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Guessing Credit Card Security Details

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academicpapers, authentication, creditcards, fraud, Security technology, securitypolicies

Researchers have found that they can guess various credit-card-number security details by spreading their guesses around multiple websites so as not to trigger any alarms. From a news article: Mohammed Ali, a PhD student at the university’s School of Computing Science, said: “This sort of attack exploits two weaknesses that on their own are not … Read More “Guessing Credit Card Security Details” »

Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking

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auditing, cyberattack, cybersecurity, fraud, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology, voting

Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The good news is that we know how to solve this problem. We need to audit computers by manually examining randomly selected paper ballots and comparing the results to machine … Read More “Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking” »

Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure

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databases, databreaches, dataprotection, fraud, Security technology, voting

You can edit anyone’s information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone’s voter registration and make changes to it? The offer from Steve Klink — a Lafayette-based public consultant who works mainly with Indiana public school districts — was to use my … Read More “Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure” »

Defending Against Liar Buyer Fraud

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academicpapers, anonymity, ebay, fraud, lies, Security technology

It’s a common fraud on sites like eBay: buyers falsely claim that they never received a purchased item in the mail. Here’s a paper on defending against this fraud through basic psychological security measures. It’s preliminary research, but probably worth experimental research. We have tested a collection of possible user-interface enhancements aimed at reducing liar … Read More “Defending Against Liar Buyer Fraud” »