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Month: March 2017

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CIA repurposed Shamoon data wiper, other malware

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:35:00 -0800

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday shows that one of the agency’s teams specializes in reusing bits of code and techniques from public malware samples.

According to the leaked documents the Umbrage team is part of the Remote Development Branch under the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. It maintains a library of techniques borrowed from in-the-wild malware that could be integrated into its own projects.

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Byline: The Move to Standardization and Open Architectures Enables Cybersecurity Automation For the Government Sector

Credit to Author: Steve Kirk | Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:17:56 -0800

In order to remain responsive, resilient, and agile, government organizations must adopt open, integrated, and automated security architectures that enable the collection and sharing of threat intelligence and the ability to coordinate a response to detected threats.

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How to Secure Your Enterprise

Credit to Author: Raimund Genes (Chief Technology Officer)| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:00:20 +0000

This year, keep your company protected from cyber criminals.Over the past decade, the threat landscape has evolved extensively from the beginnings of worms in 2001 to botnets and spyware in 2005. Now, targeted attacks, mobile threats and destructive crypto-ransomware are a daily reality. The damage caused by these threats has escalated, as well, to potentially crippling levels for an impacted organization. To mitigate…

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Senator probes into CloudPets smart toy hack

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:40:00 -0800

A U.S. senator is seeking answers about a data breach involving smart toys made by Spiral Toys, writing a letter to the company’s CEO asking about the company’s security practices.

Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, wrote in a letter Tuesday to CEO Mark Meyers that the breach raises serious questions concerning how well the company protects the information it collects, particularly from children.

Nelson also said that the incident raises questions about the vendor’s compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires covered companies to have reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information collected from children.

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Deep Security 10: Customer Driven Development with TRC

Credit to Author: Justin Foster| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:00:53 +0000

At least that used to be the standard software development process. Customers were involved in feedback quite late in the development process, often after the release has been mostly formed. We recently shared how Deep Security 10 is an example of server security standing the test of time but it was also the first release…

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CIA-made malware? Now antivirus vendors can find out

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:29:00 -0800

Thanks to WikiLeaks, antivirus vendors will soon be able to figure out if you have been hacked by the CIA.

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks dumped a trove of 8,700 documents that allegedly detail the CIA’s secret hacking operations, including spying tools designed for mobile phones, PCs and smart TVs.

WikiLeaks has redacted the source code from the files to prevent the distribution of cyber weapons, it said. Nevertheless, the document dump — if real — still exposes some of the techniques that the CIA has allegedly been using.

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Senate resolution aims to roll back privacy rules for ISPs

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:57:00 -0800

A resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday aims to roll back privacy rules for broadband service providers that were approved by the Federal Communications Commission in October.

The rules include the requirement that internet service providers like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon obtain “opt-in” consent from consumers to use and share sensitive personal information such as geolocation and web browsing history and also give customers the choice to opt out from the sharing of non-sensitive information such as email addresses or service tier information.

The rules have been opposed by ISPs that argue that they are being treated differently from other Internet entities like search engines and social networking companies.

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