Security and AI: A Bayesian Approach

Euvgeny Naumov Delve Labs presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop in 2017 The rapid rise in the number and ubiquity of internet services and internet-facing devices has increased pressure to automate cybersecurity monitoring. However, vulnerabilities discovered by automated solutions per scan can number in the thousands and beyond, still placing a considerable burden on security teams …

Bitcoin: An impartial assessment of its use and potential for cybercrime

In this video, Prof. Jeremy Clark defines what bitcoin is, how it is used and its relation to cybercrime. This talk was presented in Toronto on May 31, 2016, at the SERENE-RISC Tutorial “Examining Cybercrime 2: Financial Edition”. Jeremy takes something mystical and clearly explains it. There’s this data structure which you may have heard …

Autonomous Hacking ?

DARPA held their cyber grand challenge in Las Vegas last week.  The challenge pitted 7 autonomous security systems against each other in a Capture The Flag Competition.  The winning system then went on to compete in DEFcon’s regular CTF against human competition and did as well as was expected (dead last). The job of commentating 7 …

DON’T PANIC. Making progress on the “Going Dark” Debate

With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard University a diverse group of security and policy experts from academia, civil society, and the U.S. intelligence community convened to discuss some of the difficult problems of surveillance and cybersecurity. This occurred at the time of public about …