Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 29, 2019

On December 11, 2018, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) released its final report “Democracy Under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly” The Report calls for increased regulation on the Internet. Register now. Share on Facebook.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. No core technologies are more fundamental to data protection than encryption and key management. We’ve just released the results from our Global Encryption Trends Study which once again show positive growth in the use of encryption across a wide variety of use cases.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When government agencies and international intelligence groups pooled together resources to gather user data, the VPN’s encryption seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. On the 6th of December 2018, a law that is a direct attack on internet users’ privacy was agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. Cybercriminals can encrypt their backdoor files with a decoding key that only they possess, meaning, no one else has access to their malicious file. Protect your website and your visitors in 2018 and beyond.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to statistica the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected will rise to 23 billion this year. Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Global PKI Trends Study , revealed increased reliance on PKIs as a core enterprise asset and root of trust.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Researcher Ron Guilmette discovered that Spammy Bear was able to hijack thousands of these dormant domains for spam simply by registering free accounts at GoDaddy and telling the company’s automated DNS service to allow the sending of email with those domains from an Internet address controlled by the spammers. 22 story. 31 and Feb.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

In a writeup on WebMonitor published in April 2018 , researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks noted that the product has been primarily advertised on underground hacking forums, and that its developers promoted several qualities of the software likely to appeal to cybercriminals looking to secretly compromise PCs.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Each and every major advance of Internet-centric commerce – from e-tailing and email, to social media and mobile computing, and now on to the Internet of Things – has translated into an exponential expansion of the attack surface available to cybercriminals. 2018 was no exception. Shock-immune public. The wider context?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” This can be compounded by certain enterprises using the Internet of Things (IoT) that don’t have good security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. We urge you to take precautions to protect your personal information when you are on the Internet.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” of all internet activity in 2021 , up from 40.8% Networks : Encrypt and authenticate all network traffic within a business environment, while segmenting networks to limit the impact of successful breaches. In fact, bot traffic made up 42.3%

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. For information on the methodology behind this chart, please see the end of the Threat Trends blog.). Figure 2-A desktop that has been encrypted by REvil/Sodinokibi. Encrypting files. Creating a mutex.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was no padlock, which meant that the traffic between you and the website wasn’t encrypted, and so it was vulnerable to being snooped on or changed. Sites you bought goods from tended to use HTTPS so your credit card number couldn’t be intercepted as it traversed the Internet. But random blogs? Not so much.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

The rapid adoption has been driven by a combination of ever more visible browser warnings (it was Chrome and Firefox's changes which prompted the aforementioned tipping point post), more easily accessible certificates via both Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and a growing awareness of the risks that unencrypted traffic presents. Is it needed?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. The most sweeping and aggressive regulation, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), went into full force in May 2018. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. In the Dec. In the Dec.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. The new WatchBog variant, actively distributed since June.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

“The Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy leads and coordinates the Department’s work on cyberspace and digital diplomacy to encourage responsible state behavior in cyberspace and advance policies that protect the integrity and security of the infrastructure of the Internet, serve U.S. Brooke Crothers. Current Events. UTM Medium.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 23, 2019

in 2018, IETF’s goal was (and is) to make the Internet a safer and more secure place. The usage of elliptic curve ciphers introduces greater efficiency—as the same strengths can be reached with a smaller key, essentially the encryption will use fewer resources. To support a safer Internet, adoption of TLS 1.3 themselves.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018. Encrypt all sensitive company data. Ensure all web traffic is encrypted with SSL or TLS.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ happens every day Some 15 months earlier, in March 2018, Atlanta was hit by a similar assault, and likewise refused to pay a $51,000 ransom, eating $17 million in damage. It then uses strong encryption, requiring a decryption key for which the victim must pay a ransom, most often in Bitcoin.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The more that new technologies like cloud, big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile payments are used to provide an exceptional customer experience, the bigger the cybersecurity challenge. retailers are implementing encryption in the cloud today. retailers are planning to implement database and file encryption this year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 8, 2019

My home state, California had 259 formally reported breaches in 2018 alone! You can learn a little more about what FAIR and the Open Group are doing in this regard in one of my previous blogs ). appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. How can this be such a problem in this day and age? 43 WAP 2017, Pa.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. According to the Thales eSecurity 2018 Global Data Threat Report, Healthcare Edition , 95% of U.S. Regulations. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

“However, we recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed.” ” reads a blog post published by the company. To be clear, these passwords remained in our secure encrypted infrastructure.” ” continues Google.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

On August 13, 2018, security experts from Netscout’s ASERT, uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt crime gang. The attackers exploited several vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, including CVE-2017-8570 , CVE-2017-11882 , and CVE-2018-0802. August 2, 2018. CVE-2017-8570, CVE-2017-11882, or CVE-2018-0802.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. ACME v2 is the current version of the protocol, published in March 2018. You can read all about the key points of how ACME works in this blog. Why use the ACME protocol? UTM Medium. UTM Source.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Capesand attempts to exploit recent vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and also a 2015 vulnerability for IE. ” Trend Micro uncovered a malvertising campaign that was delivered from the ad network straight to the victim’s browser, it was appearing as a blog talking about blockchain. .

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

My views on certificate authority shenanigans spinning yarns on EV are well known after having done many talks on the topic and written many blog posts, most recently in August 2019 after both Chrome and Firefox announced they were killing it. the entire internet? Yeah, nah. Let's tear it apart bit by bit.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand. Plus, he somehow encrypted the config, i.e. he had an encoder and a private key, plus uploaded it all to the admin panel. nl — circa October 2018.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

For users who want to hide their activity from their Internet Service Provider, VPNs can encrypt and obscure their traffic. Privacy is core to a safer Internet. Or perhaps you’re attending a university that you would like to shield from your Internet traffic, as you may be questioning your sexuality or personal beliefs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

Whether offering instant access to patient records, allowing remote diagnosis of treatment, or giving access to lifestyle management and monitoring apps, it’s undeniable that the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected services are revolutionising the healthcare industry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 23, 2018

He highlighted the need to make privacy paramount and reinforce the practice of good data governance, with the private sector and government working together to build trust on the Internet. The post A worrying trend: Attacks on Asian healthcare organizations appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

As the internet evolved with access to more compute devices and online payment capabilities so did the attackers playing field. Early variants of ransomware merely locked individual computers, sometimes even without encryption, thus preventing single user access. However, this has now evolved to locking entire organizations down.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

Fast forward to 2018 when the average consumer is able to invest and has a pick of over 1,800 different kinds of cryptocurrencies to choose from. In fact, just in Q1 of 2018 cybercriminals stole $673 million in U.S. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security. dollars via crypto hacks and scams.

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