The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

recently teamed up and found evidence of an emerging market for stolen and spoofed machine identities. This emerging black market for machine identities is but a mere starting point for cyber criminals who recognize a huge, unguarded exposure when they see one. Hudson : The Government Accountability Office examined the Equifax breach.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” Threat actors used WhatsApp messages to spread the malware, the account was associated with an Indian phone number that’s registered in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.Once installed, the spyware would allow attackers to take over the device, controlling camera and microphone, access to sensitive information stored on the devices (i.e.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. ” Security is a process that requires ongoing flexibility, not total prevention. Secrecy enables abuses.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2023

Many stalkerware applications market themselves as parental monitoring tools, but they can be and often are used to stalk and spy on a person. Writing about the SpyHide hack, crimew describes how it was possible to download the full source code and git history for the account panel of SpyHide.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2023

Insider Threats An insider threat refers to any time that someone with authorized access to any part of an organization’s networks, systems, devices, accounts, or assets uses that access to cause damage to the organization from within. There are, however, a few guiding principles that should be of help.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Larry Goldman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Progress. Network visibility accounts for the information of everyone who interacts with your servers––from their IP address and protocol to the amount of time they’ve spent on your network. Not every house needs a state-of-the-art surveillance system.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 29, 2018

If the reports are accurate, a Florida-based marketing and data company exposed sensitive personal data belonging to 340 million records. In the United States mode, there is a general and pervasive lack of accountability and transparency in the consumer data market. The reason is simple: the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The experts pointed out that also users that leave the country are exposed to surveillance, through the pre-installed software. This malicious software puts users’ privacy at risk, it could be used to spy on users and unmasking of their identities. EU) Android OS distributions from the same OS developers.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These allegations, which were made via China's official WeChat account , claim that the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit of the NSA conducted cyberattacks in 2009 and maintained continuous surveillance on Huawei's servers. National Security Agency (NSA) of infiltrating Huawei servers since as early as 2009.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. ” reads the advisory published by Fortinet.

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Authentication Retail Surveillance Education 98

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Claudio Guarnieri, the head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, had this to say about NSO's recent changes: "Such changes will not address the ongoing absence of accountability. He also added that spyware is a very risky business to be invested in, and that investors will likely look elsewhere.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Property owners also should push liability to the managers if the managers are collecting or storing personally identifiable information (PII) for their own business use (like loyalty programs or co-branded marketing benefits). Real estate portfolios are uniquely exposed to cyber-physical damage risk?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 9, 2021

Verkada, a silicon valley based company that offers cloud based security surveillance services was reportedly breached by hackers on Monday this week. And the good news is that the threat actors who indulged in this tactic told news resource Bloomberg that they launched the attack just for fun.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The market approach to compliance is generally driven by a desire to comply with the ruling , although how this will be achieved depends on what type of organisation you are. The market is keen to see a settled regulatory approach, and is generally hesitant to commit to implementing measures until this is confirmed.

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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. All the post discusses is making private chats more central to the company, which seems to be a play for increased market dominance and to counter the Chinese company WeChat. Engage with regulators.

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Surveillance Advertising Engineering Encryption 215

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Turned down due to a lack of detail and guidelines which “may give rise to a situation of dangerous state intrusion and surveillance threatening many constitutionally protected rights”, it’s now back on the table. China has a well known daisy-chain of registrations for all manner of online and offline activities.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

In the examples above, the clothing brand will use traditional and computer-aided design prototyping and marketing research. For example, the clothing brand faces the risk that someone might steal their designs or destroy their marketing research. Threat Response After detecting a threat, an organization needs to respond to it.

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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.

Risk 72

Risk Energy and Utilities Computers and Electronics Telecommunications 72

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The dark web created a unique opportunity for digital black markets to thrive, and people began to take advantage. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. Technology now permeates society in a way it didn't just a couple of decades ago, and governments move too slowly to take this into account. So does society's underlying security needs.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Founder and President, John Perry, serves his clients by concentrating on four primary segments: human resource consulting, talent acquisition, marketing services and small business solutions. We started Obsidian Group in 2003, primarily as a talent acquisition company in the IT, finance and accounting space,” Perry says.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Following this, the privacy campaigner Max Schrems complained to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) that Facebook was helping the NSA conduct mass surveillance of EU citizens. surveillance law in Section 702 FISA and EO 12333 , which can give the US authorities access to any transferred data. The DPC rejected his complaint.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. Meanwhile, IoT device makers and IoT service providers remain consumed with being first to market with fresh functionalities. Security-by-design lacking. Secure-by-design has not been a priority.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

This means that most of the Android devices available on the market with the unpatched kernel are still vulnerable to this vulnerability, even is the owners have installed the latest Android security updates. The examined information included marketing materials for this exploit, and that the exploit was used to install a version of Pegasus.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

In most countries around the world, use of stalkerware is currently not prohibited, but installing a surveillance application on another person’s smartphone without their consent is illegal and punishable. Nevertheless, iPhone users fearing surveillance should always keep a close eye on their device.

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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. SEC Consult , a cyber-security consultancy based in Austria, was the first to discover these exposures. Device administration.

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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. Data brokers buy that surveillance data from the smaller companies, and assemble detailed dossiers on us. They use mascots and spokesmodels.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Citizens, for their part, are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism , a lack of anonymity and dependence on online services. 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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Notice Bored

MARCH 14, 2022

Professional services other than the provision of IT/networks/cloud: many organisations rely on third parties for strategic, legal, accounting, HR, marketing and/or other specialist services (advice or full outsourcing), hence they are giving, receiving and using very valuable and sensitive information.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. Court documents show that no later than July 2022, Voyager began using its thousands of fake accounts to scrape data.

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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. Technology now permeates society in a way it didn't just a couple of decades ago, and governments move too slowly to take this into account. So does society's underlying security needs.

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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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