Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Key Management Interoperability Protocol is an obscure yet important 6-year-old encryption standard. Its leaders are looking for a big boost in 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. In 2018, the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie discovered a weakness in the encryption process that allowed the expert to create a decryption tool.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CipherTrust Data Security Platform now allows users to control encryption keys for data processed by Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing. The Thales partnership with Google Cloud takes a huge step forward with the announcement of Google Cloud ubiquitous data encryption. Data encrypted with the DEK is uploaded to Google Cloud.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. ” states Tutanota. ” states Tutanota. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We were lucky enough to be a Gold Level partner at the 3-day event in the “Windy City,” which kicked off Wednesday, March 15th, and wrapped up Saturday, March 20th, 2017. Examples of these steps include pushing toward the use of a SSL to encrypt data, and potentially implementing a web application firewall to protect websites against attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

November 2017 saw one of Australia’s biggest ever data breaches, in which sensitive personal information regarding almost 50,000 consumers and 5,000 public servants was exposed online. Here then, as with the breaches mentioned above, we can see the importance of an “encrypt everything” strategy, as referred to in my previous post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2024

billion insurance claim for the losses caused by the NotPetya attack that took place in 2017. In August 2017, the pharmaceutical company revealed that the massive NotPetya cyberattack disrupted its worldwide operations. Merck filed a $1.4 Experts from Kaspersky’s conducted a similar research that led to a similar conclusion.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This serious flaw, assigned CVE-2019-15126, causes vulnerable devices to use an all-zero encryption key to encrypt part of the user’s communication.” ” The issue is related to the KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attacks) that was discovered in October 2017 and that works against almost any WPA2 Wi-Fi network. .

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2021

CipherTrust Data Security Platform now allows users to control encryption keys for data processed by Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing. Google implements Ubiquitous Data Encryption for EKM. CCKM delivered support for Google Cloud Platform Customer-Managed Encryption Keys for the first time in 2020. Tue, 10/19/2021 - 06:19.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Based on the “Key findings from the Global State of Information Security® Survey 2017” by PricewaterhouseCoopers , over 28 percent of respondents have become the victims of mobile hacking. This is why you need to install one of the below encrypted messaging apps and encrypted calling apps.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware. million encrypted malware attacks, +27% over the previous year. .”

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 15, 2016

At a session at the 2016 WWDC, Apple revealed that it would be requiring all iOS apps to use HTTPS connections through an existing feature called App Transport Security by the end of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. I remember that in early 2017, the business world was hit by ransomware, which felt to them like a speedy bullet shot at their blind spot.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 13, 2017

DC — NatWest (@NatWest_Help) December 12, 2017. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 12, 2017. Thank you, DC — NatWest (@NatWest_Help) December 12, 2017. That link takes you off to [link] which is indeed encrypted. o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) December 8, 2017. The link to the login page is on it. Make sense?

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

WannaCry is a ransomware worm that spread rapidly through across a number of computer networks in May of 2017. After infecting a Windows computer, it encrypts files on the PC's hard drive, making them impossible for users to access, then demands a ransom payment in bitcoin in order to decrypt them. What is WannaCry?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Encrypted file structure ransomware BlackCat / ALPHV: [ORIGINAL_FILENAME].[ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different Black The LockBit 3.0 ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The KONNI RAT was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017, it has been undetected since 2014 and was employed in highly targeted attacks. The malicious code uploads the exfiltrated, encrypted data to the C2 server via a POST request. ” concludes the report.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

This is accomplished by using a variety of encryption techniques that lock an organization's files to then force the organization to pay for the key to unlock the data. These tactics have included the use of encrypted protocols to obscure actions such as exploitation, data gathering, and the exfiltration of data for the purposes of extortion.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. Subsequent analysis revealed earlier instances of suspicious code dating back to 2017.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

On June 27, 2017, the eve of Ukraine’s Constitution Day holiday, a major global cyberattack was launched, infecting more than 80 companies in that country using a brand-new cyber pathogen that became known as NotPetya. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 6, 2017

At Infosecurity Europe 2017, High-Tech Bridge reported on the latest cybersecurity trends, touching on mobile and IoT security, DevSecOps, Bug Bounties, OWASP Top Ten and encryption.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. Schulte was arrested for possession of child pornography, he was charged with three counts of receipt, possession and transportation of child pornography in August 2017.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The CVE-2017-11882 flaw is a memory-corruption issue that affects all versions of Microsoft Office released between 2000 and 2017. The vulnerability affects the MS Office component EQNEDT32.EXE

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. This is true even in cases in which the infected devices themselves cannot have their data encrypted or stolen by the ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

The company states that the bug affected all users who created or revoked shared invitation links between 17 April 2017 and 17 July 2022. This hashed password was not visible to any Slack clients; discovering it required actively monitoring encrypted network traffic coming from Slack’s servers.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. Another security firm Barracuda Networks said that the attack was highly sophisticated, disrupting some components related to operations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In another news related to cyber attack, France Cyber Security authorities have detected that the United States SolarWinds cyber attack could have been launched on its infrastructure in 2017 that remained undetected till 2020 or until security firm FireEye revealed it to the world.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Paradise Ransomware has been active since September 2017, its operators offer the malware with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. In October 2019, security experts at Emsisoft have developed a tool to decrypt files encrypted by the Paradise ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2020

RC4 algorithm with hardcoded key (in this example – "21983453453435435738912738921") is used for encryption. That means that if you got your files encrypted by this #ransomware , it is possible to decrypt them without paying the ransom. link] — Tatyana Shishkova (@sh1shk0va) December 17, 2020. "CyberPunk2077.sfx.exe"

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But then I started thinking about the rate of change; just since the beginning of last year, here's a bunch of really major HTTPS stuff that's happened (and this is just the ones that spring immediately to mind): Apr 2016: Let's Encrypt officially launched. Jan 2017: Chrome removes support for SHA-1 certificates.

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