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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Krebs on Security

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy. Encryption. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption.

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Q4 2023 Collibra release: helping customers reduce data risks and improve productivity

Collibra

Improved enterprise security with the ability to bring your own key We now enable you to BYO key for encrypting your Collibra data and backups. Improving time to value In addition to the new release features, we are also offering new services and education to ensure you can drive maximum value from your Collibra investment.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

Upon stealing Facebook-related credentials, SilentFade retrieves the metadata of the Facebook account (i.e. The malware sends the data to the C2 servers in the form of an encrypted JSON blob through custom HTTP headers. payment information and the total amount previously spent on Facebook ads) using the Facebook Graph API.

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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

DLP solutions automate data classification based on policies and regulations, utilizing metadata elements to accurately identify sensitive material. Additionally, educating stakeholders and conducting regular security testing enhance overall data protection while reducing the likelihood of breaches.

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How ATB Financial drives agile data ops with Collibra and GCP

Collibra

Everything is encrypted. The first involves automatically ingesting table-related metadata from both Google BigQuery and Google Data Catalog into Collibra. A key part of that process is to ensure enough education, training and support is available to help in that process. . Information security was also seen as a positive.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. If Facebook were doing a convincing job of controlling fake news without end-to-end encryption, then we would expect to hear how it could use patterns in metadata to handle encrypted fake news.

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