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Matt Burgess

STORY: Police have a new cybercrime fighting tactic: getting into the heads of Russian hackers.

Recent law enforcement takedowns of cybercrime groups have increasingly used psychological tactics as part of their disruption.

wired.com/story/cop-cybercrimi

#cybersecurity #cybercrime #hacking #infosec

28 May at 11:20 | Open on infosec.exchange
TrustNoWan

@mattburgess That Lockbit take down was epic. They clearly took a few pages out of the Anonymous playbook. I would love to see more of that.

Nice article!

28 May at 11:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
Matt Burgess

NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

wired.com/story/whatsapp-inter #tech #whatsapp #dma #infosec #news #technology

NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

6 February at 17:40 | Open on infosec.exchange
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Matt Burgess

New: Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications, by @lhn and @couts.

The US government and foreign law enforcement cane demand Apple and Google share metadata linked to push notifications from iOS and Android apps

wired.com/story/apple-google-p

#news #privacy #tech

6 Dec 2023 at 17:16 | Open on infosec.exchange
Matt Burgess

This new surveillance system can track prison inmates every 30 seconds and monitor their heart rate.

A jail in the US is using 'tamper proof' wearable wristbands to keep track of people. Documents obtained by WIRED show this includes watching their heart rate for potential health issues, seeing which inmates they come into contact with, and monitoring how much time they spend in and out of their cells.

Privacy experts say this is another unneeded level of surveillance that has multiple potential points of failure. Two people I spoke to described it as "horrifying".

Full story here: wired.com/story/prison-wristba

#tech #technology #surveillance #infosec

This new surveillance system can track prison inmates every 30 seconds and monitor their heart rate.

A jail in the US is using 'tamper proof' wearable wristbands to keep track of people. Documents obtained by WIRED show this includes watching their heart rate for potential health issues, seeing which inmates they come into contact with, and monitoring how much time they spend in and out of their cells.

Recreation of prison inmates, represented as 3D human characters, inside a prison and who they are standing near
12 Jun 2023 at 9:50 | Open on infosec.exchange
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@mattburgess American prisons turn people into animals, so let's do more things!

Okay, now American prisons will turn people into extremely paranoid animals.

Got it.

12 Jun 2023 at 10:55 | Open on infosec.exchange
Matt Burgess

The attack on encryption in Europe is very real. We obtained a leaked document from the EU showing Spanish officials want to ban end-to-end encryption.

Beyond this, the document shows the views of 20 countries on encryption, and how it relates to a controversial proposed law that would allow companies to scan people's chats to hunt for child sexual abuse material.

The majority said they are in favour of some form of scanning of encrypted messages.

The document also reveals that a lot of countries don't appear to know how end-to-end encryption works, with many proposals being technically infeasible.

wired.com/story/europe-break-e

#tech #encryption #chatcontrol #news #technology #privacy

The attack on encryption in Europe is very real. We obtained a leaked document from the EU showing Spanish officials want to ban end-to-end encryption.

Beyond this, the document shows the views of 20 countries on encryption, and how it relates to a controversial proposed law that would allow companies to scan people's chats to hunt for child sexual abuse material.

23 May 2023 at 11:39 | Open on infosec.exchange
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Anna Nicholson

@mattburgess @FuchsiaShock Aside from violating the privacy rights of EU citizens, wouldn’t banning end-to-end encryption spell the end for online retail (bye bye Amazon), online banking, contactless payments (in fact, any payments other than physical cash), secure access to medical records, secure access to government records concerning citizens etc. etc.?

Or do they just mean that end-to-end encryption should only be legal for transactions where one or both parties are government agencies or big corporations?

The whole thing seems either ridiculously ill-conceived or a massive threat to democracy or both 🤦🏻‍♀️

#encryption #EuropeanUnion #privacy

@mattburgess @FuchsiaShock Aside from violating the privacy rights of EU citizens, wouldn’t banning end-to-end encryption spell the end for online retail (bye bye Amazon), online banking, contactless payments (in fact, any payments other than physical cash), secure access to medical records, secure access to government records concerning citizens etc. etc.?

23 May 2023 at 19:09 | Open on eldritch.cafe
stony kark

@mattburgess like when the FBI wanted an FBI-only back door into all mobile phones so no one could do terrorism anymore, except in Spanish

23 May 2023 at 19:24 | Open on mastodon.world
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e2e encryption is vital for online privacy :akko_angery:

23 May 2023 at 20:43 | Open on mstdn.social
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