eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Over two-thirds (72 percent) of respondents expressed concerns about increased vulnerabilities from shared infrastructures, followed by custodianship of encryption keys (62 percent) and security breaches in the cloud (68 percent).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Immediately following Iran’s counterstrike against American military posts in Iraq, a tweet circulated claiming that more than 20 American soldiers had been killed. Cyberwar could be a life disrupter as well as a business killer. Prepare for a Snowstorm.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2019

The disclosure that malicious intruders hacked the computer systems of the South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country’s military forces is not much of a surprise. war plans, including strategies to be implemented in event of collapsing diplomatic relations.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. in which the travel records of military and civilian personnel – which included their personal information and credit card data – were compromised.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A cyber insurance backstop would provide a means for insurers to receive financial support from the federal government in the event that there was a catastrophic cyberattack that caused so much financial damage that the insurers could not afford to cover all of it.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. What this means is that proving that you were at the keyboard when an event occurred. is often difficult.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. Of the of the incident. What's the first step?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 13, the HSE’s antivirus security provider emailed the HSE’s security operations team, highlighting unhandled threat events dating back to May 7 on at least 16 systems. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The Military Chinese General and Philosopher Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) wrote these tactics over two thousand years ago, and it is as applicable today as it ever was. This specific event is where GitLab is running its pipeline through a separate system outside GitLab. If their forces are united, separate them.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

While ransomware attacks have become a ubiquitous event these days, what makes this attack distinctive is the ransom demand itself. . approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. The Biggest Ransomware Demand in History. REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0 According to their data, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Moffatt: I think tokens are typically what I guess happens once somebody has authenticated so once the authentication event is taking place, and you've identified it, yeah, this is some Simon coming back.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Since Versa Unified SASE is the only top SASE vendor that offers an option for locally installed SASE control software, buyers with strong security needs (military, biotech, etc.) must strongly consider this product.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Hacker one has elevated bug bounties to live events spectacles, if you will, they fly people such as stoke around the world and hacker one live events. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Hacker one has elevated bug bounties to live events spectacles, if you will, they fly people such as stoke around the world and hacker one live events. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

That event did more damage than any computer virus or worm at the time. I think event leaves open yet another possibility, that perhaps we’ve had many little digital pearl harbors already, such as the massive denial of service attack against Estonia, but we didn’t realize it at the time. Here's the BBC.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. Even al-Qaeda was concerned; ten years ago, a sympathizer released the encryption software Mujahedeen Secrets , claimed to be free of Western influence and backdoors.

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