Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. When violations are exposed by the media, as they regularly are, we are all surprised at the different ways Facebook violates user privacy. Increased transparency of Facebook's business practices.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2019

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Pretty horrible story of a US journalist who had his computer and phone searched at the border when returning to the US from Mexico.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, was infected with the surveillance software. Timchenko is co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Meduza, a Russian independent media outlet exiled in Europe. ” reported Citizen Lab.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Lajos Kosa, chair of the Parliament’s Defense and Law Enforcement Committee, confirmed that Hungary is one of the clients of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and that it bought and used the controversial Pegasus spyware. According to Kosa, the use of surveillance software was authorized by a judge or the Minister of Justice.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Strong segmentation with firewalls and DMZs, securing VPN gateways, and ensuring encrypted traffic with TLS v1.3 The Salt Typhoon group targeted surveillance systems used by the US government to investigate crimes and threats to national security, including activities carried out by nation-state actors.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. Ransomware “is encrypting files, unstructured data.” Tons of unstructured data that ransomware is encrypting doesn’t need to be there,” Sander says. Delete data. This task can be automated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2022

Especially, the Pegasus software surveillance revelations have left many in the mobile world baffled. And the highlight in the discovery was a Saudi Prince using the NSO Group built software to spy on Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos and leaking his personal life details as texts and photos to the media. star rating on an average.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

According to German media, law enforcement has infiltrated the anonymizing network and in at least one case they unmasked a criminal. German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. an administrator of the platform.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The watering hole campaign targeted websites of a media outlet and important pro-democracy labor and political group. In late August 2021, TAG discovered watering hole attacks targeting visitors to Hong Kong websites for a media outlet and a prominent pro-democracy labor and political group.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

The core idea is pretty simple,” says Ambuj Kumar, CEO of Fortanix , a supplier of advanced encryption systems. And even if the design of the contract-tracing app stays very, very basic, there are the social media trolls to consider, observes Fortanix’s Kumar. And the data is deleted after 14 days.” “The I’ll keep watch.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. ” Recently media shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance capabilities of the US law enforcement detailing which data can be extracted from encrypted messaging apps.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. Also, encrypting and decrypting data takes time. However, there is a benefit to using a next-gen VPN with modern encryption compared to older VPNs. VPNs are for geeks and power users. Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Elon Musk Wants End-to-End Encryption for Twitter Direct Messages: Too soon or Too Late? Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages,” Musk said in a tweet. E2EE encrypts data between a sender and receiver so that no third party can access it. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Electronic Frontier Federation has a good explainer of the surveillance mechanism behind the world of online ads. The information included theloss of sensitive papers, encrypted devices, and unauthorised access to social media. Euractiv described the ruling as good news for advocates of the right to freedom of information.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Swiss authorities are investigating into allegations the company Crypto AG, a Switzerland-based maker of encryption devices, was a front company for the CIA and German intelligence. The investigation conducted by the media is based on documents from the CIA and Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

What is Encryption? A VPN is a service that hides your IP address and encrypts your data to ensure your online privacy. Today, VPNs are a popular tool used to help stay protected from data theft, surveillance or commercial targeting. The VPN encrypts your data as it travels across the internet. What is Encryption?

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism -- ­as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone­ -- matters. The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This spyware, called Pegasus and developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, is reportedly instrumental to several governments’ oppressive surveillance campaigns against their own citizens and residents. Targeted surveillance is regulated in the national legislation of virtually every EU member state. What is Pegasus?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

Attackers distributed the malware in tainted legitimate applications that are hosted on websites advertised on social media. 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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

All data vanishes when the browser is closed (think Incognito mode), and three levels of security increasingly strip out page aspects such as JavaScript and media which could present problems. Many sites have a.onion version available to make it even harder to perform surveillance on the user. Social media makes the leap (again).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Flaw in Icecast streaming media server allows to take off online Radio Stations. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. High severity XML external entity flaw affects Sauter building automation product.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. The access management software facilitates access to the encrypted partition of the drive. There are also some changes to the victimology.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Be sure to jump off Instagram and WhatsApp, too, which are both owned by the social media giant. For user who wish to prioritize security, Parker suggested ProtonMail, which, by default, provides end-to-end encryption for all emails sent between ProtonMail users. Tired of Facebook ? Over Amazon? And what about Google?

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses. Read: The Great iPWN , from Citizen Lab.

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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. As a result of that team’s efforts, Cloudastructure’s video surveillance platform now includes: People Detection.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 BTC to recover the data. Therefore, we did not issue a certificate.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.” Read messages on any messenger, regardless of whether encryption is used. The risks of stalkerware can go beyond the online sphere and enter the physical world.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was no padlock, which meant that the traffic between you and the website wasn’t encrypted, and so it was vulnerable to being snooped on or changed. Back in the day, many of the websites you’d visit on a daily basis weren’t secure. By secure, I mean that they didn’t use HTTPS.

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