Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs."

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019. For many years, encryption has been viewed as a burden on businesses – expensive, complex and of questionable value. Businesses will be technology-enabled, connected and mobile, like never before. Enter encryption. But what does an effective strategy for encryption entail?

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

Finally, in March 2019 it was reported that the NSA had decided to completely abandon the program and not seek its renewal as it is due to sunset in late 2019. The second emerged in June 2018 when the NSA announced the purging of three years' worth of CDR records for "technical irregularities."

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – GRU, APT28).

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

M&A invariably creates technology gaps that bad actor’s prey upon. According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. Patient data exposures. The data was found for sale on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. A Webcam made by HiChip that includes the iLnkP2P software.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Researchers discovered a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-14899 that can be exploited to hijack active TCP connections in a VPN tunnel. “Additionally, we are able to determine the exact seq and ack num bers by counting encrypted packets and/or examining their size. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-14899 , hacking).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it has fined four companies $7 million for misleading statements about their cybersecurity incidents, particularly concerning the high-profile 2019 SolarWinds hack. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Unisys Corp.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. We've brought technology from our past into the present by creating emulators for Enigma, Typex and The Bombe in #CyberChef. We even tested them against the real thing!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. DarkMatter confirmed as much in its Cyber Security Report: June 2019 when it found that approximately 90 percent of UAE-based enterprises exhibited outdated software, credential problems in the form of weak/exposed passwords and insecure protocols.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

NTT Research opened its doors in Silicon Valley in July 2019 to help nurture basic research in three subject areas that happen to be at the core of digital transformation: quantum physics, medical informatics and cryptography. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Facebook is among the companies that would like to incorporate end-to-end encryption to benefit users. United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to tell a conference of child protection activists that end-to-end encryption puts children at risk, according to a draft invitation seen by Wired UK.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. The problem is that almost no policymakers are discussing this policy issue from a technologically informed perspective, and very few technologists truly understand the policy contours of the debate.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss that question with Catherine Allen, chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Group, and Mike Jordan, senior director of Santa Fe’s Shared Assessments program. Addressing third-parties Allen founded The Santa Fe Group in 1995 and established it as a leading consultancy, specializing on emerging technologies.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With many of these transformations, it is not just the premise of keeping up that drives the huge levels of investment we see organisations making – but also the promise of what’s possible, if the right technologies and approaches can be harnessed to disrupt or differentiate in the face of fierce competition. Blockchain. Containers.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2019

This past March at RSAC 2019, Pure Storage and Thales introduced the security industry’s first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction efficiencies. Historically, host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 14, 2019

The ability to narrow the gap between taking advantage of digital transformation without compromising security was a reoccurring theme at our 2019 annual Data Security Summit on May 1. Digital transformation is accelerating the pace at which new technologies are being adopted. IoT is forever changing the boundaries of the perimeter.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is all part of Generative AI and Large Language Models igniting the next massive technological disruption globally. AppSec technology security-hardens software at the coding level. Some of the more intriguing innovations had to do with leveraging GenAI/LLM-equipped chatbots as proprietary force multipliers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

While far and wide claims around AI and machine learning remain a mainstay, there was less emphasis on these technologies then in years past which was great to see. Times have changed because anti-virus was not focused on at all and there was little on encryption. The post Black Hat/DefCon 2019: Where is Quantum?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2019

When it comes to digital transformation, organizations are rushing to meet the demand, by leadership or customers, to deploy transformative technologies as a competitive edge. A great way to mitigate some of the risks associated with cloud or multi-cloud environments is to deploy encryption solutions. Follow her on Twitter @SocialTIS.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors. However, those aren’t the only ways to gain unauthorized access to database content.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Encrypted file structure ransomware BlackCat / ALPHV: [ORIGINAL_FILENAME].[ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different Black The LockBit 3.0 ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. The ransomware is coded in Python and compiled to an executable using PyInstaller; it supports two encryption modes: one generated dynamically and one using a hardcoded key. CVE-2019-11510. Product affected. Pulse Secure.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. The new variant was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of sharing some industry insights from our 2019 Data Threat Report-Federal Edition on Cyberwire’s Daily Podcast –specifically addressing the gap in security responsibility many federal agencies face today as they move tremendous amounts of sensitive data into multicloud environments.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G­in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability. In November 2019, researchers published vulnerabilities that allow 5G users to be tracked in real time, be sent fake emergency alerts, or be disconnected from the 5G network altogether.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2019

It’s no secret that cloud technology usage is pervasive among enterprises. According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report -Global Edition, some 90 percent of 1,200 responding data security professionals worldwide report their organizations are using the cloud. Vormetric Transparent Encryption. 2] 2019 Thales Data Threat Report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) October 29, 2019. This abuse must be stopped. ” reads the lawsuit.

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