Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2019

As one of our recent blogs discussed, we are entering a new era of business – one that will see wholesale digital transformation drive a digital-first approach by businesses globally. Encryption, encryption, encryption. The financial and reputational damage could prove to be severe. The GDPR effect.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The attacker might, for example, search social media to find the name, email address and job title of a company director. Many people believe that this indicates that a URL is genuine, but it simply means that traffic sent to the site is encrypted. Microsoft boasts of improved phishing protection in Windows 11. Get started.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, Amazon.com is depicted as Amaz0n.com, or something.gov.us An SSL certificate ensures that the website is encrypted and secure. Keep yourself updated with the latest Pharming techniques used by cybercriminals by following the cybersecurity blogs , magazines, and news portal. is copied as somethinggov.us.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” APT28 sent additional SNMP commands to enumerate router interfaces. T1078.001] The compromized routers were configured to accept SNMP v2 requests. ” The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS 12.0

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. The blog post examines a typical Hancitor and Cuba kill chain, the threat actors’ TTPs, detailed recommendations, and mitigation techniques. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

” reads the blog post published by OTORIO. This gave the attackers easy access to the system and the ability to modify any value in the system, allowing them, for example, to tamper with the water pressure, change the temperature and more. All the adversaries needed was a connection to the world-wide-web, and a web browser.”.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 16, 2022

South Staffordshire Water was reportedly infected with ransomware, which is a type of malware that encrypts the victim’s files and essentially locks them out of their systems. Education is the key to ransomware prevention. The post South Staffordshire Water Targeted by Cyber Attack appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 19, 2023

By 2024, for instance, 75% of the entire world’s population will have its personal data protected by encryption, multifactor authentication, masking and erasure, as well as data resilience. Take Apple, for example. The post Make data protection a 2023 competitive differentiator appeared first on Journey to AI Blog.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Encryption and access controls for underlying platforms (35% global and U.S.). The easiest path might be to encrypt the entire data lake and employ features that will harden platform security itself, such as authentication, user identity management, access monitoring, security information event management (SIEM) systems, and so forth.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2022

An Oxford-educated mathematician working at the IBM San Jose Research Lab, Edgar “Ted” Codd, published a paper in 1970 showing how information stored in large databases could be accessed without knowing how the information was structured or where it resided in the database. They were expensive. No one knows your data like you do.

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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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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. Get started The post Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for April 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2019

There are six bases in total and, with the exception of consent , each one might be suitable in different circumstances: A contract with the individual : for example, to supply goods or services, which may include a provision that those services are monitored. For example, it might say, “CCTV is in operation for the purpose of public safety”.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Whilst most of the obligations are imposed specifically on network operators, one provision notably imposes an obligation on parents to educate their children on protecting their personal data. The post China Implements Regulation Increasing Protections for Children’s Personal Data appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Probably not.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. For example, Mondelez International Inc. The litigation, Mondelez Intl.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this blog, we look at those principles and explain the steps you can take to meet them. Additionally, you should consider encrypting data or using VPNs where possible. Encryption can greatly reduce the risk of data being compromised in transit, but it will also make sharing data more complex and will require significant resources.

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OneHub

MAY 13, 2021

Onehub uses bank-level encryption to provide the best protection for your company’s files and communications. For example, if you’ve submitted a document for approval that contains carefully worded legal statements, you probably don’t want your client changing those directly in the document. Educate your clients on document approvals.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

The correct answer to this question is: The traffic between the browser and the webshop is encrypted. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too. But the option does not exist. — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 4, 2012.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 14, 2020

Ransomware is a specific type of malware that encrypts computer files, essentially locking the owner out of their systems. For example, there’s the possibility that the cyber criminals will up the ransom demand if you try to negotiate, or that they won’t keep their word once you’ve paid. What is ransomware?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. This ensures that S3 data is encrypted and if a misconfiguration or breach occurs, only unusable data leaks.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 3, 2019

Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding blockchain and legal technology titled Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. Several actual examples may show the actual utility of blockchain. General Use Cases for Blockchain. So, what do you think?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

Last August, my colleague Ashvin Kamaraju wrote a blog shortly after this took place. For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. The post How to prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

The report goes on to note: In addition to the massive Equifax breach that exposed personal information of 143 million individuals, other noted breaches last year included the education platform Edmodo (77 million records hacked); Verizon (14 million subscribers possibly hacked); and America’s JobLink (nearly 5 million records compromised).

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

An example of the importance of data privacy is in the healthcare industry, where it’s critical to protect confidential patient information for patient trust and comply with regulations. Put into place data protection tools such as data encryption algorithms, key management, redaction, data masking and erasure, and data resiliency.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 2, 2019

One example relates to processing children’s personal data. This means you’ll need to develop an information security policy , implement basic technical controls such as those laid out in established frameworks like Cyber Essentials , and encrypt or pseudonymise data where appropriate. GDPR exemptions for charities.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

A much better way is to integrate an innovative technology that distributes encrypted, unique passwords to the employees that only they can use to access each separate device, account, file, or system. Just as employees don’t bring their own keys to the office, they should not bring their own passwords to the digital office.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s been a year full of predictable and unpredictable incidents alike, and in this blog, we’ve compiled the most memorable stories of 2022. Coca-Cola received an overwhelming majority of the votes, beating out the toy maker Mattel, the online education platform Blackboard, the tech firm Danaher and General Electrics’ aviation subsidiary.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. For example, when I reported the Red Cross Blood Service leak last year , they set a gold standard in terms of how they dealt with the incident.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

This article will provide some insights into current phishing methods cyber-criminals leverage to exploit human behavior, performance metrics useful for measuring organizational resiliency to phishing, and examples of free tools that can be leveraged to conduct internal simulated phishing exercises.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

Now, Tom has written another terrific overview for Understanding eDiscovery in Criminal Cases that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog. To see an example of how Early Data Assessment is conducted using our CloudNine platform, click here (requires BrightTalk account, which is free).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model. For example, how much data, how sensitive, how available must it be, user access levels, what kind of internet connection, access to and from where? Encryption Key Management.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These types of statistics are probably at least partly fuelled by some worrying ransomware trends we’ve been seeing lately, including gangs adopting more organised structures, favouring data exfiltration over mere encryption, and spending more time in victims’ systems to find their most sensitive data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, spear phishing messages include phone numbers the target can call for confirmation; the numbers are answered by fraudulent reps. Example of a spear phishing attack In August 2022, cloud-based communication giant Twilio suffered a sophisticated spear phishing attack that compromised its network.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: You’ve undoubtedly seen Kim Crawly’s work; her byline appears on a number of blogs from a number of different outlets. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. She is an impressive force within the infosec world.

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