Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

But, in the world of cybersecurity, we do not deal in absolute guarantees but in relative risks. All systems fall short of optimality and have some residual risk of vulnerability -- a point which the tech community acknowledges when they propose that law enforcement can satisfy its requirements by exploiting vulnerabilities in their products.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2024

But, as a cybersecurity, privacy, and identity protection company, Malwarebytes is concerned with risk, and location sharing carries significant risks within many types of relationships. In 2013, a California man, using a spyware app, tracked a woman to her friend’s house and assaulted her.” The man murdered his two children.

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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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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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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s not a technology product or service but a way of demonstrating security by applying repeatable policies and documented procedures to manage risk. The last major revision to the standard happened in 2013 and the next update is expected around 2022-2023. What is it – and what is it not? How does it work?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. AllegisCyber Investments.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He didn't become a senator until 2013.) My most recent two books, Data and Goliath -- about surveillance -- and Click Here to Kill Everybody -- about IoT security -- are really about the policy implications of technology. Authentication risks surrounding someone's intimate partner is a good example.). They still are.

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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.

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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. According to Dhapte, even if some consumers can afford a new device, websites will not remove all password authentication because they risk losing other users. The risk of misuse is significant.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Is it better to cut off Russia or allow free communication, with all the risks and benefits it provides? And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. Tech firms are making very hard decisions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2023

Adding to the concerns, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance has also issued an alert regarding a stealth surveillance campaign backed by China. It is important to note that while Western nations often attribute such incidents to countries like China and Russia, they remain relatively silent about their own surveillance campaigns.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Such threats pose a risk to Ukrainian organizations and their partners, as well as foreign organizations with premises in Ukraine. Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems.

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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. Raccoons are blind in the light, so they were effectively creating a denial of service attack upon themselves. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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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. Raccoons are blind in the light, so they were effectively creating a denial of service attack upon themselves. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

So, in 2013, I also started working as a penetration tester doing web application penetration tests or application security tests, mostly code audits, code review. So it's not necessarily related to Binary exploitation but I'm interested in in all the fields Yeah, I've been doing that for the site since 2013.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

So, in 2013, I also started working as a penetration tester doing web application penetration tests or application security tests, mostly code audits, code review. So it's not necessarily related to Binary exploitation but I'm interested in in all the fields Yeah, I've been doing that for the site since 2013.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We know that surveillance has a chilling effect on freedom. People change their behavior when they live their lives under surveillance. This is obviously true for government surveillance, but is true for corporate surveillance as well. If surveillance nips that process in the bud, change never happens.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

China-based video surveillance related product offering company Hikvision has issued a security advisory saying that all those using their security cameras and NVRs must know a critical vulnerability on its devices that could allow hackers to take control of the cameras and use them as bots to launch DDoS or other related attacks.

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