COIS 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adblock Plus, Cryptocurrency, Paradise Papers
2 Jan 2018
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Not directly computer security, but the tl;dr would be . that more papers exposing offshore tax avoidance came to light. Also the same companies use the same tech to make bank machines. Cryptocurrency stuff talked in class there"s going to be softwarware trying to hack your computer to mine for bitcoins. In the last few weeks there"s been webpages encrypting cryptocurrency while on the browser. Protection side of their business released to the public their tools called assembly line. This program runs through all of the repositories to see if there"s a known threat or detectable threat in the les they"re working with. One of the lines in there is they run all their les through kapersky. Turns out our own cse is so incompetent that they"re handing data to the russians. Researchers found out critical aws in wpa2 (the only way of doing a secure wireless network).
