Tag: collaboration
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VB2019 presentation: Building secure sharing systems that treat humans as features not bugs
There are certain paradigms that continue to permeate information security: Humans are the weakest link in security. Always assume breach. Privacy is dead. And along with these paradigms goes the tendency to lock down data. But rather than making our systems more secure this actually weakens our defences by curtailing innovation and collaboration. Andrea Limbago…
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New paper: Distinguishing between malicious app collusion and benign app collaboration: a machine-learning approach
Yesterday, we published a paper (that was presented at VB2016) on Android app collusions : the situation in which two or more apps work together to exfiltrate data from a device using the combined permissions of each app. Today, we publish a follow-up paper by the same (in fact, slightly larger) group of researchers, affiliated…
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New paper: Distinguishing between malicious app collusion and benign app collaboration: a machine-learning approach
Yesterday, we published a paper (that was presented at VB2016) on Android app collusions : the situation in which two or more apps work together to exfiltrate data from a device using the combined permissions of each app. Today, we publish a follow-up paper by the same (in fact, slightly larger) group of researchers, affiliated…
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NoMoreRansom’s first birthday demonstrates importance of collaboration
This week, the NoMoreRansom project celebrates its first anniversary and can look back to subtle but important successes in the fight against ransomware. The advice from security experts to ransomware victims tends to be twofold: keep backups, and don’t pay the ransom . The former is indeed very important advice, but isn’t really helpful when…
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NoMoreRansom’s first birthday demonstrates importance of collaboration
This week, the NoMoreRansom project celebrates its first anniversary and can look back to subtle but important successes in the fight against ransomware. The advice from security experts to ransomware victims tends to be twofold: keep backups, and don’t pay the ransom . The former is indeed very important advice, but isn’t really helpful when…