Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Looks like the encryption algorithm was intentionally weakened by intelligence agencies to facilitate easy eavesdropping. Crucially, TETRA is not open-source.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nexa Technologies was indicted for complicity in acts of torture, the French firm is accused of having sold surveillance equipment to the Egypt. Nexa Technologies offers a range of solutions for homeland security, including surveillance solutions. “In short, Cerebro can suck up any data that is not encrypted.

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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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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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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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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

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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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. Businesses will be technology-enabled, connected and mobile, like never before. While 97% of IT experts indicated they are going through some type of digital transformation, only 30% have adopted an encryption strategy.

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Addressing third-parties Allen founded The Santa Fe Group in 1995 and established it as a leading consultancy, specializing on emerging technologies. If you’re talking about tens of thousands of potential vendors that could present a risk to you.” Those can be hacked and present ways to come into a system,” Allen told me. •

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 5, 2024

Infiltrating various markets, it presents new and enhanced risks to this landscape. Technological solutions, like Risk-Adaptive Protection and Data Loss Prevention, are also essential. It can generate complex and unique passwords and boost your encryption software. At the same time, the possibilities enamor many people.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Dr. Robert Byer, professor of applied physics at Stanford University, and a leading expert in laser science and technology, for instance, signed on as a distinguished scientist to advance basic research in the use of light waves to streamline quantum computing. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

"Preparing for a Post-Quantum World" is the topic of a panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver on September 19, and with good reason. Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers. Demand and Delivery Director, Optiv.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Not all types of encryption give you the coverage and flexibility you need. One of the most common and most effective approaches to protecting data is encryption. Encryption is typically employed on four layers of the technology stack: Disk (or media). In the month of October, I wrote about reducing scope for PCI DSS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The chipmaker AMD published guidance for two new attacks against its SEV ( Secure Encrypted Virtualization ) protection technology. The findings about the two attacks will be presented by two research teams at this year’s 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

However, its growth also presents significant challenges to cybersecurity, as it has the potential to render traditional cryptographic algorithms obsolete. This poses a threat to widely used encryption methods like RSA, which relies on the difficulty of factoring large numbers for its security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Technology oversight is a common mandate across IT and security frameworks and compliance specifications, but achieving that oversight is difficult. First, technology and operational intelligence, across the myriad of users, endpoints, applications and infrastructure, is siloed and fragmented. By Scott Gordon, CISSP, Oomnitza .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

As you may have noticed, daily headlines around quantum computing and its impact on technologies are becoming commonplace. Due to this specific way of processing, quantum computers can also break many of the current encryption algorithms used to protect data. It is safe, encrypted, and should take forever to decrypt.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App.

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Anton on Security

MAY 19, 2022

Finding and confirming malicious activities and presenting them to the security team and/or automatically responding to them constitutes detection and response. This applies to the types of systems you would encounter, technologies, and operational practices. Prevention does improve, but never becomes perfect. So, what to do next?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Microsoft, the technology giant of America, has linked Clop Ransomware gang’s whereabouts to a corporate network that was previously hit by Raspberry Robin worm. Meaning the said malware is acting as an access point to hackers spreading the said version of file encrypting malware.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If we define ransomware as malware that encrypts files to extort the owner of the system, then the first malware that could be classified as ransomware is the 1989 AIDS Trojan. However, while it encrypted file(name)s and asked for a ransom, it was far from effective. Today's ransomware is the scourge of many organizations.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2022

In this report, we present our analysis of HermeticRansom, which we also call Elections GoRansom. The malware is created in Golang and uses no anti-analysis components as string encryption, function names stripping, etc. Files are encrypted using the AES algorithm with the generated key. Self-copies made by HermeticRansom.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs."

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Morphisec, through its breach prevention with Moving Target Defense technology, has identified a new, sophisticated campaign delivery which has been successfully evading the radar of many security vendors. This campaign has been in effect for a period of 4 to 5 months, with the lowest detection rates as presented through VirusTotal.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2024

This transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for business executives. This article delves into the key developments reshaping our approach to cybersecurity and technology, offering insights and strategies for staying ahead in an increasingly complex digital world.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What caught our attention was the sophisticated infection chain that makes use of various advanced technologies, setting it apart from known banking Trojan infections. ” Coyote infection chain By using this tool, Coyote hides its initial stage loader by presenting it as an update packager. NET, and advanced packaging techniques.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

DigiCert’s survey presents hard evidence that trust can be the basis of a winning business model. Emerging standards Indeed, advanced technologies, new protocols and emerging best practices are at hand to help companies build and sustain trust. “Trust has become absolutely paramount in the world,” Nelson observes.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IaaS security refers to the procedures, technologies, and safeguards put in place by IaaS providers to protect their computer infrastructure. Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection. What Is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Security?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

And it’s not just one piece of technology to worry about. It’s tricky to juggle all the potential privacy and security pitfalls when dealing with so many pieces of technology…but it can be done! Encrypt your data. If your device isn’t encrypted, the information on it is potentially at risk if the phone is stolen.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

While Kubernetes presents a promising solution for addressing these challenges, MNOs need to mitigate the data security challenges that arise from using Kubernetes for 5G deployments. Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for Kubernetes is certified in the Red Hat ecosystem catalogue , as well as a certified Kubernetes operator.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

While Kubernetes presents a promising solution for addressing these challenges, MNOs need to mitigate the data security challenges that arise from using Kubernetes for 5G deployments. Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption for Kubernetes is certified in the Red Hat ecosystem catalogue , as well as a certified Kubernetes operator.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

And it's not just one piece of technology to worry about. It’s tricky to juggle all the potential privacy and security pitfalls when dealing with so many pieces of technology…but it can be done! Encrypt your data. Older versions of Android used something called Full-Disk encryption. Turn on Find my phone.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A group of researchers presented a new tech that can be installed on Solid State Drives (SSD)s to keep a check on ransomware spread. In simple words, the newly developed technology dubbed SSD-Inside++ stops the ransomware code from spreading its characteristics by rewriting a new code before the file encrypting malware can encode user data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 18, 2021

Perhaps you had to encrypt your data as part of a regulatory requirement, or you voluntarily understood the value of encryption, and deployed it as a safeguard. Encryption is one of those technologies that, once it is implemented, is typically fairly easy to manage, as most organizations use cryptography supplied through a vendor.

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