In-brief: In this week’s podcast, Paul talks with Sven Dietrich of The John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York about the release of CIA hacking tools, FBI Director Comey’s talk on encryption and more.
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CIA Hacking Tools, Orwellian Internet of Things & G-Men can subpoena Memories?
Sven Dietrich of IEEE and City University of New York discusses the news of the week with Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts. Among the topics: the release of a trove of CIA hacking tools, James Comey’s speech in Boston decrying strong encryption and the Orwellian Internet of Things.
Robot Problems: Research Reveals Cybersecurity Woes
In-brief: a report by the firm IOActive warns that industrial and home robots may be vulnerable to remote, software based attacks.
9 Quintillion Tries Later: Researchers Crack SHA-1
In-brief: Researchers at Google and CWI Amsterdam say they produced the first “collision” of hashes produced with the SHA-1 algorithm, hastening the end of life for the 22-year-old encryption technology.
300 Billion Passwords? Internet of Things Growth poses Unprecedented Threat by 2020
In-brief: Password management is already a big challenge for consumers and businesses. That problem is poised to get much (much) worse, as the population of The Internet of Things explodes, a new survey finds.
