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News & Views CTF Protocol Serves as a Low-Level Way to Take Over Windows Machines Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/16/2019 There is a protocol in Windows that has been around since the days of Windows XP, which has been found to be insecure. Post a Comment \| READ () Security Assurance Is a Long-Term & Ongoing Investment Steve Durbin Managing Director, Information Security Forum, \| 8/14/2019 Taking a business-focused approach to security assurance is an evolution. It means going a step further and demonstrating how well business processes, projects and supporting assets are really protected, by focusing on how effective controls are. It requires a broader view, considering the needs of multiple stakeholders within the organization. Post a Comment \| READ () A Brace Helps to Balance the Load Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/13/2019 Load balancers have the potential inside them for a real problem, it's been discovered. It arises from the language used to control the load balancing, called Tool Command Language (TCL). Post a Comment \| READ () This RAT Doesn't Squeak Much Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/13/2019 The Zscaler ThreatLabZ team came across a new remote-access trojan (RAT) for sale on the dark web. The RAT, called Saefko, is written in .NET and has multiple functionalities. Post a Comment \| READ () European Approach to Artificial Intelligence: Ethics Is Key Oliver Schonschek Security Now News Analyst, \| 8/13/2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an area of strategic importance in the European Union (EU). However, socio-economic, legal and ethical impacts must be carefully addressed, says the European Commission. Ethics guidelines are proving key to the European approach here, and there will be additional structure to come: AI certifications concerning ... Post a Comment \| READ () State Farm Insurance Notifies Users About a Breach but Doesn't Panic Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/9/2019 State Farm Insurance has filed a notice of data breach that involved customer accounts, seemingly to meet California regulations. The letter is concise in its description of what went on, yet transparent. State Farm said in the letter (describing what information was involved): "During the attempted access, the bad actors received confirmation of a ... Post a Comment \| READ () MSFT Walks Back Original Action, Admits RDP Vulnerability Affects Hyper-V Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/9/2019 Check Point Research's Eyal Itkin told the world in February of this year that there were multiple critical vulnerabilities in the widely used RDP protocol. RDP is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft and is usually used when a user wants to connect to a remote Windows machine. Post a Comment \| READ () Wipro Says That Target on the Enterprise's Back Just Got Bigger Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/7/2019 Wipro has presented the third edition of their "State of Cybersecurity Report," looking at trends and behaviors that have occurred over the last year. Post a Comment \| READ () Has Your Employee Been Compromised by Sextortion? Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/5/2019 Sextortion is one particular kind of extortion that is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as "The practice of forcing someone to do something by threatening to publish sexual information about them." Post a Comment \| READ () Bulletproof Proxy Providers Try to Hide Botnet IP Address Needles in Haystacks Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/2/2019 Cequence Security's CQ Prime research team thinks it has spotted a new trend it calls "bulletproof proxies." It's related to bulletproof hosting where providers offer considerable leniency in what content may be uploaded and distributed through their infrastructure and as well as protection from law enforcement investigations, information requests, ... Post a Comment \| READ () Who Is Phoning Home on Your Firm's Dime? Larry Loeb Author, \| 8/1/2019 ExtraHop customers in 2018 and the first weeks of 2019 took a look at some third-party supplied enterprise software's behavior and were not pleased when it would, unannounced, call home for its creators. ExtraHop took a further look and wrote a report about it. In its report, ExtraHop develops four case studies of how this sort of thing happens. Post a Comment \| READ () Capital One Had to Be Told by Outsider That Data Breach Occurred Larry Loeb Author, \| 7/30/2019 Capital One Financial Corp. is the US's fifth-largest credit card issuer. It announced Monday that "an outside individual [had] obtained certain types of personal information relating to people who had applied for its credit card products and to Capital One credit card customers." The breach affected 100 million people in the United States, and 6 million ... Post a Comment \| READ () Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles discussion board julesjules, 7/24/2019 10:36:35 AM Palo Alto Networks Does Not Fully Address Vulnerability in GlobalProtect SSL VPN Solution Re: Confusing data in the post The original post was confusing unless you visited the actual PAN security advisory. The affected and updates were all in the same section without indication of what was what.Below is the info from the PAN advisory. Products Affected PAN-OS... 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Post Your Reply batye, 5/24/2019 7:05:49 PM Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Re: Re: cut off @LarryLoeb interesting point, I could not agree more to it as remind of the the Cold War period - right after the WWII where KGB send well trained agents with suitecase of money to setup/buy legitamate Co. in the West... with purpose of... Post Your Reply LarryLoeb, 5/24/2019 5:57:49 AM Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Re: Re: cut off @Susan Companies can be agents of economic warfare. Would you change your view if you found Huawei's profits funded the Chinese army directly? (I have no such proof, btw. Making a point.) Post Your Reply Susan Fourtané , 5/24/2019 5:54:38 AM Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Re: Re: cut off I can't find it now but I have a statement from Huawei about this case. It's not right to try to put a company out of business for political reasons, Larry. Simply not right. The same with ZTE. Not right. Post Your Reply LarryLoeb, 5/24/2019 5:49:49 AM Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Re: Re: cut off @Susan I'm going to disagree. I think Huawei is inextriably linked with the government of China, a arm of it really, rather than some independent actor. China crushes independent actors. That doesn't mean the EO or the trade war is... Post Your Reply Susan Fourtané , 5/24/2019 5:34:00 AM Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Re: Re: cut off What the US government is doing to Chinese companies is war declaration. Technology and business should not be mixed with politics. Huawei is an independent company owned by its employees. What is happening is utterly ridiculous. Post Your Reply LarryLoeb, 5/22/2019 6:52:17 PM LightNeuron Sneaks In Through the Exchange Backdoor Re: Re: first @Ariella The little rotters never stand still. Post Your Reply Ariella, 5/22/2019 5:01:32 PM Cybercrime Study Finds Increasing Costs as Well as Changing Targets & Methods Re: Re: reliable stats? @mhhf1ve do you think it's higher or lower? Post Your Reply Ariella, 5/22/2019 5:00:32 PM DevSecOps Enables Security to Finally Move at the Speed of the Business Re: self-service I kind of like the idea of "self-service" security. I do go for self-service in other aspects of my life, so why not in security as well? Post Your Reply Next 5 messages + All messages All messages Chat 8/31/2017 3:54:21 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thank you! klogan453 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:51:19 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Well, it seems like Steve and I managed to answer everyone's questions in our conversation. So I'll say thanks once again to Steve Grobman, CTO of McAfee, for being such a wonderful guest here on Voice of Security Radio! Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:47:35 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thanks. Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:47:19 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Thanks for helping out, Daren! Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:45:59 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: (On behalf of Steve Grobman) - Data science and computer science expertise is definately in high demand by the cyber security technology industry as well as many other industries that are using similar capabilities daren Keeper 8/31/2017 3:44:38 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: (On behalf of Steve Grobman) - There is not a formal certificatio process.. most users don't need to understand the nuance of the technology which is generally built by technology product providers daren Keeper 8/31/2017 3:42:40 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: And how are mainline security pros/machine learning pros certified, i.e. how do you lknow that the person you're hiring to help you knows what they're dcoing? Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:39:20 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Steve, one question we didn't get to is that of skilled practitioners. I know that mainline security pros are in short supply and high demand: Is it even worse when it comes to machine learning pros in the security space? Curt Franklin Keeper 8/31/2017 3:37:01 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Since I was late - and again - really sorry, I don't even know what to ask. Feel free to ask a question or my behalf. Sr.Contr61262 Keeper 8/31/2017 3:33:59 PM Voice of Security Radio: A Security Partnership with Machine Learning: Well folks, now's the time to ask any questions we didn't get to in the audio interview. Steve will be here in just a moment -- what would you like to know? 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