BH Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It dates back to 2013 when Edward Snowden revealed the PRISM programme (where the US NSA accessed data from big tech e.g. Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among others). surveillance law in Section 702 FISA and EO 12333 , which can give the US authorities access to any transferred data. The court ruling has not changed that.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2020

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. There is an adapted excerpt in the Atlantic.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. He didn't become a senator until 2013.) Policy is often driven by exceptional events, like the FBI's desire to break the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Identity, citizenship, and surveillance are all societal concerns. Indeed, encryption is the foundation for copyright and access permission in digital contexts,” Dhapte added. Awaiting the future.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. Both of them are encrypted with RC4. All communications between the server are encrypted with RC4. The Trojan’s Cryptography Library to encrypt/decrypt exchanged data. The encrypted VFS file. Names differ between samples.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

It obtains the ScrambleCross shellcode by applying a modified ChaCha20 algorithm on an encrypted blob, which may reside as an additional file on disk or be embedded in the loader itself. Both the IP and the server directory path are encrypted with AES-128 using a base64 encoded key stored in the backdoor’s image.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2018

For over a decade, civil libertarians have been fighting government mass surveillance of innocent Americans over the Internet. On January 18, President Trump signed the renewal of Section 702, domestic mass surveillance became effectively a permanent part of US law. We need to look at US surveillance law more generally.

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