Data Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their devices and in their product literature. The Guidance acknowledges that even though the Regulations impose legal obligations only on the manufacturer of the device, all other actors (e.g.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2024

Enterprises in these regions will adopt advanced data encryption techniques, like bring-your-own-key (BYOK) and hold-your-own-key (HYOK) systems, to meet growing demands for data sovereignty. Enterprises adopting advanced encryption methods signify a proactive approach to address these evolving needs.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In the absence of IoT security regulations, many smart product manufacturers simply release new devices that lack built-in security measures and have not undergone proper security review and testing. Take manufacturing, for instance. A prime example of this is what California is doing with the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2023

One famous example of a digital break-in via a Smart Device is the Casino Fish Tank attack. 1) Manufacturer Protocols “Matter” First, consumers should seek to purchase Smart Devices that are Matter certified. Additionally, in today’s connected world, the burglar hacking into a Smart Device may or may not be a person.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

To protect against those threats, a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol is recommended. WPA2 is a security protocol that secures wireless networks using the advanced encryption standard (AES). WEP and WPA are both under 4%, while WPA2 commands a 73% share of known wireless encryption connections.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

From their blog post : Finding #3: Many IoT Devices Contact a Large and Diverse Set of Third Parties In many cases, consumers expect that their devices contact manufacturers' servers, but communication with other third-party destinations may not be a behavior that consumers expect. Some examples include: Samsung Smart TV.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

For example, they also emerge in the EU’s new Data Governance Act , in the form of its creation of ‘data intermediation services’ – i.e., services that provide a secure environment in which companies or individuals can share data. Secure data environments are a hot topic in data circles.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Then the malware encrypts the files on the system, skipping Windows system files and folders. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt. The experts noticed that the malware appends the ‘ EKANS ‘ file marker to each encrypted file. One such example would be Project Root.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2019

Of particular public concern is the issue raised that law enforcement agencies will be allowed to directly intercept messages sent through end-to-end encryption under technical assistance and capability notices, affecting tools used by companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, and Telegram (who have all publicly denounced the Act).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

In ongoing discussions with our customers, we received feedback from those who are concerned about letting end users authenticate to sensitive IT resources using a device that could be compromised - for example a jailbroken or rooted device. If a device is jailbroken or rooted we may preferably want to block the authenticator app.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The second piece – which your EDR vendor, for example, may already offer – is a ransomware removal tool that may be able to decrypt your data and remove the ransomware quickly, and possibly even block an attack before it gets anywhere. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Proven Data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets. Same tools and naming convention have been used as well, for example md.exe, rdp.bat, svchost.exe. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% Inside Egregor.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. . .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Upon the installation, the malicious app registers itself as a foreground service and extracts an encrypted payload that gathers information about the victim’s device (android_id, manufacturer, model, firmware version, etc.) and sends it to a server under the control of the attackers ([link]. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. “Companies may also experience the loss of proprietary information and personally identifiable information (PII) and may suffer reputational damage resulting from a ransomware attack.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

In ongoing discussions with our customers, we received feedback from those who are concerned about letting end users authenticate to sensitive IT resources using a device that could be compromised - for example a jailbroken or rooted device. If a device is jailbroken or rooted we may preferably want to block the authenticator app.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. An example of spam email content Clicking the malicious link obviously leads to downloading a weaponized document. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that security is no longer being ignored during the manufacturing of the devices. Yes, and Ellen uses the example of a retail grocery store to effectively demonstrate the point. Encryption Key Management. What's more interesting is that these devices are no longer home-based novelties. Data security.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example. BK: Can you give some examples? Are there other examples of how the cloud providers can make it harder for attackers who might seek to subvert their services through supply chain shenanigans? BK: For example….? TS: Exactly.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

The security duo, composed of Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres, disclosed seven vulnerabilities in the firmware of FTTH OLT devices manufactured by C-Data. FTTH Optical Line Termination (OLT) devices serve as the service provider endpoint of a passive optical network, they are located all over an ISP’s network.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

private encryption keys, passwords, payment card credentials) and offers a separate secure environment for executing Trusted Applications. Examples of privileged OS components are DRM service, media service, and keystore. The flaws affect the first of the above implementations, the Qualcomm’s Secure Execution Environment (QSEE).

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. For example, DroidDream. Android malware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Because of VPNs’ vulnerabilities – a recent example involved a massive leak of Fortinet users’ passwords – a number of security vendors have been pushing zero trust network access as a potential replacement for VPNs. Some VPN providers encrypt devices in such a way that fast incident response is impossible.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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OneHub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Cloud based software has had a measurable impact on business productivity both for large manufacturers and small businesses. For example, if a company can see immediate upgrades to their applicant tracking software , this will instantly put them in a more competitive position when it comes to hiring new staff. Image source.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To give some indication of the scale of the commercial issue, here are some widely reported examples of organisations affected by breaches caused by misconfiguration issues: Equifax: 146 million names, 99 million addresses, 209,000 payment cards, 38,000 drivers’ licences and 3,200 passports exposed. Secure your devices and software.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

With IoT PKI, Secure IoT can be accomplished by enabling strong authentication and encryption of communication to ensure the integrity of transactions and data. An example of some of the protocols that cover this are Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) and Certificate Enrollment for Billions of Things (CEBOT).

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MIKE 2.0

JULY 30, 2017

In the 1970s, companies like Toyota revolutionised manufacturing with “just in time” supply chains. The best manufacturers in the world solved this by putting enormous pressure on quality to avoid exactly these sort of disruptions. That’s because the complexity of these system interdependencies has grown exponentially.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

That list corresponds to the list of OES under the NIS Directive, supplemented with the following entities: additional entities in the energy sector , adding for example district heating and cooling and operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission. social networking services platforms.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

For example, what’s the trust relationship between User Equipment and other things? The device should distrust the network, and encrypt its data in ways that are opaque to the network, and apply trust from one endpoint to another, rather than decrypting it at various points within the system. What trusts what?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2022

Establishing an IAM Blueprint for Securing Manufacturing Environments. The manufacturing sector is crucial to the economic prosperity of all countries. Products made by these manufacturing industries are essential to many other critical infrastructure sectors. Tue, 07/26/2022 - 05:48. Attacks are moving from IT to OT.

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