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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences. An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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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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E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail

Schneier on Security

for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars. The doctored 2016 DMI P&L was inflated by Manafort by more than $3.5 To create the false 2016 P&L, on or about October 21, 2016, Manafort emailed Gates a.pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000.

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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. We never lie to our search engines.

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MY TAKE: Why consumers are destined to play a big role in securing the Internet of Things

The Last Watchdog

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. This is coming. Talk more soon.

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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. SecurityAffairs – Kazakhstan, surveillance). ” states Tele2. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists

SecureList

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. documents), /??(pictures)