Stalking with an Apple Watch
March 30 2022The malicious uses of these technologies are scary:
Police reportedly arrived on the scene last week and found the man crouched beside the woman’s passenger side door. According to...
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A Detailed Look at the Conti Ransomware Gang
March 29 2022Based on two years of leaked messages, 60,000 in all: The Conti ransomware gang runs like any number of businesses around the world. It has multiple departments, from HR and...
Read moreAbstract: The retreating ice cover of the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) fuels speculations on future fisheries. However, very little is known about the existence of harvestable fish stocks...
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Gus Simmons’s Memoir
March 25 2022Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty...
Read moreLinux Improves Its Random Number Generator
March 24 2022In kernel version 5.17, both /dev/random and /dev/urandom have been replaced with a new — identical — algorithm based on the BLAKE2 hash function, which is an excellent security...
Read moreNASA’s Insider Threat Program
March 23 2022The Office of Inspector General has audited NASA’s insider threat program:
While NASA has a fully operational insider threat program for its classified systems, the vast majority of the...
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White House Warns of Possible Russian Cyberattacks
March 22 2022News:
The White House has issued its starkest warning that Russia may be planning cyberattacks against critical-sector U.S. companies amid the Ukraine invasion.
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Context: The alert comes after Russia has...
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Developer Sabotages Open-Source Software Package
March 21 2022This is a big deal:
A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus as...
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Greenpeace has published a report, “Squids in the Spotlight,” on the extent and externalities of global squid fishing. News article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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