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. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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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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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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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. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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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. Social media makes the leap (again). That’s not all.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

But that doesn’t mean that the technology no longer exists, or even that it isn’t used anymore. By definition: A facial recognition system is a technology capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces, typically employed to identify and/or authenticate users.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) found a still better foothold in consumer households with Amazon’s recent acquisition of eero, a wifi mesh router company. While Internet-enabled devices have become smaller, more powerful and affordable, routers haven’t kept pace. On the face of it, this isn’t the worst news out there.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. It is also a metaphor used to illustrate surveillance technology. This isn’t Verkada’s first bout with negative publicity.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the mere presence of closet security testers secretly carrying out pentests on partner and customer internet-facing resources could have serious repercussions on relationships if discovered. Yes, pentesting and other forms of surveillance can help spot external threats.

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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. Read: The Great iPWN , from Citizen Lab.

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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. The technology has improved over the years and VPNs have become faster and more efficient. Also, encrypting and decrypting data takes time. My VPN won’t let me watch Netflix.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In October 2019, security experts at Amnesty International’s Security Lab have uncovered targeted attacks against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui that employed NSO Group surveillance tools. This attack scenario sees attackers monitoring and manipulating the Internet traffic of the target.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 29, 2020

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Two Decades On TCG Tackles Trustworthiness For The Internet of Things How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Book argues for New Laws to break Social Media Monopolies. Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been cropping up on home, business and enterprise networks for years.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The internet brought with it plenty of benefits, but accompanying these benefits came some evils that were previously not known of. They do this by following you on the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. Security pros just need to know the right places to start so they can adopt these technologies in a thoughtful way. Identify new apps that do not use legacy remote access.

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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Center for Internet and Society: bill is worst case encryption assault. Leaders at the Center for Internet and Society , at Stanford University, call this a "Full frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States.". Schneier also calls this time the “Golden Age of Surveillance.” On one side, there is the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. McConomy: The stream of news from mainstream media and tech magazines highlighting personal data privacy options and improved regulations, for one. A recent survey of some 2,000 U.S. LW: What are the drivers behind this trend?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. On the technology front, blockchain systems signal the type of shifts that need to fully unfold. Here’s what he had to say: LW: How did the idea for Wildland come about?

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Here’s a writeup from Kroll on a typical Black Basta incident: Qakbot has been around for many years, and is under heavy surveillance by both commercial CTI providers and independent security researchers. There are so many ransomware stories that most media outlets don’t cover them any more.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Technology has enabled people to connect more than ever before. The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.”

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy. They have social media accounts with personalities.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Related: The need to fold ‘SecOps’ into ‘DevOps’ I had the chance to sit down with Furnace Ignite’s co-founders: John Blamire, chief operating officer, and Danny Waite, chief technology officer, for a pre-launch briefing. And that’s a good thing, indeed.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. So we settled upon the Internet of Things, or simply IoT.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. So we settled upon the Internet of Things, or simply IoT.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s spying when governments do it through opaque, mass surveillance regimes, it’s spying when companies do it through shadowy data broker networks that braid together disparate streams of information, and it’s spying when private individuals do it through unseen behavior on personal devices. They are deeply concerning.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do. And the technology is advancing too fast for anyone to fully understand how they work, even the designers.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

And in a recent revelation from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 2021 is most noteworthy as “the worst year on record for child abuse online” due to pandemic lockdowns. . ” They also said they are in full support of strong privacy and children’s online safety, and urge social media sites to protect both.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT. Public-interest technology isn't one thing; it's many things.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology. Securing the technology and creation platforms at our company is rewarding. Information assurance is vital in today's technological world.

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SecureList

MARCH 8, 2023

Stalkerware can be downloaded and easily installed by anyone with an Internet connection and physical access to a smartphone. Depending on the type of software, it is usually possible to check device location, text messages, social media chats, photos, browser history and more.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? They discuss how software and IoT companies can avoid becoming the next Black Mirror episode and share resources that can help survivors (and those who want to help them) deal with the technology issues that can be associated with technologically facilitated abuse.

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