Securing Open-Source Software
July 27 2022Good essay arguing that open-source software is a critical national-security asset and needs to be treated as such:
Open source is at least as important to the economy, public...
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Apple’s Lockdown Mode
July 26 2022I haven’t written about Apple’s Lockdown Mode yet, mostly because I haven’t delved into the details. This is how Apple describes it:
Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level...
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Apple’s Lockdown Mode
July 8 2022Apple has introduced lockdown mode for high-risk users who are concerned about nation-state attacks. It trades reduced functionality for increased security in a very interesting way.
Read moreWhen Security Locks You Out of Everything
June 28 2022Thought experiment story of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:
But to get into my cloud, I need my password and...
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M1 Chip Vulnerability
June 15 2022This is a new vulnerability against Apple’s M1 chip. Researchers say that it is unpatchable.
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, however, have created a novel...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022
May 31 2022Today is the second day of the fifteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Ross Anderson and Alice Hutchings at the University of Cambridge. After two...
Read moreFollowing a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department will no longer prosecute “good faith” security researchers with cybercrimes:
The policy for the first time directs that good-faith...
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CISA, NSA, FBI, and similar organizations in the other Five Eyes countries are warning that attacks on MSPs — as a vector to their customers — are likely to...
Read moreThe Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. It’s an attempt by...
Read moreYou might not like the headline statistics in this year's ransomware report... but that makes it even more important to take a look!
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