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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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PCI DSS compliance: a range of encryption approaches available to secure your data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Not all types of encryption give you the coverage and flexibility you need. One of the most common and most effective approaches to protecting data is encryption. Encryption is typically employed on four layers of the technology stack: Disk (or media). The pros and cons of encrypting at different layers in the technology stack.

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Reading the “ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE FOR RANSOMWARE ATTACKS” report

Security Affairs

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Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy

Schneier on Security

Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers or potential child abusers, displaying warnings in the Messenger app that provide tips and suggest you block the offenders. That default Messenger encryption will take years to implement.

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Patch Tuesday, November 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

The other is a publicly disclosed bug in Microsoft’s Bitlocker encryption technology ( CVE-2018-8566 ) that could allow an attacker to get access to encrypted data. One mitigating factor with both security holes is that the attacker would need to be already logged in to the targeted system to exploit them.

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Payroll Provider Gives Extortionists a Payday

Krebs on Security

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb.

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Securing Corporate Data When Remote Working is the Norm

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Below are a few tips for your IT and security operations teams, even when working remotely, to proactively protect your business as you expand the secure support of remote workers. If your business is taking an ‘encrypt everything’ approach, data discovery with risk analysis will help prioritize where to deploy data security solutions first.

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