The 2020 Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS)
December 4 2020The workshop on Economics and Information Security is always an interesting conference. This year, it will be online. Here’s the program. Registration is free.
Read moreEnigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
December 4 2020Neat story: German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which...
Read moreOpen Source Does Not Equal Secure
December 3 2020
Way back in 1999, I wrote about open-source software:
First, simply publishing the code does not automatically mean that people will examine it for security flaws. Security researchers are...
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Impressive iPhone Exploit
December 2 2020
This is a scarily impressive vulnerability:
Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave...
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Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
December 1 2020
Many systems are vulnerable:
Researchers at the time said that they were able to launch inaudible commands by shining lasers — from as far as 360 feet —...
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Check Washing
November 30 2020I can’t believe that check washing is still a thing: “Check washing” is a practice where thieves break into mailboxes (or otherwise steal mail), find envelopes with checks, then use...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Diplomoceras Maximum
November 27 2020Diplomoceras maximum is an ancient squid-like creature. It lived about 68 million years ago, looked kind of like a giant paperclip, and may have had a lifespan of 200...
Read moreUndermining Democracy
November 27 2020
Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that Mr. Trump...
Read moreCyber Public Health
November 25 2020In a lecture, Adam Shostack makes the case for a discipline of cyber public health. It would relate to cybersecurity in a similar way that public health relates to...
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