EFF: NSA’s Support of Encryption ‘Disingenuous’
Cindy Cohn, the EFF’s Executive Director, called the NSA’s support of strong encryption disingenuous during a cybersecurity conference panel Wednesday.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Anonymity Network Riffle Promises Efficiency, Security
Riffle, a new anonymity network concocted by MIT researchers, can guarantee anonymity among a large group of users, as long as there’s one honest server.
MIT Launches Experimental Bug Bounty Program
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced this week that it will launch its own experimental bug bounty program.
A server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was being used to serve up attacks in a coordinated drive-by download campaign, according to research done by anti-virus firm Bitdefender.
The Web sites of some of the nation’s top universities were discovered to be serving up links to bogus online stores offering everything from popular software by Microsoft to student visas and Viagra, according to a report from security firm zScaler.
Sometimes news events just come together in a way that opens a window
– even if its a kind of cloudy window – onto the future. So it was this
week, as stories about a coming generation of wired automobiles
collided with some thought-provoking reports on the vulnerability of
said cars to traditional kinds of wireless attacks.
