Ross Anderson

@rossjanderson

Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University

Cambridge, England
Joined February 2010

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  1. Out today, my Security Engineering book chapter 12 tells the story of the last decade's frauds against card payments and online banking, and how the defences have adapted:

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  2. Jan 19

    Colleagues and I, in academia and in NGOs, have been warning about abuse of pupil data since 2006, while the ICO has been doing its best to look the other way and not pick a fight with the DfE:

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    Jan 14

    If Google and Apple were to follow the same lifecycles as Microsoft did for Windows 7, we’d still be receiving security patches for iOS4 and Android Donut (1.6) by now. Let that sink in...

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    Jan 6

    Great to see Ada Lovelace featured on Doctor Who! The Lovelace Medal, in memory of Ada, is the top award in UK computing, recognising outstanding contributions in advancing computing - with nominations closing on 24 January!

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    When says "Make America Great Again" a lot of people wonder what he's talking about. But using my detective skills and looking through history, I believe I've finally narrowed down the exact day Donald Trump thinks America was "great."

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  6. Jan 7

    The next chapter of Security Engineering v 3 is on inference control. It tracks the 40-year myth that sensitive personal data can be "anonymised" well enough to turn it into industrial raw material:

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    31 Dec 2019

    "Nobody knows how they got the USPS master key" This somehow feels relevant to the encryption backdoor debate. I'm trying to put my finger on how, but I'm drawing a blank. But what do I know? Create master encryption keys and everything will be fine...

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    Watch this octopus when it starts hitting colour changes. Incredible creature...

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  9. 29 Dec 2019

    After I gave a talk on the sustainability of Safety, Security and Privacy at 36C3, the audience voted to select the cover art for the 3rd edition of Security Engineering:

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    This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space. Credit:

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  11. 18 Dec 2019

    Facial recognition has improved by an order of magnitude since 2012. How does it work and what does it mean? See my new Security Engineering book chapter on biometrics:

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  12. 18 Dec 2019

    My Security Engineering book chapter on smart meters, smart tachographs, curfew tags and other monitoring equipment is now online:

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    11 Dec 2019
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  14. 10 Dec 2019

    The call for nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies is now open:

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  15. 6 Dec 2019

    My book chapter on side channels is now out – from Tempest though DPA, template attacks and TPM-fail, and all kinds of acoustic and optical leakage, to Meltdown and Spectre. Comments welcome:

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  16. 28 Nov 2019

    We've published a research paper on rental scams. UK students are postdocs are being taken for millions a year, and the police don't care:

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    ‘It takes only 2-5 years to destabilise a nation...The next stage is crisis. It may take only 6 weeks’ Listen to this ex KGB agent’s eerily prescient account of ‘active measures’ of how Russia seeks to destroy its enemies through chaos (C/o )

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  18. 13 Nov 2019

    Why does the Information Commissioner sit on her hands?

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    Imagine you go out for a meal. The menu is presented to you, but it is just a series of lists - ingredients, cooking techniques, kitchen equipment. You have no idea what the actual dishes being served are, or in what order. This is your average ‘privacy policy’

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  20. 13 Nov 2019

    The chapter on physical tamper resistance in Security Engineering v3 is now online:

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