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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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Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts

Security Affairs

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. ” continues the notice.

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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. Cache poisoning mitigations in Google Public DNS Improving DNS security has been a goal of Google Public DNS since our launch in 2009. Google Public DNS).

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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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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. Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” states the report published by Kaspersky.

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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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Microsoft: North Korea-linked Zinc APT targets security experts

Security Affairs

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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