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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
Fooling Facial Recognition Systems
This is some interesting research. You can fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses printed with elements of other peoples' faces. Mahmood Sharif, Sruti...
From Schneier on Security
Ultrasonic Hacking
Ad networks are surreptitiously using ultrasonic communications to jump from device to device. It should come as no surprise that this communications channel can...
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Regulation of the Internet of Things
Late last month, popular websites like Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and PayPal went down for most of a day. The distributed denial-of-service attack that caused the...
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Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography
The NSA has been abandoning secret and proprietary cryptographic algorithms in favor of commercial public algorithms, generally known as "Suite B." In 2010, an...
From Schneier on Security
Self-Propagating Smart Light Bulb Worm
This is exactly the sort of Internet-of-Things attack that has me worried: "IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction" by Eyal Ronen, Colin OFlynn, Adi...
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Election-Day Humor
This was written in 2004, but still holds true today....
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Lessons From the Dyn DDoS Attack
A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name provider Dyn. DDoS...
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Firefox Removing Battery Status API
Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here's the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated...
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Research into IoT Security Is Finally Legal
For years, the DMCA has been used to stifle legitimate research into the security of embedded systems. Finally, the research exemption to the DMCA is in effect...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Whale Hunts Squid
A sperm whale has been sighted in Monterey Bay, hunting squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
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Hacking in the Movies
New Atlas has a great three-part feature on the history of hacking as portrayed in films, including video clips. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s....
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Google Linking Anonymous Browser Tracking with Identifiable Tracking
Google's new ways to violate your privacy and -- more importantly -- how to opt out....
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Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt
Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine...
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Free Cybersecurity MOOC from F-Secure and the University of Finland
Looks interesting. Finnish residents can take it for credit....
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Edward Snowden's Boss at Booz Allen Hamilton Speaks
Interesting. I have no idea how much of it to believe....
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Another Shadow Brokers Leak
There's another leak of NSA hacking tools and data from the Shadow Brokers. This one includes a list of hacked sites. According to analyses from researchers here...
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A High-End Card-Reading Device
An impressive Chinese device that automatically reads marked cards in order to cheat at poker and other card games....
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