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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

LiveAuctioneers is one of the world’s largest art, antiques & collectibles online marketplace that was founded in 2002. ” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. million users.

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FBI’s investigation accidentally revealed the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine

Security Affairs

“On October 21, the FBI notified OAG that it had seized an account belonging to HelloKitty, a Ukrainian hacking group, which contained OAG patient and employee files. The HelloKitty ransomware group, like other ransomware gangs, implements a double extortion model, stealing sensitive documents from victims before encrypting them.

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CSO's ultimate guide to security and privacy laws, regulations, and compliance

CSO Magazine

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Nevada Personal Information Data Privacy Encryption Law NRS 603A. Purpose: Enacted in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is designed to protect investors and the public by increasing the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. NERC) standards.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. New encryption and anonymity tools may arise to counter the advancement of law enforcement and government monitoring tools. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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Exploiting Kerberos for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation

NopSec

The domain controller, or Active Directory database in Microsoft environments, is based on a hierarchical schema that stores and manages all objects and object attributes in a domain or forest, which includes users, accounts, computers, and even other domains. All data is encrypted with the user’s password, aside from the username.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

TRIA was passed in 2002 to provide financial assistance to the insurers who were reeling from covering the costs of the Sept. As for the motive behind NotPetya, the program was initially transmitted through Ukrainian accounting software , which suggests that it was intended to target Ukrainian critical infrastructure.