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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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SynoLocker Ransomware Demands Bitcoins
Network-attached storage devices made by Synology are being attacked, and their data encrypted, by ransomware that demands $350 in bitcoins (payable anonymously...
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Former NSA Director Patenting Computer Security Techniques
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander is patenting a variety of techniques to protect computer networks. We're supposed to believe that he developed these on his...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
A nebula that looks like a squid. 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 NSA's Patents
Here are all the NSA's patents, in one searchable database. If you find something good, tell us all in the comments....
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The Fundamental Insecurity of USB
This is pretty impressive: Most of us learned long ago not to run executable files from sketchy USB sticks. But old-fashioned USB hygiene can't stop this newer...
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Debit Card Override Hack
Clever: Parrish allegedly visited Apple Stores and tried to buy products with four different debit cards, which were all closed by his respective financial institutions...
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The Costs of NSA Surveillance
New America Foundation has a new paper on the costs of NSA surveillance: economic costs to US business, costs to US foreign policy, and costs to security. News...
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Conference on Deception
There was a conference on deception earlier this month. Sophie Van Der Zee has a summary of the sessions....
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Russia Paying for a Tor Break
Russia has put out a tender on its official government procurement website for anyone who can identify Tor users. The reward of $114,000 seems pretty cheap for...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Build a Squid
An interactive animation from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Building a Legal Botnet in the Cloud
Two researchers have built a botnet using free anonymous accounts. They only collected 1,000 accounts, but there's no reason this can't scale to much larger numbers...
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Security Vulnerability in the Tails OS
I'd like more information on this....
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Securing the Nest Thermostat
A group of hackers are using a vulnerability in the Next thermostat to secure it against Nest's remote data collection....
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Fingerprinting Computers By Making Them Draw Images
Here's a new way to identify individual computers over the Internet. The page instructs the browser to draw an image. Because each computer draws the image slightly...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Dissection
A six-hour video of a giant squid dissection from Auckland University of Technology. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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NASDAQ Hack
Long article on a sophisticated hacking of the NASDAQ stock exchange....
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US National Guard is Getting Into Cyberwar
The Maryland Air National Guard needs a new facility for its cyberwar operations: The purpose of this facility is to house a Network Warfare Group and ISR Squadron...
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Hackers Steal Personal Information of US Security-Clearance Holders
The article says they were Chinese but offers no evidence: The intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management was particularly disturbing because it oversees a...
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Security Against Traffic Analysis of Cloud Data Access
Here's some interesting research on foiling traffic analysis of cloud storage systems. Press release....
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