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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker extends products, services to encrypt data on portable storage devices

The Last Watchdog

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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Chrome wants to make your passwords stronger

Malwarebytes

A common sentiment, shared by many people down the years, is that storing passwords in browsers is a bad idea. Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight. Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown.

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LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter

Security Affairs

The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. ” reported ZDNet.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. .” ThreatNeedle attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data from the infected networks through SSH tunnels to a remote server located in South Korea.

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QakBot technical analysis

SecureList

It was found in the wild in 2007 and since then it has been continually maintained and developed. logins, passwords, etc.), In some cases, the emails were delivered with Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) or password-protected archives with the documents attached. The data is encrypted with the RC4 algorithm.

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Winnti uses a new PipeMon backdoor in attacks aimed at the gaming industry

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The first stage of the PipeMon backdoor consists of a password-protected RARSFX executable embedded in the.rsrc section of its launcher. A malicious DLL?

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