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New Hive ransomware variant is written in Rust and use improved encryption method

Security Affairs

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft.

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Hertzbleed Side-Channel Attack allows to remotely steal encryption keys from AMD and Intel chips

Security Affairs

Hertzbleed attack: Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD chips that could allow attackers to steal encryption keys. The result is that current industry guidelines for how to write constant-time code (such as Intel’s one ) are insufficient to guarantee constant-time execution on modern processors.”

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Common IT Security Vulnerabilities – and How to Defend Against Them

eSecurity Planet

Here are some of the most common IT security vulnerabilities and how to protect against them. Here are a few of the more common vulnerabilities – and how to defend against them. Missing data encryption. Missing data encryption. Read Also : How to Prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks.

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Strong Encryption Explained: 6 Encryption Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

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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API Security 101 for Developers: How to Easily Secure Your APIs

ForAllSecure

In the following sections, we will discuss: API Basics Common API Security Vulnerabilities Best Practices for API Security How to do API Security Automatically By the end of this blog post, you will have a good understanding of API security and the steps you can take to easily secure your APIs. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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Top Open Source Security Tools

eSecurity Planet

It matches reported vulnerabilities to the open source libraries in code, reducing the number of alerts. VeraCrypt is free, open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encryption is automatic and is done in real time.

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Hackers Are Now Exploiting Windows Event Logs

eSecurity Planet

The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs. Also read: How Hackers Evade Detection. How to Protect Against Event Log Attacks.