If you collect a lot of information that would be of particular interest to threat actors, such as personally identifiable information (PII), bank account details etc, make sure you take care of that information. Or the government could set up an age verification site – and all the threat actors …
Privacy enhancement to Samsung phones
Samsung Maintenance Mode – this is a good idea, that has been a long time coming: New Samsung Maintenance Mode protects your data during phone repairs (bleepingcomputer.com) But only for those users who have the right Galaxy devices and living in the right countries! Privacy for some of their valued …
Mercenary Spyware
Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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There was the story of taking burner phones to China for the Olympics – now we have the Qatar World Cup spyware
I found this on Bruce Schneier’s blog: I covered the story of the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the privacy issues raised for those attending, and the advice that burner phones would be a good idea because of China’s internet and privacy policies: Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics – …
