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TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC

Malwarebytes

In a letter dated June 24, 2022, Carr told Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai that “TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.” Excessive data collection.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

There is definitely a national security risk in buying computer infrastructure from a country you don't trust. The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. This is a complicated topic.

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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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LLMs and Phishing

Schneier on Security

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying

Malwarebytes

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. We kind of know what mass surveillance, mass spying looks like. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation. And that already sounds awful.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

The security risks inherent in Chinese-made 5G networking equipment are easy to understand. Eavesdropping is also a risk, although efforts to listen in would almost certainly be detectable. But keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G. What's more, U.S.

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Breaking Down User Activity Monitoring Tools: Security and HR Perspectives

SecureWorld News

This agent gathers data about the user's actions, such as keystrokes, mouse clicks, application usage, and internet activity. Managers can access this data through a console, reviewing reports, live feeds from employee screens, screenshots, video recordings of desktop activity, and intercepted files or messages.