CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2022

Britain’s government received a red alert last week to the Chinese government monitoring the country’s populace through its AI Satellites and thousands of CCTV Cameras. Mr. Samson is extremely concerned about the dominance of two companies Dahua and Hikvision that have grabbed about 60% of the market share in Britain’s CCTV Market.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The bizarre promotional video promises “Face analysis based on best of breed Artificial Intelligence algorithms for Business Intelligence and Digital Signage applications.” Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

They allow Russians to access banned sites, and they help protect users from government surveillance. Unsurprisingly, the Russian government has previously banned some (but not all) VPN services from offering services in the country. That said, VPNs are a double-edged sword for the Kremlin.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2022

For years, the Citizen Lab, a specialized research group based at the University of Toronto where Scott-Railton works as a senior researcher, has been investigating Pegasus and its misuse by governments—usually authoritarian ones—who bought the spyware from NSO. A UK official confirmed the network had been compromised.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. Governments can do it, too. The United States needs a government-funded-and-directed AI program to develop widely reusable models in the public interest, guided by technical expertise housed in federal agencies.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2023

All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government and law enforcement. China is experimenting with even more powerful forms of automated legal enforcement and targeted surveillance. Breathalyzers are another example of automatic detection.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. The government says Iza kept R.C.’s

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

A screenshot from a music video of hte Evan Greer song, “Surveillance Capitalism,” which tackles the dangers of commercial surveillance technology. Sometimes fighting the excesses of the creeping surveillance economy is done through position papers, coalition building and lawsuits. Our concern is not ‘Hey patch this up.’

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

According to British Medical Journal Global Health, medical experts are urging the government and the tech heads of companies that are developing AI products to halt their experiments until a route map is created to stop disinformation and surveillance spread from the chatbots. So, a tough call ahead!

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Additionally, keep in mind that while Lockdown Mode may make it more difficult for attackers to exploit social engineering in order to compromise devices, until Apple more strictly controls what apps it allows in its app store , potential government spying remains a major problem.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 19, 2021

Britain is all set to launch a new law where the common public will be subjected to AI driven CCTV surveillance that will help nab criminals. Soon those living in & around Britain might face a dystopian future as the government is planning to turn public spaces into open air prisons.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is surveillance capitalism , and AI is shaping up to be part of it. For example, researchers uncovered the secret rules that govern the Microsoft Bing chatbot’s behavior. And, as with the rest of the internet, that somehow is likely to include surveillance and manipulation. Phone apps collect and sell your data.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and pretty much everything else related to IT. Government Needs You. Government needs technologists at all levels.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 21, 2022

Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it's not the secret weapon you might imagine.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

accused China of targeting its government organizations with cyberattacks. These allegations, which were made via China's official WeChat account , claim that the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit of the NSA conducted cyberattacks in 2009 and maintained continuous surveillance on Huawei's servers.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

ZestAI’s Quest to make Artificial Intelligence Explainable Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military. . » Related Stories Episode 166: But Why, AI?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Either way, a singular piece of technology – artificial intelligence (AI) — is destined to profoundly influence which way we go from here. At the moment, there’s little to constrain corporations or government agencies from using AI however they want. Only time will tell. This is not just my casual observation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2020

We will not sell facial-recognition technology to police departments in the United States until we have a national law in place, grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith. “We’re implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Shareholders entrusted Cloudastructure with $30 million via a RegA+ to expand their cloud-based video surveillance platform empowered with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning analytics.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It also warns that AI-enhanced national security apparatus like autonomous weapons and surveillance systems will raise ethical questions.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. I wouldn't want to formulate public policy about artificial intelligence and robotics without a security technologist involved. So does society's underlying security needs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And if governments such as the one prevailing in China under the leadership of Xi Jinping take such technologies seriously, they can implement the tech to read the minds of their populace and in parallel to mass surveillance- all under the name of national security. .

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism -- ­as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone­ -- matters. I wouldn't want to formulate public policy about artificial intelligence and robotics without a security technologist involved. So does society's underlying security needs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

Just where is the Global Cyber-defense Market going, and why is it failing so spectacularly to protect the data assets of the largest and most heavily protected government institutions and corporate companies in the world. 17 th December 2020 – Vietnamese Government Security Authority.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Facial recognition software (FRS) is a biometric tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan human facial features to produce a code. Amazon Rekognition has been well regarded by government agencies and other secure users. Best Facial Recognition Software for 2022. Amazon Rekognition.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2019, the City of San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology at a community scale; in other words, deployed in a way that people on public streets and sidewalks could be surveilled and whose identity could be discovered simply by examining the unique features of their face. That is a trend that is already apparent.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 4, 2019

The types of activities for which the most complaints have been made so far are telemarketing, promotional e-mails and vdeo surveillance/CCTV. From artificial intelligence, development of 5G networks to integrity of our elections, strong data protection rules help to develop our policies and technologies based on people’s trust.”.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2023

All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government and law enforcement. Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.

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Responsible Cyber

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What started off as a relatively small gathering has evolved into an absolutely unmissable three-day event bringing together academics, governments officials, international institutions and key industry leaders. Topics in this Stream include global surveillance, digital governance, and decoupling in the digital supply chain.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

An example is the ePrivacy Regulation which governs electronic communications. Artificial Intelligence Act (expected 2024). Emerging technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits in many areas today for us all. Upcoming Acts to watch out for. Here is a summary of them.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

government agencies and first responders. Special Operations Command (PDF), demanding that the government turn over information collected about him and seeking restitution for his alleged kidnapping at the hands of the CIA. 404Media reported recently that the breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

These are: The Digital Services Act The Digital Markets Act The EU Data Act The Data Governance Act The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act In our previous blog series (part one and part two ) we discussed four of the five new Directives, and how they will affect organisations. What is the Artificial Intelligence Act?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2019

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Recent developments in video analytics -- fueled by artificial intelligence techniques like machine learning -- enable computers to watch and understand surveillance videos with human-like discernment. Increasingly, none of that is true. First: video analytics.

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