DXC Technology
MAY 14, 2019
The world of work is about to change dramatically. Truthfully, it already has been for some time, driven by stunning advances in digital technology and a shift in the job market toward a gig economy. But the already torrid pace of change will accelerate over the next 15 years, rendering unrecognizable many of the tools […].
Krebs on Security
MAY 29, 2019
Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated infractions. As this was the first time I’d ever heard of an organization actually doing this, I asked some phishing experts what they thought (spoiler alert: they’re not fans of this partic
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Data Breach Today
MAY 9, 2019
Researchers: 'Fxmsp' Russian Hacking Collective Exploits Victims Via RDP and Active Directory The "Fxmsp" hacker collective has been advertising source code that it claims to have stolen from three top U.S. anti-virus software development firms, as well as remote access to the companies' neworks, warns fraud-prevention firm Advanced Intelligence.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 7, 2019
Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019. For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. How things have changed. In just the past few years (and hundreds of high-profile breaches and £Trillions of economic damage later), cyber threats became impossible for the boardroom to ignore.
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IT Governance
MAY 20, 2019
Earthquake. Flood. Cyber attack. The threat of disruption looms over organisations more ominously than ever, thanks to the increasing infiltration of technology in business processes, consumer expectations and the rapid rise in cyber crime. You’ll rarely get advance warning about disruptions, so you need to prepare for whatever might come your way with a BCP (business continuity plan).
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Schneier on Security
MAY 6, 2019
I don't have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there's nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others. Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption, not sending information over email, securing your web connections, and a host of other things -- but most of that doesn't matter anymore.
Krebs on Security
MAY 22, 2019
Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the attached file and respond within a few days — or else. Here’s a look at a recent spam campaign that peppered more than 100,000 business email addresses with fake legal threats harboring malware.
Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Suspects Accused of Receiving Bitcoins Worth Millions for Referral Fees The DeepDotWeb portal, which provided a guide to darknet marketplaces, has been shut down and its alleged administrators arrested. Police say the suspected lead administrator, an Israeli based in Brazil who has been arrested at a Paris airport, amassed bitcoins for referral fees worth millions of dollars.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 9, 2019
The Cloud Security Challenge. It’s no secret that cloud technology usage is pervasive among enterprises. According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report -Global Edition, some 90 percent of 1,200 responding data security professionals worldwide report their organizations are using the cloud. While the agility and cost-saving benefits of cloud technologies are compelling, the need to protect sensitive application data remains.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 10, 2019
Party refers itself to ICO after voters receive campaign letters not addressed to them The Scottish National party faces being fined for a breach of data protection laws after sending out tens of thousands of European election mailings to the wrong addresses. The Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed on Friday morning that the SNP have referred itself for investigation after voters across Scotland received letters addressed to strangers or neighbours.
Security Affairs
MAY 31, 2019
The Russian army seems to be in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Debian-based Linux distribution Astra Linux. Cyber security seems to subvert the globalization concept, governments are working to develop their own technology fearing possible espionage and sabotage activities of foreign states. The Russian military is in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Linux distribution Astra Linux.
Schneier on Security
MAY 17, 2019
In March, Adi Shamir -- that's the "S" in RSA -- was denied a US visa to attend the RSA Conference. He's Israeli. This month, British citizen Ross Anderson couldn't attend an awards ceremony in DC because of visa issues. (You can listen to his recorded acceptance speech.) I've heard of at least one other prominent cryptographer who is in the same boat.
Krebs on Security
MAY 24, 2019
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 14, 2019
Immediate App Updating Required to Protect Apple and Android Device Users Facebook is warning users of its WhatsApp messaging app to update immediately to fix a flaw that is being used to remotely install Pegasus surveillance software from Israel's NSO Group. WhatsApp says a "select number" of targets were hit by the attacks, which it has blamed on "an advanced cyber actor.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 16, 2019
We are seeing more organizations use a ‘lift and shift’ policy, where data is moved to the cloud to satisfy project requirements. But safe migration to the cloud requires that the process be secure, compliant and easy to implement. The 1,200 data security professionals worldwide who were surveyed for the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition tell us that protecting sensitive data in the cloud is becoming increasingly complex.
DXC Technology
MAY 1, 2019
Recently, Rishidot analyst Krishnan Subramanian proclaimed the Cloud Foundry, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud, had met its demise as a standalone platform. Really? That’s news to me, and I cover Cloud Foundry like paint. What got Subramanian so frazzled was Cloud Foundry started offering Docker in place of its own container runtime, Garden.
Security Affairs
MAY 4, 2019
The news was reported by the Kyodo News and has caught my attention, Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as defense against cyber attacks. The Kyodo News revealed that Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as a defense measure against cyber attacks and that the development will be completed by next March. The Defense Ministry plans to use the malware as a vaccine that could neutralize the other malicious codes.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
Schneier on Security
MAY 24, 2019
Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand, basically outlawing strong end-to-end encryption. Anyone not complying will be blocked, although the article doesn't say how. (Cory Doctorow has previously explained why this would be impossible.).
Krebs on Security
MAY 14, 2019
Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003 , citing the discovery of a “wormable” flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast-moving malware threat like the WannaCry ransomware attacks of 2017. The May 2017 global malware epidemic WannaCry affected some 200,000 Windows systems in 150 countries.
Data Breach Today
MAY 15, 2019
CPUs Shipped From 2011 Onward Have Flaws of the Meltdown and Spectre Variety Newly discovered microarchitectural data sampling flaws in Intel processors - collectively dubbed "ZombieLoad" - could be exploited to steal private data from PCs and servers, including shared cloud environments. Intel, Microsoft, Apple and others have begun to ship patches designed to help mitigate the problems.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 1, 2019
Over the last two election cycles, we’ve seen an increased focus on election security, hacking and fraud. While many state and government officials are under no illusion that they are safe from a digital attack, concern should run deeper than election integrity. Most federal security issues are a result of well-known long-standing vulnerabilities that agencies have not addressed.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 7, 2019
Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences.
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2019
A group of hackers has stolen and published online sensitive data of 30,000 Roman lawyers, including the Mayor of Rome. The announcement was made on Twitter by Lulzsec and Anonymous Ita. The story is very simple, LulZSec, the collective of hackers recently hit the Italian Ministry of the Environment, has collected a huge amount of data belonging to 30,000 Roman lawyers.
Jamf
MAY 7, 2019
Jamf School, formerly ZuluDesk, helps teachers get the most from their Apple devices. Jamf’s mobile device management (MDM) school solution means that teachers and IT professionals receive an MDM school powerhouse for running today’s modern classroom.
Krebs on Security
MAY 18, 2019
Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users. On May 12, the administrator of OGusers explained an outage to forum members by saying a hard drive failure had erased several months’ worth of private messages, forum post
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Data Breach Today
MAY 20, 2019
The lack of secure coding is a pervasive and serious threat to national security, according to a new paper from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. In an interview, Rob Roy, co-author of the report, outlines what steps should be taken to encourage or enforce secure coding practices.
Schneier on Security
MAY 22, 2019
This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct a globally unique fingerprint.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 9, 2019
In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.
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