IG Guru

AUGUST 16, 2018

Unmanaged shared files are compared to a shared unmanaged refrigerator. The post Will you take the garbage out? appeared first on IG GURU.

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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 15, 2018

GDPR is finally with us, and within just hours of it becoming law Google and Facebook were hit with privacy complaints that could lead to fines up to $9.3 billion. This is a clear demonstration that the European Union (EU) is very willing to take action and that companies everywhere have to be prepared for GDPR … The post Identity and Access Management is pivotal for GDPR compliance appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 14, 2018

Attack May Pivot On A Data Breach At 'Unknown Card Issuer' Agency Says The FBI warns that cybercriminals are planning a large-scale operation aimed at emptying ATMs, a type of attack that has caused swift and costly losses for financial institutions. The attack may utilize data from a breach of an unknown card issuer, the FBI says.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 13, 2018

A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Related: How PKI can secure IoT. Google’s Chrome web browser commands a 60% market share. So the search giant has been leading the push to get 100% of websites to jettison HTTP and replace it with HTTPS.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an “ATM cash-out,” in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to fraudulently withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours. “The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 16, 2018

A band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network to warn when and where air strikes will hit—a constant threat under Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to the AP, many Google services on both Android and iPhone store records of user location even if the users have disabled the “Location History” According to a recent investigation conducted by the Associated Press, many Google services on both Android and iPhone devices store records of user location data, and the bad news is that they do it even if the users have disabled the “Location History” on devices.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. The technology that corrals malicious software circulating through desktop PCs, laptops and mobile devices has evolved into a multi-layered security technology referred to as ‘endpoint security.’. This designation change unfolded a few years back. It was a reflection of attackers moving to take full advantage of the fresh attack vectors cropping up as companies retooled their legacy networks – comprised of ‘on-premises’ servers a

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2018

Adobe and Microsoft each released security updates for their software on Tuesday. Adobe plugged five security holes in its Flash Player browser plugin. Microsoft pushed 17 updates to fix at least 60 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, including two “ zero-day ” flaws that attackers were already exploiting before Microsoft issued patches to fix them.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 13, 2018

A new study found that just 42,000 of those hacked home devices could be enough to leave a country of 38 million people in the dark.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2018

Piping botnet – Israeli researchers warn of a potential distributed attack against urban water services that uses a botnet of smart irrigation systems that water simultaneously. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) cyber security researchers warn of a potential distributed attack against urban water services that uses a botnet of smart irrigation systems that water simultaneously.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 15, 2018

Findings by Watchdog Agency Similar to Problems Previously Cited in Other States Maryland's Medicaid system has "numerous significant" security weaknesses that need to be addressed, according to a federal watchdog agency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2018

In this blog, I will present a new and efficient approach to reconciling security vulnerabilities and FIPS 140 security certifications, led by Thales eSecurity in collaboration with NIST/CMVP and FIPS 140 evaluation laboratories. A quick and efficient patch also needs a quick and efficient certification. To maintain security over a product’s lifetime, it is a best practice for companies to implement a vulnerability management process.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 11, 2018

Analysis of five body camera models marketed to police departments details vulnerabilities could let a hacker manipulate footage.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2018

A vulnerability in HP OfficeJet all-in-one inkjet printer can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the printer and use it as entry point into the network environment. A critical vulnerability potentially exposes millions of HP OfficeJet printers to hack, according to the experts at Check Point the attackers only need to send a fax to the vulnerable printers.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 15, 2018

Vulnerability Poses Special Risks For Virtualized Environments The Meltdown and Spectre attacks from earlier this year showed how the quest to make CPUs run faster inadvertently introduced serious security vulnerabilities. Now, researchers have unveiled a new attack called Foreshadow that builds on those findings, affecting millions of Intel processors made over the past five years.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 17, 2018

Simply applying file-based tools and expectations to fileless attacks is a losing strategy. Security teams must also understand the underlying distinctions between the two.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 12, 2018

Researchers found they could turn the smart speakers into surveillance devices—if they could get their own attack tool on the same Wi-Fi.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2018

The security researcher Sam Thomas from Secarma, has discovered a new attack technique that leverages critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language. The flaws potentially expose web applications written in the popular language to cyber attacks, including websites running CMSs like WordPress and Typo3. The expert discovered that an attacker can use low-risk functions against Phar archives to trigger deserialization attack without requiring the use of unserialize() functio

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 14, 2018

Incident at Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Spotlights Tough Choices When is it acceptable to allow healthcare workers to use their personal smartphones to access patient records? A recent incident at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs spotlights the dilemma.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 15, 2018

The people demanding these new powers have proven that they cannot be trusted with the powers they already have The good news is, the war on maths is postponed, because maths won. The government appears to have given up on its ambition of undermining the global encryption standards that underpin secure communications on the internet. That’s the only good news, because there’s very little positive to be said about the government’s latest lunge for intrusive powers embodied in the Telecommunicatio

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 14, 2018

In the spirit of Meltdown and Spectre, a new vulnerability called Foreshadow could expose Intel's secure enclave to attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2018

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 13, 2018

With the rise of the industrial internet of things comes a far broader attack surface in the manufacturing sector. Chris Morales of Vectra outlines findings of a new report on cyberattack trends in the manufacturing sector.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 13, 2018

The national energy guarantee has passed a critical hurdle, getting majority support from the coalition backbench committee despite Tony Abbott’s dissent. All the days events, live 12.08am BST Barnaby Joyce has again been blaming renewables and the Paris agreement for electricity price hikes, despite the number of independent reports which point to the gold plating of the poles and wires being the main price driver.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 12, 2018

Opinion: When police departments post photos of protestors on social media, it puts them at risk of harassment, or worse.

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