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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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Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers
Lots of them weren't very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used "dmac" (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne...
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Factoring 2048-bit Numbers Using 20 Million Qubits
This theoretical paper shows how to factor 2048-bit RSA moduli with a 20-million qubit quantum computer in eight hours. It's interesting work, but I don't want...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Apple Fixes Squid Emoji
Apple fixed the squid emoji in iOS 13.1: A squid's siphon helps it move, breathe, and discharge waste, so having the siphon in back makes more sense than having...
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I Have a New Book: We Have Root
I just published my third collection of essays: We Have Root. This book covers essays from 2013 to 2017. (The first two are Schneier on Security and Carry On.)...
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Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat
Kaspersky has uncovered an Uzbeki hacking operation, mostly due to incompetence on the part of the government hackers. The group's lax operational security includes...
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New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS
Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting...
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Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking
Free Wi-Fi hotspots can track your location, even if you don't connect to them. This is because your phone or computer broadcasts a unique MAC address. What distinguishes...
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Cheating at Professional Poker
Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether...
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Illegal Data Center Hidden in Former NATO Bunker
Interesting: German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs...
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Speakers Censored at AISA Conference in Melbourne
Two speakers were censored at the Australian Information Security Association's annual conference this week in Melbourne. Thomas Drake, former NSA employee and...
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New Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Allows Jailbreaking
A new iOS exploit allows jailbreaking of pretty much all version of the iPhone. This is a huge deal for Apple, but at least it doesn't allow someone to remotely...
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Edward Snowden's Memoirs
Ed Snowden has published a book of his memoirs: Permanent Record. I have not read it yet, but I want to point you all towards two pieces of writing about the book...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Squirts Researcher
Cute video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
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More Cryptanalysis of Solitaire
In 1999, I invented the Solitaire encryption algorithm, designed to manually encrypt data using a deck of cards. It was written into the plot of Neal Stephenson's...
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Tracking by Smart TVs
Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers....
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Measuring the Security of IoT Devices
In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22...
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New Research into Russian Malware
There's some interesting new research about Russian APT malware: The Russian government has fostered competition among the three agencies, which operate independently...
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NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity
Glenn Gerstell, the General Counsel of the NSA, wrote a long and interesting op-ed for the New York Times where he outlined a long list of cyber risks facing the...
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Supply-Chain Security and Trust
The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general:...
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