Computer security
A Cyber Insurance Backstop
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after ...
Decoupling for Security
This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of ...
Ethical Problems in Computer Security
Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation“: Abstract: The computer security ...
Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
Laptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair: Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs from 12 commercial ...
Recovering Passwords by Measuring Residual Heat
Researchers have used thermal cameras and ML guessing techniques to recover passwords from measuring the residual heat left by fingers on keyboards. From the abstract: We detail the implementation of ThermoSecure and ...
The 10 laws of computer security
Basic principles of IT security don’t change. Microsoft published a list of 10 computer security “laws” that do not change over time. These “immutable laws” (amusingly published as version 2.0) give a ...
National Computer Security Day: Tips for Securing Your Home Computers
Tuesday, November 30th, is National Computer Security Day. Although this special day has been around since 1988, many people are not only unaware of it, but are still also unaware of some ...
Mysterious Macintosh Malware
This is weird: Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new commands the malware should run or binaries to execute. So far, however, researchers ...
A Look at the Computer Security Act of 1987
U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Today Computer security regulations have come a long way from their early beginnings. Even before the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), there was the Computer Security Act of ...
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (HR 3523)
Image via Wikipedia The House Intelligence Committee held a closed-door markup of a bill (HR 3523) with the intention to improve cybersecurity through enabling the federal government to share classified cyber threat ...
