Jonathon Lusthaus and Federico Varese provide more insight into the phenomena of online crime groups. To provide more of an understanding of the offline nature of online groups they took two field trips to Romania to investigate the region around Râmnicu Vâlcea, a local known for cybercrime. The Region of Ca Piteşti, which contains this …
First, today we’re launching a new web-based privacy dashboard so you can see and control your activity data from Microsoft including location, search, browsing, and Cortana Notebook data across multiple Microsoft services. Second, we’re introducing in Windows 10 a new privacy set up experience, simplifying Diagnostic data levels and further reducing the data collected at …
“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other,” Ms. Conway told the paper. “You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.” Surveillance can even be carried out with “microwaves that turn into cameras,” she added. “We know this is a fact …
13th annual GoSec Cyber Security Conference. GoSec brings together experts in the information technology security field from multiple sectors. This year SERENE-RISC will be presenting a tutorial ( Examining Cybercrime 3: SME Edition) to complement this well established and well attended annual event. Details at : https://www.serene-risc.ca/en/events/professional-development/examining-cybercrime-3-sme-edition Event Time: AUGUST 30TH AND 31ST, 2017 8:00 am until …
Short answer is bad, but for more reasons than first come to mind. Wikileaks recently released a vault of documents allegedly from the CIA relating to their cyber capabilities[1]. This is not the first time that Wikileaks has released fairly targeted documents against an agency in the United States[2][3][4][5]. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has clear …
A group from Northwest University, China, and the University of Bath and Lancaster University in the UK have come up with a method for determining android unlock patterns. The method uses video footage captured by a smartphone and an algorithm that can determine likely codes that match the movement of the finger or hand across …
Vinay Kaura provides some insight into the impact of the Internet on insurgency in the region of Kashmir. This region has famously been in conflict for more than half a century and has crossed over into the digital realm. The problems are deeply complex and the informatization of the region has created additional layers with …
A keynote address by Erinn Clark, Lead Security Architect, First Look Media/The Intercept More than 80 refereed paper presentations as well as invited talks, a poster session, a doctoral colloquium, a Work-in-Progress session, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel 1088 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2R9 Canada https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17
Dr. Michele Mosca reminds us an unfortunate truth as laid bare by Max Planck “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Quantum Computing is an area …
Highly secure systems are often ‘Air Gapped’, or removed from any internet connected network to make it more difficult to illegally or maliciously access them. Attacks in recent years have shown that it is possible and perhaps not even particularly complex to have users load malicious software onto an air gapped computer (e.g. with a …