Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Data Protector

MARCH 30, 2016

Only print journalists were usually able to do this, which is why the Sunday papers were often packed with stories about prostitutes and vicars. They do not understand that these activities are dangerous and need continuous education from privacy activists. Journalists didn't bother about people’s privacy in the olden days.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 3, 2019

In 2001, Microsoft researchers, Banko and Brill, released a paper Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation , which described how most work in the area of natural language processing was on small data sets of less than a million words. Use highest-grade security standards to protect encryption keys.

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OneHub

MAY 13, 2021

We’re well past the days of managing projects with paper files strewn across desks or never-ending email threads with attachments buried so deep you’ll never see them again. Onehub uses bank-level encryption to provide the best protection for your company’s files and communications. Educate your clients on document approvals.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The databases were encrypted and rendered unavailable to Interserve. Paper based compliance represents a small and incomplete part of the picture. A privileged account was then used by the threat actor to uninstall Interserve’s anti-virus solution to prevent detection of malware used by the threat actor.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 14, 2020

Employees have been forced to work with pen and paper, severely delaying the few processes that could still be performed, while several UK banks that work with the company have had to turn away customers who wanted to order foreign banknotes. See also: Lack of education is the leading cause of successful ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

As noted above, people often reuse passwords to make recall easier, and many others use simple passwords or write passwords down on paper. Still, the same methods used to educate users about phishing attacks would apply to most scenarios and should be pursued. This method can be difficult to counter with technology.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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. Although that was actually not his first mention of the “other” OS, that came in a 2015 paper Opportunities and Obstacles: E-Discovery from Mobile Devices.

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Archive Document Data Storage

MAY 9, 2019

An educated and prepared team is the first line of defence from corporate data breaches. Hoarding outdated paper records increases your company’s data breach exposure. A password management program can store employee passwords in a central encrypted database. Train Your Employees. Destroy Outdated Records. Update Your Software.

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Preservica

JANUARY 22, 2020

The new legislation extended laws that have always applied to paper-based documentation to electronic formats. The state closed public records loopholes by extending authority over official communication on state employees’ personal devices.

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KnowBe4

MAY 29, 2019

The pernicious SamSam ransomware strain forced the police department to pen and paper, gridlocked the court system, and stopped online utility bill paying in its tracks. Hackers break in and rely on the malware to encrypt vital files or render machines useless. The organization is not able to access the encrypted data.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Where data has been encrypted, such as on a laptop, mobile device, memory stick or email, the breach does not need to be reported, however sensitive the data is. Remember that a breach includes personal data that’s on paper as well as electronic. This includes any breaches that could lead to physical, material or non-material damage.

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ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

Meanwhile, physical records can take several forms — videos, photographs, blueprints, audio tape recordings, and paper files and folders. Electronic material needs to be encrypted and uploaded to a place where it can be securely downloaded by the onboarding firm.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Additionally, the quantity of issues that can arise throughout the data lifecycle would require a longer investigation than the scope of this paper will cover. Encrypting critical data assets. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

When you boil these down for your organization into technology and process requirements, you’ll find that encryption, tokenization, strong key management, and access controls can satisfy many of the privacy requirements to protect your organization from breach notification actions. (4) Personal Information excluded by the CCPA.

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Positively RIM

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Today’s Blog is sponsored by MER 2017, Cohasset Associates’ 25 th annual educational conference on electronic records management, in Chicago, May 8-10. Does each structured data system have an active administrator who knows how to produce data and maintains the passwords/encryption keys? No records are really 100 percent secure.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

That page also has a download link for a PDF of the entire paper (via Reddit). "In In this paper, we introduce generative agents—computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior," reads the summary. This is concerning, as 95% of organizations hit by ransomware said their data was, in fact, encrypted.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I am therefore pleased that the Government’s position paper also calls for a future relationship that builds on the adequacy model. The Government’s position paper acknowledges this but lacks detail. This should offer certainty for businesses, particularly SMEs. But there is a fly in this particular ointment.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 25, 2018

A frequent court appointed special master in electronic evidence, Craig is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 2,000 presentations and papers. That data is encrypted, and the encryption keys are, in turn, encrypted.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

So, this isn’t just the risk of having your files breached and exposed on the web, like say the Panama Papers incident. Earlier in the month Zoom had to agree to give end-to-end encryption to every user, not just paid subscribers. And even beyond that, consider the reputational damage possible. They’re everywhere.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

DV is easy and indeed automation is a cornerstone of Let's Encrypt which is a really important attribute of it. Plus, long-lived certs actually create other risks due to the fact that revocation is broken so iterating quickly (for example, Let's Encrypt certs last for 3 months) is a virtue. — Ryan Sleevi (@sleevi_) May 16, 2018.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. You know, the hero pulls out a paper clip and jiggles it within the keyhole for a few seconds and presto--the door is now unlocked.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. You know, the hero pulls out a paper clip and jiggles it within the keyhole for a few seconds and presto--the door is now unlocked.

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