Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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You should not rely on the technique in this article as your “ransomware recovery plan”: Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security If you read the article, you can see that breaking the ransomware encryption is not easy or guaranteed. Neither should you plan on paying up: …
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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Research is showing that Microsoft’s Office 365 Message Encryption is good for privacy – as it makes accessing the message difficult, rather than security, putting the message out of reach of anyone but the recipient. Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty – The …
The original post was published on 16 September 2022 This is a real problem, no software or system should keep any security token in plain text, any time during operation. The user base for Microsoft Teams is in excess of 270 million users – we are part of that number …
