I was in a medical office the other day, and when the doctor came into the room, he needed to unlock his phone to contact a pharmacy. I couldn’t help but notice that his home screen had a photo of an infant. It was an adorable infant, and I asked “how old is your child?” The doctor reflexively answered, “10 months”, but then became a bit shocked, and asked me ‘how do you know I have a child?".
As part of digital transformation, the adoption of a wide range of devices for work is on the rise. A unified endpoint management (UEM) solution is capable of enforcing management policies and configurations, as well as securing endpoints. In a previous blog, we reviewed the capabilities of a good UEM solution. In this instalment, we look at UEM security features.
The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule) establishes a set of national standards for the protection of patients' rights and certain health information. Its standards address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information, known as protected health information or PHI by organizations subject to the Privacy Rule, as well as standards for an individual's rights to understand and control how their health data is used.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a web security policy mechanism that enables web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections. This helps protect websites and users from protocol downgrade and cookie hijacking attacks.
As if Puerto Rico wasn’t having a hard enough time as it attempts to recover from a recession, the damage caused by devastating hurricanes in recent years, and a damaging earthquake last month, it now finds itself being exploited by cybercriminals. According to media reports, the government of the US island territory has lost more than US $2.6 million after falling for the type of email scam that has plagued companies and organisations around the world.
Post-exploitation can be one of the most time-consuming but worthwhile tasks that an offensive security professional engages in. Fundamentally, it is where you are able to demonstrate what an adversary may do if they compromise a business. A big component of this is trying to get as far as you can without alerting the defenders to what you’re doing.
For several months, the Intelligence & Analytics team at Elastic Security has tracked an ongoing adversary campaign appearing to target Ukranian government officials. Based on our monitoring, we believe Gamaredon Group, a suspected Russia-based threat group, is behind this campaign. Our observations suggest a significant overlap between tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) included within this campaign and public reporting.
Javascript's built in Error provides useful information, but can often feel lacking in clarity. One-size-fits-all is great for the language, but we can do better in our own apps. That's where custom errors come in.
It was a successful night for Redscan at the TEISS Awards 2020, with the company receiving honours for two of its key services.
A change is coming for privacy protection. Are you ready? For the past twenty years, most financial services businesses fell under the requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA). This law federally governed the collection and disclosure of customers’ personal financial information. However, on January 1st, 2020, a new privacy rule—the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—wentis going into effect.
