CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2021

On July 16 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) issued a verdict that ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, on which many companies relied on to transfer their data between the US and the EU, was invalidated due to concerns around surveillance by US state and law enforcement agencies. Interested and want to learn more?

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It dates back to 2013 when Edward Snowden revealed the PRISM programme (where the US NSA accessed data from big tech e.g. Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among others). surveillance law in Section 702 FISA and EO 12333 , which can give the US authorities access to any transferred data. The court ruling has not changed that.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Identity, citizenship, and surveillance are all societal concerns. Indeed, encryption is the foundation for copyright and access permission in digital contexts,” Dhapte added. Awaiting the future.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. Both of them are encrypted with RC4. All communications between the server are encrypted with RC4. The Trojan’s Cryptography Library to encrypt/decrypt exchanged data. The encrypted VFS file. Names differ between samples.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

It obtains the ScrambleCross shellcode by applying a modified ChaCha20 algorithm on an encrypted blob, which may reside as an additional file on disk or be embedded in the loader itself. Both the IP and the server directory path are encrypted with AES-128 using a base64 encoded key stored in the backdoor’s image.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011.

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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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