John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 13, 2013

In keeping with boolean condition logic of the if/then working title for the book, we’ll be tagging these posts as “else.” —– This week we look at challenges in the using quantified self data, developments in the NSA surveillance coverage, and round out with a few throwbacks to the Victorian age of technology.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 16, 2013

Most of us might be willing to agree to such a framework in a presearch world, but the implications of such broad government authority are chilling given the world in which we now live—a world where our every digital track, once lost in the blowing dust of a presearch world, can now be tagged, recorded, and held in the amber of a perpetual index.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. That story prompted a denial from the NSA that Eternal Blue was somehow used in the Baltimore attack. The account also began tagging dozens of reporters and news organizations on Twitter. The tweets included links to images of documents allegedly stolen by the intruders.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2014

In a way, the climate change issue reminds me of the biggest story inside our industry last year: Snowden’s NSA revelations. So this constant existential anxiety grows within me – and if conversations with many others in our industry is any indication, I’m not alone.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

Experts observed a spike in COVID-19 related malspam emails containing GuLoader Silent Night Zeus botnet available for sale in underground forums The Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach Voter information for 2 millions of Indonesians leaked online 25 million Mathway user records available for sale on the dark web Online education site (..)

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The same with social media apps, I have to go through various settings to make sure that I'm not tagged without my permission, or in some cases even block a person now and again. Things like tagging, others, they seem like a great idea at the time but later, maybe not so. And it's not just Microsoft.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Vranken: Yes, some of them are tagged as evidence of Bitcoin databases, basically clones, but also, audits implement an entirely new system. Yeah, someone either defeated these or came close, so their use was deprecated by the United States NSA and others. So maybe you’re familiar with Bitcoin or Ethereum. Remember WEP?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cloud Platform Misconfiguration Cloud misconfigurations, recognized as the most common vulnerability in NSA research, come from the lack of best practice awareness and insufficient peer review in DevOps/infra teams. Fortunately, there are mitigation strategies available to address each risk.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

And there's a sentence in the case of the NSA hoarder. BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:11:19] Former NSA contractor Hal Martin was sentenced to nine years imprisonment on Friday for theft of classified information. Equifax receives its judgment. Pegasus is pricey.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

And there's a sentence in the case of the NSA hoarder. BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:11:19] Former NSA contractor Hal Martin was sentenced to nine years imprisonment on Friday for theft of classified information. Equifax receives its judgment. Pegasus is pricey.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

And there's a sentence in the case of the NSA hoarder. BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:11:19] Former NSA contractor Hal Martin was sentenced to nine years imprisonment on Friday for theft of classified information. Equifax receives its judgment. Pegasus is pricey.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA) and subsequently stolen and leaked by hacker group The Shadow Brokers. The vast array of frameworks, tools, and solutions like zero-trust , SIEM , and IDPS would likely not exist in the forms they do now, with the price tags they do now, without the relevant threat of hackers and malware.

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