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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

Servers are encrypted with “ locked” file extensions on files. You look for your cold replica in your DR site, but like your production servers, it has also been encrypted by ransomware. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture.

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What Is DRM? Understanding Digital Rights Management

eSecurity Planet

Digital rights management (DRM) is an encryption technology that enforces creator’s rights. Digital rights management wraps digital data into an encrypted wrapper tied to a license that contains the rules for how the content may be used. The management software will also track encrypted file use and continuously enforce digital rights.

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API security: the new security battleground

CyberSecurity Insiders

” This quote by Dr. Chase Cunningham from his book, “Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies,” seems a fitting way to begin the topic of cybersecurity battlegrounds. Encryption is a must, both in transit and at rest. API attackers are ruthless and relentless.

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Could this 'Unhackable' Chip Be a Security Moonshot?

SecureWorld News

MORPHEUS chip: unhackable because of 'encryption churn'? Austin calls this encryption churn and says it prevents reverse engineering, which sophisticated hackers sometimes use. Undefined semantics are nooks and crannies of the computing architecture—for example the location, format, and content of program code.

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CTO of Center for Internet Security Expounds on Transforming InfoSec

SecureWorld News

At the same time, we also have changes at every layer of the protocol stack and this is driven by an increased push for encryption—not just encryption, strong encryption.". We're responsible for the CIS benchmarks and the CIS controls. Can you do more in that space? Or is that just too much of a reach?

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New ransomware trends in 2023

SecureList

Security researchers discovered an archive that contained test builds of the malware for a number of less common platforms, including macOS and FreeBSD, as well as for various non-standard processor architectures, such as MIPS and SPARC. As for the second trend, we saw that BlackCat adjusted their TTPs midway through the year.

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Your Journey Starts Here

Kali Linux

You’ve likely heard about the first, official Kali Linux book: Kali Linux Revealed, Mastering The Penetration Testing Distribution available from OffSec Press. We’ve made the book available for free in both online HTML and PDF versions because we love you. So why are we selling a book and giving it away?