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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
Commentary on US Election Security
Good commentaries from Ed Felten and Matt Blaze. Both make a point that I have also been saying: hacks can undermine the legitimacy of an election, even if there...
From Schneier on Security
GoldenEye Malware
I don't have anything to say -- mostly because I'm otherwise busy -- about the malware known as GoldenEye, NotPetya, or ExPetr. But I wanted a post to park links...
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A Man-in-the-Middle Attack against a Password Reset System
This is nice work: "The Password Reset MitM Attack," by Nethanel Gelerntor, Senia Kalma, Bar Magnezi, and Hen Porcilan: Abstract: We present the password reset...
From Schneier on Security
Food Supplier Passes Squid Off as Octopus
According to a lawsuit (main article behind paywall), "a Miami-based food vendor and its supplier have been misrepresenting their squid as octopus in an effort...
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Details from the 2017 Workshop on Economics and Information Security
The 16th Workshop on Economics and Information Security was this week. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks....
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Good Article About Google's Project Zero
Fortune magazine just published a good article about Google's Project Zero, which finds and publishes exploits in other companies' software products. I have mixed...
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The Women of Bletchley Park
Really good article about the women who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, breaking German Enigma-encrypted messages....
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Websites Grabbing User-Form Data Before It's Submitted
Websites are sending information prematurely: ...we discovered NaviStone's code on sites run by Acurian, Quicken Loans, a continuing education center, a clothing...
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Girl Scouts to Offer Merit Badges in Cybersecurity
The Girl Scouts are going to be offering 18 merit badges in cybersecurity, to scouts as young as five years old....
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CIA Exploits Against Wireless Routers
WikiLeaks has published CherryBlossom, the CIA's program to hack into wireless routers. The program is about a decade old. Four good news articles. Five. And a...
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Fighting Leakers at Apple
Apple is fighting its own battle against leakers, using people and tactics from the NSA. According to the hour-long presentation, Apple's Global Security team employs...
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Separating the Paranoid from the Hacked
Sad story of someone whose computer became owned by a griefer: The trouble began last year when he noticed strange things happening: files went missing from his...
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The FAA Is Arguing for Security by Obscurity
In a proposed rule by the FAA, it argues that software in an Embraer S.A. Model ERJ 190-300 airplane is secure because it's proprietary: In addition, the operating...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid Video
A paddleboarder had a run-in with an injured giant squid. Video. Here's the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From Schneier on Security
The Secret Code of Beatrix Potter
Interesting: As codes go, Potter's wasn't inordinately complicated. As Wiltshire explains, it was a "mono-alphabetic substitution cipher code," in which each letter...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Patents Measures to Prevent In-Store Comparison Shopping
Amazon has been issued a patent on security measures that prevents people from comparison shopping while in the store. It's not a particularly sophisticated patent...
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NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden
According to a recently declassified report obtained under FOIA, the NSA's attempts to protect itself against insider attacks aren't going very well: The N.S.A....
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Is Continuing to Patch Windows XP a Mistake?
Last week, Microsoft issued a security patch for Windows XP, a 16-year-old operating system that Microsoft officially no longer supports. Last month, Microsoft...
From Schneier on Security