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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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Spear Phishing Attacks
Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results...
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CIA's Pandemic Toolkit
WikiLeaks is still dumping CIA cyberweapons on the Internet. Its latest dump is something called "Pandemic": The Pandemic leak does not explain what the CIA's initial...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as Prey
There's lots of video of squid as undersea predators. This is one of the few instances of squid as prey (from a deep submersible in the Pacific): "We saw brittle...
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WannaCry and Vulnerabilities
There is plenty of blame to go around for the WannaCry ransomware that spread throughout the Internet earlier this month, disrupting work at hospitals, factories...
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Passwords at the Border
The password-manager 1Password has just implemented a travel mode that tries to protect users while crossing borders. It doesn't make much sense. To enable it,...
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Post-Quantum RSA
Interesting research on a version of RSA that is secure against a quantum computer: Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta...
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Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison
This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the...
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Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
In 2013, a mysterious group of hackers that calls itself the Shadow Brokers stole a few disks full of NSA secrets. Since last summer, they've been dumping these...
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Tainted Leaks
Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid and Chips
The excellent Montreal chef Marc-Olivier Frappier, of Joe Beef fame, has created a squid and chips dish for Brit & Chips restaurant. As usual, you can also use...
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Forbes Names Beyond Fear as One of the "13 Books Technology Executives Should Have On Their Shelves"
It's a good list....
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Hacking the Galaxy S8's Iris Biometric
It was easy: The hackers took a medium range photo of their subject with a digital camera's night mode, and printed the infrared image. Then, presumably to give...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2017)
I'm in Cambridge University, at the tenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the...
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Ransomware and the Internet of Things
As devastating as the latest widespread ransomware attacks have been, it's a problem with a solution. If your copy of Windows is relatively current and you've kept...
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Hacking Fingerprint Readers with Master Prints
There's interesting research on using a set of "master" digital fingerprints to fool biometric readers. The work is theoretical at the moment, but they might be...
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ICE is Using Stingray to Track Illegal Immigrants
According to court documents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Stingray cell-site simulators to track illegal immigrants....
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The Future of Ransomware
Ransomware isn't new, but it's increasingly popular and profitable. The concept is simple: Your computer gets infected with a virus that encrypts your files until...
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North Korean Cyberwar Capabilities
Reuters has an article on North Korea's cyberwar capabilities, specifically "Unit 180." They're still not in the same league as the US, UK, Russia, China, and Israel...
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Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban
The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones...
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