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Open-Source Intelligence: Using Public Data to Fortify Security

SecureWorld News

In the interconnected digital landscape, vast amounts of valuable intelligence can be gleaned from publicly available open sources on the internet. As more personal and organizational data ends up online—whether through social media oversharing, high-profile breaches, or surveillance capitalism—the OSINT surface area continues to grow.

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I/O 2024: What’s new in Android security and privacy

Google Security

Expanded Restricted Settings : To help protect more sensitive permissions that are commonly abused by fraudsters, we’re expanding Android 13’s restricted settings , which require additional user approval to enable permissions when installing an app from an Internet-sideloading source (web browsers, messaging apps or file managers).

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Facebook took action against China-linked APT targeting Uyghur activists

Security Affairs

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.

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Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack

Security Affairs

The identifier could be obtained via social engineering. The attacker would also need to obtain Kalay UIDs through social engineering or other vulnerabilities in APIs or services that return Kalay UIDs. “The vulnerabilities described in this post affect a core component of the Kalay platform.

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Attacking Machine Learning Systems

Schneier on Security

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. This is bulk surveillance and can easily operate on this massive scale. Training data are still stored in memory somewhere.

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APT C-23 group targets Middle East with an enhanced Android spyware variant

Security Affairs

Upon opening the app, it requests that the user grant the app permissions to perform surveillance actions such as to access to the microphone to record audio and all files stored on the device. The malicious apps use social engineering to ask the user to grant advanced permissions.

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What is an IP address? Do I need one?

Malwarebytes

Your IP address on the Internet, which is in most cases is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and changes from time to time. You can learn your current Internet IP address by looking at this site. For a device to be able to use the Internet protocol it needs to have IP software and an IP address.

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