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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. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

Malwarebytes

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. The domain name system (DNS) is a distributed address book that lists domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. And yet almost every Internet account requires one. Homomorphic encryption. Cryptocurrencies.

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Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Beyond this we also have Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the California Data Privacy Act (CCPA) and much more. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08.

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Bouncing Golf cyberespionage campaign targets Android users in Middle East

Security Affairs

The tainted applications pose as communication, news, lifestyle, book, and reference apps that are commonly used in the Middle East. The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016.

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

The Last Watchdog

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. Review accounts with registrars and other providers.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

CyberSecurity Insiders

I was obsessed with encryption. I was fascinated by the fact that nothing in the world could reverse an operation of encryption without the needed key to decrypt the item. For about two years’ worth of evenings, I read all the CISSP books I could get my hands on. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books.