The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We went over how Zero Trust Architecture ( ZTA ) is gaining steam — and how it embodies a critical paradigm shift necessary to secure hyper-interconnected services. Not coincidentally, industry standards groups and government regulators have stepped forward to embrace a vital supporting role.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This attack underscores a critical lesson for businesses: even the most vital institutions, such as a city government, are vulnerable to cyberthreats. With cyberthreats getting more advanced , businesses and local governments alike must work together to share resources, insights, and best practices to improve cybersecurity across the board.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2022

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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. federal government or not. The 4th Annual Multi-Cloud Conference and Workshop on ZTNA is an upcoming event for anyone interested in how the federal government is advancing standards in ZTNA. Let’s look at each of those five.

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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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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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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) Expands The Zero Trust model, which focuses on verifying every person and device attempting to access a system, is gaining ground as a best practice in cybersecurity. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

government is sounding the alarm on a growing cybersecurity risk for critical infrastructureinternet-exposed Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs). Instead of using secure solutions like VPNs or Zero Trust architectures, many HMIs were directly connected to the internet, exposing them to attackers.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. The secure USB drive was developed by a government entity in Southeast Asia to securely store and transfer files between machines in sensitive environments.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Its primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Nepal. Some infection routines do not check the architecture. 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

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. It was this first time that the operators adopted this tactic.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

With organizations around the world on heightened alert in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, government agencies have stepped up efforts too. Purdue network architecture. Network Architecture and Design. Network Architecture and Design. Limit and encrypt VPNs. Group similar network systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 10, 2021

A hackers group named ‘Khalsa Cyber Fauj’ is indulging in the activity of spreading file encrypting malware into public and private companies operating in the Indian Subcontinent. And the highlight of this campaign is that the encryption is being done in military grade style that turns files useless after a certain period.

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SecureList

APRIL 17, 2025

However, recently we managed to spot attempted deployments of a new version of this implant, occurring in government organizations located in Mongolia and Russia. This file is encrypted with a single-byte XOR and is loaded at runtime. Allows reading files, managing services, and spawning new processes.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2025

Highlights: Understanding Canadian API Standards: Key principles for secure government API development. Salt Security's Alignment: How the Salt API Security Platform supports Canadian government API security regulations. Salt Security's Alignment: How the Salt API Security Platform supports Canadian government API security regulations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Governments have responded by introducing stringent regulatory measures such as the European Unions GDPR , Chinas Cybersecurity Law, and the United Statess CLOUD Act, each with unique requirements that impact how organizations handle and transfer data internationally.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. This hack included US Government networks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. American Scientist) Quantum and the Threat to Encryption (SecurityWeek) Quantum Computing Advances in 2024 Put Security In Spotlight (Dark Reading) Quantum computing could threaten cybersecurity measures.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Policy management is the sturdy scaffolding that supports governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) objectives while shaping corporate culture and ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations. Such a siloed approach obstructs governance and compliance, leaving critical blind spots. Govern Start with a Policy on Policies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

The challenge lies in implementing robust security measures across the entire lifecycle of IoT devices, including secure development, strong authentication, encryption, and regular updates to patch vulnerabilities. Attackers leverage sophisticated techniques to infiltrate systems, encrypt valuable data, and demand ransom payments.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain. Yes, they’re still making lots of use of non-U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Finisher, aka FinFisher, is a multiplatform surveillance software used by government and law enforcement agencies for their investigations, but unfortunately, it made the headlines because it was also used by oppressive regimes to spy on dissidents, activists, and Journalists. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government experts observed the threat actors using the following ransomware families: AvosLocker , Diamond, Hive , Karakurt , LockBit , Quantum , and Royal. Dual ransomware attacks resulted in a combination of data encryption, exfiltration, and financial losses from ransom payments. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

government entities in Belgium, and telecommunications companies in Thailand and Brazil. The attack starts with a shell script that downloads binaries for various architectures (ARM, MIPS, X86), extracts a command-and-control (C2) server from an encrypted configuration, and connects to it.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 26, 2023

Confidential computing is a technology and technique that encrypts and stores an organization’s most sensitive data in a secure portion of a computer’s processor — known as the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — while it’s processed and in use.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. This hack included US Government networks.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

including government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement. Initially focused on government and industrial sectors, the group has recently turned its attention to healthcare , which poses significant risks due to the sensitive nature of medical data and the potential for disruptions to life-saving operations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

In October, Kaspersky revealed that the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability has been exploited by the APT group tracked as FruityArmor , a cyber-espionage group that was first observed in 2016 while targeting activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. For entities not in the registry, we use invented names.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Google’s cloud security is well regarded (and the company has shared some documentation of its security architecture and practices too). and virtually — had a strong government and financial services focus, two sectors with high security needs that understand the limits of security tools and the need for resilience. Prepare Now.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2021

MORPHEUS chip: unhackable because of 'encryption churn'? Austin calls this encryption churn and says it prevents reverse engineering, which sophisticated hackers sometimes use. Undefined semantics are nooks and crannies of the computing architecture—for example the location, format, and content of program code.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public Cloud Environments A public cloud architecture is a shared infrastructure hosted by a cloud service provider. Prevention: Implement robust encryption , access restrictions, data categorization, secure connections, and an incident response strategy. Set up alerts to notify you of potential security breaches as soon as they occur.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Encryption-in-use, a.k.a. data-in-use encryption, is changing the data protection landscape and could spark a cybersecurity movement that dwarfs tokenization in both usage and magnitude of impact. What about encryption? Do these enterprises not encrypt this data, and why does this not help? By Arti Raman, CEO, Titaniam.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These tools facilitate compliance and enhance overall data governance. Implement Strong Data Encryption Practices Data encryption is a fundamental practice in protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access. Use Robust Algorithms : Implement strong encryption algorithms, such as AES-256 , to maximize security.

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