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Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity

Schneier on Security

It’s also making sure that data is accurate when it’s collected—that it comes from a trustworthy source, that nothing important is missing, and that it doesn’t change as it moves from format to format. The CIA triad has evolved with the Internet. the Internet of today. This is Web 2.0:

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

The app also includes a censorship keyword list, which, while presently inactive, targets a variety of political topics including domestic issues such as Xinjiang and Tibet as well as references to Chinese government agencies. The US government has already advised athletes to leave their personal phones and laptops home and bring burners.

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Differences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country

Schneier on Security

Research paper: “ A Large-scale Investigation into Geodifferences in Mobile Apps “: Abstract : Recent studies on the web ecosystem have been raising alarms on the increasing geodifferences in access to Internet content and services due to Internet censorship and geoblocking.

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Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate

Schneier on Security

In countries like China, a surveillance infrastructure is being built by the government for social control. In countries like the United States, it's being built by corporations in order to influence our buying behavior, and is incidentally used by the government. Ubiquitous mass surveillance is increasingly the norm.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. And industry groups and government regulators are stepping up efforts to incentivize IoT device makers to embed security at the device level.

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