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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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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT uses a Mac variant of the Dacls RAT

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. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file.

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How To Protect Against A Phishing Attack And How To Counter Them

SiteLock

The.shtml file contained an iframe that loaded PHP from a legitimate site registered in 2009. The file was a version of ransomware, like Cryptowall or Cryptodefense, which encrypts a user’s files and the files on mounted network drives, demanding money to decrypt them. Using two-factor authentication wherever possible.

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FTC extends deadline by six months for compliance with some changes to financial data security rules

CyberSecurity Insiders

Since 2009, more than 6,600 distinct cryptocurrencies have been released. Encrypt all sensitive information that passes through a business’s servers and systems. Set up multi-factor authentication for any company member who attempts to access customer data.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.