Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. You become convinced that only the insiders know what’s really going on, because the news media is so often wrong. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to?

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. It is also a metaphor used to illustrate surveillance technology. "The purpose was to be able to debug issues.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) found a still better foothold in consumer households with Amazon’s recent acquisition of eero, a wifi mesh router company. While Internet-enabled devices have become smaller, more powerful and affordable, routers haven’t kept pace. .” But the background here matters.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. Media startups like The Markup are doing technology-driven journalism.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A VPN (Virtual Private Network) routes your internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel, shielding your data from hackers and ensuring your online activities remain private and secure. Log In: Enter your NordVPN account credentials if prompted. Assuming NordVPN is installed on your device, here’s how to get started.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The internet brought with it plenty of benefits, but accompanying these benefits came some evils that were previously not known of. They do this by following you on the internet.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses. Read: The Great iPWN , from Citizen Lab.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism -- ­as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone­ -- matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. Media startups like The Markup are doing technology-driven journalism.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. The malware made lateral movements by stealing admin account credentials, and in just eight days after the initial infection, the Fabrikam’s entire network was shut down.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” the report reveals that too many people spy on their spouses , too few use unique passwords , and too many who are worried about identity theft don’t actually do anything about it (and to those people, we say: We’ve got you covered ).

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Here’s a writeup from Kroll on a typical Black Basta incident: Qakbot has been around for many years, and is under heavy surveillance by both commercial CTI providers and independent security researchers. If you see alerts for Qakbot, isolate the PC and lock the user account until you’re sure things are safe. Go in hard. Go in hard.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.” The issue of, and the story behind, stalkerware.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Recently, a group of hackers located the super admin credentials for security camera company Verkada, and gained access to Verkada customers’ surveillance cameras , including Tesla and the Madison County Jail. Doing so prevents account takeover by adding an additional layer of security that attackers will struggle to defeat.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. But they are not our friends.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. At the end of September, at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit , our researchers provided an overview of FinSpy , an infamous surveillance toolset that several NGOs have repeatedly reported being used against journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s spying when governments do it through opaque, mass surveillance regimes, it’s spying when companies do it through shadowy data broker networks that braid together disparate streams of information, and it’s spying when private individuals do it through unseen behavior on personal devices.

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SecureList

MARCH 8, 2023

Stalkerware can be downloaded and easily installed by anyone with an Internet connection and physical access to a smartphone. Depending on the type of software, it is usually possible to check device location, text messages, social media chats, photos, browser history and more.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. Internet providers now ship home routers that can, for example, spin up an additional guest network.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A VPN provides a secure channel for users to send and retrieve sensitive data using public infrastructure – the Internet. This avoids the cost of leasing dedicated secure lines between branch offices and allows employees the flexibility to work anywhere with an Internet connection. They often don’t.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. After a conversation on social media, the actor sent a spear-phishing email to the potential victim using a stolen email account. documents), /??(pictures)

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2024

Surveillance of this kind violates Americans' Fourth Amendment rights and was argued to have done so in a 2020 border agency situation. There are plenty of us who don't want certain secrets shared, as was the case for a priest who was outed via his location tracking data when a religious publication managed to access his Grindr account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I used to love to encrypt email messages and exchange keys with dial-up internet friends I had at the time. What job do you do today?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. What about social media? Vamosi: There's also Pegasus, a type of surveillance software created by NSO in Israeli security company. In early September 2021.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. In a 2022 survey , Americans blamed social media for the coarsening of our political discourse, the spread of misinformation, and the increase in partisan polarization. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. AI also has those attributes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

Experts said that Israeli surveillance firm Candiru, tracked as Sourgum, exploited zero-days to deliver a new Windows spyware. Microsoft and Citizen Lab believe that the secretive Israel-based Israeli surveillance firm Candiru, tracked as Sourgum, used Windows zero-day exploits to deliver a new Windows spyware dubbed DevilsTongue.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. I've been in touch with some notable names and media and they've you know, they've assured me that they'll make a best effort. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime.

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