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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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Hijacking Computers for Cryptocurrency Mining
Interesting paper "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking": Abstract: In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies...
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Dan Geer on the Dangers of Computer-Only Systems
A good warning, delivered in classic Dan Geer style....
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Israeli Security Attacks AMD by Publishing Zero-Day Exploits
Last week, the Israeli security company CTS Labs published a series of exploits against AMD chips. The publication came with the flashy website, detailed whitepaper...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered in Australia
A new species of pygmy squid was discovered in Western Australia. It's pretty cute. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
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Interesting Article on Marcus Hutchins
This is a good article on the complicated story of hacker Marcus Hutchins....
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Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the...
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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With
One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and...
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E-Mailing Private HTTPS Keys
I don't know what to make of this story: The email was sent on Tuesday by the CEO of Trustico, a UK-based reseller of TLS certificates issued by the browser-trusted...
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Greyshift Sells Phone Unlocking Services
Here's another company that claims to unlock phones for a price....
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Two New Papers on the Encryption Debate
Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season. "Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate," R Street Policy Study #133, by Charles...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Interesting Interview
Here's an hour-long audio interview with squid scientist Sarah McAnulty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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OURSA Conference
Responding to the lack of diversity at the RSA Conference, a group of security experts have announced a competing one-day conference: OUR Security Advocates, or...
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History of the US Army Security Agency
Interesting history of the US Army Security Agency in the early years of Cold War Germany....
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New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant
This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services....
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Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Interesting research: "Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale": Abstract: Smart contracts -- stateful executable objects hosted on blockchains...
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Intimate Partner Threat
Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice...
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Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Humboldt Squid with Electronic Bait
Video and short commentary. 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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Malware from Space
Since you don't have enough to worry about, here's a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity. Abstract: A complex...
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