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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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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. A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . Famous nostalgic game, Webkinz, got hacked and database leaked. SecurityAffairs – Webkinz World, hacking).

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A database containing data of +8.9 million Zacks users was leaked online

Security Affairs

A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. ” reported HIBP.

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A 16-year-old bug (CVE-2021-3438) in printer driver affects millions of printers worldwide

Security Affairs

The discovery was casually made several months ago, while experts were configuring a brand new HP printer, and noticed that an old printer driver from 2005 called SSPORT.SYS was triggering an alert by Process Hacker. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-3438). ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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

CSO Magazine

Nevada Personal Information Data Privacy Encryption Law NRS 603A. New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. New Jersey — An ACT concerning disclosure of breaches of security and amending P.L.2005,

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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G Suite users’ passwords stored in plain-text for more than 14 years

Security Affairs

“However, we recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed.” “We made an error when implementing this functionality back in 2005: The admin console stored a copy of the unhashed password. SecurityAffairs – G Suite, hacking).