Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than 10 million users and 7000 corporate customers. We present seven different attacks against the protocol in three different threat models. It also said the researchers were overselling their findings.

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Elie

JUNE 5, 2022

Using end-to-end encrypted services is quickly becoming a critical component of how enterprises meet regulations and ensure data sovereignty.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Mind you, the 47-year-old TV presenter who made Discovery Channel rank to in TV ratings with his ‘Running wild with Bear Grylls’ television program offered tips to Actress Scarlett Johnson when her iCloud photos leaked online in 2011. The identity of the hacker/s group has been withheld due to reason.

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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. This trend underscores the growing reliance on encryption as a primary safeguard.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Researchers found several vulnerabilities in third-party encryption software that is used by multiple storage devices from major vendors. Researcher Sylvain Pelissier has discovered that the DataVault encryption software made by ENC Security and used by multiple vendors is affected by a couple of key derivation function issues.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 3, 2024

This led to a challenge – what was on the removed disc and did the data loss present a problem? The wider problem The data wasn’t encrypted. Disk encryption is critical here. If these disks lack encryption, sensitive data might be compromised. This allowed us to piece together the missing data.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

That presents an attractive target for would-be data thieves and digital extortionists. The post Why Backups and Encryption Go Hand in Hand appeared first on Security Boulevard. An estimated 120 zettabytes will be created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide this year.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. On the other hand, the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective is $127 million. IRR and investing proceeds at the social rate of return is 53.6%.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Renjie Xie, Jiahao Cao, Enhuan Dong, Mingwei Xu, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Licheng Shen, Menghao Zhang Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 4, 2024

The rise of quantum computing presents a profound challenge to data security. Termed ‘Q-Day,’ the point at which quantum computers could break existing encryption algorithms looms on the horizon. Quantum Threat Landscape Quantum computing, with its potential to unravel established encryption standards, poses a dual dilemma.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A new Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been observed in the wild, the good news is that its encryption algorithm is flawed. The researchers noticed that the encryption algorithm implemented in the ELF executable is flawed and can allow victims to decrypt locked files without paying a ransom. ” continues the report.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. We present an IV reuse attack on AES-GCM that allows an attacker to extract hardware-protected key material, and a downgrade attack that makes even the latest Samsung devices vulnerable to the IV reuse attack.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

Encryption agility is going to be essential as we move forward with digital transformation. All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. Refer: The vital role of basic research.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 20, 2022

Some organisations which make use of added parameters are presenting browsers and surfers with a stark choice. Facebook has now switched to encryption for its parameter tracking needs. What this means is that the encrypted part of the URL is essentially part of the whole URL. Keep the tracking…or break the site.

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Dark Reading

JULY 23, 2020

A Black Hat presentation will discuss how vulnerabilities found in Facebook Messenger encryption could mean trouble for your secure messages.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Elie

JUNE 5, 2022

Using end-to-end encrypted services is quickly becoming a critical component of how enterprises meet regulations and ensure data sovereignty.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks and is present in major Linux distributions like Fedora and Gentoo, along with macOS package manager Homebrew. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

A woman speaking on a mobile phone walks past a cloud computing presentation ahead of the CeBIT technology trade fair in 2012. For example, 33% of health care respondents say they encrypt their data. The post Only 17% of organizations encrypt at least half of their sensitive cloud data appeared first on SC Media.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. and the Ragnar Locker ransomware executable will automatically be present in the root of the C: drive.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. While 97% of IT experts indicated they are going through some type of digital transformation, only 30% have adopted an encryption strategy. Enter encryption. Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 27, 2019

This past March at RSAC 2019, Pure Storage and Thales introduced the security industry’s first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction efficiencies. Historically, host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Now the experts presented a new variant of the attack technique at the Computer and Communications Security (CCS) conference. Experts successfully tested the delay on Linux, Android, iOS, and macOS, and is also works with encrypted messages. ” reads the research paper. “Second, we systematically investigate the 802.11

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2023

One of the most imminent and pressing threats to organizations presently is harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) attacks. During an HNDL attack, threat actors will “harvest” encrypted data from unsuspecting. The post QKD: The Key to a Resilient Future appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Elie

JULY 26, 2017

Ever wondered if your new shiny AES hardware-encrypted USB device really encrypts your data - or is just a fluke? If you have, come to our talk to find out if those products live up to the hype and hear about the results of the audit we conducted on multiples USB keys and hard drives that claim to securely encrypt data.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

And it breaks end-to-end encryption, despite Apple’s denials : Does this break end-to-end encryption in Messages? If the feature is enabled for the child account, the device will evaluate images in Messages and present an intervention if the image is determined to be sexually explicit. This is a security disaster.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

You’ll be surprised at the number of people that relied on our ‘auto-encrypt’ functionality. Creating a new account on Incognito Market presents one with an ad for 5 grams of heroin selling for $450. . “We have accumulated a list of private messages, transaction info and order details over the years.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. We've brought technology from our past into the present by creating emulators for Enigma, Typex and The Bombe in #CyberChef. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Hertzbleed attack: Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD chips that could allow attackers to steal encryption keys. The experts will present their findings at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium that will take place in Boston, 10–12 August 2022. ” reads the website set up to describe the attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Rust variant has also been seen using intermittent encryption, one of the emerging tactics that threat actors use today for faster encryption and detection evasion.” The ransomware uses intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process by partially encrypting the files depending on the values of certain flags.

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