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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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Second WikiLeaks Dump of CIA Documents
There are more CIA documents up on WikiLeaks. It seems to be mostly MacOS and iOS. News article....
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Hackers Threaten to Erase Apple Customer Data
Turkish hackers are threatening to erase millions of iCloud user accounts unless Apple pays a ransom. This is a weird story, and I'm skeptical of some of the details...
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NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
Every year, the NSA has a competition for the best cybersecurity paper. Winners get to go to the NSA to pick up the award. (Warning: you will almost certainly be...
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New Paper on Encryption Workarounds
I have written a paper with Orin Kerr on encryption workarounds. Our goal wasn't to make any policy recommendations. (That was a good thing, since we probably don't...
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NSA Documents from before 1930
Here is a listing of all the documents that the NSA has in its archives that are dated earlier than 1930....
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WikiLeaks Not Disclosing CIA-Hoarded Vulnerabilities to Companies
WikiLeaks has started publishing a large collection of classified CIA documents, including information on several -- possibly many -- unpublished (i.e., zero-day)...
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Friedman Comments on Yardley
This is William Friedman's highly annotated copy of Herbert Yardley's book, The American Black Chamber....
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Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile MAC Randomization
Interesting research: "A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices When it Fails": Abstract: Media Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a privacy...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Catches Down in Argentina
News from the South Atlantic: While the outlook is good at present, it is too early to predict what the final balance of this season will be. The sector is totally...
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New Gmail Phishing Scam
The article is right; this is frighteningly good....
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Using Intel's SGX to Attack Itself
Researchers have demonstrated using Intel's Software Guard Extensions to hide malware and steal cryptographic keys from inside SGX's protected enclave: Malware...
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IoT Teddy Bear Leaked Personal Audio Recordings
CloudPets are an Internet-connected stuffed animals that allow children and parents to send each other voice messages. Last week, we learned that Spiral Toys had...
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France Abandons Plans for Internet Voting
Some good election security news for a change: France is dropping its plans for remote Internet voting, because it's concerned about hacking....
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Digital Security Exchange: Security for High-Risk Communities
I am part of this very interesting project: For many users, blog posts on how to install Signal, massive guides to protecting your digital privacy, and broad statements...
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Ransomware for Sale
Brian Krebs posts a video advertisement for Philadelphia, a ransomware package that you can purchase....
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The CIA's "Development Tradecraft DOs and DON'Ts"
Useful best practices for malware writers, courtesy of the CIA. Seems like a lot of good advice. General: DO obfuscate or encrypt all strings and configuration...
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FBI's Exploit Against Tor
The Department of Justice is dropping all charges in a child-porn case rather than release the details of a hack against Tor....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cooking Techniques
Here are some squid cooking tips. 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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