Friday Squid Blogging: Do Cephalopods Contain Alien DNA?

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academicpapers, Security technology, squid

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?” »

1834: The First Cyberattack

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cyberattack, fraud, historyofsecurity, scams, Security technology

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” »

Kidnapping Fraud

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australia, china, fraud, kidnapping, scams, Security technology

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” »

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)

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conferences, psychologyofsecurity, schneiernews, Security technology, securityconferences

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)” »

Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements

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academicpapers, identification, identitytheft, lies, Security technology

Interesting research: “The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics,” by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Current memory-detection techniques cannot be used as they require prior knowledge of the respondent’s true identity. Here, we report a novel technique … Read More “Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements” »