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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 29th of August 2019 05:15:53 AM Filed under
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  • Testing an OnlyKey hardware password manager

    So far I’ve experimented with simple passwords only, but it appears to support TOTP via Google Authenticator or Yubikey OTP as well, in addition to being OpenPGP compatible and a “plug and play encryption device”. These features are explained in the documentation. There’s also an OnlyKey SSH/GPG agent which looks as though it could work; unfortunately the documentation suggests using keybase.io to generate keys which is a shame. Basically what one has to do is to copy/paste a private RSA key onto the OnlyKey.

  • Making containers safer

    Administrators of these system containers will often give SSH access to the "host" to their users, who will run whatever they want on them. That is one of the reasons the project cares a lot about security. It uses every trick available, he said, to secure those containers: namespaces, control groups, seccomp filters, Linux security modules (LSMs), and more. The goal is to use these containers just like VMs.

    Since the project targets system containers, it builds images for 18 distributions with 77 different versions every day, Graber said. That includes some less-popular distributions in addition to the bigger names; it also builds Android images. Beyond that, LXD is being used as part of the recent Linux desktop on Chromebooks feature of Chrome OS. There are per-user VMs in Chrome OS, but the Linux desktop distribution runs in a container with some persistent storage, he said. It has GPU passthrough and other features to make the desktop seamlessly integrate with Chrome OS.

    All of the users of those distribution images built by the project can run any code they want inside those containers, which means that the Linux containers project needs to care a lot about security, Graber said.

  • Internet Society weighs up the cost to business of cyber security breaches [iophk: Windows TCO]

    The financial impact of ransomware rose by 60% in 2018, losses from business email compromise (BEC) doubled, cryptojacking incidents - the unauthorised use of others’ computing resources to conduct cryptomining - more than tripled, and there continued to be a steady stream of high-profile data breaches, according to a report from the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance.

  • Business losses to cyber crime data breaches to exceed US$5 trillion by 2024 [iophk: Windows TCO]

    Business losses to cybercrime data breaches will rise from US$3 trillion each year to over US$5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11%, according to a new global cybersecurity report.

  • How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks by paying the ransom [iophk: Windows TCO]

    "More often than not, paying the ransom is a lot cheaper for insurers than the loss of revenue they have to cover otherwise. But, by rewarding [attackers], these companies have created a perverted cycle that encourages more ransomware attacks, which in turn frighten more businesses and government agencies into buying policies. In fact, it seems [attackers] are specifically extorting American companies that they know have cyber insurance. After one small insurer highlighted the names of some of its cyber policyholders on its website, three of them were attacked by ransomware.

  • The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks [iophk: Windows TCO]

    The FBI and security researchers say paying ransoms contributes to the profitability and spread of cybercrime and in some cases may ultimately be funding terrorist regimes. But for insurers, it makes financial sense, industry insiders said. It holds down claim costs by avoiding expenses such as covering lost revenue from snarled services and ongoing fees for consultants aiding in data recovery. And, by rewarding [attackers], it encourages more ransomware attacks, which in turn frighten more businesses and government agencies into buying policies.

  • Dutch regulator looking into possible Microsoft Windows privacy breach

    The regulator says that Microsoft is remotely collecting data from users of Windows Home and Windows Pro, a discovery made while testing privacy protection changes in Windows made last year.

  • Dutch regulator sees potential privacy breach in Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft is remotely collecting data from users of Windows Home and Windows Pro, in a potential breach of privacy rules, the Dutch Data Protection Agency (DPA) said on Tuesday.

    The DPA said it had found the practices while it was testing privacy protection changes in Windows made last year by Microsoft at the agency’s request.

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