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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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Encryption Backdoor Cartoons
Dilbert has a series: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. SMBC. And three more that make it clear this is a security vs. surveillance debate. Also this....
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Cheating in Bicycle Races with Tiny Hidden Motors
If doping weren't enough, cyclists are cheating in races by hiding tiny motors in their bicycles. There are many detection techniques: For its report, Stade 2 positioned...
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How Hacking Team Got Hacked
The hacker who hacked Hacking Team posted a lengthy description of how he broke into the company and stole everything. Two articles. ETA: This post originally had...
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Helen Nissenbaum on Regulating Data Collection and Use
NYU Helen Nissenbaum gave an excellent lecture at Brown University last month, where she rebutted those who think that we should not regulate data collection, only...
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GCHQ Gets Involved in Mundane Surveillance Matters
GCHQ detected a potential pre-publication leak of a Harry Potter book, and alerted the publisher. Is this what British national intelligence is supposed to be doing...
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Details about Juniper's Firewall Backdoor
Last year, we learned about a backdoor in Juniper firewalls, one that seems to have been added into the code base. There's now some good research: "A Systematic...
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Kuwaiti Government will DNA Test Everyone
There's a new law that will enforce DNA testing for everyone: citizens, expatriates, and visitors. They promise that the program "does not include genealogical...
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Security Risks of Shortened URLs
Shortened URLs, produced by services like bit.ly and goo.gl, can be brute-forced. And searching random shortened URLs yields all sorts of secret documents. Plus...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Replicating Reflecting Squid Tissue
New research. 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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IRS Security
Monday is Tax Day. Many of us are thinking about our taxes. Are they too high or too low? What's our money being spent on? Do we have a government worth paying...
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Cheating in Marathon Running
Story of Julie Miller, who cheated in multiple triathlon races: The difference between cheating in 1980 and cheating today is that it's much harder to get away...
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Smartphone Forensics to Detect Distraction
The company Cellebrite is developing a portable forensics device that would determine if a smartphone user was using the phone at a particular time. The idea is...
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Hacking Lottery Machines
Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he...
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2016 Protocols Workshop
Ross Anderson has liveblogged the 24th International Workshop on Security Protocols in Brno, Czech Republic....
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Scams from the 1800s
They feel quaint today: But in the spring of 1859, folks were concerned about another kind of hustle: A man who went by the name of A.V. Lamartine drifted from...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cooking with Squid Ink
Risotto nero and more. 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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Security Lessons from the Game of Werewolf
I can't believe I haven't posted this before....
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Breaking Semantic Image CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: Suphannee Sivakorn, Iasonas Polakis and Angelos D. Keromytis, "I Am Robot: (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs": Abstract: Since...
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Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering
This works: Khan was arrested in mid-July 2015. Undercover police officers posing as company managers arrived at his workplace and asked to check his driver and...
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