Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2018

In the recent Thales eSecurity eBook, ‘ PCI Compliance and Data Protection for Dummies ’, we cover the main technologies that can be used, such as encryption and tokenization, to help with such efforts in protecting the payment prior to a successful authorization and secure storage of selected elements afterwards.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2018

Tokenization. Among the tools that protect the data itself by making it unusable should it be stolen is tokenization. Tokenization protects sensitive data by substituting non-sensitive data. It creates an unrecognizable tokenized form of the data that maintains the format of the source data. Encryption and Tokenization.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2023

Organizations are accelerating plans for data encryption, driven by increased security, privacy, and cloud workload protection requirements. However, there are a few different approaches to data encryption and enterprises must consider several factors before choosing the right tools and architecture for their needs.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” The Pollard’s Kangaroo interval ECDLP solver algorithm appears to be an attempt to break the SECP256K1 encryption which is used by Bitcoin to implement its public key cryptography. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The AXLocker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and steals Discord tokens from the infected machine. The malware only targets specific file extensions and excludes a list of directories from the encryption process. ” reads the analysis published by Cyble. . ” reads the analysis published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exposed DTC app user data include email address, phone number, phone model, and the apps’ tokens for email, login, session, and signup. Tokens usually serve as digital keys to user accounts. In theory, exposing tokens could lead to unauthorized account access. The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 18, 2018

One of the long standing challenges with security applications that involve data encryption has been key management. Vormetric Application Encryption. Today’s Vormetric Application Encryption provides a library that provides the PKCS #11 interface as a dynamically loadable library (.DLL) Where to get good keys?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The exposed secrets included API or SSH keys, access control tokens, internal use URLs, and even private credentials. GitHub tokens were the most disregarded, as the number of such secrets comprised 26.6% Even if the credentials, tokens, and other secrets are no longer valid, leaving them public is still a bad practice.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol that encrypts the connection between a web browser and a server. This only takes a few clicks, because an SSL certificate is a text file with encrypted data. Use data encryption. Data encryption is the key to keeping sensitive data private. Consider tokenization.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2023

The Baffle suite includes a no-code solution to mask, tokenize, and encrypt data for applications,… The post Launch of Baffle Manager v2 appeared first on Baffle. We do this with a data-centric approach that protects data as it is created, used, and shared across the enterprise, from on-premises data centers to the cloud.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this case, the session cookie was an authentication token, described in the report as a "2FA-backed SSO session" cookie. A customer alerted the company to "suspicious GitHub OAuth activity" on December 29, 2022, leading to the conclusion that this customer's OAuth token had been compromised.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

The confidentiality and integrity assurances of modern communication protocols rely on algorithms that generate secret tokens that attackers cannot guess. Learn the 10 identity management metrics that matter. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

Has a Discord token stealer too… @demonslay335 pic.twitter.com/OayXQPcSEl — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) April 17, 2021. Upon executing the ransomware, it will encrypt the victim’s file and will give 3 hours to them to provide a valid Discord nitro. You have under 3 hours to give us Discord nitro."

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The authors also implemented different obfuscation techniques and custom encryption to avoid detection. ” To circumvent analysis and detection, the malware encrypts all C2 communications. This encryption goes beyond HTTPS protection, utilizing a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token encrypted with RSA-OAEP and a 128CBC-HS256 algorithm.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In this case, Thales integration with Azure Stack Hub allows the organization to meet their local privacy laws and security compliance regulation while tokenizing PII data seamlessly across the hybrid cloud deployment which in this scenario is the Azure public cloud and Azure Hub. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

Tokenization is one method of pseudonymization where sensitive data is turned into non-sensitive data called “tokens.” ” Tokenization works to secure sensitive data by replacing the original data with an unrelated value of the same length and format. The model is simply flawed.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2022

Amazon has patched a flaw in the Amazon Photos app which could have allowed an attacker to steal and use a user’s unique access token that verifies their identity across multiple Amazon APIs. In a ransomware scenario, threat actors could steal, delete, and encrypt files and leave affected users with no means to restore them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FoggyWeb is a post-exploitation backdoor used by the APT group to remotely exfiltrate the configuration database of compromised Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers, decrypted token-signing certificate, and token-decryption certificate, it also allows threat actors to download and execute additional components.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization. Using payment Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) the retail and banking industry can encrypt card-on-file information and protect the subsequent processing of payment transactions. Encryption. Data security. Data Breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You can certainly depend on the wisdom of the crowd, but for several years running, the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition consensus has been that encryption is the best way to protect data in the cloud. Finding an encryption vendor whom you trust; 2. Ensuring the vendor’s encryption product is cloud-friendly; and, 3.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities: Weak authentication methods and compromised access tokens can provide unauthorized access. Secure communication channels: Ensure all communication channels between the chatbot and users are secure and encrypted, safeguarding sensitive data from potential breaches.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. This code is executed later in the threads that will be used to encrypt files. In the case that the user does not belong to the Administrator group the process token will use a clever trick to escalate privileges.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

In a development environment, secrets refer to digital authentication credentials used in software components including login credentials, API tokens, and encryption keys. “We

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. This code is executed later in the threads that will be used to encrypt files. In the case that the user does not belong to the Administrator group the process token will use a clever trick to escalate privileges.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Researchers have found thousands of publicly exposed and misconfigured container registries and artifact repositories belonging to businesses that could give attackers access to access tokens, encryption keys, and other sensitive information about internal systems.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

All secrets are being encrypted or tokenized, and data appears secure.These processes require encryption keys, and controlling these keys requires a robust key management process. Known as the ‘keys to the kingdom’, if this main key is compromised, all other encryption keys are at risk.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Secrets refer to sensitive pieces of information including encryption keys, authentication tokens, and passwords. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The data included: User IP Country Email addresses Encrypted passwords User crypto wallet addresses Dates of birth First and last names Mobile numbers The researchers believe that there’s more than enough information for a persistent attacker to develop a spear-phishing campaign, which would likely aim to drain the user’s crypto funds.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

Get the access token associated to the current process using NtOpenProcessToken and then call NtQueryInformationToken to get the TokenElevationType and check if it’s value is 3 or not (If the value is not 3, it means the current process is elevated). Token Impersonation UAC Bypass (Calvary UAC Bypass). Figure 11: Cavalry PE.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Push-OutputBinding -Name Response -Value ([HttpResponseContext]@{ StatusCode = [HttpStatusCode]::OK Body = $body }) At a high-level, this PowerShell code takes in the environmental variable for the SAS tokened URL and gathers the encrypted context to a variable.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This has varied from one company returning detailed address information, allowing the enumeration of account numbers to physical locations, and another company revealing the JSON Web Token of the user that had just logged in. The field auth token was populated with the JWT once a user logged in.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, certain network requests piqued our interest: login_user request to get access_token with a correct password The request in the screenshot above retrieves an access token to the API based on the following authentication data: username, password and key. In fact, a valid token is returned even if we provide incorrect credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The quantum cybersecurity threat will increase data breaches of sensitive health and financial personal data, challenge the integrity of digital documents, and break certain cryptocurrency encryption. Quantum computing will also render most current popular encryption methods unsafe except for AES 256. Encryption. Data Security.

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