MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack Obama FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be Resolved. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his ...

I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton’s corruption. ...

Cylance researchers have disclosed vulnerabilities in a commonly used voting machine that enable an attacker to reflash the firmware with a PCMCIA card and directly manipulate the voting tallies in memory.

Domain Keys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a highly regarded email security system that can be used to independently authenticate the contents and sender of an email that uses it. DKIM was developed and is widely deployed as an email server anti-spam ...

Microsoft has demonstrated why the FBI's desire for "Golden Key" backdoors allowing "good guys" to bypass security is such a bad idea: it inadvertently released its own keys to Windows tablets, phones, HoloLens and other devi ...

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” (Lewis Carroll)

Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series. The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures ...

This work aims to give journalists the tools to know when their smart phones are tracking or disclosing their location when the devices are supposed to be in airplane mode.

Searched quickly using the terms "DNC", "Trump", "wikileaks", and "Guccifer", and didn't find a local discussion happening. What is important is the fact that wikileaks did put forward a tweet for torrent ...

Ever since Tay was introduced to twitter, and how her equivalent Xiaoice did not meet the same type of reaction in China, there has been a lot of hyperbole from "just a simple chatbot" to "martyred for our sins". This is a bit of ...

Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) The increasing popularity of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies has made scalability a primary and urgent concern. We analyze how fundamental and circumstantial bottlenecks in Bitcoin limit the abili ...

Deep-learning software defeats human professional for first time.

Fraunhofer Institute gives clean bill of health to crypto tool used by millions.

Today, we’re excited to introduce the first US-issued bitcoin debit card, the Shift Card. The Shift Card is a VISA debit card that currently allows Coinbase users in twenty-four states in the U.S. to spend bitcoin online and offline at over 38 millio ...

Despite attempts to blame encryption for the Paris attacks, evidence suggests that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected strategist of the attacks, doesn't encrypt his communications or his phone.

I am back from Amsterdam after presenting our research at Blackhat “Even the LastPass Will be Stolen, Deal with It!” together with Alberto Garcia. We had a blast at the conference and we got great feedback from the audience. Many asked for the video, ...

The good news is that we finally have the complete text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The bad news is that it runs to 6,194 pages, not including dozens of "related instruments" and "side chapters." ere is no way th ...