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Hackers say Xbox/Playstation attacks are over, target Tor
Christmas Day gamers ran into problems connecting their Xbox or Playstation to the internet thanks to a denial of service attack, and the hackers that have claimed credit are now naming a new target:...
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Fingerprints can be reproduced from publicly available photos
At a conference in Hamberg Germany this weekend, biometrics researcher Jan Krisller demonstrated how he spoofed a politician’s fingerprint using photos taken by a “standard photo camera.” Krissler...
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German government website attack may be Ukraine-related
Two German government websites were knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack around 10am local time on Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s site is still down five and a half...
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“Anonymous” hackers attack European Parliament president’s site
The personal website of European Parliament president Martin Schulz was hacked last week, his office has confirmed. On Friday someone posted information on Pastebin indicating that they had retrieved...
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How tech trials force a choice between bad people and bad law
Of course Ross Ulbricht was guilty. Despite his far-fetched claims of mistaken identity, a New York jury confirmed the obvious: that Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) was the criminal mastermind who...
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Hackers stole up to $1B from banks worldwide, Kaspersky says
A gang of hackers has, over the course of a year or more, stolen up to $1 billion from financial institutions around the world, including some in the U.S., according to a new report by cybersecurity...
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Four Questions For: Ryan Calo
How do you draw the line between prosecuting a robot that does harm and its creator? Who bears the burden of the crime or wrongdoing? I recently got the chance to respond to a short story by a science...
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Four Questions For: Ben Rothke
What do you consider to be the biggest challenges facing cybersecurity today? Some of the challenges are: not enough information security staff. This is compounded in part by firms being unwilling to...
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Four Questions For: Tod Beardsley
Why do you believe it is important to have open source security software? Wouldn’t that make it easier for hackers to crack the code? Yes, and this is a good thing! Open source is especially important...
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Four Questions For: Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Long term, who wins: the cryptographers or the code breakers? Nobody breaks codes anymore, strictly speaking. When you hear about broken crypto, it’s most of the time about bugs in the implementation...
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