Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 5, 2024

In whaling and later in commercial fishing, new technology made it easier to find and catch marine creatures in ever greater numbers. Each generation of researchers came of age in a new ecological and technological environment, inadvertently masking an exponential decline. In privacy and security, we need to do the same.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks—and the steps we need to take to mitigate them.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

European Commission (EC) is planning to devise a new framework that regularized the usage of AI based Facial Recognition technology that all technology based providers need to comply with.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

This is where Artificial Intelligence (AI) steps in. To make digital systems more resilient to malicious activities, AI functions by using its key technologies that detect, prevent, and respond to threats. Cyber threats evolve daily, often outpacing traditional security measures. How does AI work in cybersecurity? Here's how.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. There is a lot we can learn about social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade that directly applies to AI companies and technologies. Like social media, it has the potential to change the world in many ways, some favorable to democracy. AI also has those attributes.

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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. We need public-interest technologists.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT. Public-interest technology isn't one thing; it's many things.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies? But even if that is the case, it would be worth broader access to the most important technology of the 21st century.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 16, 2022

The same technologies that make supply chains faster and more effective also threaten their cybersecurity,” writes David Lukic , a privacy, security, and compliance consultant. The inherent complexity of the supply chain for modern technology is a reason why so many cybercrime attempts have been successful. Threat detection.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 2, 2022

CyberSecurity Expert, Joseph Steinberg, was recently interviewed by the team at Utopia — a group of networking-technology enthusiasts seeking to provide readers with wise insights on security, privacy, and cryptocurrency — insights gained through interviews of people with considerable related experience. The interview follows.

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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. We need public-interest technologists.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. Also in 2022, a company called PimEyes was accused of “ surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The bizarre promotional video promises “Face analysis based on best of breed Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Business Intelligence and Digital Signage applications.” Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

China has finally developed a mind-reading technology related to Artificial Intelligence that can detect political deflectors early. NOTE 2- Technology should prove resourceful to our human beings. As a lot of research has to be done, to confirm the events and conclusion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The technology behind this new mode of communication decoding is called Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) that conceptualizes arbitrary stimuli that a person’s brain is grasping or analyzing as a natural language in real-time. NOTE- Such technologies, when fall into wrong hands, can be misused by notorious minds.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 27, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith has issued a warning against the use of Artificial Intelligence technology and said that if the tech remains uncontrolled, and then it can spell doom on mankind by 2024. . The post Microsoft Chief Brad Smith wants AI to be controlled by 2024 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

It doesn’t take much extrapolation from today’s technologies to envision AIs that will plan trips for you, negotiate on your behalf or act as therapists and life coaches. This is surveillance capitalism , and AI is shaping up to be part of it. For all its technological wizardry, the AI tool may be little more than the same.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2021

Interestingly, the United States Postal Services(USPS) department is conducting a surveillance program for the past few weeks with the help of Facial Recognition integrated with Artificial Intelligence. . Zignal Labs is supplying the related Nfusion software to iCOP. .

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

To begin with, it is important to understand that, like most vendors, Apple has touted its security features in the past , and, yet, at least some of the dangers against which the new features are intended to protect exist precisely because sophisticated attackers have proven capable of defeating Apple’s security technologies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2022

Fraser Sampson, the Commissioner for Bio-metrics and Surveillance Cameras, wrote a detailed report to Micheal Grave, the Cabinet Minister, over the dominance of Chinese companies in the supply and deployment of surveillance equipment in Britain.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The regulator found so many flaws in the retailer’s surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores. It failed to monitor or test the accuracy of the technology after deployment.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

A screenshot from a music video of hte Evan Greer song, “Surveillance Capitalism,” which tackles the dangers of commercial surveillance technology. Sometimes fighting the excesses of the creeping surveillance economy is done through position papers, coalition building and lawsuits.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 28, 2021

Unfortunately, however, people have begun marketing for sale devices that allow criminals to exploit a technological vulnerability in these systems, and crooks have been seen using “mystery devices” to open cars equipped with hands-free car entry systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

The digital revolution has enabled organizations to operate seamlessly across national boundaries, relying on cross-border data transfers to support e-commerce, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and financial transactions. It ensures that organizations adhere to international, national, and industry-specific legal frameworks.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The goal of the Parliament is to facilitate the development of AI technologies by implementing a single European market for AI and removing barriers to the deployment of AI, including through the principle of mutual recognition with regards to the cross-border use of smart products. A Legal Framework for AI.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As we stand at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, regulatory expansion, and an increasingly complex threat landscape, the governance models of the future must be more adaptive, proactive, and deeply ingrained in corporate strategy. But the question remains: where are we headed?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

CISA adds Progress Kemp LoadMaster, Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS and Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Great Plains Regional Medical Center ransomware attack impacted 133,000 individuals Recently disclosed VMware vCenter Server bugs are actively exploited in attacks Foreign adversary hacked email communications of the Library (..)

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Seek security policies and technologies that enhance society broadly rather than benefit special interests. Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. ” Technical focus – Focuses narrowly on certain technologies while ignoring broader organizational and sociological dimensions. Focus only on proportional responses.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 21, 2022

Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it's not the secret weapon you might imagine.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft's Copilot AI is an advanced artificial intelligence assistant designed to enhance user productivity, troubleshoot technical issues, and provide personalized recommendations. Microsoft has said it is committed to making technology more accessible and user-friendly. Copilot AI: what is it? What are the experts saying?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Facial recognition software (FRS) is a biometric tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan human facial features to produce a code. The technology isn’t yet perfect, but it has evolved to a point that enterprise use is growing. Also read: Passwordless Authentication 101.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s a stupid way to run a technological revolution. They can change at any time. Zoom can renege on its promise at any time. There are no rules, only the whims of the company as it tries to maximize its profits. We should not have to rely on the benevolence of for-profit corporations to protect our rights.

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