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Research on Human Honesty

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academicpapers, economicsofsecurity, Security technology, societalsecurity, theft

New research from Science: “Civic honesty around the globe“: Abstract: Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development, but is often in conflict with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using field experiments in 355 cities spanning 40 countries around the globe. We turned in over 17,000 lost wallets … Read More “Research on Human Honesty” »

Hacking Hardware Security Modules

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academicpapers, hacking, hardware, Security technology, securityengineering

Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation targets an HSM manufactured by a vendor whose solutions are usually found in major banks and large cloud service providers. It will demonstrate several attack paths, some of them allowing unauthenticated attackers … Read More “Hacking Hardware Security Modules” »

The Cost of Cybercrime

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academicpapers, cybercrime, cybersecurity, economicsofsecurity, fraud, Security technology

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. In this paper,we report what has changed in the seven years since. The period has seen major platform evolution, with the mobile phone replacing the PC and laptop as the consumer terminal … Read More “The Cost of Cybercrime” »

Fraudulent Academic Papers

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academicpapers, cryptography, essays, fakenews, fraud, Security technology

The term “fake news” has lost much of its meaning, but it describes a real and dangerous Internet trend. Because it’s hard for many people to differentiate a real news site from a fraudulent one, they can be hoodwinked by fictitious news stories pretending to be real. The result is that otherwise reasonable people believe … Read More “Fraudulent Academic Papers” »

Fingerprinting iPhones

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academicpapers, apple, cellphones, identification, iphone, phones, Security technology, sensors

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct … Read More “Fingerprinting iPhones” »

The Concept of “Return on Data”

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academicpapers, datacollection, dataprotection, economicsofsecurity, privacy, Security technology

This law review article by Noam Kolt, titled “Return on Data,” proposes an interesting new way of thinking of privacy law. Abstract: Consumers routinely supply personal data to technology companies in exchange for services. Yet, the relationship between the utility (U) consumers gain and the data (D) they supply — “return on data” (ROD) — … Read More “The Concept of “Return on Data”” »

Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks

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academicpapers, essays, fakenews, hacking, mitigation, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology

To better understand influence attacks, we proposed an approach that models democracy itself as an information system and explains how democracies are vulnerable to certain forms of information attacks that autocracies naturally resist. Our model combines ideas from both international security and computer security, avoiding the limitations of both in explaining how influence attacks may … Read More “Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks” »