The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Enterprises must secure AI agents, adopt proactive data governance, and deploy AI-based security platforms. Quantum computing advances are making traditional encryption obsolete, and adversaries are stockpiling data for future decryption. FIPS-203 enables legal PQC deployment, prompting CISOs to overhaul encryption strategies.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Instead of traditional methods that rely on storing and matching biometrics, SenseCrypt eID utilizes acts of encryption and decryption for registration and authentication, with no public/private keys stored anywhere. The company’s stakeholders include government organizations and bodies from both Singapore and Australia.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. With a digital trust ecosystem in place, the user retains control of their credentials while being issued a unique identifier for authentication.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide.

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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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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Our data at rest, while sometimes on individual devices, is usually stored or backed up in the cloud, governed by cloud provider services and policies. Identifiers used to authenticate users, for example, should be kept separate from identifiers used to connect their devices to the network.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. This threat hunt identifies accounts at risk of this attack vector.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. Nelson: The Japanese government, the U.K.,

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

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. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity. Let’s look at each of those five.

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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

JULY 21, 2021

And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. PKI is the framework by which digital certificates get issued to authenticate the identity of users; and it is also the plumbing for encrypting data moving across the Internet. Achieving high assurance.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Not coincidentally, industry standards groups and government regulators have stepped forward to embrace a vital supporting role. Every device, every connection, every interaction must be verified, authenticated, and monitored. Governments and standards bodies are taking note. Securing IoT is a collaborative effort.

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Multi-factor authentication (MFA): MFA ensures that access to critical systems is granted only after verifying user credentials through multiple channels. Hackers used compromised credentials to gain access to Colonial Pipeline's network, deploying ransomware that encrypted critical systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

While verification and authentication are terms that are often used interchangeably, they are in fact two separate operations. Digital verification and authentication play a critical role in preventing fraud and cyberattacks. Government organizations, on the other hand, will employ much more extensive verification methods.

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Hacker Combat

MAY 10, 2022

Individuals, corporations, governments, and critical infrastructure are potential cyber-attack targets. A researcher has demonstrated how a vulnerability common to several ransomware families can help take control of the malware and stop it from encrypting files on infected devices. Phishing emails are one way to do it.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As the digital landscape evolves, cybersecurity remains a critical concern for businesses, governments, and individuals alike. Companies will adopt stricter identity verification and access controls, ensuring that even internal users face rigorous authentication processes.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service. After confirmation, ID.me ” Signing up at ID.me

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) standard has emerged as the gold standard in authentication technology, providing a robust framework for secure and convenient access. The newly introduced SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV enables passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication across a wide range of devices.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Why Free Tools Don’t Cut It While consumer grade and free communication tools like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal offer end-to-end encryption, and can help in crises, they do fall short when it comes to enterprise level security and compliance. For industries tied directly to national security, the stakes rise even higher.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Protocols and policies setting new parameters for trusted connections are being hammered out and advanced encryption, authentication and data protection solutions are being ramped up. Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Korab filed a vulnerability report with Lumen demonstrating how a simple spoofed email could be used to disrupt Internet service for banks, telecommunications firms and even government entities. While it’s nice that Lumen is no longer the weakest link in the IRR chain, the remaining authentication mechanisms aren’t great.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

This is especially alarming for industries that conduct high-value transactions online, such as banking, healthcare, government, etc., To safeguard users’ identities and critical information, the government stepped in to enforce strict security measures. Authentication also reduces the overall likelihood of compromising information.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Because the companies that make the equipment are subservient to the Chinese government, they could be forced to include backdoors in the hardware or software to give Beijing remote access. Both criminal attacks and government cyber-operations will become more common and more damaging. But the enhancements aren't enough.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. Experts warn that biometric authentication alone is not foolproof.

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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). Without strong authentication, authorization, and encryption, APIs can become additional entry points for attackers."

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The problem stemmed from an authentication weakness in a USPS Web component known as an “application program interface,” or API — basically, a set of tools defining how various parts of an online application such as databases and Web pages should interact with one another. .

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The vulnerability provides attackers with the capability to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and hijack legitimate user sessions, and is said to be very easy to exploit. Customers using Citrix-managed cloud services or Citrix-managed Adaptive Authentication products are not impacted. Stop malicious encryption.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts. “The malware that exploited the vulnerability discovered by Guan was designed to steal information from infected computers and to encrypt files on them if a victim attempted to remediate the infection. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. For maximum security on your domains, consider adopting some or all of the following best practices: -Use 2-factor authentication, and require it to be used by all relevant users and subcontractors. -In

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

An estimated 60% of research and development in scientific and technical fields is carried out by private industry, with academic institutions and government accounting for 20% and 10%, respectively, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. NTT Group, for instance, typically spends more than $3.6

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

By focusing on identity and access management (IAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and micro-segmentation, ZTA provides a robust defense against modern threats. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. Back then, he and Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy were the most knowledgeable on this issue and our biggest supporters against government backdoors. They still are.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2025

Businesses managing sensitive government information must prioritize these controls to secure compliance and safeguard important data. and strong authentication mechanisms like OAuth 2.0 Organizations must follow strict security-by-design principles, such as minimizing data, utilizing encryption, and enforcing strong access controls.

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