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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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Denuvo DRM Cracked within a Day of Release
Denuvo is probably the best digital-rights management system, used to protect computer games. It's regularly cracked within a day. If Denuvo can no longer provide...
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Security Flaws in Children's Smart Watches
The Norwegian Security Council has published a report detailing a series of security and privacy flaws in smart watches marketed to children. Press release. News...
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IoT Cybersecurity: What's Plan B?
In August, four US Senators introduced a bill designed to improve Internet of Things (IoT) security. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 is a modest piece...
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Security Flaw in Infineon Smart Cards and TPMs
A security flaw in Infineon smart cards and TPMs allows an attacker to recover private keys from the public keys. Basically, the key generation algorithm sometimes...
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New KRACK Attack Against Wi-Fi Encryption
Mathy Vanhoef has just published a devastating attack against WPA2, the 14-year-old encryption protocol used by pretty much all wi-fi systems. Its an interesting...
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Friday Squid Blogging: International Squid Awareness Day
It's International Cephalopod Awareness Days this week, and Tuesday was Squid Day. I can't believe I missed it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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My Blogging
Blog regulars will notice that I haven't been posting as much lately as I have in the past. There are two reasons. One, it feels harder to find things to write...
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Technology to Out Sex Workers
Two related stories: PornHub is using machine learning algorithms to identify actors in different videos, so as to better index them. People are worried that it...
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Impersonating iOS Password Prompts
This is an interesting security vulnerability: because it is so easy to impersonate iOS password prompts, a malicious app can steal your password just by asking...
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More on Kaspersky and the Stolen NSA Attack Tools
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that Israel has penetrated Kaspersky's network and detected the Russian operation. From the New York...
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Changes in Password Best Practices
NIST recently published their four-volume SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, they make three important suggestions when it comes to passwords...
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's Cell Phone was Tapped
Politico reports that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's cell phone was compromised back in December. I know this is news because of who he is, but I hope...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Ichthyosaurus Fed on Squid
New discovery: paper and article. 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...
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Yet Another Russian Hack of the NSA -- This Time with Kaspersky's Help
The Wall Street Journal has a bombshell of a story. Yet another NSA contractor took classified documents home with him. Yet another Russian intelligence operation...
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Replacing Social Security Numbers
In the wake of the Equifax break, I've heard calls to replace Social Security numbers. Steve Bellovin explains why this is hard....
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HP Shared ArcSight Source Code with Russians
Reuters is reporting that HP Enterprise gave the Russians a copy of the ArcSight source code. The article highlights that ArcSight is used by the Pentagon to protect...
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E-Mail Tracking
Interesting survey paper: on the privacy implications of e-mail tracking: Abstract: We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for...
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Remote Malware Attacks on ATMs
This report discusses the new trend of remote malware attacks against ATMs....
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