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. I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. The request is sent in plain text, which is the computer networking equivalent of yelling the names of all the websites you’re visiting out loud. FIDO2 is a specification that uses public key encryption for authentication.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The common methods for analyzing an iOS mobile infection are either to examine an encrypted full iOS backup or to analyze the network traffic of the affected device. This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Lately, though, the TSA in the United States has been upgrading its scanning machines so that everyone -- not just those who pay to be Clear and TSA Pre -- can go through without having to take electronic items out of your luggage. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. It really does speed things up in security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Early in my childhood, I remember seeing my first computer in my elementary school's computer lab. I was obsessed with encryption. I was fascinated by the fact that nothing in the world could reverse an operation of encryption without the needed key to decrypt the item. What is it about the job that you love?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. ” Recently media shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance capabilities of the US law enforcement detailing which data can be extracted from encrypted messaging apps. ” states the U.S. .

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