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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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Despite all the emphasis around the shift from SHA-1 to SHA-2, 35% of websites were still utilizing SHA-1 certificates as of November 2016, according to research from Venafi in 2017. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. SHA-1 Deprecation.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework. The Crypton module performs encryption and decryption of all communications. module execution results) is encrypted with a combination of AES and RSA.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Rather than doors, locks and vaults, IT departments rely on a combination of strategies, technologies, and user awareness training to protect an enterprise against cybersecurity attacks that can compromise systems, steal data and other valuable company information, and damage an enterprise’s reputation. Advanced Encryption.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. But the situation isn’t hopeless. Prevalence.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day. Definitely.

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Surveillance Computers and Electronics Encryption Government 313

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. PKI is an asymmetric system, using two keys to encrypt communications; public and private keys. A Public key is used to encrypt data, whether that be on the user’s browser, data, or part of a message to be sent. SSL Certificates as an example.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) implemented its Cyber Security Framework mandating prescriptive measures, including a requirement to containerize data in all computing formats. You now actually have to prove the data is encrypted, both at rest and in transit. At long last, BYOD will become a non-issue.

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Mobile Computers and Electronics Encryption Data privacy 205

Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

“Over recent months, cyber-actors have demonstrated their continued willingness to conduct malicious cyber-activity against critical infrastructure (CI) by exploiting internet-accessible operational technology (OT) assets,” states the joint advisory published by the NSA/CISA, released on Thursday. aggression.”.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

A nationwide loss of power could create a ripple effect, causing disruption to internet telecommunications, water, sewage, fuel and gas supplies. Invest in Cybersecurity Businesses must secure their networks and systems with consistent built-in security that protects all of the technologies they utilise across the company.

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Risk Healthcare Passwords Government 98

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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IoT Authentication VPN Backups 93

IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations.

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SecureList

AUGUST 9, 2022

The malware created two key files to implement file encryption: RSA private key. According to our telemetry, the actor compromised this server via the CVE-2017-10271 exploit. Therefore, we can summarize that the actor abused vulnerable Internet-facing services to deploy their malware at least until the end of 2020. Attribution.

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Ransomware Malware Healthcare Encryption 106

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that an employer has a common law duty to use reasonable care to safeguard employees’ personal information stored on an internet-accessible computer system > (Dittman v. 43 WAP 2017, Pa.,

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Risk Technology Banking Encryption 83

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Just a few days before Capital One’s disclosure, Equifax rather quietly agreed to pay up to $700 million to settle consumer claims and federal and state investigations into its 2017 data breach that compromised sensitive information of more than 145 million American consumers. The technology is available. This was the Perfect Storm.

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Data privacy Data breaches Internet Internet 198

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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Ransomware Backups Software Encryption 97

SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017. 11 of 2017, Sensenich began observing signs of abnormal network behavior. Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was all back up on Jan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

Cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically blockchain, which is essentially a public financial transactional database. We are entering a new era of conducting business that is centralized on this technology and will eventually touch almost every aspect of our lives.

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Cryptocurrency Hacking Scams Technology 61

The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Interestingly, 61 percent of all SMBs and 79 percent of large SMBs believe cyberhackers have more sophisticated technology at their disposal than the SMBs’ own cybersecurity resources. “I Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. Talk more soon. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Risk Cyber Risk Cyber threats Banking 182

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dictionary.com defines it as: precautions taken to guard against crime that involves the internet, especially unauthorized access to computer systems and data connected to the internet. As technology continues to evolve, so does the security around it. However, there is much more to it than that. Website Security.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Malware VPN Network Security 52

SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In addition, the malware saves the configuration data as a registry key encrypted in RC4: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionGameConfig – Description. In order to create a covert channel, the malware encrypts forwarded traffic using trivial binary encryption. Encryption routine. ThreatNeedle loader.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We opened the email on an offline system; if the system had been connected to the internet, there would be a real icon for a Google document loaded from a third-party tracking server that immediately notifies the attacker that the target opened the email. Instead, they can rely on regular macro-enabled documents or older exploits.

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Cryptocurrency Malware Accountability Banking 126

Spinone

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Cloud is one of the most rapidly growing computing technologies of modern times and global spending on cloud technologies is expected to reach $250 billion by 2017. In fact, using the cloud is more reliable than relying on data that is stored in one location.

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Backups Small Business Technology Internet 40

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ransomware was proliferated in 2016 and 2017 and then seemed to be on the decline. Additionally, lucrative targets have included healthcare providers whose entire daily operations and business model revolves around technology-provided healthcare (patient records, charting, billing, etc). Notable Ransomware Attacks in 2019 1.

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Ransomware Backups Government Insurance 52

Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The closest was research published by Max Bazaliy for Black Hat Europe 2017. Due to the way that this is implemented on Apple devices, it is unlikely to identify any vulnerabilities within this area as it will not be possible to sniff encrypted Bluetooth comms without further, dedicated research. Why connect to a jailbroken device?

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Risk Engineering Encryption Authentication 93

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Censornet was a Niche Player in 2017 and 2018. Forcepoint has added to its CASB offerings with technology acquisitions from Imperva and Bitglass. Security functionality for DLP, discovery, encryption, and digital rights management. Recognition for Censornet.

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Risk Firewall Authentication Encryption 128

Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. The entire cybersecurity strategy for any organization must be reviewed and updated regularly in order to keep up with new risks and technologies.

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Cybersecurity Software Internet Internet 40

SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories.

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Surveillance Malware Password Management Passwords 132

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2022

This is beneficial because 2G uses weak encryption between the tower and device that can be cracked in real time by an attacker to intercept calls or text messages. 2G was set up in 1991 and in 2017 some providers started closing down their 2G networks. What is 2G? Why should I not use 2G? Who can disable 2G?

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Mobile Encryption Technology Marketing 136

SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. We are yet to see what will happen to those cybercriminals who were jailed in 2016-2017 and will be released into a world where their skillsets are no longer in demand. million USD) monthly.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2023

Let’s face it, the Internet is kind of like the Wild West when it comes to threats to our privacy and security. When it comes to getting a good look at your browsing your ISP has a window seat, and in the USA ISPs have been allowed to sell your browsing data since 2017. Best-in-class encryption secures your personal information.

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VPN Phishing Internet Internet 73

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

And it’s certainly not for lack of technology; just visit the vast exhibitors’ floor at RSA Conference or Black Hat USA. We discussed how SecurityFirst set out three years ago to begin commercially distributing something called cryptographic splitting technology. At each storage location, yet another layer of encryption is added.

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