Schneier on Security

JULY 23, 2021

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. A growing market of data brokers that collect and sell data from countless apps has made it so that anyone with a bit of cash and effort can figure out which phone in a so-called anonymized dataset belongs to a target, and abuse that information.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 13, 2023

The global security robots market “was valued at USD 27.32 The post Market for Security Robots Grows, But Data Privacy Concerns Remain appeared first on Security Boulevard. billion in 2021 and is expected to surpass $116.44

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja Gorelik, sold access to Mitto’s networks to surveillance technology firms. The post Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Among example targets of its mass-surveillance programme, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: “You talk, we listen.” ” The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised key lawful interception systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2024

The surveillance software was also used to spy on U.S. Surveillance software was misused by foreign actors in attacks aimed at dissidents and journalists around the world. Predator spyware is known for its extensive data-stealing and surveillance capabilities. government officials, journalists, and policy experts.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Mollitiam is also currently marketing a tool that it claims enables “mass surveillance of digital profiles and identities” across social media and the dark web.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. Such promises on video analysis have flooded the market for years, but their accuracy has always been suspect. It shouldn’t. This is not innovation. It’s experimentation without foresight.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 7, 2024

Predator can turn infected smartphones into surveillance devices. Nelson said: “Today’s actions represent a tangible step forward in discouraging the misuse of commercial surveillance tools, which increasingly present a security risk to the United States and our citizens.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Due to high demand on the market, we're increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits. — Operation Zero (@opzero_en) September 26, 2023 The Russian company pointed out that the end user for its exploits is a non-NATO country, it also added that decided to increase the payout due to high demand on the market.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The devil is in the details, of course, but he’s 100% right when he writes that the market cannot solve this: that the incentives are all wrong. Regulation is how society aligns market incentives with its own values. Or the surveillance capitalists, for that matter. Good essay — worth reading in full.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 29, 2023

Google TAG researchers reveal two campaigns against iOS, Android, and Chrome users that demonstrate how the commercial surveillance market is thriving despite government-imposed limits.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 8, 2023

Plus: 119 arrested during a sting on the Genesis dark-web market, the IRS aims to buy an online mass surveillance tool, and more.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2022

Fraser Sampson, the Commissioner for Bio-metrics and Surveillance Cameras, wrote a detailed report to Micheal Grave, the Cabinet Minister, over the dominance of Chinese companies in the supply and deployment of surveillance equipment in Britain. Hope, someone from the white house has noted these developments!

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

Deibert, and John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance systems until we can figure out how to curb human rights abuses. The purchase of surveillance technology by law enforcement in any state must be transparent and subject to public debate.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

recently teamed up and found evidence of an emerging market for stolen and spoofed machine identities. This emerging black market for machine identities is but a mere starting point for cyber criminals who recognize a huge, unguarded exposure when they see one. Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The approved Bitcoin ETFs will be subject to ongoing surveillance and compliance measures to ensure continued investor protection.” This includes a requirement for a transparent and well-regulated Bitcoin market. “The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.”

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The regulator found so many flaws in the retailer’s surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores. The company also failed to inform consumers that it was using the technology in its stores.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit broker Zerodium said it would pay up to $2 million for zero-click jailbreaks of Apple's iOS, $1.5 This is a problem.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2022

These astonishing facts were released by the Washington Post that even added in its report that a special military sized cyber army was dedicated to this sophisticated data surveillance program that started in early 2020. Normally, such software are used by civilians for advertisement or market purposes.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The global threat intelligence market size was estimated at $10.9 The market offers many solutions, from free online programs to corporate software. About the essayist: Julia Demyanchuk is the head of marketing at G-71 Inc. Cyber threats continue to gain momentum and there are still not enough ways to counter it.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2024

US law enforcement will no longer be able to request footage through the Neighbors app produced by Ring video doorbells and surveillance cameras. But if there is one thing history has taught us, it’s that eventually computer vision will be used for surveillance purposes against human beings. For example.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 2, 2019

Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras.

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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. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The company denied any involvement in the surveillance campaign attributed to the Donot Team APT. Surveillance market is very profitable and the report highlights that it is attracting many private businesses, especially those ones rating in different jurisdictions. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2023

In fact, WhatsApp would rather cease serving UK users, which make up 2% of its global market, than weaken its end-to-end encryption (E2EE). This also precedes state-mandated surveillance on a mass scale, with privacy and security risks affecting entire societies. "If Its potential for abuse will not be left unnoticed.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2023

Many stalkerware applications market themselves as parental monitoring tools, but they can be and often are used to stalk and spy on a person. TechCrunch’s analysis of the data shows Spyhide’s surveillance network spans every continent, with clusters of thousands of victims in Europe and Brazil.

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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. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services. The company was founded on November 30, 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, in a 2019 stalkerware settlement, the Commission allowed the violators to continue developing and marketing monitoring products.”. This case is an important reminder that surveillance-based businesses pose a significant threat to our safety and security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Today, Cloudastructure , the award-winning cloud-based video surveillance provider, announced they’ve been shortlisted for four global Cloud Awards including: Cloud Innovator of the Year. Best Cloud-Native Solution. Best Use of AI in Cloud Computing. Security Innovation of the Year.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If Eufy can ignore security researchers and the press without there being any repercussions in the market, others will follow suit. The company’s behavior is so egregious that ReviewGeek is no longer recommending them. This will be interesting to watch. And we will lose public shaming as an incentive to improve security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Larry Goldman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Progress. Not every house needs a state-of-the-art surveillance system. The markets are simply too competitive to risk inconveniencing the consumer in any way. Larry Goldman is the Senior Manager of Product Marketing for Progress. About the Author.

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