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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link].

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Experts Explain How to Bypass Recent Improvement of China’s Great Firewall

Security Affairs

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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Cybersecurity Report: August 11, 2015

SiteLock

Department of Justice released a report that revealed some weaknesses in Next Gen Cyber, The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s cyber security program begun in 2012. Cybersecurity Bill Could ‘Sweep Away’ Internet Users’ Privacy, Agency Warns. China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms. Last week, the U.S.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

CyberSecurity Insiders

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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Denmark intel helped US NSA to spy on European politicians

Security Affairs

Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE) allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to tap into a primary internet and telecommunications hub in Denmark, the operation allowed the US intelligence agency to spy on the communications of European politicians. ” reported the BBC.