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Ransomware tries to slip unnoticed past security controls by abusing trusted and legitimate processes, and then harnesses internal systems to encrypt the maximum number of files and disable backup and recovery processes before an IT security team catch…
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The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.db. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.db. The issue affects all […]
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Fireeye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage effort to eavesdrop on text messages: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a Chinese APT group) that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications network provider…
Security is both a benefit and a concern for enterprises when it comes to cloud computing. On the one hand, Datamation found in its State of the Cloud, 2019 survey that many organizations are moving to the cloud because they found that cloud-service pr…
Data breaches are at an all-time high with 2019 looking to one of the worst on record for data loses. Within the data security battle, encryption is considered to be the gold standard that provides protection through the whole data lifecycle. With that…
In this Help Net Security podcast, Avesta Hojjati, Head of R&D at DigiCert, talks about the security implications of post quantum computing. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. Good morning. Good afternoon everyone. My name is…
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports post-quantum hybrid key exchange for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) network encryption protocol that is used when connecting to KMS API endpoints. In this post, I’ll tell you what post-quantum TLS is, what hybrid key exchange is, why it’s important, how to take advantage of this new feature, and how to give us feedback. What is post-quantum TLS? Post-quantum TLS is a…
The PCI PIN Standard requires implementation of Key Blocks. On this blog, the fourth of the series, we cover basic questions about the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and the Triple Data Encryption Standard (TDES) block ciphers and how…