Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Since 2016, Microsoft is urging admins to stop using SMBv1, later versions of the protocol implemented security enhancements, such as encryption, pre- authentication integrity checks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, and insecure guest authentication blocking. If it returns an SMB1 value of 0, it is disabled. (Get-WindowsFeature

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Microsoft on Tuesday released 16 software updates to fix more than 60 security holes in various flavors of Windows and other Microsoft products. Adobe also has security patches available for Flash Player , Acrobat and Reader users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Each module of the CommonMagic framework is used to perform a certain task, such as communicating with the C2 server, encrypting and decrypting C2 traffic, and executing plugins. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” reads the new report published by Kaspersky.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Regulations. Which brings me to my next point.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure. It will, of course, be vital to have these next-gen, AI-infused systems run securely, in ways that preserve individual privacy. An intolerable security bottleneck, in fact, is taking shape.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The vulnerability was disclosed by the security researcher Polle Vanhoof. The Mifare Classic smart card technology is known to be insecure since 2008, when security researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen performed reverse engineering of the chip and published their findings. ” wrote the expert.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 15 more vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. “In some instances, BlackByte ransomware actors have only partially encrypted files,” the advisory said. A Top Priority for Security Teams. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

VPNLab was launched in 2008 and was offering online anonymity to criminal organizations. Its technology was based on OpenVPN and adopted 2048-bit encryption, the price for the subscription was very low, just $60/year. The authorities seized 15 VPNLab.net servers across 10 countries. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. .” com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally deprecates Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 (RFC was recommended for IETF protocols in 2008 and became obsolete with the introduction of TLS version 1.3 The move to deprecate old versions aims at making products using them more secure. RFC 2246) and 1.1 (RFC

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

million civil monetary penalty against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (“Children’s”) for alleged ongoing violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules, following two consecutive breaches of patient electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But, while cloud providers boast that their storage services — or “buckets” — offer added application security , they have also consistently proven vulnerable. But in the process of adjusting the bucket’s configurations comes the greatest risk to your cloud security. Also Read: What is Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)? .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. .

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The stolen laptops contained policyholder electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”), including names, addresses, birth dates, insurance identifications and, in some cases, Social Security numbers and clinical data. The policyholder data was password protected but not encrypted, in violation of HIPAA and HITECH.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 22, 2018

First enacted in 2008, Section 702 is a surveillance law that permits the targeting of foreign individuals overseas. person query in certain circumstances—specifically, if the query was in connection with a criminal investigation unrelated to national security and not designed to find foreign intelligence information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Despite their extensions, the attachments are not Office documents, but rather encrypted blobs of data that include a specific command to be executed. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On 30 November 2018 the Cyber Security Protection Bureau, under the auspices of the PRC Ministry of Public Security (the “MPS”), issued a draft Guideline for Internet Personal Information Security Protection (the “Guideline”) along with a request for public comments. Introduction. Management Mechanisms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Covering 14 years from Q3 2008 to Q2 2022, the figures show that in the last quarter the number of monthly active users dropped for the first time. This includes forcing service providers to utilise encryption and multi factor authentication (MFA).

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 20, 2009

On August 17, 2009, Massachusetts announced revisions to its information security regulations and extended the deadline for compliance with those regulations. ” First and foremost, the revisions emphasize a more flexible, risk-based approach to developing an information security program. .”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In cases, full disk encryption is a necessary feature. Encrypted data provides an obstacle and a layer of risk mitigation against loss since the data is not easily readable without the right encryption key. Encrypted data involves both data in transit and data at rest. transport layer security) has long been the standard.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 12, 2013

Google”) regarding its collection of unsecured Wi-Fi data via the company’s Street View vehicles between 2008 and 2010. On March 12, 2013, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen announced that a coalition of 38 states had entered into a $7 million settlement with Google Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. Security is paramount. Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2024

Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. I know I was at the Fast Software Encryption workshop in December 1993, another conference he created. Okay, he created both—I helped.)

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ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

The first is that ever since 2008, corporate clients are much more cost-conscious and in pursuit of the best available deal. Electronic material needs to be encrypted and uploaded to a place where it can be securely downloaded by the onboarding firm. Why is there more matter mobility now?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

“Importantly, our own investigation has determined that, beyond this much-publicized security breach, the group has leveraged the same backdoor to open a covert access channel to the foreign offices of another two European countries, as well as to the network of a major defense contractor.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

We think there are three big, compelling reasons to use a managed system for integrating RSS in your enterprise communications mix: synchronization, analytics and security. " Its a question that inevitably comes up in every conversation we have with businesses looking to use RSS for streamlining communications.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 13, 2007

By the way, that is also one of the reasons why I am not very active in the Lotus Greenhouse at the moment, but I am hoping to be able to change that very shortly. Further Reading Articles and Papers Book Reviews and More Intranet 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. The best ones find the right balance between performance, security effectiveness, and cost. Leaving its CDN technology and advanced security features, Akamai is also one of the leading top zero trust solutions.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. So this is also a security mechanism of the network which supersets the essentially the safety of the network essentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. On May 25, The New York Times cited unnamed security experts briefed on the attack who blamed the ransomware’s spread on the Eternal Blue exploit, which was linked to the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Network monitoring is where business performance meets cybersecurity , making it a critical component of any organization’s development, security, and operations ( DevSecOps ) pipeline. AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Auvik Features. Read more : Best SIEM Tools of 2022. Catchpoint. LogicMonitor.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

To prevent APTs requires a strong foundation of basic security techniques combined with effective security monitoring. However, some additional security techniques can improve the odds against APTs even more. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. National Security Agency (NSA). What Are APTs?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

eSecurity Planet spoke with Aarti Dhapte, senior research analyst at Market Research Future , to understand how big the passkey market is, what technical challenges it faces, and what the security, legal, and ethical implications are that affect the sector. Security, Legal and Ethical Implications. The Natural Log-in Evolution.

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