Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Leading Android health apps expose users to avoidable threats like surveillance and identity theft, due to their risky permissions. Malicious apps could use this data for tracking or unauthorized account access. These can include Google, email, and other accounts set up on the device. Cybernews has the story.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

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. government surveillance posed a threat to privacy and there was no sufficient redress in the American legal system for Europeans. Privacy Shield was unlawful.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, digital trust involves several interconnected elements, including: • Security of Systems and Data • Privacy of Data • Transparency of Operation • Accountability when things go wrong • Reliability But why is digital trust suddenly important? What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

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. The technologies are listed in a rough order of simplest, soonest, and most likely to happen, to most complex, furthest out, and least likely to happen.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Years ago, well-known researcher and co-author of the book “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook”, Charlie Miller, figured out how to get a “malicious” proof-of-concept app into the App Store, and reported this to Apple after having achieved it. Apple’s not great at working with security researchers.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

” 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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The campaigns have been conducted since 2015 and are aimed at conducting information collection and surveillance operations against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to Teheran. ” The surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Unlike other apps, it doesn’t require you to enter an email address or phone number to create an account. Provides account (i.e. User activity on WeChat has been known to be analyzed, tracked and shared with Chinese authorities upon request as part of the mass surveillance network in China. Date and time account created.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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. When it got closer to the exam, I ended up using quizzes to focus my time to research domain topics that I was still weaker in. I was so happy when I passed. What resources did you use?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Vamosi: There's also Pegasus, a type of surveillance software created by NSO in Israeli security company. And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

So, usually my mode was to find a college student, get an account, dial up, and then you know, then I was on the internet and then get on IRC and, and whatnot. I was able to find his Instagram account. And his Instagram account, he was following two of the victims. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. But is Kevin criminal, or just curious about the world?

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

2: Surveillance Social media’s reliance on advertising as the primary way to monetize websites led to personalization, which led to ever-increasing surveillance. And those lies could be propelled by social accounts controlled by AI bots, which can share and launder the original misinformation at any scale.

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