The Security Ledger

JUNE 29, 2020

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Two Decades On TCG Tackles Trustworthiness For The Internet of Things How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Book argues for New Laws to break Social Media Monopolies. Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been cropping up on home, business and enterprise networks for years.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

I teach cybersecurity policy and technology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. My most recent two books, Data and Goliath -- about surveillance -- and Click Here to Kill Everybody -- about IoT security -- are really about the policy implications of technology. Technology is inherently future focused.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

government surveillance posed a threat to privacy and there was no sufficient redress in the American legal system for Europeans. Then evaluate and deploy practical and highly scalable quantum-safe technologies that are available today. Things get even more complicated with the July 2020 ruling from the EU’s top court that the EU-U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. McConomy: I think that a lot of people do actually appreciate contextual adverts that deliver meaningful adverts to them around clothing, technology and travel, for instance, but may not realize this until it is restricted.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. 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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology. Securing the technology and creation platforms at our company is rewarding. Information assurance is vital in today's technological world.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? They discuss how software and IoT companies can avoid becoming the next Black Mirror episode and share resources that can help survivors (and those who want to help them) deal with the technology issues that can be associated with technologically facilitated abuse.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

Related: The Golden Age of cyber spying A new book by Dr. Chase Cunningham — Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies — accomplishes this in a compelling, accessible way. If you look at the way your IPhone and a Surface Book sign in works that’s where we are going.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. So attacker, malicious adversary a threat actor?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Come sit next to me.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

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. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use. #1: 1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. We kind of know what mass surveillance, mass spying looks like. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation. And that already sounds awful.

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