Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. It’s no wonder we are in the midst of a mass digital transformation migration, which IDC predicts will account for $1.25trillion in spend this year. Enter encryption. Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019.

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Anton on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our seventh Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 , #7 and #8 ).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Meta Digs in Heels on Encryption. Government Encryption Fight. The fight for encryption can be summarized by the arguments of two sides: government and business. Both agree that encryption is useful - the question at hand is, what is the cost of using encryption? Meta Commits to Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2018

Data encryption has been around almost since the age of computers. In truth, anyone with minimal experience can write a simple script that uses default services built into virtually every OS to encrypt data. In Linux, for instance, it takes four openSSL commands to generate an encryption key and encrypt data.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

A recent ransomware attack highlight the dangers of extraneous accounts sitting on your network – particularly those belonging to former employees. Standard cyber hygiene calls for the purging of employees’ credentials accounts from a corporate network once they quit or are fired from their position.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 13, 2023

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our sixth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 and #5 ). a useful reminder to, well, not do that!] “One

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. Experts observed the ransomware also installing the dreaded Azorult password-stealing Trojan on victim’s machine to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, documents and more.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Elon Musk Wants End-to-End Encryption for Twitter Direct Messages: Too soon or Too Late? Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages,” Musk said in a tweet. E2EE encrypts data between a sender and receiver so that no third party can access it. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

OpenSSL Patches New Bug Targeting Encryption [Lessons from Heartbleed]. A flaw in the encryption algorithm used to underpin OpenSSL was exploited, triggering an infinite number of requests when certain input value(s) are used. Encryption must be encrypted. Then Don’t Ban End-to-End Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 28, 2018

Cloud providers have done a good job of integrating default encryption services within their core infrastructure. However, as discussed in previous blogs , the encryption service is only as secure as the keys that are used to encrypt the data. Which data within cloud workloads is encrypted. Key access information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

The encryptor uses a combination of ECDH on Curve25519 (asymmetric encryption) and Chacha20 (symmetric encryption) to encrypt files. The affiliates are obliged to remain active, or their account will be removed after 10 days without notifying them upfront. The group threatens to ban every affiliate who does leak samples.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

BleepingComputer revealed that readers of their website also reported that Kerberos breaks in situations where they’ve set the “This account supports Kerberos AES 256-bit encryption” or “This account supports Kerberos […].

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account and posted as him.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As we were preparing our slides and tools for our DEF CON Cloud Village Talk ( What the Function: A Deep Dive into Azure Function App Security ), Thomas Elling and I stumbled onto an extension of some existing research that we disclosed on the NetSPI blog in March of 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

. “MyBB admin logs show the account of a trusted but currently inactive member of the forum admin team was used to access the web-based MyBB admin console twice: on 16 February and again on 21 February. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. Unusual local and domain account usage. Original CISA Alert used for this campaign. Unusual WinRAR archives.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Attackers are breaking into Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) servers to install Trigona ransomware payloads and encrypt all files. By using account credentials that are simple to guess, brute-force or dictionary attacks are being used to access the MS-SQL servers. These servers are not well protected and are exposed to the Internet.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 29, 2020

But crucially, Facebook says that the detection will occur only based on metadata­ -- not analysis of the content of messages­ -- so that it doesn't undermine the end-to-end encryption that Messenger offers in its Secret Conversations feature. That default Messenger encryption will take years to implement.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this blog, I take it a step further with a discussion about the options available for securing data. Not all types of encryption give you the coverage and flexibility you need. One of the most common and most effective approaches to protecting data is encryption. Important considerations to maximize your investment.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 12, 2023

When deploying an Azure Function App, you’re typically prompted to select a Storage Account to use in support of the application. Access to these supporting Storage Accounts can lead to disclosure of Function App source code, command execution in the Function App, and (as we’ll show in this blog) decryption of the Function App Access Keys.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

One of the encryptors developed by Lockbit, named ‘locker_Apple_M1_64’, can encrypt files of Mac systems running on the Apple silicon M1. The thesis is supported also by the presence in the encryptor of a list of sixty-five Windows file extensions and filenames that will be excluded from encryption.

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Webroot

MAY 9, 2024

Safeguarding against identity theft and cyber threats To protect yourself against these digital risks, consider adopting the following technology approaches: Identity monitoring services Monitor for suspicious activity across your identity and financial accounts, providing up to $1 million in expense reimbursement in case of identity theft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Trigona is written in Delphi language, it encrypts files without distinguishing their extensions and appends the “._locked” _locked” extension to the filename of encrypted files. The attackers launch brute-force or dictionary attacks against the server in an attempt to guess account credentials. ” concludes the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Think about your bank account, it is very important for you to know that when you deposit a check into your account the right amount is deposited. Ransomware uses encryption (typically a good thing) to make your business information un-available. still available for you to use.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts discovered a feature in Microsoft 365 suite that could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and target cloud infrastructure. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that a feature in the in Microsoft 365 suite could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2018

More likely than not, accounting, legal and banking are outsourced. Take the time to remind anyone doing business with you to: Encrypt sensitive data – keep it protected as it travels to its final destination. SMBs may think it’s not easy to act like an enterprise organization, but in reality it is. It’s not over yet.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2022

LastPass, maker of a popular password management application, revealed Thursday that an unauthorized party gained access to its development environment through a compromised developer account and stole some source code and proprietary technical information.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Updating software Cisco Duo is all about cybersecurity, so every week we’re going to publish a blog focused on those respective topics. Unique for Each Account: Avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts. Enabling multi-factor authentication 3. Recognizing and reporting phishing 4.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Traditional payment cards encode cardholder account data in plain text on a magnetic stripe, which can be read and recorded by skimming devices or malicious software surreptitiously installed in payment terminals. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

. “Microsoft has completed its investigation and determined that the activity was limited to the abuse of several developer program accounts and that no Microsoft account compromise has been identified,” Microsoft said. “Therefore, attackers are likely to combine it with other exploits for a comprehensive attack.”

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2023

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our sixth Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 and #5 ). a useful reminder to, well, not do that!] “One

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Researchers have found that as Transport Layer Security (TLS) has grown to account for some 98% of all web page visits, use of TLS among malware operators increased from 23% of all malware detected in 2020 to nearly 46% today. . (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images).

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Webroot

APRIL 2, 2024

Unlike Central Processing Units (CPUs) that process tasks sequentially, GPUs can perform thousands of operations simultaneously, drastically reducing the time required to crack passwords or encryption keys. Once access is gained, attackers can encrypt the victim’s files, demanding a ransom for their release.

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