October 30

News

• Obama Warns of Power Grid’s Lagging Cyber Defenses
• EU Tells Countries to Protect Snowden as ‘Human Rights Defender’
• European Parliament Votes to Grant Snowden Amnesty
• Court Refuses to Shut Down NSA Program that it Declared Illegal
• Court Rejects ACLU’s Plea to End Collection of Telephone Data Early
• Privacy Groups Challenge Director of National Intelligence to Uphold Transparency Promise
• Cars That Talk to Each Other Are Much Easier to Spy On
• Hackers Infect MySQL Servers with Malware for DDoS Attacks
• Train Rider has his Contactless Card E-Pickpocketed
• Tor Project Launches Encrypted Anonymous Chat App to the Public
• Half of US Security Pros Feel Safe from Attack
• Senate Passes Cybersecurity Information Sharing Legislation

Law/Policy

• Senate Approves a Cybersecurity Bill Long in the Works and Largely Dated
• Regulating Real-World Surveillance
• The New Surveillance Discretion: Automated Suspicion, Big Data, and Policing
• New Data Security Requirements and the Proceduralization of Mass Surveillance Law after the European Data

Technical

• New Threats to SMS-Assisted Mobile Internet Services from 4G LTE Networks
• On Differentially Private Online Collaborative Recommendation Systems
• Johnny and Jane: Analyzing Secure Email Using Two Novice Users
• Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
• No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large

Reports / Blogs / Etc.

• Still Fuming Over HTTPS Mishap, Google Makes Symantec an Offer It Can’t Refuse
• 13 Million Plaintext Passwords Belonging to Webhost User Leaked Online
• EFF: We found 100+ License Plate Readers Wide Open on the Internet
• Cybersecurity Information (Over)Sharing Act?
• Why Is the NSA Moving Away from Elliptic Curve Cryptography?
• The Doxing Trend
• Yahoo’s “Crypto Witch” Exploits Web Security Feature, Learns Your Site History
• Researchers Use Wi-Fi to See Gestures, Identify Individuals Through Walls
• Our Veterans Deserve Better Infosecurity of Their Information
• Android Security Undermined by OEMs

October 23

News

• Feds Investigating Whether CIA Chief’s Email was Hacked
• Cybersecurity Firm Says Chinese Hackers Keep Attacking U.S. Companies
• How a Criminal Ring Defeated the Secure Chip-and-PIN Credit Card
• NSA Advisory Sparks Concern of Secret Advance Ushering in Cryptoapocalypse
• New Attacks on Network Time Protocol can Defeat HTTPS and Create Chaos
• Hillary Clinton is Wrong about Edward Snowden
• John McAfee Would Rather Laugh With The Sinners, But He’s A Cyber Security Saint
• Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death
• Researchers Prove Connected Cars Can Be Tracked – IEEE Spectrum
• FBI’s Advice on Cryptolocker? Just Pay The Ransom
• White House Backs Controversial Cyber Bill
• Western Digital Self-Encrypting Hard Drives Riddled with Security Flaws

Law/Policy

• The Deep Web and the Darknet: A Look Inside the Internet’s Massive Black Box
• Right to be Forgotten: Europe’s Cutting Edge Weapon to fight Google?
• Fourth Amendment Time Machines (And What They Might Say About Police Body Cameras)
• Automatic Justice? Technology, Crime and Social Control
• The Transparent Citizen

Technical

• Lamassu: Storage-Efficient Host-Side Encryption
• Know Your Phish: Novel Techniques for Detecting Phishing Sites and their Targets
• Symmetric Blind Decryption with Perfect Secrecy
• A Blind-Mixing Scheme for Bitcoin based on an Elliptic Curve Cryptography Blind Digital Signature Algorithm
• Quantum Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis

Reports / Blogs / Etc.

• Support Scams that Plagued Windows Users for Years Now Target Mac Customers
  
• These Researchers Have Discovered the Perfect Password that’s also Easy to Remember
• MacKeeper Buyers Seek Refunds in Droves after Lawsuit
• Forensic Analysis of Smart Card Fraud
• Hacking Fitbit
• Check your Facebook Settings to Make Sure Your Posts aren’t Searchable
• IBM Runs World’s Worst Spam-Hosting ISP?
• Flash, Java Patches Fix Critical Holes
• Edward Snowden’s Lawyer on the Government’s War on Whistleblowers
• The State of Apple Security

October 16

News

• Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data
• Kremlin’s Ties to Russian Cyber Gangs Sow US Concerns
• China Cuffs Hackers at Request of US Officials
• Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China
• “USB Killer” Flash Drive Can Fry Your Computer’s Innards in Seconds
• What Did Clinton Mean When She Said Snowden Files Fell Into the “Wrong Hands” ?
• Malaysia Arrests a Kosovo Hacker Linked to ISIS\
• Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
• Online Attacks on Infrastructure Are Increasing at a Worrying Pace
• Google, Facebook and Peers Criticize CISA Bill Ahead of Senate Consideration
• Overnight Cybersecurity: Hacks High on the Agenda for South Korean Visit

Law/Policy

• Is the Principle of Distinction Still Relevent in Cyberwarfare?
• Liability for Listening: Why Phone Hacking Is an Actionable Breach of Privacy
• Protecting Personal Information in the Era of Identity Theft: Just How Safe is Our Personal Information from Identity Thieves?
• Is the Principle of Distinction Still Relevent in Cyberwarfare?

Technical

• Combining Behavioural Types with Security Analysis
• Surveillance in the Clouds. The Emergence of Cloud Computing and the Reshaping of Data Protection Legislation
• Secure Image Steganography using Cryptography and Image Transposition
• SAFE: A Declarative Trust Management System with Linked Credentials
• Honeypot-powered Malware Reverse Engineering

Reports / Blogs / Etc.

• Apple Removes Several Apps that could Spy on Encrypted Traffic
• The Rise of .NET and Powershell Malware
• University of Cambridge Study Finds 87% of Android Devices are Insecure
• WiFi Jamming Attacks More Simple and Cheaper than Ever
• Federal Information Security: Agencies Need to Correct Weaknesses and Fully Implement Security Programs
• UL Creating Standard for Wearable Privacy and Security
• Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes
• Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)
• Microsoft Reports Rise in Law Enforcement Demands for Data

October 9

News

• Privacy Hawks See Momentum in Encryption Fight
• Experian Says 15M Have Info Stolen in Hack of T-Mobile Data
• Trade Deal Could Curb Cyber Theft, Advocates Say
• The Perils of Single Sign-on
• Cyber Bill Likely to Hit the Senate Floor Soon
• A Smart Bomb in Every Garage? Driverless Cars and the Future of Terrorist Attacks
• Report Finds Many Nuclear Power Plant Systems “Insecure by Design”
• Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, Whose Tech Is Central to Samsung Pay
• UK Doctors Routinely Send Sensitive Patient Info by Text
• Practical IT: How to Create a Culture of Cybersecurity at Work
• Amazon Makes it Easier to Lock Down the Cloud

Law/Policy

• Murphy Urges Movement on Privacy Bill after Safe Harbor Decision
• California Puts Email Privacy Lw on the Books
• Legal Ethics and Data Security: Our Individual and Collective Obligation to Protect Client Data
• Peeping into a Hacker’s Mind: Can Criminological Theories Explain Hacking?
• Constitutional Malware

Technical

• HTML5 Zero Configuration Covert Channels: Security Risks and Challenges
• A Fast Survey on Methods for Classification Anonymity Requirements
• Alternative Forms of Representation of Boolean Functions in Cryptographic Information Security Facilities
• Combining Behavioural Types with Security Analysis
• Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol

Reports / Blogs / Etc.

• Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance
• What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot
• Smartphones On Drones Can Hack Your Wireless Printer
• At Experian, Security Attrition Amid Acquisitions
• European Aviation Agency Warns of Aircraft Hacking
• Apple Officially Addresses YiSpecter iOS Malware Woes: Here’s The Deal
• CIO vs CSO: Allies or Enemies
• Obama Opts for “Good Cop” Approach with Encryption Backdoors
• It’s CyberSecurity Awareness Month: How Well Do You Know Security?

October 2

News

• Officials Worried Hackers Will Change Your Data, not Steal I
• As Online Data Theft Escalates, Banks Look to Retailers to Bear the Losses
• Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood
• If You Read Nothing Else Today Please Read Apple’s New Privacy Policy
• Tech Scrambles to Oppose Cyber Bill
• 15 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed in Breach of Credit Agency
• Spam Sent to Hillary Clinton Server Prompts Look at Suspected Russian Hacking
• VW Scandal Shows a Need for More Tech, Not Less\
• New Android Vulnerabilities Put Over a Billion Devices at Risk of Remote Hacking
• Dyreza Malware Steals IT Supply Chain Credentials
• Nerves Rattled by Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide [Updated]
• Why Edward Snowden’s Treaty to Stop Mass Surveillance is Doomed

Law/Policy

• Constitutional Malware
• Riders on the Storm: An Analysis of Credit Card Fraud Cases
• What is the Effect of Social Networking in the Private Workplace?
• The Dangers of Surveillance

Technical

• Analysis of Intelligent Classifiers and Enhancing the Detection Accuracy for Intrusion Detection System
• A Vulnerability in Google AdSense: Automatic Extraction of Links to Ads
• An Adaptive Secret Key-directed Cryptographic Scheme for Secure Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Semiring-based Specification Approaches for Quantitative Security
• Physical-Layer Cryptography Through Massive MIMO

Reports / Blogs / Etc.

• Why Word “Macro Malware” is Back, and What You Can Do About It…
• Paranoid Android Redux: “Going Dark” with Silent Circle’s Blackphone 2
• ATM Skimmer Gang Firebombed Antivirus Firm
• With Stolen Cards, Fraudsters Shop to Drop
• Researchers Create AI To Detect Malware In Shortened URLs On Twitter
• Celebrity Search Results Loaded with Malware, Study Shows
• Java is My Co-Pilot: Weighing the Security of Connected Cars
• Pentagon Looks to Analog Monitoring to Secure IoT
• Report: Target Failed on Security Basics
• Execs Ignore IT Staff’s Security Advice
• Millennials Are Cyber-Slackers When it Comes to Security
• Apple Gatekeeper Bug Suggests Sleepy Approach To OS Security
• Surveillance and Critical Theory
• Epidemic: Researchers Find Thousands of Medical Systems Exposed to Hackers