Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If the encryption and decryption sequence is successful – when the private key fits into the public lock – the user is also the owner of the private key. When a user logs into a system, the private key is kept by the user, while the public key (or public lock) is sent to the system.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity. We want encryption in transit so no one can read sensitive data from our network traffic. Let’s look at each of those five.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) Expands The Zero Trust model, which focuses on verifying every person and device attempting to access a system, is gaining ground as a best practice in cybersecurity. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 27, 2025

With most security teams still navigating unfamiliar GenAI architectures, prioritizing data protection is urgent. Among the challenges of securing AI-based systems is the growing complexity of application architectures, which necessitates improved application security. In response to these concerns, standards bodies have made progress.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. The network security perimeter is dynamically created and policy-based, and must be guarded by secure and highly managed access controls.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 21, 2025

Coinbase disclosed the incident through a detailed blog post and an SEC filing, in which they outlined the ransom demand and their refusal to comply. The attack involved the bribery of third- party customer service contractors, enabling unauthorized access to user names, addresses, email addresses, and partial Social Security numbers.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The transformation is accidental, and it is caused by poor architecture and programming flaws. The findings come amid a developing ransomware scenario in which wipers disguised as file-encrypting malware are increasingly being used to destroy data without permitting decryption. Details About the Cryptonite […].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Key Components and Functions in a Zero Trust Architecture. Zero Trust architectural principles. In one of my previous blog posts, Zero Trust 2.0: NIST’s identity-centric architecture , I discussed the three approaches to implementing a Zero Trust architecture, as described in the NIST blueprint SP 800-207.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2023

Organizations are accelerating plans for data encryption, driven by increased security, privacy, and cloud workload protection requirements. However, there are a few different approaches to data encryption and enterprises must consider several factors before choosing the right tools and architecture for their needs.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

In this blog, Ill be examining how AI is reshaping the fight on both sides, shedding light on the unprecedented collaboration among hackers, and why the old cybersecurity playbook is no match for todays challenges. Without deep forensic analysis and clean recovery orchestration, you risk reinfecting your environment during recovery.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Asymmetric encryption may require too much processing power for certain devices, making symmetric keys the only option. due to weak encryption) allows hackers to gain authorized access to a vehicle. What’s driving the security of IoT?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SASE architectures must be validated end to end—from users and branches, through SASE points of presence, to cloud application servers. Additionally, performance needs to be profiled across all networks and SASE behavior measured across all architectures—virtualized, containerized, and bare metal Jeyaretnam Test for the real world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Every once in a while, a new transformative architecture emerges, which challenges how we think about applications and our understanding of how to build and operate them securely. Among the topics I will address at RSA and in this series of blog posts include: What questions should security professionals be asking about microservices?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

By coordinating all verified machine identities, you can verify the security of machine-to-machine connections and communications for IoT, enabling the creation of secure encrypted tunnels at machine speed and scale. His technical expertise includes cryptography, including PKI, mainframe security, and cloud security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

My last blog about Vormetric Application Encryption covered new RESTful APIs and it revealed that those APIs provide quite a bit of granular control in the use of encryption keys. This blog returns to the “SDK” flavor of Vormetric Application Encryption. Securing a Security Product.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 30, 2024

OCI Customers Can Now Externally Manage Encryption Keys from a Cloud-Based Service madhav Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:20 Oracle stands apart by offering a comprehensive suite of services across all its cloud delivery models, from Oracle Alloy and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to its standard Public Cloud service.

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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

APRIL 16, 2023

BleepingComputer confirmed that the zip archive contained “previously unknown encryptors for macOS, ARM, FreeBSD, MIPS, and SPARC” architectures. One of the encryptors developed by Lockbit, named ‘locker_Apple_M1_64’, can encrypt files of Mac systems running on the Apple silicon M1.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

According to Nothing, Sunbird’s architecture provides a system to deliver a message from one user to another without ever storing it at any point in its journey. But only one day after the release of the beta, Texts.com published a blog titled Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure. – Nothing Chats is not end-to-end encrypted.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

In August 2024, Russian crooks advertised a macOS malware called BANSHEE Stealer that can target both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. A list of these extension IDs is provided at the end of the blog post.” “Additionally, data from approximately 100 browser plugins are collected from the machine.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2022

An initial probe of the incident has revealed no evidence that customer data or encrypted password vaults were accessed by the intruder, CEO Karim Toubba stated in a company blog post.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These applications/workloads move to, and reside in multi-cloud architecture, adding complexity to connectivity, visibility, and control. In today’s security climate, NetOps and SecOps teams are witnessing increased attack surface area as applications and workloads move far beyond the boundaries of their data center.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2023

Introduction Today you look at the Global/Multi-site Enterprise Security Architecture of an organization and see a myriad of concerns. Global/Multi-Site Enterprise Architecture Many organizations are using Global/Multi-site with dated technology spread throughout data centers and networks mixed in with some newer technologies.

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SecureList

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this blog, we provide a detailed analysis of the EAGERBEE backdoor’s capabilities, focusing on the service injector, Plugin Orchestrator module and associated plugins. Depending on the configuration, it may use the SCHANNEL security package, which supports SSL and TLS encryption on Windows.

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Kali Linux

JUNE 12, 2025

amd64 NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture. We can do a quick check by doing: ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~] └─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release VERSION_ID="2025.2" " VERSION="2025.2" " VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~] └─$ uname -v #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.12.25-1kali1

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For users who enable this feature, there will be 23 data categories protected using end-to-end encryption, including passwords in iCloud Keychain, Health data, iCloud Backup, Notes, Photos, and many more. Hardware security keys provide one of the highest levels of security for MFA setups.".

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

The need for reset and oversight is so great that a new class of technology is emerging to give organizations a better grip on the digital sprawl that’s come to define modern-day enterprise architecture. This means secure file transfer solutions, so you don’t waste time with slow encrypting protocols. Automated offense.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2025

Organizations have respondedand must continue toby adopting AI-powered cybersecurity tools and implementing zero trust architecture as a critical countermeasure. Once inside, they will use legitimate credentials and access to do real damage, especially if the organization uses legacy architecture involving firewalls and VPNs.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat’s distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. Data encryption with HTTP requests. For encryption and decryption the malware uses BCryptEncrypt and BCryptDecrypt respectively.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

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. Prepare a quantum-safe architecture now. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Dealing with the massive architecture of client-server networks requires effective security measures. The policy says: Use encryption for passwords. Disable Store Passwords Using Reversible Encryption. But what's domain password policy?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 13, 2024

Thales is pioneering the design of these future network architectures, both for ground-based network elements and for the space-based components needed to share cryptographic keys over long distances. Schema studio THALES BLOG The Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms are finalized! August 13, 2024

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Implement Strong Data Encryption Practices Data encryption is a fundamental practice in protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access. By converting data into an unreadable format (ciphertext), encryption ensures that it remains secure even if data is intercepted.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

Examples of prevention-layer technologies include: Endpoint protection keeps out malicious files, scripts, URLs, and exploits via a cloud-based architecture. Email encryption makes it hard for attackers to intercept sensitive medical data—just make sure the encryption tool is easy to manage and use.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. PBKDF2 was designed for generating keying material for symmetric encryption.

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