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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policywhat is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Russians Hack FBI Comms System

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Yahoo News reported that the Russians have successfully targeted an FBI communications system: American officials discovered that the Russians had dramatically improved their ability to decrypt certain types of secure communications and had successfully tracked devices used by elite FBI surveillance teams.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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Experts Explain How to Bypass Recent Improvement of China’s Great Firewall

Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users.

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Malicious app exploiting CVE-2019-2215 zero-day available in Google Play since March

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to Stone, the CVE-2019-2215 vulnerability was being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO Group , it was exploited by its surveillance software Pegasus. SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I was obsessed with encryption. I was fascinated by the fact that nothing in the world could reverse an operation of encryption without the needed key to decrypt the item. I would love to get more involved in advancing privacy and security through the use of strong encryption and other safeguards. Those aren’t my only plans.

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APT trends report Q3 2023

SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption. This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets.

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In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private

Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

We don’t know what the landscape will look like in this post-Roe world, but as a privacy attorney, I’m deeply concerned about the surveillance tools that law enforcement will use to investigate alleged abortions.”. Here, Quintin named the end-to-end encrypted app Signal. For Hussain, the lack of clarity is worrying. “We

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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the interests of surveillance, the NSA has pushed for an insecure cell phone encryption standard and a backdoor in random number generators (important for secure encryption). In 2012, Iran attacked the Saudi national oil company. If anything, the US’s prioritization of offense over defense makes us less safe.

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After Section 702 Reauthorization

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2018

For over a decade, civil libertarians have been fighting government mass surveillance of innocent Americans over the Internet. On January 18, President Trump signed the renewal of Section 702, domestic mass surveillance became effectively a permanent part of US law. We need to look at US surveillance law more generally.

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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Attorney General Barr and Encryption

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Russians Hack FBI Comms System

Snowden Ten Years Later

Experts Explain How to Bypass Recent Improvement of China’s Great Firewall

Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

Malicious app exploiting CVE-2019-2215 zero-day available in Google Play since March

Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

APT trends report Q3 2023

In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private

Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

After Section 702 Reauthorization

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