Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
mSpy , the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy spyware.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Joseph Feiman of WhiteHat Security on the Need for Cultural Change Application security is not improving because about 60 percent of vulnerabilities never get fixed, says Joseph Feiman of WhiteHat Security.
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The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Most large enterprises today can point to multi-millions of dollars expended over the past two decades erecting “layered defenses” to protect their digital systems. Yet catastrophic network breaches continue apace. Turns out there’s a downside to “defense in depth.”. Related: Obsolecense creeps into legacy systems. There’s no doubt that monitoring and continually updating all parts of a multi-tiered security system is a must-do best practice.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Sam Curry of Cybereason on the Need to Ask Vendors Tough Questions CISOs should ask tough questions of vendors that claim to offer machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities so they can cut through the marketing hype to find out what's real, says Sam Curry of Cybereason.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
When we consider the damage a data breach can cause, we tend to focus on the cost of breach reporting, potential fines and loss of reputation. One of the ‘unseen’ costs is the potential loss or theft of an organisation’s IP (intellectual property). IP includes sensitive business or trading information and research and development information. The risk of losing your IP.
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WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
"Whatever we propose is going to be controversial. But it’s important we do something, because everyone is unsatisfied by URLs. They kind of suck.".
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Gregory Wilshusen of the GAO Offers Lessons Learned Identifying the right controls to manage specific risks is a vital component of an enterprisewide security program, say Gregory Wilshusen of the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
It’s hard to believe we are nine weeks away from the midterm elections here in the United States. Regardless of the winners and losers, all eyes will focus on election security. And there are so many factors to consider. Just last month at Def Con and Black Hat, we found out just how easy it is to break into election machines. White Hat (ethical) hackers worked in under 15 minutes to disrupt the entire voting process from the moment someone attempted to register to vote to the point at which res
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
J. Paul Haynes of eSentire on Improving Threat Hunting Managed detection and response enables organizations to use telemetry to better detect when compromises occur and then take action, says J. Paul Haynes of eSentire.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Content still forms a large percentage of all data attached to an SAP® process, and if you’re only basing your machine learning and AI technologies on structured data, you’re missing a key source of knowledge. By adding properly managed unstructured content to the data in context, you can provide a full view of all information … The post Taking intelligent and connected enterprises on the road appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Nearly one-third of U.S. banking consumers use online and mobile fintech apps to help manage their money. But those users are concerned about data privacy and want more control over the financial data their apps can access, says David Fortney of The Clearing House, who reviews the results of a survey.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that thousands of 3D printers are exposed online without proper defense. The news is worrisome, thousands of 3D printers are exposed online to remote cyber attacks. According to the experts at SANS Internet Storm Center that scanned the internet for vulnerable 3D printers, a Shodan query has found more than 3,700 instances of OctoPrint interfaces exposed online, most in the United States (1,600).
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The appropriate use of predictive analytics, going beyond a "set it and forget it" approach, could dramatically improve breach detection, says Teresa Grogan, CIO of the consultancy Vertitech IT.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. In it, I examine how our new immersive world of physically capable computers affects our security. I argue that this changes everything about security. Attacks are no longer just about data, they now affect life and property: cars, medical devices, thermostats, power plants, drones, and so on.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Security researcher discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Yonathan Klijnsma , a threat researcher at RiskIQ, has discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Properly configured servers hosting hidden services have to listen only on the localhost (127.0.0.1) instead of any other public IP address. “The way these guys a
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that Jon Kyl will replace the Senate seat vacated by the late John McCain. He may now further push to regulate tech giants like Facebook.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password. According to Motherboard that first reported the news, the Family Orbit spyware left exposed nearly 281 GB of data online.
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WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee talks about the search giant's glaring absence at this week's committee hearings, and the White House's #stopthebias campaign.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) facilitates telecom operators in delivering multimedia applications and voice traffic over IP transport. Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) is the first node in IMS Platform (figure 1) to interact with the User Equipment (UE) when initiating a VoLTE call. figure 1 – Placement of Proxy Call Session Control Function in IMS Platform.
The Security Ledger
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Effective collection management is integral to the success of an intelligence operation. What is it and how does it work? Thomas Hofmann, the Vice President of Intelligence at Flashpoint offers a crash-course in creating an effective collection management program. Collection management is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood aspects of an. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories From Mainframes to Connected Cars: How Software drives the Automotive Industry Opinion: With Internet of
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users, the news was revealed by Bloomberg. New problems for Google, experts discovered a secret agreement of the tech giant with Mastercard to track user purchases offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users. The embarrassing agreement was revealed by Bloomberg that cited four unidentified people with knowledge of the deal.
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OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Meet Vicci and Michelle, OpenText™ friends and colleagues from Waterloo, Canada. They met through their love of singing and have shared many stages together in a variety of prestigious choir performances across Southern Ontario. Read their Humans of OpenText story below to learn more about this talented duo! Where did your love of singing come … The post Humans of OpenText: Vicci Jenkins and Michelle Stevens appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Which forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA) are working, which are not, and where industry watchers think the market is headed.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will field questions about foreign interference, perceived bias, and more.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
CamuBot is a sophisticated banking malware aimed at the business customers of major Brazilian banks.
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WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Ten years after Chrome debuted, a look back at how the browser redefined security online.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Hackers are thinking more like developers to evade detection and are becoming more precise in their targeting.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The report also found that simply protecting employees in sensitive departments is not sufficient to protect against BEC.
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