The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Encrypt sensitive data and maintain regular, secure backups to ensure data integrity and availability, even in the event of system failures or cyber attacks. •Comprehensive monitoring. Employ continuous monitoring for suspicious activities and have a well-defined incident response plan ready to address any security breaches.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire drives. And the affected systems are very likely to have Device Encryption enabled. If you are affected by this faulty update, you will be presented with a screen similar to this one when you boot the system.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

Encryption agility is going to be essential as we move forward with digital transformation. All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. Refer: The vital role of basic research.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2025

Titled Timelines for Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography, this guidance is important for two key reasons: A) It sets a clear roadmap for [] The post The UKs National Cyber Security Centre Presents Timeline and Roadmap for PQC Migration appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

And it breaks end-to-end encryption, despite Apple’s denials : Does this break end-to-end encryption in Messages? If the feature is enabled for the child account, the device will evaluate images in Messages and present an intervention if the image is determined to be sexually explicit. This is a security disaster.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2025

Authors/Presenters: Patrick Walsh, Bob Wall Our sincere appreciation to DEF CON , and the Authors/Presenters for publishing their erudite DEF CON 32 content. Permalink The post DEF CON 32 – Attacks On GenAI Data & Using Vector Encryption To Stop Them appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2025

The reverse shell issued a challenge by sending an encrypted string using a hard-coded certificate. When a magic packet was detected, the agent spawned a reverse shell to the IP address and port specified by the packet. If the remote user returned the correct string, they were granted a command shell; otherwise, the connection was closed.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. They seem to be solid products, the present troubles being ignored. So basically: Minor incident, but no customer data or vaults were lost. Actually, some data was lost.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 1, 2025

The new feature is more accessible than S/MIME because it eliminates the need for certificate management.

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Google Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Director of Engineering, Google Workspace In February, we expanded Google Workspace client-side encryption (CSE) capabilities to include Gmail and Calendar in addition to Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets , and Meet. When CSE is enabled, email messages are protected using encryption keys that are fully under the customer’s control.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One last comment: there was a story published earlier this year titled Our Investigation of the Pure Incubation Ventures Leak and in there they refer to "encrypted passwords" being present in the data.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2020

Specifically, it says, “The [link] ensures that you are connecting to the official website… ” Here’s the deal: The [link] part of an address (also called “Secure Sockets Layer” or SSL) merely signifies the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted and cannot be read by third parties.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip. The technology causes a unique encryption key — referred to as a token or “cryptogram” — to be generated each time the chip card interacts with a chip-capable payment terminal.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

The incident raises questions about whether Sisense was doing enough to protect sensitive data entrusted to it by customers, such as whether the massive volume of stolen customer data was ever encrypted while at rest in these Amazon cloud servers. “If they are telling people to rest credentials, that means it was not encrypted.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs."

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2025

The compromised database contains approximately 6 million lines of data, including critical assets such as JKS files, encrypted SSO passwords, key files, and enterprise manager JPS keys. (region-name).oraclecloud.com), oraclecloud.com), where sensitive single sign-on (SSO) and LDAP credentials were stored.

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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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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. This is achieved through the generation of Face Certificates for specific purposes, such as login, eKYC, and more.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2020

The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating : On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or locked computer -- and even its hard disk encryption -- to gain full access to the computer's data.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

When the ATM is no longer in use, the skimming device remains dormant, storing the stolen data in an encrypted format. ” Investigators wanted to look at the data stored on the shimmer, but it was encrypted. But the data dump from the shimmer was just encrypted gibberish.” “MasterCard in the U.K.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Each of these images fails to convey anything about either the importance or the complexity of the topic­ -- or the huge stakes for governments, industry and ordinary people alike inherent in topics like encryption, surveillance and cyber conflict. I don't use PowerPoint (or anything similar) when I give presentations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

In Dark Web environments as well as on specialized forums, sellers are posting synthetic ads inviting potential buyers to contact them privately, often via Telegram, Session, and other encrypted messaging apps. Payments are mostly made in Bitcoin or Monero, to ensure confidentiality and irreversibility.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

We present an efficient key recovery attack on the Supersingular Isogeny Diffie­-Hellman protocol (SIDH), based on a “glue-and-split” theorem due to Kani. SIKE is one of the new algorithms that NIST recently added to the post-quantum cryptography competition. It was just broken , really badly.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Through Zyxel! Unveiling the Past and Present of APT-K-47 Weapon: Asyncshell Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter )

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2025

The tool doesn’t work like traditional decryptors but instead brute-forces encryption keys using timestamp-based methods. The company was infected with a variant that has been active from late 2023 to the present. Nugroho’s decryptor brute-forces encryption keys by exploiting Akira ransomwares use of timestamp-based seeds.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to the SEC , these companies described their cybersecurity incidents in ways that either minimized the impact or presented the risks as hypothetical, even when the companies knew that their systems had been compromised. Downplaying the extent of a material cybersecurity breach is a bad strategy," Tenreiro said.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

You’ll be surprised at the number of people that relied on our ‘auto-encrypt’ functionality. Creating a new account on Incognito Market presents one with an ad for 5 grams of heroin selling for $450. . “We have accumulated a list of private messages, transaction info and order details over the years.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2025

StilachiRAT can extract Chromes encrypted encryption_key and decrypts it using Windows APIs to access stored credentials. The malicious code attempts to evade detection by delaying the connection by two hours and terminating if tcpview.exe is present. It retrieves login data from SQLite databases and sends it to the attacker.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The auto-reboot feature returns devices to a “Before First Unlock” restricting app access to encryption keys. Jiska Classen, a research group leader at the Hasso Plattner Institute, tweeted after 404 Media published on Thursday along with screenshots that they presented as the relevant pieces of code.”

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

According to a news report from Russian media outlet RIA Novosti, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev has been accused of developing a malicious program designed to encrypt files and seek ransom in return for a decryption key. "At At present,

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SecureList

APRIL 7, 2025

Launching the payload Once the vulnerable driver is installed in the system, TCESB runs a loop in which it checks every two seconds for the presence of a payload file with a specific name in the current directory the payload may not be present at the time of launching the tool.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2025

Investigators allege that Zhao, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, photographed classified materials, including a PowerPoint presentation, to sell to foreign entities. Details of the alleged scheme The other soldiers involved are Li Tian and Jian Zhao.

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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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