Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. So does society's underlying security needs. We need public-interest technologists.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Top public cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) disabled all accounts linked to the Israeli company. In a statement to journalists, Apple officials argued that the company has worked with security experts outside of the company, which has resulted in the iPhone being “the safest, most secure consumer mobile device on the market.”

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Notice Bored

APRIL 20, 2022

Professional services are information-centric: information is the work product , the purpose, the key deliverable. Through assignments, jobs, projects or tasks, professional services clients and providers exchange, generate and utilize information.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism -- ­as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone­ -- matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. So does society's underlying security needs. We need public-interest technologists.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

As a result, nearly all industrial switches in the market today are currently suffering from similar exposures, regardless of your vendor. These vulnerabilities include: Backdoor account. Surveillance. According to Weber, he only identified a few affected gadgets as being vulnerable across the internet. Heavy machinery.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. They use mascots and spokesmodels.

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Off the back of that piece, Capita still failed to issue any update to markets or investors, failed to acknowledge ransomware, failed to acknowledge the link to Black Basta, ignored the problem for a week, and then tried to pretend to press that data leaked by the ransomware group may be “public domain”. Go in hard. Go in hard. Go in hard.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.” The issue of, and the story behind, stalkerware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. Automobile manufacturers sell their cars worldwide, but they are customized for local markets.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the US, for example, the FTC has requested public comments on the “prevalence of commercial surveillance and data security practices that harm consumers” to inform future legislation. Internet balkanization will lead to more diverse (and localized) behavior tracking market and checks on cross-border data transfer.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

eSecurity Planet spoke with Aarti Dhapte, senior research analyst at Market Research Future , to understand how big the passkey market is, what technical challenges it faces, and what the security, legal, and ethical implications are that affect the sector. The passkey market size in 2021 was $158.7 The Natural Log-in Evolution.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

Digital Markets Act (Expected late 2022). The Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to enable open and fair digital and data markets by fostering competition. The Digital Services Act (DSA) will regulate the obligations and accountability of online intermediaries and platforms which we use every day. Here is a summary of them.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. In 2019, cybersecurity became a heavily debated topic in politics.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Because remote attacks on the internet are similar in nature — an attacker can instantly “travel” to any “door” in order to attempt a theft. By enforcing local authentication via PIN, we effectively force remote attackers to “walk” to each account they want to hack. By way of analogy, let’s consider the teleporting burglar problem.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With nothing more than an employee’s face needed to gain access, accounts can be set up and access levels changed relatively easily, without the hassle or insecurity of improperly saved passwords. It focuses on emotion, behavior, age, voice, and gender recognition to provide surveillance and security solutions. Face++ in action.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. There’s a strong market in secondhand computing devices. You can read our analysis of a new adware program called Convuster here. Secondhand news.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. Mirai takedown the Internet. Amazon) taken down were just massive collateral damage.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

And it uses all of this surveillance data for profit, against your interests. We do not allow marketing companies, or anyone else to access Personal Data in exchange for payment. We do use data we obtain from you when you visit our marketing websites, such as zoom.us Depends what you mean by "sell." and zoom.com.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

We wanted to go a little bit more for the guerrilla marketing type message. So I'm an activist, security researcher or even whistleblower, we recently came across some stuff where there were leaks of personally identifiable information or some sort of previously unknown surveillance of people or employees. So we went with hackings not.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page. This has been true for social media, and it will similarly hold true for AI.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

“Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios,” the strategy explains. based semiconductor manufacturing and research and to make the U.S.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A flourishing market has developed around offensive security, where companies provide tools or even mercenary services. While the newer actors are filling the skills gap quickly, the most advanced parties are scaling to obtain global surveillance capabilities through technological supremacy.

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