The Hacker News

JULY 25, 2023

A new security vulnerability has been discovered in AMD's Zen 2 architecture-based processors that could be exploited to extract sensitive data such as encryption keys and passwords.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2023

Organizations are accelerating plans for data encryption, driven by increased security, privacy, and cloud workload protection requirements. However, there are a few different approaches to data encryption and enterprises must consider several factors before choosing the right tools and architecture for their needs.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On the heels of President Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity (EO 14028) , the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a memorandum addressing the heads of executive departments and agencies that “sets forth a Federal zero trust architecture (ZTA) strategy.” Where is encryption used to protect data at rest?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can now implement and maintain encryption with minimal impact. This, in turn, requires the protection of a strong cybersecurity architecture. This, in turn, requires the protection of a strong cybersecurity architecture. But deployment and management of encryption generally incur downtime. Initial encryption.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In an update published on Thursday, the company revealed that threat actors obtained personal information belonging to its customers, including encrypted password vaults. The threat actor also copied a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape. This trend underscores the growing reliance on encryption as a primary safeguard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. Records also exist in transit.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Researchers uncovered a new flaw, dubbed ÆPIC, in Intel CPUs that enables attackers to obtain encryption keys and other secret information from the processors. The ÆPIC Leak ( CVE-2022-21233 ) is the first architecturally CPU bug that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data and impacts most 10th, 11th and 12th generation Intel CPUs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 30, 2024

OCI Customers Can Now Externally Manage Encryption Keys from a Cloud-Based Service madhav Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:20 Oracle stands apart by offering a comprehensive suite of services across all its cloud delivery models, from Oracle Alloy and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to its standard Public Cloud service.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. Raman says the emerging technology of choice to defend against data exfiltration and extortion attacks is encryption-in-use.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Defining 5G security and architecture. Delving into the technical details of the 5G security architecture is beyond the scope of this article. Your ID with 5G is encrypted. Plus, a more robust encryption algorithm scrambles the traffic when your voice and data travels from your device to the cell tower.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape. This trend underscores the growing reliance on encryption as a primary safeguard.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2024

OCI Customers Can Now Externally Manage Encryption Keys from a Cloud-Based Service madhav Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:20 Oracle stands apart by offering a comprehensive suite of services across all its cloud delivery models, from Oracle Alloy and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to its standard Public Cloud service.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 2, 2021

Researchers create a processor that uses encryption to modify its memory architecture during runtime, making it very difficult for hackers to exploit memory-based vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2020

NIST’s identity-centric architecture. In August, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its blueprint for establishing a Zero Trust security architecture, NIST SP 800-207. A Zero Trust security architecture is based on three foundational principles: Ensure that data, equipment, systems, etc.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Key Components and Functions in a Zero Trust Architecture. Zero Trust architectural principles. NIST’s identity-centric architecture , I discussed the three approaches to implementing a Zero Trust architecture, as described in the NIST blueprint SP 800-207. Core Zero Trust architecture components.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2021

New paper: “ Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos “: Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for mobile devices. The post Storing Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was just a few short years ago that the tech sector, led by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft, commenced a big push to increase the use of HTTPS – and its underlying TLS authentication and encryption protocol. Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. The monumental challenge is that replacing classical encryption with PQC will be complicated and time consuming. To its credit, the global cybersecurity community is not asleep on this.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If the encryption and decryption sequence is successful – when the private key fits into the public lock – the user is also the owner of the private key. When a user logs into a system, the private key is kept by the user, while the public key (or public lock) is sent to the system.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. The only fail-safe solution to ensure that your data is secure as it travels across the network is encryption. For encryption to be most effective, it needs to deliver against four criteria: speed, scalability, manageability and affordability. Encryption.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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Threatpost

MAY 7, 2020

A full cryptographic draft architecture will be available on May 22. As the company continues to battle security woes, it has acquired Keybase to boost security and privacy.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. So basically: Minor incident, but no customer data or vaults were lost. Actually, some data was lost. Actually, both data and vaults were lost.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer. Fun fact: Those three algorithms were broken by the Center of Encryption and Information Security, part of the Israeli Defense Force.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

multiple encryption for C2 communication with ancient crypto algorithm. The encryption function used to send data was also modified, making it even more complicated. The second key is used by the Vigenere cipher to encrypt the base64 encoded header (url-safe replaced padding from “=” to “ ”). and v0.6.5,

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity. We want encryption in transit so no one can read sensitive data from our network traffic. Let’s look at each of those five.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. “Akira threat actors utilize a sophisticated hybrid encryption scheme to lock data.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In cloud architectures, that sensitive data will most likely reside in a cloud provider environment - meaning a third-party data center outside of a customer’s control. The Solution: Encryption for Kubernetes So, how to solve this? The natural place to start any data-centric security conversation is with encryption.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Mathy Vanhoef – ‘Framing Frames: Bypassing Wi-Fi Encryption By Manipulating Transmit Queues’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Rosetta: Enabling Robust TLS Encrypted Traffic Classification in Diverse Network Environments with TCP-Aware Traffic Augmentation appeared first on Security Boulevard. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 24, 2023

Cybercriminals design ransomware to block access to a computer system or encrypt data they find in an architecture they have infiltrated and. The post How Ransomware Spreads and How Microsegmentation Stops It appeared first on TrueFort.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU. It’s All About Encryption. That said, some hardware upgrades are certainly worth it.

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