Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Extortionist Crypto-Locking Hackers Keep Hitting Healthcare Sector, Experts Report Once ransomware hackers get inside a healthcare sector organization's systems, three out of four attackers will also maliciously encrypt data, says security firm Sophos.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2024

Matthew Green wrote a really good blog post on what Telegram’s encryption is and is not.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

EDITED TO ADD: Good article : One – ML-KEM [PDF] (based on CRYSTALS-Kyber) – is intended for general encryption, which protects data as it moves across public networks. My recent writings on post-quantum cryptographic standards. NIST plans to select one or two of these algorithms by the end of 2024.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The court found that end-to-end encryption is essential to preserving the right to privacy in digital communication systems.

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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. Selection of the four algorithms comes after six years of evaluation by the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From Russia with Love Group Boasted of Removing Decryptor from Somnia Ransomware Russian hackers are on a campaign to maliciously encrypt the files of Ukrainian victims - but unlike other ransomware groups, doing so without the possibility of offering a decryptor.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Redmond Uses Protocol NIST Says Is a "Severe Security Vulnerability" Emails encrypted through Microsoft Office are vulnerable to attacks that can reveal the original content of messages due to shortcomings in the protocol, says WithSecure security researcher Harry Sintonen.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Kawin Boonyapredee on Why Organizations Should Take Post-Quantum Threats Seriously Quantum computing has been evolving for decades and holds immense promise. Companies have invested billions of dollars in this technology, which will eventually solve complex business problems.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2023

The Bill provides no explicit protection for encryption, and if implemented as written, could empower OFCOM to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services – nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Apple announced PQ3 , its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022. There’s a lot of detail in the Apple blog post , and more in Douglas Stabila’s security analysis. I am of two minds about this.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 2, 2021

Industrial-Scale Cocaine Lab' Seizure Traces to Users of Defunct EncroChat Service Former customers of the now-defunct encrypted communications service EncroChat, which was infiltrated by police last year, continue to get busted, including members of a crime syndicate that operated "an industrial-scale cocaine laboratory" in the Netherlands, Europol (..)

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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.

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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. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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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. GSM needs a new nonce for every encryption.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 17, 2023

BianLian Is Not Double Trouble Anymore, Says US CISA The BianLian ransomware group is abandoning malicious encryption in favor of pure extortion, warns the U.S. top cybersecurity agency. A major likely factor in BianLian's shift was cybersecurity firm Avast's January release of a free decryptor.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2022

After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups : Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet Passes.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 21, 2021

In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware B. The other path involves what Emsisoft calls a “side-by-side encryption” attack, in which attacks encrypt some of an organization’s systems with ransomware A and others with ransomware B.

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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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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.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Also: Improving Private-Public Collaboration, ISMG'S Africa Summit Four editors at Information Security Media Group analyze private-public partnerships today, preview ISMG's upcoming cybersecurity summit in Africa and discuss the increasing use of intermittent or partial encryption by ransomware gangs as a means to extort money from victims faster. (..)

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 It is now in bankruptcy. I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good idea.

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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.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files! . “If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files!” ” they wrote. Technical details.

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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.

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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.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Looking for a VPN app with the highest level of encryption? NordVPN says its updated Linux app can now withstand extremely capable quantum computing decryption.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2023

government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. Proposed Online Safety Bill Is 'Doomed to Fail,' Academics Say in an Open Letter Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Police Seize Drugs, Firearms and 4M Euros in Raids on Exclu Users and Operators Police in multiple European countries carried out raids against the operators and users of the Exclu encrypted chat app, arresting four dozen individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 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. Others are automated.

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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]” […]. The search results pointed to a common public key that shows up in online tutorials like “ RSA Encryption & Decryption Example with OpenSSL in C.

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Record Nations

OCTOBER 4, 2023

One effective way to enhance your digital security is by encrypting your files. But which files should you encrypt? Which Files Do You Need to Encrypt? The post Which Files Do You Need to Encrypt? appeared first on Record Nations.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

LastPass says the attacker downloaded from the cloud backups of multiple users' encrypted password vaults, as well as unencrypted URLs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 23, 2024

While there are different mechanisms available to encrypt data throughout its lifecycle ( in transit , at rest and in use ), application-level encryption (ALE) provides an additional layer of protection by encrypting data at its source. Why should you consider application-level encryption?

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 3, 2024

Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It’s a question we often hear: “Isn’t DNSSEC the same as encrypted DNS?” While DNSSEC protects networks against man-in-the-middle attacks, it does so through public key cryptography, which is different from encryption. How is public key cryptography different from encryption? ” Not really.

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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.

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