Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Additionally, keep in mind that while Lockdown Mode may make it more difficult for attackers to exploit social engineering in order to compromise devices, until Apple more strictly controls what apps it allows in its app store , potential government spying remains a major problem. Is that really true?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

I recently had the chance to discuss this with John Loucaides, vice-president of engineering at Eclypsium, a Beaverton, OR-based security startup that is introducing technology to scan for firmware vulnerabilities. Loucaides One type of common firmware vulnerability isn’t so much a coding flaw as it is an architectural soft spot, if you will.

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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. ” The fallout.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Today, Cloudastructure , the award-winning cloud-based video surveillance provider, announced they’ve been shortlisted for four global Cloud Awards including: Cloud Innovator of the Year. Best Cloud-Native Solution. Best Use of AI in Cloud Computing. Security Innovation of the Year.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The opening lines of the lawsuit say it all: "Defendants are notorious hackers—amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.". And Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture was extremely blunt when he announced the lawsuit on Twitter.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There is no need for social engineering , as the program can implant backdoors directly without forced consent. Standard approaches such as endpoint protection , aggressive patch management, and zero-trust architectures are effective ways to mitigate zero-click threats. Zero-click attacks remove this hurdle.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Shareholders entrusted Cloudastructure with $30 million via a RegA+ to expand their cloud-based video surveillance platform empowered with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning analytics. As a result of that team’s efforts, Cloudastructure’s video surveillance platform now includes: People Detection.

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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. LW: Is this primarily aimed at enterprises, SMBs or individuals?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Now, old monolith apps are being broken into microservices developed in elastic and flexible service-mesh architecture. While TLS encryption denies the ability of hackers to surveil the traffic, it makes the traffic content invisible to the firewall for inspection. Demands Inspection of Encrypted Traffic?:

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Zero Day

JULY 17, 2025

Also:  96% of IT pros say AI agents are a security risk, but they're deploying them anyway As developers advance the architectures models run on, AI systems could expand so continuously that they become nonverbal -- sort of like they're operating on a plane higher than language.

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Notice Bored

MARCH 14, 2022

Controls against fraud perpetrated by insiders (managers or staff), partners, outsiders/unknown parties, and potentially several (collusion) is another weak area in the standard. Oversight, for instance, is a valuable control (or rather, a cloud of related controls) that is almost universally applicable.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the device and steal sensitive information, such as video footage, potentially turning the feeder into a surveillance tool. Then, more specifically, we analyzed the mobile application itself using static reverse engineering of the different use cases.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A creative avenue for threat actors is to expand their surveillance efforts to include devices such as smart home cameras, connected car systems and beyond. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 23, 2022

Design plan' hints at the organisation having developed an information risk and security architecture. Good move, although personally as a fan of security engineering I'd have preferred an explicit mention and further guidance on that. The implementation guidance under '27005:2022 subclause 8.6.1 will include this gem: Nicely put!

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances. Assess the physical security measures: Evaluate access controls, surveillance systems, and environmental controls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

but in writing it, it inadvertently, or maybe overtly I don't remember captured reverse engineering software that has some protection mechanism in it, and without getting into the details. So how do you go about reverse engineering those micro controllers. Calderon: A lot of the products are built by startups. How do you do that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

but in writing it, it inadvertently, or maybe overtly I don't remember captured reverse engineering software that has some protection mechanism in it, and without getting into the details. So how do you go about reverse engineering those micro controllers. Calderon: A lot of the products are built by startups. How do you do that.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This year, the use of surveillance software developed by private vendors has come under the spotlight, as discussed above. This includes the use of social engineering to obtain credentials and brute-force attacks on corporate services, in the hope of finding poorly protected servers. And now, we turn our attention to the future.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. Southeast Asia and Korean Peninsula We discovered an ongoing Lazarus campaign targeting the defense industry and nuclear engineers.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. On February 23, ESET published a tweet announcing new wiper malware targeting Ukraine. Final thoughts.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

Cloud providers keep data safe from physical destruction by keeping it in multiple places, and keep it safe from theft by investing in layers of physical security, like fences, guards, surveillance cameras, and biometric access systems.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2025

This script identifies the system architecture of the compromised host and downloads the appropriate SNOWLIGHT binary using available tools such as curl, wget , or python. and subsequent execution of SNOWLIGHT, EclecticIQ assesses that UNC5174 is seeking to establish architecture aware, persistent access through in-memory malware.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

And that pursuit of knowledge because it was harder to find things that weren't search engines. And, but really, when I look back on that, you know, like, that was a shifting time for how people saw and treated the word hacker you know, when I grew up. Hacker was more about the pursuit of knowledge. You might not like it, you might like it.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Eric George, Director, Solution Engineering – Digital Risk & Email Protection at Fortra , notes that “Organizations will continue to migrate to cloud-based email solutions. However, this disruptive change from traditional models will prompt a change in the focus of phishing campaigns to bypass these new architectures.

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