Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

To evade detection, the malware makes use of the company’s so-called “invisible low stealth technology” and its Android product is advertised as having “low data and battery consumption” to prevent people from suspecting their phone or tablet has been infected.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2020

Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft is joining Amazon and IBM when it comes to halting the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments. ” reads the Amazon’s announcement.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

It’s been a busy few weeks for facial recognition technology. In the UK, a Watchdog would rather police “ reasonably use ” biometrics and surveillance, as opposed to a complete ban. are digging their heels in against various aspects of facial recognition technology. What form said reasonable use would take, nobody yet knows.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, was infected with the surveillance software. Timchenko is co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Meduza, a Russian independent media outlet exiled in Europe. ” reported Citizen Lab.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. WaPost : Depriving rivals of American-made technology also threatens the future global prospects of an industry that has driven U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

Ukraine’s defense ministry began using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead. Ukraine’s defense ministry announced it will use the AI’s facial recognition technology offered by Clearview.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

But the infrastructure of total surveillance is everywhere the same, and everywhere being deployed at scale. Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option).

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

A screenshot from a music video of hte Evan Greer song, “Surveillance Capitalism,” which tackles the dangers of commercial surveillance technology. Sometimes fighting the excesses of the creeping surveillance economy is done through position papers, coalition building and lawsuits.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Adoption of facial recognition technology is fast gaining momentum, with law enforcement and security use cases leading the way. Like any technology, facial recognition is a double edged sword.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2021

As per the report on CNN, this public surveillance program will be carried out by Department of Homeland Security and will be done by collaborating with private companies, mainly those belonging to technology sector.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

VPN technologies deliver two major benefits to Russian citizens. They allow Russians to access banned sites, and they help protect users from government surveillance. Furthermore, bans on VPNs are hard to enforce – and technologically-savvy Russians have spread the word that such is the case.

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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. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. Citizen Lab has already published several reports unmasking operations that involved the use of the NSO’s surveillance software. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

.” PimEyes is a search service that uses facial recognition technology to find online photos of people. Facial recognition technology already represents an invasion of privacy. Because of the privacy implications, some tech giants have backed away from the technology, and halted their development.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 27, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith has issued a warning against the use of Artificial Intelligence technology and said that if the tech remains uncontrolled, and then it can spell doom on mankind by 2024. . The post Microsoft Chief Brad Smith wants AI to be controlled by 2024 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. We need public-interest technologists.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an earlier statement , Meta said it has strict policies and technology to prevent predators from finding or interacting with teenagers on its apps. Criticism of the bill mostly points out that it might potentially enable censorship and increased online surveillance.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 10, 2024

They use various tools and technologies to help ensure comprehensive protection, including: 1. IdentityIQ identity theft protection services use cutting-edge technology to scan the dark web, finding instances where your personal details might be exposed. That’s where an identity theft protection company can help.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

But that doesn’t mean that the technology no longer exists, or even that it isn’t used anymore. By definition: A facial recognition system is a technology capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces, typically employed to identify and/or authenticate users.

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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. This isn’t Verkada’s first bout with negative publicity.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Russia moved ahead of the United Kingdom into third place (China remains second), "largely as a result of greater demonstrations of intent and capability in the fields of espionage, destructive attacks, and domestic surveillance," according to the announcement of the NCPI's release. Surveillance – 4th behind China, Vietnam, and Iran.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Cloudastructure, the award-winning cloud video surveillance provider, has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase rapidly growing IoT cybersecurity company IPG. Please direct media inquiries to Kathleen Hannon at kathleen@cloudastructure.com or Luly Schlingman at lschlingman@iotgearbox.com.

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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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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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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

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. We need public-interest technologists.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

The addition of eero to Amazon ‘s IoT offerings has the potential to unify, if not complete, the company’s virtual presence in our homes, one that currently includes smart doorbells , tablets, smart speaker/personal assistants, and media streaming devices. It also represents a potential worst-case scenario for consumer privacy.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I talked with Jonathan Sander, Chief Technology Officer with STEALTHbits Technologies , about this at Black Hat USA 2018. While there is nascent technology for analyzing unstructured data, these solutions are still fairly primitive. Editor’s note: LW has provided consulting services to STEALTHbits Technologies.).

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 28, 2021

Unfortunately, however, people have begun marketing for sale devices that allow criminals to exploit a technological vulnerability in these systems, and crooks have been seen using “mystery devices” to open cars equipped with hands-free car entry systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In October 2019, security experts at Amnesty International’s Security Lab have uncovered targeted attacks against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui that employed NSO Group surveillance tools. reads the analysis published by Amnesty International in October.

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