Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link].

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi , a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012. ” who said Iza hired him to surveil Zelocchi but ultimately refused to pay him for much of the work. attorney general.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. This is nothing new.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. com , pine-sales[.]com com , and ecommerce-ads[.]org.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. ” reported the Associated Press.

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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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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. Mirai takedown the Internet. Amazon) taken down were just massive collateral damage.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Department of Justice released a report that revealed some weaknesses in Next Gen Cyber, The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s cyber security program begun in 2012. Cybersecurity Bill Could ‘Sweep Away’ Internet Users’ Privacy, Agency Warns. China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms. Last week, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s 2021 and as we all know software is everywhere -- it has even made its way into our everyday household items like our Internet-connected toothbrushes and coffee cups. Army Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR), just to name a few.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s 2021 and as we all know software is everywhere -- it has even made its way into our everyday household items like our Internet-connected toothbrushes and coffee cups. Army Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR), just to name a few.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

SolarWinds has removed its customer list from its website, but the Internet Archive saved it : all five branches of the US military, the state department, the White House, the NSA, 425 of the Fortune 500 companies, all five of the top five accounting firms, and hundreds of universities and colleges. North Korea attacked Sony in 2014.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I used to love to encrypt email messages and exchange keys with dial-up internet friends I had at the time. Philip Zimmermann’s stance on human rights and privacy closely aligns with my core belief that technology should enhance one's life and enable private channels to exchange and develop ideas without surveillance and censorship.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE) allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to tap into a primary internet and telecommunications hub in Denmark, the operation allowed the US intelligence agency to spy on the communications of European politicians. ” reported the BBC.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cyber-offense ecosystem still appears to be shaken by the sudden demise of NSO Group; at the same time, these activities indicate to us that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to commercial-grade mobile surveillance tooling. More APT groups will move from CobaltStrike to other alternatives. Drone hacking!

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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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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While the newer actors are filling the skills gap quickly, the most advanced parties are scaling to obtain global surveillance capabilities through technological supremacy. When it was first used in 2012, it disabled over 30,000 computers. This doctrine should take into account how uncertain the attribution process for cyberattacks is.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

” THE MOST ACTIVE, PERSISTENT THREAT In 2012 (approximately three national cyber strategies ago), then director of the U.S. government working more closely with cloud and other Internet infrastructure providers to quickly identify malicious use of U.S.-based ” Many of the U.S. ” The strategy anticipates the U.S.

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