Security News

CyberCalifornia initiative to facilitate research and innovation (Help Net Security)
2016-02-29 11:00

More than ever, California stands at the forefront of new technologies based on the Internet of Things (IoT). We are also increasingly vulnerable, a fact underscored by breaches of corporations...

Judge Confirms DoD Funded Research to Decloak Tor Users (Threatpost)
2016-02-25 15:51

The Tor Project is dismayed at a District Court judge's confirmation that the government paid Carnegie Mellon University to research how to unmask users on the Tor network.

Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance (Schneier on Security)
2016-02-24 12:05

Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search," PNAS, Jan 2016: Abstract: Motivated...

Vision for a new generation of experimental cybersecurity research (Help Net Security)
2015-12-17 08:00

How do cybersecurity experts discover how to properly defend a system or build a network that's secure? As in other domains of science, this process involves hypothesis, experimentation, and analys...