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NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal

Adam Levin

Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. The ruling from the 9th U.S.

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De-anonymization Story

Schneier on Security

But it did say how it de-anonymized aggregated data to correlate Grindr app usage with a device that appears to be Burrill’s phone. The publication zeroed in on addresses where Burrill was known to frequent and singled out a device identifier that appeared at those locations.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. Already problems are being discovered. And this wasn't the first reporting to find issues in 5G protocols and implementations. What's more, U.S.

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Tor Project responded to claims that law enforcement can de-anonymize Tor users

Security Affairs

German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. ” reported the NDR.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 223 – News of the week

Security Affairs

SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Paper Copy.

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MY TAKE: Apple users show strong support for Tim Cook’s privacy war against Mark Zuckerberger

The Last Watchdog

Harvard business professor Dr. Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).