Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2021

Machine Leading and Quantum Computing Challenges Also Among the Topics Analyzed What do the world's leading encryption and security experts think about non-fungible tokens, supply chain attacks, coordinated vulnerability disclosure and the state of quantum computing?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2018

Tokenization. Among the tools that protect the data itself by making it unusable should it be stolen is tokenization. Tokenization protects sensitive data by substituting non-sensitive data. It creates an unrecognizable tokenized form of the data that maintains the format of the source data. Encryption and Tokenization.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” The Pollard’s Kangaroo interval ECDLP solver algorithm appears to be an attempt to break the SECP256K1 encryption which is used by Bitcoin to implement its public key cryptography. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts. ” concludes the report.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 10, 2019

Agreement With 43 States Requires Retailer to Use Encryption, Tokenization Forty-three states have reached a settlement with Neiman Marcus over its 2013 data breach, one of several breaches from that period blamed on in-memory malware. million and must use encryption and tokenization to protect card data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The AXLocker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and steals Discord tokens from the infected machine. The malware only targets specific file extensions and excludes a list of directories from the encryption process. ” reads the analysis published by Cyble. . ” reads the analysis published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exposed DTC app user data include email address, phone number, phone model, and the apps’ tokens for email, login, session, and signup. Tokens usually serve as digital keys to user accounts. In theory, exposing tokens could lead to unauthorized account access. The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 18, 2018

One of the long standing challenges with security applications that involve data encryption has been key management. Vormetric Application Encryption. Today’s Vormetric Application Encryption provides a library that provides the PKCS #11 interface as a dynamically loadable library (.DLL) Where to get good keys?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The exposed secrets included API or SSH keys, access control tokens, internal use URLs, and even private credentials. GitHub tokens were the most disregarded, as the number of such secrets comprised 26.6% Even if the credentials, tokens, and other secrets are no longer valid, leaving them public is still a bad practice.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The authors also implemented different obfuscation techniques and custom encryption to avoid detection. ” To circumvent analysis and detection, the malware encrypts all C2 communications. This encryption goes beyond HTTPS protection, utilizing a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token encrypted with RSA-OAEP and a 128CBC-HS256 algorithm.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

Has a Discord token stealer too… @demonslay335 pic.twitter.com/OayXQPcSEl — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) April 17, 2021. Upon executing the ransomware, it will encrypt the victim’s file and will give 3 hours to them to provide a valid Discord nitro. You have under 3 hours to give us Discord nitro."

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In this case, Thales integration with Azure Stack Hub allows the organization to meet their local privacy laws and security compliance regulation while tokenizing PII data seamlessly across the hybrid cloud deployment which in this scenario is the Azure public cloud and Azure Hub. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE).

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The data security capabilities that are provided by IBM Cloud® Hyper Protect Crypto Services help clients on their confidential computing journey by providing complete control of cloud data encryption keys and cloud hardware security modules. It also offers the industry’s only Keep Your Own Key (KYOK) for data encryption at rest.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities: Weak authentication methods and compromised access tokens can provide unauthorized access. Secure communication channels: Ensure all communication channels between the chatbot and users are secure and encrypted, safeguarding sensitive data from potential breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization. Using payment Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) the retail and banking industry can encrypt card-on-file information and protect the subsequent processing of payment transactions. Encryption. Data security. Data Breach.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FoggyWeb is a post-exploitation backdoor used by the APT group to remotely exfiltrate the configuration database of compromised Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers, decrypted token-signing certificate, and token-decryption certificate, it also allows threat actors to download and execute additional components.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You can certainly depend on the wisdom of the crowd, but for several years running, the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition consensus has been that encryption is the best way to protect data in the cloud. Finding an encryption vendor whom you trust; 2. Ensuring the vendor’s encryption product is cloud-friendly; and, 3.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The data included: User IP Country Email addresses Encrypted passwords User crypto wallet addresses Dates of birth First and last names Mobile numbers The researchers believe that there’s more than enough information for a persistent attacker to develop a spear-phishing campaign, which would likely aim to drain the user’s crypto funds.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

All secrets are being encrypted or tokenized, and data appears secure.These processes require encryption keys, and controlling these keys requires a robust key management process. Known as the ‘keys to the kingdom’, if this main key is compromised, all other encryption keys are at risk.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2024

So that records and sensitive medical data are encrypted and processed securely, protecting against data leaks and unauthorized access. Implementing security-rich token platforms through confidential compute delivers tangible benefits.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The quantum cybersecurity threat will increase data breaches of sensitive health and financial personal data, challenge the integrity of digital documents, and break certain cryptocurrency encryption. Quantum computing will also render most current popular encryption methods unsafe except for AES 256. Encryption. Data Security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

DevOpsTeams can leverage Thales CipherTrust Secrets Management (CSM) , powered by Akeyless Vault , to protect and automate access to secrets across DevOps tools and cloud workloads to ensure dynamic and secure access to credentials such as certificates, API keys, and tokens.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Mayhem for API has built-in support for basic authentication, header-based authentication (such as bearer tokens) and cookie-based authentication. They are simply encoded with base64 in transit, but not encrypted or hashed. Bearer Tokens). It is not encrypted or hashed before sending it to the server.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

The leaked sensitive information included the Laravel app key, JSON Web Token (JWT) key, MySQL credentials, and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) credentials for the “no-reply” email. The Laravel app key is a token that helps to keep user browser cookies safe. These tokens can be both for a user, and for an admin.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

GitHub confirmed that threat actors exfiltrated encrypted code signing certificates for some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom apps. GitHub this week disclosed a security breach, threat actors exfiltrated encrypted code signing certificates for some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom apps.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The database included the personally identifiable information of Blink Mobility customers and administrators, including: Phone number Email address Encrypted password Registration date Device info and device token Details on subscription and rented vehicles (license plate, VIN, booking start and end location, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

These cookies are composed of key-value pairs, and the values often contain critical information such as tokens and expiration dates. According to the Sophos researchers, “Google’s Chrome browser uses the same encryption method to store both multi-factor authentication cookies and credit card data.”. How Users Can Protect Access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Ransomware – This module delivers a ransomware payload to the victim’s machine for encrypting users’ files as well as for demanding a ransom. Discord token stealing – This module allows stealing Discord tokens from the infected systems. DDOS – This module is used to perform a DDOS attack.

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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. Passive Recon & OSINT: First of all (even without attempting to open the token) we can immediately notice our best-hardware-hacking-friend: the FCC ID.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 17, 2022

Leveraging Tokens. Tokenization has also been transformative for security, protecting everything from in-person mobile device payments to card-not-present transactions using Visa’s Cloud Token Framework. A 60 percent increase in tokenization year-over-year has led both to a 2.5 ” Also read: Tokenization vs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The module verifies the successful authentication by checking that the OWA application is sending an authentication token back to the user. Then the result of the command is encrypted and returned to the operator. Most of the victims were government organizations in Malaysia, Mongolia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It encompasses identity access and management, privileged access management, password-less management controls, detection and response technology, encryption from the endpoint, through the network and into cloud and on-premises hosting environments. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. Security-privacy teamwork.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Secure data storage is closely related to encryption and key management. At the end of data retention periods encryption keys must be destroyed, digitally shredding all data instances, no matter where the data is stored, backed up, or migrated to.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2021

Protect your data by deploying technology such as encryption and tokenization in accordance with the EDPB recommendations to render your data useless to governments and criminals. Control access to your data by controlling and managing the encryption keys. Encryption. Encryption Key Management. Tokenization.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 5, 2018

Unsurprisingly, encryption and tokenization are two of the most called out (for their effectiveness!) But (and this is a big one), both security strategies must be implemented with secure key and token management. Additionally, tokens and encryption keys should never be stored with the pseudonymized data.

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