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Ransomware: How to Protect Your Data

CyberSecurity Insiders

For the victim organisation, recovering access to data and systems can literally be a matter of life and death, as in the case of a hospital where electronic medical records (EMR) as well as the systems responsible for CT scans, documentation, lab work and pharmacy functions have been rendered unavailable.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Financial institutions in the 1990s and 2000s were some of the first to incorporate encryption to protect online transactions, particularly as backup tapes were lost in transit. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. As is true with any cloud service, the Seattle cloud computing company emphasizes the shared responsibility model. One such example is the addition of cloud computing service Microsoft Azure in 2008. Alibaba Cloud.

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Ransomware rolled through business defenses in Q2 2022

Malwarebytes

A ransomware attack in New Jersey’s Somerset County disrupted services and forced employees to shut down computers and create temporary Gmail accounts to ensure the public could still email key departments. This allows the malware to run on different combinations of operating systems and architectures. New ransomware trends.

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Can ships be hacked?

Pen Test Partners

They can always look out of the window rather than relying on electronic navigation systems too. The IAMCS allows an engineer to use a computer to control complex machinery all around the vessel from a computer screen. The most common network architecture in DP vessels is a dual or triple redundant Ethernet network.

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McAfee Enterprise ATR Uncovers Vulnerabilities in Globally Used B. Braun Infusion Pump

McAfee

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges.

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IoT Secure Development Guide

Pen Test Partners

These are present on most modern mobile devices and computers and store card information or BitLocker encryption keys. The secret key is shared to both parties so given the value (“it is 20C”) the same HMAC can be computed to prove the sending party knew the same secret key. Back to Table of contents▲ 3.1.

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