Penetration Testing

JULY 9, 2025

A recent update embeds a persistent backdoor, turning what was once a hit-and-run data thief into a long-term intruder capable of remote command execution, system surveillance, and re-infection. Originally known for its data exfiltration from browser extensions and cold wallets, AMOS now goes beyond theft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Outlook, Sophos XG Firewall, and other flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Cisco addressed two critical flaws in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) Notorious hacker behind 40+ cyberattacks on strategic organizations arrested Lazarus APT targets crypto wallets using cross-platform JavaScript stealer U.S.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Cybersecurity is on the brink of significant transformation as we approach 2025, grappling with escalating complexities driven by advancements in technology, increasing geopolitical tensions, and the rapid adoption of AI and IoT. Ethics The ethical challenges posed by advancing AI technologies will demand urgent attention in 2025.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 23, 2025

Continuous Monitoring Zero Trust methodology relies on ongoing surveillance of behavior, activity patterns, and access requests. You’ll need the right technology stack—Identity and Access Management, endpoint protection, and continuous monitoring tools. Zero Trust is no different. These tools don’t come free.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. ” BUG BOUNTIES The Vars_Secc identity claimed on Telegram in May 2023 that they made money by submitting reports about software flaws to HackerOne , a company that helps technology firms field reports about security vulnerabilities in their products and services.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2025

Our dependency on satellite technology means even minor hacks could be devastating, especially against the new threats and attack vectors brought about by AI. Just like any internet-connected device that handles important data, orbital satellites are potential targets for hackers.

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Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

He added that the wearable health technology is a key pillar to the "Making America Healthy Again" agenda.   How to prep your tech ahead of possible emergencies There will be further integration and collaboration between technology brands and health brands.   Also: Storms and bad weather?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

I teach cybersecurity policy and technology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. My most recent two books, Data and Goliath -- about surveillance -- and Click Here to Kill Everybody -- about IoT security -- are really about the policy implications of technology. Technology is inherently future focused.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

Rather than predicting the exact form, of the exact tech, in the exact order that it’ll emerge, I’m taking a reverse engineering approach. In other words, I think we can predict the future of technology through a strong understanding of what humans ultimately want as a species. The Real Internet of Things, January 2017.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. whose LinkedIn profile says is now chief technology officer at RedTorch. ” “Extensive experience from Telecom industry as executive and engineer,” reads Mr. Grey’s profile at RedTorch.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. ” PimEyes is a search service that uses facial recognition technology to find online photos of people. Facial recognition has been a controversial topic right from the start.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. The Internet of Things fuses products with communications technology to make daily life more effortless. But software is different.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks—and the steps we need to take to mitigate them. The technology historian David C. This group’s concerns are well documented and urgent—and far older than modern AI technologies.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

There is a lot we can learn about social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade that directly applies to AI companies and technologies. 2: Surveillance Social media’s reliance on advertising as the primary way to monetize websites led to personalization, which led to ever-increasing surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who keeps airlines operating. I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. And the pilot of the plane I flew.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. Also in 2022, a company called PimEyes was accused of “ surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable.”

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Numerous other open-source LLMs are under development, with a community of thousands of engineers and scientists. This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Onion networking.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. The surveillance implant used by the NSO group used an exploit for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , in the WhatsApp VoIP feature.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Muthukrishnan Access control, surveillance , and testing are the three major components that comprise the physical security of a system. Surveillance includes monitoring and detecting intruders into the network. Access control is the restricting of access to a system. There are several types of access control methods used.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

To begin with, it is important to understand that, like most vendors, Apple has touted its security features in the past , and, yet, at least some of the dangers against which the new features are intended to protect exist precisely because sophisticated attackers have proven capable of defeating Apple’s security technologies.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial aggregation services like Mint , Plaid , Yodlee , YNAB and others to surveil and drain consumer accounts online. Alex Holden is founder and chief technology officer of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based security consultancy.

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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. In general, many companies and government agencies do not have great security.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

I recently had the chance to discuss this with John Loucaides, vice-president of engineering at Eclypsium, a Beaverton, OR-based security startup that is introducing technology to scan for firmware vulnerabilities. John Loucaides, the engineering chief, whom I interviewed, has deep Intel and U.S. government experiences.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

By law, telephone companies must engineer phone switches that the government can eavesdrop, mirroring that old physical system with computers. They reduce our reliance on security technologies we know how to do well -- cryptography -- to computer security technologies we are much less good at. It is not the same thing, though.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

Steve Blair, a CR privacy and security test engineer, and fellow test engineer David Della Rocca, discovered that at least 10 more seemingly identical video doorbells been sold under different brand names, are all controlled through the same mobile app, called Aiwit, which is owned by Eken.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Facebook has taken action against a series of accounts used by a China-linked cyber-espionage group, tracked as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye, to deploy surveillance malware on devices used by Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. Best Lh) and Dalian 9Rush Technology Co., ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

Recently, Zimperium, a US based technology company, was assigned with the duty by Department of Defense and the responsibility was to deliver a comprehensive Mobile Protection against the said spying tool. Initially, it was available to only governments conducting surveillance on criminals and some suspected nationals.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were targeted in this attack, allowing unauthorized access to critical systems used for court-authorized wiretapping — a tool vital for law enforcement surveillance. telecom giants such as Verizon Communications, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies.

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