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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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Why Hyping Cyber Threats is Counterproductive
Robert Lee and Thomas Rid have a new paper: "OMG Cyber! Thirteen Reasons Why Hype Makes for Bad Policy."...
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How the Internet Affects National Sovereignty
Interesting paper by Melissa Hathaway: "Connected Choices: How the Internet Is Challenging Sovereign Decisions." Abstract: Modern societies are in the middle of...
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Verizon Tracking Mobile Internet Use
Verizon is tracking the Internet use of their phones by surreptitiously modifying URLs. This is a good description of how it works....
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Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling
Probably the best IT security book of the year is Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling. The book is an honorable mention finalist for "The Best Books" of the past 12...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Little Squid
Beautiful photo. 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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Hacking Team Documentation
The Intercept has published the complete manuals for Hacking Team's attack software. This follows a detailed report on Hacking Team's products from August. Hacking...
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The Risk of Unfounded Ebola Fears
Good essay. Worry about Ebola (or anything) manifests physically as what's known as a fight, flight, or freeze response. Biological systems ramp up or down to focus...
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FDA Guidance on Medical Device Cybersecurity
The Food and Drug Administration has released guidelines regarding the security of medical devices. I admit that I have not read it....
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Survey on What Americans Fear
Interesting data: Turning to the crime section of the Chapman Survey on American Fears, the team discovered findings that not only surprised them, but also those...
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Apple Copies Your Files Without Your Knowledge or Consent
The latest version of Apple's OS automatically syncs your files to iCloud Drive, even files you choose to store locally. Apple encrypts your data, both in transit...
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US Intelligence "Second Leaker" Identified
There's a report that the FBI has identified a second leaker: The case in question involves an Aug. 5 story published by The Intercept, an investigative website...
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Authentication Attack Against Credit Card Verification
Here's a physical attack against a credit card verification system. Basically, the attack disrupts the communications between the retail terminal and the system...
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Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher
Last week, Ron Rivest gave a talk at MIT about Spritz, a new stream cipher by him and Jacob Schuldt. It's basically a redesign of RC4, given current cryptographic...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squids Attack Submarine
A pair of Humboldt squids attacked a Greenpeace submarine. There's video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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The Ineffectiveness of Sealing the Border Against Ebola (and Other Viruses)
Good analysis....
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Analysis of Printer Watermarking Techniques
Interesting paper: Maya Embar, Louis M. McHough IV, and William R. Wesselman, "Printer watermark obfuscation," Proceeding RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual...
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The NSA's Role in Commercial Cybersecurity
Susan Landau has a new paper on the NSA's increasing role in commercial cybersecurity. She argues that the NSA is the wrong organization to do this, and we need...
From Schneier on Security