Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. Despite bombastic claims about the effectiveness of targeted marketing, researchers have long struggled to demonstrate where and when online ads really have an impact. Like social media, it has the potential to change the world in many ways, some favorable to democracy.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2024

The market will not provide this on its own. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist. AI whose biases are understood, and corrected for. AI whose goals are understood. That won’t secretly betray your trust to someone else. Corporations are profit maximizers, at the expense of society.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2025

David Jemmett, CEO & Founder of CISO Global Unlike Western AI systems governed by privacy laws and ethical considerations, DeepSeek operates under a regime notorious for state-sponsored hacking, surveillance, and cyber espionage.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Data brokers buy that surveillance data from the smaller companies, and assemble detailed dossiers on us.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 16, 2022

The Trusted Control/Compute Unit , or TCU, built by Axiado introduces an enhanced zero-trust model to the market. This artificial intelligence-driven, chip-scale innovation offers multiple and hierarchical trust relationships for complex ownership structures and transitions. Threat detection. Traceability and accountability.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. The government has tasked Alibaba, Huawei, and others with creating products that support the larger ecosystem of state surveillance and authoritarianism. Silicon Valley has produced no small number of moral disappointments.

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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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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. They want to wrestle the attention of regulators and advocates back toward present-day harms that are exacerbated by AI misinformation, surveillance, and inequity.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

the firm’s Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, is quoted as saying that Apple “makes the most secure mobile devices on the market.”. Flip phones are not totally immune from government surveillance and action either.). Also concerning is the fact that in Apple’s Lockdown announcement, Ivan Krsti?,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2022

Fraser Sampson, the Commissioner for Bio-metrics and Surveillance Cameras, wrote a detailed report to Micheal Grave, the Cabinet Minister, over the dominance of Chinese companies in the supply and deployment of surveillance equipment in Britain.

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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.

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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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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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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 28, 2021

Unfortunately, however, people have begun marketing for sale devices that allow criminals to exploit a technological vulnerability in these systems, and crooks have been seen using “mystery devices” to open cars equipped with hands-free car entry systems.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The regulator found so many flaws in the retailer’s surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores. The company also failed to inform consumers that it was using the technology in its stores.

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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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. ” Security is a process that requires ongoing flexibility, not total prevention.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. At the forefront of this rivalry stands Huawei, a prominent Chinese telecommunications company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

Security expert Stefan Umit Uygur, CEO and Co-Founder at 4Securitas Ltd, provided his vision about the Cyber-defence solutions on the market. Companies like Gartner have made fortune advising clients on their assessment of the best security products in the market. 4securitas.com ).

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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. Marketing & PR: Cloudastructure also hired a marketing and PR team to build brand awareness.

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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. Enterprises that will benefit from this software technology are automotive industries, online marketing, and mobile phone industries, among others. Face First.

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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. The European Commission also issued a press release about the first year of GDPR enforcement, with Andrus Ansip, vice president for the Digital Single Market and V?ra

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. We can strengthen basic democratic protections and market regulations to avoid the worst impacts of AI colonialism.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations. government agencies and first responders. 404Media reported recently that the breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

We wanted to go a little bit more for the guerrilla marketing type message. 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. So we went with hackings not.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

Digital Markets Act (Expected late 2022). The Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to enable open and fair digital and data markets by fostering competition. Artificial Intelligence Act (expected 2024). Emerging technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) offer benefits in many areas today for us all.

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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. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

“Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios,” the strategy explains. ” Many of the U.S. When the Bush administration released the first U.S.

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