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Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes (Schneier on Security)

2017-01-13 12:48

Interesting research: Sebastian Hellmeier, "The Dictator's Digital Toolkit: Explaining Variation in Internet Filtering in Authoritarian Regimes," Politics & Policy, 2016 (full paper is behind a...

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Internet freedom around the world keeps decreasing (Help Net Security)

2016-11-23 20:05

For the sixth year in a row, Internet freedom is declining. According to the latest Freedom on the Net report, 67 percent of all Internet users now live in countries where online criticism of the...

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How hackers will exploit the Internet of Things in 2017 (Help Net Security)

2016-11-14 14:00

The Internet of Things (IoT) is now a major force in the weaponization of DDoS. In 2016, IoT botnets have fueled a number of attacks, including the largest-ever DDoS attack, and that role will...

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Regulation of the Internet of Things (Schneier on Security)

2016-11-10 12:06

Late last month, popular websites like Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and PayPal went down for most of a day. The distributed denial-of-service attack that caused the outages, and the vulnerabilities...

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After cyber attacks, Internet of Things wrestles with making smart devices safer (Yahoo Security)

2016-11-08 11:43

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CloudConnect: Enabling the Industrial Internet of Things (Help Net Security)

2016-11-07 13:15

In this podcast recorded at IoT Solutions World Congress Barcelona 2016, Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security, talks about Unidirectional CloudConnect, an essential...

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