The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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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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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

In a Zero Trust Network Architecture, for example, all systems behave as if there is an attacker present on their network: Because the attacker may be making requests, all connections must be authenticated, and. Because the attacker may be listening to the data moving across the network, all traffic must be encrypted.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What Is Encryption Key Management? To keep data safe, it is encrypted and decrypted using encryption keys. Types of Encryption Keys. There are two main types of encryption keys : symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric key encryption uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data. brooke.crothers.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 22, 2023

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint authentication or face recognition.

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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. What is Identity Authentication? What are the Most Common Authentication Methods? Image Source.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. Support for DMARC To implement BIMI, companies must embrace DMARC , which stands for “domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance.” It can be cumbersome to set up and so adoption has been sluggish.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Brent Waters, a rock star computer scientist at the University of Texas, enthusiastically accepted a distinguished scientist post to continue his award-winning studies on a couple of breakthrough areas of cryptography: attribute-based encryption and functional encryption. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2022

Millions of Samsung Android Phones Shipped with Encryption Flaw [Report]. We present an IV reuse attack on AES-GCM that allows the attackers to extract keys from hardware-protected key blobs ; and a downgrade attack that makes even the latest Samsung flagship devices vulnerable to our IV reuse attack," the paper says. brooke.crothers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This targeting can occur in at least one of two ways. “This is where we’re going,” Cardinal said.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

The only source for that post was a Forbes essay by Kalev Leetaru, which links to a previous Forbes essay by him, which links to a video presentation from a Facebook developers conference. Facebook's second published response was a comment on my original blog post, which has been confirmed to me by the WhatsApp people as authentic.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to researchers, the leak revealed an authentication server with login details and information on Liquipedia’s users along with authentication details for Liquipedia admins. Alongside user information, administrator-level details were also present in the “clients” collection.

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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. Markey was against forcing encrypted phone providers to implement the NSA's Clipper Chip in their devices, but wanted us to reach a compromise with the FBI regardless.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Compared to OTR (Off-the-Record) which basically allows single-user type of secure and encrypted communication the OMEMO protocol actually allows multi-user type of data and information exchange further strengthening the protocol's position on the market for secure mobile IM (instant messaging) applications. Stay tuned!

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

DigiCert’s survey presents hard evidence that trust can be the basis of a winning business model. DigiCert’s clients and prospects are steadily modernizing the way digital connections get authenticated and sensitive assets get encrypted, Trzupek told me. “In “Trust has become absolutely paramount in the world,” Nelson observes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2024

The issue also impacts Enterprise Server (GHES), but an authenticated user This vulnerability is also present on GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). However, a pre-requisite for the exploitation is that an authenticated user with an organization owner role is logged into an account on the GHES instance. and 3.11.3. and 3.11.3.

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I personally have used digitally-signed email at many points during my career, and I hope that we will all see greater adoption of the relevant technologies in the near term; smaller operations can, today, enjoy the security benefits of relatively simple, low-cost options for deploying digital signatures and end-to-end encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Rainbow table attacks are an effective tactic for threat actors targeting password database vulnerabilities presenting inadequate privacy and security functionality. A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Look for the “https” in the website’s URL—it means there’s some level of encryption. Most browsers will alert you if a site isn’t secure.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 Clearly it was never TP-Link's intention for people to use their plugs in the fashion HA presently is and I'll talk more about why HA does this in the next section of this post. The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While solutions are available to augment the authentication of an entity through MFA and credential-centric tools, there is a key component missing – authorization. From there, they can encrypt data, execute a ransomware attack and more. and digital identities (apps, devices, machines, etc.).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam. Online skimming is an adverse activity of stealing payment information during card-not-present transactions by infecting e-commerce sites with sniffers. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Online skimming.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 26, 2021

Despite the benefits, the cloud introduces cybersecurity risks that weren’t present in legacy systems. The IAM strategy should focus on the following: Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) (Item 11). Regularly change the credentials for authentication in the public cloud, such as “access keys” (Item 12). How Thales helps.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

KuppingerCole Names Thales a Leader in the Passwordless Authentication Market madhav Thu, 10/03/2024 - 06:26 The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprises has recognized Thales OneWelcome as an Overall, Innovation, Product, and Market Leader in the Passwordless Authentication market.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

The three vulnerabilities addressed by the security vendor are: CVE-2021-20021 : Email Security Pre-Authentication Administrative Account Creation: A vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x CVE-2021-20022 : Email Security Post-Authentication Arbitrary File Creation: SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2023

To avoid these attacks, it is best to use protective security measures and keep data secure with encryption. The NCSC of the United Kingdom opposes Twitter’s decision to forgo multi-factor authentication in the coming weeks. So, at least in this cyber crime sector, there is no gender bias, and that gives a great sigh of relief!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2024

“In this paper, we present several attacks and unexpected findings regarding the FM11RF08S. It was designed to be resilient to all known card-only attacks, featuring a countermeasure called “static encrypted nonce.” Through empirical research, we discovered a hardware backdoor and successfully cracked its key.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are three factors that I could see presenting an even greater risk going forward. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. However, onboard Wi-Fi networks, if not adequately secured, can provide a gateway for cyber attackers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2022

Specifically, the NGINX LDAP reference implementation which uses LDAP to authenticate users of applications being proxied by NGINX. LDAP can also tackle authentication, so users can sign on just once and access many different files on the server. It’s written in Python and communicates with a LDAP authentication server.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

then) and confirmed that all the previously rejected vulnerabilities were still present in the version 2.2.2 The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2021

This tool analyzes a system (either VSA server or managed endpoint) and determines whether any indicators of compromise (IoC) are present. Below the list of recommendations included in the advisory published by CISA and the FBI for impacted MSPs: Download the Kaseya VSA Detection Tool. More than a million systems were infected.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

So, the question of unauthorized backdoors being present on any of its devices gets eliminated. Password compromise- Almost all devices offered by Samsung are equipped with innovative biometric authentication technology such as fingerprint, IRIS, and password secure.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When I say "kill", that never meant that EV would no longer technically work, but it killed the single thing spruikers of it relied upon - being visually present beside the address bar. A secure website check can let you know any vulnerabilities on the site, if it is using encryption and what level of verification a site has.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. MFA bombing or MFA fatigue attacks demonstrate the limitations of simple two-factor or multi-factor authentication.

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