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but i use nod32 and zonealarm now (not free).
edit: there's page called http://www.av-comparatives.org/ they test a bunch of av prog like avg, kaspersky,nod32, avk, microsoft, norton, etc.
For Spyware/Malware, Microsoft's Windows Defender has been pretty good to me.
As for the best firewall, although its not free (unless you already have it) a router with built in NAT Firewall is the absolute best firewall you can get. Hardware firewalls like this are much better than software solutions as they don't hog system resources, and provide protection for any device that connects to them.
If you do need a firewall however, I have heard that ZoneAlarm's free firewall isn't too bad.
Hm, your best protection against spyware is to not use Internet Explorer, seriously. If you've already got troublesome stuff on your pc, Spybot helps better than most other stuff.
Regarding a firewall - use hardware. Every simple router is far better than any software could be. Just imagine any spyware simply turning your software firewall off - it could, mostly!
Back in my windows days I found that a combo of Firefox and a router firewall did the trick for me, I seldom got any spyware/malware. I reccomend using spybot and spydoctor, and AVG if you think you've gotten a virus.
If you're really worried about spyware though think about switching over to linux, the threat of getting spyware is very low, )I don't think there are any Anti spyware packages for it), I currently have a dual boot I really use XP for games and linux for everything else.
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One of the reasons why you would consider maglock installation on your property is that the lock is either operated by an electrical security system, a keypad security system, card readers, or scanners, rather than keys.
On that account, maglock installation would be an appropriate alternative if you have been finding it hard to keep your door’s keys safe. Furthermore, the keyless entry saves you from fidgeting at the door or gate while you wait for somebody to open it.
• Maglock installation let you control access to your premises
Besides saving you from the challenge of losing keys, a maglock installation would also be an efficient way to regulate access to premises. For instance, the lock can be integrated with a fingerprint scanner or card reader to let in/ out authorized people while restricting access to unauthorized ones.
In addition to the selective access control, the lock integrated with a fingerprint scanner or card reader can let you monitor important access details like the person who entered a certain restricted area as well as the time he or she gained access. This feature makes it a good lock for securing an area with valuable items and or information.
The market offers an array of maglocks that differ depending on the amount of locking force. For instance, a maglock that is rated 1200 pounds can withstand an equivalent amount of force before anyone can break through. These variations in force give you the freedom to choose a lock whose locking force suits into your security needs.
Besides the variations in locking force, you can also customize the lock by merging your maglock installation with a buzzer alarm, a bond sensor, a relocking time delay, or any other feature that can enhance your security and convenience.
• Maglock installation reduces costs arising from break-ins and damage or theft
Ideally, you can lose thousands to millions of dollars when somebody breaks into your property. Besides losing your valuables, a break-in or robbery also comes accompanied with unexpected costs like replacing your locks, repairing broken items, cleaning up the mess left behind by the burglar, and many other associated costs.
Replacing your traditional locks with maglocks could be an excellent way to protect yourself from such misfortunes because the maglocks provide a powerful locking force. The maglock is also virtually resistant to conventional attacks since a burglar can hardly access the locking components.
Furthermore, maglock installation would be a genius way to reduce the cost of damaged locks since they are constructed to defy multiple blows, and they lack movable parts that can break if your door or gate is forced open by a crowbar.
As we noted above, there are multiple maglocks sold in hardware stores out there. Some of these magnetic locks deliver the benefits discussed above, while substandard ones may not. If you want to avoid the latter type of locks, we suggest that you purchase your maglock directly from the manufacturer or a reputable store.
FPC security is one of the places where you can get genuine maglocks. Headquartered in Miami, our company has developed an excellent reputation in the sale of quality wireless doorbells, access control systems, wireless door entry- chime systems, as well as security alarm systems.
1. Visionis ViS- 1200D 1200lbs electromagnetic lock
This double maglock is engineered to deliver a powerful 1200lb locking force to your door. Besides the excellent locking force, this maglock also comes equipped with a LED light that lets you know if the lock is open or closed.
You would want to buy the VS- 1200D lock since it is designed to fit on PVC, wood, metal, or glass doors and it has a three-year warranty. You will receive full tech support on how to install a maglock once you have purchased this lock. Moreover, the lock has an anti-rust coating, and it is designed to withstand high temperatures and humidity.
2. Visionis VIS- 600D indoor electric maglock
This indoor electric magnetic lock is designed for double wooden, glass, sliding, metal, and fireproof doors. The electromagnetic lock delivers a locking force of 600lb, and it has a LED indicator that lets you know when your lock is engaged and when it is not.
Other useful features on this lock include the three-year warranty, the free tech support, and the anodized aluminum and zinc coating that protects the 600lb maglock from the deterioration that might result from rusting and corrosion.
3. Visionis VIS- ML 120
Visionis VIS- ML 120 is a mini maglock that is designed for both- in swinging and out- swinging cabinet doors, or any other small application. You can use it on PVC, metal, glass, or wood doors.
Like its competitors above, this mini maglock door entry system comes with a three year manufacturer warranty and US residents who purchase this lock receive full access to tech support. The lock and amateur plates have a zinc finish that protects the lock from rusting and corrosion.
4. Visionis VIS- ML 600LED- UL
This electromagnetic lock uses a 600lb force to keep your glass, wooden, metallic, or PVC door closed securely. In addition to the reasonable locking force, this maglock also comes equipped with a LED light that lets you know whether the lock is engaged or disengaged.
You would want to purchase this lock because it comes with a three year manufacturer warranty and its blue zinc plating protects the hardware from the deterioration resulting from rusting and or corrosion. It meets American’s UL standards.
5. Visionis VIS- 1200BZ electromagnetic lock with a timed buzzer
This 1200 lb maglock comes equipped with a built-in time buzzer that will sound an alarm whenever the door is opened. In addition to the time buzzer, the magnetic lock comes with a LED light that blinks green when the lock is open and red when it is engaged.
Like most magnetic locks in this list, you can install this lock on wooden, metal, fireproof, sliding, and glass doors. Its amateur and magnet have a zinc finish that protects them from rust and corrosion.
6. Visionis VIS- 600T- LED magnetic lock with a time delay
Visionis VIS- 600 T delivers a 600lb locking force to let you lock your in swinging or out swinging doors. You can also install this lock on a sliding or fireproof door. T features an integrated time delay that can be set at an interval of 0, 3, 6, and 9 seconds.
Other notable features on this magnetic lock include the LED indicator that lets you know when the lock is engaged or disengaged, a three-year warranty, and the zinc finish that shields it against corrosion.
7. VS- MOR. 300 electromagnetic mortise lock
Different from the usual maglocks, this type is constructed from stainless steel to last long, and it should be installed in a mortise made onto the door frame. Moreover, the stainless steel construction’s waterproof capability makes it an appropriate deal for outdoor use. It delivers a locking force of 300lbs.
You would want to buy this magnetic lock because it is fully compatible with PVC, metal, wood, and glass doors and it is manufactured according to CE and PSB’s strict regulations.
8. VS- SS800- G 800lbs outdoor electromagnetic lock
This electromagnetic lock features a weather-resistant construction to let you use it on your gate or any other door that is exposed to bad weather elements like rain, snow, humidity, direct sunlight, and any other weather elements.
VS- SS800- G provides a locking force of 800lbs, which is strong enough to keep burglars and other unauthorized people from your property. Other great features on this lock include the blue zinc plating that resists the wear and tear resulting from corrosion and rust. It is also backed by a three year warranty.
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In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Tufts University Information Technology (UIT) has made a recent push for awareness about the security risks associated with mobile technology. On campus, Blackberries and iPhones abound, ...
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In patching its open-source chat application, Cryptocat implied such software is less secure than proprietary products, spurring an open source versus commercial application debate among security experts.
Cryptocat makes a snooping-resistant instant messaging (IM) application that runs inside a Web browser. The open-source project apologized last week for a now-fixed bug that made it too easy for an attacker to decrypt and read conversations. Ã'Â
The vulnerability, found by researcher Steve Thomas, is serious because the software is used by activists trying to avoid government eavesdropping, journalists having sensitive conversations with sources and lawyers seeking privacy while talking to clients.
In a blog post, Cryptocat took full responsibility for the flaw and added, "We will commit failures dozens, if not hundreds of times more in the coming years, and we only ask you to be vigilant and careful. This is the process of open source security."
The comment baffled Paul Royal, associate director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. "He could have generalized the statement to: 'This is the process of software security -- period,'" Royal said on Monday. "I don't quite understand why open source makes it inherently risky, like somehow because software is proprietary a developer will not make a mistake."
However, other experts disagreed, saying that because open-source software is developed by an unpaid group of engineers, there are going to be security lapses.
"Since open source software isn't owned by anyone, there are no dedicated software maintenance people and enhancements are made by whoever can and wants them," said Murray Jennex, associate professor for computer security at San Diego State University.
Dan Olds, an analyst for Gabriel Consulting Group, agreed, saying developers paid to build software have more at stake in getting it right.
"The key difference is that commercial developers depend on the quality of their product to pay their mortgages and feed their families," Olds said. "I would argue that this forces commercial developers to pay more attention to bugs and to do more rigorous testing."
In addition, companies can be held liable for software left insecure due to negligence, Olds said.
Morgan Davis, a senior trainer and engineer at Security Innovation, said it's not fair toÃ'Â blame open-source security."The failures of Cryptocat are not failures of open-source versus closed-source development, but rather a failure in the secure development process," Davis said.
"They failed to execute effective security practices in requirements, design, [and] implementation and throughout the rest of the development process," he said.
[Also see:Ã'Â Open Source -- Is it inherently more secure than proprietary software?]
Cryptocat published a threat model for its namesake software that is "rudimentary at best, and never identifies cryptography as being a potential weak point," Davis said.
"Consequently, they -- through their crypto-ignorance -- implemented a terrible series of crypto-blunders," he said.
A major difference between proprietary and open-source software is the latter's source code is available to everyone, including hackers. While that means less skill is need to find vulnerabilities, there is no shortage of experienced developers who can do the binary reverse engineering needed to find as many flaws in proprietary applications, Royal said.
"The primary difference will be in the level of skill at which a person can reverse engineer to discover that vulnerability," he said.
Commercial vendors will place protective layers over their code to prevent the theft of their intellectual property, Royal said. But that has not stopped hackers from exploiting a steady stream of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Adobe Flash, examples of popular applications often targeted by cybercriminals.
Therefore, the ubiquity of the software is what dictates the risk, Royal said. The more popular it is among consumers and businesses, the more likely criminals will look for flaws and develop malware to exploit them.
"In general, software used by many people is going to be targeted," he said.
While that may be true, a hacker is still likely to find open source software easier to crack, said Murray. "I never recommend anyone use open source software for critical applications unless you are going to maintain it yourself and, of course, inspect it and keep it safe," he said.
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In 2017, Texas was ranked second in the nation for internet crime victims and amount of losses due to cybercrimes. Since October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we thought we’d use the opportunity to talk about the top 10 most common cyber crimes and tell you more about the laws against them.
Law enforcement officials are working more diligently than ever to stop cyber crimes in the US, so if you find yourself accused, be concerned about the consequences.
Any activity, such as unsolicited emails, phone calls, or text messages with the intent of scamming, is prohibited by law. It also includes solicitation by fake websites that look legitimate but trick users into scams.
Other cybercrimes include investment scams, online impersonation, online solicitation of minors, and unlawful decryption. All these crimes carry significant penalties under both Texas and federal law.
Penalties for Texas Cyber Crimes
The Texas court system takes cyber crimes seriously. Anyone accused of a cybercrime could face these penalties if convicted.
A computer security breach will be penalized as a Class B misdemeanor and could go up to a first degree felony.
Online harassment ranges from a Class A misdemeanor to a third degree felony.
Soliciting a minor is a third degree felony unless the minor is under 14 years old. Then a second degree felony charge will apply.
A conviction can result in a prison sentence and significant fines, which can have a negative effect on your life for decades. Getting convicted isn’t a foregone conclusion, however. With the right defense, you may be able to get your charges reduced, dropped, or dismissed.
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Lawyers say that the SEC will “accelerate the pace” of enforcement to keep up with the rising rates of cybercrime, while the new SEC enforcement directors call cyber security “the greatest threat to our markets”.
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https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/article/1142877/sec-steps-up-enforcement-against-escalating-cybercrime
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Another example of the company's indifference to the responsibility for the protection and safety of information.
We did notified company about the security breach and honestly gave them chance to fix the "bugs" and avoid data leakage, however they are not interested about that.
So according to our rules we have to publish the data of FINSA company, to let everyone knows about such an attitude.
Unfortunately there are still a lot of companies that are don't want to take responsibility for the personal information that gathered and don't want to improve security measures.
That's why we will continue to post news about companies that doesn't values much privacy of their clients and partners.
* This post will be updated regularly with new files and data available for downloading, so keep follow.
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Hey Darril, your book is an enjoyable read. However, I wanted make sure if there's a typo in Chapter 9 under SSL section.
The 3rd point says, "The client creates a session key and then encrypts it with the private key." Whereas number 3 in the diagram says that the session key is encrypted with the public key that server sends to the client.
I also posted a video on YouTube that explains the SSL handshake process that may be helpful. I explain it in the video just like I do in the classroom. YouTube - Security+ HTTPS and SSL
That is really above and beyond, heck just being on the forum giving us feedback is above and beyond. Thanks for taking the time to be here and help us. I will have to check this video out when I get home (youtube is a taboo site here at work)
I was studying pretty well and lost motivation..... I read to cho 9 and then stopped.
I also recently bought a kindle plus price was cut $70. Main reason is text to speech and I noticed Daril was nice and enabled this for his book. I also bought the kindle very Too bad there is not a discount if you buy the physical and the kindle version.
I'm currently studying for security+.
I found out about darril's book from this forum.
and it is great.
So, I'll continue my studies, making my own notes and listening to book in the car..... And reading the physical book. Thanks for the kind words about the book. Listening to it in your car sounds like a great strategy.
Good idea about a discount for the physical and Kindle version. I know I like the Kindle (and Kindle apps) for some things, but other times, I want a book I can hold in my hand so I figured $9.99 would be affordable if anyone wanted both.
Good luck on the exam. Let us know how you do.
I used Labsim/Testout and it was really good for the Sec+. 45 days is plenty of time as I was ready for mine in less time than that.
No longer work in IT. Play around with stuff sometimes still and fix stuff for friends and relatives.
Coupe of questions on the 78 practice questions found in the introduction.
First, how close is this to the actual test? But is this the type of questions that I will be expected to know?
I am also curious on what is a good score. Surely this book isn't intended for someone who can't answer a single question. I got 47 correct, which is just over 60%. Is that a good place to be considering that I am just starting?
Obviously, the number is off. I think that's a good score. I just did the assessment the other day and I scored just below 50%. I skipped the questions that I haven't learned yet so I don't trick myself into getting a slightly better score by guessing. I just read the first three chapters and they are pretty straightforward and I only missed 1 question on each of the "end of chapter" quizzes. The initial assessment just gave me an idea of how much new information I needed to learn so I think you are gonna be just fine if you got 60% on the assessment.
I used to be scared of this exam thinking that it is all about hacking and cryptography that's why I avoided this but it's actually not so bad. When are you planning to take the test? I might go for at the end of the month because I heard people passing this test just by using Darril's book.
This is my first post, just been a voyeur for a while. I want to say thanks to the many knowledgeable posters on this site that have really helped in steering my choices of study material and how to prepare for this test.
I am set to take my test tomorrow. The resources I've used are Darril's book, the Sybex book (Deluxe version with the CD and practice tests) and the TechNotes. Been scoring around the 90% range except for the CompTIA practice test, which I scored in the low 80% range. Many have said that the CompTIA is really harder than the actual test so I'm not too concerned.
Darril's book is probably the most comprehensive and easiest to grasp the concepts. Sybex book did have the same information but went a little deeper into some of the explanations. I have not used any third-party test sites.
I think I am prepared but nervous since I haven't tested for a cert in over ten years. Going to reread Darril's book again today to brush up on policies and crypto, and make sure I have the viruses types and authentication methods down pat. Really don't think I need much else. Wish me luck.
My goal is 4 weeks. In 2 weeks I will assess where I'm at and decide if I should book the test 2 weeks out or 3.
That is the plan at least, but I am willing to change it up if I need to.
I decided to try $9.99 as a price for the Kindle for a limited time.
It's a good price for the people who want add the eBook version to their physical copy for reading/study purposes -- or for impulse purchases.
I just spent the $9.99 to see if all those 5 star ratings on Amazon were for real.
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The Treasury’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy will host roundtable on the information security risks posed to small financial institutions May 7. The Treasury is inviting credit unions to attend this discussion.
The roundtable will explore the operational and cybersecurity risks of in-house and outsourced technology platforms.
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Fortinet, which specializes in network security solutions, has made a strategic investment in network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration solution provider UBIqube. Other investors include Fujitsu and NTT DOCOMO Ventures.
The UBIqube investment will drive ongoing joint product development and training, sales enablement and distribution strategies, Fortinet said in a prepared statement.
UBIqube provides a vendor-agnostic SDN and NFV orchestration solution to help enterprises and service providers deploy new security functionality, Fortinet indicated.
Together, Fortinet’s Security Fabric end-to-end network security solution and UBIqube’s MSActivator orchestration framework enable enterprises and service providers to provision, manage and automate security services, according to Fortinet.
The combined solution can help enterprises and service providers reduce operational complexity and costs and boost design flexibility and service customization, Fortinet stated.
In addition, Fortinet said UBIqube’s abstraction middleware technology allows end users to embed the combined solution into Internet of Things (IoT) platforms to deliver automated security for the IoT through device visibility and network segmentation.
A Closer Look at the UBIqube Investment
The UBIqube investment illustrates Fortinet’s commitment to developing an open ecosystem with security automation across multi-vendor environments, according to Fortinet.
It highlights Fortinet’s mission to foster security innovation for virtualized network functions and software-defined networks, the company noted.
“Fortinet is committed to advancing cybersecurity innovation through ongoing product development, partnerships and strategic investments,” John Whittle, Fortinet’s vice president of corporate development & strategic alliances and general counsel, said in a prepared statement. “Our investment in UBIqube further demonstrates our commitment to deliver an automated Security Fabric that helps protect multi-vendor networks.”
Meanwhile, Fortinet remains in growth mode. Revenues hit $340.6 million in Q1 2017, up about 20 percent from Q1 2016.
“The Fortinet Security Fabric is gaining significant traction with customers as demonstrated by the strength in large, multi-product deals and our continued expansion into the largest enterprises around the world,” Fortinet CEO Ken Xie asserted.
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In the days before Chemdoc, organisations would document the fact that their staff had read and understood chemical risk assessments by asking them to sign and date printed copies of the assessments used in their departments.
The new Risk Assessment Sign Off Module in Chemdoc replaces the need to print hard copies of assessments and request users sign them manually by giving the user the ability to confirm their reading and understanding of the document through the online application.
User setup
All user access to chemical risk assessments on Chemdoc is managed at department level. Users have traditionally been setup so that they can view and/or create chemical risk assessments depending on the department or departments they have access to.
This new module adds a new level of access called Must Read which, like all levels of access, can be applied to users at department level. Giving a user Must Read access to the Chemical Risk assessments in a department means, as the name suggests that the user must read the risk assessments in that department and sign off that they have understood the contents.
Users who are now required to sign off that they have read risk assessments are then given access to the new Sign Off column in the search results tab.
Signing Off
Once a user has been setup, the task of signing off on the assessments is very simple. Through either the Product Search tab or the Assessments tab, the users will have the ability to firstly download an assessment and subsequently confirm that they have read it fully and understand its contents.
While a user will have the ability to Sign off on assessments in all areas of the organisation, assessments in areas that the user has been setup with Must Read access to will be highlighted in Red to inform the user that they must read and sign off on these.
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One or more insiders with high-level access are suspected of assisting the hackers who damaged some 30,000 computers at Saudi Arabia’s national oil company last month, sources familiar with the company’s investigation say.
The attack using a computer virus known as Shamoon against Saudi Aramco – the world’s biggest oil company – is one of the most destructive cyber strikes conducted against a single business.
Shamoon spread through the company’s network and wiped computers’ hard drives clean. Saudi Aramco says damage was limited to office computers and did not affect systems software that might hurt technical operations.
The hackers’ apparent access to a mole, willing to take personal risk to help, is an extraordinary development in a country where open dissent is banned.
“It was someone who had inside knowledge and inside privileges within the company,” said a source familiar with the ongoing forensic examination.
Hackers from a group called “The Cutting Sword of Justice” claimed responsibility for the attack. They say the computer virus gave them access to documents from Aramco’s computers, and have threatened to release secrets. N o documents have so far been published.
Reports of similar attacks on other oil and gas firms in the Middle East, including in neighbouring Qatar, suggest there may be similar activity elsewhere in the region, although the attacks have not been linked.
Saudi Aramco declined to comment. “Saudi Aramco doesn’t comment on rumours and conjectures amidst an ongoing probe,” it said.
The hacking group that claimed responsibility for the attack described its motives as political.
In a posting on an online bulletin board the day the files were wiped, the group said Saudi Aramco was the main source of income for the Saudi government, which it blamed for “crimes and atrocities” in several countries, including Syria and Bahrain.
The Saudi interior ministry did not respond to requests for comment. The foreign ministry was not available for comment.
Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain last year to back the Gulf state’s rulers, fellow Sunni Muslims, against Shi’ite-led protesters. Riyadh is also sympathetic to mainly Sunni rebels in Syria.
Saudi Arabia’s economy is heavily dependent on oil. Oil export revenues have accounted for 80-90 percent of total Saudi revenues and above 40 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, according to U.S. data.
DESTRUCTIVE Saudi Aramco, which supplies about a tenth of the world’s oil, has hired at least six firms with expertise in hacking attacks, bringing in dozens of outside experts to investigate the attack and repair computers, the sources say.
According to analysis of Shamoon by computer security firm Symantec, the way the virus gets into networks may vary, but once inside it tries to infect every computer in the local area network before erasing files to render PCs useless.
“We don’t normally see threats that are so destructive,” Liam O Murchu, who helped lead Symantec’s research into the virus, said. “It’s probably been 10 years since we saw something so destructive.”
The state-run oil company – whose 260 billion barrels of crude oil alone would value it at over 8 trillion dollars, or 14 times the market value of Apple Inc. – was well protected against break-in attempts over the Internet, according to people familiar with its network operations.
Yet those sources say such protections could not prevent an attack by an insider with high-level access.
It is unusual for insiders to be fingered in cyber attacks. Verizon Business, which publishes the most comprehensive annual survey of data breaches, said that insiders were implicated in just 4 percent of cases last year.
The hackers behind the Shamoon attack siphoned off data from a relatively small number of computers, delivering it to a remote server, the sources said. They later threatened to release that information.
Because the virus wiped the hard drives, it is difficult for Saudi Aramco to determine exactly what information the hackers obtained.
An email address and password, which the poster claimed belonged to Aramco CEO Khalid Al-Falih, was posted on a website often used by hackers to show off their achievements, this time signed by the “Angry Internet Lovers”. No sensitive Aramco files have been uploaded on that site.
Sources who spoke to Reuters said they were not aware whether the hackers had made specific demands, what they might have been or whether they were met.
The sources would not say whether the suspected mole or moles are Saudi Aramco employees or outside contractors, or whether they accessed a workstation inside Saudi Aramco’s offices or accessed the network remotely.
The Saudi interior ministry was unavailable to comment on whether anyone has been arrested as part of the investigation.
VIRUS TARGETS PCS The Shamoon virus is designed to attack ordinary business computers. It does not belong to the category of sophisticated cyber warfare tools – like the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear programme in 2010 – which target industrial control systems and can paralyse critical infrastructure.
“Based on initial reporting and analysis of the malware, no evidence exists that Shamoon specifically targets industrial control systems components or U.S. government agencies,” the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team said in an Aug. 29 advisory.
Saudi Aramco has said that only office PCs running Microsoft Windows were damaged. Its oil exploration, production, export, sales and database systems all remained intact as they ran on isolated and heavily protected systems.
“All our core operations continued smoothly,” CEO Khalid Al-Falih told Saudi government and business officials at a security workshop on Wednesday.
“Not a single drop of oil was lost. No critical service or business transaction was directly impacted by the virus.”
It is standard industry practice to shield plant operating networks from hackers by running them on separate operating systems that are protected from the Internet.
Qatar’s natural gas firm Rasgas was also hit by a cyber attack last week, although it has not said how much damage was caused or whether Shamoon was the virus involved. Qatar, also a Sunni Gulf kingdom, has similar foes to Saudi Arabia.
Its parent firm Qatar Petroleum, which also owns Qatar’s other main natural gas firm Qatargas, said it was unaffected but implied that other companies had been hit.
“Qatar Petroleum has not been affected by the computer virus that hit several oil and gas firms. All QP operations are continuing as normal,” it said in an official tweet on Monday.
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Participants answered these questions and more at the 2016 Caring Communities Spring Education series. More than 270 risk managers and nursing professionals from across the country gathered for two days to hone their skills in interpreting data and using it to create real-world plans for bettering their communities.
Mimi McCahill, Vice President of Risk Management at Caring Communities, opened the event by examining the question Why Falls? Falls are the top cause of injury in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). Nationwide 1 out of 3 older people fall each year, but fewer than half tell their doctor – and 1 out of 5 of those falls cause a serious injury. Reducing falls, and the claims that can occur from them, is a major effort in risk management today.
Participants focused on taking the data collected via event reporting and using it to find trends as the first step towards developing a plan to reducing falls. During guided exercises, they searched for the very root cause behind events- learning to focus on the core issue(s), rather than continuing a cycle of chasing after surface level problems. With hands-on exercises, teams used realistic case studies to explore data sets and discover trends pointing towards the root causes of the events. This knowledge was then used to build performance improvement plans, complete with Plan-Do-Study -Act (“PDSA”) cycles. Interventions, measurement, monitoring and evaluation were stressed as steps towards quality improvement.
Feedback on the series has been enthusiastic and positive. Risk managers said they valued the focus on real world skills that they can apply at both the campus and corporate level. The hands-on exercises changed what to many had been purely academic to a new level of achievable and realistic, and are an illustration of the practical nature of the educational programs offered by Caring Communities. Jim Caldwell, Caring Communities CEO & President, said, “We’ve come far. The average attendance at each location this year was about one hundred… that’s a long way from the first Spring Ed., which was about 25 people gathered together in a small room by the airport.”
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On June 27, global ticketing company Ticketmaster announced it was the latest company to suffer from a malicious data breach. Up to 4,000 UK customers could be affected, with names, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and login information compromised.
At first glance, one could assume that there isn’t much businesses need to do in the wake of the Ticketmaster data breach announcement, save raising awareness amongst their employees and recommending anyone who uses the service updates their passwords and keeps a close eye on their bank statements.
However, the story that is emerging highlights some issues that all businesses would be wise to consider – and showcases the good, the bad and the ugly of data security.
The Good: Monzo
Start-up internet bank Monzo is the only player in the Ticketmaster data breach story that is emerging from it with a decidedly good-practice gloss.
The bank has revealed that it first suspected the breach as early as the 6th of April, when somewhere in the region of 50 customers got in touch to report fraudulent transactions on their accounts. Subsequent routine analysis conducted by Monzo’s Financial Crime and Security team revealed 70 percent of the affected customers had used their cards with Ticketmaster between December 2017 and April 2018. This seemed unusual to Monzo’s team, as only 0.8% of its total customer base were Ticketmaster customers.
It was enough to warrant Monzo notifying Ticketmaster immediately on the 12th of April. Ticketmaster duly responded to say, “Our investigation shows no evidence of a breach and we don’t believe we’re the source of this”.
Monzo were unimpressed and unconvinced. On Friday the 6th of April, Monzo software engineer Daniel Chatfield, cognisant that without confirmation of the source of the breach from Ticketmaster it might be entering dangerous legal territory to name the company, sent out an encrypted tweet which he finally decrypted the day of the announcement by Ticketmaster: it had detailed the breach.
In the meantime, Monzo acted swiftly to protect its customers and raise awareness within the financial sector. Without mentioning Ticketmaster directly, through Thursday the 19th of April and Friday the 20th of April, Monzo replaced 6,000 cards for customers it deemed at risk. It notified the US Secret Service, Mastercard and reached out to other banks to ask if they’d seen anything similar.
For other companies, Monzo’s swift investigation, remedial action and intensive communication should be something of a blueprint of how to respond to a data breach.
The Bad: Use of Third-Party Software
Ticketmaster revealed on the 27th of June that it had identified the breach and its source: the use of a third-party chatbot app supplied by software company Inbenta.
Ticketmaster uses an Inbenta AI chatbot to answer customers’ queries on its website. The vulnerability arose from a piece of Javascript that Inbenta developers had customised specifically for Ticketmaster. According to Inbenta, unknown to them, Ticketmaster had then used this script on its payments page.
Hackers discovered the script and modified it. As a result, since February those hackers have been using it to harvest payment and other personal information from the Ticketmaster website – spawning the fraudulent activity identified by Monzo.
Inbenta was notified by Ticketmaster on the 23rd of June and claimed to have resolved the issue by the 26th. However, the responses from Ticketmaster to both Monzo and Inbenta highlights the need to properly vet third-party providers for such business-critical operations.
Ticketmaster is far from alone in using third-party software tools to deliver its services. Businesses need to have a fresh think about the security implications of their relationships with 3rd party suppliers.
Ticketmaster says it failed to identify the source of the breach immediately because it stemmed from a third-party tool. Inbenta says, “Ticketmaster directly applied the script to its payments page, without notifying our team. Had we known that the customized script was being used this way, we would have advised against it, as it incurs greater risk for vulnerability.”
These comments suggest that poor oversight on the part of Ticketmaster and poor communication between Ticketmaster and Inbenta appear to be the source of the problem.
The story shows us how, as businesses increasingly move workloads to the cloud and export more of their IT function, it becomes ever-more imperative to seek specialist expert and independent advice to fulfil the due diligence aspects of the purchasing process, especially around IT security and potential data breaches.
The story also highlights how supply chains must change to enable a far greater collaboration between customer and supplier. These conversations may also well benefit from expert oversight.
The Ugly: The Financial Costs
Finally, the ugly: the potentially ruinous financial fall-out for Ticketmaster. The reputational and brand damage and subsequent loss of earnings and shareholder value is yet to be counted.
Meanwhile, Ticketmaster customers are dealing with the very real cost of fraudulent activity on their bank accounts and credit cards. Monzo estimates the cost of refunding its customers for fraudulent activity is around £15,000. But Monzo is a relatively small bank, and it acted swiftly to prevent further fraud. For the wider Ticketmaster customer base affected by the incident, the potential cost is likely to be far greater.
The failure of Ticketmaster to respond to Monzo’s original breach notification has New Statesman raising the possibility of legal action against Ticketmaster. While this seems unlikely, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is certainly investigating.
The ICO says it is unsure at the moment whether the breach will be subject to new GDPR legislation, or the earlier 1998 Data Protection Act which preceded GDPR. The uncertainty which law applies arises from the timings involved: when the incident took place (when the 1998 law applied) or when breach was reported by Ticketmaster (after GDPR had come into force).
If ICO decides the latter is applicable, the Ticketmaster story could become a high-profile test case of the application of GDPR and the fines organisations can expect to face under it. GDPR makes provision for firms to be fined up to four percent of global turnover; Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation Entertainment made more than $10bn last year. This would result in a fine of 400 million dollars.
What to do now
If you are a customer of Ticketmaster International, Ticketmaster UK, GETMEIN! or TicketWeb websites and you are worried your personal information may have been compromised, follow the advice on the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) website: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/ncsc-advice-ticketmaster-customers
If you are a business and you would like more information about how to assess the security of your third-party providers, speak with your Netstar account manager today and we will be happy to offer advice and develop a plan for you.
Learn from the Monzo example; ensure you are in a position to act swiftly to contain a data breach should the worst happen. With good planning, you should be able to transform a potentially bad news story into a positive one. Your Netstar account manager can offer advice about developing a Security Policy.
If you aren’t already a Netstar customer, but you would like advice on any of these issues, please contact us via our contact form or call us 02036 574 489.
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In this guide ,we will discuss about various security vulnerabilities that the CA Single Sing-On Web Agent might be affected with and steps that can be taken to remediate the said vulnerability.
The Single Sign-On Web Agent considered for this blog is 12.52 and above.
This vulnerability is best addressed at the web server level by disabling the directory browsing functionality.
The web agent/web server should be configured to run as user having restricted permission enough to just access the required files. They should never be run as privileged user (e.g root user in unix based systems)
Configure BadURLChars to include “./” and “/.” characters ( these are included by default)
r12.51 CR4 and above Web Agent, also do honor this header if it is being set by the WebServer itself and let the header pass to the client/browser.
So, to mitigate this vulnerability either configure X-Frame-Options response header at the web server level or at the web agent level by setting XFrameOptions ACO Parameter.
When ExipreForProxy=YES, web agent inserts following HTTP headers in the response.
>Expires : Set to Date in the past, which prevents page from being cached by a proxy, as dictated by the HTTP 1.0 specification
Now, this is all good for normal resources but there are certain resources which you might want to still be cached. For e.g. .gif/.jss files which doesn’t change normally and also need not be protected.
If these resources are not cached on the client side, they will put an unnecessary overhead in the network traffic.
site that performs an action on behalf of the user. The target site only sees a normal authenticated request coming from the user and performs whatever sensitive action was requested. Whatever functionality exists on the target site can be manipulated in this fashion. Recommendations include utilising CAPTCHA’s or
SiteMinder offers limited CSRF protection capabilities today. This a phishing-style attack where a user is manipulated into sending an HTTP request on behalf of the hacker. The hackers request is generally designed to take advantage of a user who has previously logged in legitimately to the target site prior to the attack. The request itself is semantically correct and typically indistinguishable from a valid request if executed correctly.
To prevent these types of attacks, an application generally must defend itself by building security into the application themselves, typically in the form of a secure token that validates the request. Even this is tricky since the security mechanism must avoid being captured and replayed just like a cookie or HTTP header.
CA SSO can however, prevent the variety of Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks where a user is prompted to navigate away from a legitimate CA SSO protected website to a malicious website by utilizing following techniques:
ValidTargetDomain – Web Agents can help protect from phishing attempts that could redirect users to a hostile web site.
This parameter specifies the domains to which a credential collector is allowed to redirect users. If the domain in the URL does not match the domains set in this parameter, the redirect is denied.
complete form entry the next time the fields are encountered. This feature is enabled by default and could leak sensitive information since it is stored on the hard drive of the user. The risk of this issue is greatly increased if users are accessing the application from a shared environment. Recommendations include setting autocomplete to “”off” on all your forms.
The attack could be executed when the application doesn’t properly validate the submitted input. In this case, if a Format String parameter, like %x, is inserted into the posted data, the string is parsed by the Format Function, and the conversion specified in the parameters is executed. However, the Format Function is expecting more arguments as input, and if these arguments are not supplied, the function could read or write the stack.
In this way, it is possible to define a well-crafted input that could change the behavior of the format function, permitting the attacker to cause denial of service or to execute arbitrary commands.
To prevent cross-site scripting attacks against the web agent FCC pages, use HTML encoding to ensure that your FCC variable data is rendered correctly.
HTML encoding ensures that the characters are treated as their literal value and not as HTML syntax. Encoding ensures that the damaging cross-site scripting syntax is rendered as literal text as it must appear and that the browser does not execute the code while rendering the HTML form. You can encode all the syntax that could be misused during an attack.
Fetches the specific character value, applies the HTML encoding, and substitutes the actual character value with the encoded value in an FCC file.
Important! To use the fcchtmlencodingchars parameter, the fcchtmlencoding parameter must be set to no.
SiteMinder protects the Audit/User/Session Store data against SQL Injection.
SiteMinder does not protect the actual application data that the customer has in their application database against SQL Injection.
There is no known SQL injection vulnerability in SiteMinder code.
If the HttpOnly flag (optional) is included in the HTTP response header, the cookie cannot be accessed through client side script (again if the browser supports this flag). As a result, even if a cross-site scripting (XSS)flaw exists, and a user accidentally accesses a link that exploits this flaw, the browser (primarily Internet Explorer) will not reveal the cookie to a third party
The secure flag is an option that can be set by the application server when sending a new cookie to the user within an HTTP Response. The purpose of the secure flag is to prevent cookies from being observed by unauthorized parties due to the transmission of a the cookie in clear text.
To accomplish this goal, browsers which support the secure flag will only send cookies with the secure flag when the request is going to a HTTPS page. Said in another way, the browser will not send a cookie with the secure flag set over an unencrypted HTTP request.
By setting the secure flag, the browser will prevent the transmission of a cookie over an unencrypted channel.
Sends cookies to web servers using secure (HTTPS) connections. Enable this parameter to increase security between browsers and web servers.
When this setting is enabled, users in single sign-on environments who move from an SSL web server to a non-SSL web server will have to reauthenticate. Secure cookies cannot be passed over traditional HTTP connections.
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One incident of dating fraud is now being reported around every three hours, according to an initiative warning of the dangers of con artists preying on people looking for romance.
Around seven reports of dating fraud on average are received every day by Action Fraud, the national fraud reporting service, equating to around one every three hours.
Typically, victims will make their first transfer of money to the fraudster within a month of contact. The average victim of dating fraud loses £10,000 according to the findings released ahead of Valentine’s Day on Tuesday.
The figures were released as Victim Support, Age UK, the City of London Police, London Metropolitan Police and Get Safe Online said they would work in partnership with the Online Dating Association in efforts to better understand how fraudsters operate and reduce the number of people falling victim to dating fraud.
Tips for people using dating websites and apps using the hashtag #datesafe will be shared online.
Tony Neate, CEO of Get Safe Online, said that while many couples do meet online, the problem of cyber criminals targeting people for significant financial gain is growing.
He said: “£10,000 is a staggering amount for the average online dater to lose to a fraudster who they’ve been led to believe is the real deal. It’s not just the financial loss though; dating fraud can have a huge emotional impact on a victim too.”
He said in some cases, people had lost everything – including their savings and their homes.
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Autorun. JDL is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: passwords saved by certain Windows services.
It reduces the security level of the computer: it terminates processes belonging to security tools, such as antivirus programs and firewalls, leaving the computer defenseless against attacks from other malware.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
It modifies system permissions in order to hide itself.
Autorun. JDL uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
IRC: It sends a copy of itself to all users connected to the channel to which the infected user is connected.
Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
Computer networks (shared resources): it creates copies of itself in shared network resources to which it has access.
File infection: it infects different types of files, which are then distributed through any of the usual means: floppy disks, email messages with attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FTP, IRC channels, P2P file sharing networks, etc.
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Discover a POWERful career at Associated Electric! Our organization offers challenging and rewarding work with career development and internal mobility opportunities - all within a family friendly and community centric culture. Our purpose is simple - to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy for our member-owners. At Associated Electric, one of the largest electric cooperatives in the nation, opportunities to gain valuable experience and contribute new ideas in an ever-changing industry are endless.
Associated Electric Cooperative is seeking highly motivated candidates for a Cybersecurity Engineer in the Information Security department of our Information Services Division located at Headquarters in Springfield, MO. We invite you to apply to join our team and help defend our nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. These positions will work alongside a highly talented team of defenders with a mission to design, build and monitor systems that empower, protect, and connect our employees and electric utility infrastructure across three states.
Core Responsibilities:
Administer enterprise Information and Operational Technology vulnerability management programs.
SIEM administration and liaison between IT staff and security operations center.
Administer cybersecurity programs for AECI and its member cooperatives.
Engaging in Incident Response activities and seeing them to resolution.
Engage with internal and external stakeholders on threat hunting, alert analysis, and incident response.
Design innovative solutions to complex security and infrastructure challenges in a regulated critical infrastructure environment.
Works closely with all AECI business units to ensure cyber security and compliance best practices are documented and followed.
Architect lightweight, automated security frameworks based on risk, productivity impact, and return on investment.
Engage employees in the battle to protect our organization through interesting and engaging training.
Critical vulnerability assessments of AECI OT technology resources.
Create well-crafted incident response play books.
Participate on a 24/7 cyber security incident response and recovery team rotation.
Occasional travel to assist with Incident Response, meetings, training, and conferences.
Network (TCP/IP, Firewall Concepts).
Experience in SIEM management, including rule configurations for detection of malicious activity as well as general system maintenance activities.
Beginner to Intermediate level scripting skills (PowerShell, and / or Python).
Fundamental understanding of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and zero-trust architecture.
Strong ability to maintain, implement, and secure cloud services.
Proven problem-solving skills, and the ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems, driving solutions through to resolution.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment preserving the AECI cyber security culture.
Education and Experience:
A degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math program or demonstrated comparable experience is required.
CISSP, GSEC, GCFA or OSWP certification is a plus for more advanced job roles.
As an employer of choice and a certified Great Place to Work, Associated provides employees competitive compensation, 401k with an employer match, health, paid leave for family planning (including adoption), paid disability leave and other benefits. We support employees in their journey to physical, financial, emotional and social well-being and we encourage employees to enjoy time away with Paid Time Off, paid holidays and volunteerism in community events. Associated’s culture includes workforce flexibility options with opportunities for personal and professional growth including tuition reimbursement and development planning resources. Come join a team where your talents are appreciated, your voice is heard, and your work has an impact!
To learn more and apply for a position, please visit www.aeci.org/careers. You will be able to upload additional applicant documents (i.e. resume, cover letter). AECI is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity and affirmative action in all aspects of employment. Please contact us if you require assistance in filling out an application. Individuals with disabilities should request reasonable accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act prior to an appointment.
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https://careercenter.asisonline.org/jobs/16961367/cybersecurity-engineer
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The Master of Professional Engineering (Computer Systems) is a flexible degree that will allow you to fast-track your career in computer systems engineering.
The program includes a variety of advanced engineering courses to help you extend your technical skills. You can choose to develop your expertise in wireless communications, signal processing, electronics design, data structures, advanced computer systems, internet communications and machine intelligence.
You can also diversify your engineering expertise with courses in mechatronics or software engineering, or broaden your skills base in a complimentary area such as business and management skills, entrepreneurship and innovation, design or environmental management. You will also complete an advanced engineering project (design-based or theoretical – the choice is yours), which can potentially be linked to industry.
The flexible nature of the program puts you in control. Whether you want to specialise or diversify, move into a more senior role, lead teams or projects, develop sophisticated research and innovation skills for R&D roles - you can choose courses to support your personal career goals.
2-year or 1-year?
If you are a graduate of an Australian Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree, or equivalent, you can complete the MPE in just one year.
If you are an international student seeking professional recognition from Engineers Australia* and the Washington Accord, or if you wish to extend your engineering and professional expertise in an Australian context, the 2-year MPE is the ideal program. Your study program will be designed to build on your prior studies and develop the core technical competencies to ensure you qualify –these will be chosen from areas such as analog and digital communications, operating systems, web technologies, network and distributed computing, telecommunication networks, digital and computer electronics, and data security.
Computer systems engineers are experts in software development, electronic hardware design and networking. They design, build and test computer hardware and interface hardware to other equipment and networks. They also write the software with which the end user interacts.
The Master of Professional Engineering (Computer Systems) program covers the theoretical and practical knowledge required to create a computing system from initiation to completion. It enables students to innovate a computer system as part of an existing engineering system such as a controller of industrial plant or equipment. The degree focusses on underlying principles and techniques so that graduates are able to learn and apply new technologies as they emerge in the future.
All domestic students can now enrol in an undergraduate Diploma in Languages alongside their main degree program. This diploma will enhance proficiency in another language or languages, and will increase international career opportunities. Subject to course availability, this additional program will generally add an extra year to studies, and students will graduate with a Diploma in Languages as well as their other degree. Please note that all language courses are held on campus (face to face) at Callaghan.
International students cannot enrol concurrently in the Diploma in Languages alongside their primary program unless they can complete both programs within the duration of their primary program CoE. For more information please contact the ESOS Student Compliance Unit [email protected].
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https://gradschool.edu.au/programs/overview/master-of-professional-engineering-computer-systems-40060
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Vanbot. H is a backdoor that allows hackers to gain remote access to the affected computer in order to carry out actions that compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed on the computer.
Vanbot. H does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=151076
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It's been just a few weeks since Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, but on Tuesday the company followed up by taking the wraps off the software's tablet counterpart.
Among the most notable features offered by Ubuntu for tablets are a new capability Canonical calls “side stage” multitasking along with full disk encryption, multiple secure user accounts, and convergence across phone, tablet, TV, and PC form factors.
“Multitasking productivity meets elegance and rigorous security in our tablet experience,“ said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical. “Our family of interfaces now scales across all screens, so your phone can provide tablet, PC and TV experiences when you dock it. That's unique to Ubuntu and it's the future of personal computing.”
The Ubuntu “side stage”
Fans of Ubuntu Linux may remember that the phone interface software unveiled in January was notable for its use of all four edges of the screen.
That's part of the tablet interface as well, but the tablet version also introduces the Ubuntu “side stage” as a way both to enable efficient multitasking and to improve the usability of phone apps on tablets. Accordingly, users of Ubuntu for tablets can run both a phone app and a tablet app on the screen at the same time.
So, “you can tweet while watching a movie,” for instance, or “take notes while surfing the Web,” Shuttleworth explained in a press briefing this morning.
Enterprise-level security
Particularly compelling from a business perspective are the security features included in Ubuntu for tablets.
Not only is full-disk encryption available for the device itself, but there's also full encryption of personal user data, making the device eminently suitable for use by multiple different users in an enterprise setting.
Ubuntu can offer a full PC experience when the tablet is docked to a keyboard, with access to remote Windows applications over standard protocols from Microsoft, Citrix, VMWare, and Wyse.
“We expect to see Ubuntu tablets being adopted initially in enterprises, with multiple users for a single tablet because the tablet gets passed around,” Shuttleworth explained. “And because it's just Ubuntu, it's completely manageable from the same tools people are using to manage desktops and cloud today.” 'A single app binary'
Finally, the tablet interface is powered by exactly the same code that provides Ubuntu's phone, PC, and TV interfaces, enabling true device convergence.
“The exact same code will give you the same experience depending on the hardware you boot it on,” Shuttleworth explained. “It responds to the hardware and presents the optimal user experience for that device.”
Not only can the operating system itself scale smoothly across all form factors, in fact, but so too can the apps developers create for it. “Developers can then write a single app binary that can run on phone, tablet, PC, or TV,” he added.
That convergence is expected to be complete by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, due in April of next year, Shuttleworth said.
The video below explains the concept in more detail.
A 'Touch Developer Preview'
The Ubuntu tablet interface supports screen sizes from 6 to 20 inches and resolutions from 100 to 450 ppi.
This Thursday Canonical will release a “Touch Developer Preview” of Ubuntu, with installation instructions for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets as well as smartphones including the Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus. Installable images and source code will be available from Ubuntu's developer site.
And when can we expect to be able to buy actual tablet hardware running this new Ubuntu? Likely the first quarter of 2014, but Canonical is not yet sure whether phones or tablets will appear first, Shuttleworth said.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2028738/canonical-unwraps-ubuntu-linux-for-tablets.html
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Saturday, 13 May 2017Commenting on this weekend's unprecedented international cyber attacks Erik O'Donovan, Ibec's Head of Digital Policy said "While Ireland appears to have been spared so far in the wave of cyber attacks currently affecting many countries, Ibec is liaising with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to monitor the situation for Irish businesses.
"We advise extra vigilance regarding cyber security on the part of all organisations and their employees. "Safeguarding the resilience of our digital infrastructure and economy is a key priority for business. Ibec has previously called for adequate resourcing of the National Cyber Security Centre and the implementation of a cyber security programme. Government provided extra funding in this regard to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in Budget 2017 and in view of the increased threat we call for this funding to be increased significantly further. Adequate cyber security infrastructure is of critical importance to all companies in Ireland and is a major consideration in securing inward investment. The business sector invests heavily in cyber security and it is essential that the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has adequate resources to address the related policy issues including the implementation of the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems."
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http://businessforeurope.ie/IBEC/Press/PressPublicationsdoclib3.nsf/vPages/Newsroom~ibec-calls-for-response-to-cyber-attacks-13-05-2017?OpenDocument?OpenDocument
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San Francisco, Calif. – CSASummit at RSA – February 7, 2011 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the addition of Vivek Kundra, US Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House, as a keynote speaker at the CSA Summit at RSA. Kundra joins an already-impressive list of speakers at the CSA Summit, being held Monday February 14th, in conjunction with the RSA Conference. In his keynote, Kundra will outline the federal government’s vision and strategy for moving towards cloud adoption in the coming years.
The CSA Summit will be kicked off at 9am, with an opening keynote by salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff. Industry leaders including Christofer Hoff, Liam Lynch, Chief Security Strategist from eBay, and Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys, will also deliver an exciting lineup of presentations and panels on the future outlook for cloud security.
The full CSA Summit agenda, as well as registration for the event, can be found at: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/rsa2011.html.
Members of the media interested in attending the event should contact Zenobia Godschalk at [email protected].
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https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/media/news/cloud-security-alliance-welcomes-white-house-cio-vivek-kundra-as-special-guest-keynote-for-csa-summit-at-rsa/
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Oracle has issued an update for Java to fix a major security vulnerability. (Oracle )
Oracle has issued an update for its Java software to fix a security flaw so severe that it led the U.S. government to issue a note last week urging computer users to disable Java.
The vulnerability makes it possible for hackers to install malware that allows them to commit identify-theft crimes or add infected computers to networks that can be used for cyber attacks.
Because of the severity of the vulnerability, Oracle said it "strongly recommends" that users update their software as soon as possible.
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The vulnerability was spotted last week by a French security researcher that goes by the name of "Kaffeine." After he identified the flaw, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a rare move, issued a note confirming the vulnerability and cautioning users to disable Java.
Apple remotely disabled Java on most of its users' Mac computers.
Java is widely used software that gives computer users access to various Web applications.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/14/business/la-fi-tn-java-oracle-vulnerability-fixed-20130114
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Dialer. IVE is a dialer type malware. Dialers usually try to establish phone connections with high rate numbers, significantly increasing the phone bill of the affected user.
Dialer. IVE affects computers that use a modem to connect to the Internet, as the virus modifies the Dial-up network access settings. It changes the telephone number provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider), which is a local-rate number, to a high-rate number.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: .
It uses several methods in order to avoid detection by antivirus companies:
It terminates its own execution if it detects that it is being executed in a virtual machine environment, such as VMWare or VirtualPC.
Dialer. IVE uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=150680
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SubtleCrypto is meant to be a standard interface to the Web Crypto API.
getRandomValues will populate a given typed array with random values. Encrypt data with the public key and decrypt it with the private key. Export a CryptoKey to JSON Web Key (jwk) format.
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https://sean.brunnock.com/Javascript/Cryptography/SubtleCrypto/
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Ransomware requires time to work its way through a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may take longer to recognize a break-in and are least able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make within a victim's network, the longer it will require to recover basic IT services and damaged files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to take the time-critical first step in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineer can assist organizations in the El Paso metro area to locate and quarantine infected devices and protect clean assets from being penetrated.
If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
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Yesterday we announced a new “Cloud Power” global campaign to help IT pro’s better understand this fundamental shift going on right now in our industry. The campaign is going to focus on 3 key business scenarios including private cloud, public cloud and cloud productivity. There will be heaps of activities going on during the campaign including educational events, insight from key executives at Microsoft, perspectives from customers and some new online tools. You can get all the details at www.microsoft.com/cloud
And of course with all of these campaigns there is an advertising element to go along with this and below is a link to a Cloud Ad that will be running during the campaign.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jeffa36/2010/11/01/new-cloud-power-campaign-announced/
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• Learn the best practices of how Yubikeys help manufacturing with strong authentication.
• Secure shared workstations, mobile-restricted areas, and cloud services.
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https://www.wordtext.com.ph/products/yubico/yubico-protect-against-cybersecurity-risks-in-manufacturing/
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QQPass. TQ is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: .
It sends the gathered information to a remote user by any available means: email, FTP, etc.
QQPass. TQ prevents access from programs to websites of several companies related with security tools (antivirus programs, firewalls, etc.).
It uses several methods in order to avoid detection by antivirus companies:
It terminates its own execution if it detects that it is being executed in a virtual machine environment, such as VMWare or VirtualPC.
Its code is encrypted and it is only decrypted when it is going to run. Because of this, its code is not legible through a memory dump.
QQPass. TQ uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=150185
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In a national first, Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) has launched a $1.1m Training Security Operations Centre (TSOC) for cyber security skills training.
The project includes a virtual classroom with a cloud-based security operations centre simulating real cyber threats, giving students the chance to work through real scenarios to gain nationally-accredited qualifications.
Tony Marceddo of Vault Cloud and Co-Chair of AustCyber ACT Node Advisory Board said, "CIT is leading the way with implementing education and training pathways to help address the critical issue of growing and upskilling our cyber security workforce."
Read the full article at cit.edu.au/news/training_security_operations_centre_launched_at_cit
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Mobikwik denies data breach as cybersecurity researchers say 3.5 million users' data for sale 8.2TB of data is being put up for sale on the deep web for 1.5 bitcoins
Web Desk Updated: March 29, 2021 23:01 IST
The know-your-customer (KYC) information of 3.5 million MobiKwik users has allegedly been leaked, with a hacker asking for 1.5 bitcoins in exchange for 8.2TB of data.
The breach was highlighted by a French security researcher who goes by the name Elliot Anderson. He has flagged such leaks of Indian users' data in the past.
The leaks, which have apparently been known for a while, were flagged by security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, who had pointed out the existence of the database earlier in March. Reportedly, over 37 million files including the KYC of 3.5 million individuals—100 million phone numbers, emails, passwords, geodata, bank accounts and CC data—were leaked.
The hacker, who had posted onto an onion link on the deep web, reportedly allows users to search for their phone number of mail ids. The hacker called it the “Biggest KYC data leak ever”.
11 Crore Indian CardHolders data alleged leaked from @MobiKwik Server, Hacker claimed. It Seems hacker still have their data. Backup was alleged taken on 20Jan 2021. He claim to have mobikwik access since last 30 days. @RBI @IndianCERT Please look into this matter.#InfoSec #GDPR pic.twitter.com/tBS3U6Oqhw
MobiKwik have denied the leak, saying “Some media-crazed so-called security researchers have repeatedly attempted to present concocted files wasting precious time of our organization as well as members of the media. We thoroughly investigated and did not find any security lapses. Our user and company data is completely safe and secure.” 📣 The Week is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@TheWeekmagazine) and stay updated with the latest headlines
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Viking. HJ is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
Viking. HJ uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
File infection: it infects different types of files, which are then distributed through any of the usual means: floppy disks, email messages with attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FTP, IRC channels, P2P file sharing networks, etc.
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1. the victim receives a message that contains an hyperlink from one of their contacts 2. the victim clicks on the hyperlink;
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local communities, international organizations and the private sector must come together in common purpose.
The technology industry has a critical role to play in establishing the foundations for safer and more secure use of Internet-based services and other technologies – for today’s children and future generations. Businesses must put protecting children at the heart of their work, paying special attention to protecting the privacy of young users’ personal data, preserving their right to freedom of expression,and putting systems in place to address violations of children’s rights when they occur. Where domestic laws have not yet caught up with international law, business has an opportunity – and the responsibility – to bring their business practices in line with those standards. These new Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection provide a framework for the increasingly broad range of companies that develop, provide or make use of information and communication technologies in the delivery of their products and services. Such companies are especially well positioned to drive innovative solutions, creating digital platforms that can expand educational opportunities and enable children and young people both to engage in the civic life of their communities to become truly global citizens.
Local and national initiatives are critical, and we look forward to collaborating on complementary guidelines for governments that address the formulation, implementation, management and monitoring of Country Action Plans to strengthen child online protection.
The Internet knows no boundaries, and our efforts to protect children must be ambitious and far-ranging.
We are grateful to our partners in the Child Online Protection (COP) Initiative and other organizations participating in the open consultation process for their invaluable support in developing these guidelines. We look forward to working with our partners in every sector to make child online protection a priority. And we hope these new Child Online Protection Guidelines will help create a safer and more secure world for all.
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GridinSoft Anti-Malware’s full-system scan is both rapid and extensive. It compiles a thorough survey after scanning the body, and provides data on total memory items, registry items and scanned files, as well as detected Trojan infections. The system log details show the name, virus type and targeted file route for each and every infected item. Studies are automatically saved to a plain text record.
Overall, GridinSoft Anti-Malware is a powerful method of safeguard against various kinds of viruses. That being said, it can demand a sizable amount of system resources and old operating systems may become unstable under the stress.
*15 day demo period allows you to test the software. Take note00, that trial version can find threats, but simply cannot remove them if there were more than two threats found.
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It’s not uncommon for malware to have capabilities that protects itself. This usually consists of routines that help keep it hidden. One particular mobile malware caught our attention with its unique combination that makes its attack stealthy, and it has the capability to locks a user’s device. A similar routine was reported previously in our entry on Operation Emmental in terms of locking the victim’s phone. However, this new malware does so as a failsafe and without the use of external commands.
We acquired a sample of a fake banking app in Russia named Fanta SDK that is capable of changing the phone’s password when the user tries to remove or deactivate the application’s admin privileges. It also has a unique way of running its routine by waiting for certain commands before it launches its attack.
Users can get Fanta SDK from malicious url links for benign app like “system”, as well as downloading them from third party app stores. The message would contain a narrative that would ask users to download the latest version of the banking app immediately for security reasons.
Figure 1. Old Sberbank of Russia app (left) and the current logo also used by the fake app (right)
Mal-where?
This app only activates if the user has the original Sberbank app installed in their phone and not on multiple banking apps. The malware also runs on all Android versions. Once the app has been installed, it will wait for users to go to the phone settings menu, then asks users to run the app with admin privileges. Keep in mind that most legitimate apps do not request admin privileges. This is a common red flag users should catch early when dealing with mobile malware. When a user does allow the app admin privileges, the bank’s welcome page pops up and asks the user for their user ID and password.
The fake bank app’s welcome page showcases the current flat logo of Sberbank of Russia, which adds to its claim of legitimacy. Once the user inputs their credentials, the app communicates with hxxp://sook[.]ml as a source domain and uploads the user’s contact number and phone information.
After the initial log-in, the official app runs normally. However, with these credentials, the cybercriminal can now steal money silently in the background.
1.1 2015-12-29 com.googie.system 85.113.211.112:3000 C2C communication optimization 2.1 2016-02-04 com.fanta.services 85.143.219.118:3000 Ransom command added 2.2 2016-03-23 com.fanta.services 80.201.248.130:3000
Phishing pages pop up when users open official Google Play store app or Sberbank app, acquire device admin when clicking settings 2.3 2016-04-13 com.fanta.services 178.57.217.238:3000 Device admin protection with screen locking routine
Further investigation of the C&C server led us to the IP address 81.177.139.62. The IP address was a parking domain, hosting several other malware including ransomware, RAMNIT, CRIDEX, and ZBOT. We are still investigating this domain in hopes to find a link between the perpetrators behind the fake bank app and the other malware distributed in the IP address.
Figure 5. IP address hosting different malware
According to our research, the latest Sberbank app can detect malware while the old versions do not. We have already contacted Sberbank of Russia with regards to this issue.
We urge users of this app to update or download the latest version in the bank’s main website. Users should also always refrain from tapping on links coming from spam or unknown SMS numbers. If a bank or credit provider requests that users download a new version of an app, do so securely by downloading the app on the main website.
Users should also have secure mobile security that can mitigate mobile malware. Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition and Mobile Security Solutions detect all related threats in this attack.
The SHA1 hashes related to this threat can be found in this appendix.
Cybersecurity in 2020 will be viewed through many lenses — from differing attacker motivations and cybercriminal arsenal to technological developments and global threat intelligence — only so defenders can keep up with the broad range of threats.
Read our security predictions for 2020.
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https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/fake-bank-app-phishes-credentials-locks-users-out/
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18세기 영국에서 수작업으로 제작되던 제품들은 기계화를 통한 ‘산업혁명(Industrial revolution)’으로 대량화가 시작되었다. 인간이 직접 하기 어렵거나 위험한 작업이나 마이크로 단위로 세밀화된 작업들이 기계를 통해 가능해지면서 산업 자동화를 촉발하여 생산성 향상으로 이어지면서, 산업 전반에서 인간을 대체하였다. 3번의 산업혁명을 거쳐 인공지능, 블록체인, 클라우드 등 4차 산업혁명의 차세대 기술들은 새로운 산업혁명을 이끌고 있다. 기술의 고도화는 물리적인 제어 환경을 원거리에서 운영하고 관리할 수 있게 하면서 ‘산업 제어 시스템(ICS, Industrial Control System)’을 변화하였다.
산업 제어 시스템(ICS)는 ‘OT(Operation Technology)’환경의 세부 요소 중 하나를 의미한다. 산업 제어 시스템 내부에는 [그림 1]과 같이 ‘SCADA(Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)’, ‘DCS(‘Distributed Control System)’등의 하위 세부항목들이 존재한다.
KISA 취약점 가이드에서 네트워크 정책 점검과 관련된 항목인 ‘C-11. 제어 네트워크에 무선인터넷, 테더링, 외부 유선망 등의 외부망 연결을 제한하고 주기적으로 점검‘, ‘C-35. 제어 네트워크를 용도에 따라 세분화하고, 접근제어를 수행하여 제어 시스템 운영에 필요한 네트워크, 시스템 간의 통신망 허용‘ 항목이 존재한다. 이 항목들을 통해서 네트워크 접근 제어가 적절하게 되어 있는지와, 제어 시스템 네트워크 영역에서 세분화된 망 분리와 접근통제 규칙을 요구하고 있다.
ISA/IEC 62443 표준에서 네트워크 정책 점검에 대한 대책 내용은 컴포넌트 영역 3-2 내 ‘NDR 5.2 Zone boundary protection’에서 확인 가능하다. 해당 항목에서는 영역이 나눠진 네트워크에서 모니터링 및 접근 제어에 대한 내용이 존재한다.
NIST 800-series 가이드에서는 ‘5. ICS Security Architecture’영역에 네트워크 관련 내용이 존재한다. 이 영역에서는 네트워크 구조를 설계하는데 도움되는 내용이 반영되어 있다. ISA/IEC 62443 표준에서는 [CASE01]과 동일한 ‘2-1’ 영역에서 확인이 가능하다.
NIST 800-series 가이드 내 네트워크 정책 점검 항목은 ‘5. ICS Security Architecture’에 관련 내용이 존재한다. 이 영역에서는 네트워크 구조를 설계하는 데 도움 되는 내용이 반영되어 있다. 네트워크 영역을 나누는 것과 네트워크 영역 간 보호, 방화벽에 대한 내용 등이 반영되어 있다.
ISA/IEC 62443 표준에서 업데이트 파일 확인 여부 항목에서는 기존 하나의 영역이 아닌 소프트웨어 영역, 임베디드 영역, 호스트 영역, 네트워크 장치 영역 모두 존재한다. 이 항목의 경우 항목 명이 ‘Support for updates’로 되어 있으나 설치 전 업데이트 파일의 무결성 체크 내용이 존재하여 이 영역과 매칭했다.
NIST 800-series 가이드 내 업데이트 파일 확인 여부의 경우 ‘2.4 Comparing ICS and IT Systems Security’ 영역에서 ICS 환경 특별 고려 사항을 통해 안내하고 있다. ‘Change Management’ 영역에 업데이트는 공급자와 프로그램 사용자가 철저하게 검증한 후에 적용하라고 명시되어 있다. 또한, 재검증 및 패치 불가 시 복구 등을 고려하여 패치 계획을 수립한 후에 적용할 것을 권고하고 있다.
※ 공급망 공격에 대한 가이드는 2022년 5월 NIST에서 ‘NEW EO Guidance for Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management’ 내용으로 NIST 800-161r1가 배포되었다.
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Typically the version 6 program comes along with all the qualities you would anticipate from a fine anti-virus thing, together with a couple additional elements. The program will eventually try and direct you in ignoring your selection of totally free antivirus simply by defaulting to a different option the particular download belonging to the business’s alternate (paid for) internet safety program. Keep in mind that should you install a varied antivirus use, you may have to disable Microsoft’s tool at the beginning to reduce efficiency difficulties. You need to remember to remove any other antivirus security software computer software applications you have working on your computer.
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General Motors' OnStar subsidiary is developing a series of Android mobile applications for its upcoming Chevrolet Volt electric car.
OnStar is using "Google technology" to develop a series of mobile applications, the company said Tuesday, adding that the Android applications will be detailed at Google's I/O conference. The statement did not offer details of the new applications.
An attempt to shake GM from its gas-guzzling roots, the Chevrolet Volt is completely electric, without the gas combustion engines found in hybrid vehicles like Toyota's Prius. The car can run 40 miles (64.4 kilometers) on a single charge, according to GM.
Mobile applications have long been a part of GM's plans for the Volt, which will hit streets in the U.S. later this year. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, GM showed off basic mobile Volt applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.
Earlier this month, Motor Trend reported that GM was negotiating with Google to develop a telematics system for the Volt that is based on Android.
While the announcement that GM is developing a series of Android apps for the Volt didn't mention the vehicle's telematics system, it did offer one possible hint of a tilt towards Android: a navigation tab has been added to an upgrade to the Android version of the existing Volt application. When users click on the tab, the location of the car relative to their own location is shown in Google Maps, suggesting a link to a GPS system contained in the car.
Google's I/O conference starts Wednesday.
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Since the time Microsoft released security update MS08-067, we have released information about MS08-067 exploits and specifically about the Conficker worm in our malware encyclopedia and in multiple blog posts for example here. This blog provides a summary of the available information Microsoft has provided on the Conficker worm and the vulnerability it exploits, which Microsoft addressed with MS08-067.
To continue reading see http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/01/22/centralized-information-about-the-conficker-worm.aspx.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sus/2009/01/26/centralized-information-about-the-conficker-worm/
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Information plays a vital role in the running of business, organizations, military operations, etc. Information in the wrong hands can lead to loss of business or catastrophic results. To secure communication, a business can use cryptology to cipher information. Cryptology involves transforming information into the Nonhuman readable format and vice versa.
In this article, we will introduce you to the world of cryptology and how you can secure information from falling into the wrong hands.
What is Cryptography?
Cryptography is the study and application of techniques that hide the real meaning of information by transforming it into nonhuman readable formats and vice versa.
Let’s illustrate this with the aid of an example. Suppose you want to send the message “I LOVE APPLES”, you can replace every letter in the phrase with the third successive letter in the alphabet. The encrypted message will be “K NQYG CRRNGV”. To decrypt our message, we will have to go back three letters in the alphabet using the letter that we want to decrypt. The image below shows how the transformation is done.
The process of transforming information into nonhuman readable form is called encryption.
The process of reversing encryption is called decryption.
Decryption is done using a secret key which is only known to the legitimate recipients of the information. The key is used to decrypt the hidden messages. This makes the communication secure because even if the attacker manages to get the information, it will not make sense to them.
The encrypted information is known as a cipher.
Brute force attack– this type of attack uses algorithms that try to guess all the possible logical combinations of the plaintext which are then ciphered and compared against the original cipher.
Dictionary attack– this type of attack uses a wordlist in order to find a match of either the plaintext or key. It is mostly used when trying to crack encrypted passwords.
Rainbow table attack– this type of attack compares the cipher text against pre-computed hashes to find matches.
MD5– this is the acronym for Message-Digest 5. It is used to create 128-bit hash values. Theoretically, hashes cannot be reversed into the original plain text. MD5 is used to encrypt passwords as well as check data integrity. MD5 is not collision resistant. Collision resistance is the difficulties in finding two values that produce the same hash values.
SHA– this is the acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm. SHA algorithms are used to generate condensed representations of a message (message digest). It has various versions such as;
SHA-0: produces 120-bit hash values. It was withdrawn from use due to significant flaws and replaced by SHA-1.
SHA-1: produces 160-bit hash values. It is similar to earlier versions of MD5. It has cryptographic weakness and is not recommended for use since the year 2010.
SHA-2: it has two hash functions namely SHA-256 and SHA-512. SHA-256 uses 32-bit words while SHA-512 uses 64-bit words.
SHA-3: this algorithm was formally known as Keccak.
RC4– this algorithm is used to create stream ciphers. It is mostly used in protocols such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt internet communication and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) to secure wireless networks.
BLOWFISH– this algorithm is used to create keyed, symmetrically blocked ciphers. It can be used to encrypt passwords and other data.
Hacking Activity: Use CrypTool
In this practical scenario, we will create a simple cipher using the RC4 algorithm. We will then attempt to decrypt it using brute-force attack. For this exercise, let us assume that we know the encryption secret key is 24 bits. We will use this information to break the cipher.
We will use CrypTool 1 as our cryptology tool. CrypTool 1 is an open source educational tool for crypto logical studies. You can download it from http://www.cryptool.org/en/ct1-download-en
Remember the assumption made is the secret key is 24 bits. So make sure you select 24 bits as the key length.
Click on the Start button. You will get the following window
Note: the time taken to complete the Brute-Force Analysis attack depends on the processing capacity of the machine been used and the key length. The longer the key length, the longer it takes to complete the attack.
When the analysis is complete, you will get the following results.
Note: a lower Entropy number means it is the most likely correct result. It is possible a higher than the lowest found Entropy value could be the correct result.
Cryptography is the science of ciphering and deciphering messages.
A cipher is a message that has been transformed into a nonhuman readable format.
Deciphering is reversing a cipher into the original text.
Cryptanalysis is the art of deciphering ciphers without the knowledge of the key used to cipher them.
Cryptology combines the techniques of both cryptography and cryptanalyst.
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[ Further reading: The best Android phones for every budget. ]
The event underlined the conviction, or at least the hope, of Motorola and Verizon that cutting edge, Android-based wireless devices can challenge successfully the iPhone for a big chunk of the still-nascent U.S. market for cellular data.
The iPhone has been unexpectedly successful in the enterprise as well, with one recent study finding that nearly one-quarter of its enterprise respondents were supporting the phone. Android will find it tougher going at least initially: Apple has offered a range of OS updates to meet enterprise security and management requirements, and has garnered support from enterprise software developers and integrators.
The Droid licenses Microsoft ActiveSync, so the phone can connect to corporate Exchange servers. But there are no details yet on what features and capabilities the initial implementation actually supports. For example, according to one reviewer there is no support for encrypted e-mails.
Verizon triggered a headline-grabbing controversy last week with quietly in-your-face TV commercials that mocked the failings of a smartphone called "iDont" and promising that the Droid would make up for all of those deficiencies. Now that details about the Droid are out, here's a closer look at the Droid vs. the iPhone 3GS.
1. Hardware
It's been widely reported that the Droid uses the 600MHz Texas Instruments' OMAP 3430 system-on-a-chip, which is also used in the Palm Pre. The Motorola spec sheet only refers to an underlying ARM Cortex-A8 processor, which is the basis for both the TI chip and the Samsung S5PC100, also a system-on-a-chip with CPU, graphics processing unit and memory controller, the heart of Apple's iPhone 3GS.
The Motorola spec sheet doesn't mention clock speed, but ARM's information says it's adjustable from 600MHz to over 1GHz. The Cortex-A8 was introduced earlier this year, designed as a very high-performance chip that can use less than 300mW of power. It includes components for multimedia and signal processing, and for optimized compilation of Java and other bytecode.
Both the Droid and the iPhone are offering big multi-touch screens. Motorola says the Droid's 3.7-inch diagonal display, with 480x854 pixels, or over 400,000 total pixels, boasts "twice that of the leading competitor." The iPhone 3GS offers 640X480 on a 3.5-inch diagonal screen.
The debate over virtual vs. physical keyboards boils down to one of personal preference. The Droid is offering both. The key is in the execution. One early review by BusinessWeek's Stephen Wildstrom, who handled the Droid for a few hours, expressed some qualms. The touchscreen is "fast and responsive", though the position-sensing accelerometer sometimes slows. The software keyboard is "decent, but falls well short of either the iPhone or…the [BlackBerry] Storm2." The hardware keyboard (and not only the Droid's) strikes Wildstrom as "unbalanced and awkward." The almost perfectly flat keys made it hard to do touch typing, he says, and the largish five-way navigation pad positioned to the right of the keyboard seemed awkwardly placed.
Edge: On paper, the Droid gives you more options. But as Wildstrom's initial assessment makes clear, it's all in the details.
3. Operating systems
J.D. Power's surveys of smartphone users have consistently given the iPhone operating system the highest scores for reliability and ease of use. The Android operating system, on the other hand, is still a relative unknown even though devices that employ it have been on the market for more than a year.
But the just-released 2.0 version of Android offers an array of key improvements: multi-touch; synchronization with multiple e-mail systems; and a new framework that lets software developers more easily exploit the core synchronization engine for their own apps. Overall, the user interface is more polished and intuitive.
Despite the undoubted improvements, one Android developer, Justin Shapcott, founder and lead developer at nEx.software, says there are a range of bugs and fixes that Google still has not addressed in Android. And with the SDK's release this week, with the Droid itself due in two weeks, that creates a brutal schedule for Android developers to become familiar with the SDK, test compatibility and fix any problems they encounter, "let alone create great new apps that take advantage of these new features for a Day-1 release."
Both Verizon and Motorola are stressing the fact that Android has multi-tasking (as does the Palm Pre and for that matter Windows Mobile) – the ability to run several applications at once – switched on, something that Apple severely restricts on the iPhone. But so far, that fact hasn't sparked a stampede of users. Multi-tasking's significance may lie in how developers can exploit it to inter-relate user functions, as long as those active applications don't step on each other, or drain the battery.
Edge: The iPhone operating system has an edge in maturity, now in its third year of release. But Android 2.0 would seem to demonstrate that the open source OS has moved into the big leagues.
4. Applications
Apple's App Store now boasts more than 100,000 native iPhone applications, while the Android Market offers just over 10,000 for the growing line of Android phones.
But the raw numbers don't tell the whole story. The issue is whether Android users can find the apps they need on the Market to add value to their phone.
Google is leveraging its cloud-based offerings with aggressive mobile development. The Droid, by virtue of Android 2.0, comes with the just-released Beta version of Google Maps Navigation, a free, turn-by-turn navigation app that plugs into the phone's GPS data, and via text and voice search, into continuously-updated Google Maps. GPS meets the Internet.
The Droid's Web browser, updated in Android 2.0, is based on the open source Webkit engine, as is the Safari browser on the iPhone. Part of a new breed of mobile browsers, they represent a tectonic shift in mobile access to the Web. Both Apple and Google have been aggressive in bringing full browsing capabilities to mobile devices, including the early deployment of HTML 5, which is a still-developing standard. The result is increasingly fast mobile browsing, with growing capabilities to run Web applications locally and store data and application information locally.
The Droid browser now includes support for a double-tap on the screen to automatically zoom in and out, and it's been designed to support Adobe's upcoming release in 2010 of Flash 10. Apple so far doesn't support Flash on the iPhone.
Edge: Apple leads in numbers, but Droid highlights the Web-centric bias of Google's application vision.
5. Carrier quality
IPhone users love to complain about AT&T. And they've got lots of survey data to back them up, as Verizon has continuously come out ahead of AT&T in customer satisfaction rankings and studies on call quality and data coverage.
Recent research has indicated that AT&T's iPhone users fall into two distinct groups, with those who switched to AT&T from another carrier to get the iPhone far more critical of the carrier.
The controversial Droid ad campaign shows Verizon is betting heavily on being able to make the Droid a hit with subscribers. It's not just the number of Droid users, or the number of defections from other carriers that Verizon is counting on. The key is how Droid owners actually use their smartphone. And, if they mimic iPhone users, Verizon could end up with some of the same network and customer service problems that plague AT&T.
The iPhone's most important success has been opening users' eyes to the mobile Web, a world of data. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega earlier this month revealed that just 3% of the carrier's smartphone customers, presumably iPhone users, use 40% of all smartphone data on the network, and consume 13 times the amount of data of the average smartphone customer.
Edge: The Droid-Verizon combination for now has an edge. Unless Verizon suffers a massive network meltdown between now and November, the edge goes to the Droid. Also of note: Verizon will be the first carrier to start rolling out 4G LTE technology sometime next year.
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Nvidia's not playing games. With today's introduction of the GeForce GTX 200 series, the company is giving a graphics processor a whole new role.
Every new GPU ushers in new levels of realism and computational power, but don't call the GeForce GTX 200 Series simply "graphics cards." A little over ten years after games like Tomb Raider and GLQuake hit the scene, a new kind of GPU is being born. Nvidia has designed more than just a DirectX10 board that makes games scream and Vista's Aero interface hum. It's a secondary processor. It's a physics calculator. And it's about time.
GTX 260
The cards will sell in two flavors. The first, a high-end GeForce GTX 280 with 240 processors and 1GB of frame buffer memory, sells at a spit-take-worthy price of $649 starting June 17. (As expensive as that may sound -- and it is -- this is the consistent ceiling price for high-end consumer cards these days). The more "mainstream" model, the $399 GeForce GTX 260, ships June 25with 192 processors and a 896MB frame buffer.
What does that mean for these PCI Express 2.0 cards that pack 1.4 billion transistors? Nvidia promises that the GTX 280 is 1.5 times faster than a high-end 8800 / 9800-series GPU.
We are still in the process of compiling numbers - and tweaking a new series of GPU benchmarks - but we had some hardware lying around and wanted to see for ourselves if the GTX 200 cards could live up to the claims. Time for the 280 reference board to step into the ring with Asus' EN8800GT Top.
The new GPU is the result of smart collaborations. Nvidia's engineering pool, now loaded with the newly-acquired AEGIA team, has created a plug-in card designed to amplify system performance in many ways.
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) shows that Nvidia's GPU is capable of a much more than rendering death-dealing aliens. In February 2007, Nvidia released the SDK that allowed 8800-series owners to develop programs that push the GPU. A quick visit to Nvidia Cuda Zone reveals applications that do everything from complex financial calculations to mapping the human genome.
Thanks to the SDK's release, others are creating applications that are a little less academic. A great example is Elemental Technologies' upcoming BadaBOOM Media Converter, a video encoder that runs entirely off an Nvidia GPU -- as opposed to just about every other encoder around that's CPU-bound. Nvidia promises video encoding speeds at least twice as fast as a CPU-bound one. Initial tests in our labs could verify the claim: a two-minute clip optimized for the iPod Touch (480 by 320-pixel resolution, AAC audio) took about 24 seconds. That same video, compressed using AVS Video converter 5.5, took 56 seconds. That's impressive, no doubt, but it really is an apples-to-oranges comparison. You see, for the fairest test, we'd need to have the provided BadaBOOM software (which, by the way, works amazingly well) have a toggle to switch between GPU encoding and CPU encoding. We are, however, currently running other lab tests for a better read on the difference between GPU and CPU computing and will update this story as soon as we have the final results.
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Ethical hacker, penetration tester, and white hat hacker - what's the difference?
The terms "penetration tester" (also "pentester" for short), "white hat hacker" and "ethical hacker" are often used interchangeably. The terms "ethical hacker" and "white hat hacker" cover all hacking activity aimed at improving IT security. What they all have in common is that activities that are illegal or do not comply with the Code of Ethics are refrained from.
Formally, a penetration test is only an "ethical hack" with very clearly agreed rules, a formal procedure as well as a defined goal.
How to recognize a good pentester?
Admittedly, this is not so easy - if someone tells you that they only work with the best pentesters, this may be difficult to verify. that they only work with the best pentesters, it may be difficult to verify. Pentesters with more experience and more extensive training are often more expensive. Just remember that you get what you pay for. Beware of pentesters who offer prices that are too good to be true. They are probably not doing a thorough job. I suggest looking for penetration testers who have one or - better - several recognized Pentester certifications.
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However, some customers want a black box approach, where only a limited amount of information is provided, to simulate a real attack and the response to it. In this case, we still need to capture the size/complexity, that is required for testing, and therefore have some fundamental questions about scope.
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The IRS just gave us another reason to worry after announcing their online service was hacked by criminals who were able to steal the information of more than 100,000 taxpayers. They confirmed the hack was part of a identify theft scheme being used to claim fraudulent tax returns.
Hackers were able to get into the “Get Transcript” system offered by the IRS which allows users obtain tax returns and other tax filings. The IRS claimed the group responsible for the attack are part a larger group of organized criminals, but did not release any further information. However, Congress is pushing the IRS to release this information as soon as possible.
The attacks took place from February through May of this year and the system has since been shut down. The IRS says the main tax filing system was not affected, which brings peace of mind to Jaime Garcia Dias. However, millions of people are still highly concerned about the recent breach and are demanding more information about the cyber attack.
As of right now, the IRS reports that $50 million in fraudulent tax returns have been issued and are currently implementing technology in order to prevent further identity theft. They have added software to help them pick out suspicious tax returns and will seek to prosecute the criminals responsible for the attack.
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On May 20, the New Jersey governor signed Executive Order 178 establishing the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell ("NJCCIC") within the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, seeking to bridge the information and intelligence divide between New Jersey's public and private sectors. The NJCCIC's efforts, which will involve the New Jersey Attorney General's office and the Office of Information Technology and the State Police, will facilitate information sharing related to cybersecurity risks and provide guidance for both public and private entities.
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An FBI cyber security expert who was busted collecting child pornography may dodge jail and be allowed to live across the street from a Seattle elementary school.
Brian Haller, who led an FBI group that fought cybercrime, was arrested after agents discovered that he had used a Tor network site to collect hundred of files of child pornography, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Although Haller faces up to five years in prison, federal prosecutors have asked a judge to spare him jail time when he is sentenced Friday for possession of child pornography.
A federal judge will decide whether to grant leniency.
“The sentence suggested by prosecutors is nearly unheard of for child pornography crimes in the region,” The Post-Intelligencer wrote. “Haller would be Western Washington’s first federal child porn convict to catch such a break since the U.S. Sentencing Commission started tracking the crime separately five years ago.”
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Two vendors recently upgraded products that promise to help network executives identify potential threats and reduce the effects of vulnerabilities on revenue-generating applications.
Security information management (SIM) vendors Intellitactics and OpenService separately released products last week that could help users integrate security into current management and application software infrastructure. The integration is necessary as more government regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley act emerge and require companies maintain an audit trail for network, management and security data.
“Security isn’t just about shielding the network from threats. It’s about accountability as well,” says Rich Ptak, president of Ptak, Noel & Associates, an analyst research firm. “Management personnel now more than ever need to document and prove that they have taken adequate steps to protect their infrastructure and assets.”
SIM software automates the collection of event log data from security devices, helping users make sense of it through a common management console. The products use data-aggregation and event-correlation features similar to those found in network management software, and apply them to event logs generated by firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion-detection systems (IDS) and anti-virus software.
Specifically, Intellitactics unveiled its Network Security Manager (NSM) 5.0, which now includes features that determine the potential threat of events or alerts on security devices. With customization, the software also can let a network manager know if a security event will affect a specific application or department. The company says its engineers incorporated knowledge about the cause of security alerts into the product so that it could more quickly determine the cause of threats.
For example, if an IDS such as Cisco’s IDS 4250 appliance or Internet Security Systems’ Proventia A201 generates an event, NSM 5.0 would analyze the origins of the alarm, its destination and potential impact, essentially narrowing down the causes before it passes it over to IT staff.
The release also lets security managers customize the level of attention a security alert should garner, based on the device and the lines of business it supports. For example, for an online retailer, an event on the firewall in front of an ordering system might take precedence over a string of events on an IDS box at a remote office. Intellitactics also added more storage capacity to NSM 5.0, which the company says provides space for unaltered log files that need to be preserved in order to comply with regulations.
NSM 5.0 costs about $200,000 for an entry-level implementation.
Meanwhile OpenService also had business in mind when it upgraded its Security Threat Manager (STM) software. Version 2.0 of the company’s flagship software includes a feature that evaluates the threat level of the attack, the target of the attack and the effect on business the attack could have. Other new features include an escalation process that would help security and/or network managers more quickly determine the next step when a threat arises or a vulnerability is detected.
“The main thing is when we get an error message from a firewall, we now can react quick enough and know how to react,” says Bob Wrobel, data security manager for Ace Hardware in Oak Brook, Ill. “There is time associated with going over logs, and we didn’t want to be reactive.”
Other new features include enhanced vulnerability assessments and improved correlation that can tell security managers in real time if an event on an IDS relates to an event on a firewall and to an event on a server, and so on, the company says. Correlating the events would prevent multiple security administrators from separately exploring or trouble-shooting the events and would speed problem resolution.
Entry-level pricing for STM is $50,000, with the average implementation costing about $100,000.
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https://www.networkworld.com/article/880330/infrastructure-management-software-helps-battle-network-security-threats.html
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You know those IP cameras and routers that ship with security holes that have been kicking around since the dark ages? Like the IP cameras that are drop-dead simple to remotely take over and use to spy on babies and their parents via their baby monitors…all thanks to having hard-coded credentials – “guest” for a user name and password, to be precise – along with command injection vulnerabilities and other flaws that have been on OWASP’s top web app vulnerabilities list since at least 2007.
Well, the US Federal Trade Commission knows about those cameras, just like it knows about routers that ship with the same security sins. Last week, it took steps to deal with one manufacturer of networking gear it says has been failing to properly secure its products and has been leaving consumers vulnerable to some nasty hacking.
The FTC on Thursday filed a complaint (PDF) against D-Link, maker of wireless routers and internet-enabled cameras, in federal district court.
The suit alleges that the company hasn’t bothered to protect routers and IP cameras from very common, very old, very well-known holes on OWASP’s web app vulnerability list.
These are holes that let hackers easily take over routers, IP cameras and other networking gear.
Pretty serious stuff, the FTC says, given how routers are key to securing consumers’ home networks: not only do they forward data packets along a network, but they also function as that local network’s hardware firewall and act as the first line of defense in protecting consumer devices – be they computers, mobile phones, IP cameras or any other connected appliances.
The FTC says that D-Link has “repeatedly” failed to do reasonable software testing and remediation to protect routers and IP cameras against easily preventable software security flaws, including hard-coded user credentials, other backdoors, and command injection flaws, which open the consumer devices to being taken over by remote attackers.
The FTC is also charging D-Link with spilling its private code-signing key on to the public web for all to see, and misuse, for six months in 2015.
Anybody with ill intent could use that key to sign malware so it would look like a legitimate D-Link app that would be trusted by Microsoft Windows and be allowed to run on, and infect, computers.
D-Link certainly isn’t the only one to put its private keys out there for public consumption. In fact, the internet is crowded with servers with private keys that are anything but. A 2015 report from a European security consultancy called SEC Consult found that the count was up to 4.5m servers with un-private/should-really-be private keys.
The FTC says D-Link has a third security failure: it hasn’t used free software, available since at least 2008, that would secure users’ mobile app login credentials. Instead, it’s stored the credentials in clear, readable text on a user’s mobile device.
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These are the kinds of security failings that enable hackers to take over consumers’ computers and pull them into botnets, the FTC noted.
In fact, remote attackers have been able to search for vulnerable devices over the internet, using readily available tools.
The potential harm to consumers, according to the complaint:
Compromised routers can give miscreants unauthorized access to sensitive personal information. For example, a compromised router could send a victim to a spoofed financial website, where the attacker could intercept their login credentials. Also, a tampered-with router could access tax returns kept on an attached storage device.
A compromised router can be used to launch an attack on other devices on the local network, such as computers, smartphones, IP cameras or connected appliances.
IP cameras can be hijacked for the purposes of spying, and we’re talking way more than baby monitors. We’ve seen one site that allows strangers to spy on people via security webcams delivering live feeds from bedrooms, other rooms in residential homes, offices, shops, restaurants, bars, swimming pools and gymnasiums.
Publicly posting a key that should be private puts people at significant risk of downloading malware signed by malicious actors using D-Link’s key.
All this, in spite of D-Link’s mention of state of the art security technologies in its marketing materials, the FTC said, outlining use of terms such as “Advanced Network Security”. “128-bit Security Encryption” and the like.
D-Link Systems rejects the FTC’s allegations and firmly believes that its processes and procedures related to security were more than reasonable.
D-Link Systems maintains a robust range of procedures to address potential security issues, which exist in all Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
The company said that the FTC mentioned risk to D-Link to customers but didn’t specify any actual breach of a D-Link device. Instead, the FTC merely “speculated” that consumers were at risk, according to D-Link.
D-Link CIO William Brown said:
The FTC complaint alleges certain security hacking concerns for consumer routers and IP cameras, and we firmly believe that charges alleged in the complaint against D-Link Systems are unwarranted.
Brown said the company will “vigorously defend the security and integrity” of its routers and IP cameras and is “fully prepared to contest the complaint.”
More from Brown:
Furthermore, we are continually working to address the overall security features of D-Link Systems’ products for their intended applications and to regularly inform consumers of the appropriate steps to take to secure devices.
We’ve reported on D-Link problems in the past. Its routers were found vulnerable to DNS hijacking in February 2015, and a router flaw dubbed Joel’s Backdoor was found a few years prior to that: one that provided easy backdoor access to the administration interface on a number of the company’s routers.
But of course it’s not only D-Link routers that have had issues. In January 2014 we reported how Sercomm products, which include routers under the Linksys and Netgear brands, had problems with unauthorized admin access, and more recently, we discussed a remote access bug in Netgear routers.
So even if you don’t use D-Link products, the risks that the FTC cited are real.
When he wrote up the Sercomm issue, Paul Ducklin noted that you could mitigate the risk of that router hole by ensuring you’re doing Wi-Fi security properly.
He suggested using WPA2 with a long and hard-to-guess passphrase (you only need to enter it once on each device). Paul also suggested that we don’t rely on security short-cuts like network name hiding or MAC address filtering. It’s always worth having another look at Paul’s guide to store user passwords safely, too.
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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/09/ftc-sues-d-link-for-insecure-routers-and-ip-cameras/
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https://www.complok.eu/post/decisive-actions-after-financial-crime-risk-assessment
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In continuing our research on scams that offer free followers to Instagram users, we found out that similar services for other social networks are also available online.
Among those that we found is this particular Russian site that comes off as a one-stop-shop for those looking to purchase followers, likes, retweets, and other activities for social networks like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Instagram.
Figure 1. Scam site selling followers for different social networks
The required payment would depend on the number of followers, retweets, or likes preferred. The payment process requires the customer to transact via payment sites like interkassa.com and ligpay.com (for mobile users).
Figure 2. Payment options for buying followers, retweets, or likes
In the end, as with the other cases we’ve reported, no followers, retweets, or likes is provided to the customer, only the risk of information and money theft.
This comes as an easy way for cybercriminals to make money, since influence in social media depends greatly on the number of followers an entity has. This type of scheme works, as many users are being lured by the idea of acquiring a huge number of followers in a very short amount of time, and with almost no effort at all.
That said, it is important to note to those who are interested in employing such services that doing so leads to more harm than good. This scheme has been consistent in terms of duping users, regardless of whether they offer Instagram followers for free, or for a paid amount. With this, we recommend users to not employ such schemes. These services either just scam their customers by not delivering their promised service, or actually deliver, but do so through dubious means (usage of malicious scripts or botnets).
The site reported above is already blocked by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network to protect users from being victimized.
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https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/from-fame-to-shame-busting-the-free-followers-myth-in-social-media/
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Medium level: The attacker has to identify injection vector, identify the specific commands, and optionally collect the output, i.e. from an interactive session.
Software's input validation or filtering must not detect and block presence of additional malicious command.
Ability to communicate synchronously or asynchronously with server. Optionally, ability to capture output directly through synchronous communication or other method such as FTP.
The attacker uses combinations of payload and carefully placed command delimiters to attack the software..
Design: Perform whitelist validation against a positive specification for command length, type, and parameters.
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https://infosec.cert-pa.it/capec-15.html
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The following app has been confirmed to contain malware called ‘Vultur,’ specifically designed to steal bank details and money.
The urgent warning was issued by security researchers at Pradeo, who found a popular application named “2FA Authenticator” to install malware onto Android devices after being downloaded.
The security researchers revealed that when you install the app from the Google Play Store, it also installs a dropper that automatically installs the malware that targets financial services to steal your banking information.
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https://www.goincognito.co/alert-remove-this-app-now-bank-stealing-malware/
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http://fbtcheats.blogspot.com/2013/12/pc-tools-spyware-doctor-91-with.html
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As mentioned last time, a complete network/IT security policy should include a set of best practices and rules for telecommuters. Some of these practices simply involve common sense – someone just needs to think them through and educate the company’s teleworker population about them.
For example, there is the issue of wireless LANs, which are quickly becoming the rage and whose popularity in the business office is being driven by home use. Almost in spite of themselves, folks in one house, apartment or condo can associate to an access point in a neighboring residence and hop on that individual’s broadband Internet connection if the proper encryption hasn’t been enabled. At a minimum, this encryption would be Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).
It is also advisable to disable “SSID broadcast” (so that a teleworker’s access point will not present itself for access to outsiders), to change the name of that worker’s SSID name or number from the default setting, and to use an access control list with only the teleworker having access rights, says Craig Mathias, wireless consultant and principal at the Farpoint Group. Mathias adds that a standard network logon should be used.
Even though it’s unlikely that the broadband poacher would be able to access the corporate data center if a VPN is in place, the squatter might be able to see the data on that individual’s computer if no personal firewall has been installed on it or if the data has not been encrypted.
In fact, given the ease with which ever-shrinking laptops and PDAs can be lost or stolen, it’s probably advisable to just encrypt all stored data of a confidential nature on any client device. This can be accomplished using the encryption in Microsoft XP Professional or in third-party software.
And, finally, there’s the obvious but often overlooked issue of physical security. If you’ve got your VPN connection up and there are guests in the house, such as neighbors, party attendees, friends, workmen and so forth, again, seeing confidential data could end up a crime of opportunity.
Much of these worries will end up moot. But how can you, as the IT professional, know if all your employees’ friends and relatives can be trusted? Whoever is in charge of IT security for your organization should have a corporate policy for what security steps should be followed by teleworkers. The potential consequences should be spelled out if it’s shown that these precautions have not been followed.
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https://www.networkworld.com/article/887938/network-security-teleworking-vulnerabilities.html
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Phenomenon where the attacker steals sensitive and confidential information from the user.
Confidential information could include PIN numbers, passwords, and bank details.
Done using social engineering methods.
Purpose of phishing is to get confidential information from the victim.
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https://nammakpsc.com/affairs/phishing/
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BlackBerry this weekend takes a historic fork in the road as it makes what was once its distinguishing application, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), available for download to Android and Apple smartphone users.
The company announced its intention several weeks ago, and is following through by giving Android 4.x users access to the app from Google's Play, followed by a version for iPhone users available from Apple's App Store.
The move is an extraordinary moment for Blackberry and given that BBM messaging will be free also between users running the app, potentially disruptive for the mobile market as a whole if it can grab new users. There are currently no plans for a Windows Phone app.
The firm's strategy of turning BBM into a larger social platform explains why it has taken the interesting if risky decision to untether its messaging system from its own declining hardware and software platform.
"Later this year, BBM Channels will provide a forum for active, real conversations between you and the people, brands, celebrities, artists, service providers, communities and more, that matter to you," blogged BlackBerry's Donny Halliwell.
"By creating a Channel, individuals and brands can engage their friends and communities in conversations sparked by their thoughts, ideas and passions," he said, underlining BlackBerry's hope that BBM can become a mobile social network under the radar of operators as well as Google and Apple.
Eager for BBM
Since the company announced the move some time ago, it has been generally well received by the industry.
"The news that BBM is to appear on the Android platform suggests that the writing may be on the wall for BlackBerry as we know it," said AppSense chief development officer, Keith Turnbull at the time.
BBM's managed security environment could be another big lure for some users; BlackBerry will only make money if business users continue to pay license fees to use the server software, underwriting free consumer access.
"BlackBerry's greatest strength remains its popularity amongst enterprises due to a strong reputation for robust security. Recent independent research commissioned by AppSense revealed that only 12 per cent of UK enterprises saw BlackBerry's as a potential security risk compared with 63 per cent of businesses believing that Android a high security risk," said Turnbull.
This security isn't as watertight as might have once been assumed, with a German newspaper recently claiming that there is evidence among the leaks made by Edward Snowden that the NSA might be able to access messages sent through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
Elsewhere the news has been dire, with US media has reported that the firm is preparing to lay off 40 percent of its 12,700 workforce, a grudging confirmation by the old-style BlackBerry is now in deep trouble.
The company isn't giving up that easily, this week announcing its most powerful smartphone to date, the Z30, due for release later in 2013.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2049144/blackberry-offers-messenger-app-to-android-apple-users.html
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Oracle pushed out an emergency update for a bug in Oracle Identity Manager that is as bad as it gets.
Scoring a 10 on the CVSS scale, the vulnerability, CVE-2017-10151, enables an attacker to remotely take over the software without the need for authentication.
“While the vulnerability is in Oracle Identity Manager, attacks may significantly impact additional products,” according to an advisorypublished on NIST’s National Vulnerability Database.
Oracle Identity Manager oversees user access privileges to enterprise resources, workflow and task management. It is one of dozens of components in the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite of web-based services. Versions 11.1.1.7, 11.1.1.9, 11.1.2.1.0, 11.1.2.2.0, 11.1.2.3.0 and 12.2.1.3.0 are affected, Oracle said.
“Due to the severity of this vulnerability, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the updates provided by this Security Alert without delay,” Oracle said in its advisory.
Oracle said the vulnerability is “easily exploitable,” and should be addressed immediately.
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https://www.cybersecurity-review.com/news-october-2017/emergency-oracle-patch-closes-bug-rated-10-in-severity/
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Homomorphic encryption: computation on encrypted databases without ever decrypting them. An important step that should eventually allow even the most privacy focused institutions off-loading some of their data processing into public clouds.
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https://maol.ch/2012/10/24/homomorphic-encryption
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Strategy defines cybersecurity as a core function of the state.
New York has its first-ever statewide cybersecurity strategy, articulating a set of high-level objectives for cybersecurity and resilience across New York.
Outlined by State Governor Kathy Hochul, the strategy clarifies agency roles and responsibilities, outlines how existing and planned initiatives and investments knit together into a unified approach and reiterates the State’s commitment to providing services, advice and assistance to county and local governments.
“Our interconnected world demands an interconnected defense leveraging every resource available,” Governor Hochul said. “This strategy sets forth a nation-leading blueprint to ensure New York State stands ready and resilient in the face of cyberthreats.”
The strategy unifies New York’s cybersecurity services in order to safeguard critical infrastructure, personal information and digital assets from malicious actors. It also provides a framework to align the actions and resources of both private and public stakeholders, including county and other local governments.
Acting New York State Chief Information Officer Jennifer Lorenz said: “Thanks to Governor Hochul, cybersecurity is a priority in New York State – backed up by real funding, real human resources and a real strategy designed to protect the state’s assets from intrusion and attack.
“The Office of Information Technology Services is proud to be a partner in carrying out this important mission and know it will result in cyber defenses that are better, stronger and more agile.”
Governor Hochul announced her commitment to bolster New York State’s centralized cybersecurity during this year’s State of the State address.
The historic $90 million investment for cybersecurity included in the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget made $30 million in shared services funding available to assist local governments in strengthening their own defenses against cyberthreats.
This initiative signaled a new and stronger collaboration between the state and its local governments on this critical and evolving issue.
The strategy includes providing $500 million to enhance New York State’s healthcare Information Technology, primarily cybersecurity infrastructure, as well as $7.4 million to expand the New York State Police’s Cyber Analysis Unit, Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children Center.
Overall, the strategy is defined by three central principles – unification, resilience and preparedness – that the state can lean on to present a unified and resilient defense against new and more sophisticated cyberthreats; preventing the vast majority of attacks but also isolating, controlling and mitigating potential threats; and preparing, adapting and always being ready for the cyber challenges of the future.
This strategy is seen as a blueprint for cybersecurity stakeholders across New York – from state agencies to local governments – to understand how they fit into a larger plan.
The blueprint provides objectives, lines of effort and a commitment from the Governor that they can use in future planning and program design.
Governor Hochul also signed legislation to expand New York’s technology talent pool and provide funding to help ensure New York-based employers can hire and retain necessary expertise.
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https://www.intelligentcio.com/north-america/2023/08/18/new-york-outlines-first-ever-statewide-cybersecurity-strategy/
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So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd.
With this beta release everything should be shaping up nicely, and (theoretically) the work from this point onwards should be bug-fixing and polish.
Let's find out how the release is shaping up.
Performance
One of the things demanded by Ubuntu head honcho Mark Shuttleworth in his announcement of 9.04 was that boot times should be improved. This certainly seems to have happened, and in my tests 9.04 booted pretty quickly. In fact, booting to the login prompt was actually quicker than resuming the machine from hibernation. (My test machine was a crappy budget laptop with a Celeron chip and 1.5GB of memory; I did a full hard disk install.)
Additionally, the ext4 filesystem driver is now included, although isn't used by default, and must be deliberately selected by the user during partitioning. The big boasts of ext4 as far as end-users are concerned include support for insanely large file systems of up to one exabyte, but the feature that's got most people excited is a performance boost compared to the older ext3. I ran some quick and unscientific tests on an ext3 installation of Ubuntu, and then repeated the tests of an ext4 install. The testbed was the aforementioned budget laptop, and the highly-accurate timing device was myself, my thumb, and the stopwatch mode of my wristwatch. In other words, don't hold too much store by these results.
There were some marginal improvements with ext4, especially in boot times and when copying significant amounts of files, but perhaps not enough to overcome the potential risks of using ext4 this early in its life. (You might be wondering if the hibernate to disk performance is improved but remember that Ubuntu hibernates to the swap partition, not the filesystem, so this is unaffected; I realized this after performing my tests, but it was borne out in my results which were virtually identical between filesystems).
Start OO.org Writer on a cold machine: 7.74 seconds
Copy /usr directory to the desktop (1.5GB; using cp command): 5 minutes, 21.48 seconds
Hibernate to disk: 29.56 seconds
Hibernate wake-up from cold: 29.91 seconds
Any Windows fans out there will be pleased to hear that ext4 includes an online defragmentation tool, e4defrag. However, this doesn't appear to be installed on Ubuntu 9.04 (or perhaps it resides under a different command-name; if you know the situation, post a comment below.)
Visual Refresh
There's a new boot progress graphic (i.e. usplash), which I can't say looks better or worse than previous efforts. Additionally, there's a new wallpaper that takes as a starting point the swirly lines seen in virtually every operating system wallpaper since 1998. The only different here is that the color scheme is orange and brown, in the usual Ubuntu style. My advice: install the gnome-backgrounds package, which includes a terrific sample of images.
Some of the community themes that were optional in 8.10 are now default (Dust, Dust Sand, New Wave), and this helps mitigate the fact that the whole Ubuntu desktop experience is starting to stagnate. It hasn't changed significantly for quite a few years now.
It's now possible to set transparency effects for the panels, provided the Compiz visual effects system is activated (it is by default). This is kinda cool, and brings Ubuntu into line with OS X Leopard, which introduced a similar feature.
The Log Off/Shutdown etc. items have been removed from the System menu, and now live on the fast user switcher icon at the top right of the desktop. This icon is turning into something of a status display and mode-switcher--not only does it now let you log out etc., and switch to a different user account, but it also shows your Pidgin status. Rather annoyingly, the fact it is now the only way to shutdown means that you can't get rid of it, unless you intend to use telinit each time at the prompt.
Notifications
The last few releases Ubuntu have featured notification bubbles that pop-up near the system tray area at the top right of the screen. These inform the user about events that have happened, such as connecting to a wireless network.
With 9.04 the notification system has been visually overhauled so that the pop-up boxes have a smoked glass appearance. All notifications now appear as pop-up boxes in this style, including notebook screen brightness status displays, for example, or low battery warnings. If more than one notification appears at the same time, they stack-up beneath each other.
Unfortunately, the notifications don't work like those on other systems, whereby you can click on them to clear them. Put your mouse over the notifications on 9.04 and they turn semi-invisible, letting you click beneath them. They only go away when they want to, which seems to be after a couple of seconds by default. This is a little annoying.
OpenOffice.org 3
Although it was skipped for the 8.10 release last year, despite being available (the omission was caused by problems with packaging, apparently), OpenOffice.org 3 has made it into the 9.04 release.
To be blunt, this is very hard to get excited about. There's a handful of cool new features, including inline commenting, which as an author I find useful. If you want to know more, see the OpenOffice.org Web site.
In his announcement of the 9.04 release, Mark Shuttleworth only laid down two demands that were of interest as far as end-users were concerned: faster booting and integration with web apps. The first nail has been squarely hit on the head, but the second seems to have been entirely ignored. Firefox doesn't have Google Gears installed, for example, and the interesting Prism project, that "wraps" online applications to make them appear like local apps, hasn't been integrated.
It doesn’t even appear that the version of Firefox supplied is the exciting new 3.1 release--the version number supplied with the beta is 3.0.7 (although admittedly 3.1 is still in beta). Personally, I believe that online applications are going to become more and more important in future, so I'm disappointed that Ubuntu isn't making any progress in this direction. There’s a real chance to make a stake on virgin ground here, and it’s land that Microsoft and Apple don’t even know exist yet. Still, here's hoping for the Ubuntu 9.10 release in October. (Until then, anybody wholly committed to the online application experience can use gOS, which takes Ubuntu and adds-in exactly what Shuttleworth requested.)
Should you upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 when it's released? To be honest, I don't see any reason not too. But I also have trouble of thinking of reasons why you should. With each new release of Ubuntu, it’s becoming harder and harder for me to make a genuine recommendation, and this is something that worries me. The only compelling reason I can think of making the upgrade to 9.04 is the faster boot times, and the possibility of experimenting with ext4 file systems. Other than that, you're perhaps better sticking with 8.10, or even the 8.04 LTS release, which despite being a year old, remains a strong and stable release that's perfect for most users. With the recent raft of bug fixes, it just gets better and better. I use 8.04 LTS on most of my computers.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/162129/ubuntu_jaunty_beta.html
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Apple's efforts to allow people to control household appliances from their iPhones through the company's HomeKit framework are gaining momentum.
Chip maker Broadcom announced Tuesday that the SDK for its WICED hardware platform, which allows manufacturers to build so-called smart devices that can connect to the Internet, is fully compliant with HomeKit. The HomeKit protocols from Apple allow manufacturers to create products that can be controlled from an iOS device.
For example, if a smart lock was integrated with HomeKit, people could use an app on their iPhones or speak a command to Siri, Apple's voice-controlled virtual assistant, to unlock a door. Using Siri to handle voice commands when a person isn't in his house requires an Apple TV, which works as a gateway to a home network.
With HomeKit, Apple essentially developed a common language that allows smart devices from any company to understand basic commands. The framework is Apple's attempt to spur home automation.
Broadcom's platform also works as a hardware bridge that will allow accessories without HomeKit to work with the protocol. A Bluetooth light bulb, plugged into a socket that contains WICED hardware, could be controlled with a HomeKit app.
Apple announced HomeKit last June at its developers conference. Since then, the company hasn't said much on the framework, which appeared in iOS 8 in September.
Some companies have recently revealed products that work with HomeKit, however. Last week, GE showed LED bulbs that are compatible HomeKit, and two months ago, semiconductor company Marvell said its IoT platform would support the protocol.
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https://www.cio.com.au/article/574841/broadcom-hardware-platform-gains-support-apple-homekit/
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Open-source developers who use Github are in the cross-hairs of advanced malware that can steal passwords, download sensitive files, take screenshots, and self-destruct when necessary.
Dimnie, as the reconnaissance and espionage trojan is known, has largely flown under the radar for the past three years. It mostly targeted Russians until early this year, when a new campaign took aim at multiple owners of Github repositories. One commenter in this thread reported the initial infection e-mail was sent to an address that was used solely for Github, and researchers with Palo Alto Networks, the firm that reported the campaign on Tuesday, told Ars they have no evidence it targeted anyone other than Github developers.
"Both messages appearing to be hand-crafted, and the reference to today's data in the attachment file name IMHO hint at a focused campaign explicitly targeting targets perceived as 'high return investments,' such as developers (possibly working on popular/open-source projects,)" someone who received two separate infection e-mails reported in the thread.
Today, I would like to review an example how we can improve our daily security operations or, for our users, how to help in detecting suspicious content. Last week, I received the following email in my corporate mailbox. The mail is written in French but easy to understand: It is a notification regarding a failed delivery (they pretended that nobody was present at the delivery address to pick up the goods).
To be honest, I hesitated a few seconds about the legitimacy of this message. For the following reasons:
The first thoughtwas that the website was indeed compromised and the owner closed it temporary. But the malicious Office document referenced in the mail was still available! So, the website was not cleaned yet. I tried to find a contact in the company to report the problem. Google did not know Duprat Logistics in Belgium. If its unknown to Google, it padding:5px 10px"> Domain Name: dupratlogistics.com Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.regtons.com Registrar URL: http://regtons.com Updated Date: Creation Date: 2017-03-17T00:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-17T00:00:00Z Registrar: GRANSY S.R.O D/B/A SUBREG.CZ Registrar IANA ID: 1505 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +420.734463373 Reseller: ? Registry Registrant ID: G-987982 Registrant Name: Jarred Ewing Registrant Organization: Registrant Street: Smaratun 60 Registrant City: Vik Registrant State/Province: Vik Registrant Postal Code: 870 Registrant Country: IS Registrant Phone: +354.4701571 Registrant Phone Ext: None Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Registry Admin ID: G-987982
The domain has been registered the 17th of March! Have a look at the email address (mail2tor.com). The reseller field contains Cyrillic characters.
But the mail claimed that they visited my place the 21st of March at 11:32. Unfortunately for them, I width:600px" />
The rest of story is classic. As you can imagine, the document was malicious (MD5:9a9f84d7ade2e2802c1b2b584b668046).The macro downloaded a PE file from width:800px" />
Im not aware of other companies targeted by the same email in Belgium but this was a very nice attempt. To conclude, there are many ways to defeat such phishing attempts by correlating information from multiple sources (logical and physical). Its time consuming but here are a few examples:
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A 130-page book to help educate the public on some of the laws that govern cyberspace is set to be launched in Tamale in August 2023.
The book entitled “The Digital Colonization” is to help enrich readers’ understanding of cyber security and how to minimise cyber bullying and attacks in the digital space.
Dr Arnold Mashud Abukari, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Tamale Technical University, who authored the book, told the Ghana News Agency in Tamale that the issues of cyber security were becoming a global security threat.
He said the book was, therefore, written to provide guidelines for readers on how to use the internet safely.
He said, “Many unsuspecting Ghanaians have been exploited in the digital space. It is time to address this menace through the timely information contained in this book.”
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https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/technology/cyber-security-abukari/2023/
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“The EARN IT Act creates a false choice between protecting children and supporting strong encryption protections,” said Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel at NetChoice – a group that counts Facebook, Google, Twitter among its members.
NetChoice works to make the Internet safe for free enterprise and free expression.
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Offensive cyber attack chains are accelerating rapidly thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and broadening threat landscape.
SAN FRANCISCO – As perimeter cyber defenses adopt new strategies such artificial intelligence and machine learning, security experts predict adversaries will adopt similar techniques an attack chain.
Derek Manky, chief of security insights at Fortinet, said that “black-hat automation and swarm technology” are emerging threats. He argues that companies need to identify weak points in their cyber defenses and assess whether they are vulnerable to automated attacks.
“You have know the threat in order block it,” he told Threatpost in an interview here at the RSA Conference.
There are effective strategies to thwart these types of “flash war” attacks. Manky said organizations can prolong the attack chain in an effort to mitigating risk and speed up the defensive kill chain. One solution, he said, was creating a “house of mirror-based deception techniques” to effectively dilute a large attack surface.
What follows is a video interview conducted at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
* What follows is a transcript of the interview *
Tom Spring: Hi and welcome to Threatpost here at RSA Conference 2019. We are here in Broadcast Alley and I’d like to introduce Derek Manky.
Derek Manky: Okay. Derek Manky with Fortinet. I’ve been with Fortinet for 15 years. I’m from our FortiGuard department, so I lead our cyber threat intelligence efforts, our global threat alliances, as well.
My role is chief of security insights. So, we’re constantly looking at research, what the bad guys are doing, and try to innovate in terms of how we can try to get a step ahead of them. It’s always an arms race, as you know.
Okay. So machine learning is a core part of AI, right? I mean, machines learn like humans do. I mean, Alan Turing described this back in the 1930’s. Right? The whole idea is that by using Machine Learning models, we can start to study things like cyber crime, right? Who the cyber criminal organizations are, how they’re moving, what’s their next move going to be?
There’s predictive elements of artificial intelligence, as well. It’s a very complex beast to manage.
Derek Manky: Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I mean for any valid artificial intelligent machine learning solution, the defensive side, right? ‘Cause when we’re talking about mitigating threats, you have trust them. They have to be as intelligence and experienced as day to day operations for let’s say a security operation, a SOC admin or a network operation admin.
It takes time to learn. Now machines learn quicker than humans do, right? I mean, a machine can become a teenager on the, on that cycle within a year as an example.
Tom Spring: Where, where we’re seeing a sort of a switch in terms of how the offensive security, what, talk a little bit about offensive security and artificial intelligence and what the bad guys are capable of and what they’re doing.
Derek Manky: Yeah. So, this is a really interesting area and not a lot of people are talking about right now.
On the defensive side, we can do a million things right and one thing wrong, and that’s a very big issue. That’s why I talk about these long life cycles of development. From the offensive side, they’re not bound by rules. They’re not bound by laws. They can release new versions of code that may or may not go in the right direction, which is a scary prospect when it gets into that.
Right now, what we’re seeing mostly is automation attackers, right? To attack tools, things like this, that are created.
Tom Spring: So, automation as opposed to artificial intelligence.
Derek Manky: Yeah. There’s a clear difference, right?
Tom Spring: Now, one of the things that I know that you’re gonna be talking about later, here at RSA, is swarm technology.
Derek Manky: Yes.
Tom Spring: How does that play into … how does that play into machine learning or to the automated attacks?
Derek Manky: Right. So, swarm technology is about multiple agents in a network and in our, in our case, botnets are effective machines, that are able to communicate with each other, share intelligence, and then act on intelligence. So, Node A talked to Node B. Gave him a heads up that there’s a potential vulnerable target to attack, right? That’s one technology.
Now, you couple that with machine learning and artificial intelligence and you have the ultimate machine attacks, right? ‘Cause you have something that’s capable of moving very quickly inside of networks. That’s truly intelligent, being able to, on its own, identify weak spots in a network, being able to develop custom weapons on the fly.
I’m talking about exploits, ways into networks, and things like that.
Tom Spring: Yeah. I know. The keynote earlier today was talking a lot about how the bad guys can sort of take a look at the, when, when vulnerabilities exist within a network-
Derek Manky: Yeah.
Tom Spring: … and optimize their attacks based on the sort of the algorithm of the defenses.
It’s really a interesting thing, but to think about this swarm technology, really help me better understand what you mean by a swarm. A swarm connotes many different things coming together and acting as one.
Derek Manky: Acting as one to solve a complex task. In my talk today, I’ll be talking about this. It’s existed in biology, things like ants being able to optimize paths to the nest to get food. They’re able to work together to form a bridge in space by actually communicating with each other and talking.
It’s no different cyber. You think about the advantages. If you have different strategic positions within a network, infected nodes and IP security cameras. Say a network attached storage or something. They’re able to communicate with each other. They can actually team up to do things dynamically like DDoS attacks, trying to take down a target to put it into a weaker spot.
So it’s this element of, like you said, working together, strength in numbers, a bigger group, solve a complex tasks. It also makes it because it’s a swarm, very robust.
Tom Spring: Very robust.
Derek Manky: If a couple of infected machines, in our case from an attacker’s point of view, happened to fail or die, it doesn’t matter because another one’s gonna take the place.
Tom Spring: Well, I think that really brings up … another point that I know that you’ve talked on in the past and that is the attack chain and the kill chain and how those two things are interacting and … We’re seeing a reduction in the attack chain, the time to infect or attack a company is being drastically reduced because of this type of artificial intelligence, machine learning and this type of automatic, automated attack.
So, it starts with automation. There’s simple frameworks out there that can connect blueprints of vulnerable servers, ports, hosts, things that are running out there with attack frameworks like, as an example. It intelligently lines up the exploits.
These are things that could take a human hours to try to do on their own, that can be sped up into the, into the, the range of minutes, as an example.
So, the attack chain is just an inverse view of the kill chain, right? It’s coming from an attackers point of view. How quickly can I succeed get data and ex filtrate the data out of a network? So, a data breach, in other words.
Tom Spring: Why is that kill chain timeline so reduced? I mean, we’re seeing some numbers in terms of time to attack within hours and sometimes within minutes.
Why are we seeing that?
Derek Manky: So, a couple of reasons, right? One, the state of security is very vulnerable still out there. I mean NIST and the NVD, they’re reporting over 14,000 vulnerabilities a year, coming out. A lot of it’s IoT, is the culprit, right?
So the, the attack surface is simply larger. It’s easier go end to end. You have more options as an attacker. You also have things like the automation frameworks I was talking about. That’s the reality of it, right? By using tools and technology, what starting with automation right now, it’s enabling attackers move much quicker.
With what we’re starting to see with the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence from an attacker’s point of view, that starts to take the human even more out of the loop.
This is what I’m gonna be talking about today. The concept of a flash war, when you have AI versus AI on the defensive.
Derek Manky: So, if you’ve got a threat on your network, being able to quarantine that threat, do things like network access control, so NAC we call it, is very important because I said a lot, a lot of the problem today is IoT concepts like Zero Trust Networks is another big solution people have to look at because … the unfortunate reality is a lot of these vulnerable IoT devices are trusted by nature when they’re the biggest, the most vulnerable piece of the attack surface out there.
Tom Spring: I really appreciate that unbiased not self-serving answer. I didn’t mean to frame the question the way I did in the sense that you’re not-
Derek Manky: Nah. It’s good. It’s all about strategy.
Tom Spring: Well, I think that’s a really great overview of your session and some of the bigger trends that we’re seeing here at RSA. Real quickly, are there any sessions or anything that you’re interested in hearing more about here at RSA?
Derek Manky: Yeah. I mean, this is always great. I mean particularly on what the good guys are doing to work responsibility together. Unify collaboration’s a big thing. Myself, I’m a part of the Cyber Threat Alliance, right, Fortinet’s a chartered member there.
So, there’s a lot of good stuff going on with the CTA in general. That’s all about teaming up together against the bad guys. We got to make it more expensive for cyber criminals to operate.
So, the collaboration team is really big to me here.
Tom Spring: Well, thank you so much for joining us and have a great rest of your show.
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Multicast communication (and, in particular, IP multicast routing) is an attractive method for delivery of data to multiple recipients. The motivation for multicast communication is its efficiency – multicast group users get the same message simultaneously, hence the reduction of both sender and network resources. A wide range of applications benefit from efficient multicast: interest groups, file and real-time information update, video multi-party conferences, on-line games and pay TV are few examples. Securing multicast communication is non-trivial and poses a number of challenges, ranging from algorithmic problems, through system and communication design, to secure implementation. (See overview in [5,4].) The main security concerns are typically access control — making sure that only legitimate members ?
Supported by DARPA grant DABT63-96-C-0018. Part of this work was done while the author was visiting the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Let U denote the universe of all possible users1 , and GC denote the group center. We consider a set M = {u1 , . , un } ⊆ U, called the multicast group (for simplicity, GC 6∈ M ). A session key ks is initially shared by all users in M and by GC (and is not known to any user v 6∈ M ). In addition, other information may be known to the users and the center. We abstract away the details of the initialization phase by which the users get their initial information. In particular we may assume that each user joining M has an authenticated secure unicast channel with the center GC for the purpose of initialization. (In practice this may be obtained by using a public key system.) After the initialization phase, and throughout the lifetime of the system, the only means of communication with group members is via a multicast channel on which the group center may broadcast messages that will be heard by all users in U. Our goal is to securely update the session key when the group M changes, so that all users in the group, and only them, know the session key at any given time. A multicast protocol specifies an algorithm by which the center may update the session key (and possibly other information) for the following two update operations on M : – remove(U ) where U ⊆ M . The result is the removal of users in U from the multicast group: M new = M \ U . – join(U ) where U ⊆ U. The result is the joining of users in U to the multicast group: M new = M ∪ U . Since the worst case for the re-keying protocol is when |U | = 1, from now on we assume |U | = 1 and measure the efficiency of our protocols accordingly. In our description we focus on the removal of users from the multicast group, since dealing with joining users is much simpler and can be done with virtually no communication overhead. Since we do not want to consider specific private key encryption and their particular properties, we concentrate on a general key-based model, where the cryptographic details are abstracted away. This is modeled by a publically available black-box pair E, D, such that E given as inputs a key k and a message m outputs a random ciphertext c = E(k, m); given a ciphertext c and a key k, the decryption algorithm D outputs the plaintext m. (We assume that the encryption is deterministic; that is, two applications with the same message and key will result in the same ciphertext. Probabilistic encryption can be built upon E, D in straightforward ways.) This model guarantees that, when multicasting a message encrypted with a key k, any user holding k will be able to decrypt, and any coalition of users that does not hold k gains no information from hearing the ciphertext. To formalize our requirement that all encryption and decryption is being done via the black-box pair E, D, we let the adversary be computationally unbounded. A lower bound in our model means that any scheme which beats the 1
There is no need to a-priori have an explicit representation of U. For example, U may be the set of all users connected to the Internet.
by Wallner et al. and Wong et al. [13,14] (with an improvement of [4]), which we call the basic tree scheme. This scheme achieves logarithmic communication complexity and logarithmic storage for each user, but linear storage for the center. We then show (in Section 3.4) how the basic tree scheme can be generalized and combined with , so as to achieve an improved scheme with a tradeoff between the parameters. As a special case, we get a reduction of the center storage in the tree scheme by a logarithmic factor. 3.1 A Minimal Storage Scheme We describe a simple scheme, which requires the smallest possible amount of storage – two keys for the center and each user2 , but is very communication intensive, requiring (n − 1) ciphertext sent per removal of a user. We will later use this scheme as a building block in our construction. In this scheme each user u holds the session key ks , and a unique symmetric key ku not known to any other user. The center should be able to generate the keys of all users, which is possible by holding a single secret key r, an index to a pseudo-random function fr [7] (which can be constructed from the same blackbox used for encryption). The keys can be generated by applying the function to the user’s index, namely ku = fr (u). When a group of users U is removed from the group, the center chooses a new session key ksnew , and sends it to each user, by broadcasting the ciphers Eku (ksnew ) for all u ∈ M new = M \ U . The security of this scheme is based on the security of the encryption scheme and pseudo-random function. The parameters are summarized in Table 1. 3.2 The Basic Tree Scheme We describe the scheme by Wallner et al. [13,14] (with the improvement of [4]). For a detailed description, we refer the reader to [13,14,4]. The group center creates a balanced binary tree with at least n leaves and assigns a l-bit random key to every node. Let k denote the key assigned with the tree root v . Denote the left and right children of node vσ by vσ0 , vσ1 and their assigned keys by kσ0 , kσ1 respectively (i.e. the left and right children of the node indexed by σ are indexed by σ concatenated with 0 or 1 respectively). Every user in M is assigned a leaf and is given the log n + 1 keys assigned to nodes on the path from the root to this leaf. Since k is known to all group members it is used as the session key: ks = k . Notation Let σ ∈ {0, 1}∗. Denote by σ i the string resulting by erasing the i rightmost bits of σ. Denote by f lip(σ) the string resulting by flipping the rightmost bit of σ. Let G : {0, 1}l → {0, 1}2l be a pseudo random generator that doubles the size of its input [15,1]. Let GL (x), GR (x) be the left and right halves of G(x) respectively. Upon removal of a user uσ , The group center chooses a random number to GL (rσi ), sets rσ1 ∈R {0, 1}k . For i = 1, . , log n the group center sets kσnew i rσi+1 to GR (rσi ) and broadcasts Ekf lip(σi−1 ) (rσi ). 2
This is minimal by Corollary 3 in the next section.
On first glance, reducing the center storage requirements in the tree scheme may proceed as follows. Instead of having the center keep all keys on the tree, the keys may be generated from a single key, say by applying a pseudo-random function, and the center will keep only this secret key. However, this idea does not seem to work, since when an update occurs, the center will have to change the secret key, requiring changing the entire tree, thus bringing the communication to linear.3 3
Alternatively, the secret key may stay the same, but some counter be changed for every update. However, this is only useful if we require threshold security (requiring
The basic tree shown in the previous paragraph may be naturally generalized from binary trees to a-ary trees. We combine this generalization with to create our tradeoff scheme. There are two parameters of the construction (i) a - the degree of the tree internal nodes, and (ii) m - the size of user subsets to which is applied. The parameters determine the number of keys given to every user and the communication costs for an update operation. Details follow. Divide the multicast group users to disjoint subsets of size m: U1 , . , Un/m , n/m n ee ∪i=1 Ui = M . The group center constructs an a-ary tree of height b = dloga d m (i.e. the tree has at least n/m leaves). Assign subset Ui with the ith leaf of the tree. As in the basic tree scheme, a random key is assigned with each tree node. For m = 1, Ui = {ui }, the scheme is a simple generalization of the basic tree scheme to a-ary trees. For m > 1, we combine the basic tree scheme and as follows. Every user u ∈ Ui is given the b keys assigned to the nodes on the path from the root to the ith leaf. The center holds all these keys, as well as secret keys ri for each leaf i (ri ’s are not known to any user). ri is used as the seed for between the group center and Ui , namely ri is used for generating a unique private key for every u ∈ Ui . Whenever a user u ∈ Ui is removed, the keys on the path from the ith leaf to the root are changed. The center sends to every user in Ui \ {u} the new key for the ith leaf as in , and then sends the ciphertexts necessary to update the path to the root as in the basic tree scheme. The security of this scheme follows from the security of and the basic tree scheme (based on the security of the pseudorandom function). The parameters of the scheme appear in Table 2.
Table 2. Parameters of the tradeoff scheme. Note that setting a = m = n gives and setting m = 1, a = 2 gives the basic tree scheme. In Example 1, a = 2, m = O(log n), in Example 2, a = m = n1/2 .
storage which is linear in the size of the coalition). For the strong notion of security against arbitrary coalitions, this would again require linear storage from the center.
n Denote the center storage by sGC , the user storage by b + 1 (i.e. b = loga ( m ), n 1/b or equivalently a = m ) and the communication by c = c(n). The tradeoff scheme allows trading center storage and communication costs, subject to the restriction that communication costs are lower bounded as a function of user storage. Specifically:
Theorem 1. There exist secure multicast encryption protocols such that 1. sGC · c = Θ(n). 1 2. c = Θ(bn b ). These bounds follow from the parameters of our scheme in Table 2. Thus, our scheme is flexible enough to deal with a large range of applications, adjusting the parameters accordingly (see, for exampele, [4,5] for a discussion and two very different benchmark scenarios). In particular, it follows that using our scheme the center storage may be reduced by a factor of log n with respect to the storage in [13,14,4]. Further reduction in the center storage is achieved by noticing that the center need not hold an explicit representation of keys, instead it can hold a shorter representation from which it is possible to compute the keys efficiently. Consider, for instance, the case where the group center holds a secret key r to a pseudo-random function fr : {0, 1}l → {0, 1}l , and a counter cnt which is initially set to zero. Set m > 2. When a user in Ui is removed, the center uses ri = fr (cnt), stores cnt in the leaf corresponding to Ui and advances cnt. All the nodes on the path from the ith leaf to the root store a pointer to leaf i. This way, the center may compute n ) applications of the any key in the tree via one application of fr and O(loga m pseudo random generator G. As an example, consider a group with a million users using DES (7-bytes keys). In the basic construction, the needed center memory is 2 · 106 · 7 = 14Mbytes. Using our construction with a 4-bytes counter reduces the center memory to 2 · 106 · 4/20 = 400Kbytes, which is small enough to be put in a fast cache memory.
which can be proven by induction on b. Thus, c(n) ≥ bn1/b − b, and the proof is complete. u t
Acknowledgments We thank Moni Naor for pointing out the improvement using counters described at the end of Section 3.4.
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If you have Malware on your computer it will cause annoyances and will damage your system. You should either:
A. Manually remove the infected files from your computer, or
B. Automatically scan your system using trusted software
Once the W32.Stupid.D was performed, it displays a message containing: “Properties for this Program cannot be verified. The APPS.INF file is missing. Copy the APPS.INF file from your Windows Setup disks into your Windows INF folder.” The worm replicates itself being the :\dat0.exe. The characteristics of the replicated file will be set to system, read only, and hidden. The worm also replicates itself to a root of all of the logical drives that are writeable. For instance, the worm may replicate the files such as D:\Smile.exe, in case the drive D is a writeable drive, C:\Smile.exe, or A:\Smile.exe. The worm also generates the file C:\S.bat that has length of 37 bytes and is not a viral. Simply delete this type of file if it is present.
The worm recovers the Startup folder location of recent client from the key of the registry. Then the worm tries to restart your computer together with the floppy disk in the computer’s drive A. The worm also tries to generate the file A:\Autoexec.bat. In case the attempt was successful, the file A:\Autoexec.bat encloses the text del autoexec.bat, cls, copy smile.exe \smile.exe, and @echo off. If the user restarts the computer, the W32.Stupid.D was replicated to the folder of the Startup. Then the virus will delete the :\Autoexec.bat and C:\Windows\System.ini. The worm tries to add a value to the key of the registry so that in case the Windows will start the worm will run at the same time.
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A scam Facebook page offering the site's users a $1,000 Ikea gift card took in nearly 40,000 victims Friday.
It's the latest example of a new and pernicious trend on the social-networking site as scammers -- usually disreputable online marketers trying to earn revenue by generating Web traffic -- have flooded Facebook with these fake gift card pages over the past months.
About 40,000 Facebook users become fans of this fake Ikea gift card page Friday. This type of page -- typically created by unscrupulous online marketers -- is a growing problem on Facebook.
In late March, a similar $1,000 Ikea gift card scam took in more than 70,000 victims, and just last week another scam Facebook page offering a $500 Whole Foods gift certificate was widely reported.
Friday's scam page had taken in more than 37,000 users by 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time, offering them a $1,000 gift certificate in exchange for promoting Ikea to their friends. At that time, the page was gaining new fans at the rate of about 5,000 per hour. The promotion, the page said, was only available for one day.
Ironically, Facebook's captcha security prevents automated systems from entering data on the scam Ikea gift card page. Facebook says it is developing automated tools to prevent this type of fan page from going viral, but on Friday, 40,000 people joined this group which offered a fake $1,000 gift card.
To participate, users must become a fan of the fake Ikea page, hosted on Facebook, and then invite all their friends to become fans. They are then directed to an affiliate marketing page hosted by GiftDepotDirect.com, where they are asked personal information such as name, address, date of birth and home telephone number.
After becoming fans of the fake page and inviting all friends, victims ar ethen directed to a Web site off of Facebook, where they are asked to enter personal information, including their birth date, home address and telephone numbers.
After that step, the victim is told to sign up for two online marketing offers -- these ones with legitimate Web sites such as Netflix and CreditReport.com -- in order to claim the gift card.
But wait, there's one more catch. To cash in on click referral bucks from legitimate sites, the scammers now ask the victim to sign up for legitimate Web sites such as Netflix, CreditReport.com, and VideoProfessor.com to claim their gift. Experts say the gift card never comes.
The promised cards in these scams never show up, according to Audri Lanford, a co-founder of the Scambusters Web site, in an interview Tuesday before the latest scam page surfaced. In fact, the victim's personal information could be used for identity theft, or worse, her computer could be hacked. "Why people would give this [information] is beyond me, but they do," she said.
Earlier this week, Facebook spokesman Simon Axten said that fake gift cards are a small problem on Facebook, but he couldn't say how many people had become fans of these scam pages. Facebook is, however, developing an automated system to remove the pages, Axten said via e-mail. "We're quickly removing the groups and pages in many cases before they go viral."
Neither Facebook nor Ikea could be reached immediately for comment Friday.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/193905/Facebook_Scams.html
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Although the Internet has evolved into one of the most useful tools that businesses can take advantage of, it can also be used against them in the form of phishing attacks.
Phishing is a type of cybercrime that is generally carried out through emails that at first glance can appear innocuous, but often contain traps to get users to click a toxic link or hand over sensitive information, which is then used to illegally access your computer or network. Scary, right? Consider the potential damage that could be caused if a criminal gains access to your customers personal information.
Phishing attacks are nothing new, and most people can spot a shady email from a mile away. However, this means cybercriminals are getting more and more clever at disguising their traps.
Let’s take a look at 4 ways you and your employees can spot a phishing attack.
1. The Message Will Urge The User to Take Action
One of the most frequent scenarios involved in a phishing email is an urge for the recipient to take some sort of action. More often than not, this involves urging a recipient to click a link provided in the email in order to resolve a conflict.
For example, a fraudulent email under the guise of being from a financial institution may declare there’s a problem with the user’s bank account and provide a link to view the ‘details’ about the incident.
From here, it’s possible for the attacker to compromise the user’s personal information, especially if they type a username and password after following the link provided.
Additionally, the email will not provide any way for the recipient to verify the claim, and the sender won’t be able to be contacted through anything other than email.
While there are plenty of red flags in this scenario, the fear that an urgent message instills is enough for some readers to follow through with the email’s request before they analyze the situation.
2. There Are Often Grammar Errors
Phishing emails often disguise themselves as being from legitimate institutions, but there will frequently be grammar errors or awkwardly-phrased sentences.
Put simply, emails from legitimate businesses often pass through a large amount of quality control before they’re ever sent anywhere. Something that should say ‘Please use the below link for access to your financial records’ may be phrased as ‘Please kindly click the link below here to see more on your bank record.’
Blatant grammar errors are an even bigger sign that something is out of place. Common mistakes include your/you’re, bare/bear, read/red/reed/, etc.
In order to remain as unsuspicious as possible, fraudulent emails will often mimic a type of message where people normally click without reading the entire text. A Google Drive access link, for example, is often a link people follow without question.
So, be sure to remain vigilant before following a link from an email like this (even if you requested access to something yourself).
3. You May Be Asked to Sign into Something You Normally Wouldn’t
Unfortunately, this type of phishing email is relatively successful for the hacker.
If you’re already signed into an account on your browser, you’ll often never have to sign in twice when accessing the website. Twitter and Facebook, for example, will keep you signed in until you manually sign out yourself or force all other devices to sign out of your account.
So, clicking a link that leads you to Twitter will never ask you to sign in to the platform if you’re already logged in— it will simply take you to the content you’re trying to view.
An exception to this, though, is financial institution websites, as you’re often automatically signed out for your own protection.
In this type of scenario, you’ll often receive an email from a platform such as this that looks legitimate, and it will often ask you to view information about your account. Ironically, the fraudulent email may even tell you that your account was recently logged into by an unknown source and offer a link to learn more about it.
Regardless of how the message is worded, following the link will likely lead to a sign-in page where you type your username and password. Since the form is fraudulent, you won’t actually be able to log in.
Unfortunately, you’ll also unknowingly provide the sender of the email with your personal information.
4. There Are Unsolicited Attachments
It’s fairly rare for a company to send an attachment along with an email unless you specifically request it. Financial statements, for example, are often only available to be downloaded if you sign in to your account and select an option to have them emailed to you.
So, receiving a seemingly-legitimate email that says something along the lines of ‘here are your financial statements for 2019’ should be treated as a suspicious message if it’s sent to you out of the blue.
The wording on this type of email will also be very general. It’s unlikely to include your name (it may say something like ‘dear user’), and it often won’t specify what is actually attached.
Broad terms like ‘statement,’ ‘records,’ ‘account information,’ etc. will be used in order to reduce suspicion.
Don’t Fall For a Phishing Attack
It’s not enough for only you to be able to recognize phishing emails. Your entire team should be trained at least once annually on how to perceive fraudulent emails and what to do if they receive one. Constant vigilance is paramount.
Additionally, any new hires should complete this same training process before they’re given full employee access to your company’s systems.
Your company’s employees should also be informed of what type of request is typical in a legitimate email. Even a brief training session could drastically reduce the chances that your company falls victim to one of these attacks.
With the above information about handling an email with a suspicious link in mind, you’ll be well on your way to ensuring that your company stays as safe as possible in the future.
Want to learn more tips about cybersecurity vulnerabilities that can help you out in the future? This article has plenty of useful info.
If you are still uncertain about the state of your cyber security efforts, consider working with an MSSP like OSIbeyond. MSSPs are widely viewed as effective and affordable alternatives to in-house cyber security departments.
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https://www.osibeyond.com/blog/4-ways-to-spot-a-phishing-attack/
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Ask many first-time traders and they will tell you how making profits was what drove them to trade. Yet few will talk about Risk management which should the first thought to enter any aspiring trader’s mind! It might sound counter-intuitive, but a trader’s priority is not to lose money – making profits comes second. In this article we will show how risk management techniques can insure you enter successful trades rather than losing money.
Risk management can be achieved though a variety of ways such as understanding where the risk originates from (yourself) and knowing how to take a risk whilst limiting the chances and scale of a potential loss. There are several risk management techniques which we highlight and explain in this article.
Risk management techniques
Knowing your personal risk tolerance is something that many new traders have rarely thought of. Knowing what is the maximum exposure that you can tolerate should be your first aim. Such self-knowledge is a hallmark of any successful trader. So start off small: only risking 1% of your portfolio, so if you have a £1,000 portfolio, that would mean a £10 position, £10,000 portfolio would mean £100! Determining the maximum amount of money that you can tolerate losing per trade will also develop the emotional trading discipline needed to know when to cut your losses. Not every trade is successful!
Another risk management tool is using ‘stops’. Managing every trade carefully requires always using a protective stop. It’s often an idea to avoid placing a stop on a round number such as 100 / 2,000 / 750 as there are often concentrations of orders at these levels. For example it’s best to place a stop at 98 / 1994 / 747 (using the levels above). Market volatility is part and parcels of trading and being prepared for a freak market event which goes against you is part of good risk management, something stops can mitigate.
Know thy self
Risk management through knowing your risk tolerance and placing stops are useful but understanding your trading style is important. How can you stop yourself from making the same mistake repetitively if you don’t know what you style is? Some traders will trade several times in day, others will be focused on trading over a few days/ a week etc. You can also be driven by momentum, price action or volatility. Whichever is your fancy, knowing your trading style means that if the market is not primed for your style you can sit it out.
Sometimes good risk management is knowing your own limitations.
Although not necessarily a risk management strategy, limiting over-trading will help. Lack of patience can be a real problem for traders. It can lead to you trading because of a desire to trade rather than a genuine opportunity. This can also lead to successful trades being closed early because of the traders’ need to be doing something and gaining the satisfaction of a small profit.
Every time you trade, you are creating a risk. By only trading when you see an opportunity which meets the parameters of your trading strategy you are reducing your chance of a loss whilst increasing the likelihood of a successful trade. If you do find that you are trading a lot and being unsuccessful, it may be a good idea to stop trading for the day and go to the pub! Coming back with a clearer and chilled out mind will put you in the best position to spot an opportunity. Furthermore, learning to preserve your capital should be a priority for any trader, without capital a trader cannot trade!
No one said that Trading is easy! Markets are continuously moving to news that we don’t know about. Good analysis, a disciplined strategy, good execution and above all good risk management are indispensable. Those who prioritise risk management over profits will soon realise that the former does not stop the latter!
Knowing your personal limits, how to use stops, how you trade and how your emotions effect your trading will allow to manage your exposure to risk. This ensures that if a trade does not go the way you wanted, you are able to minimise your losses.
Understanding the relationship between risk and reward will help. No trader cannot afford to take no risk, as there would be no reward, but working out how risky an opportunity is will help form a decision whether this trade is worth it. Risk management is not there to stop you from trading. It is there to help you take a risk whilst limiting any potential downside! Embracing risk management may just make you bigger profits!
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The EU Article 29 Working Party is inviting comments on its proposed guidelines on Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs). DPIAs are mandatory under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when processing is “likely to result in a high risk”. The DPAs say that the following processing situations are likely to present this kind of risk:
1. Evaluation or scoring, including profiling and predicting, especially from “aspects concerning the data subject's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences or interests, reliability or behaviour, location or movements”.
2. Automated-decision making with a legal or similar significant effect.
5. Data processed on a large scale (looking at the number of data subjects concerned, the volume of data, the duration, or permanence, of the data processing activity, and the geographical extent of the processing activity).
6. Datasets that have been matched or combined.
7. Data concerning vulnerable data subjects.
8. Innovative use or applying technological or organisational solutions.
9. Data transfers across borders outside the European Union.
10. When the processing in itself “prevents data subjects from exercising a right or using a service or a contract”.
Non-compliance with DPIA requirements can lead to fines. To help companies comply, supervisory authorities are required to establish, make public and communicate a list of the processing operations that require a DPIA to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). The DPAs says that the above list is a starting point to which they can add later.
Comments should be sent by 23 May 2017 to [email protected] and [email protected]. See the guidelines at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/item-detail.cfm?item_id=50083
1. placing advertisements on the home page or other pages of PL&B’s website, and/or 2. running an advertisement in our United Kingdom and/or International (rest of the world) e-news service several times a month.
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Two years ago, U.S. retailer TJX spent some US$130 million – including US$65 million to two credit card companies – to clean up the mess after the online theft from its computers of consumer data.
Had the company followed basic wireless security procedures the breach wouldn’t have happened, Derek Manky, project manager for cyber security and threat research for security vendor Fortinet, told the IT360 technology conference Wednesday in Toronto.
It’s an example, he said, of how defending against the ever-increasing malware threats can be effective and not expensive.
“The reality is breaches and infections will happen,” Manky said. A layered defence based on unified threat management rather than end point products will help blunt the attacks, he said.
But some actions don’t involve spending a penny. For example, it costs nothing to create and stick to a patch management policy, he said. Proof that many organizations don’t do that was the large number of servers and PCs infected by the Conficker worm two months after Microsoft released a patch. Disabling any autorun capabilities in the operating system is another free fix that’s forgotten, as well as forbidding the use of simple passwords.
Still, Manky offered no easy fixes. “The barrage of these threats is not going away,” he said. There was an explosion of malware in 2007, and since then “it’s getting worse.”
Malware creators are recruiting software writers, he said, and with an increasing number of IT people being laid off because of the global recession, there’s lots of talent being tempted. Threats range from mass e-mails and file infections – the oldest forms of attacks, but still going strong – Web-based attacks, including drive-by downloads and malware aimed at social networking sites such as FaceBook, intrusions from portable devices such as USB sticks and smartphones, and targeted attacks which lift a Web site’s template and replace the links.
The Conficker worm is an example of how fast the malware’s developers adapt, he said. The first version was seen last August. Variations appeared in November and December. In March a new version included change the way it communicated with hosts to include a peer to peer protocol.
There isn’t one weapon that will defend against all these threats, Manky emphasized. The first line of defence is at the gateway, where a hardened firewall, intrusion detection, Web filtering, anti-virus and anti-spam software are needed. AV and anti-spam at the desktop are also needed.
Some organizations choose best of breed solutions, but Manky urged a unified threat management approach, which brings a number of these capabilities into one firewall, as the best solution largely because they can all be managed through one interface.
Another official from a security vendor who spoke at the conference was Ryan Naraine, security evangelist for Kaspersky Lab, who warned an audience that malware creators are exposing the “ecosystem of trust” in social networking sites such as FaceBook and MySpace.
The sites contain thousands of personal links which can be hijacked for unsuspecting people to click on. Some viruses are even programmed to look for FaceBook or MySpace pages. These two sites are “putting up some roadblocks,” he acknowledged, but it’s not very effective.” In the last three months there’s been a “full-blown explosion” of social-site malware.
In an interview, Narine echoed some of the simple defences that can be take against these attacks that Manky made, such as having strong passwords, a properly configured firewall and a strong patch management policy. But he went further, saying organizations should forbid staffers from going to social networking sites unless absolutely necessary, just as they block access to instant messaging. “There’s no real way to police it unless you invest heavily in user education to get people to spot malicious links.”
For his part, Manky repeated the cliche that time is money, and when it comes to security it’s still true: The faster an organization can meet and defeat an online threat, he said, the less damage it will cost.
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https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/defeating-malware-doesnt-have-to-be-expensive-expert/11336
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How to fix Chrome's Malware warning for Blogger.com
So last week i started seeing a new warning from Chrome.
Danger: the site you are trying to access has known malware on it.
The crazy part was that this was happening when i was trying to access blogger.com's dashboard (a google owned property).
So after ignoring it for a while. Then switching to Opera Next as a way to access blogger.com and not get the warning. I finally did some searches on how to resolve the issue.
Turns out when you follow other blogspots, posts from those blogspots appear in your draft.blogger.com dashboard.
If those other sites got hacked or infected with Malware, Chrome will detect their malware content/ links and throw the Malware warning . This carries over to any site that is displaying some of the infected blogspots content.
So the solution is to go to your draft.blogger.com folder and unfollow blogspots you are following. For me i was following only 2, so it was easy to remove both of them.
After i removed both the blogspots, the malware warning stopped appearing.
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http://www.fortechiesonly.com/2013/06/how-to-fix-chromes-malware-warning-for.html
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While the Internet has been increasing its opposition to CISPA over the past few weeks, the White House has been relatively quiet on the issue. The administration broke its silence last night when it announced its opposition to the controversial legislation. The Hill reports that the administration held a briefing with all members of the House, where CISPA is currently doing the rounds, to discuss the legislation and other cybersecurity concerns. The briefing was led by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller, NSA Director Keith Alexander and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O’Sullivan. After this briefing, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden issued a statement to The Hill saying that “any cybersecurity legislation should include strong privacy protections and should set mandatory security standards for critical infrastructure systems.” The full statement provided to The Hill details the administration’s thoughts on the matter:
“The nation’s critical infrastructure cyber vulnerabilities will not be addressed by information sharing alone. Also, while information sharing legislation is an essential component of comprehensive legislation to address critical infrastructure risks, information sharing provisions must include robust safeguards to preserve the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. Legislation without new authorities to address our nation’s critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, or legislation that would sacrifice the privacy of our citizens in the name of security, will not meet our nation’s urgent needs.” The troubling part about this is that Hayden never explicitly mentioned CISPA when providing this statement. While it’s pretty obvious she means CISPA since the statement is directed at privacy concerns, it’s still not an outright declaration of opposition. In other worrying news, it was also revealed that the White House is in favor of granted the government “new regulatory powers” to protect the U.S. from “devastating cyber attacks.” The Hill points out that the White House currently backs Senator Joe Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill that would put the power of enforcing cybersecurity into the hands of the Homeland Security department. Senator John McCain introduced a similar bill that would put that power into the hands of the NSA.
CISPA is wholly unique in that it goes above and beyond the powers listed in the previous two bills by allowing corporations to share a user’s private information with the government and spy agencies without a warrant. While it wasn’t the outright opposition we wanted, it’s good to know that the White House is at least aware of CISPA and the concerns that groups like the EFF have brought against it. CISPA goes up for a vote next week. We’ll keep you updated if the White House voices opposition or if anything else happens. White House Openly Criticizes CISPA After Cybersecurity Briefing April 18, 2012
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MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million of its users.
MyHeritage says it has no reason to believe other user data was compromised, and it is urging all users to change their passwords. It says sensitive customer DNA data is stored on IT systems that are separate from its user database, and that user passwords were “hashed” — or churned through a mathematical model designed to turn them into unique pieces of gibberish text that is (in theory, at least) difficult to reverse.
MyHeritage did not say in its blog post which method it used to obfuscate user passwords, but suggested that it had added some uniqueness to each password (beyond the hashing) to make them all much harder to crack.
“MyHeritage does not store user passwords, but rather a one-way hash of each password, in which the hash key differs for each customer,” wrote Omer Deutsch, MyHeritage’s chief information security officer. “This means that anyone gaining access to the hashed passwords does not have the actual passwords.”
The company said the security researcher who found the user database reported it on Monday, June 4. The file contained the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92,283,889 users who created accounts at MyHeritage up to and including Oct. 26, 2017, which MyHeritage says was “the date of the breach.”
MyHeritage added that it is expediting work on an upcoming two-factor authentication option that the company plans to make available to all MyHeritage users soon.
“This will allow users interested in taking advantage of it, to authenticate themselves using a mobile device in addition to a password, which will further harden their MyHeritage accounts against illegitimate access,” the blog post concludes.
MyHeritage has not yet responded to requests for comment and clarification on several points. I will update this post if that changes.
ANALYSIS
MyHeritage’s repeated assurances that nothing related to user DNA ancestry tests and genealogy data was impacted by this incident are not reassuring. Much depends on the strength of the hashing routine used to obfuscate user passwords.
Thieves can use open-source tools to crack large numbers of passwords that are scrambled by weaker hashing algorithms (MD5 and SHA-1, e.g.) with very little effort. Passwords jumbled by more advanced hashing methods — such as Bcrypt — are typically far more difficult to crack, but I would expect any breach victim who was using Bcrypt to disclose this and point to it as a mitigating factor in a cybersecurity incident.
In its blog post, MyHeritage says it enabled a unique “hash key” for each user password. It seems likely the company is talking about adding random “salt” to each password, which can be a very effective method for blunting large-scale password cracking attacks (if implemented properly).
If indeed the MyHeritage user database was taken and stored by a malicious hacker (as opposed to inadvertently exposed by an employee), there is a good chance that the attackers will be trying to crack all user passwords. And if any of those passwords are crackable, the attackers will then of course get access to the more personal data on those users.
In light of this and the sensitivity of the data involved, it would seem prudent for MyHeritage to simply expire all existing passwords and force a password reset for all of users, instead of relying on them to do it themselves at some point (hopefully, before any attackers might figure out how to crack the user password hashes).
Finally, it’s astounding that 92 million+ users thought it was okay to protect such sensitive data with just a username and password. And that MyHeritage is only now getting around developing two-factor solutions.
It’s now 2018, and two-factor authentication is not a new security technology by any stretch. A word of advice: If a Web site you trust with sensitive personal or financial information doesn’t offer some form of multi-factor authentication, it’s time to shop around.
Check out twofactorauth.org, and compare how your bank, email, Web/cloud hosting or domain name provider stacks up against the competition. If you find a competitor with better security, consider moving your data and business there.
Every company (including MyHeritage) likes to say that “your privacy and the security of your data are our highest priority.” Maybe it’s time we stopped patronizing companies that don’t outwardly demonstrate that priority.
For more on MyHeritage, check out this March 2018 story in The Atlantic about how the company recently mapped out a 13-million person family tree.
Update, June 6, 3:12 p.m. ET: MyHeritage just updated their statement to say that they are now forcing a password reset for all users. From the new section:
“To maximize the security of our users, we have started the process of expiring ALL user passwords on MyHeritage. This process will take place over the next few days. It will include all 92.3 million affected user accounts plus all 4 million additional accounts that have signed up to MyHeritage after the breach date of October 26, 2017.” “As of now, we’ve already expired the passwords of more than half of the user accounts on MyHeritage. Users whose passwords were expired are forced to set a new password and will not be able to access their account and data on MyHeritage until they complete this. This procedure can only be done through an email sent to their account’s email address at MyHeritage. This will make it more difficult for any unauthorized person, even someone who knows the user’s password, to access the account.” “We plan to complete the process of expiring all the passwords in the next few days, at which point all the affected passwords will no longer be usable to access accounts and data on MyHeritage. Note that other websites and services owned and operated by MyHeritage, such as Geni.com and Legacy Family Tree, have not been affected by the incident.”
“In light of this and the sensitivity of the data involved, it would seem prudent for MyHeritage to simply expire all existing passwords and force a password reset for all of users…”
Absolutely! This would pretty much assure that all this personal information stays “safe”. Why would companies who’ve experienced a breach resist this?
There is nothing astounding about this. Every user of most web sites expects/wants nothing more than a userid and password. Yes, a small subset will seek out two factor solutions if provided.
However Brian, as a public person with a big target on your back, I would expect you to use every means at your disposal to protect your accounts.
And that’s only about 50% true in 65-ish% of cases, I’d wager.
User: “It says I need a username and password, not this sh* again! Well, I mean lessee, my username’s already my email, so now I need a password…” [Enters ‘password’ in the password field]
Website: “Your password is not strong enough” please use a capital letter.” [User sighs, enters ‘Password’ instead.]
I get what Brian is saying though. In 92-million accounts, you’d expect to find at least a few folks who thought securing this better was important. That said I think attrition is reached when you realize the system doesn’t offer that kind of protection, and the people in account security you just emailed replied back with the textual equivalent of lookign at you like you have three heads.
Absolute attrition is reached when you realize most of the adjacent market reacts in the same way- because of the 92-million accounts, I’m pretty sure the “someones” who thought this could be done better- and voiced that concern- account for less than a fraction of a percentile.
Basically put: the market responds to demand. There’s very little of that, because most people either don’t understand, don’t care, or more likely, both.
Fair deal. But tbh, none of them support 2FA — 23andme doesn’t support it, so is ancestry.com.
I’ll try to tweet at them and include this story. Maybe that will rock things a little bit.
One important thing getting lost is that only about 1.4 million users on MyHeritage have DNA profiles, not nearly all of those breached. Also, e-mail authentication is required for downloading raw DNA data, as it is on all of the major genetic genealogy sites with the exception of Family Tree DNA. Unfortunately 23andMe will let you view reports and individual variants without 2-factor authentication.
MyHeritage’s announcement comes on the same day as the data breach, and is heavily on PR damage-control mode. Who hacks a DNA testing service, downloads login credentials just one time and leaves it hanging where others can find it for over half a year, without anybody even trying to use them in any way?
Absent from the announcement is statement that the leak has been found and plugged, instead there’s just a statement that they’re in progress of retaining a firm to investigate the potential means and scope of the breach. In this context it’s perhaps important to stress that two-factor authentication doesn’t protect from database breach, it only protects your login credentials.
Mitigating in favor of a PR person (or a clueless person) is the confusion between “hash key” and “salt.”
One would expect, at the least, that they say, “a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm,” and trying to keep the algorithm secret is security by obscurity.
Not to go all lawyer on this, but the GDPR which the announcement specifically refers requires in Art. 34(2) about disclosure “The communication to the data subject referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall describe in clear and plain language the nature of the personal data breach […]”
Consequently, the disclosure to users must not use jargon or technical terms that the average reader would not understand (From GDPR interpretations). This is a very good idea, as the intended audience aren’t computer security professionals. Recital 88 further limits disclosures that affect ongoing investigation, obviously.
The human genome is so large and so unexplored yet these ancestry testing companies only use a teeny tiny bit of it for their ancestry tests. Within these companies, your DNA is simply compared to other known samples – not really uniquely explored or identified. Therefore, these ancestry tests can and often will be wildly inaccurate and are more akin to high-tech tea leaves than definitive information.
For example, if you send your DNA to 3 different companies, you may easily get 3 different results. Plus, now we know that no data is secure, including the data produced from your DNA sample.
As inaccurate as these tests are for ancestry, they are deemed accurate enough to implicate you in a crime.
TL;DR These tests are not accurate enough to tell you about your real ancestry but accurate enough to implicate you in a crime. No data is safe. Don’t volunteer your DNA to these companies.
The main reason many people use these sites is genealogy, the ability to find distant cousins who are lost to the books of history, which isn’t easy to do without a database to search against (Though doing just that is a hot topic of computer research). I expect the issue will quickly fade though, as we’re leaving our DNA everywhere we go, and at present time it would be easier and cheaper (and in many cases legal) for an adversary to sequence your DNA from a water bottle you discarded than obtain it via most data breaches. The real value in genetic data is other data that’s attached to it. You could say genealogical data itself is the risk, without which it would be impossible to connect one DNA profile to another.
I’m sure we all love our privacy here, but thrashing the well-established science of population genetics (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26857625 for example – no need to understand that, just know it exists) seems misplaced. Since DNA is inherited in large continuous tracts, the “teeny tiny bit” these companies test is actually too much for recent genetic ancestry, and needs to be thinned down for that use. There are no biologically forced populations, “races”, however and therefore the populations are defined differently by different companies.
The argument is equivalent to “Don’t volunteer your data to navigator companies, they don’t even give the same route from each company”. Yet, for the company’s algorithms to work their magic properly, you usually need to share your location, even if it won’t guarantee you the best possible route plan in the industry. Of course, when people are additionally knowingly consenting to medical research, as many are doing, your admonishment becomes much closer to “Never donate blood to a company, they can detect diseases, sequence your genome and frame you with your blood while getting rich on it”.
There are privacy and ethical concerns for sure, but as human beings we owe it ourselves to get those right. So let’s continue to keep companies accountable, and push for best technical solutions, instead of hiding our heads in the sand and saying that only governments deserve and should have access to our genome. Or perhaps you were thinking they will stop using it too?
I think MyHeritage ought to be commended for their rapid disclosure. It’s unusual for an announcement to be made one day after a breach is discovered. That was pretty responsible of them.
Regarding expiring passwords, do you have evidence that this company failed to use the best practices you advocate, i.e. salt, hash, bcrypt? I read this article twice and I’m unsure why so feel they should choose the nuclear option.
Next, is it fair to criticize a company for not yet implementing 2fa, when most of its competitors also don’t use 2fa? Your own articles have pointed out how most commercially available 2fA methods have shortcomings.
If Sally has a good reason to skip the broccoli, it would be wise to ask why.
Perhaps broccoli provides inadequate nutrition to justify the nausea it induces. Plenty of kids absolutely hate broccoli and will skip the entire meal because of that fetid, vile vegetable.
Sally may know more about the broccoli preparation. Perhaps it’s undercooked or poorly seasoned. Perhaps the broccoli is rotten.
There’s plenty of evidence that 2fA frustrates the casual criminal, but little evidence it can stop focused, high-tech thieves.
There’s plenty of evidence that 2fA leads to higher customer service costs and has no effect on marketing or sales.
Standing out from competitors is a good business stategy, only if it increases profit. I am not aware of any examples where a consumer-oriented company increased profits by implementing 2fA.
These genealogy companies are all selling a single product to a small portion of the population with questionable pedigree and disposable income.
On what basis do they compete for DNA kits? Price.
Could they compete based on having more complex security? No.
Time and again, the public has made it abundantly clear that they don’t care about security of data.
PASSWORD is consistently among the most used passwords.
Most “social media” users and Gmail and Hotmail users don’t use 2fA, despite it being available for free, nor do they choose their providers based on 2fA. Banking customers overwhelmingly reject 2fA, when available, because they don’t want the hassle.
2fA in the genealogy market will just cost them more in customer service, an expense. In a limited market, implementation of 2fA is a poor business strategy.
I like your blog. However I would prefer not to read it in gmail just now. I have tried and tried for months to cancel using the cancel section in the notice of a new topic you send to gmail .
It invariably tells me that my gmail address is not on the list BUT This reply is sent to gmail. to my address
I’ve had the opposite problem with 23andMe. I have been with them since 2011, but this year they locked me out of my own account saying my password is not recognized — even though it is the same one I’ve been using with them for 6+ years. And their customer ‘support’ is a computer program which can not handle whatever the problem is.
So now my own data are secure from me. If someone can hack their system and finds what 23andMe thinks my password is, please send it to me.
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endpoint security market size is expected to grow from USD 12.8 billion in 2019 to USD 18.4 billion by 2024, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.6% during the forecast period (EMAILWIRE.COM, November 12, 2021 ) The increasing number of endpoints and Bring Your Own Devices (BYODs) among enterprises is one of the major drivers of the endpoint security market growth.
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A bookkeeper pleaded guilty to allegations she embezzled more than $50 million from a small city in Illinois.
Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in federal court in Rockford. She was allowed to remain free until her Feb. 14 sentencing hearing. Prosecutors have said she stole public money while overseeing the city's finances and siphoned it into a secret bank account.
Crundwell had worked for the city about 100 miles west of Chicago since she was 17 and started to oversee public finances in the 1980s. Prosecutors say she began stealing money in 1990 to support an extravagant way of life.
Authorities say Crundwell bought luxury homes and vehicles and spent millions on her horse-breeding operation, RC Quarter Horses LLC, which produced 52 world champions in exhibitions run by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Her scheme unraveled when a co-worker filling in during Crundwell's vacation stumbled upon her secret bank account, prosecutors said.
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New research reveals that 24 per cent of UK SME owners believe human error is their biggest security risk.
The Shred-it survey, which was conducted by Ipsos MORI, also found that 27 per cent of SMEs do not have information security policies and procedures in place. A third of those who do admitted to never training their employees on these protocols.
What’s concerning is the fact that a third of small business owners are unaware of what constitutes confidential data, saying that they possess no information that would cause their business harm if stolen.
Every business in the UK holds confidential data – from payslips to meeting agendas and employee or client records – that could lead to damaging financial, legal and reputational repercussions, says Shred-it.
"Employee error is understandably a big concern for UK small business owners. Leaving documents on a desk or throwing a payslip in the bin could pose a huge risk to an organisation. But how can business owners expect their staff to understand how to deal with confidential information if they can’t even identify what is confidential?” said Robert Guice, Executive Vice President, Shred-it EMEA.
"Small businesses need to step up and take responsibility for ensuring that everyone in their organisation is aware of the sensitive data they hold. Putting in place protocols on how to deal with confidential information, or even adopting a ‘shred-all’ policy that all staff are aware of, is essential for SMEs to protect their businesses."
Shred-it is calling on SME owners to implement workplace training for all employees to eliminate the risk of a data breach, with the aim of enabling staff to spot and prevent potential human error-related slip-ups before a data security breach occurs.
To ensure that employees know what to look for when spotting data security risks in the workplace, Shred-it advises small business owners to follow these tips:
– Schedule regular information security audits to identify problem areas – and solutions.
– Introduce a shred-all policy, which means all documents are destroyed prior to disposal or recycling.
– Keep an inventory of all information that needs to be protected.
– Schedule on-going training so employees understand best practices for protecting confidential information in and out of the workplace.
– Ensure employees are informed about the risks associated with data protection breaches and are well trained on which documents they should consider shredding and how to dispose of electronic data.
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In the wake of privacy concerns, Apple has moved to fix its recently released FaceTime application for the Mac to block access to a potential security hole.
by Dan Moren Macworld.com |Macworld.com | 23 Oct 10
The flaw resided in the fact that anybody with access to the computer on which FaceTime was installed could change the password to the related Apple ID without knowing the current password. When launched, FaceTime automatically logs you into the associated account; from there, going to the app’s Preferences pane, clicking on your account, and then clicking View Account would allow you to enter a new password and confirm it without ever having to enter the current password.
While the FaceTime application itself has not been updated, Apple has blocked access to that account information—currently, clicking on the View Account link will take you to an empty page before bouncing you back to the previous page.
Of course, this is hardly a permanent fix for the security hole, since presumably people will eventually want to access their account details from inside the app, but it should at least block any nefarious pranksters or snoopers in your home or your office for the time being.
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Data lies at the heart of every business. Reasonably dubbed the “crown jewels,” sensitive data hides in zetabytes stored throughout thousands of data stores, with various roles needing access to specific information at the right time.
It is extremely difficult for most security teams to get their hands around the scope of what they need to protect, much less affect a governance and protection strategy that covers all data types and locations.
Data security grows exponentially more complex given the number of people that need least privileged access to data defined at an attribute or fine-grained, cell level — for a zero trust approach.
TAG Cyber Security Annual – 2nd Quarter 2021 Report provides keen insights that security leaders should prioritize in their cyber strategies and technology stack. The six categories – enterprise, network, endpoint, governance, data, and service – used to roughly organize the fifty-four controls, were created to help enterprise teams differentiate between the various entries. Included are familiar areas such as Ransomware, third-party and supply chain risks but also newer strategies such data protection, data privacy and data governance.
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With new coronavirus cases dropping to below 20 a day, Israel on Tuesday retired its Green Pass system and will now allow equal access to restaurants, sports events, cultural activities and the like to vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens.
Restrictions on the sizes of gatherings have also been lifted.
The decision came less than three months after Israel, a real-world laboratory for the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, pioneered its digitized Green Pass system and became a test case for an inoculated society.
For now, the only remaining pandemic restriction inside the country is a requirement to wear masks in closed public spaces, although that, too, is under discussion by health officials. The main efforts to control the coronavirus are now centered on restrictions for travel in and out of Israel, based on testing and quarantine. Strict limitations remain on the entry of people who are not Israeli citizens.
“The Green Pass project was very successful,” said Tomer Lotan, the policy chief of Israel’s national coronavirus response center, summing up the experiment of the past few months. It was particularly effective, he said, as an incentive to encourage the 16-to-40 age group to get vaccinated and to allow Israel to reopen its economy.
“But anybody who did not get vaccinated by now is probably not going to,” Mr. Lotan said.
About 81 percent of Israel’s adult population has been fully vaccinated, but about 2.6 million children under 16 are still not eligible, out of a total population of just over nine million. Up to a million people have chosen not to be inoculated, despite Israel’s enviable supply of vaccine doses.
Even with schools fully open and operating in a regular format, infection rates among children have remained low. In general, national infection rates are down to single digits on some days, from a peak of 10,000 a day in January.
Israel was among the first countries to grapple with some of the legal and moral issues arising from a two-tiered system for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Because getting vaccinated has been voluntary, some people who chose not to or could not be vaccinated argued that the Green Pass system was discriminatory. Enforcement was also patchy.
With infection rates so low, Mr. Lotan said that the Green Pass had outlived its usefulness. Businesses complained about the additional burden of enforcing the rules. And movie complexes and other leisure attractions did not reopen, because it was unprofitable as long as unvaccinated children could not enter without showing a recent negative Covid-19 test, which many found impractical.
“A few months ago, if you would’ve told us we’d be in this current situation, it would probably seem like science-fiction,” said Nadav Davidovitch of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
The big question now, he said, is whether Israel has reached some degree of herd immunity. “Even if we are not there,” he said, “we are probably very close.”
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Nvidia unveiled Volta in a new Xavier supercomputer chip designed for self-driving cars. The small surprise came Wednesday at the company’s GPU Technology Conference in Amsterdam.
Xavier provides unprecedented computing horsepower, allowing cars to recognize images, analyze on-road situations, and take action. Much of the processing will happen on an integrated 512-core Volta GPU.
Xavier will power the successor to Nvidia’s current self-driving car computer, called Drive PX 2.
The upcoming chip hints at Volta’s graphics capabilities. It has dual 8K HDR video recording, suggesting the new GPU architecture will explore areas beyond 4K graphics.
Nvidia in the past has said Volta will solve memory bandwidth problems and will be much smaller than predecessors. However, Nvidia hasn’t revealed further details about the GPU architecture.
Volta will also have a speedier NVLink 2.0 interconnect. The GPU will be paired with IBM’s upcoming Power9 chips in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summit supercomputer in 2018. IBM has said that each NVLink 2.0 lane will communicate at 25Gbps (gigabits per second), which would be 7 to 10 times the speed of PCI-Express 3.0.
Xavier also has a custom eight-core CPU and a new computer vision accelerator. It’s the most advanced chip ever built by Nvidia, the company said in a blog post.
Xavier delivers 20 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of computing power while consuming only 20 watts of power. It has seven billion transistors and is made using the 16-nm chip process. Those specs hint big gains in performance and power efficiency for the Volta GPU.
“A single Xavier AI processor will be able to replace today’s Drive PX 2 configured with dual mobile SoCs and dual discrete GPUs—at a fraction of the power consumption,” Nvidia said.
The Drive PX 2, which was introduced at CES in January, has 12 CPU cores and two Pascal GPUs. It was the equivalent of having “150 MacBook Pros in your trunk,” said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
Samples of the Xavier will ship to car makers in the fourth quarter of next year, along with technology companies, research institutions, and other automotive companies. Volta-based GPUs could be released earlier than Xavier.
Computers built with Xavier will allow self-driving cars to cruise the streets safely, Nvidia says. The company hopes Xavier will make cars smarter by recognizing what drivers encounter regularly—signs, signals, lanes, objects, and pedestrians—to avoid collisions and incidents with the traffic police.
But Nvidia has recognized there are challenges to overcome. For example, self-driving cars may not be effective after a heavy snowfall, where lanes may not be clearly visible and driving conditions unsafe. Xavier could train a car to do a better job of reacting to such situations.
Safety is a big concern for self-driving cars. The recent tragedy involving a Tesla Model S, where the driver was killed while the car was in partly autonomous AutoPilot mode, highlighted the importance of human attention even when a car is helping.
Computers based on Xavier won’t make safe driving decisions off the bat because they first need to be trained. The training happens as the computer absorbs images and locations and cross-references them with large repositories of images and data in the cloud. As the Xavier computer learns more about its surroundings, it can make smarter driving decisions.
Nvidia has equipped the Xavier its new computer vision accelerator. The current Pascal chips already have machine learning instructions, and the GPUs combine parallel processing with algorithms to help cars safely navigate streets.
Nvidia is doing well in the self-driving car market and betting a big part of its future on it. Volvo is developing an autonomous car based on Drive PX 2. Nvidia is also working with companies like Audi and Ford on self-driving cars. The company competes with Intel in the space.
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Might also want to check CWShredder at the same site. Interesting that it's blocking you.. any ideas where you might have gotten it?
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With Pearson Vue, this is correct.
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Google released a new monthly batch of security patches for Android, fixing a dozen critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise devices. One of the mitigated issues is a bit-flipping attack against memory chips that could lead to privilege escalation, but a more widespread rooting vulnerability in the Linux kernel remains unpatched.
While Google releases firmware updates for its Nexus and Pixel devices on the first Monday of every month, the security patches are shared with third-party device manufacturers one month in advance and are also contributed later to the Android Open Source Project to benefit the entire ecosystem.
Like it has done in recent months, Google has split this month's security fixes into several "security patch levels," to make it easier for manufacturers to deploy only fixes that apply to specific devices. The security patch level is a date string displayed in Android's settings under "About phone" and indicates that the firmware contains all Android security patches up to that date.
The new 2016-11-01 patch level contains fixes for flaws in Android's own components. It addresses two critical vulnerabilities, 16 high-risk flaws and 10 medium-risk ones.
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One of the critical flaws is located in the Mediaserver component, which has been a major source of serious Android vulnerabilities over the past year. The flaw can be exploited by tricking users into downloading or opening a specially crafted media file.
The second critical flaw is located in the libzipfile library and could enable malicious applications to execute code within the context of a privileged process. This can lead to a full device compromise that requires reflashing the operating system to fix.
The second patch level is 2016-11-05 and primarily includes fixes for vulnerabilities in kernel drivers for various hardware components. This level covers 21 critical vulnerabilities, 23 high-risk ones and 10 with a moderate impact.
The critical flaws are located in the kernel file system, SCSI driver, media driver, USB driver, ION subsystem, networking subsystem and sound subsystem, as well as in the Nvidia GPU driver and Qualcomm's crypto driver, bootloader and other components.
One of the patches for the ION memory allocator is intended to mitigate a physical attack against DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips that could be exploited by applications to gain root access on a device. The attack is known as Drammer and was devised by researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Graz University of Technology in Austria, and the University of California in Santa Barbara.
The third patch level is 2016-11-06 and covers a privilege escalation vulnerability in the memory subsystem of the Linux kernel that was disclosed a few weeks ago. The flaw, which the security community dubbed Dirty COW (copy-on-write) has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years and is already being exploited in the wild.
Google has not patched this vulnerability in its Nexus and Pixel devices yet and will probably do it next month. However, device manufacturers can address the flaw by importing the upstream fix that was included in the Linux kernels versions 3.10 and 3.18. The flaw was disclosed after this month's patch levels had already been defined, which is why Google refers to the 2016-11-06 patch level as "supplemental."
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http://www.csoonline.com/article/3139543/security/android-patches-fix-drammer-ram-attack-but-not-dirty-cow-exploit.html
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Herndon, VA., October 31, 2019/ -- DLT Solutions, a premier government technology solutions aggregator, announced today that it has been recognized by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) as a National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) Champion for its efforts in promoting the awareness of online safety and privacy. During NCSAM 2019, DLT:
Launched GovCybersecurityHub, a leading resource covering cybersecurity developments for public sector leaders and practitioners who are tasked with protecting national and network security in a growing and diverse threat environment. Since October 1, GovCybersecurityHub has had more than 13,000 visitors.
Co-chaired the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) Fall Briefing that focused on the intersection of leadership, transformation and security. Public sector experts offered first-hand insights into government-wide efforts around modernization, security and data analytics. More than 95 individuals attended the event and over 60 of those were from federal, state, and local agencies.
Increased awareness of its technology vendors’ software, solutions and services that make up DLT’s growing cybersecurity portfolio. These vendors provide government agencies with the tools they need to meet the continuous diagnostics and monitoring (CDM) mandate requirements from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), as well as employ cloud services and the Zero Trust framework to balance user access with network integrity.
“DLT fully supports the National Cyber Security Alliance’s mission to educate and empower both the public and private sectors to stay safer and more secure online," said Brian Strosser, president of DLT Solutions. "This National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, DLT raised the bar by launching GovCybersecurityHub, an online forum dedicated to public sector cybersecurity, and co-chairing the ICIT Fall Briefing centered on the impact strong leadership has on cybersecurity."
NCSAM is designed to engage and educate public and private-sector partners, through events and initiatives, with the goal of raising awareness about cybersecurity. Since the presidential proclamation establishing NCSAM in 2004, the initiative has been formally recognized by Congress, federal, state and local governments, and leaders from industry and academia.
"DLT firmly believes with the right tools we can win the cybersecurity war,” said Chris Wilkinson, senior vice president of Sales for DLT Solutions. The best-in-class cybersecurity solutions that DLT provides, to the public sector, lays the groundwork for victory against bad actors."
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https://www.dlt.com/news/dlt-solutions-recognized-national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-champion-national-cyber
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Conor O’Neill, founder of OnSecurity, explains why he looks beyond third-level qualifications when recruiting cybersecurity staff.
Irish entrepreneur Conor O’Neill has a slightly different approach to some of his competitors when it comes to hiring cybersecurity talent.
He founded the Bristol-based company OnSecurity, which focuses on penetrative testing, in 2018. Also known as pentesting, this refers to authorised simulated cyberattacks designed to assess an organisation’s security vulnerabilities.
With lots of industry players scratching their heads over how to fill the demand for cybersecurity workers, O’Neill’s antidote to the ongoing problem is pretty simple – hire some self-taught techies rather than rely exclusively on university graduates.
That’s not to say all of his employees have no third-level education, but around 10 out of the total team of 28 have been teaching themselves about all things cybersecurity since they were teenagers.
OnSecurity doesn’t stipulate that its employees must have a qualification to work for the company, but an interest in pentesting and IT is certainly required.
‘We honestly don’t care if you have a degree or not. If you do, great; if not, also great. – CONOR O’NEILL
“What we look for is aptitude and enthusiasm,” O’Neill told SiliconRepublic.com.
“If we interview someone that’s not in the industry, but they already know a lot about cybersecurity or pentesting, that is a very good indication that they’re the type of person we’re after.”
So, how does the company find these tech stars? The team keeps tabs on underground hacking sites to keep an eye out for emerging talent.
Online forum Hack The Box is one source O’Neill mentioned. This online cybersecurity training platform helps people level up their skills by competing in challenges.
“We’d watch the leaderboard on this and when we notice someone creeping up that leaderboard, we reach out,” he explained.
The youngest employee OnSecurity has “poached” in this way was still in secondary school aged 16 or 17, while the oldest was in their mid-40s.
As well as teenage whizzkids, the company has a former medical doctor, bartender and a cybersecurity college student on its books. They are all proof that you can get into a cybersecurity career without a traditional education or training background.
O’Neill said he isn’t convinced of the value of going to university for a technical discipline. While O’Neill himself got a degree from IT Blanchardstown and a master’s degree, he took his time doing both, choosing to prioritise travel and work over study – a decision he’s happy with looking back.
“I was working as a labourer digging trenches on a building site in Australia when I was 29. By 39 I owned a cybersecurity business with 25 staff and seven-figure revenues.
“I’ve no regrets, I’m happy with my convoluted journey to this point. In fact, I can’t think of anything that I would have liked to have done less in my 20s than running a business and being responsible for paying the mortgages of 20 people.”
His own break into the cybersecurity industry started when he got a job with Barclays in the UK, which sent him on a pentesting course.
Fast forward to September 2022 and OnSecurity launched its own pentesting-as-a-service tool. It builds on the introduction of Radar, a threat intelligence tool that was designed to show businesses how they appear to hackers. As well as pentesting, OnSecurity offers vulnerability scanning to its customers.
Conor O’Neill. Image: OnSecurity
Thinking outside the box for hiring isn’t only a matter of getting the right talent or filling skills gaps. For bootstrapped companies like OnSecurity, unconventional recruitment programmes are a necessity as they can’t compete with the budgets of many competitors.
“A lot of our competitors would be funded so it was the competition for salaries basically. We just couldn’t compete,” O’Neill said.
“Where we might offer, a few years ago, a relatively junior pentester a salary of, say, €35,000, we had competitors who didn’t care about budget and could double or triple that salary.
“We couldn’t compete so we had to start being a bit more clever about how we acquired pentesters and junior pentesters. We started this programme and will soon be looking to do the same thing again.”
Does this way of hiring cause problems? O’Neill said there can sometimes be issues when it comes to the professional consultancy aspect of the business.
For example, many pentesters OnSecurity would find may not have a huge amount of experience in dealing with customers. For this reason, O’Neill said the company is built slightly different compared to its competitors.
“We accept that for certain people, doing a call or a pre-sales presentation with a customer is their worst nightmare. So we try to just let our pentesters do pentesting.” “We try to bend the company towards our staff, rather than the other way around. All we let our pentesters do is test, if we can help it.” 10 things you need to know direct to your inbox every weekday. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic’s digest of essential sci-tech news.
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https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/onsecurity-cybersecurity-hiring-practices
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A vulnerability in the Google+ social network caused exposure of private data of more than 500,000 users. Due to scrutiny from lawmakers, the tech giant chose not to reveal the mishap when it fixed the issue quietly in March – reveals a report by Wall Street Journal. However, on Google’s part, the leading tech company claims to repair the software issue as soon as the vulnerability was discovered.
According to Wall Street Journal, an API bug allowed outside developers access to the private data of GooglePlus users between the years 2015 and 2018. The sensitive data of Google+ users included names, genders, email addresses, birth information, postal addresses, relationship status, occupation, and even profile photos. However, Google said that it found no evidence of misuse by developers. In fact, the tech giant claims that the developers were unaware of the bug, hence the private information was safe. However, in the world of internet, privacy hacking and data theft – one cannot be too sure.
As an after effect of this problem, Google has plans to shut down the consumer version of Google+. However, the consumers will be given a 10-month time-frame to move out of the service. The company hopes to complete the process by August of the coming year.
Moreover, Google has made slight changes to its privacy policy and giving users more authority over the data they share with apps and limit the ability of apps to access call and message logs on Android.
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https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2018/10/google-data-breach-api-bug.html
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Barracuda Issues Security Update, Apologizes To CustomersSecurity appliance manufacturer apologizes for leaving hardcoded, undocumented accounts in its products. Who Is Anonymous: 10 Key Facts (click image for larger view and for slideshow)
Barracuda Networks Monday issued a product update designed to address some of the security vulnerabilities that have been identified in some of its appliances, as well as a mea culpa for building hardcoded, undocumented backdoors into its products.
"I regret now some of the choices we made and apologize to our customers and partners who feel misled or deceived by the way it was implemented," said Zach Levow, CTO of Barracuda Neworks, in a blog post. "I assure you we are working day and night to make further changes that integrate the feedback and expectations you have shared with us."
The security warning that hardcoded -- and undocumented -- backdoor accounts exist in multiple Barracuda Networks appliances was issued Jan. 24 by Austria-based information security consultancy SEC Consult.
Levow confirmed the security vulnerabilities identified by SEC Consult, which involved two specific problems. "The first concern was an access point that could allow Barracuda's Technical Support department access to Barracuda appliances without explicit permission from the appliance administrator," he said. "The second concern was an access point that could allow access by a non-Barracuda employee." [ How secure is your iPhone? Read iPhone Security Unbreakable? Security Gurus Disagree. ]
Appliances affected by the vulnerabilities include the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter, Barracuda Message Archiver, Barracuda SSL VPN, Barracuda Web Application Firewall version 7.6.4 and earlier, and CudaTel appliances. Despite some prior reports to the contrary, the company said the following products aren't vulnerable to any of the disclosed vulnerabilities: Barracuda Backup, Barracuda NG Firewall, Barracuda Firewall, Barracuda Load Balancer, Barracuda Link Balancer, and Barracuda Web Application Firewall (versions 7.7 and later).
To address the vulnerabilities, Barracuda Networks Monday released an update, Security Definition 2.0.7, that disables access to the devices, except from Barracuda's own IP addresses. A previous Security Definition, 2.0.5, was released in coordination with SEC Consult's security warning, and disabled "all remote access to non-essential accounts," said Levow. Those updates have only partially mitigated the unauthorized access vulnerability, because they still leave some hardcoded accounts on the appliances for support purposes. Furthermore, Barracuda's current approach to support requires that customers who deploy appliances behind a firewall, but have difficulty configuring the appliance, must then move the appliance to a public IP address, so that Barracuda can remotely troubleshoot the device's configuration. That, however, leaves the appliances vulnerable to unauthorized, remote access.
Barracuda is still trying to find a better approach. "Because we have not had any incidents reported or detected due to these reported vulnerabilities, we do not want to rush changes that could make the situation worse for our customers," said Levow. He said the security vulnerabilities highlight the struggle vendors face "to best balance the need for security with the need to provide the highest level and fastest support to our customers." Attend Interop Las Vegas May 6-10, and attend the most thorough training on Apple deployment at the NEW Mac & iOS IT Conference. Join us in Las Vegas for access to 125+ workshops and conference classes, 350+ exhibiting companies, and the latest technology. Use Priority Code DIPR02 by Feb. 9 to save up to $500 off the price of Conference Passes. Register for Interop today!
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