Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. Very probably. Definitely.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Facebook has closed accounts used by a China-linked APT to distribute malware to spy on Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. This group used various cyber-espionage tactics to identify its targets and infect their devices with malware to enable surveillance.” ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Either way, a singular piece of technology – artificial intelligence (AI) — is destined to profoundly influence which way we go from here. Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of the AI ethics declarations made by public and commercial organizations. Only time will tell.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

The attackers leverage spoofing technology to anonymize their own phone numbers and make the emergency call as coming from the victim’s phone number. According to the alert issued by the FBI, the swatters have been hijacking smart devices such as video and audio capable home surveillance devices. ” concludes the alert.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters. Muthukrishnan Access control, surveillance , and testing are the three major components that comprise the physical security of a system.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. It is also a metaphor used to illustrate surveillance technology. "The purpose was to be able to debug issues.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

The company then filed a motion to dismiss the case in the US Court of Appeals, insisting it should be granted immunity, much to the dismay of a number of organizations: Microsoft, Google, Cisco, GitHub, LinkedIn, VMWare, and Internet Association (IA). These companies then banded together to file an amicus brief supporting WhatsApp's case.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) found a still better foothold in consumer households with Amazon’s recent acquisition of eero, a wifi mesh router company. While Internet-enabled devices have become smaller, more powerful and affordable, routers haven’t kept pace. On the face of it, this isn’t the worst news out there.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2021

The offender will use spoofing technology to make it appear their phone is the real victim's phone, calling emergency services and claiming there is a life or death situation that requires immediate action. Perpetrators are increasingly using victims' smart home devices, such as home video cameras and audio surveillance technology.

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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. People and regulators will demand more algorithmic transparency.

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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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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Cloud technology use is growing , but are organisations’ taking precautions to secure these services? It also found instances where virtual machines are exposed to the internet. These practices can lead to account compromise, or enabling unauthorised users to access sensitive data and escalate privileges.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We expect that emergency services will use their technologies to reliably provide us with services, that they will protect the private information we give them, and that the operators of their systems will act responsibly; but residents were failed in this sense. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

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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. Apple, which for years has loudly touted the security of its iPhones, is coming under pressure to work more closely with other device makers to push back against technology like Pegasus. Apple Under Fire.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

» Related Stories From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military Episode 165: Oh, Canada! government ban on the technology. We're joined by Terry Dunlap the co-founder of ReFirm Labs to talk about why software supply chain risks. Read the whole entry. »

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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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Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

Industrial switches are made using universal firmware developed by Korenix Technology, a leading provider for industrial networking solutions based in Taiwan. These vulnerabilities include: Backdoor account. Surveillance. According to Weber, he only identified a few affected gadgets as being vulnerable across the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Instead of encrypting the hard drives of individual victims, and demanding payments of a few hundred dollars, a skilled team collaborated to break into an organization’s network; surveil the network layout; and then embed the malware. Nuanced hacks Another ring honing automated, active techniques is the Baldr password stealing gang.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. Security pros just need to know the right places to start so they can adopt these technologies in a thoughtful way. Identify new apps that do not use legacy remote access.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The internet brought with it plenty of benefits, but accompanying these benefits came some evils that were previously not known of. They do this by following you on the internet.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy. They have social media accounts with personalities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. Since the vacuum has Wi-Fi, a webcam with night vision, and smartphone-controlled navigation, an attacker could secretly spy on the owner” reads the post published by Positive Technologies.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. On the technology front, blockchain systems signal the type of shifts that need to fully unfold. Here’s what he had to say: LW: How did the idea for Wildland come about?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Technology has enabled people to connect more than ever before. 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.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) researchers linked a threat group known as Knotweed to an Austrian surveillance firm named DSIRF, known for using multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The ubiquity of smart surveillance systems has contributed greatly to public safety. We discussed how ABE is ready to help resolve some rather sticky privacy issues stemming from widespread digital surveillance – and also do much more. Here are my takeaways. Today, Goto says, ABE is fully ready to validate in real world deployments.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Here’s a writeup from Kroll on a typical Black Basta incident: Qakbot has been around for many years, and is under heavy surveillance by both commercial CTI providers and independent security researchers. If you see alerts for Qakbot, isolate the PC and lock the user account until you’re sure things are safe. Go in hard. Go in hard.

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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. They are deeply concerning.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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