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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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 ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.”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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Perimeter security tools include: Firewalls: Filter traffic and monitor access based upon firewall rules and policies for the network, network segment, or assets protected by different types of firewalls. Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.):

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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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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. I’m sure every hacker group has added data leak tools to their arsenal.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. 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. Best Password Manager Tools. Password auto-filling.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. 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. Top Password Manager Software. Password auto-filling.

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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

31, 2021, the HSE’s antivirus software detected the execution of two software tools commonly used by ransomware groups — Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz — on the Patient Zero Workstation. 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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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

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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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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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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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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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

It's a sneaky way to exploit a system without any of the existing preventative tools. The system has already given you the tools that you need. Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. These could be in the operating system, or it could be a third party that's been added.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Even the most resilient systems today can still be breached with the right tools and sufficient resources, and there is not yet a unified theory or framework for addressing vulnerabilities in every context. Encrypting critical data assets. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. Cross feeds, like data from a variety of open source tools, publicly available resources and data feeds. Whoa, how cool is that.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Vamosi: Okay, so you're 16, still in high school, and the Department of Defense is introducing you to members of the military and the Air Force. Cross feeds, like data from a variety of open source tools, publicly available resources and data feeds. Whoa, how cool is that.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Vamosi: So this is an example of what’s news and what’s not. Initially ransomware was targeting home users to encrypt your holiday pictures, pay us 200 bucks to get your pictures back. BBC: Well as Ukrainian military battles Russian troops on the ground there's another battle taking place. Dog bites man, not news.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Other examples of this sort of attack include fake apps in the Google Play store, and hacked replacement screens for your smartphone. We know, for example, of an NSA exploit that remains on a hard drive even after it is reformatted. The SVR probably has the same kinds of tools.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

For example, just last month Strava, a popular fitness navigation app, accidentally revealed the location of military bases in war zones worldwide potentially putting troops and U.S. For example, will this solution meet compliance and best practice requirements for protecting data from external threats or malicious insiders?

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

experienced solely the encryption of data and no other form of extortion It's this last data point that interests me. CyberEdge mentions threatening to publicly release data, notifying customers or media, and committing a DDoS attack as examples of additional threats mentioned by respondents. street legal F1 Hypercar.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S.

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