Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To counter HNDL, migrating critical systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) provides encryption and authentication methods resistant to an attack from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

However, as with any software component, APIs are also prone to security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. API security is an ongoing process that demands continual attention and effort from everyone on the development team. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

The experts discovered that the attackers are hiding encrypted shellcode containing the next-stage malware as 8KB pieces in event logs. “This launcher, dropped into the Tasks directory by the first stager, proxies all calls to wer.dll and its exports to the original legitimate library. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The flaw affects the process implemented by the Signal Desktop application to encrypt locally stored messages. Signal Desktop application leverages an encrypted SQLite database called db.sqlite to store the user’s messages. The encryption key is used each time Signal Desktop application accessed the database.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

As the head of a security company I’m hypersensitive about the security of my personal and company data. I know that in the age of devices we use interchangeably in our work and personal lives that unless everything you are doing is secure, nothing is secure. I appreciate I’m in the minority because of what I do.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As The 2018 Thales Global Data Threat Report notes, “The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. Moreover, encryption keys must be protected and managed in a trusted manner for security and compliance with regulations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hybrid Cloud Mesh Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a modern application-centric connectivity solution that is simple, secure, scalable and seamless. It creates a secure network overlay for applications distributed across cloud, edge and on-prem and holistically tackles the challenges posed by distribution of services across hybrid multicloud.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates address 56 CVEs in multiple products, including Windows components,NET Framework, Azure IoT, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Edge for Android, Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Skype for Business and Lync, and Windows Defender.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

.” 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. The post Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved in Coronavirus containment with Ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. During the encryption phase, the ransomware creates an HTML Application “JSWRM-DECRYPT.hta” in each folder it encounters. The malware encrypts all the files whose extension is not present in the list. Figure 3: Extensions excluded from encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Every June, Gartner hosts a terrific security conference near Washington, D.C. called Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. This event is focused on the needs of senior IT and security professionals, such as CISOs, chief risk officers, architects, IAM and network security leaders. The keyboard of course!

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

As software development teams move towards a DevOps culture, security is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the development process. DevSecOps is a practice that integrates security into the DevOps workflow. According to GitLab’s 2022 Global DevSecOps Survey , there isn’t enough clarity around who owns security.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management. Why is the CIA triad important?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Microsoft has released a security update to address “a broad cryptographic vulnerability” that is impacting its Windows operating system. dll module that contains various ‘Certificate and Cryptographic Messaging functions’ used by the Windows Crypto API for data encryption. . The flaw affects the way Crypt32.dll

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

“Although issues with certificate validation have been identified within the encrypted communication between the mobile application and the backend system, the inner layer of end-to-end encryption could not be broken.” ” reads the blog post published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A decade ago, the Doghouse was a regular feature in both my email newsletter Crypto-Gram and my blog. I dropped it both because it stopped being fun and because almost everyone converged on standard cryptographic libraries, which meant standard non-snake-oil cryptography. Crown Sterling is complete and utter snake oil.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

The sample has been initially identified by an Italian independent security researcher, who warned the InfoSec community and shared the binary for further analysis. Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel. AutoIt script’s main function.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. Main of the JS script.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 15, 2020

Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. That's really bad, and you should all patch your system right now , before you finish reading this blog post. It was discovered by security researchers. dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Sites like British Airways and Ticketmaster have to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) , just like the rest of our clients. the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discovery focuses on understanding legacy application, infrastructure, data, interaction between applications, services and data and other aspects like security. Likewise, there are several other Generative AI use cases that include generating of target technology framework-specific code patterns for security controls.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. These registry keys are responsible of the loading of dynamically linked libraries in the “read only ” and “ hidden ” “ C:ProgramDataD93C2DAC ”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built. This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. For this blog post we will be looking at the Netgear N300 (henceforth referred to as DGN2200v4) router firmware image. Prerequisites.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built. This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. For this blog post we will be looking at the Netgear N300 (henceforth referred to as DGN2200v4) router firmware image. Prerequisites.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

Overcoming these challenges fuels our understanding of the security and abuse landscape. mail delivery security. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. Play Store app module : This is an injected library that allows the malware to issue commands to the Play store through the Play store app.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

Overcoming these challenges fuels our understanding of the security and abuse landscape. mail delivery security. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. Play Store app module : This is an injected library that allows the malware to issue commands to the Play store through the Play store app.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2019

This layer is quite different because it contains a junk-char enriched hexadecimal code, actually XOR encrypted with the 0x52 key. This means, the content of the variable “$y” actually is a.NET Dynamic Linked Library. Technical details, including IoCs and Yara Rules, are available in the analysis published in the Yoroi blog.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. KrebsOnSecurity was seeking comment from the FSB about a blog post published by Vladislav “BadB” Horohorin , a former international stolen credit card trafficker who served seven years in U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). dll library). dll this case).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

My last blog about Vormetric Application Encryption covered new RESTful APIs and it revealed that those APIs provide quite a bit of granular control in the use of encryption keys. This enhances security by reducing the “attack surface” in an IT environment while maintaining IT efficiency with centralized access control policies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. If a path is passed, then the library is only loaded from the specific path. Avira.OE.NativeCore.dll: malicious DLL used during the DLL side-loading process.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick. In a message posted to its victim shaming blog, DarkSide tried to say it was “apolitical” and that it didn’t wish to participate in geopolitics.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Moreover, many of these financial services applications support regulated workloads, which require strict levels of security and compliance, including Zero Trust protection of the workloads. This requires a deep level of security and compliance throughout the entire build and deployment process. initiative.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The first alert related to this wave was observed on March 22nd by The Computer Security Certified Response Team (CSIRT), of the Ministry of the Interior from Chile. They encourage users to stay tuned for their computer security alerts. We could not retrieve any more information about this library in malware. Technical Analysis.

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