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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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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: 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: 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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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The Interview tops YouTube’s list of popular videos
Getting hit by hackers who may or may not be from North Korea isn’t the worst way to drum up interest for a movie: “The Interview” is currently at the top of YouTube’s “Popular Right Now” list. A...
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Sophisticated cyberattack damaged German steel plant, report says
Skilled hackers caused serious damage at a German steel mill sometime during this year, according an annual security roundup issued Wednesday by the country’s Federal Office for Information Security...
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Everything you need to know about the recent Snapchat leaks
It has been a dramatic 24 hours for Snapchat, which had some internal emails leaked last night via the Sony hack. Sony Entertainment’s CEO, Michael Lynton, sits on Snapchat’s board. There’s been dozens...
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Yik Yak shown no slack in intern hack attack
Getting hacked seems to be a rite of passage for social media companies. It’s sign that they’ve grown big enough to attract the attention of the hacking community. Right on schedule, anonymous local...
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Two-factor authentication is good, but social media services can’t stop there
LinkedIn is the latest web company to add two-factor authentication to protect a user's password and account. But is that really the best companies can do? Two-factor authentication is good, but social...
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LivingSocial reports hack that could affect data of 50 million customers
LivingSocial saw a major hack to its computer systems, reported Friday, that could impact the accounts of more than 50 million users. LivingSocial reports hack that could affect data of 50 million...
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We need new laws not just for martyrs like Aaron Swartz, but for trolls like...
Proposals are in the works to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of hacker-activist Aaron Swartz's untimely death, but those changes are important for reasons that go far beyond just...
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Twitter says sophisticated hackers may have accessed data on 250,000 user...
The news had more than one report of Chinese hackers targeting United States media companies this week including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and according to a blog post from...
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NY Times: The Chinese hacked us!
The Gray Lady said Chinese hackers broke into its systems repeatedly over the last 4 months as the company published an expose on Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. NY Times: The Chinese hacked us!...
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If you’re a big data hacker, hack/reduce wants you
If you're a big data hacker in the greater Boston area, hack/reduce wants you to join its effort to make the area a big data hub, according to Abbey Fichtner. If you’re a big data hacker, hack/reduce...
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