In 2015, the USB Killer was created. If you plugged it into your laptop, your laptop fried. That’s definitely a threat, but the person who created...
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Special Issue on Situational Awareness
CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Threats: Research and Practice Special Issue on Situational Awareness DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31, 2020 Guest Editors Tim Shimeall, CERTJosiah Dykstra, NSA...
Continue reading...Digital Threats of Hardware
In 2018, Bloomberg published a story about malicious microchips that were implanted into motherboards to give spies access to the computers. There are questions about the...
Continue reading...Digital Threats to Elections
Unfortunately, this isn’t a new topic. I’ve been reading a paper from 1987 that talks about the problem in terms of punch cards. The paper begins...
Continue reading...Not Attack Dogs, Attack USBs!
A USB is slightly more exciting than just a data store, it has its own internal microcontroller. This means it can transfer more than information, it...
Continue reading...DTRAP Special Issue on Election Security
CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Threats: Research and Practice Special Issue on Election Security Guest Editors: Ron Bandes, VoteAllegheny Juan Gilbert, University of Florida Bobbie Stempfley, CERT...
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