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Data Security Trends: 2024 Report Analysis

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Security Trends: 2024 Report Analysis madhav Mon, 03/25/2024 - 05:08 Amid ongoing economic uncertainty and a progressively complex threat landscape, businesses are trying to navigate increasingly stringent regulatory requirements while bolstering their security posture. Download the full Thales 2024 Thales Data Threat Report now.

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National Academy of Sciences Encryption Study

Data Matters

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.) device locking, secure messaging, etc.);

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Spotting RATs: Delphi wrapper makes the analysis harder

Security Affairs

Experts observed an increase of the malware spreading using less-known archive types as dropper,in particular ISO image.Delphi wrapper makes analysis harder. Technical Analysis. Moreover, in our previous report we have already studied the Delphi wrapper, this time applied to a Nanocore variant. Introduction. Figure 2.

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RedEnergy Stealer-as-a-Ransomware employed in attacks in the wild

Security Affairs

. “The sample Stealer-as-a-Ransomware variant analyzed in this case study employs a deceptive FAKEUPDATES campaign to lure in its targets, tricking them into promptly updating their browsers. Once inside the system, this malicious variant stealthily extracts sensitive information and proceeds to encrypt the compromised files.”

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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. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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How to handle a ransomware attack 

IBM Big Data Hub

Of the 1,350 organizations surveyed in a recent study, 78 percent suffered a successful ransomware attack (link resides outside ibm.com). Hackers know this might be your first instinct, and some types of ransomware notice restart attempts and cause additional harm, like damaging Windows or deleting encrypted files.

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Reading the “ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE FOR RANSOMWARE ATTACKS” report

Security Affairs

The ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE FOR RANSOMWARE ATTACKS report aims to bring new insights into the reality of ransomware incidents through mapping and studying ransomware incidents from May 2021 to June 2022. of all the stolen data contains GDPR personal data based on this analysis; In 95.3% The findings are worrisome.