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There’s no question that every businesses require access to an entire range of info protection and cyber protection tools. Some examples are antivirus computer software, which helps shield gadgets and systems from cyberattacks such as malware, malware, hacking and ransomware. However , only some business antivirus solutions are manufactured equal. The best business antivirus should be capable of detecting and removing infections, spyware, Trojan viruses and other types of vicious threats whilst damaging or slowing down gadgets and devices.
It’s also important for the best organization antivirus to provide features that address different risks just like info breaches and unauthorized access to financial accounts. Viruses are only one of many types of cyberattacks, and scammers continue to develop new ways to attack companies of all sizes. For instance, scam and CEO scam attacks will be popular ways of targeting workers and dispersing viruses within a company’s devices.
The best business antivirus also needs to be able to give protection to multiple systems and devices best business antivirus at once, especially when used by remote workers. It should also have a centralized administration platform and automatic posts to keep up with the most recent malware, spyware and computer vulnerabilities. In addition , a good choice for optimum business anti virus would be the one that can provide an anti-ransomware potential, which is an increasingly popular type of malwares. Finally, search for a solution that offers password managers and allowed VPNs to aid safeguard your team’s on the web privacy. All these are critical components to help prevent employee-caused cyberattacks, which are the reason for a majority of all of the business data breaches and also other forms of harmful behavior. | http://ageonrealtyservices.com/what-to-look-for-in-a-business-antivirus/ |
In the modern, digital age, 95 percent of Americans own a cell phone, with 77 percent using a smartphone. While smartphones are excellent tools for communication and knowledge, if used improperly, they can put their owners at a serious risk of security breach.
With that in mind, the Illinois Bankers Association offers some key actions users can take to help minimize the likelihood of becoming a victim.
Regularly update your device and mobile apps. Incidents of mobile malware and mobile ransomware are increasing. Updated operating systems and security software are critical in protecting against emerging threats.
Enable encryption. Enabling encryption on your smartphone is one of the best ways to safeguard information stored on the device, thwarting unauthorized access.
Use a strong, unique passcode. In case your phone ever does fall into the wrong hands, don't make it easy for someone to access all your important information! Enable strong password protection on your device and include a timeout requiring authentication after a period of inactivity. Secure the smartphone with a unique password, and do not share it with others. Avoid storing sensitive information like passwords or Social Security numbers on your mobile device.
Take advantage of multi-factor authentication. Many sites offer a second step of logging in by either sending a text message to your registered phone or by generating a code on an "Authenticator" application. Take advantage of this added security.
Do not use public Wi-Fi. Do not log into accounts or conduct any sensitive transactions, such as shopping or banking, while using public Wi-Fi.
Log out completely. When you finish a purchase or mobile banking session, be sure to completely log out of the transaction or retail site.
Beware of mobile phishing. Avoid opening links and attachments in emails and texts, especially from senders you don't know. Note that your bank will never send a text or email requesting your password or other personal information. Be wary of ads (not from your security provider) claiming that your device is infected.
Install applications from trusted sources. When downloading apps, be proactive and make sure that you read the privacy statement, review permissions, check the app reviews and look online to see if any security company has identified the app as malicious.
Install a phone locator/remote erase app. Misplacing your device doesn't have to be a catastrophe if it has a locater app. Many such apps allow you to log on to another computer and see on a map exactly where the device is. Remote erase apps allow you to remotely wipe data from your device, helping minimize unauthorized access to your information in the event you cannot locate the device.
Disable unwanted services when not in use. Bluetooth and Near Field Capabilities (NFC) can provide an easy way for an unauthorized user nearby to gain access to your data. Turn these features off when they are not required.
Carefully dispose of mobile devices. With constant changes in the smartphone market, many users frequently upgrade to new devices. Make sure you wipe the information from your smartphone before disposal. For information on how to do this, check the website of your mobile provider or the manufacturer.
Report any suspected fraud to your bank immediately. Additionally, tell your financial institution if you change your phone number or lose your mobile device. | http://www.margaretschickling.com/blog/2017/10/06/cyber-safety-tips-for-your-smartphone |
Michael Kuster opened Digital Age Solution in 2005 after managing Information Technology for various government agencies for many years. Before taking on this venture full-time, he operated a web site design and hosting company, KusterNet, for a decade. After being asked by web site customers to manage and maintain their computers, KusterNet became Digital Age Solution.
Mike maintains a hands-on, active role in the management and delivery of service to customers at Digital Age Solution. Rather than sitting behind a desk, he can often be found running cable on telephone poles, fixing computers on-site, and providing one-on-one support to customers.
Mike lives in Walkersville, Maryland with his wife and three children. He actively serves as a volunteer and board member for several non-profits including 4-H, Federated Charities, and the Town of Walkersville. | https://digitalagesolution.com/bad-rabbit-ransomware-spreads-via-network/bad-rabbit-1/ |
This marks McAfee's second acquisition since its spinoff from Intel last year.
McAfee has confirmed its acquisition of TunnelBear, a virtual private network (VPN) provider based in Toronto. Neither company disclosed the value of the deal.
TunnelBear is a consumer-focused company founded in 2011 with the idea of making online privacy more accessible to the public. Its cross-platform VPN app, available for both mobile and desktop, reportedly has about 20 million users. Consumers are growing wary of privacy concerns, according to McAfee data: 58% know how to check if a wifi network is secure but less than 50% take the time to do it. Only 19% own a personal VPN solution.
It seems McAfee plans to leverage TunnelBear's "hardened network" for its own VPN service called Safe Connect, says CEO Chris Young in a statement, noting that the VPN service had built "an engaging profitable direct-to-consumer brand." McAfee will keep the TunnelBear brand and standalone apps active, reports VentureBeat.
This is the second acquisition McAfee has made since its spinoff from Intel last year. In November 2017 the company bought CASB provider Skyhigh Networks, a move intended to expand its security architecture to include both endpoint and cloud control points.
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This gridiron-inspired advice will guarantee your digital transformation success and keep your data safe.
Unlike the 16-game NFL season, for the eight in 10 companies in the US undergoing digital transformation (DX), there's no off-season. The journey is an ongoing one that, for IT leaders, can feel like an endurance challenge, not to mention a massive expense, with DX spending predicted to reach nearly $2 trillion in 2022, according to IDC.
Application-centric visibility is key to accelerating DX. By better visualizing, isolating, and understanding application interaction and usage patterns, organizations can accelerate secure deployment of their digital applications and prompt touchdown dances for DX victories both small and large along the way. I mean, who doesn't want to see a SecOps team do the Ickey Shuffle?
But getting there requires adapting to the speed of the game, or transforming rapidly, which isn't an easy feat when DX involves complexities like public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure and a new breed of multitier applications need to be managed and secured. Much like a wide receiver making plays in double coverage, networking pros have to be able to run fast networks during DX while navigating everything from changing IT environments to regulatory challenges like the General Data Protection Regulation and security demands in the context of escalating cybercrime.
Here are four gridiron-inspired tips that can help see your way to DX success with data, guaranteeing a SecOps Gronk spike:
1. Create a championship culture from top to bottom.
Organizations can take a cue from great sports franchises that develop and maintain a winning culture. Digital transformation is a business imperative and, much like winning, is built on strong technology underpinnings, ultimately focused on driving the culture of the organization. It starts at the board and C-level team with a vision of what you want the company to be in five years and then determining whether or not you have the culture, people, and resources to get there. You have to deliberately become a data-driven culture in every aspect from top to bottom, and treat cybersecurity as a strategic business enabler rather than an obstacle, in order to win at DX.
2. See everything, all the time.
Whether we're talking turf or network, clear visibility of the traffic is just as important as any other technical skills. Like a pass rusher on the quarterback's blind side, malware moves and data exfiltration happens across the network in stealth mode — not to mention the complexity of applications operating on-premises, in the cloud, or both. Having a clear line of sight into the organization's network and application layers lets you visualize your infrastructure, what's running on it, and how applications are performing and interacting with each other — and from there, extract kernels of insight to guide your DX efforts.
3. Handle complex schemes at top speeds.
Getting 53 professional athletes to master an NFL playbook comes with its challenges, not unlike wrangling the new breed of digital applications. Both require turning complexity into cohesion — and doing so fast. I'm referring to applications with multiple tiers (where each tier is scaled out and there's a set of microservices), some of which are built in-house, others are built externally, and some come from open source. When the components are sandwiched together, complexity escalates rapidly, which ultimately manifests itself as challenges around securing the applications, as well as ensuring consistent performance and experience. The key to keeping things under control is having the right kind of data to help you understand the interaction, performance, and security characteristics of these applications.
4. Be a good halftime coach.
Good coaches make quick adjustments to position the team for second-half success. NetOps and SecOps teams can relate when it comes to troubleshooting, managing, and securing applications. Whatever the application architecture, once in deployment something at some point is bound to go awry. You need to figure out what's happening and quickly course correct, but when you're scaling microservices, it's hard to troubleshoot just through application instrumentation. By analyzing the network traffic pertaining to these applications, you get immediate actionable data points that can be used to address trouble spots and understand security implications as well. The ability to isolate specific applications or microservices communication streams for deeper inspection would allow the security operations to easily understand access patterns and put in place effective micro segmentation strategies.
The NFL game is faster than ever, and the same can be said for the pace of digital business and the proliferation of cyber threats. The ability to the handle day-to-day challenges while positioning the organization for future success is only possible with the appropriate infrastructure in place. NetOps and SecOps teams are tasked with the development, implementation, maintenance, and security of very complex enterprise infrastructures that prepare their organization for tomorrow, much like NFL teams must draft and develop players for future success. Both must do so while reducing risks, costs, and security threats along the way. With the above-mentioned tips as the foundation of your journey, you can position your organization for success for seasons to come.
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This is one of those areas of security that does have a “good news” kind of answer. There are many things you can do to help secure your own mobile devices that don’t require large amounts of time, money, or your company’s direct intervention. Let’s have a look at the top things you can do:
First, only download applications from sources you trust. While that may seem like a no-brainer, remember that you shouldn’t consider the official app stores of your platform (Google Play, Apple’s App Store) as trusted in all circumstances. While those platforms do try their best to keep malicious software off their storefronts, they’re not infallible, and sometimes things slip through. So, when I say “only sources you trust,” what I mean is that you should only download and install applications from vendors and companies that you do business with or use outside of the mobile world. Always double-check to make sure you’re downloading the official applications as well – as too many bad actors have created and published applications that sound and/or look like the real ones in order to trick consumers. If you’ve never heard of the publisher or developer (usually listed in the details page for the app in question), then don’t download it.
Next, always be on your guard when installing and running new programs, and when agreeing to privacy and end-user agreements both when you install and when the app is updated. Recently, both Google and Facebook were caught using sketchy methods to snoop on mobile users – to the point where Apple actually disabled a critical component of both companies’ internal iPhone applications and removed their public applications from the App Store [The fallout from Facebook’s controversial research app – The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206027/apple-facebook-research-app-enterprise-certificate-google)]. In short, both companies offered some form of free security tool that included Virtual Private Networking (VPN) services. The way the VPN worked, the two companies were able to view all data sent or received, since the VPN was controlled by them. Here’s the catch, they were up front and told users that this would happen – and in Facebook’s case even offered to pay users to let them watch what they did and where they went online. Users willingly accepted the end-user agreement and privacy terms and accepted the permission requests when the app was installed – or more probably didn’t realize that’s what they were agreeing to, but agreed to it anyway by clicking “Yes” and “OK”. So, always question the terms and conditions and any privacy statements when you install applications; and be on the lookout for updates to terms and conditions and privacy when the app updates. Also keep a close eye on permissions requests (“Application X wants to use your microphone and camera” or “Application Y wants to see your location when you’re not using the app” etc.).
That’s not to say you should avoid using a VPN – quite the contrary. VPN applications from legitimate and secure providers like Encrypt. Me [The Super Simple VPN You Can Trust | Encrypt.me](https://encrypt.me/)] and PersonalVPN [Home – personalVPN.com](https://www.personalvpn.com/)](as just two examples) are great security tools that you should be using any time you are on an unsecured WiFi network. These services keep anyone else on the same WiFi network from seeing what you’re doing, and as long as the VPN provider has clear privacy and security terms and conditions that protect the privacy of your online habits, then they’re a vital security tool that anyone can use and benefit from. Stay away from free VPN providers (remember, if you’re not paying money, then you’re paying with your personal information), but otherwise find a VPN provider within your budget that protects both your online activity and your privacy.
Finally, remember that mobile devices are – by nature and name – mobile. Be aware of your environment whenever you’re using a mobile phone or tablet, and even your laptop. It’s very easy for “shoulder surfers” to see what’s on your screen, including banking information or company data. If you don’t need to view your email or sensitive info when you’re on a train or plane, or in a coffee shop or other public area, then don’t. Here in NYC, I cannot tell you how many personal and corporate emails I’ve seen just because I’m on a subway train and someone is on their phone looking that their screen right in front of my face. On airplanes, it’s worse, as current seating trends mean that your neighbor in the middle seat is basically in your lap. Play games, listen to music, read books – but keep sensitive information sensitive. Remember, if you don’t want literally everyone to see what you’re seeing, don’t bring it up on your screen in public.
The same goes for phone calls and other audio conversations (Skype, Slack, etc.). I once sat in an airport gate area and listened to an entire conference call – including some rather sensitive competitive information – someone was having a couple of seats away, even though I really didn’t want to hear it. Luckily for them, I work in “white-hat” security and therefore I’m bound to not share that info, but everyone else who heard them may not be under the same restrictions. As there’s no way to block your voice from being heard by everyone in the immediate area (or further, if you’re a loud talker), postpone those calls until you’re someplace out of the public eye and ear.
Taking some basic security precautions when you find, install, update, and run applications on your smartphone and/or tablet is an easy set of steps to take. They dramatically increase your privacy and security, and don’t cost you anything but a little time to research who makes the apps and what permissions they’re asking for. Using a VPN from a reputable company that doesn’t want to spy on you and being aware of what information you “leak” on your screens and with your voice will keep info you’d prefer to keep private from ending up in public. All together, these are simple and powerful steps you can take to take control of your privacy and security no matter where you use your mobile devices.
Your dose of Alphabet Soup: TLA – Three Letter Acronym – yes, even those of us surrounded by them often admit we have too many of them. The blanket term “TLA” refers to the alarming variety of acronyms used in various technical and non-technical fields, and can include terms that have more (or sometimes less) than only three letters. | https://getskout.com/cyber-101-real-world-mobile-security/ |
Access Control is at the core of any security infrastructure. All businesses have a requirement to control and monitor access in order to protect its assets. Essentially Access Control Systems enables authorised personnel to have access whilst at the same time restricting access to others. Electronic access control offers the most efficient and convenient way of securing your building.
These systems can also be an excellent management tool when incorporated with additional features such as time and attendance functions and can be integrated with payroll and car parking systems.
i2 are skilled in assisting with the selection of the most suitable technology for controlling access within your business. We can offer unbiased advice on the various systems available to you and will guide you in the selection process based on our extensive experience. Additionally i2 Security will assist with the migration from an existing to a new system. | https://www.i2security.co.uk/services/access-control/ |
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Gas shortages continue up and down the east coast after the Colonial pipeline cyber attack.
This latest cyber warfare has exposed critical infrastructure vulnerabilities here in the U.S. The danger compounded after it was revealed that Colonial actually paid a $5 million ransom to unfreeze their computers. The payout putting other companies on edge fearing they may be next.
The result a week after the cyber attack against the Colonial pipeline, panic buying, long lines at stations along the east coast, causing drivers across the country to fear it could happen at their local pumps.
While Colonial has announced the pipeline is open again it will take several days to for it to get back up to normal supply levels. The attack prompting homeland security and President Joe Biden, to urge private companies to harden their defenses.
“I can not dictate that private companies do certain things regarding cyber security”, said President Biden.
Critical infrastructure includes everything from fuel depots, to power and nuclear plants, water systems, railroads, banks, hospitals, telecom centers, the list is endless and 85% of it is privately owned. Phil Quade, of Fortinet Security, said companies around the world have much more to worry about now than just having rivals trying to steal their trade secrets.
“Our critical infrastructures and other important business systems are no longer subject to the threat only of being spied on by others, but actually being attacked by others”, said Quade.
These recommendations are not just for large companies, the Homeland Security Administration says medium sized companies and even local government need to have a cyber team to protect their security. | https://spinsafe.com/colonial-cyber-attack-spreads-fear-to-other-companies/ |
Tenable Vulnerability Management® (formerly known as Tenable.io) allows security and audit teams to share multiple Tenable Nessus, Tenable Nessus Agent, and Tenable Nessus Network Monitor scanners, scan schedules, scan policies, and scan results among an unlimited set of users or groups.
Tenable One is an Exposure Management Platform to help organizations gain visibility across the modern attack surface, focus efforts to prevent likely attacks and accurately communicate cyber risk to support optimal business performance.
The platform combines the broadest vulnerability coverage spanning IT assets, cloud resources, containers, web apps, and identity systems, builds on the speed and breadth of vulnerability coverage from Tenable Research, and adds comprehensive analytics to prioritize actions and communicate cyber risk. Tenable One allows organizations to:
How to Create Managed Credentials in Tenable.io
Setting up Managed Credentials allows you to use a single set of credentials on multiple scans.
Choose the type of credentials you want to create (Window, SSH, etc.).
Choose your authentication method, enter your credentials, and select the appropriate permissions for the group/user(s) for access.
Choose the Basic Network Scan Template.
Fill out basic scan setup details (Name, Targets, etc).
In the left panel, click Credentials to open the menu to add managed credentials.
Assign Managed Credentials (and/or scan-specific credentials, which are not reusable by other scans).
To get started with this configuration, create a basic scan to apply your managed credentials. (Note: the basic scan link will open in a new window.)
Asset Age Out is an optional configuration used to permanently delete licensed assets on your container, on a specific network.
It is recommended to enable Asset Age Out on all networks you configure to better manage licenses and data retention.
Use case: An organization has a corporate policy to retain security data for no longer than 6-months. Asset Age Out would be enabled for all networks, set to 180 days.
Setting Up Asset Age Out
Click the Asset Age Out toggle to permanently delete assets in your network after a specific number of days. All asset records and associated vulnerabilities are deleted and cannot be recovered. The deleted assets no longer count towards your license.
In the text box below, enter the number of days that Tenable.io should wait before permanently deleting assets that have not been seen on a scan. The minimum value is 14 and the maximum value is 365.
Best practice: Unless your organization has policies to retain data for a specific period of time, Tenable recommends deleting newly added networks after 180 days or less.
Nessus Agents help provide visibility on assets in a mobile workforce or in environments and networks where implementing a Nessus Scanner is not possible.
Nessus Agents are highly beneficial for remote / mobile workers, providing vulnerability insights on assets that are not located in an environment controlled by the IT or IS team. If an organization employs a remote sales force, for example, the assets assigned to those team members may rarely, if ever, be in a physical location under the administration of a company’s IT or IS staff. These situations require a different solution to ensure proper asset coverage is achieved.
BENEFITS OF CREDENTIALED SCANNING:
Provides coverage to mobile assets.
Can be built-in to the company "golden image."
Automatic updates to agent software.
Navigate to https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus-agents.
Download the appropriate agent package / installation for your environment.
Install the Nessus Agent manually or via your existing software deployment solution.
Note that your Tenable.io linking key will be required to link agents to your Tenable.io container.
An exclusions list designates specific assets that you do not want your vulnerability management solution to scan.
Exclusion lists can be particularly useful to help maintain good scan hygiene and performance. If you run non-credentialed scans, for example, you may not collect enough data to uniquely identify a firewall or Layer 3 switch when multiple interfaces are scanned. An exclusion list can remove duplicate IP addresses in situations like this assessment.
BENEFITS OF AN EXCLUSIONS LIST:
Prevent duplication of assets with multiple NICs.
Exclude resources from scans that may affect performance, operations, or availability.
Configure a scan to target only a specific area of your network.
Restrict the scanning of specific hosts based on a selected schedule.
Since exclusions can create a visibility gap, you may want to consider additional mitigations or assessment methods for assets you exclude from network scanning.
Click the ⊕ Create Exclusion button. The Create an Exclusion page appears.
Add targets and/or networks to exclude.
Click Save to save the exclusions list for use in your scan configurations.
Scan the assets with credentials to uniquely identify any cases where an asset has multiple NICs.
Add any extra IPs that do not provide value to your exclusions list.
Correct any reporting inaccuracies by deleting duplicate IP addresses through the UI or API.
The purpose of running a remediation scan is to provide validation on the successful resolution of critical vulnerabilities in your network.
A remediation scan is targeted to evaluate a specific plugin against a specific scan target or targets where a vulnerability was discovered in an earlier active scan.
BENEFITS OF REMEDIATION SCANS:
Targeted to specific vulnerabilities that previous scans identified on your network.
Validates remediation of the vulnerabilities identified in a previous scan.
Integrates easily into remediation testing cycles. Remediation scans are targeted scans to aid teams who are responsible for remediating only certain sets of vulnerabilities.
Tenable.io assigns a vulnerability state (new, active, fixed, resurfaced) to all vulnerabilities on your network. You can track and filter by vulnerability state to see the detection, resolution, and reappearance of vulnerabilities over time.
You can create an asset filter to view and report on assets where a vulnerability was recently mitigated.
In order to update the vulnerability state, the same Authentication level must be used. So it is important to identify if a plugin requires scan credentials and add credentials, if needed. Tenable.io does not automatically add credentials when creating a remediation scan. If scan credentials are missing or incorrect, the scanner will not have sufficient access to detect if the vulnerability is fixed and will not be able to assess and update the vulnerability state accordingly.
Tenable.io has a limit of 10k scans per container. When planning the remediation scan for a single plugin, Tenable advises targeting large groups of systems instead of creating multiple versions of the scan that only target a small number of systems. | https://blog.51sec.org/2023/06/tenable-vulnerability-management.html |
Top officials of countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are convening in New Zealand today to sign the final agreement. But really this ceremony is just a formality. We knew since November, from the day they announced a completed deal and made the text public shortly thereafter, that they would do this. These officials have not been accountable to the public. They have remained steadfast in excluding public participation and ignoring all calls for transparency over the more than five years of TPP negotiations. Because of this opaque process, trade negotiators were able to fill the agreement with Hollywood and Big Tech's wish lists of regulatory policies without having to worry about how they would impact the Internet or people's rights over their digital devices.
But for the TPP to actually go into force, countries need to ratify it. Each of the twelve TPP countries have differing procedures for doing this, but in the U.S., both houses of Congress needs to vote up or down on the agreement. Due to both political reasons and the terms of stipulated by the TPP,1 the agreement cannot go into force without the United States' ratification. That's why it's so critical that people in the U.S. demand congressional accountability over this deal and urge their lawmakers to vote no when the TPP comes before them for approval.
The U.S. Congress is not likely to vote on the TPP implementing legislation (aka ratification) until after the International Trade Commission (ITC) comes out with its report about the agreement's economic impacts in mid-May. At some point after that, the President will submit the implementing legislation to lawmakers. Once that happens, the House has 60 days from the bill's introduction to hold a vote on it and the Senate gets another 30 days, so 90 days in total, to approve or reject it. This second timeline will only begin when the White House is confident that it has the votes lined up for its approval. That's why it's critical to apply constant pressure on lawmakers so that they will turn a cold shoulder to the Executive's plan to pass the TPP.
Absolute Threats to Rights with Questionable Benefits to the Economy
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism. From Geneva, UN human rights expert Alfred de Zayas published a statement yesterday condemning the entire deal, saying that the "TPP is fundamentally flawed and should not be signed or ratified" unless it guarantees the right of states to enact regulations in the name of protecting the public interest. He also stressed that the countries involved must reaffirm their international human rights obligations while carrying out the provisions of the agreement. Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa has been writing about the agreement every weekday since the new year, highlighting various troubles with the TPP—including the lack of balance in the Intellectual Property chapter, its ban on circumventing digital locks on devices and content, and the different ways the deal could undermine users' online privacy.
Even the economic benefits of the TPP are being hotly contested. Researchers at Tufts University released a report on Monday that found the agreement would lead to losses in employment and increased economic inequality. Meanwhile, an analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics published last week supported the White House's claims that it would increase incomes and economic growth in the United States. These reports could influence the outcome of the ITC's examination of the TPP, and in turn, impact congressional support or disapproval for the deal.
There's disagreement about the impacts of the substantive contents of the deal, but there is one thing for certain. The TPP negotiations were held behind closed doors with heavy influence from a limited subset of stakeholders. This meant members of the broader public, including small businesses, entrepreneurs, and other underrepresented industries, were largely excluded. So given this fact, it is pretty unconvincing that the TPP could truly reflect the concerns of all the diverse stakeholders in the economy, many of whom may not be politically influential now, but may be on the frontiers of driving innovation forward in the decades to come.
What's important to remember too is that economic growth is not the only factor by which we should measure the value or necessity of proposed laws and regulations. The TPP may lead to the growth of national economies by some small fraction of a percentage point, but is that all that matters? Of course not. Things like the right to repair, modify, and recycle our own devices matter. The ability to talk about, criticize, take apart, and reuse creative works that is new or otherwise relevant, matters. It matters whether or not culture remains locked up by the law for so long that decades of it become underutilized, or worse, literally disappear without ever getting preserved.
All of these and other considerations matter. Yet the impact the TPP will have on them was never taken into account, nor will they ever be measured or discussed. This is why this agreement is such a betrayal of democracy, of everyone whose concerns were not privileged in these negotiations. We have to make sure Congress understands this—and they only will if they hear it from the American people, their constituents.
1. The TPP will enter into force either 60 days after all original signatories ratify it or, if that doesn't happen within two years, in April 2018 if at least six of the 12 countries accounting for 85 percent of the combined gross domestic product of the original signatories have ratified the agreement.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office, were on Wednesday attacked by dogs unleashed on them by suspected internet criminals. It was gathered that the incident happened when the operatives raided the hideout of the suspects at the Agara area of Ibadan.
On receipt of intelligence report and launch of preliminary investigation into their alleged illegal activities, officers of the commission reportedly stormed the suspects’ hideout. However, instead of allowing them in after introduction, one of the suspects reportedly instructed the guard to release dogs to attack the operatives. The operatives were, however, able to overpower the dogs, carry out extensive search on the apartment and effect arrest of the suspects. The second-in-command to the zonal head, Bright Igeleke, who led the operation, described the experience as part of the hazards of the job. Suspects arrested in the operation were Paul Afolabi, Balogun Ibrahim Adebayo, Izu Ibobo Chukwunalu, Abe Tolulope, Onifade Gidion Idowu, Komolafe Tosin and Igwe Kinsley Otuu.
Similarly, operatives from the zone earlier in the week arrested four other suspects over their alleged involvement in cyber-related offences. The suspects: Adebisi Adewale Michael and Olowolayemo Olakunle Quddus, Opaaje Oluwatobi Isiah and Itowe Kelvin Olutayo, were said to be giving useful information to the operatives in the quest to unravel the extent of their illegal activities. At the point of their arrest, a Lexus car, iphones, other brands of phones and international passports were recovered from them.
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The elderly and vulnerable can be particularly susceptible to fraudsters. Call them on the phone or drop by to chat to them about ways they could be targeted, and keep an eye out for any suspicious correspondence or activity.
Emails that contain links can contain malware or lead you to fake sites to capture your financial and personal details; visit websites independently instead.
Ads can contain malware. Take extra care!
If you run your life from your mobile phone or laptop, then so could a fraudster. Buy yourself time if your device gets lost or stolen by protecting it with a password or PIN (and no, not 1234 or 0000!)
Beware of fake jobs advertised online. If you’re asked to pay for security checks or expensive training upfront, it’s probably a scam. And if the job involves letting money be transferred through your account, then you could be a money mule – which is illegal.
Shopping online? Look for signs of a secure and encrypted connection on a website. There should be a padlock to the left of the website address. Click on it to see details of the verification, certification validity and the encryption connection.
No legitimate organization – including your bank , will ever ask you to disclose PIN numbers or other security details in full, transfer cash to a ‘safe’ account or withdraw cash for anti-fraud purposes.
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The growing need for IT security professionals is widely acknowledged worldwide. To help mitigate this shortage of skills, many countries launched national cybersecurity competitions targeting towards students, university graduates or even non-ICT professionals with a clear aim to find new and young cyber talents and encourage young people to pursue a career in cyber security. The European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) leverages on these competitions by adding a pan-European layer.
Top cyber talents from each participating country meet this year in Prague to network and collaborate and finally compete against each other. Contestants will be challenged in solving security related tasks from domains such as web security, mobile security, crypto puzzles, reverse engineering and forensics and in the process collect points for solving them.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is the Union's agency dedicated to achieving a high common level of cybersecurity across Europe.
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BRUSSELS—The U.S. and European Union are making progress on updating a data-transfer pact used by Google Inc. and other U.S. companies, officials said Wednesday, despite blowing through repeated European deadlines set in the wake of allegations of widespread American spying.
European and U.S. justice and home affairs officials at a meeting in Riga, Latvia agreed to conclude “in the near future” an accord that would address Europeans’ concerns about the 15-year-old legal mechanism, dubbed Safe Harbor. The agreement allows thousands... | https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-eu-progress-on-updating-data-privacy-agreement-1433347599 |
from the causing-industrial-accidents-for-fun-and-profit dept.
wiredmikey writes "Iran disconnected computer systems at a number of its oil facilities in response to a cyber attack that hit multiple industry targets during the weekend. A source at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) reportedly told Reuters that a virus was detected inside the control systems of Kharg Island oil terminal, which handles the majority of Iran's crude oil exports. In addition, computer systems at Iran's Oil Ministry and its national oil company were hit. There has been no word on the details of the malware found, but computer systems controlling several of Iran's oil facilities were disconnected from the Internet as a precaution. Oil Ministry spokesman Ali Reza Nikzad-Rahbar told Mehr News Agency on Monday that the attack had not caused significant damage and the worm had been detected before it could infect systems."
by ThePhilips ( 752041 ) writes: Better point them at the easygoing admins, who connected the business/mission critical network of PCs to Internet.
Especially now, when there are carpload of solutions for not having everything connected to the same network and yet being able to access the Internet.
by jon_doh2.0 ( 2097642 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @06:23AM (#39780193)
Come on: There are a plethora of cases where "anti Zionism" (why can't we just call it criticism of a state actor?) does not = antisemitism. Zionism and Judaism are not synonymous.
by arglebargle_xiv ( 2212710 ) writes: 2011: Stuxnet, Iran takes its nuclear enrichment facilities off the net.2012: Oil refineries hack, Iran takes its oil refineries off the net.2013: Iran takes its power plants off the net.2014: Iran takes its water treatment plants off the net.2015: Iran takes ...
The sad thing is that other countries are much worse than that, so Iran is actually ahead of the pack.
by TheMathemagician ( 2515102 ) writes: Gee I bet they wish they'd thought of that before interfacing the reactor core control system with iTunes.
This malicious software is explicitly tailored to the target systems and uploaded deliberately.
by cheater512 ( 783349 ) writes: You're talking about the US I presume? They seem to be the ones who match your description. :) 1 threshold.
by jaymemaurice ( 2024752 ) writes: actually I just grabbed the first thing that popped up for war and august... but IIRC most conflics in history escalated in late summer... including WWI 1 threshold.
by cold fjord ( 826450 ) writes: how long? before Iran retaliates and the whole thing escalates into WW3You mean like seeking regional hegemony [theaustralian.com.au], running terrorist campaigns [cfr.org] worldwide [realite-eu.org], threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz [telegraph.co.uk], threaten Europe's energy supplies to freeze people [voiceofthecopts.org], use suicide boats to attack gulf shipping [reuters.com], arm Hezbollah to attack Israel [realite-eu.org] with and ultimate goal of destroying Israel [wiesenthal.com], attack US troops [washingtonpost.com], send suicide bombers to Europe and America [dailycaller.com], aid America's enemies [washingtonpost.com], threaten attacks on nearby countries and cities with missiles [usnews.com], kill diplomats [bangkokpost.com], subvert nearby countries [defenddemocracy.org], unleash the suicide bomb brigad [meforum.org] ...until the US attacks yet another country?
"Most of the participants came from "friendly" countries."
Saudi Arabia is only "friendly" if you are an oil company. It certainly isn't friendly if you are a woman or a Jew. It's funny how billions of dollars in oil can make you a friend no matter how hostile you are.
by Imbrondir ( 2367812 ) writes: A sad action indeed. However the numbers are clear that terrorist attacks went very down afterwards.
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that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.51. The Agency continues to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme, as explained in GOV/2011/65. Iran did not provide access to Parchin, as requested by the
by nukem996 ( 624036 ) writes: I suppose you're implicating Iran in the 9/11 attacks, though it's hard to imagine anyone could be so ignorant.
Well most people still think Iraq had something to do with 9/11. With the push for war against Iran I wouldn't be surprised more people started to beleive that.
by Anonymous Coward writes: That should teach Iran to not use windows on their computers.
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Wendy Nather May 03, 2013 With very few exceptions, there is really nothing in security that gives you a return on investment. Unless you're selling them, security technologies almost never make you any money -- what they're there for is loss avoidance. Now, you may be able to achieve that loss avoidance by spending a lot of money, or by spending a little money; if you manage the latter, then yes, you have parlayed a cost savings into another cost savings. But that's not the same as investing some money and watching it grow in value.
If that were the end of the story, though, this blog post would be pretty short. So let's look at what material advantages there might be in security monitoring, besides just (hopefully) catching attackers before they do too much (more) damage. More Security Insights
White Papers Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of VMware View Securing Executives and Highly Sensitive Documents of Corporations Globally More >Reports Return of the Silos Strategy: The Hybrid Enterprise Data Center More >Webcasts Innovations in Integration: Achieving Holistic Rapid Detection and Response Optimize Your SQL Environment for Performance & Flexibility More > As I've written before, good security monitoring can tell you more about your organization than just how many nmap probes your firewall has blocked. (By the way, I don't consider that number to be at all interesting. Basing your metrics on how many packets your firewall has automatically blocked and calling them "security events" is like counting how many "water events" your roof has handled during the last rainstorm.)
Two areas in which security monitoring can help the business are in performance measurement and data flows. Performance measurement doesn't just mean the load on the server or the network bandwidth saturation. It can also mean the latency on database queries, which will almost certainly affect your application performance. It can refer to how quickly you can make configuration changes, how consistently they're done, and how long they stay configured that way. A lot of operational efficiency metrics are hidden in those logs, along with troubleshooting data. (Oh, the SSL certificate expired! That explains all the failed connections from one server to another...) Data flows are the lifeblood of your business, and if you don't believe that, then try tripping over a network or power cable sometime. But it doesn't stop with availability of data: Many organizations don't really know who is accessing what data and why. Anyone who has tried a server migration will find this out very quickly, when other departments show up at the planning meetings to slow down the project. Knowing your highest-use data will help you understand its value; it may also tell you which business operations cross disciplines, which ones need optimization (because they're processing redundant data, for example), and where you might have opportunities that you hadn't thought about.
Business intelligence is a thing these days, and CEOs do like to hear about that. Operational efficiency is something that everyone can get behind. If you can demonstrate that security monitoring contributes uniquely to either or both of these, then you may just get permission to pay more for that fancy, new SIEM. Helping the business make more money is the next best thing to making it yourself. The outlook still isn't ROSI, but it does have a nice shine to it.
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Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and destructive and are being deployed at rapid speed. Damages from cybercrime are expected to reach $8 trillion in 2023, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, fueled by a sharp rise in ransomware attacks and malware that targets remote applications and work-from-home users.1
In this environment, organizations must consider new data protection and cyber security use cases to ensure they can survive a successful attack. Key steps toward cyber resilience include isolating critical data in a cyber recovery vault that is trusted to recover core business functions after a cyber attack.
This article looks at the business value of using a service-based model built on modern data protection technologies so you are well positioned to protect and recover your data and your business in the event of a successful cyber or ransomware attack.
The changing threat landscape
Data protection environments have been identified by many attackers as a primary target in the victim’s IT organization. As described by Enterprise Strategy Group:
“Ransomware and bad actors have learned that they have a better chance of achieving their goal—getting paid a ransom or destroying data—if no backup is available for recovery. This has placed backup systems and data under direct attack. Unfortunately, there are a number of vulnerable points because backups were designed for accessibility, not necessarily for security.”
Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery from Dell Technologies is one of the leading solutions in the industry, allowing customers to create a backup and rollback solution of mission critical data and applications so a company can minimize downtime and resume ‘business as usual’. This includes the creation of a cyber recovery vault that contains the core data and business functions the organization needs to operate, with features such as:
Data isolation and governance.
Data immutability to preserve the original integrity.
Automated data copy and air gap to ensure isolation between the production/backup environment and the vault.
Machine learning, full-content indexing and advanced analytics to identify suspicious activity and aid in determining recoverability of vaulted data.
Recovery and remediation tools to perform recovery after an incident.
Expert guidance to select critical data sets, applications and other vital assets to determine recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs.)
Cyber Recovery Services
Customers are also increasingly interested in how they can create a mature cyber recovery program around Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery so they can have more confidence in their ability to recover after a cyber event.
To achieve this, Dell Technologies Services experts work with customers in parallel and iterative workstreams to tie agile and incremental activities to the bigger picture, through technologies, people and processes. The Services portfolio consists of Advisory, Implementation, and Managed Services to drive these outcomes. These capabilities can enable organizations to:
Identify critical data for the vault aligned with recovering critical business processes
Deploy PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and extend the solution to meet specific business needs.
Leverage expert advice on recovery strategy and integration points, with organization-wide incident response plans.
Develop and test recovery plans and procedures.
Have Dell Technologies Managed Detection and Response Services experts manage day-to-day operations and support recovery efforts.
Each of these steps is critical to reducing risk and building a more cyber resilient organization. For more information on steps you can take, please visit the site: The Essential Guide to Cyber Resiliency.
Taking the next step
Organizations not only need to build in protections against successful attacks; they must also build trust and confidence in their cybersecurity and cyber resilience strategies.
As noted by Enterprise Strategy Group, customers deploying Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery solution can tell key stakeholders that they have a high degree of confidence that systems can successfully be recovered after a cyberattack and the business will be operational and profitable again with the least amount of disruption.
To learn more about how your organization can leverage the benefits of PowerProtect Cyber Recovery as part of a comprehensive Cyber Recovery Services solution, please visit Dell Technologies. | https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/MulticloudbyDesign/Protect-Your-Data-and-Recover-From-Cyber-Attacks |
Encryption is a technique that makes data technically inaccessible to those without valid permissions. University policy requires that all computers and devices used by Stanford employees for Stanford business be encrypted. Effective immediately, as a step toward encrypting all devices at the School of Medicine, all newly-purchased computers at the School of Medicine must be encrypted using Stanford's sanctioned whole disk encryption.
University policy requires that all devices used to store High Risk data must be encrypted specifically with the Stanford Whole Disk Encryption tool (SWDE). Using High Risk data comes with personal accountability, so encrypting your data provides protection for both you and the University in the unfortunate event that your device is lost or stolen.
Data security is a critical priority for the School of Medicine and Stanford University at large. Encryption is one step in protecting all Stanford data resources. Stanford University policy states that all Stanford-owned laptops, desktops, and mobile devices must be encrypted. This is also required for all Stanford-owned and personally-owned devices used by individuals on the Stanford network.
Even though is it is possible to access EPIC and other clinical tools through secure portals, a device used regularly for Stanford work has a high likelihood of storing Stanford's High Risk data, including PHI, either now or in the future. The potential consequences if that data is compromised are severe. It is very common for an individual computer user to not be fully aware of all the data that is stored even temporarily on their devices—but that can be discovered upon investigation. This policy helps protect patients, the Institution and individual faculty, students and staff.
My Mac computer has multiple volumes or drives and is showing as "partially encrypted." What do I need to do to fully encrypt it?
If you have a Mac with a multi-volume or multi-drive configuration, you will need to take the following steps to ensure its full encryption and compliance with school policy. Please read these steps carefully and contact your local IT if you are not comfortable with any of them, or if you encounter any issues during the encryption process.
B. Right-click on the volume icon, and choose Encrypt "Volume Name" from the drop-down menu.
C. You will be prompted to enter a password to protect the volume. Use a complex, long password. If the Filevault recovery key is available, it could be used as the password.
D. Once you enter the password, the volume will being encrypting. Encryption will take anywhere from 24-36 hours. Please leave your machine on and attached to a power source overnight to facilitate this process.
While there isn't a ready mechanism to determine percentage complete, if you are comfortable with terminal, you can use the command [diskutil corestorage list | grep "Conversion Status:"] to get the status of the volume encryption.
3. Set up automatic mount for the encrypted volume
Once the volume is encrypted, by default, you will need to enter a password in order to view it. If you prefer, however, you do have the option to set up an automatic mount of the volume.
A. Reboot the machine. You will be asked if you want to mount the volume.
B. Enter the volume password and select the checkbox to save the password to the key chain. This will enable the volume to mount automatically when you next login.
C. If there are multiple user accounts on this computer and the accounts need to be able to access this volume, this step should be repeated for each user account.
You are responsible for verifying encryption completion. This can be done through the AMIE: Am I Encrypted? tool. Please note that for a computer to report its status correctly, BigFix must be functioning properly and you will need to have completed a Device Identification Survey, which will appear as a BigFix popup on that machine.
The status indicator should show a green checkmark for Encryption within 48 hours. If you are using the School of Medicine CrashPlan service, a green checkmark for CrashPlan may take longer. If you do not see your backup processing when you open the CrashPlan application, please contact us at 725-8000 Option 9.
My computer is already encrypted, what do I need to do?
If a computer already has Stanford-approved whole disk encryption enabled, it does not need to be re-encrypted at this time. However, the School has selected a set of standard encryption tools for this project (Bitlocker for Windows machines and Filevault 2 for Macs). If a computer is encrypted with a different whole disk encryption system (e.g. PGP) we would suggest re-encryption with one of the School's selected tools.
My computer already has a password. Isn't that enough?
No. Passwords are an important part of computing security, but they are insufficient. It is far too easy for someone to bypass a password.
Whole disk encryption is a very effective method for protecting data in the event that a device is lost or stolen. However, there are other ways in which protected and restricted data stored on a computer might be compromised.
The School's Data Security Program protects against virus/malware-based data compromise by installing Sophos Antivirus software on any Windows-based computer that is being encrypted and does not already have antivirus software installed. Because of the risk of network-based attacks on computers that might compromise protected and restricted data, the encryption installation process also disables some services on computers, such as file sharing.
All computers and mobile devices on the Stanford network should be encrypted. Additionally, computers used by individuals who work with High Risk Data must specifcally use the SWDE software; others may choose VLRE instead if they prefer.
I work with Protected Health Information (PHI) or other High Risk data and the computers that I use are already encrypted. What should I do?
If a desktop or laptop computer that might access or store Protected Health Information (PHI) or other High Risk data has already been encrypted with one of the whole disk encryption systems supported by IRT (Mac OS FileVault 2, Microsoft Bitlocker), it does not need to be re-encrypted at this time. If you are unsure if a computer has whole disk encryption enabled, contact your local IT support person.
I'm leaving Stanford. Should I decrypt my device?
If you have been using a Stanford-owned device, it will be turned in to your supervisor, and they may access or pass along the data used in the course of your work. It will remain encrypted. If you have been using a personally-owned device, you will presumably be turning your Stanford data over to your supervisor, and removing it from your device. You can then decrypt your device. | https://med.stanford.edu/datasecurity/faq/computer-encryption.html |
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Wondering if a certain college or university near North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania is accredited? View a list of accredited online cybersecurity colleges and universities near North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania here. We've made it easy to find your school by breaking down the list by school type. | https://www.franklin.edu/online-colleges-near/pennsylvania/north-huntingdon/cybersecurity-degrees |
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BOSTON – May 18, 2011 – Global IT security and data protection company Sophos published its first report focused on data security, The State of Data Security, which highlights the latest risks and costs of potential data loss stemming from unprotected information on mobile devices and social media sites. The report also provides practical data protection strategies to keep companies’ information both safe and compliant. With over 500 million U.S. records of data breaches and loss since 2005, it’s no surprise that these data loss stories are headline news. Today’s IT and business managers need to take a close look at the risks and costs of potential data loss. With the consumerization of IT, rapid adoption of mobile technologies, social media, virtualization, and cloud computing – emerging technologies are presenting new challenges for companies looking to protect their data. This report enables companies to not only manage risk, but to stay compliant, by providing the resources and information necessary for proactive data security policies and plans. The State of Data Security report showcases what data protection means for organizations, while emphasizing the need to protect personal information. It also showcases how effective data protection can actually cover the majority of compliance regulations, making it easier to manage a company’s information risks. In addition, the report offers real-world examples of data breaches and the financial impact to organizations such as Sony, BP, Epsilon, Massachusetts General Hospital, and others. This report provides a list of major compliance regulations by geography along with links for additional information. Readers of the report can utilize a tear-off checklist that offers practical advice for managing information risk, including educating and training personnel. Download the report here Additional Information and Resources Download Sophos’s Data Security Toolkit and Sophos Free Encryption About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing complete security solutions that are simple to deploy, manage, and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, mobile and network security solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com. | https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2011/05/the-state-of-data-security-report-helps-companies-defend-against-security-risks-and-remain-compliant.aspx |
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 is now generally available! FIM 2010 R2 adds many new capabilities to help organizations handle the growing complexity of managing identity and permissions across heterogeneous systems. We feel that 2010 R2 is the best FIM release yet – and wanted to review just a few of the new capabilities you’ll find inside.
Improved Self-service Password ResetA cornerstone of the FIM 2010 experience has always been enabling end users to manage their own identity – a key part of which is making it possible to reset passwords. Password resets can be an incredibly expensive burden for helpdesks – with some studies showing the cost as high as $10 per reset! They also bring their share of user frustration, with password policies that vary across systems and delays in helpdesk response. First introduced as part of FIM 2010, Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) has been significantly improved for FIM 2010 R2. Now with an improved enrollment process, deploying SSPR is easier than ever. We’ve also extended the password reset portal to work with many of the most popular web browsers available (including Internet Explorer, of course!), and now support extranet-based reset experiences as well. Together, the browser-based reset and extranet support mean that your users can resolve password issues wherever they are, from nearly any device.
Role Based Access ControlMicrosoft acquired BHOLD Software in 2011 as part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the comprehensive set of tools our customers need to tackle their identity challenges. As part of the FIM 2010 R2 release, the BHOLD software is extended to all FIM 2012 R2 customers. Any customer purchasing FIM 2010 R2, or currently under Software Assurance is now licensed to take advantage of the many capabilities within the Microsoft BHOLD Suite. The Microsoft BHOLD Suite allows customers to easily define and manage access based on user roles. Roles are mapped to multiple permissions across many systems, simplifying access privileges from the user perspective. This capability also helps ensure that access rights are maintained over time – even during position, location, and responsibility changes. Once in place, the BHOLD Suite can be used to help demonstrate compliance with organizational and industry/governmental regulations, saving valuable time.
But Wait, There’s More!In case that wasn’t enough, there are many other areas in which FIM 2010 R2 offers improved functionality.
In response to popular demand, we’re happy to say that we’ve made significant improvements to the reporting engine. FIM 2012 R2 now leverages the System Center Service Manager Data Warehouse to store and display reports. Since the System Center Service Manager Data Warehouse is built around SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), reports may be run through that interface as well.
To more easily connect your third-party business applications, we’ve made the new WebServices Connector available on the Microsoft Download Center. The WebServices Connector is used to connect to SAP ECC 5/6, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle eBusiness. It is an optional component for FIM 2010 Update 2 and FIM 2010 R2 and can be used on either version.
You’ll also see lots of improvements in the areas of performance, simplified deployment and troubleshooting, better documentation, and more language support.
Hopefully I’ve conveyed just a bit about how excited we are about this latest release of FIM 2010 R2. Now that we’ve given you a snapshot of what to expect, please check out http://www.microsoft.com/fim for more information — and download an evaluation version of FIM 2010 R2! | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/server-cloud/2012/06/14/forefront-identity-manager-2010-r2-now-available/ |
In this particular assignment for p1 I will be able to explain and talk about the business I have chosen which is rehabilitation Center, my business is about helping people who are suffering from anything from drug addiction to alcohol. Since the program’s inception, the total increase in small business lending reported by current and former SBLF participants is $18.8 billion over baseline. A website and business cards comprise basic marketing materials for the home-based photography business.
Which means the Business may experience a loss in the business as it won’t have many classes running during this time of the year. Administration in a business organization involves the performance or management of a business organization this will include business operations and decisions makings.
Fascinatingly, rather than treating its entrepreneurs as charity cases, the Australian government believes the best way to help indigenous businesses is to do business with them. In order for my business to be well known and make customers aware of the deals and new classes I will advertise my business.
This is important because if you plan on taking out a business loan, a business plan is one of the major requirements. To further emphasise this point, the 2017 Enterprise and Supplier Development Handbook does not once mention the Department of Small Business Development.
Speak to your staff members and work out what would really benefit them so you can choose the software which best fits their needs. You can charge these expenses to your small business credit card and pay them off in installment mode the next month after you already open up business. | http://ptlida.com/ransomware-protection.html |
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CybelAngel, a world leader in digital risk protection, discovered over 45 million medical imaging files – such as CT scans and X-rays– which were accessible online on unprotected servers. These findings were released in CybelAngels’s report “Full Body Exposure”, which is the result of a six-month research investigation into Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), which are the industry standard ways in which medical data is sent and received by healthcare professionals.
The team of analysts at CybelAngel uncovered millions of sensitive images, which included scans and medical healthcare information, which were available online, without password protection and unencrypted. CybelAngel used their tools to scanned around 4.3 billion IP addresses. From this, they detected over 45 million unique medical images which had been left exposed on more than 2,140 unprotected servers across 67 countries including the US, UK and Germany.
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Growth of computers and internet and really made our lives more faster and easier than ever. But along with several benefits it has some disadvantages also. Growth of Internet has given an open platform for the malicious users to develop new vindictive Malicious threats. Importantpcinstall.net pop-up is one of such dangerous threat that is highly infective and dangerous for your system and has affected many of the windows so far. It automatically enters in the system taking advantage of security holes. Once installed ABC is configured to start automatically each time your start windows operating system. Importantpcinstall.net pop-up is a highly vindictive infection that dangerous for your system. So remove Importantpcinstall.net pop-up from your system as early as possible.
Causes of Importantpcinstall.net pop-up infection :
Importantpcinstall.net pop-up is a highly clever malware that adopts several tricky tactics to get a chance to enter in the system. It generally enters in the system through :
In the case if users is using Peer-to-Peer software or working in a shared network that chances are that the system is more likely to get infected with Importantpcinstall.net pop-up infection.
Many of the freeware or shareware application comes bundled with these malware.
Going to questionable or corrupt websites.
Using or inserting an infected removable storage medium in the system like USB drive may install Importantpcinstall.net pop-up in the system automatically.
How to track that your system is infected with Importantpcinstall.net pop-up ?
Users may experience slower system performance.
Several programs and application will take longer time to open or execute.
Appearance of new shortcuts and icons in the desktop, these shortcuts are linked to Unknown Spam websites that may cause dangerous effects on your system..
Redirection of web pages to unknown web pages.
Users PC is bombarded with numerous unwanted virus warnings and requests to Install anti-virus software and different advertisements pop ups.
Users may also encounter random PC messages on their system.
Once it get chance to enter in the system it starts performing malicious actions on the users PC. Some of the harmful activities performed by this malicious malware are :
Redirects Google , Yahoo and Bing searches to unknown websites.
Make system performance slow and weird.
Makes internet connection very slow.
Opens back-door for similar other Trojans and malware infection so that they easily finds way to enter in the system.
Modifies registry entries and also delete some of the important files from the system.
Importantpcinstall.net pop-up is nasty Trojan infection that if not removed immediately than may penetrate deep inside the system and create a havoc in the system. So experts recommend to remove Importantpcinstall.net pop-up infection from the system immediately.
Manual Removal Method
If you are an experienced computer user and have keen interest in dealing with computer problems than you may choose Manual removal method for Importantpcinstall.net pop-up removal from your system.
Step 1 : Reboot your system in safe mode with networking. Restart your system and press F8 key simultaneously and than your system window system pop up on your system screen and from the list of options shown select safe mode with networking.
Step 2 : Now change your system settings to show list of all files and folders that also includes hidden and protected files and folders in the system.
Step 3 : Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open task Manager . Now go to the process tab , here you will see list of all the files and processes that are currently executing in the system. Now you can select all the malicious processes and click on End process to remove all these unwanted stuffs from system.
Step 4 : Open control Panel of your PC and move to Add and remove Program. Find and remove all the files and folders related with Importantpcinstall.net pop-up infection from your system
Step 5 : Go to the Run and type Regedit and hit ENTER , it will open window Registry editor.
Step 6 : From the windows registry editor , delete all the broken and corrupted registry entries.
Step 1 : Download and install Automatic Importantpcinstall.net pop-up removal tool in your system.. Once the software gets installed in the system , you will notice a “scan Computer” option in the main interface, click on it. Software automatically starts complete scan of the system.
Step 2 : After that a progress bar will appear on the system screen that shows the scanning process. And list of all the malicious threats detected is shown in the thumbnail format.
Step 3 : Automatic Importantpcinstall.net pop-up automatic removal also comes with “Spyware Help Desk” option that provides complete information about different spyware that is detected in the system.
Step 4 : Another feature of the software is “System Guard” that restricts other malicious threat to enter in your PC and thus makes your system free from malware.
Step 5: Take the Help of ‘Network Sentry’ to prevent malware to change the internet connection. | http://getridofmalware.removemalwares.com/uninstall-importantpcinstall-net-pop-up-how-to-uninstall-importantpcinstall-net-pop-up |
The Women’s Executive Network named CryptoMill’s Nandini Jolly one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women for her business determination, technical innovation and breaking new ground in a male-dominated industry.
“Did you circle it?” It’s a phrase Nandini Jolly aims to become the norm in companies large and small all over the world.
Jolly is the founder, president and CEO of Toronto, Ontario-based CryptoMill Cybersecurity Solutions, whose latest offering is Circles of Trust, a breakthrough encryption solution.
Unlike other cybersecurity solutions that focus on network security, with Circles of Trust by CryptoMill, protection is bound to the data itself.
The circle is a metaphor for network safety: a company’s data remains encrypted and only accessible to those it trusts—those in the circle—and only on a need-to-know basis. Your safety network is both digital, and human.
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Data protection solutions that build businesses and governments
No matter where it’s shared or stored, a company’s encrypted data is only circle-accessible. If someone without permission tries to access protected data by downloading it onto a separate USB or by using a different device, all they see is hopelessly garbled data.
Circles of Trust eliminates the risks associated with data leaks and breaches from hacker attacks, whether the data is at rest, in use or in motion—and it does it seamlessly, with no workflow disruption.
While companies like Microsoft have developed elements of its capabilities, CryptoMill’s Circles of Trust remains unique. Its fans—and clients—include companies like Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba and Hitachi, as well as government agencies such as Statistics Canada and the Royal Canadian Navy. CryptoMill is also engaged in ongoing cyber work with NATO, U.S. Cyber Command and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others.
Jolly also points out that whatever sector a business is in—be it finance, information technology, life sciences, food and beverage, fashion—it will find the expertise it needs in Toronto both from a resource and client point of view.
It’s an impressive achievement for a company that’s been in business less than a decade—and is headed by a woman who freely admits that when she started CryptoMill, she knew almost nothing about cybersecurity.
What Jolly did have was a background in finance, specifically international risk management, business contacts developed through senior positions at the Bank of America and Deloitte, a keen eye for people who think outside the box, including engineers and computer scientists—and a fair bit of boldness.
It was a proactive sales call that landed her first big client: HP.
“I called up a senior person at Hewlett-Packard, said I had a wonderful product to tell him about, and asked him for thirty minutes of his time,” she recalls.
She got it. A little over a year later, CryptoMill’s proprietary cybersecurity software was being bundled in 34 languages on HP desktops, laptops and tablets. More companies, including software giant OpenText, followed.
Toronto’s calling card is its diversity
Toronto is a global hub for cybersecurity, a market that’s predicted to top US$300 billion by 2024, thanks to its exceptional and diverse talent pool and innovative ecosystem that includes incubators and accelerators.
Today, CryptoMill remains a small company. The staff counts just 30 “Cryptonites” (as Jolly calls them), including at least two co-op students at any given time recruited from local universities. It makes for a strong, close team where “everyone respects differences, values learning on the job and is hungry to have out-of-box experiences.”
I can’t imagine working and living anywhere else.
Toronto, Ontario, is ranked as a Global City of the Future. It has proved to be the perfect location for the company—and for Jolly, the city’s unabashed ambassador.
Passionate about making the world safer and more secure, Jolly and her team are focused on creating impactful solutions in a cyber space that’s constantly under attack.
“Toronto is so warm and welcoming,” enthuses Jolly, who has lived in many cities, courtesy of her diplomat parents. “You find people from such eclectic backgrounds here—including a bubbling, sizzling pool of highly qualified young people in every discipline—and that stimulates innovative thinking.”
Rounding out Toronto’s attributes, Jolly says, is its network of support for entrepreneurs. “I can’t imagine working and living anywhere else,” she says. For Jolly, success is a journey, not a destination, and she’s only just begun.
Learn why Ontario is the perfect location for your cybersecurity business.
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
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According to the recent “Connected Car Market (2013-2018)” report, global connected car market shipments are expected to reach 59.86 million units and reach $98.42 billion by 2018. The introduction of features such as remote, self-diagnostics, satellite radios and built-in GPS systems, as well as features like keyless entry and ignition becoming commonplace, create a luxurious driving experience.
However, these features which use integrated telecommunication and informatics systems called “telematics,” can also introduce IT security consequences.
Veracode’s “Connected Vehicles: Too Smart For Their Own Good?” infographic outlines many of the features vehicle manufacturers are developing, as well as the potential risks these applications can introduce.
It includes recent examples of connected vehicles’ vulnerabilities such as:
Researchers at UCal hacked into telematics software to control engines, brakes, locks, alerts and more.
Researchers at BlackHat 2011 unlocked and started a Subaru Outback using only their smartphones.
The Self Destruct Virus starts a 60-second countdown that ends with the virus turning off headlights, locking the doors, shutting down the engine and disabling the brakes.
“The development of features meant to improve the auto industry can also introduce security vulnerabilities that have the potential to cause harm or the loss of data,” said Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO of Veracode.
“Bottom line, smarter does not mean more secure, and information contained in vehicles should be treated much like data in a personal or corporate computer. As car companies continue to develop technology meant to make our lives easier, consumers need to be aware of the potential consequences, and car manufactures must take security into consideration throughout the development and implementation process,” Wysopal added. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2013/05/02/it-security-risks-of-features-in-connected-cars/ |
A gang of cyber thieves attempted to steal £229 million from a large Japanese bank, after installing keylogger software on PCs in its London headquarters, a court heard yesterday.
The gang raided the City premises of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation at night, installing the keylogger programs on its machines in order to capture employee log-in details and passwords, it is alleged.
At the time, one of the men involved, Kevin O'Donoghue, was working at the bank's offices in a security capacity, and was able to allow the Belgians access to the building on several occasions, prosecutors said.
Having captured the details, the thieves attempted to use them to make a series of over twenty electronic transfers over two day period, each worth millions of pounds, from some of Sumitomo’s largest customers including Toshiba and Nomura Asset Management, according to the case against them.
But the alleged plot failed, the court was told, when the hackers mistyped some of the information into transfer forms. The main reason the plot failed was the men's unfamiliarity with the Swift system used to move money to external accounts, which caused them to enter incorrect data in an important field.
Staff at the bank discovered the plot after noticing their computers had been tampered with and informed management, who in turn told the police. Related
By the time the men were apprehended, the police had been observing them for some time, hoping no doubt to uncover the full extent of the scheme.
Several members of the gang, including two IT experts, Jan Van Osselaer and Gilles Poelvoorde, and the bank’s security supervisor, O'Donoghue, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal in late 2004. Other men, including two British businessmen, Hugh Rodley and David Nash, pleaded not guilty for serving as ‘fronts’ for the companies and the bank accounts set up to receive the stolen money. Another defendant, Bernard Davies, died last weekend.
Simon Farrell, QC, for the prosecution, said: “The attempt was made by surreptitiously entering the bank at night, by corrupting its computer system and by attempting to electronically transfer money.”
At the time news came to light of the attempted theft, the Japanese bank was praised for avoiding the temptation to hide events, which finance houses have been accused of in the past.
"Generally big businesses don't like to talk about any security problems they may have," security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos said at the time.
The jury trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London is expected to continue for six weeks. | http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/hackers-in-court-for-229m-keylogger-scam-12923/ |
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Antivirus for the purpose of Windows is actually a critical part in protecting your PC by malware strategies. These attacks can be extremely harming to your program and take a fee on your pc’s resources. While many “viruses” are designed to steal personal data, some also keep pace with infect businesses with ransomware. The very best antivirus to get Windows is certainly one that targets these particular security problems.
The free of charge version of Bitdefender Total Security for House windows is among the finest anti-malware solutions, with ideal detection rates and nominal impact on the efficiency of your system. You can also up grade to superior plans, which usually give you usage of even more features and so are backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Avira Free Security for Microsoft windows is another choice that has a great anti-malware engine, and is compact and easy to use.
Bitdefender Antivirus security software Plus presents a full collection of secureness features, including ransomware elimination, monitoring of web purchases and transactions, and protection against fraudulence. This ant-virus is designed for House windows, but comparable versions are available for Mac and Android. Bitdefender’s totally free version supplies the basic antivirus features you’d expect, which includes web protection against phishing and fraud, a password supervisor, and vulnerability assessments. Bitdefender’s higher-tier packages also include a virtual exclusive network (VPN), which allows one to secure your online communication.
Norton Antivirus is another popular strategy to Windows. Using a 100% adware and spyware detection cost and superb real-time coverage, Norton fish hunter 360 is one of the finest antiviruses to get Windows twelve. It also has a impressive feature place that includes a security password manager, VPN, parental manages, try this out and WiFi protection.
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Despite the increasing prevalence of crypto assets many tax policymakers and administrations are still at an early stage when it comes to addressing their tax implications.
With crypto assets being a new phenomenon lawmakers can follow different approaches to the tax consequences across the various stages of their lifecycle. New concepts like blockchain also need to be understood and added to our lexicon when considering the issues involved. In addition, besides the mere trade in such assets many more activities such as mining and staking must be considered.
Join us at the YIN Seminar at the IFA Congress in Berlin on 7 September at 16.30 where we will explore some of the key concepts, discuss the tax challenges regarding the tax treatment of crypto assets and consider some of the developing responses from around the world with our panel of experts.
IFA Tax 2022 is officially kicking off! IFA President, Peter Barnes, has the pleasure to welcome you to the 74th Congress of the International Fiscal Association in Berlin.
The Opening Ceremony will feature the handing over of the Maurice Lauré Prize as well as the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize to the winners, a couple of interviews regarding IFA and this Congress plus interactive sessions to give us all the right spirit for a great and successful event. Stay tuned for some surprises, including a special guest.
Make sure you do not miss the chance to start your IFA Tax 2022 journey full of energy on Sunday, September 4, at 19:00 CET, in the Grand Ballroom of our venue (Hotel Berlin Central District).
The Opening Ceremony will be followed by a cocktail reception where you will be able to meet and exchange with your IFA friends and colleagues.
Life is better with a pool! Surrounded by the historic walls of the former RAW site, the area of the Haubentaucher extends over 4,500 square meters. The heart of the Haubentaucher is the 240sqm heated swimming pool, framed by a spacious sun deck made of white stone tiles and natural wooden floorboards. Sun beds, deck chairs and Mediterranean plants create a beach club atmosphere that is otherwise only found on the Mediterranean .
Have fun at a cool pool party enjoying the summer in the city.
Right in the heart of Berlin, nestled between the Spree River and the Spree Canal, lies the world-famous Museum Island. It is one of the most outstanding museum complexes in Europe . Five architects designed the impressive architectural ensemble in the heart of the city. Museum Island has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
Enjoy an exclusive visit of the museum after closing time together with a delicious dinner in an outstanding location – the courtyards of the museum.
The sublime Berlin Cathedral in the heart of the city cannot be overlooked thanks to its striking dome. A visit to the cathedral is not only a must for every church lover, as it is richly decorated on the outside and inside – after climbing up to the dome, visitors are offered an exciting view over Berlin’s city center with the Spree River, the Lustgarten and Museum Island.
Enjoy this heavenly place with a concert of a traditional choir.
On Wednesday, WIN activities will close with a social event to facilitate global networking. We would like to invite you to join the WIN event on the Spree. On the solar-powered boat “Hermine” we will enjoy the beautiful scenery of Berlin-Mitte. After an inspiring and future-oriented discussion of our top-class and expert guests on the topic of “Digitalisation – A.I. in practice”, we are looking forward to a lively social exchange.
The boat will depart near the German Reichstag building on Wednesday afternoon at 5:30pm (boarding time 5:00pm) and will also dock there again at approximately 7:30pm. A shuttle from the congress hotel is organized to bring you on board in time (departure time at the hotel 4:30pm) and will bring you back to the hotel afterwards if you wish.
Bytes of Berlin is an exclusive event for a limited number of participants. So do not miss to register on the WIN Germany website, where you can also find more information.
The IFA/OECD Seminar addresses the major developments in the International Tax arena. There will be an update from Mr Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD and Mr Achim Pross, Head of the International Co-operation and Tax Administration Division at the OECD, of the work that is currently underway at the OECD. The Panel will focus on the current Pillar One and Pillar Two proposals, their status, implementation and timelines, policy considerations and critical analysis.
The Panel will consist of two segments which will examine Pillar One and Pillar Two, with panelists from major Government representatives, academics and corporate representatives.
The IFA/EU Seminar will offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the most important (mainly direct) tax and tax policy developments concerning the European Union in the past year. The seminar will start with a presentation of the recent and ongoing tax policy projects undertaken by the European Commission (DG Taxation and Customs), including the EU’s work on the implementation of Pillar Two and numerous other initiatives in the area of direct taxation (e.g., “Unshell”, DEBRA etc).
After setting the stage, the seminar will focus on four particular areas: First, we will analyse the global corporate tax reform (Pillar Two, DEBRA) in light of EU law, including particular challenges of implementation as well as overarching topics of EU law, such as internal and external competence. Second, we will focus on the future of anti-tax avoidance and “aggressive tax planning” from an EU law perspective. This focus will not only address recent proposals, such as “Unshell” (and its potential extension to third countries), but also the impact of the ”Danish cases” on the interpretation of GAARs and the indirect effect on the “Whistleblower Directive”. Moreover, we will address developments in the Code of Conduct and highlight developments in European case law, such as the impact of the fundamental freedoms on interest barrier rules (Case C-3/21, PRA Group Europe). Third, we will highlight advances in administrative cooperation and compliance, including DAC7, joint audits and public CbCR, as well as the taxpayers’ position and rights in these areas (e.g., regarding professional privilege, penalties, and proportionality). Fourth, and finally, we will briefly examine recent progress in the area of energy and green taxation, which has become a new focus area with entirely new challenges in light of the renewed discussion about the energy transition and diversification following the Russian war in Ukraine.
We invite you to join participants of the IFA Congress for a joint run on 6 September at 7 a.m.
Get a healthy start into the day and enjoy a beautiful run through Berlin’s Tiergarten – a piece of nature in the middle of the city. Register now and get your runner’s package including healthy snacks at the Flick Gocke Schaumburg exhibition stand.
This seminar, organized by the Women in IFA Network, will address the tax challenges of matrix organizations, new work and the “war for talent”. For example, managers of corporate functions are now often not located where the employees of the relevant departments are based, or central functions are often no longer performed at the location of the group parent company, but in another group company at a different location. As a result, group tax departments have to deal with the question of the possible establishment of a permanent establishment with a wide range of follow-up questions, in particular with regard to structuring options, questions of profit allocation and with regard to the fulfilment of the corresponding compliance obligations. The administrative burden for the companies, but also for the tax administration, is often high, sometimes out of proportion to the financial impact.
The WIN seminar focuses on these challenges and discusses the different perspectives of several countries. In addition to practical considerations on how to avoid micro permanent establishments in such cases, the seminar will address the legal solutions currently under discussion.
Description: You want to spend a relaxing time on the water, enjoy nature and gain insights into the nautical craft at the same time? Then let’s go sailing at the Lake Templin in Potsdam. The skipper is of course with you the whole time and it is up to you whether you simply enjoy the wind and the beautiful nature or actively lend a hand. Feel the wind, the waves and experience unforgettable moments with lots of fun and good humor.
Incl. bus transfer to Lake Templin Potsdam, sailing equipment and skipper.
pantries, creative snack bars, gourmet stores, a traditional coffee roastery, tempting confectionery, street food eateries, and much more. You will get to experience Berlin through your senses – as you taste, touch, smell, see and hear all about the city’s fascinating food culture. You’ll also discover Berlin’s dynamic world beyond the touristic mainstream, the hidden oases, the historic sites, the cool neighbourhoods, and the creative architecture.
Bus transfer (20 min.) to the starting point included.
Description: This 3h tour is perfect for those who want to see it all: the traditional attractions and the edgy highlights of Berlin as a living and breathing city. Your personal guide presents Berlin’s history and also explains how the city’s development is taking shape. You’ll experience Old Berlin and New Berlin as your guide reveals stories about Berlin’s vibrant nightlife, trends, cultural life, scandals, the creativity and subcultures that influence the city.
Description: Enjoy the “speed” of 30 km/h and the tricky gear stick on the route through the streets of Berlin in a Trabi. On a tour with our old but ordinary fleet, driving fun is guaranteed. Your guide will provide you with information about historical facts and funny things via radio (walkie-talkies).
National driving license of your country is fine. Please note it has to be a driving license for cars with manual transmission. For drivers of automatic gearbox E-TRABIs are available in limited numbers. Bus transfer to the meeting point (6 minutes) included.
Description: A visit to the KPM exhibition provides exclusive insights into the artistic and craftsmanship of the 250-year-old luxury manufactory. Following the one-hour museum tour, you will learn everything about the production of porcelain in a workshop and make your own piece.
Bus transfer to the manufactory included. Shipping costs for the self-made porcelain as an extra charge depending on shipping country.
Description: Experience the highlights of the city from the water in the ambience of the cult ship MS Marple. During your 3h boat tour along the Museum Island, the Reichstag and the government district, your physical well-being is taken care of.
Bus transfer to the starting point included.
Description: The tour gives you not only the opportunity to discover and buy cutting-edge fashion, but to be briefed on the latest trends and discover emerging break-through Berlin designers and labels.
You will enjoy boutiques, department stores and shopping malls. There is also a focus on showcasing the most cutting-edge stores in the city from up-and-comers to internationally renowned names, as well as the best in furniture and home accessories, gourmet delicatessens and a selection of trendy galleries.
Description: Enter into a dialogue with fragrances and combine them at your personal discretion to create a new and unique creation. Fragrance experts will assist you with their knowledge and experience. The highlight of the course is the composition of an individual perfume for each participant. All participants will receive their individual perfume (50 ml) in an elegant bottle.
A glass of sparkling cava, chocolate covered macadamia nuts from Maison Macolat and gourmet popcorn from Knalle Popcorn will compliment your fragrance experience. | https://www.ifatax2022.com/antivirus-security-software-for-glass-windows/ |
The ThreatMap data is a sample of real data collected from our two-way sharing customers for the past 30 days. The data represented in the map is malware communication to command and control (C2) servers, where the “Attackers” represent the location of the C2 servers and “Targets” represent customers.
To mask customer identity, locations are represented as the center of the country in which they reside. There is nothing in the data that can be used to identify a customer or their origin city. The “attacks today” counter is not a real time. Rather, we take a real, observed attack rate and then calculate attacks for the day based on local time. | https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/10/fireeye-introduces-global-cyber-threat.html |
abstract = "In this paper we propose a new scheme for ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption that allows outsourcing of computationally expensive encryption and decryption steps. The scheme constitutes an important building block for mobile applications where both the host and users use mobile devices with limited computational power. In the proposed scheme, during encryption the host to encrypt a partially encrypted (by the host) message according to an access policy provided by the host. The proxy is unable to learn the message from this partially encrypted text. A user can only decrypt the stored ciphertext if he possesses secret keys associated with a set of attributes that satisfies the associated policy. The resulting ABE scheme with encryption and decryption outsourcing is proven to be secure in the generic group model", author = "M. Asim and M. Petkovic and T. Ignatenko",
This El Gamal-ciphertext can be then efficiently decrypted on the user's resource-constrained device. The resulting ABE scheme with encryption and decryption outsourcing is proven to be secure in the generic group model
AB - To reduce computational load in the decryption step, the user, in his turn, (e.g. a cloud) by deploying the scheme of Green et al. (2011). The cloud is given a transformation key that facilitates construction of an El Gamal-ciphertext from the original ciphertext if the user's attributes satisfy the ciphertext. | https://research.tue.nl/en/publications/attribute-based-encryption-with-encryption-and-decryption-outsour |
Today, your network is dealing with mobile devices, social networking traffic and highly sophisticated threats. The reality is that first-generation firewall design didn’t anticipate these societal and technological changes.
All this change has, unfortunately, enabled new and very sophisticated threats. We also want to ensure you know that only Next-Generation Firewalls can lock down your network and give you control over all the data and applications running across it. | https://www.goldminesuccess.com/2012/10/17/network-security-alert-are-you-in-control-of-your-network/ |
In an Avast antivirus review, we’ll cover the main benefits associated with this program. Its powerful, powerful, and extensive scan will minimize any impact on your PC’s efficiency. And its user interface is simple and straightforward, with dark blue, white, and green hues to imitate the look of darker mode. Moreover, the study button is usually centrally located and the interface features tabs for every section. Irrespective of your PC’s hardware, Avast has got you covered.
Not like some other anti-virus programs, Avast’s Mac interface is easy to navigate and familiar to Windows users. Its streamlined, modern style strips apart top-level possibilities and focuses on virus scans. It is „Cure“ characteristic helps look after your computer against online traffic monitoring and even goggles your digital identity simply by monitoring the email address and passwords. It has an intuitive software, and the program’s Mac adaptation is class-leading.
Avast’s absolutely free antivirus version has a wealth of features compared to various other antivirus products. It detects out-of-date software program, malicious internet browser add-ons, network problems, and unguaranteed sensitive records. Avast also helps you secure your data by hackers just who exploit low passwords. Overall, Avast is an effective security software. And, when you are on a tight budget, it’s well worth checking out for free.
Even though Avast includes a strong reputation for protection, there’s small to recommend it over costlier versions. It is free kaspersky antivirus review version is beneficial and just isn’t going to strain your personal computer, and its paid out features are useless generally. Even though it features a free edition, it nonetheless offers a big list of further tools for a modest price. This no cost version likewise provides beneficial additional items such as pass word lockers, VPN, and more. | https://www.hoemel.de/uncategorized/avast-antivirus-assessment-2/ |
The Route 66 Association of Missouri originated from the efforts of dedicated volunteers who in the fall of 1989 realized Historic 66 in Missouri deserved the recognition and preservation.
The association became a reality in early 1990 when it began officially with more Charter Members than any other state Route 66 Association. Today, Association members reside in over 30 states plus internationally.
Route 66 Neon Park Planned for St. Robert, MO
The Pulaski County Route 66 Preservation organization is excited to announce its plan to develop “Route 66 Neon Park” within the City of St. Robert George M Reed Roadside Park, which is located in a wide median area between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 66. The Route 66 Neon Park will be the first of its kind to be developed along the 2,448 miles of the Mother Road which runs from Chicago, IL to Santa Monica, CA, and will feature restored, orphaned Route 66 neon signs in an outdoor park-like setting with corresponding story boards to inform the public about the history of each sign.
Eligible signs would be those that were originally along the Route between 1926 and 1985, have been abandoned and do not have a home, and would not otherwise return to the Mother Road without a park such as this. Currently the roadside park is home to a US Army M-60 tank which will remain within the park, and be embellished to tell the story of the importance of Route 66 as a thoroughfare for transporting war material during WWII. For additional information on the namesake of the roadside park visit this article. (https://pulaskicountyusa.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/george-m-reed-roadside-park.) “Pulaski County Route 66 Preservation is excited to offer a prime location to preserve and memorialize this particular element of the Route’s culture,” said Beth Wiles, President of the organization. “Pulaski County has an opportunity to become an anchor destination along the Route with this development. Mother Road enthusiasts from around the world will want to make Pulaski County a preferred stop to see the ‘neon at night’ in this unique park.”
For those wanting to be a part of this new development go to the Kickstarter Campaign – Route 66 Neon Park, (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/702500391/route-66-neon-park) which offers various levels of backing designed to appeal to individuals, associations and corporations. Back this project TODAY, as the campaign runs for a limited time. For more information about the Route 66 Neon Park project visit our website Route66Preservation.org.
The opportunity for this development began in November 2013 during the “The Road Ahead” Strategic Roundtable hosted by the World Monument Fund in Anaheim, CA, where Beth Wiles, Executive Director of the Pulaski County Tourism Bureau, was in attendance. One of the speakers there was Jim Thole, chairman of the Neon Heritage Preservation Committee of the Route 66 Association of Missouri, who described the Association’s vision to establish a neon park in Missouri for orphaned Route 66 neon signs. Ensuing discussions between those two parties then led to St. Robert becoming the proposed home for these former icons of the Mother Road. | http://missouri66.org/?key=security/antivirus |
Cyber attacks becoming No. 1 business risk
Cyber attacks are becoming the No. 1 risk to business, brands, operations and financials, according to the SonicWall “2018 Cyber Threat Report.”
SonicWall has recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017, an 18.4 percent year-over-year increase from 2016, and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year, according to the report.
“The cyber arms race affects every government, business, organization and individual. It cannot be won by any one of us,” said SonicWall CEO Bill Conner. “Our latest proprietary data and findings show a series of strategic attacks and countermeasures as the cyber arms race continues to escalate. By sharing actionable intelligence, we collectively improve our business and security postures against today’s most malicious threats and criminals.” “Enterprises across the board are going digital at an accelerated pace in Asia, but security still remains a top concern for them as cyber attacks become more prevalent and disruptive,” commented Wias Issa, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Japan, SonicWall.
The annual threat report also revealed that ransomware attacks dropped from 638 million to 184 million between 2016 and 2017; Asia Pacific accounts for 7 percent of the attacks in 2017. Ransomware variants, however, increased 101.2 percent. In Asia Pacific, Nemucod accounts for 65 percent of the ransomware variant, followed by WannaCrypt at 14 percent, Locky at 13 percent, and Cereber at 4 percent. The report also revealed that ransomware against IoT and mobile devices is expected to increase in 2018.
Traffic encrypted by SSL/TLS standards increased 24 percent, representing 68 percent of total traffic. Without SSL decryption capabilities in place, the average organization will see almost 900 attacks per year hidden by SSL/TLS encryption. SonicWall identifies almost 500 new previously unknown malicious files each day “The risks to business, privacy and related data grow by the day — so much so that cybersecurity is outranking some of the more traditional business risks and concerns,” said Conner.
Effectiveness of exploit kits impacted
With most browsers dropping support of Adobe Flash, no critical flash vulnerabilities were discovered in 2017. That, however, hasn’t deterred threat actors from attempting new strategies.
SonicWall provided protection against Microsoft Edge attacks, which it observed grew 13 percent in 2017 over 2016. SonicWall also protects the most popular Adobe products — Acrobat, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Reader — and observed attacks against these applications were down across the board. Meanwhile, new targeted applications (e.g., Apple TV, Microsoft Office) cracked SonicWall’s top 10 for the first time
Law enforcement turns the tide
Key arrests of cybercriminals continued to help disrupt malware supply chains and impact the rise of new would-be hackers and authors.
“Stabilizing the cyber arms race requires the responsible, transparent and agile collaboration between governments, law enforcement and the private sector,” said the Honorable Michael Chertoff, Chairman of the Chertoff Group, and former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. “Like we witnessed in 2017, joint efforts deliver a hard-hitting impact to cybercriminals and threat actors. This diligence helps disrupt the development and deployment of advanced exploits and payloads, and also deters future criminals from engaging in malicious activity against well-meaning organizations, governments, businesses and individuals.”
SSL encryption still hiding cyber attacks
Hackers and cybercriminals continued to encrypt their malware payloads to circumvent traditional security controls. For the first time ever, SonicWall has real-world data that unmasks the volume of malware and other exploits hidden in encrypted traffic.
Encryption was leveraged more than previous years, for both legitimate traffic and malicious payload delivery. SonicWall Capture Labs found, on average, 60 file-based malware propagation attempts per SonicWall firewall each day.
“Industry reports indicate as high as 41% of attack or malicious traffic now leverages encryption for obfuscation, which means that traffic analysis solutions and web transaction solutions such as secure web gateways each must support the ability to decrypt SSL traffic to be effective,” wrote Ruggero Contu and Lawrence Pingree of Gartner.
Malware cocktails mixing things up
While no single exploit in 2017 rose to the level of darknet hacker tools Angler or Neutrino in 2016, there were plenty of malware writers leveraging one another’s code and mixing them to form new malware, thus putting a strain on signature-only security controls. SonicWall Capture Labs uses machine-learning technology to examine individual malware artifacts and categorizes each as unique or as a malware that already exists.
SonicWall collected 56 million unique malware samples in 2017, a slight 6.7 percent decrease from 2016. Total volume of unique malware samples in 2017 was 51.4 percent higher than 2014.
Chip processors, IoT are emerging battlegrounds
Cybercriminals are pushing new attack techniques into advanced technology spaces, notably chip processors.
Memory regions are the next key battleground that organizations will battle over with cybercriminals. Modern malware writers implement advanced techniques, including custom encryption, obfuscation and packing, as well as acting benign within sandbox environments, to allow malicious behavior to remain hidden in memory.
Organizations will soon need to implement advanced techniques that can detect and block malware that does not exhibit any malicious behavior and hides its weaponry via custom encryption.
“Sandbox techniques are often ineffective when analyzing the most modern malware,” said SonicWall CTO John Gmuender. “Real-time deep memory inspection is very fast and very precise, and can mitigate sophisticated attacks where the malware’s most protected weaponry is exposed for less than 100 nanoseconds.”
What is Firewall? A Firewall is a network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization's previously established security policies. At its most basic, a firewall is essentially the barrier that sits between a private internal network and the public Internet.
Secure your network at the gateway against threats such as intrusions, Viruses, Spyware, Worms, Trojans, Adware, Keyloggers, Malicious Mobile Code (MMC), and other dangerous applications for total protection in a convenient, affordable subscription-based service. Modern threats like web-based malware attacks, targeted attacks, application-layer attacks, and more have had a significantly negative effect on the threat landscape. In fact, more than 80% of all new malware and intrusion attempts are exploiting weaknesses in applications, as opposed to weaknesses in networking components and services. Stateful firewalls with simple packet filtering capabilities were efficient blocking unwanted applications as most applications met the port-protocol expectations. Administrators could promptly prevent an unsafe application from being accessed by users by blocking the associated ports and protocols. | https://firewall.firm.in/cyber-attacks-becoming-no-1-business-risk/ |
WASHINGTON (July 6, 2012) — Thousands of Americans may lose Internet access Monday unless they check their computers for malware that may have infected them more than a year ago, according to the Better Business Bureau.
The BBB is urging all consumers and businesses to run a quick and easy diagnostic test to see if their computers are infected. The FBI’s DNS Changer Working Group at www.dcwg.org can detect the malware and explain how to fix infected machines.
“Everyone should check to see if their computer is infected,” said Charlie Mattingly, President/CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Louisville, Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky. “It takes less than a minute to check and, if your equipment is clean, there is nothing more you need to do. If your computer is infected, the DNS Changer Working Group recommends the necessary steps to save your computer. But this must be done by July 9 or you could lose internet access.”
The number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April, according to the FBI. About 64,000 still-infected computers are probably in the United States.
Last November, the FBI, NASA and Estonia police took down the servers of international hackers operating an online advertising scam to take control of 570,000 infected computers around the world. The hackers already had successfully downloaded malware onto more than half a million computers, turning off virus updates and redirecting consumers to fraudulent websites. If the servers had simply been shut down, the victims’ computers would no longer be able to access the Internet.
Instead, the FBI set up clean servers to replace the ones that were running the scam, and victims have been redirected to those clean servers ever since, usually without any knowledge they’d been infected.
The rescue serves were to be active until March, but a court ruling extended the program until July 9, when the servers will be turned off and anyone who is still infected with the malware will lose their internet access.
People whose computers are still infected Monday will lose the ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet. | https://www.lanereport.com/7991/2012/07/thousands-of-americans-may-lose-internet-access-because-of-malware/ |
SuccessFactors takes great strides to ensure security and data privacy for all our customers, no matter where they are located or do business.
This blog will address the specific regulations that apply to both the European Union and Canada, and how SuccessFactors not only follows these regulations, but more often than not, go beyond them. As you read this, keep in mind that SuccessFactors is considered a sub-processor. This means that we do not collect information about the employees of our customers – we only store and process data provided to us by our customers based strictly on their instructions.
Adhering to Strict Regulations from the EU, Canada, and the U.S.
To protect the data for our customers that are based in Europe and Canada, we continually follow any legal or compliance regulations from these countries. We combine them with additional ones from the U.S., and from there, we formulate our security policies.
Here are a few of the key ones that have influenced our policies.
European Union (EU) Data Privacy Directives. The European Union (EU) Data Privacy Directives is an overarching set of requirements where each country, or member state, is allowed to implement their own interpretations and requirements for data privacy laws. Because of this, SuccessFactors is obligated, as a cloud vendor providing service to multiple states, to address the requirements of each member state.
British Standard 10012. To ensure the greatest security and to meet each country’s requirements, we looked at the state-to-state requirement and adopted the most stringent. We use the German privacy law (which is based on, among other things, the Federal Data Protection Act) as the baseline. This is the most stringent of all European laws and it, in turn, is based on the British Standard (BS) 10012, the only international standard for data privacy. So essentially, we are using the BS 10012 as a standard. Two of the most salient points of the standard are that corporations should commit not to take or use customer data unless absolutely necessary, and to inform customers exactly how and under what circumstances their information will be used. To ensure our compliance with this and other EU requirements, we use the internationally accepted attestation standard of SSAE16 SOC2 from the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
ISO 27002. We also combine the BS 10012 with the ISO 27002 standard for our security, and audit against the combined regulations to protect our international and domestic customers fully. This standard outlines hundreds of potential controls and control mechanisms, with established guidelines and general principles for initiating, implementing, maintaining, and improving information security management within an organization. The actual controls listed in the standard are intended to address the specific requirements identified via a formal risk assessment. The standard is also intended to provide a guide for the development of organizational security standards and effective security management practices and to help build confidence in inter-organizational activities. To ensure that we have the best data security possible we have not only combined the standards to drive out all of the requirements for our program but we also audit against them and provide a written audit report for full transparency.
U.S.-EU Safe Harbor (and Article 29 Working Party). To bridge the differences in how Europe and the U.S. protect privacy, the U.S. developed the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework. One of the EU’s directives is that no data can be transferred to a non-European Union country that didn’t meet the EU’s data privacy requirements. The Safe Harbor program requires companies in the U.S. address the requirements of the EU’s data privacy laws. This is primarily a self-regulating framework. Since this was set up, an advisory group to the European Commission called the Article 29 Working Party has advocated for “the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.” The advisory group wants companies to validate the controls that are in place that support the concept of safe harbor. Ultimately, however, the responsibility is on the customer, or the company that controls the data, to validate itself and all of its sub-processors. Interestingly enough, Germany does not recognize Safe Harbor regulations in the same way as other EU states. It requires all parties involved in data transfer to assure that Safe Harbor requirements are met in a more formalized and structured manner. This is important for German-based businesses using U.S. cloud service providers since the providers must take additional measures to ensure compliance. Because SuccessFactors is a sub-processor of data, we’ve taken the proactive approach to our delivery and audit our infrastructure to validate the Safe Harbor controls.
Patriot Act. Another concern for our European customers is the Patriot Act. We are often asked if we would allow the U.S. government access to any customer’s data because of this act. The regulation is an acronym for Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism. The Patriot Act is all about terrorism, and even with this in place, the U.S. government is not permitted to ask for disclosure of data without a subpoena warrant, or a writ from a judge. As a cloud provider, therefore, we do not have to voluntarily provide data to a government organization, but we are obligated to follow the Patriot Act if terrorism is in question. Furthermore, there are mutual agreements and treaties for information disclosure between countries – including between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S. and the European Union. If a specific country were investigating a terrorist act, they would go the country of origin and its government – not SuccessFactors – to exercise search and seizure rules. For instance, if the U.S. government were investigating a Canadian, they would go to the Canadian government, who would exercise its rights to seize data and use it for an investigation. However, the reality of HR data being seized in a terrorist investigation is very low. The chart below has more information on what various governments require.
PIPEDA. For the most part, our initiatives mentioned above will provide the appropriate safeguards to our Canadian customers. In addition, Canada has implemented PIPEDA, or the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to promote consumer trust in electronic commerce. This act is also in place so that Canada can reassure the European Union that the Canadian privacy laws are adequate to protect the personal information of European citizens. One of the requirements of PIPEDA is a “comparable level of protection.” This means a third-party processor, such as SuccessFactors, must provide protection that can be compared to the level of protection the personal information would receive if it had not been transferred. SuccessFactors has policies and processes in place to ensure that the information in its care is properly safeguarded at all times. However, PIPEDA does not prohibit organizations in Canada from transferring personal information to an organization in another jurisdiction for processing, nor does it distinguish between domestic and international transfers of data.
Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. This was passed in 2001 and has a number of investigative processes similar to those found in the U.S. Patriot Act. How we manage data in Europe
In addition to questions about the above regulations, our European customers often ask us how we manage data. We are contractually obligated to disclose how we manage our data, and as mentioned above, we are set up as a sub-processor, or a data processor. We are not a data controller, so we have no rights or warrants to the data, which always belongs to the customer. We’ll only execute what is legally permissible under each individual customer contract.
Success Factors has a “defense in depth” approach to not only secure the data, but also to ensure the privacy of the data for our customers. We have safeguards on our servers that include a host-based intrusion detection system.
As to third-party access, we have gone through our entire support infrastructure, and delineated sub-contractors from sub-processors, as prescribed by the European Union. Like the EU, we define a sub-contractor as someone that may do work for us but has zero access to customer data; a sub-processor may have potential access to customer data. For our sub-processors, we ensure that they follow the Safe Harbor framework and often include European model clauses in our contracts to make sure we are legally permitted to use them as a sub-processor.
We also audit our sub-processors every year and log any changes. We bring in third-party auditors from the outside to perform an SSAE 16 SOC 2 audit twice a year, and then provide the customer with a full 300-page report on the results of that audit.
Our European customers are also concerned with where the data is hosted as well. SuccessFactors has built two data centers in the European Union, along with all of the supporting processes. The data centers are ISO-certified and our data center in St. Leon-Rot, Germany, is a tier-four data center.
Our data is encrypted on disc, both back-ups and live data, so if someone were to take a disc out, the data is encrypted with AES encryption – a minimum of 128 bit – and they will not be able to do anything with it. The data is stored only in Europe and is not transferred out of Europe by SuccessFactors to be stored or processed elsewhere. Customers have the option to choose support staff from inside Europe and thus maintain European continuity within the support process; however, no data center employee has access to data. We have also implemented the appropriate internal legal agreements to provide support for our European Union and Canadian customers from within each of our subsidiaries.
As you can see, our security policies run deep and protect all our customers and their data around the world. | https://www.erpqna.com/best-security-cloud-part-3-address-data-security-europe-canada/ |
It’s time to review the main cyber attacks of the first two weeks of May, a fortnight that has seen quite a sustained level of activity and has been characterized by two trends: the discovery of several massive breaches, and a wave of DDoS attacks carried on by hacktivist affiliated to the Anonymous collective and targeting several banks worldwide (codename: OpIcarus).
Regarding the first trend, there have been several noticeable events: a trove of passwords discovered in the dark web (a total of more than 300 million accounts spread in two different leaks and belonging to different services such as Google, Microsoft and mail.ru), and the alleged hack of two additional services (Fling.com, an adult site, and Neopets, a virtual pet community), compromising millions of accounts.
The hacktivist have quite “hacktive” as well (it reminded me the “good old days”). Despite their action has been limited to DDoS attacks, the list of the targets is quite long and includes, among the others, the Bank of Greece and the Bank of England.
Other interesting events include the release of the leak of UAE Investbank, and the discovery of a long-lasting campaign orchestrated by Iranian actors.
As usual, scroll down the timeline for the details of the events, and if you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and, in a bit, 2016 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics that are regularly published, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).
1 02/05/2016 ? Alpha Payroll Services Alpha Payroll Services notifies that an employee has fallen victim of a phishing scam targeting clients’ 2015 employee W-2 information. Account Hijacking Industry: Payroll Services CC US 2 02/05/2016 ? 70 US military men A group claiming to be British hackers supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) publishes a ‘hit list’ of more than 70 US military men who have allegedly been involved in drone strikes against terrorists in Syria. Unknown Military CW US 3 02/05/2016 Iran Israel Researchers from Palo Alto reveal the details of Infy, a new targeted attack campaign dating back nearly a decade and likely to have originated from Iran. Targeted Attack >1 CE IL 4 02/05/2016 0x2Taylor remotestaff.com.au 0x2Taylor hacks remotestaff.com.au and dumps 99,888 records with usernames and hashed passwords. SQLi Industry: Job Search CC AU
5 03/05/2016 Anonymous Bank of Greece The Anonymous Kick off OpIcarus and take down the Bank of Greece DDoS Finance H GR
6 03/05/2016 ? Union League Club Union League Club says it is working with the FBI to investigate a security breach involving guests’ credit card information. An employee accused to have installed malicious software is fired. Malware Social Club CC US 7 04/05/2016 ? KMOV, WBTV Malwarebytes reveals the details of a malvertising campaign targeting visitors to two TV stations (KMOV and WBTV) affiliated with the American CBS TV network. Malvertising Industry: Broadcast CE US 8 05/05/2016 ? Several databases The discovery of a database containing the details of over 57 million people allegedly hacked by Russian hackers brings to light a massive breach occurred in 2015. Unknown >1 CC >1 9 05/05/2016 ? Several databases Another massive breach discovered. A trove of 272.3 million accounts belonging to several services including mail.ru, Google, Microsoft is put on sold on the dark web. Unknown >1 CC >1
10 05/05/2016 ? Equifax Unknown individuals access Equifax’s W2Express website and steal tax and salary data. Unknown Industry: Financial Services CC US
11 05/05/2016 ? Bay Area Children’s Association Bay Area Children’s Association reports that an attacker compromised patient information after planting malware on the systems of its electronic medical record provider. Malware Org: Non-Profit CC US 12 05/05/2016 ? Neopets Tens of millions of user accounts from virtual pets community Neopets are hacked and traded on the criminal underground. Unknown Virtual Community CC US 13 05/05/2016 Phineas Phisher AKA Hack Back! AKA @GammaGroupPR N/A The hacker behind the notorious attacks against Gamma Group and Hacking Team steals 10.000$ worth in Bitcoins from several victims and donates the money to a Kurdish anti capitalist group called Rojava Plan. Unknown N/A H N/A
14 05/05/2016 Anonymous Central Bank of Cyprus (centralbank.gov.cy) OpIcarus continues and this time the hacktivists of the Anonymous collective take down the Central Bank of Cyprus (centralbank.gov.cy) DDoS Finance H CY
15 05/05/2016 @TehBVM Reddit A black hat hacker dubbed @TehBVM takes over random subreddits, removing moderators, and changing the subreddit’s CSS style, leaving a defacement message behind. Defacement Social Network CC US 16 05/05/2016 ? Saint Agnes Medical Center 2,800 employees of the Saint Agnes Medical Center are impacted by a possible identity theft after scammers got the W-2’s of everyone employed by the hospital. Account Hijacking Healthcare CC US 17 06/05/2016 ? Nulled. IO The Nulled. IO forum is compromised and its data consequently leaked, consisting of a 9.45GB SQL file. SQLi Hacker Forum CC US 18 06/05/2016 Anonymous Boris Dobrodeev Hacktivists from the Anonymous collective leak what could be the email inbox of Boris Dobrodeev, the former boss of Russian social network VK, previously known as VKontakte. Unknown Single Individual H RU 19 06/05/2016 ? Fling.com A hacker called Peace claims to be selling tens of millions of user accounts for adult dating site Fling.com on the dark web, including information on sexual desires, preferences, and other personal details. The data allegedly belongs to a breach happened in 2011. Unknown Adult Site CC US 20 06/05/2016 Bozkurtlar UAE Investbank A 10GB file has been published online that purports to hold sensitive financial data on tens of thousands of customers belonging to UAE Investbank. A Turkish group dubbed Bozkurtlar claims responsibility for the attack. Unknown Finance CC AE 21 07/05/2016 Anonymous Several Banks Worldwide OpIcarus continues and the Anonymous take down other banks across the world, including: The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, the Central Bank of Maldives, the Dutch Central Bank, the National Bank of Panama, the Central Bank of Kenya, the Central Bank of Mexico and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. DDoS Finance H DO GG MV NL PA KE MX BA 22 0x2Taylor leoprinting.co.uk 0x2Taylor hacks leoprinting.co.uk and dumps 14,958 transaction records with usernames and hashed passwords. SQLi Industry: E-Commerce CC UK 23 08/05/2016 ? 51Degrees Mobile device detection company 51Degrees reveals to have been hacked. Unknown Industry: Software CC UK 24 09/05/2016 ? Kiddicare Babycare retailer Kiddicare has warned customers that personal data consisting of 795,000 records shared with the store has been stolen by hackers. Unknown Industry: Retail CC UK 25 09/05/2016 ? UserVoice admits to have suffered a cyberattack in April which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status (0.001%). Unknown Industry: Software CC US
30 11/05/2016 North Korea Hanjin Heavy Industries South Korea points the finger to North Korea after Hanjin Heavy Industries, a navy defence contractor. is hacked. Targeted Attack Industry: Defense CE KR
31 11/05/2016 Pawn Storm German Christian Democratic Union Security Researchers from Trend Micro reveal that Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, is targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (and also other targets). Targeted Attack Government CE DE 32 11/05/2016 ? Medical Colleagues of Texas Hackers breach the computer network of a doctors’ group in Katy, potentially accessing more than 60,000 medical records and personnel files. Malware Healthcare CC US
36 12/05/2016 ? Besa Hitman-for-Hire Service bRpsd hacks the Dark Web portal of the Albanian mafia group called Besa, and dumps the data online and exposing their hitman-for-hire service. SQLi Online Services CC AL 37 13/05/2016 ? Tien Phong Bank SWIFT confirms a new attack in which attackers managed to illegally transfer funds from a member bank by using its system. Further details, including the bank name are revealed two days after. Targeted Attack Finance CC N/A
42 13/05/2016 SonnySpooks fijilive.com SonnySpooks hacks fijilive.com and dumps 91,460 usernames and hashed passwords. SQLi News CC FJ
43 14/05/2016 Bozkurtlar Dutch Bangla Bank City Bank Trust Bank Business Universal Development Bank Sanima Bank Commercial Bank of Ceylon The Turkish hacker group Bozkurtlar leaks data allegedly belonging to six international banks: the Dutch Bangla Bank (Bangladesh), The City Bank (Bangladesh), Trust Bank (Bangladesh), Business Universal Development Bank (Nepal) and Sanima Bank (Nepal), and then for the Commercial Bank of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). SQLi Finance CC BD NP LK 44 14/05/2016 Anonymous ncgov.org ncgov.net ncgov.com np.nc.gov governor.state.nc.us northcarolina.gov In name of #OpLGBT, the Anonymous take down a number of government websites in North Carolina. DDoS Government H US 45 14/05/2016 1×0123 Pornhub[.]com Few days after kicking off its bug bounty problem, Pornhub is hacked by an underground researcher who claims to sell the access to a command execution shell for $1000. Undisclosed Vulnerability Adult Site CC US 46 14/05/2016 ? Hi-Tec Sports Hi-Tec Sports notifies customers about a compromise affecting its online ordering system and payment card data. Malware Industry: Sportswear CC NL 47 15/05/2016 GhostShell Several Targets GhostShell, is back with a new leak as part of his new campaign called Light Hacktivism. His new leak after a few months of silence involves a list of 32 websites from where the hacker has taken readily available data containing sensitive information. Misconfigured FTP Server >1 H >1 48 15/05/2016 ? Gatecoin Hong Kong-based Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange service Gatecoin announces the theft of a large amount of cryptocurrency following what they believe was a server intrusion. The company says it lost 250 Bitcoin ($114,500) and 185,000 Ethereum ($1,850,000), totaling over $2,000,000. Unknown Bitcoin Exchange CC HK | https://www.hackmageddon.com/2016/06/08/1-15-may-2016-cyber-attacks-timeline/ |
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The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty today to hacking the email account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn. entered the plea in federal court in Knoxville, the same day prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with intentionally accessing Palin's email account without authorization, according to the Associated Press.
He was released without posting bond, but the court forbade him from owning a computer and limited his Internet use to checking email and doing class work.
Kernell's father is longtime state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee. The lawmaker has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.
David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville and faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. Trial is set for Dec. 16.
The indictment alleges that on Sept. 16 Kernell reset the password to Palin's personal email account to gain access to it. Authorities say Kernell then read the contents of the account and made screenshots of the email directory, email content, and other personal information, later posting some of the information to a public Website. | https://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/palin-hacker-indicted |
My browser's home page has changed, I suddenly have a unique toolbar in my browser that I have not knowingly installed; I constantly receive ads that are tailored to my search habits.
The IKARUS experts point to adware, spyware or PUAs. Our security specialists explain what exactly these terms mean, which identifying features are present, how to check whether your computer or data is in danger and what's the best way to protect yourself from it.
This word also has its origins in English and “spy” here stands for espionage. Spyware works at 2 different levels.
On the one hand, ads are inserted for the user like adware. Moreover, sensitive data, such as your personal surfing habits, are recorded and sent to third parties for profit.
Your PC and Internet habits (e.g. search inquiries) are monitored to determine as precisely as possible ads which may interest you. For instance, whenever you search for chocolate online, you will be repeatedly shown ads for chocolate, even if you no longer search for it. If you now click on this type of ad insertion, then a third party will profit from it.
Software which apparently is of no use to the user (e.g. downloaders that only download additional software and possibly install additional toolbars or programmes; see image on the left)
Software grants itself permission to pass on data to third party persons (such as e.g.: surfing habits) in the EULA/License agreements
Create 2 accounts on your PC, one with which you work, surf play, etc. with restricted privileges, and another as an administrator account for installing programmes and configuring the computers. Use the administrator account carefully.
If you do not have experience installing programmes and configuring your computer, then seek help from experienced users or administrators.
Download software from the publisher, if possible. If the software is only provided via download portals, make sure that they do not download from dubious websites. A negative example of such is Softonic
IKARUS also wishes to protect their customers from having their computer work interrupted by excessive use of computing power due to ads or pop-up windows (e.g.: browser). With IKARUS anti.virus, you will be notified and warned about adware and other possibly-unwanted applications. | http://www.ikarussecurity.com/support/information-advice/adware-spyware-puppuas-co/ |
A malware marketing campaign targeting South Korean entities that arrived to light-weight earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-condition hacking group identified as Andariel, as soon as once more indicating that Lazarus attackers are next the developments and their arsenal is in constant advancement.
“The way Home windows instructions and their alternatives were utilized in this campaign is pretty much equivalent to past Andariel action,” Russian cybersecurity organization Kaspersky claimed in a deep-dive posted Tuesday. Victims of the attack are in the manufacturing, residence network services, media, and construction sectors.
Specified as element of the Lazarus constellation, Andariel is acknowledged for unleashing assaults on South Korean companies and organizations utilizing specially tailor-made approaches established for utmost effectivity. In September 2019, the sub-group, alongside with Lazarus and Bluenoroff, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for their malicious cyber action on crucial infrastructure.
Andariel is believed to have been energetic since at minimum Might 2016.
North Korea has been guiding an progressively orchestrated work aimed at infiltrating desktops of economical establishments in South Korea and around the world as well as staging cryptocurrency heists to fund the funds-strapped place in an endeavor to circumvent the stranglehold of financial sanctions imposed to stop the improvement of its nuclear weapons method.
The results from Kaspersky make on a previous report from Malwarebytes in April 2021, which documented a novel an infection chain that dispersed phishing emails weaponized with a macro embedded in a Word file that is executed upon opening in order to deploy malicious code concealed in the variety of a bitmap (.BMP) picture file to drop a remote entry trojan (RAT) on targeted systems.
According to the newest evaluation, the threat actor, other than installing a backdoor, is also stated to have shipped file-encrypting ransomware to one of its victims, implying a economic motive to the assaults. It truly is worth noting that Andariel has a track report of making an attempt to steal bank card information and facts by hacking into ATMs to withdraw cash or provide client info on the black market.
“This ransomware sample is tailor made and especially developed by the threat actor behind this attack,” Kaspersky Senior Safety Researcher Seongsu Park mentioned. “This ransomware is managed by command line parameters and can possibly retrieve an encryption essential from the C2 [server] or, alternatively, as an argument at launch time.”
The ransomware is intended to encrypt all data files in the machine with the exception of process-critical “.exe,”http://thehackernews.com/”.dll,”http://thehackernews.com/”.sys,”http://thehackernews.com/”.msiins,” and “.drv” extensions in return for spending a bitcoin ransom to obtain accessibility to a decrypt software and unique important to unlock the scrambled files.
Kaspersky’s attribution to Andariel stems from overlaps in the XOR-based decryption schedule that have been incorporated into the group’s strategies as early as 2018 and in the submit-exploitation commands executed on victim devices.
“The Andariel team has continued to concentration on targets in South Korea, but their instruments and tactics have evolved considerably,” Park said. “The Andariel team supposed to unfold ransomware by means of this attack and, by executing so, they have underlined their location as a fiscally inspired condition-sponsored actor.”
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One of the new features for both Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 client is support for Virtual Hard Disk files built into the OS. You can create fixed or dynamic disks and “attach” the tools for Hyper-V call this “mounting” a VHD and early stuff on 7 seems to have called it surfacing a VHD . You need to click the image on the left to see it full size but Disk 3 has a different coloured disk icon, and it contains the full image backup of my Vista hard disk. Disk part will do the job too. Create VDISK will setup a new VHD (Help Create Vdisk will tell you the parameters) Select VDISK "<file name">” followed by “Attach” Vdisk will bring a disk on-line. Then you can partition it like any other disk, use it like any other disk and so on. Now … during installation you can press [Shift][F10] to pop up a command prompt, and if the installation runs on the 6.1 build of Windows PE what do you think you might be able to do ? Tags Beta Products Windows 7 Windows Server Comments (2) Cancel reply Name * Email * Website Anonymous says: August 28, 2016 at 12:24 pm Jon, yes a VHD is a file so it has to go in a partition somewhere. The partition which the bios boots from needs to have a 6.1 boot loader with the right Boot configuration database. Reply
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A recent data breach at a Colorado-based mental health clinic that exposed data on nearly 300,000 individuals is the latest of several in the mental health sector this year.
Colorado Springs-based AspenPoint Inc., which offers inpatient and outpatient services ranging from substance use disorder treatment to psychiatric assessments, on Nov. 19 reported the hacking incident to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The AspenPointe incident appears to be the largest breach involving a mental healthcare provider posted so far in 2020 on the HHS Office for Civil Rights’ HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website listing health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.
Among the other breaches reported this year that involved mental health providers are two incidents affecting a combined total of more than 62,000 individuals reported in October by Centerstone of Indiana and Centerstone of Tennessee, which are part of the same organization.
“Historically, mental health records have been recognized as highly sensitive,” notes Kate Borten, president of privacy and security consulting firm The Marblehead Group. “Unauthorized release of the patient information can significantly impact a person’s life.”
Privacy attorney David Holtzman of the consulting firm HITprivacy adds: “The information compromised through the security incidents involving behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers is especially sensitive because it can expose the individuals whose data was disclosed to significant financial fraud or harm to their reputation.”
Breach Notification
In a breach notification statement posted on its website, AspenPointe notes that it experienced “a cyberattack on our technological infrastructure” in late September. “The severity of this attack forced us to close the majority of our operations for several days, and we immediately launched an investigation into its origin.”
As a result of AspenPointe’s investigation and document review, which concluded Nov. 10, the clinic discovered that individuals’ full names and one or more of the following were removed from its network: dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and/or bank account information, the statement says.
“To date, we are not aware of any reports of identity fraud or improper use of your information as a direct result of this incident,” AspenPointe says in the notification to patients.
AspenPointe did not immediately respond to Information Security Media Group’s request for additional details about the breach, including whether ransomware was involved and whether any medical records were stolen.
Extra Precautions
The hacking incident at AspenPointe illustrates why mental health providers need to take extra security precautions, says Senior privacy and security consultant at tw-Security, Susan Lucci.
“All mental health providers should ensure that enough attention and budget is given to their IT departments to ensure the best security solutions are in place, including intrusion detection, and tighten up on endpoint security for all users,” she says.
“Endpoint security is critical at a time when so many people are working remotely and treatment services are being provided remotely.”
All members of the workforce need to be “informed on the latest threats to healthcare data,” she adds. “This means specific content in periodic reminders that are reflective of the types of attacks that are being levied against healthcare providers.”
Mental healthcare organizations and others need to limit access to sensitive data to only those with appropriate roles, Holtzman stresses.
“Do not create unnecessary or duplicative collections of sensitive PII, including information stored on backup servers, network drives or unencrypted drives or applications,” he says. “Securely delete electronic files containing sensitive PII that is no longer needed wherever it is stored.”
Regulatory Considerations
Some mental health and substance disorder treatment centers that participate in certain federal healthcare programs also must comply with the federal Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records – or 42 CFR Part 2 privacy regulations – which include provisions such as special consent requirements for how healthcare providers can share patient information.
“While the HIPAA Privacy Rule generally limits use and disclosure of PHI to those who have a need to know, 42 CFR Part 2 is much more stringent,” Holtzman notes. “It sets limited circumstances under which mental health or substance abuse treatment data patient information may be used, disclosed or re-disclosed. And the majority of disclosures require written consent.”
In addition, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act – commonly known as the CARES Act – passed by Congress in March “amended sections of the Part 2 authorizing statute requiring HHS to enhance the enforcement for unauthorized disclosures of behavioral health and substance abuse data as well as add breach reporting requirements,” Holtzman notes.
These amendments will align Part 2 more closely with HIPAA and extend the HIPAA civil monetary penalties and breach notification provisions to Part 2 programs, he says. “However, HHS has not issued regulations needed to put these new protections into place and has not indicated when it plans to do so.”
Extra Hurdles
Many mental healthcare entities are relatively small and lack security expertise and resources, Borten points out.
“There can be a disconnect between stating a patient privacy commitment and day-to-day behavior,” Borten notes. “Across healthcare, even many years after HIPAA enforcement began, there can be lax compliance, for example, in casual conversations with colleagues and even family and friends.”https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com | https://www.cyberera.com.ng/2020/12/03/data-breach-affects-300000-mental-health-clinic-patients/ |
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Hackers purporting to be from the “Lizard Squad – Official Cyber Caliphate” group have attacked the official website of Malaysia Airlines, leaving visitors to see a message that read: “ISIS WILL PREVAIL”. The airline’s ticket-booking and other services were also unavailable. Instead, a large picture of a Malaysia Airlines A380 plane and the words “404-Plane Not Found” and “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate” were shown.
However, although Malaysia Airlines confirmed its site was compromised , it said customers’ bookings and data were not affected and insisted that its own web servers were intact and the website itself had not been hacked.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed in a statement that its “Domain Name System (DNS) has been compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website”. It added that it would take 22 hours to restore the website.
Craig Young, security researcher at Tripwire, shed some light on the situation: “A DNS hijack attack can in some cases be used to compromise user data. Depending on the site design, authentication tokens and passwords may be sent to the rogue server. DNS hijacking is also a common tool for government censors looking to perform man in the middle attacks.
“In this case, however, I think this was more of a prank than an attempt to compromise user data.”
Young continued: “Unfortunately, DNS is a fundamental flaw in the security of the Internet. Companies worried about this type of attack should carefully review the security practices of their registrar and make sure that a legitimate authority is contacted before records can be altered. Many services also exist to monitor and alert on unexpected DNS changes to expedite the recovery process.”
In another bizarre twist, the hackers later made the site display a different image of a tuxedo-adorned, pipe-smoking lizard sporting a top hat and monocle reading “Hacked by Lizard Squad, Official Cyber Caliphate”. The images displayed the Twitter handles for the accounts of what appear to be two men who work for UMG Events LLC, a company that hosts videogame events across the U.S.
“With the Lizard Squad group there is no particular rhyme or reason for who they target aside from where they can get media attention. I suspect that by referring to themselves as the Cyber Caliphate they increase the likelihood that the media will cover the hack, a tactic that has proven effective,” commented Ken Westin, security researcher at Tripwire.
“In addition to the images they also listed two twitter handles of employees of UMG Events LLC which runs several video game competitive events who claim that they were not part of the hack, but that the Lizard Squad group was sending them a message. The Lizard Squad twitter feed shows the same two employee’s handles referenced in relation to banning several gamers from their events, which may provide additional clues to law enforcement as to who is involved in Lizard Squad.”
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The latest release of Microsoft Exchange comes packed with a laundry list of new and updated features. These updates are aimed at simplifying the administrative headaches for those faced with the arduous task of managing corporate networks worldwide.
One of the most difficult exercises is managing permissions or access control -- deciding who has access to what resources on the network.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 used the ACL model which was admittedly a bit limited. Exchange 2010 introduced the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC). This welcome change provides administrators with more flexibility -- allowing you to define broad categories of permissions or narrow the scope as much as you want.
Exchange Permissions: The Way it Was
With Exchange 2000 and 2003, permissions were assigned via the Delegation Wizard that was found in the Exchange System Manager console. This wizard allowed the administrator to assign a user one of three roles: Exchange View-Only Administrator, Exchange Administrator and Exchange Full Administrator roles.
The problem with this approach was that it provided a kind of blanket access to all servers designated by that role, and didn't have the ability to assign rights to specific servers.
The biggest change in Exchange 2010 is that roles are defined for job responsibilities rather than individual users (for example, messaging administrator, help desk, compliance officer). Then an entry is created that outlines what each role can do. Finally, scopes are established that determine which objects each role can perform actions on. Members are then added to a role based on their access requirements.
Small or medium sized businesses may see less value in this change, as they may only have a few administrators to begin with. But as end users are given more responsibility, RBAC can still help with simplifying access controls.
[caption id="attachment_15404" align="aligncenter" width="433"] Exchange 2010 RBAC. Image courtesy of Microsoft TechNet.[/caption]
Management role groups and management role assignment policies, are the primary assignment methods. Direct role assignment is an advanced method that lets you assign management roles directly to a user. Microsoft doesn't recommend this method, but the option is provided for special cases where you need to provide a set of permissions to one user.
Both role group and assignment policies are assigned management roles. Management roles control access to the cmdlets (or programs) and parameters required to perform a task. So if a cmdlet exists for a management role, and that role is assigned to a role group, the members of that group can access and execute that cmdlet.
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A Nova Scotia Court docket of Attraction decide has denied a request to shelve a decrease court docket resolution that successfully permits a person to go forward with a medically assisted demise, despite his spouse’s efforts to cease him.
The 83-year-old man from Bridgewater, N.S., was assessed by physicians and accredited for medical help in dying (MAID) earlier this yr, however his spouse, Katherine, 82, filed for an injunction with the Supreme Court docket of Nova Scotia, forcing him to cancel his plans.
CBC Information is figuring out the couple solely by the girl’s first identify to guard their privateness and his capacity to entry well being care. Katherine has threatened to sue health-care suppliers who assist her husband entry a medically assisted demise.
There isn’t any formal publication ban within the case, however the judges who’ve dominated on it have all agreed to guard the couple’s identities by referring to him as X and Katherine as Y.
Whereas X says he is struggling and close to the top of his life due to superior persistent obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), his spouse says his want to die isn’t primarily based on bodily sickness, however anxiousness and psychological delusions. She has additionally expressed an ethical opposition to MAID.
The couple have identified one another for greater than 60 years and have been married for 48. After Katherine launched her authorized efforts to cease her husband from accessing MAID, her husband moved out of their shared house and the couple stopped talking.
Katherine, 82, says she thinks her husband may have a change of coronary heart about eager to die. She’s gone to court docket to cease him from accessing medical help in dying. (Mark Crosby/CBC)
Final week, a Nova Scotia Court docket of Attraction decide heard each side’ arguments about whether or not to put aside an earlier resolution from Nova Scotia Supreme Court docket dismissing her injunction request.
In a written resolution launched Friday afternoon, Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden denied Katherine’s movement to remain the supreme court docket ruling. In doing so, she cleared the authorized limitations that had been stopping X from accessing a medically assisted demise.
The case may nonetheless go to a proper attraction listening to and is scheduled to take action on Sept. 24.
Katherine’s attorneys famous final week that, ought to her husband go forward with the MAID process earlier than then, it could render the attraction moot. This was one in every of their arguments for an extension of the interim injunction.
Van den Eynden acknowledged in her resolution that X may proceed with MAID earlier than an attraction however, just like the supreme court docket decide who dominated on the case earlier than her, she discovered that on stability, the person would undergo extra if his spouse’s request was granted than if it weren’t.
She added that the case didn’t have any distinctive circumstances that might warrant a keep.
“The Supreme Court docket of Canada determined that medical help in dying is a constitutionally-protected proper. Parliament debated and handed the MAiD scheme into Canadian regulation. It appears Mrs. Y needs to relitigate points which have been thought of and determined by each the SCC and Parliament,” Van den Eynden wrote.
The person who needs to die with the assistance of a doctor is referred to in court docket paperwork as X. (Submitted by X) ‘Weak individuals in danger’
Hugh Scher, the lead of the authorized staff representing Katherine, advised CBC Information in an e-mail that Van den Eynden’s resolution “calls into severe query the arbitrary software of the felony regulation in a approach that places weak individuals in danger.”
He stated the ruling meant “a person may be put to demise even though a listening to on the deserves of the attraction is barely days away on Sept. 24.”
Scher famous the conflicting medical opinions about X’s bodily and psychological well being, that are documented by the court docket. He stated the shortage of consensus “renders the safeguards and protections of the felony regulation utterly meaningless.
“Katherine calls on Parliament, the Nova Scotia Legislature and the Courts to repair an arbitrary and damaged authorized course of that allows the intentional killing by euthanasia of those that lack capability and who do not meet essentially the most primary necessities of the regulation.
“The Supreme Court docket of Canada made clear that legalization of euthanasia in Canada depended utterly on Parliament’s capacity to implement cheap safeguards to guard essentially the most weak of Canadians. In the present day’s resolution by a single decide of a court docket of attraction on a procedural matter demonstrates how woefully insufficient the current regime and procedures are to guard weak individuals missing capability from being put to demise in Canada.”
X declined to touch upon the decide’s resolution.
‘Reduction and gratitude’ for resolution
Jocelyn Downie, a Dalhousie College regulation professor who has been a member of a number of skilled panels on MAID, stated she felt “reduction and gratitude” for the detailed resolution Van den Eynden delivered.
“I believe for everyone who’s this case as a precedent and attempting to see what sorts of approaches are the courts going to take to those sorts of efforts to intrude with entry to MAID … it is very helpful for everyone to grasp the lay of the land,” Downie stated in an interview.
Whereas a call within the Nova Scotia Court docket of Attraction wouldn’t have binding authority on any courts outdoors the province, Downie stated the choice may nonetheless set a “persuasive” precedent for different Canadian courts.
She stated she rejects Scher’s characterization of what the case demonstrates.
“[MAID] is a authorized well being service and characterizing it as placing somebody to demise is incendiary and inflammatory.”
She stated Van den Eynden was “completely proper” in situating this case within the broader context of MAID as a constitutionally protected proper.
“There is a man ready to train his constitutional rights,” Downie stated. “And these procedural strikes are creating, have been making a barrier to him to train his procedural, his constitutional proper.” | https://technologyinfosec.com/world/canada/n-s-woman-trying-to-stop-husband-from-medically-assisted-death-denied-stay-motion/ |
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Not sure what’s going on at Gadget site Gizmodo, but they have one hell of a source at Microsoft. First on Tuesday they broke news of Microsoft’s tablet prototype, Courier.
Now the site has posted exclusive pics of Microsoft’s new phones, called Project Pink.
Prototype of Microsoft’s Project Pink phone: The Turtle model.
The prototypes are the first pictures of the “Pink” phones. There are two models, the Turtle, a vertical slider design resembling the Palm Pre (shown above), and the Pure, a horizontal slider design resembling the T-Mobile Sidekick.
The Gizmodo article confirms that the phones will be Microsoft-branded but will be manufactured by Sharp, which is not that surprising given that Sharp made the Sidekick hardware for Danger, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2008. The phones have a youthful look and will be aimed at the same market as the Sidekick, says Gizmodo.
Earlier this week veteran ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley wrote that, according to her sources, the Pink phones will include Zune services and have their own app stores, and also will be built on top of Windows Mobile 7, which is still being developed and not expected to release until the last quarter of 2010.
So it’s likely you won’t be able to buy a “Windows” phone for another year, but the buzz should begin a lot sooner. This January’s CES would be the logical place to begin the hype. | https://www.cio.com/article/295185/infrastructure-first-look-at-microsoft-s-pink-phones.html |
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Maryorkas, a 2021 Wash100 winner, has released a statement on the launch of the Cybersecurity Talent Management System.
DHS created CTMS to address the challenges it is facing in hiring and retaining professionals with the skills needed for its cybersecurity mission, Mayorkas said.
DHS established a new Cybersecurity Service as part of CTMS to increase access to cybersecurity careers in the government.
Staffers hired through the DHS Cybersecurity Service will take on roles called “qualified positions,” which have their own qualifications related to cybersecurity skills.
FedScoop reported that the excepted service will allow DHS to determine personnel compensation and classification without adhering to the government’s traditional pay rules.
Mayorkas said he recently met with President Joe Biden and other top federal officials to discuss how private-sector, education and workforce development leaders can work together to protect critical infrastructure and the public.
In an Aug. 25 statement, Biden said several organizations pledged to support the government’s bid to enhance national cybersecurity.
Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and several other companies in the technology and software development sectors each announced initiatives to advance the administration’s effort.
Biden said the National Institutes of Standards and Technology will work with stakeholders on the development of a new framework to improve the security of the technology supply chain.
Mayorkas said that modern cybersecurity threats “require a whole-of-society approach.”
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VMware has extended its virtual machine environment tools to mobile devices with its Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). This is meant to solve four key issues: securing employee-owned devices that access corporate resources; managing all mobile devices from a single interface; allowing employees to use their own devices; and letting a wide variety of devices connect to the company network.
VMware MVP could provide a secure environment on an employee-owned smartphone.
VMware MVP installs like any other app on an employee’s device. Once installed, the user taps an icon to launch the virtual machine, which takes over the screen and displays the work environment your business wishes to provide. This will include custom settings that provide the desired level of security as well as a private app store, where only apps pre-approved by your company can be installed. CES Demo
LG demonstrated an Android virtual machine on its Revolution VS910 handset.
VMware has announced partnerships with both LG and Verizon on the effort. It appears the partnership is going strong, as LG is showing off its Verizon Revolution phone running Android virtual machines in VMware’s MVP. While the Revolution is just a demo, LG says the technology will be available through Verizon and Telefonica in “the coming months” on new devices only. The main difference between the two carriers’ solutions will be that Verizon’s will use only one telephone number, but Telefonica’s can enable two numbers thanks to dual-SIM cards. The Catch
Though initially targeted at enterprises, this technology is likely to simplify and eventually find its way into small businesses. The catch is that it appears to only work on devices that have a VMware module loaded on them by the manufacturer or carrier. So far, VMware’s only hardware partners are LG and Samsung, and the only carriers are Verizon and Telefonica of Spain–and none have officially announced devices that will include the technology. If, in the end, only select devices work with MVP, then it will limited to businesses that restrict employees to using only those devices. However, if it can be made to run on any Android or iOS smartphone, look for MVP to make waves in business as it brings order to BYOD.
For more blogs, stories, photos, and video from the nation’s largest consumer electronics show, check out PCWorld’s complete coverage of CES 2012.
Joseph Fieber has 25 years of experience as an IT pro, with a background in computer consulting and software training. Follow him on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter, or contact him through his website, JosephFieber.com. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/473418/lg_verizon_and_vmware_demo_virtual_work_phone.html |
Apple chief Steve Jobs never told an irate iPhone 4 owner to “relax, it’s just a phone,” despite Boy Genius Report reporting the quote earlier this month. Apple PR, which is notoriously non-responsive to most media requests, eventually confirmed the reported e-mail message was a hoax.
I held out hope that there was at least some truth to it. Perhaps Jobs had showed a glimmer of his humble Buddhist self, I thought, and finally put the iPhone in its place on the great happiness meter in the sky. (After all, a Zen Buddhist monk presided over Jobs’s marriage.)
That hope vanished when Jobs instead put on display his well-known, fiery ego last week. I’m talking, of course, about Apple’s response to iPhone 4’s reception woes. At the press conference, Jobs belittled the problem while touting the phone’s huge demand—as if the iPhone is the actual, certifiable pursuit of happiness.
For those ignorant few people who apparently don’t want happiness in the palm of their hand (or who grip it too tightly), Jobs served up this music video with the following lyrics: “If you bought one and you don’t like it, bring it back … but we know you won’t.” With demand outstripping supply, his underlying message is that someone will gladly take your iPhone 4.
Apple will also send out free Apple cases that fix the problem. “We want to make all of our users happy,” Jobs says.
Then Jobs turned to the evil media hell-bent on spreading lies and making people miserable. As if criticizing the iPhone is a sin, Jobs blasted the media for blowing “antennagate” out of proportion, delivered a bunch of insider stats to back up those claims, and then showed videos of rival smartphones having the same problems.
But who’s really fanning the flames? Apple has built a kind of religion around its products, and Apple fanatics do its bidding by flaming anyone critical of the iPhone. The antenna problem is only the latest example of this.
Yet all of this emotion-baiting makes the iPhone 4 seem more than what it really is, which, of course, is just a phone with some cool apps. And this brings me back to the Buddha and his great warning about thinking and feeling way too much about material things like the iPhone 4.
More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha came to understand that too great an emphasis on material things leads to suffering. In Apple terms, the latest iPhone with Retina display makes us feel good until it ends up in the washing machine. The feelings of excitement that come with owning a new iPhone are also fleeting.
Not convinced? A story about lottery winners in the March 22 issue of the New Yorker tells us why all the ruckus over a thing like the iPhone is for naught: “One [theory], the so-called ‘hedonic treadmill’ hypothesis, holds that people rapidly adjust to improved situations; thus, as soon as they acquire some new delight—a second house, a third car, a fourth-generation iPhone—their expectations ramp upward, and they are left no happier than before.”
Ah, the irony, for the truth lies in a hoax: It’s just a phone.
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No system is hack-proof and that includes cloud too. Concerns about data security on cloud is entirely valid. However, one can probably worry less about Microsoft Office 365 protection of your data.
Can you really trust a third party to host your data? It makes sense for IT managers to turn away resources to store an organization’s data because who else can care for the data better than themselves, right? However, Microsoft Office 365 works differently.
For starters, did you know that Microsoft cannot access your data? Storage solution, yes but access controls is strict thanks to auditing, approval processes and roles-based access. In addition, Office 365 also comes with Office 365 Security Analytics Service that is made available to users to customize security settings.
The analytics service setting alone is far from being the only security feature that an user can possess at their disposal. With the right security strategies, Office 365 can operate at optimum state with invincible cybersecurity. | https://blog.info-trek.com/2020/04/06/data-security-on-office-365/ |
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How safe do you feel while transferring money through online banking or using online/mobile applications for paying utility bills or doing any internet activities? Most of the times I would receive the answer - YES. If I ask why? The common answer would be,
My information is being sent over encrypted channel i.e. SSL/TLS. So, no one will be able to see it or decrypt it. The SSL certificate is issued by trusted CA.
This really needs attention because we are providing sensitive information to process our transactions like card information, CVV, personal information, passwords etc.
Above answer may not hold true always. A number of incidents have happened resulting in compromise of user's sensitive information. Before going into the details let first see what CA is?
The Certificate Authority (CA) issues digital certificates. The digital certificate is used to identify the entity on the internet. Browser checks for these certificates while communicating with the entity.
DigiNotar was one of the trusted CAs. Somewhere in July 2011, an attacker gains access to its system and issued fake certificates for Google. These certificates were used to execute man-in-the-middle attack.
Here a new question arises, what is man-in-the-middle attack?
Let’s take a standard example of Alice and Bob. Alice wants to send a message to Bob.
The attacker is man-in-the-middle. The attacker is able to get all the information being exchanged between two parties. Alice and Bob will feel that they are talking to each other but messages will pass through the attacker. If we discuss in terms of technology then Alice and Bob trust Attacker’s certificate and sending all the information over the network.
We have discussed that trusted CA certificates can also be compromised and lead to the man-in-the-middle attack.
Certificate Pinning can be the solution to this problem. It is a technique to compile certificate/public key into the application code.
Let’s discuss what happens when two parties exchange information over a network. Three main questions which arises are,
The client request certificate chain from server and validate the chain with all above parameters. Then client extracts the public key from certificate. Now, here certificate pinning comes into the picture.
Under secure connection, what it does not do is to check that it is your certificate, the one you uploaded to your server. Typically certificates are validated by checking the signature hierarchy. My Cert is signed by Intermediate Cert which is signed by RootCert, and RootCert is listed in my computer's certificate trust store.
If certificate pinning is implemented then the client will have certificate details compiled in application code. The client will check these details with the details it receives from server certificate. If the details match then the connection will be established or else connection will be terminated. In certificate pinning, the client does not trust any approved CA certificate but it will check specific parameters which are hardcoded in application against the server certificate.
Now let’s look at Alice – Bob scenario again. If Alice would have done certificate pinning then the attacker would not have intercepted the communication. Alice would have the certificate details of Bob. So when Alice receives certificate of Attacker instead of Bob, it will terminate the connection because certificate details of Bob will not match with Attacker.
There are three types of pinning techniques,
Public key Pinning – Public key of server certificate will be compiled in application code. If the certificate is properly renewed then public key won’t change.
Certificate Pinning – Entire certificate details will be compiled in application code. If the certificate expires then you have to update client application before updating certificate to the server.
SPKI (Subject Public Key Information) – Hash of the public key and the other metadata is compiled into application code. When you receive server certificate, you need to make a hash of details and check it against compiled hash. | https://securitycommunity.tcs.com/infosecsoapbox/articles/2016/02/10/alice-and-bob-are-happy-certificate-pinning |
I think the proposed approach has a dangerous flaw: it is almost 100% focused on either deploying new products and services to get rate reductions or by joining threat sharing. It almost completely avoids the People and Process part of “People, Process and Technology. For example, better IT admin and faster patching is one of the biggest improvements that could be made and in most cases does not require advanced products or new procurements – it requires a security team that can get the admin side to do things differently. The same is true for segmentation, privilege management and many of the Critical Security Controls that provide the biggest bang for the buck. The people skills to work with other organizations and to develop effective and repeatable playbooks to make the operations side better need to be incentivized, not just buying new products/services.
The comment period runs for 30 days from publication which was 9/22/22. The proposed incentives would take two forms: a return on equity adder of 200 basis points, or deferred cost recovery that would enable the utility to defer expenses and include the unamortized portion in its rate base which could substantially reduce the burden of improving their security. The trick is the improvements must be deemed to materially improve the utilities cyber security, so it is critical to have a clear understanding of what that means. Also be prepared to demonstrate you’ve actually implemented changes, not purchased shelfware.
Most electric utilities are regulated by the states. The states tend to focus on the rate to the consumer and to discourage what they see as discretionary spending. That contributes to the state of security in the industry. This legislation might well compensate. | https://pupuweb.com/ferc-notice-proposed-rulemaking-incentives-voluntary-cybersecurity-investments/ |
1. Focus your job search on companies that need your expertise.
If you’re not bound by a noncompete agreement, choose businesses that are competitors to previous employers, where your credentials logically transfer in hiring managers’ minds and where your knowledge is viewed as an asset. Organizations that are familiar with your previous employer may be more likely to view your past affiliation as an asset and more likely to envision how you will enhance their company’s performance. You might also want to consider organizations at a tier below your most recent employer, as they will likely express interest in a candidate from a bigger firm.
2. Develop customized written and verbal communications.
To grab prospective employers’ attention, all of your communications with them—your résumé, bio, cover letters and elevator pitches—should emphasize how your skills and experience can help them address their specific business goals and challenges. Simply listing your past employers, your previous titles, the length of time you held each position and your responsibilities will not pique their interest enough to seek out a conversation with you.
If you have the opportunity to speak with an employee at a company where you would like to work, you need to clearly demonstrate that you know something about the company’s business and that you possess the skills the employer needs to achieve its goals. To that end, you need to do some research on each employer to get a sense of what their issues are, and you need to incorporate those themes into all your communications. For example, consider the challenges you’ve faced, the responsibilities you’ve held and your achievements in each job you’ve held, and think about how you could apply what you’ve done in the past to an employer you’re targeting. Present those achievements that are relevant to each employer in your written and verbal communications using the “challenge-action-result” format—that is, specify what the challenge was, the action you took to address it and the consequences of your actions.
The job search is not about you and your goals; it is all about the employer’s needs and objectives. Make it easy for them to realize that you can help them by illustrating your abilities. You might also wish to volunteer to attend a meeting, to draft a job description or prepare a presentation beyond what is required or what your résumé shows.
3. Expand your network purposefully.
Seek out new contacts designed to get you in touch with hiring–decision makers likely to have access to the job leads you want. Try finding inside contacts through your alumni network and business and social networking websites, and by searching for names of top executives and managers on corporate websites, in business directories and trade publications. You can also try contacting vendors and consultants you’ve worked with in the past to see if they know anyone at the firms you’re targeting. If those efforts aren’t panning out, don’t underestimate the power of cold-calling.
The more active you get on the networking scene by joining professional associations and attending conferences, for example, the greater your chances of meeting someone with a direct or indirect connection to one of your target employers. The goal of this networking is to establish connections with employees inside the companies you’re targeting who can tell you about potential job opportunities, put you in touch with hiring managers and eventually vouch for your qualifications. The hiring manager is ultimately the one who can restructure an organization to accommodate a new staff member and reconfigure a budget to add personnel, and who is aware of future plans and secret challenges that need to be addressed when the right resources are available at the right cost.
Another way to draw connections to you and to get yourself noticed is to participate in appropriate online forums, get active in the blogosphere and write articles for trade publications. It takes thorough and creative research to identify those who need to know you, but it is well worth the effort in order to get connected to individuals with access to new job leads that meet your search criteria.
4. Follow up.
A critical step in the job-search process is following up on all relevant connections. Don’t expect an immediate response from people; wait a respectful amount of time (three to seven days) to give them a chance to get in touch with you. If you don’t hear from them, initiate a second contact to make sure they received your call or e-mail.
If you’re still not getting an answer, wait a month and try again. Give an opportunity enough time and circumstances may be more favorable at a later date. Polite persistence does pay off. It demonstrates your sincere interest in them and will usually produce an acknowledgement. It just requires your time, so you have to decide which contacts to pursue and which do not merit further effort. Replace connections that have been exhausted with a fresh contact so as to keep expanding your network.
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This standard outlines how University systems shall be configured based on the level of sensitivity of the data stored, processed, or transmitted via those systems.
OHIO Community Impact: All members of the University community have a responsibility to know what sensitive data is, the sensitivity level of the data they work with each day, and ensure that system administrators know the sensitivity of data stored, processed, or transmitted on a given system.
Information Security Risk Assessment Standard
This standard outlines the process for assessing risks associated with University data and information systems as well as the process for documenting and communicating such risks to University leadership.
OHIO Community Impact: All members of the University community have a responsibility to participate in the risk assessment process as applicable.
Information Security Risk Management Program (ISRMP) Strategy
This standard outlines the cadence by which risk assessments shall be performed in accordance with the data sensitivity processed by a University system or unit.
OHIO Community Impact: All members of the University community have a responsibility to know what sensitive data is and their responsibility for participating in this process according to the cadence outlined within this standard.
Third-Party Vendor Management Standard
This standard outlines the process by which software vendors are reviewed to ensure that their data security practices are adequate to effectively protect University data stored, processed, or transmitted via a cloud-hosted vendor.
OHIO Community Impact: Participate in the technology review process by completing a Request for Review Form for any utilized software.
Virus-Malware Protection Standard
This standard outlines the requirement that all devices used for collecting, creating, storing, processing, or distributing University data must have antivirus/malware software installed and actively check for viruses at regular intervals.
OHIO Community Impact: All members of the University community have a responsibility to report and remediate any viruses or malware identified by the software.
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McAfee Internet Security is one of the featured products from the standalone version of McAfee. As the name suggests that it is a robust security product for protecting whatever information you share over the Internet. The product is known to have various features such as an inbuilt password manager, parental control features, spam filtering, etc. You can easily deploy the product on various devices having different operating systems such as Windows, Android, macOS, and iOS.
In addition to it, the product comes with several bonus features that help a user to stay protected from ransomware. Not only this, if you equip your device with McAfee Internet Security it will boost up the speed of your device. Hence, in this article, you will find relevant details regarding the process to download McAfee for mac. One should also note that the method to download McAfee LiveSafe for mac and mac os x is the same as discussed in the upcoming section. But, before downloading the product, we need to keep certain things in mind.
Important things to note:
If your Mac device has come pre-installed with any McAfee product, you will be prompted to register for using it.
On the registration window, you may be asked for your consent to share your information with McAfee. If you agree to it, your product will start to download by undergoing the normal setup process of your computer.
In case, you do not agree to share your information, by navigating to McAfee.com/activate and logging in to your account.
The users, who have purchased their subscription from the retailer, can redeem their purchased retail card on which the product key is printed.
Mac users can go to the “Downloads” folder of their device and check if there is any pre-installed or older version of McAfee. If they find a McAfee installer .dmg file, then they should rename it.
If you do not do this, the older copy might hamper the process to download McAfee for mac. Your mac might mount the wrong installer and prevent your product from successful installation.
So, without further ado, let us start discussing the detailed process to download McAfee products.
Steps to download McAfee Internet Security for mac
Using the Mac device on which you wish to install the product, navigate to the official website of McAfee.
From here, click on the “My Account” tab and complete the sign-in part.
On the log in page, you have to provide your email address and password followed by clicking on the “Log in” button.
The users, who do not have a McAfee account, can select “Are you a new user? Register Now”.
After this, they can follow some simple on-screen instructions to create a new McAfee account.
Select “Remember Me” if you do not wish to enter your login credentials again and again.
Upon clicking on the “My Account” tab, select the correct product subscription that could be LiveSafe or Internet Security.
After making your choice, click on the “Download” button present next to your desired product.
Now, you have to read the “End User License Agreement” and click on the “I Agree” option. This means that you accept the terms and continue to the download and installation of McAfee products.
Consecutively, follow some instructions to install and configure McAfee Internet Security.
Can you download McAfee for Chromebook?
If you are wondering what you can download McAfee on ChromeBook, then the answer to this question is no. You cannot install any executables on ChromeBook because it is highly secure. Since you cannot install the executables on it, any program with viruses or alike won’t get installed into your Chromebook.
To know more about McAfee or its products, you should visit the official website of McAfee regularly so that you do not miss out on any update. For assistance regarding any product, you can get connected to a McAfee support executive who will help you with anything regarding McAfee. | https://how-to-activate.me/download-mcafee-internet-security-on-mac/ |
It’s a new year and a new decade, and you’ve probably got plans to grow. The last thing that you need is some shadowy cyber criminal lurking in the background waiting to derail your plans, so why not make a renewed focus on security part of your new year’s resolution?
More than a little bit of what we do here at CDR Global revolves around security. Whether it’s the shredding of hard drives, wiping and resetting, laptops, tablets, or desktops – data security is a concern that’s never far from our mind.
For the IT professional in your organization, keeping sensitive data out of the wrong hands is a core component of their job. There’s a number of technical ways to prevent intrusion into your system, but for all the fancy bells and whistles that can be employed, the most effective barrier to intrusion is actually very simple – it’s your staff.
The various rank-and-file employees in your organization represent the most attractive weakness to the hackers and identity thieves, but they also have the ability to create an insurmountable obstacle to those bad actors trying to gain access to your system. A little bit of cybersecurity training can turn your staff into key players in a rock-solid digital security system.
What are the Risks?
According to the Ponemon Institute’s fifth annual cybersecurity survey, the least expensive cost of dealing with a cybersecurity breach from one of their survey respondents was $750,000, while the most expensive was $31 million. While this study features some frightening statistics, it also showed that cybersecurity training has reduced overall data breaches caused by negligent insiders.
This is a good trend, and it’s one that you need to jump on. Nobody wants to throw away upward of seven figures because someone clicked on a bogus link or attached the wrong file to an email. In the realm of data security, an ounce of prevention is worth far more than a pound of pain.
Accidentally exposing data is one of the largest causes of breaches among major organizations. This includes losing a networked device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop, or including the wrong recipients on an email with sensitive attachments. Additionally, a less-than-secure network – such as public computers or unsecured Wi-Fi – can open holes in an otherwise secure system.
Teaching people how to recognize the simple errors of improper data handling is a solid start. Expand on this topic with education that focuses on properly encrypting, storing, transferring, deleting, and destroying confidential data.
Social Engineering Attacks
When an employee is fooled into revealing sensitive information, they’ve been the target of a social engineering attack. The first step in thwarting these types of attacks is to teach your staff some digital street smarts so that they can recognize the attacks when they happen.
Many organizations offer training that includes mock phishing and email scams, sometimes inserted randomly into a staffer’s normal email box. If they don’t recognize the suspicious attempt, they can be offered further training to improve their skills.
A 2019 study from Verizon found that social engineering attacks accounted for 33 percent of all data breaches. With a competent and alert staff, you’ll be ready to stop one-third of all attacks before they start.
Identifying a Cybersecurity Breach
That same Ponemon study that we mentioned earlier found that when a company experienced a data breach, on average it took 279 days to identify and contain it. Nobody wants to stand up and admit that they fell for a phishing attack or e-mailed sensitive documents to the wrong person, but finding the breach and closing it quickly is key to limiting the damage and improving the security of the overall system.
Having policies in place for reporting breaches and responding to them – and making sure that everyone understands those policies – creates a system that’s more responsive and effective.
While you’re thinking about upgrading your hardware and making essential changes to the IT hardware in your organization, it’s important to think about the security of the overall system.
CDR Global is an expert at keeping your data secure while we’re helping you find ways to dispose of your IT equipment, so that’s one less thing you need to worry about. As you upgrade equipment, take the time to up-skill your staff so that you don’t present an easy target to black-hat operators online. | https://cdrglobal.com/2020/03/27/the-importance-of-cyber-security-awareness-training/ |
Link to register: https://goo.gl/IQmbY5
Mental health clinicians foster health in our clients wherever they are in the process, and we need the correct tools to help us do that. With the expansion of the HIPAA and HITECH laws as well as greater adoption of modern tech, mental health clinicians need to expand an important skill for professional practice: security.
We are already security experts, really! How many people do you know who care about locking file cabinets or can keep track of which stories they heard this week that are strictly confidential and which can be gossiped about freely? And we already understand the vital security skill of risk assessment, which is step 1 in the 3 steps to HIPAA Security Rule compliance.
In this course, we will apply our already existing expertise in security and client attunement to methods of complying with HIPAA and, often more importantly, protecting our clients and our practices. We will learn the 3 steps to HIPAA Security compliance and get started in the path to implementing those 3 steps in our practices.
Roy Huggins, MS, is a counselor in private practice in Portland, OR. He is also the director of Person-Centered Tech; is an adjunct instructor at the Portland State University Counseling program; is a member of the Advisory Board for the Zur Institute; and is the Technology Committee Chair for the Oregon Counseling Association. He is the primary developer of Person-Centered Tech's HIPAA Security Workbook tool.
The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy – Division 29 of the American Psychological Association – is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance at individual workshops and completed evaluation forms for those sessions. Attendance is monitored. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late, are absent for more than 15 minutes during a session, or those who depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Credit will not be granted to registrants who do not submit a completed evaluation form at the end of the session. It is the responsibility of registrants to comply with these requirements. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine whether these CE credits are valid in his/her state of licensure.
Complaint procedure: Should you wish to file a formal complaint about the CE process, please visit the Division of Psychotherapy’s website: societyforpsychotherapy.org for complete instructions. | https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/internet-security-and-hipaa-with-roy-huggins/ |
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Declining number of women computer science majors: While the percentage of women entering STEM fields in general has risen, the reverse trend is underway in computer science. The percentage of female computer- and information-science majors peaked in 1984, at about 37 percent; today it stands at 18 percent.
Perception of fewer advancement opportunities by women in IT: 43% of women polled cited the lack of advancement opportunities as a challenge to working in IT, versus 26% of men. And 44 % of women with 8 or more years of experience, considered the lack of advancement opportunities in IT pervasive.
When it comes to women holding leadership roles in the technology industry, the stats paint an even grimmer picture:
Women occupy roughly 11% of executive positions in Silicon Valley.
On Forbes list of 19 Most Powerful Women in Business 2017, none of the women who made the business list are in technology.
I’m not telling you anything new – much like finance and politics, the technology field (despite its relative newness) has long been a male-dominated industry. And as women climb the ranks, they find themselves in the company of fewer and fewer women. What is new is a growing body of industry research focused on solving this gender gap. Some of the answers are pointing to a plain and simple cause – bias.
The Harvard Business Review last month conducted a study that set out to determine if men held more senior-level positions than women in a certain organization because they acted differently. But instead of using surveys or self-assessments, this study used sensors to measure movement and instruments to capture dialogue to report where people communicate, who talks with whom, and who dominates conversations.
Shockingly, the report found that the behavior of women and men did not significantly diverge and could not account for differences in their career advancement: “Some have argued that women lack access to important, informal networks because they don’t reach out to or spend time with ‘the boys club.’ But this didn’t hold up in our data. We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.”
Furthermore, in performance evaluations, the report found that men and women received statistically identical scores - at each level of seniority: "Despite the mirror-like performance at this organization, women weren’t advancing, and men were."
If the behaviors are the same, what explains the differences in outcomes? According to HBR, bias.
“Our analysis suggests that the difference in promotion rates between men and women in this company was due not to their behavior but to how they were treated. This indicates that arguments about changing women’s behavior — to “lean-in,” for example — might miss the bigger picture: Gender inequality is due to bias, not differences in behavior.”
If working as hard, performing as well, and being as proactive in talking to senior managers as men doesn’t level the playing field, what does? The answer: sweeping, sustained change that begins with a new kind of leader who embraces difference – different perspectives, different voices, different experiences.
The vanguard of this change will be leaders who are able to build diverse, inclusive networks, and who have learned how to amass teams with multiple perspectives and skills to solve the next generation of business challenges. By expanding our boundaries, we gain confidence in taking risks - a necessary first step toward tackling assumed truths that hold back new ideas and perspectives critical to succeed in today’s digital, global and complex industries.
We need to cultivate leaders who are prepared to end the gender employment imbalances that plague the technology sector. This undertaking will take awareness-raising, an understanding of the value of diversity, and the skill sets required to achieve it. However, the change will benefit not just individuals, but entire organizations - after all, promoting diversity isn’t just casting a vote for equality and fairness, it also makes plain old business sense.
Technology is a fast-paced industry; the change we envision must come swiftly, too. | https://www.cio.com/article/3237593/technology-advances-quickly-so-why-don-t-the-women-who-help-drive-it.html |
The first Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit concluded earlier this week in Atlanta. Speakers at the Summit included thought leaders, engineers and practitioners from Microsoft and our customers and partners. The Summit featured the very latest in the areas of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and covered a swathe of techniques including several popular Open Source technologies. The Summit gave participants a chance to connect in person with peer engineers, data scientists, ML practitioners, managers and decision makers, and to share tips and tricks. Participants were able to connect with speakers at a specially organized “Meet the Speakers” forum, where they even got answers to questions concerning their specific challenges or work projects.
All sessions from the Summit were recorded and are now available from Channel 9, including Summit keynotes by Joseph Sirosh and Dr. Edward Tufte. You can access them by clicking this link or on the image below:
For conference attendees who may have missed a session or two that you were interested in, or for all other visitors to our blog who were unable to make it to the event in Atlanta, we hope these videos give you an opportunity to catch up on the latest advances in this field. As you will see, these sessions span the whole gamut of technologies, such as R, Hadoop, Spark, intelligent databases, data lakes, cognitive services, bots and more. Microsoft takes several of these cloud services and packages them into the Cortana Intelligence Suite, giving organizations of all sizes everything they need in one place for all their big data and analytics projects.
So go ahead and learn about cutting-edge customer use cases from the real world, get inspired by what data-driven solutions can enable, and get architectural guidance and practical tips that can help you accelerate the development and adoption of your solutions. | https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/09/29/available-now-videos-from-the-microsoft-data-science-summit-in-atlanta/ |
Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. Andrew Woodhouse of RealVNC offers some insight into why white box audits provide the best insights– for developers and customers alike.
When determining proper security parameters for software, there is a slew of options — Black Box and Grey Box audits, Port Scans, etc. Customers in need of software for their business are looking at what these tools can bring to their organization for greater efficiency or profits and how secure their own data and business processes will be while using them. While over half of businesses report that cybersecurity incidents are hindering critical business applications on a monthly basis, only a third have a formal approach to cyber resiliency. The first step in bettering any company’s security begins with finding enterprise software offerings that value security just as much as you do.
Not all cybersecurity certifications are created equal. Some company leaders view particular certifications as a box to check off a list, showcasing a baseline level of security. While these security certifications are essential for any software company looking to make headway within certain industry sectors, those certifications mean nothing if a threat actor still finds a way to compromise your software and your customers’ private information. To gain absolute customer trust, software companies need to test the external security of their software, as well as the entirety of their digital infrastructure, via comprehensive third-party white box audits.
Higher Security Assurance: By giving security teams full visibility into the application’s code and architecture, white box audits can better identify vulnerabilities that malicious actors could exploit. This makes it less likely that customers will experience security breaches or data leaks, which can be costly for both financial and reputational damage.
Better User Experience: White box audits can identify performance and scalability issues due to the process of auditing code in its entirety. By ensuring software is functioning optimally at all levels via all platforms, user experience is impacted positively across the board.
By working in tandem with the auditor, developers also get incredible benefits from a white box audit. These include:
Improved Development Lifecycles: Having an impartial third party analyze every facet of source code can be a lifesaver for a software development team. Auditors often provide innovative solutions — prioritization of fuzzing or even certain flags in the binary — to help reduce the time and costs associated with bug fixes and software updates later down the line. This level of transparency with an auditor brings about more efficient and reliable software applications across the board.
Higher-Level Verification: Depending on who you work with to conduct the white box audit, your company can get verification of your team’s proposed fixes in real-time as part of the engagement. Gaining insight into the problems with your digital infrastructure, as well as confirmation of the solutions in one audit, makes for a comprehensive and efficient process.
Software Security: An Investment in Customer Trust
While certain security tests are a must-have depending on your industry, cybersecurity can no longer be viewed as a box to check. Reports show there is an increased focus on third-party risk assessment — now up to 95 percent — but not all tests are cut from the same cloth. Rubber-stamp exercises are better than no security protocols at all, but companies need to continuously invest in security measures to garner external customer trust and keep products secure from all threat actors. There is no better tactic in ensuring your software’s security than bringing in a third party as a trusted auditor and partner to analyze and uncover all possible vulnerabilities within your source code on a recurring basis.
Like white box audits, comprehensive code testing is no longer an overkill tactic. These tests require more time and resources than other testing methods, but they signify a new standard in enterprise software that drives the highest levels of internal onus and external transparency. It’s like going to the dentist. Your team will never be at-ease until you get your software checked out thoroughly and are prescribed the best fixes. | https://solutionsreview.com/endpoint-security/white-box-audits-best-for-the-developers-and-their-customers/ |
Cybersecurity software helps to secure the data of an organization. Such computer software can discover and reduce existing threats, as well as prevent infected files and data from hitting others. It must be able to provide real-time security monitoring and security revealing. Furthermore, it should also provide customer support. The software need to maintain secureness controls through the lifecycle from the business.
A cybersecurity application provides current protection against spyware and, ransomware, and also other malicious software program. It also provides stats of user behavior and can take care of an organization from data loss. Various other features include automatic signing and monitoring of employee activity, personalized reports, and alerts with respect to non-compliant activities or potential threats. The application can also provide advanced encryption.
Acunetix by Invicti is a comprehensive cybersecurity software program what is voip bundle. It includes real-time log collection and evaluation, notifies, and stroage. It also allows users screen network equipment, employee workstations, and SQL databases. This may also provide social security number alerts by text, and monitor complying posture against regulatory frameworks.
Cybersecurity software is essential for the protection of organizations‘ digital assets. It could keep the data protected from unauthorized get and prevent info fraud. The ideal cybersecurity software will likewise prevent undesired security breaches and help prevent excess data leakage. | https://w3computer.de/cybersecurity-software/ |
Search.searchlttrn.com is a typical home page hijacker that uses unknown search engine. It can override start-up page and new tab on the browser affected by adware. If you have Search.searchlttrn.com on the computer, it only indicates that potentially unwanted program is taking command on your browser settings. Search.searchlttrn.com has this goal of replacing the default search engine with its own due to ads that it will display on the search result. This is very profitable as far as adware makers are concerned. They do not care even if having those invasive ads are annoying to computer users. For this main reason, many users perceived Search.searchlttrn.com as some kind of virus attack.
Technically, Search.searchlttrn.com or Listen To The Radio Now Search is not regarded as computer virus. Even though majority of adware behaves like a virus, they were not made to be infectious. In particular, Search.searchlttrn.com does not spread on its own. It needed a carrier like freeware or shareware. Adware authors used to bundle this browser hijacker to other programs and made its installation unseen. While installing freeware, Search.searchlttrn.com also gets installed in the background without taking user’s permission.
Search.searchlttrn.com sources like freeware, games, suspicious tools, bogus updates, and fake players can be obtained by visiting malicious web sites or even dubious links circulated on social media sites. No matter how you have acquired Search.searchlttrn.com, the effect of this browser hijacker is inconvenient to your online browsing activities.
Even if Search.searchlttrn.com is not considered as computer virus, security experts still insist on removing it from the computer as soon as possible. It does not only bring annoyances, most of all, this adware can put your privacy at risks.
This rootkit and virus removal tool is free and easy to use. It scans, detects and removes any rootkit, malware as well as threat like Search.searchlttrn.com home page hijacker. The tool is powerful enough to find malicious items that are hidden on the computer.
1. Download Sophos Virus Removal Tool from the link below. Save the file to your Desktop so that we can access the file easily.
Sophos Virus Removal Tool Download Link (this will open a new window)
2. After downloading, navigate to the file location and double-click it. This will start the installation procedure. User Account Control will prompt if you want to run the program, click Yes to continue.
3. On initial launch of the program, it will display a welcome screen as shown in the image below. Click Next to start the installation procedure.
4. Next, you need to accept the license agreement before Sophos Virus Removal Tool can be installed onto the computer. Choose ‘I accept the terms in the license agreement’. Then, click Next button.
5. On the next prompts, please click appropriate button to proceed. At the end of the installation process, it will display InstallShield Wizard Completed. Just leave the Launch Sophos Virus Removal Tool with a check mark. Then, click Finish.
6. The tool will download necessary updates so Internet connection is required at this point. Lastly, Sophos Virus Removal Tool displays the welcome screen.
7. Click on Start Scanning button to begin checking the system for presence of rootkit and virus. The tool reveals items that were found linked to Search.searchlttrn.com. It also detects and removes other malicious files.
2. Once you have completed the download, please close all running programs on the computer.
3. Locate the file and double-click on adwcleaner_Ver.exe to start running the tool. Then, click on Scan button.
4. It searches for presence of harmful programs, plug-ins, add-ons, or any data that were found malicious and linked to Search.searchlttrn.com. You need to Clean all items detected by this tool.
5. Once scan is done, the tool may need to reboot your computer to finalize the cleaning process.
6. After reboot, AdwCleaner will display the log file of the recent scan.
Stage 3: Remove Search.searchlttrn.com Add-on and Cleanup the Browser
After the previous scans, you may have deleted Search.searchlttrn.com from the affected browser. This next step will ensure that no more module of adware will be left on the browser. This free tool scans and checks the browser for unwanted add-on and extension, and if found, Avast Browser Cleanup will give you a report and suggestion.
1. Download this free tool and save it to your desktop.
Avast Browser Cleanup Download Link (This will open in a new window)
2. Please install the program. Start the process by double-clicking on the executable file avast-browser-cleanup-sfx.exe.
3. When run, Avast Browser Cleanup performs a test on the browser. If unwanted entries were found, it will display a button ‘Remove all add-ons listed below and cleanup browser.’ You may remove all or delete one entry at a time.
4. Avast Browser Cleanup will confirm before it permanently deletes the add-on. Please click Yes to proceed with the removal of Search.searchlttrn.com on the affected browser.
1. Navigate to Firefox menu at the top of the browser and access the Help area. Click on Troubleshooting Information.
2. A new tab will appear. You will notice a section on upper-right corner of the screen stating Reset Firefox to its default state. Click the Refresh Firefox button.
3. If confirmation window appears, click Refresh Firefox to continue.
4. Firefox browser will close and start the resetting process. When done, it will display a list of restored data. Search.searchlttrn.com home page hijacker should be gone by now. Click Finish to open a fresh version of Firefox. | https://malwarefixes.com/remove-search-searchlttrn-com-hijacker/ |
This section illustrates how access control is enforced in ByteHouse, and how administrators can configure access control policies in terms of user management, object access control and network security.
For better illustration, the examples listed in this document are from the perspective of an AccountAdmin.
All actions that can be performed in ByteHouse have related permission defined. For example: viewing account resource usage, creating new users, querying data from some table, or loading large data set into ByteHouse.
Permissions that are resource specific, such as creating tables (related to a database), inserting new data (related to a table), and running virtual warehouses (related to a warehouse), are bound to the particular resource instance or object.
Permissions that are not resource specific, such as creating databases (*note that databases are account level resources), viewing billing status, or creating a new service user, are not bound to any particular object.
When using ByteHouse, you need to select an "Active Role", and all your behaviour will be restricted by the permissions assigned to this Active Role.
By selecting a different "Active Role", from your avatar dropdown, you will switch to a different permission space bound to that "Active Role", and your view in the web console may vary according to that permission space as well.
By default, a "PublicRole" represented by an asterisk mark "*" is assigned to all users under an account. This Public Role is also the "Default Role" after a new user is created.
AccountAdmin is the root role of a ByteHouse Account. Users assigned with this Role have all privileges/permissions under the account.
Users with this role will be in charge of all permission or privileges related actions, such as creating new custom roles, deleting a custom role, assigning users to some roles, etc. One exception is that SecurityAdmin cannot grant AccountAdmin role to other users.
UserAdmin can do everything related to users, namely, CRUD for users.
SystemAdmin is a direct child role under the Account Admin. Users with this role will have permissions with regard to all platform resources, such as databases, tables, virtual warehouses, online worksheets, etc.
OperationAdmin is a direct child role under AccountAdmin. This role does not have any predefined privileges or permissions. This role is used to assign to ByteHouse customer engineers for customer support purposes.
PublicRole, as described above, is represented by a asterisk mark "*" in ByteHouse. It is the least privileged role in a ByteHouse account. Granting permission to this role has the same effect of granting the same permission to all roles in this account.
Here is what you can see on "User Management - Roles" page once you first log in ByteHouse as an "AccountAdmin" role.
2. Edit permissions on roles that have already some permissions granted, as shown in label 2.
Label 3 is a special option when granting permissions, with the option checked, the role that is granted with permissions is able to regrant the same permissions to other roles.
One thing to note is permissions that are default to system predefined roles, and permissions that are inherited from child roles are not modifiable. | https://docs.bytehouse.cloud/en/docs/access-control-administration |
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Could artificial intelligence make devices easier to use? According to Samsung, it sure can, and that’s what it the company out to prove with its Bixby AI service. Bixby is being loaded on the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones, which were announced on Tuesday. Bixby is an agent that can help the smartphones talk, recommend, and remind, said Mok Oh, vice president of service strategy at Samsung. The AI service is being positioned as a more intuitive way to use and interact with smartphones. For example, Bixby can help smartphones execute tasks with a voice command. It also brings cool features like image recognition and language translation on board the S8 smartphones. [ Further reading: The best Android phones for every budget. ]Bixby isn’t intended to be a service like Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Apple’s Siri, though it does have some of their features. It’s also not a replacement for S Voice, which won’t be present on S8 and S8+ but will live on in Tizen devices. Samsung plans to “Bixby-enable” other devices, such as appliances made by the company, though it is unclear when that will happen, said Werner Goertz, research director at Gartner. There is a dedicated Bixby button on the smartphones. Samsung didn’t provide a chance to test Bixby and didn’t say when the AI service would come on the new smartphones. It could be available on the smartphones as early as April 21, when the S8 handsets ship, or be pushed out in a software update. Samsung has said the service will mature over time. Once you long-press the Bixby button, here’s what the S8 handsets should be able to do. Execute touch commandsWhatever you can do with touch, you can do with voice. That’s what Samsung is aiming for with Bixby. Give the smartphone a command—like to take a selfie, launch the photo gallery app, or to make a phone call—and the device will be able to decipher it. You can speak out a command in multiple ways, and Bixby will understand it. Image recognitionThe Galaxy S8 smartphones will be able to take pictures, identify objects, and provide context to the images. Samsung provided the example of Bixby recognizing the Flatiron building in New York City and then providing recommendations on places to eat nearby. This feature is also being linked closely to shopping—users can take an image of a product and post it on Pinterest, which is partnering with Samsung. Users will also be able to take picture of a product and check pricing, shop, or see recommendations of the products from sites of retail partners. Language translationSamsung provided an intriguing example of Bixby being able to take a picture of text and translate it into different languages. Samsung didn’t demonstrate how it worked, so there’s no clear sense yet of how this will happen. Bixby supports 52 languages, but the service isn’t based on Samsung’s homegrown technology. Instead, the company using a partner to provide this service. Samsung’s Oh didn’t provide the name of the partner and didn’t say if the company was also using a backend service like Google Translate for the capability. Learn more about users over timeOver time, Bixby will learn about smartphone usage patterns and anticipate user needs. That feature will manifest in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphones organizing and displaying “cards” based on anticipated actions. For example, in the morning you may automatically see news and weather information, or Bixby may help fire up Uber to contact a cab to take you to work. In the evening, a reminder to set up the alarm may pop up. The goal is to contextualize use from commonly used apps in one single place, said Sriram Thodla, senior director at Samsung. Which apps?Bixby shines with the cameras in the S8 smartphones, bringing more context to images. But the bad news: Bixby won’t work with all apps. It is initially being integrated into a few apps like Photo Gallery, with wider app support coming later. Later on, Samsung will provide a software development kit, and developers will get to work with Bixby APIs (application programming interfaces). The APIs could be helpful to retailers looking to integrate their stores into the Bixby recommendation engine. They will also help internet-of-things device makers that want to create devices for Samsung’s SmartThings device management system, which could get Bixby support later.
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What is Sirius.1068 (1)? A tutorial on how to use Secunia PSI to scan for vulnerable programs can be found here: How to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs using Secunia Personal Software Inspector Your years went bye and I got real sick I did not do computer from around 2004 till the beginning of last year. Kaspersky Tdsskiller Join Now What is "malware"?
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when I click preview I see what you see now. Note: With some computers, if you press and hold a key as the computer is booting you will get a stuck key message. Right in the middle of all that I caught a virus and with good help here I got rid of it even with my bought and paid version of avg scanner Once started it will pretend to scan your computer and then display numerous infected files.
I hope this make sense and that you can help me. How to remove Tech Support Scam pop-up ads (Virus Removal Guide) This page is a comprehensive guide which will remove the "Tech Support Scam - Call for Support" adware from your machine. Click on the "Activate free license" button to begin the free 30 days trial, and remove all the malicious files from your computer. | http://liveterrain.com/how-to/sirious-problem-please-help-virus-spyware-maleware-adaware-trojan.php |
We have seen mobility proliferate the enterprise and we have also recently seen government organizations addressing mobility policies and strategies as well. Organizations such as the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, the Library of Congress and certain sections of the U.S. Military have all been reported to be seeking out solutions like Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Applications Management (MAM) to address security concerns as mobility grows within. The most recent group to address these issues is the U.S. Air Force.
As the U.S. Air Force secures our skies they are working with Fixmo, a mobile risk management (MRM) provider, to secure their mobile devices. The USAF is utilizing Fixmo Sentinel for device integrity verification and MDM capabilities. Ultimately they are utilizing the solution to comply with security guidelines set by the Defense Information Security Agency. Fixmo SafeZone is also being utilized to enhance the MDM capabilities across USAF mobile devices. The solution brings managed secure container environment with CAC-enabled e-mail, secure browser, an office-like document management suite, secure camera, Microsoft SharePoint access and the capability to integrate custom applications.
The USAF’s work with Fixmo is not stopping with simple utilizing their solutions however. The two groups have partnered to actually improve mobile security technologies. MSPMentor reports that the two have established a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the 688th IOW. “This agreement is designed to enable trusted mobile computing in the field on a wide range of mobile devices, Fixmo said.” The focus on mobile security and the implementation of MDM solutions for operational security within our military truly highlights the importance of these solutions. | https://solutionsreview.com/mobile-device-management/air-force-secure-skies-utilized-fixmo-mobile-security/ |
If you are looking to get the best malware for your PC, then you may have come for the right place. Making use of the top ant-virus software in the U. Ings. will ensure to get fully covered against infections and other net threats. Nevertheless how do you choose the right one? There are several features you should look for in the very best antivirus software. If you’re buying for your family, then you require something with parental control buttons. A good example of an extensive antivirus system is Norton 360.
Kaspersky is a popular name in antivirus software program. It provides several amounts of protection. You are able to opt for the bottom part level of safeguard, which costs about $30 per year, and protects about three personal computers. You can also up grade to the Total Protection package for approximately $50 and gain access to other gaming features. Moreover, this kind of antivirus program also supplies protection for 2 additional equipment, which makes it a fantastic value for money. In addition there are many no cost antivirus programs that are available on the market.
Avira Internet browser Safety can be an accessory that shields against destructive websites, online tracking, and advertisements. It highlights contaminated websites and stops ad systems from monitoring your activity. It also helps to protect you out of downloading index potentially undesirable applications that spy on you and display frustrating advertisements. Nevertheless , you should be cautious about programs offering 30-day money back guarantees. The money to come back guarantee will probably be worth a try for anybody who is unhappy considering the product. | https://unifight.net/2022/06/best-antivirus-application-in-the-us/ |
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2. Resistance to weather and vandalism: Full height turnstiles should be designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions and resist vandalism. This can be achieved through the use of weather-resistant materials, anti-tamper features, and other security measures.
3. Safety features: Full height turnstiles should include safety features such as emergency release mechanisms and anti-entrapment sensors to prevent injuries or accidents.
4. Anti-tailgating features: Full height turnstiles should be equipped with anti-tailgating features to prevent unauthorized access. This can include sensors that detect when multiple people are trying to pass through at once, or mechanisms that prevent the rotor from turning if an invalid credential is presented. | https://www.barrierturnstiles.com/sale-36777096-enhanced-security-full-height-turnstile-sus304-entrance-access-control.html |
The Icelandic cybersecurity startup Keystrike has secured funding from Philippe Langlois, founder of cybersecurity company Qualys (QLYS) which is currently valued at over $4 billion. Keystrike’s technology was invented by Ymir Vigfusson, Associate Professor at Emory University, to rethink multi-factor authentication.
“Keystrike seals off the path that is commonly used for cyber attacks today, which is simply to hack the computers of regular employees to access company data, while leaving the user undisturbed,” explains Prof. Vigfusson.
Keystrike’s technology, which is in product development, consists of authenticating that keyboard commands are physically made by an employee and not by a hacker with access to the employee’s computer. The authentication is done automatically for every command and is a more secure approach than current solutions on the market. The technology is meant to combat spearfishing attacks— malicious emails sent to steal information — so that if an employee clicks a bad link it won’t spread past the infected computer.
“What sparked my interest in Keystrike is that the technology is truly unique and I believe it will revolutionize cybersecurity for businesses around the world. Moreover, the executive team is strong and has extensive experience,” says Philippe.
Keystrike was founded by Árni S. Pétursson, Valdimar Óskarsson, Ýmir Vigfússon, Steindór Guðmundsson and Árni Þór Árnason. They have received the Technology Development Fund grant from Rannís which will go towards product development. Additionally, the company was invited to participate in UC Berkeley’s startup accelerator program, SkyDeck. | https://www.northstack.is/keystrike-secures-pre-seed-funding-from-philippe-langlois-cybersecurity-entrepreneur/ |
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In a match, the striker has the initiative. Can the defender still predict the future, though? Cisco believes so when it publishes its security report today.
The Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report studies what attackers have done in the last 18 months, and new trends detected in malware, cloud and so on. We security enthusiasts at Cisco’s Gold Partner Conscia Netsafe have a quick summary of the report’s 68 pages for you here:
Attackers work hard at circumventing Sandbox protection and extract maximum use from encryption. Even legitimate channels like Google, Dropbox and GitHub are used for its command and control traffic (C2), making it virtually impossible to trace.
Hackers recycle more and more of their infrastructure such as email addresses, autonomous system numbers (ASN) and name servers. They send out several attacks from the same domain.
“Previously, it was virtually only government agencies and security services that use legitimate cloud services to carry out data breaches. Today the framework for this is available to anyone to download at home and use via the Darknet,” says Henrik Bergqvist, Head of Cybersecurity at Cisco AB.
“When it is possible to use services like Gmail and Dropbox to orchestrate an attack, it places entirely different demands on the company to protect itself. Before it was “easy” to detect Internet traffic to a suspicious server and block it. When this is now happening via legitimate cloud services it is far more difficult to identify what is harmful traffic,” says Bergqvist in closing.
Review security systems and the possibilities of using SSL Analytics and if possible, SSL decryption.
Companies should also consider incorporating security solutions that include machine learning and AI. When malware is hiding its communication in encrypted web traffic, and harmful users on the inside are sending sensitive data through cloud services the security teams needs more effective tools.
“In addition to the above recommendations, I see a big need to train staff on threats, with training courses and with fake deception emails. It is also important to invest in trained IT security personnel, either internally or with the vendor,” comments Mikael Gustafsson, senior network and security consultant at Conscia Netsafe.
“Because IT threats are becoming more advanced, more qualified decisions must be made, everything from risk assessing IT systems to correctly training staff and fine adjustments to security products, etcetera,” Gustafsson says in closing.
Cloud technology is the solution
When attackers use encrypted and legitimate services it becomes harder to find already identified threats. One problem is the enormous and rapidly growing amount of potentially harmful traffic that companies must handle. The amount of malware increased more than tenfold in the last 20 months according to Cisco, which affects how fast malware can be detected (Time to detection, TTD*).
The median time for Cisco to detect malware during this period is 4,6 hours, compared to 39 hours in 2015 and 14 hours in 2015-2016. Cloud-based security solutions have been crucial for Cisco to limit detection time as it permits scaling even though the number of total events and endpoints are increasing. Locally installed security solutions would be hard pressed to offer the same flexibility.
Cisco concludes by saying that designing a security solution that can handle more than ten times the expected malware volume over two years – at the same response times – would be extremely difficult and costly for any organisation.
*Cisco defines ”Time to detection”, TTD as the time from infiltration to when the threat is detected. Through Cisco’s opt-in security telemetry from solutions around the world, it is possible to measure the time from downloading a malicious file until it is identified as threat. Median TTD is the average of the monthly medians during the period, in this case from January 2016 until October 2017.
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Security Vendor Threat Stack has conducted a recent study on the usage patterns of AWS users and found that 73% had some form of misconfiguration that could expose them to potential security risks. The security vendor is all set to present the study at the Amazon Web Services Summit and is said to expose more such vulnerabilities related to cloud security at the event.
The study confirmed that more than 73 percent of AWS cloud service users were leaving the SecureShell(SSH) service open to the public internet on their cloud instances. SSH is nothing but a path to the server instance for a remotely based administrator.
Note- In generalized terms, Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol which is useful for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.
Technically speaking, SSH is not a vulnerability. But a poor security group configuration which could lead the hackers to private services or the AWS console.
The highlight of this survey is that data collected by Threat Stack which goes back to September of 2016 shows that fewer than 13% of the companies analyzed are not at all interested in keeping software updates current. Taking the seriousness of the issue further, most companies are keeping those unpatched systems online indefinitely- say for more than 3 years.
Sam Bisbee, CTO of Threat Stack said that most companies are not at all interested in taking full advantage of the basic security tools available to them to AWS users. Though AWS has been busy in educating its users on its sophistication, a majority of users are still not configuring their cloud environments in a secure way.
More of these findings which can be termed as cyber threats to AWS users can be learned at the AWS San Francisco Summit held today from 12 PM PST in Moscone West center, Level 3, San Francisco, California. | https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/aws-services-misconfiguration-exposes-users-to-risks-related-to-cloud-security/ |
There are www.megaguide.org several different types of anti-virus software. Select one that offers the sort of protection you require, the number of gadgets you want to cover, and the cost range you are comfortable with. These kinds of 7 anti-virus software selections are the best in the market today. To help you decide which one is correct for you, we’ve analyzed them personally. Take a look! We now have listed the best seven malware programs in each price structure. We’ve also included a brief report on each of them.
While searching for the best antivirus program, it’s important to look outside of the characteristics and value. While antivirus security is essential, various other internet security features happen to be equally important. For example, you may want a VPN support if you regularly connect to consumer Wi-Fi. Or perhaps, if you have kids, look for a item which has parental settings. Norton 360 is a great sort of a comprehensive ant-virus. It’s also extremely lightweight, and it only takes up 15 MEGABYTES of hard disk space.
The security software Total Security is an excellent decision for Mac users. That monitors your Mac’s activity while you do the job, detecting shady software activity, and blocking scam attacks. Its user interface is straightforward to use and steers you faraway from dangerous websites. It also supplies parental manages for children, and a software fire wall for dual end network targeted traffic monitoring. For that reasonable price tag, this product helps to protect your computer against spyware and also other malware. | https://irishmusictours.ie/2022/05/03/choosing-the-best-antivirus-security-software-software/ |
Windows 10 has a new bug which has been introduced thanks to its monthly security patch “KB5003637”. The problem is that the update is messing up with the icons on the taskbar and desktop. This issue was first reported last month when users installed the optional and it seems to have slipped into the mandatory security update.
Windows 10 KB5003637 is a mandatory security patch and it’s part of the June 2021 Patch Tuesday update. A security patch is typically downloaded/installed automatically depending on Windows Update Settings. Going by reports on our comments section, Feedback Hub, and Reddit, it looks like some users are facing critical problems after applying the mandatory patch.
“On my taskbar system tray, the date, time, and system icons keep disappearing. This just started today 6/10/2021 after a Windows Update,” a user wrote. “It turned my PC into a potato,” said another user.
“KB5003214 was optional, but KB5003637 is automatically installed and causes the same issue (taskbar icons bug). These updates literally break the usability of my PC,” another frustrated user explained the problem.
KB5003637 issues
Windows Latest understands that the problem can be experienced when your device is using Input Method Editors (IMEs) and/or multiple language packs. In some cases, your taskbar system tray icons can also disappear or overlap when the News and Interests feature is enabled and you’re not using the recommended/default display scaling settings.
Likewise, another related bug could break the search box and notification center icon.
Fortunately, those reporting the KB5003637 issues confirmed that uninstalling the cumulative update gets rid of the problem. If you want to keep the update for security reasons, there is a workaround here.
The simple fix is to disable Windows 10’s News and Interests feed.
To do this, right-click anywhere on the taskbar, select “News and Interests” and click on “Turn off”.
Locate a drop-down menu for changing the size of text, apps, etc.
Make sure the scaling is set to the “recommended” because the bug is experienced when you don’t use the recommended value, which is based on what the OS knows about your monitor.
However, as we mentioned at the outset, you can still experience the problem when you use multiple language packs or IME editors. In that case, it’s better to skip or uninstall the problematic update for now.
Printing issues
In addition to taskbar issues, Windows 10’s June 2021 Update is also causing issues with printers for some users.
As per the official changelog, the KB5003637 update deals with the Print Spooler (CVE-2021-1675 Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege) vulnerability. It’s possible that Microsoft’s security fix has resulted in issues with the print spooler service for some users.
Fortunately, the service can be restored by uninstalling the update.
How to uninstall the June 2021 update to fix issues
Thankfully, Microsoft makes it easy to uninstall problematic Windows updates. To remove the patch, open the Settings app, click Update & Security. On the next screen, click “View update history,” then select “Uninstall updates” to the Control Panel window.
Locate the update by typing the KB (knowledgebase number) in the search box. Or you can also filter the list of installed updates by date. Click on the update and select “uninstall” to remove the botched patch. | https://nationalcybersecuritynews.today/windows-10-kb5003637-update-could-break-your-taskbar-printer-microsoft-hacking-cybersecurity/ |
A new report on last fall's national pandemic exercise reveals that financial institutions still have key areas to address in preparing for a global flu outbreak.
Workforce, supply chain and third-party service providers are among the issues targeted for further refinement in institutions' business continuity planning.
The report builds off initial test results released in October by the US Department of Treasury, the Financial Services Security Coordination Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (FSSCC) and the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC).
These agencies, as well as the Securities Industry and Financial Management Association (SIFMA), sponsored the pandemic event, which was conducted between September 24 and October 12, 2007. To date, this is the largest pandemic exercise ever held for financial services industry.
The new report compares the responses of more than 2700 participating firms and institutions on issues including plans for telecommuting, stockpiling personal protection equipment such as respirators and anti-viral medications and other continuity measures. The report also compares pandemic preparedness in large and small institutions.
"We would certainly like to see every institution take what was learned from the exercise, and use it as they develop their business continuity plans," says Jim Binder, spokesperson for the FSSCC.
Specifically, more work is necessary in bolstering the dependencies that institutions rely on in order to operate during a pandemic outbreak. "Given the wide area covered by the sector, in a lot of these areas there needs to be a better understanding of the dependencies the institutions will be facing," Binder says.
Binder notes that institutions with supply chain and third party service provider questions will find them more easily answered by new guidelines being prepared by SIFMA. "This set of guidelines will set out clearly what they will need to know from their vendors," Binder says, including answers to questions such as 'Does the armored truck company have enough staff to deliver the money shipment, and will it have enough fuel for the trucks carrying the cash?'
These are the types of granular actions that institutions must consider when planning for a pandemic. "The level and involvement of institutions in the national test should help them in their efforts in complying with the regulatory guidance," Binder says, and also help bring to the surface underlying problems or shortcomings in their institution's pandemic plan.
Pandemic Preparation: One Institution's Experience
Among those institutions participating in last fall's exercise was a California credit union that - since the experience - has begun addressing several of the areas highlighted by the new report.
"What our credit union found from the test was that there are a number of areas within our organization where we would be adversely impacted," says Michael Luckin, Senior Vice President of Delivery Systems at Technology Credit Union (www.TechCU.com), San Jose, CA. "Principally the unknown of whether people would come to work or not during a pandemic. That's the big 'if' question for us."
Tech CU, listed as the nation's 75th largest credit union, with $1.4 billion in assets and 10 locations, has been involved in several pandemic exercises in the past (three exercises in the last year). "We've seen clearly the human resource question is going to be one of the biggest unknowns we face," Luckin says.
At a projected 25 percent absenteeism, Luckin says the credit union would be able to operate smoothly. "But if 50 percent absenteeism were to come to fruition, (the test topped its absenteeism rate at 49 percent) it's going to be a whole lot bigger issue for everyone," Luckin says.
Staffing for third-party service providers also came into question when the credit union recently interviewed prospective vendors for a disaster recovery site.
"We posed the question to one of the vendors and asked specifically, 'If a pandemic comes, do you have the resources to manage a service environment or a co-location or a data center?'" Luckin says. "This vendor was somewhat taken aback. They had not been asked this question before."
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to: | https://www.bankinfosecurity.asia/pandemic-exercise-report-released-calls-for-enhanced-preparations-a-683 |
Taking part in the ribbon cutting for the LSU and LONI Security Operations Center are, from left, Chief Cyber Officer Dustin Glover, Louisiana; President William F. Tate IV, LSU; Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed, Louisiana Board of Regents; Governor John Bel Edwards, Louisiana; Rob Jansen, CEO, TekStream; Bill Rowan, VP Public Sector, Splunk; Lonnie Leger, LONI (Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure).
Today, Governor John Bel Edwards and LSU President William F. Tate IV cut the ribbon to the LSU and LONI Security Operations Center, or SOC, on the flagship campus in Baton Rouge, opening the doors to a new cybersecurity workforce development and protection model for Louisiana and LSU that is garnering national attention.
“Louisiana is setting a nationwide standard for cybersecurity because of our pioneering and proactive approach rooted in higher education,” said Governor Edwards. “Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and are a constant threat to individuals, businesses and government entities. LSU is harnessing the collective power of our immensely talented students in order to protect citizens from cyber threats while also growing our workforce. Louisiana’s record low unemployment is proof that innovation leads to job creation, and the LSU SOC is exactly the type of forward-thinking project that will keep this momentum going.” “When we declared our commitment to becoming the foremost cybersecurity program in the nation, we were resolute,” LSU President William F. Tate IV said. “A primary cybersecurity challenge our nation confronts today is the shortage of a skilled workforce. We require more well-trained cyber warriors. Through the SOC, we are enhancing the development of cyber talent while fulfilling our flagship mission to protect and serve our state.”
Through its new SOC, LSU and Louisiana are leading the nation in how to train and graduate students who can actively join the cyber fight and gain real-world, real-time experience working in direct service to the state. In the past three weeks, 94 LSU students have applied to receive training as professional cyber analysts to operate the SOC at the heart of the flagship campus. The students working at the SOC will be responsible for monitoring and analyzing the university’s network traffic as well as identifying and escalating potential threats.
The LSU SOC is the first node in an emerging statewide cybersecurity platform powered by the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure, or LONI, the state’s research and development network that connects Louisiana’s universities and community and technical colleges. By extending the SOC through LONI, every institution of higher education will have the ability to establish their own student-operated center and receive additional security services. This new model—educating students to provide services the university critically needs and then extending it into a platform to serve a greater purpose—has the immediate potential to change the security posture of the whole state.
To build its SOC platform, LSU turned to TekStream, an Atlanta-based technology services firm, and Splunk, one of the world’s leading data and security technology companies. TekStream supports SOC management and incident response, while Splunk provides the core analytic and monitoring technology.
Earlier this week, LSU announced $7.5 million in state investment to expand the LSU-LONI SOC model to more than 30 colleges and universities in the state, at no additional cost to each institution. Increased cybersecurity protection across higher education will come with broader impacts for Louisiana, offsetting the state’s need to respond to cyberattacks and limiting key attack vectors. Universities’ diverse data landscapes are often the first to pick up on new cyber threats, which then tend to cascade through critical infrastructure, industry and state and local government.
“The Governor tasked us to both strengthen our statewide cybersecurity and build a homegrown cyber workforce—today, we are doing just that,” Commissioner of Higher Education and Chair of Louisiana’s Cybersecurity Commission Kim Hunter Reed said. “The SOC model means every public institution is positioned to acquire and build the additional cybersecurity defense to meet its unique campus needs. We are grateful for the state, corporate and institutional support that has resulted in this integrated and innovative approach to data protection and student engagement in Louisiana.”
Besides the physical SOC on LSU’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge, LSU Shreveport operates its own. The Shreveport SOC is an extension of the LSUS Cyber Collaboratory and will also work seamlessly with industry partners Splunk as the platform and technology provider and TekStream on service and training.
“LSU is building one of the nation’s strongest whole-of-state plans for cybersecurity, and we’re starting to receive inquiries from all over about the ‘LSU and Louisiana model,’” Splunk Vice President of Public Sector Bill Rowan said. “Usually, we rely on talent to help us innovate, but this SOC flips that on its head: innovating to help produce talent, and Splunk couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this effort with TekStream.” “Our model was always to provide SOC services by implementing Splunk technology, but we jumped at the opportunity to do something different with LSU,” TekStream CEO Rob Jansen said. “We essentially agreed to work our way out of business by helping to train students to do more and more advanced work. Why? Because we saw all of the amazing upsides of the partnership, since we all struggle to find and hire enough talent. That’s why the LSU-LONI model is groundbreaking; it’s a first in our industry and the number and caliber of talented student applicants we’ve already received is staggering.” | https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2023/10/19_cybersecurity_operations_center.php |
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Today, corporate and business networks have drastically evolved — our data spans multiple locations, cloud vendors, and a growing number of endpoints. Traditional security, once reliant on protecting organizations from the perimeter and trusting devices inside the network, has become less effective.
Adding to the complexity, the work from home (WFH) model is being embraced by many organizations as they adapt to a rapidly shifting business climate. Corporate Bring Your Own device (BYOD) initiatives are also much more commonplace.
Managing all these new connections represents a significant challenge for most companies, as they must be diligent about protecting data — including corporate, financial, personal and customer information.
The corporate network and workplace show no signs of returning to the pre-pandemic climate. We can only expect more remote connections on our networks.
Adopting the Zero Trust model should be a critical consideration for any company’s security strategy to achieve secure, agile, and adaptable systems and networks.
What is a Zero Trust strategy?
Zero Trust is a strategic initiative created to prevent successful data breaches by championing the concept of “never trust, always verify” across an organization’s network architecture.
If you understand the concept of network segmentation, Zero Trust is like an amplified version of that strategy. With Zero Trust, the concept of segmenting networks is expanded to include more granularity and micro-segmentation. Additional rules are enforced based on users, where they connect from, and other relevant details to ensure that the person, device or application requesting access should be trusted.
By default, the security status of an endpoint is untrusted. Until the Zero Trust network can verify the user and location, it will not authenticate and allow access.
After an endpoint has been authenticated, a restrictive policy can be carried out for that specific session.
Think of Zero Trust like the “need-to-know” basis used by the government: policies only provide the exact amount of network access required for users, machines or apps — nothing more, nothing less.
Essentially and ideally, your business should verify anything and anyone attempting to connect to your systems before granting access.
Zero Trust draws on technologies such as identity access management (IAM), multifactor authentication (MFA), encryption, analytics, and file system permissions. Zero Trust strategies call for users to be granted the least access required to accomplish a specific task.
Remember what Zero Trust is and what it is not. It IS a strategy, model, theory, or architecture. It is NOT a singular tool, software, security appliance, or piece of hardware.
Can Zero Trust work for any sized business?
Yes, Zero Trust can work for businesses and organizations of any size. However, there is a caveat here that must be addressed.
First, and most importantly, a Zero Trust strategy can absolutely benefit businesses of all sizes. After all, preventing breaches and reducing risk is always the primary cybersecurity goal.
However, many businesses will not have the staff, resources, experience, or knowledge required to carry out a Zero Trust strategy. Other companies may possess all the above but have so many networks and endpoints they don’t know how or where to start.
If you’re a small business today, you shouldn’t have to avoid or delay network security initiatives because of your limited budgets. As Zero Trust gains in popularity, there are many options available to small and mid-sized businesses to match their specific use cases and risk profiles.
Many non-enterprise level companies are partnering with managed service providers to help them establish their Zero Trust strategy.
How to implement your Zero Trust framework
There are many articles available that explore how you can implement the Zero Trust framework in your environment. We’ve covered it in much more detail here and here.
But in this article, we’ll break it down into simple concepts and five fundamental steps.
Define your goals. The first step of your Zero Trust strategy is to nail down your business goals. Align those goals with cyber threats to mitigate risk. Finally, identify key staff and departments that need to be involved. Ideally, there will be buy-in at all levels of the organization.
Identify what must be protected. As you develop your strategy, you need to determine what types of data and which business assets must be protected. You’ll also need to identify where data is stored, how it travels across your network, and who or what has access to the data.
Assess your Zero Trust readiness. Do you have any elements of Zero Trust (like network segmentation) already in place in your environment? What tenets have you implemented today and what needs to change so you can get closer to Zero Trust? Being honest about where you stand and possessing that organizational self-awareness will improve the process and allow you to better allocate resources, time, and financial budgets. Finally, you should establish a baseline of network activity to differentiate normal traffic from abnormal activity.
Build your architecture, define policy and limit access. Now it’s time to put the plan into action. How will you segment your network and control access to data and resources? Once you determine where the crown jewels are and which data and systems are less at risk, you can embark on a pilot program to work out the kinks. Next, a Zero Trust policy should be drafted that incorporates a score or rating-based trust algorithm. Your policy should find a balance between trust and risk elements so access can be granted accordingly.
Monitor and maintain. Once the strategy has been implemented, it must still be managed. By leveraging analytics and automation, you can dynamically adjust your policy and strategy based on activity and threats. Properly monitoring and maintaining your implementation is critical to preserving a Zero Trust state.
Which departments should be a part of the process?
Adopting a Zero Trust strategy is a team sport. All leading departments of your business — including security, business development, IT services, and operations — should actively participate.
Key decision-makers of a company’s digital transformation should be the primary drivers for the security architecture, strategy and vision. If possible, you should establish a dedicated team with specific tasks for each individual with enough authority to ensure the process and migration is smooth.
CIO and CSOs should have the support of other senior decision-makers in order to promote the strategy.
The complications surrounding Zero Trust can be simplified with an industry advisor to help you implement a strategy across all your business's different departments and stakeholders.
Remember, there is no single product you can buy for Zero Trust. Zero Trust is a strategy or framework. To achieve Zero Trust, especially as a small to medium-sized business, it’s better to start with a trusted advisor to do an assessment and provide a roadmap specific to your organizational requirements and risk tolerance level. | https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/how-to-implement-a-zero-trust-strategy |
Today’s portals offer not only a wide range of tools and options for working with large volumes of data, but also offer a place on the server for their secure storage. In particular, reliable protection of corporate data is facilitated by:
Remote storage. In most cases, the servers a company uses are located far away from the company, reducing the risk of physical impact on them. Also, you don’t have to worry about finding a specialized storage room for corporate documents and spend extra resources on its arrangement and maintenance in proper condition.
Multifactor authentication. Only registered users can access the virtual data room, and many providers offer not just account creation but additional steps to gain access as protection. In addition, virtual platform settings can be used to set up an account management process and monitor the activity of all users.
Real-time data protection systems. Even when working remotely from any user device, you do not have to fear the loss of important data from the corporate repository. All user activity is logged in activity logs and the administrator can set different user rights for each account. Data encryption systems are also used which activate upon any threat of third party interference with the system.
Ability to work remotely. Working with large amounts of data has become much easier as many virtual platforms and dataroom providers at https://dataroom-providers.org/ provide a wide range of tools for working with documents. Besides, you don’t need to convert them into the necessary format to upload them to the storage – the system converts files automatically. At the same time, the platform’s security system provides access to its options even remotely, while ensuring the necessary level of protection.
There are a lot of advantages of using virtual platforms in the work of the company, the most indisputable among which is a higher level of corporate data protection. This is promoted not only by the wide choice of tools but also by the possibility of adapting the work of the system to the working rhythm of each company. The practical experience of many companies around the world confirms the quality of virtual platforms, as well as their adaptability to the specifics and scale of each individual user. Thus the cost of use of virtual platforms is much lower, than adjustment and service of local infrastructures. | https://boardroomfoundation.com/how-to-minimize-corporate-data-vulnerability-using-data-room-software/ |
The today released findings and recommendations based on its audit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to measure its compliance in 2018 with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014.
The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 requires the Inspector General to perform yearly evaluations of the information security programs and practices of HHS to determine the effectiveness.
The reviewed Federal laws, regulations and guidance and learned about the current programs implemented at the agency. Four operating divisions were selected and assessed and then the recommended areas for improvement.
What HHS Is Doing
After review, the found that HHS is continuing to strengthen its information security program. The agency is still working to implement a department-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program with the Department of Homeland Security.
HHS has established a risk framework for evaluating and reporting risks and has given an information technology (IT) strategy to operating divisions to help leaders make better risk decisions. The agency’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer also hosts monthly meetings to discuss new risks and trends to each operating division.
The agency has defined guidelines for the appropriate security configuration of information systems and has established roles to be implemented at the operating divisions. Each operating division needs to develop product-specific baselines, implement the baselines and monitor them to determine the proper response to misconfigurations.
But one of the operating divisions had a large number of vulnerabilities that were not being addressed in a timely manner. And another operating division had IT assets deployed with security configurations that were not being supported by the vendor to address emerging threats.
Room for Improvement
The found weaknesses in each of the five cybersecurity framework areas: Identify (risk management), protect (identity and access management, configuration management, data protection and privacy, security training), detect (information security continuous monitoring), respond (incident response), and recover (contingency planning.)
It was recommended that the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer works with the agency’s operating divisions to enhance its risk management strategy to integrate governance functions for information security, strategic planning and reviews, internal control activities and applicable mission and business areas. Upgrades should include integrating threat modeling for risk assessments and reporting tools for timely responses to new threats.
To improve configuration management, HHS should continue leveraging qualitative and quantitative performance measures to determine the effectiveness of the operating divisions’ plans. It is necessary to base measurements on results from automated toolsets to determine security misconfigurations, unsupported information system components and effectiveness of flaw remediation processes.
In order to improve the effective identity and access management domain, the chief information officer should monitor the operating divisions’ implementation of authentication techniques for all privilege and non-privileged users.
HHS should also update relevant department policies, procedures and guidance and work with the operating divisions to measure the effectiveness of privacy-specific controls and trainings through tracked breaches.
The believes that following these recommendations will strengthen the information security program.
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As data breaches continue to target databases and attack techniques become more sophisticated over time, organizations are looking for dynamic and efficient ways to effectively monitor the compliance posture of the databases in their hybrid environments. They have traditionally used privileged database user accounts in addition to host credentials to authenticate into their database instances running on Unix or Windows hosts. But sharing database credentials with security teams presents a security and governance challenge for organizations, and the teams performing these assessments may not have privileged access to the databases.
To overcome this bottleneck and perform checks more securely, Qualys Policy Compliance now provides the capability to perform database assessment via Qualys Cloud Agent for OS-dependent database controls without logging into the database. This makes assessments simpler and more secure as customers do not need to create any additional restricted user accounts on their databases. The auto-discovery feature in Qualys Cloud Agent identifies and collects information about the database instances running across your network, providing additional visibility for assessing the compliance and posture of all your assets.
Whether compliance information is collected via Cloud Agent or the traditional way via authenticated scans on the database, Qualys Policy Compliance offers assessment support for varied database technologies ranging from traditional Oracle to MariaDB, Cassandra, and many more. It automates the entire process of identifying assets and discovering database instances to their assessment, followed by prioritizing the critical control failures of high-scoped assets with reporting their posture against industry standards.
Global IT Asset Inventory makes it easy to identify assets having databases running on your hybrid IT environment. It also makes it easy to identify systems that don’t have Qualys Cloud Agent activated for Policy Compliance, which is required for this feature. For example, here is how to find all such systems with MongoDB:
software:(product:'MongoDB') and not sensors.activatedForModules:PC
The auto-discovery feature in Qualys Cloud Agent discovers the database instances on the system where Cloud Agent is running. Cloud Agent running on Windows or Unix discovers and inspects the database instances through registry keys or running processes, without logging into the database. Once the assets are discovered and middleware technology details are listed on the Middleware Assets page in Policy Compliance as shown below, you can activate the assets for middleware assessment, either selectively or choose default activation (recommended) for assessment to begin as soon as they are discovered.
If middleware assessment is already enabled, Cloud Agent will auto-discover the database instances and assess for OS-based database controls. No additional user action is required to enable this functionality.
Middleware assets discovered and inspected by the auto-discovery feature of Cloud Agent.
Content Library for Database Policies
Qualys Policy Compliance supports a rich library of database security policies as a part of its Policy Library. The Qualys security research team researches and regularly updates these database security policies, which are also used by Qualys’s own FedRAMP compliance team. You can simply import the policy for the required technology, assign tags and continue with the assessment.
You also have the option to create your own User-Defined Controls (UDC) for databases and add them to your custom policy, making them available for scanning and reporting.
Utilizing the enhanced capabilities of Policy Compliance Dashboards with customizable widgets, you can easily monitor security and compliance posture at any time. Design the dashboards and widgets according to your organization’s needs and easily monitor the overall compliance of the entire IT infrastructure. The drill-down capabilities of Unified Dashboards make it easier to look into granular details and prioritize assets based on criticality and other factors. Once you gain visibility into the compliance status of all assets, securing database assets becomes a lot easier.
The newly added posture tab enables you to have a quick insight into the compliance posture of database assets and controls without having to run the reports. In addition, you can track compliance posture based on assets, technology, instances, categories, and criticality to quickly prioritize and remediate the high-risk assets. QQL (Qualys Query Language) queries with its advanced search capabilities makes it easier to search for compliance data and view compliance score all in one place.
The Policy Compliance report below shows the details of control posture for database instances auto-discovered from assets with quick remediation steps to take action and fix the misconfigurations or errors.
Mandate-based reports in Policy Compliance provide a complete view of the compliance posture of your organization against multiple regulatory mandates. Using this, you can easily identify how your policies and controls are meeting various regulatory compliance database requirements like GDPR, HIPAA, and many more.
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Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania has announced that they have been subject to a data breach. The organisation states that the breach was noticed in May, and they have notified nearly 300,000 patients that some of their sensitive protected health information has been compromised. The group is one of the largest healthcare networks in the state.
The types of data exposed – and potentially stolen – include names, addresses, dates of birth, lab test orders, lab test results, blood types, race, gender, pregnancy status, medical record numbers, employer information, insurance details, medical diagnoses, physicians’ names and Social Security numbers.
Women’s Health Care Group has offered identity theft protection services too all patients affected by the breach. It is recommended that those affected activate the security services promptly, as hackers gained access to a server and workstation containing the above information in January this year. As the breach was only noticed in May, there was a long period during which PHI may have been stolen.
In May, a virus was installed on a server/workstation preventing the hospital from accessing patient data. While ransomware can be installed because of a phishing email or software vulnerability, in this case it appears to have been deployed by individuals who already had access to its systems. This is often the case when a virus is installed. If hackers manage to gain access to a healthcare network, it is becoming increasingly common for ransomware to be deployed when access to the system is no longer required, such as when all useful data have been exfiltrated, for instance.
Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania worked quickly to isolated the affected devices to prevent the spread of the infection. They contracted external cybersecurity experts to conduct a forensic investigation to determine the nature and scope of the security breach. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was also notified of the breach.
While a ransom demand had been issued by the attackers, as all data could be recovered from a backup server, no money was paid to the hackers. Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania says no protected health information was lost during the attack.
The investigation revealed that hackers had first gained access to its systems in January 2017 after taking advantage of a security vulnerability. The same vulnerability in the system is believed to have been used to install ransomware. While Women’s Health Care Group of Pennsylvania did not find any evidence to suggest information on the server or workstation had been viewed or stolen, data access and theft could not be ruled out. They advise that all affected patients be vigilant of fraudulent activates on their accounts.
This is the second ransomware incident to be reported in the past few weeks. Earlier this month, Peachtree Neurological Clinic of Atlanta, GA announced that an investigation into a ransomware attack revealed its systems had been compromised 15 months previously. With the rise of such attacks, security systems will need to be developed to prevent access to PHI soon. | https://www.hipaanswers.com/patients-affected-ransomware-attack/ |
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Danquah is the CISO at the Stanbic Bank Ghana. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise cybersecurity vision, strategy and program to ensure information assets and technologies are protected.
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With the rising threat of ransomware, we continue to see more and more coverage of the topic in the news and in marketing campaigns. I guess about half of all marketing emails I get are ransomware-oriented. It could be the lists I am on, but I think ransomware is shaping up to be the top marketed threat in 2016.
In all the materials I have received on this subject, I haven’t seen the evolution of the kill chain for this threat. It is important to map out the different steps of the attack so we can understand the threat and map controls to it. Below is the basic structure of a ransomware attack we have developed.
Step 1: Lure – This is the bait used to launch the attack. We typically see phishing emails with infected attachments or links, but it also could be a hacked website or malicious ads. If the user “takes the bait” by clicking on a link or opening an attachment, this triggers the next step.
Step 2: Install – Once an individual clicks on a malicious file, the malware is installed on the user’s device. Many times the user may not know the malware is being installed and that their device is being taken over with infected software.
Step 3: Call Home and Key Exchange – After the malware is installed, it needs to “call home” to get the unique encryption key from the server so the files can be decrypted after the ransom is paid (although it is not guaranteed that the attackers will hold up their end of the deal if they are paid).
Step 4: Encryption – The ransomware then encrypts files or systems on the device, to restrict access. This effectively locks data from the user or renders the entire device inoperative.
Step 5: Ransom/Extortion – In order to gain access to the system or data, the threat actors request payment (or ransom) from the victim to unlock the device. | https://www.optiv.com/explore-optiv-insights/blog/ransomware-kill-chain-and-controls-part-1 |
Security at IVR Lab is the highest priority. IVR Lab utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure as a primary resource for processing and storing customer data, if any. The AWS infrastructure puts strong safeguards in place to help protect customer privacy. All data is stored in highly secure data centers in various regions around the world. From a strict compliance perspective, AWS manages dozens of compliance programs in its infrastructure. This means that segments of compliance have already been completed.
As an IVR Lab customer, you will benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. Other security measures include, but are not limited to:
Network firewalls and web application firewall capabilities let us create private networks, and control access to customer data.
Encryption in transit with TLS across all services
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Information is an important business asset of significant value to the IVR Lab and its sister companies, and thus needs to be protected from threats that could potentially disrupt business continuity. Our information security policy is available upon request to customers who have executed a Non Disclosure Agreement and has been written to provide a mechanism to establish procedures to protect against security threats and minimize the impact of security incidents. | https://www.ivr-lab.com/data-security-compliance |
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