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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:26:21 +0000
We take a look at reports of a USB drive containing data on all 460k residents of a city in Japan, and how encryption helped lessen the risk.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:52:41 +0000
Swiss researchers debunked MEGA’s claims that anyone that would be able to take over MEGA’s infrastructure would still not have access to your information and files.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000
Small businesses have the same security problems as big ones, but not the matching budget or staff. Here are some tips that can help you decide what is important for yours.
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Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:49:42 +0000
Researcher Fabian Ising, speaking at the Chaos Communication Congress, showed the limits of PDF encryption’s strength.
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Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:17:07 +0000
More confirmation that storytellers are infosec experts.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Manisha Prajapati| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:45:17 +0000
Ransomware authors keep exploring new ways to test their strengths against various malware evasion techniques. The ransomware known as “Ouroboros” is intensifying its footprint in the field by bringing more and more advancements in its behavior as it updates its version. This analysis provides the behaviour of version 6, few…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Goutam Tripathy| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:57:14 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a variant of Ryuk Ransomware which contains an additional feature of identifying and encrypting systems in a Local Area Network (LAN). This sample targets the systems which are present in sleep as well as the online state in the LAN. This sample is packed with…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000
It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…
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