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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

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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UK govt contractor MPD FM leaks employee passport data

Security Affairs

Established in 2003, the company has expanded to house 500 staff. Whoever’s in control of the Amazon S3 bucket ought to secure sensitive files using server-side encryption. MPD FM boasts of being the UK’s leading “facility management company.”

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Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service

Security Affairs

In February, the Spanish student Javier Yuste released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. The Avaddon ransomware quickly reacted to the availability of the decryptor and released an update for the code of their malware that made the tool inefficient.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem’s data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack.

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PRIVATELOG, a new malware that leverages Common Log File System (CLFS) to avoid detection

Security Affairs

It was introduced with Windows Server 2003 R2 and included in later Windows operating systems. “Rules to detect CLFS containers matching PRIVATELOG structures or containing encrypted data are also provided. CLFS can be used for both data logging as well as for event logging. ” concludes Mandiant.