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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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Indiana's Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure
You can edit anyone's information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone's voter registration and...
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Murder Is a Relatively Recent Evolutionary Strategy
Interesting research in Nature. The article is behind a paywall, but here are five summaries of the research....
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Security Economics of the Internet of Things
Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Are Colorblind
All cephalopods are colorblind. 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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NSA Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information
The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It's a weird story: "But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether...
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Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA
News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don't believe those carefully worded statements about...
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Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures
This paper wins "best abstract" award: "Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures," by Shalev Ben David and Or Sattath: Abstract: The fisherman caught a quantum fish...
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Credit Cards with Changing CVVs
There's a new French credit card where the CVV code changes every hour....
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Is WhatsApp Hacked?
Forbes is reporting that the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer Wintego has a man-in-the-middle exploit against WhatsApp. It's a weird story. I'm not sure how...
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US and China in Cyberspace
This article on US/China cooperation and competition in cyberspace is an interesting lens through which to examine security policy....
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The Culture of Cybersecurity
Interesting survey of the cybersecurity culture in Norway. 96% of all Norwegian are online, more than 90% embrace new technology, and 6 of 10 feel capable of judging...
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Security Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User
Every few years, a researcher replicates a security study by littering USB sticks around an organization's grounds and waiting to see how many people pick them...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cannibal Squid
The Gonatus squid eats its own kind. 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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The Hacking of Yahoo
Last week, Yahoo! announced that it was hacked pretty massively in 2014. Over half a billion usernames and passwords were affected, making this the largest data...
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The Cost of Cyberattacks Is Less than You Might Think
Interesting research from Sasha Romanosky at RAND: Abstract: In 2013, the US President signed an executive order designed to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure...
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Malware Tries to Detect Test Environment
A new malware tries to detect if it's running in a virtual machine or sandboxed test environment by looking for signs of normal use and not executing if they're...
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Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces
Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they're blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate...
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Brian Krebs DDoS
Brian Krebs writes about the massive DDoS attack against his site. In fact, the site is down as I post this....
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