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 ...

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 ...

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... 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 ...