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.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

A data breach typically means the company must notify customers and local law enforcement, often government agencies like the FTC, or Health and Human Services, or others. 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.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave. Denial-of-Suez attack.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2021

Signal—the private, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that surged in popularity in recent months —once again reminded criminal investigators that it could not fully comply with a legal request for user records and communications because of what it asserts as a simple, unchanging fact: The records do not exist on Signal’s servers.

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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 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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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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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. The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others.

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McAfee

AUGUST 11, 2021

As outlined in Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity, CISA has been tasked with developing a Federal cloud-security strategy to aid agencies in the adoption of a Zero Trust Architecture to meet the EO Requirements.

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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. Threat Summary. Original CISA Alert used for this campaign.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

In this blog, we will delve into the potential risks associated with AI and the importance of implementing robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard against these threats. Ensuring robust data protection mechanisms, such as encryption and access controls, is essential to maintain user trust and comply with privacy regulations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

Furthermore, ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide unencrypted message contents.” ” reads the blog post. The company clarified that it does not agree with the interpretation taken by some branches of the Swiss government. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 17, 2024

Security researchers from Imperva described in a blog called XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT how they discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that, if exploited, would enable bad actors to hijack a user’s account.

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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 17, 2024

Security researchers from Imperva described in a blog called XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT how they discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that, if exploited, would enable bad actors to hijack a user’s account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. It aims at replacing popular instant messaging services like Telegram and WhatsApp for government people. email accounts) can sign-up for an account. or @elysee.fr

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Neither were any of the algorithm names I knew, not even algorithms I knew that the US government used. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Probably not. Very probably.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

The assessment takes into account governance, security, and identity management challenges. This may include: Manage identities Offboarding accounts Checking administrative privileges Data governance involves quality assurance Review privileged user credentials Reduce the number of accounts with privileged access.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware is written in C++, it infected Windows systems and deletes all Volume Shadow Copies to prevent data recovery.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Espionage and Political Motives In some cases, hackers may target organizations or governments for espionage or political reasons. State-sponsored hacking is a growing concern, with governments using cyberattacks to gather intelligence, disrupt infrastructure, or compromise national security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

Mespinoza originally used the.locked extension on encrypted files, and then shifted to using.pysa. PYSA is capable of exfiltrating data from its victims before encrypting the files to be ransomed. PYSA’s “leak list” blog uses a vintage MS-DOS theme and ASCII art. Leaks of exfiltrated data landed on PYSA’s blog.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand. .”

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We determined that Owowa is specifically targeting OWA applications of Exchange servers because its code is purposely ignoring requests from OWA-specific monitoring of account names that start with the HealthMailbox string. The result of the command is encrypted (as previously described) and returned to the operator.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Company officials also used the first week of October – which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – to remind users of the company’s plan to enable two-factor authentication by default to many accounts, and that it will enable it for 150 million accounts before the end of 2021. ‘Cybersecurity Is a Team Sport’ In an Oct.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. ” It is not known who is behind the Baltimore ransomware attack, but Armor said it was confident that the bad actor(s) in this case were the same individual(s) using the now-suspended twitter account @Robihkjn (Robbinhood). Image: Armor.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

It underlies organizational accountability and is necessary to identify threats and uncover deficiencies. The solution is data encryption, which uses mathematical algorithms to scramble data, replacing plaintext with ciphertext. The trouble is that most encryption methods aren’t universal. •Conduct risk analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists. ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts. Password leaks are commonplace.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a LinkedIn comment regarding a blog post about BlackCat's retaliatory move on HealthcareInfoSecurity , Krista Arndt , CISO at United Musculoskeletal Partners, said: " Retaliation is so much fun. But information remains limited on what data was actually stolen or encrypted. Insert sarcasm here). RELATED: U.S. healthcare networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

GDPR and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are just two very public representations of data protection, and we are seeing increased policy discussions around access to data in social media applications like Tik Tok. They demand and expect action from governments, enterprises, cloud providers, and companies.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Today: The arms race between code makers and code breakers ushers in the computing era, digital passwords are introduced (and quickly broken), and encryption fixes the security loophole of storing passwords in plaintext. Cracking passwords now required someone looking to reverse it to have both the algorithm AND salting pattern used.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2021

As our CEO Sam King remarked, “It gets really specific about the types of security controls they want organizations to adhere to and government agencies to take into account when they’re looking to do business with software vendors in particular.”. It sets a new precedent for the development of software sold to the government.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. As a result, data has become a critical asset for companies and governments alike, as well as the primary target for nefarious actors and nation states. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. Privacy Shield was unlawful.

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