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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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IoT Attack Against a University Network
Verizon's Data Brief Digest 2017 describes an attack against an unnamed university by attackers who hacked a variety of IoT devices and had them spam network targets...
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Duqu Malware Techniques Used by Cybercriminals
Duqu 2.0 is a really impressive piece of malware, related to Stuxnet and probably written by the NSA. One of its security features is that it stays resident in...
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Research into the Root Causes of Terrorism
Interesting article in Science discussing field research on how people are radicalized to become terrorists. The potential for research that can overcome existing...
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Survey Data on Americans and Cybersecurity
Pew Research just published their latest research data on Americans and their views on cybersecurity: This survey finds that a majority of Americans have directly...
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Hacking Back
There's a really interesting paper from George Washington University on hacking back: "Into the Gray Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense against Cyber Threats...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communication through Skin Patterns
Interesting research. (Popular article here.) 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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CSIS's Cybersecurity Agenda
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published "From Awareness to Action: A Cybersecurity Agenda for the 45th President" (press release here)...
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De-Anonymizing Browser History Using Social-Network Data
Interesting research: "De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks": Abstract: Can online trackers and network adversaries de-anonymize web browsing data...
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Security and Privacy Guidelines for the Internet of Things
Lately, I have been collecting IoT security and privacy guidelines. Here's everything I've found: "Internet of Things (IoT) Broadband Internet Technical Advisory...
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Do-It-Yourself Online Privacy/Safety Guide
This online safety guide was written for people concerned about being tracked and stalked online. It's a good resource....
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Predicting a Slot Machine's PRNG
Wired is reporting on a new slot machine hack. A Russian group has reverse-engineered a particular brand of slot machine -- from Austrian company Novomatic -- and...
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Profile of Citizen Lab and Ron Diebert
Here's a nice profile of Citizen Lab and its director, Ron Diebert. Citizen Lab is a jewel. There should be more of them....
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Cryptkeeper Bug
The Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has a rather stunning security bug: the single-character decryption key "p" decrypts everything: The flawed version is in Debian...
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Hacker Leaks Cellebrite's Phone-Hacking Tools
In January we learned that a hacker broke into Cellebrite's network and stole 900GB of data. Now the hacker has dumped some of Cellebrite's phone-hacking tools...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Whale Mistakes Plastic Bags for Squid
A whale recently died in Norway because there were thirty plastic bags in its stomach. Researchers believe it may have mistaken the plastic bags for squid. As usual...
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How the US Secret Service Breaks into Smart Phones
Here's an article about the US Secret Service and their Cell Phone Forensics Facility in Tulsa. I said it before and I'll say it again: the FBI needs technical...
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Pacemaker Data Used in Arson Conviction
Here's a story about data from a pacemaker being used as evidence in an arson conviction....
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Security and the Internet of Things
Last year, on October 21, your digital video recorder - or at least a DVR like yours - knocked Twitter off the internet. Someone used your DVR, along with millions...
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IoT Ransomware Against Austrian Hotel
Attackers held an Austrian hotel network for ransom, demanding $1800 in Bitcoin to unlock the network. Among other things, the locked network wouldn't allow any...
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