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One third of UK universities admit to falling victim to ransomware attacks, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests submitted in July this year.
A total of 105 universities responded to the FOI request, 35 of which admitted to being attacked (33%), 25 said they hadn’t been attacked (24%) and 43 refused to respond (45%).
Refusals generally stemmed from institutional concerns that admission would further encourage misdemeanours, stating that no inference as to whether they had or had not been attacked should be drawn from their refusal.
A number of universities – including the University of Oxford – felt that their esteemed reputation made them more vulnerable to attacks. The university commented, “…launching a successful attack would then be regarded in criminal circles as a noteworthy achievement, particularly in view of Oxford’s high public profile.”
Thirty-four of the 35 respondents who said they’d been attacked confirmed that they did not pay the ransom; while Liverpool John Moores, the remaining institution, refused to divulge whether they had paid the ransom or not.
Most of the breaches took place in 2015 (31%), 2016 (34%) and 2017 (23%), with the remaining attacks taking place in the last 10 years.
The majority of cases appear to be isolated incidents, though Sheffield Hallam University and City, University of London reported a staggering 42 attacks since 2013, and seven attacks since 2014, respectively.
Luke Budka, head of digital PR and SEO at TopLine Comms and TopLine Film, the agency that submitted the requests, said: “The recent revelation that hackers extorted US$1.14m from the University of California prompted us to submit requests to UK universities asking for details on ransomware attacks and ransom amounts paid. We were naturally most interested in Russell Group universities as their research focus suggests they’ve got the most valuable intellectual property.
“Of the 18 Russell Group universities that responded, all but three refused to answer the questions submitted. The University of Manchester admitted it had been attacked but said it didn’t record when; the University of Sheffield was attacked in 2015 and the University of Edinburgh stated it had not been attacked in the last 10 years.”
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Cybersecurity is the process of securing networks, systems and any other digital infrastructure from malicious attacks. Malicious attacks vary, some attacks my consist of phishing scams whilst others are full on wars against the victims systems.
With cybercrime damages projected to exceed a staggering $6 trillion by 2021, it is no mystery as to why banks, tech companies, hospitals, government agencies and every other sector are investing in cybersecurity infrastructure to protect their business practices and the millions of customers that trust them with their data.
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World’s biggest data breaches and hacks.
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We’re turning down the geek knob a little and getting into this week’s Awesome Cast (Special Edition).
Shout out to our Pittsburgh Marathon peeps as it’s the thing to do during marathon weekend.
Chilla is sharing Annotable as his Awesome Thing of the Week.
Annotable has handy tools for editing screenshots and pictures on the go.
Sorg is sharing a Raspberry Pi kit (get it with Mag Pi) to turn it into a dirt cheap Google Home competitor.
Thanks to Chris Whitlatch for letting us know about an augmented reality UAV game.
Katie is telling us how easy it is to find porn on Tumblr using your iPhone.
Chilla has a cross-platform, streamable VR video player he’s telling us about.
Don’t drive with your VR headset on, kids.
The Hulu Live TV platform has launched. Sorg is sharing some thoughts.
Not a sports fan? Hulu Live TV offers a no-sports package (unlike cable TV packages).
We liked when Facebook brought us interactions for posts. We’re happy that they’ve extended it to comments!
Katie is sharing some thoughts on Facebook reactions and how she uses it for marketing.
Do you miss having a physical keyboard on your phone? Samsung is offering a physical keyboard overlay.
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FPV & Galíndez is fully committed to protecting investors and the public interest by providing the highest quality auditing, tax, accounting, and consulting services. Professional services involving the investment, lending, and management of money and assets keep society running on all levels. Understanding clearly the needs of our clients and projecting the ever-evolving financial reporting ecosystem elevates the caliber of our work and continued drive to excellence. This is highlighted by our firm’s awareness of the cybersecurity needs of our clientele.
In the past year, our world has taken an enormous leap into a virtual environment and that includes finances. As organizations adopt emerging technologies and data analytics, there is a fundamental change in the way financial information is reported, how audits are conducted, and ultimately how our profession performs its work. From private individuals to global trade and commerce, there is a full digitalization of financial services rapidly underway – and cybercriminals are taking note. Technology does offer the promise of combining increased efficiency with improved effectiveness, resulting in enhanced quality of financial reporting services. But despite these promises, the technology also presents real risks.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Central Bank and other financial institutions have suffered a significant increase in cyberattacks. Just like in other sectors, the pandemic has triggered a sudden and rapid increase of employees working from home. The need for digitalization of banking services has also strongly increased due to this pandemic. While cyber threats are not new, this strange and uncertain context has changed the cybersecurity game and risks are more present. Unauthorized access to information systems and data presents a significant threat. Amplifying this threat is how interconnected we all are to one another through technology and communication networks and systems. This interconnection occurs through domestic and international telecommunications, financial, retail, and host sale payment, and clearing and settlement systems. Then we have the use of the Internet. A key characteristic of the Internet is interoperability—the ability for different networks, systems, and devices, as well as applications, to connect, exchange, and use data across organizations and sovereign borders. When these were designed, security was an afterthought at best. Financial data is constantly at risk. Notice this real financial servies cyber stats:
70% ranked cybersecurity as a top concern: According to the Sixth Annual Bank Survey by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, 70% of those surveyed ranked cybersecurity as their top concern.
The cost of a cyberattack is $18.3m: In a report from Accenture and the Ponemon Institute “Unlocking the Value of Improved Cybersecurity Protection,” they claim that the cost of cyberattacks is highest in the banking industry, reaching $18.3 million annually per company.
70% of companies experienced a security incident: According to the 2019 report by Clearswift, “The Unknown Threat Report“, 70% of financial companies have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year.
10% of IT budget is spent on cyber: According to Deloitte’s report, “Pursuing Cybersecurity Maturity at Financial Institutions“, these institutions shell out on average 0.3% of revenue and 10% of their IT budget to cybersecurity, compared to 6.1% of IT budget and 1.2 – 3% of revenue for retail and wholesale services.
352,771 exposed sensitive files in the financial sector: According to the 2019 Data Risk Report by Varonis, the Financial services had 352,771 exposed sensitive files on average while Healthcare, Pharma, and Biotech have 113,491 files on average — the highest when comparing industries.
26% of financial institutions suffered a destructive cyberattack: A research project performed by Carbon Black on major security breaches found that 26% of surveyed financial institutions admitted they suffered a destructive cyberattack.
When compared to the numbers at the beginning of 2018, this represented an increase of 160%. And 79% of the corporate information security officers surveyed said attacks on financial institutions were becoming more and more sophisticated and destructive.
Financial services are critical to our well-being. This is why cybersecurity will be an ongoing concern for financial services. A security breach could cause a global financial catastrophe, if not the final blow of covid-19. With these real threats, businesses need a comprehensive IT strategy for a digital and technological transformation of their organization that goes in line with their business objectives and provides real protection. Our team of experts who understand the IT strategies and technologies needed, along with the seriousness of protecting financial data, can certainly maximize any operation they have access to. Learn more about our experts and what they can do for your organization.
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Security incidents are imminent – Sixty-eight percent of respondents say their organisation experienced a security breach or incident in the past 24 months. Forty-six percent say another incident is imminent and could happen within the next six months.
Management is largely unaware of cyber security threats – Eighty percent of respondents reported that they don’t frequently communicate with executive management about potential cyber-attacks against their organisation.
Organisations are not measuring the effectiveness of their incident response efforts – Fifty percent of respondents do not have meaningful operational metrics to measure the overall effectiveness of incident response.
Breaches remain unresolved for an entire month – While most organisations said they could identify a security incident within a matter of hours, it takes an entire month on average to work through the process of incident investigation, service restoration and verification.
CSIRTs lack adequate investments – Half of all respondents say that less than 10 percent of their security budgets are used for incident response activities, and most say their incident response budgets have not increased in the past 24 months.
Network audit trails are the most effective tool for incident response – Eighty percent of respondents say that analysis of audit trails from sources like NetFlow and packet captures is the most effective approach for detecting security incidents and breaches. This choice was more popular than intrusion detection systems and anti-virus software.
“The findings of our research suggest that companies are not always making the right investments in incident response,” said Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “As a result, they may not be as prepared as they should be to respond to security incidents. One recommendation is for organisations to elevate the importance of incident response and make it a critical component of their overall business strategy.” “If 2013 is any indication, today’s enterprises are ill-equipped to identify and halt sophisticated attacks launched by nation-states, malicious outsiders and determined insiders,” said Mike Potts, president and CEO of Lancope. “Now is the time for C-level executives and IT decision-makers to come together and develop stronger, more comprehensive plans for incident response. This communication is critical if we want to reduce the astounding frequency of high-profile data breaches and damaging corporate losses we are seeing in the media on a near-daily basis.”
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Here at MemberClicks, we’ve been working hard preparing for GDPR to ensure your organization is prepared for the May 25th deadline. Below is some important information for you to consider in light of the GDPR’s deadline and how Memberclicks can provide you with answers to your GDPR questions.
GDPR applies to any U.S. company that accesses, collects or stores personal data of persons located in the EU or that markets goods or services to such persons in the EU. Also, if a U.S. based company has employees in the EU, then the company likely will have personal data of its EU employees in its U.S. locations. In other words, if you have EU data subjects as members, registrants or database contacts, GDPR applies to you. If GDPR is a new term to you, you can read more information here.
Below is a summary of GDPR requirements that are intended to be informational, not legal advice. We recommend consulting with your organization’s legal advisors on the impact of GDPR to your organization.
GDPR lists the seven principles that govern data protection:
Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject. For example, it must be clear to any data subject whose data you process how you are going to use their data.
Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes. When it comes to using someone’s personal data, you must say what you do, and do what you say.
Personal data must be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary to achieve those purposes. This principle means that you may not collect more personal data from a data subject than you need.
Personal data must be accurate and kept up to date. You should provide data subjects with an easy way to keep track of their data and you should take affirmative steps to ensure that their personal data is current and accurate.
Personal data must be stored no longer than necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected. This means that as soon as you no longer need the personal data for the original purposes, you must get rid of it.
Personal data must be properly secured against accidental loss, destruction, or damage. GDPR does not specify what steps a company must take to protect and secure data, but this principle makes it clear that companies should take appropriate steps to protect any personal data in their possession or control.
Data controllers are responsible for and must be able to demonstrate compliance with the above stated principles. This is known as the “accountability principle.” GDPR places more emphasis on accountability than the prior “EU Data Directive”
Right of Access. Data subjects obtain from a data controller a copy of their personal data that is being processed by the data controller as well as a right to know how and why their data is being processed as well as whom it has been shared with.
Right to Rectification. Data subjects require a data controller to rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data. Members, registrants and contacts request the data you store about them, they also correct any outdated or inaccurate data. The easiest way to meet this requirement is to allow your members, registrants and contacts to update their information, either by updating the profile directly or through an online form.
Right to Be Forgotten. Data subjects require data controllers to erase all of their personal data. Your members, registrants and contacts request that they be removed from your systems. To fulfill a “Right to be Forgotten” request, delete that profile from your database. You will then need to contact [email protected] and request that the profile also be removed from our "Deleted Profile" data tables, which currently allow you to restore deleted profiles in your system.
Right to Restriction of Processing. Data subjects can require a data controller to restrict processing of their personal data.
Right to Access and Data Portability. This right requires data controllers to make it easy for data subjects to take their personal data with them to another organization. Your members, registrants and contacts request access to the data you store about them. MemberClicks products allow you to export records in CSV formats, which meet the requirement.
Right to Object. Data controllers whose lawful grounds for processing personal data are legitimate business purposes must allow data subjects the right to object to the processing of their personal data. The data subject’s request must be respected unless the data controller has a more compelling interest in processing the personal data.
Right to Object to Automated Decision-making. The GDPR provides that data subjects have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on an automated process, including profiling.
Yes. Under GDPR, a data subject’s consent must be specific, freely given, informed, and not ambiguous. Most importantly, a positive opt-in is required and consent cannot be implied by inactivity (e.g. pre-ticked boxes, silence). Requests for consent must be separate from other contract terms and must be in clear, plain language.
There are several aspects of consent that you need to be considering for your members, registrants and contacts.
Consent (with notice)/opt-in: If your team needs to capture consent, fields should be added to your database and forms to capture and store consent. You may need more than one data field because consent must be given for each of the ways you process data. When creating these fields, remember that opt-in consent must be freely given, affirmative, and include a transparent explanation of your purpose for acquiring/using the data.
Notice: The notice must be easily accessible and explicit so consent is informed.
Affirmative opt-in: It must take action to opt-in. For example, an opt-in checkbox cannot be checked by default on your forms or within profiles.
Granular Consent: You need to describe each of the different reasons and methods you process personal information so people have a clear understanding to what they are giving consent (sending event announcements, education opportunities, legislative news, etc.). WebLink stores form and profile fields with a date and timestamp automatically when they are submitted.
Withdrawal of Consent/Opt-out: Just like how it needs to be clear and easy to give consent, there needs to be a comparable way to view current preferences and to withdraw consent. The easiest way to allow consent to be withdrawn is to allow the consent fields to be edited in the profile or through an online form.
One way you can accomplish all of this using the Members Only Update Form configuration settings, enabling Affiliation Code editing to allow users to select communications and other opt-in settings. Click here for more details on how to enable this option in Members Only. If you need field(s) added for opt-in options on your Online Join Form, submit a request for this change to [email protected].
WHAT ARE SOME OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW?
Cookies: Across the Internet, cookies are used for many purposes, from tracking activity to delivering ads, to being a fundamental part of how a website works. Under GDPR, site visitors need to be notified about cookies that can be used to personally identify someone. While the MemberClicks product only uses cookies for core functions (loading a public page, for example), you should inventory additional elements of your specific site so you’re familiar with how cookies are used. It is an important part of GDPR that you understand the cookies used by your site and provide a mechanism for consent for non-essential cookies. For a full list of the cookies MemberClicks uses, please click here. For organizations requiring advanced cookie notice and consent, please contact our Help Team.
Security: GDPR requires a host of security measures to ensure data is safe. MemberClicks already provides a robust security infrastructure and we voluntarily work with third party consultants to stay on top of it. As part of our preparation for GDPR, we are reviewing and strengthening our security controls even more. Please see our privacy policy for more details.
If you have any questions or if you’d like to discuss GDPR support in more detail, contact us at [email protected].
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Tumblr, a microblogging service that is bang on web culture has been gigantic and remarkable, yet now Tumblr will forever forbid adult content from its platform on December 17th in a move that will annihilate pornography related networks on the platform and on a very basic level modify how the administration is utilized.
“There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.” said chief executive Jeff D’Onofrio in a blog post.
Yahoo gained Tumblr in May 2013 for $1.1 billion, as a feature of a push to all the more likely interface with more youthful online clients.
The ban comes three weeks after Apple expelled the Tumblr application from its iOS application store after it was found adult content was sneaking past an industry database of tyke sexual maltreatment material, yet it’s hazy if the move to boycott all adult content is because of Apple’s choice.
“Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change.” further added chief executive Jeff D’Onofrio in a blog post.
Restricted content incorporates photographs, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-showing nipples, and any media including sex acts, including outlines.
The exemptions that are still allowed are uncovered female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or afterbirth moments, and health-related situations.
Tumblr said it will start advising community individuals with content that violates the new policy, offering them the chance to claim by means of a frame that will be incorporated into those warning messages or by means of the menu on explicit posts.
The intrigue procedure is just accessible by means of PC and Tumblr’s Android application, and the organization said iOS clients ought to submit claims by means of the web.
Tumblr said it will depend on a blend of robotized devices and people to recognize pornographic content. On the off chance that clients grieve the loss of adult content on Tumblr, D’Onofrio claims they have numerous different solutions.
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After the initial boot, the system displayed a configuration wizard that looks a lot like the one in the Ubuntu LiveCD installer. You have to set your timezone, keyboard layout, and user account information. After you complete the configuration, it will finish booting and launch the Moblin shell.
I used the bootchart utility to test startup performance and found that it took 22 seconds on average to get to a fully usable desktop. The Ubuntu variant in the 10v is based on Ubuntu 9.04, which means that it's a fairly unoptimized boot process. In Ubuntu 9.10, which will be released later this month, Canonical has introduced some important boot performance optimizations that could help reduce the total startup time in the next iteration of the company's Moblin remix. The Ubuntu developers aim to deliver 10-second startup time in version 10.04, which is due in May of 2010. Users who opt for the SSD upgrade will see even more significant boot performance gains.
Intel and Canonical both regard startup time as a major focus and are investing considerable development resources to bring it down as much as possible. Intel eventually hopes to achieve appliance-like 2-second startup time on Moblin-based systems.
Stability and completeness
We tested the Moblin user interface shell back in May when Intel announced the beta release. The version that ships with the 10v maintains the same look and feel as the beta but brings a slight increase to stability and completeness.
Although the version of the Moblin shell included in the 10v seems a bit more robust, there are still some bugs. During the week that I spent testing the netbook, I experienced three Xorg crashes. The Moblin Web browser, the component of the environment that seems to be least stable, crashed several times a day. I also encountered a handful of weird focus and rendering glitches with the shell. For example, the power management tab got "stuck" once and wouldn't go away after I tried to close it.
Several features that were incomplete or didn't work properly when I tested the beta—such as the play queue on the media tab and the screen brightness adjustment slider—are fully functional in the version of the Moblin shell that is included with the 10v.
Window management
Moblin takes an unusual approach to window management and deviates from the conventional model is that familiar to desktop users. Moblin's window manager, which is based on Mutter, does not allow users to minimize or maximize windows. The Moblin shell environment also eschews the standard notion of a taskbar.
Window switching is performed entirely through the Zones tab of the Moblin shell. This tab shows thumbnails of the windows that are open in each zone and allows the user to activate one by clicking. Pressing the standard alt+tab keyboard shortcut will also display the Zones tab and allow the user to rotate through open windows.
Unlike a conventional Linux desktop where you have a predefined number of workspaces organized into columns and rows, Moblin will automatically spawn and destroy zones as needed when program windows open and close. Users can also move a window from one zone to another by dragging and dropping its thumbnail in the Zones tab of the shell.
Moblin's window management model, particularly its lack of support for minimizing windows, is a bit jarring to users who are accustomed to working with conventional desktop environments. After using it for a few days, however, I was able to acclimate to the change and learned to appreciate its advantages. The automatic zone instantiation feature is particularly compelling because it shifts the burden of window management away from the user. Although this results in a minor loss of control, the benefit is that less effort is required to position and track windows.
On a netbook, where the relatively small screen makes it impractical to have a lot of windows open alongside each other, the zone system is arguably a major improvement over conventional virtual desktops.
Theming and style
The Moblin shell and many of the environment's core applications share a distinctive look and feel. The Moblin applications that are not built with Clutter all use the GTK+ toolkit, and Moblin includes a default GTK+ theme is that is designed to mimic the style of the Clutter-based applications. The Moblin icon theme consists of solid-colored outlines, but there are still a few standard GNOME icons that sneak through in some places.
GNOME's Appearance Properties configuration applet is included in Moblin, but it has been stripped down to show only the wallpaper and font tabs. The Moblin developers clearly don't intend for regular users to change the GTK+ or icon themes. Advanced users will still be able to do so, however, by manually changing the relevant GConf key. A number of other GTK+ themes are included in the Ubuntu Moblin Remix installation, including Ubuntu's Human theme and the Murrine engine.
Power
Intel has a strong track record of active participation and leadership in the area of Linux power management. The company's Less Watts initiative includes a number of important projects that aim to help make Linux more energy efficient, and it's unsurprising that Intel regards effective power management as a high-priority for its mobile Linux platform.
Moblin will eventually use the Power Policy Manager (PPM), a framework that wraps the Linux platform's existing power management capabilities with a policy system that aims to provide more granular and nuanced control. As far as I can tell, PPM is not installed by default in the Ubuntu Moblin Remix, but it is available from the package repositories.
The power management tab of the Moblin shell is extremely minimalistic. It displays the battery's current level of charge as a percentage, but it does not indicate how long the netbook will be able to run on battery power. In addition to the relatively unhelpful battery status monitor, the power tab also has a slider that can be used to adjust screen brightness. That's pretty much it at the present time. It's likely that this will be fleshed out a lot as PPM matures. During my tests, the laptop lasted just under 3 hours when I had the screen brightness configured to the lowest level.
Networking
Intel introduced its own network connectivity management framework, called ConnMan, specifically for the Moblin platform. Compared to existing solutions, ConnMan is intended to be lighter, more extensible, and easier to integrate with custom frontends. Its benefits are still largely theoretical, however, as it is still relatively new and untested. Most modern desktop Linux distributions use NetworkManager, a more complete and mature connectivity framework.
The Ubuntu developers conducted a feature comparison to see how ConnMan stacks up against NetworkManager. Their analysis concluded that ConnMan still needs some work before it's ready for widespread deployment. The Ubuntu Moblin Remix uses ConnMan by default and exposes it through the Moblin shell user interface. Configuring a WiFi connection on the 10v was easy and painless. I didn't encounter any serious challenges with connectivity, but the ConnMan daemon crashed once during my tests.
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A five or more year-old malware is putting client information in danger by gaming Google and other web indexes. As per security firm Sophos, the trojan’s usefulness is normally set around banking accreditation robbery, however “much exertion” has gone into the improvement of how it’s conveyed to clients as of late.
“Previously, Sophos and other security specialists have packaged the conversation of the malware itself with investigation of the conveyance instrument, yet as this technique has been embraced to convey a more extensive scope of vindictive code, we declare that this system merits examination (and its own name), unmistakable from its payload, which is the reason we’ve chosen to call it Gootloader,” the firm said, discussing the new strategy.
Under the new technique, the programmers behind Gootloader keep a “network” of about 400 workers and sites, which game the web crawler calculation to show up on top of specific hunts. Sophos noticed that these sites show up on top of explicit and extremely restricted ventures, driving individuals to the sites, which look totally authentic.
Shockingly, the sites appear to show up on top of searches in any event, when they don’t really identify with them. Sophos refered to one model where a neonatal clinical practice situated in Canada was appearing on top of a hunt identified with land.
“Google itself shows the outcome isn’t a promotion, and they have thought about the site for almost seven years. To the end client, the whole thing looks all good,” the security firm said in its blog entry.
Guests to these sites get a “direct download connect”, which puts a .compress document with a similar record name as the first pursuit on their PCs. This record contains a compacted document with a .js augmentation that is the underlying infector. “All that occurs after the objective double taps this content runs totally in memory, out of the range of conventional endpoint security apparatuses,” the firm said.
The firm didn’t show what information the malware is taking, or what it precisely means for the client. Notwithstanding, it said web indexes could screen this since the malware “games” their calculations to show up on list items in any case. It additionally encouraged clients to empower document expansions on their Windows PCs to spot records with a .js augmentation and be careful about them.
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https://smarterauthors.com/five-year-old-malware-games/
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You already know (from Dr. Cole’s last webinar)... prevention is ideal; detection is a must.
But detection without response has minimal value. If you're detecting an attack and you're not able to respond in a timely manner... game over.
Dr. Cole will briefly go over the six step process for handling an incident:
Dr. Eric Cole, Cybersecurity Expert
WARNING: Space is limited. This presentation due to technical constraints we can only guarantee space for those who register and attend on a first come first serve basis.
Space is limited. So claim your spot below!
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https://safe.secure-anchor.com/2019-making-the-case-for-incident-response
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For households who are active online, the risk from online threats while shopping or banking, and the frustration of slow performance and poor manageability are all too familiar. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus is a revolutionary new solution to internet security. It has been proven by computer experts to be faster and more effective against new threats than traditional security products and provides equal or greater protection to products costing significantly more. SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus takes a revolutionary approach to online protection. Rather than relying on antiquated technology that constantly has to be updated and slows down your devices. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus analyzes file behavior in the cloud and stops malicious files from stealing your identity or doing other damage, even if the threat has never been seen before. SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus protects both PCs and Macs, and includes next generation firewall, identity protection, antiphishing, and web filtering, as well as password encryption technology that makes it safer and more convenient to logon to your favorite shopping and banking sites. It even includes protection for your smartphone and tablet to guard against malicious apps, losing personal data, and allows you to share your passwords securely with your desktop or laptop. And the protection of all devices is easily managed through a unique web console making it more convenient and safer to maintain protection even when you are away from your device. Despite all these layers of protection, Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus won’t cause system slowdowns or interrupt you with long scan times or downloading updates.
Enhanced antimalware engine makes Webroot SecureAnywhere lightweight cloud-based detection even more effective at identifying new threats. Blocks viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, rootkits, and other online threats
Quietly protects you without interrupting you or slowing you down. Uses a fraction of the memory and processing speed as competitive solutions. One-click fix solves security problems and gets you back to work quickly
MyPasswords feature encrypts your passwords and automatically logs you into your favorite sites so you do not have to remember multiple passwords. Securely stores your usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers
Remotely locks or wipes data from your smartphone or tablet. Locates your smartphone or tablet if it is lost or stolen
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https://community.spiceworks.com/products/56341-webroot-secureanywhere-internet-security-plus-2013
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Kaseya announced yesterday that a severe vulnerability in their VSA products has been discovered and used by hackers to spread ransomware. Kaseya VSA products are heavily used by many Managed Service Providers to provide Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) capabilities.
Full managed service clients are not threatened by this latest major vulnerability which has already been used to spread Ransomware to some affected MSP clients. Co-managed client should be aware of this threat and take steps to monitor for service activity and block services provided by Kaseya VSA at least temporarily.
ETS does not utilize Kaseya VSA products and does not see any current threats to our full managed service client environments.
This, another major breach, emphasizes the importance of IT security measures we recommend and support. In this manner, even if we were utilizing Kaseya VSA, added measures such as firewalls and antivirus/malware/ransomware protection and backup solutions would have been able to repel such an attack and provide a reliable backup in the case that a hacker was to able to circumvent controls.
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https://www.trustets.com/2021/07/03/statement-on-kaseya-vsa-vulnerability/
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A project to fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure is being backed by major technology names.
Formed by The Linux Foundation and backed by companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, Google and Facebook, the initiative will collaboratively identify and fund open source projects that are in need of assistance.
Following the OpenSSL Heartbleed flaw revelations, the first project under consideration to receive funds from the Initiative will be OpenSSL, which could receive fellowship funding for key developers as well as other resources to assist the project in improving its security, enabling outside reviews, and improving responsiveness to patch requests.
Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, said: “We are expanding the work we already do for the Linux kernel to other projects that may need support. Our global economy is built on top of many open source projects. Just as The Linux Foundation has funded Linus Torvalds to be able to focus 100 per cent on Linux development, we will now be able to support additional developers and maintainers to work full-time supporting other essential open source projects.
“We are thankful for these industry leaders’ commitment to ensuring the continued growth and reliability of critical open source projects such as OpenSSL.”
The initiative’s funds will be administered by The Linux Foundation and a steering group comprised of backers of the project, while support will include funding for fellowships for key developers to work full-time on open source projects, security audits, computing and test infrastructure, travel, face-to-face meeting coordination and other support.
Marty Roesch, VP and chief architect of the security business group at Cisco, and CTO and founder of Sourcefire, told IT Security Guru that the great thing about open source is you can have a group of people who are very dedicated on poor infrastructure, pick it up and help the core OpenSSL team out very quickly and transparently.
“It demonstrates the power of the open source way of doing things. Knowing all open source software has bugs – my open source software has bugs over the years and sometimes they exist for a long time as some of the bugs can be subtle,” he said.
“In open source we have the many eyes concept and they are discovering and rooting out bugs rapidly, we have an open discussion on the scope of the bug and determine whether we have seen it replicated anywhere else and what can be done to get rid of those bugs throughout an entire project.”
Imad Sousou, vice president and general manager of the Intel Open Source Technology Center, said: “Intel is committed to support the development of open source technology and Linux. As an active and long term contributor to open source community, Intel believes the Core Infrastructure Initiative can help provide long term, sustainable support to Linux, the world’s most important open source standard.”
Steve Lipner, partner director of software security at Microsoft, said: “Security is an industry-wide concern requiring industry-wide collaboration. The Core Infrastructure Initiative aligns with our participation in open source and the advancement of secure development across all platforms, devices and services.”
John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, said: “Open source code powers everything we do online. We look forward to working with the Linux Foundation, our other comp any partners, and the open source community to make sure these projects get the support they need.”
In an email to IT Security Guru, TK Keanini, CTO of Lancope, said: “This news is generally good news as funding has been surprisingly low for such critical security functionality, but we need to be careful it does not swing the other way. Too much money too fast can also be toxic to these efforts so what is important is that the right governance be put in place and the Linux Foundation has a solid track record in getting this balance right.
“The reality is that even well-funded open source projects sometimes produce critical vulnerabilities. To be clear, this does not remove the chance that a Heartbleed like vulnerability will ever appear, it just makes it harder for it to be released and undiscovered for a very long period.”
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https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2014/04/25/linux-foundation-recruits-tech-heavyweights-fix-open-source/
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TUMWATER, Wash., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Timberland Regional Library ("TRL") announced today that it has taken action after learning of a data security incident which may have involved the personal information of its patrons. TRL began providing notification to all potentially impacted individuals on May 5, 2021.
What Happened? – On January 20, 2021, TRL became aware of a potential data security incident involving suspicious access to one of its employees' email accounts. TRL immediately undertook an internal investigation into the incident and reported the incident to appropriate law enforcement authorities. TRL also changed all passwords associated with the email account and undertook additional affirmative steps to further safeguard the integrity of its systems. TRL thereafter retained a professional forensic investigation firm to determine the nature of the security compromise and identify any individuals whose personal information may have been compromised.
What Information Was Involved? – The forensic investigation concluded that there was evidence of unauthorized access to two (2) TRL employees' email accounts spanning from August 21, 2020 through January 25, 2021. As indicated above, the threat was terminated within only days of identifying suspicious activity. As a result, to exhaust investigative efforts, a full and time-consuming analysis of the impacted mailboxes was performed. The investigation identified the existence of limited personal information within these mailboxes, including dates of birth. This extensive analysis concluded on April 15, 2021.
What TRL Is Doing – As stated above, in addition to the security protocols already in place, following identification of the data security incident, TRL immediately took affirmative steps to safeguard the integrity of its systems and retained a forensic investigation firm to thoroughly investigate the incident. Please be advised that TRL is continuing to identify and implement measures to further strengthen the security of their systems to help prevent this from happening in the future.
What Patrons Can Do – TRL is aware of how important personal information is to its patrons. TRL began mailing notification letters on May 5, 2021 to potentially impacted individuals for whom TRL had valid mailing addresses. Please note that it is entirely possible that an individual's date of birth was not compromised as a result of the incident. Nonetheless, TRL is providing notification of the incident in an abundance of caution. If an individual does not receive a letter, but would like to know if he or she is potentially impacted by this incident, or if an individual has any questions or would like additional information, they may call TRL's dedicated assistance line at (855) 535-1790 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday.
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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/timberland-regional-library-takes-action-after-learning-of-data-security-incident-301285269.html
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Intel has launched the Atom N550 today--its first dual-core Atom processor. The next-generation Atom processor boosts the power and capabilities of smaller mobile computers--providing businesses with even more cost effective options for portable computing.
The Atom N550 processors is available on the shelf as of today in a dozen or so different netbook models. The manufacturers that are already on the dual-core Atom bandwagon include Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba.
The Atom was designed by Intel to provide a more energy-efficient alternative to the Celeron-M processors that were being used in netbooks at the time. The launch of the Atom made the netbook a more powerful mobile computing platform and basically ignited the explosion of the netbook market.
"In their short history, the netbook category has experienced impressive growth," said Erik Reid, director of marketing for mobile platforms at Intel. "Having shipped about 70 million Intel Atom chips for netbooks since our launch of the category in 2008, there is obviously a great market for these devices around the world."
As the high end of notebooks -- the larger and more powerful cousins of the netbook -- evolve from dual-core to the more powerful quad-core processors, the Atom N550 moves the diminutive netbook platform into the dual-core era. The Atom N550 processor runs at 1.5GHz, and includes support for DDR3 memory as well.
Netbooks are the first out of the gate with the new Atoms -- and the netbook market represents the most obvious benefactor of the transition to dual-core processing -- but there are wider applications for the new Intel processors as well. The more powerful processor also opens the possibility of dual-core smartphones and tablets as technology continues to migrate to mobile platforms.
Intel's work with Nokia to develop the Meego mobile operating system, and its purchase of McAfee to provide better security for connected devices of all shapes and sizes also hint at what may be on the horizon for Intel.
Companies that want to provide employees with portable computers, but don't need mobile users to have top-end computing power can explore the possibility of deploying dual-core netbooks rather than full-blown notebook PCs. Even single-core netbooks are capable of completing the vast majority of tasks that mobile workers might need to perform.
Netbooks are smaller and lighter than notebooks, making them easier to lug around while on the go. They also have significantly better battery life than typical notebooks--lasting six hours or more on a single charge. And, let's not forget that netbooks are generally much cheaper than typical notebook PCs.
Smartphones and tablets have pushed netbooks to the back of the mobile computing bus, but those platforms have limitations and sometimes mobile workers need a "real" computer. The Atom N550 processors bring dual-core power to netbooks, and expand the possibilities for computing on the go.
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/358018/double_your_netbook_power_new_dual-core_atoms/
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Ensuring IT security presents our university with ever greater challenges. In recent weeks, a large number of phishing e-mails have been sent to our Unibas e-mail addresses. This is an attempt to lure someone by e-mail to a prepared page, which has been copied pixel-for-pixel from a legal page, in order to obtain a user name and password there. Again and again people fall for these e-mails. This is a risk for those affected, who have entered their access data and thus passed it on.
The password is the key to all university information, this includes the personal SAP portal, all e-mails and all data, including the personal drive. If the password falls into the wrong hands, third parties can access, copy, read and change all this information. I.e., data can be deleted, banking information can be changed, and emails can be written. This can happen unnoticed for a long time. If, as we strongly advise against, the password is used for other accounts or other services, these are also compromised.
Don't be put off by urgent wording.
Always check the sender's address and links within the e-mails carefully.
Do not open any unexpected documents, and be careful with macros and other additional functions that can be activated.
If IT Services sends you an e-mail with a link to a login, this will be accompanied by a note to check links carefully.
If IT Services receives a phishing e-mail from you, they will then initiate necessary measures to prevent further distribution of this e-mail, among other things.
Due to the sometimes high volume of forwarded e-mails, you will not receive a reply to reported phishing e-mails.
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https://its.unibas.ch/en/security/phishing/
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Me and my posse, that's who! We're going to give away an Xbox 360 to some lucky person at each live TechNet Seminar. I'm still checking on the exact information, but here's what I do know... Starting next week, we'll have one Xbox 360 to give away at each live seminar. You can get a view of all of the seminars at http://www.technetevents.com.
I am checking to confirm which Xbox 360 package we are giving away. I'm hoping it's the Premium but probably won't know for sure until Monday around lunch. I'm also checking to see how long this is going on. I think we are doing this for the remainder of the quarter (close to Christmas). I'll update this post when I have the details.
As with all of our seminars, you'll be treated to some great information. This quarter, we discuss Exchange Server 2007, the power of Windows Server Active Directory, and some information on Windows Vista.
I don't really know yet how the presenters intend to do their giveaway drawing. Some presenters prefer to do it at the beginning of the event. Others like to do it at the end. Anyway, it should be fun!
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/keithcombs/2006/10/28/guess-whos-giving-away-xbox-360s/
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Want the “real world” scoop on the new Distributed Cache Service in SharePoint 2013? In this article, SharePoint PFE Vladimir Medina from Mexico City shares some tips from the field to help you keep your SharePoint 2013 Farm healthy.
If you, like me, are playing with SharePoint 2013 or if you have plans to migrate/deploy SharePoint 2013, you may have already heard about Distributed Cache (a.k.a. Velocity or AppFabric). In this post, I’d like to make you aware of some tips from the field that may help you avoid some serious issues in your production Farm.
When you run Configuration Wizard on SharePoint 2013 (a.k.a. psconfig), Distributed Cache service is enabled by default on that server. If you run the wizard on all SharePoint servers in the Farm, the service will be running on all those servers which is not the ideal configuration for your production environment. To avoid this problem, configure your servers via PowerShell instead of the wizard. After the first Farm server is configured, you can use connect-spconfigurationdatabase with –skipregisterasdistributedcachehost parameter.
Plan to have a dedicated server or servers run only the Distributed Cache service. Avoid sharing that server(s) with any other service, even Central Administration, because Distributed Cache needs special considerations with respect to resources and maintenance activities.
on the server to be removed or on all dedicated servers (a.k.a. Cache Hosts)
TIP: If you need Distributed Cache to always be available then leave the service running on one server.
When your maintenance is over, go to Central Administration and start Distributed Cache service from Services on Server page, then wait until service is listed as “started.”
Never stop the AppFabric service from the Services applet in Windows or restart servers running AppFabric without gracefully stopping the Distributed Cache service.
The Distributed Cache service is based on AppFabric, which is a prerequisite when you install SharePoint 2013. AppFabric has its own administration via PowerShell and developers can use it to deploy new features, however direct management and development on AppFabric in a SharePoint Farm is not supported. If you have issues with AppFabric or Distributed Cache then get support from Microsoft, do not use the AppFabric management directly. If you want to develop new features, use a dedicated AppFabric environment outside the SharePoint Farm.
AppFabric has his own updates, so SharePoint Administrators must be aware of those updates and their interaction with SharePoint Farm. Follow the AppFabric Team Blog to learn more about it.
If you’d like to sleep well before and after your new SharePoint 2013 deployment/migration process, I encourage you to bookmark this article . I’m also really interested in your experience and comments, so please share your stories with us and help us learn and share more tips about SharePoint – all will be welcomed!
If all servers have the service stopped then leave one without running this cmdlet, which will be your first server to restart.
Suppose you have two Distributed cache servers and you have a maintenance (reboot) to do. what would you do?
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mspfe/2013/12/11/tips-and-tricks-from-the-field-on-the-new-distributed-cache-service-in-sharepoint-2013/
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Asymmetric encryption is also known as public-key cryptography. Different keys are utilized for encryption and decryption. This public key can be disclosed. The private key on the other hand must be kept secret by the owner. Given a public key, the private key cannot easily be calculated. This is based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers in modular arithmetic.
Asymmetric encryption provides two common use cases.
Somebody sends an encrypted message that only the owner of the private key can decrypt. This can provide confidentiality.
The owner of the private key signs a message as a proof of authorship. Furthermore, this would make modifications to the message body detectable, as the signature would become invalid.
The following two aspects have to be considered when talking about asymmetric encryption.
Authentication - The source of an encryption key can not easily be verified and be a man-in-the-middle. Public key infrastructure (PKI) tries to address this issues by providing a trust anchor in form of a certificate authority. An alternative is the decentralized “web of trust”. Individual endorsements provide a link between a user and a public key.
Performance - asymmetric encryption is slower than symmetric encryption. In TLS the keys for symmetric encryption are exchanged between the parties via asymmetric encryption.
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https://xn--kemetmller-feb.com/glossar/asymmetric-encryption/
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As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise rapidly around the world, an increasing number of companies are closing their office doors and instructing employees, wherever possible, to work from home.
This shift in business operations is an essential move to halt the virus’ spread. But the sudden and massive uptick in remote working leaves businesses extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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https://www.nhmep.org/4-ways-to-maintain-cybersecurity-for-your-business-during-remote-work/
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As a move to mitigate the rising incidents of ransomware, phishing, and malware attacks, among others, Schneider Electric has urged energy companies, financial institutions, large industries, and micro small and medium (MSMEs) sized companies to be extra vigilant, and to deploy proven cybersecurity measures especially as the perpetrators of cybercrime have become more sophisticated.
The energy company made this during a webinar organised by the Franco-Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the theme: “Cybersecurity and process automation in today’s business environment”.
In his presentation, Obukohwo Obukonise, a Senior Systems and Cybersecurity Engineer at Schneider Electric, said that “an attack is any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal or gain information through unauthorized access to, or make unauthorized use of an asset” in computers and computer networks.
Citing AV-Test.org May 2021 reports, Obukonise said that malware attacks in the last 7 years, rose from 470 million in 2015 to 1.2 billion in 2021. Also, between 2020 and 2021, he said that the number rose from 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion. He attributed this rise to successes in previous years attacks where attackers made a fortune and are now investing the monies into developing more sophisticated malware.
He said, “Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are lots of people and organisations who are now online.
People and organisations now rely on cloud computing and IOT resources for their business model. So, there are so many targets on the internet. It is now easier for attackers to be able to compromise their targets. They have many options. Many people are online now because it is the norm.”
On the reasons for cyber attacks, the Schneider Electric engineer identified hacktivism against government/organization, disgruntled employees against employers, cyber warfare, politically motivated attacks, financial gains, identity theft, and stealing of trade secret, as some of the reasons.
He listed ransomware, Denial of Service, Zero-day exploit, cloud data breaches, man-in-the-middle, phishing, and malware, as most common cyberattacks.
“Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, by impersonating oneself as a trustworthy entity in a digital communication,” Obukonise said.
On his part, Ajibola Akindele, the General Manager Sub-Saharan Africa, for Process Automation averred that Schneider Electric had assisted clients to create customised cybersecurity architecture solutions.
He said: “This isn’t strange to us and we always recommend solutions that fit into companies’ strategic plans.
“We have done it in Oil & Gas, Power, Utility, Manufacturing space and across several other industries. All that experience is being brought to bear now that cases have skyrocketed.
“It was Cybersecurity Ventures that predicted that cybercrime will annually cost the world US$10.5 trillion by 2025.
“Now, that’s larger than the damage caused by natural disasters in a year; it’s even larger than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined! So, this is serious and you don’t want to be caught unawares”.
READ ALSO: Why Robotic Process Automation is Taking Over Your Job
For Energy Companies and large industries, he recommended the deployment of web application security and anti-phishing software; deployment of anomaly detection, network intrusion detection, next generation firewall and SIEM; deployment of web server and application server encryption, 2FA authentication; and organising cyber security training and awareness workshop, as part of measures against phishing.
He also noted that the MSMEs aren’t spared. While some may find it challenging to acquire the necessary cybersecurity architecture, others might not clearly see the need. Mere awareness and regular update of apps are starting points to being secure in the cyber space, he recommended.
In the same vein, Victor Lough, head of NESSA Cluster Cyber Business Consultant for Schneider Electric spoke to the theme: “Build an end to end cyber security strategy for greater protection” while making his presentation at the Cyber Security Academy Webinar.
He emphasized the importance of building a resilient team that would establish an in-depth defence mechanism which includes installation and implementation of an anomaly detection program.
Lough noted that the prowess of the Schneider Electric global team has seen them offer services to leading business and government organisations.
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/05/cybercrime-schneider-alerts-financial-institutions-energy-coys-others-on-preventive-measures/
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Stress risk assessments are more than a tick-box exercise for compliance; they're a cornerstone in crafting a comprehensive mental health strategy for your workplace.
While supportive tools like Mental Health First Aid and Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) are invaluable, they often come into play as reactive measures. Stress risk assessments, however, provide the blueprint for a proactive approach to mental wellbeing.
What is a Stress Risk Assessment?
Think of a stress risk assessment as a comprehensive health check-up for your work environment. It aims to identify potential stressors that could adversely affect your team's mental health. This living document adapts over time, allowing you to customise benefits and working conditions to serve your team's unique needs better.
But it's not a cursory glance. A stress risk assessment is your gateway to untapped insights, offering a holistic view that informs your preventive strategies.
Proactive and Preventative
Unlike EAPs, designed to intervene after a crisis, stress risk assessments function as an early-warning system. Regularly performing these checks sends a clear message to your employees: you're committed to their wellbeing. It can also serve as a protective measure against legal ramifications.
Throwing money at mental health initiatives without a strategic focus is akin to applying a plaster to a splinter that hasn't been removed. Stress risk assessments allow you to allocate your resources effectively, ensuring maximum impact.
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https://www.lancashirebusinessview.co.uk/latest-news-and-features/dont-just-react-prevent-the-case-for-stress-risk-assessments-at-work-7327
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Infamous ransomware GandCrab could finally be on the way out, after white hats released yet another updated decryptor tool designed to help victims to get their data back.
In partnership with various law enforcement agencies including Europol, the Metropolitan Police, the FBI and NCA, Bitdefender has released the latest in a string of tools which it claimed has saved tens of thousands of organizations $50m in unpaid ransom money.
This effectively neutralizes every version of the ransomware-as-a-service offering up to and including the latest, v5.2. It can be downloaded from the No More Ransom project.
Although the ransomware rose to claim a 50% market share in August 2018, these efforts have done much to limit its appeal on the cybercrime underground.
“The three decryptors released in collaboration with partner law enforcement agencies – and particularly the GandCrab decryptor for version 5.1 – compelled GandCrab affiliates to shrink their business to avoid unnecessary costs,” claimed Bitdefender senior threat analyst, Bogdan Botezatu.
“For instance, in February 2019, after the release of the decryptor for version 5.1, affiliates kept pushing decryptable versions of the malware for more than a week, allowing fresh victims to decrypt their data for free. As of March 2019, GandCrab’s market share has shrunk back to 30%, with almost one in three infections tied to the group.”
GandCrab differs from many of its counterparts in that it’s offered via an affiliate model: distributors effectively purchase a license to spread the malware, keeping most of the profits themselves but sharing 40% with the original developers.
It’s a model that has served those ransomware authors well: a few weeks ago they published a statement claiming to have generated $2bn from their endeavors over the past year, personally netting $150m.
In the same note they claimed to be retiring, and stopped distribution partners from accessing the latest version of the ransomware.
This could spell the end for GandCrab, but it won’t be the end of the ransomware threat for businesses.
Botezatu claimed his firm sees 12 new ransomware strains each month, of which only around 10% are decryptable.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/update-gandcrab-decryptor-to-1/
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Global clothing and fashion accessories retailer Guess announced this week that it suffered a ransomware attack in February that enabled unnamed hackers to access and exfiltrate customer information, including social security numbers and passport numbers.
In a notification mailed to all affected customers, Susan Tenney, Senior Director of Human Resources at Guess, Inc. said the company recently discovered that certain devices were accessed without authorisation and that an attempt was made by malicious actors to encrypt the company’s systems.
“We immediately activated our incident response plan, took measures to stop the access, and launched an investigation. A cybersecurity forensic firm was engaged to assist with the investigation and identified unauthorised access to Guess’ systems between February 2, 2021, and February 23, 2021.
“On May 26, 2021, the investigation determined that personal information related to certain individuals may have been accessed or acquired by an unauthorised actor during that time. The information accessed or acquired may have included your Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, and/or financial account number,” she added in the notification accessed by Bleeping Computer.
Guess added that it is offering a complimentary one-year membership in credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected customers and to prevent such an incident from occurring again, it is implementing additional measures to further enhance the security of its network and existing security protocols. According to Bleeping Computer, the data of more than 1,300 people was accessed or acquired by ransomware actors.
Even though Guess did not name the hacker group responsible for the attack, the DarkSide ransomware gang, which gained infamy after targeting Colonial Pipeline’s network in May, reportedly boasted about having the fashion retailer as one of its victims in April. According to Databreaches.net, DarkSide claimed that it exfiltrated more than 200GB of data from Guess’ systems and advised the company to use insurance to cover the ransom payment.
Commenting on the incident suffered by Guess, Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, said that although the Darkside ransomware group is out of commission, that does not mean this breach is insignificant. The significant amount and very personal types of data being collected by the organisation, including passport numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account and/or credit/debit card numbers with security codes, passwords, or PIN numbers, is an extremely valuable dataset for cyber criminals if they want to steal identities. For this reason, unlike it appears in this case, organisations are wise to limit the amount of data kept and stored in systems.
“Since ransomware, including that from the Darkside group and their affiliates, often targets compromised user accounts for remote access services and also typically relies heavily on email phishing campaigns, these are areas organizations should focus on securing. Ensuring multi-factor authentication is used to protect accounts, employees are trained to spot and report phishing emails and good password hygiene can go a long way to improving security against these types of breaches. In addition, organizations should have data loss prevention (DLP) controls in place and monitored constantly,” he added.
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https://www.teiss.co.uk/guess-suffered-ransomware-attack-in-february/
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The group that released the likely NSA-designed hacking tool used in the international "Wanna Cry" ransomware attack announced a monthly subscription service Tuesday for its remaining cache of stolen documents.
The anonymous ShadowBrokers, who have been periodically releasing source code and documents believed to have been stolen from the National Security Agency since the summer, announced the new monetization scheme in a post early Tuesday morning. The message was written in broken English typical of the group.
"Is being like wine of month club. Each month peoples can be paying membership fee, then getting members only data dump each month. What members doing with data after is up to members," the Brokers wrote.
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Tools released by the ShadowBrokers are believed to have been used in the international Wanna Cry ransomware attack, which encrypted data in computers in 150 countries and temporarily shuttered some British hospitals and a Spanish telecom.
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a target's files, with the attacker providing the decryption key only after a ransom is paid, usually in bitcoins.
ShadowBrokers first leaked files in August it claimed were from a vaunted NSA-affiliated hacking operation known as the Equation Group, advertising an auction for the files. The files contained previously unknown, working techniques to bypass security hardware from major manufacturers. The release lead to a scramble to patch those products.
The Intercept reported that evidence within the leaked source code showed that the Brokers were correct about the files' provenance.
Though the files appeared to be real, ShadowBrokers failed multiple times to sell the tools, in part because of the lopsided terms they required for potential buyers.
In January the group sent a goodbye post, but returned in April to release a package of Windows hacking tools that included the one used in Wanna Cry. The April release was presented as a protest against President Trump for becoming more centrist and turning his back on the hard-right base that got him elected. In it, the Brokers claimed to be Trump voters.
In their Tuesday post, the Brokers say data from that hacking operation and from other high-profile hacking operations might be included in the "wine of the month" club.
Tuesday's post, titled "OH LORDY! Comey Wanna Cry Edition," also takes shots at Windows network administrators that did not update their software in time to stave off Wanna Cry — noting that the group announced early on in their campaign what files it had to release, giving people some notice to patch their systems.
"TheShadowBrokers is feeling like being very responsible party about Windows dump. Do thepeoples be preferring theshadowbrokers dump windows in January or August? No warning, no time to patch? this is being theshadowbrokers version of alternative facts," wrote the group.
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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/333575-nsa-leakers-that-lead-to-wanna-cry-to-offer-wine-of-the-month-club-for
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CRM systems are where the richest data about customer relationships is supposed to live, and most CRM systems provide a report-writing system as well as dozens of canned reports. As I wrote last week, reports immediately expose data quality problems and some of them can provide dangerous misinformation.
This week we're looking at the reports that really do make a difference in managing your business. But first, let's look at the foundation: meaningful data.
Let's Assume Data Hygiene
I'm sure it's safe to assume that nobody reading this article has any problem with dupes, phantoms, inaccurate field values, or systemic problems with data quality. So I'll go ahead and assume that.
But seriously, nobody achieves 100% data quality. As I wrote here, perfectionism in data is prohibitively expensive, and those last few percent yield asymptotically less real business value. In the real world, we can live with 5 to 10 percent data impurity, particularly if we know which parts of the data have lower quality than others. (Hint: calculate a data confidence index for each record, and include it with the records to help temper analytical conclusions).
1. Controlling the data definitions and system object model to achieve the most consistent semantics.
2. Purifying the data on a regular basis to remove pollution and troubleshoot systemic sources, whether caused by flaky business processes or buggy integrations.
3. Writing reports so that users don't get tripped up by misunderstandings and logical fallacies.
The marketing and sales folks — those pesky right-brained CRM users — are not going to get this right themselves. Trust me, they'll thank you for this as long as your team is halfway responsive.
Valuable Report Area #1: Customer Service
If you've got your order expediting, help desk, or tech support function using CRM, a terrific amount of information can be fairly easily and accurately measured. When an inbound call comes in, your automatic call director (ACD), interactive voice responder (IVR), or even soft-PBX system can start sending customer and call info into the CRM. If your system is equipped with "screen pops" and other features that make the support peoples' job easier, they'll naturally enter in information about what the customer's problem was and what the path to resolution is. Integrate the CRM with your e-mail system and Web portal, and you'll effortlessly get tons of information about the specifics of the problem, how many touches were required to resolve it, what documents are the most useful to problem resolution, and what the ultimate time to resolve was. Add a survey system to the end of your support process, and you get immediate feedback from the customer about the service quality, general satisfaction, and willingness to recommend.
Since almost all your service interactions will be with customers, you'll have good data for cross-referencing and segmentation. You'll instantly be able to approximate the cost of escalated bugs and service-level agreement (SLA) violations, even if the CSRs aren't logging timecards in the system.
While some of the metrics may be somewhat arbitrary (e.g., number of calls handled per hour), here are some very meaningful reports and dashboards that can be created from the CS data:
In most companies, order operations is a forgotten backwater. It's just assumed to work. But the quote-to-cash business process can be amazingly complicated, full of opportunities for errors and waste. Add in eCommerce and sales channels, and there's tons of hidden information about your products, customer behavior, and your sales organization.
Order operations and fulfillment is ripe for data mining because it's practically a closed-loop system, and you don't deal in speculation or opinion. You got the order or you didn't...you shipped it right or you didn't...it was profitable or it wasn't. The hard part of these reports is the integration of order flows and accounting information across e-commerce, ERP, aAccounting, and CRM systems, but the leverage comes from the unique keys that are available for nearly every object and record.
You'll notice that neither of these great report areas touches on sales and marketing — what most people consider the "home base" for CRM's value added. Now I'm a card-carrying member of the right-brained group, but even I have to admit that there's a lot less certainty about data relating to the decision/purchase cycle than the fulfillment/consumption/service cycle. In order ops and service, you'd never hear a quote like John Wannamaker's quip: "half the money I spend in marketing is wasted — trouble is, I don't know which half."
David Taber is the author of the new Prentice Hall book, "Salesforce.com Secrets of Success" and is the CEO of SalesLogistix, a certified Salesforce.com consultancy focused on business process improvement through use of CRM systems. SalesLogistix clients are in North America, Europe, Israel, and India, and David has over 25 years experience in high tech, including 10 years at the VP level or above.
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Previous thirty day period, Mr. Biden applied the summit with Mr. Putin to make the case that ransomware was rising as an even larger risk, resulting in the form of economic disruption that no condition could tolerate. Mr. Biden specifically cited the halting of the stream of gasoline on the […]
Mr. Biden specifically cited the halting of the stream of gasoline on the East Coast soon after an assault on Colonial Pipeline in June, as effectively as the shutdown of major meat-processing vegetation and before ransomware attacks that paralyzed hospitals.
The concern has come to be so urgent that it has started shifting the negotiations amongst Washington and Moscow, elevating the handle of electronic weapons to a degree of urgency previously observed mainly in nuclear arms management negotiations. On Tuesday, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, said American officials will satisfy with Russian officials next 7 days to examine ransomware assaults — a dialogue the two leaders had agreed upon at their summit in Geneva.
On Saturday, as the attacks ended up underway, Mr. Putin gave a speech timed to the rollout of Russia’s newest national security approach that outlines actions to react to international affect. The document claimed that Russian “traditional spiritual-ethical and cultural-historic values are less than energetic assault from the U.S. and its allies.”
When the technique reaffirmed Moscow’s dedication to working with diplomacy to solve conflicts, it stressed that Russia “considers it legitimate to just take symmetrical and uneven measures” to avert “unfriendly actions” by foreign states.
The remarks, cybersecurity experts stated, had been Mr. Putin’s response to the summit with Mr. Biden.
“Biden did a fantastic career laying down a marker, but when you’re a thug, the first factor you do is check that red line,” claimed James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Heart for Strategic and International Research in Washington. “And that’s what we’re viewing listed here.”
Mr. Lewis extra that “low-close penalties” like sanctions had been exhausted. “The White Residence will have to use a lot more intense measures, regardless of whether that is a thing in cyberspace, or a much more painful authorized or financial maneuver,” he said.
Stronger measures have lengthy been debated, and once in a while made use of. When Russian intelligence agencies set destructive code into the American electric power grid in latest decades — in which it is considered to reside to this day — the United States in convert set code into the Russian grid, and produced certain it was witnessed, as a deterrent. Ahead of the 2020 election, United States Cyber Command took down the servers of a big Russian cybercriminal procedure to protect against it from locking up voting infrastructure.
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The surge in cyber-attacks is impacting Cyber Insurance underwriting and pricing, leading to increased pricing and some difficulty obtaining comprehensive coverage for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses). eSpecialty Insurance recently posted a new article how the criminal attacks are impacting the Cyber Insurance market.
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Earlier, if you wanted to keep an eye on your spouse, you would have to rummage through his or her drawer and cupboard to find secret letters and keepsakes. The later decades introduced security locks and codes to help secure personal information from prying eyes. People have now started storing information on their smartphones and, more recently, tablets, in password-protected files and folders. Similar security measures can be adopted for calls and text messages.
The field of science and technology is a queer one. For every new item or facility it creates, it also offers an antidote. This explains the creation and launch of cell phone spyware.
Spyware – An Introduction
Spyware are software applications that enable users to gather confidential information about a person or organization without their knowledge. Such kinds of tracking software applications are typically used to monitor cell phone activity, but they can be used on tablet and computers as well.
The phone spyware applications are installed on a device, secretly. Once installed on the phone or computer, the spyware exports varied details including call logs, text messages sent and received, mobile internet connections, web pages browsed and the phone’s physical location.
Normally the data is exported to a cloud server where the person spying can access the date for viewing. best cell phone spy apps
A few highly advanced applications for telephones also allow users to listen to phone conversations, and use the phone as a microphone – someone spying can listen to a conversation in a room where the telephone is. The owner of the phone, tablet or computer does not have the slightest hint that private information is being transferred to a third-party via the tracking software application.
Types of Spyware
1) Most are in the form of concealed malware that generally tags along with free downloads or gains access to your system when you visit pornographic sites. As soon as they gain entry, they set up automatically and start leaking out private and confidential information.
2) The other type includes software applications that are purchased and installed on the device one intends to track. After the application has been successfully installed, the user only has to log in to the app website to track movements and access your information.
Who can use Cell Phone Spyware?
Spyware has earned a bad name because it is largely used by criminals and stalkers. Gathering information covertly might also not sound like a very good idea to you. However, it isn’t bad if it is for the opposite person’s good or the good of the people at large.
Computer and cell phone spyware were used to launch successful business marketing campaigns. By monitoring a person’s use of the internet including the websites visited and the pages viewed, business owners attempted to tweak their marketing strategies and thereby reach their target audience.
Parents and spouses make up a large percent of commercial spyware users. As far as parents are concerned, the use is for a good reason. Given the amount of time children spend online, parents should keep a check on the websites their children visit, the people they contact and their whereabouts; whether they attend school regularly or spend their time elsewhere. Spouses also have the right to know to if their partner is cheating on them
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Ramy Ayari’s cyber activism led him to work on a number of campaigns, but none of them had the same impact as the campaign he led against Nizar Affes – a Tunisian, resident in the UK, notorious for hate speech against LGBT people in Tunisia. That campaign helped in the arrest of Affes by Leicestershire Police, relating to his online incitement of violence and hate against the LGBT community.
During an interview on Tunisia’s AttessiaTV in late February, Affes stated that he started off by posting “comedic” commentary on Tiktok against what he deems “indecent” behavior by LGBT Tunisians, while he was in Covid-related lockdown in the UK. It was not possible to reach Affes for comment through his social media accounts as they have been suspended, his YouTube channel, the only remaining account, only lists those suspended accounts.
“It started in the first confinement. I was sitting at home without anything to do. I thought what could I do to pass 6 to 7 months at home … So I thought why not do reactions on these [LGBT] people,” said Affes, better known by his social media moniker “Lapa”, during his TV interview.
According to Ayari, “Lapa,” is believed to have had as many as 150,000 Instagram followers and 88,000 Facebook followers before his accounts were suspended. In the TV interview Affes claims: “NGOs are working against me and people are paying money to remove my first Instagram [account], the second, the third, the fourth, a Facebook page, YouTube [channel], and again a Facebook page.”
In a 2020 survey conducted by a number of NGOs in the Middle East, 61.7% of respondents in four countries including Tunisia said they were victims of a cyberattack or cyber bullying. Furthermore, 46.8% said the cyberattack turned into physical violence, although almost 40% of the survey respondents chose not to answer this question.
“It’s not one or two influencers, it’s a group of people who constantly try to use shaming and hate speech,” says Dima Samaro, a Middle East and North Africa policy analyst at Access Now, an NGO that defends the digital rights of people around the world.
Before his accounts were suspended, Lapa would regularly draw on videos and images of people in Tunisia – some underage – whom he perceived of as “feminine” or “gay.” Beyond abusing and shaming them, Lapa also routinely called on his followers to mock them and asked that people physically assault them if they see them “in real life.” Although Lapa’s accounts are no longer visible, others have shared or reposted some of his content online.
Before his accounts were suspended, Lapa would regularly draw on videos and images of people in Tunisia whom he perceived of as “feminine” or “gay” routinely called on his followers to mock them and assault them if they see them “in real life.”
According to Ali Bousselmi, Executive Director of Mawjoudin, a pro-LGBT Tunisian NGO, Lapa went further than most by coining new, derogatory terms in the Tunisian dialect to describe people who are gay, as well as fashioning other, new insults directed at LGBT people. These terms caught on, Bousselmi says, and were reused and amplified by others. Klay, a famous Tunisian rapper, for example, used one of Lapa’s derogatory terms in one of his songs, which brought Lapa’s hate speech to a whole new level and audience.
In his interview with AttessiaTV, Lapa confirmed that he was under investigation by the police. The police investigation has been greeted as a victory by Ayari and his fellow LGBT activists. Ayari believes that his campaigning had at least some role in the police launching its investigation.
In an emailed statement in response to Raseef22’s questions, Leicestershire Police confirmed the arrest and said: “On 19 December last year a member of the public reported an incident of malicious communications after viewing a video which caused alarm and distress to the caller.” As a result, the police added, “[an] investigation was launched and a 28-year-old man from Leicester was arrested on suspicion of using threatening words/behaviour intending to stir up sexual orientation hatred.” The police said he is currently released on bail and enquiries around the case are still ongoing.
Lady Samara, another Tunisian, anti-LGBT social media influencer with a large following on Instagram, is also accused of posting anti-LGBT content on her accounts. Despite this, she has not faced any charges because she is in Tunisia and there is no legal framework there that activists can rely on to compel her to cease her actions. Lady Samara did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
Lady Samara, another Tunisian, anti-LGBT social media influencer, is also accused of posting anti-LGBT content. Despite this, she has not faced any charges because she is in Tunisia and there is no legal framework for activists to rely on.
Lapa’s arrest in the UK and Lady Samara’s anti-LGBT postings both serve as a reminder that police interventions against hateful targeting of Tunisian LGBT are only possible, for now, in foreign jurisdictions.
A draft cybercrime law is still under review by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in Tunisia, according to Dr. Aymen Zaghdoudi, a legal advisor at Article 19, a UK-based organisation working on issues relating to the freedom of expression and access to information. Samaro, of Access Now, says that her organisation has requested a draft of that law from the government but were told that a draft cannot be shared as they are “working on amendments.” That was in September 2018. No update on the draft has been announced since then.
In the interim, Dr. Zaghdoudi says, other laws – such as Article 86 of the telecommunications code or Article 52 of the press code – “can and are being used in attempts to limit or prosecute online hate speech.” But that is not an ideal tool to push back against anti-LGBT voices online.
“Such legal [codes] are not interpreted to protect LGBT [people] as homosexuality is still considered a crime [in Tunisia], based on the article 230 from the Tunisian penal code,” Dr. Zaghdoudi says in an email response to questions sent to him. “Therefore, it’s not logical to penalise homosexuality, on the one hand, and prosecute homophobic speech on other hand.
The first step to protect LGBT [people] from hate speech is to repeal article 230 from penal code as it gives legitimacy to the haters.”
Indeed, the criminalisation of homosexuality poses a risk to LGBT people who choose to report cyber bullying and harassment to Tunisian authorities. Rania Amdouni, a prominent LGBT activist was arrested in February 2021 outside a police station after they denied her request to file a complaint against cyber abuse and harassment she faced, including by police union Facebook pages. Instead, Amdouni was accused of “insulting a public officer during the performance of his duty” among other charges after she shouted on policemen. The appeals court vacated a 6-months jail term and a fine last month. Such cases illustrate the reluctance of LGBT people to report cyberattacks against them, Samaro said.
For Ayari, who resides in Canada, even if Tunisian authorities do not take action against influencers who incite violence against LGBT people in Tunisia, complaints must be filed, nonetheless.
“At the very least, we must keep the pressure on,” he says.
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https://raseef22.net/article/1082702-cybercrime-laws-protect-tunis-lgbt-community-abroad-but-not-at-home
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The worst has hit: A nasty virus has gotten its foothold on your system, and you must get rid of it. The effects of viruses can be devastating. However, you can get your computer back up and running with no difficulty due to various tools that can help.
The term “malware” describes all types of malicious software, whether they’re ransomware, viruses, adware, or something other than that. Each threat has its definition. However, the terms are commonly employed interchangeably and could refer to different things for individuals. To simplify things, when we refer to malware, we’re referring to everything you shouldn’t have on your PC, from viruses trying to wipe all your data to spyware software that tracks your internet browsing.
With all the different types of malware and the many different systems configurations available, it is impossible to provide every possible scenario. However, we can offer you a few general malware elimination guidelines that can assist you in getting the help you require.
First, you must identify the problem.
If malware is detected in the system, it can trigger an alarming error message, but sometimes you aren’t. Be on the lookout for warning signs, for example, a computer that is unusually slow or a browser that is bombarded by constant pop-ups or applications that constantly crash.
All computers come with security software for antivirus, regardless of whether it’s Windows Defender. Windows Defender tool built into Windows 10 or 11. Security software for extra protection is less crucial on macOS since its integrated security tools are highly effective, but a nifty piece of malware will gain access.
If you have security software installed, make sure you keep it current. When you suspect you’ve been targeted, perform an extensive system scan. The application will have directions on how to run a scan. This is usually the first step to eliminating undesirable software.
If your computer displays particular symptoms, like a message that contains a specific error code or a potentially dangerous ransomware warning, do a Google search to find out more. If your main computer is infected and could create problems for your web browser, you can seek answers using your smartphone or another computer.
The suggestion to look online for help might seem as if we’re trying to make a profit. However, this is the best method for dealing with the latest and most significant dangers. If you want to eliminate the malware that’s overwhelmed the computer’s built-in protection against viruses, You’ll likely need to adhere to specific guidelines. If you don’t, you may cause the problem to get worse.
When new threats are discovered, security companies quickly release solutions and tools. It’s crucial to keep up-to-date with the latest technology information whenever it occurs. If your antivirus program has been displaying empty, go online to see if any companies have launched bespoke repair tools you can use to fix the issue you’re experiencing.
Based on the information you gather and scans for antivirus tell, you look at disconnecting your PC from the internet to prevent any infections from spreading or shutting down your computer completely to guard against any damage to files.
On-demand tools available to take out the most challenging malware
Now, you’ve checked your system for malware with the security software you usually use and investigated to determine what could be causing the issue. If you’re still having a problem or have yet to produce any results, online malware scanners are available on demand. They don’t need installation and can serve as valuable “second opinions” to your antivirus programs.
Tools like Microsoft Safety Scanner, Spybot Search and Destroy, Bitdefender Security Scanner (also available for macOS), Kaspersky Security Scan, Avira PC Cleaner, Malwarebytes, and others can be incorporated into your system for additional assistance. They’ll help you troubleshoot issues and offer your security tools an extra helping hand.
Another reason for using additional software is that any malicious software that has been able to take root in your system could be preventing your security tools from working correctly. This could be preventing your internet access. If this is the scenario, you’ll need to use an alternative computer for downloading these on-demand applications onto the USB stick and then transfer the program to the computer you’re experiencing issues with.
(Related to How to determine what’s on the mysterious USB device safely].»
The apps mentioned above will thoroughly analyze your computer and eliminate any malware they spot. To ensure that you’re running scans with a few different programs. If your computer is infected, these tools will likely be able to detect the problem and fix it or, at the very least, provide further information.
If your security tools and an on-demand scanner or two have provided your system with an excellent report of good health, it’s likely (though not necessarily) in good shape. This means that any ongoing problems or crashes may be caused by other causes, ranging from an uninstalled update to the failure of your computer’s hard disk.
Remove any apps you don’t want, and think about resetting your system.
If you’ve exhausted the security software solutions, there are several alternatives. One option is to search through your downloaded apps or web browser extension and remove any that you don’t know about or require. The issue with this method is that you may unintentionally delete crucial pieces of software. If you decide to do this, do more research on the internet to determine if the applications and add-ons you’re evaluating are reliable.
The most drastic but highly effective course of action is completely wiping your PC, installing your operating system, and beginning a new one. While this process will erase all personal data, it is likely to remove malware and other harmful software at the same time. Before you do this, ensure that all critical folders and files are backup elsewhere, as well as ensure that you’re able to download all the applications you have installed.
Reinstalling your operating system and restoring your computer to its factory state is a lot easier than it was in the past. We have a guide to resetting Windows 10 and 11, and Apple provides directions for macOS. If you’re looking for more tips, there is plenty of information on the internet.
That’s it! By combining bespoke removal techniques, security software, scanners on demand, and (if needed) an entire system wipe, you’ll be able to effectively eliminate any malware that has taken hold within your system. If you still need help with the issue, you should seek out the help of experts. IT repair experts within your region can assist you.
How can we avoid future problems?
Proactively protecting your computer against malware is a different story; however, here’s a brief overview of the essentials. Be cautious with the attachments and links you click on and the files you download onto your computer. Be aware that most malware and viruses will make their way onto your computer via your browser, email, or So, make sure to use common sense and be cautious about what you click and download. Taking the necessary precautions to keep your accounts online secure and safe is also essential.
After that, you must install the reliable security software you depend on. If you’re running Windows 10 and 11, the built-in Windows Defender program is a reliable antivirus tool, regardless of whether you install any additional features. You can enhance your PC’s security by purchasing different programs from Norton, Avast, and others. Although the number of malicious software that targets Apple computers is increasing, they’re safer than Windows computers. The consensus is that macOS is generally protected from harm if you install only via the App Store and use a lot of common sensible. This means you should stay clear of using shady websites or connecting odd USB drives you’ve stumbled across in the streets.
Make sure that your software is updated and patched. The majority of operating systems and browsers will automatically update in the background. However, you can look for pending updates for Windows 10 by going to Settings and then clicking Update and Security (on Windows 11, it’s Settings > Windows Update). If you’re using a macOS computer, start your App Store and then switch to the Updates tab to check what available updates you haven’t yet downloaded.
It’s not easy to offer an exact set-up for each device and user but remember that 100 percent efficient protection is difficult to ensure. Be vigilant.
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Customer -Company's ability to attract and retain customers and charge high price. If you get something on it you don't like, you ball it up and throw it away, and rip off a new, fresh one. They also noted that the "Scan Processes on enable" option of VirusScan, off by default in most VirusScan installations, was turned on in the majority of affected computers.
Actually, it's quite the opposite — when you need to do a full virus scan, the software must be simple to pick-up and use. Where do they come from.
There would be less unsecure PCs, less PC in general. Actions have been taken to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future. No, because the service McAfee is so slow, and mistakes are made computers defective or completely not working 4.
Am I irresponsible to run all my computers without anti-virus software. I hold similar opinions on Mac. Consider antivirus and backup solutions that are designed to work together and if possible, are developed by the same company. Some programs even have an enforcement feature that monitors and enforces the use of antivirus software across the network, preventing end-users from altering the configuration of the scanner on their desktop machines.
No matter how much security software you install, nagging users with dozens of security dialogs clearly doesn't make users any safer. A Virtual Device Driver VxD does not use conventional memory and is the ideal technology for anti-virus software under Windows 3.
Network administrators should focus on features that simplify the management and updating of a network of antivirus software users. So, it is uniquely qualified to convert existing files provided by publishers into a format readable by the iPad and to add additional features.
A Windows interface and its ease-of-use are important to consider. The most important detection rate to consider when choosing antivirus software is its ability to detect and cure viruses in the wild.
McAfee's update reached a large number of machines so quickly without detection because most companies trust their antivirus provider to get it right. The only way tech support staffs working in organizations could fix the problem was to go from computerto computer manually.
For the times when a user has several apps open at once and they're all pulling data from the web like the genius employee in our examplethis is when the protection of the antivirus will be needed the most. VirusScan users applied the update, tried rebooting their systems, and were powerless to act as their systems went haywire, repeatedly rebooting, losing their network capabilities and, worst of all, their ability to detect USB drives, which is the only way of fixing affected computers.
The tool has been successful at remediating the problem caused by the faulty DAT update for multiple customers. Why would an employee do such a thing. The company has worked to compile a long track record of good customer service and strong quality assurance.
All other products mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. From the mids on, we have seen this stereotype break down, with the emergence of two further kinds of virus writer.
Now, we understand how lag can be frustrating, in fact, improving the processing speed of a PC is one service that we offer in order to alleviate such frustration.
The Best Antivirus Protection of Antivirus software is critical for every PC. Without it, you risk losing your personal information, your files, and even the cash from your bank account.
When Antivirus Software Cripples Your Computers. checker. Antivirus programs are software packages designed to protect computers against malicious programs or malware that may infect a computer when using the Internet. antivirus program—A form of security software that protects against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and some spyware.
botnet —A network of computer zombies or bots controlled by a master. A botnet can be used to send out spam and viruses or to launch a denial-of-service attack.
WHEN ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE CRIPPLES YOUR COMPUTERS that relied heavily on Windows XP computers strug-gled to cope with the majority of their machines suddenly failing.
Angry network administrators turned to McAfee for answers, and the company was initially just as. Antivirus or anti-virus software (often abbreviated as AV), sometimes known as anti-malware software, is computer software used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software.
This cripples communications more effectively than many real viruses, preventing access to email that may be really important.
It is strongly recommended to scan all the cell applications-even the one downloaded from official web site- with antivirus software on your computer. Some of them do detect cell phone viruses.
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While virtualization has undoubtedly already found its footing in larger businesses and data centers, the technology is still in the process of catching on in the middle market. But a recent study conducted by a group of Cisco Partner Firms, titled "Virtualization on the Rise," indicates just that: the prevalence of virtualization is continuing to expand and has so far proven to be a success for many small- and medium-sized businesses.
With firms where virtualization has yet to catch on, however, security is often the point of contention. [Security practices wanting in virtual machine world, survey finds]Cisco's study found that adoption rates for virtualization are already quite high at small- to medium-sized businesses, with 77 percent of respondents indicating that they already had some type of virtualization in place around their office. These types of solutions included server virtualization, a virtual desktop infrastructure, storage virtualization, network virtualization, and remote desktop access, among others. Server virtualization was the most commonly used, with 59 percent of respondents (that said they had adopted virtualization in some form) stating that it was their solution of choice. ■ RELATED: Lost in the clouds: Your private data has been indexed by Google
That all being said, there are obviously some businesses who still have yet to adopt virtualization, and a healthy chunk of respondents – 51 percent – cited security as a reason. It appeared that the larger companies with over 100 employees were more concerned about the security of virtualization, with 60 percent of that particular demographic qualifying it as their barrier to entry (while only 33 percent of smaller firms shared the same concern). But with Cisco's study lacking any other specificity in terms of why exactly the respondents were concerned about the security of virtualization, one can't help but wonder: is this necessarily sound reasoning? Craig Jeske, the business development manager for virtualization and cloud at Global Technology Resources, shed some light on the subject. "I think [virtualization] gives a much easier, more efficient, and agile response to changing demands, and that includes responding to security threats," said Jeske. "It allow for a faster response than if you had to deploy new physical tools." [Seven essentials for VM management and security]He went on to explain that given how virtualization enhances portability and makes it easier to back up data, it subsequently makes it easier for companies to get back to a known state in the event of some sort of compromise. This kind of flexibility limits attackers' options. "Thanks to the agility provided by virtualization, it changes the attack vectors that people can come at us from," he said. As for the 33 percent of smaller firms that cited security as a barrier to entry – thereby suggesting that the smaller companies were more willing to take the perceived "risk" of adopting the technology – Jeske said that was simply because virtualization makes more sense for businesses of that size. [3 key issues for secure virtualization]"When you have a small budget, the cost savings [from virtualization] are more dramatic, since it saves space and calls for a lower upfront investment," he said. On the flip side, the upfront cost for any new IT direction is higher for a larger business. It's easier to make a shift when a company has 20 servers versus 20 million servers; while the return on virtualization is higher for a larger company, so is the upfront investment. Of course, there is also the obvious fact that with smaller firms, the potential loss as a result of taking such a risk isn't as great. "With any type of change, the risk is lower for a smaller business than for a multimillion dollar firm," he said. "With bigger businesses, any change needs to be looked at carefully. Because if something goes wrong, regardless of what the cause was, someone's losing their job." Jeske also addressed the fact that some of the security concerns indicated by the study results may have stemmed from some teams recognizing that they weren't familiar with the technology. That lack of comfort with virtualization – for example, not knowing how to properly implement or deploy it – could make virtualization less secure, but it's not inherently insecure. Security officers, he stressed, are always most comfortable with what they know. "When you know how to handle virtualization, it's not a security detriment," he said. "I'm hesitant to make a change until I see the validity and justification behind that change. You can understand peoples' aversion from a security standpoint and first just from the standpoint of needing to understand it before jumping in." But the technology itself, Jeske reiterated, has plenty of security benefits. "Since everything is virtualized, it's easier to respond to a threat because it's all available from everywhere. You don't have to have the box," he said. "The more we're tied to these servers and our offices, the easier it is to respond." [Best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud]And with every element being all-encompassed in a software package, he said, businesses might be able to do more to each virtual server than they could in the physical world. Virtual firewalls, intrusion detection, etc. can all be put in as an application and put closer to the machine itself so firms don't have to bring things back out into the physical environment. This also allows for easier, faster changes in security environments. One change can be propagated across the entire virtual environment automatically, rather than having to push it out to each physical device individually that's protecting a company's systems. Jeske noted that there are benefits from a physical security standpoint, as well, namely because somebody else takes care of it for you. The servers hosting the virtualized solutions are somewhere far away, and the protection of those servers is somebody else's responsibility. But what with the rapid proliferation of virtualization, Jeske warned that security teams need to try to stay ahead of the game. Otherwise, it's going to be harder to properly adopt the technology when they no longer have a choice. "With virtualization, speed of deployment and speed of reaction are the biggest things," said Jeske. "The servers and desktops are going to continue to get virtualized whether officers like it or not. So they need to be proactive and stay in front of it, otherwise they can find themselves in a bad position further on down the road."
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There's an important piece of legislation called the American Data and Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA) before the US Congress right now. While it hasn't passed yet, it's expected to soon, as the bill has broad partisan support.
ADPPA's noteworthy feature is its focus on data minimization. Under this, companies can only collect and use personal data for 16 name permitted usages, such as authentication, cybersecurity, fraud protection, and online checkouts.
Additionally, marketing and selling efforts in the future will be based upon first-party data — data gathered directly from people — and not third-party data.
The upside to this is that ADPPA will preempt a lot of existing state and privacy laws, thereby simplifying your regulatory compliance responsibilities. Companies will have to primarily comply with a single federal standard instead of 50 (or more) state standards.
Understanding ADPPA vs. GDPR & CCPA
ADPPA is similar to modern privacy and data protection regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). But the difference here is the ADPPA’s more constrictive approach.
The bill explicitly names the specific types of data companies can gather and prohibits everything else, making it more restrictive than some of the existing legislation.
GDPR fines
Non-compliance, in general, is a costly affair. But GDPR fines are on another level. where you can be fined up to 2% of your company's global revenue. Needless to say, this can be a whopping number for really large enterprises.
The fact that the European data protection authorities are quick to levy those fines doesn't make things better. Case in point—Instagram was recently penalized with a staggering $400 million fine for mishandling the personal data of minors.
Paying such massive penalties not only breaks the bank but also ruins brand reputation in the prospects' and customers' minds, making them less likely to trust your company.
Security of the cloud vs. Security in the cloud
Most companies and consumers have a great degree of trust in the major cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
While this trust is warranted as the cloud is a secure platform, I think many of these users may be overlooking their privacy and security risks under the cloud provider's shared responsibility model.
Under this model, both the cloud computing provider and its users are required to follow certain security obligations to ensure accountability. But many users are still unclear about their responsibilities.
The cloud providers will give you the platform, but you may still have privacy or security risks tied to how your company configures and uses it. This distinction is commonly referred to as the security of the cloud vs. security in the cloud.
PII in demos. Can it be avoided?
Exposing PII Data in a demo
Exposing PII Data while giving a demo is a serious risk and compliance issue for most companies—one that's unfortunately underrepresented in their risk registers.
Understandably, you want to show prospects your SaaS product's greatest competitive features. But this shouldn't be at the cost of exposing sensitive customer, employee, or other PII data.
As someone who's seen tons of SaaS demos, it's often apparent I'm looking at a vendor's live customer data. This is a huge turnoff for me. I can't help but wonder if the vendor has no qualms showing me their current customer's data, they'll likely be okay presenting my company's private information to their next prospect.
It makes me question how much trust I can reasonably place in their company. Your prospects may also feel similarly if you use PII data in your demos.
All enterprises, but especially SaaS vendors, need to be able to show exciting, attention-grabbing demos of their services without violating privacy regulations, like ADPPA or GDPR. What's more, prospects expect to see your product's full features that are available and capable of distinguishing in a SaaS service.
The problem? Setting up a customizable demo environment to achieve this is highly complex.
You should be able to show the great competitive features your SaaS services offer without exposing the customer, employee, or other PII data, even when demonstrating at trade shows and conferences.
Showing attention-grabbing and fully configured demos to prospects is already tricky, but doing it on a live event floor puts you at a greater risk of exposing live customer data when showing the richness of transactions. Our PII Shield helps eliminate such unique risk items, helping you maintain data integrity for both external use (prospects) and internal use (employees).
About the author: David has been involved with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) for more than 20 years. He has worked at Oracle, Visa, TripActions and is now the GRC at Demostack.
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RSA recently announced the newest version of Governance, and the completion of the RSA Via family of Smart Identity solutions. Improved lifecycle management and governance are critical capabilities for managing identities in today’s environments where cloud and mobility have dramatically transformed business processes and requirements and advanced threat actors increasingly target and exploit identities as a primary attack vector.
Governance (formerly known as Identity Management and Governance, and Aveksa), helps organizations efficiently and reliably deliver users the right access to the right resources from the endpoint to the network to the cloud, without sacrificing security, compliance, or agility. With new automated detection capabilities enforcing access policies and processes, Governance now is designed to improve security through enhanced visibility into authorized and unauthorized changes across the network. This offers enterprises the ability to quickly detect malicious privilege escalation, reverse it, and break a key link in the cyber-attack chain of advanced threats.
Jim Ducharme, Vice President of Engineering and Product Management, RSA, said, “Legacy IAM systems aren’t capable of addressing the constantly evolving requirements of today’s mobile and cloud-based environments. Organizations need to approach identity, security and compliance from a holistic perspective, and adopt solutions that are as agile as and scale to meet the needs of their dynamic enterprise IT environments. With the introduction of Governance, we’ve completed the RSA Via portfolio of smart identity management solutions and given organizations an end-to-end identity solution. RSA Via is built for a world where mobility, cloud computing and advanced threats are all an integral part of the identity management and authentication challenge. We’ve connected the dots between those key pain points in a way no one else can – with an analytics- and risk-based approach to identifying roles, managing identities and locking down one of today’s most common tactics in advanced threats— user compromise and privilege escalation. The enhancements to Governance helps meet the needs of today’s evolving IT landscape, making managing access easier, improving visibility and effectiveness, while also improving governance, efficiency and security for enterprises.”
Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said “Information Security professionals often struggle to maintain a secure IT environment while delivering efficient and reliable access to business systems and resources. Employees want access to business applications from every device, but IT needs to take the appropriate steps to balance user convenience with security and compliance. Leading enterprises are adopting identity management systems that facilitate business agility AND strong security so they can rapidly detect and respond to issues such as malicious privilege escalation.”
Secure Identity Management
Identities and credentials are a primary target for hackers and criminals. With the latest enhancements to Governance, Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams can further contribute to organizational cybersecurity initiatives while helping to ensure their businesses’ identity needs are efficiently and effectively met. By actively validating all user access changes against policy and processes, the RSA solution is engineered to quickly detect unauthorized user access changes – including privilege escalation performed by malicious actors. This capability also detects “out of band” access grants by end users who bypass IT processes, reducing security risk and ensuring consistent enforcement.
Governance helps Security Operations Center (SOC) teams better analyze and triage incidents by providing essential identity context. Enhancing user IDs with detailed views of a user, their job role, and any inappropriate access rights, SOC teams now can more quickly and effectively analyze and remediate security incidents.
Governance completes the new RSA Via portfolio of smart identity solutions, including, RSA Via Access, and RSA SecurID® and complemented by other RSA solutions such as RSA® Adaptive Authentication. With RSA Via, organizations have a comprehensive solution for managing all of their identity needs from the endpoint to the cloud.
Outside of the RSA Via portfolio, Governance integrates with RSA Archer® GRC to enable a consistent and actionable risk model for organizations. Application risk can be shared between RSA Archer GRC and Governance, helping to ensure that core IAM business processes – such as access review frequency and access request approval workflows – reflect risk levels appropriately. Governance can also be used to help prove enforcement of relevant policies and control procedures, reducing risk and meeting compliance requirements defined within RSA Archer GRC.
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The correct answer is A. Project complexity.
Project complexity is a tailoring consideration for the application of Project Risk Management processes. Project Risk Management is the knowledge area that includes the processes for identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks. Project risks are uncertain events or conditions that may have a positive or negative effect on the project objectives.
Tailoring is the process of adapting the project management processes, methods, techniques, and tools to the specific needs and characteristics of the project. Tailoring considers various factors that may influence the project, such as the project life cycle, the organizational structure, the stakeholder involvement, and the project complexity.
Project complexity is the degree of difficulty or uncertainty involved in managing and completing the project. Project complexity can be influenced by various factors, such as the number and interdependence of project deliverables, the size and diversity of the project team, the number and variability of project requirements, the level of innovation and technology involved, and the degree of stakeholder influence and expectations.
Project complexity affects how Project Risk Management processes are applied, as more complex projects tend to have more risks and uncertainties that need to be identified, analyzed, and responded to. For example, a more complex project may require more frequent and detailed risk identification and assessment activities, more sophisticated risk analysis techniques and tools, more proactive and flexible risk response strategies, and more extensive risk monitoring and control mechanisms.
The other options are incorrect because:
B. Procurement criteria. This is false because procurement criteria are not a tailoring consideration for Project Risk Management processes, but rather an input or output of some of these processes. Procurement criteria are the standards or requirements that are used to select or evaluate potential sellers or contractors for a project. Procurement criteria can affect or be affected by project risks, but they do not influence how Project Risk Management processes are applied.
C. Communication technology. This is false because communication technology is not a tailoring consideration for Project Risk Management processes, but rather a tool or technique used in some of these processes. Communication technology refers to the methods or devices that are used to facilitate the exchange of information among project stakeholders. Communication technology can support or enhance Project Risk Management processes, but it does not influence how these processes are applied.
D. Knowledge management. Knowledge management refers to the systematic process of creating, capturing, sharing, and using project knowledge to improve project performance and outcomes. PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-100) CAPM certification exam practice question and answer (Q&A) dump with detail explanation and reference available free, helpful to pass the PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-100) CAPM exam and earn PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-100) CAPM certification.
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I applaud you and Citi for its efforts to face this head on. Now that the words have been stated…time for action. To each human being that reads this weblog and works for Citi, allow us to seize the baton from Mark and our management…and allow us to go forth collectively. Pranav Arora ‘m grateful that I work for an organization that’s demonstrating a dedication not only to speaking brazenly about racism however can also be allocating resources to facilitate change. I’m much more grateful that we’re being inspired as particular person workers to look at ourselves, have interaction with our colleagues and be taught more about how we can take motion as people.
I refused to simply accept people after they handled him differently than they’d me, provided me better offers or dinner, no matter it was. The customer says blacks ought to have their very own money and shouldn’t contact white cash. God made each and every one of us in his likeness, what offers one race, faith, ethnicity or financial status the right to think for one second that someone that’s different on the skin is any less necessary. I even have refused to do business with firms for that and have misplaced family and friends members, yet I am proud of myself for standing up for it.
Fake SNe Ia are overlaid onto the pictures to carefully consider detection efficiencies and to know the DiffImg performance. The DiffImg efficiency measured with faux SNe agrees well with expectations from a MC simulation that uses analytical calculations of the fluxes and their uncertainties. In our 8 “shallow” fields with single-epoch 50% completeness depth ∼23.5, the SN Ia efficiency falls to 1/2 at redshift z ≈ 0.7; in our 2 “deep” fields with mag-depth ∼24.5, the effectivity falls to half of at z ≈ 1.1. A remaining efficiency concern is that the measured fluxes have further scatter that will increase with the host galaxy surface brightness at the transient location. This bright-galaxy issue has minimal influence on the SNe Ia program, however it may decrease the efficiency for finding fainter transients on bright galaxies.
It’s necessary that EVERYONE speaks up against the hate that is displayed, video tapped and witnessed each day, towards POC. I agree with you wholeheartedly, this is indeed a pandemic in and of itself. Both COVID-19 and Racism can kill black individuals, disproportionately.
We need concrete, tangible, measurable actions to move the needle as properly as accountability for these who apply racism in the corporate surroundings. A picture is worth a thousand words and phrases couldn’t specific how a lot unhappiness and anger I felt when I seen Mr. Floyd on the bottom with a knee on his neck by that police officer. We can not turn a blind eye to what affects all of us.
The assets have been made out there at Citi to help staff and their households get the right support they need on this and in any crisis that arises. Mark, First, thank you for the nicely needed and over due hearfelt weblog to really open the eyes of our colleagues to what has been happening in our country for tons of years now. I as a white male in our contry was outraged by the actions that happened not just in Minneapolis, but also aroud our country and the social injustice that still goes on to this day. It was in the course of the zoom video conference that the term “systemic racism” really stuck with me and spent some appreciable time pondering and reflecting on the which means of that phrase. To me that’s the initial place to begin of this systemic racism and is step certainly one of putting black folks at an instantaneous drawback to potentially securing a potential long-term and viable career within Citigroup. Thank you once more for talking up and out and I look forward to actively taking part in pushing forward this well wanted change.
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Looking at the threats that are within the walls of your company is as important as looking out.
According to a study conducted by Crowd Research Partners [1], insider threats are a major concern for information security managers. 90% of companies feel vulnerable to threats generated within their own environment.
Insider threats are associated with people who have access to an organization’s confidential information or private platforms, such as employees, former employees, business partners or service providers. Any individual who, at any time in the present or past, has had access to privileged information and private systems may represent a potential vulnerability.
However, not all risks related to people are promoted premeditatedly or are the result of fraud, sabotage or industrial espionage. Often, unsecure habits or lack of information about good security practices can cause a significant number of breaches.
A user can type an email address incorrectly when forwarding sensitive information; or click links or open files in spear phishing emails; there are cases of browsing suspicious websites that tricks to download unwanted applications, such as spyware, or that promote mining of cryptocurrencies.
It is difficult to identify internal threats
Security incidents involving insiders are costly for businesses, usually because of the difficulty of tracking down potential negligent behavior or purposely malicious action. According to Ponemon Institute [2], cases of bad security practices can cost more than US$ 280,000. In cases of credential theft or criminal leaks, the cost per incident can reach US$ 650,000. These costs are associated with monitoring, investigation, incident response, analysis and remediation.
Often, the costs of insider threats are high because they are not anticipated by most companies. In addition, two particular factors make the analysis of these cases even more complex. Firstly, it is hard to distinguish between negligent action and malicious action. Furthermore, internal threats can remain hidden for years (and the longer it takes to identify a malicious action, the greater its cost).
Middle management executives represent the two sides of the same coin. On the one hand, they have privileges to access information. On the other hand, whenever they misuse strategic data, with or without intention, the impact is big. Finally, they are often the targets of malicious actions.
It is therefore important to build a very clear security policy and to be able to define how each user should make use of their privileges, whether such privileges are indispensable, and at the same time define how to monitor users.
Third Party Service Providers
Consider business partners, vendors and even remote employees as potential threats. They have access to company information and often their devices are not protected by perimeter security controls.
In the case of third parties, service contracts must establish duties and responsibilities regarding the use of information; in the case of remote employees, it is crucial to establish platform access controls (such as 2 authentication factors), and to deploy security to local devices.
In the corporate environment, email is still a key resource for business communication and information logging. Therefore, many social engineering scams are promoted by this means.
To ensure that no information leaks through this channel, it is important to monitor email servers with dedicated controls. It is worth highlighting two key technologies for protecting email accounts: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which identifies sensitive information and establishes actions according to security rules; and Encryption, which encodes information stored or in transit.
One of the great challenges of any company will be to prove that the activities of an internal user are criminal. One way to address this problem is to adopt a technology for log management, which allows to keep track and log each user’s activities.
No matter the industry, every company is subject to the risks of internal threats. Therefore, to promote more security for the environment, organizations can not just watch the scenario of external threats, but must understand in detail what their internal challenges are. In general, the same security products can be configured to prevent both internal and external threats. If a company is concerned about protecting their confidential information, then it can not neglect the adoption of comprehensive protection measures as costs may be higher than expected.
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PORTLAND, Ore., October 27, 2016 -- Leading ethics and compliance software and services company NAVEX Global® today announced findings from its annual survey of compliance professionals. In contrast to 2015, respondents said they are more concerned about conflicts of interest among their third-party business partners (43 percent), than bribery and corruption (40 percent) or fraud (33 percent). Concern about cyber security, a new category in this year’s survey, rose near the top at 39 percent. Cyber security is a particular concern among respondents in the finance and healthcare sectors.
“It is perhaps not surprising that conflicts of interest has overtaken the perennial front runner, bribery and corruption, as top concern," said report author Randy Stephens, J.D., Vice President, Advisory Services, NAVEX Global. “Perhaps this indicates compliance leaders are beginning to get their arms around bribery and corruption, and are now discovering conflicts an increasingly salient issue. But it could also be an early sign that there is a new problem in the global business ecosystem.”
The rise in conflicts of interest sensitivity may be due in part to the expectation among respondents that they will be using more third parties in the coming year. Thirty percent indicated they anticipate their organizations will increase third-party engagements in 2017. More than half (58 percent) said their third party management processes do a good job keeping them compliant with laws and regulations. However, less than half (43 percent) said they are doing sufficient screening of all third parties, and 35 only percent indicated they are successful at conducting deeper dives where needed. Similarly, one-third of respondents reported they are successful at documenting all processes and protocols.
“Program sophistication and maturity are demonstrably important,” said Stephens. “Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declined to pursue charges against Harris Corporation related to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations having to do with the actions of a subsidiary party, because the company had self-reported and could demonstrate a strong internal compliance and FCPA due diligence program.”
The top concern for respondents regarding implementation of their program was the complexity of due diligence, followed by training of third parties and information management. This in turn is a strong argument for the merits of automation. Mature programs are six times more likely to report good overall performance of their third-party due diligence than those with reactive or basic programs. Those with automated systems are twice as likely to report success. A large percentage of respondents (60 percent) who use automated systems are more likely to screen all third parties. This percentage increased from 40 percent in 2015.
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• Scope: Since PECD was implemented, new communication services have appeared, taking over from telephone calls and SMS messages. The new Regulation will cover Over-the-Top (OTT) communications services as well as the more traditional communications services. OTT services include instant messenger services (eg Messenger, WhatsApp), VoIP (eg Skype) and web-based email services (eg Gmail). It will also apply to machine-to-machine communications where personal data is transmitted, so catching IoT. “Electronic communications services” has a broad definition so almost all services with a communications element will be caught (even if ancillary to another service eg video games, dating apps). As now under PECD, any direct marketing, cookie use or tracking will be subject to the rules, whether the marketer falls within the definition or not.
• Extra-territorial effect: as with the GDPR, the Regulation will “bite” regardless of whether the processing takes place in the EU.
• Fines: the levels vary between (a) the higher of 20,000,000 EUR or up to 4% of global annual turnover (so the same as the GDPR) for breaches of confidentiality, unlawful processing of electronic communications, and time limits for erasure and (b) the higher of 10,000,000 EUR or up to 2% of global annual turnover for breaches of cookie info/consent rules, privacy by design, unsolicited communication (eg opt in) and publicly available directory provisions.
• B2C direct marketing: existing marketing consents (opt in, opt out – including “soft opt in”) remain the same as for PECR and similar transparency requirements apply (eg marketer identity, ability to opt out and that the message is a marketing communication). Key points:
– live telemarketing calls may still be made “opt out” by Member States, as currently in the UK.
• B2B direct marketing: The draft Regulation leaves it to Member States to ensure that the legitimate interests of corporate end users are suffciently protected from unsolicited communications.
• Content and metadata: Both are confidential and any interference is prohibited. Save for transmission or security, user consent must be obtained to use browsing history or metadata (eg timing or location data) or else be anonymised or deleted, unless the data is required for certain purposes (eg billing). Consent to both content and metadata for the provision of services can be withdrawn at any time, and service providers must remind users every six months of the right to opt out. There are specific (stricter) rules on content. Providers of electronic communication services may process content only:
– where the end user’s consent has been obtained for the processing and it is carried out for the purpose and the duration strictly necessary and proportionate for such service, or – all end users have provided their informed consent to the processing of the content and the purpose cannot be fulfilled by processing information that has been made anonymous and the provider has consulted the supervisory authority prior to the processing.
There are also new rules on the storage and erasure of metadata and electronic communications content, in that this will need to be erased or rendered anonymous once the permitted purpose has been fulfilled.
• Cookies: The big change is the focus on browser settings. There are specific obligations on service providers to provide consent settings to individuals, which must be as simple as possible (eg “always accept cookies”, “never accept cookies”, “reject third party cookies”). Software installed before 25 May 2018 (if the Regulation is implemented by then) must offer the option settings on their first update and at the latest by 25 August 2018. What this means in practice is that website providers using cookies for marketing, tracking and behavioural purposes will need to consider the user’s browser consent settings. Put another way, websites may still choose to obtain opt-in consents to override the settings consents and in turn this may mean that the dream of a less pop up/banner-laden cookie world may yet take some time to materialise.
• Device information: The collection of device information is prohibited (eg for Wi-Fi log in), beyond connecting the device, unless a “clear and prominent” notice is displayed “on the edge of the area of coverage” with the relevant explanatory information (eg as to use, how collected and identity of the collecting entity).
• Ad blockers: There is no express regulation of ad blockers, but website providers are able to check if an end user’s device is able to receive the content requested, without seeking end user consent. And the website can then ask the end user if he/ she wants to switch off the ad blocker for the relevant website.
• Nuisance calls: Caller line identification and call blocking are also covered under the Regulation, and the rules are also updated for public directories.
Why is this important?
To stress, the current proposal is only a draft, and the new Regulation will be subject to a potentially lengthy legislative process between the European Parliament and the EU Council – noting that the European Parliament has already publicly said that it is disappointed with the lack of a requirement for explicit opt-in consent. Other key areas for thought:
• AdChoices: this works on an opt out basis…so how will this scheme operate if in fact end users are notifying their consents via browser settings (eg via a “do not track” activation button on their browser)?
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https://www.rpc.co.uk/snapshots/data-protection/data-protection-the-new-eprivacy-regulation/
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Goodman Masson are currently partnering with a renowned financial services institution who are looking to hire an IT Audit Manager to be based in their London office.
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Should you invest in an Intrusion Detection System? Responsible businesses with sensitive data know they need a firewall to control traffic and secure their networks. What seems less well known, however, is the role that complementary technologies play in a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity. An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) enables organizations to take a proactive security stance, which is why Atlantic. Net offers one for its security-conscious customers.
Amid all the headline-grabbing data breaches of the past year, the vulnerability of companies in industries like health care may be overlooked. Data breaches began costing healthcare firms over $5.5 billion annually shortly after HIPAA became law, according to the Ponemon Institute.
Once online criminals have found a profitable target, they tend to return to it with ever more sophisticated attacks. A report recently indicated that over 75 percent of the healthcare industry had been infected with malware in the past year, and noted that a shocking majority of ransomware targets medical treatment centers.
Cliches like the typical hacker being a teenager living in his or her parent’s basement are persistent, and harmful because they misrepresent the situation to the potential victims of hacking. The numbers clearly show that hacking is now predominantly committed by sophisticated criminal organizations. Utilizing an IDS is a proactive approach to meeting that threat.
An Intrusion Detection System, or IDS, is a software application that monitors the network and hosting environment and analyzes activity on it. Any activity which is considered unusual is ranked according to how high risk it is considered based on information from global threat databases.
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Once deployed, the IDS analyzes the patterns of network traffic and compares critical files to previous versions to identify any possible changes. It does this with deep analysis of the packets that make up network traffic, whereas the firewall examines the packet “headers” or labels to screen out those which it knows do not belong.
That judgment is based on comparisons with known attacks, gathered from threat databases, to normal activity. This analysis allows security teams an opportunity to identify and respond to attacks, even if they are cleverly disguised in completely new ways before the attack has been completed and the damage was done.
An IDS is typically either a network or host-based system, or a hybrid of the two.
IDS provides a constantly updated list of the potential issues with a network. This gives the organization an opportunity to identify risks which must be investigated or dealt with and creates records that indicate the diligence of the company using it. It can help with attack prevention, preparation, and response time, which is critical for mitigating cost and damage. It can also help with visibility, which enables the IT or security team to manage the network more efficiently. Together these benefits can play a critical role in ensuring regulatory compliance.
A more holistic approach, including passive technologies like a firewall, as well as active monitoring and vulnerability management, is gaining acceptance as the best practice for security. A survey of IT professionals released in May by IT management company SolarWinds found that among those who said their companies are less vulnerable than a year ago, adoption of IDS and related tools was the top reason why.
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To protect clients at both the network and host level, Atlantic. Net provides a dual IDS solution, which works with your firewall, inspecting packets the firewall accepts as appearing to be legitimate.
The Atlantic. Net proprietary IDS is custom-built from industry-leading open source technology. It resides on the network, protecting against local vulnerabilities on the hardware side. As an open source-based solution, the Atlantic. Net proprietary IDS can utilize the community’s consensus rule base, and then customize it to fit the specific needs of the computing environment it protects.
The host-based Trend Micro Deep Security IDS is provided by Atlantic. Net to protect critical infrastructure against network vulnerabilities from the server side, whether those servers are dedicated, virtual, or cloud.
Trend Micro Deep Security includes protection against malware, including ransomware, targeted attacks, and advanced threats.
The two are managed with a unified interface, so Atlantic. Net can review the incident logs they generate and alert the client when threats are suspected or action is needed. Thousands of reports can be generated on a busy public network in a very short amount of time, so the ability of the IDS to rank incidents, and of the host to manage the reports, is crucial to getting the full protection of the technology for the best possible value.
The technologies are quickly and easily integrated into your network environment, and after incorporating it into your environment, you can choose to receive regular weekly or monthly reports summarizing current vulnerabilities. These reports help those in regulated industries and are in addition to any critical alerts which the Atlantic. Net IDS discovers.
A complete and proactive security stance is necessary for every organization with valuable information and systems to protect against a constantly shifting and evolving threat landscape. For companies with sensitive data subject to regulatory compliance regimes, an intrusion detection system can be an invaluable part of that responsible corporate stance. It can be taken for granted that a reputation-destroying data breach will make headlines before too long. With Atlantic. Net’s comprehensive IDS solution, you can help avoid your company’s sensitive data falling into the wrong hands.
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It’s a fact that we’re living in a Smartphone-driven world! From calling to texting and from creating docs to engaging in meetings, we use Smartphones, and the devices are becoming faster and smarter day by day. In that sense, being a significant part of our everyday life, we think it’s essential to protect your Smartphone from various threats they may come across. It was after the tremendous growth of Android that we saw a lot of digital threats to Smartphones that are running on the Open Source-powered platform. Thus, from a user point of view, it’s worthwhile to add a layer of extra protection on top what Android offers.
Among the many antivirus solutions for Android, Bitdefender Antivirus for Android is the best you get! We say so not only because of the performance it offers, but also because we consider what other users are saying about it. By the way, do you know how to install Bitdefender on Android? If you don’t, never worry. In this post, we have the best way to do the process, with fewer efforts. Before we move onto the tutorial, we think we should have a brief overview of Bitdefender for Android, whose paid and free versions are available.
Bitdefender for Android — what is it?
Bitdefender for Android is a fully-fledged protection solution for your Android Smartphone, especially if you are one of those active internet users out there. You have two options to go for: you can either choose Bitdefender Antivirus Free or go with Bitdefender Mobile Security. The difference is that, in the second variant, you are going to get extra features such as privacy advisor and all.
In the first app, however, your features are limited to real-time scanning and some others such as Autopilot. That having said Bitdefender Free Antivirus may be sufficient for some users. If you’d like to go with Mobile Security, however, you get options such as Anti-theft protection, Android Wear integration, an app locking system and Privacy Advisor. In short, it’s a fully-fledged security suite for Android.
Now, we will move onto the Installation part.
This method can be used when you purchase Bitdefender Mobile Security from the official site of Bitdefender. Once you have finished the purchase, you will have the credentials to log into the dashboard of Bitdefender.
In the dashboard, you will be able to find the link to download Bitdefender Mobile Security for your Android device. You have to pay just $14.95 when you purchase Mobile Security from the official store. You can trust the electronic delivery system, and everything will be set in a few minutes, at maximum.
Method #2 — Google Play Store
Well, this is the simpler method if you prefer going with Google. You can download and install Bitdefender Mobile Security from Google Play Store, using this Link.
After that, you will be able to use the In-App Purchase feature to get the premium version of the same. To do that, it is necessary to have Google Wallet payment options while the other method doesn’t need such one.
In any case, you’re going to get the same protection and features. By the way, if you just need a free antivirus option, you can opt the Bitdefender Antivirus Free, available in Play Store.
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Traditionall firewalls offer limited protection for increasingly important web applications. In Next Generation Firewalls, IPS and Antivirus offer basic protection from vulnerabilities in the server software. This however does not protect against gaps in specific implementation of web pages, since these are established individually by every client.
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https://www.sidarion.ch/en/solutions/it-security-solutions/web-application-security.html
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Patience, patience, young Explorer. Tomorrow’s Glass will be more fashionable than today’s.
This is the thrust of Google’s announcement that it’s teaming up with Luxottica, the premium eyewear manufacturer that essentially makes every brand of glasses that matters (a fact profiled in a 60 Minutes segment that isn’t completely boring).
In a Monday blog post that deliciously makes reference to monocles—because monocles remain a thing—Google explains that its smartglasses are the natural progression of human ingenuity in eyewear, and it’s time to make Glass as fashionable as possible.
[ Further reading: The best surge protectors for your expensive electronics ] Image: Oakley Glass might look right at home resting on Oakley’s high-tech frames. Am I wrong?
If you’ll remember, Google’s fashion-forward effort first kicked off when it announced its own home-brewed Titanium Collection of Glass frames in January. And now Google continues the charge with the Luxottica announcement. In a separate press release, Luxottica explained that the two “major proprietary brands” of its group, Ray-Ban and Oakley, will take part in the Glass collaboration, and more details will be shared later.
The Luxottica announcement comes just three days after Google shared a blog post in which it concedes that the current Explorer edition of Glass is an unpolished “prototype” that may eventually “look as funny to us as that mobile phone from the mid 80s.” The dissonance between Friday’s press release and yesterday’s press release is a bit glaring. To parse this cynically: Today’s Explorer version of Glass is poised to be an anachronism... but wait! It’s about to be paired with the most modern-cool eyewear available today!
Well, you have to read Google’s Luxottica announcement carefully. All its import is back-loaded in the final paragraph: “You’re not going to see Glass on your favorite Oakleys or Ray-Bans tomorrow, but today marks the start of a new chapter in Glass’s design.”
Image: Google Because, monocles.
Translation: Google is floating another trial balloon for the consumer release of Glass. Goal number one: Make sure the smartglasses have mainstream appeal. Luxottica’s brand I.D. can help immensely in that effort. (Disclosure: I’m a committed Oakleyophile, and I believe the brand’s high-tech aesthetic will marry well with Google’s geeky paraphernalia.) Goal number two: Make sure the smartglasses work. This is a work in progress, but Google has time on its side. I trust for the better part of the year, we’ll be obsessing over Android Wear smartwatches, which look quite promising, and suggest that Google really can figure out wearables.
Bottom line: The Glass story is gaining momentum. Press releases are picking up steam. We have no idea what the final consumer version of Glass will deliver, but as a wise man once said, it’s better to look good than feel good, and with the Luxottica announcement, Google is wrapping up this maxim with a perfect little bow.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111321/if-google-glass-is-just-a-prototype-why-is-it-pairing-up-with-luxury-sports-eyewear.html
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Play episode March 7th, 2014 Robots: Privacy, Google, and Big Deals What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics? Since last December, Google alone has acquired a handful of companies in robotics, home automation and artificial intelligence. This can be pretty exciting for robotics. But what exactly is the internet giant planning to do with this technology? Is there something we should be worried about? If there is, what can we do about it?
Experts have been actively talking about this in the media, including through Robohub’s recent focus series on Big Deals in Robotics.
In today’s episode, AJung talks with Avner Levin, a privacy and cybercrime expert, about Google’s recent acquisition of companies. Levin sheds light on why we should be concerned about the recent series of acquisitions by the big companies from privacy and cybercrime perspective. He also discusses whether the existing privacy policies are ready to handle what may lie shortly ahead of us in the future — the future of the Internet of Things, or perhaps Google branded robots.
Radhika Nagpal on bio-inspired modular and swarm robotics. read more
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http://www.robotspodcast.com/podcast/tag/cybercrime/
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Cloud security framework, Cloud Computing is the fundamental change happening in the field of Information Technology. It is a representation of a movement towards the intensive,large scale specialization. On the other hand,it brings about not only convenience and efficiency problems,but also great challenges in the field of data security and privacy protection.
Currently,security has been regarded as one of the greatest problems in the development of Cloud Computing. This paper describes the great requirements in Cloud Computing,security key technology,standard and regulation etc.,and provides a Cloud Computing security framework. This paper argues that the changes in the above aspects will result in a technical revolution in the field of information security.
Cloud computing allows for both large and small organizations to have the opportunity to use Internet-based services so that they can reduce start-up costs, lower capital expenditures, use services on a pay-as-you-use basis, access applications only as needed, and quickly reduce or increase capacities. However, these benefits are accompanied by a myriad of security issues, and this valuable book tackles the most common security challenges that cloud computing faces.
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LastPass Friday rescinded its day-old order that all users of its online password management system reset their master passwords due to a database breach.
In fact, in a LastPass blog post this morning, that company said it won't allow users to change master passwords "until our databases are completely caught up and we have resolved outstanding issues."
In an e-mail to Computerworld, LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist said the company changed its plan in response to demands from users asking they not be required to reset their passwords. "They're asking because they know how strong their master password is -- that it's not vulnerable and therefore they know they're safe even if it was exposed," Siegrist said.
However, comments posted on a LastPass blog suggest that the company's decision may also be related to trouble some users appear to be having with the password reset process.
Several of those commenting on the LastPass blog page expressed frustration over their attempts to change the master passwords. Many said that changing the LastPass master password negated all their stored passwords, and thus they were locked out of accounts.
One poster said that after changing the master password, all other passwords in the vault had no data, "just cute little icons and a bunch of Chinese jibberish all over the page!"I changed my password now all my data is broken and I CANNOT LOG IN. OH YEA!," another poster lamented.
The LastPass blog post acknowledged that it had "identified an issue" with roughly 5% of users that reset their master passwords. The company said it would be contacting those users about a fix to the problem.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/227362/LastPass_says_users_no_longer_have_to_reset_passwords.html
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Installing an Antivirus software on your Mac device will help you to prevent the entry of viruses or malware on your device. If an Antivirus software is already active on your Mac device, you have to uninstall the Antivirus software for better performance while installing a new software. Proceed with the steps given below to check the existing Antivirus software or Check Antivirus On Mac device.
Check whether any Antivirus icon is present on the Dock.
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Navigate to the Users & Groups section and select the Login items option.
Verify whether any Antivirus or Security programs are installed on the Mac device.
Some Antivirus won’t have an Antivirus name at the back. Therefore you have to check all the installed software thoroughly.
Plug in a USB Flash drive to check whether your Antivirus application opens automatically to run a scan.
If you find the Antivirus application running, note the name and use the Launchpad to uninstall the software from your Mac device.
In case you don’t find any Antivirus application, you don’t have an installed Antivirus application.
As the Mac device is very secure when compared to Windows, there is no chance for an Antivirus software to get installed on your Mac device without your permission.
If you want to install a new Antivirus program, go to App Store and download a suitable Antivirus application for Check Antivirus on Mac device.
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Trademarks: The Hidden Menace When Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference went on sale in January, I created a Web site to redistribute the free edition and act as a central information source for the book. And because the book was about Ubuntu, I made ample mention of the word "Ubuntu" and also used the familiar three-part circle logo.
A few weeks later, while chatting with the nice folks at Canonical (the company that originated and sponsors Ubuntu) about an unrelated matter, they mentioned that I might have taken liberties with the website. The issue boiled down to use of the Ubuntu trademark, and they pointed out that there are strict rules on who can and can't use the trademark. Put simply, community projects are usually fine (provided a few rules are followed), but commercial projects must apply for a trademark license.
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You are here: Home / Canada Cyber Security News / #CyberFLASH: How to craft a threat intelligence strategy#CyberFLASH: How to craft a threat intelligence strategy 19/07/2016 by canux An increasing number of CISOs are realizing the value of threat intelligence to protecting the enterprise, helping the infosec team doing the day-to-day defending. But if you don’t already have a unit/person assigned for doing this it may be daunting to start.
Adam Meyer, chief security strategist at SurfWatch Labs has written a useful two-part series for chief security officers who haven’t yet taken the plunge. In the first part he notes that leaders have to decide what is the goal of the data collection, what and how it should be collected, what finished, refined intelligence product should be produced, how and who it should be delivered to and how should it be consumed.
The CISO also has to decide whether what is wanted is all or a combination of tactical, operational or strategic threat intelligence.
The second part talks about the two parts of a threat intelligence strategy: A collection plan and a management plan.
The collection plan is obvious: It has to define priorities and needs, sources of intel and what decision-makers need. Why a management plan? Because, writes Meyer, intelligence is not a project but a capability that needs to be run like a program. So the management plan looks at who will be the intelligence analyst(s), tools to be used, how managers make requests to analysts. and if the deliverables are useful.
If you are thinking about adding threat intelligence to your weapons these two columns are a good place to start.
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TX Text Control and GrapeCity (FarPoint) have announced that they have formed a joint venture, called The Document Automation Alliance, to support Microsoft Office document automation. TX Text Control and GrapeCity (FarPoint), which, respectively, provide word processing and Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet components, have formed the Alliance to provide developers a one-stop competence center to gain information on how to effectively automate Microsoft Office documents without attempting to deploy Microsoft Office, which can be a complicated process.
The Document Automation Alliance website features links to information and downloads for TX Text Control word processing components and Spread, GrapeCity's Excel-compatible spreadsheet component.
"The potential savings that can be gained by simply implementing document automation is enormous. We are extremely happy to have teamed with GrapeCity (FarPoint) to offer customers a complete document management package: Products and the required knowledge to best utilize those products," said Björn Meyer, Product Manager TX Text Control. And from Rick Williamson, General Manager of Developer Tools GrapeCity (FarPoint): "The integration of Microsoft Office document processing into business applications can be a complex task. We are glad to have TX Text Control as a partner to offer both Microsoft Excel and Word compatible products."
For more information, visit www.document-automation.net.
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A number of countries have laws requiring organizations to notify individuals and/or the government following a data breach. California was the first jurisdiction to enact a broad data breach notification requirement. Most U.S. states and territories now have data breach notification statutes, which typically apply broadly to organizations that acquire, own, or license computerized data including personal identifiable information of individuals who reside within that jurisdiction. Certain U.S. federal statutes also apply to certain types of organizations and protected information (e.g. the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).
These statutes generally require notification to individuals whose personal identifiable information has been or may have been compromised. They may also require the government be notified, and certain statutes require notification to credit reporting agencies. Typically, notification must be made without “unreasonable” delay, but certain statutes require more prompt notification (for example, California requires notification to individuals within 5 days of detection of a breach for protected medical information). These statutes normally specify the appropriate method of notification, and some statutes describe the content required. If the breach warrants law enforcement involvement, any notification to individuals may be delayed if law enforcement determines the notification will impede a criminal investigation.
A number of individual European countries currently have data breach notification laws (including the Netherlands, which passed a law in January 2016 requiring data controllers to notify the Data Protection Authority of data security breaches). In addition, the European Commission’s ePrivacy Directive established breach reporting obligations for telecommunications service providers, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which becomes effective May 25, 2018 – will extend data breach notification requirements to all organizations (including a requirement to notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours). Canada and Australia have also recently enacted data breach notification laws, but like the GDPR, they have not yet entered into force.
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I work in SophosLabs on the Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) team. Sophos DLP analyses the text content of documents to identify privacy- and confidential-related information before it leaves our customer’s networks.
As the DLP team leader I manage our definitions of what is classed as privacy-related information, and I spend a large amount of my time having to understand and question exactly what is and what is not "Privacy Data".
Nowadays people post publicly on various social media sites about where they go, what they do when they're there and with whom they do those things with.
For some people, it seems as if they put their whole lives on display.
They are often, themselves, posting the very information that organisations go to great lengths to try to protect.
So are we trying to protect privacy based on past social values? Are we old-fashioned in trying to keep a lid on the social media generation?
Social norms change over time. Attitudes to unmarried mothers, sexual preference, social mobility, religion, race and the expectations of life are starkly different from even 50 years ago.
Many changes in the past have been influenced by popularisation of new technologies, such as the printing press, motorised transport and television.
In many places, internet usage has become more universal than being able to drive a car and is therefore having an equivalent level of impact on society.
To many, not using Twitter or Facebook is seen as something from a bygone era.
Can we live without each other's personal data?
Data that is about us, our property and our lives is shared and processed in more ways than can be calculated. From the age-old service of telephone directories to choosing the best schools, we are using information that is based on personal data or statistics.
When planning to buy a house we want to know about local crime rates, flood risks, and the quality of the schools or hospitals.
Directly or indirectly, our activities use personal-related data on a daily basis, and if enough of us were to object to our own pieces of that data being used we could impact public services, commercial businesses, research institutions, news media and much more that relies on the complex inter-weaved net of data.
Where will you hide tomorrow?
There is a lot of hype currently around devices such as Google Glass. As wearable computers become more common, surely society's acceptance of a lack of privacy will have to follow?
Google's StreetView has been forced to mask specific houses or even whole streets because of privacy objections.
But preventing a view of one's house frontage doesn't stop the layout of the grounds and contents being visible from satellite maps.
And with the first commercial video satellite system soon to go on the market, and the increase in popularity of similar publicly-available technologies, it's likely to make the censorship of Google's StreetView images moot.
In the 1950s being gay was illegal in many places and people were convicted and sent to prison for such a 'crime'. Now if somebody were to mention to me that they are gay I would think, "So what?".
There are pieces of person-related information that are explicitly enshrined in various data privacy legislations as "Sensitive Personal Data". Yet the reasons for these are, hopefully, rapidly moving towards being obsolete.
These sensitive personal data items are only so due to largely historical discrimination reasons that were still a major concern when these legislations were first written.
Do they still need to be seen as "sensitive"? In fact, some special categories - such as race, gender and nationality - along with the corresponding personal data, are in most cases protected and deemed not 'relevant' for recording unless there is a clearly stated reason for doing so.
Which is the most sensitive? Well, 1 and 3 are often given extra legislative protection over that of 2 and 4.
Disclosure of your home static IP address could make you vulnerable to crime, yet this computer equivalent of your postal address is often not explicitly mentioned in personal data privacy directives.
So what am I saying?
It's not that I'm saying that data privacy is unimportant. Unfortunately in the real world not everyone one has evolved to the point where prejudices don't exist. The security reasons for some data privacy is more urgent now than ever before.
But data privacy should not be done by rote, instead it should be done with thought and consideration.
As data controllers we should think beyond protecting A, B and C just because we are told to while ignoring the unmentioned X, Y and Z. As a society we need to be discussing the current privacy directives in terms of what is, or is not relevant.
And over time, as individuals, we will need to adapt our own concepts of privacy to fit closer to society's ever evolving concepts.
There always will be someone who wants to use and abuse that information for profit and exploitation. So anyone who is a caretaker of personal data still needs to ensure that they leave decisions on what is no longer private to the data owner - the individual.
But let's also keep our minds open that 'personal' is about being living, breathing people and not something to be imprisoned under lock and key.
Except for the new proliferation of data mining companies I can't think of anyone on the planet who is interested in the cereal I had for breakfast, what I picked up at the grocery store or my bowling scores from last night.
None of the items in your list is posted anywhere *by* me, although I am sure they could be found out by someone determined enough.
Perhaps they are! The supermarket which you bought the cereal from would be interested to know which branch do consumers normally purchase this particular brand of cereal from. If most people purchase brand A cereal from branch X, perhaps I should supply branch X with more cereal. An aggregation of bowling scores might indicate if my customers are professionals or casual players in bowling. This might be important to determine should I replace my bowling equipment often to better cater to my customers...will it make a significant difference to them so that they might bowl here more often?
Then again I believe in this age, most, if not all companies significant in size will do some form of data mining on their customers to have an edge over the competition. :)
Reply Mark Stockley · 123 days ago
It's not just the cereal you had for breakfast it's the times you shop, what you buy, how it changes over time, what promotions you responded to when they mailed you etc.
You can tell if somebody is pregnant from the way their shopping habits change. It's not a leap to imagine you can tell if somebody is getting a divorce or if the kids have just left home. You can probably coordinate data from different stores and take a rough stab at where people live or when they're on holiday.
Big data is not about the individual data points like what cereal you ate today, it's about the emergent properties of having massive numbers of data points.
Reply David · 123 days ago
There is more than one reference in this article to the strange amorphous, anonymous entity known as 'society'. To use a fuller quote by Margaret Thatcher: "...who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."
In other words, it is for individuals to decide what is to be private, and for the government to provide suitable legislation. Collectively we as individuals can - and should - discuss the issue of privacy. But imho privacy must never, ever, be driven by fashion.
Just because the Facebook generation think nothing of posting their personal details online does not mean that such an attitude should become the norm and that organizations need do nothing about protecting a person's data. Equally, is must remain an infringement of a person's Rights - and thus illegal - if someone posts without permission private data that is not their own.
Privacy must remain the default, and it is for the individual to decide what they choose to reveal. That way, everyone is catered for.
I think this post is really confused, in part because you don't define what you mean by privacy. A common misconception is that privacy is about secrecy. It's not. It's about control of information about oneself. (see Alan Westin's classic 1967 definition.) In the swim suit photo you posted it is not necessarily the case that people wearing next to nothing on the beach have any less privacy than the Victorian's wearing massive full-body suits. In fact,you could argue that the people in the age of bikini have more privacy because they have much more control over how little or much skin they want to expose to public view than the Victorian beach goers did.
The issue is rather different when you come to computerized data. Back in the Victorian era and really up until the 1950s data about people was in filing cabinets. It was difficult to collect, combine and process. So by default individuals had a lot of control (relatively speaking). That's not the case now. We're all disclosing information about ourselves constantly and that data is often being accessed and used for purposes we have little or no control over. If I don't want my location tracked I can give up using a cell phone, driving a car (to avoid license place scanners and the chips embedded in the tires etc.) but how practical is that if I'm not inclined to be a hermit? The disclosure isn't really voluntary. The flip side of all this, which you don't mention, is that as an individual I have little control over data about myself but someone does: corporations and government agencies. What data these organizations have access to and what they do with it is often secret and therefore not subject to public accountability (except when the data is leaked, often in violation of the law). A society where individuals expose massive amounts of information about themselves to secretive state and corporate institutions and in which individuals exercise little control over than information is not a free society. Questions like "Is data privacy an out of date concept?" is the equivalent of asking "is the concept of state accountability an out of data concept?" or "Do you want to be powerless and live in a world something like those imagined by Huxley, Orwell or Zamyatin?"
Reply John Bryan · 123 days ago
Not providing a definition of "privacy" is deliberate as one of the points of the article is to discuss what that definition should be, as opposed to what is defined in legislations first drafted during the 80's. This is something you have done nicely, so thank you.
Another point is that we should consider what information should currently be treated as particularly important to our privacy, i.e. what could be seen as an intrusion to what we feel as private?
Again thank you 8¬)
For instance you mention location tracking, and protecting geo-location data is something that has been explicitly raised as a concern by some of our customers. Whilst, other than compliance purposes, I am not aware of protecting race or gender information having been raised as a concern by our customers. Though our customers are businesses, so their concerns may be biased to security and privacy compliance rather than personal privacy in it's own right. We are not about to stop protecting ethnicity information. But questioning what should be protected is important, as is reviewing the relative importance of types of personal data.
But I am also a real 'person' in my own right who beliefs in privacy. As such I currently do not have a FaceBook account and warn my grand-kids to be careful in how they use it.
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In 2016, Nicola Thorpe, a London-based temporary receptionist at one of the Big Four accounting firms, gained international attention when she was sent home from work for violating dress code, which required women to wear heels between 2 to 4 inches high.
Thorpe started a petition in the U.K., which led to a fierce debate. The dress code came from Thorpe’s temporary employment agency, not the accounting firm.
And, the temp agency’s dress code also included other stipulations. For example, fingernails should be neutral, pink, red, plum or gray. Makeup — which should include blush, lipstick, mascara, foundation, and eye shadow — is necessary at all times, and should be regularly reapplied when needed. Also, hair color should be refreshed to ensure there are no visible roots.
After receiving intense backlash, the agency revised its policy to read that makeup should be subtle and shoes should be black, clean, polished and in good repair.
This policy was rather extreme, but is it necessary to even have a dress policy?
"As attorneys and HR professionals like to say, the answer is ‘it depends,’" according to Robin Schooling, head of people at Strio Consulting | Rocket Power and co-host of the DriveThruHR podcast.
"We still find, in very traditional environments, there is a desire to have meticulously spelled out rules." In fact, Schooling says she’s actually seen dress policies that specify the acceptable size of pockets on a pair of slacks.
An OfficeTeam survey found that 56 percent of workers would prefer a more relaxed dress code. However, 41 percent admitted they don’t always know if a particular article of clothing is work appropriate or not. Interestingly, 48 percent would choose to wear a uniform to work.
Your work environment may also determine the appropriateness of a dress code. For example, in Silicon Valley, employees wear jeans with a T-shirt; hoodie; or untucked, button-down shirt. But that’s a casual, laid-back environment that caters to younger workers and customers.
Quint Studer, founder of healthcare consulting firm The Studer Group, and author of “Hardwiring Excellence,” believes that sometimes dress codes are quite necessary. "Recently I was in a company in New York and this is a company that caters to conservative customers."
Studer says he saw a lot of employees casually dressed in blue jeans. "While I thought it was neat, it was almost like they were going out to a night spot."
And that might be a turnoff to some people. "I would tell you as a customer who's going to spend serious money with them, I would question it a wee bit," Studer says.
So, what should you consider when weighing the pros and cons of having a dress policy for your employees? "Dress codes are not about control, they are about safety, first, and customer perception, second," according to HR expert Tim Sackett, president at HRU Technical Resources, and author of "The Talent Fix: A Leader’s Guide to Recruiting Great Talent. "Ask yourself, ‘Do my employees have to dress a certain way for safety, or do our customers expect our employees to dress a certain way?"
If it turns out that the answer to both problems is no, Sackett says you have a problem. "You’ve got an unnecessary dress code that is only in place to control employees, and that’s a bad employee experience," he says.
This doesn’t mean that employees should be able to wear swimwear (unless they’re lifeguards), or arrive at work in pajamas and hair rollers. But it does appear that companies really like to exercise control over their workers and will punish those who don’t comply.
For example, a Simon Jersey survey of U.K. workers reveals that 65 percent of employees thought they were overlooked for a promotion of pay raise because of how they dressed. Are these workers paranoid? Well, 37 percent of managers admitted they didn’t promote an employee or give them a pay raise because these employees routinely dressed inappropriately.
But, even if you decide that a dress code is necessary, the policy doesn’t have to be oppressive.
For example, Schooling’s company has a policy that treats employees as adults. "We expect you to dress appropriately while adhering to any norms and expectations for the role and the location; common sense is the guideline," Schooling says.
Some companies may want a more descriptive dress code, and Studen believes that sometimes, it can be confusing for employees to understand what’s appropriate and what’s not acceptable.
"I think the best way to create a fair policy that will be embraced by both sides is to include the employees when deciding what the dress code should be," Studen concludes.
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Wahab is currently the chief executive officer of CyberSecurity Malaysia, a strategic agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Malaysia. He has more than 20 years of ICT working experience in the telecom and IT sectors in the government and the semi-government and private sectors.
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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With the progress of software program that permits us to watch movies online and at the time of 9000 TV stations on our PCs and laptops, the need to have PC to TV converters grew to become a necessity. Consider your family members or good friends watching your favorite internet TV program or sports on a 14-inch pc monitor, when you might get pleasure from supreme seeing on your latest state-of-the-art big display standard fee TV! Well, many thanks to pc to TV converters, you can now switch seeing from your pc to your TV. Having said that, it might not be doable without having the use of pc to TV connections.
There are two sorts of pc to TV converters; one is the wireless sort that conveniently connects pc to TV as far as 100 ft away with out the aid of a connector even though the other one helps make uses of cable for connection. The latter may need pc to TV connections. There are distinct types of connectors, the a lot common connections are; HDMI, DVI, SVGA, Component, S. Picture, and the composite. HDMI tops the list of quality connectors; it is able to deliver crystal clear net connection from your pc to your TV set. This is typically the connector used for HDTV lcd DVD computer PC. DVI is D formed with one standard fee pin and 3 rows of round pins. It is one of the maximum high quality connector and it is generally observed on not itemized panel, electronic TVs. SVGA is employed for high quality video, it is D formed with 15 pin – connector. The part is a 3 – pronged connector that are colour coded red, green and blue. S Video clip is a spherical connector with 4 – 7 pins. That is commonly used on latest fashions of TV sets, it has S – online video input connectors that generate high quality picture. And lastly, the composite web link, it is have any idea as a phono plug or RCA jack and is coded yellow. Generally times it has red and white sound wires affixed to it, it has lower top quality movie. It is vital to establish the proper connector for your pc to TV for appropriate fatal links.
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Viewers of 25+ countries worldwide enjoy watching Top Gear series on satellite and local anaesthetic TV channels, while even more viewers watch Top Gear online TV show. A orbicular audience of the show is estimated to be over 500 million viewers.
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It’s no secret that telephone and cable companies are now offering bundled services that include phone, video recording, and Internet service on the same bill, and many modern times for a lower toll than if you had purchased your services individually. One can’t really say the telephone political party bundle is better than the cable company bundle, or the mated since they both have their pros and cons that just come with the engineering science that feature the services.
When you order a bundled software system from a phone company, you cannot get cable TV as part of that bundle. Why? Because it’s a phone company! The phone company, and cable company are long time rivals, and are in no way going to share a cut of the market if they don’t have to. This means the phone company has to find some other way to deliver TV service to your home, and this is normally artificial satellite TV supplied by Dish Network, or DirecTV.
Since cable Internet, and DSL are both broadband Internet services, you can use both for anything you may need a broadband Internet connection for. Assuming you have a choice between the two where you live, one thing you may want to consider is while cable Internet is a little faster than DSL, and the TV service a little more reliable, you can only get your cell phone service as part of a bundle through your phone company. It wouldn’t surprise me if the cable companies came out with their own form of cellular in the next few years, but as of like a shot cellular is rigorously Ma and Pa Bell. Are you looking for live internet TV streaming software to watch your favorite channels on your computing device? Many websites today claim that you can watch live internet TV online, but you must be careful when buying online software as I have found some of them to be scams.
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Ransomware attacks broke a two-year record in September of 2020. According to data analyzed by the Atlas VPN team, there were 34.11 million ransomware attacks detected this September — 110% more than the same period last year when 16.21 million attacks were recorded.
The analysis is based on the numbers provided by the SonicWall cybersecurity threat metrics map. It features data gathered in the first nine months of 2020 and the entire year of 2019.
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that blocks access to a system, device, or file. To regain access, the victim has to pay a sum of money, or in other words, a ransom.
Overall, there was a 40% rise in ransomware attacks in the first three quarters of 2020 compared to the same period last year. The ransomware attacks grew from 142.39 million in 2019 to 199.75 million in 2020.
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While 2019 saw impressive numbers of ransomware attacks, the number of such attacks registered through Q3 2020 is still 6% bigger than the total number of ransomware attacks recorded throughout the entire 2019.
Over a third (34%) of ransomware attacks launched in the first nine months of 2020 were Ryuk attacks — a type of crypto-ransomware that uses encryption to block access to victims’ systems, devices, or files and demands a ransom in Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
In total, there were 67.27 million Ryuk attacks from January through September of 2020. It is over 13 thousand times more compared to the same period last year when 5,094 Ryuk attacks were detected.
September had the record number of Ryuk attacks, a whopping 19.88 million. In contrast to 2020, there were no Ryuk attacks in September of last year.
The region that got the biggest shares of ransomware attacks through Q3 2020 was North America, receiving close to 76% (151.33 million) worldwide attacks. The number increased by 124% from the same period last year when 67.67 million attacks were registered.
September of this year was a record-breaking month for the US in terms of ransomware attacks. There were 29.34 million ransomware attacks recorded — 180% more than 10.49 million attacks registered last September.
However, the region that saw the most significant surge in ransomware attacks was Asia-Pacific. While there were 1.31 million attacks within the first three quarters of 2019, the number rose by 294% to 5.16 million attacks this year. Ransomware attacks in Asia-Pacific through Q3 2020 make up 3% of total such attacks this year.
In September, countries in the Asia-Pacific region recorded only 380 thousand ransomware attacks. Nevertheless, there was still a 533% increase compared to September last year when 60 thousand attacks were registered.
Finally, ransomware attacks targeting European countries through Q3 2020 make up one-tenth (10%) of total worldwide attacks. However, unlike other countries, European countries saw a 28% drop in ransomware attacks from 26.81 million attacks in the first three quarters of 2019 to 19.23 million in 2020.
September 2020, however, saw an 8% increase in ransomware attacks targeting Europe. There were 3.78 million ransomware attacks registered this September compared to 3.49 million attacks last September.
This indicates that ransomware attack numbers in Europe in 2020 can still surpass last year’s.
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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - Media OutReach - 28 January 2021 - SugarCRM Inc., the innovator of time-aware CX, today announced the launch of SugarPredict, the first data-fueled AI for CRM. SugarPredict delivers new levels of prediction accuracy without the time, cost, and technical expertise typically required for companies to take advantage of AI.
Fifty-two percent of sales leaders say their CRM is costing them lost revenue, according to new research from SugarCRM that examines the lack of customer visibility that plagues most companies. The quality and consistency of the data entered by CRM users can create challenges for basic AI systems. SugarPredict takes a different approach by enriching customer data with additional attributes that results in more comprehensive and consistent AI models. SugarPredict provides accurate predictions, even with limited first-party data, while diligently guarding the privacy and security of company and customer information.
"AI can solve a number of sales and marketing barriers today, putting it at the heart of CRM," said Paul Greenberg, president of the 56 Group and author of CRM at the Speed of Light. "Sales teams that lean into AI-powered CRM can take advantage of the lead insights and opportunity models that give them a significant competitive advantage."
As the first of many SugarPredict-powered capabilities in Sugar Sell, the technology is being used to take the guesswork out of lead prioritization, lead Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) alignment, and opportunity-to-close-won scoring. SugarPredict analyzes historical account, deal, and company data to accurately predict which leads are most likely to become customers. Lead scoring is based on similarity to historical conversions (converted leads or closed-won opportunities), while ideal customer profile matching identifies leads that are similar to a company's past and current customer bases.
"SugarPredict helps companies replace a fragmented, out-of-date, and incomplete picture with a sharply focused understanding of both their customers and business," said Craig Charlton, CEO of SugarCRM. "We've made significant product investments, over the last year, to democratize AI to drive business performance and enable predictability for companies of all sizes. "Like many companies in the manufacturing business Bishop-Wisecarver is always looking for ways to work smarter and faster than the competition", said Niegel Leoncio, CRM Manager for Bishop-Wisecarver. "We are excited about the launch of SugarPredict, which places the power of AI into the hands of sales and service teams so they can drive better results and a better customer experience."
SugarPredict leverages Sugar's time-aware CX platform which provides a full historical record of all change events related to customers and customer-facing processes. SugarPredict for sales force automation, marketing automation, and customer service applications is based on technology from last summer's acquisition of Node.io. SugarPredict is free for Sugar Sell customers and will roll out to Sugar Market and Sugar Serve customers later this year.
SugarCRM's time-aware sales, marketing and service software helps companies deliver a high-definition (HD-CX) customer experience. For mid-market and enterprise companies that want a CX-driven platform, Sugar gives teams the time-aware customer data they need to achieve a clear view of the customer and reach new levels of business performance and predictability, and increase customer lifetime value.
More than 4,500 companies in 120 countries rely on SugarCRM. Based in Silicon Valley, SugarCRM is backed by Accel-KKR.
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https://brandspurng.com/2020/11/17/global-ransomware-attacks-surged-by-110-at-34-million-year-on-year/
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Distribution of the Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft's hefty patch for Windows 8.1 that updates the user interface for desktop and mouse users, has been temporarily suspended for some enterprise users after the company discovered that patched systems are no longer able to receive future updates from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers.
The problem occurs when clients connect to WSUS with HTTPS enabled, but without TLS 1.2. Windows 8.1 machines with the KB 2919355 update installed will no longer be able to receive future updates from those servers. Microsoft describes it primarily as an issue for WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 2, also known as WSUS 3.2, when run on Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, and 2008 R2; this version does not have HTTPS or TLS 1.2 enabled by default, but HTTPS is part of the recommended configuration.
WSUS 4 on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 is also technically affected, as the bug is client-side, but Windows Server enables TLS 1.2 by default, so issues are unlikely to arise in practice.
We first became aware of a problem with Windows 8.1 Update and WSUS servers on Monday, and we know that Microsoft has been working to diagnose the problem since then, if not before. Microsoft will have to come up with a proper fix soon, however, as the Windows 8.1 Update is a mandatory security update that will be a prerequisite for all future security fixes for Windows 8.1. The company says that a fix will be published "as soon as possible," but there is currently no schedule for its release.
If client machines have the update installed, an interim fix can be achieved by either enabling TLS 1.2 on the servers (though this is only possible on Windows Server 2008 R2), or disabling HTTPS entirely.
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http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/windows-8-1-update-halted-to-some-enterprise-users-amid-wsus-issues/
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Version: 1.0.0.14 updatedUpload Date: 5 Aug 11Freeware App McAfee WaveSecure Uninstall Protection Add-on (UPA) provides additional security and locks your mobile phone when it detects that McAfee WaveSecure is removed.
If you uninstall UPA, McAfee WaveSecure will lock the phone to secure it too.
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http://www.freeware-android.net/google-android-2-1-device-antivirus-download-1744-all-4-date.html
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Why Every Website Owner Should Care About (and Convert to) HTTPS April 02, 2017What is HTTPS and why should you care? Here's an overview, including the potential SEO benefits, of HTTPS How to Protect Your Business's Digital PresenceJanuary 11, 2017Online security should be a huge concern for any businesses. Here are some key tips on maximizing your protection. 8 Tips to Help Secure Your Accounts Against CybercrimeJune 08, 2016You've seen the headlines - data breaches at LinkedIn , celebrity Twitter accounts hacked. Here are some tips to help you avoid the same fate. The Real Privacy Nightmare Is The Information We Voluntarily Hand Over to Shady AppsNovember 24, 2015We all use apps that request all kinds of access to you and your information for their use. The most recent evidence of this phenomenon is an online quiz from VonVon called “What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook.” But the quiz is a black pit of privacy concerns, and we're jumping right in. Anonymous, the KKK, and the Problem with HacktivismNovember 03, 2015The hacker collective known as Anonymous recently announced that it would be releasing information on the secret membership of white supremacist hate group Ku Klux Klan. The release (or not-release, as it may turn out) of the information reveals a lot about the dangers and temptations of anonymity and hacktivism in the digital age. Combatting Cyber Threats: Steps to Keeping Your Business Data SafeOctober 05, 2015As technology becomes a more convenient and critical part of the typical business, the risk of cyber security breaches increases as well. To combat this risk, the modern C-suite must take an active role in keeping the company’s sensitive data as safe and secure as possible. 9 Tips For Keeping Your Customer Data SecureSeptember 17, 2015In the wake of high-profile hacks that have placed customer data at risk, we take a look into how businesses can better safeguard sensitive information. Facebook Introduces New Security Checkup, Prompts All Users to Check SettingsJuly 31, 2015These days, Facebook hacking is a pretty commonplace activity. Given this, Facebook has released an updated “ Security Checkup ” tool that will prompt all users to review and update their security settings to ensure they’re aware of who’s accessing their accounts and what apps they’ve given permission to utilize their information. Protecting Your Brand: Privacy, Risk and Compliance Fri, 2014-12-12 13:24 -- [email protected]
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http://www.socialmediatoday.com/tags/data-security
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The newest version of the infamous Darkode cybercriminal forum is up, and it’s the worst one ever, says Loucif Kharouni, a senior threat researcher with Damballa.
As you might remember, the original forum, started way back in 2007, was the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum there ever was, and becoming a member was dependent on the whether a current member would vouch for you.
Ultimately, that didn’t help to keep out law enforcement and, ultimately, the forum was shuttered by the FBI and Europol in July 2015.
An administrator of the forum (who was obviously not arrested in the first sweep) announced a reboot of the forum two weeks after the aforementioned takedown, but it apparently didn’t take off, despite the security improvements he said it would sport.
So now we have another forum up that uses the Darkode name, and as things look now, it will be another failure, because its security is laughable.
“As promised, the administrators moved the forum to the dark web for ‘security’ reasons and anonymity,” Kharouni shared, but noted that the forum is also accessible without the Tor software, via any browser (and with no anonymity).
In addition to this, the search page allows unrestricted access to the entire forum – no username or password required – and anyone can access a list of the members, active topics, etc. (click on the screenshot to enlarge it):
“The forum administrator Sven is a very generic handle but we know that he’s a previous member of Darkode. As for the rest of the members, there is a mix of HackForum members usually called HF skids and DamageLab members. This gives you an idea about the quality of the forum,” Kharouni pointed out.
The admin also offered a Jabber service to its members (for messaging), but the server on which it is hosted is poorly configured, has a bucketload of ports open, and uses outdated software that is subject to several known vulnerabilities.
At the moment, the forum can’t boast of any significant activity – whether that’s because the users don’t trust the admin or each other, or whether their security expectations haven’t been met is difficult to tell. What is plain to see is that Darkode is currently a shadow of its former self.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2015/12/03/darkode-forum-returns-with-lousy-security-that-keeps-serious-users-away/
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Ultimate Antivirus 2008, also known as UltimateAntivirus 2008 or UltimateAntivirus2008, is one of the rogue anti-spyware programs, which have surfaced up in the mid part of this year. Ultimate Antivirus 2008 employs the usual methods of generating false alrams that your system in infected with many instances of malware and spyware.
Once it succeed in creating panic in your mind, then it offers you to clean your system if you purchase the full licensed version of Ultimate Antivirus 2008.
If you fall in trap, then your credit card information lands in the hands of a rogue company and at the same time, you are delivered a product, which is full of crap. Once it gets entry onto your system, Ultimate Antivirus 2008 tried to install more spyware in your system.
If you have got any trace of Ultimate Antivirus 2008 onto your system, we recommend that you immediately get rid of Ultimate Antivirus 2008, so as not to cause any further damage.
The first step in towards the removal of Ultimate Antivirus 2008, is to determine whether your system is actually infected with Ultimate Antivirus 2008 or not. For this purpose, you can use any good quality reputed anti-spyware product, which are freely available over the Internet. If you find Ultimate Antivirus 2008 on your system, then consider purchasing the full version to remove Ultimate Antivirus 2008 from your PC.
The best way for the removal of Ultimate Antivirus 2008 is to install a good quality Anti-spyware Program and scan your system for any Ultimate Antivirus 2008 infections.
Automatic removal of Ultimate Antivirus 2008 is always good and complete as compared to any attempts to manually remove Ultimate Antivirus 2008, which may sometime lead to erroneous results. If you are not completely aware of all the files and registry entries used by this rogue anti-spyware, then we do not recommend you to attempt for the manual removal of Ultimate Antivirus 2008.
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http://webtoolsandtips.com/remove-spyware/how-to-remove-ultimate-antivirus-2008-ultimateantivirus2008-uninstall-free/
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This short video talks about how unrestricted access to USB Memory sticks can lead to a potentially massive data breach under the #GDPR, as you could be unaware of people copying data to these devices.
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https://www.l2cybersecurity.com/data-breach-video-series-unrestricted-usb-stick-use/
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It has enormous benefits for meeting the energy demands and billing requirements through controls at the supply side rather than at the demand side. This departure from the traditional perspective makes it a very attractive transformation for both developing and developed economies. However, a major drawback is the increased vulnerability of the highly connected system and knock-on ramifications on various related sub systems and networks. With the connectivity emerge the associated dangers of exposed system entry points through nodes located at various geographical locations; making an easy target for a motivated hacker. Starting at the compromised node, the inner system can be penetrated and its core functionality can be compromised. There is thus a need for having a system wide resilience in the design and architecture to meet these challenges. This paper reviews the vulnerabilities and resilience strategies for a smart grid and proposes the combined use of macro and micro management techniques as an evolutionary process to enhance system availability.
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https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/cyber-attack-challenges-and-resilience-for-smart-grids
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The cyber attack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was one of the worst on government critical infrastructure, but it will not be the last.
Ongoing threat actor campaigns continue to target government infrastructure, with a recent study by the cybersecurity firm Secureonix finding that threat actors were targeting the government's email system, Kavach.
Although the Securonix Threat Research team was unable to confirm the identity of the attacker, they stated that this attack was similar to methods used by SideCopy, a threat actor attributed to Pakistan.
Kavach is a 2-factor authentication (2FA) system that the National Informatics Centre implemented last year to strengthen the government's email infrastructure. It has been made mandatory, and all government officials must use 2FA from Kavach to access their accounts.
A breach of this 2FA system would put key government officials' email accounts at risk.
According to Secureonix, the first stage of the process included a phishing campaign. When a government official clicks a link in one of the phishing emails, .LNK files (attached to those emails) would execute code, resulting in the execution of a remote access trojan (a type of virus).
"Like with many attacks we see today, the initial infection begins with a phishing email containing a compressed file attachment (11222022.zip). When opened by the user, the file contains a single shortcut file designed to trick the user into opening it," Securonix researchers said in a blog.
The email's shortcut file appears to be a harmless image file from websites such as Income Tax Delhi. "The purpose of the shortcut file is to appear simply as "scanimg.png" to the user, thus luring them into thinking they are opening a harmless image file," Securonix said.
Not the first time
This is not the first time Kavach has been targeted with the intent to circumvent 2FA capabilities. Talos Intelligence discovered that SideCopy/Transparent Tribe targeted Kavach by deceiving government officials into installing malware that posed as an installer or updater for Kavach.
"This campaign, which has been ongoing since at least June 2021, uses fake domains mimicking legitimate government and related organizations to deliver malicious payloads, a common Transparent tribe tactic," Talos Intelligence said.
Last year, between July 7 and 14, according to a report by The Ken, hackers took down Kavach three times. The attack compromised the email account of former MeitY secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney, according to the report.
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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/governments-2-factor-authentication-system-kavach-targeted-in-cyber-attack-report-9803861.html
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http://frugalentrepreneur.com/2015/08/zenmate-for-chrome-security-privacy-encryption-tools-free-download/
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From what Pulse.com.gh gathers, Alsancak Tim is a Turkish hacker. On his Facebook page, he listed the other Ghanaian websites he exploited into details with the mirrors to prove his point
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https://www.pulse.com.gh/news/ghana-cyber-attack-list-of-other-government-websites-hacked/5tsl9nk
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Download FlexiSPY straight onto a phone and get copies of sent and received Text message, event Call Logs, look at Emails, Track GPS Mobile Phone Location – view results from online account. Amazingly you can also phone tap and intercept calls to eavesdrop smartphone [Read more...]Flexispy Monitoring App ReviewJuly 21, 2016 by mobiletrackApps For Spying On SpouseFlexispy is distinguishable given it provides Spy Call and Intercept Call to remotely control the telephone mike and convert it into a listening device spy and also to even tap cell phone conversations. It is suitable for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones.
One of the first Spyphone app developers, Flexispy is [Read more...]Flexispy Spy Phone App ReviewJuly 19, 2016 by mobiletrackCatch Cheating SpouseFlexispy stands apart given it has Spy Call and Intercept Call to remotely control the telephone mike and convert it into a remote listening device and to even phone tap conversations.
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http://mobile-track.com/category/keylogger_mobi/index.html
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string not a numeric gid the daemon uses the gid of the user not the group.
The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.
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http://www.vulnerabilityscanning.com/MDKSA-2005-156-ntp-Test_20424.htm
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Android faces an exponential growth in mobile malware, according to researchers, with a 472-percent increase in rogue Android Market apps since July 2011. Increasingly complex apps are taking advantage of loopholes in the Android platform's security to gain root access and grab user-data, Juniper Networks claims, going on to send premium-rate messages unknown to the user or share data covertly with remote hackers. However, while those apps are supposedly proliferating in the Market, it's unclear how many users are actually impacted.
With low-level access, Juniper suggests, malware can begin sending out SMS messages without the user realizing it. Those messages are targeted at premium rate services, with the malware authors making money on each received. If the user doesn't carefully check their bill each month, they may not notice the cash being sucked out of their account.
Spyware, though, still makes up the majority of attacks, according to Juniper's figures. In those cases, the malware - presented as a legitimate app in the Android Market - leverages known loopholes in Android to proliferate through the system and gather up as much personal data as possible, transmitting that back to the authors without the user's consent or awareness.
The unchecked wildness that is the Android Market is blamed for the growing number of malware apps found, the security company claims, citing Apple's App Store checking policies rather than any inherent advantage in iOS resilience for the reason that the iPhone isn't subject to the same problems. Nonetheless, while Juniper is seemingly convinced that Android is a seething hotbed of malware and hackers desperate to yank your credit card details out from under you, we're having trouble actually finding someone affected. Have you been a victim of Android malware? Let us know in the comments.
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http://www.slashgear.com/android-malware-threat-or-fud-21196738/
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Sugar confectionery can be serious craftwork—amateurs need not apply. But once you witness the culinary genius of a certain 3D printer, you’ll question whether we need human candy makers at all.
Among other amazing hardware on display at the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif. last week, vendors showed off a printer making detailed sugar confections, an insanely detailed 3D-printed guitar body, and a system that prints 3D objects with common office paper instead of more traditional 3D-printer media like resin or filament. The wonderful thing about paper, it turns out, is that it can absorb other materials, allowing you to imbue your 3D objects with a wide range of physical properties.
3D printing has been around since the 1980s, but now that the technology is entering the consumer space, interest in 3D-printed objects is growing rapidly. Why buy that small plastic visor clip for your car for $20, when your buddy can print it for 40 cents? It’s most common for 3D printers to build simple objects with plastic-like materials, but if the convention in San Jose showed us anything, it’s that modern printers have a wide range of talents, producing everything from cake decorations to shoes.
[ Further reading: The best surge protectors for your expensive electronics ]The printers are still expensive, though: The Mcor printer that can make large, full-color 3D objects from paper will set you back a cool $47,000. Staples, however, was displaying a smaller, more consumer-friendly 3D printer from Cube for $1,300.
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http://pcworld.com/article/2049109/this-3d-printer-uses-paper-regular-old-paper-instead-of-filament-or-resin.html
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The global enterprises are likely to spend more on their IT security services as per Gartner's new survey. According to Gartner's report, enterprises will increase their spending on information security services and products by 8.7 percent to reach $124 billion in 2019. It also states that the market will cross the amount of $114 billion in 2018, 12.4 percent up from the last year.
"Security Leaders are striving to help their organizations securely use technology platforms to become more competitive and drive growth for the business. Persisting skills shortages and regulatory changes like the EU's Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are driving continued growth in the security services market," said Siddharth Deshpande, Research Director at Gartner.
The Gartner's survey revealed that the security risk, business needs, and industry changes are one of the major concerns that are driving the enterprises' spending. It also believes that privacy concerns will boost the spending by at least by 10 percent of market demand for security services through 2019 and will have an impact on the variety of segments such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), identity governance and Administration (IGA) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
As estimated by Gartner, more than 60 percent of the organizations will invest in multiple data security tools (data loss prevention, encryption, and data-centric audit) and protections tool which will be up to approximately 35 percent by the end of 2020. By the end of 2019, the total enterprise spending on security outsourcing services will be 75 percent of the spending on security software and hardware. The survey also shows that 30 percent of the organizations will spend on GDPR-related consulting and implementation services through 2019.
For more than 40 percent of the organization, the security services spending will be driven by the risk management and privacy concern within digital transformation initiative through 2020.
Services (subscription and managed) will represent at least 50 percent of security software delivery by 2020. Many enterprises have planned to deploy specific technologies, such as security information and event management (SIEM), in a hybrid deployment model in the next two years, as per the report.
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https://www.cioreviewindia.com/news/global-it-security-spending-will-extend-up-to-124-billion-by-2019--nid-4396-cid-9.html
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Cybersecurity startup empow on Thursday announced that it’s getting $10 million in its Series B venture funding round.
The company, which has offices in Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel, provides a security information and event management (SIEM) platform, meaning it monitors data from across an organization’s network infrastructure in search of threats. The company says its platform is unique in that it determines the intent of a attack using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
empow says its unique in that it leverages its customers’ existing security infrastructure to respond to that threat. The company says that helps organizations do more with what they have, increasing their return on investment.
Along with the funding announcement, empow is bringing on Peter George, who has in the past been the CEO of Crossbeam Systems and Fidelis Security Systems, as its new CEO.
George told CyberScoop that he sees empow as next generation SIEM company that will innovate in space crowded by more established companies.
“Because [the SIEM] category is owned by large companies that have a hard time innovating, like IBM and ArcSight and McAfee, this particular market is ripe for disruption. And that’s really what led me to empow,” George said.
George explained that empow’s platform uses natural language processing (NLP) to not just detect threats, but also determine their intent.
“NLP allows us to determine what the intent of the threat is based on cause and effect,” George said. “By predicting that we can quickly put together a defense campaign or defense strategy to prevent compromise.”
The funding empow raised will go toward building up the company’s marketing and sales operations in Boston in order to get more competitive in the market.
“We won’t have the more market share than our big competitors because they’ve been at it for a while. But we believe that if we go compete with the likes of IBM, with the likes of Exabeam, and the likes of Securonix, and even Splunk, then we can win more than our fair share of these deals and begin to build a big…customer base that we can be proud of.”
The founder previous CEO, Avi Chelsa, will become empow’s chief technology officer in order to focus on the company’s SIEM technology platform. Chelsa is the patent owner of the “mind-reading” technology that empow says can decode a threat’s intent.
“[Peter George’s] proven executive leadership skills, strong customer focus and passion for disruptive technologies will help us to take the company to the next level,” Chelsa said in the company announcement.
The funding round was led by Boston-based Ascent Venture Partners, which backs early stage technology companies.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/empow-10-million-series-b/
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Fairfax VA, Nov. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Visium Technologies, Inc., announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Threat Surface Solutions Group, LLC (“TSSG”) has entered into a partnership with SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH (“SGS-TUV”) to provide global Automotive Cybersecurity training and services.
The combining of these two established leaders in the IT space is a strategic move to prepare for the launch of the new ISO 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity standard. SGS-TÜV is poised to prepare customers with the right knowledge and processes to ensure efficient certification and effective Cybersecurity management.
“SGS-TÜV’s strategy of building expert knowledge of standards along with certification of cybersecurity, IoT, and mobility solutions, makes this an excellent match,” said Karol Niewiadomski, Product Manager Cyber Security at SGS-TÜV. TSSG offers expert services in the technical niches that SGS-TÜV offers its customers across broader IT solutions. This partnership expands SGS-TÜV’s reach across the IT enterprise.”
The partnership allows TSSG and SGS-TÜV to provide the greatest reach to global customers with a consistent methodology. TSSG’s technical expertise and proven track record with service delivery and project management will significantly enhance the company’s ability to expand its market reach and to develop, design, and deliver new products and technological solutions to its customers.
“We are extremely excited about the prospect of teaming up with SGS-TÜV and the potential of our combined organizations,” said Kevin Anderson, President of TSSG. “The Automotive vertical provides significant near-term national and international revenue opportunities as the auto industry continues to evolve into assisted and autonomous driving technologies. The technical expertise of our engineering team and our success with project management together with SGS-TÜV’s processes and solutions will create a seamless synergy."
About SGS-TÜV
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. With more than 95,000 employees and an international network of over 2,400 offices and laboratories, SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality, safety and integrity.
As a joint venture between SGS Group and TÜV Saarland eV, SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH (“SGS-TÜV”) as an accredited service provider has a global network of experts in Security & Safety. Its experts are members of the relevant standardization bodies and actively participate in formulating the contents of standards such as the ISO/SAE 21434.
Further information is available at www.sgs.com and www.sgs-tuev-saar.com.
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“Gun Control” in Public Schools: A Microcosm of Social Engineering Posted on January 25, 2013 by Steve Since the Sandy Hook shootings last December, mainstream media has been reporting incredible instances of totally asinine “zero tolerance” policies regarding toy guns in public schools. Last week, we learned of a 5-year-old girl who was interrogated for 3 hours and suspended from a Pennsylvania kindergarten after allegedly suggesting that she and a classmate “shoot” each other with bubbles using her pink Hello Kitty Bubble Gun. Now this week we’re told of a Pennsylvania 5th-grader who was physically searched and threatened with arrest for mistakenly bringing a folded piece of paper resembling a gun to class.
Naturally, the state run media is attempting to explain away the ridiculous toy gun prohibitions of these school administrators by claiming it’s just a panicked overreaction to the Sandy Hook shootings. But those who are awake to the scientific level of tyranny we live in today are aware that the controllers of these schools know exactly what they are doing. After all, genuine concern about a child’s welfare wouldn’t cause school employees to interrogate a 5-year-old girl for 3 hours over remarks about a bubble toy… This is a deliberate exercise in behavioral conditioning for both children and adults alike by the collectivist state. The school is not backing down on its decision to interrogate and discipline the child because it was not a mistake; it’s part of their plan.
The social engineers want everyone to know that their “officials” and “experts” will tell us exactly what is and what is not acceptable behavior by our children. The more ridiculous their demands become, the better it serves their purpose. They want to condition us to accept total absurdities. They want to break our will and obliterate our common sense. They want to dominate us and treat us all like little children. In fact, if we look at the insidious behavioral conditioning that has been taking place in schools since the passage of the Gun Free School Zones Act, we see a clear reflection, a microcosm, of the same two techniques of social control being used by the government to gradually disarm the American people: Collective Punishment and Incrementalism.
The Gun-Free School Zones Act
As an amendment to the original legislation from 1990, Congress passed the Gun Free School Zones Amendments Act of 1995 which required that states enforce a minimum one-year expulsion for any student who brings a “weapon” to school. This act made it a federal crime to possess a firearm on school property, and required states to enact their own similar legislation if they wanted to continue to receive federal education funds.
It’s important to note that while there were only two mass school shootings in the 22 years prior to the passage of this act, there have been at least 10 mass school shootings since the act was passed. If the federal government was actually trying to reduce gun violence in schools, they appear to have had exactly the opposite effect. Yet their response is not to repeal the act, but to instead push the policy towards the absurd extremes of zero tolerance that we see in schools today.
Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense
After the 1995 act, public schools began to incrementally expand their policies beyond actual weapons to include toy guns, artistic depictions of guns, and even children who point their fingers like guns. What began as “common sense reform” (just like the gun control polices advocated today) has resulted in the absurd, totalitarian “zero tolerance” policies that would accuse a 5-year-old girl of making terrorist threats, or bully a 5th-grader for bringing a folded piece of paper to class. The government has incrementally maneuvered us into a bizarre, Orwellian condition in which harmless little children are treated like criminals and terrorists, and yet tragic (and often suspicious) mass shootings of school children happen five times more often than they did before.
These asinine reactions to children’s toys by school administrators has been going on long before the Sandy Hook hysteria. All the way back in 2001, two New Jersey second-graders were playing cops and robbers with a piece of paper folded to look like a gun, and were actually arrested and charged with making terrorist threats. There are literally hundreds more examples, and it shows just how insidious and long term the behavioral conditioning has been. It runs the gamut from toy guns to hand gestures and even children’s names.
Nerf Guns
Perhaps Nerf toy guns are the most common target of zero tolerance policies despite the fact that they’re practically harmless and bear little if any resemblance to an actual gun. On Jan.15, a Long Island school was placed on total lockdown for 6 hours because someone was seen with a lime-green Nerf toy gun. There was no actual gun, imitation gun, or even a “fake gun” as misleading headlines implied at the time. Government employees simply spread mass hysteria and perpetuated an obvious false alarm over a 911 call in which the caller clearly described a student with a green “toy gun.”
Last October, a 5-year-old kindergartener in Missouri was suspended for 10 days for bringing his Nerf gun to class. The principal sent a letter home to the parents saying, “Please take this opportunity to remind your children that no weapons of any kind are allowed on school property and encourage them to report unsafe situations.” Of course there was no “weapon” involved at all. The item in question was a bright yellow, green and purple toy that shoots foam balls.
In 2011, New Jersey police actually charged a 7-year-old with a misdemeanor for bringing a toy gun to class. After investigating the “suspicious activity,” police charged the child with possessing an imitation firearm on school grounds. According to the superintendent, the “imitation firearm” the child brought to school was a $5 toy, similar to a Nerf gun, that shoots soft, ping pong type balls.
In each case, the school is claiming that the child possessed a weapon or an imitation of a weapon. But an “imitation” is a fake or counterfeit, an item that appears to be something it is not. A Nerf gun is certainly not an imitation of a real gun. It is a brightly colored plastic toy and doesn’t pretend to be otherwise. Only a Dr. Seuss character could possibly mistake a Nerf gun for a real gun. But this is not about safety or common sense; it’s about collective punishment and behavioral conditioning.
Water Guns
Toy water guns are probably even more harmless, and yet a Maryland 5-year-old was suspended for two days in 2007 when he brought his “Sweet Squirter,” a blue plastic candy dispensing water gun, to kindergarten. ACLU officials who took up the case were stunned that the toy had been deemed a weapon and stated that the candy filled squirt toy could not, ‘possibly be confused by anyone, whether a kindergartner or a teacher, with an actual weapon.” In 2006, a 6-year-old first-grader in Missouri was suspended for 10 days for bringing a 2-inch orange squirt gun to class. According to district policy, the squirt gun was a “simulated weapon” and came with an automatic 10-day suspension. Like all the other students mentioned here, this “Class IV violation” went on the youngster’s permanent record.
Just like Nerf toys, these water pistols are not “simulated guns.” They are colorful, fanciful playthings that could never be mistaken by anyone for a real weapon, and in any case are incapable of harming anyone in the hands of a child. This is simply collective punishment and incremental conditioning for young kids and their parents alike.
In 2008, a 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy received 2 days’ detention for wearing a shirt promoting ‘homeland security’ with a simplistic image of a pistol on the front and back. The shirt was a gift from his uncle serving in Iraq. In 2007, a 7-year-old second-grader received a one day suspension from a New Jersey school for drawing a crude stick figure holding a water gun. The pint-sized offender also sketched a skateboarder, King Tut, and a cyclops. In two separate incidents the same year, Arizona students were suspended for doodling gun-like images on paper. When the father of one of the boys went to the school to discuss the obvious overreaction, administrators warned him of the “seriousness” of the issue in light of the 1999 Columbine massacre. The father was appropriately offended by the comparison of his son’s sketches to a completely unrelated mass murder 8 years prior. This is textbook collective punishment.
In Feb. 2012, an Ontario father was arrested without warrant, strip-searched, and thrown in jail after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun in kindergarten. The innocent man’s house was searched, his wife was taken into custody, and his children were temporarily snatched by child welfare agents. Police claim their ridiculous response was because the tiny girl’s doodling was a “firearms related incident.” In fact, this was just a raw display of power by the state intended to terrorize and humiliate. It’s worth noting that no guns were found at the house, and this part of Ontario already has gun registration, so all the police had to do was check the register. This is what Americans have to look forward to after forced gun registration. Even if you don’t own any guns, the “authorities” will still be able to turn your life upside down with impunity if your child so much as doodles a derringer.
Gestures & Language
Last December at least 3 children were suspended for making gun gestures with their hands and fingers. A 5-year-old received a one day suspension and was banned from the school Christmas party after he made a gun gesture with his fingers and said, “Bang, bang.” School employees explained that “tension was high” when the “incident” took place because it happened right after Sandy Hook. Two 6-year-old boys in Maryland were suspended for making gun gestures while playing cops and robbers. School employees claimed that recent gun violence had “raised the debate” about what is appropriate, as if all public servants are now completely unable to distinguish between real gun violence and harmless child’s play.
This is just more indoctrination of both child and parent into collective punishment and behavior modification, and it was going on long before Sandy Hook. In 2010, a Michigan kindergartner was suspended after he curled his fist into a gun and pointed his finger at another child. School employees asserted this was “no laughing matter.” Some schools even banned playing Cops and Robbers as early as 2002.
The state is totally shameless in its desire to dominate and will relentlessly push the boundaries as far as the people will tolerate and consent. In August of last year, a Nebraska school actually asked the parents of a deaf 3-year-old preschooler to change his name because the sign language gesture for his name was a “violation of school weapons policy.” The school retracted its ridiculous demands after a public outcry ensued.
Collective Punishment
Collective punishment is the punishment of an entire group for the behavior of one or more individuals. During times of war and crisis, collective punishment usually results in mass suffering, degradation, and death, which is why it is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Among skilled educators, only the most inept and authoritarian teachers tend to use collective punishment in their classrooms because it is largely ineffective and punishes the majority of students who are well-behaved. Yet this is precisely what the “zero tolerance” of gun free schools has done. Young, impressionable children are being severely punished and traumatized just for talking about their bubble toy or bringing a piece of folded paper to class, all because of the totally unrelated and statistically rare actions of a few lone psychopaths.
Collective punishment is distinctly un-American because it crushes individual liberty, stifles dissent, and creates a society of snitches. But so long as they consent, adult Americans can expect to be hit with the same collective sanctions that have been used against their youths. Law abiding, patriotic gun owners will themselves be treated like children by the state and forced to hand in their weapons because of a few “lone shooter” psychopaths. Whether it is effective in keeping the people safe or not is irrelevant. Collective punishment is a demonstration of raw power and domination over an entire population. It is a hallmark of hardcore collectivism and has been a favorite technique of totalitarian governments throughout history.
Incrementalism
Perhaps even more insidious and harder to resist than collective punishment, incrementalism is the never-ending behavior modification of the people by the paternalistic government (a.k.a. “Big Brother” or the “Nanny State”).
Adults are patronizingly treated like children who are unable to manage their own lives or make their own decisions. Like a domesticated herd of livestock, the people are slowly, steadily goaded and coerced into ever increasing compliance with the state’s demands. Stealthy gradualism allows the social engineers to modify and control the public’s behavior with the least amount of resistance. Eventually, the people are tricked and trained into abandoning their own judgment and common sense in favor of the state’s authority, no matter how insulting or absurd it may get.
Over time, what was introduced as “common sense reform” becomes “zero tolerance,” and tyrannical policy extremes are completely normalized. The distracted and unsuspecting public are like the proverbial boiling frog. James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, was well aware of the dangers of incrementalism. “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
Gun Control Through Behavior Modification
Collective punishment together with incrementalism is a devastating combination used to modify the behavior of the masses, and has been refined to a high art by the social engineers. The Fabian socialists in the UK and Australia have already successfully used this combination together with “lone gunman” shootings to disarm their populations.
After the Hungerford massacre of 1987 in which 16 people were killed, Britain introduced legislation making registration mandatory for shotguns and banning all semi-automatic and pump-action weapons. Ten years later came the 1996 Dunblane massacre in Scotland, in which 16 kindergarteners were killed. Within a year, lawmakers banned the private ownership of all handguns in mainland Britain. Just six weeks after the Dunblane Massacre, the conveniently-timed Port Arthur massacre in Australia resulted in 35 deaths. The resulting legislation largely disarmed all law abiding Australians: all semiautomatic and pump action weapons were banned, registration of all guns was enforced, and anyone requesting a gun had to prove they had genuine reason (and self defense was not a valid reason). In true incremental, collective fashion, Australian gun-grabbers have just this week indicated they will now be going after the remaining bolt-action firearms, and Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced her draconian attack on our Second Amendment rights.
—“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
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6th January, 2014 by Anna Simpson Anna Simpson meets Marlys Appleton, CEO of the metals recycling company Avtaar America and an early champion of sustainability risk management.
“We had a $700 billion investment portfolio.” The year is 2005, the company AIG Asset Management. Marlys Appleton had been working there for four years when she was asked to take part in a ‘management development’ exercise which, she recalls, defined both her attitude to risk and her career. She went on to become the Chair of the Sustainability Steering Committee, and Vice President, Sustainability Initiatives for AIG Global Investment Group. Today she is the President, founder and 100% owner of the wholesale metals trading and recycling firm Avtaar America, and Co-Founder-Director of the Indian company Avtaar Management Solutions. She is also on the board of the non-profit Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future, which aims to support women as agents of change for sustainable practices in the business world.
Back in 2005, Appleton was one of a small group charged with investigating how climate change issues might affect the company’s portfolio, and researching progressive behaviour in corporations to see what AIG could learn. “My first thought was ‘What does this have to do with me?”, she admits. “My background was analytics and this sounded more like softball!”
Based on the group’s findings and acceptance by the CEO, Appleton was asked to chair an internal committee to convince the asset class business units, to take the risk seriously, and help them change their governance and approach to risk. What had they found? Put simply, that high-impact, low-probability events – such as those related to a changing climate and environmental degradation – could affect the performance of the investment portfolio. But not everyone was listening.
“There was considerable resistance”, she recalls. “Just because you convince the CEO of a company, it doesn’t mean all the lieutenants fall in line. We had to tell reluctant people who thought they knew everything already that this was a risk worth putting in the main category, and then give them the tools to assess it themselves. My role was to lead that effort.”
Before Appleton could convince anyone else, she first had to see the value of what she terms ‘sustainability risk management’ herself. “When you’re in a corporate environment and you have to go against the mainstream, one of the basic requirements is your own belief that what you are doing is legitimate and correct.” She describes the intense research process she threw herself into at the time, delving into papers on the potential impacts for business and industry of climate change and resource shortages and applying rigorous economic frameworks to them – in her words, “connecting the dots”.
“For lack of a better word, I was not educated about these things, but once I began researching the issues, it became eminently clear how important these newly emerging risks were”, she admits. “We were a mainstream asset manager across various classes: bonds, equities, private equities, real estate. In those days sustainability risk was not considered risk at all. Risk was seen as financial risk, business risk, event risk and so on. Sustainability risk is all about acknowledging the externalities, the effect your behaviours are having on others. I could see this within an economic framework – and that’s the way I was used to thinking: analytically. This gave me the confidence and enthusiasm to push the concepts.”
Conviction is one thing; communication another. Appleton describes her approach in the language of a marketer: rebranding, translating, creating messages. There’s a lesson here for anyone trying to promote sustainability in the mainstream. First listen to your audience; then adapt your message.
“We had to take issues around environmental and social aspects and translate them into the language of risk. We called it ‘enhanced due diligence’ – because that was part of the rhetoric the portfolio managers and research teams were used to hearing. You really had to demonstrate how these things could impact the bottom line.”
I ask her for an example – the sort she would have used to make her point. She picks the potential impact of water shortages on the many semiconductor manufacturers in Hong Kong. “In their production processes they need a lot of clean water. If there’s a shortage of water, what’s their back-up plan? If they all have the same one – to truck it in from a few other reasonably local sources, for instance – then that’s a recipe for disaster.”
Appleton describes one ‘aha’ moment with the Project Finance team – an asset class that gathers funds for large projects, such as infrastructure. They looked through the externality checklist, and began to discuss the impact of developments on indigenous peoples and their ability to disrupt the infrastructure. It’s not that this ‘social’ risk was unknown, Appleton hastens to clarify – but that the right value hadn’t been placed upon it. This exercise turned the fixed income team, into one of the biggest supporters internally of this new risk review. It was for this team that her group developed a carbon calculator which focused on sensitive sectors such as metals, mining and energy companies, and quantified their potential to adapt to future carbon-related regulations.
“Externality is a key analysis of sustainability risk. We open our eyes to costs to which we were able to close our eyes in the past.”
If the language of risk and externalities was one tool in Appleton’s change-making kit, proxy voting was another. Proxy, she explains, is an annual voting process for issues relating to all the public companies in which you hold shares.
“We had a proxy voting committee and they took their role very seriously. There are all kinds of questions that fall under proxy voting issues: transparency, reporting on a company’s vulnerability to climate change, etc. What we did was educate the proxy voting committee on how they might vote on sustainability issues.” Appleton became the first nonportfolio manager member of the committee, voting exclusively on sustainability-related issues. This could only happen after she and her team convinced internal and external counsel and legal teams that by taking into account such risk, they were indeed upholding their fiduciary responsibility to manage funds prudently. She considers this a fundamental achievement.
Another essential factor in minimising risk is governance, Appleton maintains. “It’s not just about how boards behave”, she explains: “it’s how the whole chain of command behaves. Good governance won’t necessarily gain you a lot that you can quantify, but poor governance will almost always comes back to hurt you.”
Take the BP oil spill, she says, referring to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster in which 4.9 million barrels flowed into the sea over 87 days. “If the questions that might have been asked of that company had been informed by sustainability, that would have been a good thing”, Appleton observes. “What happened with BP was a case of governance risk: down to poor safety policies or lack of enforcement. It’s clear that they saw citations [reports of health and safety incidents] as a cost of doing business, and didn’t take them seriously. This I see as a result of poor governance and it doesn’t just occur at board level, but also at project and division level.”
In contrast, it was the strong governance of some metal and mining giants that prompted Appleton to consider starting her own company in metals. “I became fascinated by it while doing research into the sustainability reports of the [the mining and natural resource group] BHP Billeton and Anglo American and [the aluminium manufacturer] Alcoa. I saw that these guys had been looking at environmental issues, such as water and waste, for a long time. They’re also big supporters of education and healthcare in developing nations, because they know that if they don’t, they won’t have a workforce. What really surprised me was that they had put together a rigorous intellectual framework to consider these issues – particulary BHP Billeton, the Australian mining giant.”
Come 2010, Appleton was looking for a change. Her progress mainstreaming sustainability at AIG had stalled during the financial crisis. Her ambition had been to expand the global investment platform for long-term risk assessment to the liability underwriting side of the business. However, after the crash there was no funding for new programmes. (Her established programmes remain in place, she is happy to say.) After 25 years on Wall Street, she was ready for a new challenge.
“I decided that I wanted to do something more independently. One of the biggest exports in the US is high quality scrap metal, and this is also one of the biggest inputs into the steel production process. By using recycled steel you reduce the carbon emissions and water footprint significantly – and it’s less costly. I looked at the big emerging markets for scrap steel – Turkey, China, Korea, India, and so on. India is a big steel producer: by 2020 they could well be the second largest steel manufacturing country in the world [after China]. I found a partner in India who knew the business, and that was the genesis of Avtaar.”
Fundamentally, Appleton believes, she wouldn’t have started the business without her experience in helping others to understand sustainability. Appleton also credits her time chairing the Sustainability Steering Committee as a process that brought her entrepreneurial skills to the fore, and informed her decision to seek out more autonomy.
There’s a long way to go before sustainability risk management is common in financial markets, Appleton admits. If she could make one change to the world of finance, I ask, what would it be? “To encourage CFOs and others working in investor relations to consider long-term risk and to bring it up in their quarterly calls”, she replies, “even if the Wall Street analysts don’t ask! The main impediment is short-termism.”
However, she adds, there’s a need for regulation as well as advocacy. “I am encouraged by the work of some progressive organisations in assessing all manner of sustainability risk – GE, Allianz and Deutsche Bank, and non-profits such as WWF, to name a few. That said, had you told me in 2007 that by 2014 we would still not have any climate change legislation, I would have thought it implausible.”
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Thieves often initiate IRS scam call from area code 202 because victims may be tricked by the DC area code. Fraudsters use a variety IRS scam tactics to steal money and sensitive data from people. The prime season for IRS scam calls is from the beginning of each calendar year until income tax season wraps up in mid-April. But IRS scams occur all year long. Each year, scammers refine their tactics so they can get past spam filters, spam call blockers, and antivirus apps that help block their money stealing schemes.
Scammers who call potential victims may claim they are from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and cite a false name and/or employee badge number to help their believability. With an IRS scam call from area code 202, the scammer may instruct the victim to call back using the same Washington, DC area code (202) phone number shown on Caller ID to “prove” the call is authentic. If they send follow up phishing emails, they may even use the IRS logo to make their IRS scams appear more convincing.
There are a variety of IRS scams that circulate each year. Some are new, but many have been used before and are variations of previous year’s tax scams. The IRS publishes a yearly running list of common scams, known as the IRS Dirty Dozen.
The stories used to coerce taxpayers out of their money can change too. IRS scammers may email or call to scare people into thinking they owe money to the IRS for back taxes. The scammer may then threaten to report them to the police if the they don’t pay immediately. Scammers often try to collect money over the phone using further scare tactics and demand payment right away. The IRS never takes payment over the phone.
In another scenario, the scammer may inform a victim they are owed a refund. The victim may be asked for bank account information to send a direct deposit payment. Personal information may be requested over the phone or in an email and include birthdate, government ID, bank account numbers, address, or other sensitive information.
When a victim questions the identity of the fake IRS agent or the validity of the demand for payment, the scammer may instruct the person to call them back or look for a supposed official email from the IRS. If the victim chooses to call the fake IRS agent back, the scammer may tell them to call back using the number shown on Caller ID. The phone number on Caller ID may be an IRS scam call number from area code 202 (Washington DC) or any area code. Hackers can alter Caller ID technology to make the calling phone number appear to come from any area code they choose.
Regardless of the delivery tactic and story, the goal is to commit identity theft or steal money and from taxpayers.
Will the IRS Ever Contact You by Telephone?
Taxpayers should be especially wary of IRS scam calls from area code 202 or any other phone call from someone who claims to be from the IRS.
The IRS only contacts you by telephone if you contacted them first – by phone, via the IRS website, email, or postal mail. The IRS may also contact you by telephone if they have sent a notice using regular USPS mail first. Hackers and scammers can call from fake phone numbers that trick your CallerID into reporting the phone call originates in Washington, DC.
The IRS does not make robocalls. According to IRS website, does not call taxpayers until they have sent a notice via US Postal mail. The IRS does not call to demand or accept payment over the phone including credit card payments. If you do owe taxes, you are not required using a certain form of payment, like debit cards for example. Gift cards are neve an acceptable form of payment and are commonly requested by hackers because they are not traceable.
Robocalls are often used by scammers to dial a large volume of phone numbers in a short period of time. The phone scam may be the first call to test if a phone number is active and answered by someone. If you answer one IRS scam calls, there may be others with increasing scare tactics.
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May 16th, 2017 Tech Who was behind the huge global cyber-attack? One prominent theory right now is North Korea – but what we know is far from conclusive.
You may not have heard of the Lazarus Group, but you may be aware of its work. The devastating hack on Sony Pictures in 2014, and another on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016, have both been attributed to the highly sophisticated group.
It is widely believed that the Lazarus Group worked out of China, but on behalf of the North Koreans.
Security experts are now cautiously linking the Lazurus Group to this latest attack after a discovery by Google security researcher Neel Mehta. He found similarities between code found within WannaCry – the software used in the hack – and other tools believed to have been created by the Lazarus Group in the past.
It’s a mere sliver of evidence, but there are other clues to consider too.
Security expert Prof Alan Woodward pointed out to me via email that time stamps within the original WannaCry code are set to UTC +9 – China’s time zone – and the text demanding the ransom uses what reads like machine-translated English, but a Chinese segment apparently written by a native speaker.
“As you can see it’s pretty thin and all circumstantial,” Prof Woodward said.
“However, it’s worth further investigation.”
Picking apart the code
That investigation is already underway.
“Neel Mehta’s discovery is the most significant clue to date regarding the origins of WannaCry,” said Russian security firm Kaspersky, but noted a lot more information is needed about earlier versions of WannaCry before any firm conclusion can be reached.
“We believe it’s important that other researchers around the world investigate these similarities and attempt to discover more facts about the origin of WannaCry,” the company added.
“Looking back to the Bangladesh attack, in the early days, there were very few facts linking them to the Lazarus group.
“In time, more evidence appeared and allowed us, and others, to link them together with high confidence. Further research can be crucial to connecting the dots.”
Attributing cyber-attacks can be notoriously difficult – often relying on consensus rather than confirmation.
For example, North Korea has never admitted any involvement in the Sony Pictures hack – and while security researchers, and the US government, are confident in the theory, neither can rule out the possibility of a false flag.
Skilled hackers may have simply made it look like it had origins in North Korea by using similar techniques.
In the case of WannaCry, it is possible that hackers simply copied code from earlier attacks by the Lazarus Group.
But Kaspersky said false flags within WannaCry were “possible” but “improbable”, as the shared code was removed from later versions.
“There’s a lot of ifs in there,” added Prof Woodward.
“It wouldn’t stand up in court as it is. But it’s worth looking deeper, being conscious of confirmation bias now that North Korea has been identified as a possibility.”
It’s the strongest theory yet as to the origin of WannaCry, but there are also details that arguably point away from it being the work of North Korea.
First, China was among the countries worst hit, and not accidentally – the hackers made sure there was a version of the ransom note written in Chinese. It seems unlikely North Korea would want to antagonise its strongest ally. Russia too was badly affected.
Second, North Korean cyber-attacks have typically been far more targeted, often with a political goal in mind.
In the case of Sony Pictures, hackers sought to prevent the release of The Interview, a film that mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. WannaCry, in contrast, was wildly indiscriminate – it would infect anything and everything it could.
Finally, if the plan was simply to make money, it’s been pretty unsuccessful on that front too – only around $60,000 (£46,500) has been paid in ransoms, according to analysis of Bitcoin accounts being used by the criminals.
With more than 200,000 machines infected, it’s a terrible return. But then of course, maybe the ransom was a distraction for some other political goal not yet clear.
Another possibility is that the Lazarus Group worked alone, without instruction from North Korea. Indeed, it could be that the Lazarus Group isn’t even linked to North Korea.
More questions than answers – and in cyber-war, facts are extremely hard to come by.
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http://updatednews.com/2017/05/16/wannacry-ransomware-cyber-attack-may-have-n-korea-link/
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No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids. We are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat cyber threats, just as we have done to combat terrorism. And tonight, I urge this Congress to finally pass the legislation we need to better meet the evolving threat of cyber-attacks, combat identity theft, and protect our children’s information. If we don’t act, we’ll leave our nation and our economy vulnerable. If we do, we can continue to protect the technologies that have unleashed untold opportunities for people around the globe.
Bill Solms, President & CEO, Wave Systems, believes we need bold reform to strengthen U.S cybersecurity. Here are some of the other comments Help Net Security received:
Marc Gaffan, CEO of Incapsula
We are excited at President Obama’s focus on securing cyberspace from hackers and creating harsher legal penalties for those engaging in malicious activity online. Recently, we have watched cyber criminals not only engage in more complex attacks, but also seen the proliferation of hacking guns for hire. Creating legislation that clearly states the illegality of selling botnets will combat the exponential growth of malicious bots trolling the Internet, which by our own research makes up 30 percent of all Web traffic.
We also see great potential in allowing courts to shut down bots engaged in DDoS attacks and other illegal activity. These types of attacks cost businesses an average of $500,000 in damages, and as we saw recently with the Sony hack, organizations under attack are largely helpless in protecting themselves once their network has been breached.
While we are encouraged to see the government address this burgeoning threat, it is still imperative for organizations to put protective measures in place. Securing a network against attacks not only protects against the threat of a site shutdown, it ensures that customer or employee data does not fall into the wrong hands.
Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor of F-Secure
Prediction: Section 215 and Section 206 of the USA PATRIOT Act and Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act will be reauthorized before their June 1, 2015 expiration date.
Post-Snowden, it appeared as though the controversial provisions might lack the political support needed to avoid sunset. But now, we are confident that Washington D.C. will act to protect itself from ‘nation state cyber-terrorism’ and will renew them after all.
Don’t expect reform in 2015. The violation of your digital freedom will continue. Mark your calendars.
Uri Sarid, CTO of MuleSoft
Lesson 1: The age of security by obscurity is over. We now know for sure that hackers have the time, skill and incentive to find you—and your vulnerabilities.
Lesson 2: Complexity is the enemy. Modern IT systems are incredibly powerful, but they’re also dangerously complex and deeply interconnected. Every smartphone, tablet, web server and office application is a potential vulnerability. No one can fix them all, and a hacker only needs to find one.
Lesson 3: Simplicity is your best defense. That’s one reason so many businesses are using custom APIs for their IT. APIs reduce an organization’s “attackable surface” by exposing a select set of IT functions: updating or reading a sales record, for instance. Users (or hackers) never touch the underlying IT systems, just the API. Even if hackers do manage to access the API, they can’t do anything the API doesn’t allow.
Instead of locking down everything equally (an impossible task) businesses can focus on securing the API and the systems it touches. It’s not a foolproof strategy. You still have to protect the API correctly, but this is a practical and increasingly popular way to manage security in the face of complexity.
David Campbell, CSO of SendGrid
2015 is the year that encryption becomes mainstream. We can’t expect consumers to understand or take on the burden of implementing encryption, so the security industry and technology providers need to take this on.
We’re already seeing the impact of broken security standards, such as the global PKI which is only as strong as the weakest link. Breaches and privacy debacles related to poor crypto implementations will continue until we can agree on a new approach forward.
There have been improvements, including certificate pinning, SSL Perspectives, Convergence and DNSSEC/DANE, that have seen some traction, but until the community, the governments, and the standards bodies can achieve consensus, all of the work we are doing may be wasted effort. Without evolution of global encryption, we expose the enterprise and consumers to unnecessary risk.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2015/01/21/reactions-to-president-obamas-2015-state-of-the-union-address/
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Its modern 18000 square foot facility in Bristol, CT utilizes the latest in computerized machining centers and robotics. Since 1989 the DynaLock Corp. specializes in manufacturing UL listed electromagnetic locks and delayed egress systems. Additional products include UL listed power supplies, exit controls and custom consoles. Dyna-Lock Corp. offers the DynaLife Lifetime Warranty on all standard products.
Dyna Lock Corporation's sales engineering staff is available for technical help regarding product and systems design. In addition, DynaLock Corporation offers design services for custom built products and system point-to-point wiring diagrams.
DynaLock Corporation products are available through nationwide security, locksmith and contract hardware distributors. Dyna Lock Corporation also supports its product line by exhibiting in all major industry trade shows. Training sessions are offered throughout the year, either locally or at the factory.
DynaLock Corporation manufactures high security locking and access control products. DynaLock Electromagnetic Locks
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http://www.internet-security-inc.com/DynaLock.html
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You are here: Home / Cryptography / Vulnerability in Open SSL 1.0.XVulnerability in Open SSL 1.0.X August 10, 2010 by Live Hacking New vulnerability in Open SSL 1.0.X has been reported by Computerworld. This vulnerability has been discovered by a security expert Georg Guninski. He has pointed out a security issue in the 1.0 branch of OpenSSL that potentially allows SSL servers to compromise clients.
The hole can be exploited simply by sending a specially crafted certificate to the client, causing deallocated memory to be accessed in the ssl3_get_key_exchange function (in ssl\s3_clnt.c). While this usually only causes an application to crash, it can potentially also be exploited to execute injected code.
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http://www.livehacking.com/2010/08/10/vulnerability-in-open-ssl-1-0-x/
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May 7, 2010 July 3, 2019 - by Webologist - 3 Comments.
My Dad called me today to say that he had a problem with his PC. A rogue anti-virus got installed on his PC and has hijacked it. He is running McAfee AV but that failed to stop it, although he did admit that he saw warnings, but really thought at the time that the virus program was a safe one.
I have Googled the fix for him and found that Malwarebytes have an automatic removal solution in place already. You can download Malware Bytes from Bleeping Computer (a website devoted to helping people prevent and remove viruses), here is the direct link: Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
Now, before you go jumping to any conclusions, let me make it clear that I may be adding to the confusion. As this evening I had a comment posted to my Facebook Wall that was obviously a bit suspect. It said “Jon, this is without doubt the sexiest video ever! 😛 :P” with what appeared to be an embedded YouTube video of a woman with a large behind dancing. Admittedly I did click on it, rather foolishly. The person that sent it to me really is not the sort of person that generally sends such things, and I was curious.
Anyway, nothing seemed to happen, but I speculated that this may have been connected with the virus my Mum picked up earlier today, so decided to investigate a bit further. The current result is that I doing a thorough scan with Malwarebytes now, after having run CCleaner and Cleanup (two tools to help remove trash from all areas), my thinking that maybe the files are not active yet and they will clean them out…..
So, next was a Google for “Personal Antivirus” and Candid / Facebook together. Nothing. So they may not be connected.
No idea what the Candid Video virus on Facebook does apart from send itself on to all your Facebook contacts. Maybe it spreads a more serious PC hijacking Trojan virus. The thing about these things is that often they lay low for a few days. One person on Facebook said that it is a serious virus, although they did no elaborate on that. Another complained that Facebook as usual are doing nothing to stop it spreading. Great.
Will update you if I find out more. If you have any information let me know.
UPDATE:
Just read this on Infosecurity-us.com and it explains what the virus does, although still unclear what its endgame is. There is a Facebook anti-malware scanner that can be installed though, so that is worth investigating.
“Patric Runald, senior manager for security research at Websense, told Infosecurity that the installed malware would steal a user’s Facebook username and password, log into the user’s account, and then begin to spread the malicious link by posting messages to group and user walls and via messages to friend/group lists.
To prevent possible infections from future scams, Runald told Infosecurity that Websense offers a free Facebook application called Defensio to monitor for malware and other malicious content on a user’s page. It can be installed for free on any user’s profile, both in a personal or corporate setting.”
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https://www.webologist.co.uk/internet-security/facebook-candid-camera-messages-spreading-virus
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Augusta University Health has experienced a phishing attack that has resulted in the unauthorized accessing of several employees’ email accounts.
The substitute breach notice uploaded to the University of Augusta website indicates investigators determined on July 31, 2018 that email accounts containing the protected health information (PHI) of patients and personally identifiable information (PII) of employees had been compromised.
The breach notice states that its employees were targeted with a series of phishing emails between September 10-11, 2017. Responses to those emails resulted in login credentials being divulged. Upon discovery of the breach, access to the compromised email accounts was blocked by changing the passwords. Following the password change, the email accounts were monitored closely to ensure unauthorized access did not continue.
However, no mention was made about when the breach was discovered to have occurred. The investigation into the breach is ongoing, suggesting the incident was only recently discovered. If that was the case, the attackers potentially had access to the email accounts for up to 10 months before a security breach was detected.
The types of data exposed included names, demographic information, diagnoses, medications, dates of service, health insurance information, surgical details, medical record numbers, treatment information and other medical data. A small number of individuals also had their Social Security number and/or driver’s license number exposed.
All affected individuals will be notified of the breach in the next few days. Affected individuals have been offered complimentary credit monitoring services.
The past few months have seen an increase in phishing attacks on healthcare organizations. In the second quarter of 2018, phishing attacks were the leading cause of healthcare data breaches in the United States.
What makes this phishing attack stand out is the sheer quantity of data contained in the compromised email accounts. The breach notice submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights shows 417,000 individuals may have had their PHI or PII stolen as a result of the breach.
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https://www.netsec.news/major-phishing-attack-reported-by-augusta-university-health/
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Cybersecurity is a fascinating profession. It requires technical skills and experience — mainly working with computer code, data structures, and network infrastructure. But it also requires other professional skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, the drive to constantly learn new technology, and the ability to communicate with co-workers about best practices and policies.
Another thing that makes cybersecurity so interesting is the pace at which the industry is moving. Both from an overall growth perspective (the industry is booming) but also from the scope and responsibility of what cybersecurity professionals are tasked with doing.
Digital security or information security is no longer a niche field. As more life unfolds across the digital landscape, so too does the need to keep data and information safe. Cybersecurity professionals are working in companies and organizations across all kinds of industry sectors and organizational size.
Here are a couple of resources that are designed to look at current cybersecurity topics in a little bit more depth. The following guides provide a broad overview of the subject, but also provide tactical and actionable information.
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https://cybersecurityguide.org/resources/
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Libgcrypt 1.6.5 with security fix released (in remark, 2016-02-11 ) #cryptography #gnupg #libgcrypt #openpgp #security #vulnerability [security] Go 1.5.3 is released (in remark, 2016-01-24 ) #golang #math #security #tls #vulnerability
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https://text.baldanders.info/tags/vulnerability/
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Old Trafford boss Fergie was left stunned by Sunday's FA Cup loss to Leeds.
His No 2 Mike Phelan said: "We will start to think a little bit differently with our selection for Wednesday.
"I don't think we did ourselves justice against Leeds in certain departments of the field. We had players out there who play for Manchester United and they did not perform as expected of them."
Fergie had virtually selected his team to make the short journey to Eastlands - but the 1-0 defeat by Leeds has forced him to think again.
Phelan insisted they expected the XI put out against the League One side to be comfortably good enough to win.
He added: "We either go experienced, or we go youth. This time we picked a bit of a mixture and it didn't work.
"This is a major blow. We need to progress in this cup. We need to be in finals of cup competitions like this. To go out at the stage we have is unacceptable really."
Centre-back Nemanja Vidic is likely to miss the City clash after pulling out of the Leeds game with a trapped nerve.
Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2794427/Fergie-to-axe-seven-flops.html
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http://enriqued-infosec.blogspot.com/2010/01/preview-united-v-city-fergie-to-axe-7.html
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Outpost Antivirus (OAV) delivers efficient protection against viruses and other destructive malware, for one low annual subscription price. It's fast and undemanding, created with latest Windows versions and 64-bit technologies in mind, and due to its simplicity, is suitable for inexperienced users. Outpost Antivirus is the ultimate in standalone antivirus solutions. Here's what you get with Outpost Anti-Virus Pro:
- Efficient virus scanner protecting your PC in real time against a broad range of malware types. Due to SmartScan 3 optimizations, subsequent scans complete much faster because the unchanged portion of the file system doesn't get checked.
- Antivirus updates are released and distributed twice a day on workdays to keep current with the latest threats, while the main virus engine will be automatically updated to the latest version as soon as the corresponding program updates become available.
- Host Protection module, which is an advanced HIPS tool that controls program activity on the PC. It enables a user to block suspicious or unwanted operations that may precede actual infestation with unknown malware instances. This module also ensures that active Outpost protection cannot be compromised by targeted attacks to dismantle it.
- Web safety tools to safeguard your online presence. It will block access to an updatable list of blacklisted Internet domains and limit your exposure to unwanted advertisements and distracting elements such as animations, pop-ups, banners and other clutter.
- Entertainment mode will trigger a switch to "no-questions" mode when you're watching movies or playing games and defer all configurations-related proceeds to a more convenient time.
Try Outpost Antivirus in action and witness the tremendous value-for-money it offers.
Microsoft to offer free anti-spyware, anti-virus software Microsoft Corp. will offer consumers who use its Windows operating system free software to battle so-called spyware and eventually antivirus software, chairman Bill Gates said.
Fake Microsoft Security Trojan on the Loose, Antivirus Firm Says Clicking link takes you to false Windows Update page that infects your PC.
CYAN Secure Web � a fresh look at web security and content protection Todays standards of web security require much more than they did a decade ago. Basic access blocking is not as efficient as it used
Naevius USB Antivirus 2.1 - reliable protection from viruses residing on portable USB drives Today, USB drives assumed the role that floppy disks played many years ago. Compact, energy-independent and capable of storing dozens of gigabytes of data, they can
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http://3d2f.com/programs/71-544-agnitum-outpost-antivirus-pro-download.shtml
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The certificate used for signing and encryption is generated automatically during the plugin-installation. It can be replaced or regenerated in the Service Provider-tab.
This certificate is included in the SAML-metadata so that it is available to the Identity Provider after importing metadata. This inclusion can be controlled with the settings.
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https://wiki.resolution.de/doc/saml-sso/latest/jira/further-configuration/request-signing-and-response-encryption
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - At least five states have launched a joint probe into the data breach on the payment-card processing systems of Home Depot Inc , even as the retailer works to determine the impact on its customers in the United States and Canada.
The coordinated effort was disclosed on Tuesday, a day after Home Depot confirmed suspicions that its payment processing systems have been breached.
"We have had initial contact with the company," said Jaclyn Falkowski, director of communications for Jepsen. "We would decline any further comment at this time."
It was not immediately clear if other states would join the emerging coalition of state attorneys general.
A Home Depot spokeswoman said the company had nothing new to say beyond what was in Monday's statement.
The retailer has said the breach could have affected any customer who had used a payment card at one of its stores in the United States since April of this year.
Some analysts have speculated that the size of the breach could rival that of last year's unprecedented cyber attack on Target Corp , which resulted in the theft of some 40 million payment card numbers and another 70 million customer records.
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http://www.newsweek.com/home-depot-data-breach-could-match-targets-biggest-ever-269286
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