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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Cheating in Marathon Running
Story of Julie Miller, who cheated in multiple triathlon races: The difference between cheating in 1980 and cheating today is that it's much harder to get away...
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Smartphone Forensics to Detect Distraction
The company Cellebrite is developing a portable forensics device that would determine if a smartphone user was using the phone at a particular time. The idea is...
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Hacking Lottery Machines
Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he...
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2016 Protocols Workshop
Ross Anderson has liveblogged the 24th International Workshop on Security Protocols in Brno, Czech Republic....
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Scams from the 1800s
They feel quaint today: But in the spring of 1859, folks were concerned about another kind of hustle: A man who went by the name of A.V. Lamartine drifted from...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cooking with Squid Ink
Risotto nero and more. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
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Security Lessons from the Game of Werewolf
I can't believe I haven't posted this before....
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Breaking Semantic Image CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: Suphannee Sivakorn, Iasonas Polakis and Angelos D. Keromytis, "I Am Robot: (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs": Abstract: Since...
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Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering
This works: Khan was arrested in mid-July 2015. Undercover police officers posing as company managers arrived at his workplace and asked to check his driver and...
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IBM Officially Owns Resilient Systems
It's officially final; IBM has "completed the acquisition" of Resilient Systems, Inc. We are now "Resilient: an IBM Company." As I expected when I announced this...
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CONIKS
CONIKS is an new easy-to-use transparent key-management system: CONIKS is a key management system for end users capable of integration in end-to-end secure communication...
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WhatsApp is Now End-to-End Encrypted
WhatsApp is now end-to-end encrypted....
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Data and Goliath Sale
I have a bunch of extra copies of my book Data and Goliath, and I am selling them at a discount. Details here....
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Smart Essay on the Limitations of Anti-Terrorism Security
This is good: Threats constantly change, yet our political discourse suggests that our vulnerabilities are simply for lack of resources, commitment or competence...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Composite Materials Based on Squid Beaks
Squid-based research is yielding composites that are both strong and flexible. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
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Reddit's Warrant Canary Just Died
Reddit has received a National Security Letter. I have long discounted warrant canaries. A gag order is serious, and this sort of high-school trick won't fool judges...
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Hacking Elections in Latin America
Long and interesting article about a fixer who hacked multiple elections in Latin America. This isn't election hacking as in manipulate the voting machines or the...
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ISIS Encryption Opsec
Tidbits from the New York Times: The final phase of Mr. Hame's training took place at an Internet cafe in Raqqa, where an Islamic State computer specialist handed...
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Lawful Hacking and Continuing Vulnerabilities
The FBI's legal battle with Apple is over, but the way it ended may not be good news for anyone. Federal agents had been seeking to compel Apple to break the security...
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