The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

Google was absolutely right to initiate a big public push a couple of years ago to make HTTPS Transport Layer Security (TLS) a de facto standard. Related: Malicious activity plagues the cloud services. This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts discovered a feature in Microsoft 365 suite that could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and target cloud infrastructure. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that a feature in the in Microsoft 365 suite could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2022

txt,doc,pdf), and uploads them to an account on the MEGA cloud storage service. Exfiltration to Replace Ransomware Encryption? Cyderes researchers said the evolution of exfiltration suggests that threat actors may eventually use data theft in place of encryption. Exbyte then searches for document files (.txt,doc,pdf),

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2023

Thales partners with Hint AG to provide managed security services for the Swiss healthcare sector madhav Thu, 07/27/2023 - 04:32 Analysts from Statista are projecting that the Healthcare market in Switzerland will need to invest 1.3 The same group of consultants are also predicting that the costs will double by 2040.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. ” Sounil Yu: Lack of security response & recovery products.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

So it’s a double vig.” ” The FBI and multiple security firms have advised victims not to pay any ransom demands, as doing so just encourages the attackers and in any case may not result in actually regaining access to encrypted files.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers last week revealed that a new ransomware gang called Onyx is simply destroying larger files rather than encrypting them. The Onyx ransomware group doesn’t bother with encryption. Unlike with other ransomware strains, you can’t recover documents with a decryption key. 2 – for big files.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

In a drive to provide better care to patients, save costs, and facilitate faster time-to-market for treatments, healthcare providers have spent the last few years focusing on: Adopting hybrid and cloud-based workloads, with IDC reporting that 93% of pharma and 72% of biotech organizations now rely on the cloud for core applications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

In a drive to provide better care to patients, save costs, and facilitate faster time-to-market for treatments, healthcare providers have spent the last few years focusing on: Adopting hybrid and cloud-based workloads, with IDC reporting that 93% of pharma and 72% of biotech organizations now rely on the cloud for core applications.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As ransomware threats loom, we look at where backups fall short, and what to keep in mind to optimize network and data security. For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Beyond Encryption: Exfiltration and Extortion. Data Exfiltration.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 CEOs who say that cybersecurity is the biggest threat to short-term growth have doubled in the past year. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a recent study , IDC predicted the global datasphere will more than double in size from 2022 to 2026, and that 80% of that data will be unstructured. Part of this process includes identifying where and how data is stored—on-premises, in third-party servers or in the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

For many Chief Information Security Officers, having the CEO’s ear, at the moment, is proving to be a double-edged sword, Pollard told me. “We Security leaders must also find ways to explain why budgets that have steadily increased, year after year, have not solved the security problems”. 19 on a hacking forum.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. video below), I started looking around for more interesting and concerning (from a security point of view) NRF52-based products. known-plaintext attack).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Regulations. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Just today, security and compliance automation firm Drata announced a $200 million Series C funding round that brings the company’s valuation to $2 billion, doubling its $1 billion valuation from its Series B round last year. According to a recent Gartner survey, security is the top priority for CIOs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Down to the core We’ve continued to innovate and invest in operating environments on IBM Power to help ensure business continuity, reliability, availability, serviceability and security for clients. In addition, IBM is also offering a hybrid cloud consumption model that will allow flexibility for both on-premises and cloud expenditures.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven a massive increase in e-commerce spending, doubling to an expected $1 trillion this year, according to Adobe. But that spending surge has brought with it a corresponding rise in payment security challenges. Balancing Speed and Security. Dustin White, Visa Chief Risk Data Officer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

IT security pros have never faced more threats, whether it’s from the huge increase in remote work or aggressive nation-state sponsored hackers like those involved in the SolarWinds breach. Here are some of the most common IT security vulnerabilities and how to protect against them. Missing data encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

I often see a sizable gap between perceptions and reality among many SMB leaders,” Troy Gill a senior security analyst at AppRiver told me. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. Here are key takeaways: Sizable need AppRiver is in the perfect position to deliver an SMB cyber risk index.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Overall, we continue to think the security industry is still ripe for commoditization, especially from the cloud providers who have the capacity to simply offer features as a default. The biggest security specific omission for us was the lack of discussion on quantum computing and the impact it will have on the industry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sixty-four percent of the more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, whom we surveyed for the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), believe artificial intelligence (AI) “increases data security by recognizing and alerting on attacks,” while 43% believe AI “results in increased threats due to use as a hacking tool.”.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Encryption of data at rest and in motion. Security event logging to identify breaches in progress. Regulations.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

In recent weeks, the Department of Justice , Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security have issued alerts warning of malicious cyber activity related to COVID-19. We highlight below some of the key issues to consider as we move through this transformative period of remote working. Email protection.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Despite assurances to the contrary, it’s a fair assumption there is more to come, according to national security experts. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service. drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. Data Lake Security Scope.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Servers are encrypted with “ locked” file extensions on files. You look for your cold replica in your DR site, but like your production servers, it has also been encrypted by ransomware. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware. Ransom notes are on the desktops.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 9, 2021

Upon deeper examination, Krebs on Security reports that DarkSide is a Russian hacking group that offers a “ransomware-as-a-service” platform that helps vetted cybercriminals to carry out ransomware attacks with a variety of toolkits, and wraps in a “call service” to assist them in negotiations and payments from the victims. Use RDP Gateways.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And after each failed attempt, the wallet doubled the wait time before they could guess again. Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. You know, a safety feature.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Tech consultancy IDC recently estimated that global spending on security-related hardware, software and services is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 9.2% Here are key takeaways: Security benefits Protect the data itself. At each storage location, yet another layer of encryption is added. billion by 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2021

Organizations not prepared to meet the data security challenges of the pandemic. According to the 2021 Thales DTR findings only a fifth of respondents (20%) indicated that their security infrastructure was very prepared to deal with the disruption. Broken security controls – increased attacks. Unchanged security mindset.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A recent HP Wolf Security report found that email now accounts for 89% of all malware. The good news in that is that web and browser security are improving. The bad news is that email security is not. What is a Secure Email Gateway? Key Features of Secure Email Gateways.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With so much critical data now stored in the cloud, how can people protect their accounts? Until biometrics or a quantum solution change our everyday approach to encryption, passwords remain our first line of defense against data breaches, hackers, and thieves. Related: Training human sensors. No personal information.

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