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. KrebsOnSecurity received a tip about the Zoom exposures from Charan Akiri , a researcher and security engineer at Reddit.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. Each EEA state sets its own definition of “child” under the GDPR. Companies must be prepared to comply with these varying definitions.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the case with Active Directory legacy protocols, so to help you secure your Active Directory environment, we’ve created a script to help you ensure that legacy protocols are disabled. Your primary goal in securing Active Directory infrastructure is to reduce the attack surface. We explain how to do so below.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Threat is Definitely Real. A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Vicious insider. What does this mean?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But in order for businesses to maintain compliance with major privacy laws , they have to have security measures in place before an attack. PIPL Compliance CCPA Compliance GDPR Compliance How to Stay Up to Date with Changing Compliance Regulations. Compliance Overview. Who Does CCPA Affect? Who Does GDPR Affect?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Is mobile technology on a course to become more secure than traditional computing? Related: Securing the Internet of Things I’ve been writing about organizations struggling to solve the productivity vs. security dilemma that’s part and parcel of the BYOD craze for some time now. We spoke at Black Hat 2019.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secure remote working tips and VPN insights from our senior penetration tester Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance. He’s also been featured in various articles relating to cyber security. So how can organisations efficiently secure their remote infrastructure? We sat down to chat to him.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Panelists included security professionals from many well-established and successful organizations as well as consultants and industry leaders. Schrems II and the Security of International Data Flows. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 06:13. Privacy Shield Framework.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Most website owners don’t know how to protect their sites. That makes a reliable and secure hosting environment critically important. It was created to enable businesses to grow their websites in a secure environment. The cloud technology allows users to get the most of their server resources and further improve their security.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. Create security awareness for employees. One of the most important ways to protect against data breaches is to increase employee security awareness. Change passwords regularly.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

This ubiquity has led to increased concerns about data security, as more and more sensitive information is stored online. Two-factor authentication is another important security measure for the cloud era. Data encryption. In the cloud era, data encryption is more important than ever. Secure your endpoints.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. video below), I started looking around for more interesting and concerning (from a security point of view) NRF52-based products. known-plaintext attack).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The benefits of cloud come with significant new security challenges for organizations. They need to understand how responsibilities are shared between provider and customer, how the threat models change, how internal stakeholders respond to cloud, and much more. How do I secure data in the cloud?

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. But there are also some quick wins, especially in the realm of "using your common sense". Let's dive into it.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Application programming interface (API) security is a combination of tools and best practices to secure the all-important connections between applications. API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

It is handy for users, as they don’t have to remember the IP address for each service, but it does not come without security risks and vulnerabilities. Besides, such attacks are loved by hackers, as it’s usually hard to detect by security tools, and it allows targeting thousands of victims in one operation. DNS Encryption: DoH vs. DoT.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Organizations have a variety of options for cloud deployments, each with its own set of capabilities and security challenges. The responsibility for protecting these cloud resources is shared, with the cloud provider responsible for infrastructure security and customers responsible for access, application security, and data management.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

Related: How stolen data gets leveraged in full-stack attacks. This latest high-profile example of security sloppiness was uncovered by a team of white hat hackers led by Ata Hakçil. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. based PeopleGIS.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

As the head of a security company I’m hypersensitive about the security of my personal and company data. I know that in the age of devices we use interchangeably in our work and personal lives that unless everything you are doing is secure, nothing is secure. I appreciate I’m in the minority because of what I do.

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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. We dedicate significant time to developing and implementing the most secure safety protocols to protect your intellectual property and other sensitive files. Onehub security features.

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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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IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

In this article, we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of security breaches , and delve into the infosec landscape over the past three months. Overview IT Governance discovered 297 security incidents between April and June 2023, which accounted for 116,933,247 breached records.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 26, 2023

The Guidance sits alongside the ICO’s recommendation that organisations should, if they haven’t already, start using PETs to share personal data safely, securely and anonymously. The Guidance clarifies that there is no definition of PETs within data protection law and that the concept covers various technologies and techniques.

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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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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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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2023, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

And by doing this housekeeping – i.e. by improving their data governance practices — companies can reap higher efficiencies, while also tightening data security. There’s definitely a cost angle to it. Outside of the security perspective, everybody should become more aware of their data life cycle. I’ll keep watch.

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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. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Even though all merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit cardholder data are required to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ( PCI DSS ), many do not. Many merchants lack a definition of the scope of the payment environment for PCI certification. Logging and auditing system.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) strongly advised public companies to improve their cybersecurity. While the new security proposals have not yet become law, cybersecurity managers can begin to prepare metrics and audits that will not only help comply with those laws, but can also help create positive change now.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

“By getting organizations together and having conversations about what is needed in order to secure an environment, then you can really start to understand what’s a reasonable posture to take around some of the issues that that come that come up,” Jordan said. Allen uses a broad definition for what constitutes a third party supplier.

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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? Reuse of course can bring its own challenges.

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