Crew Resource Management
In this talk, Nickolas Means tells the story of United Airlines Flight 232, which on July 19, 1989 crash-landed in Sioux City after suffering a mid-air engine explosion and consequent loss of...
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Stolen Bicycle / geklautes Fahrrad
Should anybody offer this bicycle for sale, please let me know. It is a 2018 model Bergamont Grandurance RD 5.0, frame size 61cm, frame number AB71241941. Condition mostly as sold, but with an added...
View ArticleComputer Crime in the Early 1980s
This clip from 1983 allows us a glimpse into the history of computer crime. Much of what is being said still sounds familar today, doesn’t it?
View ArticleWhat Blockchain Really Is
Blockchain is not a technology, it is a meme. The legend of a magical technology about to disrupt everything – e-very-thing! – emerged from an ecosystem of investment fraud, where it was originally...
View ArticleSecSE2020 Workshop
There will be another International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE) this year. The upcoming edition is going to take place in Dublin in conjunction with...
View ArticleDot Con
In early March, 2000 the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s reached its peak and began to burst. The craze that had fueled this bubble was not entirely natural. Major investment banks used the...
View ArticleCar Security Forty Years Ago
Another video clip from Thames TV with a security theme, this time reporting on the insecurity of car locks and drivers’ failure to lock their cars in the first place:
View ArticlePrivacy by Design or Poor Requirements Engineering?
Privacy – or security or any other desirable, ethereal property – by design sounds like a great thing to do. Alas, design is complicated and hard to guide or control as a process. One common...
View ArticleWearing Your Mask, Chernobyl-Style
More and more people are wearing masks as personal protective equipment to lower the risk of coronavirus infection. Together with the growing of lockdown hair and beards while hairdresser and barber...
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Bicycling Safely On The Road
Vehicular cycling advocate, John Forrester, recently passed away. The video below illustrates his ideas. In a nutshell, as a cyclist you should take yourself seriously as a road user, confidently claim...
View ArticleNew to cycling?
Are you new to cycling or taking it up again after a pause? GCN has some advice for you. All of this should be common sense but is apparently not: 5 Essential Skills Every Cyclist Should Learn How To...
View ArticleAttack Scenario ≠ Threat
The below video gives an example of what some people would call a threat model. For all I can tell the video leaves out some detail but is otherwise accurate. Why does it appear hilarious or silly...
View ArticleA (Trolley Problem) Trolley Problem
Algorithm ethics as a trolley problem: There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there is a trolley problem waiting. The trolley is headed straight for it,...
View ArticleHow To End Ransomware
Lisa Forte has a proposal how to end the ransomware pandemic, and it is a good one: Stop ransom payments. After all the perpetrators are doing it for the money, so their attacks become pointless if...
View ArticleHow Bank Robberies Work
Classic bank robbery has fallen out of fashion in this age of digital payment and fintech. Nevertheless, it is quite interesting to hear how crime actualy works as opposed to how people are imagining...
View ArticleAppointment with Disaster
Now show me a video like this for allegedly mankind-threatening AI.
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The Malevolent AI Masterplan (According to Copilot)
I asked Bing’s Copilot how a villain AI would take over the world. This is the answer I received from our new AI overlords: The Malevolent AI Masterplan Infiltration and Subversion: The villain AI...
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