Watchdog Agency: Many VA Security Weaknesses Persist
govinfosecurity.com - A watchdog agency’s annual security review of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s largest healthcare provider, makes 33 recommendations for how the
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Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds
news.slashdot.org - As companies look for ways to cut costs, Seattle's $15 minimum wage law may be hurting hourly workers instead of helping them, according to a new report. From a USA Today article: A report (PDF) from the University of Washington (UW), found that when wages increased to $13 in 2016, some companies...
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Virus (cough, cough, Petya) goes postal at FedEx, shares halted
theregister.co.uk - TNT Express systems blown up by, er, yeah, you get the idea FedEx has suspended trading of its shares on the New York stock exchange after admitting that its subsidiary TNT Express has been hit by "an information system virus."…
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Cyberheist Nets 44 Million In Single CEO Fraud Attack
blog.knowbe4.com - Earlier in August, one of the worlds largest cable manufacturers Leoni AG publicly confessed that it had fallen victim to a classic CEO Fraud attack that has cost the company a whopping 44 million dollars. Following two weeks of intensive investigations, new details surfaced and the thieves turne...
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PhishMe Named a 2017 Greater Washington Area Top Workplace by The Washington Post
phishme.com - Leesburg, Va. – June 28, 2017 – PhishMe® (www.phishme.com), the leading provider of human-focused phishing defense solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a 2017 Top Workplaces honor by The Washington Post. The Top Workplaces lists are based solely on the results of an employee feedba...
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More Than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to Not Repeal Network Neutrality
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: One excuse FCC Chairman Ajit Pai regularly offers to explain his effort to gut net neutrality protections is the claim that open Internet rules have harmed ISPs, especially small ones. During a speech earlier this year, he stressed that 22 small ISPs told him ...
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Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules
tech.slashdot.org - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether judges can apply their own country's laws to all of the internet. From a report: In a 7-2 decision, the court agreed a British Columbia judge had the power to issue an injunc...
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iPhone's AR could make staying in an Airbnb a lot less awkward - CNET
cnet.com - Airbnb may make it socially acceptable to stay in a stranger's house, but that doesn't mean it's not awkward when you have to ransack the house to find the recycling bin. That's why designer Isil Uzum created a concept for mapping an apartment with augmented reality. It's just the fit for an Air...
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Why Community Led Threat Prevention Is Combating Voice Security Threats
informationsecuritybuzz.com - <b>The ISBuzz Post</b>: This Post Why Community Led Threat Prevention Is Combating Voice Security Threats appeared first on Information Security Buzz. Community Led Threat Prevention Community based threat detection and prevention has been a fundamental principle in Anti-Virus and Intrusion Det...
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Shadow Brokers Threaten to Expose Identity of Former NSA Hacker
bleepingcomputer.com - The Shadow Brokers have published a new message today, gloating about the damage caused by the NotPetya ransomware, and threatening to expose the real-life identity of an alleged NSA employee, who they say has been mocking the group on Twitter.
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A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree
tech.slashdot.org - Steve Lohr, writing for the New York Times: A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring. Yet while Mr. Bridges had no w...
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News in brief: Wimbledon adds AI; four arrested over support scams; Russia threatens to block Telegram
nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news IBM adds AI to Wimbledon tennis The Wimbledon tennis tournament is one of the great global sporting events of the year – and this year, as if the talents of the players were not impressive enough, the tournament is getting even smarte...
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FBI Interviews Employees of Russia-Linked Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky Lab
politics.slashdot.org - FBI agents on Tuesday paid visits to at least a dozen employees of Kaspersky Lab, a Russia-based cyber-security company, asking questions about that company's operations as part of a counter-intelligence inquiry, multiple sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. From a report: In a classic...
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After Cyber Attack, FedEx Halts Trading Of Its Shares Temporarily
darkreading.com - Archived Dark Reading Radio In past years, security researchers have discovered ways to hack cars, medical devices, automated teller machines, and many other targets. Dark Reading Executive Editor Kelly Jackson Higgins hosts researcher Samy Kamkar and Levi Gundert, vice president of threat int...
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'Elsa' Tool Allows CIA to Locate Users via Wi-Fi
securityweek.com - WikiLeaks has published a document detailing “Elsa,” a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to track people’s locations via their laptop’s Wi-Fi. According to its developers, Elsa provides geolocation data by recording the details of Wi-Fi access points, including si...
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Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update
news.slashdot.org - Celarent Darii writes: There is a vulnerability in the latest ubuntu distributions due to the DNS resolver included in systemd. The inclusion of the dns resolver was lamented by many on the mailing list, not without cause. All are advised to update their distribution....
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Petya? I hardly know ya! - an ISC update on the 2017-06-27 ransomware outbreak, (Wed, Jun 28th)
isc.sans.edu - SANS Internet Storm Center - A global cooperative cyber threat / internet security monitor and alert system. Featuring daily handler diaries with summarizing and analyzing new threats to networks and internet security events.
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Apple Maps has a hidden VR/AR trick in iOS 11 - CNET
cnet.com - In iOS 11, you can literally walk through (or, over) New York. Screenshot by Scott Stein/CNET I've been using iOS 11 public beta for a week and I never knew that it had a secret little bit of 3D magic hidden inside. Apple's augmented reality in ARKit isn't available to try out in the public bet...
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Toshiba Sues Western Digital For $1 Billion in Damages
yro.slashdot.org - Toshiba has raised the stakes in an embittered legal row with its joint venture partner, suing Western Digital for a $1bn in damages and hoping Japanese courts will quash the US firm's interference in the sale of its memory chip business. From a report: The litigation, filed Wednesday in Tokyo Di...
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Petya is the latest global ransomware scare (The 3:59, Ep. 248) - CNET
cnet.com - Computers around the world on Tuesday suffered yet another massive ransomware breach, this one named GoldenEye.Like WannaCry, it spread using a leaked exploit from the National Security Agency. We'll explain how we got here with ransomware, and just how bad it's going to get in the next few years...
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New Petya ransomware: everything you wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)
nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Whenever a new malware story breaks, lots of questions emerge… …but some of them are hard to ask! What if the question seems so obvious that you feel embarrassed not to know the answer? What if something is really bugging you but the question feels too trivial? What if there are interesting,...
