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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Acoustical Attacks against Hard Drives
Interesting destructive attack: "Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs": Abstract: Among storage components, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Gonatus Squid Eating a Dragonfish
There's a video: Last July, Choy was on a ship off the shore of Monterey Bay, looking at the video footage transmitted by an ROV many feet below. A Gonatus squid...
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Amazon's Door Lock Is Amazon's Bid to Control Your Home
Interesting essay about Amazon's smart lock: When you add Amazon Key to your door, something more sneaky also happens: Amazon takes over. You can leave your keys...
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Security Vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit
The story of the recent vulnerability in Apple's HomeKit....
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Details on the Mirai Botnet Authors
Brian Krebs has a long article on the Mirai botnet authors, who pled guilty....
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GCHQ Found -- and Disclosed -- a Windows 10 Vulnerability
Now this is good news. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) -- part of GCHQ -- found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component)...
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Lessons Learned from the Estonian National ID Security Flaw
Estonia recently suffered a major flaw in the security of their national ID card. This article discusses the fix and the lessons learned from the incident: In the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Sea Otters Prefer Shrimp to Squid
At least, this one does. 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...
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Tracking People Without GPS
Interesting research: The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking...
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Security Planner
Security Planner is a custom security advice tool from Citizen Lab. Answer a few questions, and it gives you a few simple things you can do to improve your security...
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E-Mail Tracking
Good article on the history and practice of e-mail tracking: The tech is pretty simple. Tracking clients embed a line of code in the body of an email -- usually...
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Remote Hack of a Boeing 757
Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing...
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Surveillance inside the Body
The FDA has approved a pill with an embedded sensor that can report when it is swallowed. The pill transmits information to a wearable patch, which in turn transmits...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Embryos Coming to Life
Beautiful 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...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Certificate Pinning
New research found that many banks offer certificate pinning as a security feature, but fail to authenticate the hostname. This leaves the systems open to man-in...
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Germany Preparing Backdoor Law
The German Interior Minister is preparing a bill that allows the government to mandate backdoors in encryption. No details about how likely this is to pass. I am...
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Matt Blaze on Securing Voting Machines
Matt Blaze's House testimony on the security of voting machines is an excellent read. (Details on the entire hearing is here.) I have not watched the video....
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"Crypto" Is Being Redefined as Cryptocurrencies
I agree with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, "Cryptocurrencies aren't 'crypto'": Lately on the internet, people in the world of Bitcoin and other digital currencies...
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