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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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SOMBERKNAVE: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SOMBERKNAVE (TS//SI//REL) SOMBERKNAVE is Windows XP wireless software implant...
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1971 Social Engineering Attack
From Betty Medsger's book on the 1971 FBI burglary (page 22): As burglars, they used some unusual techniques, ones Davidon enjoyed recalling years later, such...
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MAESTRO-II: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: MAESTRO-II (TS//SI//REL) MAESTRO-II is a miniaturized digital core packaged...
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Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals
I think this is a great hack: A man bought a first-class ticket and used it to have free meals and drinks at the airport's VIP lounge almost every day for nearly...
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JUNIORMINT: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: JUNIORMINT (TS//SI//REL) JUNIORMINT is a digital core packaged in both a mini...
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CSEC Surveillance Analysis of IP and User Data
The most recent story from the Snowden documents is from Canada: it claims the CSEC (Communications Security Establishment Canada) used airport Wi-Fi information...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirt
A T-shirt with a drawing of a squid reading. 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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IRATEMONK: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: IRATEMONK (TS//SI//REL) IRATEMONK provides software application persistence...
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Another Credit-Card-as-Authentication Hack
This is a pretty impressive social engineering story: an attacker compromised someone's GoDaddy domain registration in order to change his e-mail address and steal...
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HOWLERMONKEY: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HOWLERMONKEY (TS//SI//REL) HOWLERMONKEY is a custom Short to Medium rangehere...
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Side-Channel Attacks on Frog Calls
The male túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus uses calls to attract females. But croaking also causes ripples in the water, which are eavesdropped on -- both by...
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Catalog of Snowden Revelations
This looks to be very good. Add that to these three indexes of NSA source material, and these two summaries. This excellent parody website has a good collection...
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GINSU: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GINSU (TS//SI//REL) GINSU provides software application persistence for the...
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Trying to Value Online Privacy
Interesting paper: "The value of Online Privacy," by Scott Savage and Donald M. Waldman. Abstract: We estimate the value of online privacy with a differentiated...
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The Politics of Fear
This is very good: ...one might suppose that modern democratic states, with the lessons of history at hand, would seek to minimize fear or at least minimizeThey...
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TAWDRYYARD: NSA Exploit of the Day
Back in December, Der Spiegel published a lot of information about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group, including a 2008 catalog of hardware and software...
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US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) Condems NSA Mass Surveillance
Now we know why the president gave his speech on NSA surveillance last week; he wanted to get ahead of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Last week...
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EU Might Raise Fines for Data Breaches
This makes a lot of sense. Viviane Reding dismissed recent fines for Google as "pocket money" and said the firm would have had to pay $1bn under her plans for...
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SPARROW II: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: SPARROW II (TS//SI//REL) An embedded computer system running BLINDDATE tools...
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