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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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Hardware Bit-Flipping Attacks in Practice
A year and a half ago, I wrote about hardware bit-flipping attacks, which were then largely theoretical. Now, they can be used to root Android phones: The breakthrough...
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How Powell's and Podesta's E-mail Accounts Were Hacked
It was a phishing attack....
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OPM Attack
Good long article on the 2015 attack against the US Office of Personnel Management....
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Malicious AI
It's not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream -- and the...
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UK Admitting "Offensive Cyber" Against ISIS/Daesh
I think this might be the first time it has been openly acknowledged: Sir Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, has said Britain is using cyber warfare in the...
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How Different Stakeholders Frame Security
Josephine Wolff examines different Internet governance stakeholders and how they frame security debates. Her conclusion: The tensions that arise around issues of...
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DDoS Attacks against Dyn
Yesterday's DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Which Squid Can I Eat?
Interesting article listing the squid species that can still be ethically eaten. The problem, of course, is that on a restaurant menu it's just labeled "squid."...
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President Obama Talks About AI Risk, Cybersecurity, and More
Interesting interview: Obama: Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself...
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Bypassing Intel's ASLR
Researchers discover a clever attack that bypasses the address space layout randomization (ALSR) on Intel's CPUs. Here's the paper. It discusses several possible...
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Security Lessons from a Power Saw
Lance Spitzner looks at the safety features of a power saw and tries to apply them to Internet security: By the way, here are some of the key safety features that...
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Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail
Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically...
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Virtual Kidnapping
This is a harrowing story of a scam artist that convinced a mother that her daughter had been kidnapped. More stories are here. It's unclear if these virtual kidnappers...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Barramundi with Squid Ink Risotto
Squid ink risotto is a good accompaniment for any mild fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration
On today's Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations...
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Free Online Cybersecurity Economics Course
TU Delft is running a free online class in cybersecurity economics....
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The Psychological Impact of Doing Classified Intelligence Work
Richard Thieme gave a talk on the psychological impact of doing classified intelligence work. Summary here...
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