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. Those secrets collectively have a code name—ECI, for exceptionally compartmented information—and almost never appear in the documents. I started doubting my own security procedures.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered to be the gold standard in information security. Those doors lead to many different types of positions and opportunities, thus making the information security community dynamic and multifaceted.

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