Guest EditorsAydin Aysu, North Carolina State University, USAScott Graham, US Air Force Institute of Technology, USA From a cybersecurity perspective, hardware has often been viewed as the trusted part...
Continue reading...Getting from Research to Practice
The field of medicine has discussed moving Research into Practice in many papers. I looked at commonalities in three papers before, this time I’m going to...
Continue reading...Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer into a BOMB!
Twenty years ago, the Weekly World News published an article that warned you that hackers can make your PC explode: Be warned! Having that device in...
Continue reading...Negative Results are a Good Thing
Before I discuss negative results, I want to make sure we’re all on the same page. Suppose you set up an experiment It’s a long and...
Continue reading...Practical Implementations Please
One of the goals of DTRAP is to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners. Accomplishing this is a difficult task, I’ve talked about problems in...
Continue reading...How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mirai?
In this post I talked about the motivations for DDOS. Political acts, extortion, revenge… all typical motivations. That doesn’t really account for the Mirai DDOS. The...
Continue reading...Minding the Air Gap
Once upon a time (I always wanted to start a blog post like that) the air gap considered a primary defense. If your computer wasn’t connected...
Continue reading...Special Issue on Fake News
Fake news, especially on social media, is now viewed as one of the main digital threats to democracy, journalism, and freedom of expression. Our economies are...
Continue reading...DDOS Me? No, DDOS You!
When someone is murdered, the detective usually asks the question “cui bono?”. Well, they may not ask it in Latin, but they want to know who...
Continue reading...Malware and Caves and Dragons, oh my!
In thispost I talked about sampling bias. I’m going to expand more on that subject, because I think it’s interesting and useful. Cavemen is a popular...
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