PRODUCT REVIEW: Teramind Employee Monitoring Software

Today we are reviewing Teramind User Behavior Monitoring Software, designed to monitor and track employee activity, detect anomalous behavior, and protect against insider threats. Insider leaks can lead to significant financial and reputational damages for organizations and compromise internal applications and systems. The Teramind approach is user-centric and focuses on individual actions. Teramind focuses on helping organizations understand the chain of events, shape user behavior, and combat the internal threat via automated risk detection and...

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Someone hacked this highway sign & defaced it with “Hail Hitler” text

By Waqas On Friday at 2:30 am Arizona highway sign was hacked as in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone hacked this highway sign & defaced it with “Hail Hitler” text May 01, 2018 at 12:05...

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Firewalls: What They Are & Why You Need Them

By Uzair Amir There are some phrases that you hear bandied about, and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Firewalls: What They Are & Why You Need Them April 30, 2018 at 08:52...

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Patching Frequency Best Practices

A client asked the other day for guidance on best practices regarding how often they ought to patch their systems. My immediate thought was “continuously.”  However, most small to mid-sized enterprises don’t have the resources for that. If you go to a source such as the Center for Internet Security they talk about patching as a critical security control and say...

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After Facebook Twitter gets entangled in Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook has made it official early this month that his company did share details of its 87 million US users with British Political Consulting Firm Cambridge Analytica. He also testified his statement before the Congress and added that he and his company will from now on follow strict rules when it comes to protecting the privacy of users and will never-ever allow companies play with its user data in near future. Now, a report published in ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ suggests that another popular social networking website...

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Man jailed for hacking County jail’s records to get friend released early

By Waqas Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Hacking County This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man jailed for hacking County jail’s records to get friend released early April 30, 2018 at 07:30...

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How to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone

By Carolina Do you want to transfer data from Android to iPhone? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone April 29, 2018 at 09:48...

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Man bought mail bomb from dark web (Alpha Bay market) to kill ex-wife

By Waqas Convict Ordered Contraband Cellphone and Mail Bomb from Dark Web This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man bought mail bomb from dark web (Alpha Bay market) to kill ex-wife April 27, 2018 at 09:49...

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Ex-NSA staffer creates app to notify users of evil maid attack on MacBook

By Uzair Amir It is a fact that a MacBook cannot be easily This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ex-NSA staffer creates app to notify users of evil maid attack on MacBook April 27, 2018 at 09:03...

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Things I Hearted this Week, 27th April 2018

Master Keys F-Secure researchers have found that global hotel chains and hotels worldwide are using an electronic lock system that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to any room in the facility. The design flaws discovered in the lock system’s software, which is known as Vision by VingCard and used to secure millions of hotel rooms worldwide, have prompted the...

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Leominster pays $10K in bitcoin to free up data from a ransomware attack

Leominster school district located in the scenic locales of Worcester County, Massachusetts is reported to have paid $10k in bitcoin to free up data from the ransomware attack which encrypted its entire database early this month. Mayor Dean J Mazzarella said that the ransom payment made for the cyber attack will be debited from the city’s general fund as it is not covered under the city’s insurance. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to investigate the attack and as per the ‘Prima Facie’ available to the media, the malware attack...

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Authorities bust world’s largest DDoS-for-hire service & seizes its domain

By Waqas In a large-scale joint operation called “Operation Power Off”, the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities bust world’s largest DDoS-for-hire service & seizes its domain April 27, 2018 at 05:43...

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Popular Chrome VPN extensions are leaking your DNS data

By Waqas Last month, HackRead reported how tons of popular VPN (Virtual Private This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular Chrome VPN extensions are leaking your DNS data April 27, 2018 at 03:28...

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iPhone crackers GrayShift become victim of extortion after code Leak

By Waqas GrayKey’s code snippets recently appeared online and an unknown party was This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iPhone crackers GrayShift become victim of extortion after code Leak April 26, 2018 at 08:30...

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Financial Fraud: What Can You Do About It?

Financial fraud used to be simple. Erase the ink from a check, make it out for more money, and laugh as you withdrew money. Nowadays, it requires a bit more finesse but is still simple in concept. Thankfully, it’s also fairly easy to protect yourself or your company from financial fraud in a highly digitized world. In 2017, massive data breaches, ransomware attacks, and financial...

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Automating server workload security with CloudPassage Halo

The Enterprise Strategy Group consistently produces some of the most thorough research the security industry. Their latest solution showcase, Automating server workload security with CloudPassage Halo, is an excellent sample of their in-depth work. The report begins by delving into the the various infrastructure, platform, and software models, (including containers), which have sprung up in order to provide organizations with improved agility and speed as they continue to adopt DevOps processes. But with this explosive growth of infrastructure...

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Master Key Hack Exploits Flaw in Key System to Unlock Hotel Rooms

By Waqas The master key hack has the capability of unlocking not This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Master Key Hack Exploits Flaw in Key System to Unlock Hotel Rooms April 26, 2018 at 07:34...

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Thousands of Android apps for kids are secretly tracking their activities

By Waqas Have you ever noticed you are talking about a product This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Thousands of Android apps for kids are secretly tracking their activities April 25, 2018 at 10:36...

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Certificate Lifecycle Management: People, Process and Technology

Trust and Digital Certificates Trust is a valuable commodity in the age of data proliferation. An abundance of information makes it possible for bad actors to impersonate trusted brands using fake websites and accounts. Organizations therefore need a way to ensure that potential customers can trust their identity when visiting their official website, especially if they decide...

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What Kind of GDPR Animal Are You? Take the Quiz and Find Out

With just one calendar month to go before GDPR enforcement begins I bet there are people in all sorts of different states of readiness to comply. I suspect there will also be a wide range of emotions associated with your compliance program! For a bit of light relief, and with absolutely no scientific basis for the outcomes, we have devised a little quiz so you can establish...

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PyRoMine malware disables security & mines Monero using NSA exploits

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Fortinet have discovered a dangerous new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PyRoMine malware disables security & mines Monero using NSA exploits April 25, 2018 at 05:06...

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All Nintendo Switch Consoles Contain Unpatchable Chip-Level Flaw

By Waqas Nintendo Switch has fans across the world; the gaming console This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All Nintendo Switch Consoles Contain Unpatchable Chip-Level Flaw April 24, 2018 at 10:40...

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RSA 2018 Recap and Launch of OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter!

RSA 2018 was the best RSA ever from an AlienVault perspective! It was a “giant leap” for sure. The booth was Out of This World: We had hundreds of folks pop by for a demo or theater presentation. The Big News! OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter Free Tool!! The statistics on OTX participation are amazing – as of this writing 86018 participants, and 162K contibutions per...

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