Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Often overlooked, the SIM card —short for Subscriber Identification Module—acts as the nexus between our identity and technology, illuminating the thin line between connection and surveillance.

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key cybersecurity provisions Securing communications networks Five billion dollars is allocated to help local telecommunications providers replace potentially insecure Chinese technology (e.g., Reforming surveillance practices Proposals to restrict Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were left out.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

“The Israel Defense Forces asked cybersecurity companies in 2016 to present proposals for creating a system that would monitor social media users’ personal correspondence.” The Israeli Defense explained added that the bidding process was not carried out for both operational and technological reasons.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies? Facebook lied about how it enabled Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and paid a public relations firm to blame Google and George Soros instead.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

China has finally developed a mind-reading technology related to Artificial Intelligence that can detect political deflectors early. NOTE 2- Technology should prove resourceful to our human beings. As a lot of research has to be done, to confirm the events and conclusion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

Recently, Zimperium, a US based technology company, was assigned with the duty by Department of Defense and the responsibility was to deliver a comprehensive Mobile Protection against the said spying tool. Initially, it was available to only governments conducting surveillance on criminals and some suspected nationals.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( Petersburg, Russia-based company, Special Technology Centre, Ltd. ( ” Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( SecurityAffairs – spyware, surveillance).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Last week the Israeli cybersecurity firm Kape Technologies has acquired the industry’s leading virtual private networks ExpressVPN, as part of a $936 million deal. The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. and its ally, the U.A.E.,

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Threatpost

JULY 24, 2019

Researchers have linked the surveillance tool to a Russian tech firm that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., 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. engages in the development, production, and sale of security products.

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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. Apple Under Fire. Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised. … This is a global concern.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent four years hammering out a framework for arriving at an appropriate level of IoT security, issuing NIST Special Publication 800–160 , in late 2016.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2023

Therefore, the next time when you see your webcam light blinking and device battery exhausting faster than usual, you must quickly put the device under surveillance. Let us analyze it with an example: In the year 2016, a couple living in a condo in New York received a call. What happens if the webcam is in control of a hacker?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2021

Sources say that the initiative was taken after the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee had a tough time in beating the COVID 19 Pandemic with the apt medication/vaccination due to lack of historical patient data share and access. . However, the procedure was abandoned in 2016 due to privacy concerns.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. 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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Neutrino was founded in 2016 by Giancarlo Russo, Marco Valleri, and Alberto Ornaghi. The US company has experienced some controversy due to the acquisition, the heated debate surrounding Neutrino comes from the involvement of Valleri and Ornaghi, who were both executives of surveillance firm Hacking Team. ” reads the blog post.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

This morning I wrote about a large-scale cyber attack that hit the I nternational Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in November 2016, Emissary Panda was suspected to be the culprit. The group was involved in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at new generation weapons and in surveillance activities on dissidents and other civilian groups.

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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. Invest in the right technology.

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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. Then evaluate and deploy practical and highly scalable quantum-safe technologies that are available today.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, in 2016 Google introduced AMP , a set of web standards that were designed to make websites faster on mobile devices. It may yet deliver ads that disrespect your privacy less, but it’s a brand new technology and it’s off to a slow, rocky start. The other candidates.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Related: The need to fold ‘SecOps’ into ‘DevOps’ I had the chance to sit down with Furnace Ignite’s co-founders: John Blamire, chief operating officer, and Danny Waite, chief technology officer, for a pre-launch briefing.

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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. Roskomnadzor explained that the services were abused by cybercriminals and that Proton Technologies refused to register them with state authorities.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The goal of the Parliament is to facilitate the development of AI technologies by implementing a single European market for AI and removing barriers to the deployment of AI, including through the principle of mutual recognition with regards to the cross-border use of smart products. A Legal Framework for AI.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Army Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR). Since our 2016 DARPA CGC win, the Department of Defense has continued to be a strong supporter of Mayhem and for that, we thank you. Read more > Advanced Security Testing, Simplified. Request Demo Learn More.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. NSO states its technology is intended to “prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe”. Media outlets first reported the existence of the spyware in 2016.

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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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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Safe Harbor was replaced by the Privacy Shield, which – together with European Standard Clauses (“SCCs”) – were suspected of not being able to sufficiently protect European rights against US massive surveillance. 1] General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. [2] The SCCs are still valid, but not sufficient per se. 4] [link]. [5]

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Army Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR). Since our 2016 DARPA CGC win, the Department of Defense has continued to be a strong supporter of Mayhem and for that, we thank you.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JULY 26, 2021

The Company was found guilty of infringing the following provisions of Regulation EU 2016/679 (“ GDPR ”): Information provided to the riders pursuant to Article 13 of the GDPR. What infringements did the Garante identify? How did the Garante quantify the administrative sanction?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology. Securing the technology and creation platforms at our company is rewarding. Information assurance is vital in today's technological world.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. So using existing technology makes sense. That's both good and bad.

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