Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Simon Oya, Florian Kerschbaum – ‘IHOP: Improved Statistical Query Recovery Against Searchable Symmetric Encryption Through Quadratic Optimization’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2022

The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Additionally, the Security BSides Dublin organization has slated their eponymous Security BSides Dublin 2022 confab at the The Convention Centre Dublin ( CCD ) on 2022/03/19. Just a month and a half away.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2022

The post Security BSides London 2021 – Eva Summerfield’s ‘When Encryption Fails’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to Security BSides London for publishing their tremendous videos from the Security BSides London 2021 Conference on the organization’s YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This week we discuss the Apache Log4j vulnerability and the impact it will have on organizations now and into the future, details on how Apple AirTags are being used by thieves to steal cars, and a FBI training document describes what data can be obtained by encrypted messaging apps. ** Links mentioned on the show […].

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2021

The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to Security BSides Dublin for publishing their outstanding videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Chow – ‘Omnes Pro Uno: Practical Multi-Writer Encrypted Database’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Security ’22 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Jiafan Wang, Sherman S.

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Digital Guardian

MAY 20, 2021

Ransomware transparency, double encryption, and predictions for the future - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees. You have governments trying to ban end to end encryption (refer to Alec Muffet for more nuanced discussions on E2E encryption ), no-one ever seems to have got PGP working, and what does cryptography has to do with privacy or secure banking?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2023

Permalink The post BSidesSF 2023 – Ehsan Asdar, Nishil Shah – Building Production-Grade End To End Encrypted Applications appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to BSidesSF for publishing their presenter’s superlative BSidesSF 2023 content on the organizations’ YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Plus, the practice of individually storing code signing keys results in an inscrutable and unsafe labyrinth of encryption keys, often referred to as key sprawl. Many InfoSec teams don’t have the visibility into what their software development teams are doing. In years past, InfoSec may have been the central keeper of code signing.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The post Security BSides Delaware 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to Security BSides Delaware for publishing their well-crafted videos from the Security BSides Delaware 2021 conference on the Organization’s’ YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Long Chen, Ya-Nan Li, Qiang Tang, Moti Yung – ‘End-To-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting An App With An Efficient, Portable, And Blind Cloud Storage’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 3, 2023

It adds the extension.play to the encrypted files and leaves a note with the word PLAY and an email address for contact, according to cybersecurity firm Avertium. The cyber gang uses a combination of encryption algorithms to lock the files, making them impossible to recover without the decryption key.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Good news for the victims of the ThiefQuest (EvilQuest) ransomware, they can recover their encrypted files for free. The victims of the ThiefQuest (EvilQuest) ransomware victims can recover their encrypted files without needing to pay the ransom due to the availability of a free decryptor. macOS ransomware #decryptor ( #EvilQuest )! |

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

The ideas will cover multiple aspects of InfoSec, from organizational structure to technology. At the highest level, I think the big change to InfoSec will be a loss of magic compared to now. HT to Jeremiah Grossman to also being very early to seeing the role of insurance in InfoSec. Org Structure. Technology. Regulation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of February 28, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.

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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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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Non-encrypted data, insecure protocols and poor user authentication mechanisms are among the security issues that leave seismological networks open to breaches, the authors note.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers. Ultimately, regardless of how standards and technology continue to evolve and adapt, the shortest way to break encryption is to obtain the key.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2023

The LockBit gang encrypted the hospital's data and demanded a ransom for the decryptor, but the hospital refused to pay and instead worked to restore its systems from backups. sickkids.ca @CBC @globeandmail #cybersecurity #infosec #LockBit @BleepinComputer @TheRecord_Media pic.twitter.com/5k54IkPUIX — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. It is used by affiliates who breach organizations, steal valuable information, and then use ransomware to encrypt the organizations’ files—rendering them unusable. Smart marketing tbh.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The attackers first exfiltrate sensitive information from their target before launching the ransomware encryption routine. Double extortion is one of the most prevalent ransomware tactics today.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Todd is the head of encryption products at Thales, and Rick is the principal and trusted advisor at Goldbug Technology Consulting. How can an InfoSec team make sure that the networks of their remote workforce are secure? Encryption. My guests for this episode were Todd Moore and Rick Robinson. What Has the Pandemic Taught Us?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager. Through this means, infosec professionals can help prevent employees’ accounts from ending up in the wrong hands even if their passwords have been stolen. Employ Device Encryption.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2022

These critical security assets are often poorly managed and provide attackers with the ability to hide in encrypted traffic, pivot across networks and eavesdrop on sensitive data,” warns Bocek. SolarWinds: Should Security Live in InfoSec or DevOps? SUNBURST—Code Signing Was a Problem; It Should Have Been the Solution. Ask the Experts].

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem’s data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack.

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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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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Not just infosec headlines or tech headlines, but the headlines of major consumer media the likes my mum and dad would read. Sidenote: there's a whole other discussion about active interception of encrypted communications that may also give an employer access to this.)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What is encryption? Here are two of our favorites by Infosec blogger John Oppdenaker on Twitter: My password was hacked. Get your answer. Today is the day to ask those burning questions like, What is MFA? Or what is the difference between customer and employee management? Do I have to change my cat's name again?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2022

Better visibility for InfoSec teams. Together, encryption key governance is achieved across the entire enterprise, protecting the full life cycle of keys from creation to termination, including the storage and auditing of those keys. Fast, successful audits for GRC teams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. Firmware Analysis: Passed the initial shock, I thought the data inside the dump would have been still encrypted in some way. With of course, an active anti-tamper detection mechanism that will void the encrypted content.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We only had Infosec Europe and the most we got out of there was some free USB sticks… If we were lucky they would be 500 megs. It’s so easy to manipulate anyone that works in infosec. Yeah, infosec is full of characters. When I started there were no such things as conferences such as BSides.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

However, we all know infosec/cyber/IT is awesome at intelligently assessing risk … right? Sometimes the timing makes a difference between a success (catching ransomware before it encrypts) and a failure (like, I dunno, detecting ransomware by looking for a ransom note).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2022

LockBit likes to boast that its malware StealBit, which automates data exfiltration, has the fastest and most efficient encryption among its competition, as noted by TrendMicro. SolarWinds: Should Security Live in InfoSec or DevOps? This number is also almost double the 34% in 2020. Related Posts. Responds With $15 Million Bounty.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2021

Details about the “ANOM” global crime sting where the FBI created a fake encrypted mobile phone for criminals that promised secure communications, new details about how the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack started, and some really bad security research about stolen user credentials. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Only the following devices have (..)

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