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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

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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Zero-click attacks explained, and why they are so dangerous

CSO Magazine

Once a device is compromised, an attacker can choose to install surveillance software, or they can choose to enact a much more destructive strategy by encrypting the files and holding them for ransom. They are sophisticated, often used in cyberespionage campaigns, and tend to leave very few traces behind—which makes them dangerous.

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How security vendors are aiding Ukraine

CSO Magazine

These include scanning of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), Microsoft 365 and AWS environments for signs of attack, surveillance of network infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises and supporting the retention of historical metadata to aid incident response investigations based on indicators of compromise for specific attack variants.

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Q&A: Researchers find evidence of emerging market for stolen, spoofed machine identities

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized. it’s a full package of how to go steal stuff, or lock up computers, or encrypt data and get ransom. At the end of the day the CSO the CIO and the CEO all left the company. Academic researchers from Georgia State University in the U.S.

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Theme of Cooperation Resounds at 10th Annual Denver Conference

SecureWorld News

Taking healthcare as a use case, Rubin said healthcare data for about 300 million Americans is encrypted and riding on the back of a Thales protection plan. That encryption is absolutely critical. Technical surveillance countermeasures are an important tool in the fight to keep executives safe.

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