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3 Aug 2017, 9:41 am
Nicholas Weaver assessed a bill introduced on August 1 by Senators Mark Warner, Cory Gardner, Ron Wyden, and Steve Daines entitled the “Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017,” and proposed three additions to the bill. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 2:30 pm
Nicholas Weaver explains how you can use XKEYSCORE to identify co-conspirators who are all using PGP. [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 4:35 am
Nicholas Weaver considered how iOS11 may affect Customs and Border Protection searches of devices crossing the border. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 1:48 pm
Nicholas Weaver argued that officials should ban the use of Kaspersky software on all governmental computers. [read post]
21 Oct 2017, 4:27 am
Nicholas Weaver argued that the WPA-2 flaw should not be concerning to average people. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
It is indisputable that defend forward failed to prevent the campaign As Nicholas Weaver notes in Lawfare, “This attack started in March with the first exploitation starting in April. [read post]
8 Dec 2017, 8:51 am
Nicholas Weaver asked why the NSA’s investigations into the Shadow Brokers the Vault 7 leaks have not yet led to any arrests. [read post]
29 Aug 2015, 6:50 am
Nicholas Weaver responded to Ben’s five hard encryption questions with a study of three notable security backdoors: TSA luggage locks, backdoors to telephone systems mandated by the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act, and the NSA’s Dual_EC_DRBG “trap-doored pseudo-random number generator. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:29 am
Nicholas Weaver analyzed the security vulnerabilities nicknamed “Spectre” and “Meltdown” and offered security recommendations related to the bugs. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 10:28 am
Nicholas Weaver examined the dangers of Trump’s insecure Android phone and suggested what action could be taken to rectify them. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 1:37 pm
Nicholas Weaver provides reflections on the recent NSA leak arrest of Reality Leigh Winner. [read post]
20 Oct 2018, 6:07 am
Nicholas Weaver argued that regardless of the accuracy (or lack thereof) of Bloomberg Businessweek’s supply chain hack article, the U.S. government should re-evaluate its procurement policies. [read post]
1 May 2017, 7:07 am
Namely, Julian Sanchez and Nicholas Weaver have suggested that increasing encryption of email traffic has made it more difficult to scan the contents of email in transit. [read post]
8 Aug 2015, 5:47 am
Paul provided us with a guest post from Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, who argued that the iPhone—”perhaps the most secure, general purpose communication device available”—is not nearly as impregnable as the FBI suggests. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:00 am
Nicholas Weaver deconstructed the recent NotPetya ransomware and considered possible perpetrators and motives behind the attack. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 12:31 pm
Nicholas Weaver offered advice for political campaigns as to how they can enhance their security with a few simple steps. [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 10:58 am
Nicholas Weaver analyzed the code behind a rumored NSA malware program known as “Sauron” and what we can learn about the NSA from Sauron’s contents. [read post]
13 May 2017, 8:51 am
Nicholas Weaver analyzed the most notable features of the attack, and Ben Buchanan, Stuart Russell, and Michael Sulmeyer asked what the attack can tell us about the VEP debate. [read post]
20 May 2017, 5:23 am
Nicholas Weaver posted about the Shadow Brokers’ decision to release their remaining NSA exploits through a subscription service. [read post]
28 May 2021, 2:01 pm
Nicholas Weaver argued that our current ransomware problem is truly a Bitcoin problem. [read post]
