David Kahn
David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the […]
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Cryptocurrency scams metastasize into new forms
“DeFi mining” scams adopted by pig-butchering rings create more problems for those trying to defend against them. ————— Free Unlimited, Encrypted, Anti […]
A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering
In 2009, I wrote: There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to […]
UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Endanger Web Security
Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security EngineeringThis week, the United Nations convened member states to continue its years-long negotiations […]
Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?
Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did […]
Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of […]
ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora
An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV […]
Scaling security with AI: from detection to solution
Dongge Liu and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team, Jan Nowakowski and Jan Keller, Machine Learning for Security TeamThe AI world […]
ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan
ESET provided technical analysis, statistical information, known C&C servers and was able to get a glimpse of the victimology ————— Free Unlimited, […]
CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules
In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle […]