Stalker app maker Retina-X settles FTC charges
It’s the first time we’ve gone after a stalking app, the FTC said. In this case, that would be a stalking app […]
Category: Security
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Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
Interesting article and paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news […]
Mapping Security and Privacy Research across the Decades
This is really interesting: “A Data-Driven Reflection on 36 Years of Security and Privacy Research,” by Aniqua Baset and Tamara Denning: Abstract: […]
Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 […]
Public Voice Launches Petition for an International Moratorium on Using Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance
Coming out of the Privacy Commissioners’ Conference in Albania, Public Voice is launching a petition for an international moratorium on using facial […]
NordVPN Breached
There was a successful attack against NordVPN: Based on the command log, another of the leaked secret keys appeared to secure a […]
Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard
NIST has completed a study — it was published last year, but I just saw it recently — calculating the costs and […]
Friday Squid Blogging: Six-Foot-Long Mass of Squid Eggs Found on Great Barrier Reef
It’s likely the diamondback squid. There’s a video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security […]
Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Wired’s Andy Greenberg presents evidence […]
Adding a Hardware Backdoor to a Networked Computer
Interesting proof of concept: At the CS3sthlm security conference later this month, security researcher Monta Elkins will show how he created a […]