No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer.
Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesn’t matter. Bradley Tusk and his Mobile Voting Foundation keep touting internet voting to journalists and election administrators; this whole effort is misleading and dangerous.
I am one of the many signatories.
Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it
Russia is scrambling to rein in the country’s sprawling illicit market for leaked personal data, a shadowy ecosystem long exploited by investigative journalists, police and criminal groups.
For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called probiv market – a term derived from the verb “to pierce” or “to punch into a search bar” – has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials, traffic police, bank employees and low-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
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© Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
© Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Kensington and Westminster councils investigating whether data has been compromised as Hammersmith and Fulham also reports hack
Three London councils have reported a cyber-attack, prompting the rollout of emergency plans and the involvement of the National Crime Agency (NCA) as they investigate whether any data has been compromised.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), and Westminster city council, which share some IT infrastructure, said a number of systems had been affected across both authorities, including phone lines. The councils shut down several computerised systems as a precaution to limit further possible damage.
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© Photograph: Artur Marciniec/Alamy
© Photograph: Artur Marciniec/Alamy
When courts ban people from accessing leaked data – as happened after the airline’s data breach – only hackers and scammers win
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It’s become the playbook for big Australian companies that have customer data stolen in a cyber-attack: call in the lawyers and get a court to block anyone from accessing it.
Qantas ran it after suffering a major cybersecurity attack that accessed the frequent flyer details of 5 million customers.
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© Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
© Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
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