Guess which of your possessions is the most active at collecting your personal information for analysis and resale? Your car. According to experts at the Mozilla Foundation, neither smart watches, smart speakers, surveillance cameras, nor any other gadgets analyzed by the Privacy Not Included project come close to the data collection volumes of modern automobiles. This project … [Read more...] about Spies on wheels: how carmakers collect and then resell information
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Here’s How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers
Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish natives. Tracing the extensive espionage operations to two advanced Iranian cyber-groups … [Read more...] about Here’s How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers
Spies Can Listen to Your Conversations by Watching a Light Bulb in the Room
You might not believe it, but it's possible to spy on secret conversations happening in a room from a nearby remote location just by observing a light bulb hanging in there—visible from a window—and measuring the amount of light it emits.A team of cybersecurity researchers has developed and demonstrated a novel side-channel attacking technique that can be applied by … [Read more...] about Spies Can Listen to Your Conversations by Watching a Light Bulb in the Room
Turbine Panda, China’s Spies & Passenger Jets
Rarely in the infosec industry do cyber investigators get the luxury of knowing the full scope of their adversary’s campaign — from tasking to actual operations, all the way to completion. The oft-repeated mantra “attribution is hard” largely stands true. Short of kicking down the door just as a cyber actor pushes enter, it is frustratingly hard to prove who is responsible for … [Read more...] about Turbine Panda, China’s Spies & Passenger Jets
A New Backdoor Implant Spies On Linux Desktop Users
Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that's currently fully undetected across all major antivirus security software products, and includes rarely seen functionalities with regards to most Linux malware, The Hacker News learned.It's a known fact that there are a very few strains of Linux malware exist in the wild as compared to Windows viruses … [Read more...] about A New Backdoor Implant Spies On Linux Desktop Users