Security and DRM: Digital Ballots, Windows Disasters, gSOAP, and DRM on the Web
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Digital ballots, outdated machinery leave us exposed to Russian hack {sic} round two
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Cyberattack on Medical Software Exposes Industry's Vulnerability [Ed: Windows]
The computer virus, called Petya, has sent ripples through health care, among the last industries to make the switch to digital record keeping and one of the most frequently targeted by hackers, said Michael Ebert, a partner with KPMG who advises health and life-science companies on cybersecurity.
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Yeah, WannaCry hit Windows, but what about the WannaCry of apps?
In a security context that’s a very scary thing… in fact in an IT manager or sysadmin context it’s equally scary. On one hand it might be that you have systems that you have left unpatched because you decided it was OK to do so. On the other hand you may be completely patched up-to-date and sit there smugly not realising that you’ve (say) made something insecure or unstable through a configuration error or some such.
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Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend
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Millions of IoT devices are vulnerable to widespread bug
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Serious Flaw Lets Strangers Hijack Your Security Cam
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'Millions of IoT gizmos' wide open to hijackers after devs drop gSOAP
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Millions of IoT devices hit by 'Devil's Ivy' bug in open source code library
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New Research Estimates Value of Removing DRM Locks
My co-authors and I at the University of Glasgow are investigating how restrictions on interoperability imposed by Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems might impact the market for goods. We are doing this as part of a larger project to better understand the economics of DRM and to figure out what changes would likely occur if the laws were reformed. Our recent working paper is titled ‘How much do consumers value interoperability: Evidence from the price of DVD players’. [Open Access here]
We use price data scraped from Amazon.com on all consumer DVD players listed since 2010 to analyse whether there is an increase in willingness-to-pay for players that have features related to interoperability. These features of interest include things like the lack of region controls, the ability to play legacy disc formats, and the ability to play new open file formats like Xvid. At first, DVD players might seem like an antiquated technology for such a study, but the product has many advantages: locked and unlocked players coexist side by side in the market and there are hundreds of competing devices on sale with similar capabilities, facilitating statistical analysis.
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Librarians Call on W3C to Rethink its Support for DRM
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has called on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider its decision to incorporate digital locks into official HTML standards. Last week, W3C announced its decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—a standard for applying locks to web video—in its HTML specifications.
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