The SHB seminar on November 5th was kicked off by Tom Holt, who’s discovered a robust underground market in identity documents that are counterfeit or fraudulently obtained. He’s been scraping both websites and darkweb sites for data and analysing how people go about finding, procuring and using such credentials. Most vendors were single-person operators although … Continue reading SHB Seminar
I’ll be trying to liveblog the twelfth workshop on security and human behaviour at Harvard. I’m doing this remotely because of US visa issues, as I did for WEIS 2019 over the last couple of days. Ben Collier is attending as my proxy and we’re trying to build on the experience of telepresence reported here … Continue reading SHB 2019 – Liveblog
The seventeenth Security and Human Behavior workshop was hosted by Bruce Schneier at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the 4th and 5th of June 2024 (Schneier blog). This playlist contains audio recordings of most of the presentations, curated with timestamps to the start of each presentation. Click the descriptions to see them. On the … Continue reading Security and Human Behavior 2024
In 2008, I wrote a blog to introduce J-PAKE, a password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol (joint work with Peter Ryan). The goal of that blog was to invite public scrutiny of J-PAKE. Sixteen years later, I am pleased to say that no attacks on J-PAKE have been found and that the protocol has been used … Continue reading Owl, a new augmented password-authenticated key exchange protocol
The Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour is happening right now in Carnegie-Mellon University and I’ll be liveblogging it in followups to this post. The participants’ papers are here, while the liveblogs and papers from previous workshops are here.
The Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour is now an in-person event once more, after two years online. It’s happening in Cambridge and I’ll be liveblogging it in followups to this post. Edited to add: Here are the videos for sessions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
In August, Apple announced a system to check all our iPhones for illegal images, then delayed its launch after widespread pushback. Yet some governments continue to press for just such a surveillance system, and the EU is due to announce a new child protection law at the start of December. Now, in Bugs in our … Continue reading Bugs in our pockets?
I’ll be liveblogging the Workshop on Security and Human behaviour, which Alice Hutchings and I are having to run online once more this year. My liveblogs will appear as followups to this post. Edited to add: Here are the videos for sessions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
I’ll be liveblogging the workshop on security and human behaviour, which is online this year. My liveblogs will appear as followups to this post. This year my program co-chair is Alice Hutchings and we have invited a number of eminent criminologists to join us. Edited to add: here are the videos of the sessions.
Good security and cybercrime research often creates an impact and we want to ensure that impact is positive. This week I will discuss three papers on ethics in computer security research in the run up to next week’s Security and Human Behaviour workshop (SHB). Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin (Thomas, Pastrana, … Continue reading Three paper Thursday: Ethics in security research