Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.” The PoC code is a Python 3 script that decrypts a FortiGuard message.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows. The body of each Sodin sample includes an encrypted configuration block that stores the settings and data used by the malware.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Meta Digs in Heels on Encryption. Government Encryption Fight. The fight for encryption can be summarized by the arguments of two sides: government and business. Both agree that encryption is useful - the question at hand is, what is the cost of using encryption? Meta Commits to Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 29, 2020

in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Here's the 2018 story. This is interesting : Facebook Inc. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how. The entire proceeding was confidential, with only the result leaking to the press. Slashdot thread.

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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. In 2018, global malware volume recorded by SonicWall hit a record-breaking 10.52 Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. For each technology area, encryption or encryption-related technologies were the requirement. Encrypt the data. Encryption was rated as the most effective tool for protecting data (77%).

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

The past year in 2018, ransomware remained an ever-growing threat. Top Ransomware Attacks in 2018 – What was Learned? Data is irreversibly encrypted and cannot be retried without either paying the ransom, or restoring backups of the data prior to the ransomware encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. The only true way to protect data is to encrypt it. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data. You can also read more about GDPR on the Thales eSecurity blog.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Memorial Hermann balances user experience with encryption Email encryption keeps sensitive medical data safe and organizations compliant. Unfortunately, providers will skip it if the encryption tool is difficult to use.

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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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Threatpost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The top cybersecurity and privacy trends that biggest impact in 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

South Africa’s Information Regulator is expected to put the Act into force in the second half of 2018. Encrypt Everything. While POPI requires organisations to secure the data they hold, encryption is intended to make that data basically useless to cybercriminals even if they manage to steal it.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2018

No details have been published yet, but one of the researchers wrote : We'll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails sent in the past.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Constant and consistent developments in PKI; encryption by default, key management processes, underlying blockchain technology and the value of the IoT are also unlikely to shy away from the limelight. Shift towards micro-services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Later it was involved in many malspam attacks, but only in July 2018, the authors released a substantially updated variant. ” One of the variants analyzed by BleepingComputer encrypts data and appends the.promorad extension to encrypted files, then it creates ransom notes named _readme.txt as shown below.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

As a result, database encryption has never been more crucial in order to protect the massive amounts of information that is held in the diverse mix of databases that large enterprises rely on today, including relational, SQL, NoSQL and big data environments. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

An attacker with access to the dispenser controller’s USB port can install an outdated or modified firmware version to bypass the encryption and make cash withdrawals. A research published by Positive Technologies in 2018 revealed that 69 percent of ATMs were vulnerable to such attacks and could be easily hacked in a few minutes.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 Among the Apophis Squad’s targets was encrypted mail service Protonmail, which reached out to this author in 2018 for clues about the identities of the Apophis Squad members after noticing we were both being targeted by them and receiving demands for money in exchange for calling off the attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

But to do that you must believe that the data is going to be protected and that the organization is protecting you – and that requires secure infrastructure and encryption. I look forward not only to our own ongoing growth and success in 2018, but also to contributing to yours! You can also find me at @CindyProvin.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Kali Linux

JULY 9, 2018

So we use the LUKS full disk encryption along with the LUKS Nuke capability to put this together. Let’s prepare the environment: ls -al /mnt/{chroot,backup,encrypted} # Please make sure there is nothing here first before you move on, otherwise you will have a bad day. mkinitramfs -o /boot/initramfs.gz

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 15, 2019

See generally, Kerr & Schneier, Encryption Workarounds, 106 Geo. 989, 990, 994, 998 (2018). And here's the second, in footnote 5: We recognize that ordinary cell phone users are likely unfamiliar with the complexities of encryption technology. See Kerr & Schneier, supra at 995.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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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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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In our previous posts we have provided detailed descriptions about the way Google Drive becomes encrypted by ransomware after synchronization takes place. The bottomline is that when ransomware hits a local computer, files in all folders are encrypted, including the ones in Google Drive, Google Backup and Sync, and Drive File Stream folders.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Here is a step-by-step sequence of the Google Drive encryption process and the Spinbackup Ransomware Protection flow. The files of all major extensions (including text, image, video items) that are stored on all disks become encrypted. The latter will be encrypted along with all other files in other folders.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Now in its 13 th year, our Global Encryption Trends Study that is performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals interesting findings that span a dozen different geographies. This year, we found that multi-cloud use as well as compliance requirements have encouraged organizations around the globe to embrace a more extensive encryption strategy.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With a multi-layered approach to endpoint protection, the ESET PROTECT Advanced solution fits small to medium-sized businesses and offers advanced EPP capabilities, full disk encryption , and an automated sandbox for dynamic threat analysis. Full Disk Encryption. Read more: 19 Best Encryption Software & Tools of 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted. For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

One of the vulnerabilities ( CVE-2018-7852 ) in the chain dates back to 2018 and was originally patched for denial of service-related weaknesses, while another ( CVE-2019-6829 ) was issued in 2019. Though they were patched, Armis researchers were able to leverage them in new ways to make the attack work.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2018

Given the level of interest in compliance, then, it’s unsurprising that Thales eSecurity managing principal consultant Ian Christofis delivered his presentation, “Meeting the Challenges of GDPR and other Compliance with Encryption”, to a packed audience. Among the points Ian made: Privacy and security are often confused.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

RansomExx operation has been active since 2018, the list of its victims includes government agencies, the computer manufacturer and distributor GIGABYTE , and the Italian luxury brand Zegna. The ransomware iterates through the specified directories, enumerating and encrypting files. ” concludes the report.

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