Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Looks like the encryption algorithm was intentionally weakened by intelligence agencies to facilitate easy eavesdropping. Another news article.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. This is true even in cases in which the infected devices themselves cannot have their data encrypted or stolen by the ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2022

Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

Zero Trust is a term that is often misunderstood and misused, which is why I wrote an article not long ago entitled Zero Trust: What These Overused Cybersecurity Buzz Words Actually Mean – And Do Not Mean. Because the attacker may be listening to the data moving across the network, all traffic must be encrypted.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Since 2013, of course, there have been multiple efforts by governments to spy on users of digital communications and to force technology companies to provide access to the electronic communications of suspected criminals. Of course, no encryption method is perfect. So, is there a way to truly protect communications from snooping?

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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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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

MAY 19, 2022

For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. If you are using a CMS hosted in your data center, then you need to be sure to promptly apply fixes and patches provided by your technology vendor. (If What can you do about it?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this article, I will attempt to unravel the intertwined threads of AI, confidential computing, quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and the pivotal role of cloud security services. Maturity: AI technologies have reached a certain maturity and widespread adoption, while quantum cryptography remains in the nascent stages.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Recent progress has sparked discussions, but current capabilities are still far from threatening encryption standards like 2048-bit RSA. It is essential to understand the risks posed by quantum computing, as future advancements could compromise today's encrypted data, opening new opportunities for threat actors.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

These include things like trusted execution, virtualization, memory encryption, runtime BIOS resilience and threat detection technology ( Intel TDT ). To read this article in full, please click here

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards. This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understanding and interest.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

The advent of 5G technology brings not only faster speeds and low latency but also significant advancements in enhancing cybersecurity. This article explores the ways in which 5G helps accelerate cybersecurity, safeguarding the increasingly connected world we live in.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

This article helps to understand: How Does DKIM Work? At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. The “p” field is the public encryption key value. The file name will be in the format of <selector> _domainkey.<domain> How Do Mailservers Verify DKIM?

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CSO Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Technology giant IBM has debuted a new set of tools and capabilities designed as an end-to-end, quantum-safe solution to secure organizations and governmental agencies as they head toward the post-quantum computing era. To read this article in full, please click here

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This article focuses on helping to prevent cyberattacks purely through technology; though of course, businesses need a combination of technology, people, and strategy to truly become cyber resilient. That being said, security experts advise against relying solely on a single technology or technique to protect business endpoints.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the frequency of data breaches surges, it becomes increasingly imperative to guarantee the security and adequate encryption of passwords. In this article, I will provide an overview of password encryption, explaining its essence and modus operandi. What is password encryption? Why is password encryption necessary?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

Managed security services (MSS) refer to a service model that enable the monitoring and managing of security technologies, systems, or even software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. Enterprises that embrace IoT technologies to enhance end-user and employee experiences are likely to turn to MSS providers for quick and effective security […].

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Web3 technology has unique characteristics that lend it to dealing with IAM. The validity of the blockchain is predicated on encryption; every piece of on-chain data is by its nature protected to a degree. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

To read this article in full, please click here I liked that thrill of putting solutions in place that stop something bad from happening,” he adds. But Engle says he didn’t like other aspects of his position, particularly the governance and regulatory requirement tasks that intensified following the 2002 passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just as the threat landscape evolves over time, so does security technology. And then EPP expanded even further to not only protect the endpoint but also the data residing on it, adding stand-alone data loss prevention, port and device control, full disk encryption and similar capabilities into the platform.

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InfoWorld on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Now we have deep encryption services, key management, and most recently, zero trust and secure access service edge (SASE). Despite all this security technology, security solutions have become more complex and difficult to operate as cloud deployments themselves become more complex. To read this article in full, please click here

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

So, in this article we’ll use SSL to refer to the entire SSL/TLS family of protocols. SSL is a security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client, such as a website and a browser, or a pair of email servers. It ensures that a connection between two computers is encrypted.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If we define ransomware as malware that encrypts files to extort the owner of the system, then the first malware that could be classified as ransomware is the 1989 AIDS Trojan. However, while it encrypted file(name)s and asked for a ransom, it was far from effective. Today's ransomware is the scourge of many organizations.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

— had allegedly inserted hardware backdoors in technology sold to a number of American companies. Sager said he hadn’t heard anything about Supermicro specifically, but we chatted at length about the challenges of policing the technology supply chain. Below are some excerpts from our conversation. TS: Exactly.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What caught our attention was the sophisticated infection chain that makes use of various advanced technologies, setting it apart from known banking Trojan infections. In this article, we will delve into the workings of the infection chain and explore the capabilities of this Trojan. NET, and advanced packaging techniques.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

Any VPN worth its money encrypts the information that passes through it, so in this article we will ignore those that don’t use encryption. Among VPNs that offer encryption there is a large choice of available protocols. In this article we’ll look at the different VPN tunneling protocols and how they perform.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This article looks at cybersecurity risk management, how to establish a risk management system, and best practices for building resilience. As the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) points out in its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, there is no one-size-fits all solution.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

It is also offering technology from Siriux to immediately discover malicious Microsoft Azure AD activity that could lead to the compromise of Exchange Online mailboxes. The firm stated that the ransomware contains implementation errors, making its encryption breakable and slow.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s interconnected world, where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, ensuring robust cybersecurity has become an utmost priority. In this article, we will explore some of the trending topics in cybersecurity, shedding light on the advancements, threats, and the measures we need to take to protect ourselves.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate with a diversified portfolio of products and services primarily focused on building technologies and solutions. The threat actors also claim to have stolen over 27 TB of corporate data and encrypted the company’s VMWare ESXi virtual machines during the attack.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2024

This new regulation ( EU 2022/2554 ) requires financial entities, and their critical Information and Communication Technology (ICT) suppliers, to implement contractual, organisational and technical measures to improve the level of digital operational resilience of the sector. What is the scope of DORA?

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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SecureList

JUNE 24, 2024

Part 1: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis Part 2: Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident (social engineering) In our first article on the XZ backdoor , we analyzed its code from initial infection to the function hooking it performs. Key Index : the specific key index this function will work to reconstruct.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. And even though the gang claims they did not encrypt the hospital’s files, that didn’t leave the hospital unharmed.

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