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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid-Processing Facility
China is building the largest squid processing center in the world. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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Data Leakage from Encrypted Databases
Matthew Green has a super-interesting blog post about information leakage from encrypted databases. It describes the recent work by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharit...
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Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?
After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1...
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"Insider Threat" Detection Software
Notice this bit from an article on the arrest of Christopher Hasson: It was only after Hasson's arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors...
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Attacking Soldiers on Social Media
A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country...
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On the Security of Password Managers
There's new research on the security of password managers, speficially 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage...
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Friday Squid Blogging: A Tracking Device for Squid
Really: After years of "making do" with the available technology for his squid studies, Mooney created a versatile tag that allows him to research squid behavior...
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Gen. Nakasone on US CyberCommand
Really interesting article by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone (Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the Central...
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Reverse Location Search Warrants
The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cellphones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the...
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Details on Recent DNS Hijacking
At the end of January the US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning regarding serious DNS hijacking attempts against US government domains. Brian Krebs...
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Estonia's Volunteer Cyber Militia
Interesting -- although short and not very detailed -- article about Estonia's volunteer cyber-defense militia. Padar's militia of amateur IT workers, economists...
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I Am Not Associated with Swift Recovery Ltd.
It seems that someone from a company called Swift Recovery Ltd. is impersonating me -- at least on Telegram. The person is using a photo of me, and is using details...
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Cataloging IoT Vulnerabilities
Recent articles about IoT vulnerabilities describe hacking of construction cranes, supermarket freezers, and electric scooters....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sharp-Eared Enope Squid
Beautiful photo of a three-inch-long squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read...
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Reconstructing SIGSALY
Lessons learned in reconstructing the World War II-era SIGSALY voice encryption system....
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USB Cable with Embedded Wi-Fi Controller
It's only a prototype, but this USB cable has an embedded Wi-Fi controller. Whoever controls that Wi-Fi connection can remotely execute commands on the attached...
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Cyberinsurance and Acts of War
I had not heard about this case before. Zurich Insurance has refused to pay Mondelez International's claim of $100 million in damages from NotPetya. It claims it...
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Blockchain and Trust
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without...
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Genome
The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid's genome is half again the size of a human's. Other facts: The Hawaiian bobtail squid has two different symbiotic organs, and researchers...
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