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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. The above example simply didn't have plain text entries for the encrypted data. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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The Clock To Q-Day Is Ticking: InfoSec Global and Thales Provide Collaborative Path to Quantum Readiness

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To counter HNDL, migrating critical systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) provides encryption and authentication methods resistant to an attack from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). Encryption Thales | Cloud Protection & Licensing Solutions More About This Author > Schema In the U.S.,

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). A great resource for getting a quick snapshot of how a site implements their SSL / TLS / HTTPS ("encryption of traffic", for the masses) is SSL Labs.

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CloudWizard APT: the bad magic story goes on

SecureList

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. Some of these APTs have long been forgotten in the past – such as Prikormka ( Operation Groundbait ), discovered by ESET in 2016. The old (4.0) and new (5.0)

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The ‘AVE_MARIA’ Malware

Security Affairs

Similar packing of AutoIT code have been observed even by Juniper back in 2016, where SFX files were abused this way to deliver scripts used as first stage of the malware. These sensitive data are protected using PK11 encryption from Mozilla Network Security Services, so the malware is weaponized with all the necessary functions decrypt them.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Writing exploits or developing infosec tools is no exception, they often need to have access to the latest libraries. We did not want to step on any other projects toes in infosec realm, or even IT in general. As soon as Kali 2.0

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