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We all know that it happens: when we see a security warning too often — and without effect — we start tuning it out. A new paper uses fMRI, eye tracking, and field studies to prove it. EDITED TO ADD (6/6): This blog post summarizes the findings. Powered by WPeMatico
Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what’s going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a “balance” and allow them to transact with others. However if … Read More “Regulating Bitcoin” »
Last week, researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in a large number of encrypted e-mail clients: specifically, those that use OpenPGP and S/MIME, including Thunderbird and AppleMail. These are serious vulnerabilities: An attacker who can alter mail sent to a vulnerable client can trick that client into sending a copy of the plaintext to a web server controlled … Read More “E-Mail Vulnerabilities and Disclosure” »
Maybe not DNA, but biological somethings. “Cause of Cambrian explosion — Terrestrial or Cosmic?“: Abstract: We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology. Much of this physical and biological evidence is multifactorial. One particular focus are the recent studies which date the emergence of the … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Do Cephalopods Contain Alien DNA?” »
Playing a sound over the speakers can cause computers to crash and possibly even physically damage the hard drive. Academic paper. Powered by WPeMatico
Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days to arrive from Paris by mail coach. Accordingly, traders who could get the information more quickly could make money … Read More “1834: The First Cyberattack” »
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Fake kidnapping fraud: “Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here they have been involved in some sort of offence in China or elsewhere, for which they’re being held responsible,” Commander McLean said. The scammers threaten the … Read More “Kidnapping Fraud” »
It’s not very good, but it has a squid in it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Powered by WPeMatico
I’m at Carnegie Mellon University, at the eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and myself. The 50 or so people in the room include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, … Read More “Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)” »