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What You Should Know About Homomorphic Encryption

Spinone

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

The path from a client to the resolver is usually on a local network or can be protected using encrypted transports like DoH, DoT. This response will be cached if it matches the necessary fields and arrives before the authentic response. Google Public DNS). And ADoT is in use for around 6% of egress traffic.

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Social Security Numbers leaked in ransomware attack on Ohio History Connection

Malwarebytes

The Ohio History Connection (OHC) has posted a breach notification in which it discloses that a ransomware attack successfully encrypted internal data servers. During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023).

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Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Security Affairs

Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. A German User’s Account. An Australian User’s Account.

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Key aerospace player Safran Group leaks sensitive data

Security Affairs

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. The leak also included the JWT secret key, another type of token, which is usually used for authentication. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website.

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TOP 10 unattributed APT mysteries

SecureList

It was active in the wild for at least for eight years—from 2009 to 2017—and targeted at least 20 civilian and military entities in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Russia, Belarus, and the United Arab Emirates. The files were designed to be executed in a pre-defined order, and some of them were AES128-encrypted.

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HITRUST vs. HIPAA: Ensuring Data Security and Compliance

Centraleyes

HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a federal law, whereas HITRUST is a comprehensive control framework. ” HIPAA: An Overview HIPAA, short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a pivotal U.S.