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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
Terrorist False Alarm at JFK Airport Demonstrates How Unprepared We Really Are
The detailed accounts of the terrorist-shooter false-alarm at Kennedy Airport in New York last week illustrate how completely and totally unprepared the airport...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid
Photo of the cutest squid ever. 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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Unintentional DOS Attack against Car-Door Openers
Radio noise from a nearby neon-sign transformer made it impossible for people to unlock their cars remotely....
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More on Election Security
Andrew Appel has a good two-part essay on securing elections. And three organizations -- Verified Voting, EPIC, and Common Cause -- have published a report on the...
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Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment Illustrates Four Basic Phenotypes
If you've read my book Liars and Outliers, you know I like the prisoner's dilemma as a way to think about trust and security. There is an enormous amount of research...
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Major NSA/Equation Group Leak
The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we're just now learning about it. A group of hackers called "The Shadow Brokers" claim to have hacked the NSA, and are posting...
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Powerful Bit-Flipping Attack
New research: "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack," by Kaveh Razavi, Ben Gras, Erik Bosman Bart Preneel, Cristiano Giuffrida, and Herbert...
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Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware
Both Kaspersky and Symantec have uncovered another piece of malware that seems to be a government design: The malware -- known alternatively as "ProjectSauron"...
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Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows Backdoor
In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Not Killing New Zealand Sea Lions
Experts are blaming bacteria, not squid nets....
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Cyberattacks via Submarine
Some minimal information about the NSA's abilities to hack networks via submarine....
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Hacking Electronic Safes
Nice attack against electronic safes: Plore used side-channel attacks to pull it off. These are ways of exploiting physical indicators from a cryptographic system...
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Hacking Your Computer Monitor
Here's an interesting hack against a computer's monitor: A group of researchers has found a way to hack directly into the tiny computer that controls your monitor...
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Hackers Stealing Cars
We're seeing car thefts in the wild accomplished through hacking: Houston police have arrested two men for a string of high-tech thefts of trucks and SUVs in the...
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Scott Atran on Why People Become Terrorists
Scott Atran has done some really interesting research on why ordinary people become terrorists. Academics who study warfare and terrorism typically don't conduct...
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Hacking the Internet of Things: Locks and Thermostats
At Defcon last weekend, researchers demonstrated hacks against Bluetooth door locks and Internet-enabled thermostats....
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Malware from Kazakhstan
EFF has the story of malware from the Kazakhstan government against "journalists and political activists critical of Kazakhstan's authoritarian government, along...
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GPS Spoofing
It's easy to spoof GPS signals, and hard to defend against....
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