Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2023

World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips madhav Thu, 03/30/2023 - 05:54 World Backup Day , celebrated each year on March 31st, is a day created to promote backing up data from your devices. First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Backup your data. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

You can also combine remote services with multifactor authentication. Store backups externally, away from the main network. Ensure your backups are stored in a logical way and not a confused mess of folders and files, so you can easily find and restore files if you need to. That isn’t all, however. Encrypt and back it up.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible.

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Google Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

These services both use asymmetric cryptography to authenticate their data, and the public key used to verify data sent by these services is shipped in Chrome. The modern web necessarily has a lot of CAs, all of whom can provide authentication for any website. Chrome verifies the certificate before continuing.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And while approval is pending, a separate group creates offline backups of essential files that are needed in the event of an error and affected systems need restoring. Create and test offline backups Speaking of backups, never assume they work. Make multi-factor authentication (MFA) a norm.

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