Huawei: The Backdoor Papers

Huawei: The Backdoor Papers

via Jon Brodkin - writing at Ars Technica - and detailing the latest salvo (chatted up in a Wall Street journal piece) in the United States Government versus Huawei Tug of Networks ...
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Corporate Twisting Of Privacy Laws

Quite likely, the single most important Privacy related paper you should examine. Today's Must Grok. Permalink ...
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A quick update on 2019 mobile predictions made in January.

So far this year, the surreptitious capture of audio and visual data via smartphone cameras and microphones has negatively impacted the world’s richest person and a beloved trillion-dollar company. It’s safe to ...
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Behavior Analysis: Getting an Inside Track on Insider Threats

Understanding human behavior can help organizations better identify and root out malicious insiders Whether it’s a former student coming onto a college campus and destroying the school computers with a malicious USB ...
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The Deep Disingenuousness of the Leviathan of Redmond

The Deep Disingenuousness of the Leviathan of Redmond

via Nathaniel Mott, writing at Tom's Hardware comes the truth regarding Microsoft Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) call to 'regulate' Facial Recognition systems ...
The Tracking of America: Why Are You Letting It Happen?

The Tracking of America: Why Are You Letting It Happen?

Why are both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) still permitting clearly ill-conceived user tracking via applications marketed and sold on each company's customer-facing app stores? Surely your privacy ...
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Security: The Rules of Engagement to Mitigate Insider Risk

It’s well-recognized that staff negligence ranks top of most companies’ insider threats to security. But in our experience, many are failing to mitigate the commercial, reputational and regulatory risks posed by staff ...
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Google's New Advanced Persistent Threat: Convenience Services

Google’s New Advanced Persistent Threat: Convenience Services

Examine - if you will - Nitasha Tiku's superlative piece on Google Convenience Services. I am astonished that in light of the Facebook SNAFU's of late, Sundar Pichai has intemperately determined that ...
Social-Engineer Newsletter Vol 08 – Issue 102

Social-Engineer Newsletter Vol 08 – Issue 102

Vol 08 Issue 102 March 2018 In This Issue Corporate Espionage, The Rise of the Cyber-Mafia Social-Engineer News Upcoming classes As a member of the newsletter you have the option to OPT-IN ...
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Uber’s Shady Competitive Intelligence Unit Revealed in Court

In an interesting turn of events, the ongoing case of Waymo v. Uber, which was scheduled to go to trial next week, has come to a screeching halt amid allegations of Uber ...