Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google
September 7, 2019 | Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
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Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at UC Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute, summed up much of this criticism by tweeting: “The thing that bugs me most about Apple these days is that they are all-in on the Chinese market and, as such, refuse to say something like ‘A government intent on ethnic cleansing of a minority population conducted a mass hacking attack on our users.’"
Snake oil or genius? Crown Sterling tells its side of Black Hat controversy
August 29, 2019 | Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica
Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California-Berkeley has some doubts. "Not only is [Grant's approach] not optimal for factoring (the number sieve algorithm is substantially better)," he told me, "but the discrete log problem, on which the other major public key algorithms [including elliptic curve] are based, is not solved by factoring at all."
Fight Android malware by quitting Google Play and using F-Droid for Android apps
August 06, 2019 | Rae Hodge
Consider the words of Serge Egelman, the director of usable security and privacy research the International Computer Science Institute, which found 1,325 malicious Android apps. "Fundamentally, consumers have very few tools and cues that they can use to reasonably control their privacy and make decisions about it," Egelman said earlier this year. "If app developers can just circumvent the system, then asking consumers for permission is relatively meaningless."
No Means No
July 19, 2019 | Dominic Dhil Panakal
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android applications (apps) gathering data from devices despite being explicitly denied permission.
Android Apps Collect Your Data Without Permission, Report Finds
July 09, 2019 | Adam Smith
Serge Egelman, director of usable security and privacy research at ICSI, will reportedly be sharing the details of the 1,325 apps that have been gathering information without user permission at the Usenix Security conference in August.
More than 1,000 Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions
July 08, 2019 | Alfred Ng
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android apps that were gathering data from devices even after people explicitly denied them permission. Serge Egelman, director of usable security and privacy research at the ICSI, presented the study in late June at the Federal Trade Commission's PrivacyCon.
These are the sneaky new ways that Android apps are tracking you
July 03, 2019 | Rob Pegoraro
Officially, apps generally interact with Android through software hooks known as APIs, giving the operating system the ability to manage their access. “While the Android APIs are protected by the permission system, the file system often is not,” said Serge Egelman, research director of the Usable Security and Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute. “There are apps that can be denied access to the data, but then they find it in various parts of the file system.”
Facebook's currency Libra faces financial, privacy pushback
June 19, 2019 | Mae Anderson, Frank Bajak, Macy Gordon,Angela Charlton
Still, Facebook is sure to face an onslaught of liability concerns when it comes to anti-money laundering and identity verification, said Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute.
NSA warns Microsoft Windows users of cyber-attack risk
June 5, 2019 | Tara McKelvey, BBC News
The vulnerability in the older versions of Microsoft Windows, wrote the International Computer Science Institute's Nicholas Weaver, means that bad actors could "gain complete control of the remote system".
Startup Cuts Network Clutter With 'Lean NFV'
May 30, 2019 | Mitch Wagner, Light Reading
Nefeli, launched in 2017 with a $10 million series A funding round, is co-founded by company chairman Scott Shenker, who was previously the initial CEO of Nicira, an early software-defined networking company that sold to VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. Another co-founder is CTO Sylvia Ratnasamy, an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where her work focuses on the design and implementation of networked systems.