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. Public-interest technology isn't new.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. 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. My VPN won’t let me watch Netflix. VPNs are for geeks and power users.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

All data vanishes when the browser is closed (think Incognito mode), and three levels of security increasingly strip out page aspects such as JavaScript and media which could present problems. Many sites have a.onion version available to make it even harder to perform surveillance on the user. Social media makes the leap (again).

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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. Public-interest technology isn't new.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Shareholders entrusted Cloudastructure with $30 million via a RegA+ to expand their cloud-based video surveillance platform empowered with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning analytics. As a result of that team’s efforts, Cloudastructure’s video surveillance platform now includes: People Detection.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Over half (55%) of companies use tools and activities to reduce insider threat , roughly the same number (54%) use DLP software, slightly less (50%) use UBA software, and 47% use employee monitoring and surveillance (participants could select more than one answer). She has written for Bora , Venafi, Tripwire and many other sites.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. Likewise, the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After the uproar from users and privacy advocates about Apple’s controversial plans to scan users’ devices for photos and messages containing child abuse and exploitation media, the company has decided to put the brakes on the plan. The issue is that the technology also opens a door for some serious issues.

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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

JULY 27, 2022

Practice extra caution on social media and don’t post about seeking or providing abortion services. We don’t know what the landscape will look like in this post-Roe world, but as a privacy attorney, I’m deeply concerned about the surveillance tools that law enforcement will use to investigate alleged abortions.”.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The nature and importance of information transfers differ between, say, hospitals and health service providers, consultants and their clients, social media companies and their customers, and battalion HQ with operating units out in the field. Encryption of data and/or of network links, storage media etc.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Access encrypted chats from third-party apps. Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. NSO states its technology is intended to “prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe”. Access emails. Record phone calls.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

The many issues surrounding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) are ever-present. ” They also said they are in full support of strong privacy and children’s online safety, and urge social media sites to protect both. But is it really at the cost of compromising end-to-end encryption—and to a larger degree, our privacy?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Technology has enabled people to connect more than ever before. The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.” Read messages on any messenger, regardless of whether encryption is used. Introduction and methodology.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tools involved digital media, encrypted communication, cryptocurrency, and secret data handoffs. Could your organization have an insider threat attempting to utilize these same methods and technologies? These are expensive and technologically advanced nuclear-powered cruise-missile, fast-attack subs, which the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. On the technology front, blockchain systems signal the type of shifts that need to fully unfold. These credentials are then used by the user to access the backend.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

When weaponized by authoritarian governments, surveillance chills free speech, scares away dissent, and robs an innocent public of a life lived unwatched, for no crime committed other than speaking truth to power, conducting public health research, or simply loving another person.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology. Securing the technology and creation platforms at our company is rewarding. I was obsessed with encryption. What job do you do today?

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

HITECH Subtitle D Privacy Audit The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act extends HIPAA requirements, especially regarding electronic health records (EHRs). Surveillance systems. Ensuring individuals’ rights to access their PHI are upheld. Verifying proper authorizations for PHI disclosures.

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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. Public-interest technology isn't one thing; it's many things.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions Bottom Line: Get More Security Online with the Help of a VPN Featured Partners: Cybersecurity Software Learn More Learn More Learn More How Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Work VPNs create a network within a network by encrypting data and passing it through a “tunnel.” They often don’t.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2024

Geofencing is one prime example of technology that leverages data about one's precise whereabouts for highly targeted e-marketing. Types of tracking technologies out there Global Positioning System (GPS): The most widely used form of geolocation technology that uses satellites to broadcast precise times and locations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. The core idea is pretty simple,” says Ambuj Kumar, CEO of Fortanix , a supplier of advanced encryption systems.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. So using existing technology makes sense. That's both good and bad.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. So using existing technology makes sense. That's both good and bad.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. Both of them are encrypted with RC4. TeamViewer, VLC Media Player, WinRAR) as well as portable applications. All communications between the server are encrypted with RC4. The encrypted VFS file. Trojanized applications.

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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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It could be your IT systems, your operation technology, your IoT, your industrial control systems, or SCADA environments.". 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.

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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. on society.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This spyware, called Pegasus and developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, is reportedly instrumental to several governments’ oppressive surveillance campaigns against their own citizens and residents. Targeted surveillance is regulated in the national legislation of virtually every EU member state. What is Pegasus?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. We have modern smartphones with some of the best photo technology to date. There was a cannabis village recently at DEF CON.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. We have modern smartphones with some of the best photo technology to date. There was a cannabis village recently at DEF CON.

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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. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. EEP Investments.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022.

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