Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2023

In short, the Bill poses an unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety and security of every UK citizen and the people with whom they communicate around the world, while emboldening hostile governments who may seek to draft copy-cat laws.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Stadiums around the world, including at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, are subjecting spectators to invasive biometric surveillance tech.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

An interesting article published by The Intercept reveals the secretive business of a US surveillance firm named Anomaly Six. While Russia was invading Ukraine in February, two unknown surveillance startups, Anomaly Six and Zignal Labs joined forces to provide powerful surveillance services. ” continues the article.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 24, 2021

Will Cathcart disclosed the new details about individuals who were targeted in the attack after revelations this week by the Pegasus project , a collaboration of 17 media organisations which investigated NSO, the Israeli company that sells its powerful surveillance software to government clients around the world. Continue reading.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2023

This is a clever new side-channel attack : The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader­or of an attached peripheral device­during cryptographic operations. So don’t expect this attack to be recovering keys in the real world anytime soon.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2021

States’ increasing use of cyber operations as a tool of national power, including increasing use by militaries around the world, raises the prospect of more destructive and disruptive cyber activity.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At the SecTor 2022 conference in Toronto next month, researchers from Lookout will take a deep dive into Hermit and the shadowy world of mobile surveillance tools used by repressive regimes.

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Threatpost

JULY 16, 2021

Candiru, aka Sourgum, allegedly sells the DevilsTongue surveillance malware to governments around the world.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2022

San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. He said cars in general are troves of personal consumer data, but autonomous vehicles will have even more of that data from capturing the details of the world around them.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

But let’s pause and consider—how often do we truly contemplate safeguarding ourselves from the very forces that fuel our interconnected world? Often overlooked, the SIM card —short for Subscriber Identification Module—acts as the nexus between our identity and technology, illuminating the thin line between connection and surveillance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. Original post at [link].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S.

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Jamf

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This application is often referred to as spyware since it is used as surveillance software by governments and law enforcement around the world. Here's our take on this research, and how Jamf Protect can help strengthen your security profile.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

The trade-offs are changing : As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 29, 2020

If you’ve read Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism , you likely agree that the most important asset for a data-driven advertising platform is consumer engagement. And in the past week, Facebook and Google have certainly been paying attention to a formerly obscure video conferencing company called Zoom.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2020

OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the use of smartphone location data, which can track population-level movement down to enforcing individual quarantines.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The MHRA which is a world class regulator as we know, is already reforming the medical devices regulations to create a world-leading regime in this area.” The post Digital Health in the UK: MHRA Bold New (Regulatory) World? Post-market. Cyber Secure Medical Devices. Innovative Access.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Iran-linked APT group Domestic Kitten, also tracked as APT-C-50, has been conducting widespread surveillance targeting over 1,000 individuals. Both groups have conducted long-running cyber-attacks and intrusive surveillance campaigns, which target both individuals’ mobile devices and personal computers.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Pegasus is probably the most popular surveillance software on the market, it has been developed by the Israeli NSO Group. Many other surveillance firms develop spyware that are every day abused in dragnet surveillance and target journalists, dissidents, and opponents of totalitarian regimes. Anyway, it is not the only one.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. These are weighty issues over which we waged two World Wars last century.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. You’re peering into a forbidden world: strange, confusing, and fascinating all at the same time. It changed—ever so slightly—how I thought about the world. The world is ignorant.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Despite public reckoning over mass surveillance, NSA famously faces the challenge of collecting such extreme quantities of data that, on top of legal and ethical problems, it can be nearly impossible to sift through all of it to find everything of value. The field of data science aims to solve them.

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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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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alex Hern on how Google’s use of personal data has potentially helped create a new age of mass surveillance. From its days as an insurgent startup, it now dominates internet search in most of the world and has branched out into video sharing, operating systems, productivity tools and now self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The world isn’t actually a binary choice between living in a surveillance state and opting out of all technological development since the turn of the millennium. And strictly speaking, they’d be right: many of the worst excesses of the industry are, technically, optional. You can opt out – you just have to know how.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. According to the Citizen Lab’s report, the Kismet hacking tool was sold at least to four organizations that used it against Al Jazeera employees from all over the world.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. According to the NSO CEO, Facebook was interested in improving surveillance capabilities on iOS devices of the Onavo Protect. ” Who will win? . Pierluigi Paganini.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we look ahead to 2024, we have to be clear that our world is experiencing just such a period of conflict. Environmental concerns continue to weigh on communities everywhere in the world – the potential to feel powerless to make change can be overwhelming. So where do we go from here?” asks Nick in his concluding remarks.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Under its Huawei Marine Networks component, it is constructing or improving nearly 100 submarine cables around the world. As I have repeatedly said , we need to decide if we are going to build our future Internet systems for security or surveillance. Last year it completed a cable stretching nearly 4,000 miles from Brazil to Cameroon.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

In late January, as COVID-19 was beginning to spread, the most powerful people on the planet flew to Davos, Switzerland to attend the 50 th annual World Economic Forum. This was at the core of what the world leaders discussed in Davos. AI was prominent on their agenda. I’ll keep watch.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 21, 2020

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#188), sponsored* by LastPass, we take a look at the fast-expanding world of crowdsourced surveillance by doing a deep dive on Flock Safety, a start up that sells inexpensive license plate scanners to homeowners and police departments. Flying in Surveillance’s Gray Zone.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In some cases, insiders with malintent attempt to circumvent internal processes and policies by stealing innovation through a variety of methods, including gathering human intelligence from other employees and contractors, conducting digital and even physical surveillance operations, among other strategies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The Register reports that the secret structures of GCHQ are part of the surveillance programme codenamed “CIRCUIT” and also refers to an Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1), while another centre, OPC-2, has been planned, according to documents leaked by Snowden. In the documents, the company is referred to as a “partner” codenamed Gerontic.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Related: Zhenhua Data leak: personal details of millions around world gathered by China tech company Related: Cybersecurity agency insists it doesn’t want to conduct mass surveillance of Australians Continue reading. He later took a role with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a contractor.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The White Paper indicates that companies facing the post- Schrems II world can approach compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) by preparing an assessment that “defends” their continued reliance on SCCs as a legitimate basis for continuing to transfer data. electronic surveillance. agencies is compelling.

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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. Facial recognition will be used increasingly both for identifying people out in the world as well as for powerful biometric authentication for our own security.

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