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Hive ransomware gang starts leaking data allegedly stolen from Tata Power

Security Affairs

Stolen data include contracts, financial and business documents, engineering projects, and employees’ personally identifiable information (PII), including Aadhar card numbers. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Top Open Source Security Tools

eSecurity Planet

It matches reported vulnerabilities to the open source libraries in code, reducing the number of alerts. VeraCrypt is free, open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encryption is automatic and is done in real time.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

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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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

SQL and its variants can be tricky, but attackers know all too well how to construct code snippets that can compromise a database. For SQLi purposes, this means keeping all web application software components, including database server software, frameworks, libraries, plug-ins, and web server software, up to date. .

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 After the Excel document is opened (xls file), the content it displays will lure the user to execute malicious Excel 4.0 At first glance, we analyzed a.xls document with an XLM macro (Excel 4.0

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. Lack of available source code or documentation. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Non-x86 processor architecture.

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. Lack of available source code or documentation. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Non-x86 processor architecture.