Elie

JULY 26, 2017

Ever wondered if your new shiny AES hardware-encrypted USB device really encrypts your data - or is just a fluke? If you have, come to our talk to find out if those products live up to the hype and hear about the results of the audit we conducted on multiples USB keys and hard drives that claim to securely encrypt data.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The experts noticed that in MegaCortex attacks other malware like Emotet and Qbot (aka Qakbot) were present in the same network. The tool is an executable that can be downloaded from Bitdefender servers. The decryptor also supports the “Scan Entire System” mode which allows users to search for all encrypted files.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

In a developing market, third-party risk management (TPRM) software and tools could be the answer to helping organizations fill the gap. This article looks at the top third-party risk management vendors and tools and offers a look into TPRM solutions and what buyers should consider before purchasing. Aravo TPRM. RSA Archer Insight.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

DigiCert’s survey presents hard evidence that trust can be the basis of a winning business model. For its part, DigiCert has continued to advance it’s DigiCert ONE platform of tools and services to help companies manage their digital certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI.) But what about the laggards?

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year. See, e.g., here.)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Look for the “https” in the website’s URL—it means there’s some level of encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Contents: Top GRC tools comparison. Top GRC tools comparison.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. Using public-private encryption key pairs, receiving email servers can compare the received email hash value against the received hash value to validate if any alterations took place in transit. How Do Mailservers Verify DKIM?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection. Vulnerabilities in encryption techniques, on the other hand, or bad key management policies, might expose data to prospective intrusions. Attackers may try to exploit these flaws to decode and access sensitive data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

presents an opportunity to future-proof your payment card security. Encryption Reassessment : Ensure your encryption protocols and key management practices for data in transit and at rest adhere to the latest, most robust standards. PCI DSS 4.0: Harmonizing Compliance: Aligning PCI DSS 4.0

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The answer, based on a couple of presentations at the conference, is that patching is incredibly difficult to get right, requiring way more attention than most companies can afford to give it. Venables spent much of his presentation discussing the many ways Google Cloud reduces concentration risk (see slide below).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

Ransomware groups also harvest cookies and “their activities may not be detected by simple anti-malware defenses because of their abuse of legitimate executables, both already present and brought along as tools.” Also read: How Cobalt Strike Became a Favorite Tool of Hackers. How Users Can Protect Access.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

One of the files is a new strain of ransomware, eight files are open-source penetration testing and exploitation tools which refers to as FiveHands, and the files are associated with the SombRAT RAT. Threat actors employes the SombRAT as part of the attack to download and execution additional malicious payloads. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. S/MIME provides a means to encrypt sensitive emails while also verifying the authenticity of the sender. Email remains far and away the most widely used business communication tool, and thus a primary target.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Indispensable Role of End-to-End Encryption in the Age of Mobile Wallets Mobile wallets and online transactions are now as commonplace as physical cash transactions. Today, using Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity. The security of our financial data is of paramount importance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To counter HNDL, migrating critical systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) provides encryption and authentication methods resistant to an attack from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. Based in San Mateo, CA, Axis publicly announced its advanced Zero Trust access tool in March 2020, just as the global economy was slowing to a crawl.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

The analysis of the HTTP POST request sent to validate the code revealed that the code is encrypted before being sent, this means that in order to automate bruteforce attacks it was necessary to break the encryption. “If you look at the screenshot above, the code 1234567 we entered was nowhere present in the request.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 18, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first collection of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which might compromise the security employed to preserve privacy in the digital systems we rely on. Thales innovates in crypto-research.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

The advantages of AI are numerous and impactful, from predictive analytics that refine strategies, to natural language processing that fuels customer interactions and assists users in their daily tasks, to assistive tools that enhance accessibility, communication and independence for people with disabilities.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With ever-increasing requirements for digital sovereignty and data control across public clouds, Thales and Google Cloud have a history of offering best-in-class platform integrations that exceed regulatory requirements and mitigate the increasing risks present in the cyber threat landscape. Identity & Access Management.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. Resecurity also presented evidence that it notified Citrix of the breach as early as Dec. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

“This website presents FragAttacks ( fr agmentation and ag gregation attacks ) which is a collection of new security vulnerabilities that affect Wi-Fi devices. CVE-2020-24587 : mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys). CVE-2020-26147 : Reassembling mixed encrypted/plaintext fragments.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Vanhoof’s arsenal included an NFC card reader / writer, the nfc-mfclassic – MIFARE classic command line tool, and a version of mfoc MIFARE Classic offline cracker that he modified. The researchers wrote a Python script that used to crack the weak encryption and dumped the card’s binary. ” wrote the expert. .

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While solutions are available to augment the authentication of an entity through MFA and credential-centric tools, there is a key component missing – authorization. From there, they can encrypt data, execute a ransomware attack and more. and digital identities (apps, devices, machines, etc.).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. “On one of the compromised information systems, experts found encrypted files with the extension “ newversion.”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The presentation at last week’s Black Hat security conference by NCC’s Iain Smart and Viktor Gazdag, titled “RCE-as-a-Service: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Real-World CI/CD Pipeline Compromise,” builds on previous work NCC researchers have done on compromised CI/CD pipelines. CI/CD Approaches Create Risk.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022. The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2024

Its founding team comprises leading AI researchers and security veterans who have created security products in broad use across enterprises today, and have 150+ patents across large language models, cloud computing, encryption, scalable architecture, transistors, and hardware design. billion by 2028.

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