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South African telecom provider Cell C disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack

Security Affairs

The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals. Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack.

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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Schneier on Security

NIST is an old hand at this competitive process, having previously done this with symmetric algorithms (AES in 2001) and hash functions (SHA-3 in 2015). Fun fact: Those three algorithms were broken by the Center of Encryption and Information Security, part of the Israeli Defense Force.

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Cyber Attack fear for abandoned US Vehicles and Aircrafts in Afghanistan

CyberSecurity Insiders

On September 11th, 2001 Taliban linked terrorist group launched a flight attack on the twin towers of United States that from then-on put a major dent in the US governance on an international note.

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Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group hacked by Maze ransomware operators

Security Affairs

The Hoa Sen Group (HSG) was founded in the year 2001, it has 7,100 employees across all its 343 companies and has been earning annual revenue of around $1.18 Hoa Sen Group is the no.1 1 company in the field of manufacturing and trading steel sheet in Vietnam and the leading exporter of steel sheet in Southeast Asia.

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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. The company discovered the security breach on February 21 and immediately launched an investigation into the incident. Cencora, Inc.

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have breached the Italian Revenue Agency

Security Affairs

“The Revenue Agency, operational since 1 January 2001, was born from the reorganization of the Financial Administration following the Legislative Decree No. 300 of 1999. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The first practical IBE scheme was given by Boneh and Franklin [7] in 2001 using bilinear pairing on elliptic curves. Since 2001, various extensions of normal IBE/IBS have been proposed: Identity-based signcrypt schemes. 8,9]) combines signature and encryption in a secure way, providing efficient joint authentication and encryption.