IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, The Intercept reported that video calls are not end-to-end encrypted, despite the company’s claims that they are. Originally founded in 2011 for corporate clients, Zoom’s software is now being used in situations it was never designed for.”. What are people’s concerns about Zoom?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The xPack backdoor is a.NET loader that fetches and executes AES-encrypted payloads, it supports multiple commands. The decryption password is provided as a command-line argument (Base64 encoded string), and the xPack backdoor can run as a standalone application or as a service (xPackSvc variant).

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. The tool is able to automatically retrieve local users from groups, filter for administration, and then test the password.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

One criminal gang said that it had targeted the organisation and encrypted its systems. More worryingly, the same database contained usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Reports suggest that the group is stealing the data rather than encrypting the organisations’ systems and holding them to ransom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

In particular, Mozilla was instrumental in the birth of Let's Encrypt , the free and open certificate authority that's massively increased the adoption of HTTPS on the web. My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

How about ASafaWeb in 2011 ? The partnership with 1Password several years later is the same again; arguably, it made HIBP more useful for the masses or non-techies that had never given any consideration to a password manager. Password Purgatory ? I never made a cent from that. Never planned to, never did. So why do it?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 26, 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment America (“Sony”) disclosed an information security breach that may affect up to 77 million consumers. On April 27, 2011, a PlayStation Network user filed a nationwide class action lawsuit in the U.S.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. The 2018 guidance supplements the SEC’s October 13, 2011, CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Directors should develop at least a high-level familiarity with how data is secured ( e.g. , encryption of critical company data, both while at rest and in motion).

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 26, 2011

According to a complaint submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on May 11, 2011, the popular cloud-based data storage provider Dropbox, Inc. The allegations concern the folders designated as private, which are touted as being protected by encryption. All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256).”.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data. Noticing that digital forensic tools used by law enforcement were insufficient, Canadian police officer Jad Saliba founded Magnet Forensics in 2011. Magnet Forensics.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2016

The OCR’s investigation of Feinstein Institute, a biomedical research institute based in New York, began after the institute filed a breach report indicating that in September 2012, an unencrypted, password-protected laptop computer containing the ePHI of approximately 13,000 patients and research participants was stolen from an employee’s car.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 22, 2011

On April 11, 2011, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California declined to dismiss four of the nine claims in a class action lawsuit filed against RockYou, Inc. The plaintiff asserted nine causes of action against RockYou, five of which were dismissed in the April 11, 2011 order.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

” Messages to and from a money mule working for Aqua’s crew, circa May 2011. In March 2010, Aqua would divulge in an encrypted chat that his crew was working directly with the Zeus author (Slavik/Lucky12345), but that they found him abrasive and difficult to tolerate: dimka: I read about the king of seas, was it your handy work?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. Don't use familiar passwords seriously.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Accel Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. NightDragon. Sequoia Investments.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

This is a company that has been doing business since 2011, but it’s only been in the past few years, as a result of COVID, and there free options, that you’ve seen them saturate every business market from professional services to education. You may have gotten an email from them asking you to reset your password. Passwords.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2017

But it’s one thing to encrypt your messaging. But fear of cyber warfare, fraud, and over-reaching marketers and government will create huge openings for consumer friendly versions of currently opaque products like PGP, password managers, and the like. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Related: Predictions 2016 .

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