Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

Other parties familiar with Russian Internet usage patterns have also estimated that as many as a third of all Russian Internet users now regularly use VPNs. They allow Russians to access banned sites, and they help protect users from government surveillance. VPN technologies deliver two major benefits to Russian citizens.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

What is Encryption? A VPN is a service that hides your IP address and encrypts your data to ensure your online privacy. Think of it as a private tunnel that allows you to connect to the internet without being tracked or traced by your internet service provider (ISP), advertisers, cybercriminals and others. What is a VPN?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2019

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. He browsed my emails and my internet history. He also went through my personal photos, which I resented.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

The origins of this case date back nearly a decade following controversies around US Government surveillance and leaks from the now infamous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It’s a surveillance programme operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

From the Tor browser manual : Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows you to improve your privacy and security on the Internet. The last relay in the circuit (the “exit relay”) then sends the traffic out onto the public Internet. Social media makes the leap (again). That’s not all.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. VPNs will slow down my internet connection. Also, encrypting and decrypting data takes time. However, there is a benefit to using a next-gen VPN with modern encryption compared to older VPNs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K.

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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

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. So does society's underlying security needs.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

The core idea is pretty simple,” says Ambuj Kumar, CEO of Fortanix , a supplier of advanced encryption systems. And even if the design of the contract-tracing app stays very, very basic, there are the social media trolls to consider, observes Fortanix’s Kumar. And the data is deleted after 14 days.” “The I’ll keep watch.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

But such a move can be far more difficult to accomplish today, especially when you’re trying to sever your relationship with an Internet conglomerate. Be sure to jump off Instagram and WhatsApp, too, which are both owned by the social media giant. Tired of Facebook ? Over Amazon? Bigger shifts with Gmail and GCal.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism -- ­as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone­ -- matters. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was no padlock, which meant that the traffic between you and the website wasn’t encrypted, and so it was vulnerable to being snooped on or changed. Sites you bought goods from tended to use HTTPS so your credit card number couldn’t be intercepted as it traversed the Internet. But random blogs? Information portals?

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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. These credentials are then used by the user to access the backend.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 BTC to recover the data. Therefore, we did not issue a certificate.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Flaw in Icecast streaming media server allows to take off online Radio Stations. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. High severity XML external entity flaw affects Sauter building automation product.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China.

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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. See photos and videos.

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

The Brave report issued by the Brave Community, a forum where people who care about the internet and their browsing experience come to discuss with each other, typically shows that only five of Europe’s 28 national GDPR enforcers have more than 10 tech specialists.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. Interestingly, some of the TTPs used by this threat actor are reminiscent of other groups operating in the domain of dissident surveillance.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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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 was obsessed with encryption. I would love to get more involved in advancing privacy and security through the use of strong encryption and other safeguards.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Accel’s largest presence is in the Bay Area with sizable teams in London and Bangalore. Insight Partners. Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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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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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. Vamosi: I started The Hacker Mind podcast, in part to take back the word hacker, which simply means to take apart. McAninch: Excellent.

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