Security News

Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-22 11:37

Interesting analysis from The Grugq: Bottom Line Up Front Intelligence agencies must cooperate more rapidly and proactively to counter ISIS' rapid and haphazard operational tempo. Clandestine...

Bug in surveillance app opens Netgear NAS systems to compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-03-14 15:52

A security vulnerability in the ReadyNAS Surveillance Application can be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain root access to Netgear NAS systems, Sysdream Labs researcher Nicolas...

Thinking about Intimate Surveillance (Schneier on Security)
2016-02-26 13:33

Law Professor Karen Levy writes about the rise of surveillance in our most intimate activities -- love, sex, romance -- and how it affects those activities. This article examines the rise of the...

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...