Dear Readers,
The season has turned as the wobbly axis of this gyroscope called Earth shifts once again. This brings us to notice that September 2022 is National Insider Threat Awareness Month! As you watch leaves turn to reddened gold, beware that Jack Frost might be hijacking your router.
Election season draws near, and the practical security of voting technology is under scrutiny. I cannot help but wonder if public trust could have been gained years ago through transparency and open designs for the devices and software. Today, we have a situation in which the challenges to vote counts are so numerous and contentious that they strain the capacity of election entities to cope with the disputes. Sic transit democracy in a sea of recounts.
Two deadlines for submitting papers for consideration for the 2023 Security and Privacy Symposium have passed, and the third and final deadline in December 2. Bring all your great research results to S&P, or at least plan on being there next May to hear all about it.
In anticipation of Halloween, we celebrate Macbeth
Wickedware This Way Comes
Double, double toil and trouble;
Shift the bits and make them bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
Overclock and make it bake.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Blockchains might protect the log.
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Fight off DDOS, quench the ping.
Rootkits running in the cloud.
Viral evil rages proud.