RIP Mark Klein
Schneier on Security
MARCH 13, 2025
2006 AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has died.
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Bart Gellman on Snowden
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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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
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."
Attorney General Barr and Encryption
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.).
Emissary Panda updated its weapons for attacks in the past 2 years
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.
Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?
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?
Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015
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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