HEARTBLEED, Ransom Attacks, What Is Next? Traditional PASSWORD Authentication Failed Yet Again!

HEARTBLEED, Ransom Attacks, What Is Next?

Traditional PASSWORD Authentication Failed yet Again!

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

This prove yet again that traditional PASSWORDS have FAILED!  IT managers, directors etc. are not examining their software and servers because they are too busy fighting human elements.  They are always in a reactive mode fighting the Hackers. Phishers and Man in the Middle Brutal Attackers who are preying on the frailty of humans. 

Proactivity and a cohesive understanding of what part our computers play in our day to day business is not just for the IT department, it is the Chief Executive Officer, Board and those in charge of the corporation to understand all aspects on business. 

Failure here or ignoring what you are being told is a Negation of the Duty of Care/Corporate Governance.  Meaning, you are liable as you knew, as you were told verbally or in writing, did nothing and completely left the shareholders, clients and customers vulnerable.  No insurance policy will cover you, as you failed!

Humans make mistakes and leave open their front and back doors regarding personal information. 

We reiterate, that there is a far more secure method for corporations to maintain their security as they have more end to end, data in motion between their employees, satellite, regional offices that has to be totally secure.

The basis of all communications, data, video, audio and images is security.

  Today, so many want what you have and will go to great lengths to steal it. 

With this in mind, KEYTALK Secure Computer Connections is the basis of all we do.  We start with a secure connection from the outset and are able to transit all in the knowledge it cannot be seen by anyone!  Totally invisible and anonymous in sending and receiving data. 

It is an end to end, data in motion secure connection that uses no password.  Correct no password!  Passwords are too Human and susceptible to theft and misuse.  In fact, how does the system know it is even you?  It does not!

Device DNA is the KEYTALK Way!

When your IT department sets up the devices, which takes seconds, yes any devices, a true BYOD, (Bring Your Own Device) solution, they select components within the Smart Mobile Phone, Tablet, Laptop, PC or Mac and those become your DNA.

The human element is removed and now, when you connect, you are authorized as a trusted device and now go about your business in total security.

No matter what your business or operating system, even defunct Windows XP, we can provide security from Hackers, Phishers, Man in the Middle Brutal Attackers.  Cyber Terrorists can see nothing you do, even in Public & Hotel Wi-Fi Hotspots. 

This can be overlaid on Point Sale, Vehicles, machine to machine and all that require certificates that must be updated for security purposes.  Simple virtual no maintenance required!

All affordable on a monthly or annualized commitment and is included in all our services or in a standalone operation.

In one government operation, a Federal building, the log-on and password for the Secure Wi-Fi Hotspot is displayed prominently on the cafeteria wall in large readable letters and numbers.  This is a public area! 

“The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.”

An easy-to-use exploit that is being widely traded online allows an attacker to retrieve private memory of an application that uses the vulnerable OpenSSL “libssl” library in chunks of 64kb at a time. As CERT notes, an attacker can repeatedly leverage the vulnerability to retrieve as many 64k chunks of memory as are necessary to retrieve the intended secrets.

Affected are OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta, which include such releases As Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, Centos 6.5, Fedora 18, OpenBSD 5.3, FreeBSD 8.4, NetBSD 5.0.2 and OpenSUSE 12.2.

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Worldwide Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@commsmart.us

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking…

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

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25% of The World’s Computers Are Xpeed!

25% of The World’s Computers Are Xpeed!

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

Yesterday was not such a good day for many of the computer networks that run the nation’s electric power, oil and gas, water, chemical, and other vital systems dubbed “critical infrastructure” – it was the day Microsoft’s popular but increasingly antiquated Windows XP operating system becomes permanently vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Really nothing has changed because most systems in these and the retail trade use the WinXP operating system as their cash register and never install the updates anyway!

It also means a new cyber-security challenges for millions of individuals and companies worldwide that still rely on the 12-year-old WinXP system to get their daily work done.  It means they have no shoulder to cry on or call up for help.

Of course XP will continue to work.  But Microsoft’s declaration means an end to free patching for XP that will make it far easier for hackers, who will no longer need to constantly develop new malicious software to penetrate more than a quarter of all the computers on the planet.

The harshest challenge is faced by critical infrastructure “enterprise asset owners” who rely on XP computers to run the industrial control systems that regulate the power grid, refineries, chemical plants, and other utilities and industries vital to the world’s economic prosperity. As it happens, many of these industrial users rarely if ever patch their WinXP work-station computers anyway – and they see no need to start now!

It seems, no it is a fact, people and business are just assisting the Hackers, Phishers and the Man in the Middle Brutal Attackers is stealing their data and supposed secure information.  Nothing like helping the cyber-terrorists!

Shutting the front and back door is important and one company can assist you in just that.  

KEYTALK is the secure connection for all your data in motion for end to end security.  BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is no longer an issue.  Bring them all!

Computers talking to computers, which is machine to machine, is automatic with KEYTALK and it is like using a secure bullet resistant tube to connect, no one can see you are there, you are invisible and anonymous.  The Public or Hotel Wi-Fi Hotspot is secure using KEYTALK.

This is just one solution from CommSmart US, a very important one, which can stop you being so concerned about XP.

www.commsmart.us

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Worldwide Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@commsmart.us

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking…

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

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The Four Horsemen To Stop The Cyber Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen To

Stop The Cyber Apocalypse

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

This is not just an attention grabbing headline!  The state of warfare on your privileged information is heating up and our defense mechanisms must kick in. 

Stop relying on others to do something about it! 

Computers, data, information is not in a metal fireproof filing cabinet anymore.  Never has there been so many people worldwide, been so interested in you and what information you have on your Smart Mobile Phone, Tablet, Laptop, PC, Mac or your computer servers.

It is not that they want to be your best buddy, it is what you have stored on your computers is worth billions of dollars collectively for them.  

It is worse than Charles Dickens’s Fagan from Oliver Twist, with his trained pickpockets. 

These cyber-terrorists work in groups 24/7, 365 days a year, working on how they will induce you to open an email, send corporate information on an unsecured connection.  Yes, they rely on the mistakes humans make every single moment of the day.

These can be stopped and has to be!  The mistakes you make affect us all!  After all, we all connected through the Internet!

So who are these Four Horsemen, so to speak?

CommSmart US

KEYTALK your secure, anonymous Internet connection.  Even in a Public Hotspot!  It does not rely on a password, but you can use one, even your token system for corporate connections. 

Passwords and tokens do not tell the system who is using these methods as anyone could have access to them.  KEYTALK uses Device DNA, components of the device you are using that has been initially authorized by your IT department. Totally secure and cost effective.

Action In Motion (AIM) is your means from the palm of your hand to use “live” video, audio and image transmission to your back-end servers with GPS Location, date, Time and Originator identity stamped on the file.  This is a total Chain of Evidence and already a president has been set in the U.K. Court system with the Crown Prosecution Services. 

  

With Action In Motion you have so many attributes in securing information from a scene or event.  A Protest Rally you can now have officers among the crowd using their Smart Mobile Phone to take pictures, just like the rest of the people.  The difference, it is transmitting “live” to your Command HQ and to other officers in the same area, who receive on their mobile phone.  Instant surveillance in the palm of your hand with a Smart Mobile Phone or Tablet.

DocUmatic – SceneDoc is the closest you will to the paperless society.  Already in use with law enforcement in the USA and Canada.

Our secure platform, SceneDoc is a smartphone/ tablet-based mobile solution that provides a variety of law enforcement personnel a highly secure, accurate and consistent means of documenting scenes and cataloging evidence.

Compatible with iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Blackberry, SceneDoc ensures unparalleled data security and integrity via cloud-based and on premise deployment models.

DocUmatic is for use with any system, including Enforcement Agents/Process Servers for all documentation.  This ensures the progress of paperwork from the courts to the final sale of goods.

Secure Comms

MOBILE MULTI-CHANNEL ROUTER SOLUTION FOR BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY

Secure Comms w24 mobile multi-channel router solution is an enabler for critical applications where broadband connectivity is a must. Where reliable connectivity and the highest possible availability is needed. Typically, such applications are:

• Public Safety Security (Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Fire, EMS)
• Rail and Road Transportation
• Industry Focused applications
• Healthcare

Finally, making your vehicle or mobile HQ, a total connectivity super hub! 

Your communications will have never been so available, direct or productive.

As they say on those advertisements, “wait there is more”, a 1000 foot (300 m.) Wi-Fi Hotspot available for those that are trusted.  Enabling a change in devices, we now use various size tablets and smart phones and all can be in communications and on top of all that matters, with data, video, audio and images, all in the palm of your hand. 

Yes Progress… with CommSmart.  

All the four horsemen work together and separately to provide you the security and solutions your need and demand.

KEYTALK is the underlying solution for all corporate end to end, data in motion and is part of all our solutions.

These are the Four Horsemen that ride at the forefront of cyber terrorism solutions

Visit www.commsmart.us

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email:info@commsmart.us

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking… KEYTALK!

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

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Communication Change Facilitators

Communication Change Facilitators

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

Monday April 7^th, 2014 is an important day in the life of all communicators, especially in the public safety sector.  The announcement of a far more secure way of communicating via the Internet, Smart Mobile Phone and the Tablet’s ability to take pictures, video and listen, is now at the fore front of evidence and event gathering for all. 

Included, is the means to document without a pen or paper.  True paperless applications have come of age, although it is impossible to be totally paperless. 

Then, we add the ability for those that require absolute connectivity a further means to virtually also be in constant communications.  Police cars, Fire trucks, Ambulance and Mobile HQ.

Making you in a “surround communications experience”.  Whilst enveloped in an anonymous environment of a secure end to end, data in motion, bullet resistant tunnel.  No prying eyes, hackers, phishers or man in the middle brutal attackers are able to see what you are corporately transmitting to your back-end servers.

Public Safety Departments and Emergency Management Worldwide, Meet Your Change Facilitators! It has never been so RIGHT!

Watch This Space... The Time Has Come... All will be revealed April 7th, 2014. Sneak Peek on The Communications Event that Brings Proactivity to the Fore Front... CommSmart US

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Worldwide Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@tracometry.com

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking… KEYTALK!

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

Copyright 2014

Unpopular People Are Now Documenting Their Work, Bailiffs, Process Servers & Public Safety “LIVE”

Unpopular people Are Now Documenting Their Work, Bailiffs, Process Servers & Public Safety “LIVE”

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

So you wake up every morning knowing you are one of the most hated people on the planet.  Even your family doesn’t trust you and do everything they can to disassociate from you.

It never use to be that way, Public Safety Officers (Law Enforcement), U.K. Bailiffs and Process Servers, who are a vital part of society.  When someone has wronged us, we turn to them.  In doing their daily work and completing their enforcement tasks, they are viewed as thugs and mistrusted.

Security in our lives is so important and insecurity has becomes so prevalent that it seems that those we turn to, suddenly, in the target’s eyes, becomes the worse enemy in the world.  Accusations fly, lies are like darts and it becomes a war of words.  In the courtroom, the reputation follows us all and many magistrates and judges have their personal opinion on those that serve the public and uphold the law.  It is not always good.

If you had cause to visit a Bailiff or Process Servers office, you might be have been in for a shock! 

You can enter through the front door at the High Court Enforcement Group, but that is as far as it goes. You are stopped right inside as there is yet another door, with a reinforced, bullet resistant glass window and a tough combination lock, barring the way. The only option is to press a well-used button, stating your business, and waiting nervously inside the chamber for attention.

Then bailiffs and process servers have learned to live with being very unpopular. They are normal people that chose their career and do it to the best of their ability.  In fact, they state, they look at everybody's situation whilst at the door, they always try and decipher between people who can pay and won't pay, and people who can't pay and want to pay.  And if they will not agree to any repayment plan they can come up with one.  If they gained access to the property they will be looking to secure the debt on any assets that are available.  If they are adamant they couldn't pay, at the end of the day, the bailiff or process server has a warrant signed by a judge saying they have to execute the warrant.

If the bailiff/process server did not carry out the orders, they would be technically in contempt of court if they did not do so.

When confronted by law enforcement, a bailiff or process server, people become chameleons and indignant that they are questioned or challenged.  Their actions turn to violence exceedingly quickly.  This is why the meeting or confrontation must be documented for the protection of both parties.

Action In Motion (AIM) is a simple and concise tool in the Public Safety toolbox.  It is not additional item to be added to the ever growing list items carried by officers.  It is their Smart Mobile Phone or Tablet, yes the answer is right in the palm of their hand.

When these events take place, they are able to capture the full event, audio/video/images and directly transmit to a central HQ and be observed in the actions.  This is also recorded on the company’s servers with date/time/originator/GPS embedded in the file, on the screen for use, if need be, in court. 

This is a direct feed and the officer has no fingers in downloading or touching the file, it has full chain of custody and untouched by the originator.

It is also a fully secured transmission as it uses KEYTALK a patented, proprietary software solution for the connection, end to end for this data in motion.  It is a secured bullet resistant tube that is anonymous to all.  That means no one sees it, including hackers and phishers.  This can also be used in a Hotspot environment totally securely.

Action In Motion (AIM) is a patented and a proprietary solution with a myriad of uses in vertical markets. Simple to use and for usage as a surveillance situation is even more unique.  Bailiffs/process servers who need to observe and collect information, there is nothing better than images/video/audio.  A picture is worth a thousand words, especially in a courtroom!

For Law Enforcement, they now have an endless multiple amount of mobile CCTV devices at their fingertips.  Sporting event, rally or protest march, they can be on the spot transmitting to central HQ and to other officers exactly what is going on.  This is the most proactive security tool to be introduced to the security industry.  All secure in the record keeping for presentation to a court.

It does not stop there, Risk Management, Assessors and Insurance Adjusters now have a tool to document all and have it in their office, filed and secure at the same time they are seeing it.  A valuable tool for all.

Public Safety, Bailiffs and Process Servers is still a paper heavy business as our courts have insisted on copies being left with all parties. It will never be totally paperless, but, we do have the ability to create your repetitive forms to be able to filled in a on a tablet or smart mobile phone. Having understood the digital requirements with the pen and paper, we have now moved to the smart mobile phone and tablet.  This enhances the daily workload, proactively and productively. Our solution regarding form filling will be introduced in thirty days.

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Worldwide Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@keytalk.us

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking… KEYTALK!

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

Copyright 2014

Machine Wars – The Hackers Dream!

Machine Wars – The Hackers Dream!

By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO, Tracometry Group of Companies.

In the beginning it was desktop computers as the Computer Gods took over our capabilities and daily communication processes.  Gates, Job and Sinclair were the early pioneers and then…

We were talking to machines, albeit through our fingers in the early days through the keyboard.  Today, it is machine to machine or computer to computer with limited, but necessary human intervention.  There lies the problem, humans!

The machines have to be managed, connected and allowed to talk to each other and to know they are correctly allowed to.  That is why we invented computer certificates to acknowledge they were trusted and allowed to work together, hand in hand.

KEYTALK SECURES SOLIDLY, MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATION

These are exciting times for the wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) industry. Across the world, tens of millions of M2M connections are revolutionizing the way that companies of all kinds do business. Across a broad range of sectors, significant gains are being made thanks to the promise of M2M, enabling innovations in industries stretching from healthcare to utilities, automotive to security to interactively serve their masters, us.

However, as we move closer to a future in which M2M is no longer just part of an emerging technological marketplace but the dominant one, ensuring the security of those M2M connections will be of paramount importance. As a result, network operators need to work with dedicated security providers that can integrate with their existing network platforms and provide protection that bridges the gap between legacy ‘human-to-human’ standards of protection and those required for M2M.

There is no difference between traditional certificates and M2M certificates. Both types of certificates are intended to authenticate via a trusted third party the identity of communicating entities.

Traditional certificates were designed and implemented in an era when desktops and laptops were the predominant source of computing power and digital communications. Bandwidth issues were virtually non-existent. Smart cards, smart mobile phones, tablets and devices such as commercial and residential CCTV were on the distant horizon. Oh, we must not forget transportation, trains, boats, planes and the automobile, all have computers on-board that complete the majority of the functions and are hackable.

The fact is, traditional certificates were never designed for use in very constrained environments where computing, bandwidth, power and storage are issues of great importance.

YOUR MACHINE BECOMES A TOKEN

KeyTalk protects M2M online community’s data-in-motion against Man-in-the-Middle and Phishing attacks. Based on our proprietary automated distribution for short lived Machine certificates, Machines transfer data to servers and the Cloud from their connection by KeyTalk identified trusted Machines, using state-of-the-art expiring encryption keys with a time window predefined by your administrator at virtually zero management.

KeyTalk delivers a unified architecture for perimeter, internal and web based access control, based on the industry standard X.509 digital certificates.

SECURING SENSITIVE DATA IN MOTION

With KeyTalk Machines that you trust, you can securely connect to target servers over any non-secure network (including Hotspots) or Internet environment.

All it requires is your server trusting your KeyTalk instance as a trusted source and you are good to go.  That includes lines of defense, such as ultra-high level security devices, cameras, motion sensors and perimeter protection.  Yes, they all controlled by computers.

Sadly the majority of these devices have outdated or long term certificates.  Why that is a problem is simple.  Untrusted or non-existent certificates allow the hacker to gain access with absolute easy and ply their trade, criminality.  Long term certificates allow a much larger window of opportunity to break the codes and gain access.  Not what is needed in this unsociable society!

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION & ZERO MANAGEMENT

KeyTalk seamlessly integrates into your existing network Infrastructure. As a result, no data needs to be replicated making life for your administrator a lot easier. And by automating the certificate issuance and installation process no user actions are required whatsoever.

Schiphol Airport and all world airports have security cameras, which are manually updated.  This takes time and manpower and are not completed on a reliable time frame leaving a window of opportunity you can ill-afford.  

KEYTALK does all of this automatically and maintains perfect security for all.

WE are in the NOW and

KEEP YOU; in the KNOW…

Worldwide Call: +1 (317) 426.0110

Email: info@keytalk.us

Key Talk – Man-In-The-Middle, Hacking & Phishing Solutions

Straight Talking Key Talking… KEYTALK!

Galveston, Texas, Indianapolis, Indiana, London & North Wales, U.K., Netherlands, Lithuania, K.L. Malaysia

Tracometry Group of Companies – Reg. Office. Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Harlow, Essex CM18 7jF

Copyright 2014