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GUEST ESSAY: The timing is ripe to instill trust in the open Internet — and why this must get done

The Last Watchdog

In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet. Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. The societal aspects of technology, the human side, have grown equally unruly.

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Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”

Krebs on Security

In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. They allege that in late December 2020, Sharp applied for a job at another technology company, and then abused his privileged access to Ubiquiti’s systems at Amazon’s AWS cloud service and the company’s GitHub accounts to download large amounts of proprietary data.

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

Krebs on Security

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. In early 2020, Exorn promoted a website called “ orndorks[.]com Araneida Scanner. co as one of their projects.

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Encryption & Privacy Policy and Technology

Adam Shostack

The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open. press release , letter.)

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NEW TECH: Exabeam positions SIEM technology to help protect IoT, OT systems

The Last Watchdog

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). I spoke with Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently.

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Top data breaches of 2020 – Security Affairs

Security Affairs

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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Me on Public-Interest Tech

Schneier on Security

Back in November 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a virtual talk at the International Symposium on Technology and Society: “ The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call for Public-Interest Technologists.”

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