eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. This article will provide an overview of DNS Security, common attacks, and how to use DNS security to prevent DNS attacks and manipulation. in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Why do so many businesses struggle to balance network security and user experience? Security has always been a moving target, with new threat vectors emerging all the time.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Ongoing basic research in advanced cryptography concepts is pivotal to putting the brakes on widening cyber risks and ultimately arriving at a level of privacy and security that makes sense. Here are a few key takeaways: ‘Big dreams’. Lots of big companies sponsor basic research; it’s how progress gets made.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2019

Around this time each year, Thales eSecurity releases our annual Data Threat Report (DTR). Now in its sixth year, the report is squarely focused on digital transformation and what that means for organizations and their data security. In fact, 71% of organizations are using sensitive data in the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

APIs have become a security nightmare for SMBs and enterprises alike. The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. SMBs and enterprises alike have been struggling with APIs as a mechanism for information security. The threat that API security breaches pose to enterprises should not be taken lightly.

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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. TLS, he says, is increasingly being used to cloak a wide array of the operational steps behind the most damaging attacks of the moment, namely ransomware attacks and massive data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. “This is a big deal.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How attackers try to remain undetected and/or mask their actions Vanessa Horton holds a degree in computer forensics, as well as a number of cyber security and forensics qualifications. Vanessa is now part of GRCI Law’s cyber incident response team, helping clients with their cyber security requirements. Vanessa kindly agreed.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. Reacting to the BYOD craze , mobile security frameworks have veered from one partially effective approach to the next over the past decade.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

Microsoft recently published a report that states, titled “March 2021 Security Signals report,” that revealed that more than 80% of enterprises were victims of at least one firmware attack in the past two years. ” According to the report, 21% of decision-makers admitted that they are not able to monitor firmware data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Kaspersky discovered a flaw in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that allows victims to recover their files for free. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a vulnerability in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that can be exploited to recover the files encrypted by the malware without paying the ransom.

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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 In fact, a new data protection law, the “ Neues DSG ” goes into effect September 2023 in Switzerland.

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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. ” Most threat actors have been focused on locking data, sometimes with innovative techniques to evade detection tools. .” Only small files lower than 2MB are encrypted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The age of Big Data is upon us. And, as more data is available for analytical purposes, more sensitive and private information is at risk. Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. respondents.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

It’s such a big industry that Ransomware-as-a-Service ( RaaS ) actually offers criminals customer service and tech support. As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. And, he’s not wrong.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Data Security: Low Adoption Amidst Increasing Requirements.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

As organizations move more of their sensitive data to cloud platforms for the efficiency, flexibility and scalability that it promises, security and control continue to be a significant obstacle to this adoption.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Vendors have traditionally been focused on protecting data from power failures, system failures, and natural disasters and have tended to concentrate on some perimeter-level network defenses,” said Siamak Nazari, CEO and cofounder of Nebulon. Also see the Best Business Continuity Solutions. What is Disaster Recovery?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

Data breaches are the new normal. According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Regardless of the security measures and efforts put in place, organizations need to act as if a successful cyberattack is not a question of “if” but “when.”.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybercrime is a big business. As data becomes more valuable, criminals can profit more from stealing, selling or holding it for ransom, leading to a massive black market of information. That makes them the ideal solution for new, inexperienced hackers trying to profit from this wave of digitization. IABs on the rise.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. The hackers posted their first victim on a data leak site before removing the publication later. lilith” extension to rename encrypted files. See the Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. A few takeaways: Outside a database.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit at least 69 big companies in 16 countries. First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets. ProLock = Egregor.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As Cybersecurity continues to be heavily focused on solving the problem of attacks against software vulnerabilities and system access, one potential silver bullet in the data breach equation remains out of the limelight. The Big Data Conundrum. Perhaps, it should.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 16, 2021

Why Data Visibility is Important for Security. Today, organizations are struggling to control their data environments. The amount of data created is forecasted to grow and be spread in a wide diverse ecosystem: the cloud, on premises, in data lakes and big data. The Added Value of Data Visibility.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

We’ve mastered how to feed data into pattern-recognition algorithms. And as we accelerate the digitalization of everything, even more data is being generated. I had the chance to sit down with Laurence Pitt, Juniper’s global security strategy director. Machine learning (ML) and digital transformation (DX) go hand in glove.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

With digital transformation leading to a boom in the use of digital certificates, our bedrock authentication and encryption framework is at an inflection point, where the demand and adoption of automation is set to rapidly accelerate to keep up with technology requirements. Addressing compliance, security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Strategies and Best Practices for Protecting Sensitive Data. Data has been migrating from traditional data centers to third-party hosted environments, private/public cloud infrastructures and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications by leaps and bounds. Protecting sensitive data is the last line of defense.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 14, 2021

Schrems II moves the goalposts – better data discovery can help. If you had been relying on the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, this is no longer sufficient to ensure compliance with the stringent EU data protection requirements, especially GDPR. A set of big challenges to overcome. Thu, 04/15/2021 - 05:17.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

MOVEit Automation tasks that use the native MOVEit Transfer host will not work  REST, Java and.NET APIs will not work  MOVEit Transfer add-in for Outlook will not work  Recently Progress has released security updates to address new SQL injection vulnerabilities in the MOVEit Transfer application. PROVIDE LITTLE TRUTH IN A BIG LIE.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

The UK's GCHQ delivers a brutally blunt assessment of quantum key distribution: QKD protocols address only the problem of agreeing keys for encrypting data. QKD also seems unsuitable for some of the grand future challenges such as securing the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, social media, or cloud applications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

The past year has seen a number of high profile security breaches tied to leaky storage servers. Specifically, the leakage of sensitive files connected to misconfigured security protocols on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Sensors are used for traffic management in big cities to lower the impact of traffic jams during peak commuting hours. The root cause of these attacks is that the devices are lacking the security mechanisms to defend themselves against malicious actions that lead to the control of hijacked devices. Security mindset is changing.

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