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On the privacy impacts of publicly leaked password databases

RESEARCH PAPER / Jul 2017 / Security

Regularly, hackers steal data sets containing user identifiers and passwords. Often these data sets become publicly available. The most prominent and important leaks use bad password protection mechanisms, e.g. rely on unsalted password hashes, despite longtime known recommendations. The accumulation of leaked password data sets allows the research community to...

Flicker Forensics for Camcorder Piracy

RESEARCH PAPER / Aug 2016 / Security, Content Protection

Camcorder piracy refers to the process of using a camcorder to record a screen that displays copyrighted content. In contrast to the previous works that aimed at detecting the occurrence of camcorder piracy, this paper conducts an in-depth study of the luminance flicker that is naturally present in camcorded videos...

Impact of Screencasting on Video Temporal Synchronization

RESEARCH PAPER / Aug 2016 / Security, Content Protection

Spatio-temporal desynchronization remains a major challenge for watermarking system as it could impair the detection of the hidden payload. Over the years, several (non-blind) registration techniques have been proposed to realign the analyzed content prior to watermark detection and thereby achieve robustness against severe attacks such as display-and-camcord. Such techniques...

InterDigital Engineer Addressed M2M Security Concerns in CommNexus Panel

BLOG / Jul 2014 / Internet of Things, IoT, M2M, M2M security, security / Posted By: Stephanie Stocker

On June 26, CommNexus hosted a panel discussion, Making M2M: Secure and Economically Viable, in San Diego, CA. InterDigital’s Phillip Brown joined the panel, which included industry experts from Tagnos, ViaSat and Verizon Wireless and was moderated by a product manager from Qualcomm. The panel argued that one of the...

ETSI and TCG Agree To Collaborate For Telecommunications Standards

BLOG / May 2015 / NFV, Security / Posted By: Kelly Capizzi

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) recently signed an agreement with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to collaborate on the development of international standards for a secure global telecommunications infrastructure. TCG develops, defines and promotes open, vendor-neutral, global industry standards, supportive of a hardware-based root of trust, for interoperable trusted computing...

oneM2M™ – Security Solutions and Services for the IoT

BLOG / May 2016 / IoT, oneM2M, security, standards / Posted By: Kelly Capizzi

The Internet of Things (IoT) market continues to grow, but there is a major industry concern that could cause growth to the hit the breaks a little – security. IoT security is a multi-layered problem that includes added complexity from supplier diversity and legacy systems. In a recent Internet of...