Security News

Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-30 11:27

Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative Archival Samples":...

Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-08 11:09

Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been...

Privacy Proponents Rally In Favor of Tracking Protection in Firefox (Threatpost)
2015-06-03 18:21

Privacy advocates are calling on Mozilla to better deploy Tracking Protection, a technology that offers more stringent privacy and speeds up page loads by blocking requests to tracking domains, in...

Week in review: Drone detection, crypto wars, and tracking wearable tech (Help Net Security)
2015-06-01 05:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphones Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated ho...