Roblox clamps down on chats and age checks as legal pressure builds

Roblox has long faced criticism over child safety on its platform. Now it has started settling with state attorneys over the issue, and the total is climbing fast. On April 21, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $12.2 million settlement with the child-focused online gaming...

Gus Simmons’s Memoir

Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty verification. His work is cited extensively in Applied Cryptography. He has written a memoir of growing up dirt-poor...

The FBI Says ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Bought 3D-Printed Gun Parts

A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online...

West Virginia Using Internet Voting

This is crazy and dangerous. West Virginia is allowing people to vote via a smart-phone app. Even crazier, the app uses blockchain -- presumably because they have no idea what the security issues with voting actually are...

state.wv.us XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.state.wv.us/pharmacy/index.cfm?fuseaction=Business.fasearchBusiness"'--! Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 11.12.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 71210 VIP website status:| No...

Inside An Online Banking Money Mule Scam

New evidence indicates one of the gangs chiefly responsible for bank attacks actually managed to hack directly into a West Virgina U.S. bank last year and siphon off tens of thousands of dollars with the aid of unsuspecting money mules. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...