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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

Security Affairs

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data.

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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. 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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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the very first “SSC” identity registered on the cybercrime forums happened in 2009 at the Russian language hacker community Antichat , where SSC registered using the email address adriman@gmail.com.

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RSA-240 Factored

Schneier on Security

The previous records were RSA-768 (768 bits) in December 2009 [2], and a 768-bit prime discrete logarithm in June 2016 [3]. It is the first time that two records for integer factorization and discrete logarithm are broken together, moreover with the same hardware and software.

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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).