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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. I visited him once in Moscow, in 2016.

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"Untraceable" surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data

Malwarebytes

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. Court documents show that no later than July 2022, Voyager began using its thousands of fake accounts to scrape data.

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When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity

Krebs on Security

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. ” -CIA’s Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S.

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Pegasus Project – how governments use Pegasus spyware against journalists

Security Affairs

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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3 Percent ($30B) of U.S. Military Funding Dedicated to Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

There needs to be better corporate accountability, and that means CISOs need to fully document decisions by CEOs and boards to accept risks that are against the recommendation of company security leaders and experts. That, in turn, will help us to better design defensive strategies and tactics to thwart future attacks.

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Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

Krebs on Security

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet.