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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Building a Legal Botnet in the Cloud
Two researchers have built a botnet using free anonymous accounts. They only collected 1,000 accounts, but there's no reason this can't scale to much larger numbers...
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Security Vulnerability in the Tails OS
I'd like more information on this....
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Securing the Nest Thermostat
A group of hackers are using a vulnerability in the Next thermostat to secure it against Nest's remote data collection....
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Fingerprinting Computers By Making Them Draw Images
Here's a new way to identify individual computers over the Internet. The page instructs the browser to draw an image. Because each computer draws the image slightly...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Dissection
A six-hour video of a giant squid dissection from Auckland University of Technology. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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NASDAQ Hack
Long article on a sophisticated hacking of the NASDAQ stock exchange....
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US National Guard is Getting Into Cyberwar
The Maryland Air National Guard needs a new facility for its cyberwar operations: The purpose of this facility is to house a Network Warfare Group and ISR Squadron...
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Hackers Steal Personal Information of US Security-Clearance Holders
The article says they were Chinese but offers no evidence: The intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management was particularly disturbing because it oversees a...
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Security Against Traffic Analysis of Cloud Data Access
Here's some interesting research on foiling traffic analysis of cloud storage systems. Press release....
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Risks of Keyloggers on Public Computers
Brian Krebs is reporting that: The U.S. Secret Service is advising the hospitality industry to inspect computers made available to guests in hotel business centers...
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Legal Attacks Against Tor
Last week, we learned that the NSA targets people who look for information about Tor. A few days later, the operator of a Tor exit node in Austria has been found...
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GCHQ Catalog of Exploit Tools
The latest Snowden story is a catalog of exploit tools from JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group), a unit of the British GCHQ, for both surveillance...
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Studying Network Incident Response Teams Using Anthropological Methods
This is an interesting paper: "An Anthropological Approach to Studying CSIRTs." A researcher spent 15 months at a university's SOC conducting "ethnographic fieldwork...
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Friday Squid Blogging: This Unmanned Drone Footage Will Blow Your Mind
Neat video shot from a remote-operated vehicle. 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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"Tips For Crafting A Strong Password That Really Pops"
Funny, and the inspiration for this week's headlines. (Note that the image shows Password Safe on the screen.) And marginally related, here's an odd essay about...
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This Leaked NSA Memo Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
Okay, it's a parody: The Russian Federation is more complex. At a political level there's a lot of grandstanding. Operationally though, we share intelligence with...
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How Google Glass Snoops Steal Your Passcode
Researchers are refining the techniques of surreptitiously videoing people as they type in their passwords. Other hackers have shown it's possible to perform automated...
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This Common Home Appliance Can Compromise Your Entire Security
LIFX is a smart light bulb that can be controlled with your smart phone via your home's Wi-Fi network. Turns out that anyone within range can obtain the Wi-Fi password...
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NSA Spied on Prominent Muslim Americans
The latest story from the Snowden documents is about five prominent Muslim Americans who were spied on by the NSA and FBI. It's a good story, and I recommend reading...
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