Secret life of passwords http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html Our habit to use one secret to encode another & how this was helpful in the aftermath of 911
Privacy in Pharmacogenetics…Personalized Warfarin Dosing
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical-sessions/presentation/fredrikson_matthew Model-inversion attack; differential privacy doesn’t help
Authors:
Matthew Fredrikson, Eric Lantz, and Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Simon Lin, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation; David Page and Thomas Ristenpart, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Awarded Best Paper!
How My Mom Got Hacked http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/how-my-mom-got-hacked.html The Cryptowall #crime business, complete w/ customer support & #Bitcoin payment suggestions
A list of #Truecrypt alternatives http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1245367 Shockingly, key program defunct after 10yrs. Now onto #FileVault , BitLocker & #PGP
https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
Useful Google/Gmail page with lots of relevant security history
The #NSA & #Snowden: Argues 2-factor authentication & 2-person authorization would’ve stopped theft of 1.7M documents
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext
Password change on mobile
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3114694?hl=en
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www.google.com/settings/security
#LastPass vs. #iCloud Keychain: fairly negative on $APPL’s approach, which is too safari-centric http://enva.to/K7lsQf via @macappstorm http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/synchronization/lastpass-vs-icloud-keychain
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6123/1026
A Call to Cyber Arms: Highlights the effectiveness of #stuxnet & the potential of future cyberweapons
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6123/1026 #security
Interesting discussion of various bits of computer security in relation to the United States and China. There is mention that by far the most successful weapon developed thus far is the Stuxnet virus, which has not been publicly claimed by the United States or Israel but is suggested to have originated with them. There is also mention of a Snowden-like character from China who gave an interview to a US publication in relation to the extent of Chinese hacking.
#NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption, hurting credibility of
private-company solutions v opensource http://nyti.ms/1aaj0QI MT @BrianBrownNet
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html