Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

"The company and its founder have worked with government spy agencies and surveillance industry contractors to surveil mobile phones and track user location," Bloomberg reported. In this instance, the messages passed through a controversial Swiss outfit named Fink Telecom Services.

Authentication

SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The secure USB drive was developed by a government entity in Southeast Asia to securely store and transfer files between machines in sensitive environments. Chinese-speaking activity In July 2021, we detected a campaign called ExCone targeting government entities in Russia.

Malware

Malwarebytes

JULY 3, 2025

After the breach, these apps disappeared from the internet, likely trying to avoid legal consequences rather than fixing security. Another case involved Spyhide , where a security researcher uncovered a decade of surveillance on tens of thousands of Android devices. Usually resorting to stalkerware only makes it worse.

Surveillance

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Also:   How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online For individuals, the damage can be more personal than figures on a balance sheet. The attacker may conduct surveillance first, mapping a network to find the most valuable resources or to discover potential pathways to jump into other systems.

Passwords

Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users Gizmodo An owner of a data broker business brags and showcases his company's ability to deliver "personalized messaging at scale."

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

government agencies and first responders. The IntelSecrets nickname corresponds to an individual who has claimed responsibility for modifying the source code for the Mirai “Internet of Things” botnet to create a variant known as “ Satori ,” and supplying it to others who used it for criminal gain and were later caught and prosecuted.

Cybercrime

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Briar Briar is built for when traditional networks fail, or surveillance is everywhere. Surfshark VPN : Hides your IP address and encrypts your internet connection, keeping your chats private on public or restricted networks.

Encryption

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Also:   How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online For individuals, the damage can be more personal than figures on a balance sheet. The attacker may conduct surveillance first, mapping a network to find the most valuable resources or to discover potential pathways to jump into other systems.

Passwords

Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office ArsTechnica RTO continues to pick up steam. In pursuit of "more productivity," some employers are leaning heavily into surveillance tech.

Surveillance

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Briar Briar is built for when traditional networks fail, or surveillance is everywhere. Surfshark VPN : Hides your IP address and encrypts your internet connection, keeping your chats private on public or restricted networks.

Encryption

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. “In the event you do not reach out to us @ATNT all presidential government call logs will be leaked,” Kiberphant0m threatened, signing his post with multiple “#FREEWAIFU” tags. government agencies and emergency first responders. Also on Nov.

DDOS

SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

This article explores how the latest tariffs could reshape cybersecurity for enterprises, cybersecurity vendors, and government agencies. China trade war, Chinese nation-state hackers ramped up cyber espionage campaigns against American companies and government agencies. RELATED: AI Diffusion Rule to Protect U.S.

Cyber Risk

Security Boulevard

JULY 1, 2025

Surveillance systems and cameras, biometric scanners, drones and other operational technology (OT) systems have become essential components of modern border protection. The OT and internet of things (IoT) environments that underpin essential services, especially at the border, must be integral to any modern security strategy.

IoT

Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

Subscription period IVPN Standard  IVPN Pro ExpressVPN NordVPN Private Internet Access Surfshark 1 week $2 $4 - - - - One month $6 $10 $13 From $13 $12 From $16 One year $60 $100 $100 From $60 $40 From $47 Two years $100 $160 $140 From $82 - From $54 Three years $140 $220 - - $79 - In comparison to others, IVPN is a bit overpriced.

VPN

SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2025

Governments and private companies alike, from SpaceX's Starlink to Amazon's Project Kuiper, are planning thousands of new satellites , locked in a race to deploy constellations that underpin global communications, navigation, earth observation, and security. Things changed in the 90s, with the rise of things like satellite television.

Cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2025

These include breached travel logs, exposed home records, and more.The goal is to surveil, profile, and target high-value individuals. And forward-looking companies are beginning to treat digital executive protection as a strategic necessity, on par with breach detection and identity governance. Makes sense.

Cyber Risk

WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 12, 2025

While those companies might be fulfilling the letter of the law by providing a page consumers can use to delete their data, it means little if those consumers can’t find the page, according to Matthew Schwartz, a policy analyst at Consumer Reports who studies the California law governing data brokers and other privacy issues.

Engineering

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2025

AI can be deployed—has already been deployed—in ways that reinforce inequality, enable surveillance, and erode trust. Tested to govern wisely. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Agency is not a punchline Weinstein is not wrong to worry.

Artificial Intelligence

WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 6, 2025

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t risks, and those risks should be weighed especially by those who might end up in the crosshairs of the Chinese government. He launched vast anti-corruption campaigns to weed out enemies and saw the creation of a vast surveillance regime to monitor the population.

Surveillance

Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

  If Kennedy's Department of Health is encouraging the widespread adoption of health wearables, I have to imagine that the government would look to make them more affordable, or perhaps subsidize these devices, to encourage widespread use. What it means for your health, privacy, and wallet HHS secretary RFK Jr.

Government

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. In the hands of some governments, that could be dangerous. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity.

Internet

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

But don't blame your internet connection. Fortunately, you can disable most of this unnecessary surveillance to reduce background tasks and reclaim some speed. PT Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If it seems like your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick is running slower these days, I've been there, and it can be infuriating.

Password Management

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

These efforts are well-intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society we're in the process of building. Ubiquitous mass surveillance is increasingly the norm.

Surveillance

Zero Day

AUGUST 12, 2025

Wade world, where menstrual and fertility data can be surveilled, handed over to government bodies to penalize those seeking abortions, digitally tracking a menstrual cycle or pregnancy could pose a major risk, especially to those in states where abortion is illegal.     In a post-Roe v.

Healthcare

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.

Internet

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. From the report's conclusion: Government hacking is often lauded as a solution to the "going dark" problem.

Government

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

Surveillance

Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

The Real Internet of Things, January 2017. Just yesterday I tweeted that the COVID-19 situation was going to finally make large-scale video surveillance endemic to our society. Governments and various industries have been trying to do this for a long time, but they’ve been opposed on the grounds of protecting freedom and privacy.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2023

This is a clever new side-channel attack : The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader­or of an attached peripheral device­during cryptographic operations. An attacker can also use an iPhone to record the smart card reader power LED.)

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

The app also includes a censorship keyword list, which, while presently inactive, targets a variety of political topics including domestic issues such as Xinjiang and Tibet as well as references to Chinese government agencies. The US government has already advised athletes to leave their personal phones and laptops home and bring burners.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. We have credible reports that the Chinese hacked Gmail around 2010, and there are ongoing concerns about both censorship and surveillance by the Chinese social-networking company TikTok.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

The US NCSC and the Department of State published joint guidance on defending against attacks using commercial surveillance tools. In the last years, we have reported several cases of companies selling commercial surveillance tools to governments and other entities that have used them for malicious purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.”

Surveillance

WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 28, 2025

Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Amnesty International has published a comprehensive analysis of the Predator government spyware products. This is the legacy of not securing the Internet when we could have. These technologies used to be the exclusive purview of organizations like the NSA.

Spyware

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

At the end of 2015, the maker of internet switches disclosed that it had detected malicious code in some firewall products. government agency, since only the U.S. But two people familiar with the case told Reuters that investigators concluded the Chinese government was behind it. is known to have insisted on Dual EC elsewhere.

Firewall