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eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 4, 2022
It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Thus, data in transit, as well as data at rest, should be made indecipherable via strong encryption. What is Encryption? Data in Use Encryption.
Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2022
Quantum Computers That Use Atom-Level States of Uncertainty Are a Matter of Time The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a first group of encryption algorithms designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 4, 2022
Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. Here are the details: As we discussed in Section 3, the wrapping key used to encrypt the key blobs (HDK) is derived using a salt value computed by the Keymaster TA.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 22, 2022
“Turns out the [AES] encryption key in that script is the first AES 128-bit CBC example key listed in the NIST document SP800-38A [PDF]” […]. “ Uncategorized AES cars encryption keys
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Understanding your data security needs is tough enough, but what can be even more difficult is choosing the right software to fit your company. This checklist will help you evaluate the scope of services offered by various encryption solutions on the market.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files.
Schneier on Security
MAY 21, 2021
In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware B. In that case, data is only encrypted once, but a victim would need both decryption keys to unlock everything. Uncategorized encryption extortion malware ransomware
eSecurity Planet
MAY 25, 2022
Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. The race continues for cryptographers to keep encryption systems ahead of cryptanalysts and hackers. What is Encryption?
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 18, 2022
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about. Security Security / Security Advice
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Romanians Allegedly Ran 'CyberSeal,' 'Dataprotector' and 'Cyberscan' Services Europol has arrested two Romanians for allegedly selling services - including malware encryption - that helped cybercriminals circumvent antivirus tools
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Schneier on Security
JULY 18, 2022
Facebook has responded by encrypting the entire URL into a single ciphertext blob. Uncategorized browsers encryption Facebook trackingSome sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 11, 2021
For three years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Australian Federal Police owned and operated a commercial encrypted phone app, called AN0M, that was used by organized crime around the world. We’ve seen law enforcement take over encrypted apps before: for example, EncroChat.
Data Breach Today
JULY 27, 2020
Navigation and Smartwatch Company Stops Short of Using Term 'Ransomware' Garmin acknowledged Monday that a "cyberattack" that encrypted several of its systems led to outages that affected several of the company's fitness and aviation products along with knocking its homepage and customer service centers offline.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 8, 2021
FBI Developed Smartphone-Based Platform as Honeypot for Criminals Thousands of suspected criminals have been relying on the "Anom" encrypted communications platform to coordinate their efforts.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 4, 2020
The BBC is reporting a vulnerability in the Let's Encrypt certificate service: In a notification email to its clients, the organisation said: "We recently discovered a bug in the Let's Encrypt certificate authority code. I am seeing nothing on the Let's Encrypt website.
Schneier on Security
JULY 30, 2021
New paper: “ Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos “: Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for mobile devices.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 6, 2021
National Security Agency has released guidance on how the Defense Department, other federal agencies and the contractors that support them should replace obsolete encryption protocols that can enable cyber intrusions. Agency Recommends Replacement of Old TLS and SSL Protocols The U.S.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 15, 2021
Agency Describes How DoH Can Help Prevent Eavesdropping The NSA has released guidance on how organizations can adopt encrypted domain name system protocols to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS traffic.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 5, 2021
The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent. Uncategorized courts encryption lies videoconferencing
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Iran-linked APT group DEV-0270 (aka Nemesis Kitten) is abusing the BitLocker Windows feature to encrypt victims’ devices. The experts observed the abuse of the built-in BitLocker tool to encrypt files on compromised devices.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 4, 2022
When planning data encryption deployments, security and risk management leaders must develop an enterprise-wide encryption key management strategy to prevent data loss and other security risks. Core Content Encryption security
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Researchers found several vulnerabilities in third-party encryption software that is used by multiple storage devices from major vendors. “It turned out that the key derivation function was PBKDF2 using 1000 iteration of MD5 to derive the encryption key.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2022
Encryption will break, so it's important to mix and layer different encryption methods
eSecurity Planet
JULY 26, 2022
Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. Also read: Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 17, 2021
The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1, a stream cipher built on three linear-feedback shift registers and a non-linear combining function. Details are in the paper: “ Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2.”
Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2020
Cracking of EncroChat's Network Leads to Hundreds of Arrests in Organized Crime Crackdown European police gained access to messages sent via an encrypted cellular network, leading to the arrest of hundreds of alleged organized crime members, according to Europol
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Such regulations, which are already enshrined in the interim solution of the ePrivacy Regulation, for example, “diametrically contradict the character of the coalition agreement” because secure end-to-end encryption is guaranteed there, Zimmermann said.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 12, 2020
Mike Stay broke an old zipfile encryption algorithm to recover $300,000 in bitcoin. bitcoin cryptanalysis cryptocurrency cryptography encryptionDefCon talk here.
Data Breach Today
MAY 19, 2020
Law Enforcement Leaders Say Encryption Delayed Terrorist Investigation; Apple Pushes Back Although FBI technicians were able to gain access to data in two iPhones belonging to a Saudi national who killed three U.S.
Dark Reading
JULY 25, 2022
The open source fully homomorphic encryption library from Duality Technologies is intended to help developers build their own FHE-enabled applications
Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2020
Web Conferencing Provider Blames Routing of Keys via China on Scaling-Up Error Zoom, responding to research that identified encryption and infrastructure shortcomings in its audio and video conferencing software, has promised to further revamp its security controls.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Encryption remains a mainstay of IT security technology, a critical tool for protecting sensitive data. We evaluate the top encryption solutions
Security Affairs
JUNE 8, 2021
Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The secure devices don’t use phone number to communicate because the encrypted traffic it relayed via An0m’s central platform.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 14, 2021
WhatsApp made available end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing user chats. Currently, WhatsApp allows users to backup their chats on cloud storage services, but these backups are not end-to-end encrypted.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 3, 2022
SIKE was a contender for post-quantum-computing encryption. It took researchers an hour and a single PC to break it. Security Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Dark Reading
MAY 27, 2022
The Chaos ransomware-builder was known for creating destructor malware that overwrote files and made them unrecoverable -- but the new Yashma version finally generates binaries that can encrypt files of all sizes
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Government Can Force Technology Companies to Break Encryption Australia's Parliament has passed new laws enabling it to compel technology companies to break their own encryption. Although the government argued the laws are needed to combat criminal activity and terrorism, opponents argued the powers could creep beyond their scope and weaken the security of all software
Dark Reading
MARCH 25, 2022
New analysis shows how long it takes for each of the top 10 ransomware families to encrypt 100,000 files
Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the debate over whether the government should require technology firms to use weak encryption for messaging applications. Plus, D-Link's proposed settlement with the FTC and a CISO's update on medical device security
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