Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. So does society's underlying security needs. There is a security benefit to giving access to law enforcement, even though it would inevitably and invariably also give that access to others.

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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. So does society's underlying security needs. There is a security benefit to giving access to law enforcement, even though it would inevitably and invariably also give that access to others.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2021

News is out that the data will be shared with a notorious US Software firm named Palantir, whose core business is to supply information to companies that are into the business of big data and offering surveillance tech to firms associated with Military, law enforcement, and border forces. .

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

The legislation is aimed at preventing hostile countries such as China and Russia from obtaining bulk datasets containing details like Social Security numbers, health information, communications records, geolocation data, and other sensitive personal information on Americans.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

These evils include hacking, identity theft, online surveillance, and cyberstalking. We all know the dangers associated with hacking, identity theft, and internet surveillance, thanks to Facebook and other social networking platforms. He writes about online security and privacy, IoT, AI, and Big Data.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As more personal and organizational data ends up online—whether through social media oversharing, high-profile breaches, or surveillance capitalism—the OSINT surface area continues to grow. OSINT provides a trove of information that can be extremely useful for both ethical security research and nefarious activity.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Here are some air travel tips from The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin Mitnick and Robert Vamosi. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. This is a short episode to tide everyone over until the new year.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There is a need to ensure the integrity of the data and algorithms on which the AI is based, including “product safety checks by market surveillance authorities and consumer protection rules that implement place, whit appropriate minimum safety standards.” Ultimately, AI may become the next big privacy trend.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Centralized key management improves security by making key surveillance, rotation, and deletion easier while also separating duties so that no single administrator is responsible for the entire environment. The weakest link in the security chain is the people who manage, administer and operate their computer systems. System Auditing.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Lightspeed’s enterprise sectors beyond cybersecurity include big data, SaaS, crypto, and IT services. In 1999, four investment professionals founded Lightspeed Ventures to serve entrepreneurs in enterprise and consumer markets. Sequoia Investments.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2023

China is experimenting with even more powerful forms of automated legal enforcement and targeted surveillance. Made possible by advances in surveillance, communications technologies, and big-data analytics, microdirectives will be a new and predominant form of law shaped largely by machines.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Big Data storage systems have weaknesses. And here’s another shocking fact.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While many envision attacks on smart cars and surveillance cameras, servers exposed to the demilitarized zone (DMZ), such as MoveIT servers , also provide tantalizing edge targets. Edge Exposure Even as attackers pursue API and cloud attacks, more organizations push out computing to edge resources beyond any network controls.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 10, 2025

As with many other types of sensitive and revealing data, the government seems intent on using data brokers to buy their way around important guardrails and limits.” That includes location data harvested from smartphones , utility data , and internet backbone data.

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