New Zealand Election Fraud
November 13 2020
It seems that this election season has not gone without fraud. In New Zealand, a vote for “Bird of the Year” has been marred by fraudulent votes:
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“Privacy Nutrition Labels” in Apple’s App Store
November 12 2020
Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December:
Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions...
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The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
November 11 2020
Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substituting someone else...
Read more2020 Was a Secure Election
November 10 2020
Over at Lawfare: “2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).”
What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals...
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Squid geopolitics. 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 guidelines here.
Read moreDetecting Phishing Emails
November 6 2020
Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“:
Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be something they are not in order to get the...
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California Proposition 24 Passes
November 5 2020California’s Proposition 24, aimed at improving the California Consumer Privacy Act, passed this week. Analyses are very mixed. I was very mixed on the proposition, but on the whole...
Read moreDetermining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements
November 4 2020
Accuracy isn’t great, but that it can be done at all is impressive.
Murtuza Jadiwala, a computer science professor heading the research project, said his team was able to...
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New Windows Zero-Day
November 2 2020
Google’s Project Zero has discovered and published a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver. The exploit doesn’t affect the cryptography, but allows attackers to escalate...
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