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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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Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Defends Its Waters against Chinese Squid Fishing Boats
Squid geopolitics. 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 blog posting guidelines...
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IMSI-Catchers from Canada
Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers (and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow) to local governments...
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New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs). Short summary: it’s not just the FBI that can do it...
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NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking
The NSA released an advisory listing the top twenty-five known vulnerabilities currently being exploited by Chinese nation-state attackers. This advisory provides...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher
Interview with Mike Vecchione, Curator of Cephalopoda — now that’s a job title — at the Smithsonian Museum of National History. One reason they’re so interesting...
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Cybersecurity Visuals
The Hewlett Foundation just announced its top five ideas in its Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge. The problem Hewlett is trying to solve is the dearth of good visuals...
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Split-Second Phantom Images Fool Autopilots
Researchers are tricking autopilots by inserting split-second images into roadside billboards. Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev … previously...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be speaking at Cyber Week Online, October 19-21, 2020. I’ll be speaking at the IEEE Symposium...
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US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot
Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network. Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated...
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2020 Workshop on Economics of Information Security
The Workshop on Economics of Information Security will be online this year. Register here.
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Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches
One of the things we learned from the Snowden documents is that the NSA conducts “about” searches. That is, searches based on activities and not identifiers. A...
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Hacking Apple for Profit
Five researchers hacked Apple Computer’s networks — not their products — and found fifty-five vulnerabilities. So far, they have received $289K. One of the worst...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-like Nebula
Pretty astronomical photo. 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 blog posting...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Saving the Humboldt Squid
Genetic research finds the Humboldt squid is vulnerable to overfishing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing Near the Galapagos
The Chinese have been illegally squid fishing near the Galapagos Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG
Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today...
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On Risk-Based Authentication
Interesting usability study: “More Than Just Good Passwords? A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication“: Abstract: Risk-based Authentication...
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