Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. When violations are exposed by the media, as they regularly are, we are all surprised at the different ways Facebook violates user privacy. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

Surveillance 215

Surveillance Advertising Engineering Encryption 215

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Surveillance IoT Accountability Passwords 129

SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

Depending on the software they use, they can monitor anything from device location to text messages, social media chats, photos, browser history and more. Nevertheless, iPhone users fearing surveillance should always keep a close eye on their device. Diagram 1 below shows how this number varied year to year starting in 2018.

Mobile 78

Mobile Passwords Surveillance Technology 78

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s spying when governments do it through opaque, mass surveillance regimes, it’s spying when companies do it through shadowy data broker networks that braid together disparate streams of information, and it’s spying when private individuals do it through unseen behavior on personal devices.

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Surveillance Passwords Software Technology 112

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

A flaw could have allowed hackers to take over any Instagram account in 10 minutes. Media File Jacking allows manipulating media files users receive via Android WhatsApp and Telegram. Mysterious hackers steal data of over 70% of Bulgarians. Sprint revealed that hackers compromised some customer accounts via Samsung site.

Small Business 55

Small Business Media Spyware DNS 55

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2022

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. ” But several days after a Jan.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Using a malicious script, the attackers redirected their targets’ incoming email to an email address controlled by the attackers, gathering data from the compromised accounts. Although there was a public report of drones used to hack a Wi-Fi network in 2022, there are no accounts of similar events happening in 2023.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102