The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Why do so many businesses struggle to balance network security and user experience? Security has always been a moving target, with new threat vectors emerging all the time.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. This includes sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, APIs, tokens, and certificates.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

The Security Challenges of Generative AI Tools: Can a Loose Prompt Sink Your Ship? Fast forward to 2023, and this adage finds new meaning in the context of generative AI tools, like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. What are generative AI tools? These AI tools are based on Large Language Models (LLM).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore some real-world instances below and discover when and how to use DLP procedures for optimal data security. Industry-specific rules: Check relevant regulations on a regular basis to verify data security compliance , and use DLP to protect sensitive data and reduce regulatory risks.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. This article will provide an overview of DNS Security, common attacks, and how to use DNS security to prevent DNS attacks and manipulation. in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Related: The security case for AR, VR AI chatbots use natural language processing, which enables them to understand and respond to human language and machine learning algorithms. These tools saved 2.5 Examples of AI chatbot platforms include: •Dialogflow: Developed by Google, Dialogflow is renowned for its comprehension capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies – often combined as intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) – have been in use for decades, yet they remain important cybersecurity tools even in the face of today’s rapidly changing cyber threats and complex IT environments. IDS vs. IPS.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2020

Experts spotted recent samples of the Snake ransomware that were isolating the infected systems while encrypting files to avoid interference. The Snake ransomware kills processes from a predefined list, including ICS-related processes, to encrypt associated files. ” continues the analysis. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The bad news is it doesn’t work most of the time: Paid ransom decryption tools and keys don’t always work. Free decryption tools don’t always work. Paid decryption tools don’t always work. How Does Ransomware Encryption Work? Ransomware encryption works like any other encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Nearly half of EDR tools and organizations are vulnerable to Clop ransomware gang tactics, according to tests by a cybersecurity company. Encrypt backup data to ensure the data infrastructure’s immutability and coverage. Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Public cloud security refers to protections put in place to secure data and resources in cloud environments shared by multiple users or organizations. Major cloud service providers have generally had good security , so cloud users can be pretty confident in the security of their data and applications if they get their part right.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cloud security builds off of the same IT infrastructure and security stack principles of a local data center. However, a cloud vendor offering provides a pre-packaged solution that absorbs some operational and security responsibilities from the customer. Also read: CNAP Platforms: The Next Evolution of Cloud Security.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. Wireless security is critical because these networks are subject to eavesdropping, interception, data theft, denial of services ( DoS ) assaults, and malware infestations. What is Wireless Security?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

By implementing DKIM, an organization improves the reputation of its own emails and enables receiving email servers to improve their own email security. At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. The “p” field is the public encryption key value.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the case with Active Directory legacy protocols, so to help you secure your Active Directory environment, we’ve created a script to help you ensure that legacy protocols are disabled. Your primary goal in securing Active Directory infrastructure is to reduce the attack surface. has surpassed TLS 1.1 protocol.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

Wintriage is a live response tool that extracts Windows artifacts, it allows to extract the most artifacts as possible, but in a selective way. Those tools are great, but the extracted info is not always enough. So, in 2019 I decided to start writing my own tool. Wintriage is a live response tool that extracts Windows artifacts.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. One of the main reason why companies are launching security centric features is, they value their customer’s data, privacy and security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 21, 2023

Secure remote access protects remote business communications that are otherwise susceptible to network and remote protocol exploits. Because it creates connections between a client device and a host device, remote access must be secured. Even VPN, while marketed as a security tool, has weaknesses of its own.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 20, 2022

Cloud First, Security Second? However, this rapid and systemic transformation is creating significant security challenges that are causing organizations to rethink their security strategies across all levels of operations. Tue, 06/21/2022 - 05:17. Modern Authentication in the Cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2021

In this article, we cover some database security best practices that can help keep your databases safe from attackers. In the traditional sense, this means keeping your database server in a secure, locked environment with access controls in place to keep unauthorized people out. See our picks for the top database security tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Cellebrite mobile forensics tool Ufed contains multiple flaws that allow arbitrary code execution on the device, SIGNAL creator warns. Cellebrite develops forensics tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies that allow automating physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. ” concludes the expert.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 28, 2018

Cloud providers have done a good job of integrating default encryption services within their core infrastructure. However, as discussed in previous blogs , the encryption service is only as secure as the keys that are used to encrypt the data. Which data within cloud workloads is encrypted. Key access information.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

GitHub has announced new features that could improve both developers’ experience and supply chain security. Maintainers will be able to receive reports and collaborate with security professionals and all other issuers to patch vulnerabilities. Also read: Software Supply Chain Security Guidance for Developers.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

But in addition to vastly improved reasoning and visual capabilities, GPT-4 also retains many of ChatGPT’s security and privacy issues , in some cases even enhancing them. They presented this summary of those exploits — the thumbs up means those capabilities have been enhanced in GPT-4: ChatGPT security issues carried over to GPT-4.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

A Guide to Key Management as a Service madhav Thu, 06/15/2023 - 11:29 As companies adopt a cloud-first strategy and high-profile breaches hit the headlines, securing sensitive data has become a paramount business concern. The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 19, 2022

Strengthen Your Couchbase Data Security Without Slowing You Down. In addition, a critical part of the value Couchbase brings to customers centers on its security. Couchbase partners with Thales to bring transparent encryption to secure on-disk data. Modernize Data Security for a Modern Database.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. An example of a security.txt file. Having a security.txt file can make it easier for organizations to respond to active security threats.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How attackers try to remain undetected and/or mask their actions Vanessa Horton holds a degree in computer forensics, as well as a number of cyber security and forensics qualifications. Vanessa is now part of GRCI Law’s cyber incident response team, helping clients with their cyber security requirements. Vanessa kindly agreed.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

However, as with any software component, APIs are also prone to security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. API security is an ongoing process that demands continual attention and effort from everyone on the development team. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work? How do APIs work?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

Many experts often overlook hardware based security and its vital importance in establishing a secure workspace. However, people often overlook hardware-based security and its vital importance in establishing a secure workspace. A great example that receives public resonance concerns ATMs.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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