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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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Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit
This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance...
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Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality...
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Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
New research on using specially crafted inputs to slow down machine-learning neural network systems: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks...
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Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System
New research: "Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System": Abstract: Democracy Live's OmniBallot platform is a web-based system for blank ballot...
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Phishing Attacks Against Trump and Biden Campaigns
Google's threat analysts have identified state-level attacks from China. I hope both campaigns are working under the assumption that everything they say and do...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Shark vs. Squid
National Geographic has a photo of a 7-foot long shark that fought a giant squid and lived to tell the tale. Or, at least, lived to show off the suction marks on...
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New Research: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships"
I just published a new paper with Karen Levy of Cornell: "Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships." Abstract: This article provides an overview of intimate threats...
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Zoom's Commitment to User Security Depends on Whether you Pay It or Not
Zoom was doing so well.... And now we have this: Corporate clients will get access to Zoom's end-to-end encryption service now being developed, but Yuan said free...
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Wallpaper that Crashes Android Phones
This is interesting: The image, a seemingly innocuous sunset (or dawn) sky above placid waters, may be viewed without harm. But if loaded as wallpaper, the phone...
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"Sign in with Apple" Vulnerability
Researcher Bhavuk Jain discovered a vulnerability in the "Sign in with Apple" feature, and received a $100,000 bug bounty from Apple. Basically, forged tokens could...
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Password Changing After a Breach
This study shows that most people don't change their passwords after a breach, and if they do they change it to a weaker password. Abstract: To protect against...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communication
Humboldt Squid communicate by changing their skin patterns and glowing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick
The 5GBioShield sells for £339.60, and the description sounds like snake oil: ...its website, which describes it as a USB key that "provides protection for your...
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Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert...
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Thermal Imaging as Security Theater
Seems like thermal imaging is the security theater technology of today. These features are so tempting that thermal cameras are being installed at an increasing...
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Websites Conducting Port Scans
Security researcher Charlie Belmer is reporting that commercial websites such as eBay are conducting port scans of their visitors. Looking at the list of ports...
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Bluetooth Vulnerability: BIAS
This is new research on a Bluetooth vulnerability (called BIAS) that allows someone to impersonate a trusted device: Abstract: Bluetooth (BR/EDR) is a pervasive...
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