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In addition to government assistance, ID theft victims frequently seek financial support from friends, family, and faith-based organizations, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Some 30% of people who have reported criminal identity theft needed government assistance to get back on their feet, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
The 300-person sample came from those who used ITRC’s free services in the last year, many of whom are low- or moderate-income earners, according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO. And while identity theft doesn’t hit these demographic segments more frequently, it does hit them harder because they lack the extra time and money often required to resolve identity theft problems, she says.
In addition to government assistance such as welfare, electronic benefit transfer (EBT), and food stamps, these identity theft victims also sought financial support from friends, family, and faith-based organizations, according to ITRC.
“The big ‘aha moment’ is that identity theft is affecting all of us, even if you’re not a victim,” Velazquez adds.
Other key findings from ITRC’s annual study, which was underwritten by LifeLock:
Of those who shared the additional impact of their identity theft experience with ITRC, 35% had to borrow money, 25% had to sell possessions, and 23% reported moving or relocating.
Respondents who dealt with criminal identity theft issues experienced “lost opportunities,” including missing work (55%), losing an employment opportunity (44%), and loss of residence or housing (31%).
Almost 20% reported significant repercussions when their online accounts were compromised, including job loss (24%), and reputational damage among friends (61%) and colleagues (31%).
44% reported some form of government-related identity theft. Reported instances of state and federal tax fraud were up 15%, resulting in many respondents not receiving refunds.
60% reported new account fraud, up 6% from last year. Increases were reported in the opening of new credit cards, utility accounts, and cell phone service.
“The survey responses provide a comprehensive picture of the true impact of this crime on its victims and confirms that identity theft creates more than just financial hardship for victims – it has the capacity to invade many other areas of their lives,” ITRC said in a statement. Identity theft can negatively impact employment, housing, and educational opportunities.
“A lot of people think it won’t happen to them; one thing we hear a lot is ‘I don’t have good credit, so what would they want from me?” Velasquez says. “In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.”
If there’s a resulting call to action, ITRC would like to see consumers appreciate the value of an uncompromised identity. “As a nation, we don’t treat them as valuable – we’re so much more worried about credit cards,” Velasquez says.
She also points to her organization’s SHRED acronym to help protect consumers and their identities:
Shred all personal and business documents and strengthen password and privacy settings.
Handle personally identifying information with greater care.
Read all credit reports regularly for any suspicious activity or unfamiliar transactions.
Empty your purse or wallet regularly to minimize impact of lost credentials.
Discuss these tips with family and friends.
Velasquez also notes that consumers store lots of important personal data on their smartphones, and then don’t bother to use the PIN protection to lock it up.
“Make sure you’re not just putting yourself out there and being the low-hanging fruit. Make it more challenging for the thieves,” she adds.
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Samsung’s proprietary Email app for Galaxy smartphones and tablets running One UI is getting a new update to version 6.1.72.1. It’s the third update released for the Email app this year.
Unlike many app updates rolled out this year, Samsung Email version 6.1.72.1 is important enough to come with a proper changelog. According to the latter, the new Email version fixes an S Pen issue that crops up when composing a new email and addresses another problem that prevented images from showing properly in “View.”
In addition, Samsung Email version 6.1.72.1 stabilizes the S/MIME email encryption function, although the changelog doesn’t go into further details as to what this change implies exactly.
Samsung Email is the Korean tech giant’s response to Gmail, and it’s good enough that it keeps growing in popularity. It surpassed the 500 million download threshold at the Play Store in 2018, and right now, Samsung Email sits at more than a whopping 1 billion downloads on Google’s app distribution platform — not counting downloads from Samsung’s own Galaxy Store.
This is undoubtedly the emailing app of choice for many Samsung customers, and needless to say, the latest update should improve the user experience a notch. You can acquire the latest Samsung Email version from the Galaxy Store or Play Store.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline futures are ticking higher Monday following a cyberextortion attempt on a vital U.S. pipeline that carries fuel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, N.J. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast says it had to stop operations because it was the victim of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline said in a statement late Friday that it “took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.” (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
The Colonial Pipeline transports gasoline and other fuel through 10 states between Texas and New Jersey. It delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast, according to the company.
Colonial Pipeline said Saturday that it had been hit by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat. Two people close to the investigation said that the shutdown had been carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2016 file photo vehicles are seen near Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
Futures for crude and fuel, prices that traders pay for contracts for delivery at some point in the future, typically begin to rise each year as the driving season approaches. The price you pay at the gas pump tends to follow.
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.02 per gallon, which is $1.05 higher than it was a year ago. Those year ago numbers are skewed somewhat because the nation was going into lockdown due to the pandemic.
© Provided by Associated Press A company that operates a major U.S. energy pipeline says it was forced to temporarily halt all pipeline operations following a cybersecurity attack.
The attack on the Colonial Pipeline could exacerbate that upward pressure on prices if it is unresolved for a period of time.
Futures jumped 1.5% Monday, the largest movement in about a week, with the potential for disruptions in fuel delivery still unknown.
Colonial is in the process of restarting portions of its network. It said Sunday that its main pipeline remained offline, but that some smaller lines were operational.
For the moment, seesawing prices may be felt mostly within the energy industry as suppliers adjust to potential shifts in the flow of gasoline.
More fuel may be sourced from East Cost refiners, J.P. Morgan said Monday, and an extended outage along the Colonial Pipeline would force suppliers to seek fuel from the Midwest, rather than the Gulf.
In response to the attack, the Biden administration loosened regulations for the transport of petroleum products on highways as part of an “all-hands-on-deck” effort to avoid disruptions in the fuel supply.
Interesting thread... brings back memories of the big power outage in San Diego a few years ago. I don't think hacking was involved, I think some utility worker made an error, and it may not have been directly related to computers, but that entire grid went down for HOURS on end, it was crazy. I think it lasted 8 or 10 hours, but I had a bunch of camp gear right there in our Coronado home, so I simply broke out that gear and made the most of the situation. But afterward, many folks asked about the security of the system... if a worker could shut it down for so long by making a simple error, what could dedicated hackers or terrorists do? I'm sure the utility company (SDG&E) modified some of their processes & procedures after the blackout, lol.
Funny thing about that blackout: a large group of citizens actually ENJOYED the time away from the net, devices, etc., and congregated in groups with friends & neighbors to socialize the old-fashioned way. I recall at least one letter to the local rag afterward which suggested shutting down the grid more often, like on a regular basis, so that folks could socialize in the old way, lol. Not likely to happen, of course, but the fact that some people actually ENJOYED the blackout was rather funny. WTF, I was one of 'em... got to sit out under the stars and talk to me elderly mum, who was still alive when this happened. Anyway, this pipeline problem is a bit different, it just reminded me of that blackout when the entire grid for a major city was shut down for hours on end, lol.
I'm aware of the inconvenience for many folks during such a blackout, particularly those on medical machinery or devices, but thankfully, most (if not all) of the hospitals had emergency generators and whatnot to deal with the problem. Those in private homes were most at risk, I guess, but any well-prepared & stocked household should be able to ride out such an emergency. Early on, I took ice from the freezer and threw the most perishable food into my large camping coolers, then left the fridge door shut for the duration. Cooked on my trusty old Coleman 2-burner propane camp stove, oldest piece of field gear in my possession. Wore a headlamp while cruising around the house & yard, no big deal... as a climber, I'm used to wearing a headlamp. The whole experience was actually pretty fun, lol.
Y'all are WAY more tech-savvy than I am---I'm still communicating via smoke signals---but I'm enjoying these replies, and who knows? I might even learn something, lol.
I've always thought along those lines as well-- a redundant, walled off system of some kind. It's just unfortunate that the media hyping this story is so blatantly ignorant of the tech considerations. They just show their map with the squiggly line representing the pipeline and mainly just talk about how gas prices might go up.
I don't expect them to have in-depth knowledge but reporters should be able to consult with or interview an expert to give viewers at least a high level overview of just what has actually happened. How computers control everything, why it's so difficult to break free from the intrusion, why there were not better protections in place, etc. etc.
Sounds like a question for 'Gandalf the Grey'---I haven't smoked tobacco in decades, and I can't remember the last time I burned some chronic. Never really picked up the tobacco habit, but my friends & I would smoke Marlboro Reds while getting drunk. Finally gave it up... it's a filthy habit and it kills you, lol. Not to mention the fact that those 'grits' (as we called 'em) are heller expensive now---I can remember when cartons of Marlboros sold for $5 (dating myself here), now some cartons go for over $100!
Meh, once I get this train wreck of a life sorted out with a new job, maybe I'll go buy a small sack o' chronic from the nearest dispensary, just for old times' sake. Probably take one bong hit to get wasted, lol... and I'll be sure to sit on my view deck on a Friday night when I burn that [email protected] Arizona voters legalized recreational marijuana in the last election, guess the fraud didn't extend to dope, lol. But thanks for bringing up the subject, lol... now I'll go back quiet for a bit. Cheers!
Cochise Stronghold... or damned near it.
Oh, hell, Jayflight, now you've gone and extended the thread-jacking, lol... but I copy those natural highs, including rat racing and dirt biking. Funny how speed (velocity, NOT the drug) makes things more interesting... as youths, we raced down new stretches of road or highway where development hadn't begun yet, and we were in souped-up or tricked-out rides too. High-compression motors, heaps of aftermarket parts or mods, we were BIG on performance when it came to our rides, lol.
Other natural highs included extreme small craft sailing, technical rock climbing, vertical skateboarding back in the day, etc. Some climbers liked to smoke dope before making ascents, but I preferred to remain sober even when roped up, ya know? I'd party like a MFer afterward, when I was down on the ground and gravity was no longer a serious factor, but not until then, aye? Of course, some of those potheads were better climbers than I was, though I could outsail any of 'em, lol. Meh, this variety is the spice of life, yeah?
P.S. I always wanted a '57 Chevy Nomad wagon, those things were the BOMB! Classic American styling, ya know...
No matter how bad the disaster. they could restore in a very short time.
Since the backups were all "offline" they were not hackable.
The problem in this instance isn't some much that the controls (valves) on the pipelines are controlled by computer (some are). But it's the administration that has ground to a halt. No shipping papers are being printed. No orders are being taken and recorded. No inventory is being kept. That's what has caused the halt. Information. Not necessarily the flow of gas or diesel, but the flow of information. What gas is in what storage tank, how much is in there, and who has an order for it. That's what is causing the delays. It's logistics. It's knowledge.
The computers are locked up tight, and so is all the paperwork that makes things move.
Valves not working is an annoyance. Not having the proper paperwork is a disaster.
We are closely monitoring the rapidly changing Colonial Pipeline situation and are seeing increased demand for gasoline across various markets in the Southeast region. Diesel is still holding steady in most areas.
The increased strain on the supply chain is causing supplies to get tighter. Currently, diesel is available at most of our locations with select stores experiencing outages as we work to bring in more supply.
We will continue to do everything we can, including bringing in resources and extra drivers from unaffected areas, to meet demand and restore supply where needed at our travel centers.
More details on this are below.
We greatly appreciate your patience as we work to keep up with the quickly evolving market and will inform you of any changes to diesel supply availability.
We are aware of the recent Georgia Governor’s Executive Order dated May 10, 2021 which suspended the collection of motor fuel and diesel fuel taxes required by Code Section 48-9-3. With the Colonial Pipeline down, we are required to transport fuel from out of state to our Georgia travel centers, which is creating additional issues as several states will require state excise states to be charged if Georgia taxes are not charged. We are attempting to get more information on the proper handling of this order.
In the meantime, we request that you maintain your receipts for any cash or credit card purchases made on May 11, 2021 through 11:59pm on May 15, 2021, or until further guidance from the State of Georgia on the best way to handle this situation dictates otherwise. Based on guidance received, we will review all direct bill and billing card invoices and make adjustments or corrections as needed.
We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and thank you for your patience during this time."
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Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system, without the owner's consent. The term is a portmanteau of "mal-" (or perhaps "malicious") and "software", and describes the intent of the creator, rather than any particular features. Malware is commonly taken to include computer viruses, Trojan horses, spyware and adware. In law, malware is sometimes known as a computer contaminant, for instance in the legal codes of California, West Virginia, and several other U.S. states [1]. Malware is sometimes pejoratively called scumware.
Malware should not be confused with defective software, that is, software which has a legitimate purpose but contains errors or bugs.
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A slightly more hostile intent can be found in programs designed to vandalize or cause data loss. Many DOS viruses were designed to destroy files on a hard disk, or to corrupt the filesystem by writing junk data. Network-borne worms such as the Code Red worm or Ramen worm fall into the same category. Designed to vandalize Web pages, these worms may seem like an online equivalent of graffiti tagging, with the author's name or affinity group appearing everywhere the worm goes.
Revenge is sometimes a motive to write malicious software. A programmer or system administrator about to be fired from a job may leave behind backdoors or software "time bombs" that will allow them to damage the former employer's systems or destroy their own earlier work.
However, since the rise of widespread broadband Internet access, a greater portion of malicious software has been focused strictly on a profit motive. For instance, since 2003, the majority of widespread viruses and worms have been designed to take control of users' computers for black-market exploitation. Infected "zombie computers" are used to send email spam, to host contraband data such as child pornography, or to engage in distributed denial-of-service attacks as a form of extortion.
Another strictly for-profit category of malware has emerged in spyware -- programs designed to monitor users' Web browsing, display unsolicited advertisements, and redirect affiliate marketing revenues to the spyware creator. Spyware programs don't spread like viruses; usually they are installed by exploiting browser security holes, or are installed like a Trojan horse when the user installs other software.
The best-known types of malware, viruses and worms, are known for the manner in which they spread, rather than any other particular behavior. Originally, the term computer virus was used for a program which infected other executable software, while a worm transmitted itself over a network to infect computers. More recently, the words are often used interchangeably.
Today, some draw the distinction between viruses and worms by saying that a virus requires user intervention to spread, whereas a worm spreads automatically. This means that infections transmitted by email, which rely on the recipient opening an attachment to infect the system, are classed as viruses.
Capsule history of real-world viruses and worms
Main articles: Computer virus, computer worm.
Before Internet access became widespread, viruses spread on personal computers by infecting programs or the executable boot sectors of floppy disks. By inserting a copy of itself into the machine code instructions in these executables, a virus causes itself to be run whenever the program is run or the disk is booted. Early computer viruses were written for the Apple II and Macintosh, but they became more widespread with the dominance of the IBM PC and MS-DOS system. Executable-infecting viruses are dependent on users exchanging software or boot floppies, so they spread heavily in computer hobbyist circles.
The first worms -- network-borne infectious programs -- originated not on personal computers, but on multitasking Unix systems. The first well-known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems. Unlike a virus, this worm did not insert itself into other programs; rather, it exploited security holes in network server programs and started itself running as a separate process. This same behavior is used by today's worms as well.
With the rise of the Microsoft Windows platform in the 1990s, and the flexible macro systems of its applications, it became possible to write infectious code in the macro language of Microsoft Word and similar programs. These macro viruses infect documents and templates rather than applications, but rely on the fact that macros in a Word document are a form of executable code.
Today, worms are most commonly written for the Windows OS, although a small number are also written for Linux and other Unix systems. Worms today work in the same basic way as 1988's Internet Worm: they scan the network for computers with vulnerable network services, break in to those computers, and copy themselves over. Worm outbreaks have become a cyclical plague for both home users and businesses, eclipsed recently in terms of damage by spyware.
Concealment: Trojan horses and rootkits
For a malicious program to accomplish its goals, it must be able to do so without being shut down by the user or administrator of the computer it's on. Concealment can also help get the malware installed in the first place: by disguising a malicious program as something innocuous or desirable, users may be tempted to install it without knowing what it does. This is the technique of the Trojan horse or trojan.
Broadly speaking, a Trojan horse is any program that invites the user to run it, but conceals a harmful or malicious payload. The payload may take effect immediately and can lead to many undesirable effects, such as deleting all the user's files, or more commonly it may install further harmful software into the user's system to serve the creator's longer-term goals. Trojan horses known as droppers are used to start off a worm outbreak, by injecting the worm into users' local networks.
One of the most common ways that spyware is distributed is as a Trojan horse, bundled with a piece of desirable software that the user downloads off the Web or a peer-to-peer file-trading network. When the user installs the software, the spyware is installed alongside. Spyware authors who attempt to act legally may include an end-user license agreement which states the behavior of the spyware in loose terms, but with the knowledge that users are unlikely to read or understand it.
Once a malicious program is installed on a system, it is often useful to the creator if it stays concealed. The same is true when a human attacker breaks into a computer directly. Techniques known as rootkits allow this concealment, by modifying the host operating system so that the malware is hidden from the user. Rootkits can prevent a malicious process from being reported in the process table, or keep its files from being read. Originally, a rootkit was a set of tools installed by a human attacker on a Unix system where the attacker had gained administrator (root) access; today, the term is used more generally for concealment routines in a malicious program.
Spyware programs are usually installed as Trojan horses of one sort or another. They differ in that their creators present themselves openly as businesses, for instance by selling advertising space on the pop-ups created by the malware. Most such programs present the user with an end-user license agreement which purportedly protects the creator from prosecution under computer contaminant laws. However, spyware EULAs have not yet been upheld in court.
Another way that financially-motivated malware creator can monetize their infections is to directly use the infected computers to do work for the creator. Spammer viruses, such as the Sobig and Mydoom virus families, are commissioned by e-mail spam gangs. The infected computers are used as proxies to send out spam messages. The advantage to spammers of using infected computers is that they are available in large supply (thanks to the virus) and they provide anonymity, protecting the spammer from prosecution. Spammers have also used infected PCs to target anti-spam organizations with distributed denial-of-service attacks.
In order to coordinate the activity of many infected computers, attackers have used coordinating systems known as botnets. In a botnet, the malware logs in to an Internet Relay Chat channel or other chat system. The attacker can then give instructions to all the infected systems simultaneously. Botnets can also be used to push upgraded malware to the infected systems, keeping them resistant to anti-virus software or other security measures.
Lastly, it is possible for a malware creator to profit by simply stealing from the person whose computer is infected. Stealing here can mean stealing information such as passwords, or outright financial theft. Some malware programs install a key logger, which copies down the user's keystrokes when entering a password, credit card number, or other useful information. This is then transmitted to the malware creator automatically, enabling credit card fraud and other theft. Similarly, malware may copy the CD key or password for online games, allowing the creator to steal accounts or virtual items.
Another way of stealing money from the infected PC owner is to take control of the modem and dial an expensive toll call. Dialer (or porn dialer) software dials up a premium-rate telephone number -- such as a U.S. "900 number" -- and leaves the line open, costing the user hundreds of dollars in telephone bills.
Homogeneity – e.g. when all computers in a network run the same OS, it is easier to subvert.
Bugginess – most systems containing errors which may be exploited by malware.
Unconfirmed code – code from a floppy disk, CD or USB device may be executed without the user’s agreement.
Over-privileged users – some systems allow all users to modify their internal structures.
Over-privileged code – most popular systems allow code executed by a user all rights of that user.
An oft-cited cause of vulnerability of networks is homogeneity. In particular Microsoft Windows has such a large share of the market that concentrating on it will enable a cracker to subvert a large number of systems. Introducing inhomogeneity purely for the sake of robustness would however bring high costs in terms of training and maintenance.
Most systems contain bugs which may be exploited by malware. Typical examples are buffer overruns, in which an interface designed to store data in a small area of memory allows the caller to suppy too much, and then overwrites its internal structures. This may used by malware to force the system to execute its code.
Originally, PCs had to be booted from floppy disks, and until recently it was common for this to be the default boot device. This meant that a corrupt floppy disk could subvert the computer during booting, and the same applies to CDs. Although that is now less common, it is still possible to forget that one has changed the default, and rare that a BIOS makes one confirm a boot from removable media.
In some systems, normal users are over-privileged, in the sense that they are allowed to modify internal structures of the system. Malware, running as over-privileged code, can use this to subvert the system. This does not apply to UNIX-like systems, but very much to Microsoft Windows, especially when using the old FAT file system.
Almost all currently popular operating systems, and also many scripting applications allow code too many privileges, usually in the sense that when a user executes code, the system allows that code all rights of that user. This makes users vulnerable to malware in the form of e-mail attachments, which may or may not be disguised. Given this state of affairs, users are warned only to open attachments they trust, and to be wary of code received from untrusted sources. It also common for operating systems to be so designed that device drivers need a lot of privileges, while they are supplied by more and more hardware manufacturers, some of whom may unreliable.
Eliminating over-privileged code
The design flaw of over-privileged code dates from the time when most programmes were either delivered with a computer or written in-house, and repairing it would at a stroke render most anti-virus software almost redundant. It would, however, have appreciable consequences for the user interface and system management.
The system would have to maintain privilege profiles, and know which to apply for each user and programme. In the case of newly installed software, an administrator would need to set up default profiles for the new code.
The default profile need only allow access to a display, input devices, a limited amount of space in scratch directory, and only such files as the user specifies via the operating system or are universally accessible (read-only). This would be sufficient for the many programmes that normally only need to work on a single file, and otherwise start an “Open File” dialogue to determine where to save or find a file. In such cases, the operating system would need to return not a path but a file-handle. One might suppose for a moment that a programme could put up a trojan horse dialogue, but this would not enable it to get a file-handle. For programmes run in the background one might want a way of specifying their rights in a script.
Eliminating vulnerability to rogue device drivers is probably harder than for arbitrary rogue executables. Two techniques, used in VMS, that can help are memory mapping only the registers of the device in question and a system interface associating the driver with interrupts from the device.
Other approaches are:
various forms of virtualisation, allowing the code unlimited access only to virtual resources.
various forms of sandbox or jail.
the security functions of Java, in java.security .
Such approaches, however, if not fully integrated with the operating system, would reduplicate effort and not be universally applied, both of which would be detrimental to security.
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'We've never done this before,' says U.S. transplant surgeon
The surgeon who successfully transplanted a pig heart into a patient says the cardiac team has prepared for David Bennett, Jr.'s body to put up a fight against the foreign organ.
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"It’s about being able to define what you’re delivering in the context of the value back to the business," Diaz says. Through this "operations as a service" model, Robbins wants Diaz to demonstrate with hard data the outcome of not only IT services delivered, but the business processes those services are supporting.
Diaz offered a practical example of this fairly abstract concept by way of order management. Suppose a customer who ordered a router via Cisco's ecommerce platform needed to add a module or some other customization to the equipment. Cisco's operations team would have previously conducted a number of manual processes and policy changes to ensure the product was delivered as ordered. This could take several weeks. Using a custom-built software platform, along with analytics software from Apptio that the company initially used to track IT costs, Cisco is now automating those changes and updating the order on the fly. A process that once took three to four weeks has been reduced to three or four minutes.
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The changes are accompanied by a full accounting, or a "cost of goods sold" to deliver the orders, which includes any technologies used to deliver a service, such as file-sharing from Box and CRM software from Salesforce.com. If a business unit requests a new cloud service, IT must deliver it. But first the business must demonstrate the benefit, or the business outcome, of the cloud service. "If I give you X, you must give the company Y," Diaz says. "That is total business outcome assurance. This approach has enabled every IT leader's dream: With costs tracked from service delivery through deployment, the business unit is accountable for the services it consumes and the outcomes it seeks to achieve. About 20 "tenants" from various business units, including human resources management, currently use this platform. But the ultimate goal is to “replatform” Cisco's entire business in this vein.
The continuous delivery model has its challenges. Diaz says that he is embedding security policies into every service offering, which is the only sensible way to safeguard data for automated services. It's also incumbent on Cisco's lines of business to match the speed with which IT delivers the products and services it requests. "When you get [a requested service], you need to make sure you're selling faster, that you're reducing cost or that your boosting margins faster because that's what Chuck wants to see," Diaz says.
The velocity uptick introduces new challenges in change management, requiring business stakeholders and their IT constituents to collaborate closely. To ensure everyone is on the same page, teams comprised of 10 to 12 business unit leaders meet every six weeks to hash out various features and policies, such as how the company is conducting its continuous delivery model. "Fast IT isn't good enough -- you need quality, resiliency, compliance and security," he says.
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By evaluating your estimate for potential problems ahead of time and developing strategies to address them, you’ll improve your chances of having a successful project.
You've completed your take-off, entered the job quotes, applied profit, overhead, and taxes to your estimate, and you believe you've accounted for everything. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. The questions you have to ask yourself are, Where will the project go awry, and what can you do as the estimator to reduce the possibility of the project coming in at a loss? Risk assessment estimating is the best weapon you have against project catastrophes, as long as you follow these steps:
Determine the advisability of the project.
As you evaluate the project, it's possible to forget the most important question: Should you undertake it at all? But answering that question requires you to address other issues first. Will the work disrupt or interfere with other business operations? Is your present organization properly trained and equipped to take on this project? Do you have access to a sufficient number of trained electricians? Is your present stock of tools and equipment adequate for this type of project? Are there other electrical contracting firms available who can more expeditiously handle the work? Once you've convinced yourself it's advisable to tackle this project, you must identify the potential risks you will face in doing so.
Identify your risks.
All of your risks may not be apparent when you first analyze the project, so it's worth your time to review job cost records for similar projects. Familiarize yourself with the problems that plagued earlier projects. For example, if you plan to outsource part of the project or use a specific supplier, talk to project managers who have used these resources in the past. It's also a good practice to attend project management meetings and note field problems for use in future estimates.
There are numerous ways to identify risk. You should review the tasks and history of similar projects. Brainstorm and discuss the project with your estimating team. Consult with project managers within your company that have run similar projects and identify problems they encountered. Most importantly, review the schedule.
During your review, look for areas that could eventually lead to problems. Identify tasks for which your company has no expertise. It's likely you'll underestimate the duration and cost estimates for these tasks. Ask yourself how consistent your estimates have been in the past. Be careful with duration and cost estimates that are aggressive. You should also take note of tasks for which you have limited resources. Take special note of tasks with several predecessors. The more dependencies a task has, the greater the likelihood of a delay. And don't overlook time-consuming tasks that require a lot of resources. The larger the task, the more likely the estimate will be inaccurate.
If you're a small company, additional project costs or delays may put your entire company at risk. If you're a large company, some overruns and delays may be acceptable. But no matter what size company you have, make sure you write down some hard numbers. How much cost and delay is acceptable? Remember, this isn't your preference, it's just the bottom-line number your company can tolerate. A smaller company may be able to accept a tolerance level equal to profit, whereas a larger company may accept profit plus several thousand dollars.
Assign a probability to each risk.
Use historical job cost data to determine the likelihood of each risk. There are programs designed to compare bidding history against your current estimate. Using one of these programs can help isolate potential problem areas in the estimate. Next, determine the likelihood of your company taking a loss on a given project. For example, if your company historically incurs losses 40% of the time it undergoes a particular task, flag that task as a risk. Based on these numbers, set a percentage level at which a task will be considered risky.
If you don't know the cost of a task or you're estimating a smaller project, use the same process, but insert the total profit and total labor dollars for the project in the formula. Compare this amount with the tolerance level (in dollars) you calculated above. If your risk cost is more than your tolerance level, you'll need to adjust your bottom line or pass on the project. The more profit you've built into the project, the less likely the risk cost will reach your tolerance level.
Let's look at an example. Assume you're estimating a project that includes a power distribution system, fire alarm system, and security system. You've calculated a tolerance level of $5,000. Job cost records reflect you've suffered losses of more than 40% on both the fire alarm and security systems in the past. You estimate profit on the fire alarm system to be $3,400 and labor costs to be $9,200. Your estimated profit for the security system is $2,800 with labor costs of $7,400. Your total profit estimate is $6,200, and your total labor cost is $16,600. Plugging these numbers into the formula yields:
Now that you have this priority list, what is the project manager supposed to do with it? As the project progresses, he or she should review job cost records and note problems at project management meetings. From this feedback, you can develop new estimating procedures to limit potential risks.
With a little preplanning, thought, and communications with project management, you can significantly decrease the risk to your future projects through risk assessment estimating.
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Cyberattacks against smart cars, smart homes, and other smart devices are happening today, so it is easy to jump to the conclusion that we will soon be reading about smart buildings and smart cities being attacked.
I have to admit I have become somewhat desensitized to the topic of cyber-attacks against infrastructure. Maybe it’s because I see the industry and media classifying the security of smart infrastructure under the topic of securing the Internet of Things. When I hear about IoT attacks, it just hasn’t been personal enough for me to get fired up.
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Congress is gearing up for another run at passing encryption laws that proponents say will allow U.S. law enforcement to do its job and security experts say will make everyone’s communications less safe.
The big picture: As companies like Facebook and Apple encrypt more of their platforms by default, U.S. authorities fear the world is “going dark” on them. The consensus is stronger than ever among security experts, human rights advocates and the industry that weakening encryption hurts everyone.
Driving the news: Last week, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, which would force makers of devices, platforms and apps to create backdoors so law enforcement can access communications and metadata on these platforms and crack devices open as well.
“Tech companies’ increasing reliance on encryption has turned their platforms into a new, lawless playground of criminal activity,” said Cotton in a statement accompanying the bill’s announcement.
According to the proposed law, use of these access capabilities, for both criminal and national security investigations, would require a warrant. But mandating potential backdoors in popular messaging apps like WhatsApp would uniformly weaken these platforms’ security, say experts.
The bill is a “full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in all its forms,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
Be smart: Data is either encrypted or it’s not. The creation of a vulnerability for use by U.S. law enforcement provides opportunities for malign foreign states like Russia and China as well as cybercriminal groups.
The catch: Critics argue the bill would be unlikely to fulfill its stated objective — making it easier for U.S. law enforcement to access encrypted communications among criminals, terrorists and spies.
Sophisticated malign actors like terrorists and child predators will move their communications onto bespoke encrypted platforms or burrow into the dark web.
And technologically savvy, privacy-concerned Americans may be able to simply procure encrypted messaging platforms produced outside of the U.S. in places where strong encryption isn’t functionally outlawed.
Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act would also force device manufacturers to create backdoors, for instance on iPhones. These devices are used extensively all over the world, so the bill could expose device holders globally to potential surveillance — and much worse — by bad actors.
“You are creating a world where criminals have better security than law-abiding citizens do,” says Pfefferkorn.
The intrigue: Pfefferkorn believes that the act’s backers aim to make another bill that could weaken encryption, the EARN IT Act, appear more reasonable. Both should be rejected, she argues.
The EARN IT Act aims to curb child exploitation online by tying changes to liability protections for tech platforms to government-mandated “best practices” that could involve back-door requirements.
Wednesday morning, Graham introduced a substantial modification to the bill, and its provisions appear to be in flux.
The state of play: The debate over encryption has smoldered and flared periodically for decades, with government authorities — led, today, by Attorney General William Barr — insisting on their need for access and security experts warning that backdoors harm everyone.
But this time around, the encryption push is not even uniformly supported within federal law enforcement circles.
“It is time for governmental authorities — including law enforcement — to embrace encryption because it is one of the few mechanisms that the United States and its allies can use to more effectively protect themselves from existential cybersecurity threats, particularly from China,” wrote former FBI general counsel Jim Baker in an important essay in Lawfare earlier this year.
My thought bubble: Thus far, the “lawful access” debate has centered on how encryption affects law enforcement. But its impact on U.S. intelligence agencies has flown almost entirely under the radar.
Spying is being transformed in the digital age. Governments still view human intelligence-gathering as essential, but ubiquitous interception, tracking and surveillance technologies have made it more complex than ever.
Intelligence officers need to be able to communicate securely without harming sources. Asking those sources to use bespoke covert communications tools could endanger them.
Consequently, America’s spies have turned to “hiding in plain sight,” integrating their espionage tradecraft into mundane digital life, where it’s less likely to be noticed by adversaries or endanger sources. This likely includes using strongly encrypted, commercially available apps and devices for communications. Compromising that tech would also compromise their intelligence work.
The bottom line: So far, the Department of Justice and domestic U.S. law enforcement agencies have dominated the “lawful access” debate. Intelligence agencies, loath to reveal sources and methods, have said nothing publicly.
But this is one instance where greater transparency from the U.S. intelligence community may make us all — including America’s own spies — safer.
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place to protect customer data. A recent Ponemon Institute report found that cloud providers don't think that's their job.
A shocking 73 percent of U.S. service providers and 75
of Cloud Computing Providers report from the Ponemon Institute. Nearly 62 percent of U.S. providers and 63 percent of European providers were not confident that their cloud applications and resources were secure. Approximately 69 percent of cloud providers in the survey didn't believe securing the data was their responsibility. Just 16 percent of cloud providers felt security should be a shared responsibility. Vendors told
infrastructure or platform, the report found. On average, providers allocated 10 percent or less of their resources to address security. The findings weren't entirely grim. Over 81 percent of cloud
before deployment. More organizations and vendors should be sharing responsibility for security, Ponemon said.
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The MIRC Anonymizers (both DICOM and XML) have the ability to remap certain elements containing PHI to unique values in such a way that if the same PHI is encountered again, the same substitute values are supplied. The remapper keeps track of the correspondence between the PHI and the substitute values in a simple database. To keep the PHI from being visible to an unauthorized person, it is encrypted in the database. The cipher uses a key which can be configured for the specific remapper or left as a default value which is built in to the remapper code.
For security, the remapping database, which is located in the storage service's trial directory in a file called idtable.properties, should not be accessible on the network. The MIRC software refuses to serve that file from any location on the server, but it is possible that anyone with privileges to see that directory on the system - not to mention a hacker - can find the file. If this is a concern, it is wise to use a unique encryption key rather than the default. When doing this, it is important not to allow the key to be compromised. One way to avoid compromising the key is to write it in a file stored on a removable medium like a CD-ROM or a USB key, plug the medium into the system, start MIRC (which will read the file on startup), then remove the medium and store it in a safe place. This article describes how to configure MIRC to implement this process.
An encryption key is stored in a keyfile as a text string. To create a keyfile, run the KeyMaker application, click the Make a Random Key button, and then click the Save the Key button and save the keyfile in a file outsite the Tomcat directory tree. The default key length is 128 bits. This is the maximum allowed by U.S. export regulations. You can create larger keys, but to do so, you must install the unlimited cipher configuration in Java. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, you shouldn't bother.
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When you first install a new release, it will be configured to use the default key. After starting Tomcat, go to the storage service's admin page, click the Update Configuration button in the DICOM Service column and look for the part of the page that shows the Central Remapper Parameters. In the External key file field, enter the fully qualified path to the keyfile, for example, X:\keyfile.storageservicename. (If this field is left blank, the system uses the default key.) Click the "Update trial.xml" button at the bottom of the page and then restart Tomcat. The system loads the key from the keyfile when it starts, so you can remove the keyfile's medium once Tomcat has restarted. Do not lost the key or you will lose access to the remapping database.
Whenever Tomcat starts, it initializes the remapper and checks to see if the supplied key is the one used for the database. If the database has no PHI entries, it will allow the key to be changed; otherwise, the initialization will fail. Thus, you must change to the final value of the key before using the remapper.
Each storage service has its own remapper with its own database, and each remapper can have its own key.
If the system fails to initialize the IdTable with whatever key it has been configured to use, it puts an entry in the logs in the Tomcat/logs directory and it also displays the error in the Show Log listing on the storage service's admin page. If the initialization was successful, it just puts a message in the Show Log listing, not the Tomcat logs.
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Security and society's litigious bent combine to make airlines unsuited for figuring out the best place to put a suspected explosive device discovered during a flight, AirTran Airways tells the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). Commenting on a proposed rule that would require, among other things, designation of a "least risk bomb location" (LRBL) -- the place on an aircraft where a bomb would do the least damage if it exploded -- AirTran engineering director Rick Shideler says it's hard for airlines to get aircraft design information related to such a location because of agreements between manufacturers and the Homeland Security Department. I'd never heard of an LRBL before, but the FAA has public proposed guidelines on them. Apparently flight crews are trained to stash suspicious objects there.
But liability seems to be getting in the way of security and common sense here. It seems reasonable that an airline's engineering director should be allowed to understand the technical reasoning behind the choice of LRBL, and maybe even give the manufacturer feedback on it.
All planes have a designated area where potentially dangerous packages should be placed. Usually it's in the back, adjacent to a door. There are a slew of procedures to be followed if an explosive device is found on board: depressurizing the plane, moving the item to the LRBL, and bracing/smothering it with luggage and other dense materials so that the force of the blast is directed outward, through the door.
DHS is against giving out the one place a bomb would be least effective, since that would increase the knowledge of terrorist plotters, letting them know the worst place for their bomb to be put.
Designate the safest 1% of the volume, and that reduces the enemy's ignorance from 100% to 99%. That's a whopping 0.044 dB improvement.
"I may be looking at something and making it too simple but wouldn't the 'LRBL' be somewhere not on the plane? Can't we design planes so a reasonably sized object can be ejected through some kind of air lock hatch? Assuming you aren't flying over a densely populated area.... THAT would be the 'LRBL.'"
At a guess, the ejection system would be far riskier to include in the aircraft design than the residual risk of a bomb exploding.
When was the last time a flight attendant had to stash an actual bomb on the plane? A fake bomb? Has this ever actually happend? (My guess is that it has, although very rarely.)
I've got this image of some kind of game-theoretic response here....
Terrorist: (stands and produces hand grenade) "Everyone stay where you are, or I will blow this plane up for Allah."
Counter-terrorist: (calculates payoff matrix, rolls dice to decide strategy, stands, produces hand grenade, and pulls out pin) "No, *I* will blow this plane up."
ARM • April 20, 2007 4:57 PM
While the idea of a designated "least risk bomb location" seems pretty good, I'm curious as to how such a thing would work, and under what circumstances it would be used.
It would have to be pretty easily accessable, so that a flight crew lacking in EOD training could get the thing in there easily. And wouldn't also need some way of securing the device? It seems to me that they'd almost have to have been designed into the plane from the get-go.
A google of that phrase find s "line training manuals". "3. What is the least risk bomb location on the MD90 aircraft?
- The right forward service door."
Since every flight crew for every airline in the world will have to know this, one couldn't really believe a terrorist would not know it as well. Ian Mason • April 20, 2007 6:31 PM
Several people have made the assumption that knowing the least harmful place for a bomb would offer an attacker some useful information. Aside from the fact that this offers a small, probably tiny, reduction in the set of 'places to stick a bomb', any half decent undergraduate mechanical engineer could look at few photos of a plane and tell you where to stick a bomb to cause a catastrophic structural failure. Moreover there isn't one suitable place there are many.
There's probably only one LRBL, maybe two or three, depending on the type of the aircraft, but as Ian Mason pointed out: there are way more places to place a bomb to cause strucural damage.
So, if someone finds a device and calls it a bomb because it has the letters "bmob" written on it, the probability that it lies at the LRBL is very low even if you have several of it. The number of MRBLs will outnumber them by several magnitudes.
That means, that it has to be moved. I don't think it is a good idea to move something you think might be a bomb. The bombsquad does it from time to time, if blowing it up might do to much damage to something very expensive in the neighbourhood. But they put that bomb in a small vault where it can explode inside and all you get is a bang and a small puff of smoke---they don't lean it at the door of a flying plane and hope for the best.
There might be situations where the knowledge of a LRBL is usefull, but I doubt it's with a bomb.
"but can't find out why the locations were chosen, "or even who specifically picked them," because of liability laws."
The problem isn't finding where the locations are; it is the airlines want to know *why* they are the LRBL and *who chose* those locations, to protect themselves in the event of.
I guess you asume too much here.
At first: the LRBL is not a safe place do detonate a bomb of any size. It may be safe for a small leftover from the 4th of July, but not for anything significantly larger. It only reduces the change that the bomb causes catastrophic failure of the plane's structure. I am not an aviation-engineer but I think that place reduces the risk of a fatal end only for some points, maybe from 99% to 98%, which also depends heavily on the size of the bomb.
Even the aformentioned firecracker is able to cause a fatal damage if it is placed correctly but there is of course a upper limit. I don't know how much exactly but I'm quite sure that 2 kilo C4 will wreck the plane no mater where you place it.
> and it may or may not have a device, that triggers the bomb when it is moved.
You assume something complicated here, but that's very rarely the case. If you move a handgrenade that has it's ring attached to the ground with some thin and nearly invisible thread like a fishing line you have a problem if you are for example in a flying plane.
If the normal procedure is, that anything that somebody called a bomb will be moved to the LRBL the chance is very high, that it will be moved. Attaching a fishing line is way simpler than building a timer and you can safely trigger the bomb by just calling the airline.
To make my point more clear: it's not the LRBL in and of itself but the procedure. The LRBL alone, especially if the exact place is kept secret (time may matter) can be called neutral, but only to avoid the more fitting expression "useless". So what's the exact procedure if somebody finds something and calls it a bomb?
An LRBL makes sense when it is really a safe place to detonate a bomb, like a box padded with kevlar with the lid directed to a place of the plane where ist is more or less safe to blast a hole into. Even better if you can move the box itself to upend it over the suspicious packet, makes five directions a bit safer. Main disadvantage of course is the fixed size of the box.
But there are a lot of things that are not bombs but are to dangerous to transport them anywhere in a plane and are found only when it is to late to store them outside of the plane, so a LRBL is definitly not useless for such things if the pace is public and carefully marked as such (as I said above: time may matter). But it is useless as a secret place for things that might be bombs and have a procedure in place that all such things have to be moved to that place. That means too, that you can smuggle several small bombs onboard (be carefull to write "contains bomb" in large bright letters on it and don't forget to call the airline) which will be joined at one place by the personnel onboard.
But the publication, that there are LRBLs determined and try to give you the impression that they are safe to store bombs is pure and utter security theater. Depending on the procedure in place it is also dangerous.
Least risk bomb location? That's a good one.
It is amazing what nonsense people will buy into for the illusion of security and safety. It has been proven how ineffective airport security has been time and time again, yet air travelers still submit to it to calm their own fears.
Now the concept that you could find a bomb and move it to a safe location within the plane sounds like pure Hollywood to me.
i've heard of brown ice coming down from the sky, just put the bomb in the same place the brown ice comes from and jettison it. AJ Finch • April 23, 2007 6:50 AM
Designating a "Least Risk" location / procedure for use in an airborne aircraft is not security theatre. It may or may not be effective, but it is certainly not theatre. Imagine being the captain of an airliner where a possible bomb has just been discovered. What would you do? You must assume that: you cannot jettison it, you have no handy kevlar boxes, you have no local bomb-disposal expert. Preparing for a very bad (an unlikely) situation in a case where you have very little room for manouevre is not going to yield stunningly wonderful solutions, so don't dis the airlines for making the best of a bad job. At least they're trying to do the Right Thing. I suspect that the strategy of using a LRBL has been driven by aircrew. These are the people whose lives are on the line... unlike the security guards groundside who are telling you to toss your drinking water. khaled habib • April 23, 2007 7:18 AM
During the last few weeks i was searching to gain information might assist me for my draft concerning security and security in air .LRBL was very interesting positive ant-terror procedures should implemented for all aircraft. What made me amazing is the fact of no aircraft manufactures think in away to have the potential bomb eject from the plan during operation, which is very high-tech but worthy! Wish to provide us at lately designed methods concerning this which is very important for allllll .and wish to not be utilizes as well
Mark • April 23, 2007 7:57 AM
"The designation of a "least risk bomb location" is nothing new. I'm not sure if this is the best place for a bomb. Since the last thing you want is something solid heading in the direction of the tail. On many airliners an explosion in the passenger cabin is less dangerous than one in the cargo hold. Because of the way loads are carried in flight. Exceptions would be aircraft with a high mounted wing, such as the 146.
Stephan Samuel • April 23, 2007 10:13 AM
LRBL works on the assumption that all bombs will be found before detonation. I've not carefully studied aircraft terrorism history, but I believe most previous cases went off before detection.
If you publish the LRBL, potential terrorists know one place they shouldn't put a bomb. If you don't publish it, they need to have someone "on staff" with enough knowledge of where to put the bomb.
What's going on here is that either: a) someone doesn't know enough about this stuff to make intelligent decisions, or b) a skilled anti-bomb expert's expertise is being wasted trying to save one out of a million flyers when there are a dozen people getting blown up in Iraq daily. Maybe reprioritization is in order?
The LRBL doesn't really "work" at all. It's simply an answer to a question. The question is, "If we find a bomb on an airplane, what should we do?"
The basic answer is of course "It doesn't matter, you're screwed". The LRBL is a slightly more refined answer, namely "If you put the bomb in this place, your chances of survival improve a little".
That those chances are going up from 1% to 1.05% doesn't really matter. It's still better than doing nothing.
If you do not know anything about the bomb and you do not even know if it is a bomb you get a slightly higher chance of survival if it is a bomb and if it explodes at the LRBL and a slightly lower chance if it explodes when moved.
So the overall result is, that the LRBL is useless for things which might be bombs or are bombs.
But the LRBL is quite usefull for dangerous materials which are known, e.g. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... If you know that these things are save to move, move it to the LRBL but do not touch them otherwise.
> If not this answer, then what? What do you tell people who say "We found a bomb in our airplane, what do we do now?"
If you are sure that it is a bomb, you might already know what to do with it, e.g. if it is save to move.
But that is rarely the case (I don't know any case, but my personal memories are not statistically significant), the number of false positives is several magnitudes higher than the number of false negatives. So it is most probably not a bomb. Can it be savely moved than? You don't know that for sure, so the correct answer for your question is in most cases[1] "Don't touch it, help is on the way."
Regarding the "dense material" covering the bomb in the LRBL; I think the passengers would be better served if the crew placed bags of water on/around the explosive device.
I remember seeing a detonation experiment in College. The instructor placed a thin wafer of high explosive (about the size/shape of a quarter) on a block of steel, and laid a section of 2X4 on top of the wafer. After the detonation, the steel had a 4" diameter spall (dome-shaped section) blown from the bottom, and a hole in the top about the size of the wafer - the 2X4 had disappeared. The instructor opened the blast door and pointed to the walls of the chamber, which were covered with large railroad ties. A small portion of the board directly above the explosive had vaporized; the remaining pieces were embedded in the ties, like so many deadly toothpick sized projectiles.
Most of the blast energy tends to travel through the denser material it is in contacet with. Put something just as dense in the way (luggage), and you get shrapnel. Put a water wall in the way (trash bags of water), and you - hopefully - just get wet.
They plan to use water to dissipate the deadly blowback from shoulder-launched rockets (Future Weapons, Discovery Channel.) Might work on an explosive device as well.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/least_risk_bomb.html
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In the latest edition of our Legal Talk Network Digital Detectives podcast, John and I were lucky to snag guest Brian Wommack, who leads the strategic communications practice of Cameron LLP, often advising on high-profile and high-stakes matters including cyber intrusion and data breach contingency planning and response.
Brian knows a lot about how to manage the crisis of a data breach so we had a very interesting conversation, including a discussion of the DLA Piper breach.
Brian talks about the common mistakes he sees made post-breach, the right way to handle a bad situation and how to draft a contingency plan that details how you would tell your clients – and others – about a data breach.
If you haven't given a lot of thought to planning for the aftermath of a law firm data breach, this is an illuminating podcast.
E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 703-359-0700
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https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2017/08/podcast-crisis-management-after-a-data-breach.html
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Have you seen this little "toys out of the pram" response to the SCADA .lnk attack vector incident, "Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the Nationa Security Agency, said Thursday [in his keynote speach at Blackhat] that one solution being discussed in government is to simply forget about trying to determine if the source of an attack is state-sponsored and hold nations responsible for malicious activity coming from their cyberspace. "Asked later for examples of what the consequences to a nation migh be, he suggested some kind of cyberexile, or a response that would thwart the flow of the internet from the suspect country in a way tha would slow their cybercommerce and ability to communicate"
[From Wired at http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/... ]
I know he works for Michael Chertoff (ex head of DHS) in the "Chertoff Group" these days so he is tard with the "war hawk" brush. But with comments like, “Since the price of entry is so low, and … it’s difficult to prove state sponsorship, one of the thoughts … is to just be uninterested in that distinction and to actually hold states responsible for that activity emanating from their cyberspace" “Whether you did [the attack yourself] or not, the consequences for that action [coming from your country] are the same.”
"86 percent of all breaches last year could have been prevented if victim companies had simply looked for unusual paterns in the log files created by their web servers."
Further they report that 85 percent of the breaches involved common configuration errors or weaknesses and did not require the exploitation of a flaw that could be fixed with a software patch. And apparently not one incident was reported where a patchable vulnerability was exploited...
Opps... so the use of an Open Source web vunerability scanner, to pick up the config errors and likewise an Open Source log file analyser would have prevented by far the majority of the reported attacks in 09...
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/friday_squid_bl_243.html
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European football club Manchester United disclosed on late Friday a cyber-security incident that impacted its internal systems.
The football club said it’s still investigating the incident and couldn’t say if the breach allowed the intruders to access data associated with fans or store customers.
While the club remained tight-lipped about what hackers managed to access, they said the incident didn’t impact its primary media channels, such as its website and mobile apps.
“All critical systems required for matches to take place at Old Trafford remain secure and operational and tomorrow’s game against West Bromwich Albion will go ahead,” club officials said in a press release issued late Friday night.
United officials said they detected and took swift actions to contain the attack, which minimized its impact. The club says it’s now working with security experts to investigate the incident and minimize the IT disruption. Manchester police was also notified of the incident.
Manchester United is the second major UK club to disclose a major security breach. In July 2018, a hacker accessed FC Liverpool’s IT network and collected data on the club’s fans.
But Man-U and Liverpool aren’t alone. Other UK football clubs were also targeted by spear-phishing attacks and BEC scammers looking to hijack club payments, according to a report published by the UK National Cyber Security Centre in July this year.
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https://www.abijita.com/manchester-united-football-club-discloses-cyber-security-breach/
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>c:\tmp\gripset.exe\data011 - Ok
>c:\tmp\gripset.exe\data012 is adware program Adware. SaveNow >c:\tmp\gripset.exe - archive contains infected objects
Scan report for "c:\tmp\gripset.exe":
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http://www.downloadroute.com/Gaming-CD-Ripper-Gaming-CD-Ripper/antivirus_report.html
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LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to run rampant, Attorney General Dana Nessel is reminding citizens of scams and price-gouging cases that could also result in stolen personal information.
To date, Nessel’s office has received around 4,400 price-gouging complaints. Most complaints relate to grocery items, face masks and sanitizers. However, in recent weeks, complaints reported are appearing to slow down.
For the month of June, there was only an increase of about 2.6 percent in complaints filed with the office, from a total of 4,279 on June 1 to 4,391 on June 30. On May 1, the total was 3,756, while April 1’s total was 2,506. However, an undetermined number of duplicate complaints were discovered in late April that caused the total number to decrease as staffers removed them from the system.
While the rate at which complaints are filed appears to be decreasing, the total number of complaints received is substantially higher than last year. In 2019, the Attorney General’s office received a total of 80 price-gouging complaints. More than half of these were against either gas stations or propane suppliers.
Action to follow up on the complaints is taken when possible, though some of the complaints filed this year do not warrant further investigation. Nessel says that many reports do not contain enough information to verify the complaints as legitimate.
As a result, consumers are encouraged to file a complaint online with the Attorney General’s office so that the complaint contains as much information as needed to properly evaluate a response.
COVID-19 Medicare/Medicaid: Nessel warned of scammers claiming to be from at least two local public health departments who were calling residents to offer medication and at-home COVID-19 tests while asking for Medicaid and Medicare numbers for billing purposes. Incoming calls were jamming local health departments’ phone lines, delaying important responses to COVID-19.
Door-to-Door Scammers: In an effort to be proactive, Nessel warned residents of door-to-door scammers who may have tried to pose as government officials offering information on stimulus checks, unemployment benefits or other programs and services in place during the pandemic.
Stimulus Check Scam: A consumer alert and press release were issued urging Michiganders to be on high alert for bad actors aiming to coerce them out of their personal information in a federal stimulus payment scam. To steal personal information, scammers were using the news that the federal government would be sending one-time payments to millions of people across the country as part of an economic relief response to COVID-19.
The Attorney General’s office has also joined or led a number of multistate efforts to protect consumers across the country during the pandemic.
Nessel signed on to a letter to Google and Apple June 16 calling for the companies to ensure all contact tracing and exposure notification apps related to COVID-19 adequately protect consumers’ personal information.
In a letter sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on April 13, Nessel and a coalition of attorneys general argued that consumers need to be fully protected during the pandemic, and that the CFPB needs to step up enforcement, not back down, as banks and reporting agencies implement the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act) and otherwise tend to consumers’ credit reports. A follow-up letter was sent in late April to the nation’s three Consumer Reporting Agencies warning those organizations that the attorneys general will not hesitate to enforce safeguards set in place to ensure consumers’ credit is properly protected and accurately reported.
Nessel led a coalition of attorneys general from across the country in sending a letter to Congress on April 22 asking lawmakers to temporarily control the prices of medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 had resulted in widespread shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) like face masks, gloves and gowns for not only hospitals and health care providers, but also federal, state, local and tribal governments.
These are only a few of the actions Attorney General Nessel has taken to help Michiganders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click here to view more information on Nessel’s consumer protection efforts and other actions taken by the Attorney General.
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/attorney-general-dana-nessel-reminds-citizens-of-covid-19-scams-and-price-gouging-news-coronavirus-scams-covid19/
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By Glenn L. Melton on September 5, 2022 Network security
There has been big news on the telecoms security front over the past week, with mobile and fixed operators now facing hefty daily fines if they continue to be careless with their customers’ data. Enterprise technology journalist Antony Savvas reflects on the growing threat to the bottom line of communications service providers (CSPs).
Under the amended UK Telecommunications (Security) Act (TSA), companies are now liable to fines of up to 10% of their annual turnover or £100,000 (€115,700) per day, if they fail to protect not entirely the networks of their customers. Given that telecom operators are already subject to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) of the European Union, the UK government is obviously concerned that more needs to be done to ensure that telephone networks are properly secured.
Government trend
It’s a government trend in the phone protection space, given that the US government has taken the initiative to ensure that many developed countries lock down Huawei and other Chinese companies in their 5G telecommunications market, on claimed potential “espionage” threats. The tastes of Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung and NEC benefited from this decision, but when it comes to deploying specific security capabilities, telecom operators cannot simply switch to a government-approved provider, they must pay for it.
The UK’s new security requirements suggest that telecoms operators are not doing enough to properly secure their networks, and other countries may well be considering introducing similar rules.
Telcos used to have to decide on the appropriate network security for their business, much like any other organization. But with telephone networks now seen as a prime means for disbelievers or hostile states to seriously harm a national economy or its political system, the UK’s move is perhaps predictable. Indeed, in the UK Government’s Telecoms Supply Chain Review, published in 2019, it was argued that “providers often have little incentive to adopt security best practices”.
“We know how damaging cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can be, and our broadband and mobile networks are central to our way of life,” said Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman. “We are strengthening the protections of these vital networks by introducing one of the toughest telecommunications security regimes in the world, which secures our communications against current and future threats.”
A deep understanding
The regulations, drawn up by the UK National Cyber Security Center and national regulator Ofcom, will require mobile operators and Internet service providers (ISPs) to protect the data processed by their networks and services, and to secure the critical functions that enable their operation and management; and protect the software and equipment used to monitor and analyze their networks and services.
They must also have a “thorough understanding” of their security risks and the ability to identify malicious activity when it occurs, with regular reporting to internal guidance. Additionally, they must consider supply chain risks, and understand and control who has the ability to access and alter the operation of their networks and services, to help further strengthen security.
You would have thought that most of these tasks were already done, but with the increasing complexity of modern networks and the number of third-party providers used to ensure that services are delivered and continue to be delivered, there is nothing such as hefty fines to try to ensure everything is done correctly.
More investment
Dan Middleton, Vice President for UK and Ireland at a cloud data management company Veeamsaid of the new rules: “While telecom operators were previously responsible for their own security standards, these new regulations draw attention to the need for greater investment in cybersecurity by telecom companies and give the ‘Ofcom the right to impose fines on those who do not comply.
“One way to deliver better data protection within the industry is to have a comprehensive business continuity strategy, which will include resiliency measures and backup and disaster recovery plans, to give operators telecommunications companies the ability to recover data and continue operations as usual in the event of an attack.”
TechMarketView Simon Baxter, analyst, adds: “As internet availability is essential for businesses and home workers, any downtime can lead to significant disruption and loss of business. These regulations are an important step in securing our digital supply chains and making organizations more resilient to increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
Satellite developments
As operators seek to improve their security, satellites are proving increasingly valuable in expanding their customer base. Satellite-based IoT (Internet of Things) specialist, Wild networks has signed a strategic partnership with the Swiss IoT sensor supplier miromico. Miromico will assist Wyld in the design, engineering and manufacturing of its next generation of low-power, low-power, long-range networking (LoRaWAN) terminals and modules designed for IoT applications in areas where there is little or no existing connectivity.
Wyld Connect hybrid devices can transfer data directly to terrestrial networks or via a network of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Miromico will resell Wyld Connect devices and satellite services. Wyld will promote and resell Miromico sensors globally and integrate them into complete end-to-end, sensor-to-satellite solutions.
“Wyld is at the forefront of new sensor-to-satellite technology, which is expected to massively transform the IoT market, currently held back by the lack of global connectivity,” said Marcel Wappler, Chief Technology Officer at Miromico.
Wyld is already working on commercial data trials of its sensor-to-satellite service with customers and partners, including Chevron, DFM Technologies, DEWA, Senet and American Tower.
The scent of musk
T-Mobile United States also participates in the satellite’s extended footprint act by climbing into bed with the world’s richest man. by Elon Musk SpaceX has signed a LEO satellite constellation connectivity agreement with the telecommunications operator, which promises to fill the mobile coverage gaps in the American continent and its territories.
The agreement will allow T-Mobile customers to receive Stellar Link internet services directly to their existing devices, from anywhere they can see the sky, whether on land or sea. While texts and other messaging services will initially be available, the plan is to expand eventually connectivity to full voice and data services, and to other parts of the world through future roaming agreements.
“This is about solving the biggest problem in our industry’s more than 40-year history,” said Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile US. “This partnership has a vision that is the end of mobile dead zones.”
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https://abetterillinois.org/get-your-phone-network-security-right-or-else-vanillamore/
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., (Oct. 28, 2015) — With the increasing use of technology and data in education, National PTA’s board of directors adopted a new position statement on student data privacy and security during its October board meeting. The statement calls for the promotion of policies that maintain the confidentiality of student information and ensure families have appropriate notification and consent for what and how children’s data is collected and used.
“Technology and data are powerful tools to improve teaching and learning, but at the same time, it is imperative that students’ academic and personal information is protected,” said Laura Bay, president of National PTA. “It is a top priority of National PTA to make certain that children’s data is safeguarded and that families are informed and engaged in the process.”
National PTA also urges school districts to designate a privacy and security officer to ensure compliance with privacy law as well as coordinate professional development for teachers, principals and any school employee or official who handles student data.
The association believes that federal laws—including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)—must be modernized to protect electronic student profiles and the collection of information gathered online. PTA calls for Congress to also address the growing use of online service providers to make sure there are adequate parameters around the collection, storage, security, dissemination and destruction of student data.
“Data is critical to assess learning, guide instruction to better meet the needs of students and measure how well a school is performing. State departments of education and local districts also collect and aggregate data to help guide policy decisions and plan budgets,” added Shannon Sevier, vice president of advocacy for National PTA. “Guaranteeing the effective use of students’ data to support educational outcomes while keeping this information protected remains paramount.”
In addition to adopting the position statement, National PTA recently collaborated with the Future of Privacy Forum and ConnectSafely to develop a free, digital guide to help parents understand the laws that protect student data as well as students’ and parents’ rights under the laws.
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https://www.pta.org/home/About-National-Parent-Teacher-Association/PTA-Newsroom/news-list/news-detail-page/2016/11/15/National-PTA-Board-of-Directors-Adopts-Position-Statement-on-Student-Data-Privacy-and-Security
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For years, urban legend held that Macs were immune to malware and viruses. Whether the extremely low rate of virus infections could be attributed to the platform’s genuine immunity or lack of hacker interest in assailing Apple computers when Windows systems offered such a large attack target, it’s simply not true: Macs are not immune, as demonstrated this past weekend by a ransomware program called KeRanger. On March 7, Apple Corporation informed nearly 7,000 Mac users that their machines had been infected through a tainted copy of Transmission, a popular program for transferring data through the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Ryan Olson, Palo Alto Threat Intelligence Director, told Reuters that, “This is the first one (ransomware infection) in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom.” While Kaspersky Lab discovered another ransomware attack for OS X in 2014, the program, called FileCoder, was “incomplete at the time of its discovery” making KeRanger the first fully functional ransomware for Mac.
Once installed on the host machine, KeRanger remains dormant for three days, then encrypts all files on the device and demands a ransom. Additionally, KeRanger attempts to encrypt files created by the Time Machine application to prevent data recovery.
Apple has revoked the digital certificate of the Apple developer that inadvertently installed KeRanger and the Mac user community has most certainly breathed a sigh of relief. But that sense of relief is premature.
As the number of Macs in the enterprise increases, the number of malware infections is also likely to increase. Formerly ignored, Macs represent a lucrative new market for ransomware exploits. The issue is compounded by the fact that many Mac users believe their devices are immune to malware or that hackers are not interested in targeting the small Mac segment in a sea of Windows devices. In 2014, security firm Symantec Corp reported some 8.8 million attacks on Windows devices in 2014 alone. Today marks a new chapter as Mac users find their operating systems also in the crosshairs of threat actors.
While the KeRanger infection was relatively small and quickly remediated, Mac users can count on future ransomware attacks targeting Apple’s devices. With KeRanger still actively being developed and the growing adoption of Mac devices in the enterprise, enterprise IT must find backup solutions that work across platforms, affording Macs the same protection as Windows devices. With continuous endpoint backup in place, end users will have the ability to recover files stored on endpoints—and the enterprise will never pay a ransom.
To learn more about how endpoint backup can protect the data on enterprise Macs, download the market brief Securing & Enabling the Mac-Empowered Enterprise.
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https://blog.code42.com/make-macs-immune-to-ransomware-with-endpoint-backup/
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.in – It is one of the domains names, which is basically a country name.
Other domain names are .com (commercial organization), .net (network domain) etc.
(The organization address and location of the organization address are known as the domain name).
co.in –suffix or global domain name shows the type of organization address and the origin of the country like the suffix co.in indicates a company in India.
Generally a web browser connects to the web server and retrieves the information. Each web server contains the IP address, and once you are connected to the web server by using http, it reads the hyper text mark-up language (HTML) which is a language used to create document on World Wide Web and the same document is displayed in the web browser.
In short, a browser is an application that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Internet Explorer:It is known as Microsoft Internet Explorer in short IE. It comes pre-installed on all Windows computers. It is one of the most popular web browsers and latest edition of IE 11 is available on the Internet. It can be installed with the following: windows operating system like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows Server’s.
Mozilla Firefox: It is a free, open source web browser developed by Mozilla Corporation. It has been said as being stable and safer, less prone to security breaches, viruses, and malware than Microsoft Internet Explorer. The browser can be used in different operating systems like Windows, Linux and Apple MAC operating system etc.
Google Chrome:It is a web browser designed for windows operating system. This browser works on windows vista, windows 7 and windows 8. The chrome can be downloaded and installed for OS X or Linux operating system
Safari:It is web browser developed by Apple Corporation. It is a default web browser of MAC OS X. This browser also works on all windows flavours. Apple maintains a plug-in blacklist that it can remotely update to prevent potentially dangerous or vulnerable plug-ins from running.
Today, web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari are installed on almost all computers. And it is easy to notice the increasing threat coming from online criminals that try to take advantage of web browsers and their vulner- abilities. Because web browsers are used so frequently, it is very important to configure them securely. Often, the web browser that comes with an operating system in a default settings not set up in a secure configuration.
Securing browser is the first step that need to be taken in order to assure secure online protection. There is an increase in number of threats taking advantage of vulnerabilities present in the web browsers through use of malicious websites. This problem is made worse by a number of factors, including the following:
Many computer users are not aware of the click on the web links.
A cookie is used to identify a website user. A cookie is a small piece of text sent to a browser by a website accessed through the browser. It contains information about that visit like remembering the website visited preferred language and other settings. The browser stores this data and uses it in accessing the features of the website or the next time the same site is visited to make the access more personalized. If a website uses cookies for authentication, then an attacker may be able to obtain unauthorized access to that site by obtaining the cookie.
Case 1:Shania visited a movie website and indicated that she is interested in comedies. The cookies sent by the website remembered her choice and when she visited the same website next time, she sees comedies are displayed on the website.
Case 2:When users log in to a Web site, they enter their username and password into a login page and, if they are authenticated, a cookie is saved that allows the Web site to know the users are already logged in as they navigate around the site. This permits them access to any functionality that may be available only to logged-in users, probably the primary use of cookies at this time.
Case 3:Online shopping carts also use cookies. As you browse for DVDs on that movie shopping site, for instance, you may notice that you can add them to your shopping cart without logging in. Your shopping cart doesn’t “forget” the DVDs, even as you hop around from page to page on the shopping site, because they’re preserved through browser cookies. Cookies can be used in online advertising as well, to remember your interests and show you related ads as you surf the web.
Pop-ups:
Pop upsare a small window pane that opens automatically on your browser. Generally, they show advertising, which can be from legitimate company, but also may be scams or dangerous software. It works when certain websites are opened. Pop-up ads can be part of a phishing scam designed to trap you into revealing your personal or financial information as you visit web sites. Pop-ups mislead you to click the buttons on the pop-up window. But sometimes advertisers create a pop-up window that look similar to a close or cancel option so whenever user choose such options the button performs an unexpected action like opening another pop-up window, performing unauthorized commands on your system. Not all pop-ups are bad some web sites use pop-up windows for particular tasks. You might have to view the window in order to complete that task.
Case 4: Sarah was listening music online from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., after some couple of hours later I came across a Pop-up which tells to download the latest songs with only one click. I filled the form displayed in my browser download section. After a month I saw my credit card bill information which is showing some unauthorized charges. I was very upset and surprised, called repeatedly to that particular website where I have downloaded the songs but it was of no use.
Scripts:
Scripts are used to create websites more interactive. It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed. There are specifications in the JavaScript standard that limit certain features such as accessing local files. The same script can be used for inclusion of malicious code which takes control of the web browser there in by allowing to access the files of the system. It may cause damage to the system by accessing the vulnerabilities in the browser.
Case 5: Chintu used to visit at Internet for regular updates for his school work and playing games and listening music. When playing the games I found some news popping about Lady Gaga found dead. When I click on the BBC site a survey dialog is pop out and prompt user to complete a survey form. In the respective survey form it was written “If you are true fan on Lady Gaga” Click for Like Button. As soon as survey completed I returned back to my account homepage and posted the same link for the news to be known for my family and friends.
Plug-ins:
Plug ins is the in-built applications for use in the web browser and Netscape web browser had developed the NPAPI standard for developing plug-ins. Later this standard is used by many web browsers. Plug-ins are same to ActiveX controls but cannot be executed outside of a web browser. Adobe Flash is an example of an application that is available as a plug-in inside the web browser.
Case 6: For example, users may download and install a plug-in like Adobe Flash Player to view a web page which contains a video or an interactive game. But the plugin may be installed with a key logger which captures all the key strokes of the user typing in the browser and send it to the attacker.
Browser Extensions let you add new features to your browser exactly like extending your browser for customising your browser with the features that are mainly important to you. In the other words you can say adding new superpowers to the browser. For example, you may install a currency converter extension that shows up as a new key next to your browser’s address bar. Click the button and it converts all the prices on your present web page into any currency that you give.
Adding more code to the browser also added to security concerns, as it gave attackers more chances to exploit the browser. Because the code was sometimes hidden, extensions were notorious for causing browser crashes as well.
How to secure your Web Browser ?
By default web browser comes with an operating system and it is setup with default configuration which doesn’t have all secure features enabled in it. Not securing web browser leads to problems caused by anything like spyware, malware, viruses, worms etc being installed in to a computer and this may cause intruders to take control over your computer.
There is a raise of threat from software attacks which may take advantage of vulnerable web browsers. Some software of a web browser like java script, Active X etc may also be the cause for the vulnerabilities in the computer system. So it is important to enable security features in your web browser to minimize the risk to the computer.
In order to change settings for Internet Explorer, select Tools.
From the tools menu of Internet explorer select the Internet options and then click on the security tab, check the current security settings and change the settings of security zone as necessary.
To change the security setting under security level move the slider up to increase the security level and down to, medium, and low levels.
The Privacy button contains settings for cookies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer browser by various sites that you visit either directly or indirectly through third party web sites.
From the Advanced button and select override automatic cookie handling. Then select Prompt for both first and third-party cookies. This will prompt you each time a site tries to place a cookie on your machine.
In the tools menu there is an option called tracking protection which protect your information like if some websites try to track your visits to those websites or any of your personal information such information would be stopped. This feature works based on the add-ons we install.
Enable the protected mode by this option all the web sites are opened in protected mode.
Select the advanced tab and select the options as you want like enable “ Use SSL 3.0, Use TLS 1.0 ”
Enable the option tell me if the site I am using is a suspected forgery Firefox gets a fresh update of web forgery sites 48 times in a day, so if you try to visit a fraudulent site that’s pretending to be a site you trust a browser prompts you message and will stop you Disable the option remember passwords for sites Firefox integrated the feature into your surfing experience. Choose to “remember” site passwords without intrusive pop-ups.
Select the advanced tab and enable the encryption tab in order to have a secure data transfer and use SSL 3.0
From the setting menu select the Incognito window a new window appears and pages you view from this window won’t appear in your web browser history or search history and they won’t leave any traces like cookies after you close the incognito window any files you download or bookmarks will be preserved.
Chrome there is a new feature that it has an own Task Manager that shows you how much memory and CPU usage each tab and plug-in is using.
The safe browsing feature in the Google Chrome displays the warning if the web address listed in the certificate doesn't match the address of the website. The following are the steps for a safe browsing setting in Google Chrome :
Phishing ProtectionSafari protects you from fraudulent Internet sites. When you visit a suspicious site, Safari warns you about its suspect nature and prevents the page from loading.
Malware ProtectionSafari recognizes websites that harbour malware before you visit them. If Safari identifies a dangerous page, it warns you about the suspect nature of the site.
Antivirus IntegrationThanks to support for Windows Attachment Monitor, Safari notifies your antivirus software whenever you download a file, image, application, or other item. This al- lows the antivirus software to scan each download for viruses and malware.
Secure EncryptionTo prevent eavesdropping, forgery, and digital tampering, Safari uses encryption technology to secure your web communications. Safari supports the very latest se- curity standards, including SSL versions 2 and 3, Transport Layer Security (TLS), 40- and 128-bit SSL encryption, and signed Java applications.
Automatic UpdatesGet quick, easy access to the latest security updates. Safari takes advantage of Apple Software Update, which checks for the latest versions of Safari when you’re on the Internet.
Pop-Up BlockingBy default, Safari intelligently blocks all unprompted pop-up and pop-under windows, so you can avoid distracting advertisements while you browse.
Cookie BlockingSome companies track the cookies generated by the websites you visit, so they can gather and sell information about your web activity. Safari is the first browser that blocks these tracking cookies by default, better protecting your privacy. Safari ac- cepts cookies only from your current domain.
Always use the secured web browser to avoid the risks .Using secure browser we can gain access the information and resources that are available on the Internet and can have safe browsing over Internet.
To avoid your PC being compromised and becoming a weapon to attack other machines, web browser and the Internet users are advised to: ensure that your operating system and key system components such as the web browser is fully patched and up to date.
Install a personal firewall along with anti-virus software with the latest virus signatures that can detect malware such as key loggers.
Regularly change your passwords with the combinations of letters, numbers and special case characters in critical web applications if a one-time password system is not supported.
Turn off all JavaScript or ActiveX support in your web browser before you visit any unknown websites.
Most vendors give you the option to download their browsers directly from their websites. Make sure to verify the authenticity of the site before downloading any files.
To additional minimize risk; follow the latest good security practices, like using a personal firewall, Updating to the latest browser with security patches installed and keeping anti-virus software up to date with regular scanning the entire system.
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Troopers from the Michigan State Police, Mt. Pleasant Post arrested Adam Exavier Moon, 30-years-old, in connection with an investigation into Criminal Sexual Conduct -1st degree with a minor under 13 years old and Possession of Child Sexually Abusive Material in Osceola County.
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If your ant-virus software is delivering problems, make an attempt to repair this. You may have a second malware that may be blocking the antivirus coming from scanning your whole body. If this is the situation, you should try reinstalling the antivirus security software or employing system restore to mend the problem. Whenever all else falters, you can do an ant-virus repair assembly. Besides that, you must make a back up of the personal files ahead of proceeding. However , this will certainly not solve the condition immediately.
One more cause of anti-virus errors is normally when your system settings do not match your requirements. This mistake typically appears as a red or green icon. If you click the icon, a communication will be available with a hyperlink to fix the problem. To fix this trouble, you must search deeper. You may also perform an antivirus personal unsecured modernization. If perhaps none of steps job, you can attempt to fix the condition with a absolutely free antivirus course. Otherwise, you should consider investing in a superior antivirus program.
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California businesses could have more clarity on how state privacy rules apply to third parties and how online interfaces could interfere with consumer consent under proposed changes released Monday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board will meet Oct. 21-22 to consider updates to its draft privacy regulations. The CPPA is in the process of drafting regulations to expand California’s first-in-the-nation landmark consumer privacy law. The voter-approved California Privacy Rights Act builds on existing state privacy law to give consumers more power over how their data is collected and used.
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Vestas will strengthen its organizational focus on Development Business and digital transformation after the cyber security incident.
Vestas will establish a new function, Digital Solutions, with the key objective to digitally transform business to enable stronger customer focus, scalability and profitability.
Thomas Alsbjerg, currently Group Senior Vice President of Development, will be promoted to Executive Vice President of Digital Solutions and Development as of 1 July 2022, heading Digital Solutions and remaining CEO of Vestas Development.
Digital Solutions is aimed to accelerate efforts within IT/OT (operational technology) and digital transformation through a consolidated unit with a mandate to run the end-to-end digitalisation of Vestas.
The unit will be responsible for improving IT efficiency, integrate digital solutions further into customer offering, improve employees’ digital experience and support core processes across the value chain, Vestas said.
“Looking at future needs and the lessons of the cyberattack, however, we need a full end-to-end approach and one digital operating model. We can improve both our customer offering, cyber security and efficiency by consolidating our spend across the total Vestas enterprise,” Henrik Andersen, Vestas President and Chief Executive Officer, said.
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The Monti ransomware was found in June 2022 that attracted notice due to its close resemblance to the Conti ransomware, both in name and tactics, drawing attention from cybersecurity experts and organizations.
Monti ransomware group has been observed to employ tactics similar to those of the Conti team, including utilizing their TTPs and leaked source code and tools.
Apart from this, Monti also consistently targeted the companies and posted their breaches to expose their details on a leaked site built by the operators of Monti.
With distinct behaviors, this new variant of MONTI (Ransom.Linux. MONTI.THGOCBC) makes use of a different encryptor. While at the moment there are only three security vendors on VirusTotal have identified the sample as malicious.
Besides this, a BinDiff analysis highlights a mere 29% similarity between the new and old variants, in contrast to the older versions’ 99% resemblance to Conti.
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Moreover, the inclusion of a string ‘MONTI’ followed by a 256-byte sequence tied to the encryption key is one of the new additions to this new variant.
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From Jason Healey, the New Atlanticist: Now that NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR over Libya is winding down, it is worth noting how few cyber incidents were directed in protest against the Alliance. Certainly, there was a cyber component to the liberation of Libya, but it was more about content and Internet freedom (the most newsworthy elements here were the role of social media and the Libyan government taking large parts of the nation offline). But compared to past history, NATO cyber defenders had a relatively easy time.
Hactivist groups supporting Arab and Muslim causes have been exceptionally active in the past, such as against Israel (as early as 1999) or against Western and other governments as part of the “e-Jihad” movement (like the hacker Irhabi 007). There are several possible explanations for the relative lack of hactivist response against NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR:
1. NATO worked with Libya’s neighbors and the world. For Libya, NATO only became involved after securing a mandate from the United Nations Security Council and with approval from the Arab League. This credibility almost certainly defused anger from hactivist groups who saw the operation as one to help, not hurt, Muslims. By comparison, when NATO began operations in support of Kosovo, Slav nationalists were outraged and fuelled by comments from their political and cultural leadership. 2. Hactivist groups were distracted. Online hooligans that might otherwise have still wanted to counter perceived Western aggression in Libya were perhaps distracted by other events. Groups supporting Arab and Muslim causes might have been involved in other operations against the West (such as in support of Palestine, Iraq, or Afghanistan) or as part of the general Arab Spring uprisings. Other hactivist groups could have been engaged in the ongoing development of WikiLeaks, and the “anti-sec” campaign of Anonymous and LulzSec.
3. NATO has better defenses. NATO’s cyber defenses still needs improvement, but they are far better than in 1999. It may be that they have been attracting many attackers, but have been able to fend them off. Indeed, it was partially the 1999 incidents during ALLIED FORCE that drove NATO’s leadership at the 2002 Prague Summit to create the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC).
Any or all of these explanations may be true and we may never know what the truth really is. At a minimum, though, NATO can take extensive credit for making the conditions possible for both the first and third explanations. The Alliance has acted in accordance with global consensus and in coordination with like-minded partners; it has also been working to improve its cyber defenses. It will have to continue doing both of these things if it is to avoid and survive future cyber assaults. Jason Healey is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council of the United States. You can follow his comments on cyber cooperation, conflict and competition on Twitter, @Jason_Healey. This blog is the first of a periodic series on cyber conflict history.
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Windows ransomware has become a major problem for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a survey by Datto, a company that provides IT solutions for managed service providers (MSPs), shows, with 91% of MSPs in Australia and New Zealand reporting attacks on SMBs in the last two years.
While the company understandably did not mention operating systems when it came to ransomware statistics, it was abundantly clear from the names of the ransomware listed (graphic below) that no other operating system other than Windows was under attack.
For the fourth year running, the well-known CryptoLocker ransomware was the biggest scourge with 66% of MSPs reporting attacks by this strain.
More than two years after it burst on to the scene, WannaCry is still haunting Windows users, with 49% of MSPs reporting attacks by this strain which incorporates an exploit developed by the American National Security Agency and leaked on the Web in 2016. CryptoWall (34%) and Locky (24%) are other well-known names of ransomware that prey on Microsoft's operating systems.
The survey, titled Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report, took in data from 1400 MSPs, Datto's partners and clients from around the globe. The company has its headquarters in Connecticut in the US and offices in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Canada, Australia, China, and Singapore.
Ninety-two percent of MSPs found that SMBs who had a business continuity and disaster recovery solution in place were able to avoid significant downtime after a ransomware attack, with recovery taking 24 hours or less.
Ransomware was far and away the most prominent malware threat, with 85% of the MSPs saying that this was the case with SMBs. In the first half of the calendar year, 56% of MSPs reported attacks on clients while 15% reported multiple attacks in a single day.
The effects of ransomware ranged from loss of business productivity (reported by 64% of MSPs), business-threatening downtime (45%), lost data or devices (34%), infection spreading on a network (33%), decreased client profitability (29%), and paying a ransom to recover files (24%).
The cost of downtime had risen by a factor of 200% from 2018, the survey said, with the cost in 2019 being US$141,000 compared to US$46,800 the previous year. Compared to the average ransom request of US$5900, the downtime cost was 23 times greater.
“Ransomware attacks most often succeed through very sophisticated phishing techniques – for example, when someone clicks on something they shouldn’t and the malware infiltrates their contact list – the attackers then use those credentials to exploit further,” said Daniel Johns, head of Services at leading Australian ICT company, ASI Solutions.
The survey found that software-as-a-service applications were also a prime target for ransomware attacks, with MSPs globally reporting a 15% increase in the attacks within Office 365 year-on-year.
The highest rate globally was in Australia and New Zealand, with 37% of MSPs reporting attacks on SaaS applications – including Office 365, Dropbox and the G-Suite, a 9% increase from the global average of 28%.
“It is no surprise that the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks against SMBs in Australia and New Zealand is on the rise, but recording the highest rate globally of reported attacks in this region is a wake-up call for SMBs,” said James Bergl, regional director, APAC Datto.
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“Interconnectivity and alignment between government entities is paramount for any country, regardless of size, to establish a unified approach towards ransomware prevention. As noted by the Coordinating Minister for National Security, the attacks against Costa Rica served as a prime example of how quickly your entire nation can be undertaken from the swift actions of a skilled attacker. Moving forward, these targeted countries must not only focus on preventing ransomware as a whole, but on preventing sensitive data from being exfiltrated. We have seen time and time again how even when a ransomware attack is dealt with, once data has been stolen, the damage can perpetuate indefinitely.”
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Roschier’s IP & Technology team arranged a Roschier Topical Forum on 18 October 2016 in Helsinki. The theme of the seminar was the brave new paradigm called IoT – Internet of Things.
IoT is emerging and it purports to connect virtually everything that surrounds us – cars, the electric grid, home appliances, light bulbs, children’s clothes, locks, homes, roofs, even our physical bodies – to one gigantic interconnected machine, the internet. This obviously makes issues that were previously relevant only for limited cases like internet security and connectivity patents, directly applicable to virtually everything that surrounds us.
This highly topical theme was discussed at a seminar hosted by Roschier today. After some welcoming words and an introduction to the topic by Roschier Partner Mikko Manner, the floor was given to the guest speaker Mika Ståhlberg (CTO, F-Secure), who together with Roschier Partner Niklas Östman discussed both The Security of Things and The IP of Things
After the seminar, the guests enjoyed a delicious buffet dinner.
For more information on the topic, please contact Niklas Östman.
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Procurement documents from the past several years reveal that government entities and state-owned enterprises in China have almost certainly incorporated lessons from the 2015 Ukraine attack (and possibly later incidents) into their cybersecurity planning. These organizations have demonstrated both abstract interest in the attack, naming it as an example of the current cyber threat landscape, and specific interest in seeking the capability to simulate or otherwise counter the tactics, techniques, and procedures used to target Ukraine’s grid. Instances that Recorded Future identified include:
In March 2022, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) Natural Resources Remote Sensing Institute (广西壮族自治区自然资源遥感院) published a tender for an “AI [artificial intelligence] high-performance data solution server”. The GZAR Natural Resources Remote Sensing Institute is subordinate to the GZAR Department of Natural Resources. A technical requirements list attached to this tender states that the server should have third-party (unspecified) antivirus software with the capability to trace advanced threats such as the “Ukraine power cut incident”.
In September 2020, Guangdong Province Wind Power Generation Co., Ltd. (广东省风力发电有限公司) released a tender for a “wind farm power monitoring and control system grade protection 2.0 compliance reform” project. Guangdong Province Wind Power Generation is a state-owned enterprise. The document references the 2015 attack on Ukraine’s grid as an example of a major information security threat to critical infrastructure.
In November 2019, the Suzhou City Public Security Bureau (苏州市公安局) released a tender for “antivirus gateway and antivirus handling services”. The document discusses the growing importance of digital infrastructure and the protection of this infrastructure, referencing cyberattacks such as one of the attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. The document also mentions that China’s Golden Shield Project — an extensive online surveillance capability run by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — has a “national virus early warning and reporting management mechanism”.
In September 2019, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司) released a tender for “power monitoring and control system network security intelligent analysis application V1.0 construction project technical services”. China Southern Power Grid is a state-owned enterprise. The document references the 2015 attack against Ukraine’s grid as an example of the growing threat against grid control systems.
In March 2019, the Shenzhen City Information Security Testing and Evaluation Center (深圳市信息安全测评中心) published requirements for an “industrial internet attack and defense exercise platform”. The document identifies the capability to “simulate the 2015 Ukraine power grid security incident” as one of the requirements for the project’s “industrial control power attack tool kit”.
In addition to paying attention to the 2015 attack, certain Chinese state-owned enterprises likely have a more direct interest in grid security in Ukraine. For instance, Ukraine’s Donbasenergo reportedly contracted Dongfang Electric Corporation (中国东方电气集团有限公司) in 2018 for work on the Sloviansk thermal power plant, with the upgraded units initially projected to start producing power in 2022 or 2023. Similarly, China Longyuan Power Group (龙源电力集团股份有限公司) reportedly “has a 76.6-megawatt wind power project in Yuzhne on the country's Black Sea coast in the Southwest, which started operation last year as the company's first wind power project in Europe”, according to state media. Likewise, a January 2020 procurement document shows that China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) Environmental Protection Industry Co., Ltd. (中核环保产业有限公司) was seeking to station engineers on a long-term basis in locations like Kramatorsk, Ukraine, and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
References to the 2015 Attack in Chinese Cybersecurity Research
Various cybersecurity researchers affiliated with the PLA, state-run research organizations, and other such entities in China have also recently discussed the implications of the 2015 attack on Ukraine’s power grid — as well as the implications of subsequent cyberattacks against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. This research does not necessarily reflect official PLA, Chinese government, or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) institutional positions but does offer a degree of insight into how specialists positioned within these institutions have reacted to (and are continuing grapple with) the 2015 Ukraine attack and other associated incidents. In particular, researchers stress the national security implications of the 2015 attack and highlight how cyberattacks against critical infrastructure are now a feature of interstate conflict. Recent examples include the following:
In the February 2022 issue of the Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学学报), researchers associated with the State Grid Henan Electric Power Research Institute (国网河南省电力公司电力科学研究院) and PLA Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) Information Engineering University (中国人民解放军战略支援部队信息工程大学) describe the 2015 Ukraine attack as the first instance of a “hacker penetration” leading to a large-scale power outage incident and argue that “how to ensure the security and stable operations of power grid control systems has already become a major research issue for each country’s protection of national security”. In the January 2022 issue of Network Security Technology & Application (网络安全技术与应用), researchers from Purple Mountain Laboratories (网络通信与安全紫金山实验室) and PLASSF Information Engineering University mention the 2015 Ukraine grid attack alongside other incidents as proof of the growing threat against industrial control systems across the globe. In the November 2021 issue of the Journal of Computer Research and Development (计算机研究与发展), authors affiliated with the Harbin Institute Technology Cybersecurity Research Institute (哈尔滨工业大学网络空间安全研究院), China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center (CNITSEC; 中国信息安全测评中心), and other organizations referenced the 2015 cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid as clear evidence of industrial control networks having become a major target in interstate conflict. The authors use this assessment to frame their research on industrial control network multi-mode attack detection and evaluation.
In the February 2019 issue of Systems Engineering and Electronics (系统工程与电子技术), researchers associated with the Air Force Engineering University School of Information and Navigation (空军工程大学信息与导航学院) and PLA Unit 93801 (中国人民解放军93801部队) describe cyberattacks against Ukraine’s computer networks and power grid as examples of incidents driving increasing research interest in the stability and security of “multiple elements state cyberspace”. The authors use this assessment to frame their research on the simulation of risk propagation in “multiple elements military state cyberspace”.
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https://www.recordedfuture.com/chinas-government-is-learning-from-russias-cyberattacks-against-ukraine
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A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Common Services Platform Collector (CSPC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the interface.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input that is processed by the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by adding malicious code to the configuration by using the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the interface or access sensitive, browser-based information.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco CSPC.
For information about which Cisco software releases were vulnerable at the time of publication, see the Fixed Software section of this advisory. When considering software upgrades, customers are advised to regularly consult the advisories for Cisco products, which are available from the Cisco Security Advisories page, to determine exposure and a complete upgrade solution.
In all cases, customers should ensure that the devices to be upgraded contain sufficient memory and confirm that current hardware and software configurations will continue to be supported properly by the new release. If the information is not clear, customers are advised to contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) or their contracted maintenance providers.
Fixed Releases
At the time of publication, the release information in the following table(s) was accurate. See the Details section in the bug ID(s) at the top of this advisory for the most complete and current information.
The left column lists Cisco software releases, and the right column indicates whether a release was affected by the vulnerability described in this advisory and which release included the fix for this vulnerability.
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Toshiba said it is considering splitting off its memory business into a separate company but added that nothing had been finalized at this point.
The Japanese company said Wednesday that it positions its memory unit as a focus business.
The announcement by Toshiba follows news reports that the company was planning to split its semiconductor business. The company is considering selling a “partial stake” in its semiconductor business to Western Digital in the U.S., to raise funds for an impairment loss in its U.S. nuclear plant unit, reported Nikkei Asian Review.
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The company may sell about 20 percent stake in the memory business for up to $2.65 billion, and may consider listing it, according to the newspaper.
Toshiba, which is still recovering from an accounting scandal, is focused on nonvolatile memory like 3D flash memory, having first entered the flash memory market in 1984. It also makes wireless memory cards and USB flash drives.
Western Digital acquired last year SanDisk, which has been a long-term partner of Toshiba, with the two companies partnering in the fabrication of nonvolatile memories. The joint venture has provided SanDisk with stable NAND supply in volume and extends across memory technologies such as 3D NAND.
Western Digital said in 2015 that the acquisition of SanDisk would let it vertically integrate into NAND, and ensure long-term access to solid state technology at lower cost. Similar considerations may also be driving Western Digital’s reported interest in Toshiba’s memory business.
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Accurate and complete patient information is essential to providing the highest possible standard of care. Here is simple guidance to keep charting at its best, protect patients from treatment error and prevent potential malpractice liability.
Responding to questions in a pre-trial deposition.
This video can help you be prepared.
Accurate documentation is a critical component of patient care. Nurse Practitioner Case Study: Alleged improper admission orders resulting in morphine overdose and death.
The decedent patient (plaintiff) was a 72-year-old woman who had been receiving hospital care for acute back pain resulting from a fall. Her past history included chronic pain management and end-stage renal disease for which she received hemodialysis.
Nurse Case Study: Failure to adequately assess and monitor the patient post operatively resulting in the patient’s death.
The decedent/ plaintiff was a 67-year-old male who underwent a right total knee replacement. Following the procedure, the plaintiff was treated in the post-anesthesia care unit where an epidural catheter was inserted for post-operative pain management.
Nurse Case Study: Failure to prevent and properly treat decubitus ulcer.
Failure to prevent and properly treat decubitus ulcer – continues to Stage IV – defense verdict.
The babies were delivered without incident, but the patient experienced excessive post-operative vaginal bleeding attributed to placental accreta.
Nurse Case Study: Failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke.
Failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke – partial paralysis of arm, aphasia, mild cognitive impairment and foot drop – $4 million settlement.
Nurse Case Study: Incorrect IV push of potassium chloride.
Potassium chloride by IV drip ordered for woman, but family claims IV push of potassium chloride given – death – $250,000 verdict.
Nurse Case Study: Malfunctioning hospital bed blamed for strangulation death of man.
Malfunctioning hospital bed blamed for strangulation death of man – $1 million settlement in Texas with some parties – confidential settlement with others.
Administer meds without a doctor's order? Proceed with caution.
Registered nurses generally should administer medications only with a physician’s order. Only certain advanced practice nurses have prescriptive authority, and their qualifications, as well as the type of drug and the amount they are allowed to prescribe, vary from state to state.
How documentation could come back to haunt you.
The confusing or opinionated words you choose in charting today could come back to haunt you tomorrow.
Charting by exception: the legal risks.
There are numerous variations to charting by exception. Virtually every facility that uses such a system does it differently.
Defensive Documentation: Steps Nurses Can Take to Improve Their Charting and Reduce Their Liability
Whether you are an experienced nurse or recent grad, documentation can be challenging. Here is some information that can assist with improving your charting and reducing liability risks:
Documentation on trial: 9 ways to protect your agency.
In most states, a patient can wait several years to file a lawsuit and then it can take years before the suit goes to court.
Documentation: proactive prevention of litigation.
There is no quick and effective antidote to malpractice allegations. Prevention, however, is necessary.
Don't cross the line: respecting professional boundaries.
At best, nurses and patients develop a special bond based on trust, compassion, and mutual respect.
Do's and Don'ts of Documentation.
Good documentation can help nurses defend themselves in a malpractice lawsuit, and keep them out of court in the first place.
Keeping up with technology: your risks and responsibilities.
Information technology is constantly evolving. Among the most common types are electronic health records (EHRs) and computerized physician order entry systems (CPOEs).
With materials in this section, you can help raise your students' awareness of documentation risks that can lead to claims of negligence and malpractice, and that by improving the quality of documentation, they can see fewer malpractice incidents.
Nurse Case Study: Failure to report changes in the patient's medical condition to practitioner.
The patient was a 38-year-old female admitted for a Cesarean delivery of twins.
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https://www.nso.com/risk-management/nurse-educators?ViewAll=true&Profession=Educator
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NIST made public Monday its guidance on how best to employ continuous monitoring to assure the security of information and information systems.
Special Publication 800-137, Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations defines an information security continuous monitoring strategy and establishing an information security continuous monitoring program.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology said the purpose of the guideline is to assist organizations in the development of a continuous monitoring strategy and implement a program that provides awareness of threats and vulnerabilities, visibility into organizational assets and information about the effectiveness of deployed security controls.
According to the publication, the strategy:
Is grounded in a clear understanding of organizational risk tolerance and helps officials set priorities and manage risk consistently throughout the organization.
Includes metrics that provide meaningful indications of security status at all organizational tiers.
Ensures continued effectiveness of all security controls.
Verifies '>'>compliance with information security requirements derived from organizational missions/business functions, federal legislation, directives, regulations, policies and standards/guidelines.
Is informed by all organizational IT assets and helps to maintain visibility into the security of the assets.
Ensures knowledge and control of changes to organizational systems and environments of operation.
Maintains awareness of threats and vulnerabilities.
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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https://www.govinfosecurity.com/continuous-monitoring-guidance-issued-a-4115
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During restart keep tapping the F8 key.
At the advanced boot options menu (Black screen with white letters) use the arrow keys and select Safe Mode with networking press enter on keyboard.
Once in safemode with Networking, open Chrome and only browse to here --> https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl
Double click the Avast set up file we downloaded previously and install it.
Open Chrome and visit some websites.
That's going to be the best and most logical thing to do, the reset issue sounds like hardware, power supply, ram etc.
I'm sorry we could not resolve it in this manner, it really is best to have eyes on it and sit in front of the machine so as to make a better determination of what the issues is and have much faster results fixing it...
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A new Windows vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2022 30190 (or "Follina"), allows attackers to create a Word document that will execute malicious code through the MSDT protocol when a user opens the file in Preview mode.
Malicious Microsoft Office documents are a common attack vector for cybercriminals. Such attacks mainly rely on malicious macros, which — once activated — may execute PowerShell scripts or download further payloads. This method is gaining in popularity, and we've recently seen a nation-state APT group to be using this vulnerability against targets in Tibet.
The Advanced Email Security pack for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud stops malicious emails before they can reach your users' inboxes, eliminating the risk of accidentally opening a major cyberthreat.
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https://www.acronis.com/en-us/cyber-protection-center/posts/critical-follina-vulnerability-being-actively-exploited-enabling-malicious-microsoft-word-files/
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Amid the COVID-19 crisis, more North Carolinians are working and learning remotely using their home internet. That makes now a great time to ensure that your systems are as secure as possible. Hackers and scammers are working overtime to steal your money and personal information, but taking simple security steps like updating your internet router’s firmware can help keep you safe. Router manufacturers release firmware updates to repair vulnerabilities exploited by hackers. Almost all of your personal information passes through your router, so keeping its security up to date is critical to protecting your personal financial data.
While most consumers don’t regularly update their router’s firmware, the process is quick and easy. The best way to protect yourself is to follow these steps:
Enter the IP address of your router into a web browser’s address bar. The IP address of each router is listed on the device or in the instruction manual. If you can’t find it, you can locate your device’s IP address through a simple web search.
Enter your username and password. The login information for the router is typically found on the device or in the instruction manual.
Locate the “Firmware” or “Router Upgrade” option. Usually, you can find this option in the Administration, Utilities, or Maintenance section. Keep in mind that the location of this option can vary depending on the router model.
Download the update from your router manufacturer’s website. Typically, you can find the update in the Support section. Locate your router model and download the latest available update. Save the update to your computer.
Upload the update to your router. In the Update section of your router, choose the “Browse” or “Choose File” button to upload your update. Once uploaded, start the update process. Once your router updates, it will restart with the new firmware installed.
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https://ncdoj.gov/consumer-alert-prevent-data-breaches-by-updating-your-routers-firmware/
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Incident Response includes triage, in-depth analysis, technical recovery actions and more.
The above implies that incident management is at a higher level, spanning the organization and defining the overall process for handling incidents, while incident response defines the actual technical steps done to contain and resolve the issue.
On the same first page google results, I found another definition from the US CISA. This definition states:
This process of identifying, analyzing, and determining an organizational response to computer security incidents is called incident management.
Unfortunately this reads as the opposite of the prior definition, stating that incident management encompasses the technical steps of identifying and analyzing the incident, as well as the “response” which implies the repair/remediation.
Just another couple Google results down the page finds a post from Educause. Here, they say they are the same thing:
Information security incident management programs (sometimes also called information security incident response programs)…
Irrespective of your definition, it’s important to define a clear incident response process with repeatable consistent steps to be followed in the case of an outage.
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https://www.fylamynt.com/post/incident-response-vs-incident-management
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Email encryption is a “critical” or “very important” business priority for 53 per cent of organizations, despite only being used “extensively” by 40 percent of organizations. The findings, published in a market research survey on behalf of Echoworx by Osterman Research, suggest the technology’s stock among business leaders is increasing, but perception issues over ease of use still remain.
The study, titled “Enterprise Encryption and Authentication Usage: A Survey Report”, polled the views of almost 165 IT decision makers and influencers, managing on average 14,000 email users per organization, to assess the adoption of encryption in the context of email, file sharing and other communication modes used to share sensitive and confidential records. More than half of the respondents (53 per cent) considered email encryption a priority, up almost 10 per cent on 2015.
However, the findings also revealed that encryption is not used as often as it should be. Only two in five (40 per cent) organizations reported “extensive” use of encryption. When asked what the barriers are preventing more widespread use of the technology, more than half (53%) of respondents said “asking too much of the email recipients”, indicating that ease of use for both senders and receivers is still a major issue for businesses.
“Despite the importance of encryption and the benefits it offers, there is still the common misconception that the technology is suited for only the technically savvy”, said Jacob Ginsberg, Senior Director at Echoworx. “The challenge in the security industry today is that despite the ever more complex threat vector, solutions must remain dead simple to use. Human nature is to look for the easiest path to accomplish a task, and that path also must be the most secure. Creating more efficient, easy-to-use, cloud-based encryption systems will help drive adoption forward.”
With the GDPR deadline less than 18 months away, encryption is a key technology that will enable organizations to comply with the regulations and avoid heavy financial penalties. However, one third (33 per cent) of the respondents said that their plans to extend data protection using encryption will occur in “over one year’s time”, leaving little time to spare.
“Encryption is one of the most important technologies that organizations can deploy in order to comply with GDPR”, continued Ginsberg. “With the increasing number of data breaches, an encryption policy that spans a wide range of applications and purposes will go a long way to safeguarding organizations’ data and that of its stakeholders.”
What You Should Do Now
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There are a variety of totally free antivirus applications available online. These programs are available for download from your provider’s site, or out of dedicated application stores. These applications can be very attractive protecting your personal computer, but you need to consider the features presented and the privacy policy before obtaining them. Should you be on a budget, you may opt for absolutely free antivirus applications with limited features.
Trend Micro may be a trusted secureness company using more than 30 years of experience. Their antivirus enables you to scan files and applications for viruses, protecting the privacy and system right from potential dangers. It also possesses features designed for relating your social networking accounts, which usually protects the sensitive facts from staying leaked. In addition, it enables you in diagnosing your email for malware and scam attacks, which can lead to important computer data being stolen.
When you have downloaded the antivirus, you should create a forex account with the business or partner where you downloaded it. This account allow you to manage your subscription and privacy adjustments, as well as your payment settings. After installing the antivirus software program, you need to source your permit key when ever prompted. The license critical can be found in your or inside the installation folder. Once you’ve installed the program, you may be asked to allow the installation of additional courses or internet browser extensions.
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http://glofouling.persga.org/2022/11/03/how-you-can-install-an-antivirus-totally-free/
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Over the last five years, technology and working practices have changed drastically.
Businesses have had to adapt quickly in terms of cybersecurity, especially with hybrid and remote working being the ‘new normal’ – and now that AI is in general use, cybersecurity risks are evolving by the second.
Traditionally, businesses have mainly focused on preventing such threats but knowing how to detect and respond to them is equally as important. Cyber criminals’ methods are becoming more advanced, so a simple focus on prevention could leave vulnerabilities in your systems exposed.
Awareness and preparation are key weapons in the fight to keep your company technology secure – and, alongside IT maintenance solutions that offer top-notch security throughout, companies can keep their networks safe while facilitating in-house, hybrid and remote working.
Your cybersecurity strategy
Your company will already have a cybersecurity strategy – but is it up to date? If you last reviewed it before 30th November 2022 when Chat GPT was first released, revisiting it at the earliest opportunity is wise! With the potential for hackers to use ChatGPT (other solutions are available) to navigate even the most complex cybersecurity measures, AI is certainly something company leaders should follow closely.
Cybersecurity strategies will differ according to your business context; there is no blueprint that fits everyone. However, these are the fundamental considerations for any business, regardless of size:
Understand your core systems: their construction, how flexible and secure they are and where you can improve them.
Understand the setup for employees to work in-office, hybrid or remotely – and where any security vulnerabilities are.
Evaluate the risks, identify the gaps and implement solutions to plug them.
Involve stakeholders from all levels in your cybersecurity review – this could bring to light previously unknown problems and provide a new direction for better future security.
Communicate and promote the new strategy across the company, ensuring everyone knows they have a vital part to play.
Back it up with training, so everyone has a stake in the company’s cybersecurity success.
Introducing NetSupport Manager
With workforces now dispersed across hybrid work environments, having the technology to allow employees to operate effectively while staying secure is key for every company.
NetSupport Manager has long been recognized as one of the most secure remote control solutions available. Its two-factor authentication, SSL/TLS certificates, activity logs, user acknowledgement, 256-bit encryption, smartcard support, AD integration (and much more) help businesses keep their systems safe and operating securely – so much so, that it’s the choice of military and financial institutions across the world.
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https://www.netsupport-inc.com/20230901company-cybersecurity-strategy/
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If you’ve become a victim of the Wwpl ransomware, you’re likely feeling frustrated and helpless. This malicious software has the power to encrypt your valuable files and demand a large sum of money in exchange for the decryption key. However, it’s important to remember that all hope is not lost. In this article, we’ll discuss the steps you can take to remove the Wwpl ransomware from your system, as well as how to decrypt and restore your files without paying the ransom. With the right tools and knowledge, you can recover your data and get your life back on track.
Screenshot of files encrypted by Wwpl virus (‘.Wwpl’ file extension):
Wwpl ransomware is a malicious software that belongs to the STOP/DJVU ransomware family, which is known for its widespread distribution and high volume of attacks. Wwpl ransomware targets Microsoft Windows operating systems and encrypts files on the victim’s computer, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for a decryption key to restore access to the encrypted files.
Wwpl ransomware is typically distributed through various social engineering tactics, such as disguising the malicious software as freeware, cracks, activators, and key generators. Once the ransomware is executed, it creates a folder in the Windows system directory where it places a copy of itself and changes some Windows settings so that it starts up every time the computer is restarted or turned on.
The malware then collects information about the victim’s computer and tries to establish a connection with its command server (C&C). If the connection is established, the virus sends information about the infected computer to the server and receives the encryption key (the so-called ‘online key’) and additional commands and malware that must be executed on the victim’s computer. If the virus cannot establish a connection with its command server, then it uses a fixed key (the so-called ‘offline key’).
Wwpl ransomware uses a strong encryption algorithm to encrypt files on the victim’s computer and adds the ‘.Wwpl’ extension to the end of the file name to mark all encrypted files. The ransomware skips files located in the Windows system directories, files with the extension .ini, .bat, .dll, .lnk, .sys, and files with the name ‘_readme.txt’.
In every directory where there is at least one encrypted file, the virus places a file named ‘_readme.txt’. This file contains a message from the Wwpl authors, which says that all files on the computer are encrypted and the only way to decrypt them is to purchase a key and a decryptor from the authors of Wwpl virus.
The ransom demanded by the attackers is $980, but if the victim pays the ransom within 72 hours, then the amount is halved to $490. Wwpl authors offer victims the opportunity to verify that encrypted files can be decrypted by sending them a small file. However, a single decrypted file cannot guarantee that after paying the ransom, the criminals will provide the victim with a working key and decryptor.
All your files like pictures, databases, documents and other important are encrypted with strongest encryption and unique key.
The only method of recovering files is to purchase decrypt tool and unique key for you.
This software will decrypt all your encrypted files.
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If you have been infected by Wwpl ransomware, don’t panic and take immediate action to protect your data. Firstly, disconnect your computer from the internet to prevent the ransomware from communicating with its command server. Then, use the steps below to remove the ransomware from your system. If your files have already been encrypted, don’t pay the ransom. Instead, try to use a free decryptor. However, if the decryptor fails to work, there are alternative methods that can be used to restore encrypted files.
To avoid becoming a victim of ransomware, it’s crucial to keep your operating system and software up-to-date, avoid downloading suspicious files or attachments, and always back up your important data. By taking these simple steps, you can help protect your computer and personal files from Wwpl ransomware and other similar threats.
To successfully decrypt or recover .Wwpl files, it is essential to eliminate Wwpl ransomware and its autostart entries. Failing to do so may result in the ransomware re-encrypting the restored files. Stopping the ransomware is a straightforward process and can be accomplished through various methods. One way is to perform a complete system scan using malware removal tools that can detect and remove ransomware infections for free. To make the process more convenient, consider reading this entire guide and saving it on your smartphone or printing it out. This way, you will have easy access to all the necessary steps.
Scanning your computer for malware is crucial since security researchers have discovered that Wwpl ransomware may install spyware alongside it. Spyware poses a significant security risk as it can steal sensitive information like passwords, login credentials, and contact details from the user. If you encounter any issues removing the Wwpl virus, feel free to inform us in the comments section, and we will attempt to assist you.
Press CTRL, ALT, DEL keys together.
Click Task Manager. Select the “Processes” tab, look for something suspicious that is the Wwpl ransomware then right-click it and select “End Task” or “End Process” option. If your Task Manager does not open or the Windows reports “Task manager has been disabled by your administrator”, then follow the guide: How to Fix Task manager has been disabled by your administrator.
Detecting a process related to the Wwpl ransomware is a relatively simple task. To identify a malicious process, observe its icon and name carefully. Typically, this ransomware uses a process name in the format of 4 characters followed by either “.tmp.exe” or “.exe”. For instance, it could be “7533.tmp.exe,” “A4b1.exe,” “CD15.tmp.exe,” or “19b2.exe.” The process name may also include the phrase “(32 bit).” If you can’t locate a process with a name that follows this pattern in the list of processes, it is likely that the Wwpl ransomware has already finished its operations. Nonetheless, bear in mind that if you fail to remove the ransomware autostart entries and delete its file, it may start again after a while and promptly encrypt any unencrypted files it finds.
Run Task Manager and select the “Start-Up” tab. Right click to the Wwpl ransomware Start-Up entry and select Open File Location as shown below.
A directory containing one file will open in front of you, this file is the Wwpl virus. It needs to be removed. If you try to delete it immediately, then you will not succeed, since this file is protected from deletion.
To delete this file, you need to do the following. Right-click on the file, select Properties. In the window that opens, select Security tab. Next, click the Advanced button below. A window will open as shown in the following example.
Click Disable inheritance. In the Block inheritance dialog box that opens, select the first item (Convert inherited permissions…) as shown below.
In the Permission entries list, select “Deny Everyone”, click Remove button and then OK. Close the file properties window. You should now be able to remove the Wwpl virus. Right-click on the file and select Delete.
Scan computer for malware
Malwarebytes is a reputable antivirus and anti-malware software that can be used to remove various types of malware from infected devices. However, the effectiveness of Malwarebytes in removing ransomware depends on the type and severity of the ransomware infection.
Malwarebytes can detect and remove most ransomware threats, including Wwpl ransomware, which is a type of ransomware that encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom for decryption. Malwarebytes uses advanced scanning algorithms and heuristics to detect and remove malicious files, processes, and registry entries associated with ransomware.
However, if the ransomware has already encrypted the victim’s files, Malwarebytes alone cannot decrypt them. In this case, the victim would need to use Stop (Djvu) Decryptor, or restore the encrypted files using the steps below.
Click the following link and download the latest version of Malwarebytes for your operating system.
Once the download is complete, double-click on the downloaded file to start the installation process.
Follow the instructions provided by the Malwarebytes installer to complete the installation process.
After the installation is complete, launch Malwarebytes by double-clicking on its desktop icon or through the Start menu.
In the Malwarebytes main screen, click on the “Scan” button to start a system scan. Malwarebytes will automatically scan your system for ransomware, malware, adware, and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs).
After the scan is complete, Malwarebytes will display a list of threats found on your system. To remove the threats, click on the “Quarantine” button.
Malwarebytes will quarantine the detected threats, which will prevent them from harming your computer. Once the quarantine process is complete, you can choose to either delete the quarantined files or restore them if you believe they are legitimate. After you have selected the appropriate action, restart your computer to complete the removal process.
To ensure complete removal of the Wwpl virus from your computer, we suggest utilizing the Kaspersky virus removal tool (KVRT) which is both cost-free and user-friendly. With its ability to detect and delete different types of malware, including ransomware, spyware, adware, worms, trojans, potentially unwanted apps, and more, KVRT is a powerful tool. Additionally, it can locate and remove malicious files and registry entries that may be concealed on your system.
Download Kaspersky virus removal tool from the following link. Save it to your Desktop.
When downloading is finished, double-click on the Kaspersky virus removal tool icon. Once initialization process is finished, you will see the KVRT screen as shown in the figure below.
Click Change Parameters and set a check near all your drives. Press OK to close the Parameters window. Next click Start scan button . KVRT tool will begin scanning the whole PC to detect the Wwpl ransomware. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.
When Kaspersky virus removal tool has completed scanning, it will open the Scan Results like below.
Review the results once the utility has finished the system scan. If you think an entry should not be quarantined, then uncheck it. Otherwise, simply click on Continue to begin a cleaning process.
Scroll down to ‘New Djvu ransomware’ section.
Click the download link and save the ‘decrypt_STOPDjvu.exe’ file to your desktop.
Run decrypt_STOPDjvu.exe, read the license terms and instructions.
On the ‘Decryptor’ tab, using the ‘Add a folder’ button, add the directory or disk where the encrypted files are located.
Identifying the Type of Key Using the ‘_readme.txt’ File
Open the ‘_readme.txt’ file, which is the ransom demand message created by the Dazx ransomware.
Scroll down to the end of the file.
Look for a line of text that says ‘Your personal ID’.
Below this line, you should see a string of characters. This is your personal ID, which is unique to your computer and is used to generate the decryption key.
Look for the ‘PersonalID.txt’ file and open it.
This file contains a list of ‘Personal IDs’ that match the keys that the ransomware used to encrypt files.
The ‘Personal ID’ is not the key itself, but rather an identification that is associated with the key used for encrypting files. If the ID ends with ‘t1’, then the files were encrypted with an offline key. Conversely, if the ID does not end with ‘t1’, the Wwpl virus used an online key to encrypt the files. If it is difficult for you to determine which key was used, you can seek assistance by submitting a request in the comment section below.
Notice: this ID appears be an offline ID, decryption MAY be possible in the future.
It means the following: your files are encrypted with an ‘offline key’, but the key itself has not yet been obtained by security researchers, in this case, you need to be patient and wait a while, in addition, you can also use alternative ways for recovering encrypted data.
If for some reason you were unable to decrypt the encrypted files, then We recommend to follow the news on our Facebook or YouTube channels. So you ‘ll know right away that it ‘s possible to decrypt .Wwpl files.
This video step-by-step guide will demonstrate How to use STOP Djvu decryptor to decrypt encrypted files.
Recover .Wwpl files with ShadowExplorer
A tool called ShadowExplorer is available for free and can be used to restore files that have been encrypted by the Wwpl crypto malware using the ‘Previous Versions’ feature of Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, or Vista. This tool can restore photos, documents, and music from Shadow Copies without any cost.
Visit the following page to download the latest version of ShadowExplorer for MS Windows. Save it on your Microsoft Windows desktop or in any other place.
Right click to ShadowExplorer-0.9-portable and select Extract all. Follow the prompts. Next please open the ShadowExplorerPortable folder as shown on the screen below.
Start the ShadowExplorer utility and then choose the disk (1) and the date (2) that you wish to recover the shadow copy of file(s) encrypted by the Wwpl virus as displayed on the image below.
Now navigate to the file or folder that you wish to recover. When ready right-click on it and click ‘Export’ button like below.
Right click to testdisk-7.0.win and choose Extract all. Next please open the testdisk-7.0 folder as shown in the following example.
Double click on qphotorec_win to run PhotoRec for MS Windows. It’ll open a screen as displayed in the figure below.
Select a drive to recover as shown on the screen below.
You will see a list of available partitions. Select a partition that holds encrypted documents, photos and music as displayed on the screen below.
Click File Formats button and choose file types to recover. You can to enable or disable the restore of certain file types. When this is done, click OK button.
Next, click Browse button to choose where restored photos, documents and music should be written, then click Search. We strongly recommend that you save the recovered files to an external drive.
Count of recovered files is updated in real time. All restored personal files are written in a folder that you have chosen on the previous step. You can to access the files even if the restore process is not finished.
When the recovery is finished, click on Quit button. Next, open the directory where restored personal files are stored. You will see a contents like below.
All recovered files are written in recup_dir.1, recup_dir.2 … sub-directories. If you’re looking for a specific file, then you can to sort your restored files by extension and/or date/time.
This video step-by-step guide will demonstrate How to recover encrypted files using PhotoRec.
How to protect your PC from Wwpl ransomware
As mentioned earlier, Wwpl ransomware is a dangerous malware that can cause significant damage to your computer and personal files. Therefore, it is essential to take measures to protect your PC from being infected with this ransomware. One such tool that can help you safeguard your system against Wwpl ransomware is HitmanPro. Alert. In the following paragraphs, we will provide an overview of HitmanPro. Alert and how it can help protect your computer from Nitz ransomware.
Go to the link below to download the latest version of the software. Install it on your PC.
Once installed, open HitmanPro. Alert and click on the “Exploit Mitigations” tab. Enable all the options available, including “BadUSB Mitigation,” “CryptoGuard,” “Keystroke Encryption,” and “Process Protection.”
Click on the “Ransomware Protection” tab and enable all the options available, including “CryptoGuard,” “Keystroke Encryption,” and “Process Protection.”
It is important to keep HitmanPro. Alert up-to-date to ensure that you have the latest protection against new threats. Make sure to enable automatic updates in the settings.
To sum up
In conclusion, the Nitz ransomware is a dangerous malware that can cause significant harm to your computer system and files. It is crucial to take proactive measures to prevent the virus from infecting your computer, such as keeping your antivirus software up-to-date and avoiding suspicious links or email attachments.
If your computer is already infected with the Wwpl ransomware, it is important to act quickly and remove the virus from your system. We have provided detailed instructions in the “Remove Wwpl virus” section of this article to guide you through the process.
After removing the virus, you may be left with encrypted files that are inaccessible. However, there is still hope to recover your data through decryption methods outlined in the “Decrypt .Wwpl files” section. If those methods do not work, there are still options for restoring your files outlined in the “Restore .Wwpl files” section.
We understand that these processes may seem daunting, which is why we have included a helpful video guide to walk you through the steps. With persistence and the right tools, you can recover your data and protect yourself from future ransomware attacks.
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The United States mentioned it feared Russia was making ready a pretext to invade Ukraine if diplomacy fails to fulfill its aims, after an enormous cyberattack splashed Ukrainian authorities web sites with a warning to “be afraid and expect the worst”.
Moscow dismissed such warnings, although it has amassed greater than 100,000 troops on its neighbour’s frontiers and on Friday launched photos of extra of its forces on the transfer. NO BREAKTHROUGH AFTER SECURITY TALKSThe cyberattack unfolded hours after safety talks wrapped up on Thursday with no breakthrough between Moscow and Western allies. Ukraine mentioned its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had proposed a three-way assembly with the leaders of Russia and the United States. Zelenskiy’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, mentioned the “life and death” of his nation hung within the stability. White House press secretary Jen Psakitold reporters the United States was involved that Russia was making ready for the potential of a brand new navy assault on a rustic it invaded in 2014.”As part of its plans, Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating a pretext for invasion, including through sabotage activities and information operations, by accusing Ukraine of preparing an imminent attack against Russian forces in eastern Ukraine,” Psaki mentioned. ’FALSE-FLAG OPERATION’? A US official mentioned the United States had data that indicated Russia had already positioned a gaggle of operatives to conduct “a false-flag operation” in jap Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed such experiences as primarily based on “unfounded” data, TASS information company reported. Russia denies plans to assault Ukraine however says it may take unspecified navy motion until its calls for – together with a promise by the NATO alliance by no means to confess Kyiv – are met. ’WILL NOT ACCEPT NATO ON OUR BORDERS’: RUSSIAForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned that Russia hoped safety talks with the United States would resume however that this might rely upon Washington’s response to Moscow’s proposals.”We categorically will not accept the appearance of NATO right on our borders, especially so given the current course of the Ukrainian leadership,” he mentioned. Asked what Moscow meant by threatening this week to take “military-technical action” if talks fail, Lavrov mentioned: “Measures to deploy military hardware, that is obvious. When we take decisions with military hardware we understand what we mean and what we are preparing for.”Russian Defence Ministry footage launched by RIA information company confirmed armoured automobiles and different navy {hardware} being loaded onto trains in Russia’s far east, in what Moscow known as an inspection drill to follow long-range deployments. ”This is likely cover for the units being moved towards Ukraine,” mentioned Rob Lee, a navy analyst and a fellow on the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKUkrainian officers have been investigating the cyberattack, which they mentioned hit round 70 web websites of presidency our bodies together with the safety and defence council. Though they averted straight accusing Moscow, Ukraine’s international ministry spokesperson instructed Reuters that Russia had been behind comparable strikes prior to now. A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council mentioned it was not but clear who was accountable. “We are in touch with the Ukrainians and have offered our support,” the spokesperson mentioned. Russia didn’t remark, however has beforehand denied being behind cyberattacks, together with in opposition to Ukraine. ”Ukrainian! All your personal data was uploaded to the public network. All data on the computer is destroyed, it is impossible to restore it,” mentioned a message seen on hacked authorities web sites, written in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. ”All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future. ”The message was peppered with references that echoed long-running Russian state allegations, rejected by Kyiv, that Ukraine is in thrall to far-right nationalist teams. AFFECTED SITES RESTOREDThe Ukrainian authorities mentioned it had restored a lot of the affected websites and no private information had been stolen. NATO responded by saying that it will signal a brand new settlement inside days with Kyiv on nearer cooperation in cyber defence, together with giving Ukraine entry to the Western navy alliance’s system for sharing data on malicious software program. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg mentioned in an announcement that NATO cyber specialists have been already working with the Ukrainian authorities to answer the assault. The European Union’s high diplomat, Josep Borrell, mentioned the EU’s political and safety committee and cyber models would meet to see the way to assist Kyiv.”I can’t blame anybody as I have no proof, but we can imagine,” he mentioned. ’RUSSIA IS AN ENEMY’On the streets of Ukraine, there was rising resignation to the prospect of renewed preventing. Kyiv resident Ruslan Kavatsyuk, 39, mentioned he noticed the cyberattack as a “positive”, since it will stiffen the resolve of the Ukrainian public. ”It reminds us that we live during military times, that Russia is an enemy who will kill us physically,” he mentioned. ALSO READ: Two Russian astronauts to conduct first spacewalk of 2022, cling outdoors Space Station for 7 hoursALSO READ: Covid internationally: US services careworn, France battles enormous surge | Top developments
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Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, is all set to spotlight its state of the art innovations at the 41st GITEX Technology Week, taking place from 17th to 21st of October at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The company will demonstrate several cutting-edge security solutions to empower organizations in protecting their digital infrastructure in the evolving threat landscape.
“We’ve come a long way in safeguarding the operations of enterprises, and even further with the induced digital transformation over the past year,” said Dr.Moataz Bin Ali, Vice President and Managing Director, MENA for Trend Micro.” “GITEX 2021 gives us yet another opportunity to demonstrate our industry-leading cybersecurity solutions to protect the new age enterprises across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints – enabling them to take better control of their systems, while thriving in the new digital economy.”
Trend Micro recently released its Midyear Security Roundup for H1 2021: Attacks from All Angles that highlights the evolving threat landscape and the need to secure a strong cyber security stance in the region. As per the roundup report, the GCC witnessed over 62 million (62,325,775) email threats, over 155K (155,516) URL hosted attacks, with over 28 million (28,430,724) URL victims, over 7 million (7,293,662) malware detections, and another 2133 banking malware detections. These figures prompt a broader discussion on how organizations will need to adjust their security posture, and the same will be emphasized during the expert speaker sessions conducted by Trend Micro at GITEX 2021
In addition to exhibiting security solutions at its booth, Trend Micro will also be hosting several sessions held by company experts that will cover different challenges in the cybersecurity space and the solutions necessary to overcome them.
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When starting out as a programmer, you’re way too busy to pay attention to anything unrelated to your core competencies. You have your hands full with learning new technologies and languages, and executing projects.
Though it may be tough to squeeze in, it’s important that you find the time to learn cybersecurity.
Code that is insecure can be costly in terms of time required to rectify it, or worse, in money and business repercussions if the issue goes undetected.
In this post, I will show you the fundamentals of cybersecurity so you have all the essential info in one place. We’ll first take a look at common attacks and best practices, then I’ll share some tips and recommendations on cybersecurity skills and technologies.
What Is Cybersecurity and Why Should You Bother?
Cybersecurity refers to the process of securing data, networks, and devices from misuse by hackers.
Data is incredibly valuable and ranges from credit card details to Social Security numbers and medical records. When you’re working for a company or a freelance client, you can be handling your customers’ sensitive data—which you simply can’t afford to compromise.
In the first half of 2019, data breaches exposed over 4.1 billion records. What’s more, a recent study found that hackers attack computers with internet connections every 39 seconds—that adds up to, on average, 2,244 attacks per day.
One successful breach is all it takes to burn your credibility—or that of your business—down to ashes. For instance, in late 2016, two hackers were able to get names, email addresses, and contact numbers of over 57 million Uber app users.
This led to a $20 billion drop in Uber’s valuation, termination of the chief security officer (CSO), and a besmirched company reputation. Plus, they had to pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep their mouths shut.
Clearly, it doesn’t hurt to learn the basics of cybersecurity as a new programmer.
Before we discuss the cybersecurity best practices you should know about, let’s take a look at some common types of cyber attacks.
Types of Cyber Attacks
A cyber attack is an intentional and typically malicious attempt to capture, modify, or erase private data. Cyber attacks are committed for a variety of reasons, but the majority are motivated by ransom.
Here are the four types of cyber attacks that most commonly affect users, including programmers.
Brute Force Attack
A brute force attack (or “password guessing”) attack is when the attacker attempts to guess usernames and passwords, either manually or using software that does the guesswork at blazing speeds.
This attack will often try known username and password combinations from past data breaches. The attack is successful when people use passwords that are either weak or common for different applications (for instance, when your social media and work password are the same).
Your best defense against brute force attacks is to use strong passwords and avoid using the same password for different apps, as well as using two-factor authentication. We’ll take a closer look at this and other cybersecurity options later in the post.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when the attacker floods a network or system with a myriad of activities—such as messages, requests, or traffic—in an attempt to cripple it.
A successful DDoS attack can be used as a means of extortion and blackmailing. For instance, website owners can be asked to pay a ransom for attackers to stop a DDoS attack.
Such an attack is usually done with the use of botnets, which are groups of internet-connected devices—for example, laptops, smart speakers, gaming consoles, or servers—infected by viruses that allow the hacker to use them for performing such an attack.
DDoS defense techniques include the use of firewalls, VPN, anti-spam, content filtering, and load balancing.
Malware Attack
Malware refers to malicious software and techniques used by hackers to infiltrate computers and networks to steal vulnerable private data. Here are a few common types of malware:
Keyloggers track what a person types on their keyboard. Keyloggers are often used to get passwords and other private information, such as Social Security numbers.
Ransomware encrypts your data and holds it hostage, forcing you to pay a ransom if you wish to unlock and regain access to your data.
Spyware tracks and “spies” on your online activity on behalf of the hacker.
Malware can be delivered via a variety of routes, the common ones being:
Trojans, which infect computers or networks through a seemingly harmless entry point, often disguised as a legitimate application.
Viruses, which corrupt, erase, or modify data. These can spread from computer to computer when they’re unintentionally installed by careless users.
Worms, which are designed to self-replicate and autonomously spread through all connected devices that have the same vulnerabilities.
Phishing Attack
A phishing attack is when hackers try to trick people into doing something that is seemingly urgent or beneficial, like submit personal information for a limited-time reward.
These are extremely common and can be attempted through download links, emails, fake websites, or forms that look legitimate on the surface.
In addition, spear-phishing refers to when the attacker targets a particular person or company, rather than mass spamming.
Cybersecurity Best Practices
Cybersecurity isn’t something you can fully ensure by following rules set in stone. There is no foolproof way to safeguard you or your business’s security in the online world.
However, there are some best practices and cybersecurity techniques you can use to protect yourself in the best way possible.
Create Near-Impenetrable Login Credentials
This may sound super-obvious, but many people, including tech-savvy coders, use predictable passwords with meaning attached to them, such as a slightly modified version of a loved one’s name, initials, or birth date.
Such passwords are easy to remember, and thus, easy to hack.
Instead of having an easy-to-remember password, use a random password generator to create a super-strong password that can’t be guessed. Set a limit to the permissible number of login attempts, too. This is a simple yet powerful way to thwart brute force attacks.
Also, to prevent the wrong person from obtaining easy access to all your sensitive personal or business data, let your logins expire after a few hours of inactivity, even though it’s a minor inconvenience.
Moreover, be careful about sharing login privileges. Ideally, don’t share them at all. But if you run a business and absolutely have to, only a few select employees you fully trust should have login rights. And if an employee with credentials is no longer associated with your business, make sure to reset the credentials in a timely manner.
Keep Your CMS Up To Date
You’re likely using a content management system (CMS) for your personal website or at your workplace. While using a CMS like WordPress or Magento is a great way to manage your website more efficiently, it comes with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.
Consider WordPress: It powers over 35% of the internet and is still growing in popularity. But with its popularity and extensive customizability (using countless plugins and themes) come weaknesses and easy entry points that make WordPress a prime target for hackers.
Hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites fall victim to cyber attacks each year, despite the fact that WordPress in itself is a secure CMS.
All the extensions you install to make life easier, in the form of plugins and themes, are potential entry points for cyberpunks. Many of these plugins aren’t as secure, and while the vulnerabilities are usually fixed by their developers, you may fail to apply the patches on time.
So, see to it that your CMS, its themes, and its plugins are always up to date with the latest version.
Be Vigilant About Social Engineering Scams
You may feel you’re smart enough to differentiate between legitimate and fishy emails, and you likely are, but everyone has a lapse of judgment from time to time.
Always keep an eye out for phishing emails and scammy websites with shady downloads or offers. After all, phishing is an effective, high-reward, and minimal-investment strategy for hackers to gain access to sensitive information, such as your credit card details. As a result, it’s always going to be a threat.
Here are a few precautions to protect yourself against social engineering attacks:
Be wary of emails from unknown senders or even familiar people (like your company’s CEO or your doctor) who do not usually communicate directly with you. Don't click on links or open attachments from those senders.
Check the sender's email address to ensure it's from an authentic account. Hover over the link to see the associated web addresses in the “to” and “from” fields. Also, look for slight character changes that make illegitimate email addresses appear visually legit—a .com domain where it should be .gov, for instance.
Note grammatical errors in the email content, as they’re almost always a sign of a scam.
The strongest of strong passwords can still be broken through. And there’s always a possibility that your login credentials will fall into the wrong hands.
So, instead of requiring a mere password to successfully log in to your profile or website, use two-factor authentication wherein you’re sent a verification code to your registered phone or email to verify that the person logging in is indeed you.
Enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) gives you an added layer of security every time someone tries to log in with your credentials. A tool like Google Authenticator or Authy will do the trick.
Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Public Wi-Fi hotspots are great. They’re free and don’t require a password. They save you from exhausting your mobile data.
However, there’s a cybersecurity cost attached. Whether it’s your friendly neighborhood cafe or the airport, public Wi-Fi spots are perfect for hackers looking to steal your data or invade your privacy.
Hackers use these open networks to attempt man-in-the-middle attacks in which they position themselves between you and the network’s router. They can then create fake login pages to steal your credentials or the data sent from your device.
You can protect yourself from these by using a virtual private network (VPN). A VPN creates a “tunnel” through which your data travels when entering and exiting a web server. That tunnel encrypts your data and hides your location so it can’t be read by hackers or malicious software.
So whether you’re surfing the internet on public networks or planning to use streaming services like PrimeWire, consider getting a VPN for extra security.
Perform Frequent Backups and Malware Scans
You’re likely tired of hearing this, but frequently backing up important data is indispensable. It’s like eating your veggies—you know it’s a good thing to do but don’t really want to do it.
Let’s say your business website gets hacked. Every second of downtime is costing you serious money.
In this case, the quickest bounceback is to restore your last backup. While some hosting service providers perform automatic backups for you, almost none of them do it on the ideal frequency (daily or, at most, weekly). So, take it upon yourself to schedule frequent backups.
Next, using an antivirus tool, perform regular malware scans to track and remove viruses and outdated software or extensions that can be exploited by hackers. Conduct vulnerability tests using a vulnerability scanning tool to reveal your web app’s weak points.
New vulnerabilities emerge all the time, and something that was secure last month may not be secure today. Make a point of scheduling backups, scans, and tests ahead of time.
Skills and Technologies to Learn
Cybersecurity is a rewarding career path, with an average salary of nearly $90K.
But even if you don’t want to start a career in cybersecurity, it’s a good idea to know about the skills and technologies you need to be a savvy programmer.
While programming knowledge isn’t necessary to be good at cybersecurity, your knowledge of programming languages certainly gives you a head start. Let’s take a look at what the experts have to say about what you need to know to protect yourself.
Kristen Kozinski, who now manages enterprise security education at the New York Times, says, “You don’t need to be an expert, but being able to read and understand a language is a good skill to have [for cybersecurity].”
Chris Coleman, president of Woz U, says, “It’s only with a firm understanding of the vulnerabilities of systems that someone can predict and prevent cyberattacks.” That is, you need to be able to think like a cybercriminal.
On the technical side, it’s good to have an understanding of network architecture, administration, and management of operating systems (like various Linux distros or Windows), networking, and virtualization software. Get to know and love things like firewalls and network load balancers.
Apart from this, soft skills—the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts, great presentation and listening skills, teamwork, and so on—are, of course, prerequisites for success.
For example, you might have to present the concept of social engineering to unsuspecting employees, or communicate complex subjects or strategies to C-suite executives who may not have a technical background.
As the field is constantly changing, having a willingness to learn is also key. Furthermore, according to Dice, potentially important certifications include the following:
If you wish to pivot to cybersecurity as a career someday, these certifications can be extremely valuable.
According to Joseph Carson, the chief security scientist at security vendor Thycotic, “Cybersecurity certifications are essential to showing the level of knowledge of a cybersecurity professional. However, they should never alone be the only reference.” He adds, “Certifications should be combined with solid industry experience to get the right level of skill set required.”
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a cybersecurity program that routinely publishes insights and standards on various cybersecurity topics.
Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a global, nonprofit security resource and IT community used and trusted by experts in the field.
Cybrary is a mostly free cybersecurity training and career development platform with quality educational videos, certifications, mentorship, and hands-on practice labs for all kinds of cybersecurity topics and specializations.
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https://simpleprogrammer.com/cybersecurity-basics-for-new-programmers/
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Within the first weblog of our sequence on Azure Safety, we mentioned our strategy to tackling cloud vulnerabilities. Our second weblog highlighted our use of variant searching to detect patterns and improve safety throughout our providers. The third weblog within the sequence launched game-changing structure to enhance built-in safety. On this installment, we share our built-in response technique which gives a steady studying mannequin, leveraging large information, to enhance response, detections, preventative controls, and governance to measure and enhance effectiveness.
Azure Safety’s “Built-in Response” is the operate of incorporating safety danger mitigation methods right into a sturdy safety program, seamlessly coordinating throughout federated safety features to study, share, and adapt efficient methods to handle high dangers and threats at hyper-scale. As new threats and safety dangers emerge from a wide range of sources, we tackle them by evaluating root causes and growing safety controls as a studying suggestions system. Our learnings from proactive and reactive evaluation flip into product updates and menace intelligence enhancements in our safety merchandise.
To take care of belief and speed up response timelines, our closed-loop suggestions cycle incorporates each inside and exterior danger drivers to enhance every stage of our safety response pipeline. Frequently reviewing safety incidents is vital to our capacity to repeatedly enhance our agility and response time to mitigate safety dangers for our clients. Every of our institutional processes, such because the Safety LiveSite Evaluation (SLR), Safety Well being Evaluations (SHR), and our Safety Operation Evaluations (SOR) spotlight and prioritize alternatives for enchancment in any respect ranges of Azure’s engineering organizations. Let’s dive into what every of those phases means and the way they join to one another.
Fostering a safe tradition: A deeper take a look at Azure’s rigorous complete safety and response
In a Cloud-First world, our clients belief us with their information, mental property, and important enterprise purposes. To fulfill these expectations, we take a holistic strategy to control safety and create an Built-in Response which includes a suggestions cycle of figuring out danger drivers and guaranteeing we drive the suitable safety controls to correctly defend, detect and reply to threats. As well as, we guarantee all merchandise meet our safety requirements, similar to Microsoft Cloud Safety benchmarks. Listed below are the elements of our Built-in Response:
First response on new threats: Microsoft Safety Response Heart (MSRC) and Cyber Protection Operations—Working with an “Assume Breach” mindset, we now have honed our capacity to shortly and successfully reply to safety incidents and drive fast safety mitigation and enhancements. We have interaction clients, trade companions, and Microsoft product groups alike to work on this steady suggestions loop. MSRC is an built-in a part of the defender neighborhood working on the entrance line of safety response for our Azure clients and for different merchandise inside Microsoft. For greater than twenty years, MSRC has served to detect, reply, and get better from safety vulnerabilities. Our many years of expertise defending a variety of applied sciences have proven us that frequently studying and evolving, each inside and outside, is crucial to staying forward of the ever-changing menace panorama.
Study from each Safety Incident: Safety Reside Website Evaluations (SLR)—Following a safety incident originating from MSRC or Purple Group Operations, after the fast remediation exercise concludes, we prioritize conducting SLRs to drive 5-why evaluation with product groups and govt management. Deeply focusing each single week from the Government VP stage down on deconstructing incidents right down to their contributing root trigger(s) drives Microsoft’s methods on figuring out course of gaps, safety management updates, and product enhancements to enhance Azure’s safety posture. As mentioned earlier within the sequence, all through the investigation, we establish extra patterns past the precise incident to make sure we tackle past the symptom to the holistic answer. We observe these restore gadgets by way of all phases of our product and repair growth lifecycle together with operations, engineering workflow, and safety governance processes.
Guarantee safety tradition and enhance operational rigor: Safety Operations Evaluation (SOR)—To enhance safety for operational hygiene and foster a deep safety tradition, we conduct common SOR. These critiques convey collectively govt leaders and product groups to share finest practices and assessment behavioral developments, safety management efficiency, and show a confirmed capacity to take care of safety SLAs as a proactive course of.
Perceive and scale back holistic safety danger: Safety Well being and Threat Evaluations (SHR)—Understanding the safety danger of assorted necessities are an necessary ingredient to sustaining a correct security-first mindset. We rationalize management efficiency and danger within the mixture to conduct deep dives with product groups, making a joint security-review dialog to study and drive methods to handle rising threats extra broadly. The SHR gives a deep hyperlink to rising danger by merging Azure Safety views with strategic product enhancements to make sure we meet our clients’ wants now and into the long run, offering confidence that we’re investing in groundbreaking safety innovation for tomorrow’s threats.
Govern successfully and drive safety requirements: Azure Safety Governance—All the time following a development mindset, we drive safety governance at scale throughout greater than six thousand distinctive merchandise, driving safety baseline compliance, guaranteeing our clients have the best safety capabilities built-in into our merchandise earlier than launch as documented in Microsoft Cloud Safety Benchmark (MCSB), which helps clients guarantee their service configurations of Azure and different clouds meet the safety specification outlined in frameworks such because the Heart for Web Safety, the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise, and the Fee Card Trade. MCSB gives an environment friendly alignment strategy for patrons to leverage as controls are pre-mapped to those trade benchmarks.
Internally, this governance operate measures and gives insights and developments round behavioral and safety management efficiency throughout our merchandise, integrating new controls in SDL to remain related and mitigating rising dangers, whereas additionally empowering leaders with safety optics to assist them perceive their safety posture and drive security-first tradition inside their groups. We observe safety key efficiency Indicators (KPIs), at scale, and prioritize controls efficient at mitigating threats primarily based on real-world findings from root trigger evaluation of malicious assaults, RED Group discovery, MSRC findings, and trade incidents. Many are broadly recognized because the trade’s finest practices and necessities of Microsoft Safety Coverage (SDL/OSA) in addition to regulatory compliance requirements. These safety KPIs are measured with Microsoft safety applied sciences which have expanded and matured over time.
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Whether you would like a cell security app to protect the devices, or maybe a free antivirus iphone app to scan the files with respect to malware, there https://bestappsguide.net/5-must-have-features-in-board-management-software are plenty of options in existence. Some of the best Google android mobile secureness apps include sophisticated adware and spyware scanners, program optimization equipment, and VPN to keep your mobile browsing actions safe.
Finding the right antivirus app for your Android device can be difficult. Some of the features you want to look for include a free trial, a comprehensive feature set, and solid safety. You may also want to consider an antivirus app that offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Some malware apps apply blacklists to flag vicious apps. Whilst blacklists could be a good way in order to avoid malware out of spreading, that they don’t deliver much safety.
Other features to look for consist of an anti-virus app that offers real-time security, a VPN, and an anti-theft characteristic. Some ant-virus apps also provide a parent control feature.
When choosing a great antivirus software for your Android device, be sure you choose one right from a reputable organization. Also, choose one that doesn’t work with excessive bandwidth or decelerate your system.
If you are concerned about trojans on your Android device, recognize an attack avoid transfering APKs from untrustworthy sources. You can limit the number of downloads is made to software in the Yahoo Play Retail store. If you do download apps via outside of the Play Retail outlet, make sure to use a good anti-virus software to scan all of them for infections.
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Users who visit malicious or compromised websites may have downloaded the ransomware, unwittingly. It can also arrive as a payload that another malware have either dropped or downloaded. Some are delivered as attachments to spammed email.
Once executed, it can either lock the computer screen or encrypt files with a password.
Cybercriminals use online payment methods, such as Ukash, PaySafeCard, MoneyPAK or Bitcoin as a way to pay the ransom. However, it does not guarantee they will restore your system or files to you.
How can I prevent infection?
Always check who the email sender isIf the email is supposedly coming from a bank, verify with your bank if the message is legitimate. If it came from a personal contact, confirm if your contact sent the message. Do not rely solely on trust by virtue of relationship, as your friend or family member may be a victim of spammers as well.
Double-check the content of the messageThere are obvious factual errors or discrepancies that you can spot. For example, if your bank or a friend claims that they have received something from you, try to go to your recently sent items to double-check their claim. Such spammed messages can also use other social engineering lures to persuade users to open the message.
Avoid clicking links in emailIt is safer to visit any site mentioned in email directly. If you have to click on a link in email, make sure your browser uses web reputation services to check the link, or you can use free services such as Trend Micro Site Safety Center.
Always ensure your software is up-to-dateRegularly updating installed software provides another layer of security against many attacks.
Backup important dataOne good practice is to ensure you have the latest backups of your files. The 3-2-1 principle should be in play: three copies, two different media, one separate location.
Download from legitimate sites or sourcesOnly download programs and files from credible websites and not from other sites that just indicate they have the actual file or program.
Download our free Decrypt Tool to attempt to retrieve files Crypto Ransomware encrypted.
You can also manually restore encrypted files after infection.
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At present we rely heavily on the technological know-how of places like the United States and Israel. In order to reduce this dependence and grow our own skills, the European authorities have recently been developing cooperation policies with suppliers, industry, centres for technological development and experts in the field.
Flagship events for cybersecurity and Industry 4.0 in the Basque Country to be celebrated jointly this year
The flagship events for Industry 4.0 and cybersecurity in the Basque Country will be celebrated jointly this year, remaining true to our goal of serving as a meeting point for public institutions, companies, business clusters, technological centres and universities, at local, national and international levels.
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The Department for Education and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been made aware of an increasing number of cyber-attacks involving ransomware infection affecting the education sector at this time. The purpose of this letter is to make you aware of the threat and provide high-level information and advice to support your ongoing cyber security preparedness and mitigation work.
In all cases the NCSC has been working with the department and the affected providers to contain and support post-incident outcomes. However, these attacks and incidents have had a significant impact on the affected education provider’s ability to operate effectively and deliver services.
These incidents appear to be financially driven but opportunistic, taking advantage of system weaknesses such as unpatched software, poor authentication systems or the susceptibility of users to misdirection.
Whilst I would urge you to ensure that your systems, processes and awareness training are up to date, I also want to make you aware of the steps you should take if your educational setting is affected.
1. Enact your incident management plan 2. Contact the NCSC, via https://report.ncsc.gov.uk 3. Contact your local law enforcement and Action Fraud,via https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
It is vital that all education providers urgently review their existing defences and take the necessary steps to protect their networks from cyber-attacks.
Along with your defences, having the ability to restore the systems and recover data from backups is vital. You should ask your IT team or provider to confirm that:
The Department for Education would like to signpost guidance in developing defences as well as a number of free offers that the NCSC provide which can help notify you of possible malicious activity on your networks. These have been listed in the annex attached.
We will continue to monitor these situations and will revert with further information if there are further developments.
Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that prevents you from accessing your computer (or the data that is stored on it). The system itself may become locked, or the data on it might be stolen, deleted or encrypted. Some ransomware will also try to spread to other machines on the network, such as the Wannacry malware that impacted the NHS in May 2017.
Normally you’re asked to make a payment (often demanded in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin) in order to unlock your computer (or to access your data). However, even if you pay the ransom, there is no guarantee that you will get access to your computer, or your files. Occasionally malware is presented as ransomware, but after the ransom is paid the files are not decrypted. This is known as wiper malware. For these reasons, it’s essential that you always have a recent offline backup of your most important files and data.
How does it impact education providers?
Ransomware is often used by criminals in a way that doesn’t initially target specific organisations. Once the malicious software is on a network, the criminals can monitor and control the encryption of data. Their aim is to encrypt data that will have the most impact on the organisation’s services. This can affect not just the organisation’s computer networks but also services it operates, including telephony and websites. The data held by these services is also at significant risk, including personal information (student and staff details), financial transactions (staff salaries, payment of ESFA funds, ability to pay suppliers), details on vulnerable people (adult social care), and college and school data (admissions, at risk children).
Depending on the comprehensiveness of disaster / business continuity plans in place, normal service can take weeks, if not months to resume. In some cases, data will never be recovered.
Some ransomware groups have started to steal data from their victim organisation’s networks before encrypting what is left. This means that even if the victim can recover from backups the criminals may try to extort money in exchange for not revealing the data online.
1. Have an incident plan and test it 2. Make sure your data is backed up offline and test the recovery of it 3. Regularly review your defences and controls
NCSC material and support 1. Ransomware advice and guidance for your IT teams to implement, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/mitigating-malware-and-ransomware-attacks 2. How to effectively detect, respond to and resolve cyber incidents, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/incident-management/cyber-incident-response-processes/developing-your-plan 3. Sign up to the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP); a safe and secure environment that allows the NCSC to share threat information, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/keep-up-to-date/cisp 4. Enrol in the NCSC Early Warning service that helps the NCSC to rapidly notify organisations that might be affected by malicious software, available here: https://earlywarning.service.ncsc.gov.uk/ 5. Test your incident response with an “Exercise in a Box”, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/exercise-in-a-box 6. Finally a data backup strategy and guidance is also available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/small-business-guide/backing-your-data
Further information
1. Back to school audit by NCSC and London Grid for Learning, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/cyber-security-going-back-to-school
2. Questions for school governors by NCSC and DfE, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/school-governor-questions 3. NCSC practical tips for everyone working in education, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/resources-for-schools 4. NCSC cyber security risk management guidance, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/risk-management-collection
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Duo Security this week unveiled a massive security vulnerability in PayPal's two-factor authentication system which would have allowed attacked to bypass the security system and gain access to user's accounts where they would have been able to make unauthorized payments.
The vulnerability is has to have been in the authentication flow for the PayPal API web service which is used by PayPal's official mobile application, as well as third-party merchants and apps. Duo Security waited until PayPal fixed the issue before publicly unveiling this vulnerability, a post from the security firm said the following:
"As of the date of this post (June 25), PayPal has put a workaround in place to limit the impact of the vulnerability, and is actively working on a permanent fix,"In light of the vulnerability reporting timeline and the trivial discoverability of the vulnerability, we have elected to publicly disclose this issue, so that users can be informed to the risks to their PayPal accounts."
It was discovered that even though PayPal's mobile apps do not support 2FA (two-factor authentication) enabled accounts, it was possible to "trick" PayPal's mobile applications into ignoring a 2FA flag on an account, in turn allowing an attacker to log in without requiring secondary authentication — which is usually sent either to a user's mobile phone or a credit-card sized security code device. This was all possible by interfacing directly with the PayPal API.
Duo Labs' proof-of-concept was built on a Python script which was able to communicate with two separate PayPal API services, one to authenticate and the other to transfer money to another account. PayPal have implemented a workaround on June 23rd, with a permanent fix being targeted for July 28th.
PayPal's senior director of global initiatives, Anuj Naya, said that "Customers who do not use the PayPal security key (physical card or SMS codes) as an additional step to log into their accounts are not impacted in any way. He also went on to say that:
"If you have chosen to add 2FA to your PayPal account, your account also remains secure and 2FA will continue to operate as usual on the vast majority of PayPal product experiences. Even though 2FA is an additional layer of authentication, PayPal does not depend on 2FA to keep accounts secure."
Last month, PayPal's parent company, eBay, was in the spotlight after a massive privacy breach after an attack on May 21 which compromised a database holding non-financial data. Click here for more info on eBay's privacy breach.
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Kỹ năng tổ chức công việc và quản lý thời gian.
Hiểu biết sâu rộng về hệ thống máy tính và mạng.
Am hiểu về nguyên tắc bảo mật mạng và dữ liệu.
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In today's digital age, cyber threats are frequent and increasingly sophisticated.
To help our customers proactively strengthen their cyber security resilience, BEUMER Group is ISO 27001 certified.
„Cyber security is on everyone's strategic agenda and with our ISO 27001 certification, BEUMER Group has a proven implementation of best practices for protecting ours and our customers' businesses from cyber threats.“
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On the 24th of January 2018, the World Economic Forum announced a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity to help build a safe and secure global cyberspace. The centre will be based in Geneva, Switzerland, and will function as an autonomous organization under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.
The aim of the centre is to establish the first global platform for governments, businesses, experts and law enforcement agencies to collaborate on cybersecurity challenges. As a truly borderless problem, cyber-attacks are surpassing the capacities and institutions that are currently dealing with this threat in an isolated manner. Only through collaboration, information exchange and common standards can the global community successfully counter organized digital crime. “If we want to prevent a digital dark age, we need to work harder to make sure the benefits and potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are secure and safe for society. The new Global Centre for Cybersecurity is designed as the first platform to tackle today’s cyber-risks in a truly global manner,” said Alois Zwinggi , Managing Director at the World Economic Forum and Head of the Global Centre for Cybersecurity.
New technologies like artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics and their application in sensitive areas such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications and mobility make it all the more important to keep up with the increasing speed and sophistication of cyber-attacks. “Interpol is a natural strategic partner for the World Economic Forum’s Global Cyber Centre. Both are unique because their global dimension underpins our collective response against the cyber threat. Our partnership contributes to building effective security architecture against such global threats, bringing key interdependent actors together, including police and business,” said Jürgen Stock , Secretary General of Interpol.
The cost of cybercrime to the global economy could go up to $500 billion annually, according to experts. In comparison, the annual GDP of Switzerland in 2017 is estimated at $659 billion. The World Economic Forum has recognized cybersecurity as one of the world’s most critical risks . In response, the new Global Centre for Cybersecurity will draw on the Forum’s government and industry support to work towards a more secure cyberspace through its established multistakeholder approach. “As one of the world’s largest dedicated security practices, BT is supporting the creation of a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity. We believe that closer, cross-border collaboration between the public and private sectors, in the form of sharing threat information and best practice, is critical if we are to succeed in combating cybercrime,” said Gavin Patterson , Chief Executive, BT Group, United Kingdom. The centre will focus on the following aims:
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a. Change Default Passwords: Many smart home security cameras come with default usernames and passwords. Change these immediately to create a strong, unique password. Avoid easily guessable passwords like “admin” or “12345.” b. Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): If your security camera supports 2FA, enable it. This adds an extra layer of security by requiring you to enter a one-time code sent to your mobile device before accessing the camera’s feed or settings.
c. Regularly Update Firmware: Check for firmware updates for your camera and apply them promptly. These updates often include security patches that address vulnerabilities.
d. Create a Separate Network: Consider setting up a separate network for your IoT devices, including security cameras. This helps isolate them from your primary network, adding an extra layer of security.
2. Smart Thermostats
a. Use Strong Authentication: If your smart thermostat connects to the internet, use strong authentication methods like 2FA when setting up the device and accessing its controls remotely.
b. Update Regularly: Just like other IoT devices, smart thermostats receive firmware updates that enhance security. Keep your thermostat’s firmware up to date to ensure it’s protected against potential vulnerabilities.
c. Disable Unnecessary Features: Some smart thermostats come with features like remote access, which you may not need. Consider disabling such features if you’re not using them to minimize potential attack surfaces.
3. Wearable Fitness Trackers
a. Protect Personal Data: Fitness trackers often collect personal health data. Ensure that this data is stored securely and encrypted on the device. Check the privacy settings of the associated app to control what information is shared.
b. Keep Software Updated: Regularly update both the wearable device and its companion app to patch security vulnerabilities. This will also help you access the latest features and improvements.
c. Use Strong PINs or Passcodes: Protect your fitness tracker by setting a strong PIN or passcode to unlock it. Don’t use easily guessable codes, like your birthdate.
d. Review App Permissions: Review the permissions granted to the companion app and ensure it only accesses the data it genuinely needs. Be cautious about granting access to sensitive information.
4. Smart Speakers
a. Mute Microphones When Not in Use: Some smart speakers come with physical buttons or switches to mute their microphones. Use this feature when you’re not actively using the device to prevent unintended recordings.
b. Disable Unnecessary Features: Review the settings of your smart speaker and disable any features or permissions that you don’t use or trust. This includes voice recognition, location tracking, or sharing personal information.
c. Create Voice Recognition Profiles: If your smart speaker supports voice recognition, set up individual voice profiles for each user. This enhances privacy and ensures that only authorized individuals can access certain functions.
d. Keep Conversations Private: Some smart speakers allow you to delete voice recordings. Regularly review and delete recorded conversations or commands that you don’t need to keep.
5. Smart Locks
a. Set Strong Access Codes: If your smart lock uses access codes, set strong and unique codes for each user. Avoid using easily guessable combinations, like “1234” or “0000.” b. Enable Activity Notifications: Many smart locks allow you to receive notifications when someone locks or unlocks the door. Enable this feature to stay informed about who is accessing your home.
c. Regularly Change Codes: Change access codes periodically to minimize the risk of unauthorized access, especially if you’ve shared codes with guests or service providers.
d. Monitor Battery Levels: Smart locks often run on batteries. Keep an eye on the battery level and replace them promptly to ensure the lock continues to function.
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https://www.anonymoushackers.net/cybersecurity-news/how-to-protect-five-common-iot-devices-in-2023/
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Security executives are overwhelmingly craving more AI solutions in 2023 to help them battle the growing cybersecurity threat landscape, according to Netrix Global.
22% of respondents said that they would like to see more AI used in cybersecurity this year, nearly five times more than automation – which came in a distant second (5%), closely followed by threat detection, improved cloud security and authentication methods (each with 4% share respectively).
“It’s clear that AI has started to reach maturity in the Gartner Hype Cycle and we should expect to see more unique uses of the technology across the cybersecurity industry in the near-term future,” said Russell P. Reeder, CEO of Netrix Global.
“In fact, more than half of the executives surveyed said that they currently use AI and machine learning, but their appetite to increase use is high – particularly those at larger companies making critical decisions about where to invest for the future,” Reeder added.
IT security spending
Interestingly, when looking at other findings around spending decisions, security executives said that supply chain issues and the growing distributed workforce are likely to have a more significant influence on IT security spending in 2023 than the looming recession.
The study found that a mere 38% of executives said that the looming recession would significantly influence their IT security spending this year. Instead, 48% responded that their growing distributed workforce would have a significant influence, followed closely by supply chain issues (46%).
“Security becomes even more critical in times of economic hardship because businesses simply can’t risk a data breach and many businesses are opting to bring on a partner rather than increase their internal headcount,” said Reeder.
“It’s not surprising that the distributed workforce continues to be a key focal point for executives responsible for managing the security budget. But on the flip side, it was interesting to see how much the ripple effect of supply chain issues are influencing IT security spend,” Reeder continued.
According to the study, the biggest impact that a looming recession will have on executive planning will be timing. 47% of respondents said that they have already pulled some cybersecurity initiatives forward in their planning so that they would be complete prior to the economic impact of a recession. Meanwhile, 24% of respondents are proceeding with their 2023 cybersecurity plan timelines as if there will be no recession ahead.
“These findings mirror much of what we’re seeing and feeling from our client base today,” added Reeder. “There’s certainly an increased sense of pace and urgency to move key cybersecurity initiatives forward faster – and we’re being brought in to help manage and drive that pace. Once again, the impact of emerging cybersecurity threats can be crippling to a business – particularly during an economic downturn.”
Pressing cybersecurity threats
When asked which cybersecurity threats were most pressing, executives pegged malware (39%) as the threat that concerned them most. Not far behind, both ransomware and data loss were identified as the second most ominous threats (37% each). Phishing attacks ranked sixth on the list, with 26% of respondents tagging them as their top concern.
When asked which software/application is most vulnerable to security threats, the largest proportion of executives said that email (28%) was their No. 1 risk.
“There’s a bit of a dichotomy in the data,” said Reeder. “It’s surprising to see that phishing ranks in the middle of the field of concerning cyber threats, yet email was listed as the most vulnerable software/application to security threats. Phishing attacks continue to get more sophisticated and targeted, with increasing risk as AI technology continues to proliferate and reach a wider audience.”
Another theme that was prevalent throughout the study was the pressing need for IT and security talent. 44% of all respondents said that hiring qualified IT workers would be more of an imperative in 2023 than in previous years. 38% said specifically that they expect hiring qualified security experts would be a challenge in 2023.
“We’ve been talking about the talent gap in IT and security for some time now, and it’s starting to have a more significant impact on companies as they rely on technology to operate and secure their business,” added Reeder.
“That gap widens as companies consider how to leverage AI in both their cybersecurity and IT operations but lack the internal talent or leadership guidance to make smart investments that will prove return,” Reeder concluded.
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If you receive a script error and/or encryption error when attempting to enter your Merchant ID (MID) and Merchant Key (MKEY) into Sage 50 (formerly Sage Peachtree), it may indicate that your company encryption needs updating.
To do this, please make sure that all users are logged out of Sage 50. Then, from the 'File' Menu, select 'Update Encryption', this process may take a few minutes. Once complete, try entering your MID/MKEY again.
If the error persists, please contact Sage 50 Technical Support for additional assistance.
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Every October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year, the two organizations behind the international campaign — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) — are highlighting four key action steps that everyone can take to better protect themselves against cyber threats.
In this post, we will discuss the four steps and why they’re essential, as well as provide some valuable tips that small and medium business owners can follow to make sure that their businesses and employees are protected.
Threats or a sense of urgency — “Your account will be closed in 24 hours if you don’t click this button,” for example.
A questionable email address — If an email claims to be from a certain company, but the email address domain doesn’t include the company’s name, it’s a huge red flag.
Suspicious attachments — Cybercriminals will often attach files to emails that when opened will install malicious software.
Strange requests — Out-of-the-blue emails that ask for payment and/or personal information are almost certainly phishing scams.
Grammar and spelling errors.
In addition to ensuring that all employees know what to look out for when it comes to the common signs of phishing scams, security software should be installed on all company computers. Look for a product that comes with anti-phishing capabilities — most security software from well-known companies will include this.
If you or one of your employees receives a phishing email, forward it to the Anti-Phishing Working Group at [email protected]. Phishing scams can also be reported to the FTC at FTC.gov/complaint.
Making sure that all company computers’ operating systems and apps are regularly updated to the latest software versions is essential because software updates will regularly include fixes for known security issues. The use of out-of-date software makes it exponentially easier for cybercriminals to exploit a computer/system.
The global WannaCry/WannaCrypt ransomware attacks in 2017 targeted Microsoft computers running out-of-date software that had a known vulnerability that had already been fixed by Microsoft. However, because many computers hadn’t been updated, cybercriminals were able to take advantage of the exploit and install ransomware on them that caused an estimated $4 billion in damages.
If your business employs only a very small number of employees, teach them about the importance of installing the latest software updates and remind them from time to time to check for new ones. However, if that wouldn’t be practical, consider hiring a person to take care of IT-related issues or give an existing, tech-savvy employee this responsibility.
Using password hacking software, a cybercriminal can crack a 10-character password made up of only numbers instantly, whereas a 14-character password made up of a mix of numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, and symbols (@, %, &, etc.) would take 200 million years.
However, it’s difficult to remember complex passwords so it can be tough to resist the temptation to use suboptimal ones. If only there was an easy way to create strong, tough-to-hack, memorable passwords, right? Well, there is! You can create strong passwords from memorable song lyrics, poems, etc. using letters, numbers, and characters to represent words and/or letters.
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For example, take the AC/DC lyric “It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll.” This can be converted to a strong password like so: i@Lw2tTiUwr’n’r (“it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ r”). As long as you can remember it, you can get as creative as you want, too. For instance, the dollar sign can be used to represent the letter “S” or the word “money” and parenthesis makes for a good, tough-to-guess substitute for the letter “O”.
You can check how strong your passwords are and how long it would take a hacker to crack them by clicking here.
You should also consider purchasing a password manager for your employees. Password managers can automatically generate and store secure passwords, allowing every employee to have unique, ultra-strong passwords for all their accounts — without the need to remember them all. Many password manager providers offer licenses specifically designed for small and medium businesses, too.
Step 4: Enable multi-factor authentication.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) — also called two-factor authentication (2FA) — adds an extra layer of protection to accounts by requiring users to provide two separate forms of information to log in.
Conventionally, users log in with a username and password (the password being the first form/factor of identification). However, MFA requires users to provide an additional factor to prove that they are who they say they are — such as a code sent to a trusted phone number. According to Google, MFA via SMS helps “block 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks.”
There are several common authentication methods for MFA, including SMS verification, email verification, and authenticator apps. However, no matter which authentication method is used, the improvements to account security are tremendous.
It is strongly encouraged that you enable MFA on all your personal and business accounts and make it mandatory for employees to enable it on all their work accounts.
This article was written by Michael Mundell and originally appeared on Score.
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In my opinion, traders should always know when they plan to enter or exit a trade before they execute… It’s like I've also said: “ you need to know all the aspects of the trade BEFORE you enter”. Create your battle plan ahead of time so you're ahead of the expectation curve!
I have historically suggested to community members to read the book “The Art of War”. The book is based on the Chinese military general Sun Tzu, who famously said: "Every battle is won before it is fought." This phrase implies that planning and strategy execution wins wars….or, in our case, produces successful trades more often than not! Similarly, successful traders commonly quote the phrase: "Plan the trade and trade the plan." Just like in war, planning ahead can often mean the difference between success and failure. Simple!
The real focus of this blog though is Risk Management. It’s something that gets all of us at some point in time. The newer traders get hit the most with it and vet traders are humbled by it as a friendly reminder to its importance! If you’re a trader, or wanting to trade, there is NO escaping the importance of risk management!
Just to be completely clear here….risk, in trading, is what you stand to lose if you’re wrong or decide to cut a trade. It’s what I refer to as “at risk capital”. Risk Capital is what you put up for the trade…At Risk Capital is what you stand to lose IF your analysis is wrong!
Trading can be exciting and incredibly profitable if you are able to stay focused, use due diligence, and keep your emotions in check. Still, the best traders need to incorporate risk management practices to prevent losses from getting out of control. Having a strategic and objective approach to cutting losses through stop orders, profit taking is a smart way to stay in the game.
Risk management helps cut down losses. It can also help protect traders' accounts from losing all of its money. Capital risk occurs when traders suffer losses. That is typically a by-product of not managing risk or worse, opening themselves up to unnecessary risk (lowering stops, trying to average down, adding to a losing position etc). If the risk can be managed, traders can open themselves up to making money in the market and more importantly, surviving unforeseen losing streaks!
It is an essential but often overlooked prerequisite to successful trading…and investing for that matter. After all, a trader who has generated substantial profits can lose it all in just one or two bad trades without a proper risk management strategy… I have personally done that. I know wall street traders that have done the same. In fact, when the famed George Soros first retired, he did so on the back of huge gains that he later gave back. That was at a point in time when he was one of the most well respected speculators in the game!
So how do you develop the best techniques to curb the risks of the market?
A lot of day traders follow what's called the one-percent rule. Basically, this rule of thumb suggests that you should never put more than 1% of your capital or your trading account into a single trade. When I was studying finance the textbook definition of risk said never to put up/risk more than 1-3% of your capital. So if you have $10,000 in your trading account, your position in any given instrument shouldn't be more than $100.This strategy is common for traders who have accounts of less than $100,000—some even go as high as 2% if they can afford it. Many traders whose accounts have higher balances may choose to go with a lower percentage. That's because as the size of your account increases, so too does the position. The best way to keep your losses in check is to keep the rule below 2%—any more and you'll be risking a substantial amount of your trading account.
For me personally I prefer Setting Stop-Loss Points and Take-Profit Points. I have various tools that I use to measure risk vs reward. A stop-loss point is the price at which a trader will sell a stock and take a loss on the trade. The point of trading with stops is to stop the bleeding if you’re wrong. Remember the game is more about Capital Preservation…Safe return of capital vs Return on capital…There is a huge difference in mindset! The points are designed to prevent the "it will come back" mentality and limit losses before they escalate. On the other hand, a take profit point is the price at which a trader will sell a stock and take a profit on the trade. Remember, when you have an unrealized profit and your P/L is in the green…you still have risk on. If you have capital working you have exposure to risk! Moving your stoplosses up and putting your capital in a “risk free” situation is never a bad idea, and taking risk off completely at a defined profit zone is also never a bad idea!
Setting stop losses can be done in a number of different ways. It all depends on your strategy and what your trading plan instructs you to do. If you’re day trading or swing trading, setting stop-loss and take-profit points is done using technical analysis. Moving averages represent the most popular way to set stop loss points, as they are easy to calculate and widely tracked by the market. Key moving averages include the 20-, 50-, 100- and 200-day averages. Those are the Moving Averages that are the most watched on ALL timeframes. If you’re day trading you might want to think about incorporating the VWAP. These are best set by applying them to a stock's chart and determining whether the stock price has reacted to them in the past as either a support or resistance level.
Another great way to place stop-loss or take-profit levels is on support or resistance trend lines. Support and Resistance are what I like to refer to as areas of structure. These can be drawn by connecting previous highs or lows that occurred on significant, above-average volume. Like with moving averages, the key is determining levels at which the price reacts to the trend lines and, of course, on high volume.
At the end of the day…the real name of the game is managing risk. If a trader cant or wont manage risk, the market won't let them stick around too long. #FACTS
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A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in the ransomware attack on five southwestern Ontario hospitals, officials said in a lengthy update Monday.
The update — including specific information about what was stolen from each hospital — comes after some data was published by the hackers online.
“All hospitals have some degree of patient and employee information affected,” the hospitals said in a joint afternoon statement. “All of our hospitals are diligently investigating the stolen data to determine who is impacted.”
The cyberattack on Oct. 23 has led to a system outage involving patient records, email and more at Windsor Regional Hospital, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, Bluewater Health and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. It has also delayed appointments for patients.
Neither the hospitals nor TransForm — the hospitals’ IT and payroll administration organization, which is at the centre of the attack — have paid ransom demanded by attackers.
TransForm says anyone whose data has been compromised will be contacted directly.
According to the joint statement from the hospitals, attackers were able to steal data from a shared file server that included patient data of “varied amounts and sensitivity.” “The stolen data is in many formats, some of which are easier to analyze,” officials said in their statement.
Also targeted was a Bluewater Health patient database report.
Not stolen in the attack are databases related to employee payroll, accounts payable, electronic health record information at hospitals other than Bluewater Health and donor information.
The hospitals called the information released Monday “an initial update on what is known to date,” saying that analysis is still ongoing.
Hospitals summarize known extent of breach
Bluewater Health in Sarnia: The stolen database report includes information on 5.6 million visits made by 267,000 unique patients. The hospital says it is still determining the specific individuals included in the report and it did not include clinical documentation records. Employee and staff SIN and banking information was not taken.
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance: An employee database that contained information about 1,446 employees working at the hospital as of Feb. 2, 2021, was taken. That information includes names, SINs, addresses and rates of pay, among other basic personal information. But the database did not include professional staff or volunteers. The CKHA’s electronic health record was not affected, but a shared drive did contain some patient information still being analyzed by the hospital.
Erie Shoes HealthCare in Leamington: A “limited set” of stolen data includes 352 current and past employee social insurance numbers (SIN). The hospital says its entire workforce was not affected, so impacted employees will be notified directly. No banking information was stolen.
Windsor Regional Hospital: Officials say a limited portion of a shared drive used by staff some patients were identified, either by name only or with a brief summary of their medical conditions. The information does not include any patient charts or electronic medical records. Information pertaining to some employees, like staff schedules, was affected, but WRH believes no SINs or banking information was taken.
Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare in Windsor: The breached shared drive included some patient information the hospital is still analyzing. Some employee information was stolen, but the hospital says that does not include SINs or banking information.
The hospitals are all offering free credit monitoring to their employees and professional staff. Past employees whose information may have been affected, like at CKHA, can sign up in person at the hospital or will receive a letter with instructions.
The hospitals said they anticipate an update on the restoration of systems in the coming days and they have reported findings to the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner.
The hospitals have set up a cybersecurity hotline for questions from patients, at 519-437-6212, with hours from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday to Friday. Staff can direct questions to their HR teams.
“We condemn the actions of cybercriminals, in the health-care sector and elsewhere, in our communities and around the world,” officials said. “We understand the concern this incident has raised within our communities, including patients and our employees and professional staff, and we deeply apologize.”
Cybercriminal group exposes new batch of data: blog
The update from the hospitals comes after another bunch of sensitive patient data was released onto the dark web by the cybercriminal group that has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the author of a site that tracks data breaches.
This is the third round of data that has been published after the five hospitals agreed not to pay a ransom.
The first round of data, which included scans of patient information like records and claims, was published on Nov. 1. The second round of data, published on Friday, included COVID-19 vaccine records including names and in some cases their reactions to vaccines.
This third round of data, according to DataBreaches.net — a blog that covers cyberattacks — was released on Sunday.
Featured VideoAccording to a blog, cybercriminal group Daixin says it has attacked the hospitals in southwestern Ontario and forced them to go dark. CBC’s Jennifer La Grassa breaks down more details the group shared about how it got into hospital systems.
CBC News has not independently verified the claims in the blog, but has verified the identity of the author of the website. An expert told CBC while the author, who uses the pseudonym Dissent Doe, has a track record of credibility, specific claims made by hackers should be taken with some skepticism.
The author of Databreaches.net says through email the cybercriminal group Daixin took responsibility for the attack last week.
According to Dissent, the third round of data includes some personnel information, sensitive patient information and IT-related data.
They say this involves discharge data on patients between 2013 and 2015, as well as survey responses, patient complaints and internal hospital reviews that have been done.
Dissent writes that their description of what data was leaked is “intended to remind the public what can happen when threat actors can gain access to a network and why entities need to really evaluate whether they have adequate security for sensitive files.”
Dissent adds in their blog that there is still another part of the data that Daixin hasn’t yet dumped and that is databases.
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Amazon Web Services and Google have criticised proposed powers that would allow the government to defend the networks of critical infrastructure providers, arguing such intervention could make an incident worse.
Fronting an inquiry into the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill on Thursday, representatives highlighted concerns with the broad-brush powers and whether they should apply to the data processing sector.
Both providers have previously raised issues with the bill, particularly the ability for the Australian Signals Directorate to defend networks and systems of critical infrastructure in exceptional circumstances.
One major concern is the ability for the government to install software, “access, add, restore, copy, alter or delete data”, alter the “functioning” of hardware or remove it entirely from the premises of a private company under the guise of incident response.
AWS’ ANZ public policy director Roger Somerville told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security that there was an “underlying assumption… that if something bad happens to a critical piece of Australia’s infrastructure then the government is capable of stepping in a fixing that bad thing”.
“In many instances we think there’s just a really big risk of the government stepping in and misunderstanding how the regulated entity operates,” he said on Thursday.
“It may be making things worse, so creating more or new problematic security and systemic risks in the process.
“We think that could have really significant consequences for Australia’s economy and should be avoided.”
AWS’ view was shared by Google, with threat analysis group director Shane Huntley describing the step-in powers as a “one size fits all solution that doesn’t really fit” for global cloud providers.
“We can totally understand there might be a small provider in Australia without cyber capabilities where some powers might be necessary,” he said.
“But that is a very different world when you’re taking about a hyperscale international cloud providers with thousands of security professionals… and very complex systems that really require years of experience to even understanding how they work before anyone could step in.”
Huntley, who has previously worked at the Australian Signals Directorate, was particularly critical of any installation of software by the government, which he said would likely be used for the monitoring of threats.
“We don’t think the sort of step-in powers to install software under really any circumstance in our situation is going to do anything to make things better and has a very high probability, if not certainty, of making things worse,” he said.
He added that Google’s own tools for monitoring, threat analysis and detection were the “best way, and really the only feasible way” to monitor its systems.
“I really can’t imagine a situation where there is some software from ASD which we’re installing on our systems which would even work, let alone be safe,” he said.
Huntley instead called for better sharing of threat information, including IP addresses and malware signatures, to ensure Google knows “what to look for”, as well as collaboration.
Somerville, however, said AWS “feel we know very little about what type of software we may be forced to install on our network”.
“We just don’t understand how the government, given all of the complexity of various assets, could reasonably believe that such powers could be exercised quickly, operate effectively and still achieve the government’s aims,” he said.
Microsoft’s Office of Critical Infrastructure assistant general counsel Hasan Ali also urged the committee to “recognise the unique characteristics” of cloud providers.
“Installation of any software, particularly in a complex and interconnected network, will have a severe adverse consequence,” he said.
“I think you’re talking about very different things when you’re talking about installation of software in an on-premises environment with a single customer.
“But doing so in the context of the data storage or processing sector with hyperscale cloud providers, these are interdependent systems.
"They will introduce vulnerabilities, and we think it’s going to be potentially a source of third-party risks that we may have to mitigate from the government if there is uncertainty around how these powers may be used.”
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In today’s digital world, we rely heavily on secure communication and information exchange to conduct business, make transactions, and connect with others. Asymmetric cryptography plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and privacy of these activities.
Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography, is a type of cryptography that uses two different keys – key – to encrypt and decrypt information. The public key is widely distributed and used for encrypting messages, while kept secret and used for decrypting messages.
The revolutionized the field of cryptography, addressing the limitations of symmetric cryptography, such as the need to share a secret key and the possibility of key compromise. This article will explore the history of cryptography, the birth of asymmetric cryptography, early adopters and advancements in the field, and the widespread use of asymmetric cryptography today. We will also examine the challenges and opportunities facing the future of asymmetric cryptography, as well as its potential for new use cases.
Cryptography is the practice of creating and using codes to secure information. The use of cryptography dates back thousands of years, with ancient civilizations using various techniques to protect information. These techniques included substitution ciphers, where each letter of the message is replaced by another letter, and transposition ciphers, where the letters of the message are rearranged.
In the modern era, symmetric cryptography emerged as the dominant form of cryptography. Symmetric cryptography uses a shared secret key to encrypt and decrypt messages. The Caesar cipher, which shifts each letter of the message by a certain number of positions in the alphabet, and the Vigenère cipher, which uses a repeating key to encrypt the message, are examples of symmetric ciphers.
However, symmetric cryptography has limitations. One key must be shared between the sender and receiver, which means it can be compromised if intercepted. In addition, the sender cannot verify the authenticity of the receiver.
These limitations were addressed by the . Asymmetric cryptography uses key to encrypt and decrypt messages. The public key is widely distributed and can be used to encrypt messages, while kept secret and used to decrypt messages. Asymmetric cryptography provides more security than symmetric cryptography, as never shared.
The theoretical began in the 1970s with the concept of key. Overall, the historical development of cryptography shows a progression towards more secure methods of securing information. The limitations of symmetric cryptography were addressed with the , which has revolutionized the field of cryptography and enabled new applications such as secure e-commerce transactions and digital signatures.
The Birth of Asymmetric Cryptography
The birth of asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography, is a landmark moment in the history of cryptography. Asymmetric cryptography uses two different keys – key – to encrypt and decrypt information. However, it was the development of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and the RSA algorithm in the late 1970s that led asymmetric cryptography.
The Diffie-Hellman key exchange, developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, allows two parties to establish a shared secret key over an insecure communication channel. The key exchange relies on the properties of modular arithmetic and is based on the discrete logarithm problem. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is used in many protocols, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec).
The RSA algorithm, developed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in 1977, is a widely used public-key encryption algorithm. The RSA algorithm is based on the difficulty of factoring large integers and is used to encrypt and decrypt messages. The RSA algorithm is used in many applications, including SSL/TLS, S/MIME, and SSH.
The development of Diffie-Hellman and RSA revolutionized the field of cryptography, enabling secure communication channels, secure e-commerce transactions, and digital signatures. Asymmetric cryptography has also addressed the limitations of symmetric cryptography, providing more security than symmetric cryptography, as never shared.
The Diffie-Hellman key exchange and the RSA algorithm are still widely used today and continue to be important contributions to the field of cryptography.
Early Adopters and Advancements in Asymmetric Cryptography
Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography, gained early adoption and widespread use in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The development of public key infrastructure (PKI) and the X.509 standard, as well as growing interest in digital signatures and secure email, contributed to the advancement of asymmetric cryptography.
PKI is a framework that enables secure communication using public-key cryptography. PKI includes a certificate authority, which issues digital certificates containing public keys, and a registration authority, which verifies the identity of certificate holders. PKI is used in many applications, including SSL/TLS, S/MIME, and secure email.
The X.509 standard, developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is a widely used standard for digital certificates. X.509 defines the format of digital certificates and the rules for verifying the identity of certificate holders. Growing interest in digital signatures and secure email led to the development of standards such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). PGP, developed by Phil Zimmermann in 1991, is a widely used email encryption and authentication program. S/MIME, developed by RSA Security in 1995, is a standard for secure email that uses public-key cryptography to provide confidentiality, integrity, and authentication.
Asymmetric cryptography was also adopted by government agencies and financial institutions in the 1980s and 1990s. The U.S. government, for example, began using public-key cryptography for secure communication in the 1980s. Banks such as Citibank and Wells Fargo also adopted public-key cryptography for secure financial transactions.
Overall, early adopters and advancements in asymmetric cryptography contributed public-key cryptography in many applications. PKI and the X.509 standard provided a framework for secure communication using public-key cryptography, while the development of standards such as PGP and S/MIME enabled secure email. The adoption of public-key cryptography by government agencies and financial institutions also contributed to the advancement of asymmetric cryptography.
Technological Advancements and Widespread Use of Asymmetric Cryptography
The widespread use of the internet and e-commerce in the 1990s and 2000s contributed to the rapid adoption of asymmetric cryptography. Technological advancements in computing power and cryptographic algorithms also contributed to the proliferation of asymmetric cryptography.
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), for example, is a type of public-key cryptography that is more efficient than traditional public-key cryptography. ECC is based on the difficulty of finding the discrete logarithm of a random elliptic curve. ECC is used in many applications, including SSL/TLS and secure messaging apps.
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is another area of research and development in asymmetric cryptography. PQC is designed to be resistant to attacks by quantum computers, which have the potential to break traditional public-key cryptography. PQC algorithms are being developed to replace current cryptographic algorithms in the event that quantum computers become widely available.
The proliferation of SSL/TLS and the HTTPS protocol also contributed asymmetric cryptography. SSL/TLS is a protocol for secure communication over the internet, and HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). SSL/TLS and HTTPS use public-key cryptography to provide confidentiality, integrity, and authentication.
Asymmetric cryptography is also used in secure communication channels and virtual private networks (VPNs). Secure communication channels use public-key cryptography to provide end-to-end encryption, while VPNs use public-key cryptography to establish a secure tunnel between two endpoints.
Overall, technological advancements and the widespread use of the internet and e-commerce have contributed to the proliferation of asymmetric cryptography. The development of more efficient cryptographic algorithms, such as ECC, and the research and development of PQC algorithms, have also contributed to the advancement of asymmetric cryptography. The widespread use of SSL/TLS and HTTPS, as well as the use of public-key cryptography in secure communication channels and VPNs, have enabled many new applications of asymmetric cryptography.
Future of Asymmetric Cryptography
The future of asymmetric cryptography faces both challenges and opportunities. One of the challenges is the emergence of quantum computing, which has the potential to break current cryptographic algorithms, including those used in asymmetric cryptography. To address this challenge, research and development in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is underway, with the goal of developing cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to attacks by quantum computers.
Another challenge is the increasing complexity of cryptographic algorithms, which can make them more difficult to implement securely. Asymmetric cryptography also faces the challenge of balancing security and usability, as more secure cryptographic algorithms can be more complex and difficult to use.
Despite these challenges, asymmetric cryptography also presents many opportunities. One opportunity is the potential for wider adoption in new applications, such as blockchain technology and secure messaging apps. Asymmetric cryptography can enable secure communication and transactions in these applications, which are becoming increasingly important in today’s digital world.
Another opportunity is the potential for new use cases, such as secure voting and secure sharing of medical records. Asymmetric cryptography can enable secure and private sharing of sensitive information in these use cases, which can have important implications for privacy and security.
PQC algorithms can enable more secure and efficient use of public-key cryptography in the future, and can enable new applications that require higher levels of security than current cryptographic algorithms can provide.
Overall, the future of asymmetric cryptography presents both challenges and opportunities. Research and development in PQC and new cryptographic algorithms can address challenges such as quantum computing, while enabling new applications and use cases that require secure communication and information sharing.
Conclusion
Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography, has had a transformative impact on the field of cryptography and enabled many new applications. Asymmetric cryptography addresses the limitations of symmetric cryptography, providing more security than symmetric cryptography, as never shared.
Early adopters and advancements in asymmetric cryptography contributed public-key cryptography in many applications, including secure communication channels, SSL/TLS, and secure messaging apps. Technological advancements in computing power and cryptographic algorithms, such as elliptic curve cryptography and post-quantum cryptography, have also contributed to the proliferation of asymmetric cryptography.
The future of asymmetric cryptography faces challenges such as the emergence of quantum computing, but also presents opportunities for wider adoption in new applications, such as blockchain technology and secure sharing of medical records. The adoption of PQC algorithms also presents opportunities for more secure and efficient use of public-key cryptography in the future.
Overall, the has enabled secure communication channels, secure e-commerce transactions, and digital signatures, among other applications. Asymmetric cryptography has had a transformative impact on the field of cryptography and will continue to play a crucial role in ensuring the security and privacy of information in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
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https://expert2news.com/what-technology-brought-asymmetric-cryptography-to-the-masses/
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A new report released today by cybersecurity company WithSecure Oyj is warning of a surge in the emergence of new multipoint extortion ransomware groups in the first three quarters of 2023.
Multipoint ransomware groups, sometimes called double-tap or double-extortion groups, are ransomware operators that use multiple methods to pressure victims into paying a ransom to regain control of their data. Whereas a traditional ransomware group would simply encrypt data and demand a payment for a decryption key, newer groups steal data and threaten to publish it if a payment is not made.
WithSecure undertook an analysis of data leaked on sites operated by these ransomware operators and found that many new groups have become active in this space during 2023. Of the 60 multipoint extortion ransomware gangs whose activities WithSecure has tracked during the first nine months of 2023, 29 are new.
The new groups are said to largely follow playbooks established by existing operators but play a key role in sustaining the number of ransomware attacks facing organizations.
“Code and other aspects of one particular cybercrime operation end up getting used elsewhere because groups and their members often recycle the same resources when they change who they work for or with,” explained WithSecure threat intelligence analyst Ziggy Davies. “Many of the new groups we’ve seen this year have clear lineage in older ransomware operations. For example, Akira and several other groups share many similarities with the now-defunct Conti group and are likely former Conti affiliates.”
The report also uncovered other insights about multipoint extortion ransomware attacks in 2023 to date, including that in the first three quarters of 2023, there was a 50% increase in data leaks from ransomware groups from the same period a year ago.
Unsurprisingly, the infamous LockBit ransomware accounted for the biggest share of the leaks — 21% — reflecting a similar finding in August from NCC Group plc. The five ransomware groups with the most leaks — 8Base, ALPHV/BlackCat, Clop, LockBit and Play — accounted for more than 50% of the total leaks.
About 25% of data leaks in the analysis were from ransomware groups that began operations in 2023 and only six of the 60 groups have posted victims every month of 2023 to date.
The report notes that though cybercriminals seem more interested in ransomware than ever, the degree to which these groups recycle each other’s playbooks provides defenders with some advantages.
“Ransomware remains an effective moneymaker for cyber criminals, so they’ll mostly stick to the same basic playbook rather than come up anything really new or unexpected,” Davies added. “This makes them pretty predictable, which is good for defenders because they know what they’re up against.”
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/report-finds-surge-in-new-multipoint-extortion-ransomware-groups-ransomware-cybercrime/
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As October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education is urging all digital citizens to think about how their online decisions and actions affect their safety. The CRDG School Internet Safety Initiative encourages students, parents, educators, and community members to be safe, responsible, and respectful online.
Cyber security is about the safety of our devices and digital content and how to protect these from unauthorized access. With today’s reliance on companies to protect personal data—everything from medical information to bank accounts—the initiative reminds that the first step of cyber security begins with the individual.
“With so many different kinds of information on our devices, it is crucial for us to protect our content, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands,” shared Drs. Truc Nguyen and Lauren Mark in a joint interview. “Some important tips include protecting and changing our passwords regularly, backing up our data frequently, refraining from opening files from strangers, and installing virus protection software.”
Internet safety also includes modeling appropriate behaviors; teaching children the importance of security, ethics, healthy social skills, and emotional expression; and practicing smart decision-making, problem-solving, and responsibility for one’s own actions. For more information about Internet safety, please contact the School Internet Safety Initiative.
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https://manoa.hawaii.edu/crdg/news/crdg-announces-national-cyber-security-awareness-month-college-of-education-the-university-of-hawai%CA%BBi-at-manoa/
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I've hit that a few times with customer implementations. One of the first things I do when putting a new deployment together is to add another CLI user with role admin. When customers call me with this issue, I can generally login with my second credential and reset the admin password.
And yes, the admin account will expire in keeping with your admin access password policies. You can see those in the GUI and on the CLI.
If you do not have a secondary account at the CLI like I mentioned above, you'll need to go through the password recovery process. Here is a URL that will help:
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https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/ise-cli-connection-problem/m-p/2744613/highlight/true
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How community violence is impacting some Prince George’s Co. students | #schoolsaftey
Sitting in a circle in the school’s media center Monday afternoon, some 20 students at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School in Prince George’s County, Maryland, considered ways to prevent and respond to violent acts in the community.
Prince George’s County students and staff discuss ways to make students feel safe. (WTOP/Scott Gelman)
(WTOP/Scott Gelman)
Euniesha Davis, director of the county’s office of community relations, watched as almost every student raised their hand when asked if they have been a victim of or seen violence in the community. She listened as students explained that some of their peers don’t have role models to talk to at home, don’t know how to deal with their anger, or aren’t comfortable explaining how they feel.
As a result, the students said, some act out, sometimes in violent ways.
Davis and several members of the county’s Hope in Action team stopped by the school as part of The Hope in Action Anti-Gun Violence Project. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks launched the campaign in 2021, as a way to give young people the chance to collaborate with local government and community leaders to address violence.
After a meeting at Charles Herbert Flowers High School last month, Alsobrooks and State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said some students told them they didn’t have an adult who listened to them at home. Some students pointed out similar observations Monday.
Jessica, an eighth-grader, explained she has a connection with her mom that other students may not have with a parent.
“I don’t get how they feel because I’ve had someone to talk to,” Jessica said. “It’s helped me a lot. I feel my mental health is better. I see how a lot of people that I grew (up with) would talk to my mom, and their results have been better.”
Jadyn, a seventh-grader, said there’s a notable amount of violence in the community. In some cases, “a lot of people hitting people for sometimes no reason at all. People are quick to get mad.” “Sometimes I don’t feel safe when I’m going (to) certain places,” he said.
He also attributed some of the violence to things such as music lyrics.
Raziyah, meanwhile, encouraged county leaders to expand the dialogue beyond the small group that gathered in the library Monday. She told Davis that there needs to be a cafeteria or gym filled with students venting and talking about their feelings.
She said there are steps students can take, such as getting to know each other, and offering help with things like homework or sports practice. When something violent happens in the community, she said students do discuss it.
“What if one day it’s us?” Raziyah asked. “It’s a ‘What if’ question. We don’t know what’s going to happen today or tomorrow, maybe tonight. … We just have to second-guess everything, like our safety.”
Principal Tisa Morgan characterized Monday’s conversation as eye-opening. The school, she said, has mental health clinicians, peer mediators and student advocates, but there’s more to be done.
Morgan said some student struggle with being home alone because their parents are working. In some cases, older students raise their younger siblings.
Food insecurity and violence are also top of mind for kids, she said. Some students tell her it’s scary to go outside at night.
“We have to get a hold on this violence that the youth is perpetuating,” Morgan said. “Things that they’re arguing about, things that they’re doing in the community, and it spills over into the school.”
Jessica said she has a significant amount of fear because of the ongoing violence.
“I’ve got to walk outside with a lot of people just to be safe and not feel someone’s after me,” she said.
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/how-community-violence-is-impacting-some-prince-georges-co-students-schoolsaftey/
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Have you heard the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words”? It seems cyber criminals have too, and they’re using it to their advantage.
In a new twist on phishing campaigns, cyber criminals are luring victims to click on images rather than downloading malicious files or clicking suspicious links.
Let’s dive into the warning signs, so you can keep your business safe from these sneaky attacks.
First things first, what’s the big deal about clicking on an image? It might be promoting a killer deal or one time offer.
But when you click on the image, you don’t go to the real website. Instead it’s a fake site designed to steal your personal information.
Imagine being lured in by a cute cat photo only to find out that Mr. Whiskers was actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing! Not so cute anymore, right?
So, how can you tell if an image is part of a phishing campaign? Here are some warning signs to look out for:
Unexpected emails: Did you receive an email from someone you don’t know or weren’t expecting? Be cautious! It’s like accepting sweets from a stranger – you never know what you’re getting yourself into.
Too good to be true: If an email promises you a free holiday or a million pounds just for clicking on an image, remember the golden rule: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Spelling and grammar mistakes: We all make typos, but if an email is riddled with errors, it could be a sign that something is going on.
Educate your employees: Knowledge is power! Make sure your team is aware of the latest phishing tactics and knows how to spot the warning signs.
Keep software up-to-date: Just like you wouldn’t drive a car with bald tyres, don’t let your software become outdated. Regular updates help patch security vulnerabilities that cyber criminals might exploit.
Use strong passwords: It might be tempting to use “password123” for all your accounts, but resist the urge! A strong, unique password for each account can help prevent unauthorised access. Using a password manager is even better.
Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA): MFA adds an extra layer of security by requiring people to verify their identity through another method, such as a text message or fingerprint scan.
Backup your data: In case disaster strikes, make sure you have a backup of all your files. That way, you won’t be left high and dry if your data is compromised.
Whilst cyber criminals are getting smarter and smarter with their tactics, there’s no need to panic. By being aware of the warning signs and taking proactive steps to protect your business, you can stay one step ahead of these digital tricksters.
Remember, not all that glitters is gold – or in this case, not every cute cat picture is just a cute cat picture. Stay vigilant, and don’t let the scammers win!
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https://ayida.uk/technology/tech-news/this-is-the-latest-trend-in-phishing/
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On December 8, 2020, the New York Times reported that FireEye (NASDAQ:FEYE) was hacked. Moments later, almost every major news outlet, security blogger, U.S. government agency, and security company released additional articles and opinions on the breaking news. It’s not often one of our own gets hacked, but when it happens, it’s a glaring reminder about the industry we serve and how the information we protect can be the target of bad actors.
Among the many follow-on news alerts, one issued from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (“US-CERT”) stood out. As an organization within the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”), US-CERT offers a notification service that delivers timely information about cyberthreat actor activities, recent campaigns, and indicators of compromise for threat hunting. US-CERT issued its own advisory, announcing the theft of FireEye tools and providing links to FireEye blogs for more information.
Similar to the hack involving stolen offensive tools from the NSA in 2017, it appears that the bad actors have taken control of FireEye’s red team tools, which according to USCERT, can be used to take control of target systems. Unlike the stolen tools from the NSA, US-CERT goes on to report that FireEye’s tools do not contain zero-day exploits.
FireEye issued a public statement addressing the attack while providing around 300 countermeasures to detect the tools in use. The article can be viewed here and the company’s countermeasures can be found on GitHub. The rules, provided by FireEye, were developed for Snort, Yara, ClamAV, and HXIOC. Arete immediately incorporated dozens of signatures for the stolen FireEye tools into threat hunting rules to protect our clients in the event someone tries to use those tools against them
Implement Enterprise Detection and Response (“EDR”) software enterprise wide.
Update all antivirus definitions, operating system patches, and firmware patches.
Promote awareness and implement employee training within your organization about cybersecurity and scrutinizing emails with attachments or links.
Disable external access to Remote Desktop Protocol (“RDP”) or restrict RDP access to make it accessible through VPN only.
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https://areteir.com/article/no-one-is-immune-to-cyberattacks/
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Quazi is a 13-year-old computer science graduate from Santa Clara University (SCU). He will be starting his new job as a software engineer at SpaceX next month.
Quazi was born in Pleasanton, California. He showed signs of being a gifted child at a young age. He was speaking in full sentences by the age of two, and he was reading at a high school level by the time he was in elementary school.
Quazi’s parents realized that he needed a more challenging educational environment than what was available in the public school system. They enrolled him in Las Positas Community College when he was nine years old. He quickly excelled at Las Positas, and he transferred to SCU when he was 11.
Quazi’s experience at SCU was “fairly normal,” he says. He made close friends, and he enjoyed his classes. He was also a stem tutor at Las Positas, and he was one of the most requested tutors on the staff.
Quazi is grateful for the opportunities that he has been given. He believes that he has not missed out on childhood, and he is excited to start his new job at SpaceX.
Quazi is an inspiration to us all. He shows us that anything is possible if we set our minds to it. He is a testament to the power of education, and he is a role model for all young people who are looking to achieve their dreams.
On Saturday, June 17, 1,598 undergraduates will be receiving their degrees from SCU. This is SCU’s 172nd graduation ceremony.
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https://infosecbulletin.com/14-year-old-bangladeshi-origin-computer-science-genius-to-join-spacex/
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Humans are the most vulnerable cybersecurity entry points into an organization. By moving completely to the cloud, apps and browsers are all humans need to communicate with work, family, and friends. In the Human Hacking report recently published by SlashNext Threat Labs, data shows phishing attacks rose 51% over 2020 (a record-breaking year), and 59% were credential stealing.
As human interaction has largely moved to the cloud, cybercriminals are taking advantage of this by attacking outside of email and looking to less secure channels like SMS text, social media, gaming, collaboration tools, and search apps. Social engineering is the cybercriminal’s preferred method of hacking humans, as demonstrated in the 270% increase in social engineering threats found by SlashNext in 2021. There were many contributing factors to the increase, including one million malicious URLs in July during the Tokyo Olympics found on all digital channels, including apps and browsers.
The other contributing factor to the spike in social engineering is the 2021 LinkedIn data breach. The two data breaches at LinkedIn resulted in over one billion records being sold on the Darkweb, available to cybercriminals to increase spear-phishing efforts towards high-value targets. Cybercriminals are using these attacks to gain access to corporate data, which leads to 91% of all successful cyber breaches – including ransomware attacks, data theft, and over $30 billion of financial fraud.
Another trend revealed in the report is the increase in phishing on legitimate hosting infrastructure. Of the more than 14 million malicious URLs SlashNext identified in 2021, 2.5 million were spear-phishing hosted on legitimate infrastructures like AWS, Azure, outlook.com, and sharepoint.com. What is attractive about using legitimate infrastructure is the opportunity for cybercriminals to easily evade current detection technologies like secure email gateways, firewalls, and proxy.
The shifting phishing landscape, combined with cybercriminals’ access to automation, data, and intelligence, has quickly made human hacking the number one cyber threat. Previous security strategies, including secure email gateways,…
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https://spinsafe.com/social-engineering-threats-rose-270-in-2021-indicating-a-shift-to-multi-channel-phishing-attacks-as-apps-and-browsers-move-to-the-cloud/
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(SunOS 5.6: /kernel/fs/fifofs patch).
You should install this patch for your system to be up-to-date.
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http://www.vulnerabilityscanning.com/Solaris-2-6-sparc--105780-05-Test_12889.htm
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Risk mitigation and risk management are two sides of the same coin when it comes to improving agricultural outcomes and promoting climate-smart decisions.
On the front of the coin, we have risk mitigation. This side represents all the steps farmers and ranchers take to reduce the amount of risk they face. For example, farmers utilizing precision ag technology, new seed varieties, or conservation practices like reduced tillage and cover cropping can increase their resiliency by improving yields and soil health.
This side represents all the steps farmers and ranchers take to manage the costs and impacts of the many uncontrolled risks they still face. Agriculture’s primary risk management tool is crop insurance, which is delivered by private-sector insurers and is partially funded by farmers through premiums.
For optimal effectiveness, these two sides should work in concert, not conflict, to encourage conservation while ensuring the ability of farmers and ranchers to continue operating after a disaster.
Crop insurance must be flexible enough to embrace the newest tools, technologies, and techniques being used to improve the land, conserve resources, increase operating efficiencies, and mitigate risk. Conversely, new conservation efforts must be consistent with the economics that underpin crop insurance’s widely successful risk management strategy.
These facts were reinforced by a recent study published in the renowned peer-reviewed Journal of Environmental Management. It noted that crop insurance is not a barrier to the adoption of conservation practices and is key to helping farmers maintain healthy soil.
The public-private partnership of crop insurance has evolved over the years to become the cornerstone of America’s farm safety net policy. And it has stood the test of time because of built-in flexibility responding to any situation that Mother Nature presents.
Specifically, the system is built on constant data analysis, up-to-date good farming practices, and actuarial soundness, which means premiums for coverage generally cover expected indemnities over the long term.
Crop insurance encourages smart farming practices on the most productive land through a self-correcting premium rating and underwriting system. In short, farmers who have a strong Actual Production History (APH) get better premium rates and thus lower premiums relative to their higher yields. Lower premiums motivate farmers to mitigate risk and build strong production histories with higher yields.
Crop insurance is also constantly improving, which is imperative as farmers deal with the ill effects of extreme weather. Section 508(h) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act allows for the private submission of crop insurance policy ideas and sets forth clear criteria for policy approvals by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture also works to continually improve crop insurance through the development of new policies. For example, the new Hurricane Insurance Protection – Wind Index Endorsement coverage arrived just in time to help offset devastating losses from the string of hurricanes that occurred during 2020. This new option was quickly added to fill a need in the agricultural community, and in its first year of implementation, it helped farmers rebound from eight significant wind events.
The new hurricane program – just like insurance products covering more than 130 crops in this country – works because it is rooted in sound science and economic principles. These fundamentals of actuarial soundness will be essential as policymakers look for ways to encourage farmers to adopt more and more conservation practices. Policymakers must not lower insurance premium rates without proper justification – to do so would only place the entire risk management system in jeopardy and arbitrarily punish the farmers it serves.
Instead, incentives should reward farmers for their actions without upending actuarial soundness. State governments in Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois have found a way to do this with local programs that help offset a portion of farmers’ insurance costs.
In other words, the two sides of the coin must continue working together as they are designed to do.
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https://cropinsuranceinamerica.org/crop-insurance-basics-risk-mitigation-and-risk-management/
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I was looking for a way to explain cryptography to my 8 year old son this evening and we devised a simple share key encryption / decryption method. The key is symmetrical because both sides have the same key and the same key is used for both encrypting and decrypting.
We took a simple ceasar cipher and extended it slightly by creating a stronger key. Something like this:
So long as the same key is used for decryption the thing works a treat.
So I explained that simple key can be made and shared between friends then private messages can be sent to and fro and only those with the key will know what the messages mean.
To demonstrate I made a program that he can use to make the process a bit quicker...
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http://david-latham.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/simple-symmetric-shared-key-encryption.html
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Clean Istatic.eshopcomp.com, Delete Istatic.eshopcomp.com, Eliminate Istatic.eshopcomp.com, Get rid off Istatic.eshopcomp.com, Remove Istatic.eshopcomp.com
Istatic.eshopcomp.com gets encompassed in Windows based system usually. It propagated with other programs by its makers. Other than that many a time there is other ways like social networking platform has been used for spreading it. Basically it is a unsafe domain which may pretend to be useful in often case. It takes the control over web browsers extensively and used them in achieving its evil intention. This harmful site would turn default starting page and included many add-ons without consent. In addition there would be hazardous plug-ins inserted in the targeted computer by Istatic.eshopcomp.com. The victims have end up with endless pop-ups that will forward them into other scam sites.
Istatic.eshopcomp.com sneaked in browser in such a manner that the web browsers have been failed to deliver result as they were providing earlier. Moreover there would be annoying search result come across seamlessly while searching. In addition there would be horrifying actions take place secretly which include monitoring of net surfing habits of victims through cookies, web history and otherwise. It is also capable of collecting private details of the victimized PC such as system geographical status, Internet protocol address, date and time of the targeted computer and so on. Thus the threat exposed targeted computer in front of cyber hackers raising the risk of system being hijacked. Even worse it could tamper with personal sensitive data of victims.
Istatic.eshopcomp.com can make it convenient for many other computer vulnerabilities for making intrusion in the affected PC. There is worse experience of net surfing and net speed come up due to this site sticking in the browser. Even more the performance of entire system has been compromised by this threat. Hence, it is highly suggested to immediately take feasible steps against this unsafe domain thereby Istatic.eshopcomp.com can be eliminated completely from the PC.
Step 2. Now Press View Tab > Advance Setting category > Hidden Files or Folders.
Step 3. Here you need to tick in Show hidden files, folder or drives.
Step 4. Finally hit Apply and then OK button and at the end close the current Window.
Steps 1. Start Google Chrome and hot Menu icon at the top right corner of the screen and then select Settings option.
Step 2. Here you need to select required search provider in Search option.
Step 3. You can also manage search engine and make it your personalize setting by clicking on Make it default button.
Step 1. Navigate to the bottom right corner of your desktop and right click on Network icon, further tap on Open Network and Sharing Center.
Step 2. In the View your active networks section, you have to choose Local Area Connection.
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http://www.removemalwarevirus.com/easy-way-to-eliminate-istatic-eshopcomp-com
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Billy Brumley has been named the Kevin O’Sullivan Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity at RIT. As part of RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Brumley will contribute to the university’s growing cybersecurity research profile and lead expertise in side-channel attack analysis.
The new endowed professorship is one of four made possible by a $50 million gift from alumnus Austin McChord ’09. In naming the awards, McChord honored his grade school teachers.
Before joining RIT, Brumley spent a decade as a professor at Tampere University in Finland. As a second-generation professor, he said that he always wanted to work in academia. He also has industry experience as a staff engineer for Qualcomm’s Product Security Initiative in San Diego.
“In cybersecurity, there is the theoretical side of a proof and the applied side of implementation,” said Brumley. “There is a growing gap between them that attackers are exploiting when it comes to hardware attacks. With our research, I hope to bridge that gap.”
Brumley specializes in system security, cryptography engineering, and side-channel analysis. He is currently teaching a seminar in side-channel analysis.
In a side-channel attack, adversaries do not target a program or code directly. Instead, they seek to gather information from or influence a system by measuring or exploiting indirect parameters of the hardware. A side-channel attack could exploit inadvertently leaked electromagnetic emissions, supply currents, or by observing execution times. These attacks commonly pose threats to cryptographic systems.
Brumley explained that side-channel analysis is becoming a more popular research area in the United States. It has had a longer tradition in Europe, due to the continent’s earlier adoption of smart cards with an embedded integrated chip for the payment industry.
At RIT, Brumley plans to help students learn through research-based learning. He also wants to make sure the research has long-lasting impact in the fast-paced world of cybersecurity.
“We hope to do research with real products and make sure the implementation matches the characteristics of the proofing,” said Brumley. “Having these learning acuities and research allows students to build fundamental techniques, so they can hit the ground running in the workforce.”
Brumley received his Ph.D. from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, in 2012. He is a 2018 European Research Council Starting Grant Laureate.
“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Brumley to RIT and ESL GCI. His contributions to the field of cybersecurity research and open-source libraries like OpenSSL is well recognized in our community,” said Ersin Uzun, Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of ESL GCI. “We look forward to working with Dr. Brumley on our aligned goals and commitment to continuously improving cybersecurity technologies and education.”
The Kevin O’Sullivan Endowed Professorship in Cybersecurity is one of 10 endowed positions that are part of Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness, the university’s $1 billion blended fundraising campaign that successfully concluded in 2023.
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https://nationalcybersecurity.com/billy-brumley-named-new-endowed-professor-in-cybersecurity-hacking-cybersecurity-infosec-comptia-pentest-ransomware/
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Exclusive Stop Cyberbullying Day giveaways this year included an amazing goodie bag full of cosmetic products from Rimmel London, a selection of Zoella Beauty items personally signed by Zoe Sugg and official Cybersmile T-shirts signed by Diversity Ambassador Normani and Filipino stars Kathryn Bernardo & Daniel Padilla. Over 1 million internet users tuned in to the giveaways – amplifying the day’s messages of hope and positivity.
Winners of the giveaways have now been randomly selected. The lucky winners of the Stop Cyberbullying Day 2019 giveaways are:
MovieStarPlanet led international efforts in highlighting the effects of cyberbullying and what players can do to help one another. To support the day, MovieStarPlanet engaged with its large user base of more than 400 million registered users and launched incentives and contests.
Streamers around the world also demonstrated their commitment to an inclusive internet by live streaming special Stop Cyberbullying Day events and fundraisers.
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https://stopcyberbullyingday.org/all-the-exciting-highlights-and-activities-from-stop-cyberbullying-day-2019/
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