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Breach at Hy-Vee Supermarket Chain Tied to Sale of 5M+ Stolen Credit, Debit Cards

Krebs on Security

On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked merchants announced a blockbuster new sale: More than 5.3 “This encryption technology protects card data by making it unreadable. million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S.

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The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption.

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”. Re-encryption.

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Trojan Shield, the biggest ever police operation against encrypted communications

Security Affairs

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications.

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So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? Segregation of duties applies also to how you handle encryption and cryptographic key management for protecting your sensitive data stored in cloud storage such as the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Understanding encryption in Amazon EBS.

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Report: Encrypted Smartphone Takedown Outed Canadian Mole

Data Breach Today

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for Sale The Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole.

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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. Unfortunately stolen data are already available for sale on the dark web, security researchers at CloudSEK reported. million LiveAuctioneers users.

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Crooks offered for sale private messages for 81k Facebook accounts

Security Affairs

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. ” states the BBC. Pierluigi Paganini.

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