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Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

Security Affairs

“The attacker attempted to encrypt GHC-SCW’s system but was unsuccessful.” ” The potentially compromised PHI may have included member/patient name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth and/or death, social security number, member number, and Medicare and/or Medicaid number. .”

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Facebook Will Shift to Emphasize Encrypted Ephemeral Messages, Zuckerberg Says: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

In a post to Facebook last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision of the future that includes end-to-end encryption and an ephemeral lifespan for private messages and photos. The post Facebook Will Shift to Emphasize Encrypted Ephemeral Messages, Zuckerberg Says: eDiscovery Trends appeared first on CloudNine.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. The cryptolocker had the task of encrypting the data of the affected system; The exploit was to infect the victim’s local network, if not properly updated, through the SMB protocol vulnerability.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Online skimming is an adverse activity of stealing payment information during card-not-present transactions by infecting e-commerce sites with sniffers. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization. Encryption. Online skimming. Vulnerabilities exploitation. Securing digital transactions. Data Breach.

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WannaCry & NotPetya Ransomware Attacks – One Year Later

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to our recent Global Encryption Trends Study , 67% of organizations cite data discovery as one of the biggest areas of challenge when deploying encryption. and France indicated the highest data discovery challenges, which can be attributed to preparations for GDPR.

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Mobile Collection: It’s Not Just for iPhones Anymore, Part Two

eDiscovery Daily

These are terrific resources that everyone who deals with discovery of mobile devices should be aware of. Additionally, it offered several advantages in Craig’s mind to an iCloud backup, primarily that it took less time and you could choose not to encrypt the backup. But search is also a topic for another day.