eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Touchstone Security employs security talent with experience working on cybersecurity and cloud projects for clients such as NJ Transit, Columbia University, and the Modern Language Association. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Data is recovered remotely or returned on encrypted media.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Quantum computers can launch attacks that break asymmetric cryptography, rendering the entire PKI-based encryption method obsolete. Therefore, governments and organizations, such as NIST, are racing to become cryptographically quantum resilient. Quantum-resistant Security?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Spam Filter.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. They’ll review the breach, mitigate the damage and ensure that you are up and running again as soon as possible.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity. For example, are they encrypting their data? It’s sarcastic, it’s comical, but it’s also real.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace. Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

There are four operators in Myanmar: state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications ( MPT ) , Qatar based Ooredoo, military-aligned Mytel, and privately owned Telenor Myanmar. The block page uses the domain “ urlblocked.pw ” registered the 26th of March 2020 with a free Let’s encrypt certificate. Domain Name: URLBLOCKED.PW

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Immediately following Iran’s counterstrike against American military posts in Iraq, a tweet circulated claiming that more than 20 American soldiers had been killed. Cyberwar could be a life disrupter as well as a business killer. Missing Data.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS). Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. the EternalBlue exploit used by the WannaCry and NotPetya15 attacks); if cloud systems had also been encrypted such as the COVID-19 vaccination system.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

billion for cyber operations in next year’s budget for the Department of Defense, a data that confirms the strategic importance of the fifth domain of the warfare for the US Government. – Artificial Intelligence – $841 million – Cloud – $789 million. The US administration requested $9.8

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. A disturbing 23% of all attacks have been levied on Government and Military organizations, followed by Manufacturing (15%) and Financial Services (14%). . REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0 According to their data, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. It is totally controlled by the government by the censors. Yet, somewhere in China.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Vamosi: In the 1970s, while working for Bell Labs, Robert Morris Sr came up with the idea of a one way algorithm, a means of encryption that can’t easily be decrypted. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

The fact of the matter is that cybersecurity systems have never been better security of our workstations or servers or cloud instances or mobile devices has never been better. Initially ransomware was targeting home users to encrypt your holiday pictures, pay us 200 bucks to get your pictures back. This is just on a larger level.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

So far in 2018, we’ve already seen a handful of government agency mishaps when it comes to security. citizens’ personal data being made available to the public, which has heightened awareness with government officials. government agencies worldwide experienced a breach this past year. Breaking barriers with encryption.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. Its motherboards can be found in made-to-order server setups at banks, hedge funds, cloud computing providers, and web-hosting services, among other places. Government. But the U.S. based firms.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. All of our computerized systems are deeply international, and we have no choice but to trust the companies and governments that touch those systems.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? The disturbing thing is that in North America and Europe more and more arguments are being raised in support of creating and maintaining encryption backdoors for government use.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Infamous cyber opsattributed to Russia-backed hackers fall into a pattern that’s worth noting: • C yber a ttack s on Estonia (2007) Websites of Estonian banks, media outlets and government bodies get knocked down in a dispute over a Soviet-era war memorial. • This means company leaders must do their due diligence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The stand-off between various pro-government hacker groups saw new players come onto the scene, while some previously known groups resumed their operations. Neither private sector companies nor government agencies turned out to be immune to the ransomware plague. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Bitskrieg gives substance to, and connects the dots between, a couple of assertions that have become axiomatic: •Military might no longer has primacy. It used to be the biggest, loudest weapons prevailed and prosperous nations waged military campaigns to achieve physically measurable gains.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. Here are a few things everyone should know about the current state of government-backed cyber ops.

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