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Transacting in Person with Strangers from the Internet

Krebs on Security

But when dealing with strangers from the Internet, there is always a risk that the person you’ve agreed to meet has other intentions. These safe trading places exist because sometimes in-person transactions from the Internet don’t end well for one or more parties involved. Nearly all U.S.

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The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

Schneier on Security

At the end of 2015, the maker of internet switches disclosed that it had detected malicious code in some firewall products. And if it’s still putting surveillance ahead of security. The article goes on to talk about Juniper Networks equipment, which had the NSA-created DUAL_EC PRNG backdoor in its products.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. In 2015, I wrote a book about it.

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Expert found Russia’s SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data

Security Affairs

A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. SORM is a mass surveillance system that allows the Government of Moscow to track online activities of single individuals thanks to the support of the Russian ISPs. million). .

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E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail

Schneier on Security

for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars. The doctored 2015 DMI P&L submitted to Lender D was the same false statement previously submitted to Lender C, which overstated DMI's income by more than $4 million.

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Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens

Security Affairs

The Kazakhstan authorities issued an advisory to local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) asking them to allow their customers to access the Internet only after the installation on their devices of government-issued root certificates. The certificates are issued in compliance with the Law on Communications 2004 passed in November 2015.

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Bug Left Some Windows PCs Dangerously Unpatched

Krebs on Security

By far the most curious security weakness Microsoft disclosed today has the snappy name of CVE-2024-43491 , which Microsoft says is a vulnerability that led to the rolling back of fixes for some vulnerabilities affecting “optional components” on certain Windows 10 systems produced in 2015.