Schneier on Security

MARCH 15, 2019

See generally, Kerr & Schneier, Encryption Workarounds, 106 Geo. 989, 990, 994, 998 (2018). And here's the second, in footnote 5: We recognize that ordinary cell phone users are likely unfamiliar with the complexities of encryption technology. See Kerr & Schneier, supra at 995.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Iran-linked APT group DEV-0270 (aka Nemesis Kitten) is abusing the BitLocker Windows feature to encrypt victims’ devices. Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence researchers reported that Iran-linked APT group DEV-0270 ( Nemesis Kitten ) has been abusing the BitLocker Windows feature to encrypt victims’ devices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The spyware’s deployment relied on Cellebrite’s unlocking process, combining two invasive technologies to compromise the journalists digital privacy comprehensively. Development traces back to at least 2018. ” reads the report published by Amnesty. At this time, the origin of NoviSpy remains unclear.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The second emerged in June 2018 when the NSA announced the purging of three years' worth of CDR records for "technical irregularities." Second, we show how the architecture of modern telephone communications might cause collection errors that fit the reported reasons for the 2018 purge.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In January 2018, GovPayNet was acquired by Securus Technologies , a Carrollton, Texas- based company that provides telecommunications services to prisons and helps law enforcement personnel keep tabs on mobile devices used by former inmates.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. ” Mr. Bernard’s investment firm did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As 2017 draws to a close, the trends and innovations that will shape the technology industry over the coming weeks, months and years were brought into sharper focus over the course of the last twelve months. Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Shift towards micro-services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. Adoption levels are high across the board for these technologies. For each technology area, encryption or encryption-related technologies were the requirement. Encrypt the data.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.” 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With 2018 approaching, I have been thinking about what will happen in the cybersecurity landscape and would like to make some predictions for the year ahead. For a technical perspective and prediction, our VP of Technical Strategy, Sol Cates sees a significant shift towards micro-services in the technology space.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Recent data from anti-phishing company PhishLabs shows that 49 percent of all phishing sites in the third quarter of 2018 bore the padlock security icon next to the phishing site domain name as displayed in a browser address bar. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Positive Technologies researchers Vladimir Kononovich and Alexey Stennikov have discovered security flaws Wincor Cineo ATMs that could be exploited to bypass Black-Box attack protections and withdraw cash. An attacker without encryption keys cannot withdraw money. Both issues received a CVSSv3.0 score of 6.8.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. This is designed to promote the protection of customer information as well as the information technology systems of regulated entities.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

Whether it be products and services or even entirely new business models, we are seeing rapid advances in new and disruptive technologies. You’re more inclined to remain a lifelong customer through the frictionless convenience and impressed by the technological advances a coffee company (albeit a very successful global one) has leveraged.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Spammers and email scam artists also could have a field day with this USPS vulnerability, said Robert Hansen , chief technology officer at Bit Discovery , a security firm in Austin, Texas. For instance, the API allowed any user to convert regular usps.com accounts to Informed Visibility business accounts, and vice versa.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts. “Guan and his co-conspirators worked at the offices of Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. . based Sophos Ltd. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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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. I talked with Jonathan Sander, Chief Technology Officer with STEALTHbits Technologies , about this at Black Hat USA 2018. Ransomware “is encrypting files, unstructured data.”

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The post Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the screenshot below, the stealer file is named 0Setup.exe: Contents of the malicious archive After launching, 0Setup.exe runs the legitimate BitLockerToGo.exe utility, normally responsible for encrypting and viewing the contents of removable drives using BitLocker.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. Attackers are taking advantage of TLS-protected web and cloud services, for malware delivery and for command-and-control, right under the noses of IT security teams and most security technologies.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

Security researchers have found a high severity flaw (CVE-2018-5383) affecting some Bluetooth implementations that allow attackers to manipulate traffic. Basically, a nearby attacker can launch a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and obtain the encryption key, then it can monitor and manipulate the traffic exchanged by the devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

South Africa’s Information Regulator is expected to put the Act into force in the second half of 2018. The drivers for enhanced data security include the proliferation of new technology platforms to create, transmit, analyze and otherwise manage data. Encrypt Everything. In other words, keep reading. More data, more risk.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard , a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who’s fleeced dozens of technology companies out of an estimated $30 million with the promise of lucrative investments. Docklands Enterprise Ltd., is Sergey Valentinov Pankov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

27, 2018, Cisco’s Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed “ DNSpionage.” Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g. 216 address).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Just a few years ago the network perimeter were the four walls surrounding the corporate enterprise, with the emergence of these transformative technologies the perimeter has become dynamic and ever changing.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” However, in recent years, we can see that SMBs are increasingly using cloud-based services to manage many areas of their information technology.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Widely known for targeting governments, academia, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology organizations’ cybersystems, Ryuk is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that’s been active since August 2018. What is Ryuk Ransomware?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , two in five global healthcare organisations (39%) experienced a data breach in the last year, and that’s using today’s relatively modest and well-understood web systems. There must be no question at any point over the integrity of the data or the medical device itself.

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Technology Healthcare IoT Encryption 72

SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SideWinder, aka T-APT-04 or RattleSnake, is one of the most prolific APT groups that began its activities in 2012 and was first publicly mentioned by us in 2018. APP_DLL_URL URL used to download the encrypted payload. Over the years, the group has launched attacks against high-profile entities in South and Southeast Asia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Back on March 14, 2014, the DoD Chief Information Officer announced the DoD plans of implementing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls to improve cybersecurity of systems. “In addition, officials did not encrypt data stored on removable media. ” reads the DoD report.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

Data is driving business for most organizations who utilize technology to carry out normal business operations. Unlike only a decade or so ago, the number of businesses who don’t utilize technology for some type of business-critical operation is few and far between. Top Ransomware Attacks in 2018 – What was Learned?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This ransomware became active at the back end of 2018 and remains current. After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2021

Abnormal Security Advanced email security 2018 San Francisco, CA $74M. Axis Security Zero trust cloud security 2018 San Mateo, CA $99.5M. Cape Privacy Encrypted learning privacy software 2018 New York, NY $25M. Wabbi Secure DevOps infrastructure platform 2018 Boston, MA. RSAC 2021 innovators. Abnormal Security.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

CEO Brian Krzanich delivers a keynote address at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Quantum computing has made great progress in certain areas of technology, including chip development. The hype cycles that come with emerging technologies can be perilous waters for early adopters and buyers. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images).

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