Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the last few days I have done some analysis on malicious documents, especially PDF. Then I thought, “Why not turn a PDF analysis into an article?” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the file was not malicious. Because the manufacturer’s analysis was not satisfactory, the team responsible for handling the incident requested a second opinion, since in other anti-virus

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When each member of your security team is focused on one narrow slice of the pie, it's easy for adversaries to enter through the cracks. Here are five ways to stop them.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. The firm’s founder says he now fears some 18 years’ worth of customer email may be gone forever. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., VFEmail provides email service to businesses and end users.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Fraudsters Received 20 Percent Cashback for Fraudulent Purchases A convergence of events in December in Japan led to an unprecedented spike in card-not-present fraud. New statistics from a dark web monitoring firm explains how a promotion by PayPay, a third-party payments service, slid sideways.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Assuring the privacy and security of sensitive data, and then actually monetizing that data, — ethically and efficiently — has turned out to be the defining challenge of digital transformation. Today a very interesting effort to address this complex dilemma is arising from the ferment, out of the UK. It’s called Project Furnace , an all-new open source software development platform.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

'Deep Fakes' May Eventually Complicate Identity Verification Cryptocurrency exchanges are seeing fraudsters submit doctored photos in an attempt to reset two-step verification on accounts. The ruse appears to have some degree of success, underscoring the difficulties around verifying identity on the internet.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Content, documents, and information are at the center of all organizations, of all sizes, and in all industries. But once your clients need to review, approve, sign a document, or receive some information— efficiency is key. That is when you need your organization and processes to shine. Allen Bonde, an analyst at Forrester , defines “The Magic Moment” as the moment of communication between your organization and your customer.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The moment we’ve all feared has finally come to pass. When government agencies and international intelligence groups pooled together resources to gather user data, the VPN’s encryption seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. Related: California enacts pioneering privacy law. However, it looks like things are starting to break apart now that Australia has passed the “Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018”.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a bevy of patches to correct at least 70 distinct security vulnerabilities in Windows and software designed to interact with various flavors of the operating system. This month’s patch batch tackles some notable threats to enterprises — including multiple flaws that were publicly disclosed prior to Patch Tuesday.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

FTC and Social Network Are Negotiating Record Penalty, Washington Post Reports The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly negotiating a settlement with Facebook that includes a multibillion dollar fine for its privacy failures. But the social network is alarmed about the proposed settlement agreement's terms and conditions, The Washington Post reports.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Security experts found a serious flaw tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc , the default container runtime for Docker, containerd , Podman, and CRI-O. Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, has disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc , the default container runtime for Docker, containerd , Podman, and CRI-O.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

We have a number of important sessions planned for the AIIM19 conference coming to San Diego on March 26-28. I spoke with Carah Koch, the Director of Enterprise Content Management for the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities, about her session IIM Project Management and Self-Preservation: Why Successful Projects Are Not About You, and asked her to give us a short preview of what to expect.

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Micro Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past decade, through a combination of organic growth and M&A, Micro Focus has grown precipitously. Today, the company has thousands of employees in 43 countries worldwide, and is one of the largest pure-play enterprise software companies in the world. Yet, despite this size and growth, and likely because the company is headquartered in.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Judge Says 'Terrible Hangover' Didn't Fuzz Suspect's Miranda Rights Clarity A famed British computer security researcher has lost several key motions in a federal hacking case that stems from his alleged contribution to two types of banking malware. The rulings could complicate the challenges for the defense team of Marcus Hutchins, who remains in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Users of QNAP NAS devices are reporting through QNAP forum discussions of mysterious code that adds some entries that prevent software update. Users of the Network attached storage devices manufactured have reported a mystery string of malware attacks that disabled software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file. According to the users, the malicious code adds some 700 entries to the /etc/hosts file that redirects requests to IP address 0.0.0.0.

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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.

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The recent fire at Ocado has been a devastating blow to the company and the local community. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze; the smoke billowed for more than 48 hours, darkening the Hampshire sky; surrounding homes and businesses were evacuated due to the risk of explosion, and those further afield advised to keep windows and doors shut; and some firefighters needed treatment for smoke inhalation.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We examine the issue of fallibility from six sides: end users, security leaders, security analysts, IT security administrators, programmers, and attackers.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Attackers Could 'Break Out' via Runc Flaw to Compromise All Containers on Host Red Hat, Amazon and Google have issued fixes for a serious container vulnerability. The flaw in the "runc" container-spawning tool could allow attackers to craft a malicious container able to "break out" and gain root control of a host system, potentially putting thousands of other containers at risk.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. The advertising for the sale of the huge trove of data was published in the popular Dream Market black marketplace, data are available for less than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin.

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The Seattle Times has a story today about how “ 50 years ago today, the first 747 took off and changed aviation.” It’s true. The 747 was a marvel of engineering and luxury. The book by Joe Sutter is a great story of engineering leadership. For an upcoming flight, I paid extra to reserve an upper deck seat before the last of the passenger-carrying Queens of the Skies retires.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The shutdown may have ended two weeks ago, but federal cybersecurity professionals will be coping with its impact for a long time to come.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Monica Witt Allegedly Aided Spear-Phishing Attacks Against US Military A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence agent was indicted for disclosing classified information and helping Iran compromise the computers of other U.S. intelligence agents. The case marks another damaging leak for the American government.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware and coin miners present on the infected machine.

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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.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Many organizations around the world are looking to implement artificial intelligence (AI) into their day-to-day business practices. But if you’re new to AI, it can be difficult to know how to get started. According to Lalith Subramanian VP, Engineering, Analytics at OpenText™, organizations looking to implement AI should start with their data. “I always tell people … The post Artificial Intelligence: Start with the data and be digital first appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I had not heard about this case before. Zurich Insurance has refused to pay Mondelez International's claim of $100 million in damages from NotPetya. It claims it is an act of war and therefor not covered. Mondelez is suing. Those turning to cyber insurance to manage their exposure presently face significant uncertainties about its promise. First, the scope of cyber risks vastly exceeds available coverage, as cyber perils cut across most areas of commercial insurance in an unprecedented manner: d

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Police Say Data-Sharing Alternatives 'Will Not Be As Efficient Or Effective' British police say they're doing their best to cope with the possibility that the U.K. will crash out of the EU in 45 days and lose access to joint policing resources. But Richard Martin of the Met Police says replacements "will not be as efficient or effective as the tools we currently use.

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