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Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills

Schneier on Security

Both bills have provisions that could be used to break end-to-end encryption. 3(c)(7)(A)(iii) would allow a company to deny access to apps installed by users, where those app makers “have been identified [by the Federal Government] as national security, intelligence, or law enforcement risks.” ” Sec.

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Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. And though you likely cannot calculate exactly how much data your organization holds; you know it is going to be a big and costly problem to “Encrypt Everything.”. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30.

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More Than 90 Percent of Malware in Q2 Came Via Encrypted Traffic: WatchGuard

eSecurity Planet

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware

The Hacker News

This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team said in a

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Navigating Compliance: Understanding India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

It limits administrators' control over security activities and encryption keys, supporting two-factor authentication. Imperva Data Security Fabric DAM simplifies auditing for various platforms, including cloud-hosted databases. Data at rest must be protected through encryption or tokenization.

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How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is an encryption key management system that allows enterprises to encrypt their data and retain control and management of their encryption keys. However, some BYOK plans upload the encryption keys to the CSP infrastructure.

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STRRAT RAT spreads masquerading as ransomware

Security Affairs

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them. Researchers noticed that STRRAT version 1.5