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. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. This is coming. Talk more soon.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Who controls these servers?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And gaining internal access of servers might allow cyber criminals to conduct long-term surveillance on their counterparts. And prima facie that the bad guys damaged the internet servers, and the data stored on it with malicious software installation. However, UN isn’t ready to issue a statement on this issue publicly.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Internet protocol-based video solutions are increasingly important in getting the best insights to the right people at the right time, especially in the context of C4ISR. C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

These formats suggest that the threat actor is interested in Office documents, encryption keys, password manager files and image files.The upload is performed by using the same POST request as the one used by the ‘uploadsf’ command. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And all of that is on a computer, on a network, and attached to the Internet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been working with Internet security. But aside from some special cases and unique circumstances, that’s not how encryption systems are exploited in practice. Cryptography has similar vulnerabilities.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

What is Encryption? A VPN is a service that hides your IP address and encrypts your data to ensure your online privacy. Think of it as a private tunnel that allows you to connect to the internet without being tracked or traced by your internet service provider (ISP), advertisers, cybercriminals and others. What is a VPN?

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is asking users to install the latest update on their NAS devices and avoid exposing them on the Internet. “QNAP urges all NAS users to check and update QTS to the latest version as soon as possible, and avoid exposing their NAS to the Internet.” and QTS 4.4.1. “QNAP® Systems, Inc.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. It is too dangerous to mandate encryption backdoors, but targeted hacking of endpoints could ensure investigators access to same or similar necessary data with less risk.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

Other parties familiar with Russian Internet usage patterns have also estimated that as many as a third of all Russian Internet users now regularly use VPNs. They allow Russians to access banned sites, and they help protect users from government surveillance. VPN technologies deliver two major benefits to Russian citizens.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

The origins of this case date back nearly a decade following controversies around US Government surveillance and leaks from the now infamous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It’s a surveillance programme operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are programs that provide the capability to allow covert surveillance or the ability to gain unauthorized access to a victim system. MySQL provides robust data security to protect data including secure connections, authentication services, fine-grained authorization and controls, and data encryption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The ubiquity of smart surveillance systems has contributed greatly to public safety. Enter attribute-based encryption ( ABE ) an advanced type of cryptography that’s now ready for prime time. Attribute-based encryption can be utilized to do a number of things,” Wu noted. Here are my takeaways.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Many governments worldwide persecute their internal oppositions charging them with criminal activities and use strict online surveillance to track them. The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IaaS is a cloud computing model that uses the internet to supply virtualized computer resources. Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection. Data Encryption IaaS companies often provide encryption for data at rest and in transit.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act ; and S.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Tor (The Onion Router) network protects users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. The Tor network can be used to access the regular Internet, where it hides your IP address from everyone, including the people operating the Tor network itself, or the Dark Web, where everyone’s IP address is hidden from everyone else.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G­in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. VPNs will slow down my internet connection. Also, encrypting and decrypting data takes time. However, there is a benefit to using a next-gen VPN with modern encryption compared to older VPNs.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Next, they encrypted servers in the most painful way possible, thus motivating companies to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a decryption key.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2020

So there's a huge amount of very detailed data about people's browsing behavior sitting out there on various servers on the Internet. Because this is such sensitive information, in Mozilla's products we try to minimize how much of it is collected with features such as encrypted sync or enhanced tracking protection. Ron Wyden and Sen.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2019

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. He browsed my emails and my internet history. He also went through my personal photos, which I resented.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It also found instances where virtual machines are exposed to the internet. Sounds like excessive surveillance? Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, used by more than a billion people. The move had been in the works for a while. Links we liked A fun new Yuletide game?

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. government surveillance posed a threat to privacy and there was no sufficient redress in the American legal system for Europeans. Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

From the Tor browser manual : Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows you to improve your privacy and security on the Internet. The last relay in the circuit (the “exit relay”) then sends the traffic out onto the public Internet. That’s not all. That is highly relevant in this instance.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. Machine learning is sure great, but we are going to hear more about machine unlearning.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

But such a move can be far more difficult to accomplish today, especially when you’re trying to sever your relationship with an Internet conglomerate. Having found different solutions for searching and browsing the Internet, Parker said he then focused his attention on finding alternatives to Google services that impact those around him.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized. it’s a full package of how to go steal stuff, or lock up computers, or encrypt data and get ransom. Machine identities are foundational in our digital transformation, because everything that’s going onto the Internet is all built on machines.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure. Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders. Thai Officials confirmed the hack of prison surveillance cameras and the video broadcast. FBI flash alert warns of LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware attacks.

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