Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. The ruling from the 9th U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2021

But it did say how it de-anonymized aggregated data to correlate Grindr app usage with a device that appears to be Burrill’s phone. The publication zeroed in on addresses where Burrill was known to frequent and singled out a device identifier that appeared at those locations.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. Already problems are being discovered. And this wasn't the first reporting to find issues in 5G protocols and implementations. What's more, U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

We know this thanks to a report put out by New York University’s AI Now Institute in December 2019. Law enforcement, for instance, drew criticism for using a controversial facial recognition app — Clearview AI — to surveil citizens turning out to protest the George Floyd murder.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. ” reported the NDR.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

In February 2023, PeopleConnect , the owners of the background search services TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate , acknowledged a breach affecting 20 million customers who paid the data brokers to run background checks. The data exposed included email addresses, hashed passwords, first and last names, and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Paper Copy.

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