Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Redmond Uses Protocol NIST Says Is a "Severe Security Vulnerability" Emails encrypted through Microsoft Office are vulnerable to attacks that can reveal the original content of messages due to shortcomings in the protocol, says WithSecure security researcher Harry Sintonen.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Also: Improving Private-Public Collaboration, ISMG'S Africa Summit Four editors at Information Security Media Group analyze private-public partnerships today, preview ISMG's upcoming cybersecurity summit in Africa and discuss the increasing use of intermittent or partial encryption by ransomware gangs as a means to extort money from victims faster. (..)

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Apple announced PQ3 , its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022. There’s a lot of detail in the Apple blog post , and more in Douglas Stabila’s security analysis. I am of two minds about this.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 27, 2020

Navigation and Smartwatch Company Stops Short of Using Term 'Ransomware' Garmin acknowledged Monday that a "cyberattack" that encrypted several of its systems led to outages that affected several of the company's fitness and aviation products along with knocking its homepage and customer service centers offline.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 8, 2021

FBI Developed Smartphone-Based Platform as Honeypot for Criminals Thousands of suspected criminals have been relying on the "Anom" encrypted communications platform to coordinate their efforts.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 6, 2021

National Security Agency has released guidance on how the Defense Department, other federal agencies and the contractors that support them should replace obsolete encryption protocols that can enable cyber intrusions. Agency Recommends Replacement of Old TLS and SSL Protocols The U.S.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Romanians Allegedly Ran 'CyberSeal,' 'Dataprotector' and 'Cyberscan' Services Europol has arrested two Romanians for allegedly selling services - including malware encryption - that helped cybercriminals circumvent antivirus tools.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 17, 2023

BianLian Is Not Double Trouble Anymore, Says US CISA The BianLian ransomware group is abandoning malicious encryption in favor of pure extortion, warns the U.S. top cybersecurity agency. A major likely factor in BianLian's shift was cybersecurity firm Avast's January release of a free decryptor.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 2, 2021

Industrial-Scale Cocaine Lab' Seizure Traces to Users of Defunct EncroChat Service Former customers of the now-defunct encrypted communications service EncroChat, which was infiltrated by police last year, continue to get busted, including members of a crime syndicate that operated "an industrial-scale cocaine laboratory" in the Netherlands, Europol (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 15, 2021

Agency Describes How DoH Can Help Prevent Eavesdropping The NSA has released guidance on how organizations can adopt encrypted domain name system protocols to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS traffic.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It’s a question we often hear: “Isn’t DNSSEC the same as encrypted DNS?” While DNSSEC protects networks against man-in-the-middle attacks, it does so through public key cryptography, which is different from encryption. How is public key cryptography different from encryption? ” Not really.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 6, 2020

Web Conferencing Provider Blames Routing of Keys via China on Scaling-Up Error Zoom, responding to research that identified encryption and infrastructure shortcomings in its audio and video conferencing software, has promised to further revamp its security controls.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2023

The Bill provides no explicit protection for encryption, and if implemented as written, could empower OFCOM to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services – nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users.

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Record Nations

OCTOBER 4, 2023

One effective way to enhance your digital security is by encrypting your files. But which files should you encrypt? Which Files Do You Need to Encrypt? The post Which Files Do You Need to Encrypt? appeared first on Record Nations.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 21, 2021

In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware B. The other path involves what Emsisoft calls a “side-by-side encryption” attack, in which attacks encrypt some of an organization’s systems with ransomware A and others with ransomware B.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. Because ransomware does not care about your data.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2020

Law Enforcement Leaders Say Encryption Delayed Terrorist Investigation; Apple Pushes Back Although FBI technicians were able to gain access to data in two iPhones belonging to a Saudi national who killed three U.S.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2023

government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. Proposed Online Safety Bill Is 'Doomed to Fail,' Academics Say in an Open Letter Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 2, 2020

Cracking of EncroChat's Network Leads to Hundreds of Arrests in Organized Crime Crackdown European police gained access to messages sent via an encrypted cellular network, leading to the arrest of hundreds of alleged organized crime members, according to Europol.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. Here are the details: As we discussed in Section 3, the wrapping key used to encrypt the key blobs (HDK) is derived using a salt value computed by the Keymaster TA. GSM needs a new nonce for every encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 It is now in bankruptcy. I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good idea.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Police Seize Drugs, Firearms and 4M Euros in Raids on Exclu Users and Operators Police in multiple European countries carried out raids against the operators and users of the Exclu encrypted chat app, arresting four dozen individuals.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2022

After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups : Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet Passes.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Online Safety Bill Close to Passage With 'Accredited Technology' Clause Intact The U.K. government may have sidestepped a fight with American tech companies by appearing to soften a legislative mandate for chat apps to actively scan for terrorist and child sexual abuse content.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

LastPass says the attacker downloaded from the cloud backups of multiple users' encrypted password vaults, as well as unencrypted URLs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 can allow to access the contents of the messages. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm WithSecure discovered a bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 that can allow to access message contents due. ” concludes WithSecure.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2023

3, 2023 — Vaultree, a cybersecurity leader pioneering Fully Functional Data-In-Use Encryption (FFDUE), today announces a strategic integration with Tableau, a renowned platform for data visualization and business intelligence. San Francisco and Cork, Ireland, Aug. You can schedule a meeting to meet with our team at [link].

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. ” continues the announcement.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Others are automated.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Turns out the [AES] encryption key in that script is the first AES 128-bit CBC example key listed in the NIST document SP800-38A [PDF]” […]. The search results pointed to a common public key that shows up in online tutorials like “ RSA Encryption & Decryption Example with OpenSSL in C.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 19, 2020

Teleconference Company Describes Series of Security Measures Zoom will begin beta testing an end-to-end encryption feature in July that it plans to make available at no charge to all who use the paid or free version of its teleconference platform. It's also rolling out other new security features.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files! . “If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files!” ” they wrote. Technical details.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Quantum Resistant Encryption – Are You Ready? When functional quantum computing becomes available it is anticipated to make many current asymmetric encryption ciphers (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECC etc.) Learn more about Thales solutions for quantum resistant encryption. Encryption. Tue, 11/02/2021 - 09:10. .

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Announcement Comes After Apple Reportedly Delayed the Backups at the FBI's Request Smartphone giant Apple says that starting later this year, users can enable end-to-end encryption of iPhone backups stored in the company's commercial cloud. Apple took pains to frame its announcement in the context of cloud computing data breaches.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail web to its Workspace and education customers to protect emails sent using the web client. Google announced end-to-end encryption for Gmail (E2EE), with Gmail client-side encryption beta, users can send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside of their domain. .

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