CSO Magazine

MAY 10, 2022

Once a device is compromised, an attacker can choose to install surveillance software, or they can choose to enact a much more destructive strategy by encrypting the files and holding them for ransom. They are sophisticated, often used in cyberespionage campaigns, and tend to leave very few traces behind—which makes them dangerous.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Those who do business within the United States will want to keep their eye on the status of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which sets out procedures for physical and electronic surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Colombian National Institute for Drug and Food Surveillance (INVIMA) was also attacked. Mexico’s President Obrador confirmed that its government has suffered what is perhaps a sensitive attack on its intelligence and armed forces. Chilean Armed Forces suffered a similar attack and its judiciary system was also compromised.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

Our findings underscore the extent to which commercial surveillance vendors have proliferated capabilities historically only used by governments with the technical expertise to develop and operationalize exploits." To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

But stealthily surveilling a network is not a tactic exclusive to highly sophisticated threat actors targeting enterprise businesses. The Codecov and SolarWinds are strong, loud proof points to the widespread damage possible if hackers achieve undetected, unfettered access to a company’s systems, networks and partners or customers.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

"This recent activity is another indicator that Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling—now or in the future—targets of interest to the Russian government," Tom Burt, corporate vice president for Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft, (..)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Their report stated that a machine identity expired, which caused the network surveillance to stop working, and this allowed intruders to get in without begin detected to find and exfiltrate 150 million records. At the end of the day the CSO the CIO and the CEO all left the company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

These evils include hacking, identity theft, online surveillance, and cyberstalking. We all know the dangers associated with hacking, identity theft, and internet surveillance, thanks to Facebook and other social networking platforms. You can follow some important precautions mentioned here and stay safe from cyberstalking.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 7, 2023

The UN Cybercrime Treaty , to the extent it gets adopted, is expected to define global norms for lawful surveillance and legal processes available to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals," reports The Register in a special report. To say the cybersecurity community is skeptical would be an understatement.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And lastly, for anyone who had been following Apple’s controversial proposal to install tech on phones that would scan for child abuse imagery, 14 of the world’s leading security experts wrote an analysis saying that client-side scanning (CSS) “neither guarantees efficacious crime prevention nor prevents surveillance”.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Jeff Moss, ICANN CSO and founder of DEF CON/Black Hat, gave the keynote speech at SecTor 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. In the Coming of Age era, 2005-2019, provided "free" long distance and "free" internet access, we're always online, but this gives rise to surveillance capitalism. He added that hackers and researchers want knowledge.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Jason Miller, CSO of Paper Excellence, tackled an interesting topic in "Physical and Digital Cyber Defense: Building Culture and Collaboration." Technical surveillance countermeasures are an important tool in the fight to keep executives safe. It's all about forcing people to think on their feet, Collins said.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

states have enacted strict privacy laws, the United States still lacks a comprehensive federal privacy statute, a vacuum that has fueled what many observers argue is a culture of “surveillance capitalism.” Although a handful of U.S.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Enforcement of the law will likely hinge on increased digital surveillance by authorities to more efficiently identify, arrest, and prosecute pregnant people who contemplate or seek abortions. Expanded criminalization of abortion will become an increasingly attractive target for prosecutors and police," the ACLU says.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The recent kerfuffle surrounding the Chinese surveillance balloon that sailed above Canada and the United States before meeting its demise off the southeastern coast of the United States has tongues wagging and heads scratching in equal measure.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

states to a digital law enforcement surveillance environment , the Biden administration and Congress have kicked into gear to address a spate of privacy and digital protection threats that substantially broaden the scope of privacy and data security protections. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

government surveillance of their data. -EU relations since a previous deal regulating trans-Atlantic data flows – Privacy Shield – was deemed illegal by the EU’s top court in 2020. It ruled that the U.S. did not provide EU citizens effective means to challenge U.S. Framework underscores “shared commitment to privacy”.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These challenges include bias and discrimination embedded in algorithms, privacy violations due to enhanced surveillance capabilities, and the difficulty of assigning accountability for decisions made by AI systems. Ethics The ethical challenges posed by advancing AI technologies will demand urgent attention in 2025.

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