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2018-03-22 11:18:02 | The Digital Disconnect: 70% of UK employees not equipped with necessary tools and training (lien direct) | Sungard Availability Services ® (Sungard AS), a leading provider of information availability through managed IT, cloud and recovery services, today reveals that the skills shortage is having a detrimental impact on UK businesses and could pose serious risks in the years ahead. Both IT Decision Makers (31%), and Line of Business Decision Makers (41%) have ... | Guideline | ||
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2018-03-22 11:05:01 | Budget Cuts, Staff Shortages and Cyber Threats Keep IT Leads Awake at Night as GDPR Looms (lien direct) | 43% of IT executives at European financial institutions reveal that fears of a cyber-attack keep them awake at night – two months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, according to figures published by financial services IT consultancy and service provider Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services – a division of Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT). The ... | |||
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2018-03-22 11:02:05 | More than a quarter of companies expect to be breached in next 6 months (lien direct) | Nearly 4 in 5 companies (79%) were hit by a breach in the last year, according to new research from Balabit. The report, called the Known Unknowns of Cyber Security, also revealed that 7 out of 10 (68%) businesses expect to be impacted by further breaches this year with more than a quarter anticipating this ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:57:01 | Global WAN survey highlights the importance of network simplification (lien direct) | Cato Networks, provider of the global SD-WAN as a service Cato Cloud, released the findings of its enterprise WAN market study. The report, “State of WAN 2018: Too Complex to Ignore,” predicts SD-WAN will grow 200% year-over-year. At the same time, the additional abstraction layer that is SD-WAN and its impact on the network security ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:55:05 | New ransomware Zenis will delete backup files even if victim pays (lien direct) | A self-proclaimed “mischievous boy” who calls himself “ZENIS” unleashed ransomware attacks that encrypt the files and then purposely deleted the backups. Discovered last week by MalwareHunterTeam, Zenis uses a customized encryption method that warns recipients to pay up or risk losing forever their infected files. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine | |||
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2018-03-22 10:55:00 | Flaws in ManageEngine apps opens enterprise systems to compromise (lien direct) | Researchers have discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities in ManageEngine's line of tools for internal IT support teams, which are used by over half of Fortune 500 companies. The first flaw affects EventLog Analyzer 11.8 and Log360 5.3, and could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with the same privileges as the user that started the ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:54:02 | Kaspersky\'s Slingshot spyware reveal apparently borked a US spying operation (lien direct) | KASPERSKY HAS ANNOYED the US once again by revealing a terrorism-targeted spying operation with the reveal of the state-sponsored Slingshot spyware. At least that’s according to Cyberscoop, which claims to have learned that Slingshot is an active, US-led cyber espionage operation designed for counterterrorism. The reveal of Slingshot means Kaspersky has basically burned the US ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:53:03 | UK surgeon suspects his PC was hacked to target Syrian hospital (lien direct) | A British surgeon whose instructions over the internet helped to guide operations in war-torn Aleppo fears his PC was hacked in order to target a makeshift hospital that was subsequently bombed. Consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via Skype and WhatsApp that helped doctors in Syria carry out operations. Footage of the process at work ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:51:02 | Australian pollies shut down calls for transparency over data use (lien direct) | Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John on Wednesday called on both sides of Australian politics to be more transparent about their use of data and the ties political parties have to data analytics firms. Steele-John’s requests were made after it was revealed Cambridge Analytica had used the information of 50 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump’s ... | |||
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2018-03-22 10:48:05 | US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis (lien direct) | A US government commission has asked the public for its thoughts on possible changes to the military’s selective service rules to allow the conscription of technical talent, including those with computer-oriented skills, regardless of sex or age. The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, in accordance with the Congress in the 2017 National ... | |||
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2018-03-21 12:04:05 | There Are Some Big Problems With This Data Breach Bill. Retailers Want Them Fixed. (lien direct) | We are reaping the proverbial whirlwind of our long years of relentless technological advancement. Cyber-insecurity and constant data breaches are some of the growing pains of digital and wireless technologies. And even now, the private and public sectors can't seem to agree on how to solve it or how bad things need to get before ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:54:02 | Film screening inspires school girls to consider STEM careers (lien direct) | Just ahead of British Science Week and International Women's Day, nearly 200 school girls at Arts Media School Islington in London spent an afternoon meeting women STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) professionals and then watched 'Hidden Figures', the film about women of colour working at NASA. The event, partly funded by public donations and ... | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-21 11:50:05 | The Future of Cybersecurity is in the Cloud (lien direct) | Written by Eric O'Neill, National Security Strategist at Carbon Black For decades we have feared the cloud. During my time working counterintelligence for the FBI, we feared the Internet so much that agency computers functioned solely on an isolated intranet connected via hard cables. It's no wonder to me that that government has still not ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-21 11:49:03 | Understanding email fraud: Do you have visibility into email threats? (lien direct) | 82% of boards are concerned with email fraud, and 59% consider it a top security risk – no longer just an IT issue. Yet 30% of respondents to a survey conducted by Censuswide cited a lack of executive support as a key challenge to email fraud protection deployment, according to Proofpoint. “Email fraud is highly ... | ★★ | ||
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2018-03-21 11:48:05 | Programs Controlling ICS Robotics are “Wide Open” to Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | Most manufacturers have connected their operational technology – including industrial control systems and robotic equipment –to the internet, yet the lack of basic security protocols leave these companies open to cyberattacks. Industrial security company Malcrawler pinpointed these dangers at Kaspersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit earlier this month. Dewan Chowdhury, founder of MalCrawler, said that many ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:47:04 | FBI raids home of spy sat techie over leak of secret comms source code on Facebook (lien direct) | The FBI has raided the home of US intelligence contractor John Weed who is suspected of leaking classified blueprints online via a fake Facebook account. On Monday, the Feds confirmed to The Register they have executed a search warrant at the Virginia home of John Glenn Weed, who worked for the National Reconnaissance Office – ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:47:00 | Middle East oil and gas companies are unprepared to address OT cyber risk (lien direct) | Cyber security breaches in the Middle East are widespread and frequently undetected, with 30 percent of the region's attacks targeting operational technology (OT), finds a new study by Siemens and Ponemon Institute. The study, which examines the region's oil and gas sector, reveals that while firms have begun to invest in protecting their assets from ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:46:02 | Cambridge Analytica CEO, er, nixed as WhatsApp co-founder joins #DeleteFacebook movement (lien direct) | CEO Alexander Nix has been suspended after a second Channel 4 report showed him claiming credit for the election of Donald Trump. The report, which aired on Tuesday, saw Nix boasting of running the “digital campaign” for Trump’s election team, helping him to secure “tens of thousands” of votes in three crucial states. He also ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:45:02 | Firmware Updates Released for Security Camera Dumpster Fire (lien direct) | Firmware updates are available for a wide range of security flaws that are bound to cause a lot of problems on the IoT landscape. The vulnerabilities affect Geutebrück-made IP-based security cameras, but the researchers who uncovered the flaws suspect the same vulnerable firmware might have been used for IP cameras sold by other vendors such ... | |||
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2018-03-21 11:41:00 | Now that\'s a bad trip: 880k credit cards \'likely\' stolen by Orbitz hackers (lien direct) | Vacation-booking biz Orbitz has warned that sensitive details on as many as 880,000 credit cards have “likely” been stolen from its servers by hackers. In a statement today, US-based Orbitz said it discovered evidence of an intrusion on one of its legacy platforms on March 1, and called in a third-party forensics team. It now ... | |||
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2018-03-20 12:00:04 | Twitter Users Bilked out of Big Money by Elon Musk Clones (lien direct) | Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating celebrities, including Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin, the man behind the Ethereum cryptocurrency. The scam is elegant in its simplicity: When a verified account of a celebrity posts a tweet, a fraud account using ... | |||
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2018-03-20 11:59:04 | Prilex ATM Malware Modified to Clone Chip-and-Pin Payment Cards (lien direct) | It is just another day with just another ATM malware targeting unsuspecting users – This time, the malware comes with cloning capabilities. According to the findings of Kaspersky Lab researchers, an old point-of-sale malware program Prilex has now been transformed into a full-fledged tool suite that allows cyber-crooks steal PIN card and chip data for ... | |||
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2018-03-20 11:58:04 | AI services market to reach $188 billion worldwide by 2025 (lien direct) | Artificial intelligence (AI) has worked its way into a variety of industries, from the obvious (autonomous vehicles) to the hidden (anti-money laundering due diligence). But according to a new report from Tractica, while organizations are clearly recognizing the value associated with incorporating AI into their business processes, they are also encountering a number of challenges ... | |||
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2018-03-20 11:57:02 | National Lottery: 10 million players told to change passwords as attackers hit online accounts (lien direct) | Millions of National Lottery players have been urged to change their passwords following what parent company Camelot describes as “suspicious activity” involving lottery accounts. Camelot, which runs the National Lottery, insists there’s been no access to core systems or databases that would affect lottery draws or prizes, but has recommended that its 10.5 million registered ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-20 11:56:03 | 1 in 5 Michigan state staffers fail phishing test but that\'s OK apparently (lien direct) | Network security for the US State of Michigan has been rated as “moderately sufficient” in an audit of its Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB). Michigan’s DTMB, according to auditor Doug Ringler this month, got some things right but has a number of deficiencies in its IT security practices that need to be addressed. ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-20 11:55:02 | ICO seeks urgent warrant to access Cambridge Analytica\'s servers amid Facebook scandal (lien direct) | THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE (ICO) is seeking an urgent warrant to access the servers of Cambridge Analytica, which allegedly used data mined from 50 million Facebook users to influence 2016’s presidential election. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirmed the move to Channel 4, which on Monday aired a documentary (below) that showed Cambridge Analytics execs – ... | |||
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2018-03-20 11:53:03 | Apple moves on HSTS abuse in Safari (lien direct) | Apple has moved to block an abuse vector in the WebKit framework that underpins its Safari browser and allows HSTS to be abused to act as a ‘supercookie’ for user tracking. HSTS – HTTP Strict Transport Security – allows a Web site to declare to browsers that it’s only accessible via HTTPS. If a user ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-16 13:29:01 | Scarlett Johansson Cryptojacking Scam hits PostgreSQL servers (lien direct) | Researchers from Imperva have discovered a new technique where attackers are disguising malicious code in a photo of Scarlett Johansson and targeting PostgreSQL servers to illegally mine Monero cryptocurrency. “Hackers have upped their game and are now using what appear to be benign image files, such as the one we found of Scarlett Johansson, to ... | |||
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2018-03-16 13:20:01 | RedisWannaMine: Complex New Cryptojacking Attack Discovered (lien direct) | Recently cryptojacking attacks have been spreading like wildfire and Imperva has witnessed that these attacks hold roughly 90% of all remote code execution attacks in web applications. However, this week a new generation of cryptojacking attacks was discovered which is aimed at both database servers and application servers. Researchers from Imperva discovered the extremely complex cryptojacking attack ... | |||
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2018-03-15 12:20:05 | Britain\'s best teen code-breakers compete in Govt-backed cyber-attack simulation (lien direct) | Last week, bright sparks from across the UK and Overseas Territories competed in the National Final of CyberCenturion, a cyber defence and STEM skills competition, led by global security company Northrop Grumman in partnership with government-backed Cyber Security Challenge UK and supported by the US Air Force Association. The ten finalist teams will compete in ... | ★★★ | ||
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2018-03-15 12:17:03 | Germany commands highest cyber security pay in Europe (lien direct) | Cyber security professionals in Germany have median base salaries on average 17% higher than in the UK according to Willis Towers Watson's Cyber Pay survey. Willis Towers Watson's Data Services High Tech Compensation survey shows that Germany leads cyber security pay in Europe, followed closely by Ireland and France. The UK ranks fifth at, driven ... | Guideline | ||
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2018-03-15 12:08:01 | Meltdown and Spectre will delay patching for most organizations (lien direct) | Complexity and challenges associated with the Spectre and Meltdown patches will result in companies delaying future patch rollouts, according to Barkly. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security | |||
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2018-03-15 12:07:02 | More countries are learning from Russia\'s cyber tactics (lien direct) | When British and US officials blamed Russian military hackers for last summer's NotPetya ransomware attack, they were confirming long-held suspicions among western governments that Russia is stepping up its hostile cyber capabilities. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The FT | NotPetya | ||
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2018-03-15 11:53:04 | Google Moves to Ban Ads for Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency (lien direct) | Following a similar no-quarter approach taken by Facebook, Google plans to ban crypto-related advertising starting in June. The ban includes ads for initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets and trading advice, across any Google platforms. The prohibition will be far ranging: Google's ad engines place ads on not just its own sites but also on third-party ... | |||
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2018-03-15 11:51:03 | (Déjà vu) New PoS malware PinkKite takes flight (lien direct) | A new family of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, has been identified by researchers who say the malware is tiny in size, but can delivered a hefty blow to POS endpoints. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Threatpost | |||
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2018-03-15 11:45:01 | Samba rushes out fix for flaw that lets anyone change admin passwords (lien direct) | Samba has patched two serious security vulnerabilities in its widely used open-source Windows and Linux networking software. Patches were rushed out after security experts uncovered password and denial-of-service flaws that can be found in all versions of the software released since December 2012. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-15 11:44:01 | WhatsApp stops sharing data with Facebook (lien direct) | WhatsApp has agreed to suspend data-sharing with Facebook after an investigation revealed it actually had no legal reason to share customers’ information with the social network. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IT PRO | ★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-15 11:43:01 | Big data and insurance: Implications for innovation and privacy (lien direct) | The use of big data analytics in insurance offers societal benefits, as improved understanding of risks can inform risk reduction and enhance insurability. However, individuals, firms and regulators face complex trade-offs when balancing the benefits and risks of using personal data from digital sources to calculate insurance premiums. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2018-03-14 12:19:05 | How Israel is becoming the world\'s top cyber superpower (lien direct) | Israel, or “Startup Nation” as some call it, has become a world leader in cyber security. And the nation’s military is fueling its supremacy. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Vice | Guideline | ||
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2018-03-14 12:18:03 | Ads are great, Google says, except for the 3.2 billion bad ones (lien direct) | The number of ads that tried to harvest personal information, distribute malware or otherwise violate Google policies doubled from 2016 to 2017. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNET | |||
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2018-03-14 12:17:05 | Russian embassy demands explanation from UK Foreign Office about cyber attack threats (lien direct) | Russia's embassy in London said on Tuesday it has requested official explanations from the UK Foreign Office concerning cyber attack threats. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tass.com | |||
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2018-03-14 12:17:01 | How Microsoft can enable the internet of things (lien direct) | As the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon continues to grow, Microsoft has responded by contributing two new editions of Windows 10 – Core and Enterprise – that are aimed at radically different parts of the devices and systems market. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Network World | |||
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2018-03-14 12:16:02 | N.Y. hospital data breach, 135,000 patients potentially affected (lien direct) | An Albany, N.Y. hospital suffered a data breach affecting about 135,000 patients when an unauthorized party gained access to its servers. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine | |||
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2018-03-14 12:15:04 | APAC security chiefs expect imminent attack on critical systems (lien direct) | Nearly 70% of cyber security leaders in the APAC region believe a major attack affecting critical infrastructure across multiple countries will happen in the next two years, a survey reveals View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly | Guideline | ||
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2018-03-14 12:14:05 | Malicious activity surges coincide with geopolitical events (lien direct) | Comodo released its Global Malware Report 2017, which culminates a year of security analysis and research into threat patterns. Among its major findings: 2017 was a year of multiple geopolitical events that corresponded with major malware spikes in enterprise security. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security | |||
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2018-03-14 12:10:02 | A team of enthusiasts from SPYSE has just launched the free of charge SSL-certificate search engine (lien direct) | SPYSE team, a group of highly-skilled security specialists and IT experts of the area, has just released CertDB, which is an SSL Certificate search engine that could be used for the various purposes. The mission of the project lies in blurring the widespread belief that an SSL Certificate is just a minor collection of the ... | |||
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2018-03-14 12:00:02 | Have we entered an age of Compliance Complacency? (lien direct) | Data is power. It's a prime commodity for businesses, which in turn means it is constantly under threat. Just try and think back to a week where a data breach or cyber attacks did not hit the headlines, and you'll struggle. Not only are these threats a growing problem for any organisation, but the issue ... | |||
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2018-03-13 13:31:01 | Massive breach discovered in Florida Virtual School database (lien direct) | A massive data breach, which may put nearly 370,000 students and teachers at-risk, has just been discovered but it stretches back two years. Florida Virtual School says that a vendor left the door to their server open and unprotected. And now, a simple missed password could put you at risk. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ... | |||
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2018-03-13 13:30:01 | Your smart camera could go rogue: Here\'s how it becomes a data-stealing spy tool (lien direct) | Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in popular smart cameras that are frequently used as baby monitors, or for internal home and office security surveillance. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Times of India | |||
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2018-03-13 13:28:02 | Healthcare industry: Attacks outpacing investments in personnel, education and resources (lien direct) | Recognizing that healthcare organizations are facing constant cyber attacks, the 2018 Impact of Cyber Insecurity on Healthcare Organizations study examines the myriad of cybersecurity-related challenges and how organizations are (or are not) addressing them. Results show the security stakes are high, with 62 percent of the 627 executives surveyed admitting to experiencing an attack in ... | ★★ |
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