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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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Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption
Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk...
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Troy Hunt on Passwords
Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eating More Squid
This research paper concludes that we'll be eating more squid in the future. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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How to Punish Cybercriminals
Interesting policy paper by Third Way: "To Catch a Hacker: Toward a comprehensive strategy to identify, pursue, and punish malicious cyber actors": In this paper...
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Buying Used Voting Machines on eBay
This is not surprising: This year, I bought two more machines to see if security had improved. To my dismay, I discovered that the newer model machines -- those...
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Was the Triton Malware Attack Russian in Origin?
The conventional story is that Iran targeted Saudi Arabia with Triton in 2017. New research from FireEye indicates that it might have been Russia. I don't know....
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ID Systems Throughout the 50 States
Jim Harper at CATO has a good survey of state ID systems in the US....
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Cell Phone Security and Heads of State
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Russians and the Chinese were eavesdropping on President Donald Trump's personal cell phone and using the...
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More on the Supermicro Spying Story
I've blogged twice about the Bloomberg story that China bugged Supermicro networking equipment destined to the US. We still don't know if the story is true, although...
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Security Vulnerability in Internet-Connected Construction Cranes
This seems bad: The F25 software was found to contain a capture replay vulnerability -- basically an attacker would be able to eavesdrop on radio transmissions...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Falsely Labeled as Octopus
Two New Yorkers have been charged with importing squid from Peru and then reselling it as octopus. Yet another problem that a blockchain-enabled supply-chain system...
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Detecting Deep Fakes
This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if...
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Android Ad-Fraud Scheme
BuzzFeed is reporting on a scheme where fraudsters buy legitimate Android apps, track users' behavior in order to mimic it in a way that evades bot detectors, and...
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China's Hacking of the Border Gateway Protocol
This is a long -- and somewhat technical -- paper by Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China's repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)...
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On Disguise
The former CIA Chief of Disguise has a fascinating video about her work....
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Are the Police using Smart-Home IoT Devices to Spy on People?
IoT devices are surveillance devices, and manufacturers generally use them to collect data on their customers. Surveillance is still the business model of the Internet...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Roasted Squid with Tomatillo Salsa
Recipe and commentary. 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...
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West Virginia Using Internet Voting
This is crazy (and dangerous). West Virginia is allowing people to vote via a smart-phone app. Even crazier, the app uses blockchain -- presumably because they...
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Government Perspective on Supply Chain Security
This is an interesting interview with a former NSA employee about supply chain security. I consider this to be an insurmountable problem right now....
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