The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. Many of these instant messaging platforms are secure, even offering end-to-end encryption, so the lack of security is not necessarily in the apps themselves. These views were echoed in a CFTC release as well.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google TAG researchers warn that COLDRIVER is evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), to improve its detection evasion capabilities. Recently, TAG has observed COLDRIVER delivering custom malware via phishing campaigns using PDFs as lure documents. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The Baka loader works by dynamically adding a script tag to the current page that loads a remote JavaScript file. ” reads the alert published by VISA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

The initial WMI PowerShell scripts observed in different attacks were using different hardcoded command and control (C&C) IP addresses, different encryption keys, salt for encryption and different active hours. “The page contains embedded commands that are encrypted with an encryption key, also embedded into the page.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

” The policy explains users can disable all location services entirely with one swipe (by navigating to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then switching “Location Services” to “off”).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Make sure to use common, understandable labels and data value tags for your data. Encrypting data on corporate devices can prevent hackers from accessing sensitive information. Often, it is the first time a company has a common definition of data. If teams have different naming conventions, data inventory can be a confusing process.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Data captured by the skimmer is base64 encoded and encrypted using ROT13 cipher. The skimmer uses an image GET request, but unlike other skimmers instead of loading and then immediately removing the image tag, Pipka sets the onload attribute of the image tag.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Each Webkinz toy has an attached tag with a unique “Secret Code” printed on it that allows you to play with your pet in the “ Webkinz World” website. The database has a size of 1 GB, it contained 22,982,319 credentials, with the passwords being encrypted with the MD5-Crypt algorithm.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2018

Similar small electronics exist in the keyless entry fobs to newer-model cars and the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags used to locate boxes in vast warehouses. All of these gadgets are inexpensive to make and will fit nearly anywhere, but common encryption methods may demand more electronic resources than they possess.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 31, 2022

Cloud solutions provide data encryption, regular automatic backups, and speedy data recovery. Customizable tag options and formats. The team has no data centers to update regularly, saving time for more crucial activities. Cloud-based solutions also experience fewer downtimes. Routine Backups and Disaster Recovery Process.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

DDR would, in effect, “tag” data so that a GPS-type homing beacon would keep a gapless record of where it went, who accessed it, what they did with it, and (with the help of some cyber sleuthing) perhaps why. The second benefit is what we’ll be focusing on today. DDR Knows What Your Data Did Last Summer Then, along came a revolutionary idea.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. The price tag can add up quickly. Take, for instance, technology like encryption and identity and access management (IAM) tools.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

She previously hosted even TrickBot "red" group tag payload on her own website -> see URLhaus [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/qG977wjgLN — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) June 4, 2021. Once infected a system, the ransomware informed victims that their files were encrypted demanded the payment of a Bitcoin ransom to decrypt them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited number of hacked websites used in watering hole attacks against iPhone users. “Earlier this year Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable. Encryption Ludmila Rinaudo | Product Management More About This Author > Schema If you are interested in participating in the beta program, contact Thales to join the registration list.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

In practice this will require financial institutions to assess and classify/tag financial data against the five levels, and apply the relevant compliance obligations to each level accordingly. This could be a substantial task for some financial institutions.

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OneHub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That’s a devastating price tag for many companies. Onehub continues the similarities by using the same 256-bit encryption and physical security policies as banks for the most secure cloud storage experience. We also use Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) to establish encrypted links between networked computers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web. To put in simple terms, it refers to the process of providing a web application with JavaScript tags on input.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

Blackcat ransomware is one of the fastest-growing Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) underground groups practicing so called “ quadruple extortion ” by pressing victims to pay – leveraging encryption, data theft, denial of service (DoS) and harassment.

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Imperial Violet

MAY 13, 2017

AEADs combine encryption and authentication in a way that provides the properties that people generally expect when they “encrypt” something. Common AEADs have a sharp edge though: you must never encrypt two different messages with the same key and nonce. Standardising AEADs avoids this. Due to poor design in TLS 1.2,

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Sensitive data – at rest or in motion – that exists in various forms across multiple systems must be automatically tagged, its lineage automatically documented, and its flows depicted so that it is easily found, and its usage easily traced across workflows.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

To begin with, as the memo acknowledges, it will be challenging for many agencies to develop an accurate approach to categorizing data and tagging data. Reflected in the federal zero-trust strategy is the calling out of agencies’ data categorization directly fueling this maturity characteristic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

Blackcat ransomware is one of the fastest-growing Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) underground groups practicing so called “ quadruple extortion ” by pressing victims to pay – leveraging encryption, data theft, denial of service (DoS) and harassment.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 27, 2018

If you are a tech pro and you want to go deeper on HTTPS, have a browse back through the dozens of posts on the SSL tag or go and watch 3 and a half hours of Pluralsight training on the subject. Next, you'll see that this is all very Cloudflare-centric and you may be wondering "why not use Let's Encrypt instead?"

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. .

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

An attacker can craft a malicious query that includes a script tag with JavaScript code that steals the user's session token, allowing the attacker to impersonate the user and perform actions on their behalf. Use Encryption and Hashing Encryption is the process of encoding data so that only authorized users can read it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

All the important files on your disks were encrypted. “AutoFocus has a Shade ransomware tag that identifies any items associated with Shade.” Once a Windows system gets infected with this ransomware, the malicious code sets the desktop background to announce the infection. txt through README10.txt, txt, “Attention!

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Collibra

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They are also worried about sending data to the cloud that shouldn’t be in the cloud or should be very restricted or encrypted. As the data is ingested, it is linked to policies, which can in turn be linked to Google Cloud policy tags. These tags can be used to write down the policy to Google Cloud Data Catalog, IAM and BigQuery.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2019

The malware has a relatively high price tag ($100), it supports a broad functionality (i.e. and AZORult++ uses the same algorithm for communication with the C&C server, they use the command format, the structure and method of storing harvested data, and encryption keys. the use of. Original AZORult 3.3

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” The lists of security updates released by Microsoft is available on the Security Update Guide portal : Tag CVE ID CVE Title.NET Core CVE-2021-26701.NET ” The lists of security updates released by Microsoft is available on the Security Update Guide portal : Tag CVE ID CVE Title.NET Core CVE-2021-26701.NET

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this stage the JavaScript is loading an encrypted content from the original JAR, using a KEY decrypts such a content and finally loads it (Dynamic Class Loader) on memory in order to fire it up as a new Java code. JavaScript takes the Java context by meaning it might use Java functions calling contextual java classes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

.” reads the analysis published by CyberArk “By doing nothing more than clicking or visiting a website, the victim can experience the theft of sensitive data, compromised production servers, lost data, manipulation of data, encryption of all the organization’s data with ransomware and more.”.

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