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Call for papers: WEIS 2010 — Submissions due next week

Call for papers, Security economics

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders, identified market failures dogging Internet security, and assessed investments … Continue reading Call for papers: WEIS 2010 — Submissions due next week →

Cybercrime gangs as tech startups

Academic papers, Cybercrime, Security economics

In our latest paper, we propose a better way of analysing cybercrime. Crime has been moving online, like everything else, for the past 25 years, and for the past decade or so it’s accounted for more than half of all property crimes in developed countries. Criminologists have tried to apply their traditional tools and methods … Continue reading Cybercrime gangs as tech startups →

Three Paper Thursday – GDPR anniversary edition

Academic papers, Legal issues, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economics, Three Paper Thursday

This is a guest contribution from Daniel Woods. This coming Monday will mark two years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. It prompted an initial wave of cookie banners that drowned users in assertions like “We value your privacy”. Website owners hoped that collecting user consent would ensure compliance and ward … Continue reading Three Paper Thursday – GDPR anniversary edition →

SHB 2019 – Liveblog

Academic papers, Legal issues, Privacy technology, Security economics, Security psychology, Social networks

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 Changing Cost of Cybercrime

Academic papers, Banking security, Cybercrime, Legal issues, Politics, Security economics

In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. We have now repeated our study, to work out what’s changed in the seven years since then. Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime will appear on Monday at WEIS. The period has seen huge changes, with the smartphone replacing as PC and … Continue reading The Changing Cost of Cybercrime →

Bitcoin Redux: crypto crime, and how to tackle it

Academic papers, Banking security, Cybercrime, Legal issues, Politics, Security economics

Bitcoin Redux explains what’s going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a “balance” and allow them to transact with others. However if Alice sends Bob a bitcoin, and they’re both customers of the same … Continue reading Bitcoin Redux: crypto crime, and how to tackle it →

When safety and security become one

Academic papers, Legal issues, Open-source security, Operating systems, Security economics, Security engineering

What happens when your car starts getting monthly upgrades like your phone and your laptop? It’s starting to happen, and the changes will be profound. We’ll be able to improve car safety as we learn from accidents, and fixing a flaw won’t mean spending billions on a recall. But if you’re writing navigation code today … Continue reading When safety and security become one →