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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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New Destructive Malware Bricks IoT Devices
There's a new malware called BrickerBot that permanently disables vulnerable IoT devices by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters...
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Fourth WikiLeaks CIA Attack Tool Dump
WikiLeaks is obviously playing their Top Secret CIA data cache for as much press as they can, leaking the documents a little at a time. On Friday they published...
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Shadow Brokers Releases the Rest of their NSA Hacking Tools
Last August, an unknown group called the Shadow Brokers released a bunch of NSA tools to the public. The common guesses were that the tools were discovered on an...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their Own RNA
This is just plain weird: Rosenthal, a neurobiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, was a grad student studying a specific protein in squid when he got an...
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Incident Response as "Hand-to-Hand Combat"
NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett described a 2014 Russian cyber attack against the U.S. State Department as "hand-to-hand" combat: "It was hand-to-hand combat...
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Many Android Phones Vulnerable to Attacks Over Malicious Wi-Fi Networks
There's ablog post from Google's Project Zero detailing an attack against Android phones over Wi-Fi. From Ars Technica: The vulnerability resides in a widely used...
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APT10 and Cloud Hopper
There's a new report of a nation-state attack, presumed to be from China, on a series of managed ISPs. From the executive summary: Since late 2016, PwC UK and BAE...
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Clever Physical ATM Attack
This is an interesting combination of computer and physical attack: Researchers from the Russian security firm Kaspersky on Monday detailed a new ATM-emptying attack...
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Encryption Policy and Freedom of the Press
Interesting law journal article: "Encryption and the Press Clause," by D. Victoria Barantetsky. Abstract: Almost twenty years ago, a hostile debate over whether...
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Acoustic Attack Against Accelerometers
Interesting acoustic attack against the MEMS accelerometers in devices like FitBits. Millions of accelerometers reside inside smartphones, automobiles, medical...
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Soon You'll Be Able to Hijack Weaponized Police Drones in Connecticut
Not content with having a fleet of insecure surveillance drones, the state of Connecticut wants a fleet of insecure weaponized drones. What could possibly go wrong...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 1887 Animal-Combat Print with Giant Squid
Great Victorian animal-combat scene featuring a giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Finding FBI Director James Comey's Twitter Account
An interesting story of uncovering an anonymous Internet social media account....
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Congress Removes FCC Privacy Protections on Your Internet Usage
Think about all of the websites you visit every day. Now imagine if the likes of Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon collected all of your browsing history and sold...
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Security Orchestration and Incident Response
Last month at the RSA Conference, I saw a lot of companies selling security incident response automation. Their promise was to replace people with computers --...
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Kalyna Block Cipher
Kalyna is a block cipher that became a Ukrainian national standard in 2015. It supports block and key sizes of 128, 256, and 512 bits. Its structure looks like...
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The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban
Last Monday, the TSA announced a peculiar new security measure to take effect within 96 hours. Passengers flying into the US on foreign airlines from eight Muslim...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid from Utensils
Available on eBay. 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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