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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure. There's a lot to argue with about the methodology and the assumptions.

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Strong Encryption Explained: 6 Encryption Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved in Coronavirus containment with Ransomware

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. ” The messages use a weaponized rich text format (RTF) attachment that exploits the CVE-2012-0158 buffer overflow in Microsoft’s ListView / TreeView ActiveX controls in MSCOMCTL.OCX library. .” ” continues the analysis.

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Cyber espionage campaign targets Asian countries since 2021

Security Affairs

” reads an analysis published by Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software. The attackers used Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading to deliver the malicious code. In some cases, the arbitrary shellcode is encrypted.” ” continues the report.

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Nodersok malware delivery campaign relies on advanced techniques

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. About 3% of the infected systems belong to organizations in different sectors, including education, professional services, healthcare, finance, and retail. based payload, and a bunch of encrypted files. The Powershell command downloads additional components.

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12 Types of Vulnerability Scans & When to Run Each

eSecurity Planet

The agent does the vulnerability scan and sends the results to a central server for analysis and remediation. platform for analysis and vulnerability assessment. They look for possible vulnerabilities such as input validation errors, improper coding practices, and known susceptible libraries in the codebase. Tenable.io

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Chinese Cycldek APT targets Vietnamese Military and Government in sophisticated attacks

Security Affairs

In the recent campaign associated with Cycldek , Kaspersky observed that attackers targeted a legitimate component from Microsoft Outlook (FINDER.exe) by loading the malicious library outlib.dll that is used to hijacks the intended execution flow of the program to decode and run a shellcode placed in the rdmin.src binary file.