SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2021

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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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

CCSK Company: Cloud Security Alliance Noteworthy: The first credential dedicated to cloud security, the CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Certificate Knowledge) tests for a broad foundation of cloud security knowledge, covering such topics as architecture, governance, compliance, operations, encryption and virtualization.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Double-extortion attacks, which include data exfiltration in addition to encryption, are rising even faster at 117% year-over-year. Some industries saw particularly high growth of double-extortion attacks, including healthcare (643%), food service (460%), mining (229%), education (225%), media (200%), and manufacturing (190%).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2024

Its founding team comprises leading AI researchers and security veterans who have created security products in broad use across enterprises today, and have 150+ patents across large language models, cloud computing, encryption, scalable architecture, transistors, and hardware design.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The ability to seamlessly implement the 3-2-1 rule or variations of it: 3 copies of data, on 2 different media with 1 copy being off-site, ideally that is ultra-resilient. Robust protection of backup files : Preventing tampering of backups, and monitoring for suspicious file encryptions and stopping them. Restores workloads in seconds.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

SC Media spoket o Kelly White, RiskRecon founder and CEO, to find out. And something simple, like ‘are you running the latest TLS encryption protocol?’ If it’s an accident, then geez, you’re not managing your environment and you don’t have effective security architecture to prevent exposure of assets.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Regarding the government, it encourages federal systems to invest in secure cloud services, detection and zero-trust architecture, and mandates multifactor authentication, logging, and encryption. ” The post Biden signs massive order on cybersecurity appeared first on SC Media.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The smallest organizations can perform this through a visual inspection and a review of the media access control (MAC) addresses connected to the network. Secure Wireless Settings: SOHO router owners need to configure the router to use WPA2 or other secure Wi-Fi encryption algorithms instead of older, sometimes-default encryption algorithms.

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SecureList

JANUARY 23, 2023

What threats security operations centers will face in 2023 Ransomware will increasingly destroy data instead of encrypting it Cyberspace reflects the global agenda, and geopolitical turbulence influences the attack surface. This gives SOC a goal: to enhance the SOC team, architecture, and operations for better performance.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: To detect deep fakes, organizations can use digital watermarking, AI-driven detection tools, and media provenance tracking. How can individuals and organizations detect and protect themselves against the misuse of deep fake technology? Erin: In your opinion, what are the most common cybersecurity mistakes that companies make?

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

While it’s still unclear how the threat actor tricked the victim into executing the Trojanized application ( 0b9f4612cdfe763b3d8c8a956157474a ), we suspect they sent a spear-phishing email or contacted the victim through social media. Following further communication with the C2, the malware encrypts data by a predefined method.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Encrypts the malicious payload inside a binary to make automated static analysis more difficult. As more production workloads move to cloud native, the complexity of securing clusters, software development pipelines, and cloud architectures becomes incredibly difficult, as the attack surface significantly expands.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SWGs enforce acceptable use policies aligned with the needs of the business, ensuring users only access appropriate content that is allowed by the organization, which can also minimize productivity loss from unauthorized applications like social media and online video sites. Elastic and scalable serverless architecture and auto-scaling.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Stefano DiBlasi, the report’s author, told SC Media in an interview that COVID-19, unsurprisingly, was one of the main drivers behind the increase in telework and focus on VPNs by initial access brokers. Required are additional considerations on the security architecture and workflows used by an organization,” said Schrader.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Encryption in transit & at rest. The trade media responded. Cloudastructure has received mentions in such notable media as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. Additionally, the trade media awarded Cloudastructure with the following awards in 2021: Astor Award for Best Video Analytics by American Security Today.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“Developing for an embedded world, you don’t know the architecture of the hardware. Also, he noted, encryption would be an effective way to protect from evesdropping. ” The post Many TCP/IP stacks found vulnerable to Mitnick attack, some still unpatched appeared first on SC Media. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2023

Web domains, social media profiles, business collaboration software platforms, or email accounts are all a part of your organization’s external attack surface because they all potentially serve as a point of access that threat actors can exploit to cause a breach or gain access to sensitive data.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Master the provider’s security offerings and their best practices in terms of access control, architecture, and design. This information will help build this security “compartmentalization architecture.” The post How to align security best practices with cloud-forward innovation appeared first on SC Media.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Communication with the server can take place either over raw TCP sockets encrypted with RC4, or via HTTPS. We confirmed several victims in the manufacturing, home network service, media and construction sectors. The ransomware supports two encryption modes: one generated dynamically and one using a hardcoded key. We Are Back ?

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Designed to encrypt and lock files, Bad Rabbit is a type of ransomware that spreads through “drive-by-attacks” where insecure websites are compromised. If successful, Bad Rabbit deploys the ransomware, encrypts files, and moves onto the next device. Implement network architecture and security controls that segment a corporate network.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

First, it leverages a solution called Dynamic Data Defense Engine to build in zero trust access policies at the individual file level, encrypting each one and building in a number of ways that employees can authenticate their device or identity before accessing. Cigent’s data defense tech has a software and hardware component.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A particularly insidious new trend is the rise of "double extortion" attacks, in which cybercriminals not only encrypt an organization's data but also threaten to publicly release sensitive stolen information if the ransom is not paid. CryptoLocker, in 2013, pioneered the use of strong encryption algorithms. Don't let patching lag.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 22, 2019

Seriously, who could’ve foreseen that a social media platform conceived by a broken-hearted student in a college dorm room would end up being a tool for skewing elections of a world superpower?). Nearly 70% of respondents in the report admit they’re not encrypting the data they’re supposed to be protecting.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. We have to remember, that at the end of the day, the cloud providers aren’t taking responsibility for implementing the architecture and process to protect your data-each organization owns this responsibility.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

NGFWs boast critical security features such as intrusion prevention, VPN, anti-virus, and encrypted web traffic inspection. This not only helps protect against malicious content but also aligns seamlessly with contemporary networking topologies like Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) and zero-trust architectures.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Architectural. For example, the encryption of data stored on a cloud drive. For example, a scandal in mass media after a cyberattack was made public. It’s a tool that detects a ransomcloud attack on Google Workspace, stops it, and recovers the encrypted files. By area of impact: 1. Procedural. Reputational.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. BlackEnergy APT attacks in Ukraine are a prominent example from the last decade, known for destructive actions against media companies, compromising industrial control systems and engaging in cyber-espionage.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 28, 2022

Some of the new trends in data crimes, such as data leak, threat of data exposure and shaming techniques have ignited the media attention, though other, potentially even more devastating are still not widely discussed, which we’ll attempt to correct here. Steal or encrypt petabytes of data easily stored on a single storage or backup system.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some on-premises use cases for this include video AI, synchronous media collaboration and industrial manufacturing. The AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing offering ties together cellular network architecture for real-time high bandwidth, low-latency access to latency-sensitive mobile applications. This is great news.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

This will not only help better test the architectures that need to be prioritized, but it will provide all sides with a clear understanding of what is being tested and how it will be tested. Attackers usually contact workers, targeting those with administrative or high-level access via email, calls, social media, and other approaches.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Mike Hamilton, president and chief information security officer at CI Security and former CISO of Seattle, told SC Media that the disparity in dates might simply be a matter of semantics. The card companies encrypt it and don’t transmit or share the information,” he continued. SC Media reached out to both the SAO and Accellion.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Josh Baron, program manager for DARPA’s Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation program, or SIEVE, told SC Media that such proofs have historically had very limited application. The post DARPA moves forward in quest for zero-knowledge proofs for vulnerability disclosure appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Implement reference architectures based on the security patterns. Data Security: Encrypt data in transit and at rest, S3 bucket data (at rest), and EBS root volume and dynamo db. The post A roadmap for developing a secure enterprise cloud operating model appeared first on SC Media.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

The sharp increase in demand put a focus on security shortcomings in Zoom’s architecture – “Zoombombing” became a thing – that the company was quick to address. The servers process meeting audio and video content, which means that an attacker who compromised the system could monitor any Zoom meetings that didn’t have end-to-end encryption.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Such efforts involved encryption, two-factor authentication, secure network access and cloud-based networking. The reason this option was safe and secure: several years earlier, the IT and security teams completed an initiative to encrypt every device in the judiciary system. “So Click here for more coverage of the 2021 RSA Conference.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Each and every major advance of Internet-centric commerce – from e-tailing and email, to social media and mobile computing, and now on to the Internet of Things – has translated into an exponential expansion of the attack surface available to cybercriminals.

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