2009 Authentication Encryption Phishing 
SiteLock
AUGUST 27, 2021
In this week’s post, we take a look at “in-the-wild” phishing attacks and talk about how to protect against a phishing attack and how to counter them. Phishing Attack Examples. Here are two examples of phishing attacks that were carried out. Data URI and phishing page. We don’t want that. Gee, thanks, Kyle.
Spinone
MARCH 19, 2020
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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Malwarebytes
AUGUST 29, 2023
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).
SecureList
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. Authentication for data transfer using this port is completely optional, and even when authentication is present, there is no encryption; in other words, the authentication data is sent as readable text. Source: HIPAA Journal.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2021
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. Scams, Phishing and Malware. Who is FBS.
SecureList
OCTOBER 7, 2022
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 malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 25, 2022
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.
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