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Apple slaps hard against ‘mercenary’ surveillance-as-a-service industry

CSO Magazine

The company is introducing Lockdown Mode to protect high-risk individuals against corrosive surveillance and attacks, and investing millions to improve protection on its devices.

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White House seeks information on tools used for automated employee surveillance

CSO Magazine

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would soon be releasing a public request for information (RFI) to learn more about the automated tools employers use to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage workers, OSTP announced on Monday. To read this article in full, please click here

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3 actions Latin American leaders must take to reduce risk of cyberattacks

CSO Magazine

The Colombian National Institute for Drug and Food Surveillance (INVIMA) was also attacked. Mexico’s President Obrador confirmed that its government has suffered what is perhaps a sensitive attack on its intelligence and armed forces. Chilean Armed Forces suffered a similar attack and its judiciary system was also compromised.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

ForAllSecure

Jeff Moss, ICANN CSO and founder of DEF CON/Black Hat, gave the keynote speech at SecTor 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. In the Coming of Age era, 2005-2019, provided "free" long distance and "free" internet access, we're always online, but this gives rise to surveillance capitalism. He added that hackers and researchers want knowledge.

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Security Roundup November 2021

BH Consulting

ENISA considered the risk to the latter category so significant that it dedicated an entire report to it.) According to CSO Online , VPNs have a lot of shortcomings for handling remote network connections. Its analysis claims most VPN users don’t realise these sites are recommending apps that share the same parent company.

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Theme of Cooperation Resounds at 10th Annual Denver Conference

SecureWorld News

Karen Worstell, CEO and Founder of W Risk Group LLC, an author, and proponent of "not putting steel doors on grass shacks," spoke on "Was Mudge Right? Karen Worstell, W Risk Group LLC. Jason Miller, CSO of Paper Excellence, tackled an interesting topic in "Physical and Digital Cyber Defense: Building Culture and Collaboration."

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