Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at some of the re-used Mirai modules , their functionality, and the Uptycs EDR detection capabilities of Gafgyt. Gafgyt also uses some of the existing exploits (CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-10561) to download the next stage payloads, which we will discuss further on. Figure 11: Uptycs detection for Gafgyt I.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though some of the functionalities were similar to the malware discussed by the security firm Intezer last year, the newer variants of this malware had a bunch of activities up its sleeve. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares. Figure 5: /etc/hosts modification.

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IT Governance

JUNE 3, 2020

million) in 2017 to $13 million (£10.3 There has been a similar jump in the number of incidents organisations experience, with an 11% increase year-on-year and a 67% increase between 2013 and 2018. Besides staff awareness training, you must rely on strict information security policies and hope that employees follow them.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 13, 2020

Following the complaint, the Irish DPA brought proceedings against Facebook in the Irish High Court, challenging the validity of the SCCs, and referring 11 questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling. View our previous blog posts on the progression of the case in May 2016 , October 2017 , August 2018 , July 2019 and May 2020.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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CGI

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Digital security transformation: shifting to a cyber-aware culture. Tue, 10/03/2017 - 09:00. Today, most organizations have both a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). For further reading, see our blog on 11 cyber questions CEOs need to ask. Add new comment.

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IT Governance

JUNE 29, 2018

The security researcher Chris Hogben blogged this week about a vulnerability in the website of the bookmaker BetVictor that revealed confidential corporate data to anyone using its search function. Of the 19 username and password combinations Hogben discovered, 11 passwords featured in Troy Hunt’s Pwned Passwords dataset.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The third one is related to binary payloads abusing code signature tricks to evade traditional security controls. Sample information. As study case we chosen a Word document containing the CVE-2017-0199 exploit, which allows the document to download and execute arbitrary code at opening time. The Broken Doc.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach Date of breach: Unclear, but breached documents date back to 2017. Security incident report Date of breach: 29 September 2023 (but report updated on 27 October 2023). Records breached: 430 GB of data, including private information and confidential documents.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 2, 2018

In November 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. These cases have been a central part of post-9/11 privacy law. China’s major cybersecurity legislation went into effect 2017, but experts are still unclear on its precise contours and requirements. Robins will certainly be back in play.

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CGI

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tue, 08/07/2018 - 11:16. While for some GDPR was BAU, others a huge effort, and a bit of a panic for a minority, one of the most significant outcomes is the perception that cyber security is no longer just ‘an IT thing’. Company wide information security policies. Third party security policies. THE OPPORTUNITY.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 16, 2019

In fiscal year (FY) 2018, the OCIE National Exam Program examined approximately 17 percent of SEC-registered advisers (RIAs), up from 15 percent during FY 2017 and 11 percent during FY 2016. Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, 2019 Examination Priorities (December 20, 2018), [link].

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Late in 2017, CGI in the UK commissioned and directed the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and Opinium to conduct a survey and research around attitudes toward and preparedness for GDPR. Companywide information security policies. Third-party security policies. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation became effective in March 2017 and, beginning on February 15, 2019, required all NYDFS-regulated entities (Covered Entities), including First American, to annually certify compliance with the Regulation. 2020-0030-C at 11 (July 21, 2020). See NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation FAQs , Question No.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

According to ESET , “ Grandoreiro has been active at least since 2017 targeting Brazil and Peru, expanding to Mexico and Spain in 2019. “. Figure 11: List of the Portuguese banks included in the Grandoreiro version of May 2020. Figure 16: Latenbot (2017) and Grandoreiro (2020) C2-traffic similarities.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. The information included personal phone numbers and addresses, credit card details and instant message conversations. Victims of Equifax’s 2017 data breach were given the go-ahead to launch a class-action lawsuit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. That stage implements an obfuscated Javascript embedded code which decodes, by using a XOR with key=11, a third Javascript stage acting as drop and execute on 66.133.129.5

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

I've also been travelling with family far more so whilst those 140 days equate to 38% of my year, there were 14 days in Hawaii, 10 days at the Aussie snow, 11 days in Texas and 17 days in Canada where I wasn't flying solo. That's 52 days where it wasn't just a lonely slog so I'm pretty happy about that. And, yeah, I think that's all it was!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Figure 11: Javali uses as injector a legitimate executable from Avira antivirus. He is also a founding member at CSIRT.UBI and Editor-in-Chief of the security computer blog seguranca-informatica.pt.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 24, 2020

Broker-dealers may be selected for examination based on their market making or other significant trading activity in unlisted securities, as well as employing registered personnel with disciplinary history. Information Security . Compared with FY 2017, the number of examinations has increased almost 7%.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Lovense customers complained that the app recorded users’ remote sex sessions. Just by intercepting traffic from the remote-control link, CyberNews researchers managed to associate 11 addresses with the operation of Lovense: lovense.com; tests2.lovense.com; The app doesn’t apply this permission without explicit user consent.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 24, 2019

Wednesday, January 30: 10:30am – 11:30am: The International Legal Cloud 2019: Discovery, Security, and Business Considerations. The number of records compromised in data breaches since the start of 2017 has increased at an astounding rate. RAS Enterprise Risk Management. Are you going to Legaltech next week?

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Broker-dealers may be selected for examination based on their market making or other significant trading activity in unlisted securities, as well as employing registered personnel with disciplinary history. Information Security . Compared with FY 2017, the number of examinations has increased almost 7%.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2019

Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2019 – for Friday, 11 January. It’s long been a habit of journalists and online commentators to open the year with predictions about the coming months, but I don’t think there’s much value in that from an information security point of view. 123456789.

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