Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The operators use a suite of custom tools with the ultimate goal of encrypting files in the infected system and holding it for a ransom of about $50,000.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at what a scammer does, who they target, and how to spot one trying to pick your metaphorical pockets. Here’s How to Do It Right. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% Individuals.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. Put into place data protection tools such as data encryption algorithms, key management, redaction, data masking and erasure, and data resiliency. Malware attacks via backdoors made up 21% of all incidents, and 17% were ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. How to choose a GRC platform. Third-party governance. IT governance and security. Privacy governance and management. MetricStream. ServiceNow.

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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. I mean, how exactly is it different from Wi Fi or NFC? So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Threats to cryptography are generally prevented by using common cybersecurity hygiene practices defined in clear and achievable governance. Thales and IBM Consulting are working together to lead and guide the industry in how to successfully address these threats and challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Knowing what ransomware is and how it works is essential for protecting against and responding to such attacks. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The amendments include the limitation that “personal information” is not “publicly available” if the data was used for a purpose not compatible with the purpose for which the government maintained it has been deleted. As a result, information legally made available from federal, state or local governments is not “personal information.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 13, 2021

Enhanced Privacy and Confidentiality using Thales and Google Workspace Client side-encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption enables service providers to host encrypted data but not decrypt it, protecting the user’s privacy. How the solution works.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.

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IT Governance

JULY 27, 2018

This week we discuss Google Chrome flagging sites that use HTTP as not secure, BA’s GDPR fail, and a massive data breach affecting more than 100 manufacturing companies. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 27 July. Here are this week’s stories. or later should be used.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These malicious encryption attacks that take your data hostage are the most financially harmful attacks for companies. One such scenario involving a user with high privileges happened to a major electronics manufacturer for defense and communications markets in 2020. It’s not uncommon for most data to remain encrypted or corrupted.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The researchers analysed 13 infusion pumps that despite being no longer manufactured are still working in numerous medical organizations worldwide. Rapid7 urges organizations use medical devices to build out policies and processes for how to properly handle the acquisition and de-acquisition of such kinds of systems.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Here are some common and not so common malware threats and how to defend against them. How to Defend Against Adware. Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. How to Defend Against a Backdoor. How to Defend Against Botnets. Backdoors.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Once inside a network, they move laterally to locate and encrypt mission-critical systems; a ransom demand for a decryption key follows. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Widespread adoption of this practice would make a big difference.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. Read more : Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them. Product developers and manufacturers can conduct IoT product testing, including incident response.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

For example, the BlackTech cyber-espionage ATP group, suspected to be backed by the Chinese government, sent emails containing Excel files with malicious macros to Japanese and Taiwanese corporations in the defense technology, media, and communications sectors. Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. How to Prevent APTs.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Precedents like Stuxnet , created by the US and Israeli governments to damage the Iranian nuclear program by targeting air-gapped centrifuges via 4 previously unknown "zero-day" flaws.

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IT Governance

MAY 9, 2019

It is a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim’s files and demands a payment to release them. However, paying the ransom does not guarantee the recovery of all encrypted data. ?Staff Download the infographic >> How to protect against cyber security attacks. DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

Now I was able to see encrypted URLs coming from infected hosts. Finally it was possible to figured out how to decrypt the attacker testing string (the first transaction available on logs) and voilà, it was possible to checkin in attacker’s email ! Important steps ahead are intentionally missing. URL Decryption Function.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? It was just like, I wonder how these things work. It's used for the billing, it's how they send signals to turn power on and off to meters and these other things so in that respect like you have a head end system, they don't have those on eBay. Turns out they weren't.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEFCON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption, if you want to learn you name it. Normally you don't need base you have to go back and find where the distributors are, how to buy that software. You're not going to find the software.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This is worth a quick watch (it's 2 minutes): The key sentence being the last one in that clip: Now, of course I am minimising my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their heads read because as a government, I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. It is a one stop shop, the lockpick village and many other teaching villages that have grown out of that tradition now.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. It is a one stop shop, the lockpick village and many other teaching villages that have grown out of that tradition now.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

Here are a few things everyone should know about the current state of government-backed cyber ops. Then somewhere along the way, Bogachev commenced moonlighting as a cyber spy for the Russian government. Those activities have criminal end-goals of corporate espionage and theft, but to be clear, they are government-directed.”

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