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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Scary Beasts Security

MARCH 21, 2014

A couple of weeks back, I released a popular spreadsheet which lists many of the Adobe Flash Player 0-days used to harm people in the wild since 2010. If you look at the data, you'll see 7 memory corruption 0-days in a year, starting mid-2010. For example, the Internet Bug Bounty includes Flash as a category.

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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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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

DECEMBER 28, 2020

SolarWinds has removed its customer list from its website, but the Internet Archive saved it : all five branches of the US military, the state department, the White House, the NSA, 425 of the Fortune 500 companies, all five of the top five accounting firms, and hundreds of universities and colleges. North Korea attacked Sony in 2014.

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