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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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Comparing the Security Practices of Experts and Non-Experts
New paper: "'...no one can hack my mind': Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices," by Iulia Ion, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo. Abstract: The state...
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The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11
It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This...
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Fugitive Located by Spotify
The latest in identification by data: Webber said a tipster had spotted recent activity from Nunn on the Spotify streaming service and alerted law enforcement....
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Bizarre High-Tech Kidnapping
This is a story of a very high-tech kidnapping: FBI court filings unsealed last week showed how Denise Huskins' kidnappers used anonymous remailers, image sharing...
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New RC4 Attack
New research: "All Your Biases Belong To Us: Breaking RC4 in WPA-TKIP and TLS," by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens: Abstract: We present new biases in RC4, break...
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Stagefright Vulnerability in Android Phones
The Stagefright vulnerability for Android phones is a bad one. It's exploitable via a text message (details depend on auto downloading of the particular phone),...
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Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
This is an interesting article that looks at Hacking Team's purchasing of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities from a variety of sources: Hacking Team's relationships...
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Friday Squid Blogging: How a Squid Changes Color
The California market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens, can manipulate its color in a variety of ways: Reflectins are aptly-named proteins unique to the light-sensing...
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How an Amazon Worker Stole iPads
A worker in Amazon's packaging department figured out how to deliver electronics to himself: Since he was employed with the packaging department, he had easy access...
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Remotely Hacking a Car While It's Driving
This is a big deal. Hackers can remotely hack the Uconnect system in cars just by knowing the car's IP address. They can disable the brakes, turn on the AC, blast...
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Organizational Doxing of Ashley Madison
The -- depending on who is doing the reporting -- cheating, affair, adultery, or infidelity site Ashley Madison has been hacked. The hackers are threatening to...
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Malcolm Gladwell on Competing Security Models
In this essay/review of a book on UK intelligence officer and Soviet spy Kim Philby, Malcolm Gladwell makes this interesting observation: Here we have two very...
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Google's Unguessable URLs
Google secures photos using public but unguessable URLs: So why is that public URL more secure than it looks? The short answer is that the URL is working as a password...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Giving Birth
I may have posted this short video before, but if I did, I can't find it. It's four years old, but still pretty to watch. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From Schneier on Security
Using Secure Chat
Micah Lee has a good tutorial on installing and using secure chat. To recap: We have installed Orbot and connected to the Tor network on Android, and we have installed...
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ProxyHam Canceled
The ProxyHam project (and associated Def Con talk) has been canceled under mysterious circumstances. No one seems to know anything, and conspiracy theories abound...
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Crypto-Gram Is Moving
If you subscribe to my monthly e-mail newsletter, Crypto-Gram, you need to read this. Sometime between now and the August issue, the Crypto-Gram mailing list will...
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