The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet. Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. The societal aspects of technology, the human side, have grown equally unruly.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2024

By the same token, AppSec technology is advancing apace to help companies meet this challenge. We also had a lively sidebar about the lessons security vendors are learning as they race to integrate GenAI and LLM technology into their respective solutions. AppSec has never been more challenging.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. The technologies aren’t perfect; some of them are pretty primitive. Spying is another matter. But so do humans.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2025

The CIA triad has evolved with the Internet. As Web technologies matured, the focus shifted to protecting the vast amounts of data flowing through online systems. the Internet of today. The ability to restart your computer is another integrity measure. The first iteration of the Web—Web 1.0 This is Web 2.0:

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Together for a Better Internet: Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025 andrew.gertz@t Tue, 02/11/2025 - 14:57 At a time when technology is integral to our lives, Safer Internet Day (SID) has never been more relevant. At a time when technology is integral to our lives, SID has never been more relevant.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

based technology companies. Donahue said 60 technology companies are now routing all law enforcement data requests through Kodex, including an increasing number of financial institutions and cryptocurrency platforms. “That can include control over data, like an account freeze or preservation request.”

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open. press release , letter.)

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2021

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is “Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a privacy-preserving and secure Internet?” Details to come.

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Lohrman on Security

JUNE 9, 2024

Over the past month, the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report and the Watchguard Technologies Internet Security Report were released. Here are some highlights.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These technologies used to be the exclusive purview of organizations like the NSA. This is the legacy of not securing the Internet when we could have. Amnesty International has published a comprehensive analysis of the Predator government spyware products.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. The catastrophe is yet another reminder of how brittle global internet infrastructure is. Compare the internet with ecological systems. Compare the internet with ecological systems.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. Araneida Scanner. According to DomainTools, altugsara321@gmail.com was used in 2020 to register the domain name altugsara[.]com.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 14, 2021

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century , a virtual conference hosted by The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), July 23-25, 2021. I’m speaking (via Internet) at SHIFT Business Festival in Finland, August 25-26, 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

SMS phishing kits are hardly new, but Merrill said Chinese smishing groups recently have introduced innovations in deliverability, by more seamlessly integrating their spam messages with Apple’s iMessage technology, and with RCS , the equivalent “rich text” messaging capability built into Android devices.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But now I have this excellent paper from MIT researchers: “Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting” Sunoo Park, Michael Specter, Neha Narula, and Ronald L. Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To wrap up our 2024 year-end roundtable, we turn our attention to new technologies and trends that are emerging to help bridge the gaps. Tang Tim Tang , Director, Enterprise Solutions, Hughes Network Systems As cyber threats escalate, AI-enabled technologies are enabling enterprises to mount an effective defense.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

There are two sides to this: 1) assessing a technology vendors cryptoagility efforts in your RFPs as a part of determining third-party tech supplier risk, 2) assessing a technology vendors capability to help you in your PQC migration as technology functionality you can use.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 21, 2024

Apple and Google said they will continue collaborating with the Internet Engineering Task Force to further develop this technology and address the issue of unwanted tracking. Several Bluetooth tag companies have committed to making their future products compatible with the new standard.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. ARIN says the 5-year sentence handed down by the South Carolina judge “sends an important message of deterrence to other parties contemplating fraudulent schemes to obtain or transfer Internet resources.”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

From the Washington Post : The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group , which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices including routers and internet-enabled cameras to infiltrate government and industrial targets in the United States, Taiwan, Europe and elsewhere.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

[no description provided] Today, a global coalition led by civil society and technology experts sent a letter asking the government of Australia to abandon plans to introduce legislation that would undermine strong encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Related: Technology and justice systems The U.S. Avaya Holdings , Check Point Software Technologies , and Mimecast Limited each minimized or obscured the extent of security breaches linked to the SolarWinds Orion hack, impacting investor trust and highlighting the critical importance of clear, truthful communication.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2025

Sinha outlined how todays PKI mechanisms, while effective on the open internet, often falter in high-complexity financial environmentssuch as ATM networks, POS systems, and cloud-centric banking operations. This forward-looking approach isn’t simply a technology upgrade. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Mobile VPNs are apps that connect your smartphone to the internet via different computers around the world. Chinese company 360 Security Technology, also known as Qihoo 360, purchased Lemon Seed, according to its 2019 annual report. The company developed several other VPNs in the top 100, including VPN Proxy Master and Thunder VPN.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. AI and intelligent robotics are the culmination of several precursor technologies, like machine learning algorithms, automation, and autonomy.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. This is a significant step forward to realizing Tim’s vision : The technologies we’re releasing today are a component of a much-needed course correction for the web. It’s yours.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 5, 2024

In whaling and later in commercial fishing, new technology made it easier to find and catch marine creatures in ever greater numbers. Each generation of researchers came of age in a new ecological and technological environment, inadvertently masking an exponential decline. In privacy and security, we need to do the same.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2025

Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Chinese firm Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., telecommunication and internet service providers. government systems, including the recent targeting of Treasurys information technology (IT) systems, as well as sensitive U.S. national security.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

I had the chance to sit down with Eyal Benishti , IRONSCALES founder and CEO, to get a breakdown of how their new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) technology utilizes a specialized LLM to reinforce anti-phishing mitigation services. One promising example of the latter comes from messaging security vendor IRONSCALES.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2021

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. An industry group called the Institute for Security and Technology (no, I haven’t heard of it before, either) just released a comprehensive report on combating ransomware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. Free S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 2, 2023

And their results have been immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this technology is going to play out. The large corporations that had controlled these models warn that this free-for-all will lead to potentially dangerous developments, and problematic uses of the open technology have already been documented.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

These technologies are coming. They’re going to be an essential part of the Internet of Things. “Privacy-friendly” is a relative term.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

The Polish space agency POLSA announced it has disconnected its network from the internet following a cyberattack. The Polish space agency POLSA was forced to disconnect its network from the internet in response to a cyberattack. To secure data after the breach, POLSA’s network was immediately disconnected from the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 3, 2025

millionwill go toward creating an EU Cybersecurity Reserve, a rapid-response force to tackle cyberattacks targeting hospitals, energy grids, and undersea internet cables. Tech sovereignty: Reducing dependence on external players A major motivation behind this investment is to reduce Europes reliance on foreign technology.

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