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The Next Frontier of Baseball Cheating: The Cloud
“Any time you have a database online, and they are using a communication tool among their employees — whether it is manager, coaches, players, scouts, etc. — al…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy experts fear a boom in coronavirus surveillance
"“My concern is that out of desperation we will turn to technology and put in place a massive surveillance apparatus at a tangible loss to civil liberties…
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Summer Infosec Opportunities and Resources for Students
The COVID-19 epidemic shut down much of the country during the peak time for summer internship hiring. Many students who had already lined up their summer plans…
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Robot v. Robot: Should AI Fight Fake News?
Tomorrow morning you get an audio message on your cell phone from The International New York Times: “Jerusalem: 1,400,000 New Coronavirus Cases!” Within minutes…
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Apple and Google partner on Bluetooth interoperability for COVID-19 tracing apps
"In response to the news, ACLU surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick said the effectiveness of contact tracing apps will depend on trust…
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Location-Tracking Firm Helping Trump Get Reelected Now Wants to Cash in on Coronavirus
"As the American Civil Liberties Union’s Jennifer Granick explained via email, ad tech companies have also never had to deal with high stakes or real accou…
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Millions of people love the video conferencing app Zoom and so do hackers
“They never really thought about security and privacy when they created this platform,” said Dr. Richard Forno, who is a cyber security expert and teaches at th…
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What are the biggest holes in data privacy that have been exacerbated by coronavirus?
"We've seen an explosion of efforts to create location-tracking techniques to fight the spread of COVID-19. The mobile advertising industry is legally…
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The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
""It's as though, in suddenly shifting from the office to work from home, we didn't so much move the conference room into our kitchens as into…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts slam child protection bill that risks rolling back encryption
""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Sta…
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…
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…