Teaching Resource

Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online

The Berkman Klein Harmful speech Online project has created a collection of essays that both draw from research and provide opinions to discuss a range of perspectives on this issue of harmful speech online.  It provides pieces looking at Framing the Problem, International Perspectives, and Approaches, Interventions, and Solutions.  This collection could provide a valuable …

Zero Days, Thousands of Nights: The Life and Times of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Their Exploits

RAND obtained a dataset of information about zero-day software exploits through a research connection. It is a rich dataset, as some of these exploits have been found by others and some have not. The dataset spans 14 years (2002–2016) and contains information about more than 200 zero-day exploits and the vulnerabilities that they take advantage …

U.S. Charges Russian FSB Officers and Their Criminal Conspirators for Hacking Yahoo and Millions of Email Accounts

A grand jury Northern District of California has indicted four defendants, including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), for computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy, beginning in January 2014, to access Yahoo’s network and the contents of webmail accounts. The defendants are Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, …

La cybersécurité est-elle possible?

Entrevue avec Sébastien Gambs dans le cadre de la conférence « La cybersécurité est-elle possible? » au Cœur des sciences de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Sébastien Gambs est professeur d’informatique à l’UQAM. Ses travaux de recherche portent principalement sur la protection de la vie privée et la sécurité informatique, en particulier pour les …