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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Krebs on Security

.” While this detail by itself is not particularly interesting, Stewart said an earlier version of the GandCrab ransomware strain would place a photo of a Russian man named Valery Sinyaev in every existing folder where it would encrypt files. “Despite having nearly 60 days to patch their systems, many customers had not.

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Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service

Security Affairs

In February, the Spanish student Javier Yuste released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. The Avaddon ransomware quickly reacted to the availability of the decryptor and released an update for the code of their malware that made the tool inefficient.

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Rainbow Table Attacks and Cryptanalytic Defenses

eSecurity Planet

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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APT29 abused the Windows Credential Roaming in an attack against a diplomatic entity

Security Affairs

Credential Roaming was introduced by Microsoft in Windows Server 2003 SP1 and is still supported on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. Mandiant researchers in early 2022 responded to an incident where the Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ) successfully phished a European diplomatic entity.

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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])