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

Security Affairs

The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. In January, Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach , the company reported that the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers.

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

CSO Magazine

Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). 4806 — An Act relative to consumer protection from security breaches. Nevada Personal Information Data Privacy Encryption Law NRS 603A. New Jersey — An ACT concerning disclosure of breaches of security and amending P.L.2005, NERC) standards.

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

Security Affairs

Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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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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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. ” continues Google.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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