEO and CIO to resign; to the infamous Sony Pictures hack that questioned security of the even the biggest organizations, has put one big question mark on data security.
In wake of so much data insecurity, how is it possible for smaller, and even larger businesses to secure their data? Citing Sony Pictures hack, InfoWorld’s Roger Grimes, has reminded us that “the overall state of computer security at most companies are pathetic”.
One thing positive that these data breaches have made possible is that most organizations have realized the significance of security. Considering the lapses still, we are going to see some major security disasters in 2015.
It is a belief that admins don’t really understand their own security and are unaware of how sites get infected and what can be done to ensure security. There are many ways that hackers and spammers can breach the security, therefore the admins need to undergo structured training’s to understand and differentiate spam from non spam.
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Glad to find this thread! I was about to enter "panic mode" since I occasionally use the laptop showing this apparent false positive for some secure stuff at work.
Same exact issue as described above. Use Firefox with noscript, MSSE as antivirus, and computer comes up otherwise completely clean. The only possible vector I would consider at all likely is that my wife sometimes uses this laptop.
Here's something else odd. when I went to go find the registry entry it was describing (prior to having MBAM delete it), it wasn't even actually there (unless it's somehow hidden or transient). So, it appears MBAM is possibly seeing a phantom registry value?
Your 3d post absolutely declares about "backdoor.celofot":
"looks like the verdict is in...FP!".
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\svchsts (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\protect_ie (Backdoor. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\protect_ie (Backdoor. @Jetstar that was the FP , the rest looks like malware . | https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/44113-backdoorcelofot-possible-fp/ |
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If Windows Me starts normally when you use the Boot B option, there is a problem with the System.ini file. The problem is most likely in the [386Enh] section of the original System.ini file.
To find the line in the System.ini file that is causing the problem: 1. Click Start, click Run, type msconfig in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Click Process System.ini file on the General tab to restore the original file.
3. Double-click the 386Enh folder on the System.ini tab.
4. Click to clear each check box that does not have a Windows flag next to it.
If Windows Me starts normally, there is a driver loading from the 386Enh folder that is causing the problem.
If Windows Me does not start normally, click to clear the remaining check boxes on the System.ini tab, one at a time, starting with the Boot folder. Restart your computer after you click to clear each check box. When the problem returns, the last check box that you selected is loading a driver that is preventing Windows Me from starting normally.
NOTE: If Windows Me starts normally after you click to clear the display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv check box, there is a problem with the display driver.
I went to device manager and deleted the display driver and reinstalled it......problem solved !
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Online marketplace eBay Inc. reported strong earnings and revenue growth in the fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, 2005, exceeding analysts’ expectations in both areas.
Net revenue came in at US$1.33 billion, an increase of 42 percent year over year and slightly above the consensus estimate of $1.3 billion from analysts polled by Thomson First Call.
Meanwhile, net income grew 36 percent to $279.2 million, or $0.20 per share, the San Jose, California, company announced Wednesday.
Pro forma net income, which excludes certain items, increased 50 percent to $340.1 million, or $0.24 per share, exceeding financial analysts’ consensus expectation of $0.22.
Activity in eBay’s core marketplace generated $1 billion in net revenue, with the rest coming from the PayPal online payments unit ($304.4 million) and from the Skype Internet telephony unit ($24.8 million).
EBay closed the quarter with 180.6 million registered marketplace users, up 33 percent, and with 71.8 million active users, up 28 percent, compared with last year’s fourth quarter. Active users are those who bid, bought or listed at least one item within the previous 12-month period. New listings reached 546.4 million, a 35 percent increase from last year’s fourth quarter.
Gross merchandise volume, the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay’s trading platforms, was $12 billion, up 22 percent year over year. The company ended the quarter with about 383,000 eBay stores worldwide.
The PayPal online payment unit reached 96.2 million total payment accounts at the end of the quarter, up 51 percent from the fourth quarter of 2004. Total payment volume, the dollar volume of payments initiated through the PayPal system, was a $8.1 billion, a 45 percent increase.
The Skype unit ended the quarter with 74.7 million total registered users.
For the full year, eBay generated net revenue of $4.55 billion, an increase of 39 percent, while net income also grew 39 percent to $1.08 billion, or $0.78 per share. On a pro forma basis, net income increased 45 percent to $1.20 billion, or $0.86 per share.
Looking ahead, eBay expects net revenue for all of 2006 to be in the range of $5.7 billion and $5.9 billion. It expects full 2006 earnings per share in the range of $0.65 and $0.71, and pro forma earnings per share in the range of $0.96 and $1.01.
On Wednesday, eBay also announced eBay Express, a new shopping site that will offer a different shopping experience from an eBay auction and an eBay store.
Slated for launch in the second quarter, eBay Express will feature only new items with fixed prices and available for immediate purchase. EBay Express will have a shopping cart and buyers will pay for items on the spot via credit card or PayPal, eliminating the possibility that sellers will not be paid, according to the company.
“EBay Express was designed with the input of thousands of real-life shoppers who wanted a quicker and easier way to find and pay for new, fixed priced items on eBay.com,” according to a frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) Web page about the new site.
Although it will be a different site, eBay Express will be part of the eBay marketplace, in that listings from eBay stores and individual eBay listings with fixed prices can qualify to appear in eBay Express at no additional cost, according to eBay. “As a seller, your existing eBay listings will be automatically submitted for consideration for eBay Express, unless you choose to opt out,” according to the FAQ page.
Not all sellers will qualify to have their items appear on eBay Express. More information about the requirements can be found in the FAQ page. The new site will be located at http://express.ebay.com.
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This could potentially do as much harm as good.
I ran it upon a clean VM and got the results pictured. The main concern is that there doesn't seem to be any way to verify the "problems" found before "repairing" them. The only option is to repair the lot.
In theory this could be a valuable tool,but it needs a lot more work yet IMO.
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A new smartphone app promises to make it easier for parents to manage their child support payments.
The Department of Human Services’ latest Express Plus Child Support app enables parents to make and keep track of child payments, update their details and tell the department about changes in their circumstances.
In 2014, the department supported around 1.4 million separated parents to transfer around $3.5 billion for more than 1.2 million children.
Once registered for myGov, parents can download the app to view their letters, update their contact and bank account details, pay child support, and check payments collected and paid by the department.
“Parents can also inform the department of changes to their care arrangements and update income estimates they have made for their current assessment,” Minister for Human Services, Senator Marise Payne said in a statement.
Payne said separation is a challenging time for many people and having access to quality resources and support services early can make a difference in how separated families interact over the long term.
The free app joins other innovations released in recent times by the department including apps to access Centrelink and Medicare services. It’s currently available for Apple devices with iOS7+ and will be available for Android soon, the department said.
In mid-2013, Department of Human Services’ CIO, Gary Sterrenberg, said the agency had begun to see the benefits of moving to a self-managed services model.
At the time, Sterrenberg said the DHS’ apps were 69 per cent more effective in allowing citizens to get the outcome they needed. This was because they had been designed with the citizen in mind rather than a “bunch of technologists.”
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This particular infection has been spreading trough email containing a fishing Microsoft Word Document. The email message will contain something like ATTN: Invoice J-98225326 and a message such as “Please see the attached invoice (Microsoft Word Document) and remit payment according to the terms listed at the bottom of the invoice”.
When the document is opened, you’ll see scrambled text and a message stating that you should enable the macros if the text is unreadable.
Once you are not careful and enable the macros, it will download an executable from a remote server and execute it.
The ransomware, hiding behind the Locky extension, didn’t just show up on your computer by magic. Oh, no. Infections like it require your approval before they get into your system. They’re bound to seek your permission for their installment. And, if you don’t explicitly allow it, they cannot enter. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? But if it is, how did it manage to slither past you undetected? Well, it’s rather straightforward. The tool didn’t openly ask for you to permit it in but, instead, did it covertly and sneakily. Ransomware applications are notoriously masterful when it comes to fooling you and, more often than not, they turn to the old but gold means of infiltration to do so. Their favorite method is through spam email attachments. Don’t open emails from suspicious, unknown senders! And, most of all, do NOT open or download the attachments they carry! It’s not safe, and it’s far from wise. It’s a gamble. One, which you should avoid at all costs. If you wish to keep your PC infection-free, be more attentive and vigilant. Don’t give into naivety and haste, and don’t be careless for infections prey on carelessness. Understand this. Even a little extra caution can save you a ton of troubles.
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“There is a good understanding of complex technology in our company, especially [CEO] Tom Glocer. Thomson Reuters is terrific in IT as there is a close relationship between the senior business stakeholders and IT. Glocer and CFO Robert Daleo really support the idea of a close business partnership with IT services. That close partnership doesn’t happen in every organisation,” she says.
Glocer has since announced his retirement after personally taking over the running of the Eikon financial services information platform switchover, which has been beset with problems.
Glocer himself said the switchover was hurried and even he couldn’t iron out all the project problems.
Moran isn’t just enthusiastic about the positive communications that come down the line of command from Glocer and the top team, and she sees her own role as being about promoting greater communication across the company.
“Big ideas come from anywhere across the organisation, so I want to promote ways of working that enable people to talk. In big companies we rely too much on email. But if that communication goes out to a collaboration tool more people see it and act on it, and that eliminates the need for email.
“I’m tired of email and meetings. The free flow of conversation cannot be scheduled – it needs to be dynamic so that we can have creativity.
“I came to London in 2007 to assist with the merger; I was CIO for Thomson Financial at the time. I thought it would be for a year and I assumed I would be reporting to the CIO of Reuters,” she says of her move from the US.
As Global CIO Moran is responsible for all business systems and the back end of this massive corporation, while CTO James Powell is driving product development and takes responsibility for datacentres and networks.
“It’s a big enough job,” she smiles. “There is a bit of overlap, so there is great communication. The product development teams do work closely with my team. In a lot of companies they build the system and then add the billing at the last minute.”
Global reach Thomson Reuters bills in over 100 countries and has to be compliant in all. With the CTO on the executive board Moran relies on his input, but has a good communications line with the senior leaders without needing that seat herself.
“I wouldn’t want to implement without their support,” she says.
“It is an international role and I don’t think I have to be in New York,” she says of her move to London, adding that her husband and family have really taken to London and life in the UK.
Moran has been in London for four years now. She describes the flight to San Francisco to see the vendors as long, but adds that all her main suppliers are putting big footprints into the UK despite the market gloom.
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Computer systems and all devices connected to the Internet are exposed to various damages that can jeopardize all the essential data they include. We can mention the entry of a virus into the system.
All users who deal with different systems do their best to find ways to their design and prevent the entry of the virus. One of the steps that users can take is to install different antivirus software programs.
There are many free and paid antivirus programs that users can choose according to the characteristics of each of them so that they can choose the best one based on their needs and use it to their system.
If you keep important information in your system or do not want your data stolen by attackers, we suggest you carefully choose a suitable antivirus.
In this article, we will look at what antivirus do after detecting a virus, but before that, we need to explain it fully. We will also mention the best ones in the following.
What is an antivirus?
An antivirus program helps you secure your systems by scanning, detecting, and removing viruses, malware, computer worms, and so on.
There are several free and paid ones, all of which ultimately have one goal: protecting the information in the systems against being infected by different types of viruses.
In the past, users were reluctant to use an antivirus because it slowed down their computers. Still, these days, this program is very advanced, so that not only do they not slow down computers, but they have a lot of facilities such as protecting systems against malware, etc., without any effects on speed.
Which antimalware should you choose?
In this section, we will discuss how you can choose the best one among all available choices to protect your system.
Put, to be able to make the best choice. You need to examine all the features of available options to pick the best one according to your purpose.
The point to keep in mind is that they all have both advantages and disadvantages, which can confuse you while choosing.
Given all that we have mentioned so far, it is necessary to examine the various features of them carefully, for instance, you should check the number of devices it can protect, the operating systems it supports, speed, and so on, all of which can affect the amount of your system security.
As we have mentioned earlier, many antivirus programs may be paid or free, so you should choose one of them according to your budget. The point is that paid ones can provide you with many features. Still, if you do not have enough budget, you can look for the best type of free antivirus, which has some features that are close to paid ones.
What happens if your antimalware program finds a virus?
It first scans the files that enter the system, and according to the information they obtain, they can detect the threat as soon as possible.
When the antivirus you have installed detects the virus, it notifies you that your system is at risk. It also provides you with the ability to repair, delete or quarantine the infected file immigration.
If you quarantine an infected file, the virus-containing file will eventually be placed in the quarantine folder, which helps you prevent further contamination of your system.
It also copies the infected file to the quarantine folder and removes it from the drive to keep your system safe.
How to choose good antimalware for our system?
While choosing a good antivirus, you should pay attention to its various features, including fast scanning, malware protection, powerful firewall and protection against phishing attacks, having a VPN, and other things, all of which are very important.
Here are some of the best ones available that can help you your systems.
-Total AV:
Among robust antivirus software programs that exist, we can mention Total AV, which has received the award of the best AV-Test product.
One of the great features of this case that causes it to gain a lot of popularity among different users is the ability to protect Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS devices.
Plus, users can use various features for free, such as protection against viruses, malware, adware, and spyware, to prevent hackers from infiltrating their systems. We recommend this one if you are looking for a suitable antivirus that can provide you with good features.
-McAfee:
Another powerful antivirus is McAfee, which you can use to protect your system against attacks by the latest viruses, spyware, malware, and ransomware.
This antivirus can be a good choice because it can protect Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. It also provides spam filtering, encryption of confidential files and other items for users.
-Bitdefender:
Bitdefender is another good antivirus that can be used by different people who deal with systems, like various site developers (In Slovak: vývojárov stránok ) and users to their systems.
This software has been able to gain a high score in the leading independent tests for protection, performance, and usability.
Another positive feature of this case is that it is easy to work with, so many users prefer to use Bitdefender to protect their system against the entry of various viruses.
-Avast:
Avast Antivirus is the other popular program that can be used for PC, Mac, Android, and iPhone / iPad. This software does its best to your system.
Another positive feature of this device is the possibility of using it for a maximum of 10 devices so that all family members can use it for the safety of their devices.
-Trend Micro antimalware+ Security:
Trend Micro Antivirus + Security can cover one device and provide system security. It should be noted that this software can filter malicious URLs, which can help you improve the security of your system.
Another advantage is its ease of use so that even beginner users can use it quickly, which is considered one of its goals so that it can be used after its installation without any changes.
After being aware of different types of them, you may decide to use two antivirus programs simultaneously to improve the security of your system, so if you want to do so, you have to pay attention to the points which are going to be mentioned in the following.
Is having two antimalware programs harmful?
Users may think that having multiple antivirus programs instead of one of them can their system, which is not the case. In fact, this does not help system security, but it also slows down the performance.
Eventually, the system and information will be exposed to more vulnerabilities. To your information, it is necessary to observe all the security issues and possibly protect your data from being stolen or stolen, or abused.
Last word:
There are various antivirus programs that users can use for free. There are some paid versions as well, which you can choose one of them according to your budget. Both versions try to provide various features for users to protect them against viruses.
These programs scan the system and detect threats. Then they do some activities like removing the viruses or putting them in quarantine folders, all of which have been explained in the article. In addition, we tried to introduce some of the best options available to you and describe their features so that you can have a good choice. We hope this content can be helpful for you. | https://www.dotnek.com/Blog/Security/what-happens-if-your-antivirus-program-finds |
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) disclosed a data breach of their servers containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including social security numbers. NASA informed their employees Tuesday in an internal memo.
The breach occurred a few months ago and was discovered on October 23rd. Two HR related servers were hit in the attack, affecting current and former Civil Service NASA employees from July 2006 to October 2018. The number of affected employees is still unknown; however, the agency plans to follow up with the employees once identified. They do not believe any of their missions were compromised, although the investigation has not been completed. Currently, the agency is focused on doing a full investigation into the breach working alongside federal cybersecurity partners and believes the investigation will take a while.
NASA in the internal memo stated:
“NASA and its Federal cybersecurity partners are continuing to examine the servers to determine the scope of the potential data exfiltration and identify potentially affected individuals. This process will take time. The ongoing investigation is a top agency priority, with senior leadership actively involved. NASA does not believe that any Agency missions were jeopardized by the cyber incidents.”
Further, affected servers were immediately secured after the discovery was made. Since then there has been an ongoing investigation, which NASA has said is a top priority. They plan to ensure all servers are secured and best security practices are being followed.
The space agency has also been hit breaches multiple data breaches in the last several years since 2011, when attackers took control of NASA computers. News of this breach came just days after an audit of the U.S ballistic missile system found major flaws in cybersecurity. The state of cybersecurity federally is weak and this breach is just the latest to occur in a government agency.
If your organization was hit with an data breach contact LIFARS immediately. | https://www.lifars.com/2018/12/nasa-hit-with-a-data-breach/ |
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Today, network and data security is top of mind for businesses everywhere, and with good reason – there has been a slew of high-profile data breaches that demonstrate what happens when security's not tight enough. Businesses, though, aren't the only target hackers try to prey on every day.
In fact, hackers target computers and other devices with internet access with alarming frequency. A recent study found that there's an attempted attack every 39 seconds on average. That means home users have just as much exposure to the threat as businesses do, but what they don't have is an IT department working to maintain their security.
That means users have to take it upon themselves to secure their home networks if they want to make sure nobody gains access to their devices. The good news is that even for a relative novice, that's not a very hard thing to do.
In most cases, a home's internet connection is supplied by an ISP-provided modem, which often also includes a built-in Wi-Fi capability. The problem with that is the fact that ISP-provided hardware is notoriously insecure. That means the first step to improving your home's network security is to either purchase your own modem or to at least add your own router and firewall behind the ISP equipment to keep your network-attached devices safe.
In the US and elsewhere, ISPs are required by law to allow customers to use their own equipment and that's the preferable option whenever it's practical for the user. Unfortunately, there's no shortage of reports of ISPs making it difficult for customers to do this, so your mileage may vary. The first step to finding out your options is to contact your specific ISP and ask them to provide you with a list of modem models that are compatible with your service. Here's the information for the major US ISPs:
Whether you're using the ISP's modem or your own, it's not a good idea to rely on either as your only form of network security. Instead, you should add a hardware firewall device behind it for better protection and more specific network access controls. If you're not terribly technically inclined, there are now a variety of home network firewalls on the market that offer excellent network-wide threat defense at reasonable prices. The main benefit of these is that they're designed to be plug-and-play solutions. The downside is that the most user-friendly devices tend to require yearly subscriptions to keep them up to date.
As an alternative, it's possible to repurpose an old or disused computer to make a much more versatile and perpetually-free home network firewall. All you will need is a somewhat recent PC that meets the following minimum specifications:
With your hardware ready, all you have to do is choose an open-source firewall solution to install on it. The three most appropriate for home users are:
Untangle NG Firewall – Untangle is one of the oldest open-source firewall products available today. It's extremely user-friendly, easy to install, and is simple to manage (even for a novice). The free version comes with everything a home user needs to stay safe, including plugins for network-wide antivirus protection, ad blocking, and phishing protection. Best of all, Untangle's support staff are very helpful and will even support free installations if you're willing to be patient and wait for them to respond (paid customers always come first).
IPFire – Like Untangle, IPFire is an open-source firewall solution that just does everything. It has plugins that handle every kind of security function you can think of, and even a few you've probably never considered. It's also possible to add networking features like a mail server, file server, network print services and anything else you can think of to it. The only downside is that it's a bit harder to configure, so novice users will have to read up a bit to get started with it.
pfSense – As far as free firewall solutions go, you won't find a more powerful option than pfSense. It is an enterprise-grade solution in every way, and is used by a variety of large companies around the world. Its power, though, makes it a favorite of the home enthusiast market segment. The problem is that it's not all that easy to configure and maintain. So while it is an option for home use, it's one most users should avoid unless they're looking to learn some serious networking skills to do it.
With perimeter security taken care of, the next step is to see to the security of the individual devices connected to your network. I've covered a number of networking devices in a previous guide, and all of them should be assessed for security if they're a part of your setup.
The first step to doing this is to check with each device's manufacturer to see if there are any available software or firmware updates you should apply. Many times these updates will address security flaws discovered after release and they should be applied according to the manufacturers' recommendations. Make sure to do this with every device attached to your network including:
The second step is to use your firewall to restrict inbound external internet access to your network devices unless their operation requires it. That will make it harder for an attacker to exploit weaknesses in the devices should any persist after updating.
Last but not least, make sure that none of your network-connected devices are broadcasting an open Wi-Fi signal. The primary culprits for that type of thing are network printers, so give them a good long look and turn off their networking features if you're not using them.
The last step in securing a home network is to make use of encryption technology wherever it is possible. To begin with, it's critical to make sure that the home's Wi-Fi connection makes use of WPA2-PSK with AES encryption in its security settings (at least until WPA3 is available). That security should be complemented with a strong and complex Wi-Fi passphrase for clients to use to connect. Together, those features prevent any unauthorized access to the wireless network and keep anyone within the range from sniffing any of your network traffic to look for a way in.
You should also make an effort to use webpages secured with SSL encryption which is signified by the "HTTPS" prefix of the web address or a padlock symbol in your web browser's address bar. If you want to add some extra security, you can even use a VPN to add an extra layer of encryption to all of your internet traffic. If you've opted to install one of the open-source firewall options mentioned earlier, you can even set up your own VPN server that can protect you at home as well as when you're on the road.
Stay Safe from Determined Attackers
Earlier, I mentioned that data indicates the fact that internet-connected devices face attacks roughly every 29 seconds. The good news is that most of those attacks are simple port scans and dictionary attacks probing for vulnerabilities and weak passwords. If you implement the network security measures above, you should be safe from the vast majority of those attempts. You should even be safe from more determined attackers, who will have a difficult time finding any hole in your network's defenses. Of course, no defense is perfect, but most hackers will pass a defended network to prey on easier targets – of which there's never any shortage.
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As schools move all or parts of their learning activities online, they expose themselves to unprecedented cybersecurity issues. Since most educators and students lack the technical knowledge to mitigate the effects of cyber attacks or prevent them entirely, hackers exploit this loophole to their advantage.
For students reliant on online paper writing services and paper writers from best essay service to address schoolwork, sharing unnecessary information on the internet can leave them vulnerable to various forms of malware attack.
In this article, we discuss cybersecurity issues in online learning, as well as explore ways to address them.
Phishing
Phishing is a form of attack where the criminal masquerades as a legal entity in order to convince unsuspecting online users to share personal information with them.
Let’s say a student uses the EssayHub writing service to deal with their homework. A hacker could spoof the agency’s email to trick the student into sharing their personal details with them.
Sometimes, the hacker sends multiple spoofed emails to people on an email list in the hopes of landing an unfortunate victim. This technique is called email phishing.
Another common method of phishing involves targeting a specific person’s email address. This technique is called spear phishing, and the victims are often administrators or people in the higher echelons of an academic institution.
Ransomware
As the name implies, ransomware attacks occur when a hacker restricts access to online academic resources until the school administration meets their demands. Often, the demands come in the form of monetary compensation.
Most ransomware attacks result from the natural progression of phishing attacks. Once the student or teacher clicks on the malicious email, the hacker gains access to the entire system to deploy the ransomware.
According to Statista, over 300 million ransomware attacks occurred across the globe in 2020 alone. And based on recent projections, this number will continue to increase as hackers find more loopholes to exploit.
Human Negligence
CollegisEducation estimates that over 90% of online cyber-attacks result from human error. Since most teachers are not tech experts, they make costly mistakes that leave the learning management system vulnerable to hacking.
For example, granting free access to the public provides an opportunity for a hacker to enter the system, even without using a password-deciphering algorithm. Also, choosing weak passwords puts the system at risk.
So, if the person in charge of the learning platform lacks the training to keep it safe, online criminals will exploit this flaw.
DDoS Attacks
Hackers use a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack to channel insurmountable amounts of traffic to a system, crumbling the server and rendering the entire platform useless.
Unlike the attacks mentioned earlier, a DDoS attack focuses on disrupting the regular flow of academic processes. The hackers are not in it for monetary gain but, rather, to wreak havoc.
A SecureList report shows that at the start of the pandemic, the rate of DDoS attacks spiked 20% globally, most of which originated from Russia.
How to Prevent Cybersecurity Issues
Plugging a school’s (or platform’s) cybersecurity flaws is a massive challenge that most schools are ill-equipped to handle. Besides, hackers continue to invent effective ways of attacking their targets, making it impossible to figure out a one-fits-all approach to prevent cyberattacks.
Nonetheless, let’s explore some safety protocols to reduce the probability and frequency of cyberattacks.
Specify User Privileges
When working with a public online system, don’t open access to the public. Specify permission privileges to ensure that only the right participants can use the system. By doing so, you protect the user’s sensitive data from unauthorized access.
Consider creating a unique password for every session to reduce the chances of hackers figuring out the pattern. For multi-user platforms, you can grant permission to users based on their contribution to the system.
Use Only Trusted Third-Party Software
With the current shift to online learning, many companies are rolling out products to address this growing market. However, this influx of products also lowers the bar of entry, thereby exposing potential users to security risks.
To avoid these issues, always use expert-recommended academic services with advanced security features. Administrators should always read user reviews to identify if the product has any underlying security flaws. You can find the lists of such services on professional review platforms such as NoCramming, in this case, essay writing services review platform.
When working with a centralized system, always schedule and execute regular backup operations. Doing so will help you avoid and recover from cyberattacks.
For instance, if a hacker compromises the school’s main server with DDoS or ransomware attacks, you can move to another server while the authorities figure out the culprit. | https://securityxploded.com/cybersecurity-issues-in-online-learning-and-how-to-address-them.php |
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The current era is the most unsafe and risky your privacy is always on the stack. The entire world is creating systems to strengthen their secrecy or confidentiality. If you are facing the same, then here we have solutions.
Firstly let’s talk about Pentesting a penetration test, or penetration test is a simulated cyber attack upon your computer system to check for exploitable vulnerabilities.
Usually, it is an authorized human-driven test to check the weaknesses and strengths of an organization’s security system.
If you are looking for the best laptop to conduct a test for Pentesting, we have shortlisted a list of laptops that will make this testing easy and efficient for you. These laptops have an elegant design, are efficient, economical, and budget-friendly that are best for Pentesting.
This article will help you obtain the best laptop for Pentesting and make it easier for you to choose the best option through real experiences.
Pentesters use a variety of tools for testing possible security breaches in targeted systems. It would be for Port scanner, Vulnerability scanners, Network sniffer, Password cracker, and Web proxies, etc.
As there are certain types of security threats. That’s why they will use separate tools for each threat. Some famous and top pentesting tools are
Pentesters use different tools and tests to assess the services and networks for their potential weaknesses.
In order to do this testing along with other pentesting tools. Many tests are conducted to check vulnerabilities, like the White Box Test, Blind Test, Double-Blind Test, and External and Internal Tests, etc.
As their are different tools through which pentesting is performed and each tool has different system requirements. So below, before exploring each famous system specifications, there is general specifications.
Processor (CPU):
Any modern multicore Intel or AMD processor with 32-bit or 64-bit architecture, like Intel 10th Gen Core i5- or Intel Core i7 model with maximum available cache memory and clock speed will do the job.
You should choose a laptop with latest generation processor for example Intel’s 9th – 12th generation processor or AMD’s latest generation processor like Zen – Zen 3 architecture with 3000-6000 series.
RAM
Being a penteser, you should know that RAM is working space for a laptop and you should have more working space. So if you want to perform tests efficiently and with satisfactory results, go for maximum RAM you can afford.
For best performance and results within quick sort time you should pick a laptop having minimum 8 GB of RAM. Although 12 GB, 16 GB is recommended. While 32 GB in some rare cases will be sufficient for professional pentesters.
Storage
Many pentesting tools requires few disk space and works perfectly as well. Few pentesting tools need high storage.
As a general rule, you should go for at least 256 GB, while 512 GB is recommended, preferably SSD storage. It will be enough to store all pentesting tools and to conduct tests efficiently and result-oriented.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU):
Although the GPU has no such link with pentesting, but it is relevant when a pentester is a gamer. If you want to play games on laptop with pentesting tools then it should be any Nvidia GPU with 1-2 GB V-RAM for robust performance.
Remember, even you are not a game, GPU will deliver best graphic performance that can assist you to perform different pentesting tests etc.
Display/LCD Monitor
There are different screen sizes and qualities and everyone has its own preferences. While pentesting doesn’t require large screens to do the job. So, any standard laptop screen size like 13″ or 15″ will be good to go.
If you prefer to display penetration test results effectively on large screen then a laptop having 17″ Inches size with 170 degree IPS quality is recommended.
If you are looking for the best Laptop for Pentesting, the ASUS VivoBook S15 should be your first choice. It is an ideal laptop for users because of its glamorous design. VivoBook has a full HD display with 15.6 inches in size, finger sensors for easy login, and a camera present at the Laptop’s top.
Asus Vivobook S15 has a high-quality audio system, making it easier for testers to work with some entertainment.
The backlit keyboard of Asus Vivobook S15 helps you to type for longer hours without any difficulty. The Laptop has a robust intel core i7 processor. Asus Vivobook S15 is an ideal laptop for multitasking due to turbo performance while working for long hours. It has 8 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage space for the pentesters to store data and download files for efficient working.
Asus Vivobook S15 consists of a lithium-polymer battery that provides super-fast charging and longer working hours. The S15 VivoBook has a USB type C HDMI port, USB 3.1, an SD card reader as well.
Dell XPS 13 is another pentesting Laptop, having a small size with a modern and sleek design. When it comes to Pentesting, dell has the best series of laptops. it is the right choice for pen-testers. It comes with a 13.3 inches screen with 3940 x 2160p resolution. Simultaneously, the touch screen technology makes it even more useful.
it has 16GB RAM and provides storage of 512 GB. Storage is an essential factor to consider while choosing a laptop for Pentesting. However, you can multitask or customize it at once, according to your requirements. Moreover, its battery life is relatively better than any other Dell laptop and has 52WHr battery power.
Dell XPS 13 has a 10th Generation Intel Core i7-1065G7 Processor and can swiftly perform all your pentesting tests. The maximum available RAM is 32GB RAM and the hard disk of 1TB. Therefore, the user can customize the RAM and ROM accordingly. Its weight is light, which makes it portable. It has a 2.25mm webcam, a 3.5mm headphone port, a USB slot, and a micro SD card slot.
Whenever we talk about the best Laptop for penetration test, the Dell brand comes to our mind, as it has many prominent features. It is the best Laptop for ethical hackers due to its size and design.
The OLED display of the Dell XPS 15 pentesting laptop has self-lighting pixels that can switch off completely to achieve perfect black for significantly higher contrast. It has a 15.6-inch display screen with a stunning OLED screen and ultra HD display having (3840 x 2160) resolution.
The new XPS 15 webcam isn’t just smaller but also delivers better video calling quality. The anti-reflective screen, joined with superior 500-nit brightness on the UHD display, frees you to enjoy your entertainment outdoors.
Alienware is known for its classically designed laptops. Alienware AAW 17 R4 is one of the best models of the Alienware series. Its legendary creativity is enough to use for in-depth penetration testing. Alienware AAW 17 R4 has a metal body, QHD display with 17.3 inches screen, which is best for ethical hackers.
It has Intel’s Core i7 processor and 16GB RAM that enhances its efficiency. Its features are enough to justify its price, and it would take the credit for it. Alienware AAW 17 R4 offers up to 1TB hard drive and provides a 256 GB SSD that is sufficient.
Suppose you’re a dedicated penetration tester who would love to work day and night. Alienware AAW 17 R4 comprises a backlit keyboard feature, which is very useful for working in the dark.
The most helpful thing about this Laptop is its thermal design so that the computer does not heat up even with an immense workload.
The Acer has developed another best penetration testing Laptop, called Acer Nitro 5 is also a perfect laptop for gaming and pentesting. As it has 7th Generation intel core i5 processor power, Acer Nitro 5 should be your first choice. Acer Nitro 5 has an impressive 15.6 full HD IPS display. Intel’s latest processor model has made it the best budget laptop for pentesting.
Nitro 5 is powered by a 7th generation intel i5 processor (Up to 4.1 GHz) on which you can quickly and easily perform testings and play games as well. It has 8GB memory and 256 GB storage and battery life up to 8.5 hours.
The fast, powerful Geforce GTX graphics integrate Acer Nitro 5 with 4GB (GDDR5 video) memory. The GPU will help to assess several cyberattacks with perfect video rendering.
Acer Nitro 5 is powered by a dark bright red backlit keyboard. It illuminates this device’s keyboard key which is quite smooth in use.
MSI GS66 Stealth stays true to its name with matte black and classic profile design. It offers five times faster and smoother processing and gaming visuals experience. MSI GS66 has a wide view angle display with an Ultra-Thin body.
MSI has done justice with its GS66 Stealth and comes up with enhanced features to increase the efficiency of work done.
GS66 comprises the world’s thinnest sharp-edged fan blades of 0.1mm. New coolers enhance the airflow and prevent it from heating up. It comes up with a 15.6 inches screen, the latest 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10750H processor, and Win 10 PRO Dynaudio Speakers.
GS66 has 32GB RAM and provides a 512 GB SSD that is more than enough to store all the required data. GS66 has an expandable SSD and a flexible memory slot at the laptop’s bottom for future upgrades.
Last but not least, its power outlasts your opponents with the largest 99.9Whr Li-Polymer 230W Slim battery. It can be charged with a portable power bank and through Thunderbolt 3.
Microsoft surface pro is the most accomplished laptop with the convertible feature. It is a high-quality product. Microsoft surface wholly redesigned from the inside with all custom parts. Microsoft Surface Pro delivers more battery power with a long-lasting time duration.
Microsoft surface pro 5 is powered by 5th generation intel core i7. It has 16 GB RAM and 512 GB storage. It is versatile and more performance and also has a superior display. Surface Pro has a pixel sense display support pen and touch.
It has more battery life than surface 3. Its keyboard is a smooth and productive workflow. The Surface Pro offers vast customizability and becomes the best budget laptop for pentesting with Core M CPU, 4GB, and 128 GB storage.
Dell Inspiron 15 is an outstanding laptop from the Dell series with some fantastic and unique features. It comes up with a fingerprint sensor, a touch screen, and a backlit keyboard. Moreover, the best thing about this pentesting laptop is budget-friendly with premium features.
The 1080p resolution display provides a quality presentation with the actual colors and most delicate picture details. Dell Inspiron 15 laptop is perfect for Pentesting, daily use, and business keepings.
It provides up to 512 GB SSD storage, which is more than enough for pen-testers. The battery timing of this device is 5 hours per charge, which is impressive for this price. Dell Inspiron 15 possesses a 10th Gen Intel Quad Core i5 processor having up to 3.4 GHz speed.
Dell Inspiron 15 has an ultra-slim and lightweight body. It has 8 GB DDR4 memory that helps in multitasking and boosts efficiency. The touch screen feature makes it more comfortable to use for Pentesters without lagging and hanging.
The lithium-polymer battery lasts 5 hours with heavy usage with a single charge. This device’s connectivity options in 2x USB 3.1 ports, 1x USB 2.0 port, and 1x HDMI. Moreover, it comprises one audio in and an audio outline, built-in stereo speakers, and Windows 10 Home operating system.
The new and next innovation of the dell brand is dell XPS with a 15.6-inch laptop screen. This Laptop has an infinity edge display and its maximum screen display screen space by accommodating a 15.6-inch screen. It is slim and light in weight.
The Dell XPS is one of the world’s lightest 15-inch laptops with versatile features.
It is powered by the most powerful XPS laptop as well as the latest 7th Gen Intel Quad Core processors and a 4GB GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card. It has 16 GB memory and 1TB storage solid-state drive storage.
The display technology is equipped with the UltraSharp 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160) touch display and with 6 million more pixels than the Full HD display and 3 million more than the MacBook Pro. It is considered the best laptop for ethical hackers with the best display.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation dug up Session’s written answers to questions sent by Senator Patrick Leahy. The responses are nauseating (emphasis ours):
Question: Do you agree with NSA Director Rogers, Secretary of Defense Carter, and other national security experts that strong encryption helps protect this country from cyberattack and is beneficial to the American people’s’ digital security?
Response: Encryption serves many valuable and important purposes. It is also critical, however, that national security and criminal investigators be able to overcome encryption, under lawful authority, when necessary to the furtherance of national-security and criminal investigations.
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Prior incidents involving ChatGPT may have prompted these changes. Early this month, reports revealed Samsung employees had erroneously shared confidential company information with ChatGPT. Before this, OpenAI took ChatGPT offline after it exposed some chat histories to others using the tool at the same time. This incident earned the attention of a data protection agency in Italy, which then ordered a temporary ban for the AI, pending an investigation.
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Ransom-ware: This is a type of malware, where the attacker involved locks the victim’s system through encryption, and demands payment for unlocking the system.
Malware: These are the software are used to harm the user’s computer, such as programs of worms, computer viruses, and Trojan horses.
Social Engineering: This is a type of attack which depends on human interaction in order to trick the user in breaking the security to gain all the private information.
Phishing: It is a process of sending fraudulent emails that resemble emails from reputable sources with the intention of stealing sensitive data such as the login details.
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Data loss protection: This refers to the strategy, which makes sure that the users do not send any sensitive information outside the corporate network. This term is also helpful in describing the software products that helps the network administrator control the flow of data transfer.
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Software testing: Software testing refers to the activity of matching the actual results with the expected results.
Data security: The data security and protection refers to the protective digital privacy measures, used to prevent the unauthorized access to the database and the websites.
Communication security: It is referred to the protection from the unauthorized access to the telephonic conversations or written information to be transferred.
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Unprecedented attacks: The amount of data over the Internet is increasing exponentially with the passage of time. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered as the platform where the unprecedented attacks are common as these attacks were never dealt in the past.
Cyber espionage: The small as well as large organizations store their data in the cloud application. According to a recent survey, it is evident that the private cloud computing has increased up to 77% and to some extent hybrid cloud computing has also increased. This sudden increase seems to be a threat to all the private, public, as well as hybrid cloud technologies. This can cause a risk to the security of data.
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Microsoft, one of the key companies in the field of cybersecurity, extends the free program to protect the political campaigns from cyber-attacks, which includes monitoring of the potential hacking attempts.
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An individual’s request must contain information about the individual, about the websites which they request are delisted from search results on their name with the reason(s) for the removal, as well as providing consent to the search engine to use his/her personal data submitted through the request form. The search engine is prohibited from revealing that it has received a request from an individual.
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Enlarge / Starlink satellites prior to launch. The black circles in the middle are laser links.
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The laser links are included in 10 Starlink satellites just launched into polar orbits. The launch came two weeks after SpaceX received Federal Communications Commission approval to launch the 10 satellites into polar orbits at an altitude of 560km.
"All sats launched next year will have laser links," Musk wrote in another tweet yesterday, indicating that the laser systems will become standard on Starlink satellites in 2022. For now, SpaceX is only including laser links on polar satellites. "Only our polar sats have lasers this year & are v0.9," Musk wrote.
Alaskan residents will benefit from the polar satellites, SpaceX told the FCC in an application to change the orbit of some of its satellites in April 2020. The plan is to "ensure that all of the satellites in SpaceX's system will provide the same low-latency services to all Americans, including those in places like Alaska that are served by satellites in polar orbits," SpaceX said at the time. The satellites can serve both residential and US-government users "in otherwise impossible-to-reach polar areas," SpaceX said.
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Inter-satellite links allow satellites to transfer communications from one satellite to another, either in the same orbital plane or an adjacent plane. Such links allow operators to minimize the number of ground stations, since a ground station no longer needs to be in the same satellite footprint as user terminals, and extend coverage to remote areas where ground stations are not available. They can also decrease latency, since the number of hops between satellites and ground stations are reduced.
The 10 satellites were originally authorized by the FCC for altitudes in the 1,100-1,300km range. The FCC approval allowing SpaceX to cut the altitude in half will help reduce latency.
In December, during an interview with Ars' Senior Space Editor Eric Berger, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said that demonstrating laser communications in space was among the company's most significant achievements in 2020.
SpaceX had revealed a few months earlier that it was testing space lasers for transferring data between satellites. Starlink engineers provided more detail in a Reddit AMA in November; here's an excerpt from our coverage at the time:
"The speed of light is faster in vacuum than in fiber, so the space lasers have exciting potential for low latency links," the Starlink team said on Reddit in response to a question about the space-laser testing. "They will also allow us to serve users where the satellites can't see a terrestrial gateway antenna—for example, over the ocean and in regions badly connected by fiber."
Space lasers won't play a major role in Starlink any time soon, though. "We did have an exciting flight test earlier this year with prototype space lasers on two Starlink satellites that managed to transmit gigabytes of data," the engineering team wrote. "But bringing down the cost of the space lasers and producing a lot of them fast is a really hard problem that the team is still working on."
SpaceX seeks FCC OK for more polar satellites
In November 2020, SpaceX urged the FCC for an expedited approval "to facilitate deployment of 348 Starlink satellites into Sun-synchronous polar orbits at the lower altitude," the FCC said in its decision to approve 10 satellites. The FCC approved only those 10 because it is evaluating interference concerns raised by other satellite companies.
"We find that partial grant of ten satellites will facilitate continued development and testing of SpaceX's broadband service in high latitude geographic areas in the immediate term pending later action to address arguments in the record as to both grant of the modification as a whole and the full subset of polar orbit satellites," the FCC order said.
Amazon's Project Kuiper, Viasat, Kepler Communications, and Pacific Dataport urged the FCC to reject even the partial grant of 10 satellites because of the potential for increased interference with other non-geostationary satellite systems. But the FCC order said that SpaceX committed to "operate these satellites on a non-harmful interference basis with respect to other licensed spectrum users until the Commission has ruled on its modification in full." A battle between SpaceX and Amazon is brewing, with Musk accusing Amazon of trying "to hamstring Starlink today for an Amazon satellite system that is at best several years away from operation." | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/spacex-adds-laser-links-to-starlink-satellites-to-serve-earths-polar-areas/ |
Tenants in OpenSearch Dashboards are spaces for saving index patterns, visualizations, dashboards, and other OpenSearch Dashboards objects. By default, all OpenSearch Dashboards users have access to two tenants: Private and Global. The global tenant is shared between every OpenSearch Dashboards user. The private tenant is exclusive to each user and canтАЩt be shared.
Tenants are useful for safely sharing your work with other OpenSearch Dashboards users. You can control which roles have access to a tenant and whether those roles have read or write access.
You might use the private tenant for exploratory work, create detailed visualizations with your team in an analysts tenant, and maintain a summary dashboard for corporate leadership in an executive tenant.
multitenancy_enabled Enable or disable multi-tenancy. Default is true.
server_username Must match the name of the OpenSearch Dashboards server user from opensearch_dashboards.yml. Default is kibanaserver.
index Must match the name of the OpenSearch Dashboards index from opensearch_dashboards.yml. Default is .opensearch-dashboards.
do_not_fail_on_forbidden If true, the security plugin removes any content that a user is not allowed to see from search results. If false, the plugin returns a security exception. Default is false.
opensearch_dashboards.yml has some additional settings:
opensearch.username: kibanaserver opensearch.password: kibanaserver
opensearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: ["securitytenant","Authorization"]
opensearch_security.multitenancy.enabled: true opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.enable_global: true opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.enable_private: true
opensearch_security.multitenancy.enabled Enables or disables multi-tenancy in OpenSearch Dashboards. opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.enable_global Enables or disables the global tenant. opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.enable_private Enables or disables the private tenant. opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.preferred Lets you change ordering in the Tenants tab of OpenSearch Dashboards. By default, the list starts with global and private (if enabled) and then proceeds alphabetically. You can add tenants here to move them to the top of the list.
opensearch_security.multitenancy.enable_filter If you have many tenants, you can add a search bar to the top of the list. After creating a tenant, give a role access to it using OpenSearch Dashboards, the REST API, or roles.yml.
Read-write (kibana_all_write) permissions let the role view and modify objects in the tenant.
Read-only (kibana_all_read) permissions let the role view objects, but not modify them.
The security plugin scrubs these index names of special characters, so they might not be a perfect match of tenant names and usernames.
To back up your OpenSearch Dashboards data, take a snapshot of all tenant indices using an index pattern such as .opensearch-dashboards*. | https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/security-plugin/access-control/multi-tenancy/ |
Talking about bullying online, cybersafety and the new Children’s e-Safety Commissioner almost always focuses on school-aged children. Let’s not overlook babies to preschoolers who are increasingly surrounded by connected and mobile devices. Part II of a series on cybersecurity in early education and care.
It’s national action against bullying day today and the week in which the Australian government announced the appointment of the newly created position of Children’s e-Safety Commissioner.
This follows the government’s enactment of legislation earlier in March to enhance children’s safety online, which was supported by Early Childhood Australia during government consultation. The Commissioner’s new powers include the capacity to force the removal of harmful content online.
The new e-Safety Commissioner is a former Australian Federal Police officer, Mr Alastair MacGibbon, who has worked in the field of cybersecurity and online safety across government, academic and private sectors. At eBay he was Senior Director of Trust, Safety and Customer Support and since 2011 has been the Director of the Centre for Internet Safety at the University of Canberra.
Mr MacGibbon said he is looking forward to working with industry, child welfare organisations, law enforcement agencies and Australian children and parents to protect children from the growing problem of cyber-bullying. Mr MacGibbon noted that one in five children above the age of eight are exposed to online bullying.
Early Childhood Australia welcomes the creation of the position and Mr MacGibbon’s appointment and looks forward to working with him on the issues as they affect very young children. Policies on online bullying tend to focus on older children. We believe that there are risks and strategies for younger children in a world that is increasingly connected.
The early years are a critical time where patterns and attitudes develop that influence later behaviours, attitudes and skills. Many children are growing up in increasingly connected homes. Figures from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) show the swift uptake of mobile devices in Australian households (ACMA, 2014). While their figures focus on adults many of these households contain very young children and mobile devices that make online access easy at younger ages.
Dr Joanne Orlando, an early childhood lecturer from University of Western Sydney, told Digichild last week that her research shows children are engaging with technology at younger and younger ages.
‘It seems to be a child’s first birthday is the benchmark for when you get your first device’ she said.
Australia lacks comprehensive data on very young children’s online exposure and mobile device use. We need better information about their technology use and the attitudes and behaviours of parents, carers, older siblings and educators around them. This information will help develop protective measures and healthy online strategies relevant to early childhood environments.
One risk we need to avoid is complacency among adults—from policy makers to parents—that online issues are not yet relevant to the youngest children or that it is possible to keep the cyber world away from them. Mobile and connected devices change that.
ECA Digital Business Kit, a free and downloadable resource for early childhood educators and parents, is available from www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-work/digital
Free government resources for parents, educators, children and businesses and internet safe activities for children are available from Cybersmart (www.cybersmart.gov.au/) andStaysmartonline (www.staysmartonline.gov.au/online). | https://thespoke.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-cybersecurity-part-two/ |
Create policies that define the types of data you want to mask and the rules that you might use to mask the data.
Create a project and import data sources.
Optionally, discover information about the source data. Run profiles for data and metadata discovery to discover primary keys, entities, and data domains.
Define data subset operations and data masking operations. Define the tables that you want to include in the subset database and the relationships between the tables. Assign data masking rules to columns in the source data.
Define data generation operations. Define the tables that you want to include and assign data generation rules to columns in the target table.
In addition to the target connection, to directly copy flat file results to an HP ALM server, enter the test tool integration properties in the plan.
To store data in the test data warehouse, select the test data warehouse as the target in the plan.
Generate and run the workflow for data masking, data subset, or data generation. | https://docs.informatica.com/data-security-group/test-data-management/9-7-1/_user-guide_test-data-management_9-7-1_ditamap/introduction_to_test_data_management/tdm_process.html |
Deep Security Agent 9.6 or later is to make outbound connections for security updates via the proxy.
Deep Security Agent 10.0 or later (not GA) is required if connecting agents to a relay or manager via proxy (especially for application control rulesets).
In the top right-hand corner of Deep Security Manager, click Support > Deployment Scripts to display the Deployment Script Generator.
After you’ve selected a platform in the Deployment Scripts Generator, the deployment script will appear.
In the deployment script, find the text dsa_control -a (if any).
This is the agent-initiated activation command.
Close the Deployment Script Generator.
Run the script on the relay computer.
After the Agent is activated and online (the computer status on the Computers page will read “Managed (online)” ), open the Details page for computer, and go to Overview > Actions > Software, select Enable Relay.
Wait for the update to complete. This should take approximately 20 minutes. | https://help.deepsecurity.trendmicro.com/10/0/protecting-workloads-proxies.html |
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» News » You’ve probably been hacked and haven’t yet realised.
Most companies take weeks to discover a security breach, whilst the time to compromise is almost always days or less, if not minutes or less concludes Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report. Companies that are hacked usually either find the attacker making a big song and dance about it with Ransomware and DDoS likely tools for diversions, and/or stay hidden whilst they identify and exfiltrate the valuable data they can get their hands on.
93% of cases where data was stolen, systems were compromised in minutes or less whilst in over 80% of cases, victims didn’t find the breach for weeks or more. (It’s important to remember that these statistics were taken prior to Yahoo’s disclosure that an estimated 500 million accounts were breached and it took them nearly 2 years to discover.)
Time is of the essence
To produce the report, Verizon analysed 64,199 incidents and 2,260 breaches collected by 67 organisations, discovering that more than 90% of breaches fall into the same patterns.
The figure below llustrates how quickly the attacker gets in and out of your network with large spikes driven by very specific threats. The compromise time of minutes is actually another reflection of the ubiquitous ‘Dridex’ breaches in this year’s dataset. These cases begin with a phish, featuring an attachment whose mission in its malware life is to steal credentials. If you have legitimate credentials, it doesn’t take a very long time to unlock the door, walk in and help yourself to what you want. Conversely, the exfiltration time being so weighted in the ‘days’ category is heavily representative of attacks against POS devices where malware is dropped to capture, package and execute scheduled exports.
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Penetration testing--in which professional, "white hat" hackers attempt to break through an organization's security defenses--has become a key defense weapon in today's information systems security arsenal. Through penetration testing, I.T. and security professionals can take action to prevent true "black hat" hackers from compromising systems and exploiting proprietary information.
Hack I.T. introduces penetration testing and its vital role in an overall network security plan. You will learn about the roles and responsibilities of a penetration testing professional, the motivation and strategies of the underground hacking community, and potential system vulnerabilities, along with corresponding avenues of attack. Most importantly, the book provides a framework for performing penetration testing and offers step-by-step descriptions of each stage in the process. The latest information on the necessary hardware for performing penetration testing, as well as an extensive reference on the available security tools, is included.
Comprehensive in scope Hack I.T. provides in one convenient resource the background, strategies, techniques, and tools you need to test and protect your system--before the real hackers attack.
Why write a book about hacking? The question is really whether a book about the techniques and tools used to break into a network would be beneficial to the information security community. We, the authors, believe that penetration testing is a valuable and effective means of identifying security holes and weaknesses in a network and computing environment. Understanding how others will try to break into a network offers considerable insight into the common pitfalls and misconfigurations that make networks vulnerable. This insight is essential to creating a comprehensive network security structure.
Some may argue that providing this penetration-testing information gives script kiddies and hackers ammunition to better attack systems. However, script kiddies and hackers already have access to this information or have the time to find it--most of the material presented in this book is available from a variety of sources on the Internet. The problem is that the system and security administrators defending against attacks do not have the time or resources to research the sites necessary to compile this information. We decided to write this book to provide defenders with the information hackers already have. A hacker has to find only one hole to gain unauthorized access. The security group defending against the hackers needs to find all the holes to prevent unauthorized access.
There is no tried-and-true training that can make everyone a security expert, but there are some baseline principles, skills, and tools that must be mastered to become proficient in this field. Our goal is to provide you with those skills in a manner that helps you to understand the structure and tools used and to begin developing your own style of penetration testing. The process described in this book is not the only way to perform a penetration test. We continue to evolve our own methodology to respond to new technologies and threats. This process has worked well for us in the past and continues to be a successful way to evaluate and test network security.
Audience
This book is intended for the security administrators, systems administrators, technology auditors, and other authorized representatives of companies that want to legitimately test their security posture and intrusion detection or incident response capabilities. In addition, other individuals who need to assess systems and network security may find the tools and techniques described in this book useful. It is designed as a beginner's book for enhancing network security through penetration testing. No previous knowledge of penetration testing is required, but an understanding of networking, TCP/IP, Windows NT/2000, network security, and UNIX is needed to be able to execute a penetration test.
A word of caution: Although this book details the processes and tools for performing a penetration test, it does not describe how to do this without alerting network security devices. Many of these techniques will be detected and should not be performed without the written consent of the owners of the target systems. We intend for this book to be not a how-to hack manual but rather a framework for performing a systematic network security review. Intrusion detection mechanisms on most networks today have become very sophisticated and, if configured properly, can be used to track anyone practicing these techniques on a network.
How to Use This Book
The managers of an ever-growing number of companies are beginning to see information security as an issue requiring attention, showing how much of a threat they truly believe exists. In any case, whether you work as part of the security department of a large corporation or as a system administrator with security as part of your job description, knowing how to get into your network is one of the best ways to secure it.
The first part of this book (Chapters 1-4) explains the roles and responsibilities of a penetration-testing professional and the motivation and styles of the hacking community. This information provides insight into why hacking has become so popular with the media and what difficulties are associated with protecting a network. The material is designed to provide background information to support the use of penetration testing as an important part of an overall network security plan. A penetration test not only tests the network's ability to protect information and other assets from unauthorized individuals but also can test the organization's ability to detect such intrusion attempts and its incident response capabilities. We also discuss some of the common pitfalls in technology and defenses that contribute to security weaknesses. A large portion of successful network security breeches could have been avoided if special attention had been given to these issues.
The second part of this book (Chapters 5-10) provides a structured framework for a penetration test. Penetration testing can be broken down into a series of steps that provide an efficient and comprehensive review of individual network segments. Whether the test is an internal or external review, the methodology follows the steps of discovery, scanning, and exploitation. This section outlines methods for finding the target network, identifying possible vulnerable services, exploiting weaknesses, and documenting the results. This methodology yields a test that is structured, efficient, and repeatable. In this section of the book we also introduce various tools that can be used to assist with this methodology. We briefly describe each tool's use and place in testing.
The third section of this book (Chapters 11-16) provides greater detail on the tools that can increase the speed and accuracy of a penetration test. This "tools and techniques" section is presented in a reference format so you can locate a tool by its role in testing and obtain the information necessary to begin using the tool or find the information necessary to do so. A large collection of tools have been released by commercial and open-source programmers that identify vulnerabilities in networks, applications, and/or services and should be used as part of an assessment. While most of them may be identified by an intrusion detection system, they can usually find exposures on your network faster than manual methods. We provide detailed explanations of each tool, including its basic usage and where to get updates. You will find that some programs are described in greater depth than others. We spend more time on the tools that we find more helpful or that reveal the most information. For ease of use, we obtained demo or freeware software for many of the tools covered and included them on the CD-ROM available with this book. This software is intended to give you the opportunity to become familiar with some of the more popular tools and to see which work best for you. This section is designed to help you pick out the right hardware, operating systems, and software to make a testing tool kit.
The last section of this book (Chapters 17-23) moves toward advanced techniques and application testing. You should review this section once you have created and are comfortable with your own tool kit. This section details methods that can be used to evade intrusion detection systems and firewalls, control hosts on target networks remotely, and test Web servers. It also includes a discussion on denial-of-service attacks and a section on how to keep up with the current trends and latest developments in information security. This section contains a list of Web sites and e-mail lists that we used in our research, as well as information on long-term countermeasures to improve security. Finally, we include a brief discussion about future trends within the information technology arena and the possible risks that these trends may produce.
At the end of some chapters are case studies that deal with some of the issues and tools discussed. The case studies detail steps we have followed in real-world penetration-testing engagements to help illustrate how all the pieces of penetration testing fit together. The samples we selected include internal, external, and dial-up testing and reflect different operating systems, vulnerabilities, and exploits in an attempt to demonstrate as many of the techniques discussed in the book as possible. In each case we keep anonymous the name, industry type, and any other information that could be used to identify the parties involved. | http://www.informit.com/store/hack-i.t.-security-through-penetration-testing-9780201719567?w_ptgrevartcl=Unwitting+Collaborators%2C+Part+7%3A+Denial-of-Service+Attacks_28266 |
The Breach? We've Decided to Hire...Filipinos?
As far as I can tell, the entire controversy lies upon the fact that medical transcription work was outsourced to a firm in the Philippines. It's not that the proper data security wasn't in place, or that no thought was given to data security. Here's what the hospital has to say about the situation (from rte.ie):
In a recent letter to the TD, Tallaght Hospital said it had a limited number of medical typists and has outsourced some dictation since 2004.
The process involves a hospital clinician dialling [sic] codes on a phone and dictating.
An audio file is created on a server in the hospital.
This file is encrypted and sent to an outside firm, typed up and sent back to Tallaght the next day.
Other sources, such as the irishexaminer.com, note that (my emphases):
...such data was encrypted and the company concerned was bound by a confidentiality agreement...[it] encrypts the content of the correspondence and no patient identifiers were used.
And there is also this:
It is believed that some patients' data was sent to the Philippines for medical reports on Irish patients to be typed up. The hospital said it had found it efficient and cost effective to outsource some transcription services. It said such data was encrypted and the company concerned was bound by a confidentiality agreement.
So, to sum up, all the files were protected with encryption software -- the strong type, one assumes -- with the personal details stripped out. These are sent to a company that listens to the audio, types up a transcription, and sends is back (also encrypted, I hope).
Uh...besides the fact that the work is taking place overseas, where is the data breach? I just don't see it. Then there is this observation by a government official:
Labour TD Robert Dowds, who raised the issue in the Dáil last month, said he found it odd that the hospital found it necessary to out-source the work to the Far East. "You’d imagine important medical letters need to be typed up accurately and close to the source of the information."
Other hospitals in Dublin recently stated that they were not engaged in a similar arrangement with foreign companies.
The more I read about the situation, the more I get the feeling that this is not about data breaches at all. This is not the blog for it, but it seems that there is more afoot, possibly political in nature.
Now, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps it will bring more attention to data security issues, and will clarify what is and is not allowed under the law. However, from a technical standpoint, I don't see a reason why this should be considered a data breach. | http://alertboot.com/blog/blogs/endpoint_security/archive/2011/07/28/data-encryption-tallaght-hospital-in-dublin-says-it-doesn-t-have-a-data-breach.aspx |
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The popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent application contained the ransomware inside the installer’s DMG files. Kaspersky Labs had previously found an unfinished version of this type of malware in 2014 with a program called “Filecoder.” In a telephone interview with Reuters Palo Alto’s Director Ryan Olson explains this release works and “is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom.” “Palo Alto Networks reported the ransomware issue to the Transmission Project and to Apple on March 4. Apple has since revoked the abused certificate and updated XProtect antivirus signature, and Transmission Project has removed the malicious installers from its website. The two KeRanger infected Transmission installers were signed with a legitimate certificate issued by Apple.” — Palo Alto Threat Intelligence
When the malware was identified Apple had revoked the certificates, and Palo Alto says Gatekeeper now blocks these installers. The drivers seemed to be only available for roughly 48 hours but enough time to attack Macintosh users. Palo Alto has a few step-by-step instructions for those infected with the malware “to identify and remove KeRanger that holds their files for ransom.”
Apple Ransom Note
Olsen details the KeRanger program hides for roughly three days before doing its dirty work. Once the device connects to the hacker’s server, it immediately encrypts important files throughout the computer. When the encryption process completes, it uses a pop-up screen explaining to the user it must pay 1 Bitcoin to a specified address. The ransomware also has a “help ticket system” installed offering answers to questions from those willing to pay the ransom. They only accept the digital currency the attack note reads and also leaves links to information on how to purchase the virtual money.
Apple users are typically not affected by the thousands of malware and virus programs released to the public, so this may be a bad omen for Macintosh proponents. As usual, it’s not good news for the Bitcoin world either as ransomware is becoming increasingly popular. However dedicated researchers like Kaspersky and Palo Alto are curbing these threats by identifying these types of attacks and notifying the public. Now Macintosh users will have to stay aware of these new online assaults and understand their devices can now be infected by ransomware.
What do you think about the KeRanger malware? Let us know in the comments below. | http://bitcoinist.com/the-first-macintosh-ransomware-attacks-apple-users/ |
By and large, the news in 2017 was not good on the cybersecurity front. Whether you follow media headlines or industry studies, attacks are up, breaches are larger and threat actors are more sophisticated than ever. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to take basic precautions to mitigate these risks. As a result, breaches often go unreported, leaving millions of customers unaware that their personal data is exposed.
The technical challenges are growing, but technical solutions are also increasingly available. However, many of these tools go unused or unnoticed by organizations. The real issue here is cybersecurity leadership — or a lack thereof.
Staying Out of the Spotlight
CIO Insight detailed some of 2017’s most noteworthy breaches and the blunders that put those companies in a negative media spotlight. Failures at the leadership level included negligence in risk management and poor handling of incidents after they occurred. These lapses ran the gamut from embarrassing to infuriating.
For example, a cybersecurity consulting firm failed to implement basic protections on its network and took months to discover that its most confidential customer discussions were exposed. Similarly, a financial firm failed to notify millions of consumers that their data had been compromised and even endeavored to mislead them once the breach went public. | https://www.cdsaonline.org/2018/01/03/no-place-passivity-cybersecurity-leadership-ibm-security-intelligence/ |
Each year the increasing adaptivity of cybercriminals maintains ransomware’s position as a major cybersecurity threat. Evidence of this shift can be seen in its evolution from ‘scareware’ and ‘locker’ scams through to crypto-ransomware attacks. Whereas ‘scareware’ used to bully victims into buying unwanted software to remove ‘bad’ files; ‘lockers’ froze (but not encrypted) the computer until a ransom payment was made for a release code. Crypto-ransomware, in contrast, encrypts data on the victim’s computer until a ransom payment is made to release it. In more recent malicious cases there is no release key, it is used as an attack weapon to permanently fry and disable the victims’ data, which can be devastating for the victim organisation and even more disastrous if it contributes to national infrastructure.
This article draws upon candid in-depth interviews with ransomware victims and practitioners (including police investigators) to explore their reactions to the shift in the ransomware landscape. Our research (EPSRC EP/P011721/1 & EP/M020576/1) finds that a subtle ecosystem of social and technical factors makes crypto-ransomware especially harmful. As a consequence, there is no simple remedy – no silver bullet – for such a complex threat. The attackers are increasingly doing their homework on organisations before they attack and have become extremely adaptive in tailoring attack vectors to exploit existing weaknesses within organisations. Successful attacks combine technical and social techniques to get the malware onto the victim’s networks. Techniques that include, for example, psychological trickery, profiling staff, and exploiting various weaknesses such as technical shortcomings, areas of neglect by senior management and a shortage of skilled, dedicated and adaptive front-line managers – basically any opportunity available.
Our findings illustrate the need for a multi-layered approach to protect organisations and make them more resilient to ransomware attacks. While the cybersecurity industry has responded to progressively serious ransomware threats with a similar degree of adaptiveness to the offenders, they have tended to focus upon technical solutions rather than the social aspects of ransomware. So, these observations suggest that organisations need to continually improve their security game and be as adaptive as the criminals in their responses to attacks. In order to achieve this goal, we developed a taxonomy of crypto-ransomware countermeasures that identifies a range of response tools, which are the socio-technical measures and controls necessary for organisations to implement in order to respond to crypto-ransomware effectively. We then, identified the enablers of change – the groups of employees, such as front-line managers and senior management, who must take an active role in implementing the response tools to ensure the organisation is prepared for cyber-attacks.
We envisage that our findings will assist Police Officers working in Cybercrime Units to further understand the victim’s perspective and the impacts of crypto-ransomware. Also, they have important practical implications for IT and Security managers and their organisations more generally. The taxonomy provides a blueprint for systematising security measures to protect organisations against crypto-ransomware attacks. Managers need to select controls appropriate to their specific organisational settings. For example, the ‘business-use only’ of IT resources is necessary in some organisations, such as commercial organisations, but not practical in others such as research institutions. Similarly, face-to-face security training may be more effective in smaller organisations than larger ones. The taxonomy also underlines the importance of embedding appropriate ‘social’ based controls in organisational cultures rather than simply focusing upon technical measures. This is because, as indicated above, inappropriate measures, skills and support led to incidents occurring, some of which were particularly devastating.
The skills set for competent front-line management goes beyond being security and IT-savvy, to becoming organisationally adaptive and thinking like ‘the enemy’. Security professionals are required to be influential leaders who can change attitudes and behaviours in organisations by cultivating certain cultural traits. In return, senior management must be IT-competent and effective in overseeing the IT functions of their organisation. Senior managers represent an important part of the security chain in organisations and need to support the efforts of mid-managers. Ultimately, both levels have to respect each other’s position to work together, co-own the problem to co-produce the solution – something that is easier to describe than to implement into practice. Our future plan is to convert the taxonomy into a more user-friendly tool, similar to the Cyber Essentials self-assessment instrument. | https://www.fightcrimeterrorism.com/de/the-rise-of-crypto-ransomware-in-a-changing-cybercrime-landscape-taxonomising-countermeasures/ |
<p>Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), announced results from a new survey and report produced in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit. The report “Sustainable Compliance: Industry Regulation and the Role of IT Governance” is based on a global survey of more than 800 IT executives from 22 countries throughout the United States, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Europe, and the Middle East (EMEA), including 50 senior level respondents in Australia.</p> <p>The report details how compliance will place a heavy and ongoing burden on IT operations. For large companies in the survey (over US$8 billion), compliance ranks as a leading strategic IT priority. Key findings include:
• Implementing regulatory compliance programs was cited as one of the biggest current challenges facing IT by over 80 percent of the largest companies in the APAC region, 74 percent of U.S. companies, and 45 percent of the largest EMEA companies.
• Compliance priorities for IT executives vary from industry to industry and country to country with 68 percent of U.S. respondents stating that Sarbanes-Oxley would have a major impact on their IT operations, and with 62 percent of Australia’s respondents responding that Data Privacy has the highest impact.</p> <p>The report also states that IT executives expect benefits from the completion of compliance initiatives. According to the survey, financial reporting, IT Governance, and business process improvements stood out as significant benefits of compliance. • In all three regions of the world, better financial reporting was considered the leading benefit, with 54 percent of U.S. respondents, 60 percent of EMEA respondents, and 66 percent of APAC respondents believing that more accurate financial reporting would emerge from company-wide compliance initiatives.
• The report notes that IT Governance ranked in the top three expected benefits from compliance for each region of the world, and Australian respondents were especially bullish with 64 percent saying IT governance will improve when compliance initiatives are completed • Those surveyed responded that they expect IT Governance to deliver business value -- 60 percent of survey respondents in the United States rate better IT governance as a key driver for business value with 48 percent of EMEA respondents and 41 percent of APAC respondents stating the same.</p> <p>“A flood of business regulations are forcing global IT managers to seek new strategies that minimize the burden and maximize the benefits of addressing regulatory compliance,” said Gareth Lofthouse, European director for executive services at the Economist Intelligence Unit. “This report argues that long-term planning and strong IT Governance will be key to this endeavor.”</p> <p>“The survey results show that compliance mandates are impacting IT worldwide,” said Graham Sowden, Managing Director of Mercury in Australia. “Compliance mandates require changes in business processes, which in turn require changes to business-critical applications. Companies are implementing IT Governance strategies and software to establish a sustainable approach to making these changes and lowering the cost and risk to the business.”</p> <p> The report also includes insight from industry experts including Dr. Peter Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Economist Intelligence Unit report, “Sustainable Compliance: Industry Regulation and the Role of IT Governance” is available at www.mercury.com/eiu-itg-report.</p> | https://www.cio.com.au/article/131314/compliance_top_it_challenge_global_research/ |
<p> The decision by Symbol Technologies to discontinue their long association with Palm OS has opened an international multi million dollar opportunity for Brisbane based Grabba International to fill the gap and supply former Symbol customers with “tens of thousands of units.”</p> <p>Symbol Technologies recently announced that it has decided to discontinue its two Palm OS-based devices worldwide, bowing to European Union environmental regulations and a growing demand for Windows Mobile devices. Symbol has already stopped selling the products in Europe after giving customers a six month warning. While currently Symbol has no Palm-based products in its future road map, that could change, a company spokesperson said. "A lot of people like Palm so that's why I don't think we've closed the door," he said.
The fact that Symbol admitted that “a lot of people like Palm” presented Grabba with a huge global opportunity according to CEO Frank Downes.
“Already we have been approached by many large companies currently happy with their Palm-OS devices who want to change over to Grabba from Symbol,” Mr. Downes said.
“Just as one example, a multi national duty free perfume company is negotiating to change 600 units from Symbol to Grabba so they can stay with Palm.” “This is not just because they are happy with Palm – it is also because they have invested a considerable amount in staff training and don’t want to have to re-train their people all over the world,” he said.
Grabba International Pty Ltd is a fast growing technology corporation which develops, manufactures and markets an international range of hand held “value add” tools that extends the mobile computing power available in a wide range of PDA and Smart Phone hand held devices.</p>
<p>The Grabba range, 75% of which is exported, include Barcode Scanners, Smartcard Readers, RFID Readers, Magnetic Stripe Readers and Combination Readers.</p>
<p>According to CEO Frank Downes, Grabba recently extended its product range to include the Palm® Treo 700p and 700w smartphones.</p> <p>“The Grabba T-2200a Linear Barcode Scanner for Palm® Treo provides a powerful, fast, solid state linear imaging barcode scanner that opens new opportunities for Palm® smartphones.</p> <p>“The Treo 650 or 700w slides snugly into the Grabba housing, turning the combination into an extremely powerful enterprise tool increasingly used in a wide variety of sectors from retail and health to military and homeland security.</p> | https://www.cio.com.au/article/168018/grabba_grabs_global_market_opportunity_symbol_abandons_palm_os/ |
Law enforcement agencies are incorporating computer and network forensics in an effort to fight e-crime and to collect relevant digital evidence for all types of crimes. Nowadays, digital evidence is used to prosecute all types of crimes from child pornography to credit card frauds. The law enforcement agencies are promoting efficient and effective use of computer technology in the investigation, by partnering with digital forensic solutions and service providers.
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After spending months fighting an uber-virus on my computer, I was eventually defeated, robbed of $95 during the battle, and ultimately left stranded, internet-less.
For days afterward, while the worldwide web eluded me, I wondered what was going on Out There.
I worried about all the e-mail messages floating in the abyss, with nobody to harness them and “Reply.”
I hatched complex plans involving discs, printers and cars in order to get my work to its final destination.
To do research, I left my home and visited a building called the library, where I meandered sheepishly through its mazes of ‘material.’
That week without the internet made me realize how dependent I am on it.
Comforting me only slightly is the knowledge that I’m not alone.
After relaying my pathetic internet conundrum some friends, one of them offered me solace in the form of a magazine.
An article in the March 2007 edition The Atlantic contained what he felt were some pretty alarming results of a study that asked Americans what they can’t live without.
In 2006, 29 per cent of Americans said they couldn’t live without high-speed internet, according to the Pew Research Centre’s report Luxury or Necessity?
It didn’t question Canadians, but doubtless it’s the same situation here, if not worse, considering more of us in Canada have internet access — 67.5 per cent of us or 21.9 million people, in fact, and of those, 6.7 million have high-speed internet.
The report also revealed that 49 per cent of Americans consider cellphones something they can’t live without.
Older technologies like dishwashers, air conditioners, microwaves and cable television, meanwhile, advanced towards widespread indispensability, it noted, compared to 1996.
For example, home air-conditioners got a 70 per cent rating in 2006, compared to 51 per cent in 1996 and microwaves were “needed” by 68 per cent of Americans in 2006 compared to 32 per cent a decade earlier.
The report notes that “wherever there has been a significant change … in the public’s judgment about these items, it’s always been in the direction of necessity”— and that the list of necessities just keeps on getting longer.
Lower costs no doubt play a big role in this phenomenon.
Remember in the 1980s when microwaves and VCRs were the ultimate luxuries?
If either of these things breaks today, $20 at Wal-Mart will buy you a new one.
A few pages later in The Atlantic, I read the results of another, very different, study. This one surveyed the poor of Asia, Africa and South America, specifically, those who live on less than $2 a day.
In some of these countries only one or two out of 100 people have electricity.
Luxuries there include bicycles and radios.
Food is sacrificed to buy televisions.
I suppose it’s easy to say you can’t live without something when you know you’ll never have to.
But what’s scary is that this over-abundance of cheap technologies here in Canada and the US, not to mention other First World countries, has made us a pampered, even spoiled, bunch.
Even the poorest among us can lead a pretty decadent life replete with cable TV, DVD player and a home stereo system. And if those things one day just disappear because of war, a global financial catastrophe or Armageddon, what then?
This past week without the internet made me to wonder what my life would look like without all of these luxurious necessities, internet access in particular.
I concluded quite a few things might change.
1) I would probably get more exercise. Seriously, at times I actually had to physical move around to get work done and to deliver it.
2) I would be more involved in my community. Shortly after I visited the library to do research, I was inspired to visit it again with my kids to read books and I ran into other parents doing the same.
3) I would read more books. By relying so much on the internet for information, I’ve gotten in the habit of reading short news articles, blogs and book reviews or excerpts rather than the books themselves.
4) Again, I would go to the library and read more books…. And I would bring my books home and laze on a comfy couch and read instead of sitting slouched over at my desk.
5) I would call more people on the telephone. Maybe this is just trading in one technology for another, but I did find that calling my friends, whom I normally would just e-mail, was nice; it got us instantly connected and, I believe, it might have played a role in us actually getting together.
6) I would work less and play more. The internet is too easy. And if you’re like me, and you use it for your job, you just might find yourself working all the time.
7) I would know less celebrity gossip. I can stop myself from buying the tabloids in the grocery store, but geez it’s hard to resist clicking on the Britney rehab story on my Yahoo home page. | https://www.yukon-news.com/news/a-computer-virus-drove-me-to-the-library/ |
N282adserv.com attempts to fool users with fake online lotteries
N282adserv.com virus triggers redirections to insecure domains which deceive users into thinking that they have just won a new iPhone or another prize. Alternatively, other netizens might notice commercial offers[1] to install PC optimization tool or malware elimination tool.
Let us assure that these claims are an ordinary online felony. There is no need to be an IT expert to realize that. The shady and unusually long URL domain, n282adserv.com/impression.gif?b=, address suggests that the website is part of advertising type, which is closely intertwined with malvertising.
Entering any personal information in such online surveys and similar award winning websites may result in the flood of spam, infected with malware, in your Inbox. Observing the content of this website and poor security, you should exit the website and remove N282adserv.com web scripts. Reimage Cleaner or Malwarebytes does it for you faster.
Online lottery scams are still viable
It seems that already several decades have passed since the introduction of the Internet and the emergence of this particular form of advertising, there are still hundreds of similar fishy web pages which employ this bait.
Surprisingly, regardless of constant warnings to fall for it, there are still a number of users who are willing to take the risk. The Jayden K. Smith Facebook scam illustrates such phenomenon well.[2]
The problem is that there is no certainty where you may spot N282adserv.com ads. You are likely to encounter them in illegal movie streaming or gaming sites. It is often the case that you have to click on the play button several times in order to actually play the movie.
On the other hand, N282adserv.com redirect phenomenon might be just as bothersome as the commercial popups or nee tab alerts. There is no doubt that just fake claims about won prizes are just a pure scam. Likewise, getting redirect to and the web page infected with malware might result in troublesome cyber outcomes. Thus, it is high time you initiated N282adserv.com removal.
N282adserv.com virus may trigger pop-up alerts suggesting different services.
Transmission peculiarities of PUP programs
This adware does not operate with its specific application. Thus, if you look at the list of system applications, you will find nothing to uninstall. In fact, the N282adserv.com hijack process is quite insidious.
As mentioned before, it operates via web scripts and commercial deals which then redirect to the PUP site. Once you find yourself in it, ignore any suggestions to fill up the survey, reclaim the prize, or enter personal information. After you cancel the tab, scan the device to eliminate the associated cookies.
Eliminate N282adserv and its related elements
In comparison with other malware currently active on the market, there is no need to be of concern. Nonetheless, it does not mean that you can ignore the redirect case, even if you got carried away once to the PUP, launch an anti-malware utility to remove N282adserv.com virus scripts.
Romanian users[3] should be especially watchful. This adware scam is specifically active in the Romanian movie streaming sites. Below N282adserv.com removal guidelines will be handy in getting rid of cookies and web scripts in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and MS Edge.
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If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
Uninstall N282adserv.com and related programs
Here, look for N282adserv.com or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove N282adserv.com from Windows shortcuts
Right click on the shortcut of Mozilla Firefox and select Properties.
Go to Shortcut tab and look at the Target field. Delete malicious URL that is related to your virus.
Repeat steps that are given above with all browsers' shortcuts, including Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Make sure you check all locations of these shortcuts, including Desktop, Start Menu and taskbar.
WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafari
Eliminate N282adserv.com from Mac OS X system
Mac OS users may also get redirected to N282adserv.com adware counterparts. Performing regular scans and staying vigilant will decrease the risk to encounter it. In case you already got misled there, take a look at the below guidelines.
If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
Wait until you see Applications folder and look for N282adserv.com or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for N282adserv.com and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
Click Settings to open more options.
Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
Find this folder on your computer: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft. MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions.
Here, select N282adserv.com and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete N282adserv.com removal.
Click on menu icon and choose Settings.
Here, look for the Open a specific page or set of pages under On startup option and click on Set pages.
Now you should see another window. Here, delete malicious search sites and enter the one that you want to use as your homepage.
Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings.
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
Click Reset to confirm this action and complete N282adserv.com removal.
Open your Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu section. Here, select Preferences as it was displayed previously and select General.
Here, look at the Homepage field. If it was altered by N282adserv.com, remove unwanted link and enter the one that you want to use for your searches. Remember to include the "http://" before typing in the address of the page.
Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete N282adserv.com removal process.
Use the QR scanner to get instructions on your mobile device.
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Good, in-depth course. Point off due to following:
-Redundancy in graded work that should be standard by this point in the certification path.
-Graded work that would be more suited to be part of the network module rather than the security module.
This course was too good . there were few topics which some more elaboration. such as tacas+ , SSH etc.
Otherwise it is a very good courses to have basics cleared . topics covered are perfect
It teaches so many things which we have facing in our digital life but didn't noticed.
After completing this course I'm conscious now about security and attacks. | https://pt.coursera.org/learn/it-security/reviews?authMode=login%3D&page=69 |
There are two styles of antivirus security software programs, those that provide complete antivirus protection or those that force away a few risks only. Let’s take a look at these two varied approaches to antivirus security software safety first.
With all the full antivirus protection system, you can run a trojan scan on your computer, download new patches and add-ons, update this software and even send it to various other computers. You may make backups and schedule restarts. These programs are not all the costly. An individual know a lot about them to use them.
Antivirus protection for just one set of scripts is usually not so expensive. It might be found in a large number of places, mainly because the good types are available along with your average internet connection provider. There are also a lot of free ones, but you will need to register to download them.
Most of these protection programs will certainly update your data files, but will not likely prevent spyware and viruses from posting any system. They should still get rid of infections, but they tend not to protect against these people. Many people end up getting viruses and malware while trying to remove attacks from their devices.
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Full security does whatever you would expect, yet there are features you won’t obtain if you buy a one-size-fits-all product. reviews on TotalAV antivirus The software program will monitor the system and identify all of the potential dangers. It will block both attacks and becomes the computer registry and also identify possible problems that need replacement. If you have a password protected drive, you can preserve the files there using a pass word that will permit the software to view the data as long as you give it agreement.
The full antivirus protection works the system for malware, Trojans, worms and other harmful software, and then will fix the damage. Your computer will operate more efficiently, but it will surely also retain it from rebooting many times as you browse the net. Antivirus protection can be used to prevent disorders that can damage your pc’s operating system.
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A Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing turned back after takeoff Thursday evening after a passenger assaulted a flight-crew member — an incident that left both people and another passenger injured — FBI and airport representatives said.
The man accused of attacking the crew member, a 23-year-old man from Florida, was arrested shortly after the plane returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich-Williams said.
Delta Flight 129 was flying over or near Canada’s western coast when a man assaulted a flight attendant in the first-class cabin, and several passengers stepped in to try to subdue the attacker, airport spokesman Perry Cooper said.
Details about what led to the alleged assault weren’t immediately available.
Early reports that the suspect tried to break into the cockpit were incorrect, Perry said, adding that an investigation continues.
The plane, which had taken off at 5:24 p.m. PT, turned back and landed at the Seattle-Tacoma airport at 7:09 p.m. PT, flight-tracking website FlightAware shows.
The flight attendant and a passenger were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Cooper said, without giving further details about the injuries.
The suspect also was injured, but declined treatment from medics and was taken into custody, Cooper said.
The flight departed again for Beijing shortly after midnight local time Friday.
The suspect is due to make an initial appearance in federal court Friday at 2 p.m. PT in Seattle, the FBI said.
Safe return
Delta described the flight’s return as a “security incident with a passenger.” “The passenger was restrained onboard and was removed from the flight by law enforcement without further incident when the aircraft arrived back at Seattle,” the airline said in a prepared statement.
There were conflicting reports soon after the incident. Initially, two people familiar with it told CNN on condition of anonymity that the man tried to enter the cockpit.
But Cooper subsequently said that was incorrect, and he and Dietrich-Williams described the incident only as an assault on a crew member.
Dietrich-Williams, the FBI spokeswoman, added there was no information to suggest that there was a national security threat.
The two anonymous sources also initially said that the Boeing 767 returned to the airport under a Department of Defense escort.
The FBI Seattle field office maintains a regular presence at the airport, and is assisting and interviewing passengers from the flight, Dietrich-Williams said.
“The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and more details about the incident will be provided and the charges announced at the subject’s initial appearance in federal court,” the FBI said.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from airport and airline officials and authorities. | http://wtkr.com/2017/07/07/delta-flight-security-incident-leaves-3-injured/ |
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When I first started my career, I often heard my leaders talk about the importance of strategy. I was an individual contributor who was dealing with insurmountable day to day problems that kept going on and on. I couldn’t understand the value of taking time out to think 3-5 years out when I had 100% of my day filled with day to day tasks. As I lived day to day with the same problems day after day, I started to see the value of planning out a strategy. I was living with the hope that things would improve because I was working hard. Hope is not a way to get your organization moving forward in a prevailing direction.
You have to make time to determine where you want to go and what you want to do. Start by deciding what your program looks like in a few years. For instance, do you want to be compliant with regulations only? Do you want to be a leader in your industry? What direction you choose determines the steps you need to take to get there. When I first started in the information security field, these concepts were odd to me.
I wanted to have a clear direction, but how would I align it to what the company wanted? I selected what I thought the company wished to achieve because I always assumed we wanted the same thing. Turns out that being a world leader in Information Security was a tremendous personal strategy, but the company didn’t share that goal. They wanted to be compliant and secure the information, but they didn’t want to spend the money to be the best. When I was younger, this was shocking, how could they not want to be the best at EVERYTHING? Initially, this led to frustration on my part, but then I started to look back and put an analogy to my own life. I wanted to be the best at the things I wanted to focus on; we can’t be all things all the time. For instance, I wanted to be healthy and be in good shape. I didn’t want to invest the time and effort to be a world-class athlete as I cared about other things. The same thing applies to your company. They want to be healthy (secure for their customers), but they don’t need to be the world leader in security. Does that mean the company was doing something wrong? No, it just means they are focusing on other things, such as providing excellent customer service or amazing products.
When thinking about your strategy, think about this example. Most companies will want a security goal of being compliant with applicable contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements as well as to keep their systems and information reasonably secure. Once you know your goal, you can determine a strategy and the tactics you need to achieve the goal. Please don’t make a mistake I made earlier in my career by skipping aligning your program to your companies objectives. There is a reason why a large group of CISO’s last 24 months on average and why the average Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) is stressed. Being out of synch is enough to make anyone stressed. Your work relationship is essential, just as a personal relationship. Would a marriage or relationship with conflicting goals last very long? A professional one is similar.
Hoping things fall into place is not a strategy. You need to determine what you want, just like anything in life and then take active steps to get there. For instance, you don’t only hope that food will appear on your table every evening. You will take steps to achieve the goal of eating tonight by working at a job, going to the store, and preparing a meal. This simple example has a corollary in security. You don’t just hope your organization will be secure; you make your organization more secure. Start by establishing the expectations and requirements via policies and standards. Next, communicate those expectations and requirements via a security awareness program. Finally, monitor the implementation of those requirements and report on progress.
When developing your strategy, don’t just trust that things will fall in to place, and everyone is on board. Constant monitoring and adjustment are critical in reaching your plan successfully. Also, be willing to adapt as organizational changes evolve, such as changes in leadership, market conditions, or other unknowns as you grow and learn more. When sharing the strategy, ensure people know that your approach is flexible and will change as any strategy should.
Look at your organization’s overall goals and talk to your leadership. Here are three examples:
Does your organization want to lead the industry in security and use that as a differentiator from their competition? This approach makes sense if you are in a highly competitive industry that deals with a lot of personal data, or if your competition has had a highly publicized security issue that has eroded trust.
Does your organization want security to not detract from sales, so your organization only needs to be compliant with existing regulatory, contractual, and legal requirements? This approach is often taken in organizations just developing or rebuilding their information security programs. You will also see this in highly regulated environments where the costs of compliance are high, and the industry is mature.
Does your organization want the security program to be in between industry-leading and merely compliant? For example, your organization may not be ready to spend the money on leading-edge security tools, but they want to use companies in their industry as a benchmark and exceed them by a specified amount. You may see this in well-defined information security programs that are in the continuous improvement phase and in industries that are well established and benchmarked.
These are only three examples, there are many other options, and each will take your information security program in a different direction. Take the time to understand your organizational business goals and begin aligning your program to supporting those goals. This information will help you develop an aligned strategy, from which you can define the tactics of getting to the goal.
I’ve learned that hope and prayers, or even ignoring the future is a strategy that some people take, even when they don’t realize it. Alignment to your organizations ultimate goal and a plan to support those goals is the only way to succeed. I’d love to hear your thoughts or disagreements in the comments below! | https://infoseckaizen.com/ciso-lessons-learned-hope-is-not-a-strategy |
Zero trust comes up in almost every conversation I have. It's definitely THE hot topic across the industry right now.
And yet, I see confusion in terms of how, when, and where to get started with it.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other organizations have put out communication around it, and there are some clean starts to definitions around zero trust. The good news is this means you don’t have to address everything all at once—you can choose one focus area at a time.
Based on my career as a security professional, I think a good starting point is the concept of zero trust in the category of traffic inspection.
How encrypted traffic is giving bad actors opportunity
At Zscaler, we approach zero trust as a mindset centered around having an implicit distrust of all traffic. Bad actors excel at exploiting vulnerabilities, and by inherently trusting no one, organizations have better control and can avoid cyberthreats and subsequent data compromise.
In terms of traffic inspection, the level of encrypted internet traffic users interact with—whether it is HTTPS or Port 443—has crept up slowly over a long period of time. Users and IT managers have come to implicitly trust SSL encryption, and organizations are looking at that encrypted traffic and saying, “I'm going to grant implicit trust to that SSL traffic and I'm going to allow it to pass through.”
The problem is that encrypted traffic cannot be trusted, and last year, 80 percent of all cloud traffic was SSL encrypted.
In the last six months of 2018 alone, Zscaler blocked 1.7 billion SSL threats. We see malicious actors taking advantage of the implicit trust people give SSL, using it as a threat vector to individual environments.
I don’t think any IT security professional is granting this implicit trust to SSL because they believe all that traffic is trustworthy. Rather, it's the fact that inspecting all of it is a monumental challenge for many organizations. Purchasing and managing a number of appliances to break and inspect all this traffic is a heavy lift.
Why implicit distrust matters
The oldest security game in the book is adversary and defender. It predates the digital age, going back to the days of cops and robbers. The bad guy identifies and exploits a vulnerability and then the security professionals, the good guys, patch and defend against that individual exploit.
And then the bad guys find a new vulnerability because attackers are always going to excel at figuring out where vulnerability exists.
Implicit trust of encrypted internet traffic is a vulnerability malicious actors use today to great effect, and they will continue to do so into the future.
Zero implicit trust (or implicit distrust) is a solid counter to that strategy.
For example, in an internal security program, there are URLs deemed as safe or unsafe for internet users. The addresses deemed safe are usually given implicit trust because the site is “safe.” Bad actors can spot this site specifically and commit a watering hole attack, plant malicious content, or create a redirect from a good node to a bad.
The bad actor places this traffic inside SSL over Port 443. It's got the HTTPS, so it will be encrypted because the bad actors understand that encrypted traffic has access to many places in a position of trust where it's not going to reach the same level of inspection as other pieces of traffic. The traffic is allowed through because it's coming from a known good node.
And now the vulnerability has been exploited. The exploit infects the user in this individual case.
Even if the traffic will go into a sandbox, that doesn’t always prevent the attack. Due to the cost and time, I often see traffic passed simultaneously as it's being detonated in the sandbox. That means the payload is hitting the target at the same time it’s being flagged as a malicious payload.
At this point, the payload is on the target and malicious actors are committing malicious action.
This can be anything from internal denial of service to destruction or modification of data to ransoming an internal owner’s data back to them.
Does this mean that current security models and methods are bad? No, not at all.
An antivirus engine, backended by a threat database with file type static malware analysis is a good, fast, and efficient way to go. However, I think many methods are being used inefficiently because they can only be as good as they are up to date.
The fluid nature of the environment in which we all operate means we can only provide a solid depth of protection as we have definitions. If we’re not updating them consistently, that's another vulnerability that malicious actors can use.
Cyberattackers are rapidly changing their attacks and methods and coming at environments with different MD5 hashes because if they can relay around this, they can eventually get to the payload target.
How security works in a perfect world
Dynamic malware analysis has a level of heuristics at the end of that analysis, like a “good/bad” process, to be able to do a level of risk assessment against an individual piece of traffic. If it's deemed suspicious, it goes to a sandbox. In a perfect world, that sandbox blocks the file or piece of traffic from the user until it's determined whether that individual piece of traffic is good or bad.
If it's good, it passes it to the user. If it's bad, the user never has the opportunity to interact with it. That payload is never delivered to the host.
As soon as the traffic is determined to be malware and should be blocked, the definitions are updated.
Now, I could do that inside my own agency and my peers could do it inside their agencies.
But what if I had access to a service where I could not only stop that malicious content from accessing the payload landing on my host, but stop it from within a group of users? And those users could do the same.
This is how Zscaler works. Our definitions are updated constantly. We are always pulling from our own sources of data. There is no data known to be bad or malicious that we don’t include in our scan process.
We have a method in place when analyzing traffic that allows us to say, “we don't have a definition specifically against this. There's not any MD5 hash to categorize the traffic, so we’ll take a look at it in the sandbox and see what happens.”
When we determine an individual piece of traffic is bad, we go back and update those definitions. When that MD5 hash is seen again, we don't have to spend the time cycles and currency sandboxing that individual piece of traffic, which can negatively impact the user experience.
For example, we had a customer that had a piece of ransomware and an info stealer Trojan come through unflagged as good or bad because there were no definitions against this individual piece of traffic.
However, based upon some analysis and heuristics we did, we determined it was suspicious. It went to the sandbox and was flagged as a problem. The malicious traffic was noted and repopulated back to the scan engines at the top. The next time this traffic came through to this customer and other customers subscribed to the service, the MD5 hash flagged it as known bad and immediately blocked it.
We decrypt and inspect all SSL encrypted traffic against a long list of definitions that are as current as they can be. This level of implicit distrust is possible because, as a cloud service, we can have the cloud effect and those databases are kept up to date. I'm able to have a detonation outside of the agency's data center and outside of the internal network, make a determination on file, and that determination is immediately strengthening my scanning process at the top.
And that is zero implicit trust (or the advantage of implicit distrust). We can live in a perfect world with a mindset around applying zero trust to the traffic inspection model. | https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/product-insights/advantage-implicit-distrust-traffic-inspection |
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a stark cautioning to universities across the country, urging them to be on their guard counter to Cyberattacks.
The key risk, in fact, two-fold. Primarily, it comes from ne’er-do-wells looking for financial gain via untargeted attacks; however, they do “have the potential for greater financial impact”, reports the cybersecurity agency.
In the meanwhile, though, the report sounds an alarm on a more silent threat, one that is “possibly to cause greater long-term harm” – state-sponsored attacks and surveillance. These infiltrations seek concerted strategic gain and are aimed at intellectual property theft institutions housed valuable research data and other assets, which is why they largely fall under cyber attacks.
From a technical perspective, attacks involving social engineering remain a staple. Indeed, a team of ethical hackers recently conducted simulated attacks at more than 50 universities in the UK and, in every case, got their hands on high-value data within two hours.
Every university should be aware that cybercriminals make money by thieving personal data and selling it on the black market to other criminals, who then turn the data into cash through a range of deceitful schemes. To cybercriminals, who are not interested in whose data they steal, these sources of personal data make an appealing target.
“Universities that do not adequately protect themselves risk the loss or exposure of personal information, staff data, institutional research data valuable to cybercriminals operating domestically and internationally,” the report said. Criminal gangs play a vital role in cyber-attacks particularly phishing attacks where malicious emails are used to fake the recipient into clicking through to a bogus website and entering a username and password.
The National Cyber Security Centre assessed with great precision that the Mabna Institute was almost certainly responsible for the operation targeting universities in the UK, US, and other Western countries.
To protect against incursions, the universities are being urged to ensure they have a range of basic measures including security-conscious policies and strict authentication and access controls, as well as making sure that university networks are crafted with security considerations in mind. Still, the primary line of defense is good security awareness among staff and students, as noted by the report.
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Earlier, an international investigation by over a dozen news outlets concluded that the Israeli cyber firm NSO Group had sold “authoritarian governments” around the globe its hacking software to spy on journalists, politicians, and various activists.
The spyware scandal involving Israel's software firm and tens of thousands of smartphone numbers was "completely unacceptable" if true, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
"What we could read so far, and this has to be verified, but if it is the case, it is completely unacceptable and against any kind of rules we have in the European Union," von der Leyen said at a press conference in Prague. | https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/?q=content/pegasus-spyware-used-against-journalists-completely-unacceptable-if-true-von-der-leyen-says |
When Google released Gboard for iOS earlier this year, scorned Android users were promised that the search-centric keyboard would be making its way to Android phones soon enough. Some six months later, Google is making good on its promise, and it’s every bit as good as it is on the iPhone.
Coming in the form of an update to the existing Google Keyboard, the new version brings a slew of features that iPhone users have already been enjoying, most notably a Google search bar built right into the top row. Just tap the tiny arrow to the left of the predictive text field and you’ll see a series of new options. Expand the magnifying glass and you’ll be able to search Google via a tiny browser to easily send links, pics, and, most importantly, GIFs to your friends. You can also change the theme, adjust settings, turn on one-handed mode, and enable dictation from the same options bar.
Search for just the right GIF, image, or link to drive your point home.
Also new is a search field for the emoji picker and a dedicated number row that can be toggled on in settings, and you can also opt to show the “G” button in the predictive text row. Elsewhere, Google’s gesture typing has been renamed Glide Typing, but it seems to work exactly the same. The update is currently rolling out to the Play Store, but if you don’t want to wait (and we don’t blame you), sideload the Google-signed APK from APK Mirror.
The impact on you at home: We’re generally okay with Google sharing Android apps and services with the greater iOS community, but we never understood why Gboard was exclusive to the iPhone for so long. But all is forgiven. The Android version of Gboard brings everything the iOS one does, and we couldn’t ask for a better early Christmas gift.
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Risk prone environment: Limitations due to vulnerability patching, lack of asset visibility and difficult in testing production environment creates limited risk mitigation and remediation.
Disruption in critical operations: any attempt on ICS and SCADA can affect safety, reliability and availability of the critical process and can lead to major catastrophe which can jeopardise even national security.
Limited ICS cyber security skills: ICS cyber security skills are short in supply and contributes to vulnerability.
Regulatory compliance: Governments are now more proactively demanding cyber security compliance leading to significant changes to operational processes.
Inspira IACS security framework comprises of defence in depth and secure by design principles based layered security controls to provide an , NIST/IEC 62443 compliant holistic security posture for OT.
Starting with a OT cyber resilience program we identify the assets, vulnerabilities and threat actors by conducting threat modelling. The gap analysis helps prioritise relevant security controls and help industry to develop the roadmap and maturity model. | https://www.inspiraenterprise.com/services/operation-technology-cyber-security-enabling-industrial-digital-transformation |
Secure cloud architectures are important for not only large enterprises and governments, but also small and medium-sized companies.
As the work from home culture continues, it is time for organisations to realize that the shift to public cloud is not a temporary fix, but a long-term one. Public Cloud helps enterprises to scale up their workload, achieve high availability and most importantly ensure security.
Public Cloud Hyperscale experienced a sudden spike last year as enterprises embraced it to sustain their work. However, a secure approach to the adoption was missing in many ways. As a result, despite a high percentage of companies having an independent security budget, 52 percent of organisations in India have fallen victim to a successful cyberattack in the last 12 months (according to a survey by cybersecurity firm Sophos).
These attacks can be attributed to mainly two reasons, first, there was no time to create a sophisticated system and second, decision-makers had limited knowledge of the IT ecosystem. However, with WFH gaining more popularity, business leaders have realized that they must enable rapid reinvention in their organisation and upgrade their IT strategies.
As for Cloud Adoption, there are two critical areas that one needs to carefully build upon. The first being Shared Responsibility Model and the second, avoiding siloed IT Ops to hold Shadow IT at the bay.
Speaking of the Shared Responsibility Model, over the entire stretch of last year, it was missing in practice by many organisations. A shared responsibility model is a cloud security framework that dictates the security obligations of a cloud computing provider and its users to ensure accountability. In the shared responsibility model, the organisation is only responsible for the security of the applications, data, and workloads that they host on the cloud, and the provider is responsible for complete security of the underlying infrastructure which is powering their hyper scale offerings.
As for Shadow IT, it is simply the characteristic of any IT transformation. With the adoption of Public Cloud there is a massive transformation happening and in this due process a Hybrid and Multi Cloud environment gets built up. The non-uniformity in the adoption levels, implementation practices, and operational standardization have created a parallel process framework clearly deviating from the IT merits of an organisation.
In this situation, an Integrated Managed Security Services approach is very crucial. Many organisations have recognized that an integrated Managed Services can address the security gap developed due to Hybrid & multi-cloud environments as they bring together the NOC and SOC capabilities providing a single pane of glass for visibility of the entire IT estate. This effectively eliminates the siloed IT Ops and hence the shadow IT. Security becomes the nucleus, de facto!
An Integrated Managed Security Services provides visibility of the infra helping organisation expose the unmanaged and unattached resources on cloud, governance control allowing to build a policy guardrail and a uniform data protection policy. They bring the expertise to manage operations from an off-site location, allowing enterprises to conduct business as usual with minimal intrusion. The MSSP interface maintains a constant line of communication and seamless reporting to the business such that it is always up to date with the status of operational availability, infra optimisation, and the security posture. This enables the hiring organisation to focus on business outcomes.
Additionally, managed security services offer continuous overseeing and protection, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. Choosing to handle enterprise security in-house, without the help of an outsourced vendor, requires a large investment in manpower and technology. But with managed security services, organisations can buy services on a Pay-by-Use model, as it provides the flexibility to get best in class services without making major investments. The author is Director of Inspira Enterprise. | https://www.inspiraenterprise.com/articles/why-cloud-security-and-integrated-risk-management-system-are-critical-for-organisations |
BARCELONA: The telecoms industry is acutely aware of the need to ensure that ever-more complex mobile networks are safe, the head of its main lobby group stated, as debate swirls over whether to bar some equipment vendors on national security grounds.
The GSMA, which groups 300 operators worldwide, has pushed back against US calls on its European allies to bar Huawei Technologies over concerns the firm is too close to the Chinese state and its equipment may be open to cyber spies.
It has instead proposed a stronger Europe-wide testing regime to ensure that, as operators build next-generation 5G networks, smartphones and the billions of connected devices that will be hooked up to the ‘Internet of Things’ are protected from hackers.
“We are now moving into intelligent connectivity, which means that more stuff will be connected,” said Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA that is hosting the Mobile World Congress, a major annual industry gathering in Barcelona. “If we have doubts today, the risk is that those doubts would be magnified going forward.”
The GSMA finds itself caught up in a broader political struggle as trade tensions between the United States and China buffet the telecoms industry.
US officials have lobbied their European allies to ban Huawei, the global networks market leader. That is opposed by operators, with some saying the rollout of 5G services could be delayed by years if they have to rip out and replace Chinese kit in their networks.
Huawei denies that it has ever spied for Beijing, and says no credible evidence has ever been presented that its gear allows illicit access to the country’s intelligences services.
FACT-BASED ASSESSMENT
European industry leaders have called for the United States to substantiate its arguments. Vodafone CEO Nick Read said in Barcelona that this was needed to enable a “fact-based, risk-assessed review”.
The European Commission is weighing whether to impose what would amount to a de-facto ban on Huawei, sources in Brussels revealed.
In a keynote address to the Mobile World Congress, Digital Single Market Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said she took the industry’s concerns seriously and also called for a “fact-based assessment”.
It’s not yet clear whether this similar rhetoric means Brussels will heed the industry’s arguments and refrain from imposing a blanket ban on Chinese suppliers.
For European operators, though, the preference is clear that competition between, and choice of, network vendors is vital to ensure that they can innovate and seek new ways to grow.
“We have always worked with security and we will always continue to work security and network integrity,” said Granryd, a 57-year-old former CEO of Sweden’s Tele2.
“We live from scale, from having a community that can help us propel through innovation, through cost-effective solutions, through quick rollout.
“That is our aim, to make sure that we have a healthy supplier base, that (is) competing with each other.” | https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/02/26/telecoms-industry-sees-need-to-tighten-network-security-regardless-of-huawei/ |
The University of Essex in conjunction with University of Emory and Savannah College of Law hosts A Workshop on Property, Vulnerability, and Resilience September 22-23, 2017. “This workshop will explore what role Vulnerability Theory can play in understanding how property ownership has sharpened an insider-outsider culture and contributed to our current political climate.”
Deadline: Email a proposal as a Word or PDF document by June 19, 2017, to Rachel Ezrol (rezrol[@]emory.edu) and Cat Gentry (lawhrcevents[@]essex.ac.uk). Decisions will be made by June 30, 2017 and working paper drafts will be due September 1, 2017 so they can be duplicated and distributed prior to the Workshop. | http://legalscholarshipblog.com/2017/04/26/call-for-papers-a-workshop-on-property-vulnerability-and-resilience-essex-united-kingdom/ |
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Last week was a sobering one for Congress.
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump served as the backdrop, the vivid videos of the angry mob of Jan. 6 underscoring all that could have been lost that day, and all that divides Americans.
In the House committee rooms, meanwhile, lawmakers worked on a giant economic relief package as we head into the second year of a deadly, isolating, growth-killing pandemic.
And finally, in a room far from the central action of the week, a handful of government and private sector professionals held forth before the House Homeland Security panel on one harder-to-define but no-less-real challenge to this democratic republic. The shorthand word for it is cybersecurity — but that term trivializes the issue, and the challenge.
Cyber makes it sound like it belongs only to the province of the computer savvy, the geeks, as if it is some secondary technical problem that has a permanent fix.
It is not. This is an issue of national security, and of national survival, these intelligence and technology professionals said. The growth of the internet worldwide combined with the power of mass online messaging through social media, and available-to-all hacking tools, means that the United States is under constant, unrelenting attack from adversaries, foreign and domestic.
The attacks do not cease, will not cease and will be a permanent problem, like human disease, about which Americans have to be constantly vigilant, and which may never be eradicated.
This is not about just computer systems going down or getting glitchy. A public water supply was attacked earlier this month in Florida, which if it had not been foiled quickly could have sickened tens of thousands of people. The recent and ongoing SolarWinds hack, by Russian intelligence operatives, will be with us for years and is still only partially understood. It affects and will affect hundreds of top U.S. companies and many agencies of the federal government.
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The attack on Congress of Jan. 6 was also borne of this technology revolution. It was aided and abetted by not only Trump’s constant use of social media and television to tell a lie but by algorithms and actors, some shadowy and online, others elected and prominent, who promoted the same lie to the point of inciting a riot.
Meanwhile, identities are stolen, credit card accounts corrupted, small businesses paralyzed. Universities and school systems and local government computers are hacked and made to pay huge ransom payments to get unhacked, or take the hit and expense of weeks of rebuilding computer systems.
Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who was fired by Trump last year, told the House Homeland Security Committee that the use of ransomware now is a “scourge.” “I think we’re on the verge of a global emergency,” Krebs said of ransomware at the Feb. 10 hearing. “The rate at which we are seeing state and local governments get hit is truly frightening.”
Sue Gordon, a former deputy director of national intelligence, told the committee that criminal hacking, by crooks and nation states, is “a global commodity now, everyone can cause harm. Formerly just the province of great powers, now it is available to anyone. … In a digitally connected world, one need not travel great physical distance or expend great resources to achieve malign outcome.”
Disinformation also needs to be seen through the cybersecurity lens, according to the experts.
“We haven’t talked much about disinformation as a part of the cyber threat, but it surely is, and we have learned it,” Gordon said. “Disinformation is incredibly powerful, the ability to overwhelm airwaves with any sort of messaging.”
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Russia is the best practitioner of these dark technology arts, all of the professionals said at the hearing, but China, Iran and North Korea are learning fast.
And they have a clear objective. Said Gordon: “We know that our adversaries, particularly Russia but not exclusively Russia, have as their strategic imperative to undermine democracy.”
Jan. 6 played right into their hands, Gordon said. Russian leaders will amplify the message of American division and hold up the images of violence at the U.S. Capitol globally to suggest that what Americans have professed about themselves is not true and that what Russia has at home is better and more stable.
In their Feb. 10 remarks, the experts echoed the October 2019 bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia’s use of social media in the 2016 elections.
“Russian information warfare on social media is often aimed squarely at attacking a society and its relationship to its own democratic institutions,” the report said. And one of those institutions is a free press.
“Information warfare, at its core, is a struggle over information and truth. A free and open press — a defining attribute of democratic society — is a principal strategic target for Russian disinformation,” the senators concluded.
Jakub Kalensky, a former official with the European Union’s rapid response team created to counter Russian disinformation, was quoted by the senators as saying, “It’s not the purpose to persuade someone with one version of events. The goal for Russia is to achieve a state in which the average media consumer says, ‘There are too many versions of events, and I’ll never know the truth.’”
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In the end, at the Feb. 10 hearing, despite the doom and gloom, the professionals at the Homeland Security Committee meeting were remarkably optimistic for the long term. Why? Because the tools and practices of democracies — openness, collaboration, sharing of information, a free media, working with allies — are the things that defeat mass propaganda, violence and division.
“We need to bring the problem into the light ruthlessly, because evil can’t survive there. … Security and trust disproportionately favor the good guys, and we need to press our advantage,” Gordon said.
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During desperate times, you’ve got to make do with what you have … or whom you have.
A new survey released on Monday (NZ time) by online dating company Match found that nearly 25 in the US who reported having sex during lockdown did so with a non-romantic flatmate, one of the many ways Americans had to adapt during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly 25 in the US reported having sex with a flatmate during lockdown.
The 10th annual Singles in America study offers a revealing insight into how singles navigated a year of unprecedented social, economic and political changes and how the ongoing pandemic transformed their approach to dating, love and sex.
Although many singles found a hook-up partner in their own household, at least 71 per cent of survey participants managed to spend their quarantine without any sex at all. Among those who did get some action, 45 per cent decided to take the risk and have sex with someone outside of their household, according to the survey.
As for those who went on a date during the pandemic, 20 per cent said they will insist on mask-wearing throughout the date, with Gen Z and Millennials being even more open to the idea. Younger generations also had a higher rate of sleeping with a non-romantic flatmate.
The study also found that nearly six out of 10 survey participants using dating apps have shifted towards more intentional dating, with 53 now prioritising their search for a relationship, a trend that also appears to be tied to the pandemic.
“Prior to 2020, no one expected that singles would consider a date’s willingness to wear a mask,” said Dr Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and chief scientific advisor to Match.
“Recent cataclysmic events have led singles to want more from dating: a desire for a relationship over casual dating; more meaningful conversations, and more honesty and transparency during a date,” she said in a statement. “Today’s singles want to know who you are, where you’re headed financially, and what you expect from a possible partnership.”
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The study also found that nearly six out of 10 people surveyed who use dating apps have moved towards more intentional dating.
The Dallas-based Match Group, which also owns Tinder, Hinge, PlentyOfFish and OkCupid, described the survey as the nation’s “largest and most comprehensive annual scientific study,” with more than 50,000 participants across the US.
The survey, conducted in partnership with internet marketing research firm Dynata, also found that video dating during a first date has become increasingly popular during the pandemic while serious topics like politics and social movements are now more acceptable among singles.
In the past three years of the Trump administration, there has been a 25 per cent increase in singles who believe it’s important that their potential partners share the same political beliefs, for a current total of 76 per cent reporting that opinion. In addition, fewer singles today believe they can have a relationship with someone with very different political views, 54 per cent of Republicans and 44 per cent of Democrats, according to the survey.
Other highlights from the survey include:
Number of sex partners: Of those who had sex during the pandemic, 16 per cent had it with just one partner, 5 per cent had two partners, 3 per cent had three and 5 per cent had four or more.
Politics: 30 think that debating political issues with a date is sexy. But more Independents enjoy debating politics (46 per cent) compared to Democrats (33 per cent) and Republicans (29 per cent).
Interracial dating: 24 are now more open to dating someone of a different race or ethnicity since the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing protests for racial justice. In the past 10 years, there has been a 58 per cent increase in singles being open to dating people of a different ethnicity.
Black Lives Matter: 59 want to know if their date supports Black Lives Matter.
Video dating: 19 video-dated during the pandemic. Of those who did so, 59 per cent said they had more meaningful conversations while 63 per cent became less worried about their appearance when video dating.
Masturbation: 16 overall said they masturbated more frequently.
Breakups: 26 broke up during lockdown, and 22 lost contact with a potential date. | https://nationalcybersecurity.com/a-quarter-of-singles-in-the-us-who-had-sex-during-lockdown-did-it-with-a-flatmate-survey-finds-tinder-pof-romancescams-scams/ |
An advanced persistent threat, commonly referred to as an APT, is a type of a cyber attack where an attacker uses sophisticated techniques to gain unauthorized access to a system or a network. The attacker remains undetected for long periods of time, to collect information and sensitive data about and from the target— often leading to a devastating attack.
These are long-term operations designed to infiltrate and/or exfiltrate as much valuable data as possible without being discovered. As with most types of cyber crime, the motive behind these attacks is usually financial gain, involving a scheme where the collected data can be sold on the illegal market and dark web. APT attacks are highly targeted, and each target is extensively researched well before the campaign starts. The targets of these attacks, which are very prudently selected and researched, classically include large enterprises or governmental networks.
The typical APT attack follows these five stages:
Stage 1: Gaining access: APT actors and groups start by gaining access to the target network using the above mentioned attack vectors: email attachments, spear phishing, exploiting vulnerabilities, and other similar methods, so they can insert malware into the system.
Stage 2: Malware insertion: After cyber criminals have gained access and executed an exploit into the target network, they inject malware that will allow them to create more backdoors.
Stage 3: Expansion: In this stage, it’s time for the attackers to deepen their access to the target system by installing more backdoors, detect additional vulnerabilities and perform lateral movement across the network to gain control over more systems and to have more entry points.
Stage 4: Data exploration: Once the attackers have gained deeper access to the system, they can begin locating and investigating data and assets which can include credentials, sensitive data, PIIs, communication channels, and more.
Stage 5: Data exfiltration: At this point, the target has been officially compromised. Infiltrators can deploy malware extraction tools to steal desired data. Usually this means creating “white noise attacks” to cover cyber attackers who want to mask their intentions. They also mask their entry point, leaving it open for further attacks
Because of the substantial end goal of these attacks, organizations and businesses that possess large amounts of sensitive and personal information run the highest risk of being targeted by the malicious actors behind advanced persistent threats. These include government, financial and educational institutions, as well as the health care sector, energy agencies, telecommunication companies, and more. APT attackers are increasingly using smaller companies that make up the supply-chain of their ultimate target as a way of gaining access to large organizations. They use such companies, which are typically less well-defended, as stepping-stones.
Advanced persistent threats are complicated, calculated, long-game attacks that can have devastating effects on an enterprise business. Unfortunately, an APT is not something can be easily predicted. But there are some warning signs that IT and other employees can watch for to decide if they need to take action. | https://lifars.com/2020/05/advanced-persistent-threats-are-they-dangerous/ |
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How to Keep Your Dispatching System Online (and lower your ISO insurance rates)...
Your dispatching system is important. Whether you work for a fire department, police department, government, railway, telecommunications company, or any other company with complex dispatching, the public depends on your performance. Lives are literally on the line.
The high human cost of failure in your industry is reflected in the insurance rates your pay. ISO standards are used to evaluate your ability to keep your dispatching system online during a crisis. You'll pay a much lower rate if you can prove that threats to your dispatch equipment and the underlying telecom network are detected quickly and dealt with before they cause a problem. If you don't have the right monitoring system, you'll suffer with insurance premiums that are much higher than they need to be, and the public will be in unnecessary danger.
Protecting your dispatching system with an effective remote monitoring system, then, is the right thing to do to both protect human lives and reduce your operating expenses.
Protecting your dispatching system (via an effective and reliable remote monitoring system) is vital for keeping life-saving services online. It is also an excellent way to reduce insurance premiums through increased compliance with ISO standards.
Some "solutions" that vendors will sell you just aren't effective As important as monitoring your dispatching system is, don't run off and purchase a system without doing some analysis. This is, after all, a major infrastructure decision. You and your team (and the public you serve) will have to live with the consequences of your choice - good or bad - for many years to come.
That's why it's so important to understand what makes a good monitoring system to tackle the specific challenges associated with public safety dispatching systems.
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A prominent senator has called for “aggressive oversight” into the sale of the NSO Group’s hacking-and-spying tools to police forces in America. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) was reacting to Vice’s discovery of a brochure by the US subsidiary of the controversial NSO Group, called Westbridge Technologies, that pitched its Pegasus…
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DRAGOS RUIU first became suspicious when he was installing a new version of Apple’s OS X onto his MacBook. Unasked, his laptop also started to update its BIOS – which boots up the OS and choreographs use of disc drives and memory. In the three years since, Ruiu’s computers have continued to do strange things – even when unplugged and with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched off. He now believes that hidden viruses on his machines are being controlled via ultrasound signals broadcast from one infected computer to another.
The incredible claims made by Ruiu, a respected computer security researcher from Vancouver, Canada, have sparked a row in the world of cyber security. Some doubt this sonic “backdoor” can be genuine – no one has yet tracked down computer code that can generate the audio. Although Ruiu’s claim remains unproven, others say that audio-based malware is a very real possibility.
The row started on 15 October when Ruiu posted on his Google+ page that a high-pitched whine in his home sound system was not, as he’d suspected, being caused by electrical noise from his home wiring. Instead, his tests showed it was probably being caused by interference from ultrasonic audio being transmitted between the loudspeakers and microphones of nearby computers. He also found that the ultrasound broadcasts ceased when the receiving computer’s microphone was disabled.
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“We have recorded high-frequency audio signals between our computers and have seen the computers mysteriously change their configuration even when they don’t have network connections, Wi-Fi cards or Bluetooth cards,” Ruiu told New Scientist. “And we ran them on batteries so they were not receiving anything though the power lines.”
If Ruiu is right, it means that malware, which he has called “badBIOS”, has somehow been installed in one of his computer’s chips, only to lie dormant until an audio signal wakes it up. No malicious code has so far been found on Ruiu’s “infected” machines. “This is all conjecture until forensic analysis finds something,” he admits. Whether or not a virus is found this time, it raises the disturbing prospect of audio controlling malware between “air-gapped” computers – those with no electronic or wireless connections. Until now, most people thought this was an ultra-secure way to operate.
“Malware, as well as legitimate software, can use any kind of signals and inputs to activate and modify its operation, so that would certainly extend to audio inputs,” says Ralph Langner, who is based in Hamburg, Germany, and discovered how the Stuxnet worm attacked Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facilities.
Malware can use any kind of signal to activate and modify its operation, including audio inputs
Making audio malware would be hard because its transmissions through the air and walls are unreliable, says Boldizsár Bencsáth of the CrySys security lab in Budapest, Hungary. “Maybe it could work for slowly sending a few bits per minute, but it won’t work for downloading terabytes,” he says. But that might be all it needs to send control information.
Orla Cox at antivirus firm Symantec in Dublin, Ireland, says it would be a “big deal” if Ruiu is right. “If badBIOS can jump air gaps with audio it would be the most sophisticated piece of malware we have seen,” she says. | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029434-700-can-a-computer-virus-communicate-via-your-speakers/ |
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering, the sum of which netted him $99 million from Facebook and $23 million from Google. What may sound like a complicated scheme was actually shockingly simple: Rimasauskas sent invoices to Facebook and Google, and the companies paid him. He never delivered any goods or services, but the companies paid him anyway.
We tend to picture hackers as criminal masterminds. We see them as geniuses, cracking some impossible code to infiltrate our computers in ways we can’t hope to understand. But in reality, many scammers are just normal people who manage to exploit common weaknesses in human nature. They take advantage of things like our trust in authority and how busy we are.
Rimasauskas falsified documents like invoices, contracts, and company letters to fake his deals. He impersonated a Taiwanese hardware company called Quanta Computer Inc. by registering the same business name in Latvia. For years, the tech giants didn’t notice these requests for money were fraudulent — they didn’t scrutinize the documents closely enough to notice anything was amiss.
This is not unlike phishing, in which fraudsters impersonate your bank, PayPal, or email provider in order to trick you into handing over personal details that can help them steal your identity. A fake email from your bank that looks nearly identical to the real thing can be hard to spot, especially when we’re used to trusting our bank and we’re probably busy or multitasking.
So, if you’ve ever fallen victim to any kind of social engineering ruse, don’t feel bad. As you can see, it happens to the best of us.
Stay one step ahead of scammers
What can we learn from Rimasauskas’s ingenious hoax? Unlike the tech giants, you probably don’t have spare millions lying around. So here are some tips to make sure you don’t accidentally part with your money.
When you receive an invoice, double check that you actually received the product or service you’re getting billed for.
Learn how to spot phishing attempts so you never get fooled by fake requests for your personal data.
Don’t open emails from someone you don’t know and never download attachments or open links from unknown senders.
Understand that scams are done on mobile, too, and make sure you secure your phone.
Watch out for malicious schemes on social media, which are on the rise.
Knowledge is power, and understanding how common scams work is the best way to avoid them. A little vigilance goes a long way in helping you stay safe in all aspects of your digital life.
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That is the question I addressed in Cybersecurity Risk: Law and Trends – A Director’s Duties Must Evolve With The Company’s, which was recently published in the Spring 2015 issue of Ethical Boardroom (see article below).
The article is short and gets to the point. It explains where the trend is headed on this issue as well as why it is moving in that direction. It also identifies some steps that Officers and Directors can take to help mitigate this risk — while also helping protect their companies from the dangers lurking out in the cyber world.
You can view the full article in the Spring 2015 issue of Ethical Boardroom, which begins on page 108, but I also recommend you take some time to look at the entire issue as it is very informative. As always, feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments. | https://shawnetuma.com/2015/05/01/will-officers-directors-be-held-legally-responsible-for-companies-data-breaches-and-cybersecurity-incidents/?shared=email&msg=fail |
News broke on Monday that NSO’s Pegasus spyware successfully hacked Apple iPhones.
The surveillance tool was reportedly sold to authoritarian governments to target human rights activists.
It uses Zero-Click iMessage Exploit to infect iPhones running iOS 14.6. AAPL stock fell 2.69% Monday.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares fell 2.69% on Monday after news broke NSO’s Pegasus spyware hacked iPhone devices running iOS 14.6. Reports say the surveillance tool was sold to various authoritarian governments to target human rights activists and journalists.
However, NSO stated to the media to refute those claims saying that the investigations leading to the publication of the spyware reports took into account uncorroborated theories and wrong assumptions.
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The statement also read:
NSO does not operate the systems that it sells to vetted government customers and does not have access to the data of its customers’ targets. NSO does not operate its technology, does not collect, nor possesses, nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers.
Therefore, the Israeli Surveillance firm NSO Group appears to have distanced itself from the hacking claims, creating more uncertainty.
Will this affect Apple shares for the long term?
The hacking report will cause a scare among users of iPhones running iOS 14.6. However, the technology giant will undoubtedly come up with a solution to avert the exposure. It could be as simple as using a different version of the iOS or updating version 14.6 to rid hackers. Therefore, this may not be a long-term problem because it is something that Apple may be able to deal with momentarily.
As such, AAPL stock’s recent pullback triggered by Monday’s news presents an exciting opportunity to add a blue-chip stock to your portfolio. The stock trades at a compelling forward P/E ratio of 26.65. In addition, a recent JPMorgan analyst report suggested that the stock price could soar to $175 within the next 12 months, implying an upside potential of more than 23% based on Monday’s closing price.
Apple shares pulled back from overbought conditions of the 14-day RSI after Monday’s spyware news. However, the AAPL stock price could be set for a rebound in the coming days after the market digests the information.
Although there is room left for more declines, Apple’s recent price hike by analysts could provide the catalyst for a rebound. Therefore, investors can target profits at approximately $149.74 or higher at $158.00. The support levels are $135.58 or lower at $127.36 in case of extended pullbacks.
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not my area of expertise, but i would think that you really want email privacy, you'll probably want to take a look at PGP or something similar for email encryption. A regular email will eventually be sent "in the clear" at some point - from say, the SMTP server of your server (postfix) to the destination SMTP server of the email address. So, without encrypting the email itself, it may be secure for part of the journey (from roundcube to your postfix server), but it may not be the case from postfix to the destination email server however.
Again, not my area of expertise, but hopefully it helps.
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Companies across the UK are acknowledging the benefit of arming themselves with the security essential to mitigate any harm brought about by cyber crime, however the emphasis so far has been on safeguarding information by protecting against data breaches. Nevertheless, as a consequence of the growing and unpredictable risk environment, it’s just a matter of time before all companies will experience a security breach.
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BUCHAREST, Romania/Santa Clara, Calif. (March 14, 2018)— Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity technology company protecting over 500 million users worldwide, today announced the results of the AV-Comparatives Advanced Endpoint Protection test that measured the effectiveness of leading enterprise endpoint security solutions in prevention and detection of highly sophisticated file-based and fileless malware. The Bitdefender GravityZone Elite solution vastly outperformed both ‘next-gen’ and traditional products confirming the results of similar testing performed by Bitdefender’s customers in their own lab environments.
Daniel Crofts, Group Infrastructure Senior Engineer, Creditsafe Group who ran his own evaluation said: “We were impressed with the accuracy of Bitdefender GravityZone Elite’s protection. We tested several EPP and next-gen AV solutions against thousands of malicious samples, and Bitdefender was consistently a top performer. The tunable protection, the small footprint, and the speed of policy changes all ensure an improved security posture of our endpoints. This all adds up to a superior solution to our previous one, making it a simple decision to switch to Bitdefender."
For the AV-Comparatives tests, Bitdefender GravityZone Elite Security was tested against eight endpoint security solution from Symantec, McAfee, Sophos, SentinelOne, Cylance, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky Lab and Carbon Black. The test measured each product’s individual performance against highly elusive attacks. The test scenarios included fileless malware, exploits, command-line attacks, PowerShell-based attacks, malicious emails, and brand-new malware and ransomware samples. In each of the tests, Bitdefender GravityZone Elite Security placed on top in comparison to other endpoint security vendor tested.
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