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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker extends products, services to encrypt data on portable storage devices

The Last Watchdog

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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Chrome wants to make your passwords stronger

Malwarebytes

A common sentiment, shared by many people down the years, is that storing passwords in browsers is a bad idea. Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight. Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown.

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LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter

Security Affairs

The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. ” reported ZDNet.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. .” ThreatNeedle attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data from the infected networks through SSH tunnels to a remote server located in South Korea.

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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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Microsoft: North Korea-linked Zinc APT targets security experts

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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