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Designing Contact-Tracing Apps

Schneier on Security

Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps. Also see her excellent book on the topic.

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A Robot the Size of the World

Schneier on Security

It was connected to your smartphone. ChatGPT both surprised and amazed the world with its ability to understand human language and generate credible, on-topic, humanlike responses. In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats.

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Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities

Schneier on Security

This is why your computer and smartphone software is constantly being patched; software vendors are fixing bugs that are also vulnerabilities that have been discovered and are being used. There are challenges with that, of course, but there is already a healthy amount of academic literature on the topic -- and research is continuing.

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Bitdefender 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report – Attackers Increasingly Target the Human Layer

Hot for Security

Cybersecurity can often seem like a topic for the business sector. With most smartphone owners using an Android device, we noticed an unusual trend where a relatively large number of users started installing Zoom apps from non-official sources. But regular consumers are equally affected by cybercrime, directly or indirectly.

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A Single PAIN of Glass

CyberSecurity Insiders

In case you didn’t read it, the topic was data fatigue. Remember when you received your first smartphone (can anyone say Palm Treo)? Recently we wrote on open extended detection and response (XDR) platform and the problems it helps solve. There is a solution to the pain of multiple panes of glass. Open XDR is the answer.

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The State of Stalkerware in 2023–2024

SecureList

Stalkerware is commercially available software that can be discreetly installed on smartphone devices, enabling a perpetrator to monitor an individual’s private life without their knowledge. Once installed, stalkerware makes it possible to access the smartphone from anywhere.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

This is a complicated topic. You have little choice but to rely on the companies that build your computers and write your software, whether in your smartphones, your 5G wireless infrastructure, or your subway cars. There is definitely a national security risk in buying computer infrastructure from a country you don't trust.