Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Probably not.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

authorities, and that the Russian government is probably concerned that he simply knows too much.” Also, members needed to have a special encryption certificate installed in their Web browser before the forum’s login page would even load. ” Membership in the DirectConnection fraud forum was heavily restricted.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. Other industry standards too can have the force of “pseudo-law” – notably, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which federal regulators often apply to financial-services firms and government contractors. But those aren’t the only laws or regulations that affect IT security teams.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2020

It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. It was the summer of 2013, and I was visiting Glenn Greenwald in Rio de Janeiro. It was an opsec disaster; they would have been much more secure if they'd emailed the encrypted files. There is an adapted excerpt in the Atlantic.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. The APT primary focus on cyberespionage against targets in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

European police chiefs call for an end to end-to- e nd encryption A joint declaration by the European police chiefs calls for tech companies to limit end-to-end encryption so the companies can identify and report illegal activity on their platforms, and enable law enforcement investigations to access secure messages.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespiona group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. .” reported the YonHap News agency. The APT group mainly targets think tanks and organizations in South Korea, other victims were in the United States, Europe, and Russia.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2013, when Imperva first launched the Bad Bot Report, bad bots comprised 23.6% However, while gaming suffers most from bad bots, the law and government sectors suffer from the most advanced ones. The report analyzes the bad bot threat landscape across industries, sophistication levels, origin, and more. and human traffic for 57%.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

On December 18, 2013, the White House published a report recommending reforms to the federal government’s wide-ranging surveillance programs. companies to encrypt data in transit, at rest and in storage (including in the cloud); and. companies to encrypt data in transit, at rest and in storage (including in the cloud); and.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Open Raven analyzes data at rest, classifies inventory, and automates data governance as these become critical capabilities for the hybrid infrastructure’s security posture. Evervault is on a mission to make encrypting sensitive data seamless with its security toolkit for developers. Perimeter 81. Ubiq Security. JupiterOne.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Records breached: 91,000 individuals affected. Breached organisation: Rock County in Wisconsin, US.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing the trend in many regions toward introducing new data protection legislation, the POPI Act was signed into law in 2013 by South African President Jacob Zuma, although it is not yet fully effective. It behooves companies, government agencies, nonprofits and other entities to understand what new requirements POPI imposes on them.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. authorities, and that the Russian government is probably concerned that he simply knows too much. Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

Pseudonymisation and encryption. The GDPR advises organisations to pseudonymise and/or encrypt all personal data. According to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index , only 4% of data breaches since 2013 have involved encrypted data. Encryption also obscures information by replacing identifiers with something else.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Once inside a network, they move laterally to locate and encrypt mission-critical systems; a ransom demand for a decryption key follows. Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over. . ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

hospitals, governments, critical infrastructure), or how much of a ransom payment an affiliate should expect for bringing the group access to a new victim network. Throughout 2013 and 2014, PCs infected with Gameover were seeded with Cryptolocker , an early, much-copied ransomware strain allegedly authored by Bogachev himself.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2019

It’s mission has been to seek out and assist government cyber specialists in a position to enter the private sector and build commercial cyber and data science companies. Data protection and cybersecurity is at the top of the priority list for most of the worlds businesses, governments and organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The APT32 group, also known as OceanLotus Group, has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. The practices of government contractors typically get adapted universally, over time. million from U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. He didn't become a senator until 2013.) I teach cybersecurity policy and technology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They still are. They still are.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 2, 2019

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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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.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Statistics.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon group. ” concludes Anomaly.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Kaspersky experts found a similar sample on Google Play, it implements high levels of encryption, furthermore, the malicious code was able to download and execute additional malicious payloads that would be suitable to the specific device environment (i.e Android version, installed apps). . .” ” continues the analysis.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On October 2, 2013, the 86th Conference of the German Data Protection Commissioners concluded in Bremen. securing electronic communications by implementing and developing end-to-end encryption. During the Conference, the following Resolutions were adopted: Resolution on Requests to the German Government.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. It also has a new focus on governance, which encompasses how organizations make and carry out informed decisions on cybersecurity strategy”. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93 NIST CSF 2.0

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

However, that’s more a function of hackers targeting individuals less, and companies and governments more. It then uses strong encryption, requiring a decryption key for which the victim must pay a ransom, most often in Bitcoin. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

For those who are unfamiliar, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was created in 2013 as an attempt to standardize practices and give guidance on common, high-level security and privacy risks. This year, the framework became official federal policy for government agencies. To learn how Thales eSecurity enables U.S.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

1960s When large corporations and governments first began to adopt computer systems, cybersecurity measures were relatively lax, and hacking was largely viewed as something done ‘for fun’ rather than a serious threat. Hackers were able to explore and experiment with these systems without fear of legal repercussions.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Conducted by the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) from 2013 through April 2014, the examinations inspected the cybersecurity practices of 57 registered broker-dealers and 49 registered investment advisers through interviews and document reviews.

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