The National Cyber Security Agency in the UK is expected to conclude that US sanctions against Huawei will make it impossible to use the Chinese company’s technology as planned for 5G networks. The emergency review, announced on Sunday, is designed to pave the way for Downing Street to push for the total elimination of Huawei equipment in British phone networks by 2023 and quell a Conservative backbench revolt. That move will amount to a hasty reversal of the policy announced by ministers in January to limit Huawei to 35% of the British 5G network supply. It also risks irritating China and adding hundreds of millions of costs to BT and other phone companies. Leaks on Friday suggested that Downing Street was preparing the ground for a dramatic climbdown. A government spokesman said: “Following the US announcement of additional sanctions against Huawei, the NCSC is looking carefully at any impact they could have to the UK’s networks.” In early May, the US said it would impose fresh sanctions against Huawei as part of a long-running campaign against the company, whose technology, the White House claims, could be exploited by China to conduct surveillance against the west. The US sanctions, due to be introduced in September, would prevent Huawei from using US semiconductors and software to build 5G equipment and force it to source alternatives, most likelyfrom China. Whitehall sources said the threatened US restrictions meant that any review would almost certainly say that Huawei posed a security risk. A particular concern was that Huawei would become reliant on unfamiliar and untested components, which could be exploited. Huawei has repeatedly denied...
news, education, The next generation of cyber-security specialists has cleared the first hurdle into their careers, with the completion of a year-long intensive challenge. Founded by Charles Sturt University’s Professor Tanveer Zia, the Girls in Cyber Security Advancing program introduced 137 female years 9 and 10 students from all over the country to the world of information connectivity. Intended to be held in Wagga over three days this week, the final challenge was forced to migrate online. Between Monday and Wednesday this week, the 16 top-performing students went head-to-head in teams to devise a solution to common cyber-security issues. Kooringal High School year 10 student Maimuna Zaman took out the top prize with her team for an app that interactively teaches primary school students how to stay safe online. “We proposed a game for 10 to 14-year-olds to teach them cyber-security, how to recognise malicious activity, and how to avoid it,” said the Wagga-based 15-year-old. “We thought it’d be useful for younger generations to have those skills. Once they’ve got them, they’ll know it for life. “Cyber-hackers look for ways to attack kids because they don’t know what to look for or really what they’re doing online.” Until launching into the challenge on Monday, Maimuna and her fellow cyber-security geniuses had not met. Since they were scattered all over the state, travel restrictions required that they work together via online video networking, which provided its own set of challenges. “It was difficult at first, the internet was a problem and servers kept crashing,” Maimuna said. “We just had to make the best of it.” Aside from the team’s winning...
My name is Anna Chung and I am a Principal Researcher at Unit 42, the global threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks. In celebration of International Women’s Day, I wanted to share my experiences as a woman working within cyber-security; and my advice for others who are looking to get involved within the technology and cyber-industries. My role on the Unit 42 team is to understand the cyber-threat landscape and provide intelligence assessments to help customers prioritise their actions, time and resources. I typically spend my day researching new malicious tools, tactics and procedures discovered by the global security community. I use both internal and external tools to monitor cyber-threats, and then transform the raw materials into actionable threat intelligence. The final research results are delivered through the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 blog, and feed into our products, as well as community sharing programmes. My advice for women looking to start a career in cyber-security is don’t be put off by the scientific image sometimes presented. When many people hear the term cyber-security they think it is about mathematics, coding and engineering. This can create for some an assumption that there’s a high barrier to entry. I have a confession. My mathematics was terrible in high school and in the national entrance exam I received a score of 50 out of 100, leaving me feeling inadequate. However, I still found a career path in the information security industry. So how did I get here? Cyber-security is such a young industry and full of potential that it doesn’t just need people who are into maths, engineering and coding;...
(Reuters) – When lawyers in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial question potential jurors on Thursday, they may already know who has used the #MeToo hashtag on Twitter or criticized victims of sexual harassment in a Facebook discussion. FILE PHOTO: Harvey Weinstein exits the New York Criminal Court after his sexual assault trial in Manhattan, New York, January 7. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz The intersection of big data capabilities and prevalence of social media has transformed the business of jury research in the United States, which once meant gleaning information about potential jurors from car bumper stickers or the appearance of a home. Now, consultants scour Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms for hard-to-find comments or “likes” in discussion groups or even selfies of a juror wearing a potentially biased t-shirt. “This is a whole new generation of information than we had in the past,” said Jeffrey Frederick, the director of Jury Research Services at the National Legal Research Group Inc. The techniques seem tailor-made for the Weinstein trial, which has become a focal point for #MeToo, the social media movement that has exposed sexual misconduct by powerful men in business, politics and entertainment. Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two women. The once-powerful movie producer faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault. On Thursday, the legal teams will begin questioning potential jurors, a process known as voir dire. More than 100 people passed an initial screening and the identities of many of those people have been known publicly for days, allowing for extensive background research. Mark Geragos, a...
It is very common in Windows environments when programs are executed to require from the user to enter his domain credentials for authentication like Outlook, authorization of elevation of privileges (User Account Control) or simply when Windows are inactive (Lock Screen). Mimic this behavior of Windows can lead to harvest credentials of Windows users that could be used for lateral movement during red team assessments. This technique can be useful when initial foothold has been achieved on the system and credentials of the user cannot be discovered by alternative methods. C# Modern red teaming technique require tradecraft to be based in C# language since it allows in-memory execution by various frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Covenant etc. The FakeLogonScreen is a Windows utility that was developed in C# by Arris Huijgen that will mimic Windows logon screen in an attempt to obtain the password of the current user. The tool has the ability to show the background that is currently configured in order to reduce the risk of security conscious users to spot this malicious operation. Windows Fake Logon Screen When the user enter his password on the fake logon screen it will perform a validation against the Active Directory or locally to ensure that the password is correct. The password will be displayed in the console. Fake Logon Screen – Credentials There is also a secondary binary which is part of the project and stores the credentials to a file (user.db) on local disk. Specifically executing the following will read the file that contains the credentials of the domain user. Fake Logon Screen – Credentials Stored A similar...
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the progress the cyber-security industry has made in improving gender diversity. Yet it’s a sad but true fact that women are still facing discrimination and sexual harassment when attending and speaking at conferences. The industry is trying to encourage more women to get involved in cyber-security events. Yet when your talk is followed by sexist remarks and in the worst cases, unwanted advances, it’s not hard to see why women might prefer to stay away altogether. The figures reflect the truth. More than 40 percent of women who attend cyber-security conferences experience derogatory, inflammatory or discriminatory language, comments or conduct, according to a study by Jane Frankland’s IN Security Movement. Jane Frankland Frankland’s study of 2,150 women across the world found one in four had been sexually harassed at conferences, often by older, more powerful men. When these incidents were reported, more than half were dissatisfied with how it was handled. Cyber security researcher Maggie Morganti has experienced the dark side of conferences first-hand. “People started leading with sentences like ‘not to be creepy but…’, physically touching me, and other very uncomfortable interactions. They did this whether I was alone, with other women, or with male friends.” Maggie Morganti Morganti tried several tactics in hope of avoiding these unwelcome advances, such as always ensuring she was accompanied by a male friend. But it solved nothing. “I was still pawed at by men I barely knew. I was nearly followed home by a total stranger because I was ‘Maggs from Twitter’ – and I’m willing to bet I wasn’t the only one.”...
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