Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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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. It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Third-party governance.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Further reading: Top Container Security Solutions for 2021. Three Threat Areas.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The voluminous report, entitled “Liberty and Security in a Changing World,” was authored by The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, an advisory panel that includes experts in national security, intelligence gathering and civil liberties. The report begins by describing the varying goals of U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Government organizations combine the best of both the energy and healthcare industries for scammers, with government entities both having access to sensitive information and being necessary to the day-to-day lives of citizens. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. But, that’s not the whole story.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Essentially, we are securing an app at scale with enormous requirements for stored data, incoming data, data interactions, and network connections. Data Lake Security Scope.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to data security , the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. are kept secure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab linked the recent supply-chain attack that hit ASUS users (tracked as Operation ShadowHammer ) to the “ ShadowPad ” threat actor. “Even the data with the encrypted payload is stored inside this code section. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

Yet, today, it's essentially wrong, and moreover isn't a helpful starting point for a security discussion. And, when we do think about it, it falls under the domain of site reliability engineering (SRE) rather than being a security function. We've reached this point thanks in large part to the cloud and the advent of utility computing.

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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. It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Third-party governance.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Where the use of the Blockchain technology is absolutely necessary, then the CNIL recommends to use a permissioned blockchain (instead of a public blockchain), which provides more control over the governance of personal data, in particular with respect to transfers outside the EU as miners may be located outside the EU. Encrypted data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

Encryption is a cornerstone of digital commerce. Related: A ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption solution We know very well how to encrypt data in transit. And we’ve mastered how to encrypt — and decrypt — data at rest. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most cryptosystems begin with an unencrypted message known as plaintext, which is then encrypted into an indecipherable code known as ciphertext using one or more encryption keys. Non-repudiation: The creator/sender of encrypted information cannot deny their intention to send the information. are kept secure.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most cryptosystems begin with an unencrypted message known as plaintext, which is then encrypted into an indecipherable code known as ciphertext using one or more encryption keys. Non-repudiation: The creator/sender of encrypted information cannot deny their intention to send the information. are kept secure.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost. The days of dreadful long lines at crowded and inefficient government agencies may be coming to an end. Digitalization of services and adoption of new platforms are reinventing government services and public administration.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? I mean what's the remaining gap?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. ” The botnet’s P2P communication is encrypted using AES for symmetric encryption and the Diffie-Hellman protocol for key exchange. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

This is supported by automated lineage, governance and reproducibility of data, helping to ensure seamless operations and reliability.    Amazon RDS for Db2 IBM Db2 helps to ensure the security, performance and resilience of your data, regardless of transaction volume or complexity.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Bottom Line: Preparing for Incident Response How Does Incident Response Work? In either case, preparation is critical.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. By masking high-value assets in a sea of fake attack surfaces, attackers are disoriented and attack a fake asset, in the process alerting security teams to their presence. But it can work the other way. What is Deception Technology?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. I write a monthly security column for Windows Secrets and I do a couple other things on the side.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? And on the other hand, we're saying security, that's a secondary concern. But we all know how security by obscurity works in the end.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They'd be allowed, right?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. Vamosi: In fact the more secure locks are just combinations of pins and cylinders layered in various ways. The lock is just verifying that.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. Vamosi: In fact the more secure locks are just combinations of pins and cylinders layered in various ways. The lock is just verifying that.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 6, 2020

It bills itself as the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring nine individual hacking competitions, including CTFs. There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

It bills itself as the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring nine individual hacking competitions, including CTFs. There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

It bills itself as the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring nine individual hacking competitions, including CTFs. There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

Cybercriminals typically would grab hold of a victim’s data, encrypt it and then demand payment, with the promise – not always fulfilled – that once the ransom was paid, they would send a key to the victims to decrypt the data. The federal government has become increasingly involved in pushing back against cybercrime, particularly ransomware.

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