GPS Vulnerabilities
February 22 2021
Really good op-ed in the New York Times about how vulnerable the GPS system is to interference, spoofing, and jamming — and potential alternatives.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Amazing Video of a Black-Eyed Squid Trying to Eat an Owlfish
February 19 2021From the Monterey Bay Aquarium. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting...
Read moreRouter Security
February 19 2021
This report is six months old, and I don’t know anything about the organization that produced it, but it has some alarming data about router security.
Conclusion: Our analysis...
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WEIS 2021 Call for Papers
February 18 2021The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021) will be held online in June. We just published the call for papers.
Read moreVirginia Data Privacy Law
February 18 2021Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, modeled on California’s law.
Read moreBrowser Tracking Using Favicons
February 17 2021
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. (For those who don’t know, favicons are those tiny icons that appear in browser tabs next to the page name.)
Abstract:...
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Malicious Barcode Scanner App
February 16 2021
Interesting story about a barcode scanner app that has been pushing malware on to Android phones. The app is called Barcode Scanner. It’s been around since 2017 and...
Read moreUS Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles
February 15 2021The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.” Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the...
Read moreDeliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
February 15 2021
Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down and...
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