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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Giant Squid by Collecting Environmental DNA
The idea is to collect and analyze random DNA floating around the ocean, and using that to figure out where the giant squid are. No one is sure if this will actually...
From Schneier on Security
Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics, Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros...
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Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what you’re paying for is security. Right; it’s part of what we sell...
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Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
In what is surely an unthinking cut-and-paste issue, page 921 of the Brexit deal mandates the use of SHA-1 and 1024-bit RSA: The open standard s/MIME as extension...
From Schneier on Security
On the Evolution of Ransomware
Good article on the evolution of ransomware: Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others...
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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack
Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack...
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How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data
Interesting analysis of China’s efforts to identify US spies: By about 2010, two former CIA officials recalled, the Chinese security services had instituted a sophisticated...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Linguine allo Scoglio Recipe
Delicious seafood pasta dish — includes squid — from America’s Test Kitchen. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Small Giant Squid Washes Ashore in Japan
A ten-foot giant squid has washed ashore on the Western coast of Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
Bellingcat has investigated the near-fatal poisoning of Alexey Navalny by the Russian GRU back in August. The details display some impressive traffic analysis.confession...
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Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
The microphones on voice assistants are very sensitive, and can snoop on all sorts of data: In Hey Alexa what did I just type? we show that when sitting up to half...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Christmas Squid Memories
Stuffed squid for Christmas Eve. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my bloghere...
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NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)
The NSA has published an advisory outlining how “malicious cyber actors” are “are manipulating trust in federated authentication environments to access protected...
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More on the SolarWinds Breach
The New York Times has more details. About 18,000 private and government users downloaded a Russian tainted software update – a Trojan horse of sorts – that...
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Cellebrite Can Break Signal
Cellebrite announced that it can break Signal. (Note that the company has heavily edited its blog post, but the original — with lots of technical details — wasarticle...
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How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo’s Multi-Factor Authentication
This is interesting: Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user...
From Schneier on Security
US Schools Are Buying Cell Phone Unlocking Systems
Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents...
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Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware
Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels: As many as 25 private companies...
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Zodiac Killer Cipher Solved
The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
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