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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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Defending All the Targets Is Impossible
In the wake of the recent averted mass shooting on the French railroads, officials are realizing that there are just too many potential targets to defend. The sheer...
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Regularities in Android Lock Patterns
Interesting: Marte Løge, a 2015 graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, recently collected and analyzed almost 4,000 ALPs as part of her...
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Movie Plot Threat: Terrorists Attacking US Prisons
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts wins an award for his movie-plot threat: terrorists attacking the maximum-security federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth: In an Aug. 14 letter...
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Are Data Breaches Getting Larger?
This research says that data breaches are not getting larger over time. "Hype and Heavy Tails: A Closer Look at Data Breaches," by Benjamin Edwards, Steven Hofmeyr...
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The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking
Here's an interesting research paper that tries to calculate the differential value of privacy-invasive advertising practices. The researchers used data from a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari Ripieni Recipe
Nice and easy Calamari Ripieni recipe, along with general instructions on cooking squid: Tenderizing squid is as simple as pounding it flat -- if you're going to...
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NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World
Quantum computing is a novel way to build computers -- one that takes advantage of the quantum properties of particles to perform operations on data in a very different...
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SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance
Interesting: Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world? It's...
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No-Fly List Uses Predictive Assessments
The US government has admitted that it uses predictive assessments to put people on the no-fly list: In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge,...
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Nasty Cisco Attack
This is serious: Cisco Systems officials are warning customers of a series of attacks that completely hijack critical networking gear by swapping out the valid...
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AVA: A Social Engineering Vulnerability Scanner
This is interesting: First, it integrates with corporate directories such as Active Directory and social media sites like LinkedIn to map the connections between...
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Did Kaspersky Fake Malware?
Two former Kaspersky employees have accused the company of faking malware to harm rival antivirus products. They would falsely classify legitimate files as malicious...
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More on Mail Cover
I've previously written about mail cover -- the practice of recording the data on mail envelopes. Sai has been covering the issue in more detail, and recently received...
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Data and Goliath Confiscated from Chelsea Manning
One of the books confiscated from Chelsea Manning was a copy of Data and Goliath....
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Oracle CSO Rant Against Security Experts
Oracle's CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a blog post ranting against security experts finding vulnerabilities in her company's products. The blog post has been taken...
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NSA's Partnership with AT&T
There's a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, aboutNSA's longstanding relationship with AT&T. It's based on the Snowden documents...
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