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#cybersecurity | #hackerspace | WhiteHat Provides Free Vulnerability Discovery Services to Gov’t Agencies
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
As part of an effort to help chronically underfunded government agencies combat state-sponsored cyberattacks, WhiteHat Security, a unit of NTT, has decided to offer free of charge two services it provides for discovering vulnerabilities before and after application code is deployed to federal, state and municipal agencies in North America.
Company CEO Craig Hinkley said the decision to make WhiteHat Sentinel Dynamic and Sentinel Source Essentials Edition available for free to government agencies is motivated by civic duty. A native of Australia, Hinkley moved to the U.S. 23 years ago and last year became a U.S. citizen. State-sponsored attacks against election systems are nothing less than an attack on democracy, he said.
Citing data compiled by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, recent examples of state-sponsored cyberattacks against applications and websites included are of increasing concern, with recent examples include the theft of login credentials from government agencies in 22 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and hacking campaign that kicked more than 2,000 websites offline in Georgia.
At the same time, North Dakota officials this week disclosed cyberattacks aimed at the state government nearly tripled last year. Shawn Riley, North Dakota’s chief information officer and head of the Information Technology department, disclosed there were more than 15 million cyberattacks against the state’s government per month in 2019, a 300% increase year over year.
The Texas Department of Information Resources revealed it has seen as many as 10,000 attempted attacks per minute from Iran over a 48-hour period on state agency networks, while the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) issued a security bulletin after revealing that one of its bases had been knocked offline last month by a Ryuk ransomware attack. Even small school districts are being impacted by cybersecurity: Richmond, Michigan, a small city near Detroit, recently announced that students would be enjoying a few extra days of holiday break this year while its school system recovered from a ransomware attack.
A recent report published by Emisoft, a provider of endpoint security software, estimates attacks against roughly 966 government agencies, educational institutions and healthcare providers created costs in excess of $7.5 billion.
Clearly, a lot of focus on cybersecurity attacks is on state and local governments that are responsible for ensuring the integrity of elections. Just this week, a bipartisan bill was proposed calling for the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to appoint a cybersecurity state coordinator in each U.S. state.
Hinkley said it’s apparent government agencies don’t have the resources required to thwart attacks being launched by states themselves or rogue organized groups acting to advance their interests. By making available cybersecurity vulnerability assessment services for free, WhiteHat Security is moving to help agencies identify vulnerabilities in websites and applications that could be easily exploited, he said.
Making that capability available as a service should make it easier for both application developers and cybersecurity teams to scan for vulnerabilities before and after an application is deployed. It may even help foster the adoption of best DevSecOps practices within government agencies, Hinkley noted.
State-sponsored cybersecurity attacks have become a global issue. Concerns about such attacks have risen sharply as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise. The challenge now is how best to thwart those attacks before they are launched by eliminating as many existing vulnerabilities as possible.
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#deepweb | 7 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on December 24th – BGR
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Yesterday’s roundup had six paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free in it, and a bunch of them are actually still free downloads today. If you haven’t already checked it out, definitely go back and download the remaining freebies while you still can — then come back to Tuesday’s roundup, where you’ll find seven different premium iOS apps that are all on sale for free for a limited time.
This post covers paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. BGR is not affiliated with any app developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app anyway, you will be charged by Apple. Some apps may have additional features that require in-app purchases. Subscribe to our RSS feed or use that feed to create an email alert so you’ll be notified as soon as these posts are published and avoid missing any sales.
Relax Alarm-Voice time clock
Normally $0.99.
【Application scenario】
– Although the alarm clock function is small, it is indispensable in life.
– On the morning of each business day, the alarm clock will ring until you press the stop button.
– Then I struggled with the annoyed emotions and my sleepy eyes to see the time.
– Which music is used as an alarm, which music will become the music you hate the most?
– I will get up, but I don’t need to be bothered when I wake up in the morning.
– It’s time to change the way of the alarm clock reminder!
– Ding-dong~ It’s 6:30 now…
– Relax Alarm app uses short prompt tone and voice broadcast the current time to remind you, then accompanied by relaxing music to wake you up. All sounds will stop after 30 seconds, you don’t need to do anything.
– You can freely set the prompt tone, the combination of voice time and music.
– Remove the music part of the ringtone, it is a voice timer.
– Eat breakfast at 7:30, go out at 8:00, ok, remove the music, only broadcast the time.
– Lying in bed to see the phone too invested, set an alarm clock at 11 o’clock in the evening to remind you of the time, do not miss the best time to sleep.
– Relax alarm clock is such a simple application.
– Relax alarm, just want to be an alarm clock that is not annoying.【Features】
– Focus on the alarm clock, no other complex functions, simple interface, easy to set
– Customize ringtones that are composed of a combination of prompt tone, voice time and music
– The ring tone is stopped after 30 seconds of playback, no action is required
– Snooze time can be set from 5 minutes to 30 minutes
Download Relax Alarm-Voice time clock
Marvin The Cube
Normally $1.99.
Meet Marvin, a small cube looking for his place in the Universe.
Help him with solving encountered puzzles and finding the perfect look!Enjoy original gameplay, complemented by pleasant music and nice graphics.
Unleash your inner cube!Marvin The Cube offers:
* Marvin’s unique character
* Billions of Marvin’s different looks
* Intriguing story
* Over 170 puzzles with varying degree of difficulty
* The encyclopedia with description of all the tiles you can find in the game
* Climatic music
* Very simple controls
* Achievements
Download Marvin The Cube
Gravity – Light Particles Manipulation App
Normally $1.99.
Gravity combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Use all your fingers to guide the star flow. You can create 10 different animations depending on the number of fingers touching the screen:
1 – Rocket, 2 – Sparkle, 3 – Energy flow, 4 – Atomic, 5 – 3D freeze, 6 – Circularium, 7 – Fish, 8 – Vortex, 9 – Lasers, 10 – Lightning.
Unleash your creativity and create unique masterpieces!
Features:
* Multitouch (upto 10 touch points iPad, 5 on iPhone)
* Thousands of particles animated at 60 frames per second
* Changing/manual colors
* Play/pause the animation
* Save snapshots to your Photo Library
* Multiple animation options (ex: speed, tail, size, opacity, etc.)
* Ability to save and load option presets
* Multiple play modes: default, drawing, tranquility and user defined
* No ads
Download Gravity – Light Particles Manipulation App
System Activity Monitors
Normally $0.99.
The app monitors iOS activity like memory usage, battery life, used space, and device information. Great visuals like speedometer view, LED indicator, 3D bar charts, battery charging animation, LED flashing charger, provides you a rich visual views of your iOS device internals, like you have never seen before.
$$ Over a million satisfied users of our apps $$
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$ Way cool
This is a terrific system tracker.
– Macquest$ Definitely get this App.!
Love the cool dashboard. Tells you what’s going on in the Apple brain in your iPad or iPhone. This App rules.
– Battyguy$ Simple App !
Great tool! Helps to keep your standby time ridiculously long and device running smoothly.
– Spader1969.$ I have tried many products like this one and so far I keep coming back to this one.
– Markeith3000The System Activity Monitor, is the most comprehensive all in one health check app. on the App store, that monitors memory usage, battery performance, device information like IP address and hardware address, battery tips, all system information, and used space on the iOS device.
You can use this app to accurately monitor your battery life, monitor memory in use, and used and free space. By appropriately charging the battery using this app to full charge, you can get a good battery life.
KEY FEATURES:
1. Battery tips are shown to help save battery life while using the iPhone.
2. Tap battery to see the battery capacity for your favorite apps.
3. Shows the used and free space on your iPhone/iPod.
4. Shows the IP address acquired, and hardware address of your device.
5. Displays a long list of device information, like physical specs, hardware info, and many more.
These are the different views on the App.
Memory view:
Shows the used and free iPhone memory available as used by other apps. This is shown in an excellent speedometer animation view. Double tap home button, and see other apps in use. Close out the other apps, and see the memory being reclaimed in this app, when the speedometer shows the free memory available increase.
This has an LED indicator with blue, green, yellow and red colors indicating the amount of memory being used.
Double tap the speedometer, to see a 3D bar view of the different break up of the memory used. Like, Free, Wired, Active and Inactive memory of your iOS device.
Battery view:
This view shows the battery available for discharge, how much time to recharge to make it full, and when it is charged to FULL, displays an indication, as “FULLY CHARGED”, as opposed to quick charge. It has glow panels on the top to let you know, how much battery is available.
Tap the battery on the fill, to show the detailed break up of battery availability for 3G talk time, browsing, videos, games etc.
Animated battery charging with current flashes inside the battery.
Space used view:
This is shown as a pie-chart that presents the used and free space available on your iOS device.
Info view:
Now it shows a lot more device information, like system information, camera information, display, hardware and physical characteristics. It shows whether you device is connected to Wi-Fi or cellular and its IP address.
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Night Web Browser
Normally $0.99.
Night Web Browser by Alex is THE ONLY web browser that lets you DIM 100% of your screen, including the keyboard, status bar, web videos like YOUTUBE and INSTAGRAM, Facebook etc.
Do you think that your iPhone’s/iPad’s screen is too bright when you look at it in the dark?
Night Web Browser allows you to surf the web in the dark without disturbing the one next to you and without straining your eyes.
Perfect for you who love doing some browsing before sleep without the risk of waking the one next to you because of the bright iPhone screen.
Night Web Browser lets you dim the screen including the keyboard to even less brightness than the minimum standard iPhone/iPad setting. You can simply access the brightness control whenever you want with just one tap in the browser.
NOTE THAT ONLY CONTENTS IN THE WEB BROWSER CAN BE DIMMED, NOT THE ENTIRE iOS!
Features:
– Brightness control/Darkness boost
– Night mode with warmer color temperature
– Search instantly in the address field and choose from search results that instantly appear as you type
-Choose your Google language in settings
– Swipe for back/forward navigation like in Safari
– Tabs
– Bookmarks
– Modern minimal design
– 64-bit supportIf you’d like more features please don’t write a bad review. It does what it was meant to and extremely well. Instead send me a tweet at https://twitter.com/NightWebBrowser with your suggestions and I will give them consideration for the next update
Thanks for your support and we hope you enjoy Night Web Browser by Alex.
Download Night Web Browser
Bomb: A Modern Missile Command
Normally $0.99.
A simplified and modern take on the retro cult classic: Missile Command.
Defend your city from an endless hail of falling bombs using guided missiles. Create a chain of explosions using a single missile to destroy multiple bombs.
Single tap game play.
You can never win this game, only survive as long as possible, because when in war, all is lost in the end.
Download Bomb: A Modern Missile Command
Healium AR
Normally $4.99.
Healium is controlled by the biometric information that comes from you via your consumer wearables. Use your brain patterns and heart rate to illuminate the planets or hatch augmented reality butterflies.
Healium works with an optional 2016 or later Muse 1 brain-sensing headband (Not Muse 2 yet) or an optional Apple watch to power experiences with your heart rate. If you’re not using a wearable, just select “you’re not using a wearable” and the experiences will automatically play. There are three input choices. You can power the AR experiences with brain patterns associated with quiet-mind or open-heart via a Muse headband. Or, you can power the experiences by lowering your heart rate via an Apple watch. The fuel that powers Healium is your memories of a time when you felt a quiet mind or an open heart.
If you have a flat line, that could be forehead tension. Take a few deep breaths and relax. Adjust the difficulty by selecting the settings wheel. If this is your first Healium experience, set difficulty all the way to EASY. For heart rate with apple watch, use your breathing to lower your heart rate and see the planets illuminate. Try more Healium including our virtual reality app by emailing hello@story-up.com or see our frequently asked questions here: https://www.tryhealium.com/faq
Healium stories are metaphors that your thoughts and feelings have *power* not only in the virtual world but in the real world as well. This AR self-awareness experience is not a treatment or diagnostic tool for any kind of mental health or physical disorder. This app integrates with the health app.
Download Healium AR
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4 Best Free Online Security Tools for SMEs in 2020
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report. In light of the global cybersecurity skills shortage, the number is set to soar […] View full post on AmIHackerProof.com
New York offers free #cyber #security #tools to #public to deter #hackers
New York City will offer free cyber security tools to the public as part of a new effort to improve online safety, officials said on Thursday, a week after Atlanta was hit with a ransomware attack that knocked some municipal systems offline.
The program, dubbed NYC Secure, will launch a free smartphone protection app to warn users when suspicious activity is detected on their devices, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a news conference.
“New Yorkers aren’t safe online. We can’t wait around for other levels of government to do something about it or the private sector,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The program will cost the city about $5 million per year, he said.
“It’s our job in government to make sure that people are safe online. It’s a new reality,” de Blasio said.
City agencies will also beef up security protection on public Wi-Fi networks by the end of the year to protect residents, workers and visitors.
Those networks will be secured with a tool, dubbed Quad9, that is available to anybody in New York City and beyond at quad9.net Quad9 routes a user’s web traffic through servers that identify and block malicious sites and email.
NYC Secure was unveiled as Atlanta officials worked alongside federal law enforcement and technicians from private security firms to investigate the cause of the attack that encrypted data on computers.
Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore said she was waiting to hear more about how the hackers breached city networks, the scope of the attack and when city services would be fully operational.
“Everybody in the public wants to know. I want to know, too,” Moore said at a news conference. “But I do think that we need to give them an opportunity to get the information.”
Atlanta on Thursday reactivated a website that allows residents to make requests for trash pickup, report traffic signal outages and ask for other public works-related services.
Municipal court services remained offline on Thursday and City Hall employees told Reuters their work computers were still unusable a week after the hack was detected.
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How #hackers can #hijack your #computer to make free #money
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
If you experienced a sudden drop of performance when visiting Politifact on Friday, it was most likely because the popular fact-checking website was fast busy taxing your computer’s resources to make money—and no, you’re not getting a cut.
Hackers allegedly compromised the website and inflicted it with a cryptocurrency-mining script, a program that uses visitors’ CPU power to generate Monero, a digital currency like Bitcoin that professes anonymity.
The same script appeared on Showtime’s website late last month, though it was quickly removed after news broke on Twitter and several tech publications. Showtime never made it clear whether the script was added intentionally or was the result of their website being compromised. Pirate Bay intentionally experimented with the script but later removed it due to negative visitor feedback.
These are just a few of the increasing number of cases where the resources of computers like yours or mine have been hijacked to generate digital money without their owners’ consent. With the prices of cryptocurrencies steadily rising, plenty of people—including malicious hackers—are on the lookout to pad their wallets.
What is cryptocurrency mining?
While you can always buy cryptocurrencies on online exchanges, an alternative way to obtain them is to “mine” them, which will cost nothing if others are doing it for you.
Cryptocurrencies run on blockchain technology, a distributed ledger that exists on thousands of computers at the same time and obviates the need for middlemen and brokers such as banks and financial institutions. Records are stored on the ledger in blocks and are linked together through cryptographic equations, hence the name.
Before a new block is added to the blockchain, it has to be validated and verified through solving complicated mathematical problems. The process, called mining, requires a lot of computing power and ensures that no one can compromise the integrity of the system.
Anyone can become a miner by installing mining software and joining the network. The first miner to solve the equation gets to append the new block to the blockchain and be rewarded in cryptocurrencies and transaction fees.
Mining bitcoins requires huge amounts of computing power and requires specialized hardware available in large data centers. On the other hand, Monero, which was launched in 2014, can be mined with ordinary CPUs. Hackers can easily get involved by assembling a mining botnet, a network of computers infected with malware that enables cybercriminals to control them from afar.
How hackers are mining cryptocurrencies
Coinhive, the script used on the Showtime and Pirate Bay sites, was developed by a namesake company earlier this year and was introduced as “a viable alternative to intrusive and annoying ads that litter so many websites today.” It was also meant to address the rise of ad-blockers, which are hurting the bottom line of websites that rely on ads. The hosting website takes 70 percent of the proceeds and the rest goes to Coinhive. (The user naturally gets nothing.)
Given the inconspicuous way the script works, it has become a favorite money-making tool for hackers. In the past weeks, the script has popped up in numerous Google Chrome extensions and hacked WordPress and Magento websites.
Coinhive has expressed disappointment in the shady use of its tools and has promised to alter the script to obtain visitors’ consent before using their CPU for mining in the future. Meanwhile, several ad-blockers have added support to block Coinhive’s script.
However, Coinhive is not the only tool hackers are using to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining malware and schemes have been around for several years. But the past months have seen a spike in mining activity, largely due to the rising price of cryptocurrencies.
Slovakian cybersecurity vendor ESET recently discovered a malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2003 machines to mine tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of Monero every month.
Kaspersky Labs reported that cryptocurrency-mining malware has targeted more than 1.65 million computers in the first eight months of 2017, an uptick compared to previous years. IBM’s X-Force security team has found a sixfold increase in cryptocurrency-mining attacks aimed at enterprise networks.
How to protect yourself against cryptocurrency miners
While cryptocurrency miners won’t steal your data or encrypt your files like other malware, they are annoying nonetheless and can negatively impact the performance of your computer. Here are several ways you can prevent hackers from lining their pockets with your CPU:
Install an antivirus and keep it up to date: Most antivirus solutions detect and removing cryptocurrency mining tools as harmful software.
Install an ad-blocker: If you’re using AdBlock Plus or AdGuard, both block Coinhive’s JS library.
Install a cryptomining blocker extension on your browser: Developers have created Chrome extensions that scan your browser and terminate scripts that “look” like Coinhive. AntiMiner, No Coin, and minerBlock are three plugins that will help protect you against cryptocurrency miner scripts.
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Free Wi-Fi has driven 88% of Canadians to put their personal info at risk
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A strong Wi-Fi signal is one major factor that helps Canadians decide where they want to stay when they go away for long weekends, said a risk report released by Norton last month. And while a hefty majority of Canadians believe their information is safe while […]
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Human rights, cyber security to be part of Canada-China free trade consultations
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The federal government wants Canadians to air their concerns about China’s human rights record as part of broad consultations on a possible free trade deal. Business leaders are also being asked to weigh in on a major cybersecurity issue: how …
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NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY UNIVERSITY OFFERS FREE CYBER SECURITY COURSES TO VETERANS AND REFUGEES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
NCSU Will Train Veterans And Refugees On How To Become A Part Of The $3 Trillion Cyber Security Industry. National Cyber Security University (an online university) will offer 100% free scholarships to any refugee living in the United States …
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