When amateurs do the job of a professional, the result is smart grids secured by dumb crypto.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
When amateurs do the job of a professional, the result is smart grids secured by dumb crypto
Security relies upon good programming and correct adherence to well-designed standards. If the standards are sloppy, then security has been compromised from the outset. Smart ...
Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker
There’s value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media (ALM), parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided ...
Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step
Apple and Starbucks are two of the world’s most trusted companies, but their reputations were recently tarnished thanks to some novice cybersecurity mistakes. Both setup syste...
Edinburgh leading world in beating online crime.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
Edinburgh leading world in beating online crime. The Scotsman
Cyber security surges ahead in the capital, says Bill Buchanan As we become more dependent on the internet by the day, the risks around it also increase, especially from cyber...
Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt
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Thuemmler, C. (2015)
Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt. http://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/hannovermesse/mobilfunk-5g-die-ferngesteuerte-welt/11615084-all.html
Erst die neue Mobilfunkgeneration 5G soll den Durchbruch für
die Industrie 4.0 bringen. Während die Forschung schon um die
ersten Patente wetteifert, fürchten Kritiker das End...
Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware
A widely disliked habit of PC vendors is their bundling of all manner of unwanted software into brand new computers – demo software, games, or part-functional trials. Faced wi...
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too
We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Bara...
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This m...
Traffic light hacking shows the Internet of Things must come with better security.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014)
Traffic light hacking shows the Internet of Things must come with better security
The growing extent to which our day-to-day infrastructure is computer-controlled and internet-connected leaves it open to the possibility that malicious hackers could intercep...
How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees.
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Buchanan, W. J. (2014)
How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees
TweetDeck, a Twitter app with millions of users, is back online after a rather surprising security scare. For several hours, the service was taken down all because a 19-year-o...