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Susan Landau’s New Book: Listening In

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apple, books, cryptography, cybersecurity, fbi, lawenforcement, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Susan Landau has written a terrific book on cybersecurity threats and why we need strong crypto. Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age. It’s based in part on her 2016 Congressional testimony in the Apple/FBI case; it examines how the Digital Revolution has transformed society, and how law enforcement needs to — and can — … Read More “Susan Landau’s New Book: Listening In” »

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Murder and the Security of WhatsApp

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bombs, cellphones, cracking, crime, datadestruction, fbi, forensics, police, Security technology, whatsapp

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist whose anti-corruption investigations exposed powerful people. She was murdered in October by a car bomb. Galizia used WhatsApp to communicate securely with her sources. Now that she is dead, the Maltese police want to break into her phone or the app, and find out who those sources were. … Read More “Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Murder and the Security of WhatsApp” »

FBI Increases Its Anti-Encryption Rhetoric

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cryptography, cryptowars, encryption, fbi, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology

Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech warning that a world with encryption is a world without law — or something like that. The EFF’s Kurt Opsahl takes it apart pretty thoroughly. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said much the same thing. This is an idea that will not die. … Read More “FBI Increases Its Anti-Encryption Rhetoric” »

NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls

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dhs, essays, fbi, nationalsecuritypolicy, nsa, russia, Security technology, voting

This week brought new public evidence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. On Monday, the Intercept published a top-secret National Security Agency document describing Russian hacking attempts against the US election system. While the attacks seem more exploratory than operational ­– and there’s no evidence that they had any actual effect ­– they further … Read More “NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls” »

Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode

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academicpapers, backdoors, encryption, fbi, ios, iphone, lies, passwords, Security technology

Remember the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone, and how the FBI maintained that they couldn’t get the encryption key without Apple providing them with a universal backdoor? Many of us computer-security experts said that they were wrong, and there were several possible techniques they could use. One of them was manually removing the flash chip from … Read More “Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode” »

New Presidential Directive on Incident Response

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cyberattack, fbi, incidentresponse, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology

Last week, President Obama issued a policy directive (PPD-41) on cyber-incident response coordination. The FBI is in charge, which is no surprise. Actually, there’s not much surprising in the document. I suppose it’s important to formalize this stuff, but I think it’s what happens now. News article. Brief analysis. The FBI’s perspective. Powered by WPeMatico