Do You Remember Subseven / Sub7 Trojan?

Certainly one of the most famous, inspired by Netbus / Back Orifice

Great Article:

#infosec #cybersecurity #security #trojan #malware #sub7 #subseven #privacy #bo2k #mobman #backorifice #nostalgia #virus

https://darkcodersc.medium.com/a-malware-retrospective-subseven-d86fed0c88bf

A Malware retrospective: SubSeven - Jean-Pierre LESUEUR (Microsoft MVP) - Medium

Commencing another instalment of my stimulating series, “A Malware Retrospective,” we find ourselves stepping back into the realm of nostalgia once more. After our in-depth look at the impactful…

^{Jean-Pierre LESUEUR (Microsoft MVP) (Medium)}

Is somebody here also using the #Flatpak version of @signalapp?

It is so unreliable on my end that the only way to use it is literally running it with:

```
until flatpak run org.signal.Signal; do sleep 1; done
```

It then needs several attempts to start and keeps crashing all the time (but is restarted by the command).

Anybody else experiencing this?

#Signal #Linux #Privacy

Pixelfed users!

For safety reasons, Pixelfed will block DMs from people you don't follow. However, this is just a default option, you can change it if you prefer.

If you use Pixelfed and want to receive DMs from anyone:

1. Log into your account on your Pixelfed server's website
2. Go to Account Settings
3. Go to Privacy
4. Tick the box marked "Receive Direct Messages from anyone"
5. Click the "Submit" button below

#FediTips #PixelfedTips #PixelTips #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Privacy

Red de democratie stop #chatcontrol !! . Dit is zo een extreem slecht wetsvoorstel dat ik er voor als mascotte van de Piratenpartij ZuidHolland voor naar 020 afreis. Lees hier wat het probleem is: https://chatcontrole.nl/

Tot 1 oktober om 13:00 uur op de Dam in Amsterdam!
#ChatControle #privacy #end2endencryption #briefgeheim

Chatcontrole: Je privéberichten gaan gescand worden

Chatcontrole is een gevaarlijk wetsvoorstel van de Europese Commissie om alle digitale communicatie te scannen. De wet zou een grove inbreuk op fundamentele rechten zou maken.

^Chatcontrole

My employer is looking for 5 people to join their Technology Advisory Board in the #UK.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3728957970/

They're particularly interested in people with experience in:

* #CyberSecurity
* Health Data / #NHS
* #Cloud Infrastructure
* #Privacy
* Technology leadership

Please spread the word - and do consider applying yourself.

Deadline: 18th October.

(ICYMI) Tutanota @Tutanota Unlimited Custom Domain Email Addresses, Contact Lists, Shared Mailboxes & Family Option

- Paid plans get unlimited alias email addresses for custom domains
- Contact lists can be created and shared with new paid plans
- Family options available in paid plans
- Shared encrypted mailboxes

#privacy #privacymatters

https://tutanota.com/blog/summer-releases-2023

Tutanota Releases: Unlimited Custom Domain Email Addresses, Contact Lists, Shared Mailboxes & Family Option

The summer of 2023 has been great! 😍

^Tutanota

Norway wants Facebook behavioural advertising banned across Europe.

Norway has told the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) it believes a countrywide ban on Meta harvesting user data to serve up advertising on Facebook and Instagram should be made permanent and extended across Europe.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/norway_facebook_behavioral_ads/

#Europe #Norway #EU #EuropeanDataProtectionBoard #EDPB #Facebook #Meta #Advertising #Privacy

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

But Meta was just about to start asking people for their permission!

^{Jude Karabus (The Register)}

Wer 2023 immer noch mit #Microsoft in seinem Unternehmen plant, dem sei gesagt: Der Maschinenraum dieser »Titanic« ist bereits voll Wasser gelaufen. Die Datenschützer & Sicherheitsexperten haben schon unzählige Male oben im Tanzsaal Alarm geschlagen. Aber dort wird noch Champagner getrunken, die Kapelle spielt irgendwas. Die hören nicht, dass das Ganze untergeht. 🌊

#sicherheit #datenschutz #security #privacy

Here is an example (no, not one I am using) of what a password of mine may look like:

WW91IEtub3cgSG93IFRvIFNjYXJlIE1lIFNoaXRsZXNz

And no, it is not hard to remember at all.
I use offline, non-caching Base64 coders.

https://www.base64decode.org

#privacy #encryption #passwords

Base64 Decode and Encode - Online

Decode from Base64 format or encode into it with various advanced options. Our site has an easy to use online tool to convert your data.

^{Base64 Decode and Encode - Online}

“It's hard to be your authentic self while you're under surveillance.”

- @pluralistic

#privacy #authenticity #trust

What's in store for the #privacy space in 2023? 🔮

Our Co-Founder & CEO Patricia Thaine makes her predictions about how #privacythinking will evolve in the new year, takes a look back at the results of her 2022 predictions, and shares limitations as well as opportunities for #innovation.

Patricia's 2023 predictions include:

✅ Governments will begin to reconsider employee privacy rights.
✅ A rise of companies linking their privacy policies with the company’s actual code reviews.
✅ Governments worldwide will have more serious discussions about providing #dataprotection, privacy, and #cybersecurity subsidies or incentives.

Read more via Total Security Advisor: https://lnkd.in/gNHZkMH7

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly popular and more widely accessible for commercial use, as we can see with the rise of OpenAI's #ChatGPT and Google's #LaMDA.

These #ML models are able to generate text that can be indistinguishable from text written by a human, and can be used for a wide range of #NLP tasks such as translation, text summarization, and answering questions.

But these LLMs invariably come with #privacy implications that must be addressed.

Patricia Thaine (Co-Founder & CEO, Private AI) explores how LLMs are being used (and misused), what risks companies leveraging these technologies should be thinking about in respect to exposing #PII, and what solutions exist to protect their customers’ personal #data.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/g8SYmatS

Cult of the Dead Cow has released #Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer #network for apps that flips off the #surveillance economy

The idea being here that apps – #mobile, #desktop, #web, and headless – can find and talk to each other across the #internet privately and securely without having to go through centralized and often corporate-owned systems. Veilid provides code for app developers to drop into their #software so that their clients can join and communicate in a peer-to-peer #community.

github: https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid
docs: https://veilid.com/docs

#p2p #security #privacy #framework #communication #freedom #opensource #decentralization #hacker

Veilid / veilid · GitLab

GitLab.com

^GitLab

🚨 NGO LOBBYING GOV CLIENTSIDE SCANNING AGAINST ENCRYPTION

#encryption #crypto #e2ee #Signal #WhatsApp #ChatControl #KOSA #EARNITACT #OnlineSafetyBill #UK #EU #USA #clientsidescanning #HumanRights #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #Journalism #ethics

#YOUTUBE PREMIER ABOUT TO START (join the live chat!):

https://youtu.be/SRMpAdM045M?si=rqnvawEFUdkNPNg8

📰 REPORT: WHO IS LOBBYING AGAINST ENCRYPTION?

NGO's Lobby Governments For Legislation Which Threaten Encryption Via AI Client-side Scanning; Recent Example Laws / Bills: Chatcontrol, UK's Online Safety B...

^YouTube

📺 VIDEO:🌹 "Thorn In The Side Of Secure 🔓 Encryption"

Looking Into #NGO Lobbying For Encryption Compromises

Public Early Watch On Blog (click peertube) Shows up on channels soon

#News #Blog #HumanRights #e2ee #encryption #crypto #Thorn #security #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #anonymity #AI #anonymous #Journalism #integrity

https://bmc.link/politictech/thorn-in-the-side-of-secure-encryption-early-viewing-thanks-for-supporting

📰 Thorn In Side Of 🔐 Secure Encryption (Thanks For Supporting - More Public Coming)

Post by 🥷 (RTP) Privacy Tech Tips 📡

^{🥷 (RTP) Privacy Tech Tips 📡 (Buy Me a Coffee)}

Twitter post from Proton Privacy X account , sharing the good news that Swiss Parliament vote to adopt a motion to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the European Commission.

There is just a handful of countries around the world that protect the privacy online of their citizens. Thank you.

#privacy #proton #goodnews #switzerland

If you're a #privacy proponent donating to @eff, if you're celebrating the #GNU Project's 40th anniversary, if you're a user of the internet feeling helpless towards the claws that large corporations dug in the way we interact with each other as humans, and especially if you're a user of #mastodon, I urge you to take a listen to @pluralistic 's talk at #DEFCON about #enshittification:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

If #CoryDoctorow doesn't manage to rile you up in the first 3 minutes, nothing will!

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things b...

^YouTube

A small security check:

If you're one of the few users who haven't synced their Passwords & Keychain with iCloud and have upgraded to iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS Sonoma, check your iCloud settings and make sure the option to sync "Passwords & Keychain" is off. This case was reproducible in our testing, but some iCloud accounts didn't change the setting. The reason is not clear.

If you find that the setting has changed to on, don't panic. Keychain data is end-to-end encrypted. Apple cannot read it.

Also it would be helpful if you share your experience in the comments. 🙏

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #Apple #iOS17 #iPadOS17 #macOS #infosec #Security

Chat Control – politisk korruption på EU-nivå

https://femtejuli.se/2023/09/26/chat-control-politisk-korruption-pa-eu-niva/

#korruption #mänskligarättigheter #privacy #eupol #svpol #ChatControl

Chat Control – politisk korruption på EU-nivå

Kampanjen för Chat Control är ett tydligt exempel på politisk korruption.

^{Femte juli}

Randal Quran Reid was arrested for crimes in Louisiana, a state he claims to have never visited. He's now suing over the misuse of facial recognition technology that led to him spending days in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

https://flip.it/Q4igsP

#FacialRecognition #Privacy

Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs

A Georgia man says authorities wrongly arrested him based on a match generated by facial recognition technology. Randal Quran Reid filed a lawsuit this month against the Louisiana detective who sought his arrest warrant.

^{SUDHIN THANAWALA (AP News)}

Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs

"A lawsuit filed this month blames the misuse of facial recognition technology by a sheriff’s detective in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, for his ordeal.
(...)
Quran, 29, is among at least five Black plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against law enforcement in recent years, saying they were misidentified by facial recognition technology and then wrongly arrested. Three of those lawsuits, including one by a woman who was eight months pregnant and accused of a carjacking, are against Detroit police.
The technology allows law enforcement agencies to feed images from video surveillance into software that can search government databases or social media for a possible match.
Critics say it results in a higher rate of misidentification of people of color than of white people."
https://apnews.com/article/mistaken-arrests-facial-recognition-technology-lawsuits-b613161c56472459df683f54320d08a7
#Facialrecognition #Technology #Privacy #videoSurveillance #Detroit #USA

Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs

A Georgia man says authorities wrongly arrested him based on a match generated by facial recognition technology. Randal Quran Reid filed a lawsuit this month against the Louisiana detective who sought his arrest warrant.

^{SUDHIN THANAWALA (AP News)}

So last week I found a #privacy #security #exploit in Slack - I reported it on #HackerOne - but I got the reply it was working as intended.

So I wrote up about it, so you to can understand how easy it is.

https://tane.dev/2023/09/slack-wants-you-you-know-this-privacy-exploit-is-fine/

🚨 It's NOT "For The Children".

🏦 💸 Greed Appears To Fuel Ashton Kutcher's Thorn: Client-Side Scanning For Profit From Corporate Interests Using NGO Fronts

#News #AshtonKutcher #encryption #LawEnforcement #crypto #e2ee #Thorn #security #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #HumanRights #NGO #greed #corporatism #fascism

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive #Online #Tracking

From @themarkup

Last year The Markup revealed that tax prep companies sent sensitive personal information/tax related info/financial info to #Facebook without clear disclosure or expressed consent. This was primarily happening because of the #Meta Pixel, which collects data on websites that implement it - regardless if you have a Facebook/Meta company account.

Afterall, who files taxes and expects that information get sent straight to Facebook/Meta when using a tax prep software?

#privacy #privacymatters

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/09/19/ftc-warns-tax-prep-companies-against-invasive-online-tracking

FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking – The Markup

Sharing private information could lead to penalties, agency says after Markup investigation

^{themarkup.org}

#Signal introduces a new quantum-resistant key agreement protocol called PQXDH.

"With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the threat of a quantum computer being built in the future that is powerful enough to break current encryption standards"

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

#privacy #quantum #crypto

iOS 17 added a new Safari setting for private browsing.

Change it here:

Settings > Safari

(See pic)
#Apple #Safari #Privacy

#UK's #Online Safety Bill finally passed by #parliament

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-online-safety-bill-passed-by-parliament-2023-09-19/

#Messaging platforms led by #Meta's (META.O) #WhatsApp have opposed a provision in the law that they say could force them to break #end-to-end #encryption.

We can't trust anymore #software from #UK.

😱

#e2e #security #privacy #politics #news #surveillance #bigbrother #orwell #1984

UK's Online Safety Bill finally passed by parliament

Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill setting tougher standards for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok has been agreed by parliament and will soon become law, the government said on Tuesday.

^{Paul Sandle (Reuters)}

The battle for End-to-End Encryption is going to be a very important one.

Support it.
Talk about it.
Do not believe the excuses they give to break it.

End-to-End Encryption protects everyone!

#Privacy #TinyPrivacyTip #RootForE2EE
https://signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it'll look like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

1. Go to your device Settings
2. Press on "Google"
3. Press on "Ads"
   
   • While you're here, press on the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it

   
   

4. Press on "Ad Privacy"
5. Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure they are all labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot.)

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

EDIT: There's another setting to review. In step 2, scroll to "Personalize using shared data". Turn everything off.

#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

TransJakarta wants to profile each and every passenger on the bus network by linking their government issued identity numbers with their tickets under the guise of targeted subsidy scheme so the haves will not be paying subsidized ticket fares. They also want to know exactly how you travel each day on the network as individuals. If you’re a non Jakarta resident they want to charge you a different fare.

I don’t even know where to begin my outrage https://metro.tempo.co/read/1774854/ada-perbedaan-tarif-transjakarta-bagi-warga-ktp-dki-dan-luar-jakarta-setelah-tiket-berbasis-akun-diberlakukan

#Jakarta #PublicTransport #TransJakarta #Indonesia #Privacy #DataCollection