CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Queryable encryption was the main attraction at MongoDB World 2022, for understandable reasons. In particular, data remains encrypted at insert, storage, and query. Both queries and their responses are encrypted over the wire and randomized for resistance to meta analysis.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Without proper inspection, encrypted data can be a significant security threat as the volume of malware in encrypted traffic grows. That’s the takeaway from two sets of new research into the threat malware hidden in encrypted traffic poses to organizations. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A new ransomware group dubbed Royal that formed earlier this year has significantly ramped up its operations over the past few months and developed its own custom ransomware program that allows attackers to perform flexible and fast file encryption.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

ExtraHop threat researchers have observed attackers in the wild using encrypted traffic to avoid detection of Log4Shell attacks. This is consistent with the general trend of cyberattackers using encryption as an evasion mechanism to avoid detection during both the initial intrusion and lateral movement stages of an attack, among others.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Just days after announcing the close of its consumer-oriented Wickr Me encrypted messaging service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), at its annual re:Invent conference on Monday, said that it was making the enterprise version of the app generally available.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Learn what's next for encryption if the RSA algorithm is broken | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] The new protections address three areas, including communications tools for parents and updates to Siri and search to help children and parents deal with unsafe situations.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

These are used for authentication, encryption, access control and many other aspects of modern security and they all require cryptographically secure random numbers -- sequences of numbers or symbols that are chosen in a way that's unpredictable by an attacker. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Encryption can keep bad actors from peeking at critical data, but it can also allow them to hide malicious activity from network defenders. That's why LiveAction, a network visibility company, has introduced ThreatEye NV, a platform that gives SecOps teams powerful tools to find threats and anomalies in encrypted traffic. "In

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It’s known as “intermittent encryption” and researchers from Sophos recently discovered Lockfile encrypts alternate bundles of 16 bytes in a document to stay hidden. This novel approach helps the ransomware to avoid triggering a red flag because the new encryption method looks statistically very similar to the unencrypted original.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the Ponemon Institute's 2021 Global Encryption Trends Study, 50% of organizations have an encryption plan consistently applied across their entire environment—up from around 40% in 2015, and 25% in 2010. There are two common approaches to restoring traffic visibility: To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

Researchers warn of a new strain of ransomware dubbed Rorschach that doesn't appear to be related to previously known threats and uses several unique features in its implementation, including one of the fastest file encryption routines observed so far. “A

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

There has been massive growth in the encryption of Internet traffic—from 50% in January 2014 to 95% as of March 20, 2021, according to Google’s Transparency Report. It’s a good thing that organizations are using encryption to protect critical network data. This rise is a double-edged sword.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

Keep up on the latest thought leadership, insights, how-to, and analysis on IT security through CSO Online’s newsletters. ]. These include things like trusted execution, virtualization, memory encryption, runtime BIOS resilience and threat detection technology ( Intel TDT ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Through its patented IP Spread Spectrum technology, GP leverages the cloud to randomize and distribute message packets through the simultaneous use of multiple transport paths and encrypted channels. The post Intelligent Waves LLC Promotes John Hammes to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to compromise their secure communications and authentication.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The group behind the malware is known for using manual hacking techniques and open-source tools to move laterally through private networks and gain administrative access to as many systems as possible before initiating the file encryption. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But sometimes, the best way to achieve something is not to complexity but to simplify and this seems to be the case in new attacks seen by researchers from security firms Stairwell and Cyderes where known ransomware actors opted to destroy files instead of encrypting them. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2022

SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by continuous updates that aim to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated attackers. The next major version of the protocol, TLS 1.3,

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

While it's still 4-5 years away from large scale deployment, the need to securely and confidentially process many types of data means that the typical data encryption employed today just won't cut it for the future. Homomorphic encryption can solve many challenges in confidential computing, but also presents a major challenge to build.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While most organizations list cloud security as one of their top IT priorities, they continue to ignore basic security hygiene when it comes to data in the cloud, according to Orca’s latest public cloud security report.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Smart infrastructure provider Nebulon today announced the immediate availability of TripLine, an early warning system for cryptographically based ransomware attacks on on-premises systems. It’s designed to quickly identify the precise time and system location where an attack has occurred.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Being the backbone of the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol has undergone a series of improvements and enhancements over the past few years.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2021

What if a big crack appeared overnight in the internet's security layer? What if the fracture reached deep into the mathematical foundations of the cryptographic algorithms? That appeared to happen in early March when a paper dropped with a tantalizing conclusion in the abstract: “This destroys the RSA cryptosystem.”

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2022

As we have said many times before, threat actors are always looking for ways to improve on their attack strategies. This nefarious behavior is clearly seen in the ways attackers are utilizing application-layer DDoS attacks , as detailed in the 2H 2021 Threat Intelligence Report. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. About the essayist: Den Jones, CSO at Banyan Security , which supplies s imple, least-privilege, multi-cloud application access technologies. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. Food for thought, eh!

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

News of a cloud misconfiguration at Wegmans serves as yet another example of the complexity of IT systems as organizations migrate to the cloud, said Rick Tracy, CSO at Telos Corporation. Tracy said companies really need to understand the shared security model of the cloud providers.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

It makes the job of ransomware attackers far easier because they can encrypt one server—the VMware server—and then encrypt every guest VM it contains. One compromise and encryption command can easily encrypt dozens to hundreds of other virtually run computers all at once."

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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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CSO Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Security experts and scientists predict that quantum computers will one day be able to break commonly used encryption methods rendering email, secure banking, cryptocurrencies, and communications systems vulnerable to significant cybersecurity threats. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

The hackers purportedly compromised the railway system’s routing and switching devices and rendered them inoperable by encrypting data stored on them. It's worth noting that the situation is really quite unprecedented,” Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, tells CSO. “I AgainstTheWest targeted Russian interests.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In order to achieve Zero Trust, application security and API security can’t be left out of the equation; shares Richard Bird, CSO, of Traceable AI. Traditional methods of data security such as encryption-at-rest fail to prevent data compromise because these controls cannot distinguish legitimate users from attackers with stolen credentials.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Encryption improves security. Encryption offers many benefits to improve security, securing the transmission of data for both external and internal network traffic. In general, encryption is gaining wider adoption. Encryption is important for securing sensitive communications such as financial transactions across the internet.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2020

Zoom admitted the end-to-end encryption it claimed to offer was quite different from the cybersecurity community's definition of the privacy feature. New Zoom controversy over encryption and working with police. It's true that Zoom is not giving free users full end-to-end encryption. But the company itself can investigate abuse.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Password management products are more secure, but they have vulnerabilities as shown by the recent LastPass breach that exposed an encrypted backup of a database of saved passwords. Storing passwords in the browser and sending one-time access codes by SMS or authenticator apps can be bypassed by phishing.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 15, 2023

And it didn’t stop with the pandemic, with 38% of organizations surveyed in 2022 reporting two or more successful ransomware attacks, those that attackers were able to lock systems, encrypt data, or exfiltrate information to demand a ransom, according to Barracuda’s report conducted by Vanson Bourne.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

While the IT version may not be as entertaining as what was discussed in that song, there are still important reasons to understand your corporate encryption secrets and how they are provisioned, managed and deployed. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Data protection provider Virtru is expanding its portfolio of encryption and privacy applications with the launch of its OpenTDF project , an open-source initiative to enable a universal standard for data control.

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