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Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates

Krebs on Security

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. In addition, the Japanese Police, supported by Europol, have released a recovery tool designed to recover files encrypted by the LockBit 3.0

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Keeping the Internet Secure

Adam Shostack

Today, a global coalition led by civil society and technology experts sent a letter asking the government of Australia to abandon plans to introduce legislation that would undermine strong encryption. Read the full announcement here ).

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MY TAKE: Why consumers are destined to play a big role in securing the Internet of Things

The Last Watchdog

billion IoT devices in use as of 2017, half are consumer gadgets, like smart TVs, speakers, watches, baby cams and home thermostats; much of the rest is made up of things like smart electric meters and security cameras in corporate and government use. This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. But even then there were people who saw where this was all going, and there were some pretty big government programs to look into it. National Security Agency.

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OCR Provides Insight into Enforcement Priorities and Breach Trends

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. OCR chooses cases based on perceived importance and message.

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German DPAs Adopt Resolutions on EU Data Protection and IPv6

Hunton Privacy

On November 8, 2012, the 84th Conference of the German Data Protection Commissioners concluded in Frankfurt (Oder). During the Conference, four Resolutions were adopted. Operating system manufacturers must implement strong encryption algorithms in their Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) and Internet Protocol (“IP”) stacks.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.