The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Compromised accounts came into play in data breaches of Uber, Tesla, Gemalto, Aviva, Equifax and many others. And with “digital transformation” accelerating, there are so many more weakly-secured login accounts just waiting to be maliciously manipulated. The good news is that this is a solvable problem.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Rise of Non-Ransomware Attacks on AWS S3 Data madhav Thu, 02/13/2025 - 04:39 A sophisticated ransomware gang, Codefinger, has a cunning new technique for encrypting data stored in AWS S3 buckets without traditional ransomware tools. Many regulations and standards mandate strict control over encryption keys.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. ” continues the announcement.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. As digital transformation has quickened, it has become clear that electronic signatures are destined to become even more pervasively used to conduct business remotely. Achieving high assurance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Account recovery is traditionally highly vulnerable—a weak spot for the industry and a common vector for credential theft. trillion, cybercrime is the world's third largest economy 1 , with 70% of organizations experiencing significant disruption to their business resulting from a breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2025

As automated traffic accounts for more than half of all web activity, organizations face heightened risks from bad bots, which are becoming more prolific every day. Simple, high-volume attacks have soared, now accounting for 45% of all bot attacks, compared to only 40% in 2023.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2025

Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform and HIPAA Compliance in 2025 madhav Wed, 03/19/2025 - 05:58 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has undergone significant changes in 2025, introducing enhanced requirements to address growing cyber threats and ensure comprehensive data protection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted in 1996, established national standards to safeguard sensitive patient health information (PHI) and prevent unauthorized disclosures. Encryption of ePHI : Protecting electronic health information, even if its intercepted.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

When the popular streaming audio service went offline globally, last August, we saw a glimpse of just how tenuous digital transformation sometimes can be. If Spotify has an excuse, it is that the complexity of issuing and managing digital certificates has become prodigious. Related: Why it’s vital to secure IoT.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Schneider Electric is a multinational company that specializes in energy management, industrial automation, and digital transformation. Kroll researchers reported that the ransomware strain outstands for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. The answer is three-fold: data encryption, strong access controls, and application security. The result?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Schneider Electric is a multinational company that specializes in energy management, industrial automation, and digital transformation. The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. So too are major advancements in security frameworks, data encryption and identity management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2025

It emphasizes the need for encryption, data governance, and secure information-sharing practices to prevent and mitigate cyber threats. Compliance with the GBLA requires prioritizing data encryption and robust access controls to protect sensitive consumer information throughout its lifecycle.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. As such, Hudson argues persuasively that the root of the matter comes down to the need for organizations to keep a much closer account of access logons and encryption keys. Hudson: First of all, digital transformation does some amazing things for our society.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

But did you know small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) account for at least half of all ransomware attacks, if not closer to two-thirds, according to the U.S. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a victim’s computers, blocking use of the device and all access to their data. Department of Homeland Security? What it is.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Sure, changing your passwords will, in most cases, improve the security of your digital accounts but what if we could do away with passwords altogether? It has been a cornerstone of digital security for decades and has served us well. Start by auditing and updating passwords for all your critical accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Encryption Under DORA, encryption plays a key role in securing financial and personal data, particularly during the transmission and storage of data in ICT systems. Recommendation: apply encryption according to risk profile of the data and in line with company policy.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Over the past year, I’ve had several deep conversations parsing how APIs have emerged as a two-edged sword: APIs accelerate digital transformation, but they also vastly expand the attack surface of modern business networks. -based supplier of networking technology. APIs come into play in the first stage of a multi-stage attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. With such elevated rights, the adversary has the power to encrypt data for a ransom, exfiltrated and sell sensitive customer and employee details on the Dark Web, and halt business operations.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What’s more, 99 percent of the IT pros said they believed their customers would switch to a competitor should they lose trust in the enterprise’s digital security. And nearly half, 47 percent, said they’ve stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. Baked-in security.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

APIs are the glue that keeps digital transformation intact and steamrolling forward. APIs have been a cornerstone of our digital economy from the start. Today APIs are empowering companies to speed up complex software development projects – as part of digital transformation. They simply can’t keep up.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That seminal tension still exists today even as the global cybersecurity community is moving to extend MFA as a key security component in much more complex digital systems spinning out of digital transformation. When it comes to verifying the identity of both human and machine accounts, Silverfort takes an umbrella view.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Account Takeovers Imagine a burglar not just breaking into your home but changing the locks and assuming your identity. This is the digital equivalent of an Account Takeover (ATO) attack, a growing menace in the cyber landscape. What's more alarming is the scale of this threat.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Most individuals today are nonplussed when required, under certain circumstances, to retrieve a one-time passcode, pushed out in a text message to their smartphone, and then typing the passcode to gain access to a privileged account. This is what digital transformation is all about.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

From curbing the spread of misinformation to implementing transparent algorithms, the DSA is taking critical steps to ensure that users will be held accountable for their online activities. By holding platforms to account and mandating guardrails, the DSA aims to make the internet a safer place.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV serves as both a FIDO security key, and a PIV Token ( Personal Identity Verification ), empowering organizations to adopt FIDO authentication for secured access to modern web applications while maintaining certificate-based authentication for legacy resources and operations such as digital signatures or file encryption.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

This surge is driven by a convergence of factorsfrom a spike in ransom ware attacks to the digital transformation of healthcarethat CISOs and healthcare executives must understand and act upon. Digital transformation - cloud and IoT exposure: The healthcare industry's rapid digitization is expanding the attack surface.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Related: How ‘credential stuffing’ enables online fraud As a result, some CEOs admit they’ve stopped Tweeting and deleted their LinkedIn and other social media accounts – anything to help reduce their organization’s exposure to cyber criminals. Kumar “By taking that approach, the business has more control,” he says.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Compounding the challenge, 46% of Account Takeover (ATO) attacks focused on API endpoints, up from 35% in 2022. However, this surge in API adoption has also expanded the attack surface, with 27% of API attacks targeting business logic vulnerabilities , a 10% increase from the previous year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect privileged accounts was another culprit, at 10%, also 7 percentage points lower than average. Exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities took second place, again higher than the overall by 7 percentage points.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Offers database encryption to protect against abuse by privileged users. Secure the digital transformation of the payments industry across various applications and environments. When attackers exploit vulnerabilities in these APIs, they can gain access to loyalty accounts, enabling them to steal or misuse this digital currency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. But at what cost? Every convenience we embrace comes with a security trade-off.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. What does this mean for company decision makers, going forward, especially as digital transformation and expansion of the gig economy deepens their reliance on subcontractors? What emerged was a quasi-trade association – Shared Assessments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Beyond this we also have Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the California Data Privacy Act (CCPA) and much more. In the Dec. In the Dec.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The rise of IABs corresponds with the increase in digital transformation. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, companies started implementing digital tools at an unprecedented pace. It’s far easier to steal and encrypt sensitive data when someone else manages the first and hardest step in the breach process. Mitigating IABs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 2, 2019

With a focus on customers and shared values of excellence, collaboration, growth and accountability, we will create solutions that make tomorrow possible, today. As organizations continue their digital transformations, we have the unique capability to provide solutions at every juncture in a world powered by the cloud, data and software.

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