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    CYBER SECURITY IN MANUFACTURING IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR, FEELS INDUSTRY

    May 23, 2019

    With digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence and smart working culture making inroads in various sectors, including manufacturing, Indian companies are also gearing up to cope with the problems that come along with the technological advancement. One such issue is of cyber security. There have been i...

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    RANSOMWARE PROTECTION TIPS INCLUDE OFFLINE STORAGE, USER EDUCATION

    May 23, 2019

    Ransomware resilience continues to be important because the problem isn't going away. Explore these backup and education tips to help stay out in front of the issue. "It's always there." Jeff Martinson, IT director at Ameritas, is talking about ransomware. The problem may quiet dow...

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    FIRMWARE VULNERABILITY IN MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC

    May 22, 2019

    A vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric’s MELSEC-Q Series Ethernet Module could allow a remote attacker to gain escalated privileges, according to an ICS-CERT advisory. Reported by Nozomi Networks, the vulnerability “could allow an attacker to render the PLCs statue in fault mode, requiri...

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    GOOGLE STORED PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS SINCE 2005

    May 22, 2019

    Google has admitted that some of its enterprise customers’ passwords have been erroneously stored in plaintext, in a security issue dating back 14 years. The tech giant’s VP of engineering, Suzanne Frey, explained that the problem occurred when it introduced a new way for G Suite domain ...

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    PHISHING KIT 16SHOP TARGETS APPLE USERS, HACKERS

    May 21, 2019

    Researchers have discovered a hidden backdoor in a commercial phishing kit, 16Shop, used to attack Apple customers, according to Akamai. “When it comes to targeting Apple users and their personal and financial data, 16Shop has emerged as a go to kit for those who can afford it. While 16Shop is...

    INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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    LIB DEMS COME FIRST IN UK FOR CYBERSECURITY

    May 21, 2019

    Sweden’s political parties have the best cybersecurity posture globally, with the UK languishing in the bottom half of the table, according to a new analysis by SecurityScorecard ahead of the European Parliament elections. Noting the impact of a major data breach at the Democratic National Com...

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    IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LOGS – LOOKING INTO YOUR PAST WILL PROTECT YOUR NETWORK’S FUTURE

    May 20, 2019

    We see it repeatedly. The newly installed CISO or CIO installs the latest blinky-box in “the quadrant.” As they discuss all the great features and how it’s going to help protect their network, it’s discovered that while the device will get MOST of the logs, but there are stil...

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    NEW VERIZON DATA BREACH REPORT OUTLINES CHANGING CYBER THREAT LANDSCAPE

    May 20, 2019

    The new 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) provides a wealth of data and statistical research about where new cyber threats are coming from in the world, and how cyber criminals are altering their tactics in response to new defensive measures in place. The 12th annual Verizon data ...

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    SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES NEW CYBERSECURITY CENTER

    May 20, 2019

    The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore recently announced the launch of its new 24/7 cybersecurity center, Maritime Cybersecurity Operations Center (MSOC). Inaugurated by Niam Chiang Meng, the Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the new center is operated by S...

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    BLOCKCHAIN, CRYPTOCURRENCY’S FUTURE DEBATED AT CONSENSUS CONFERENCE

    May 18, 2019

    If you are still confused about what blockchain is and what it can be used for, don’t worry. The crypto industry is still trying to figure that out, too. Here at Coindesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, fledgling software companies pitched new pieces for future incarnations of blockchain, w...

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    BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY: TREND OF INNOVATION ARRIVES, IMPLEMENTATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY GAINS IMPORTANCE

    May 17, 2019

    Advances in biometric technology have transformed the conventional ways of identification and verification. Innovation has become a prime focal point for reducing the efforts of people with new ways for verification and ensuring the security. From voice biometric technology used for telephone bankin...

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    MORE ORGS USE BOOBY TRAPS FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

    May 17, 2019

    A recent survey found that to gain counterintelligence the vast majority of organizations would allow an attacker to take decoy files rather than stop an attack in progress, according to the latest International Cyber Benchmark Index from the Neustar International Security Council (NISC). A reported...

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    NORWEGIAN INDUSTRY AND STATE MUST COMBINE TO COUNTER CYBER THREATS

    May 16, 2019

    Norway has been targeted by two large ransomware attacks in recent months – and public and private organisations must react in a coordinated way. Norway’s leading private and publicly owned companies are deepening their collaborative cyber defence relationship with national security agen...

    COMPUTER WEEKLY
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    GROWING OPPORTUNITIES MAKE CYBERSECURITY A KEY FOCUS AREA FOR IT MAJORS

    May 16, 2019

    Cybersecurity may have always been a major risk managed on priority by IT majors, but growing opportunities in the space lately have led companies to sit up and take notice. Leading IT companies such as Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL Technologies have begun investing significantly in cybersecurity segm...

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    EXTREME NETWORKS’ APPROACH TO AUTONOMOUS NETWORKING IS ELEMENTAL

    May 15, 2019

    This week at its ExtremeConnect user event in Nashville, Tenn., Extreme Networks played the tune of autonomous networks. The theme of the event was FutureForward, indicating that the customers in the audience should be looking at many of the upcoming technology and business trends to architect their...

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    IT DECISION-MAKERS WILLING TO SHARE THREAT INTEL

    May 15, 2019

    The sharing mentality is starting to take hold across the cybersecurity industry, with the vast majority of security decision-makers confessing that they would be willing to share threat intelligence, according to a new publication by IronNet. The report, Collective Offense Calls for Collective Defe...

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    NEW PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK RANKS COMPANIES' CYBERSECURITY

    May 15, 2019

    Cyber Governance Indexes, a performance benchmarks software, provides market-based proof that companies with good cyber governance outperform peers in shareholder value terms – and vice versa. Five thousand companies are ranked at the beginning of each month from best to worst using real-world...

    SECURITY MAGAZINE
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    GIT ATTACK HIT WEAK CREDENTIALS

    May 14, 2019

    The git community is working to triage an apparent ransomware attack that hit user accounts on GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian Bitbucket. The attack was initially discovered on May 2. Reports suggested that the attack targeted accounts with weak passwords. According to a blog post released today by th...

    SDXCENTRAL
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    APAC FIRMS ON THE BACK FOOT IN CYBER SECURITY

    May 14, 2019

    Most Asia-Pacific organisations did not consider cyber security until after their digital transformation projects had begun, new survey finds In a worrying sign of complacency, more than 80% of Asia-Pacific organisations did not consider cyber security until after their digital transformation projec...

    COMPUTER WEEKLY
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    CISCO ROUTERS OPEN TO MAJOR SECURITY FLAW

    May 14, 2019

    Cisco routers, including ones that can be found in malls, large companies or government institutions, are flawed in a way that allows hackers to steal all of the data flowing through them. The news was unveiled yesterday by Red Baron, a cybersecurity company whose researchers claim the Cisco 1001-X ...

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    MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT VULNERABILITY EXPLOITED IN THE WILD

    May 13, 2019

    A critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform has been exploited in the wild to deliver malware. The security hole, tracked as CVE-2019-0604, got its first patch in February and another one in March after the first fix turned out to be incomplete. Microsoft describe...

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    WANNACRY REMAINS A GLOBAL THREAT TWO YEARS ON

    May 13, 2019

    WannaCry ransomware remains a global threat two years on from the initial outbreak of the attack in May 2017. That’s according to new analysis from Malwarebytes, which discovered that a total of 4,826,682 WannaCry detections have been identified since the malware variant first wreaked havoc. A...

    INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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    FORMJACKING: THE SECURITY NIGHTMARE CISOS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

    May 13, 2019

    Ransomware hit the headlines in 2017, cryptojacking became notorious in 2018, so it may come as no surprise that a sophisticated new form of attack is making its mark in 2019. Staying ahead of trends and the security game, malicious actors have latched onto another high-return attack. Their latest w...

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    HEALTHCARE IT PROS NOW CONFIDENT IN THEIR CYBER ATTACK RESPONSE ABILITY

    May 10, 2019

    Almost two years since the ransomware attack that brought the NHS (National Health Service) to a halt, healthcare IT professionals feel more confident in their ability to respond to a cyber-attack, according to new research from Infoblox. As healthcare providers continue to undertake digital transfo...

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    PHOTO APP DEVELOPS TOOL WITH USER IMAGES

    May 10, 2019

    Photo storage app Ever failed to get consent from users who uploaded millions of images to the service before it adopted the images as tools to train a commercial facial recognition system, according to NBC News. Without disclosing their use of the images to users of the app, Ever also reportedly of...

    INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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    NORTHERN IRELAND GENERATING CYBER SECURITY KNOWLEDGE AND JOBS

    May 09, 2019

    Northern Ireland is establishing itself as an international hub of cyber security research and innovation, providing growing employment opportunities The cyber security industry in Northern Ireland provides employment for nearly 1,700 people and is on course to generate more than £70m in salar...

    COMPUTERWEEKLY
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    DON'T NEGLECT YOUR CYBER HYGIENE: SIX STEPS TO KEEP INFORMATION SAFE

    May 09, 2019

    Just as you can't just show up to the dentist one time in your life and expect to prevent cavities forever, the same is true for cybersecurity. It should be a continuous process, not a one-time gap assessment or penetration test. Because new threats are emerging every day, businesses must contin...

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    NATIONAL AWARENESS PLAN ON CYBER SECURITY, CYBER CRIME BY YEAR-END

    May 08, 2019

    A NATIONAL awareness plan on the management of cyber security and cyber crime will be launched at the end of this year, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said yesterday. She said the plan, which is being developed by the National Cyber Security Agency, is expected to be...

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    C-SUITE UNDER ATTACK AS MONEY AND DATA DRIVE BREACHES

    May 08, 2019

    State-sponsored attacks, cloud storage misconfiguration, ransomware and social threats targeting the C-suite all posed major risks to global organizations over the past 12 months, according to Verizon. The vendor’s newly released Data Breach Investigations Report 2019 comprises analysis of ove...

    INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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    DATA BREACHES IN THE CLOUD ARE MAINLY THE FAULT OF EMPLOYEES

    May 08, 2019

    When businesses use cloud services to store and manage data, they generally expect those services to handle data security, as well. However, a new report from Kaspersky Lab argues that in most cases, it’s the business’ employees that are to blame for data breaches. The comoants latest re...

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    CANADIAN TELCO EXPOSES UNENCRYPTED CARD DETAILS

    May 08, 2019

    Canadian telco giant Freedom Mobile has become the latest big-name brand whose security has been found wanting after researchers discovered an unprotected database exposing over five million customer records. A research team at vpnMentor claimed to have discovered the Elasticsearch database online o...

    INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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    ETHICAL HACKERS: THE GOOD GUYS PROTECTING YOU BEFORE THE BAD GUYS STRIKEA

    May 08, 2019

    Ethical hackers are essentially the good individuals who put themselves in the shoes of a hacker to find out where an organisation’s vulnerability lies before shady elements strike Digital Transformation is a phenomenon that nearly every IT organisation that exists is onboard with it. When it ...

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    INTERSECTING MACHINE LEARNING AND CYBERSECURITY

    May 07, 2019

    The technologies for Cyber Security and Machine Learning intersect in many ways. The objectives of cyber security technologies are to detect cyber-attacks, to thwart them, and—in case stopping an attack is not possible—monitoring system activities to detect an on-going attack before dama...

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    THE NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY ALLIANCE AND ITSPMAGAZINE ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP IN SUPPORT OF CYBERSECURE MY BUSINESS™

    May 07, 2019

    The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) – a nonprofit, public-private partnership focused on helping businesses and consumers stay safer and more secure online – announced today a strategic partnership with ITSPmagazine. At the intersection of IT security and society, ITPSmagazine is...

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    CYBERSECURITY DRIVES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IN FROM THE COLD

    May 06, 2019

    Intelligence agencies and cybersecurity: What a long, strange trip it's been. Flash back to 2000, when Richard C. Schaeffer, then the U.S. Defense Department's director of information assurance, showed up to Def Con to pitch the hacking community on government employment. "We've got...

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    MOZILLA RELEASES MAJOR SECURITY FIX FOR FIREFOX

    May 06, 2019

    Mozilla's latest patch for Firefox allows web extensions, themes, search engines and language packs to all be enabled again, the company confirmed over the weekend. In a short announcement, it said it wanted to get these bugs fixed before the start of the week. Initially, the problem was with th...

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    RANSOMWARE: PREVENT YOUR COMPUTER FROM BEING INFECTED

    May 05, 2019

    The cities of Newark, Atlanta, and Sarasota have been hit. So have Cleveland's airport and San Francisco's transit authority. When the cyberattack targeted Leeds, Alabama, its mayor had no access to email, personnel files, or financial systems. This week on "60 Minutes," correspond...

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    CANONICAL SHARPENS FOCUS ON RED HAT, VMWARE; IPO PLANS REMAIN

    May 03, 2019

    Canonical this week moved to simplify its service offerings in an attempt to lower cost and attract more customers looking to jump into the open source game. The move also comes ahead of a planned initial public offering that could handsomely compensate the company’s staff. The move is under i...

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    JUNIPER PUSHES OPEN SOURCE PAST EXPERIMENTATION TO IMPLEMENTATION

    May 03, 2019

    Juniper Networks believes that open source is initiating where the broader software and networking industry is heading, Julius Francis, director of product management and marketing for cloud, security, and analytics at Juniper told SDxCentral at this week’s Open Infrastructure Summit. However,...

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    UK BUSINESSES NEED TO STEP UP THEIR PASSWORD MANAGEMENT GAME

    May 02, 2019

    Despite doing a lot to keep their organisations safe, IT leaders are still falling short due to bad password practices. A new report by OneLogin found that almost all organisations in the country have some form of cybersecurity guidelines or best practices, and many IT decision makers are confident ...

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    HPE OPENS NEW HQ, HIGHLIGHTS LAB RESEARCH ADVANCES

    May 02, 2019

    Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the HP that produces enterprise IT systems but not printers, laptops or workstations, showed off its new headquarters here in the heart of Silicon Valley on April 30. The event included a media tour of its wide-ranging research facilities. Among other projects, the tech g...

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    SPLUNK EXTENDS POWER OF DATA TO ALL WITH NEW ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS

    May 02, 2019

    Splunk this week added two new products targeting non-technical workers that connect to its core enterprise data platform. One provides access to enterprise dashboards through a number of services, and the other is a data tool for business operations professionals to visualize certain processes. &ld...

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    IBM OPENS ITS AUSSIE MULTI-ZONE AVAILABILITY REGION FOR CLOUD

    Apr 29, 2019

    Connecting three data centres in Sydney. IBM Australia’s new cloud boss Eric Schnatterly says the company’s multi-zone availability region (MZR) for cloud is now live in Sydney. IBM announced plans to deploy an MZR in Australia last June. Schnatterly will use his address at the Gartner I...

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    THIRD-PARTY RISKS AND PHISHING ATTACKS ARE TOP OF BUSINESSES CONCERNS

    Apr 29, 2019

    Business leaders in the UK and the US are struggling to find the balance between cost and security, often making trades between business demands and security. This is according to a new report by Glasswall Solutions which says that almost three quarters (71 per cent) of respondents consider that thi...

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    MOBILE VERSION OF CHROME VULNERABLE TO PHISHING ATTACKS

    Apr 29, 2019

    Researchers have detected a vulnerability in mobile version of Google's Chrome browser which can allow hackers to trick unsuspecting victims into thinking they are vising a legitimate website instead of a fake one. As you may imagine, if a person believes they are visiting their bank's websi...

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    KASPERSKY LAB SURVEY FINDS CYBERSECURITY A TOP SOURCE OF STRESS FOR CONSUMERS IN NORTH AMERICA

    Apr 29, 2019

    Today, Kaspersky Lab released a new survey report, which revealed that 75% of people in the U.S. and Canada are stressed by the number of passwords they have to manage. The research also found that facing a cybersecurity incident is one of the most stressful situations modern consumers can face. Whe...

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    HOW TO GET YOUR EMPLOYEES ON BOARD WITH CYBER SECURITY

    Apr 29, 2019

    Cyber attacks can put your company’s stability at risk as it usually targets the company computer systems. Having employees on board ensures you get all the assistance you can get in combating threats before they harm the system. Continuous training is one way of keeping all employees up to da...

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    CARBANAK MALWARE WAS RECORDING VIDEO OF VICTIMS' DESKTOPS

    Apr 26, 2019

    Researchers from FireEye spent hundreds of hours analyzing the Carbanak backdoor malware and its source code and were surprised by some of the features it contained. Following hundreds of hours analyzing the Carbanak malware and source code, security researchers found surprising features and complex...

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    QUALCOMM PATCHES MAJOR CHIP SECURITY FLAW

    Apr 26, 2019

    Qualcomm has patched a vulnerability in a few dozen chips which allowed hackers to steal sensitive information from the devices running them. The information included encryption keys and passwords, it was said. According to the announcement, the vulnerability which was given the name CVE-2018-11976 ...

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    CISCO FINDS SERIOUS FLAWS IN SIERRA WIRELESS AIRLINK DEVICES

    Apr 26, 2019

    Cisco’s Talos research and intelligence group on Thursday disclosed the details of nearly a dozen vulnerabilities uncovered in Sierra Wireless AirLink devices, including serious flaws that can be exploited to change system settings, execute arbitrary code, and modify passwords. The security ho...

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    NIST TOOL FINDS ERRORS IN COMPLEX SAFETY-CRITICAL SOFTWARE

    Apr 26, 2019

    The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week announced that updates to its Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software (ACTS) research toolkit should help developers of complex safety-critical applications find potentially dangerous errors and make their software safer. ...

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    CYBERSECURITY IS IMPROVING, THOUGH RISK CONTINUES TO GROW

    Apr 26, 2019

    There is never a shortage of bad news when it comes to cybersecurity, with a seemingly endless stream of vulnerabilities and exploits. The 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report, released on April 25, has its' fair share of bad news as multiple types of attacks have grown and attackers have conti...

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    P2P FLAWS EXPOSE MILLIONS OF IOT DEVICES TO REMOTE ATTACKS

    Apr 26, 2019

    Vulnerabilities discovered by a researcher in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system named iLnkP2P expose millions of cameras and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices to remote attacks from the Internet, and no patches are available. Paul Marrapese, a California-based security engineer, discovered two seriou...

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    CONNECTED DEVICES, LEGACY SYSTEMS LEAVE HOSPITALS WIDE OPEN TO CYBER ATTACK

    Apr 25, 2019

    The spread of Internet-connected medical devices, combined with insufficient access controls, has helped enable a rapidly growing attack surface that's highly vulnerable to cyber attack. WHY IT MATTERS Those were among the findings of a healthcare security report published by network detection s...

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    UK COULD BE SET FOR A MAJOR CYBERSECURITY UPGRADE

    Apr 25, 2019

    Consumers are bad at protecting themselves from online threats and that's probably the main argument why such a responsibility shouldn't be theirs to bear in the first place. Consequently, the UK government is considering building a national cybersecurity defence system, which should incorpo...

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    CYBERSECURITY AND IOT INDUSTRY FACING SKILL SHORTAGE LEADING TO DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

    Apr 25, 2019

    Businesses in the UK are going through a tough phase while finding the correct blend of cybersecurity and IoT skills, according to a report by Experis Industry Insider. The study examines the growth of IoT and how it is impacting the cybersecurity jobs market. As the industry professionals witnessin...

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    CYBER SECURITY READINESS STALLS AS ATTACKS INTENSIFY, FINDS INSURER HISCOX

    Apr 24, 2019

    Global cyber security has “stalled” despite a sharp rise in attacks and soaring costs from the fall out, according to the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2019. This lull in progress on cyber security has happened as attacks “reach a new intensity”, with more than three out of f...

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    SHADOWHAMMER ATTACK DIDN'T JUST HIT ASUS

    Apr 24, 2019

    The Operation ShadowHammer supply chain attack which affected Asus last month may have affected more victims, Kaspersky has said. Further investigation by the company's security researchers found that Asus wasn't the only company targeted. In fact, a total of six companies were infiltrated d...

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    REPORT: A VULNERABLE ATTACK SURFACE EXISTS IN HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE IT NETWORKS

    Apr 24, 2019

    Vectra, the leader in network threat detection and response, today announced that the proliferation of healthcare internet-of-things (IoT) devices, along with unpartitioned networks, insufficient access controls and the reliance on legacy systems, has exposed a vulnerable attack surface that can be ...

    IT NEWS ONLINE
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    GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TARGETED WITH TROJANIZED TEAMVIEWER

    Apr 24, 2019

    Recently observed attacks targeting officials within government finance authorities and representatives in several embassies in Europe abuse the legitimate TeamViewer application to gain full control of victim machines. The attack started with a malicious XLSM document with malicious macros, which i...

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    UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS UNAWARE OF CYBERSECURITY RISKS

    Apr 23, 2019

    Members of underserved populations are less likely to know whether they have even been victimized by a cyber attack, and they have lower awareness of cybersecurity risks. Partly as a result, they are also less likely to access vital online services, such as banking, health services, educational prog...

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    SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE IDENTIFIED A NEW WAY TO IMPROVE NETWORK SECURITY

    Apr 23, 2019

    With cybersecurity one of the nation’s top security concerns and billions of people affected by breaches last year, government and businesses are spending more time and money defending against it. Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Labora...

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    UK FIRMS BEING HIT WITH MORE CYBERATTACKS

    Apr 23, 2019

    Businesses are ill-prepared for cyberattacks, and unsurprisingly, this means a higher percentage of companies have experienced attacks compared to last year. This is according to a new report by insurers Hiscox which says that 55 per cent of UK companies faced an attack this year, up from 40 per cen...

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    CARBANAK SOURCE CODE DISCOVERED ON VIRUSTOTAL

    Apr 23, 2019

    The source code of a backdoor associated with the prolific FIN7 threat actor has emerged on VirusTotal alongside builders and other tools from the group, FireEye security researchers reveal. Also referred to as Carbanak, or Anunak, the financially-motivated actor has been active since at least 2015,...

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    BANKING TROJAN DRIVE-BY DOWNLOAD LEVERAGES TRUST IN GOOGLE SITES

    Apr 23, 2019

    Brazilian hackers have developed a drive-by download attack leveraging the inherent trust in the Google name. A banking trojan known as LoadPCBanker is deployed using the file cabinets template in Google sites as a delivery vehicle. The attacker first developed a website using Google Sites. He then ...

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    EXPLOITS FOR ADOBE VULNERABILITIES SPIKED IN 2018

    Apr 23, 2019

    With Flash Player on way out, attackers are renewing their focus on Acrobat Reader, RiskSense found. Malware authors weaponized more Adobe software vulnerabilities in 2018 than any previous year while the actual number of newly disclosed security flaws in the company's products dropped significa...

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    CI SECURITY RAISES $9.6M TO HELP CUSTOMERS MANAGE CYBER THREATS

    Apr 23, 2019

    CI Security, a startup that provides its customers with cybersecurity software and expertise in detecting and responding to digital intrusions and threats, announced Monday it has raised $9.6 million in new funding. Seattle-based CI Security, which was previously known as Critical Informatics, says ...

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    LEARN TO CURB CYBER SECURITY THREATS

    Apr 22, 2019

    RECENTLY, there have been many cyber security concerns involving scams and data breaches. It has become extremely vital to know how to protect your information more securely. This has prompted Asia Pacific University (APU) to address those concerns while demonstrating the university’s strength...

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    DATA SECURITY SOFTWARE MARKET 2018 SWOT ANALYSIS: KEY MANUFACTURER, GROWTH BY SIGNIFICANT CAGR BY 2023

    Apr 22, 2019

    The report elaborates the complete details covering product definition, product type, and application. The report covers useful details which are categorized based on Data Security Software production region, major players, and product type which will provide a simplified view of the Data Security S...

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    GOVERNMENT AND TELECOMS MEETING UP OVER GOOGLE'S NEW CHROME VERSION

    Apr 22, 2019

    So Google is allegedly working on an encrypted version of its popular internet browser Chrome, and this has raised eyebrows of more than one government agency and telecom operator in the UK. The news first broke out in The Times, which claims Google is building an encrypted version of Chrome. That w...

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    CLOUD SECURITY IMPROVING: RESULTS OF THE 2019 SANS STATE OF CLOUD SECURITY SURVEY

    Apr 22, 2019

    The state of cloud security is improving, albeit slowly, according to results of the 2019 SANS State of Cloud Security survey to be released by SANS Institute on May 1, 2019. "Organizations are continually evolving in their use of cloud services, looking to the cloud for procurement, management...

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    HEALTHCARE FIRM EMCARE SAYS 60,000 EMPLOYEES AND PATIENTS EXPOSED IN BREACH

    Apr 22, 2019

    Dallas, Texas-based firm EmCare Inc disclosed on Saturday that a number of employees' email accounts had been accessed, potentially exposing personal information of almost 60,000 people, including 31,000 patients. EmCare, part of Envision Healthcare, provides outsourced physician services to hos...

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    BLOCKCHAIN PATENT GRANTED TO CYBERSECURITY COMPANY OWNED BY U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTOR

    Apr 21, 2019

    Documents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on April 16 reveal that Texas-based cybersecurity company Forcepoint has been awarded a blockchain-related patent. Forcepoint is owned by U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, and C...

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    CISCO DISCLOSES CRITICAL SECURITY ALERTS FOR OS, ROUTERS

    Apr 19, 2019

    Cisco issued 31 security advisories and alerts over the past few days affecting, among other products, routers, operating systems, and LAN software. The vendor classified two as critical-impact vulnerabilities, six as high-impact, and 22 as medium. These new security alerts come about a month after ...

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    ELECTORAL COMMISSION SPINS UP CYBER OPS CENTRE

    Apr 18, 2019

    Looks to ex-cyber spooks to protect electoral systems. With the date of next month’s federal ballot now set, the agency in charge of Australia’s electoral systems has switched on its new security operations centre to protect against external interference. The short-term SOC capability wa...

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    STATE-SPONSORED HACKERS USE SOPHISTICATED DNS HIJACKING IN ONGOING ATTACKS

    Apr 18, 2019

    With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least 40 different organizations across 13 countries have been compromised. Researchers at Cisco Talos discov...

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    RUSSIAN HACKERS USE RATS TO TARGET FINANCIAL ENTITIES

    Apr 18, 2019

    A financially motivated threat actor believed to speak Russian has used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States and worldwide, Israel-based security firm CyberInt reports. Tracked by the research community as TA505, the Russian threat group is known for the...

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    AUTOMOTIVE CYBER SECURITY: GLOBAL MARKET INSIGHT REPORT 2019 TO 2027

    Apr 18, 2019

    The "Global Automotive Cyber Security Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Automotive Cyber Security Market is poised to grow strong during the forecast period 2017 to 2027. Some of the prominen...

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    WHY HP HAS TAKEN THE PC SECURITY LEAD

    Apr 18, 2019

    Hewlett-Packard Inc. has the world's leading security feature for personal computers at the moment. That was my conclusion based on this week’s announcement from the Innovation Summit in Barcelona (I was there) of updates to its market-leading Sure View and the announcement of Sure Sense. ...

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    LINKEDIN DATA FOUND IN UNSECURED DATABASES

    Apr 18, 2019

    A security researcher identified eight unsecured databases that held "approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user information." GDI Foundation, where the security researcher is from, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to "defend the free and open Internet by trying to ma...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63756375

    CISCO TALOS SAYS A NATION STATE IS BEHIND SEA TURTLE DNS HIJACKING ATTACKS

    Apr 17, 2019

    Cisco Talos researchers say a nation state is likely behind a new cyberattack, dubbed Sea Turtle, that uses domain name system (DNS) hijacking to steal credentials and passwords for espionage. While Talos won’t attribute the attacks to one particular nation state, “given the complexity i...

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    3 QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE PUTTING A HEALTHCARE APPLICATION IN THE CLOUD

    Apr 17, 2019

    Several years ago, many experts were indicating that by 2020 everything would be running in the cloud. The promises of economical on-demand computing and storage resources were appealing. Companies could look to reduce capital investments and begin to sunset expensive data centers by quickly spinnin...

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    NATION-STATE ATTACKERS EXPLOITING DNS AT SCALE, CISCO REPORTS

    Apr 17, 2019

    Cisco Talos is warning of a new attacker group it has dubbed "Sea Turtle" that is exploiting DNS information at scale across large government agencies. According to the report which was released on April 17, the Sea Turtle attack has already compromised at least 40 different organizations,...

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    ORACLE RELEASES 297 FIXES IN APRIL 2019 CRITICAL PATCH UPDATE

    Apr 17, 2019

    Oracle this week announced the release of 297 new security fixes as part of its April 2019 Critical Patch Update (CPU), two-thirds of which are remotely exploitable without authentication. Fifty-three of the fixes patch critical vulnerabilities — with a CVSS score of above 9 — including ...

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    HOW BLACKBERRY HAS BECOME A CYBER-SECURITY PLAYER

    Apr 16, 2019

    BlackBerry is a very different company today than it was a decade ago, as the one-time mobile giant is now firmly positioning itself to be a global player in the cyber-security market. Among the new assets in the BlackBerry security portfolio is Cylance, which BlackBerry acquired in a $1.4 billion d...

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    CROSS-PLATFORM ROOTKIT AND SPYWARE HITS TARGETS WORLDWIDE

    Apr 16, 2019

    The Scranos rootkit-enabled spyware operation has expanded reach outside of China to hit targets worldwide, Bitdefender security researchers warn. Spreading via trojanized applications posing as cracked software or legitimate programs (such as e-book readers, video players, drivers, or anti-malware ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63536353

    HP AIMS TO SECURE ITS PC PORTFOLIO WITH SURE SENSE MALWARE BLOCKER

    Apr 16, 2019

    HP on Tuesday announced a bevy of PC updates and new features, as well as the formal release of HP Sure Sense, the company's new software that uses AI to prevent and block malware in near-real-time, including ransomware and previously unknown malware. HP says Sure Sense is different from other m...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63546354

    F-SECURE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS THE WOEFUL STATE OF INSECURITY IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY

    Apr 16, 2019

    It is the most important industry in the world. Energy. We need it. Without it, nothing works. Without the oil producers and refiners, there’s no petrol to fuel our cars. Without power plans and the supporting infrastructure, there’s no electricity to keep the lights on. Without natural ...

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    NATIONAL GROUP SEEKS POLICYMAKERS, INTERNET OF THINGS INDUSTRY LEADERS TO JOIN SECURITY ACTION COMMITTEE

    Apr 16, 2019

    The Canadian Multistakeholder Process to enhance Internet of Things (IoT) security has a game plan to secure Canada’s connected future and will form an action committee to put it in play on April 18 in Ottawa. In April 2018, the Internet Society and the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Eco...

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    INNOVATIONS IN ENDPOINT SECURITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING- AND IOT-BASED SECURITY

    Apr 16, 2019

    This Cyber Security TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides a snapshot on emerging cyber security solutions powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and endpoint security innovations that help protect companies from threats, data breaches, phishing attacks and defend against m...

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    EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY PAPER CALLS FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DIGITAL HEALTH

    Apr 15, 2019

    Patients, clinicians and technology vendors must work together to drive the adoption of digital health at the heart of national models and systems, researchers say. The potential of digital health to provide a comprehensive framework for the research, prevention and treatment of chronic disease is b...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63356335

    WIPRO HACKED, INTERNAL SYSTEMS USED TO ATTACK CUSTOMERS: REPORT

    Apr 15, 2019

    Wipro is currently investigating what appears to be a serious breach of its networks and systems, which are apparently being used to launch attacks on customers, forcing the outsourcing giant to build a private email service to replace compromised corporate system. First reported by United States se...

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    THREE WORDPRESS PLUGINS 0DAY VULNERABILITIES UNCOVERED, THOUSANDS COMPROMISED

    Apr 15, 2019

    The more moving parts a website has, the more potential vulnearbilities and entry points it may have, also. This is particularly true with WordPress, whose platform revolves, in good measure, around different plugins. Each plugin is a potential disaster waiting to happen, and the bigger the userbase...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63426342

    MICROSOFT'S CLOUD EMAIL BREACH IS A CAUSE FOR CONCERN

    Apr 15, 2019

    Microsoft has admitted that it suffered a data breach involving its web-based email services including Outlook.com, MSN.com and Hotmail.com that lasted for three months before it was detected and remediated. Microsoft has not fully publicly disclosed how many customer accounts were impacted, and the...

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    HEALTHCARE CYBER SECURITY MARKET TO ACCRUE $12.46 BILLION, BY 2023

    Apr 15, 2019

    According to the report published by Allied Market Research, the global healthcare cyber security market garnered $5.21 billion in 2017 and is expected to accrue a sum of $12.46 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 15.6% from 2017 to 2023. The report provides a thorough analysis of market size and ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63446344

    FOUR ELEMENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE CYBERSECURITY PLATFORM FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS

    Apr 15, 2019

    Has your small or midsize business finally decided to bite the bullet on cybersecurity preparedness by adopting software to protect the firm’s sensitive information? If so, the key task for you now is to determine whether these new cybersecurity protections are, in fact, working. After all, da...

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    IBM: 77% OF ENTERPRISES DON’T HAVE A CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN

    Apr 12, 2019

    The majority of companies — 77% of respondents — don’t have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied across the enterprise, according to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and paid for by IBM. One of the primary reasons for this is the well-documented security skills ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63316331

    VERSA RELEASES CLOUD-MANAGED SD-WAN BRANCH AND SECURITY

    Apr 12, 2019

    Versa Networks released a cloud-managed SD-WAN branch and security service designed for managed service providers and mid-market enterprises. Alongside the Versa Titan offering, it released Versa Cloud Services Gateway, a series of appliances that provide security and SD-WAN. In conversation at MWC ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63326332

    MAJOR VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN NEW WI-FI STANDARD

    Apr 12, 2019

    The latest WPA3 WiFi security and authentication standard may be suffering from serious safety flaws of its own.  This is according to a group of researchers - Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen, who issued a report called “Dragonblood – A Security Analysis of WPA3’s SAE Handshake&r...

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    IOT SECURITY STARTUP ARMIS RAISES $65 MILLION SERIES C

    Apr 11, 2019

    IoT security startup Armis raised $65 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total to $112 million. Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from Insight Venture Partners and Intermountain Ventures. Bain Capital Ventures, Red Dot Capital Partners, and Tenaya Capital also ...

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    SECURITY COLLIDES WITH MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SD-WAN MARKET

    Apr 11, 2019

    It shouldn’t come as a shock that the SD-WAN market is hot right now. It brought in $700 million in 2018 and is projected to hit $17 billion in 2025, according to Global Market Insights. IHS Markit recently found that during the fourth quarter of 2018, the SD-WAN market grew 26% from the previ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63226322

    INVESTORS ARE BETTING EARLY ON CYBERSECURITY STARTUPS

    Apr 11, 2019

    In an increasingly digital world, startups, small businesses, and large corporations have at least one problem in common: ensuring the security of the data they store. We also know that security is top of mind for VCs, too—but likely more for the returns than the actual protection. According t...

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    NEW CYBER SECURITY TRAINING PLATFORM FROM BOXX INSURANCE TURNS YOUR EMPLOYEES INTO A HUMAN FIREWALL

    Apr 11, 2019

    Strong cyber security is often associated with anti-virus protection and expensive security technology. But the weakest link is not software or hardware, it's human beings. Recent evidence shows that employee behaviour—be it clicking on a malicious link, or poor password safety—is re...

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    U.S. ATTRIBUTES NEW TROJAN TO NORTH KOREAN HACKERS

    Apr 11, 2019

    Notorious North Korean hackers are using a new Trojan in their attacks, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned on Wednesday. Referred to as Lazarus, BlueNoroff, and Hidden Cobra and said to be backed by the North Korean government, th...

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    SAP PATCHES HIGH SEVERITY FLAWS IN CRYSTAL REPORTS, NETWEAVER

    Apr 10, 2019

    SAP this week released 6 Security Notes as part of its April 2019 Security Patch Day, including two that address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver. Tracked as CVE-2019-0285 (CVSS Base Score: 7.5), the vulnerability in Crystal Reports is an information disclosure issue that could p...

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    SYSDIG UNIFIES SECURITY AND MONITORING FOR CONTAINERS, MICROSERVICES

    Apr 10, 2019

    Sysdig this week released version 2.0 of its cloud-native security and visibility platform. The update unifies the aspects of its platform for a more complete view of the health, performance, and risk levels of an enterprises’ cloud-native applications. “It starts with a simple fact &mda...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63116311

    CARS EXPOSED TO HACKER ATTACKS BY HARDCODED CREDENTIALS IN MYCAR APPS

    Apr 10, 2019

    Hardcoded admin credentials found in the MyCar Controls mobile applications could have been exploited to locate and gain physical access to a vehicle. A small aftermarket telematics unit from Montreal, Canada-based AutoMobility, MyCar provides users with a series of smartphone-controlled features fo...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63126312

    VERIZON LAUNCHES PATCH FOR ROUTER VULNERABILITY

    Apr 10, 2019

    Out of all possible vulnerabilities the hardware we use on daily basis may have, the ones which allow hackers a full takeover of the device is probably the one which sounds most ominous. Well, one of these vulnerabilities, dubbed CVE-2019-3914, was discovered late last year in the Fios Quantum Gatew...

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    GOOGLE BOOSTS CLOUD SECURITY, TRANSPARENCY AND IDENTITY

    Apr 10, 2019

    The way Google sees it, one of the primary ways to grow cloud adoption is by increasing trust and security in the cloud. At its Google Next event on April 10, Google announced new and enhanced services that look to improve security in the cloud as well as provide better security and transparency of ...

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    YOUR HOTEL CHECK-IN CONFIRMATION COULD BE PUTTING YOU AT RISK

    Apr 10, 2019

    When your hotel automatically emails you your booking information, there's a good chance that you're not the only person with access to those documents. Symantec, a security company, found flaws on hundreds of hotel websites, which were leaking sensitive information like names, phone numbers...

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    MICROSOFT WIDENS UK CLOUD REACH

    Apr 09, 2019

    Microsoft has announced new Azure Availability Zones in the UK, pushing its cloud service even further in the country and offering increased compute capacity. Announcing the news in a blog post, the company says this now increases its Azure regions by more than double in the UK, and its compute capa...

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    NEW GRAB-AND-GO STEALER IS MAKING WAVES

    Apr 09, 2019

    Researchers suspect that a new stealer malware dubbed Baldr, first detected in January, has incorporated three known threat actors, according to Malwarebytes. In today's blog post, researchers said that Baldr has earned positive reviews on Russian hacking forums for its use of three threat actor...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=63036303

    GOOGLE CLOUD MOVES INTO DATA CENTERS, AWS, AND MICROSOFT AZURE WITH ANTHOS

    Apr 09, 2019

    Google today moved into on-premises data centers and across clouds — including competitors Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — with Anthos, its hybrid-cloud platform. “If you are using multiple cloud environments, Anthos is the choice for you,” said Google CEO Sun...

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    NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTER AND SPACE ISAC PARTNER TO BOOST CYBERSECURITY

    Apr 09, 2019

    The National cybersecurity solutions provider Kratos Defense & Security Solutions recently announced its partnership with the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC), which was unveiled at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Kratos is a technology-focused, mid-sized ...

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    TENABLE DISCLOSES VERIZON FIOS ROUTER VULNERABILITIES

    Apr 09, 2019

    Millions of homes across America have Verizon's Fios Quantum Gateway router as their primary conduit to the internet, and many of them could be at risk, according to new research from security firm Tenable. On April 9, Tenable publicly disclosed that it was able to find multiple vulnerabilities ...

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    JUNIPER BETS ON THE ENTERPRISE WITH CLOUD-DELIVERED SD-WAN

    Apr 08, 2019

    Juniper today released a cloud-delivered version of its SD-WAN service to simplify adoption and operations. It also leverages the recent $405 million acquisition of Mist Systems, which closed last week, to add visibility into both wired and wireless via its Contrail Service Orchestration platform. P...

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    WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM RELEASES REPORT ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN CYBERSECURITY

    Apr 08, 2019

    The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report about blockchain cybersecurity on April 5. The report points out that most data breaches do not result from the level of skill of the hackers, but instead happen because appropriate security measures often are not implemented. The WEF further claims t...

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    SECURITY RESEARCHERS DISCOVER IOS VERSION OF EXODUS ANDROID SPYWARE

    Apr 08, 2019

    Security researchers have discovered the iOS counterpart of a dangerous Android spyware strain that was seen earlier this year on the official Google Play Store. The good news, according to security researchers from cyber-security firm Lookout, is that the iOS version is less sophisticated than the ...

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    90 PERCENT OF SINGAPORE BUSINESSES SUFFERED DATA BREACHES LAST YEAR: REPORT

    Apr 08, 2019

    A recent research stated that cyber-attacks are increased in the last 12 months, causing security breaches affecting 96 percent of organizations surveyed. According to the research report from endpoint security firm Carbon Black, 90 percent of the Singapore businesses have been breached in 2018. In ...

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    TELCO SYSTEMS OFFERS UCPE WITH VMWARE-VELOCLOUD SD-WAN

    Apr 08, 2019

    Telco Systems today announced that it will offer an open universal CPE (uCPE) pre-integrated with the VMware VeloCloud-based SD-WAN service. This new offering will allow service providers to deploy the VMware SD-WAN services on their hardware of choice. The offering is part of Telco Systems NFVTime ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62956295

    THIRD PARTIES LEAK DATA ON 540 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS

    Apr 04, 2019

    Over half a billion personal Facebook records have been publicly exposed to the internet by two third party app developers, according to researchers at UpGuard. The security company claimed in a blog post on Wednesday to have found the two datasets stored in Amazon S3 buckets, configured to allow pu...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62816281

    CONSUMERS ON BOARD WITH SECURING HEALTH RECORDS

    Apr 04, 2019

    As the healthcare industry continues to struggle with tightening up its cyber-defenses, consumers increasingly believe they play a role in securing their health information, according to a new report published by Morphisec. The 2019 Consumer Healthcare: Cybersecurity Threat Index asked more than 1,0...

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    CYBER-ATTACK ON BAYER SHOWS NO SIGNS OF DATA THEFT

    Apr 04, 2019

    As accusations of nation-state attacks from the Chinese government are becoming more prevalent, Bayer, Germany’s largest drugmaker, announced that it has managed to contain what appears to have been a cyber-attack from China, according to Reuters. The attack, which was initially reported by Ge...

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    A SPOT OF RANSOMWARE HITS ARIZONA'S TEA

    Apr 03, 2019

    Another ransomware attack has struck, but this time the massive attack on AriZona Beverages was targeted, as first reported by Tech Crunch. After more than 200 company-networked computers displayed the message “Your network was hacked and encrypted,” the company’s IT department had...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62826282

    UK ORGS, CHARITIES IMPROVING IN CYBERSECURITY

    Apr 03, 2019

    Businesses and charities are showing progress in defending against breaches and ensuring General Data Protection Regulation Compliance (GDPR), according to a new report published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 found that less than a t...

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    HOW BLOCKCHAIN WILL ENABLE FASTER AND TRANSPARENT PAYMENTS

    Apr 02, 2019

    As more blockchain-based payment networks and fiat-backed digital currencies – including one from the largest U.S. bank – emerge, experts and analysts are predicting a humongous change for the financial services industry. "I think you're starting to see a growing consensus,"...

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    WHY MCAFEE IS INTEGRATING AI INTO NEXT GEN SECURITY

    Apr 01, 2019

    Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often over-used terms in a modern cyber-security context, but that doesn't mean they aren't useful for helping organizations and vendors to improve. Among the many vendors that have embraced AI is McAfee, which is integrating different ca...

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    GOOGLE REVEALS HOW IT KEEPS THE PLAY STORE SECURE

    Apr 01, 2019

    Google's latest Year in Review report, in which it tackles all things Android, discloses more details aobut how the company is keeping its mobile ecosystem safe and secure for its users. This year, it proudly showcased figures which seem to suggest that users that only download apps through the ...

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    CLOUDFLARE 1.1.1.1 WITH WARP ACCELERATES INTERNET PRIVACY

    Apr 01, 2019

    Cloudflare announced its new 1.1.1.1 with Warp service on April 1, providing a new security service that looks to provide consumers with improved privacy and security for internet access. The new consumer service is likely a precursor to Cloudflare's entry into the multi-billion-dollar market fo...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62736273

    MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS' DATA ACCESSED IN SECOND TOYOTA HACK

    Apr 01, 2019

    Tokyo sales subsidiaries raided. Auto giant Toyota has apologized to customers after a large data breach at its Tokyo area sales network was discovered on March 21 Japanese time. Toyota said unauthorized network access to a server used by sales subsidiaries may have leaked up to 3.1 million pieces o...

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    PUBLIC SECTOR DATA SECURITY REVIEW COMMITTEE APPOINTED IN SINGAPORE

    Mar 31, 2019

    The Committee was appointed in light of a series of four data-related incidents which occurred to the Health Ministry in the past 10 months. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently announced the appointment of a Public Sector Data Security Review Committee to conduct a comprehensive review...

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    ISURANCE COMPANIES IN THE US COLLABORATE TO OFFER CYBER-SECURITY RATINGS

    Mar 31, 2019

    In a collaborative effort, some of the world’s largest insurers have set out to create a consumer ratings service for the cyber-security industry. The initiative was launched last week in the US, led by Marsh & McLennan, and will attempt to score best products to reduce hacking risks and w...

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    WORLD BACKUP DAY 2019 – EXPERTS SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON WHY 2019 IS AN IMPORTANT YEAR FOR BACKUP

    Mar 29, 2019

    World Backup Day is a chance for organisations to pause and take stock of their data handling, and ensure they are following best practice. The day has been celebrated since 2011 to help raise awareness of the sheer impact data loss can have on organisations and people. The causes of these incidents...

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    ONLY HALF OF BUSINESSES CAN PROPERLY DEFEND AGAINST CYBERATTACKS

    Mar 29, 2019

    There is a ‘visible gap’ between security measures EU businesses say they take, and the ones they actually do take, according to a new survey by security experts Kaspersky Lab. More than four in five (83 per cent) of IT decision makers across six EU countries say they take precautionary ...

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    RUSSIA THREATENS TO BLOCK POPULAR VPN SERVICES

    Mar 29, 2019

    Comms watchdog wants to prevent website access. Russia's communications watchdog threatened on Thursday to block access to popular VPN-services which allow users to gain access to websites which have been outlawed by Moscow. Russia has introduced tougher internet laws, requiring search engines t...

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    GOOGLE BOOSTS 2FA SECURITY PROCESS

    Mar 28, 2019

    Google just announced new updates for its 2-step verification tool for G Suite users. The company claims that for some mobile and desktop users this will come as an update, for others will come as a brand new feature, “available for some devices”. According to company blog posts, the upd...

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    CISCO PATCHES BUGS GALORE, SAYS 2 ROUTERS STILL VULNERABLE TO ATTACKS

    Mar 28, 2019

    Cisco released a slew of software patches to fix bugs in its IOS XE operating system, but said two small business routers are still vulnerable to attacks. In all, Cisco issued 25 security alerts on Wednesday and Thursday. It rated 19 high severity and six medium. As of Thursday morning, Cisco didn&r...

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    DLA PIPER SET TO SUE INSURER OVER NOTPETYA CLAIM: REPORT

    Mar 28, 2019

    DLA Piper has become the latest big name to be denied a multimillion-dollar insurance claim following major losses caused by the NotPetya ‘ransomware’ campaign of 2017. The multi-national law firm is said to be launching a legal case against its insurer Hiscox for failing to pay out. How...

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    DEFENDING THE DEFENDERS OF THE CYBER UNIVERSE: HOW TO MITIGATE STRESS IN CYBERSECURITY

    Mar 28, 2019

    Stress is meant to be good for us. Some say it helps us accomplish tasks more efficiently and is important for survival. Unfortunately, the modern lifestyle, likely shaped by the advent of technology, has caused the scale to tip heavily toward chronic stress. According to the American Psychological ...

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    7 WAYS CLOUD COMPUTING IS SHAPING HEALTHCARE IN 2019

    Mar 28, 2019

    Envision a futuristic technology where you can simply enter your health concerns and symptoms into the system along with insurance details, get advice from a physician in real-time and electronically receive prescriptions, order medicines online with automated payment either by insurance company or ...

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    AUSTRALIANS HONOURED IN GOOGLE FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS

    Mar 27, 2019

    Six researchers receive grants for world-class technical research. Australian researchers from three universities have stood out in this year’s Google Faculty Research Awards, a highly competitive international grants program that drew 910 proposals from more than 320 academic institutions. Si...

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    RSAC 2019 SHOWCASES ENTREPRENEURS SECURING OUR NEW WORLD

    Mar 27, 2019

    Earlier this month, the top cybersecurity startups traveled to the new and improved Moscone Center to battle it out at the RSA Security Conference’s "Shark Tank"-style competition. These eminent data scientists, cyber warriors and scrappy entrepreneurs delivered three-minute pitches ...

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    AMERICAN CONSUMERS DISTRUST SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY CAPABILITIES

    Mar 27, 2019

    Cyber-crime has become an accepted part of life for many Americans, and most want to do more to protect their privacy, according to a new report from Symantec. The Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report, was released on March 26, providing insight into consumer attitudes about the current stat...

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    EDGE COMPANIES LAUNCH OPEN RESEARCH GROUP, PUBLISH SECOND REPORT

    Mar 27, 2019

    The state of data at the edge is … there’s a ton of data being generated, it needs to be secured and managed, and that requires orchestration and automation. This, according to the first topic-specific edge report published by Vapor IO, Packet, and Seagate Technology. The free report fo...

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    FACEBOOK SAYS UP TO 111,813 AUSSIES IN LAST YEAR'S SECURITY BREACH

    Mar 27, 2019

    Out of 29 million users impacted worldwide. Facebook has revealed that a mass security breach of its systems last year “may have” affected the personal information of up 111,813 Australian users. In September last year, hackers exploited three linked bugs to steal name, contact and other...

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    KUBERNETES 1.14 ADDS WINDOWS AND STORAGE SUPPORT, IS LIGHT ON SECURITY

    Mar 26, 2019

    The Kubernetes project is looking to get past unlucky 13 with the latest release of the container orchestration platform. The new 1.14 release includes new support for Windows containers and storage options but is light on new security features that overshadowed the previous release. The update itse...

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    MOST SECURITY PROS ARE IMPACTED BY GEOPOLITICS

    Mar 26, 2019

    Two-thirds of cybersecurity professionals have been forced to change where and with whom they do business because of escalating concerns around nation state attacks, according to Tripwire. The security vendor polled 218 security professionals at the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently and found...

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    INFOSEC19: SKILLS SHORTAGES ARE EXPOSING FIRMS TO CYBER RISK

    Mar 26, 2019

    Over half (52%) of IT and security professionals believe that cybersecurity skills shortages are putting their business at an increased risk of attack, according to a new poll from Infosecurity Europe. Now in its 24th year, Europe's leading cybersecurity show asked over 9700 of its Twitter follo...

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    OVER 10.5 BILLION MALWARE ATTACKS DETECTED IN 2018

    Mar 26, 2019

    The number of cyberattacks escalated last year to top 10.5bn incidents attacks, new research has found. According to a report by SonicWall based on intel harvested from more than a million sensors placed worldwide, says 10.52 billion malware attacks were registered in 2018, and that hackers are also...

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    IGNORE THE SEC’S STRENGTHENED STANCE ON CYBERSECURITY AT YOUR OWN PERIL

    Mar 25, 2019

    With constantly changing technology, integrated core business processes, and connected devices now pervasive, the threat and impact of cyberattacks are higher than ever. Attackers—whether individuals or nation-states—are becoming more astute, putting pressure on companies to take immedia...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62136213

    ASUS USERS TARGETED IN LARGE SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK

    Mar 25, 2019

    Users infected via software update utility. Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a large-scale attack against ASUS users in which a software update utility was modified and used to distribute malware. The researchers said investigations into the attack - dubbed Operation ShadowHammer - are &ldqu...

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    LOCKERGOGA RANSOMWARE SUSPECTED IN TWO MORE ATTACKS

    Mar 25, 2019

    A pair of U.S. chemical manufacturing companies have reportedly been struck by the LockerGoga ransomware over the past month and continue to recover from the same cyberattack that took down part of Aluminum giant Norsk Hydro last week. The attacks against Hexion and Momentive started on March 12, ac...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62216221

    MICROSOFT ISSUES THE UPDATE TO ANNOUNCE THE END OF WINDOWS 7 UPDATES

    Mar 25, 2019

    It’s not exactly the Windows Update to end all updates, but it’s close. Windows 7 machines that downloaded the most recent round of official updates got one that doesn’t do much beyond telling you to stop using Windows 7. The way it’s supposed to work is that computers runnin...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62226222

    RBS CUSTOMERS PUT AT RISK BY FAULTY SECURITY SOFTWARE

    Mar 25, 2019

    Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) wanted to give its business banking customers an extra layer of security, but ended up possibly exposing them to cyberthreats, reports have claimed. The bank recently started offering what it calls the Heimdal Thor Foresight Enterprise, which is designed to spot and stop...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62236223

    UK SMALL BUSINESSES HIT HARDEST BY CYBERATTACKS

    Mar 25, 2019

    UK businesses have suffered a dizzying number of cyberattacks in 2018, but most of them fell on the backs of small businesses. Two thirds of companies with 10 – 49 employees have suffered some form of cyberattack in the past year. That amounts to roughly 130,000 businesses. On average, such an...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62246224

    MONITORING CLOUD APP ACTIVITY FOR BETTER DATA SECURITY: FIVE KEY TIPS

    Mar 22, 2019

    Digitisation has dramatically changed how work gets done. Business-critical apps and data are a keystroke away, no matter where an employee is or what time it is. Perhaps it is this familiarity with data that makes employees feel so connected to it that, when they switch jobs, they often take some o...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62256225

    REMOVABLE DEVICES COULD BE PUTTING BUSINESSES AT RISK

    Mar 22, 2019

    What good are best security practices and policies if your employees aren’t sticking to them? New research among UK workers are doing just that – not adhering to their own companies’ cybersecurity policies. The report was released by ESET and Kingston Digital, and is based on a pol...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62116211

    FACEBOOK STORED MILLIONS OF USER PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT

    Mar 22, 2019

    Hundreds of millions of users to be notified. Scandal-ridden social network giant Facebook has owned up to accidentally storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in clear text, but says they were not exposed externally. Facebook's vice president of engineering, security and privacy Pedro Ca...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62126212

    PWN2OWN RESEARCHERS REVEAL ORACLE, VMWARE, APPLE ZERO-DAY EXPLOITS

    Mar 21, 2019

    The first day of the 2019 Pwn2Own hacking competition saw researchers awarded a total of $240,000 for demonstrating new zero-day exploits in Apple Safari, Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation. Day in and day out, vendors do their best to keep their software patched and free from zero-day vulnera...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61966196

    PORTWORX BOOSTS CLOUD-NATIVE DATA SECURITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY

    Mar 20, 2019

    Portworx Enterprise 2.1 adds new capabilities to its cloud-native Kubernetes data management platform, improving resilience and security. Portworx announced the latest edition of its namesake cloud-native storage and data management platform on March 20, providing users with new security and disaste...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61976197

    HALF OF EU BUSINESSES ATTACKED IN LAST TWO YEARS

    Mar 20, 2019

    More than half of businesses in the EU have had their operations disrupted by cyberattacks in the past 24 months, highlighting the size of the problem organisations everywhere are facing. This is according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab, which says that some of the reasons why businesses are feeli...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61986198

    BEC GIFT CARD SCAMS GO MOBILE

    Mar 20, 2019

    Cyber-criminals are evolving their tactics with Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks by transferring victims from email over to mobile communications channels early on in a scam, according to Agari. Researcher James Linton described how such an attack typically takes place, with the initial spoof...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61996199

    FHIR, CLOUD, POP HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS SPARK NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES

    Mar 20, 2019

    With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. While that likely means good things for patients and outcomes,...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62106210

    SOFTNAS CLOUD VULNERABILITY COULD ALLOW HACKERS TO BYPASS AUTHENTICATION

    Mar 20, 2019

    A vulnerability in SoftNAS Cloud data storage platform could allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to a company’s web-admin interface without valid credentials. Security vendor Digital Defense disclosed the flaw in a blog post today, and said SoftNAS worked with its Vulnera...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=62146214

    KEY TRENDS FROM THE MOST EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES

    Mar 20, 2019

    While the cyber-security threat landscape is generally thought to change from year to year, some things, as it turns out, remain unchanged. According to a report released March 19 from Recorded Future that analyzes the top vulnerabilities of the past year, one of the key trends is that the same vuln...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61956195

    TRENDS BEHIND ANTICIPATED $300+ BILLION CYBERSECURITY MARKET

    Mar 19, 2019

    Leading technology companies in the world have experienced and countered cyber-attacks since the advent of the internet, eventually leading to the inception of cybersecurity market. Today, cybercrimes are measured among the most active and loss inducing offences being witnessed globally, enveloping ...

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    POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY BECOMING RELEVANT IN PRE-QUANTUM WORLD

    Mar 19, 2019

    Quantum computers will be able to instantly break the encryption of sensitive data protected by today's strongest security, warns Arvind Krishna, director of IBM Research. "Anyone that wants to make sure that their data is protected for longer than 10 years should move to alternate forms of...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61856185

    HALF OF ORGANISATIONS LACK ENOUGH SECURITY TALENT TO BE SECURE

    Mar 19, 2019

    Those thinking artificial intelligence (AI) will steal their jobs need not worry – the software is only filling the blanks, at the moment. And the blanks, at least when it comes to cybersecurity, are quite large. According to the latest Trend Micro figures, organisations worldwide are faced wi...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61866186

    MICROSOFT AZURE SENTINEL USES DATA ANALYTICS TO IMPROVE SECURITY

    Mar 19, 2019

    Giving a wider range of fresh cyber-attack threats and information to IT security workers 24/7 is the aim of a new Microsoft Azure security tool—Microsoft Azure Sentinel—that was just released by the company in preview mode. Built to streamline the collection of IT security information a...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61876187

    MOZILLA IMPROVES WEB BROWSER SECURITY IN FIREFOX 66 UPDATE

    Mar 19, 2019

    Mozilla released the Firefox 66 update on March 19, providing users of the open-source web browser with new features that enhance user experience and improve security. Among Firefox 66's new features is one that blocks websites from auto-playing sound, which can be an annoyance. Also, the search...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61886188

    ONLY 28% OF GOV.UK DOMAINS SUPPORT DMARC

    Mar 19, 2019

    Only around a quarter of the UK government’s gov.uk domains have been set up to support an industry best practice email validation system, despite the imminent retirement of a previous public sector domain platform, according to Egress. The security vendor found that just 28% of gov.uk domains...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61896189

    SMBS COULD BE THE KEY TO CRACKING DATA BREACHES

    Mar 18, 2019

    If we want to reduce the number of successful cyberattacks that target businesses – we need to turn our attention towards small and medium-sized ones because, if a newly released report is to be believed, they are the weakest link in the chain. The report issued this morning by Business in the...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61766176

    WHY TRUST IS KEY FOR CYBER-SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT

    Mar 18, 2019

    Trust is an often-overused term, but according to Rohit Ghai, president of RSA Security, trust is the key to understanding and managing digital risk. In a video interview with eWEEK, Ghai discusses his views on trust, where the concept of an artificial intelligence "digital twin" fits in a...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61776177

    TOP LONDON ATTRACTIONS HIT BY MILLIONS OF CYBERATTACKS

    Mar 18, 2019

    The UK's museums and other tourist attractions are being hit by more cyberattacks than ever before, new research has found. A Freedom of Information (FoI) request issued by the Parliament Street think tank to four major tourist attractions in the UK - Kew Gardens, National History Museum, Tate G...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61786178

    SHRED-IT HELPS HOTELIERS PREVENT DATA SECURITY ISSUES

    Mar 18, 2019

    Cyber breaches are a huge security concern for the hotel industry—but they’re not the only security concern. “The industry has seen its fair share of cybersecurity breaches over the last few years and while it is absolutely essential that hotels have their cybersecurity protections...

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    CBA ASSURES ITSELF OF LANDMARK WHITE'S POST-BREACH INFOSEC

    Mar 18, 2019

    First lender to reinstate valuation firm. CBA has reinstated LandMark White as an option to conduct residential property valuations, after the institution assured itself of the valuer’s information security following a data breach in January. LandMark White said in a financial filing that it a...

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    WOODSIDE BUYS INTO WA CYBER SECURITY FIRM

    Mar 18, 2019

    security firm that specialises in protecting critical infrastructure. The resources company announced today that, subject to conditions precedent, it would buy into Sapien Cyber Ltd. Sapien describes itself as providing a security solution for security both IT and OT. Woodside said that Sapien &ldqu...

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    SECURITY BUDGETS GET AN SME BOOST IN 2019

    Mar 15, 2019

    Small and medium-sized enterprises will be spending more money on security this year, as well as hiring new staff, according to new research from Armor. Apparently, they’re more aware of the huge importance of having airtight cybersecurity. According to the report, four in five SMEs will be lo...

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    KATHMANDU PROBES POSSIBLE CARD SKIMMING BREACH

    Mar 15, 2019

    In a statement posted to the New Zealand Exchange (NZE), the firm said it was notifying potentially affected customers directly, advising them to contact their banks and card providers. “Kathmandu has recently become aware that between January 8, 2019 NZDT and February 12, 2019 NZDT, an uniden...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61706170

    VMWARE LAUNCHES SERVICE-DEFINED FIREWALL FOR INTRINSIC SECURITY

    Mar 15, 2019

    New Zealand-based outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu is urgently investigating a potential breach of customer card data harvested from its websites. There are a number of different ways to think about security and how it should be implemented. For Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manag...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61716171

    THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL HAS ANNOUNCED ITS POSITION ON CYBERSECURITY CENTRES

    Mar 14, 2019

    The European Council has announced that the European Union is stepping up its protection against cybersecurity threats, and is discussing a new structure of European cybersecurity centres. The European Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee have granted a mandate to the Romanian preside...

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    5 CYBERSECURITY THREATS YOUR DNS LOGS ALREADY REVEAL

    Mar 14, 2019

    Cybersecurity can be an exhausting job. Between the onslaught of ‘silver bullet’ tools that supposedly protect organizations, and the additional layer of tools needed just to make sense of the first group, even the smartest teams are finding themselves stretched thin. There are signals a...

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    GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA TAKES ACTION AFTER CYBER SECURITY FAIL

    Mar 14, 2019

    Moves to have all Essential Eight in place by June 2020. Geoscience Australia has kicked off a program of work to implement all the government’s mandatory and non-mandatory cyber security requirements by 2020 after being labelled highly exposed to cyber-attack last year. In June 2018 the Austr...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61576157

    CRYPTOJACKING TAKES A NEW TURN IN CRYPTOSINK CAMPAIGN

    Mar 14, 2019

    Researchers from F5 Labs reported on March 14 that they have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that is abusing unpatched Elasticsearch servers. Unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, commonly referred to as "cryptojacking," is an attack trend that started in 2017 and hit a peak in mid-2...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61586158

    FACEBOOK SUFFERS GLOBAL OUTAGE, CLAIMS DDOS NOT THE CAUSE

    Mar 14, 2019

    Facebook users around the world had a singular question for much of March 13: Is Facebook down? As it turns out, the global social media giant and its related Instagram and WhatsApp services were in fact unavailable and down for much of the day. Some service was restored by March 14, though full glo...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61596159

    PROTECTING APPLICATIONS AGAINST DFA ATTACKS

    Mar 14, 2019

    2001 was an exciting time for cryptography, as the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) specification was finalized, making a mathematically secure and performant encryption algorithm available to the public. Designed to replace older cryptographic algorithms that were starting to show weaknesses ...

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    BLOCK IN RUSSIA UNJUSTIFIED, SAYS PROTONMAIL

    Mar 13, 2019

    Claiming that it had received multiple bomb threats via email messages, the Russian government restricted internet access, which resulting in blocking ProtonMail email servers, according to PortSwigger. In a March 12 blog post authored by Andy Yen, ProtonMail founder, Yen called the block "unju...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61486148

    DPI19: OPEN BANKING AND DATA SHARING WILL BENEFIT CONSUMERS

    Mar 13, 2019

    Speaking at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive 2019 conference in London on 'How Privacy & Data Protection are Impacted by Competition Considerations,' Helena Koning, senior managing counsel and data protection officer at Mastercard, said that new rules on open banking are permitting mor...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61496149

    CHINA THREAT OVERBLOWN BY EU CYBERSECURITY ACT

    Mar 13, 2019

    On Tuesday, March 12, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) adopted the European Union (EU) Cybersecurity certification scheme for products, processes and services.The Cybersecurity Act is a scheme to ensure that certified products, processes and services sold in EU countries meet cybersecurity ...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61396139

    TETRATE EMERGES WITH ENTERPRISE SERVICE MESH PLATFORM

    Mar 13, 2019

    Tetrate officially launched on March 13, announcing its enterprise service mesh platform that is built on top of the open-source Istio and Envoy projects. The concept of a service mesh has been an emerging trend over the past year as an approach that enables networking connectivity and security poli...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61456145

    INSIDERS ARE BIGGEST SECURITY PROBLEM FOR COMPANIES TODAY: CYBER SECURITY EXPERT

    Mar 13, 2019

    Saryu Nayyar is the CEO of Gurucul, a company that specialises in user and entity behavior analytics, identity analytics, fraud analytics and cloud security analytics. Nayyar is an internationally recognised cyber security expert, author, speaker and member of the Forbes Technology Council. She has ...

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    GEORGIA COUNTY PAYS $400,000 TO RANSOMWARE ATTACKERS

    Mar 12, 2019

    Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, along with the FBI are investigating a ransomware attack that crippled IT systems over a two-week period. Struggling to recover from the outage, local officials reportedly paid a ransom worth $400,000 in bitcoins to restore IT systems and infrastructure. Jackson...

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    EXPERTS EXPRESS CONCERNS AS CYBER SECURITY THREATS LOOM ON SMART CITIES

    Mar 12, 2019

    Cyber security threats loom large on Smart cities as the country embarks on a journey to create about 100 such cities driven by smart solutions, leveraging on cutting edge technology. Together, these Smart cities aim to house 40 per cent of India’s population and contribute about 75 per cent t...

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    THE MUST-HAVES FOR YOUR DATA CENTER CYBERSECURITY CHECKLIST

    Mar 12, 2019

    The cyberthreat landscape is changing faster than ever for data center managers. Cybercriminals pulled in record hauls last year from ransomware, business email compromise, and other nefarious schemes, and they’re expected to be investing some of that money in new attack methods and platforms....

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    THE MOBILE APPLICATION SECURITY QUANDARY

    Mar 12, 2019

    The need for enhanced mobile application security is being driven by increasingly powerful mobile devices and the ubiquitous availability of bandwidth, says John Aisien of Blue Cedar. "Enterprise computing is not only moving to the cloud at an amazing pace, but some of that compute is also movi...

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    ADDIGY ADDS SINGLE SIGN-ON TO ITS APPLE DEVICE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

    Mar 11, 2019

    Apple device management platform vendor Addigy has unveiled a wide range of new features for its cloud-based services, including single sign-on capabilities, LANCache peer-to-peer caching and expanded mobile device management (MDM) services. The new features, which were announced here at the Addigy ...

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    HOW TO REDUCE ERP SECURITY RISKS

    Mar 11, 2019

    Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are among the most critical enterprise applications that an organization operates and as such, they represent a lucrative target for attackers. In a session at the RSA Conference last week, Onapsis CTO JP Perez-Etchegoyen outlined what's behind ERP brea...

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    ERICSSON TESTS FIRST CERTIFIED DEVICE FOR CTIA’S IOT CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM

    Mar 11, 2019

    An aftermarket connected car device is the first to be certified by CTIA’s IoT Cybersecurity Certification Program, which launched last August to help ensure the increasing number of cellular-connected devices have appropriate security capabilities. The device, the Harman Spark, is offered exc...

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    HOW SMBS CAN BOLSTER CYBERSECURITY EFFORTS

    Mar 11, 2019

    Keeping current with cyberthreats is an imposing logistics problem facing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)—cybercriminals are constantly changing their tactics. If something stops working or fails to provide sufficient return for their effort, the bad guys move on. That may work well ...

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    SKILLS GAP IS LEADING TO MAJOR SECURITY WORRIES

    Mar 11, 2019

    Finding skilled cybersecurity staff is an increasingly difficult task, new research has claimed. A new report by Tripwire found it’s not just about not having actual people to do the job – it’s also due to the rapidly transforming technology and threat landscapes. Consequently, the...

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    BANKING TROJANS SEE MAJOR RISE IN 2018

    Mar 08, 2019

    Kaspersky Lab has revealed a major rise in the number of banking Trojans, also known as "bankers". The company says it tracked almost 900,000 bankers in 2018, a 15 per cent increase compared to 2017, when it registered 767,000 attacks. Allegedly, there have been ‘increased activities...

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    HUMAN ERROR STILL A MAJOR SECURITY WORRY

    Mar 08, 2019

    For businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to large corporations – human error is still one of the main pain points when it comes to cybersecurity. A new report from BAE Systems found 71 per cent of all recorded incidents started as a phishing attack, and roughly two thirds (65 per cent) were unta...

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    WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND FACEBOOK’S NEW PRIVACY AND ENCRYPTION EFFORT?

    Mar 08, 2019

    On its face, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook plans to move to a more privacy-oriented service seems like welcome news, given how he and his company have run roughshod over his users’ privacy since its founding. But now he’s saying that he wants to make personal interac...

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    BREACHES AND LEAKS SOARED 424% IN 2018

    Mar 08, 2019

    Nearly 15 billion identity records circulated in underground communities in 2018, a 71% increase over the year as hackers targeted smaller organizations more widely, according to a new report from 4iQ. The identity intelligence company scanned the surface, social, deep and dark web for identity rela...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61246124

    VIVA THE REVOLUTION: HOW CYBERSECURITY CAN HELP WITH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

    Mar 07, 2019

    We've had the Atomic Age, the Space Age and the Information Age, and now we're on the cusp of what could be called the culmination of all those – the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which data, devices, and advanced technologies like biotech and nanotech are already bringing major cha...

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    OVERCOMING THE 2019 CYBER-THREAT

    Mar 07, 2019

    Over the last couple of years, the dramatic development of digital technologies has fuelled the growth and needs of the mobile workforce. Recent research by Microsoft found that only 11.4 per cent of European employees feel highly productive at work, and, amidst the arrival of innovative technologie...

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    FTSE 350 BOARDS STILL STRUGGLING WITH CYBER AWARENESS

    Mar 06, 2019

    UK boards are getting better at understanding cybersecurity as a strategic issue, but still lack crucial awareness of the impact of attacks on their organization, according to a new government report. The FTSE 350 Cyber Governance Health Check 2018 features data collected from interviews with the to...

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    NEW GOOGLE CHROME ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITY FOUND ACTIVELY EXPLOITED IN THE WILD

    Mar 06, 2019

    You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute...

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    MOBILE MALWARE ATTACKS DOUBLE IN 2018

    Mar 06, 2019

    Smartphones are facing more security threats than ever before, with mobile malware attacks hitting a new high in 2018, new research has found. Findings from Kaspersky Lab report that the number of mobile malware attacks doubled in 2018, topping 116.5 million last year, compared to 66.4 million in 20...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=61056105

    MASSIVE SPOILER VULNERABILITY AFFECTS INTEL CPUS

    Mar 06, 2019

    Another major security vulnerability is affecting Intel processors, experts have warned. SPOILER was detected by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and the University of Lübeck in Germany, and could be even more dangerous that the infamous Spectre vulnerability. The...

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    RSA SECURITY OUTLINES A PATH FOR THE TRUST FUTURE

    Mar 05, 2019

    Often RSA Conference keynotes detail new technologies or outline existing challenges. At the RSA Conference 2019 here, RSA Security took a different approach this year—predicting a possible future that could be less than ideal for humanity unless the right steps are taken. Rohit Ghai, presiden...

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    MICROSOFT SECURITY SERVICES PUT AI, EXPERTS TO WORK AGAINST THREATS

    Mar 05, 2019

    Microsoft is rolling out a brace of threat fighting capabilities for Windows 10 administrators that promise to bring the big guns of the company’s security experts, as well as its AI capabilities, to bear against attackers. The new services are Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Exp...

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    HOW TO STAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY THREAT

    Mar 05, 2019

    The daily deluge of negative security headlines and data breaches isn't the whole story when it comes to modern cyber-security, according to Cisco. In a keynote at the RSA Conference here, Cisco executives outlined some key successes against recent threats and detailed a strategy for bridging th...

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    FINANCIAL FIRMS FACING GREATER CYBER THREAT

    Mar 05, 2019

    Banks and other financial businesses are facing a greater cybersecurity threat than ever before, new findings have said. Research from security firm Carbon Black found that over two-thirds (67 per cent) of finance firms have reported an increase in cyberattacks over the past 12 months as hackers goe...

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    LAZARUS GROUP RETURNS WITH MAJOR SPEARPHISHING CAMPAIGN

    Mar 04, 2019

    North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus Group is targeting users around the world with a major new spearphishing campaign. Security firm McAfee says it has found evidence linking Lazarus to the huge Operation Sharpshooter attack first detected last December which uses sophisticated spearphishing emails ...

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    WHY RANSOMWARE IS STILL AN ACTIVE THREAT

    Mar 04, 2019

    For several years, ransomware was a rising threat, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and disrupting operations around the world. But what is the state of ransomware in 2019?  In a session at the RSA Conference here, a pair of McAfee researchers detailed how the threat landscape...

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    MCAFEE CONFIRMS OPERATION SHARPSHOOTER LINK TO NORTH KOREA

    Mar 04, 2019

    Researchers have confirmed the Operation Sharpshooter APT campaign uncovered in December 2018 is likely the work of North Korean hackers, and has been active for a year longer than previously thought. McAfee revealed today that it was given a rare insight into the inner workings of such a group afte...

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    SECURITY LEADERS SUFFERING FROM CYBER FATIGUE

    Mar 04, 2019

    Cybersecurity professionals are positive about the challenges of dealing with the growing number of threats around today, but many still feel pessimistic about their work, new research has found. A significant number of workers say they are suffering from "cyber fatigue" according to Cisco...

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    IT SECURITY PROGRAMMES BEING DELAYED BY BOARD HOLD-UPS

    Mar 01, 2019

    Two-thirds of UK firms believe their security programme is now "continuously reactive". UK firms are split between a desire protect their products or their business when it comes to security priorities, according to new research. A report from Optiv found that many UK IT security decision ...

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    MASSCYBERCENTER SAYS STATE FACES INCREASED THREATS

    Mar 01, 2019

    The state of Massachusetts is reportedly facing increased cyber threats from adversaries who are trying to steal sensitive information, according to the Gloucester Daily Times. In an interview with Stephanie Helm, director of the MassCyberCenter, State House reporter Christian M. Wade learned that t...

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    UK GOVERNMENT UPS SECURITY PROTECTION FOR IOT DEVICES

    Mar 01, 2019

    IoT-connected devices will need to ensure they measure up to basic security standards under new rules being proposed by the UK government. Guidelines revealed today will mean that manufacturers will need to make smart devices such as TVs, routers and even children's toys conform to a new 'Se...

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    DOCKER RESPONDS TO DATA BREACH AND OUTLINES THE CONTAINER FUTURE

    Mar 01, 2019

    The elephant or rather the whale in the room at DockerCon this week, was the data breach of the Docker Hub, first disclosed on April 26. During a keynote address and in a private press session at DockerCon on May 1, Docker executives provided a formal response to the data breach, which impacted 190,...

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    MICROSOFT ADDS OFFICE 365 SECURITY POLICY ADVISOR SERVICE

    Mar 01, 2019

    Microsoft has introduced a new Security Policy Advisor service to make it easier for enterprise IT managers to create and manage security policies for users of Office 365. The advisor service, which was announced by Jared Spataro, a Microsoft 365 corporate vice president, in a recent post on the Mic...

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    U.S. CYBER-WARRIORS DISRUPT RUSSIAN ELECTION ATTACKS

    Feb 28, 2019

    It started in mid-October 2018, when Russian operatives of the Internet Research Agency started getting emails and direct messages on social media letting them know that the United States was watching them, that it knew their names and where they worked. Then, on Nov. 6, 2018, everything went dark f...

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    STUDY: BREAKING SILOS COULD REDUCE BREACH COSTS

    Feb 28, 2019

    The cybersecurity industry experienced some ups and downs last year, according to the 3,200 senior security professionals from 18 countries who participated in Cisco’s fifth annual CISO Benchmark Study. The study revealed that security professionals experienced both encouraging gains, with onl...

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    HIRING, THREATS AND BUDGET CAUSE BIGGEST SECURITY HEADACHES

    Feb 28, 2019

    The three biggest challenges faced by IT professionals relate to threats, hiring and budget.. According to a survey of 1500 IT professionals by LogRhythm, the top challenges were divided as follows: Inability to detect the full range of threats – 34%. Difficulty in finding skilled cyber profes...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60746074

    GLOBAL SPAM CALLS HIT 85 BILLION IN 2018

    Feb 28, 2019

    Global spam calls have soared by 325% over 2018 to reach a staggering 85 billion worldwide, according to new findings from Hiya. The Caller ID company claimed in its first Global Robocall Radar report that spam rates in Spain (24%), the UK (22%), Italy (21%) and France (20%) are the highest in the w...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60756075

    SSL-BASED PHISHING SURGES 400% FROM 2017

    Feb 28, 2019

    Hackers are increasingly using encrypted traffic to hide their attacks from security filters, with phishing emails soaring in popularity, according to new data from Zscaler. The cloud security provider processes more than 60 billion transactions per day and claimed that hiding threats in SSL traffic...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60766076

    SYMANTEC ADVANCES INTEGRATED CYBER DEFENSE PLATFORM

    Feb 27, 2019

    No one technology or vendor can protect an organization against all cyber-security risks. That's why Symantec has been pushing forward its vision of an Integrated Cyber Defense platform (ICD) in an effort to bring together multiple technologies with an integrated approach. On Feb. 27, Symantec a...

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    MOST UK IT SECURITY LEADERS FEAR CNI ATTACK

    Feb 27, 2019

    Over half of organizations believe the UK is heading for a major attack on critical infrastructure (CNI) this year, with siloed teams causing dangerous security gaps between IT and OT functions, according to Infosecurity Europe. The region’s leading information security event polled over 12,00...

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    CYBER SECURITY DURING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (M & A)

    Feb 26, 2019

    On face value, one may question what company mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers have to do with cyber security. But for law firms charged with overseeing the safe completion of such transactions, cyber security should be a core consideration, for two key reasons. Firstly, there is a risk that durin...

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    ORDR RAISES $16.5 MILLION FOR NETWORK-LEVEL CYBERSECURITY

    Feb 26, 2019

    In this day and age, enterprises can’t take a traditional IT approach to security — or so claims Ordr, a Santa Clara, California-based startup developing a network-level cybersecurity platform. It contends that the client-side security suites installed on legacy workstations, laptops, an...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60576057

    GV LEADS $15 MILLION INVESTMENT IN STEALTH CANADIAN CYBERSECURITY STARTUP CMD

    Feb 26, 2019

    A Canadian cybersecurity startup is emerging from stealth today with a fresh $15 million in funding from Alphabet investment arm GV, with participation from startup studio Expa, Amplify Partners, and a host of additional “strategic investors.” Founded in early 2016, Cmd is the brainchild...

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    PRIVILEGED CREDENTIAL ABUSE INVOLVED IN 74% OF DATA BREACHES, SAYS STUDY

    Feb 26, 2019

    Cybercriminals are continuing to target low-hanging fruit; according to a new study from Centrify, the security and identify firm, while 74% of data breaches involved privileged credential abuse, identity and access management resources are severely lacking among enterprises. The survey of 1,000 IT ...

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    HOW GAMIFICATION CAN BOOST CYBER SECURITY

    Feb 26, 2019

    Insider threats are costing companies hugely. In fact, according to the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of data breaches caused by employees is more than $8 million (£6.1 million) per year. Many breaches are caused accidentally when employees click on phishing emails or unknowingly open su...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60606060

    UCONN HEALTH AMONG THE LATEST PHISHING VICTIM

    Feb 25, 2019

    Phishing and other hacking incidents have led to several recently reported large health data breaches, including one that UConn Health reports affected 326,000 individuals. In describing a phishing attack, UConn Health says that on Dec. 24, 2018, it determined that an unauthorized third party illega...

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    NEW DNS ATTACKS MAKE USE OF DNSSEC MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER

    Feb 25, 2019

    An insidious new series of cyber-attacks that redirect traffic intended for specific websites by changing their DNS records has resulted in the first emergency directive by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This directive was followed in February by an alert by ICANN (Internet Co...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60626062

    MAJOR SECURITY FLAWS DISCOVERED IN 4G AND 5G

    Feb 25, 2019

    Researchers have uncovered a number of major security holes in the communications protocols governing 4G and 5G networks. The flaws could allow an attacker, even not one necessarily highly skilled or educated, to intercept phone calls and track the victim's location. The flaw was uncovered by Ni...

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    ICANN: WE NEED DNSSEC EVERYWHERE TO COMBAT HACKERS

    Feb 25, 2019

    ICANN has called on Domain Name System (DNS) stakeholders to urgently improve security across all domains to combat a growing threat from attackers. It wants DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to be rolled out worldwide across all unsecured domain names in response to a wave of new DNS hijacking attac...

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    HACKERS ABUSE LINKEDIN DMS TO PLANT MALWARE

    Feb 25, 2019

    Hackers are impersonating recruitment agencies on LinkedIn in a bid to target companies with backdoor malware. Researchers at Proofpoint found that the malware campaigns primarily targeted US companies in various industries including retail, entertainment, pharmacy, and others that commonly employ o...

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    A V-CISO’S TAKE ON THE 5 ISSUES FACING CYBERSECURITY

    Feb 25, 2019

    In just 20 years, we’ve seen the cybersecurity field grow from virtually non-existent into a $120 billion industry. But no matter how much it grows, it still feels like the bad guys are always two steps ahead. Why? Because our adversaries are, in fact, at an advantage. This advantage has less ...

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    SOME GPS RISK VIOLATING GDPR BY SIGNING UP TO CHANGES IN CHILDHOOD HEALTH DATA SHARING

    Feb 25, 2019

    As many as 3,300 GP practices in England risk violating data protection laws if they sign up to changes in a data sharing agreement for childhood vaccination. Changes to the Child Health Information Service (CHIS), used by general practitioners in the West Midlands, parts of London and the South Wes...

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    LABOUR REPORTS DATA BREACH TO THE ICO AFTER MPS JOIN THE INDEPENDENT GROUP

    Feb 25, 2019

    The Labour Party has reported an alleged data breach to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over fears the personal data of party members was improperly accessed following the resignation of several MPs this week. It is understood the party has accused at least one of the eight former La...

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    81 PER CENT OF CANADIANS CONCERNED ABOUT CYBER SECURITY

    Feb 24, 2019

    Eighty-one per cent of Canadians say they are concerned about the security of personal information held by a government department if it experiences a cyber attack. Almost eight out of 10 Canadians are also concerned about cyber attacks against organizations that may have access to their personal in...

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    FLAWS DISCOVERED IN POPULAR PASSWORD MANAGERS, REPORT CLAIMS

    Feb 22, 2019

    An analysis of multiple top password manager products has revealed vulnerabilities in the tools they use that could potentially put the security of user's credentials at risk, according to Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). A new study, Under the Hood of Secrets Management, found that a vari...

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    ENTRUST TO ACQUIRE NCIPHER SECURITY TO APPROVE GEMALTO DEAL

    Feb 22, 2019

    Entrust Datacard has announced a definitive agreement to acquire nCipher Security. Less than a month after nCipher de-merged from Thales, the deal will see nCipher’s identity-based and PKI security solutions become part of Entrust, enabling Thales to complete its acquisition of Gemalto. Operat...

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    https://Informationsecurity.report/news-article.aspx?ID=60326032

    19-YEAR-OLD VULNERABILITY IN WINRAR FINALLY FIXED

    Feb 22, 2019

    Security researchers have discovered a bug in the WinRAR file compression application that can allow hackers to execute code remotely. The flaw has existed in all versions of the software for the last 19 years. According to a blog post by researchers at Check Point Software, the exploit works by jus...

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    MALWARE MINING MONERO DISCOVERED USING HACKING TOOLS TO INFECT WINDOWS SYSTEMS

    Feb 22, 2019

    Security researchers have discovered Monero mining malware that uses hacking tools such as Radmin and Mimikatz to propagate through Windows systems. According to a blog post by security researchers at Trend Micro, the malware scans for open port 445 and exploit a Windows SMB Server Vulnerability MS1...

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    CYBER SECURITY MARKET COMPETITIVE SCENARIO, DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES ANALYSIS FORECAST 2028

    Feb 22, 2019

    Cyber security is designed to ensure integrity and to protect networks, computer programs, and data from unauthorized access or breaches. Various sectors use cloud services to collect and store confidential data and information, which is transferred across networks. Cyber security software plays a c...

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    K2 CYBER SECURITY UNVEILS CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION PLATFORM TO PREVENT ZERO-DAY ATTACKS IN REAL TIME

    Feb 21, 2019

    K2 Cyber Security, Inc. today announced the general availability of its cloud workload security platform, featuring two fundamental innovations that together deliver comprehensive protection for hybrid cloud environments. K2’s Optimized Control Flow Integrity (CFI)™ technology ensures an...

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    THE CYBERSECURITY 202: ELECTION SECURITY IS GOING TO BE THE HOT NEW DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN ISSUE IN 2020

    Feb 21, 2019

    Russian hacking upended Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. And it's already impacting the way 2020 Democrats are campaigning this time around. Election security is already emerging as a key talking point on the campaign trail as Democrats offer up policies to secure votes from potential tamper...

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    NHS CYBERSECURITY NEEDS TO BE A QUALIFIED SUCCESS

    Feb 21, 2019

    A freedom of information request which revealed a lack of cyber and information governance training may be something of a red herring. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t valuable work to be done on creating a cyber-qualified NHS IT workforce, our expert columnist Davey Winder argues.When ...

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    CYBERX WINS CYBERSECURITY EXCELLENCE AWARDS IN THREE CATEGORIES

    Feb 21, 2019

    CyberX, the IIoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, today announced it is a winner in three distinct product categories of the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: IoT Security, ICS/SCADA Security, and Critical Infrastructure Security. These coveted awards recognize CyberX’...

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    SYDNEY AIRPORT TO ESTABLISH CYBER SECURITY CENTRE

    Feb 21, 2019

    Lifts defences to reduce threats. Sydney Airport is preparing to establish an around-the-clock cyber security operations centre to protect its systems and data holdings from the threat of cyber-attack. The new centre, which is expected to be up and running by April, is aimed at enhancing “cybe...

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    ERICSSON, NOKIA STRIKE BACK AT 5G READINESS CONCERNS

    Feb 21, 2019

    Ericsson and Nokia are intent on countering the notion that they are not as prepared as China-based rival Huawei to supply operators with 5G network equipment. The push comes just days ahead of the MWC 2019 event in Barcelona, Spain, where 5G will be the hot topic. Executive from both Nordic vendors...

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    TOYOTA AUSTRALIA CONFIRMS 'ATTEMPTED CYBER ATTACK'

    Feb 21, 2019

    Toyota Australia has said it was hit with what it is calling an "attempted cyber attack". "At this stage, we believe no private employee or customer data has been accessed," the company said in a short statement on its site. "The threat is being managed by our IT department,...

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    SYMANTEC'S EMAIL FRAUD PROTECTION OFFERING COMBATS BEC

    Feb 20, 2019

    Today’s topics include Symantec improving email security with fraud protection, and Azure maps getting new SDKs, services and expanded features. On Feb. 14, Symantec announced its Email Fraud Protection offering to help organizations combat Business Email Compromise, which involves attackers s...

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    K2 CYBER SECURITY TAKES DETERMINISTIC APPROACH TO THREAT DETECTION

    Feb 20, 2019

    There are a lot of cyber-security startups that make use of artificial intelligence to help organizations detect new threats, but K2 Cyber Security isn't one of them. K2 officially emerged from stealth on Feb. 20 along with its cloud workload security platform that takes a deterministic real-tim...

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    NORTH KOREAN LAZARUS GROUP STARTS TARGETING RUSSIAN ORGANIZATIONS

    Feb 20, 2019

    In an unusual move, the Lazarus hacking group associated with the North Korean government has recently started targeting organizations from Russia. The group’s primary targets until now have been organizations from countries with which North Korea has geopolitical tensions, such as South Korea...

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    SURVEY FINDS SECURITY TEAMS BETTING ON MACHINE LEARNING

    Feb 20, 2019

    A global survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) of 456 cybersecurity and IT professionals on behalf of Oracle and KPMG has found organizations are being overwhelmed by data and are hoping to get some help via machine learning. According to the survey results, fewer than one-third of res...

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    GOOGLE ERRED IN NOT DISCLOSING MICROPHONE IN NEST SECURITY SYSTEM

    Feb 20, 2019

    Google admitted that it didn’t tell users about a built-in microphone in its Nest Secure home security system, according to a report from Reuters. On Wednesday (Feb. 20), the company said it made an error, but that it wasn’t keeping the microphone a secret. “The on-device microphon...

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    FORTINET BOOSTS SECURITY MESSAGE FOR CARRIER PUSH TO 5G

    Feb 19, 2019

    Fortinet touted a new proprietary virtual security processing technology a week before the MWC Barcelona trade show in a race to boost security for carriers moving from 4G LTE to 5G. The virtual technology is designed to aid faster connection speeds and secure mobile control at the core and edge clo...

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    LANDMARK WHITE DATA BREACH COULD IMPACT WESTPAC PROPERTY SERVICE CUSTOMERS

    Feb 19, 2019

    Westpac Group has warned customers that those who have conducted a property valuation through its business may have been inadvertently impacted by a separate data breach affecting LandMark White. On Tuesday, the Australian bank and financial services company said the recent security incident at Land...

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    ISRAEL LAUNCHES CYBERSECURITY HOTLINE FOR SUSPECTED HACKING

    Feb 19, 2019

    Israel has launched a cyber hotline, staffed mostly by veterans of military computing units, to enable businesses and private individuals to report suspected hacking and receive real-time solutions. The 119 call-in number to the Computer Emergency Response Center is being billed by Israel and cybers...

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    FIVE THINGS ENTERPRISES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THREAT LANDSCAPE

    Feb 19, 2019

    It would be easy to say that 2019 is going to be the year of the state-sponsored hacker, but it would also be easy to say that this year is going to be the year of the cryptojacker. Or I could say that this is the year when cross-site scripting is going to be a major threat. But the reality is that ...

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    HOW MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SECURITY SEES RISK FASTER THAN LEGACY TOOLS

    Feb 19, 2019

    Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are in the process of changing almost every aspect of our lives. My last post focused on how AI can be used to help businesses manage their IT environments better. This post will look at the impact ML has on security. The biggest challenge with ...

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    PULSE SECURE ADDS SOFTWARE DEFINED PERIMETER TO SECURE ACCESS PLATFORM

    Feb 19, 2019

    Pulse Secure announced the launch of a new Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) offering on Feb. 19, that integrates with the company's existing Secure Access platform. SDP is an industry standard framework approach led by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) that provides access and authentication com...

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    SWEDEN’S PATIENT HOTLINE IN MAJOR PRIVACY SNAFU

    Feb 19, 2019

    Millions of highly sensitive audio files linked to a Swedish healthcare hotline have been left exposed online for several years, in what could be a major breach of the GDPR. The 2.7 million files in question amount to 170,000 hours of calls, dating back to 2013 and left on an open Apache web server ...

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    RUSSIAN STATE HACKERS TAKE MINUTES TO MOVE LATERALLY

    Feb 19, 2019

    There was a major rise in Chinese state-sponsored cyber-activity in 2018 while Russian actors were by far the most operationally effective, according to the latest report from CrowdStrike. The security vendor’s 2019 Global Threat Report tracked the relatively new metric of “breakout time...

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    WHY CHINA IS PROBABLY BEHIND THE CANBERRA CYBER-ATTACK

    Feb 19, 2019

    Since Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a "sophisticated state actor" had tried to hack into Australia's major political parties' networks, the government has shut down any efforts to pin the blame on China. Mr Morrison dodged multiple questions from 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitc...

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    CHINESE SURVEILLANCE DATABASE EXPOSES MILLIONS OF IDS

    Feb 18, 2019

    Security researchers have spotted a mass data leak from an unsecured database which exposed the personal details of over 2.5 million surveilled Chinese residents. SenseNets Technology uses AI-powered technology in facial recognition cameras to record the movements of millions of minority Uighurs in ...

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    TOP 6 COUNTRIES WITH THE BEST CYBER SECURITY MEASURES

    Feb 18, 2019

    Cyber risks represent a genuine risk to governments, economies, organizations and people. In 2015, the US Government’s Office of Personnel Management was breached and traded off, with the organization declaring that 21.5 million social security numbers were stolen from one source, and 4.2 mill...

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    SYMANTEC IMPROVES EMAIL SECURITY WITH FRAUD PROTECTION

    Feb 15, 2019

    Symantec is looking to reduce the risk of business email compromise attacks with a new offering that makes it easier to implement and manage Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) for email authenticity. Among the most common risks that enterprises face are email frau...

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    HUAWEI RISK CAN BE MANAGED, SAY UK CYBER-SECURITY CHIEFS

    Feb 15, 2019

    Any risk posed by involving the Chinese technology giant Huawei in UK telecoms projects can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre's decision undermines US efforts to persuade its allies to ban the firm from 5G communications networks. The ...

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    CYBER ATTACK ON MALTA'S BANK OF VALLETTA

    Feb 15, 2019

    Malta's largest bank was the target of a cyber attack Feb 13, with hackers attempting to withdraw €13mil (RM59.7mil), Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. The Bank of Valletta, in which the government is the largest shareholder, shut down its systems, closing branches and ATMs, and suspending...

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    BIG THEMES SET TO EMERGE AT RSA CONFERENCE 2019

    Feb 14, 2019

    With hundreds of specialized sessions, there is always a lot to take in at the annual RSA Conference held in San Francisco. The 2019 event is set to get under way March 4-8 and will tackle all manner of cyber-security topics ranging from new threats, to privacy regulations, emerging technologies and...

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    HACKERS TARGET MALTESE BANK IN €13M CYBER HEIST

    Feb 14, 2019

    A leading Maltese bank is resuming its services today after shutting down operations following a major cyber-attack on Wednesday. The Bank of Valetta (BOV) said in a notice on Thursday morning that customers could once again use ATMs, online banking, mobile Banking and their BOV cards, although at t...

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    LOVE BUG FOUND IN OKCUPID ANDROID APP

    Feb 14, 2019

    Only days after Infosecurity reported that OkCupid users said their accounts had been hacked, Checkmarx disclosed that the OkCupid Android App actually posed risks because of security failures in MagicLinks. It’s well known that malicious actors love to exploit a good holiday, which puts users...

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    PATCH TUESDAY ROUNDUP INCLUDES IE ZERO DAY

    Feb 13, 2019

    Microsoft has given system admins plenty of work to do this month with patches for nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer and a publicly disclosed Exchange server bug. Top of the priority list in this month’s Patch Tuesday security round-up will probably be C...

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    PALO ALTO NETWORKS ACCELERATES SECURITY IN PAN-OS 9.0 UPDATE

    Feb 13, 2019

    Palo Alto Networks is boosting its network security platforms with the new PAN-OS 9.0 update that was announced on Feb. 12. PAN-OS is a hardened operating system based on Linux that provides a secure, enterprise grade environment for executing Palo Alto's network security capabilities. PAN-OS 9....

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    MILLIONS AFFECTED BY 500PX DATA BREACH

    Feb 13, 2019

    Online photography network 500px has forced a password reset for all users after revealing this week that it suffered a data breach last summer. The site claimed that the incident, which it believes occurred on around July 5 2018, was not discovered until last week, when its engineering team “...

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    ATTIVO NETWORKS ENHANCES DECEPTION PLATFORM WITH FORENSIC COLLECTION

    Feb 13, 2019

    Attivo Networks announced on Feb. 12 that it is expanding its ThreatDefend cyber-security deception platform with its new "The Informer" forensic collection technology. Deception is a class of cyber-security technology that aims to trick attackers with fake services as an approach to help ...

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    CDSA RELEASES FIRST TV, FILM CYBERSECURITY GUIDELINES

    Feb 12, 2019

    The Content Delivery and Security Association (CDSA), which advocates for protection of media content, has issued its first TV and film security, notably cybersecurity, guidelines for everything from how to deal with data breaches to keeping costumes and props within the production "perimeter.&...

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    QUALYS EXTENDS CLOUD PLATFORM WITH PATCH MANAGEMENT

    Feb 12, 2019

    Qualys announced a new patch management application on Feb. 12, providing organizations with the ability to more easily manage the often-complex process of keeping infrastructure software updated. Qualys Patch Management (PM) is part of the Qualys Cloud Platform service that runs with a single agent...

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    FIRMS URGED TO PATCH SERIOUS CONTAINER RUNTIME FLAW

    Feb 12, 2019

    Enterprises have been urged to patch a serious flaw in runc, the default runtime for Docker and Kubernetes, and ensure they have SELinux enabled. Aleksa Sarai — one of the maintainers for runc — made the initial announcement on Tuesday, attributing the discovery to researchers Adam Iwani...

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    PHISHING, HUMANS ROOT OF MOST HEALTHCARE ATTACKS

    Feb 12, 2019

    Across healthcare organizations in the US, malicious actors are successfully leveraging phishing attacks to initially gain access to networks, according to findings from the 2019 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The study, whi...

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    MUMSNET PRIVACY SNAFU EXPOSES USER INFO

    Feb 11, 2019

    Mumsnet has suffered a serious data leak affecting potentially thousands of users after a software glitch during an IT system migration to the cloud. Justine Roberts, founder and CEO of the popular parenting forum, explained in a blog post late last week that the issue affected users for the best pa...

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    AWS ISSUES ALERT FOR MULTIPLE CONTAINER SYSTEMS

    Feb 11, 2019

    A security issue that affects several open source container management systems, including Amazon Linux and Amazon Elastic Container Service, has been disclosed by AWS. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-5736) were reportedly discovered by security researchers Adam Iwaniuk, Borys Poplawski and Aleksa Sara...

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    RESEARCHERS WARN OF MALICIOUS CONTAINER ESCAPE VULNERABILITY

    Feb 11, 2019

    A new vulnerability in the core runc container code could potentially enable a malicious container to get access to the host operating system. Major vendors and cloud providers are already pushing out patches, but there are other things users can do to limit risk. A new serious vulnerability in cont...

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    CHECK POINT REFINING ITS SECURITY OFFERINGS TO MEET EVOLVING DEMANDS

    Feb 08, 2019

    When Check Point Software began its work in the IT security industry in 1993, smartphones, mobile tablets, IoT, and cloud applications and services didn't yet exist. Back then, Check Point's No. 1 job was providing state-of-the-art security to protect hardware, data centers and desktop machi...

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    SECURITY UNICORN ILLUMIO RAISES $65M, HIRES A NEW CFO

    Feb 08, 2019

    Security unicorn Illumio raised $65 million in a Series E round and hired Anup Singh as its chief financial officer. The latest funding brings its total to $332.5 million and follows an even bigger $125 million Series D investment in June 2017. And — perhaps more importantly — it confirm...

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    BLUE HEXAGON USES THE POWER OF DEEP LEARNING TO DETECT NETWORK THREATS

    Feb 08, 2019

    Blue Hexagon emerges from stealth with a cyber-security platform that makes use of deep learning techniques to infer when potential malware is active on a network. As attackers become increasingly sophisticated, there is a need for advanced technologies that can detect attacks that traditional tools...

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    NETOGRAPHY EMERGES WITH AUTONOMOUS FLOW-BASED DDOS DEFENSE SERVICE

    Feb 07, 2019

    Cyber-security startup Netography emerged from stealth on Feb. 7 with a new technology approach to help organizations defend against the risk of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks typically involve large volumes of attack bandwidth that overwhelm services, rendering them unav...

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    SOUTH AFRICAN UTILITY SUFFERS DOUBLE SECURITY BLOW

    Feb 07, 2019

    South Africa’s largest electricity supplier has come under fire for apparently ignoring a serious leak of customer data. Eskom, which claims to transmit and distribute 95% of the electricity used in the country, was called out earlier this week on Twitter by a frustrated security researcher. &...

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    CHINA’S MSS TARGETED MAJOR EUROPEAN MSP: REPORT

    Feb 07, 2019

    Security researchers have discovered another Chinese state-sponsored APT campaign, this time targeting a major European MSP with the likely intent of stealing IP from its customers. Recorded Future and Rapid7 claimed in a new co-authored report that the notorious APT10 group, linked to China’s...

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    DISCONNECT BETWEEN CONSUMERS & BUSINESSES AS COMPANIES CAPITALIZE ON CUSTOMER DATA

    Feb 06, 2019

    There is a growing disconnect between how companies capitalize on customer data and how consumers expect their data to be used, a new report from RSA Security has discovered. The firm polled more than 6000 individuals across France, Germany, the United Kingdom and United States to explore the nuance...

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    BANK IT MANAGER GETS 10 YEARS FOR ATM EXPLOIT

    Feb 06, 2019

    An IT developer at a Chinese bank has been jailed for over a decade after exploiting a vulnerability in its systems to withdraw more than $1m from ATMs. Qin Qisheng, 43, was a manager in Huaxia Bank’s technology development center in Beijing who spotted that a glitch in the lender’s core...

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    MPS HIT BY PHISHING CAMPAIGN: REPORT

    Feb 06, 2019

    MPs have been targeted by a new phishing campaign after a government whip’s accounts were hacked, according to reports. Tory MP Mike Freer told BuzzFeed News that the "parliamentary authorities are currently investigating" following the incident. According to the report, dozens of MP...

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    PASSWORD REUSE REMAINS A BARRIER TO SAFER INTERNET USE

    Feb 05, 2019

    The internet by default is not always safe, which is why Safer Internet Day on Feb. 5 exists—it’s a day to educate and remind users about the steps that should be taken to reduce cyber-security risks. But what are the unsafe things that users are doing online? Google conducted a study al...

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    MOZILLA IMPROVES PRIVACY, SECURITY IN FIREFOX 65

    Feb 05, 2019

    Today’s topics include Mozilla improving privacy controls in Firefox 65, and IBM warning of an Apple Siri Shortcut risk. Mozilla released its first web browser update for 2019 on Jan. 29, with the debut of Firefox 65, which improves a number of features and advances user privacy as part of Moz...

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    HOME IMPROVEMENT SITE HOUZZ SUFFERS DATA BREACH

    Feb 04, 2019

    Home improvement site Houzz has announced a data breach affecting an unspecified number of customers, but claimed that follow-on identity theft is “highly unlikely.” The firm — which claims to have over 40 million homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professiona...

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    ALEXA 500 SITES TARGETED WITH ADAPTIVE MALWARE

    Feb 04, 2019

    A malicious campaign has been targeting premium publishers using malvertising that looks like legitimate ads for popular retailers, according to The Media Trust. Researchers today published a blog post explaining that a large-scale malicious campaign attempted to exploit 44 adtech vendors with the u...

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    ORANGE’S CYBERDEFENSE UNIT GETS A LEG UP WITH SECUREDATA PURCHASE

    Feb 01, 2019

    Orange today acquired the U.K.-based security company SecureData for an undisclosed amount. This purchase is part of the global provider’s bigger push to boost its Cyberdefense unit. The independently operated SecureData has offered managed security services for over 25 years. The company says...

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    HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE ASSETS USING SEARCH

    Feb 01, 2019

    The demise of the Google Search Appliance (announced in early 2016) marked the end of the flawed dream of off-the-shelf, one-size-mostly-fits-all enterprise search solutions. In its place is the promise of rich search-based applications that can search, explore and analyze enterprise information. Kn...

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    DELL FOUR-WAY ENDPOINT SECURITY PLAY TARGETS THE MID-MARKET

    Jan 31, 2019

    Dell launched its SafeGuard and Response as a four-level approach to endpoint security aimed at the mid-market. It’s also the second significant endpoint security announcement made this week. SafeGuard and Response includes elements from Secureworks and CrowdStrike, who are partnering on the o...

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    NEW UK FRAUD RULES SET TO EMPOWER VICTIMS

    Jan 31, 2019

    New rules come into force in the UK today designed to provide consumers with stronger powers of redress in the event they fall victim to authorized push payment (APP) fraud. Regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has mandated that fraud victims can now complain to the bank that receives fun...

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    WHY U.S. FIRMS ARE LESS CYBER-SECURE THAN THEY THINK

    Jan 31, 2019

    The U.S. certainly is a divided nation around many issues right now, but concern about cybersecurity as a threat to a majority of U.S. enterprises isn’t one of them. Everybody agrees on that one. A majority of participants in a recent survey enabled by FICO understand and recognize the risk of...

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    US LAUNCHES MAJOR EFFORT TO DISRUPT NORTH KOREAN BOTNET

    Jan 31, 2019

    The US authorities have begun notifying victims of a notorious botnet run by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, as their efforts to disrupt the hermit nation's malicious activity increase. A court order allowed the FBI and officers from the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI...

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    LARGEST DDOS ATTACK SENT OVER 500 MILLION PACKETS PER SECOND

    Jan 30, 2019

    A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack discovered by Imperva had unleashed more than 500 million packets per second (Mpps), which is believed to be the largest packets-per-second (PPS) attack on record. According to research released today, last year’s DDoS attack on GitHub rang in at 1...

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    FACETIME SECURITY FLAW GIVES APPLE A BLACK EYE: ANALYSTS

    Jan 30, 2019

    Apple's FaceTime video chat app remained out of service Wednesday morning after being temporarily disabled by the company Jan. 28 due to a security flaw that can enable a caller to hear audio from the receiver's end before the call is accepted. That's not supposed to happen, and not only...

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    THIRD-PARTY BREACHES PLAGUE MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES

    Jan 30, 2019

    From January 25 to 28, 2019, multiple organizations, including Discover Financial Services, Verity Medical Foundation, Verity Health Systems and Allen Chern LLP, have made routine filings in accordance with California state law, reporting cybersecurity incidents that may or may not be data breaches,...

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    SALT SECURITY LAUNCHES API PROTECTION PLATFORM

    Jan 29, 2019

    Startup Salt Security announced its API Protection Platform on Jan. 29, providing organizations with advanced capabilities to help discover, prevent and then remediate API attacks. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are commonly used in modern infrastructure, enabling a way to extend and inte...

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    US TURNS UP HEAT ON HUAWEI WITH 23-COUNT INDICTMENTS

    Jan 29, 2019

    The US Department of Justice has unsealed charges against Huawei and its CFO covering separate alleged conspiracies to break sanctions on Iran and to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile USA. The charges were widely expected, but will do nothing to warm relations between the world’s superpowers a...

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    INFO-STEALING FORMBOOK RETURNS IN NEW CAMPAIGN

    Jan 29, 2019

    A file-hosting service registered within the last week is being used to spread information-stealing malware in another FormBook campaign, currently attacking retail and hospitality businesses both within and outside of the US, according to Deep Instinct. Though FormBook has been around since approxi...

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    TAXPAYERS DEMAND HMRC DELETES VOICE IDS

    Jan 28, 2019

    Over 160,000 UK taxpayers have demanded that the HMRC delete biometric voice recordings collected without their informed consent. Big Brother Watch has been running a campaign into the tax office’s use of a voice identification system, first launched in 2017. Having captured biometric data on ...

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    WHITE HAT BALL 2019 RAISES £193,000 FOR NSPCC’S CHILDLINE SERVICE

    Jan 28, 2019

    A staggering 193,000 was raised for counselling service Childline at the White Hat Ball last Friday, January 25. The annual fundraising event, organized by a committee of dedicated volunteers from the information security sector and now in its 14th year, was held at London’s Lancaster Hotel. T...

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    ICO WARNS UK TO PREPARE FOR BREXIT "NO DEAL" DATA FLOWS

    Jan 28, 2019

    The UK’s privacy regulator has warned businesses to prepare now for a potential Brexit 'no deal,' claiming they may have to put in place standard contractual clauses to ensure unhindered data flows. With Theresa May’s government still refusing to rule out the prospect of allowing...

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    CONSUMERS TERRIFIED AFTER HACKERS WORM INTO NESTS

    Jan 25, 2019

    Multiple consumers have reported being terrified after hackers infiltrated the Nest cameras in their homes, with one malicious actor making claims of a North Korean missile threat, according to CBS News. California resident Laura Lyons reported that malicious actors gained control of her Nest securi...

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    HPE TARGETS GIRL SCOUTS FOR NEXT-GEN WHITE HATS

    Jan 24, 2019

    A new cybersecurity curriculum targeting junior Girl Scouts aged 9-11 aims to shift the image of the young girls in green from cookie distributors to cyber defenders, according to news from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). HPE has teamed up with the Girl Scouts to launch a cybersecurity education p...

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    UK PUBLIC: DRONES ARE NATIONAL SECURITY RISK

    Jan 24, 2019

    The British public is dead-set against the use of drones, with the vast majority believing that as they continue to represent a national security risk and that cyber experts must do more to mitigate the threat from above. Think tank Parliament Street polled 2000 members of the public to compile its ...

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    WHAT WE LEARNED FROM MALWARE ATTACKS IN 2018

    Jan 23, 2019

    Malware blossomed in several different directions in the past 12 months, and the year ahead looks like it will be a full-fledged follow-on. According to security firm Malwarebytes, 2018 came in like a lion and out like—well, a different lion. It’s fair to say that, despite a sleepy secon...

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    DHS EMERGENCY DIRECTIVE LOOKS TO BLOCK IRANIAN DNS THREAT

    Jan 23, 2019

    The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken the unusual step of issuing an emergency directive demanding government agency take urgent action to protect DNS infrastructure, in response to a major attack campaign. The Mitigating DNS Infrastructure Tampering directive was issued by the Cybe...

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    SECURITY BOFFINS BLOCK 100K MALICIOUS SITES IN 10 MONTHS

    Jan 23, 2019

    Hundreds of security researchers have come together in a global non-profit project, working to take down 100,000 malicious websites in just 10 months. Revealed on Monday, the stats are testament to the power of information sharing among the information security community and hosting providers, when ...

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    ACTIVE CYBER DEFENCE SHOULD BE ROLLED OUT UK-WIDE: REPORT

    Jan 22, 2019

    The UK government’s highly successful Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program should be rolled out across other sectors to improve national cybersecurity, and could even be spurred by the government naming and shaming laggards, according to a new report. The Cyber Security Research Group at King&rs...

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    VARONIS ADDS INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAYBOOKS TO DATA SECURITY PLATFORM

    Jan 22, 2019

    Varonis Systems announced version 7.0 of its Data Security Platform on Jan. 22, providing organizations with new capabilities to detect and respond to threats in the cloud and on-premises. The Varonis Data Security Platform 7.0 update adds new risk dashboards that can help to highlight potential iss...

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    PRIORITIZING VULNERABILITIES IS KEY TO PATCHING SUCCESS, REPORT FIND

    Jan 22, 2019

    There is no shortage of software vulnerabilities but not all flaws have equal severity, and only a subset are essential to patch immediately. That's one of the core themes from a report released by Kenna Security and the Cyentia Institute on Jan. 22, titled, Prioritization to Prediction: Getting...

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    SERVERS GRAB CLIENT FILES VIA MYSQL DESIGN FLAW

    Jan 22, 2019

    Attackers can potentially run a malicious MySQL server and gain access to connected data, according to a new security alert. MySQL has issued a security notice resulting from issues with the LOAD DATA LOCAL, noting that the “statement can load a file located on the server host, or, if the LOCA...

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    SECURITY VC FUNDING HIT RECORD $5.3 BILLION IN 2018

    Jan 21, 2019

    It’s official. Cybersecurity venture capital funding hit a record $5.3 billion in 2018, according to Strategic Cyber Ventures. This is 20 percent higher than the $4.4 billion companies raised in 2017 and 81 percent higher than in 2016. But, as the VC firm warns, “this rate of investment ...

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    TREND MICRO'S ZDI LOOKS TO ACQUIRE MORE VULNERABILITIES IN 2019

    Jan 18, 2019

    2018 was a big year for security vulnerabilities, and 2019 is on track to be even bigger, according to Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative. ZDI is in the business of acquiring vulnerabilities from security researchers and then responsibly reporting them to vendors. In 2018, ZDI published 1,444 sec...

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    NEW MALWARE STRAIN CAN EVADE AND UNINSTALL CLOUD SECURITY SOFTWARE, RESEARCHERS WARN

    Jan 18, 2019

    The good news: your organisation has finally gotten around to installing some top of the range cloud security tools. The bad news: malware has been developed which can evade detection from them. The nefarious discovery from threat actor Rocke was made by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, with the security...

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    CYBEATS RELEASES IOT SECURITY, MONITORING APP ON PALO ALTO NETWORKS FRAMEWORK

    Jan 18, 2019

    IoT security startup Cybeats announced that its IoT monitoring and security app, deemed IoT Radar, is now available on the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework. This news comes about a month after the startup raised $3 million in a seed round. Cybeats is a Toronto-based company that was founded ...

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    MICROSOFT ADDS AZUREDEVOPS BUG BOUNTY, OFFERS $20K REWARDS

    Jan 18, 2019

    Microsoft added a new bug bounty program that pays hackers to find security flaws in its software. This latest move targets Azure DevOps, Microsoft’s cloud platform for collaborating on code development. The program will pay between $500 and $20,000 for found eligible vulnerabilities in Azure ...

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    ATTACKERS TAKE NEW APPROACH TO INSTALLING CRYPTOMINERS

    Jan 17, 2019

    Security technology on cloud servers is supposed to help block and prevent the installation of malware, but what happens when attackers figure out how to uninstall security technology as part of a hacking campaign? According to a report released on Jan. 17 by Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security...

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    WHY ENTERPRISES NEED TO CRACK DOWN ON LAZY LOGINS

    Jan 17, 2019

    Everybody does it. You do it. It’s the easy way out, but it’s also an easy way to a security blunder. The “it” in this case is using your email address as your user name for websites and other places where a login is necessary. Chances are you use one of a couple email addres...

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    RESEARCHERS FIND 87GB TROVE OF BREACHED LOG-INS

    Jan 17, 2019

    A leading security researcher has warned of a major trove of breached data being shared on hacking sites, containing over 772 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords. Troy Hunt, owner of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) breached credentials site, explained that he was al...

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    IOT SECURITY MARKET SET TO GROW OVER 25 PERCENT ANNUALLY

    Jan 16, 2019

    A report predicts a growth rate of over 25 percent annually in the North American IoT security market. The market was valued at $1.7 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $5.2 billion by 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.1 percent, according to the report ‘Internet of Thing...

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    IT TEAMS HAVE ONE YEAR TO MOVE OFF WINDOWS 7

    Jan 16, 2019

    The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organizations still on Windows 7 to plan now for the end of extended support in a year’s time. The GCHQ arm reminded IT managers that the operating system will no longer receive free updates from January 14 2020. That will mean any...

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    LESS THAN HALF OF BUSINESSES ARE ABLE TO DETECT IOT DEVICE BREACHES

    Jan 15, 2019

    A study conducted by Dutch software firm Gemalto reveals that only 48% of the businesses in the world are able to detect if any of their IoT devices suffers a breach. The survey, which was conducted among 950 IT and business decision makers across the globe, found that organisations are urging gover...

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    KARAMBA SECURITY: VEHICLES FACE 300,000 ATTACKS PER MONTH

    Jan 15, 2019

    The scale of cyberattacks on connected cars has been revealed by Karamba Security, and it makes for a rather concerning read. Karamba set-up automotive electronic control units (ECUs) through which it’s been attracting internet attacks. In the last three months, the ECUs have been subjected to...

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    SYNOPSYS IMPROVES COVERITY STATIC APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING

    Jan 15, 2019

    Synopsys announced on Jan. 15 that a new version of its Coverity Static Application Security Testing (SAST) technology is now available, providing organizations with enhanced software vulnerability analysis capabilities. Static analysis is an approach where code is examined for potential risks and v...

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    SIX BEST PRACTICES FOR INCREASING AWS SECURITY IN A ZERO TRUST WORLD

    Jan 15, 2019

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported $6.6B in revenue for Q3, 2018 and $18.2B for the first three fiscal quarters of 2018. AWS revenue achieved an impressive 46% year-over-year net sales growth between Q3, 2017 and Q3, 2018 and 49% year-over-year growth for the first three quarters of the year. AWS&rs...

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    TOP WEB HOSTING SERVICES HAVE MAJOR SECURITY FLAWS

    Jan 14, 2019

    Security researcher Paulos Yibelo tested five of the world's biggest web hosting services for flaws and unveiled that all five were vulnerable. Not just 'vulnerable', but in fact so flawed that data mining and account takeover wouldn't even require breaking a sweat. Roughly a dozen f...

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    MAJOR' GLOBAL CYBERATTACKS SURGED IN 2018

    Jan 14, 2019

    The number of 'significant' attacks jumped by more than 50 per cent in the last three years. ‘Significant’ cyberattacks, those targeting government agencies, defence companies and financial institutions, have grown by more than 50 per cent in the last three years. This is accordi...

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    LINUX'S SYSTEMD HIT WITH THREE SECURITY HOLES

    Jan 14, 2019

    Admins and DevOps working with Linux machines will want to keep an eye out for patches for a trio of security vulnerabilities affecting systemd, the system and service manager that's primarily tasked with deciding what programs run when Linux boots. Specifically, the vulnerabilities are in syste...

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    OPEN-SOURCE METASPLOIT FRAMEWORK 5.0 IMPROVES SECURITY TESTING

    Jan 14, 2019

    Among the most widely used tools by security researchers is the open-source Metasploit Framework, which has now been updated with the new 5.0 release. Metasploit Framework is penetration testing technology, providing security researchers with a variety of tools and capabilities to validate the secur...

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    SOPHOS INTRODUCES LATERAL MOVEMENT PROTECTION TO XG FIREWALL TO STOP ADVANCING CYBERATTACKS

    Jan 13, 2019

    Sophos has announced that its next-generation Sophos XG Firewall now includes lateral movement protection to prevent targeted, manual cyberattacks or exploits from infiltrating further into a compromised network. The SophosLabs 2019 Threat Report discusses a rise in targeted ransomware. With the Sam...

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    WHY QUANTUM-RESISTANT ENCRYPTION NEEDS QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION FOR REAL SECURITY

    Jan 12, 2019

    The idea behind the use of quantum computers to break encryption lies in the fact that the encryption keys used by current encryption methods depend on a secret key that is used to encrypt and decrypt the information that’s being protected. Those keys are long, random—or, more likely, al...

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    THE SECURITY CHALLENGES OF MOVING ERP TO THE CLOUD

    Jan 11, 2019

    Enterprise resource planning software is a business-critical application for many organizations, and when moving to the cloud from on-premises deployments, there are some key security concerns that need to be considered, according to a study from the Cloud Security Alliance. The CSA study, titled En...

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    MONGODB INSTANCE LEAKS 200 MILLION CHINESE CVS

    Jan 11, 2019

    A huge MongoDB database containing detailed CVs for over 202 million individuals has been found exposed online. The unprotected MongoDB instance was found via a simple BinaryEdge or Shodan search and was left without any password protection, according to Bob Diachenko, director of cyber risk researc...

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    REDDIT LOCKS DOWN ACCOUNTS AFTER SECURITY INCIDENT

    Jan 10, 2019

    A large number of Reddit users have been locked out of their accounts as a precaution while the site’s admins investigate potential unauthorized access. Staffer “Sporkicide” would not disclose exactly how many users were affected by the move, but claimed in a post yesterday that &l...

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    SAILPOINT TECHNOLOGIES: PRODUCT OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS

    Jan 10, 2019

    SailPoint Technologies is an Austin, Texas-based provider of identity governance solutions, which is known to be one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity spending priorities. Founded in 2005, SailPoint holds a steadfast commitment to solving business problems with innovative identity governance solu...

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    FIREEYE UPDATES SERVER EMAIL SECURITY PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED THREATS

    Jan 09, 2019

    FireEye is updating its on-premises security capabilities with the launch of the FireEye Email Security - Server Edition 8.2 release on Jan. 9. The FireEye Email Security - Server Edition 8.2 provides organizations with new capabilities to detect advanced email threats, including executive impersona...

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    WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES CONTINUE TO GROW, IMPERVA REPORTS

    Jan 09, 2019

    2018 was not a good year for web application vulnerabilities, with 17,142 reported issues, according to a report released on Jan. 9 by Imperva. The 2018 tally for web application vulnerabilities represents a 21 percent year-over-year increase from 2017. There are multiple types of web applications v...

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    SK TELECOM AIRS FIRST LIVE TV BROADCAST VIA 5G, CES 2019 TO SPOTLIGHT 5G

    Jan 09, 2019

    South Korean wireless telecommunications operator SK Telecom claims to have broadcast the world's first live television event over a commercial 5G network. SK Telecom used its 5G broadcasting solution dubbed 'T Live Caster' to air over entertainment channel 'XtvN' a New Year&rsqu...

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    MICROSOFT KICKS OFF 2019 WITH MEDIUM PATCH LOAD

    Jan 09, 2019

    Microsoft started the new year yesterday by issuing fixes for a near half century of vulnerabilities, although only seven were rated critical. Many of these were remote code execution (RCE) bugs, with experts agreeing that CVE-2019-0547 should be top of the priority list. This RCE vulnerability in t...

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    PHONE CARRIERS SELLING CUSTOMER LOCATION DATA

    Jan 09, 2019

    Bounty hunters are able to leverage a somewhat dubious skeptical service available through major telecom companies, including T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint, according to Motherboard. A researcher reportedly paid $300 to a bounty hunter who was then able to geolocate a phone down to a location in a ...

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    NHS DIGITAL CISO QUITS AFTER THREE MONTHS

    Jan 09, 2019

    NHS Digital’s first chief information security officer (CISO) has resigned just three months into the job, dealing a blow to efforts to improve cybersecurity across the UK’s health service. In a memo to staff seen by HSJ, NHS Digital deputy CEO, Rob Shaw, said that Robert Coles’ de...

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    FIRM OFFERS $2M FOR IOS ZERO-DAY EXPLOITS

    Jan 09, 2019

    ontroversial exploit broker Zerodium has upped its bug bounties for the majority of desktop/server and mobile exploits, offering security researchers millions of dollars for their work. At the lower end, a Windows local privilege escalation or sandbox escape will now pay out $80,000, up from $50,000...

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    IBM GROWS PATENT PORTFOLIO WITH CYBER-SECURITY INNOVATIONS

    Jan 08, 2019

    IBM announced on Jan. 8 that it was awarded 9,100 patents in 2018, once again topping the list for the most U.S. patents granted in a given year. A core component of IBM's patent haul in 2018 was in cyber-security innovation, with more than 1,400 granted patents. Among the security patents grant...

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    ELECTION SECURITY BILLS FINALLY PROGRESSING IN CONGRESS

    Jan 08, 2019

    After years of contention about real and imagined security attacks on U.S. elections, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider and then pass H.R. 1, also known as the “For the People Act of 2019,” which includes provisions that would improve election security and help st...

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    FOUR CLOUD SECURITY PREDICTIONS FOR 2019: CONTAINERISATION, LOAD BALANCERS, AND MORE

    Jan 08, 2019

    The cloud is a vital part of any enterprise infrastructure. The convenience of having a database that can be accessed from any location has dramatically improved efficiency within workforces. While many companies had previously been afraid of making the move, as the open nature of the cloud makes it...

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    ESCALATING VALUE OF IOS BUG BOUNTIES HITS $2M THRESHOLD

    Jan 08, 2019

    In the escalating market for security vulnerabilities a new milestone has been recorded early in the new year, with $2 million now being offered for a remote Apple IOS exploit. The $2 million award is being offered by vulnerability acquisition firm Zerodium, which first achieved global notoriety for...

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    YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA FORECAST FOR YEAR 2019 IS HERE AND IT’S NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL

    Jan 08, 2019

    Guest Post from Peter Davidson, a senior business associate striving to help different brands and startups to make effective business decisions and plan effective business strategies. After the successful conclusion of 2018, you must be planning with full energy to take your business to new heights ...

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    HOW MASTERCARD IS IMPROVING FRAUD DETECTION WITH IDENTITY CHECK

    Jan 07, 2019

    Online credit card fraud is a major concern for enterprises, consumers and vendors alike. One of the biggest brands in the payment card space is Mastercard, which has been quietly working on implementing technology it has branded Mastercard Identity Check, in an effort to help reduce fraud, while ma...

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    PROTEGO LABS BOOSTS SERVERLESS SECURITY WITH OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT

    Jan 07, 2019

    While serverless technology is becoming increasingly widely used, there has been a lack of understanding when it comes to serverless security implications. That's a challenge that Protego Labs is looking to help solve with the release of a freely available open-source tool that helps organizatio...

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    SECURING ENTERPRISE CROWN JEWELS: HOW TO PROTECT DATA AT DB LEVEL

    Jan 07, 2019

    Data breaches once again played a prominent role in this past year’s media coverage. While many organizations make it seem like an unavoidable fact, the reality is that there are a plenty of things that enterprises can do right now to help prevent unauthorized access to their systems and data....

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    THOUSANDS COMPLAIN ABOUT TV LICENSE PHISHING EMAILS

    Jan 07, 2019

    A highly convincing phishing email spoofed to appear as if sent from the UK’s TV Licensing authority has accrued thousands of complaints over the past three months. Action Fraud warned back in October that the scam email was designed to steal a user’s personal and financial details. &ldq...

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    LA CITY SUES WEATHER APP OVER DATA COLLECTION

    Jan 07, 2019

    The City of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against a popular US-based weather app, alleging it illegally sells user data to third parties. LA city attorney, Mike Feuer, is claiming the Weather Channel app misled users in that most agreed to allow it access to their location data purely for personal...

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    A LOOK BACK AT THE ISRAELI CYBER SECURITY INDUSTRY IN 2018

    Jan 04, 2019

    2018 saw a spate of major cyber attacks including the hacks of British Airways, Facebook and Marriott. Despite growing emphasis on and awareness of cyber threats, large organizations continue experiencing massive data breaches. And as the world becomes increasingly connected (cars and medical device...

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    MARRIOTT REVEALS NEW DETAILS IN STARWOOD DATA BREACH

    Jan 04, 2019

    Marriott International disclosed revised information on Jan. 4 about the massive data breach involving its Starwood Hotels division. The update includes both good and bad news about the impact from the data breach. First the good news: Originally Marriott reported on Nov. 30, 2018, that information ...

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    NEUSTAR BOLSTERS FRAUD DETECTION CAPABILITIES WITH TRUSTID

    Jan 04, 2019

    Neustar is improving its security capabilities with the addition of technology gained via the acquisition of caller authentication and fraud prevention vendor Trustid. Fraud can take many different forms, including caller fraud where unauthorized individuals attempt transactions or information retri...

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    BIOMETRIC SECURITY CAN BE HACKED, BUT IT'S REALLY HARD TO DO

    Jan 04, 2019

    At the end of December 2018, security researchers in Leipzig, Germany, demonstrated at a security conference their method of hacking a biometric security system that depends on reading the pattern of blood vessels in the palm of the hand. This method of vein authentication involves reading the detai...

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    PREDICTIONS 2019: SECURITY THREATS WILL ONLY GET NASTIER

    Jan 03, 2019

    Hardly a week went by in 2018 without news of a major data leak or security breach. Ransomware and phishing were invasive, state-run hackers were working around the clock, passwords were leaking, new sophisticated malware attacks were spreading, data was breached and governments around the world onc...

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    HACKERS THREATEN TO RELEASE 9/11 DATA 'TROVE'

    Jan 03, 2019

    A notorious hacking group is claiming to have put up for sale stolen legal and other documents relating to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The individual(s) known as ‘The Dark Overlord’ claimed in a lengthy Pastebin notice to have hacked insurance giants Hiscox Syndicates and Lloyds of Londo...

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    PASSWORD MANAGER USERS EXPOSED AFTER PRIVACY SNAFU

    Jan 03, 2019

    Data on over two million users of a password manager tool has been publicly exposed in another cloud storage misconfiguration incident. Abine said on Monday that 2.4 million users of its Blur product from prior to January 6 2018 were affected. As well as password management, it offers the ability to...

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    RANSOM DEMAND ON LUAS WEBSITE LIKELY THE FIRST OF MANY IN 2019

    Jan 03, 2019

    With the website of Dublin’s tram service, Luas, down after an apparent cyber attack, one of the country’s leading cyber security firms is urging businesses and the public to ensure their computers have the protection they need against an increasing number or ransomware attacks. A messag...

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    CASTHACK EXPOSES GOOGLE CHROMECAST DEVICE USERS TO RISK

    Jan 03, 2019

    A pair of hackers have taken aim at vulnerable Google Chromecast media streaming devices, sending unauthorized content and messages to unsuspecting users. The attack, dubbed "CastHack," identifies Google Chromecast devices that have been exposed to the public internet. The two attackers, w...

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    HACKERS HIJACK 70,000 GOOGLE CHROMECASTS THROUGH BUG – ALTHOUGH CHROMECAST WASN’T NONE THE WISER

    Jan 03, 2019

    It was reported earlier today that Hacker Giraffe has remotely gained access to the TVs and smart devices of tens-of-thousands of Google Chromecast users. In the hack, a pop-up was displayed that both warns of the exploit and links to a page listing the current number of affected devices. The messag...

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    HACKERS TARGET NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS

    Jan 02, 2019

    Personally identifiable information (PII) on nearly 1000 defectors from North Korea has been stolen in a cyber-raid, the South Korean government revealed late last week. It’s believed that one of the 25 “Hana” support centers for defectors in the country was targeted by a classic p...

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    HOW ENTERPRISES CAN AVOID THE RYUK RANSOMWARE WITH RIGHT STRATEGY

    Jan 02, 2019

    During the holiday period between Christmas and New Year’s in 2018, workers at a Tribune Co. newspaper location in South Florida found out that they couldn’t upload late-breaking sports scores to the portion of their CMS that handles printing and distribution. Later, other newspapers in ...

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    VIETNAM'S NEW CYBER LAW THREATENS FREE SPEECH

    Jan 02, 2019

    The Vietnamese government has passed a sweeping new cybersecurity law which critics claim will help the one-party state continue to crack down on free speech. The law will force internet companies like Facebook and Google to open offices in the country, store data on users locally and allow access t...

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    USB TYPE-C TO BECOME MORE SECURE WITH AUTHENTICATION STANDARD

    Jan 02, 2019

    The security of USB-based connections and devices is taking a step forward, with the official launch of the USB Type-C Authentication Program on Jan. 2. USB devices have become ubiquitous in modern computing, and in recent years USB Type-C has been introduced on leading notebooks, smartphones and ot...

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    HACKER HIJACKS THOUSANDS OF CHROMECASTS AND SMART TVS TO PLAY PEWDIEPIE AD

    Jan 02, 2019

    A hacker duo claims to have hijacked thousands of internet-exposed Chromecasts, smart TVs, and Google Home devices to play a video urging users to subscribe to PewDiePie's YouTube channel. The main hacker behind this hacking campaign --codenamed CastHack-- is known online as TheHackerGiraffe. Th...

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    EU TO RUN BUG BOUNTY PROGRAMS FOR 14 FREE SOFTWARE PROJECTS

    Jan 02, 2019

    The European Union is offering a total of more than €850,000 – nearly $1 million – for vulnerabilities found in 14 widely used free and open source software projects. The announcement was made last week by Julia Reda, who represents the German Pirate Party in the European Parliament...

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    FRENCH STARTUP OFFERS DARK WEB COMPASS, BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE

    Dec 31, 2018

    For years criminal websites shrouded in secrecy have thrived beyond the reach of traditional search engines, but a group of French engineers has found a way to navigate this dark web -- a tool they don't want to fall into the wrong hands. "We insist on this ability to say 'no',"...

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    WHAT TO CONSIDER BEFORE DEVELOPING AN API SECURITY STRATEGY

    Dec 31, 2018

    Recent incidents at Salesforce, Facebook, Google+—not to mention the Equifax breach and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that plagued Facebook—point directly to the unsettling reality that API security is often an afterthought for enterprises. Such incidents serve as a major wake-up call ...

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    LOOKING BACK AT THE TOP CYBER-SECURITY INCIDENTS OF 2018

    Dec 31, 2018

    As 2018 draws to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the year that was in cyber-security, to learn from past mistakes and identify trends that will likely continue into the new year. 2018 saw no shortage of major breaches, new critical vulnerabilities and policy changes that enterprise IT or...

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    WHAT ENTERPRISES CAN EXPECT FOR CYBERSECURITY IN 2019

    Dec 28, 2018

    2018 was a banner year in cybersecurity. The breaches were many, the remedies were few, and the cost of doing nothing went up. But there is hope on the horizon as new methods of authentication are beginning to show up, old practices are discarded, and as the threat landscape becomes clearer. But the...

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    CISCO PATCHES A CRITICAL PATCH ON ITS SOFTWARE-LICENSE MANAGER

    Dec 27, 2018

    Cisco this week said it patched a “critical” patch for its Prime License Manager (PLM) software that would let attackers execute random SQL queries. The Cisco Prime License Manager offers enterprise-wide management of user-based licensing, including license fulfillment. Released in Novem...

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    CYBERSECURITY 101: HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

    Dec 25, 2018

    Assuming you have your strong passwords in place and your two-factor authentication set up, you think your accounts are now safe? Think again. There’s much more to be done. You might think your Social Security or bank account numbers are the most sensitive digits in your life. Nowadays, hacker...

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    OVER 19,000 ORANGE MODEMS ARE LEAKING WIFI CREDENTIALS

    Dec 24, 2018

    Over the weekend, a security researcher has discovered that nearly 19,500 Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking WiFi credentials. Troy Mursch, co-founder of Bad Packets LLC, says his company's honeypots have detected at least one threat actor scanning heavily for Orange modems. Scans started Fr...

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    NEARLY 20,000 ORANGE MODEMS LEAKING WI-FI PASSWORDS

    Dec 24, 2018

    Nearly 20,000 Orange modems are being targeted thanks to a vulnerability leaking their SSID and Wi-Fi passwords, researchers at Bad Packets have warned. The firm’s honeypots first picked up the attack traffic targeting Orange Livebox ADSL modems. After conducting a simple Shodan search, chief ...

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    RESEARCHER PUBLISHES PROOF-OF-CONCEPT CODE FOR CREATING FACEBOOK WORM

    Dec 22, 2018

    A Polish security researcher has published today details and proof-of-concept code that could be used for creating a fully functional Facebook worm. This code exploits a vulnerability in the Facebook platform that the researcher --who goes online under the pseudonym of Lasq-- has seen being abused i...

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    CYBER-PHYSICAL CONVERGENCE EXPANDS ATTACK SURFACE

    Dec 21, 2018

    In the last year, Hong Kong has seen the growing convergence of IT systems and OT systems as more companies try to drive digital transformation deeper into their organization. “The cyber-physical convergence, especially on the use of IoT (Internet of Things), is actually happening and keeps gr...

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    PRIVACY LEGISLATION MIGHT HAVE STOPPED FACEBOOK

    Dec 20, 2018

    In the aftermath of an extensive New York Times investigation into Facebook’s data privacy regulations and whether the company violated the privacy and public policy regulations of the Federal Trade Commission, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) said that it is time for her colleagues to step up. Duri...

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    PIVOTAL CLOUD FOUNDRY 2.4 BOOSTS SECURITY WITH COMPLIANCE SCANNER

    Dec 20, 2018

    Pivotal is releasing version 2.4 of its Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platform on Dec. 20, providing organizations with a host of new capabilities to manage and deploy cloud-native applications. PCF is Pivotal's commercial distribution, based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provide...

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    MICROSOFT PATCHES OUT-OF-BAND ZERO-DAY SECURITY FLAW FOR IE

    Dec 20, 2018

    Users of Microsoft's Windows operating system have grown accustomed to a regular, predictable cadence for patches—on the first Tuesday of every month. On Dec. 19, Microsoft broke that cadence with an emergency out-of-band update for its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. The reason is sim...

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    MCAFEE: IOT MALWARE INCREASING ALONGSIDE 480 THREATS PER MINUTE

    Dec 20, 2018

    Shocking research from McAfee Labs highlights the increasing prevalence of IoT malware as the cybersecurity firm detects 480 new threats per minute. Years of putting functionality before security and rushing to market have led to many compromisable devices. The Mirai IoT botnet attack in 2016 was a ...

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    US INDICTS CHINESE HACKERS IN MSP NETWORK SCHEME

    Dec 20, 2018

    The U.S. Justice Department today charged two Chinese-state-sponsored hackers that it says infiltrated managed service provider (MSP) networks and stole companies’ intellectual property and sensitive data. While the U.S. government didn’t name any of the companies whose networks were com...

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    NEW WAVE OF HMRC SCAM CALLS HITS UK

    Dec 20, 2018

    Security experts are warning of a new HMRC scam using a threatening automated message in a bid to trick taxpayers into paying a ‘fine.’ The scam calls appear designed to cash-in on the busy end-of-year period in the UK where taxpayers look to get their affairs in order before the self-as...

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    CLICK2GOV BREACH PAYMENT CARDS SOLD ON DARK WEB

    Dec 19, 2018

    In August 2017, Click2Gov software, a payment technology widely used by local governments to process utility payments, was the victim of a breach in which Oceanside, California, was the first in a long line of compromised municipalities. Many of the payment cards stolen from the compromised records ...

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    A RESTAURANT'S NEXT BIG FINANCIAL RISK ISN'T BAD REVIEWS — IT'S DATA BREACHES

    Dec 19, 2018

    As hackers find new ways to gather coveted personal information, restaurants are quickly becoming a target for the internet underworld. Several customer accounts were breached on Dunkin's DD Perks mobile rewards program in November, but Dunkin' certainly wasn't the only chain to get hit ...

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    FACEBOOK REPORTEDLY GATHERING PERSONAL DATA FROM TINDER, PREGNANCY+, OTHER APPS

    Dec 19, 2018

    Facebook may be gathering some of your most personal information. Android apps like Tinder, Grindr and Pregnancy+ are sharing sensitive user information with Facebook, according to a Wednesday report from German mobile security company Mobilsicher. The information reportedly includes dating profiles...

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    FINALLY, A MEANINGFUL CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON STEMMING CYBERSECURITY ATTACKS

    Dec 12, 2018

    As a new Congress arrives next month, expect a whirlwind of activity on the cybersecurity and privacy fronts. From major data breaches to the growing consumer data privacy morass, the frenetic pace of Washington developments will heat up. Most of this activity will obscure the fundamentals of why we...

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    NEW VARIANT OF SHAMOON MALWARE UPLOADED TO VIRUSTOTAL

    Dec 12, 2018

    A new variant of the destructive Shamoon malware was uploaded to VirusTotal this week, but security researchers haven’t linked it to a specific attack yet. Also referred to as DistTrack, the sophisticated malware was initially observed in attacks against Saudi Arabian and other oil companies i...

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    GRAMMARLY LAUNCHES PUBLIC BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM

    Dec 12, 2018

    Grammarly, the popular service for checking grammar and spelling, this week announced the launch of a public bug bounty program. Grammarly has been running a private bug bounty program with HackerOne for more than a year. The program has nearly 1,500 participants and resulted in payouts totaling $50...

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    TOP 10 WORST PASSWORD FAILS OF 2018

    Dec 12, 2018

    The 2018 worst password fails, by that Dashlane means worst offenders this year, are: 1. Kanye West for unlocking his iPhone on TV in the White House with 000000. 2. The Pentagon for protecting weapon systems with default passwords, as well have having such pitiful admin passwords that the GAO audit...

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    AI SET TO SUPERCHARGE PHISHING IN 2019

    Dec 12, 2018

    The coming year will see a mix of old and new as phishing is supercharged with AI but reported vulnerabilities continue to cause organizations problems, according to Trend Micro. The security giant claimed in its predictions report this week that phishing will continue to grow in popularity as explo...

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    ADOBE PATCHES 87 VULNERABILITIES IN ACROBAT SOFTWARE

    Dec 11, 2018

    The December 2018 Patch Tuesday updates released by Adobe address a total of 87 vulnerabilities affecting the company’s Acrobat software. The vulnerabilities impact the Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC (Continuous and Classic 2015 tracks), and Acrobat and Acrobat Rea...

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    WINDOWS KERNEL VULNERABILITY EXPLOITED IN ATTACKS

    Dec 11, 2018

    Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for December 2018 address nearly 40 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw affecting the Windows kernel. The actively exploited vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8611, has been described by Microsoft as a privilege escalation issue related to the failure ...

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    RESEARCHERS FIND OVER 40,000 STOLEN LOGINS FOR GOVERNMENT PORTALS

    Dec 11, 2018

    Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered login credentials for over 40,000 accounts that unlock government services in more than 30 countries. The credentials were harvested via phishing attacks that distributed spyware tools such as Pony Formgrabber, AZORult, and Qbot. It is believed the logi...

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    NEW GOOGLE+ BUG MOVES SITE END DATE FORWARD

    Dec 11, 2018

    Google is speeding up the closure of its unpopular social networking platform after discovering a new bug affecting over 52 million users. The tech giant announced in October that it would be shutting Google+ in August 2019. However, that date has been brought forward to April next year, while its A...

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    NEW MAC MALWARE COMBINES OPEN-SOURCE BACKDOOR AND CRYPTO-MINER

    Dec 10, 2018

    A recently discovered piece of malware targeting Mac systems is a combination of two open-source programs, Malwarebytes security researchers warn. Detected as DarthMiner, the threat is distributed through an application called Adobe Zii, which supposedly helps in the piracy of various Adobe programs...

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    NEW BUG PROMPTS EARLIER END TO GOOGLE+ SOCIAL NETWORK

    Dec 10, 2018

    Google said Monday it will close the consumer version of its online social network sooner than originally planned due to the discovery of a new software bug. The Google+ social network will close in April -- four months earlier than planned -- and the internet giant will focus on operating a version...

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    RESEARCHERS FIND A DOZEN UNDOCUMENTED OPENSSH BACKDOORS

    Dec 10, 2018

    ESET security researchers have discovered 12 new OpenSSH backdoor families that haven’t been documented before. The Secure Shell (SSH) network protocol allows the remote connection of computers and devices. The portable version of OpenSSH is implemented in almost all Linux distributions, and a...

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    HOW GOOGLE IS IMPROVING KUBERNETES CONTAINER SECURITY

    Dec 10, 2018

    The open-source Kubernetes container orchestration project has become increasingly important in recent years as organizations rely on it to deploy applications. With the increased reliance has come increased scrutiny on security, especially at Google, which hosts a managed Kubernetes service called ...

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    SOPHOS CENTRAL INTEGRATES FIREWALL MANAGEMENT TO IMPROVE SECURITY

    Dec 10, 2018

    Sophos announced on Dec. 10 that it is bringing its XG Firewall to the Sophos Central Management service, enabling organizations to manage security in an integrated approach from a central management dashboard. The integrated capability is now available in early access for Sophos customers and will ...

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    DEEPPHISH PROJECT SHOWS MALICIOUS AI IS NOT AS DANGEROUS AS FEARED

    Dec 07, 2018

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a de facto necessity for cybersecurity. The asymmetric nature of cyberattacks simply overwhelms traditional manual analyst defenses, and organizations must increasingly use AI and machine learning (ML)-enhanced technologies to detect known attack...

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    HOW OPEN POLICY AGENT WORKS TO SECURE CLOUD-NATIVE WORKLOADS

    Dec 07, 2018

    A core element of IT security is having proper policies in place that define what is and what isn't allowed for a given process or entity. In the cloud-native world, where there are multiple distributed elements that can live in different deployment modalities, the challenge of defining and impl...

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    UK CONSUMERS HAVE LOST £500 EACH THROUGH ONLINE CRIME

    Dec 07, 2018

    Two-fifths of UK consumers have been a victim of cybercrime with phishing topping the list, according to new research from GMX. The email provider polled over 2000 Brits last month to better understand the impact and extent of online threats. It found that half of those netizens affected lost money ...

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    RESEARCHERS TAKE AN AI APPROACH TO TEXT CAPTCHAS

    Dec 07, 2018

    Researchers at Lancaster University in the UK and Northwest University and Peking University in China have found a way to get around CAPTCHA security with new artificial intelligence, according to research published in a paper titled Yet Another Text Captcha Solver: A Generative Adversarial Network ...

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    UNDER FIRE HUAWEI AGREES TO UK SECURITY DEMANDS: REPORT

    Dec 07, 2018

    Embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has agreed to British intelligence demands over its equipment and software as it seeks to be  part of the country's 5G network plans, the FT reported Friday. Huawei executives met senior officials from Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCS...

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    APPLE FIXES PASSCODE, REMOTE CODE EXECUTION FLAWS IN IOS AND MACOS

    Dec 06, 2018

    Apple released a series of updates on Dec. 5 to its desktop and mobile operating systems, patching serious vulnerabilities that could have exposed users to risk. Among the updates released by Apple are iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2 and Safari 12.0.2. The bugs fixed across the updates include priv...

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    CENSYS TO EXPAND INTERNET SCANNING FOR THREAT HUNTING

    Dec 06, 2018

    Visibility is key for IT security professionals trying to figure out the nature of a given cyber-security threat. While having visibility into an organization's environment is one thing, having visibility into the entirety of the internet is another, which is where Censys fits in. Censys has its...

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    BT STRIPS HUAWEI FROM 3G AND 4G CORE

    Dec 06, 2018

    BT and Huawei have sought to play down speculation that the former is stripping the Chinese telecoms giant’s equipment from its networks over security concerns. The UK telco group said it is removing Huawei infrastructure from its core 3G and 4G networks to meet existing policy, which will als...

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    REPUBLICAN PARTY BREACHED IN MAJOR CYBER-ATTACK – REPORT

    Dec 06, 2018

    The chief campaign organization of the Republican Party has been hacked and thousands of emails from senior aides compromised over the period of several months, it has emerged. In an incident reminiscent of the notorious cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ahead of the 2016 presi...

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    GOOGLE PATCHES MORE THAN 50 ANDROID VULNERABILITIES IN DECEMBER

    Dec 06, 2018

    Google this week released a set of security patches for Android, to address over 50 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system. The most severe of the security bugs is a critical issue in Media framework that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code within the context of ...

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    HACKERS GET INTO NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE'S EMAIL SYSTEM

    Dec 05, 2018

    “Thousands of emails were stolen” from four senior aides to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm for House Republicans, during the 2018 midterm campaign. MSSP first detected the hack and then CrowdStrike was brought into it in April to investigate the ...

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    BUSINESSES WARNED ON WINTER PHISHING SCAMS

    Dec 05, 2018

    Winter is phishing season, and organisations and individuals alike should be extra vigilant during the holidays. This is according to a new report from F5 Labs, which claims that fraud incidents in October, November, and December usually jump more than 50 per cent, compared to a yearly average. Most...

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    KUBERNETES HIT BY MAJOR SECURITY FLAW

    Dec 05, 2018

    A serious flaw in Kubernetes has been identified, and this one is so big that you should stop using it and update, immediately. Dubbed CVE-2018-1002105, the flaw allows anyone to establish a connection through the Kubernetes application programming interface (API) server to a backend server. Once co...

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    RUSSIAN HOSPITAL TARGETED WITH FLASH ZERO-DAY AFTER KERCH INCIDENT

    Dec 05, 2018

    Security updates released by Adobe on Wednesday for Flash Player patch two vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw exploited by a sophisticated threat actor in attacks aimed at a healthcare organization associated with the Russian presidential administration. The attack may be related to the rece...

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    IOT BACKBONE IS RIDDLED WITH SECURITY ISSUES

    Dec 05, 2018

    Two popular IoT communications protocols are riddled with vulnerabilities and systemic issues which are exposing countless global organizations to industrial espionage, targeted attacks and DoS, according to Trend Micro. The security giant’s latest report, The Fragility of Industrial IoT&rsquo...

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    HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE WAS HACKED DURING 2018 ELECTION

    Dec 04, 2018

    The National Republican Congressional Committee was hacked during the 2018 US midterm elections. The breach, first reported by Politico, exposed thousands of emails to an unknown hacker. "The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity," Ian Prior, a s...

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    NEW RANSOMWARE DEMANDS PAYMENT OVER WECHAT PAY IN CHINA

    Dec 04, 2018

    Ransomware attacks may have dwindled since the destructive days of WannaCry and NotPetya last year, but a new one has struck mobile-centric China and it's asking for ransom through one of the country's most popular methods of payment. Over 20,000 computers have fallen victim to an unnamed ra...

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    MALWARE DROPPER SUPPORTS A DOZEN DECOY DOCUMENT FORMATS

    Dec 04, 2018

    A recently discovered malware dropper has the ability to use nearly a dozen decoy document file formats to drop various payloads, Palo Alto Networks security researchers warn. Dubbed CARROTBAT, the customized dropper is being used to deliver lures primarily pertaining to the Korean region, revolving...

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    RUSSIAN RANSOMWARE BROKERS SCAM VICTIMS

    Dec 04, 2018

    Security researchers have discovered cybersecurity scammers in Russia are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits by falsely claiming to be able to unlock encrypted files. Check Point explained that one ‘IT consultancy’ named Dr Shifro is promising customers it can help th...

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    PHISHING CAMPAIGN DELIVERS FLAWEDAMMYY, RMS RATS

    Dec 04, 2018

    A new campaign delivering various remote access Trojans (RATs) is likely the work of a known Dridex/Locky operator, Morphisec security researchers warn. Dubbed Pied Piper, the campaign targets users in multiple countries and is likely operated by TA505, the threat group known to have orchestrated la...

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    DATA BREACHES CAN SUCKER-PUNCH YOU. PREPARE TO FIGHT BACK

    Dec 03, 2018

    When a big data breach makes the news, there's one thing that can get lost in the noise -- the harm that hacking causes regular people like you. Experts tend to focus on the number of people whose records hackers stole, or whether the breached company could have prevented the hack. Those are imp...

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    CISCO, AT&T, INTEL PROMOTE BEST ANTI-BOTNET PRACTICES FOR COMPANIES

    Dec 03, 2018

    A new report recommends best practices for services providers, enterprises, and software and device manufacturers to protect against botnets and other automated distributed attacks. The Council to Secure the Digital Economy published the 2018 International Anti-Botnet Guide. It’s a trade assoc...

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    KNOWING VALUE OF DATA ASSETS IS CRUCIAL TO CYBERSECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT

    Dec 03, 2018

    Understanding the value of corporate assets is fundamental to cybersecurity risk management. Only when the true value is known can the correct level of security be applied. Sponsored by DocAuthority and based on Gartner's Infonomics Data Valuation Model, Ponemon Institute queried 2,827 professio...

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    NSA EXPLOITS NOT SILENT BUT ETERNALLY PROBLEMATIC

    Nov 29, 2018

    It’s been over a year since patches to protect against the leaked NSA exploits were released, yet Akamai has published research revealing the continued use of the Eternal family of exploits with evidence of a new version of the UPnProxy vulnerability targeting unpatched computers behind the ro...

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    DELL RESETS USER PASSWORDS AFTER WEBSITE ATTACK

    Nov 29, 2018

    Dell announced late on Nov. 28 that its Dell.com customer-facing website was the victim of a cyber-attack. The attack was apparently discovered by Dell on Nov. 9, with attackers taking aim at usernames, email addresses and passwords that had been cryptographically hashed. According to Dell, it has n...

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    ATTACKERS KEEN ON AUTOMATED BROWSERS

    Nov 29, 2018

    Google Chrome has long been a popular web browser, but since the introduction of the headless mode functionality, the browser has grow in popularity not only among software engineers and testers but also with attackers, according to Imperva. According to recently published research, "Headless C...

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    ATTACKERS RUN ON DUNKIN'S DD PERKS REWARDS

    Nov 29, 2018

    Boston-based Dunkin’, the brand formerly known as Dunkin Donuts, has released a warning to its customers stating that DD Perks reward account holders were potentially hacked by a third party in a credential-stuffing attack wherein hackers were trying to steal the rewards points to sell and tra...

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    INDUSTRY REACTIONS TO USPS EXPOSING USER DATA

    Nov 28, 2018

    Security blogger Brian Krebs revealed recently that an API used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) had a vulnerability that potentially exposed the data of 60 million customers. Krebs learned of the security hole from an unnamed researcher who had reported the issue to USPS over a year ago. ...

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    CYBER RISK EXCHANGE STARTUP CYBERGRX RAISES $30 MILLION

    Nov 28, 2018

    CyberGRX, a Denver, Colorado-based startup that has created what it calls a “global cyber risk exchange”, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $59 million. Through its recently launched third-party cyber ri...

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    IBM BRINGS ENHANCED DATA MODELS TO QRADAR ADVISOR WITH WATSON 2.0

    Nov 28, 2018

    IBM announced on Nov. 28 that it is expanding the capabilities of its QRadar Advisor with Watson platform to help organizations more rapidly understand attacker behaviors. The IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson 2.0 release is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables organizations to collect...

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    NOKIA’S SOFTWARE BIZ IS FIRMLY ROOTED IN SILICON VALLEY

    Nov 28, 2018

    Nokia is making its presence in Silicon Valley a bit more prominent with the addition of a new corporate campus in Sunnvale, California. Although the campus won’t be ready until the first half of 2020, the company’s intent is to bring together its 1,000 or so employees that are currently...

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    MICROSOFT REVEALS MORE ON RECENT SECURITY HICCUPS

    Nov 27, 2018

    Remember that big outage that happened last week to Azure, Office 365 and Dynamic users? Well, Microsoft has shed some more light on what the underlying causes were. Publicly releasing root causes to the issue, Microsoft said there were three separate problems that led to the downtime. The first two...

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    SCAM WEBSITES ARE USING THAT GREEN HTTPS PADLOCK TO FOOL YOU

    Nov 27, 2018

    You may have heard you should look for the padlock symbol at the top of a website before entering your password or credit card information into an online form. It's well-meaning advice, but new data shows it isn't enough to keep your sensitive information secure. As it turns out, fraudsters ...

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    CRYPTOCURRENCY-STEALING CODE DISTRIBUTED VIA POPULAR LIBRARY

    Nov 27, 2018

    The popular EventStream Node.js library was recently modified to fetch malicious code designed to steal crypto-currencies. Designed as a toolkit to make creating and working with streams easy, the JavaScript package has around two million downloads a week, which makes it a valuable resource to appli...

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    AWS BOOSTS SERVERLESS SECURITY WITH FIRECRACKER MICROVMS

    Nov 27, 2018

    Amazon Web Services is looking to further accelerate the adoption of serverless computing with the announcement on Nov. 26 at its re:Invent conference of its new open-source Firecracker lightweight virtualization technology. There has long been a debate about whether or not it is necessary to run co...

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    WHAT IS WINDOWS HELLO? MICROSOFT’S BIOMETRICS SECURITY SYSTEM EXPLAINED

    Nov 26, 2018

    Windows Hello is a biometrics-based technology that enables Windows 10 users to authenticate secure access to their devices, apps, online services and networks with just a fingerprint, iris scan or facial recognition. The sign-in mechanism is essentially an alternative to passwords and is widely con...

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    ALIBABA RESTRUCTURES AMIDST CLOUD COMPUTING PUSH AND GROWTH

    Nov 26, 2018

    Alibaba Group Chief Executive Daniel Zhang announced that the company would be restructuring its cloud business unit and its Tmall e-commerce business. This comes just weeks after Zhang told CNBC that Alibaba Cloud would be the group’s main business in the future. Alibaba will rename its cloud...

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    RESEARCHERS USE SMART BULB FOR DATA EXFILTRATION

    Nov 26, 2018

    Researchers with software risk measurement and management company Checkmarx were able to create two mobile applications that abuse the functionality of smart bulbs for data exfiltration. For their experiment, the researchers used the Magic Blue smart bulbs, which work with both Android and iOS, and ...

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    DOS VULNERABILITIES IMPACT LINUX KERNEL

    Nov 26, 2018

    Two recently disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities that remain unpatched could be exploited for local denial-of-service (DoS). The flaws, both which were made public last week, impact Linux kernel 4.19.2 and previous versions. Both represent NULL pointer deference bugs that can be exploited by loca...

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    US SAYS CHINA INCREASED HACKING OVER TRADE DISPUTE

    Nov 23, 2018

    In advance of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, a US government report made claims that China had increased hacking attempts in an effort to steal American technology and shows no sign of stopping or slowing its cyber-theft practices, according to the ...

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    MICROSOFT TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS KILLING PASSWORDS

    Nov 22, 2018

    People looking to log into their Microsoft accounts no longer need passwords to do so. The Redmond giant has announced today that it is supporting passwordless user authentication, which uses biometrics, the Microsoft Authenticator app, or a FIDO2-compatible device. A whole swathe of Microsoft servi...

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    USPS REPORTEDLY FIXES WEBSITE BUG THAT EXPOSED DATA OF 60M USERS

    Nov 22, 2018

    Just in time for the holiday shopping season, it appears the US Postal Service has fixed a security flaw that allowed all USPS.com account holders, some 60 million people, to see personal details of fellow users. Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs wrote about the bug on Wednesday, noting that he was c...

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    SIGNIFICANT LACK IN AWARENESS OF IOT SECURITY AMONG IT LEADERS, STUDY FINDS

    Nov 21, 2018

    A survey conducted by IT security firm Trend Micro has revealed that 86% of IT and security decision makers around the world believe their organisations need to enhance their awareness of IoT threats. This is due to significant lack of knowledge which accompanies rising threat levels and security ch...

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    FACEBOOK BOOSTS BUG BOUNTY PAYOUTS FOR ACCOUNT TAKEOVER FLAWS

    Nov 21, 2018

    Facebook has faced multiple challenges over the course of 2018 as it has struggled with inauthentic user behavior, abuse of private information and outright attacks where user accounts were hijacked. In an effort to improve user account security and mitigate hijacking threats, Facebook announced on ...

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    ATTACKERS EXPLOIT RECENTLY PATCHED POPULAR WORDPRESS PLUGIN

    Nov 21, 2018

    Recently patched vulnerabilities in the popular AMP for WP plugin are being targeted in an active Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) campaign, Wordfence reports. With over 100,000 installs, the plugin adds Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google AMP Project) functionality to websites, which makes them faster for m...

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    HACKERS LINKED TO RUSSIA IMPERSONATE US OFFICIALS

    Nov 20, 2018

    In a targeted campaign directed at multiple organizations across law enforcement, media, pharmaceutical and other public sectors, hackers with alleged ties to the Russian government have been trying to infiltrate US government computers and networks, according to a new report published by FireEye. M...

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    PORTSHIFT PLATFORM LOOKS TO SECURE APPLICATION IDENTITY IN THE CLOUD

    Nov 20, 2018

    Assigning identity to applications has long been a challenge for organizations, and it's one that startup Portshift is looking to help solve. Portshift officially launched on Nov. 20, backed by Israeli cyber-security accelerator Team8 and $5.3 million in seed funding. Portshift's core techno...

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    AWS LAUNCHES NEW SECURITY OFFERING WHICH MITIGATES S3 MISCONFIGURATIONS – IF CUSTOMERS GET IT RIGHT

    Nov 20, 2018

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced extra steps to ensure customers’ S3 buckets don’t become misconfigured – but don’t assume responsibility has been taken away from the customer. The new service, Amazon S3 Block Public Access, can work at the account level, on individual...

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    TP-LINK PATCHES REMOTE CODE EXECUTION FLAWS IN SOHO ROUTER

    Nov 19, 2018

    Vulnerabilities recently addressed by WiFi device maker TP-Link in its TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router could allow remote code execution, Cisco Talos security researchers warn. The issues were mainly caused by lack of input sanitization and parsing errors. Lack of proper input sanitiz...

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    IS YOUR DATA BREACH RESPONSE PLAN READY?

    Nov 19, 2018

    Fifty-six percent of organizations experienced a data breach involving more than 1,000 records over the past two years, and of those, 37 percent occurred two to three times and 39 percent were global in scope, according to Experian. In 2017 in particular, there were more than 5,000 reported data bre...

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    SONICWALL LAUNCHES SD-WAN, RISK METRICS AND NEW UTM HARDWARE

    Nov 19, 2018

    SonicWall is adding multiple new features to its product portfolio, in a bid to help organizations further secure their on-premises and hybrid cloud assets against threats. Among the new features coming to SonicWall's Capture Cloud Platform are zero-touch deployment options and software-defined ...

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    TEXAS HOSPITAL BECOMES VICTIM OF DHARMA RANSOMWARE

    Nov 19, 2018

    The Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) has revealed a ransomware outbreak which may have led to the leak of patient data. In a statement on its website, the Texas-based hospital said that ABH discovered an unauthorized threat actor rifling through the organization's systems on roughly September 3. The...

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    DRIDEX/LOCKY OPERATORS UNLEASH NEW MALWARE IN RECENT ATTACK

    Nov 16, 2018

    The threat actor(s) behind many Dridex and Locky campaigns have been using a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT), Proofpoint security researchers warn. Known as TA505, the attackers have been using malware dubbed tRat, which was written in Delphi and is modular in nature. The new piece of malware was fir...

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    SAMSAM AND GANDCRAB ILLUSTRATE EVOLUTION OF RANSOMWARE

    Nov 16, 2018

    2018 has seen a major divergence in the operation of ransomware: targeted versus ransomware as a service (RaaS). Two particular malware families have dominated each branch: SamSam (targeted) and GandCrab (RaaS). Targeted seeks high ransoms from relatively few victims, while RaaS seeks relatively sma...

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    BLACKBERRY JUMPS INTO SECURITY WITH $1.4B CYLANCE ACQUISITION

    Nov 16, 2018

    A week after the first rumors of the acquisition began to surface, BlackBerry confirmed on Nov. 16 that it is acquiring cyber-security vendor Cylance for $1.4 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close before BlackBerry's fiscal year end in February 2019. Cylance is best known for its suite ...

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    TEXT MESSAGE DATABASE REPORTEDLY LEAKED PASSWORD RESETS

    Nov 15, 2018

    A massive database managing millions of text messages was reportedly discovered unsecured, exposing sensitive information such as password resets and two-factor security codes. Vovox, a San Diego-based communications company maintained the server, which was left unprotected by password, offering any...

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    GREATHORN EXPANDS EMAIL SECURITY PLATFORM

    Nov 15, 2018

    Waltham, MA-based GreatHorn has expanded its machine-learning phishing protection system into a complete email security platform. "This major new expansion of the Company's flagship solution," it announced on November 14, "addresses every potential stage of a phishing attack with ...

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    NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF SMBS EXPERIENCE CYBER ATTACKS

    Nov 14, 2018

    The 2018 State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium Size Businesses study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Keeper Security, revealed that small businesses increasingly face the same cybersecurity risks as larger companies, but only 28 percent rate their ability to mitigate threats, ...

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    APPLE'S SAFARI TESTS 'NOT SECURE' WARNING FOR UNENCRYPTED WEBSITES

    Nov 14, 2018

    Apple's Safari team, following Chrome's lead, has begun warning people when they're visiting websites that aren't protected by HTTPS encryption. The feature for now is only in Safari Technology Preview 70, a version of the web browser Apple uses to test technology it typically brings...

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    THE BIGGEST CYBER THREATS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2019

    Nov 13, 2018

    Experts from The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm that enables clients to navigate changes in security risk, technology and policy, developed a list of the biggest cyber threats to watch out for in 2019. Cryptojacking. If the recent and explosive growth of ransomware is an indication ...

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    DESPITE RAISED AWARENESS, WORKER CYBER SECURITY PRACTICES AREN'T IMPROVING

    Nov 13, 2018

    Even though there has lately been a lot of talk about cybersecurity awareness amongst employees, their habits aren’t getting any better. As a matter of fact, SailPoint Technologies’ new report says they are actually getting worse. The enterprise identity governance company issued a repor...

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    SAP PATCHES CRITICAL VULNERABILITY IN HANA STREAMING ANALYTICS

    Nov 13, 2018

    SAP this week published its November 2018 set of security patches, which include 11 new Security Patch Day Notes, along with 3 updates for previously released notes. This month’s Security Notes include a Hot News note, five notes rated High, and eight notes considered Medium risk. The most imp...

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    TWISTLOCK IMPROVES CLOUD-NATIVE SECURITY WITH DISCOVERY TOOL

    Nov 13, 2018

    There is a simple truism in much of IT, and that is that organizations can't manage what they're not aware of. As organizations increasingly make use of distributed teams that use cloud-native services, there is a nontrivial risk of application sprawl. On Nov. 13, container security vendor T...

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    CLOUDFLARE BRINGS PRIVACY TO MOBILE TRAFFIC WITH 1.1.1.1 DNS APP

    Nov 12, 2018

    Cloudflare is extending its 1.1.1.1 DNS service with new mobile capabilities it announced on Nov. 11. The 1.1.1.1 DNS service was first launched on April 1, providing a freely available service to help secure and accelerate DNS lookups. The initial service launch required users to make a change on t...

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    ADOBE COLDFUSION VULNERABILITY EXPLOITED IN THE WILD

    Nov 09, 2018

    A recently patched remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Adobe ColdFusion web application development platform has been exploited in the wild by one or more threat groups, Volexity warned on Thursday. The security hole in question is tracked as CVE-2018-15961 and it was resolved by Adobe...

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    THE MORRIS WORM TURNS 30

    Nov 09, 2018

    How the historic Internet worm attack of 1988 has shaped security - or not. Michele Guel was sound asleep on Nov. 3, 1988, when the call came at 3:30 a.m.: An unknown virus had infiltrated NASA Ames Research Laboratory's Sun Microsystems file servers and workstations and was sapping their resour...

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    NEARLY 4,000 BREACHES DISCLOSED IN 2018

    Nov 08, 2018

    While it is likely that the breach activity of 2018 won’t reach the level of 2017, a look back at the first nine months suggests that 2018 is on pace to be another significant year for breaches, according to Risk Based Security. The 2018 Q3 Data Breach QuickView Report found that 3,676 data co...

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    MOST IT SECURITY PROS UNDERESTIMATE PHISHING RISKS

    Nov 08, 2018

    Based on the results of a new survey, the vast majority of IT security pros fail to understand the actual risks of short-lived but dangerous phishing attacks on the web, said SlashNext. Conducted over a five day period, a query of 300 IT security decision makers in midsized firms in the US found tha...

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    SYMANTEC BOOSTS SECURITY WITH JAVELIN, APPTHORITY ACQUISITIONS

    Nov 06, 2018

    Symantec continues to grow its portfolio of cyber-security products and services, most recently via the acquisitions of Javelin Networks and Appthority. Privately held Javelin Networks develops technology to help protect enterprises from attacks that target the widely deployed Microsoft Active Direc...

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    U.S. CONSUMERS' SECURITY HABITS MAKE THEM VULNERABLE TO FRAUD

    Nov 06, 2018

    Despite almost half of U.S. consumers (49 percent) believing their security habits make them vulnerable to information fraud or identity theft, 51 percent admit to reusing passwords/PINs across multiple accounts such as email, computer log in, phone passcode, and bank accounts. That is according to ...

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    FACEBOOK SEPARATES WORKPLACE FOR BUSINESS CUSTOMERS

    Nov 01, 2018

    Facebook has revealed it will be separating out its Workplace by Facebook platform from its main domain. The social network said that soon, businesses that pay for Workplace by Facebook (and according to Facebook October 2017 figures, there's 30,000 of them so far), will no longer log in through...

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    USB DRIVES DELIVER DANGEROUS MALWARE TO INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES: HONEYWELL

    Nov 01, 2018

    Malware is still being delivered to industrial facilities via USB removable storage devices and some threats can cause significant disruptions, according to a report published on Thursday by Honeywell. The industrial giant last year launched SMX, a product designed to protect facilities from USB-bor...

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    BLEEDINGBIT BLUETOOTH VULNERABILITIES EXPOSE WIFI APS TO RISK

    Nov 01, 2018

    Wireless access points from multiple vendors are potentially at risk thanks to a set of new Bluetooth flaws known as Bleedingbit. Bleedingbit was publicly announced by IoT security firm Armis on Nov. 1; it impacts Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) that are used in Cisco...

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    PROPOSAL FOR CYBERSECURITY CIVILIAN CORPS GETS MIXED RECEPTION

    Oct 31, 2018

    Although the U.S has been engaged in cybersecurity for over a generation, "there continues to be organizational and human gaps that leave the nation insecure." Few people would disagree. What is less clear is any realistic and effective solution to the problem. Now the bi-partisan New Amer...

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    LOGRHYTHM ADVANCES NEXTGEN SIEM SECURITY PLATFORM WITH SOAR FEATURES

    Oct 30, 2018

    Some organizations might think of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology as only being concerned with log collection for security, but that's not what LogRhythm's NextGen SIEM system is all about. LogRhythm announced its 7.4 release on Oct. 30, enhancing the company'...

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    CYBER IS A BOARDROOM ISSUE IN 2018

    Oct 30, 2018

    Based on studies and interviews with corporate board members and chief information security officers (CISOs), the Cyber Balance Sheet, published by Focal Point Data Risk and produced by the Cyentia Institute, found that boardrooms are engaging in more conversations about security. While the talks ab...

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    CLOUD DATA IS MORE AT RISK THAN THOUGHT

    Oct 30, 2018

    Almost a quarter of all corporate data in the cloud can be categorised as sensitive, which might spell trouble for the company if the data gets stolen or somehow leaks. This is according to the latest McAfee Cloud Adoption and Risk Report which claims that the threat is even greater than originally ...

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    IBM TO ACQUIRE OPEN SOURCE GIANT RED HAT FOR $34 BILLION

    Oct 29, 2018

    IBM said Sunday it has reached a deal to buy open source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, among the biggest tech mergers in history which the computing giant said would enhance its cloud offerings. If approved it will be the third biggest tech merger in history, according to business news s...

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    LOGICAL BUG IN MICROSOFT WORD'S 'ONLINE VIDEO' ALLOWS CODE EXECUTION

    Oct 29, 2018

    Microsoft Office is impacted by a logical bug that allows an attacker to abuse the “online video” feature in Word to execute malicious code, Cymulate security researchers warn. The issue, which supposedly impacts all users of Office 2016 and older, can be exploited without special config...

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    FACEBOOK IS MOVING FAST TO LIMIT COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR

    Oct 29, 2018

    Facebook is not sitting idly by while attackers attempt to influence the social network's users with inauthentic accounts and recently removed 82 pages that were followed by over 1 million accounts. Facebook is moving swiftly to disrupt and remove nation-state backed attackers from its social me...

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    STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY MOVING FORWARD SLOWLY, VERACODE REPORTS

    Oct 25, 2018

    The state of software security in 2018 is marginally better than what it was in 2017, but there is still lots of room to improve, according to the 2018 State of Software Security report from CA's Veracode division. Among the high-level findings in the SOSS report is that 69 percent of discovered...

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    US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EXPANDS BUG BOUNTY EFFORTS

    Oct 24, 2018

    The Department of Defense has found value over the past two years in engaging with hackers and is now expanding its crowdsourced security efforts with HackerOne, Synack and Bugcrowd. While it might seem counterintuitive, the U.S. Department of Defense has been actively encouraging hackers to hack th...

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    POCKET INET LEAVES 73 GB OF SENSITIVE DATA EXPOSED

    Oct 24, 2018

    A Washington State internet provider, Pocket iNet, left an AWS S3 server exposed online without a password, according to UpGuard. The UpGuard cyber-risk team reported that the information exposed included 73 gigabytes of downloadable data, which included passwords and other sensitive files, ranging ...

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    NETSCOUT LAUNCHES ARBOR EDGE DEFENSE FOR ENTERPRISE DDOS SECURITY

    Oct 23, 2018

    Netscout Systems announced its Arbor Edge Defense security system on Oct. 23, providing organizations with automated inbound and outbound protection against threats. The AED technology, which Netscout is positioning as a stateless technology that blocks cyber-threats, is deployed at the perimeter of...

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    ORACLE DOUBLES DOWN ON CLOUD SECURITY WITH CASB, WAF, DDOS PROTECTION

    Oct 23, 2018

    At OpenWorld 2018 on Oct. 23, Oracle announced a series of new cloud security technologies, providing organizations with enhanced capabilities to defend against attacks. Among the new security capabilities is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to help protect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers from...

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    WALLARM ADVANCES APPLICATION SECURITY WITH FAST 2.0

    Oct 22, 2018

    Wallarm is looking to gain share in the growing market for application security, with continued advancements to the company's Framework for Automatic Security Testing, or FAST, platform. On Oct. 22, Wallarm announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding, led by Toba Capital a...

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    75K FILES ACCESSED IN INSURANCE EXCHANGES BREACH

    Oct 22, 2018

    Early last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced some suspicious activity in the Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE), an agent and broker exchanges portal. On October 13, 2018, a CMS staffer noticed the anomalous activity that resulted in the agency declaring a bre...

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    GREYENERGY POTENTIAL SUCCESSOR OF BLACKENERGY

    Oct 19, 2018

    GreyEnergy, a subgroup of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as BlackEnergy, has been attacking the energy sector for the past three years, according to ESET. Back in December of 2015, when approximately 230,000 people suffered a blackout after the APT group BlackEnergy attacked a powe...

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    ORACLE PATCHES 301 VULNERABILITIES IN OCTOBER UPDATE

    Oct 18, 2018

    Oracle's final Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2018 is now available, patching 301 vulnerabilities spread across Oracle's product portfolio. Of the 301 vulnerabilities, 49 are rated with a CVSS (Common Vulnerabilities Security Scoring) score of 9.0 or higher, with only a single issue garneri...

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    SHIELDX INTEGRATES INTENTION ENGINE INTO ELASTIC SECURITY PLATFORM

    Oct 17, 2018

    ShieldX announced its new Elastic Security Platform on Oct. 17 providing organizations with Docker container-based data center security, that uses advanced machine learning to determine intent. At the core of the Elastic Security Platform is a technology that ShieldX calls the Adaptive Intention Eng...

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    MCAFEE EXTENDS MVISION SECURITY PLATFORM WITH EDR, CLOUD PROTECTION

    Oct 17, 2018

    McAfee kicked off its annual MPOWER conference on Oct. 17 announcing new updates to its Mvision cyber-security product portfolio, The new updates include the Mvision EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) offering that provides new endpoint security capabilities. The new Mvision Cloud service brings ...

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    GITHUB RELEASES NEW WORKFLOW TOOLS, 'OCTOVERSE' REPORT

    Oct 16, 2018

    The global open source code repository also released new security tools with the GitHub Security Advisory API, new ways to learn across teams with GitHub Learning Lab for organizations, and other items. Oh yes, it also released the annual "State of the Octoverse" report. GitHub held its Un...

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    INSURER ANTHEM WILL PAY RECORD $16M FOR MASSIVE DATA BREACH

    Oct 16, 2018

    The nation's second-largest health insurer has agreed to pay the government a record $16 million to settle potential privacy violations in the biggest known health care hack in U.S. history, officials said Monday. The personal information of nearly 79 million people — including names, birt...

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    CYBERARK BRINGS PRIVILEGED SESSION MANAGER TO THE CLOUD

    Oct 15, 2018

    CyberArk has integrated technology from Vaultive to create a new offering that looks to help organizations secure session and access management in the cloud. CyberArk announced its new Privileged Session Manager for Cloud offering on Oct. 15, providing its customers with capabilities for managing an...

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    IBM OPENS UP SERIES OF SECURITY, AI AND CLOUD INITIATIVES

    Oct 15, 2018

    In a bid to encourage more open platforms, IBM announced its new Security Connect, MultiCloud Manager and AI OpenScale platforms. IBM is looking to further position itself as an open vendor with a series of announcements on Oct. 15 across security, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services. IB...

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    SECRET AMAZON DATA CENTER GIVES NOD TO SEINFELD

    Oct 12, 2018

    On October 11, 2018, WikiLeaks published AmazonAtlas, a 20-page document from late 2015 containing the addresses and operational details for more than 100 of Amazon’s data centers, one of which indicates an affinity for the comedy of Jerry Seinfeld. In addition to revealing the information abo...

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    NO COOKIES FOR CARTTHIEF, A NEW MAGECART VARIANT

    Oct 12, 2018

    A new variant of the Magecart attacks has been targeting smaller e-commerce operations, according to The Media Trust’s digital security and operations (DSO) team. Researchers found a new type of malware that targets payment pages on legitimate Magento-hosted retail sites. Dubbed CartThief, the...

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    GOOGLE HARDENS ANDROID KERNEL

    Oct 11, 2018

    Google this week revealed that Android’s kernel is becoming more resilient to code reuse attacks, courtesy of implemented support for LLVM’s Control Flow Integrity (CFI). CFI support, Google says, was added to Android kernel versions 4.9 and 4.14 and the feature is available to all devic...

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    FACEBOOK PURGES 251 ACCOUNTS TO THWART DECEPTION

    Oct 11, 2018

    Facebook on Thursday said it shut down 251 accounts for breaking rules against spam and coordinated deceit, some of it by ad farms pretending to be forums for political debate. The move came as the leading social network strives to prevent the platform from being used to sow division and spread misi...

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    CARBON BLACK ADDS THREAT HUNTING TO ITS SECURITY CLOUD

    Oct 10, 2018

    Carbon Black added threat hunting and incident response capabilities to its cloud-based endpoint security platform, Cb Predictive Security Cloud. The new service, called Cb Threat Hunter, is essentially a cloud-delivered version of the company’s on-premises Cb Response endpoint detection and r...

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    ALERT LOGIC GROWS CONTAINER SECURITY CAPABILITIES

    Oct 10, 2018

    Alert Logic is moving its container security support beyond Amazon Web Services and now supports Microsoft Azure--in addition to on-premises deployments of containers and Kubernetes. Alert Logic announced on Oct. 9 new capabilities and deployment options for its Network Intrusion Detection System (N...

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    GOOGLE TIGHTENS RULES AROUND APP PERMISSIONS

    Oct 09, 2018

    Google this week announced improved user control over data shared with apps, redesigned app permissions, and diminished app access to sensitive information such as contacts, SMS, and phone. The changes, the search giant says, are being rolled out as part of Project Strobe, which represents an overal...

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    MICROSOFT PATCHES WINDOWS ZERO-DAY EXPLOITED BY 'FRUITYARMOR' GROUP

    Oct 09, 2018

    Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates for October 2018 resolve nearly 50 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day flaw exploited by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as FruityArmor. The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2018-8453, has been described by Microsoft as a privilege escalation i...

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    TENABLE RESEARCHER REVEALS EXTENDED MIKROTIK ROUTER VULNERABILITY

    Oct 08, 2018

    At Derbycon, a Tenable security researcher disclosed a new attack vector for a previously disclosed vulnerability in a widely deployed router platform. Routers represent an attractive target for hackers to build botnets and spread malware, especially when the routers have known, unpatched remote cod...

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    WHY CYBERSECURITY TRAINING MUST BECOME A PRIORITY

    Oct 05, 2018

    Why Cybersecurity Training Must Become a Priority. Because the threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, organizations are having a hard time keeping pace with the evolving cybersecurity skills required to manage their complex environments. Cybercrime is on the upswing, and no industry is immune...

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    CALIFORNIA TO BAN WEAK PASSWORDS

    Oct 05, 2018

    In an effort to better protect its residents from falling victim to cyber attacks, California has announced that it will ban weak passwords from 2020. Default passwords such as “admin” and “password” will be illegal for electronics manufacturers to use in the state as they of...

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    12.5M BUSINESS EMAIL ACCOUNTS ACCESSIBLE VIA WEB

    Oct 05, 2018

    Cybercriminals have found new ways to infiltrate corporate emails, which has resulted in a $12bn cost to businesses over the last five years, according to Digital Shadows. Compromised corporate accounts are commonly traded on the dark web, where criminals stand to earn a pretty penny, particularly i...

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    FIREEYE INTRODUCES COMMUNITY-BASED PROTECTION FOR BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A CYBER ATTACK

    Oct 04, 2018

    FireEye Cyber Defense Summit – FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the intelligence-led security company, today announced the availability of a set of solutions to empower collaboration and bolster access to community-based protection from cyber attacks. The FireEye Market, Expertise On-Demand and e...

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    DHS MOVES TO DEFEND INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS SECTORS

    Oct 04, 2018

    With the kickoff of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been actively focused on cybersecurity this week. The department is continuing its efforts to enhance cybersecurity across the nation’s critical infrastructure, which Secretary Kirstjen Ni...

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    AFTER FACEBOOK'S HACK, THERE'S A LOT OF USELESS POST-BREACH ADVICE

    Oct 03, 2018

    If someone is telling you that you should change your passwords after Facebook's breach, stop. The advice is completely useless for the 50 million people potentially affected by a security flaw, announced Sept. 28, in Facebook's "View As" feature. And yet, organizations like the US...

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    18 VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN FOXIT PDF READER

    Oct 03, 2018

    Eighteen vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Foxit PDF Reader, a commonly used alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is a widely used browser plugin, according to Cisco Talos. “Foxit PDF Reader is one of the most popular free tools for viewing, commenting on and editing PDF documents. ...

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    FACEBOOK FINDS 'NO EVIDENCE' HACKERS ACCESSED OUTSIDE APPS

    Oct 02, 2018

    Facebook says its investigation into a hack revealed last week has found "no evidence" that hackers accessed third-party apps. The breach, which Facebook said Friday had affected 50 million people on the social network, stemmed from a vulnerability in Facebook's "view as" fea...

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    FACEBOOK FINDS 'NO EVIDENCE' HACKERS ACCESSED OUTSIDE APPS

    Oct 02, 2018

    Facebook says its investigation into a hack revealed last week has found "no evidence" that hackers accessed third-party apps. The breach, which Facebook said Friday had affected 50 million people on the social network, stemmed from a vulnerability in Facebook's "view as" fea...

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    APOLLO FACES CRITICISM FOR BREACH OF 200 MILLION CONTACTS

    Oct 02, 2018

    Sales engagement startup Apollo, whose database of 200 million contacts across 10 million companies was reportedly hacked, is facing criticism for failing to protect the data it collects. According to TechCrunch, Apollo said its contacts database was stolen in a data breach. While the company’...

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    FACEBOOK RESETTING ACCESS TOKENS FOR 90M USERS AFTER BREACH

    Sep 28, 2018

    On Sept. 28, the company publicly admitted that it was the victim of a data breach that impacted approximately 50 million user accounts. Out of an abundance of caution, Facebook is resetting the access tokens for a total of 90 million user accounts. The breach was apparently discovered in the aftern...

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    AT&T AND ERICSSON PARTNER UP FOR IOT CYBERSECURITY

    Sep 27, 2018

    AT&T and Ericsson are teaming up to provide comprehensive testing for organizations to safeguard connected devices. According to AT&T, only 10% of its surveyed organization’s say they are confident about their devices having sufficient security measures in place. The operator has seen ...

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    PCI-DSS COMPLIANCE DECLINING, VERIZON REPORTS

    Sep 26, 2018

    For six years in a row, Verizon has reported a steady increase in compliance with the PCI-DSS security standard for payment security. Unfortunately, it's a trend that has now changed course. On Sept. 25, Verizon released its 2018 Payment Security Report, revealing a drop in Payment Card Industry...

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    UBER TO PAY $148 MILLION FOR FAILING TO REPORT 2016 HACK

    Sep 26, 2018

    Uber has reached a settlement with all 50 US states and the District of Columbia over a 2016 data breach the ride-hailing service failed to disclose. The company will pay a $148 million fine that will be distributed in varying amounts across all states, attorneys general said Wednesday. Uber will al...

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    MICROSOFT ADDS NEW ENTERPRISE PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT TO OUTLOOK MOBILE

    Sep 25, 2018

    Despite what a number of messaging- and chat-oriented proponents keep insisting, email isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact, use of email is growing, just like virtually every other sector in IT. It’s like Sly and the Family Stone once sang: Different strokes for different folks. There...

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    SECURITY-MINDED EMPLOYEES STILL POSE RISKS

    Sep 25, 2018

    Despite their training and best intentions, even the most security-minded employees behave in ways that put the enterprise at risk, according to The Security Culture Report 2018. The report, which covered eight industry sectors, surveyed more than 21,000 employees who spoke seven different languages...

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    ATTIVO BRINGS CYBER-SECURITY DECEPTION TO CONTAINERS AND SERVERLESS

    Sep 24, 2018

    As organizations begin to embrace container and serverless technologies, there is a corresponding need to secure those deployment models. On Sept. 24, Attivo Networks announced its entry into the container and serverless security market with an update of its ThreatDefend cyber-security deception pla...

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    HOW ENTERPRISES CAN BETTER DEFEND AGAINST SOCIAL-MEDIA THREATS

    Sep 24, 2018

    No person and no company are completely immune from attacks via the internet. Social networks, too, have been weaponized by all sorts of bad actors--including election meddlers, misinformation peddlers, fraudulent accounts, cybercriminals and scammers. The networks are doing their best to clean up t...

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    RAPID7 LOOKS TO SOAR WITH INSIGHTCONNECT AUTOMATION PLATFORM

    Sep 20, 2018

    Rapid7 announced during a webcast customer event on Sept. 20 that it is enhancing its product portfolio with new automation capabilities to help IT security teams deal with the deluge of information and tasks needed to secure their organizations. Among the enhancements is the new InsightConnect secu...

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    MALICIOUS LOGIN ATTEMPTS SPIKE IN FINANCE, RETAIL

    Sep 20, 2018

    The new 2018 State of the Internet/Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report is out, and according to the report publisher, Akamai, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Analyzing data gathered from its Intelligent Platform and attack data from across the company's global infrast...

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    NEWEGG DATA BREACH EXPOSED CUSTOMER CREDIT CARD INFO, SAYS REPORT

    Sep 19, 2018

    Some Newegg customers reportedly had their credit card info nicked, as hacking group Magecart strikes again. Security researchers RiskIQ said Wednesday that Magecart inserted malicious code into the payments system of the hardware and electronics retailer and made off with charge card data. The nast...

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    STATE DEPARTMENT EMAIL DATA BREACH EXPOSES EMPLOYEE DATA

    Sep 19, 2018

    The US State Department suffered a data breach that exposed some employee data. The email system breach impacted "less than 1 percent of employee inboxes," according to a Sept. 7 department alert obtained by Politico. The department's classified email system was not affected, according...

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    FIDELIS LOOKS TO GROW CYBER-SECURITY PLATFORM WITH NEW FUNDING

    Sep 18, 2018

    Fidelis Cybersecurity announced on Sept. 18 that it has raised $25 million in a new round of funding to help grow the company's platform, which provides multiple capabilities for network and endpoint security. This has been a busy year for Fidelis as the company has expanded its core Elevate Pla...

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    INJUNCTION TO SECURE GEORGIA ELECTIONS DENIED

    Sep 18, 2018

    A request for a preliminary injunction in the Georgia election security lawsuit was denied by a federal judge late last night. The plaintiffs, who have long been battling to have the state switch to using paper ballots, had their request denied by US District Judge Amy Totenberg. In a 46-page order,...

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    WHY SOFTWARE-DEFINED PERIMETERS OUTFLANK VPNS FOR SECURE REMOTE ACCESS

    Sep 17, 2018

    With an increasing number of employees working from coffee shops, airports and home, and the cost of breaches increasing the security concerns created by perimeter-based VPNs, organizations are looking closer at alternatives such as SDPs, which use a zero-trust paradigm to overcome these issues. Per...

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    HOW THE CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE CLOUD CONTROLS MATRIX BENEFITS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

    Sep 14, 2018

    The self-service and dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure creates challenges for risk and compliance professionals. Tools that worked well in the traditional data centre do not translate to the public cloud.   Due to these concerns over regulatory compliance and security, as well as the ...

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    BITSIGHT LAUNCHES FORECASTING CAPABILITY FOR CYBER-RISK

    Sep 05, 2018

    The new offering aims to help organizations predict how different technology and process changes will impact future cyber-risk. Security ratings firm BitSight announced on Sept. 5 that it is expanding its offerings with the launch of the new BitSight Forecasting service. The BitSight Forecasting cap...

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    HACKERONE PAID $500K IN BUG BOUNTIES AT DEF CON

    Sep 05, 2018

    Celebrating the success of this year’s live hacking event, HackerOne (H1) recently announced that more than $500,000 was paid in bounties during the third annual h1-702 at DEF CON 26 in Las Vegas last month. More than 75 hackers from over 20 countries hacked five targets (including the United ...

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    ‘FILELESS’ MALWARE ATTACKS GROWING IN NUMBER AND SOPHISTICATION

    Sep 04, 2018

    Not all malware arrives on your computers as a virus or some other type of code secreted in a file, but instead manifests itself as a corruption of system services that make your operating system do the dirty work. You may not have heard of a fileless malware attack, but despite its obscurity, it&rs...

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    MAGENTOCORE MOST PROLIFIC SKIMMER CAMPAIGN

    Sep 04, 2018

    Online retailers and consumers alike need to heed caution when making credit card purchases. Magento, a global e-commerce platform has been targeted by a single group planting skimmer on individual stores, according to security researcher William de Groot. In the past six months, 7,339 individual st...

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    HOW TO BRIDGE THE CYBERSECURITY SKILLS GAP EXPERT COLUMN

    Sep 03, 2018

    Cybersecurity has permeated all levels of business because everyone is being targeted by hackers and everyone is at risk. It’s causing businesses to spend more money, significantly affecting their bottom line. Hence, companies need to have a strong cybersecurity team starting at the C-level on...

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    NUTANIX SEES ‘IMMENSE’ NETWORKING, SECURITY OPPORTUNITIES

    Aug 31, 2018

    Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says networking and security are “immense” opportunities for the hyperconverged infrastructure company as its customers move to hybrid cloud environments. “One thing we hear a lot from our large customers is that hybrid cloud’s biggest weakness is n...

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    43% OF SECURITY PROS COULD EXECUTE INSIDER ATTACK

    Aug 31, 2018

    A recent survey of nearly 200 IT professionals about insider threats found that nearly half of the participants believed they could successfully attack their organizations from the inside. In a blog post earlier this week Imperva researchers reported on insider threats and revealed the findings of t...

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    FORMER LINKEDIN, YAHOO, CISCO EXECS TARGET CLOUD SECURITY AT AVID SECURE

    Aug 30, 2018

    Cloud security startup Avid Secure didn’t do the usual emergence from stealth mode with a splashy launch. “We didn’t go that route because we already had large paying customers,” said co-founder and CEO Nikhil Gupta, who previously held leadership roles at ForeScout, VMware, ...

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    HEARING DATE SET IN GEORGIA ELECTION SECURITY CASE

    Aug 30, 2018

    A hearing has been filed in the ongoing Georgia election cybersecurity case, Curling v. Kemp, where Georgia citizens are fighting for more secure elections in a lawsuit against Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp. The hearing is scheduled for Monday, 17 September, at 11am. Oral...

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    IOT DEVICES ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY UBIQUITOUS – BUT MOST CONSUMERS DON’T KNOW WHAT IOT MEANS

    Aug 29, 2018

    70% of consumers polled by Metova already own at least one IoT device – yet less than one in five said they were well aware of what the term Internet of Things means. Metova, a US-based provider of mobile, connected car, connected home and IoT solutions, has revealed the results of a survey th...

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    RESEARCHERS DISCOVER COMPUTER SCREENS EMIT SOUNDS THAT REVEAL DATA

    Aug 29, 2018

    Using a computer version of synesthesia, researchers demonstrate a new vulnerability present in most flat-panel monitors that can reveal contents to a remote party. For some people with the neurological condition, synesthesia can be a lovely thing when the sounds they hear also produce colors. But c...

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    HCI HEATS UP IN VEGAS WITH VMWARE, CISCO, VEEAM, AND PIVOT3

    Aug 29, 2018

    Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) continues to be a hot topic at this year’s VMworld with HCI news from VMware and other vendors including Cisco, Veeam, and Pivot3. During a Tuesday keynote, VMware executives said more than 15,000 customers use its HCI stack, which is the top-selling hyperco...

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    FORTNITE INSTALLER VULNERABILITIES HIGHLIGHT MOBILE APP STORE RISKS

    Aug 27, 2018

    A new type of mobile attack known as man-in-the-disk could leave Android users at risk, especially if the apps they are using are not coming from Google Play. There are many good reasons why it's often best for organizations looking to deploy or consume Android applications to use the Google Pla...

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    NIST CALLS FOR COMMENT OF ECOMMERCE SECURITY

    Aug 27, 2018

    In an effort to reduce online fraud, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a subdivision of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announced it is now accepting feedback on its draft exploring the ways in which multi-factor authentication can help to mitigate f...

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    VAIL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL TO PARTICIPATE IN PROJECT LEAD THE WAY CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM

    Aug 26, 2018

    Vail Christian High School has been designated as one of 32 schools across the nation to offer a new program in cybersecurity through Project Lead the Way. Project Lead the Way is piloting this Computer Science Pathway course for the first time this fall because cybersecurity is a threatening nation...

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    FIREEYE STOCK POPS ON NEWS OF FACEBOOK, GOOGLE FINDINGS

    Aug 23, 2018

    Cybersecurity giant FireEye rose as much as 8 percent Thursday on news it has contracted with both Facebook and YouTube to help spot disinformation campaigns. The stock closed up nearly 6 percent at market close. According to The New York Times, FireEye executives tipped Facebook off to an Iranian d...

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    ONE OF GOOGLE'S NEWEST SISTER COMPANIES IS ALMOST READY TO GO AFTER THE $96 BILLION CYBERSECURITY INDUSTRY ON A 'PLANET SCALE'

    Aug 23, 2018

    Last January, Alphabet's X "moonshot" factory announced a surprising turn, a new cybersecurity company called Chronicle. The press statement was short on details, and since then, Chronicle has been silent about what it's working on. Chronicle is one of Alphabet's newest "O...

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    CYBER SCHOLARSHIP TO BUILD MULTICULTURAL WORKFORCE

    Aug 23, 2018

    Select candidates from diverse backgrounds pursuing a career in cybersecurity could receive academic scholarships that pay half of their tuition, according to an announcement from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Bridgewater Associates. On 31 August the school will award an initial round of five...

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    CONGRESS TO HOLD HEARINGS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BIG TECH REGULATION ISSUES

    Aug 22, 2018

    The impact of social media and large technology companies on society has grown to the point that many in Congress feel that it is time to consider regulations to protect consumer privacy and defend against foreign disinformation. After the scandal created by the revelations that Cambridge Analytica ...

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    SAILPOINT IDENTITYIQ 7.3 UPDATE EXTENDS IDENTITY GOVERNANCE TO BOTS

    Aug 22, 2018

    As organizations increasingly rely on robotic process automation bots, there is a need to bring them under control with a common identity governance model. SailPoint announced the release of IdentityIQ 7.3 on Aug. 22, providing organizations with new capabilities to manage identity for bots and clou...

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    SEMMLE GOES GLOBAL WITH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ANALYTICS PLATFORM

    Aug 21, 2018

    Software engineering analytics platform provider Semmle announced its global launch on Aug. 21, alongside new funding to help the company grow its technology. Semmle announced it has raised $21 million in a Series B round of funding, led by Accel Partners with participation from Work-Bench. Total fu...

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    CROWDSTRIKE HELPS ADVANCE MALWARE SEARCHES ON HYBRID ANALYSIS PORTAL

    Aug 21, 2018

    The free community Hybrid Analysis portal is getting a technology infusion from CrowdStrike that will enable researchers to conduct more complex searches for malware analysis. CrowdStrike announced on Aug. 21 that it is bringing its Falcon MalQuery malware search engine technology to the Hybrid Anal...

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    NECURS CAMPAIGN TARGETS BANKS

    Aug 20, 2018

    A recently observed spam campaign powered by the infamous Necurs botnet has been specifically targeting banks with the FlawedAmmyy RAT, security researchers warn. First observed in 2012, the Necurs botnet is best known for the massive Locky ransomware campaigns that it powered in 2016 and 2017. Cons...

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    AQUA SECURITY LAUNCHES OPEN-SOURCE KUBE-HUNTER CONTAINER SECURITY TOOL

    Aug 20, 2018

    The new tool aims to help organizations conduct penetration tests against Kubernetes container orchestration system clusters to help identify and improve cyber-security issues. Aqua Security has made its new Kube-hunter open-source tool generally available, enabling organizations to conduct penetrat...

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    NIST TO PROVIDE CYBER-SECURITY ADVICE TO SMBS UNDER NEW FEDERAL LAW

    Aug 17, 2018

    The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a new federal law that requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help small and medium businesses meet cyber-Security goals. President Donald Trump has signed the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act into law requiring the National Institute o...

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    94 PERCENT OF ORGANIZATIONS SEE FIREWALLS AS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

    Aug 17, 2018

    FireMon's 2018 State of the Firewall report finds that organizations continue to rely on, and invest in, firewall technologies. Network firewalls are still an important part of enterprise security, according to the results of FireMon's State of the Firewall report. In fact, 94 percent of res...

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    CLASSIC ROCK AND CLOUD-NATIVE ATTACKS COLLIDE AT BLACK HAT

    Aug 16, 2018

    Maybe it’s because of the ACDC-inspired CASB socks at the Bitglass booth. Or maybe people are just becoming smarter about cloud-security and realize the importance of cloud access security broker (CASB) technology. Whatever the reason, more people than usual who approached the cloud security v...

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    IOT ATTACKS DOUBLED IN TWO MONTHS, CHECK POINT SAYS

    Aug 15, 2018

    Malware targeting IoT vulnerabilities hit almost half of global organizations last month, with networking and IoT attacks more than doubling since May, according to Check Point’s monthly report. Each month Check Point publishes three Top 10 lists: Most Wanted Malware; Most Wanted Mobile Malwar...

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    RESEARCHERS REVEAL SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN TRACKING APPS

    Aug 14, 2018

    At Defcon, security researchers revealed 37 new vulnerabilities in tracking apps that could have enabled attackers to steal information and track users. Millions of users around the world regularly install tracker apps on their Android devices to help them keep track of friends and loved ones. Some ...

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    WHY 2018 HAS BEEN A LANDMARK DATA PRIVACY YEAR

    Aug 14, 2018

    Research reveals how Americans feel about digital activity monitoring in the workplace and steps public and private sector organizations can take to gain the support of employees and to avoid violating their privacy. If you ask the folks at security software maker Dtex, May, June and July 2018 may g...

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    VARIANT OF KEYPASS TROJAN TAKES MANUAL CONTROL

    Aug 13, 2018

    Multiple researchers have identified a dangerous new variant of KeyPass ransomware, featuring a manual-control functionality, and according to Kaspersky Lab, the modified version mainly targets developing countries. “For now, the most targeted regions are mainly developing countries – th...

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    MORE THAN 10K RECORDED VULNERABILITIES IN 2018

    Aug 13, 2018

    The number of recorded vulnerability disclosures continues to rise, with 10,644 published throughout the first half of 2018 by Risk Based Security’s VulnDB team. That total is reportedly 3,279 more vulnerabilities than those listed on CVE/NVD, according to the 2018 Mid-Year VulnDB QuickView Re...

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    LACK OF HARDENED BENCHMARKS LEADS TO POOR CYBER HYGIENE

    Aug 10, 2018

    The Center for Internet Security (CIS) refers to an organization's implementation of security controls as its “cyber hygiene,” but a new survey finds that nearly two-thirds of organizations are not practicing good cyber hygiene habits as they have no established benchmarks for implem...

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    ELECTION OFFICIALS DISCUSS EFFORTS TO BOLSTER VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY

    Aug 10, 2018

    At Defon in Las Vegas, election officials talk about potential cyber-security and some of the steps they are taking to improve voting system security. A panel of election officials from across the country spoke at Defcon on Aug. 10 here to talk about their cyber-security concerns. The officials deta...

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    SECURITY FLAWS IN MOBILE POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEMS SPELL MONEY TROUBLE

    Aug 09, 2018

    Cheaper payment systems may cost businesses less, but they could've wound up costing customers more. That's the word from a pair of security researchers, who discovered that mobile payment systems had vulnerabilities that could let hackers steal credit card info or change the value of what p...

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    BHUSA THE VALUE OF SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION SECURITY HIRING

    Aug 09, 2018

    In a panel entitled “Winning the Information Security Job Hunt” at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, moderator Kelly Sheridan from Dark Reading asked panelists Dawn-Marie Hutchinson, executive director and executive advisory at Optiv, and Drew Fearson, head of daily operations at Ni...

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    JASK'S CHIRON BRINGS AI THREAT DETECTION TO HOME NETWORKS

    Aug 07, 2018

    Jask's Chiron Brings AI Threat Detection to Home Networks. There are a lot of different ways to detect potential intruders on an enterprise network, but what about smaller businesses or consumers? That's the challenge that Rob Soto, director of security research at Jask wants to help solve w...

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    IMPROVED STANDARDS FOR SECURING MEDICAL DEVICES RELEASED

    Aug 07, 2018

    A critical subset of the ever-expanding internet of things (IoT), medical devices are increasingly vulnerable to attacks from botnets and malware, which is why the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), in conjunction with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), today announced the release of OWA...

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    COINHIVE MALWARE INFECTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MIKROTIK ROUTERS

    Aug 06, 2018

    The cryptominer Coinhive malware has infected tens of thousands of MikroTik routers around the world, as malicious actors take advantage of poor patching habits by users. Poor patching practices by vendors and users are once again coming back to bite users around the world, as a researcher discovere...

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    THIRD-PARTY WEB MANAGER EXPOSES TCM BANK DATA

    Aug 06, 2018

    ICBA Bancard Inc. subsidiary TCM Bank, a company that aids community banks in issuing credit cards to their customers, announced that the personal data of thousands of people who applied for credit cards with their local banks was exposed, according to Brian Krebs. The information that was leaked be...

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    BLACK HAT 2018 SURVEY: CYBERSECURITY STAFFING, BUDGETS STILL LACKING

    Aug 02, 2018

    According to a survey of Black Hat 2018 attendees, organizations are still struggling with insufficient cybersecurity staff and budgets to meet the current and emerging threats. Attendees for next week's 2018 Black Hat USA conference said they are still facing significant challenges when it come...

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    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STAFF TARGETED WITH SPYWARE

    Aug 02, 2018

    Amnesty International found hackers attempting to infect one of its researcher's phones with a tool from Israel-based NSO Group, long known as makers of spyware, the NGO reported. Amnesty International’s tech team launched an investigation after one of its staff members received a suspicio...

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    IRONSCALES LAUNCHES THEMIS VIRTUAL ASSISTANT TO IMPROVE EMAIL SECURITY

    Aug 01, 2018

    Ironscales is looking to mimic the analytical capabilities of human security analysts to help organizations automatically identify and remediate phishing attacks. Email security firm Ironscales announced its Themis artificial intelligence powered security assistant technology on Aug. 1, providing or...

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    SPAM CLICK RATES HIGH, 2FA USE LOW AT WORK

    Aug 01, 2018

    Organizations continue to be at risk from insider threats because they lack strong identity management solutions, whether it's end users clicking on spam, issues with multifactor authentication (MFA), or companies keeping their decisions about security and identity separate, according to three n...

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    SAMSAM RANSOMWARE PAYMENTS REACH NEARLY $6 MILLION

    Jul 31, 2018

    New research reveals SamSam ransomware campaign has generated almost $6 million for attacker and appears to be the work of a single hacker who shows no sign of slowing down. The long-running SamSam ransomware campaign, active since early 2016, has apparently earned its perpetrators nearly $6 million...

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    U.S. GOVERNMENT MAKING PROGRESS ON DMARC IMPLEMENTATION

    Jul 31, 2018

    The deadline for full DMARC implementation in U.S. government-owned domains is less than three months away and only half of the domains have the correct policy in place. Only half of U.S. government agencies have taken steps toward DMARC implementation despite the October 2018 deadline. The Departme...

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    NEW NETSPECTRE-CLASS ATTACK RAISES DEVICE-HARDENING CONCERN

    Jul 30, 2018

    A new type of NetSpectre attack requires no malware or malicious JavaScript, because it instead attacks victims through network connections, according to researchers at Graz University of Technology. Four scientists at the university have published findings on a new type of Spectre attack in a paper...

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    IBM BRINGS AI CHATBOT TO MAAS360 UNIFIED ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT SECURITY

    Jul 30, 2018

    Voice and text chat capabilities are coming to IBM's MaaS360, providing organizations with easier ways to get information. IBM announced on July 30 that it is adding new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot capabilities to its MaaS360 Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) security platform. The n...

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    IMPERVA ACQUIRES PREVOTY, ENHANCES APP SECURITY

    Jul 27, 2018

    In an effort to deliver more robust application and data security solutions that protect enterprises against attacks from cyber-criminals, California-based Imperva Inc. announced that it will acquire the Los Angeles-based application security company Prevoty. The deal, which is expected to close in ...

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    EXOBOT ANDROID MALWARE TARGETS BANKING APPS

    Jul 27, 2018

    Android users have been warned about another Exobot banking malware source code (v. 2.5) that was leaked online. It was first detected in May 2018 and has been dubbed "Trump Edition." The leak is expected to result in a surge of malicious Android apps given that the malware source code is ...

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    GOOGLE SEEKS ENTERPRISE NOD WITH GCP SERVICES IN IOT, SECURITY

    Jul 26, 2018

    Google continues to make strides to catch AWS and Microsoft Azure with upgrades around edge computing and security but won't unseat either competitor any time soon. A raft of upgrades this week beef up Google's public cloud, but will they be enough to move the platform dramatically closer to...

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    PONEMON: MEGA BREACHES, DATA BREACH COSTS ON THE RISE

    Jul 26, 2018

    The Ponemon Institute's '2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study' details a rise in data breaches with a look at mega breaches and why U.S. companies experience the greatest loss. The Ponemon Institute's latest study on data breach costs highlights the rise of what it calls "mega breac...

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    ERP APPLICATIONS COMING UNDER INCREASING ATTACK

    Jul 25, 2018

    Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are critical to the operations of many organizations and are increasingly coming under attack, according to a new report. The 30-page ERP Applications Under Fire report was released on July 25 as a joint effort from Onapsis and Digital Shadows. Among t...

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    FIVE AWS IAM BEST PRACTICES TO BOLSTER CLOUD SECURITY

    Jul 25, 2018

    To mitigate risks and protect cloud resources, many organizations rely on AWS IAM policies. Use these five tips to learn the basic features -- and limitations -- of the service. Identity and access management plays an essential role in any cloud security strategy. Those who need access to cloud reso...

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    WHY SHADOW IT MUST BE CONSIDERED IN SECURING AN ENTERPRISE

    Jul 24, 2018

    IT management software maker Kaseya claims that recent trends in internal security actually can be an opportunity for strategic-thinking IT organizations. 2017 was infamous for cybersecurity breaches worldwide. These incidents were at such a global scale, they completely changed the game for organiz...

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    PHYSICAL SECURITY KEYS ELIMINATE PHISHING AT GOOGLE

    Jul 24, 2018

    Successful phishing attempts have been eliminated among Google employees following a requirement to use physical security keys in order to gain access to all Google accounts. Google claims it has completely eliminated successful phishing attacks against its employees through the use of physical secu...

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    NIST UPDATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MOBILE APP SECURITY

    Jul 23, 2018

    Security experts provide insight on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revised guidance for how organizations can better secure mobile applications. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now working on updating its recommendations for how organizations a...

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    US ADULTS DON'T KNOW CYBERSECURITY CAREER OPTIONS

    Jul 23, 2018

    When it comes to cybersecurity careers, adults in the US reportedly don’t know the various job opportunities available in the field, despite the growing demand for professionals to fill the enormous skills gap. According to a new survey from the University of Phoenix, US adults are not familia...

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    HAS GDPR IMPACTED INSIDER THREATS?

    Jul 20, 2018

    According to new research from Clearswift, the introduction of GDPR has led to a slight drop in insider threats in both the UK and Germany. Survey respondents said that insider threats make up 65% of reported incidents in 2018, compared to 73% last year. German companies reported similar declines, w...

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    WHY INFOSEC PRACTITIONERS ARE TURNING INTO DATA SCIENTISTS

    Jul 20, 2018

    Security practitioners cannot wait for the information they need to protect the enterprise, and thus the speed of delivery becomes a driving factor in the success or failure of the data-driven security enterprise. Because IT managers responsible for protecting the enterprise crown jewels—namel...

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    BARRACUDA'S CLOUDGEN WAF LANDS ON GOOGLE COMPUTE PLATFORM

    Jul 19, 2018

    Barracuda now supports all three major public cloud providers with its CloudGen Web Application Firewall technology and enables multicloud management capabilities. Barracuda Networks announced on July 19 that it is extending its CloudGen WAF (Web Application Firewall) to the Google Cloud Platform, h...

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