I have no idea how this paper came about, but I'm glad it did. The first author is a computer-science professor at Cambridge University specializing in privacy and systems security. The second author is a professional scam artist and stage magician who demonstrates real-world scams on unsuspecting victims as part …

For ten days at the beginning of 2009, a team of computer-security researchers managed to take control of a live, real-world, criminal botnet. Over those days, they observed (and recorded) the botnet harvest over 70GB of stolen data (password, bank-account number, etc.) from almost two hundred thousand subverted machines. Why …

Quick: what is the following text about?

... the result of the collapse of large portions of the three provinces to have a syntax which can be found in the case of Canada and the UK, for the carriage of goods were no doubt first considered by the British, and the …

Seeing as this is ostensibly a crypto blog, I'd like to comment on a paper from earlier this year: It's no secret-- Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions, by Stuart Schechter, A. J. Bernheim Brush, and Serge Egelman. This paper looks at the security of 'security …