flaws

I like to think of our modern software infrastructure as being like a large city and posing the same trade-offs between risk and reward. We don’t wander carelessly around cities because of ...

 Peter Gutmann, an interesting crypto-academic from New Zealand, has proposed discussing two crypto libraries, libhairshirt and libfootgun:  In libhairshirt, the crypto is hard to use, and the API is hard to use ...

My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available for such purposes. Here’s a story from 2017 reporting that voter data for about 198 million ...

Unlike members of the insect family, computer software bugs live forever. Software security bugs (well, flaws) are especially troubling since they demand respect from every software developer now and forever. We want ...

My textbook talks about attacks on computers and computer networks using specific categories. A successful attack goes through many phases. These categories focus on an attack’s lasting impact: how does it affect ...