encryption, enigma, historyofcryptography, historyofsecurity, Security technology
A four-rotor Enigma machine — with rotors — is up for auction. Powered by WPeMatico
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cyberattack, cybercrime, hacking, historyofsecurity, Security technology
Long and nuanced story about Marcus Hutchins, the British hacker who wrote most of the Kronos malware and also stopped WannaCry in real time. Well worth reading. Powered by WPeMatico
cybercrime, cybersecurity, historyofcomputing, historyofsecurity, malware, Security technology
It’s the twentieth anniversary of the ILOVEYOU virus, and here are three interesting articles about it and its effects on software design. Powered by WPeMatico
academicpapers, cryptanalysis, gchq, historyofsecurity, intelligence, Security technology
This paper describes a SIGINT and code-breaking alliance between Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France called Maximator: Abstract: This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence. The five members of this European alliance … Read More “Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance” »
backdoors, cryptanalysis, cryptography, historyofcryptography, historyofsecurity, Security technology
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks to a microchip, according to research by de Volkskrant on Thursday. The Netherlands could eavesdrop on confidential communication from … Read More “Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption” »
deception, disinformation, historyofsecurity, russia, sabotage, Security technology, tradecraft
This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s, if in fact there even was a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the … Read More “Story of Gus Weiss” »
cloudcomputing, consumerization, historyofsecurity, internetofthings, Security technology
Ten years ago, I wrote an essay: “Security in 2020.” Well, it’s finally 2020. I think I did pretty well. Here’s what I said back then: There’s really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You’re secure from something or against something. In the … Read More “Security in 2020: Revisited” »
academicpapers, computersecurity, historyofsecurity, privacy, Security technology
This is really interesting: “A Data-Driven Reflection on 36 Years of Security and Privacy Research,” by Aniqua Baset and Tamara Denning: Abstract: Meta-research—research about research—allows us, as a community, to examine trends in our research and make informed decisions regarding the course of our future research activities. Additionally, overviews of past research are particularly useful … Read More “Mapping Security and Privacy Research across the Decades” »
historyofcomputing, historyofsecurity, passwords, Security technology
Lots of them weren’t very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used “dmac” (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell command line interpreter, chose “bourne”; Eric Schmidt, an early developer of Unix software and now the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, relied on “wendy!!!” (the name … Read More “Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers” »
espionage, historyofsecurity, intelligence, Security technology, torture
The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC. Powered by WPeMatico