The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Users of Wyze’s home security cameras over the past several days have reported glitches with the internet-connected devices, from losing camera coverage for hours to being able to see images and video from other people’s cameras. It turns out the problem originated from cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Wyze partner, which took down.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We expect that emergency services will use their technologies to reliably provide us with services, that they will protect the private information we give them, and that the operators of their systems will act responsibly; but residents were failed in this sense. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 8, 2019

And do security and privacy have a seat at the table at the world's largest electronics event? » Related Stories Spotlight: as Attacks Mount, how to secure the Industrial Internet Die Hard is a Movie About Building Automation Insecurity. She’s also a veteran of CES, having been covering technology sector for 18 years.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 10, 2020

In this episode of the podcast (#185), DigiCert Chief Technology Officer Jason Sabin joins us to talk about how the COVID epidemic is shining a spotlight on the need for strong digital identities - for everything from virus contact tracing to remote work. Jason Sabin is the Chief Technology Officer at DigiCert. Read the whole entry. »

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Here’s Cook rising from the mat to bash Z-Man at the Brussels’ International Privacy Day , labeling his tormentor as an obsessive exploiter who ought to be stopped from so greedily exploiting consumers’ digital footprints for his personal gain. This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

5G technology is here, it is the right time to discuss security and privacy in smart cities and their possible evolution. After a long talk and eagerly waiting, finally, 5G technology is here. The network enables a wave of new technologies as well as services that were only stuff of imagination a few years ago.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The technology isn’t yet perfect, but it has evolved to a point that enterprise use is growing. The application of facial recognition technology in operations was primarily in law enforcement organizations until the last decade, when a massive advance in AI and deep learning allowed it to be more broadly applied.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. We are also trusting they will not store the data themselves and/or sell the data.” I’ll keep watch.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled a new Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights , which lists five principles to guide the design, use, and development of intelligence-based automated systems "to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence".

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China. In another case, a device management tool was deployed in a hospital and used the WiFi network to insure data privacy, as it provisioned connected devices.

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Responsible Cyber

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This year’s CYBERSEC leitmotif – “Together Against Adversarial Internet” and the mission of the forum will enhance cooperation of like-minded countries to secure digital transformation. Topics in this Stream include global surveillance, digital governance, and decoupling in the digital supply chain.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. Carr mentioned in his letter to Apple and Google that ByteDance “is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by Chinese law to comply with the PRC ‘s surveillance demands.” That’s simply false.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. At best, the TikTok ban considered by Congress would be ineffective; at worst, a ban would force us to either adopt China’s censorship technology or create our own equivalent. Today, data surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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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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