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Serious Security: How to improve cryptography, resist supply chain attacks, and handle data breaches
2023-01-04 19:50

So we though we'd take a quick look back at some of the major issues we covered over the last couple of weeks, and reiterate the serious security lessons we can learn from them.

If you are ever stuck with doing a data breach notification, don't try to rewrite history to your marketing advantage.

If you receive a data breach notification, and there are obvious things you can do that will improve both your theoretical security and your practical peace of mind, try to find the time to do them.

Cryptography is essential for national security and for and the functioning of the economy.

These crooks used DNS lookups with "Server names" that were actually exfiltrated data.

Apparently, the attackers in this case are now claiming that they stole personal data, including private keys, for "Research reasons" and say they've deleted the stolen data now.


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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/01/04/serious-security-vital-cybersecurity-lessons-from-the-holiday-season/