In early January, officials at the White House met to discuss the possibility of utilizing the current security algorithms which Facebook engineers use to identify and treat possible suicide risks on their site. The current algorithm is able to identify current behavioral patterns by Facebook users that coincide with known, documented qualities of individuals who …
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Twitter Turns NARC in 2016: Social Media Begins Informing Users of State Sponsored Attackers
Following a recent spike in state-sponsored cyber-attacks of more than 50 attendees of a prestigious cyber-security conference, the admins at Twitter set out to begin informing their users when accounts are targeted by known state-sponsored attackers via their social network. The event was the 2015 32C3 Conference hosted in Hamburg, Germany.[1] What’s 32C3 you ask? …
- February 9, 2016
- Alex Cook
How Copyright Laws are Turning the Internet of Things into a National Security Risk: Part II
To read part I of this post, click here. Over the summer, Jeep and Chrysler made headlines when they mandated a recall of recent model vehicles when it was discovered that their operating systems were susceptible to a remote attack. Researchers were able to not only manipulate the car’s GPS and console, but essentially take …
- December 11, 2015
- Alex Cook
