Kim Zetter

UPenn criminologist Richard Berk's recidivism-prediction algorithm

Friday, January 11, 2013

UPenn criminologist Richard Berk’s recidivism-prediction algorithmWired's Kim Zetter: To create the software, researchers assembled a dataset of more than 60,000 crimes, including homicides, then wrote an algorithm to find the people behind the crimes who were more likely to commit murder …

Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious PayloadKim Zetter, writing at Wired: The researchers don’t know if the attackers used the bank component in Gauss simply to spy on account transactions, or to steal money from targets. But given that the malware was almost …