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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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NTSB Investigation of Fatal Driverless Car Accident
Autonomous systems are going to have to do much better than this. The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize...
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Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals
The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens...
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Fooling Voice Assistants with Lasers
Interesting: Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are vulnerable to attacks that use lasers to inject inaudible -- and sometimes invisible -- commands into the devices...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 80-Foot Steel Kraken Deliberately Sunk
The headline gives the story: "An 80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create an Artificial Coral Reef Near the British Virgin Islands." As usual, you can also use this squid...
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xHelper Malware for Android
xHelper is not interesting because of its infection mechanism; the user has to side-load an app onto his phone. It's not interesting because of its payload; it...
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Eavesdropping on SMS Messages inside Telco Networks
Fireeye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage effort to eavesdrop on text messages: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a...
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Details of an Airbnb Fraud
This is a fascinating article about a bait-and-switch Airbnb fraud. The article focuses on one particular group of scammers and how they operate, using the fact...
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Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using...
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Homemade TEMPEST Receiver
Tom's Guide writes about home brew TEMPEST receivers: Today, dirt-cheap technology and free software make it possible for ordinary citizens to run their own Tempest...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Triassic Kraken
Research paper: "Triassic Kraken: The Berlin Ichthyosaur Death Assemblage Interpreted as a Giant Cephalopod Midden": Abstract: The Luning Formation at Berlin Ichthyosaur...
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Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
Kathryn Waldron at R Street has collected all of the different resources and methodologies for measuring cybersecurity....
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A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer....
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WhatsApp Sues NSO Group
WhatsApp is suing the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group in California court: WhatsApp's lawsuit, filed in a California court on Tuesday, has demanded...
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ICT Supply-Chain Security
The Carnegie Endowment for Peace published a comprehensive report on ICT (information and communication technologies) supply-chain security and integrity. It's...
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Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
In an extraordinary essay, the former FBI general counsel Jim Baker makes the case for strong encryption over government-mandated backdoors: In the face of congressional...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
Interesting article and paper. 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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Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not...
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Mapping Security and Privacy Research across the Decades
This is really interesting: "A Data-Driven Reflection on 36 Years of Security and Privacy Research," by Aniqua Baset and Tamara Denning: Abstract: Meta-research...
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NordVPN Breached
There was a successful attack against NordVPN: Based on the command log, another of the leaked secret keys appeared to secure a private certificate authority that...
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