SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Future trends in User Activity Monitoring Today, the primary challenge in adopting employee monitoring solutions is their high cost, coupled with concerns about employee demotivation due to increased surveillance. These solutions should be lightweight and not incur significant additional ownership costs.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 Cybercriminals seek exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities in IoT devices. BTC to recover the data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Now, old monolith apps are being broken into microservices developed in elastic and flexible service-mesh architecture. Demands Inspection of Encrypted Traffic?: While TLS encryption denies the ability of hackers to surveil the traffic, it makes the traffic content invisible to the firewall for inspection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. These credentials are then used by the user to access the backend.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Generally, when you adhere to the cloud security best practices , such as strong authentication, data encryption, and continuous monitoring, the cloud can be extremely safe. Encrypt data: Ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. This is why you need continuous vigilance and risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest? Assess the physical security measures: Evaluate access controls, surveillance systems, and environmental controls.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. Both of them are encrypted with RC4. All communications between the server are encrypted with RC4. The Trojan’s Cryptography Library to encrypt/decrypt exchanged data. The encrypted VFS file. Names differ between samples.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

We believe that the most significant aspect of the Ecipekac malware is that the encrypted shellcodes are inserted into digitally signed DLLs without affecting the validity of the digital signature. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. When this technique is used, some security solutions cannot detect these implants.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

And Cloud service providers have made it a point to make their security as robust as possible, relieving businesses of many of the basics they struggle with, such as backups, single sign-on, encryption, firewall configuration, and consistent security updates—you name it.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Taking healthcare as a use case, Rubin said healthcare data for about 300 million Americans is encrypted and riding on the back of a Thales protection plan. That encryption is absolutely critical. Zero Trust architecture allows users full access only to the bare minimum they need to perform their jobs.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the device and steal sensitive information, such as video footage, potentially turning the feeder into a surveillance tool. The latter two values are static and retrieved from NVRAM, while the first is obviously the only device-dependent value.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. Those have much less security much many fewer capabilities and architectural stability built into them, but again it's, it's the lowest common denominator it's like web 1.0

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. Those have much less security much many fewer capabilities and architectural stability built into them, but again it's, it's the lowest common denominator it's like web 1.0

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption. This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. A creative avenue for threat actors is to expand their surveillance efforts to include devices such as smart home cameras, connected car systems and beyond. They attribute the wiper, named SwiftSlicer, to Sandworm (aka Hades).

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