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Nearly Half of All Malware Is Concealed in TLS-Encrypted Communications

Dark Reading

Forty-six percent of all malware uses the cryptographic protocol to evade detection, communicate with attacker-controlled servers, and to exfiltrate data, new study shows.

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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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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Emails make up a significant part of our day to day business communications. Emails make up a significant part of our day to day business communications.

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New Perfctl Malware targets Linux servers in cryptomining campaign

Security Affairs

For communication, it uses a Unix socket internally and TOR externally. The attackers analyzed the server and deployed utilities to investigate its environment and better understand how their malware was being studied. The Linux malware is packed and encrypted to evade detection. The cryptominer is also packed and encrypted.

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SHARED INTEL: What can be done — today — to keep quantum computing from killing encryption

The Last Watchdog

The study, sponsored by DigiCert, Inc., Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. To its credit, the global cybersecurity community is not asleep on this. A difficult transition The transition enterprises face won’t be simple nor cheap.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: The need to stop mobile apps from exposing API keys, user credentials in runtime

The Last Watchdog

Mobile apps work by hooking into dozens of different APIs, and each connection presents a vector for bad actors to get their hands on “API secrets,” i.e. backend data to encryption keys, digital certificates and user credentials that enable them to gain unauthorized control.

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iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off

Schneier on Security

t turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip­ — which is key to making features like Find My work­ — has no mechanism for digitally signing or even encrypting the firmware it runs. The research is the first — or at least among the first — to study the risk posed by chips running in low-power mode.