Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2022

These men and women are obviously highly trained in security matters, as it’s reported that they need to have 22 years of military service to even. Take for example, highly-connected cyber-physical systems that are connected to and managed from the cloud, and that ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure across all sectors.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. “Talos has monitored many noisy Turla operations, for example. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes. Sidenote: there's a whole other discussion about active interception of encrypted communications that may also give an employer access to this.)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The attackers appear to be focused o n stealing military-related information. The malicious code allows the attackers to choose the data types to collect, stolen data is encrypted using a simple XOR operation with a pre-configured key, then it is sent to the C2 via HTTP POST requests.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the popular encrypted messaging app Signal, announced that Cellebrite mobile forensics tools developed by Cellebrite are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution. Cellebrite produce two primary pieces products, the UFED and Physical Analyzer.

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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. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From the summary: Automation and connectivity are fundamental enablers of DOD's modern military capabilities. For example, not all programs have been tested and tests do not reflect the full range of threats. The upshot won't be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they're vulnerable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

One such example is the recent disclosure that military personnel wearing Strava devices are revealing highly sensitive information about their locations and activities. For example, are they encrypting their data? For more information about keeping data secure, please visit our data encryption landing page.

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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.” Screenshot example.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. This ensures that S3 data is encrypted and if a misconfiguration or breach occurs, only unusable data leaks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When you buy a Sony, Lexar, or Sandisk USB key or any other storage device, it comes with an encryption solution to keep your data safe. Netherlands-based company with 12 million users worldwide provides “military-grade data protection” solutions with its popular DataVault encryption software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, some methods meet national security and federal standards, while others are focused on private companies. Methodologies are exhaustive, detailed, and developed for different businesses and organizations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology. For example (or for full read RegKeys have a look to here ): [.] Object-3 exploiting CVE-2017-11882.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. 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.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

One example is the VITEC SmartLink function for ChannelLink IP Gateways. About the essayist: Philippe Wetzel is Founder and CEO of VITEC , a supplier of IP video technology that converts and compresses raw video feeds into data formats that can be encrypted and streamed across the data networks that support military defence efforts.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. This solution offers true two-factor authentication and impressive encryption capabilities. Best Password Manager Tools. Password auto-filling. Multi-factor authentication.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. Future attacks are not likely to receive the same determination.

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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. The recent security exploit perpetrated on the Cybersecurity software company SolarWinds is a dramatic example of how bad and ugly it can actually get.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. LW: What’s a concrete example of a pervasive exposure opened up by cloud migration?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. This solution offers true two-factor authentication and impressive encryption capabilities. Top Password Manager Software. Password auto-filling. Multi-factor authentication.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. For example, Black Widow was not slated to run in China, at least not on the main screen.

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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. When we travel, for example, to a different country, we have this thing called a passport, you know, this physical thing that we hold in our hands. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. For example, organizations dealing with the most sensitive data—such as defense contractors—should target the adaptive tier across functional areas, while organizations with a lower risk profile may decide to target lower tiers when designing their systems. Encrypting Critical Data Assets.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For example, by only focusing on the machine that captures your vote -- that’s only a part of the picture. Because if, for example, you could check in but then remove that you had checked in from that device and come and vote again. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For example, by only focusing on the machine that captures your vote -- that’s only a part of the picture. Because if, for example, you could check in but then remove that you had checked in from that device and come and vote again. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. For example, from CSAW 2018, John talked about a crypto challenge category on the Jeopardy board called babycrypto. So, that’s the military. Mechanical things. Electronic Things.

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