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.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I was a delegate to Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, the church's international leadership body, in 2012. What job do you do today?

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Viber’s core features are secured with end-to-end encryption: calls, one-on-one messages, group messages, media sharing and secondary devices. WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose instant messaging, social media and mobile payment app. The FBI notes: No message content. The FBI notes: No message content.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

The NSA and the Danish intelligence signed a secret pact that allowed the cyberspies to eavesdrop on sensitive communications between 2012 and 2014. .” The spying operation, Operation Dunhammer, was uncovered by a joint investigation conducted by some of Europe’s biggest news agencies.

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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. StrongyPity (aka PROMETHIUM) is a Turkish-speaking threat actor known to have been active since at least 2012. The threat actor tricks job seekers on social media into opening malicious apps for fake job interviews.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

in 2012 to smooth the process of notifying government. A second thread through the hearing was lawmakers suggesting that, given the National Security Agency is unable to do domestic surveillance, that some other agency should be able to step up. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Though the hackers used U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

cyber army is targeting the Russian power grid since at least 2012 with reconnaissance operations, but recently it also carried out more offensive operations. “Since at least 2012, current and former officials say, the United States has put reconnaissance probes into the control systems of the Russian electric grid.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel’s largest presence is in the Bay Area with sizable teams in London and Bangalore.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 16, 2021

In mid-January, Big Tech collusively cancelled President Trump, his eighty million online followers, and his right-of-center, competitive social media alternatives – with impunity. Government, must go through, depend upon, and be surveilled by, for everything, everywhere for life, work, and play.

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