Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 30, 2023

Given this is a technology blog, we wanted to share some of the best tech-related podcasts out there right now. In Machines We Trust – Launched in August 2020, this is one of the world’s most popular podcasts focused on artificial intelligence, and the impact it is having on our lives.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In a move that could bring some relief to organizations looking to secure their cloud migrations, Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that it had acquired Wickr, provider of secure end-to-end encryption and communications platform. government agencies, it could help strengthen AWS’ position in the public sector.”.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, Gartner named McAfee a Leader in the 2020 annual Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) for the fourth time evaluating CASB vendors. Support of encryption enhancements in Microsoft Teams, becoming the only CASB that is Certified for Microsoft Teams. You can read them here. All rights reserved.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While 2020 presented many macro challenges, it was a momentous year of growth, change, and opportunity for PKWARE—including acquisitions, expanding our customer base, supporting groundbreaking Microsoft encryption technology, and much more. Contact us for more information on how we can help.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. About the essayist: Vidya Muthukrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering at the Sri Krishna College of Technology.

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McAfee

MARCH 9, 2020

As expected, the 2020 RSA Conference was a whirlwind of exciting announcements and product updates. Chief Technology Officer Steve Grobman delivered a dynamic presentation from the RSA mainstage, where he compared current cyber defenses and legacy immunology practices. It’s encrypted, but they still find it valuable.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. The real Privnote, at privnote.com.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Researchers have found that as Transport Layer Security (TLS) has grown to account for some 98% of all web page visits, use of TLS among malware operators increased from 23% of all malware detected in 2020 to nearly 46% today. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

According to Domo CEO Josh James’ recent blog post “By 2020, there will be 40x more bytes of data than there are stars in the observable universe.”. Less than 36% encrypt their sensitive data. the evolving digital world of cloud, social and apps, data is now the perimeter. Data, data and more data!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. The 2020 analysis found that customer data was by far the most-commonly compromised type of record with 80% of breached organizations saying that customer PII was affected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2020

Unfortunately, some ground is also being lost in a tradeoff between aggressively transforming technology and data security. Increased use of technology, but a security disconnect. This year’s 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Government Edition reveals that as the U.S. Breaches remain an issue.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Inbound tag=Inbound Threats'>Inbound Threats</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Email In terms of technology, this means providing the best software tools to enable your remote workforce to collaborate securely.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit at least 69 big companies in 16 countries. First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report Global Edition found that no organization is immune from data security threats, with 49% of global respondents experiencing a breach at some point and 26% having been breached in the past year. Whether it’s stored in a company’s own servers or the cloud – encryption must be used to protect sensitive data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2021

In 2021, Schrems II – the landmark data privacy verdict issued in July 2020 – continues to prevent businesses from carrying out basic data transfers to non-EU countries. In this blog, we discuss what exactly Schrems II is, the impact it’s had on modern working, and what businesses can do to manage data in accordance with this new regulation.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible. The same issues, or even worse, will be faced in the near future if businesses, organizations and agencies fail to be proactive in establishing concise and comprehensive policies and practices for migrating to a post-quantum encryption regime. SHA-1 Deprecation.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

A41APT is a long-running campaign with activities detected from March 2019 to the end of December 2020. In November and December 2020, Symantec and LAC both published blogposts about this campaign. Encrypted Ecipekac Layer II loader (shellcode). Encrypted Ecipekac Layer IV loader (shellcode). size of encrypted data.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While looking for potentially malicious implants that targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, we identified a suspicious binary that had been submitted to a multiscanner service in late 2020. The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. In a blog, Check Point researchers said they have worked with AWS Security to provide customers with the necessary information to help them resolve any configuration issues with the SSMs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Thu, 11/12/2020 - 06:03. Are current technologies ready to live up to this promise? data in transmission), securing data in use involves techniques and technologies, that enable algorithms to operate on data while ensuring the privacy of that data. Is Confidential Computing Ready for Prime Time? Compared to data at rest (e.g.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

a United States defense research entity, a Turkish government agency managing public works, several large technology and communications firms headquartered in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and medical organizations/medical research facilities located in Japan and Canada). ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. An old enemy returns. New gangs emerge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In March 2020, Google Cloud unveiled its telecom operator strategy called Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC), aimed at helping Communications Service Providers (CSPs) digitally transform and harness the full potential of 5G. According to a recent Gartner research, the eSIM is among the 9 technologies to watch for consumer & IoT devices.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2022

The group’s largest number of victims were in manufacturing (see: Bridgestone Americas confirms ransomware attack ), technology, education and the public sectors. LockBit likes to boast that its malware StealBit, which automates data exfiltration, has the fastest and most efficient encryption among its competition, as noted by TrendMicro.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. Ransomware? I think you may have heard of it, isn’t the news full of it? Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The focus on the rest of 2019 and looking ahead to 2020 was very clear when I attended two recent industry events. I spoke at both an Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower (AFITC) training event and the 2019 Billington Cybersecurity Summit. Cybersecurity remains one of the top concerns and priorities for our government.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. It’s far easier to steal and encrypt sensitive data when someone else manages the first and hardest step in the breach process.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks almost doubled during 2021 over 2020, according to Sophos State of Ransomware 2022 report, affecting 66% of businesses, up from 37%. They have also become increasingly proficient at encrypting data. In 2021, data encryption was successful in 65% of attacks, an increase from the 54% rate reported in 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 22, 2019

This secrecy, conflated with the dynamic cyber landscape, makes it difficult to accurately predict what the next decade might bring for the Cyber Command and technology in general. But will investment in its own technology infrastructure be commensurate with risks it faces?

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to update the Privacy Framework to Version 1.1. This announcement comes four years after the release of the original framework in January 2020. These measures include implementing firewalls, encryption, access controls, and regular security updates.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. By September 2020, the average ransom payment peaked at $233,817. “In

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

it came as a shock as this was my first big event after, well, RSA 2020. As I was looking at the security vendors and their technologies, I realized that security vendors that apparently peaked in relevance, say, in the mid-2000s had huge booths and did brisk business, selling whatever they sold before. It was the past and the future.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2019

The report shows that 97% of enterprises adopting digital transformation technologies use sensitive data within these new environments, but only 30% use encryption to protect data in these environments. The post Digital transformation escalates compliance challenges appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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