In 2019, some cybercriminals used Machine Learning to steal money from a company. They did it by mimicking the voice of an executive in a phone...
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DDOS, Defense, and… Research
In my days in industry, I used to deal with the occasional DDOS. I was even woken up by them. Our Network Management System would think...
Continue reading...Erecting a DTRAP Column
Unlike most academic journals, DTRAP has two columns. This blog post is to talk about those columns and hopefully inspire you (my reader) to write one....
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The first time I reviewed a paper, I felt like I was back in school again. There was a timer, a proctor, a paragraph I had...
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A journal lives and dies not just by the people that submit to it, but the reviewers who read the papers and determine if they’re fit...
Continue reading...DTRAP Special Issue on Security & Privacy for Covid-19
Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) is a peer-reviewed journal that targets the prevention, identification, mitigation, and elimination of digital threats. DTRAP aims to bridge the...
Continue reading...DTRAP Special Issue on the Lifecycle of IoT (In)security
The IoT promises substantive socioeconomic benefits, but the low margin on many IoT devices means that, like other markets focused on the first mover advantage of...
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Call for Papers Digital Threats: Research and Practice Special Issue on Vulnerabilities Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) is a peer-reviewed journal that targets the prevention,...
Continue reading...Digital Threats…to the Internet
The Internet was created to survive a nuclear attack. It’s distributed, cooperative, and generally finds its way around breakpoints. The goal is for constant uptime, for...
Continue reading...False Positive/False Negative
I posted about the Base Rate Fallacy earlier this summer. I wanted to expand this discussion and talk about why I think False Positives and False...
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