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Sinowal. WVV is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: passwords saved by certain Windows services.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it changes the security settings of Internet Explorer, decreasing its security level; it awaits remote-control orders received through HTTP; it changes system permissions, decreasing the security level.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
It uses techniques included in its code to hide itself while it is active.
It injects itself in running processes.
It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
It uses several methods in order to avoid detection by antivirus companies:
It terminates its own execution if it detects that it is being executed in a virtual machine environment, such as VMWare or VirtualPC.
It prevents scanning tools from running, such as Windows Registry Editor, FileMonitor, etc.
Sinowal. WVV uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities. | http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=217885 |
Using a great antivirus blog can be quite a great way to maintain to date to the latest protection software, dangers, and improvements in the industry. Blogs offer a useful information, by user-rated reviews of antivirus applications to technological information on how to defend a personal pc.
An ant-virus blog can provide you with tips on protecting a computer from viruses, spyware, and other protection threats. This may be a great way to understand about the latest security systems, and keep your PC running smoothly.
Antivirus websites can give you a lot of information, which includes reports about new applications, reviews of anti-virus software, and tips for safe exploring the internet. An excellent antivirus weblog will be detailed and retain the latest and greatest information concerning security, LAPTOP OR COMPUTER protection, and antivirus software. It is important to not forget to read these kinds of blogs frequently to stay abreast of the latest in cybersecurity, also to avoid getting the computer damaged by spyware and adware.
The best anti virus blogs will cover a variety over here of topics, by reviews of anti-virus applications to secureness best practices, which include tricks for protecting Apple gadgets and other PCs. Probably the most popular security applications involve ZoneAlarm, which in turn publishes its own blog.
There are plenty of other blogs that cover many different topics, via adware to malware to cybersecurity. It’s important to pick a blog that covers the best and interesting topics, like a review of the very best anti-virus applications, a review of the best anti-virus program, and a review of the best malware software just for Mac. | https://biralourenco.mus.br/antivirus-security-software-blog/ |
During these testing times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the international advisory has been issued that asks employees to work from home. This opens the door for possible cyber security threats as lakhs of employees are now working from home due to the lockdown.
Various industry experts have suggested that as at least half of the employees of organisations are working from home for at least 2.5 days per week, a greater cyber security threat looms the IT infrastructure of various organisatons. Multiple surveys have highlighted that companies around the world now believe that the employees themselves pose as the biggest threat to their cyber security. Almost half of all the companies who have experienced security breaches have attributed it to human error or accidental loss on part of their employees as the cause.
The responsibilities of the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) get extremely crucial during this time. Appropriate risk management, careful assessment of organisation’s security by facilitating different access channels to the employees simultaneously will help in delivering a stable network.
Employees should not venture into unchartered partnerships and interaction of vendors for supporting their network needs.
According to experts, regular updating of passwords, usage of paid virtual private networks and multi-factor authentication are a good start, experts said.
To boost the security of their personal network, employees can segregate their networks by using personal home router kits. If not, ensuring updated firmware for the router will also be an effective way.
It is also a good idea maintaining privacy and avoiding downloading suspicious content that could be infected with malware.
As highlighted above, the responsibilities of the IT staff of a company have heightened during this time. It is essential for them to upgrade their skills in order to tackle the challenge more efficiently. Courses and webinars offered by Infosectrain can help a cyber security professional to better deal with the increased workload. | https://www.infosectrain.com/blog/maintaining-cyber-security-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ |
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Downloader. PWS is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
Downloader. PWS uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
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Cybercrime breaches (of both businesses and individuals) have been rapidly growing for a number of years, with seemingly no end in sight. A breach can potentially destroy your business and can result in significant financial consequences, and can also have a negative impact on the reputation of your business. A cybersecurity policy should be part of your company’s risk management plan in order to protect ownership, your employees, and your clients.
At Direct Advisors, we invest heavily in IT security and data protection in order to safeguard the assets and personal information of our clients and plan participants. We continue to look for ways to enhance our cybersecurity plan, and recommend that our clients do the same. | https://directadvisors.com/directadvisors-tag-solutions-video-podcast-cybersecurity-protection-for-your-business/ |
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We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management GmbH. The use of the Internet pages GmbH is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, could become necessary. If the is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.
The , such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to . By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.
As the controller, has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.
Any data subject may, at any time, contact our Data Protection Officer directly with all questions and suggestions concerning data protection.
4. Collection of general data and information
The website GmbH collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using this general data and information, does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files is stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
5. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.
If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.
Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, the to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.
The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject withdraws consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by , he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of GGS - Geotechnik, Geoinformatik & Service GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees GmbH will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the stored by , he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee GmbH will arrange the restriction of the processing.
f) Right to data portability
Each granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee GmbH.
g) Right to object
Each granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
The GGS - Geotechnik, Geoinformatik & Service GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the to object at any time to concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to to the processing for direct marketing purposes, will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to concerning him or her by for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee GmbH. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
Each granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject's explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
i) Right to withdraw data protection consent
Each granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time. If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee GmbH.
7. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
8. Legal basis for the processing
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
9. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
Where the is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.
10. Period for which the personal data will be stored
The criteria used to determine the period of storage the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.
11. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; requirement necessary to enter into a contract; obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data
We clarify that the provision partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
12. Existence of automated decision-making
As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
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By clicking on the Facebook plugins you will be directed to the Facebook login area. Already logged-in Facebook users are able to immediately publish contents of our website via their own Facebook accounts. The use of such plugins enables Facebook to allocate your visit to our website to your personal user account. In order to avoid a connection by Facebook between your visit to our website and your user account, you will need to log off your Facebook account.
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It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
Bifrose. AYT does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc. | http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=172768 |
Is Cyber insurance necessary? Yes it is. Do you have it?
The statistics on how many small businesses (that’s everyone with fewer than 5,000 employees) are getting hurt by Cyber crime are really staggering. All of our clients are somewhere under 200 people and in that size range, the incident of reported crimes went up by 300% last year. Imagine how […] | https://www.harborcomputerservices.net/category/encryption/ |
This standard provides essential guidelines for decreasing the risk of legionellosis occurrence associated with the contaminated water systems of the human-occupied buildings, recommending a preventative approach in all stages of building design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
Based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles, which are mandatory in food industry, the new standard is a very useful tool for the identification and analysis of each potential risk regarding the microbial contamination due to the water system by a management team. The ASHRAE Standard 188 lists the most important components of the water systems that can increase the risk of developing this devastating disease in residents or future residents.
The effectiveness of the HACCP analysis and plans in the prevention of food poisoning outbreaks represents a reliable basis for other domains, including the prevention of legionella transmission by contaminated water droplets. Following the HACCP principles and tools, the ASHRAE Standard 188 recommends that managers involved in the building water systems design, construction or maintenance to develop a preventive program for decreasing the risk of legionella associated with potable and non-potable water systems.
Compliance with the ASHRAE Standard 188 requirements involves:
Establishment of a team and a water management program to ensure compliance with the standard.
Development of standard operation procedures.
Detailed analysis of the water system and the identification of the risk points. (Including flow diagrams are useful tools for the proper description of the system and processes, enhancing the risk identification.).
Monitoring the important parameters and corrective actions to be taken whenever the measured values are not within the established limits.
The requirements of the ASHRAE Standard 188 enhance the development of a rigorous preventive program based on the experience accumulated with the HACCP principles. The implementation of the standard in a building construction project or in the management of a human-occupied building ensures all the prerequisites for the decrease of the legionellosis occurrence risk in the residents or future residents. | https://blueearthproducts.com/news/ashrae-standard-188-legionellosis-risk-management-for-building-water-systems-approved/ |
That is also why you need to read up on how to spot a phishing email. This type of hacker sends an email that is used to obtain personal details and information. Never answer an email that you consider suspicious or give your personal details unless you are corresponding with someone you know well. Otherwise, you can get into a whole lot of trouble that can lead to a good deal of expense and frustration.
One of the ways that you can avoid a problem with phishing emails is to make sure that you have the right software installed. This can be easily done when you use the right type of mail cleaner. This type of software makes it impossible for people to send you emails where they can obtain your personal information. Using the software prevents the confiscation of sensitive information.
You can use this type of email cleanup software at home or in your business. After all, no one is immune from this type of attack by a hacker. Hackers want to make it easy when they are trying to obtain personal information. If the right software can circumvent their efforts, they will have no choice but to find another target.
If you leave yourself vulnerable, you will end up being a target. That is why you need to review all the protective software that is available online. You also need to be aware about the ways that hackers can obtain your details. By taking this approach, you can protect yourself and play it safer online.
Some Emails Look Credible but They Are Not
You really should not share your bank information or details online, nor should you answer any correspondence that asks for personal information. Even if the email seems legitimate, you should avoid answering it. It is better to play it safe than to be sorry. You can avoid unfortunate events by adding a software package that is designed to filter out anyone trying to derive your personal or business details.
Make sure the software is specifically designed to take care of phishing emails. Learn all you can about how to stay safe and secure whilst surfing the web or answering correspondence. By taking these preventative measures, you will save yourself a great deal of expense and heartache and trouble. Look at your software options today. Make it a priority to play it safe.
What do you want your software package to do? Do you want it to filter out suspicious emails? If so, make sure that the package you select is designed to erase any of this type of correspondence from your inbox regularly. | http://www.prairiefiretrader.com/phishing-emails-can-get-you-into-trouble.html |
According to media reports, some users of Android phones are beginning to see a new feature rolled-out to their devices.
And it could mean that all you may need to do to unlock your Android phone in future is murmur the words “Ok Google.”
This isn’t the first time Google has tried to give Android users methods to unlock their devices without having to go to all the “effort” of entering a PIN, swipeable pattern or password.
Android 5.0 Lollipop already has “Trusted Face” mode (which is supposed to recognise your face), “Trusted Devices” (which means your Android will always be unlocked while it’s connected to a trusted Bluetooth device), and “Trusted Places” (which means your phone is always unlocked when you’re at home or office – which rather presumes you don’t have a jealous snooping partner or sneaky business rival).
Trusted Voice is the latest in Google’s line-up of smart locks, using voice recognition to check your identity.
If you enable Trusted Voice, then all you will have to do is issue the “Ok Google” command, and you won’t be pestered for a password or PIN on your device.
The fact of the matter is that our smartphones are these days where we keep our most precious photographs, our confidential work projects, our private communications… do we really want to make things easy for a determined attacker who might already have recorded our voice or learnt how to mimic it convincingly enough?
Furthermore, I can’t imagine many companies feeling comfortable with staff using a privacy-threatening feature like this and they are sure to try to lock down its use and impose their own security regime.
The truth is that “Trusted Voice” is nothing to do with security, and everything to do with convenience.
If it can’t adequately tell the difference between someone doing an impression of you or a recording of your voice (which it seems – from the warning message – that it cannot) then you should never turn on the option in the first place.
Mind you, perhaps the kind of people who would be attracted to the lazy “Trusted Voice” option of unlocking their phone are the very same ones who would never both to have a PIN or password because of the hassle involved in entering it. Maybe, for these people at least, “Trusted Voice” is better than nothing.
What do you think? Do you want to unlock your phone with your voice? Or do the security issues concern you? Leave a comment below and share your thoughts. | https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/should-your-voice-be-enough-to-unlock-your-android-phone-google-seems-to-think-so |
Yalla Apps, the Windows Phone 7 developer portal that helps developers publish their Apps to the Marketplace, is launching the Yalla App-a-thon competition.
Yalla Apps is now giving away Fable 3 or Halo:Reach Games for XBOX 360® (or PC) to the first 100 members that publish an App to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace via the Yalla Apps portal. And that’s not it – the developer who publishes the best app of the month during May and June will also win a Windows Phone 7!
More details about the Yalla App-a-thon competition can be found on http://www.facebook.com/yallaapps?sk=app_217668621584131
Yalla Apps is a widely embraced developer portal that allows developers from the Middle East and Africa to publish their apps to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Recently, Yalla Apps announced new platform enhancements and services such as:
Paid Apps support – allows developers to submit their Paid Apps and generate revenues from their sales in the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Addition of an alternative method of payment via MoneyBookers, now allowing developers from countries like Pakistan and Egypt among others to sign up for the service, pay for a subscription and collect their App sales revenues. More convenient charge structure, now allowing developers to submit many more Apps – Free or Paid – with their annual subscription. The new charge structure would allow the user to enjoy unlimited Paid App submissions, as many as 100 Free App submissions and a Free device unlock, for only 100 credits, which are automatically awarded to every Annual Subscription, priced at $99. With Yalla Apps every Windows Phone 7 developer can be a winner! | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mbaher/2011/05/17/yalla-app-a-thon-publish-an-app-and-get-an-xbox-360-game/ |
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Email A Georgia teenager is suing two of her classmates for creating a cruel Facebook page in her name after school officials and authorities said the matter was out of their control.
Alex Boston, 14, of Acworth, Ga., was enjoying her school's Field Day celebration for the end of the school year in May 2011 when annoyed classmates began to approach her.
"A little bit into the morning, her friends started coming up to her and saying, 'Why are you saying nasty things on Facebook about me?'" Alex's father Chris Boston told ABCNews.com.
"She took off to the bathroom and hid," Boston said. "When she got home, she was crying."
Alex told her parents what had happened and they sat down at their home computers to find the page. When they did, they were horrified by what they saw.
Next to a distorted photo of Alex, it said that the languages she speaks were English and "Retardish." There were posts about false sexual exploits, links to racist videos on YouTube and implications of drug use. And the creators of the page were using the account to post insults on the pages of other friends.
The "About Alex" section said, "I don't have many friends because I'm annoying and I poke people on my way to lunch so I get beat up a lot."It made me feel horrible because I didn't think it would happen to me," Alex Boston told ABC News' Atlanta affiliate WSBTV. Alex had never been the victim of bullying before, and her family immediately took action. Their first stop was Alex's school, Palmer Middle School. Chris Boston said school officials spoke to the two teens that made the page and they admitted to making it, but the school could take no further action since the cyber bullying was done off school property, from the students' home computers.
Meanwhile, they were repeatedly using Facebook's "report story or spam" function to try to get the page taken down, but it remained up.
"For the first several months, she kind of went into a shell," Chris Boston said of his daughter.
The family then went to the Cobb County Police Department to file an incident report.
Police notes on the report said: "Boston was advised to notify "Facebook" and request that the web page be shut down. Report was requested and generated for documentation purposes only. No further action required."
Most states, including Georgia, have laws against cyberbullying, but most of these laws do not cover bullying that occurs off of the school's campus.
"[We were] ticked off," Chris Boston said. "It was very frustrating to sit there and see your kid go through this and you can't get it to stop."
After all of the dead ends, the family sought legal help. Numerous lawyers turned down the case before Georgia attorneys Natalie Woodward and Corey Stern decided to meet with the family to hear their story.
"It was impressive to me that [Alex] very much knew what the point of this was that it should not happen to any other kids," Woodward told ABCNews.com. "This is not the kind of case you retire on or get to go to college on. You're suing people who just have normal personal assets. She understood that and felt that it was important and worth doing."
Woodward and Stern said that though the case did not have great financial benefit for anyone, they did not have the heart to turn Alex away after she and her parents had done everything right.
"That would send the wrong message to hear and that would impact her forever," Woodward said.
The Boston family filed a lawsuit against the two teenagers who created the page as well as their parents, who provided their Internet service and computers. When the school would not give the Boston family or their attorneys the parents' name or addresses of the defendants, the students had to be served the lawsuit at school.
Woodward and Stern asked that the defendants not be named because they are under the age of 16 and have not yet responded to the lawsuit. They were served in April and have one month to respond to the suit. Woodward has not heard from the defendants' parents or any attorneys that may be representing them.
The lawsuit claims that the defendant's actions were "intentional and malicious and were done for the purpose of causing Plaintiff to suffer humiliation, mental anguish, embarrassment and emotional and physical distress."
It claims defamation and libel for the false statements and use of Alex's identity for the page. The Boston family is seeking a jury trial and punitive damages. In Georgia, plaintiffs do not determine the amount of monetary damages. That is determined by the court.
"I was protective of Alex because I didn't want her entire eighth grade year to be spent in litigation with two of her classmates," Woodward said. "She really felt like it was something that they had a moral obligation to address and if it brought attention to the issue and kept some other kids from being upset, hurt or even committing suicide, then it was a moral obligation on their part to do it."
The phoney page stayed up for nearly a year. It was not until after a television appearance by the Boston family last week that Facebook removed the page from the social media network.
Though Boston said it took his daughter a long time to feel comfortable at school again, she is now doing much better and nearly back to her old self.
"She's upbeat, having a good time and looking forward to summertime," he said. 0 Shares | http://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-teen-alex-boston-sues-cyberbullying-classmates/story?id=16251586&singlePage=true |
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Deploy network intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for malicious activity.
Deploy NIDS to detect and block attacks and anomalous activity such as requests containing suspicious URI sequences. Since the webserver may log such requests, review its logs regularly.
Do not follow links provided by unknown or untrusted sources.
Web users should be cautious about following links to sites that are provided by unfamiliar or suspicious sources. Filtering HTML from emails may help remove a possible vector for transmitting malicious links to users.
Set web browser security to disable the execution of JavaScript.
Since a successful exploit of this issue allows malicious code to execute in web clients, consider disabling support for script code and active content within the client browser. Note that this mitigation tactic might adversely affect legitimate websites that rely on the execution of browser-based script code.
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information. | https://il.norton.com/online-threats/microsoftwindowscve-2017-0055crosssitescriptingvulnerab-96622-vulnerability.html |
Use this framework to gain a better understanding of how climate and weather-related impacts can disrupt supply chains, as well as how agencies can cover observed and expected climate related risks in their supply chain risk management processes. Throughout the framework, take advantage of publications, methodologies, and tools available to your agency that can enrich your analysis.
This framework assumes that you will walk through each of the steps for one critical supply chain at a time. If it is useful to assess risk for multiple supply chains, the steps could be followed multiple times for each supply chain or it may be useful to consider different supply chains simultaneously (especially when gathering climate data that would be relevant to more than one supply chain).
Use the companion workbook, a user-friendly Excel file, to document and organize information on climate risks as you work through the framework. The workbook assumes that you are referring to this framework as you fill in information. Refer to examples in the companion workbook to help you understand the objective of the workbook, the types of information you should be collecting and recording, and the outputs of the companion workbook.
It is not a comprehensive explanation on supply chain risk management. It is assumed that you have a solid understanding of supply chain management and current agency supply chain management practices, so this framework focuses on how climate risks can be factored into those existing processes. The framework does not provide background information on supply chain risk management practices other than as they pertain to climate readiness.
It is not a detailed technical guidance for conducting an agency-specific risk assessment. This is a high level conceptual framework that is flexible enough to be used by any Federal agency for any critical supply chain. | https://sftool.gov/plan/556/supply-chain-climate-risk-management-framework |
Last week Xiaomi had to make excuses over accusations from the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense. Recall that the military department of the Baltic country, with reference to the cybersecurity center, reported that Xiaomi smartphones have a built-in censorship.
All of this violates the laws of democracy and free speech, and there is also the possibility that devices are sending sensitive user data to servers located in Singapore.
Naturally, Xiaomi denies everything and declares that the preservation of privacy and confidentiality for it is a priority and a matter of honor. But it seems that not everyone believed it. Now Xiaomi is taken over by the German federal agency for oversight of cybersecurity. In particular, it has taken up a thorough study of the company’s smartphone.
We do not know what models are in question. There is only a general description – “technical examination”. But it is not difficult to assume that German cybersecurity experts want to verify themselves for the presence of a built-in censor. We are waiting for the official opinion of German specialists.
A continuation of the story appeared, in which Xiaomi and the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania were involved; which previously recommended users not buy smartphones from a Chinese manufacturer and get rid of existing devices from China.
A few days ago, the Chinese tech giant officially commented on this statement, noting that Xiaomi devices do not censor messages sent by users or the text they enter. Now Xiaomi has added that it has hired security experts to assess the claim that its smartphones have built-in censorship capabilities.
Xiaomi may suffer as a result of deteriorating relations between Beijing and Vilnius. Some questions related to the alleged recognition of Taiwan by Lithuania. This led to the fact that Beijing called for the recall of the Lithuanian ambassador to China; and also initiated the recall of its ambassador from Lithuania in August.
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In a statement, Xiaomi stated that it disputes certain conclusions of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense; and engages independent third-party experts to assess this issue. The representative of Xiaomi did not specify which experts are in question; but the source writes that this is a European organization with sufficient influence and experience.
Xiaomi also stated that its standard approach to some adware applications has been to protect users from extreme content; such as pornography and links that could offend local users. | https://www.gizchina.com/2021/09/30/german-cybersecurity-authority-investigates-xiaomi-smartphones/ |
Eric and I attended the Antispyware Coalition Meeting and Workshop last week. It was a good opportunity to meet with many of our peers in the industry as well as a very pleasant trip overall. Ottawa, where the event was held, is a great city and in addition to everything else the trip afforded us the opportunity to enjoy some great native cuisine of the region. A common theme which ran between both the meeting and the workshop was the idea of sharing of intelligence. In the meeting we discussed a proposal based on ideas Eric suggested last month centering around the sharing of threat URLs between anti-spyware providers with a goal of improving capabilities across the industry. The concept was endorsed and presented at the meeting by Symantec and ICSA Labs and seemed to be very well received. There are still a lot of things to be worked out but I'm excited about this kind of industry cooperation.
In the workshop I had the opportunity to present as part of a panel on the topic of Public and Private Cooperation. On the panel with me was Joe Jarzombek, Director of Software Assurance at the US Department of Homeland Security as well as Christine Owen of Webroot and we were moderated by Neil Schwartzman of CAUCE Canada. Some of the points that Joe raised when discussing the mission of DHS with regard to protection of the Internet reinforced for me the importance of broad and deep industry collaboration when dealing with threats such as spyware and other malicious code. Other sessions at the workshop covered the various harms caused by spyware, where spyware comes from, legislative solutions and driving awareness of risks within both the consumer and enterprise spaces. Even better than the sessions were the many conversations and ideas shared between member attendees on a range of topics both technical and social relating to how we can all combat these various threats better. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/antimalware/2006/05/24/antispyware-coalition-meeting-in-ottawa/ |
Is Risk Management System (RMS) simplify import? What is RMS in import.
Risk Management System – RMS – is a great change in traditional approach of import customs clearance procedures. Scrutinizing each document, examining every consignment etc. do not work in global security scenario after globalization of trade. Routine assessment, concurrent audit, inspection procedures etc. kills the time of process. Self assessment method not only reduce dwell time, but provides quality management in assessment, inspection and post clearance audit etc. on the other side.
In a self assessment scheme, importer can appraise the value by classifying and entering details of chapter, benefits, value etc. No assessment or inspection is carried out under this system. This method of clearance is under Risk Management System (RMS). If the importer filed wrong entry in Risk Management System, re-assessment and inspection are carried out at later stage, some times even after customs clearance at customs station or at importer’s premises depends up on the nature of audit. Difference of duty can be paid accordingly after reassessment on post clearance of cargo. If no interdiction, with the said self assessment the importer can take delivery of cargo by paying duty if any, without customs’ assessment and inspection of cargo.
In Risk Management System – RMS, responsibility of filing correct declaration is with the importer. This facility is introduced where Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is available.
Anindya Ganguly: On 16 April 2015 Dear Sir, There is a shipment of 2x40'HC imported to Kolkata from China. The Indian buyer rejected to receive the cargo due to their internal problem. Please brief us the proceedure to return the cargo to china. Regards Anindya Ganguly.
girish joshi: On 22 June 2015 RMS system without scanners is just like police station without police personal. where ever there are scanners installed, there are no trained staff to read the substance. our present half system implementation without basic support is not trade friendly its trader friendly. At times it's seen that scanners arrive at ports but inter departmental red tape fails to allot even premises. we still lack effective laws and determination to stop the wrong doers.
raj malhotra : On 13 June 2017 WE CAN PROVIDE YOU GENUINE AND ACTUAL BUYERS & SUPPLIERS DETAILS WITH ACTUAL SHIPMENT RECORDS We can provide you actual shipment data based on Shipping bills & bill of entries including Exporter or Importer names , Overseas Buyer & Supplier Details, H.S.Code, IEC Code ,Product Description, Quantity, Price, Export FOB Value & Import Duty, Foreign Port & Country etc. We can provide the same for all the major ports details on very lowest prices. | http://howtoexportimport.com/Is-Risk-Management-System-RMS-simplify-import-What-158.aspx |
PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, has detected a new malicious code, Banker. LSL, which uses the proximity of the Easter holidays to trick users with a YouTube religious video in Portuguese
Once run, the worm displays the video while it delivers its malicious payload. More specifically, the Trojan is designed to steal passwords for online banking services. Banker. LSL captures:Key strokesMouse movements
Online forms filled in by the user. The Trojan downloads a series of TXT files where it saves the information it has obtained, and tries to send them to a Web page.
“Users must be very careful, as this type of Trojan is usually distributed in email messages or Internet forums with links that seem to take to a YouTube video. However, they actually download the Trojan to the PC. In this case the Trojan does play the video to avoid raising any suspicion while infecting users”, explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
Source: http://www.pandasecurity.com © AntivirusWorld.com | http://antivirusworld.com/news/a-youtube-religious-video-used-as-bait-to-infect-users-with-malware.html |
Theresa May has urged the EU to adopt a new sanctions regime to punish nation states that engage in persistent cyber-attacks.
The move comes as the bloc signed up to new chemical weapons sanctions last week.
“I believe that we have an opportunity to show our collective political leadership. We have demonstrated significant steps forward against other challenging threats. And should today make clear that malicious cyber-activities are no different; we will impose costs on all those who seek to attack us, regardless of the means they use to do so,” she’s reported to have said.
“Malign cyber-activity causes harm to our economies, and undermines our democracies. As well as protecting ourselves against attack, we must impose proportionate consequences on those who would do us harm. We should accelerate work on EU restrictive measures to respond to and deter cyber-attacks, including a robust sanctions regime.”
The call can be seen as a response to a recent surge in offensive Russian efforts to probe UK critical infrastructure and interfere in referendums and elections throughout Europe.
The EU is reportedly looking to finalize several cybersecurity-related pieces of legislation before the European parliament heads into elections in May 2019.
Sean Sullivan, security advisor at F-Secure, said May was following German chancellor Angela Merkel’s lead.
“The issue appears to be concern over whether or not Italy’s leadership will go along with sanctions,” he added.
“Of course, European level action is for the best — but the UK has plenty of leverage that it can exert on its own given the amount of Russian assets that are sheltered in the UK/London. May appears to be willing to lead the way, if others signal they’ll follow. It’s harder to imagine her leading the UK on its own though.”
Malcolm Taylor, director of cyber advisory at ITC Secure, claimed the new call is a clear signal of the UK’s willingness to put pressure on states weaponizing cyber, and to continue a close relationship with the EU on matters of security.
“Both of these responses are an attempt to demonstrate that, Brexit or no, the EU, the UK, and by extension traditional allies such as the US, are and will remain united,” he said.
“There may be domestic political reasons why Theresa May will want this to be heard now, but the more important audience is Russia. Put another way, Russia may believe it succeeded in influencing the referendum and causing division and weakness in the West; May is telling them it has failed.” | https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pm-urges-new-sanctions-response/ |
Symantec researchers are warning of a new banking Trojan that's infecting users in the UK and the Netherlands.
"Neloweg operates much like its more famous cybercrime toolkit predecessor ZeuS, but with a couple of subtle twists," writes The Register's John Leyden. "'Like Zeus, Neloweg can detect which site it is on and add custom JavaScript. But while Zeus uses an included configuration file, Neloweg stores this on a malicious webserver,' Symantec analyst Fred Gutierrez explains."The malware is designed to snatch online login credentials, primarily (but not exclusively) those for online banking sites," Leyden writes.
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Donald Trump has angrily denied a newspaper article claiming the US had set up a potentially devastating cyber attack on Russia's electric grid, describing its publication as a "virtual act of treason".
According to a three-month investigation by 'The New York Times', sophisticated malware has been secretly embedded in the Russian electricity system - to be activated to plunge the country into darkness in the event of a major confrontation.
The president denied the report yesterday and called the newspaper "cowards" and the "enemy of the people".
The outburst came as it emerged Mr Trump may not have been informed of an escalation of digital incursions into Russia's infrastructure in what is seen as a warning to Vladimir Putin to refrain from meddling in the US.
Pentagon and intelligence sources revealed to the newspaper a hesitation to give detailed briefings to Mr Trump for fear of his reaction, and that he may inadvertently disclose their strategy.
On Saturday night, Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: "Do you believe that the failing New York Times just did a story stating that the United States is substantially increasing cyber attacks on Russia. This is a virtual act of treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our country. Also, not true!"
New powers were granted to US Cyber Command, the Defence Department branch responsible for cyberspace operations, last summer, giving it greater autonomy to conduct its operations without presidential knowledge.
Last week John Bolton, Mr Trump's national security adviser, said Russian digital targets were being considered.
"The purpose of which is to say to Russia or anybody else that's engaged in cyber operations against us, 'You will pay a price if we find that you are doing this'," he said. | https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/president-trump/us-cyber-attacks-story-treason-says-trump-38224894.html |
We’re hearing a lot in the news lately about how company websites have been subjected to hacking. We also know that unless you have been subjected to a security breach you are likely to ignore it and not allocate much of a budget to your IT team.
One area you may not be aware of though, is how much of your data is subject to internal misuse. Reports tell us that 85% of all data breaches come from within your own company! Often, the reason for this is users having access to files and folders that they have no right or need to access. IT departments are stretched; the larger the company, the more difficult it becomes to monitor data access. In fact, for most businesses it is impossible.
Your data is your business; without data you have no business. A lot of businesses who suffer a major data loss or breach, lose out financially and put their good name at risk, meaning customers think twice about engaging with them. Some never survive.
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As part of our daily workload, we all face time crunches, deadlines, and last minute requests. Often it is under this pressure that shortcuts are taken, inconsistencies are overlooked, and mistakes are made.
Recently, thinkIT has gotten reports of a very deliberate and sophisticated e-mail scam making the rounds. We would like to share the story, not only as a warning of this specific scam, but also for the bigger lesson that sometimes taking a step back to think about things can avoid a very costly security breaches.
Here is the story – E-mail Hoax:
The hacker/scammer did some research on the company being targeted. With a few searches online of the company website and browsing through social media pages, he was able to get the names and e-mail addresses of the CEO and HR manager. Granted, we have all seen spam come through to our mailbox looking like it is from familiar e-mail addresses/senders. In this case, the scam artist spoofed the CEO’s e-mail address and sent the HR manager an “urgent” request for all employee W-2 forms to be sent to him in PDF documents.
For some, this might immediately raise a warning flag, but consider this, the e-mail addressed the HR manager by name. It was an urgent request to meet a deadline. It looked like it legitimately came from the CEO of the company.
In this case, the HR manager realized, only after sending the information, that it was a scam.
Now, imagine if this were to happen within your organization, to you or your staff or your customers: potential identity theft…having to disclose the breach so people can take the necessary steps to safeguard their identity and information. The cost to your organization would be huge, not only monetarily, but in reputation and future business.
Sensitive and personal information MUST be protected. Any request for such information MUST be verified as necessary and valid. This story could have had a much different outcome if a phone call had been made prior to sending the requested e-mail, simply to ask, “did this really come from you?” | https://www.thinkitsolutions.com/blog/thinkit-security-alert-e-mail-hoax/ |
Feature selection for intrusion detection system jingping song supervisors: prof chris price prof qiang shen phd thesis department of computer science institute of mathematics, physics and computer science aberystwyth university march 3, 2016. Dissertation improving intrusion detection systems ausgefiuhrt zum zwecke der erlangung des akademischen grades eines doktors der technischen wissenschaften unter der intrusion detection systems that they cannot detect attacks that have not been mod- life as a phd student and i want to thank him for this. Intrusion detection system (ids) collects information from various parts of network and system, analyze it to find intrusion affected component the ids has a number of techniques to detect the danger [11] r ghosh, a novel hybrid learning algorithm for artificial neural networks, phd thesis, school of information. The thesis and phd dissertations are the capstone achievements of a student's academic endeavors at nps a permanent copy of these ang, k, a multilevel secure constrained intrusion detection system prototype, masters thesis, naval postgraduate school, december 2010 (abstract, pdf) beech, z w , a. Intrusion detection and high-speed packet classification using memristor crossbars thesis submitted to the school of tarek m taha, phd advisory committee chairman associate professor electrical and computer engineering functionalities in network intrusion detection systems.
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Rapidly increasing dependence on services provided by these computer systems and networks, and security is thus not a network server and data produced for an intrusion detection evaluation project throughout this work thanks to the other phd students in the security research group at chalmers— helén svensson. Dissertation submitted: january 29, 2016 phd supervisor: assoc prof jens myrup pedersen, aalborg university phd committee: associate professor reza tadayoni (chairman) department of electronic systems aalborg university reader kevin curran computer science research institute university of ulster director. Vern paxson, phd university of california, berkeley / usa (schriftliche beurteilung) die dissertation wurde am 30 06 2005 bei der technischen universität münchen eingereicht und durch die network intrusion detection systems (nids) continuously monitor network traffic for malicious activity, raising. Denial of service dte domain-type enforcement ept extended page table flask flux advanced security kernel hsv hypervisor-secure virtualization iaas infrastructure-as-a-service ids intrusion detection system idps intrusion detection and prevention system idt interrupt descriptor table io input/output.
Machine learning for network based intrusion detection an investigation into discrepancies in findings with the kdd cup '99 data set and multi-objective evolution of neural network classifier ensembles for imbalanced data vegard engen june 2010 a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the. An ids optimization framework [4] was proposed to optimize ids parameters and we aim to extend the framework towards the design of robust solutions that enable detection of more complex attacks the text above, as well as some parts of the following text mainly comes out from the phd thesis proposal [5] 2 optimization. Applications with intrusion detection systems (ids) is necessary in this dissertation we propose several anomaly-based intrusion detection d o' riordan at the end of an amazing experience such as that of pursuing a phd, there is always somebody to thank i don't want to escape this unwritten rule, since the last. And valuable evaluation reports of my phd thesis i am truly fortunate to have had them wireless intrusion detection system (wids) has become a matter of increasing concern in recent years as a crucial identify the intrusive activities, and then alerts the complementary prevention part to combat the attacks selecting a.
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Phd thesis attacks against intrusion detection networks: evasion, reverse engineering and optimal countermeasures author: sergio pastrana portillo systems the second contribution discusses the security of randomization as a counter- measure to evasion attacks against anomaly detectors recent works have. Ids vs fds ○ attacks against ids/fds ○ a fraud detection example ○ some results from my own research ○ problems to be solved time: approx detection systems phd thesis 2004, chalmers university of technology soon in a library near you ○ emilie lundin barse logging for intrusion and fraud detection. Fpga-based high throughput regular expression pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems modi, bala (2015) fpga-based high throughput regular expression pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems doctor of philosophy (phd) thesis, university of kent (full text.
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Phd student date: roll no 201499528 center for security, theory and algorithmic research international institute of information technology hyderabad 500 anomaly in hwsn this motivates us to propose new detection and prevention protocols for these types of attacks in hwsn in this thesis, we propose several. Phd thesis cloud computing security an intrusion detection system for cloud computing systems hesham abdelazim ismail mohamed supervisors: prof fabrizio baiardi dipartmento di informatica, pisa university, italy president of the council of information security prof salim hariri electrical and computer. Adaptive intrusion detection doctoral thesis karel bartoš prague, august 2016 phd programme: electrical engineering and information technology branch of study: information science and computer that optimizes the behavior of each detection system with respect to other systems in highly dynamic environments. Gorithms for intrusion detec- tion systems machine learning for information security and digital forensics hai thanh nguyen thesis submitted to gjøvik university college doctoral dissertations at gjøvik university college 4-2012 without whose love and great supports, this phd would have been meaningless vii. | http://jecourseworkcosa.taxiservicecharleston.us/ph-d-thesis-intrusion-detection-system.html |
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It is the largest single theft of Google accounts ever reported. And if you own an Android 4 or 5 phone, it has likely already affected you. The Gooligan virus, running rampant in third-party app stores, promises to keep wreaking havoc until developers find a way to shut it down. To help your business avoid malware catastrophe, read on to learn what we know about Gooligan so far.
It is estimated that since Gooligan’s August 2016 appearance, the malware has infected more than 1.3 million Google accounts — one of the largest single thefts in recent history.
With the range of personal data available in Google accounts, it is interesting to note that Gooligan’s purpose isn’t to steal the valuable information; instead, it’s to distribute advertising fraud. With as much as $320,000 a month going into the pockets of Gooligan developers, it is obvious that the ploy is working.
Gooligan appears to be a variation of the 2015 Ghost Push malware, which was also wildly successful at infecting Android users. Google is currently working with Android engineers and Internet security firms to quelch the malware; they believe that through cooperative efforts, it will disappear from public attention. As it is, those who have updated Android versions of 6.0 or greater are not affected by the malware.
You can lower your chances of contracting the Gooligan malware by downloading apps only from Google Play and checking your system through the security firm Check Point to ensure your Android hasn’t already been infected. For more information on Gooligan and how you can protect your company, contact us. | https://www.techadvisory.org/2016/12/gooligan-malware-haunts-android-devices/ |
ha! I like the fancy status LEDs.
The Somalis seemed to have a knack for using low-tech methods to destroy RFID tags during the U.S. mission in Mogadishu.
Most methods lack a slick interface, but you could cut the antenna in a tag, puncture it, crush it, or pulverize it. Burning or microwaving will destroy an RFID chip, although the resulting fire will be hard to contain to just the tag.
Check the disclaimer: “Due to the nature of the RFIDWasher product Orthic Limited cannot be held responsible for the use or mis-use of this product. The product has been designed for use once products have been purchased and is NOT for use prior to purchase (i.e. within retail stores and outlets.)”
Interesting that this company trademarked “RFIDWasher” since washing (and drying) do not harm the tags at all.
Patened, huh? I searched the USPTO database for “Orthic Limited”. That ought to hit on the assignee name, at least. No hits were returned.
Of course, Orthic Limited could be a subsideary, and the parent corperation owns the patent. Or it’s a sole proprietership and the owner has the patent under their own name. But neither of those seem right to me, for some reason. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
In answer to Russ Meyer’s comments about the huge amount of energy being required.
Most RFIDs get their power from the antenna, the frequency of operation is known, and as Tessla showed it does not require large amounts of energy to generate very high voltages. All semiconductors will fail at some voltage (some fail open circuit some closed circuit) this includes protection diodes.
All Semiconductors are destroyed by heat either from their internal operation or applied externaly. The design of an RFID realy precludes the disapation of heat from the device so you could work out the minimum amount of energy required to raise the device temprature by say 250K. Then all you have to do is work out an efficient way to couple the energy into the device.
As for generating the energy think of the following, a person goes out and buys an inexpensive microwave oven (100 USD), brief case (30 USD) and an APC UPS (200 USD). They strip the guts out of the microwave oven and install a horn antenna onto the magnetron output (from a design for a WiFi or ammatur radio antenna they have seen in some mag or on the net). They then strip the casing of the microwave and UPS and put the whole lot into the brief case along with a button mounted on the handle.
This sort of setup can cook a pork chop from raw to well done inabout thirty seconds, how long is an RFID likley to survive, try putting an old calculator in a microwave for a couple of seconds and see how well it works afterwards.
By the way if you belive what you read on the web this setup is a low end HERF Gun.
Roger • March 7, 2005 12:33 AM
At first I thought this was a publicity stunt, but now I’m not so sure; Orthic Ltd. is an actual registered IT company (in Glasgow) and are the actual registrants of the website. On the other hand it is indeed difficult to see how a device of that apparent size (assuming standard size LEDs) could generate enough power to do the job. Perhaps they are actually only planning to implement the RFID “suicide command”? If so, will readers of this blog be trusting enough to rely on the chip’s promise to really play dead forever?
Where I live they haven’t started using them yet, but when they do, I plan to microwave most things I buy. (So, you only need 1 microwatt, little chip? Let’s see how you like 1 BILLION times too much power! BWA HA!) Sure, my jeans will have little scorch marks around all the rivets, but that will just add a little cyberpunk chic.
However for expensive non-microwaveable items, a small scanner that can pinpoint the tag would be handy. Once you know exactly where it is, for expensive items you can afford time to figure out how to kill it on a case-by-case basis. Usually a quick dab with a temp. controlled soldering iron should do it. Check again with the scanner to make sure.
I like your Zippo ‘lighter’ comment – as you know sticking your polo shirt in the Microwave will also destroy the RFID tag – however this UK based company appear to have created a product that destroys the tag without setting fire to your new polo-shirt.
Good luck to them – I’m also not sure how they do it – someone in another blog seems to know one of the guys and says he has done some innivative stuff in the past – so it could be real.
TagZapper emails simply bounce and yes I think they are possibly a hoax.
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Democratic senators are asking a federal agency that helps certify and secure voting systems for a “full account” of its work to secure the 2016 election from Russian hackers.
The senators, led by Amy Klobuchar Amy Jean KlobucharIs there difference between good and bad online election targeting? Election Countdown: Minnesota Dems worry Ellison allegations could cost them key race | Dems struggle to mobilize Latino voters | Takeaways from Tennessee Senate debate | Poll puts Cruz up 9 in Texas Clusters of polio-like illness in the US not a cause for panic MORE (D-Minn.), also want the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to detail cybersecurity challenges facing state and local officials as they look to safeguard future elections.
The intelligence community concluded in an unclassified report released in January that Russia engaged in a cyber and disinformation campaign during the election to undermine U.S. democracy and damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonCarter Page files defamation lawsuit against DNC Dems fear party is headed to gutter from Avenatti’s sledgehammer approach Election Countdown: Cruz, O'Rourke fight at pivotal point | Ryan hitting the trail for vulnerable Republicans | Poll shows Biden leading Dem 2020 field | Arizona Senate debate tonight MORE.
Intelligence officials determined that “Russian intelligence accessed elements of multiple state or local electoral boards,” though they found no systems involved in voting tallying were breached.
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Nearly all 50 states asked for help from the Department of Homeland Security to secure their voting systems ahead of the presidential election, following reports that election databases in Illinois and Arizona had been breached by hackers.
The EAC certifies voting systems and helps state and local election officials make sure elections are accurate and secure. In December, the commission said it was investigating a possible cyberattack on its web-facing systems.
“We are writing to request a full account of the EAC’s efforts in the cybersecurity sphere in 2016,” the senators wrote in a letter to the commissioners, according to a Friday release.
“Based on your work with election officials, cybersecurity experts and federal law enforcement, we also would appreciate an impartial assessment of the challenges that state and local election officials face in protecting future U.S. elections from cybersecurity threats,” they wrote.
Twenty-six senators, including Independents Angus King Angus Stanley KingCollusion judgment looms for key Senate panel People have forgotten 'facade' of independent politicians, says GOP strategist Senate poised to confirm Kavanaugh after bitter fight MORE (Maine) and Bernie Sanders Bernard (Bernie) SandersTrump attacks ‘Crazy Bernie’ Sanders over Medicare plans Overnight Defense: Trump says 'rogue killers' could be behind missing journalist | Sends Pompeo to meet Saudi king | Saudis may claim Khashoggi killed by accident | Ex-VA chief talks White House 'chaos' | Most F-35s cleared for flight Overnight Energy: Trump administration doubles down on climate skepticism | Suspended EPA health official hits back | Military bases could host coal, gas exports MORE (Vt.), signed onto the letter.
The lawmakers expressed “deep concerns” about potential Russian interference in future U.S. elections and the federal government, alluding to former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which forced Flynn to resign from his post earlier this month.
They also underscored the need to make future cybersecurity upgrades to voting systems in order to ensure their security.
“As motivated and sophisticated cybercriminals will continue to target our election systems, we must ensure that our state and local election administrators have the resources they need to make critical cybersecurity upgrades,” the senators wrote.
“Aging machines are vulnerable to hacking since they lack the latest security features. In 2016, 43 states used electronic voting machines that were at least 10 years old,” they wrote. “While there was no reported damage to actual voting machines or voter registration data last year, we hope you will agree when we say that the 2016 election was a wake-up call. We must do more to protect our U.S. elections from foreign interference.”
The senators asked the commissioners to describe “the full extent of foreign interference and hacking that occurred in any national, state or local election system” during the November election, in addition to a series of other questions. | https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/321014-senators-ask-feds-for-full-account-of-work-to-secure-election-from-cyber |
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Cyber security is increasingly critical for schools and academies as a breach can affect an academy’s ability to function until it is rectified. In addition, the security of its data and its reputation may be jeopardised. To manage this risk, academy leaders should take steps to ensure that they, and all staff, are aware of cyber risks faced by the academy, and put in place plans to manage a cyber incident.
However, many find that they are unsure how to start the conversation in respect of the academy’s approach to cybersecurity. Here Emma Swann and Coral Peutrill advise on some of the things to consider.
Cyber security in the simplest terms means taking steps to protect your devices and online services from theft or damage, alongside preventing any data which is stored on devices from access by unauthorised users.
To check whether your academy is prepared for the increasing cybersecurity risks which face the education sector, ask yourself these questions.
Reflecting the increased risk that academies face in respect of cybersecurity, the Academy Trust Handbook, which applies from September 2021, introduces a new section in relation to cybercrime. The handbook highlights the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s support of the National Crime Agency’s advice to not pay cyber ransoms. It means academy trusts must obtain permission from ESFA to pay any cyber ransom demands. Preventing cybercrime is more effective than dealing with it once it has happened. Therefore, academy trusts must now have in place proportionate controls and plans to help them to take appropriate action where a cyber security incident occurs.
Our virtual Cyber Conference on 21 – 23 September 2021 could also guide you in the right direction to fully protect your academy from increasing cybersecurity risks. Find out more and book your free place here. | https://www.hcrlaw.com/blog/is-your-academy-equipped-to-handle-increasing-cyber-security-risks/ |
On behalf of Frank, Juengel & Radefeld, Attorneys at Law posted in Internet Crimes on Wednesday, December 4, 2013.
It’s likely understandable if you’ve never heard of a botnet, provided that you’re not a computer geek or otherwise simply enamored of the subject.
Or, alternatively, if you’re actually creating and using botnets or, conversely, part of a crime team seeking to uncover and either disrupt or entirely take them down.
Botnet is definitely not a word or concept that was in the popular vernacular in Missouri or elsewhere more than a handful of years ago. A botnet is a network of computers purposefully infected with viruses and controlled for criminal purposes, such as to infiltrate websites to procure confidential information.
Most people don’t have much of a clue about botnets, but that is hardly true of a team of sleuths working in a nearly 17,000-square-foot facility on the Microsoft campus near Seattle. Named the Cybercrime Center, the crime-fighting unit went into business just last month, with a stated aim of battling criminal activity such as software piracy, child porn and other acts of Internet crime. Microsoft employees work together with law-enforcement agencies in pursuit of that goal.
The Center, as expected, uses high technology to counter that used by those it seeks to pursue, which equates to a kind of computerized cat-and-mouse game. Its offices, tech tools and strategies are decidedly off limits to public scrutiny.
“As the cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, our abilities are getting more sophisticated,” says an official employed in the digital-crimes unit of Microsoft.
Although the Center’s stated focus is seemingly centered on large fish, such as international criminal syndicates, its technology is also obviously able to be focused on Internet activities that ensnare lesser targets.
Some of those might even be unwitting participants in crime, or persons who are relatively low on the chain of criminal culpability.
Any person who is targeted in a criminal computer-focused investigation has a legal right to legal representation and to fully promote his or her best interests. A law firm with proven credentials in helping clients defend against Internet crime charges can answer questions and provide strong representation in a criminal matter.
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With three out of five Australian businesses facing a ransomware attack every year, Telstra’s Director of Security Solutions, Neil Campbell, discusses why everyone who is online needs to be aware of the growing risks of ransomware and what you can do about it.
By offering criminals a simple, direct and mass market way to monetise malware, ransomware has emerged as one of the top security threats facing business today. In the United States the FBI estimated that payments to cybercriminals to rescue infected files and systems is on its way to becoming a US$1 billion per annum market.
A recent report by Frost and Sullivan for Telstra found ransomware was the most downloaded form of malicious software (‘malware’) in the Asia Pacific region last year, with around 60 per cent of organisations in Australia experiencing at least one ransomware incident in the last 12 months.
Ransomware has been around for a decade but it has exploded recently as the malicious code it relies on has become easier to access and organised criminals have deployed it at scale around the world. It represents a problem for all types of business, large and small. Indeed many small businesses and individuals are vulnerable to ransomware because they may not have the best solutions in place or feel they are too small to be targeted.
The rise and rise of ransomware
Ransomware holds a device or system hostage by blocking access to the files on the system until a payment is made to remove the restriction. The most common variant is crypto-ransomware, where files on the target device or system are encrypted, effectively freezing access to them until a payment is made.
Like most kinds of malware, ransomware is usually distributed through phishing emails or exploit kits (which take advantage of device vulnerabilities to deliver the malware without the recipient’s knowledge).
The list of companies hit by ransomware is long and growing, with hospitals, universities, libraries and local councils among those impacted. For example, a hospital in California had its network down for a week and paid the equivalent of US$17,000 in bitcoin to regain access to encrypted files, and the University of Calgary in Canada ended up paying U$16,000 to recover encrypted emails. There are even multiple examples of police departments in the United States being forced to pay up after being infected by ransomware.
Closer to home, few companies are willing to publicly admit they have been a victim. However, the Frost and Sullivan research shows when asked anonymously a quarter of businesses in Australia experienced a ransomware incident, which impacted their business, on at least a monthly basis last year. The most common form of ransomware these companies encountered was Locky, which encrypts files through a Trojan usually downloaded via an email with a Word attachment.
Ransomware-as-a-service
The rapid growth of this form of malware has been spurred in part by the emergence of ransomware-as-a-service models, which allow any would-be criminal to access the tools they need to engage in this form of extortion regardless of their technical knowledge.
Ransomware-as-a-service has reached a point where developers now offer user-friendly online sites where people without coding experience can access their ransomware by either paying a one off fee to the developer or engaging in a profit share arrangement. Unfortunately, malware developers are getting savvy to the need to improve customer service just like any other business.
No honour among thieves
The standard advice for anyone who faces ransomware is to do everything possible to avoid paying the ransom. This is a critical way to combat the issue overall, as the fewer people who pay, the less incentive there is for criminals to pursue this type of activity.
Of course, it is not always so simple. If critical files are locked up and your business is grinding to a halt, the incentive to pay the ransom is very high. Our research report found that of the respondents who encountered a problem with ransomware, 57 per cent ended up paying a ransom.
However, payment does not necessarily rid you of the pain. Nearly one third of Australian organisations who paid the ransom did not recover their files, and even if you do regain access to the data there is no certainty it has not been compromised in other ways. Decrypting files does not mean the malware infection itself has been removed, and the perpetrators may still have stolen critical data as part of the attack, possibly even stealing your bank details when you paid the ransom. | https://exchange.telstra.com.au/why-you-should-care-about-ransomware/ |
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Security experts have warned that during the second half of this year the virus count rose with “alarming force,” increasing from 110,000 to approximately 150,000 by year’s end.
According to an analysis from security firm F-Secure, this steep increase in overall number of viruses was accompanied by a fall in the severity of mass assaults using network worms. The study noted that there were only two major outbreaks during the last six months of 2005: one in September, with the Zotob worm, and the second, Sober-Y, in late November.
This year, the F-Secure report observed, was also characterized by a spate of criminal phishing attempts, either directly to online banking customers yielding high profits to the malware authors, or by exploiting man-made and natural disasters.
"There is some evidence that the criminal organizations behind phishing attacks have been jumping from one geographical area to another looking for more targets. First we saw them in the U.S., then in Australia and then the U.K. In Germany, the attacks were localized in the German language, as was the case earlier in 2005 when phishing cases localized in Danish were detected in Denmark," F-Secure's report stated.
"As phishing becomes more widespread, however, so too do the authorities' ability to detect it. As a result, typical larger phishing targets, such as those made on Citibank, eBay, Paypal and U.S. Bank have been replaced by more focused attacks against smaller targets in order to find users who still can still be fooled to respond to a phishing email," the report continued.
F-Secure also noted that the last six months of this year have seen trojans that attempted to capitalize on the terrorist bombings in London and Hurricane Katrina to tempt users to open infected emails. Shortly after the London attacks, the first trojan was detected as an attachment in email messages. The ZIP file contained the file ''London Terror Moovie.avi Checked By Norton Antivirus.exe'.
In September there were reports of a spam message with subject fields like "Katrina killed as many as 80 people."
The messages claimed to contain news articles on the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina but actually directed the reader to a website called "nextermest.com. Further investigation revealed the site was just a placeholder that refreshes to a page that tries to download the Trojan-Downloader.JS.Small.bq malware.
And finally, 2005 was also the year which saw the number of mobile phone malware exceed the 100 mark – growing proof that the criminal bodies behind their creation are serious in their attempts to exploit this new arena. | https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/end-of-2005-sees-virus-count-rise-with-alarming-force/ |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rebekah Jones might face prison time, according to legal experts. That’s after state police raided the fired Florida Health employee’s home this week, investigating a data breach.
Speaking to us during an exclusive interview, Jones said she had nothing to do with the hack, calling it retribution by an angry government.
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Meanwhile, a cybercrimes attorney said the allegations are serious and could lead to felony charges.
“My husband woke me up, and he said, ‘they’re here,'” said Jones, recalling the Monday raid. “Since this summer, I’ve been expecting someone to come knocking on my door to just arrest me — take me away.”
Jones has spent months calling out state officials, alleging they’re misrepresenting COVID-19 case numbers. When authorities arrived at her doorstep, she said she emailed her legal team and turned on a camera, capturing the raid on video.
“When I decided to build my own site, and after people cared that I did that and paid attention to that, I just assumed the governor would be coming after me,” Jones said.
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In the clip Jones posted online, officers can be seen entering the home with guns drawn. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said at no time were weapons pointed at anyone inside the property, which Jones disputes.
“They were pointing them at the top of the stairs where my husband was holding our 2-year-old daughter, and my 11-year-old son was behind him,” Jones said. “There’s more video of them coming down the stairs and everything, but Twitter only lets you upload a like a 45-second clip, I think.”
Authorities said they were serving a warrant, taking Jones’ work computer and phone. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the search is connected to a breach of a Florida Health emergency messaging program. Someone accessed the system last month, sending an unauthorized message to more than 1,700 state employees, urging them to speak out.
“It’s time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead,” the Nov. 10 message read. “You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it’s too late.”
Officials said they linked the breach to Jones’ home by way of an IP address.
“Well, that really isn’t evidence. That’s just DOH saying we have this IP address. … This is where it came from,” Jones said. “They would know where I accessed the system before because I’ve worked remotely from home.”
Jones helped create Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard before being terminated for insubordination in May. However, she maintains her innocence, adding that the job didn’t require a lot of computer skills. Hacking isn’t what she does, Jones said.
“I don’t know the first thing about computers,” Jones said. “If something is wrong with your computer, I’m liable to make it worse. Being a statistician doesn’t mean you know how to program computers. It means you know how to analyze information.”
Legal experts told us Jones might face up to five years if charges are filed. The breach could be considered a third-degree felony, based on state law.
“The state law mirrors federal statute on computer crimes,” said attorney Aldo Leiva, a cybercrime expert with Baker Donelson’s Fort Lauderdale office. “Just the fact that there was unauthorized access by itself could be sufficient grounds to be charged under this law.”
Leiva expected computer forensic teams are now at work, analyzing the tech seized and looking at contents and communications.
“There are a lot of questions that are out there as to what are they are going to find on that system,” he said. “Most importantly, what are the next steps that they are going to take.”
While Jones waits for those next steps, she said she’s undeterred. The former state employee planned to get back to work posting COVID-19 data on a new computer and criticizing the administration.
“My site is back up and running,” Jones said. “So, I’m going to keep doing what I do until they come here and arrest me for something.”
The governor’s office maintains DeSantis knew nothing about the raid before it happened. Jones has filed a whistleblower complaint against the state for wrongful termination. | https://topnews-usa.com/fl/rebekah-jones-could-face-felony-charge-florida-cybercrime-expert-warns/ |
Seven restaurant chains that suffered data breaches are suing the maker and distributor of a bank card processing system, which they say was vulnerable and allowed hackers to steal customer information.
The restaurants, located in Louisiana and Mississippi, have filed a class-action lawsuit against Georgia-based point-of-sale (POS) vendor Radiant Systems and its distributor Computer World, based in Louisiana.
Radiant and Computer Worlds’ business practices and POS software was in violation of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), according to the lawsuit. The victimized restaurants all were using Radiant Systems’ Aloha POS system, on which hackers, believed to originate from Romania, were able to install keyloggers and steal credit card numbers resulting in hundreds of customers becoming victims of identity theft.
Radiant and Computer World were warned in 2007 by Visa that the Aloha POS system unnecessarily stored sensitive cardholder data, including card verification and PIN numbers, which was in violation of the PCI-DSS and made the software a viable target for data breaches, according to the plaintiff’s petition for damages. Around the same time, Computer World, which sold the Aloha POS software, advertised the system as compliant with the PCI-DSS.
“What we would like to see is for vendors to be more responsible to the merchants,” Charles Hoff, lawyer for the Georgia Restaurant Association and one of the plaintiff restaurants, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday. “Merchants have their own responsibilities under PCI. When they entrust to reputable point-of-sale vendors that they are going to be doing everything correctly pursuant to PCI, then the vendors need to be accountable to the merchants.”
Under the PCI-DSS guidelines, merchants are required to develop and maintain secure systems and applications.
The PCI standard that applies to vendors of POS systems is the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), which states that software vendors must develop secure payment applications that do not store certain sensitive data and maintain compliance with the PCI-DSS. The PCI Security Standards Council, which manages PCI DSS, took over administration of PA-DSS in 2008. At least one card brand — Visa — requires merchants to use only certified payment application providers.
The victim restaurants are seeking millions of dollars in damages to repay penalties and fines imposed by credit card companies as a result of the breaches, which happened more than two years ago, in addition to the forensic review costs they incurred.
The lawsuit contends that in addition to selling vulnerable POS systems, Computer World failed to remove prior sensitive customer data upon installation of the Aloha POS systems. Also, to repair the Aloha product off-site, Computer World used a remote access system that did not have adequate security patches.
“A number of practices were contrary to the PCI standards,” Hoff said.
In a statement sent to SCMagazineUS.com on Tuesday, Radiant Systems said: “Unfortunately in today’s world, criminal acts like these are not uncommon in the restaurant industry. What we can say is that Radiant takes data security very seriously and that our products are among the most secure in the industry. We believe the allegations against Radiant are without merit, and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves.”
Contact information for Computer World could not be obtained. The PCI Security Standards Council declined comment.
Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday that the lawsuit highlights communication problems within the PCI compliance process.
“I personally don’t think it’s right to hold the restaurant accountable,” she said. “It’s not right to fine the restaurants when they are not security experts. They are not in the business of security. They are in the business of selling food. They don’t have the means to test the software in the system to see if it’s storing sensitive data. They just have to believe the vendor.”
Merchants should ensure that their payment applications are on the PCI council’s list of certified providers, Litan recommended. In addition, when contracting with technology and service providers, merchants should ensure the POS vendor assumes liability if a breach occurs. | https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/breached-restaurateurs-suing-point-of-sale-provider/ |
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IN 2022, EMAIL SECURITY IS A MUST.
Email is still the number one communication channel for most businesses. Whilst email is the perfect solution for asynchronous communication, it can also be an entry point for cybercriminals if it is not sufficiently secured. There are many ways that cybercriminals can exploit emails, including phishing, domain spoofing, sharing of ransomware and more.
We recently investigated the management and maintenance of an organised email inbox; having a clear inbox can make it easier to spot fraudulent emails and avoid falling victim to an attack.
In this article, we will discuss the importance of email security for SMBs and four ways your business can secure your email...
THE IMPORTANCE OF EMAIL SECURITY FOR SMBs
Email has remained the number one threat vector for many years, with 83% of all cyberattacks being reported as phishing attacks. Email is such an effective attack vector for cybercriminals as email is used by all businesses and the sheer volume of emails that are received daily makes it difficult for employees to not let a phishing email slip through. These phishing emails can have a variety of goals, including everything from stealing payment card information to launching a wide-scale ransomware attack.
However, regardless of how a cybercriminal uses email as an attack vector, it can have devastating consequences for SMBs. Typically, businesses are concerned about the direct financial impact a cyberattack can have, although the downtime and associated reputational damage can be significantly worse, which is why SMBs need to invest in keeping their email secure.
In order to secure your business’s email, the first step is to ensure that all appropriate security protocols are implemented correctly. There are many options for email security protocols that each serve a specific purpose, whilst working together to achieve overall security. Some of the common security protocols include TLS for HTTPS, SMTPS, STARTTLS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, S/MIME and OpenPGP. Whilst all of these protocols are essential, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are particularly important.
SPF or Sender Policy Framework is a protocol that allows the owner of the domain to authorise which hosts can use the domain when sending emails and how this should be verified. This strongly decreases the chance of a business falling victim to a domain-spoofed phishing attack.
DKIM or DomainKeys Identified Mail extends SPF to allow the individual that owns the signing domain to link a digital signature that authenticates the individual.
DMARC or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance provides a method for notifications and actions if an email fails authentication from SPF and DKIM. The response actions or policies are either to quarantine the email or reject it outright.
These email security protocols are relatively simple to set up, but provide powerful protection, therefore all businesses should have them implemented, either in-house or with the assistance of a trusted third-party IT provider.
2) MAKE USE OF AN AI SOLUTION
In order to truly protect your business from cyberthreats using email as an attack vector, businesses should invest in a solution that has multiple layers of security, supported by next-generation AI. Often these solutions have features that protect against gaps in an email provider's security, including offering a secure email gateway with targeted threat protection, and internal email protection.
For businesses that are looking to take their security to the next step, it is also possible to have an email security solution that includes web and URL protection, so even if a malicious email does get through the multiple layers of security, the end-user cannot download a malicious file or click a malicious link.
3) EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND AWARENESS TRAINING
When considering all elements of security, businesses should aim for Defence in Depth, this is a concept whereby businesses have multiple layers of protection, so if a cybercriminal thwarts one layer, they are stopped by the next. Whilst email security protocols and a comprehensive email security solution that uses AI should stop the majority of attacks, it is essential that employees have sufficient security awareness training to detect a potential email attack and know what actions to take to not fall victim.
The training should be interactive, and specific to the business and industry, and employees should be given frequent ‘refresher’ courses to ensure the knowledge is retained. Typically, this will include examples of phishing emails, potentially some real-world examples that the email security solution has quarantined or rejected, as well as a clear policy of how to report a phishing email.
4) IMPLEMENT MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION
Whilst low-effort phishing attacks can be easy to spot, it is far harder to a phishing attack launched from a compromised account, as the email is ‘from’ a colleague’s account. The accounts can be compromised in a variety of ways, however, typically they are cracked using credential stuffing. This is a form of cyberattack whereby the attacker collects stolen account credentials, typically usernames/emails and passwords, in order to gain access to other accounts. These credentials can be purchased on the dark web through previous data leaks.
One way that these forms of attacks can be avoided is through using a unique, complex password for each system, which all employees should be doing. However, multifactor authentication should also be implemented for every user’s email client, as this will stop 99.9% of account compromise attacks.
LOOKING TO SECURE YOUR SMB's EMAIL?
It can be difficult for SMBs to prioritise cybersecurity in their IT budgets, however, it is essential to ensure the longevity of your business. As email is the number one attack vector, it should be high on the list of priorities, as secure email can prevent the majority of attacks.
With this being said, as mentioned previously, to truly reduce your business’s cyber risk, you should consider defence-in-depth as a method of providing multiple layers of protection. If you want to find out more about how to keep your business safe, contact us today. | https://www.onit.ltd/news-resources/the-smb-guide-to-comprehensive-email-security/ |
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How does [email protected] Ransomware work?
Our researchers did not notice the malware creating any copies of itself. However, it may create a few Registry entries and place a file carrying the ransom note (payday.hta) on %APPDATA%. This file should show a message explaining what happened to user’s data and asking to pay a ransom to receive decryption tools. Plus, the text may tell how to obtain Bitcoins or make the payment with them. As for the price, the ransom note does not mention it. The user could most likely learn it only after writing an email to the cyber criminals responsible for [email protected] Ransomware.
Also, once the threat enciphers all user’s personal files and most of the program data, it is supposed to drop text documents called How Decrypt Files.txt on each folder containing locked data. Unlike the mentioned payday.hta these text documents should not include a long message. Instead, they should provide a short sentence urging the victim to email the malware’s developers. Just like we explained earlier if you deal with these people you might end up losing your savings, and if you do not want to gamble with them, it might be best to pay no attention to the described messages and remove [email protected] Ransomware at once.
Locate the file responsible for infecting the system.
Right-click the malicious file and press Delete. | http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/remove-slakerindia-com-ransomware |
You may not be aware you’re using Adobe Flash Player and other Adobe products but it is freely available on most web browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari).
Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system or cause the system to crash. HOW DO I PROTECT MY COMPUTER?
Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player, who have not already done so, immediately update to the current version of Flash Player via the update mechanism within the product or by visiting the Adobe Flash Player Download Center at https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.
*If you use multiple browsers, install the update in each browser you have installed on your system. | http://it.ucsf.edu/status/2016-04-06/critical-vulnerability-flash-player-all-users |
Google has blocked access to Twitpic.com, a popular photo sharing tool for Twitter, after identifying it as a malware risk. Some users are also complaining that Twitter’s own t.co URL shortener service is also broken at the moment but we are not sure if the two are incidents are linked in any manner.
Interessant, pics posted via Twitpic appear in the expanded mode on Twitter when viewed on Google Chrome. We should hopefully get an update soon on the situation. It is unlikely for the block to remain for long and in all probability the affected services are working it with Google as we file this post.
UPDATE: Twitpic denies there is anything wrong with its service to invoke the malware notice and is trying to contact Google.
Working to fix the google chrome malware notice when visiting Twitpic.com as this is not true or the case, trying to contact google | http://chromebygoogle.net/de/2012/12/google-chrome-temporarily-blocks-twitpic-com-for-malware-risk/ |
London, UK— October 8, 2020— The Bayesian Group, the parent company behind Fabriik Qualified Custody, is upping the stakes in the race to deliver on the promise of frictionless financial management. Today they announced their plans to build a blockchain-centric qualified custodian, with Karen J. Wendel as Chief Executive Officer. Wendel will lead the deployment of Fabriik Qualified Custody, offering multi-asset regulated custody services for institutions and retail clients. Fabriik Qualified Custody will operate as part of Fabriik, a global digital asset fintech initiative consisting of a collection of strategically aligned businesses across the liquidity ecosystem.
Wendel is an experienced executive who led the regulated bank-created identity syndicate IdenTrust for more than a decade, Wendel also held CEO and Partner roles in venture-backed and global consulting firms where she drove strategic, operational reengineering, and innovation projects for large global entities including Bank of America and ABN AMRO. Her most recent projects have focused on what she refers to as the “liquidity ecosystem”, i.e. the use of technologies such as distributed ledgers and qualified custody to transform illiquid assets, whether traditional or alternatives, into fungible, highly liquid structures.
“The Bayesian Group is pioneering a transformational approach that allows everyone to unlock their financial power. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in the charting of that new roadmap,” says Wendel.
“Custody is a critical piece of the Fabriik ecosystem, however, our needs are quite unique as we embark on a mission to build a seamless marketplace. With Karen we not only found a brilliant mind who’s experience in custody and finance was unrivaled, but her understanding of the convergence of traditional, physical, and digital assets is light years ahead of the pack. It’s a pleasure and honour to be working with Karen to build the next generation of qualified custody,” says Roy Bernhard, CEO of The Bayesian Group.
With over 30 years of senior-level business experience in key executive and board positions, Wendel is a veteran of the global banking industry, focused on payments, currency regulation, trust/custody structures, cybersecurity, and identity. In that context, she has a track record of building and restructuring businesses, resulting in dramatic improvements for shareholders and clients.
She was previously the President and CEO of TrustChains, a boutique consulting firm that provides support to the PE and VC communities. She serves on the board of a publicly-traded company, and in consulting and advisory capacities with multiple private companies.
An author on financial management, payments, and supply chain integration, an advisor to U.S. Government agencies and the European Union on emerging technologies for payments and transaction processing, and a keynote speaker at major banking and technology conferences, Wendel brings thought leadership and passion to the Bayesian Group.
Wendel’s education includes degrees earned in International Relations and Economics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, followed by multiple professional accreditations in treasury management and security.
The Bayesian Group is the parent company of Fabriik, a collective of companies operating in the Fintech and Digital Asset Investment market. Bayesian Labs creates software, market research and trading algorithms. Built on top of that technology and research are financial services such as Market Making, Liquidity Provision and an OTC desk delivered by Fabriik Markets. The Fund (a segregated portfolio) is an alpha-generating AI-powered hedge fund that leverages proprietary algorithms to provide outsized returns to its institutional investors. Fabriik Qualified Custody provides qualified custodial services that allow people to grow, transform, leverage and hold real and digital world assets. The Bayesian Group is dedicated to furthering the probability of positive change by transforming the fabric of global systems starting with finance to show the world the power of Digital Assets within a regulated, private, secure global economy.
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SlickSignet or Ads by SlickSignet or SlickSignet Ads is another adware, that claims to enhance user’s browsing experience by unlocking some advanced e-mail related features and also contains a rogue browser extension, that is capable of displaying pop-up ads and advertisements on almost every web page that you visit. It is considered as a PUP (potentially unwanted program) and/or adware program which display pop-up boxes, advertisements and sponsored links when browsing on the internet. SlickSignet loads unwanted advertisements on a random webpage that you visit. The PUP will show ads into all well-known browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Generally, users that have it installed on their systems might see different pop-ups, banners, search suggestions, sponsored link advertisements displayed on popular pages. You might also see a little button referring you to similar products which will be offered by the PUP. The search results can also be altered, displaying information loaded with spam and third-party advertising.
SlickSignet is usually bundled with other free software products and is being installed by default, when the user accepts the EULA, while performing an express/recommended installation of that software. The possible distribution of SlickSignet varies but is not limited to – installing third-party toolbars, free software products, downloading e-mail attachments, clicking on ads or banners etc..
The purpose of SlickSignet is to attract more users to their domains so that the creators of such or similar adware or malware could generate income from online traffic, and would collect information that might be used to compromise the user. SlickSignet may use cookies and other relevant information to steal your personal details. That is the reason why this malware infection should not be left unattended, and it needs to be terminated immediately, as it is a serious threat to your online security.
! Please note that these infections could potentially bring up other malware to your computer and even cause a loss of data. Please do not underestimate such threats.
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1. Remove SlickSignet Uninstall Entry:
First, you can try to go to Control panel and click on Programs and Features (Windows Vista/7/8/10) or Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP) and check the Uninstall Programs` List for any entry related to SlickSignet, SlickSignet, iReview, Obrona Blockads, Media Player 1.1, Video Player, YoutubeAdBlocker, Enterprise Policy, 1ClickDownload, Yontoo, FBPhotoZoom, Mac Free Converter, DP1815, Youtube Downloader HD, DVDX Player 3.2, Fast Free Converter, SafeSaver, Convert Files for Free, Plus-HD 1.3, BetterSurf, Trusted Web, PassShow, Savings Bull, Feven Pro 1.1, Websteroids, Savings Bull, HD-Plus 3.5, LyricsBuddy-1 or any third-party add-ons, extensions and toolbars. If you find such, double-click on it and try to remove it. Although, please mind that this is an actual infection and you might not be able to remove it directly from the list.
*(Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features or Add/Remove Programs) or “Win + R” keys to open “Run” and type in “control”, then hit enter.
2. Remove SlickSignet from your browser:
Internet Explorer: Go to Tools -> Internet options -> Advanced Tab and click the Reset button (make sure to select the Delete Personal Settings checkbox).
*please note that in order to save your favorites, you need to export them before resetting the browser as you will lose all personal settings.
After IE completes the operation, click the close button and then close IE in order for the changes to take effect.
Google Chrome: Go to the following path (you can copy-paste it) and delete the entire folder “Chrome” with all the folders and files that are in it.
2. Click the Reset Firefox button in the top-right corner of the Troubleshooting Information page.
3. To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens.
4. Firefox will close and be reset. When it’s done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will reopen.
3. Delete any folders or files related to SlickSignet by checking the following locations: | https://www.malwarekillers.com/slicksignet-adware-removal/ |
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The arrow keys will help the users in selecting the operating system they prefer to start in Safe Mode. Press ‘F8’ just as illustrated (i.e., repeatedly) for a single operating system.
Now as the ‘Advanced Boot Options’ screen appears, make selection of the Safe Mode option you desire utilizing the arrow keys. After the completion of the selection procedure, press ‘Enter’.
Log on to the computer system utilizing the administrator account.
While the PC is in Safe Mode, the words ‘Safe Mode’ will appear in all the four corners of the screen.
Step 2 : Detect and Remove Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I from task manager
Firstly launch the Task Manager via pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys all together.
Now review the suspicious process and note down it’s file location on the PC.
End the processes now.
Open the ‘Run’ command box an then enter the noted down location to open in the file explorer.
At last delete the file permanently.
Step 3 : Locate and Remove Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I from startup files, registry files and host files
Initially launch the file explorer or any other folder from my computer.
Further, scroll down to find ‘Show hidden files and folders’ option and then check it in the check box.
Locate ‘Hide protected operating system files’ and uncheck it.
Lastly tap ‘Apply’ and then press ‘OK’.
Navigate to below mentioned registry files depending on the OS versions and then delete the files.
Finally launch the Windows explorer and then navigate to %appdata% for finding and deleting suspicious executable files from there and then close the window.
Fix Hosts file to block all the undesired redirections on all the active browsers
Initially open Windows explorer and then navigate to Windows directory.
Secondly go to System32/drivers/etc/host.
Now open the host file and notice it. In a case if the system is compromised by the infection then in that situation, user will see various IP definitions at the bottom.
Make selection of those IP addresses and remove them.
Lastly save and close the file and exit the explorer window.
PEMalform. I Removal From Mozilla Firefox:49.0.1
First of all launch the Firefox and then press CTRL+SHIFT+A to open the extension Window.
Secondly look for the Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I and then deactivate it.
Tap over the main menu icon and then select Tools or More Tools and then Extensions.
Thirdly to notice the list of the installed extensions and find Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I and other suspicious programs, scroll down and tap the bin option beside it.
Tap remove button to confirm the deletion.
Finally at last, reset the Chrome settings to default leaving nothing behind.
Quick Steps To Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I Removal From IE 8:8.00.6001.18241
Firstly open the browser and then click the Gear icon present on the upper right corner.
Next, navigate to Internet options and then tap it.
Navigate to Toolbars and Extensions, to view the list of installed add-ons to find undesired one.
Deactivate or delete the selected extensions on a permanent basis.
Now to reset the IE, tap over Advanced tab and tap Reset.
Lastly press OK button to confirm.
Cleaning the browser’s shortcuts on the computer system is also strongly recommended in most of the cases and it needs to get accomplished for all the installed browsers. Regarding this purpose, the steps are :
First of all select the browser short-cut and then make right-click on it.
Navigate the properties and tap it.
Now in the opened window, find the target option and then remove the argument for Win32/Riskware. PEMalform. I. | https://deletepcviruse.spyware-removal.org/assistance-for-removing-win32-riskware-pemalform-i-from-windows-10 |
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Tom Temin: Mr. Borgia, good to have you one.
Michael Borgia: Thank you for having me. I appreciate the opportunity.
Tom Temin: First of all, this letter from the White House, specifically from Anne Neuberger, the deputy assistant to the president, and the deputy national security advisor for cyber, who did go to exactly?
Michael Borgia: Well, it is addressed to the private sector. So, it’s got a broad audience. And I think it looks like the intention was to really get the word out broadly to companies all over the private sector, and let them know what the White House thinks they should be doing and perhaps set some kind of baseline around cyber hygiene. As you said, I would think of this as pretty basic hygiene, people who have been in the industry for a while I think nothing in here is going to be shocking or surprising to them.
Tom Temin: Right. It said you should have two-factor authentication, you should have backups that are stored offline, and all these other good things in place, again, basic stuff, but coming from the White House, that’s kind of open-letter, telling people you have a distinct and key responsibility almost implies like there could be some sort of regulatory push here, not just for federal contractors, but for industry in general, coming. It has that ‘Dear Colleague,’ tone.
Michael Borgia: Exactly. It’s funny. On the one hand, you think, well, what does this mean that this doesn’t really do anything? On the other hand, here we are talking about it. And there has been quite a bit of discussion around this. It’s generated a lot of buzz, a lot of thought about, what should we be doing? Should there be regulation? What should that look like? What should companies be doing to prepare? A lot of clients have been asking me not about the letter itself. It’s been kind of a poke for them to say, we really should do more on this, and what should we be doing? So, if that was the White House’s goal, they’ve certainly had some success there to advance the conversation.
Tom Temin: Sure. And of course, in the military contracting community, there is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program. And there is some evidence that’s going to spread to the commercial contracting sector in the civilian agencies. But it sounds like there could be some even wider application of that, not the program itself, but the idea behind it. That, to do business, you need to do this, that and the other. Do you feel that could be behind the velvet glove here?
Michael Borgia: I think that’s possible. It’s always hard to predict. And there are so many proposals out there competing. And as you know, making proposal is easy. Getting it through Congress or through the regulatory process is another thing. But there is definitely a push in May. The White House’s executive order on cybersecurity, certainly a big push to improve cybersecurity both among the federal government and among contractors of both the military and civilian variety. We are definitely seeing a push to improve security, to push out more guidance and regulation on technical controls, and really get contractors and others up their game. A lot of people have said this. And it’s correct. The government obviously, because they have more authority over government contractors and it’s easier for them to change the rules around contractors. What they’re hoping to do is….certainly they want to affect contractors for themselves, but they also want to create new standards and baselines, both in kind of a set of expectations, but also, no doubt, they’re hoping that some of the enhancements will bleed over into the private sector as well. For example, in the executive order, you have all of these rules around software security in supply chain, probably inspired by SolarWinds and similar incidents. I think clearly trying to not only improve the quality of software used in the government, but also change the industry and change the standards that the industry uses.
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Tom Temin: We’re speaking with Michael Borgia. He is information security group practice leader at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. And there’s a third layer in all of this that doesn’t come up as much in the public discussions, but that is the role of insurance and the relationship between companies and their insurance providers in say, a ransomware or some similar type of cybersecurity problem. And then there’s also the question of liability. If you have been in total compliance with all of these best practices for cyber, what is your legal liability? Those questions I think are probably as much on the minds of business leaders and executives, to use the phrase from the letter, as the cybersecurity results themselves.
Michael Borgia: That’s right, the insurance market around cybersecurity has been changing dramatically and a lot of my clients have received some pretty rude awakenings when they’ve gone to renew their policies this year. Rates have gone up, retentions have gone up, the amount you have to pay out-of-pocket before the insurance kicks in have gone way up. More coverage exceptions, and some carriers are starting to exempt ransom. So previously, and some people are surprised to learn this, many policies would actually cover the ransom payment, you pay a million dollars to a bad actor in Eastern Europe or wherever and some or all of that, depending on your policy, could be covered. It’s kind of the never ending sort of balance to be struck in the insurance industry is provide the services that the client wants without incenting them to do bad things and spend lots of money. Right now we’re seeing insurance companies kind of cut the other way and say we really need to dial back what we’re covering, because the payouts have been massive, and a lot of companies are just paying ransoms because they’re largely or entirely covered.
Tom Temin: Sure, and speaking recently with Michael Hamilton, he was a municipal chief information security officer. He says one of the dangers here is if the administration starts calling these types of cyber attacks terror, then the insurance companies are immediately off the hook, because terrorism, acts of war, are not covered by any insurance policies so far as I’ve ever seen.
Michael Borgia: Right. Yup, it’s a very good point. And there’s certainly a lot of debate right now, you saw the Justice Department earlier in June said that they haven’t labeled them terror, but they said they would be handling them in a similar rubric that they use to handle terror. So we do see a bit of a collapse of those concepts. And the liability, the point you addressed is a very good one, too. Right now it’s hard to say. We don’t have comprehensive legislation in this area. And, what that’s often led to is sort of a name and shame rubric. If you have a breach, then everyone says, “Boo to you,” and you get a lot of criticism, and maybe you get fined. If you have terrible security, but just don’t happen to have a breach or not one that gets reported you are effectively off the hook. So, it is a little hard to advise clients in that space exactly. One thing we might see, although it’s, as you know, it’s just hard to know and hard to see where it would come from right now, is more comprehensive legislation around or regulation around, what should I be doing? Because ultimately the test of liability here should not be, did you have a breach? It should be, what are your risks? Are your controls addressing those risks? Mistakes happen, advanced adversaries get through defenses, it shouldn’t be strict liability, it should be the quality of your program that matters here.
Tom Temin: To summarize, then, what is it you’re telling clients to do? They say, “Oh my gosh, I got a letter from the government.” And they say, “I have key responsibility, and the government is there to help.” That can cut both ways in terms of people’s sense of reassurance?
Michael Borgia: Absolutely, it can. What we’re telling clients a lot right now is to think hard about their risk, in the industry we call this a risk analysis or risk assessment. Really think about what are the risks that you have, and then start through a risk management process developing cyber controls, and those could be technical controls, like encryption, firewalls, etc., but also training and other types of policies, administrative operational controls, and be able to articulate why your program looks the way it does. If you have a breach and you’re missing some control, the government regulator of some kind will come in potentially and say to you, “Well, why don’t you have that? Well, this system didn’t have two-factor [authentication], it should have.” Rather than post-talk try to say, “Well, here’s why it was missing.” Have an explanation to say the reason our cybersecurity controls and systems look the way they do. We have risks, we’ve addressed the risks in this way. There are certain ways in which we decided that we wanted to balance operability over security because of the relatively low risks. That’s the kind of conversation you want to be able to have. But you want to be able to have done that before. It is much harder if you’ve never done that, you have a breach, and then you were trying to piece this together and say, “What’s an explanation for why it looks this way? Because we actually hadn’t thought about it before.”
Tom Temin: And basically, then you would say that cyber security and the implications, and this is again, not a new thought, but it’s a thought we need to reinforce I guess, has to be a top-of-mind for the top of the company, and not something you delegate to the computer guys.
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Michael Borgia: Absolutely. I mean, the computer guys are obviously essential, but it is not purely, maybe even not entirely really, or mostly a technical problem. The technical controls are part of it. But it’s a whole program. Just like any other program in your company, you need policies, you need procedures, you need training, everyone has to be involved. And unfortunately, those things cost money, too. So you need leadership, you need a budget, you need a strategy and a direction.
Tom Temin: Michael Borgia is the information security group practice leader and a partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. Thanks so much for joining me. | https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2021/07/the-white-house-isnt-kidding-when-it-tells-companies-to-button-up-against-ransomware/?readmore=1 |
In the somewhat clubby world of Smart Cities, Moscow's efforts have long been a little obscure. A recent report from the International Telecommunications Union details the city's efforts. Those include a Unified Medical Information Analysis System, which directs people to the nearest of the city's 678 clinics and maintains e-health records for 78 percent of the city's residents. But the most interesting AI-related project going on in Moscow is a pilot project that reviews all MRI and CAT scans for precursors to lung and breast cancers.
Information about the project is scarce. But as of last year, said Andrey Belozerov—strategy and innovations advisor to Moscow's CIO and Moscow's point person for its Smart Cities efforts—the city has scanned more than 6,000 images and claims that it has picked up 225 cases that a previous process had missed. Belozerov says that Moscow is participating in the RadIO open source project of data science regarding CT scanning on GitHub.
Another pilot uses Moscow's medical data and school attendance data to predict virus outbreaks in schools. Based on AI-processed information, the city says, schools can tell students to stay home, thereby preventing full-bore outbreaks.
Taiwan has an air-quality problem, and the earlier the government knows how bad the air will be and where, the safer its residents will be. The goal is to predict three days out the level of particulates and ozone, then produce an eight-hour warning of high ozone levels that would advise people to curtail outdoor activities. As early as 1993, the Taiwanese government started putting up air-quality monitors that measured particulates and ozone levels. Today, about 140 such stations can be found around the country.
Mike Lee, executive vice president of the Taiwanese telco FarEasTone, told a panel at Mobile World Congress in 2018 that Taiwanese weather authorities took a historical data model from London and modified it, iterating until it was predictive for them. The weather stations collect 60 parameters and add that population-density data gathered from the carrier. (It turns out that where there are people on any given day, there's more pollution.) The results get rolled up to AQI scores presented on a live map by Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency, as well as other online charts. The data is used to generate three-day predictions of air quality.
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Public health is also the goal behind another ambitious AI-based project in New York City: the Syndromic Surveillance System. SSS has its roots in a 1990s-era project to gather information about flu-like symptoms from 911 calls and send it to the city's health department. Data sharing like that was extremely uncommon two decades ago, but the 911 data proved to be insufficiently specific to be helpful.
Over the years, though, the system evolved to collect far more detailed and health-relevant information from emergency medical responders, hospital emergency rooms, drug stores that report both prescription and over-the-counter drug sales, and visits to the school nurse. That data is scooped up every day and thrown into data models in an effort to spot illness trends.
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Today in New York City, 75 percent of EMS calls and school nurse visits, 10 percent of prescription drug sales, about a quarter of over-the-counter drug sales, and all emergency room visits are reported to the city's health department, down to the ZIP code. That means, for instance, that if there are 200 reports of diarrhea coming in from emergency rooms in three ZIP codes in Queens, the word will go out the next day that a food-borne illness may be lurking around there. If nurses in a couple of schools in the Bronx are seeing kids with fever and the local Walgreens are suddenly selling stacks of Aleve, that may be an early indicator of flu. And if cigarette taxes go up, the health department can track the impact on cigarettes and nicotine gum.
Because the vocabulary of health data is fairly restricted and standardized, the Syndromic Surveillance System can detect incidences of 22 communicable diseases and about 25 non-contagious health conditions, such as asthma, gunshot wounds, or use of synthetic cannabinoids (known as K2 or "spice"). In this last case, an outbreak of nearly 100 K2 overdoses in the summer of 2018 was quickly identified. The sources were shut down within days, thanks in part to this system.
Not every AIoT application is as glamorous as those. Las Vegas, for instance, is using AI/ML to keep the streets clean. The city has rolled out an AI system with video cameras in two parks near the Downtown neighborhood.
Rather than sending clean-up crews out on a regular schedule, work orders get generated only when the automated systems see trash and graffiti. The system doesn't look for people who dump the trash or write the graffiti; it's just interested in the garbage itself. The city hasn't quantified the savings yet, but it has noticed one behavioral change: the workers who do the clean-up seem to prefer having a routine schedule to being called to the sites only when they're needed.
The population of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City has grown rapidly this century, and overbuilding has become a problem. The city is working with the World Bank to teach an AI to look at satellite imagery of the metropolis and recognize land cover and land-use patterns. This data will be used in city planning and management. Parks don't require much in the way of city services, but dense housing does. Moreover, development in areas that aren't zoned for it guarantees that those areas will get less of the city services they need. The geospatial data is overlaid with administrative information—district boundaries and the like—to give a picture of what's really going on. On-the-ground surveys are not always reliable, but it's hard to hide from a satellite.
AI and ML are not panaceas for smart cities, because cities are not about technology; they're about the people who live in them and the systems that deliver them services that they need. At best, the technology can help dig through the vast repositories of data that a modern city generates, helping humans make decisions that affect other humans. For now, at least, people are still at the controls. | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/unite-day3-1/2/ |
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The BlackBerry 10 OS will soon have Amazon's Android app store built-in, in a bid to increase the number of apps available on the smartphone and allow BlackBerry to focus on enterprise software as it tries to stay afloat.
The Amazon Appstore will be integrated in version 10.3 of BlackBerry's OS, which is scheduled to arrive this fall, according to the company. That provides access to apps such as Groupon, Netflix, Pinterest, Candy Crush Saga and Minecraft, Blackberry said on Wednesday.
When BlackBerry 10 was launched back in the beginning of 2013, one of the main goals was to attract consumer users, not just the business users that had been the company's strong suit. However, smartphones like the Z10 never caught on with the mass market. One of the issues that put a damper on sales was a lack of apps, which BlackBerry is now hoping to address with the Amazon deal.
Earlier this week Amazon said the Appstore now has over 240,000 apps and is available in nearly 200 countries.
BlackBerry 10 users have always been able to run apps developed for Google's OS, but the integration of Amazon's app store should make it even easier.
BlackBerry will use its resources on a developer program that focuses on getting more enterprise apps for its devices; that will be launched in the coming weeks. CEO John Chen's plan to save the company relies on messaging and mobile management tools for its own OSes as well as Android and iOS.
The announcement comes the day before BlackBerry is due to present the company's first quarter results and hold its annual shareholder meeting. Even if the latest numbers are bleak, Chen now has something tell unhappy shareholders.
The deal is also a win for Amazon, which has been working hard to make its app store a viable alternative to Google's Play store.
Even though there aren't many BlackBerry 10 phones out there, anything that can add up to larger volumes makes the store more attractive to developers. The main purpose of the store is to help sell Amazon's Kindle Fire and the smartphone the company is expected to launch Wednesday. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/547904/blackberry_makes_amazon_app_store_part_rescue_plan/ |
Spotify is trying to calm down users after many threatened to stop using the music streaming service that recently announced significant changes to its user terms and conditions.
Users have been in an uproar on social media sites like Twitter, taking offense at Spotify's announcement that it will begin asking customers for access to their photos, address book, mobile phone location and sensor data.
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The company said in a post about its updated terms that it wants to collect the information to improve the customer experience and inform product decisions.
"We are constantly innovating and evolving our service to deliver the best possible experience for our users," wrote Candice Katz, user communications manager at Spotify. "The data we access simply helps us to tailor improved experiences to our users, and build new and personalized products for the future."
Users quickly cried foul.
"Um no. Sorry spotify – I'm sorry to leave you but this goes too far. My SO has less access. @Spotify #privacy #tech, " tweeted berbels (
And carnalizer tweeted that he has already quit Spotify, writing, "There, @Spotify account ended. I suggest you do the same. Privacy policies like that must die. I'll happily resume sub after remedies."
According to a lot of tweets, Spotify's move may be a boon for other services, like Apple Music.
"Seems like a good time to finally cancel my Spotify account and go all-in on Apple Music," tweeted steipete ()
After the online tumult grew, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tried to ease concerns and offer an apology, putting up his own post today.
"We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will – and will not – be used," he wrote. "We understand people's concerns about their personal information and are 100% committed to protecting our users' privacy and ensuring that you have control over the information you share."
He noted in the post that Spotify will always ask users before accessing their photos, contacts, voice controls and location. If the user declines the request, Spotify, he says, will not access it.
Ek also said, for instance, that if users allow the service to access their photos, the company will only use or access images that the user specifically chooses to share. "Those photos would only be used in ways you choose and control – to create personalized cover art for a playlist or to change your profile image, for example," he added.
As for accessing users' voice control features, Ek said future versions of the service could be built to enable people to navigate, skip songs or pause music hands-free. Spotify would not access users' voice controls without express permission.
"Again, we have heard your concerns loud and clear," he wrote. "We are also going to update the new Privacy Policy in the coming weeks to better reflect what we have explained above."
Jeff Kagan, an independent industry analyst, said Spotify made a big mistake by risking users' loyalty and making privacy an issue at all.
"Every year we go further and deeper into this dark cauldron where more privacy is taken away from us," he told Computerworld. "It's long past time for everyone to finally wake up and to protect their privacy. If they don't do it, no one will. Eventually companies will learn where the line is and not cross over it or they will lose."
However, that has not happened.
For years, Facebook, the world's largest social network, has repeatedly angered users over privacy issues and users have repeatedly threatened a mass exodus from the network. It's never happened.
Facebook has become too engrained in the way people connect with family and friends for users to easily walk away from it. That may not be the case with Spotify, which has more competition, from services like Songza and Pandora -- in the streaming music market.
"Because this is a very different kind of service from Facebook, folks are more likely to abandon it, particularly if the news coverage continues like it is at the moment," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. "When you are paying for a service, you expect to have a great deal more control over the personal information they are capturing and using."
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, said he understands the customer uproar Spotify has created and added that it will be interesting if a mea culpa from the company and an explanation will mend fences with its users.
"I think Spotify made a mistake here," he said. "If Spotify keeps violating people's trust, they will leave because unlike Facebook, which has become our social hub, Spotify has a lot more viable competitors." | http://www.computerworld.com/article/2974583/data-privacy/spotify-enrages-users-apologizes-over-privacy-changes.html |
Safeguard on your own from Phishing cons that could lead to identity burglary. I can easily not stress this adequate. Phishing shams are actually an in demand subject recently that have actually expanded with the appeal of online banking as well as social media web sites like MySpace, Facebook and also Friendster.
The term Phishing stems from the example to sportfishing. The phisher makes use of a bait to lure victims in to breaking down individual information like security passwords as well as credit card numbers. The lure is typically and also immediate plea coming from one of the preys pals or depended on sites, requesting information to fix some form of complication along with their profile.
Some of the prominent Myspace phishing cons utilizes a domain name of RNyspace.com which appears in the browser deal with bar as rnyspace.com, really similar to myspace. The site is actually developed to appear extremely comparable to myspace and informs you that you need to log in. You require to become really mindful to inspect the address in the internet browser whenever you are asked for login details or even personal monetary relevant information.
Various other typical targets for phishing include electronic banking sites, paypal, the internal revenue service and bank card business. Web customers need to be constantly dual as well as watchful inspection to make certain that the web site you are actually offering your details to become really the web site you trust fund.
Phishing frauds possess a snowball impact. One the phisher has your login info it is quite easy to call your good friends, claiming to be you, and get their info.
A lot of web browsers additionally possess additionals that can easily identify very most phishing shams. Some of the much more creative phishers have actually found methods to fool the anti-phishing software application so you need to have to be actually careful of suspicious emails and also messages. Phishing scams are not restricted to the web. If you receive a call from your banking company talking to for personal info, dangle up and call your bank straight hydra tor.
, if you really feel that you have been actually targeted by a phishing scam it is incredibly necessary that you disclose it to the company that the phisher is actually pretending to be actually.. If you obtain an email that you believe to be a phishing con you ought to ahead it to the FTC: “[email protected]” so that others are going to certainly not drop target to these attacks. You could also Phire back on Phishers through sending back misleading relevant information that they will definitely waste time really attempting to make use of. | http://mystealthyfreedom.net/2021/04/01/how-to-protect-yourself-from-phishing/ |
tech Types Of Computer Network What are the different s? A computer network is an assemblage of computers and hardware interrelated by communication stations that permit distribution of properties and information. A way to classify the different is by the scope or the scale of their operation. Common examples of the are LAN or Local Area Network, WLAN or Wireless Local Area Network, WAN or Wide Area Network, MAN or Metropolitan Area Network, and many others.
Originally, there are only two main – the LAN and the WAN. Through the development of technology, more and more new have emerged. These are the ones that we have now.
The most basic and common s are the LAN. These are networks of computers that are found in short distances or locations. A distinguishing factor of the LAN is that they are commonly owned by a single entity. This entity is also the one managing and handling all the things related to the LAN.
WAN is among the s that covers a large distance. It can be a building to a town to a city to the whole world. Do you remember what computer networks spans the whole world? – The internet. The computers in these s are connected by a router. Routers maintain the traffic of the computer networks as well as their IP addresses.
WLAN stands for wireless local area network. These are the that are connected via a router that sends signals wirelessly – hence, the name. Wireless routers works the same as any other routers do. They are the one who manages the addresses of the computers that are connected to it as long as it brings the data to the computers that are connected.
MAN are metropolitan area networks. The term metropolitan is the giveaway here. These are that can be found in a metro or a city. These networks of computers are larger than that of a LAN. However, they are still smaller than that of a WAN.
CAN stands for campus area network – another giveaway. You see, as the name implies, these are network types that are found in certain campuses, schools, and universities. These networks of computers are also connected by a router, a series of routers in fact. They are networks that are much larger than LAN but are still smaller than the MAN.
A clear example would be: a LAN can be found in a classroom. The classroom is in the campus. Therefore the connections of computers in the campus are considered CAN. However, the campus can be found in a certain city. They are a member of a network of computers, a MAN. But students are using their mobiles, laptops, tablets, and other wireless devices to connect to the largest possible network, the WAN. But they are connected to the WLAN first as this is what brings them to the internet. | http://www.typesof.com/types-of-computer-network/ |
In politics, all debates in regards to the previous are actually in regards to the current and the long run.
So it’s with Conservative chief Erin O’Toole’s concern for the nation’s statues — which is actually in regards to the management of Justin Trudeau and, in the end, how this nation ought to maneuver ahead.
The nation’s provide of statues is not at all good. Simply seven prime ministers have been honoured with statues on Parliament Hill; the newest was Lester B. Pearson, who left workplace in 1968.
However O’Toole’s worries in regards to the doable erasure of historical past haven’t led him to marketing campaign for a statue of Pierre Trudeau. As an alternative, he is targeted his consideration on the current toppling of a statue of John A. Macdonald in Montreal.
After the primary prime minister’s likeness was pulled down final month, O’Toole tweeted his objections and known as on unnamed “politicians” to “develop a spine and get up for our nation.” In a subsequent video message, he condemned “lawlessness,” “violence” and “mob rule.” O’Toole then raised his issues once more on Wednesday throughout a speech to Conservative MPs in Ottawa.
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O’Toole prefaced his newest feedback by noting that he and his fellow Conservatives had been assembly within the Sir John A. Macdonald Constructing. However that was much less of a poetic coincidence and extra of a helpful reminder that Canadian politicians are not often apolitical once they invoke historical past. On this case, Macdonald’s identify was given to the previous Financial institution of Montreal constructing by Stephen Harper’s Conservative authorities in 2012. (Pierre Poilievre dressed up in period costume for the announcement.)
That commemoration was introduced a 12 months after the Conservatives renamed Ottawa’s old City Hall to honour one other Conservative prime minister, John Diefenbaker. Months earlier than that, John Baird reportedly insisted that his enterprise playing cards as overseas minister not embrace the identify of the place during which he labored — the Lester B. Pearson Constructing.
One doable rationalization for O’Toole’s curiosity in statues could be present in survey results launched by Leger Advertising and marketing a number of hours earlier than he addressed his caucus. In keeping with Leger’s findings, 50 per cent of Canadians oppose the removing of statues of politicians who expressed racist views or applied racist insurance policies, whereas simply 31 per cent help eradicating such statues (the opposite 19 per cent are undecided).
Opposition is highest amongst Conservative voters (80 per cent). So whereas O’Toole moderates his social gathering’s place on fiscal coverage, statues may present him with a tradition battle rallying cry for the Conservative base.
A problem with cross-party enchantment
Sticking up for Sir John A. may additionally enchantment to a number of the voters O’Toole’s social gathering wants to type a authorities. Fifty-six per cent of Bloc Quebecois supporters additionally oppose the removing of controversial statues, whereas Liberal voters are evenly break up — 41 per cent opposed, 41 per cent in favour.
Somewhat than tearing down statues of individuals like Macdonald, O’Toole has mentioned such memorials ought to embrace inscriptions that acknowledge each the nice and dangerous points of their lives and work. He joked (considerably curiously) that such a plaque may very well be added to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Worldwide Airport in Montreal. (As Sen. Murray Sinclair told the National Observer, Macdonald’s misdeeds and Trudeau’s faults do not appear analogous.)
However O’Toole’s concern for statues — and his suggestion that Trudeau is not doing sufficient to face up for them — looks as if an extension of a critique Conservatives began building three years ago.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the United Nations Common Meeting on Sept. 21, 2017. (Richard Drew/Related Press)
In September 2017, Trudeau went to the United Nations and used Canada’s talking slot on the Common Meeting to debate this nation’s mistreatment of Indigenous peoples and the necessity for reconciliation.
Six weeks later, the Conservative Celebration despatched a fundraising pitch to supporters that claimed Trudeau was “travelling overseas to locations just like the UN Common Meeting to denigrate our nation, and diminish Canada’s nice achievements.” The e-mail pointed to a speech made days earlier by then-leader Andrew Scheer during which he lamented that it is “modern right this moment to look down on the previous.”
Dealing with as much as the previous “If we glance again at our wealthy historical past and research the main figures in its telling and see solely the blemishes, then we’re lacking out on the gorgeous story of a rustic always bettering itself,” Scheer mentioned, arguing that anybody dwelling in Canada right this moment must agree that this nation has been the most effective place on the earth to stay for the previous 150 years.
Many individuals previous and current — Indigenous peoples, Black Canadians, the poor — may disagree. Liberals little doubt would object to the suggestion that they solely see the grimmer points of Canada’s historical past.
However Trudeau definitely has aligned himself with the thought that it is essential for a society to acknowledge and perceive its errors — that going through as much as the injustices of the previous is a vital a part of righting wrongs and constructing a extra simply society.
If Conservatives do not solely reject that pondering (it was Stephen Harper, in spite of everything, who launched the Fact and Reconciliation Fee and formally apologized for residential colleges), they’re a minimum of keen to enchantment to anybody who’s uncomfortable with the thought, or with Trudeau’s strategy to it.
However there absolutely would be much less curiosity in toppling statues of John A. Macdonald right this moment if the essential injustice he propagated and superior had been absolutely corrected by now — if the sins of the previous had given approach to a really simply current. And what leaders do to attain reconciliation and social justice now absolutely will matter extra than how they really feel about statues.
Trudeau’s file in these areas can be debated. O’Toole has expressed some curiosity in Indigenous reconciliation however the proposals contained in his management platform had been primarily framed round financial points.
The subsequent a number of months may very well be instructive. Earlier than the pandemic, the Trudeau authorities was dedicated to pursuing motion on quite a lot of fronts, together with new laws to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Liberals have since promised to come back ahead with a plan to fight systemic racism.
O’Toole, who has expressed misgivings in regards to the UN declaration already, presumably will should take a place on regardless of the Liberals provide you with after which clarify what, if something, he would do in another way.
Such stuff may lack the spectacle and depth of arguments about statues and historical past. But when future generations determine they need to see any of right this moment’s leaders forged in bronze, it is going to be due to what they did to enhance the current and the long run — not how they felt about commemorating the previous. | https://technologyinfosec.com/world/canada/striking-a-pose-canada-and-the-politics-of-statues/ |
While the newest version of VMware's vSphere virtualization suite (see review here) represents a big step toward practical cloud computing, virtualization technology continues to spread based on the same basic benefits that made it popular in the first place, analysts say.
Virtualization makes it so much easier to consolidate a company's inventory of servers and maintain them that it sometimes justifies its own cost through more than one cycle of upgrades.
"We had one client that was able to justify a complete server hardware refresh because it could upgrade without having to buy any additional VMware server licenses," according to Chris Wolf, infrastructure analyst for Gartner Group. "They moved from servers with four cores to servers with 12 cores and were able to run more VMs on fewer servers at a significant cost savings."
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Most disruptive technologies deliver big savings only when they're first implemented. Improvements in the power of x86-based servers, better virtual-server acceleration mechanisms in Intel and AMD chipsets, and the increasing number of VM-specific products is delivering cost benefits even in second- or third-generation virtual infrastructures, according to Paul McWilliams, editor of NextInnings.com, a financial-analysis service focused on technology investments.
"In the first round of virtualization the chipsets took some advantage [of virtualization], but now people are building hardware designed to leverage it and you see how you get more benefit from virtualizing other things -- switches and networks and storage working more effectively," McWilliams says.
An IDC report released in June estimated that in 2009 cloud-based services accounted for $16 billion of the approximately $2.5 trillion in global spending on IT. The report forecast that number would rise to $55.5 billion by 2014—12 percent of all spending on IT.
Many of the customers whose money might go to cloud-based IT, however, are "suffering from cloud confusion," according to a July 6 report from Forrester Research.
Some of the confusion is due to vendors who apply the term "cloud" to everything in their inventories; the rest is the failure of vendors to explain the technology's potential clearly, the report concludes.
That confusion makes many companies leery about cloud computing, but not about the concrete benefits they get from the virtualization technologies on which cloud services would have to be built, according to Bernard Golden, CEO of consultancy Hyperstratus and a CIO.com blogger.
"You start with a base level [of virtualization] and add more layers to get more agility or resliency and eventually get full automation and governance and other things you associate with cloud computing," Golden says. "There is this notion that people don't want to build internal clouds because it's too much hassle, so they do these tactical things. If you add up enough tactics, you end up with a strategy."
There is still a split in the level of adoption of even basic virtual-server technology, Wolf says. Early adopters range between having 60 percent and 100 percent of their servers virtualized; late adopters are typically between 20 percent and 40 percent, he says.
There is also a lively competition even at the most basic level of virtualization, he says. Customers planning cloud projects in the near term tend to run VMware; those focused on cost often go with Microsoft or Citrix.
"If high availability and live migration are the things you really need, Hyper-V can deliver on those right now and it's easier to start with it today than it would be to switch to it in two or three years," Wolf says. "For organizations focused on cost, or that are worried VMware has the potential for lock-in with a vertical stack, Microsoft or Citrix are still good options."
While VMware's market valuation of $29 billion and price/earnings ratio of 140 are "inflated" by optimistic investors, McWilliams says, virtualization will continue to drive sales of both IT stocks and IT products.
"I'm hard-pressed to find a tech company that says it has seen a material drop in demand and most say demand remains strong or better," McWilliams says of the IT market in general. "Virtualization is especially strong. Once you try it, you're hooked." | https://www.cio.com/article/2416687/virtualization-roi-rises--but-cloud-confusion-steals-spotlight.html |
New Delhi, 19th August 2023 – Arete, a leading global cyber risk management company, released Turning Tides – Navigating the Evolving World of Cybercrime, a report highlighting trends and shifts in the cyber threat landscape observed by Arete in the first half of 2023. The report leverages data collected during Arete incident response engagements and explores the rise and fall of ransomware variants, trends in ransom demands and payments, industries targeted by ransomware attacks, and what may be coming next.
The report highlights several key findings. In the initial six months of 2023, LockBit has surged to claim the leading position, constituting 30.3% of all ransomware incidents monitored by Arete. Notably, the professional services sector has emerged as the primary target, experiencing an uptick of nearly 12% since the latter half of 2022. Although there is a general upward trajectory in ransom demands by cybercriminals, Arete’s data reveals that only 19% of cases during the first half of 2023 resulted in a ransom payment.
The report offers an in-depth analysis of the top five ransomware variants observed, as well as data on initial access vectors and post-exploitation toolsets. It also explores shifts in the threat landscape, including the lower barrier of entry into cybercrime that is powered by leaked resources, new business models, and AI tools. We also discuss the socioeconomic impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War and the increase in global law enforcement actions against cybercriminals.
“Cybercrime is constantly shifting in response to new vulnerabilities, developing technology, and global socioeconomic events,” said Arete’s Chief Data Officer, Chris Martenson. “Remaining aware of the latest trends and shifts allows organizations to take a proactive approach to cybersecurity and create data-driven strategies to protect their data and systems,” Martenson added. | https://businessmicro.in/business/aretes-cyber-threat-report-reveals-19-of-cases-involved-ransom-payments-in-the-first-half-of-2023/ |
Google has added the ability to run App Engine applications on a cluster located in Europe, in order to improve performance for local users, the company said at the Google I/O developer conference. App Engine is Google's cloud-based platform for hosting Web applications that have been written using Java or Python. For the past four years, those applications have been served from North America. Hosting an application in Europe is especially useful if the application's users are closer to Europe than the U.S. There is less network latency and the content will be stored in the E.U., according to Google. Initially, the Google App Engine cluster in Europe will be limited to Premier accounts only. Premier accounts cost US$500 per month, and include a 99.95 percent uptime guarantee, better support and the ability to create an unlimited number of apps on one's premier account domain, according to Google. The addition of a cluster in Europe wasn't the only App Engine improvement Google announced. Version 1.7 of the platform also includes support for SSL on custom domains using either virtual IP addresses or Server Name Indication (SNI), which allows multiple domains to share the same IP address while still allowing a separate certificate for each one, according to Google. SNI is priced at $9 per month and includes 5 certificates, while a virtual IP address costs $99 per month. Google has also increased the application size limit from 150MB to 1GB and published an experimental SDK for Windows for the Go runtime. Send news tips and comments to [email protected]
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With GÉANT association and on the occasion of the European Cyber Security Month, the Restena Foundation shares some advice on the "art" of social engineering and, more specifically, the technique of manipulating people facing by all sectors of activity, including research and education.
As every year, October is the European Cyber Security Month, the occasion for numerous awareness-raising initiatives on cybersecurity throughout Europe. With the tagline “Become a Cyber Hero”, the European association GÉANT - which manages the pan-European research network in which Restena is a member - shares practical tips, case studies and articles on four cyber security topics - social engineering, phishing, password security and ransomware. - each week throughout October 2020. The Restena Foundation, which notably has a CSIRT dedicated to the Luxembourg research and education community and co-organised the CyberDay.lu event with the University of Luxembourg on 6 October 2020, supported this campaign by publishing an article entitled " USURP, MANIPULATE, EXPLOIT"
A kind of ground reconnaissance, social engineering is a method of espionage that makes it possible to obtain information deemed to be necessary before moving on to a real attack. This method is not compulsory or systematically used by malicious individuals, but it clearly facilitates the contact with the institution targeted by an attack.
Humans are indeed much easier to cheat than machines and it is through them that the attacker intends to carry out his malicious attacks. Although effective, this technique is not the most widely used as it requires a strong involvement from the attacker. By using social engineering through the manipulation of people, the attacker seeks to establish a personal link and a feeling of trust with the person he has previously identified or who has best responded to his requests for useful information to conduct their attack.
From trust to deception
With social engineering, attackers have only one goal: to manipulate the person they are holding in their clutches by pretending to be someone they are not. In order to succeed in their identity theft, attackers will do everything possible to make their story credible. First of all, they will find out a minimum amount of information about the institution or person they intend to attack. Once the trust has been established, they will then use subtle techniques to get their prey to spontaneously reveal, more and more information that they will then use either to touch another person in the institution or to subtly redirect their victim to a third person. At this point, the actual attack begins. However, it also happens that attackers directly start an attack, often a phishing one, by asking their prey to perform an action (to pay a bill via an illegitimate account, to click on a link to regenerate a password, etc.) The attackers then infect their victim obtaining a gateway to their company's platforms.
Each attack is unique in its kind and the strategies used are multiple, although the primary ambition of social engineering, like the majority of cyber-attacks, is the misappropriation of money. However, misappropriation of information should not be neglected.
Vulnerability of education and research
Just like private companies and other public institutions, research centres and educational institutions are not immune. In large schools, it is quite easy for an attacker to pretend to be a student and ask questions related to the course, or to register to a student mailing lists and obtain information about the people in the group. These are all useful sources of information for launching attacks, mainly for profit, for example by blocking essential data for the institution, or by trying to divert money from grant budgets dedicated to research and development projects.
But social engineering can also be used to gain access to systems and obtain useful information. In the world of education, this technique can be used, for example, to gain access to exam questions that the malicious person can either use for its own purpose or resell to third parties.
Checking the request before transmitting any information
Vigilance and critical thinking are essential to guard against social engineering. Prevention and awareness-raising among all employees by the IT teams, or even the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) if it exists, remain the best form of defence.
If any doubt exists, even the slightest one, about the veracity of an e-mail, a request for information, or the existence of a person, sufficient time must be devoted to validating the request through a different information channel. Discussing with colleagues, informing superiors regarding the content of the request/email or, more generally, directly asking the person to contact you by another means to ensure that he or she really exists, are just a few small tips that can help to detect social engineering.
Essential cooperation with IT teams
If the doubt is confirmed, it is important for the IT department or the CSIRT team of each institution to be the employee’s privileged interlocutor. Even if no specific action can be taken against the malicious person who has come into contact with one of the employees, the department must at least be informed. It is then up to the department to take the necessary measures on its technical infrastructure and, above all, to inform and raise employees’ awareness.
> This article, as well as all the initiatives and information disseminated by the GÉANT association in partnership with the national research and education networks, can be read on the GEANT CONNECT Online website. | https://restena.lu/en/news/247-social-engineering-spying-attacking |
The initial submission and review of the site appeared to have some relevance to pen-testing. However, subsequent and repeated cross-posting and "updates" for this site implied a more traffic-generating focus rather than anything specific to pen-test and were rejected. I don't think list members need to be notified each time a security company or resource has a webpage change.
Unless future submissions (from anyone really) are directly relevant to pen-testing (and contain some actual substance) you won't be seeing those submissions on the pen-test list.
Please note: I don't mind the occassional plug or infomercial from companies or professionals working in the security realm touting new products, techniques, or resources. It's always good to have exposure to what is new out there... but this is *not* a forum appropriate for sales spamming, google rank farming, or marketing fluff press releases.
RedSeal approached this the right way. They had a product demo trial they wanted to offer and get feedback on (and generate possible sales of course) and contacted me off list to check that it would be cool before submitting. All I asked was that they and/or the members that participated in the trial be free to provide unfiltered feedback to the list. You should be seeing some of that discussions/feedback soon.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know off list. Though I moderate pen-test, this forum belongs to the members and SecurityFocus and is not my personal ego playground. If a majority of list members wish to see things of a particular stripe I'll change processing to accomodate.
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Information is the most critical asset of modern organisations, and accordingly it is one of the resources most coveted by adversaries. When highly sensitive data is involved, an organisation may resort to air gap isolation in which there is no networking connection between the inner network and the external world. While infiltrating an air gapped network (installing a malware) has been proven feasible in recent years (e.g., Stuxnet), data infiltration/exfiltration to/from an air gapped network is still considered to be one of the most challenging phases of an advanced cyber-attack. Several unique method to bridge the air-gap without installing any additional hardware to a computer(s) that are connected to the air-gapped networks will be presented. Each method is based on the different communication medium: sound, light, heat emissions, radio frequencies. Abstract
Industrial processes increasingly face the risk of remote attackers getting access to their internal networks and causing serious hazards. Unfortunately, existing cyber security measures, such as network intrusion detection systems, remain blind to sophisticated semantic attacks that do not manifest as deviations at the protocol level, but rather target the process behaviour itself. In this work we present a detector that continuously tracks updates to corresponding process variables to then derive variable-specific prediction models as the basis for assessing future activity. We evaluate the capabilities of our detection approach with traffic recorded at two operational water treatment plants serving a total of about one million people in two urban areas.
Speaker Bio
Yuval joined iTrust in Sep 2014 as Research Director. He is also the director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), head of BGU Cyber Security Research Centre, and a Professor in the Dept of Information Systems Engineering at BGU.Yuval holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering from BGU and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Tel-Aviv University. His primary research interests are computer and network security, cyber security, web intelligence, information warfare, social network analysis, and machine learning. Yuval also consults professionally in the area of cyber security and is the co-founder of Morphisec, a startup company that develops innovative cyber-security mechanisms that relate to moving target defence. Speaker Bio
Dina is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cyber Security Chair of TU Delft, at TBM / Engineering Systems and Services – ICT Section, since September 2013. She is part of the TUD team for analysing different aspects of security in critical infrastructures like smart grids and flood barriers. In addition, Dina is closely involved in TREsPASS project, where she works on extracting and analysing various data sources from cloud and telecom infrastructure. Dina obtained her PhD in the Distributed & Embedded Security research group under the supervision of Prof Pieter Hartel and Dr. Damiano Bolzoni at the University of Twente. She received her dipl.ing university degree from the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, on the Department of Computer Science and Informatics. | https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/news-events/seminars/secure-cyber-physical-scy-phy-systems-week-2015-technical-talks-cyber-security-26-june-2015/ |
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Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "The cybersecurity bill making its way through the Senate right now is so broad that it could allow ISPs to classify Netflix as a "cyber threat," which would allow them to throttle the streaming service's delivery to customers. "A 'threat,' according to the bill, is anything that makes information unavailable or less available. So, high-bandwidth uses of some types of information make other types of information that go along the same pipe less available," Greg Nojeim, a lawyer with the Center for Democracy and Technology, said. "A company could, as a cybersecurity countermeasure, slow down Netflix in order to make other data going across its pipes more available to users." | https://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/06/29/1653215/netflix-could-be-classified-as-a-cybersecurity-threat-under-new-cispa-rules/interesting-comments |
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A “Kodak moment” just doesn’t have the same meaning now that our iPhones capture the memories that we then share on Instagram and Facebook. But Kodak is finally embracing social media with what the company calls the “modern-day Kodak moment.” It’s an app called, appropriately, Kodak Moments.
The iOS app is designed for a younger audience, people who might not have any experience with Kodak’s film but who like to create and share photos and the stories behind them. That’s why Kodak launched the app at South by Southwest Interactive with a Memory Observatory installation at the Austin Convention Center.
Kodak When you share your photos' stories in the app, they're seen by friends. Not random people lying on a floor at SXSW.
The observatory was, in a word, bizarre. I submitted a photo that the Kodak team used to create a sensory experience with sound, scent, and visuals. I expected that experience to be the result of software recognition and analysis of my photo, which would automatically select a mood color, scent, and soundtrack to bring my image to life. I picked a photo of the Eiffel Tower I took on my first trip to Paris, which I thought would be an easy enough basis for generating a sensory experience.
But when I entered the observatory, there was a woman with an iPad waiting. She gestured to me to sit down, then used my Eiffel Tower photo to dive deeply into my personal life—why I love Paris, what my childhood was like, my relationship with my grandmother. It got real intense, real fast.
After my therapy session, I parted a set of heavy drapes that separated the entrance from a mirrored room where my photo was projected on the ceiling. The lighting was a soft purple, the air was perfumed. There were strangers lying on the ground.
“Come lay with us,” a woman said.
Then I heard my own voice, and I realized that my interview at the start of the observatory had been recorded to play back to me. The sensory experience created for my photo didn’t feel like Paris. It didn’t smell like baguettes and cigarettes, and the fact that other people were sharing my memory, listening to my answers to incredibly personal questions, felt intrusive. I’m still not sure what to make of what happened, and all I could do was dissolve into laughter when I exited the observatory. There are so many weird experiences at South by Southwest, but this one truly topped them all. At least I now know where to go if I need a quick therapy session amidst the Austin Convention Center chaos.
Making memories in the age of Instagram
I get what Kodak was going for with its SXSW installation. I love the idea of using a photo to create a journey through a memory. I also love the idea of Kodak Moments, which is a more thoughtful photo-sharing app than the rest. It encourages you with writing prompts to tell the story behind an image, one that you’ll want to share just with family and close friends—and then order prints of it to frame, all in the app. Moments is a one-stop shop, which is why it’s free of ads.
Kodak The app should appeal to people who really take care to curate their online presence.
“Customers are getting frustrated with the noise and the clutter and the ads they’re finding on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,” said David Newhoff, vice president of mobile for Kodak Alaris. “They want to experience really quality content from friends and family, and you have to wade through a lot of noise to get there.”
But taking the time to write a story behind a photo isn’t practical on the go, which is why most people whip out their phones to shoot and post quickly. Snapchat images and videos are awful from a quality standpoint, and even Instagram makes it easy to compose a filtered photo with little time or effort. Kodak Moments might be the perfect app for people who actually care about curating their memories, but sadly, that seems like a dwindling demographic. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/3043520/software/kodak-moments-come-to-life-in-a-trippy-sxsw-sensory-journey.html |
Security researchers recently revealed that a previously unknown hacker group carried out a series of attacks on government agencies in 13 countries by redirecting agency computers to hacker-controlled servers.
This happened through the manipulation of domain name system (DNS) infrastructure. And it followed a US Department of Homeland Security alert disclosing a global campaign, subsequently linked to Iran, to redirect internet traffic and steal sensitive information also by compromising DNS infrastructure.
The DNS is an attractive target because it serves as a global address book, translating internet names we know into IP addresses that computers can recognise. The infrastructure supporting DNS is maintained by a number of core companies that administer internet domains, register new domain names, and host DNS “lookup” services which convert those domain names into IP addresses.
For years, hackers have abused the registration process to obtain new domain names which they then use to orchestrate cyber intrusions. Today, if attackers can hijack an existing customer domain at any of these companies, they can also reroute email and web-based communications, obtain confidential information and disrupt communications. And if they are able to compromise administrative infrastructure for DNS service providers themselves, they can cause potentially massive chaos, including for entire government and military domains.
Likewise, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which flood the system with traffic, can degrade large volumes of internet activity. Ecuador experienced a wave of DDoS attacks after the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that reportedly took a number of government, banking, and related sites offline.
These recent alerts and attacks highlight an under-appreciated cyber security vulnerability in the global domain name system.
Two years ago, the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, which I co-chair, called on both state and non-state actors not to threaten the integrity of the public core of the internet. We now need concerted international action to address the risk to essential DNS infrastructure and reduce the opportunity for bad actors to disrupt services critical to the way we communicate and trade today.
How do we move towards a more resilient DNS ecosystem? An effective model must contain three elements.
First, a risk-based cyber security approach that successfully defends core DNS infrastructure despite attempted attacks.
Second, a proactive strategy to mitigate unauthorised DNS account takeovers and new illicit domain registrations.
And third, a trusted relationship between DNS providers and law enforcement agencies, which would allow police to carry out investigations and curb misuse of the system.
Thankfully, good work is already under way internationally to advance greater collaboration between governments and industry in managing cyber risk.
The Organization of American States recently unveiled a set of best practices for protecting critical infrastructure in Latin America. Governments and industry need to build on such efforts by working together to advance a secure-DNS agenda.
The dialogue could include consideration of differing mechanisms — regulation, self-regulation, procurement processes, and liability limitations, for example — as incentives for meaningful investment. For instance, countries might agree that the process for awarding contracts to DNS providers, particularly for administration of sensitive top-level domains, such as .gov addresses, should include the application of meaningful security standards.
Likewise, to offer further incentives to invest, governments should consider limiting liability for providers whose security effectiveness can be validated independently. What is most important, however, is we take action now before it is too late. | http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2019/05/global-co-operation-on-cyber-security.html |
The FBI issued a private industry notification (PIN) to warn of ransomware attacks that hit several tribal-owned casinos last year.
A private industry notification issued by the FBI’s Cyber Division revealed that ransomware attacks hit several tribal-owned casinos causing millions of dollar losses.
The attacks paralyzed the activities of the casinos shutting down their gaming floors, as well as restaurants, hotels, and gas stations. In many cases, the attackers were able to steal sensitive data from the targeted computer networks.
According to BleepingComputer, the FBI’s PIN states that US tribes as easy targets for ransomware gangs because they have limited cyber investigative capabilities and law enforcement resources.
Experts reported that tribal communities were hit by several ransomware gangs, including REvil/Sodinokibi, Bitpaymer, Ryuk, Conti, Snatch, and Cuba.
The list of tribal-owned casinos that were victims of ransomware attacks includes six Lucky Star tribal casinos belonging to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes (July 2021), the Seminole Nation’s casino in Oklahoma (May 2021), two Nez Perce Tribe casinos in Idaho (2020), the Ye-Ye Casino in Kamaiah.
The FBI and law enforcement expect a surge of ransomware attacks on tribal casinos.
Unfortunately, ransomware attacks are also targeting business and public services of tribal communities, including hospitals and schools.
The level of cybersecurity for infrastructure operated by tribal communities must increase and for this reason, US sgovernment is evaluating specific measures, including investments, to reach this goal.
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Six out of ten organizations today are using a mix of infrastructures, including private cloud, public cloud, multi-cloud, on-premises, and hosted data centers, according to the 5th Annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index. Managing applications and data, especially when they’re moving across these environments, is extremely challenging. Only 40% of IT decision-makers said that they have complete visibility into where their data resides, and 85% have issues managing cloud costs. Addressing these challenges will require simplification, so it’s no surprise that essentially everyone (94%) wants a single, unified place to manage data and applications in mixed environments.
In particular, there are three big challenges that rise to the top when it comes to managing data across multiple environments. The first is data protection.
“Because we can’t go faster than the speed of light, if you want to recover data, unless you already have the snapshots and copies where that recovered data is needed, it’ll take some time,” said Induprakas Keri, SVP of Engineering for Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. “It’s much faster to spin up a backup where the data is rather than moving it, but that requires moving backups or snapshots ahead of time to where they will be spun up, and developers don’t want to think about things like that. IT needs an automated solution.”
Another huge problem is managing cost—so much so that 46% of organizations are thinking about repatriating cloud applications to on-premises, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
“I’m familiar with a young company whose R&D spend was $18 million and the cloud spend was $23 million, with utilization of just 11%,” Keri said. “This wasn’t as much of a concern when money was free, but those days are over, and increasingly, organizations are looking to get their cloud spend under control.”
Cloud data management is complex, and without keeping an eye on it, costs can quickly get out of control.
The final big problem is moving workloads between infrastructures. It’s especially hard moving legacy applications to the cloud because of all the refactoring, and it’s easy for that effort to get far out of scope. Keri has experienced this issue firsthand many times in his career.
“What we often see with customers at Nutanix is that the journey of moving applications to the cloud, especially legacy applications, is one that many had underestimated,” Keri said. “For example, while at Intuit as CISO, I was part of the team that moved TurboTax onto AWS, which took us several years to complete and involved several hundred developers.”
Nutanix provides a unified infrastructure layer that enables IT to seamlessly run applications on a single underlying platform, whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud, or even a hybrid environment. And data protection and security are integral parts of the platform, so IT doesn’t have to worry about whether data will be local for recovery or whether data is secure—the platform takes care of it.
“Whether you’re moving apps which need to be run on a platform or whether you’re building net-new applications, Nutanix provides an easy way to move them back and forth,” Keri said. “If you start with a legacy application on prem, we provide the tools to move it into the public cloud. If you want to start in the cloud with containerized apps and then want to move them on-prem or to another cloud service provider, we provide the tools to do that. Plus, our underlying platform offers data protection and security, so you don’t have to worry about mundane things like where your data needs to be. We can take the pain away from developers.”
For more information on how Nutanix can help your organization control costs, gain agility, and simplify management of apps and data across multiple environments, visit Nutanix here.
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LARAMIE – On Feb 1, Wyoming’s Cybersecurity Competition for Small Businesses officially began with six early entrants across the state.
The competition is built for those small businesses who do not have information technology help and want to create a cyber leader in their office.
Registration continues through May, but statistically those that enter early have a better chance of winning and can work the project at a more leisurely pace.
In 2020, Craftco, Wyoming Roofing, and the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum were the top three winners and spoke at Wyoming’s Cybersecurity Conference. The participants were a mixture of purchasing agents, HR managers, and curators, and not technical people.
“It’s been an awesome experience,” said Brad Orr of Craftco, “I know where to go if I need help and I’ve learned a ton along the way.”
The 2021 competition is proving to be a larger and broader field of participants than in previous years including small healthcare clinics, construction companies, financial services, yoga studios, and massage therapists.
“We are gratified to see a higher number of participants this year because we added new features to the competition and hired staff,” said Patrick Wolfinbarger, Co-Founder of CyberWyoming.
In 2021, the competition includes working webinars which are 30 minutes of content and 45 minutes of working one on one or in a small group with a mentor to complete a task to take back to their business. Registration for the webinars is at www.cyberwyoming.org/events/
The first webinar is about roles and responsibilities between a small business and their internet service provider (ISP). Small business owners are often shocked to find out that their ISP does not secure their internet as a general practice. | https://starvalleychamber.com/2021-wyoming-cybersecurity-competition-for-small-businesses-begins/ |
Alabama Republican Congressman Mo Brooks accidentally revealed his Gmail password and Twitter PIN. In a video released, Brooks accused a team of California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of breaking into his home to bring a lawsuit to his wife.
Swalwell has pledged for months to bring Brooks to trial over his alleged role in the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. However, Brooks was difficult to track down, and Swalwell even hired a private detective.
Swalwell’s lawyer denies that the lawmaker’s team has invaded Brooks’ property. According to the lawyer, the person who filed the lawsuit “did not enter the house illegally, but legally handed over the paper to Mo Brooks’ wife in the house.”
However, the Republican MP filed a police report on the alleged incident and claimed there was “video evidence” of the infiltration. In a Twitter post, Brooks, using his mobile phone, shared a desktop image of a demo website for the Alabama Legislature, which shows a “First Degree Assault” page with crime definitions. At the bottom of the image, under the laptop screen, you could see Brooks’ PIN, as well as his Gmail account information and password.
Several people on social media ridiculed Brooks for disclosing confidential information to the public. | https://infosecbuzz.com/a-u-s-congressman-accidentally-revealed-his-twitter-email-pin-and-password/ |
Chicago-based medical giant CommonSpirit Health has confirmed that an October ransomware attack exposed the personal data of more than 620,000 patients.
CommonSpirit Health, which operates more than 700 care sites and 142 hospitals in 21 states, first confirmed an “IT security issue” on October 5. At the time, the company declined to comment on the nature of the incident, which interrupted access to electronic health records and delayed patient care in multiple regions, and refused to say whether patient information or health data was compromised.
In a December update, CommonSpirit confirmed that the incident was a ransomware attack. The organization said that threat actors gained access to portions of its network between September 16 and October 3 and, during that time, “may have gained access to certain files, including files that contained personal information” belonging to patients who received care or family members of those who received care at Franciscan Health, a 12-hospital affiliate of CommonSpirit Health.
CommonSpirit notes that while its investigation is ongoing, this data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and unique ID numbers used internally by the organization. The company said that attackers did not access medical record numbers of insurance IDs, and says it has seen no evidence that any personal information has been misused as a result of the attack.
The update doesn’t say how many users were impacted by the data breach. However, as first spotted by Bleeping Computer, the U.S. Department of Health data breach portal — where healthcare organizations are legally obligated to report data breaches impacting more than 500 individuals — confirms that threat actors accessed the personal data of 623,774 patients during the CommonSpirit ransomware attack.
“Upon discovering the ransomware attack, CommonSpirit quickly mobilized to protect its systems, contain the incident, begin an investigation, and maintain continuity of care,” the company’s updated notice states. “CommonSpirit notified law enforcement and is supporting their ongoing investigation. Once secured, systems were returned to the network with additional security and monitoring tools.”
The company has not yet attributed the attack to a particular ransomware group, and CommonSpirit spokesperson Chad Burns did not immediately respond to our request for comment. TechCrunch has checked the dark leak websites of several major ransomware groups, but none appear to have yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
At least 15 U.S. health systems operating 61 hospitals across the country have been impacted by ransomware so far in 2022, according to Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft. In at least 12 of these incidents, sensitive data, including personal health information, was compromised. | https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/09/commonspirit-health-ransomware-attack-exposed-patient-data/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFYksj0VRq47Vn-pkgE9EnD-FG7p6x_f-fshosNORC_4QuV_aCq5I01neEqoymHBzgJeeTl30oVa5VxMDbC2_JSRUMildtY4NnPuTvXjW_IJES8GBsOQmSISoQKd56peAEedJLQ0lVJhwtoA3MdrpdaaQBnVw1Ufsr6NeJIgU4yJ |
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When it comes to cybersecurity, organizations in the United States don’t know what they don’t know…
NEW YORK, NY, August 08, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — CompCiti Business Solutions, Inc., long known for its business networking services in New York, today announced it has added IT auditing and cybersecurity to its portfolio of services. CompCiti Vice President Sam Vohra noted that cybersecurity is growing in importance today, though small businesses and organizations don’t quite realize it yet.
“We rely on technology today like never before, which is exactly why it’s so important to protect those systems,” Vohra said. “Smaller organizations mistakenly believe that they are at lower risk of attack than high-profile companies. They are actually at higher risk. Cyber criminals, like most criminals, tend to go for low-hanging fruit, and smaller companies are much more likely to have holes in their cybersecurity.”
The payout for the cybercriminals might be less, but so too is the amount of work needed to break in – and the risk of getting caught is much lower.
IT Audit the First Step to Beefing Up Cybersecurity
“One of the things I’ve noticed is that organizations simply do not have any idea what their cybersecurity risks are, never mind what security holes they may have,” Vohra said.
An information technology (IT) audit – also known as an information systems (IS) audit – provides a clear picture of an organization’s cybersecurity. It is essentially a risk assessment tool to determine how secure an organization’s IT systems are. The IT audit takes into account all of an organization’s complex systems including multi-layered networks, cloud services, mobile offices, social media, mobile apps, integrated communication systems, CRMs, and other interconnected systems and software.
In July 2017, Vohra received his Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designation to help serve CompCiti’s clients better. CISA Certification is awarded by ISACA, an independent and international body which serves 140,000 IT professionals in 180 countries. ISACA has been globally recognized as benchmark setter for IT auditing since it was founded in 1969.
“CompCiti’s job is to help our clients increase their cybersecurity to reduce the risk of attack, preventing them from becoming a target in the first place,” Vohra said. | https://thevegasnewsjournal.com/technology/compciti-introduces-cisa-certified-it-auditing-and-cybersecurity/ |
0 First of all, we`d like to say THANK YOU to the organizers of such cool event in the hosting world! Participation at WHD.global gives plenty of opportunities for hosting and service providers worldwide to meet, discuss cloud trends and upcoming concepts on the PaaS market. Let’s recap the main activities we had during the event this year. Jelastic CEO at the Main Stage
Big cloud players are growing rapidly, adding extra pressure on the business of smaller local hosters. At the same time, thousands of hosters around the world are offering commodity with low-level margin selling pretty similar services. These obstacles block up the majority of mid- and small-size hosting providers on their way to receiving high revenue. Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO highlighted this difficult topic and shared the major pillars for increasing the margin of services in hosting business based on the experience of cloud hosting providers in more than thirty countries. Stay tuned with our blog, as we are going to share Ruslan’s presentation in the upcoming article.
During the conference, we had a chance to interview several of our hosting partners asking about their experience with Jelastic, as well as some internal processes in the business. So in the upcoming weeks, we’ll share with you a set of videos and blog posts covering the real use cases with service providers worldwide. So subscribe to our blog not to miss this!
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Cryptography is one of the least sexy topics in computing. The mere word invariably causes eyes to glaze over, heads to spin, marriages to break up, and otherwise stable individuals to become alcoholics. Even though most people have a high-level understanding of what cryptography means, the inner workings of modern encryption algorithms are a mystery to all but the most advanced mathematicians among us. In fact, the quickest way to scare off annoying persons at a party is to ask them where they stand on the Triple-DES versus AES debate. Trust me on that one.
In the bad old days, we were often required to roll our own cryptographic routines if we needed to protect data. This required detailed knowledge of the underlying algorithms, not to mention copious supplies of caffeine and aspirin.
Thankfully, the .NET Framework now provides a series of classes that abstract the complexity of these algorithms for us. In this article, I will present a brief overview of cryptography, discuss some of the algorithms supported by .NET 2.0, and provide some source code demonstrating how to implement them.
What is Cryptography?
Cryptography is the ancient art of encoding a message so that it cannot be read by an unauthorized party. In its simplest form, a cryptographic cipher could involve encoding a message by substituting one character with another. If both the creator and the recipient of the enciphered message have an identical list of substitute characters (known as a “key”), the message can easily be enciphered and deciphered. This methodology is known as a substitution cipher, and was being used long before anybody ever dreamed of electricity, never mind computers.
Of course, a message is only safe as long as the key itself does not fall into the wrong hands. For this reason, the German military, in 1919, attempted to solve this problem by instituting the use of a “one-time pad”—a key that is only used once. Typically, a one-time key is derived from some peripheral factor known to both parties, such as a sequential message number, or the date on which the message was sent. In other words, the recipient may have a book full of keys, and has to know exactly which one to use based on information that is not necessarily included in the message itself. Of course, anybody who has a copy of the book and is able to intercept the message can simply try every key until one of them works, but key obfuscation is entirely another issue with which to get rid of annoying people at parties.
There is a strong argument to suggest that the evolution of modern computing has been partly driven by the need of governments and intelligence agencies to create, intercept, and decode enciphered messages. During World War II, both sides made heavy use of cryptography. The most famous cryptography tale of all involved a mechanical rotor machine called Enigma, which the Germans invented for the generation of secure messages. Enigma was a tremendously advanced machine for its time, but a group of Polish, English, and French mathematicians managed to break its code. Breaking the Enigma code was one of the most closely held secrets of the war, and helped to ensure Hitler’s defeat. As a matter of interest, one member of the Enigma-cracking cryptology team was British mathematician Alan Turing, who went on to become the father of modern computing.
With the advent of the microchip and steady advances in computing power, encryption algorithms became increasingly sophisticated, but so did the tools to crack them, and now the perpetual cat-and-mouse game between cryptographers and crackers has become a fact of life.
You see, I could spend hours talking about this subject. Which is exactly why I am such a big hit at parties!
This is the most common and straightforward type of encryption. Both the creator and the recipient of a message share a secret key that they use to encipher and decipher the message. However, if the key is compromised, so is the integrity of the message.
Common sense suggests that a simple plain-text key is vulnerable to dictionary attacks. One way of avoiding this vulnerability is to use a hashed version of the key to encrypt and decrypt the message. We will discuss password-based key generation later on.
There are two kinds of symmetric algorithms; block ciphers and stream ciphers. A block cipher will take, for example, a 256-bit block of plain text and output a 256-bit block of encrypted text. The cipher works on blocks of a fixed length, usually 64 or 128 bits at a time, depending on the algorithm. If the unencrypted message is greater than the required length, the algorithm will break it down into 64 or 128-bit chunks and XOR each chunk with the preceding chunk.
There is an obvious snag to this approach. If each chunk is XORed with the previous chunk, then what will the first chunk be XORed with? Welcome to the world of initialization vectors. No, this is not a narrative device for a Star Trek movie. An initialization vector, commonly known as an IV, is an arbitrary chunk of bytes that is used to XOR the first chunk of bytes in the unencrypted message. You will see this technique being used in my source code later on.
The .NET Framework natively supports popular symmetric key algorithms such as AES, RC2, DES, and 3-DES.
A stream cipher, on the other hand, generates a pseudorandom “keystream”, similar in concept to the one-time pads used by intelligence officers during World War II. A stream cipher algorithm works on small chunks of bits of indeterminate length, XORing them with bits from the keystream instead of with previous chunks of the message.
All of the symmetric providers natively supported by the .NET Framework are block ciphers. For some reason, the most popular stream cipher, RC4, is not included in the Framework, although there is a very good open-source RC4 library written in C# that can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net.
2. Asymmetric Encryption
With a symmetric cipher, both parties share a common key. Asymmetric encryption, on the other hand, requires two separate keys that are mathematically related. One of the keys is shared by both parties, and can be made public. This is known, appropriately, as a public key. The other key is kept secret by one of the two parties, and is therefore called a private key. The combination of public and private key is described, amazingly enough, as a “key pair”. Sometimes, even encryption terminology makes sense.
Consider the following example. Bob wants to send a secure message to Nancy. He encrypts the message using Nancy’s public key. This means it must be decrypted using Nancy’s private key, which only she knows. The combination of Nancy’s public key and private key constitutes her key pair.
Conversely, it is also possible for Bob to encipher his message using his private key and have Nancy decipher it using his public key. This is a less desirable approach from a security perspective, as an attacker could intercept the enciphered message and, knowing that Bob was the creator, decipher it using his public key, which is… um… public.
Therefore, it is always preferable to have the creator of a message encipher it using the recipient’s public key, and have the recipient decipher using her private key.
The two main asymmetric algorithms supported by .NET are RSA and DSA, of which RSA is by far the most commonly used.
The advantage of asymmetric encryption is that it does not require both parties to share a key. The disadvantage is that it incurs a significant performance overhead, and is therefore recommended for use only with short messages.
3. One-Way Hashing
As the name implies, a one-way hash is non-reversible. Hashes are generally used for information validation.
For instance, imagine that you have a database populated with user passwords. You may not want to store them in plain text, but you still need a way of authenticating a user who enters her credentials into a login form. So, you store the password in hashed format. When the user enters her password in plain text, you can hash it and compare the value to the hashed password stored in the database.
As you can see, there is no key involved in creating a hashed value. A hashing algorithm always generates the same value from a plain text input, but the original message can never be determined from a hash.
Another popular use case for hashing is to validate the authenticity of software downloads. After a file is downloaded, the user generates a hash of the file using an MD5 algorithm, and the hash is then compared to a publicly available value to ensure that the file has not been tampered with.
When deciding what kind of cipher to use in your application, you must carefully weigh the sensitivity of the data you wish to protect against the impact of performance degradation with more sophisticated encryption algorithms.
If security is your main priority, I would recommend using AES as a symmetric cipher and SHA-512 for hashing. While asymmetric ciphers are more secure, they are also a huge drain on system resources, particularly if you are dealing with large messages. Therefore, the use of RSA should be limited to small messages only.
The CryptoHelper Class
To illustrate how simple it is to implement cryptography using .NET 2.0, I created the CryptoHelper class, which supports all of the major hashing and block cipher algorithms, as well as an implementation of the asymmetric RSA provider.
In .NET 2.0, symmetric providers all extend the SymmetricAlgorithm base class. If you know the key size for each provider, it is possible to create generic encryption and decryption methods, which is exactly what I have done here by casting an instance of SymmetricAlgorithm to the specific implementation of a cryptographic service provider:
Any of the TripleDES, DES, RC2, or Rjindael cryptographic service providers can be cast to an instance of SymmetricAlgorithm.
You may also notice that I have used a method called DerivePassword. This takes an unsecured, plain-text password, and transforms it into a secure key, as follows:
The Rfc2898DeriveBytes method generates a secure key by taking our original plain text key, applying a salt value (in this case, an arbitrary byte array), and specifying the number of iterations for the generation method. Obviously, the more iterations, the safer. I chose five because, well, it seemed a good a number as any.
This is the simplest way to implement password-based key generation, which we discussed a long time ago in a paragraph far, far away.
Hashes are even simpler to implement in .NET, since they require neither a key nor an initialization vector. As with symmetric algorithms, the implementation of each hashing algorithm is derived from a base class, in this case, HashingAlgorithm. This allows us to generate a SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, or MD5 hash, using just three lines of code:
Finally, we have asymmetric algorithms, and this is where things get messier. Like any block cipher, the RSA algorithm works on chunks of bytes, but unlike with symmetric block ciphers, the .NET implementation does not handle this for you. If you try to encrypt or decrypt a chunk of bytes longer than what the algorithm expects, you will get a nasty exception thrown in your face… and boy, does that hurt!
Therefore, we have to handle these chunks ourselves. Without going into too much detail as to the reasons why, RSA works on 128-byte chunks of data. When encrypting, the maximum we can pass to the algorithm is 12 bytes less than the modular. This amounts to 58 Unicode characters, since each Unicode character represents two bytes and (58 * 2) + 12 = 128.
The same rule applies when decrypting, although the length of an RSA-enciphered stream is always divisible by 128, which makes life a little easier, since we don’t have to worry about the modular.
Of course, being an asymmetric algorithm, RSA also worries about public and private keys. There are many ways to implement key pairs, and that subject alone could cover several articles. I chose the simplest approach for this exercise, auto-generating a key pair using the framework’s default options. The key pair is then saved to disk, where it can be reused:
'The RSA algorithm works on individual blocks of unencoded bytes.
' In this case, the maximum is 58 bytes. Therefore, we are required
' to break up the text into blocks and encrypt each one individually.
'Each encrypted block will give us an output of 128 bytes.
Crypto. Crypto. Content = encryptedString
Crypto. EncryptionAlgorithm = Crypto. Algorithm. RSA
Crypto. HEX
Crypto. Key = "This is @ key and IT 1s strong"
Crypto. Algorithm. RSA
Crypto. Encoding = Crypto.EncodingType. HEX
Crypto. We have barely scratched the surface of Cryptography in this article, but thanks to the abstraction provided by .NET, the CryptoHelper class will suffice for about 95% of any developer’s cryptographic needs.
There is much more you can do with the cryptographic providers in the .NET Framework. The intention of this article was to provide an introduction to the world of Cryptography and remove some of the mystery surrounding it. Gone are the days when building an encryption routine involved weeks of studying specific algorithms and then coding them in C or, worse still, Assembly. The cryptographic providers in the .NET Framework make encryption and decryption a relatively trivial undertaking.
In future articles, I will discuss more advanced cryptographic techniques. In the meantime, I have to go and bore some people at a party by telling them some Cryptography jokes. Three symmetric algorithms walked into a bar...
United States Toby Emden has been coding since the early days of 8-bit home computers, when developers had to write pure assembly to get anything worthwhile done. As a mere ankle-biter, his first coding projects included several games written for the ZX Spectrum in pure Z80 assembly code. Nowadays, his languages of choice are C++, C# and Java.
A member of the IEEE Computer Society and Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, Toby has spent ten years as an I.T. security executive, delivering enterprise security solutions for Fortune 100 organizations.
When not boring people at parties with jokes about cryptography and polymorphism, he enjoys writing, traveling and spending quality time with his wife and three cats. He still hasn't figured out how to cure cancer with .NET, but figures world peace can be solved with a Java wrapper class.
When you encrypt multiple messages with the same key, you need to use different IVs for each of them. The exact requirements depend on the chosen mode, and range from simply unique(stream ciphers, CTR mode,...) to completely random and unpredictable (CBC mode,...). Using constants completely misses the point of IVs.
The same argument applies to the salt used when deriving a key from a password.
A block cipher as a block-size, and a key size. These sizes are independent.
DES has a block size of 64 bits and a key size of 56 bits. (Some APIs take 64 bit keys, 8 of which don't affect encryption) (Some APIs take 192 bit keys, 24 of which don't affect encryption)
AES has a block size of 128 and a key size of either 128, 192 or 256 bits.
Rijndael supports other block sizes too, but AES does not. AES is just a subset of Rijndael.
In most situations when you encrypt data, you also want to apply cryptographic integrity checks. Typically in the form of MACs. If you don't check integrity, you'll be open to active attacks, such as padding oracles.
The author doesn't even mention such an essential topic.
Dubious claims "From a security perspective, stream ciphers generally perform much faster, and are less resource intensive than block ciphers, but are far more vulnerable to attack."
When used correctly, stream ciphers are just as secure as block ciphers. The main difference is that when misused, block ciphers failure is a bit more graceful.
You can't really say that asymmetric ciphers are more secure than symmetric ciphers. That's an apples to oranges comparison. They offer features that are impossible to achieve with symmetric ciphers. If you require those features, you must use asymmetric crypto. If you don't require them, there is no reason to use asymmetric crypto.
Long messages being slow to encrypt is a non issue in practice, since one only uses a single asymmetric operation per message when using hybrid encryption.
If performance asymmetric operations is a problem, one should consider switching to elliptic curve crypto.
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hamada el3ashe225-Mar-11 22:50 i want to ask in RSA there is private.key and public.key generated in folder automatically in decrypt we need private.key but if i gave this private.key in my application it could be used for build keygen for my application so it could be destroy my encryption ?
Thank you very much. I'm using CryptoHelper to Encrypt and Decrypt passwords and it's working fine and make my programming life a lot easier .But I have a little problem and a question to ask. Recently I've deployed my application to a network server to let people run it from there. Then I noticed that CryptoHelper writes some files on the disk (that produces an error when one doesn't have the change permission)I'd like to know what is written on the disk and is there any way to stop that ? I'm using RSA algorithm and Hex encoding and I'm providing a Guid as key.
(The written files are public.key and private.key)
Example: IV_8, IV_16, HexToByte etc are not declared.
Also the import statements at the class header are missing.
Thanks About .Net framework 1.1 zfq30829-Oct-07 22:34
zfq30829-Oct-07 22:34 Can you convert the class to .Net framework 1.1?
Thanks! Two other related encryption articles in CodeProject ... Tony Selke27-Sep-07 6:58
It works until I tried it with an AJAX enabled Web site.
I get the following error: "Globalization is Ambiguious, imported from the namespaces or types 'System. Web, system."
Thanks RSA 2048 bit never.reply2-Sep-07 18:53
never.reply2-Sep-07 18:53 Thanks for the great article.
There is a kind of a issue to discuss . changing the key size of the RSA object after creating it does not actually change the size.
For example in the ValidateRSAKeys function the code "key. KeySize = KeySize. RSA" is not changing the keysize to 2048 (which is the value of "KeySize.RSA") and the keysize remains on 1024 bits.
If any one could help. Please. AES 256... John Couture24-Aug-07 11:41
John Couture24-Aug-07 11:41 This is an excellent article and the sample application is great. This is just an FYI...
I had a little trouble with AES (Rijndael) 256. The AES 128 worked perfectly, but when I tried changing the code to use 256 bit, I would get the following error: "Specified initialization vector (IV) does not match the block size for this algorithm."
The fix was to add a single line of code to the SymmetricEncrypt and the SymmetricDecrypt routines.
If you search the Crypto.vb file for the code: Provider.KeySize = keySize
Add the following line code to the right after those: Provider.BlockSize = keySize
That solved the problem I was having.
V nice article, really cleared the way the cryptography class works.
I need to do a Blowfish implementation. Can you help me with that? I've read that the SymmetricAlgorithm class can be extended to implement algorithms that .NET does not support, but haven't really found anything on how to do that.
If you have any solution for this, I would really appreciate it.
sortgnz16-May-07 5:04 Hello friend.
Now I am developing an application and i've got problems trying to use .net framework Cryptography:
- I am not allowed to "DES" Cipher/Decipher any data with key {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
The frameworks said to me that is a "weak key", but some devices use this key on default (some kind of cards, for example one blank desfire) in authentication procedure for later write the final key.
Is any way to avoid this .net check ? I know that is weak but i need to use it!
Malcolm S3-Nov-06 2:50 Good article Toby, much appreciated as it's helped me a lot.
However I now want to go the unrecommended way by encrypting using the private key and decrypting using the public key. I assumed I just have to swap some parameter info about, but it doesn't seem to be that easy. Can you tell us how to do it please? Malcolm S
You could easily change the method signature for RSADecrypt() and RSAEncrypt() so that it accepts a parameter specifying which key to use for encryption and decryption.
Although I haven't actually tested this, there is no reason why it shouldn't work.
Casey Plummer18-Oct-06 5:48 "There are two kinds of asymmetric algorithm" is in the Symmetic section. A little confusing. Re: Typo? Toby Emden22-Dec-06 8:11
Good catch, Casey. I have corrected the typo so that the paragraph makes more sense. | http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15280/Cryptography-101-for-the-NET-Framework?fid=334722&df=90&mpp=25&sort=Position&spc=Relaxed&select=4289569&noise=3&prof=False&view=Quick |
Prism Infosec has identified two high-risk vulnerabilities within the Aspect Control Engine building management system (BMS) developed by ABB.
ABB’s Aspect BMS enables users to monitor a building’s performance and combines real-time integrated control, supervision, data logging, alarming, scheduling and network management functions with internet connectivity and web serving capabilities. Consequently, users can view system status, override setpoints and schedules, and more over desktop, laptop or mobile phone devices.
During a recent security testing engagement on behalf of a client, researchers discovered an ABB Aspect appliance and that the BMS was misconfigured to be publicly available over the internet. Usually, such administrative interfaces should not be made externally accessible and in instances where this cannot be avoided a secondary layer of authentication should be used, such as VPN or IP address whitelisting together with further access controls such as multi-factor authentication (MFA).
The team gained initial access to the administrative interface by using the default credentials documented in the Aspect Control Engine’s publicly available user manual. The team then found that the Network Diagnostic function of the Aspect appliance was vulnerable to RCE which allowed them to gain access via a reverse-shell to the underlying Linux OS and associated internal network infrastructure.
Once initial access was achieved, a check against the privileges revealed that the software was running as the ‘Apache’ user, a relatively low-level user with limited functionality. Researchers then identified an unintended privilege escalation vulnerability built into the underlying operating system of the ABB appliance, which would allow the user to escalate their access privileges to a root-level account.
“We informed the client of our findings and disclosed the software vulnerabilities to ABB shortly after. It was impressive how quickly both parties acknowledged and acted upon these issues, from the client ensuring these access levels were disabled to ABB patching and releasing an update and advisory to their clients. It goes to show how well responsible disclosure can work when consultants and vendors are both on the same page and put security first,” said Phil Robinson, Principal Consultant and Founder of Prism Infosec. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/06/07/cve-2023-0635-cve-2023-0636/ |
To create a automation testing strategy for checking your webapps on Firefox 35, you first need to check what technologies are supported on Firefox 35.
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Mozilla Firefox was created in 2002 under the code name "Phoenix" by Mozilla community members who wanted more than a single program in their Mozilla Application Suite bundle. Firefox's beta version gained popularity with testers and was praised for its speed, security, and add-ons compared to Microsoft's then-dominant Internet Explorer 6.
In 2004, Mozilla released Firefox, challenging Internet Explorer's dominance. In nine months, Firefox had been downloaded more than 60 million times. Firefox is the successor of Netscape Navigator as it was created by Netscape in 1998 before its acquisition by AOL.
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CVS Health stated on Saturday it’s going to discontinue gross sales the favored Zantac heartburn therapy and its personal generic ranitidine merchandise from its pharmacies after traces of a known carcinogen were found in a number of the merchandise by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration.
The FDA stated earlier this month that a number of the capsules contained small quantities N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which has additionally been present in some extensively used blood strain medicines, resulting in shortages of these medicine.
CVS stated the transfer to droop gross sales of the over-the-counter heartburn drug was taken out of warning whereas the FDA continues to assessment if low ranges of NDMA in ranitidine — the energetic ingredient in Zantac — poses a well being danger to sufferers.
“Zantac model merchandise and CVS model ranitidine merchandise haven’t been recalled, and the FDA will not be recommending that sufferers cease taking ranitidine presently,” CVS said in a statement.
Novartis’ Sandoz unit stated final week it was halting distribution of Zantac in all its markets, together with the USA and Canada, following security assessment of the drug by U.S. and European drug regulators. | https://newscatch.net/cvs-suspends-gross-sales-of-zantac-model-and-generic-heartburn-drug-throughout-security-assessment/ |
Shade ransomware first spotted in late 2014, also known as Troldesh or Encoder.858. The ransomware distributed specifically through malicious email attachments.
The origin of the ransomware believed to be from Russia, the ransom notes found to be written in both Russian and English. | https://cert.bournemouth.ac.uk/shade-ransomware-hackers-shutdown-their-operation-750k-decryption-keys-released/ |
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The cost of entry for virtual reality hardware has plummeted in the few short months since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in May. Back then, getting your foot in the door required a PC that cost at $900 at minimum. Since then, a new graphics card generation drove prices down even further—we recently tested an all-AMD VR-ready rig that costs just $650. Now, some fancy new Oculus software appears ready to help slash VR hardware prices even more.
At Oculus Connect 3, Oculus announced Asynchronous Spacewarp, a supercharged version of the Asynchronous Timewarp feature that helps the Oculus Rift maintain a smooth experience when in-game frame rates stutter. The explanation of how it works gets very technical, very quickly, but at its heart, Asynchronous Timewarp gives Oculus the ability to create “synthetic frames” based on your head’s movement and position. In practice, it allows the headset to display virtual reality experiences at the crucial 90 frames per second, even if your hardware is only pumping out 45 frames per second.
It’s no replacement for full-blown native 90Hz output, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says, but Asynchronous Spacewarp is effective enough that Oculus feels comfortable dropping the minimum hardware requirements for the Rift from an Nvidia GTX 970 down to an Nvidia GTX 960. The Rift’s CPU requirements are also being rejiggered, all the way down to an AMD FX-4350 dual-Core i3-6100 processor. Previously, you needed a quad-Core i5 or AMD FX processor that cost much, much more.
That’s huge. It drives the cost of VR-ready PC down to much more reasonable levels, which is essential for making Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams for social VR a mainstream reality. In fact, Iribe also announced a prebuilt Oculus-ready PC built by AMD and CyberPower that will cost just $500, with the aforementioned FX-4350 and a Radeon RX 470.
Hot damn. Now if only an Oculus Rift and Touch VR controller didn’t cost $800 on its own… | https://www.pcworld.com/article/410595/oculus-rifts-new-software-drops-the-price-of-vr-ready-pcs-to-500.html |
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The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the usbrdrctl log file, which has a predictable name.
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Nissan Motor Co. is planning to cut about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) in annual fixed costs and book restructuring charges as the coronavirus pandemic further depresses the carmaker’s sales, a person with knowledge of the measures said.
Those initiatives are likely part of a three-year plan that will be unveiled along with financial results on May 28, calling for Nissan to take more drastic measures to turn the manufacturer around, said the person, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The Yokohama-based company will phase out the Datsun brand, shut down one production line in addition to the recently closed operation in Indonesia and reach the reduced spending target this year by cutting marketing, research and other costs, the person said.
Nissan has been in turmoil since the November 2018 arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, with an aging car lineup and management paralysis denting its outlook. The automaker warned last month it expects to post a loss for the latest fiscal year through March, as the pandemic shuttered showrooms in major markets and the economic fallout dented consumer demand for new cars.
Nissan Warns of Losses, Delays Earnings Report Due to Pandemic
The plans still need to be reviewed by Nissan’s board and may change, people privy to deliberations around the restructuring plan said. The scale of the restructuring charge is still being determined as well, they said.
Although Nissan is forecasting a 12% decline in sales to 10.2 trillion yen for the just-ended fiscal year, the new mid-term plan calls for a return to revenue of 11.5 trillion yen within three years, with fixed costs kept at reduced levels, the person said.
A yet-to-be disclosed production line will be shuttered as part of the changes, bringing the worldwide total to 13. That will put Nissan’s utilization ratio at approximately 80% within three years, the person said, adding that the plan assumes annual output capacity of about 5.4 million cars. Nissan’s utilization rate was about 65% in the just-ended fiscal year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Under the prior mid-term plan, Nissan had planned to reduce capacity to around 6.6 million units per year from 7.2 million.
“Nissan will announce a revised midterm plan along with fiscal year 2019 financial results on May 28,” said Azusa Momose, a spokeswoman for Nissan. “We do not have any further comments on this subject.”
Shares of Nissan have slumped more than 40% this year, out-pacing the declines by Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.
The targets are part of what Nissan’s new executive team, which took over in December, is calling the Operational Performance Plan, replacing measures announced in July. Former co-Chief Operating Officer Jun Seki began work on the plan before he left the automaker. A former contender for the top job, Seki quit after losing out to Makoto Uchida, who flagged deeper cost cuts in March. COO Ashwani Gupta took over and is now the architect of the plan.
Some development functions in specific countries, including India, Vietnam and Thailand, are under consideration for streamlining, the people said. The down-market Datsun brand, aimed at developing economies including India, will be phased out as Nissan focuses on its main markets of the U.S., Japan and China, the person said. As part of the focus on the bigger, wealthier markets, Nissan’s luxury Infiniti brand will be revitalized, according to the person.
Among the three regions, China is a bright spot as its economy sputters back to life after shutting down in the early days of the virus outbreak. Nissan’s sales volume in China climbed 1.1% to 122,846 vehicles in April, helping it claw back some market share, figures showed this week.
For Europe, Nissan will rely on its alliance with Renault SA, with a focus on selling crossover sport-utility vehicles and electric cars. Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the third member of the global automaking alliance, will focus on the markets in Asia where it has a bigger presence.
The alliance was shaken by the arrest of Ghosn, who was also CEO and chairman of the French automaker. The former auto executive escaped trial in Japan at the end of 2019 and made his way to Lebanon. Ghosn denies the charges of financial misconduct and breach of trust against him, and said that Nissan colluded with prosecutors to remove him in order to prevent further integration with Renault, its biggest shareholder. | https://www.autofinancenews.net/allposts/operations/risk-management/nissan-said-to-plan-2-8b-in-cost-cuts-book-charges/ |
Technology continues to revolutionize the way companies do business. Nowhere is this seen more than in the devices used by employees to complete their work. Gone are the days of completing work tasks using only the computer provided by an employer. Instead, 70% of users carry three or more devices, with 67% of those using their own personal devices for work. According to Gartner, 70% of mobile professionals will complete their work on personal smart devices by 2018.
What does this mean for your business – especially with regard to tracking your company’s fixed assets? According to David Willis, vice president and analyst at Gartner, “The benefits of BYOD include creating new mobile workforce opportunities, increasing employee satisfaction, and reducing or avoiding costs.”
Device Expectation
Consider also the level of employee expectation: users expect to merge both personal and business calls and data to a single device. 78% of employees believe that having a single mobile device – whether that’s a smartphone, tablet, or laptop – helps balance their work and personal lives, and the advances in mobile technology are making that expectation very real. Companies that ignore or fail to provide their employees with the means to use their own personal devices for some work tasks, like answering email, are ignoring the potential benefits of a mobile workforce.
How does this expectation factor into managing fixed assets? The answer is very simple – the ability to download an app to a personal device that connects to an existing asset database. These types of work related apps are becoming increasingly popular and assist users by allowing them to address work responsibilities when needed. Instead of manually tracking fixed asset information, whether by pen & paper or an Excel spreadsheet, an app conveniently downloaded to a personal device provides individuals the ability to quickly and accurately record asset information when needed – rather than requiring time be spent completing data entry on a PC while sitting at a desk.
Mobile Opportunity
Of course, one of the most significant benefits for companies in allowing employees the ability to use personal devices – in this case to track fixed asset details – is the reduction in, or avoidance of, costs related to the equipment (laptops, phones, tablets, mobile scanning devices) used by staff. Asking employees to set aside technology to which they’ve become accustomed is asking them to spend excessive amounts of time documenting asset information. All of that time means wasted effort – especially when there are options available for improving the process as a whole. According to the CDW 2012 Small Business Mobility Report, 94% of the mobile device users polled say using a mobile device for work tasks has made them more efficient.
Additionally, BYOD implementation means smaller companies can have a mobile workforce without the huge investment in the initial purchase or the continued cost of maintaining devices. Gartner’s research also found that 38 percent of companies expect to stop providing workplace devices to staff by 2016.
The MobileAsset App
Give your company and employees the flexibility to manage valuable assets using their personal iOS or Android devices. Investing in an IT asset tracking solution is only the first step in protecting the financial investment you’ve made when purchasing equipment. Manage those assets whenever and wherever it’s convenient for you or your employees by simply purchasing a device license, downloading the app from Google Play or the App Store, and then completing common management tasks, including: asset creation, check-in and -out, disposal, and audit. Sync your mobile device data anywhere with a network or cellular connection, and update your MobileAsset database whenever you’re away from the PC.
Implementing an asset tracking solution means you’re on your way to protecting your fixed assets. Now, you have the opportunity to take the process a step further by allowing employees to use their own personal iOS or Android devices to complete their entire asset tracking tasks – saving them time and saving you money.
By Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies
Wasp Barcode manufactures barcode software and solutions. Solutions include barcode scanners, barcode printers, inventory software, asset tracking, time and attendance systems, Point of Sale (POS) Systems and a range of barcode labels and barcode accessories.
Wasp Barcode Technologies’ focus and expertise is in small business. For over 18 years, Wasp has developed a loyal base of 250,000 customers in manufacturing, warehousing & distribution, retail, government, education as well as healthcare services. These customers have made Wasp the market leader, helping business owners manage their companies more efficiently with improved productivity and profitability. | https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/infosec-news/bring-device-byod-track-assets/ |
In a digital panorama where threats are ever-evolving, the role of a cybersecurity specialist is indispensable. These professionals are the guardians of our digital assets, tirelessly working to protect sensitive information and keep cybercriminals at bay. Their multifaceted function encompasses risk assessment, security infrastructure design, monitoring, incident response, compliance, training, and steady improvement.
As we proceed to entrust more of our lives and businesses to the digital realm, the importance of cybersecurity specialists will only grow. Their experience and dedication are what stand between us and the doubtless devastating consequences of cyberattacks. It is crucial for organizations and individuals alike to acknowledge and invest in the crucial role that cybersecurity specialists play in safeguarding our digital assets.
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Keeping your PC protected considering the best anti virus for Windows 10 can help keep you and your family protected from malware risks. The right anti-virus tool could also prevent your sensitive information from getting compromised.
The very best antivirus for the purpose of Windows 10 offers protection from various bestvpn4android types of threats, which include ransomware, rootkits, and hazardous websites. It also contains a powerful anti-phishing feature that blocks bogus websites. You may also keep your information that is personal secure which has a password administrator.
One of the biggest dangers to businesses today is usually cyber disorders. Many organisations have Personal computers that are vulnerable to malware scratches. You need to ensure you are going to safe websites and are obtaining files out of reputable options. In addition , it is advisable to keep your software updated regularly to prevent malicious software coming from launching.
Probably the greatest antivirus tools designed for Windows twelve is Norton AntiVirus. Excellent simple user interface, top-notch surfing protection, as well as the ability to give protection to up to 5 various devices at the same time. It also comprises of internet browser security plug-ins, spam filtering, and a hosted online backup.
Some other popular Glass windows 10 anti virus is ESET. It provides wonderful security features for an affordable price. It also comes with a password manager and security just for sensitive data. It also outshines the market, thanks to their impressive distinct assessment lab effects.
Norton 360 is also a great decision for Windows 10 ant-virus. It offers terrific real-time security, and it has less of your impact on your PC’s overall performance. It also has its own additional features and customer support channels. | https://precisionmetal.co.in/blog/2022/11/24/ideal-antivirus-to-get-windows-10/ |
To create change, you need knowledge and you need to gather information at every stage: before, during and after deployment of your security awareness program.
The security awareness 5-step framework provides step-by-step instructions and keeps your program aligned to your objectives with a structure, series of checklists and best practices to help you get it right the first time. | https://www.superhub.com.hk/solutions/managed-and-adoption-services/security-service/cybersecurity-awareness/ |
As per topic, KIS 21.3.10.391(d) crashing 20 times after updating antivirus databases. Gotten sudden prompt from windows security center stating antivirus is out of date before a popup from kaspersky showing previous application launch failed and KIS attempt to update itself but is stuck in a crash loop till KIS exit and won’t launch, have to restart pc to get it working again.
Have submitted a ticket with support but so far only customer service reps replying not technical support side? PC is on Windows 10 20H2 x64 fully patched.
1)Nope, also based on GSI report & KIS installation checking for incompatible softwares, nothing was found.
2)Done a totally clean installation with nothing save.
Yes, KIS still crashing after clean install.
No, but i submitted all the kaspersky .dmp files via clicking the “send” button in Previous application launch failed window.
You may wish to send them an email stating you’ve sent the .dmp logs as well as two GSI.
As they’ve confirmed the issue has been escalated to the experts, there’s nothing more you can do.
You have done all of the right actions, it’s now just a matter of waiting, allowing the expert team to investigate & respond. | https://community.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-internet-security-13/kis-21-mr3-patch-d-crashed-20-time-in-a-day-18644 |
What happens to data, instructions, and information held in volatile memory when the computer system is powered off? Select Yes or No for each option.
All content is held in volatile memory until the power is restored.
All content is made permanent for future use. | https://tutorsdive.com/md-university-ifsm-201-understanding-the-computer-system-unit/ |
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