Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2021

Taiwanese manufacturer and distributor of computer hardware GIGABYTE was a victim of the RansomEXX ransomware gang. RansomEXX ransomware gang hit the Taiwanese manufacturer and distributor of computer hardware GIGABYTE and claims to have stolen 112GB of data. All affected internal services have resumed operation. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 2, 2022

German power electronics manufacturer Semikron has disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that partially encrypted the company's network. [.].

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2024

In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key, the cryptographic key that forms the root-of-trust anchor between the hardware device and the firmware that runs on it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats. Long gone is the time when manufacturing systems and operations were siloed from the Internet and, therefore, were not a cybersecurity target. Thu, 10/20/2022 - 06:20. Survey’s key findings.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io First, it encrypts sensitive data transmission between medical devices and any host system. To protect medical devices with PKI, each device needs to have certain components (certificates, keys) embedded during the manufacturing process.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This is a pivotal moment for manufacturers, importers, and distributors, imposing new compliance measures to safeguard against cyber threats. Implications for manufacturers and vendors This regulatory overhaul extends its reach to the core economic actors in the product lifecycle; manufacturers, importers, and distributors of smart products.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2022

Establishing an IAM Blueprint for Securing Manufacturing Environments. The manufacturing sector is crucial to the economic prosperity of all countries. Products made by these manufacturing industries are essential to many other critical infrastructure sectors. IAM Blueprint for Securing Manufacturing Environments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2023

Network Encryption Keeps Our Data in Motion Secure for Business Services madhav Tue, 07/25/2023 - 04:59 The demand for high-speed networks and fast data transfers is increasing due to cloud adoption, digital transformation, and hybrid work. These solutions encrypt data as it moves across networks for maximum security and performance.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. Sophos researchers discovered that the group is now leveraging a new technique called “intermittent encryption” to speed up the encryption process.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hackers posted data stolen from manufacturer of business jets Bombardier on Clop ransomware leak site following alleged FTA hack. Bombardier pointed out that manufacturing and customer support operations have not been impacted. ” continues the statement. Below a press release published by Accellion this week. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. We discussed why encrypted flash drives have become established as a must-have portable business tool in the digital age. Park: Exactly.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 14, 2022

The post Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Encryption tools for securing that data are widely available, but they come with costs both in management overhead and in speed of access. Click the icon below to listen. Spotlight: COVID Broke Security.

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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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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. And I certainly agree that the benefits of a standardized encryption algorithm that we all trust and use outweigh the cost by orders of magnitude.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 24, 2023

Thales CipherTrust Manager Integrates with archTIS NC Encrypt to Secure Business Critical Content in Microsoft 365 Applications madhav Tue, 04/25/2023 - 05:52 Thales is a founding member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). The virtual version of CipherTrust Manager can also be tried for free on the marketplace.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

So-called lightweight encryption has its place. But some researchers argue that more manufacturers should stick with proven methods.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 16, 2022

Some of the keys are from printers from two manufacturers, Canon and Fujifilm (originally branded as Fuji Xerox). Böck also found four vulnerable PGP keys, typically used to encrypt email, on SKS PGP key servers. Printer users can use the keys to generate a Certificate Signing Request.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A high-severity hardware vulnerability, dubbed Kr00k , in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress expose over a billion devices to hack. Cybersecurity researchers from ESET have discovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, dubbed Kr00k , that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 2, 2021

In the early days of ransomware things were fairly simple: malware would infect your company’s infrastructure, encrypting your valuable data with a secret key that was only known to your attackers. To launch their new website, the source code from a hacked video game manufacturer was put up for auction on the Payload Bin website.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 13, 2021

Enhanced Privacy and Confidentiality using Thales and Google Workspace Client side-encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption enables service providers to host encrypted data but not decrypt it, protecting the user’s privacy. Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:59.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

There's a vulnerability in Wi-Fi hardware that breaks the encryption : The vulnerability exists in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom, the latter a chipmaker Cypress acquired in 2016. Eset has named the vulnerability Kr00k, and it is tracked as CVE-2019-15126.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The New York district attorney recently released a report calling for smartphone manufacturers to create operating systems that allow them to more easily access user data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The video is encrypted, and it travels from the camera through D-Link's corporate servers, and ultimately to the user's phone. Users can also access the same encrypted video feed through a company web page, mydlink.com. If you do this, the web server on the camera doesn't encrypt the video. Boing Boing link.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2024

A flaw in millions of RFID cards manufactured by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows these contactless cards to be cloned instantly. Researchers from security firm Quarkslab discovered a backdoor in millions of RFID cards manufactured by the Chinese chip manufacturer Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Japan -based camera and binocular manufacturer Olympus that is also into the manufacturing of medical devices has revealed in an official statement that its servers were targeted by BlackMatter Ransomware group that could have disrupted the computers systems in network operating in Middle East, Europe and Africa.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 8, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted on Taiwan-based Laptop Manufacturer Gigabyte is said to have halted the production operation of the company from the past few days. Preliminary investigation has proved that few of the servers related to manufacturing were hit badly by the file encrypting malware.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

From their blog post : Finding #3: Many IoT Devices Contact a Large and Diverse Set of Third Parties In many cases, consumers expect that their devices contact manufacturers' servers, but communication with other third-party destinations may not be a behavior that consumers expect. Halo Smoke Detector. No surprises there. Boingboing post.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 20, 2022

The researchers have already shown how the exploit technique they developed can be used to extract an encryption key from a server running SIKE, a cryptographic algorithm used to establish a secret key between two parties over an otherwise insecure communications channel.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 12, 2016

Gionee, a Chinese phone manufacturer, claims that its new smartphone uses an encrypted chip and could be the 'safest smartphone ever.'

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Researchers write that the RAT is constantly on the lookout for “any activity of interest, such as a phone call, to immediately record the conversation, collect the updated call log, and then upload the contents to the C&C server as an encrypted ZIP file.” This is a sophisticated piece of malware.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 19, 2020

Ensure remote workers are more secure by following these five tips: Change the Default Password: Routers should have the manufacturer default password updated the moment it’s turned on and connected. Update the Firmware: Router manufacturers are constantly issuing updates and patches for newly discovered firmware vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The digital imaging products manufacturer OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 ransomware attack. In 2023, the imaging sensors manufacturer was the victim of a Cactus ransomware attack. OmniVision Technologies is a company that specializes in developing advanced digital imaging solutions. OmniVision Technologies Inc.

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