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Roku has just made a bad decision with regard to its growing advertising business by associating its brand with the toxic conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones. As Digiday first reported this morning, Roku has chosen to add the Infowars live show hosted by Jones to the Roku platform as a supported channel, much to the disgust of customers now hammering the company on its social media platforms.

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Smart buildings. Smart cities. Smart infrastructure. What do all of these have in common? They’re powered by the convergence of the physical and digital realms through IP-connected devices, sensors, networks, and artificial intelligence. These technologies are poised to transform the way people interact with the built environment. And the success of it all relies on a niche practice in electrical engineering called low-voltage engineering.

There’s no immediate end in sight to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, now on Day 25. Thousands of federal workers were forced to go without a paycheck on Friday, and Americans continue to hold President Trump responsible.

An unprotected server storing millions of call logs and text messages was left open for months before they were found by a security researcher.

Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to follow the client back. This is despite Instagram reiterating a ban on these businesses in November and threatening the accounts of people who employ them.

The Department of Defense is terrible at cybersecurity. That’s the assessment of the Pentagon’s Inspector General (IG), who did a deep dive into the American military’s ability to keep its cyber shit on lockdown. The results aren’t great. “As of September 30, 2018, there were 266 open cybersecurity‑related recommendations, dating as far back as 2008,” the Inspector General said in a new report.

As of this writing, the government shutdown of 2019 is the longest ever in America. The only good news about this situation is that, with each passing day, a new group of people in the country seems to rediscover just how essential government services are, now that they’re unavailable.

Over the past decade, Android has taken the enterprise by storm. In each new operating system (OS) version update, its capabilities continue to become more business-friendly as the strength and depth of its mobile security functionality improves. With these changes considered, it’s clear Google is committed to delivering an OS that transcends the consumer world into the enterprise. For this reason, it’s no surprise that one of the world’s most popular platforms appears on IT’s shortlist for new device investments and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs.

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3859-1
January 15, 2019

Written by Greg Otto
Jan 15, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP

Hardcoded default passwords have been found in a popular building access control system, and the company behind the product has failed to release patches to fix the issue, according to researchers from cybersecurity company Tenable.

Virtually every one of the world’s commercial airports and leading destinations currently remain vulnerable to criminal abuse or ‘rogue’ operation of drone technology notwithstanding the shock wake-up call from the chaos at Gatwick Airport last month before Christmas and more recently at Heathrow, as well as last week’s exploding drone incident in Yemen.

After a strong year of product updates and innovations, we’re excited to so see that Microsoft jumped into the Challenger position in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and solidified its leadership position in KuppingerCole’s 2018 Leadership Compass in the same product category, backed by strong customer adoption rates.

You might not know Amadeus by name, but hundreds of millions of travelers use it each year.

The intelligence in this week’s iteration discuss the following threats: Adware, Backdoor, CryptoMix, Data breaches, DNS hijacking, FlawedGrace, ICEPick-3PC, MageCart, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, ServHelper, Side-channel attack, TA505, TEMP.MixMaster, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Community Threat Briefing and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.

As we open 2019, we are expecting the issue of least privilege cybersecurity to become a priority for companies across the spectrum. One of the big reasons, of course, is that 80 percent of breaches today involve the compromise of IT and business user credentials including usernames and passwords.  To combat the exploitation of compromised accounts, organizations increasingly recognize how important it is to secure and protect privileged access across the enterprise for super users and business users, services, applications, data and systems.

There is a growing demand for stronger security at every point in the IT ecosystem, and today, one of the the more successful enterprise startups to emerge in the last several years is announcing a big round of funding to provide that.

If you’re going to the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver this March you’ll have the chance to participate in the Pwn2Own ethical hacking contest. As usual hackers will be working hard to crack the security of browsers and operating systems from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Oracle and VMware.

There is a growing demand for stronger security at every point in the IT ecosystem, and today, one of the the more successful enterprise startups to emerge in the last several years is announcing a big round of funding to provide that.

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As you are no doubt aware, 2018 was yet another banner year for cybercrime. IBM Security Vice President Caleb Barlow recently reflected on the historic data breaches, widespread vulnerabilities and unprecedented onslaught of data privacy regulations affecting businesses across geographies. In such a fast-paced industry where technology — not to mention the threat landscape — is evolving daily, security culture is now a key determinant of success.