Category: Security technology

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Detecting Credit Card Skimmers

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academicpapers, creditcards, lawenforcement, Security technology, skimmers

Interesting research paper: “Fear the Reaper: Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers“: Abstract: Payment card fraud results in billions of dollars in losses annually. Adversaries increasingly acquire card data using skimmers, which are attached to legitimate payment devices including point of sale terminals, gas pumps, and ATMs. Detecting such devices can be difficult, and … Read More “Detecting Credit Card Skimmers” »

Conspiracy Theories Around the “Presidential Alert”

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Security technology

Noted conspiracy theorist John McAfee tweeted: The “Presidential alerts”: they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones – giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera and every function of your phone. This not a rant, this is from me, still one of the leading cybersecurity experts. Wake up people! This … Read More “Conspiracy Theories Around the “Presidential Alert”” »

Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack

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Security technology

Bloomberg is reporting about a Chinese espionage operating involving inserting a tiny chip into computer products made in China. I’ve written (alternate link) this threat more generally. Supply-chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. Our IT industry is inexorably international, and anyone involved in the process can subvert the security of the end product. No … Read More “Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack” »

The Effects of GDPR’s 72-Hour Notification Rule

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disclosure, facebook, gdpr, Security technology

The EU’s GDPR regulation requires companies to report a breach within 72 hours. Alex Stamos, former Facebook CISO now at Stanford University, points out how this can be a problem: Interesting impact of the GDPR 72-hour deadline: companies announcing breaches before investigations are complete. 1) Announce & cop to max possible impacted users. 2) Everybody … Read More “The Effects of GDPR’s 72-Hour Notification Rule” »

Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners

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police, riskassessment, scanners, Security technology, terrorism, tsa

Interesting article on terahertz millimeter-wave scanners and their uses to detect terrorist bombers. The heart of the device is a block of electronics about the size of a 1990s tower personal computer. It comes housed in a musician’s black case, akin to the one Spinal Tap might use on tour. At the front: a large, … Read More “Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners” »

Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising

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academicpapers, adware, authentication, email, facebook, phones, privacy, Security technology, socialmedia

From Kashmir Hill: Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of … Read More “Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising” »

More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors

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backdoors, cryptography, cryptowars, encryption, intelligence, lawenforcement, privacy, Security technology

Earlier this month, I wrote about a statement by the Five Eyes countries about encryption and back doors. (Short summary: they like them.) One of the weird things about the statement is that it was clearly written from a law-enforcement perspective, though we normally think of the Five Eyes as a consortium of intelligence agencies. … Read More “More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors” »