The psychology behind phishing attacks
IT Governance
AUGUST 1, 2019
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
OK, perhaps that's self-evident, so how come it far too often still takes an incident to trigger planning?
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 2, 2019
The British parliament has been unable to agree the exit package from the European Union. With the possibility of a “no deal” departure looming, EU leaders have granted a six-month extension to Brexit day. But the uncertainty that still lingers with regards to Britain’s future, creates various opportunities which cyber criminals could try to exploit.
Data Breach Today
JULY 30, 2019
Researchers Detail use of Machine Learning to Find Phishing URLs JPMorgan Chase researchers have published a new paper describing their efforts at developing a novel "early warning" system based on artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect malware, Trojans and other advanced persistent threats before the phishing campaign that targets the bank's employees even starts.
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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.
Krebs on Security
JULY 30, 2019
Federal prosecutors this week charged a Seattle woman with stealing data from more than 100 million credit applications made with Capital One Financial Corp. Incredibly, much of this breach played out publicly over several months on social media and other open online platforms. What follows is a closer look at the accused, and what this incident may mean for consumers and businesses.
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AIIM
JULY 30, 2019
Everyone has a process for onboarding new hires, contractors, consultants, etc. There's a checklist to follow: issue the badge, issue the keys to the office and the parking garage, and of course set up the Active Directory account, the email account, and all the other information management system set-up tasks. Similarly, when employees separate, there's a checklist there too: remove access to systems, get the laptop back, get the keys back, etc.
Data Breach Today
JULY 30, 2019
Authorities Allege Paige A. Thompson Referenced Stolen Files on GitHub A Seattle-area woman has been charged with accessing tens of millions of Capital One credit card applications after allegedly taking advantage of a misconfigured firewall. The incident is likely to increase calls for better corporate caretaking of sensitive consumer data.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown “zero-day” flaw, or an “insider” attack in which the accused took advantage of access surreptitiously obtained from her former employer.
TAB OnRecord
AUGUST 1, 2019
Photo courtesy of Brighterside Vertical Farms. Vertical farming is the practice of producing food indoors on vertically inclined surfaces. By controlling light, temperature, water and often times carbon dioxide, vertical farmers are able to grow vegetables (most often leafy greens including lettuce and kale) year-round in vertically stacked layers. As opposed to farming in a [.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
AIIM
JULY 29, 2019
AIIM strongly believes in an even 50/50 split between men and women in the workplace. As the roles of women in the workplace have changed dramatically over the past few decades, more and more women continue to take on roles in Information Management. To grow and support this exciting transition, AIIM launched the Women In Information Management (WIIM) program.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2019
Experts Say Bank May Have Made Several Errors The cause of Capital One's breach is known. But experts say the incident still raises questions over why Capital One held onto personal data so long and if the bank was adequately monitoring administrator accounts.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2019
Marcus Hutchins , the “accidental hero” who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge ruled Friday. Marcus Hutchins, just after he was revealed as the security expert who stopped the WannaCry worm.
Security Affairs
JULY 28, 2019
Watch out! Playing a video on Android devices could be a dangerous operation due to a critical CVE-2019-2107 RCE flaw in Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0. Playing a specially-crafted video on devices with the Android’s native video player application could allow attackers to compromise them due to a dangerous critical remote code execution flaw.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
AIIM
AUGUST 2, 2019
Steps to Make Your Paperless Office Dream a Reality. According to AIIM research , 75% of the organizations we surveyed view digital transformation as “important” or “very important” to their organization. But why? Most respondents pointed to operational savings as a result of a more digital and connected workflow. In other words: cut the paper, cut the inefficiencies.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2019
Researchers Say Proxy Machine Can Bypass Transaction Limits Via Man-in-the-Middle Attack A newly discovered vulnerability in Visa's contactless payment cards could allow fraudsters to bypass payment limits of 30 British pounds ($37) at U.K. banks, according to researchers at Positive Technologies, who claim the vulnerability could be exploited in other countries as well.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JULY 31, 2019
Digital payments growth. According to 451 Research, digital payment channels are expected to grow from $2.8 trillion in 2018 to $5.8 trillion in 2022. That’s seven times the rate of in-store growth. Within digital payments, mobile payment transactions are expected to overtake e-commerce transactions in 2019 and represent 55% of transactions by 2022.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 29, 2019
VxWorks is designed as a secure, "real-time" operating system for continuously functioning devices, like medical equipment, elevator controllers, or satellite modems.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
AIIM
AUGUST 1, 2019
It is common to take great care in the selection and implementation of new technology. Interactions between hardware and software are cautiously investigated; operating systems and network connections are carefully tested, and uptime on critical systems is painstakingly protected. But one very influential factor that is often overlooked is the natural and emotional reactions of people when things change.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2019
Questions Remain Over How Hacker Breached Bank Files In what's likely the first of many investigations, the New York attorney general's office announced late Tuesday that it's launching a Capital One probe following the disclosure that over 100 million U.S. residents had their personal data exposed in a breach. Meanwhile, class action lawsuits are looming.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans. The only source for that post was a Forbes essay by Kalev Leetaru, which links to a previous Forbes essay by him, which links to a video presentation from a Facebook developers conference.
Security Affairs
JULY 28, 2019
According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019. . A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground. The report, titled “ Underground financial fraud report “, provides interesting details about the sale of stolen financial data in the Dark Web. .
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The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
IT Governance
JULY 29, 2019
This blog has been updated to reflect industry developments. Originally published Mar 27, 2017. Phishing attacks are a persistent threat to businesses. A staggering 90% of breaches involve phishing, according to Verizon’s Data Breach Digest. And these attacks are on the rise – Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the Phish Report reveals that 83% of survey respondents experienced phishing attacks in 2018.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2019
Watchdog Points to Numerous Risk Management Shortcomings Some 23 federal agencies come up short in their cybersecurity efforts even as attacks on their IT infrastructures continue to grow and concerns about foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 elections persist, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 2, 2019
Over the last year and a bit I've been working to make more data in HIBP freely available to governments around the world that want to monitor their own exposure in data breaches. Like the rest of us, governments regularly rely on services that fall victim to attacks resulting in data being disclosed and just like the commercial organisations monitoring domains on HIBP, understanding that exposure is important.
Security Affairs
JULY 28, 2019
Experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare technique to compromise fully patched websites. Security experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare steganography technique, attackers are hiding PHP scripts in Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) headers of JPEG images that are uploaded on the website. The Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and ot
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Schneier on Security
JULY 31, 2019
In this piece of research, attackers successfully attack a driverless car system -- Renault Captur's "Level 0" autopilot (Level 0 systems advise human drivers but do not directly operate cars) -- by following them with drones that project images of fake road signs in 100ms bursts. The time is too short for human perception, but long enough to fool the autopilot's sensors.
Data Breach Today
JULY 29, 2019
Europol Marks Three-Year Anniversary of Non-Profit Security Initiative Three years since its launch, the No More Ransom portal has assisted 200,000 ransomware victims and stopped $108 million from being paid in ransom, according to Europol - one of its founding partners.
The Texas Record
JULY 29, 2019
The National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators held their annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota July 18-20. SLRM was fortunate to be able to send four staff this year. In addition to myself, Senior Government Information Analysts Megan Carey, Bonnie Zuber and Erica Wilson-Lang attended as well. The opening night reception was held at the Minnesota State Historical Society.
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