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What do you know on language-theoretic security?
Editorial What do you know on language-theoretic security?

Language-theoretic security or LangSec is a cyber-security approach that aims at eliminating cyber-risks from their programming roots. From this new perspective, all Internet cyber-risks originate in ad-hoc programming and untrusted inputs that form layer upon layer of coding with potential

When threats lay dormant in your wireless peripherals
Editorial When threats lay dormant in your wireless peripherals

It is an element of progress to have our mouse or keyboard wirelessly communicating with the computer, but have you ever wondered what dangers lie dormant in this efficient technology? A pair of Bastille researchers decided to verify just how vulnerable remote peripherals are to malicious attacks –

Acoustic fingerprinting, suspended between privacy and marketing tech
Editorial Acoustic fingerprinting, suspended between privacy and marketing tech

If the denomination of acoustic fingerprinting does not fully reveal the core concept, then maybe defining this type of fingerprinting as the mark/pattern based on a digital summary extracted from a short audio signal (summary that includes identifying, recognizing and tracking the audio source)

Have you considered improving your IR strategy?
Editorial Have you considered improving your IR strategy?

The Incident Response procedure (or IR strategy) is part of the cyber-security control measures. Following prevention and detection, the IR strategy is critical for the situations where the system has been affected by a breach or by another cyber-security event. A coherent IR plan should comprise

Password? No, thanks, I have mobile authentication!
Editorial Password? No, thanks, I have mobile authentication!

The future might replace passwords with mobile authentication. Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on 17 February this year that it launched a new standards effort in view of a different web authentication method – “a more secure and flexible alternative to password-based log-ins

How to escape the BEC scam – when authority emails equal fraud
Editorial How to escape the BEC scam – when authority emails equal fraud

Lately many cyber-security online sources warned enterprises of the business email compromise scheme (also known as the BEC scam), and they do this for a good reason: this fraud method has spiked over the last few months. BEC attacks are a particular type of spear phishing, and four organizations

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