Schneier on Security

MARCH 12, 2019

Gamification and algorithmic management of work activities through continuous data collection. In a blog post about this report, Cory Doctorow mentioned "the adoption curve for oppressive technology, which goes, 'refugee, immigrant, prisoner, mental patient, children, welfare recipient, blue collar worker, white collar worker.'"

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Herjavec Group

JANUARY 31, 2022

Information Technology (IT) primarily refers to hardware, software, and communications technologies like networking equipment and modems that are used to store, recover, transmit, manipulate, and protect data. . Operational technology has seen innovations that allowed it to become safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

In my opinion, this approach will help make your SIEM operation more effective and will help you avoid some still-not-dead misconceptions about this technology. Mostly data collection. Data collection sounds conceptually simple, but operationally it is still very difficult for many organizations. SHIFT LEFT?

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2024

General Motors sold this information to several other companies, including to at least two companies for the purpose of generating “Driving Scores” about GM’s customers, the AG alleged.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Seek security policies and technologies that enhance society broadly rather than benefit special interests. Privacy Rights – Pervasive monitoring and data collection erode privacy rights and dignity.

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Data collection Risk Surveillance Manufacturing 217

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Without much fanfare, digital twins have established themselves as key cogs of modern technology. Related: Leveraging the full potential of data lakes. A digital twin is a virtual duplicate of a physical entity or a process — created by extrapolating data collected from live settings. This is very exciting stuff.

Engineering 244

Engineering Data collection Artificial Intelligence Technology 244

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A cached version of the company’s website shows that it promised “access to our massive in-house data collection, as well as one of the largest data supplier networks of any data or lead company.”. The data was exposed due to a misconfiguration of Elasticsearch , an open-source search engine technology.

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Identity Theft Data collection Engineering Passwords 194

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

intelligence agencies like the NSA rely on inadvertent insecurities for their worldwide data collection efforts, and law enforcement agencies like the FBI have even tried to introduce new ones to make their own data collection efforts easier. What's more, U.S.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers. Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.

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Phishing Scams Surveillance Internet 328

The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

Managed security services (MSS) refer to a service model that enable the monitoring and managing of security technologies, systems, or even software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. An MSSP can assist with data collection and report generation to establish compliance during audits or in the aftermath of a possible incident.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

Many of the startups attempting to tackle this vexing problem are offering the promise of data science and machine learning to automate the process of managing identities, although none of them even have the data collected to prove the accuracy and robustness of their proposed solutions.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

MIT Technology Review published an interview with Gil Herrera, the new head of the NSA’s Research Directorate.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s often difficult for small businesses to invest significantly in data privacy compliance or security measures because they don’t have large budgets. In fact, many SMBs have to choose between investing in new technology and making payroll.

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Data privacy Small Business Data collection Cyber Risk 210

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Contact tracing technologies played an essential role in the containment of the pandemic in several countries, including South Korea, Singapore, Israel, and other nations. The privacy risks associated with the adoption of the app are not proportionate with the benefits of its use in the current context due to the above factors.

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Data collection Advertising Government Technology 138

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

With the addition of Kenna Security into our program we now have over 250 technology partners and over 400 integrations for our mutual customers to utilize. An integration with Cigent Technology is now available for Secure Endpoint customers to integrate with. Kenna has a healthy 3rd Party ecosystem of technology partners.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

According to the lawsuit, the company utilized its advertising technologies and other methods to collect details of users’ site visits and activities, even when individuals were using “private” browsing mode. The IT giant is accused of having collected an unaccountable trove of information.

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Data collection Advertising Hacking Technology 144

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Let’s take a look at how advertising has been used in an Amazon gaming title previously, and see how that could create a frosty reception for any new ad technology. It may well be different technology, but it could have easily inspired similar thinking where gaming and game streaming products are concerned. How does this work?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As digital technologies become more immersive and tightly integrated with our daily lives, so too do the corresponding intrusive attacks on user privacy. To test the true extent of data collection in VR, we designed a simple 30-person user study called MetaData. Related: The case for regulating facial recognition.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

DCAP can be seen as an intelligent security instrument that provides off-the-shelf data protection technologies, implementing a new approach to solving an important and necessary task. DCAP systems are especially effective in preventing violations at the stage of establishing persistence, privilege escalation, and data collection.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This isn’t helped by the fact that AI technology means the scope of what’s possible is changing at a rate that’s hard to appreciate even if you’re deeply aware of the space. Privacy is important, and very easily misunderstood. People both overestimate and underestimate what companies are doing, and what’s possible.

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Government Banking Risk Internet 312

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. I had a fascinating discussion about this with Sri Sundaralingam, vice president of cloud and security solutions at ExtraHop , a Seattle-based supplier of NDR technologies. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The automakers argued that their practice was necessary to provide certain features and services, such as hands-free calling and texting, and that customers had consented to the data collection by agreeing to the terms of service when they purchased their vehicles. For the auto manufacturers involved, this is a significant victory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology offer unprecedented opportunities for organizations to reduce the burden on struggling SOC analysts so they can focus on more strategic tasks, their mental health, and their overall well-being. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. It turns out there is a natural opening for this technology: microlegislation. This essay originally appeared in MIT Technology Review.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From now on, the Mark Zuckerberg’s led company faced a lawsuit against its facial recognition related data collection early this year. FB made a step forward by offering a settlement of $650 million to a data advocacy group that filed a legal suit against the use of FacioMetrics technology acquired by FB in 2016.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 7, 2024

The insurance industry is experiencing a significant transformation fuelled by the ubiquity of digital technologies. CIAM platforms facilitate this process by allowing “just-in-time” data collection at various touchpoints along the user journey, enriching customer profiles and enabling personalised services.

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Insurance Data collection Authentication Technology 124

Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In my mind, “Decoupled SIEM” is a way to deliver Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology where the data management (a) and threat analysis (b) are provided by different vendors. So, the topic is so-called “decoupled SIEM” (I probably made up the term, but …hey… at least this is not an acronym like EDR so YMMV).

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Engineering Data collection Threat Detection Technology 245

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The report provides insights into factors influencing user consent for data collection and usage and reasons for consumer disengagement. A Statista survey of US consumers showed that two-thirds (66%) of respondents said they would gain trust in a company if it were transparent about how it uses their personal data.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

International regulations have also played a significant role in the privacy discussion, specifically following enforcement of the GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation) in the European Union (EU). At the forefront of privacy-law related issues are very visible and widely used big technology companies. If the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Influxes of data ingestion and the flat architecture of data lakes have led to difficulties in extracting value from repositories. With this shift, you can take advantage of modern innovations in storage architectures while simultaneously gaining access to specialized detection and response innovations.

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Architecture Threat Detection Engineering Data collection 261

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

Marketing 129

Marketing Data collection Internet Internet 129

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The data collected unearthed a total of 1771 ransomware claims, with 55 recorded incidents in Italy. Throughout this period, the platform diligently tracked 185 criminal groups operating worldwide, meticulously tracing 342 servers employed for ransomware activities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Google announced Privacy Sandbox on Android to limit user data sharing and prevent the use of cross-app identifiers. The company states that the Privacy Sandbox technologies are still in development. Google is also committed tp fighting and reducing covert data collection. ” reads the announcement.

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Advertising Data collection Mobile Technology 111