Collaborate Disseminate
During my work day, I came upon a website that had a popup that identified the company I work for(basically saying "contact us X company"). This website was never previously visited, cookies were blocked and the company I work fo… Continue reading How can websites fingerprint the company I work for?
We’ve always known that phones—and the people carrying them—can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research shows that that’s not enough.
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego proved in a study published May 24 that minute imperfections in phones caused during manufacturing create a unique Bluetooth beacon, one that establishes a digital signature or fingerprint distinct from any other device. Though phones’ Bluetooth uses cryptographic technology that limits trackability, using a radio receiver, these distortions in the Bluetooth signal can be discerned to track individual devices…
Continue reading Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
Despite protective measures being in place, endangered fish species are regularly caught then sold in open markets. And while visually searching them out can be difficult, a new technology could more easily allow authorities to know which species are b… Continue reading Wastewater-borne DNA reveals endangered species in fish markets
A new client wants to conduct KYC checks on users on a basic level, meaning they will need to submit their ID card (Hong Kong) and proof of address. The client will simply check the documents manually before verifying the user.
I’m not ent… Continue reading Is there a service for storing sensitive user identity documents? [closed]
Researchers are using the reflection of the smartphone in the pupils of faces taken as selfies to infer information about how the phone is being used:
For now, the research is focusing on six different ways a user can hold a device like a smartphone: w… Continue reading Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies
We just stumbled across a wordpress-hosted blog (subdomain.wordpress.com that contains false claims and which we might want to sue in a legal (or inofficial) case.
Are there any technical solutions how we can identify the blog owner?
We al… Continue reading How to identify the owner of a wordpress-hosted blog? [migrated]
If someone steals your smartphone, the harder it is for them to unlock it, the better. New research shows how gait analysis could provide an added layer of security, by authenticating a user’s identity based on the way they walk.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Real-world testing suggests gait ID could boost smartphone security
If one uses a storage device (USB stick or SD card) on Windows, then it leaves "System Volume Information" folder in the file system. Would there be a way so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which computer the storage devi… Continue reading Could "System Volume Information" be used to find out on which system the storage was used?
If one formats the same USB stick (or SD card) to FAT32 file system on Windows, or on Linux, or on Android – would there be differences so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which OS or even on which specific machine the USB stick was… Continue reading Are there differences on how storages are formatted between different OS?
If one uses a micro SD card with a card reader on Windows, or on Linux, or on Android – would there be a way so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which computer the flash card was used by examining it?
I know OS can log which devices… Continue reading Which traces leave on a flash card after using it?