Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2018
Criminals' Quest for Cryptocurrency Continues If 2017 was the year of ransomware innovation, 2018 is well on its way to being known as the year of cryptocurrency mining malware. Numerous studies have found that the most seen malware attacks today are designed for cryptojacking. But while ransomware campaigns may be down, they're far from out.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 3, 2018
In March, Grand View Research suggested that the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market will be worth over $24 billion by 2020. This healthy growth will be achieved in part, the research firm says, through the increasing popularity of bring-your-own-identity (BYOI). BYOI offers speed and convenience for users, but do the risks still outweigh the … The post Bring your own identity (BYOI) appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2018
Fresh Flaws Exploited Faster Than They're Patched, Says Tenable's Gavin Millard Patch management problem: Organizations must identify and fix all new vulnerabilities in their software and hardware as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, on average, attackers keep exploiting flaws faster than they're being patched, says Tenable's Gavin Millard.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 5, 2018
It's never a bad time to audit your app permissions. In fact, it's more important than ever.
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Krebs on Security
JULY 6, 2018
Energy giant ExxonMobil recently sent snail mail letters to its Plenti rewards card members stating that the points program was being replaced with a new one called Exxon Mobil Rewards+. Unfortunately, the letter includes a confusing toll free number and directs customers to a parked page that tries to foist Web browser extensions on visitors. The mailer (the first page of which is screenshotted below) urges customers to visit exxonmobilrewardsplus[dot]com, to download its mobile app, and to cal
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Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2018
But Tech Giants are Taking Aim at the Law, Which Can Be Amended Until 2020 California's legislature has quickly introduced and passed new privacy legislation, making the state's laws the strongest in the U.S. The new law gives consumers a raft of new rights, and aims to bring more transparency to the murky trade in people's personal information.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 30, 2018
Data leaks, NSA secrets, and more of this week's top security news.
Data Protector
JULY 1, 2018
I t’s not often that the UK is praised for the manner in which its intelligence agencies adopt appropriate data protection standards. So let's give due acknowledgement to Joe Cannataci, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, who has recently used some very warm words to comment on these privacy practices. Of the Investigatory Powers Act, he proclaimed: "I am satisfied that the UK systematically employs multiple safeguards which go to great lengths to ensure that unauthorised survei
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 4, 2018
Consumer group says policies of Facebook, Amazon and Google are vague and unclear Privacy policies from companies including Facebook, Google and Amazon don’t fully meet the requirements of GDPR, according to the pan-European consumer group BEUC. An analysis of policies from 14 of the largest internet companies shows they use unclear language, claim “potentially problematic” rights, and provide insufficient information for users to judge what they are agreeing to.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 3, 2018
Kaspersky's Bhayani on Evolving to Predictive Analytics and Response With endpoint security, the fundamental concept was always to detect and prevent. Mature security strategies today are increasingly looking at response and remediation as well to complete the cycle, says Shrenik Bhayani of Kaspersky Lab.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 3, 2018
As the push for more digital privacy grows, the question is whether the courts or lawmakers will step up to protect our rights—or if it will fall through the cracks.
Dark Reading
JULY 3, 2018
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to cryptojacking over ransomware for a bigger payday. Here's what enterprises need to know in order to protect their digital assets and bank accounts.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 3, 2018
Latest Rare Example of Prosecutors Pursuing a HIPAA Case A federal grand jury in Pennsylvania has indicted a former patient coordinator on several counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the health information of others. The case is the latest rare example of prosecutors pursuing criminal charges for HIPAA violations.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 3, 2018
VIDEO: Tom Parker of Accenture Security discusses how organizations should budget for cybersecurity - and make the most of what they already have.
TAB OnRecord
JULY 5, 2018
In a three-part blog post we are sharing lessons learned from organizations that have taken documents and business processes into the digital realm. In part one, we discussed the benefits offered by digitization and robotic process automation. In part two, we explore the realities of having a hybrid records environment, and how to prepare yourself [.
Dark Reading
JULY 5, 2018
SMBs understand they have to focus more on cybersecurity. Here's a look at the areas they say matter most.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2018
Arbor's Darren Anstee Talks Terabit Attacks, Stresser/Booter Mayhem Police recently arrested the suspected administrators and top users of the stresser/booter service Webstresser.org. Unfortunately, the plethora of such services means the world is unlikely to see a reduction in DDoS attack volumes, says Darren Anstee of Arbor Networks.
CGI
JULY 5, 2018
Stealing computing power: A growing trend in cyber crime that can target all Internet-connected devices. pallavi.m@cgi.com. Thu, 07/05/2018 - 05:06. The aim of cyber attacks traditionally has been to either disrupt the target’s web service or to steal important information and other assets. A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies.
Schneier on Security
JULY 5, 2018
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don't work with Juggalo makeup.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 6, 2018
On July 5, 2018, the European Parliament issued a nonbinding resolution (“the Resolution”) that calls on the European Commission to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield unless U.S. authorities can “fully comply” with the framework by September 1, 2018. The Resolution states that the data transfer mechanism does not provide the adequate level of protection for personal data as required by EU data protection law.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2018
Health Plan: Large Volume Log-In Attempts Coming From 'Foreign Countries' Humana is notifying individuals in multiple states that the company was a recent target of an "identity spoofing attack" that potentially compromised personal information of its members, including those participating in the health insurer's Go365 wellness programs.
IT Governance
JULY 3, 2018
Shred-it’s 2018 State of the Industry Report has revealed that 30% of UK companies that suffered a data breach terminated an employee’s contract for related negligence. . 1,000 small business owners, 1,000 C-suite executives of large organisations and 1,100 consumers/employees took part in the research, which also revealed that: . 88% of C-suites and 49% of small businesses believe that employee negligence is one of the biggest information security risks to their organisation; . 55% of larg
Schneier on Security
JULY 3, 2018
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech companies pressed to get this law passed out of self-defense. A ballot initiative was already going to be voted on in November, one with even stronger data privacy protections. The author of that initiative agreed to pull it if the legislature passed something similar, and that's why it did.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 6, 2018
The secret to effective employee security awareness training boils down to three things: Train early, often, and explain why.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 6, 2018
While California already had some of the strictest and most varied privacy laws in the country, the new California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 "is a whole new ballgame," says privacy attorney Kirk Nahra, who explains why.
IT Governance
JULY 4, 2018
To improve cyber risk governance among public-sector departments and their suppliers, the UK government has issued a series of minimum cyber security standards that will be incorporated into the Government Functional Standard for Security. The first standard to be incorporated, the Minimum Cyber Security Standard (MCSS), comprises ten sections across five broad categories: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
Schneier on Security
JULY 2, 2018
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active attacks are more interesting.
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