Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. In 2018, global malware volume recorded by SonicWall hit a record-breaking 10.52 Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2019

In November 2018, hotel giant Marriott disclosed a data breach affecting its Starwood chain, in which up to 500 million customers’ personal data was stolen. million payment card details, all of which were encrypted. million payment card details, all of which were encrypted. million passport numbers, of which 5.25 Responsibility.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows. The body of each Sodin sample includes an encrypted configuration block that stores the settings and data used by the malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. In 2018, the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie discovered a weakness in the encryption process that allowed the expert to create a decryption tool.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Later it was involved in many malspam attacks, but only in July 2018, the authors released a substantially updated variant. ” One of the variants analyzed by BleepingComputer encrypts data and appends the.promorad extension to encrypted files, then it creates ransom notes named _readme.txt as shown below.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. For each technology area, encryption or encryption-related technologies were the requirement. Encrypt the data. Encryption was rated as the most effective tool for protecting data (77%).

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year. See, e.g., here.)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. The only true way to protect data is to encrypt it. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data. You can also read more about GDPR on the Thales eSecurity blog.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

As a result, database encryption has never been more crucial in order to protect the massive amounts of information that is held in the diverse mix of databases that large enterprises rely on today, including relational, SQL, NoSQL and big data environments. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2019

On 6 December 2018, the Australian Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Cth) (the Act ) was rushed through both houses of Federal Parliament without amendment and received royal assent on 8 December 2018.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over the next 10 years, there will be five billion … The post 2018 top tech predictions appeared first on OpenText Blogs. Software is powering digital transformations and will enable the Intelligent Enterprise—and a new way to work.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

South Africa’s Information Regulator is expected to put the Act into force in the second half of 2018. Encrypt Everything. While POPI requires organisations to secure the data they hold, encryption is intended to make that data basically useless to cybercriminals even if they manage to steal it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Now in its 13 th year, our Global Encryption Trends Study that is performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals interesting findings that span a dozen different geographies. This year, we found that multi-cloud use as well as compliance requirements have encouraged organizations around the globe to embrace a more extensive encryption strategy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

An attacker with access to the dispenser controller’s USB port can install an outdated or modified firmware version to bypass the encryption and make cash withdrawals. A research published by Positive Technologies in 2018 revealed that 69 percent of ATMs were vulnerable to such attacks and could be easily hacked in a few minutes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted. For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 27, 2018

Companies subject to New York’s Cybersecurity Regulation are acting quickly to finalize their compliance obligations as the fifth “due date,” September 4, 2018, quickly approaches. Looking ahead, Covered Entities will be required to meet one final compliance deadline for the NYDFS on March 1, 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With a multi-layered approach to endpoint protection, the ESET PROTECT Advanced solution fits small to medium-sized businesses and offers advanced EPP capabilities, full disk encryption , and an automated sandbox for dynamic threat analysis. Full Disk Encryption. Read more: 19 Best Encryption Software & Tools of 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Constant and consistent developments in PKI; encryption by default, key management processes, underlying blockchain technology and the value of the IoT are also unlikely to shy away from the limelight. Shift towards micro-services.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 Among the Apophis Squad’s targets was encrypted mail service Protonmail, which reached out to this author in 2018 for clues about the identities of the Apophis Squad members after noticing we were both being targeted by them and receiving demands for money in exchange for calling off the attacks.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The top cybersecurity and privacy trends that biggest impact in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

November 3rd, 2018 A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and cryptographic keys, from other processes running in the same CPU core with simultaneous multi-threading feature enabled.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

RansomExx operation has been active since 2018, the list of its victims includes government agencies, the computer manufacturer and distributor GIGABYTE , and the Italian luxury brand Zegna. The ransomware iterates through the specified directories, enumerating and encrypting files. ” concludes the report.

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InfoGovNuggets

JULY 2, 2018

“Emails Add to the Turmoil at WPP,” The Wall Street Journal , June 29, 2018 B2. A company technician recovered WhatsApp messages from the phone of a former employee; these messages were then sent by encrypted email to a few employees. Do you use encryption to send messages anonymously? Do you care?

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Archive Document Data Storage

JANUARY 2, 2018

2018 is here, and it’s time to revisit your data security strategy. Consider using a password manager to help you remember and encrypt your passwords. Make sure that your WiFi network is protected with a strong password and WPA-2 encryption. Update Your Password Strategy. Fortify Your WiFi Network. Back Up Your Data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

But to do that you must believe that the data is going to be protected and that the organization is protecting you – and that requires secure infrastructure and encryption. I look forward not only to our own ongoing growth and success in 2018, but also to contributing to yours! You can also find me at @CindyProvin.

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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. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. This ransomware encrypts data from victims with AES-256 + RSA-8192 and then demands a ~ 2 BTC ransom to get the files back. ” continues Kaspersky.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 It had discovered and fixed the flaw in March 2018 as part of an audit, but opted not to disclose it at the time.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS is a component of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system used to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto. Decryption bottleneck.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ransomware operators leverage a custom antivirus killing p ackage that is delivered to workstations to disable security solution before starting encryption. “The signed driver, part of a now-deprecated software package published by Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte, has a known vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-19320.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2018

Given the level of interest in compliance, then, it’s unsurprising that Thales eSecurity managing principal consultant Ian Christofis delivered his presentation, “Meeting the Challenges of GDPR and other Compliance with Encryption”, to a packed audience. Among the points Ian made: Privacy and security are often confused.

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