Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Reflecting organizations’ persistent interest in IoT, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that overall, the number of smart devices will reach 41.6 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. Take manufacturing, for instance. billion in number and generate 79.4 Healthcare is in Need of a Check-Up.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

Most of us connect our mobile devices to a Wi-Fi router for internet access, but this connection can leave our network and data vulnerable to cyber threats. To protect against those threats, a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol is recommended. The exact method for doing this may vary depending on your router manufacturer.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Two security researchers have found undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Two security researchers have discovered undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. C-Data was not immediately available for comment.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2023

Unfortunately, Smart Devices are popular ports of entry for cybercriminals to conduct Digital break-ins to then steal our identities, customer data, financial information, bank accounts, credit cards, etc. One famous example of a digital break-in via a Smart Device is the Casino Fish Tank attack. The house did not win on that day!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. Zero trust is an important new tool to add to all that, essentially walling off your most important data. Data backup.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2019

Of particular public concern is the issue raised that law enforcement agencies will be allowed to directly intercept messages sent through end-to-end encryption under technical assistance and capability notices, affecting tools used by companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, and Telegram (who have all publicly denounced the Act).

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Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector , a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. Some examples include: Samsung Smart TV. Dahua is also a security camera manufacturer, although Amcrest's website makes no references to Dahua.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. The FBI provided the following mitigations to protect against ransomware attacks: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Implement network segmentation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Then the malware encrypts the files on the system, skipping Windows system files and folders. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt. The experts noticed that the malware appends the ‘ EKANS ‘ file marker to each encrypted file. One such example would be Project Root.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Its operators have a DLS site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. Downloaded data is decrypted, decompressed and injected to newly started svchost.exe process.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics in their campaign to hijack legitimate email conversations to steal sensitive data from the victims. QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

In ongoing discussions with our customers, we received feedback from those who are concerned about letting end users authenticate to sensitive IT resources using a device that could be compromised - for example a jailbroken or rooted device. Data security. Continuous Risk Detection. Frequently Asked Questions. More About This Author >.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

We are just getting started with the process of turning over granular control of every aspect of human society to ubiquitous digital sensors tuned to feed endless streams of data into increasingly “intelligent” machine algorithms. This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Upon the installation, the malicious app registers itself as a foreground service and extracts an encrypted payload that gathers information about the victim’s device (android_id, manufacturer, model, firmware version, etc.) and sends it to a server under the control of the attackers ([link]. ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that security is no longer being ignored during the manufacturing of the devices. There are also data privacy implications with IoT. Ellen's experience with medical clients gives her a more critical view of the need for data privacy with IoT devices. Data security. Encryption Key Management.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets. Moreover, Egregor operators have been using Rclone for data exfiltration – same as with ProLock. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% Inside Egregor.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

In ongoing discussions with our customers, we received feedback from those who are concerned about letting end users authenticate to sensitive IT resources using a device that could be compromised - for example a jailbroken or rooted device. Data security. Continuous Risk Detection. Frequently Asked Questions. More About This Author >.

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Architect Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

I was asked recently to provide some thoughts on physical data destruction for an article David Spark ( CISOseries.com, Twitter: @dspark , LinkedIn) was working on. Policy around data classification is going to dictate certain aspects of how that data must be treated. Customer data? An employee’s laptop? Website backups?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example. TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. BK: Can you give some examples? BK: For example….?

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OneHub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Cloud computing describes the process of storing and retrieving programs and data via the internet rather than via a hard drive. Cloud based software has had a measurable impact on business productivity both for large manufacturers and small businesses. Image source. 5 Mobility. 6 Lower costs. 9 Reduction in environmental impact.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm allow attackers to steal private data from hundreds of million millions of devices, especially Android smartphones. Security experts from Check Point have discovered security flaws in Qualcomm that could be exploited attackers to steal private data from the so-called TrustZone.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Because of VPNs’ vulnerabilities – a recent example involved a massive leak of Fortinet users’ passwords – a number of security vendors have been pushing zero trust network access as a potential replacement for VPNs. Some VPN providers encrypt devices in such a way that fast incident response is impossible.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To give some indication of the scale of the commercial issue, here are some widely reported examples of organisations affected by breaches caused by misconfiguration issues: Equifax: 146 million names, 99 million addresses, 209,000 payment cards, 38,000 drivers’ licences and 3,200 passports exposed. Secure your devices and software.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

With IoT PKI, Secure IoT can be accomplished by enabling strong authentication and encryption of communication to ensure the integrity of transactions and data. An example of some of the protocols that cover this are Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) and Certificate Enrollment for Billions of Things (CEBOT).

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. The Threat Level Is Rising.

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MIKE 2.0

JULY 30, 2017

In the 1970s, companies like Toyota revolutionised manufacturing with “just in time” supply chains. The best manufacturers in the world solved this by putting enormous pressure on quality to avoid exactly these sort of disruptions. That’s because the complexity of these system interdependencies has grown exponentially.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

That list corresponds to the list of OES under the NIS Directive, supplemented with the following entities: additional entities in the energy sector , adding for example district heating and cooling and operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission. social networking services platforms.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

The data gathered by 5G? For example, what’s the trust relationship between User Equipment and other things? The device should distrust the network, and encrypt its data in ways that are opaque to the network, and apply trust from one endpoint to another, rather than decrypting it at various points within the system.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Moving into 2020, organizations with health data should be aware of: Shifting OCR enforcement priorities; Regulators’ continued attention to key HIPAA compliance activities; The changing threat landscape for health data; and. New guidance and frameworks for health data not regulated by HIPAA. Enforcement Trends and Priorities.

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