Washington becomes first state to pass law on restricted use of facial recognition technology
CEO Eric Yuan admits platform has been overwhelmed by new users
Announcement After countless evenings and weekends in coffee shops, and multiple vacations with the laptop, I’m excited to announce that my first book has been published. It took 18 months from writing the first words (at Victrola Coffee Roasters on Capitol Hill by the way) to finishing this project...
Civil society urges governments to respect human rights amidst surveillance crackdown
Tax office warns of email, text, phone, social and in person scams
TL;DR: We have improved Echidna with tons of new features and enhancements since it was released—and there’s more to come. Two years ago, we open-sourced Echidna, our property-based smart contract fuzzer. Echidna is one of the tools we use most in smart contract assessments. According to our records...
New skimmer MakeFrame detected as millions shop from home amid COVID-19 outbreak
Researchers find user data of 14 million Key Ring app users on five unsecured Amazon Buckets
(This posting is cross-posted between the Zeek blog and the Trail of Bits blog). The Zeek Network Security Monitor provides a powerful open-source platform for network traffic analysis. However, from its network vantage point, Zeek lacks access to host-level semantics, such as the process and user a...
Richmond residents warned over fraudulent quarantine fine notification texts
Organizers plan to host event later in the year
A few weeks ago, we went to the 24th Financial Cryptography (FC) conference and the Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC), where we presented our work on smart contract bug categorization (see our executive summary) and a poster on Echidna. Although FC is not a blockchain conference, it feature...
As #COVID19 home working surges, cyber-criminals look to cash in
Microsoft alerts several dozen healthcare organizations
Supreme Court ruling means employers could still be sued
Hacking challenge with $2,850 prize will take place on April 6
Affordacare patient records allegedly published online, but clinic tells patients their data was unaffected by a recent data breach
New research finds more ransomware victims are paying their cyber-attackers
UK business data could be at risk due to a lack of legislative knowledge
Beijing official spread fake news that virus is a US military weapon