Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. Our allies do it.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them. The plan was to use machine learning tools and learn about the citizen activities taking place in front of the cameras in an automated way.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But the type of surveillance we’re talking about today is different. Little Brother isn’t just surveillance. It is increasingly popular, normalized, and accessible surveillance. It isn’t so much “Big Brother”—a concept introduced in the socio-dystopian novel 1984 by author George Orwell.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

Computers, especially internet-connected computers, are inherently hackable, limiting the effectiveness of any procedures. In 2010, China successfully hacked the back-door mechanism Google put in place to meet law-enforcement requests. Surrounding that vulnerability is a procedural system that tries to limit access to that capability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

17 the actor leveraged leased infrastructure in the United States to scan hundreds of vulnerable organizations across the internet. The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. “As early as Sept. Subsequently, exploitation attempts began on Sept.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. Azure-Connected IoT Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Type of vulnerability: Internet of things (IoT) RCE vulnerability. The fix: Disconnect printers from internet access until a patch becomes available. and a medium (CVSS 4.3)

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