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The usual suspects

December 13, 2019 0 Comments Internet, malware, Security

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:00:00 -0800

One morning Wilma, the print shop manager at a beer distributor, discovers that her computer has a virus. It’s no big deal — sometimes bad things happen to good computers — so she cleans up the system and gets on with her day.

But a few days later the system is infected again.

Considerably more annoyed this time, she contacts Betty (the company’s sole IT person) to get some assistance and make sure the system is 100% clean. After disinfecting the system, Betty checks the browser history and finds that someone has been making late-night visits to X-rated websites.

The question then becomes, Who is using company resources to watch porn? At most companies, suspicion would immediately fall on the nighttime cleaning crew. But the print shop is located in the warehouse, to which the cleaning crew doesn’t have access.

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Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot'

December 12, 2019 0 Comments Blockchain, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things, open-source, Security, supply chain management

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:00:00 -0800

Three-quarters of companies implementing IoT have already adopted blockchain or plan to use it by the end of 2020, an indicator of the growing connection between the two, according to a survey of 500 U.S. companies by Gartner.

While the marriage between the two technologies has been expected to be crucial for industry digital transformation, the adoption rate is happening at a “much faster pace than expected,” Gartner said.

“Among the blockchain adopters, 86% are implementing the two technologies together in various projects,” Avivah Litan, a Gartner vice president and report author, wrote in a blog. She called IoT integration “a sweet spot” for blockchain, the much-hyped distributed ledger technology.

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

December 11, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, afrinic, afriq*access, bill woodcock, eddy kayihura, infoplan, ipv4leasing, itc, jan vermeulen, mybroadband.co.za, packet clearing house, ron guilmette, the african network information centre, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:31:12 +0000

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers. The allegations stemmed from a three-year investigation by a U.S.-based researcher whose findings shed light on a murky area of Internet governance that is all too often exploited by spammers and scammers alike.

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Apple is forcing the ad industry to change

December 11, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Artificial intelligence, iOS, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 07:44:00 -0800

Advertising has become too personal.

Modern systems learn too much about your personal life, tastes and aspirations, and while this is manna from heaven for advertisers, it’s an invasion of privacy for many. And Apple is changing the equation.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

Apple has built a technology that reduces the quantity of data advertisers can harvest from your online life. It is called Intelligent Tracking Prevention and The Information tells us that since the technology debuted in 2017:

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Apple is forcing the ads industry to change

December 11, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Artificial intelligence, iOS, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 07:44:00 -0800

Advertising has become too personal.

Modern systems learn too much about your personal life, tastes and aspirations, and while this is manna from heaven for advertisers, it’s an invasion of privacy for the many. And Apple is changing the equation.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

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Patch Tuesday brings a reprise of the Autopilot debacle, now quashed, and another Win7 nag

December 11, 2019 0 Comments Microsoft, Security, Windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 07:33:00 -0800

Patch Tuesday in December rarely brings anything worthwhile — everybody’s on vacation, or wants to be on vacation — and this month’s no exception. We got patches for 36 separately identified security holes and two new advisories, full of sound and fury but covering very little.

The one “exploited” security hole — CVE-2019-1458 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — shouldn’t cause any heartburn. Microsoft says:

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CISO MAG Honors KrebsOnSecurity

December 11, 2019 0 Comments ciso mag, other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:46:05 +0000

CISO Magazine, a publication dedicated to covering issues near and dear to corporate chief information security officers everywhere, has graciously awarded this author the designation of “Cybersecurity Person of the Year” in its December 2019 issue.

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Blockchain/IoT integration accelerates, hits a 'sweet spot' for the two technologies

December 11, 2019 0 Comments Blockchain, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things, open-source, Security, supply chain management

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:00:00 -0800

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How to secure your domain name services

December 11, 2019 0 Comments Security, Windows

Follow these steps to protect your websites at the server and workstation.

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Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition

December 10, 2019 0 Comments microsoft patch tuesday december 2019, recorded future, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 01:51:25 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. The patches include fixes for seven critical bugs — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants to take control over a Windows system with no help from users — as well as another flaw in most versions of Windows that is already being exploited in active attacks.