Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2020

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. This isn't news; we learned about this in 2006.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having­not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone. Barr makes the point that this is about "consumer cybersecurity," and not "nuclear launch codes."

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having -- not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone. I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

The group was involved in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at new generation weapons and in surveillance activities on dissidents and other civilian groups. In 2018, Emissary Panda was observed using an updated version of the ZxShell RAT first developed in 2006 and whom code was released in 2007.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Tor (The Onion Router) network protects users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. But while both tools can enhance your online anonymity, they’re as different as apples and orang … onions. What is Tor?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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