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Q&A: Ron Deibert

The sale and use of surveillance software is largely unregulated and unexamined, but Ron Deibert and his team at the Citizen Lab are working to change that through research into abuses.

Privacy, Surveillance

Decipher Podcast: Brian Donohue

Brian Donohue of Red Canary joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the news and insights from Cyberwarcon.

Podcast

Open Source Flan Scan Combines Nmap with Vulnerability Scanning

Cloudflare has open sourced Flan Scan, a “lightweight” network vulnerability scanner that it uses in-house to help identify vulnerable services running in its vast network. Early reactions suggest that it shouldn’t be the sole vulnerability management tool being used in the network.

Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, Network Security

Hack the Titan M, Get $1 Million

Google is now offering a top bounty of $1 million for a full chain remote code execution exploit that gains persistence on the Titan M chip on Pixel phones.

Android, Google

A Sovereign Internet Will Not Combat Cybercrime

The United Nations General Assembly will vote on a Russia- and China-backed resolution that claims to give governments tools to fight cybercrime. What it will actually do if it becomes a treaty, is allow governments to establish a sovereign Internet where they have full control of their country's Internet and monitor all activities.

Internet, Government, Surveillance