Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Someone sent this to me just today: pic.twitter.com/1ukVDcMKZT — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 17, 2018 I had a lot of discussions with companies trying to work out how to handle this incident as it relates to employees using their work addresses.

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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 ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.”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 !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

One such example is the recent disclosure that military personnel wearing Strava devices are revealing highly sensitive information about their locations and activities. For example, are they encrypting their data? For more information about keeping data secure, please visit our data encryption landing page.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The cyberspies first compromised the network of the country’s Federal College of Public Administration , then breached into the network of the Foreign Office in March 2017, the hack was discovered by German authorities at the end of the year and publicly disclosed in March 2018. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. ” Recently media shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance capabilities of the US law enforcement detailing which data can be extracted from encrypted messaging apps. Source Property of the People. ” states the U.S. .”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. the EternalBlue exploit used by the WannaCry and NotPetya15 attacks); if cloud systems had also been encrypted such as the COVID-19 vaccination system.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Silverfort is the brainchild of a band of colleagues who toiled together in the encryption branch of Unit 8200 , the elite cybersecurity arm of the Israeli military. I met with Kovetz and Silverfort’s VP of Market Strategy, Dana Tamir, at Black Hat USA 2018. For a full drill down, please listen to the accompanying podcast.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Silverfort is the brainchild of a band of colleagues who toiled together in the encryption branch of Unit 8200 , the elite cybersecurity arm of the Israeli military. I met with Kovetz and Silverfort’s VP of Market Strategy, Dana Tamir, at Black Hat USA 2018. For a full drill down, please listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. Encrypting critical data assets. On February 21, 2018, the SEC issued an additional cybersecurity disclosure guidance document to assist public companies in drafting their cybersecurity disclosures in their SEC filings. Encrypting Critical Data Assets.

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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. UniCredit fined €2.8

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the summer of 2018 during Rootz, a program to teach kids hacking during the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, an eleven-year-old hacker exploited an online imitation of the State of Florida’s Election Site in a matter of minutes. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the summer of 2018 during Rootz, a program to teach kids hacking during the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, an eleven-year-old hacker exploited an online imitation of the State of Florida’s Election Site in a matter of minutes. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In the summer of 2018 during Rootz, a program to teach kids hacking during the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, an eleven-year-old hacker exploited an online imitation of the State of Florida’s Election Site in a matter of minutes. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

For example, from CSAW 2018, John talked about a crypto challenge category on the Jeopardy board called babycrypto. Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

For example, from CSAW 2018, John talked about a crypto challenge category on the Jeopardy board called babycrypto. Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Vamosi: In the 1970s, while working for Bell Labs, Robert Morris Sr came up with the idea of a one way algorithm, a means of encryption that can’t easily be decrypted. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Whoa, how cool is that.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Whoa, how cool is that.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

SolarWinds has removed its customer list from its website, but the Internet Archive saved it : all five branches of the US military, the state department, the White House, the NSA, 425 of the Fortune 500 companies, all five of the top five accounting firms, and hundreds of universities and colleges.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Findings from the 2018 Federal Edition of the Data Threat Report. So far in 2018, we’ve already seen a handful of government agency mishaps when it comes to security. Breaking barriers with encryption. To see the full results of the Federal Edition of the 2018 Global Data Threat Report, please click here.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

This IP is was first seen on October 2018 and was active until April 2019. APT28 (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , SofacyGroup , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) launched several attacks on democratic institutions in Europe between September and December 2018. Figure 7: user agent set by malware. Figure 8: information about DropURL/C2.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? The disturbing thing is that in North America and Europe more and more arguments are being raised in support of creating and maintaining encryption backdoors for government use.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network. Military operations conducted by various intelligence services are becoming increasingly common. This is a four-fold increase compared to the previous review period (H2 2018 to H1 2019), when it totaled $1.6 IT giants, and media companies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

However, evidence that the ‘golden age’ of cyber espionage is upon us continues to accumulate as the first half of 2018 comes to a close. Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S.

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