Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google announced that starting from August it will update its policies to reject ads proposed by organizations offering surveillance software. The move aims at fighting the advertising of any form of surveillance. The tech giant announced that the update will be effective starting from August 11, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Mollitiam is also currently marketing a tool that it claims enables “mass surveillance of digital profiles and identities” across social media and the dark web.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The devil is in the details, of course, but he’s 100% right when he writes that the market cannot solve this: that the incentives are all wrong. Regulation is how society aligns market incentives with its own values. Or the surveillance capitalists, for that matter. Good essay — worth reading in full.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Among example targets of its mass-surveillance programme, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: “You talk, we listen.” ” The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised key lawful interception systems.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

Deibert, and John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance systems until we can figure out how to curb human rights abuses. The purchase of surveillance technology by law enforcement in any state must be transparent and subject to public debate.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In a report titled “ How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era ,” the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) spotlighted a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that ensnares the public through modern television sets. Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit broker Zerodium said it would pay up to $2 million for zero-click jailbreaks of Apple's iOS, $1.5 This is a problem.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2025

David Jemmett, CEO & Founder of CISO Global Unlike Western AI systems governed by privacy laws and ethical considerations, DeepSeek operates under a regime notorious for state-sponsored hacking, surveillance, and cyber espionage.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance Wired Covers the use of powerful surveillance technology in predicting who might be a "threat."

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They track what we do on and off their platforms, often combining their own information with enormous data sets purchased through the largely unregulated consumer data market.” Predicting, shaping, and monetizing human behavior through commercial surveillance is extremely profitable.”

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2024

The market will not provide this on its own. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist. AI whose biases are understood, and corrected for. AI whose goals are understood. That won’t secretly betray your trust to someone else. Corporations are profit maximizers, at the expense of society.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Now, the founders of Norse have launched a new company with a somewhat different vision: RedTorch , which for the past two years has marketed a mix of services to high end celebrity clients, including spying and anti-spying tools and services. An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Automobile manufacturers sell their cars worldwide, but they are customized for local markets. Once this kind of sorting is possible, companies will, in all likelihood, return to their profitable surveillance capitalism practices on those who are still fair game. Right now, we have a market failure.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 13, 2023

The global security robots market “was valued at USD 27.32 The post Market for Security Robots Grows, But Data Privacy Concerns Remain appeared first on Security Boulevard. billion in 2021 and is expected to surpass $116.44

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hurd Wayne Hurd , VP of Sales, Luminys Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) advancements will provide more accurate threat detection that allows security teams to focus on real risks, minimizing false alarms. Security teams will need to address the unique risks posed using LLMs in mission critical environments.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. Scraping is an automated way of collecting data from websites or apps.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It also contains vast amounts of personal financial data, making it vulnerable to leaks, fraud, and surveillance concerns. Additionally, a private individual could exploit this access for personal or corporate gain, influencing federal payments or financial markets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Australia’s Defense Department announced that they will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms linked to the government of Beijing. Australia’s Defense Department is going to replace surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, who are linked to the government of Beijing. Mao said. “We

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

At least five members of civil society worldwide have been targeted with spyware and exploits developed by surveillance firm QuaDream. Citizen Lab researchers reported that at least five civil society members were victims of spyware and exploits developed by the Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream. ” concludes Citizen Lab.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

Experts are again warning about the proliferating market for targeted spyware and espionage. Paragon Solutions is an Israeli company which sells high-end surveillance technology primarily to government clients, positioning its products as essential for combating crime and national security.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja Gorelik, sold access to Mitto’s networks to surveillance technology firms. The post Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

The global threat intelligence market size was estimated at $10.9 The market offers many solutions, from free online programs to corporate software. About the essayist: Julia Demyanchuk is the head of marketing at G-71 Inc. Cyber threats continue to gain momentum and there are still not enough ways to counter it.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

recently teamed up and found evidence of an emerging market for stolen and spoofed machine identities. This emerging black market for machine identities is but a mere starting point for cyber criminals who recognize a huge, unguarded exposure when they see one. Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. Such promises on video analysis have flooded the market for years, but their accuracy has always been suspect. It shouldn’t. This is not innovation. It’s experimentation without foresight.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

2710, the Open App Markets Act. It can easily be interpreted to cover any company that offers an end-to-end encrypted alternative, or a service offered in a country whose privacy laws forbid disclosing data in response to US court-ordered surveillance. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act ; and S. Finally, under Sec.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. The consensus used to be that if the data is scrubbed, it can’t be used to identify individuals, and is hence suitable for analysis and marketing.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Apple wants its three-year-old lawsuit against spyware maker NSO to be dismissed, citing the surveillance software maker's declining dominance of the expanding market and fears that its own threat intelligence could be exposed, which would harm its efforts to protect its users.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If Eufy can ignore security researchers and the press without there being any repercussions in the market, others will follow suit. The company’s behavior is so egregious that ReviewGeek is no longer recommending them. This will be interesting to watch. And we will lose public shaming as an incentive to improve security.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more seriously is through the market.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations. government agencies and first responders. 404Media reported recently that the breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Data brokers buy that surveillance data from the smaller companies, and assemble detailed dossiers on us. The market will not provide this on its own. They won’t be our friends.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Due to high demand on the market, we're increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits. — Operation Zero (@opzero_en) September 26, 2023 The Russian company pointed out that the end user for its exploits is a non-NATO country, it also added that decided to increase the payout due to high demand on the market.

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