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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: Antifungal Squid-Egg Coating
The Hawaiian bobtail squid coats its eggs with antifungal bacteria. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
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WPA3
Everyone is writing about the new WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, and how it improves security over the current WPA2 standard. This summary is as good as any other...
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Department of Commerce Report on the Botnet Threat
Last month, the US Department of Commerce released a report on the threat of botnets and what to do about it. I note that it explicitly said that the IoT makes...
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Recovering Keyboard Inputs through Thermal Imaging
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, are able to recover user passwords by way of thermal imaging. The tech is pretty straightforward, but it's...
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PROPagate Code Injection Seen in the Wild
Last year, researchers wrote about a new Windows code injection technique called PROPagate. Last week, it was first seen in malware: This technique abuses the SetWindowsSubclass...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Unexpectedly Playing a Part in US/China Trade War
Chinese buyers are canceling orders to buy US squid in advance of an expected 25% tariff. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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The NSA's Domestic Surveillance Centers
The Intercept has a long story about the NSA's domestic interception points. Includes some new Snowden documents....
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Beating Facial Recognition Software with Face Makeup
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don't work with Juggalo makeup....
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California Passes New Privacy Law
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech...
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Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Fried Squid with Turmeric
Good-looking recipe. 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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Conservation of Threat
Here's some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay...
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Manipulative Social Media Practices
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From...
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IEEE Statement on Strong Encryption vs. Backdoors
The IEEE came out in favor of strong encryption: IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications...
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Bypassing Passcodes in iOS
Last week, a story was going around explaining how to brute-force an iOS password. Basically, the trick was to plug the phone into an external keyboard and trying...
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Secure Speculative Execution
We're starting to see research into designing speculative execution systems that avoid Spectre- and Meltdown-like security problems. Here's one. I don't know if...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Capturing the Giant Squid on Video
In this 2013 TED talk, oceanographer Edith Widder explains how her team captured the giant squid on video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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The Effects of Iran's Telegram Ban
The Center for Human Rights in Iran has released a report outlining the effect's of that country's ban on Telegram, a secure messaging app used by about half of...
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Domain Name Stealing at Gunpoint
I missed this story when it came around last year: someone tried to steal a domain name at gunpoint. He was just sentenced to 20 years in jail....
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