Believe Half of What You See? Maybe not.
In an era of rampant cries of fake news, the aphorism that instructs us to “believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear” has engendered an appropriate amount of healthy skepticism.…
Tag Archives: cybersecurity
Don’t Phall Phor Phishing
It’s funny. It takes years of highly technical training to become a cybersecurity expert. For example, at Lewis, Computer Science students take 53 credit hours of rigorous coursework to prepare for jobs as cybersecurity engineers…
The Web Turns 30 Today: Time to Do Some Adulting
The World-Wide Web turns thirty years old today. Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist and computer scientist, devised a new way to access the Internet on March 12, 1989, that relied on hyperlinks to enable people…
Cats, Guacamole, and New Recipes for Cyber Attack
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google demonstrated how machine learning algorithms that use neural networks may be fooled to give erroneous results. By targeting these algorithms with inputs specifically tuned to trick them,…
Iran and the Specter of State-Sponsored Hacking: Where is the Concern?
Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage over the past two years, according to a recent study by Microsoft. They have targeted hundreds of companies through a variety of means, including…
A Password-Free Future
Passwords are one of the Internet’s weak links. A secret doesn’t stay one for long if you have to share it often, and passwords are, by definition, frequently shared secrets. While not all passwords are…
Good Things Happen When Data Science Meets Cybersecurity
These days, when your charge card is compromised, your bank knows about it almost instantly. It uses sophisticated algorithms to detect anomalous behavior. If it notices that your charge card was used in Denver, but…
Build that “virtual” wall?
The government showdown beginning in January and coming to a head this past month underscored a growing concern in our country. This was not the perceived threat at our southern border, even when most media…
Anti-Phishing Campaigns Are Working
A new report about cybersecurity released today offers a number of sobering statistics. One of the most concerning statistics would be that the number of phishing attacks grew by 36% over the past year, and…
A Comprehensive Computer Science Education
The field of Computer Science has gotten extremely broad. Long gone are the days when “Computer Science” meant simply “programming”. Programming is an essential tool for any computer scientist, regardless of their focus within the…