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CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs

Five of the issues added by CISA to its catalog are part of the exploits used by surveillance vendors to target mobile devices with their commercial spyware: CVE-2021-30900 – Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

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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. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. They were leaked in 2013, but most of them were from 2012 or before.)

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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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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

ForAllSecure

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. For bored and smart teenagers, this was the perfect way to learn how to hack. Much like the BBS of yesterday, these social media sites can be used to teach people how to hack. Or share gaming cheats. Today we have it a bit easier.

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