Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Also: Improving Private-Public Collaboration, ISMG'S Africa Summit Four editors at Information Security Media Group analyze private-public partnerships today, preview ISMG's upcoming cybersecurity summit in Africa and discuss the increasing use of intermittent or partial encryption by ransomware gangs as a means to extort money from victims faster. (..)

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Enter attribute-based encryption ( ABE ) an advanced type of cryptography that’s now ready for prime time. Customized decryption ABE builds upon digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) that underpins secure communications across the Internet. Here are my takeaways. This adds complexity and computational overhead.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Hackers Using Valid Customer Credentials to Re-Encrypt S3 Objects Amazon is urging its customers to deploy additional security measures to secure S3 buckets following reports of ransomware attacks targeting the platform. The company said mitigations prevented "a high percentage of attempts from succeeding."

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

Build Resiliency by Simulating Real-World Attacks and Gaining Insight Into Threats As cyberthreats evolve, mobile network operators need offensive security to maintain resilience. Traditional security, such as firewalls and encryption, is not sufficient on its own.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 4, 2022

Mosyle Wants to Expand Beyond MDM and Provide a Holistic Apple Security Platform Mosyle closed a $196 million funding round to expand beyond mobile device management and provide a holistic security platform for Apple devices.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually. Acting on a tip from Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2021

Plus, White House Says MFA, Encryption to Be Widely Deployed in Federal Networks New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology spells out security measures for "critical software" used by federal agencies and minimum standards for testing its source code.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware — as opposed to just applying software updates. The Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) 900 appliance. Campbell, Calif. They don’t need it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ransomware group Codefinger is using compromised AWS keys to encrypt S3 bucket data using SSE-C, Halcyon researchers warn. The ransomware group Codefinger has been spotted using compromised AWS keys to encrypt data in S3 buckets. The ransomware group Codefinger utilizes an AES-256 encryption key they generate and store locally.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2024

VPNs work by creating a virtual network interface that serves as an encrypted tunnel for communications. But researchers at Leviathan Security say they’ve discovered it’s possible to abuse an obscure feature built into the DHCP protocol so that other users on the local network are forced to connect to a rogue DHCP server.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 26, 2023

TETRA Algorithms Can Be Decrypted, Says Cybersecurity Firm Midnight Blue Security researchers uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in a widely used radio communication system used by law enforcement and in critical infrastructure for data transmission that could allow remote decryption of cryptographically protected communications.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The vulnerability disclosure was coordinated with multiple organizations, some of whom are now releasing updates to address the security weakness. “Such code copying is a significant source of real-world security exploits.” Additional security advisories from other affected languages will be added as updates here.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

DSCI: Ransomware Alkhal Likely Spread Via Phishing, Malicious URLs The Data Security Council of India has issued an advisory about newly discovered ransomware Alkhal, which uses a strong encryption tool and has no known decryptor to recover lost data. 1 by security firms Malwarebytes and Cyclonis.

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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. Examples include certain source code, encryption, cryptography, and electronic hardware. We in the encryption space call that last one “ nerd harder.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Security is essential for a CMS. Security is also necessary if your retrieval system (such as a website or mobile app) has a paywall or is restricted to only a subset of people, such as customers or resellers. Best security practices. percent of CMS users worry about the security of their CMS—while 46.4

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2021

Brian Honan: Security Professionals Can Take Action to Minimize Risks The physical breach of the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob, members of which allegedly accessed lawmakers' systems and stole devices, offers cybersecurity professional lessons to learn on authentication, encryption and more, says cybersecurity expert Brian Honan.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

Agency Emphasizes Value of VPNs, Other Security Steps Teleworking U.S. national security employees are putting sensitive data at risk if they use public Wi-Fi networks without using a virtual private network to encrypt the traffic, the National Security Agency notes in a new advisory.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But Name-and-Shame Attackers Likely Retooling After Spotting Encryption Problems A free decryptor for BlackByte ransomware has been released by security researchers at Trustwave who cracked the crypto-locking malware's encryption.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bill 'Poses a serious threat' to end-to-end encryption, Apple Says U.S. tech companies are stepping up warnings to British lawmakers over a government proposal they say will fatally weaken security and privacy protections for users.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

EDITED TO ADD: Good article : One – ML-KEM [PDF] (based on CRYSTALS-Kyber) – is intended for general encryption, which protects data as it moves across public networks. A fourth algorithm – FN-DSA [PDF] (originally called FALCON) – is slated for finalization later this year and is also designed for digital signatures.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 24, 2021

MalwareHunter Team Finds Updated Capabilities The REvil ransomware gang has added a new malware capability that enables the attackers to reboot an infected device after encryption, security researchers at MalwareHunter Team report.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2024

Matthew Green wrote a really good blog post on what Telegram’s encryption is and is not.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

Security Experts Continue to Recommend Password Managers As Security Best Practice Password manager stalwart LastPass acknowledged Thursday that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its source code and proprietary technical information.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Visit the FSB’s website and you might notice its web address starts with [link] instead of [link] meaning the site is not using an encryption certificate. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Glove Stealer malware exploits a new technique to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound encryption and steal browser cookies. The malware bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption by utilizing the IElevator service, a method that was disclosed in October 2024. Gen Digital observed phishing campaigns distributing the Glove Stealer.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Data Minimization and Encryption Mitigate Fallout, Says FS-ISAC's Teresa Walsh The Clop ransomware group's zero-day attack on MOVEit software was its fourth data theft campaign targeting secure file transfer users.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2021

Email Security Company Says Fewer Than 10 Customers Targeted Email security provider Mimecast says hackers compromised a digital certificate that encrypts data that moves between several of its products and Microsoft's servers, putting organizations at risk of data loss.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. This is significant because in November 2022, LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, there’s still a long way to go to achieve deep interoperability of interconnected services in a way that preserves privacy and is very secure. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. That’s because gadgets that bear the Matter logo are more readily available than ever.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Why do so many businesses struggle to balance network security and user experience? Security has always been a moving target, with new threat vectors emerging all the time.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 20, 2021

MTProto Has Since Been Patched Security researchers identified flaws in messaging app Telegram's cryptographic protocol, MTProto, that enabled intruders to access encrypted chats and alter the messages. Those flaws have since been patched.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense , whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. Mistake number two is using S3 without using encryption on top of it.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Monahan said virtually all of the victims she has assisted were longtime cryptocurrency investors, and security-minded individuals. But on Nov.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Related: Why IoT standards matter Digital Trust refers to the level of confidence both businesses and consumers hold in digital products and services – not just that they are suitably reliable, but also that they are as private and secure as they need to be. Threat actors are pursuing a “harvest now, decrypt later” strategy, Savin told me.

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