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Manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group is on track with its goal to a create a "million robot army", and already has 20,000 robotic machines in its factories, said the company's CEO Terry Gou on Wednesday.
Workers' wages in China are rising, and so the company's research in robots and automation has to catch up, Gou said, while speaking at the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Taipei. "We have over 1 million workers. In the future we will add 1 million robotic workers," he said. "Our [human] workers will then become technicians and engineers."
Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics maker and counts Apple, Microsoft and Sony as some of its clients. Many of its largest factories are in China, where the company employs 1.2 million people, but rising worker salaries are threatening to reduce company profits.
To offset labor costs and improve its manufacturing, Foxconn has already spent three years on developing robots, Gou said. These machines are specifically developed to assemble electronics such as mobile phones, but it will take some time for Foxconn to fully develop the technology, he added.
"It's a middle to long-term goal," Gou said. But already 20,000 robot arms and robotic tools are in use at the company's factories.
Robotics have long been used to manufacture cars and large electronics. But currently, human workers are still the best choice to put together small consumer gadgets, many of which contain complicated wiring and small sockets that are best handled with human hands, according to experts.
In addition, Foxconn's CEO said the company is prepared to expand its manufacturing in the U.S., but the move will depend on "economic factors." The company already has factories in Indianapolis and Houston, and employs thousands of workers in the country, according to Gou.
Last December, Foxconn customer Apple said it would manufacture one of its Mac lines in the U.S. by the end of next year. Soon after, Foxconn said it was considering growing its existing manufacturing base in the country.
The Taiwanese company is also exploring building factories in Indonesia, a country with significantly lower labor costs than the U.S. or China. One possible plan is for Foxconn to build electronics for the local market, which is home to 240 million people.
"Indonesia has great potential and its a great market for my company," Gou said. "Definitely we will put a lot of investment in Indonesia."
The company, however, is waiting for the nation's government to improve the regulations for its tech sector. Standards over electronics safety are so low that anyone can get away with selling shoddy mobile phones, said a Foxconn official in December.
"The direction is right, but we need to take time," Gou added. "We think in one or two years this will happen."
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/465939/foxconn_speed_up_robot_army_deployment_20_000_robots_already_its_factories/
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For pharming in genetics, see pharming (genetics). For pharming in drug abuse, see pharming parties.
Pharming (pronounced farming) is a cracker‘s attack aiming to redirect a website‘s traffic to another, bogus website. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim’s computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software. DNS servers are computers responsible for resolving Internet names into their real addresses — they are the « signposts » of the Internet. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referred to as « poisoned ». The term pharming is a word play on farming and phishing. The term phishing refers to social engineering attacks to obtain access credentials such as user names and passwords. In recent years both pharming and phishing have been used to steal identity information. Pharming has become of major concern to businesses hosting ecommerce and online banking websites. Sophisticated measures known as anti-pharming are required to protect against this serious threat. Antivirus software and spyware removal software cannot protect against pharming.
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https://www.alain-stevens.com/cyber-crime/2007/08/16/pharming/index.html
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Using a zero trust model can help tackle some of the major challenges in cybersecurity today, including the skills gap.
In July 2020, Deloitte surveyed webinar attendees about their organizations’ plans to implement a zero trust model. The poll found that four challenges had disrupted the efforts of many employers. A lack of skilled workers garnered the most attention at 28.3%. Close behind was a lack of needed budget at 28.1%, followed by lack of discernment in how to get started (12.8%) and being unable to choose between technologies/vendors in the market (12.7%).
Luckily, these challenges don’t have to stand in the way of teams adopting a zero trust security model. They can implement steps to address each of the challenges referenced above.
This first installment in a four-part series will tackle the cybersecurity skills gap.
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BSI, the UK’s national standards body, is just one organization that firmly believes the future growth and success of the UK manufacturing sector depends on investment in the latest digital technologies.
Make UK, which represents the interests of UK manufacturers, is another. Stephen Phipson, CEO of Make UK (formerly the Engineering Employers’ Federation), recently summed up the benefits of such investment: “Digitization is revolutionizing modern manufacturing and has kept it running successfully over the past year. The rewards are obvious – technological leaps in the design, development, fabrication and operation of the goods and services the UK makes.”
It is in this context that research by Make UK will set alarm bells ringing for some manufacturing leaders. In a member survey last year, the organization found that one in five companies admitted they are currently not investing in new digital processes, even though they know they should do so to continue to compete in an ever-changing global marketplace.
The problem: cyber-crime
The reason, or at least a major part of it, is fear of increased exposure to cyber-attack. Many manufacturers are holding back from implementing the latest innovations in case they compromise the security of their data or the value of their intellectual property.
Make UK’s most recent report, Cyber Resilience – The Last Line of Defence, published in May this year, confirms the scale of the threat, revealing that as many as half of Britain’s manufacturers have fallen victim to cyber-crime in the last 12 months.
This figure is sure to have been boosted by thousands of businesses adopting emergency working practices when the Covid crisis struck. Many were forced to switch to remote production and monitoring, and to staff working from home on hastily supplied laptops – measures that cyber criminals were able to exploit to mount opportunistic attacks.
The cyber crime wave has come at a huge financial cost to manufacturers, with 63% suffering losses of up to £5,000 for each cyber breach, 22% losing between £5,000 and £25,000 per breach, and 6% nursing eye-watering losses of over £100,000 after an attack.
This raises an obvious question: how can manufacturing leaders respond to the scale and cost of cyber-crime?
Here, Make UK has found there is work to be done. Some 47% of manufacturers do not even have a formal plan or process agreed in case of an attack. And 44% of manufacturers still do not offer cybersecurity training to their staff, even though all employees have a responsibility for data protection – it is no longer considered the sole responsibility of the IT department
The majority (59%) cite cost as the biggest barrier to becoming more cybersecure. The cost of inaction, however, could ultimately be much higher – in tangible financial losses, in unquantifiable reputational damage caused by high-profile incidents, and in the ‘opportunity cost’ of delayed or cancelled investment in digital innovation.
The solution: standards
There is no going back to a world before digital information. Manufacturers depend on data that they generate internally, receive externally, and store for the short or long term. This data can relate to their own operations, their employees and partners, and their customers or users. With new information generated continually, the key to cybersecurity is to stay in control of data storage, access security and management processes.
Using internationally recognized standards can ensure your business stays in control. The top priority for many is ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management, which informs new processes, improves employee training procedures, and eases legislative compliance. By helping you manage and protect your information assets, the standard inspires trust in your business and builds organizational resilience.
With cloud services now the norm, ISO/IEC 27001 and two related standards – ISO/IEC 27002 and ISO/IEC 27017 – assist you in selecting cloud partners and managing your data storage arrangements securely in partnership with them.
Another extension to ISO/IEC 27001 – ISO/IEC 27701 Privacy Information Management –provides specific guidance on privacy protection through optimized personal information management.
Then there is BS 31111, which helps you understand the cyber-risk landscape to protect against cyber-attacks. It highlights the ‘five Ws’ of data security: Whose data are we holding? Why are we processing it? Where is it kept or transferred to? When are we keeping it until? What safeguarding measures do we have in place?
Show you’re safe
Returning to Make UK’s recent report, the study uncovered one other key finding: 43% of manufacturers have been asked by a customer or supplier to demonstrate the robustness of their cybersecurity, while one in five have themselves asked customers or suppliers to show evidence of their defences against cyber-attack.
This is where certification by an independent third-party expert body, such as BSI, comes to the fore. Certification helps you gain the trust of your customers and other stakeholders by assuring them that their data can be shared safely. It also increases transparency between your supply partners, reassuring all parties that appropriate controls are in place and promoting good practice throughout the supply chain. And certification provides a boost to your corporate reputation in the process.
To conclude, the cyber threat to manufacturers is growing and evolving with digitization – no business can afford to ignore it. Standards, and certification to them, can help you maintain and demonstrate cybersecurity, building trust that data is safe in your hands. Above all, perhaps, it will reassure your own board that you can overcome cyber risks and press ahead with vital investments in digital technology that will ensure your business retains its long-term relevance and resilience.
British Standards Online (BSOL) – our standards management system
Access the manufacturing, cyber and digital standards you need in one place. The British Standards Online Library is a simple online tool that acts as your standards management system. This allows you to build a collection of standards that suits your organization's needs at that time, you can then change and update as goals change.
Access, view and download this expert knowledge with multiple user access, across multiple sites or locations truly facilitating the distribution of knowledge across your business.
Impartiality is the governing principle of how BSI provides its services. Impartiality means acting fairly and equitably in its dealings with people and in all business operations. It means decisions are made free from any engagements of influences which could affect the objectivity of decision making.
As an accredited certification body, BSI Assurance cannot offer certification to clients where they have also received consultancy from another part of the BSI Group for the same management system. Likewise, we do not offer consultancy to clients when they also seek certification to the same management system.
The British Standards Institution (BSI, a company incorporated by Royal Charter), performs the National Standards Body (NSB) activity in the UK. BSI, together with its Group Companies, also offers a broad portfolio of business solutions other than NSB activity that help businesses worldwide to improve results through Standards-based best practice (such as certification, self-assessment tool, software, product testing, information products and training).
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This integration is still in development and will be added as soon as possible. Contact us for more status updates.
Meanwhile, you can automate your Flows using 100+ no-code Bots currently available in airSlate.
Use the no-code Bot to manage all the moving pieces in your business processes. Increase collaboration between you, your team, and your customers/clients. The Bot eliminates repetitive actions and steps, freeing up your team's time and energy for more important tasks. Install it now to see workflow automation in action.
Get your automated workflows up and running in minutes with the AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) Bot. No coding required.
1.Create an airSlate account, log in, and launch a new Workspace. Sap alienvault.
2.Complete a Flow from the beginning or pick a template.
Sign-up an account if you are unfamiliar with airSlate, or log on in your present one.
Make and customize your Work enviroment. Feel free to set up as many section-particular Workspaces that you need.
Go through the All Passes tab in the left to make a different one or sign up for a current one.
Surf the large local library of pre-manufactured document themes, create one from the beginning, or upload your own personal kinds.
Revise content material making it fillable with the addition of intelligent job areas.
Make particular dependencies among job areas simply by making them conditional.
Select the AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) Bot through the local library and add it to your workflow.
Configure the Bot and add the conditions that'll help it become act based on pre-programmed reason. Keep in mind that conditions could be associated with consumer functions, times and frequency and data.
Look at and add more Crawlers to improve other parts of your respective workflow.
Start the Circulation and appearance if the Bot is enabled correctly.
Now onto you. Enhance your company's procedures easily and employ the AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) Bot along with other Crawlers to relieve daily document regimen for good.
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airSlate, the largest document workflow automation platform, offers no‑code technology, built‑in integration options, and hundreds of Bots that empower teams to digitize workflows of any complexity.
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The number of ransomware attacks increased year-over-year across each of these five industry verticals, and attacks against other industries more than doubled compared to last year’s report.
While attacks on municipalities increased only slightly, Barracuda’s analysis over the past 12 months showed that ransomware attacks on educational institutions more than doubled, and attacks on the healthcare and financial verticals tripled.
This year, Barracuda researchers dug in deeper on the highly publicized attacks to see which other industries are starting to be targeted. Service providers were hit the most, and ransomware attacks on an automobile, hospitality, media, retail, software, and technology organizations all increased as well.
Most ransomware attacks don’t make headlines, though. Many victims choose not to disclose when they get hit, and the attacks are often sophisticated and extremely hard to handle for small businesses. To get a closer look at how ransomware is affecting small businesses, the report details three examples that researchers have seen through Barracuda SOC-as-a-Service, the anatomy of each attack, and the solutions that can help stop these attacks.
Parag Khurana, Country Manager, Barracuda Networks India, said, “Ransomware attackers remain defiant and continue to operate their business with extended extortion attempts. As ransomware and other cyberthreats continue to evolve, the need for adequate security solutions has never been greater. Many cybercriminals target small businesses to gain access to larger organisations. As a result, it is essential for security providers to create products that are easy to use and implement, regardless of a company’s size. Additionally, sophisticated security technologies should be available as services, so businesses of all sizes can protect themselves against these ever-changing threats. By making security solutions more accessible and user-friendly, the entire industry can help to better defend against ransomware and other cyberattacks.”
To safeguard their network against this type of attack, businesses should implement execution prevention by disabling macro scripts from Microsoft Office files transmitted via email. They should also carry out a robust network segmentation to help reduce the spread of ransomware if it does get into the system. Additionally, they should identify and remove any unused or unauthorised software, particularly on remote desktops or remote monitoring, as they could be signs of compromise. Organisations should also secure their web applications from malicious hackers and bad bots by enabling web application and API protection services, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection.
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https://www.expresscomputer.in/amp/news/barracuda-threat-report-reveals-spike-in-ransomware-to-more-than-1-2-million-per-month/89459/
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One phrase I live by is, “You never have to set an alarm clock if you have a cat.” My typical day begins with my furry friend advising me he’s ready for breakfast. Once he makes this declaration, it’s important that I get moving or I run the risk of him finding a box or bag to tear up to really emphasize his point. Risk Management is present in every aspect of one’s life.
Once I move through my morning routine, I’ll head into the office for the day. If I get to the office early enough (the struggle is real now that it’s Winter!) I like to start my day with a quick peek at my emails to make sure there is nothing I need to immediately respond to and then spend some time studying for whatever insurance designation I’m working on. Right now, I’m working on the Associate in Risk Management designation.
From there, I start to work through what the rest of my day is going to look like. I make a list of items that need to be accomplished, from reviewing loss histories to pinpoint some loss control measures I can help our insured’s implement, to hosting meetings with leadership teams to implement said measures. The great thing about what I do at Worthy, is no day is exactly the same. I may spend the entire day in the office analyzing data, or I may spend the day visiting locations to assist them with loss control.
I have a real passion regarding building positive safety cultures. Having a great safety culture is critical to employee health and retention and can be accomplished utilizing the same tools you use to create a great overall culture. Because of this, my favorite days are when I can get to visit locations and interact with teams one on one to have real discussions on this topic.
Once I’ve worked my way through the items on my agenda for the day that have to do with clients, I’ll check in with my team. Is there any extra support I can give to help them through the day? Do we have an upcoming event we need to spend some time planning? I typically finish out my day by tackling internal tasks and addressing any additional loss control items that have come in since my original list was made. This typically takes me to the end of my workday.
Once I have the day wrapped up, I head back home to enjoy another public service announcement from my cat that it’s time to feed him again, and I need to do some risk management on the home front. A hangry cat is a major liability!
Interested in learning more about Worthy Insurance? Please email us at [email protected] or call 773-945-9000.
Worthy Insurance is a niche broker with a focus on providing insurance placement and risk management services to the Healthcare, Manufacturing, Social Service, and Main Street business communities. Here at Worthy Insurance, we love to provide you with exciting and fun articles to learn more about insurance and how it impacts your life. Visit our other blogs to find more information.
While Worthy does offer a wide variety of insurance coverages, our main coverages include property coverage, worker’s compensation insurance, general liability, professional liability, and cybersecurity coverage. To find out the best coverages for your company, use the contact form below so you can be at ease knowing your company is covered. For personal insurance, please visit Vero Insurance.
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If you want in order to keep Windows PC secure coming from malware and other threats, you will want the best antivirus software. These tools are designed to identify and remove viruses, and will also prevent your information that is personal from being hacked. Some of the courses as well protect against scam attacks and rogue websites.
Choosing the right ant-virus for your Microsoft windows PC may be difficult. You might find that many programs offer related features, as well as the choice is quite often a matter of cost. Fortunately, there are several excellent choices.
Avira Anti-virus Pro is a great option for Home windows best antivirus for windows 10 users. This light and portable antivirus offers exceptional protection which has a clean, user-friendly interface. The tool also includes file security and a password supervisor. It’s also a great choice for first-timers.
Bitdefender Ant-virus Plus presents comprehensive coverage and a great malware detection record. The tool includes a 200MB daily usage limit, and a VPN against hackers.
Phenomena Micro gives decent Internet security tools for Microsoft windows users. Nevertheless malware cover has been middling in medical tests. In addition , it could flag benign items mainly because suspicious.
G Data Total Security offers a simple House windows 10 anti-virus application that uses two strain scanning applications. Its free of charge plan has a high level of security, but you will need to up grade to a paid out plan for more features.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus is among the best Windows 10 antiviruses, and that covers up to five Personal computers for just $80. Though a person’s support each and every one Windows variations, it has a strong record in thirdparty lab tests.
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https://talesoncanvas.com/determining-the-right-antivirus-for-the-purpose-of-windows-20/
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Network segmentation has long been accomplished by network access controls (NACs) including segmentation firewalls, VLANs, authentication, and access control lists (ACLs). These first- and second-gen network security control points offer coarse-grained segmentation that can be expensive and hard to manage, and represent no surety for a compromised device.
Micro-Segmentation is a much more granular and dynamic control methodology to create secure zones in and around your network, between your network, and any cloud services you may use. Instead of a single gating permission like IP combined with one authenticated credential, Micro-Segmentation utilizes the deep context of devices, and affords automation to isolate workloads, devices, and even users from one another. This layer of segmentation is a software implementation – a software defined access control layer decoupled from the traditional hardware and NAC tools. Logical software segmentation is easy to deploy and manage, and scales with your IoT adoption automatically to provide security beyond static rules and authentication mechanisms.
With micro-segmentation coupled with strong device context, IT can now tailor security settings and create dynamic access control policies that limit network and application flows between workloads based not just on authentication, traffic and application information but by a combination of physical properties like device type, interface and functionality; logical properties like ownership and control; by threat and risk assessment; and by dynamic properties like location and time. This ability to provide dynamic access control is critical for many security & governance directives in a company. Any regulation which defines who can access data and from where (i.e. sanctioned devices) defines access control points.
Access controls via Micro Segmentation offer the security of knowing what devices are accessing your network or services, and identifying the behavior of the stolen or compromised devices, or a malicious insider. For example: Stolen laptops are some of the biggest sources of breaches for healthcare. In this zero-trust security model, a company could set up a policy, that only those computers on the asset management system can connect to the network and other medical devices in the company, and only when they are on the premises. Thus, irrespective of the authentication used, or the network segment that the device is connected to, we can enforce that a stolen device cannot connect to the network, effectively implementing zero trust architecture and keeping in alignment with the HIPAA privacy act.
Similarly, for critical functions like finance, access controls via micro-segmentation for a finance department owned BYOD, can restrict them to only communicate with sanctioned applications and resources, either locally or in the cloud – thereby meeting the SOX requirements. Finally micro-location can be used such that Zero Trust access controls, security policies and attributes move with the device as the device changes its location or network. Micro-segmentation thus is a very important component of a zero-trust architecture by
If you’d like a Demo of Wootcloud’s Micro Segmentation abilities, please contact us.
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Surfshark and VyprVPN are both robust VPN providers liked by both experts and users. Advanced security features, great performance, and intuitive applications are what make them outrival numerous VPNs on the market. However, which one is winner of the two?
To find that out, we have thoroughly tested and compared both VPNs in terms of security, performance, features, ease of use, and other criteria that determine the quality of a VPN. So, read on and find out which VPN is better in 2023: VyprVPN or Surfshark.
While both Surfshark and VyprVPN are well-equipped to access streaming sites, there can only be one winner. In this case, Surfshark is better for unblocking content and avoiding geo-restrictions.
First, we look at Netflix – one of the most popular sites with unique libraries of movies and TV shows. Then we compare VyprVPN vs Surfshark by the speeds, capability, and reliable access to streaming platforms.
Surfshark works with Netflix and unblocks the most popular country libraries. Both VPNs unblock YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney plus. However, VyprVPN does not work for US and UK libraries and struggles with Hulu — a popular streaming platform in the US. Surfshark unblocks Japan, South Korea, the UK, and other popular libraries with consistent speeds for streaming in full HD.
Both providers have split tunneling options to separate streaming from VPN traffic, but the VyprVPN vs Surfshark debate ends on Smart DNS tools. Smart DNS lets you access streaming content on Smart TVs and other devices, even if they do not have VPN apps. Surfshark is a better Netflix VPN that has a Smart DNS with a comfortable user interface for easy use. VyprVPN falls flat, as it does not offer this feature.
Understanding VPN deals is easy. Every provider decreases prices from monthly to annual and bi-annual to encourage long-term purchases. Some providers do not offer longer subscriptions, which is a shame as it helps customers save money.
Surfshark offers a 2-year deal for the best discount of 84%. The longest deals for VyprVPN are annual, which is not as good for users that want to save money. On top of that, all Surfshark deals offer unlimited concurrent connections.
For short-term deals, VyprVPN pulls ahead as its first-tier subscription comes at a low $10.00. Surfshark costs more, charging $12.95 for monthly deals. But annual subscriptions are where things get interesting. As the highest tier choice for VyprVPN, it costs $5.00. Surfshark swoops in with a big price cut – $3.99/month for a one-year subscription. With Surfshark, you get a cheaper deal and save money!
Bi-annual subscriptions offer the cheapest prices for most VPN services. With a top-tier deal, Surfshark becomes one of the cheapest VPNs. For a measly $2.30/month, clients get access to 3200+ servers in 100+ countries and advanced features: Smart DNS, Multi-hop, and Camouflage Mode for obfuscation. Compared to the cheapest deal from VyprVPN, Surfshark is the better choice with a much lower price.
Moving to the payment process, Surfshark accepts PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, Credit cards, and popular cryptocurrencies. A solid variety of choices makes Surfshark VPN services easy to buy. VyprVPN is not as versatile. It only accepts PayPal and credit cards for desktop, while mobile devices are limited to Google Play and Apple App store.
While comparing VyprVPN vs Surfshark, we evaluated encryption standards, logging policies, base location, and ownership of RAM-only servers that don't have disks and wipe out data after a restart. On top of that, we have extra features — ad blockers, anti-virus software, SOCKS5 proxies, and other tools for safety online.
VyprVPN is not based in a country that is a part of the Fourteen Eyes Alliance. However, Surfshark brings more to the table with additional features and diskless servers.
The best VPN providers focus on a well-rounded network infrastructure. In our review, we look for large server fleets, global coverage, the strongest encryption, advanced tunneling protocols, and RAM-only servers to maximize your security.
In 2022, Surfshark upgraded all servers, swapping hard disks for RAM-only options. This way, the provider stops any threats to user data, because they have no storage to steal from.
VyprVPN, on the other hand, has no RAM-only servers. However, the data inside the hard drives are encrypted. The market-leading encryption is nearly impossible to break through. However, it still doesn't outrival diskless infrastructure. While a good effort, the alternative is a no match to a network infrastructure of 100% RAM-only servers offered by Surfshark.
Privacy
VyprVPN has a more favorable base location. Switzerland is one of the best VPN countries because it is not a part of intelligence alliances, where member countries can exchange data. Also, the provider follows an independently audited no-logs policy to make sure clients stay private while using their network.
Surfshark VPN is registered in the Netherlands, which is a part of The Nine Eyes alliance. However, the provider follows a no-logs policy and has great extra features: Multi-hop routing, anti-virus software, and GPS spoofing for mobile devices. Combined with anonymous payments – an option VyprVPN lacks, Surfshark wins the privacy comparison.
Logging
VPN users value anonymity above all. To ease their concerns, both providers follow strict no-logs policies, but only VyprVPN has it audited by a third party. Without data collection, even providers themselves do not put their noses in your business.
VyprVPN has been audited by Leviathan Security in 2018. With a focus on personal information, the company found issues and their severity on private data. VyprVPN took swift action to resolve the issues with logging and improve user security.
Surfshark has been under two security audits from CURE53. With a focus on penetration testing, it checked for weaknesses in the app, browser extension, and the overall structure of the network.
While this category is close, you could make a case for VyprVPN winning this point for transparency. It has a full and detailed version of the audit online and it does not shy away from criticism. Surfshark claims to follow a no-logs policy, but its audit only focuses on the state of the network and weaknesses against cyberattacks.
Speed comparison: Surfshark vs VyprVPN
The speed of VPN connections is all about minimizing your losses. Data traveling to remote locations will already affect your base speed, but there are other factors that can be optimized by the provider. VPN speeds depend on server load, network infrastructure, encryption strength, and other factors.
With identical baseline speeds, we compared VyprVPN vs Surfshark and their performance on main VPN protocols: WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IKEv2.
To focus on speed, let's start with WireGuard. Both providers offer great speeds with this protocol, but the winner is Surfshark. With testing across 10 different locations, the average speed loss for Surfshark was only 12% for downloads and 43% for uploads. Still, VyprVPN comes close with a download speed dropping 20% and a 56% cut for uploading.
Next, we look at the speed of the most stable and secure protocol – OpenVPN. To simplify, we evaluate the averages of the safe TCP and fast UDP protocol and their collective benefits.
With OpenVPN, VyprVPN fails to beat Surfshark. VyprVPN loses 88% for downloads and 96% for upload speeds. Surfshark — 76% drop for downloading and 72% for uploads. Surfshark has faster speeds with OpenVPN protocol and takes a lesser toll on your base internet speed.
With a great selection of extra features, a VPN can become a versatile and convenient tool for online security. Best options have anti-virus software, obfuscated servers, Smart DNS, and other tools that reinforce its basic functions, and add an additional layer of security or convenience to improve user experience.
Surfshark is a better-equipped VPN with more features for all use cases. VyprVPN has the market standard safety options, but extra tools leave a lot to be desired.
Because VPN providers want to provide the best security for their users, web filters are a must. In this review, we look for a combination of ad blockers and antivirus software built into the VPN apps. Enabling them lets you stick to secure websites and escape malware.
Surfshark offers an adware and malware blocker called CleanWeb. You can enable the feature with a quick visit to your VPN settings. CleanWeb blocks suspicious websites and IP addresses to stop adware, malware, and trackers. This feature works on the most popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge.
Surfshark also offers the Surfshrk One package that contains a VPN and the best web filtering features: antivirus software, safe web search tools, and alerts for data leaks.
VyprVPN also has an optional web filter that will stop you from entering dangerous and suspicious websites. With protection against malware and adware, this VPN feature keeps your browsing experience safe. However, the provider does not offer a browser extension, which is crucial for successful web filtering.
Unfortunately, VyprVPN comes up short due to limited access to popular devices. Its web filtering options are only available on Mac and Android. This leaves a lot of users without protection.
Smart DNS
Many users look for VPN providers to unblock Netflix and other popular streaming sites. However, not everyone has smart TVs and modern gadgets that support VPN apps. Smart DNS is a clever workaround for accessing these platforms.
Surfshark answers the call with an easy-to-use Smart DNS feature that lets you unblock geo-restricted streaming sites in no time. Because these connections do not get encrypted, you can enjoy your favorite shows in full HD without buffering!
VyprVPN has no such feature for devices with no VPN support. If streaming is at the top of your priorities, choose Surfshark, as it will work on more devices. Still, VyprVPN has a router option and an app that simplifies configurations and access streaming, so not all hope is lost.
Kill switch
Kill switch is an essential security measure for all VPN services. Enabling it prevents the exposure of your identity when a VPN connection is interrupted. As we compare top providers and their features, a kill switch is a strict requirement.
Surfshark offers a strict kill switch that stops all internet traffic if you are not connected to a VPN. Most users enable it on all devices to prevent data leaks, and Surfshark has an easy-to-use interface to find and activate it.
VyprVPN has a customizable kill switch with 3 options: a permanent switch for your system, an application switch that works when the VPN app is running, and an option to block traffic in your local network (LAN). With an easy setup and flexibility, VyprVPN has a powerful kill switch.
Obfuscation
Many modern websites use VPN detection to identify and even block these connections. As a countermeasure, elite VPN providers have obfuscation features that let you hide their use.
With Surfshark, Camouflage Mode obfuscates VPN servers when you connect with the OpenVPN protocol. It is an essential feature in institutions that look for and block VPN traffic. It is one of the most important options for the best VPNs for schools, university campuses, and other organizations.
VyprVPN goes a step further with an obfuscated OpenVPN protocol called Chameleon. With the specific purpose to unblock sites in dangerous locations, Chameleon avoids Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and utilizes Smart IP to constantly change IP addresses and metadata in transmitted packets.
Server locations are one of the main metrics that catch the eye of a new VPN user. A bigger number certainly attracts our eyes, and having more servers is a big advantage: more options in the best locations prevent server overcrowding which results in slow and unstable speeds.
Surfshark comes out strong with 3200+ servers in 100+ countries. Such a wide choice of locations is rare even among the top VPNs, which makes it one of the best options for streaming and unblocking geo-restricted content.
VyprVPN is present in 64+ countries but has one of the smallest fleets — 700+ available servers. If you cannot find the location you are looking for, Surfshark has a bigger global coverage.
VPN services hide your internet traffic from companies and government agencies that forbid torrenting. While both providers support P2P communication used for torrenting, A large fleet of servers and their infrastructure make Surfshark a better option.
In the past, VyprVPN was against torrenting and P2P communication. Today, the provider supports these connections, but there are limitations: P2P download speeds stay capped at 5MB/s, even with a much bigger baseline. Surfshark supported torrenting from the very beginning and users can use P2P connections on all servers.
Best VPNs for torrenting have no little to no effect on download and upload speeds. Surfshark offers great torrenting speeds without limits. VyprVPN is not only slower but also has P2P restrictions. Even if you have a very fast internet connection, your downloads will be limited to 40 Mbps.
VPN service are as good as its availability to potential users. When comparing providers, we look at supported operating systems, extensions for browsers, and concurrent connections for multiple devices. For the accessible services, we determine the usability of products from each provider.
As we look at VyprVPN and Surfshark, the latter option is more effective for common use cases. Surfshark is available on more operating systems, and browser extensions, and is one of the rare providers that has a GUI for a Linux app. VyprVPN has a router app and supports more special-purpose devices.
Simultaneous connections solidify the win for Surfshark, as it is famous for supporting unlimited devices. Friends and family members can share the same account to stay safe and private on the internet.
VyprVPN offers a simple and minimal user interface for Windows and Mac users. You can keep an eye on your connection status without too much clutter on the screen.
Unfortunately, some of the crucial features, like ad blockers and antivirus software, are unavailable for Windows users. As for Linux, VyprVPN does not have a graphical user interface. Still, the service will function as intended if you connect with commands via the terminal.
Surfshark is one of the best VPNs for Linux users, as it is one of the few VPN providers that offer them a comfortable user interface. Both Windows and Mac options are clean and come with all the extra features.
The only small downside for Surfshark is the lack of split tunneling for Mac users. Despite these limitations, all platforms have intuitive Surfshark apps that pose no problems for beginners.
Mobile apps
VyprVPN mobile apps follow a minimalistic theme that gets you the desired services fast. Surprisingly, the Android app has more features than the desktop version, with a customizable DNS and automatic connections after a reboot. For iOS, the app is solid but misses some of the essential features – a kill switch and split tunneling options.
Surfshark comes with a strong Android app that makes mobile users feel included. It comes with a split tunneling tool and GPS spoofer to hide your location. With all the necessary features, Surfshark has one of the best Android VPN apps.
The iOS option is still great but misses the innovative GPS spoofing and customizable split tunneling which is a good feature to have.
Last but not least, we look at customer support. Both Surfshark and VyprVPN have informative articles and guides on their products, but how do they manage to solve the problems of individual customers?
Both providers offer support via 24/7 live chat, which is the most popular option for most clients, as you can solve the issue within minutes. Often this help is not necessary, as every topic on their websites includes a section for informative FAQs. Neither Surfshark nor VyprVPN has a phone line, but you can also voice your concerns and problems via email.
After a close inspection of each category, Surfshark is our undisputed winner. Small or big, the provider had an advantage in each testing criterion except customer support.
Surfshark is the superior provider with better infrastructure, faster speeds, and cheaper pricing. Its most dominant features are a 3200+ fleet of RAM-only servers in 100+ locations and unlimited simultaneous connections for all popular platforms.
VyprVPN shows potential with its dedication to transparency and user privacy with an independently-audited no-logs policy. Still, it lags behind in usability, availability, and performance. After comparing the numbers, we see that it does not deliver the same level of services as Surfshark.
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You could be wondering how antivirus software prevents malwares from slowing down your computer devices. The goal is that this type of program functions by identifying possibly malicious rules, such as infections, worms, Trojans, worms, info stealing applications, and malevolent websites, and after that blocks these people from operating. This is attained by scanning all incoming data files and deciding if there is any threat or perhaps risk associated with the file. If this does, the file is certainly blocked and either sent to the spam/banned area on the Net or removed. In many cases, the consumer will receive a notification saying that their file is infected with a anti-virus or additional type of destructive software and will need to down load an antivirus software program to be able to successfully manage the program.
You will discover two significant types of antivirus software packages – readers and protectors. Scanners job to identify malicious computer codes and other kinds of malware, although protectors obstruct, remove, and clean the attacked areas on your computer system to ensure that all viruses, viruses, Trojans, malware, malware, and other potential threats happen to be removed. This mix allows for total virus and malware removing from all the parts of your program including web surfing history, installed program, email attachments, data files, music, pictures on your storage device. The cover portion of these programs performs in conjunction with the reader to guarantee you do not ever become another sufferer of internet threats.
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Google’s rivals on Monday called for a second full review of the search giant’s latest proposed measures aimed at avoiding a fine from the European Commission for allegedly breaking competition rules.
Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia received new proposals from Google last week, his office said Monday, and now the search giant’s rivals want a chance to comment on them.
Google has been under investigation by the European Commission since November 2010, after rivals accused the search giant of directing users to its own services by reducing the visibility of competing websites and services in search results. It was also accused of content-scraping and imposing contractual restrictions that prevent advertisers from moving their online campaigns to rival search engines.
In April Google proposed a set of measures to avoid sanctions, including labelling links to its own sites in search results. It also promised to include links to rival search engines for specialist restaurant search results that generate revenue for Google, remove exclusivity provisions from advertising contracts for five years and offer tools to prevent web scraping by allowing content owners to opt out.
The Commission gave interested parties the opportunity to comment on the April proposals, a process it calls “market testing”. Most rivals and complainants said the measures were not good enough.
Now FairSearch Europe, a group made up of companies that have complained about Google, says that the new proposals should also be market tested.
“Given the failure of Google to make a serious offer last time around, we believe it is necessary that customers and competitors of Google be consulted in a full, second market test,” said Thomas Vinje, FairSearch Europe’s legal spokesman in a statement.
However, under Commission rules, Almunia is not obliged to run a second market test.
Google spokesman Al Verney said that the company is working to address the Commission’s four main areas of concern.
The Commission can impose a fine of up to 10 percent of a company’s annual turnover if it believes its concerns have not been addressed. It can also order changes in the company’s operations to remove any antitrust breaches. However Almunia is reluctant to go down this time-consuming route in the fast-moving IT sector, preferring to reach mutual agreement with companies under the so-called Article 9 provision. Once measures are accepted by the Commission, they become legally binding.
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If you own any kind of business, it is wise to keep all your data protected with the best endpoint security system. In this digital age, almost every growing business needs to upgrade their storage systems and secure their data from malicious attacks from malware and hackers. And that’s why finding the best endpoint security is now essential for most business owners—not unless you want to experience thousands (or millions) of dollars in damages when disaster strikes!
There are many endpoint security system services to choose from, but could you really trust all of them in securing all of your data? If that is your question, then you are in the right place because this article will explain endpoint security systems and what makes an excellent choice for your personal or commercial use.
Endpoint security systems are very elaborate security applications or software services. Choosing the right one for your nature of business is pretty challenging, especially if you are new to these kinds of things. So, what makes one endpoint security system better than another? The answer is—It depends.
You cannot really rank endpoint security software because each option will be the best for something specific, and each option has its own sets of advantages and disadvantages. However, there is no denying that there are still well-rounded options that can do a little bit of everything, which technically makes them better than other software.
But before we get to that, you should probably learn what an endpoint security system is and why you need it first.
What is an Endpoint Security System?
From the name itself, an endpoint security system secures the end or entry points of user devices, such as computers and mobile tablets, and smartphones. It basically protects the end zone or point of entry where cybersecurity threats would typically try to penetrate first.
Whether you store personal data or sensitive information about your business on your server or the cloud—it is essential to protect that data from organized crime, hackers, and more.
Not all endpoint security systems have the same level of sophisticated technology, so if you want to protect your data and save money in the long run from future threats, make sure you choose the best endpoint security systems and services.
What makes a great endpoint security system is its ability to detect, analyze, and block threats before quickly. Happening. It also needs to make sure that it can quickly repair itself if your data or parameters have been breached.
A good endpoint security system should be compatible with more than one device, such as laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, online or offline servers, and more. Aside from gadgets, a well-rounded endpoint security system should also be compatible with various operating systems, such as Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Basically, having broad compatibility can make one endpoint security system stand out.
Performance
Don’t forget performance. An excellent endpoint security system can outperform its competitors if it does its job of protecting your data efficiently and accurately. Most new endpoint security systems are quite better than ones designed decades ago because they are running on modern technology.
If you look at SentinelOne vs. McAfee, for example, McAfee is an older product. Although it is updated, it is still no match for newer and better-performing options like SentinelOne. However, you should also keep in mind that just because a product is new doesn’t necessarily mean it utilizes the best tech and security algorithms.
A good performing endpoint security system should block all types of malware, browser attacks, fileless attacks, viruses, and more. As technology evolves, remember that hackers can also use sophisticated tech—so it’s best to make sure that your endpoint system is smart enough to detect anything unusual.
User-Friendliness
Some endpoint systems require complex computer knowledge, and usually, those options are excellent for large companies with an entire IT team running them. However, if you need endpoint security for personal use, you can settle for something easier to deploy and manage.
However, there is some software that is still easy to use, despite its complex and elaborate functions.
Services
A good endpoint security management system should also have other services that would add value to the SaaS. Some of the services that would add value to the software you are paying for are live proactive monitoring to keep an eye on your data 24/7, incident detection and notifications, and other services like 24/7 customer support.
Hackers do not choose a time of day to attack, so having 24-hour protection could significantly help protect your data and keep your mind at ease.
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A point of interest for many people is, "How can I email secure data to myself from my AutoPlay Media Studio applications?" it has been asked here many times. So here I will attempt to offer "a" solution. I don't guarantee the security of this method though and Indigo Rose does not reccomend you use it to send secure data, use it at your own risk.
Download the files here http://www.indigorose.com/temp_web/encrypt.zip
Incidentally Indigo Rose reccomends that to best send secure credit card data (or any other secure data) you should be using a two part system made of a secure server as well as a professional encryption system such as PGP, etc. Have your users enter their secure data via a web object within your AMS app directly to a form on secure server page (https) on your domain, you may have to get a certificate to do this, if you need more info on this contact your systems operator, webhost, or webmaster. The info from this secure form should be processed by your encryption system directly upon submission by the user (never stored as a file) to produce encrypted info which can then be sent or stored. That is the official reccomended method from Indigo Rose. Indigo Rose assumes no liabilty resulting from either the use nor the misuse of the method(s) described below. Use them at your own risk.
Ok so back to our unofficial discussion, the issue is kind of foggy because we want to encrypt the data locally but any reasonably secure encryption system, no matter how simple requires a key/seed/salt number or string to generate the encryption and it's completely insecure to store that key locally, i.e. we want to encrypt locally but keep our key in a secure remote location and this is not possible. So for the purposes of this method we'll store the key in our application as a string since AMS files are encrypted at build time and are a reasonably secure envelope for your data.
Furthermore the issue becomes even more difficult in that the solution must be exceedingly simple or users simply won't use it due to inconvenience yet it must be reasonably secure or I can't reccomend using it to send secure data. People want a ready-to-use click-and-go solution to this very complex issue. So I did my best towards striking a balance between all these issues here.
Ok so let's get started. There are many ways to do this, this is but one simple way and by no means the best or only way.
1. For our encryption we will be using a superb freeware command line utility named "MySecret Blowfish Encryption Utility" which uses blowfish encryption, a very decent method which, as far as I know, has never been defeated. First thing you need to do is go download this tool, it can be found at http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cryptoMySecret.html . I cannot say enough good things about this tool, its free, it's tiny, it's fast, it's easy to use, and it's powerful, what more can you ask?
2. Unzip the file and place the file "MySecret.exe" into your Distribution Folder. Do not alter that file in any way.
3. OK the hard part is done. Now we need to build a small app which gathers user input. To keep it very simple we'll do a single part form with "message" being the sole input field. In your case you can do as many fields as you like. So we setup a blank Autoplay Studio application and then we place an edit field on the page, named "message". Then we place a text object on the page named "submit" which contains the text, "Click Here to Submit". That's it, we're done setting up the application, just a few actions to go and we're ready to build.
4. The whole app hinges on the submit button as it will contain all our actions. An abstract of the process we need to do is:
Ok so now that we have a strategy, let's get to it (don't forget to place MySecret.exe in your distribution folder first):
1. On our submit button we add all the following actions to the OnClick event. First we use an EDIT FIELD > GET TEXT action to gather the user input from the message field into the variable %message%. Then we use Brett's clipboard .dll to place that info in the clipboard.
2. Now we're going to encrypt that info. That means you need to pick a key string (no special characters, go to MySecret site for specific guidelines), this is the same string you will use later to decrypt your info so make note of it. For the purposes of this tutorial we'll use the key "12345678" (you should pick something better). OK so we need to use a FILE > EXECUTE action to launch MySecret.exe and pass the neccesary command line arguments to it to create our new file. If this is confusing just cut and paste what I say here or download the source file from the link above to get the working code (it will work 100% as is with no editing if you prefer that, feel free to use it).
Ok so we add the FILE > EXECUTE action, in the "file to execute" path we type in "%SrcDir%\MySecret.exe" (no quotes) and in the "command line arguments" area we type, "-p 12345678". There is full documentation on the control switches at the product download link above, but if you would rather just cut and paste the example here will work fine. Basically what we did was run MySecret.exe and tell it that the password [-p] is 12345678 and to encrypt all data in the clipboard using that key.
3. to retrieve the encrypted data from the clipboard, and store it ina variable. We add ASCII line breaks and carriage returns for the mailto formatting and then launch the default email client with the encrypted data as the email body.
That's it we're done... If you wish to really use this tool simply go into the actions by clicking on the submit text button and change the "[email protected]" text to whatever your email address is and then change the key to something better than 12345678 by changing the -p 12345678 command line argument in the FILE > EXECUTE action to whatever key you'd like, if you are going to use spaces then you need to use quotes, i.e. "my code"...
I have included a decryption tool also so you can read your email messages, if you changed the key in the email application you must also change it in the decryption tool in order to decrypt text. So just change the -p 12345678 command line argument in the FILE > EXECUTE action to match your chosen key string. Simply run this app and paste your encrypted email text into the field and press the button to retrieve the original message.
If you have any questions just ask. This method should work very well for many users, feel free to use it but make sure you follow whatever rules the makers of MySecret.exe have put forth on their site.
Have fun, I know I'll be using this one lots from now on myself... Blowfish encryption is pretty strong, add a twist to the script so that the key is generated and retrieved dynamically from your site (as a signed one-time token) at runtime (OR add this to a secure server and remote database combo) and this method offers reasonably trustable data security for many common applications. Please feel free to use or alter the AMS project code any way you choose. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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Play this short you tube clip: paste " slick way t</=ont>o hide " in you tube search bar to find it. You just can't make this up.
A new twist in academic dishonesty (make people thi=k that one's dissertation was written by someone else). Crazy/shamef=l.
Play this short you tube clip: paste ” slick way to hide ” in you tube search bar to find it. You just can’t make this up.
Crazy/shamef=l.
People write=a decent dissertation, except him.
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The Internet Security Market has fundamentally progressed and has been evolving on a regular basis when it comes to dealing with the customers. The world, today, is intricately connected to the web with social networks becoming part of daily lives.
Enterprises lead a parallel presence through their footprint on the web, which characterizes them in angle to their qualities, operations, correspondence and practically everything that they can soak up onto a commercial system.
Internet security in the form of an antivirus or an internet security suite ensures the safety of computing networks and eliminates any threats posed to regular operations. The Internet Security Market size and income gained from computer protection services depends on a few elements, for example, cloud based business operations, rise in online financial transactions, expanded utilization of the Internet because of better connectivity and other growth variables.
The influence of pirated or ‘cracked’ software and the absence of awareness among the purchasers is anticipated to have a negative influence on the Internet Security Market. Then again, with the rising popularity of Internet applications, for example, web based business, e-administration and the developing awareness for antivirus security arrangements, the market for internet security services is predicted to grow considerably.
Overseen security arrangements from different organizations ought to additionally raise the Internet Security Market growth.
North America has been the dominant region to secure various networks against web assaults, trailed by Europe, Asia-Pacific in 2015. The ventures and little and medium organizations in Asia-Pacific nations are gradually recognizing the significance of antivirus software.
The APAC region is one of the quickest developing markets for internet security services due to an expanded surge in dangers.
* The overall market has been consolidated from the perspective of different geographic locations and key economies for this market.
* Identifies growth sectors and factors driving or constraining the market.
* The market is analyzed based on the key attributes such as the power in the hands of producers and consumers, analysis on the degree of competition, and threats from substitutes and new entrants.
* The study includes the demand of this particular market on a global and regional scale for a five year period of 2016 - 2021, to assess how the market will develop.
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by stewy.23 » March 20th, 2008, 6:44 am it looks like it deleted the old java but when i press on (jre-6u5-windows-i586-p) nothing happens at all.
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Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology.
Within the next 12 months, industry experts predict a major shortfall in cybersecurity professionals, a gap spanning anywhere from 1.5 million to as many as 2 million.
In response, institutions such as Augusta University in Georgia have created specialized degrees to narrow the skills gap and provide a workforce ready to handle the growing issue of cybercrime.
One of AU’s newest majors, cybersecurity engineering, was recently approved by the university’s board of regents for classes beginning in the fall of 2019. It’s the first program in Georgia to approach the subject from both hardware and software perspectives.
In an article for Jagwire, AU’s newspaper, Alex Schwarzmann, dean of the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, explained that the AU degree is unique because most cybersecurity programs focus exclusively on software. The cybersecurity engineering degree will teach students to look at the problem from a broader perspective that includes hardware, software and the human elements of security.
“Focusing solely on software security can give only a false sense of security when it comes to protecting your computer and information systems,” Schwarzmann told Jagwire. “We need rigorous approaches to securing both software and hardware dimensions of systems.”
The cybersecurity engineering degree is just one of five IT bachelor’s programs at AU. Two other new degrees — a Bachelor of Science with a major in cyber operations and a Bachelor of Science with a major in cybersecurity — will be added to the existing degrees of computer science and information technology.
MORE FROM EDTECH : See how universities are helping to grow the skilled cybersecurity workforce.
Augusta Sees Growth in City's Cybersecurity Industry
In presenting the new program to the AU board, President Brooks Keel said that Augusta was experiencing a “Cyber Tsunami” as a result of growth by local businesses and the relocation of the U.S. Army Cyber Command to the city.
“We knew as soon as the Army made the decision to move the Cyber Command that something big was going to happen in Augusta,” Keel told The Augusta Chronicle.
Between the Army Cyber headquarters, the growing presence of the National Security Agency and other companies that are flocking to Augusta, 13,000 new professionals will be moving to the area, intensifying the demand for qualified workers.
Keel and other leaders at AU intend to work closely with these newcomers to shape their programs and train students with the right skills.
“The thing we have to do is be flexible in terms of what we offer to meet what the industry and the workforce needs, but also, in doing that, we want to make sure we give students an option a year or two years or three years down the road,” Keel told the Chronicle.
In addition, AU Provost Gretchen Caughman said the university is working with the military to customize training and to offer military professionals credit hours that can be applied to a degree.
Students also see the opportunity in computer science: Enrollment has increased in AU’s degree programs by 428 percent over the past three years. The university expects these numbers to continue to grow rapidly.
“The demand for the degrees will continue at least for five years in double-digit percentages per year,” Schwarzmann told the Chronicle.
For more information on cybersecurity programs in universities across the U.S., visit this list of top cybersecurity schools for 2019.
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https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2019/01/augusta-university-launches-states-first-cybersecurity-engineering-degree-program
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We published this story on 1 April 2009. Of course, the Shatner virus doesn’t really exist, and Far Polo L1 is an anagram of Apr1l Fool. We hope you enjoy the joke (and the video!) as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
IT security and control firm Sophos has discovered that hackers have successfully infected an orbiting communications satellite with a virus, and are interfering with television broadcasts.
The Far Polo L1 satellite, placed in geostationary orbit to broadcast TV programs to a global audience, appears to have been infected by a virus known as W32/Shatner. Under the control of sci-fi obsessed hackers, the Shatner virus is embedding subliminal images related to Star Trek into popular television programs such as “The Simpsons”, “Friends” and “Doogie Howser MD” as they are beamed down to viewers on Earth…
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https://grahamcluley.com/shatner-virus-planted-hackers-orbiting-satellite/
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U.S. consumers are worried about their data security, and with good reason. A survey released by HSB, part of Munich Re, shows a continuing increase in identity theft, cyber-attacks and online fraud, as criminals steal personal information and millions of dollars.
The survey found that 77 percent of consumers were very or somewhat concerned about online identity theft. Almost as many were concerned that they could be hacked or have their personal data stolen while shopping on a public Wi-Fi connection.
Cyber Attacks, Ransomware, Scams and Schemes
The number of consumers who said their identities were stolen increased to 23 percent, up five percent over similar HSB surveys in 2018 and 2016. Victims spent an average of 27 hours to monitor their credit and correct personal information.
One-third of consumers (34 percent) said they had experienced a cyber-attack. A computer virus or other malware was the most typical damage (72 percent) and 59 percent of consumers spent more than $500 to respond.
Almost a quarter of consumers (23 percent) had their email or social media accounts interfered with, taken over, or used by an unauthorized person, continuing a slowly rising trend, according to the survey.
Although ransomware attacks were steady (11 percent), victims were more likely to pay criminals to unlock their data or keep it private. About half said they paid the ransom, in most cases $2,000 or less, compared with about one-third in the earlier surveys.
Online consumer fraud nearly doubled from previous HSB surveys to 16 percent of individuals, who said most of the crimes were committed through payment services (48 percent), online auctions (21 percent) and dating websites (20 percent). More than half of fraud victims lost over $500 and a third lost over $1,000.
Zogby Analytics was commissioned by HSB to conduct a survey in December 2019 and reported the results in January 2020.
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https://security.naifa.org/blog/americans-see-increase-in-cyber-attacks-and-identity-theft
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SoftServe joins a select group of AWS Partner Network (APN) members to have achieved the AWS Healthcare Competency status.
“The AWS Healthcare Competency designation demonstrates SoftServe’s ability to accelerate transformation efforts and address healthcare’s unique business challenges and guide our customers to achieve measurable business outcomes with their data,” said Adam Gabrault, EVP of Client Success, Healthcare & Life Sciences at SoftServe.
“With over 27 years of healthcare domain experience, and by leveraging the agility and breadth of services of AWS we can optimize costs, increase productivity, and ensure patient and administrative data is secure across the entire healthcare ecosystem.”
Achieving AWS Healthcare Competency status differentiates SoftServe as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated relevant technical proficiency and proven customer success, delivering solutions seamlessly on AWS.
To receive the designation, AWS Partners must have significant AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. AWS enables scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises.
To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify AWS Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.
MEDHOST is a provider of market-leading enterprise, departmental and healthcare engagement solutions to more than 1,100 healthcare facilities. SoftServe helped MEDHOST develop an online personal health record solution aimed at automating and simplifying patient and provider-related tasks and communications.
This solution provides patients and their caregivers with online access to personal health records and related tools for easier and faster interaction with healthcare providers.
“Having a modern cloud platform for healthcare involves multiple technology skill sets, understanding customer workflow, understanding AWS technologies, and an understanding of DevOps tool sets,” said Pandian Velayutham, Director of Engineering at MEDHOST.
“MEDHOST and SoftServe’s partnership helped us to overcome these challenges in modernizing our platform.”
SoftServe empowers healthcare and life science organizations to drive innovation and organizational value through effective strategies and customized solutions based on specific goals and priorities, patients’ needs, expectations, and technology capabilities.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/02/18/softserve-aws/
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AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 CPUs and AM5 motherboards are just around the corner. And if you’re a certain type of gamer, there’s just one question on your mind: “Will I be able to overclock it so much that my PC will glow even without RGB lighting?” To that, AMD says a resounding “yes.”
In an interview on PCWorld’s podcast The Full Nerd, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing Robert Hallock told us that, yes, the company’s new Ryzen 7000 CPUs and the less-expensive B650 motherboards that house them will support overclocking. “That’s one of those great examples of, because we didn’t say something, people assumed that it didn’t exist. B650 does overclock, just like B550 overclocked.”
People were worried that B650 motherboards wouldn’t overclock as it wasn’t specifically mentioned in an AMD marketing slide, where overclocking was called out as an explicit feature for higher-end X670 and X670E motherboards.
You can see Hallock’s response to the question at approximately 1:09:40 on The Full Nerd. Or just watch the whole thing, if you have the time. Hallock and AMD chief architect of gaming solutions Frank Azor spent an hour and a half—three times longer than AMD’s own Computex keynote—digging deep into nerdy technical details around its blockbuster Computex announcements.
There you have it, folks: straight from the horse’s mouth. Thanks, Robert. Sorry I called you a horse.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/705299/confirmed-youll-still-be-able-to-overclock-amds-next-gen-b650-motherboards.html
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What does spyware do to websites? How intrusive are popups from adware? Here's an example.
Plenty! First, so-called "adware" software watches your surfing habits and extracts and records information about where you've been and what you looked at, how long you look at it, and what you buy. Second, adware is a parasite. It "lives" (makes money) by selling ads to cover up sites the adware company doesn't own and doesn't buy advertising from. In essence, it sucks the life out of sites it covers up with its own ads.
The screen shot to the right shows you exactly how detrimental some of these programs are to website publishers. This screen shot was taken recently from an old computer, on which I had purposely loaded at least two or three adware programs. I can't say for sure which of the adware products made this particular ad show up on top of the Business Know-How website, but it was one of them. (I've purposely blurred out the advertiser name and the offer to avoid indirectly promoting the advertiser who paid the adware company to display their ads on top of other company's sites.)
As you can see, the adware ad covers half of our home page. It prevents the visitor from seeing half of our top menu, a good chunk of one of our advertiser's top banners, all of our left navigational menu, and most of the text in the center of the page!
Here's yet another spyware program in action. This one changes the ads that are on our page and substitutes ads with other people's ads. Each of the ads circled in purple are ads that have been substituted for ads from our advertierser and sponsors! These are ads for things we have not approved, get no money from, and in several cases would never run on our site. One of the substituted ads even claims to be for a program that stops spyware! If you see ads that look like these on Business Know-How pages please do NOT patronize these companies. In my mind, what they are doing amounts to theft of services and trademark infringement. They are using our good name to sell their products and covering up ads from our advertisers with ads we get no benefit from.
Off-line, that would be considered vandalism. Imagine, for comparison, that you own a store in town or have a shop in the mall. When you went to work one morning, you find someone had covered most of your display window with a big sign advertising products someone else sells. And worse, there's no way to remove that sign, unless whoever put it there decides on their own to take it down. So, even if you don't personally mind having a program on your computer that spies on where you go on the web, reads information from your hard disk and uses that information for its own personal gain, consider what adware does to the websites of hard-working small business owners like you. Oh, and don't forget that what the adware does to your ability to surf the net. In addition to displaying annoying popups and unders on sites you visit, they can sometimes display so many popups that they eat up systems resources and crash some computers. I hope if you consider the points made above, you'll remove whatever adware might be on your own computer.
The ad below points to a software product that will scan your computer for free and let you know if there is any adware (spyware) on it. If you do have adware on your computer, and if you want to use this particular product to get rid of it, you can buy the product for a small fee.
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http://www.businessknowhow.com/internet/what_spyware_does.htm
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mascherine n95 antivirus, CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE The White House is requesting $1.25 billion in new funding and wants to transfer $535 million more from an Ebola preparedness account — a move opposed by Democrats. The administration anticipates shifting money from other Department of Health and Human Services accounts and other agencies to complete the $2.5 billion response plan. On Thursday, Schumer and Pelosi issued a statement calling for additional action in response to the crisis -- warning that lives are at stake -- this is not the time for name-calling or playing politics.
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mascherine n95 antivirus - “Well, it probably could have been worse. Having a czar does make you feel there’s somebody in charge. At least Trump didn’t come before the cameras and announce solemnly, ‘Today I’m asking every American to cross your fingers,’” Collins wrote. “Our president had to be going crazy over a problem that involves both declining stock prices and germs. This is the guy, after all, who thinks shaking hands is ‘barbaric,’ who is followed around by aides bearing sanitizer,” Collins wrote.
mascherine n95 antivirus - TRUMP SUES NEW YORK TIMES FOR LIBEL OVER RUSSIA 'CONSPIRACY' OP-ED The Times columnist then mocked Trump for blaming the financial markets on Democrats, misspelling coronavirus in a tweet, telling Americans that things are under control and not being as prepared as his predecessor. “Barack Obama used to have special epidemic-watching groups just in case this kind of crisis developed,” Collins wrote. “Chances are, if the president is encouraged to mix the subjects of coronavirus and Mexico walls, he’ll suddenly announce that we need a barrier much bigger and thicker and more expensive, so it can stop the flow of immigrant germs,” Collins wrote to end her column.
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The recent shift to a remote work environment has created new challenges for many businesses and government institutions, with profound impacts on organizational security models. Suddenly, many users are no longer protected by the many layers of security found on-premise in the corporate network. Instead, security policies must evolve to support a new reality where users are remote by default and massive amounts of untrusted, inbound connections are the norm. Incorporating security concepts like Zero Trust can be a critical part of securing these remote work environments, which often include a mix of corporate laptops, BYOD devices, and home networking gear.
Zero Trust eschews the old “trusted inside, untrusted outside” model, and instead puts forth that every connection is untrusted until it has been verified. Each session must be assessed from a security perspective before access is granted, and trust is constantly reevaluated. As such, Zero Trust models are constantly adapting to new information, and ideally will incorporate multiple security contexts when rendering access decisions. Is the user’s identity verified and are they allowed to access a particular resource? Has the integrity of the user’s device been verified? What applications and services are being used to connect?
The security posture and integrity of a device is one of the most fundamentally important of these contexts, yet remains one of the most overlooked aspects of Zero Trust today. With remote workers increasingly outside the protections of network-based security, more and more of the cybersecurity battle is shifted to the users’ endpoint devices. The hardware and firmware of a device is arguably the most strategically valuable resource in this battle. If compromised at this fundamental level, attackers can subvert everything on the device including the operating system, endpoint security controls, as well as the user’s identity. And while such threats were once the domain of state-sponsored attackers, these techniques are increasingly being observed in more widespread malware and ransomware campaigns. Yet for many organizations, device integrity remains a blind spot where Zero Trust principles are not yet applied, and as a result, security is assumed instead of verified.
However, new security tools and innovations are making it possible for organizations to easily close this gap and incorporate device-level contexts into their overall approach to Zero Trust. From the supply chain to remote work to data centers and cloud computing, we examine how, with minimal effort, Zero Trust principles can be applied to device integrity. With a few simple steps, organizations can ensure that Zero Trust decisions include the most fundamental aspects of device security and begin from the moment a device is powered on.
THE RISE OF ATTACKS AGAINST DEVICE INTEGRITY
One of the overarching goals of Zero Trust is for organizations to identify and remove assumptions in their security practice. For example, in the past many organizations assumed that a user inside the network could be trusted and was free from threats. Over the years, attackers learned to take advantage of this assumption by focusing on infecting valid end users with malware to then spread internally and steal data from a trusted position inside the network.
However, this is far from being the only dangerous assumption in cybersecurity. Attackers naturally seek out areas that are assumed to be safe and where security is weakest. In recent years, attackers have increasingly turned their attention to the fundamental layers of the device including its hardware and firmware components. These critical components govern how the machine boots, how the operating system is loaded, and provide some of the most powerful privileges available on the device.
Attackers are increasingly targeting these components both as a way to maintain persistence on a device and to subvert security running in the upper layers. What was once a theoretical class of threats has transitioned to a reality that organizations must address. Key examples include:
LoJax malware, used by APT28 (a.k.a. Fancy Bear or Sednit) in widespread campaigns compromise the firmware of laptops in order to maintain persistence on infected hosts.
Ransomware using malicious EFI bootloaders to prevent systems from booting.
Widespread espionage by APT41 targeting Cisco, Citrix, and Zoho devices.
ROCKBOOT MBR-based bootkit used to maintain persistence on Windows-based devices.
Attacks by APT29 attempting to steal Covid-19 research.
These are just a few recent examples of real-world attacks against device integrity. Most notably, these attacks have affected a wide range of industries and a wide range of device types. End user laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure have all proven to be fair game. This means that in the same way security teams can no longer blindly trust internal users, they can no longer simply assume that their devices can be trusted.
DEVICE CONTEXT AND INTEGRITY IN ZERO TRUST
Device-level contexts and security posture have become an increasingly standard part of Zero Trust-based access decisions. Ultimately the goal is to verify that the connecting device itself can be trusted as part of the access decision. In Gartner’s recent Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access Gartner states, “the new model — zero trust networking — presents an approach that abstracts and centralizes the access mechanisms, so that the security engineers and staff can be responsible for them. ZTNA starts with a default deny posture of zero trust. It grants access based on the identity of the humans and their devices, plus other attributes and context (such as time/date, geolocation and device posture), and adaptively offers the appropriate trust required at the time. The result is a more resilient environment, with improved flexibility and better monitoring. ZTNA will appeal to organizations looking for more-flexible and responsive ways to connect and collaborate with their digital business ecosystems, remote workers and partners” (Gartner subscription required).
As BYOD has become a more prevalent and necessary part of the enterprise, it is often not enough to simply classify unmanaged devices as “bad” or untrusted. Instead, organizations increasingly need to assess the context and posture of the device itself. This can include checking the patch level of the operating system or verifying the presence of an approved antivirus (AV) tool before granting access to a resource. However, these are examples of checking the software that is installed on the device, which is not the same thing as verifying the integrity of the device.
Vulnerabilities or threats within the hardware or firmware of a device can subvert the operating system and render all higher-layer device protections moot. State-backed attackers have taken advantage of this ability to hide from security for well over a decade. However these same techniques have been adopted by organized crime and more widespread, opportunistic attackers. As a result, verifying the fundamental integrity of a device must be the first step of establishing trust on the device.
Each organization is ultimately responsible for securing the integrity of its devices. Device manufacturers naturally aim to deliver secure products, and modern devices include a variety of components to defend hardware and firmware. However, the same can be said for operating systems and applications, yet organizations are well aware of the need to continually monitor them for vulnerabilities and threats. Hardware and firmware require similar attention, and this need has been increasingly codified in a variety of security standards and regulations such as PCI, FISMA, and CMMC. The same principles apply to Zero Trust, and it is incumbent on an organization to actively verify the integrity of its devices.
Applying Zero Trust to devices requires a few basic steps. All critical devices need to be addressed. The organization needs to assess the risks associated with each device, including device-level vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and settings. Lastly, teams need the ability to know if a device has been compromised.
Some of these steps may be new to organizations. However, solutions are available that can automate these functions and allow organizations to efficiently defend their device layer in much the same way they defend their software layers today. For each of the following requirements, we will include key capabilities that are available today to help organizations protect themselves with minimal effort.
Broad Coverage for Devices
Modern enterprises and their employees rely on a wide array of devices, and virtually all of them should be addressed as part of a Zero Trust approach to security. Any device that can be used to access critical content or systems in the environment should be considered in-scope. In most cases, this will force organizations to consider both managed and unmanaged devices, end-user BYOD technologies, and a wide variety of corporate infrastructure in addition to traditional corporate-issued laptops.
Zero Trust has taken on particular significance recently, specifically as a way to help organizations adapt to workers who are increasingly working from home by default. This working environment naturally lends itself to the use of more employee-owned and unmanaged devices. Likewise, remote users are likely to rely on consumer-grade network routers, which are more prone to attack and have been popular targets for attackers in the wild.
The nature of supporting both managed and unmanaged devices will require device contexts that can be delivered either with or without an agent on the endpoint. This can seem like a challenge for security teams given that device-level contexts are derived from endpoint agents running on the protected device. However, modern solutions can deliver device contexts for unmanaged, BYOD, or home office equipment via network-based scans and analysis.
Organizations will also need to consider their computing and network infrastructure. For instance, the increase in remote work has created an increased reliance on VPN infrastructure for remote connectivity. Vulnerabilities in VPNs also have become a very popular target for attackers. Network and security teams must be able to verify that this critical infrastructure is safe and has not been tampered with in order to ensure the validity of the connection. These same considerations will likely apply to other enterprise infrastructure such as corporate switches, firewalls, and the various servers and management systems that support an organization’s applications.
NIST’s SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture establishes several tenets of Zero Trust. The fifth tenet states:
The enterprise ensures that all owned and associated devices are in the most secure state possible and monitors assets to ensure that they remain in the most secure state possible …. This requires a robust monitoring and reporting system in place to provide actionable data about the current state of enterprise resources.
Historically speaking, ensuring devices are in the most secure state involved checking that the operating system was up to date and applications were free from critical vulnerabilities. However, devices can have a wide range of vulnerabilities and problems that lie beneath this traditional waterline. For example, if devices are not properly implementing Secure Boot, attackers could easily subvert the entire operating system during startup. Likewise, vulnerabilities in the system UEFI or BIOS could grant complete control over a device. This same issue can apply to individual components within a device, such as drives, processors, network adapters, and more.
Recognition of these weaknesses is an integral part of understanding the overall risk profile of a connecting device. An organization may not always want to simply block a device due to a vulnerability, but it can provide an essential supporting context. For example, a BYOD laptop with a vulnerability may be limited to accessing basic services, but only systems that are verified to use Secure Boot and are free from critical UEFI vulnerabilities are allowed to access high-value assets.
Ultimately, Zero Trust access decisions need to answer a very fundamental question—is the device compromised? However, this can lead to a catch-22. Attackers are increasingly using device-level implants, backdoors, and malicious bootloaders as a way to compromise devices without being detected by traditional tools such as antivirus and EDR software.
In order to regain trust at the device level, organizations must be able to verify that the firmware and boot process of the device is secure and hasn’t been compromised. This verification can be established by scanning devices with appropriate tools to ensure that all UEFI and component firmware matches valid vendor-approved firmware and that the firmware is free from vulnerabilities or implants.
Additionally, threats in the wild such as the ShadowHammer campaign have demonstrated the potential for valid, vendor-supplied updates to be compromised with malicious code. In these cases, it is important to monitor the hardware and firmware behavior of the device in order to directly detect potential malicious behavior. Once again, the need for behavioral analysis is cited by both Gartner and NIST guidance:
“In many cases, user and device behavior are continuously monitored for abnormal activity, as described in Gartner’s Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust Assessment (CARTA) framework.”
Virtually overnight, remote work has become the default for many organizations, and, in the process, further accentuated the importance of Zero Trust. Not only can internal users not be implicitly trusted, the majority of users are no longer even in the network. They are connecting from untrusted environments and often relying on potentially insecure personal devices and home routers.
Understanding device-level contexts will be essential to safely enable remote workers while also ensuring that corporate assets remain safe. With the increased dependence on BYOD, organizations need to be able to verify the integrity and audit the security posture of a variety of unmanaged devices. Organizations also may want to consider vulnerabilities and the configuration of users’ routers as an extended part of the enterprise attack surface. Vulnerabilities in these types of networking devices have been the target of a variety of large-scale state-based attacks. Organizations may not have the ability to extend direct visibility and protection to these devices, but nevertheless want to provide employees with guidance on updating and maintaining their devices. Organizations will want to verify the safety and integrity of devices prior to granting the device remote access to any resources.
Likewise, organizations should not implicitly trust their networking and VPN infrastructure. A recent alert published by CISA notes that vulnerabilities in corporate VPNs including Citrix and Pulse Secure VPNs have become some of the most popular targets for attackers in 2020. As more corporate traffic runs through VPNs by default, organizations need to be able to ensure their infrastructure has not been compromised.
Zero Trust on Delivery
In a Zero Trust model, users and devices are presumed to be compromised until they are actively verified. However, organizations often forget to apply this standard to newly-acquired devices, which are often assumed to be “clean.” Weaknesses in the technology supply chain could allow a device to be compromised long before it is ever received by the buying organization. For example, a vulnerability in any of the numerous hardware components within a device could allow attackers to modify firmware and insert a malicious implant to subvert higher-layer controls. The Trusted Computing Group recently spoke on this topic and the need for new industry controls at the RSA 2020 conference. These types of problems have made Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) a major focus for many enterprises.
As a result, organizations should ensure that the verification of device integrity and firmware scanning practices described above are applied to all newly acquired devices. This will allow organizations to identify any vulnerabilities or tampering that might have occurred in the supply chain. Likewise, organizations should include firmware scanning as part of the standard pre-purchase evaluation of all prospective technology.
Do Not Blindly Trust Vendor Updates
Devices naturally need to be regularly updated, and it is easy to assume that a vendor’s updates can be trusted. However, this has proven to be a bad assumption. Previous Eclypsium research found firmware using insecure updating practices, which could allow an attacker to intercept the update traffic and remotely deliver a malicious update to the firmware.
Worse still, a vendor’s update infrastructure itself can be compromised. For example, in the aforementioned case of ShadowHammer, attackers were able to infiltrate ASUS update infrastructure and subsequently deliver malware to ASUS customers in the form of updates that were properly signed and delivered through the official ASUS Live Update utility.
It is also important to note that devices often need access to trusted vendor sites as part of the standard update process. This trusted connection to the outside world can present an attacker with an opportunity to quickly cut through an organization’s carefully crafted micro-segmentation strategy.
In these cases, organizations will need to have the ability to detect vulnerable update processes such as accepting unsigned firmware updates or insecure connectivity issues. In cases where the valid update from the vendor has been compromised, organizations will need to be able to monitor for abnormal firmware behavior.
Device Best Practices for Zero Trust
The points above provide a good starting point for thinking about how the Zero Trust security model applies to device integrity and the underlying firmware. However, it is certainly not an exhaustive list. There are a wide range of details to potentially consider, but we included a series of best practices that are applicable to most environments. These capabilities are available today in modern security tools, and can be integrated into an organization’s existing security practices.
Ensure Device Posture: It isn’t enough to simply check that a device is corporate-issued or has a recently patched OS. Weaknesses in firmware can subvert even the most trusted devices and up-to-date software. Recommended actions include:
Regularly check devices for device-level vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities can make it easy for malware or other attackers to add malicious code to a device.
Analyze devices for vulnerabilities and insecure updating practices. Vulnerabilities such as not requiring signed firmware updates can allow an attacker to easily install his own malicious code. Insecure updating over a network could similarly give an attacker the opportunity to deliver malicious firmware remotely.
Apply the same vulnerability and integrity checks to device components. In addition to the system-level BIOS and UEFI firmware, attackers can target firmware in key components such as drives and network adapters.
Ensure Device Integrity: Device-level implants, backdoors, or any unauthorized code, can allow attackers to take full control of a device and evade traditional security controls on the device. Organizations should monitor devices for signs of known and unknown threats. Key steps include:
Regularly verify device integrity and check for implants. Malicious code in firmware allows attackers to persist on a device while gaining the highest possible privileges and control over the device. Teams should scan devices for known and unknown implants or backdoors.
Scan all newly acquired hardware. All new devices should be analyzed at the firmware level to ensure that the firmware is valid, vendor-approved firmware that hasn’t been tampered with in the supply chain.
Verify the integrity of devices after any security event. Attackers can implant malicious code in firmware that can survive a complete re-imaging of the system. Staff must verify that the hardware root of trust is intact before returning a device to operation.
Monitor device behavior after a firmware update. If a vendor is compromised, it is possible that even properly signed, valid firmware could contain malicious code. To detect such threats, security should monitor the behavior of firmware to identify any malicious activity.
Conclusions
These are just some of the ways that a Zero Trust approach can be applied to enterprise device security. At its heart, Zero Trust is about rooting out areas where trust is assumed and replacing that assumption with active verification. Unfortunately, for many enterprises, firmware and hardware components have been a persistent blind spot that has been trusted by default.
New tools are allowing organizations to gain the same visibility into firmware vulnerabilities, hardware misconfigurations, and other threats to device integrity, as they have for higher-layer software. This allows organizations to pursue a true Zero Trust approach that begins at the hardware root of trust of every device.
To learn more about device security or Zero Trust, please contact the Eclypsium team at [email protected].
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Photos and personal information belonging to patients of the NextMotion plastic surgery tech firm have been exposed online through an unsecured S3 bucket.
Hundreds of thousands of documents containing photos and personal information belonging to patients of the plastic surgery technology company NextMotion have been exposed online through an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.
NextMotion is a French plastic surgery tech company that provides imaging and patient management software that allows complete treatment records on an aesthetic patient.
The software is able to create before and after pictures and videos of patients during the treatment process.
“Nextmotion is an ecosystem based on a medical cloud that allows you to sort, store and access your data wherever you are,” states the company on its website.
“In that sense, all your data is covered with the highest requested security level as it is hosted in France on servers authorized by the Haute Autorité de Santé (French Health Authority) – in our case, AWS who is certified.”
The S3 bucket contained approximately 900,000 files, including highly sensitive patient images and videos, as well as plastic surgery, and consultation documents.
“The compromised database contained 100,000s of profile images of patients, uploaded via NextMotion’s proprietary software. These were highly sensitive, including images of patients’ faces and specific areas of their bodies being treated.” reads the post published by vpnMentor. “Our team had access to almost 900,000 individual files. These included highly sensitive images, video files, and paperwork relating to plastic surgery, dermatological treatments, and consultations performed by clinics using NextMotion’s technology.”
The personal patients’ information viewed by the experts included invoices for treatments, outlines for proposed treatments, video files, including 360-degree body and face scans, profile photos of the patients (both facial and body).
According to NextMotion, patient data stored in the unsecured database “had been de-identified,” but vpnMentor experts pointed out that paperwork and invoices leaked also contained Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data of patients.
“We were informed on January 27, 2020, that a cybersecurity company had undertaken tests on randomly selected companies and had managed to access our information system.” reads the notice published by the company. “They were able to access and extract medias (videos and photos) from some of our patients’ files. Those media were on a specific database separated from patient’s text database (names, birth dates, notes, etc) – only the media database was exposed, patient’s database was not exposed.”
Experts explained that the type of data leaked online can be abused to target patients in a wide range of malicious activities, including scams, fraud, and phishing and other attacks.
NextMotion pointed out that it has immediately implemented corrective measured to protect its customers.
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Utility industry representatives opposed legislation at a House subcommittee hearing last week that could authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enforce cyber security standards on all plants connected to the bulk power system.
The House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment hearing examined bills introduced this year to address the protection of the grid from cyber and other malicious attacks. The webcast hearing was titled "Protecting the Electric Grid: H.R. 2165, the Bulk Power System Protection Act of 2009, and H.R. 2195, a bill to amend the Federal Power Act to provide additional authorities to adequately protect the critical electric infrastructure against cyber attack.”
The Federal Power Act allows FERC to enforce security standards for power plants—with the exception of electrical systems outside the continental U.S. and local distribution facilities. But these systems are connected to the bulk power system through computer networks. If federal authority is not extended industrywide, it could open the system to cyber attacks through an individual power plant, said Committee Chair Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., during the hearing.
“We have to close that regulatory black hole” between the federal authority and [North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)] jurisdiction, Markey said. NERC is a quasi-public agency that develops security standards for individual plants, including local distribution facilities.
Joseph McClelland, director of FERC’s Office of Electric Reliability, testified that the agency’s legal authority, as it stood, was inadequate to protect the bulk power system against both cyber and physical threats. “Further, although section 202(c) of the FPA provides the Department of Energy certain emergency authority, in my view that authority is not adequate to cover the types of actions that might need to be ordered to protect the electric grid,” he said.
But as Gary Brown, chair of the New York State Public Service Commission (NYPSC) as well as of the Electricity Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), argued, “legislation must distinguish between imminent threats, which require immediate action, and vulnerabilities, which can be resolved more deliberately.”
Brown said that the scope of legislation should be limited to cyber security on the bulk power system and in emergency situations. If the federal government had actionable intelligence about an imminent threat to the bulk power system, state commissions would be willing and able to help deal with the emergency situations on the distribution systems. “In these limited circumstances, when time does not allow for classified industry briefings and development of mitigation measures for a threat or vulnerability, FERC in the United States and the appropriate corresponding authorities in Canada should be the government agencies that direct the electric power industry on the needed emergency actions,” he said. “These actions should only remain in effect until the threat subsides or upon FERC approval of related NERC reliability standards.”
Another concern to consider was cost, Brown said. “The issue of how much more money should be put into this effort when it is virtually impossible to stop some cyber attacks (e.g., hackers getting into the Pentagon’s computer system) needs to be addressed.”
Regulated companies were already taking steps, through NERC’s cyber security (“CIP”) standards, to manage risk, he added. But, “The question of how far that standard extends (i.e., to what extent it would reach down into the distribution system) is not yet clear,” he said. “Over the past two years, electric utilities across the country have requested significant additional staffing and dollars for CIP standard compliance activities in their transmission rate case filings at FERC. However, extending the applicability of those standards to lower voltage facilities raises the question of how much more we are willing to pay for a marginal increase in cyber security.”
It was more important that FERC improve the way it communicated information in regards to a cyber threat, Brown said. “In nearly all situations, the electric power industry can protect the reliability and security of the bulk power system without government intelligence information. However, in the limited circumstances when the industry does need government intelligence information on a particular threat or vulnerability, it is critical that such information is timely and actionable.”
John DiStasio, general manager and CEO of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, told the committee, meanwhile, that “the diversity of our systems leads us to not necessarily have a one-size-fits-all way to control [vulnerabilities]."
NERC’s vice president, David Cook, implied that the bills should be reviewed separately. One of the bills, H.R. 2165, would allow FERC to set standards for how electrical utilities respond to an attack, regulations acceptable to the industry. But H.R. 2195 would allow FERC to set standards for how utilities should address cybersecurity vulnerabilities and authorize FERC to “adopt rules or orders without notice or hearing.” That was unacceptable to the industry.
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With Darktrace's solution, the college is able to encourage students to use their own devices for self-learning while protecting its networks.
United World College of Southeast Asia (UWCSEA) has deployed Darktrace's artificial intelligence (AI) technology in its two campuses in Singapore to protect its cybersecurity network.
The campuses are leveraging Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System to spot sophisticated cyber threats that could silently and stealthily infiltrate UWCSEA's network via a student's phone, laptop or internet of thing (IoT) device.
According to a press release, the campus provides students with their own device to promote self- learning. In addition, parents are able to use the campus network to access personal devices. Although this open approach supports learning, it simultaneously creates more network vulnerabilities, adding to the breach of personal data.
"UWCSEA prides itself on educating through technology, without compromising the safety of students and their data. Our open-access policy for the school's community has ultimately increased the complexity of out digital infrastructure, but Darktrace gives us complete network visibility, allowing us to spot emerging threats before they become serious," explained Ben Morgan, director of IT, UWCSEA.
"Artificial intelligence for security is no longer an option-it's a must have. It is simply not possible for small IT teams in organisations like ours to keep up with all the new threats and sophisticated threat-actors on their own. Darktrace has delivered on the promise of AI in cyber security and allows us to stay abreast of this new landscape while lessening the burden on our staff overall," added Morgan.
The solution has quickly proven its value. Shortly after being deployed, Darktrace alerted UWCSEA's security team to a serious anomaly within its network. A PC had been infected with malware, and no other tool from their security stack had reported the issue.
UWCSEA's team was thus able to immediately take action and focus on remediating the problem before the infection could spread.
"The move towards machine learning technology is paramount for any organisation in the fight against today's evolving threat. By securing the network from the inside out, we are now catching advanced threats that the school's perimeter defences are powerless against," said Sanjay Aurora, managing director, Asia Pacific, Darktrace.
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Flaws in the network access control product can give attackers access to administrative functions, Cisco said.
Cisco Systems has released software updates for its Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) in order to patch three vulnerabilities that could give remote attackers administrative access to the platform and allow them to execute OS-level commands without authorization.
Cisco ACS is a server appliance that enforces access control policies for both wireless and wired network clients. It's managed through a Web-based user interface and supports the RADIUS (Remote Access Dial In User Service) and TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus) protocols.
Versions of the Cisco Secure ACS software older than 5.5 contain two vulnerabilities in the RMI (Remote Method Invocation) interface that's used for communication between different ACS deployments and listens on TCP ports 2020 and 2030.
One of the vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2014-0648, stems from insufficient authentication and authorization enforcement and allows remote unauthenticated attackers to perform administrative actions on the system through the RMI interface.
The other vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-0649, allows remote attackers with access to restricted user accounts to escalate their privileges and perform superadmin functions via the RMI interface.
A third vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2014-0650, was discovered in the system's Web-based interface and is the result of insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject and execute OS-level commands without shell access, Cisco said in a security advisory. This vulnerability affects Cisco Secure ACS software older than 5.4 patch 3.
There are no configuration workarounds available to mitigate these vulnerabilities, so updating the software to the new versions released by Cisco is recommended.
"The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory," the company said.
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OpenSSL 1.1.1, the newest version of the cryptography library, has been released by the OpenSSL Project as its Long Term Support (LTS) version, which means it will be supported by the Project for at least the next five years.
It's taken years of work with nearly 5,000 commits having been made from over 200 individual contributors since the release of OpenSSL 1.1.0.
And that's not counting the users that went bug stomping in it.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 is API and ABI compliant with OpenSSL 1.1.0. That means that most applications that work with 1.1.0 can gain many of the benefits of TLSv1.3 simply by dropping in the new OpenSSL version.
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There are some real differences between the two, however. The inclusion of TLS v1.3 is the most obvious. This new version of the Transport Layer Security -- formerly known as SSL -- protocol was published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) only one month ago as RFC8446. It functions in a different manner than TLS 1.2, which can confuse some interoperability situations. (See IETF Makes Transport Layer Security Version 1.3 Official.)
The Project believes that TLS 1.3 has a number of advantages, including:
Improved connection times due to a reduction in the number of round trips required between the client and server.
The ability, in certain circumstances, for clients to start sending encrypted data to the server straight away without any round trips with the server required -- a feature known as 0-RTT or "early data." This particular feature has been the subject of lots of contention, and may have delayed the release of the TLS version somewhat.
Improved security due to the removal of various obsolete and insecure cryptographic algorithms and encryption of more of the connection handshake.
OpenSSL has lots of improvements under its own hood. The most striking is the complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator which introduces a number of new features.
The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG (Counter mode Deterministic Random Byte Generator) according to NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1.
There is also support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining, as well as a public and private DRBG instance. The DRBG instances are fork-safe. The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock-free operation.
New cryptographic algorithms such as SHA3, SHA512/224 and SHA512/256, EdDSA (including Ed25519 and Ed448), X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0), multi-prime RSA, SM2, SM3, SM4, SipHash, ARIA (including TLS support) are now supported.
There is also now "signficant Side-Channel attack security improvements" along with a new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other objects.
The Project's previous LTS release -- OpenSSL 1.0.2 -- will continue to receive "full support" until the end of this year. After that it will receive security fixes only. It will stop receiving all support at the end of 2019. Therefore, users of that now-sunsetted release are strongly advised to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Visa Security Summit 2009 -- Hacking banks and large businesses? That's sooo 2008.
Hackers and computer criminals this year are taking a new aim -- directly at small and midsize businesses, according to experts who spoke here today at Visa's annual security event. The consensus: Smaller businesses offer a much more attractive target than larger enterprises that have steeled themselves with years of security spending and compliance efforts.
"As the security becomes better at large companies, the small business begins to look more and more enticing to computer criminals," said Charles Matthews, president of the International Council for Small Business, in a panel presentation here. "It's the path of least resistance."
Matthews quoted industry research that states small businesses are far less prepared to defend themselves against cyberattack. "Nearly one-fifth of small businesses don't even use antivirus software," he said. "Sixty percent don't use any encryption on their wireless links. Two-thirds of small businesses don't have a security plan in place. These numbers are both surprising and disturbing."
And many small businesses still don't know they are targets, according to Chris Gray, director of innovation policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and another member of the panel. "According to a brief survey we conducted, about two-thirds of small and medium-sized businesses believe that large companies are the main target for cybercrime," he reported. "Yet 85 percent of the fraud we see in business occurs in small and medium-sized businesses."
David Hogan, senior vice president and CIO for the National Retail Federation, who spoke on a separate panel at the summit, said only about 60 percent of Level 3 businesses -- the level just above the mom-and-pop shops -- have met the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) for protecting credit card data. Compliance at Level 4 " the smallest businesses -- is generally believed to be even worse.
So with all of the hoopla surrounding PCI compliance -- not to mention numerous public breaches disclosed in the news and retail trade media -- why aren't more small businesses paying attention to security? The key problems are a lack of resources and time, according to Merrill Phelan, manager of IS and programming for the Washington Metro Airport Authority, a Level 2 merchant.
"You really have to work hard to maintain PCI compliance," Phelan said. "And although PCI all makes sense on paper, sometimes it seems like the security standards written for Fort Knox -- do we really need all of those requirements for a small business? The standards should apply to the business."
In the past, small businesses have been able to protect credit card data on their premises by using secure, dedicated point-of-sale hardware and connections provided to them by banks or financial institutions. But as small businesses begin to explore methods of doing business online, they are also beginning to handle their own credit card data, noted Paul Cook, managing director at Barclaycard, the credit card arm of the U.K.-based Barclays Bank.
"That can be very dangerous, both for the small business and for its customers," Cook observed. "Those businesses need the equivalent of the bank-owned terminal for their Websites -- enough secure payment pages that they don't need to worry about securing the credit card data themselves."
Other panelists suggested small businesses rely more heavily on banks and third-party security services to handle the entire credit card purchase process; that way they don't ever end up handling large amounts of credit card data. "We'd like to take the responsibility for handling that data out of their hands," Cook said. In a presentation here earlier today, executives from McDonald's described a payment system that essentially achieves this goal, allowing franchises to accept credit cards without ever storing any credit card data.
Phelan suggested that small businesses take that idea one step further. "If you can reset your business model so that you're no longer subject to PCI requirements because you aren't handling credit card data at all, that's the best solution," he said. "That's not as crazy as it sounds -- there are ways to accept credit card payments without ever touching the data itself."
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N2 - Introduction: Nowadays the study of vulnerability to psychosis and early intervention is an area of great clinical impact and research. The aim of this study was to adapt the from English to Spanish. A set of five scales (Magical Ideation, Perceptual Aberration, Physical Anhedonia, Revised Social Anhedonia and Ambivalence) assess schizotypal traits in the general population and the possible risk of developing disorders embedded in the psychotic spectrum. Additionally, this tool contains a scale of Hypomaniac Personality to detect risk of affective spectrum psychosis. Methodology: The have been adapted following the back-translation method. The scales were translated to an original Spanish version, which was then translated again into English in order to assess the conceptual and semantic overlap with the original items. Results: All the items were back-translated and evaluated in respect to the original ones by an expert in the scales, and all of them were rated with a perfect equivalence (Type A) or satisfactory (Type B). Future studies should test the reliability and validity of these scales in our environment.
Conclusions: The Spanish version of the shows good equivalence with the English one, thus allowing to measure affective and schizotypal traits in samples of Spanishspeaking individuals properly.
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The APT28 (Advanced persistence menace) is operating considering that 2009, this team has labored below unique names such as Sofacy, Sednit, Strontium Storm, Extravagant Bear, Iron Twilight, and Pawn.
Microsoft seized 7 domains it promises were being element of ongoing cyberattacks by what it said are point out-sponsored Russian sophisticated persistent risk actors that targeted Ukrainian-connected electronic property.
The business obtained courtroom orders to acquire manage of the domains it reported were used by Strontium, also acknowledged as APT28, Sofacy, Fancy Bear and Sednit. In a site article outlining the actions, Microsoft described attackers employed the domains to focus on Ukrainian media companies, government establishments and overseas coverage assume tanks dependent in the U.S. and Europe.
“We obtained a courtroom order authorizing us to take handle of 7 internet domains Strontium was employing to conduct these attacks,” explained Tom Burt, corporate vice president of Purchaser Security and Rely on at Microsoft.
Sinkhole is a security time period that refers to the redirection of internet traffic from domains, at the domain-server network degree, by security scientists for assessment and mitigation. Microsoft did not specify how the domains ended up particularly becoming abused, beyond figuring out those people targeted.
“We have because re-directed these domains to a sinkhole controlled by Microsoft, enabling us to mitigate Strontium’s existing use of these domains and help sufferer notifications,” Burt claimed.
Scientists, claimed the APT was attempting to establish persistent, or lengthy-term, entry to a target’s technique. This, they suggested, would facilitate a 2nd stage attack that would most likely include things like extraction of delicate information this sort of as credentials.
“This disruption is section of ongoing extensive-expression expense, started off in 2016, to acquire authorized and specialized action to seize infrastructure being employed by Strontium. We have proven a lawful course of action that enables us to get hold of swift courtroom selections for this work,” Microsoft explained.
Sinkhole Record
Prior to this, Microsoft seized 91 malicious domains as section of 15 individual court orders in opposition to what it asserts are Russian-language threat teams, dating back again to August 2014.
The use of going via the courts to get a temporary restraining order towards all those discovered as guiding the malicious domains has been the principal approach that Microsoft has used to disrupt destructive strategies. The court buy shuts down the destructive action and provides Microsoft the authorized authority to reroute traffic to domains Microsoft controls.
Sinkholes are a time-analyzed and recognized process for disrupting the procedure of botnets and other malware enterprises and are utilized in a assortment of techniques. Scientists typically will perform with hosting providers to reroute website traffic from malicious domains to ones controlled by the researchers or by law enforcement, encouraging to minimize off the lifeline of the legal operations and make it possible for a forensic examination of website traffic utilized to build the resource, mother nature and scope of an attack.
In the situation of APT28, in 2016 the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Division of Homeland Security implicated the hacking group in attacks versus various U.S. election-relevant targets.
Additional lately, Strontium is considered to have teamed up with Belarusian hacking group Ghostwriter to launch phishing attacks concentrating on Ukrainian officers, according to Google. European satellite companies have also been focused by unverified risk actors as component of an escalating cyber offensive developed to harm Ukraine.
Noted By: Sagar Tiwari, an independent security researcher and technical author.
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Ten months after it debuted rudimentary malware scanning in Snow Leopard, Apple this week quietly added a signature for a third piece of malware, security researchers reported today.
According to U.K-based antivirus vendor Sophos and U.S. Mac security company Intego, Mac OS X 10.6.4 , which Apple released this past Tuesday, includes an update to XProtect.
Dubbed that because the malware signatures are contained within Snow Leopard's "XProtect.plist" file, the feature debuted in August 2009 with the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 . At the time, Apple included detection for only two pieces of malware, Trojan horses named "RSPlug.a" and "Iservice" by Symantec.
The 10.6.4 update added a scanning signature for another Trojan, which Symantec has labeled as "HellRTS."
According to Sophos, which calls the same Trojan "OSX/Pinhead-B," and like Symantec has had protection in place since April, hackers have disguised the threat as iPhoto, the photo management software that ships with new Macs. The masquerade is meant to dupe users into installing the backdoor malware.
Apple did not note the change to XProtect's signature list in the release notes for Mac OS X 10.6.4, a fact that Sophos' Graham Cluley found curious.
"You have to wonder whether they're keeping quiet about an anti-malware security update like this ... for marketing reasons," speculated Cluley, a Sophos senior technology consultant, in a post to a company blog . "Shh! Don't tell folks that we have to protect against malware on Mac OS X!"
Computerworld confirmed that detection for HellRTS has been added to XProtect.plist.
Not surprisingly, both Sophos and Intego -- each sells Mac security software -- dismissed the update.
"Although I welcome Apple doing something to reduce the malware problem on Mac OS X, I don't consider it a replacement for real anti-virus software," Cluley asserted.
"So Apple's anti-malware feature now protects against three types of malware," said Intego on its Web site . "Intego's VirusBarrier X6 protects against all known Mac malware."
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is [email protected] .
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Veracity Industrial Networks, an award-winning developer of industrial SDN-based technology for operational networks (OT), today announced a global partnership agreement with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL).
“Starting with the Department of Energy’s Chess Master project, Schweitzer and Veracity have been jointly developing solutions for OT networks,” said Paul Myer, Veracity CEO. “Together we have the solution ICS owners need to easily setup, secure, and monitor their networks.”
The Department of Energy’s Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) R&D program is designed to bring together Energy Sector end users and ICS vendors, as well as the National Laboratories and academia to “design, install, operate, and maintain resilient energy delivery systems that survive a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions.”
Veracity’s Cerebellum software runs in combination with Schweitzer’s SEL-5056 Software-Defined Network Flow Controller, providing Cerebellum’s intuitive user interface for the configuration and management of the SEL-2740S, SEL’s OT SDN switch.
As a provider of industrial automation and test and measurement solutions, Yokogawa is familiar with the security risks facing users of operational technology (OT). But
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SecurityGate.io announced that it’s risk management platform had been selected by Chevron as part of efforts the energy company is undertaking to improve its cybersecurity.
Cyber Security for Critical Assets kicked off it’s virtual Industrial Cyber Security Summit USA. As part of the two-day event, virtual attendees heard from senior
U.S. Department of Defense selects Forescout to safeguard information systems
The United States Department of Defense has selected cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies to expand cybersecurity across its global enterprise. Forescout has been awarded a multimillion
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1. Think of a person who loves you unconditionally. Love yourself like that.
Think about a person who doesn’t care how you dress or what grade you got on your most recent Math test. This person thinks you are amazing exactly the way you are. They let you be sad or happy or quiet without judging you or asking you to change. Do you feel the way they love you? Good! Now practice feeling that way about yourself.
2. Don’t compare yourself to others.
Need some help? Turn off the television. Log out of facebook. Unplug. Stop reading fashion magazines… they’re designed to make you feel inadequate so you’ll spend money on just about anything to make yourself look and feel better. Never (ever) utter the phrase, “Out of my league” about the boy or girl you like. Leagues are for sports not for dating.
Take risks. Open your heart. Make mistakes. Perfection is a bad goal.
5. Treat your body with respect.
Love your body. Whatever your body looks like, it is an extraordinary machine that allows you to do amazing things. When you go on vacation, it’s your body that takes you there. Eat well. Drink more water. Move. Get enough sleep. Insist that other people respect your body too.
What are you passionate about doing? Pursue that thing even if you’re not good at it yet. Develop goals and work hard to achieve them. Find ways to feel proud of yourself even if others don’t understand your dream.
10. Hang out with people who like and inspire you.
Real friends get how amazing you are. They ask you how your day was and try to comfort you when you feel sad. They tell the truth even when the truth is hard to hear. They make you want to be a better person. If your friends don’t make you feel good about yourself, they’re not really your friends.
I’ve always been attracted to place. When I was in grad school, I travelled by bus to Toronto to visit a friend. My heart had been recently broken and my friend was a generous and comforting sort so I accepted his invitation to stay for a while.
So I’m on this Greyhound bus and it’s night-time and the streets of Toronto are much better lit than those of Kingston, where I was living at the time, and I can see a couple standing under a streetlight talking and smoking. Although I don’t smoke, I admire the grace with which the woman reaches over and lights the man’s cigarette with her lighter. With just one hand. The glowing red end of his cigarette moves like drunken fireflies. And I’m wearing headphones and listening to some seriously sad-ass, broken-hearted love songs and I feel so affected by the scenes I witness as we drive through Toronto that I pull out my journal and start writing a poem. I still have it.
And the thing is, I did not have a particularly strong attachment to Toronto. I’m from Ottawa and grew up hearing Toronto referred to as, “That EVIL city.” (Totally true story.)
But that night, on the bus, I let myself feel connected to the people of the city and to the city itself.
Since I began blogging in 2006, much of my writing has been an attempt to describe my connection with the places I have lived. Cali, Colombia. Monterrey, Mexico. Barcelona, Spain. Bangkok, Thailand. Yokohama, Japan.
Whether I am travelling or staying put, I like to make myself at home. I like to unpack, nest, and get well acquainted with my surroundings. In my daily life in Japan I don’t wander very far from home but the ten blocks that surround our apartment have become my playground, my entire world. I am ridiculously in love with our little corner of Yokohama.
About six months after we moved to Japan, I started writing some of my blog posts in free verse which I came to call “skinny prose”. I like the way that the short lines and the musicality convey my feelings better than paragraphing it.
And I adopted Instagram as my way of photographically documenting the places I loved.
These little skinny prose pieces and the photos that accompany them help me work out my feelings about where I live. They help me understand this relationship to a country that is on the other side of the planet from where I grew up… and they help me feel securely attached to my new home.
The posts I write about place are contemplations. And little prayers of thanks.
But take a walk with me. Look over there. Who has painted their mailbox purple… and why? One of your neighbours has a new pug that sits on the back of an emerald green velvet sofa and waves at you through the living room window. (At least it looks like it’s waving.) There’s a new restaurant opening in the space where you used to rent videos. You take a moment to admire the pink roses that grow for a few short weeks in the lot beside the grocery store and you wonder how they got there and who tends them.
This is your corner of the world. These are your people.
The Geography of Now is about this. It’s about waving back to that pug. It’s about eating at that new restaurant and telling your friends about how amazing their grilled cheese sandwich was. It’s about being curious while staying out of judgement.
It may have been a long time since you wrote something creative and you might feel frightened. You’ll need to summon your courage.
I’m inviting you to take this leap with me.
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RMA Insurance is pleased to announce the availability of scholarship funds for members of the insurance program. This scholarship program has been established to encourage and promote the study of risk management among RMA Insurance members. Consideration will be given to all applicants who demonstrate career goals and educational objectives, including support within their organization.
Candidates must confirm that risk management or insurance is a function of their current position and they must provide a written recommendation from their supervisor advising why the education is useful for their role.
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At Siemens we are continuously pushing the boundaries of sectors such as the internet of things (IoT), big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. However, with such digital innovations come unpredictable security challenges and vulnerabilities, thus increasing the risk of cyberattacks. Join us! Together we can make our digital world more secure.
As a senior security consultant, your role is to develop and define the strategy for the cyber defense centers (CDC) and align all activities with the CDC management of the customer. You will have strategic importance for the department because you’ll be interacting with the CDC management board and translating any customer demand into follow-on business opportunities for Siemens. Depending upon project success, you could potentially lead the cyber security satellite center in Switzerland. Therefore, candidates with existing management experience are highly welcome.
We look forward to receiving your full online application including a CV and letter of motivation. Please upload references, certificates and an indication of your availability in a second step after creating an account. Please note that we only accept applications via our job portal siemens.ch/jobs.
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Information for recruitment agencies: Siemens does not accept recruitment agency applications for this position. Thank you for your understanding.
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Ransomware implements a very simple way to spread its maliciousness and that generally is spam email. All damaging program makers have to do is adjoin a contaminated file to an email and send it to innocent people. As soon as the file attached is opened, the file-encrypting malware will download onto the device. This is why opening every single email attachment you get is pretty risky. You need to learn the signs of an infected email, otherwise you will have to deal with a malicious one eventually. A big red flag is the sender urging you to open the file added to the email. If you consider every email attachment you get as likely malicious program, it can take time to ensure they are non-malicious, but at least you would dodge severe contaminations. Downloads from unsecure portals are also a good way to corrupt your device with ransomware. Only trust legitimate sites with real downloads.
The ransomware will use difficult encryption algorithms for file encryption so that you can no longer open them. Your images, documents and other files will be unreadable. After encoding, you should be able to find a ransom note, if it does not open on automatically, it should be located in folders containing the encrypted data. You will, of course, be required to pay to recover the files. Cyber criminals’ behavior is erratic therefore doing business with them could become quite difficult. This is why paying is not advised. You receiving the decryption application for which you have to pay, may not be the outcome of this whole situation. Don’t be shocked if you pay and get nothing in exchange, because really, what’s preventing cyber criminals from just taking your money. If backup is something you have, you could just delete MARRACRYPT ransomware and proceed to recover the files. Instead of paying, purchase dependable backup and uninstall MARRACRYPT ransomware.
1. On the Windows login screen, press the Power button. Press and hold the Shift key. Click Restart. 2. Troubleshoot → Advanced options → Startup Settings → Restart. 3. Select Enable Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
2.2) Restore system files and settings.
1. Enter cd restore when the Command Prompt window appears. Press Enter. 2. Type rstrui.exe and press Enter. 3. When the System Restore Window pop-ups, click Next. 4. Select the restore point and click Next. 5. Click Yes on the warning window that appears. When the system restore is complete, it is recommended that you obtain anti-malware software and scan your computer for the ransomware just to be sure that it is gone.
3.1) Using Data Recovery Pro to recover files
Download the program from a reliable source and install it.
Run the program and scan your computer for recoverable files.
3.3) Shadow Explorer to decrypt files
Your operating system automatically creates shadow copies of your files in case of a crash but some ransomware manages to delete them. Nevertheless, it is still worth a try.
Download Shadow Explorer. Preferably from the official website (http://shadowexplorer.com/), install and open the program.
On the top left corner there will be a drop menu. Search for the disk that contains the encrypted files.
If you do find some folders, right-click on them and select Export.
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http://www.pcvirus-lab.com/marracrypt-ransomware-removal/
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The UK-based telecommunications company TalkTalk has seen its profits more than halve, following last year’s “significant and sustained cyberattack”.
Profits were down to $20 million compared with $46 million for the same period last year, which has largely been attributed to the financial fallout of the high-profile incident.
The cost of the cyberattack, which was originally estimated at $50.2 million, is in fact $60.7 million.
Contrary to this, TalkTalk’s chief executive was optimistic about its latest financial figures.
Dido Harding said that the company has in fact “bounced back strongly … following the cyberattack in October”.
“We recorded our lowest ever churn and stabilised the broadband base, testimony to the speed with which customer sentiment towards TalkTalk has recovered, the success of our greater focus on existing customers, and the growing benefits of our simplification programme,” Ms. Harding continued in an official press release.
“We reported full year results in line with our guidance and have declared a 15% higher dividend for the year.”
The company lost over 100,000 of its customers following the data breach, which compromised 157,000 individuals.
Information that was accessed included names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, telephone numbers and credit card data.
Following the attack, a number of individuals were arrested in connection with the crime, all of them under the age of 21.
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https://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/05/12/talktalk-profits-halve-following-last-years-major-cyberattack/
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You can register an account here to save your settings in the Exhibitors and Products Database and as well as in the Supporting Programme. The registration is not for the TicketShop and ExhibitorShop.
Save your favourites permanently. Use the instant access – mobile too, anytime and anywhere – incl. memo function.
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In the event of a ransomware attack, Egnyte helps you to quickly regain access to your encrypted files with snapshot-based ransomware recovery.
A snapshot is a view of all the data within your Egnyte domain as seen at a specific point in time.
Viewing snapshots allows you to selectively recover versions of files before they were affected by ransomware. Your company’s snapshots are saved on a routine basis.
As you recover files by creating restoration jobs, you can monitor the progress from the Restore tab under Settings.
When ransomware strikes, Egnyte helps you get your content back quickly with snapshot-based ransomware recovery.
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https://securitysenses.com/videos/snapshot-based-ransomware-recovery
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The best protection right now is to keep your anti-virus running in real time protection mode, and keep the definitions updated.
Run an anti--virus scan and if it shows anything suspicious, then post a HijackThis log in that forum.
If you want a second opinion or even third opinion, you can run some online anti-virus scans.
Also you should be running a software firewall that has both inbound and outbound protection. If something did get into your machine, the firewall can block from calling down more malware. Actually, everyone using the internet should have this protection at all times because there are always normal sites that have been hacked to spread malware. Right now, due to this zero day exploit, the risk is heightened.
Another good means of protection is the user of HIPs programs that can prevent malware from running in the machine. They require a little more knowledge. See:
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: Another link with some very helpful information. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2540
I'm going to move your post to a more appropriate discussion forum._________________Former Microsoft MVP 2005-2009, Consumer Security
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http://www.spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?p=153023
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Emails sent from outside the university through the smtp server of any other provider, will not be stopped.
If you get the following error message, you have answered to a known a phishing message.
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http://helpdesk.ugent.be/email/en/phishing.php
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As many as 65 websites have been compromised in an attack that has snared another Washington, D.C.-area media website as well as a number of travel and leisure sites.
While the sites aren’t topically related, they’re all hosting advertisements injected with malicious code hosted on googlecodehosting[.]com, googlecodehosting[.]org and googlecodehosting[.]net, all of which resolve to the same IP address, security company Zscaler said. The IP is currently offline. Related Posts Oracle Clarifies XP Support Ahead of Quarterly Patches
The ads were delivered by openxadvertising[.]com, which Google SafeBrowsing is blocking, Zscaler said. The attacks are exploiting two Java vulnerabilities CVE-2013-1493 and CVE-2013-2423, both of which are being used to drop the ZeroAccess Trojan on affected machines, Zscaler said.
ZeroAccess is financial malware that deals in click-fraud, Bitcoin theft and includes rootkit capabilities that help it avoid detection from security software. It’s spread primarily through a number of botnets, including peer-to-peer botnets.
Government Security News reported this week that its site had been compromised and that Google was warning visitors of malware on the site. GSN covers government-related IT and physical security issues.
“At first, GSN thought we were a random victim of a cyber-attack with no specific target. Alternatively, we thought we might have been a specific target of what is sometimes called a “spear-fishing attack,” aimed at a single company or organization,” a post on the website said. “But during the course of Monday, June 17, we learned from a respected malware detection company that its cyber-attack technical experts had encountered the same attack several times in recent days, each aimed at a different media company. One attack was aimed at a radio station in Washington, DC; another was targeted at a public affairs-oriented news organization.”
Radio station WTOP and Federal News Radio, in addition to the Free Beacon website, have been compromised in attacks starting in early May. All of the attacks are similar in that malicious javascript is injected onto the site that redirects visitors to sites hosting more malware.
GSN said its site was clean by late Monday.
Zscaler said the previous attacks on media sites were hosted at dynamic DNS providers and the attacks are triggered only when it detects the user is visiting via Internet Explorer. Zscaler also identified three other media sites as compromised: The Christian Post, Real Clear Science and Real Clear Policy.
The attacks were tagged watering hole attacks by experts; in watering hole attacks, sites of common interest to the target are infected and visitors are redirected to malware. Some watering hole attacks against government websites or human rights organizations have led to malware that monitors a user’s activities online, while other attacks are financially motivated.
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http://threatpost.com/malicious-ads-infect-65-websites-drop-zeroaccess-trojan
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Setup: Since the onset of COVID-19, a number of small businesses have been negatively impacted, resulting in a loss of revenue and economic hardship for small business owners. Earlier this month, the US government announced $20B in funding for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Advance Program (EIDL), a program meant to assist small business owners that have been affected by the virus. This attack leverages this program in an attempt to retrieve confidential information from recipients.
Email Attack: The attack impersonates an automated notification, spoofing an email from the government domain [email protected]. Within the body is a brief message that the user’s application has been approved, along with a link embedded in text that redirects the user to a phishing landing page.
Payload: The payload is a hidden malicious link. The redirect url is hosted on “leanproconsulting[.]com[.]br/gov/covid19relief/sba.gov/”. The domain is registered to an owner in Brazil, which is a giveaway that this is not a legitimate landing page for a US based program, the subdirectory (covid/19relief/sba.gov/) is meant to intentionally mislead recipients in thinking that it is.
There have been multiple attacks from this sender that lead to similar phishing pages such as “https://spinnersgaming[.]co[.]za/sba/covid19relief/sba.gov. In this case the domain is registered to an owner in South Africa.
Result: If recipients are not apt to spot the suspicious url, and enter their username, email, and password they provide attackers with confidential information that can be used for fraudulent purposes.
Why is this attack effective?
Urgency: The email is disguised as a notification of loan approval by the government. Since funding is limited, recipients understand that being selected for the loans is an opportunity that is to be taken immediately. Attackers are relying on this sense of urgency to bypass any red flags.
Concealed URL: The URL is wrapped within text in the email body that reads Review and Proceed. By hiding the URL, the user must click on the link to reveal where the link leads to.
Spoofed Email & Convincing landing page: The email seems convincing because the sender email has a .gov domain, leading the recipient to believe this is coming from the government and is legitimate. The landing page is very convincing and has the exact formatting of the actual sba.gov webpage.
Widespread Attack: Numerous customers have received this attack. The sender for all campaigns is the spoofed email [email protected]. The authorized domain for that sender is a US IP, whereas the attacks originate from Japanese IPs.
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https://abnormalsecurity.com/blog/abnormal-attack-stories-sba-loan-phishing-2/
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This type of encryption is also know as Public Key. In this type of encryption, keys are generated in pairs, public key and private key. In asymmetrical encryption key used to encipher is different from the key used to decipher. Therefore the two partners have two different keys, one is made public and other one is made private. Let’s take up an example to understand the concept in an easy way.
Suppose, John wants to send a message to Mike, he just ciphers the message with the public key and sends it to Mike. Since Mike is having the secret key, he can and decipher the message and read its content.
Why is it important?
Today, encryption is far more sophisticated, but it serves the same purpose - to pass a secret message from one place to another without anyone else being able to read it.
Encryption is extremely important for e-commerce as it allows confidential information such as your credit card details to be sent safely to the online shop you are visiting.
Web browsers are able to encrypt your purchase details using an encryption method called 'SSL' (Secure Socket Layer). You know this is switched on when a small padlock appears in the bottom right of the browser. SSL gets switched on when you visit a 'secure server' that has an address that starts with HTTPS:// (note the 'S').
a) It is slower than normal browsing. It takes a while for the browser to do the maths required to scramble the message and another delay on the server that has to unscramble the data.
b) Online shops have to have a digital certificate that contains part of the key. This is not free and has to be supplied by a 'certificate authority'.
c) It can be a complicated business running a secure server, so very often, ordinary online shops will hire a specialist 'Payment Gateway' such as 'WorldPay' or 'Paypal' to handle payments for them.
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http://hackerkonka.blogspot.com/2013/07/faq-encryption.html
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Korenix JetPort product contains a backdoor account and was assigned CVE-2020-12501. This backdoor account was found back in 2020, but due to the disclosure process it was only made available recently. Unfortunately, it looks like the backdoor account passwords cannot be changed by a user.
The vendor claims that the account is needed for customer support and that the password “cannot be cracked in a reasonable amount of time.” However, it looks like the password was cracked and was posted to Packet Storm. According to the details posted on Packet Storm, there were three users with the following passwords: admin:admin, root:ilovekor, and kn001277:vup2u04.
The privacy regulator conducted an investigation two years ago to determine how Tim Horton’s mobile application tracked users. The application was found to have tracked users even when the application was not open. The application has since been updated to remove the geolocation technology. Tim Hortons also claimed that the location data was never used for personalized marketing.
This just demonstrates the need to review the permissions that an application requires before installing applications on a mobile device.
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Multidropper. RJF is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Multidropper. RJF does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=177489
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Disconnect the computer from the network so it doesn't spread to other computers.
Hibernate the computer is better, because it saves a copy of the memory, where some shady ransomware strains, sometimes may leaves copies of their encryption keys.
While rebooting in safe mode, is a good way of removing older screenlocker types of ransomware, it is not recommended when dealing with the latest strains of ransomware versions that encrypt files.
The executable that encrypts your data is designed, to crawl through attached, mapped and mounted drives to a given machine.
Sometimes it trips or is blocked by a permission issue and will stop the encryption process ( if you are lucky ).
Rebooting the machine, will just start it back up and it will try to finish the job.
"A partially encrypted machine is only partially encrypted due to some fortunate error or issue, so victims should take advantage and NOT let the malware finish its job...don't reboot!" according to CEO & Co-Founder of Coveware.
To learn more about dealing with ransomware attacks, you can check out the Emsisoft guide on how to remove ransomware and Coveware's first response guide on dealing with a ransomware attack.
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Spamta. ACQ is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Spamta. ACQ uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
File infection: it infects different types of files, which are then distributed through any of the usual means: floppy disks, email messages with attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FTP, IRC channels, P2P file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=176598
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Summarize existing information on Prairie beneficials and the economic value they provide to producers, and how they are directly and indirectly affected by insecticides. Develop a roadmap for future research needed.
Compile and inventory existing published and unpublished data on what time of year and what crop stage Prairie beneficials are active and vulnerable to insecticide use, with an emphasis on wheat and canola. Develop timing models of selected beneficials to predict critical times of vulnerability in different Prairie locations. This objective will produce information producers can use immediately to reduce harm to beneficials.
Transfer this information to producers to guide the insecticide use decision-making process.
Benefits to producers:
The economic value of beneficial insects and the impact of pesticide use on their function is a knowledge gap of prime importance in Prairie crop production. Addressing this gap will inform producers on the hidden costs of insecticide use in terms of services lost by harming beneficials. Reducing unnecessary pesticide applications will save producers money and time, prevent secondary pest outbreaks or rebounds, and slow down development of insecticide resistance. It may also reduce concerns of non-target effects of pesticide residues on other non-target species and human health. Therefore, more informed pesticide use has economic, social and environmental benefits.
The actions of just one beneficial species in Saskatchewan in the 1990s, that of the wheat midge parasitoid Macroglenes penetrans, resulted in reduced insecticide applications with an estimated value of CDN$ 248 million (= CDN$ 378 million in 2018). Imagine the potential benefit to producers by having the knowledge and tools to better capture the economic benefits for all beneficial species, in all crops systems, across all of the Prairies.
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While the market for cloud computing continues to swell, doubts remain over the security of highly sensitive data.
Governments in the UK and US may have already launched cloud services for use by their state departments, but fears of catastrophic security breaches have not gone away.
With high-profile data breaches at companies such as Sony last year, there is a possibility that valuable information kept on the servers of government departments will become targets for both criminals and other states up to a bit of mischief.
However, cloud service providers are keen to express the safety of information and there is a lot vested in convincing users of adequate defences.
In the US, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding research at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) into making security in the cloud water-tight.
The researchers are now developing a system which would allow the cloud to identify and recover from an attack almost straight away.
According to the team, the “freedom and fluidity” of cloud services make it vulnerable to attack. With attacks typically involving the shutdown of an entire infected system to stop a virus from spreading, the underlying infrastructure is often disabled until a full clean up is complete.
However, the researchers believe that they are able to develop a self-healing system that would be able to figure out the nature of an attack and then react accordingly, fixing it as it goes.
By drawing up a blueprint of how a cloud should typically function, the team hopes to automatically detect when something is out of place, allowing the system to react immediately.
At the moment, there is a lack of a full understanding as to how cloud computing infrastructure works. But by monitoring normal behavioural patterns it should be possible to create a better understanding of problems that can occur, rather than looking out for signatures of known viruses.
The team says that this would allow the cloud to “independently detect and recover from new attacks”, something that is not currently possible on cloud systems. If this can be done then a cloud system should be able to survive an attack and continue operating “without a problem”.
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http://news.techeye.net/security/darpa-funds-mits-self-healing-cloud-security
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The share of highly indebted firms (those with debt exceeding turnover) has fallen from 7.8 per cent of SMEs to 2.9 per cent.
The share of SMEs holding any debt has declined from as high as approximately three in four SMEs in September 2013 to only one in two SMEs in September 2016.
Pockets of risk remain in the Hotels and Restaurants sector, where the DTR has hovered between 80 and 100 per cent over the four years under examination. For other sectors, the DTR among companies with debt is between 20 and 30 per cent at March 2017.
The research indicates that, given current developments, the scope for large-scale loan defaults as a result of an economic turnaround is therefore limited to a small cohort of firms.
The views presented in Economic Letters are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Central Bank of Ireland.
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High profile cyber breaches have become more and more common, and can be costly events for the companies involved – sometimes running into the hundreds of millions in losses. While companies have been moving to secure their boundaries, insuring low probability high impact cyber events has been costly. In a bid to provide a facility to cover cyber risks, Marsh has launched Cyber ECHO.
Following a number of high-profile hacks, including the US Government as well as a range of retail sites, companies have been seeking to bolster their front line defences through a range of measures. On the back of the serious damages involved, among others to the reputation of brands, board members too are becoming more involved in pushing through security measures. Defending the front-lines is one measure available in a company’s toolkit to deal with cybercrime and its aftermath.
Having an insurance policy that covers damages across a range of domains is another. Large businesses seeking to insure their company from cybercrime damages above $200 million have been met with increased difficulty however, facing high premiums and a lack of cover. This is particularly an issue for those that handle healthcare and payment card data, with cybersecurity underwriters becoming more selective while rates more than doubled in the US over the past 12 months.
Marsh’s recent announcement sees the firm provide global organisations with “reliable” insurance cover through a new cyber risk offering called Cyber ECHO. The new proposition aims to provide stability to the excess market through “up to $50 million in ‘follow form’ coverage for clients of any industry sector and risk profile around the world.” The new facility contains a pre-priced option that allows insureds to reinstate policy limits, in the case that they find themselves in a cyber-event during the period of the policy that has the potential to exhaust their policy limits. Cyber ECHO is underwritten by Lloyd’s of London syndicates.
“While overall capacity in the cyber market remains abundant, the excess market is highly volatile,” says Bob Parisi, Marsh’s US Cyber Product Leader. “With Cyber ECHO, we are providing clients of all industry sectors with an efficient and more predictable excess coverage solution.”
One of the issues with cyber security policies has been the often disputed terms and conditions, following the relative immaturity of the market and the wide range of challenges created by adversaries. The new facility according to Marsh avoids ambiguities, and therewith, the sometimes costly disputes and/or delays in claims payments.
“Inconsistent wordings and varying terms and conditions between primary and excess insurance policies can contribute to significant delays in claims being paid and may even result in the failure to recover costs from insurers. Cyber ECHO helps to mitigate these issues, and is designed to aid in swift recovery from a loss,” comments Leslie Kurshan, Head of Product Development for the Financial and Professional (FINPRO) Practice at Marsh UK.
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http://www.consultancy.uk/news/3320/marsh-launces-cyber-echo-insurance-for-excess-cybercrime
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Hi, need to submit a 1750 words paper on the topic Vulnerability in Elderly. The irony is that most of these factors that make people susceptible to vulnerability do stand to be valid and applicable in case of the elderly people (Cox 1995). Elderly people do happen to affiliate a state of life which rather accentuates and increases the causes that make them vulnerable. Thereby the elderly people are a part of the community and constitute such a population segment that is proportionately more vulnerable to a series of social ills, medical and health conditions, emotional and physical abuse and financial frauds, etc (Cox 1995). They are a segment of the population that is utterly susceptible to a range of problems and issues and thereby do need a concerted help and assistance from the social communities and state welfare agencies.
It is a social fact that for multiple obvious reasons, elderly people do happen to be way more vulnerable as compared to young people. The thing is that the elderly people who are in their 80s and 90s do tend to outlive many of their family members and thereby have a limited access to a pool of people who loves them and could provide them with the access to the requisite emotional and medical support, emotional stability and financial help (Alpert 1994, p. 95). Thereby the elder people are more vulnerable to an array of societal and community issues and the larger capacity to protect themselves from varied kinds of physical, mental, and financial abuse.
It is such a patch of life in an individual’s overall life that not only deprives one of the much needed familial and social support, the physical and mental capacity to participate in the social and community life in a proactive and energetic way, and the capacity to take care of oneself in the varied sphere of one’s life are the public, social, medical, emotional or financial. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
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Risk management and cost control are two key issues facing CIOs and CTOs today. Both these issues come into play in Cloud Computing, and present an interesting dilemma for IT leaders at large corporations.
The elastic nature of the Cloud, the conversion of Capex to Opex and the managed security infrastructure provided by the Cloud service provider make it very attractive for hosting applications. However, there are a number of security and privacy issues that companies need to grapple with before moving to the Cloud.
For example, multi-tenancy and virtualization are great technologies for lowering the cost of hosting applications, and the service providers that would like to use them. However, these technologies also pose grave security risks because companies operate in a shared infrastructure that offers very little isolation. They greatly increase the target attack surface, which is a hacker’s dream come true.
Using multiple service providers on the Cloud is great for providing redundancy, connecting providers in a supply chain or handling spikes in services via Cloud bursts. However, managing identities across multiple providers is a challenge. Making sure data does not accidentally cross trust boundaries is another difficult problem.
In my presentation at The Open Group India Conference next week, I will discuss these and many other interesting challenges facing CIOs regarding Cloud adoption. I will present a five step approach that enterprises can use to select assets, assess risks, map them to service providers and manage the risks through contract negotiation, SLAs and regular monitoring.
Cloud Computing will be a topic of discussion at The Open Group India Conference in Chennai (March 7), Hyderabad (March 9) and Pune (March 11). Join us for best practices and case studies in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Security, Cloud and Certification, presented by preeminent thought leaders in the industry.
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AT&T is killing off the online-video service formerly known as DirecTV Now and introducing a no-contract option for the newer online service that replaced it.
AT&T unveiled DirecTV Now late in 2016, the year after AT&T bought the DirecTV satellite company. Prices originally started at $35 a month for the live-TV online service, and it had signed up 1.86 million subscribers by Q3 2018. But customers quickly fled as AT&T repeatedly raised prices and cut down on the use of promotional deals, leaving the service with just 683,000 subscribers at the end of Q3 2020.
In 2019, AT&T changed the name from DirecTV Now to AT&T TV Now, creating confusion among customers and its own employees because the company simultaneously unveiled another online streaming service called AT&T TV.
AT&T TV was pitched as a more robust replacement for satellite TV, and it even mimicked cable and satellite by imposing contracts, hidden fees, and a big second-year price hike. Going forward, AT&T TV Now will no longer be offered to new customers, and AT&T TV will be the flagship for AT&T's live-TV streaming business. "AT&T TV Now has merged with AT&T TV," the service's website says in an update flagged in a news article by TV Answer Man yesterday.
For existing users, "AT&T TV Now customers' service and plans remain in effect" without any changes, an AT&T spokesperson told Ars. "We have no other price changes to announce at this time."
Convoluted pricing, an AT&T tradition
Previously, AT&T TV was only available with a contract. There is now a no-contract option that costs more in the first year but could be cheaper in the long run if customers use it for multiple years.
The no-contract AT&T TV prices are $69.99 per month for 65 channels; $84.99 for 90 channels and one year of HBO Max; $94.99 for 130 channels and one year of HBO Max; and $139.99 for 140 channels and HBO Max without the one-year time limit. There's no regional sports network fee in these packages.
The first-year prices for contract plans range from $59.99 to $129.99, plus a regional sports network fee of up to $8.49 for all packages except the cheapest one. Including the sports fee, the first-year prices on most of the contract plans are $10 or so cheaper than the equivalent no-contract options. An exception is the "premier" package with 140 channels and HBO Max, which costs about $140 the first year regardless of whether you have a contract or not.
There is no automatic price increase after 12 months for the no-contract option, but that is not a guarantee that prices won't rise. AT&T's fine print says that "pricing, channels, features, and terms are subject to change and may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice."
There's another factor that makes the no-contract price $10 higher if you want a lot of cloud-DVR storage. While the contract option comes with 500 hours of cloud DVR storage, the no-contract option only comes with 20 hours unless you pay an extra $10 per month to upgrade to 500 hours. The contract option also comes with one free AT&T TV device, which costs $5 per month for 24 months on the no-contract plan. Third-party streaming devices also work with the service, so there's no requirement to buy this.
There's no price change right now for existing AT&T TV customers. Despite the new no-contract option, the contracts for existing AT&T TV customers "remain in effect," AT&T told Ars. As is always the case with AT&T TV services, the pricing tiers are convoluted, so new customers should examine them carefully before signing up. This table provides a breakdown of key differences between contract and no-contract options:
For financial reporting purposes, AT&T TV is part of a category AT&T calls "Premium TV" services, which also includes DirecTV satellite and U-verse wireline TV. AT&T has lost nearly 8 million customers from the category in the past few years, dropping from over 25 million in early 2017 to 17.1 million at the end of September 2020.
More customer losses could be on the way, as AT&T is raising prices on both DirecTV and U-verse effective January 17. AT&T is trying to sell DirecTV, but offers so far have reportedly valued the satellite provider at about a third of the $49 billion AT&T paid in 2015.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/att-kills-off-the-failed-tv-service-formerly-known-as-directv-now/
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Network maintenance overnight resulted in university-wide routing performance issues and impacting a number HUIT services For some Harvard community members, this might look like VPN failures and interruptions to Service Desk call centers. HUIT is investigating and collaborating with our IT partners across HUHS, HSPH, and HKS.
If you have any questions, please contact the IT Help Desk at (617) 432-4357 or email [email protected].
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https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/information-technology/2022/07/27/service-interruption-virtual-private-network/
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We all want to work in a culture that’s energizing, healthy and thriving. We know how successful value based businesses can be, take Zappos and Wholefoods Markets as examples.
In addition to operating by a set of vibrant values – a key to a healthy corporate culture is vulnerability.
Operating based on conscientious values creates vulnerability – it also requires courage.
There is never one without the other. We want innovation and creativity however vulnerability, for most of us, is something we would rather avoid.
There are places in our lives, perhaps at home, where we do not have as much trouble being vulnerable, in other settings, like in business, that’s a different matter.
For many of us we armor up before heading off to work, limiting our vulnerability but at the same time our courage, innovation and creativity are also limited – we lock it all up being careful how we show up.
The irony of vulnerability is that while we may not love the feeling of being exposed – it is the foundation of courage.
We love courage, we watch movies that celebrate the hero, we share posts on social media that talk about someone’s perseverance despite tough circumstances. We love a fighter, someone that has overcome difficult situations, and there’s never been a non vulnerable hero. Think about it…
•Asking for help from a co-worker when you feel like you should be able to handle it.
•Letting someone know that you’re overwhelmed with the workload.
•Asking to have something (re)explained to you when you feel like you should already know it but don’t.
•Saying “I am Sorry”.
•Messing up and taking responsibility.
•Holding yourself and others accountable.
•Having those difficult conversations.
•Learning new tools.
Vulnerability is the courage to run with a new idea and to explore possible new ways to tackle a current challenge -developing a new process or product, developing your leadership skills, and being willing to fail as well as be successful.
Vulnerability feels scary and it can be. It’s also the birthplace of connection, innovation, accountability and creativity.
If you want yourself, your teams and your organization to thrive, create a culture that is open to being vulnerable. That kind of courage will enable you to stand out amongst your competition and keep you forging ahead in an ever evolving marketplace.
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https://www.edgeofchange.com/tag/vulnerability/
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Delegates should have a basic understanding of occupational health and applied ergonomics. You should have completed the following ACPOHE courses: Introduction to Occupationsl Health or have experience of working at a similar level.
Pre couse preparation os required: Delegates are expected to be familiar with the HSE's 2002 publication: Upper Limb Disorders in the Workplace (HSG60) prior to the course. This is available online from http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg60.htm
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Cyber Command utilizes a zero trust approach to cyber security. This approach is widely embraced in the cyber security community. Zero trust architecture secures data by inspecting all network traffic. It works on an assumption that all connections to the network are hostile.
As General Nakasone stated “We aim to prevent toeholds from turning into beachheads so that a single compromise will not threaten the military’s ability to accomplish its mission.”
Much can be learned by businesses from studying military cybersecurity strategies. The private sector is under increased threats by actors who seek to compromise data and endanger critical infrastructure. Many military cyber strategies are beyond the scope of business enterprises. However, much can be accomplished by maintaining a proactive cyber security stance.
Accountable management in cyber security requirements , maintaining vigilant detection and response, and employing zero trust strategies are all effective measures.
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https://cvgstrategy.com/military-cybersecurity-strategies/
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A member of the parliamentary legal committee, Sunday, that the law of information crimes is ready to vote in the next legislative term.
Hussein al-Aqabi said in an interview with Mawazine News that "the law of informatics crimes aims to preserve citizens' data and protects them from penetrating their accounts, which is important to secure citizens."
He added that "the law is in the House of Representatives and is ready to vote in the next legislative term of the House of Representatives."
The MP Rashid Al-Azzawi had announced earlier, a review of the laws deferred from the previous session, in preparation for a vote in the next legislative term.
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We’re in a tricky situation with hiring tech talent today. You know you’re going to need to bring tech talent onboard, but you don’t always know exactly when or exactly how much of it. With unemployment hitting a 50-year low at 3.5%, and tech unemployment even lower at 2.4%, the talent pool is already shallow. So, when we’re ready to hire, it often feels like slim pickings.
This news comes as no surprise, as we are all aware of current tech talent supply and demand. Open tech job postings in the U.S. were up 32% year-over-year for January –June, practically every non-tech company is recruiting for tech talent, and the struggle is now geographically indifferent with more tech professionals starting to leave Silicon Valley. Despite our knowledge of the situation, though, most of us don’t have an ongoing recruiting strategy to manage to these challenges. Instead, we wait until the need arises and then start the hiring process, hoping for the best. This approach often leads to knee-jerk decisions, bad hires and the inability to fill a position altogether.
So why do most of us wait until we have a talent need to fill? After all, necessity is the mother of invention, and need often changes behavior for the better. But if need is driving all your recruiting decisions, you may be compromising.
As a tech leader, you’re right if you’re thinking you don’t have a lot of time to look. Rely on those around you to help cultivate a qualified talent pool.
Know the types of skills your company needs, and then see what kind of talent is out there. You already know the projects in the pipeline. There are likely several skill sets that you know you’ll need, regardless of the project that gets green-lighted next. Make a note of any more specialized skill sets found in proposals or projects you know will be kicking off soon.
To keep you connected to these talent needs, block off one hour every few weeks for pipeline building and recruitment strategy, and rally your team to help. Set calendar meetings and stick to them. Yes, you can spend the time reviewing candidates on your own, but you can also make it a group meeting to hold you accountable. I’ve found that very few teams set aside time for manpower planning. It doesn’t have to be anything formal. Discussions should include who people know that can help recruit certain skill sets, what relationships they have with outside tech resources, and who they can identify as an asset to the project. Encourage conversations about the challenges they’re experiencing finding talent and share success stories of when qualified talent was identified in the past.
All team members should be keeping an eye out on LinkedIn, at industry conferences and networking events, taking note of potential candidates. Even unsolicited resumes warrant an initial vet and can be easily filed until the need arises. Everyone is a talent scout, so engage your whole team in the recruitment process. It’s a to-do for the c-suite as well as every member of the project team.
You can also work with a recruiting partner whose job it is to continually keep talent in front of you, even when you’re not actively hiring. Regardless of how you build your database and network of candidates, the most important thing is to have one. Get into the mindset of always being aware of what talent is out there and keep up with it. Fill your pipeline so you’re ready to move when the time comes.
The best doesn’t always come to those who wait
For those who delay, when hiring finally does take precedence, it becomes a problem and not just a priority. Along with the inefficiencies of haphazard scrambling to find talent, it may also mean paying higher rates or salaries for the talent you really need or hiring a candidate who doesn’t check all of your boxes.
Put in place a proactive, ongoing hiring strategy before you have the need to make your next hire. With a plan, you mitigate risks and can move quickly. Those who have a strategy will have better options and make better hiring decisions. Preparing to acquire talent can truly tip the scales for success.
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Corporate attitudes toward bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies appear to fall into one of three categories, according to a survey of IT users released this week: There's no official BYOD policy, devices are banned, or no one talks about it.
The survey, conducted by IT services company TEKsystems, included responses from 1,500 IT leaders and 2,000 IT professionals form companies of all sizes.
According to TEKsystems, the survey showed that while the BYOD movement is in full swing, immature policies are putting sensitive organization and employee data at risk. "Findings also highlight the fact that BYOD's value for many organizations is, at this time, mediocre at best," the study concluded.
According to the survey, 65% of respondents said "nothing has been communicated,"there are no official policy guidelines," or "employees are not allowed to use their own devices at work."
Respondents said corporate policies are often vague. only half of IT leaders (48%), and just a third of IT professionals (35%), believe their company's BYOD policy is crystal clear.
TEKsystems also said the survey revealed that while BYOD is often heralded as a way to boost productivity, improve customer service or save money, respondents said the main return from a good BYOD policy is employee satisfaction.
IT leaders and IT professionals say their organizations are not effective in achieving BYOD's promise of higher customer satisfaction (60% and 56%, respectively) and lower IT expenses (62% and 58%, respectively).
Seventy-three percent of IT leaders and IT professionals surveyed also said poor BYOD policies put sensitive corporate data at risk by potentially exposing it on personal mobile devices.
Thirty-three percent of IT leaders and 46% of IT pros said their organizations lack the ability to remotely wipe data from employee devices if necessary.
More than a third (35%) of IT leaders and a quarter of IT professionals also doubt their organizations are complying with government mandates.
"Given the threat of a data leak, any employee who does not understand an organization's stance on BYOD poses a risk," TEKsystems said. "Failure to clarify the company's policy and educate end users on security best practices creates false and dangerous assumptions."
This article, The three extremes of corporate BYOD policies, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed. His e-mail address is [email protected].
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/522623/three_extremes_corporate_byod_policies/
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my continuing adventures in reversing the eset 2013 crackme challenge…
In my last post, we found all the Easter eggs and set off looking for the solution to unlock this puzzle. This is a challenge from an anti-malware company, so there should a “malicious-like” component to this puzzle and started examining other threads that were spawned before the WinMain function that displays the textboxes began. We did find an interesting path, a path that led us to the process injection of Window’s userinit.exe. That was our “malicious-like” behavior and when we traced the code to the CreateRemoteThread call:
And stepped over that call (F8), we could observe our CrackMe code launching the newly injected userinit process:
Unfortunately, the process goes immediately into a suspended state, which prevents OllyDbg from attaching to it. After several failed attempts of trying to find a solution, I posed the question to the community for some help. My thanks to the many members Reverse Engineering and Malware Group on LinkedIn for their suggestions. The solution that worked was submitted by Mr. Mahmoudnia — he found another person’s solution to this ESET challenge. The solution is rather clever. Before we hit the second call to WriteProcessMemory:
Which is going to write the code at location 0x403E70 into userinit’s process space at 0xA0000. We want to go to 0x403E70 and change the function prologue from “PUSH EBP” and “MOV EBP, ESP” to the opcode “EB FE”:
In Olly, right-click on the “PUSH EBP” instruction, select binary, then edit and uncheck the “keep size” box; now you can change the opcode to the value “EB FE”:
The opcode “EB FE” creates an infinite jump to the start of this function, i.e. to address 0x403E70. Now we can step over the “WriteProcessMemoryCall” and proceed to step to the “CreateRemoteThread” call. Now hit F8 to step over CreateRemoteThread and stay at location 0x4063B6:
Next, open a second OllyDbg instance, go to File -> Attach and scroll down the list of process until you find userinit.exe and click the “Attach” button:
Once attached and in the CPU window hit CTL-G and go to address 0xA0000 and change the “EB FE” back to the “PUSH EBP” and “MOV EBP, ESP” function prologue and set a break point. This may take several attempts. What consistently worked for me was to go to the theads window (the blue T button) and check to see if my thread was suspended. If it was, I right clicked on the thread and selected “Resume”, then I hit F9 (Run). If the RE gods are smiling upon us, we will hit the BP:
To see what the above routine does, I am going to single-step through this code line-by-line:
A little ways down, there is a call to a function at 0xA02F0. I stepped inside that function and determined that this was some kind of key generation function. Observe that ESI was set to the ASCII string “472631FB”. Continuing on:
In the above chunk of code, we are making a call to a function in wininet.dll, I used DLL Export Viewer to resolve the symbol name. This is setting up a http network connection to localhost on port (highlighted as 0x1F90 in the stack window) 8080. In my last post, we observed a wget POST call posting an index.php. Continuing on, we can observe that this section of code is setting up all the parameters for an HttpOpenRequest call:
Again, I fired up FakeNet and stepped over the call:
The wget POST with index.php is supposed to receive data but as you can clearly see, we don’t because EAX is set to 0. The next instruction will test EAX and since it is 0, we will jump all the way down to 0xA0296. At that location, there is code to terminate our thread. I don’t want to end just yet. There is an awful lot of code real estate that we are skipping and I want to see what it does. So, I changed EAX from 0 to 1 so that the JE instruction is NOT taken in order to see what happens next:
In the above screen shot, we can see that what ever we were supposed to receive from our first wget POST is supposed to decrypt to the value of “Jules” — one of the main character’s (played by Samuel L. Jackson) in the movie “Pulp Fiction”. So our Pulp Fiction theme continues. Since we did not receive any data, the zero flag is not set and we make that long jump to 0xA0296 again. So I set the ZF to 1 so the JNZ instruction is not taken. Continuing on:
The code continues to set up a second HttpOpenRequest call. This time instead of passing just index.php as one of the parameters, I thought I would change it to “index.php?key=280877F8” This was the key that was generated in our first wget POST call. I don’t know why I thought to try this, I was just curious and assumed that since we were getting a key, that there would be a second decryption routine. Maybe I could coax the code to decrypted what ever is going to happen next…
So we make the second wget POST call and continue on to what I believe to be is a decryption routine…
Interesting! We did get a message: “That’s all. Congratulations!” We must be getting close to solving this thing. So if we continue to single-step our way through this routine, eventually we wend our way to a USER32.MessageBox call:
At the end of our hunt, I wondered if there might be more to this challenge. There was a lot more code that I haven’t even analyzed yet and some of the code appeared obfuscated to hide its functionality. And this is a crack me puzzle after all. When we first discovered what to put in each stage box:
we were alerted that we did not “do it.” Since this challenge has an ongoing Pulp Fiction theme, and the Stage 2 text is not a quote from the movie, this may indicate that another Pulp Fiction quote might unlock the puzzle. But which quote is the correct quote? There are lots of memorable quotes from the film so a brute force approach is not likely practical. Where to begin next?
After some thinking, I realized that the CrackMe text box above didn’t appear until the start (WinMain) function ran. But, as we have seen in my previous posts, there is a lot of activity that happens before the start function runs. There were several threads that ran before the main function. I decided to put a break point on CreateThread and examine the corresponding call stack. After setting the break point and hitting F9 to run, we encountered our first break:
in the call stack window we can see the thread function starts at 0x404A60. If we go to that address and put a break point there, we will be able to examine what that piece of code does. But before I do that, I hit F9 (run) again to catch the next CreateThread call:
this thread’s function starts at 0x404680. If we go to that location:
huh! Olly is confused and is having a hard time analyzing this code; it thinks these are data bytes. If we highlight all these data bytes to the nearest RETN instruction (at 0x404B1E), then right-click –> Analyze –> During next analysis, treat selection as –> Commands:
we can start to see that this is the part that sets up the named pipe server that we already analyzed in ESET CrackMe Challenge Part 3. We can let this thread go; we already know what it does.
Lets return to the thread function from our CreateThread break at 0x405A60.
When this tread spawns, the process enters a sleep loop until the CrackMe text boxes are enabled and ready for input. When that happens, the process sends us to a function at 0x405CD0. So I put a break point at that function, let the program run (F9) and waited for a break to step into 0x405CD0. Its a pretty big function but eventually we get to another CreateThread call:
this new thread has a function at 0x405CC0. We set a break point at this new thread function to see what that does:
First, this function calls LoadLibrary and loads a number of user32.dll functions. But as you can see in the Registers window, the function are not names but addresses (e.g., user32.7E41D60F). This makes it harder for us to understand what is going on. How can we resolve these address location calls in user32.dll to their actual function names? There is a tool called DLL Export Viewer and it will load all of the Windows/System32 DLL’s mapping the addresses to function names. I sorted on addresses and searched for what was being called at 0x405C7A and at 0x405C83:
In the example above, the CALL ESI is really a call to user32.7E41D60F, which is between the two addresses highlighted in the screen shot above. So this call must be a call to a SetWindowLong function. I did the same for the FindWindowsEx call that came before the SetWindowLong call. After painstakingly stepping through this function and re-labeling all the user32.dll functions, I finally stumbled upon a key piece as illustrated in the following snippet of code:
what this is doing is finding our CrackMe text box and setting the Stage 2 textbox to include this new procedure. This means that the Stage 2 textbox will have two routines to check the input. One will check for the “I did it!”, which will give us the “Nope. You didn’t!” dialog box, and the other checks for some other text — the correct text presumably. We will need to set a break point at this new textbox procedure which is at:
0x405F50
Actually, through trial and error, I discovered that if we place a BP at 0x405F50, the CrackMe text boxes don’t finish rendering yet, and when you click on the CrackMe box, it breaks the program at 0x405F50. I discovered that if we place a BP further down, say at 0x406023, the text box is fully rendered, and we can input text in the Stage 2 box, which will cause us to break at 0x406023. If we do that, and place in any text other than the “I did it!”, we can trace this part of the code to try and figure out what the real message should be:
We see that at 0x406023, ECX contains my bogus input and then a call is made to 0x4041D0. What does that do? If we go to 0x4041D0:
Ack — we see that Olly hasn’t disassembled this piece correctly; it is fooled into believing that these are just data bytes. So if we highlight all these data bytes until we get to the next RETN instruction (to 0x40429A), then right-click on the highlighted section, select Analysis –> During next analysis, treat selected as –> Commands:
The above two screen shots show the entire routine as supposedly correct commands. This routine is rather complicated but my gut tells me that this is some kind of encryption routine. I am rather lazy, so instead of analyzing the above mess, I am going to try and find an easier way by observing the behavior of stepping over this routine and see what the program does. Back to our current breaking point:
when we return from the 0x4041D0 encryption routine, we note that some data at 0x4227EC is being loaded into a pointer to a data segment. It looks like the program will compare that data with my encrypted input of “sfsf”. If we follow 0x4227EC in the dump window (highlighted in grey in the bottom left window), we can see that this data looks encrypted. Naturally, my input is not going to match whatever is in 0x4227EC:
hence, the program will sit here waiting for the correct input from the Stage 2 textbox. If we let the program resume (F9), we should be able to enter some other text into Stage 2. It is likely that the encryption routine is symmetric since that is computationally cheaper than an asymmetric scheme. To test my theory, I entered the word “cat” and hit the check button. When we broke again, I stepped over the encryption routine and observed the encrypted result of “cat”. I copied this encrypted “cat”, then resumed the program again (F9) and pasted the encrypted version of cat into the Stage 2 textbox and hit the check button to return to our current break point. When I stepped over the encrypted routine again, I got back the word “cat”; this confirms my hunch. So, we should be able to apply the same trick to the data at 0x4227EC. Copy and paste that encrypted data into the Stage 2 textbox and let the program run again:
0x4060C0, like the previous thread routine, is loading a number of functions but this time from kernel32.dll; and like the previous thread, it is using address locations and not the names of the functions from kernel32.dll to hide the true functionality. So again, I used the DLL Export Viewer tool to resolve the names. We eventually come to an interesting part of the routine as observed in the above screen shot. Another base64 encoded string. The string is sent to the base64 decoder function and I already decoded it as noted above: it looks like this routine is going to do something with userinit.exe. This must be the “malware” part of the CrackMe puzzle. No legitimate program has any business hooking into userinit.exe; this is typical malware behavior.
Userinit, according to Microsoft, “Specifies the programs that Winlogon runs when a user logs on. By default, Winlogon runs Userinit.exe, which runs logon scripts, reestablishes network connections, and then starts Explorer.exe, the Windows user interface.” Let us see what CrackMe intends to do with userinit:
at 0x406348, we see that in EAX, new memory was allocated in userinit.exe’s process space at address 0x90000. This is writing some sort of data, I presume. Then… at 0x406380, more memory is allocated in userinit.exe’s process space at location 0xA0000. Continuing a little further… we observe a call to CreateRemoteThread with EAX = 0xA0000. So what was written at 0xA0000 must be code because CreateRemoteThread creates a thread that runs in the virtual address space of another process.
Before stepping over the CreateRemoteThread, I fired up FakeNet and ProcMon tools to capture any events that might happen:
this new process used wget to post an index.php on port 8080 localhost. That is interesting, but here is where my trail (or thread) goes cold. When I look for this process, I can not find it. I don’t see this new process spawned by CreateRemoteThread listed in the active processes in OllyDbg even though it is clearly running somewhere:
There is a PID of 2276 but I don’t even see it in Process Explorer or the task manager. This leaves me somewhat stumped as to how I can attach to this new process. If I can find it, and attach, then I might be able to figure out what to do next. I invite the community to share any hints or tips as to how I might attempt to locate this process. I am so close to solving this thing — I can feel it. I would expect that the patched userinit is supposed to generate my next dialog box after entering the correct quote, “Zed’s dead, baby” in the Stage 2 textbox. But it must be missing a key piece to finish the job. What was sent to localhost?
it looks like there is a key of some kind. My guess is index.php must somehow use the code injected into userinit.exe at 0xA0000 to decrypt the data at 0x90000 (?) but I won’t know this for sure until I figure out how to find and attach to the process spawned at 0xA0000.
I will keep playing with it to see if I can figure it out. If I come up with anything new, I will be sure to post those results here. Stay tuned…
Last time, we discovered that the crack_me_2.zip binary contains two BMP resources, and one of those resources were extracted and dropped into one of my temporary directories. This “BMP” was actually an executable:
Upon double-clicking it displays a cute little photo. We also learned that the executable to the left was not just any executable but a .NET executable and an obfuscated one at that.
The strings all appear to be encrypted with some sort of byte array scheme. Classes and functions are all labeled with only the letters A through F in upper and lowercase.
However, even though this executable is obfuscated, we did see an indication that this rabbit bitmap is actually a pipe-server. The pipe server that our crack_me_2 binary was searching for. Upon first running the crack_me_2, we didn’t have a pipe-server running so the function returned a -1. Crack_me_2 then proceeded to create the .tmp file that resulted in the “Easter Egg” pipe-server .NET file. Below is the disassembled code confirming our named pipe “Vincent_Vega” server:
And the code that creates the pipe:
To disassemble a .NET file you may use ILSpy or .NET Reflector. I used both. Started with ILSpy to statically study the Easter Egg and Reflector for debugging (dynamic analysis).
Upon re-starting crack_me_2 with this Easter Egg pipe server running, I set a break point on CreateFileW and instead of EAX = -1, EAX = 0x2C so we got a handle to our named pipe. Now that a pipe server is running, the program skips all the instructions to create its .tmp Easter Egg file and jumps to here:
Another set of base64 encoded strings. They translate to:
So crack_me_2 is going to attempt to load a MALCHO.DLL that exports a base64 encoded function that gets a password.
It looks as though, once MALCHO.DLL is loaded, crack_me_2 will extract a password from the Easter Egg pipe server. This password will then be used to in the following:
The function call at 0x404A71 is going to extract the second BMP resource in crack_me_2’s resource section. The parameter of 0x85 = 133 in base 10 and we see thanks to PE Explorer that the 133 is the second BMP’s resource ID.
All that is missing is the first parameter — the password that this so-called MALCHO.DLL is supposed to retrieve for us. But where is this dll? I have to admit that this stymied me for a few days. I searched up and down the code looking for this MALCHO.DLL. I even tried googling for it. No hits for the dll, but there were links to reports that contained the name, Juraj Malcho, head of — you guessed it — ESET’s Virus Laboratory. Could he be the author? I was wondering about the dll’s name because I did not see any reference to a Malcho in Pulp Fiction.
After a couple of days searching to no avail, I decided to ask the Reverse Engineering Malware Research group on linkedIn (my thanks to Mr. Mahmoudnia) for some hints. It turns out that there is no MALCHO.DLL; I have to make my own MALCHO.DLL. They key is in the .NET Easter Egg binary.
To help me better understand this .NET Easter Egg, I used a tool called DeReactor to deobfuscate this .NET file.
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldc_I4, (object) (this. A & (int) byte.MaxValue), (object) .e();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldc_I4, (object) (this.a & (int) byte.MaxValue), (object) .F();
this. A.Add((object) Xor, (object) null, (object) .f();
this. A.Add((object) Ldarg_1, (object) null, (object) .G();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldloc_0, (object) null, (object) .g();
this. A.Add((object) Ldloc_2, (object) null, (object) .H();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldarg_0, (object) null, (object) .h();
this. A.Add((object) Nop, (object) null, (object) .I();
this. A.Add((object) Ldloc_2, (object) null, (object) .i();
this. A.Add((object) Ldc_I4_1, (object) null, (object) .J();
this. A.Add((object) Add, (object) null, (object) .j();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_2, (object) null, (object) .K();
this. A.Add((object) Ldlen, (object) null, (object) .k();
this. A.Add((object) Conv_I4, (object) null, (object) .L();
this. A.Add((object) Nop, (object) null, (object) .l();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldarg_0, (object) null, (object) .M();
this. A.Add((object) Ldloc_2, (object) null, (object) .m();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldelem_U1, (object) null, (object) .N();
.n();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_3, (object) null, (object) .O();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldloc_1, (object) null, (object) .o();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldloc_0, (object) null, (object) .P();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes. Sub, (object) null, (object) .p();
this. A.Add((object) Add, (object) null, (object) .Q();
.q();
this. A.Add((object) Stloc_0, (object) null, (object) .R();
this. A.Add((object) Stloc_0, (object) null, (object) .r();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldloc_0, (object) null, (object) .S();
this. A.Add((object) Ldarg_1, (object) null, (object) .s();
this. A.Add((object) Ldlen, (object) null, (object) .T();
this. A.Add((object) Conv_I4, (object) null, (object) .t();
this. A.Add((object) Ldc_I4_1, (object) null, (object) .U();
this. A.Add((object) Sub, (object) null, (object) .u();
this. A.Add((object) Ceq, (object) null, (object) .V();
.v();
this. A.Add((object) Ceq, (object) null, (object) .W();
this. A.Add((object) Ldc_I4_1, (object) null, (object) .w();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_3, (object) null, (object) .X();
this. A.Add((object) A.Add((object) Ldloc_S, (object) 4, (object) .Y();
this. A.Add((object) Clt, (object) null, (object) .y();
this. A.Add((object) A.Add((object) Ldloc_S, (object) 4, (object) .z();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldelem_U1, (object) null, (object) .aA();
this. A.Add((object) Ceq, (object) null, (object) .aa();
.aB();
this. A.Add((object) Ceq, (object) null, (object) .ab();
this. A.Add((object) Nop, (object) null, (object) .aC();
.ac();
this. A.Add((object) Stloc_0, (object) null, (object) .aD();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_1, (object) null, (object) .ad();
.aE();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_2, (object) null, (object) .ae();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Stloc_S, (object) 4, (object) .aF();
this. A.Add((object) Nop, (object) null, (object) .af();
this. A.Add((object) Ldloc_S, (object) 4, (object) .aG();
this. A.Add((object) Nop, (object) null, (object) .ag();
ilGenerator = this. A.GetILGenerator();
ilGenerator. DeclareLocal(typeof (int), true);
ilGenerator. DeclareLocal(typeof (bool), true);
ilGenerator. DeclareLocal(typeof (bool), true);
Label label1 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
Label label2 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
Label label3 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
Label label4 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
Label label5 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
Label label6 = ilGenerator. DefineLabel();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Brtrue_S, (object) label2, (object) .ai();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Br_S, (object) label1, (object) .aJ();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) label6, (object) null, (object) .aj();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Brtrue_S, (object) label3, (object) .aK();
this. A.Add((object) ();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) label3, (object) null, (object) .aL();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Br_S, (object) label5, (object) .al ();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) label2, (object) null, (object) .aM();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) label5, (object) null, (object) .am();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) label1, (object) null, (object) .aN();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Brtrue_S, (object) label6, (object) .an();
this. A.Add((object) A.Add((object) new G((object) label4, (object) null, (object) .ao();
this. A.Add((object) new G((object) OpCodes.Ldloc_3, (object) null, (object) .aP();
this. A.Add((object) Xor, (object) null, (object) .ap();
this. A.Add((object) Ret, (object) null, (object) .aQ();
To make analyzing this Easter Egg a challenge, these methods are generating MSIL opcodes on the fly and in a “randomish” order. Note the this. A.Sort() after all those this. A.Add(…) statements. To better understand what is going on, we will need to run it in Reflector’s Visual Studio debugger plugin. But first we will have to deal with:
Its checking if we are running the Easter Egg program in a debugger or if we are running any logging tools, if so the program basically does nothing. So I used Reflector to edit out that snippet, “re-compile” it and set a break point after the this. A.Sort() routine. Then I dumped out the IL (Intermediate Language) evaluation stack and here is what I got (I put in the comments):
L_0000000E0: Ldarg.0 //Load the byte[] array
L_0000000F0: Ldloc.2 //Load local2
L_000000100: Ldelem. U1 //Take one byte from byte[] array with index at
/ download/bmV4dF9maWxl/cGEkJHdk.txt
That looks like a URL. Now this is starting to make sense! In the following:
My guess is that the above chunk enumerates searching for Internet Explorer and sends the decrypted URL. If we append our decrypted URL to ESET’s URL:
So this must be the password that our MALCHO.DLL must retrieve for us to use as the decryption key to the second BMP resource. So now its off to Visual Studio to create a simple MALCHO.DLL:
It simply returns the password as a string. Also I changed the function name since the base64 encoded name had an equals sign in it. At first I used the base64 name but the compiler freaked out. I forgot that you can’t use an ‘=’ in variable names or function names. The ‘=’ sign is an assignment operator and it confuses the compiler. So after we load our MALCHO.DLL, we can simply change the function name to getPassord in OllyDbg before we allow the program to call GetProcAddress:
crack_me_2 has now extracted and decrypt the resource 133 BMP and is going to drop it as 2B0.tmp. I let the Olly run the program to completion and grabbed our new file. I tried changing the extension to .exe to run it but that did not work. I tried loading it in PE Explorer but it told me that 2B0 was not a legitimate PE file so I loaded 2B0 into HexWorkshop:
I recognized the magic bytes: CAFEBABE. This is a java class file. A java class file called Bible. And you can see the print statement strings containing the most famous quote in the movie Pulp Fiction:
So it seems that we have found all the Easter eggs. Is that all there is? I don’t know for sure. There are still parts of the crack_me_2 code that I have not examined in complete detail. I did see calls to some registry querying and other registry functions. Additionally, I found some other anti-debugging checks later in the code, and some of the code doesn’t disassemble correctly; Olly thinks its a bunch of character bytes. If there is nothing more than why would someone go to all the bother of calling Windows registry functions, add and occlude more code if not to have it do something. I speak from experience that programmers are generally lazy. I don’t mean that as a derogatory remark. Programmers purposely do not add any functionality to a program that will never be used. Suffice it to say, there may be more to this saga. After all, I have not tried to put any other Pulp Fiction quotes other than “I did it!” in the second textbox of the starting dialog box. We could attempt to try all possible Pulp Fiction quotes but there are a lot of them and I could spend the rest of my natural life trying them all. And since I am lazy I am not going to do that.
Whenever I have some spare time, I will continue to poke around. If I find anything new, I will post those results here.
1. The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense by Peter Szor (TAOCVRD). This is the book that introduced me to malware research. It could use some updating, but sadly, the author recently passed away. On the other hand, with the popularity of Android malware, what is old is new again. Many Android malware samples are doing what the old Windows malware used to do in the early days.
TAOCVRD covers different malware types, and the armoring, self-protection strategies they employ, the common detection techniques, and the last chapter is a useful guide in setting up your own malware analysis lab. Again, a bit outdated because many of the tools we use today were not widely available back when this book was originally published. However, many of the analysis techniques are still relevant today.
2. Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig (PMA). An introductory tour of malware analysis and reverse engineering techniques. The hands-on labs reinforce the skills covered in each chapter. Each lab has a set of “malware” like samples (download from the book’s website). Introductory chapters cover x86 assembly and the common instructions you will encounter, as well as how to use common tools, such as OllyDbg, and IDA Pro.
3. One of the most powerful tool for static analysis, that I mentioned in (2), is IDA Pro. But it has a steep learning curve. The IDA Pro Book by Chris Eagle is about the only practical users guide available. Whenever I need to learn something new in IDA, or how to write a plugin, I consult this book.
4. Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. This book shows the common software programming errors and exploitation patterns. Usually, I will start looking for these patterns in the malware samples I am analyzing to help guide my investigations; knowing these patterns can reveal what the malware may be targeting.
5. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering by Eldad Eilam. This too is a little outdated, but it is the best introduction into the art of RE that I have found so far. It covers the common tools used, the basics of assembly and x86 architecture, basic Windows internals, and even has a chapter on reversing malware.
This list is by no means exhaustive. I am sure I am overlooking other good sources and would be happy to hear what other analysts routinely consult. I am always looking to expand my library.
I warned that hooking everything up to Internet was a bad idea years ago. Your TV can now watch you! Too bad you can’t break for commercial every 10 minutes like your TV does. Here is another article on the subject.
This is what people can do with the new smart TV you are buying for Christmas. I shudder to think what can be done to medical devices that talk over wireless networks. I am not sure what can be done about the problem. People love the convenience of controlling their home’s thermostat or security system remotely, from the Internet. And the bad guys love the ease of convenience, too. The “Internet of things” security is a hot growing research area so we will be reading a lot more about the problem.
to publish or not to publish
Often, I am confronted by people about publishing vulnerabilities. “Why would you bring this to the attention of the hackers?”, they would say. The truth is, if someone like me can find the problem, then any reasonably intelligent and curious person can also find the problem. It is very likely, that there are others who are aware of the vulnerabilities and this would include the hacker community. More of our appliances contain computer chips that run light-weight versions of the Linux operating system and open source software. Anybody can get access to the source code, and all code contain bugs and vulnerabilities. It doesn’t matter who wrote the software, or how smart they are, mistakes get made, and others will find those mistakes and exploit them if they can.
Other scientific professions have suffered from similar dilemmas. Physicists working on the Manhattan project, for example, often had to come to terms with the prospects of advancing human knowledge and having that knowledge lead to human destruction. Wasn’t there a story somewhere about Buddhist priest who once said: “The good news is: all humans possess the keys to heaven. The bad news: that same keys also opens the gates of hell.”?
I believe it is better to publish the technical vulnerabilities; to be aware of them so that many bright minds can come together and fix the problems. And it helps alert the defenders to look out for them. I remember watching the “Super Friends” as a kid. On one episode, Robin was complaining about the inherent dangers of scientific discoveries and how easy it can be for people like Lex Luthor to use them for evil. Batman replied: “… Technology is neither good or evil. It is the mind behind it that determines its use.”
And they say Batman has no real super powers. He has a super intellect. I know. It’s not as sexy as having a chest you can bounce bullets off of. Or a new smart TV that you can hook directly up to the Internet.
One only needs to look at the healthcare.gov debacle as an example. Software development of this scale needs agility; fast iterations to get all the ideas, both good and bad, on paper. Everything form the user experience to how data will be stored, accessed, and verified must be hammered out on paper before coding begins. But agility, as I can tell you from my own experience, rarely happens when a government (or any large, bureaucratic) entity is involved. From the reports I have read, these poor developers did not get the go ahead to implement until March or April. With an October deadline, that leaves very little time for rigorous testing of any software solution. I am not defending the developers, they made missteps too, including not having the in-house capability to handle such a colossal technical task. There is a lot of blame to go around.
Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.
Atwood (Coding Horror), Jeff (2012-07-04). Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code (p. 45). Hyperink – Guide to Effective Programming. Kindle Edition.
It has been my personal experience that if you give a great idea to a mediocre group of people, they will mess it up. On the other hand, give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will not only make it happen — they will make it better.
Secondly, cyber security is hard problem. Let me illustrate with a simple analogy: Think of cyber defense as a sphere of Swiss cheese, and this ball of cheese is as big and ever expanding as our universe. The holes, also infinite, are all the possible vulnerabilities of the system. There is a very small subset of holes (vulnerabilities) we know about and we can “fix” or plug them (actually, this is not always possible. There are vulnerabilities that we do know of but no practical fix exists… yet). We cannot possibly plug every hole. Attackers only need to find one good hole, or maybe a small handful of holes, to compromise a system. The defenders have to be vigilant everywhere all the time; its an asymmetric problem. And I haven’t even addressed the case where an attacker, like a mouse, worms its way in making a new hole.
Now, I know what you must be thinking: “Ok smart guy. What’s the answer?” Frankly, I am not sure there is one or will ever be one. Lots of very smart people in academia, government, and industry, have been working this problem since the beginning of this whole Internet phenomenon. And all we have to show for it is a handful of anti-virus (AV) and intrusion detection systems (IDS). Some products are more effective than others but they don’t catch everything. Attackers still persist. Becoming more sophisticated, more determined.
So, lots of bright people have tackled, are still tackling this problem, and still no solution. There may never be a solution. Does that mean we should curl up into a fetal position, sucking our thumbs while crying, “mommy”? No! This is what makes research so exciting. How to turn the attacker’s asymmetric advantage against them? There are many interesting research ideas proposed. However, one thing is certain: we will never solve these problems if our government keeps acting they way it has been lately.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”
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Earlier this month the Chrome Web Store team detected a significant increase in the number of fraudulent transactions involving paid Chrome extensions that aim to exploit users. Due to the scale of this abuse, we have temporarily disabled publishing paid items. This is a temporary measure meant to stem this influx as we look for long-term solutions to address the broader pattern of abuse.
Disabling the publishing feature has caused problems for developers with extensions that take one-off payments or subscriptions, or which sell in-app purchases, she added in the post. They might receive rejections from the Chrome store, citing ‘Spam and Payment in the Store’ as the cause. They could fix the problem by replying to the rejection email and asking for an appeal. Google might then invite them to republish the item at its discretion. Developers would have to go through this rigmarole with each new version they published while the company sorted out the problem.
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Judging by developers’ responses to the post, though, Google’s pattern of replies was patchy at best. An extension developer going by the name Fatty Noparents said:
I have written multiple times replying to the rejection letter about two of my paid extensions that existed in the Store for more than a year. I have not received any reply, and the extensions are still in the Pending review status.
Other developers responding to the blog post reported that their accounts had been suspended and that they had received emails accusing them of deceptive behaviour or not giving any reason. In some cases, their payment accounts were also cancelled, even if they managed to get their accounts reinstated.
The issue has been ongoing for at least a couple of weeks. On 9 January, Thomas Guillory, senior engineering manager at well-known password management software vendor Dashlane, posted to a Google Group complaining of the problem. He said:
It’s even happening on our internal extension, which is unlisted and only used by employees. We didn’t manage to get a clear answer on what is the issue.
Vincent told him to contact developer support, but according to another developer in the conversation, the team responded that it was unable to help.
Google didn’t elaborate on the nature of the fraud, but on Monday Vincent updated the post to clarify that only items using the Chrome Web Store payments system were affected.
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This tracking will not affect the earth’s magnetic field, nor can it be prevented. The indoor tracking system can also work without using radio signals. Implementing this Finnish solution in the field can introduce a new type of indoor monitoring. Installed in every building, you can track location information without using a smartphone. I can’t do anything. The only thing you can do is to avoid location-based solutions based on Wi-Fi signals and Bluetooth interference devices such as Walkbase and Qubulus. For this reason, indoor tracking mobile cell phone jammer can be used to protect privacy until magnetic tracking technology is no longer implemented on a global scale.
Robot technology is one of the foundations of modern technological development and global progress. In this regard, not only amateurs, but professionals also have many innovative ideas and enthusiasts. One of them is the famous iRobot company, which produces many cool robots such as iRobot Warrior and iRobot Roomba. This is why IEEE visited its headquarters video and found a lot of interesting information about iRobot robot technology and development. Although these robots can be autonomous or remotely controlled, they require some means of restraining the robot, such as mobile phone jammers and jamming devices. It also has various skills and characteristics. For example, many robots are inspired by nature. They are in the shape of crabs and can move on different terrains to adapt to the surface. Or, the worm-like iRobots work inside the rig and can pass through narrow spaces to reach areas inaccessible to humans.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Having made no public comments during the past two months, Melissa Hathaway took center stage Wednesday at the 2009 RSA Conference to deliver a high-level summary of her team's 60-day review of the country's cybersecurity policies and structures.
Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, is thought to be a candidate for the national cyber advisor, a White House-level position that would oversee U.S. cybersecurity and institute the mechanisms for information security cooperation domestically and internationally.
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While short on details, Hathaway's 30-minute speech stressed the need for collaboration between the public and private sectors in securing cyberspace, and in turn the economy, civil infrastructure, public safety and national security.
"The White House must lead the way forward with leadership that draws upon the strength, advice and ideas of the entire nation," Hathaway said.
She stressed that the United States must ground itself as a leader in addressing vulnerabilities in cyberspace, and that no one government agency has a broad enough perspective to lead this effort. Hathaway's statements seemed to quash concerns that responsibility for cybersecurity would be handed over to the National Security Agency, reaffirming earlier statements made by director Lt. General Keith Alexander. The NSA chief told RSA Conference attendees a day earlier that the NSA had no interest in running cybersecurity for the country.
Hathaway added that the government must be vigilant in securing critical infrastructure, such as water, communications and the electrical grid. This also includes cooperation with the private sector, which designs, builds, owns and operates most of the infrastructure in use.
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"The public and private sector's interests are intertwined with a shared responsibility for ensuring a secure, reliable infrastructure upon which businesses and government services depend," Hathaway said. "Information is key to preventing, detecting, responding to and recovering from cyber incidents. Again, this requires evolving our partnerships together.
"Government and industry leaders, both here and abroad, need to delineate roles and responsibilities, balance capabilities, and take ownership of the problem to develop holistic solutions."
Hathaway's report on the state of U.S. cybersecurity was delivered to President Barack Obama on Friday; she said the results should be made public in the coming days. Hathaway said the review touches on every facet of government networks, including the missions of computer network defense, law enforcement investigations, military and intelligence activities, and how those intersect with information assurance, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, telecommunications policies and general critical infrastructure protection.
Hathaway's team of government cybersecurity experts identified more than 250 needs, tasks and recommendations, she said. She also requested that government agencies identify new or existing requirements they may have. She added that her team connected with the security industry, academia, civil liberties and privacy entities, state governments and executive branches of government.
"Our outreach involved unprecedented transparency and engagement for a National Security Council initiative and having come from the private sector myself," Hathaway said, "I recognized it was vital to the review's overall success.".
During the Bush administration, Hathaway served as senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, John Michael McConnell, chaired several cybersecurity-related groups and helped develop the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). The CNCI plan is a $40 billion classified plan that has 12 components, including the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) program. TIC's goal is to trim the number of connections from federal computer systems to outside networks from more than 4,000 to fewer than 100. The Einstein system, a network-monitoring tool used by DHS to monitor and analyze traffic moving through federal networks, is a key component of TIC.
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Next Cyberstorm exercise to stress international cooperation on security Philip Reitinger of the Department of Homeland Security, said international coordination on cybersecurity is paramount to avoiding a global crisis.
Private sector can take lessons from federal network security projects Ongoing network security initiatives at the federal level, including the Trusted Internet Connections program and the Einstein project are helping provide a roadmap for the private sector, according to a network security expert. Michael Markulec, chief operating officer of network visualization vendor Lumeta Inc., said the initiatives will likely be used by companies that own network infrastructure at many of the nation's critical infrastructure facilities. In this wide ranging interview, Markulec talks about whether deep packet inspection should be used to root out nefarious traffic, how cloud computing is changing the way companies approach network defenses and whether credit card data can be truly protected using so-called end-to-end encryption. Markulec said good network security still comes down to a basic defense-in-depth approach.
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Managed.com, one of the biggest providers of managed web hosting solutions, has taken down all its servers in order to deal with a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned today.
The attack took place on Monday, November 16, and the ransomware impacted the company’s public-facing web hosting systems, resulting in some customer sites having their data encrypted.
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Managed.com said the incident only impacted a limited number of customer sites, which the company said it immediately took offline.
But hours after the attack, Managed.com said it also took down its entire web hosting infrastructure, which the company is now working to restore.
This included WordPress and DotNetNuke managed hosting solutions, email servers, DNS servers, RDP access points, FTP servers, and online databases.
Initially, the company passed the attack as unscheduled maintenance but eventually came clean in emails and messages provided by its tech support operators to an ever-increasing number of angry customers.
The company says it is now working with law enforcement to identify the attackers and restore customer systems as soon as possible.
But on online forums, Managed.com customers now fear that their sites will remain down for days or weeks. They cite a similar incident that took place at fellow web hosting provider A2 Hosting in May 2019, from which the company needed more than a month to recover, during which time a large number of customers had to wait for their sites and site data to be restored.
A Managed.com spokesperson did not return a request for comment before this article’s publication.
Managed.com now joins a long list of ransomware incidents that have impacted web hosting and data center providers. The list also includes Equinix, CyrusOne, Cognizant, X-Cart, A2 Hosting, SmarterASP.NET, Dataresolution.net, and Internet Nayana.
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KCST students represented Kuwait by participating in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) held in Rochester Institute of Technology.
RIT University in Dubai, silicon oasis, Dubai was the hub that holds the competition of the ME region.
The aim is to prepare our students for their future jobs in cybersecurity domain, by providing them with hands-on experience in a real-world scenario. As it is not an easy task to provide our students with such an environment, CPTC offered this opportunity as it uniquely allows participants to practice technical and non-technical skills, they have learnt in an environment that resembles a real-world scenario.
CPTC was established in 2014, involving only local universities in NY, USA. In 2016, CPTC has become a USA national competition with universities from all over the USA clustered in three regions. Moreover, two additional regions, Canada, and Europe, have been added.
The competition is held in two phases regional and global. For 2021, the regional competition was held on 23rd, October 2021 while the global one was 6th-9th of January 2021.
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The organization in collaboration with the Americans for Cybersecurity did some analysis on state and local election administrators’ susceptibility to phishing attacks and according to their findings which showed that some 53.24% of election administrators use only simple or nonstandard technologies to protect themselves from phishing attacks while only about 18.61% have implemented more secured anti-phishing cybersecurity measures to ensure their own safety.
With that, the number of election administrators using personal email addresses or personal email technology for election related tasks are a massive 5.42%.
The Area 1 Security findings also includes the fact that a number of administrators independently manage their custom email infrastructure as well.
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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Area 1 Security CEO Oren Falkowitz explained: “When you run your own service and you don’t partner with someone to professionally manage it, it means you have to be perfect every single day. That’s really hard.”
According to the security organization, there are six small jurisdictions in Michigan, Missouri, Maine and New Hampshire using Exim. And not to forget that back in May, the National Security Agency had warned that threat actors linked to the Russian military intelligence agency who were the same that had interfered with the previous elections have targeted the version of Exim that these same officials are using.
And it’s not new that nationwide agencies have faced ransomware attacks which usually starts with malicious email messages according to the security experts in a discussion with The Wall Street Journal.
During an online conference held by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), a top Department of Homeland Security election official made it known that there are malicious software that targets computers that are being used by election officials as his remain a big issue to the safety of the election.
“We’ll see that ransomware will come and take down the county network, which has an impact on the election network, even though it wasn’t being targeted,” explained Matt Masterson, senior adviser on election security for the Department of Homeland Security. “It may have an impact on, particularly, a local office’s ability to run elections.”
With the general elections coming on it’s way, the interference of other nations/states can have a bad impact on the outcome of the election but the fact that some election officials aren’t well prepared for this might be a big issue to deal with.
Election administrators claim security testing and monitoring of election networks is better now than it was in 2016, though. More counties are using paper-ballot voting machines as a backup.
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3: Serves me right: got lost in the weeds...
Ok, so I have setup my azure web site. Pretty straightforward, got the SSL working and all is sweet, works like a charm. Now for the bit I am struggling with...
Let's say my main site is called www.robots.life (a legit domain, btw).
Now I want to do admin.robots.life. I have setup the CNAME record and azure is fine with admin.robots.life as an application setup as /Admin, site/admin (where the files reside).
I have also added a rewrite rule to send users to admin/robots.life.
But it is not working. Firstly, where do I physically locate the files? I have it as site/Admin and robots.life, the main site, as site/wwwroot. Is that correct?
It appears to be displaying a path that has an extra "Admin" and goes straight to a blank page. Nothing appears in the azure log or my log to show what the error might be and switching custom errors off does nothing. It does get to the login page if I enter the url manually but then hangs after entering user id, password and submitting.
I can only imagine I am doing something monumentally stupid. Like breathing.
Would really appreciate some direction here. If this isn't enough info, be happy to supply several reams of closely scrawled gibberish.
If you want help, then you need to ask a question.
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One of the biggest advantages of cloud computing technology in the cloud hosting turns out to be a potential security threat for the sites hosted in the cloud environment. Yes! You heard it right, the benefit of accessing the cloud platform from anywhere of the world with the aid of any internet accessing devices now turns to be a nightmare for the potential security attack in the cloud.
Not all the Interfacing platforms and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) handled by the developers in the cloud environment are not safe. It leads the exposure of the privacy data and this could be because of the internal application used by any site hosted in the cloud platform.
I am a C# programmer, which try to extent my horizon.
So a while ago, I decided to try to make a database application in Google AppEngine. Instead of making a desktop application, that only runs in Windows.
I bought a book called something like "Get started with Google AppEngine" or whatever name it was. However, after a few chapters I realized that the book was written in 2009 and very version specific. So I relied on Googles articles and whatever I could find, about the subject.
I created my Google account and started. First thing in my mind was creating a MySQL database. This went fine no problems, I have been working with MySQL in many years, and I think that is a god and reliable database. I normally use MySQL Workbench as my administration tool, and it works fine.
I then try to connect to my Google MySQL to Workbench. Then all my frustrations start.
It is impossible to connect Workbench to a Google MySQL database. I then after a lot of search found that I need to have an IPv6 address. If I want to connect from my PC to the database, it can only happen via IPv6. Otherwise, I will have to provide an IPv4 address for MySQL Instance. In addition, that cost money per hour. I am willing to pay, but until now, I have not had any thing running. In addition, I feel that Google should show me something before starting billing me. My internet provider is not giving me an IPv6 address when I use MyIP.dk it says No IPv6 address found. I tried using my PC’s IPv6 address. Nothing works and I have provided that My PC is allowed to connect to database, My Pc’s IPv6 is allowed to connect, My IPv4 is allowed etc. etc. No connection what so ever.
I then thought that It might be easier to use MyPHPAdmin instead. I have also god experience with MyPHPAdmin. In addition, I expected that it was just to switch it on like other web hotel providers. Again, I was wrong, you have to install it yourself and write config-file etc. Some nice person has made a description of how to do it. I follow the recipe and uploaded MyPHPAdmin. I get a login screen(success), everything is fine. Then it all started over again, wandering in circles in Google tutorials etc. The only message I get when login MyPHPAdmin: “MySQL has gone away” and then an error code.
After searching at least 50 web-pages I found one that wrote the you are not able to connect from an application to database if it’s not on the same location. That make sense. But how on earth am I supposed to know that. Why does Google not make sure, that Site and Database is placed on the same location?
I then deleted the database and created a new in European Area1, but I’m not able to see which site my application is located in. Now it looks different. I am not able to apply applications that has access. I’m not able to add users that can log on to the database. And it has an IPv4 address, even though I haven’t asked for a IPv4 address. I then for a moment thought that Workbench could come into play again. But no!
I have updated MyPHPAdmin App so it is pointing to the correct database etc. etc. But I still get the message “MySQL has gone away”.
Now that I have used (I guess) three full days trying to connect some administration to MySQL, I wander what Google thinks about this. I am told that Googles AppEngine is so user friendly etc. And that it is the best cloud engine in the world. I think that it is Google them self that write these articles. Right now, I think going back to Microsoft, because it at least works, and is user friendly.
I think that Google AppEngine is one of the worst internet experience I have had. My impression is that Google AppEngine is in beta and have not been finished yet.
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Make sure you do not see any Comodo entries in Notepad. If there is, remove it and save the file. This entry is normally added by malware and would mean that it is very likely that your computer is already infected by a virus. After removing the entry from the HOSTS file, you should run an update and a full scan on your computer. You may also want to run an offline antivirus scan using a free rescue disk if necessary.
Right click at the server box, select Add , enter any of following new host listed below, and click OK. As for the second and third update servers, they are used for Asian users and currently both of the hosts resolve to the same IP address This does not create a problem because Comodo will attempt to connect to the original server first, and automatically to the second newly added server if the first one fails.
Additional Notes : Adding the IP address Comodo has the same problem with there New Comodo Antivirus for Linux pv: 1. I use Ubuntu Thank you for your advice… I liked CAV, the only issue has been updating. And Comodo is one of the best products on the market I have tried many. And what matters- it is a freeware. Thanks to Comodo and to you Raymond. Avira basically updates all its necessary updates automatically. To install Avira updates, the user does not have to download the files and then install them.
Download Avira Virus Definitions. For the latest and updated version of your licensed Norton product, you must install the Virus Definition Updates. Download Norton Antivirus Definition Update. Kaspersky is one of the largest growing cyber security companies in the world. Kaspersky provides protection that is efficient, effective and usable.
I have not been able to find Kaspersky databases download link directly but got it from download. You may use this link to download the latest Kaspersky update database. Download Kaspersky Virus Definitions. Or you can follow this article to ensure you can manually update Kaspersky DB. Comodo is providing a facility for those users who want to replace their database with the new one so that no virus is present in the new database.
Download the Comodo Database for v5. So download the virus definition for your antivirus and keep your tool database updated for better and more advanced performance and powerful security of your system. If you are using MSE on your system, you may download its latest updates db from the Microsoft site:.
The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software. Surfshark 3.
LastPass 4. Lastpass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure. K7 Total Security K7 Total Security provides complete security against cyber criminals and other evolving cyber threats.
VoodooShield 7. NordVPN 7. KeePassXC 2. Store locally your passwords safely and auto-type them into your everyday websites and applications.
It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Farbar Recovery Scan Tool FRST is a diagnostic tool incorporating the ability to execute prepared script solutions on malware infected machines. Safeguard your online life with the best proactive solution that will not slow you down.
Comprehensive protection for your everyday online activities. Your internet world is finally in safe hands. Tor Browser Alpha Tor Browser is the only official mobile browser supported by the Tor Project, developers of the world's strongest tool for privacy and freedom online. Betternet 6. Betternet is providing internet privacy for more than 25 million people from all over the world. ProtonVPN 1. Bitwarden 1. The easiest and safest way for individuals, teams, and business organizations to store, share, and sync sensitive data.
Remove all kinds of malware, and perform all tasks related to Windows optimization, maintenance, repair and info retrieval. Compatible with Windows TechSpot Downloads Security Search. Keep your Mcafee based virus scanner up to date.
Bitdefender Virus Definitions Update April 2, Comodo AntiVirus Update April 2, Comodo Antivirus is the free way to rid your computer of viruses, malware, Trojans, worms, hackers, and other Internet threats. VoodooShield 7. Most viruses attack through Web browsers. When used properly, VoodooShield will effectively block all email and browser-based viruses and malware. Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses.
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AVG Internet Security Protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers and spam. Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac 9. Like all Internet connected computers, they get attacked by malware.
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Kaspersky Products Remover 1. Webroot SecureAnywhere 9. ClamWin Free Anti-virus 0. ClamWin is an Antivirus tool that comes with an easy installer and is open source code at no cost.
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The cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network gathers data from millions of participating users' systems around the world... to help defend you from the very latest viruses and malware attacks. Potential threats are monitored and analysed - in real-time - and dangerous actions are completely blocked before they can cause any harm. Identifies suspicious websites and phishing websites
Advanced anti-phishing technologies proactively detect fraudulent URLs and use real-time information from the cloud, to help ensure you're not tricked into disclosing your valuable data to phishing websites. Our URL Advisor also adds colour-coded tags to all web links - to advise you of the danger level of the link and subsequent pages. Delivers greater security for online shopping and banking
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Task Force 7 Radio is the Voice of Cyber Security around the globe. We feature up to date insights and analysis by preeminent cyber security professionals on the most important cyber security issues affecting your life today.
Although the world of cyber security can be complex, our focus is to explain highly technical subject matter in non-technical terms. We cover topics that are of vital interest to the cyber security expert yet also will appeal to the novice interested in learning more about cyber security and new threats affecting the social, political, business, and economic concerns of our world.
We explore a wide range of controversial issues that you won’t want to miss each week. Task Force 7 Radio is broadcast live every Monday at 8 PM Eastern Time, 5 PM Pacific Time, on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
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UPDATE2: a Metasploit module has been released. Some limited workarounds may be available. Otherwise patch now!
UPDATE: a link to a working exploit has been seen. As of yet no IDS or WAF signatures/rules have been posted. (2017/09/05 20:30h EDT)
Anyone using Struts 2 should immediately upgrade to Struts 2.5.13 due to a remote code execution vulnerability. It has been assigned CVE-2017-9805 and a detailed technical writeup is available here: https://lgtm.com/blog/apache_struts_CVE-2017-9805_announcement.
A work around would be to disable access to the REST API used by Struts as it does not correctly deserialize objects when invoked.
Every once in a while along comes a vulnerability that should cause you to consider actually updating the platform your application runs on! Now that the patch is available it will not be long before a working exploit is out in the wild.
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Cookies are small text files stored in the browser on the user's computer, when visiting web pages.
Cookies store information that can be used for several purposes: to personalize web browsing, to gather demographic information about how many users visit a page, to monitor which banners are displayed to the user, etc.
These uses are not, in theory at least, malicious.
However, keep in mind that the misuse of cookies could threaten an individual's privacy.
Counterserv prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
Counterserv redirects attempts to access web pages of certain banks to spoofed pages, with the aim of logging information entered by the user in these pages.
Counterserv redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.
Counterserv does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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Someone gets infected by ransomware, and then they pay the ransom. The victim then licks their wounds and hopefully learns something from the experience.
And that’s what happened to Tobias Frömel, a German developer and web designer who found himself paying a Bitcoin ransom of 670 Euros (US $735) after his QNAP NAS drive was hit by the Muhstik ransomware.
However, Frömel didn’t just put down the whole unpleasant episode to experience, vow to better protect his devices and employ a more reliable backup regime in future.
No, Frömel decided to hack the very people responsible for the attack.
After decrypting his own data, Frömel (who also calls himself “battleck” online) analyzed the ransomware that had infected his NAS drive, determined how it worked, “hacked back” and stole the criminal’s “whole database with keys.”
From the sound of things, whoever was behind the Muhstik attack was more successful at writing ransomware than securing their own database from a web developer.
In a posting on the Bleeping Computing forum, Frömel admitted what he had done and posted a link to a Pastebin page where he had published the stolen keys as well as the decryption software.
“hey guys, good news for you all, bad news for me cause i paid already… maybe someone can give me a tip for my hard work ^^
Furthermore, in an attempt to do some good–and deprive cybercriminals of income–Frömel has been seeking out Muhstik victims on Twitter and pointing them towards his decryption keys and instructions on how to recover their data.
Although many may feel tempted to applaud what Frömel did, hacking online criminals is not to be recommended. Frömel himself acknowledges that what he did was against the law, although I would be surprised if he gets into any trouble over it:
yeah, i know it was not legal from me too but he used already hacked servers with several webshells on it… and im not the bad guy here :D
The Next Web reports that anti-virus firm Emsisoft tested Frömel’s decryption tool and found that it did not work properly on ARM-based QNAP devices. Anyone attempting to recover such a device from a Muhstik ransomware attack may wish to use Emsisoft’s tool instead.
Of course, prevention is always better than a cure. QNAP issued a security advisory about the threat posed by the Muhstik ransomware against its NAS drives last week. In the alert, it recommended customers act immediately to protect their data from malware attacks.
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc.
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https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/ransomware-victim-hacks-attacker-stealing-decryption-keys/
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IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s hospitality giants, is experiencing ongoing, “significant disruptions” after “unauthorized activity” breached its technology system.
The group’s Twitter feed has been busily responding to customer inquiries with this response: “As a result of unauthorized activity, our booking channels and other applications have been disrupted. We’re working to restore all systems asap and IHG hotels can take reservations. For help with a current or future reservation, please call the hotel directly.”
The UK-based group manages 17 hotel companies, with 0ver 6,000 properties in more than 100 countries, spanning luxury brands such as InterContinental, Regent and Kimpton to mid-range and extended-stay names like Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Staybridge Suites.
“IHG is working to fully restore all systems as soon as possible and to assess the nature, extent and impact of the incident,” according to a brief statement. “We will be supporting hotel owners and operators as part of our response to the ongoing service disruption. IHG’s hotels are still able to operate and to take reservations directly.”
IHG’s statement did not say whether customer data was impacted. Forbes was unable to reach the company for comment.
“IHG has implemented its response plans, is notifying relevant regulatory authorities and is working closely with its technology suppliers,” according to the statement. “External specialists have also been engaged to investigate the incident.”
In 2020, IHG agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in a class action settlement following a malware breach that affected payments at hotel, restaurant and bar locations at multiple properties for more than three months in 2016.
Attempts by Forbes on Wednesday to book a room online via the IHG, Kimpton and Holiday Inn websites were unsuccessful. The group’s sites carried the following banner announcement: “At this time, you may have challenges booking a new reservation, accessing information about your upcoming reservations and accessing your IHG One Rewards account. We’re working to restore all service as soon as possible.” The message went on to recommend that travelers call individual hotels directly to make reservations.
Last month, IHG announced a $500 million stock buyback after mid-year shares more than doubled due to strong travel demand.
Following the company’s announcement, IHG’s share price slipped 3% to $53.32 at closing yesterday.
This article was originally published by Forbes.com. Read the original article here.
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https://librosme.com/data-breach-takes-down-ihg-hotel-group-booking-system-impacting-holiday-inn-kimpton-and-more/
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A Ryuk Ransomware attack has taken down the corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility.
Ryuk Ransomware continues to infect systems worldwide, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced that the malware took down the corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility.
“The purpose of this bulletin is to inform the maritime community of a recent incident involving a ransomware intrusion at a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility.” reads the Marine Safety Information Bulletin. “Forensic analysis is currently ongoing but the virus, identified as “Ryuk” ransomware, may have entered the network of the MTSA facility via an email phishing campaign.”
According to the USCG, the attack vector was likely a phishing email sent to the operators at the MTSA facility.
“Once the embedded malicious link in the email was clicked by an employee, the ransomware allowed for a threat actor to access significant enterprise Information Technology (IT) network files, and encrypt them, preventing the facility’s access to critical files,” continues the USCG.
The Ryuk ransomware also infected the industrial control systems that monitor and control cargo transfer and encrypted files critical to process operations. The malware disrupted the entire corporate IT network, including camera and physical access control systems. The company was forced to shut down the primary operations of the facility for over 30 hours.
The Ryuk ransomware was involved in a long string of attacks targeting cities, hospitals, and organizations worldwide.
In September New Bedford city was infected with Ryuk ransomware, but did not pay $5.3M ransom. In April, systems at Stuart City were infected by the same Ryuk ransomware, in early March, Jackson County, Georgia, was hit by the same ransomware that paralyzed the government activity until officials decided to pay a $400,000 ransom to decrypt the files.
Recently the Ryuk ransomware was involved in the attacks against the city of New Orleans.
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Keylog. AA is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: keystrokes, in order to obtain information for accessing online banking services, passwords and other confidential information.
Keylog. AA does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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