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Do You Really Need to Cover Your Computer Webcam?
"Just beware that putting something over your camera lens isn’t a complete solution, according to Marshall Erwin, head of trust and privacy at Mozilla, whi…
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Cybersecurity experts: Risk of electronic voter fraud slim but real
"Similarly, Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and senior fellow at t…
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Should we be skeptical of government hack attributions?
"“Attribution may be based on more than just [a] digital trail in a specific case. It may also be based on a series of exchanges between a series of humans…
It probably wasn’t Russia who attacked the Internet today. That’s what’s scary.
As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infr…
The U.S. has just accused Russia of hacking America’s elections. That’s a very big deal.
Obama administration security officials have formally accused Russia of interfering with the U.S. presidential election. The Director of National Intelligence a…
Public-Private Cybersecurity
Abstract: Calls for public-private partnerships to address U.S. cybersecurity failures have become ubiquitous. But the academic literature and public debate ha…
Risky Business: When Governments Do Not Attribute State-Sponsored Cyberattacks
In the presidential debate last week, Hillary Clinton cited Russia’s responsibility for the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Two weeks ago, Sena…
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U.S. v. Auernheimer
Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employ…
The Security Debt Is Coming Due
There’s something particularly unusual about the recent revelations that foreign hackers successfully breached voter registration systems in Arizona and Illinoi…
Hacking Back Is Ethical in the Cyber Frontier
When cyberattacks come from abroad, there’s special panic. We often imagine them to be the opening volleys of a cyberwar that could escalate into a kinetic war.…
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Law enforcement hacking declared search under Fourth Amendment
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said the issue could be resolved by Congress first with the decisi…
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Apple vulnerability is surprising, but journalists should stick with iPhones
""Building secure software is a highly challenging task, even for a world-class team such as Apple's," Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow…