Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

j/5551112222 Zoom has an option to include an encrypted passcode within a meeting invite link, which simplifies the process for attendees by eliminating the need to manually enter the passcode. That way, only invited attendees will know how to join your meeting.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Each EEA state sets its own definition of “child” under the GDPR. Companies must be prepared to comply with these varying definitions. If a breach is unlikely to harm users—for example, if the stolen data is so heavily encrypted that hackers can’t use it—the company does not need to notify data subjects.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Threat is Definitely Real. 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. It encrypts the connection and masks the IP addresses of all devices on the network.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

PIPL Compliance CCPA Compliance GDPR Compliance How to Stay Up to Date with Changing Compliance Regulations. Pseudonymous data can also fall under the definition if it’s relatively easy to ID someone from it.”. How to Stay Up to Date with Changing Compliance Regulations. Compliance Overview. PIPL Compliance. Back to top.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Specifically, companies are increasingly asking me about how to secure their data and infrastructure while continuing to be able to work remotely. So how can organisations efficiently secure their remote infrastructure? If you can, stick with OpenVPN, but definitely use L2TP/IPsec over PPTP. In short: stay away.

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The Texas Record

JULY 15, 2020

One of the most common type of questions we receive in the Records Management Assistance Unit is how to classify, find, file, and match records to the local government retention schedules. If the records are in a cipher, you need a key to reveal them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

At a global level, there's a broad acceptance that security teams are tightly involved with policy definition (82%), but an almost even split in relation to enforcement; 37% believe it is the security team’s responsibility while 45% believe that policy enforcement is up to the cloud provider.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

The CCPA uses a very broad definition of what constitutes as Personal Information (PI), defining PI as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” The CCPA, which will come into effect on Jan.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Data encryption. In the cloud era, data encryption is more important than ever. Hackers are constantly finding new ways to access data, and encrypting your data makes it much more difficult for them to do so. There are many different ways to encrypt your data, so you should choose the method that best suits your needs.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Anyone searching for a primer on how to spot clever phishing links need look no further than those targeting customers of Apple , whose brand by many measures remains among the most-targeted. Almost all of these include encryption certificates (start with “[link] and begin with the subdomains “apple.” apple.com-sign[.]in.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employees are the first line of defense against cybercrime and should understand how to recognize phishing emails and what to do if they suspect them. Additionally, employees should receive guidance on how to report suspicious activity and confront strangers in secure areas. Data inventory also makes your data searchable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Stan Mesceda, Senior Product Manager at Thales and Eric Hay, Director of Field Engineering at Quantum Xchange, came together to discuss how to create a dynamic, crypto-agile infrastructure for future-proofing the security of your data and communications networks. The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Virgin Islands, and Guam) have their own data breach notification laws (and each such state, accordingly, has its very own definition of such basic terms as “data” and “breach”) – with Massachusetts’ and California’s respective breach-notification schemes viewed as among the strictest. In the U.S.,

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll explain legacy protocols in Active Directory and then look at how to check whether they are disabled or not on all domain controllers in an Active Directory forest. We explain how to do so below. The client uses password hash to encrypt the challenge and sends it back to the domain controller as a “response.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. Hakçil: It is definitely the tip of the iceberg. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. based PeopleGIS.

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IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

Ransomware soared in popularity at in around 2020, with attackers committing to a relatively simple method: infect organisations’ systems with malware that worms through their systems and encrypts data. With these attacks, the criminal hackers don’t simply encrypt organisations’ systems and demand money for the safe return of the data.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

For guidance on what constitutes personal data, see: GDPR: How the definition of personal data has changed. How to make a restricted transfer in accordance with the GDPR. Pseudonymisation and encryption. The GDPR advises organisations to pseudonymise and/or encrypt all personal data. Implementing encryption.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 19, 2019

Twilio is sponsoring my blog again this week (check how to implement 2FA in your app with Authy). I'd love your votes folks ??)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, they definitely had to put “passed” in quotation marks because email authentication checks only fail spoofed emails under very specific configurations that most companies fail to implement. An email server will not compare the encryption key or the domain in the header with the domain shown in the “From” field to check for a match.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Definition, How it Works, & Examples. their significance, and their pros and cons.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

Also read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks. In order to understand DNS attacks and how they can affect you, you must first understand what DNS is and how it works: Each device connected has a unique IP to allow other machines to find and recognize them. DNS Encryption: DoH vs. DoT. How to Secure DNS With DNSSEC.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This would have helped us to plan in advance where to start scraping out the epoxy and how to approach the opening of the case and how to reach the MCU. This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. Subsequently I filled it with a bunch of dummy credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls. Source: Curity Tips on How to Avoid API Attacks API attacks are among the most common and damaging cybersecurity issues.

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Ransomware soared in popularity at the end of the last decade, with a relatively simple method: attackers would infect organisations’ systems with malware that would worm through their systems encrypting data. With these attacks, the criminal hackers don’t simply encrypt organisations’ systems and demand money for the safe return of the data.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Leveraging habits SyncDog sought to take a fresh approach by deploying robust encryption to mission-critical apps and sensitive company data. In the back end, work and personal functions are definitively separated. Encryption is the mainstay of our approach,” Egenrieder says. “We In the back end, security is the main focus.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data Breaches How they occur: Unauthorized access to sensitive data can happen as a result of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations such as flawed access permissions or unprotected data and instances. Prevention: Implement robust encryption , access restrictions, data categorization, secure connections, and an incident response strategy.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many merchants lack a definition of the scope of the payment environment for PCI certification. They also frequently underestimate which portions of their environment are required to be compliant and how to secure those systems. Data protection is not just about using encryption, firewalls and antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The internet data transmitted on these networks is not encrypted. Since this data is not encrypted, the hackers do not have to do much to use that data for their evil purposes. There definitely is a way to stay protected on these public Wi-Fi hotspots and we are discussing it below.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections 10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know Overall Network Security Best Practices Best practices for network security directly counter the major threats to the network with specific technologies and controls. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramill described a step-by-step procedure that shows how to dissect an Office dropper. During the past few weeks, I received several emails asking how to dissect Office Payloads. The used variable holds a Base64 representation of encrypted data. stage2: powershell extraction.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Dentons’ Privacy Community met on 3 February to discuss how to tackle data transfers from the EU and UK to third countries following the CJEU’s decision in the Schrems II case, the European Data Protection Board’s subsequent guidance, and the European Commission’s draft replacement Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kafka clusters can be automatically scaled based on demand, with full encryption and access control. There starts to be concern over duplication, and how to improve that visibility and promote greater efficiency and reuse. How will access be controlled? How will workloads be managed to avoid swamping backend systems?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

There’s definitely a cost angle to it. Turnkey solutions Smarter data governance may not be as sexy as the latest automated threat hunting tools or post quantum encryption. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watch.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Most website owners don’t know how to protect their sites. SSL Certificates for data encryption The S at the end of an HTTP connection indicates a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). That makes a reliable and secure hosting environment critically important. When it is activated, it effectively locks all files and directories.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 5, 2017

On January 3, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued a memorandum (the “Breach Memorandum”) advising federal agencies on how to prepare for and respond to a breach of personally identifiable information (“PII”).

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OneHub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Data security is one of the most important factors to consider when choosing how to store and share your business files. Onehub continues the similarities by using the same 256-bit encryption and physical security policies as banks for the most secure cloud storage experience. Every communication is sent over this secure connection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

While enjoying your holiday, always remember, even if you think you’re not carrying critical information, you definitely are. I saved the best for last as encryption is what we do at Thales, we protect the most sensitive data for organizations around the globe. I encourage you to take a closer look.

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