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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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Hacking Gesture-Based Security
Interesting research: Abdul Serwadda, Vir V. Phoha, Zibo Wang, Rajesh Kumar, and Diksha Shukla, "Robotic Robbery on the Touch Screen," ACM Transactions on Information...
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FTC Investigating Android Patching Practices
It's a known truth that most Android vulnerabilities don't get patched. It's not Google's fault. They release the patches, but the phone carriers don't push them...
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New Credit Card Scam
A criminal ring was arrested in Malaysia for credit card fraud: They would visit the online shopping websites and purchase all their items using phony credit card...
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Children of Spies
Fascinating story of Tim and Alex Foley, the children of Russian spies Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley....
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Economist Detained for Doing Math on an Airplane
An economics professor was detained when he was spotted doing math on an airplane: On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man -- with dark, curly hair, olive skin...
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NIST Starts Planning for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Last year, the NSA announced its plans for transitioning to cryptography that is resistant to a quantum computer. Now, it's NIST's turn. Its just-released report...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Firefly Squid in the News
It's a good time to see firefly squid in Japan. 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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Dilbert on Electronic Voting Machines
Accurate (the cartoon, not the machines)....
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White House Report on Big Data Discrimination
The White House has released a report on big-data discrimination. From the blog post: Using case studies on credit lending, employment, higher education, and criminal...
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Own a Pair of Clipper Chips
The AT&T TSD was an early 1990s telephone encryption device. It was digital. Voice quality was okay. And it was the device that contained the infamous Clipper Chip...
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$7 Million Social Media Privacy Mistake
Forbes estimates that football player Laremy Tunsil lost $7 million in salary because of an ill-advised personal video made public....
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Credential Stealing as an Attack Vector
Traditional computer security concerns itself with vulnerabilities. We employ antivirus software to detect malware that exploits vulnerabilities. We have automatic...
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Fake Security Conferences
Turns out there are two different conferences with the title International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2016), one real and one fake. Richard Clayton has...
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Vulnerabilities in Samsung's SmartThings
Interesting research: Earlence Fernandes, Jaeyeon Jung, and Atul Prakash, "Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications": Abstract: Recently, several competing...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Global Squid Shortage
There's a squid shortage along the Pacific coast of the Americas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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I'm Writing a Book on Security
I'm writing a book on security in the highly connected Internet-of-Things World. Tentative title: Click Here to Kill Everything Peril and Promise in a Hyper-connected...
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Documenting the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
In Data and Golliath, I talk about the self-censorship that comes along with broad surveillance. This interesting research documents this phenomenon in Wikipedia...
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Amazon Unlimited Fraud
Amazon Unlimited is a all-you-can-read service. You pay one price and can read anything that's in the program. Amazon pays authors out of a fixed pool, on the basis...
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