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Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were breaking into computers over the Internet and controlling them en masse from centralized systems. Among other things, the hackers used the combined computing power of these botnets to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, which flood websites with traffic to take them down. … Read More “Botnets” »
ProofMode is an app for your smartphone that adds data to the photos you take to prove that they are real and unaltered: On the technical front, what the app is doing is automatically generating an OpenPGP key for this installed instance of the app itself, and using that to automatically sign all photos and … Read More ““Proof Mode” for your Smartphone Camera” »
We all should be concerned about the privacy settings in Windows 10. And we should be glad that the EU has the regulatory authority to do something about it. Powered by WPeMatico
At a talk last week, the head of US Cyber Command and the NSA Mike Rogers talked about the US buying cyberweapons from arms manufacturers. “In the application of kinetic functionality — weapons — we go to the private sector and say, ‘Build this thing we call a [joint directed-attack munition], a [Tomahawk land-attack munition].’ … Read More “Adm. Rogers Talks about Buying Cyberweapons” »
This is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them. Cory Doctorow summarizes the techniques on BoingBoing: …in Russia, it’s about flooding the channel with a mix of lies and truth, crowding out other stories; in China, it’s about suffocating arguments with happy-talk distractions, … Read More “A Survey of Propaganda” »
A short SF story in a tweet. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Powered by WPeMatico
Last November, I gave a talk at the TEDMED Conference on health and medical data privacy. The talk is online. Powered by WPeMatico
The Intercept has a long article on the relationship between Palantir Technologies and the NSA, based on the Snowden documents. Powered by WPeMatico
The first collision in the SHA-1 hash function has been found. This is not a surprise. We’ve all expected this for over a decade, watching computing power increase. This is why NIST standardized SHA-3 in 2012. Powered by WPeMatico
These days, it’s rare that we learn something new from the Snowden documents. But Ben Buchanan found something interesting. The NSA penetrates enemy networks in order to enhance our defensive capabilities. The data the NSA collected by penetrating BYZANTINE CANDOR’s networks had concrete forward-looking defensive value. It included information on the adversary’s “future targets,” including … Read More “NSA Using Cyberattack for Defense” »