http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2016-04-20 15:10:38 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : schwit1 quotes a report from Politico In a just-released court opinion, a federal court judge overseeing government surveillance programs said he was extremely concerned about a series of incidents in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency deviated from court-approved limits on their snooping activities Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Thomas Hogan sharply criticized the two agencies over the episodes, referred to by intelligence gatherers as compliance incidents He also raised concerns that the government had taken years to bring the NSA-related issues to the court's attention and he said that delay might have run afoul of the government's duty of candor to the court Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to reveal whether or not they ever forced a company to provide technical surveillance assistance in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604232.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604232.shtml 2016-04-19 19:03:22 - Security Bloggers Network : The government will force companies operating in the UK to declare products and services in advance of their launch to ensure police can still intercept data http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604148.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604148.shtml 2016-04-19 15:43:35 - Global Security Mag Online : Quantum Corp annonce trois nouvelles architectures pour optimiser les environnements de surveillance et de sécurité, et résoudre ainsi les difficultés de stockage présentées par les nouvelles caméras fixes, le développement des systèmes de sécurité existants et la mise en œuvre de cameras mobile pour les forces de sécurité Les architectures de référence apportent les performances de stockage, la capacité et l'accessibilité qui sont les fondations indispensables que les clients et les intégrateurs - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604119.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604119.shtml 2016-04-19 13:35:05 - SecurityTube.Net : This talk will focus on the concepts behind bulk surveillance, why they work so well, how such systems can be built, and some of the major players in the commercial industry For we are now in a world where, if you are lucky, the adversary can be any country your traffic passes through except your own And any traffic in the clear is not just an information leakage, but a potential attack vector For More Information Please Visit - https wwwusenixorg conference enigma2016 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604102.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604102.shtml 2016-04-15 17:18:00 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Lee Fang, reporting for The Intercept, lists more than three-dozen companies that have received funding from CIA In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm, the publication claims, has invested in 38 companies that research on social media mining and surveillance The unpublicized In-Q-Tel companies are Aquifi, Beartooth, CliQr, CloudPassage, Databricks, Dataminr, Docker, Echodyne, Epiq Solutions, Geofeedia, goTenna, Headspin, Interset, Keyssa, Kymeta, Lookout, Mapbox, Mesosphere, Nervana, Orbital Insight, Orion Labs, Parallel Wireless, PATHAR, Pneubotics, PsiKick, Rocket Lab, Skincential Sciences, Soft Robotics, Sonatype, Spaceflight Industries, Threatstream, Timbrio, Transient Electronics, TransVoyant, TRX Systems, Voltaiq, and Zoomdata From the report Bruce Lund, a senior member of In-Q-Tel's technical staff, noted in a 2012 paper that monitoring social media is increasingly essential for government agencies PDF seeking to keep track of erupting political movements, crises, epidemics, and disasters, not to mention general global trends CIA also recently funded Clearista, a skin care product company that collects DNA IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603883.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603883.shtml 2016-04-15 16:33:09 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Lee Fang, reporting for The Intercept, lists more than three-dozen companies that have received funding from CIA In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm, the publication claims, has invested in 38 companies that research on social media mining and surveillance The unpublicized In-Q-Tel companies are Aquifi, Beartooth, CliQr, CloudPassage, Databricks, Dataminr, Docker, Echodyne, Epiq Solutions, Geofeedia, goTenna, Headspin, Interset, Keyssa, Kymeta, Lookout, Mapbox, Mesosphere, Nervana, Orbital Insight, Orion Labs, Parallel Wireless, PATHAR, Pneubotics, PsiKick, Rocket Lab, Skincential Sciences, Soft Robotics, Sonatype, Spaceflight Industries, Threatstream, Timbrio, Transient Electronics, TransVoyant, TRX Systems, Voltaiq, and Zoomdata From the report Bruce Lund, a senior member of In-Q-Tel's technical staff, noted in a 2012 paper that monitoring social media is increasingly essential for government agencies PDF seeking to keep track of erupting political movements, crises, epidemics, and disasters, not to mention general global trends CIA also recently funded Clearista, a skin care product company that collects DNA IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603848.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603848.shtml 2016-04-11 20:37:03 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader shares a report on ZDNet Security researcher Mike Olsen has warned that some products sold through the Amazon marketplace are harboring a dark secret -- malware Olsen said in a blog post that while scouring Amazon for a decent set of outdoor surveillance cameras for a friend, he came across a deal for 6 PoE cameras and recording equipment The seller, Urban Security Group, had generally good reviews and was offering a particular Sony setup on sale After purchasing the kit, Olsen started setting up the surveillance system, logging into the administrator panel to configure it Upon investigation, Olsen found that the device was talking to a server with hostname Brenzpl, which is linked to malware distribution If the device's firmware links to this domain, malware can be downloaded and installed, potentially leading to unlawful surveillance and data theftPerhaps the company which made the device didn't realize its source code was compromised While the aforementioned incident should serve as a reminder to people on why they need to be wary of the product they are purchasing, this isolated occurrence doesn't prove in any way that plenty of cameras on Amazon are also infected, as the article and the original blog post are subtly trying to imply IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603465.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603465.shtml 2016-04-01 13:53:57 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Arthur Dent '99 writes Today, Reddit deleted wording in its transparency report that would normally indicate that they had not received any national security letters or other classified requests for user information Such national security letters contain penalties for telling others about the request, as the government wishes to keep the request secret However, because Reddit had placed pre-existing wording in their transparency report in the event of such a letter, they were able to simply delete the existing wording to passively inform others that a request had been received, without actually saying anything at all This usage of pre-existing wording is known as a warrant canary to indicate danger, such as real canaries were used in the past to indicate the presence of deadly gases in coal mines IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602656.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602656.shtml 2016-03-29 23:17:58 - Security Bloggers Network : Research paper Elizabeth Stoycheff, Under Surveillance Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring Abstract Since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's use of controversial online surveillance programs in 2013, there has been widespread speculation about the potentially deleterious effects of online government monitoring This study explores how perceptions and justification of surveillance practices may create a chilling effect on democratic discourse by stifling the expression of minority political views Using a spiral of silence theoretical framework, knowing one is subject to surveillance and accepting such surveillance as necessary act as moderating agents in the relationship between one's perceived climate of opinion and willingness to voice opinions online Theoretical and normative implications are discussed No surprise, and something I wrote about in Data and Goliath Across the US, states are on the verge of reversing decades-old laws about homosexual relationships and marijuana use If the old laws could have been perfectly enforced through surveillance, society would never have reached the point where the majority of citizens thought those things were okay There has to be a period where they are still illegal yet increasingly tolerated, so that people can look around and say, You know, that wasn't so bad Yes, the process takes decades, but it's a process that can't happen without lawbreaking Frank Zappa said something similar in 1971 Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible The perfect enforcement that comes with ubiquitous government surveillance chills this process We need imperfect security -- systems that free people to try new things, much the way off-the-record brainstorming sessions loosen inhibitions and foster creativity If we don't have that, we can't slowly move from a thing's being illegal and not okay, to illegal and not sure, to illegal and probably okay, and finally to legal This is an important point Freedoms we now take for granted were often at one time viewed as threatening or even criminal by the past power structure Those changes might never have happened if the authorities had been able to achieve social control through surveillance This is one of the main reasons all of us should care about the emerging architecture of surveillance, even if we are not personally chilled by its existence We suffer the effects because people around us will be less likely to proclaim new political or social ideas, or act out of the ordinary If J Edgar Hoover's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr had been successful in silencing him, it would have affected far more people than King and his family Slashdot thread http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602358.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602358.shtml 2016-03-28 23:51:22 - Security Bloggers Network : Here's a 1,300-page Congressional report on surveillance technology from 1976 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602223.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602223.shtml 2016-03-21 18:14:25 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes from a DailyDot's Kernel Mag article Welcome to the Internet of Things, what Schneier calls the World Size Web, already growing around you as we speak, which creates such a complete picture of our lives that Dr Richard Tynan of Privacy International calls them doppelgangers -- mirror images of ourselves built on constantly updated data These doppelgangers live in the cloud, where they can easily be interrogated by intelligence agencies Nicholas Weaver, a security researcher at University of California, Berkeley, points out that Under the FISA Amendments Act 702 aka PRISM , the NSA can directly ask Google for any data collected on a valid foreign intelligence target through Google's Nest service, including a Nest Cam And that's just one, legal way of questioning your digital doppelgangers we've all heard enough stories about hacked cloud storage to be wary of trusting our entire lives to it But with the IoT, the potential goes beyond simple espionage, into outright sabotage Imagine an enemy that can remotely disable the brakes in your car, or even more subtly give you food poisoning by hacking your fridge That's a new kind of power The surveillance, the interference, the manipulation the full life cycle is the ultimate nightmare, says Tynan That makes the IoT vulnerable -- our society vulnerable -- to any criminal with a weekend to spend learning how to hack When we talk about vulnerabilities in computers people are using a lot of rhetoric in the abstract, says Privacy International's Tynan What we really mean is, vulnerable to somebody That somebody you're vulnerable to is the real question The state of security around IoT, the chip or sensor-equipped devices connected to each other over the Internet, is deeply concerning Just in the past few months, we have seen several instances of these devices getting hacked We have also seen things such as Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things that can allow someone to browse vulnerable webcams Many people continue to overlook the significance and potential consequences of their smart devices getting compromised Someone recently asked, So what if my coffee maker gets hacked What are criminals going to do Burn my coffee They can do a lot more than burn your coffee You see these devices are connected to your Wi-Fi network, which gives them the ability to interact with other gadgets connected to the same network When attackers manage to access one of these devices, it's only a matter of time before they own your entire network IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601643.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601643.shtml 2016-03-17 22:34:30 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader quotes a Motherboard article Research suggests that widespread awareness of mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public A paper published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication AEJMC , found that the government's online surveillance programs may threaten the disclosure of minority views and contribute to the reinforcement of majority opinion The NSA's ability to surreptitiously monitor the online activities of US citizens may make online opinion climates especially chilly and can contribute to the silencing of minority views that provide the bedrock of democratic discourse, the researcher found IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601350.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601350.shtml 2016-03-17 11:32:11 - SecurityTube.Net : In this presentation, Joe Cicero, will start by reviewing how US Government agencies have de-anonymized individuals who were using the Internet He will then cover TOR, TOR Portable,the TAILS operating system and onion hidden service sites, that help individuals anonymize themselves on the Internet He will complete his presentation covering known, presumed and theoretical attacks that can be used to de-anonymize you and how you might use true trade craft techniques to stay completely anonymous on the Internet Conspiracy theories aren t all that far fetched now are they Joe Cicero is currently a Network Specialist Instructor for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and a Columnist for various publications He specializes in teaching Linux, Network Security, and Computer Forensics Courses He was originally from Green Bay and in 1985 he joined the Marines His final duty assignment was as the Operations Chief for Tactical Warfare Simulations Evaluations Analysis Systems where he traveled the world conducting officer training through use of computer simulations Joe has had positions covering every aspect of computers including Help Desk Support, Technician, Programmer, Network Administrator, Director of Technology, Computer Security and Incident Response Team Member, Defense Forensic Examiner and of course Instructor He is most passionate about teaching and enjoys having the time to tinker with all types of technology Joe has spoken nationally at Defcon, HOPE, Thotcon and the UAT conferences In 2009 Joe was the recipient of the Information Technology Outstanding Service Award for the state of Wisconsin In 2013 Joe advised the NWTC team which went on to win the Wisconsin Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition CCDC For More Information Please Visit - http cypherconcom http wwwirongeekcom iphp page videos cyphercon2016 mainlist http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601294.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601294.shtml 2016-03-14 10:37:14 - Help Net Security : A security vulnerability in the ReadyNAS Surveillance Application can be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain root access to Netgear NAS systems, Sysdream Labs researcher Nicolas Chatelain has found ReadyNAS Surveillance is network video recording NVR software that installs directly to a ReadyNAS storage device and allows companies to set up a surveillance network with different types of IP cameras Because the ReadyNAS Surveillance cgi_system cgi application doesn t check the user-provided bfile POST parameter More http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600958.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600958.shtml 2016-03-08 14:35:35 - Global Security Mag Online : Paessler AG annonce que sa solution phare PRTG a désormais un capteur dédié à Docker Avec ce nouveau capteur, la société allemande souhaite ancrer son expertise dans la surveillance de réseau et la virtualisation Docker est la technologie dont tout le monde parle en ce moment et qui vient bousculer les modèles, jusqu'ici fermé des grands clouds et de virtualisation Depuis sa première apparition en 2013, Docker est devenu une technologie incontournable qui a tellement pris de l'importance que même - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600465.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600465.shtml 2016-03-02 21:37:29 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Lawmakers in South Korea's National Assembly have broken the global collective filibuster record in its determination to defeat a new anti-terrorism bill which they believe threatens personal privacy for the country's citizens 38 liberal members of the National Assembly spoke for a total of 193 hours in a collective effort which began on February 23rd and ended today, with the passing of the bill by 160 parliament members, with one 'no' and apparent abstention from the filibusters IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599944.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599944.shtml 2016-02-29 18:37:12 - Global Security Mag Online : Dévoilée au Mobile World Congress de Barcelone en 2015, et présentée dans sa version finale cette année, elle s'intègre dans une plateforme complète forfait de données, caméra et application mobiles, mais aussi espace sécurisé de stockage sur le Cloud Panasonic Cameramanager, fournisseur majeur de vidéosurveillance en tant que service VSaaS en Europe, annonce que Nubo, la première caméra de surveillance 4G au monde qui permet aux utilisateurs de surveiller leur habitation et leurs biens sans - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599686.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599686.shtml 2016-02-26 19:47:17 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Tensions are rising between Tor Project administrators and CloudFlare, a CDN and DDoS mitigation service that's apparently making the life of Tor users a living hell Tor administrators are saying that CloudFlare is making Tor users enter CAPTCHAs multiple times, tracking their Web sessions, and sharing data with other companies Additionally, a study by some UK and US researchers found that are 13 million websites blocking access to Tor users, 367pourcents being Alexa Top 1000 sites IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599512.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599512.shtml 2016-02-19 14:27:42 - Security Bloggers Network : Researchers were clogging the email address with frame-by-frame stills from Button Moon until they realized how bad the DVR was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598796.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598796.shtml 2016-02-18 16:27:06 - Security Bloggers Network : The root password is 6 digits, it's the same for everyone, it's hard-wired, so you can't change itand it's a video security system http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598678.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598678.shtml 2016-02-15 08:22:45 - SecurityTube.Net : by Vasilios Hioureas A talk at Kaspersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit TheSAS2015 For More Information Please Visit - http sas2015inriafr http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598287.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598287.shtml 2016-02-12 14:30:53 - LinuxSecurity.com Latest News : LinuxSecuritycom The government's web snooping plans have come in for yet more criticism, this time for lacking clarity around its stance on encryption and plans to record everyone's web surfing history for a year http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598144.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598144.shtml 2016-02-09 15:04:37 - Global Security Mag Online : Le gouvernement tente, dans un embouteillage législatif confus, de faire prolonger par tous les moyens possibles la suspension de l'État de droit que connaît la France depuis le 13 novembre 2015 Prolongation, extension, constitutionnalisation de l'état d'urgence, loi de réforme pénale et de lutte contre le terrorisme, un arsenal législatif confus et dangereux va être voté dans les jours qui viennent au Sénat et à l'Assemblée nationale La Quadrature du Net met en garde les parlementaires contre - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597752.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597752.shtml 2016-02-05 13:22:24 - SecurityTube.Net : Starting with the backstory of privacy and how the US and Canada came to legislate freedom from surveillance as an enshrined right, this talk will veer into the technology and economics of personal data collection with some examples of developments over the years that have altered our view of private life Focus will then turn squarely on government surveillance practice in detail how it is authorized, targeted, reported and reviewed under our legal framework In the end, we will talk about the basic democratic principles that motivate the checks and controls upon surveillance transparency, accountability, efficacy, proportionality, anonymity, etc For More Information Please Visit - https wwwnsecio http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597477.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597477.shtml 2016-02-04 23:25:18 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : SonicSpike writes Marco Rubio wants Congress to permanently extend the authorities governing several of the National Security Agency's controversial spying programs, including its mass surveillance of domestic phone records The Florida Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful penned an op-ed on Tuesday condemning President Obama's counterterrorism policies and warning that the US has not learned the fundamental lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001 Rubio called on Congress to permanently reauthorize core provisions of the post-9 11 USA Patriot Act, which are due to sunset on June 1 of this year and provide the intelligence community with much of its surveillance power This year, a new Republican majority in both houses of Congress will have to extend current authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and I urge my colleagues to consider a permanent extension of the counterterrorism tools our intelligence community relies on to keep the American people safe, Rubio wrote in a Fox News op-ed IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597421.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597421.shtml 2016-02-03 15:28:05 - Security Bloggers Network : Both the going dark metaphor of FBI Director James Comey and the contrasting golden age of surveillance metaphor of privacy law professor Peter Swire focus on the value of data to law enforcement As framed in the media, encryption debates are abou http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597258.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597258.shtml 2016-02-01 14:37:52 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader links to Wired's description of a surveillance society in miniature assembling right now in San Francisco Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way A hundred million people will watch the game on TV Over the next ten days, 1 million people are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for the festivities And, according to the FBI, 60 federal, state, and local agencies are working together to coordinate surveillance and security at what is the biggest national security event of the year Previous year's Superbowl security measures have included WMD sensors, database-backed facial recognition, and gamma-ray vehicle scanners Given the fears and cautions in the air about this year's contest, it's easy to guess that the scanning and sensing will be even more prevalent this time IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597034.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/597034.shtml 2016-01-31 00:28:25 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : New submitter Lacey Waymire writes The ACLU of Northern California is suing for a release of public records regarding Anaheim police's use of cell phone surveillance devices We don't think any surveillance devices, particularly these sorts of invasive cell phone surveillance devices, should ever be acquired or used without intense public debate and the adoption of safeguards to ensure they are only used in ways that follow our Constitution and laws, attorney Matt Cagle said See this Boing Boing posting with a bit more on the happiest surveillance state on earth IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596965.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596965.shtml 2016-01-24 15:37:41 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes with this story from Beta News One of the greatest problems facing anyone trying to tackle the problem of privacy on the web is dealing with the ideologies of different countries, and how this affects data sharing A level of surveillance that is deemed acceptable in the US, for instance, may be considered completely objectionable in another The latest suggestion to help overcome this seemingly insurmountable problem is to set up a privacy ombudsman that would be able to handle European complaints and queries about US surveillance IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596358.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596358.shtml 2016-01-22 04:47:17 - SecurityTube.Net : How have the media reported the Snowden revelations Does the public care about surveillance, and how do people react Do we need a data justice movement For More Information Please Visit - https eventscccde category congress 32c3 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596185.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596185.shtml 2016-01-21 06:31:49 - Risky Business : Tagline We're back Media URL http mediariskybiz RB395mp3Content HeadersContent Length 52635348 Content Type audio mpeg In this week's feature interview Facebook CISO Alex Stamos joins us to discuss a few things We'll be talking about moves by both browser developers and some CAs to deprecate SHA1 signed certificates He says we need to support SHA-1 for now and he explains why soon We're also chatting with him about the Juniper fiasco We also get his thoughts on NSA surveillance now he's responsible for the security of user information at the world's biggest social media platform read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596090.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596090.shtml 2016-01-20 17:52:27 - Risk Assessment Ars Technica : Prof warns backdoor in UK-promoted spec can be accessed using master private key http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596062.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596062.shtml 2016-01-20 16:08:16 - Global Security Mag Online : Paessler AG annonce le lancement d'une nouvelle fonctionnalité pour son logiciel PRTG Network Monitor Elle permettra aux utilisateurs de surveiller de bout en bout le statut des processus de l'entreprise, grâce à l'association de plusieurs capteurs fournissant des informations sur la disponibilité et les performances des activités critiques PRTG Network Monitor embarque plus de 200 types de capteurs prêts à l'emploi pour superviser l'ensemble des éléments d'un réseau, des routeurs aux commutateurs - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596051.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596051.shtml 2016-01-20 14:45:48 - Global Security Mag Online : NextiraOne, entreprise de services du numérique, annonce la mise en place d'une gouvernance en conseil de surveillance et directoire Le conseil de surveillance, présidé par Walter Butler, assurera un rôle d'orientation et de contrôle du directoire Le directoire, composé de Jean-Maurice Fritsch qui rejoint NextiraOne au poste de Président du Directoire et de Philippe Hedde, Directeur Général, a pour mission de poursuivre la stratégie de redressement et de développement de NextiraOne Au sein de cette - Business http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596043.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596043.shtml 2016-01-20 06:32:51 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Kekke sends this report from El Reg The European Court of Human Rights ECHR has ruled that mass surveillance is illegal, in a little-noticed case in Hungary In a judgment last week, the court ruled that the Hungarian government had violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights the right to privacy due to its failure to include sufficiently precise, effective and comprehensive measures that would limit surveillance to only people it suspected of crimes Under a section of the 2011 National Security Act, a minister of the government is able to approve a police request to search people's houses, mail, phones and laptops if they are seeking to protect national security The court said the Hungarian government should be required to interpret the law in a narrow fashion and verify whether sufficient reasons for intercepting a specific individual's communications exist in each case Or in other words, every individual case must be looked at carefully and a decision made on each Which is clearly impossible if the law is taken to carry out mass surveillance, ie, hoovering up information over the internet and then searching in it IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596018.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596018.shtml 2016-01-19 23:22:57 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Trailrunner7 writes The UK government's standard for encrypted voice communications, which already is in use in intelligence and other sectors and could be mandated for use in critical infrastructure applications, is set up to enable easy key escrow, according to new research The standard is known as Secure Chorus, which implements an encryption protocol called MIKEY-SAKKE The protocol was designed by GCHQ, the UK's signals intelligence agency, the equivalent in many ways to the National Security Agency in the United States MIKEY-SAKKE is designed for voice and video encryption specifically, and is an extension of the MIKEY Multimedia Internet Keying protocol, which supports the use of EDH Ephemeral Diffie Hellman for key exchange MIKEY supports EDH but MIKEY-SAKKE works in a way much closer to email encryption The initiator of a call generates key material, uses SAKKE to encrypt it to the other communication partner responder , and sends this message to the responder during the set-up of the call However, SAKKE does not require that the initiator discover the responder's public key because it uses identity-based encryption IBE , Dr Steven Murdoch of University College London's Department of Computer Science, wrote in a new analysis of the security of the Secure Chorus standard By design there is always a third party who generates and distributes the private keys for all users This third party therefore always has the ability to decrypt conversations which are encrypted using these private keys, Murdoch said by email He added that the design of Secure Chorus is not an accident IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596006.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596006.shtml 2016-01-12 17:25:24 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : v3rgEz writes Last summer, Seattleites noticed that utility polls around town were showing some odd growths A raft of surveillance cameras that, under Seattle's strict surveillance equipment laws, shouldn't have been there without disclosure and monitoring But Seattle Police said that they weren't theirs, and one enterprising citizen followed up with a series of public records requests, only to discover that they were actually the ATF's cameras on the watch for grease dumpers Now the requester is fighting for the full list of federal surveillance watching over Seattle, and answers to how often federal agencies pursue what appear to be purely local crimes IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595467.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595467.shtml 2016-01-11 18:14:20 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Patrick O'Neill writes The debate over surveillance hit the 2016 race for the White House again on Sunday when Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said he wants to add to American surveillance programs, many of which were created after 9 11 He invoked a recent shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a man who allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State This the kind of threat we now face in this country, Rubio said We need additional tools for intelligence Rubio also addressed the NSA leaks that led to this debate Edward Snowden is a traitor He took our intelligence information and gave it to the Chinese and gave it to the Russians We cannot afford to have a commander-in-chief who thinks people like Edward Snowden are doing a good public service IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595369.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595369.shtml 2016-01-06 11:39:03 - Web Application Security Blog Acunetix : Juniper backdoor mystery, NSA are at least partly to blame Last week, tech company Juniper Networks who sell corporate networking solutions, disclosed that they had discovered two unauthorised encryption backdoors in their firewalls Encryption backdoors will immediately grab attention as one of the surveillance methods the NSA had at one point suggested as allowing them Read More The post In the headlines Juniper backdoor, BBC hack, Steam attack, UK surveillance bill, and more appeared first on Acunetix http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594946.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594946.shtml 2016-01-02 01:04:19 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes A new poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research gathered opinions on the US government's surveillance of internet communications The poll found that a majority of Americans, 56pourcents, were in favor of warrantless surveillance 28pourcents explicitly opposed it 67pourcents of Republicans and 55pourcents of Democrats supported the warrantless surveillance, while only 40pourcents of Independents supported it Americans under 30 supported warrantless surveillance much less than older Americans Further, The poll finds that for most Americans, safety concerns trump civil liberties at least some of the time More than half 54 percent say it's sometimes necessary for the government to sacrifice freedoms to fight terrorism, while 45 percent think that's not necessary On a more general level, 42 percent say it's more important for the government to ensure Americans' safety than to protect citizens' rights, while 27 percent think rights are more important and 31 percent rate both equally IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594656.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594656.shtml 2015-12-31 14:46:03 - Security Bloggers Network : The tech giant will now tell you if your account has been targeted or compromised by government authorities http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594593.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594593.shtml 2015-12-30 13:52:45 - Office of Inadequate Security : I ll admit I sometimes ignore data dumps or hacks if they don t fit my particular interests in reporting on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594488.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594488.shtml 2015-12-22 17:44:18 - Security Bloggers Network : Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have also formally opposed the bill, a report says http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593968.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593968.shtml 2015-12-21 21:13:59 - Security Bloggers Network : This interesting article by medieval historian Amanda Power traces our culture's relationship with the concept of mass surveillance from the medieval characterization of the Christian god and how piety was policed by the church What is all this but a fundamental trust in the experience of being watched One must wonder about the subtle, unspoken fear of the consequences of refusing to participate in systems of surveillance, or even to critique them seriously This would be to risk isolation Those who have exposed the extent of surveillance are fugitives and exiles from our paradise They have played the role of the cursed serpent of Eden the purveyor of illicit knowledge who broke the harmony between watcher and watched The rest of us contemplate the prospect of dissent with careful unease, feeling that our individual and collective security depends on compliance Eight centuries ago, in November 1215, Pope Innocent III presided over a Great Council of the Church in Rome known as the Fourth Lateran Council It was attended by high-ranking members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the monastic world, together with representatives of emperors, kings, and other secular leaders from throughout Christendom Their decisions were promulgated through seventy-one constitutions They began with a statement of what all Christians were required to believe, including specifics on the nature of Godby this time eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable -- and the view that salvation could be found only through the Roman Catholic Church Anyone who disagreed, according to the third constitution, was to be handed over to secular lords for punishment, stripped of their property, and cast out of society until they proved their orthodoxy, or else be executed if they did not Anyone in authority would be punished if they did not seek out and expel such people from their lands their subjects would be released from obedience and their territories handed over to true Catholics There was nothing empty about this threat the council occurred in the middle of the bitter Albigensian Crusade, during which heresy -- likened to a cancer in the body of Christendom -- was purportedly being cut out of Languedoc by the swords of the pious The Fourth Lateran Council was talking about crimes of thought, of dissent over matters of belief, matters not susceptible of proof But whether individuals were heretics could not, in theory, be established without investigating the contents of their minds To this end, the council decreed that bishops' representatives should inquire in every parish at least once a year to discover if anyone knows of heretics there or of any persons who hold secret conventicles or who differ in their life and habits from the normal way of living of the faithful These representatives were to follow these external indications of nonconformity into the recesses of the mind and establish their meaning in each case Over the decades the role of the inquisitor was developed into an art and a science, and elaborate handbooks were produced But in 1215 it was stated merely that individuals should be punished if unable to clear themselves of the charge What is all this but a fundamental trust in the experience of being watched Our trust is so strong that it seems to have found its own protective rationality, deeply rooted in Western consciousness It's an addict's rationality, by which we're unable to refrain from making public a stream of intimate details of our lives and those of children too young to consent One must wonder about the subtle, unspoken fear of the consequences of refusing to participate in systems of surveillance, or even to critique them seriously This would be to risk isolation It would be a trifle paranoid to reveal less -- a little eccentric, not quite rational http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593864.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593864.shtml 2015-12-21 13:17:28 - Security Bloggers Network : She claims the camera was tucked between candles on a shelf and might have captured naked photos, given that she sleeps in the buff http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593812.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593812.shtml 2015-12-19 16:13:56 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Early on Friday, the US Senate approved the 2,000 page 'omnibus' budget bill that allocated 115 trillion in government funding Later in the day, President Obama signed it into law Because the budget bill was so important, many other pieces of unrelated legislation were tacked onto it, including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill notable for giving the government increased internet surveillance powers Civil rights activists and tech experts largely consider it a privacy disaster, and several lawmakers voted against the budget bill solely for CISA's inclusion Senator Ron Wyden D-OR said, Unfortunately, this misguided cyber legislation does little to protect Americans' security, and a great deal more to threaten our privacy than the flawed Senate version Americans demand real solutions that will protect them from foreign hackers, not knee-jerk responses that allow companies to fork over huge amounts of their customers' private data with only cursory review Corporations in the US will now have legal immunity when sharing consumers' private data about hacks and digital breaches The full omnibus is available online PDF The CISA provisions start on page 1,728 IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593713.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593713.shtml 2015-12-17 20:20:02 - Security Bloggers Network : The Intercept has a secret, internal US government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies Lot of detailed information about Stingrays and similar equipment http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593531.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593531.shtml 2015-12-16 20:28:16 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes that the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act CISA was inserted into the omnibus budget deal passed by the House of Representatives late last night Engadget reports Last night's budget bill wasn't all about avoiding a government shutdown Packed inside the 2,000-page bill announced by Speaker Paul Ryan R-WI is the full text of the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act CISA of 2015 If you'll recall, the measure passed the Senate back in October, leaving it up to the House to approve the bill that encourages businesses to share details of security breaches and cyber attacks Despite being labeled as cybersecurity legislation, critics of CISA argue that it's a surveillance bill that would allow companies to share user info with the US government and other businesses As TechDirt points out, this version of the bill stripped important protections that would've prevented directly sharing details with the NSA and required any personally identifying details to be removed before being shared It also removes restrictions on how the government can use the data IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593404.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593404.shtml 2015-12-16 18:11:17 - Security Bloggers Network : IoT devices like cars and kids' toys could become avenues for surveillance under the UK draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a technology industry expert told Members of Parliament http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593395.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593395.shtml 2015-12-11 15:34:23 - Risk Assessment Ars Technica : Two designers create a toolkit for tech-savvy protesters http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592895.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592895.shtml 2015-12-02 02:44:42 - Secure Thoughts : It doesn t matter where you live, or what time in history you happen to have lived Whenever something bad happens to your country, your government will react overreact in a way that is ultimately counterproductive Here s an example in 1798, less than ten years after the US constitution The post The World s Governments Cannot End Terror Attacks with Mass Surveillance appeared first on Secure Thoughts http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591778.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591778.shtml 2015-11-28 01:32:26 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes The White House announced today that the NSA will be shutting down the program responsible for the bulk collection of phone records by the end of tomorrow The program will be immediately replace with a new, scaled back version as enumerated by the USA Freedom Act Under the Freedom Act, the NSA and law enforcement agencies can no longer collect telephone calling records in bulk in an effort to sniff out suspicious activity Such records, known as metadata, reveal which numbers Americans are calling and what time they place those calls, but not the content of the conversations Instead analysts must now get a court order to ask telecommunications companies to enable monitoring of call records of specific people or groups for up to six months IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591434.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591434.shtml 2015-11-26 15:51:04 - Global Security Mag Online : Tyco Fire Integrated Solutions TF IS vient de lancer la dernière version de son logiciel de gestion vidéo unifiée victor 46, sous la marque American Dynamics, qui fait partie de la division Security Products de Tyco Le logiciel offre aux clients une solution de surveillance simple et intuitive, dotée de fonctions d'analyse vidéo approfondie et de surveillance entièrement automatisée Cette solution permet aux utilisateurs d'identifier rapidement les menaces sécuritaires et - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591326.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591326.shtml 2015-11-24 18:26:37 - Global Security Mag Online : Depuis 2003, la société telier bis, spécialisée dans l'installation d'infrastructures réseaux, équipe les PME en système de vidéosurveillance Forte de son expérience, telier Bis a été contactée par les sociétés Locaboxes et les sablières Malet pour aménager leurs sites avec des caméras fiables Pour répondre à la demande de ses clients, le choix d' telier bis s'est porté sur D-Link, pour la qualité de son accompagnement en région mais aussi pour la flexibilité et l'efficacité de ses offres, adaptées aux - Marchés http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591094.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591094.shtml 2015-11-23 22:00:13 - Security Bloggers Network : There hasn't been that much written about surveillance and big data being used to manipulate voters In Data and Goliath, I wrote Unique harms can arise from the use of surveillance data in politics Election politics is very much a type of marketing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590970.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590970.shtml 2015-11-23 20:52:06 - DEF CON Announcements : Christopher Soghoian at DEF CON 22 image In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, spokespeople for various intelligence concerns have renewed their call for weakened crypto standards and backdoors for mobile communications products These calls are likely to grow louder in the US with a looming presidential election dominating the news media Safety matters a lot to people, and in times of crisis many are willing to trade away vast tracts of liberty for anything that looks like protection For a little reminder of what's at stake, we offer Chris Soghoian's DEF CON 22 talk 'Blinding the Surveillance State' and some links to interesting articles about the current debate After Endless Demonization of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS - from Techdirt There Is No Good Argument for Encryption Backdooors - from Slate Let's Have an Argument About Encryption - from Gizmodo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590965.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590965.shtml 2015-11-23 12:52:17 - Global Security Mag Online : Les tueries perpétrées à Paris et Saint-Denis dans la soirée du 13 novembre représentent un choc immense Après le chagrin et le deuil, chacun d'entre nous tente de faire sens de l'incroyable violence de cet événement et de ce qu'il nous rappelle sur l'état du monde Cependant, face à cette situation, les postures étroitement belliqueuses et autoritaires adoptées par le gouvernement et la quasi-totalité de la classe politique nous apparaissent comme profondément inadéquates Ne nous y trompons pas ni la - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590875.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590875.shtml 2015-11-12 16:30:16 - Security Bloggers Network : A former NSA official said the agency has more resources for surveillance than the average user can ever hope to defend against http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589907.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589907.shtml 2015-11-12 11:02:47 - Global Security Mag Online : BalaBit, fournisseur européen de technologies de sécurité contextuelle et Omada, l'un des plus principaux fournisseurs de solutions de gestion des identités et des accès IAM et de conformité, annoncent leur alliance technologique Cette collaboration a pour vocation d'accompagner les entreprises confrontées à une pression croissante en matière de sécurité et de conformité pour répondre aux exigences réglementaires En rapprochant leurs solutions, Omada et BalaBit apportent aux entreprises une solution - Business http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589856.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589856.shtml 2015-11-08 01:16:18 - Hackaday : Air quality is becoming a major issue these days, and not just for cities like Beijing and Los Angeles It s important for health, our environment, and our economy no matter where we live To that end, Radu has been working on air quality monitors that will be widely deployed in order to give a high-resolution air quality picture, and he s starting in his home city of Timisoara, Romania Radu built a similar device to measure background radiation a 2014 Hackaday Prize Semifinalist , and another to measure air quality in several ways a 2015 Hackaday Prize Finalist and a Best Product read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589404.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589404.shtml 2015-11-03 17:46:58 - Global Security Mag Online : Dans une recherche récente, Imperva révèle que les caméras de vidéosurveillance présentes dans les lieux fréquentés tels que les centres commerciaux sont transformées en botnets par les cybercriminels, la faute au laxisme des opérateurs de caméra qui ne prennent pas la peine de développer leur sécurité et de changer les mots de passe par défaut sur les appareils Les caméras de vidéosurveillance sont les objets connectés les plus répandus En mars 2014, Imperva alertait déjà le monde sur les dangers - Malwares http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588936.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588936.shtml 2015-11-02 11:14:05 - Global Security Mag Online : SpotCam, la startup de surveillance de domicile dans le Cloud, annonce la fonction Time Lapse pour ses caméras de surveillance Wi-Fi La nouvelle fonctionnalité de lecture accélérée combinée avec les 24 heures d'enregistrement dans le Cloud, permet aux utilisateurs de visionner aisément la vidéo d'une journée toute entière en quelques secondes Time Lapse Avec les 24 heures de vidéo stockée gratuitement dans le Cloud, les utilisateurs de caméras sans fil SpotCam peuvent désormais visionner en quelques - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588714.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588714.shtml 2015-11-02 02:59:05 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : New submitter hughankers writes with this slice of a press release from the European Parliament Too little has been done to safeguard citizens' fundamental rights following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday They urge the EU Commission to ensure that all data transfers to the US are subject to an effective level of protection and ask EU member states to grant protection to Edward Snowden, as a human rights defender Parliament also raises concerns about surveillance laws in several EU countries This resolution, approved by 342 votes to 274, with 29 abstentions, takes stock of the lack of action taken by the European Commission, other EU institutions and member states on the recommendations set out by Parliament in its resolution of 12 March 2014 on the electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens, drawn up in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588663.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588663.shtml 2015-10-29 15:33:30 - Global Security Mag Online : Les socialistes français ont encore une fois trahi les libertés pour renforcer la surveillance Le rapport de Claude Moraes 1 , voté aujourd'hui au Parlement européen et condamnant la surveillance de masse, a été caviardé sous la pression interne des eurodéputés socialistes français, qui ont réussi à faire rejeter toute demande d'enquête de la commission européenne sur les lois de surveillance française 3 s'inquiète de certaines lois qui, adoptées récemment dans certains États membres, étendent les - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588423.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588423.shtml 2015-10-29 12:15:14 - Global Security Mag Online : Seagate Technology plc annoncé lors du salon China Public Security Expo CPSE 2015 à Shenzhen en Chine, le lancement du premier disque dur 8 To pour les systèmes de surveillance, le plus gros disque de ce type destiné aux applications de surveillance Conçu pour les intégrateurs de systèmes de surveillance, les utilisateurs finaux et les installateurs système, le disque Seagate Surveillance HDD offre la plus grande capacité du marché et a été spécialement développé pour le stockage en matière de - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588379.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588379.shtml 2015-10-28 18:25:05 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : Over 100 license plate reader cameras were found online, exposed and unsecured http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588302.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588302.shtml 2015-10-28 09:03:16 - Global Security Mag Online : Le Sénat français a voté ce soir la proposition de loi sur la surveillance internationale 1 , légalisant la surveillance de masse au-delà des frontières de la France, qui porte également sur de très nombreux Français La Quadrature du Net salue la constance française en matière d'atteintes graves aux droits de l'Homme À défaut d'écouter les défenseurs des droits de l'Homme, la France va bien se mettre à écouter le monde entier grâce au courageux vote des sénateurs 2 , qui viennent de rejoindre leurs - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588205.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588205.shtml 2015-10-27 17:27:38 - Security Bloggers Network : In Data and Goliath, I talk about the need for transparency, oversight, and accountability as the mechanism to allow surveillance when it is necessary, while preserving our security against excessive surveillance and surveillance abuse James Losey ha http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588153.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588153.shtml 2015-10-27 16:08:20 - Help Net Security : The surveillance of communications faces a legitimization crisis, says James Losey, a fellow with the Open Technology Institute, the technology program of the New America Foundation, and currently a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588132.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588132.shtml 2015-10-21 18:06:28 - Global Security Mag Online : Le 29 septembre dernier, à l'occasion de la soirée de remise des Trophées de la Sécurité 2015, Axis Communications, leader du marché de la vidéo sur IP, a reçu le Trophée d'argent dans la catégorie solutions globales de sécurité pour les bâtiments et les sites C'est la solution de sécurisation utilisant vidéosurveillance, détection sonore et marquage ADN, conçue en partenariat avec Selecta DNA, Sound Intelligence et Blue Secur, qui a été distinguée par les professionnels du secteur Une solution adaptée - Business http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587534.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587534.shtml 2015-10-19 23:00:38 - Security Bloggers Network : Theresa May did confirm that members of devolved parliaments and the European Parliament are not subject to wiretap protections http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587280.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587280.shtml 2015-10-19 17:29:10 - Security Bloggers Network : This is some great research done by CitizenLaborg on the FinFisher surveillance spyware Check it out here Great job, guys http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587246.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587246.shtml 2015-10-19 16:59:33 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Researchers from BYU recently took a survey of internet users PDF , mostly from the US, to determine how they balanced opinions of security and privacy They found, perhaps surprisingly, that over 90pourcents of users are fine with somebody snooping their encrypted traffic, so long as they were informed of the snooping Most of them also supported legislation requiring notification and or consent Most respondents also agreed that employers should be able to monitor the encrypted Internet connections of employees even without notification or consent, especially when an employee used a company computer There was less agreement when it came to employees using personal devices approximately a third of respondents opposed surveillance in that case That said, Despite accepting surveillance in a number of situations, 60 percent of respondents said that they would react negatively if they discovered that a network they currently use employed TLS proxies The study also found 45pourcents of participants were jaded toward the state of privacy and security on the internet, feeling that their traffic is already monitored, and that the government would circumvent whatever technologies we put in place to protect it The researchers say this group once cared about these issues but has lost all hope and has largely given up on ever achieving a secure world IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587245.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587245.shtml 2015-10-14 06:28:13 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : PolygamousRanchKid sends this report from the Washington Post A federal court said Tuesday that a civil rights lawsuit accusing police in New York City of improperly singling out Muslims for surveillance could proceed, reversing a lower court's decision last year to dismiss the case In its opinion PDF , a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit rejected the city's call to have the case dismissed and brushed aside any suggestion that media reports about the surveillance, rather than the surveillance itself, caused any harm The lawsuit claims that surveillance of Muslim people in New Jersey discriminated against them due to their religion It was filed by Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group, and later joined by the Center for Constitutional Rights, another legal organization, on behalf of several New Jersey Muslims who say they were unconstitutionally monitored by the New York Police Department Last year, the NYPD disbanded the unit involved in the surveillance activities, a move that Mayor Bill de Blasio D praised in a statement at the time as a critical step forward in easing tensions between the police and the communities they serve IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586642.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586642.shtml 2015-10-12 16:35:47 - Global Security Mag Online : La nouvelle génération SMART SOLUTION 20 est lancée par HIKVISION SMART SOLUTION 20, plus performante, est dotée de nouvelles fonctions qui diversifient les usages et augmentent la productivité commerciale Enrichies des dernières fonctionnalités de la gamme SMART, les caméras IP, NVR, les logiciels de gestion vidéo et les applications spécialement dédiées à ces produits répondent parfaitement aux besoins individuels des marchés verticaux, notamment ceux de la distribution, de la banque, de - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586445.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586445.shtml 2015-10-09 13:03:11 - SecurityTube.Net : This talk focuses on building your own robust surveillance system using items you either already own or may purchase inexpensively The information presented demonstrates how to build full featured security systems on a shoestring budget Topics covered include video and audio surveillance, configuring motion detection alarms, monitoring defined hot zones, remote notification and alerting, recording archival, and more Matt Scheurer is an experienced Systems Administrator having worked in IT for various companies over the past 16 years Always seeking to accomplish more with less, Matt is skilled at cobbling together freely available resources and custom scripting to deliver specialized solutions when needs arise and opportunities present themselves Matt maintains active memberships in a number of technology organizations including the Association for Computing Machinery ACM , Cincinnati Network Professionals Association CiNPA and affiliated Security SIG, and is a regular attendee at monthly Ohio Information Security Forum OISF meetings For More Information Please Visit - http wwwderbyconcom http wwwirongeekcom iphp page videos derbycon5 mainlist http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586194.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586194.shtml 2015-10-09 11:37:47 - Global Security Mag Online : Axis Communications enrichit sa série modulaire AXIS F avec la commercialisation du boîtier principal AXIS F34 En l'associant à ses produits existants, l'entreprise propose désormais le système de surveillance AXIS F34, un ensemble matériel et logiciel complet permettant de mettre en place en toute simplicité un système de surveillance HDTV très discret couvrant 4 zones intérieures proches Système de surveillance AXIS F34 Le système de surveillance AXIS F34 comprend un boîtier principal AXIS F34 à - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586187.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586187.shtml 2015-10-06 14:00:03 - Global Security Mag Online : La protection des infrastructures critiques contre le vol, les effractions et les activités hostiles représente un véritable challenge De plus en plus d'entreprises ont recours à la surveillance sur IP pour protéger leurs installations et maintenir la continuité de leurs activités en toute sécurité Toutefois, lorsqu'il s'agit de choisir la technologie la plus appropriée, certains facteurs clés sont à prendre en compte, chaque installation ayant ses propres spécificités Ainsi, le réseau vidéo offre - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585790.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585790.shtml 2015-10-06 14:00:03 - Global Security Mag Online : Par une décision rendue publique ce matin 1 , la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne CJUE , plus haute juridiction de l'Union, a invalidé le Safe Harbor Cet accord, permettant le transfert de données personnelles entre l'Europe et les États-Unis, en application depuis 2000 dans différentes versions, autorisait le traitement par les entreprises américaines des données des citoyens européens, avec des garanties encore plus faibles que celles existantes en Europe L'autrichien Max Schrems a attaqué - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585789.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585789.shtml 2015-10-05 13:38:48 - Security Bloggers Network : ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9 11, but they'll soon be obsolete You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically A security camera will capture your face, and it'll be matched with your name and a whole lot of other information besides Welcome to the world of automatic facial recognition Those who have access to databases of identified photos will have the power to identify us Yes, it'll enable some amazing personalized services but it'll also enable whole new levels of surveillance The underlying technologies are being developed today, and there are currently no rules limiting their use Walk into a store, and the salesclerks will know your name The store's cameras and computers will have figured out your identity, and looked you up in both their store database and a commercial marketing database they've subscribed to They'll know your name, salary, interests, what sort of sales pitches you're most vulnerable to, and how profitable a customer you are Maybe they'll have read a profile based on your tweets and know what sort of mood you're in Maybe they'll know your political affiliation or sexual identity, both predictable by your social media activity And they're going to engage with you accordingly, perhaps by making sure you're well taken care of or possibly by trying to make you so uncomfortable that you'll leave Walk by a policeman, and she will know your name, address, criminal record, and with whom you routinely are seen The potential for discrimination is enormous, especially in low-income communities where people are routinely harassed for things like unpaid parking tickets and other minor violations And in a country where people are arrested for their political views, the use of this technology quickly turns into a nightmare scenario The critical technology here is computer face recognition Traditionally it has been pretty poor, but it's slowly improving A computer is now as good as a person Already Google's algorithms can accurately match child and adult photos of the same person, and Facebook has an algorithm that works by recognizing hair style, body shape, and body language - and works even when it can't see faces And while we humans are pretty much as good at this as we're ever going to get, computers will continue to improve Over the next years, they'll continue to get more accurate, making better matches using even worse photos Matching photos with names also requires a database of identified photos, and we have plenty of those too Driver's license databases are a gold mine all shot face forward, in good focus and even light, with accurate identity information attached to each photo The enormous photo collections of social media and photo archiving sites are another They contain photos of us from all sorts of angles and in all sorts of lighting conditions, and we helpfully do the identifying step for the companies by tagging ourselves and our friends Maybe this data will appear on handheld screens Maybe it'll be automatically displayed on computer-enhanced glasses Imagine salesclerks - or politicians - being able to scan a room and instantly see wealthy customers highlighted in green, or policemen seeing people with criminal records highlighted in red Science fiction writers have been exploring this future in both books and movies for decades Ads followed people from billboard to billboard in the movie Minority Report In John Scalzi's recent novel Lock In, characters scan each other like the salesclerks I described above This is no longer fiction High-tech billboards can target ads based on the gender of who's standing in front of them In 2011, researchers at Carnegie Mellon pointed a camera at a public area on campus and were able to match live video footage with a public database of tagged photos in real time Already government and commercial authorities have set up facial recognition systems to identify and monitor people at sporting events, music festivals, and even churches The Dubai police are working on integrating facial recognition into Google Glass, and more US local police forces are using the technology Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other companies with large databases of tagged photos know how valuable their archives are They see all kinds of services powered by their technologies services they can sell to businesses like the stores you walk into and the governments you might interact with Other companies will spring up whose business models depend on capturing our images in public and selling them to whoever has use for them If you think this is farfetched, consider a related technology that's already far down that path license-plate capture Today in the US there's a massive but invisible industry that records the movements of cars around the country Cameras mounted on cars and tow trucks capture license places along with date time location information, and companies use that data to find cars that are scheduled for repossession One company, Vigilant Solutions, claims to collect 70 million scans in the US every month The companies that engage in this business routinely share that data with the police, giving the police a steady stream of surveillance information on innocent people that they could not legally collect on their own And the companies are already looking for other profit streams, selling that surveillance data to anyone else who thinks they have a need for it This could easily happen with face recognition Finding bail jumpers could even be the initial driving force, just as finding cars to repossess was for license plate capture Already the FBI has a database of 52 million faces, and describes its integration of facial recognition software with that database as fully operational In 2014, FBI Director James Comey told Congress that the database would not include photos of ordinary citizens, although the FBI's own documents indicate otherwise And just last month, we learned that the FBI is looking to buy a system that will collect facial images of anyone an officer stops on the street In 2013, Facebook had a quarter of a trillion user photos in its database There's currently a class-action lawsuit in Illinois alleging that the company has over a billion face templates of people, collected without their knowledge or consent Last year, the US Department of Commerce tried to prevail upon industry representatives and privacy organizations to write a voluntary code of conduct for companies using facial recognition technologies After 16 months of negotiations, all of the consumer-focused privacy organizations pulled out of the process because industry representatives were unable to agree on any limitations on something as basic as nonconsensual facial recognition When we talk about surveillance, we tend to concentrate on the problems of data collection CCTV cameras, tagged photos, purchasing habits, our writings on sites like Facebook and Twitter We think much less about data analysis But effective and pervasive surveillance is just as much about analysis It's sustained by a combination of cheap and ubiquitous cameras, tagged photo databases, commercial databases of our actions that reveal our habits and personalities, and - most of all - fast and accurate face recognition software Don't expect to have access to this technology for yourself anytime soon This is not facial recognition for all It's just for those who can either demand or pay for access to the required technologies - most importantly, the tagged photo databases And while we can easily imagine how this might be misused in a totalitarian country, there are dangers in free societies as well Without meaningful regulation, we're moving into a world where governments and corporations will be able to identify people both in real time and backwards in time, remotely and in secret, without consent or recourse Despite protests from industry, we need to regulate this budding industry We need limitations on how our images can be collected without our knowledge or consent, and on how they can be used The technologies aren't going away, and we can't uninvent these capabilities But we can ensure that they're used ethically and responsibly, and not just as a mechanism to increase police and corporate power over us This essay previously appeared on Forbescom EDITED TO ADD Two articles that say much the same thing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585679.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585679.shtml 2015-10-02 16:41:41 - Global Security Mag Online : Sans surprise, l'Assemblée nationale a voté hier la surveillance internationale de masse sans apporter de modification majeure au texte Un seul député, Sergio Coronado, est venu défendre les libertés fondamentales dans un hémicycle presque vide Le même jour, le Gouvernement adoptait un décret relatif à la composition de la Commission nationale de contrôle des techniques de renseignement 1 Cette loi instaurant la surveillance de masse en France entrera en vigueur demain, le 3 octobre 2015, - Malwares http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585500.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585500.shtml 2015-10-01 20:04:57 - Global Security Mag Online : Eaton annonce le lancement d'un système convivial de surveillance de l'éclairage de secours, qui vise à supprimer les coûts et les délais associés aux contrôles manuels dans les bâtiments commerciaux Une centrale CGLine peut surveiller jusqu'à 800 luminaires L'interconnexion des centrales par internet autorise la surveillance avancée et le test automatique d'un maximum de 25 000 blocs autonomes à partir d'un point de contrôle unique L'interface en système ouvert vers les systèmes de gestion technique - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585419.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585419.shtml 2015-09-30 19:21:56 - Global Security Mag Online : La commission de la défense a rejeté massivement tous les amendements proposés par Laure de La Raudière, Lionel Tardy et Sergio Coronado avec le groupe EELV et ne conserve que des amendements de forme 1 Patricia Adam, présidente de la Commission de la Défense et rapporteure de la loi ne cherche même plus à cacher sa volonté d'étouffer tout débat sur le régime de surveillance internationale et l'énorme atteinte aux droits et libertés qu'il institue L'examen ce matin en commission de la défense - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585242.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585242.shtml 2015-09-30 18:43:26 - Global Security Mag Online : L'examen de la proposition de loi relative aux mesures de surveillance des communications électroniques internationales débutera à bas bruit le 1eroctobre 2015 On lui prédit déjà un avenir radieux, fait d'examens éclair et débats expédiés Après la censure du Conseil constitutionnel, qui avait amputé le système généralisé de renseignement de sa branche internationale, ce texte prétend combler le vide et introduire un progrès décisif l'encadrement des activités du renseignement extérieur - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585232.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585232.shtml 2015-09-30 09:58:28 - Global Security Mag Online : Lettre ouverte signée par des associations citoyennes du monde entier contre la proposition de loi française relative à la surveillance internationale Les organisations de défense des droits civiques signataires de la présente lettre appellent les parlementaires français à rejeter la proposition de loi relative aux mesures de surveillance des communications électroniques internationales Cette proposition met en péril le droit à la vie privée des individus à travers le monde Avec cette - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585147.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585147.shtml 2015-09-29 15:10:14 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Patrick O'Neill writes The FBI and DEA were among the agencies fed information from a NSA surveillance program described as staggering by one judge who helped strike the program down Now the two agencies are under review by the Justice Department for the use of parallel construction as well as looking into the specifics and results of cases originating from NSA tips Here's some more on the practice of parallel construction in this context IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585044.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585044.shtml 2015-09-28 08:37:35 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes in a video appearance Edward Snowden said Domestic digital spying on ordinary citizens is an international threat that will only be slowed with measures like a proposed international treaty declaring privacy a basic human right This is not a problem exclusive to the United States This is a global problem that affects all of us What's happening here happens in France, it happens in the UK, it happens in every country, every place, to every person, he said IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584831.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584831.shtml 2015-09-23 13:21:40 - Security Bloggers Network : Lobbying pressure from an alliance of big internet companies and civil liberties groups - and the resistance of one steadfast US senator - forced the Senate Intelligence Committee to withdraw proposed legislation requiring social media companies to rep http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584416.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584416.shtml 2015-09-21 17:21:25 - Global Security Mag Online : La proposition de loi sur la surveillance internationale a été adoptée sans amendement et quasiment sans discussion le 16 septembre par la Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées de l'Assemblée nationale Avant l'examen du texte en séance plénière le 1er octobre, La Quadrature du Net veut mettre en garde les députés contre un texte qui, loin d'être une simple formalité législative, engage la France dans une logique délétère de course à la surveillance mondiale Madame la députée, - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584178.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584178.shtml 2015-09-16 17:08:41 - Global Security Mag Online : Après que le gouvernement a annoncé hier que la proposition de loi sur la surveillance internationale 1 serait discutée en procédure accélérée, celle-ci a été adoptée ce matin en commission défense à l'Assemblée nationale en seulement vingt minutes et presque sans débat Alors qu'une association d'avocats et juristes franco-américains viennent de saisir 2 la Commission nationale de contrôle des interceptions de sécurité CNCIS à propos du décret secret de 2008 3 , le gouvernement s'inquiéterait-il de - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583722.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583722.shtml 2015-09-15 11:45:19 - Global Security Mag Online : Après la censure par le Conseil constitutionnel des mesures concernant la surveillance internationale dans la loi sur le renseignement, le gouvernement revient à la charge avec une proposition de loi qui sera examinée dès la fin du mois de septembre à l'Assemblée nationale La Quadrature du Net rejette avec vigueur les dispositions inacceptables contenues dans cette proposition de loi, qui instaurent une véritable course à la guerre du renseignement contre nos partenaires européens et - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583517.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583517.shtml 2015-09-14 13:54:59 - Security Bloggers Network : Thanks to two researchers, we have a window into what those cameras think as they capture our images and movements http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583411.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583411.shtml 2015-09-14 05:36:17 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : simpz writes Which country is best to choose for hosting Internet services and locating VMs to avoid government surveillance both NSA and local It should be a country with good connectivity to the US and Europe, but have strong legal protections from mass surveillance People talk about Switzerland, Norway and Iceland even Spain Anyone worked through the pros and cons of each of these I'm not concerned about legitimate with court order surveillance, just the un-targeted mass surveillance most governments seem to do I don't believe this bad behavior should be rewarded or made easy IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583376.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583376.shtml 2015-09-09 11:35:23 - Global Security Mag Online : March Networks , fournisseur international de solutions intelligentes de vidéo IP utilisées par plus de 450 clients du secteur financier dans le monde, présente sa caméra MegaPX pour distributeurs automatiques, la toute première caméra IP cachée, entièrement indépendante et offrant des images de qualité HDR Conçue spécifiquement pour les distributeurs automatiques, facile à installer, cette nouvelle caméra enregistre des vidéos très détaillées dans toutes les conditions d'éclairage Conforme à la norme - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582801.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582801.shtml 2015-09-08 13:43:57 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Fusion has an op-ed where Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington, argues Google, Apple, and Microsoft pushing back against government surveillance may be our only real hope for privacy He writes Both Google and Yahoo have announced that they are working on end-to-end encryption in email Facebook established its service on a Tor hidden services site, so that users can access the social network without being monitored by those with access to network traffic Outside of product design, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft have sent their formidable legal teams to court to block or narrow requests for user information Encryption tools have traditionally been unwieldy and difficult to use massive companies turning their attention to better and simpler design, and use by default, could be a game changer Privacy will no longer be accessible only to tech-savvy users, and it will mean that those who do use encryption will no longer stick out like sore thumbs, their rare use of hard-to-use tools making them a target IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582678.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582678.shtml 2015-09-04 13:44:12 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Earthquake Retrofit writes The NPR website has an interesting story that the Justice Department says it will beef up legal requirements for using cell-site simulators It includes a rare picture of the device and refers to them as dirt boxes From the story Under the new policy, federal investigators will be required to get a warrant from a judge demonstrating probable cause, in most domestic criminal probes Agents will need to explain to judges how the technology is being used And they'll be directed to destroy volumes of bystanders' data 'no less than once daily' 'This policy is really designed to try to promote transparency, consistency and accountability, all while being mindful of the public's privacy interest,' said Deputy US Attorney General Sally Yates IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582435.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582435.shtml 2015-09-03 14:15:59 - Global Security Mag Online : L'association FDN, la Fédération FDN et La Quadrature du Net ont annoncé ce jour avoir déposé deux recours devant le Conseil d'État contre les activités de surveillance d'Internet de la Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure DGSE Alors que le gouvernement vient d'annoncer l'adoption d'une nouvelle loi sur la surveillance internationale, ces recours rappellent la nécessité que soient encadrées strictement a priori ces mesures de surveillance Lundi soir, avec l'aide du cabinet Spinosi-Sureau, La - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582318.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582318.shtml 2015-09-01 08:51:54 - Global Security Mag Online : WD , filiale de Western Digital, et Milestone Systems annoncent un partenariat pour offrir des solutions de vidéosurveillance aux entreprises et aux particuliers Dès le mois de septembre, le logiciel de surveillance Milestone Arcus sera disponible sur les systèmes NAS My Cloud Business Series 1 de WD, équipés du système d'exploitation My Cloud OS 3 Il devrait également l'être à l'avenir sur les autres systèmes My Cloud, notamment My Cloud Expert Series Milestone Arcus est une plate-forme de - Business http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581988.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581988.shtml 2015-08-31 07:12:28 - SecurityTube.Net : Mainstreet Policing Meets Military-Grade Surveillance In the United States, people increasingly understand that local police departments often possess high-tech military grade weapons and equipment designed for the battlefield But what people don t realize is that the same police departments often also possess very sophisticated surveillance technology that can be used to monitor, track and record the population as we all go about our everyday activities The talk will explore the kinds of surveillance technologies now in the possession of ordinary police departments far from any crime or terrorism hotspots In the United States, particularly after protests in Ferguson in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown, people increasingly understand that local police departments often possess high-tech military grade weapons and equipment designed for the battlefield But what people don t realize is that the same police departments often also possess very sophisticated surveillance technology that can be used to monitor, track and record the population as we all go about our everyday activities From stingrays to aerial surveillance to license plate readers and cell phone tracking, police now possess the ability to track people that the intelligence services could only have dreamed of decades ago The talk will explore the kinds of surveillance technologies now in the possession of ordinary police departments far from any crime or terrorism hotspots It will focus particularly on technologies of mass surveillance--ones that, like license plate readers, allow law enforcement agencies to monitor and record the movements or other activities of large numbers of people It will discuss the origins of these technologies, and what is known about their use Although the talk will focus on the US, similar technologies are present throughout Europe and audience members will be invited to talk about what's going on in their own communities For More Information Please Visit - https wwwcccde http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581893.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581893.shtml 2015-08-28 16:27:00 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader sends news that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, was so impressed with the NSA's surveillance software that they were willing to share all data relevant to the NSA's mission in order to get it The data in question is regularly part of the approved surveillance measures carried out by the BfV In contrast, for example, to the Bundesnachrichtendienst BND , Germany s foreign intelligence agency, the BfV does not use a dragnet to collect huge volumes of data from the Internet Rather, it is only allowed to monitor individual suspects in Germany -- and only after a special parliamentary commission has granted approval Targeted surveillance measures are primarily intended to turn up the content of specific conversations, in the form of emails, telephone exchanges or faxes But along the way, essentially as a side effect, the BfV also collects mass quantities of so-called metadata Whether the collection of this data is consistent with the restrictions outlined in Germany's surveillance laws is a question that divides legal experts IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581747.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581747.shtml 2015-08-28 13:56:32 - SecurityTube.Net : Resisting Surveillance it's is not just about the metadata The infiltration and physical surveillance of social movements This talk is given by three activists who were all targeted by UK police spy Mark Kennedy and who have direct personal experience of that and other physical surveillance It will look at experiences of infiltration of social justice movements by the state and private contractors and some of our responses Over the past 5 years there has been an avalanche of revelations about the use of undercover agents against political movements infiltrators that spend decades living and working with us, forming the most intimate relationships and accessing every single part of our lives Infiltrators have been uncovered within political mobilisations in the UK, Germany, the USA, New Zealand, Spain etc, showing us that understanding offline security is just as vital as making our hardware and software secure No matter how many layers of encryption we use, if our closest companions are infiltrators, sharing our homes, our lives, and our computers, there is nowhere to hide This talk is given by three activists who were all targeted by UK police spy Mark Kennedy and who have direct personal experience of that and other physical surveillance It will look at experiences of infiltration of social justice movements by the state and private contractors, some of our responses, and how that might relate to digital privacy struggles and resistance to other parts of the surveillance state In an increasingly murky world of mass surveillance, cross-border cooperation, and political policing in the war on Terror , these flesh-and-blood undercover agents may be working for the state police or secret services, or come from the increasingly large market of private surveillance contractors A report on policing published in 2014 in the UK estimated that in that country alone there are currently 1,229 of undercover police officers operating both on and offline If you believe that mass surveillance is wrong but targeted surveillance is necessary if you believe you will not be targeted because you are not a dissident or you just make tools for dissidents if you have ever thought you are too ineffectual to be of interest to the political police, then this talk is for you This happened to us because we did not imagine the lengths they would go to, and we are speaking out because if people know this is happening they are forewarned and forearmed against it BIOS of the speakers 'Lily' has been active in social and environmental justice movements since the mid-1990s and is one of 8 women suing the London Metropolitan Police following the discovery that her partner of two years was in fact a police spy, one of several undercover officers sent to infiltrate groups she was active in After starting to speak out, at 31c3, about her experiences of years of undercover abuses, human rights violations, and institutionalised police sexism, she began, again, to receive police harassment, and in March 2015, at the CTF in Valencia, found a police GPS GSM tracking device underneath her car For More Information Please Visit - https wwwcccde http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581708.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581708.shtml 2015-08-27 21:08:49 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : v3rgEz writes There's a lot of lessons that the federal government should have learned in the aftermath of Katrina Increased domestic surveillance, however, appears to be the one the FBI took to heart, using the natural disaster as a justification for ramping up its use of Stingray cell phone tracking throughout Louisiana after the storm, according to documents released under FOIA to MuckRock IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581652.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581652.shtml 2015-08-25 11:44:43 - Global Security Mag Online : Cette année Cette année, XMCO présentera l'évolution de son service de Cyber-Surveillance, un service managé en mode SaaS de surveillance et de détection des cyber-menaces Pour Frédéric Charpentier, Directeur Technique, XMCO ce service est un véritable radar pour les RSSI Global Security Mag Qu'allez-vous présenter à l'occasion des Assises de la Sécurité Frédéric Charpentier Cette année, XMCO présentera l'évolution de son service de Cyber-Surveillance Il s'agit d'un service managé en mode SaaS - Interviews affiche, ASSISES 2015 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581282.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581282.shtml 2015-08-25 08:19:06 - SecurityTube.Net : Peter Clemenko III Good OPSEC is not enough, sometimes you're already being watched Sometimes good OPSEC goes wrong and backfires This talk will discuss how good OPSEC can backfire, show some history of real-world psychological operations, and how to social engineer and troll your way to being less conspicuous of a target, or at least give those watching you a show and bad intelligence While you can't hide everything, you can shape the way you are viewed by those who are watching you For More Information Please Visit - http bsideslvcom http wwwirongeekcom iphp page videos bsideslasvegas2015 mainlist http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581245.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581245.shtml 2015-08-21 15:22:25 - Security Bloggers Network : Interesting Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world It's worse than you might have thought Researchers speaking to Australia's 60 Minutes have d http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580956.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580956.shtml 2015-08-21 02:29:11 - New RFCs : 61KB DOI http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580899.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580899.shtml 2015-08-04 18:09:40 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : v3rgEz writes Police departments are increasingly tracking your face, your fingerprints, your tattoos and even your DNA The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock are working to uncover how local agencies are tracking you and bring some much-needed transparency to the murky world of biometric surveillance through a free public records audit Just put in some basic information about an agency near you, and they'll publicly file a request to see what vendors your city is using, how they protect your privacy, and more IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579320.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579320.shtml 2015-08-04 14:23:13 - Global Security Mag Online : Pentair annonce l'acquisition de Pigeon Point Systems, un fabricant d'équipements de gestion, centré sur les plateformes ouvertes modulaires telles que MicroTCA, AdvancedTCA, CompactPCI et VPX En associant les produits Pigeon Point Systems à sa gamme de produits Schroff, Pentair sera capable d'élargir son offre, de renforcer sa présence sur la scène mondiale et d'approfondir son expertise technique, afin de répondre aux besoins toujours plus grands de ses clients dans le domaine de l'informatique - Business http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579276.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579276.shtml 2015-07-29 18:06:49 - Global Security Mag Online : Le Conseil constitutionnel a rendu, jeudi 23 juillet 1 , une décision historique par son mépris des libertés individuelles, du respect de la vie privée et de la liberté d'expression Les sages ont choisi de faire l'économie d'une analyse réelle de la proportionnalité des lois de surveillance et démontré ainsi leur volonté de ne pas enrayer le jeu politique, pour finalement endosser le rôle de chambre d'enregistrement Communiqué commun de l'Observatoire des Libertés et du Numérique OLN 2 - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578768.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578768.shtml 2015-07-29 13:53:12 - Security Bloggers Network : Phone companies take over the records on 29 November, but NSA's tech staff will have another three months solely to ensure data integrity http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578710.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578710.shtml 2015-07-20 13:52:34 - Help Net Security : On Friday, the UK High Court has declared Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act DRIPA unlawful DRIPA is an emergency legislation signed into law in July 2014, and its main goal was to allo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577660.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577660.shtml 2015-07-15 18:16:52 - Global Security Mag Online : La Quadrature du Net dénonce avec force la tentative d'intimidation dont est l'objet le site allemand Netzpolitik, mise en accusation pour trahison 1 par la justice allemande pour avoir diffusé des documents révélant l'extension de la surveillance de l'Internet par les services secrets allemands La Quadrature apporte son soutien et son appui aux activistes allemands, qui défendent les libertés fondamentales et subissent pour cette raison la pression des autorités Le site de défense des droits - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577202.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577202.shtml 2015-07-11 10:30:14 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Mark Wilson writes A court recently revealed via email that the UK government had been spying on Amnesty International GCHQ had put Amnesty under surveillance despite this having previously been denied and now the human rights organization wants answers In a letter to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Amnesty International asks for an explanation for the surveillance The Investigatory Powers Tribunal's IPT email made it clear that GCHQ had been intercepting, accessing and storing communications, something that Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty believes 'makes it vividly clear that mass surveillance has gone too far' IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576768.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576768.shtml 2015-07-07 09:37:25 - Help Net Security : Nahuel Riva, a research engineer from Core Security, discovered vulnerabilities in AirLive s surveillance cameras designed for professional surveillance and security applications He was able to invok http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576328.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576328.shtml 2015-07-01 04:38:16 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes We all celebrated back in May when a federal court ruled the NSA's phone surveillance illegal, and again at the beginning of June, when the Patriot Act expired, ending authorization for that surveillance Unfortunately, the NY Times now reports on a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which concluded that the NSA may temporarily resume bulk collection of metadata about US citizens's phone calls From the article In a 26-page opinion PDF made public on Tuesday, Judge Michael W Mosman of the surveillance court rejected the challenge by FreedomWorks, which was represented by a former Virginia attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican And Judge Mosman said that the Second Circuit was wrong, too 'Second Circuit rulings are not binding' on the surveillance court, he wrote, 'and this court respectfully disagrees with that court's analysis, especially in view of the intervening enactment of the USA Freedom Act' When the Second Circuit issued its ruling that the program was illegal, it did not issue any injunction ordering the program halted, saying that it would be prudent to see what Congress did as Section 215 neared its June 1 expiration IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575927.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575927.shtml 2015-06-25 09:08:19 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes French President Francois Hollande held an emergency meeting with top security officials to respond to WikiLeaks documents that say the NSA eavesdropped on French presidents The documents published in Liberation and investigative website Mediapart include material that appeared to capture current president, François Hollande the prime minister in 2012, Jean-Marc Ayrault and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, talking candidly about Greece's economy and relations with Germany The Intercept reports Yet also today, the lower house of France's legislature, the National Assembly, passed a sweeping surveillance law The law provides a new framework for the country's intelligence agencies to expand their surveillance activities Opponents of the law were quick to mock the government for vigorously protesting being surveilled by one of the country's closest allies while passing a law that gives its own intelligence services vast powers with what its opponents regard as little oversight But for those who support the new law, the new revelations of NSA spying showed the urgent need to update the tools available to France's spies IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575366.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575366.shtml 2015-06-24 23:37:30 - Global Security Mag Online : Triste jour pour les libertés Les députés viennent d'adopter définitivement la loi renseignement En écho ironique aux révélations de WikiLeaks 1 sur l'espionnage par la NSA des instances politiques françaises, ce vote appelle de nouvelles formes de résistance pour les citoyens L'Assemblée Nationale vient d'adopter à une vaste majorité la loi sur le renseignement, au terme d'une procédure rouleau-compresseur rendant quasiment impossible tout débat démocratique serein Renonçant à leurs obligations de - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575345.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575345.shtml 2015-06-19 17:24:24 - Security Bloggers Network : Well, this is embarrassing The website set up by Microsoft to fight the United States government on issues of over-reaching surveillance has been hacked http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574711.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574711.shtml 2015-06-18 14:30:04 - Security Bloggers Network : A website used by Microsoft to challenge the US federal government s policies on matters of privacy and surveillance has allegedly been hacked According to ZDNet, Digital Constitution appears to have been modified at 9 15 pm EDT on Wednesday, with casino-related text including keywords used to garner greater search engine hits, such as casino, blackjack, Read More The post Microsoft s Anti-Surveillance Website Allegedly Hacked appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574512.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574512.shtml 2015-06-18 14:29:19 - Help Net Security : Digital Constitution - a dedicated website Microsoft set up to keep users informed of its efforts to counter US government's attempts to access customer emails the company stores in its data center lo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574508.shtml 2015-06-18 04:27:17 - Security Bloggers Network : The site, which appears to be running an older version of WordPress, is now hosting casino-related scam pages http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574472.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574472.shtml 2015-06-17 14:54:26 - Global Security Mag Online : NICE Actimize, société de NICE Systems, fournisseur de solutions de sécurité financière, de gestion du risque et de la conformité dans le domaine des services financiers, prend en charge et va améliorer les opérations de conformité de la banque américaine Brown Brothers Harriman Co BBH via une licence étendue de son offre Surveillance des Marchés comprenant Actimize Trading Compliance Solution - Control Room et Actimize Enterprise Risk Case Manager La licence comprend aussi l'outil - Marchés http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574386.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574386.shtml 2015-06-15 11:43:06 - Security Bloggers Network : he Home Secretary's statement to parliament on David Anderson's report into the practical working of the UK's surveillance law, a week before the Magna Carta celebrations, should be the starting gun for an open and constructive debate whole We should also remember that most of the public wants more, not less surveillance including for the reasons well-illustrated in the current Channel 5, Caught on Camera, series The arguments should not, therefore be less about the degree of surveillance that is reasonable or acceptable They should be more about the accountability of those organising it or demanding access to the results http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574049.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/574049.shtml 2015-06-11 13:57:48 - Security Bloggers Network : An independent reviewer in the United Kingdom has called for a new comprehensive law to help define security services online surveillance powers According to BBC News, David Anderson QC, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, stated that a clean slate is needed in the approach to surveillance powers used by security services to combat serious Read More The post UK Surveillance Powers Need Clean Slate, Says Reviewer appeared first on The State of Security IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573700.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573700.shtml 2015-06-10 02:20:20 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Errorcod3 sends a followup to last week's news that the FBI is operating a fleet of planes across the US for surveillance purposes A new article in The Atlantic points out that Congress is claiming to have had little or no awareness the fleet was being built, and is asking for answers Quoting Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, demanded to be briefed PDF no later than this week on the scope, nature, and purpose of these operations and what legal authorities, if any, are being relied upon in carrying out these operations Sixteen House members wrote to the FBI PDF , pointing out that the president had just signed a reform ending the bulk collection of phone records It is highly disturbing, they wrote, to learn that your agency may be doing just that and more with a secret fleet of aircraft engaged in surveillance missions They asked for the FBI to identify the legal theory used to justify the flights, the circumstances surrounding them, the technologies on the aircraft, the privacy policy used for data collected, and the civil liberties safeguards that had been put in place Senator Al Franken has posed ten questions of his own PDF to the FBI IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573522.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573522.shtml 2015-06-10 00:42:33 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : schwit1 sends news that the Obama Administration has made a legal request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to ignore a ruling from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals making bulk surveillance illegal The government says it's doing so to create an orderly transition between now and the beginning of USA Freedom Act provisions in six months Their legal argument is that the Circuit Court's rulings are only binding for lower courts the FISA court is secretive and separated from the normal legal process, so it doesn't necessarily fit in the normal court hierarchy ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said, While the FISA court isn t formally bound by the second circuit s ruling, it will certainly have to grapple with the second circuit s interpretation of the relevance requirement The court will also have to consider whether Congress effectively adopted the second circuit s interpretation of the relevance requirement when it passed the USA Freedom Act The issue is further complicated because the Circuit Court did not actually issue an injunction against bulk surveillance, deferring instead to the congressional debate already underway about the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573512.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573512.shtml 2015-06-07 14:09:36 - SecurityTube.Net : We've all seen the steady stream of revelations about the NSA's unconstitutional, illegal mass surveillance Seems like there's a new transgression revealed every week I'm getting outrage fatigue So I decided to fight back by looking for practical, realistic, everyday actions I can take to protect my privacy and civil liberties on the Internet, and sharing them with my friends Join me in using encryption and privacy technology to resist eavesdropping and tracking, and to start to opt out of the bulk data collection that the NSA has unilaterally decided to secretly impose upon the world Let's take back the Internet, one encrypted bit at a time Lisa Lorenzin is a network security geek in her day job, she's worked in a variety of Internet-related roles since 1994, with the past 15 years focused on network and information security she's currently interested in free speech, privacy, digital rights, and global Internet freedom For More Information Please Visit - https bsidessfcom http wwwirongeekcom iphp page videos bsidessf2015 mainlist http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573252.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573252.shtml 2015-06-07 14:09:36 - SecurityTube.Net : Since 2011, billions of dollars of venture capital investment have poured into public education through private, for-profit technologies that promise to revolutionize education Designed for the 21st century classroom, these tools promise to remedy the many, many societal ills facing public education with artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and other technological advancements But these tools are also being used to track and record every move students make in the classroom, grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance and turning education into one of the most data-intensive industries on the face of the earth This talk will investigate some of the technologies being adopted in schools and the nefarious ways they are used in classrooms that endanger student privacy from kindergarten through college Jessy is a marketing communications professional working in Cybersecurity Privacy at FleishmanHillard She is passionate about improving the state of security in technology, and can often be found on Twitter proclaiming her love for tacos and caffeine For More Information Please Visit - https bsidessfcom http wwwirongeekcom iphp page videos bsidessf2015 mainlist http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573248.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573248.shtml 2015-06-05 18:02:03 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Two years after his whistle-blowing, Edward Snowden finds that his action had profound effects on political decision making and on citizen's understanding of privacy issues He writes in the NY Times, In a single month, the NSA s invasive call-tracking program was declared unlawful by the courts and disowned by Congress After a White House-appointed oversight board investigation found that this program had not stopped a single terrorist attack, even the president who once defended its propriety and criticized its disclosure has now ordered it terminated This is the power of an informed public We are witnessing the emergence of a post-terror generation, one that rejects a worldview defined by a singular tragedy For the first time since the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573149.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573149.shtml 2015-06-05 15:51:50 - Global Security Mag Online : Le Conseil d'État a publié ce jour sa décision de renvoi de la Question Prioritaire de Constitutionnalité QPC déposée 1 par la Fédération FDN 2 , French Data Network 3 et La Quadrature du Net contre l'article 20 de la Loi de Programmation Militaire adoptée 4 en 2013 Cette décision est fondamentale dans la lutte contre la surveillance généralisée et l'accès des services de renseignement aux données de connexion Elle prend donc une place importante dans les débats sur l'actuel projet de loi sur le - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573125.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573125.shtml 2015-06-04 21:53:42 - Global Security Mag Online : L'Observatoire des Libertés et du Numérique ainsi que plusieurs associations et collectifs opposés au projet de loi sur le Renseignement appellent à une manifestation lundi 8 juin 2015, veille du vote du projet de loi sur le renseignement au Sénat Le rassemblement est prévu à partir de 18h place de la République à Paris Non à la surveillance généralisée Rassemblement contre le projet de loi renseignement Lundi 8 juin 2015 à partir de 18h, place de la République à Paris Le 9 juin, le Sénat est - Événements http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573024.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573024.shtml 2015-06-03 19:03:02 - Global Security Mag Online : Selon le rapport annuel Network Barometer¹ de Dimension Data, la surveillance à distance et la gestion automatisée permettent une réduction de 75 pourcents du délai nécessaire pour diagnostiquer les périphériques de réseau défaillants Ainsi, il faut 32 pourcents moins de temps pour réparer ces appareils par rapport au temps nécessaire pour ceux gérés de manière différente L'étude montre également une nouvelle fois une forte corrélation entre les défaillances causées par les appareils et l'étape de leur cycle de vie - Investigations http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572918.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572918.shtml 2015-06-03 00:25:24 - Global Security Mag Online : L'examen du projet de loi sur le renseignement 1 débute au Sénat La Quadrature du Net rappelle son opposition de fond à un texte donnant aux services de renseignement un champ d'action trop large et des technologies de surveillance de masse sans réel contrôle Parmi les amendements 2 qui seront discutés au Sénat, certains obligeront le gouvernement à répondre aux dangers de ce texte et à dévoiler plus précisément ses intentions concernant notamment les technologies de surveillance massive et la - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572851.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572851.shtml 2015-06-02 18:43:45 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : Process changes are in store as the Senate scrambles to pass new legislation http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572831.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572831.shtml 2015-05-31 15:21:06 - Security Bloggers Network : Eris Industries says it simply cannot engage in business if it is forced to incorporate cryptographic backdoors that can be accessed by MI5 and GCHQ http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572554.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572554.shtml 2015-05-21 23:29:44 - Security Bloggers Network : This is interesting The surveys find that Americans feel privacy is important in their daily lives in a number of essential ways Yet, they have a pervasive sense that they are under surveillance when in public and very few feel they have a great dea http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571590.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571590.shtml 2015-05-19 23:38:47 - Security Bloggers Network : Google and Apple have signed a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject any proposal that would grant police access to encrypted phone data The post Google and Apple among tech giants urging Obama to block phone surveillance appeared firs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571284.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571284.shtml 2015-05-14 17:04:56 - Security Bloggers Network : Permalink http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570739.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570739.shtml 2015-05-12 14:19:26 - Office of Inadequate Security : Thomas Fox-Brewster reports Now that the Conservative Party has secured a majority government in the UK, it s pushing ahead http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570442.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570442.shtml 2015-05-11 09:51:40 - Help Net Security : Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles Securing the smart grid European Network of Cyber Security Dr Klaus Kursawe is the Chief Scientist at th http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570296.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570296.shtml 2015-05-08 20:04:04 - Security Bloggers Network : The mass collection of American phone records and metadata by the National Security Agency NSA has been ruled illegal by a US appeals court The post NSA phone surveillance ruled illegal by US appeals court appeared first on We Live Security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570186.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570186.shtml 2015-05-07 17:35:19 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : New submitter IronOxen writes A panel of three federal judges for the second circuit overturned an earlier ruling The court has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way for a full legal challenge against the National Security Agency 'We hold that the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and that it does not authorize the telephone metadata program,' concluded their judgement That's not exactly saying that such bulk collection is unconscionable or per se unconstitutional, but it's a major step toward respecting privacy as a default IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570065.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570065.shtml 2015-05-07 01:42:34 - Security Bloggers Network : Matthew Cole explains how the Italian police figured out how the CIA kidnapped Abu Omar in Milan Interesting use of cell phone metadata, showing how valuable it is for intelligence purposes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569959.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569959.shtml 2015-05-06 15:44:33 - Security Bloggers Network : In this long article on the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Beirut, there's a detailed section on what the investigators were able to learn from the cell phone metadata At Eid's request, a judge ordered Lebanon's two cellphone companies, Alfa and MTC Touch, to produce records of calls and text messages in Lebanon in the four months before the bombing Eid then studied the records in secret for months He focused on the phone records of Hariri and his entourage, looking at whom they called, where they went, whom they met and when He also followed where Adass, the supposed suicide bomber, spent time before he disappeared He looked at all the calls that took place along the route taken by Hariri's entourage on the day of the assassination Always he looked for cause and effect How did one call lead to the next He was brilliant, just brilliant, the senior UN investigator told me He himself, on his own, developed a simple but amazingly efficient program to set about mining this massive bank of data The simple algorithm quickly revealed a peculiar pattern In October 2004, just after Hariri resigned, a certain cluster of cellphones began following him and his now-reduced motorcade wherever they went These phones stayed close day and night, until the day of the bombing - when nearly all 63 phones in the group immediately went dark and never worked again The investigators now turned their full attention to the cellphone records Building on Eid's work, they determined that the assassins worked in groups, each with a leader and each adhering to specific procedures Everyone in the group called the leader, and he called everyone in the group, but the lower-level operatives never called one another The investigators gave each group a color The green group consisted of 18 Alfa phones, purchased with fake identification from two shops in South Beirut in July and August 2004 The purpose of the fake IDs was not to defraud Alfa out of payment every month from September 2004 to May 2005, someone went to an Alfa office and paid all 18 bills in cash, without leaving any clue to his identity The total phone bill for the green network, including activation fees, was 7,375 -- a prodigious amount, considering that 15 of the green group's 18 phones went almost entirely unused The first spike in call activity occurred in September 2004, immediately after Hariri announced his resignation The investigators contend that the green group was at the center of the conspiracy The phone number 3140023 belonged to the top leader, and the numbers 3159300 and 3150071 belonged to his two deputies He called them and they called him, but with those phones, they never called each other The two deputies carried phones belonging to other groups, through which they passed on instructions to the other participants in the operation When a member of one group would call a group leader, the group leader would often follow up by switching to a green phone and calling the supreme leader, who was nearly always in South Beirut, where Hezbollah keeps its headquarters On Oct 20, 2004, the day Hariri left office and his security detail was significantly reduced, the blue group went into operation It originally worked according to the same rules as the green group, but its active membership increased from three phones to 15, with seven connected to Alfa and eight to MTC Touch All of the blue phones were prepaid Some were acquired as early as 2003 and had seen little or no use The people who bought them also gave false identification, and again money seemed to be in plentiful supply The minutes that expired each month went largely unused, but the phones were loaded again and again When the blue group went dark, the phones still had unused minutes worth 4,287 The prosecutors say the blue group followed Hariri's movements On the morning of Oct 20, its members were already deployed around Quraitem Palace At 10 30 am, Hariri set out toward Parliament and then to the presidential palace, where Lahoud was waiting to receive his resignation The cell towers picked up the blue group's members moving with him and calling their chief From then on, the blue phones trailed Hariri nearly everywhere -- to Parliament, to meetings with political leaders, to long lunches at the Saint-Georges Yacht Club Marina When Hariri was at his home, so were they When he flew abroad, they moved with him to the airport and then stopped operating until he returned, when they would pick up the trail again Eventually, the yellow group was added There's a lot more It's section 6 of the article http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569898.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569898.shtml 2015-05-05 18:19:34 - Global Security Mag Online : Le projet de loi relatif au renseignement a été adopté aujourd'hui à l'Assemblée nationale malgré l'opposition massive et transpartisane qui s'est élevée contre les dispositions liberticides contenues dans le texte Par 524 votes pour, 42 abstentions et 86 votes contre le projet de loi, les représentants du peuple français ont donné au Premier Ministre le pouvoir de surveiller massivement et sans contrôle la population française, faisant reculer ainsi un peu plus la séparation des pouvoirs, fondement de - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569778.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569778.shtml 2015-04-29 13:55:12 - Security Bloggers Network : Interesting article There are a lot of surveillance and privacy issues at play here http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569134.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569134.shtml 2015-04-28 19:30:29 - Security Bloggers Network : The new bill lands with just over a month before the Patriot Act sunsets http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569061.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569061.shtml 2015-04-27 09:47:07 - Help Net Security : A Thycotic survey of 202 RSA Conference 2015 attendees found that 94pourcents feel that NSA s surveillance of US citizens has increased or remained the same since Edward Snowden leaked classified informatio http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568851.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568851.shtml 2015-04-22 20:39:00 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : jriding sends word that the majority leader of the US Senate has introduced a bill that would extend the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act until 2020 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act It puts McConnell R-Ky and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr R-NC , the bill s co-sponsor, squarely on the side of advocates of the National Security Agency s continued ability to collect millions of Americans phone records each day in the hunt for clues of terrorist activity IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568378.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568378.shtml 2015-04-22 14:51:51 - SecurityTube.Net : Do you use open Wi-Fi Did you know that it is possible to passively intercept your traffic See a live demo and learn how to protect yourself NarkNet uses free off-the-shelf technology that comes natively with many operating systems to passively intercept wireless networking traffic The WiFi network adapter in your computer is a radio The radio can be manually tuned to the radio frequency used by a WiFi access point AP Once the radio is tuned to the right frequency it can passively receive all the WiFi network traffic to and from the AP this will include traffic for all the clients associated with the AP Programs such as ettercap and CookieCadger can be used to automatically sift through the WiFi traffic to reveal sensitive information such as user IDs, passwords, and session cookies which can be used to hijack sessions and services It is not possible to detect NarkNet being used Encrypting the WiFi traffic with protocols such as WPA2 can help but this does not protect your traffic from being intercepted on the wired network by government agencies such as the NSA, GCHQ, and BND or from organized crime using BGP attacks to reroute entire sections of the Internet through their data center We will do a live demonstration of NarkNet as part of the presentation If you would like to play along you will need the following PC or Laptop Latest Kali Linux on hard drive or on bootable USB with persistence links below, encryption not required A Linux compatible wireless network adapter that supports 80211g monitor mode I recommend the following USB adapters Alfa AWUS036H for 80211b g EDIMAX EW-7733UnD or Rosewill N900UBE for 80211 a b g n You will need to modify etc network interfaces Comment out the following lines allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Add the following lines auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual auto wlan1 iface wlan1 inet manual auto wlan2 iface wlan2 inet manual auto mon0 iface mon0 inet manual auto mon1 iface mon1 inet manual auto scan0 iface scan0 inet manual auto scan1 iface scan1 inet manual auto at0 iface at0 inet manual auto at1 iface at1 inet manual Resources Kali Linux http wwwkaliorg downloads Kali Encrypted USB Persistence http wwwoffensive-securitycom kal http previewtinyurlcom kcbyrkn NarkNet site http narknetcom NarkNet presentation slides http narknetcom http wwwccgatechedu krwatson Keith has been hacking for a really long time carbon dating may be required He has done contract work reverse engineering automotive control computers and was a submarine qualified electronics technician doing cryptography and signals intelligence for the US Navy during the Cold War Keith has been working at Georgia Tech for 26 years He is currently Information Security Manager for the Georgia Tech College of Computing, sponsor of Grey H T the Georgia Tech College of Computing information security student organization, and mailing list moderator for DC404 PhreakNIC is a technology conference held annually in Middle Tennessee PhreakNIC started as an infosec hacker convention but has expanded over the years to include the maker scene, ham radio, DIY engineering, space and science nerds, the skeptics community, electronic and experimental music, gamers, anime, and general geekery For More Information Please Visit - https phreaknicinfo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568300.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568300.shtml 2015-04-21 17:58:19 - Global Security Mag Online : Alors que les besoins en vidéosurveillance des commerces, professions libérales, bâtiments tertiaires ne cessent d'augmenter, D-LINK, expert en réseau IP et Vidéosurveillance IP, invite ses partenaires et installateurs aux matinales vidéosurveillance à Rennes et Nantes L'équipe D-LINK France y abordera les problématiques liées à la vidéosurveillance et les participants y découvriront les solutions de vidéosurveillance, et les solutions d'enregistrement vidéo Ce sera l'occasion de bien comprendre - Événements http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568161.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568161.shtml 2015-04-21 12:13:24 - Global Security Mag Online : Dell OEM Solutions annonce la commercialisation avec son partenaire Milestone de nouvelles solutions plug and play' pour le marché de la vidéosurveillance Ces solutions distribuées par ADI supportent 8, 16, 26 ou 48 caméras et sont vendues avec des licences des logiciels Milestone XProtect et Microsoft Embedded L'industrie de la sécurité et de la surveillance est en pleine évolution de l'analogique vers les installations IP Les clients sont de plus en plus en demande de conseil concernant le - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568072.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568072.shtml 2015-04-19 04:29:15 - Global Security Mag Online : L'examen du projet de loi sur le Renseignement a pris fin ce jeudi Au terme de quatre jours de discussions, très peu d'améliorations ont été faites sur un texte qui recueille un nombre inédit de condamnations sur son caractère dangereux, intrusif, attentatoire aux libertés et dont les dispositifs de contrôles sont totalement insuffisants La Quadrature du Net appelle les députés à écouter les appels des citoyens et à rejeter ce texte lors du vote solennel du 5 mai Le 5 mai, le texte final du projet de - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567764.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567764.shtml 2015-04-19 04:16:39 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : theodp writes Citing the comeuppance of ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, who was suspended from her job after her filmed ad-hominem attack on a person McHenry deemed to be beneath her in terms of appearance, education, wealth, class, status went viral, The Atlantic's Megan Garber writes that one silver lining of the omnipresence of cameras it that the possibility of exposure can also encourage us to be a little kinder to each other Terrible behavior, Garber writes, whether cruel or violent or something in between, has a greater possibility than it ever has before of being exposed Just as Uber tracks ratings for both its drivers and its users, and just as Yelp can be a source of shaming for businesses and customers alike, technology at large has afforded a reciprocity between people who, in a previous era, would have occupied different places on the spectrum of power Which can, again, be a bad thing but which can also, in McHenry's case, be an extremely beneficial one It's good that her behavior has been exposed It's good that her story going viral might discourage similar behavior from other people It's good that she has publicly promised 'to learn from this mistake' IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567734.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567734.shtml 2015-04-15 18:32:31 - Global Security Mag Online : Les débats parlementaires sur le projet de loi relatif au renseignement se déroulent au pas de charge à l'Assemblée nationale et dureront jusqu'au jeudi 16 avril Le gouvernement et le rapporteur Urvoas refusent cependant d'entendre l'opposition croissante pointant les dangers de ce texte inacceptable La Quadrature du Net appelle les citoyens à agir et les députés à faire face à leurs responsabilités en s'opposant en bloc à ce texte et à la surveillance de masse en général Les débats parlementaires - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567501.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567501.shtml 2015-04-15 15:50:15 - Global Security Mag Online : WD , filiale de Western Digital, dévoile sa nouvelle gamme de disques durs 3,5 pouces WD Purple NV Proposés dans des capacités de stockage de 4 et 6 To, ces disques sont destinés aux systèmes de vidéosurveillance réseau exigeants Les disques WD Purple NV s'adressent plus particulièrement aux infrastructures de grande envergure dotées d'un nombre élevé de baies de stockage et de caméras Ils offrent en effet une capacité de stockage plus importante, affichent une plus grande longévité et garantissent - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567472.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567472.shtml 2015-04-13 17:27:12 - Security Bloggers Network : Parts of the Patriot Act will sunset this June But the more egregious spying programs are under a different authority Lawmakers say they only know a fraction of what they should http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567136.shtml 2015-04-12 18:49:44 - Security Bloggers Network : In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, France's intelligence agencies are pushing for greater powers But that in turn is driving some of the country's most loyal companies away http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566994.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566994.shtml 2015-04-10 18:06:00 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes Ken White at Popehat explains how the US Drug Enforcement Agency has been purposefully sowing disinformation to hide the extent of their surveillance powers The agency appears to have used a vast database of telecommunications metadata, which they acquired via general read untargeted, dragnet-style subpoenas As they begin building cases against suspected criminals, they trawl the database for relevant information Of course, this means the metadata of many innocent people is also being held and occasionally scanned The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit to challenge this bulk data collection The DEA database itself seems to have been shut down in 2013, but not before the government argued that it should be fine not only to engage in this collection, but to attempt to hide it during court cases The courts agreed, which means this sort of surveillance could very well happen again and the EFF is trying to prevent that IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566882.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566882.shtml 2015-04-10 13:51:52 - Security Bloggers Network : Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566846.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566846.shtml 2015-04-07 17:59:07 - Global Security Mag Online : NICE Actimize, société de NICE Systems, fournisseur de solutions de sécurité financière, de gestion du risque et de la conformité dans le domaine des services financiers, annonce être classé en position de leader dans le rapport 2015 d'Aite Group Technologie de surveillance des transactions un marché en pleine expansion pour son offre surveillance des transactions et des communications Aite Group est un cabinet de conseil et de recherche indépendant spécialisé dans les problématiques - Magic Quadrant http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566378.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566378.shtml 2015-04-07 17:59:07 - Global Security Mag Online : Paessler AG, acteur dans le domaine de la surveillance réseau, annonce aujourd'hui que sa licence commerciale d'entrée de gamme, baptisée PRTG 100, sera désormais disponible gratuitement Cette offre, qui permettra aux PME et start-ups d'assurer la surveillance de leur infrastructure informatique sans débourser un centime, saura également satisfaire les besoins des particuliers utilisant des réseaux domestiques complexes Les 100 capteurs du logiciel peuvent superviser les serveurs, commutateurs, - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566376.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566376.shtml 2015-04-01 22:22:23 - Global Security Mag Online : Alors que le projet de loi relatif au renseignement que l'on devrait plutôt appeler projet de loi relatif à la surveillance généralisée est examiné en commission des lois de l'Assemblée nationale depuis le 1er avril, La Quadrature du Net met en ligne un nouveau site de campagne 1 et appelle les citoyens à se mobiliser en masse 2 pour convaincre les députés de refuser l'adoption d'une loi qui en l'état met en place la surveillance généralisée et légalise les pratiques des services de - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565707.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565707.shtml 2015-03-27 18:09:02 - Security Bloggers Network : Permalink http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565118.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565118.shtml 2015-03-27 13:44:49 - Help Net Security : As the date of the expiry of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act draws near, a wide range of tech companies, privacy advocates, and trade associations have asked the US president, US politicians and pr http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565066.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565066.shtml 2015-03-23 19:51:22 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : jones_supa writes Inspectors from Finland will conduct an observation flight on March 23-27 over the Russian territory within the framework of the Treaty on Open Skies During the flight that will be conducted along the mutually agreed route, Russian specialists on board of the aircraft will ensure strict compliance with the agreed flight schedule and monitor the use of the equipment stipulated by the treaty The flight will be conducted on a Swedish SAAB 340 observation aircraft that is not equipped with any weaponry Both the plane and the equipment installed in it have been examined by the international inspection, including Russian specialists The treaty on Open Skies is designed to enhance mutual understanding by allowing unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the territories of its 34 current member states IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564531.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564531.shtml 2015-03-20 17:00:25 - Global Security Mag Online : La levée de boucliers unanime des acteurs de l'Internet, des associations de défense des libertés et des professionnels de la Justice contre le projet de loi sur le renseignement présenté en conseil des ministres le jeudi 19 mars illustre de façon éclatante les dangers multiples de ce projet et la nécessité absolue de changer d'orientation, quand bien même le gouvernement tente de rattraper sa communication en proposant, a posteriori, un dialogue avec la société civile Depuis les premières annonces - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564280.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564280.shtml 2015-03-17 16:26:08 - Global Security Mag Online : Les informations concernant le projet de loi sur le renseignement diffusées via Le Figaro 1 , avant sa présentation en Conseil des ministres jeudi 19 mars, confirment les inquiétudes déjà exprimées Alors que la loi sur le renseignement était annoncée comme une grande loi permettant de protéger les droits fondamentaux, l'instrumentalisation sécuritaire des événements meurtriers de janvier risque d'aboutir à une incroyable dérive du gouvernement en matière de surveillance des citoyens La Quadrature du - Points de Vue http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563781.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563781.shtml 2015-03-15 18:04:44 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes In a recent interview, Senator Ron Wyden D-OR has complained about the Obama administration's failure to shut down the NSA's bulk collection of phone metadata This program and most other programs we've heard of were disclosed by Edward Snowden But Snowden couldn't tell us everything When asked if there were further domestic surveillance programs about which the public knows nothing, Senator Wyden said, Yeah, there's plenty of stuff The ones he knows about are classified, so he couldn't elaborate Even in cases where the public has been informed of government practices, Wyden warned the government still collects far too much information on millions of citizens with virtually no accountability IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563503.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563503.shtml 2015-03-13 23:57:14 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Nicola Hahn writes Yet another news report has emerged detailing how the CIA is actively subverting low-level encryption features in mainstream hi-tech products Responding to the story, an unnamed intelligence official essentially shrugged his shoulders and commented that there's a whole world of devices out there, and that's what we're going to do Perhaps this sort of cavalier dismissal isn't surprising given that leaked classified documents indicate that government intelligence officers view iPhone users as 'Zombies' who pay for their own surveillance The past year or so of revelations paints a pretty damning portrait of the NSA and CIA But if you read the Intercept's coverage of the CIA's subversion projects carefully you'll notice mention of Lockheed Martin And this raises a question that hasn't received much attention what role does corporate America play in all of this Are American companies simply hapless pawns of a runaway national security state Ed Snowden has stated that mass surveillance is about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation They're about power A sentiment which has been echoed by others Who, then, stands to gain from mass surveillance IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563415.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563415.shtml 2015-03-13 13:36:56 - Security Bloggers Network : A Senate committee overwhelmingly passes a controversial bill aimed at sharing user data with the government, in efforts to prevent cyberattacks Just one lawmaker opposed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563325.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563325.shtml 2015-03-12 13:56:12 - Office of Inadequate Security : Sky News reports A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563161.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563161.shtml 2015-03-12 13:20:51 - Security Bloggers Network : Cory Doctorow examines the changing economics of surveillance and what it means The Stasi employed one snitch for every 50 or 60 people it watched We can't be sure of the size of the entire Five Eyes global surveillance workforce, but there are only http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563157.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563157.shtml 2015-03-11 14:22:28 - Security Bloggers Network : The ACLU has filed a suit on behalf of rights groups against the NSA's spying program - in particular, its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications, commonly referred to as upstream surveillance http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562986.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562986.shtml 2015-03-02 17:50:15 - Global Security Mag Online : Au programme de la plateforme complète proposée aux utilisateurs forfait de données, caméra et application mobiles, mais aussi espace sécurisé de stockage sur le Cloud Panasonic Cameramanager, fournisseur majeur de vidéosurveillance en tant que service VSaaS en Europe, présente aujourd'hui Nubo, la première caméra de surveillance 4G au monde qui permet aux utilisateurs de surveiller leur habitation et leurs biens sans connexion Wi-Fi Les visiteurs du Mobile World Congress de Barcelone pourront - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561766.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561766.shtml 2015-02-26 12:21:05 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : From Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561278.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561278.shtml 2015-02-25 01:14:49 - Hacker Public Radio : Aaron Williamson Free Software Law Expert Aaron Williamson held a brilliant talk on the history of internet surveillance in the USA at FOSDEM 2015 After the Paris terror attacks, many politicians want to increase surveillance British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to read all our emails - even the encrypted ones Is this the only answer to terror attacks Aaron has a very strong opinion on this https fosdemorg 2015 schedule speaker aaron_williamson Mathias Kirschner, Free Software Foundation Europe Matthias is the Vicepresident of the Free Software Foundation Europe In our interview at Fosdem 2015, he explains the work and the goal of the foundation and how they do lobbying for Free Software in parliaments and government bodies https fsfeorg https fsfeorg about kirschner Torproject - nos ognions A member of nos-ognionsnet, which is part of the Tor project, explains about exit nodes, transparency and surveillance https nos-oignonsnet https wwwtorprojectorg http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560991.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560991.shtml 2015-02-18 05:16:42 - SecurityTube.Net : Authors Aaron Segal, Bryan Ford, and Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University Open Access Content Papers are restricted to registered attendees until the event begins Once the event begins, the content becomes free and open to everyone Journal articles are open to everyone upon publication If available, video, audio, and or slides of this presentation will be posted here after the event Segal PDF View the slides BibTeX Abstract Motivated in part by the Snowden revelations, we address the question of whether intelligence and lawenforcement agencies can gather actionable, relevant information about unknown electronic targets without conducting dragnet surveillance We formulate principles that we believe effective, lawful surveillance protocols should adhere to in an era of big data and global communication networks We then focus on intersection of cell-tower dumps, a specific surveillance operation that the FBI has used effectively As a case study, we present a system that computes such intersections in a privacy-preserving, accountable fashion Preliminary experiments indicate that such a system could be efficient and usable, suggesting that privacy and accountability need not be barriers to effective intelligence gathering PDF - https wwwusenixorg system files conference foci14 foci14-segalpdf For More Information Please Visit - https wwwusenixorg conference foci14 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559969.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559969.shtml 2015-02-17 12:36:48 - Security Bloggers Network : Proposed FAA rules would prohibit flying drones out of eyesight, at night, or over people, while the president has ordered federal agencies to be transparent about data collection and to respect privacy http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559858.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559858.shtml 2015-02-13 01:21:40 - Global Security Mag Online : Lors du premier débat organisé par le Cercle de la Sécurité, Yann Bonnet Rapporteur Général du Conseil National du Numérique CNN et Camille François Rapporteur du CNN ont tenté de répondre à la question de savoir si l'Internet se résume-t'il à bâtir une société de surveillance Le débat, animé par Nicolas Arpagian, a montré que la conciliation est possible entre sécurité et liberté sur la toile En guise d'introduction, Nicolas Arpagian a rappelé le rôle du Conseil National du Numérique Le CNN est - Investigations affiche http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559378.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559378.shtml 2015-02-10 07:00:27 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Nicola Hahn writes Both the White House and the US Intelligence Community have recently announced reforms to surveillance programs sanctioned under Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act But do these reforms represent significant restructuring or are they just bureaucratic gestures intended to create the perception that officials are responding to public pressure The Executive's own Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has written up an assessment PDF of reform measures implemented by the government For those who want a quick summary the Board published a fact sheet PDF which includes a table listing recommendations made by the board almost a year ago and corresponding reforms The fact sheet reveals that the Board's mandate to end the NSA's bulk telephone records program has not been implemented In other words, the physical infrastructure of the NSA's global panopticon is still in place In fact, it's growing larger PDF So despite all of the press statements and associated media buzz very little has changed There are people who view this as an unsettling indication of where society is headed Ed Snowden claimed that he wanted to trigger a debate, but is that really enough What will it take to tear down Big Brother IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558778.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558778.shtml 2015-02-08 15:32:28 - Computer Security News : Imagine being at home and hearing a stranger's voice coming from your home surveillance camera It happened to a young nanny http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558567.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558567.shtml 2015-02-06 15:36:30 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : Hammeh writes Today marks the first time in its history that the Investigative Powers Tribunal IPT , who are responsible for oversight and complaints relating to all of the UK intelligence agencies, upheld a complaint against GCHQ, stating that accessing data provided to them by the NSA was in breach of human rights The ruling comes as the saga into online privacy continues to unfold Last year, the same court ruled that internal surveillance of British citizens did not breach human rights The difference NSA data is claimed to have sidestepped the protections provided by the UK legal system The tribunal also noted that although the UK government was willing to admit that Prism and Upstream existed both NSA programs outed by Edward Snowden , they would not comment on the existence or non-existence of the Tempora program IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558388.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558388.shtml 2015-02-01 15:58:23 - Computer Security News : In the digital age, when governments including ours are increasingly concerned about waging the next war, in large part, via the Internet, Americans' constitutional right to privacy seems a quaint anachronism Successive presidential administrations, as well as Congress, appear to have ceded complete control to the intelligence community when it comes to deciding not when, but if, such protections are even warranted, and all in the name of national security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557499.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557499.shtml 2015-01-30 11:16:38 - Security Bloggers Network : The Department of Homeland Security has declared that there is not a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl this year, but that's not stopping the agency from going all out on security and surveillance http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557256.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557256.shtml 2015-01-29 11:00:09 - TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog : Home surveillance security cameras have been available for quite some time, and can be used to keep track of one s home, children, pets, or business These devices are, in some ways, the first exposure of people to the Internet of Things For most people, home surveillance means setting up a camera and using the Internet to Post from Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog - by Trend Micro Security of Home Surveillance Cameras http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557087.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557087.shtml 2015-01-27 12:50:49 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight : Everyone must comply with government requests to disclose information How far should one go when disclosing such information This is up to the company In a recent trend, several big IT companies including Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft among others teamed up to propose a change in US legislatures concerning governments spying on its citizens http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556718.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556718.shtml 2015-01-27 08:58:30 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a detailed, global strategy for ridding ourselves of mass surveillance They stress that this must be an international effort while citizens of many countries can vote against politicians who support surveillance, there are also many countries where the citizens have to resort to other methods The central part of the EFF's plan is encryption, encryption, encryption They say we need to build new secure communications tools, pressure existing tech companies to make their products secure against everyone, and get ordinary internet-goers to recognize that encryption is a fundamental part of communication in the surveillance age They also advocate fighting for transparency and against overreach on a national level T he more people worldwide understand the threat and the more they understand how to protect themselves and just as importantly, what they should expect in the way of support from companies and governments the more we can agitate for the changes we need online to fend off the dragnet collection of data The EFF references a document created to apply the principles of human rights to communications surveillance, which they say are our way of making sure that the global norm for human rights in the context of communication surveillance isn't the warped viewpoint of NSA and its four closest allies, but that of 50 years of human rights standards showing mass surveillance to be unnecessary and disproportionate IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556693.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556693.shtml 2015-01-16 17:13:37 - Global Security Mag Online : D-Link offre une gestion flexible, simple et évolutive de la vidéosurveillance grâce au lancement de ce logiciel pour les caméras réseaux qui permet de contrôler plusieurs flux Le logiciel D-ViewCam Plus DCS-250 est spécialement conçu pour contrôler l'affichage en direct, l'enregistrement et la lecture d'un maximum de 64 caméras réseau Il les affiche toutes sur un seul écran et offre une gestion optimale de la sécurité lors des déploiements à grande échelle Il est idéal pour les sites comme les - Produits http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555031.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555031.shtml 2015-01-16 15:32:34 - Security Bloggers Network : Listen to this radio punch-up over David Cameron's surveillance backdoor Earlier this week, I appeared on BBC Radio Five to discuss David Cameron s plans to snoop on secure messaging services It became a rather heated discussion with someone who advises the government on national security issues Listen for yourself http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555006.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555006.shtml 2015-01-15 19:29:32 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes How to make politicians really understand the dangers of mass digital surveillance and the importance of information security Gustav Nipe, the 26-year old president of the Swedish Pirate Party's youth wing, tried to do it by setting up an open Wi-Fi network at the Society and Defence National Conference held in Sälen, Sweden, and collecting and analyzing the metadata of conference attendees who connected to it Nipe set up an open wireless Internet access point named Open Guest and over 100 delegates used this particular unsecured Wi-Fi network to go online The collected metadata showed that, among other sites, they visited those of daily Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Swedish private ads website Blocket, eBay, and tourism sites This was during the day when I suppose they were being paid to be at the conference working, Nipe noted for The Local IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554871.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554871.shtml 2015-01-15 16:51:38 - Help Net Security : How to make politicians really understand the dangers of mass digital surveillance and the importance of information security Gustav Nipe, the 26-year old president of the Swedish Pirate Party's http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554839.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554839.shtml 2015-01-15 05:30:33 - SecurityTube.Net : We love surveillance 7reasons Premiere of the English version of the shortfilm We love surveillance The shortfilm will be available online at 1600 CET For More Information please visit - http eventscccde congress 2014 Fahrplan speakershtml http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554728.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554728.shtml 2015-01-15 01:49:32 - Ars Technica Risk Assessment : All traffic that occurred via our wireless network has been logged http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554707.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554707.shtml 2015-01-12 19:11:55 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : itwbennett writes The FBI's access to email and other data collected from overseas targets in the NSA's Prism program has been growing since 2008, according to a 2012 US Department of Justice inspector general's report declassified last Friday by the DOJ in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times Here are some of the milestones mentioned in the report In 2008, the FBI began reviewing email accounts targeted by the NSA through the Prism program In October 2009, the FBI requested that information collected under the Prism program be 'dual routed' to both the NSA and the FBI so that the FBI 'could retain this data for analysis and dissemination in intelligence reports' And in April 2012, the FBI began nominating email addresses and phone numbers that the NSA should target in it surveillance program, according to the document IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554186.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554186.shtml 2015-01-09 06:19:38 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Cédric for sending in this great project Check out the full tutorial on his site here One of the issues we have at home is that we want to know when a specific door has been opened We all know the door bell we ve been using in shops for ages When a customer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553721.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553721.shtml 2015-01-05 21:12:09 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : schwit1 writes with news about the impact of government surveillance on authors and their work worldwide A survey of writers around the world by the PEN American Center has found that a significant majority said they were deeply concerned with government surveillance, with many reporting that they have avoided, or have considered avoiding, controversial topics in their work or in personal communications as a result The findings show that writers consider freedom of expression to be under significant threat around the world in democratic and nondemocratic countries Some 75 percent of respondents in countries classified as free, 84 percent in partly free countries, and 80 percent in countries that were not free said that they were very or somewhat worried about government surveillance in their countries The survey, which will be released Monday, was conducted anonymously online in fall 2014 and yielded 772 responses from fiction and nonfiction writers and related professionals, including translators and editors, in 50 countries IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553137.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553137.shtml 2015-01-03 19:05:13 - BUG BROTHER : Il y aura un avant et un après Snowden Avant, ceux qui dénonçaient la montée en puissance de la société de surveillance passaient pour de doux paranoïaques alors que les paranos, c'était pas eux, mais la NSA, ce que Snowden Continuer la lecture http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552931.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552931.shtml 2015-01-01 02:23:37 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : An anonymous reader writes We've talked quite a bit about National Security Letters NSLs and how the FBI DOJ regularly abused them to get just about any information the government wanted with no oversight As a form of an administrative subpoena -- with a built in gag-order -- NSLs are a great tool for the government to abuse the 4th Amendment Recipients can't talk about them, and no court has to review approve them Yet they certainly look scary to most recipients who don't dare fight an NSL That's part of the reason why at least one court found them unconstitutional At the same time, we've also been talking plenty about Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which allows the DOJ FBI often working for the NSA to go to the FISA Court and get rubberstamped court orders demanding certain 'business records' As Ed Snowden revealed, these records requests can be as broad as basically 'all details on all calls' But, since the FISA Court reviewed it, people insist it's legal And, of course, the FISA Court has the reputation as a rubberstamp for a reason it almost never turns down a request However, in the rare instances where it does, apparently, the DOJ doesn't really care, knowing that it can just issue an NSL instead and get the same information At least that appears to be what the DOJ quietly admitted to doing in a now declassified Inspector General's report from 2008 IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552576.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552576.shtml 2014-12-31 02:45:27 - SecurityTube.Net : The coupling of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs with hacking surveillance devices presents a novel way to track and profile individuals, as well as attack infrastructure Whilst there have been numerous stories of stunt-hacking attaching any existing hack to a flying toy our research aimed to be practical and add use beyond the capability of ground based units In this talk we will discuss how people are already and unwittingly being tracked and surveilled by private, law enforcement, and military organizations We will then present and demonstrate Snoopy, a mass data collection and correlation framework that uses information leaked from the wireless devices that people carry The framework identifies, tracks, and profiles people by passively collecting wireless information from devices, as well as optionally interrogating devices for further information We will then discuss the advantages of having Snoopy attached to a UAV and present data and scenarios where altitude and speed are beneficial Furthermore, we will demonstrate aerial hacking capabilities against both client devices and more generic infrastructure Expect audience interaction, tool releases, and Snoopy drones t-shirts stickers to be handed out for good audience questions Glenn is a Zimbabwean currently working for SensePost's UK office as a security analyst His research has been presented at security conferences such as Black Hat Las Vegas , 44Con London , ZeroNights Russia , and Hackito Ergo Sum Paris As a Rhodes Scholar, he holds two master's degrees from the University of Oxford For More Information please visit - https wwwdefconorg html defcon-22 dc-22-indexhtml http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552442.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552442.shtml