Portarlington-based independent TD Cathal Berry says that the position of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been vacant for more than a year because the salary isn’t sufficient to attract a suitable candidate. Deputy Berry, who is a TD for the Kildare South constituency that also includes Portarlington, Killenard and Ballybrittas, is a former Deputy Commander of the Army Ranger Wing, and has hit out the limitations of the NCSC following the cyber attack on the HSE and the Department of Health. “You’re looking at the head of IT security for Ireland being paid €89,000 so they couldn’t get someone to take a job,” he said in an interview with the Irish Times. “(The NCSC) is supposed to be kicking ass when it comes to all the other Government departments so you’d expect someone to have the appropriate status so they can interact with secretaries general across the Government service”. “Our capability is improving but it is still very limited,” he added in a statement. “The capacity of the National Cyber Security Centre needs to improve on three fronts – premises, budget and staff. “It’s incredible that we still don’t have a dedicated premises yet and their budget of €5 million a year is not sufficient. 2Most importantly, from a talent perspective, we need to improve the amount of people there. “There is currently only 25 people on the staff and the appointment of the Director of the National Cyber Security Centre has been vacant for the last year.” Deputy Berry added that “the National Cyber Security Centre was intended to be a multi-agency entity with the support...
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Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week In Review edition. From my studio in Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. In a few minutes guest commentator Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss some of the interesting news of the past seven days. But first a roundup of what happened: Employees of a company hired by the state of Pennsylvania to do COVID-19 contact tracing ignored privacy rules and compromised the health information of up to 72,000 people. They did it by sharing files online on people who may have been exposed to the virus. This is one of the items Terry and I will discuss. Is your firm looking to get cyber insurance? If so it better be using multifactor authentication to protect logins from stolen passwords. That’s what a Canadian insurance broker told a webinar I covered this week. Tired of big losses from their cyber business, insurers are demanding more proof clients have tough security procedures, including MFA, or they won’t get cyber coverage. Hackers are actively trying to find ways of bypassing multifactor authentication. A report this week from Symantec is a reminder of that. It notes the group behind the hack of SolarWinds’ Orion update mechanism also found ways of bypassing two-factor authentication on victims, as did attacks on Pulse Secure’s virtual private network appliances and on Microsoft Exchange servers. It’s been known for a while that text-based two-factor authentication services are vulnerable to attack. One way to prevent being exploited is by keeping your software updated and protecting your multifactor authentication technology from...
87 minutes of football had been played in North London last Saturday, as Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur clamoured in a desperate search for an equalising goal. Liverpool managed to gain a lead earlier in the contest through Roberto Firmino but had been unable to add to their tally, resulting in the final stages of the match descending into chaos, with ball moving rapidly up and down the pitch, and Spurs missing a pair of excellent chances through Heung-min Son and Giovani Lo Celso. But in one moment, Liverpool managed to kill Spurs’ momentum dead. As Dele Alli took control of possession of the ball near the halfway line, Jürgen Klopp’s team morphed into a solid, narrow block and gave their opponents a simple ultimatum – ‘go around us’. 10 players wearing red had positioned themselves in the centre of the field, separated from back-to-front and from side-to-side by a total of no more than 20 yards. Unsurprisingly, the ploy worked and the contest ended with Liverpool securing their sixth clean sheet in a row. The Reds have now conceded at least seven fewer goals than any other Premier League outfit this season, and that record stems from the team’s ability to control the pitch. The large majority of football clubs have data analysis departments, but very few, if any at all, incorporate such knowledge into top-level decision-making and processes to the extent that Liverpool do. Michael Edwards, the club’s sporting director, is a former analyst himself having previously spent time at Portsmouth and Spurs. He’s since been promoted through the ranks at Anfield, with his current role centred around...
AutoPentest-DRL is an automated penetration testing framework based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques. The framework determines the most appropriate attack path for a given network, and can be used to execute a simulated attack on that network via penetration testing tools, such as Metasploit. AutoPentest-DRL is being developed by the Cyber Range Organization and Design (CROND) NEC-endowed chair at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in Ishikawa, Japan. An overview of AutoPentest-DRL is shown below. The framework can use network scanning tools, such as Nmap, to find in the target network; otherwise, user input is employed instead. The MulVAL attack-graph generator is used to determine potential attack trees, which are then fed in a simplified form into the DQN Decision Engine. The attack path that is produced as output can be fed into penetration testing tools, such as Metasploit, to conduct an attack on a real target network, or used with a logical network instead, for example for educational purposes. In addition, a topology generation algorithm is used to produce multiple network topologies that are used to train the DQN. Next we provide brief information on how to setup and use AutoPentest-DRL. For details, please refer to the User Guide that we also make available. Prerequisites Several external tools are needed in order to use AutoPentest-DRL, as follows: Nmap: Network scanner used by AutoPentest-DRL to determine vulnerabilities in a given real network. The command needed to install nmap on Ubuntu is given below: sudo apt-get install nmap Setup AutoPentest-DRL has been developed mainly on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system; other OSes may work, but...
HARTFORD, CT – Following the devastating and debilitating cyber-attack of United States energy infrastructure and Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) functions raised alarming concern about national and state preparedness against online and computer sabotage. The recent report from the U.S. Secretary of Energy on the shut down and eventual reopening of the Colonial Pipeline that provides critical oil resources for the national economy, Sen. Tony Hwang (R-28) offers the following statement on the hacking and shutdown of the pipeline and the looming potential of future attacks. “The hacking of the Colonial pipeline presents an existing and pervasive vulnerability in our national cybersecurity. These kinds of demonstrated threats have to be taken seriously. It is jarring that an internet-based attack from unknown hackers or even more dangerous potential terrorist acts can make such a major impact on access to vital resources critical to our national security and economic functionality. “What could be next? Military Contractors? Utility Companies? Banking information? Personal financial information? Individuals’ medical data? With so much more happening and dependent on the internet and cybertechnology, there is too much at stake. “In 2019, as the ranking Senate leader in the Public Safety Committee, I proposed Senate Bill 709 to create a task force dedicated to a comprehensive and cooperative approach to cybersecurity 1) within and across state government including military, judicial and administrative services, 2) through relationships with neighboring states and with the federal government, 3) in coordination with the corporate community and broader business sector, and 4) to protect individual data privacy and application security for Connecticut residents. “This is an absolutely critical issue for the State of Connecticut and...
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