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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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Do the Police Need a Search Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data?
The US Supreme Court is deciding a case that will establish whether the police need a warrant to access cell phone location data. This week I signed on to an amicus...
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Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand
One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets -- or misinterprets -- in...
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Bank Robbery Tactic
This video purports to be a bank robbery in Kiev. He first threatens a teller, who basically ignores him because she's behind bullet-proof glass. But then the robber...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eyeballs
Details on how a squid's eye corrects for underwater distortion: Spherical lenses, like the squids', usually can't focus the incoming light to one point as it passes...
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I Seem to Have a LinkedIn Account
I seem to have a LinkedIn account. This comes as a surprise, since I don't have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn. Does anyone have any contacts...
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Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs
Researchers found that they could confuse the road sign detection algorithms of self-driving cars by adding stickers to the signs on the road. They could, for example...
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Turning an Amazon Echo into an Eavesdropping Device
For once, the real story isn't as bad as it seems. A researcher has figured out how to install malware onto an Echo that causes it to stream audio back to a remote...
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More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow...
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Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing
Interesting story about Uber drivers who have figured out how to game the company's algorithms to cause surge pricing: According to the study. drivers manipulate...
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Hacking Slot Machines by Reverse-Engineering the Random Number Generators
Interesting story: The venture is built on Alex's talent for reverse engineering the algorithms -- known as pseudorandom number generators, or PRNGs -- that govern...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fake News
I never imagined that there would be fake news about squid. (That website lets you write your own stories.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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Penetrating a Casino's Network through an Internet-Connected Fish Tank
Attackers used a vulnerability in an Internet-connected fish tank to successfully penetrate a casino's network. BoingBoing post....
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Splitting the NSA and US Cyber Command
Rumor is that the Trump administration will separate the NSA and US Cyber Command. I have long thought this was a good idea. Here's a good discussion of what it...
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Voting Machine Security
Last week, DefCon hosted a "Voter Hacker Village" event. Every single voting machine there was easily hackable. Here are detailed details. There should be a summary...
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Detecting Stingrays
Researchers are developing technologies that can detect IMSI-catchers: those fake cell phone towers that can be used to surveil people in the area. This is good...
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NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information
Back in 2013, Der Spiegel reported that the NSA intercepts and collects Windows bug reports: One example of the sheer creativity with which the TAO spies approach...
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Vulnerabilities in Car Washes
Articles about serious vulnerabilities in IoT devices and embedded systems are now dime-a-dozen. This one concerns Internet-connected car washes: A group of security...
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Robot Safecracking
Robots can crack safes faster than humans -- and differently: So Seidle started looking for shortcuts. First he found that, like many safes, his SentrySafe had...
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Measuring Vulnerability Rediscovery
New paper: "Taking Stock: Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery," by Trey Herr, Bruce Schneier, and Christopher Morris: Abstract: How often do multiple, independent...
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