Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed in 2016 and took effect on 25 May.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

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. ” 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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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The experts observed the APT deploying Headlace in three distinct phases from April to December 2023, respectively, using phishing, compromised internet services, and living off the land binaries. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services. According to the researcher, the vulnerability has existed at least since 2016. The critical bug has received 9.8

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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. The Russian government has already blocked the professional social network LinkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. ” reported the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware made the headlines again, this time the malware was used to spy on 2 rights activists in Morocco according Amnesty International. Amnesty International collected evidence of new abuses of the NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware, this time the malware was used to spy two rights activists in Morocco.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

As first reported in The Guardian , a large data leak unveiled a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers of people that were in the crosshairs of NSO customers dating back to 2016, including more than 180 journalists worldwide. Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised. … This is a global concern. Spyware is Evolving.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Luminosity RAT was first spotted in 2015 but it became very popular in 2016. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. “Another notable spike to mention is IPS detections related to MVPower CCTV DVR models (CVE-2016-20016) also known as JAWS webserver RCE.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. That’s precisely what happened in the case of Dyn back in October 2016. Cyber attacks against the company aren’t the only relevant threat, however.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. No, these cameras are an extremely powerful part of the Internet of Things (IOT). According to Vice, this includes more than 24,000 unique organizations.

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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. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Someone documented it, and it's worth pointing out that the documentation doesn't apply to Powerpoint 2016. Washington Post, 2014). But these are not vulnerabilities, because we can have endless debate about it they should be fixed. Was there a debate over the security of that feature when it shipped? I don't know. When it was removed?

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

And because none of the major browser vendors had enough market share to “ embrace, extend and extinguish “, as Microsoft had attempted when Internet Explorer was dominant, everyone was forced to follow the same open standards. Everyone benefitted. Unfortunately, as good as it is, Firefox is on shaky ground.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The 2016 agreement enabled trans-Atlantic commercial data transfers, but the court said U.S. government surveillance posed a threat to privacy and there was no sufficient redress in the American legal system for Europeans. Things get even more complicated with the July 2020 ruling from the EU’s top court that the EU-U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

DX is the wider context, here, in the sense that DX is made possible because of the rise of “datafication” — the processes by which we’ve come to rapaciously collect and store mind-boggling amounts of data from web forms, social media, mobile apps, surveillance cameras, IoT sensors and the like. And that’s a good thing, indeed.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybersecurity Bill Could ‘Sweep Away’ Internet Users’ Privacy, Agency Warns. Last Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that the controversial new surveillance bill Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) could sweep away important privacy protections. China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms.

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McAfee

JULY 17, 2020

Chamber of Commerce created in 2016 that allows businesses in the European Union to transfer data to the U.S. The Safe Harbor scheme was replaced by the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016, in response to the case. surveillance, and, therefore, do not have a right to an effective remedy in the U.S., The Court said that.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

IoT malware: competition and persistence IoT malware is notable for a huge diversity of families derived from Mirai, which was first discovered in 2016. For example, despite their primary function not being related to video surveillance, most smart pet feeders on the market can capture real-time audio and video footage.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Until the end of 2016, it was against the Rules of Criminal Procedure to issue warrants to impinge upon computers in bulk or without being able to identify where the computer actually was. It is the first time the DoJ is believed to have used this capability at any scale. . It was a lot less invasive than what the Chinese were doing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation. The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. “On

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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. Mayhem for Code was put to the test in 2016 at the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first machine-only hacking competition.

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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. Mayhem for Code was put to the test in 2016 at the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first machine-only hacking competition.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

In addition to the above components, we found other stagers and post-exploitation malware implants during our research, some of which were attributed to or have been used by known Chinese-speaking threat actors: Microcin: a backdoor typically used by the SixLittleMonkeys threat actor, which we have been tracking since 2016.

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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.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. documents), /??(pictures)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I did attend a SANS Course as a volunteer facilitator for MGT414: “SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification” at the Rocky Mountain SANS 2016 cybersecurity conference. I used to love to encrypt email messages and exchange keys with dial-up internet friends I had at the time. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat. Vamosi: Wait a second, GeoHot?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat. Vamosi: Wait a second, GeoHot?

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. In March 2021, hackers gained access to a security company’s surveillance cameras and live-streamed those video feeds from hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, gyms, and even Tesla.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

So I'm an activist, security researcher or even whistleblower, we recently came across some stuff where there were leaks of personally identifiable information or some sort of previously unknown surveillance of people or employees. I think it was 2016. Is this to you know, is this for the better good? So but it is it is a lot of fun.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

At the end of 2015, the maker of internet switches disclosed that it had detected malicious code in some firewall products. And if it’s still putting surveillance ahead of security. The article goes on to talk about Juniper Networks equipment, which had the NSA-created DUAL_EC PRNG backdoor in its products.

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