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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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USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops
BusKill is designed to wipe your laptop (Linux only) if it is snatched from you in a public place: The idea is to connect the BusKill cable to your Linux laptop...
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Mailbox Master Keys
Here's a physical-world example of why master keys are a bad idea. It's a video of two postal thieves using a master key to open apartment building mailboxes. Changing...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video from the Gulf of Mexico
Fantastic video: Scientists had used a specialized camera system developed by Widder called the Medusa, which uses red light undetectable to deep sea creatures...
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Chrome Extension Stealing Cryptocurrency Keys and Passwords
A malicious Chrome extension surreptitiously steals Ethereum keys and passwords: According to Denley, the extension is dangerous to users in two ways. First, any...
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Mysterious Drones are Flying over Colorado
No one knows who they belong to. (Well, of course someone knows. And my guess is that it's likely that we will know soon.)...
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Hacking School Surveillance Systems
Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools' surveillance systems. "This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Bobtail Squid
Euprymna brenneri was discovered in the waters of Okinawa. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
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Chinese Hackers Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear;...
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ToTok Is an Emirati Spying Tool
The smartphone messaging app ToTok is actually an Emirati spying tool: But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone
Yet another squid acronym. 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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Lousy IoT Security
DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five...
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Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure Over the Internet
This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances...
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Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's...
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Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at SecIT by Heise in Hannover, Germany on March 26, 2020. The list is maintained...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid
Interesting stuff. 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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EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance
EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading...
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Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
Back in 1998, Tim May warned us of the "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse": "terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers." I tended to cast it slightly...
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Extracting Data from Smartphones
Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....
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