cryptography, historyofcryptography, Security technology
Yale University Press has published a facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript is also available online. Powered by WPeMatico
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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” »
Security technology
A 50-foot squid has not been found in New Zealand. 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
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” »
Security technology
Citizen Lab has analyzed how censorship works in the Chinese chat app WeChat: Key Findings: Keyword filtering on WeChat is only enabled for users with accounts registered to mainland China phone numbers, and persists even if these users later link the account to an International number. Keyword censorship is no longer transparent. In the past, … Read More “Analyzing WeChat” »
academicpapers, authentication, banking, economicsofsecurity, pointofsale, retail, Security technology
Ross Anderson describes DigiTally, a secure payments system for use in areas where there is little or no network connectivity. Powered by WPeMatico
botnets, denialofservice, internetofthings, opensource, Security technology
You can rent a 400,000-computer Murai botnet and DDoS anyone you like. BoingBoing post. Slashdot thread. Powered by WPeMatico
cyberattack, cybercrime, hacking, internet, publictransit, ransomware, Security technology
It’s really bad. The ticket machines were hacked. Over the next couple of years, I believe we are going to see the downside of our headlong rush to put everything on the Internet. Slashdot thread. Powered by WPeMatico
Security technology
Here’s a nice picture of one of the few known poisonous squids. 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
Security technology
Was the 2016 presidential election hacked? It’s hard to tell. There were no obvious hacks on Election Day, but new reports have raised the question of whether voting machines were tampered with in three states that Donald Trump won this month: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The researchers behind these reports include voting rights lawyer John … Read More “Hacking and the 2016 Presidential Election” »