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My Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches

Daniel Miessler

It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. Actually, some data was lost.

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How to evolve your organization into a data-centric security architecture

CyberSecurity Insiders

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Encryption has become fundamental for data destinations and in passage. Sometimes encryption is built into websites and programs – some examples include HTTPS and email encryption, but this is not enough to thwart every scammer's assault on data.

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Decrypting Full Disk Encryption with Dissect

Fox IT

One of the most popular requests has been the capability to use Dissect in combination with common disk encryption methods like Microsoft’s BitLocker or its Linux equivalent LUKS. Of course, a blog post is not complete without a demo. Internally at Fox-IT we were able to already use these capabilities.

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ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

Krebs on Security

29, roughly the same time Pyle published a blog post about his findings , ConnectWise issued an advisory warning users to be on guard against a new round email phishing attempts that mimic legitimate email alerts the company sends when it detects unusual activity on a customer account. Update, 7:25 p.m.

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GUEST ESSAY: 5 tips for ‘de-risking’ work scenarios that require accessing personal data

The Last Watchdog

Related: The dangers of normalizing encryption for government use. Planning required processes and security components when initially building your architecture. Encryption. Encrypting data in storage and while it is being transferred can also significantly de-risk work scenarios revolving around the use of personal data.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Design your architecture in a way where the CMS back end (the behind-the-scenes content repository) is not directly coupled to the front end (the presentation system).

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.