Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Findings from the 2018 Federal Edition of the Data Threat Report. 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. national security at risk.

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Encryption Data breaches Digital transformation Blockchain 86

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

. “During the incident, the hackers changed the DNS records for Escrow.com to point to to a third party web server,” Barre wrote , noting that his security team managed to talk to the hacker responsible for the hijack via telephone. The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt.

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Phishing Encryption Passwords Sales 294

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

First released by mobile phone companies in 2019, it relies on radio frequencies for data transmission like its predecessors 3G, 4G and 4G LTE networks. As mobile broadband technology expands, the amount of data generated every day is increasing exponentially to the point where 3G and 4G network infrastructures simply can’t handle it.

Cloud 96

Cloud Encryption IoT Artificial Intelligence 96

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Government Encryption Risk 111

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Experts found an unsecured data bucket containing seven gigabytes worth of unencrypted files that include 350,000,000 strings of unique email addresses. The massive trove of emails was left on a publicly accessible Amazon AWS server, allowing anyone to download and access the data. What data is in the bucket? Who had access?

Passwords 116

Passwords Phishing Marketing Personal data 116

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

pic.twitter.com/4NK5GAm1z2 — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 24, 2018. So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. I don't just mean at the crazy rich end of the scale (4 of the world's top 10 richest people did it in tech - Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison), but at all levels of our profession.

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Education Marketing IT Insurance 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

e-Delivery 91

e-Delivery Encryption Authentication Government 91

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. Screenshot example. Staff Awareness.

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Ransomware Encryption Insurance Cloud 97

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

First discovered in 1998, SQL injections (SQLi) are still a devastatingly effective attack technique and remain a top database security priority. Given most websites are built on data in a database server, a malicious SQL injection can be lethal. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better? Out-of-band.

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Passwords Encryption Access Security 114

The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. Unsavory parties are stealing data, then turning around and attempting to blackmail companies and wealthy individuals into paying.

Ransomware 45

Ransomware Encryption Government Systems administration 45

Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. All rights reserved. Defense Information Technology , Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Sec.

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Cybersecurity Government Authentication Ransomware 97

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts?

Privacy 97

Privacy e-Discovery Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 97

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. At first look the message appears suspicious due to inconsistent sender’s domain data inside the SMTP headers: From: alice.wu@anchors-chain.com. Background. Malicious Email.

Computer and Electronics 78

Computer and Electronics Phishing Security Encryption 78

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the Guidelines, NYDFS cites the 2020 SolarWinds attack as an example of how managing growing cyber risk is “an urgent challenge for insurers.”. For example, Mondelez International Inc. 2018-L-11008, 2018 WL 4941760 (Ill. 10, 2018), remains pending in an Illinois state court. The litigation, Mondelez Intl.

Insurance 70

Insurance Cybersecurity Risk Education 70

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

pic.twitter.com/5DpTbsfNNO — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 15, 2018. Here are the world's 10 largest sites: no EV! pic.twitter.com/iFn98lI4Wq — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 27, 2018. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 24, 2018. — Tony Bradley (@RealTonyBradley) August 24, 2018.

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Marketing Phishing Encryption IT 109

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. Information security is not yet a science; outside of the handful of issues falling under the field of cryptography, there is no formalized system of classification.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60

Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The timestamp of the compressed files shows the attacker weaponized the archive at 22:56 of 13th December 2018, within the domain activation time-span. All the files have misleading extension to confuse the analysis and most of them are text files containing junk data. Example of malware evasion. Example of malware evasion.

Phishing 70

Phishing Archiving Sales Encryption 70

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. Example of execution of the malware. Figure 10: Downlaoded javascript from equityfloat[.]pw Technical Analysis. Exported functions by the malicious dll.

Libraries 69

Libraries Phishing Encryption Authentication 69

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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. New guidance and frameworks for health data not regulated by HIPAA.

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Risk Compliance Privacy Phishing 40

Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The vote to adopt the prior versions of the proposed amendments to the CFR Model Laws was delayed in December 2018 after the U.S. Volunteer groups also continued to request further clarity from the GCC Working Group as to how confidentiality will be maintained for the data such groups provide during the field-testing process.

Insurance 68

Insurance Blockchain Big data Risk 68

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Paper Security IT 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Paper Security IT 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The latter leverages the WinRar/Ace vulnerability ( CVE-2018-20250 ) dropping the malware itself into the Windows startup folder. For example, it uses VM-protection techniques, debug-protection, virtual machine emulation, anti-monitors techniques, anti-memory patching (see all Themida features here ). Technical Analysis.

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Security IT Access Cybersecurity 57

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. Accordingly, the CCPA was passed unanimously on June 28, 2018 by the California legislature and signed by the governor the same day.

Privacy 58

Privacy Sales Compliance Cybersecurity 58

OneHub

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Here are three steps to take before migrating your business data to the cloud. Security When it comes to choosing a document sharing service, security should always be one of the first criterion you check. Investigate past performances of a company to make sure security isn’t a responsibility they struggle with.

Cloud 40

Cloud Data migration Encryption Authentication 40

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. Accordingly, the CCPA was passed unanimously on June 28, 2018 by the California legislature and signed by the governor the same day.

Privacy 58

Privacy Sales Education Compliance 58

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Paper Security IT 40

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Back in 2018, they bought $50,000 in cryptocurrency and then locked it safely within their Trezor One wallet. But here’s the thing, after 16 guesses the data on the wallet would automatically erase. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something.

Libraries 52

Libraries Blockchain Mining Encryption 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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IoT Communications Security IT 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

IoT 52

IoT Communications Security IT 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

Managing Your Information

MAY 25, 2017

Identify the personal data that you hold. You should also identify information falling within the Special Categories (Article 9) or data relating to criminal convictions and offences (Article 10). Identify each of your specific purposes for processing personal data. Develop procedures for reporting data breaches.

GDPR 31

GDPR Personal data Compliance Data breaches 31

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

Managing Your Information

MAY 25, 2017

Identify the personal data that you hold. You should also identify information falling within the Special Categories (Article 9) or data relating to criminal convictions and offences (Article 10). Identify each of your specific purposes for processing personal data. Develop procedures for reporting data breaches.

GDPR 28

GDPR Personal data Compliance Data breaches 28

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

link] — John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) February 24, 2018. When data in Pwned Passwords is queried using the k-Anonymity model, the request looks like this: [link]. I mean why sit the data in a queryable construct when ultimately, that range search simply pulls back one of 1,048,576 different results that don't change!

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