Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for Sale The Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. So, whichever way you go, there is, across time, a very high likelihood that a CSP's encryption, tokenization, or key management scheme will be misconfigured either by the CSP itself or by the CSP user. Bring your own encryption (BYOE). Tue, 11/16/2021 - 06:15.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 15, 2023

The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. Yet US agencies still use one of its subsidiary’s chips, raising fears of a backdoor.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2020

All the sites eventually will use the HSTS protocol, which ensures that a users' connection to a website is encrypted and can protect against man-in-the middle attacks and cookie hijacking.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. government on multiple occasions over the past five years.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2023

government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. Proposed Online Safety Bill Is 'Doomed to Fail,' Academics Say in an Open Letter Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K.

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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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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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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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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

political and government officials to adopt stricter mobile security measures in response to the Salt Typhoon hacking campaign, a Chinese espionage effort that has infiltrated major telecom systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

China-linked BRONZE PRESIDENT group is targeting government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with PlugX malware. Secureworks researchers reported that China-linked APT group BRONZE PRESIDENT conducted a new campaign aimed at government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America with the PlugX malware.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Related: The dangers of normalizing encryption for government use. Encryption. Encrypting data in storage and while it is being transferred can also significantly de-risk work scenarios revolving around the use of personal data. Encrypting data can be done cheaply. This can include: Security contours.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. shell – Sends the computer name in a JSON format encrypted with simple XOR encryption and base64 encoded to the C2. report – CurKeep collects information about the infected machine.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 1, 2020

Agency Planning to Support Newer Encryption Technology in the Future The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is reminding government agencies to continue using an approved DNS resolution service at a time when a large portion of the federal workforce has been shifted to home offices because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. Citrix provides software used by hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide, including most of the Fortune 100 companies.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Gunnebo Group is a Swedish multinational company that provides physical security to a variety of customers globally, including banks, government agencies, airports, casinos, jewelry stores, tax agencies and even nuclear power plants. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

A data breach typically means the company must notify customers and local law enforcement, often government agencies like the FTC, or Health and Human Services, or others. Ransomware uses encryption (typically a good thing) to make your business information un-available. still available for you to use.

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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. government websites. ” Signing up at ID.me

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. Indianapolis-based GovPayNet , doing business online as GovPayNow.com , serves approximately 2,300 government agencies in 35 states. GovPayNow.com displays an online receipt when citizens use it to settle state and local government fees and fines via the site.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

26, and encrypted dental records for some — but not all — of the practices that rely on DDS Safe. Original story: However, some affected dental offices have reported that the decryptor did not work to unlock at least some of the files encrypted by the ransomware. PercSoft did not respond to requests for comment.

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Collibra

JUNE 23, 2023

Government agencies — from DC to Duluth, NYC to LA — are struggling. As more of our interactions and transactions occur online, the need for robust data protection measures becomes increasingly critical to safeguard personal data and maintain public trust in government institutions. There’s no going back. They must choose both.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. It was this first time that the operators adopted this tactic.

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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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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

The attacks against Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations started in May 2021 and government experts observed multiple cases that involved the use of the Maui ransomware. This ransomware uses a combination of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), RSA, and XOR encryption to encrypt the files on the infected systems.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

Both bills have provisions that could be used to break end-to-end encryption. 3(c)(7)(A)(iii) would allow a company to deny access to apps installed by users, where those app makers “have been identified [by the Federal Government] as national security, intelligence, or law enforcement risks.” Let’s start with S.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2023

All enterprises need to have more observability and control over how encryption is managed across their systems, and ensuring that all applications leverage the best possible cryptography is a key aspect of improving cybersecurity posture,” said Nadia Carlsten, Vice President of Product at SandboxAQ. A broad range of U.S.

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