Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University; Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
An interview with Laura Catena, Elisabeth Forrestel, Jean-Baptiste Rivail, Mark Sahn, and Daniel A. Sumner, by Robert N. Stavins.
Abstract only. Full article forthcoming.
“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.”
“[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looked again and it
A tailored spear-phishing attack successfully convinced a Reddit employee to hand over their credentials and their one-time password, but soon after, the same worker notified security.
The hackers behind a nascent strain of ransomware hit a snag this week when a security researcher found a flaw in the payment system and, he says, helped victims save $27,000 in potential losses. Stanford University student and security researcher Jack Cable got a call Wednesday from a family friend, who is a doctor, asking for help because cybercriminals had locked the doctor’s computer. The doctor was preparing to pay the ransom when Cable began looking at the hackers’ payment system, according to Cable. The hackers were demanding 0.01 Bitcoin, or roughly $550 at the time, to unlock the doctor’s files. Cable, who served as a cybersecurity adviser to the Department of Homeland Security during the 2020 election, realized that if he changed one letter from lowercase to uppercase in the “transaction ID” the hackers were using to track payments, the system mistook the input for a victim that had […]
