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The Race is On! Crypto Agility vs Quantum Computing. Who is ahead?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Preparing for Data Security in the Quantum Computing Era. Each passing day brings the world closer to the exciting reality of powerful quantum computing. Quantum computing is a threat to public key infrastructure and security systems that rely on it. Waiting until quantum computing is widely available ?

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Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

Security Affairs

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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REvil ransomware gang hacked Acer and is demanding a $50 million ransom

Security Affairs

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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More SolarWinds News

Schneier on Security

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot , was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds’ internal network.

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Cellebrite 2019 Report on Industry Trends for Law Enforcement: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Cellebrite recently conducted an industry trends survey targeting Law Enforcement and reported the results in their 2019 Report on Industry Trends for Law Enforcement (link to download the free report available here , hat tip to Rob Robinson’s Complex Discovery site for the reference ). So, what do you think?

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2019 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 1

eDiscovery Daily

annual review of cases that we covered on the eDiscovery Daily blog over the past year. years, let’s take a look back at 2019! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Forcing Provision of Computer Password Violates the Fifth Amendment : In Commonwealth v. This is our ninth(!) So, as we have done for the last eight(!)