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A new malware, called Ramsey, can jump air gaps: ESET said they’ve been able to track down three different versions of the Ramsay malware, one compiled in September 2019 (Ramsay v1), and two others in early and late March 2020 (Ramsay v2.a and v2.b). Each version was different and infected victims through different methods, but … Read More “Ramsey Malware” »
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or — in their words — intentional and unintentional failure modes. It’s a good basis for threat modeling. Powered by WPeMatico
Someone is flying a drone over Gatwick Airport in order to disrupt service: Chris Woodroofe, Gatwick’s chief operating officer, said on Thursday afternoon there had been another drone sighting which meant it was impossible to say when the airport would reopen. He told BBC News: “There are 110,000 passengers due to fly today, and the … Read More “Drone Denial-of-Service Attack against Gatwick Airport” »
Here’s some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay about the research: To study how concepts change when they become less common, we brought volunteers into our laboratory and gave them a simple task – to look at a series of … Read More “Conservation of Threat” »
Last year I wrote about the Digital Security Exchange. The project is live: The DSX works to strengthen the digital resilience of U.S. civil society groups by improving their understanding and mitigation of online threats. We do this by pairing civil society and social sector organizations with credible and trustworthy digital security experts and trainers … Read More “The Digital Security Exchange Is Live” »
Princeton’s Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access — delete your insecure account, open a new one, change your password. This advice is such standard protocol for personal security that it’s almost … Read More “Intimate Partner Threat” »
This video purports to be a bank robbery in Kiev. He first threatens a teller, who basically ignores him because she’s behind bullet-proof glass. But then the robber threatens one of her co-workers, who is on his side of the glass. Interesting example of a security system failing for an unexpected reason. The video is … Read More “Bank Robbery Tactic” »
A modern photocopier is basically a computer with a scanner and printer attached. This computer has a hard drive, and scans of images are regularly stored on that drive. This means that when a photocopier is thrown away, that hard drive is filled with pages that the machine copied over its lifetime. As you might … Read More “Photocopier Security” »