Press
•
Microsoft hopes its technology will help Americans trust voting again
""The American democracy is messy," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimo…
Cybersecurity
Press
•
Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
"Riana Pfefferkorn, at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says it's a safe bet the best practices would include a requirement t…
Press
•
Security experts raise concerns about voting app used by military voters
""This study from MIT appears to have been structured with care in the way that the analysis was conducted," said Andrea Matwyshyn, an election s…
Decipher Security Podcast
Riana Pfefferkorn of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the EARN IT Act's potential effects on encryp…
Press
•
Column: Equifax left unencrypted data open to Chinese hackers. Most big U.S. companies are just as negligent
"“There is no way to 100% secure data,” said Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of law and ethics at Indiana University. “An attacker with enough t…
US could learn how to improve election protection from other nations
Hacking into voting machines remains far too easy. It is too soon to say for sure what role cybersecurity played in the 2020 Iowa caucuses, but the problems, w…
Press
•
AG Barr targets encryption again at human trafficking summit
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a member of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, wrote of similar concerns to the constitutional rights of online…
Press
•
Lindsey Graham Wants to Use Mistrust of Big Tech To Destroy Your Right to Online Privacy
""People are angry about Section 230, so the [Department of Justice] is seizing upon that anger as its opening to attack encryption," writes Rian…
Blog
•
The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with…
Press
•
Data breaches, privacy concerns and government pressure turn up the heat for cybersecurity experts
"“They’re not above the law, they’re doing exactly what the law says they can do,” Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity…
Press
•
The U.S. government's been trying to stop encryption for 25 years. Will it win this time
"Today, government access to encrypted communications through a mandated backdoor is not the law of the land in any single country. But laws requiring vary…
Press
•
Is Your Security Strategy Dumbing Down Your Smart Factory?
"In a recent paper, Indiana University Professor Scott Shackelford examines the cyber risk in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), including security…