Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The article from which I have taken the quote is further down the page – but please read the rest of the article first, it is relevant. I ran a post about a talk given by Matt Brittin, from Google, about their vision of privacy by design: Privacy by Design …
This was originally posted on 4 March 2022 I put this more academic article up, as a Saturday read, for some background into home automation and smart devices: Home automation and Smart Devices – some questions to be answered – Smart Thinking Solutions Now today there is an article on …
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Here is some follow-up to the Android Trusted Execution Environment security issue with Samsung smartphones. 100 million Samsung phones affected by encryption weakness | TechRepublic The advice here is whatever device you have, keep those patches and updates up-to-date. Samsung smartphones with leaky security – Smart Thinking Solutions Samsung Encryption …
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There is an academic paper from Tel Aviv University examining Samsung smartphones and how they implement the cryptographic security. They found that some models had a design flaw that allowed for the extraction of the secret keys. Trust Dies in Darkness: Shedding Light on Samsung’s TrustZone Keymaster Design (iacr.org) Here …
Researchers in South Korea have published a paper exposing software vulnerabilities in the Hive ransomware that could mean victims recovering at least some of their data without paying for the encryption keys. Academics publish method for recovering data encrypted by the Hive ransomware – The Record by Recorded Future Here …
