Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2020

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. I'm looking forward to reading Gellman's book.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. In 2015, I wrote a book about it.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2024

Those “tangible things,” the law said, included “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.” I did not know them as surveillance companies.” Or, to put it a different way: things you’d find in a library and records of the things you’d check out from a library. These companies were library vendors.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. Both Greenwald and Gellman held documents back so they could publish them in their books. And Edward Snowden?

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 3, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: VICE vs. Chinese Surveillance, Indian Contact Tracing, NHS + GCHQ, Banjo Racism, Singapore Requires Check-ins, Bruce on Contact Tracing, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism…. The newsletter serves as the show notes for the podcast. —.

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Daniel Miessler

JUNE 21, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Ripple20 IoT Vulns, Homeland Security Surveillance, US Cyber Budget, Adobe EOL, AWS DDoS, Bellingcat Poison Investigation, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism…. Subscribe To Podcast. Show Notes. Newsletter. All Episodes. —.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 23, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Health-justified Video Surveillance, FDA Emergency Approval of a C19 Test, Israel Mobile Monitoring, Amazon Essentials, Pandemic Drone Monitoring, Retasking Factories, Rich People Ventilators, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism….

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The United States government sued Edward Snowden , the former CIA employee and NSA contractor, to block payment for his book, Permanent Record. The US DoJ filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden to prevent the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor from receiving the payment for his book, Permanent Record.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage. The Impersonator. The post Who’s Hacking You?

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 2, 2022

Utopia seeks to help transform our society into one in which everyone can feel free from censorship, surveillance, and data leakage — and does so by increasingly helping people to reliably answer the question “How can I to protect myself and my data in the global information space?” The interview follows.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In reality, the victims communicated with Goontact operators that attempt to trick them into installing (or sideload) a mobile application that steals the victim’s address book. “Targets are convinced to install (or sideload) a mobile application on some pretext, such as audio or video problems.” ” continues the report.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. 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. This is nothing new.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

Daigle discovered the commercial surveillance software on the hotel check-in systems while investigating consumer-grade spyware (aka stalkerware ). The software was used by someone to capture screenshots of the hotel booking systems, including guest details.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Shoshana Zuboff came out with a brilliant work called Surveillance Capitalism a while back, which I reviewed here. I want to convince you of this in two ways: Showing you that human desire and progress ultimately lead to Surveillance Capitalism, and…. I highly recommend it. My first point is that evolution drives us to win.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 21, 2023

Did you know that about 99% of surveillance video goes unviewed? Check out our e-book for the latest tech trends in physical. What if you could use that video data to simplify operations, manage physical assets, and boost employee health and well-being?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The campaigns have been conducted since 2015 and are aimed at conducting information collection and surveillance operations against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to Teheran. ” The surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER. .

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The book intertwines two parallel storylines: one set during World War II, focusing on a group of codebreakers and their efforts to secure Allied communications, and the other in the late 1990s, where a tech entrepreneur attempts to create a secure data haven in Southeast Asia. Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October and beyond!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Pegasus is probably the most popular surveillance software on the market, it has been developed by the Israeli NSO Group. Many other surveillance firms develop spyware that are every day abused in dragnet surveillance and target journalists, dissidents, and opponents of totalitarian regimes. Anyway, it is not the only one.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 27, 2021

For instance, the latest surveillance program of China came into the media limelight in 2020 where it was learned that the country was keeping a large section of people under the watchful eye of big brother to curtail crime using Artificial Intelligence.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

My most recent two books, Data and Goliath -- about surveillance -- and Click Here to Kill Everybody -- about IoT security -- are really about the policy implications of technology. I teach cybersecurity policy and technology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2021

George Orwell’s classic book, 1984 — written in 1949 — envisioned a dystopian future in which human beings are constantly monitored and surveilled. In the novel, Great Britain - known as Air Strip One - is ruled by a totalitarian government which attempts to control not just the actions, but even the thoughts of the populace.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I wrote this in my book, Data and Goliath : The problem is that encryption is just a bunch of math, and math has no agency. This is bulk surveillance and can easily operate on this massive scale. But aside from some special cases and unique circumstances, that’s not how encryption systems are exploited in practice.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

You can compare this to a person leafing through an enormous book of portraits to find a suspect. In total, there are well over 100 countries today that are either using or have approved the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes. Only much faster because now it’s a computer comparing sets of numbers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2021

This biometric scanner can now be found in use in Amazon Books, Amazon Go convenience stores, Amazon Go Grocery, and Amazon 4-star stores in various US states, including Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Since then, Amazon has rolled out Amazon One to more of its stores in the Seattle area and beyond. How does it work?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

User activity on WeChat has been known to be analyzed, tracked and shared with Chinese authorities upon request as part of the mass surveillance network in China. Search warrant: Provides address book contacts and WhatsApp users who have the target in their address book contacts. Subpoena: Can render basic subscriber records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The tainted applications pose as communication, news, lifestyle, book, and reference apps that are commonly used in the Middle East. The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 9, 2018

And the passenger is associated if payment is by card, or the ride is booked via an app. splits/confuses the difference.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

It should be worth pointing out that on the vast majority of occasions the majority of IM-based encryption protocols are perfectly suited to respond and actually protect against a large portion of modern eavesdropping and surveillance campaigns.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This hurry has led to APT 41 and its sister actors The sense of urgency has also led to errors across geos revealing its modus operandi as well as the measures it is using to breach networks and maintain surveillance. Book a consultation with our ICS security experts now. What the future holds for APT 41? Contact us now!

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

This involves addressing the Cybersecurity Blind-Spot found in existing products, by implementing an offensive, anti-surveillance Cybersecurity capability into a full SEIM and EDR product. If you consider any other major criminal activity such as robbing a Bank, it always requires surveillance and planning first. 4securitas.com ).

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