Nine out of 10 employees use USB devices, but only 20 percent of them are leveraging encryption POWAY, CA – December 12, 2017 – Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, hardware-encrypted USB drives, today announced results of its survey, “The Current State of USB Data Protection,” reveals that encryption is the most critical means of data protection, even more than all regulatory-compliance solutions. The report examines the benefits, policies and business drivers of USB usage across the education, finance, government, healthcare, legal, manufacturing and retail market segments. Revelations from the survey underscore that, while USB drives are ubiquitous for employees across all…
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An innovative UK first, Bournemouth is accepting digital identity app Yoti as a form of ID, allowing people to leave their ID safe at home on nights out London, UK – Today Yoti, the new digital identity app, announced a partnership with the UK’s largest nightclub chain Deltic, that sees Yoti provide a new, safer way for customers to prove their age on nights out. Yoti will be accepted at 57 Deltic nightclubs throughout the UK, with Bournemouth as the first UK city to accept Yoti as a form of ID at all participating pubs, clubs and bars across the city.…
Santa Clara, Calif. – McAfee today announced further collaboration with Samsung to support the back-end for Samsung’s newly pre-installed Wi-Fi protection, Secure Wi-Fi on the Galaxy Note8, in the U.S. and Europe. With the pre-installed application, Galaxy Note8 users will benefit from increased privacy while on the go, enabling them to experience the digital world with greater confidence. Per a recent McAfee survey, 58% of respondents know how to check if a Wi-Fi network is safe to use, but less than half take the time to ensure their connection is secure. Unlike home Wi-Fi networks, many hotspots offered at public locations are not protected, and connecting to them can…
VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION A team of researchers, including Tripwire VERT’s Craig Young has announced that TLS stacks from at least 8 different vendors are vulnerable to a well-known 19-year-old protocol flaw. The problem is that these implementations allow an attacker to identify whether or not a chosen ciphertext has proper PKCS#1 v1.5 padding when decrypted. This allows for a classic Bleichenbacher attack on RSA due to the following properties: RSA is a malleable encryption such that an attacker can “multiply” ciphertext PKCS#1 v1.5 is not plaintext aware; an attacker can produce valid ciphertext with high probability without knowledge of the plaintext. In 1998, Daniel Bleichenbacher published an…
Dark web monitoring firm 4iQ discovered a massive trove of 41GB data file containing 1.4 billion login credentials including emails and passwords in clear-text format. Researchers believe it is the “largest aggregate database found in the dark web to date” beating the Onliner Spambot dump with 711 Million accounts following Exploit.in data dump in which 593 million accounts were exposed. In their blog post, researchers state that “This dump aggregates 252 previous breaches” meaning it is not a single breach but a combined list of login credentials complied by someone from previous data breaches including LinkedIn. The dump was discovered on a dark web forum on December 5, 2017 in which the total amount of data is 1,400,553,869…
News broke yesterday that Mecklenburg county in the US state of North Carolina has been hit by a ransomware attack, leaving county official to process jail inmates by hand, and forced to turn away electronic tax payments. Andy Norton, Director of Threat Intelligence at Lastline commented below. Andy Norton, Director of Threat Intelligence at Lastline: “Mecklenburg county has been dramatically effected by this Lockcrypt ransomware attack, despite Mecklenburg county having confidence in its backup procedures being able to restore systems. It highlights the costs in losses of operational capability to the county, in terms of closed services,and time to restore effected systems. The initial compromise was due to an…
Security blossoms in the boardroom Sadly, security breaches will continue to be a regular occurrence in 2018 and organisations will struggle to deal with them. New security challenges will abound and these will grab attention in the boardroom. Senior management is increasingly focusing on security issues and recognising them as a core business risk, rather than the responsibility of the IT department alone. The coming year will see further commitment from the boardroom to ensure that organisations are protected. Ransomware has not gone away Too much money is being made from ransomware for it to disappear – it won’t. According to…
News broke that the website used to sell merchandise for the University of Warwick’s rowing club, including a nude calendar, produced every year to raise money for charity, was hit with a DDoS attack this week after the team magazine was banned for sale in Russia. Newman, Director at Corero Network Security commented below. Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network Security: “The recently reported attack against the University of Warwick Rowing Club’s merchandise site is a prime example of how easy it can be for online business to be impacted. Whatever the motive, it just goes to show how even a…
RED Identity Management is Now Certified for Microsoft’s Government-Only Cloud LOS ANGELES – Lieberman Software Corporation today announced that Lieberman RED – Rapid Enterprise DefenseTM Identity Management has been certified for Microsoft Azure Government. Jane Grafton, director of marketing for Lieberman Software, affirms, “We are thrilled to be a privileged identity management solution provider now hosting our platform in the most trusted cloud for US government agencies and their partners. Our software is 100% made in the USA, so hosting it in the Microsoft Azure Government cloud is a natural fit.” RED Identity Management automatically secures privileged credentials, which are high value assets…
STAMFORD, Conn. — In the third quarter of 2017, worldwide server revenue increased 16 per cent year over year, while shipments grew 5.1 per cent from the second quarter of 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. “The third quarter of 2017 produced continued growth on a global level with varying regional results,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “A build-out of infrastructure to support cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations was the main driver for growth in the server market for the period.” “x86 servers increased 5.3 per cent in shipments for the year and 16.7 per cent in revenue in the third quarter of 2017. RISC/Itanium Unix servers declined globally, down 23.5…