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DEEP TECH NEWS: How ‘attribute-based encryption’ preserves privacy at a fined-grained level

The Last Watchdog

Enter attribute-based encryption ( ABE ) an advanced type of cryptography that’s now ready for prime time. ABE makes it much more difficult to fraudulently decrypt an asset in its entirety; it does this by pulling user and data attributes into the encryption picture — in a way that allows decryption to be flexible.

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MY TAKE: Agile cryptography is coming, now that ‘attribute-based encryption’ is ready for prime time

The Last Watchdog

Encryption agility is going to be essential as we move forward with digital transformation. All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. Refer: The vital role of basic research.

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Google Glitch Left Passwords Unprotected for 14 Years

Adam Levin

Google announced a glitch that stored unencrypted passwords belonging to several business customers, a situation that had been exploitable since 2005. This issue has been fixed and, again, we have seen no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected passwords.

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Cyber attack forces live TV shows off-air on Australia’s Channel 9

Hot for Security

Back in August 2005, for instance, the CNN newsroom was hit by the Zotob worm, with the station reporting the incident live on air. Whether the near-simultaneous attacks against the TV station and parliamentary services are coincidence or not is currently unclear.

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Ransomware Cyber Attack on Molson Coors

CyberSecurity Insiders

Highly placed source say that the Chicago based company could have been hit by a file encrypting malware attack that could have brought the IT infrastructure operations of the multinational drink and brewery firm to a standstill.

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Popular Webkinz World online children’s game hacked, 23M credentials leaked

Security Affairs

” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. The database has a size of 1 GB, it contained 22,982,319 credentials, with the passwords being encrypted with the MD5-Crypt algorithm.

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Database Encryption Key Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.