Is IoT Going to be a Major Challenge for Global Cybersecurity?
Interviewee: Scott J. Shackelford, Executive Director, and Chair, Ostrom Workshop, and Indiana University-Bloomington Cybersecurity Program, USA PTC provides a…
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
"Governments accessing any kind of location data, whether anonymized or not, is always a privacy risk, even though health officials need it during a crisis…
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Confronting Viral Disinformation
"“My worry is that those very important public health officials who have our attention—and should have our attention—will be beset by cyber mobs trying to…
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Disengagements and the race for self-driving supremacy
Road conditions can have a profound effect on disengagements, with more complex urban roads leading to more disengagements. Conversely, highway driving is typic…
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How Location History Can Help Contain Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy
If Typhoid Mary carried a cell phone, you can bet we would all want to know where she’d been over the last few days. Technology exists right now to trace the hi…
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Data privacy erosions could leave a dangerous legacy
"“Now that we face a public health emergency, there are understandable questions as to whether technological solutions might be useful to slow the spread o…
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Like it or not, tech companies can use your phone location data to map social distancing
"“[Unacast’s] privacy statement basically screams that it’s up to you to monitor which apps you use and your phone settings, if you don’t like the fact tha…
Deal with ransomware the way police deal with hostage situations
When faced with a ransomware attack, a person or company or government agency finds its digital data encrypted by an unknown person, and then gets a demand for…
Vulnerability reporting is dysfunctional
In January, we released a study showing the ease of SIM swaps at five U.S. prepaid carriers. These attacks—in which an adversary tricks telecoms into moving th…
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Virus Hands World Leaders Sweeping Powers They May Never Give Up
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the U.S. doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a…
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Can your cellphone track coronavirus?
"Because it’s voluntary, PrivateKit should be legal. But would it work? Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, predicted few people wi…
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Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected
""With the pandemic, government, companies and research institutions are scrambling to respond in a way that makes optimal use of information about in…