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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Therefore, decryptors appear on the Internet, and with them the hope that files can be decrypted without paying a ransom.

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Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names

Cisco Security

It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. We’re fans: in fact, Cisco Umbrella has supported Encrypted DNS since 2011. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Here’s our vision.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

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. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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It’s Too Late for Threat Intelligence Vendors to Ignore IPv6

Webroot

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. IP addresses, those numbers assigned to every internet-connected device, or node, were designed to contain 32 bits. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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If You're Not Paying for the Product, You Are. Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free

Troy Hunt

But this isn't an internet age thing, the origins go back way further, originally being used to describe TV viewers being served ads. How about ASafaWeb in 2011 ? And now you're thinking "I bet he wrote this just to get donations" so instead, go and give Let's Encrypt a donation. So why do it?

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NEW TECH: The march begins to make mobile app security more robust than legacy PC security

The Last Watchdog

Related: Securing the Internet of Things I’ve been writing about organizations struggling to solve the productivity vs. security dilemma that’s part and parcel of the BYOD craze for some time now. By 2011 or so, it was clear the BYOD trend was unstoppable, and companies began to impose much tighter security constraints. Talk more soon.

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Encryption Does Not Equal Invisibility – Detecting Anomalous TLS Certificates with the Half-Space-Trees Algorithm

Fox IT

This model utilizes the Half-Space-Trees algorithm and provides our security operations teams (SOC) with the opportunity to detect suspicious behavior, in real-time, even when network traffic is encrypted. The prevalence of encrypted traffic. The use of encrypted network protocols yields improved mitigation against eavesdropping.