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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery; What’s the Difference?

There’s no doubt that there is overlap between Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) tools and planning. However, each one exists independent of the other. Companies can choose to focus more on one or the other, but to be completely prepared, having both a Business Continuity plan and a Disaster Recovery plan ensures complete coverage should the unthinkable happen.

Have Employees Become the Biggest Threat to Enterprise Data?

66% of companies now believe that careless employees are a larger risk to enterprise data than cyber criminals (Check Point Software Technologies). In this article I outline the steps a business should take in order to minimize dangerous internal threats. Feel free to share and comment--I always welcome feedback.

Android.Fakelogin Trojan Targeting Banking Apps

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Researchers have identified a new Trojan that targets mobile banking apps with customized phishing pages in an attempt to steal users' login credentials.

Cybersecurity firm: Chinese Hacking On US Companies Persists

Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyber agreement with the United States, according to a newly published analysis by a cybersecurity company with close ties to the U.S. government.

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Uber Finally Fixed a Bug that Let Hackers Keep Control of Hacked ...
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Uber just fixed a major security issue that allowed hackers to maintain access to compromised accounts even after the victim had changed his ...

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Codoso Group Hackers Breach Samsung Subsidiary LoopPay
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Report: Hackers in China Tried to Attack Clinton's Server
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In a first, Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government

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UPS Now The Third Company In A Week To Disclose Data Breach

Credit and debit card information belonging to customers who did business at 51 UPS Store Inc. locations in 24 states this year may have been compromised as the result of an intrusion into the company's networks.

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In a statement Wednesday, UPS said it was recently notified by law enforcement officials about a "broad-based malware intrusion" of its systems.

A subsequent investigation by an IT security firm showed that attackers had installed previously unknown malware on systems in more than four-dozen stores to gain access to cardholder data. The affected stores represent about 1% of the 4,470 UPS Store locations around the country.

The intrusion may have exposed data on transactions conducted at the stores between Jan. 20 and Aug. 11, 2014. "For most locations, the period of exposure to this malware began after March 26, 2014," UPS said in a statement.

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Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Vehicles After Jeep Hacking Demo

Today, Fiat Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles possibly affected by a vulnerability in the UConnect infotainment system that could allow attackers to hijack the vehicle's steering and braking. Car hacking researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller demonstrated proof of concept in striking fashion, when they wirelessly took control of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee driven by Wiredreporter Andy Greenberg and brought it from 70 mph to a screeching halt.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is launching an investigation to determine the effectiveness of Fiat Chrysler's recall.

As Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins wrote yesterday in an interview with Valasek:

Miller and Valasek were able to control a 2014 Jeep Cherokee's steering, braking, high beams, turn signals, windshield wipers and fluid, and door locks, as well as reset the speedometer and tachometer, kill the engine, and disengage the transmission so the accelerator pedal failed.

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Kicking The Stool Out From Under The Cybercrime Economy

Put simply, cybercrime, especially financial malware, has the potential to be quite the lucrative affair. That's only because the bad guys have the tools to make their work quick and easy, though. Cripple the automated processes presented by certain malware platforms, and suddenly the threats -- and the losses --aren't quite so serious.

CSO Online had the opportunity to chat with Shape Security's senior threat researcher, Wade Williamson, at this year's Black Hat conference, and he offered a brief background of these types of popular malware platforms before putting the threat landscape into perspective.

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Google Report Unmasks Ad Injection Economy

More than five percent of unique IPs visiting Google-owned websites had at least one ad injector installed, according to a new study.

"Our results reveal that ad injection has entrenched itself as a cross-browser monetization platform that impacts tens of millions of users around the globe," according to a report from Google and a team of researchers that will be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy later this month. "Our client-side telemetry finds that 5.5% of unique daily IP addresses visiting Google properties have at least one ad injector installed. The most popular, superfish.com, injects ads into more than 16,000 websites and grossed over $35 million in 2013 according to financial reports."

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UPS Now The Third Company In A Week To Disclose Data Breach

Credit and debit card information belonging to customers who did business at 51 UPS Store Inc. locations in 24 states this year may have been compromised as the result of an intrusion into the company's networks.

In a statement Wednesday, UPS said it was recently notified by law enforcement officials about a "broad-based malware intrusion" of its systems.

A subsequent investigation by an IT security firm showed that attackers had installed previously unknown malware on systems in more than four-dozen stores to gain access to cardholder data. The affected stores represent about 1% of the 4,470 UPS Store locations around the country.

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5 Ways Schools Can Upgrade Cyber Security

May 06, 2015 Added by:Paul Lipman

Today’s cyber criminals are more aggressive than ever before in their quest to achieve financial gains through hacking. With that being said, it should come as no surprise that our nation's schools are a prime target for such attacks. In this article, iSheriff CEO Paul Lipman highlights the five actions that can be taken to upgrade cyber security practices.

There are five actions that can be taken to move you toward the ideal. These include:

1. Establish a policy and technology to allow BYOD
2. Upgrade the web filter
3. Protect owned devices while off the network
4. Anti-malware protection does still matter
5. Integrate and move your security to the cloud

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Is You Smartphone Spying On You?

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