Daniel Miessler

JUNE 21, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Ripple20 IoT Vulns, Homeland Security Surveillance, US Cyber Budget, Adobe EOL, AWS DDoS, Bellingcat Poison Investigation, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism…. Subscribe To Podcast. Show Notes. Newsletter. All Episodes. —.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 3, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: VICE vs. Chinese Surveillance, Indian Contact Tracing, NHS + GCHQ, Banjo Racism, Singapore Requires Check-ins, Bruce on Contact Tracing, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism…. The newsletter serves as the show notes for the podcast. —.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage. The Impersonator. The post Who’s Hacking You?

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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. In 2015, I wrote a book about it.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2021

George Orwell’s classic book, 1984 — written in 1949 — envisioned a dystopian future in which human beings are constantly monitored and surveilled. In the novel, Great Britain - known as Air Strip One - is ruled by a totalitarian government which attempts to control not just the actions, but even the thoughts of the populace.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. Both Greenwald and Gellman held documents back so they could publish them in their books. And Edward Snowden?

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Shoshana Zuboff came out with a brilliant work called Surveillance Capitalism a while back, which I reviewed here. I want to convince you of this in two ways: Showing you that human desire and progress ultimately lead to Surveillance Capitalism, and…. I highly recommend it. My first point is that evolution drives us to win.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 2, 2022

Utopia seeks to help transform our society into one in which everyone can feel free from censorship, surveillance, and data leakage — and does so by increasingly helping people to reliably answer the question “How can I to protect myself and my data in the global information space?” The interview follows.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The United States government sued Edward Snowden , the former CIA employee and NSA contractor, to block payment for his book, Permanent Record. The US DoJ filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden to prevent the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor from receiving the payment for his book, Permanent Record.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Pegasus is probably the most popular surveillance software on the market, it has been developed by the Israeli NSO Group. Many other surveillance firms develop spyware that are every day abused in dragnet surveillance and target journalists, dissidents, and opponents of totalitarian regimes. Anyway, it is not the only one.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 27, 2021

For instance, the latest surveillance program of China came into the media limelight in 2020 where it was learned that the country was keeping a large section of people under the watchful eye of big brother to curtail crime using Artificial Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In reality, the victims communicated with Goontact operators that attempt to trick them into installing (or sideload) a mobile application that steals the victim’s address book. “Targets are convinced to install (or sideload) a mobile application on some pretext, such as audio or video problems.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A new version of the Android malware "FurBall" has been discovered to be used by the threat actor(s) known as Domestic Kitten in a campaign targeting Iranian citizens in a mobile surveillance operation.

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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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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2024

Which means that sometime in early 1993 I, as an unpublished book author who only wrote a couple of crypto articles for Dr. Dobbs Journal , asked him to read and comment on my book manuscript. He fought against surveillance and back doors, and for academic freedom. And he said yes. Which means I mailed him a paper copy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Security Camera and Video Surveillance. Emails are the common method of communication with restaurants when it comes to booking reservations. Security cameras are a vital security feature in the restaurant business, as they can be a valuable tool to track customer and employee behavior. Protection Against Malware.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

You can compare this to a person leafing through an enormous book of portraits to find a suspect. In total, there are well over 100 countries today that are either using or have approved the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes. Only much faster because now it’s a computer comparing sets of numbers.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2021

This biometric scanner can now be found in use in Amazon Books, Amazon Go convenience stores, Amazon Go Grocery, and Amazon 4-star stores in various US states, including Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Since then, Amazon has rolled out Amazon One to more of its stores in the Seattle area and beyond. How does it work?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I wrote this in my book, Data and Goliath : The problem is that encryption is just a bunch of math, and math has no agency. This is bulk surveillance and can easily operate on this massive scale. But aside from some special cases and unique circumstances, that’s not how encryption systems are exploited in practice.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a moment I’ll share a couple of travel stories from a well-known hacker, one who took creepy surveillance technology and flipped it around. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. It’s available on Amazon or wherever you get your books. So let’s get started. Turn the tables so to speak.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Adam Shostack

JULY 9, 2018

And the passenger is associated if payment is by card, or the ride is booked via an app. splits/confuses the difference.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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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. Read the whole entry. » That figure was up from just 48% of respondents who believed that in 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2018

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The tainted applications pose as communication, news, lifestyle, book, and reference apps that are commonly used in the Middle East. The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2020

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. I'm looking forward to reading Gellman's book.

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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. Things get even more complicated with the July 2020 ruling from the EU’s top court that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was unlawful.

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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework? In the 1980s, the internet as we know it today was called ARPANET and used mostly by researchers and the military.

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