Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

The German foreign ministry has restricted the use of the video conferencing service Zoom due to concerns about security vulnerabilities recently discovered. During Coronavirus pandemic video conferencing services have become a precious instrument for the people that worked or studied from home. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to a recent market study 1 , 71% of individuals surveyed said double and triple extortion tactics have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and 65% agree that these new threats make it tougher to refuse ransom demands. The pains of double extortion ransomware A security gap? What is Double Extortion Ransomware?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to a Microsoft study , 73% of workers want to keep the flexible work arrangements created in response to COVID-19, and 67% want a return to in-person collaboration. Although employees and employers may rejoice at the flexibility that hybrid working affords, you must understand the cyber security risks associated with it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Nearly half (48%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud according to the 2019 Thales Global Cloud Security Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The reality is the cloud has created challenges in knowing where data is stored, who has access to it, and how to best secure it. Encrypting data in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2019

theme will help to encourage personal accountability and proactive behavior in digital privacy, security best practices, common cyber threats and cybersecurity careers. Many companies think that by moving your data to the cloud, the service provider will be responsible for the security of your data. Protect IT.’

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As articulated in President Biden’s May 2021 Executive Order , Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity , “[t]he United States faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people’s security and privacy.” million, or 80%.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. ” Sounil Yu: Lack of security response & recovery products.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

And yet we are overlooking profound privacy and security ramifications. billion IoT devices in use as of 2017, half are consumer gadgets, like smart TVs, speakers, watches, baby cams and home thermostats; much of the rest is made up of things like smart electric meters and security cameras in corporate and government use.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The exponential processing capability of a quantum computer is already being welcomed by governments and corporations. The potential of quantum computers to break the current security of common activities in our daily lives could have severe consequences. Threat 1: Harvest Now, Decrypt Later.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT. In the absence of IoT security regulations, many smart product manufacturers simply release new devices that lack built-in security measures and have not undergone proper security review and testing.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nexa Technologies offers a range of solutions for homeland security, including surveillance solutions. The cybersurveillance equipment was used by the Egyptian government to track down opponents. “In short, Cerebro can suck up any data that is not encrypted. A weapon of choice for authoritarian governments.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The price you pay for this breakfast increases radically with poor security. Are your AI plans supported by an encryption strategy? The firm’s AI team says the software contains encryption. However, in this scenario where are the encryption keys? How will you secure AI data in the cloud? Are they encrypting it?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. According to a new study, phishing attacks rose 61 percent in 2022, with cryptocurrency fraud increasing 257 percent year-over-year. Steps to effective security. Otherwise, they risk dire consequences.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. As a result, security in the public and private sectors became fragmented.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 17, 2021

Augmenting a BYOK service should allow organizations to implement the encryption best practice of separating the location of data from that of the encryption keys. PCI DSS, along with GLBA/FFIEC and FISMA, requires the use of NIST-certified AES encryption and FIPS 140-2-compliant key management. The Essential Truth.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Cyber criminals who specialize in plundering local governments and school districts are in their heyday. Lucy Security, a security training company based in Zug, Switzerland that works with many smaller public entities, has been in the thick of this onslaught. I had a chance to discuss this with Lucy Security Inc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. The global study that informs the Index involved more than 21,000 participants across 11 countries. Governments need to take action.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 3, 2023

And there’s the nagging question of why the Chinese government didn’t classify this research. “ Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor ” Abstract: Shor’s algorithm has seriously challenged information security based on public key cryptosystems.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

An IT security certification can provide a key boost for your career, but with so many different certifications available (and so many organizations more than happy to take your money for training and testing), it’s important to make sure that the time and investment are well spent. How to Choose a Security Certification.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The government agencies have observed an increase in ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends, the choice of these period is motivated by the lower level of defense due to the reduced presence of the personnel. Securing and monitoring Remote Desktop Protocol endpoints. ” reads the advisory published by CISA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

To get an idea of how serious this problem might be, a 2015 report by the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies estimated a major grid attack in the U.S. But government bills and regulations can at best only mandate what organizations should be doing on their own to protect themselves and the people who depend on them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

The directive’s third section, entitled “Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity,” requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to begin moving to a zero trust architecture (ZTA). Network-centric: Here, security teams focus on protecting access to their resources based upon their location in the corporate network.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

It behooves companies, government agencies, nonprofits and other entities to understand what new requirements POPI imposes on them. The drivers for enhanced data security include the proliferation of new technology platforms to create, transmit, analyze and otherwise manage data. Encrypt Everything. In other words, keep reading.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Building a foundation of trust is therefore essential to ensuring that the IoT reaches its full potential, but unfortunately many IoT devices simply were not built with security in mind. Authentic, secure patching ensures that manufacturers can mitigate security issues before cyber criminals can act.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

Although more than 77% of decision-makers in an IBM study have adopted a hybrid cloud approach, the majority struggle with the complexity of making all their cloud environments work together.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized. And yet, not nearly enough attention is being paid to the profound privacy and security implications. The Salt Lake City, UT-based machine identity protection leader sponsored the dark web study. and the University of Surrey in the U.K.

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AIIM

MAY 20, 2021

Step 3: Have Clear Corporate Data Security Policies. Step 5: Secure Valuable Knowledge. The third and final way to label your knowledge assets is through their security-related access levels. Data categorization primes you for the next step—data security policy formulation. You must secure it. Medium-value assets).

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Data Matters

JANUARY 22, 2018

person query in certain circumstances—specifically, if the query was in connection with a criminal investigation unrelated to national security and not designed to find foreign intelligence information. Classification Study. Whistleblower Protection.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past. ” US-CERT annual security vulnerabilities – high security vulnerabilities in green.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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. In other instances, the gang exploited the COVID-19 theme and anti-government rallies in Belarus in their phishing emails. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, OldGremlin).

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But the attention paid to the malware by journalists, cybersecurity vendors and increasingly, government agencies , has pushed companies to improve their preparedness to defend themselves against ransomware gangs, according to a report this week by security solutions vendor Cymulate. Companies Invest More in Security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

When organizations implement Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance ( DMARC ), they expect to tighten email security and protect against spoofing and other spam email attacks. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. email domain providers and many corporate and government entities. What is DMARC?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The vulnerability disclosure was coordinated with multiple organizations, some of whom are now releasing updates to address the security weakness. “Such code copying is a significant source of real-world security exploits.” ” Image: XKCD.com/2347/.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. So does society's underlying security needs. There is a security benefit to giving access to law enforcement, even though it would inevitably and invariably also give that access to others.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. So does society's underlying security needs. There is a security benefit to giving access to law enforcement, even though it would inevitably and invariably also give that access to others.

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