Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 27, 2025

While GenAI promises powerful gains, rushed deployments are outpacing security readiness, leaving sensitive data increasingly vulnerable. With most security teams still navigating unfamiliar GenAI architectures, prioritizing data protection is urgent. This concern is amplified given the high reported number of APIs in use.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2025

While GenAI promises powerful gains, rushed deployments are outpacing security readiness, leaving sensitive data increasingly vulnerable. With most security teams still navigating unfamiliar GenAI architectures, prioritizing data protection is urgent. This concern is amplified given the high reported number of APIs in use.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 21, 2025

In a bold response to a sophisticated insider-led data breach, Coinbase has turned the tables on cybercriminals who recently targeted the organization with ransomware. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange platform in the U.S., However, experts caution that bold moves must be accompanied by robust internal security reform.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

A hacker's claim, and denial from Oracle The story surfaced in early March when a hacker using the alias "rose87168" posted on a cybercrime forum, claiming responsibility for a massive data breach at Oracle. oraclecloud.com. This indicates unauthorized access, even if it wasn't a full-scale compromise."

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Notably, 2024 was unprecedentedly precarious with the second largest in history National Public Data breach and the biggest healthcare data breach to date with the massive attack on Change Healthcare. The more variables in your network, the more potential vulnerabilities and data breaches. EU, and China.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2020

NIST’s identity-centric architecture. In August, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its blueprint for establishing a Zero Trust security architecture, NIST SP 800-207. A Zero Trust security architecture is based on three foundational principles: Ensure that data, equipment, systems, etc.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

The daily drumbeat of high-profile cyberattacks and data breaches underscores a sobering reality: determined hackers are routinely bypassing even well-funded prevention stacks. Ransomware-Specific Response: Traditional DR doesnt account for encrypted systems, exfiltration threats, or the operational dilemmas of paying ransoms.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

Attackers are not only encrypting data but also engaging in "double extortion," stealing sensitive patient information to demand higher ransoms. The costly disruptions and data breaches from these attacks have made ransomware defense a top investment area for healthcare organizations. in a unified way.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Cross-border data transfers enable global business but face challenges from varying cybersecurity laws, increasing risks of cyberattacks and data breaches. Attackers exploit weak links in international data exchange systems to compromise critical infrastructure and access sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.” The company pointed out that customers’ passwords were not compromised due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture. . LastPass confirmed that the data breach did not compromise users’ Master Passwords.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If data is involved, threat actors want to get their hands on it and exploit it. Some notable cyber incidents in the past half-decade include: McDonald's (2021): The fast-food giant suffered a data breach that exposed customer and employee information in South Korea and Taiwan. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Overview: IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024About the report IBM’s annual 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report provides IT, risk management, and security leaders with timely, quantifiable evidence to guide them in their strategic decision-making. million on average, a 13.1% increase from last year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

A Guide to Key Management as a Service madhav Thu, 06/15/2023 - 11:29 As companies adopt a cloud-first strategy and high-profile breaches hit the headlines, securing sensitive data has become a paramount business concern. The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

Why healthcare needs better cybersecurity Healthcare organizations are especially vulnerable to data breaches because of how much data they hold. And when a breach happens, it creates financial burdens and affects regulatory compliance. On average, the cost of a healthcare data breach globally is $10.93

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If cybercriminals discover the environment file first, it puts the organization at risk of unauthorized access to critical data, potential data breaches, data tampering, financial losses, reputational damage, and legal and compliance issues,” Cybernews researchers write.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2023

This vulnerability, discovered by Google research scientist Daniel Moghimi , threatens to expose encryption keys, passwords, private messages, and more from billions of Intel CPUs produced over the years. This architecture relies on a technique known as the "gather" instruction to speed up memory access and processing.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The companies with a good handle on things have discovered how to leverage robust authentication and encryption regimes to help maintain the integrity of their IoT systems.”. Nearly six times as likely to have experienced IoT-based Data Breaches. Ensuring the integrity of data being transmitted to or from a device.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

LoanDepot has confirmed that the cyber incident involved unauthorized third-party access to certain systems, resulting in the encryption of data. As a response, the company took steps to contain the breach, shut down affected systems, and initiated measures to secure its business operations.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public Cloud Environments A public cloud architecture is a shared infrastructure hosted by a cloud service provider. Data Breaches How they occur: Unauthorized access to sensitive data can happen as a result of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations such as flawed access permissions or unprotected data and instances.

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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. This Sentry acts as a debugging platform, which allows access to the data in plaintext by authorized parties within the company. Here’s what you need to know.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

A cloud security strategy is an established set of tools, rules, and procedures for safeguarding cloud data, apps, and infrastructure against security threats. It covers encryption, identity and access management, network segmentation, and intrusion detection systems. Protects sensitive data against unauthorized access.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With data breaches on the rise— over 3,200 incidents in the U.S. last year alone —businesses are increasingly under pressure to protect personal data and comply with evolving privacy regulations. By converting data into an unreadable format (ciphertext), encryption ensures that it remains secure even if data is intercepted.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unpatched vulnerabilities are at fault in anywhere from a third to more than half of all data breaches, depending on the study, so it’s natural to wonder why organizations don’t do a better job of patch management. How to build in that cyber resiliency was the focus of a number of talks at the conference. Patching Is Hard.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Providers oversee both the infrastructure and application, while users primarily manage data usage and access control. Data Protection Users must employ encryption for data in transit and at rest. Users are required to ensure encryption of sensitive data within applications and during transmission.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Organizations that invest in employee data security training can considerably mitigate the risk of data breaches and minimize the potential consequences of security incidents. Encrypt data at rest with encryption algorithms and secure storage techniques. No user data was lost.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The level of multi-tenancy frequently depends on the architecture of the cloud service provider as well as the specific requirements of users or organizations. Data Breaches How it occurs: Data breaches can occur in multi-tenant systems when a malevolent actor acquires unauthorized access to an organization’s data via system weaknesses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Among these businesses, human error was cited as the leading cause of cloud-based data breaches at 41% (10 points higher than the global number). The Next Steps Financial services firms operate with complex, distributed architectures, serving a range of users from executives and headquarters staff to retail branches and customers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2025

These standards highlight crucial elements that ensure APIs are effective, secure, and sustainable: RESTful architecture for uniformity. The Importance of API Security in Canada: Canadian government APIs are often responsible for handling sensitive citizen data, making them attractive targets for cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Encryption-in-use, a.k.a. data-in-use encryption, is changing the data protection landscape and could spark a cybersecurity movement that dwarfs tokenization in both usage and magnitude of impact. What about encryption? Do these enterprises not encrypt this data, and why does this not help?

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Ransomware Encryption Architecture Risk 102

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2023

While malicious insiders were a top concern in previous years, simple human error, misconfiguration, or other mistakes that can accidentally lead to breaches are identified as the leading cause of cloud data breaches. However, only 65% of enterprises are ‘very confident’ or have ‘complete knowledge’ of their data’s location.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It includes integration of Glyptodon Enterprise into Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption architecture, resulting in a highly-secure, agentless remote access platform, without the need of a virtual private network (VPN). “In Keeper is SOC-2, FIPS 140-2 and ISO 27001 Certified.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Data loss prevention ( DLP ) prevents unwanted data transfers. Data Loss Prevention (DLP): DLP tools monitor and manage data flows in order to avoid illegal sharing or leaking of sensitive data.

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