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. Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. I wrote the essay below in September 2013.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to Stone, the CVE-2019-2215 vulnerability was being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO Group , it was exploited by its surveillance software Pegasus. SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Recently security the security expert researcher Sam Curry warned of vulnerabilities in mobile apps that exposed Hyundai and Genesis car models after 2012 to remote attacks. ” Privacy advocates are raising the alarm on surveillance activities operated by law enforcement by collecting data from connected systems in modern cars.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. The stolen cookies can be used later to remotely access victims’ email accounts. These are new variants of the same hacking tools that we first reported in August 2019, and later detailed again in June 2021.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code. via an infamous hacking forum.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. Sometime before March, hackers working for the Russian SVR — previously known as the KGB — hacked into SolarWinds and slipped a backdoor into an Orion software update. (We

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