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Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

Schneier on Security

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. This is netflow data. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network.

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Krebs on Security

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser. Internet with their email.

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The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

Krebs on Security

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing an email. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Based in Monroe, La., Lumen Technologies Inc.

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Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Malwarebytes

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. Bad bots do all kinds of unpleasant things.

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5 Key Findings From the 2023 FBI Internet Crime Report

In this eBook, we will look at the 2023 report and explore the most important cybersecurity stats and how to prevent them. The annual FBI Crime Report provides detailed statistics on crime at the national, state, and local levels.

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Arguing Against CALEA

Schneier on Security

Compromising our telecommunications infrastructure is now little different from performing any other kind of computer intrusion or data breach, a well-known and endemic cybersecurity problem. The hacks reportedly may have resulted in the “vast collection of internet traffic”; from the telecom and internet giants.

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MY TAKE: Securing the Internet of Everything: why self-healing devices are the next frontier

The Last Watchdog

Were just getting started down the road to the Internet of Everything (IoE.) Related: IoT growing at a 24% clip To get there to fully tap the potential of a hyper-interconnected ecosystem where devices, data, AI and humans converge to benefit humankind cybersecurity must first catch up.

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