Data and Goliath Book Placement
July 31 2020Notice the copy of Data and Goliath just behind the head of Maine Senator Angus King. This demonstrates the importance of a vibrant color and a large font....
Read moreFake Stories in Real News Sites
July 30 2020Fireeye is reporting that a hacking group called Ghostwriter broke into the content management systems of Eastern European news sites to plant fake stories. From a Wired story: The...
Read moreSurvey of Supply Chain Attacks
July 28 2020The Atlantic Council has a released a report that looks at the history of computer supply chain attacks. Key trends from their summary: Deep Impact from State Actors: There...
Read moreImages in Eye Reflections
July 27 2020In Japan, a cyberstalker located his victim by enhancing the reflections in her eye, and using that information to establish a location. Reminds me of the image enhancement scene...
Read moreThe Kraken is the name of Seattle's new NFL franchise. I have always really liked collective nouns as sports team names (like the Utah Jazz or the Minnesota Wild),...
Read moreUpdate on NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program
July 24 2020NIST has posted an update on their post-quantum cryptography program: After spending more than three years examining new approaches to encryption and data protection that could defeat an assault...
Read moreAdversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
July 23 2020I just co-authored a paper on the legal risks of doing machine learning research, given the current state of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Abstract: Adversarial Machine Learning...
Read moreFawkes: Digital Image Cloaking
July 22 2020Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren't recognized by facial recognition systems. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny,...
Read moreHacking a Power Supply
July 21 2020This hack targets the firmware on modern power supplies. (Yes, power supplies are also computers.) Normally, when a phone is connected to a power brick with support for fast...
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