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Big brother electronic eye concept, technologies for the global surveillance, security of computer systems and networks

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Author
Erik J. Larson
Date
December 7, 2023

Categorized
Censorship, Computer Security

Tagged
AI, apple, Big Tech, censorship, Computer security, Data privacy, Facebook privacy violations history, FBI, Google, surveillance capitalism}

This is Digital McCarthyism

_{Far from being liberated by these technologies, we have been plunged back into the worst abuses of surveillance and privacy violation.} _{Erik J. Larson

December 7, 2023

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Censorship, Computer Security}

The notion that we’re getting somewhere, making progress, is remarkably durable. It survives wars, financial collapse, riots, scandals, stagnating wages, and climate change (to name a few). Though techno-futurists are also fond of AI apocalypse scenarios, where artificial intelligence somehow “comes alive,” or at any rate uses its superior intelligence to make an autonomous decision to wipe out humanity, much more ink has been spilled this century prognosticating indomitable technical progress, which somehow stands in for human progress generally. But sanguine belief in progress is belied by the actual events of the twenty-first century. Computers have gotten faster and AI more powerful, but digital technology has also been used to spread misinformation, make deep fakes, and conduct relentless cyberwarfare. Financial Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
November 2, 2023

Categorized
Computer Security

Tagged
China, Computer security, cybersecurity, cyberspace, cybertheft, intelligence agencies, piracy, Stanford, United States}

Spies and Lies: China’s Cyberespionage Is on an Unprecedented Level

_{Chinese cybertheft is an ever-increasing threat.} _{Heather Zeiger

November 2, 2023

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Computer Security}

There’s “normal” nation-state spying, and then there’s the level of spying that China has engaged in for the last two decades. Using cyber espionage, aerial surveillance, and old-fashioned secret agents, the Chinese government not only conducts espionage for national security reasons, as many nations do, but also engages in intellectual property theft, duplicitous and exploitive partnerships, interference in democratic elections, engaging in international media manipulation, and undermining economic competition. Furthermore, China’s government does this through fear tactics particularly among Chinese nationals living abroad, that are contrary to the freedoms and rights guaranteed by the countries where these nationals live. In October, leaders of the spy agencies that make up the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance — the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 12, 2023

Categorized
Computer Security

Tagged
AI, Computer security, Criminal, hacking, IT, Malware, Technology}

Ransomware Attacks on Public Institutions

_{Hackers are always coming up with new approaches, keeping IT staff on their toes} _{News

May 12, 2023

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Computer Security}

by Karl Stephan In what is just the latest of a lengthening series of ransomware attacks, the sheriff’s office of San Bernardino County, California reportedly paid over $1 million in ransom to an Eastern-Europe-based hacking group. About half the money was paid by insurance and the county paid the rest from its risk-management fund. Reporters for the Los Angeles Times were unable to determine exactly who authorized the payments, which enabled the county to restore its email servers, in-car computers, and law enforcement databases. According to the report, the FBI discourages payments to ransomware hackers, but almost half of the state and local governments attacked worldwide pay anyway. A survey conducted by the British security firm Sophos was cited in the report, which said that Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
November 15, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy

Tagged
Computer security, Cyberattack (as effect not cause), Data security (need for rethink), David Kruger, Dimethyl cadmium (example of hazard), Hazard (data security concept), Inherently safer design (ISD), Software (as hack prone), Trevor Kletz}

Physicality Of Data And The Road To Inherently Safer Computing

_{The software industry today is precisely where the chemical industry was in 1978; hazard control is a mere afterthought} _{News

November 15, 2021

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy}

“The Physicality Of Data And The Road To Inherently Safer Computing” was originally published by Forbes, August 24, 2021. David Kruger is Co-Founder and VP of Strategy for Absio Corporation and a co-inventor of Absio’s Software-defined Distributed Key Cryptography (SDKC). Our current concept of cybersecurity is to defend against attacks and remedy failure by erecting more and better defenses. That’s a fundamental mistake in thinking that guarantees failure. Why? Because it’s mathematically impossible for a defensive strategy to fully succeed, as explained in the previous installment of this article series. Another even more fundamental mistake in thinking is that cyberattackers are the cause of our woes. They aren’t. They’re the effect. A hazard is a potential source of harm. Cyberattackers target certain Read More ›

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Author
Russ White
Date
November 18, 2019

Categorized
Data Privacy, Surveillance

Tagged
Cell phone security, Computer security, Internet protocols, Media Access Control (MAC) addresses}

Can Your Tablet Really Tell People Where You Are?

_{Yes, and it'll talk louder with the next gen protocols. But there's a way to shut it up} _{Russ White

November 18, 2019

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Data Privacy, Surveillance}

If someone can see your traffic as it is transmitted across the “first hop” physical network and your devices are using the manufacturer-assigned MAC address, they can discover the unique address assigned to your device.