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Lessons from the Gawker password leak
Recently, the Gawker family of web sites suffered a data breach where millions of password records were stolen and many of the passwords were cracked and published. This incident revealed, once again,...
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The psychology of political assassins
Wired has an interesting article on the psychology of political assassins. The US Secret Service has done a study of 83 people who killed, or attempted to kill, political figures. They found that the...
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Anatomy of a successful online attack
Ars Technica has an interesting article describing in detail how the group Anonymous was able to penetrate and embarrass the security firm HBGary and the rootkit.com site. This was not a particularly...
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Funding available for privacy research and education in Canada
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is calling for proposals for cutting-edge privacy research and public education projects in Canada. The application deadline is March 14, 2011. The...
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Authentication options
An interesting article from Dark Reading on authentication options you might want to consider....
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Upcoming events of interest
Here are some upcoming events that you might be interested in. Presenter: Privacy & Information Security Congress 2011, November 28-29, 2011, Ottawa. I will be presenting about privacy and...
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New book chapter: Harm mitigation from the release of personal identity...
A new book chapter by Jean Camp and myself is now available. It appears in a new collection edited by George Yee titled Privacy Protection Measures and Technologies in Business Organizations: Aspects...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)
Photo Credit: h.koppdelaney The Security and Human Behaviour event is on now in California. This is an interesting event that cross many traditional boundaries including computer science, psychology,...
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Anonymity, Encryption, and Free Expression
Photo Credit: Bindaas Madhavi Here is an interesting EFF article about the recent report from the Human Rights Council on anonymity, encryption, and free speech. Today, governments all around the world...
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The Best PowerPoint Presentations in the World
Haags Uitburo / Flickr This is old but still really useful. Amit Agarwal has provide some links to some great presentation examples from Slideshare. Study them and improve your presentations.
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Trends in Biometrics Research: Notes from BTAS 13
I am currently at the BTAS conference in Washington DC getting up to speed on the latest research on biometrics. Here are a few trends I have observed so far: an obvious lack of research on what I...
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I’m sorry. How do you like me now?
Karl Hab via Compfight I’m sorry that Canadians are so apologetic. Across four experiments with 730 people, superfluous apologies — that is, saying sorry for things for which you’re ultimately...
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Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
José Luís Agapito via Compfight From Dustin Kirkland, an interesting way to think about fingerprints: I could see some value, perhaps, in a tablet that I share with my wife, where each of us have our...
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Irony: Theodore Roosevelt on The State
I am visiting Washington DC this week and had a chance to walk to the Theodore Roosevelt memorial. Along with a statue of Roosevelt, the memorial contains four large stones carved with quotations. This...
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6 Reasons We Share Too Much Online
Garrett via Compfight An interesting article from Mother Jones on how we value, or don’t value, our privacy. The conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley is that nobody cares about online privacy, except...
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Elizabeth Loftus on embedding false memories in U.S. soldiers
Loftus’ work on memory continues to be one of the most important areas of Psychology. Here is an article describing a study of soldier’s memory after they were subjected to simulated capture and...
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Canadian municipalities and anti-science
Here is a disturbing article from the National Post on how some municipalities are practicing anti-science under pressure from fringe groups. Attacks on science: Canadian municipalities often more...
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CFP: Workshop on Usable Security, due Nov. 6
I am helping out on the Program Committee for the USEC’14 workshop. The workshop will take place as part of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium in February 2014 in San...
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Mistaken beliefs about crowds in emergencies
Stefano Corso via Compfight This is an interesting article about the beliefs held by police and safety professionals, and the actual behavior of crowds in emergency situations. Contrary to the myths,...
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Light a Candle for Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was an escape artist, magician, and showman. He was also an important skeptic famous for exposing the simply tricks used by mediums of his time. This article explains why we should light...
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